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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey everybody, thank you for tuning into pray dot com Radio.
My name is Mike Kai, the senior pastor of Inspired
Church in Hawaii. Be sure to check out my channel
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ways to connect from Hawaii to wherever you are listening from.
I hope you enjoy this message right here.
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On prey dot com Radio.
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One of the most important things that I did was
I always bring books with me to read. I'll read
historical fiction, I'll read a biography.
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That's the best way that I learned.
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But these books, I thought that I needed to bring
this because of what's been happening in America in the
last eight years, in the last two years, it was important,
so I brought along these books with me. The first
one is seventeen seventy six by David McCullough. I was
reading about the origins. I haven't learned about the Revolution
since I was the fourth grade, or maybe even the
seventh grade, so I wanted to read this because I
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thought it was important for me to know as a
believer in Jesus Christ, and as a citizen who considers
himself a Hawaiian who's also a patriot, how do I
work this out? Talk back to me, come on on
top row, on Pastor's back, Pastor's back. I don't know
if you got tongue tied and quiet at the movies,
but now you can give me an amen, thank you.
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And so I read that book and I felt like
that book was like a fair It's fair. The guy
doesn't isn't necessarily a Christian, but he gives George Washington
his due in the end, in the last chapter.
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So I thought it was fair. And then I picked
up another book that I thought was.
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Really important, America's Expiration Date by cal Thomas, who is
syndicated columnists for the last thirty years. And I've been
reading every once in a while in the paper. And
cal Thomas says, every great civilization has about two hundred
and fifty years where they are strong, and at the
end of that two hundred and fifty years they lose
their strength. They still exist, but they cease to exist
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the way that they used to. And so when he
compares the Greek Empire, he compares the Roman Empire even
though those were civilizations that lasted a long time, they
actually had two hundred to two hundred and fifty years
of strength, real appropriate for today. Then I read The
Magna Carta of Humanity by Oz Guinness, he's a theologian,
and how important the Magna Carta was to the founding
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of this nation. And then my friend Phil Cook on
this book called.
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The Way Back.
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I read more on my vacation that I really wanted to,
but I felt like I needed to get ready for
this series because I want to preach a series for
the next three to four weeks. My job is to
connect the dots the founding of this nation that goes
all the way back to Great Britain, and let's take
it all the way back to the first five books
of the Bible, in the Torah and the Pentateuch. And
now I want to connect the dots to the Revolution,
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to the first and second Great Awakening that takes us
to the missionaries coming to Hawaii in eighteen twenty, when
Hawaii became a Christian kingdom under our elite. And let
me tell you the greatest revival in the history of
the world. Top ten by Elmore Towns, the historian biblical.
The Theologian top ten in the history of the world
counts Hawaii number seven. I think we need history. I
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think we need biblical history. If we don't know history,
were doomed to repeat it. And so what's going on
in this world? I thought that it was really important.
You know me, I love sports. One of my greatest
football coaches of all time. I love Tom Landry, the
late Tom Landry from the Dallas Cowboys. Don't get excited
Cowboy fans. I'm not there anymore. But back then, But
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back then, let me tell you when I loved the Cowboys.
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Tom Landry was a Christian.
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He was a believer, and he was my model citizen
when it came to class.
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In coaching. Before that, there was a man named Vince Lombardi.
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Vince Lombardi was coach of the Green Bay Packers and
when he took over in nineteen sixty one, the Philadelphia
Eagles had won the championship and they had lost. But
then coach Vince Lombardi takes over the team, and even
though they came in second that year, the veterans were
coming in. They were excited about the team. And Barti
realized that every time he teaches his new football team.
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He has to start with the basics.
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So when he on the first day of training camp,
he sits down with all of the veterans, all the rookies,
all of his star players, and he grabs a football
and he says, gentlemen, this is a football.
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These are the laces of a football.
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And he begins to break down a football and he
teaches them how to tie their shoes.
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He's starting from the basics.
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And can you imagine the veterans and the star players
who were there, said, we just came.
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In second last year. Why are you talking about? This
is a football. This is what I believe today, folks.
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This is a Bible, sixty six books written by forty authors,
and I want to talk to us about something as
simple as the Bible. This is how we find our
way back as a nation. This is how we find
our way back all of the different things that.
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Have been going on. And I've been gone.
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For about five weeks, and maybe maybe some of you
thought that I didn't say enough. I'm on vacation. I'm
not going to say not. I'm not gonna make a stand,
take a stand while I'm on break, because these breaks
are few and far between, and so if you didn't
see a lot of activity on Instagram, that was by design.
Everybody just want to let you know, but I want
you to know that something was stirring inside of me.
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So on the last week of the vacation, I look
at Lisa and I said, I really feel like I
need to go to the nation's capital.
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I'd been there before, right before COVID hit.
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I was at the President's National Prayer Breakfast, which happens
for every president, and I was there both sides of
the Aisle, Democrat and Republican. An incredible place to be
in January of twenty twenty. While I'm there, the rumblings
of the nation are happening. I'm keeping my eye on
Singapore and Asia. I'm preparing the church for what could
be the inevitable. I'm concerned about lockdowns and shutdowns, and
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of course now we're even more concerned than ever before.
We saw sixty percent of small businesses not even make it.
We saw all the restaurants on Yelp forty percent closed.
Yelp says forty percent to fifty percent of the restaurants
have closed. We've seen the mental health crisis happen to
our teenagers as.
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A result of the shutdown.
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Ever knew this was going to happen in January, so
I say, we got to find our way back church.
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We need to find our way back. I looked at
Lisa and I said, I gotta go to a DC.
She goes what for?
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I said, I'm not going there to be a tourist
to look at monuments. I'm going to the Museum of
the Bible. That's where I'm going.
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You might be thinking, there's a museum of the Bible. Yes,
there is. Sounds cheesy, that's what I thought.
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But when I got there in January of twenty twenty,
I had a one hour tour. I wish I had
a week. And when I walked into that place, I
was amazed. And when I walked out of that place
into that place again, I brought a camera crew with us,
Phil Cook, my friend who became the producer.
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We shot four videos there.
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We shot another one for Memorial Day weekend, because since
we're there, we might as well for more. Memorial Day
weekend twenty twenty two. Already getting my ducks in row.
And while I was there, I thought that this series
that I'm going to do on television and on the
internet will be about faith in America.
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But today I want to go on a different angle
with our church.
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In person, because that's my primary responsibility is this church.
So I have been given a prominent place, an important
place in Hawaii. God has given me a voice in
this state. People look to me, and sometimes I don't
want that, but it is what it is.
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Inspired church. We can't hide anymore. We can't stay under
the radar.
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They know, and so I think that this is my
primary concern and responsibility.
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Online.
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I love you, but I gotta tell the people in
the house that I want to teach what has not
been taught since I was in the fourth or seventh grade.
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I want to teach what is being re taught.
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I want to teach the biblical foundations of this nation
in case you weren't taught it, and in case you
didn't know, or in case you forgot somebody, come on,
give me an amen.
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So behold the blackboard again.
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And so when I look at the blackboard and I
look at the timeline, it took me all the way
back to the Magna carta, and the Magna cart I
don't even know what the Magna Karta was I thought
it was the name of a credit card, the Magna
carta MasterCard.
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I don't know. It means the Grand Charter. And I'll
explain that next week.
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But then we'll go to the guten Berg Press in
fourteen fifty four. Then we'll go to the Protestant Reformation
in fifteen seventeen. Sick we mean now, I don't want
to lose you right now, Okay, stay with me. And
then in sixteen twenty the Mayflower Compact where forty one
heads of families that were on the Mayflower that fled
Europe and Great Britain because they needed because of religious persecution.
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They wanted to come to America that was already settled
in some respect, in order to practice religion freely and
in order to propagate the Gospel. That's why they came here.
And when they got off of that boat. Before they
got off, forty one heads of families put their names
to paper on parchment with quill pen and said, we
will obey the rule of the law that is being set,
and this is our Grand Charter for the United States
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before there was the United States of America, and how
we will live. Then I want to talk about the
seventeen seventy six American Revolution. Listen to me, folks, if
there was no revolution, we would still be British British subjects.
There was a revolution that was necessary before that, let
me tell you, and I want to compare it to
the friend Revolution of seventeen eighty nine.
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Seventeen seventy six.
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I'm talking fast because I'm excited and I got a
lot of material.
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Seventeen eighty nine, the French Revolution tailor Two Cities.
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Remember that book, You know how that ended Madam guillotine
where they killed you with the guillotine and cut off
your heads back. Then blood was spilled incredibly. I want
to compare both revolutions. But I want to talk about
a great awakening here of a revival of Jesus Christ
in America before the revolution. I want to talk about
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the second great Awakening here and how how that role
played in solving some of the Civil Wars problems which
were major, and how ended appear. But here on how
God was using that for the missionaries to come.
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To Hawaii through Opukahaia.
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A young boy that got on the ship a seal
ship that made its way to New England, I stood
in front.
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Of the where Opukahaya was.
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But he died in eighteen eighteen of typhoid fever. And
because the missionaries were so moved by his testimony and
by his life that they decided to risk everything, sell everything,
and get on the Faddius and make its way over
here to Hawaii by eighteen twenty. And how the Ali
received the word of God, especially Comehameha, second Kamehameha, the
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third Queen lili O Kalani. And we're all even talking
about the missionary's missteps in this state as well.
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But no, that's not a highlight, though. I just want
you to know. I want you to know. The highlight
is Jesus Christ through it all. Can they get an amen? So?
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Now Amos chapter eight, verse eleven says this the days
are coming, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I will send
a famine through the land, not a famine of food,
a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the
word of the Lord. In other words, aw Towzer writes
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in nineteen forty seven in his book The Pursuit of God,
he said, it is a solemn thing and no small
scandal in the Kingdom to see God's children starving while
actually seated at the Father's table. Think about that for
a moment, starving well seated at the father's table. This
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is a Bible. This is a Bible. The Bible is
the inspired word of God. The Bible is the most
important thing that you could read. I forgot my statistics.
I left it at home. But the statistics show us
that Bible reading has plummeted. But although during COVID it
went up. The average American has four Bibles in their home.
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That's amazing. The average Kai family has twelve. When you
think we have a lot of Bibles in our house.
If you need a Bible, come ask me. I'll give
you a Bible. When you think about what God is doing.
It is the word of God. The way back is
through the But when I looked at the Word of God,
it was so important the Protestant Reformation. In fifteen seventeen,
Martin Luther, remember him, Martin Luther nailed to the door
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of Wittenberg ninety five problems with the church.
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The bulletin board.
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Of the community was often the big doors of the church.
So people could come up with your big sale, selling
my bike, you know, talking about Uber Driver. But back then,
if you had a problem, the original social media was
the church doors back then, So you go to the
church doors. And Martin Luther, who was a scholar, an
incredible scholar, he also was a devout Catholic, had ninety
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five problems that he had with the church at the
time that was selling Catholics. Don't get mad at me
who was selling indulgences the church in order to get
people out of purgatory so that they could fund Saint
Peter's basilica in Rome.
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I'm gonna get a letter on that one, but let
me think think about that for a moment.
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So he was calling it out, this what Martin Luther
was doing, and as a result he protested what was happening.
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It was the birth of the Protestant Reformation.
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The biggest problem that Martin Luther had, anyway, wasn't necessarily
about the indulgences. His biggest problem was that the word
of God never got to the people. The word of
God was chained in churches. As a matter of fact,
I saw a replica of a big Bible. It took
forever for them to print them. They were huge, they
were massive, they were big and they literally were chained
to the pulpits back then because there was this was
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the only Bible in the city or in the town.
And so he had a problem because it was written
in Latin, and because it was written in Latin, nobody.
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Could read it. And he said, we are in Germany,
We're in Wittenberg. We can't read this.
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No wonder, nobody set free, no wonder. People are kept
in the dark.
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No wonder.
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There's no freedom, no wonder. There's so much darkness, no wonder.
And as a result of that, the Reformation took place.
And then that he was had five solas s o
l a. And the word sola or sola scriptura means
in Christ alone, but also in scripture, I trust, and
it was in the scriptures. He said, that was so
important that we needed sola scripture, we needed the word
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of God, that the common man needed to read it
in their common language. And as a result of that,
he took advantage of what was happening here with the
Gutenberg Press when Johannes Gutenberg in fourteen fifty four, who
was printer, he owned his own printing company. He was
able to print tracks, he was able to print books,
but back then if you were going to print a Bible.
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It would take forever.
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As a matter of fact, you would have scribes and
scribes original hoodies back then, and they had a playlist,
and they had you.
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Know, saying and the playlist on Spotify was.
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And these men dedicated their lives to writing this down
and making sure that more people had the Word of God.
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But it was all written in Latin, and at that
time it would take over a year to print one Bible.
It was incredibly expensive.
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But then when Johannes Gutenberg created his press, his press
was different. It wasn't made out of wood, it was
made out of metal, and he was able to produce more.
Back then, if you had one thousand, two hundred and
eighty six days, it took one to print one page,
so two hundred and eighty six pages of the Bible
it was. But when Johannes came in, he printed the
first Bibles in one hundred and fifty from his press,
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first edition in Latin.
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Today forty eight exists.
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I saw four of them in the Museum of the
Bible in Washington, d c. But let me tell you now,
the Bible was written in German. Then enter William Tyndale.
William Tyndale years later needed the Bible in English. The
Church of England had split from the Church at large,
the Catholic Church, because King Henry the Eighth wanted to
live the way that he wanted to live. So he
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created his own church, called the Church of England at
that time, and so now you have two different churches.
And because he did not want scripture in English, lest
the English subjects read the Scripture and realize that they
are free. Indeed, then he said that anyone who was
caught with any parchment of Bible will be burned at
the stake. William Tyndale was a crafty man and a
businessman at the same time.
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He practiced his own level of covert resistance.
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He moved himself to brush while in Brussels he was
printing pages of the Bible, and all of his mistake
pages he bound into other books, and he sent them
to England thinking and the British saw it, and they said, oh,
we found William Tindale's versions. And they thought that they
had discovered gold. While William Tyndale was taking the perfect
editions and sending it the other way, he was found
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to have a possession of those tracks. They brought him
to back to Great Britain, where he literally was burned
at the stake for the word of God. This is
a Bible. This is a Bible. In many countries. This
is outlawed. If this is found in certain parts of
the Middle East, if this is found in certain parts
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of China. The Chinese would take these pages, they would
tear them, and they literally would memorize them. They would
roll it up, they would hide it in their mouth,
they would smuggle it in their clothing, in different parts
of their body, just because they needed the Word of God.
It is a crime to be sitting at the fathest
table and starving at the same time. I'm here to
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preach a message that the way back for America is
not necessarily through abnormal avenues. The way back is through
the Word of God. When we read the Word of God,
we are realized that we are free.
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And that we are free, indeed free indeed.
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So Number one, what is a Bible meant to me?
Since I gave my life to Jesus.
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Number one, the.
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Bible is the inspired, God breathed Word of God, all
sixty six books, inspired and God breathed. You'll find people
who say, or you'll go to college, and they're going.
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To try and argue with you. Yeah, what was man made?
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Of course, of course machines put this thing together, and
let me talk to you about that.
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But let me tell you God.
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Spoke to the power of the Holy Spirit that inspired
men to write it. If God can bring circumstances in
all of your life together, don't you think he can
get bring writers together and put it all together and
said this is what I ultimately want in by book
for the next two to three millennia.
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He can, And so that's what it is. Is inspired.
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The word inspired means breath of God FAOs and numa
FAOs means God. In the Greek, Numah means breath. It
is God breathe. These pages have been God breathed. And
every time you open up God this God breathe pages.
God God breathes back on us. And there is sixty
six books in here, and it is most powerful. The
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Bible says in two Timothy, chapter three, verse sixteen, all scripture,
everybody say all scripture online say all scripture.
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All scripture is inspired.
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Is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking correcting
and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God
may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. God wants
to equip us through the breathe on word of God.
Number two, The Bible is my spiritual armor, and it
is my arsenal.
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It is my armor and my arsenal.
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I think now more than ever before, Christians need to
be armored up, so to speak, because of what's happening
in our world today, not just in our world, in
the spiritual realm, not just what's happening in Hawaii, but
in the realm of the spirit. Ephesians, chapter six, verse
seventeen says this and a final word. Paul writes to
the church in Ephesus. This is what he says. Come on,
he says a final word. Be strong in the Lord
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and in his mighty power. Because we need strength today.
He says, Put on all of God's armor so that
you will be able to stand firm against all the
strategies of the devil. You know, the devil's got all
kinds of strategies. He's got a strategy to divide this nation.
He's even got a strategy to divide this church if
he can get the mass and the unmasked, the vaccinated
and unvaccinated to be at odds with one another. If
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he can cause another shutdown, Wayne shutting down, if he
can cause all these different things, I can tell you
right now that the devil is doing everything that he
can to divide this church.
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I will not let him. We will not let him.
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In Jesus name, somebody say amen, for we are not
fighting against flesh and blood enemies.
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Nah. No, We're not fighting against skin on skin, color
on color. You know what I'm talking about.
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We're not flesh and blood, not fighting that. What are
we really fighting? Evil rulers and authorities.
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In the unseen world.
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You can't see it, but it's there, against mighty powers
in this dark world, against evil spirits and heavenly places. Therefore,
put on every piece of God's armor so you will
be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil.
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Then after the.
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Battle you will still be standing firm, stand your ground,
putting on the belt of truth and the body armor
of God's righteousness for shoes. Put on the peace that
comes from the Lord and the good news that you
will be fully prepared. In addition to all these, hold
up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows
of the devil, and of course that will happen, of course.
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And then in verse seventeen, but on the put put
on the salvation of your helmet and take the.
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Sword of the spirit, which is the Word of God.
And then verse eighteen. If you got it, put it
up there. I'm gonna read it.
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Pray in the spirit at all times and on every occasion,
stale are and be persistent in your prayers for all believers.
Everywhere it says, take out the sword of your spirit.
This is your sort of a spirit. I gotta download
Bible too. I download my Bible as well. But at
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the end of the day, I'm reading paper because this
is the sword of my spirit. And when I read this,
let me tell you, this is powerful. The Word of
God is a two edged sword. As a matter of fact,
it does amazing things. But when I first became a
believer in Jesus Christ, before I was, I was already
reading the Bible for about a month or two. I
didn't understand it, but I knew that it was inspirational.
I read it whenever I needed to, whenever it brought
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comfort to me. But I didn't really get it. But
when I gave my life to Christ, and not all
of a sudden I want the word. I want to
read it.
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And then with the.
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Holy Spirit now inside of me, it illuminated the Scripture
like never before, and I understood what it was, finally saying,
I might have not had all the knowledge, but at
least I got it now because my spirit was reading
what God had birthed in the spirit this Bible.
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When I was working at the American Airlines, my job
was to.
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Load the plane, the bags on the plane, put it,
or drive the loader on. My most interesting job so
I could have Sundays off, was I was the lavatory man.
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I drove the truck underneath the airplane.
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I hooked up the hose in order to dump the
waste of two hundred and fifty passengers over a long
haul trip over the Pacific and put it into a
truck and dump it somewhere else. There's another story for that,
I'll tell you another time. But my main job sometimes
was closing up the final bags in the back of
the airplane, underneath the tail at the very back. This
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is where they put the surfboards, the golf bags, and
the last minute passengers that make it make their way through.
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I was sitting on my tractor.
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Actually it's a conveyor belt that goes up to the
top the conveyor belt to go to the top of
the door in the bottom of the tail of the airplane.
And I was sitting there and I was reading a
small Bible. I didn't want to bring my big Bible
at the time. I had bigger Bibles before anyway, but
back then had a smaller Bible kept in my back pocket.
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It was only Psalms and Proverbs and the New Testament.
I'd read it.
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Pilot was doing his final check looking at the airplane,
and he came up to me surprisingly and he was happy.
He was, oh, you're reading the Good Book. I'm like,
so new as a Christian. I don't even know what
talking about.
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What. He's like, the Good Book? What the good Book?
You're reading the Good Book? My good night?
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And he walked away. I say, Oh, the Bible, that's
called the Good Book.
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I didn't know. So if this was the sword of
the spirit, that little Bible was my dagger. That's my dagger.
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I'm gonna cut you, Satan, cut cuts you back with
whatever you do it anyway, So that's what it was
seven fifteen. Loved that animation eight thirty. Little slow, but anyway,
moving right along. See, here's what I believe. The Word
of God is my armor and my arsenal. Here's number three.
You ready, I'm almost done. Number three. God uses the
Bible to feed me. God uses the Bible to feed
me online. When I think about this in Honolulu, I
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think about this in me Lei Lani Matthew chapter four,
verse four, Satan had tempted Jesus the wilderness for forty days.
When he comes out of the wilderness, there's one thing
that he was tempting him with, and that was food
in Matthew chapter four, verse four.
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But Jesus told him no.
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The scriptures say people do not live by bread alone.
In other words, they don't live just by monopua. They
don't just live by sweet bread. They don't live by bread.
They live by every word that proceeds under the mouth
of God.
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And that is his daily bread, his daily bread to us.
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It's his word. It's his word. First Corinthians three, verse two.
Paul admonishes the church in corinth and he scolds them,
and he says, I had to feed you with milk.
Were not with solid food, because you weren't ready for
anything stronger.
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You couldn't handle more than milk.
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And you still aren't ready. And he said, and you
still aren't ready. You can't handle the meat. Come on, everybody,
think about this. They were approving of an adulterous ancestual
relationship in the church in Corinth. And he said, you
can't even handle the milk. If I gave you meat,
you couldn't handle that either. Think about this. The Word
of God feeds me. It's compared to milk, but it's
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also compared to meat. We have to feed ourselves. We
can't wait for every weekend to get fed. You have
to read the Bible on your own. This is a
Bible when we read that every single day He grows us,
He feeds us spiritually. God does amazing things. We need
to learn to feed ourselves on a daily basis.
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Here's number four. Number four.
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The Word of God transforms me. The Word of God
transforms me? How does it transform me? The more I
read it, the more I want to become more like Jesus.
The more that I read it, the more that He
comforts my soul. The more that I read it, he
begins to stir me up for freedom. The more that
I read it, I understand who I am in Christ,
rather than what other people are telling me, what the
world is showing me. The more I read it, he
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changes my mind, He renews my mind. The Bible tells
us in Romans, Chapter one, Verse two, let's go to
Verse two says, don't copy the behavior and customs of
this world, what everybody else is doing.
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Don't copy it.
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You don't have to be like that. You don't have
to buy it. Don't even copy it. Don't buy it.
Don't copy it. It's not in God's word. Don't live
by it. Don't accept it. Love, but don't accept it
in your life, he says. But let God transform you
into a new person by changing the way you think.
Right now, there's a battle for your mind, not just
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a battle for your soul. There's a battle for your mind,
not just a battle for our souls.
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So how do we protect this mind by the word
of God? Don't let it.
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Puff you up and make you prideful like I see
sometimes not in you, guys, but I don't.
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But I'm just kidding you. Like, don't let it puff
you up like I know. The scripture I'm.
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Gonna tell you about you know, you can live your
laugh right. That's in the church, that's not outside. We
hold each other to a higher standard in the church.
In the world, we don't hold them to a standard
because they to them this we're foolish Scripturally, that's what
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it says.
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This is.
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But when we do this, you will learn to know
God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
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Here's number five. Number five.
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The word of God prevents sin in my life. The
word of God prevents me from sinning. Will we sin, Yes,
we will, but it prevents me from sinning. I've hidden
your word in my heart that I might not sin
against you. Come on, come on, I've hidden your word
in my heart that I might not sin against you.
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To hide means to treasure. To treasure means to store rock.
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And when I hide it in my heart, God does
amazing things. Hebrews four twelve says the Word of God
is alive and powerful. Hona Lula, watch this and is powerful.
It is sharper than the sharpest two edged sword, cutting
between soul and spirit, joint and marrow. It exposes our
innermost thoughts and our desires.
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So you get a chance to read Psalm one today.
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Psalm one, it looks like what the life of a
flourishing person looks like because of the Word of God.
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Here's number six.
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The Word of God provides me guidance. The Word of
God provides me guidance. One nineteen one oh five. Your
word is a lamp unto my feet and a light
unto my path.
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That's not yet. God's gonna light up with a led
light in your whole path. It's a small little light.
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And back then you had olive oil and a wick
and a small little clay holder like this, and you needed.
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To keep it close to you.
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But you have to hold it a little bit closer
to your feet because it would be.
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A light for your path.
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Your word is a lamp to my feet and a
light from my path.
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I will see the path that God has for me.
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Whenever I'm in the Word, somebody say, hey, man, come on,
here we go. A lot of people read the Bible
compared to a few people allowing the Bible to read them.
Let the Bible reads you, James, Chapter one, verse twenty
sons fun verse twenty five. So but if you look carefully,
everybody say carefully into the perfect law.
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Say perfect that sets you free.
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Say free, And if you do what it says and
don't forget what you heard, then God will bless you.
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For doing it.
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Sixty six books, forty authors inspired by the Holy Spirit,
thirty nine in the Old Testament, twenty seven in the
New Testament, Written through the Breath of God, inspired by
the Holy Spirit.
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This is God's love letter to men.
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What if we were to scroll through this more, then
we would scroll through our feed.
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What if we gave it equal time? What would our
lives look like?
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What if we did a little bit lessen the feed
and start of feeding ourselves in the world of God?
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What would that do to us?
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Mentally, having difficulty making a tough decision, go to the
Book of Proverbs. To my friend Solomon, dealing with depression, sorrow, anxiety,
stuck in the doldrums, Let me take you to David
Solomon's dad, who went through the same thing.
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Feel like you need spiritual kick in the behind. Read
the Book of James.
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He will give you a mirror and you will look
at yourself and don't forget what you look like.
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Looking to reveal your life, go to the Book of Nehemiah.
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Me and Maiah will tell you how to battle on
one side and pray on the other. Come on, you
want to see the foundations of this earth, I mean
the foundations of this nation.
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I want to take you to.
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The Panetu, five books in the Bible that we say
thank God for setting that foundation.
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Only two nations on earth, said God is.
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Theirs are founding fathers in seventeen seventy six and the
people of Israel. Only two nations on this earth. Can
I tell you the two most blessed nations on this earth?
America and Israel. America and Israel. I've been from seed
to shining sea this summer. God has shed his grace
on deep. God bless America and all God is Doay
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got worry.
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I'm not a nationalist. I'm not a nationalist.
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I'm a Christian who happens to be a patriot and
who's part Hawaiian and Filipido in Jesus date, Come on,
are you ready for God to do something in this nation?
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Are you ready to for God to do something? Back
in your heart? Are you ready? Because I know I am.
Come on, this is a bible, this is my Bible.
Come on, lift it up. If you got it.
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If it's in your phone, lift your phone up right now,
and let's pray it. Come on, don't sit, Come on,
everybody stand. Everybody stand. Father, We just come before you
the name of Jesus. We are standing on the word
of God. We are standing in your presence. We are
standing on your truths. While the world is sitting down, God,
we are standing up. We will not bow down. We
will stand strong in the Lord in his mighty word.
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We thank you for the sacrifices of men who put
this Bible together.
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We thank you Lord for Tyndale. We thank you for Guttenberg.
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Father, we thank you for all of these men who
knew that this was precious. And Lord, let us not
forget your good and precious promises that you give to us.
We love you, Lord, We bless you in the name
of Jesus. And everybody said amen. Amen, Hey, everybody, thanks
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I hope you enjoy this message right here.
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On prey dot com Radio.
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One of the most important things that I did was
I always bring books with me to read. I'll read
historical fiction, I'll read a biography.
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That's the best way that I learned.
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But these books, I thought that I needed to bring
this because of what's been happening in America in the
last eight years, in the last two years, it was important,
so I brought along these books with me. The first
one is seventeen seventy six by David McCullough. I was
reading about the origins. I haven't learned about the Revolution
since I was the fourth grade, or maybe even the
seventh grade, so I wanted to read this because I
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thought it was important for me to know as a
believer in Jesus Christ, and as a citizen who considers
himself a Hawaiian who's also a patriot, how do I
work this out? Talk back to me, come on on
top row, on Pastor's back, Pastor's back. I don't know
if you got tongue tied and quiet at the movies,
but now you can give me an amen, thank you.
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And so I read that book and I felt like
that book was like a fair It's fair. The guy
doesn't isn't necessarily a Christian, but he gives George Washington
his due in the end, in the last chapter.
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So I thought it was fair. And then I picked
up another book that I thought was.
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Really important, America's Expiration Date by cal Thomas, who is
syndicated columnists for the last thirty years. And I've been
reading every once in a while in the paper. And
cal Thomas says, every great civilization has about two hundred
and fifty years where they are strong, and at the
end of that two hundred and fifty years they lose
their strength. They still exist, but they cease to exist
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the way that they used to. And so when he
compares the Greek Empire, he compares the Roman Empire even
though those were civilizations that lasted a long time, they
actually had two hundred to two hundred and fifty years
of strength, real appropriate for today. Then I read The
Magna Carta of Humanity by Oz Guinness, he's a theologian,
and how important the Magna Carta was to the founding
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of this nation. And then my friend Phil Cook on
this book called.
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The Way Back.
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I read more on my vacation that I really wanted to,
but I felt like I needed to get ready for
this series because I want to preach a series for
the next three to four weeks. My job is to
connect the dots the founding of this nation that goes
all the way back to Great Britain, and let's take
it all the way back to the first five books
of the Bible, in the Torah and the Pentateuch. And
now I want to connect the dots to the Revolution,
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to the first and second Great Awakening that takes us
to the missionaries coming to Hawaii in eighteen twenty, when
Hawaii became a Christian kingdom under our elite. And let
me tell you the greatest revival in the history of
the world. Top ten by Elmore Towns, the historian biblical.
The Theologian top ten in the history of the world
counts Hawaii number seven. I think we need history. I
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think we need biblical history. If we don't know history,
were doomed to repeat it. And so what's going on
in this world? I thought that it was really important.
You know me, I love sports. One of my greatest
football coaches of all time. I love Tom Landry, the
late Tom Landry from the Dallas Cowboys. Don't get excited
Cowboy fans. I'm not there anymore. But back then, But
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back then, let me tell you when I loved the Cowboys.
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Tom Landry was a Christian.
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He was a believer, and he was my model citizen
when it came to class.
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In coaching. Before that, there was a man named Vince Lombardi.
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Vince Lombardi was coach of the Green Bay Packers and
when he took over in nineteen sixty one, the Philadelphia
Eagles had won the championship and they had lost. But
then coach Vince Lombardi takes over the team, and even
though they came in second that year, the veterans were
coming in. They were excited about the team. And Barti
realized that every time he teaches his new football team.
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He has to start with the basics.
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So when he on the first day of training camp,
he sits down with all of the veterans, all the rookies,
all of his star players, and he grabs a football
and he says, gentlemen, this is a football.
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These are the laces of a football.
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And he begins to break down a football and he
teaches them how to tie their shoes.
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He's starting from the basics.
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And can you imagine the veterans and the star players
who were there, said, we just came.
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In second last year. Why are you talking about? This
is a football. This is what I believe today, folks.
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This is a Bible, sixty six books written by forty authors,
and I want to talk to us about something as
simple as the Bible. This is how we find our
way back as a nation. This is how we find
our way back all of the different things that.
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Have been going on. And I've been gone.
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For about five weeks, and maybe maybe some of you
thought that I didn't say enough. I'm on vacation. I'm
not going to say not. I'm not gonna make a stand,
take a stand while I'm on break, because these breaks
are few and far between, and so if you didn't
see a lot of activity on Instagram, that was by design.
Everybody just want to let you know, but I want
you to know that something was stirring inside of me.
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So on the last week of the vacation, I look
at Lisa and I said, I really feel like I
need to go to the nation's capital.
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I'd been there before, right before COVID hit.
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I was at the President's National Prayer Breakfast, which happens
for every president, and I was there both sides of
the Aisle, Democrat and Republican. An incredible place to be
in January of twenty twenty. While I'm there, the rumblings
of the nation are happening. I'm keeping my eye on
Singapore and Asia. I'm preparing the church for what could
be the inevitable. I'm concerned about lockdowns and shutdowns, and
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of course now we're even more concerned than ever before.
We saw sixty percent of small businesses not even make it.
We saw all the restaurants on Yelp forty percent closed.
Yelp says forty percent to fifty percent of the restaurants
have closed. We've seen the mental health crisis happen to
our teenagers as.
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A result of the shutdown.
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Ever knew this was going to happen in January, so
I say, we got to find our way back church.
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We need to find our way back. I looked at
Lisa and I said, I gotta go to a DC.
She goes what for?
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I said, I'm not going there to be a tourist
to look at monuments. I'm going to the Museum of
the Bible. That's where I'm going.
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You might be thinking, there's a museum of the Bible. Yes,
there is. Sounds cheesy, that's what I thought.
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But when I got there in January of twenty twenty,
I had a one hour tour. I wish I had
a week. And when I walked into that place, I
was amazed. And when I walked out of that place
into that place again, I brought a camera crew with us,
Phil Cook, my friend who became the producer.
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We shot four videos there.
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We shot another one for Memorial Day weekend, because since
we're there, we might as well for more. Memorial Day
weekend twenty twenty two. Already getting my ducks in row.
And while I was there, I thought that this series
that I'm going to do on television and on the
internet will be about faith in America.
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But today I want to go on a different angle
with our church.
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In person, because that's my primary responsibility is this church.
So I have been given a prominent place, an important
place in Hawaii. God has given me a voice in
this state. People look to me, and sometimes I don't
want that, but it is what it is.
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Inspired church. We can't hide anymore. We can't stay under
the radar.
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They know, and so I think that this is my
primary concern and responsibility.
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Online.
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I love you, but I gotta tell the people in
the house that I want to teach what has not
been taught since I was in the fourth or seventh grade.
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I want to teach what is being re taught.
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I want to teach the biblical foundations of this nation
in case you weren't taught it, and in case you
didn't know, or in case you forgot somebody, come on,
give me an amen.
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So behold the blackboard again.
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And so when I look at the blackboard and I
look at the timeline, it took me all the way
back to the Magna carta, and the Magna cart I
don't even know what the Magna Karta was I thought
it was the name of a credit card, the Magna
carta MasterCard.
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I don't know. It means the Grand Charter. And I'll
explain that next week.
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But then we'll go to the guten Berg Press in
fourteen fifty four. Then we'll go to the Protestant Reformation
in fifteen seventeen. Sick we mean now, I don't want
to lose you right now, Okay, stay with me. And
then in sixteen twenty the Mayflower Compact where forty one
heads of families that were on the Mayflower that fled
Europe and Great Britain because they needed because of religious persecution.
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They wanted to come to America that was already settled
in some respect, in order to practice religion freely and
in order to propagate the Gospel. That's why they came here.
And when they got off of that boat. Before they
got off, forty one heads of families put their names
to paper on parchment with quill pen and said, we
will obey the rule of the law that is being set,
and this is our Grand Charter for the United States
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before there was the United States of America, and how
we will live. Then I want to talk about the
seventeen seventy six American Revolution. Listen to me, folks, if
there was no revolution, we would still be British British subjects.
There was a revolution that was necessary before that, let
me tell you, and I want to compare it to
the friend Revolution of seventeen eighty nine.
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Seventeen seventy six.
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I'm talking fast because I'm excited and I got a
lot of material.
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Seventeen eighty nine, the French Revolution tailor Two Cities.
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Remember that book, You know how that ended Madam guillotine
where they killed you with the guillotine and cut off
your heads back. Then blood was spilled incredibly. I want
to compare both revolutions. But I want to talk about
a great awakening here of a revival of Jesus Christ
in America before the revolution. I want to talk about
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the second great Awakening here and how how that role
played in solving some of the Civil Wars problems which
were major, and how ended appear. But here on how
God was using that for the missionaries to come.
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To Hawaii through Opukahaia.
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A young boy that got on the ship a seal
ship that made its way to New England, I stood
in front.
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Of the where Opukahaya was.
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But he died in eighteen eighteen of typhoid fever. And
because the missionaries were so moved by his testimony and
by his life that they decided to risk everything, sell everything,
and get on the Faddius and make its way over
here to Hawaii by eighteen twenty. And how the Ali
received the word of God, especially Comehameha, second Kamehameha, the
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third Queen lili O Kalani. And we're all even talking
about the missionary's missteps in this state as well.
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But no, that's not a highlight, though. I just want
you to know. I want you to know. The highlight
is Jesus Christ through it all. Can they get an amen? So?
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Now Amos chapter eight, verse eleven says this the days
are coming, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I will send
a famine through the land, not a famine of food,
a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the
word of the Lord. In other words, aw Towzer writes
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in nineteen forty seven in his book The Pursuit of God,
he said, it is a solemn thing and no small
scandal in the Kingdom to see God's children starving while
actually seated at the Father's table. Think about that for
a moment, starving well seated at the father's table. This
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is a Bible. This is a Bible. The Bible is
the inspired word of God. The Bible is the most
important thing that you could read. I forgot my statistics.
I left it at home. But the statistics show us
that Bible reading has plummeted. But although during COVID it
went up. The average American has four Bibles in their home.
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That's amazing. The average Kai family has twelve. When you
think we have a lot of Bibles in our house.
If you need a Bible, come ask me. I'll give
you a Bible. When you think about what God is doing.
It is the word of God. The way back is
through the But when I looked at the Word of God,
it was so important the Protestant Reformation. In fifteen seventeen,
Martin Luther, remember him, Martin Luther nailed to the door
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of Wittenberg ninety five problems with the church.
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The bulletin board.
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Of the community was often the big doors of the church.
So people could come up with your big sale, selling
my bike, you know, talking about Uber Driver. But back then,
if you had a problem, the original social media was
the church doors back then, So you go to the
church doors. And Martin Luther, who was a scholar, an
incredible scholar, he also was a devout Catholic, had ninety
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five problems that he had with the church at the
time that was selling Catholics. Don't get mad at me
who was selling indulgences the church in order to get
people out of purgatory so that they could fund Saint
Peter's basilica in Rome.
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I'm gonna get a letter on that one, but let
me think think about that for a moment.
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So he was calling it out, this what Martin Luther
was doing, and as a result he protested what was happening.
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It was the birth of the Protestant Reformation.
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The biggest problem that Martin Luther had, anyway, wasn't necessarily
about the indulgences. His biggest problem was that the word
of God never got to the people. The word of
God was chained in churches. As a matter of fact,
I saw a replica of a big Bible. It took
forever for them to print them. They were huge, they
were massive, they were big and they literally were chained
to the pulpits back then because there was this was
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the only Bible in the city or in the town.
And so he had a problem because it was written
in Latin, and because it was written in Latin, nobody.
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Could read it. And he said, we are in Germany,
We're in Wittenberg. We can't read this.
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No wonder, nobody set free, no wonder. People are kept
in the dark.
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No wonder.
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There's no freedom, no wonder. There's so much darkness, no wonder.
And as a result of that, the Reformation took place.
And then that he was had five solas s o
l a. And the word sola or sola scriptura means
in Christ alone, but also in scripture, I trust, and
it was in the scriptures. He said, that was so
important that we needed sola scripture, we needed the word
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of God, that the common man needed to read it
in their common language. And as a result of that,
he took advantage of what was happening here with the
Gutenberg Press when Johannes Gutenberg in fourteen fifty four, who
was printer, he owned his own printing company. He was
able to print tracks, he was able to print books,
but back then if you were going to print a Bible.
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It would take forever.
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As a matter of fact, you would have scribes and
scribes original hoodies back then, and they had a playlist,
and they had you.
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Know, saying and the playlist on Spotify was.
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And these men dedicated their lives to writing this down
and making sure that more people had the Word of God.
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But it was all written in Latin, and at that
time it would take over a year to print one Bible.
It was incredibly expensive.
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But then when Johannes Gutenberg created his press, his press
was different. It wasn't made out of wood, it was
made out of metal, and he was able to produce more.
Back then, if you had one thousand, two hundred and
eighty six days, it took one to print one page,
so two hundred and eighty six pages of the Bible
it was. But when Johannes came in, he printed the
first Bibles in one hundred and fifty from his press,
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first edition in Latin.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Today forty eight exists.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I saw four of them in the Museum of the
Bible in Washington, d c. But let me tell you now,
the Bible was written in German. Then enter William Tyndale.
William Tyndale years later needed the Bible in English. The
Church of England had split from the Church at large,
the Catholic Church, because King Henry the Eighth wanted to
live the way that he wanted to live. So he
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created his own church, called the Church of England at
that time, and so now you have two different churches.
And because he did not want scripture in English, lest
the English subjects read the Scripture and realize that they
are free. Indeed, then he said that anyone who was
caught with any parchment of Bible will be burned at
the stake. William Tyndale was a crafty man and a
businessman at the same time.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
He practiced his own level of covert resistance.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
He moved himself to brush while in Brussels he was
printing pages of the Bible, and all of his mistake
pages he bound into other books, and he sent them
to England thinking and the British saw it, and they said, oh,
we found William Tindale's versions. And they thought that they
had discovered gold. While William Tyndale was taking the perfect
editions and sending it the other way, he was found
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to have a possession of those tracks. They brought him
to back to Great Britain, where he literally was burned
at the stake for the word of God. This is
a Bible. This is a Bible. In many countries. This
is outlawed. If this is found in certain parts of
the Middle East, if this is found in certain parts
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of China. The Chinese would take these pages, they would
tear them, and they literally would memorize them. They would
roll it up, they would hide it in their mouth,
they would smuggle it in their clothing, in different parts
of their body, just because they needed the Word of God.
It is a crime to be sitting at the fathest
table and starving at the same time. I'm here to
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preach a message that the way back for America is
not necessarily through abnormal avenues. The way back is through
the Word of God. When we read the Word of God,
we are realized that we are free.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And that we are free, indeed free indeed.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
So Number one, what is a Bible meant to me?
Since I gave my life to Jesus.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Number one, the.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Bible is the inspired, God breathed Word of God, all
sixty six books, inspired and God breathed. You'll find people
who say, or you'll go to college, and they're going.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
To try and argue with you. Yeah, what was man made?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Of course, of course machines put this thing together, and
let me talk to you about that.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
But let me tell you God.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Spoke to the power of the Holy Spirit that inspired
men to write it. If God can bring circumstances in
all of your life together, don't you think he can
get bring writers together and put it all together and
said this is what I ultimately want in by book
for the next two to three millennia.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
He can, And so that's what it is. Is inspired.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
The word inspired means breath of God FAOs and numa
FAOs means God. In the Greek, Numah means breath. It
is God breathe. These pages have been God breathed. And
every time you open up God this God breathe pages.
God God breathes back on us. And there is sixty
six books in here, and it is most powerful. The
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Bible says in two Timothy, chapter three, verse sixteen, all scripture,
everybody say all scripture online say all scripture.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
All scripture is inspired.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking correcting
and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God
may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. God wants
to equip us through the breathe on word of God.
Number two, The Bible is my spiritual armor, and it
is my arsenal.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
It is my armor and my arsenal.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I think now more than ever before, Christians need to
be armored up, so to speak, because of what's happening
in our world today, not just in our world, in
the spiritual realm, not just what's happening in Hawaii, but
in the realm of the spirit. Ephesians, chapter six, verse
seventeen says this and a final word. Paul writes to
the church in Ephesus. This is what he says. Come on,
he says a final word. Be strong in the Lord
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and in his mighty power. Because we need strength today.
He says, Put on all of God's armor so that
you will be able to stand firm against all the
strategies of the devil. You know, the devil's got all
kinds of strategies. He's got a strategy to divide this nation.
He's even got a strategy to divide this church if
he can get the mass and the unmasked, the vaccinated
and unvaccinated to be at odds with one another. If
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he can cause another shutdown, Wayne shutting down, if he
can cause all these different things, I can tell you
right now that the devil is doing everything that he
can to divide this church.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I will not let him. We will not let him.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
In Jesus name, somebody say amen, for we are not
fighting against flesh and blood enemies.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Nah. No, We're not fighting against skin on skin, color
on color. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
We're not flesh and blood, not fighting that. What are
we really fighting? Evil rulers and authorities.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
In the unseen world.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You can't see it, but it's there, against mighty powers
in this dark world, against evil spirits and heavenly places. Therefore,
put on every piece of God's armor so you will
be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Then after the.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Battle you will still be standing firm, stand your ground,
putting on the belt of truth and the body armor
of God's righteousness for shoes. Put on the peace that
comes from the Lord and the good news that you
will be fully prepared. In addition to all these, hold
up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows
of the devil, and of course that will happen, of course.
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And then in verse seventeen, but on the put put
on the salvation of your helmet and take the.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Sword of the spirit, which is the Word of God.
And then verse eighteen. If you got it, put it
up there. I'm gonna read it.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Pray in the spirit at all times and on every occasion,
stale are and be persistent in your prayers for all believers.
Everywhere it says, take out the sword of your spirit.
This is your sort of a spirit. I gotta download
Bible too. I download my Bible as well. But at
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the end of the day, I'm reading paper because this
is the sword of my spirit. And when I read this,
let me tell you, this is powerful. The Word of
God is a two edged sword. As a matter of fact,
it does amazing things. But when I first became a
believer in Jesus Christ, before I was, I was already
reading the Bible for about a month or two. I
didn't understand it, but I knew that it was inspirational.
I read it whenever I needed to, whenever it brought
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comfort to me. But I didn't really get it. But
when I gave my life to Christ, and not all
of a sudden I want the word. I want to
read it.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
And then with the.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Holy Spirit now inside of me, it illuminated the Scripture
like never before, and I understood what it was, finally saying,
I might have not had all the knowledge, but at
least I got it now because my spirit was reading
what God had birthed in the spirit this Bible.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
When I was working at the American Airlines, my job
was to.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Load the plane, the bags on the plane, put it,
or drive the loader on. My most interesting job so
I could have Sundays off, was I was the lavatory man.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I drove the truck underneath the airplane.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I hooked up the hose in order to dump the
waste of two hundred and fifty passengers over a long
haul trip over the Pacific and put it into a
truck and dump it somewhere else. There's another story for that,
I'll tell you another time. But my main job sometimes
was closing up the final bags in the back of
the airplane, underneath the tail at the very back. This
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is where they put the surfboards, the golf bags, and
the last minute passengers that make it make their way through.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I was sitting on my tractor.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Actually it's a conveyor belt that goes up to the
top the conveyor belt to go to the top of
the door in the bottom of the tail of the airplane.
And I was sitting there and I was reading a
small Bible. I didn't want to bring my big Bible
at the time. I had bigger Bibles before anyway, but
back then had a smaller Bible kept in my back pocket.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It was only Psalms and Proverbs and the New Testament.
I'd read it.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Pilot was doing his final check looking at the airplane,
and he came up to me surprisingly and he was happy.
He was, oh, you're reading the Good Book. I'm like,
so new as a Christian. I don't even know what
talking about.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
What. He's like, the Good Book? What the good Book?
You're reading the Good Book? My good night?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
And he walked away. I say, Oh, the Bible, that's
called the Good Book.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I didn't know. So if this was the sword of
the spirit, that little Bible was my dagger. That's my dagger.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I'm gonna cut you, Satan, cut cuts you back with
whatever you do it anyway, So that's what it was
seven fifteen. Loved that animation eight thirty. Little slow, but anyway,
moving right along. See, here's what I believe. The Word
of God is my armor and my arsenal. Here's number three.
You ready, I'm almost done. Number three. God uses the
Bible to feed me. God uses the Bible to feed
me online. When I think about this in Honolulu, I
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think about this in me Lei Lani Matthew chapter four,
verse four, Satan had tempted Jesus the wilderness for forty days.
When he comes out of the wilderness, there's one thing
that he was tempting him with, and that was food
in Matthew chapter four, verse four.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
But Jesus told him no.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
The scriptures say people do not live by bread alone.
In other words, they don't live just by monopua. They
don't just live by sweet bread. They don't live by bread.
They live by every word that proceeds under the mouth
of God.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
And that is his daily bread, his daily bread to us.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It's his word. It's his word. First Corinthians three, verse two.
Paul admonishes the church in corinth and he scolds them,
and he says, I had to feed you with milk.
Were not with solid food, because you weren't ready for
anything stronger.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
You couldn't handle more than milk.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And you still aren't ready. And he said, and you
still aren't ready. You can't handle the meat. Come on, everybody,
think about this. They were approving of an adulterous ancestual
relationship in the church in Corinth. And he said, you
can't even handle the milk. If I gave you meat,
you couldn't handle that either. Think about this. The Word
of God feeds me. It's compared to milk, but it's
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also compared to meat. We have to feed ourselves. We
can't wait for every weekend to get fed. You have
to read the Bible on your own. This is a
Bible when we read that every single day He grows us,
He feeds us spiritually. God does amazing things. We need
to learn to feed ourselves on a daily basis.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Here's number four. Number four.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
The Word of God transforms me. The Word of God
transforms me? How does it transform me? The more I
read it, the more I want to become more like Jesus.
The more that I read it, the more that He
comforts my soul. The more that I read it, he
begins to stir me up for freedom. The more that
I read it, I understand who I am in Christ,
rather than what other people are telling me, what the
world is showing me. The more I read it, he
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changes my mind, He renews my mind. The Bible tells
us in Romans, Chapter one, Verse two, let's go to
Verse two says, don't copy the behavior and customs of
this world, what everybody else is doing.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Don't copy it.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
You don't have to be like that. You don't have
to buy it. Don't even copy it. Don't buy it.
Don't copy it. It's not in God's word. Don't live
by it. Don't accept it. Love, but don't accept it
in your life, he says. But let God transform you
into a new person by changing the way you think.
Right now, there's a battle for your mind, not just
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a battle for your soul. There's a battle for your mind,
not just a battle for our souls.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
So how do we protect this mind by the word
of God? Don't let it.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Puff you up and make you prideful like I see
sometimes not in you, guys, but I don't.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
But I'm just kidding you. Like, don't let it puff
you up like I know. The scripture I'm.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Gonna tell you about you know, you can live your
laugh right. That's in the church, that's not outside. We
hold each other to a higher standard in the church.
In the world, we don't hold them to a standard
because they to them this we're foolish Scripturally, that's what
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it says.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
This is.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
But when we do this, you will learn to know
God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Here's number five. Number five.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
The word of God prevents sin in my life. The
word of God prevents me from sinning. Will we sin, Yes,
we will, but it prevents me from sinning. I've hidden
your word in my heart that I might not sin
against you. Come on, come on, I've hidden your word
in my heart that I might not sin against you.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
To hide means to treasure. To treasure means to store rock.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
And when I hide it in my heart, God does
amazing things. Hebrews four twelve says the Word of God
is alive and powerful. Hona Lula, watch this and is powerful.
It is sharper than the sharpest two edged sword, cutting
between soul and spirit, joint and marrow. It exposes our
innermost thoughts and our desires.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
So you get a chance to read Psalm one today.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Psalm one, it looks like what the life of a
flourishing person looks like because of the Word of God.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Here's number six.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
The Word of God provides me guidance. The Word of
God provides me guidance. One nineteen one oh five. Your
word is a lamp unto my feet and a light
unto my path.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
That's not yet. God's gonna light up with a led
light in your whole path. It's a small little light.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And back then you had olive oil and a wick
and a small little clay holder like this, and you needed.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
To keep it close to you.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
But you have to hold it a little bit closer
to your feet because it would be.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
A light for your path.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a
light from my path.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I will see the path that God has for me.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Whenever I'm in the Word, somebody say, hey, man, come on,
here we go. A lot of people read the Bible
compared to a few people allowing the Bible to read them.
Let the Bible reads you, James, Chapter one, verse twenty
sons fun verse twenty five. So but if you look carefully,
everybody say carefully into the perfect law.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Say perfect that sets you free.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Say free, And if you do what it says and
don't forget what you heard, then God will bless you.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
For doing it.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Sixty six books, forty authors inspired by the Holy Spirit,
thirty nine in the Old Testament, twenty seven in the
New Testament, Written through the Breath of God, inspired by
the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
This is God's love letter to men.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
What if we were to scroll through this more, then
we would scroll through our feed.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
What if we gave it equal time? What would our
lives look like?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
What if we did a little bit lessen the feed
and start of feeding ourselves in the world of God?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
What would that do to us?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Mentally, having difficulty making a tough decision, go to the
Book of Proverbs. To my friend Solomon, dealing with depression, sorrow, anxiety,
stuck in the doldrums, Let me take you to David
Solomon's dad, who went through the same thing.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Feel like you need spiritual kick in the behind. Read
the Book of James.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
He will give you a mirror and you will look
at yourself and don't forget what you look like.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Looking to reveal your life, go to the Book of Nehemiah.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Me and Maiah will tell you how to battle on
one side and pray on the other. Come on, you
want to see the foundations of this earth, I mean
the foundations of this nation.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I want to take you to.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
The Panetu, five books in the Bible that we say
thank God for setting that foundation.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Only two nations on earth, said God is.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Theirs are founding fathers in seventeen seventy six and the
people of Israel. Only two nations on this earth. Can
I tell you the two most blessed nations on this earth?
America and Israel. America and Israel. I've been from seed
to shining sea this summer. God has shed his grace
on deep. God bless America and all God is Doay
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got worry.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
I'm not a nationalist. I'm not a nationalist.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I'm a Christian who happens to be a patriot and
who's part Hawaiian and Filipido in Jesus date, Come on,
are you ready for God to do something in this nation?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Are you ready to for God to do something? Back
in your heart? Are you ready? Because I know I am.
Come on, this is a bible, this is my Bible.
Come on, lift it up. If you got it.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
If it's in your phone, lift your phone up right now,
and let's pray it. Come on, don't sit, Come on,
everybody stand. Everybody stand. Father, We just come before you
the name of Jesus. We are standing on the word
of God. We are standing in your presence. We are
standing on your truths. While the world is sitting down, God,
we are standing up. We will not bow down. We
will stand strong in the Lord in his mighty word.
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We thank you for the sacrifices of men who put
this Bible together.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
We thank you Lord for Tyndale. We thank you for Guttenberg.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Father, we thank you for all of these men who
knew that this was precious. And Lord, let us not
forget your good and precious promises that you give to us.
We love you, Lord, We bless you in the name
of Jesus. And everybody said amen. Amen, Hey, everybody, thanks
again for tuning into pray dot com Radio. To find
more of my messages, podcasts, and leadership resources, go to
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pray dot com or head directly to my website at
Mike Kai dot tv Mike Chai dot tv for curated content.
Once again, this is Mike co Senior pastor of Inspired
Church in Hawaii. Thank you so much for joining me
on prade dot com Radio. Aloha and God bless
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