Urinating on Christianity

“Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall [cause them to] offend.” (Ps. 119:165).

“For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.” (1Pet. 3:10).

I watched a beautiful testimony by Carlie Terradez and her healing of epilepsy. Her faith allowed Jesus to heal her after her life being totally incapacitated by collapses without any warning, falling down stairs, falling in grocery stores, etc. She was a mother of three little children and needed a babysitter for herself. Then Jesus spoke to her at a Bible study where the leader said, “We’re just going to spend a couple of minutes just being quiet, just listening to the holy Spirit.” And she said, “And on the inside of me when I got real quiet I just heard the Lord. I didn’t know it was the Lord immediately, but I heard this voice on the inside of me, and I knew it wasn’t coming from me. And it said, ‘Carlie, this epilepsy, you haven’t ever let Me in on it. You can be healed from this, in two weeks time if you choose to be.’ He said, ‘Its just like a switch. You can flick it off. You can just turn epilepsy off when you are ready to.’ She said, ‘Wow. That’s pretty huge.’ And then that scripture from Deuteronomy came to me. And it was just like, ‘I have set before you life and death. Choose life.’ It’s like the God of the universe has put the power in my hands to choose life over something that’s controlled me all these years. Man, that just blew me away. I was like, ‘I can’t tell anyone. They’re just going to think I’m loopy.’ So I kept it to myself. That period of two weeks, the Lord just showed me—He showed me in the word, He showed me in my heart, He showed me in my dreams, how much of that epilepsy had become a part of me, and that my life had just adapted around being sick. He just started to show me what it would be like to be well. What would it be like not be ruled by doctors’ appointments and drugs and ‘safe areas’, you know, and managing a disease. What would it be like? And so over that period of two weeks the Lord just changed my heart. He showed me that I was special because I was His child, and that He had plans and purposes for my life that I couldn’t achieve if I was sick.”

So, a lady from the Bible study laid her hands on Carlie and said, “Be healed in the name of Jesus.” And Carlie says, “I knew. I just knew because I knew because I knew. That was it. It was done. I was healed. And on the inside of me, in my mind’s eye, I just flicked that switch. I just turned epilepsy off. I just chose life in that moment. And I went home, and I was so excited. And my husband was there, and he said, ‘How was your day, Honey?’ And I said, ‘It was awesome. I was healed of epilepsy today!’ And he said, ‘Well. You’re going to die and leave me with three children, aren’t you.’ And I said, ‘Well, I wasn’t planning on it.’ But we came from a background where this just didn’t happen. It just seemed too good to be true, too good to be true. And it didn’t go down very well either when I told him I was going to stop taking my medication. That kind of freaked him out a bit, you know, because, like I said, within 15 or 30 minutes of me being late taking my medication I would be having seizures. Well hours had passed without me taking my medication and I still hadn’t had any seizures. And slowly by slowly he started to see, ‘Well, hang on a minute, something really did happen to you.’ But, I tell you that was eleven years ago and I’ve never had another seizure. I’ve never had any of the medication anymore. I quit taking everything in that moment because I was so utterly convinced that the Lord had spoken to me. I just drew that line in the sand. I just picked up that stone and killed that Goliath and he wasn’t going to be resurrected. So that was the end of epilepsy forever.”

Later Carlie’s newborn baby, until she was age 3, had a stomach problem and was constantly having trouble eating. Her weight was always below the healthy minimum specification, and by a miracle Carlie stumbled upon a tape of a recorded sermon by a pastor in Colorado whose ministry specialized in biblical healing. Eventually she and her husband took their child to a meeting the pastor was having in England, which is where they lived. He prayed over their little toddler and she was healed after three long years of crying. She became a very energetic, happy little girl, full of life and joy.

As I listened to her testimonies I remembered a famous Adventist paraphrase of 2 Corinthians 3:18, “By beholding we become changed.” And there is another well-known verse, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” (Prov. 29:18). And another verse that has become dear to me, “And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:40). And what Jesus said to blind Bartemaeus, to the woman with the bleeding condition, and to the one grateful leper, (and I get the impression that it was a common lesson that Jesus gave the people), “Thy faith hath made thee whole”.

Often I’ve realized that when we “see”, when we conceptualize by faith, we receive power from God that changes us. We don’t have creative power. We can’t heal ourselves. We lost that in Eden. But, when faith lays hold of God’s word, then He acts with power, “to shew Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him” (2Chron. 16:9).

“You have confessed your sins, and in heart put them away. You have resolved to give yourself to God. Now go to Him, and ask that He will wash away your sins and give you a new heart. Then believe that He does this because He has promised. This is the lesson which Jesus taught while He was on earth, that the gift which God promises us, we must believe we do receive, and it is ours. Jesus healed the people of their diseases when they had faith in His power; He helped them in the things which they could see, thus inspiring them with confidence in Him concerning things which they could not see--leading them to believe in His power to forgive sins. This He plainly stated in the healing of the man sick with palsy: ‘That ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith He to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.’ Matthew 9:6. So also John the evangelist says, speaking of the miracles of Christ, ‘These are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through His name.’ John 20:31.  

     From the simple Bible account of how Jesus healed the sick, we may learn something about how to believe in Him for the forgiveness of sins. Let us turn to the story of the paralytic at Bethesda. The poor sufferer was helpless; he had not used his limbs for thirty-eight years. Yet Jesus bade him, ‘Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.’ The sick man might have said, ‘Lord, if Thou wilt make me whole, I will obey Thy word.’ But, no, he believed Christ's word, believed that he was made whole, and he made the effort at once; he willed to walk, and he did walk. He acted on the word of Christ, and God gave the power. He was made whole.” Steps to Christ, p. 49,50.

    

Carlie’s experience is what Ellen White was talking about. I keep hearing people in the church tell me to be suspicious of these YouTube testimonies. But then I also keep having the Lord show me in the Bible that the Gentiles were healed by God when His chosen people weren’t being healed. The chosen people chose to have no faith in Him.

So, now to what I originally intended, as the title of this post says. But, first I wanted to begin with my appreciation and love for Carlie and her husband, their serious faith in Jesus. They now have their own ministry to encourage and teach people, making them intelligent about how they can be healed, according to the word of God. But, coming of late out of the world and its crudeness, their language still needs some sanctification. And Carlie said something that I am hearing more and more from people around me. It is a word that I consider to be more than just a crude, unChristlike word. And I have to write it, even though I don’t like to. That word is, “Pee”.

Carlie was answering a question from a call-in to their show. And she answered it by using an experience of a doctor who was diagnosing her with diabetes and needed a urine sample. Then she used the crude word for urine. Being that it is a Christian show I was offended and saddened. I understand everyone doesn’t have the same convictions I have. I also understand that many bad habits are ingrained in the world and not even considered to be bad until the Lord brings it to the growing Christian’s attention. But, something needs to be said about using this word, especially at a venue that desires to bring glory to God’s name.

The problem I see with that crude form of the actual medical term, urine, or urinating, is that the cruder word seems to be more connected to the act, and therefore having a genital association, and thus leaving a graphic sexual connotation in the mind of the speaker and hearers. It provokes the Lord to anger no less than did the Jews’ nude idol in the very temple of the Lord.

“And He put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

Then said He unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from My sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.” (Eze. 8:3-6).

“For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.” (Isa. 3:8-11).

When we study the history of Israel’s neighboring Canaanite religion and its fertility rites, we see that the Lord hated it very much. The base, sexual nature of the false religions connected the worshipers to the occult and led to self-indulgence, satanic control, and every other evil. Sexuality that Jesus created us to have in the purest way as the most precious blessing, Satan has twisted and contorted and poisoned with his spirit of rebellion. It is what we hear all around us in the unconverted world with the same wicked results that the Cananites had. And the Lord destroyed them for it. What does that say about the nations today? What does it say about Protestant America? It says that the world is ripe for His retribution, starting with Protestant America.

When the world’s mannerisms come into the church and its functions, then we see Babylonian ways being woven into the service to the holy God. This has been Christianity’s plague for 2,000 years. Look at the religious art during the Dark Ages. It is nothing but pornography and ancient classical license. The paintings that are posing to represent the holy people of the Bible are really paintings of ugly Bacchian parties, and more sophisticated and classy, but no less wretched, cocktail conversations. Such talented artwork was really paintings portraying mythical pagan gods and demigods.

The slang word for urine/urinating, which I call into question, is a new insurgent into Protestant America so that the ethical conversations can bring in accepted sexual subtleties without any outcry against it. Satanic angels are insinuating into Protestant minds the corrupting sexual indications that, since the beginning, have brought every culture and people and nation to ruin. We are seeing Protestant America following the history of debauched 1920s Weimar Germany, and are soon to repeat Germany’s great depression and world war. America is going too far, and its punishment from heaven is b bound fall upon it soon.

Let us see what real holiness is by beholding the Lamb of God dying on His cross, receiving the spiritual lightning and thunder from a holy and offended almighty Sovereign. And then let Isaiah’s cry of repentance be ours. “Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.” (Isa. 6:5).