Some people just need to be withstood to the face and say,
hey, you need to take down your American pride
down a couple notches, all right?
And look, I love this country
and the fact that I love the people,
I want them to be saved,
but do I hang my hat at the end of the day
on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
and the Founding Fathers?
No, and I haven't for a long time.
I don't know if I ever have, but I definitely don't now.
So one thing that has always irritated me
with Baptist churches is the Yankee Doodle Dandy
apple pie eating flag worshiping total devotion
to the USA that they express in their church services
by bringing in politicians and police chiefs
and fire department and all this other stuff.
And they're just like, oh, you know,
the flags waving in their church building.
Hey, look, I'm not gonna worship a flag.
I'm not gonna pledge allegiance to a flag.
I pledge allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ
and Him only am I gonna serve.
It just goes beyond the love of people in this country.
And in some cases, just pure bootlicking
and plain old fashioned idolatry and worship of men.
It's not the truth.
And so I think that this people standing
with the Founding Fathers crap needs to be addressed.
And hey, if you're gonna get mad at me, get mad,
but listen to the words that they say, okay?
Listen to what they're saying
and listen to what the Bible says this morning.
And I'm gonna try to keep my opinions out of it
as much as possible.
But is it okay if I have an opinion about something?
If my opinion matches up with the word of God
and matches up with what these men are saying,
I'm gonna let them condemn themselves this morning.
And so you can judge for yourself
whether the Founding Fathers were reprobates or not, okay?
And so let's look back at Colossians chapter two,
verse number six.
Looks, you're already there.
It says, and as ye have therefore received Christ Jesus,
the Lord, so walk ye in him.
Not the Founding Fathers, but in him, okay?
Verse number seven, rooted and built up in him,
not in the Constitution, not in the Bill of Rights.
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy
in vain deceit after the tradition of men
and not after the rudiments of the world
and not after Christ.
Again, not the Bill of Rights, not world government.
It's in Christ that we're supposed to be rooted
and grounded in.
We're supposed to receive Christ and then walk in him.
Okay, we're not supposed to receive Thomas Jefferson
and walk in his ways, all right?
Look, this world is not our home.
We're passing through, we're pilgrims.
We're a spiritual nation that just happens to be born
into the physical nation of the United States.
So don't get all crazy with your patriotism
because patriotism is not in the Bible.