Nov. 4, 2024

Election Day and Christianity

Election Day and Christianity

Tomorrow is Election Day, I just want It to be over

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Tomorrow is Election Day, I just want It to be over

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective.

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This is the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central.

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It's almost over, ladies and gentlemen, we're all most there.

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Are you excited that it's almost over? I don't know

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about you.

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I cannot wait until it's over, Until we are done

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with this insanity, this madness. I want it to be

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I never want to hear vote ever again. I don't

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want to hear vote. Are you going to vote?

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You should vote.

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I don't want to hear anything about presidential campaigns. I

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don't want to hear about election promises. I don't want

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to hear about campaign rallies, don't I don't want to

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hear any I want it to be over, ladies and gentlemen.

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And we are so very close now. My fear is

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I want it to be over tomorrow evening.

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And my fear is.

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This is not going to be over, and this is

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going to just drag on and and we're going to

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be and we're going to be an everlasting purgatory. And

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I want someone to get me out of purgatory. What

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am I talking about? Well, yeah, I mean I think

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you can kind of tell what I'm talking about. But

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I'll try to make it more clear right after this.

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Good afternoon everyone. It is Monday, November the fourth, twenty

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twenty four. It is currently one twenty eight pm Central time,

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and I am coming to you live from the Theology

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Central Studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Well, it

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is almost election day here in the United States of America.

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And you can tell, like you can tell right now

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if you'll grab the sermon's two point oh app. If

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you'll grab the sermon's two point oh app let me

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open it up right here. If you open it up

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and you look under I think the discover tab. If

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you look under the discover tab and you scroll down,

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you'll see a section that says trending the trending hashtags.

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Do you know what the trending hashtags are?

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Right now?

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In the sermons two point oh app Whenever a if

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you don't understand, whenever a church speaker, podcaster, broadcaster, whenever

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you get ready to upload your messages, you put little

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hashtags right It helps with searching, helping with putting things

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in category.

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And right now, those hashtags that.

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Are trending Number one America, Okay, I think you probably

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know why. Number two vote the number two hashtag on

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the sermons two point oh app That means these are

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sermons that are going to be telling you, well, probably

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to vote. I don't know what they're going to say.

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There was a part of me that says, you know

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what I'm going to do, I'm just gonna grab this

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and I'm just going to start reviewing sermons. We'll just

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start reviewing. We'll go we'll go on a five hour

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marathon of just reviewing sermons. We'll review one, kind of

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get the basic idea, go to another one, and we'll

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see what the churches are out there saying in regard

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to voting, or why they create why they put the

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hashtag vote in their sermon metadata and their sermon description information.

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Why did they connect this to the idea of vote. Well,

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because the election is about to be.

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Here, and let's just say many Christians are very outspoken,

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in fact, not just outspoken.

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They're basically telling you that if you are a Christian,

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you will vote, and if you are a Christian.

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You will vote for Donald Trump. And if you don't

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vote for Donald Trump, then you're not a Christian and you're.

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Basically going to go to hell.

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All right, that's basically how some Christians are approaching this

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subject and that already there is just maddening to me

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on so many levels. And don't think that I'm just

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like you know, oh, you're just making that up. Look,

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there's lots of information out here about this the situation,

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several and I'm reading now from different sources. Several prominent

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pastors and Bible teachers have express strong opinions regarding Christian's

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support for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. While some

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have suggested that voting for Trump is a moral imperative

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for Christians, some have explicit Some have even explicitly stated

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that failing to do so disqualifies one from being a Christian.

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There are some who've said that if you don't vote

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for Donald Trump, it disqualifies you from being a Christian,

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meaning you're gonna die and go to Hell. So I

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guess salvation is now whoever believes and the Lord Jesus

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Christ will be saved. Oh no, no, whoever believes in

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the Lord Jesus Christ and votes for Donald Trump will

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be saved. Which is the most ludicrous, ridiculous thing I've

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ever heard in my entire life. Your salvation has zero

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to do with your salvation.

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Your salvation has zero to do with who you vote for.

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It has nothing to do with who you vote for.

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You say, well, no, you're saved by grace alone, through

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faith alone. But you're truly saved, you'll vote this way. No,

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that is not true. Voting is a complex issue with

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many issues at stake, not just one thing.

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You cannot say your salvation is proven by who you

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vote for.

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My salvation is proven by the finished work of Jesus Christ,

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because I'm saved by an imputed righteousness, not an infused righteousness.

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Do I mean, for some weird reason, maybe Christians needs

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to spend more time studying the doctrine of imputed righteousness

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than they do worrying about who they're going to vote for.

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Yeah, you can tell them pretty fired up about this.

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I want this all to be over. I'm so done

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with it. But let's just go through some of these Christians.

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Doctor Albert Mohler al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Semit,

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I think it's Almler, Is it Albert Muller?

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I think it's Almueller.

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Has argued that voting for Democrats make Christians unfaithful to God. Hey,

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You're unfaithful to God if you vote for a Democrat,

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but your soul faithful if you vote for Donald Trump,

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who cares what Donald Trump says?

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Who cares what Donald Trump does?

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You're just unfaithful of you if you if you vote

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opposite of him, Like, how are you out of your

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ever living mind? Franklin Graham has endorsed Trump, stating that

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God spared his life following an assassination attempt and applying

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divine favor. So this is the idea because because this happened, well,

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then that's divine favor God. Well, so so if some

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didn't they try to assassinate Hitler didn't that didn't that

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assassination plan fail, So then that means that was divine

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favor upon Hitler.

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Like, if you go with that logic, that's just ludicrous.

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Just because an assassination attempt is successful or not successful,

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you're now going to determine whether that's divine face. Just

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stop it, Christians, just stop talking.

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That's what we need to do, including me, right, we

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all just need to give up. PAULA.

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White, who's serving as Trump's spiritual has been a vocal supporter,

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leading his National Faith Advisory Board and suggesting that Trump's

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leadership aligns with Christian values. James Dobson, founder of Focus

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on the Family, has supported Trump, describing him as a

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baby Christian and advising him during his first term.

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While these leaders.

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Advocate for Trump, the assertion that not voting for him

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disqualifies one from being a Christian is not universally held.

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Will praise God for that. The relationship between faith and

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politics is complex, and many Christian leaders emphasize individual conscience

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and discernment in voting decisions, but there's even some more prominent.

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Pastor John MacArthur and Pastor Mark Driscoll have made statements

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suggesting that a Christian's voting choice are closely tied to

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their faith and biblical principles, and twenty twenty, MacArthur stated

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that any real true believer is going to be on

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your side in this election, referring to then President Donald Trump.

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I mean, that's that's just what Any true Christian is

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going to be on Donald Trump's side. Any true Christian, Well,

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then I guess I'm not a true Christian. Okay, go

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ahead and throw me out of the Kingdom of God,

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throw me into hell, because I don't agree with your

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crazy political stance. Mark Driscoll has expressed strong opinions on

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political matters, and then it go basically saying some of

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the exact same things. And I could pull up all

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the things. I think there was an article on a

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I would have to look on which website it was.

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Were the Roys Report, Christian Post, you can find it

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where Mark Driscoll basically saying the same thing. Basically, you're

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not a Christian if you vote for Democrats.

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Now, I.

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Look, I want this whole thing to be over. I

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want this whole thing to be done. I am so

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tired of it all. I just want it to be over,

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ladies and gentlemen. I just want it to be over.

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I I and I'm more concerned about it.

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Now. Listen to me.

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I've tried to articulate this, and I don't think it's

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ever I don't. For some weird reason, it doesn't. It

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can't register in the brains of some people. But look,

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I've stated, if I look at this from a purely

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philological perspective, forget everything else, forget America, forget anything. Just

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from a pilological perspective of what is best for the church.

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The church has been so infiltrated by political ideology. The

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church has been so hijacked by politics that the best

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thing that could happen to the church from a purely

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philological perspective, is that twenty four hours after election day,

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the church in America wakes up and looks around and

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go what happened? Because every single Republican from city council,

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mayor governor, senator, congressman, president, every level of government, there's

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not a Republican left.

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They've all been voted out of office. There's no one left.

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They look around, the entire country is now controlled by Democrats.

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That would be the best thing that has ever happened

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to Christianity in the history of America, because Christians would

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wake up and go, well, what are.

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We going to do? Where are we going to turn?

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What is our hope?

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And then someone can lift up a Bible and go

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maybe we get back to this. Maybe we get back

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to scripture. Maybe we get back to prayer. Maybe we

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get back to fasting, Maybe we get back to preaching.

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Maybe we get back to evangelism and fasting. Maybe we

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get back to being Christians. Maybe we get back to

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living out our Christian life in the midst of the culture,

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whether the culture is for us or against us. Maybe

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we maybe we realize we're not of this world. Maybe

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we realize we're just pilgrims and strangers, strangers just passing through.

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Maybe we look we stop looking to the hills for

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our help and we start looking to God. Maybe we

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stop trusting in chariots and horses and we trust in God.

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Maybe maybe the best thing that could happen is that.

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Everything we've sold our soul to for political power and

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to try to accomplish our means through political force, we

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lose at all, and you wake up and you got nothing,

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you got.

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Zero, You get nowhere to turn.

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You've got no political allies, no one on your side

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except God. From a purely philological perspective, the best thing

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to happen to the church is that the church loses

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everything except God. On one hand, that would be great.

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I know nobody likes that and nobody but the church

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has been so politically hijacked and politically corrupted. That's the

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only way to get what we need is something. But

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that's not going to happen.

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Obviously, Republicans are going to win. I don't know how.

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I don't know who's going to win, but there's going

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to be a Republican's winning, and then whatever happens, there's gonna.

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Be just a double down effort.

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Oh, we've got to fight for the next election, or

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they'll be yelling and screaming the election was stolen, no

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matter how many times it's disproven it was stolen because

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Christians just traffic and conspiracy theories because we don't care

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about truth.

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Because why don't we care about truth?

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Because we care about politics and we've abandoned truth, all right,

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So we can go through all of that.

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So that's not going to happen, which is unfortunate.

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I think what my fear is is, twenty four hours

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after election day, I think the church is only going

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to just double down, become more politically hijacked, and become

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more politically compromised.

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I think for.

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Those of us who will not bow and kiss the

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ring of Trump, who will not waive the Republican flag,

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for those of us who are not going to wrap

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ourself in the American flag and and want patriotism and

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nation and Christian nationalism over biblical theology. For those of

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us who are not going to do that, I just

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have a fear that many many of us are going

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to look around. You're not going to have a church

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to go to. You're going to be an outcast. You're

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going to be considered less than You're going to be

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considered a heretic. You may even be considered an unbeliever

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because you will not follow the Republican Party and you

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will not bow and kiss the ring, which is which

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is very unfortunate. But I think that's where we're headed.

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I want it to all be over, That's what I want.

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But this claim that Christian, that true Christians, that a

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Christian true to Biblical morality and faith must vote for

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Donald Trump or any particular candidate, raises significant theological and

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ethical considerations, and it involves and enters section of Biblical interpretation,

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And political philosophy. I want you to hear that again.

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This claim that a Christian, a true Christian, and if

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you want to be true to Biblical morality and faith,

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you must vote for Donald Trump or any particular candidate,

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raises significant philological and ethical considerations, and it involves an

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intersection of Biblical interpretation, Christian liberty, and political philosophy. And

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let me make it very clear, anytime something involves biblical interpretation.

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it because Christians love to say this is what you

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must do, you must do this, you must do this,

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or you're not really a Christian. Well that's based off

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your interpretation. And look, there's the one thing. If you

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study church history, nobody agrees on how to interpret anything.

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So you can sit there and say your interpretation is

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right and throw me into the fifteenth level of hell

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because I don't agree with your political ideology. But it

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comes down to biblical interpretation and we can't agree on

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how to interpret the Bible. So really, how can anybody

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tell anyone and they're wrong? That gets back to that

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whole never ending, maddening issue. But there's some major issues here.

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Let's look at biblical morality.

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And political allegiance.

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Let's just talk about those two things, biblical morality and

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political allegiance. Well, we're going to talk about many things. Well,

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at least consider this biblical morality and political allegiance. The

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Bible provides moral principles but does not mandate specific political

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candidate or parties. And biblical morality is involves not just

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one thing.

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This is a weird thing.

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Whenever you get into this discussion about politics, well what

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about this and what about this? You're like, you do

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realize Biblical morality involves far more than one or two

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or three issues.

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It's all encompassing.

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For example, biblical morality, would it not emphasize the idea

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of justice, mercy, humility, truth, and a love for others?

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Doesn't it involve all of those things? Wouldn't the Bible

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at least mention those things. Don't we have this verse?

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See uh yeah, Micah chapter six, verse eight. He hath

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shewed thee, oh man, What is good? And what doth

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the Lord require of thee? But to do justly and

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to love mercy.

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Now I understand there's a historical context there and we

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could get into. But that's talking about justice, mercy, and humility.

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Doesn't the Bible mention love for others? Love the Lord

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that God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul.

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And love your neighbor as yourself even and love your enemy.

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those who would persecute you. Doesn't the Bible have lots

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to say? And we just reduce it to one.

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Christians can interpret how these principles might align with different

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political stances. But this doesn't necessarily mean that one candidate

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or party fully embodies these values.

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But see we no, it's just this issue.

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Well then if it's just that issue, then don't talk

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about Christianity or biblical morality.

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But see what you do is you use biblical.

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Morality because you can pick one issue and say, well,

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this party does this on this issue, therefore they're the

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biblical one. But then I could look at another issue

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and say, but this is that political party doesn't follow

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that issue, so they're not biblical. Who gets to decide

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which issue determines who's biblical. Here's a novel idea. None

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of the political parties are biblical, none of them because

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they are operating outside of a biblical worldview.

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I don't care which party you have, I don't care.

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They're not Christianity. They're politics.

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And politicians unless you're going to go with a Christian

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nationalistic idea, are there to represent people of all different

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faiths and ideologies. See what some people wants, We want

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a dictator that says everyone will this way. But don't

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you want a country where there's freedom of ideas and perspectives,

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and so you can't just force one thing on everybody

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unless you want some kind of dictatorship. We do not

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live under a theocratic monarchy, nor do I want to.

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I don't want to live under a dictator. You want

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someone who will represent all Americans from a political standpoint,

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from a thiological Christian standpoint, we can say this is right,

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this is wrong, this is what the Lord says, repent

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of that follow Jesus Christ. That if you want to

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change people's behavior, you preach Christ and tell them to

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change their behavior because they're following Christ, not because you're

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going to force them to do so by.

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No one party is I can find scripture that can

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condemn every party.

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Well they follow this, yeah, but they don't.

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Follow this or this or this this biblical morality and

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political allegiance.

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You can't just take.

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The Bible to try to support your political allegiance. How

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about Christian liberty and conscience and passages like Romans fourteen

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and First Corinthians ten. Paul emphasizes that Christians may have

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different convictions and non essential matters, and that they should

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respect one another's conscience. Applying this to voting, one might

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argue that Christians have the freedom to choose candidates based

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on personal conviction and perful discernment without a one size

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fit all approach. Is there a one size fit all approach?

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simplistic concept. Things are much more complicated then you may

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want them to be. We can't forget jesus teaching on

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power and kingdom allegiance. Jesus allegiance. Jesus taught that his

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kingdom was not of this world, and he emphasis size

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a spiritual kingdom over political power. The New Testament consistently

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prioritizes allegiance to Christ's kingdom over earthly politics. From this perspective,

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Christians might view voting as a moral responsibility, but also

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recognize that the ultimate hope and trust lies in God,

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not in any political leader. And I'm going to say

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I have no moral responsibility to vote. There is nothing

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in scripture that tells me to vote. There's no command

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for me to vote, because I didn't even understand that

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kind of system. And if you want to vote simply

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because you want to impose your morality upon other people,

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well that's not even a biblical concept. We don't impose

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our morality on other people. We preach the truth of

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God's law, demonstrating to people that they cannot keep that law,

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put their faith in Christ so that they will be saved.

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And then we teach them to obey out of gratitude.

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For what God has done for them. The obeying it

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follows conversion. It's not you do this, No, you are

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saved because you can't do it. But Christ did it

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for you, and you put your faith in Him, and

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then we seek to fill and even afterwards, we're never

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going to do it perfectly. Supporting a candidate often involves

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weighing multiple issues, and candidates typically hold a mix of

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positions that may align with some biblical principles and diverge

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from others. For instant, one candidate might uphold certain moral

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issues central to some Christians while diverging on others integrity, humility,

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justice for the marginalized. Historically, Christian leaders have not universally

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agreed on specific political candidates as the definitive Christian choice.

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This diversity suggests that while some may feel strongly that

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their faith informs their vote in a specific direction, others

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may feel feel called to vote in a completely different way,

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or to even abstain as a form of witness to

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their priorities. The point is Christians never agree on it.

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the way it is. Well, guess what Christians don't agree

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on anything.

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Individual Christians or leaders may believe that one candidate aligns

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more closely with their interpretation of biblical morality. Claiming that

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all true Christians must vote for a particular candidate can

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be problematic, at risk oversimplifying complex ethical issues and infringing

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on the principle of Christian liberty. It may also lead

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to conflating faith with political ideology, which can distract from

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the broader mission and witness of the Church. Each Christian

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is encouraged to vote in accordance with their conscience, guided

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by prayer, scripture, and love for neighbor. Now that's if

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we're going to think about this anywhere close to biblically, logically,

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cautiously careful.

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But I have to do this. I have to.

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I have to address this next part because within conservative churches.

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focuses on conservative churches and the reason why if you

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look at a conservative church, you look at their doctrinal statement,

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their their confession of faith.

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In most cases, I'm going to say.

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I agree with that, I agree with that, I agree

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with that, I agree with that, they still hold to

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at least the basics of Christianity to some level. When

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you go to very liberal, liberal liberal churches, they've always,

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almost always, they've typically most of the time, they've already

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jettison historical, biblical Christianity, the deity of Christ, the inspiration

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of Scripture.

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They've already walked away from that. So if they're over

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here holding to a more liberal politic.

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It doesn't bother me. If they become political, who cares.

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They've already left Christianity. They've got to have something to

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replace it with, So why not not. Why won't it

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be politics or a social gospel or social justice makes sense.

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They've already abandoned Christianity. But over here, when the conservative churches,

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I'm always baffled because wait a minute, you still hold

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on to Christianity, but you're now in You're now corrupting

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your Christianity.

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With this political allegiance.

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But what they do is they their political allegiance is

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to the conservative side, So then they conflate their Christianity,

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conservative Christianity with conservative politics and it turns into some

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mutated something that's not truly Christian. And on the conservative side,

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it's almost guaranteed they're gonna say you must.

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Vote for Donald Trump.

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I'm gonna vote for Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump,

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Donald Trump, Donald Trump. And they almost act like, I

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don't know, he's the newest member of the trinity and

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someone else has been.

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Moved out of it. Now they'll say that's not true.

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Just listen to the way they talk, though. But when

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you consider the many actions and statements attributed to Donald Trump,

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I think you should raise some I don't know, concerns

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among Christians and others regarding how closely his behavior aligns

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with biblical morality and values. When examining this, it's helpful

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to consider core Christian values such as humility, truthfulness, compassion, justice, integrity,

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peacemaking to assess Trump's actions and rhetoric and light of

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these standards.

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It's just so weird. We're like, oh, we get we getta.

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We gonna go with God's morality. God's morality. It's all

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about morality. It's all about morality.

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But then all of a sudden, well, it doesn't really

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matter about morality when it comes at least to the

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person we're voting for.

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Then we throw it out. It's almost like it doesn't matter.

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The Bible consistently emphasizes the importance of truth. God hates

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lying lips, God hates lying, put away lying.

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Speak the truth. And to say that many of Trump's

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statements have been fact checked and found to be completely

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false or misleading would be the greatest understatement in the

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history of humankind. He is lied and lied, and lied

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and lied and.

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Thrown out utterly ridiculous and crazy things, and yet it

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does not seem to matter to anyone. Is truthfulness? Does

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it even matter? Now what many people say, I don't care.

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I don't care if he lies every day. All I

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cares about his policies. Well, how can you trust any

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policy maybe constantly lies. Is that not a reasonable question

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to ask? Now, we could go through a lot of

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this humility, servant leadership, love for neighbor and compassion, peacemaking

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and reconciliation, personal morality, justice and equity, divisive nationalism versus unity,

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and Christ. If we go through all of these, trumpet

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it's just it's I mean, do we have to I mean,

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it's a train wreck of epic proportion.

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It will not It's so weird to me to have

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been a Christian in the nineteen nineties when all I

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could hear was character matters, Character matters.

475
00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:15.160
We have to elect people who are godly, who have

476
00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:20.119
godly character. We cannot have this vile adulterer, Bill Clinton

477
00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:22.920
anywhere near the White House. It's ungodly.

478
00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:26.640
Sin is a reproach upon a sin as a reproach

479
00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:29.960
before God. And a nation that will support a sinner

480
00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:32.000
like that, they are an approach God.

481
00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:35.079
God is going to destroy us. We have to do something.

482
00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:39.720
And now it's like, well, we're not electing a pope,

483
00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:40.680
we're not electing a past.

484
00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:41.640
It doesn't matter.

485
00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:45.440
Wait character, So now character doesn't matter. See, you know why,

486
00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:49.920
because people don't really care about holding any logical They

487
00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:53.519
just care about their political ideology. And if all you

488
00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:56.000
care about your political ideology, then you know what, just

489
00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:57.559
say that, you know what, I don't really care about

490
00:27:57.559 --> 00:27:59.640
the Bible, I don't really care about God. You know what,

491
00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:03.240
just hate liberals and I want a conservative. Well, then

492
00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:06.480
stop with your God Jesus, Bible talk and just admit

493
00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:16.039
that that's what you want. But it doesn't matter what

494
00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:18.519
information comes for, It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what

495
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:19.160
Trump says.

496
00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:25.319
You can say outlandish, horrible lies, miss under just say

497
00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:28.160
the most Christians.

498
00:28:27.720 --> 00:28:31.559
Will support it and will support it, and will support it.

499
00:28:31.559 --> 00:28:44.720
And will defend it and will excuse it. Then can

500
00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:47.920
we do this? Then?

501
00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:51.279
Can we just stop saying that you're voting for biblical morality,

502
00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:57.640
family values? I mean, give me a break. Can you

503
00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:02.440
just say you just name the conservative policies that you're

504
00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:04.519
and don't get them all, don't don't go.

505
00:29:04.519 --> 00:29:07.440
With morality moralities. Just stop it.

506
00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:16.160
People say abortion, abortion, abortion. Look, I think I even

507
00:29:16.200 --> 00:29:18.359
have the article still here. I told everyone what was

508
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:20.839
going to happen once Roe v. Wade was overturned.

509
00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:22.839
I said abortion rates would go up, which they have.

510
00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:26.119
They have gone up. So turn overturning Roe v Wade

511
00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:28.440
didn't do anything. Then it's been handed to the states.

512
00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:30.799
So if you really care about abortion, you would vote

513
00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:35.640
for state the state of governmental positions. That should be

514
00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:37.680
what you should be so concerned about. So well we've

515
00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:40.039
got to vote for Trump. Well, vote for Trump. He's

516
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:43.240
already says he opposes a national ban on abortion.

517
00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:47.160
He opposes that. So what are you voting for? You well,

518
00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:48.720
for abortion, for abortion.

519
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:52.079
Wait a minute, He's not going to put forth a

520
00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:54.759
national ban on abortion. So why are you voting for Trump?

521
00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:59.880
You should be more worried about your each individual state,

522
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:03.079
what state you live in. What are the state officials saying,

523
00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:03.799
what are.

524
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:05.400
They going for? Are they going to have a state

525
00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:07.559
ban on abortion? What are they doing?

526
00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:13.920
And you can continue to fight the abortion issue politically.

527
00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:15.279
You can continue.

528
00:30:14.839 --> 00:30:17.359
That's if you want to try to act like that's

529
00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:20.240
the big biblical thing. I'm telling you. You keep fighting

530
00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:23.759
it politically, you just you just watch. Unless you can.

531
00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:27.119
Change the heart and minds of the.

532
00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:30.799
People within the United States of America, unless you can

533
00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:35.799
make Americans more pro life than pro choice. Unless you

534
00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:38.640
can do that, I don't know if it's I'm not

535
00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:40.039
I'm not gonna say it's going to be this year.

536
00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:41.400
I'm not gonna say it's going to be two years

537
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:42.720
from now. I'm not gonna say it's going to be

538
00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:45.680
four years from now. But you're gonna wake up and

539
00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:48.599
the people, the people and in this in the government

540
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:51.880
or the people within the country are going to tell you, sorry,

541
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:54.759
I don't care about your stinking morality. We want a

542
00:30:54.799 --> 00:30:58.000
pro choice situation, and then it will just everything will

543
00:30:58.039 --> 00:30:58.720
be overturned.

544
00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:02.799
You can win it politically by going around the will

545
00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:05.240
of the people, but if you allow the people to

546
00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:07.799
make the decision, a lot of the decisions you want

547
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:10.880
are going to go against you because well, I don't know.

548
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:13.480
We live in a country where it's supposed to be,

549
00:31:13.880 --> 00:31:19.000
you know, buy the people for the people. So the

550
00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:22.160
Christians should always be fighting the war by going to

551
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.119
the individual with the message of the Gospel, with the Bible,

552
00:31:27.079 --> 00:31:32.079
and we teach, we baptize, and then we disciple. But see,

553
00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:34.519
we're like, nah, this, that's forget that, that's trash. We

554
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:37.279
don't like that idea. Let's get laws passed so that

555
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:39.200
we can tell the people what they can and cannot do.

556
00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:41.599
We're going to impose it on the people. Well you

557
00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:44.480
can try to impose it, just do it sooner or later.

558
00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:47.000
If you don't change the minds of the people that

559
00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:49.559
will raise up. They will throw off all of your

560
00:31:49.599 --> 00:31:52.000
stuff and they're just going and they're going to hate

561
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:55.240
you for your political position, not because of you presenting

562
00:31:55.319 --> 00:32:00.039
Christ crucified that's always the problem. Fighting it politically, and

563
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.440
fight it politically, and well, how does the world see

564
00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:06.119
many Christians. They see Christians immediately as Trump supporters, which

565
00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:09.519
always drives me crazy.

566
00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:12.079
Are you a Christian? Yeah, oh, so you vote for Trump?

567
00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:16.440
No I don't, Okay, I don't, so don't put me

568
00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:19.279
in that camp. I want to be known for being

569
00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:23.839
a christ follower, not a supporter of any political party.

570
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:39.319
I am not supporting any political party. I don't know

571
00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:44.440
what's going to happen. I know what I would think

572
00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:48.119
is best for the church theologically, that's every Republican lose

573
00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:49.920
and there's not a Republican left on the face of

574
00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:53.960
planet Earth. Then the church will have nowhere to turn.

575
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:56.920
You'll have no political eyellies, you'll have no political influence,

576
00:32:56.920 --> 00:32:59.039
you have nothing. I think that would be great for

577
00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:06.599
the church. Obviously, that's not going to happen. As an

578
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:08.839
individual Christian, I can tell you what you can't do

579
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:13.200
if you really care about Biblical morality is you'll stop

580
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:18.599
with the lies and the misinformation and the disinformation, and

581
00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:21.240
you'll stop with the conspiratorial thinking.

582
00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:25.200
We saw this after the last.

583
00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:30.920
General election and all Christian radio, Christian podcasts Christian websites,

584
00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:35.400
pastors so many lies about the election being stolen, and

585
00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:38.119
over and over again, no, not true, not true, not true,

586
00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:40.559
not true. And then when people were taking the court ensued,

587
00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:43.880
they produce all of the information to prove no, the

588
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:46.359
election was stolen. What we were saying is true. No,

589
00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:50.279
they paid out millions upon millions of dollars or in

590
00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:52.000
some cases tearful apologies.

591
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:54.359
I'm so sorry I got caught up in it.

592
00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:56.839
Yeah, because you're now losing your law license and you're

593
00:33:56.880 --> 00:33:59.039
in trouble, and now you're about beat to be sued

594
00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:02.559
now all of a sudd and you change your story now.

595
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:06.480
Yet some of those brave you know, keyboard warriors are

596
00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:08.719
still on websites saying, oh it was stolen.

597
00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:11.159
Yeah, talk a big game. Wait, come on.

598
00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:14.280
Accused specific people, and see what happens when you're getting

599
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:15.400
sued all of a sudden, You'll be like.

600
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:17.119
I didn't mean it. I was just I was just

601
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:19.519
saying what other people said. I didn't really mean anything.

602
00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:22.960
I'm just a good Christian who just posts lies all

603
00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:25.519
over the internet.

604
00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:31.159
That's got it.

605
00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:33.199
I mean, that's just like every Christian should be able

606
00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:34.920
to agree with that. You know what, I'm not going

607
00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:37.519
to spread any false information. I'm going to be very

608
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:41.519
honest and truthful and do due diligence. And due diligence

609
00:34:41.559 --> 00:34:43.599
isn't just listening to the I don't know the news

610
00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:46.840
station called Fox News that was sued for a billion

611
00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:48.960
dollars and paid what seven hundred and fifty seven, seven

612
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:52.360
hundred and eighty seven million dollars to settle their lawsuit

613
00:34:52.400 --> 00:35:02.360
because of their election lies that they told many of

614
00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:06.719
those conservative news sites how to either issue retractions apologies,

615
00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:09.559
and some of them are still pending. Lawsuits are still

616
00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:13.039
coming on many of them. I think Fox News they

617
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:16.159
had the dominion. I think they have the smartmatic. Lawsuits

618
00:35:16.199 --> 00:35:25.519
still coming. I just want it to be over.

619
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:29.119
But today on the sermons two point ozer app you

620
00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:31.039
can just see you can look at all the sermons.

621
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:36.719
About voting, voting, voting, voting, voting, voting, voting, voting, voting. Now,

622
00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:38.800
I don't know how most of them handle it. I

623
00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:41.039
would hope they handle it in a very biblical way.

624
00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:41.920
But you can.

625
00:35:41.840 --> 00:35:44.440
Almost tell that the way it's going to go, whether

626
00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:47.400
they explicitly say it, it's going.

627
00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:48.559
To be clearly implied.

628
00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:50.440
And I've heard a lot of sermons do this like, well,

629
00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:52.440
we all know who we're supposed to vote for, right,

630
00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:54.480
And if one person raised their hand and said, no,

631
00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:56.679
I'm not voting like the rest of you, I think

632
00:35:56.679 --> 00:35:59.440
all of you are wrong. You're going to be like anathema.

633
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:02.119
Kill the heathen, get rid of them.

634
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:03.360
I stone them.

635
00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:07.280
You know, how dare you were a Trump supporting church,

636
00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:14.880
even if we don't say so, because it's just implied,

637
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:25.400
that's the way you have to go. Now, you vote

638
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:29.960
any way you want. I'm not here to even get

639
00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:32.199
into that because I hate the whole political system. I

640
00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:34.320
hate the whole thing. I wash my hands of all

641
00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:38.280
of it. I don't participate in your little reindeer games.

642
00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:42.679
I know that whoever is put in charge is there

643
00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:45.199
because God put them there according to Scripture. If I

644
00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:53.239
believe anything about Scripture, if I believe anything, let every

645
00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:55.440
soul be subject under the higher powers. For there is

646
00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:58.239
no power but of God. The powers that be are

647
00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:04.239
ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisted the

648
00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:07.360
ordinance of God. And they that resist shall receive to

649
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:11.840
themselves damnation. God will put whoever he wants there. Our

650
00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:13.960
job is then to be submissive to whomever, whether we

651
00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:18.039
like it or not, other than in very extreme situations.

652
00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:19.480
And we got to even be very careful with that

653
00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:22.960
because sometimes the scripture we quote about resisting or not

654
00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:26.639
obeying governmental leaders is actually them in the Book of Acts,

655
00:37:26.679 --> 00:37:37.760
resisting not governmental leaders, but religious leaders.

656
00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:41.480
Now, I don't know how you feel about the election

657
00:37:41.519 --> 00:37:42.360
comeing out. I don't know.

658
00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:48.639
I feel like I can't take any more of this nonsense,

659
00:37:48.920 --> 00:37:52.559
like I'm done with it. I wish I could offer

660
00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:56.840
some word of I know this, I know this. I

661
00:37:56.880 --> 00:37:59.400
don't know how many times I've heard that the future

662
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:02.480
of America hinges on this election. This is gonna be

663
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:04.920
the most you know, this is gonna be the most

664
00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:07.039
important election in the history of the country.

665
00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:11.159
The soul of America rest and the balance. If we

666
00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:13.920
don't vote this right, we're all going to be doomed.

667
00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:16.320
We're all gonna be destroyed. It's gonna be the end

668
00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:20.079
of Christianity. There's gonna be muscle, there's gonna be Islamic

669
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:22.559
mosque everywhere. Christianity is gonna be banned. The're gonna take

670
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:24.800
our Bibles, they're gonna take our guns. We're gonna be

671
00:38:24.840 --> 00:38:27.360
locked up in FEMA camps. This is the end, We're

672
00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:30.840
all going to die. I have heard that so many

673
00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:35.719
stinking times, and you know what, the election comes and

674
00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:37.559
four years late, four years later.

675
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:39.400
I haven't. But men, you know, haven't been made to

676
00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:41.440
be a Muslim. I haven't been put in a FEMA camp.

677
00:38:41.519 --> 00:38:42.800
I haven't been micro chipped.

678
00:38:42.840 --> 00:38:45.119
I haven't been given them mark of the Beast. I

679
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:48.519
haven't been you know, killed. And nobody took my Bible.

680
00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:51.159
No one banned my Christianity, none of the things you

681
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:54.840
ever want, Colt because you know what, you're manipulated by fear.

682
00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:57.400
They give you fear and tell you that they're the

683
00:38:57.440 --> 00:38:59.199
only ones who can help you. And we talked about

684
00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:05.280
that in my discussion about Frankenstein. I know this that

685
00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:08.159
it will not be what everyone makes it out to be.

686
00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:11.280
It will not be that I'm not seeing. Catastrophic things

687
00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:14.039
may happen, but catastrophic things may happen no matter who

688
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:16.079
is elected, because that's the nature of the world in

689
00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:20.920
which we live. Catastrophe, tragedies, disasters happen because we live

690
00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:24.079
in a fallen world. That's been true for go back

691
00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:27.920
throughout Church history. Doesn't matter who's elected, there's always tragedies

692
00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:40.559
and horrible things that happen, war, disease, plague, famine. Now,

693
00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:44.159
as Christians, if we believe God is in charge, and

694
00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:47.039
if we believe God is sovereign, and if we believe

695
00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:49.920
God is the one who decrees what's going to happen,

696
00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:52.679
and well, then why do we get all worked up.

697
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:58.480
God's got it all into control right now.

698
00:39:58.519 --> 00:39:59.360
You can go vote.

699
00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:02.800
You can, you know, tell everyone on social media that

700
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:04.920
you voted, and you can be all proud of it,

701
00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:07.320
and you can let the whole world know that you

702
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:10.559
did your great civic duty and you've changed the course

703
00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:12.639
of it. You can go, you can take it and

704
00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:13.440
be all.

705
00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:13.960
Proud about it.

706
00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:16.079
That's fine, you go do whatever you want to do.

707
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:27.480
But please, let's get this political corruption of Christianity. Let's

708
00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:29.199
remove this cancer.

709
00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:34.719
This infection. We need less politically hijacked Christianity. We need

710
00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:39.320
less Christian nationalism infected Christianity. We need to get back

711
00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:42.280
to the Bible if Christianity matters at all.

712
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:49.199
And to be honest, even if I decided tomorrow that

713
00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:53.000
I'm done with Christianity, if I was finished, I'm still

714
00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:54.960
not gonna go get invested in politics.

715
00:40:55.840 --> 00:40:56.800
I keep up with it.

716
00:40:57.039 --> 00:41:01.159
I pay attention, I read documents, listen to beaches. I

717
00:41:01.199 --> 00:41:03.800
do my best at least be informed. But I am

718
00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:06.840
informed not so that I can participate in the entire thing,

719
00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:09.480
because I think the entire thing is all broken, and

720
00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:25.679
it's all about putting other people in power for themselves.

721
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:32.320
And you can't put party and you can't put nation

722
00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:40.360
above scripture if if your Christianity is really what's important.

723
00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:42.880
And I've seen over and over that people put party

724
00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:47.199
and to put nationalism, to put the American flag, they

725
00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:51.519
put patriotism, They put America first before scripture, and far

726
00:41:51.559 --> 00:41:54.639
how scripture would even scripture would not know anything of

727
00:41:54.679 --> 00:42:13.079
that perspective about America first, country first. I don't know

728
00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:15.159
what's going to happen tomorrow. I know what I want

729
00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:19.079
to happen tomorrow. What I want to happen probably wouldn't

730
00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:21.800
be against what most of you want to happen tomorrow.

731
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:24.000
But we can have our disagreements on that. That's the

732
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:27.960
great thing. I don't care, because what we're supposed to

733
00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:29.840
have in common is right here scripture.

734
00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:32.159
My fear is.

735
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:39.480
Too much of our political desires Trump no pun intended,

736
00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:43.920
our theology, and our scripture and we simply go to

737
00:42:43.960 --> 00:42:47.480
scripture and we go to theology and grab only the

738
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:52.079
part that we can utilize to justify our political allegiance.

739
00:42:52.960 --> 00:43:00.400
When it's never that simple, is it. I just know

740
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:04.599
our country is so divided, and the rhetoric and the

741
00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:11.760
threats and the crazy things being said. They're eating the dogs,

742
00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:15.039
they're eating the cats, they're eating the pets, I mean,

743
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:23.239
insane things being said, lying to get people so worked

744
00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:32.079
up about an election being stolen. No, you lost, people

745
00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:33.320
storming the capitol.

746
00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:36.239
I mean the insanity.

747
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:38.599
And it's almost like we become numb to it, no

748
00:43:38.599 --> 00:43:41.119
matter how crazy the rhetoric is, no matter how big

749
00:43:41.199 --> 00:43:45.480
the lie is, no matter how insane, we're just like, ay, whatever, whatever, we.

750
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:46.400
Become numb to it.

751
00:43:49.679 --> 00:43:54.920
And all of it is contrary to any remote biblical perspective.

752
00:43:56.679 --> 00:43:58.039
It's nothing close to it.

753
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:01.960
If you want to you want the biblical answer to

754
00:44:02.039 --> 00:44:05.559
change the world, stop looking to the politicians.

755
00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:08.000
Pick up a Bible.

756
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:19.920
And evangelize, Call people to faith in Christ, Baptize them

757
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:21.840
in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.

758
00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:25.599
Then teach them to obey all things that God has given,

759
00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:28.400
and then help them understand that even in our best efforts,

760
00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:29.960
we're going to fall short. And our only hope is

761
00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:34.960
in that imputed righteousness by which we were saved. And

762
00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:37.599
then we try to live our Christian life out. And

763
00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:40.519
if you have Christians trying to live out their Christian life,

764
00:44:41.239 --> 00:44:47.920
and if the Christians outnumber everyone else, then without anything

765
00:44:48.039 --> 00:44:52.360
being done legislatively, the world begins to change because people

766
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:54.880
are trying to live to follow Christ and not engaging

767
00:44:55.119 --> 00:44:57.199
and certain behaviors and certain things.

768
00:44:57.239 --> 00:45:01.679
You don't even need anything against it to a certain level.

769
00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:03.679
Obviously, you still have to have laws and still have

770
00:45:03.719 --> 00:45:06.480
to punish for breaking that. I understand that.

771
00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:15.639
It's the same thing I've talked about this in regards

772
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:17.000
to in many cases Islam.

773
00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:21.760
Right, we can fight quote unquote a war on Islam,

774
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:26.679
fight a war on Islamic extremists and try. You cannot

775
00:45:26.920 --> 00:45:38.559
destroy an ideology with bombs the ideology and typically the

776
00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:46.519
more you bombit, the stronger the ideology becomes. Doesn't mean

777
00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:49.280
there aren't a time for war because there is. That

778
00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:51.920
doesn't mean there isn't a time for law because there is.

779
00:45:52.480 --> 00:46:02.199
Don't misinterpret We ought to see the limits. So are

780
00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:14.079
you voting tomorrow? If you do well, congratulations. You get

781
00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:16.840
to exercise the right and a freedom you have as

782
00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:19.159
a citizen of the United States of America to vote

783
00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:22.679
in this election. I'm glad you're exercising that freedom and

784
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:23.800
exercising that right.

785
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:25.360
Don't walk around.

786
00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:27.679
Thinking you're superior to those who don't, and don't think

787
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:30.920
that you're somehow morally better off than everyone else because

788
00:46:31.079 --> 00:46:33.800
you voted for candidate A and they voted for candidate B.

789
00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:36.800
And don't think you're better because you voted and other

790
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:43.639
people don't. I hope it works out for you, And

791
00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:45.800
whoever you voted for, I hope it works out for you.

792
00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:47.639
I may not agree with the you.

793
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:58.480
Know who you voted for. I just feel I want

794
00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:00.719
to be hopeful. There's a part of it wants to

795
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:05.039
be like maybe by ten o'clock, maybe by eleven o'clock

796
00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:07.599
it'll be over. I want the in some ways, I

797
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:11.480
want the results to be so overwhelming that it's just done.

798
00:47:11.599 --> 00:47:13.719
But I have a feeling that no matter how overwhelming,

799
00:47:13.880 --> 00:47:15.960
especially if Trump loses, it's not gonna matter.

800
00:47:16.239 --> 00:47:17.559
I mean, he's just.

801
00:47:17.519 --> 00:47:19.280
Going to declare himself the winner, and it's going to

802
00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:22.440
turn into just it's going to turn into anarchy. And chaos.

803
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:26.199
If he wins overwhelmingly, then I'm assuming the other side, well,

804
00:47:26.239 --> 00:47:30.440
then I am hoping would just say acknowledge, defeat and

805
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:33.840
be done and lose in a gious, gracious way and

806
00:47:33.920 --> 00:47:38.039
walk away and everything. Well, then whatever happens happens. I

807
00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:40.320
have a feeling if Trump loses, it's just going to

808
00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:43.880
be chaos and anarchy and insanity, and then it'll be

809
00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:45.960
Christians running around going it was stolen, it was stolen,

810
00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:48.559
because there's no way Trump could lose, no way. Well

811
00:47:48.599 --> 00:47:49.920
let me tell you there is a way he could

812
00:47:49.960 --> 00:47:51.800
lose because a lot of people you may think should

813
00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:55.000
vote for him aren't going to vote for him.

814
00:47:55.239 --> 00:47:56.360
So it is possible.

815
00:47:56.440 --> 00:47:58.599
I know it's shocking to believe, but there's some of

816
00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:03.360
us who don't think that vote should go that way.

817
00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:06.159
But I'm hoping that both sides could just act like

818
00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:11.960
adults and say, Okay, we lost and acknowledge it and

819
00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:15.440
move on for the betterment. Hey, put the country before

820
00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:20.599
the person, put the country before your own political.

821
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:22.199
Desires.

822
00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:30.920
And obviously, if there is some clear evidence that something

823
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:34.920
improper occurred, then it should be investigated and then something

824
00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:37.159
should be done. No one is saying turn away from

825
00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:41.079
illegal activity, but yelling and screaming that things are happening

826
00:48:41.119 --> 00:48:44.679
that are proven to be absolutely fraudulent, and then proven

827
00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:47.280
to be fraudulent, and then the Christians who promoted the

828
00:48:47.320 --> 00:48:50.199
ideas won't come back and apologize and repent of spreading

829
00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:50.840
their lives.

830
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:53.800
That's the that's a church issue. That's not a political issue.

831
00:48:53.800 --> 00:48:58.559
That's a church issue. That's a Christian issue.

832
00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:01.239
American family radios read all kinds of lies about the

833
00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:04.400
last election. They never came back and apologized for anything,

834
00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:07.199
of course not. They did get rid of the one

835
00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:10.119
program that was doing a good portion of the promotion

836
00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:11.960
and deleted it so you couldn't even.

837
00:49:11.760 --> 00:49:14.920
Find the archives of it. That was convenient.

838
00:49:26.119 --> 00:49:31.920
We'll see, We'll see. I just want it to be over.

839
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:35.199
Don't you want it to be over? Can it be over?

840
00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:39.119
Can this nightmare come to an end? Can we get

841
00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:43.800
out of purgatory? Please? Can this be over? Don't you

842
00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:48.599
want it to be over? I wish we could get

843
00:49:48.639 --> 00:49:50.880
back to the days when Christians argued about I don't know,

844
00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:52.960
remember the worship wars and we're fighting over.

845
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:54.079
What music to use in the church.

846
00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:58.639
Remember when we used to fight over seeker sensitive? You

847
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:01.760
know versus purpose driven in all the different church models.

848
00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:03.719
Remember when we used to fight about that. Remember we

849
00:50:03.840 --> 00:50:08.239
used to fight about ooh, Calvinism versus non Calvinism. Remember

850
00:50:08.239 --> 00:50:12.039
when we used to fight over those kinds of philological issues. Man,

851
00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:13.119
along for the days.

852
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:16.320
Now. The issue is, you're.

853
00:50:16.119 --> 00:50:20.119
Not a Christian unless you basically could kneel and kiss

854
00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:25.400
the ring of Donald Trump because he's God's anointed. You

855
00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:29.719
must agree with his political agenda or your lost. What happened,

856
00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:40.960
I don't know something has happened, But you can go

857
00:50:41.199 --> 00:50:42.800
look upon the sermon's two point oh app Go to

858
00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:46.400
the discovery tabs, scroll down, look for trending, hit vote.

859
00:50:46.440 --> 00:50:48.440
You'll find I think there was over four hundred sermons

860
00:50:48.440 --> 00:50:50.480
the last I look four oh four I think was

861
00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:53.320
the number four oh four. Probably around five hundred. Now

862
00:50:53.559 --> 00:50:55.719
go find them and just start listening and just see,

863
00:50:55.719 --> 00:50:58.960
and you can hear other perspectives, right, other perspectives that

864
00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:01.400
will be wildly different than mine, And then you can

865
00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:03.760
decide if you're trying to figure out what to do,

866
00:51:03.840 --> 00:51:04.920
I'm not going to tell you what to do.

867
00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:06.440
I'm definitely not telling you who to vote for.

868
00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:14.360
You can do whatever you want, man.

869
00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:17.960
Something's just wrong.

870
00:51:18.440 --> 00:51:21.679
Ladies and gentlemen. If you can't feel it, something is wrong.

871
00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:26.519
All of this being political is just leading to division

872
00:51:26.559 --> 00:51:30.159
and device is not making the country better. It's ripping

873
00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:32.800
it into shreds. It's tearing it apart. We're being played

874
00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:36.360
and we're not even realizing it. We got Christians have

875
00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:38.239
got to say time out. I'm stepping out of this.

876
00:51:38.719 --> 00:51:41.079
We're going to be the church. Hey, while y'all, when

877
00:51:41.079 --> 00:51:43.440
those cities are burning and you guys are at each

878
00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:46.320
other's throats and y'all just fight for your own political

879
00:51:46.639 --> 00:51:49.360
little mini kingdoms, how about you walk away from that,

880
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:51.400
because there is a kingdom that's not in this world,

881
00:51:51.599 --> 00:51:54.679
and there's a truth that is above your political parties.

882
00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:58.159
And how about come here while that all falls and

883
00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:04.760
implodes in and on itself. Thanks for listening, everyone, Have

884
00:52:04.840 --> 00:52:08.079
a good day. God bless