 Good afternoon Pastor David. Hi John. Welcome church family to a random moment with Pastor David unfiltered As we discussed pastor and church family on Tuesdays. We we discussed current events that are going on that In the grand scheme of things affects us as Christians in and on Thursdays we focus more on on Biblical principles leadership things and so today pastor I wanted to ask about the condition of our nation or actually the condition of our administration You can see that there's this trickle-down effect that our The condition of our administration affects the condition of our nation our nation Which then affects the condition of our state which then it can It then it affects the condition of the church Does it affect the condition of the people itself? And if so, how do we? Kind of get away from that And what would you say the condition of all these steps that I just mentioned would be that's a whole lot You're asking a whole lot What is the condition of the nation? I think it's a better condition in terms of I Think I'll say it this way. I think we have a lot more hope Then then Then some of us may perhaps And I'm trying to find the right words We have more hope than it appears The fact that that many people seem to be waking up to the direction this nation is going and Rejecting that direction is actually a sign of health to me. It's a sign of hope because You can assume based on the major news outlets That everybody is lining up behind the direction that the administration the present administration Is taking us you can assume that we're just all just in lockstep Going in the same negative direction that many of us see and so you can lose lose hope in that but the fact is is Many polls that have been taken recently and over the course of this last year have shown that The popularity of such ideas that at first we're hidden and now are exposed Are being rejected and so I see that as a positive. I mean I want my nation to succeed I want our nation to prosper. I want our government officials to Lead us in the right direction do the things that are best for for the citizens and it matters not in terms of whether it's this but This political party doing it or that political party if it's good for the nation, then that's something we want John, but unfortunately We haven't seen that to be the course of action and As a result we see the things we're going through The scripture tells us that when the righteous are in authority the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule the people groan and I I believe that we're seeing Wickedness in many many ways being exposed. I just have to say it that way as a pastor I see things in terms of what is wicked and what is righteous And it's not black and white always, but there are categories, right? So when I see things going in a direction that are quite obviously In opposition to what scripture would teach concerning what is right Well, obviously after a while you see such a pattern you begin to realize that the direction is taking us in In in in the path of the unrighteous, right? so because of that I I see these things and then you begin to wonder You know, how can these things change the one who controls the airwaves controls the thoughts and so if you keep getting the propaganda constantly Eventually you begin to think everybody thinks this way when in fact not everybody does It's just the ones they select to interview or give opinion that do So do I think that this nation is going in the right direction? No, not not from an administrative direction. I don't understand for example the fascination with bringing troops to Ukraine and to help them to guard the sovereignty of their borders When in fact we have a porous border here on our south and over 1.7 million Have crossed over without the proper papers and and are being you know, shipped into different cities in different states and And we don't seem to be aware of that where you you can't go to a restaurant without a mask You know, but we have people coming in flooding who are Not being vetted in any way shape or form and those are things that we ought to care about and it has nothing to do with Racism and has nothing to do with the nonsense that we're constantly Being told that it has everything to do with the welfare of the American people and I'm in favor of course who isn't having Immigrants enter into this country, of course we are You know, but at the same time John You know to say oh, I can I'm concerned for Ukraine and their sovereignty When the person who's in charge of the southern border doesn't even go to check out what's going on and is on their way to South America To find the root cause this is nonsense, and I'm sorry for those who may be offended by that I'm sorry you're offended, but that's a fact and it's not doing us any good at all So what do I think in terms of the direction of this country the direction of the country? Prayerfully will change within a year. I Do believe that that there is a sense in American people The independent voters and all even Democrats are saying this is just not the right direction for this Country to be paying this kind of money for for gasoline when we gave the We gave Russia, you know a green light for them to build a pipeline But we shut ours down and increase the cost of of gasoline here in California To almost double what we were paying just last year when we do things like that when we when we have You know wear a mask and wear two masks But but all along the doctors are saying and those who are health officials are saying But but the mask that you wear the cloth masks do absolutely no good And then we discovered that the new strain is you know a new variant is Just one of many that will come after that and and so many people who've had two and three shots or even more Are still coming down with the virus and so I think people are waking up finally, you know We've done our very best to to follow the proper rules and concern for our people and all John but at the same time, you know sanity seems to Finally be rearing her head and people are finally saying, you know, this this is just Manipulation and control. This isn't concerned for us. We see our government officials in in high-dollar restaurants and In going to getting their hair done or whatever we see all of this and but we're told don't let your child go to school and Without a mask, they won't get in and it's just controlling the population and people are becoming aware of it And you know that goes back to my initial question when we see the condition of our administration You know there can be a this trickle-down effect all the way to the individual but as you mentioned I'm starting to see that there's this shift now going on where It's being exposed in a lot of ways. Well, it is exposed, you know if people have eyes to see they'll see it You know when you go someplace and somebody's got a mask on walking By themselves in a park It kind of shows you how deeply the the mind control has gone You know and in this county you go to a a coffee shop and they'll say wear a mask and you enter in and nobody's wearing them Because they know this is just not effective. So I think people are waking up John Well pastor, thank you so much for your time in my opinion for your Thank you for that and and again It's it's a it's a great time for us to continue to keep looking up just keep looking up because our redemption draws near and And you know with all this you guys I want I do want to encourage you to come to church You know we have our services a Wednesday evenings at 7 Pastors taking us through the book of Ephesians and then on on Sunday mornings Pastor you're taking us through the book of Mark Yeah, and that's at 8 30 and 10 45 and you know in this all of this going on The one place that we can find peace and hope is at church, you know, and it's in Christ word Yeah, it's in Christ the place we find our peace and hope is in Christ and it's shared in community They ought to be with us and are there on church And so we invite you guys to come on out and bring your friends and family Also, man, we have our men's Super Bowl breakfast coming up in a couple of weeks on February 5th Still have time to get your tickets at 8 30 you can actually go to the gazebo or Stop by the front office or actually go online and you can pick up your tickets. It's a great time We're gonna have with the men. We're gonna have two or more as our guest worship And so I look forward and and again you guys. Thank you for tuning in pastor. Thank you so much and God bless