Tis true for lasting life; come, if he will not cast out, heath on the good, shast'ning the sun.
Tis true for lasting life.
Amen, good, sing it this time.
Three of five, sing with me on the first.
Far, far away, in heathen darkness dwelling, missiles forever may belong.
Who? salvation, storytelling, looking to Jesus, minding not the cost.
All, bow down to me, all to me, to all, then preach the gospel.
Heaven doors inviting soldiers of Christ arise and enter in chins away.
Forces all unite, serve the gospel, break the chains of sin.
All, to me, and preach the gospel.
The voice of God is called, that thou say from death upon salvation.
Therefore, go pro to me, the gospel, the day every nation shall see.
Joy sing in salvation, cheer for the Lord the good.
See, at this time we'll have Brother Paul, could you bless the tithe for us?
Father, thank you so much for what you have, and Lord, please remember that we have what we need, and Lord, we even have enough to help each other.
In these holidays, in these cold times, can they help speed it down?
Lord, have you given us enough that we may not need to beg again?
Just say Amen.
Revelation chapter 20, Revelation chapter 20.
Sorry, Revelation chapter 20 and verse 1.
"And he saw the angel come down from heaven, having the keys of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.
And he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more,
till the thousand years should be fulfilled. And after that he must be loosened a little season.
And I saw the thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them.
And I saw the soul of them, that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus,
and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image,
neither had received the mark upon his forehead, or in their hands. And they did live,
and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again,
until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection. On such the second
death hath no power. But they shall be priests of God and Christ, and shall reign with him
a thousand years. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosened out of his
prison, and shall go to deceive the nations, which are in the four quarters of the earth,
Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, the number of whom is the sands of the sea.
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and could pass the camp of Satan about. In the
beloved city, the fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that
deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet
are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. And I saw a great white throne,
and him that sat on it, for whose face the earth and the heavens fled away,
and there found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God,
and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead
were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to the works. And the sea
gave up the dead which were in it, and the dead in hell derived up the dead which were in them.
And they were judged, every man according to their works. And the death and hell were cast
in the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book
of life was cast into the lake of fire. Daniel, would you play for the sermon?
Revelation chapter number 12, which was apparently not a long enough chapter,
but we're here in Revelation 12. If you want to look down there at verse number nine,
says, "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the devil, and Satan which deceived
the whole world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." And I want
you to notice here in Revelation 12 that the devil, you know, the devil's being cast out,
but what does it say about the devil? It says, "which deceiveeth the whole world," right? Now,
this means that the devil here is successful in actually deceiving the whole world, right? Which
means that the devil is, he's a great deceiver, right? And so the devil, and this is talked about
throughout the Bible. Go ahead and turn to Revelation chapter number 20. I'm going to
read for you 2 Corinthians 4, verse number 4. It says, "In whom the God of this world
hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,
who is the image of God, should shine unto them." So notice again here the devil, he's blinding
people, right? And, you know, what would we, you know, if somebody is deceived, right, we would say
that this person is blind, right? I mean that's one of the ways we characterize unsaved people
that don't understand the gospel is that they are blind, right? Now obviously they're not physically
blind, you know, that's generally not the issue when people don't believe the gospel, but it's
the fact that they're blind spiritually. But, you know, why is it that they're blind spiritually
is because they're deceived into believing in some other form of the gospel, right? And so again,
the devil here, his goal is to go out and to deceive the world, right? And then in Revelation
chapter number 20, verse number one, it says, "And I saw an angel come down from heaven,
having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold upon the
dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast
him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should notice this,
deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled. And after that,
he must be loosed a little season." And if you skip down to verse number eight, it says, "And
shall go out and deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog,
to gather them together to battle, the number of them whom is as the sand of the sea." And then
verse number 10, it says, "And the devil that deceived them was cast in the lake of fire and
brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night forever
and ever." And so, you know, again, we're seeing a consistent pattern here of the devil being a
deceiver, right? Being somebody that goes out and has a great deception. And notice though that,
you know, Revelation 20 and, you know, all these verses that I've read so far, making it actually
pretty clear that the devil, he's doing this like right now, right? And, you know, and then this
doesn't have really anything to do with my, the point of my sermon tonight, but, you know, I just,
I, you know, I want to kick this dog every time I come by it because it just, it bugs me so much
that this post-millennial crap is gaining traction in our world today. It just, it bugs me to know
when, you know, people, they find out that Zionism is wrong. And so then they just completely throw
the baby out with the bathwater and they just reject entire sections of scripture. I mean,
they just completely reject Revelation 20. They just completely reject Matthew chapter number 24.
They completely reject first Thessalonians chapter number two, and just follow this complete stupidity
of saying that, well, the devil's not deceiving the world right now because, you know, because
we're actually in the millennium right now, which means that the devil is chained and he's, you know,
he's in the bottomless pit, right? It's like, what are you talking about? The devil is not chained
into the bottom of the split right now. What, what is he doing? He's actually going out to
deceive the world. And I mean, if you just look at the world today, the world is deceived. I mean,
just look at the entire nation of India and China today. They're deceived. I mean,
he's got people in India right now, bowing down to cows and like flicking cow pee in their eyes.
And they think that the cow is their reincarnated great uncle or something. It's like they're
deceived today. You know, and you know, you've got, you know, all of China, you know, they're all
worshiping Buddha or whatever, some fat statue. It's like, you know, what, but I guess technically
that's not Buddha, but whatever. To me, that's Buddha. It is just some fat guy who's laying on
his side, being lazy all day. I don't, you know, I mean, they're worshiping this weirdo Buddha or
whatever, you know, at least they're not flicking cow pee in their eye. You know, I'll give them
that, you know, but they're deceived today. Okay. And you've got the Roman Catholics, you know,
they're over there chanting, you know, hail Mary full of grace, sling those beads all over the place.
You know, they're, they're deceived, right? So, you know, God has been, excuse me, the God of this
world has been very successful at deceiving the nations today. Okay. And in first Corinthians,
or excuse me, second Corinthians, 11 verse number three, it says, "But I fear less by any means,
as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your mind should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ." So once again, we have, you know, Satan, you know, through his
subtlety, he's beguiling people, he's tricking people, he's deceiving people. And in, in second
Peter, chapter number two, and this is, this is the MO, you know, of Satan's ministers as well.
And it says in second Peter, chapter number two, verse number 13, it says, "And shall receive the
reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to write in the daytime, spots they are,
and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you, having eyes
full of adultery they cannot seize from sin, beguiling unstable souls, and a heart that they
have exercised with covetous practices, per sidd, children." Right? So we can see here that, you know,
that the ministers of Satan basically here, these are false prophets that are being described,
you know, what are they doing? They're sporting themselves with their own deceivings. They're
going out to deceive people. And I believe it's in Ephesians chapter number five. I didn't put this
in my notes, but it just came to my mind where the Bible says in Ephesians chapter number five
that basically that there's people that are lying in wait to deceive people. And I can't remember
exactly which verse it is, but I believe it's in Ephesians chapter number five. Who knows which
verse I'm talking about, and could find it really fast. Verse number six is, "Let no man deceive you
with vain words because of these things cometh wrath upon God, upon the children of disobedience."
No, that is not the verse, but that's a good one. Where he says, and now I can't even think of it
now. I mean the pressure is getting to me today, but he says, "Where they lie in wait to deceive."
All right, but it's in there somewhere. No, I'm pretty sure it's not Proverbs one, but you know,
that's a good verse too. But the Bible describes Satan and his minions as people that go out to
deceive, right? To go out and to trick people, right? You know, they don't want people to know
the truth, they want them to believe and accept a lie. But in second Peter chapter number two,
verse number 19, we get one of the ways that the devil does this, okay? And this is kind of one
of the main ways that the devil deceives people today. And it says in that verse, second Peter 2
19, it says while they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption for whom
a man is overcome of the same he has brought in bondage. So notice there at the beginning of that
verse, it says while they promise them liberty, right? So what is one of the things that the
devil is offering to people to try to trick them and try to deceive them? Well it's liberty, it's
freedom, right? And you know that's one of the things if you go ahead and turn to Genesis chapter
number one, in fact this is one of the very first strategies that Satan even used against mankind
is in a way basically the promise of liberty and the promise of freedom. And if you go to
Genesis chapter number three look at verse number one it says, "Now the serpent was more subtle than
any beast of the field which the Lord God had made and said unto the woman, 'Yea hath God said,
he shall not eat of every tree of the garden.'" And a lot of times you know we come to this
verse and we focus in on the fact that basically the devil is questioning what God said. Basically
he's saying hey did he did God really say that right? Which is of course a completely valid point
but there's kind of another aspect I wanted to look at this with. Verse number two and it says,
"And the woman said unto the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden but of the
fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God hath said ye shall not eat of it neither
shall ye touch it lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman ye shall not surely die for
God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof when your your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as
God's knowing good and evil. So the devil here basically he's telling Eve that the God you know
God just doesn't want you to have this secret knowledge right he's he's trying to limit you
you see God doesn't want you to have liberty he God doesn't want you to have freedom you know God
God is stopping you from doing something that you should be able to do and so therefore basically
he's offering basically this kind of false liberty right like saying hey you know you should be able
to go and eat this tree and God God is holding this I mean I mean God may be letting you uh eat
from all these other trees but but how come he's stopping you from from this tree right like what's
up with that you know he's not allowing you to have any freedom he's being he's being pretty
repressive here right and so this is this is you know one of the first tactics that the devil
uses is basically offering this false liberty this false freedom and you know the devil is using
this tactic all the way till this day let's see here go to go ahead and turn to Galatians chapter
number five Galatians chapter number five it says for brethren you have been called unto liberty
only use not liberty for an occasion against the flesh but by love serve one another so you know
according to the bible you know liberty liberty is something that's that is positive right because
the bible says hey you've been called unto liberty so having freedom and having liberty is is something
that is positive in the bible but the devil wants to basically seduce people with false freedom and
false liberty right and you know the devil would want to paint the bible and paint the biblical
way of doing things as something that's repressive and something that's that's trying to stop you
from having fun stop you from living the life to your fullest and you know basically preventing you
from living the life the way that you want to live it right and and preventing you from having
liberty and putting chains around you and wrapping limits and and you know all kinds of things that
are going to stop you from just having all the liberty that you want right and so you know we
know from the bible that the devil you know he's the father of life right and so you know he may
be able to paint a picture like oh yeah you know if you if you live the Christian life you're just
going to live this repressed you know boring life it's like you're in chains all the time
but really that's not true right just like in the Garden of Eden you know the devil's like hey
you know God just doesn't want you to have this secret knowledge because he wants to repress you
because he wants to block you because he wants to he doesn't want you to have fun and he doesn't
want you to be like him right but but God it's not like he's taking liberty away from them he's not
like he's giving them a repressive life or something because they have like every option in the world
right because the Bible says that they could eat of the trees of the garden they can eat of whatever
tree they wanted except for one tree now you know if if if the government were like that if the
government were like what God had in the Garden of Eden I would be very happy I'd be like this is
great we actually have a lot of freedom like this is the most free you could ever be there's only one
rule you know like if there was just one rule or they're like okay here's our one rule you know
you can't go on the Capitol right then it's like all right let's get all the January Sixers we're
gonna get our freedom back right you know and they storm the Capitol whatever you know if
but if that was like the only rule then like okay don't set foot on the Capitol I'd be like
great that was ugly anyways you know I'm not going to you know I never wanted to go to the
Capitol in the first place you know I'm just going to go you know live my life right that would be
a lot of freedom right I mean that's like Ab and Eve in the Garden of Eden and it's like all right
just don't eat that one fruit you know you got all other all these other trees and you know you know
we don't know how big the Garden of Eden was but I'm sure it was you know it probably wasn't like
the size of this room, right? It's just like, "Well, there's three trees and you can't eat one."
There's probably a lot of trees, right? There's probably a huge space, you know? And so they had,
they could just go do whatever they want, right? And then they can eat any tree, but there's just
one tree. There's one rule. And Satan comes along, he's like, "Hey, you know, you need to get the Mises
Institute, right? You know, you need to get liberty. You need to be, you know, you need to learn about
the 10th Amendment and how God can't, you know, he doesn't have the power to do this to you.
You need to be liberated, man!" You know, but what's the trick? Well, the trick is, it's like,
okay, yeah, you know, you, technically, you're going to get the knowledge of good and evil.
But then, you know, pretty much all of your liberty is going to be taken away. You can't even live in
the garden anymore. I mean, it's like, you know, the devil comes along, tricks people on, you know,
into going into the Capitol. You know, a bunch of feds come along, trip people to go into the
Capitol, and they're in prison, right? Now they have no freedom anymore, right? Because, you know,
because they had the feds come in and egg them on. But, you know, but the devil, you know, he
tricks Adam and Eve into eating of the fruit, and now they have the consequences of sin on them,
right? And, you know, how free are they now once they've been kicked out of the Garden of Eden,
and now they're having to, you know, Adam, he has to go out and provide food by the sweat of his
brow his whole life, and then, you know, Eve, poor Eve, has to give childbirth, you know, there's,
you know, several ladies in here that have, you know, given childbirth a few times, and, you know,
it's like when you're in childbirth, it's like, you know, you don't feel very free at that point,
you know, like, yes, my liberty is coming in handy, right? You know, that's not exactly,
so it causes a lot of issues, right? And so, you know, your freedom is basically taken away,
okay? But in our everyday life, you know, the devil, he wants to paint God as this repressive
God that's trying to take away freedom from people. In reality, that is not true. God's
goal is never to take anybody's freedom away, but in fact, in Galatians chapter number five, it says,
"For brethren, ye have been called unto liberty." And you know, now, you know, because of Adam and
Eve's sin, we're all sinners, right? And so we're all kind of in that bondage of sin, but God has
come literally to give us freedom, to give us liberty. Liberty from what? Liberty from sin,
right? And go ahead and turn to, we're actually, we're in Galatians five, but go ahead and look at
verse number 16. It says, "This I say then, walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of
the flesh. For the lust, excuse me, for the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against
the flesh. And these are contrary one to another, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
But if ye be led of the spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest,
which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry,
rich craft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders,
drunkenness, revelings, and such like, of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you
in the time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. And so,
you know, Galatians is painting the picture of here, basically you have people that are walking
in the spirit and people that are walking in the flesh, right? And of course, we know as saved
believers, you know, we have the ability to walk in the spirit, but we still have the ability to
walk in the flesh, right? And it said in verse number 17, it says, "So that you cannot do the
things that you would." So, you know, there's certain things that as believers that we want to do,
right? But there's times that we can't do those things. Why? Because we're walking in the flesh.
And so the Bible is commanding us here, obviously, to walk in the Spirit and avoid walking in the
flesh. Because, you know, when you're walking in the flesh, you're not a free person. Why? Because
basically you're a servant of sin at that point. You're serving your flesh. Now, you know, a lot
of people, they get this idea that, "Well, you know, I just don't want to be a servant to anybody or
anything. I don't want anybody to be in charge of me. I don't want anybody to tell me what to do."
But the thing about it is, in reality, everybody is going to have somebody above them, right? I mean,
right now, you can't just go do whatever you want. You know, if you're like, "Well, God's not going
to tell me what to do," you know, somebody's going to tell you what to do, right? Because if you go
literally just do whatever you want, you know, you're probably going to end up in prison, right?
That's the reality of our world today. You know, if you're like, "Well, that person made me mad, so,
you know, pop, blew him away," you're going to go to prison, right? You're going to lose your
freedom. And, of course, you know, that's an extreme example. And, you know, in general,
you know, people just don't, you know, aren't going to take it to that extreme.
But, you know, if you just literally just go do whatever you want, right, you're going to end up
going down a dark road. And it's not going to be good. I mean, anybody that literally does that,
where they just, "I do whatever I want," I guarantee you they'll end up in prison at some point.
You know, otherwise, they'll be like running from the law, surviving in the forest somewhere,
because they know if they're seen by anybody, they're going to get arrested and thrown in
prison. Because, you know, somebody that just follows just anything that they want to do,
they just go ahead and do it. That is going to be an extremely wicked person in a very short
period of time, okay? And, you know, when somebody just indulges the flesh like that,
you know, very quickly, they're going to basically lose kind of that, you know,
it kind of like slowly burns away that conscience to where, you know, they're going to not feel bad
for just doing whatever they want, right? And so they're going to take a dark path.
And so, you know, people that just do what literally whatever they want, they lose their
freedom. And so it's a trick, it's a trap of the devil that he wants people to just hate. I mean,
I think that's even part of like the Church of Satan's, that's like one of their mottos or
whatever, you know, "Do as thou wilt shall be." How does that go? "Do as thou wilt shall be the
whole of the law." I think that's like the guy that invented the Church of Satan, that's like his
famous quote, right? "Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." I mean, even that phrase
itself, what's it promising? Liberty. You know, don't let anybody tell you what to do, just do
whatever you want. "Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." And if you're not doing what
you want, then you're breaking the law, right? And so, but again though, it's deceptive liberty.
It's just out to trick you. And you know, a really good example of this would be, you know,
somebody that starts doing drugs, right? You know, I think this is like a perfect example of it,
because when somebody starts doing, you know, drugs, you know, what are they doing?
Well, they're just fulfilling the lust of the flesh, like, "Hey, I want to experience getting
high." And, you know, they're doing, they're doing as they will. And, you know, nobody's going to
stop them. You know, nobody's, they're not going to have anybody tell them, you know, they've been
warned a thousand times when they were in school, "Don't do drugs." And they're just like, "I'm just
going to do it anyway, because nobody's going to tell me what to do. Nobody's going to take my
liberty away, my freedom away. I'm free to do whatever drugs I want. You know, I'm a true
libertarian. And, you know, and, you know, I believe the Constitution, you know, allows me to be able
to do drugs because they had to have an amendment to get rid of alcohol. And so, you know, whatever,
you know, the libertarian in me, I guess, is coming out. But, you know, they have this mindset of no
one's going to tell me what to do. I'm going to do what I want. But then pretty soon you're not just
doing drugs because you elected to do that anymore. They're doing drugs because they have to,
because if they don't, you know, they're just going to go nuts because they have these cravings and
these withdrawals and pretty soon they're chained, you know, they're just a drug addict and, you know,
they have to, you know, overcome this huge hurdle in order to not do drugs anymore, right? Is that
a free person? I mean, if you saw a drug dealer or a drug addict on the side of the road begging for
food, you know, missing half of his teeth, you know, sleeping outside every night and, you know,
relying on shelters and Catholic charities to feed him, he's not really a free person at that
point. Like, I would not say, "Hey, that's a free person," right? You know, if you compared that
drug addict, you know, to like a fundamental Baptist, you know, that has a wife and kids,
you know, and a steady income and all that stuff, like, you know, I would say this, you know,
the fundamental Baptist is more free. Fundamental Baptist has more liberty than the drug addict,
okay? But the, you know, the drug addict, he got tricked into believing that, "Oh, you know, oh yeah,
you can just do whatever you want, anytime you want." And, you know, nobody's going to tell me no.
Nobody's going to, you know, those, you know, bunch of squares, bunch of sticking to my Baptist,
you know, they're trying to tell me how to live my life, you know, like they know better than me.
I'm not going to listen to them. I'm just going to do what I want, right? The freedom has gone away
at that point, right? You know, and here's the thing, like, you know, what is it that God is
trying to, you know, with his laws, right? What is it that God is trying to prevent people from doing?
I mean, stuff like that. I mean, and in here in Anglician chapter number five, it gives us a list
of things that God wants to prevent us from doing, you know, adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
heresies, envying, murderers, drunkenness, revelings, and such like. I mean, that's just
a list of things I just really want to do. I just can't wait to do all of it. I mean,
is that our attitude today? Like, I just, that's what I really want to do, right? But I mean,
these are like the big things that God is trying to prevent us from doing, right? And, you know,
getting involved in a lot of these things, I mean, these are a lot of good ways to, you know,
lose your freedom, you know, like adulteries, you know, fornications. Those are good ways to
pick up diseases, right? And then, you know, if you're like living in a hospital because you got
AIDS or whatever, then that's not a very free life, right? And then, you know, let's see here,
murderers, like that's a really good way to lose your freedom, right? But, you know, drunkenness,
revelings, you know, obviously, those are ways that people, in a way, they lose their freedoms
all the time. You know, there's lots of different ways to lose your freedoms to drunkenness,
because, like, if you become an alcoholic, you know, and you can't go a day without drinking,
like, that's, you know, you're not really a free person at that point, right? Because, you know,
it's like, ah, you know, if you're without your alcohol, you become, like, a different person,
right? And so, you know, also, you know, obviously, if, you know, you end up in a, in a drunk driving
accident or whatever, that's an obvious way that people lose their freedoms, right? So, you know,
but I mean, all of these different things, though, if you're, if you're engaged in those activities,
you know, you're basically become a servant to those things. And instead of, you know,
serving God, you're serving the lust of your flesh, you know, or like if you're, if you're
engaged in witchcraft, you're serving Satan, right? And so, you know, I mean, these people are like,
hey, we want to rebel against God because, you know, he's, he's taking away our freedoms.
Well, you know, it's not like you're gaining any freedoms by switching over to Satan's side
and serving him, right? You're just serving a God that doesn't love you. You know, you're serving
the God of this world that doesn't love you instead of a God that actually does love you, right?
And so, you know, you know, and Satan, he, he's not offering these, these different things
to try to help anybody. He's specifically offering these things to harm people,
Right? Because Satan's goal is to never make anybody's life better. His goal is always to make people's lives worse. Right? And, you know, to end a lot of people's lives, because that's, you know, one of, I mean, that's why Satan is always in the child sacrifice and killing as many people as possible, because he wants to end as much life as he can. And so, you know, the things that the devil is offering, you know, are not things that are going to lead to freedom, but are things that are going to lead to enslavement. Right?
You know, and if we think about it on like on a national level, you know, God doesn't bless nations by taking away their freedom, right?
He blesses nations by giving them freedom, you know, and I believe America has been a very blessed nations over the centuries because we have had a lot of freedom.
And even today, as individual Americans, you know, we still have a lot of freedom.
You know, if you if we compare America to the kind of the rest of the world, like if you compared it to China or even North Korea,
you know, or or like Russia or these different places, we have we have a lot of freedom today.
You know, I was watching this video about this family from Canada, this, you know, this farming family,
they moved over to Russia, you know, and they're talking about how, well, they're not allowed to have guns.
You know, I'm just like, like, why?
Why would you move to Russia where you're not allowed to have guns?
You know, you have less freedom over there.
Like, you know, maybe they have more freedom than Canada does in other ways.
But I'm like, why didn't you move to America where you have the freedom to have guns?
Like, you know, to me, it's just, I don't know, it blows my mind.
But it's like, you know, but again, if you compare America to, like, even Canada,
you know, in Canada, like, you're not allowed, if you have guns, you can have certain guns, right?
I'm sure you have to go through a bunch of licensing and all this crazy stuff to get a gun.
But even if you have a gun, you're not allowed to shoot too much or, like, too fast
in a way that somebody could interpret to be in a militaristic-type way where you're, like, training.
Because if you're training with guns in Canada, that's against the law because that's, like, militia-type stuff.
You're trying to overthrow the government.
So if you're, like, target shooting, you're like, "Right, you know, I'm going to shoot at, you know, 500 yards,
and I'm going to get really good at shooting at 500 yards."
Well, that's like militia activity.
You're trying to overthrow the government.
You're going to prison.
I mean, that's insane to me.
That's absolutely crazy.
And then it's just, it's even worse in Europe and in Australia and, you know, in these other places.
And so, you know, America has been a very blessed nation because we do have a lot of freedoms today in America.
And, you know, I believe it's because at the founding and, you know, the first couple hundred years of America,
America was a God-fearing nation.
Now, obviously, most people were not necessarily saved or like fundamental Baptists or anything.
But at least the vast majority of people in America did fear God and they reverenced God, right?
And so, you know, that's I believe that's why we have a lot of freedom today.
But, you know, there's a lot of false freedom out there that people get in in their individual lives.
Go ahead and turn to Romans chapter number six.
If I could get a glass of water, that would be fantastic.
Here in Romans chapter number six, look at verse number 14.
It says, "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law, but under grace.
What then shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace?
God forbid, know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey,
whose servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness.
But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Being then made free from sin ye became the servants of righteousness."
So we see here in Romans chapter number 6, you know, that basically God is giving us two options.
You can be either the servant of God or the servant of sin, right?
Because we're always going to be somebody's servant.
You know, these people, you know, these people that think they've liberated themselves from God because they became, you know, an atheist or whatever,
and they're like, "Ah, I've been enlightened."
You know, at the end of the day, they're still serving something.
Everybody is going to serve something.
You know, Donald Trump today, you know, you think Donald Trump is just his own man
and he can just do whatever he wants?
No, no, he cannot.
He's got his masters.
And let me tell you, you know, they wear a little tiny hat, right?
And, you know, they tell him what to do.
You know, he doesn't have the option to just, you know, do whatever he wants.
No, he has his boss, okay?
And, you know, those little people running around, you know, they rule the world
and control all the nations everywhere.
I mean, they've spread their ideology across the globe.
You're like, the Jews don't have that much influence.
Well, I mean, they have a lot of influence, my friend.
I mean, even there's this little nation in the world today called China.
And they've had communist government for basically, what, ever since like 1948
or whenever that war ended, they've had a communist government.
You know, where did communism come from, my friend?
That came from the Jews.
The Jews invented communism.
China is a communist country today because of the Jews, okay?
But here's the thing, you know, the Jews are like,
oh yeah, you know, we rule the world, we're our own boss.
Well, guess what?
You know, the Jews have their boss, okay?
The Jews are not just their own, you know,
they don't just make their own decisions, you know,
they don't have, oh, you know, the Jews, you know,
we have our liberty, you know?
Nobody else in the world has liberty,
but we have liberty 'cause we rule the world
and we control all the governments
and we control all the banks and the movies
and we control the pharmaceutical industry,
we control everything.
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You know?
But here's the thing, though.
They don't have freedom either.
Why?
Because they have their daddy as their boss.
Now, who's their daddy?
It says, and remember, this is Jesus said this, okay?
In John chapter number eight, verse number 44,
it says, "Ye are of your father the devil,
"and the lust of your father ye will do.
"He was a murderer from the beginning
"and a bode not in the truth
"because there is no truth in him
"when he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own,
"for he is a liar and the father of it."
So notice that.
It says, "The lust of your father ye will do."
Now, are they just fulfilling their own lusts
out of their own freedom, out of their own heart,
because they have just liberty and they can do it?
No, no.
They gotta do what their daddy tells them to do.
They have to perform the lusts
that their daddy gave them, right?
And so, I mean, that's why we see
that they're just the most wicked people on planet Earth
and just everywhere they go,
the morals decline and everything,
and that's why they're doing transgender surgeries
in Germany in 1920 or whatever.
You know, it's because they, I mean,
it's not like, you know, the little Jew in Germany,
he's like, you know, that's what I really want to do,
you know, it's because he has his dad
that he has to do what his dad tells him what to do.
Okay, why?
'Cause he's a servant of Satan, right?
So, you know, again, you know, all these people,
they think they have all this freedom and liberty
and they can just do whatever they want,
but in reality, you know, you're basically,
you're either serving sin, the flesh, or even Satan,
or you're gonna walk in the spirit
and you're gonna be serving God, right?
And so, you know, people need to choose, you know,
who they wanna serve, right?
And, you know, the devil, obviously,
he wants us to get away from the Bible
and away from what the Bible says.
You know, like, you know, the Bible says,
hey, you know, don't drink alcohol,
and what does the devil want?
He wants you to, hey, you know, God, you know,
he's being a square, you know,
you need to just get out and drink alcohol and have fun.
You know, you're living this boring,
stick-in-the-mud lifestyle, you know,
this straight-laced, boring lifestyle.
That's no fun.
You know, why don't we get you out to go ahead
and drink alcohol, right?
You know, and there's lots of different various things,
like, you know, fornication's a big one,
where it's like, you know,
people have a problem today with Christianity
because, you know, they teach us sinful to fornicate.
It's like, you know, that's false freedom, my friend.
You know, the best thing for young men
and for young women is to get married,
and then you can have all the fun you want,
and it's the best fun, okay?
You know, you don't have to worry about, you know,
all this disease, and you don't have to worry about,
you know, accidentally knocking somebody up,
and then, you know, they leave you,
and you have to pay child support,
or they murder your child, you know, God forbid,
you know, something horrible like that.
I mean, is that freedom today,
when, you know, if you knock some girl up,
and then she murdered the child,
and then you have to think about that
for the rest of your life?
I mean, I don't even, you know,
I have no idea what that would be like,
and I don't wanna find out at all,
'cause I think that would bug me every single day, right?
If that would happen to me, like, you know,
that would, I would be pissed off every day
for the rest of my life, you know?
So that doesn't sound like freedom to me, right?
But this is what the world,
and this is what the devil's offering people, you know?
Go out and drink and party, and then you can fornicate,
and that's like the most fun you can have.
You know, you can go off to, you know, to college,
you can go play beer pong in front of your house
while you're going to Gonzaga,
and then you can have a bunch of frat girls over,
and it's just, it's a great time.
You know, and by the way, it's a Catholic university,
so you know, you can, you know,
you can do your rosary beads or whatever.
You can, you can, you know,
hail Mary with full grace and all that stuff,
and then you can have a party and fornicate,
because, you know, your sins are absolved
by going to the priest anyways.
You can fornicate, and it's gonna be great.
Awesome time.
You know, don't listen to those
fuddy-duddy fundamental Baptists.
They're a bunch of stick in the mud,
and it's like, who wants, they're a bunch of squares.
You know, I don't think anybody says that anymore.
But, you know, but they have this promise
of freedom and liberty, but in reality,
all they're offering is just bondage, right?
But here's the thing, you know, God offers a true liberty
where you could literally be free from your sins, right?
For one, like if, when somebody gets saved,
they're free from the ultimate consequences of their sins.
You know, obviously, you know, that's in contrast
with the fact that God is gonna punish his children, right?
We are ultimately free from our sins
because of the blood of Jesus Christ
and the sacrifice that he made for us.
But if we follow his commandments,
God is gonna shower blessings on our lives.
And I guarantee that if we follow the commandments
of the Lord, we're gonna be more free
than if we just ignore them
and just never do what they say, right?
Because the way God has the world set up
is that he wants to give us blessings.
He wants us to live a good, happy life.
And so the best way for us to do that
is for us to follow his commandments, right?
Follow his formula.
And so the best way for us to have freedom and liberty
is by following the commandments of the Lord.
And then, you know, you're not worried about,
you know, your girlfriend or whatever,
killing your baby when you knocked her up,
you know, or having to pay child support to somebody
or something like that.
You just, you know, you have your wife
and then, you know, there's great freedom in marriage
because you know that's the person you're gonna be with.
Right?
But go ahead and turn to Titus chapter number two.
Titus chapter number two.
And this is the last place I'll have you turn.
But one major way that the devil offers people freedom,
and this has taken a huge effect
in the last hundred years or so,
or you know probably 120, 130 years.
One of the biggest ways and the most effective tricks
that I believe that the devil has had in the last 130 years
of offering people freedom and liberty
would basically be feminism.
'Cause one big, or a big, I should say gripe
that a lot of people have about Christianity today
is the fact that, you know, they're like hey,
women aren't free in Christianity.
Women don't have liberty in Christianity, right?
And so they brought this feminism into the world
to take women out of the household
and put them out into the workforce
and give them voting rights and all this different stuff.
But at the end of the day though,
that's not what God prescribes
and that's not actually giving them liberty.
But it's a great trick for the devil to get women
to think that they need to be liberated from Christianity.
They need to be liberated from the patriarchy, right?
Down with the patriarchy.
They need to be liberated from Christianity
and they need to go out and just live their own life
and have their own career.
And then they're gonna be free.
They're gonna be free from their husband
or they're gonna be free from whatever.
They're gonna be free from the chains of marriage, right?
But in Titus chapter number two,
looking for number three, it says,
the aged women likewise,
that they be in behavior as become with holiness,
not false accusers, not given a much wine,
teachers of good things,
that they may teach the young women to be sober,
to love their husbands, to love their children,
to be discreet, chaste keepers at home,
good, obedient to their own husbands,
that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Now, of course, the world hates these verses today.
And they're like, ah!
Especially when it says obedient to their own husbands,
like, ah, we're gonna rebel, we're gonna have freedom.
It's women, you know, women's lib.
We're gonna, we're gonna, you know,
we're not gonna be, we don't have to obey our husbands.
You know, we don't have to obey our fathers.
We don't have to do any of that stuff.
We're just gonna do whatever we want.
We're gonna have liberty.
You know, but in reality, you know,
when women go into the workforce,
they're gonna have less freedom.
You know, when I go to work every day,
I'm not really free to just do whatever I want.
You know, I have to do what the boss wants me to do, right?
Like, I've got a list of things I gotta do.
I got a bunch of tasks, and I better get those things done.
I can't just do whatever I want.
I have to do what the boss wants,
otherwise I'm not gonna have any money.
You know, I'm gonna get fired, I'll have no money,
and then if I have no money,
it's not really freedom either, right?
'Cause then I'm gonna be like that homeless guy,
that homeless bum, and you know, he wasn't very free.
And so, you know, women going out of the workforce,
that doesn't produce freedom for them.
It doesn't give them any more liberty, right?
It's just, they have a different boss.
And you know, instead of their boss loving them,
their boss is just, all he sees is just chaching, right?
And so, you know, it's a deception, it's a trick,
it's a trap, right?
And you know, the people that basically caused this
to happen, you know, they didn't just want to have women
to be free, what they really wanted is they wanted
more people paying taxes, right?
You know, the Jews, what do they want?
They want more taxes from all of their tax slaves, right?
So they, you know, they want to go in and break up
the family and get more people just paying more taxes.
And so, you know, that's like the big part
of the whole women's liberation.
But if you look at the effects of feminism in general,
like you look at all these single women today
that are 50 years old, you know,
and they've had a career, you know, they probably,
you know, they never had a husband or whatever,
and they've just been ultra successful
according to the world, but, you know,
but they don't have any kids.
And you ask them what, you know,
what was their biggest regret?
If they're honest, it's always gonna be,
well, my regret is that I didn't have any kids, right?
You know, is that what we want to aspire to today?
Is that a free person today?
Somebody that just, you know, they're working a job,
you know, and they're just paying all this taxes
to the government.
And that's basically their life.
You know, they have a successful career, you know,
and they don't have any family.
They have no children.
They have, really, they have no future,
'cause like, who's gonna be by their bedside when they die?
Is that really true freedom?
Is that actually, is that liberty?
I would say no.
That's not, that's not freedom.
That's not liberty, right?
And so, but this is a very alluring crap of the devil
that apparently has been working wonders on people
for the last century, right?
Because, I mean, the vast majority of homes today
are homes with, you know, both parents
going out and going to work.
And instead of just having the husband
go out and work and pay for the whole household,
you know, it's both of them.
And then it's like a 50/50 marriage, right?
Well, he ain't gonna tell me what to do
'cause I provide half the money in this house, right?
And so, you know, it'll cause all kinds of friction
and all kinds of problems.
That's not freedom, my friend.
You know, liberty, according to the Bible,
is when we do what God says, right?
And what is it that God said?
It says to be decent, chaste, keepers at home,
good, obedient to their own husbands,
that the word of God be not blasphemed, right?
And so a biblical marriage, you know,
I believe that's where we should be finding
our freedom at, right?
'Cause I mean, who would you rather have
telling you what to do?
Your husband who loves you or the boss at work who doesn't?
I mean, to me, it's a pretty simple answer, you know?
Hey, the husband at home.
But also, you know, this does kind of cut both ways.
'Cause I mean, a lot of people, you know,
a lot of men have this attitude where they're like,
I don't wanna be tied down.
You know, no woman's gonna tie me down
and they wanna avoid marriage.
And a lot of them have this kind of this Andrew Tate
mentality where they're basically just a man whore
or whatever and they just wanna, you know,
just, you know, become a bazillionaire or whatever
and just have all the women that they want
and ain't no woman gonna tie them down.
Well, you know, that's a pretty wicked attitude as well.
And that, you know, that also is not gonna bring freedom
either 'cause that, you know, that's just gonna bring you
the chains of sin as well, you know,
and that's gonna bring you just a completely hollow life
where when you're 90 years old and you're about to die,
you know, are all of these flocks of old women
gonna come to your bedside?
Think so, think so.
Probably gonna be, you know,
I'm pretty sure Andrew Tate himself,
he's probably gonna be pretty lonely
when he's on his deathbed and he's about to die,
you know, and he's going like, ah, la, la, la, la,
you know, 'cause he's a Muslim or whatever.
You know, I don't know, maybe he's gonna like,
oh, you know, maybe that's how he's gonna go.
But you know, as he's about to die,
I'm pretty sure there isn't just gonna be
this whole flock of people just,
oh, Andrew Tate, Andrew Tate.
Because you know, the kind of people
that love Andrew Tate and just listen to Andrew Tate,
those are gonna be vapid, shallow people.
Those aren't the kind of people
that are gonna go to your bedside as you're dying.
They're gonna, you know, they'll drop you,
they'll drop you as soon as you become inconvenient to them.
You know, that's the type of following
that Andrew Tate is gonna gather for himself.
And so, you know, that's not gonna bring you liberty either.
Right?
You know, what's gonna bring a man liberty
is if he gets married young and provides for his own house.
Gets married, has children and provides for his own house.
That is what is gonna bring you freedom, my friend,
according to the Bible.
Because where the Spirit of the Lord is, there's liberty, right?
So you can have liberty in your own home if you have the Spirit of the Lord.
But if we reject God and we reject His commandments, you know,
there's a false liberty waiting for us to fall into that trap
where our freedoms can actually be taken away. Right.
And so, you know, just just beware of the wiles of the devil today.
You know, the devil is, you know, he's offering, you know, this false freedom,
this false liberty. But at the end of the day, it's not true,
because at the end of the day, we're going to serve somebody, right?
We can either serve God or we can serve the flesh, sin or Satan.
And, you know, we should choose to serve God today.
But let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Definitely, Father, I thank you for this day, Lord.
I thank you for everything you've done for us.
Lord, I pray that you please help us all to not be the servants of sin,
but be servants of you, Lord, and that you can give us true liberty, Lord.
And we thank you that you've given us a liberty from our sins
that we know that we'll never have to pay the punishment in hell for those
because you did it for us.
Lord, just help us to avoid sin in our daily lives
so that you can bless us with more.