Our Spiritual Antibodies

In a world growing ever darker and more spiritually diseased, God has given His people a powerful gift: His Holy Spirit. This Pentecost message explores how the Holy Spirit functions not only to strengthen us individually, but also to protect and preserve the spiritual health of the Body of Christ—the Church.

Drawing a parallel with the role of antibodies in the human body, the message shows how Spirit-led Christians act as “spiritual antibodies”—identifying, resisting, and neutralizing false ideas, harmful influences, and deceptive spirits that can creep into the Church. Through scriptures in Romans, Hebrews, Revelation, and others, it warns of how spiritual compromise can silently spread when members are not actively led by the Spirit.

Tony Stith grew up in the Pacific Northwestern United States. He has been a member of the churches of God all of his life, attending the Boise, Idaho, Lewiston, Idaho and Spokane, Washington churches of God. After graduating college in Pasadena, CA in 1990, he and his wife Elizabeth moved to Minnesota, where they now live in Woodbury, a suburb just to the southeast of St. Paul. They attend the Twin Cities United Church of God congregation.