 Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Unfiltered, Pastor David, welcome. Thank you, John. Today, Pastor, this is a question I have based on your Bible study last night as you were talking about authority and government. And one of the things that you're speaking about is the question you'd ask yesterday is, are we being set up by our government, by our media? Along with that, we see that our rights as Christians and Americans, we're losing our rights as Christian Americans. And then it led me to the question I want to ask you is, with this possibly being Christians and Americans being censored, how does that affect Christianity or hinder the gospel from going out? And does that limit the great commission for us to go and evangelize Jesus Christ? There are no doubt efforts being made to censor us. There's no doubt. I mean, even with the recent situation with COVID, you know, where we were told that we were not to assemble and we were also told that you could have only a certain amount if you do. And then we were also told you have to wear masks. And then we were told you can't sing. And there were people who were being kept from their family who were dying. There were funerals that couldn't be held with family members or there were marriages, weddings that were being short circuited because numbers of guests would be limited on and on and on in our schools here in California. And you know, if you oppose the brainwashing that is taking place in many of the secular schools where vulgar books are being read and parents aren't being notified of the child's confusion or verbalizing questions about their own sexuality, et cetera, et cetera. And so when someone stands up and says, this is wrong, you are silenced immediately. And so absolutely, I do believe that what's going on is a precursor to the shutting down of the ability to speak freely, to think freely. Many years ago, C.S. Lewis wrote an essay related to what he called the abolition of man. And in his essay was pointing out that words have meanings and when the words are changed to mean something else, you're actually making the culture tilt towards the new meaning of that word. And so we've seen that when we've seen people who are marching for peace or we're seeing equal rights or matters of choice where the word gay once just meant to be happy, they changed that word. So you're seeing it even as you're growing up in this world. And so some of the terms like love and peace and joy have been invested with different meanings to change the way we think. Tolerance is the 11th commandment now. So yes, we are having our rights very slowly curtailed. Whereas as a grandparent or a parent and you hear your child is being brainwashed with something that you on a religious basis disagree with. And yet you're told to shut up or even take it out in handcuffs because you disagreed. These are the kinds of things that are taking place in the United States. But I was listening to a Muslim apologist just the other day who said, you have in the United States sexualized your children when you're speaking to a four year old and talking to them about masturbation and sexual intercourse and anal intercourse. He says you are perverse as a nation and we in the Muslim world would never put up with that. And I saw that as unfortunate truth that is true because you have people who are silencing our voices. And so when something occurs in a school board meeting and and people are rising up saying this is not what we want for it. We do pay taxes. I I still pay taxes for the educational system. I don't have children in it anymore. My children are all grown up. They have their own children. And yet I'm still paying my taxes so that the government can brainwash my children. So my grandchildren. So yes, I believe that there is a movement to silence Christians and that it is not that far off, John, until there are new stringent laws related to what we can say from the pulpit. I don't know if you realize this or know this, but in Canada you can't speak against homosexuality from the pulpit. They will take your your your your lecture, your your sermon, discard it, and you can be fined for violating the law. That that can happen here. People think it can't and it is slowly, but surely it's all moving towards and we talked about this before a one world government and that it's slowly taken a right. So as Christians, what are we to do? We stand up and speak. I mean, when they when the apostles were told no longer preaching this man's name, they said it is better for us to to obey God rather than man. Amen. At the end of the day, this is why we were saved is to declare the praises of God to a society that needs to hear it. So we just continue speaking. Amen. Well, thank you, Pastor David. And you know, your message last night really stirred these things up. And if you didn't see Pastor David's message, you can go on our Facebook page at Calvary Chapel Chino Valley and our YouTube page and catch last night's message. Do you want to invite you to our Sunday morning services at 830 and 1045? Great opportunity to invite a friend. You'll be in Acts chapter 11. Is it Acts chapter? Yeah, you got me off guard on that one. Acts 11. Yes. And so great opportunity to invite your friends. And then for those who are in worship, we have our worship conference starting today. You can actually still register online if you'd like to register and it's going to be until Saturday. You can register through our webpage or CCA worship. You can look that up and you can register there. But thank you guys for tuning in. God bless you. Pastor David, thank you so much. We'll see you.