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No, we're going to be friends with God and then let the church be the rock, let the world change to assimilate to become part of the church, let the world change to be like the church rather than the church to change to be like the world. The Pharisees love being mainstream and that's what's messing up the church. What's ruining the church is our quest to be accepted by all. The goal of the church has never been to be accepted by all. The goal of the church is to have all to accept the church. There's a difference. We're supposed to become a chameleon and change our way of having service every 30 days so this one would like the service, that one would like the service. Let's adjust so we can get this crowd, let's adjust so we can get that crowd so every 30 days your whole identity change. That's not the call of the gospel. The gospel is what it is. The word of God is a rock. Amen. Not a sponge, we're called to be rocks. Amen. And the effectiveness of the gospel is that it doesn't change. It's just comforting to hear somebody else say it or someone say that the gospel doesn't change. You'll see people put a slant or a spin on the word of God, try to make it sound smooth or make it fit the way someone might want to see it. In other words, they make the God or they make the gospel or they make God to be like them. No, no, no. This is who God is. You accept it or not. And if you reject it, then you reject it. That's between you and God. He's got something for you if you reject it. But if you come in, don't come in thinking you're going to change it. He said, come bring for fruit and meat for repentance. You come in with a mind to adjust to what you've come into. Don't come in thinking that you're going to change what you've come into. And there are people, there are pastor preachers who because they want to see their church grow, because they want to appease the world, they have decided that they're going to make things a little bit easier for them. I don't have a problem with making a service or a church kind of comfortable for someone to come in, but not at the expense of the gospel, not at the expense of compromising. The gospel is what it is. And so we're not going to, matter of fact, the Bible says we are not to be friends with the world. As a matter of fact, to be friends with the world is to be what is in the team with God. And so here's our standard, not the world. And they're going to look at us and say that, nope, nope, nope, you guys are out of touch. You guys are out of step. As a matter of fact, you'll hear phrases like we're on the wrong side of history and so forth that we are too phobic in some regard, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, whatever. What we really are is theophobic. We are afraid of God and the punishment that can come as a result of disobeying him. Peace can never be secured until men's hearts are changed. People's hearts need to be changed. Every time something happened now, the first thing we say is we need to pass another law. We need to pass a law. They ought to pass a law. But some things you can't legislate. One of the things he also does, I like, he's not really a political preacher, but he's not afraid to broach these political issues. And he's going to, he's one that's going to tell you it's not the laws, it's not Congress, it's not the government's going to change someone. It's going to be their heart that has to change in order for man and mankind and for this country to change. We talk about gun violence. They got real quiet on me at eight o'clock on this one. They're about like you are now. We talked about gun violence. Gun violence is the biggest lie we're told. Gun violence. Gun violence. Yes, there's another instance of gun violence. You can take a gun and set a gun right here and leave it here till Jesus gone. That gun won't bother anybody. A gun is an inanimate object. It can do neither good nor bad. Guns don't touch anybody. Guns don't shoot anybody. Nobody's ever died from a gun. People handling guns or mishandling guns are the problem. And for those who advocate fewer guns, the problem with that is the only people who are going to go obey that law are the law-abiding people. What is the second amendment? Right to bound? Keep to, not just to keep and bear. I'll obey both of them. And what he said is true. This is a no-brainer. Almost all of our existence as a country, guns aren't the problem. It's the people with the guns. And that's not a trigger issue. That's not a design issue. That's not a maker of the gun issue. No, that's a person's issue. There used to be that there were more people, not far more guns. Obviously we've got more guns now today than we've ever had before. But we have less people who own it. There was a time where virtually every household had a gun. And we didn't see the level of gun violence. Why? Because our morals have changed. As a matter of fact, as a country, we don't have them. Oh, I obey both of them. Keep and bear. That'll preach right there. Keep and bear. Oh, law. And so when we hear him say he exercises both rights to keep and bear, I just, I think that's pretty classic. Criminals aren't going to do it because they're criminals. Criminals don't obey the law. That's what makes you a criminal. And honestly, I can, I can agree. I concur, I know for a fact that is what a criminal is. Well, you must be a Republican. No, I'm an independent. What controls your vote policy? This is something that gets him by Ira Willan, others the ire of people out there who think that Christians should not vote their conscience, should not vote according to their biblical beliefs. And he says, what's going to get your vote? What's the issue? He says policy. Color doesn't fact in. Party doesn't fact in. Gender doesn't fact in. I want to know, what are you for? And if what you are for lines up with what I believe you got my support. If it doesn't, you're out. And then I have a few litmus tests. I don't vote for baby killers. That shouldn't even get a standing ovation. You know why? Obviously today it probably should, but it should be the point to where it's a, it's a no brainer that yeah, that's just like saying that Jesus died on the cross. That's just like saying God hates sin. That's just like saying that fire is hot and snow is cold. Okay, we get that. And so voting for someone who either is for abortion killing babies or someone who supports this party or this platform, no, you don't have my support on that because me saying so, me voting for you, means that I am saying that I support what you support. I don't vote for anybody who is same sex man. I can say a few things that says ain't no election going on. Now, let me just say this also in regards to politics. People think that you actually have to vote. And because we've got this, I'm voting for the lesser of two evils. Well, you don't have to vote for the lesser of two evils. You don't have to vote for two devils if that's where you see it. No, you don't have to do that. If you feel like that neither warrant your support, neither warrants your approval by you pushing the button or you saying that this who you want. Now, if you feel like that neither one deserves that, well, then don't vote for them. There is no requirement and there's no biblical mandate to vote for what you would consider as the lesser of two evils. If you think that you're voting for Hitler on one hand and Osama bin Laden on the other, you don't have to vote for either one of those. There is no requirement to do so. Now, if you feel like, and let me just say this, if you feel like that this particular person is a pawn of one particular party, well, the fact of the matter is there just aren't a lot of candidates in Washington D.C. who are going to go and go against the party line. So let me just give you an example. Let's just kind of be just give you an example in this whole debate down in Georgia between Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock. Do I think that Herschel Walker was a great candidate? No, without question. Do I think that he is maybe more intelligent or more savvy or more sophisticated, more knowledgeable than maybe Raphael Warnock? No, I don't think that either. Do I think that he's got a pristine background? I don't think that either. Do I think that he should be the kind of politician or the kind of candidate any man would want or anyone would want to vote for? I don't think that either. Do I agree with Democrats when they say that he is going to go there and he's going to vote whatever the party line is? Yeah, I agree with that. But again, that's not different than what Warnock will do. Find me in this case a black Democratic politician, either in the Congress or in the Senate that is going to vote against the party line, especially on issues such as abortion and LGBTQ rights and issues that require the church to kind of acquiesce and change its mind to reflect whatever the government or society wants. Find me that black Democratic candidate because the fact of the matter is what they say about Herschel Walker is exactly what all the Democrats also do. And so the issue is going to be that if you think that that person is a tool, can I give you a real quick civics lesson, a real good lesson on politics, my major in college was political science. And so I'm not saying I'm an expert on it, but this is just the facts. We have a representative government, which means we don't choose candidates based on their values. We choose candidates who are going to go back and represent what the people back home want. And so let's say if this particular person's had a questionable background, but he is going to go and do what the people want him to do, which is let's say we want you to vote X, Y, Z. If that's what the people want and we want him to do that, well then we're not voting for his background. We're never, that's not what we do. We make it out to be that the person with the best moral background, the problem is we don't know who that is. We don't know what the, as a matter of fact oftentimes it comes out that this person did this in the past or this person did that. And so we're left looking funny because we thought we were sending a saint. No, what we are doing is we're sending a tool and the question is which party is going to be a tool that will help to implement biblical standards if that's what you're looking for. Some of you might say I don't want to, I don't think anyone will and that's fine as well, but that's their job. Their job is not to be the moral compass for us. Their job is to represent the values of what we want. And so I can say this without question, God has not stated in the Bible what his immigration policy is. God has not stated what his domestic policies are, what his foreign agenda is. God has not stated in the Bible what he feels about energy independence or should we go ahead and depend on a foreign or he hadn't stated that. But what he has stated, he stated that he has this abomination for hands that shed innocent blood who's more innocent babies. And so we know that part is clear. We also know what God's policy is as it pertains to sexual morality, the LGBTQ agenda and so forth and transgenderism, especially enforced on our children. We understand what his policy is on that. And so any party that is for God's policy, be they Republican, Democrat or what have you, we should be for that. If they're against that, then we've got something else to talk about. Yeah, it's wickedness, it's wickedness. And so they want to keep us where we're not thinking. And some of the greatest prayer warriors I know who love to pray and call them the name of the Lord, vote for people whose policies, policy positions are the opposite or antithetical to their prayers. I mean, you get off your knees, you been praying for an hour, speaking all kinds of tongues, hurt my shot, glory to God and all that. Then get up and go vote for someone. After all that, after all that, whose position is just the opposite of what you've been praying. Folks like that give prayer a bad name. The crazy part is, is we've got people who call themselves believers who will read the Bible, who will promote the Bible, at least verbally, who will say certain things and will pray certain things and then go out and live or in this case, vote the exact opposite of what it is they say they hold dear to their heart. And then of course he does weigh in on Jamal Bryan, who is not the biblical definition of a pastor. He is not the biblical definition of a Christian. This man is lost and I mean morally, but the problem is he doesn't think he is. He doesn't see that he is. He is entrenched in his demonic beliefs. He is entrenched in his sinful ways. Everybody's talking about Jamal Bryan and his saying that new birth should take some of its vast land and use it to grow among all crops, grow cannabis, marijuana. Now I'm going to tell you something. I'll tell you something I'm holding out for. I'm holding out for this and maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part. I'm holding out for this to be revealed as a joke. But the problem is he's not joking. The problem is he's absolutely serious. Why? Because he's going to bring more people in, again becoming like what the world wants. And I think he's a person that loves the controversy rather than the sanctity of the word. But no, unfortunately, Bishop, he's not playing. He's not joking. Because I'm thinking, but Joshua, no preacher could be serious. No preacher could suggest such. And with all due respect to my brothers and sisters of the lighter hue, no black preacher would suggest that his church use this land, not the plant corn, okra, green beans, colored greens. I'm hoping that that is what this is. Because if it is not, then I believe what we're witnessing is what happens to a man when God turns that man over to himself. The worst thing that God can do to you or me is to turn us over to ourselves. For that means the Holy Spirit will no longer tug at your heart. The Holy Spirit will no longer bring any conviction. You won't see what's wrong with what you're saying. And that means you've been dedicated to destruction. Let me make it plainer. It means you're going to hell. Because the only way we repent is because the Spirit of God convicts us. Amen. You got saved, and I got saved because the Holy Spirit tugged at our heart. We respond to the tugging of the Holy Spirit at our hearts. By my teachers that no man can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. And I agree. I think that this is a person whose mind is just out there. He had no soul. He believes what he's doing is right. At least it looks that way. And so he is, if he doesn't repent, if nothing changes, then he is on a trajectory towards hell. But he also, and all of how he even explains really the gospel, he speaks about that it's the Holy Spirit that's got to make this change in all of us. If it is not a joke, if he's serious, he's depraved, but that's wicked. That's wickedness. Marijuana is not good. It's not a harmless drug. The numbers show that it's not good. Depressions are up. He's ruining college, high school students, messing up their minds, messing up their development. Depression is up. Suicides are up. All kinds of problems. It's a gateway drug into other drugs, but if it don't lead you into other drugs, that drug in and of itself is bad, robs you of all of your energy. All you want to do is get high, set around all day. And there will be some people that are going to say that it's not that bad. Well, first of all, you need to find out what smoke in marijuana actually does to the body, how it even weakens the immune system and other things. And true, it is a gateway drug. And the one thing you don't want to have happen, even if you never stop, if all you ever do is smoke weed, the one thing we need less of, we don't need more people who are less alert. We don't need more people whose cognitive abilities are impaired or slowed or that's not what we need, especially now when the Bible says to be sober minded. As a matter of fact, Peter tells us to be on guard because the devil, our adversary, is going around like a lion, seeking whom he may devour. And so I like how the pastor says it. And then I like how he ends it, says he wants you to think. So we really enjoy it, Rev. This Rev wants you to leave thinking. If you leave thinking, whether you agree with me or not, if you leave thinking, I've done part of my job. Now, y'all don't agree with me because I'm right. But in case you can, at least I made you think. If you think hard enough, you will come around.