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Another Cure For AIDS

Source: Creation Moment Blog

We hear of the effort to find another cure for AIDS. 

AIDS has become most famous among the numerous Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD’s). About 44 million people have died worldwide of AIDS, roughly 600,000 annually in recent years. In Africa, AIDS was the leading cause of death for 30-49-year-olds in 2019. Medical treatment for one infected person in the United States costs a whopping $20,000–$50,000 annually, and is required indefinitely for however long the rest of that person’s life lasts.

These facts can frighten a person. However, AIDS cannot come and suddenly get you like a drunk driver crossing the center line. In fact, unless you refuse the first cure, you cannot sexually acquire any disease. Someone may say, “I have heard of the terror of AIDS, but nothing of a cure. Is it some exotic thing?” You don’t hear a peep about the cure for AIDS in today’s secularized America because it comes from God. Romans 1:20-28 tells us the lost world is not thankful to God, does not acknowledge Him fully from the clear evidence of the creation, nor does it wish to retain Him in their knowledge.

So what is God’s cure for AIDS? Sexual purity: abstinence until marriage followed by lifelong monogamy with one’s spouse.

From Romans 1:20-28, because of deliberate repudiation of God, God “gave them up to uncleanness”, and to “vile affections”, and to “a reprobate mind”, “men… burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of the error which was meet.” 

The Scripture clearly lays out the consequences of allowing lust to reign freely and outside of the design of our Holy Maker when it says “receiving in themselves”. And elsewhere there are warnings and guidance in Scripture for a sure cure for AIDS and other STD’s.

“Flee fornication…he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.” – 1 Corinthians 6:9-18 

“Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found with child… Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly.” – Matthew 1:18 & 19

“You shall not commit adultery.” – Exodus 20:14 & Deuteronomy 5:18

“The scribes and the Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery… Jesus said to her, ‘…go and sin no more’.” – John 8:3-11

God designed the sexual relationship to occur between one man and one woman for their lifetime. So we see Scripture forbidding sexual relations between unwed people (fornication) and married persons with someone besides their spouse (adultery).

Let’s look at the benefits of God’s cure for AIDS.

  1. God’s cure for AIDS is 100% effective to protect a person and to destroy the very disease. Consider the way sexually transmitted diseases are spread. You have to sleep with more than one person to pass on an STD. If you do not sleep with more than one person, it is impossible to pass on an STD. A disease cannot perpetuate which never gets handed on between hosts that die of old age. If mankind obeyed its Creator’s design for the sexual relationship, not only would they not catch and give STDs, but there would be no such thing as an STD to catch.
  2. God’s cure for AIDS is inexpensive; it is FREE. Yes, economic status, not even the most severe poverty, can keep God’s cure for AIDS out of any person’s grasp.
  3. God’s cure for AIDS has complete availability. You don’t have to go to a country where regulations allow its use. You don’t have to locate the clinic. You don’t have to even travel 5 minutes to the corner pharmacy!
  4. God’s cure for AIDS has zero detrimental side effects. This is amazing to the pharmaceutical world because people’s bodies are unique and react differently to a drug. Therefore, we hear the rambling list of potential side effects at the end of drug commercials. Often a person is taking secondary medication to counteract the side effects of a primary medicine. Not with God’s cure for AIDS; nobody will get a hole in their heart valve, diarrhea, or even a mild headache.
  5. God’s cure for AIDS has huge beneficial side effects. Have you ever heard of a cure like this? God’s cure for AIDS also prevents Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Herpes, and Chlamydia. In fact, it is the cure for every single one of the 30+ sexually transmitted diseases of which AIDS is just a small percentage. But that’s not all. Chastity decreases divorce. Did you know that those who cohabit before marriage have a higher divorce rate? Sexual purity is also a hedge against murder. We have read how King David had Uriah killed to cover his adultery with Bathsheba. This is repeated over and over today. Two people have illicit sex, a pregnancy results, they murder the baby and pretend it never happened (over a million babies a year in the U.S.). God offers us a way to never have to be in that situation. Chastity removes shame and increases self-esteem. For the person interested in mental wellness, unhindered in happiness and productivity by worry and distraction, God’s plan for sexuality can’t be beat!

Does God love us or what?! When I think of the good things He gives us, it just makes me want to shout “Hallelujah!” – to give us such a great cure for AIDS, and like the gospel, it is free. Just as with freedom from eternal judgment, God made it so anyone is capable of being free from AIDS – simply by believing Him. 

God has given this wonderful cure for AIDS because He loves us, not because He is a killjoy who wants to keep us from having fun (the same lie the devil says about smoking, drugs, or eating the fruit in the garden of Eden).

Why does the world reject a cure that sounds so great, and say there is no cure for AIDS? “Why do the nations rage… Against the Lord, and against His anointed?” – Psalm 2:1,2.

The unbelieving world’s response to Christ’s authority is told to us in the parable of Luke 19:14, “We will not have this man to reign over us”. All (aside from victims of rape, perinatal transmission, blood-to-blood contact, etc.) infected with STD’s, sadly, have rejected the 1st cure from God. John 10:10 tells us that the devil, who deceived them into doing so, has murder as one of his only 3 motives – “steal and kill and destroy.” Whereas the same verse goes on to tell us the Lord Jesus came, that by Him we may “have life, and have it more abundantly!”

The endeavor for another, a second cure for AIDS marches on. Well over $200 billion has been spent globally on HIV/AIDS research, but no cure. Wow! What about a cure for the stubbornly rebellious human heart?

Thank God He is merciful, and as His offer of a cure for AIDS is still extended to us, so is His offer of the Savior Jesus Christ! Romans 5:8 tells us, “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us”. The Old Testament speaks prophetically of life in the Savior: “Ho, everyone who thirsts, come, buy and eat, Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.” – Isaiah 55:1 

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Glen Reidhaar is a contributor to Creation Moments. He holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Idaho (magna cum laude, Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society). He is a licensed Professional Engineer who has worked for more than three decades in aluminum smelting, semiconductor substrate, automotive, and laser printers. Glen is also an inventor, with 29 United States patents to date.

He accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior on May 12, 1996. Glen is on Answers in Genesis’ list of Modern Creation Scientists and is a 10-year volunteer at their Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky. He is a husband of over 28 years and a father of two boys. In his free time, Glen enjoys creating thought-provoking creation videos, which you can find on our audience-submitted videos page. 

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Who Will NOT Inherit the Kingdom of God

The Bible warns that in the last days many will be deceived by false prophets (preachers) and false teachers who proclaim another Jesus and another gospel besides the biblical Jesus and His Gospel. They will lead many to hell instead of heaven. 

An example is found in a Christian Post article concerning the former president of Exodus International, a once-prominent Christian ministry that sought to help people with unwanted same-sex attraction. The ministry closed in 2013.  He is quoted as saying:

“Someone’s relationship with Christ isn’t dependent on the things that they do or the behaviors that they’re involved in.”

And

 “there are so many gay and lesbian people that I know, transgender people, bisexual people, you name it, who have a vibrant relationship with Christ and their sexual narrative doesn’t negate their righteousness or holiness.”

The following Scriptures are presented in love as a warning to show that these type of comments are deceptive and wrong. There are  people who the Bible plainly teaches will not inherit the kingdom of God. This means they do not go to heaven but to eternal torment when they physically  die.  Do not be found among them. Flee to the real biblical Jesus who said, “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”   Carl

Scriptures:

Everyone therefore who shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.

Lord Jesus – Matthew 10:32-33

But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My master is not coming for a long time, and shall begin to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards; the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know, and shall cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; weeping shall be there and the gnashing of teeth.

Lord Jesus – Matthew 24:48-51

But the one who endures to the end, he shall be saved.

Lord Jesus – Matthew 24:13

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: sexual immorality, impurity, indecent behavior, 20 idolatry, witchcraft, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, 21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral*, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate**, nor homosexuals***, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy****, nor those habitually drunk, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

*sexually immoral (pornos) is one who engages in sexual immorality (Moody), i.e. fornication, adultery, homosexual, lesbian, bestialities, abuse of children, etc.

**effeminate are “men who fill the sexual role of the female” in homosexual activity. (Moody)

***homosexuals means literally “males who take other males to bed”. (Moody)

****greedy: covetous, “those who would like to have more” and act unethically to get it.” (Moody) This person has made mammon his god and is an idolator.

I Corinthians 6:9-11

 But sexual immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints; 4 and there must be no filthiness or foolish talk, or vulgar joking, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this you know with certainty, that no sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, which amounts to an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 See that no one deceives you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not become partners with them…     

Ephesians 5:3-7

…when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels 8 in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 These people will pay the penalty of eternal destruction,away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power…

2 Thessalonians 1:8-9

Therefore, treat the parts of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. 6 For it is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, 7 and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. 

Colossians 3:5-7

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 and that no one violate the rights and take advantage of his brother or sister in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you previously and solemnly warned you. 7 For God has not called us for impurity, but in sanctification. 8 Therefore, the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.

I Thessalonians 4:3-8

Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him; and their time of punishment would be forever.

Psalm 81:15

There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, a soothsayer, one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who consults the dead. 12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these detestable things [abominations] the Lord your God is going to drive them out before you. 13 You are to be blameless before the Lord your God. 14 For these nations, which you are going to dispossess, listen to soothsayers and diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.

Deuteronomy 18:10-14

The one who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. 8 But for the cowardly, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and sexually immoral persons, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

…and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Revelation 21:8, 27

 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life, and may enter the city by the gates. 15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral persons, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

Revelation 22:14-15

Conclusion : Jesus warned us that in the last days there would be much deception. Many in the attempt to justify their behavior before God have sought out false preachers who will tickle their ears by misinterpreting the Word of God or outright lying to justify their lifestyle. John, a disciple of Jesus, tells us very plainly about how we can tell we are deceived:

If we say that things in common we are having with Him [God], and thus fellowship, and in the sphere of the aforementioned darkness are habitually ordering our behavior, we are lying, and we are not doing the truth.

[In other words, the person is deceived and God does not approve of their behavior but condemns it and instead of fellowshipping with God, they are actually fellowshipping with a false Jesus/God who is a demon. ] Then John goes on to say:

But if within the sphere of the light we are habitually ordering our behavior as Himself is in the light, things in common and thus fellowship we [God and the believer] are having with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son keeps continually cleansing us from every sin.

I John 1:6-7 Wuest Expanded Translation

Following Scripture explains the Biblical standard concerning conduct.

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that He [Jesus] appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. 6 No one who remains in Him sins continually; no one who sins continually has seen Him or knows Him. 7 Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8 the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. 9 No one who has been born of God practices sin, because His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he has been born of God. 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious:  anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister.

I John 3:4-10

Lord Jesus came to free us from our sins and purify us for Himself:

For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all people, 12 instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously, and in a godly manner in the present age, 13 looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of ]our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, 14 who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, eager for good deeds.

Titus 2:11-14

The next Scripture tells us how to be saved from our sins:

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; 13 for “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 10:8-12

If you see yourself in these Scriptures and realize that you are continuously practicing one or more of these sins and are subject to  God’s wrath, repent (turn) from and confess your sins to God and call upon the Lord Jesus today to wash away your sins with His precious blood. He will save your soul delivering you from the wrath of God. He will give you His Holy Spirit to live in you. He, the Spirit of God, will teach you and empower you to become free from practicing sin and live a life pleasing to Him.

God is merciful to those who are repentant and contrite of heart. He will save you regardless of what you have done if you will confess your sins and ask Him to have mercy on you. Call out to Him today.

Carl

Notes:

  1. All Scripture is from the New American Standard Bible (1977 Translation or later) unless otherwise indicated.

The Power of The Gospel: “Such Were Some of You”

The apostle, Paul, today will give us insight into how God’s power can deliver people from bondage. I pray this blesses you and yours.

[9] Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, [10] nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. [11] Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. …

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 NASB (emphasis added)

In this scripture Paul is writing to the Corinth church in Greece. He is telling them people who practice certain sins will not “inherit the kingdom of God” or in today’s vernacular, “will not go to heaven when they die”.

This Corinth was the “new” Corinth created by Roman Emperor Julius Caesar as a retirement city for veterans of his Roman legions. The “old” Corinth was destroyed a hundred years before by Emperor Achaiacus, for rebellion and its citizens were sold into slavery. It was this “old”Corinth that contained the temple of the goddess Aphrodite, with its 1,000 – 10,000 (the number varies) temple prostitutes. In Paul’s day it was still a very immoral, wicked city. In the Hellenistic Greek world, the term “Corinthian” was associated with whore mongering and prostitution.

Into this immoral culture came Paul, preaching Jesus Christ and Him crucified for the sins of the world; the Light shining in the darkness. Through His preaching, the power of God was released and many pagans trusted in Christ for salvation. As a result of their faith in Christ, they were born again.

Being born again CHANGED them. CHANGED them from the sinful people he had listed in verse 9 and 10. He says of them in verse 11:

“Such were some of you….”

God working in their lives caused:

Adulterers to quit sleeping with other people’s spouses and to become faithful to their spouse.

Fornicators stopped sleeping around, instead learning to possess their own vessel (body) in sanctification and honor (I Thess. 4: 4 ) and glorifying God in their bodies (I Cor. 6: 20).

Idolaters stopped worshipping demon inspired false gods and started worshipping the one and only True God through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Homosexuals stopped sleeping with men and recognized the God-given natural function of the female (Romans 1: 7), in a marriage context.

The effeminate men quit playing the part of the female in the homosexual relationship and became the men God created them to be.

Thieves stopped stealing from others and started giving to others.

Drunkards stopped abusing alcoholic drink, resulting in soberness.

The covetous changed from “acting unethically to obtain more,” to being satisfied with what they had. They probably became givers.

Swindlers stopped extorting people to obtain money and other things. These also probably became givers.

Revilers stopped speaking rudely of others, maligning people’s character.

Paul goes on to say that this CHANGE happened in the Corinthians because when they were born again God did three things to each one of them. He:

1. “…washed…” them – Titus 3:5 says the following

“He saved us ….. by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior.”

2. “…sanctified…” them – God set them apart from sin to Himself resulting in a willingness to cooperate with the Holy Spirit. They separated themselves from sin and grew in personal holiness.

3. They “…were justified..” – based on their faith in Christ, God declares them righteous before Him. They received the Holy Spirit in themselves.

CHANGE came in these people’s lives (and ours) because they were “washed, sanctified and were justified”. It is the work of a loving, forgiving God who loved us enough to send His Son to the Cross for our sins so we could be saved from the guilty and penalty of our sins and be CHANGED.

In closing, the Shantung revival in northern China (1920 – 30s) was a work of the Holy Spirit. He used a Miss Marie Monsen, a Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran, to awaken the missionaries and the Chinese church.

She asked everyone she met if they had been born again. As you can imagine, many missionaries and church members were greatly offended. But God used this and her teaching on sin to remove the blinders from the church members. Many were just religious and had never been born again by the Holy Spirit of God. Therefore, they had not CHANGED.

Others realized that at some point in their Christian walk, they had stopped confessing their sins; thereby, stopping the work of the Holy Spirit in their lives. The CHANGING had stopped.

You see, being religious will not really CHANGE you. In Colossians 2:20-23 Paul is speaking about religious decrees (don’t eat this, don’t touch this, etc.) and he shows the futility of such man-made religion in verse 23:

“These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self -abasement and severe treatment of the body, BUT ARE OF NO VALUE AGAINST FLESHLY INDULGENCE.” (Emphasis added)

Trusting only in the work of Christ on the Cross can break the bondage in a person’s life. Jesus said you MUST be biblically born again to experience victory over fleshly indulgences. Paul, in our opening scripture is saying that the Corinth believers used to be controlled by fleshy indulgences but God CHANGED them. They, like many church members and pagans today, were practicing many forms of sexual sin and other wicked things but God set them free from their bondage.

Have you been CHANGED, my friend? Have you been biblically born again through faith, and faith alone, in the work of Christ! If you have not, today is a good day to ask Jesus to save you from your sins and to be washed, sanctified and justified by the Holy Spirit.

Don’t settle for “religion” or the “traditions of men”. The Lord Jesus is vastly different from “religion”. He is True Life and Freedom.

Carl