 Amen. Keep your place in 2 Chronicles 26. We're going to go through this story of this king Uzziah. Garrett and I were talking about this story as we were working in the church yesterday and just talking about the details of this story and this king. And I'm going to give you, I'm going to show you this morning how this story in 2 Chronicles 26 about King Uzziah is a parable of America, a parable of our country today. Uzziah, first of all, Uzziah has long been one of my favorite kings. And you're like, what? Well, you know, just you can't, you know, can't pay attention to the last part of the story. We're going to get to that. But Uzziah was generally a very great king of Judah here. He was a great king of Israel and ruling in Jerusalem. Now, one trend that you'll notice when you're reading through the history of the kings is that generally the better a king is and the better a king is according to doing what's right in the sight of the Lord, the longer he will reign. The longer his reign will be. And the more wicked a king is and the more a king turns against the Lord, the shorter his reign will be. And you'll see that in the northern kingdom of Israel. Many kings reign just a few days, you know, and not very long at all. And when kings stop reigning, you know, everybody always says, you know, oh, it's, it would be good to be the king. Everybody wants to be in charge. But one thing you have to understand is it's not necessarily good to be the king. If you read the story of the kings, because these kings, they don't just stop reigning because they, you know, they've, they've stored up their 401k and they're ready to retire. Usually they stop reigning because they're dead. All right. And some of these kings reigned for a year, a day, you know, just a very short period of time because they were just very evil, wicked people. But that was not the case with Uzziah. So I'm going to show you this morning how Uzziah is a parable of what's happening in our country today. So let's look at Uzziah. I like Uzziah. All right? Up until a certain verse in the Bible, but then I'll let you, I'll let you know where that is. But look at verse number three. Uzziah starts reigning as a young man in the kingdom of Judah, the lower kingdom of Judah. He's reigning in Jerusalem. And the Bible says 16 years old was Uzziah. When he began to reign, and he reigned 52 years in Jerusalem. That's, that's up there with the longest reigning kings in the Bible. Even David and Solomon only reigned 40 years. All right? His mother's name was also Jekylliah of Jerusalem. And he did that, which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father, Amaziah did. So we have a good king here. The Bible will always start out telling you whether or not this king started out well, ruling. And this, this king, Uzziah, started out well. He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all his father, Amaziah, is showing the importance again of, you know, a father figure in that example in your life. Look at verse five. And he sought in the days of Zekylliah, who had understanding in the visions. He sought God in the days of Zekylliah, who had understanding in the visions of God. And as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper. Now, one of the reasons that Uzziah is one of my favorite kings is because he was very, he was a builder. He built things. He invented things. Even in verse number ten, the Bible says he built towers in the desert and dig many wells, for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plains. Husbandmen also in the vine dressers in the mountains and in karma, for he loved husbandry. So husbandry is like the love of raising animals. You know, and if you've ever been in the business of raising animals, you know that it's very hard work. It's very difficult work. It's very unrewarding at times. You have to love husbandry. You have to love raising animals in order to be in that type of business. So I've always kind of liked Uzziah because of just the type of king that he was. He was very successful. He was a builder. He was not just sitting on his haunches just, you know, being successful. He was actually furthering the kingdom. He was strengthening the kingdom. God was blessing him. But then look at verse number fifteen. Even in verse fifteen it says, And he made in Jerusalem engines invented by cunning men to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks to shoot arrows and great stones with all. And his name spread far abroad, for he was marvelously helped till he was strong. So he made engines. Here I picture these as like catapults and trebuchets and things that, you know, can hurl, you know, weaponry and hurl stones long distances because what was he doing? He was increasing the strength of the kingdom. He was increasing the strength of the kingdom while he was being blessed by the Lord. He was helped by the Lord, the Bible says in verse fifteen. But then at the end of the verse we see something here that is just a reminder for all of us. It says what? It says till he was strong. So God blessed him, blessed him. He was doing all these wonderful things. He was just increased with riches, increased with strength. And then he got strong. He was very strong. And then look what happened. Once he got strong. But when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction. This is speaking about pride. His heart was lifted up. He became prideful for he transgressed against the Lord his God and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense. So this is just mini sermon right here. This is the life. This is the cycle that Solomon went through. This is the cycle that Christians will go through today when they are doing the right thing. They will be doing the right thing. They will be serving the Lord. They will be out, you know, doing the first works in their lives. They will be, you know, following what the Bible says, learning what the Bible says. And they'll be out doing what they're supposed to do in their life. And God will pour blessings upon them. God will bless them. And then they will get to this point where they're strong. They're in blessings. And they're like, look at me. Look at how great I am. Look at how much knowledge I have of the Bible. Look at how, you know, better I am than everybody else. And then we become lifted up. And then we become lifted up to our own destruction. We don't want to be in that cycle. We don't want to be this person that God has to knock down. Then we have to climb back up. God has to knock us down. We just want to get to the top where we're doing what we're supposed to do and stay humble up there at the top where we're in the favor of the Lord. God's blessing us. And God doesn't have to knock us down. So our life doesn't have to look like a sine wave, you know, with God like chastising us, blessing us, chastising us, blessing us. Because look, God is going to knock you down if you get lifted up. Because he doesn't want you prideful, because pride will destroy your Christian life. So he did get lifted up. But let's not be so hard on the guy, all right? He reigned for 52 years. That's a long time. He reigned for 52 years. But then at the end of his reign, he got lifted up. And what did he do? He went into the temple and he burned incense on the altar. Now, this was up to the priests to do. The altar of incense in Exodus chapter 30 was, it was right outside the veil. It was in a holy place. It wasn't inside the holy of holies, but it was in a holy place. And the priest, Aaron in Exodus chapter 30 was commanded to go in there and burn incense in the morning, burn incense in the evening. And it was to be a very specific type of incense. And you remember, you know, the strange fire that was offered to the Lord and God killed those men that did that. So it was a very specific thing for the priest to do. And he got lifted up and he thought he would take upon himself, you know, he's like, I'm holy, I'm pride, he's prideful, his heart was lifted up and he went in and he did the job of the priest. And Azariah, the priest, and all the other priests, they said, well, it's, he's a good king. Let's just let this go. That's not what they did, right? This is where the parable of our country comes in and how I'm going to apply that this morning. Look what happened to King Uzziah and how the priests reacted to this very good king that had done these very good things, had strengthened the country, had been, you know, he had been doing right what was, he was been doing what was right in the sight of the Lord and he went in and he just went too far. He went too far. This is also why Saul lost the kingdom. By the way, when he went and he did the sacrifice himself, that's how he lost the kingdom, you know, from the beginning. That was the first thing where God said, you're done being king. So God is very serious about these roles of the priests and not having a king come in and do these things. Look at verse number 17. Let's continue the story. And Azariah, the priest, went in after him and with him forescore priests of the Lord that were valiant men. So Azariah sees King Uzziah doing this and he goes and he grabs 80 priests and he goes in to confront the king. And they withstood Uzziah the king and said unto him, it appertained not unto the Uzziah to burn incense unto the Lord. That means this is not for you to do. This is not your job. But to the priests, the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for thou hast trespassed, neither shall it be for thine honor from the Lord God. So another thing I want to point out between verse 18 and verse 19 here, you know, we see what happened to Uzziah. We're going to see that in just a few verses, but it's not like he didn't have a chance. The priest came in with 80 priests and said this is not for you to do. You should not be here. Get out. He had a chance to be corrected here, but he was so lifted up and he was so prideful. Look how he answers the rebuke. Okay, so this is super important because God didn't just judge him right away. God didn't just bring the hammer down on Uzziah as soon as he went in and trespassed into the temple. Look at verse 19. He had a chance for correction. All right, so we need to learn that in our Christian lives as well. Is that, you know, there's a chance for correction, but if we have a hard heart towards the correction that God gives us, then, you know, the consequences are going to be even worse that we deal with. All right, look at verse 19. And Uzziah was raw, so he was rebuked and he got mad. He was rebuked. He knew he was wrong and he got angry at Azariah for rebuking him. And he had a censor in his hand to burn incense. And while he was wroth with the priest, the leprosy rose up in his forehead before the priest in the house of the Lord from beside the incense altar. So at that point, God just strikes him with leprosy right there. At that point, the priest of the Lord, you know, rebukes him, tells him that he's not doing what he's supposed to do. He's not supposed to be there. He's trespassing. He gets mad at the man of God and then God steps in after that. All right, the super important. We're going to see this pattern, you know, in the sermon this morning as well. But he had a chance to get right is what I'm trying to point out. And Azariah, verse 20, the chief priest and all the priests looked upon him and behold, he was leprosy in his forehead. Azariah didn't make him a leper, folks. Azariah didn't strike leprosy upon Uzair here. Azariah didn't say, God make him a leper. God stepped in when he would not listen when he got mad and angry at the rebuke from the man of God. And they thrust him out from there. It's because he's a leper. Yay, himself hasted also to go out because the Lord had smitted him. And Uzair, the king, was a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt in a several house being a leper, you know, a separate house with with lepers, for he was cut off from the house of the Lord. And Jotham, his son, was king over the king's house judging the people of the land. So look, I mean, you can say, wow, that's harsh. But when you say wow, that's harsh, you know, the reason that we think that it's harsh is because these priests were just holding to the line of what God said was proper and what was not. So Uzair was this great king, got lifted up, and then he went in and the priests, they just, they would not budge from the word of the Lord is what happened. Look, Uzair is our country today. Uzair is our country today. You know, our country was very, is very strong, was stronger. You know, we started out very strong doing good things, doing the right things, and you know, the problem is in our country today is that we've gotten lifted up, we've gotten strong, you know, and it's going to be to our destruction just like with King Uzair. Look, even though he was a good king, he lived the rest of his life as a leper. Right? He started out well, reigned well, but ended horribly. All right? Ended horribly. And look, I'm sure, I am sure that Uzair, after this moment, I'm sure he got right with the Lord, but he was still a leper, he was done being the king, he was removed from power, and you know, that's how he ended. That's how he ended. One huge mistake, but the problem is, the point I want to point out here is that the priests, the priests, it didn't matter who he was, the priests would not back off the word of the Lord. They would not move an inch from what the Lord said he wanted done in that temple. The difference between the story of Uzair and the priests, and us, if we compare America to Uzair today, is that there's no priests today. This is the difference. You know, this is kind of a, this is going to be a sermon this morning, kind of directed, we're kind of coming to the end of election season here. Thank the Lord for that. We're kind of coming to the end of this, but this is going to be kind of a rebuke to conservatives today. You say, what? Aren't we conservatives? I'm not sure what people would think I am today, to be honest. But this sermon is going to be a rebuke and an explanation to conservatives today, maybe even people that would call themselves Christian conservatives, and kind of explaining to them why all these things have happened. I'll just give you just a few examples this morning. But look, conservatives today, look, first of all, a conservative today would have been considered a liberal 15 years ago. If somebody, if you were to look at a conservative today and put them back 15 years ago, any conservative 15 years ago would have thought a conservative today was a liberal. You say why? Because they're moving, that's why. Because they're constantly changing, there's no line being held today. There's no line on any issue being held. So people are confused today. Conservatives are upset today, but they've always been upset, but they don't even understand that they're moving, they're being pushed. They're being pushed and they are moving. So the point is, you know, a lot of people, they say, you know, this is crazy and I've talked to a lot of people who say I'm going to move out of California. Well here's the thing, here's the thing conservative, you better move to like Antarctica or something, because wherever you move it's going to be the same thing. It's going to be the same things happening, the same problems, because it's the same cause, right? There's no priests today holding the line and forcing Uzziah or this country to hold the line. I'll just give you a few examples of this, but like the first one is this. The first one's the Bible. The first one, and the Bible kind of encompasses everything, all right? People, I mean there has never been a time, I mean like I've said this before, knowledge of the Bible, belief in the Bible first of all, is that an all-time low in this country. People that would say belief that the Bible is the Word of God, all-time low. That just knowledge of the Bible, if you're a soul winner you know this is true. Knowledge of the Bible is that it also at an all-time low. Of course, why would you want to know what the Bible says if you don't believe it anyway? No one's going to go and look up what the Bible says if they don't believe that it's the Word of God. What would be the point of that? So we can see that those things, those two things, go hand in hand. Hosea 4-6 says, you know, for my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. We just end the sermon right there, that's why these things are happening. Because people, you know, people don't know, is there a truth? Is there a truth, you know, or is everything true? I just had a conversation with a conservative just a few days ago telling me that, you know, the gospel is really, it's really just whatever someone was taught. It's really just, whatever somebody was taught, that's, you know, that's the gospel in their mind and that's going to be good enough to get them to heaven. This same person, and it's totally understandable, but this same person, you know, is disparaging towards soul winning. Saying, why would you go out and, you know, oh, people can't get saved out on the street. People can't get saved at their door. People can't get saved. But first of all, if you don't believe that there is truth, of course you would believe that. Of course you would believe that, you know, somebody, because why, they don't even need to change what they believe. Because any belief is okay. Any belief, as long as you sincerely believe it, is enough to get you to heaven. But is that what the Bible says? The Bible actually talks against that. That's why Jesus literally addressed that very thing in Matthew 7 where he says, not everyone, you know, that say, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven. Look, not everyone that claims the name of Jesus is going to go to heaven. As a matter of fact, most people are not, Jesus said. So, look, people don't, people have just rejected truth today. The first problem is the gospel. The gospel has just been this mishmash. The gospel to people is this mishmash of whatever you think Jesus is to you. That's the gospel. But that is not what the Bible says. Anyone who claims Jesus or God is not automatically going to go to heaven. Turn to Romans chapter 3. Turn to Romans chapter 3. It's interesting because I did have this conversation a few days ago with somebody who was kind of disparaging of soul winning, of disparaging of one true gospel, you know, what the Bible teaches, just basically disparaging of the Bible. And yesterday out soul winning, I ran into a lady at the door. I mean, I don't believe in accidents when it comes to things like this. I ran into a lady yesterday soul winning that I had gotten saved six months earlier. She literally said, don't you remember me? I talked to you six months. I got saved six months ago, she said. And I was like, oh yeah, you know, I don't remember everyone's name that I talked to at the door. You know, if you're a soul winner, you're going to talk to a lot of people. You're going to give the gospel to a lot of people. But you know what she said? It was so interesting because first of all, she was just as saved as she was six months ago. And you know what she said to me? She's like, she's like, yeah, I got you got me saved six months ago. And she's like, you know what? I think about that conversation every day. She said to me, you know why she thinks about that conversation every day? It's not because I'm some compelling person. She thinks about that conversation every day because she has the Holy Spirit inside her telling her about that conversation every day. She was literally sealed by the Holy Spirit. She got a down payment of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is in her telling her, hey, you know, remember that conversation. You should be getting going in your Christian life now. You know, the Holy Spirit is the one reminding her every single day about that conversation. It's not me. It's the words. It was the gospel. So it was interesting that that was just kind of a proof. Yesterday about that. And look, and if you're a soul winner, that's going to happen to you a lot because, you know, once people are saved, they are sealed, the Bible says. You don't seal them. God does. The Holy Spirit does. Look at Romans 320. So I mean, what if I just claim Jesus and, you know, I believe Jesus, but I also believe you've got to be baptized and I also believe you've got to do this or what mixed mash of whatever different gospel that I was taught. Maybe I was taught a gospel as a Catholic or a Protestant or whatever. Look at Romans 320. The Bible says therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. That's why he said that in Matthew 7 because through the works of the law nobody is going to be justified. It's like no flesh, not one person who believes even one work has to be done, even one sacrament needs to be performed is going to go to heaven. Why? Because they're not justified. That's why. He's not justified through the works of the law. Look at John chapter 14 in verse number six. Most of you probably have this answer. But the point is is the first thing the first thing that has been abandoned is the Bible. It's the truth of the gospel. First of all is the truth of one true gospel. This ideal, I mean refer back to the post-modernism sermon where it's just like everything's true. Everything's okay. You know your truth is just not my truth and but it's just as valid. That is not what Jesus says. There is a truth. Out there. And Jesus says in John 14.6 he says I am the way, the truth and the life. There's the bumper sticker right there. But we have to read the rest of the verse too. He's like I am the way, the truth and the life. He says no man comets under the father but by me. He's the only way. The only truth. So Jesus has also what? What is Jesus? Jesus is the word. Jesus is the word. So if you don't believe the Bible. If you say you're a Christian but you don't believe the Bible that's impossible first of all. Because Jesus trusting on Jesus is trusting the word of God. It's the same thing because he is the word and the word is the truth. And there's no other way other than the truth. It says no man. No man. So look. The title of the sermon this morning is just holding the line. And I'm going to show you just how like Christians today or let's just put it this way. Conservatives today they you know conservatives today even conservative Christians today whatever that means. They the reason that they are surprised at the things that they're seeing is because no lines have been held. No lines have been held. All these election issues that are coming up not a single line has been held. And it's just the same thing. They just get pushed further and further and further away from the Lord and then and then complain the whole way as they're being pushed. There's no priest today. That's why I say that this country was lost first from the pulpit. This country was lost first from the pulpit because the man of God stopped speaking the word of God because it became politically incorrect. It became something that people didn't want to hear. But look at throughout the Bible most of the time the people didn't want to hear the word of God. Most of the time they were upset at the prophet. Most of the time they were mad at the prophet. They were getting upset at the prophet constantly. Turn to Genesis chapter 5. Conservatives today let me just give you a couple areas just a couple areas that conservatives are really upset about today. And I'm going to tell you like why it's why we got where we are. Turn to Genesis chapter 5 and look at verse number 1. Genesis chapter 5 verse number 1 conservatives today are really upset over this. What is a man and what is a woman stuff going on? People are all yelling and screaming and like this is crazy and look I believe that it's wicked it's crazy but the point is is like first of all the Bible is very clear on this look at verse number 1. This is the book of the generations of Adam in the day that God created man in the likeness of God he made him made he him male and female he created them and blessed them and called their name Adam in the day that they were created. So I mean the fact that God created man and woman male and female like this isn't this is maybe simpler than the actual gospel itself it's a very simple concept in the Bible we can see it throughout all nature all the animals are male and female but conservatives are upset about this today look I'm upset about it too but the reason that we are where we are today is because conservatives totally gave in on unnatural perversion 20 years ago there was no line that was held if you're old enough to remember you know look there's natural there's a man marrying a woman and that's natural all else is abomination this is not hard this is not hard doctrine conservatives gave up on this 20 years ago did you know did you know this was the whole argument of gay marriage way back in 2000 or maybe even earlier than that but did you know that 55 to 60 percent of Republicans or conservatives today are for gay marriage whatever that means see it's they should have never acknowledged the choice they should have never acknowledged the question because there is no such thing it's like offering someone what do you prefer do you like green elephants or do you like purple elephants like gay marriage doesn't exist marriage is defined to Genesis chapter two as a man and a woman becoming one flesh you know it's it's there is no other marriage there is nothing else but now you have over you know over 55 percent of conservatives that are for you know this abominable thing that basically you have 55 look at it this way you have 55 percent of conservatives today have walked away from god's biblical definition of marriage think about that think about that and now they're wondering like why is this new perversion coming why all this unnaturalness that's coming we don't agree with this but what did you expect to happen when you hold no line there was no priests that were just saying no we hold the line there now I mean it just it's it's it's it seems like every week it gets worse and people are just complaining about it more and more look it's gonna get worse because there's no line anymore it's just gonna get I can't even imagine what it's gonna be like in 20 years from today I mean now we're talking about kids going through you know mutilating surgeries and these horrible things here's another thing here's another thing you're gonna realize when I start bringing up these these election topics you're gonna realize that the people that suffer first are always the children the people that suffer first are always the most innocent in society I don't care if you're talking about abortion this one's the same who suffers the children always but conservatives supported it conservatives walked away from the line this is the line this never would have happened if you know conservatives would have stuck to the bible stuck to what god said we wouldn't be where we are today but America's Uzziah and there's no priests so Uzziah is just he's off the rails he's doing whatever he wants to do there's no one to put him back on the rails and the children always suffer how about this one turn to proverbs chapter 5 how about this one here's another one where the line is just there is no line anymore and you say well there's no line anymore it's just gonna get worse and worse and worse look at proverbs chapter 5 go to proverbs chapter 5 how about this this entitlement mentality that's going on with Uzziah in America today you know this entitlement mentality that you know I expect everything from everybody everyone needs to just give me and take care of me and give me all their things but look what the bible says look at verse 15 of proverbs chapter 5 the bible says drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well let thy fountains be dispersed abroad and rivers of waters in the streets let them be only thine own and not a strangers with thee the bible is saying here hey you know work hard and get your own property is what the bible is saying don't expect anything from anyone if i wanted to look if i wanted to destroy someone like i really hated them and i wanted to just destroy them and i want to destroy their family and i want to destroy the next generations of their family you know what i do you know what i do i'd give them everything for free and i'd tell them that they never had to i would teach him that i would teach him that everyone owes him something and then just give them everything that he ever needed for free and and you would destroy him and generations that came after him look at second Thessalonians chapter 3 i'll just read for you verse number 10 says for even when we were with you this we commanded you that if any would not work neither should he eat can you imagine where's the conservative pushing that today conservatives are all like oh the entitlement mentality well where's the conservative saying we should go back to the bible lines where's the republican proposing that you know if you don't work you shouldn't eat where's that guy running for office there's a homeless problem fixed right there you know how many you know 25 year olds i see standing out on the street with two arms and two legs that could easily go to work somewhere when there's literally millions of open jobs in this country even in tough economic times they don't want to work they shouldn't eat where's the republican where's the politician proposing this bible line doesn't exist it doesn't exist today so they're all like oh i'm so upset i'm moving where are you going to move to here's another one here's another one everyone's upset everyone's upset over the public school system today everyone is upset you're seeing all these these videos online and on the news of of these you know the brave parents going to the school board meetings they're heroes these brave parents standing in the school board meetings and speaking out against the perversion and books that are being you know pushed on on kids in the libraries has been going on for 30 years as long as i've been alive the system that's raising my children is evil they're saying but wait a minute what's the bible line turn to proverbs chapter 22 where's the line this one isn't new this one isn't new never will be by the way back i don't know 20 years ago it was it was no child left behind remember that then it was the common core common core teaching that came in then there was you know the critical race theory recently that came in guess what common core everyone complained about that everyone went to school board meetings about that it's still there it happened it's and it's it's in 46 out of 50 states I mean it's still there now it's the just the the trans perversion stuff that's coming in and look the perversion was always there it's just getting worse now with all this new unnaturalness that's being pushed on everybody I mean that the crazy stuff that's that's coming in but look it's always been there and conservative christians I use that term loosely are like how is this happening today it's because they walked off the line of who's responsible for raising their children that's why because the bible is very clear about who is supposed to raise your children look at proverbs 22 verse 6 proverbs 22 6 is train up a child in the way he should go and when he's old he will not depart from it look if you train him in wicked unnatural ways he's going to become a wicked unnatural person he will not depart from that either in Ephesians 6 4 the bible says and ye fathers oh there it is pinpointing who he's talking to ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the lord the fathers are supposed to be bringing up their children the fathers the leader of the family the father and the mother it's your job to bring up the children so you're saying I've walked off my responsibility I've walked away from the line of my biblical responsibility and I'm upset that the people that are doing the job that God wants me to do are wicked and evil it's not going to work it's going to keep getting worse that's why there's there's no success there that's why that's I don't care how many people you put in school board meetings I don't care how much you push against this stuff they're doing your job just do the job the line the biblical line is the parents are supposed to be training their children the parents are supposed to be bringing up their children in the lord so I mean that's why like the whole like argument of all the it all went bad when they took prayer out of the schools and in the 70s and 80s well like I don't want the I don't want any government program teaching my kids the bible so that argument itself it's like the game marriage argument it's the wrong question should the government should the government teach your children the bible or not the bible how about the government doesn't teach my children anything how about that because that's what the bible says right because they're always going to do wicked things look the public school disaster it's an eye roll it's an eye roll for us I get it it's an eye roll for us but you have to understand like who's making this decision at this point to put their kids into this system at least you know we still have some right to remove ourselves from it you know I mean this is part of separation that we preach on that I preach on over and over and over again so again the line is not what the public school teaches but who should be teaching your children that is the line and christians have backed off that line conservatives have backed off that line and what are we looking at what's our trend who suffers the children who suffers when people walk off the biblical line the kids suffer the children suffer first how about this one turn to eclesiastes chapter eight here's another one we're just going through some election issues that that I've been like hearing you know news articles about and things like this that everyone's saying the election is about these things but look how about this one look at eclesiastes chapter eight and I'm just answering this question to conservatives on how things went haywire they're like how did it get so bad and look I blame conservatives because conservatives aren't conservative Christians aren't christian you know Christians aren't following and standing on the line of the bible look at eclesiastes chapter eight how about this idea of just like not punishing crime how about this one this is a big election issue look at eclesiastes eight I mean the bible has the bible doesn't just have the gospel folks the bible has literally every single answer that you could ever want answered in your life everything that's going wrong just it's in the it's in the pages of the bible god gave it to you look at eclesiastes chapter eight look at verse number 11 let's let's see if this is hard to understand because sentence against an evil because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them that to do evil let me read that again because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil you know what that's saying let me just let me just translate that for you this isn't this isn't rocket surgery conservatives if you don't punish crime you will get more crime I mean I just read a news article last week it was all over the news about some school shooter from I don't know several years first of all does it say it says speedily it says speedily there's some kid that went and shot like 17 people in a school and it was just huge debate on whether or not to give them the death sentence to give them capital punishment and by the way they didn't if somebody that goes in and like literally just like shoots like 17 innocent children is is not up for capital punishment like the country just doesn't believe it anymore the country's walked away from that I mean it's it's crazy I mean speedily that means like get a rope that's what speedily is about instead you know there's this overcrowding and in prison so we'll just let them all out like the opposite how you know in California it's stealing stealing like I mean this is the most obvious one that we can all see like every single week you see this somehow every single week like whether it's somebody stealing something off your porch whether it's somebody you see stealing from a store why is it because there's no consequences that's why and Ecclesiastes 811 is saying when there's no consequences you're gonna get more of it man I'm a genius the bible says this if you don't punish evil you get more evil you know what this means you could just apply this to anything today you could apply it to all the wickedness that you see everywhere today you know what this means this means that this society I mean aside from you know confusing you know conservatives being confused what this means today is our our society is going to continue to get more and more violent that's what this means more and more innocent people who are innocent children who is hurt the most by violent crime weak innocent people older people children like society's just gonna get more and more and more violent as this continues to go on and it's funny because the same people that are trying to make society more violent are also trying to take away your right to defend yourself from violence so don't miss that don't miss that correlation but the point is this the bible has the answer to all this the problem is conservatives who just walked off all these lines I just touched on it just a couple things this morning but look so what to do what to do turn to Zechariah chapter 8 Zechariah chapter 8 what do we do I mean there's just a few examples like I just go on and on and on and on but go to Zechariah chapter 8 look at verse 16 Zechariah chapter 8 and verse number 16 this is what we do since we are still on the line this is what we do Zechariah chapter 8 look at verse number 16 the bible says these are the things that ye shall do you're like it's a mess it's a mess and it keeps getting worse what do I do what do I do look what it says it says speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates look be judgmental you know what judgmental means it says execute judgment you know what that means it means being able to recognize good and evil that's what that means and we're like don't judge it's like what are you talking about don't judge you know if you say don't judge that means you know be a zombie that just has no opinion about anything the bible say no read the bible find out where the lines are because the bible's just full of these lines here's the lines on everything just hold those lines but it says speak ye because look all these things that we talked about they don't affect me hopefully they don't affect you but it says speak the truth everyone to his neighbor because why it's the neighbor it's your conservative republican neighbor who's confused he's like how is this happening speak the truth to him to her that's what the bible is saying look and here's the thing coming up Tuesday I vote I vote you know voting whether or not you vote is kind of a it's kind of a I put it in the Romans 14 category it's kind of a standard I mean there's there's some good bible to justify not voting I get that and if there's a you know I have some friends and there's just biblical christians out there they're just like I'm not gonna vote but I do vote I'm not mad at anybody that doesn't I feel like I feel like you know we should speak as much truth as we possibly can in every possible way that we can I look at things like Moses Moses he went into Pharaoh until he couldn't go into Pharaoh anymore he went he spoke truth to Pharaoh until Pharaoh said if you come back again I'm gonna kill you and then guess what here's another thing that America needs to realize as soon as Pharaoh stopped listening to the man of God who stepped in God stepped in as soon as Uzziah quit listening to the man of God who stepped in God stepped in Jeremiah turn to Jeremiah chapter 36 turn to Jeremiah chapter 36 Jeremiah he got locked up where he couldn't speak anymore and so he sends in Baruch to speak for him but I mean I guess that's why I you know I'm just trying to you know it's a I guess voting is kind of a pragmatic way to just you know and I'm not telling you I would vote for for so everybody that runs for office but I'm you know I do what I can I'll vote where I can look at verse five of Jeremiah chapter 36 in Jeremiah commanded Baruch saying I'm shut up I cannot go into the house of the Lord therefore go thou and read in the role which thou has written from my mouth the words of the Lord and the ears of the people in the Lord's house upon the fasting day now shall read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities so he's just saying like he's just saying like look just I can't I'm in jail they won't listen to me you go in and guess what as soon as they really stopped listening to Jeremiah he was all locked up God stepped in they got judged by Babylon they got overthrown and taken into captivity so look I mean whatever way I can get my truth out get the truth of the Bible out this is why you know this is why we're on YouTube I mean YouTube is bad I shouldn't say that I'm gonna get kicked off YouTube we're eventually gonna get kicked off YouTube it's just a reality that's gonna happen YouTube is not a great thing or it's not a great company it's not you know it's run by you know it's there's a lot of wicked things about YouTube but it's a way to get the truth out it's a way to get the truth out that's why you know to me free speech and this right that we still maybe sort of have partially today is super important why so we can get the truth out to our neighbor that's why free speech I mean whenever I see things going on in the country about free speech I pay very close attention because guess what we must have this today as Christians all I need as a Christian as a Bible-believing Christian all I need is the right to speak the truth that's all I need why because the gospel is the best idea in a free market of ideas the gospel wins every time I mean how many times how many times have we we and friends like us send out thousands of soul winners every single week friends of ours churches that are friends of ours literally thousands of people go out soul winning every single week around this globe you know how many come back as Mormons none you know how many come back as Catholics zero it's never happened why because the gospel wins because in a market of free ideas the word of God trumps everything because it's the only word that has what it's the only word that has power it's the only word everything else is just it's just garbage it's just something that a man wrote down the gospel wins the Bible wins in all these areas it works it explains it protects that's why we're okay and our kids are okay through all of this mess but as long as we have the ability to speak the truth you know Elon Musk thank goodness he's off of Mars and he's kind of fighting the free speech fight again we'll see how well he does there but hey good on him good on him if he pushes for more free speech in this country is he saved no can he do good yes he can I hope he gets saved one day I've said I've said that before talking about Elon Musk but hey kudos to him for fighting that fight off of Mars something that's totally worthless and never going to happen and on to free speech hey maybe you could make a difference for good in this world good for him but as soon as we are silenced folks it's not us that will suffer as soon as we are silenced and we can no longer preach the gospel it's not my kids that are going to suffer it's not my kids kids that are going to suffer because we're still going to teach them and raise them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord as we stand on that line but guess who suffers just like Jeremiah or Zechariah 30 or what did we just read just like we read in Zechariah it's going to be our neighbor that suffers you know I'm not worried about going to heaven I'm not worried personally about having the wrong gospel but it will be my neighbor that suffers if I can no longer go out and preach the gospel to my neighbor it will be him that suffers I'm not worried about what a man and what a woman is I'm never going to be confused about that but it's my neighbor that in 20 years is going to completely not know what those two things are I can't imagine what it will be like in 20 years I'm not worried about the public school system zero zero concern I'm concerned about my neighbor who has his children in the public school system I'm concerned about you know not being able to tell the truth about what's happening there and why it's happening there that's what I'm concerned about I'm not worried about being destroyed or having my children destroyed through the welfare state and the welfare system here and just this idea that we need to just put everything off and blame everyone else for all of our problems I'm not worried about that in my family because I'm going to raise my kids up the way the bible says that they should be raised up I'm worried about my neighbor I'm worried about my neighbor who's being taught these things and putting his kids in a place where they're teaching them these things I'm worried about I'm not worried too much about taxes I like don't worry about that at all you know I just I'm holding the line we're holding the line but it's all about concern for our neighbor and ultimately you know our country our country so we shouldn't be selfish I mean we shouldn't be selfish Christians we should be Christians that are willing to speak the truth all right and look the the fact is they're just not enough of us there's not enough of us who are out there speaking the truth turn to Jeremiah chapter four turn to Jeremiah chapter four we'll end here but look this is why we lose you say why why does it always keep getting worse and worse and worse it's because satan satan puts constant pressure he's got constant pressure on this country on the leaders of this country he's just putting constant pressure and as Christians or conservatives back off of lines of the bible there becomes no line and there's no one to stop them in their tracks just like Uzziah Uzziah would stop right in his tracks those priests 81 priests walked in there and said no you are not doing this and they stopped him in his tracks God had to step in and took care of the problem but Christians today they have no idea that there even is a line anymore especially conservatives today have no idea that there is the line anymore look at Jeremiah chapter four look at verse number 22 Jeremiah chapter four verse 22 it says, for my people is foolish they have not known me they are sawdish children and they have none understanding they are wise to do evil but to do good they what they have no knowledge they don't know this is the conservative today when he looks at what's happening today and he says that's messed up what's going on there this is the conservative but he has no idea why but he has no idea how when he supported gay marriage and then he sees that kids are being you know pushed into into surgery to transition and mutilate them and we need to lock some people up and and they're just like how would this happen it happened because of you it happened because you conservative have no knowledge and you have no and when the bible says no knowledge it means no knowledge of the word of god that's how it happened that's how it happened they they say there's they said there's going to be a red wave on tuesday and you know what the sad thing is if there is a red wave maybe there will be maybe there won't be if there is a red wave it'll be because the economy is bad because that's what people that's what conservatives and that's what people care about that's a common political saying it's the economy stupid if the economy was great right now there wouldn't be any wave because conservatives are holding nothing they're holding no line they're retreating faster just the fact that conservatives would say we need to move out of california why coward conservatives are cowards today they're fools who have no knowledge of anything they support evil and wonder why they get more evil and then they're cowards and they say oh look what we've done we've wrecked everything let's run away it literally makes me sick to see it but that is why because they just don't know my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge let's bow our heads and have a word for it