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Thank you so much for coming to the afternoon service here at steadfast Baptist Church
If you didn't already get your seat go ahead and please find a seat and go ahead and get your hymnals out
We're gonna sing our first song this evening
374 in our hymnals
If you please take your seats, we'll start our afternoon service. We're gonna saw start with song
374 send the light
374
If you are sitting next to somebody doesn't have a hymnal make sure to
Share with them so that way they can see as well send the light
374
And
The first there's a call comes ringing or the restless way
There are souls to rescue there are souls to say
Send the line
Lesson gospel
So to show
Send the line the blessing gospel
We have heard the Macedonian call to take
And the cold enough ring at the cross we lay
And
The blessed
Pray that grace may everywhere
Say the line and the Christlike spirit everywhere
The
Last
Oh
Let us pray again this evening
Thank You Heavenly Father so much for our church and for gathering us here for this evening service
I pray that you just bless our singing and our our service time. Please bless the preaching
Please allow us to continue to send the light and we just thank you for all you give us and it's the Sun your name
We pray Jesus name. Amen
We'll go to our second song 232 for the evening
Tell me the story of Jesus song
232
Tell me the story of Jesus
The first
Right
Tell me this
Most precious sweet is that
Saying
We
Right
Yet was triumphant at last
Oh
Tell us all
He was despised
This rejected
Tell me the story of Jesus
Right
Tell me the story
Sweet is that
Tell of the cross where they nailed him right
Tell of the grave where they laid him
Again
In the stories of tender
I see
Love
Tell me
Great singing again, if you didn't get a bullets and you need an extra one just lift up your hand nice and high
we are working on Jonah for the entire chapter for our memory verse and I I forgot this morning about the
prizes from our last
memory chapter, but I have them with me so
For any of you that did quote Psalm
59
from the last one
We've got a $25 gift card. We have a lot of different ones
So I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of stack them up here for a second and we'll let you guys come down here
But if you quoted the Psalm 59 to a non family member and you did that
You can come on down and you can pick something
So come on down if that's like it's got to be somebody right? Oh, there we go. All right, come on down
The old-fashioned altar. All right
Let's give them a round of applause. Okay
All right, and so you're rewarded with a nice little treat their prize
But of course the best prize is memorizing the Bible and of course for those who can memorize Jonah chapter 2
We'll also have a prize or award for them as well. And so highly encourage you
This is this is a reward to coming to Sunday night church. You didn't even know
you just thought it was all gonna be the same but
Choices choices. All right. Good one. Good one. Good pick. All right. Thank you. Yep
I'll still hand those out for Wednesday night and next Sunday just for those that were able to make it
But if you can quote Jonah to there will be a prize for that as well
And then on the inside we have a service time soul winning times church stats
Make sure you're turning those numbers into your soul and captain's your maps back into the bins that really helps us
on the right we have the list of expecting ladies and prayer list and then we had the baby announcement to
Congratulate the villa reels on the birth of Adam Pablo were born on the 10th 301 a.m
Seven pounds nine ounces 21 and quarter inches long graduates of them
I noticed that these babies always like to come and just random really wee hours of the night
Isn't that nice of them? And then on the back we have the upcoming events again. We have the Heritage Lord conference a
lot of the conference will be
to try and encourage some of the youth and so we'll have some youth events and some children's events and some
Children's songs and different things but I do encourage everybody to participate even you young singles
Please if you want to we could really use you guys to help for the services and some of the events and things like that
so I might even ask for some you guys to help us volunteer because we're gonna have
On on Friday. We're gonna have some events here at the church that it would be nice to have some extra volunteers to help with
the kids and wrangling them so
also, we have several events as far as soul winning and other things that we'd like for you guys to participate in so
I'm excited to have the conference and have some of our friends come out and preach for us
And so encourage you to be here and then participate in that event
Of course, if you'd also like to participate with us October 31st
We have a Texas chili cook-off and we give out prizes for our top
Results in that and so if you'd like to participate in the competition, you just have to bring a chili
before 6 p.m. And
It's really it's just it's Texas chili rules. You can look this up online. It's not even a steadfast thing
It's just a Texas thing and a true thing so you can find it, but it's basically just no fillers. So
And one of those fillers is beans and people get really mad at me about this and it's like it's not that I don't like
Beans, it's just I don't want the beans in the chili for the competition, you know, so it's like I'm not against works
I just don't want it in with my salvation. You know what I mean? Like we just don't mix these things
You know, I don't put chocolate in my chili. Some people do. Okay, they say that's the secret. I don't know
You know, it's weird, but I don't put gummy bears, you know, there's a lot of things I don't put in there
Okay, and so, you know, it's it's a true Texas chili cook-off and we want
people to participate in that
And also we'll be playing games and stuff
So if you just want to bring your favorite board game card game or something like that
Well tables out you can fellowship have a good time with us. We usually do a lot of fun things
November 16th is gonna be a Sony marathon in the area of the greater area of Miami
And so if you'd like to participate, I hear that November is a great time to visit
Weather is usually really really nice. And of course, there's about six million people in the greater Miami Metro
and so it's definitely a great opportunity to go out and
Probably a very receptive area if you go into the poor areas and so I encourage you to participate if you'd like to do that
As well, that's pretty much all I have as far as announcements
Let's go ahead and sing our psalm of the week or but we're doing kind of a special song where the spirit blows
It's in our special handouts
Saying it this morning
Where the spirit blows?
And maybe it'll help you kids wake up a little bit but in our last
We will go we want you to yell out nice and loud go. Okay. I want all you kids to practice with me
All right, so I'm gonna we're gonna say we will and then we're gonna we're gonna go go
We're gonna do it really loud. You want to practice with me ready? Get your hand up. All right
We will go. All right now you can do better than that. Come on. All right, let's do it again. Ready?
We will go. All right, that's what you're gonna do. Okay. All right where the spirit blows
There on the first
Jesus told me
over land and sea
Red black and white sweet in his side
Blows we will go go
Spirit blows
Yellow and brown to every time not just the Jews. Let's go into
Spirit
Where the spirit blows we will go
Father spirits on these three are one Holy Trinity
Always with me where the spirit blows
Go
Where the spirit blows we will go
the bison fell
send Christ to hell
But he arose
The lame call on his name
Is the grace
Oh
Good job guys. All right. Let's go ahead and turn in our Bibles to Proverbs chapter 25 and
We'll pass the offering plate. Once again if we missed you Proverbs chapter
25 turn in your Bibles and follow along and the Bible reader will read the entire chapter before we start our sermon
You
Proverbs chapter 25 the Bible says
These are also Proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing but the honor of kings is to search out a matter
The heaven for height and the earth for depth and the heart of kings is unsearchable
Take away the dross from the silver and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer
Take away the wicked from before the king and his throne shall be established in righteousness
Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king and stand not in the place of great men
For better it is that it be said unto thee come up hither
Then that thou shouldst be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen
Go not forth hastily to strife lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame
Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself and discover not a secret to another
Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame and thine infamy turned not away a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold and
Pictures of silver as an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold
So is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear as the cold of snow in the time of harvest
So is a faithful messenger to them that send him for he refreshes the soul of his masters
Whoso, boasted himself of a false gift to the king of Judah
Whoso, boasted himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain
By long forbearing is a prince persuaded and a soft tongue breaketh the bone hast thou found honey
Eat so much as is sufficient for thee lest thou be filled there with
And vomit it withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor's house lest he be weary of thee and so hate thee
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor is a maul and a sword and a sharp arrow
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth
and a foot out of joint
As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather and has vinegar upon nighter
So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart?
If thine enemy be hungry give him bread to eat and if he be thirsty give him water to drink
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head and the lord shall reward thee
The north wind driveth away rain so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue
It is better to dwell in the corner of an housetop than with a brawling woman and in a wide house
As cold waters to a thirsty soul
So is good news from a far country a righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring
It is not good to eat much honey. So for men to search their own glory is not glory
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls let us pray
Dear heavenly father. Thank you for this day. I just want to thank you for the gift of salvation and for the bible
I ask you to bless pastor. Shelley now fill in with your holy spirit helping to preach the word in jesus name. Amen
Amen
I want to I want to kind of look at this last part of the proverb here verse 28 again
It says he that hath no rule
Over his own spirit is like a city
That is broken down
and without walls
And this proverb is giving just some general wisdom
And what I always say and i'll always continue to say is that god uses carnal truths to expound spiritual truths
And the bible is likening a person with their spirit
to a city
That is in a bad condition
Um not having rule over your own spirit is in the context of having a lack of self-control
Not being able to tell yourself
No
And this is a bad thing. It'll cause you to perform many excesses and destroy yourself
It it's it's leading you down a path of destruction. It's leading you down a path of
ultimate ruin
That's what it's saying a city is like a city that doesn't have walls or is broken
It's going to be destroyed it has an inevitable failure
And so I think from this particular
Uh proverb, of course, there's a lot of spiritual wisdom that we can gain
But we should at least be able to recognize the carnal wisdom that's being taught in this particular proverb
And that is that there's nothing wrong with walls
There's nothing wrong with a city
Not allowing everybody to enter into the city indiscriminately
And unfortunately, we have strange views out there today on immigration
And you know, i've been preaching a sermon series kind of on
controversial sermon topics
And i'm going to continue that with the sermon this evening and I want to talk about immigration and immigration is a a very
controversial topic
But i've titled my sermon this
Let them eat cats
Okay. Now who knows what i'm talking about already? All right
There's there's a town in america springfield, ohio
Where a large percentage of haitian immigrants have been dropped off
In the in the most recent timeline and they're going around and supposedly they're eating a lot of dogs and cats. Okay now
I got this title. It's actually that's part of the reason why I came with this title
Another thing that's interesting is if you study french history
The aristocracy was so out of touch that there's this famous quote by one of the queens
that says let them eat cake and
I've kind of looked up the veracity of that claim
Some people speculate that she may not have said this some people aren't sure but it at least it's well known quote
And it's this idea that this rich queen sitting in her palace while her peasants are starving
And she's brought one of her stewards that comes under and says the people are frustrated
They are going to storm the you know, the castle they're going to overthrow the government because they're so hungry
And she's like, well, why don't we just let them eat cake? And and it's just kind of this funny statement to show that
She's so out of touch
She doesn't understand that they're starving because of their bad governmental policies the things that they're doing are ruining
The food for everybody else and she just makes the statement because she lives such a privileged life and she knows no other
Let them eat cake. Like why are they starving? Why are they frustrated? Why can't they just eat cake?
Now
cake
in times past
Really just kind of meant bread
A lot of times people in times past they made cakes
You'll see in the bible when you talk about I believe one of the widows is making food for the prophet
She makes them little cakes. She bakes little cakes. It wasn't what we typically think of a cake like a birthday cake. It's more of
uh kind of what we think of like cornbread or
A small little biscuit sandwich or something and it's being described as cake because for the majority of people throughout history
They ate bread. I mean, there's a reason why the lord's prayer is give us this day our daily bread
It's because most people have survived solely on bread as their primary source of food if you think about it
It comes from wheat wheat can be made in abundance. It can be stored in grain
It can be stored in flour and it's preserved for the entire year
You don't have to have any specific season to necessarily have bread bread is one of the easiest things to have all year
Based on the way that it's created and can be stored as flour. And so most people have eaten bread there
to survive throughout history
That's not the only thing we eat. Of course, we eat meats. We eat vegetables fruits. I've seen this interesting map online of history
It's kind of interesting and it's like this line that goes through europe
And it's like the southern part of europe is known as tomatoes
And the northern part of europe is known as potatoes
And they just basically kind of make this this joke that the northern part of europe survived on potatoes for centuries
And the southern side has survived on tomatoes. So when you think of italy, what do you think of their dishes?
typically consistent of you know pastas and marinara sauce and a lot of tomato dishes
Bruschetta all these different famous tomato dishes you look at the northern parts
They have potato soup and they have all kinds of different potato style dishes
Casseroles shepherd's pie things like that, you know based on their climate and based on their environment
People need food
And of course if you just bring in a bunch of extra people into an area and you don't have the infrastructure
You don't have the food source for those people you can put them in a precarious situation and
really frankly speaking we have a lot of out-of-touch politicians and
Politicians that frankly don't care or actually causing problems on purpose, but you look at people like Kamala Harris
You would think like she doesn't really know what's going on
She probably has no idea our government probably has no idea and they they flood our areas with all
kinds of illegal immigrants into our country and it caused the problems those people need to eat and
For people that are not very cultured. They don't have a Western mindset. They don't live in a lot of civility
They've lived in you know ruins or they've lived in
impoverished situations
they look at every animal's food and
So they see a fat cat walking around in the alley and they're just thinking like this is a good dish
Whereas to most of us that would seem really foul and and kind of confusing most of us don't really eat cats
Okay, I'm not gonna get a raise of hands or anything like that. All right
But I want you to go to go to Leviticus chapter 11
let's look what the Bible says in this on this topic a little bit, but I
wanted to explain that that I didn't just come up with this title randomly that there's a little bit of
meaning and again
When we talk about immigration
it's important to understand that sometimes governments can use immigration as a weapon or a tool against its own citizens and
by knocking down walls
proverbially speaking that can cause a lot of problems
Immigration is a serious foreign policy issue for every country. We have to consider
What our immigration policy is going to be but you know before I get there
I also want to address the idea of food and according to the Bible in Leviticus chapter 11
It kind of outlines a lot of different animals and what animals are clean and unclean. I think this is interesting
Look at verse 27 whatsoever goeth upon his paws
Among all manner of beasts that go on all four
Those are unclean unto you who so touches their carcass shall be unclean until even in the Old Testament
animals that walked on their paws were considered unclean animals and therefore the
Old Testament Saints would have not been permitted to eat anything on their paws. This would include dogs and cats
So historically speaking these would have been an unclean animal or an unclean beast
Go over to Acts chapter number 10 now go to Acts chapter number 10
and
Yet in the New Testament
technically speaking in 1st Timothy chapter number 4
There is no prohibition now on unclean animals
In fact Peter is challenged with this and with a vision by God Acts chapter number 10 gives us a verse here
I want to look at verse number
28
He sees a vision of unclean beasts
God tells him Peter rise slay and eat and
He's like I've never eaten anything like this
I'm not he's like I'm not gonna do this, but God tells him three times and then later. It's described here look at verse 28
And he said unto them ye know how that is unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company
Or come unto one of another nation, but God has showed me that I should not call any man
common or unclean later when Peter interprets the vision for us he says the spiritual understanding of those
Unclean animals was actually talking about people and that those people were not to be called
common or unclean
and so
There's a little bit of a getting away from racism in
The New Testament and and strangely enough I've heard that the racism in the Bible was against Jews
But really the racism in the Bible is against Gentiles if you actually understood
It's actually telling people you shouldn't have this idea that Jews are better than non-jews
And so the actual mindset of the Bible is actually what we have in today's world to where people think that Jews are more special
Than Gentiles, and we're not supposed to have that viewpoint. We're on the same level. We're on the same playing field as
God intended so technically speaking
Cats and dogs are just as available as a food source as beef
Now that's strange. I know I know you probably don't like what I just said let me explain it again
Eating a dog or a cat is just as acceptable biblically in the New Testament as eating a cow
And I know you don't see many chick-fil-a signs like this
But I'm just trying to be honest with you that there is technically nothing wrong with eating a dog or a cat spiritually speaking
Okay, but I'm not recommending that either. Okay. Don't hear me wrong. Okay. We're not about to have a dog barbecue, okay?
We're not gonna be like does anybody stray pets so we can round up or anything like that
But hey, I want to make something clear if it's the end times
And you can't buy or sell and you see Fido over there
I'm not gonna be judging you. Okay. I won't condemn you. Okay, and you might even need some hate. Hey Haitian
How do you cook this thing? I don't even know what's going on with this. Okay?
You might even need to pick up some tips. Okay?
That being said though, you know, it's it's kind of an unnecessary thing of today and they're a little gamey
They're a little weird
They're probably a more unclean animal
Cartally speaking as the Bible describes them
I think we should be eating more a diet based on a lot of the clean animals
You know when we talk about cows and sheep and things like that. They're a better food source. I like it. It's more normal
Okay, so I'm all for that. All right
I'm not necessarily into all the strange meat the gamey meat all that other stuff
But you know, I can't condemn somebody for eating it because you know, if you like squirrel you're from Arkansas, right? No
If you like squirrel it is what it is. I mean, there are people that eat all kinds of weird stuff eat snake
squirrel
I've had quail. I've had rabbit who's had rabbit
Who liked rabbit? Okay, a lot of hands. No kidding. I mean, I've had all kinds of strange animals
I've never had squirrel. Okay, but technically speaking there's nothing wrong with eating these animals
You know, I think that God created certain animals to be a self-replicating food source
That really ebbs and flows with the infrastructure. It's called chickens
Because chickens are cheap and you can really mass produce chickens to meet demand and they're good
It's healthy lean meat. Plus you can get eggs from it. Like chickens are a great source of excess food
I think that cats is not really the best option. Okay, it's kind of a weird scenario
it's kind of a barbaric scenario and
You know God wants us to be a smart sophisticated wise people
I think when you see a bunch of people who's walking around eating stray cats and dogs
You're kind of on the decline of society and you're probably headed down a wrong path and I'm not again. That's my personal opinion
I do want to make it clear but technically speaking. There's nothing wrong with eating these animals
Now I do want to make a couple other things clear though go to Numbers chapter 25
Let's go to Numbers chapter 25
We're talking about immigration, so is there a problem if a Haitian
comes to America and
Eats a stray cat. Is that really the biggest problem, you know in my
You know, honestly when I go soloing sometimes I wish there was less cats and dogs anyways
So like it doesn't really bother me that much
Now if I went over to their house and they serve that to me
You know, I'm just I'm not gonna be that into it. Okay, so
I wouldn't really want to eat that. Please don't serve that to me
That's not Texas chili. Okay
He'll be disqualified
from that particular situation
But you know really and you know, is there anything wrong with a Haitian coming to America?
No, because you know God's not a respecter persons. God's not into this
ethnic or race
ideology that our society has where he doesn't
He doesn't like certain nations or something like that. But but here's the thing not all immigrants are the same
Not all foreigners are the same and really what God does care about though is the ideology or the religious beliefs of the people
And he wanted to keep Israel a pure nation
ideologically God didn't really care as much about it being
pure from a
Genetic perspective or a specific ethnicity
but God wanted to keep Israel as a clean nation from an ideological perspective and from a religious perspective and you know
if we were gonna have a successful nation, we need to make sure that we're maintaining a
religious ideology and a religious continuity and a religious purity the more Christian a nation is going to be the more
Successful and blessed it will be the less Christian a nation the more cursed and the more problems and the less liberty it will have I
Believe that if you were to study any nation in America
I'm sorry in the world including America any nation and you were to evaluate individual liberty and
Individual prosperity where Christianity is the strongest. Those are always the best and where Christianity is the worst. They're always the worst
I mean, let's just think of some nations for a second
What would be probably the the worst place to be if you're a Christian
North Korea, let's let's evaluate personal liberty and personal prosperity. How is that going in North Korea right now?
Will be some other countries now again
I want to contrast it with another country because here's the thing North Korea itself is probably also not necessarily the most powerful nation in
The world it's probably on the bottom edge of the list
And I know they have potential nuclear warheads and stuff like that, but let's just be honest
I don't think very many nations are afraid of North Korea taking over their nation maybe bombing it but not necessarily taking over
It's not really a superpower, but what about China?
China is a very strong nation as a whole they wield a lot of power
They have a lot of influence you could argue that they have a lot of prosperity, but from an individual perspective
Let's measure it. Does China offer a lot of individual freedom and a lot of individual prosperity?
No
Why because they're not a Christian nation and the nations that have the most Christianity or perhaps are coming from a heritage of a Christian
Foundation are going to always be the ones that have the most individual freedom and individual prosperity
That's why everybody wants to live in America because they want that individual freedom and liberty and they want that individual
Prosperity that comes from the blessing of a Christian nation now as our nation
Declines in its Christian heritage and our laws continue to degrade of course that liberty and that prosperity is degrading with it
but
Generally speaking show me a nation. That's better right now
Show me a country that people are wanting to flock to here's another nation. That's horrible. How about India?
Not a Christian nation not a Christian
Worldview not a Christian system
Terrible individual liberty terrible individual prosperity and really it just stinks in every sense of the word
And so if you were to really evaluate why is a nation good Christianity?
Why is the nation bad the lack of Christianity? It's always the case
It just proves the Bible true so much and I mean if you just look at American history in general
America was founded on immigrants
We just have to be honest
America was founded on immigrants if you go back a couple hundred years
It's Native Americans living in this land and let me ask you this when the pilgrims and all the early settlers and the immigrants came
To America did they come to a nation that was thriving with businesses and roads and military?
And airplanes and all the stuff no they came and there was nothing
It was just basically raw material it was trees and buffalo and
A couple other wild game in fact. I don't know if you understand this, but cattle did not exist in America
Cattle was brought over from Europe into America many crops that we have the day like corn were brought from
Europe into America
America was just fertile soil ready for someone to cultivate and a lot of religious zealots came here and
Started cultivating the land and building a society at the time that America was being early
You know developed and founded let's talk about the 1600s. Let's compare them to other nations like China
Russia many European countries if you were to look at them on a chart you would say they're way behind
All these other nations have way more infrastructure way more history way more people all of these different things
They're way ahead of America, but then if you fast forward a couple hundred years America is now a superpower, and they're not
Why is that I?
Mean think about if you're running a marathon and someone's already 10 miles down the road
And you just now start how in the world are you gonna beat them in the race?
You know why we beat them all in the race because of Christianity
Another testament that Christianity is the best way to build a nation. It's the best way to
model our laws and
Generally speaking we were welcoming all kinds of people we were welcoming people that were from Ireland from UK from Germany
From France from Spain all over Europe people were flooding to America in the 1600s
1700s, but let me explain something to you they had religious continuity
They were coming to a nation that was gonna have religious liberty and was gonna be based on Christian laws
They weren't coming here to be Hindus. They weren't coming here to be Muslims. They weren't coming here to be Catholic
They were coming here to be an evangelical Christian. That's where they were coming here to be
They weren't coming here to be atheist either, and that's how our nation was formed
That's how our nation was founded that was what the laws were based on
So if you're gonna say I'm against immigration you would have to be against the nation of America
Because America was founded by immigrants, but let me make something clear
Christian immigrants it was not founded on let's just get a bunch of random people from random nations and put them here
You know what that is that's Australia
Which is a prison colony
Australia was founded as a prison colony instead of executing criminals like they should and instead of
Actually punishing people according to law they took all of their worst citizens and put them in Australia
and it's basically been a party island for the last few hundred years and
Really if you go to Australia, it's a party island. It's there's really not anything to show for it
They're not some superpower. They don't really have any military might in fact. They just gave their guns up I
Mean there, I guess they still have a prison mentality. I don't know what's going on over there, but again
There's more kangaroos than there are people too
And they pretty much all live near the coast within about a five mile radius is like the entire population of Australia
Even though Australia is as big as America virtually if you were to look at it a map Australia
Geographically speaking is about the same size as America yet. They only have I think
27 28 million people something like that
You can fact-check me, but it's around that number. They have about 50 million kangaroos about 26 to 28 million people and
You know they're not even that far off
I think maybe they're a little little further behind as far as the timeline of when they were settled and when they started
But they're not that far behind, but they're just so far behind America
Why because they're not a Christian nation either in a sense
They were a British colony, and they had Christian laws coming from that, but they weren't founded by people
They were coming there for religious liberty. They weren't people coming there saying we want to worship the God of the Bible
You see the Catholics conquering the Philippines you see the Catholics conquering Mexico
Why is I mean the Catholics conquered Mexico and established that part of the world?
Justice just around the same timeline as America being formed
But why it why is Mexico not the superpower of the world because Catholicism is a false religion
because Catholicism is a bad ideology and
It did not bless that that area. Hey, Texas had many battles with Mexico and we won
Praise God praise God that we're not all speaking Spanish and and under the the rule of Catholics now again
If you speak Spanish, I'm not against you. I'm just saying God blessed the English tongue
Because you know what I have a King James Bible my hand
Praise God for the blessings that we have I
Want you to understand that if you just study history at all if you just think about these facts
There's a reason why America is blessed and successful. It's because of Christianity not immigrants
we could look at all manner of examples of
Immigration and and different nations conquering different nations and the success was not bringing in foreign people
The success was the Bible whether that be the Philippines whether that be Mexico whether it be Australia whether it be hey, Canada
conquered by the French
They are always lame, aren't they? I
Mean what French colonies are prosperous and successful that they conquered. I mean they conquered large portions of Africa they conquered
New Caledonia, I think or Caledonia over near Australia. They conquered Canada
They're just kind of weak in lane and again the French were not zealous for the things of the Bible or for Christianity
historically speaking
You notice that these nations are just very different the French conquering the Spanish conquering and the British conquering
The British are the closest to the Bible and Christianity and their nations are the best
What are the nations that Britain has conquered also? How about South America South Africa?
What is the probably the best country in Africa again
I'm just generally speaking in South Africa the most developed the most sophisticated the most educated
They actually have a lot of accomplishments. I mean South Africa has accomplished a lot developed a lot. Why well
Britain got a hold of them. You look all the areas that the French
It's it's there's not a lot to speak for okay. Why because of the religion that they brought folks
We have to just be honest for a second and say
Immigration there's nothing wrong with it
But what's bad is importing false religion and what's good is importing?
True religion and all the areas where true religion has been brought have been greatly blessed and enhanced all the areas where it hasn't been
It's horrible a lot of people talk negatively about slavery and you know slavery's a wicked evil
There's nothing good about slavery, but it's interesting instead of all of the black people in America wanting to go back to Africa
What they want is more money
Isn't sure I mean if if slavery was so bad for all these people and they were taken away from their homeland
Why don't they want to go back? I?
Mean how many black people are saying like I can't wait to go back to Northern Africa where my ancestors were captured and
Sold by other black people sorry to tell you the truth to Jews who drove the ships over here and then sold them
Now they love America why because for many of them
That was the best thing that could possibly happen to them is
being sold in a slavery and coming to a Christian nation and hearing the gospel and getting saved and a lot of black people have
Gotten saved as a result of being imported into America
So even though the Jews were trying to make money off of them, and we're wicked
All things work together for good to them that love God to them. They're the called according to his purpose
I mean, what would be better just keep?
Living in these weird tribal situations in Africa and being slaughtering each other and saying ooga booga or
Getting sold into slavery coming to America someone teaching you English and educating you you hearing the gospel and getting saved oh
Man, you are a slave sure I'm against slavery
I'm not pro-slavery, but you know what for many people that was the best thing that ever happened
Is
Interesting that America is one of the first nations to actually get rid of slavery why because of our Christian heritage
And even today there's still slavery going on in the world yet
Why not many people want to tell you that America is the worst nation and we have the worst heritage
When in fact we have the best heritage, and we made many of the best decisions does that mean we're perfect
No, does that mean there weren't bad people of course there were we have to understand that
Immigration when we think about these concepts. It's important to think about what religion are we importing
And when you import false religion it causes problems for an area when you import
People that want to get saved or the right religion it greatly improves the area
Now the children of Israel are going to go and inherit the promised land
This is an important concept that's constantly brought up in the Bible about immigration and about different people dwelling among them
And they're not all the same cosby is not the same as Ruth and let's contrast these two ladies
look at numbers 25 look at verse number 4 and
The Lord said unto Moses
Take all the heads of the people and hang them up
before the Lord against the Sun that the fierce anger the Lord may be turned away from Israel and Moses said unto the judges of
Israel slay ye everyone his men that were joined unto Baal Peor and
behold one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a
midnight ish woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel who were weeping before
The door of the tabernacle of the congregation and when Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it he
Rose up from among the congregation
he took a javelin in his hand and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and
thrust both of them through the man of
Israel and the woman through her belly so the plague was stayed from the children of Israel and those that died in the plague were
24,000 so the children of Israel commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab according the Bible. That's what it says in verse 1
They ate their weird meals and their sacrifices and their false gods and they joined themselves into Baal Peor and
God kills all the men that joined themselves into Baal Peor
he plagues the children of Israel and it takes the man of God going in there and literally stabbing and killing
One of the men and this woman that he was committing fornication with and that's when the plague was stayed but notice
24,000 people died in this particular plague
And
God is very clear
He doesn't want them intermingling with this group of people and being with this group of people it causes a curse under them
It causes problems under them and if you skip down go to verse 12
Wherefore say the old I will give unto him my covenant of peace and he shall have it in his seed after him even the
Covenant of an everlasting priesthood talking about Phinehas because he was zealous for his God and made an atonement for the children of Israel
Now the name of the Israelite that was slain even that was slain with the Midianitish woman was Zimrai
the son of Sallu a prince of a chief house
Among the Simeonites and the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cosby the daughter of Zir
He was had over a people and of a chief house in Midian and the Lord spake unto Moses saying vex the Midianites and smite
Them for they vex you with their wiles
Wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cosby the daughter of a prince of Midian their sister
Which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake so here's the problem you have the Midianites
mixing with the children of Israel and specifically
teaching them about their false god
mixing with them and causing them to be drawn away from the Lord unto false religion and the Bible is saying that
They are going to vex you with their wiles
They're beguiling you they're tricking you they're deceiving you they're drawing you away, and the Lord said we're supposed to smite them
again in the New Testament
We don't really have a commandment especially on an individual level to smite anybody and we're not going to smite anybody
But generally speaking we as God's people should stay away from and not intermingle with the heathen
with the unsaved
It's not about being Haitian or Jamaican or Bahamian or or being African or being Asian or any other or European
It doesn't matter about those heritages in fact. There's nothing wrong with
one particular
Demographic marrying another demographic I've already preached that
Many people got mad at me. They're like the most boomer take I've ever heard. I'm just thinking like
Yeah, a lot of boomers are super into race mixing
I'm pretty sure most of the boomers were members of the KKK folks, okay
So I don't know if I don't even know what you're talking about number one
I mean most I mean my grandparents were racist
I'm just gonna be honest with you okay, and I love them, and there's nothing wrong with them
They're nice people, but they were racist okay, and I'm not racist and a lot of people are still racist in fact
I guarantee the boomers are more racist than most of us generally speaking
It's weird to think that boomers are the ones that are okay with quote race mixing, but I've already proved in previous sermons
There's no such thing as race anyways
Race is a man-made made-up thing, but what's not good is mixing ideologies and
Many times also it comes with ideologies as cultures and when you're mixing weird
Ideologies and cultures it can be disastrous results and God is warning don't mix with Cosby
Don't mix with these particular Midianites
They are going to destroy you as the children of Israel now go to Ruth chapter 1
Let's contrast this because here's the thing the Midianites were not the only group of people that were warned against
They were not to mix with the Moabites as well
Ruth is a Moabitess
This is mixing race mixing or whatever you want to call it
Which is silly because it doesn't exist
now
You know I've preached on this again
I'll just say it over and over because I like to be clear, but I don't believe in race. I think it's non-existent I
believe that when we consider who to marry the most important things that they're saved and
I
I've married people that are of different demographics. I don't care. It's meaningless to me
I've never even asked them a question about it, and I think that it'd be wrong to condemn anybody that way
but if someone has that preference, I'm also not mad at them and
Generally speaking most people whether they would admit it or not have a tendency to want to marry people that have similar characteristics to them
They like similar cultures. They like similar similar demographics some people like different
But most of us generally speaking like to marry similar demographics. That's great if you want to do that go team
I'm for you if you want to mix it up. I'm for you, okay?
But at the end of the day what we don't want to do is condemn things that are not in the Bible in the Bible
condemned
We don't want it. We don't want to have this take and you say oh, that's not popular. We need to save the white race
Well, you know frankly speaking most of the worst people in America are white
Let's just be honest. I mean if I were to say like who's like the worst people in America. I'm thinking like Joe Biden
Hillary Clinton Bill Clinton Bill Gates Mark Zuckerberg
I mean like I'm just of course there's people like Kamala, but Kamala is not in charge of anything folks
She's a puppet
She's see yeah, she's she's bad in the fact that she's willing to be a puppet, but she's not running the show
She's not the one calling the shots. She's not coming with all the plans. She doesn't even know anything
She can hardly even repeat the lines that they give her to speak okay if we were to really look at the evil in this
world it's a lot of white people and
A lot of people get confused. They think like well white people built society. No you know who built society Christians
Now of course our nation
There was a tight coupling between being white and being a Christian so people get confused about that topic
But it wasn't white people that made America great. It was Christians that made America great
hey, there's a lot of white people and
Iceland and
They're atheists and they're feminists, and I don't want them in my country or nation. I don't want to be near them
It's not like oh, well. There's all these white people. They're just magically great
That's a lie, and it would be also a lie to say well this person's not white therefore. They're not good
Well, you know we have a lot of people in this church that are not white and I love them
Some of our best members are not white some of my closest friends are not white
It's not about skin color
And I get so frustrated at people that want to oversimplify and just be like we need this we need to just be white again
Or something that is that is not the solution to America the solution to America is Christianity
It always will be Christianity, and if you don't like non-white people you're not gonna like heaven very much
Because let's be honest when we go out soul winning we get way more non-white saved I
Mean, I'm just being honest with you. I I got somebody non-white saved today all right
there
Enjoy that most people I get saved are not very white, and it's not that I don't want to get white people saved
Hey, take me to the neighborhood. That's white and receptive
Does it even exist I?
Don't know I mean I'm willing to go there, but let's be honest the areas that are darker or a lot better for soul-winning
They're a lot more receptive. There's gonna. There's probably gonna be a white minority in heaven. Sorry to burst your bubble
But I'm not against white people I love white people, but I also like black people and I like everything in between and
When it comes to our nation
There's a difference between Cosby and Ruth, and it's not like one's from a better nation than the other
Here's the difference their belief system
That's the difference. That's what makes Ruth different look at Ruth chapter 1 verse 12
Turn to give my daughters go away. This is Naomi talking to her daughters-in-law
For I'm too old to have an husband if
I should say I have hope if I should have an husband also tonight and should also bear sons
Would you Terry for them so they were grown?
Would you stay for them from having husbands nay my daughters for it grieve with me much?
Fear sakes that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me so Naomi's older. We don't know the age
But
Just kind of to the point where most men if not all men are just not interested in and marrying her at this point
and it's just not very likely that she's gonna be able to have another child and
Who wants to wait another 20 years or something?
To get married again and her sons had died
So she's trying to say like you guys need to just go find someone else
Just go back
Don't don't worry about me
And they lifted up their voice verse 14 and wept again and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth
Clave under her and she said behold thy sister-in-law is gone back under her people and under her gods
Return now after thy sister-in-law and Ruth said and treat me not to leave thee or return from following after thee for whether thou
Goest I'll go and where thou lodgest I will lodge thy people shall be my people and thy God
my God
Notice Ruth has a different perspective than her sister
Orpah goes back to her gods
We see that Ruth. She actually wants to go with the Lord, which is a different God than her God
She actually got converted and you know, this is important. There's a lot of important lessons in this number one
many times wise will just go along with their husband without any real conviction and
You know, you should be careful you ladies to actually have your own
Conviction when it comes to the things of God and
Not just go along because your husband's taking you to church here. You need to read the Bible for yourself
You need to be someone that loves the Lord yourself and and actually follow what the Bible says and would to God
That the women in this church if something god forbid happened to their husband. They would still go to a church like ours
They would still read the King James Bible
They would still dress the way that God would have them dress that they're not gonna go back to their gods
But rather they're gonna say no, I want the God of the Bible. No, I want the King James Bible
But this is the type of people that we should import into our nation is Ruth
We want more roots in our nation. Now Ruth is a foreigner Ruth is an immigrant
You know what? We like about Ruth that she likes God that she's a she wants to be a Christian
We should import as many roots as we can possibly have but you know what? We don't want Cosby's in our nation and it's not about
Ethnicity it's not about race. It's not about looks. It's about what do they believe? Here's the thing
I'm not against Haitians coming to our nation, but we shouldn't just import people into our nation when they don't want to be a Christian
We should only want Christians in our nation
It causes problems when you import foreign
Religion into a nation go you into numbers go back to numbers chapter 33 for a moment go to numbers chapter 33 our immigration policy
Should be
To only import people that share the same values or are willing at least at the minimum to tolerate
the Christian laws that we have we should go back to a system where our laws are based on Christian faith and
That those who are so journey among us are willing to accept Christian laws and are willing to live under a Christian system
It makes no sense to a tolerate and allow for false religion in our nation. I
Know that a lot of people like to twist some of the religious liberty
Aspects of our founding and our founding documents, but they were never intended to accommodate false religion
They were never intended to allow for false religion to creep into our nation
They weren't wanting atheism to creep in and in many of our states which people don't understand this
But many of our states you had to profess faith in Jesus Christ to hold any office
Now they may have let somebody of a false religion visit or show up or
Participate in some servitude manner, but they were not allowed to hold political office. They weren't allowed to affect the nation
They weren't allowed to religiously perform all of their practices when it violated clear Christian principles
You're not allowed to come here and have four wives just because you're a Muslim and you know even today
We're still not allowing that
But what's gonna happen in the future are they gonna start just saying well religious liberty
We're just gonna let people do whatever
People are challenging the idea of abortion saying well, that's my satanic religion
Okay. Yeah, it is a satanic abortion is satanic. At least they're honest
Hey abortions a religious belief of worshiping Satan. Yeah, of course it is right, but why in the world we allow that
You know in Houston, there's they're erecting giant monkey statues to their false god
Why in the world are we allowing that?
Are we gonna allow I mean would we allow a Hindu to maybe tour here and and hear the gospel from somebody and
Temporarily just visit sure. I'm not against allowing tourists, but why in the world would we want to allow that person to erect?
giant monkey statues and bring the cursing of God to our nation
why do we allow mosques and
Synagogues and all these other false religions to build their temples and to build their wicked
Ungodly sanctuaries in our holy land that is bringing the curse of God into our nation
Why do we allow Planned Parenthood's to exist in our nation? It's wicked
There's a reason why there's a church in every corner
It's because we had a Christian heritage and people are Christian and we should maintain that Christian spirit
Do we want the government to establish a particular denomination no
We enjoy the freedoms of the separation from church and state but we have to understand that the state should be filled with Christians
while those Christians well, we should never have a church filled with politicians, but we should have a
government filled with Christians and
We have to understand these balances
Of course many of the Catholic Church states and the Anglican Church states
These were epic failures and really restricted the gospel of Jesus Christ
but at the same time we don't want the cursing of God by tolerating and
Accepting false religion to be brought in and of course, you know who understands this
The devil's ministers they understand that what weakens a nation is importing false religion
And so they're constantly importing false religion into America for one reason and that one reason is the cause
Christianity to become weaker and for our nation to become weaker and to subdue them because they understand their only threat is Christianity
You have to understand there's this constant war going on in the Bible and throughout history and that is of Christianity
Versus the ministers of the devil against the synagogue of Satan
They are constantly at war with one another and they both understand. Hey when Christianity is strong
Well, they don't allow the synagogue of Satan to even exist in their borders and
When the synagogue of Satan is strong, well, they're gonna constantly bring a bunch of Cosby's
they're gonna bring a bunch of foreign and false religions and mix them with Christianity and weaken and water down Christianity because they
understand that these two forces are at at war and at odds with one another and
We need Christians and Americans to wake up and understand why our nation was strong and will make us strong again. And that's Christianity
That is the King James Bible and I'm not so mad about the Haitians eating cats
You know what? I'm mad about them bringing their false religion with them bringing their voodoo with them
Bringing in their ooga booga with them and their tribalism with them, you know
We want to import Christians into this nation not non-christians
And you know what every Haitian that wants to come to our nation and get saved or is saved
Bring them in I'll let them eat my cat. I don't have one but you know
I'll serve them cats all day long, right? I don't even care about that. You know, we always get mad about the wrong thing
Everybody's so mad because they love animals so much
Whereas they don't even understand that it's a religious war that we're in
There's a spiritual battle that is raging and when you let these people in what does the Bible say verse 51
Speaking of the children of Israel and saying to them when you're passed over Jordan in the land of Canaan
then he shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and
Destroy all their pictures and destroy all their molten images and quite pluck down all their high places
And he shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell there in for I have given you the land to possess it
And you should divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families and to the more
He shall give the more inheritance and the fewer you should give the less inheritance
every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot follow according to the tribes of your father's he shall inherit but
If you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you
then it shall come to pass that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes and
Thorns in your sides and shall vex you in the land where any dwell
Moreover, it should come to pass that I shall do unto you
As I thought to do unto them
He's saying what I would like to do to Hindus. I'll just do it to you because you tolerate them
What I want to do to the Muslims all due to you because you're tolerating them
What I would do to the Jews to the synagogue of Satan to the pedophiles and the human traffickers all due to you
Because you're tolerating them
Woe unto a nation that's tolerating all of this wicked false religions are being brought into our nation and
Corrupting our nation and the Christians are too afraid to speak out about it
In fact the left of the evangelical world the woke evangelicals today
They're sitting here saying oh, we should be bringing these people in and they're so wonderful
You know because they don't care about real Christianity. They don't care about what the Bible says. They're bringing Cosby into their tent
and
People get confused on this, and I'm not saying that we shouldn't minister the gospel these people
I'm not saying we shouldn't live give some love to these people
But what we should not want is to import false religion into our country
Go go to Exodus chapter number 12 go to Exodus chapter number 12 and of course they're vexing us by
Stealing your neighbor's cat and eating it
That's gross and weird, and it's just annoying and you know that's just the that's just the beginning
in Aurora, Colorado
there was like a Venezuelan gang that just like took over an entire apartment complex and
Just going from door to door with guns and the cops won't respond to these calls
law enforcement's not interested in getting in engaged with giant hordes of
Venezuelan gang members and how about the women and children that get caught in a bad situation and now they're being taken advantage of
Horrible things are happening to them because you just have a gang war takeover large sections of the city
You know in the the kovat era we had a section
I think was in Seattle where they just took over a whole portion of the of the city
It's like Chad or Chaz who knows what I'm talking about. What was it Chaz?
Chat chop they just kept I don't know what it was called. They just like took over a whole portion of the city
That's insane and the cops they were like facilitating it. They were like helping it
It's weird
It's weird what's happening in their world a city without walls is gonna be destroyed folks and again some people think like okay
Let's build the wall
You don't need to build a wall. You know you need you need a proverbial wall like Leviticus 2013
Like putting murderers to death like putting rapists to death and
In fact you know Donald Trump is kind of famous or saying this about talking about immigrants from Mexico
They're sending rapists
Well if we have the death penalty for rapists, I'm thinking like great. Well as soon as we catch them. We'll just put them to death
You know we'll just basically it's just that like mosquito trap that we're just gonna put out there as soon as they cross the border
We'll just catch them and instead of sending them back. We'll put them to death for you
You know what wouldn't God that would be the situation a lot of people would stop immigrating a
Lot of you will stop coming across the border
But you know of course their government's corrupt they're working with the cartels of course this is a complicated issue
Yada yada yada. I get it of course Catholic fake Catholics are using their
NGOs to smuggle children to human trafficking
horrible things that are happening with the immigration situation and
You know I'm not I'm not mad at immigrants because you know we've had illegal people come to our church
Great people I love them
Our government has made the visa process very difficult for people to get married and even though they're trying to do everything legally
They've made it very difficult for people and I feel empathetic towards those situations, and I don't even you know if I if I had a
illegal
That I knew I would love on that person to give them the gospel
But generally speaking you know we shouldn't just be allowing people to just come into our nation for no reason
People should only be coming to our nation for a purpose in my opinion if they don't have a job
They don't have a spouse
They probably shouldn't be here
And I think that all of you agree
Because I don't think any of you just open the front door of your house and just say anybody can come in
But you probably let a lot of people come in your house why because there's a purpose they're there to fix the the AC unit
They're there to have dinner with your family
They're there for a purpose
You're not just letting people indiscriminately just show up and come into your house. That's insane. That's weird
That would never be successful if you literally just put on the front door of your house
Anybody can come in and do whatever they want and just open the door you're gonna be destroyed quickly
That's no different than your nation
You can't do that to your nation people should have a purpose and people should have a reason and you say well
Don't you care about poor people somebody said hey, there's like 50 million
Christian Chinese people
Do you want to just import them all into America, and I said no not necessarily
And and frankly speaking you know if you have a boat
That can only fit so many people on it
It's gonna be bad if you overcrowd the boat you might just sink the entire boat and kill everybody on the boat
What's the point you know I told them hey look if there's 50 million people drowning in the sea I can't save all of them
Now if I could save a few maybe I would try
But let's just be honest we cannot import every single person in the world that's poor into our country
It would destroy our country
Just like you can't personally pay for every poor person's meal
What if just every single poor person in the whole world you're gonna feed them right now? How you gonna do that?
It doesn't work that way we as a collective have to help the poor
We have to help one person or two person or what we can do on an individual level
But we as a collective you know have to take these responsibilities
And you know some people are just not gonna be well to do some people are gonna live in an impoverished situation
People are gonna live all over the world and I think this is what we should do
We should get on a plane ourself and go over there and give them the gospel
But you know what I can't do I can't import all of them to live in my house
I can't import them all to live in your house
So the reality is not everybody gets to come to America. They should have a purpose
right they should have a reason to be here and
Why in the world would we import tons of people in our nation to weaken it?
Why would we import false religion to weaken it who in the world want to weaken our nation people that are the enemies of Christianity?
And when it comes to our laws these people are also not only importing these people they're giving them handouts
Which is the work is just it just open communism open Marxism
It's an open. It's just a war we're literally at war
There's a literal war going on where they're taking your money your tax dollars and just giving it to illegal people
To come into our nation. You are literally funding your own destruction right now. We all are and
This is a very unbiblical precedent look at Exodus chapter 12 look at verse 48
and
When a stranger says so during with thee and will keep the Passover to the Lord
let all his males be circumcised and then let him come near and keep it and
He shall be as one that is born in the land for no uncircumcised person shall eat throughout
This is how you make someone a citizen. How do you make someone a citizen they have to agree with your ideology?
Did you notice that it didn't say when someone comes to live amongst you and just wants to they had to?
And they want to keep the Passover meaning what they want to become a Christian if they want to become a Christian
Now they can be a citizen if they don't want to be a Christian
No citizen, and you know what that should be the same in America that hey if you don't want to be
Under our particular religious viewpoint. Well. We don't want you to be here
Now that doesn't mean they couldn't visit that doesn't mean they couldn't have tourist visas and things like that
But I'm just saying generally speaking if you're gonna have a strong nation you cannot allow people to join as citizens
That are not of the same religion
You can look up in history, Rhode Island had two Jews
That were were all wanting to become citizens so that they could vote and be a part of Rhode Island and the Supreme Court of
Rhode Island
Vetoed them and said no because you're not Christian is a huge historical case where they said no
You're Jew you don't and not from an ethnic perspective a religious perspective. They said hey, you're not a Christian
No, we're a Christian. I state look it up
That's the right move. You know what's the wrong move when later other places decided? Yeah?
Let's let other religions become citizens. Let's let other religions vote
Let's let other religions start and form their churches here
and we just saw a slow degradation of our nation to the point where it's unrecognizable anymore and
What does the Democrats want they want illegals to vote I?
Mean they're open about it. They want illegals. That's the weirdest thing
It's it's weird because they're just saying we want to cheat and nobody's holding them accountable for it
Says in verse 49 one law so be to him that is home-born and under the stranger the sojourn of among you
Even if someone's not a citizen everyone should still be under the same rules, and it's sad is that we have veterans
we have
Singles that are struggling we have widows that are struggling
We have elderly people that are struggling and the government's giving them virtually no assistance
And then they're importing able-bodied men and giving them money
This is like the Christians today that are enabling homeless people by giving able-bodied men money
It's a horrible thing. We're destroying our nation. We're destroying our country, and then of course the Democrats position will let them eat the cats
They're so out of touch you just have to understand that our nation is being destroyed before our eyes
Now I don't say that to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside
I just want you to know that that's the reality and
You know you can hang on to the idea of America in your mind
But you're literally watching it crumble before our eyes
And I would love for that to stop and I'm all for people trying to help it stop
But let's be honest the only thing that will stop it is Christianity
the only thing that will turn the tide for our nation is getting more people saved and getting more people woken up and
Influencing those
Christians to make bold stands for those Christians to get into the the the spiritual fight and
And to speak vocally, but I don't hear I I mean you know the political situation
There's almost nobody that's even advocating to bring us back to being a Christian nation very few and even of them
They're very watered-down Christians. They're not really advocating for the kingdom Bible
They're not advocating for biblical laws. They're not advocating for us to go back
There's people like Donald Trump saying I disavow project 2025
So I'm thinking like project 2025 is not even that great
But it was at least in the right direction in the right path
And it's just sad to see how no one is even trying to get us on the right path
You know what that tells me I should stop worrying about saving America as a nation. I should care more about getting people saved
Because our nation is crumbling before our eyes
But you know what we can do we can get a bunch of people saved around us and even if America crumbles that does not
Mean that our area has to crumble that does not mean that our church has to crumble
We may see in the next four ten years who knows
America becoming horrible as a nation getting worse, but our church getting better, but our family's getting better
But our lives being better our neighbors being better
And we have the ability to influence our circle in our area of life nations come and go
Governments come and go politicians come and go
These things change all the time
You know what you can have a major impact on your life and your situation, and you know for the immigrants out there
We need to stop it
But they're there and if I go and I knock on the door and it's a Haitian and he's eating a cat
I'm gonna say this if you died there hundred century go to heaven
Now here's the thing am I mad about the fact they imported this person and that he has a false religion
Yeah, I don't like it, but hey, maybe I can get him safe
Hey, you know what I'm against the Jews bringing slaves over on the ships
But hey if I could have walked up to a slave and said hey if you died today
You're gonna heaven that's what I would have done
And I would have given them the gospel
Maybe I would have been like some men in our country that bought slaves on purpose to free them
You know there are Christians that would buy slaves
To treat them well because they didn't want other people to own them, and then they say like oh this person owned slaves
Well, why did they own them though? Maybe they own them so they could treat them nicely
Maybe they own them so they could get them saved
Maybe they own them so they could free them some people don't even understand that many people bought slaves on purpose to do that
And then we look back in history and say receipt of sale. They bought it. They bought a slave
They must be a bad person that doesn't even make them a bad person
Am I saying let's own slaves no okay someone's gonna cut that out and be like Pastor Shelley's gonna buy slaves
Oh my goodness
You know I'm
I'm for the immigrant, but I'm against importing people and an immigration when it's not a Christian
Is that a controversial viewpoint? I don't know, but it makes sense biblically and
You know even though this may not change any policy even though no government
Official would probably want to ever hear me speak
It's still important for us to understand these principles and for us to have the right philosophy
And even if we can't affect the foreign policy let us at least
You know preach the gospel these people and get them saved and and whatever negative consequences happen
We can say well all things work together for good. I can't go to Haiti anytime soon
I don't want to go, but I could probably get some Haitians saved
So let's do that all right. Let's close in prayer. Thank you Heavenly Father so much for helping us to just understand
The world that lives around us and even if our our governments are evil and wicked and making bad policies
Well it could it could give us the opportunity to get someone saved
And I pray that we'd have the right mindset when it comes to our world to our country to our nation
I pray that we would try to keep ourselves safe in a dangerous world
But we could also use our opportunities to give someone the gospel
And I pray that we would have the right mindset when it comes to these difficult topics and in Jesus name we pray Amen
Let's go to our final song of the evening. It's gonna be two hundred and thirty eight
song 238 Christ liveth in me
I
And the first one's far from God
No
My heart
But
I
Cry
Oh
So
Ah
Oh
So
Ah
This
Oh
As the Democrats want the immigrants to eat dogs which represents a false gospel
Let us give them the lamb which represents the true gospel you are dismissed