The sermon for July 17th 2022 is now available on the New Life website.
In this sermon, which is based on Philippians 3:7-21, I talk about Things I Have Learned.
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Month: July 2022
New Figures Show Covid Vaccine Is Bad For You
New data from Sweden shows that the Covid vaccination has little, if any, effect on the ability to get the disease while increasing your risk of hospitalisation from serious side effects.
This confirms what we were seeing in NSW from the daily figures being released. At one stage they were showing the percentage of people in hospital with 0,1,2,3 jabs. Consistently the lowest group were the 0 or 1, and the highest group were 3 or more. Then the authorities stopped publishing those numbers.
It seems to me that the Covid jab is an anti-vaccine. I don’t understand why we are still trying to coerce people to be “vaccinated.”
Swedes Find Vaccinations Increase Risk of Hospitalization While Having Almost No Effect on Covid
Thanks to Martin Parker
Data from the Swedish Medical Products Agency (LV) confirms that Covid vaccines have resulted in a distinct increase in reported side effects, including suspected serious side effects (SSSEs) and deaths. Despite this, the consistent message from the Swedish Public Health Agency (FoHM) is that benefit outweighs risk. (they can only keep claiming this because they won’t publish the stats – same as the British UKHSA)
We analyzed publicly available data from LV, FoHM, the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (SoS) and Statistics Sweden (SCB). Assuming that 5% of all SSSEs are reported in Sweden, our analysis shows that Covid vaccination is likely to benefit one single group only – men aged over 90 years. For all other groups, the incidence of SSSEs exceeded the risk of hospitalization and death with Covid.
The Swedish Covid vaccination started on December 27, 2020. We included reports of SSSEs until December 23, 2021. During this period, LV deemed n=8,496 of reported adverse events to be SSSEs.
We were able to calculate the proportion vaccinated by age by combining the 85.4% figure with data on the proportion vaccinated in different age groups up to June 19, 2022 and adjusting for the increase in vaccination coverage from December 23, 2021 to June 19, 2022.10 Based on the population at December 31, 2021 by age and sex, we were able to calculate the number vaccinated by age group and sex. Since FoHM data showed that proportionally more women than men had been vaccinated, we adjusted for this in the final model – number increased for women and decreased for men so that proportion of vaccinated women is 1.0314 times that of men for all age groups.
We calculated the number of SSSEs per hospitalized or deceased with Covid. The reporting rate of SSSEs in Sweden might be as low as 1-2%.11,12 Since the exact reporting rate for Covid vaccine SSSEs is unknown, we tested outcomes using an assumed 5%, 10% or 25% SSSE reporting rate. Thus we could estimate the number that experienced at least one SSSE/person hospitalized with Covid, according to age and sex:
A value >1 suggests that Covid vaccination was disadvantageous for that group. Women and men aged 10-79 years have been particularly affected by SSSEs. Assuming a 5% SSSE reporting rate, men aged 10-19 years were the most disadvantaged, and experienced a 14.1 times higher incidence of SSSEs than hospitalization with Covid. Hence, risks of vaccination exceed the potential benefits in the majority of groups and vaccination only appeared to be beneficial in men aged over 90 years. Assuming a very conservative estimate of a 25% SSSE reporting rate, risk outweighs benefit for men younger than 40 and women younger than 70.
Though we have made use of publicly available data, the full data set required to accurately determine the risk-benefit of Covid vaccination is only available to the Swedish authorities.
Quote for the Day
Darwin was, of course, neither a philosopher nor an economist, but his account of the origin of human beings dealt a decisive blow to those systems that granted special essential status and significance to humanity. Carl Trueman
Today’s Bike Ride
Very crunchy underfoot this morning. Cold start but great riding. The Namoi River is looking splendid.
Quote for the Day
But since then, technology has assumed a key role in the more radical context of making plausible the separation of biological sex and the concept of gender. This separation is now basic to much of the modern social imaginary and that clearly rests on the psychologized notion of self that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and now dominates our contemporary world. Carl Trueman
Quote for the Day
Consumerism makes us believe we can be whoever we want to be, but the market always places limits on that in reality. Carl Trueman
Reflection on Judges 9:1-21
Scripture
He went to his father’s home at Ophrah, and there, on one stone, they killed all seventy of his half-brothers, the sons of Gideon. But, the youngest brother, Jotham, escaped and hid.
Observation
Gideon’s son Abimelech goes to Shechem to visit his uncles. He asks them to ask the elders of Shechem whether they want to be ruled by seventy sons of Gideon or by one man.
The men of Shechem decide that Abimelech should be their king. Abimelech hires some henchmen to go to Ophrah to kill all of Gideon’s sons. One of them, Jotham, escapes.
Jotham tells a parable to the elders of Shechem. He accuses them of betraying Gideon’s heritage. He challenges them to consider if they have acted honourably in making Abimelech their king. If they have not acted honourably, may they all be devoured by fire.
Application
The NLT Study Bible heads this section with “Abimelch: The Anti- Judge.” Whereas the previous judges were raised by God to meet a particular threat, Abimelech imposes himself with violence to be a king. His ambition was to rule over, not just Shechem but the whole of Israel. To meet that ambition, he had all seventy of his half-brothers, except one who escaped, put to death.
Whenever God is at work, we can always expect satan to produce a counterfeit. He fakes spiritual gifts to deceive the elect. He produces false gospels to lead us away from true faith in Christ.
These things ultimately show themselves by their fruit – death, destruction, misery, bondage and so on. But we need to practise discernment so that we are always aware of what is truly God and what is merely satan’s distractions.
Prayer
Father, grant me wisdom and discernment in all that I do. Please help me to stay close to you and to not fall prey to satan’s traps. Amen.
Today’s Bike Ride
A very cold morning but glorious sunshine.
Quote for the Day
Most people have not read Freud, but many find appealing the message preached in myriad movies and soap operas that life is about finding individual sexual satisfaction and that one’s sexual appetites lie at the very center of who one actually is. Carl Trueman
Reflection on Judges 8:22-35
Scripture
Gideon made a sacred ephod from the gold and put it in Ophrah, his home town. But soon all the Israelites prostituted themselves by worshipping it, and it became a trap for Gideon and his family.
Observation
The Israelites want to install Gideon and his family as king so that he, his son and his grandson will rule over them. Gideon refuses because the Lord is their king.
Gideon requests that each person gives him an earring from the loot of the Midianites. This is freely given, along with other jewellery. Gideon uses this gold to make an ephod. But the Israelites soon start to worship this item.
Gideon returns home and has seventy sons. He dies at an old age, and there is peace in the land for as long as he lives. After his death, the Israelites quickly start worshipping Baal, displeasing the Lord.
Application
People have an inherent desire to worship idols. Gideon makes a ”sacred ephod” out of the gold plundered from their enemies, and pretty soon people are worshipping it. Prior to this, they had wanted to make Gideon into a kind of idol because he had rescued the nation.
We can so easily turn what God intends for good into a replacement for Him.
There are people who effectively worship Government, thinking that it will keep them safe. Some people hysterically demand that masks be made compulsory so that they can be safe from viruses.
People dedicate their lives to the pursuit of money, power, influence, sex, or pleasure. None of these things bring lasting happiness or security.
We have been created to worship God alone. He is invisible and will tolerate no rivals in the form of manufactured gods.
Because we are hard-wired for worship, we must always ensure that we are worshipping the one and only true God.
Prayer
Lord God, I praise you. I give you glory. There is no god but you. Please keep me safe from idolatry. Amen.
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