Getting High

Hey its just an herb, God created it so it’s ok to smoke it. The bible doesn’t say you can’t smoke weed. It’s not any worse than smokin a cigarette.

Sound familar? Unfortunately I’ve heard this too many times from people who think it’s ok to get high "once in a while". And the worse part is there are actually Christians who believe this (or at least say they believe it). I find it really difficult to believe a person has a close and honest relationship with Jesus Christ yet continues to believe something that is not true.

If you are a christian and believe it’s ok to get drunk, or use drugs, etc., then you must not be reading the word of God enough or are only reading what you think will not contradict what you WANT to do. Either that or you don’t have a clear understanding about the Grace of God and think once you say yes to Jesus you can continue to go about your life without any change or obedience to God.

First off, there is ONLY forgiveness of sin with REPENTANCE! Repentance means to turn away and not do the thing over and over again you are asking forgiveness for in the first place.
Secondly if you really believe it’s ok to smoke weed, you need to realize anything that alters your state of mind is spiritual dangerous. Not only that, drug use is considered sorcery and witchcraft, both of which God is VERY clear about His feelings on.

You don’t think using weed qualifies??? Then read this:

PHARMAKIA –Use of medicine and drugs used not for medicinal purposes, used in spells and religious rituals and ceremonies or for ones own pleasure.

Gal.5:19-21 gives a list of practices that are from the fallen nature of man that are condemned. One is called witchcraft (sorcery) this word in the Greek language is Pharmakia where we get our word Pharmacy. These are things used to put people under an outside influence bringing them into an altered state. That is a state that is not natural to mind but prompted by a foreign substance. This is called sorcery and is just as forbidden as drunkenness caused by another foreign substance, alcohol.

Drugs open one up to the spiritual realm as it alters the mind to function in a way unnatural to the how we were made.

In the end of time this will increase and be part of people’s lifestyle.

Rev.9:21, "And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts." Gr. pharmakeus); from pharmakon (a drug, i.e. spell-giving potion)poisoner, i.e. (by extension) a magician: sorcerer.

If you think your favorite recreational drug "isn’t mentioned in the Bible", you have another thing coming, because what you are doing falls under the heading of "pharmakeia", or in English, "sorcery".

Marijuana produces an ALTERED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS that leaves the user open to hypnotic, and therefore demonic suggestion.

Gal 5:19-21; "The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and WITCHCRAFT; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God." The greek word here used for witchcraft is pharmakeia.

The person who uses drugs is giving himself over to the will of another--that chief Sorcerer himself--Satan, the enemy of our souls. Christ died to save us from slavery of sin, from the power of Satan and the penalty of Hell.

When a believer engages in these activities, he is in effect denying his Lord the honor due him: who’s shed blood purchased the believer’s eternal redemption.


The Bible says: "You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men." -1 Corinthians 7:23

The Bible further warns those who don’t believe and persist in their rejection of Christ, a strong delusion will come upon them.

So if you still think getting high is acceptable for a christian, you might want to rethink what you believe and start listening to what God says...because it really doesn’t matter what YOU think...because it’s God’s standard we have to live up to, not our own.

And if you have an addiction to any drug or alcohol then you need to know there IS deliverance in Jesus Christ, but it involved surrendering your will over to Him and repenting of the behavior.