 Good afternoon, Pastor David. Hey, John. Welcome everybody to a random moment with Pastor David unfiltered and Being a Thursday today. We're going to speak a little bit about Your message coming up on Sunday. We'd like to tease out a little bit on your Sunday's message And you know in light of what has gone on with you over turning of row versus weight We now see there's been a backlash and it seems that this backlash is coming more from Cultural influencers rather than expertise in the field How valid and I guess I can back up this pastor was this going on still in the day of Jesus and How valid is the point of me one person came out and said In the name of Jesus no longer listen to my music. Yeah, as if we listened. I was like in the first place, right? Yeah, that's the kind of that's the kind of thing that we see like with Neil Young and In joining Mitchell, you know, and and all these young people are saying that's my grandfather's music Why would I listen to it anyway, right? I don't get it. We also see like even NBA stars LeBron James, you know And and they experts in law and where they're God-given talent in athletics They're using this platform to really Express themselves and people are responding as golden like they're the experts of the law or experts in the cultural cultural platform, so as you know Paul spoke about that not many wise not many mighty and not many who are noble In first Corinthians speaks a little bit about something like this and pastor What's the reaction to Jesus as it continues to exist as those who identify themselves as? Intellectuals and you know, there's no doubt in my mind that these who are gifted in entertainment Have incredible skills else. They wouldn't become multimillionaires, you know Pretending to be somebody else or something else, so they play a lot of roles and over the years people have Apparently mixed up their roles With who they actually are many of these people that are trying to influence others With their intellectual abilities haven't even finished high school, you know never become advanced in terms of their They're learning they don't have Bachelors, masters, doctorates. They don't they're simply Entertainers and as I will be sharing a bit on on Sunday They're really the modern-day court gestures is what they are the gesture during the time of the middle medieval times And all was the entertainer the storyteller the the one that would you know tell jokes and and speak out against you know cultural and Societal norms and all and he did so because he was given the right to do that by by the Monarch by the king You know and I'll share a little bit about that, but what we have today is We have court gestures who are actually advising the king if you will court gestures who think that their Opinions actually matter and sadly to a group of people they do I I still remember when The commercials that we have on television when commercials began where somebody's saying I am not a doctor I play a doctor and then they go off and share whatever advice they may have about medicine And I remember that when a particular soap opera couple had finally chosen to marry that this Couple was receiving gifts from fans as if they really got married and that kind of shows you how How warped many of us are how imaginary the world actually is for some and so These people think of themselves as cultural influencers that that really didn't exist in my early early years of life It began to exist in the late 60s early 70s and much of it came about when like the Beatles and Various entertainers at that time began to make their political opinions known in their music and in the things they would say from the stage and Before you know it my generation began to Listen to them as if they would know because there were millionaires and they traveled when in fact it was just your opinion and because they were Because they were popular their opinion became the popular opinion, right? And so that's what's happening now. So these musicians and entertainers who have never spent one day In in studying political science or things that relate to the government or the separation of you know The courts from from there from the from congress and from the president all those those things that you're taught in What used to be called civics? They they don't have a clue about any of that and so they're out there making pronouncements on Supreme Court justices who they disagree with because their Ideology is different than that of the judge. They've never been taught anything Concerning the nuances of the law there. They're not even understanding what that actual decision really means I mean It's not this is not necessarily a good thing, but it's not saying The the decision was not saying that that abortion itself was outlawed. It was removing the federal government from from enacting something that wasn't found in the Constitution and it was brought back to the states to make a determination and so you have the State of California state in New York and various other states that aren't going to change at all There's nothing going to be changed here until Until something can happen in our state that that that impacts a statewide and so it's even a misunderstanding Plus you have these people like Cortez Ocasio Cortez Who who you know was tending bar before she became a member of Congress and yet? Here she is spouting off as if she's some kind of expert and all of these very Dim-witted I have to be honest with you opinionated dim-witted people following this person again She's a jester. She is a court jester. She's she's she doesn't she's really you know to be honest and Seeing this is unfiltered She has no she has no No expertise to relates to law. She she doesn't know any of that and so why people listen to people like her It's just it's just part of the days that we're living in John There was a lead singer from a group called Green Day. Yeah, he's in the UK right now Yeah, it doesn't want to come back. Well, well he can stay I mean you want to bash the United States is again like what do you know? What do you know? It's see in ministry. It's interesting I have people who've never read the Bible telling me what I'm supposed to teach I have people who've never given a single Bible study telling me what is missing in my messages You know, I've been teaching the Bible for a long time for 49 years And yet I have people who don't even read it as a hobby don't even remember anything from Sunday school And so they know how the church is supposed to run. I mean they're posting on Facebook Their opinions all the time right you listen to them You respect the fact that they have opinions everybody has the right to express themselves But don't take yourself so seriously as if you matter that much your opinion doesn't you know at the end of the day These these quote-unquote entertainers these actors they should just remember that these people pay money To get a ticket to sit down to listen to them sing a song They didn't pay them so they could be told who to vote for or or what to believe in I mean, that's just the craziness of our society. It really is it and it's and it seems like it's just getting worse It is getting worse. It's supposed to get worse the scripture says that in the last days It'll evil will wax worse and worse and so indeed that's what's happening. I mean, we're living in the last days Why are we surprised right right so we're to keep our eyes looking up? Yeah, do it God called you to do You know vote make your voices heard be willing to stand up and say this is what scripture says and what I believe Don't be worried about being canceled because the only person you ought to be concerned about Jesus said is is the father who? Is able to to send you to hell if you're gonna fear somebody said fear him So just be wise, but I'm not influenced by entertainers They're here to to sing a song or to act a role But you know, they're not here to tell me how to think about life Well, you guys just come check out our Sunday morning message as Pastor David will teach more on this and Invite your friends and family to come on out. That's gonna be on Sunday 8 830 and 1045 and then after a 1045 service after second service You're gonna gather those who want to be baptized and drown them And in the sanctuary and you're gonna give them a diva on what baptism is sure a little bit about that then we're gonna go out there all of us and In baptize we're gonna have we're gonna have a baptism or have music, you know worship We're gonna have you know Food and it's just gonna be like a giant a Jew July 3rd family picnic baptism And it's gonna be a great time And so those you guys never been baptized or maybe been baptized and it's been a while or maybe the first time I didn't count come on out and Be held on I mean get baptized for And what a great demonstration to celebrate to the everybody but real freedom is real freedom is and so again Come on out and join us and thank you guys for tuning in remember also July 10th, which is in a couple of weeks we have our Our Israel meeting informational meeting after second service in the sanctuary come on check it out And if you have any questions, but we do look forward to seeing you on Sunday and God bless you Thank You Pastor David