1 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 2: Michael Very Show is on the air. What we've got 3 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 2: here is failure to milk. 4 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 3: Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly 5 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 3: knowledgeable about the past, and didn't you know, may not 6 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 3: have even known that. You know America Firster's pac Madison 7 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 3: Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine and a pro Nazi Germany. 8 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 4: Rally, you said over the weekend, referring to it, there's 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 4: a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in 10 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 4: the mid nineteen thirties that Medisine Square Garden. 11 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:47,959 Speaker 1: So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave 12 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 1: it at that. 13 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 2: Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? 14 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 5: Yes? 15 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 2: I do, Yes, I do. 16 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 3: The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic. 17 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 6: The only garbage I see floating down there is his supporters, 18 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 6: his his his demonizational scene is unconstable American. 19 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,399 Speaker 3: You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I 20 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 3: call the basket of deplorable. 21 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 7: Look at the reading, look at the look at the 22 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 7: life we lead, the way we bow. 23 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: It's done, bit fall. 24 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 2: You know, that's a little bit old. That shot that 25 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 2: sharts a couple of months old. 26 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: And if you want to really. 27 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 6: See something that said, take a look at what happened. 28 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 6: We bleed the same blood, we share the same home, 29 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 6: and we salute the same great American flag. 30 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 1: We are one people, one family. 31 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 6: And one glorious nation under God. So Jews and Muslims 32 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 6: and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons, and they're all joining 33 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 6: our colors and large numbers, larger than anyone has ever 34 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 6: seen in this country before, larger than they've ever seen 35 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 6: in any country. And the Republican Party has really become 36 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 6: the party of inclusion. 37 00:02:53,000 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 5: And that's something very nice about that. Earlier today, I 38 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 5: was talking about voting and a report I had seen 39 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 5: that Christians are voting in very low numbers vis a 40 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 5: v other demographics in our community, and I started talking 41 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 5: about pastors who sold out, pastors who are grifters. They're 42 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 5: not even pastors, they're preachers. They preach, They preach on TV. 43 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 5: And the only reason they preach in a building with 44 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 5: people in it instead of sort of the old C 45 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 5: Span model of having, you know, just a camera on 46 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 5: and making it look like there's an audience. The only 47 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 5: reason they have the people out there is because they 48 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 5: can count on those contributions every week, whereas on TV 49 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 5: it's harder to get people to send in, but we're 50 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 5: happy to have them too. And I started talking about 51 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 5: various denominations and being a Southern Baptist, and really the 52 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 5: Evangelical Church and the Bible's commandment, and I realized this 53 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 5: conversation will turn some people off. So if you're new 54 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 5: to the show, it's okay for you to turn off 55 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 5: one day. Some days I might talk about baseball or football, 56 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 5: or adoption or being a mother or a father, or 57 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 5: whatever else you do. 58 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: You're not here for. 59 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:27,679 Speaker 2: All of it. It's okay. 60 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 5: But I started talking about pastors as white pastors because 61 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 5: black pastors will do it. White pastors need to be 62 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 5: telling their congregation about the importance of electing god, fearing 63 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 5: faith following elected officials, and how most white pastors won't 64 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 5: do it and they'll hide behind the tax advantages or 65 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 5: but it's really because they've become a business. They don't 66 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 5: pastor their church at all. They stopped being a pastor 67 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 5: ministering to the needs of their congregants, both on Sunday 68 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 5: by delivering the sermon, but also during the week counseling 69 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 5: couples and young people and singles and the elderly, and 70 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 5: the things that the church should be. The church should 71 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 5: be a sucker for the people. That's succ or gramond, 72 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 5: not sucker like a sweet sucker you get at the 73 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 5: doctor's OsO Muny kid. It should be nourishment to the 74 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,919 Speaker 5: whole of the individual and the family. But what we 75 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 5: have now and a lot of these churches is a self aggrandizing, 76 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 5: self serving megalomaniac who wants to get rich. And if 77 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 5: you're at that church, I suggest you find a real 78 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 5: church like God intended. So a listener sent me an 79 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 5: email of a guy of a guy who was at 80 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 5: a place called First Odessa, Odessa, Texas. 81 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 7: Uh. 82 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,239 Speaker 5: It's it's in the Odessa Permian it's a Permian basin. 83 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 5: It's a it's an oil community near near Midland, I believe. 84 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 5: And I've had some family members going to work there 85 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 5: in the oil patch. And they said, this guy he 86 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 5: preaches and he talks about the importance of voting, and 87 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 5: so I'm listening to it, and so they sent me 88 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 5: a link to a sermon he'd given and I went 89 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 5: to the site. I go to study this guy. His 90 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 5: name is Byron McWilliams. And his name doesn't appear anywhere. 91 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 5: You gotta go digging for his name. Well, I don't 92 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 5: have to tell you that a lot of these megachurch 93 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,920 Speaker 5: preachers they're not pastors. They don't pastor their flock. They 94 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 5: don't tend their flock. They just preach. They just get 95 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 5: up and tall and get paid well for it. And 96 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 5: this guy and this fight is all about the Word 97 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 5: of God and the church as a place to gather 98 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 5: and congregate. The first Odessa. You can find them, you 99 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 5: can look up on and look them up on YouTube. 100 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 5: And he turns out he's from Woodville, Texas. Woodville, Texas 101 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 5: is in deep East Texas, from just up the road 102 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 5: where I'm from. In fact, Woodville was one of our 103 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 5: rivals in sports, in academic and sports in UIL competitive activities. 104 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 5: They were the same size of ours as a country community. 105 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 5: So I like the way he talks, but I like 106 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 5: his message. And he delivered a sermon on why it's 107 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 5: important that you vote, And so this Sunday will be 108 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 5: the last opportunity the church has to activate Christians to 109 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 5: go and vote on Tuesday. And in most churches, more 110 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 5: than half the people in that congregation will not have voted, 111 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 5: and it makes a difference to what kind of country 112 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 5: we're gonna have. 113 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: People say, well, I'll just pray. 114 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 5: If you only pray and don't vote, you haven't read 115 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 5: the Bible. So we're gonna share some of this man's 116 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 5: sermon about why it's important vote. 117 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: Coming up Michael Berry's show. 118 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 2: If we were. 119 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 5: Attacked by the Chinese, the Russians, whoever you've seen Red Dawn, 120 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 5: you get the idea, what would you do to save 121 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 5: our country? You'd like to believe man, I'd do everything. 122 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 5: Would you take off from work? Did you take off 123 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 5: from your business? Would you take off from fishing one day? 124 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 5: Would you round up everyone you could and start your 125 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 5: own little militia unit, you rally every resource you had 126 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 5: defend off the invaders? 127 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 2: You would? I would, Michael? 128 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: I would? 129 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 5: Well, then why not at least vote and get everyone else, 130 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 5: you know, to vote. That's pretty easy because the otherwise 131 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 5: these are the end times they are, and Christians are 132 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 5: not voting. 133 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: You know who else isn't voting? 134 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 5: Hunters. It's coming Tuesday. We got in Texas, we got 135 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 5: early voting through Friday of this week, So today tomorrow, 136 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 5: one more day in Texas, we got early voting through 137 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 5: Friday and then what they call election day on Tuesday. 138 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,439 Speaker 5: I think you're a fool if you wait till election day, 139 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 5: but that's your business. A lot of people think, oh, 140 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 5: I'm gonna wait, and then the Democrats won't know how 141 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 5: much to cheat. They did that in the county I 142 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 5: live in, and the Democrats had control of the voting 143 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 5: booths and they just didn't send the ballots out on 144 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 5: the day of voting because they saw that people had 145 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,599 Speaker 5: held back, so they didn't send the ballots, so you 146 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 5: couldn't vote. But whatever, do your thing. But this is 147 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 5: my call on you to call on your pastor. Hey, pastor, 148 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 5: you haven't talked about this election. You haven't told who 149 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 5: you're going to vote for. Politics matters, government matters. Stand 150 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 5: up and be a leader. Stop worrying about offending people. 151 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 5: You're a Christian, bear your cross. I'm tired of Christians 152 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 5: and for that matter, people of all faiths. 153 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 1: Who are afraid to speak out. 154 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,079 Speaker 5: How can you be Jewish and vote for the Democrat 155 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 5: Party which is scared the death of the Hamas wing 156 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 5: of that party and will let them destroy Israel? And 157 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 5: you can you do that? Anyway, this is a pastor 158 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 5: who was sent to me. It's a church called firs Odessa. 159 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 5: I've never been there. I didn't know it, but it's fantastic. 160 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 5: Listen to this. 161 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 4: And this is what he says beginning in verse chapter thirteen, 162 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:15,839 Speaker 4: verse one, when Frim spoke, and that's another name for 163 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 4: the northern kingdom, Ephrim. When Fram spoke, there was trembling. 164 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 4: He was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through 165 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 4: bail and died. 166 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 2: If you do not know who bail is, Bail is 167 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 2: a a demonic. 168 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 4: Idol that they used to worship, a false god that 169 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 4: they would worship. 170 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 2: Verse two. And now they sin more and more. 171 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 4: They sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, 172 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 4: idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the 173 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 4: work of craftsmen. It is said of them, those who 174 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 4: offer human sacrifices kiss calves. 175 00:11:58,720 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 2: Therefore they shall. 176 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 4: Be like the morning missed, or like the dew that 177 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 4: goes early away, like the chap that swhirls from the 178 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 4: threshing floor, or like smoke from a window. But I 179 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 4: am the Lord's your God from the land of Egypt. 180 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 4: You know no god but me. And besides me. There 181 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 4: is no savior. It was I who knew you in 182 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 4: the wilderness, in the land of drought. But when they 183 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 4: had grazed, they became full. They were filled, and their 184 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 4: heart was lifted up. Therefore they forgot me. So I 185 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 4: am to them like a lion, like a leopard. I 186 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 4: will lurk beside the way. I will fall upon them 187 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 4: like a bear robbed of her cubs. I will tear 188 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 4: open their breast, and there I will devour them like 189 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:48,439 Speaker 4: a lion, as the wild beast would rip them open. 190 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 4: Five things I want to share with you. Number One, 191 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,679 Speaker 4: write this down. America is a nation in peril because 192 00:12:55,080 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 4: we have systematically written God out of our history. God 193 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 4: founded the nation of Israel many many years ago the 194 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 4: prophet Abraham. He was asked us to leave where his 195 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 4: home and go to the place where God was sending him. 196 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 2: And God sent. 197 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 4: Him, and God founded the nation of Israel through Father Abraham. 198 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 4: The Israelites, the Hebrews were God's people, and they were 199 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:21,559 Speaker 4: the ones who followed closely after God. They were his 200 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 4: chosen people. Now listen, Israel still is don't dismiss that. 201 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 4: But for over five hundred years, God's people were told 202 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 4: how to live. Because God gave them the law. He 203 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 4: guided them. He said, this is what will honor me, 204 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 4: and this is what will dishonor me. For I'm a 205 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 4: holy God, and you have to worship me in a 206 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 4: certain way. 207 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 2: You have to follow me in a certain way. 208 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 4: And so God guided them, told them exactly what to do. 209 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 2: And yet the nation of Israel, the. 210 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 4: Northern Kingdom, when they divided in the year nine thirty. 211 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 4: When they divided, they began to worship idols. They began 212 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 4: to worship bail. They began to offer up their children 213 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 4: to the gods in sacrifice, which God never commanded and 214 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 4: God never wanted. And so in verse four, God comes 215 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:11,439 Speaker 4: back to them, this Northern Kingdom, and he says to them, 216 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:12,559 Speaker 4: but I'm your God. 217 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 2: I'm your God. 218 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 4: From the land of Egypt. He says, if he's saying, 219 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 4: don't you remember me, I'm your God. I am the 220 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 4: one who took care of you, who led you out 221 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 4: of Egypt. 222 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: I'm the one. 223 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 4: Don't you remember me destroying Pharaoh? Don't you remember the 224 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 4: signs that I did? Don't you remember all that. 225 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 2: I did for you? I am your God. 226 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 4: But the Northern Kingdom had systematically dismissed God and followed 227 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 4: after demons and idols. 228 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 2: Will cover more of that in a moment, but. 229 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 4: They had systematically written God out of their history. Do 230 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 4: you see America as a country established upon Judeo Christian 231 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 4: values and principles that if any person who is. 232 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 2: An honest historian. 233 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 4: Would look at they would say, that's true, that's undeniable. 234 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 4: Our founding fathers cared about what God thought. When they 235 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 4: established United States of America. 236 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 2: They realized that they had. 237 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 4: One shot to form a union of states that were 238 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 4: going to come together and be a republic, a representative republic, 239 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 4: and they would do it the right way. They had 240 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 4: one shot to do it. They didn't want to have 241 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 4: what they had in England with a king. They wanted 242 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 4: a representative republic. And they depended upon God for wisdom, 243 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 4: and they depended upon him for help in establishing these 244 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 4: United States of America. You see our dependence upon God 245 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 4: is exton stone, and you see it all over Washington 246 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 4: if you go in the monuments in and you know, 247 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 4: in the nation's capital, it's all there. You see it 248 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 4: in our documents from the United States, for example, our 249 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 4: Declaration of Independence, which was signed July fourth, seventeen seventy six. 250 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 2: It says we hold. 251 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 4: These truths to be self evident, that all men are 252 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 4: created equal, that. 253 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 2: They are endowed by their creator. 254 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 4: With certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty, 255 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 4: and the pursuit of happiness, endowed by the Creator, that 256 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 4: acknowledges God through whom we are. 257 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 2: To live, move, and have our being. 258 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 6: Under my leadership, we will regain energy independence, massive energy dominance, 259 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 6: dominance dominance. 260 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: You can do everything in your power. 261 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 5: You be able to say, mamasum, you did everything possible 262 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 5: to help win this election. 263 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: I don't mean you read every article about how they 264 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: can cheat. 265 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 5: I don't mean you read every negative story on Joe 266 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 5: Biden and Kamala Harris. I mean, did you do everything 267 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 5: possible with every ounce of energy in your body to 268 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 5: win this election? The White House, your Senate seats, your 269 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 5: congressional seats, all the way down. Did you do everything 270 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 5: possible if we lose? Or did you do what a 271 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 5: lot of people do. Have you just decided, well, they're 272 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 5: gonna cheat, so I don't have to do anything. We'll 273 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 5: take as always an excuse maker. So you personally can't 274 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 5: control whether they cheat. You personally can control how many 275 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:26,399 Speaker 5: votes are casting. 276 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: You can do that. 277 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 5: You can do everything in your power, and if you've 278 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 5: done that, you can sleep well at night. The church 279 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 5: has to get more involved this Sunday, these services, this 280 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 5: Friday night for our Jewish friends. 281 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 1: This is the time. 282 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 5: That people of faith must engage before the Tuesday vote. 283 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 5: Early vote going on in most places right now. You 284 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 5: could vote today tomorrow Friday. Check your early voting schedule. 285 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,880 Speaker 5: Bring somebody with you. If you've cast your vote. Don't 286 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 5: sit back and wait and be nervous. Don't sit and 287 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 5: be overcome by anxiety. Do something. If the waters are rising, 288 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 5: start putting things up on a higher shelf. Take action, 289 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 5: do what you can do. Worrying is not a course 290 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 5: of action. So anyway, a listener sent me this. I 291 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 5: was talking about how white preachers, especially because black preachers 292 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 5: will tell their people how to vote. They did the 293 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 5: souls to the polls event, and they always do. They 294 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 5: don't worry about losing their tax tax free status. But 295 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:50,360 Speaker 5: white pastors they've gotten more concerned with not offending anybody. 296 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 5: If your number one priority is not offending anybody, then 297 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 5: you're no pastor of the Word of God. I'll tell 298 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 5: you that for sure. So a listener sent me a 299 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 5: linked this guy, and I've been listening to him all 300 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 5: afternoon and we just cut a couple clips as from 301 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 5: a church called First Odessa in Odessa, Texas, and he's wonderful. 302 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 4: The fifty six men who signed the Declaration of Independence, 303 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 4: most of those were believers in Jesus Christ, who believed 304 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 4: the Bible and went to church. 305 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 2: Most of them were not all of them, but most 306 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 2: of them. 307 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 4: But when they inscribed their signature on that document, at 308 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 4: that moment, they became treason as criminals in the eyes 309 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,919 Speaker 4: of England. And at that moment they became our founding fathers, 310 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 4: and they became our heroes. They became the ones who 311 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 4: established this land in which we live in. They also 312 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,880 Speaker 4: believed this because most of them, as I say, were 313 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 4: believers in Jesus Christ. 314 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 2: They believe that righteousness. 315 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 4: Exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. 316 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:50,719 Speaker 4: They believe that, and therefore they invoked God and the 317 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 4: guidance of God, and the establishment of our country America 318 00:19:55,040 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 4: was founded upon righteousness, not perfection, but upon righteousness, the 319 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 4: righteousness that honors God. 320 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 2: And that was the desire on. 321 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 4: April the thirtieth, seventeen eighty nine, when our first president 322 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 4: was sworn in to office, a Bible. 323 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 2: Was placed there. 324 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 4: His hand was placed on that bible, and he stood 325 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,479 Speaker 4: there in his brown suit with gold buttons on it 326 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 4: that had eagles on the buttons that were there, and 327 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,120 Speaker 4: he placed his hand there. He said everything that in 328 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 4: the oath. 329 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 2: Of office that he was supposed to. 330 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 4: Say, and then George Washington, after he finished, he added 331 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 4: four more words that are not that were not in there. 332 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 4: But he added four more words, and these are those words, 333 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 4: so help me God. 334 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 2: In other words, those four words were a prayer. 335 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 4: That he lifted up at that moment, saying, so help 336 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 4: me God, I will do everything that I just did. 337 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 4: It was him invoking God's help to. 338 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 2: Fulfill what had been said right there. 339 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 4: And then he leaned down and he kissed the Bible 340 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 4: because he said, because the Bible that he was put 341 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 4: his hand on was from God. And then he began 342 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 4: to give his inaugural address. And as he gave that address, 343 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 4: he began to tell this, and he said these words, 344 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 4: no people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the 345 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 4: invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than 346 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 4: these of the United States. That invisible hand he's talking 347 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 4: about is the invisible hand of Almighty God, not from 348 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 4: some other God or some strange God, but the one 349 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 4: true God that is found in the Bible, the Word 350 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 4: of God. On the First Thanksgiving, when George Washington gave 351 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,200 Speaker 4: it address, he says, it is the duty of all 352 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 4: nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey 353 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 4: his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and hungly 354 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 4: to implore his protection in favor. 355 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 2: It is the duty, he says, of all nations, that. 356 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 4: Being the United States of America, first and foremost, to 357 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 4: acknowledge the providence. 358 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 2: Of God, Almighty God. He references him. 359 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 4: Samuel Adams, a signer of the declaration. 360 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 2: Said religion and good morals are. 361 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 4: The only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness. He's 362 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,880 Speaker 4: meaning the Christian religion, folks, He's not meaning some other religion. 363 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 4: Benjamin rush he said these words, another sign are the 364 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 4: only foundation for a useful education in a republic is 365 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 4: to be laid in religion. He's talking Christian religion. Without 366 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:30,439 Speaker 4: this there can be no virtue, and without virtue, there 367 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 4: can be no liberty and liberty is the object in 368 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 4: life of all Republican governments. Benjamin Franklin not known for 369 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 4: his spiritual walk with God, but yet Benjamin Franklin said 370 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 4: these words. God governs in the affairs of men. And 371 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 4: if a spharaoh cannot fall to the ground without his notice, 372 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 4: it is probable that an empire cannot rise without his aid. 373 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 2: It's impossible, is what he's saying. 374 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 4: The most dangerous place a nation can find itself is 375 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 4: when they turned their back on God and they determined to. 376 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 2: Go it alone. 377 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 4: And when God's hand a blessing and goidance his shun 378 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 4: we become a nation in peril. And at one time 379 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,360 Speaker 4: we adored the invisible hand. 380 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 2: Of God that guided us as a nation. 381 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 4: We saw it, we recognized it, We acknowledge God to 382 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 4: be our guide, and we trusted God. But from for 383 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,439 Speaker 4: so many generations now what we have seen is that 384 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 4: God has been systematically thrown. 385 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 2: Out, kicked out, pushed out by those in power. 386 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 4: And you say, well, why do we have problems today? 387 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 4: I just answered why we have problems today? 388 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 2: A nation is in. 389 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:56,360 Speaker 4: Peril when they systematically remove God from their history. America 390 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 4: is a nation in peril because our idols are more precious. 391 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 2: To us than God. H listen to God's declaration. 392 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 4: An expectation of them, and verse four he begins with, 393 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 4: but I am the Lord, your God from the land 394 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 4: of Egypt. You know no God but me, he savior, 395 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,119 Speaker 4: because says I'm him, I'm the only God. 396 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 2: There are no other. 397 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 4: Gods besides me, and there's certainly no other savior besides me. 398 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 4: The northern Kingdom of Israel was consumed with idolatry, and 399 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 4: that idolatry had turned into that which is most deplorable 400 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 4: before God, and. 401 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 2: That which is called child sacrifice. 402 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:48,199 Speaker 4: They offered their children to be burned in the fire 403 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 4: to false God. 404 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 6: We will restore the American Republic, will. 405 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 2: Tell you support. 406 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 6: We will make America powerful again. 407 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: The Book of Psalm says, you are a wonderfully man. 408 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: You are a child of God. You are a beautiful 409 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:20,399 Speaker 1: creature Wad's creation. My Bible tells me this again and 410 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: again and again. 411 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:29,679 Speaker 5: So for Joe Biden to say that I'm garbage is 412 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 5: more about him than it does about me, because I 413 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 5: am redeemed. Now, what I want you to understand is 414 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 5: that any president and Kamala Harris is just as bad 415 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 5: who considers you garbage any presidential candidate when someone says 416 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 5: Jesus is Lord and they say this is not the 417 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 5: right rally. You need to go somewhere else. If you 418 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 5: and everybody like you does not get out and vote 419 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 5: and do everything possible to win this election, and that's 420 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 5: on you. So this was sent to me by a 421 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 5: pastor who is not afraid this Sunday to press message. 422 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 5: It's a church called First Odessa in Odessa, Texas. 423 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 1: I've never been, but I'm going to do. I'm check 424 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 1: it out. 425 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,880 Speaker 4: I think about the passage of scripture that I'll read next. 426 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 4: It was I God says, who knew you in the wilderness, 427 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 4: in the land of drought? He said, it is I. 428 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 4: You forget about me. I'm the one who walked you 429 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 4: through forty years in the wilderness. I've provided for you 430 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 4: when you were thirsty in the land of drought. I 431 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 4: gave you water from a stone. 432 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 2: Man, We're gonna. 433 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 4: Knock on the stone and water's gonna come out of 434 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,959 Speaker 4: the out of the stone, and I'm gonna give you 435 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 4: water miraculously like that. I've fed you with manna and 436 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 4: with quail. I mean, I gave you everything I protected you, 437 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 4: I guided you, I took care of you because you're 438 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 4: the apple of my eye. And now you turn on me, 439 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 4: is what he's saying. He says, now you turn on me. 440 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:02,640 Speaker 4: God had provided for his neation, and God's abundant provision 441 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 4: and amazing protection were hallmarks for God's people. 442 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 2: And when you read the Bible, you learn that. 443 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 4: God promises blessings to those who follow him and curses 444 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 4: to those who do not, blessings and cursing. Now, I'm 445 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,439 Speaker 4: not a prosperity gospel kind of guy that says, man, 446 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 4: if you follow God, He's going to make you rich. 447 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 2: I don't believe that, because you know that's not biblical. 448 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,399 Speaker 4: Right. All you got to do is study the history 449 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 4: of the early Church in the Book of Acts, and 450 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 4: you realize that they didn't get. 451 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 2: Rich back there. 452 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 4: What they many times is they gave their life but 453 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,719 Speaker 4: for their faith in Jesus Christ. And as a result 454 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 4: of that, you say, okay, well, that throws the prosperity 455 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 4: gospel out the window. But yet God does promise blessings, 456 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 4: and he promises curses for those who do not follow him. 457 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 4: Blessings for those who do, and curses for those who 458 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 4: do not. He promises that it's kind of like a 459 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,680 Speaker 4: mama going to the store with their baby and say, now, listen, 460 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 4: if you're really good, when we finish up here, we'll 461 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 4: go by and get some ice cream after we finish up, 462 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,679 Speaker 4: and we'll you know, it'll be a good day, and 463 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 4: we'll just go home aside ice cream together. And then 464 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 4: that little baby right there like me when I was 465 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 4: a little kid, and I'd be running through the clothes 466 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 4: racks and hiding and doing all sorts of stuff like that. 467 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 2: I didn't get ice cream very. 468 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 4: Much because my mama was like, no, no, no, you 469 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 4: misunderstood what I said. 470 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 2: I said, if. 471 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,439 Speaker 4: You're good, okay, but I wasn't good okay, And I 472 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 4: was sometimes mama, Mama's gonna watch this shit. 473 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,719 Speaker 2: You were too good. It's amazing. 474 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,880 Speaker 4: When you get older mamas they say, oh, you didn't 475 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 4: do anything wrong ever, you were perfect, not hardly, but anyway, 476 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 4: you understand where we're coming from here. That's exactually what 477 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 4: God is saying. You act right and I'll do good 478 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 4: with you. You act bad, and I'm gonna you're not 479 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 4: gonna get the blessings. You're not gonna get it. That's 480 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 4: the way it works. And I think about our country, 481 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 4: and I think about how much God has blessed us, 482 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,080 Speaker 4: and how much God has taken care of us, and 483 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 4: how much his provision, how God has. 484 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 2: Provided for us. 485 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 4: And I hear people say something like, well, preacher, God 486 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 4: expects us to deal with the economy, and you know, 487 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 4: he'll deal with those social issues, and we will deal 488 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 4: with the economy and we'll just leave God out of that. 489 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 2: Do you realize what you've just done. 490 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 4: You have placed God into a box and you've said, God, 491 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 4: you can only operate in our lives just a little bit. Again, 492 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 4: God desires to be lord of all, the lord of none, 493 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 4: do you understand. And he wants to be lord over 494 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 4: your finances. He wants to be lord over all of 495 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 4: the economy. He wants to be lord of all, because 496 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 4: he will not settle for being lord of none. So 497 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 4: we recognize that God's provision is there. Go to number 498 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 4: four with me on your outline. America is the nation 499 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 4: in peril because we reap God's benefits but have forgotten him. 500 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 2: In verse six, he. 501 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 4: Goes on and he says, to the northern kingdom, but 502 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 4: when they had grazed, they became full they were filled, 503 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 4: and their heart was lifted up. 504 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 2: Therefore they've forgotten me. 505 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 4: God is using the metaphor of cattle out out in 506 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 4: the field grazing. I remember when I was a little 507 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,719 Speaker 4: boy growing up, my uncle raised cattle, and we'd go 508 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 4: pin his cows for him and stuff, and I would 509 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 4: go with them to feed him and stuff. And during 510 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 4: the summertime, when that rain was falling in southeast Texas 511 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 4: and that grass was stick, all the cows would get 512 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 4: fat and sleek. You know what I'm talking about. And 513 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 4: that's exactly what he's referring to here. How they would 514 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 4: go and they would graze, and they'd become full, and 515 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 4: they would be filled up and man, and then their heart. 516 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 2: Was lifted up, and therefore they forgot him. 517 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 4: The greatest danger of economic blessing that we must guard 518 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 4: against in America is that we will. 519 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 2: Feast, and we will feast, and we will feast on 520 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 2: all of that God has provided. 521 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 4: We'll become fat in our bank accounts will increase, we'll 522 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:01,239 Speaker 4: get larger homes, we'll get second homes, more toys, and 523 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 4: will come to a place of satisfaction where we're so 524 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 4: fat and happy that we turn our back on God. 525 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 4: What a dangerous warning that is for all of us. 526 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 4: I mean, we will gladly reap all of the benefits 527 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,959 Speaker 4: from the hand of God, but many will bite the 528 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 4: hand that feeds them. 529 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 2: As a nation. 530 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 4: Have done this, We've benefit after benefit after benefit from God, 531 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 4: and yet we have the audacity to turn our back 532 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 4: on Him and to not vote for that which is 533 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 4: most moral, that which is most moral. You hear what 534 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:48,280 Speaker 4: I said that because the two parties are not morally equivalent, 535 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 4: that which. 536 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 2: Is most moral, that's our call, and ELS has little. 537 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 2: Thank you and good night.