GREAT DECEPTIONS IN HIV AIDS THOUGHT

Now what is a deception?

A deception is a perversion of the truth, and this deception has its subtle origin in Satan's wiles...originating in the garden of Eden when he told Eve..."You will not surely die..." in direct contradiction of God's word, which he told Adam "but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.” (Gen 2:17)

In this generation there are subtle deceptions that have even found themselves in the handling of HIV AID'S thought, and I want to discuss a few of these deceptions:

1. THEORIES OF ORIGIN

Actually I believe that this is has become such a deception that it has drawn away even the CHURCH from the truth.

AIDS has been said to originate from a monkey (the so called sooty mangabey located in Central Africa).

Some say HIV was manufactured as part of a biological warfare programme, designed to wipe out large numbers of black and homosexual people.

Many say this was done under the auspices of the US Federal 'Special Cancer Virus Program' (SCVP), possibly with the help of the CIA.

Cut hunter theory states that an African native, received a bloody wound or infected splash while preparing a Chimpanzee carrying a similar virus (i.e., SIV.)

Others say it is not important to know the origin. They give the example of a snake. If there is a poisonous snake in your house; you first get rid of it, you don’t find out where it came from; you will die before you do.


When you look at scripture after scripture in the word, the origin of any plague is sin and the definition of sin is disobedience to Gods law!!!!!

All the plagues of Egypt were as a result of disobedience.

Deut 28: 15 is a warning… “if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all His commands, and decrees I am giving you today all these curses will come upon you and overtake you”

And then Moses proceeds to describe what these curses entail.

Deut 28:20 the Lord will send on you curses confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him”
Deut 21: the Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.
Deut 22: the Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation
Deut 28:27 the Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured

The world talks about fighting HIV AID'S;

Why is it that we are all fighting this battle in the flesh, in each and every one of the texts that I quoted, the bible states clearly for all to see “ the Lord will send, the Lord will, the Lord will…can we fight God?


If the bible states that the Lord sent this disease, then are we not being distracted from the real issues?
If AIDS is a normal disease, then we will never confront the real issue!
If AIDS is a conspiracy we will never confront the real issue!
If AIDS originated from a monkey we will never deal with the real issues!

We will hold meetings, give speeches, support causes, but never confront the real issues.
No wonder that 30 years later there is no cure!!!


2. THE GREAT CONDOM DECEPTION


There are those who use condoms for the right reasons, those who are married and discordant, and those who are married and both are positive and want to prevent re-infection. As far as that is concerned the condom is in use for the right reasons.
However, we must not neglect to proclaim that if the Lord is sought for healing by the discordant and the HI positive couples, he would heal them. No need any more for the condom!!!!!!!!!

There is a theory propounded, that not everyone is a practicing Christian, and therefore we must strive to DISTRIBUTE CONDOMS!?!?

Let’s see this argument in light of God's word.

“Today I am giving you a choice. You can choose life and success or death and disaster.
For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase...
But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient…I declare to you that you will certainly be destroyed” (Deut 30:15-17)

So, the question is if you use a condom for the wrong reason, or for “ safety….” But also against Gods ways; are you exempt from the above?
Remember ROMANS 6:23 states that … “the wages of sin is death…” whether you use a condom or not. Sin is sin, it does not change because you have decided to use a condom.


3. CRITICAL DECEPTION “AIDS IS NOT A CURSE; TO SAY IT IS A CURSE IS TO STIGMATIZE THE SUFFERER"


These are the arguments that are consistently used:

“That the gospel is about restoration and not condemnation”
“That Jesus never stated to those who he was healing that they were under a curse."

The language is sanitized.

Please note that whenever language is sanitized these days and the politically correct language is used, sin is made to look more acceptable (MSM, standing for men sleeping with men, CSW’S standing for commercial sex workers, Pro-Choice movement, standing for abortion movement)
Now it’s not right to call the disease a curse; a plague, judgment, rather, a syndrome.

The deception is subtle

Yes Jesus came to restore.
Yes Jesus did not come to condemn and judge.
Yes Jesus did not condemn the woman caught in adultery

But what was the process that brought about the coming of Jesus
Before the appearance of Jesus in Israel there were preparations for his coming.
The preparation


Isa 40:3 a voice of one calling in the desert, “prepare the way for the lord, make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God”
Mal 3:1 “see I will send my messenger who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the lord you are seeking will come to his temple: the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire will come” says the Lord Almighty”

The way

John fulfilled these texts in Matthew 3:1ff, mark1:1ff, Luke 3:1ff and john 1:19ff
John came to prepare the way, and Jesus was the way. (John 14:6)

How did he prepare the way?
Repentance was the only preparation that was needed
Repentance
THE WAY TO HEALING:

“When I shut up the heavens, so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chron 7:13-14)


REPENTANCE

Psalm 107:17 -20

Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered because of their iniquity
They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.
Then they cried out to the lord in their trouble
And he saved them from their distress
He sent forth his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave

• Acts 3: 19 “ repent then and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out and times of refreshing may come from the lord


4. STIGMA...THE GREAT DISTRACTION

People have been stigmatized for many things, because they are fat, short, tall, talk funny…
If you KNOW who you are in Christ, all the rest is detail. You may be offended by the stigma, but you need not give that the time of day, because what you are in God is what matters
Stigma is another person’s idea of who you are, and 90% of the time it is wrong, you cannot dwell on what others are saying about you, that is too much spent energy. No man can define you only God can do that; not my status, not my titles, nor my weight nor my background, nor my color nor my past hinders me from being what I should be in God.

Stigma must be fought in the mind first. One must have a revelation of who he is from God, then the world and its prejudices will never matter.
One thing is certain, there will always be those who are prejudiced against you, but your eye must be on God.
Therefore while it is good to sensitize people about stigma, the real issue is dealing with sin

5. INNOCENSE..USED AS A TOOL TO DISTRACT

There are thos who got the virus through no fault of their own. What about them, if God is just, why did they get it?

The innocent wife who was a virgin and had sex for the first time in her marriage bed and trusted her husband who infected her?
The innocent child who was infected in the mothers womb?
The innocent recipients of contaminated blood?
The innocent doctor contaminated while performing an operation?

Firstly; no one is innocent in Gods eyes. No one.(rom 3:23)
Secondly there are several reasons for God afflicting the innocent

To test them (jobs case)
To chasten them (King Manasseh (2 Chron 33:10-13)
To show Gods Glory (John9:1-3)
To keep one from being conceited (Cor 12:7)
To prepare for and fulfill purpose (Jesus and all his disciple)


It is not condoms but confession
It is not found in the wisdom of men but in the ways of God
It is not in evading the real issues, but acknowledging the need for God and has a repentant heart


If we veer too far from the truth, the lie will eat us up, if we veer TOWARDS the truth, we will be saved, healed, delivered....

The choice is yours...


Captain Gadar