October 30, 2024 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Very Show is on the air. What we've got
here is failure to milk.
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Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly
knowledgeable about the past, and didn't you know, may not
have even known that. You know America Firster's pac Madison
Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine and a pro Nazi Germany.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Rally, you said over the weekend, referring to it, there's
a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in
the mid nineteen thirties that Medisine Square Garden.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave
it at that.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?
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Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
The only garbage I see floating down there is his supporters,
his his his demonizational scene is unconstable American.
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You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I
call the basket of deplorable.
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Look at the reading, look at the look at the
life we lead, the way we bow.
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It's done, bit fall.
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You know, that's a little bit old. That shot that
sharts a couple of months old.
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And if you want to really.
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See something that said, take a look at what happened.
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We bleed the same blood, we share the same home,
and we salute the same great American flag.
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We are one people, one family.
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And one glorious nation under God. So Jews and Muslims
and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons, and they're all joining
our colors and large numbers, larger than anyone has ever
seen in this country before, larger than they've ever seen
in any country. And the Republican Party has really become
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the party of inclusion.
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And that's something very nice about that. Earlier today, I
was talking about voting and a report I had seen
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that Christians are voting in very low numbers vis a
v other demographics in our community, and I started talking
about pastors who sold out, pastors who are grifters. They're
not even pastors, they're preachers. They preach, They preach on TV.
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And the only reason they preach in a building with
people in it instead of sort of the old C
Span model of having, you know, just a camera on
and making it look like there's an audience. The only
reason they have the people out there is because they
can count on those contributions every week, whereas on TV
it's harder to get people to send in, but we're
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happy to have them too. And I started talking about
various denominations and being a Southern Baptist, and really the
Evangelical Church and the Bible's commandment, and I realized this
conversation will turn some people off. So if you're new
to the show, it's okay for you to turn off
one day. Some days I might talk about baseball or football,
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or adoption or being a mother or a father, or
whatever else you do.
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You're not here for.
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All of it. It's okay.
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But I started talking about pastors as white pastors because
black pastors will do it. White pastors need to be
telling their congregation about the importance of electing god, fearing
faith following elected officials, and how most white pastors won't
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do it and they'll hide behind the tax advantages or
but it's really because they've become a business. They don't
pastor their church at all. They stopped being a pastor
ministering to the needs of their congregants, both on Sunday
by delivering the sermon, but also during the week counseling
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couples and young people and singles and the elderly, and
the things that the church should be. The church should
be a sucker for the people. That's succ or gramond,
not sucker like a sweet sucker you get at the
doctor's OsO Muny kid. It should be nourishment to the
whole of the individual and the family. But what we
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have now and a lot of these churches is a self aggrandizing,
self serving megalomaniac who wants to get rich. And if
you're at that church, I suggest you find a real
church like God intended. So a listener sent me an
email of a guy of a guy who was at
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a place called First Odessa, Odessa, Texas.
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Uh.
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It's it's in the Odessa Permian it's a Permian basin.
It's a it's an oil community near near Midland, I believe.
And I've had some family members going to work there
in the oil patch. And they said, this guy he
preaches and he talks about the importance of voting, and
so I'm listening to it, and so they sent me
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a link to a sermon he'd given and I went
to the site. I go to study this guy. His
name is Byron McWilliams. And his name doesn't appear anywhere.
You gotta go digging for his name. Well, I don't
have to tell you that a lot of these megachurch
preachers they're not pastors. They don't pastor their flock. They
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don't tend their flock. They just preach. They just get
up and tall and get paid well for it. And
this guy and this fight is all about the Word
of God and the church as a place to gather
and congregate. The first Odessa. You can find them, you
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can look up on and look them up on YouTube.
And he turns out he's from Woodville, Texas. Woodville, Texas
is in deep East Texas, from just up the road
where I'm from. In fact, Woodville was one of our
rivals in sports, in academic and sports in UIL competitive activities.
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They were the same size of ours as a country community.
So I like the way he talks, but I like
his message. And he delivered a sermon on why it's
important that you vote, And so this Sunday will be
the last opportunity the church has to activate Christians to
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go and vote on Tuesday. And in most churches, more
than half the people in that congregation will not have voted,
and it makes a difference to what kind of country
we're gonna have.
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People say, well, I'll just pray.
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If you only pray and don't vote, you haven't read
the Bible. So we're gonna share some of this man's
sermon about why it's important vote.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Coming up Michael Berry's show.
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If we were.
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Attacked by the Chinese, the Russians, whoever you've seen Red Dawn,
you get the idea, what would you do to save
our country? You'd like to believe man, I'd do everything.
Would you take off from work? Did you take off
from your business? Would you take off from fishing one day?
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Would you round up everyone you could and start your
own little militia unit, you rally every resource you had
defend off the invaders?
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You would? I would, Michael?
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I would?
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Well, then why not at least vote and get everyone else,
you know, to vote. That's pretty easy because the otherwise
these are the end times they are, and Christians are
not voting.
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You know who else isn't voting?
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Hunters. It's coming Tuesday. We got in Texas, we got
early voting through Friday of this week, So today tomorrow,
one more day in Texas, we got early voting through
Friday and then what they call election day on Tuesday.
I think you're a fool if you wait till election day,
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but that's your business. A lot of people think, oh,
I'm gonna wait, and then the Democrats won't know how
much to cheat. They did that in the county I
live in, and the Democrats had control of the voting
booths and they just didn't send the ballots out on
the day of voting because they saw that people had
held back, so they didn't send the ballots, so you
couldn't vote. But whatever, do your thing. But this is
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my call on you to call on your pastor. Hey, pastor,
you haven't talked about this election. You haven't told who
you're going to vote for. Politics matters, government matters. Stand
up and be a leader. Stop worrying about offending people.
You're a Christian, bear your cross. I'm tired of Christians
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and for that matter, people of all faiths.
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Who are afraid to speak out.
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How can you be Jewish and vote for the Democrat
Party which is scared the death of the Hamas wing
of that party and will let them destroy Israel? And
you can you do that? Anyway, this is a pastor
who was sent to me. It's a church called firs Odessa.
I've never been there. I didn't know it, but it's fantastic.
Listen to this.
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And this is what he says beginning in verse chapter thirteen,
verse one, when Frim spoke, and that's another name for
the northern kingdom, Ephrim. When Fram spoke, there was trembling.
He was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through
bail and died.
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If you do not know who bail is, Bail is
a a demonic.
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Idol that they used to worship, a false god that
they would worship.
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Verse two. And now they sin more and more.
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They sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images,
idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the
work of craftsmen. It is said of them, those who
offer human sacrifices kiss calves.
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Therefore they shall.
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Be like the morning missed, or like the dew that
goes early away, like the chap that swhirls from the
threshing floor, or like smoke from a window. But I
am the Lord's your God from the land of Egypt.
You know no god but me. And besides me. There
is no savior. It was I who knew you in
the wilderness, in the land of drought. But when they
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had grazed, they became full. They were filled, and their
heart was lifted up. Therefore they forgot me. So I
am to them like a lion, like a leopard. I
will lurk beside the way. I will fall upon them
like a bear robbed of her cubs. I will tear
open their breast, and there I will devour them like
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a lion, as the wild beast would rip them open.
Five things I want to share with you. Number One,
write this down. America is a nation in peril because
we have systematically written God out of our history. God
founded the nation of Israel many many years ago the
prophet Abraham. He was asked us to leave where his
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home and go to the place where God was sending him.
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And God sent.
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Him, and God founded the nation of Israel through Father Abraham.
The Israelites, the Hebrews were God's people, and they were
the ones who followed closely after God. They were his
chosen people. Now listen, Israel still is don't dismiss that.
But for over five hundred years, God's people were told
how to live. Because God gave them the law. He
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guided them. He said, this is what will honor me,
and this is what will dishonor me. For I'm a
holy God, and you have to worship me in a
certain way.
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You have to follow me in a certain way.
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And so God guided them, told them exactly what to do.
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And yet the nation of Israel, the.
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Northern Kingdom, when they divided in the year nine thirty.
When they divided, they began to worship idols. They began
to worship bail. They began to offer up their children
to the gods in sacrifice, which God never commanded and
God never wanted. And so in verse four, God comes
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back to them, this Northern Kingdom, and he says to them,
but I'm your God.
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I'm your God.
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From the land of Egypt. He says, if he's saying,
don't you remember me, I'm your God. I am the
one who took care of you, who led you out
of Egypt.
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I'm the one.
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Don't you remember me destroying Pharaoh? Don't you remember the
signs that I did? Don't you remember all that.
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I did for you? I am your God.
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But the Northern Kingdom had systematically dismissed God and followed
after demons and idols.
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Will cover more of that in a moment, but.
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They had systematically written God out of their history. Do
you see America as a country established upon Judeo Christian
values and principles that if any person who is.
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An honest historian.
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Would look at they would say, that's true, that's undeniable.
Our founding fathers cared about what God thought. When they
established United States of America.
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They realized that they had.
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One shot to form a union of states that were
going to come together and be a republic, a representative republic,
and they would do it the right way. They had
one shot to do it. They didn't want to have
what they had in England with a king. They wanted
a representative republic. And they depended upon God for wisdom,
and they depended upon him for help in establishing these
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United States of America. You see our dependence upon God
is exton stone, and you see it all over Washington
if you go in the monuments in and you know,
in the nation's capital, it's all there. You see it
in our documents from the United States, for example, our
Declaration of Independence, which was signed July fourth, seventeen seventy six.
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It says we hold.
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These truths to be self evident, that all men are
created equal, that.
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They are endowed by their creator.
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With certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness, endowed by the Creator, that
acknowledges God through whom we are.
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To live, move, and have our being.
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Under my leadership, we will regain energy independence, massive energy dominance,
dominance dominance.
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You can do everything in your power.
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You be able to say, mamasum, you did everything possible
to help win this election.
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I don't mean you read every article about how they
can cheat.
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I don't mean you read every negative story on Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris. I mean, did you do everything
possible with every ounce of energy in your body to
win this election? The White House, your Senate seats, your
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congressional seats, all the way down. Did you do everything
possible if we lose? Or did you do what a
lot of people do. Have you just decided, well, they're
gonna cheat, so I don't have to do anything. We'll
take as always an excuse maker. So you personally can't
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control whether they cheat. You personally can control how many
votes are casting.
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You can do that.
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You can do everything in your power, and if you've
done that, you can sleep well at night. The church
has to get more involved this Sunday, these services, this
Friday night for our Jewish friends.
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This is the time.
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That people of faith must engage before the Tuesday vote.
Early vote going on in most places right now. You
could vote today tomorrow Friday. Check your early voting schedule.
Bring somebody with you. If you've cast your vote. Don't
sit back and wait and be nervous. Don't sit and
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be overcome by anxiety. Do something. If the waters are rising,
start putting things up on a higher shelf. Take action,
do what you can do. Worrying is not a course
of action. So anyway, a listener sent me this. I
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was talking about how white preachers, especially because black preachers
will tell their people how to vote. They did the
souls to the polls event, and they always do. They
don't worry about losing their tax tax free status. But
white pastors they've gotten more concerned with not offending anybody.
If your number one priority is not offending anybody, then
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you're no pastor of the Word of God. I'll tell
you that for sure. So a listener sent me a
linked this guy, and I've been listening to him all
afternoon and we just cut a couple clips as from
a church called First Odessa in Odessa, Texas, and he's wonderful.
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The fifty six men who signed the Declaration of Independence,
most of those were believers in Jesus Christ, who believed
the Bible and went to church.
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Most of them were not all of them, but most
of them.
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But when they inscribed their signature on that document, at
that moment, they became treason as criminals in the eyes
of England. And at that moment they became our founding fathers,
and they became our heroes. They became the ones who
established this land in which we live in. They also
believed this because most of them, as I say, were
believers in Jesus Christ.
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They believe that righteousness.
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Exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
They believe that, and therefore they invoked God and the
guidance of God, and the establishment of our country America
was founded upon righteousness, not perfection, but upon righteousness, the
righteousness that honors God.
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And that was the desire on.
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April the thirtieth, seventeen eighty nine, when our first president
was sworn in to office, a Bible.
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Was placed there.
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His hand was placed on that bible, and he stood
there in his brown suit with gold buttons on it
that had eagles on the buttons that were there, and
he placed his hand there. He said everything that in
the oath.
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Of office that he was supposed to.
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Say, and then George Washington, after he finished, he added
four more words that are not that were not in there.
But he added four more words, and these are those words,
so help me God.
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In other words, those four words were a prayer.
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That he lifted up at that moment, saying, so help
me God, I will do everything that I just did.
It was him invoking God's help to.
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Fulfill what had been said right there.
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And then he leaned down and he kissed the Bible
because he said, because the Bible that he was put
his hand on was from God. And then he began
to give his inaugural address. And as he gave that address,
he began to tell this, and he said these words,
no people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the
invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than
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these of the United States. That invisible hand he's talking
about is the invisible hand of Almighty God, not from
some other God or some strange God, but the one
true God that is found in the Bible, the Word
of God. On the First Thanksgiving, when George Washington gave
it address, he says, it is the duty of all
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nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey
his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and hungly
to implore his protection in favor.
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It is the duty, he says, of all nations, that.
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Being the United States of America, first and foremost, to
acknowledge the providence.
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Of God, Almighty God. He references him.
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Samuel Adams, a signer of the declaration.
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Said religion and good morals are.
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The only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness. He's
meaning the Christian religion, folks, He's not meaning some other religion.
Benjamin rush he said these words, another sign are the
only foundation for a useful education in a republic is
to be laid in religion. He's talking Christian religion. Without
this there can be no virtue, and without virtue, there
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can be no liberty and liberty is the object in
life of all Republican governments. Benjamin Franklin not known for
his spiritual walk with God, but yet Benjamin Franklin said
these words. God governs in the affairs of men. And
if a spharaoh cannot fall to the ground without his notice,
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it is probable that an empire cannot rise without his aid.
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It's impossible, is what he's saying.
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The most dangerous place a nation can find itself is
when they turned their back on God and they determined to.
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Go it alone.
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And when God's hand a blessing and goidance his shun
we become a nation in peril. And at one time
we adored the invisible hand.
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Of God that guided us as a nation.
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We saw it, we recognized it, We acknowledge God to
be our guide, and we trusted God. But from for
so many generations now what we have seen is that
God has been systematically thrown.
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Out, kicked out, pushed out by those in power.
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And you say, well, why do we have problems today?
I just answered why we have problems today?
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A nation is in.
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Peril when they systematically remove God from their history. America
is a nation in peril because our idols are more precious.
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To us than God. H listen to God's declaration.
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An expectation of them, and verse four he begins with,
but I am the Lord, your God from the land
of Egypt. You know no God but me, he savior,
because says I'm him, I'm the only God.
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There are no other.
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Gods besides me, and there's certainly no other savior besides me.
The northern Kingdom of Israel was consumed with idolatry, and
that idolatry had turned into that which is most deplorable
before God, and.
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That which is called child sacrifice.
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They offered their children to be burned in the fire
to false God.
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We will restore the American Republic, will.
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Tell you support.
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We will make America powerful again.
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The Book of Psalm says, you are a wonderfully man.
You are a child of God. You are a beautiful
creature Wad's creation. My Bible tells me this again and
again and again.
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So for Joe Biden to say that I'm garbage is
more about him than it does about me, because I
am redeemed. Now, what I want you to understand is
that any president and Kamala Harris is just as bad
who considers you garbage any presidential candidate when someone says
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Jesus is Lord and they say this is not the
right rally. You need to go somewhere else. If you
and everybody like you does not get out and vote
and do everything possible to win this election, and that's
on you. So this was sent to me by a
pastor who is not afraid this Sunday to press message.
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It's a church called First Odessa in Odessa, Texas.
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I've never been, but I'm going to do. I'm check
it out.
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I think about the passage of scripture that I'll read next.
It was I God says, who knew you in the wilderness,
in the land of drought? He said, it is I.
You forget about me. I'm the one who walked you
through forty years in the wilderness. I've provided for you
when you were thirsty in the land of drought. I
gave you water from a stone.
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Man, We're gonna.
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Knock on the stone and water's gonna come out of
the out of the stone, and I'm gonna give you
water miraculously like that. I've fed you with manna and
with quail. I mean, I gave you everything I protected you,
I guided you, I took care of you because you're
the apple of my eye. And now you turn on me,
is what he's saying. He says, now you turn on me.
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God had provided for his neation, and God's abundant provision
and amazing protection were hallmarks for God's people.
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And when you read the Bible, you learn that.
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God promises blessings to those who follow him and curses
to those who do not, blessings and cursing. Now, I'm
not a prosperity gospel kind of guy that says, man,
if you follow God, He's going to make you rich.
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I don't believe that, because you know that's not biblical.
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Right. All you got to do is study the history
of the early Church in the Book of Acts, and
you realize that they didn't get.
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Rich back there.
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What they many times is they gave their life but
for their faith in Jesus Christ. And as a result
of that, you say, okay, well, that throws the prosperity
gospel out the window. But yet God does promise blessings,
and he promises curses for those who do not follow him.
Blessings for those who do, and curses for those who
do not. He promises that it's kind of like a
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mama going to the store with their baby and say, now, listen,
if you're really good, when we finish up here, we'll
go by and get some ice cream after we finish up,
and we'll you know, it'll be a good day, and
we'll just go home aside ice cream together. And then
that little baby right there like me when I was
a little kid, and I'd be running through the clothes
racks and hiding and doing all sorts of stuff like that.
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I didn't get ice cream very.
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Much because my mama was like, no, no, no, you
misunderstood what I said.
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I said, if.
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You're good, okay, but I wasn't good okay, And I
was sometimes mama, Mama's gonna watch this shit.
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You were too good. It's amazing.
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When you get older mamas they say, oh, you didn't
do anything wrong ever, you were perfect, not hardly, but anyway,
you understand where we're coming from here. That's exactually what
God is saying. You act right and I'll do good
with you. You act bad, and I'm gonna you're not
gonna get the blessings. You're not gonna get it. That's
the way it works. And I think about our country,
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and I think about how much God has blessed us,
and how much God has taken care of us, and
how much his provision, how God has.
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Provided for us.
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And I hear people say something like, well, preacher, God
expects us to deal with the economy, and you know,
he'll deal with those social issues, and we will deal
with the economy and we'll just leave God out of that.
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Do you realize what you've just done.
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You have placed God into a box and you've said, God,
you can only operate in our lives just a little bit. Again,
God desires to be lord of all, the lord of none,
do you understand. And he wants to be lord over
your finances. He wants to be lord over all of
the economy. He wants to be lord of all, because
he will not settle for being lord of none. So
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we recognize that God's provision is there. Go to number
four with me on your outline. America is the nation
in peril because we reap God's benefits but have forgotten him.
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In verse six, he.
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Goes on and he says, to the northern kingdom, but
when they had grazed, they became full they were filled,
and their heart was lifted up.
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Therefore they've forgotten me.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
God is using the metaphor of cattle out out in
the field grazing. I remember when I was a little
boy growing up, my uncle raised cattle, and we'd go
pin his cows for him and stuff, and I would
go with them to feed him and stuff. And during
the summertime, when that rain was falling in southeast Texas
and that grass was stick, all the cows would get
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fat and sleek. You know what I'm talking about. And
that's exactly what he's referring to here. How they would
go and they would graze, and they'd become full, and
they would be filled up and man, and then their heart.
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Was lifted up, and therefore they forgot him.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
The greatest danger of economic blessing that we must guard
against in America is that we will.
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Feast, and we will feast, and we will feast on
all of that God has provided.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
We'll become fat in our bank accounts will increase, we'll
get larger homes, we'll get second homes, more toys, and
will come to a place of satisfaction where we're so
fat and happy that we turn our back on God.
What a dangerous warning that is for all of us.
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I mean, we will gladly reap all of the benefits
from the hand of God, but many will bite the
hand that feeds them.
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As a nation.
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Have done this, We've benefit after benefit after benefit from God,
and yet we have the audacity to turn our back
on Him and to not vote for that which is
most moral, that which is most moral. You hear what
I said that because the two parties are not morally equivalent,
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that which.
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Is most moral, that's our call, and ELS has little.
Thank you and good night.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Very Show is on the air. What we've got
here is failure to milk.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly
knowledgeable about the past, and didn't you know, may not
have even known that. You know America Firster's pac Madison
Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine and a pro Nazi Germany.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Rally, you said over the weekend, referring to it, there's
a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in
the mid nineteen thirties that Medisine Square Garden.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave
it at that.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
The only garbage I see floating down there is his supporters,
his his his demonizational scene is unconstable American.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I
call the basket of deplorable.
Speaker 7 (01:14):
Look at the reading, look at the look at the
life we lead, the way we bow.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
It's done, bit fall.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You know, that's a little bit old. That shot that
sharts a couple of months old.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And if you want to really.
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See something that said, take a look at what happened.
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We bleed the same blood, we share the same home,
and we salute the same great American flag.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
We are one people, one family.
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And one glorious nation under God. So Jews and Muslims
and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons, and they're all joining
our colors and large numbers, larger than anyone has ever
seen in this country before, larger than they've ever seen
in any country. And the Republican Party has really become
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the party of inclusion.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
And that's something very nice about that. Earlier today, I
was talking about voting and a report I had seen
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that Christians are voting in very low numbers vis a
v other demographics in our community, and I started talking
about pastors who sold out, pastors who are grifters. They're
not even pastors, they're preachers. They preach, They preach on TV.
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And the only reason they preach in a building with
people in it instead of sort of the old C
Span model of having, you know, just a camera on
and making it look like there's an audience. The only
reason they have the people out there is because they
can count on those contributions every week, whereas on TV
it's harder to get people to send in, but we're
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happy to have them too. And I started talking about
various denominations and being a Southern Baptist, and really the
Evangelical Church and the Bible's commandment, and I realized this
conversation will turn some people off. So if you're new
to the show, it's okay for you to turn off
one day. Some days I might talk about baseball or football,
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or adoption or being a mother or a father, or
whatever else you do.
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You're not here for.
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All of it. It's okay.
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But I started talking about pastors as white pastors because
black pastors will do it. White pastors need to be
telling their congregation about the importance of electing god, fearing
faith following elected officials, and how most white pastors won't
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do it and they'll hide behind the tax advantages or
but it's really because they've become a business. They don't
pastor their church at all. They stopped being a pastor
ministering to the needs of their congregants, both on Sunday
by delivering the sermon, but also during the week counseling
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couples and young people and singles and the elderly, and
the things that the church should be. The church should
be a sucker for the people. That's succ or gramond,
not sucker like a sweet sucker you get at the
doctor's OsO Muny kid. It should be nourishment to the
whole of the individual and the family. But what we
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have now and a lot of these churches is a self aggrandizing,
self serving megalomaniac who wants to get rich. And if
you're at that church, I suggest you find a real
church like God intended. So a listener sent me an
email of a guy of a guy who was at
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a place called First Odessa, Odessa, Texas.
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Uh.
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It's it's in the Odessa Permian it's a Permian basin.
It's a it's an oil community near near Midland, I believe.
And I've had some family members going to work there
in the oil patch. And they said, this guy he
preaches and he talks about the importance of voting, and
so I'm listening to it, and so they sent me
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a link to a sermon he'd given and I went
to the site. I go to study this guy. His
name is Byron McWilliams. And his name doesn't appear anywhere.
You gotta go digging for his name. Well, I don't
have to tell you that a lot of these megachurch
preachers they're not pastors. They don't pastor their flock. They
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don't tend their flock. They just preach. They just get
up and tall and get paid well for it. And
this guy and this fight is all about the Word
of God and the church as a place to gather
and congregate. The first Odessa. You can find them, you
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can look up on and look them up on YouTube.
And he turns out he's from Woodville, Texas. Woodville, Texas
is in deep East Texas, from just up the road
where I'm from. In fact, Woodville was one of our
rivals in sports, in academic and sports in UIL competitive activities.
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They were the same size of ours as a country community.
So I like the way he talks, but I like
his message. And he delivered a sermon on why it's
important that you vote, And so this Sunday will be
the last opportunity the church has to activate Christians to
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go and vote on Tuesday. And in most churches, more
than half the people in that congregation will not have voted,
and it makes a difference to what kind of country
we're gonna have.
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People say, well, I'll just pray.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
If you only pray and don't vote, you haven't read
the Bible. So we're gonna share some of this man's
sermon about why it's important vote.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Coming up Michael Berry's show.
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If we were.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Attacked by the Chinese, the Russians, whoever you've seen Red Dawn,
you get the idea, what would you do to save
our country? You'd like to believe man, I'd do everything.
Would you take off from work? Did you take off
from your business? Would you take off from fishing one day?
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Would you round up everyone you could and start your
own little militia unit, you rally every resource you had
defend off the invaders?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You would? I would, Michael?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I would?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Well, then why not at least vote and get everyone else,
you know, to vote. That's pretty easy because the otherwise
these are the end times they are, and Christians are
not voting.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You know who else isn't voting?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Hunters. It's coming Tuesday. We got in Texas, we got
early voting through Friday of this week, So today tomorrow,
one more day in Texas, we got early voting through
Friday and then what they call election day on Tuesday.
I think you're a fool if you wait till election day,
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but that's your business. A lot of people think, oh,
I'm gonna wait, and then the Democrats won't know how
much to cheat. They did that in the county I
live in, and the Democrats had control of the voting
booths and they just didn't send the ballots out on
the day of voting because they saw that people had
held back, so they didn't send the ballots, so you
couldn't vote. But whatever, do your thing. But this is
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my call on you to call on your pastor. Hey, pastor,
you haven't talked about this election. You haven't told who
you're going to vote for. Politics matters, government matters. Stand
up and be a leader. Stop worrying about offending people.
You're a Christian, bear your cross. I'm tired of Christians
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and for that matter, people of all faiths.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Who are afraid to speak out.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
How can you be Jewish and vote for the Democrat
Party which is scared the death of the Hamas wing
of that party and will let them destroy Israel? And
you can you do that? Anyway, this is a pastor
who was sent to me. It's a church called firs Odessa.
I've never been there. I didn't know it, but it's fantastic.
Listen to this.
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And this is what he says beginning in verse chapter thirteen,
verse one, when Frim spoke, and that's another name for
the northern kingdom, Ephrim. When Fram spoke, there was trembling.
He was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through
bail and died.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
If you do not know who bail is, Bail is
a a demonic.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Idol that they used to worship, a false god that
they would worship.
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Verse two. And now they sin more and more.
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They sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images,
idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the
work of craftsmen. It is said of them, those who
offer human sacrifices kiss calves.
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Therefore they shall.
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Be like the morning missed, or like the dew that
goes early away, like the chap that swhirls from the
threshing floor, or like smoke from a window. But I
am the Lord's your God from the land of Egypt.
You know no god but me. And besides me. There
is no savior. It was I who knew you in
the wilderness, in the land of drought. But when they
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had grazed, they became full. They were filled, and their
heart was lifted up. Therefore they forgot me. So I
am to them like a lion, like a leopard. I
will lurk beside the way. I will fall upon them
like a bear robbed of her cubs. I will tear
open their breast, and there I will devour them like
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a lion, as the wild beast would rip them open.
Five things I want to share with you. Number One,
write this down. America is a nation in peril because
we have systematically written God out of our history. God
founded the nation of Israel many many years ago the
prophet Abraham. He was asked us to leave where his
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home and go to the place where God was sending him.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And God sent.
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Him, and God founded the nation of Israel through Father Abraham.
The Israelites, the Hebrews were God's people, and they were
the ones who followed closely after God. They were his
chosen people. Now listen, Israel still is don't dismiss that.
But for over five hundred years, God's people were told
how to live. Because God gave them the law. He
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guided them. He said, this is what will honor me,
and this is what will dishonor me. For I'm a
holy God, and you have to worship me in a
certain way.
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You have to follow me in a certain way.
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And so God guided them, told them exactly what to do.
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And yet the nation of Israel, the.
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Northern Kingdom, when they divided in the year nine thirty.
When they divided, they began to worship idols. They began
to worship bail. They began to offer up their children
to the gods in sacrifice, which God never commanded and
God never wanted. And so in verse four, God comes
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back to them, this Northern Kingdom, and he says to them,
but I'm your God.
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I'm your God.
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From the land of Egypt. He says, if he's saying,
don't you remember me, I'm your God. I am the
one who took care of you, who led you out
of Egypt.
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I'm the one.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Don't you remember me destroying Pharaoh? Don't you remember the
signs that I did? Don't you remember all that.
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I did for you? I am your God.
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But the Northern Kingdom had systematically dismissed God and followed
after demons and idols.
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Will cover more of that in a moment, but.
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They had systematically written God out of their history. Do
you see America as a country established upon Judeo Christian
values and principles that if any person who is.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
An honest historian.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Would look at they would say, that's true, that's undeniable.
Our founding fathers cared about what God thought. When they
established United States of America.
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They realized that they had.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
One shot to form a union of states that were
going to come together and be a republic, a representative republic,
and they would do it the right way. They had
one shot to do it. They didn't want to have
what they had in England with a king. They wanted
a representative republic. And they depended upon God for wisdom,
and they depended upon him for help in establishing these
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United States of America. You see our dependence upon God
is exton stone, and you see it all over Washington
if you go in the monuments in and you know,
in the nation's capital, it's all there. You see it
in our documents from the United States, for example, our
Declaration of Independence, which was signed July fourth, seventeen seventy six.
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It says we hold.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
These truths to be self evident, that all men are
created equal, that.
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They are endowed by their creator.
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With certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness, endowed by the Creator, that
acknowledges God through whom we are.
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To live, move, and have our being.
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Under my leadership, we will regain energy independence, massive energy dominance,
dominance dominance.
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You can do everything in your power.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
You be able to say, mamasum, you did everything possible
to help win this election.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I don't mean you read every article about how they
can cheat.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I don't mean you read every negative story on Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris. I mean, did you do everything
possible with every ounce of energy in your body to
win this election? The White House, your Senate seats, your
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congressional seats, all the way down. Did you do everything
possible if we lose? Or did you do what a
lot of people do. Have you just decided, well, they're
gonna cheat, so I don't have to do anything. We'll
take as always an excuse maker. So you personally can't
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control whether they cheat. You personally can control how many
votes are casting.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You can do that.
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You can do everything in your power, and if you've
done that, you can sleep well at night. The church
has to get more involved this Sunday, these services, this
Friday night for our Jewish friends.
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This is the time.
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That people of faith must engage before the Tuesday vote.
Early vote going on in most places right now. You
could vote today tomorrow Friday. Check your early voting schedule.
Bring somebody with you. If you've cast your vote. Don't
sit back and wait and be nervous. Don't sit and
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be overcome by anxiety. Do something. If the waters are rising,
start putting things up on a higher shelf. Take action,
do what you can do. Worrying is not a course
of action. So anyway, a listener sent me this. I
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was talking about how white preachers, especially because black preachers
will tell their people how to vote. They did the
souls to the polls event, and they always do. They
don't worry about losing their tax tax free status. But
white pastors they've gotten more concerned with not offending anybody.
If your number one priority is not offending anybody, then
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you're no pastor of the Word of God. I'll tell
you that for sure. So a listener sent me a
linked this guy, and I've been listening to him all
afternoon and we just cut a couple clips as from
a church called First Odessa in Odessa, Texas, and he's wonderful.
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The fifty six men who signed the Declaration of Independence,
most of those were believers in Jesus Christ, who believed
the Bible and went to church.
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Most of them were not all of them, but most
of them.
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But when they inscribed their signature on that document, at
that moment, they became treason as criminals in the eyes
of England. And at that moment they became our founding fathers,
and they became our heroes. They became the ones who
established this land in which we live in. They also
believed this because most of them, as I say, were
believers in Jesus Christ.
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They believe that righteousness.
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Exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
They believe that, and therefore they invoked God and the
guidance of God, and the establishment of our country America
was founded upon righteousness, not perfection, but upon righteousness, the
righteousness that honors God.
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And that was the desire on.
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April the thirtieth, seventeen eighty nine, when our first president
was sworn in to office, a Bible.
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Was placed there.
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His hand was placed on that bible, and he stood
there in his brown suit with gold buttons on it
that had eagles on the buttons that were there, and
he placed his hand there. He said everything that in
the oath.
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Of office that he was supposed to.
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Say, and then George Washington, after he finished, he added
four more words that are not that were not in there.
But he added four more words, and these are those words,
so help me God.
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In other words, those four words were a prayer.
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That he lifted up at that moment, saying, so help
me God, I will do everything that I just did.
It was him invoking God's help to.
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Fulfill what had been said right there.
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And then he leaned down and he kissed the Bible
because he said, because the Bible that he was put
his hand on was from God. And then he began
to give his inaugural address. And as he gave that address,
he began to tell this, and he said these words,
no people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the
invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than
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these of the United States. That invisible hand he's talking
about is the invisible hand of Almighty God, not from
some other God or some strange God, but the one
true God that is found in the Bible, the Word
of God. On the First Thanksgiving, when George Washington gave
it address, he says, it is the duty of all
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nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey
his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and hungly
to implore his protection in favor.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
It is the duty, he says, of all nations, that.
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Being the United States of America, first and foremost, to
acknowledge the providence.
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Of God, Almighty God. He references him.
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Samuel Adams, a signer of the declaration.
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Said religion and good morals are.
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The only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness. He's
meaning the Christian religion, folks, He's not meaning some other religion.
Benjamin rush he said these words, another sign are the
only foundation for a useful education in a republic is
to be laid in religion. He's talking Christian religion. Without
this there can be no virtue, and without virtue, there
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can be no liberty and liberty is the object in
life of all Republican governments. Benjamin Franklin not known for
his spiritual walk with God, but yet Benjamin Franklin said
these words. God governs in the affairs of men. And
if a spharaoh cannot fall to the ground without his notice,
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it is probable that an empire cannot rise without his aid.
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It's impossible, is what he's saying.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
The most dangerous place a nation can find itself is
when they turned their back on God and they determined to.
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Go it alone.
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And when God's hand a blessing and goidance his shun
we become a nation in peril. And at one time
we adored the invisible hand.
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Of God that guided us as a nation.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
We saw it, we recognized it, We acknowledge God to
be our guide, and we trusted God. But from for
so many generations now what we have seen is that
God has been systematically thrown.
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Out, kicked out, pushed out by those in power.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
And you say, well, why do we have problems today?
I just answered why we have problems today?
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A nation is in.
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Peril when they systematically remove God from their history. America
is a nation in peril because our idols are more precious.
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To us than God. H listen to God's declaration.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
An expectation of them, and verse four he begins with,
but I am the Lord, your God from the land
of Egypt. You know no God but me, he savior,
because says I'm him, I'm the only God.
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There are no other.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Gods besides me, and there's certainly no other savior besides me.
The northern Kingdom of Israel was consumed with idolatry, and
that idolatry had turned into that which is most deplorable
before God, and.
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That which is called child sacrifice.
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They offered their children to be burned in the fire
to false God.
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We will restore the American Republic, will.
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Tell you support.
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We will make America powerful again.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
The Book of Psalm says, you are a wonderfully man.
You are a child of God. You are a beautiful
creature Wad's creation. My Bible tells me this again and
again and again.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
So for Joe Biden to say that I'm garbage is
more about him than it does about me, because I
am redeemed. Now, what I want you to understand is
that any president and Kamala Harris is just as bad
who considers you garbage any presidential candidate when someone says
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Jesus is Lord and they say this is not the
right rally. You need to go somewhere else. If you
and everybody like you does not get out and vote
and do everything possible to win this election, and that's
on you. So this was sent to me by a
pastor who is not afraid this Sunday to press message.
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It's a church called First Odessa in Odessa, Texas.
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I've never been, but I'm going to do. I'm check
it out.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
I think about the passage of scripture that I'll read next.
It was I God says, who knew you in the wilderness,
in the land of drought? He said, it is I.
You forget about me. I'm the one who walked you
through forty years in the wilderness. I've provided for you
when you were thirsty in the land of drought. I
gave you water from a stone.
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Man, We're gonna.
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Knock on the stone and water's gonna come out of
the out of the stone, and I'm gonna give you
water miraculously like that. I've fed you with manna and
with quail. I mean, I gave you everything I protected you,
I guided you, I took care of you because you're
the apple of my eye. And now you turn on me,
is what he's saying. He says, now you turn on me.
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God had provided for his neation, and God's abundant provision
and amazing protection were hallmarks for God's people.
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And when you read the Bible, you learn that.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
God promises blessings to those who follow him and curses
to those who do not, blessings and cursing. Now, I'm
not a prosperity gospel kind of guy that says, man,
if you follow God, He's going to make you rich.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I don't believe that, because you know that's not biblical.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Right. All you got to do is study the history
of the early Church in the Book of Acts, and
you realize that they didn't get.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Rich back there.
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What they many times is they gave their life but
for their faith in Jesus Christ. And as a result
of that, you say, okay, well, that throws the prosperity
gospel out the window. But yet God does promise blessings,
and he promises curses for those who do not follow him.
Blessings for those who do, and curses for those who
do not. He promises that it's kind of like a
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mama going to the store with their baby and say, now, listen,
if you're really good, when we finish up here, we'll
go by and get some ice cream after we finish up,
and we'll you know, it'll be a good day, and
we'll just go home aside ice cream together. And then
that little baby right there like me when I was
a little kid, and I'd be running through the clothes
racks and hiding and doing all sorts of stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I didn't get ice cream very.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Much because my mama was like, no, no, no, you
misunderstood what I said.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I said, if.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
You're good, okay, but I wasn't good okay, And I
was sometimes mama, Mama's gonna watch this shit.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You were too good. It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
When you get older mamas they say, oh, you didn't
do anything wrong ever, you were perfect, not hardly, but anyway,
you understand where we're coming from here. That's exactually what
God is saying. You act right and I'll do good
with you. You act bad, and I'm gonna you're not
gonna get the blessings. You're not gonna get it. That's
the way it works. And I think about our country,
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and I think about how much God has blessed us,
and how much God has taken care of us, and
how much his provision, how God has.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Provided for us.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
And I hear people say something like, well, preacher, God
expects us to deal with the economy, and you know,
he'll deal with those social issues, and we will deal
with the economy and we'll just leave God out of that.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Do you realize what you've just done.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
You have placed God into a box and you've said, God,
you can only operate in our lives just a little bit. Again,
God desires to be lord of all, the lord of none,
do you understand. And he wants to be lord over
your finances. He wants to be lord over all of
the economy. He wants to be lord of all, because
he will not settle for being lord of none. So
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we recognize that God's provision is there. Go to number
four with me on your outline. America is the nation
in peril because we reap God's benefits but have forgotten him.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
In verse six, he.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Goes on and he says, to the northern kingdom, but
when they had grazed, they became full they were filled,
and their heart was lifted up.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Therefore they've forgotten me.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
God is using the metaphor of cattle out out in
the field grazing. I remember when I was a little
boy growing up, my uncle raised cattle, and we'd go
pin his cows for him and stuff, and I would
go with them to feed him and stuff. And during
the summertime, when that rain was falling in southeast Texas
and that grass was stick, all the cows would get
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fat and sleek. You know what I'm talking about. And
that's exactly what he's referring to here. How they would
go and they would graze, and they'd become full, and
they would be filled up and man, and then their heart.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Was lifted up, and therefore they forgot him.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
The greatest danger of economic blessing that we must guard
against in America is that we will.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Feast, and we will feast, and we will feast on
all of that God has provided.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
We'll become fat in our bank accounts will increase, we'll
get larger homes, we'll get second homes, more toys, and
will come to a place of satisfaction where we're so
fat and happy that we turn our back on God.
What a dangerous warning that is for all of us.
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I mean, we will gladly reap all of the benefits
from the hand of God, but many will bite the
hand that feeds them.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
As a nation.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Have done this, We've benefit after benefit after benefit from God,
and yet we have the audacity to turn our back
on Him and to not vote for that which is
most moral, that which is most moral. You hear what
I said that because the two parties are not morally equivalent,
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that which.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Is most moral, that's our call, and ELS has little.
Thank you and good night.
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