 I will preach today a message. I have never preached at Hungry Jen and probably will never preach again I'll preach on socialism Somebody was like why would you want to tackle something that has to do with politics? I'll explain it just a minute about More than ten years ago. I was trying to get a new iPhone But I didn't have the money So what I was doing is what everybody does at that time. I used Greg's like Craigslist to try to find the best deal for an iPhone I didn't want to pay the full price for the iPhone I wanted to get it under table by one of the people in Professor or sunny side who could sell me for half price and I did not want to know how they got that iPhone If they stole it Rips somebody off or I just it's on them not on me So I finally found this guy who was selling a seven hundred dollar iPhone for one hundred sixty dollars And I was like man the Lord has heard my prayer and he has given me favor So as I've been talking to this person through a text message, but I did notice that something is off about them But of course ignoring all of my discernment. I decided to go on Friday and purchase this iPhone I meet with this person on the parking lot I think it was like Walmart and the parking lot and everything about even that meeting the way that person was hiding in the car seem fishy So I got the phone. I was like I'm not not an idiot I'm gonna test the phone first and so and as I turned on the phone It wasn't turning on and then he says well you need to connect it to the power and I was like well Why aren't you supposed to charge it? So we connected to the power it takes like 10 minutes to turn on like something is fishy And I'm keep getting this red flag but see I'm committed to getting the best deal For an iPhone and I don't want to pay $700. I want to get for a hundred sixty dollars iPhone and I really believe God is in it He's blessing me and I just need to persevere a little bit longer So finally it turns on and for some weird reason instead of an iPhone system showing up on the iPhone and Android system shows up on the iPhone So I'm thinking why is an Android operating system on the iPhone? And he says oh it was jailbroken So I know about jailbroken phones you can install any kind of operating system But typically you don't install an Android operating system on a jailbroken phone But he convinces me that you know, this is special jailbreak And I said well and these red flags keep piling up But I'm already too deep in to listen to those red flags And then the final thing that should have been the deal breaker is they take the back of the iPhone And I hit it with my like like a knock on the phone and it's shallow You know when you hit an iPhone, it's like hard. This one is shallow and I was like why is it shallow? He says oh, it's the new addition. You know, I drove from prostory. It's been three days I've been expecting this iPhone. I Know this sounds wrong Seven everything about this seems just not right But you know, I'm already here and it's a hundred sixty dollars What if God is blessing me truly? I just have to step over all of these biases and prejudices that I have developed in the last three days I give him a hundred sixty dollars. I get that iPhone and Man, how I was duped that thing never worked. I Never could log in into it the Wi-Fi could never connect it never called I still keep that iPhone to remind me There are counterfeits To everything that's good. There are fakes to everything. That's real and not everything they gets Presented to you on this count is worth pursuing or is a sign of God's blessing Socialism is the devil's counterfeit It offers utopia on earth We can get rid of all the poverty We can get rid of all the greed By taking away all of our property We can make people equal we can distribute all the wealth We can really build Heaven on earth. We don't need God for that. We are not bad We are good. The only thing that's bad about us is the fact we own property But once we remove the property ownership, we will all be restored back to this Kumbaya state. Well, we all love each other. We all have enough no more poverty no more wealthy Greedy capitalist. We're just gonna all be rid of all the greed and we can do it all without God and the reason why I'm going to address this message is because it's alarming in 19 in 2019 so a few years ago Gallup Paul found 51% of Americans aged 18 to 29 had a positive view of socialism 45% of this age millennials my age people view capitalism as positive But 51% view socialism as positive in 2021 so two years ago a poll conducted by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School found 55% of Americans aged 18 to 29 would prefer to live in a country. That's socialist Now where did this come from and the norm is amount of student debt A liberal approach to destroy the norms in the society a Man and a woman Marriage between a husband and a wife. That's too traditional. That's too old let's remove all the social norms and We discover something new so we see the way that Wealth is accumulated the way the wealth is distributed. We want to destroy that as well That's just oppressive system and then we saw the greed of the capitalism. We saw the collapse During the Great Recession When there was a huge crash in the market with the housing a lot of people lost their homes We saw where companies would hide certain information From the public and sell medical products and other things like chemicals that hurt people But they didn't care that it hurt people because they were more driven by profit than integrity So my generation sees the greed sees the excess and sees that that Capitalism this way of acquiring money has its faults and then the evangelists come on a scene like Bernie Sanders Who present this powerful gospel of heaven and earth and The young people who have more debt that they have life to pay off the degrees that they have they're no longer Hiring for begin to absorb the message that capitalism is greed and Socialism is about the human need and of course when I stupid we don't want a way of life like Cuba when as well Former Soviet Union we don't want it like in North Korea We want it like in the Scandinavian countries in Europe. They are the socialist ones So we have something presented to my generation to our generation to your kids That looks like an iPhone But it has a broken operating system and my generation young generation who hasn't been to Cuba when as well Former Soviet Union drinks this water thinking it's water when in reality it's alcohol and Water and alcohol look alike from a distance, but they're not alike and my desire today is To remove the curtain away and to show that it is a demonic lie I'm not just saying this because I have some vendetta with Bernie Sanders or that state representative Alex Alexandria Cortez don't have an issue with them What I have an issue with is where this is going to lead our generation if my generation Takes a bite of this now. I of course who doesn't like free health care Who doesn't like free stuff? But what we don't understand the only thing that's free is Cheese in a mousetrap There is nothing free in this world Scandinavian countries They are not Socialistic in their wealth accumulation. They are socialistic in their wealth distribution Sweden Norway and other countries. They are Capitalists meaning they believe in private property they believe in importance of business and the only reason that they have free stuff is because they charge their citizens over 50% in taxes and the free stuff that they offer Seems like nobody likes it Because one out of five Students in Norway goes to a private school not to a free school if free education is so great Why don't everybody send their kids to them if free health care is so great Go to Canada and you will meet people who will tell you it takes six months To get a treatment and guess what they do they cross to the United States and pay for a treatment So that they don't die Free stuff is an illusion in the Ukraine. They have free health care, but even when I went there you had to bring a bribe Free stuff doesn't work It's just and it's a lie. They get sold to my generation and We absorb it because we hate the rich are getting richer the poor are getting poorer and most people young people think That's actually a biblical way, which I'm gonna address that in just a moment God is a socialist God because look what Jesus said about the rich people. They will not enter into heaven It's better for a camel to go through an eye of a needle and for a wealthy person to go to heaven Jesus just like overthrew the money changes meaning he's against business So they take all these verses out of context and say this is the gospel utopia on earth life that is just free of all these Greeds and Classes and we just need to wipe all of that out and create a new world. It really started with the guy named Karl Marx Karl Marx Was born in Germany in 1818. He was a son of a rabbi his dad became a Protestant Christian and Karl Marx who was they said was pretty lazy guy actually never really had an official job spent his life in the library Nothing wrong with being taught and constantly going to the library He gets married to Jenny and has seven children. He's around the time when there was an industrial revolution taking place on this earth and The people who had these Manufacturing factories were getting richer and the people who worked for them were getting of course poorer The working environment was not like the working environment today People were not able to invest in a stock market crypto and have a part of a company like we have today And as these rich people would die They would pass on their factories to their children who many times were not very educated many times were mean and Really difficult to work with Karl Marx as well as other people saw that the poor people don't stand a chance where wealth constantly gets transferred from one generation to another and Nobody has a chance to break the cycle of poverty and nobody has a chance to stop the cycle of wealth No matter how they behave he created a brilliant idea The only way to solve this is through a revolution he encouraged the workers to rebel against their employers and So that they can rebel and revolt against them and thus creating an ecosystem where Private property is abolished meaning you cannot own a home You cannot own anything Everything is owned by the state and then the state takes all the money that you make whether you are hard-working or not Hard-working and in the state the government decides who gets what on this idea Communism was running Marxist idea is the engine of communism Lenin Stalin the people who run North Korea even then in Vietnam in Cuba took this idea because communism and socialism Are like the two sides of the same sword This idea is responsible for murdering 100 million people in the last 100 years This is straight from the heart of hell Any idea that is responsible to kill 100 million people is demonic. I Don't care how you repackage it. I don't care who is the spokesman and I don't care how much it offends you Jesus says the thief comes to steal to kill and to destroy Any idea that takes a man and makes him into a monstrous dictator and takes the human liberty and squashes it and kills it and destroys that Wipes the knowledge of God and makes the state into a God is demonic behind the scenes Seven reasons why socialism is not biblical reason number one socialism says God is not real Socialism says there is no God the Bible says fools deny the existence of God Our Bible says it doesn't prove that God exists. It starts with the notion in the beginning God Karl Marx said this religion is the opium of the people Karl Marx knew you cannot establish socialism until you destroy religion Why because you can't control people who believe in God that created everything? In order for the government to control you they have to get rid of your belief in something that makes you uncontrollable The first thing that communism has to do is wipe the knowledge of God destroy your ability to believe in God Why because you can't be Gollible You can't be naive you can't be manipulated and controlled by the government if you believe in somebody else who is greater than the government That's why Karl Marx said The rich people use religion to control the poor people. He says it's the opium. It's the drug But in reality, it's the other way around Faith gives you freedom to make your own decisions Faith gives you freedom Faith gives you disbelief that you are made in the image of God Government is not your God another human being cannot be your God You are accountable to a God and that God is not in a white house. He sits on the white throne Karl Marx said the first Requested for happiness of the people is the abolishing of religion He also said the idea of God is The keynote of a perverted civilization Even if communism would deliver on all its promises, it's still demonic because it will send you to the lake of fire There is a God who created heavens and the earth He created you and I in his image and likeness and this God Wants to know you personally through his son Jesus Christ the second lie of Socialism and that is this humans are good Socialism says people are good the Bible says people are sinful Now at first it doesn't seem like a lie. You're like that's not a lie. We're good. No, we're not You don't teach your children to laugh It's natural for us to do bad. We have to practice hard not to do bad Now just because we can build skyscrapers and just because we can build aeroplanes and just because our phones are Smarter than us at some times and just because our microwaves are fast Just because our world is progressing. It doesn't mean we are the Bible says man is regressing with time not progressing What socialism says is this we are good, but we became bad When we started to own property So our problem is Individual property ownership. We became greedy. So if we all get rid of our property, we will be back at being good Our problem is the system of capitalism That's there that simply teaches, you know, if you offer a service in return, you get money That is bad once we get rid of that and then you just work and the government decides what you eat The government decides how much the work you produce should be paid for instead of the interest of what people are willing to pay And and the socialism says then we'll be back to being good And of course since we will not like that idea of getting rid of this form of getting Compensated for our good work. We need a revolution and the government needs to temporarily step in and squash the rebels to establish Heaven on earth and the utopia will for which then later on you will be grateful for People in North Korea love that utopia so much That they're not even allowed to escape it People in former Soviet Union love that so much that the government didn't let him run away from it If it's so beautiful Why do people from Venezuela run from it? If it's so beautiful. Why do people from Cuba? Run from it The core of it is anti-biblical. We are not good Now I know it probably if your first time here today that should offend you That you are not good But honestly even Greek philosophers Roman and Greek philosophers understood that people are not naturally good Deist who believed in existence of God or a deity but didn't believe in the personal God like Thomas Jefferson Held to this doctrine that we are not good Which is why the writers of the US Constitution kept this doctrine in mind when they build Saved guards to protect our nation against evil Politicians that's why our power is broken into three branches Why because the people who formed our Constitution had this mindset people can't be trusted They are naturally bent and evil. You got to create safe guards So and what happens with socialism? You don't have those safe guards So all the power goes to the state which typically goes to the head of one person called dictator And you have this God a man who acts like God because he convinces you not to believe in God Why why he does convince you not to believe in God because he can't be God if you already have one Humans will get worse with time and our only solution is not getting rid of private property Businesses and getting rid of the differentiation between poor and rich. Our solution is Christ Our problem is not so is that capitalist system? Our problem is our heart That needs to be changed number three Socialism teaches the state is the final authority Socialism teaches that the government is the final authority the Bible teaches. God is the final authority Karl Marx says the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the prolection in Mack Marxist's proverb. This is what they would say trust is good Control is better Mao taught this the political power grows out of a barrel of a gun Scripture the teachers that we are to subject ourselves to authorities, but the Bible always makes a differentiation and Praises people who practice civil disobedience when the authority God establishes rebels against God's standards God blessed the Women who helped with birthing process in Egypt when they didn't kill babies, but the government told them to kill babies Apostles told the religious leaders We will submit to you in every way except when you tell us not to obey God We will not submit to you That's one of the reasons hungry Jen was open before our governor allowed us to be open God bless our governor But he is not the final authority and offended few people who felt like oh you guys are Practicing civil disobedience when the malls were filled with people Casinos with filled with people parks were filled with people When Walmart was filled with people Loves was filled with people and the church was empty When the protesters took million people on the streets and were looting our malls and that was okay But for us to assemble together as the Bible says for us to assemble together was not okay We practiced civil disobedience number four Children belong to the state not to the parents Now this is gonna get interesting What you don't what you have to understand about socialism in socialism your children don't belong to you They belong to the government Actually Lenin said this In the principles of communism in the principles of communism Frederick the one who also wrote a book with Karl Marx He said this is the education of all children from the moment they leave their mother's care in National establishments at national cost meaning you birth the children you nurse them and after that They belong to the government where the government teaches them the truth not you It goes contrary to my Bible and your Bible because the Bible says parents are Responsible to raise the children not public schools Public schools can teach them science and they can teach them math and they can teach them PE They can teach them how to write and they can teach them how to read, but they don't teach them what to believe They don't teach them right and wrong that Assignment from the beginning of Genesis till the end of Revelation was always been placed on the shoulder of mom and dad Not the public school not the private school and not your teachers mom and dad were Responsible to pass Christian or their faith to their children Joe Biden said there is no such a thing as someone else's child No such a thing as someone else's child our nation's children are all our children Joe. You're wrong They're not all our children Our children belong to us They don't belong to our Nation our children the one that we birth are going to continue The belief and they will continue the work that God has for them me and my family Joshua said belongs to God Senate bill 5599 in Washington state allows Shelters to be built to help runaway teenagers as young as 13 years of age to be kept from their parents who want to get an abortion or Affirming surgeries this just happened in the Washington state where our governor Signed the deal now for those of you who maybe think I'm treading too much into politics. I am not I'm the simplest thing This is what's happening in our culture and it goes contrary to the scriptures and we have to speak with the Bible teachers Senate bill 5599 pretty much what it says is this if your child is Confused which a lot of studies have been done where children can suffer with gender dysphoria and they grow out of it in Our state 13 year old cannot go get drunk and get alcohol in the bar 13 year old cannot get a tattoo without the permission of their friends 13 year olds are not allowed to do anything almost Yet the government deems it it's okay And with our tax dollars will build shelters when the 13 year old wants to get an irreversible surgery To remove their breasts and to take pills to block their puberty that is okay And we will pretty much say we will hide those kids From you right now before this we had a law if your child wants to get a gender Affirming surgery they need your permission If your child wants to get an abortion as early as 14 they need your permission After this law they don't need your permission because the government gave them That is a form and a shade of control and socialism The Bible says parents are responsible for the children not the government I want to encourage your parents This is gonna be what what is happening in our culture and what is gonna be continuing to happen? This is not to frighten you but this is as Bear a mama bear you got to protect your bears As a as a mama hand you got to protect your chicks You got to protect your family. Why because if you think the government has the best interest in your family Think again Just read about former Soviet Union or ask my mom ask my dad ask our pastor They grew up under that regime the government does not have your best interest the government was given to protect our rights Not to give them to us Our rights don't come from our government. It comes from our god They need to live for Liberty for freedom pursuit of happiness that didn't come because we have a government That came because we have a creator who made us to live on this earth And the government is there to protect those rights not to give them or to take them Number five Socialism teaches that all people must be equal now at first again This looks like a good iPhone looks like water when in reality it's alcohol. It looks Well, isn't the bible teaches that well socialism teaches that everyone must have equal wealth The bible teaches that humans are equal in value, but they are different in abilities Lenin in puth pravde number 33 on march 11th 1914 He said this the abolition of classes means placing all citizens on the equal footing With regard to the means of production belonging to society as a whole It means giving all citizens equal opportunities of working on the publicly owned means of production On the publicly owned land at the publicly owned factories and so forth The bible says the poor you will have with you always Socialism says not so We will never have poor. We will have everybody will have more than enough But every place socialism thrives everyone is poor They remove wealth they also make everybody poor The bible says that the reason why god allows the poor is to test the rich That they are generous and that they are caring for other people The bible says not to covet another person's wealth How can you not covet somebody else if everybody's equal that means the bible assumes not all of us are going to be equal There would be a 17 year old student and there's going to be a 70 year old man A 70 year old man is going to have a different wealth than a 17 year old student And therefore a 17 year old should not covet his 70 year old grandpa Nor his grandpa should give all of his wealth to a 17 year old punk. I mean young man Why he needs to work for it? We are not equal we are equal in value and worth but some of us are very hard working Some of us just love nature too much And we don't care about money some of us are business men and some of us we don't like to run a business We just like the eight to five or nine to five and that's okay The bible says don't covet other people and don't steal from other people There is two ways to make money One way is the traditional way is they call it the capitalist way the capitalism works like this I have 100 dollars and You want those 100 dollars? So what you do is you create something I need So that I can give you those 100 dollars For example, you look at me like you know if lat has a really nice dress code But I think he needs a jacket So you make a jacket and you charge me 100 dollars for a jacket I go give you 100 dollars and this way you met my need And in exchange you received what you wanted But your mind wasn't focused on 100 dollars Your mind was focused on the need that I have that you can meet so that in exchange I can give you 100 dollars That's what capitalism is. It's not selfish It's actually very selfless because you have to constantly think about what people want and what they need Socialism works like this or another way to make money is to put a gun to somebody's head and says give me 100 bucks When a thug comes on the street or a mafia guy comes on the street puts a gun to your head says give me 100 bucks And you're like, yeah, okay. I give it back. So socialism gives the government a gun When the government comes with a gun and says you work we take the money and we decide What somebody needs what somebody's willing to pay for it we control all of that and that I believe is wrong We want to build a society where You focus on meeting other people's needs, which is actually one of the christian fundamentals Serve another person as a businessman. If you are offering some service You're thinking how can I offer that service better for my customer and in exchange they give you money There's nothing greedy about it. You're actually serving the need of your community And in exchange you're receiving a compensation for that And then somebody else will come alongside and find a way to do this jacket for 50 dollars And now you have to constantly stay creative to stay competitive in this kind of economic environment That's why capitalism produces competition, which is good for all of us because somebody keeps coming up with new ideas Better ways of doing things and that is the way God created it to be Instead of a thug comes to you and puts a gun to you and says give me all your money In socialism the government is the thug number six Socialism teaches that the product of one's labor is shared by those who have not labored meaning And this is one of the carl mark statements from each according to his ability to each according to his needs meaning You work hard you're a businessman who creates things or you're a doctor who does heart surgeries That's great And then somebody else who does absolute nothing Everyone is spread equally when it comes to finances, but the bible teaches us this that hard work is rewarded Not laziness Amen The bible teaches that we are to share our bread with the needy, but it doesn't give government power To force us to share the bread with the needy Amen number seven The socialism teaches that the state Eliminates private property Pretty much in socialism. You're not allowed to own anything the bible teaches us that things should not own us The bible is not against you owning anything the bible just doesn't teach us that make sure that things that you own don't own You amen Now in the conclusion what i want to finish with is this I want to answer the question that a lot of times get asked especially by young people is that well That's all good and stuff, but our bible shows that the early church was socialist And so i'm going to read to you book of acts. Let's go to the bible book of acts chapter two and verse 44 Book of acts chapter two verse 44 Now when all who believed were together and had all things in common verse 45 And sold their possessions and good And divided them among all as anyone Had need In verse 46 So continually daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house They ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart. I want you to notice one thing. They were all together Forced community is communism Voluntarily community is christianity When you get together with other believers and sisters brothers and sisters on a small group It's not communism. It's community When the government forces you to get together or the church that forces you to get together It's communism The early church were not forced to be together They wanted to be together because god gave them the desire the difference between communism and christian community Is one is forced with the gun and the other one is enforced by your own desire in the heart because you want to be with other people I want you to notice the bible doesn't say that apostles made christians to be together sell their property The bible says they wanted to do it of their own desire Another thing that I wanted to highlight is this Sharing your property was voluntarily. It was not imposed by apostles or the state We don't see apostles making a requirement that if you become a christian You must sell all your property and now give all the money to the church treasury where the apostles will decide Who gets what? The scripture says this as everyone or anyone needed meaning this Believers started to notice this is kind of how it happened under the apennic cost a lot of people came for the feast To israel this was a jewish feast And during that feast people who came to stay there for a little bit They heard this sound and this fire and they got saved And instead of going back to their villages their cities with this new found faith that they just found in jerusalem This baptism of the holy spirit what they decided to do is to stay over in jerusalem for a little bit longer To learn more about christian faith. It would be like this. You guys came for prayer line You got so wrecked You're like i'm not going home. I'm gonna stick around here for a few months Now imagine if five thousand people do that What it's gonna do is gonna overwhelm us. That's exactly what happened It overwhelmed the christians in jerusalem, which were already very few not a lot of them So guess what they started to do what we would do if y'all decide to stay If we had an extra car we're gonna try to borrow you so you can take people to church and get some grocery If we will have an extra airbnb We will try to put in there so christians started to sell their properties to accommodate new believers from outside of town Who got wrecked at the day of pentecost But you don't see apostles getting up and say if you are a christian you must get rid of your private property Why we don't see that because in the next verse it says they met in the temple and in their houses Meaning people still had houses They didn't get rid of all their houses They only got rid of houses as the need was there and this did not continue How we know that because in book of acts chapter 6 It says only widows were receiving help no longer everybody was receiving help And this actually did not work. How do we know that because it didn't continue We don't see after that every place where christianity came in Everyone started living together like hippies kind of like let's all just in the communal living Everybody's selling stuff and just just just love jesus just worship and wait for jesus coming We don't see that as being a Instruction for the church of jesus christ. This was more of a description of what god did at one moment It wasn't forced by the government. It wasn't forced by apostles It was just led by the lord in their hearts helping the needs of other believers But it was not a standard for a church Amen Now in the conclusion, I want you to open with me first timothy chapter 6 and verse 17 I want you to see what paul teaches to people who are rich now when I read this when I used to read this I'm like, yeah, it's talking about the guy that drives a bmw But when it comes to the rich rich is such a It's such an interesting definition because to everyone who lives outside of america you guys are rich You will never feel like you are rich Just go outside of united states and you will feel that you are not poor Most of you and I have a house for a car called garage That's already rich The bible says commend those who are rich. I want you to notice what it does not say it does not say Commend those who are rich your bunch of sinners Because you are rich wealth is wicked get rid of all of your money Because a camel cannot get through the eye of the needle and you're not going to heaven Because you are rich the bible says if you're rich, don't be arrogant Trust not in your riches, but in living god Who gives you richly? I love this all things to enjoy. There's no guilt in enjoying the blessings god has given you And we as christians should not covet somebody Who works hard Makes money and maybe enjoys certain things like ah, they must be so greedy And you must be so covetous The bible says let them enjoy all things That are from god as long as they glorify god. They're not taking trust in their money They're not in love with their money And they enjoy the things that god provides for them. It's not sinful and then the bible says Let them do good That they may be rich in good works Ready to give willing to share Storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come That they may lay hold of eternal life. I love this part because the lord is telling us If you are rich meaning you have more than enough Don't take your trust in your money trust in god Don't walk around thinking you're better than other people because you're more successful But because it is god who gives you power to get wealth Give god the credit and then it says this Don't just be rich in your stock portfolio We're rich in good works Be known to be the person who helps those who are less fortunate Share in all things that means if you are able And you see the need of somebody else in the church in your company In your neighborhood you help them Like we have few families that will be moving to tri-cities in next few months That will play a very important role at hungry gens mission and vision here And they will be brand new in the united states Quite few of us are pulling resources together and finances to help them some with cars some with furniture and other things Why are we doing that? Not because the state commanded us Not because the church commanded us but because when we have more than enough the holy spirit moves our hearts To help those who have needs And it's something that is done not by force Otherwise, how can we be cheerful givers if we would put a gun to her head? The bible says god loves a cheerful giver You know, we were just on the vacation in mexico with my wife And you know, they have the policy in the hotel where every transaction It was not an all-inclusive hotel. So every place that we ate we took coffee. They right away deducted 15 tip I didn't feel cheerful about it I didn't want to give anything extra above that. Honestly, it stole my opportunity To be generous It was forced on me and I said man, how awesome would it be if they would have given me the opportunity? I would have given 30 percent 25 percent and I would have taken cheer in that because god loves a cheerful giver You can't be a cheerful giver if you're forced But when you're given an opportunity to help the poor when you're given the opportunity to help the building fund Instead of somebody coming in and saying you are forced to help our building fund But when you have the opportunity you find joy you have ownership and that's biblical generosity You are given the opportunity to help the poor and the spirit leads us from here Not the government leads us from over there And I understand the government thinks that oh, but people won't be Generous no they won't unless they have a change of heart But the government can't change our heart Only god can change our heart Can somebody say amen in the conclusion god is not a robin robin hood When he takes from the rich to give it to the poor God changes the hearts of the rich to bless the poor God moves on the hearts of the middle class the wealthy and others to elevate the needs of other people That's what god is In the conclusion government is not our god We are to practice civil disobedience when the government goes against god We're not rebellious, but we're also not blind and government is not our god Our god sits on the throne our god is not our governor or our government Number two is people are not good We progress externally, but we regress internally Number three wealth is not wicked How you get the money how you spend the money and how view the money can be sinful, but money in itself is not Number four charity should not be forced. We are encouraged to help the poor But we don't shift that duty on our government Number five socialism fails to deliver on its promises Even the gift of eternal life came at the cost of god's son. Nothing is free And number six Revolution is not a solution for us because god commands us to repent If you are here in this room today And maybe you're coming for the first time or you've been coming for some time I'm gonna tell you the truth that you probably would not like to hear Is god says That you are a bad person I know your wife already probably told you that Your parents maybe told you that And when you messed up your own heart Told you that God doesn't only tell that you're a good person bad person But god says for all the bad that you've done You will face The scripture says the wages of sin is death It's not a comfortable truth But you have to listen to to this because if you don't embrace this you miss the whole point of christianity God is not just a good Father in heaven. He is a just judge A judge who doesn't punish a criminal is not just And he's not good The only time you want a judge who dismisses crime is when you're the criminal But when you were sinned against you want a judge that's just and good If you ever lied you're a liar If you ever stole you're a thief If you ever looked at a woman with adultery the bible says you're an adulterer at heart But your own admission you're lying adulterous thief Which means if god is just and as the bible says is you will be judged And you'll receive Eternal separation from him not comfortable truth. I know but you wouldn't want god any other than that You wouldn't want god soft on crime You wouldn't want god soft on sin And this god knowing that you're corrupt. I am corrupt on the inside He sends his son jesus christ to die on the cross to take all of my sin Everything I deserved all of my evil and he dies on that cross He pays the penalty so that now god can forgive me for my sin Accept me into his life into his kingdom and most importantly give me a brand new heart something socialism Communism and the government cannot give religion cannot give you that peace with god and new heart And this god once he gives you the new heart it becomes natural for you to want to do good You won't be perfect, but you will be new And you will have forgiveness of your sins And that is what christ offers There is no utopia on earth heaven on earth Without the forgiveness of your sins first and you being reconciled to god first and one day jesus will come And he will make everything right One day jesus will be the supreme ruler on this earth and there will be no more tears There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow. There will be no more curse There will be no more abuse. There will be no more evil. But until that day he establishes his kingdom in our hearts Thanks for watching to this sermon If this was a blessing to you, would you let me know in the comments below What stood out to you from this message? What are you taking home with you from this message? Also, if you enjoyed these messages, would you help us and hit thumbs up to this video and subscribe to our channel So you can get new videos every single week Delivered to you on your youtube app if you go to hungry gen.com forward slash sermons You'll actually be able to download the transcript the notes and the quotes of This sermon and the rest of all of our sermons free of charge until next time