 Welcome everybody to Unfiltered. Pastor David, welcome. Thank you. I got my phone out so I can call you. Oh, hey, hello You're fired. I have a scripture. I'm gonna share in a moment Okay, well, I want to I want to introduce everybody to the question that we have in light of everything that's going on In the Middle East is pastor what what should Christians be doing in the light of all this turmoil in warfare in the Middle East You know, I think that one of the things we normally Think of as Americans and as men I'll be honest with you is what what are we to be doing and we always think in terms of what we're to be doing But it's usually in terms of like what kind of physical help can we give or? what kind of advice or whatever it's it's It's usually wrapped up in Something that through our efforts we might be able to achieve a difference So what is the first thing we to do? I think a lot of times people think well The first thing you should do is do something. Well, the do something for me is to do what I've been asked to do We received a a request. I've received more than one request from Israel from friends and People who serve there and all to to pray Pray for the peace of Jerusalem You know, we need to remember that God's in charge God. God has his hand on all of this John. None of this is a surprise We certainly cannot rely on the on the government we we can't we cannot rely on our government in some ways I think that we are actually And emboldening the the enemies of Israel because of their perception of our of our government as it stands right now as those who are Political officials who represent the United States even if we didn't vote for them They perceive them as being weak and and vacillating and and and when you when you insist that that We have to step back and watch this for a while I've heard people say it's echoes of what took place in Nazi Germany where the United States had a Let's step back and see well. Well, Jewish people were being slaughtered where we were refusing to allow them entrance into into Other countries they were there being refused entrance into other countries countries where they could have I believe including in our Own could have been given safe take safe haven and so what what are we to do? Well, we need to pray we need to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. We need to pray that that God will deliver them But that God will be with them Because we as as Christians Realize even as Paul taught the Roman Church that we have been grafted into the vine We we are spiritually Engrafted and and people who don't understand that don't they don't read the Bible I mean, we are spiritually engrafted in Israel not only that but we have much to owe them We from Israel came our Savior came the scriptures We ought to be prepared to be of help even when when the Jerusalem Church in the early days of the church was going through difficulty the the Greek churches the Macedonian churches akea Excuse me and to the north they they They sent money To to help the poor they owed them that and Paul says in the book of Romans that we've received of their spiritual Therefore we ought to be quick to provide the material and and that may be in context of the church, but there's also a Association and love for the nation itself that produced the Messiah Jesus Christ And so what should we do? We need to pray for them We need to be there for them in whatever way we can and we need to remember who's in charge I I received this I wanted to read this it's out of Amos chapter 1 verses 6 and 7 for three transgressions of Gaza and For four I will not revoke the punishment because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them to Edomite So I will send Upon the wall of Gaza a fire and it shall devour her strongholds Amos 1 6 and 7 And so when it's all said and done we know the one who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps We know that God is in charge. We know that God is behind the scenes He will take care of his of the people of Israel and what should we do? We should be praying for them quite seriously We should we should tell people to pray for them this Sunday when when we showed the video of From David Tal one of the brothers there in in Israel asking Please pray for us and remember the world is going to blame us and say that we started this We did not start this. I believe it was you John who told me that somebody had gotten up And when I was she that was being played saying this is nonsense and walked out Now that's a person who doesn't read his Bible That's a person who has no clue what's going on who doesn't know the atrocities just today I was hearing about babies that were being found their bodies on the side of the road with their heads cut off We are not dealing with with people We are dealing with savages and they will not stop until they destroy Israel We need to be firm in prayer and very supportive of our nation You know, this is one place that I am fully support supportive of helping You know these issues over Ukraine and all of these mythical things that relate to that and the billions that are being poured in That that doesn't affect us. This does and we need to learn from Israel too by the way Because they have ends they have strengthened their border and still terrorists have gotten in and we're letting millions of people in Including hundreds of known terrorists here. What is being planned for the United States right now John? We need to be alert and we need to be aware and this Sunday One of my friends is going to take my Sunday morning for me and he's going to share a study related to a biblical perspective of what's going on and Answer to that question. Yeah, man. Well, thank you pastor and we will Continue to play pray church families you heard from our own pastor David that we're to pray if you were here on Sunday You would see that we were also asked to pray and so Let's make it a point that we pray for the nation of Israel and our friends and family and pastor Thank you so much for sharing that and thank you guys for tuning in looking forward to see you at 8 30 and 10 45 this Sunday Actually, I'm jumping ahead of myself Wednesday 7 p.m. Come join us as you're taking us through Romans chapter 15 gonna close 15. Oh, okay. Well come and join us look forward to having you guys. God bless you