You know, before you cry out to God...
You know what it reminds me of?
It reminds me of the United States of America, all these Baptists.
Oh, for shit, it's so horrible.
Yet their wife's on birth control pills, which is killing their unborn children.
That's not hard to figure out. Just do me a favor.
Go buy the birth control pill and get out the package insert.
It's about a hundred pages long in fine print, and read it like I read it.
And read through it, and anyone will see from any package insert,
they have to tell you by law what it's doing, okay?
Read all about it.
Go to our website and read all about it.
I think there's still some of those sitting on the bookshelf over there. Read all about it.
Do you think God is impressed with somebody crying and whining?
"Oh God, why aren't you blessing America?
Oh God, why'd you let the Twin Towers be knocked over?
Oh God, why'd you bless it? Why would you do that, God?"
It's God's fault. It's God's fault when he judges sin like he said he would.
It's not God's fault.
Babies are being murdered in this country. Why in the world
would God step in and send us some great president?
Send us some great Supreme Court justice that would put an end to the massacre of babies?
Why would he put somebody in the Supreme Court to end that?
Why would he give us the blessings? Why would he bless our country when
Baptist, independent, fundamental preachers are handing out birth control pills like candy to their people?
Why should he? Why is it God's fault?
Blame the priest. Blame the preacher.
Blame the man who calls them that are evil and inciting the Lord good.
You see, it's not God's fault when judgment comes. It reminds me of when Ahab said to Elijah,
"Are thou he, the trouble-less Israel?"
And Elijah says,
"Just because I pray," I mean, basically Elijah prayed that it wouldn't rain for three and a half years. You remember that?
"Elijah was a man subject to light passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain by the space of three years and six months,
and it rained not upon the earth."
Now, what if somebody today got on their knees and prayed, "I prayed God that it won't rain in the United States for three and a half years."
You know, the world would say, "It's your fault that it's not raining."
But the Elijah says, "No, it's not my fault. It's your fault, because you're worshiping Baal. You're serving the devil. You're killing innocent blood. It's your fault."
Just because I prayed down the judgment of God on a wicked nation, the wicked evildoers are the one whose fault it is.
You see, until independent fundamental Baptists, the phony liberals who sit there and say, "Oh, I just didn't know any better."
Why don't you do a little research then? Why don't you figure it out?
Why don't you do the research and say, "Just give everybody a bunch of drugs?"
And so, because we won't amend our doings, because we won't do right in the sight of the Lord,
because the preacher won't get up and preach the truth, because we want to do it our way,
God's judgment comes, and we can cry, and we can whine, and we can weep before the altar
of the Lord, and we can pray and fast and pray and fast.
God says, "Is not this the fast that I have chosen?"
He said, "Don't withhold yourself from food.
Obey me.
Up your knees, Joshua, and obey me," he said, when the wicked son of Achan was present in
the camp.
He said, "Quit praying.
Get off your face.
I don't want to listen to you.
I want you to fix the problem."
God wants obedience.
God wants righteousness.
God wants holiness.
And if your personal holiness is not what it ought to be, if you have sin in your life,
if you have wicked DVDs in your house, if you feast your eyes on the filth of television,
if you listen to all the wicked rock and roll music, and you listen to the satanic Jimi
Hendrix who said, "My religion is voodoo," whose first album is called "Voodoo Child,"
who said that he worships voodoo, if you're going to sit there and listen to Led Zeppelin,
The Doors, The Beatles, and that's just the classic rock. That's the golden oldies. Now
what are they coming out with now? Good night, corn, Maryland mansion. What are the groups
now? Help me out. What are they? Who knows? U2, you know? Boys? I don't know. I don't
know what people listen to. But you know what? If you got that kind of garbage in your life,
you're going out and you're dressing up like a hoochie mama, or you let your kids dress
like a hoochie mama. If you're going out and dressing like a queer man, if you're going
out and, you know, just doing what you want to do, hang around with the world, letting
them blaspheme God, hang around with all your wicked friends, listening to all your wicked
music, watching all your wicked television, you got all your filthy magazines laying around
the house, don't expect to, he's going to curse you. That's the truth. And you are taking
your chances, my friend, because you're taking your chances because God will not protect
you when you're filled your life with wickedness and sin. Go ahead, walk out that door and
take your chances. I don't want to take my chances. I don't want to roll the dice whether
my kids turn out right. I don't want to roll the dice whether my life turns out right.
I'm not willing to take my chances. I'm going to fear and tremble and shake in fear before
the awesome God of the universe and beg God to bless me and get the sin out of my life.
There's no guarantee from God that all things work together for good for those who listen
to Nsync and the Backstreet Boys. That's not what it says. It says all things work together
for good to them that love God. And the Bible says this is the love of God that we keep
His commandments. His commandments are not grievous.