Brothers and sisters…

We are living in an age where pain is not healed it is managed.

Where sorrow is not understood it is medicated.

Where the soul is not counseled it is chemically adjusted.

And Scripture warned us this day would come.

1 Timothy 6:20

“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:”

The Most High never told man to numb the spirit…

He told man to renew the mind.

Yet modern society does the opposite.

Instead of asking why the heart is heavy, they silence the signal.

THE PARADOX OF THE “CURE”

Medical literature itself admits a disturbing reality:

A published review on antidepressant-induced suicidality reports that in some patients especially youth treatment can actually worsen depression and increase suicidal thoughts.

Read that again.

The medicine meant to stop despair…

Can intensify it.

That means the suffering person isn’t always deteriorating naturally sometimes the chemical intervention amplifies the darkness.

Job 13:4

“But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.”

This verse was never about banning healing…

It was a warning about misplaced trust.

When man replaces discernment with blind authority, healing becomes business.

NOT JUST PHARMACY — PHARMACEIA

The Greek word translated “sorceries” in Revelation is pharmakeia drug manipulation.

Revelation 18:23

“…for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”

Notice the connection:

Merchants → global influence → deception → pharmakeia

In ancient times sorcery altered perception

spiritually.

In modern times chemicals alter perception neurologically.

Different tools… same concept:

Control the mind → control the person.

THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION THEY IGNORE

Many people are not chemically broken

they are spiritually exhausted.

Grief

Isolation

Lack of purpose

Guilt

Fear

Loss of identity

These are conditions of the soul.

You cannot solve a meaning crisis with serotonin levels alone.

Medication may stabilize some yes

but society now uses it as the first answer instead of the last support.

And when the root is untouched, the darkness remains… sometimes stronger.

This isn’t an attack on individuals seeking help.

This is a warning against a system that:

• treats symptoms faster than causes

• profits from permanence of illness

• replaces shepherds with prescriptions

Healing in Scripture involved restoration, community, repentance, purpose, and renewal of mind not just suppression of feeling.

Because numbness is not peace.

Peace comes from alignment… not sedation.

Stay watchful.