 Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Unfiltered. Pastor, it's always good to have you here. Join us. Thank you, John. You're so kind. You know, Pastor, when people talk about the hippie movement and the Jesus revolution and talk about the time when somebody hears of the name or the word hippie, they think of peace and love and you see those things. But the reality is, is that a lot of these people that came out of that and came into the Jesus movement were dealing with some really crazy stuff. And I wanted to ask you about that side that's not really spoken about a whole lot when people like yourself are coming out of the hippie movement and gave your life to Christ and the transformation that gospel had in your life and other hippies life. But I don't hear too much about some of the things that the hippies were going through at that time. You know, during the day that that I got saved in late 60s, early 70s is when the what we're called the hippies actually came into being. And I don't remember. I don't remember it being something that was necessarily contrived. It wasn't something that somebody was standing up and saying, we need to be hippies. So as movements go, it was something that was basically done or occurred, I'd say in a real organic way. There were so many different things that were contributing to the attitudes of those who were called hippies at that time. We as a nation and even into the world, we're dealing with a number of things that are in many ways very similar to what we're dealing with now. We had a war that was going on, you know, and not not everybody was very supportive of that. We were pouring millions into the billions of dollars of American resources into trying to prop up what became South Vietnam. American treasure and blood was being spilled on foreign soil. And we didn't see many of us didn't see the reasonableness of that when you have so many things that you need to be dealing with here in the United States. Why are we pouring billions of dollars into into another country that ultimately in our case we saw ultimately did no good. It fell. And we wondered about that. We wondered about the expense of human life. And we wondered about the climate. You know, at that time we were concerned about the fact that our scientists, we call them scientist priests, they all thought that we were going to freeze. There were riots in the streets that began to happen. There was a music revolution where politics became something you made as a lyric in a song of protest. And so there was all that kind of stuff. And in the midst of that, people will sometimes look at it and they'll say, well, you know, there are so many similarities to then and now. And the fact is the now is only the fruit of what was the then. Because what was then was experiment. What is now has become fabric. And so not everybody did drugs. It wasn't that all people were tuning in and dropping out. It was a small segment. And the ones who were doing that were not considered to be a reflection of the best of American society. Somehow it seems that that kind of mentality is now developed so that people are marching for the right to destroy their brains with with with LSD or with magic mushroom or or let's legalize pot. And you know, we we through the hippie movement, we destroyed the the pillar of marriage and we brought in a nihilism. We became callous and corrupt. And that's what we see today, you know, politicians who are are making millions of dollars by being politicians and nobody questioning it anymore. It's just an amazing thing. So getting back to the question, the hippies, we were really more into peace love, but we did that through free sex and drugs. And there was an awful lot of drug use, the introduction of a variety of things at that time that ultimately, I think have contributed to the destruction of the family and the nation that we live in. People who got caught up with that. Many of them became addicted. Many of them dropped out. And what we're seeing today is the fruit of that. So, John, I still believe to this day that the only message that changes a life is the gospel message. And when we were told about love, which we were actually protesting for and marching for somewhere I didn't or partying for, we found that in the ultimate hippie Jesus Christ, that's what we used to refer to him as and consider him in the sense that he was the perfect man who was a man of peace and man's love, a man of joy, a man of purpose, a man of sacrifice, one who really truly cared about humanity, who really did make his brothers and brothers and sisters. And I think that the thing that people talk about very much that I don't mention in this whole hippie revolution kind of thing, was the continual use of drugs and the destruction that it brought upon our lives and families and relationships. And we haven't learned. This nation hasn't learned. What we want to do is we want to legalize them so we can tax them because we have a government that is bent on spending money it didn't earn, taking money and using it in ways that none of us would really vote for. They just do it. And so a lot of what we see take place now is just the fruit of the rebellion of the hippie revolution and the people who at one time were the hippies became the lawyers and then the politicians and ultimately many of them became the corrupt leaders of this nation. So we need a revival once again. We need to awaken to these things. And if we don't, this nation can't survive the way it is. And that comes through the gospel. It's the only way, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the only way that's what changed my life. That's what changed your life and so many people in this church. It's the gospel. We need to preach that and keep that the center of everything we do. Amen. Well, thank you pastor for sharing that with us. And with that, we want to invite you guys to our Sunday morning services at 830 and 1045. And are you in Acts chapter 11? Still in chapter 11? I'll be concluding chapter 11 on Sunday. It's been a very fruitful study. It's for you. It gives you a good nap time. I want to invite you guys to come out and join us. It's been really good. If you haven't seen our services, you can go to our Facebook page or to our YouTube page at Calvary Chapel Chino Valley. And you can look up all pastor David sermons there and catch up. But we do look forward to seeing you come join us in person. Invite your friends and family to join us. Thank you again for tuning in and God bless you.