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Sunday, August 10, 2025

Coconut Oil Continues to Benefit Alzheimer’s Patients over Drugs as Studies Continue for Neurological Benefits


Coconut Oil Continues to Benefit Alzheimer’s Patients over Drugs as Studies Continue for Neurological Benefits

By Brian Shillhavy

Posted on August 10, 2025


The near miraculous effects of some Alzheimer’s sufferers recovering their memories and stopping or even reversing the effects of Alzheimer’s disease have been widely published in the alternative health media for at least a decade and a half now, and CoconutOil.com, part of the Health Impact News network, is the world’s leading source on information about using coconut oil for Alzheimer’s patients.

While a few clinical trials have been proposed and even started to try and understand how coconut oil works so well with neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease, coconut oil is a food and natural product that cannot be patented. Hence, few are willing to invest the money needed to study this in clinical trials.

However, there is a strong market for by-products from coconut oil to be used in other formulations that can be patented. The main extract from coconut oil that has a long history of marketing is lauric acid, a medium chain fatty acid that has been used in applications like food preservation for years, due to its known use as an anti-microbial.

It is also used sometimes in conjunction with pharmaceutical drugs, antibiotics, where pathogens become resistant to pharmaceutical antibiotics.

Coconut oil is nature’s richest source of lauric acid, with 50% of the composition of coconut oil consisting of lauric acid. Nature’s second most abundant source of lauric acid is human breast milk, at about 8%.

In fact, in a recent study published earlier this year (2025), the product “Monolaurin”, which is derived from lauric acid extracted from coconut oil, was studied on “inhibiting antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patients with atopic dermatitis” skin conditions.

Monolaurin inhibits antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patients with atopic dermatitis

by Nature: Scientific Reports

Abstract

Frequent use of antibiotics increases the incidence of antimicrobial-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in atopic dermatitis (AD), which prompts the search for new treatments. Monolaurin is a chemical byproduct found in coconut oil and has anti-bacterial properties.

This study aimed to investigate the inhibitory effect of monolaurin on antimicrobial-resistant S. aureus. Thirty children and thirty adults diagnosed with AD were recruited and swabbed at three different sites: lesion, non-lesion, and nasal mucosa. Methicillin resistance and high-level mupirocin resistance in S. aureus were identified using mecA and mupA PCR, respectively, whilst fusidic acid resistance were detected by fusA gene sequencing.

The broth microdilution method and tetrazolium bromide assays were used for monolaurin susceptibility and cellular cytotoxicity, respectively. We show that S. aureus was frequently isolated from lesions of both children and adults with AD. One isolate of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) harboring mecA, one isolate of mupirocin-resistant S. aureus harboring mupA, and four isolates of fusidic acid-resistant S. aureus with novel point mutations of fusA were found in the children group.

In silico molecular docking showed that these mutants interacted weakly with fusidic acid, explaining the mechanism of drug resistance. Monolaurin inhibited these antimicrobial-resistant S. aureus isolates with a minimal inhibitory concentration of 2 µg/mL without cytotoxicity to cultured epidermal and dermal cells. These data show that monolaurin could potentially be used to inhibit antimicrobial-resistant S. aureus in AD patients.

So it was not surprising to me that two studies have already been published this year (2025) looking at using lauric acid from coconut oil to develop treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease, given Big Pharma’s failures over the years to develop a drug that had any real positive effects on the disease.

This could eventually lead to some kind of patented product, as Monolaurin is, to be used in Alzheimer’s treatments.

Effects of lauric acid on cognitive impairment in a scopolamine-induced Alzheimer’s disease-like rat model

by Nutritional Neuroscience

Abstract

Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a multi-factorial type of dementia that poses a social and medical burden in that no effective treatment has been achieved yet. Impaired brain glucose metabolism is one of the major pathophysiological factors linked to its onset and progression. Lauric acid (LA) is a triglyceride with medium chain that can produce ketone body utilize by the brain as an alternative energy source.

Objective: Therefore, the present study was carried out with the purpose of evaluating the effect of LA on cognitive impairments in scopolamine-induced AD-like rat model.

Methods: Forty-two male Wistar rats were divided into six groups to receive normal saline, scopolamine, scopolamine with Donepezil, and scopolamine with varied doses of LA for a period of 21 days. Morris water maze (MWM) and Elevated Plus Maze (EPM) tests were performed to evaluate cognitive performance. After, brains were harvested and processed to assay for the level of malondialdehyde (MDA), reduced glutathione (GSH), catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and interleukin-6 (IL-6). Histological analyses using Haematoxylin and eosin staining was also performed.

Results: The LA-treated groups demonstrated memory retention in the MWM and EPM tests, and showed increased levels of CAT, SOD, and GSH similar to the Donepezil group, in contrast to the scopolamine only group while MDA levels, IL-6, and AChE activity were reduced in the LA treated groups contrasted to scopolamine only group. LA reduces oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and AChE activity, which indicates a possible ability of LA to protect against AD.

The Therapeutic Potential of Butyrate and Lauric Acid in Modulating Glial and Neuronal Activity in Alzheimer’s Disease

by Nutrients.

Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder marked by amyloid-β plaque accumulation, tau tangles, and extensive neuroinflammation. Neuroinflammation, driven by glial cells like microglia and astrocytes, plays a critical role in AD progression. Initially, these cells provide protective functions, such as debris clearance and neurotrophic support.

However, as AD progresses, chronic activation of these cells exacerbates inflammation, contributing to synaptic dysfunction, neuronal loss, and cognitive decline. Microglia release pro-inflammatory cytokines and reactive oxygen species (ROS), while astrocytes undergo reactive astrogliosis, further impairing neuronal health. This maladaptive response from glial cells significantly accelerates disease pathology.

Current AD treatments primarily aim at symptomatic relief, with limited success in disease modification.

While amyloid-targeting therapies like Aducanumab and Lecanemab show some promise, their efficacy remains limited. In this context, natural compounds have gained attention for their potential to modulate neuroinflammation and promote neuroprotection.

Among these, butyrate and lauric acid are particularly notable. Butyrate, produced by a healthy gut microbiome, acts as a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor, reducing pro-inflammatory cytokines and supporting neuronal health.

Lauric acid, on the other hand, enhances mitochondrial function, reduces oxidative stress, and modulates inflammatory pathways, thereby supporting glial and neuronal health. Both compounds have been shown to decrease amyloid-β deposition, reduce neuroinflammation, and promote neuroprotection in AD models.

This review explores the mechanisms through which butyrate and lauric acid modulate glial and neuronal activity, highlighting their potential as therapeutic agents for mitigating neuroinflammation and slowing AD progression.

These studies are both designed to use lauric acid from coconut oil to develop new drugs or supplements for Alzheimer’s that can be patented.

But you don’t have to wait for these new drugs or supplements! Coconut Oil, especially Virgin Coconut Oil, can be readily purchased right now in almost any store that sells groceries that include edible oils.

See all the testimonials we have published over the years here. A list of all the studies on coconut oil for other issues beside Alzheimer’s and neurological problems, can be found on our Peer Reviewed research page here.

Of course I know of a great source to purchase a high quality premium coconut oil, but to link to that source from this article is illegal according to the rules of the FDA, as I would be accused of selling “unapproved drugs” by the FDA and be subject to arrest and possibly go to jail, as I have been threatened in the past by the FDA.

Also know that in spite of the current Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mr. Kennedy, who is promoting animal fats over “seed oils”, the FDA STILL states that saturated fat in general, and coconut oil in particular, is dangerous for your health as a matter of national USDA policy. (Source.)

Brian Shillhavy 

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

The Alleged Richard Nixon & Billy Graham Satanic Ritual Abuse Child Sex Trafficking Network; As Told by the Survivors

The Alleged Richard Nixon & Billy Graham Satanic Ritual Abuse Child Sex Trafficking Network

As Told by the Survivors

By Brian Shillhavy

Posted on May 28, 2025



To document the history of powerful pedophile leaders who run the United States, I am re-publishing information that has been previously published by alleged victims of the Richard Nixon – Billy Graham SRA (Satanic Ritual Abuse) child sex trafficking network, which many believe is what the Watergate cover-up was truly all about.

I am republishing a section from Australian whistleblower Fiona Barnett’s book, who grew up in this network as a child who was sexually trafficked by the rich and powerful.

Here is a video of her testimony that I have previously published:

You can find her book on Archive.org, and you would do well to download this book before Archive.org is taken offline again.

WARNING!

Once you go down this road that leads to the truth that Satan runs this world through an International Pedophile Network, you cannot unlearn what you have learned, and it can change your life, either for the better by understanding the truth and learning how to fight back against it, or by denying the truth and continuing to believe in lies, instead, with deadly eternal consequences.

I first learned this truth a decade ago, when I started the MedicalKidnap.com website and started meeting some of the victims of these networks, and publishing some of their stories.

The information was so sickening to learn, that I was sick for 6 months and did not leave my house until I could recover.

And even today when I go out in public, I do not view the world the same way. I know, from experience and research, that statistically these predators and pedophiles are all around us, in our family, in our community, and especially in our churches.

When I am in public I always survey my surrounding and the people in it, knowing that I am more than likely going to see pedophiles there, or child traffickers with children that don’t belong to them, but were kidnapped from their families through the Foster Care and Adoption child trafficking networks.

Young children with adults who do not look to be of the same ethnicity is one sign, as are many other signs I have learned to observe over the years. They are literally everywhere, so prevalent is this problem, especially here in the U.S.

Trust no one, except the one who is blameless and perfect, Jesus Christ, our Savior and the Messiah of the world.

This is the first chapter from Fiona Barnett’s book, Eyes Wide Open.

We are at war. The current battle is for our minds and wills. Their weapon is psychology. Our defence is vigilance, adaptation, wisdom, patience and endurance. It is time for everyone to adapt to the new normal, just as we Military Mind Control victims learned to do as young children. It is time to redefine the meaning of life, the universe and everything, and to realise what truly matters.

The Book of Daniel (12:10) said of these ‘end times’:

Many shall be purified and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

Watergate was Pedogate

The Watergate break-in was strictly based on one thing – the pedophile records that were being kept at the Democratic National Headquarters.” – Detective James Rothstein (NYPD, Retired)

In October 2016, I presented at Colin Ross’ Trauma & Dissociation conference in Seattle, USA. Following my talk, one attendee approached me in the hotel lobby where my fellow presenters sat at their merchandise stalls.

‘All this!’ she shouted while sweeping her arm across the sideshow alley of over-priced books, stickers, and fridge magnets, ‘All this is shit! You have the real stuff! Where’s your book?!’ Tears welled in her eyes. ‘Write a book! Please write a book!’

Yes, I have the real stuff. I am not some left-brain dominant academic pretending to understand what it is like to be a victim of the most heinous crimes.

I lived it. I spent my developmental years trapped in a mind control labyrinth. I spent my adult years navigating an escape. I eventually achieved what few victims of the most extreme abuse do, integration.

I may therefore declare with authority what does and does not work.

I prefer the term ‘victim’ to ‘survivor’ because the latter implies my ordeal is over.

My ordeal will likely never end.

As Dr Reina Michaelson warned, ‘Fiona, I think this is a life sentence.’ Indeed, I serve a life sentence for crimes committed against me, with the full knowledge and blessing of the Australian government.

I am constantly harassed by police, paid agitators, agent academics and journalists, DID sleeper cells, perpetrator relatives, soldout victims, fake advocates, professional social media trolls, police SOIs (special intelligence operatives), and retired intelligence community thugs hired to do the dirty work of VIPs who dare not overtly attack me for fear of attracting media attention to their part in the international child trafficking operation.

Recovery from extreme abuse begins with realising the true nature and extent of international child trafficking.

In 2015, Newcastle Herald journalist Ian Kirkwood wrote favourable articles in the wake of my Sydney press conference. I consequently passed to him a story regarding David Hogg, the Lifestyle Solutions founder who was later convicted of historical child sexual assault.

Kirkwood worked with Joanne McCarthy whose media campaign, starring whistle-blower Peter Fox, helped spark Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse.

In 2012, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox exposed his colleagues’ coverup of a massive pedophile network in the Newcastle Catholic diocese. The NSW police hierarchy consequently physically threatened Peter Fox and demanded his doctor allow police to attend his private therapy sessions.

University of Sydney law graduate Margaret Cunneen chaired a Special Commission of Inquiry into child sex abuse in Newcastle which attacked and discredited Peter Fox and journalist Joanne McCarthy.

Cunneen had a history of supporting pedophiles.

In 2009 she attended the book launch of organised crime boss Roger Rogerson and admitted she had ‘known him since he was a detective.’ Detective Sergeant Roger Rogerson was dismissed from the NSW Police Force in 1986, meaning Cunneen associated with him during his underbelly heyday when he oversaw the trafficking of drugs and children in Sydney, and committed multiple murders to conceal his crimes.

Then in 2002, Margaret Cunneen advised Queensland Police to drop their prosecution of pedophile swim coach Scott Volkers on the grounds: (a) one victim’s sexual assault was too ‘trivial’ to prosecute; (b) 12-year-old female victims were unlikely to have developed breasts and thus allegations Volkers groped them would be difficult to substantiate; and (c) 12-year-old girls could not relax enough to experience orgasm while being abused.

Firstly, Cunneen’s conclusions defy biology. Secondly, my sister-in-law was Scott Volker’s assistant coach during the 1990s.

Long before Volkers hit the news, I was told he assaulted his own niece whom he regularly drove to swimming practise, that his pedophilia was common knowledge to Queensland Swimming staff including Greg Lawler who caught Volkers showering naked with Olympian Samantha Riley, and that Swimming Australia was generally infested with pedophiles including National Coach Don Talbot (my first swim teacher) who was deported from Canada for impregnating a 14-year-old, prior to being appointed as Australia’s head Olympic coach.

The federal Royal Commission into child abuse subsequently vindicated both Peter Fox plus the multiple victims of Scott Volkers who in 2018 was finally charged for the same crimes Margaret Cunneen dismissed. Cunneen was further discredited when Roger Rogerson was convicted of murder in 2014.

Cunneen narrowly escaped investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption in 2015.

As Chair of the Special Commission of Inquiry, Margaret Cunneen banned Peter Fox from including crucial evidence thereby prejudicing his testimony.

She subjected Fox to hours and days of aggressive interrogation, and facilitated his being slandered ‘a liar,’ ‘the devil incarnate,’ ‘obsessed’ with exposing pedophile priests, and involved in a ‘conspiracy’ with Newcastle Herald journalist Joanne McCarthy who was also interrogated under cross examination.

Cunneen branded Fox an ‘unreliable’ witness who acted ‘without integrity.’

I enjoyed afternoon tea with Peter Fox and witnessed the toll this took on someone who victims consider a national hero.

If only all NSW police were as obsessed with exposing pedophiles.

The NSW Police Force then targeted Deputy Police Commissioner Nick Kaldas for supporting Peter Fox. Kaldas was suddenly subjected to excessive scrutiny, investigation, public discrediting and career destruction.

Margaret Cunneen’s witch hunt occurred under the command of NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione who publicly supported pedophile Frank Houston, the Hillsong founder who sex trafficked kids to Kings Cross brothels in association with fellow child rapist Roger Rogerson.

So, if the Newcastle Herald would not publish my story, I figured, no other newspaper would.

I phoned Ian Kirkwood to request he investigate and publish my full story.

If only one mainstream journalist published my testimony against Antony Kidman, I reasoned, it would blow the international child trafficking network wide open.

During our call, Kirkwood relayed a conversation he once had with ‘a couple of spooks’ who told him that all senior politicians are pedophiles because that is how they are controlled.

Kirkwood asked me if that was my story.

‘That’s exactly right! That’s consistent with my experience.’ I tried to contain my excitement.

‘The mainstream media has long documented the CIA’s involvement in drugs and weapons trafficking, right?’

Kirkwood agreed, noting there had just been another story about that in the mainstream press.

‘Well then, is it so hard to imagine they are also involved in trafficking children which is far more lucrative than guns and drugs? ASIO and the CIA work together to traffic children between Australia and America. They’re the ones who trafficked me.’

The journalist promised to consider my request, bearing in mind he had a young family and publishing my story would surely place them at risk.

But he never got back to me.

A short time later, Ian Kirkwood developed a rare and aggressive form of cancer. I called him, expressed my condolences, and we chatted for a bit.

At the end of our conversation, I mentioned I was considering writing a book. I asked him to clarify and elaborate on what he told me of his encounter with the ‘spooks.’

‘I never said that,’ he bluntly asserted.

I sighed in resignation. There went my last chance at breaking into the mainstream media.

There sunk years of building rapport and credibility with mainstream journalists. There went years of investigating other abuse cases and passing my findings on to television and newspapers. Years of driving journalists around the district to personally meet victims. Years of results in other cases.

My Gold Coast Hogtie Doctor story went international, with paediatrician Neville Davis being banned from practising medicine in Australia (although that doesn’t stop him setting up shop in Thailand).

My story on Gary Willis’ 18-year child abuse spree ended with a life ban on his teaching for the NSW Education Department (although that didn’t stop him working for the Queensland Education Department).

My story on Daruk government boys home forced reluctant NSW police and 60 Minutes agent journalists to conduct a mop-up investigation.

I broke the Daruk story on my blog and negotiated it into the mainstream news. Sensational headlines about a victim having his penis cut off went global.

Police and the media charged multiple low-level perpetrators, and 60 Minutes falsely presented the story as ‘exclusive.’

Police and media conspired to bury the crux of the Daruk story, that it was a recruitment centre for (a) boy prostitutes used to service ASIO’s human compromise operation, and (b) Project MK-ULTRA lab rats.

Journalists may print all sorts of child abuse information, except that which exposes the global child trafficking operation.

I had come so close.

My October 2015 press conference – delivered in response to Senator Bill Heffernan’s announcement that a former prime minister was a pedophile – was statistically the most popular story on the Sydney Morning Herald website that day (although the news site’s computer technicians prevented it from displaying as the most viewed article).

Another of Prime Minister Bob Hawke’s sex assault victims, the daughter of Hawke’s architect Kevin Borland, agreed to address a follow-up press conference with me but pulled out last minute.

The USA National Inquirer intended to run a front-page story about Antony Kidman being a pedophile, until they received a vicious legal threat from his daughter Nicole Kidman.

A journalist and her photographer husband flew up from Sydney to interview me for a major Australian magazine, until Nicole Kidman took a ‘Scientology approach to managing’ me.

And a UK journalist travelled around the country interviewing me and two other victims of Antony Kidman for the Daily Mail, until one of the victims (whose parents were friends with Kidman) was threatened and subsequently withdrew his permission last minute.

Nicole Kidman’s PR team shut down my mainstream media exposure by drawing on her lucrative contracts with Australia’s media outlets. So, I turned to the internet. Armed with a simple meme app and a right-brain talent for lyric writing, I launched my own social media campaign. I spent five years in front of the computer, communicating with hundreds of victims and supporters, many fake, many genuine.

I hit the conspiracy theory jackpot when David Icke featured an enormous photograph of me and my story during his Australian speaking tour. 

My tactics worked. Online articles about Nicole Kidman, where the public was free to leave negative comments, were followed by streams of intelligent attacks on her heavily orchestrated stardom.

I realised my impact when Kidman’s PR team paid the Daily Mail plus a morning television show to feature an article tellingly titled, ‘Shame on you, Australia. Stop Hating on Nicole Kidman.’

People don’t hate Nicole Kidman as an individual. They hate what the Harvey Weinstein scandal subsequently highlighted: that Hollywood rewards something other than an ability to sing, dance or act.

Despite everything the pedophile network threw at me, my story still got out there, such that if you Google Antony Kidman’s name the words ‘child abuse’ soon follow.

Yet no amount of alternative media success can match a complete break into mainstream news. So, I admitted defeat. I stopped posting and did not bother checking my blog sites.

Billy Graham – Child Abuse

Franklin Graham, Billy Graham, President George H.W. Bush, President Jimmy Carter and President Bill Clinton at the dedication of the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2007. (Image source.)

Posted in 2018 on Cathy Fox’s blog.

This story is from Darci

Today Billy Graham’s death is all over the news here in the US. It is literally making me so angry seeing him held up as some kind of God.

We lived in the same town as his choir director, Cliff Barrows. By the time I was a teenager, my father had more money and we had built a home on the side of a mountain in SC [South Carolina], within walking distance of Mr. Barrows. It was also within an hour of Billy Grahams North Carolina home.

However, as a young child, as far as I know my parents had no personal connection with Graham other than the fact that my father sang well, and both of them sang in the choir at several of his crusades, as did many Southern Baptists.

My memory involves being taken to a back room in an auditorium where a crusade was held, and I believe it was my mother who left me with him. He seemed very kind, as I was a shy, pretty child. I think I was age 5 or so. I remember his voice so well and how he said the word “cookie” but I was terrified so I didn’t want a cookie.

I seemed to already know how to do this act, from previous experiences with the SRA [satanic ritual abuse] cult I guess. My childhood pastor was the one who took me to ritual events but in this instance, Billy G was the only one present. I see it as a movie, because I had already learned to disassociate by then.

I do remember sobbing and being slapped in the face by him, and someone, a man, bursting in to the room and carrying me out. I don’t know if this was part of the same memory or perhaps another incident but I’m guessing it was the same. I was slapped because I wouldn’t stop crying. I don’t know what triggered the crying’

One ceremony even took place in a Catholic Church. However in each of the SRA memories, the men wore black hooded robes and their faces were covered in white face paint or with white face masks. The one exception was a rape ceremony where the man who raped me was a younger Native American man.

These incidents occurred in the late fifties and early to mid sixties. Anyone familiar with evil in the Carolinas, is aware that Native Americans, Satanists and Freemasons were all closely connected during that time period.

The story about Graham being involved in pedophile ring in Australia, which mentions him only briefly, is the only thing I can find about him today and child abuse, although in the past I have seen many articles about him being involved in Freemasonry and SRA.

Do you have any information at all about Billy Graham being involved in SRA or child abuse? I just need to know that I was not the only one.

Darci

Cathy Fox Blog – Some more information on Billy Graham and ritual abuse is in the links below. Mind controlled slaves and ritual abuse have still not yet received the coverage they deserve.

[1] Fritz Springmeier & Cisco Wheeler Chapter 5B The skill of lying, The art of Deceit Billy Graham One of the best witnesses is a Monarch program survivor, who has escaped from being a high-level Pentagon slave. This survivor witnessed Billy Graham working for the Illuminati. This survivor also carried messages for the Satanic hierarchy and personally knows that Billy Graham has been carrying messages from the top secret Illuminati to Presidents and heads of state. This person’s information has been backed up by independent witnesses.

A second ex-Satanist also remembers Billy Graham as a Satanist. Still another person, an ex-Illuminati person, who has MPD stood in front of Billy Graham and watched his eyes. This person said that it was very clear that Billy Graham has MPD and that he switches personalities.

[2] Bibliotec “Spiritual” Satansim and “Christian” Conmen Nothing is easier to manipulate than genuineness that isn’t streetwise. David Icke

[3] Pedophiles Down Under Fiona Barnett  

USA Ritual Abuse victim David Shurter and I were trafficked to Bohemian Grove as children. There I was dressed as a teddy bear and made to participate in a pedophile hunt amidst the redwood forest, and was drugged and raped by Reverend Billy Graham in a pink bubble themed cabin

Links

Brian Shillhavy 

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Have You Overcome the World Yet?

Have You Overcome the World Yet?

By Brian Shillhavy

Posted on December 12, 2022



There are certain truths written in the Bible that are so simple, that they hardly need any commentary or explanations.

One of those truths is in 1 John 5:5: Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

Here is the context of this verse within the first 5 verses of the 5th chapter of 1 John.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.

This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.

This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world.

This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. (1 John 5:1-5)

Of course, I am quoting an English translation of this verse which was originally written in Greek, so it is always helpful to define words.

John, who was perhaps the apostle who was closest to Jesus, used the word “world” a lot in his letter, 23 times in 5 chapters.

The original Greek word is κόσμος (kosmos), which includes not just the Earth, but the entire universe.

Let’s look at some other verses where John used this word, kosmos, in this letter.

In the following 3 verses from chapter 2, he used it 6 times:

Do not love the world or anything in the world.

If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world.

The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. (1 John 2:15-17)

Here is another use of this word:

Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. (1 John 3:13)

And here is a section from the 4th chapter that uses it a lot, including 3 times in verse 5:

This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God.

This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. (1 John 4:2-5)

And here is the last time he used it at the end of his letter:

We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. (1 John 5:19)

So here is the question every single human being still living on planet Earth has to answer today: Do you want to stay in the world which is under the control of the evil one, Satan, or do you want to overcome the world instead?

It is a simple question; it really is.

When you tune out the noise from the media and perhaps the people around you and just focus on this simple truth written thousands of years ago, it is so easy to see that there are only two kinds of people in the world: those who serve the one currently ruling the world, so that the world will love them, or those who have overcome the world, and that the world now hates.

And who is it that overcomes the world?

Only he who believes that Jesus is the Christ and believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

That’s it! There’s nothing in between.

Oh, but one more thing.

When you are spiritually born of God and declare this truth that only we who believe that Jesus is the Son of God overcome the world, that belief offends some people, those people who belong to a religion that specifically states that Jesus is NOT the Christ (Messiah), and NOT the Son of God.

That is the modern-day Jewish religion, and some of the people in that religion do not like it when you say that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.

They are offended by that statement, and pretty soon I think they are going to have laws and powerful people backing them up so they can stop you from getting a job, prevent you from gaining employment, put you in prison, and perhaps even murder you, for publicly stating the truth that Jesus is the Son of God.

So yeah, it is a very simple truth, but the Holy Spirit is leading me to warn everyone today, it is also a very costly truth, and could, in fact, cost you everything.

I don’t think that will happen to too many people in the United States, however, because they love the world too much, and their new King has just been elected and is promising to make the world a better place.

Most Americans will choose their idols instead, because they love the world too much, and will therefore follow the spirit of the antichrist.

We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true—even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. (Last words of John at the end of chapter 5.)

Brian Shillhavy