Embracing God's Sovereignty: Trust, Responsibility, and Action

God's exercise of power over all of his creation that's that pretty much sums it up doesn't it because I mean you there's terms that they're like two paragraphs long on what God's sovereignty is but what it is is God's ability to exercise his power over all his creation and in that there's a lot of comfort because you realize that it's not the government or different nations or the neighbor ups up the street that's that you have to worry about or even the crime right we worry about that a lot and that's why a lot of people move is crime and different things but when you understand that God is sovereign it really begins to put your mind at ease because he's the one ultimately in control. [00:49:22]

Preservation and kind of you can get from the word that God preserves things God keeps all creative things existing and maintaining the properties which in which he created them Hebrews 1:3 tells us that Christ is upholding the universe by the power of his word here's something interesting Wayne groom said that this just really struck me all week if Christ were to cease his continuing activity of sustaining all things in the universe then everything except the triune God would cease to exist or what instantly ceased to exist if Christ stopped upholding everything if he just stopped that everything would be no longer be upheld and when there's other verses that in in in Christ he's holding up the universities the particles the atoms the protons everything is held up by him it's a it's an interesting truth that is just mind-boggling if we think about it. [02:01:57]

Our dependence on God is affirmed every time we pray God give us our daily Jesus taught us to pray God give us our daily bread and here's where some confusion comes in the prayer has to be backed by a little bit of effort right have you ever just been on the couch fraying unless you're George Mueller in a in a dairy truck breaks down in front of your house and feeds the orphans in the orphanage most of us have to work a little bit have to tow and he did work he worked in prayer and different things but you're not gonna be praying often and there there's a bag of groceries on your front porch God does that sometimes he'll answer prayer that way but often more than often than not we work which is going to get to the next point with concurrence we work with God's sovereignty so God give us our daily bread means that we get up and we do something about it and I like that old saying that I pray as if it's all up to God which it is but I work as if it's all up to me because God blesses diligence god bless his hard work God blesses labor God looks upon those who are diligent and hard-working he favors that person because the opposite of that is lazy and slothful those aren't encouraging words in the Bible and we all have we all have the tendency to go in that direction don't we our flesh by nature is not hard-working it's very it's like to sleep all day for could it be NASCAR popcorn cookies ice cream pizza delivery and then reruns of your face Everitt television shows on or whatever on your on the Hallmark Channel if we could write at the flat you be honest if the flesh got its way today we would not be here most of us pajamas all day drinking and eating our favorite things and we would not be very productive so even though we pray God give us our daily bread because we know he brings the rain he sustains he he does everything it's his sovereignty we also cooperate with his sovereignty. [03:03:43]

Even in God's sovereignty he will relent the Bible uses a word repent but I don't really like that as much depending on the translation because we think that God is repenting from sin he's not he's repenting meaning he's changing his mind or he'll change something that's why I do believe that prayer is powerful because it has a kaya's case one king god said hey listen you're gonna die in a certain amount of time and he pleaded with God and he pleaded with God and the Prophet went to him and said God has heard your prayers he's relented he's changed his mind and you will I believe it was fifteen extra years that he got on his life and I think of second Chronicles 7:14 often if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear from heaven I will forgive their sins and I will begin to rebuild and cleanse their land I will change my course based on your response so God says here's what's going to happen this is the interesting about judgment whether you believe in judgment upon a nation judgment upon a group of people a judgment on it person that God will pronounce something saying this is going to happen but if you change certain conditions that are allowing this God can relent and change his course change his mind in that area and allow your prayers to be heard. [05:44:31]

Inside a perfect will there's permissive will and what he allows us to change course on or what he allows us to redirect and so we just live according to God's Word and we trust in him we know he knows what's best we pray for his permissive will God are you going to allow this to happen but we don't know what your perfect will is so it's good just to stay flexible and humble in this area because if we try to overthink things we can get in trouble because there's people who think well it's God's will my God's will I fell into sin God's will I left my spouse God's will that I just want and just this is and we have this can have this view of everything is it's God's will it's almost like a puppeteer you know how he sees got the strings and you're gonna do whatever and he wants you to do but we don't see that in Scripture we see a cooperation because man is ultimately held responsible for his actions that's why a lot of people in in evangelical Christianity there are two different views on this on salvation you know that God elects certain people and the rest he doesn't elect or the belief that God that man has the ability to accept or reject God's gracious gift of salvation and if they reject it then they are then judged based on their actions they are counted for on their action so you you can't have both of those be true so that's part of God's sovereignty now again people become frustrated because we don't know how it works exactly why it works I have a lot of questions just like you do right for example how can God be completely sovereign but how can man have a responsibility to do certain things because you would think as man as making changes or man as making choices that God would be caught off guard but we know God's not caught off guard he knows what's happening so are the choices predetermined Priya foreordained all these things all we know is what the Bible teaches is that man is held responsible for his actions. [07:11:49]

Whenever I am afraid I will trust in you in God I will praise his word that basically means in respect of you God I will look to your word I will look to the promise you have made in God I've put my trust I will not fear what can flesh do to me and you have to be reminded that often don't we because he says here whenever I am afraid that means we get afraid in our broken humanity but when I when that happens I will trust in you and I will put my mind back on you because where the mind goes the body follows right where the mind goes the body follows so I will put my trust in you I will put my hope in you I will praise your Holy Name what can flesh do to me what can man do to you let me answer you that let me ask that question is there anything man can do to you where you're worried about man and not God there's nothing we can do so that's the application so how would that fit into our lives well here's how what about anyone going through court battles legality issues tough decisions come on lots of yeses right what the rebellious child the broken marriage failing health that's why with the title as God's got this regardless of what it is God has got this he's got this and he's reminded the old him in 1800s many of you will know the name once I say a few of these stanzas when we walk with the Lord and the light of his word what a glory he sheds on her way well we do his good will he abides with us still and with all who trust and obey trust and obey there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey so God's got this but often we need to realign ourselves with trusting and obeying because when we get outside of that and I'm not trusting I am fearful now usually when I'm fearful I'm not obeying right because I'm gonna do things my way I'm gonna I'm scared so I'm gonna react instead of respond so we have to realign or realign ourselves again with trust and obey for example the court battle you have to be humble and gracious you have to reflect the nature of Christ tough decisions we have to submit and wait vs. yelling and cursing the rebellious child you have to be loving and gentle not sarcastic and throwing a Bible at them right reap reposition reposition ourselves the broken marriage all of the above humble gracious submit wait on God loving and gentle not yelling sarcastic throwing the Bible throwing things right it's all about repositioning. [09:54:00]

God cooperates with creative things and within that he allows them certain freedoms even though he is still sovereign now we know that it's hard to give examples of God and and the Trinity or different thing but for example those who are sovereign in your home you were the sovereign right you you you had guidelines you were leading your in leadership but within that home you didn't control every action of the children or the people right so within your sovereignty they had choices they had freedom they had actions and they were gonna be held responsible for those actions now the one bad the one bad thing about that analogy is God's not us and we're not God so he can go outside of that and do things that we couldn't do but my point was to try to give you this this this this impression of God where he allows us to make choices within his sovereignty and that's what gets confusing is well God if you're such a good God how did you allow this to happen and see that's where it's hard to because we know it's take for a disease for example we know that disease is the result of the fall in nature right something happens in our DNA the DNA sequencing the cells not being able to replicate the the body not being able to heal itself something happens in our DNA but we want God to fix everything but in his sovereignty he allowed man the choice man sin sin entered in so now it's almost and that's one of the big arguments for when people ask well what is especially in Christianity why it would a good God allow evil why would he well the choice is either he stops all evil we become utopia now or he allows the choices of others to run themselves out but within those choices he can stop and say cancer healed diabetes heart healed multiple sclerosis heal I mean that that's why on this topic it's it's it's one on one hand it's exciting for me but on the other hand it's frustrating because I read I read a lot of books on revival and different things that are happening in different countries third world countries and either all these people are lying or you will see God heal in powerful ways people people being set free of disease they've been struggling with all kinds of things that Jesus is going to set you free this morning and during worship a person is just if no more cancer no more multiple sclerosis no more Parkinson's it's just they've been healed they've been set free but why not everybody why some and see that's where get the headache I think Oh God why why because I truly believe when people come in in wheelchairs if God prompts me and there's a strong strong faith rising up and God you know he's doing I have no problem praying for those people and watching God do that but I'm also cautious enough to know that if God's not in it nothing's going to happen so being sensitive to the move of the Holy Spirit do we get into a point where we're not that desperate for God and if we're not that desperate we probably won't to be seeking him to the degree many people because when you go to when I read these stories in other places all they have is God or nothing not Blue Cross not Blue Shield not I'll put it on visa not UCLA and Northridge down the street god that's it and so yeah I often wonder how much of that comes into play because without faith it's impossible to please God and God often said because of your faith because of your belief but we also don't and I don't believe in the name it and claim it type faith movement you just have to have enough faith nobody should be sick everybody should be healed come on it's all contingent upon your faith but then that kind of puts faith above sovereignty doesn't it because then God becomes under my control verses the other way around so this this is like it's a it's a frustrating topic it's a it's exciting topic but on one hand I do see I mean if everybody's prayed for right then Shane's elevated to Jesus Christ if everybody I pray for is it healed or any teacher any preacher anybody if they're perfect if they're the the Midas touch what do they call that Jesus could heal everybody perfectly because he knew the will of the Father but we don't know the will of the father many times so it's an interesting topic because people can get frustrated but the psalmist declares that whatever the Lord pleases he does in heaven and on earth even according to proverbs 16 even the lot is cast into the lap but the decision is whole wholly from the Lord now we don't do that today I wouldn't advise it but in the Old Testament even a little bit in the new and the book of Acts they would cast lots and they would say okay Lord what's your decision they cast a lot and that even that decision was from though I believe that's how they picked a disciple Matthias Matthias however you pronounce it and and God's not going mmm I did a lot fall on that I didn't want Matthias man that's gonna ruin my whole plan here now I'm gonna have to have Paul meet me on the road to Damascus now I'm gonna have to have him write of a book of the Bible and so God's not confused he's not so even that decision was of the Lord it's just amazing to sit and I mean it's just this this week I was just in awe with a bit of K and a headache right it was at all like this is incredible but my brain does not understand how this can all work together and that's the beauty of it because and people think they want to know everything God does that would be impossible he just explode you would see you would cease to exist the atoms the atoms of protons and all the to try to understand who God is so here's the thing God's sovereignty is the primary cause our involvement is the secondary cause and we talked about His perfect will his permissive will and what I do is I trust in His perfect will but I pray for the permissive will so if something comes up in my family or in the church Lord I'm praying I'm praying that you would change this course based on what I know but see that's another twist in this we pray based on what we can see God makes decisions based on the future and his sovereignty. 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God has a purpose and all that he does in the world and he providentially governs or directs all things in order that they accomplish his purposes we read in Psalm 103 19 his kingdom rules over all so it's not who's more powerful Russia's coming here China America its he rules over all now there is a concept here that government is bad people have a you're gonna hear it more lately as as these kids that get a microphone think they know everything about the world at eighteen years old and that governments bad America is bad and all these things and you're gonna it's gonna it's gonna I don't know what's going to happen but we have to remember something that God often governs through government the God Institute's three institutions the family the church and the government and whether we like it or not God directs God restrains evil God does certain things through government now of course it all comes our mind well what about this government what about Russia or China or Shane have you read North Korea and what about America look at well look at how far we've drifted in different things but in all of those governments God Putin for example still restraining evil in the sense of the drug trafficking China for example a Middle East if you if you get caught a trafficking drugs you will be killed China they have rules against certain types of evil the problem is they're also against God and their definition of evil but let me read a scripture to you I've quoted some from time time I don't know if I put up in the screen in quite a while Romans 13 Romans 13 let every soul be subject to the governing authorities there is telling Christians we are to be subject to the governing authorities for there is no authority except from God and the authorities that exist are appointed by God now what happens to like let's say in the case of North Korea or China is you will have atheistic regimes hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of years ago they're still in power that's the difference you have you have maybe when Europe was formed or when America was formed you see a different type of spiritual climate a New Zealand Australia the Middle East has been prompt from primarily primarily Muslim which they draw from Abraham Ishmael the different child of Abraham that the Jews would Isaac and Isaac Abraham Isaac and Jacob they would look at Abraham's lineage differently so you have this type of Islam grow up in the Middle East so it's usually those governing authorities have been there a while that's that's what's interesting so God puts the governing authorities in positions of leadership for this purpose therefore whoever resists Authority resists the ordinance of God and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves for rulers are not a terror to good works but to evil here we go he's saying here whoever resists Authority resists the ordens of God and who and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves obviously he's not talking about when a government makes a law for example some day legally I have to marry the gay couples then I would have to break that law I can't go it goes against God's Word but if they say listen you can no longer preach from Romans you can't do this type of church you can't preach you can't witness to people then I would have to break that law because God's law supersedes man's law so what he's talking about here though is not that he's talking about evil actions evil actions and I'm in agreeance with John Piper who when he is commentary on this he knows that Paul is riding Rome Romans to the church in Rome he knows obviously its Caesar is going to read his writings because they don't get out from Paul and out to the other churches without the governing authorities looking at those so he's probably reminding Caesar listen you're to be a terror to those who do evil and that's really the that's why God orchestrates government especially in our nation many years ago that the government is supposed to restrain evil and deter wrongdoing and the church is supposed to be the conscience of the nation so technically you could have them running together in the sense of the government does this the church does this but happens now with our government is they take on a lot of the the church's responsibilities and things get very convoluted so rulers the goal is God's design is there to be a tear to good works there not to be a terror to good works but to evil so that's why for example why how can a Christian they say this how can a Christian be for war well number one I'm not for war I'm against war but God puts in two position governing authorities that supersede my authority that God that they are to avenge those who do evil and Augustine wrote about if you're interested it's called the Just War theory when a nation goes to war there has to be three conditions meant biblically for them to do that but it's not me being excited about it's not me killing people it's not me it's God putting people in positions of authority to do his justice how and for example how would you bring tyrannical forms of government to justice how would you go against wicked regimes now of course all of us are thinking well what about this or what about that one what about this yeah we with with sinful man you'll get sinful actions but you don't throw out the baby with the bathwater so that's the things with Christians being a pacifist people saying from individuals a pacifist that's wonderful personally as an individual I have to err on the side of passivity right I can I'm not gonna grab a gun I'm not going to go to war I'm like but if I'm working then become under that government authority if a sheriff write an Army Navy Air Force Marine SEALs to SEAL Team six you know if you're if you're under that government authority then you actually have an obligation by God to be Avengers of Justice to do his will in this area because if you've got 100 you've got a thousand terrorists who want to rape pillage and kill then I have a responsibility if I'm in the military to defend that nation that they are coming against Just War Theory means that there's an equal or there's actually a legitimate concern you don't just go in and take territory or different things and and America has done that before there no it's not here's the thing with America the foundation the foundation was good and godly but corrupt men came in and brought in things like slavery or how they handled the Native American Indians or how they took this war was not good or that wasn't good but at the core at the core was men and women fleeing set a persecution from England to Holland then to the United States of pilgrims of Puritans you look at their writings if anybody wants to to really know what people believed what you have to do is you have to read the original intent of the founders not secular revisionist of what they thought and what they said you have to go to their own writings you have to look at what they believe what did they say because the media the ecology educational systems everything is going to twist the twist the founding they're gonna twist things and they're gonna make well here here's how bad they were look at what they did so just I just go to the original writings let me read what the founding founders of the nation said let me read I've got a book out there one nation above God or have to bring more copies where I've got three pages at the end of all the founding fathers who were against slavery page after or quote after quote after quote why don't you ever hear about them why because there's an agenda civil unrest let's get the african-americans and whites and Latinos let's get everybody fighting again there's an agenda there civil unrest but we're to bring civil rest as believers that's why there's no color of skin there's nothing we love all I do I love any type of believer to come to church that's the heart of Christ but the media in different groups will begin to shake and stir that to cause dissension so all you have to do is look at their original writings look at what they did what they believed do you want to be unafraid of Authority do what is good and you will have praise from the same for he is God's menace to you for good talking about the government officials Army Navy Air Force Marines but if you do evil be afraid for he does not bear the sword in vain for he is God's Minister an Avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil see back in the old days in the Old Testament it was vigilante vigilante ilysm if that's a word you know what that is you know the vigilante is you kill my brother guess what I'm coming after you and that was legit they actually had safe haven cities where people could flee to a sanctuary cities right the right kind I'm not going there you guys now I told you this isn't because government affects more than you think government affects more than you think God will often work through Romans Romans 13 but the enemy will pervert Romans 13 against believers against those truly following Christ the enemy wants to silence the voice of truth in the area of government that's what he can you is this just sometimes I just I want to just go drive and drive and drive and drive and get my because people think like government's bad the church is great let's just do our little kumbaya and pray at the gospel but don't don't get involved in this area of life well this area affects everything else this area affects everything the future the generation where your kids are growing up I'm not getting political I'm getting biblical God has something to say about every facets of life there was a there was a 19th century historian Ben's Benson lossing I think his name was in the 1800s he says in those days politics were preached in the pulpits and men were led to action on the side of freedom by faithful pastors and that's my thought what if getting political is getting biblical now hear me understand my heart I'm not saying let's get carried away but you see all these huge issues now right huge issues that we that we don't want to talk about because that's bad I mean Christians can work at Lockheed Northrup Hollywood waste management everything you can name but don't go into don't go make a difference over here well this affects everything think about this let me get this straight let me get this straight let me let me see if you're following me here you can have your gun protest your Twitter you can Twitter your favorite candidate you can lie in the media you can teach evolution to our kids you can flaunt sexual sin and gay marriage you can teach preschool kids about transgender into ism you can support murdering a child in the womb but I need to keep my mouth shut oh no I don't think so oh I'll give you now listen I'll give you this when you when you pry it out of my cold dead hands that's what it should say you know the old saying you you can have my gun when you pry it out of my cold dead hands you can have the Bible why can everybody voice everything else but the pulpit needs to be silenced it makes no sense let me tell you why because they want to silence the voice of truth God's Word has something to say about murdering children God's Word has something to say about the sanctity of life God's word has to say something about he created them male and female that they be joined together it has something to say about putting on men's clothing if you're a woman it has something to say so why silence a voice of truth why that's my question I don't understand I understand don't get political it's about the gospel but when the gospel change my heart I got concern for these issues I mean those people on TV did say man separate your faith faith separate your faith from your life how that's not even biblical that's not even biblical see we're not talking about paving the road I could care less we're not talking about building a bridge somewhere we are talking about important moral issues that will have huge ramifications ramifications when the nation departs from God be careful be careful judgment always follows in these cases what are you leaving for your grandchildren your children but Christians want to silence their mouths they want to be quiet they just want to say kumbaya feed the homeless and be quiet don't get involved in these things well look at how much it's cost us in 50 years did you know they used to pray in the school do you understand that they used to pray in the school read Bibles they might even say the Pledge and I'm so sick of this politically correct culture that can't offend anyone except believers change it to he and she and it and this don't offend any don't offend anything we'll have you ever stopped to consider that you might have offended me have you offended God see here's the thing you can't be bold and truthful and soft and quiet I've tried it doesn't work right you can't be bold and truthful and soft and quiet sometimes you got to stir the hornet's nest the pulpit sets the tone for the nation not fox news and CNN that that we should set we we should this should tell us what to say what do we do with our borders what does this say what does this say what do we do with guns in in self-defense what does this say what do we do with gay marriage oh these are huge issues see they want to they want to silence the pulpit you just do your little Church stuff let us control the world let us control the United States but let me say this I love all of those who struggle with sin because I struggle but we must stop mocking God and flaunting our sin if you truly want freedom you must repent that's how people truly get freedom let me just throw in a few quotes here I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration but I am as perfectly satisfied that the union of the states in its forms and adoption is as much the work of divine providence our topic as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament any idea said that signer of the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Rush if you want to run for office in our nation you had a profess of faith and Father the Son the Holy Spirit even run for office the Mayflower complex kept a compact coming over on the Mayflower to the glory of God and for the advancement of the Christian faith do we do everything right of course not because the enemy comes in and brings the wrecking ball stop glorifying the wrecking ball and thinking the foundation is wrong I can take you to Harvard and Princeton and Yale all founded by Christians all scholars shall be religious godly and blameless according to the rules of God's Word they should diligently read the holy scriptures requirements of yellow college in 1701 anybody get this they mock this now they're doing whatever they can get get God out of the courthouse remove the Ten Commandments get get rid of his word our laws and our institutions must be based upon the embodiment of the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind it is impossible that it should be otherwise in this sense and to this extent our civilizations and our institutions are empathetically Christian Richmond versus Moore the Illinois Illinois Supreme Court 1883 see I just read I've got your book it's called original intent of all the founders words do you know something wasn't even in it they would reference the Bible four times more than any other source when putting together the documents for the founding of the nation well this person this yeah exactly the devil comes in with a wrecking ball according to God's sovereignty see we can openly acknowledge God in all areas of government because our government was built on his word his precepts and his principles we must acknowledge him as a source of our nation's strength do you realize that we can acknowledge it probably it's not gonna happen right I'm not naive I don't live on a cloud up in the sky ho wouldn't that be nice utopia no we're going we're going to hell in a handbasket but I'm praying for revival without God I should say without revival you look at how far we've drifted and we can we can openly and acknowledge the sovereign hand of God the school district the courts the Supreme Court we exceed we've catered to politically correctness if it's his standard his rules his government say we can we can openly acknowledge that because Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion we're not establishing a religion we're acknowledging God's sovereign hand on what he has done and then every day all these groups like to use separation of church and state you know it's nowhere in the Constitution nowhere Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to the Baptist and he said don't worry it's I can become a national denomination there will be a wall of separation between the search and state so they can work and function separately but then the court takes that phrase and now says oh now that means Church you can't be involved in anything get the church out of everything separation of church and state that's not what it meant that it was not the that the people who started the nation would roll over in their graves because the whole reason for coming and founding it was to elevate God's Word was to be a city upon a hill I mean think as Benjamin Franklin wasn't even a believer said if a gentleman or a gentleman and they're trying to have a hard time with the Constitution he said gentlemen if a fair if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice is it is it possible that an empire can rise without his aid proclaiming days of prayer and fasting Clinton Obama Trump Bush where are you where are where is he where is these where let's get down and call these days of press thing and prayer where is that see that's the harping that's why my concern is the devil works primarily like God does through governing authorities so to say Christians don't need to be involved makes no sense because it's God's concept it's his institution it's God's institution so run for office vote make a difference for the glory of God my goodness stop putting the hand cuffs on now again there are different callings obviously this is that's not my primary calling my primary calling is preaching but thank God for those whose primary calling is to make a difference can you imagine if all those people making difference stop to cease to exist that you think North Korea is bad that we would resemble that that's a country without the breath of God in it so close with this it's a poem I have I'm just gonna do the abridged version and it does fit because we're talking about sovereignty God's providential sovereignty and his role in government one nation under God was there cryin declaration upon the law of nature's God they built a mighty nation for unlike mankind before them who had walked this earth and sawed these men would never have questioned the sovereignty of God so with the firm reliance on divine providence for protection they pledged their sacred honor and sought his wise direction they lifted up an appeal to God for all the world to see and vowed their independence forever to be free I'm glad they're not here with us to see the mess we're in how we've given up our righteousness for a life of indulgent sin for when abortion isn't murder and sodomy is deemed too right than evil now is called good and darkness is now called light while truth and law were founded on the God of all creation man now through law denies that truth and calls it separation no longer does man see any for God when he's in full control for the only truth self-evident is in the latest poll but with man is his own master we fell to count the cost our precious freedoms vanish and our liberty is lost children are told they can't pray in school and they teach them evolution when will they see that the fear of God is the only true solution and I'm well aware that the majority the people who need to hear this aren't hear this I'm aren't gonna hear this I'm preaching to the cheerleaders but sometimes the cheerleaders need a little encouragement don't they and back to the verse I began with and so on whenever I'm afraid I will trust in you whenever I'm afraid I will trust in you and God I will praise His Word and God I've put my trust I will not fear what can flesh do to me so even though we get worked up and we get passionate without that you wouldn't make a difference so in God's sovereignty he uses our discontent the decline we see to motivate us to action so don't get beat up get into prayer and fasting mode or discourage I should say get into prayer and fasting mode pray Lord how can I make a difference see we need to motivate the church again this area and again I don't I don't get political I don't mention candidates I don't sign every petition but if you just stop for just google things are trying to pass in Sacramento that I'm if it goes through I can't I cannot tell somebody that there's hope for them and their gay lifestyle I have to affirm it did you catch that anybody been reading the first or second amendment lately I mean freedom of speech but here's why this is happening nobody cares here's what we it doesn't matter does it affect me not yet how many of you are silent now in your workplace I well you could talk about God all the time Northrop Lockheed Rockwell all the time thirty years ago law enforcement sure ifth Department I just took a tour of the big courthouse Saturday and all the things the changes they have to make to be politically correct you murder someone we'll make sure they have their three square mils that the chairs off that they have this shower time they have all this pleat click don't don't call them that don't say anything bad don't call them this name this is it's unbelievable we have a heart of love but we also have a heart of love for God's Word and when it's being trampled on when it's being wrought ridiculed when it's being mocked there should be a holy a righteous indignation that rises up in you not to do evil not to do evil we don't return evil with evil we get on her faces and we pray and we fast and we seek God's Lord well how do you want me to make a difference listen I prayed that 1819 years ago and God gave me a huge passion for this area a lot of research in American history a lot of research in this area for a purpose 19 years ago nobody would hear this now this will probably go to 20 30 40 50 thousand people on the radio in different places but I Lord what do I can't do anything I'm a country boy no education I what do you want me to do but I had a passion see he gave me the desire to speak this truth and hope I'll be going to Washington DC at some point we've got there's people I know they're close to advisory committees at the for the president wanting to get younger pastors not political biblical because if you're upset at this I dare you I challenge you to find me one scripture that says I need to shut my mouth on abortion and gay marriage and not talk about any of these things just one scripture that's all one scripture and I'll show you a plethora of scriptures that say we need to stand up for the word of God not arrogantly and not with with with because half the time I'm holding back tears so it's not arrogance its brokenness like Nehemiah why should I not be sad the king said this is nothing but sadness of heart Nehemiah said why should I not be sad when the place of my father's tombs lies in waste why shouldn't I be sad see it's actually I should ask you the question why aren't you yeah it's okay for a kindergartner to be cut too taut transgenderism and encourage that in them my goodness somebody should go fire that teacher I I need to stop I just need to stop nope now mm not I'm stopping because I'm gonna get in trouble Jesus had enough at one point he started making a whip you know if I've had enough of this I'm driving out these money changers we need righteous indignation again that gets us to our face before God. 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