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Great job once again! God bless🙏🏻

Building and maintaining relationships with people who share your faith can provide encouragement and motivation.

Conflicts over doctrine, methods of worship, or social issues can lead to divisions within the Christian community. This can create an environment of disagreement and undermine unity.

God's ways are definitely best. ❤ Thank you for this video. I hope we all pray to endure the persecution we face.

I think its fine as long as its in moderation. But also I like to only reward myself if I did a good deed

Beautiful speech man

Amen brother

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I enjoy stardew valley am I cooked?

Really nice way of looking at things

Probably, but that wont stop me.

Good points

I used to struggle with this so this was a good watch.

Yes, we must live in misery 😎

They can have a serious impact on the patient's life and their loved ones, and require professional intervention to treat and manage.

Research has shown that many mental illnesses have a clear biological basis, including abnormalities in brain structure and function.

It's important to understand that each person's worth is not based solely on achievement or perfection, but also on effort, kindness, and the ability to overcome challenges.

Stress, abuse, and psychological trauma can contribute to the development of mental illness.

Wonderful video Scroop, thank you

I don't think I've heard the whole talk but I got the impression he was attacking some of the more modern issues that seemingly popped out of nowhere in recent times. E.g. ADHD, ADD, perhaps even gender disphoria and similar. I wouldn't go so far as to say these are "fake" or something like that, but you also can't help but notice how these things pop into existence and magically become billion dollar industries for pharma overnight. If there aren't enough issues to get adults hooked on more drugs, we suddenly have loads of issues to get kids hooked on drugs too. Won't be long before we've got our babies and toddlers on various medications for new acronym issues. You can't tell me 90% of humans require lab chemicals to live normal lives. Something is very wrong, whether spiritual issues or otherwise. Again, that isn't to say they are fake or that those people aren't experiencing something real, but there is some small merit to the idea that we should tackle these things spiritually and nanturally and physically first, before running to pharma and doctors for pills. But here's the thing, if you don't get pills, then the only other option is to psychologically get yourself through, mentally, physically, spiritually. In other words, don't take drugs when it could be something like poor diet and sleep. Mold in the house, anxiety and stress in life, allergies, etc. It also seems to me MacArthur was just repeating some stuff he read in whatever that book was he mentioned. Perhaps he didn't express the ideas very well. I didn't get the impression we should never seek medical help or medical/mental professionals. Just that it might be the case that a lot of our mental issues are more spiritual rather than it be the case that our bodies are lacking in pharma drugs, which isn't a medical condition. Nobody is sick because they lack enough pharma drugs. So is it possible to reverse the sick without them? It's worth exploring. Our culture seems to have two types of people; one type rushes to the doctor every time they sneeze or cough or hiccup and take everything handed to them. The other type has massive distrust of "the system" and ends up down every kind of natural healing side circus there is, from energy healing to sound to oils to eastern medicine, to accupuncture and this stuff can get bad spiritual too. We have to protect ourselves from the wolves on both sides. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness (Matt 6:33). In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths (Prov 3:6). I think as long as you are in prayer and seek wisdom in counselors and move forward, God will direct your path. Be your own advocate in health, do things naturally if possible.

I’m a fellow scrooper. I have prayed to be healed and God, in his sovereignty, has not answered that prayer yet. In the meantime, I go to therapy and take meds, and use some cognitive “tricks” that sometimes help. I have wondered, through the years I’ve struggled with depression, anxiety, and OCD, if the healing I really need is of the soul and spirit and not necessarily of the body.

Well said Adam. Some folks forget that the brain is an organ, not a machine. It is constantly altered in response to external forces--good and evil. Sometimes talk and compassion soothes the dis-ease, sometimes Prayer alone suffices to restore mental health, and sometimes a chemical restores the brain to a level that allows it to function correctly and perhaps heal. If we hold to JM's position, the slippery slope brings us to the "no medical treatment" for all diseases and injuries. Twice a day I pray for a long list of ill people (sometimes for you), but never with the arrogance that my prayers ought to usurp the known healing paths God has already provided.

Much needed video!

Great video!

Good video Adam! Thanks for addressing this very important issue. I think John MacArthur needs to reread Job and Ecclesiastes. 😂 It seems there's a "Tower of Babel" problem that's happening in all our care structures right now - an inability to deal with the fact that we are dynamic creatures, and we have hearts, spirits, minds, and bodies that are interdependent on each other. A physician wants to assume everything is physical, a psychologist everything mental, and a pastor everything spiritual. As the saying goes: to a hammer, everything is a nail. Proverbs tells us that a joyful heart is good medicine, and a crushed spirit dries up the bones (17:22); also, by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is crushed (15:13); furthermore, it is a strong spirit that man endures sickness, but no one can endure a broken spirit (18:14). Yes, heart issues can lead to spirit issues. Yes, spirit problems make physical problems worse. What that doesn't say, is that all physical and mental problems come from heart and spirit problems. We live in a fallen world - sometimes it's just cancer, no spiritual attack; sometimes it's just an anxiety disorder, not a deep heart/sin issue. We need to be able to address these issues within individual segments but also keep in mind they are sometimes, but not always, interconnected.

Love this. This helped me so much in my walk.

It's good to be here .

Wow this is really awesome 😍

Thank you sir. God bless🙏

This was a great one ! Well done.

God is simple. Satan is dramatic. Remember that 👍

In a complicated world, simplicity is a form of salvation.

The beauty of salvation lies in its simplicity.

Sometimes the answers we seek are simpler than we imagine.

Read Mat 25: 31-46 Believing is deeper than only say, I believe. Believe in Jesus supposes to make the works of falth. Ps: forgive my english. I'm learning.

Have you read any other books specifically about religious OCD? If so, which ones would you recommend?

Thank you for this video - very helpful

No, to all questions you raise about God hating us. However accepting something intellectually is not the same as feeling it deeply, that is the problem.

I appreciate this video. I'd like to see you bring these points up with a priest or bishop directly, although it's unlikley.

The crisis of iconoclasm stemmed from a deeper heresy - the rejection of the God-man, Jesus Christ. The Incarnation, the divine second person of the Holy Trinity becoming man, is a profound mystery that shook the very foundations of the cosmos. Even the angels, some say were bewildered. Icons, then, became a battleground for this central belief. The councils emerged as a response to this crisis

This is powerful brother. One thing about us scrupulous folk: We have bulletproof logic. I resonated with your words. You have a gift for clarity and precision in language that really helps me. Either those of us who don't believe in the Bodily Assumption are damned -- Or the conditions of salvation have changed.

Wonderful teaching. Thank you.

Brother, this is so incredibly needed for people like me. I have grappled for the past 15 years with the Orthodox additions to the faith. Despite knowing how basic and simple the Gospel is, my mind still wants to add things to it which is impossible because you cannot add to what is perfect. Thank you so much for posting these! God bless your work!

Great job once again 👏🏻 Keep on cooking

Keep up the great work 👏🏻

Yep. Weight up down up down. And the more I obsessed over whether I was in "The one true Church" , the more the OCD worsens in other areas.