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Music You you you you 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 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 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