And if that's in the Bible, many times, and I'm a preacher, and God tells me to preach
to feed the flock, and to give the whole council of God, then I'm going to preach it and let
the chips fall where they- oh, you know, the Bible says all this stuff about homos and
it's considered hate speech?
I'm going to preach it anyway.
Let the chips fall where they may.
You know, what do you- and I like what Jesus said to Pontius Pilate, thou couldest have
no power at all against me except that we're given thee from heaven, therefore he that
delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
He looked at Pilate and said, you have no power except what God is allowing you to have.
And honestly, any government official has no power over you except what God allows.
God can preserve you, or God can cause you to be destroyed.
Look, we need to worry about keeping God happy.
Let's get the blessing of God.
If we hide the truth under a bushel, we will not be blessed by God.
If we let it shine, he will bless us.
Yes there will be enemies, yes there will be adversaries, yes there will be opposition,
but in the end we're better off to just let it shine, do what's right, and you know what,
I want- Jesus said, what I tell you in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
That doesn't sound like, oh, you know, let's shut all the doors and lock them and turn
off all the internet, you know, and just, let's just make sure that it's just us here,
so I can, you know, give the real preaching, you know.
No we need to let the real preaching of God's word thunder forth, you know, and if it's
not in the Bible, then forget it, but I mean, if it's biblical preaching, let's sound it
out to the whole world, and let the heathen rage, you know.
If the devil doesn't like it, he can sit on a tack, you know, as the song goes, okay.
So I'm not gonna sit here and worry about all the time, what's gonna happen if I do
what's right.
It doesn't matter, just do what's right, and if I perish, I perish.
You know, we're all gonna die someday anyway.
I mean nobody in here, you know, obviously our soul's gonna live forever, but the body's
not gonna live forever.
We're all gonna die, we might as well go out in a blaze of glory is the way I see it.
So you know what, I'm gonna preach the truth, and you know what, I hope God allows me to
live to be a hundred in perfect freedom, and maybe he will, you know, maybe I'll abide
until he comes, you know, what is that to thee?
But I'll say this though, if I perish, I perish, and you know, otherwise, I'm not worth my
salt as a preacher, and we as God's people need to take all the commands of God, and
we need to live by them and obey them, and not worry about what's gonna happen, and also,
we need to make other people's problems our problems, and not just say, well, you know,
I'm gonna keep myself safe, and if those people die, well, that's not my problem.
You know, later on, Esther's gonna say, you know, how can I endure to see the destruction
of my people?
And you know, we need to look at lost souls and realize, hey, we need to help these people,
we need to speak up for these people, we need to get them the gospel and help them, and
not just live a life of gratifying and pleasing self, but rather a life of self-sacrifice,
denying self, taking up the cross daily, and following him.