Now turn if you would to Psalm 14. Psalm 14, the book of Psalms is just right in the dead
center of the Bible if you just let it fall open right in the middle. Turn to Psalm 14
and we'll look at a famous verse in verse number 1. The Bible says this in verse 1,
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
abominable works, there is none that doeth good. Now just turn a few pages over
to Psalm 19. We're in chapter 14, just go to chapter 19. So we saw in chapter 14 verse 1,
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Look at chapter 19 verse 1, the Bible says,
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no
speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Now turn to Acts if you would,
look at Acts chapter 17 in the New Testament. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts. While you're
turning there I'll read you Psalm 97, verse 6. The heavens declare his righteousness, the
Bible says, and all the people see his glory. So we saw in the book of Psalms that only a fool
says that there is no God. Because we can look up at the heavens, the Bible says,
we can see the glory of God. There's no language or speech where people can't realize
that there is a God just from looking at the natural world. The Bible says in Romans 1,
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead,
so that they are without excuse. The Bible makes it clear that man knows that there's a God.
Mankind can see that there's a God. Look at Acts 17, and this is Paul when he's on Mars
Hill. He's preaching to the Athenians, and he notices that they're worshiping all these
different gods. And it says in verse number 22,
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars Hill and said,
Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription to the
unknown God, whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you, God,
that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth,
dwelleth not in temples made with hands. Neither is worshipped with men's hands,
as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things,
and hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth,
and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.
It says that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him,
though he be not far from every one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being,
as certain also of your poets have said, for we are also his offspring.
The Bible's clear, mankind knows that there's a God.
Now perhaps a very foolish person would say there is no God.
Or perhaps someone could be educated or brainwashed or taught that God is not real.
But human nature itself teaches us in our soul and in our heart of hearts,
when we look at the world we can know that there's a God.
That's why when we go out soul winning, very rarely do I run into people who just say,
there is no God, I believe in the big bang, I believe in evolution.
Wouldn't you say that's the minority in soul winning?
It's true.
Now on TV, on a college campus, it's a different story,
but I'm talking about just in America, knocking doors,
the vast majority will say, no I believe in God, I believe there's a God.
Now they ignorantly worship in many cases, they don't know salvation,
they don't know Jesus Christ, they don't know it's by faith,
but they know that there's a God.
Human nature itself teaches us that there's a God.
Man has a desire to worship God.
That's why they built that to the unknown God, that shrine that they built.
But you see there are many substitutes for God.
There are those who would want to fill that void that people have,
where they have a desire to know who God is and they want to worship God.
And they want to look to a higher power.
They know that they don't have all the answers,
so they want to look to something above them to give them guidance,
to lead them, to direct them.
It's part of human nature, it's part of who we are as people.
But the Bible says this, turn if you would to 2 Corinthians 4.
The Bible says this in Exodus 20, this is one of the Ten Commandments.
In fact, this is the first commandment.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
See God knows that people have a desire to look up to a God and worship a God,
and he's saying, it better be the right God.
Don't have any other gods before me.
Don't worship these poor substitutes for God.
Look what it says in 2 Corinthians 4.4.
4.4, good night.
I'm like a scientific preacher now.
2 Corinthians 4.4.
In whom the God of this world had 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.
You see, there's someone who wants to take the place of God.
He said he's the God of this world.
He wants to blind the minds of those who don't believe the truth,
so that they will not worship the true God,
that the light of the glorious gospel will not shine,
and show them that Jesus Christ is that true God in the flesh,
who dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory.
See, back all the way in Genesis chapter 3,
he approached man in the garden, and he said,
Ye shall not surely die about how God had told him not to eat of the tree,
and the knowledge of good and evil.
And he said, For God knoweth, God doth know that in the day he eat thereof,
then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.
Why was the devil thrown out of heaven in Isaiah chapter 14?
Because he said, I will be like the most high.
He wanted to put himself in the place of God.
He offered the man in the garden of Eden,
you can be like gods, I'm going to be your God.
He said in Luke 4, verse 5, you don't have to turn there,
this is when the devil was tempting Jesus,
and the devil taked them up into a high mountain,
showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,
and the devil said unto him,
All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them,
for that is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will, I give it,
if thou therefore will worship me, all shall be thine.
You see, he's always coming to man, and telling man,
you can be a god with me, you can be like god with me,
we will rule the world together.
That's what he's saying to Jesus in Luke chapter 4,
because Jesus Christ said, Get thee hence, Satan,
for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,
and him only shalt thou serve.
Look at Ephesians chapter 6, famous verse.
So quick review, man knows that there's a god,
and the devil is not always going to succeed
in convincing people that there's no god,
because it's obvious that there's a god,
therefore he will try to put something else in the place of god
to fill up that void, to fill that god position in their life.
He appeals to man's desire to be his own god.
It says in Ephesians 6-12,
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Now, there are many substitutes for god,
there are many false gods.
There's Allah, so-called, of Islam,
there's the god of all these other religions,
the god of Mormonism is not the god of the Bible,
he's another Jesus, there are all these other religions,
and all these fake gods that the Athenians are worshiping,
the people worshiping,
but what I want to talk about today is man trying to become god.
Man trying to become god.
And the title of the sermon is this,
The Government Taking the Place of God.
Now we live in a day where the government is slowly in America
taking the place of god in people's lives.
You see, people need somebody to look to.
They need somebody to worship and to look up to
and to give them guidance and to give them rules to live by
and do's and don'ts,
and our government is teaching children in school that there is no god,
only so that they can set themselves up as a replacement in their life to be their god.
I'm going to give you several examples of how the government desires today,
and I'm not just talking about it in general,
I'm talking about our government today in the United States of America,
in April of 2010, desires to be your god.
They want to be your god.
They don't want you to worship the god of the Bible.
He's been banned from school, folks.
He's been banned from any federal building.
No, they want to take his place and become your god.
Let me give you several examples.
Turn to Proverbs chapter 3, I'll give you the first example.
Proverbs chapter number 3.
Proverbs chapter number 3,
and here's a verse that has to do with tithing.
Who knows what tithing is?
Put up your hand if you know what tithing is.
You know, tithing is where the Bible teaches, you know,
giving 10% of your increase to the Lord, okay?
And it's taught throughout the Bible.
Abraham gave tithes,
and all the people in the Old Testament gave tithes.
Jesus talked about it,
but it's not what I'm going to preach about at all.
It's a whole other sermon.
But you'll notice throughout the Bible
that the tithes are often referred to as the first fruits
or the firstlings, right?
And the reason why is because God always wanted to take the first.
Like, let's say they had 10 sheep.
He wanted the first one.
Let's say they had, you know, 10 barrels of apples.
He wanted the first fruits.
The first apples that they picked went to him.
Because the Bible says that in all things,
he should have the preeminence.
Notice the word pre.
What does pre mean?
You know, before, first.
You were supposed to give to God of an offering first.
Before you did anything else,
you're supposed to give God his first.
That's what tithing is all about.
It's with the firstlings, the first fruits, and all that.
Look what the Bible says in Proverbs 3 verse 9.
Oh, there we go.
Proverbs 3 and 9.
Honor the Lord with thy substance.
It's talking about what you own, what you have.
And with the first fruits of all thine increase, right?
So there's one example of where God's telling you
to give of the Lord your substance first.
Give him the first fruits.
And yet today, turn to James chapter 5.
Today, God is not first in America.
Because there's somebody else who wants to take a percentage of your money
before God even has a chance to take that 10%.
Before you even get that in your hand,
there's someone else who's taking the preeminence.
Look at James chapter 5 verse 1.
Go to now, you rich men.
Weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Your gold and silver is cankered.
And the rust of them shall be a witness against you
and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
You have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Watch verse 4, though.
Behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields,
which is of you kept back by fraud crieth.
And the cries of them which have reaped
are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Now, what you have to understand about this verse
is that the word fraud there is basically what?
A deception, a lie?
Because if it was just out in the open stealing,
that wouldn't be fraud.
That's just robbery.
That's just stealing.
But he said, no, people are working.
People are hired.
They're laboring.
And someone is withholding part of their pay by fraud
through deception, through dishonesty.
The word kept back just means withholding.
And today the government is withholding
a large portion of your income, taking it away.
A much bigger percentage than God ever even asked for.
I mean, you want to talk about the Trinity.
They take 10% for the Father, 10% for the Son,
and 10% for the Holy Ghost.
You know, and today, Christians today,
they're saying, I can't even tithe on that number
at the top of the sex tub.
I don't even see that money.
They took away 10%.
Now, I understand what you're saying.
Now, personally, I tithe on the top number
because I'll tell you something.
I'm not going to let the government take preeminence
over Jesus Christ.
But it's getting to where they take so much.
They take so much.
People are just, how can I even give 10%?
I don't even see the 100%.
Personally, I want to give him the preeminence.
That's why I always, always have tithed
on the original number that I earned
before they get a piece of the action,
before they took that big chunk out.
But today, they want to take the place of God.
They want to have first dibs on what you owe.
They want to take that percentage of money
more than God takes before God even has a chance to take.
That's just one example.
It's kept back by fraud.
Let's look at the next example.
Look at Deuteronomy 11.
I'm just going to give you several examples
just as we get into the sermon here
of how our government today is taking the place of God
in people's lives.
Look, if you would, at Deuteronomy 11, verse 12.
Deuteronomy 11, 12 says this.
A land which the Lord thy God careth for.
The eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it
from the beginning of the year, even under the end of the year.
Don't turn there.
I'm going to read you several other verses
on the eyes of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 16, 9.
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro
throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong
in the behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward Him.
Herein, thou has done foolishly.
Therefore, from henceforth, thou shalt have wars.
Listen to Psalm 34, 15.
The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous
and His ears are open under their cry.
Proverbs 5, 21.
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord
and He pondereth all His goings.
Proverbs 15, 3.
The eyes of the Lord are in every place,
beholding the evil and the good.
1 Peter 3, 12.
For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous.
You see, you remember the song,
Oh, be careful little feet where you go.
Who knows the song?
Oh, be careful little feet where you go.
For the Father up above is looking down in love.
Oh, be careful little hands what you do.
Oh, be careful little eyes what you see.
For the Father up above is looking down in love.
Oh, be careful.
Who knows the song?
Yeah, okay, we got a lot of people.
All people grew up in church as a kid.
But you know what?
Today, the government wants to take this place
and they want to watch you everywhere you go.
They want to look at you and see you everywhere you go.
Just like God said, I'm watching you.
And truly, when you're in your house all by yourself
and you think nobody's around and you turn on that DVD,
you open that magazine,
God is looking down on you no matter where you are.
Whither shall I flee from the face of the Lord?
David said.
He said, if I sin into heaven,
thou art there.
If I make my bed in hell,
thou art there.
He said, God is everywhere.
God's on my breath.
And His eyes run to and fro throughout all the earth.
He watches everything you do.
He watches everything that you say.
And today, our government wants us under surveillance all the time.
That's why there's all these cameras everywhere.
There was a thing in the news this week
about school children being issued laptops at their school.
I don't know if you heard about this.
They're given a laptop by the public school
and it was taking pictures of them while they were asleep.
It was taking pictures of them in their home
and the people were watching it and they were saying it's fun.
The teachers and principals are watching the children
and they told on a kid for what he was doing wrong.
They told his parents, we saw him doing wrong.
We saw him doing, you know,
we're beholding the evil and the good.
Here's another example.
Look at Genesis chapter 8.
You see, I'm just trying to expose to you this morning
what the government's agenda is
and it's really not the government.
It's really Satan through the government.
Because see, Satan is the one who wants to take the place of God.
Satan is the one who will recruit men into that army
by saying to them, you know,
hey, come and be like gods with me.
Come rule with me.
Come be one of the rulers of the darkness of this world.
Come with me.
Sell your soul to me and rule with me.
Where did I return?
Genesis chapter 8.
The other thing is, you know,
God is the one who controls the environment,
you know, to use their word.
God is the one who controls nature.
And look what the Bible says in Genesis chapter 8.
Look at Genesis chapter 8 verse 22.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest and cold and heat
and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease.
Did you get that?
He said as long as this earth exists,
there will always be seedtime, harvest, cold, heat,
summer, winter, day and night.
Look at Job chapter 37.
All you have to do is pull a dollar bill out of your pocket.
And there's a picture of a pyramid, okay,
which is an evil symbol.
Ancient Egypt in the Bible is always referring to Satan and the world.
The Bible talks about that city,
which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt.
Egypt represents wickedness in the Bible.
And you have that pyramid.
And what's at the top of the pyramid on the back of your dollar bill?
An eye.
The all-seeing eye of Ra, the false god of Egypt.
The all-seeing eye watching you everywhere you're going.
It's of the devil, my friend.
And that's on your government-issued money.
Of the eye watching you.
We're going to watch you.
Look at the symbol for the media, the TV station.
I just drove by it on the 143 there.
CBS.
What is it?
It's an eye watching you.
You say, oh, you're crazy.
Let's see what the Bible says.
In Job 37, God makes it clear.
And in Job 38, 49, 41,
God basically explains that He is the one who controls the forces of nature.
Look if you would at verse number 28.
Hath the rain a bother?
Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Out of whose womb came the ice and the hoary frost of heaven?
Who hath gendered it?
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Canst thou bring forth Maseroth in his season?
Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven?
Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds
that abundance of waters may cover thee?
That's why all these satanic religions do the rain dance
because it's blaspheming this scripture right here
where God says you cannot through your voice or your dance
make rain come down from the sky.
And let me tell you something, the Native Americans are not worshiping God
when they're doing that rain dance.
And I'm going to tell you, you say, oh, you're offending their culture.
The Native American traditional religion is a false religion that's sending people to hell.
It has nothing to do with culture.
It has to do with a false religion and a false teaching of worshiping the earth.
And it says here that you can't by your voice make the rain to come out of the clouds,
that the abundance of waters may cover thee.
Canst thou send lightnings?
That they may go and say unto thee, here we are.
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts?
Or who hath given understanding to the heart?
Who can number the clouds in wisdom?
Or who can stay the vitals of heaven?
He's saying you can't make it stop raining.
When the dust groweth into hardness and the cloths cleave fast together,
will thou hunt to pray for the lion or fill the appetite of the young lion?
And on and on he goes for four chapters.
And I encourage you, read these chapters.
These are some of the most beautiful, powerful chapters in the Bible.
Job 38 through 41, great passage.
But it's all about how God is the one who feeds the wild goats.
God is the one who makes the rain come down.
God is the one who makes the sun come up every day and go down every day.
God is the one.
He said in him we have our being.
By him all things consist.
What is holding together the atom?
The power of God.
What keeps the earth in orbit?
The power of God.
What keeps the earth tilted on its axis?
God.
God is in control of the natural world and the universe.
And yet today we're being taught that the government must control.
The government must preserve the environment.
The government must keep us on a right ecosystem.
Listen to this.
This is from my niece.
So just a quick review though.
How is the government trying to play God?
Well, number one, they want to surveil you.
They want to watch you.
That's why you see cameras popping up everywhere.
That's why you have in America today warrantless wiretapping of all cell phones, all landlines.
They can be tapped for any reason without a warrant, no judge.
Just warrantless wiretapping, surveillance of Americans, snooping through their emails.
It's all law.
It's all out of view.
You know, conspiracy theories.
It's in the open.
It's law.
It's a fact.
Because they want to be God.
They want to watch you.
They want to know everything about you.
They want the hairs of your head to be numbered by them.
It's a demented man who wants to be God.
That's the type of people that we're dealing with.
And they're working for the devil.
Not only that, they want to take your tithe.
They want to take the tribe, you know, like a triple tithe.
Not only that, they want to control the forces of nature.
They want to step in and say, we're the ones who will preserve this environment.
We're the ones who will make it rain at the right time.
We're the ones that will make you be able to plant seeds and things will grow.
We will take over nature.
This is my niece.
My niece lives in Fort Worth, Texas, which is considered the Bible Belt, okay?
But she is seven years old, okay?
She is exactly the age of Isaac.
Isaac, stand up.
She's the exact age of Isaac.
She's like a few weeks different than Isaac.
So just to give you an idea of my niece, Erica.
This is a letter that she was given home from school a couple days ago.
The government school, by the way.
Mrs. Starnes, Erica shared with me today that she doesn't recycle.
Okay, this is written to my sister.
Erica shared with me today that she doesn't recycle and thinks that Earth Day is a bad day.
Okay, it was Earth Day apparently this week.
I explained that Earth Day is a day for us to conserve our resources
and think of different ways to protect the plants and animals of the world.
I also explained that it is not taught as a religious holiday in any way.
In addition, it is also part of a first grade science curriculum
to learn about conservation of Earth's natural resources.
This concept is also taught in other grades as well.
Thank you, Mrs. Din.
Now this is why, because she was given a handout
and it said this,
why should we recycle?
I don't recycle.
She said, I'm trying to think, I wish I would have brought the paper that Erica filled out.
But it basically said, you know, what do you love about the Earth?
That's what it was.
What do we love about the Earth?
And she said, I don't love the Earth.
Now it's amazing to me that she is being forced to love something that she doesn't love.
Not only just teaching you facts and knowledge, but no, you will love what we tell you to love.
She basically got a note home and in trouble because she would not celebrate Earth Day.
She would not say, I love Mother Earth and I recycle.
She said, I don't want to recycle.
I don't care about the Earth.
Okay, now listen to this.
This is my sister's response.
Mrs. Din, I agree with Erica and support her on this.
Calling the Earth Mother Earth implies that we evolved.
Earth is a tool used by liberal environmentalists to brainwash children.
Of course, we are against extreme negligence, such as polluting the water.
But no, we do not separate our cans from other trash.
As fundamental Christians, we do not believe the Earth will be around forever.
Amen.
That's right.
It's not going to be here forever.
I realize the curriculum overemphasizes conservation.
However, I do not understand why you feel the need to force Erica to agree with your political views.
I have two other children in the public school system,
so I am well aware of what is taught in other grades.
In fact, I have found the other teachers to be more tolerant of cultural diversity.
I was raised to believe the Bible and have taught my children the truth.
If you would like more information on the Christian faith, I would be happy to discuss it with you.
Our political views naturally correspond with our religious beliefs.
We are against abortion, socialized health care, and big government.
We own guns.
Yeah, this isn't me.
This is what my sister wrote to the principal, or the teacher.
She gave a CC to the principal of the school, too.
We think Ron Paul would have been a great president.
There are teachers at Creekview Middle School who feel the same and do not recycle either.
Since you seem to be so politically correct,
I find it hard to understand your intolerance of a child expressing a different viewpoint, right?
Since everybody's opinion is okay, and everybody can have their own view,
and nobody's wrong, just choose the best answer on the test.
How about choose the right answer?
But it's all a brave choose the best answer.
You know, nobody's wrong, nobody gets a...
They don't get A's and B's and F's and detention.
They get a color change.
If they do something wrong, it's not always wrong, they just get a color change.
Erika's like, I was afraid I was going to get a color change over this.
Whatever that means, I don't know what that means.
Well, I don't like your hurting my daughter's self-esteem
by telling the class that Fatima is the best student.
That was some other beef that she had.
Hey, I have older children, so I know it gets better over time.
Hopefully, so will your teaching ability for the sake of your future students, Ronnie.
But look, it's amazing.
The same teacher who played her that aerobics video
I talked about a few weeks ago with that flaming sodomite.
You know, just cramming it down their throat.
Not enough that they teach it to them for hours,
but then when they give them the thing to fill out a worksheet on it,
and she says, no, I don't love the earth.
The earth is not my mother.
I don't recycle.
I don't care.
No, you know, you're getting a note.
Hong, you will participate.
You will be an environmentalist.
You will be a leftist.
You will be a socialist.
That's what's going on today,
because the first verse that I read you, if you turn to Isaiah 54,
this is where we started the sermon.
Isaiah chapter 54.
And this is where we read that great fantastic chapter from the Bible about God
and the blessings that he would give
to those who love God and who worship God and who are righteous.
He said in verse 13,
and all thy children shall be taught of the Lord.
Did you get that?
All thy children shall be taught of the Lord,
and great shall be the peace of thy children.
In righteousness shalt thou be established.
Thou shalt be far from oppression,
for thou shalt not fear and from terror,
for it shall not come near to thee.
You see, when you're righteous,
when you serve God,
your children are taught of the Lord,
and you do the right things,
the Bible makes it clear that you'll not be oppressed.
You'll not be a slave.
You won't live in fear.
The Bible says God has not given us the spirit of fear,
but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Who's the one person we're supposed to fear?
God.
Every time fear is mentioned from Genesis to Revelation,
it's always negative,
unless it's talking about fear and God,
because God is the one person we're supposed to fear.
He said,
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
The only thing we don't fear evil,
we fear God, that's all.
We shouldn't be,
because greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world.
We should fear God alone.
One of the founding fathers,
I believe, was Thomas Jefferson said,
when the people fear the government,
you have tyranny.
When the government fears the people,
you have liberty.
Great quote.
Because see,
the government wants to take the place of God.
They want to teach your children.
When the Bible says they should be taught of the Lord,
the Bible says they should be brought up by their parents
in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he's old he'll not depart from it.
That's talking to the parent.
That's talking to dad.
That's talking to mom.
But the government wants to step in and say,
No, we will watch you when you're sleeping.
We will watch you as you go about your daily life.
We will take the first fruits.
We will take the first of your flock.
We will take the first of the fruits of your labor.
We will withhold from your check
before you even have a chance to give your tithe to God.
We will take that away from you.
We will preserve the environment.
We will make sure the animals are fed.
We will make sure that the crops grow
and that the plants and the ecosystem and all this stuff.
The government wants to take the place of God.
But here's a very chilling way
that the government wants to take the place of God.
Look at Hebrews chapter 11.
Hebrews chapter 11.
You know, I mean, this sermon could be like five hours long,
but I'm just giving you a few examples.
Thank you, Lord.
Hebrews chapter 11.
Well, you're the only one.
No, I'm just kidding.
Just kidding.
Hebrews chapter 11.
Now, I'm going to bring up a real controversial subject right now,
but you know, this shouldn't be controversial.
And I'm going to prove what I believe from the Bible about this.
You see, the government is on a power trip.
You say, what are you talking about, Pastor?
And I'm having trouble understanding this sermon.
The government is on a power grab.
They're on a power trip.
And you say, why are you preaching about this so much lately?
Because it's changing every day.
I mean, just this week they passed this legislation now
where the cops can pull you over and just ask you for your papers.
You know, I better make sure I don't get a tan.
You know, because if you're a little brown,
that's where you're getting pulled over now.
And you have to show your papers.
You say, they're not going to do that.
It already happened two days ago.
A trucker was pulled over and they arrested him and took him to jail
because he didn't have his birth certificate in the cab of his commercial truck.
He's a citizen.
He was born in Fresno, California.
That's the society we're living in today.
You say, oh, why are you so mad about this?
Because a year ago, they beat me up at one of these border check things.
And it was 75 miles from, or it was 50 some miles from the border.
Wasn't crossing a border, just traveling in the United States.
I was beaten and thrown in jail for not showing my papers.
It's the same thing.
This is happening, folks.
Wake up.
And I'm just explaining this morning why it's happening.
Because the government is teaching that there's no God for a reason.
Because they want to fill that border.
They want to fill that gap.
Before I get into my controversial point from Hebrews 11,
let me give you another point.
People today think that because something is legal,
that makes it morally right.
And that if something is illegal, that makes it morally wrong.
So God has been replaced as the law giver by the government.
Get this.
I was saying to someone about the evils of abortion.
They said, but abortion is legal.
It's not legal in God's laws.
It doesn't matter whether something's legal.
Just because the government gives you permission to do something,
doesn't make it right.
You know, the government says you can drink when you're 21.
But let me tell you something, kids that are 18, 19, 20,
when you turn 21, why don't you open that book
and see what God says about drinking,
and not let the government tell you,
oh today you can drink now.
Today you can gamble now.
Now you can smoke cigarettes.
Now you can take drugs.
Because the doctor wrote it out and said you may take drugs.
And he's just an agent of the government.
Let me tell you something.
Just because a doctor writes down take this drug,
that doesn't mean that that drug is right to take.
Many of the drugs that are being prescribed are hardcore narcotics
that are just like what's being sold by the dope dealer on the street,
but the only difference is that one's legal and one's not.
And people think that any drug that's legal is okay to take.
That's what they think.
You know what I'm saying is true.
You know that 99% of Baptists will tell you
that if a drug is legal, it's okay to take that drug,
as long as the doctor said yes.
I'm talking about mind-altering drugs,
psychiatric drugs, and all these different things.
And I'm glad that God gave me the spirit of a sound mind.
I don't need a drug to make me sane.
You're sitting there saying, yes you do.
No, I don't.
I don't need a drug to make me sane.
This book will give you the sound mind.
Given God's word.
I talked to...
There was a girl that went to our church.
We first started at the church.
And her mother said she's on all these psychiatric drugs and everything like that.
And I said, you know, you need to get off those drugs.
I said that, you know, you shouldn't be on that stuff.
And she got upset and all this stuff.
I said, I promise you that your daughter is having problems
because of something else.
She just needs to get saved and get right with God and whatever.
You know, she's blasting her Nine Inch Nails,
Marilyn Manson.
She's listening to all this satanic music.
And she's taking drugs.
She's taking psychiatric drugs.
She's taking street drugs.
I told her, I said, you're probably demon-possessed.
You know, she's talking about hearing all these voices and all.
You're demon-possessed.
You're taking a bunch of drugs and listening to a bunch of satanic music.
That's what's wrong with you.
But today, if the government allows it, it's okay.
You know, abortion is okay.
Drugs are okay.
Drinking is okay.
But oh, don't smoke marijuana.
You know, and by the way, I'm just as against marijuana.
It's wicked.
But they'll say, marijuana is wicked, but drinking is fine.
Can somebody explain to me the difference?
People die drinking.
People OD on drinking.
If you drink too much, you'll die.
It's true.
If you drink too much, you'll go to the hospital.
I mean, it's the same stuff, but one's legal, one's not.
That's where people get our morality.
My morality comes from the Bible.
It says, be sober.
I'm going to be sober.
That's an absence of drugs, an absence of alcohol on any level.
And I'm not talking about legitimate medicines.
I'm talking about mind-altering drugs and narcotics.
Okay, you better be prescribed or street drugs.
It's wicked as the devil.
You got to flee from it.
It's bad.
But today, they've become the law giver.
If you do something against the law.
Let me explain to you.
Did you know that soul winning in Tempe is illegal?
Did you know that?
Now in Phoenix, it's legal.
In Chandler, it's legal.
In Mesa, it's legal.
But in Tempe, where you're sitting right now, you're sitting in Tempe,
it is illegal for me to walk across the street and knock on that door
and leave an invitation to church and give the gospel.
But you know what?
Do you think I care?
Because I don't.
Because we've knocked half the doors in Tempe,
and we're going to knock the other half.
Amen.
And we've knocked, you know, more doors than other cities.
But the point is that the government should not dictate our morality.
The Bible should dictate our morality.
It doesn't matter whether the government's watching.
God is the one who's watching over us everywhere we go.
He's the one who needs to know about us.
He's the one who gets my first fruits.
He's the one who I give the firstlings of my business,
who I give my tithe to before the government comes and withholds more of it by fraud.
But not only this.
Here's a, like I said, this is kind of a controversial issue, but it ought not be.
Because it's so cut and dry.
Look at Hebrews chapter 11, verse 32.
The Bible says this.
And I'm just trying to show you what's going on today with our government.
How they're on this power trip.
How they're out of control.
They're taking over.
They have a God complex.
They think they're God.
They want to run our lives.
They want to take away our freedom and liberty that God gave us.
Thank God that God gave us free will.
Thank God.
But I wish that man would give us freedom.
But he says in Hebrews 11, 32,
And what shall I more say?
For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon,
and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah.
Boy, great men, great stories.
Read the Bible.
I mean, read the book of Judges.
Powerful stories.
And today, people are filling their mind with video games and movies.
This is where the action is, right here.
Get in this book, you'll enjoy it.
And just, I mean, look at the great stories this year.
Barak, not the Barak you're thinking of.
Gideon, Barak, Samson, of Jephthah, of David also,
and Samuel of the province, verse 33.
Who through faith subdued kingdoms,
wrought righteousness, obtained promises,
stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire,
escaped the edge of the sword,
out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight,
turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Women received their dead, raised to life again,
and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance,
that they might obtain a better resurrection,
and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings.
Yea, moreover, of bonds and imprisonment,
they were stoned, they were sawn asunder,
were tempted, were slain with the sword,
they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins,
being destitute, afflicted, tormented,
of whom the world was not worthy.
They wandered in deserts and in mountains
and in dens and caves of the earth,
and these, all having obtained a good report through faith,
received not the promise,
God having provided some better thing for us,
that they without us should not be made perfect.
What's the significance of this passage, Pastor Anderson?
This is what's significant about this passage.
This is the only time in the entire Bible
that the word torture is ever mentioned.
Did you know that?
It's the only time.
The only time in the entire Bible, Genesis Revelation,
that the word torture is mentioned.
And what does it say?
Verse 35.
Women received their dead, raised to life again,
and others were tortured,
not accepting deliverance that they might obtain
a better resurrection.
So who's being tortured here?
The good guys or the bad guys?
The good guys.
Now there's another word in the Bible
that's similar to torture.
Who knows what it is?
Help me out.
There's a synonym for torture in the Bible.
Who knows?
Starts with a T.
Starts with a T-O.
Brett gets the prize.
He gets to go go-car racing.
No, I'm just kidding.
Did you learn the verses?
You're not going to go-car racing.
Torment.
Torment is the other word that the Bible uses for torture.
That means the same thing.
This is the only time torture is mentioned.
Notice what it says at the end of verse 37.
You'll see that word again.
Tormented.
About the same group of people.
They were destitute, afflicted, tormented.
Now it's interesting because the word torment
is used throughout the Bible.
Guess who is the one doing the tormenting
every time the word torment is mentioned
besides this passage?
God.
Let me give you some examples.
Luke 16 24.
You don't have to turn there.
And he cried and said, Father Abraham.
You turn to Revelation 14.
And he cried and said, Father Abraham,
have mercy on me and send Lazarus
that he may dip the tip of his finger in water
and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame.
Where is that guy at where he's being tormented?
In hell.
And all throughout the Bible,
you'll see the word torment.
It's always God tormenting people in hell.
That's what the word torment is used.
It's also used after the tribulation
when he's pouring out his wrath
and those scorpion-like locusts that are stinging people.
And it says they torment men for five months.
Look at Revelation 14 11.
It says, in the smoke of their torment
ascendeth up forever and ever.
And by the way, hell is eternal.
That's right.
It says here, and they have no rest day nor night
who worship the beast and his image
and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
So all throughout the Bible,
you have this concept of torment,
and it's always God being the one who punishes man
by tormenting him in hell.
Right?
All throughout the Bible,
you have one mention of torture,
one mention of torment in Hebrews chapter 11,
where it's man tormenting man,
a man torturing another man,
and it's wicked, evil people torturing the good guys.
That's what it says.
That's the only time it's mentioned.
Now, you've got Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy,
which are God's laws for the nation of Israel.
Never one time is there any torture mentioned.
Never does he say to torture someone.
Never does he say to do cruel and unusual punishment.
It's basically, these are the way that God punished criminals.
Either they had to pay a financial fine,
or they had to get a beating.
But see, it wasn't torture.
It was a punishment.
There's a difference between torture and punishment.
He would give them a punishment of physical beating,
and he put a limit on it.
He said, no more than 40 stripes.
He said, otherwise, you will seem vile to your brother.
If you were to beat someone more than 40 times,
you're a sick person.
You're taking it too far, and so forth.
So people who did very bad crimes would get a beating,
but it was totally public.
They'd be tied up with their hands like this,
and they'd be beaten 40 times, max.
The other punishment was death, which is death by stoning.
But today, in the United States of America,
our government thinks that it's OK to torture people.
And I'm talking about days and weeks.
And I'm not talking about 39 swats
because they did a crime, because they were convicted
in court, like the Bible says, where they have a trial,
and they're convicted by the judges
and sentenced to a beating.
No, I'm talking about people for days or weeks or months
being tortured in a secret location.
And this is public news.
They're tortured for months and months
to get them to talk.
It is wicked.
And I'm going to show you in the Bible it's wicked.
But first, let me just read for you the laws of the land.
Because even if it were not wicked, it's against the law.
And yet they do it.
Yet they brag about doing it.
They say they do it.
They say it's OK.
Listen to this.
This is the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution.
This is from the Bill of Rights.
It's very clear.
It says, excessive bail shall not be required.
This is what America used to be.
Nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual
punishments inflicted.
Did you get that?
No cruel and unusual punishments shall be inflicted.
Now, that's very clear, Eighth Amendment, Constitution.
That's the highest law in the land.
Listen to this from the Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal.
That they are endowed by their creator
with certain unalienable rights.
Did you get that?
Who gives us our rights according to the founding
document of our country?
God, the creator.
He gives us rights that can't be taken away from us.
They're inalienable rights that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
that to secure these rights, governments
are instituted among men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed,
that whenever any form of government
becomes destructive of these ends
and is the right of the people to alter or abolish
it and to institute new government,
laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form as to them
shall seem most likely to affect
their safety and happiness.
Now, who does that say according to our laws?
I mean, these are our founding document,
our laws, our bill of what?
Who gives us those rights?
And who did God give them to?
All men.
That's what it says in our founding document.
You say, well, that's not the Bible.
No, it's not the Bible, but it is the law of our land.
It is the law of our country.
And here's what you hear people say today.
Well, we're not going to give our rights to our enemies.
Or we're not going to give rights to immigrants,
you know, illegal immigrants, undocumented, whatever.
They say, we're not going to give our rights
to these illegals or to Muslims or to people in other...
Well, hold on a second.
We don't have the right to give people rights anyway.
Where did this document that founded our country say
the government gives us our rights?
No, it said the creator gave us the right to live.
I have the right to be alive and to be free
and to pursue happiness given to me by God.
The government doesn't give me the right
to freedom of speech.
I already have the right to freedom of speech.
When I was born, the first thing I did was go,
ah, when that doctor slapped me on the behind.
And I was screaming ever since.
And nobody can stop me because God's the one
who gave me the right to do it.
From saying dada to saying what I'm saying today.
I didn't get permission to speak.
I don't need permission to be alive.
God gave me those rights and God didn't just give them
to you because you're an American.
God gave them to every human being.
And they are enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
And the Bill of Rights says that cruel and unusual
punishments shall not be inflicted.
And yet today torture, now let's go to the Bible.
Let's see what you say.
What do we do?
What should we do?
Look at 1 Samuel 30.
You say, well, how do we deal with these enemies
of our country though that we're torturing?
You know, we have to torture them.
Now first of all, everybody knows that torture
does not work as a method of getting information
from people.
Because have you ever been tortured?
You'll say anything to end the torture.
So you'll make stuff up.
But you see, it's sick people who enjoy torture.
Who like to torture people.
You say, what kind of tortures are they doing?
I'm not going to go into the graphic tortures
just for sake of children because I don't want
to just sit here and dwell upon all this and go at it.
But there's a lot of really sick, horrible things
that they've done, that they've done on the record.
But even if we don't go into that,
let's just go into the big one
that everybody knows about, waterboarding.
OK?
There was a conservative talk radio host in Chicago
who said, waterboarding's not torture.
He said, I'll be waterboarded.
He said, I can last.
He said, I'll last for at least 30 seconds.
Now first of all, 30 seconds isn't that long.
He lasted for eight seconds.
And he said, I don't want to admit this, but it's torture.
He said, that's the most horrible experience
I've ever had in my life.
He said, I felt like I was dying.
He said, if I would have known how bad it was,
I never would have done it.
And it lasted eight seconds.
And our government has on the record
waterboarded the same people as many as 175 times in a row.
175 times in a row.
This guy said, I don't want to admit it.
It goes against my political beliefs.
But he said, it's torture.
It's horrendous.
He said, it's instant torture.
He said, it's the most horrible feeling
I've ever had in my life.
Who saw him say that?
Yeah, a couple of people.
Two people.
And so we have a government that is now
degenerating to the point of the Soviet Union,
who tortured millions of people.
That's where our country.
And you say, oh, I trust our government.
OK, do you like the way they're handling the money?
Do you like the way they're running our country?
But I'm sure they're only torturing the right people.
I'm sure you can trust them to be torturing people
on an island somewhere that you've never seen
or know anything about.
That all of those people are guilty.
Who Obama himself said, we don't have enough evidence
to convict these people.
So we don't know what to do with them.
Now that he's out of campaign mode,
he said, well, we don't have the evidence
to convict these people.
And so we can't turn them loose
because they're dangerous.
But we can't really prove that they did anything wrong.
So we're just going to have to have indefinite detention.
They're still being imprisoned with no trial,
no evidence, whatever.
Look at what God teaches here in the Bible.
Let me teach you something.
All the answers are in the Bible.
I hate it when people say the Bible
doesn't deal with that subject.
The Bible deals with every subject.
And did you know that Christians today,
if people go to church,
there was a poll taken in the United States.
60% of people who go to church think torture is OK.
40% of people who don't go to church think torture is OK.
So basically, you're 20% more likely
to think torture is OK if you go to church.
Unbelievable.
You didn't get that from the Bible, my friend,
that the government should be torturing people.
It's wrong.
It's sinful.
It's wicked.
And in a sense, I've been tortured.
It wasn't for very long.
But I was totally not doing anything.
And just to punish me, they tortured me
with that taser for 20 seconds straight.
It was torture.
I mean, that's the only way to describe it.
I felt like I was burning in hell.
I mean, it was bad.
Not that I know what that feels like,
but that's what I imagined as I
was writhing with somebody stomping
on my head into broken glass.
And I'm writhing being electrocuted
with 50,000 volts for 20 seconds straight.
Count to 20 slowly.
It's a long time.
It's torture.
No judge, no jury.
I was, charges against me were dropped.
I didn't commit any crime.
According to a court of law, I didn't commit any crime.
Yet torture.
And thank God it was only for a short time.
But look if you would at 1 Samuel 30, verse 1.
All the answers are in the Bible.
And it came to pass when David and his men
were come to Ziklag on the third day,
that the Amalekites had invaded the south
and Ziklag and smitten Ziklag and burned it with fire.
And had taken the women captives that were therein,
they slew not any, either great or small,
but carried them away and went on their way.
So David and his men came to the city,
behold it was burned with fire.
And their wives and their sons and their daughters
were taken captives.
Then David and the people that were with him
lifted up their voice and wept
until they had no more power to weep.
So let me give you the story.
David here, he has all of his family,
his men, their families, everything like that.
They went out with the Philistines
and while they were gone,
their camp was attacked by enemies,
by the Amalekites who kidnapped their families,
stole all their goods,
took their wives and children captive.
They get back, their wife's gone,
their children are gone,
all their stuff is gone
and they're weeping, they're crying, they're angry.
The people even speak of stoning David
because they blamed him.
So they're upset.
So now they want to go after the people who did this.
They want to try to see
if they can get their wives and children back,
see if they can get some vengeance.
Look at verse 11.
And they found an Egyptian in the field
and brought him to David
and gave him bread and he did eat
and they made him drink water
and they gave him a piece of the cake of figs
and two clusters of raisins
and when he had eaten,
this spirit came again to him
for he had eaten no bread nor drunk any water
three days and three nights.
And David said to him,
to whom belongest thou and whence art thou?
And he said,
I am a young man of Egypt,
servant to an Amalekite
and my master left me
because three days ago I fell sick.
We made an invasion upon the south of the Karathites
and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah
and upon the south of Caleb
and we burned Ziklag with fire.
So here's a man who was one of the people who attacked.
This is one of the enemies that came in
and kidnapped and stole and attacked them.
So this is the enemy that they found.
Okay, look what it says.
And David said unto him,
this and that,
and then verse 15,
David said to him,
Hence thou bring me down to this company
and he said,
Swear unto me by God that thou wilt neither kill me
nor deliver me into the hands of my master
and I will bring thee down to this company.
And when he had brought him down,
behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth,
eating and drinking and dancing,
because of all the great spoil
that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines
and out of the land of Judah.
And David smote them from the twilight
even into the evening of the next day
and their escape not a man of them,
say four hundred young men
which rode upon camels in flight.
So here's an enemy combatant.
Is he tortured?
Let's torture him
and he'll tell us what we know
and what we want to know.
No, he just said they fed him,
they took care of him,
they gave him something to drink,
they treated him nicely,
and then they just said,
Can you give us the information we want?
We won't kill you.
We'll take care of you.
We'll protect you if you give us the information.
And he gave me information.
But you'll not find any example
of people being tortured in the Bible
unless they're God's people being tortured.
Being sawn asunder,
being tortured,
not accepting deliverance
that they might obtain a better resurrection.
Who was the big torturer all throughout the dark ages?
The Roman Catholic Church.
Torturing people.
It's true, it's a part of history.
The Soviet Union, tortured.
And now there are Christians today in America
that wants to give our government
the right to torture.
Even though it's against the law,
even though it's against the Bible.
Why do they want to torture people?
Because they think they're God.
Because God is the only one
who torments anyone in the entire Bible.
He torments them in hell.
That's where they're going to get
what they deserve someday.
In hell.
You say, Whoa, you just can't let people get away.
No one gets away with anything.
God is the judge.
It's not man's job to torture another man.
To torture someone else.
And every government in history
that's ever tortured
always ended up torturing their own people.
It's a fact.
China, Russia, you name it.
There are a lot of other points I have.
I'm not going to go.
I'll just kind of read off a few of the points.
You know, basically,
you're supposed to rely upon God
to take care of you.
You know, the government says,
We will be the ones to take care of you.
Trust us to take care of you.
We will be the ones to fall back on
when you're on hard times.
Instead of relying on the Lord
and the local church to take care of you.
That was a whole other point.
So many other things that
the government in China today
dictates a one-child policy.
When the Bible says that
God is the one who opens and closes the womb.
An abusive government wants to tell you
how many children you can or cannot have.
Communist China today is an example of that.
And we could go on and on,
but let me just wrap it up in a nutshell for you.
We're living in perilous times.
And it's time for God's people to say,
You know what?
I have one master, one authority.
It's God's word.
He's the only God I worship.
I'm not going to fall into the trap
of worshiping the government.
Whatever they say,
I just believe it and go along with it.
I think they can do no wrong.
Hey look, everything God does is right.
He never makes a mistake.
There's nobody in hell
who doesn't belong there right now, my friend.
Did you hear me?
Every single person in hell right now belongs there
or they wouldn't be there.
But then we think the same thing about the government.
Everybody who's being tortured belongs there.
Everybody who's in jail belongs in jail, right?
Everybody who's in jail,
everybody who's tortured belongs there.
Everybody that we kill over in the war in Iraq
all deserves to be killed,
even if they're a pregnant woman,
even if they're children, civilian.
It's okay, our government knows what they're doing.
They can do no wrong.
Look what they're doing in our country
and then you think everything they're doing over there is okay?
God, help us.
Look what they do to us.
And we're living in perilous times.
It's time for God's people to wake up
and say, look, the government is not our God.
We're not going to give them the power of God.
We're going to worship God.
Him only will we serve.
We're not going to let them tell us
where we're going to go soul-willing,
where we're not going to go soul-willing.
You see, I'm not sure if some of the way he preaches,
like when he preaches against homosexuality,
I'm not sure that's legal.
I'm not sure if it's legal either,
and frankly, I don't care.
It's the Bible.
And today we have pastors, Christians,
bowing down to the government saying,
the government's going to take care of me.
The government can do no wrong.
We'll let the government decide
who they torture and who they kill.
Oh, we just trust the government.
We trust them.
Trust in the Lord, trust in the government
with all thine heart,
and lean not unto thine own understanding.
And all thy ways acknowledge them,
and they shall direct your path.
But that's the way a lot of Christians think.
And we need a major paradigm shift
in America among Christians.
We need God's people to get their mind out of talk radio,
to get their mind out of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh
and all their little heroes and Glenn Beck,
to get their mind out of all this garbage
and get their mind in this book.
And say, what does the Bible say?
Instead of just, oh yeah, yeah,
we need to be torturing those people.
They're bad, let's torture them.
Yeah, let's drown them, let's torture them.
But you didn't find that in the Bible.
Yeah, I think all these cameras are great.
They can watch us all the time.
They can watch us when we go to bed
and when we get up in the morning.
They can watch me through my bedroom window.
It's a sick world we're living in.
Oh yeah, and then they say this,
and by the way, here's one more verse for you.
You say, you don't preach the Bible.
I preached three pages of Bible verses
and that's a lot more than you'll hear
at the Baptist Church down the street.
It just wasn't the verses that you liked.
But it was three pages of Bible verses
that I read for you.
And that's a lot more you'll hear
at the Baptist Church down the street.
Now I forgot my other point.
It's too busy to talk about that.
We're not going anywhere until I remember this.
No, we're not torturing anybody.
You're not even listening.
Drives me nuts.
This was the crowning.
This was the last nail in the coffin.
This was the icing on the, what was it?
Oh yeah, how about this?
Therefore all things whatsoever you would
that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them,
for this is the law and the prophets.
Did you hear that?
Therefore all things whatsoever you would
that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them,
for this is the law and the prophets.
So ask yourself this question.
Ask yourself,
do you want to be pulled over
and asked to show your papers?
Because you're white so you don't care.
You know what I mean?
Like oh I'm white so this doesn't affect me
with stinking Mexicans.
But hold on a second.
Do unto others as you have them do unto you
because, and there's a reason why
he said, therefore all things whatsoever
you would that men should do unto you,
do ye even so to them,
for this is the law and the prophets.
I'll tell you why.
Because what you do
is going to come back around to you
and you will reap what you've sown.
And today you say,
torturing Muslims?
So what?
Torture them.
But hold on a second.
Tomorrow it'll be you.
Oh yeah, who cares?
Some Mexican truck driver,
he doesn't speak English that good
or whatever.
Hey he spoke English fluently
and he's born in America
but he's Mexican
and he got thrown in jail.
But that doesn't matter right?
Because it's never going to happen to you
but it will happen to you.
And you better stop and say,
well it doesn't matter that it's,
they're persecuting this minority,
that's them.
It doesn't affect me
but tomorrow it will affect you.
Today it's Mexicans.
It was Japanese people
put in concentration camps
in World War II in America.
Japanese internment camps.
It was the Japanese,
it's the Mexicans,
it's the Muslims being tortured.
They're killing innocent people in Iraq.
Nobody cares
because it's just so far away,
you know, who cares?
But you know what?
They're bringing that same stuff back here
to use it on us.
They're practicing over there
if they're taking over this country.
It's a fact.
And you know what?
We deserve it as America
because we think it's okay
to go over there and kill a million people.
I looked at a website
that was trying to tone down
how many people died in Iraq.
This was a website
that was actually trying to say
we haven't killed as many people
as people are saying.
And they were given
the conservative numbers
and it was like
soldiers killed in Iraq 30,000.
Civilians was like 850,000
civilians dead in Iraq.
And then our soldiers is like 5,000
between Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
And I've seen video footage
of them killing civilians,
of killing innocent people.
Just a guy just walking down the street
with a camera
and they're like
oh that looks like a gun.
Then the guy's crawling
on the pavement
trying to get help
and a vehicle comes out
and a bunch of unarmed people
get out and try to help the guy.
Two teenage girls and a bunch of men
try to help the guy
and they just blew them all up.
And the video was leaked by somebody.
And then one of the guys
who was actually there said
oh this video just shows
what happens every day in this war.
And let me tell you something
and this is controversial too
but I don't care.
This is America.
I'm an American.
I can say this.
I'll tell you right now.
You know what those Iraqis
are doing over there right now?
The exact same thing
that we're going to be doing
when we have foreign troops
in our country
killing innocent people
and killing our family members.
We'll do the same thing they're doing.
We have no right
to be occupying a foreign country
killing innocent people.
And you can say
I don't want to hear this in church.
Where are you going to hear it?
On CNN?
Fox News?
Go ahead and believe the lies
and be part of something that's wicked.
But I'm going to expose it to you
because I'm a preacher of God's word.
The Bible says thou shalt not kill.
The Bible says that John the Baptist
preached and told soldiers
he said don't do any violence to anyone.
And he wasn't telling them not to fight a war.
There's nothing wrong
with fighting a legitimate war
on a battlefield against soldiers.
But when you're killing women and children
that's wrong.
The Bible says it's wrong.
The Bible teaches it's wrong.
And Deuteronomy teaches it's wrong.
In the book of Luke chapter 3
it teaches throughout the Bible
you don't kill civilians and innocent people.
You don't bomb cities
and kill innocent people.
It's wrong.
And you say well
how are we going to be safe though?
We've got to do that to keep us safe.
Well you didn't listen then
when I first read the chapter
before I even started preaching Isaiah 54.
Because God gives you a plan for being right.
He said in Isaiah 54, 14
in righteousness
shalt thou be established
thou shalt be far from oppression
for thou shalt not fear
and from terror
for it shall not come near thee.
If you do right he said.
Then in verse 17 he said
no weapon that is formed
against thee shall prosper.
And every tongue that shall rise against thee
in judgment thou shalt condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord
and their righteousness is of me
sayeth the Lord.
I don't care whether you like
this kind of preaching or not
I'm going to preach it.
It's Bible.
He said if you're righteous
he'll protect you from the terrorists.
If you're righteous
he'll protect you from being attacked.
If you're righteous
no weapon against you
will be formed will prosper.
If you're righteous
you'll be safe
and you'll prosper
and he'll take care of you.
But if you're wicked and evil
he said judgment is coming
and judgment's coming on America
because of our wickedness and evil
we are killing innocent people in Iraq.
We are kidding.
He said I don't believe that you're in America.
Are you going to deny
that there's three thousand babies
being killed in this country every day?
Since you don't care about
all those brown people in Iraq
do you care that they're killing
babies with your tax dollars?
On April 15th you wrote your check
to help kill babies
through Planned Parenthood
funded by the government
to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's a fact!
John McCain said he wanted
to keep on giving hundreds of millions.
He said if I'm not like friends
I'll keep giving the hundreds of millions
to Planned Parenthood.
Obama signed an executive order
sending money to abortionists in Africa
to kill black babies in Africa.
But no, our government
would never kill anybody that's wrong, right?
They'll kill babies.
Are you kidding?
Say that they're not killing three thousand babies?