 Good afternoon Pastor David. Hey John. Welcome everybody to Unfiltered. We're going to do something a little different today as last night in your message, before you taught the study, you were referencing the shooting that took place in Nashville. And you know, it all begins with, it's not gun control, it's none of that. It really begins with the church, the word of God being preached the pulpit. And recently I came across, we came across a video that you can probably understand, well we can never understand what happened, but pulpits have been corrupted. And this is what's spreading throughout the United States. And no wonder we see the fruit of these things take place because of this. And I want the audience to tune in. The video is going to be shown to them in a few moments saying, drag is holy. So what I'd like to do Pastor, before I get your feedback is we would like to take the time, it's a 44 second video. If you can please watch this video. Drag is holy. There has been an assault on the rights of drag performers in this country. And we must call out the hypocrisy and the injustice. Jesus called himself a mother hen longing to gather up her chicks. Gender is a construct, you see. And if Jesus can be a mother hen, then you can dress in drag. I've even heard it said that Jesus was and humanity is God in drag. So let me say this again for those of you in the back. Drag is holy. So we see the video and it's this drag pastor quote unquote referencing Jesus as a mother hen and and just given excuses for this downgraded down plain pulpit pastoral office as a senior pastor. What are your thoughts of this? Well, obviously, this is a corruption of scripture. It most certainly is misunderstanding of the intent of Christ using an illustration to reveal his concern, love and and protective instincts towards I use the word instincts towards the people of Israel. He he's letting them know that he would have he is like the the mother hen who when the hawk is circling above ready to to take one of hers that she is willing to give her life while he's saying even as so it's a metaphor. He most certainly did not make that a picture of him, but rather a picture of his heart as a mother hen. It's the way he puts it. She protects her brood, even so. And so the point he's making has nothing to do with the with the the perversion of of a man dressing as a woman and acting out as if he is a woman. You know, this is really a violation of nature itself. Paul in Romans chapter one speaks of that. He speaks of the corruption of the nature. He says the women women desire the women and men desire the men. He's speaking in terms of them not acting in the natural order in that God created man to be married to a woman so that they might have what is called a sacred or holy matrimony and that they would produce godly children. That's God's intent. And so when man takes the place of God, when man begins to say I am God, even as Lucifer did when he said I shall be as the most high, well man's corrupted human nature has a tendency of it as a propensity of wanting to replace God with with my own desires. And that's why Jesus died on the cross is to save us from these corrupt desires that end up with punishment, end up with judgment. And so when these people are trying to make an perversion into a norm, then obviously it's the undermining and destruction of the family as we know it. And within the first nine chapters of the book of Genesis three building blocks are established. And these are the building blocks that are intended to keep society in order and even to promote its being blessed which is marriage and it is government in the church. And these three things are in the first nine chapters of Genesis and a faith in God and a holy marriage and an orderly government under the authority of God's principles and all. That's what made the United States what it was in its beginning and that the lack of those things, the distortion of those things, the destruction of those things is what is making the craziness that we deal with now. And so it is a demonic spirit even as I was mentioning last night and I speak as a Christian. I speak as a pastor. This is not simply a corruption. This is a demonic movement against the foundations and the principles of humanity as is lived out here in the United States. And so this individual who made that particular, made that message, the individual who did that is actually corrupt and is making this a corrupt message. Right. Yeah. And you know the question that's being asked is drag holy. Of course not. You know God created men with male attributes and the things that a male is to do. We have responsibilities to live out our masculinity and women have been created with certain feminine attributes and the two become one. So we are completed by combining that which a woman brings in and that which a man brings in and then we unite those things and we become a person together. We have a oneness in Christ. We have a oneness that is demonstrated through the union. The two shall become one flesh. Right. And so no man is capable of bringing feminine attributes into a relationship and no woman can bring in, you know, masculine attributes in terms of that which is part of their nature. They look at it. They can mock it. They can act it. They can pretend but they cannot bring that in. They can't bring in those objects of masculinity and femininity because they can only bring in what they are. And the delusion is that you can actually just whatever I think I am, therefore I am. That's where the delusion is because, you know, at one time we saw that for what it is that there is something wrong with the way they're thinking. There's something wrong with how they were raised or what they went through. There's this wrongness in this and that's why Christ said, I can make you a new creation. I can heal those broken things. I have come to heal the broken heart. I can restore those things. I've come to transform you to make you what God intended you to be. And yet these people say no. They, as one of my professors once said, they raise their puny fists into the face of God. And they say we shall be what we want to be. We shall be like God. And that is the root of narcissism. Everything revolves around me. What I want, you have to redefine the way you speak to me. If I command you to call me by certain pronouns, you must do that. If you don't do that, then what you are is a bigot. And this is all nonsense. This is just psychological nonsense. And so the church should not bear with it. We certainly don't need corrupt individuals and pulpits lying in the name of God. And so no, all of this is going into the destruction of the nation that we live in. And the churches need to awaken to this. It isn't love for me to, if you tell me you're a certain whatever, it isn't loving you by allowing you to live in a deluded world. It is love when I care about you enough to tell you the truth and to try and help you to see that your way of thinking is in error. But if I don't bring to you a message that can set you free from bondage, John, I'm only helping you stay in it. And again, as Christians, we must keep our eyes on Jesus, understand what true holiness is, and be in God's Word. And so thankful for a Bible teaching church or if you guys aren't plugged into a Bible teaching church, it's so important because we have these things that are so blatant and people are falling for it. Let me say this and I'll close with this. If you're going to a church that doesn't teach the gospel, doesn't teach through the Word of God, if you're going to a church with a person who thinks that those kinds of things are okay, get out of the church. That is not a church. I don't know what you'd even call it. It's a perversion. Get out of it. Get out of it. I don't care if your father's a pastor there, get out of it because they're taking you in the wrong direction. Get out of it. Well, thank you pastor for that. And it's a sobering reminder that this is so prevalent in our nation today. And so thank you for sharing that. Just a couple of things that we have coming up this week. We have our Sunday morning services Palm Sunday. And you'll be given a message on Palm Sunday. That's going to be at 8.30 and 10.45 this Sunday. Invite your friends and family to come out. And then Wednesday, it's going to be kind of cool because we're going to be demonstrating the Passover Seder. And we have a guest speaker that's going to come and demonstrate that for us. And that's going to be this Wednesday at 7 pm and then Good Friday, Friday at 7 pm as you'll be giving a message on why is Good Friday good and why we call it Good Friday. And then the cornerstone of everything and what we hear John is going to be celebrated on Easter Sunday. Yes. Those times will be a little different. 8.30 and 11 am on Sunday morning. We do have child care. Great opportunity to invite your friends and family to come out and join us. Yeah, special time of worship. It's going to be great. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait. And no Easter bunnies. No no carrots. No Easter eggs. No eggs. Just Jesus. Amen. Amen. And so invite your friends and family. We have a week that's coming up that's going to be super. And so invite your friends and family. Pastor, thank you so much for always sharing the truth with us here on Filtered. I wouldn't encourage you to leave your comments below and anything questions you'd like to ask. We would love to hear from you. So thank you for tuning in. Pastor David, thank you. God bless you guys.