But in verse 12, I mean it clearly says at the end there, it says,
oh Lord, he says, we shall not die. He says, I just can't believe that
you're gonna let me die. You know, I can't believe that you're gonna let me be
punished and taken captive.
But he says, oh Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment.
He's saying, I know that you're the one
whose idea it was for them to come and take over. It wasn't just something that they're doing.
He says, it was your plan, you ordained them to judge us. And he says, and oh mighty God, thou hast
established
them for correction. See, they're being used by God to correct this wicked nation.
Thou art a purer eyes than to behold evil,
and canst not look on iniquity. Wherefore lookest thou upon them to deal
treacherously,
and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he,
and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things that have no
ruler over them.
They take up all of them with the angle.
They catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag, therefore they rejoice
and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice under their net, and burn incense under their drag,
because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. Now here's what he's
talking about here.
He's using an illustration of a fisherman who's using
a net to fish, dragging a great net through the sheep.
Now in verse number 14, he says, and makest men as the fishes of the sea. What he's
talking about,
he's saying that the people in Judah
at this point have no leadership. They have no ruler over them.
He says they're just scattered to and fro like sheep that have no shepherd,
and what's happening is when this great army of Nebuchadnezzar is coming in,
he says it's almost like they just have to just scoop up
these sitting ducks, so to speak, because they're just floundering around like fish.
They have no ruler over them. He says they take up all of them with the angle.
They catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag, therefore they rejoice and are glad.
They just scoop them up, and scoop them up. Look, isn't that just so indicative of our nation?
No strong leadership. Isn't that so indicative of our churches,
of our nation? There's no strong leadership.
Nobody wants to stand up and just say, this is right, this is wrong,
I don't care what you say, I'm going to give you a clear, definitive statement,
not politics, not what's popular. I'm just going to lay it out for you and tell you what I believe.
Well, I don't know that much about the gubernatorial candidates that we just had,
but, you know, Janet Napolitano,
I can talk about it legally after the election, Janet Napolitano and Len Munsell, the two candidates,
but from what I understood, Len Munsell seemed like he was really taking a stand for a lot of
right things. That's the way I saw it. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong about that,
but from what I saw, he seemed to be really making it clear what he believed on a lot of
things, and then maybe that's why he lost, and he only got 35% of the vote, and we have
Governor Janet. God help us all. We've got some short-haired woman in the governor's
seat that has never been married, never had kids, a single short-haired woman, Janet Napolitano,
leading this state. God help us. That's ridiculous. You say, I don't like that kind
of preaching. Well, I don't care whether you like it or not, that's the truth.
God doesn't want that woman to be in charge, that liberal Democrat, that abortion-supporting,
gay-loving, ungodliness. Yes, that's right. Yes, we don't have a good leader in Arizona
tonight. Yes, we have an ungodly leader. Yes, the people in Arizona are like the fishes
of the sea that have no ruler over them, and we're just sitting ducks for the ungodly
to come in and take over and destroy our land. Yes, that's the truth tonight.
Where's the sore leadership in this country? Where's a man, yes, I said a man,
that would stand up and be a leader in this country and say, I'm going to fight for what's
right. I don't care what the polls say. I don't care what people think. I don't
care what my constituents think. I care what God thinks. A leader that would stand up,
and you say, well, Pastor Anderson, we're just not going to have that in America.
I mean, good night. It's 2006, that's the way America is. We're not going to have that
in Arizona and California and the United States. It's not going to happen. Well,
can we have it in church then, please? I mean, if we're not going to have it in the
White House, if we're not going to have it in the governor's house, if we're not going to
have it in the city council, if we're not going to have it anywhere, can we have it in
the house of God? Can we have the house of God with a man of God that gets up and preaches
and says what he believes from the Bible? I mean, if there's one place where a man of God
should be able to just get up and say, look, I love you and I love God, but you know what?
I'm going to tell you the truth. I'm going to say what it is, and I don't care whether
you like it or not. You can say anything you want about what I preach, but you know what
I preach is in the Bible, and I prove everything that I preach out of the Bible, and I study
the Bible, and I read the Bible, and if I'm wrong on something, I can see it out of the
Bible, I'll quit preaching it. I'll change. But you know what? I'm not going to tone
down my preaching from the Bible because spoiling and violence are before me and there
are that raise up strife and contention, therefore the law of slacks. Hey, bring all
the strife and contention you want my way, huh? Meet me after the service and bring
me some strife and contention about what I'm preaching out of the Bible and see if
it changes. See if the law slacks when you strive with me about what I preach.
It's not going to happen.