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The Curse of Lindsay Clancy - Pastor Jonathan Shelley | Stedfast Baptist Church

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  1. Amen.

  2. Amen.

  3. Here in 2 Kings chapter number six,

  4. we're describing a very grievous time

  5. for the nation of Israel

  6. and specifically in the city of Jerusalem.

  7. We're seeing the curses of God played out

  8. here in this nation.

  9. And at the end of this particular chapter,

  10. we have just kind of a crazy story

  11. that is very grievous to read in the Bible.

  12. But this does happen.

  13. And if we look back at verse 26,

  14. it says in the king of Israel is passing by upon the wall,

  15. there cried a woman unto him saying,

  16. help my Lord, O king.

  17. And he said, if the Lord do not help thee,

  18. when shall I help thee?

  19. Out of the barn floor or out of the wine press

  20. and the king said unto her, what aleeth thee?

  21. And she answered, the woman said unto me,

  22. give thy son that we may eat him today

  23. and we will eat my son tomorrow.

  24. So he boiled my son and did eat him

  25. and I said unto her on the next day,

  26. give thy son that we may eat him

  27. and she hath hit her son.

  28. Now, this is a crazy story

  29. and I wanna make it clear that what the Bible is saying here,

  30. this is not a normal thing, of course.

  31. These people are going through extreme starvation,

  32. extreme war and siege.

  33. They're being besieged by an enemy

  34. and so all the foods ran out,

  35. all the famine that's plaguing them

  36. is causing them to go crazy

  37. and to have horrific thoughts

  38. that would normally never happen to anyone

  39. but just through the extreme circumstances,

  40. they've gotten to a place

  41. where they're not only cannibalizing people in their society,

  42. they're cannibalizing their own children

  43. which kind of seems like an unimaginable thing

  44. but it is something where if you pushed people

  45. to a specific degree they could get to this place

  46. but the Bible is basically describing

  47. what the Bible calls a curse.

  48. This is a curse that has happened to Jerusalem specifically

  49. and God is cursing the children of Israel

  50. for having turned away from his commandments

  51. and having been rebellious against God,

  52. going into all kinds of fornication and adultery

  53. and idolatry and just innocent blood being shed

  54. and just so much oppression and just all this evil

  55. just worshiping false gods

  56. and going after Baal which is representative of Satan,

  57. going after all this evil

  58. has caused God to plague them

  59. and to bring curses upon them

  60. so much so that the women are cannibalizing their own children

  61. and this is what's crazy

  62. is she asked the king to help her.

  63. Now what is she asking for though?

  64. She's not asking for food,

  65. she's not asking for some kind of substance,

  66. she's asking can we please kill another child and eat him?

  67. That is what her request is.

  68. She's saying hey please help me

  69. because we already killed my child and ate it,

  70. now I wanna kill this other woman's child

  71. and I wanna eat it.

  72. And you can kind of see at least the one woman,

  73. one woman killed her own son and ate it,

  74. the other woman was willing to eat someone else's son

  75. but then I guess she has at least a little bit

  76. of remorse or a little bit,

  77. maybe she was just being deceptive

  78. or perhaps was more remorse,

  79. she's not willing to actually kill her own son

  80. so even in this extreme circumstance

  81. not every woman is willing to go down this path

  82. but we do see at least one of them

  83. is willing to harm their own children

  84. and other children and just kind of gone down

  85. this really dark path

  86. but this is a fulfillment of Deuteronomy 28

  87. and let's go there into the back of your Bible

  88. or the beginning I guess I could say

  89. to the Old Testament law

  90. and look at Deuteronomy 28

  91. which is a pretty famous section of scripture,

  92. it's describing what God will do

  93. if you follow the commandments

  94. and what will happen if you don't follow the commandments

  95. and the first section of Deuteronomy 28

  96. is giving all the blessings

  97. that God's gonna bless them greatly

  98. and multiply them

  99. and things are gonna go well with them

  100. but if they don't harken

  101. he says he's going to curse them

  102. and I want you to notice

  103. we're gonna just look at a few verses

  104. look at verse 15

  105. but it shall come to pass

  106. if that will not harken

  107. under the voice of the Lord thy God

  108. to observe to do all his commandments

  109. and his statutes which I command thee this day

  110. that all these curses shall come upon thee

  111. and overtake thee

  112. and then it just lists

  113. I mean you can just look at verses 16, 17, 18, 19

  114. just starts with the word cursed

  115. just cursed shall thou be in the city

  116. and cursed thy basket

  117. and cursed the fruit of thy body

  118. and cursed and it's just

  119. I mean this is a long chapter of the Bible

  120. just saying how many ways they're gonna be cursed

  121. cursed of God

  122. and if you go all the way towards the end

  123. of the curses in verse 56

  124. the Bible says the tender

  125. and delicate woman among you

  126. which would not adventure

  127. to set the soul of her foot

  128. upon the ground for delicateness

  129. and tenderness her eye shall be evil

  130. toward the husband of her bosom

  131. and toward her son

  132. and toward her daughter

  133. and toward her young one

  134. that cometh out from between her feet

  135. and toward her children

  136. which she shall bear

  137. for she shall eat them

  138. for want of all things secretly

  139. in the siege and straightness

  140. wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates

  141. so the Bible warns that hey

  142. I'm going to punish you so much

  143. so that a woman

  144. who is a very by nature tender woman

  145. a delicate woman

  146. there's nothing even really

  147. you could say a miss about this particular individual

  148. maybe she was a nice person

  149. in her upbringing

  150. but she's gonna her heart

  151. and her mind is gonna be evil affected

  152. towards her children

  153. and not just her children

  154. it says her infants

  155. because it's like talking about the one

  156. that just came out between her feet

  157. it's just like hey

  158. her older children

  159. her younger children

  160. even infants so much so

  161. that she is going to eat them

  162. and this is a curse

  163. so we can't sit here

  164. and just blame something else

  165. because the Bible is making it clear

  166. this is God cursing the children of Israel

  167. this is a curse upon a nation

  168. when you see this kind of thing happening

  169. where women are killing

  170. and slaughtering their own children

  171. in such an extreme and grotesque way

  172. and again this is a horrific story

  173. it says in verse 58

  174. if thou will not observe

  175. to do all the words of this law

  176. that are written in this book

  177. that thou mayest fear this glorious

  178. and fearful name the Lord thy God

  179. you should be afraid of God

  180. when you see women

  181. doing these horrific acts

  182. because you just see how God

  183. is punishing and cursing a nation

  184. for doing likewise

  185. and you know while

  186. you know America

  187. specifically is not the nation of Israel

  188. America is not going through

  189. the exact same circumstances

  190. that the children of Israel are

  191. because we are not going through a siege

  192. we're not going through extreme warfare

  193. and famine

  194. but I feel like we can see through the text

  195. similar parallels where

  196. God is cursing America

  197. and that there is a curse on America right now

  198. in this particular category

  199. in this particular way

  200. and you know that's kind of where I've gotten

  201. the title of my sermon this morning

  202. and I'm linking it to a specific event

  203. but it's not just only about this event

  204. and so the title of my sermon this morning

  205. is the curse of Lindsey Clancy

  206. and here's the thing

  207. why bring up that particular name

  208. or this particular court case

  209. that's recently happened

  210. well here's the thing

  211. it's kind of gathered national tension

  212. I mean who in here would say

  213. I have no idea who Lindsey Clancy is?

  214. Yeah I mean that's why I'm bringing it up

  215. okay because virtually everyone has heard about this

  216. and it's been a big deal

  217. social media is going crazy

  218. on this particular issue

  219. this has been a major event

  220. it almost seems like more attention

  221. on this than Charlie Kirk being killed

  222. or being you know assassinated

  223. and I say that because

  224. just of how many people this is affecting

  225. and again Charlie Kirk

  226. I feel like affected the whole nation too

  227. I can't even say that it didn't

  228. but I just I've never seen so many people interested

  229. in something like this

  230. and we've seen just

  231. kind of the grotesque state of our culture

  232. and our nation

  233. in response to this by and large

  234. you know unfortunately there was another woman

  235. on September 1st

  236. that killed one of her children

  237. and it suggested that she may have even been a copycat

  238. but let's say she wasn't a copycat killer

  239. then it doesn't really matter

  240. because we're just still seeing

  241. women slaughtering their own children

  242. and it's not making sense

  243. you know in America in the last few years

  244. around 2,000 children

  245. are being killed by their parents

  246. either like purposefully

  247. or through like extreme neglect

  248. and then you know the categories

  249. when it's just the mom doing it

  250. it's like 456

  251. whereas if it's just the dad

  252. it's 197

  253. meaning that the mothers are two and a half times

  254. more likely to kill their own children

  255. by the statistics in America right now

  256. and so this is a big issue

  257. and it's not to say that

  258. it's not a women versus men issue

  259. obviously there's bad men

  260. just like there's bad women

  261. but we're seeing just parents

  262. being turned against their children

  263. when it was both parents

  264. it's 322 slaughtering

  265. so you know in a sense

  266. there's a lot of just death

  267. and innocent blood

  268. but you know 2,000

  269. pales in comparison

  270. to what is happening in America right now

  271. which is still about one million abortions every year

  272. and since Roe v. Wade

  273. which I think in 1972

  274. it's around that time

  275. since that period of time

  276. we've had 67 million abortions

  277. that's a lot of blood

  278. that's a lot of blood shed

  279. that has been slaughtered in America

  280. and in fact you know

  281. when I was looking at these specific statistics

  282. of parents slaughtering their children

  283. or women slaughtering their children

  284. and you compare America

  285. to other developed countries in the world

  286. America is nine times more likely

  287. for the parents to be slaughtering their children right now

  288. so you know when I'm saying like

  289. hey this curse of Lindsay Clancy

  290. I'm not just trying to take one particular event

  291. and one particular woman and say

  292. hey are countries bad because of one person

  293. no there's a lot of people that are responsible

  294. and I don't even think God

  295. if you read the Bible carefully

  296. is mad at a nation for having a killer

  297. or for having bad people

  298. it's that the bad people are not dealt with properly

  299. then God gets mad at

  300. when there's innocent blood shed

  301. and then it's not dealt with appropriately

  302. and there's not a justice that's been served

  303. then God is gonna hold that innocent blood

  304. the guilt of that on that nation

  305. and on that group of people

  306. and what we see in America right now

  307. is we see our country as being cursed

  308. because we're not dealing with these issues

  309. we have 67 million abortions

  310. and there's been no justice served

  311. there was three children slaughtered by Lindsay Clancy

  312. and so far there's been no justice served

  313. she was recently in a court hearing

  314. where it's been declared a mistrial

  315. which you know again I'm not a legal expert

  316. I'm not gonna pretend to be one

  317. but based on the facts of the case

  318. I think it's suggested that 11 of the 12 jurors

  319. were going to potentially declare her insane or something

  320. and say that she's not guilty of homicide

  321. and I don't know what the ramifications of that would be

  322. but because of this you know the chances of her

  323. going down a new trial and being found guilty

  324. is pretty much just statistically impossible at this point

  325. because if only one out of 12 people were gonna convict her

  326. the chances of you then statistically getting 12 people

  327. that would all agree to that

  328. and considering how much media attention

  329. this case has gotten

  330. I mean the chances of not having just one jury

  331. or one juror hung up on this

  332. is just basically a statistical zero

  333. and so by and large you know this is my projection

  334. my belief is they'll probably settle

  335. or they'll probably you know try to have some kind

  336. of a plea bargain or something

  337. who knows what's gonna actually happen

  338. I have no idea

  339. but it does not appear that these three children

  340. that have been slaughtered are gonna receive justice

  341. and you know that's a curse on our nation

  342. when people are slaughtering their children

  343. and there's no justice served

  344. that people are not caring

  345. you know we're all the women in our country

  346. standing somewhere and saying

  347. we want justice for these three children

  348. we stand with these three children

  349. I mean what did an eight month old baby do

  350. that it deserves to be slaughtered

  351. and let me explain something to you

  352. we were all eight month old babies at one point

  353. barring the few infants that are in this room okay

  354. I mean we basically all of us adults

  355. we were eight months at some point

  356. and let me explain something to you

  357. when you were eight months old

  358. you could not take care of yourself

  359. you could not feed yourself

  360. you could not change your own diapers

  361. and you know what you needed someone

  362. to take care of you and to provide for you

  363. and you know what God bless our parents

  364. and God bless the parents

  365. that are taking care of their children

  366. you know this is something that

  367. should not be taken lightly

  368. and the idea of parents

  369. turning against their own children

  370. is so unnatural

  371. it's wicked it's satanic

  372. it's a curse from God

  373. it's a curse on our nation

  374. that so many people are quote standing

  375. with a murderer

  376. and again I don't care what you think about the case

  377. you know your opinion to me doesn't matter

  378. because the facts of the case are

  379. that her defense attorney said she did it

  380. she admitted that she did it to multiple people

  381. prior to the court hearing

  382. and then from a premeditated perspective

  383. she sent her husband away on purpose

  384. so that she could do this

  385. that is not someone just going crazy

  386. that is someone planning

  387. that is someone scheming

  388. that is someone knowing what they're doing

  389. on purpose

  390. and so there's no way to get around

  391. whether it was pre-made it said it or not

  392. but let me explain my other position

  393. if she was crazy

  394. I still think you're guilty of murder

  395. if you go crazy and you kill anybody

  396. that I know or love

  397. I'm going to say put them to death too

  398. you know I mean can you imagine someone came to your house

  399. and killed someone in your family

  400. and they're like yeah but they were crazy

  401. you'd be like I don't care

  402. of course they're crazy

  403. like they killed somebody

  404. like why would I want to sit here

  405. and justify that

  406. you know we understand in America

  407. and we believe in America

  408. there's a difference between an accident

  409. and intentional slaughter

  410. we understand that there's a crime of passion

  411. and that there's premeditated murder

  412. and we have different classifications for these things

  413. but at the end of the day

  414. you know to say someone's crazy

  415. so they shouldn't stand guilty of manslaughter

  416. even or of homicide

  417. is just backwards

  418. it's not justice

  419. this is not what the bible says

  420. and show me one verse in the bible

  421. where someone is not held accountable

  422. for killing someone

  423. because they were crazy

  424. because of their mental state

  425. and you don't think that God realized that women

  426. after they give birth

  427. are going to be hormonal

  428. you don't think God realized that women

  429. were going to have maybe the baby blues

  430. or our struggle

  431. with their hormone levels becoming normal again

  432. that he wouldn't have just been like

  433. hey I get it

  434. after having a kid

  435. it's really hard so if you kill him no big deal

  436. like he didn't say that

  437. he said it's so unnatural

  438. it is a curse when they do such a thing

  439. it's a curse for a woman

  440. that's tender and delicate

  441. to turn against their own children

  442. and to slaughter them

  443. in such a gruesome evil satanic way

  444. you know this is a curse on our nation

  445. go to Proverbs chapter 14 for a moment

    Proverbs 14 chapter mention

  446. go to Proverbs chapter 14

    Proverbs 14 chapter mention

  447. and I want to look at some more verses on this

  448. but you know in America

  449. unfortunately you know

  450. I'm not trying to pit the sexes against each other

  451. or say that women are quote worse than men

  452. because I don't believe that

  453. but what I do believe is that women

  454. have a certain role in society

  455. and when they usurp that position in society

  456. you know there's consequences

  457. and the bible warns about there being a curse on a society

  458. when the women are in charge

  459. when women are ruling over men

  460. when women have just yielded all this power

  461. that they're not supposed to have

  462. and in America

  463. if you just look at voting only

  464. women are 64 percent for abortion being legal

  465. whereas men are 55 percent

  466. so again you know you could argue

  467. that even if women were not allowed

  468. to vote in our country

  469. abortion would still be legal potentially

  470. because 55 percent of men

  471. are in support of it being legal in some cases

  472. okay as far as identifying yourself as pro-choice

  473. 61 percent of women identify as pro-choice

  474. 41 percent of men are identifying themselves as pro-choice

  475. and I would I would assume most of those men

  476. their wives told them that they were that way

  477. all right

  478. for voting democrat 53 percent of women vote for democrat

  479. 46 percent of men

  480. now here's the thing when it comes to politics like

  481. it's not like voting republican makes you good

  482. and voting democrat makes you bad

  483. because let's just be honest

  484. the republican party is of satan too

  485. okay but here's the thing

  486. on this specific issue that we're talking about

  487. and slaughtering children

  488. the democrats by and large are more in favor of that position

  489. and that's often a reason why many people vote democrat

  490. is because of this single issue

  491. I've seen many videos and many people just openly declaring

  492. like the only reason I vote democrat

  493. is because they're pro-choice

  494. or because of their stance on abortion specifically

  495. and so that's the only reason I would bring that up

  496. you know as far as other aspects of being a democrat

  497. or other reasons to be a democrat versus republican or whatever

  498. I don't really care

  499. but for sake of our conversation this morning

  500. there's a curse on our nation

  501. when so many people are just so bloodthirsty

  502. that they want to slaughter children

  503. they want to kill children

  504. and you know what

  505. why do you not care about babies being killed

  506. I mean as a parent the idea of your children being killed

  507. is one of the worst nightmares you could possibly think of

  508. you know

  509. so think about other people's children and care a little bit

  510. care about the slaughtering that's happening in our country

  511. and realize that hey there's a curse on our nation

  512. you know before we can solve any issue

  513. we have to just identify the problem

  514. we have to realize there is a problem in America

  515. there's a problem in our country

  516. there's a problem in society

  517. there's a problem in our culture

  518. there's a problem where women are wanting to slaughter their children

  519. why they want that to be the law

  520. why they want to have these things happen

  521. and not even necessarily just before the womb

  522. even after the womb

  523. well it just we should stand with her anyways

  524. because having kids is too hard or something

  525. you know this is this is a satanic agenda

  526. whether abortions are acceptable

  527. 61% of women say yes

  528. only 41% of men say yes

  529. you know this is a curse on our nation

  530. and there is a major major issue

  531. look at Proverbs 14 verse 1

    Proverbs 14:1

  532. every wise woman built their house

  533. but the foolish plucked it down with her hands

  534. and you know unfortunately

  535. we look at someone like Lindsay Clancy

  536. or other women that have recently done this

  537. not only is this a metaphor

  538. this is literal

  539. and a sense that they have literally plucked down their house

  540. with their own bare hands

  541. Lindsay Clancy strangled her own children with her bare hands

  542. I mean she used instruments as well

  543. but I'm just saying that like this is grotesque

  544. this is evil

  545. this is horrific

  546. you know as a nation we should be sad

  547. at what's happened

  548. we should be sad that there's so many people

  549. that are acting like it's not a big deal

  550. or acting like it should be excused

  551. or acting like it's pardonable

  552. or acting like it's not something that should be

  553. met with extreme justice

  554. you know it's a curse on our nation

  555. and we've seen so many people

  556. that are an embodiment of this attitude

  557. of this heart

  558. look at Malachi chapter four

  559. it's almost the New Testament

  560. basically right before the book of Matthew

  561. so if you're in Matthew you just flip back

  562. just a few pages and you're in Malachi

  563. it's the last book of the Old Testament

  564. and it's kind of a warning signal

  565. that the Bible brings up

  566. but it's a scary place

  567. when you live in a society

  568. where parents don't love their children

  569. or vice versa

  570. but notice what it says in Malachi chapter four

  571. verse number six

  572. says this is the last verse of the Old Testament

  573. I mean this is it

  574. don't you think that would be important

  575. the last words that God has to mankind

  576. in the Old Testament

  577. Malachi chapter four verse six

  578. and he shall turn the heart of the fathers

  579. to the children

  580. and the heart of the children to their fathers

  581. lest I come and smite the earth with a curse

  582. so the Bible is saying

  583. hey if the parents do love their children

  584. that's a good thing

  585. but if they don't

  586. what is God saying

  587. He's going to curse the earth

  588. and let me say something

  589. when America and its parents

  590. have turned against the children

  591. God's cursing America for doing so

  592. God will curse America

  593. for women like Lindsey Clancy

  594. doing what she did

  595. and not seeing justice

  596. for women committing abortion

  597. and not seeing justice

  598. for abortion doctors

  599. to exist in our society

  600. and not see justice

  601. that is going to cause God

  602. to curse our nation

  603. and to curse our country

  604. and to curse our land

  605. and you know what it's evil

  606. I want to go back to Deuteronomy

  607. go back to Deuteronomy chapter 19

    Deuteronomy 19 chapter mention

  608. I'm just trying to prove this

  609. in every direction possible

  610. this is a curse

  611. I don't want you to just

  612. think oh no

  613. it's just one case

  614. or one scenario

  615. it's not a big deal

  616. no God is mad at a nation

  617. God is mad at an area

  618. that will not serve justice

  619. and you know what

  620. this did happen in Massachusetts

  621. which is a pretty liberal area

  622. maybe

  623. maybe other states would not have

  624. handled the situation this way

  625. okay

  626. and you know what

  627. I would hope that Texas

  628. or other states

  629. would not have done this kind of crazy

  630. particular situation

  631. and if people were in a jury

  632. from Texas

  633. maybe it would be different

  634. I don't know

  635. I can't necessarily say

  636. but I'll also say this

  637. I wouldn't be entirely surprised

  638. if it was a hung jury in Texas

  639. maybe not 11 to 1

  640. but maybe 3 to 9

  641. but even if it was just 1

  642. I mean that's enough

  643. to have a similar result

  644. and I'm telling you

  645. this is a scary place to be in

  646. when we will not serve justice

  647. and we're just allowing

  648. this curse to permeate our culture

  649. because look

  650. it's it's bad

  651. but did you read the curse

  652. it can get worse

  653. it can get way worse

  654. and there was a lot of curses

  655. I didn't read

  656. but there's a lot of curses

  657. happening to our nation

  658. and we cannot just sit here

  659. and allow this stuff to go unchecked

  660. Deuteronomy chapter 19

    Deuteronomy 19 chapter mention

  661. look at verse 11

  662. but if a man ate his neighbor

  663. and lying wait for him

  664. and rise up against him

  665. and smite him mortally

  666. that he die

  667. and flee then one of these cities

  668. the elders of his city

  669. shall sin and fetch him

  670. thence and deliver him

  671. in thy hand of the avenger

  672. of blood that he may die

  673. thine eye shall not pity him

  674. but thou shalt put away

  675. the guilt of innocent blood

  676. from Israel

  677. that it may go wealthy

  678. you are not allowed

  679. to have someone go to a sanctuary city

  680. that's guilty of premeditated murder

  681. the bible says

  682. you have to slaughter this person

  683. you are not allowed to pity them

  684. it doesn't say

  685. well

  686. but she was having a hard time

  687. or

  688. well it was difficult

  689. or she took drugs

  690. or she didn't take drugs

  691. or whatever

  692. it's like no

  693. it's just hey

  694. if you committed

  695. premeditated murder

  696. you deserve the death penalty

  697. and if you don't give it

  698. well then you know what

  699. God is going to hold you guilty

  700. for innocent blood

  701. and even if they did find a sanctuary city

  702. we as a nation

  703. should be like

  704. you know what

  705. this isn't be tolerated

  706. and that person needs to be with the death

  707. and you know

  708. this would be something where

  709. unfortunately

  710. honestly if our federal government

  711. was going to usurp

  712. its authority

  713. or

  714. overstretch its authority on states

  715. it would be something like this

  716. saying hey

  717. we can't allow states

  718. to not execute the death penalty

  719. and so y'all need to actually

  720. execute the death penalty

  721. because you know

  722. we have all kinds of times

  723. where the federal government

  724. has stepped in

  725. and done this kind of stuff

  726. you know where they said

  727. well some states are

  728. not enforcing

  729. you know slavery

  730. and some are

  731. and so we had a big push

  732. to basically

  733. from a federal perspective

  734. you know end and abolish slavery

  735. well a lot of people would say

  736. that was a good thing

  737. that we have forced that

  738. on many states

  739. the states are supposed to be sovereign

  740. our federal government

  741. supposed to be limited

  742. but in some cases

  743. they say hey

  744. we have to have equal enforcement of the law

  745. as a nation

  746. as a country

  747. in these circumstances

  748. and you know what

  749. if a state

  750. will not put

  751. murderers to death

  752. premeditated murder

  753. honestly from a federal perspective

  754. I think they have the precedent

  755. to actually enforce that

  756. and you know what the bible is saying

  757. you cannot allow

  758. well that city does it

  759. no big deal

  760. no no no

  761. as a nation

  762. as a country

  763. you're supposed to say

  764. we don't allow any sanctuary cities

  765. for premeditated murder

  766. they do allow sanctuary cities

  767. for manslaughter

  768. and that's a different category

  769. and we can talk about that later

  770. if you do accidental manslaughter

  771. the bible has a precedent

  772. for sanctuary city

  773. but for

  774. premeditated murder

  775. you deserve the death penalty

  776. that's the justice

  777. and you know what

  778. as a nation

  779. we should be condemning

  780. any area

  781. any country

  782. any state

  783. any jurisdiction

  784. that will not uphold the law

  785. and do what's right

  786. I think massachusetts

  787. has already gotten rid of the death penalty anyways

  788. which I just

  789. I can't even fathom

  790. I don't even understand

  791. how you would do such a thing

  792. but

  793. go to psalm 106

  794. you know think about this

  795. we will not put a serial killer to death

  796. in some states

  797. someone could be a literal serial killer

  798. we will not put them to death

  799. but they can

  800. go into a hospital

  801. and just kill a baby

  802. right

  803. they can go into some clinic

  804. some plan parenthood clinic

  805. and just literally

  806. murder an innocent child

  807. innocent baby

  808. in its womb

  809. that's fine

  810. but we couldn't put a serial killer to death

  811. it's they're not against death

  812. they're not against killing things

  813. it's just like

  814. we don't kill the serial killer

  815. don't kill the rapist

  816. don't kill the murderer

  817. kill unborn children

  818. I mean this is insane the culture that we live in

  819. and again it's a curse

  820. because of the mindset

  821. that's affecting American

  822. infecting Americans

  823. and affecting people

  824. and you know unfortunately

  825. a lot of people are soft on this issue

  826. they're soft on this issue

  827. because they've been lied to

  828. because media and culture

  829. and all these things

  830. have been lying to people

  831. satan is going full time

  832. trying to get everybody to believe

  833. this nonsense

  834. and believe lies

  835. and it's worked

  836. and there's a heart

  837. that's against the things of god

  838. and against the bible

  839. but you know what

  840. you came to a church this morning

  841. where we actually believe the bible

  842. and so we're going to read the bible

  843. that's right

  844. look at Psalm 106

  845. look at verse 136

  846. I'm sorry verse 36

  847. sorry just verse 36

  848. and they served their idols

  849. which were a snare under them

  850. yea they sacrificed their sons

  851. and their daughters onto devils

  852. and shed innocent blood

  853. even the blood of their sons

  854. and of their daughters

  855. whom they sacrificed

  856. on the idols of Canaan

  857. and the land was polluted with blood

  858. thus were they defiled

  859. with their own works

  860. and went a whoring

  861. with their own inventions

  862. therefore was the wrath of the lord

  863. kindled against his people

  864. in so much that he abhorred

  865. his own inheritance

  866. notice there's a

  867. multiplicity of issues here

  868. but one of the issues

  869. is sacrificing their children

  870. to false gods

  871. and you know even today

  872. if you ask many abortion doctors

  873. and many people committing these

  874. atrocities they'll say

  875. yea I'm doing this for satan

  876. and whether they're saying that

  877. ingest or not I don't really care

  878. because they are in a sense

  879. and you know what it's wicked

  880. it's wicked and it's a satanic agenda

  881. and I don't care if you have an idol there

  882. or not

  883. slaughtering a child is wicked

  884. it's evil

  885. it's one of the worst things imaginable

  886. and you know what it makes God mad

  887. it makes God so mad

  888. that he says he's gonna have wrath

  889. against his people

  890. wrath against his people

  891. that's a curse against his people

  892. oh well we're saved

  893. we're Christian

  894. or whatever God would never be mad at us

  895. nope he said did you read the bible

  896. I read it

  897. therefore was the wrath of Lord kindled

  898. against his people

  899. he doesn't say here

  900. that he's mad

  901. at people that are not his

  902. or just the bad people

  903. he said his people

  904. because you know what

  905. God can still get mad at a Christian

  906. God can still get mad at his people

  907. when they're allowing

  908. children to be slaughtered

  909. and killed

  910. or they commit such a grievous sin

  911. God can still be mad at you

  912. and you know I'm not gonna lie to you

  913. people that commit abortion

  914. that made God very angry

  915. now look could someone be forgiven

  916. sure

  917. but at the end of the day

  918. we can't we can't say that

  919. God wasn't mad about it

  920. you know if the children of Israel said

  921. God we're sorry

  922. God we repent

  923. God we're gonna turn away from our idols

  924. and we're gonna turn away from

  925. all this slaughtering of children

  926. and we're gonna go back to the Lord

  927. in many cases he indicates

  928. he would forgive them

  929. heal their land

  930. and fix the issue

  931. but we can't sit here and pretend

  932. that God isn't mad at it

  933. we can't pretend that God isn't gonna

  934. pour out his wrath

  935. on people

  936. that are performing these works

  937. or tolerating these works

  938. accepting these works

  939. Leviticus chapter 20 makes it clear

    Leviticus 20 chapter mention

  940. when people are doing this

  941. and we turn our eye away

  942. then God's gonna hold us guilty as well

  943. and I'm not gonna go for there

  944. for a second time

  945. there's there's too much to be said

  946. but I want to go to

  947. Matthew 24 now

  948. in the New Testament

  949. and I want to give a warning because

  950. you know

  951. what we've been talking about

  952. is a curse on the children of Israel

  953. that I see happening in America as well

  954. so we have

  955. the curse brought up in the law

  956. we see it fulfilled

  957. specifically in 2 Kings chapter 6

    2 Kings 6 chapter mention

  958. where this literally happens

  959. and then of course

  960. I believe it's a prophetic warning

  961. against any nation that would do

  962. similar activities

  963. but it's also warning about the end times

  964. and how we're gonna see

  965. our culture

  966. and the world

  967. basically under the curse of God

  968. and performing a lot of these

  969. evil wicked acts as well

  970. and the Bible warns

  971. that there will be coming a day

  972. when men will be like this

  973. look at Matthew chapter 24

    Matthew 24 chapter mention

  974. and I want to look at

  975. verses 8 through 10

  976. now

  977. we're gonna go back to 2 Kings as well

  978. but I just kind of want to

  979. look at some end times here

  980. look at Matthew 24

  981. look at verse 8

  982. all these are the beginning of sorrows

  983. then shall they deliver you up

  984. to be afflicted

  985. and shall kill you

  986. and you should be hated

  987. of all nations for my namesake

  988. and then shall many be offended

  989. and shall betray one another

  990. and shall hate one another

  991. now

  992. go to Luke 21

  993. we're gonna see a parallel

  994. it tells us that a lot of people

  995. are gonna hate us

  996. or hate the disciples of Christ

  997. now in Luke 21

  998. it gets even more specific about this

  999. look at verse number 16

  1000. Luke 21 verse 16 it says

    Luke 21:16

  1001. and ye shall be betrayed

  1002. both by parents

  1003. and brethren

  1004. and kinsfolk

  1005. and friends

  1006. and some of you

  1007. so they cause we put the death

  1008. and ye shall be hated of all men

  1009. for my namesake

  1010. so we see a curse that's kind of a

  1011. prophecy in the book of Malachi

  1012. about hey when parents

  1013. are turned against their children

  1014. and children are turned against

  1015. their parents

  1016. he's gonna come and curse the earth

  1017. and he wants

  1018. you know John the Baptist

  1019. was supposed to turn the hearts

  1020. of the parents back to the children

  1021. and turn the children's hearts

  1022. back to their parents

  1023. so that God would not curse the land

  1024. but when we have

  1025. just this animosity

  1026. when we have this angst

  1027. between parents and children

  1028. back and forth

  1029. well then God curses a nation

  1030. and curses a country

  1031. and curses the world

  1032. as a result of doing so

  1033. I mean one of the biggest commandments

  1034. in the bible

  1035. is to honor thy father and mother

  1036. and that determines the length of your life

  1037. this is the first commandment

  1038. given a promise

  1039. you know parents

  1040. should love their children

  1041. children should love their parents

  1042. this is natural

  1043. this is normal

  1044. and it's a curse

  1045. when this is not happening

  1046. and the end times is a cursed time

  1047. it's a cursed generation

  1048. it's a cursed group of people

  1049. where you have parents

  1050. rising up against their children

  1051. you have children

  1052. rising up against their parents

  1053. putting them to death

  1054. and you know as a country

  1055. we should see this as a warning sign

  1056. and say hey

  1057. we shouldn't allow this

  1058. we shouldn't tolerate this

  1059. we shouldn't be championing this

  1060. we shouldn't be encouraging this

  1061. we should be speaking against this

  1062. we should try to slow that down

  1063. we should try to prevent that

  1064. in our generation

  1065. but it does

  1066. it is gonna eventually happen

  1067. look at 2nd Timothy chapter 3

  1068. go to 2nd Timothy chapter 3

  1069. and what's interesting is

  1070. we see a destruction of the family

  1071. in the end times

  1072. so we see it in previous generations

  1073. previous examples

  1074. but it's like

  1075. what's interesting is how

  1076. first it's parents against children

  1077. and children against parents

  1078. and then everybody just starts blaming Christians

  1079. it's like everybody just goes against Christians

  1080. and the Bible warns about this

  1081. look at 2nd Timothy chapter 3 verse 1

  1082. also done in the last days

  1083. perilous times shall come

  1084. the word perilous means dangerous

  1085. dangerous

  1086. for men should be lovers of their own selves

  1087. covetous boasters proud blasphemers

  1088. notice this

  1089. disobedient to parents

  1090. and the next word really seems to fit

  1091. unthankful

  1092. you know why a lot of children

  1093. disobey their parents

  1094. they're just very unthankful

  1095. for what their parents have done for them

  1096. changing all their diapers

  1097. feeding them loving them

  1098. clothing them being there for them

  1099. you know how many times does the kids vomit

  1100. and you have to clean it up

  1101. I don't want to clean that up

  1102. I mean just all the heartache

  1103. all the woe all the care

  1104. all the worry

  1105. I mean my wife worries about her kids

  1106. more than I can even think

  1107. she just tells me only the thought

  1108. she has for our kids

  1109. and I'm thinking like

  1110. I haven't even had that many thoughts

  1111. let alone about the kids

  1112. like I don't even think that much

  1113. I mean she cares so much more than I do

  1114. she'll be like all last night

  1115. I had a hard time sleeping

  1116. because I was just thinking about the kids

  1117. and worried about this

  1118. she's like what about you

  1119. and I'm just like

  1120. I just went to sleep

  1121. I don't know I'm just like whatever

  1122. and it's not that I don't love my children

  1123. I'm just trying to say by comparison

  1124. I mean the thoughts and the care

  1125. and the attention and the love

  1126. that my wife has for my kids

  1127. it cannot be matched

  1128. it's normal it's natural

  1129. it's what should be happening

  1130. it's sad and it's grievous

  1131. that children would not appreciate that

  1132. and be unthankful

  1133. for all the love and care and attention

  1134. that parents have for their children

  1135. and even if you didn't have the best parents in the world

  1136. even if your parents weren't the greatest

  1137. even if your parents made mistakes

  1138. look you needed so much care and attention

  1139. for those first few years of your life

  1140. you should just be thankful period

  1141. and it doesn't even matter anything else

  1142. just that alone

  1143. because you wouldn't even be here

  1144. and it gets worse

  1145. it says unholy

  1146. and notice this verse 3

  1147. without natural affection

  1148. and we see that

  1149. we're seeing more of this

  1150. we're seeing an escalation of this

  1151. where women are not having a natural affection

  1152. for children

  1153. for their own children

  1154. but rather have turned against their children

  1155. look at them as a burden

  1156. look at them as a

  1157. as a curse under themselves

  1158. as something holding them back

  1159. and look it's not to say that children

  1160. don't have their hardships

  1161. don't have their difficulties

  1162. because they do

  1163. but that shouldn't be the only way

  1164. you look at something

  1165. you know some people

  1166. would say I love my job

  1167. but that's not because the job isn't work

  1168. it is work

  1169. but they're just appreciative that they have that job

  1170. they're appreciative that they have that work

  1171. and so yeah children are work

  1172. but you know what we shouldn't be looking at it

  1173. like it's just work

  1174. we should be looking at it like it's a blessing

  1175. to get to have that work

  1176. it's a blessing to have that job

  1177. it's a blessing to have that opportunity

  1178. and not having this attitude of like

  1179. ah it's just such a burden

  1180. ah it's just so it's so bad

  1181. you know this is a

  1182. this is the wrong attitude

  1183. and it's showing a lack of natural affection

  1184. which is a warning of the end times

  1185. I want to go back to 2nd Kings chapter 6

  1186. so we've identified a few things

  1187. number one we've identified

  1188. that when women and men

  1189. are turned against their children

  1190. it's a result of God cursing a nation

  1191. and when

  1192. children are being slaughtered

  1193. and there's no justice served

  1194. God is going to pour out his wrath

  1195. and curse on a nation that does so

  1196. and we've seen that in the end times

  1197. that's what it's going to be like

  1198. it's going to be a very difficult

  1199. difficult time to be in

  1200. I don't know how rampant that's going to be

  1201. I don't know how widespread that's going to be

  1202. you know unfortunately we already see it happening

  1203. and escalating

  1204. I mean there's not a lot

  1205. in my mind holding us back

  1206. from even entering into an end time scenario

  1207. I you know I do believe personally

  1208. that we'll probably see another temple being built

  1209. I do think that we'll see animal sacrifices return

  1210. and so personally I don't think that it can happen

  1211. anytime in the next few years at all

  1212. and I'm not even planning that it's going to happen

  1213. in my lifetime

  1214. I plan to live to be 100

  1215. okay

  1216. so I don't want you to get a weird idea

  1217. I grew up in a church

  1218. where I thought the end times are going to happen

  1219. every second

  1220. because that's what the preacher said

  1221. they're like it could happen right now

  1222. there was a guy I saw at a kids conference

  1223. in California

  1224. saying that it was extremely extremely

  1225. extremely extremely likely

  1226. that Jesus was coming back before he finished his sermon

  1227. I mean that

  1228. I mean just why are you striking fear

  1229. into children's hearts like that

  1230. and such an unfounded fear

  1231. and such a lie

  1232. and such a strange idea and concept

  1233. but I remember so many times

  1234. as a child

  1235. praying like

  1236. can I pleasantly get married

  1237. you know I was like

  1238. can you just wait

  1239. because I was just

  1240. I really desired to have a wife

  1241. and have a family

  1242. and I just I really I

  1243. wanted to grow up a little bit

  1244. and to get to be on my own

  1245. and I think especially as I become

  1246. a teenager and stuff

  1247. you have a strong desire

  1248. to be on your own

  1249. and be married

  1250. and have a family of your own

  1251. it's just exciting

  1252. and it is exciting

  1253. it's fun

  1254. and so I just remember just thinking like

  1255. oh man

  1256. it's scary

  1257. and there's always problems in the Middle East

  1258. there's always problems with Israel

  1259. whatever

  1260. and I just thought

  1261. oh the rapture could happen at any second

  1262. it was it was funny

  1263. because there was this one time where

  1264. we were having

  1265. extended family come into town

  1266. it's like my sister and whole

  1267. her family came into town

  1268. and we just have everybody at the house

  1269. and it was just like a huge

  1270. gathering

  1271. family gathering

  1272. and we couldn't find my mom

  1273. and it was weird

  1274. it was like

  1275. why would you not

  1276. like my mom is like

  1277. the the central unit to the family

  1278. she's always cooking

  1279. she's always in the kitchen

  1280. we couldn't find her

  1281. and it's been like hours

  1282. and this is like the weirdest thing like

  1283. you're at a family function

  1284. to not find mom in the middle of a day

  1285. and I just remember some people in our family being like

  1286. did she get raptured

  1287. and all of us are left behind

  1288. I'm just like

  1289. no that's stupid

  1290. you know

  1291. but like they thought

  1292. and she just

  1293. she had just

  1294. taken a plate of food to our neighbor

  1295. who was like an elderly lady

  1296. and the lady had roped her into

  1297. like a several hour long conversation

  1298. and she just felt bad

  1299. and she didn't tell anybody

  1300. so I mean she had just

  1301. I mean we're just like

  1302. did she get kidnapped

  1303. I mean like

  1304. what happened

  1305. because it was just so crazy

  1306. but it was just funny

  1307. that again

  1308. it was it was something that was on our minds like

  1309. did she get raptured

  1310. because you know

  1311. I guess the pre-tribbers

  1312. they just think

  1313. anything could be the rapture

  1314. and they're always scared or whatever

  1315. that's crazy

  1316. okay

  1317. and I don't think that we should live

  1318. on the edge

  1319. of our lives

  1320. like we just think

  1321. that the end is coming

  1322. just every second

  1323. every moment

  1324. but the bible does tell us to watch

  1325. and the bible does say

  1326. hey there's gonna be an escalation

  1327. but I believe

  1328. that when we're in the end times

  1329. we won't be wondering

  1330. okay I don't think

  1331. that we'll be wondering

  1332. or curious

  1333. I think it's gonna be so evident

  1334. we don't even need to ask the question

  1335. okay so don't get so worried

  1336. don't don't

  1337. stop living your life

  1338. live your life okay

  1339. but at the end of the day

  1340. I do also believe that if

  1341. if christians by and large

  1342. just kind of let go

  1343. of christianity

  1344. that we just

  1345. we might as

  1346. this is like

  1347. pressing the accelerator

  1348. on the end times

  1349. or something

  1350. and why would you want to do that

  1351. you know

  1352. we should might as well

  1353. try to stay off the curses

  1354. of god and our nation

  1355. and for your family as well

  1356. but in 2 Kings chapter 6

    2 Kings 6 chapter mention

  1357. we read a little bit here

  1358. look at verse 29 again

  1359. so we boiled my son and did eat him

  1360. and I said on earth on the next day

  1361. give thy son that we may eat him

  1362. and she had hit her son

  1363. and it came to pass when the king

  1364. heard the words of the woman

  1365. that he rent his clothes

  1366. and he passed by upon the wall

  1367. and the people looked and behold

  1368. he had sat cloth within upon his flesh

  1369. now

  1370. his initial reaction sounds great

  1371. because he's he's upset

  1372. he's like I mean

  1373. can you imagine hearing this

  1374. you're the king

  1375. and your your own people

  1376. are eating their children

  1377. I mean just just the sadness

  1378. this is a sad state of affairs

  1379. this is the obvious curse on their nation

  1380. but then look what

  1381. this is his response

  1382. verse 31

  1383. then he said

  1384. God do so and more also to me

  1385. if the head of Elisha

  1386. the son of Shefat

  1387. shall stay on him this day

  1388. what the heck

  1389. a woman says

  1390. I I boiled my son and ate him

  1391. please help me eat someone else's son

  1392. and he's like

  1393. let's kill the preacher

  1394. let's kill a man of God

  1395. how does that even make sense

  1396. it's like

  1397. hey let's go back to the law

  1398. and let's read Deuteronomy 28

  1399. because they had the law

  1400. the king was supposed to even

  1401. write himself a copy of the law

  1402. he could go back and say like

  1403. oh wow God's cursing us

  1404. because we're not obeying him

  1405. maybe we should listen

  1406. to the man of God

  1407. that's been telling us

  1408. to repent as a nation

  1409. and to get right with God as a nation

  1410. but no

  1411. he hardens his heart

  1412. and actually turns against

  1413. the man of God even more

  1414. and you know what's sad

  1415. is you have people

  1416. getting up and condemning Lindsay Clancy

  1417. and condemning premeditated murder

  1418. and you know who they get mad at

  1419. they get mad at the preacher

  1420. not the woman that slaughtered her children

  1421. the man of God that gets up and says

  1422. hey

  1423. this deserves the death penalty

  1424. this deserves punishment

  1425. this is something that should not go unchecked

  1426. and of course one of the

  1427. the platforms

  1428. social media platforms

  1429. that specifically has escalated

  1430. this rhetoric is TikTok

  1431. and I tried to post a video

  1432. on there

  1433. just saying that she deserves the death penalty

  1434. it immediately violated

  1435. their community guidelines

  1436. and they just took it down

  1437. which again is just a reflection

  1438. of what's happening

  1439. in our culture and society

  1440. you say what the bible says

  1441. you're banned

  1442. you go on there

  1443. and you advocate for women

  1444. to follow in footsteps

  1445. of Lindsay Clancy

  1446. you're praised

  1447. and you get all kinds of views

  1448. because there's a satanic agenda

  1449. by the internet

  1450. by social media companies

  1451. by the people that run them

  1452. and yes we all know they wear tiny hats

  1453. I get it

  1454. but I'm just saying

  1455. that yes

  1456. because they're the synagogue of satan

  1457. because they're the ministers of satan

  1458. and a satan's agenda

  1459. to slaughter children

  1460. but isn't it interesting

  1461. they turn against the man of God

  1462. and let me say something

  1463. in the end times

  1464. it's going to be nothing different

  1465. that there'll be a

  1466. a grievous nation

  1467. that are killing their own children

  1468. worshiping idols

  1469. going after false gods

  1470. and christians saying

  1471. hey you shouldn't do that

  1472. and they're going to turn against you

  1473. and they're going to hate you

  1474. and they're going to get mad at you

  1475. for believing the bible

  1476. but you know what

  1477. choose you this day

  1478. whom you're going to serve

  1479. now I do have some good news

  1480. Good Isaiah chapter three

  1481. if you would

  1482. Good Isaiah chapter three

  1483. because you know

  1484. if we can't write this ship

  1485. as a nation

  1486. which is probably not going to happen

  1487. but if we can't

  1488. that doesn't mean

  1489. that you as an individual

  1490. cannot still

  1491. be blessed as an individual

  1492. okay

  1493. and I want to go to Isaiah

  1494. because this is a precursor

  1495. to what happened

  1496. in 2 Kings chapter six

  1497. this is a precursor

  1498. and a warning

  1499. and God's kind of talking about

  1500. the nation already being bad

  1501. and why he's going to end up judging them

  1502. but Isaiah chapter three

  1503. looking verse one

  1504. for behold the Lord

  1505. the Lord of hosts

  1506. that take away from Jerusalem

  1507. and from Judah

  1508. the stay and the staff

  1509. the whole stay of bread

  1510. and the whole stay of water

  1511. so this is like

  1512. talking about famine

  1513. the coming

  1514. the mighty man

  1515. the man of war

  1516. the judge

  1517. and the prophet

  1518. and the prudent

  1519. and the ancient

  1520. the captain of 50

  1521. and the honorable man

  1522. and the counselor

  1523. and the cunning

  1524. artificer

  1525. and the eloquent orator

  1526. he says

  1527. what is this group

  1528. he's saying

  1529. I'm going to take these people away

  1530. okay

  1531. so you're not going to have

  1532. a mighty man ruling your nation

  1533. you're not going to have man of war

  1534. you're not going to have judges

  1535. you're not going to have prophets

  1536. you're not going to have prudent

  1537. you're not going to have ancients

  1538. you're not going to have captain of 50

  1539. you're not going to have honorable men

  1540. you're not going to have counselors

  1541. you're not going to have skilled

  1542. businessmen

  1543. you're not going to have eloquent

  1544. speakers

  1545. Now, again, it's not saying that these people don't exist in society.

  1546. It's saying these people are not the ones in charge.

  1547. These are the ones not ruling.

  1548. These are the ones not having the power.

  1549. Who has the power?

  1550. Verse four, and I will give children to be their princes and babes shall rule.

  1551. So it's like instead of having the strong guy, the smart guy, the hard worker, the

  1552. true businessman, a man of God, a preacher that's in charge of the nation, that's

  1553. ruling the nation.

  1554. You're going to have a child ruling the nation, a child like Nick Fuentes.

  1555. You're going to have a child like Mr.

  1556. Beast. You're going to have children in our nation that are wielding all of this

  1557. power and influence and just making the culture what it is.

  1558. You're not going to have people listening to an actual man of God, to an

  1559. actually person that actually worked hard or earned a living, or is someone

  1560. that you should be looking to, or a smart, wise old man.

  1561. You know, we're not listening to Ron Paul, we're listening to Mr.

  1562. Beast.

  1563. We're not listening to someone that we should be giving respect to.

  1564. It just, it just doesn't exist in our society.

  1565. He says in verse five, and the people shall be oppressed, everyone by another.

  1566. You know, you know what this made me think of?

  1567. And this is my first thought, okay?

  1568. Whether you agree or not, I'm not going to, I'm not trying to piss me

  1569. off, but you know what I thought?

  1570. Is how every single cash register now has a tip option.

  1571. We're just going to press each other, we, we, we can't even serve one

  1572. another without a tip, right?

  1573. It's like the gas station guy, I have to tip him?

  1574. Like what?

  1575. And you know, in times past, they used to pump your gas for you without a tip.

  1576. Now, they do nothing for you behind a glass, you know, plate or whatever,

  1577. and it's smelly and dirty in there.

  1578. And you know, to use the bathroom is like an experience.

  1579. Okay.

  1580. And I have to tip this person?

  1581. Like this is a weird, we're just oppressing one another.

  1582. And everybody's charging usher to everyone.

  1583. And you know, use a credit card.

  1584. It's 3% added on, surcharges.

  1585. You go to, I mean, talk about oppression, just rent a hotel.

  1586. And then look at the thing, it's just like, this tax and this tax

  1587. and this service tax, and you're just like, what the heck?

  1588. It's like, it's $99 a night.

  1589. And then it's like, you get the bill, it's $215.

  1590. Like, what the heck?

  1591. Why?

  1592. Just like all these different taxes and fees.

  1593. You know, every company's being like this right now.

  1594. Every company is just jacking up the fees and the rates

  1595. and the surcharges and the whatever.

  1596. And just we're all just oppressing each other.

  1597. And we're all just ripping each other off.

  1598. And we're all charging usher to everybody.

  1599. And every company is charging usher to everyone.

  1600. And it's just, we're just all just state, just everybody,

  1601. just oppressing every other person.

  1602. Just full of oppression.

  1603. It says, everyone by his neighbor, the child shall behave

  1604. himself proudly against the ancient and the base against the honorable.

  1605. Meaning, kids think they're smarter than their parents.

  1606. Kids think they're better than older people.

  1607. And look, of course, because of technology, this attitude

  1608. has really escalated.

  1609. Kids think because they understand how TikTok works

  1610. or something or Snapchat, that they're so much smarter

  1611. than their parents or something.

  1612. It's like, oh, you don't know how to click and flip

  1613. and switch and whatever on this stupid app.

  1614. And it's like, no.

  1615. And it's like, oh, you're so stupid.

  1616. Let me take an embarrassing photo of myself and send it to my friends

  1617. that's going to haunt me for the rest of my life

  1618. because I'm so much smarter than my parents.

  1619. And it's like, my parents don't even know how to do that.

  1620. My parents don't know how to permanently embarrass themselves

  1621. for all time on this stupid app called Snapchat.

  1622. They're so dumb.

  1623. But you know what they don't realize is there's a great wisdom

  1624. that comes with being older.

  1625. We've been through life circumstances

  1626. that you don't even realize.

  1627. And in many cases, parents are so much smarter than their children

  1628. and they won't realize until they become their parents.

  1629. And they'll be like, wow, my parents were so much smarter

  1630. than I thought.

  1631. So much, they had so much more wisdom than I realized.

  1632. And I was, I had a bad attitude.

  1633. I had a bad spirit.

  1634. But you know what?

  1635. The child should behave himself proudly against the ancient.

  1636. I mean, this is just, this is an example

  1637. of what can happen as a nation.

  1638. And, and of course it's a curse to have children ruling over you.

  1639. But, but not only curse for, for women, or I'm sorry,

  1640. for children, but also women.

  1641. Look at verse 11.

  1642. It says, woe unto the wicked, it shall be ill with him,

  1643. for the ward of his hands shall be given him.

  1644. As for my people, children are the oppressors

  1645. and women rule over them.

  1646. O my people, they which leave thee causly to air

  1647. and destroy the way of thy paths.

  1648. Now, someone might say, oh, you're a sexist for saying,

  1649. having women rulers is a bad thing.

  1650. But I'm just reading what the Bible said.

  1651. God has said that.

  1652. God said, and women rule over them.

  1653. And then it says, what happens?

  1654. They leave thee causly to air and destroy the way of thy paths.

  1655. So he's saying, when you, when you elevate women

  1656. in these positions of authority, then it's going to destroy you.

  1657. Now, let's be honest.

  1658. There's plenty of great women in this world.

  1659. And you know, the Proverbs 31 is talking about a great woman.

  1660. But let's be honest.

  1661. Do you think the woman who's busy having a husband,

  1662. raising a whole bunch of kids and taking care of her household

  1663. is going to the one that's going to elevate

  1664. to the positions of power and authority?

  1665. Or is it going to be the woman that slaughtered all her kids

  1666. or decided not to have kids or whatever?

  1667. That's just a boss babe.

  1668. And so, of course, that's the type of woman

  1669. that usually is in power, a Hillary Clinton,

  1670. some kind of like an Ellen degenerate,

  1671. some kind of a Hollywood actress that gets up and brags

  1672. was Michelle Williams brags about committing abortion

  1673. so she can get an Emmy, some golden statue.

  1674. Oh, we don't have idols.

  1675. People aren't sacrificing their children to idols.

  1676. And the Michelle Williams gets up and says,

  1677. hey, look at this golden idol that I have.

  1678. And the only reason I could even have it

  1679. is because I killed my child.

  1680. We need to be pro-choice and tells that to all of America

  1681. and tells that to millions of young women today.

  1682. How is that any different?

  1683. What's the difference there?

  1684. Some golden man statue that she says she had to

  1685. slaughter her children in order to receive.

  1686. How is it any different?

  1687. It's the same attitude, it's the same spirit

  1688. that we see happening in our culture and it's gross.

  1689. It's gross when you allow women to slaughter their children

  1690. and then elevate themselves into positions of power

  1691. and authority in our nation and they are going to

  1692. lead thee and cause thee to err

  1693. and destroy your country, destroy everything about you.

  1694. I said there was positive news.

  1695. I haven't gotten there, okay?

  1696. It's in this chapter.

  1697. We skipped it, all right?

  1698. Look at verse 10.

  1699. Say ye to the righteous, that it should be well with him.

  1700. For they shall eat the fruit of the doings.

  1701. So this is the positive message of the Sorm Room this morning.

  1702. Hey, as a nation, we need to realize we're under a curse of God.

  1703. We need to realize there is a feminism disease of the mind

  1704. in America right now and is destroying our nation.

  1705. And we should be seeking God as a nation.

  1706. We should be repenting as a nation.

  1707. We should be turning back to the Lord as a nation.

  1708. But even if the nation won't as a whole,

  1709. we as individuals need to do so.

  1710. And if you are righteous, if you repent,

  1711. if you get right with the Lord, well, you know what?

  1712. It can be well with you, even in the midst of destruction.

  1713. Because he's talking about, hey, this is a horrific time

  1714. and there's all these evils and there's children oppressing

  1715. and there's women ruling and there's all this crazy nonsense.

  1716. Say ye to the righteous.

  1717. He doesn't say you're doomed too.

  1718. He says, hey, it'll be well with you because you're going

  1719. to be awarded according to your works.

  1720. So you know what?

  1721. You can still live in Goshen while you're living in the midst

  1722. of a crooked and perverse nation.

  1723. And you know what?

  1724. That should be a positive message because unfortunately

  1725. when I look at America, there's not a lot of positives.

  1726. But here's the positive.

  1727. God's word still works and God can still bless you

  1728. in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation.

  1729. And so you know what?

  1730. You need to, as men and as women and as families,

  1731. we need to observe God's law here.

  1732. Now I have a few charges to the men because unfortunately,

  1733. you know, it's kind of their fault, in a sense,

  1734. of why we're in this situation.

  1735. Go to Proverbs 31.

  1736. And if America were to fix itself, it needs to start with the men.

  1737. And I want to prove this biblically.

  1738. But you know, the Bible says for fathers to not prostitute

  1739. thy daughter, lest it causes the whole land to fall to hoard them.

  1740. And so, you know, one of the things that we need to do as men

  1741. is we need to realize that we're in charge.

  1742. Congratulations, you're in charge.

  1743. Don't give your power and authority to someone else.

  1744. Look at Proverbs 31 and look what it says in verse number three.

  1745. Give not thy strength unto women,

  1746. nor thy ways that was destroyed the kings.

  1747. Did he say, hey, women are in charge?

  1748. Ask them nicely to be put back in charge.

  1749. No, men are already in charge.

  1750. But what he did say is don't give your strength unto them.

  1751. Don't give your power and authority unto them.

  1752. We need to realize we're in control and unfortunately many men

  1753. have decided to give their power and authority to women.

  1754. And we need to not do that.

  1755. I mean, this is a command of the Bible.

  1756. As a man, as a king, as a nation,

  1757. we should not give our strength unto women.

  1758. OK. Now, good.

  1759. If you would have first Timothy chapter two,

  1760. go to first to me chapter two.

  1761. I'm trying to prove these points.

  1762. So if you get offended, you're just offended to the Bible this morning.

  1763. But I'm trying to be honest with you

  1764. that this is what the Bible clearly teaches.

  1765. And men need to not give their strength unto women.

  1766. And what would be that?

  1767. That would be feminism. OK.

  1768. Now, I basically just have three quick points that I'm going to outlay.

  1769. This is what men as Americans and men as individuals need to do.

  1770. But we need to reject feminism.

  1771. And this is I'm talking the attitude, the mentality.

  1772. We need to say, no, we're in charge and we're the men.

  1773. Because what is feminism?

  1774. Feminism is trying to say there should be equality between the sexes.

  1775. And we should say, no,

  1776. men are in charge.

  1777. It's that it's that simple.

  1778. First time in the chapter two, verse 11,

  1779. let the woman learn in silence is all subjection,

  1780. but I suffer not a woman to teach,

  1781. nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

  1782. This is saying we should put feminism in its place

  1783. and make feminism feminine again.

  1784. Hey, you want to be a feminine woman, praise God,

  1785. but you cannot be a man. You're not a man.

  1786. You'll never be a man.

  1787. And so we need men to be in charge.

  1788. We need men to be an authority

  1789. and we need men to not give their strength unto women.

  1790. And one of those ways was the 19th Amendment

  1791. of allowing women to vote.

  1792. And look, I'm not I'm not saying that women couldn't vote correctly

  1793. because I'm sure they can.

  1794. But by and large, when you give women this opportunity,

  1795. you're surping the authority over the man and it's unbiblical.

  1796. OK, this is the first wave of feminism.

  1797. The first wave of feminism is to give them the opportunity

  1798. to vote on property contracts, education, all these different things

  1799. where they're making their own decisions

  1800. apart from what their husband or father wanted.

  1801. And you know what it put them where they're flipping the roll

  1802. and they get to make these decisions for themselves.

  1803. And that is the first wave.

  1804. And let me say this, there are many people that say,

  1805. oh, the first wave is good. I say it's wrong.

  1806. OK, and you know what it really did is it killed marriage.

  1807. The first wave of feminism killed marriage

  1808. because it now no longer put the man in charge.

  1809. It has the woman being able to make whatever decisions she wants.

  1810. The second wave was basically in the 60s and 80s,

  1811. which was my body, my choice,

  1812. which is killing their children through abortion.

  1813. The first wave killed the marriage.

  1814. The second wave killed the children.

  1815. The third wave was DEI, so that killed the workplace.

  1816. The fourth wave I'm seeing right now is Lindsey Clancy,

  1817. which is killing the law.

  1818. And if we get the fifth wave, we'll just kill the nation.

  1819. And we've killed marriage, we've killed children,

  1820. we've killed the workplace, we've killed the law.

  1821. At this point, there's not much left to destroy a nation.

  1822. And we're really close.

  1823. And what we need as men is to say, hey, you know what?

  1824. Before we just let the train go off the tracks,

  1825. before we just let everything get destroyed,

  1826. we need to go back and seek God and seek God's roles in life

  1827. and say, oh, God said to not give our strength under women.

  1828. We need to resume control of our nation.

  1829. And we need to be back in charge and submit to God

  1830. and humbly ask God to forgive us for getting out of control.

  1831. You know, Adam ate of the apple and it was wrong.

  1832. And, you know, I'm not going to prove this,

  1833. but in Numbers chapter 30, I can prove this really clear

    Numbers 30 chapter mention

  1834. in the Bible that if a woman makes a vow,

  1835. and her husband or father says no, then God says no.

  1836. I mean, what more authority do you need?

  1837. And of course, that's what it was like before the first wave of feminism,

  1838. that the husband and the father had a final veto in these affairs

  1839. and that women could not make those decisions without the blessing

  1840. or support of their husband or their father.

  1841. And I believe that is the right way to have a society.

  1842. OK, you can get mad at me all you want,

  1843. but that's what men need to do.

  1844. Men need to not be afraid of women and need to say, hey,

  1845. God put you in this role and we need to exercise our authority

  1846. and I'm not going to give my strength under you.

  1847. The second way you do not give your strength under them is fornication.

  1848. Men in America need to stop committing fornication.

  1849. And it's destroying our society.

  1850. You know, men control all the power and all the wealth and everything.

  1851. If men said, hey, you're not in charge

  1852. and I'm not going to commit fornication with you,

  1853. women would lose their power in this country.

  1854. You know why women yield power in our country?

  1855. Well, number one, we've given the right to vote

  1856. and we've given them positions of authority in our country, literally.

  1857. Then secondly, they yield the fornication power over men.

  1858. It's Samson and Delilah, folks.

  1859. Samson, a strong man, he yielded his strength unto this woman, Delilah.

  1860. And she took advantage of it.

  1861. If he was only going to marry a woman and stay faithful to her

  1862. that loved God, that couldn't even happen.

  1863. But unfortunately, by chasing horrors, by chasing adultery, by chasing these things,

  1864. men give their power unto women and they give them an inordinate amount

  1865. of power and influence.

  1866. I mean, there's a lot of women that don't want to work.

  1867. So what do they do?

  1868. They just sell their bodies online.

  1869. Yeah.

  1870. It's just a button they can press.

  1871. But what if that button was taken away?

  1872. Well, they would figure out the power imbalance, the power struggle,

  1873. the fact that they can't provide for themselves.

  1874. But because men are just giving out their money to horrors right now online,

  1875. which is insane.

  1876. It's literally insane.

  1877. And we're destroying our nation and our country.

  1878. I mean, we should make prostitution and online smut illegal tomorrow.

  1879. And look, it's not that it's not a temptation.

  1880. That's the whole reason we need to shut it down.

  1881. It is a temptation.

  1882. It's like, hey, let's build a huge fortress around this tree in the center

  1883. of the garden so we don't eat it, right?

  1884. It's like, it's not that this isn't a temptation.

  1885. It's not that men, even good men, won't fall for that temptation.

  1886. That's the whole reason we do need to shut it down.

  1887. And we do need to have a moment of sobriety.

  1888. And we do need to say no to that kind of stuff.

  1889. And you know what?

  1890. Men need to stop this.

  1891. Men need to stop giving their power and wealth under hordom,

  1892. under fortification, under adultery.

  1893. We want to sit here and blame Lindsey Clancy for our nation going bad.

  1894. But okay, how about men stop committing so much fortification

  1895. and going after hordom so much?

  1896. How about men stop giving them all this power and authority?

  1897. I mean, it's crazy.

  1898. I have so many verses on this, but you know, for a second time,

  1899. I'm just going to give you my last point.

  1900. Here's the last thing you need to do is you need to not go

  1901. to a church that's feminist, and this would solve our problems.

  1902. If men would say we're going to reject feminism,

  1903. we're not going to allow that in our society anymore.

  1904. It's over.

  1905. No more 19th Amendment, no more power, no more influence.

  1906. None of this stuff, it's gone.

  1907. Number two, they don't commit fortification and adultery.

  1908. They get married to one woman and they're faithful to her.

  1909. And then they decide, hey, we're going to shut

  1910. down every church that's advocating feminist principles.

  1911. We would solve our nation.

  1912. We would fix our nation.

  1913. I'm not saying that this is hyperbole.

  1914. I'm saying this is real.

  1915. If men in America would get more interested in solving

  1916. this feminism problem than football season,

  1917. then whatever nonsense, getting drunk every single night,

  1918. then you know what?

  1919. It's like how many kids have to be killed for the men

  1920. to wake up in our country and to take back control

  1921. of our country.

  1922. I mean, we're being just flooded with all kinds

  1923. of Muslims and all kinds of Hindus and all kinds

  1924. of Catholics and all kinds of false religion.

  1925. And we're allowing all of our politicians

  1926. to be influenced by Judaism.

  1927. I mean, APEC has so much control and power of our country

  1928. and they're the ministers of Satan.

  1929. They're anti-Christ.

  1930. They hate God.

  1931. When will men, when the men of our country wake up

  1932. and say, you know what?

  1933. No, no to feminism, no to fortification.

  1934. And you know what?

  1935. No to these feminist pastors.

  1936. And let's get specific about what that means.

  1937. Any pastor advocating any level of feminism is

  1938. the problem in our country.

  1939. And you know what?

  1940. They're afraid of women.

  1941. That's why they won't say what I just said.

  1942. Or they'll read a verse, but they won't apply it.

  1943. They won't bring the application

  1944. that'll actually make people upset.

  1945. You know, if you're in a church as a man

  1946. that's soft on Lindsey Clancy, you need to leave immediately

  1947. and you're the problem for supporting

  1948. that and funding that.

  1949. You guys want to talk about these non-lenom churches

  1950. having all these women overrepresented.

  1951. But here's the thing.

  1952. They're taking their husband's money

  1953. and giving it to that church.

  1954. That needs to be shut down now.

  1955. Women aren't going to be able to support

  1956. these churches by themselves.

  1957. They need the men.

  1958. You know, if you're in a church

  1959. where they're saying women can just leave their husbands,

  1960. you need to leave that church immediately.

  1961. If you're in a church with a woman pastor,

  1962. you need to leave that church immediately.

  1963. If you're in a church that worships women,

  1964. you need to leave.

  1965. That's called Catholicism because they worship Mary.

  1966. How are you going to resolve feminism

  1967. when you're bowing down to a woman's statue?

  1968. You're not.

  1969. We need...

  1970. Oh, Catholics will save our country.

  1971. We need Catholics.

  1972. No, we need Catholics to convert to Christianity.

  1973. We need Catholics to say,

  1974. hey, I'm not going to worship a woman's statue.

  1975. I'm going to worship the Lord Jesus Christ,

  1976. the man Christ Jesus.

  1977. Hey, if you're going to a church where your authority

  1978. as a husband is being challenged,

  1979. being lessened, you need to leave.

  1980. If you're coming in and you're in browbeat

  1981. and you're being told,

  1982. hey, you need to get this 50-50 partnership

  1983. and this marriage, you need to walk lightly.

  1984. And hey, if you don't treat your wife perfect,

  1985. she can just leave you high and dry.

  1986. You need to just leave that church

  1987. and leave that kind of preaching.

  1988. You should not go to a church

  1989. where you're getting snipped behind the pulpit.

  1990. I don't want a vasectomy

  1991. and I definitely don't want a spiritual vasectomy.

  1992. You know what? You should be the king of your castle.

  1993. You should be going to a church.

  1994. You should praise God there's a church

  1995. that you can actually go to

  1996. where the pastor isn't going to put you in your place

  1997. and put you behind your wife or something

  1998. or try to give your wife power over you

  1999. when that's unbiblical.

  2000. It's satanic. It's feminism.

  2001. If divorce is an option in your church,

  2002. you need to leave.

  2003. I will not go.

  2004. And you know what I've noticed?

  2005. And this is sad.

  2006. There has been a lot of people,

  2007. I could point to multiple people,

  2008. probably more than one handful of people

  2009. that left the new IFB,

  2010. that left the church like ours

  2011. and then very shortly after,

  2012. their wife left them.

  2013. Very shortly after they were divorced.

  2014. I'm not saying just like,

  2015. oh, here's this one random scenario.

  2016. I'm saying it's happened to many.

  2017. And it wasn't even, in some cases,

  2018. it was kind of like, well, it was rocky.

  2019. Okay. But in some cases,

  2020. there wasn't even an indication that it was bad.

  2021. And I'm just telling you, you know what?

  2022. Hey, come into a good church.

  2023. Has its benefits, folks.

  2024. And look, you say, well,

  2025. you're just saying you have to get in.

  2026. I'm not saying that.

  2027. You know what? They usually aren't leaving

  2028. the new IFB to go to a better church.

  2029. They're usually not leaving our church

  2030. to go to a church that's more godly

  2031. or less feminist or something.

  2032. They're usually going into an institution

  2033. that's going to probably advocate for that

  2034. or promote that

  2035. or you get counseling from the pastor

  2036. and they'll just be like, yeah,

  2037. he emotionally abandoned you or something.

  2038. Whatever that means.

  2039. What woman on this planet would say,

  2040. my husband understands every single one

  2041. of my emotional needs perfectly?

  2042. That doesn't even exist.

  2043. Okay.

  2044. Write a book on explaining women's emotions

  2045. and you'll be a billionaire.

  2046. Okay.

  2047. Because none of us can figure it all out.

  2048. Okay. It's just silly.

  2049. If you want an excuse, you can have an excuse.

  2050. But let me explain something to you.

  2051. I don't believe in divorce at all

  2052. and I'll never advocate it.

  2053. I've never promoted it.

  2054. I've never counseled it.

  2055. And look, are there people

  2056. in really awful marriages?

  2057. Sure.

  2058. Are there people in this room that have been divorced?

  2059. Yeah. I'm not going to point them out.

  2060. I'm not going to ask for a raise of hands,

  2061. but it'd be a lot more than you'd be surprised

  2062. by how many people.

  2063. But you know what? Even the divorced people are like,

  2064. hey, that's a good advice.

  2065. Amen. You're right.

  2066. I agree with you.

  2067. I wish I had been in a church that was like that.

  2068. Hey, maybe I'd still be married

  2069. if I was in a church like that.

  2070. Or at least I would have taken my marriage more seriously

  2071. and not married the wrong person.

  2072. Yeah.

  2073. You're right.

  2074. Hey, if you're in a church where women are dressed

  2075. like men, you need to leave.

  2076. Yeah.

  2077. We're not going to solve our problem

  2078. with a bunch of pants, suit wearing,

  2079. Ellen DeGeneres, and Hillary Clinton's.

  2080. Ellen, right.

  2081. And you know what? If you're in a church

  2082. where fornication is allowed,

  2083. you need to leave that church.

  2084. Yeah.

  2085. If fornication is allowed, tolerated, is happening,

  2086. you know what? That is going to corrupt our youth.

  2087. That is going to corrupt the young ones.

  2088. And look, I will take people to task on this issue

  2089. even if I don't even think it's happening.

  2090. But I just feel like I have to address it, okay?

  2091. And I've had uncomfortable conversations with people.

  2092. And look, I will have them.

  2093. Now, do I want to? No.

  2094. Do I like doing it? No.

  2095. But I will confront people on these issues

  2096. and I won't just allow that stuff to go unchecked.

  2097. And I don't want a culture and an attitude of like,

  2098. oh well, Pastor Shelley preaches really hard.

  2099. He's a paper tiger though,

  2100. because we were just doing it.

  2101. He didn't seem to care.

  2102. There was all these red flags

  2103. and he didn't even ask us about it.

  2104. No, no, no, I'll take you to task, buddy.

  2105. Because I don't want to allow it.

  2106. I don't want to tolerate it.

  2107. And you know what? It's destroying our country.

  2108. It's destroying our nation.

  2109. And you know what? God's mad at our country.

  2110. We're seeing women slaughter their children.

  2111. We should be freaking out about this.

  2112. We should be like, what is happening?

  2113. There's women, just thousands of women in marches.

  2114. I mean, do you not have a job?

  2115. Like, what are you doing?

  2116. Where are your kids?

  2117. Where are your sandwiches that you need to be making

  2118. that you've just left to go stand outside

  2119. in some courthouse wearing pink screaming for Lindsey

  2120. as she drives by?

  2121. She doesn't care about you.

  2122. She'd probably kill you too.

  2123. You know what? It's crazy.

  2124. I mean, there's these liberals

  2125. that are like so loving towards Muslims,

  2126. they're sitting over here like,

  2127. I'm going to kill you.

  2128. Like, you know what?

  2129. Like, you're like first on my list.

  2130. Like, you know, if Muslims took control

  2131. of our country right now, you know that kill first,

  2132. probably all the fags and the LGBT that are supporting them.

  2133. Probably all the liberals and the freaks

  2134. that are like their number one fans,

  2135. they'd probably kill them first.

  2136. You know, that's what's crazy.

  2137. It's crazy how sometimes people are literally inviting

  2138. the snake into their own house

  2139. and allowing it to bite them.

  2140. You know what? We need to reject feminism.

  2141. We need to reject fornication.

  2142. We need to reject feminist churches.

  2143. And here's the good news.

  2144. I'm going to say this to the righteous.

  2145. If you as a man say,

  2146. I'm going to reject this feminist mindset

  2147. and I'm not going to tolerate it.

  2148. If you say, I'm not going to allow the fornication

  2149. in an adult tree to happen for me or my children.

  2150. And you say, I'm going to go to a church

  2151. that preaches likewise, it can go well with you.

  2152. Even in a feminist culture, even in a feminist society.

  2153. And I'll be honest,

  2154. it's not that there won't be some casualties,

  2155. but by and large, you know,

  2156. we can write the ship for ourselves at least.

  2157. And there is a glimmer of hope for ourselves.

  2158. And you know what?

  2159. If we set the example,

  2160. maybe others could follow like suit.

  2161. But you know what?

  2162. God's people, when people that are in a church

  2163. like ours won't even take this serious,

  2164. why would we expect the world to take it serious?

  2165. We need to take it serious now.

  2166. And you know what?

  2167. As a young woman, as a married woman

  2168. or whoever you are, as a single lady,

  2169. I don't care who you are.

  2170. You need to just say, you know what?

  2171. God's word is right,

  2172. no matter what my life circumstances.

  2173. To say, well, the pastor doesn't know about my situation.

  2174. Okay, well, God knows about your situation

  2175. and these are God's principles.

  2176. And you know what?

  2177. I can feel empathy for people

  2178. that have gone through bad and hardships,

  2179. but at the end of the day,

  2180. we have to submit to God's word.

  2181. If someone committed abortion or divorce

  2182. or is a feminist or whatever, you know what?

  2183. Hey, change, repent.

  2184. I can still love you, God still loves you,

  2185. but you need to repent, you need to take this serious.

  2186. And we as a nation need to take God's word serious.

  2187. Otherwise we're gonna see even more curses on our nation.

  2188. We're gonna see worse events happening, escalating.

  2189. And at least we need to protect ourselves

  2190. by being righteous for ourselves.

  2191. Let's close in prayer.

  2192. Thank you heavenly father so much for your word.

  2193. Thank you so much for giving us a glimmer of hope

  2194. that if we will take your word seriously

  2195. that we can still have things go well for us.

  2196. I pray that you would help us

  2197. and not be offended by God's word.

  2198. We would not be offended by your instructions.

  2199. We would actually be offended by satanic agendas.

  2200. We'd be offended by children being killed.

  2201. We'd be offended by oppression.

  2202. We'd be offended by fornication and adultery.

  2203. We'd be offended by abortion.

  2204. We'd be offended by liars.

  2205. We'd be offended by men that are just too weak

  2206. and too soft and too cowardly

  2207. to preach what the Bible says.

  2208. They'll be offended at all the curses

  2209. and all the smut and all the foreign invasion

  2210. and all the evil false religion

  2211. and all the idolatry that would be offended by that

  2212. and we would not be offended by God's word.

  2213. I pray that we'd realize that there is a solution.

  2214. I pray if possible you could just stir up men's hearts

  2215. to have repentance towards God

  2216. to care more about the things of God

  2217. than things of this world.

  2218. And that even if our country won't resolve this issue

  2219. at least this church and at least these people

  2220. and they would do so and you would bless them.

  2221. In Jesus name we pray amen.