Aug. 20, 2024

Spiritual Warfare and Money

Spiritual Warfare and Money

How much money does it take to win the spiritual war?

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How much money does it take to win the spiritual war?

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone.

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It is Tuesday, August the twentieth, twenty twenty four. It

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is currently twelve eleven pm Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas. Now I know today I'm

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supposed to be using my broadcasting time to try to

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finish some things up. Right, last episode, we're trying to

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take a step closer finishing up our discussion on Revival.

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We need to work on Ephesians chapter four. There's probably

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some other things that we need to try to finish up.

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We probably need to do a little bit more work

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in the Book of Proverbs since we were going to

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focus on Proverbs for this summer, and summer is going

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to be over before we know it. So there's just

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a lot of things I need to try to finish up.

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But instead of finishing anything up, we have to talk

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about a very important question. Are you ready? I really

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want you to think this about this. If you want

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write this question down and ask other people about it.

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Are you ready? How much money does it take to

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be victorious and spiritual warfare? How much money does it

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take to be victorious and spiritual warfare? Some of you

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may be immediately shaking your head, going, this is a

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stupid question, and I understand, but I'm not asking this

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question because well, just because I'm bored and I have

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nothing else better to do. I have plenty of other

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things to do, but something is forcing me to ask

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this question. How much money does it take to be

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victorious and spiritual warfare? Now, we know when it comes

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to actual warfare, right between armies and nations, it requires

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a lots of money. Right. We know the Ukraine asking

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for all kinds of money and their ongoing war with Russia. Right,

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we know that whenever it comes to war, you need money.

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So does that carry over to spiritual warfare? Hey, we're

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engaged in a spiritual war. We need money. If we're

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going to be victorious, we need money. Does that work

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or does that sound absolutely ridiculous and crazy? What do

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you think? Well, first, let's establish some basic things about Well,

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are our spiritual war right, because we know the Bible

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seems to make it clear that we're involved in a

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spiritual war. We could go to first Peter chapter five,

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verse eight. First Peter, chapter five, verse eight, Be sober,

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be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil walks about like

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a roaring lion, lion seeking whom he may devour. Now,

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please note it says be sober, be vigilant. It doesn't

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say be active and fundraising. It doesn't say send out

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an email to get money. It just says, be sober,

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be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, walks about like

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a rowing lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him,

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steadfast and the faith. We are to resist him, to

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be steadfast in the faith. It doesn't say anything about money,

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anything about money. It does not say anything all right,

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I think, I think, I think that that makes sense.

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I'm gonna look up another one. Uh, go to Second

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Corinthians chapter ten. So First Peter five eight does tell

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us that, hey, we have a we have an adversary,

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we have the devil roaming about like a rowing lion,

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seeking whom he may devour. But it doesn't say anything

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about we need money in order to fight him, to

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resist him. It doesn't say anything about Now another passage

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that's very famous Second Corinthians. Second Corinthians, chapter ten, Second Corinthians,

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Chapter ten. We can start in verse three Second Corinthians,

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Chapter ten, Verse three, for though we walk in the flesh,

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we do not war according to the flesh. For the

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weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty and

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God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments, and every

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high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.

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Please note that we are weapons of our warfare are

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not carnal. So do we need money in order to

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fight this warfare? Do we need money? What we need?

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Do we need money to buy weapons? Do we need

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money to do what? What do we need money for?

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How much money does it take to be victorious in

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spiritual warfare? First Peter five eight clearly talks about that

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we have an adversary, the devil, but it doesn't say

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anything about money. Here in Tewo Corinthians ten, it clearly

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talks about a war, but it says that our weapons

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are not carnal. We're using spiritual weapons. So do we

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need money in order to be able to accomplish this?

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And then we know the most famous passage? Right, we

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know the most famous passage when it comes to spiritual warfare? Right,

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Ephesians Chapter six. Ephesians Chapter six, starting in verse ten. Finally,

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my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and then the

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power of his might. Doesn't say anything about money, doesn't

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say do fundraising, doesn't say anything like that. Finally, my brethren,

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be strong in the Lord and in the power of

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his mind. Put on the whole armor of God. I

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am to put on the whole armor of God. Now

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the question is how much does that cost? Oh? Okay,

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I need money. I need a certain amount of money

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to be victorious and spiritual warfare, because I have to

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buy this armor. Do I have to buy this armor?

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Put on? Put on the whole armor of God, that

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you may be able to stand against the wiles of

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the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,

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but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the

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darkness of this age, against spiritual host of wickedness and

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the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God,

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that you may be able to withstand the devil the

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evil day. And having done all to stand therefore, having

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girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate

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of righteousness, truth, and righteousness Do I have to purchase those?

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Where in Ephesian six would it say I need money?

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How much money does it take to be victorious and

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spiritual warfare? That is the question for this afternoon. Now,

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why am I asking this question again? You may think

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it's ridiculous, you may think it's utterly stupid, and you

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know what, there's a part of me that would agree

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with you. But but but bye, But before we just

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throw out the idea, maybe just maybe the key to

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spiritual warfare, the key to being victorious, the key to

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to waging a spiritual war that is victorious. That is

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that is the works correctly? Is it requires money? Maybe

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your issue is you need money. Maybe my issue is

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I need money. Hey, guys, help me fight this spiritual

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war by going to theologycentral dot net. There is a

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donate tab it right there, and if you're using the

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church one app or Sermon's two point zho, look for

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the giftab and give me money, and I will be

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victorious in this spiritual war. I will win this war

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on your behalf. Give me money. That is that Does

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that sound wrong? Does that sound fleshly? Does that sound sinful?

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Does that sound carnal? Does that sound ungodly or does

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that sound reasonable? Well? At nine thirty six a m.

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This morning, August the twentieth, twenty twenty four, August the twentieth,

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twenty twenty four, I received an email at nine thirty

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six am from the American Family Association AFA. The American

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Family Association a right American Family Association also connected to

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American Family Radio AFR. AFR arison, We're on radio stations

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all across the country. They're an American Family Association and

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American Family Radio very somewhat influential in certain elements of

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the evangelical world. There's no way to deny it right now.

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I've always had my issues with American Family Association and

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American Family Radio because I believe they're more political than

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they are theological, and I've challenged people over and over.

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Listened to American Family Radio from about ten am to

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six pm Monday through Friday, and sometimes you'll think you're

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listening to Fox News. I subscribe to American Family Radio.

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Their newscast it comes out in the warning comes out

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in the afternoon, late afternoon, early evening. It comes out.

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I got three or four four times a day, I think,

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and I subscribe to their podcast. It's five minutes of

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news supposedly from a Christian perspective. Again, it sounds like

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Fox News, sounds like Newsmax. Sometimes it sounds like Alex Jones.

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It does not sound Christian in any way, shape or form. Okay,

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So I already have my issues with them, but I

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like to keep up with what they're doing because to me,

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they are the number one example of a politically hijacked Christianity.

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Right I think in some ways they are. They promote

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a Christian nationalistic perspective, even though they would deny that.

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I think that's what they promote. So I received an

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email from them at nine thirty six a m. You

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want the subject line, Are Christians losing the spiritual war

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for America? Are Christian losing the spiritual war for America? Now?

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When we fight a spiritual war, are we fighting it

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for a country? Is that the war we're fighting? Does

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the Bible say fight the spiritual war for America, to

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fight the spiritual war for China, fight the spiritual war

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for Canada. I don't really know if that's kind of

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the way it's supposed to go down. I don't know

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if that's the war we're fighting right Okay, But okay,

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so that already got my attention. Are we losing? So

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I thought possibly that this email was going to outline

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how you and I as a Christian, how we're losing

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the spiritual war for America, and I'm like, okay, I

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want to see how I'm losing this war. Right underneath

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that subject line, we have their kind of little banner

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artwork has the American flag behind it, and then it

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says afa action action is all in red, all capitalized action.

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So this is one of their emails where they need

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you to do something. They're calling you to action that.

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A lot of times these emails will be like contact

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your congressmen, do that. It's always usually its political involvement,

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I know, shocking political involvement, over and over and over. Okay,

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But it says dear valued partner. And I don't know

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why they're referencing me as a valued partner because I'm

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not their partner. I'm their critic. Okay, I don't know

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why they would think I'm a valued partner. I'm not

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giving you a dime. I don't know why are you

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emailing me that I'm a valued partner? But okay, I

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ended up on their mailing list somehow. Right, here we go,

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first sentence, we are officially entering the most politically charged

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season and American life, the home stretch of a contentious

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presidential campaign. Now, immediately, I'm already concerned because the article

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that the subject line is are Christians losing the spiritual

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war for America? And the first sentence deals with politics.

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I already know there's a problem. I already know there's

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a problem. All right, Okay, I don't care what's going

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on in the political world. I don't care because as

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a Christian who's supposed to be thiologically minded, my war,

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my fight is not a political battle. It's not a

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carnal battle. It's a spiritual battle. And my weapons are

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not carnal. My weapons are spiritual. My weapons are not

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voting and boycotting and censoring and writing my congressman. That's

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not the war I'm involved in. All right, But okay,

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that's the first sentence, second sentence. As we reach this

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critical juncture, I want to make sure we don't lose

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the big picture amid all the campaign clickbait and the

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partisan rhetoric. Okay, all right, good, Okay, So maybe maybe

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I jumped the gun there. Maybe maybe that what they're

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going to do is like, hey, we don't need to

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get involved in all of that. We can't miss the

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big picture. So what is the big picture? Next sentence?

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We are facing a serious moral and spiritual emergency that

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won't be fixed overnight. All right, So we are facing

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a serious moral and spiritual emergency. Do you feel like

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we're facing a moral and spiritual emergency? All right? So

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it can't be fixed overnight, So what should we do?

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It will take long term, persistent prayer and efforts from

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people like you and me, all right, So we need

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persistent prayer, and then we've got to do something. We

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got to put forth our effort. You and me, We

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got to put forth our So what's our effort? What

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is this effort that we have to be involved in?

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What do we have to do because we are facing

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a spiritual and moral emergency? What should we do? Next

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little sentence or paragraph? Here we go as a Christian

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husband and father, yet also a conservative activist who is

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part of an organization and a family that has been

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confronting this emergency in our nation for nearly half a century.

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Let me let me make my perspective, very clear. All right,

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so he's a conservative activist. They've been fighting this battle

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for half a century. All right, Okay, how how's how's

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the battle going? What do you what have you been fighting?

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but let's let's see what the next sentence says. The

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political battles we fight as conservatives and the spiritual evils

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we fight as Christians are not separate issues. Oh boy,

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So political battles and spiritual evils, they're not separate. See

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them merging of the political and the spiritual. Hey, the

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political battles we fight and the spiritual evils we fight,

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they're not separate issues. Now we're merging the two. Already

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have a problem here. But okay, so what do we

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have to do? They go on to even double down.

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They are one and the same. Okay, they're the same.

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So we have we're fighting political battles and spiritual evils,

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and they're the same. So now we can Now you

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please know what you can do with this. Now you

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can obviously structure, you can frame all your political arguments

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as if you're fighting spiritual evil. So now you're always

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going to feel morally justified that your political perspective is

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always right because it's a spiritual thing as well. So

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this creates a major problem. So now you can frame

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your political enemies as your spiritual enemy. But all right,

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let's go to the next sentence. And I fear that

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we're in grave danger of losing the most important spiritual

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war we're facing as believers in America. Okay, we're in

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grave danger of losing the most important spiritual war we're

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facing as believers in America. We're in danger of losing

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the most important spiritual wars. We're in danger, ladies and gentlemen.

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Red alert, red alert, Right, we are in danger, all right,

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So what do we do? What do we do? What

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do we do? What do we do? It says we're

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in danger unless we change course now before the situation worsens.

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So we have to change course. Okay, what do we

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have to do? What do we have to do? Very

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next line is a hyperlink. If you are ready to

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join me on the battlefield, I need to hear from

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you today. Okay, wait a minute, wait a minute. All right,

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So he's on the battlefield. He's calling me to join

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him on the battlefield because he's on the battlefield. He's

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the spiritual one he's fighting. So he needs me to

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join him today. All right, So how do I join him?

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How do I join him? Let me click on the

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hyperlink give now to help turn the tide in America's furious,

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fiercest spiritual battles. No, wait a minute, Wait a minute. Okay,

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grave danger. We're in grave danger, ladies and gentlemen. We're

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in a spiritual emergency. We're in a moral emergency. So

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what do I need to do. I need to give

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money to turn the tide in America's fierce, fiercest spiritual battle.

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So the way we're going to fight this spiritual battle

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is I've got to give them money. You think I'm joking.

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I've clicked on the leak. Here's what it says. The

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enemies lies about unborn life, gender, family, Israel, Hamas, and

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our constitutional rights, continuing to have a death grip on

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millions of America's Americans, even pressuring many conservatives into silence,

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losing around. We are losing ground in the spiritual war

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for America right now, and Christian families must fight back

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before it's too late. We're losing ground. We've got to

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fight back. So how do we do this? You can

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help turn the tide. You can turn the tide today

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by donating to AFA Action today. Your gift will unleash

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three powerful divisions to fight for families at full strength

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through legislative action, legal influence, and voter education. So here's

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how we turn the battle in the spiritual war. Are

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you ready? Here's how we fight the spiritual war. You

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give money to American Family Association and then they're going

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to fight through legislative action, legal influence, and voter education.

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That's how we fight the spiritual war by giving them

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money so that they can engage in legislative action, legal influence,

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and voter education. Donate now to turn America back to God. Now,

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if I donate money to them, we'll turn America. We're

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going to turn America back to God by donating money

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to the American Family Association so that they can engage

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in legislative action, legal influence, and voter education. And that's

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going to turn America back to God. Ladies and gentlemen,

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this is an absolute financial scam. These people are heretics.

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That is not Christianity. They're ripping people off. You don't

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turn America back to God through legislative action, legal influence,

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or voter education. American Family Association is an absolute fraud.

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Here's how much they want to give. They want me

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to give. I can give twenty five dollars, fifty dollars,

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one hundred dollars, two hundred and fifty dollars. Or I

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can make my best gift and I can make this

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a monthly donation. Now. It says donate now and immediately.

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If I just click donate now, it's immediately gonna that

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the the starting gift is fifty dollars. I don't have

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words for how upset this makes me. This is an

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absolute fraud. This is what this is. This is this

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is just messed up. This is fleecing the flock of God.

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That's what it's doing. This is wrong. You're gonna tell

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me that we Hey, we're on the verge of complete

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spiritual catastrophe. It's almost over. It's it's a red alert.

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It's an emergency. We've got to turn people back to God.

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And how are they going to turn people back to God?

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Let me read their words again. They're going to turn

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the people back to God through hang on, let me,

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let me, let me go back to the link. They're

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gonna turn the people back to God through legislative action,

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legal influence, and voter education. None of that has anything

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with turning anyone back to God. That don't mention the Gospel,

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that don't preach, teach nothing. This is all political nonsense.

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This is a This is a arm of the Republican

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Party fleecing Christians for money. Now I'm not saying they're

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actually connected to the Republican Party, but obviously all they

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ever support is Republicans. That's what they support over and

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over and over and over again. But it's the thing

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is they think political involvement is how we're going to

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turn people back to God, and how are we going

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to do that by giving them money. There is not

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one verse in the Bible that talks about spiritual warfare

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in terms of how much money you need to engage

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in it. Now the email after that first hyperlink, they

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add this, the fact is, our task is not just

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to change minds on political issues, It is to change

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hearts on a spiritual level, to turn them back to God.

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To see, now, they're going to use good language that

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is true. We need to change hearts on a spiritual

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level to turn them back to God. But you're going

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to do that by getting my money so that you

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can engage in legislative action, legal action, and voter education. Well,

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you're not going to change anyone's heart spiritually through those

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three efforts that you want my money for. It says now,

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the fact that it says, think about the various evils

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are society is justifying now sacrificing millions of precious unborn

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lives to the idle of women's health, harboring sympathy for

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a hamas terrists instead of defending our ally Israel, jeopardizing

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the safety of our families by refusing to secure the border,

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celebrating the destructive hedonism of the LGBTQ agenda, endangering future

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generations by poorly stuarding our inflating national debt. These are

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not merely political issues. These are spiritual emergencies. And until

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hearts and minds turn back to God's, society will keep

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reaping the moral evils that it is sowing, whether Americans

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realize the spiritual implications or not. So how do we

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turn the tide on these important battlefronts how do we

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help turn hearts and minds back towards God and restore

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our nation's biblical foundation. We start by treating this as

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an emergency, like the spiritual warfare it truly is. Hey,

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what do we do? We got to see that this

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is an emergency. We are in a crisis with destruction

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is imminent. We've got to do something now. So far,

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only thing they've told me to do is to give

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them money. Let's see if they're going to offer something else. Oh,

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they mentioned prayer, but in passing. All right, it's time

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for our churches to stop being lukewarm and start realizing

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the political and social impact that they can have by

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standing for the truth. It's time for our politicians to

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stop being lukewarm as well and realize the spiritual, more

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implicate or impact that they can have standing for principles

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instead of poll numbers. It's time for conservative Christian families

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to do our part to stop the spiritual erosion of

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our nation by stepping on the battlefield and taking action.

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All right, So, hey, churches, don't be lukewarm. I basically

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get involved in politics. Politicians, be a better politician. Hey,

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Christian families, do your part. Stop to stop the spiritual

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erosion by stepping on the battlefield. How do you step

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on the battlefield? Right underneath that section that sentence, guess what,

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they have another hyper league. That's where that takes us

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once again too. Donate money, give now to help turn

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the tide in America's fiercest spiritual battles. So they've already

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now provided two hyperlinks so that I will give them

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money so that they can win the spiritual war. And

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how are they going to spiritual win the spiritual war?

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Legislative action, legal action and voter education. This is total?

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I am, this is blasphemous, is what this is? All right?

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Then they have another sentence underneath that hyperlink. AFA Action

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is leading the charge on these issues, and not to

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score political wins. Our focus is on fostering long term

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generational impact. The spiritual battles won't end in November, no

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matter what the election results are. That's why I believe

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American a Family Association's actions tide and true approach. Leveraging

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our long establishing influence on multiple sectors of society is

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the now effective investment is the most effective investment you

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can make. And responding to the emergency right now, So

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the most effective investment you can make and the spiritual

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war is to give them money. This is so boldface.

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And then right underneath that another hyperlink your gift today.

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If you click on that hyperlink, give now to help

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turn the tide in America's fierce to spiritual battles. So

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that is now three hyperlinks to give them money. Now,

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if I give them today, we'll help our three divisions fight,

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developing airtight legislative legislative protections, building a list of vetted

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or proven judicial nominees, and forming and mobilizing millions of voters.

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What they're going to do is all political, political, legislative

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and legal. Then after do that, there's another hyperlink, give

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now to help turn the tide in America's fierce spiritual battles.

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So so far they have now given me one, two, three,

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four hyperlinks. Oh wait, right underneath that five five hyperlinks.

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Armed with your prayers and support, we will win over

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hearts and minds and turn our wayward nation back to

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biblical values we hold dear. Then underneath that, give now

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to help turn America back to God. Another hyper link.

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The email is riddled with hyperlinks saying we're in between

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we're in a spiritual emergency. It's all over. We're all

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going to be destroyed, it's the end. But how can

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we win by sending them money? Ladies and gentlemen, that

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if that is the Christianity you support, and if that

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is the Christianity you think is biblical, then I'm finished.

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I'm done, let me out. I want nothing to do

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with this Christianity. This is not Christianity, it is not biblical, philological.

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It's a absolute, a political scam for you to give

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money so that they can involve be involved in politics

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and think that they're going to turn people back to

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God through legislative actions, through legal actions, through voter education.

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You're not turning anyone back to God that way. No one,

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Your liars, your heretics, your your whole thing. You're flacing

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the flock of God. And it should be condemned and

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it should be called out, and no one should support

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American Family Association. I'm just I'm done. I don't I

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don't even know what words to say. For though we

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walk in the flesh, we do not war. According to

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O the flesh, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,

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but mighty and God. For pulling down strongholds, casting down

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arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the

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knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the

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obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience

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when your obedience is fulfilled. No passage in the Bible

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says money is required to be victorious in a spiritual war.

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And you have to be the most arrogant group of

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people on the face of this earth to turn on

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or to send out an email or I haven't listened

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to their station in a while. I don't know if

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they're saying it on the station, but let me make

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it very clear. You've got to be arrogant to think, Hey, hey, guys, hey,

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we're in a spiritual crisis. We're in a spiritual emergency

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to struct and we need to fight the spiritual war.

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And what do we need. We need you to give

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us money so that we can do it. On your behalf.

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That would be me turning on this microphone saying, hey,

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ladies and gentlemen, we're in a spiritual philological crisis. Heresy

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is running rampant. False doctrine has infiltrated the church, and

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this broadcast serves as a beacon of truth. And if

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you want us to help fight the spiritual darkness, send

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me money. Now, some ministries do very that almost give

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that little propaganda that I just gave. Now, money is

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required for ministry to function. I understand that, but I

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don't money to fight a spiritual war. Now. I need

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money to broadcast. I need money to pay bills, like,

461
00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:17.960
let's not try to spiritualize it. I need money because well,

462
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:20.480
as a spreaker just charged me, that's twenty dollars, okay,

463
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So I just had to pay that. I don't know

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how many more days until I have to pay sixty

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for sermons. Sermon's two point zero, So I have to

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pay money. But that's where money goes to pay those bills.

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To frame it as ladies and gentlemen, we're in we're

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in a we're about to lose our nation, We're about

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to all we're all going to basically fall off the

470
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cliff and plunge into the abyss. And how can you help?

471
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How can we stop this? How can we turn back?

472
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Send me money? And you know what's sad, Let's just look,

473
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let's see if we can find out. I don't know

474
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if I can find out let me just look. I'm curious.

475
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Hang on, hang on, I'm gonna look something up. Let's

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just see here, see if I can find out?

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All right, are you ready for this? The American Family

478
00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:54.000
Association typically brings in around eighteen million dollars annually from donations.

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In recent years, donations have accounted for approximately eighty four

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percent to ninety five percent of their total revenue. For instance,

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in twenty nineteen, AFA received about eighteen million in contributions,

482
00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:07.640
representing eighty four percent of their total revenue of twenty

483
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:11.559
one point five million. Their revenue slightly fluctuates, but remains

484
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within this range. AFA's financials are largely sustained by these donations,

485
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along with smaller amounts from investments, royalties, and property income.

486
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Eighteen million dollars they bring in because people are giving

487
00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:31.359
them money to turn the country back to God, to

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stop the spiritual emergency, to stop the spiritual erosion, to

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win the spiritual war eighteen million dollars a year. I

490
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don't have words for it, ladies and gentlemen. I don't

491
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even know what to say. I don't know what to say.

492
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There is what's going on in the world of Christianity.

493
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Most people don't care. Most people won't say anything about it.

494
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No one's going to criticize it. Hey, but hey, American

495
00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:11.079
Family Association, if if they hear this, they'll get ticked

496
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off at me. But hey, you sent me the email.

497
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I didn't ask for your email. You sent it to me.

498
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I definitely didn't sign up for you to send me

499
00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:24.360
emails asking for money for your so called spiritual war.

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Eighteen million dollars. Give me a break. What could I

501
00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:37.360
do with a million dollars? What could I do with

502
00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:40.559
five hundred thousand dollars? What could I do for four

503
00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:42.920
hundred thousand, three hundred? What could I do for one

504
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:56.800
hundred thousand? This is Look, if you don't believe this,

505
00:34:57.400 --> 00:34:59.800
then you're just you're I'm sorry, You're just you've lost

506
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You're you're you're just you're you're just confused. I don't

507
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know what else to say. Christianity whatever, Christianity, the truth

508
00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:12.480
of Christianity about Christ. Okay, that's one thing. But Christianity

509
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or Churchianity, ministries, buildings, churches, all of that, whether you

510
00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:24.840
like it or not, it's one giant business where God

511
00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:30.840
in Jesus is the product they sell. The moral Reformation

512
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of the country. It is that. That's what this has

513
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turned into. It's a business. It operates as a business.

514
00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:38.559
We got to bring in new people. We got to

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bring in new people. We got to bring in money.

516
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We gotta build new things, We gotta have activities. We

517
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:46.679
gotta keep people happy, bring in more people, bring in

518
00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:49.320
the money, Bring in the money, bring in the money,

519
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:56.280
bring in the money. The vicious cycle. It's it's no longer.

520
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As much as we want to, we we we we

521
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wrap it in a row before religiosity. We wrap it

522
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in a robe of spirituality. But it's money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money.

523
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Now I do understand it takes money for ministries to operate.

524
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I know that. But once money gets involved, it's inevitable

525
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that it can operate as a business. I know that.

526
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I struggle with with this podcast. Now, once it was

527
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completely once this was much more connected to a church,

528
00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:33.920
the church basically took care of everything. As that's winding down,

529
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then how how do I operate? I don't know. So

530
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I understand the difficulties and how does that work? But

531
00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:46.719
man alive so much Christianity is just one operate a

532
00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:51.280
business where billions of dollars go through it. Think of

533
00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:54.559
all the money that goes to churches each year, how

534
00:36:54.639 --> 00:36:57.199
much money goes to Look up your favorite ministry and

535
00:36:57.199 --> 00:36:59.440
see how much money they bring in. Look up John

536
00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:04.039
MacArthur's ministry, how much money comes in every year? Renewing

537
00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:06.639
your mind with RC. Sproll's ministry. Just look at the

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00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:09.440
ministries and look at and look up how much money

539
00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:15.159
comes in every year. The numbers are utterly staggering, and

540
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:18.000
in many cases, the best you get from some of

541
00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:22.760
these ministries is a twenty five minute program that airs

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00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:25.760
Monday through Friday, a twenty That's all you get for

543
00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:28.880
millions upon millions upon millions of dollars. You get a

544
00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:33.199
twenty five minute little radio spot. That's what for millions

545
00:37:33.239 --> 00:37:36.199
of dollars, and Christians just throw the money at it.

546
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Throw the money at it, or someone sitting in a

547
00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:43.199
it could be in a broken down room with a

548
00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:47.119
microphone and a computer, could broadcast five hours a day

549
00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:50.039
and nobody will support that. But some you see, you

550
00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:53.480
got to have celebrity. If you have celebrity, boom money.

551
00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:56.639
If you have a name like American Family Association, eighteen

552
00:37:56.719 --> 00:37:58.559
million dollars come in. Have you have a name like

553
00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:02.400
John MacArthur or RC Sprawl. Millions of dollars will pour

554
00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:09.679
in for what for a twenty five minute little edited sermon.

555
00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:12.719
I mean it's a sermon. Ah, they are edited sermons.

556
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They have the voice introduction and the voice outro, and

557
00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:18.079
they just take a sermon, preach that a church. And

558
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then that's why you're paying millions of dollars. That's what

559
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:30.679
millions of dollars are coming in to support you. Just

560
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look up your favorite ministry. How much money comes in

561
00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:39.679
just by all means. Look it up. Eighteen million dollars

562
00:38:39.719 --> 00:38:43.800
a year to fight a spiritual war. Well, what's happened?

563
00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:45.719
You've been doing this? I think they said, I don't

564
00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:49.440
even know how many long American Family Association is Hang on.

565
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:50.320
What year.

566
00:38:51.719 --> 00:39:02.480
Did the American Family Association begin?

567
00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:12.760
Nineteen seventy seven? Night they've been fighting supposedly the spiritual

568
00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:16.360
war since nineteen seventy seven. Well, what happened? Eighteen million

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00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:17.159
dollars a year?

570
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What?

571
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What? What have you done? What have you accomplished? Because

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00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:23.960
now we're in a spirit You've been fighting it since

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nineteen seventy seven, but now in twenty twenty four, we

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are in an emergency it's an erosion emergency. It's all

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the end, isn't there? And what do you need? You

576
00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:35.760
need more money? Well, how much more money do you

577
00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:44.559
need before you win on the war? Eighteen million dollars?

578
00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:50.159
Give me a break. And what are you going to

579
00:39:50.239 --> 00:40:02.119
use that eighteen million dollars for? Politics? Legal challenges? I

580
00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:09.119
have no words. I wish I could say something profound.

581
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I would just say go read First Peter five eight,

582
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read Ephesian six, read Second Corinthians ten. And you tell

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me how spiritual war is to be fought? How much

584
00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:21.079
money does it take? You tell me? Thanks for listening, everyone,

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have a great day. God bless