 Well you guys it is an honor to be here and I think that what's brought David and I together is what we'll talk about this afternoon is a war. You know Miles was talking about these chemicals that go on in our bodies that either bond us or confuse us or unite us and one of the things that we were talking about even backstage after Miles' message was the fact that there is an interesting bonding that takes place with soldiers that same chemical that Miles was talking about when you're bonding with your wife and becoming one there's an interesting addition to that excellent message he gave that when men go into battle together and fight together that same chemical is released in the mind of warriors. Isn't that interesting? You and I as a spectator would never entertain the fact that if something should happen would we run into battle as one man. Remember in the book of Nehemiah the scripture says that God brought the people together as though they were one man and what's awesome about what's going on in our world around us is that Pastor David and I have been united because we're at war men. There is a spiritual battle that has manifested itself every single moment of the day in the physical world in which you and I live in and I want to talk about what I believe as Christians that inside of you is not only the Holy Spirit but I believe that God would speak to us today about the Holy Spirit causing you calling you to engage in the war now listen don't don't get upset with me wouldn't I tell you this right now I have a burden in my heart and it's been there for about 10 years now I meet with a National Council in Washington DC the the center of satanic power and we would all agree from out of that location there's there's lunatic things that go on we would all agree and as Christians our politic right is in heaven our citizenship is in heaven but the truth is I live here now how many of you have kids raise your hands how many of you have grandkids raise your hands listen you and I are getting older and we're going to be checking out soon and we're going to be seeing God and that's okay with us the bummer is just when I was willing to rest in that my daughters went and had babies and when you hold your grandchild in your arms it changes quite frankly it messes up everything because I was about ready to retire into the arms of Jesus and now I'm fighting a fight in your fight in the fight that is for our grandkids because listen you and I believe Jesus could come back at any moment I live for that but because that's true because I believe Jesus could come back at any moment I'm fighting today does that make sense you said well why don't you just go sit on top the roof and wait for Christ to return well what if he doesn't return for a week there's still lunatics in power making decisions that will affect our kids so how does this time in which you and I live in and I love this theme I love the challenge and do this I don't need to read it to you but I'm gonna in Romans chapter 13 11 to 14 you've already heard about it but I want to stress this listen three words and do this and do this men are we doing it are we really doing it that's the challenge when I meet with this National Council what is the motive listen to this a few days ago we had several senators and congressmen come in to our meeting of 500 pastors from across the nation what could a senator or a congressman tell pastors nothing unless they were born again senators and congressmen who came into our meeting and said men will you please fight this is a very convicting moment for a politician to look to pastors and say will you fight against abortion and will you fight for marriage and will you fight for your culture will you fight it's a sad day in America when politicians challenge pastors to get into the fight and I was convicted and so I want to bring some things your attention I would ask you because didn't Miles use the title of his message X men doesn't it come out of a movie theme or a movie well then mine's called fight club I want you to write that down fight club number one regarding our fight gentlemen and I believe that you are sitting in a church and I know many of you attend churches where Christianity is not a spectator faith there's no such thing as spectatorship Christianity so Jesus commented on that in Matthew chapter 5 verse 13 in fact it's staring at me over here to the left on the wall awesome to see Jesus said in Matthew 5 13 you are the salt of the earth but if the salt loses its flavor how shall it be seasoned it's impossible by the way it is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and to be trampled under the foot of men you are the light of the world the city that is set on the hill cannot be hidden nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lamp stand that it might give light to all those who are in the house let your light so shine before men that's a commandment gentlemen by the way before I finish this verse get ready to raise your hand that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven how many of you men in this room don't lie you're in church how many of you men in this room right now are Christians raise your hands put your hands down from this moment forward you have heard one message today after another quite frankly I was sitting right back there for the last two messages and this is my conclusion you don't need to hear another sermon I was thinking back there I'm so responsible for what I heard John say I'm so responsible for what I heard Miles say I'm so responsible for what I heard David say or Pastor Chuck we are so responsible for what we've heard there's no escaping we just testified a moment ago that we're Christians and that we are men listen in our culture Satan hates your guts that's why Hollywood cranks out commercials for example if you noticed watch commercials these days you and I as men collectively we are such idiots we don't even know how to buy a car have you noticed that in commercials we have to ask our wife what car we should buy if you notice that we don't know how to fix a computer we've got to ask our 13 year old on these commercials have you noticed that all these portrayals of husbands and men are a bunch of dopes who don't know anything you know what that tells me something that our culture is scared to death of men becoming and acting like Christians they're terrified that a man would stand up and rise up and be somebody in our culture that would be worth following chief Pruitt Miles Pruitt I know him personally he's the real deal he didn't come out here a moment ago and talk to you about something that he doesn't practice it's the real deal I love that and God is challenging you and I to be the salt and the light to our culture now that verse that we read a moment ago that sounds sweet that's something that our little kids learn in Sunday school this little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine and we pat our kids on the head and say that's cute that's cute wait a minute you understand that all of us who raised our hands a moment ago if we do this our homes will change our children will change our wives will change our street will change our city will change our culture will change don't get me wrong these things will change but Christian we are to do these things do it and do this with the constant awareness of Christ coming back at any moment think about it I don't know about you listen is this world nuts you think it's nuts do you know I know people you know people who thinks they think it's awesome do you know some of those people they think it's fantastic this is wrong you and I you and I see something we go man that's wrong this is crazy teach a little kids five-year-old LA County School District how to put condoms on that's sick you know what there's people walking around very happy about this we're at war guys and the more we are quiet the more that we are silent the more that we do not shine the light guess what darkness is advancing it's everywhere but you know what you know it's so cool about the side that you're on when you stand up and when you begin to lovingly truthfully but can I say this word can I say it I know I'm going to be misunderstood but hear me out the original word for tolerance is not surrender the original word for tolerance is to hold your ground respect what others have their views on even if they're wrong you can respect them but you don't surrender gentlemen you don't surrender oh you Christians are so intolerant listen we are the most tolerant people Christians are the most tolerant people I had somebody tell me in a debate regarding homosexuality that I was intolerant because I disagreed with them and I said listen someday you're gonna need me because I am not what you think I am if you as a homosexual fall down and cut yourself I'm gonna pick you up and give you a bandage and get you to the hospital as a Christian though you and I disagree I love you listen if Islam has its way there will be no homosexuality in America because if you know anything about Islamic countries they kill homosexuals or whatever the situation might be if we don't shine our light the love of God the grace of God and the truth as John was saying the gospel if we give people the gospel the unadulterated gospel the pure gospel guys we need to know how to give it by the way in shining that light given the gospel listen don't do this if you talk to somebody and you think you're witnessing you know what that looks like when you think you're witnessing hey hi how are you I see you have a cross around your neck yeah I have a cross do you believe in God yeah I do oh that's awesome and then you tell people you met a Christian you have no idea what you just met you don't know what that person God who right well there weren't a cross the cross is the biggest selling piece of jewelry on the planet did you know that what God who do you believe in you believe in God what God asked them and what do they think about the Lord Jesus Christ a lot of people believe in God listen be able to share the gospel everywhere you go it doesn't mean you have to be a big mouth you have to be loud about it or rude about it here's what you do need to do Lord Jesus I'm going to work today or I'm going out on the field today or I'm going to the site today I'm asking you Lord to provide for me the opportunity and when it happens let me know it guys I almost said ladies and gentlemen that wouldn't gotten over well today men men men trust God enough will you I want to leave this mandate before we press into the next thing you it isn't coming upon you and I to say Lord where am I to not shine the light you guys know the answer to that right where am I not to shine the light of the gospel exactly everywhere there is no place off watch no place off limits when it comes to the gospel and living for Jesus Christ again I'm not talking about grabbing your desk jumping on top in your cubicle and preaching don't do that I'm talking about living a life of reality for Jesus guys listen a lot was mentioned earlier and I want to make sure I say it now because I'm over 55 and I'll forget in a few minutes guys a lot was said about pornography let me let me tell you something really quick I was never a drug addict before I accepted Christ I wasn't in a gang I I didn't drink as a non-Christian two things I love to do I didn't believe in God I didn't know who God was but it was very obvious to me that women were amazingly wonderfully designed and that was my problem from a very early age pornography and then living it out until the day I met Jesus and the other thing was violence fighting love to fight and I love to have sex and that's how I was until Jesus got a hold of me at the age of 19 I'm sure I would never have survived my lifestyle but I want to tell you something right now guys that I pray and I'm gonna bite my lips I don't cry about it because I'm in front of a bunch of men I would do anything today to convince you that the greatest robbery that's taking place today is in the privacy of not only your own home but on your own personal device the greatest robbery is Satan like you may be saved and you may be going going to heaven but Satan now wants you bound and and wrapped up in your ancient grave cloths like Lazarus remember Jesus said somebody let him go in that wild Jesus calls Lazarus forth from the dead and then says somebody unwind him and many of you guys you have eternal life in you but you're bound and I want to tell you something right now I lived that life that you may be dabbling in and Jesus came and saved me and let me tell you something right now if I were to click again I'd still be going to heaven but gentlemen by God's grace I have not and I will not do it and here's the reason why are you listening that you would fall in love more with what God wants to do in your life then a five minute click Satan will always knock on the door of your heart and mind and say just click right here your wife's not giving it to you enough or whatever that's not happening just click right here guys what you want to be able to do is be presenting yourself before the Lord being used by God that when that moment comes you say no way five minute click like Samson to get my haircut and lose all power no way no way oh come on pastor you I mean I'd still be saved you know what you'd be saved but you'd be neutered in the power God rescinds his power I want God to use you men think of our community think of our state our county if we presented ourselves today as many of you did earlier with miles and you said that's it I'm going to live for God I'm going to do this for the Lord and fall in love with one minute of his hand upon your back you know I'm going to tell you something about pastor David he and I we've never talked about this we don't have to it's shared among those who labor in the word and I'll be doing it tomorrow he'll be doing it tomorrow and it's this I pray I lust for what I'm about to tell you I lust for it you come out to the podium doesn't matter what service it is it happens every service and you start and you're praying and you may be reading the verse you may be teaching the word but you're you're saying Lord show up please God in your power be present Lord let me know that you're here and the moment that happens guys I don't know how listen it sounds kind of but I'm telling you right now I can I can sense a hand upon the middle of my back and it's God saying go at our pulpit beneath my feet engraved in bronze it says if you have prayed yourself ready then let yourself go and then that moment God wants to do that in your life guys he wants to do it in your life don't think for a moment well you know what that's that's great for you but I'll never have that don't do that that's a lie from hell let your light so shine God wants to use you gentlemen all that you need to do today is what began earlier when you presented yourself regarding purity by the end of this message today I'm gonna do something to you that Mike Macintosh did to me 30 probably 30 years ago I was just one in a crowd but he gave a challenge and so Jesus is saying if we're gonna be in this fight club of faith believing that he could come at any second but until he does come we're gonna make our lives matter for the kingdom of God the next thing is this there's no greater challenge there is no greater effect letting your light shine and there's no greater challenge Joshua chapter 24 verse 15 you know it Joshua says listen if you want to serve the God of your fathers and those pagan gods then go do it if you want to serve the Baals and the astros of your fathers pagan religions then go do it but what did Joshua say as for me in my house we will serve the Lord gentlemen as for you in your house you will decide to serve the Lord nobody can do this for you miles can't do it for you pastor David can't do it for you I can't do it for you you've got to decide every day you're gonna have to decide and there's no greater challenge than to get up tomorrow morning I hesitate because I'm thinking well this day is halfway through I that's a it's not too late to even say it now dear God fill me with your Holy Spirit before my feet hit my floor in my room give me the power to live for you and by the end of this message we're gonna ask for the power of God choose today whom you'll serve gosh I loved what Miles was teaching about isn't it so true I've been married 34 years I've been with one woman for 34 years but isn't it amazing gentlemen that those of us who we before we came to Christ so to that physical world isn't it amazing that if you relax your mind right now for one second you see the past though it's 35 plus 37 plus years ago in my Christian experience in my life isn't it bizarre that what Miles was talking about memory embossed or or kept in a bank as it were you can see things and technic color in an instant isn't amazing how come you can't remember verses like that from 37 years ago how come how come you can't remember when your dad said great job son no we remember all the minutiae of this world why because you are a spiritually created being God made you in his own image not angels think of that you and you battle with your conscience because there's an ancient effervescent as it were there's a distant ember still burning maybe you're here today and you're not even a Christian but you know this something about conscience what does this come from if you're an evolutionary byproduct and you should not have a conscience and by the way if evolution is true then we can get to do whatever we want to do and then it all works out and it's a survival of the fittest and and what's best works out in the end well then why is the world falling apart at the seams people are more broken now than ever before and why is it that no matter what somebody says including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens I mean think about him I mean that guy died recently went straight to hell he denied the existence of God his his theology is better than yours and I right now I mean he knows exactly the truth now it's just a little too late all of these people who say no God doesn't exist maybe you're here today and you're saying nope God can't exist no listen he does exist you don't want him to exist because he has been speaking to you all your life and he's so awesome because he really loves you he's listen this is how much he loves you when you were making out with bubbles in the back of the car and it went a certain way and you thought nobody knew God was there God knows nobody know you say no no no you know she moved on and nobody knows God knows and you know God knows and he loves you listen he loves you so much that he cannot go it's okay Billy Bob you just it's around just turn the other way forget that ever happened he is holy and listen outside of Jesus Christ you are unholy and the Bible says your sin have separated you from God and if you and I were God we would say I'll let him burn as long as I'm going to heaven who cares God's not like us God is hounding you and he won't let you rest he won't let you sleep I love that face Miles McPherson gave about your wife asking you you know where you been or how you doing I'm fine or whatever but that busted look you know what maybe it's not on that face of yours but it's on your heart God sees it every day and he convicts you of sin that's how much he loves you he will not tolerate you're going to hell he won't tolerate it he loves you so much he loves you more than you love you and he he wants you to choose today so I want you to think about that the third and final thing I want to leave with you is this Jesus said in John 15 verse 18 he said if the world hates you you know that it hated me before it hated you Jesus said this guys Jesus said this gentlemen who was the most loving person that the world has ever recorded for us to know who is he who raised the dead who forgave people who were caught in the very act of sins Jesus and Jesus says they're going to hate you because they hated me first have you ever I've been thinking a lot about this the Huffington Post had an article about how hateful I am because I stood up for the defense of marriage and I said that the reason why I'm standing for the defense of marriage is for no political reason it's because God said in Genesis chapter 1 verses 26 7 and 8 that he invented marriage and it's between a male and a female thus I'm a hater I'm homophobic they said and it broke my heart because when I read that article I thought you know what I mean this is not good because what I really really if I'm going to be biblical if I'm going to be biblical I'm going to be hated if you're going to be biblical you're going to be hated but what are we hated for we need to be hated for being like Jesus gentlemen listen if we're not hated by the forces of hell and darkness right now something's wrong look Huffington Post may hate me that's not good enough for me I want hell to hate me listen you want hell to hate you