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And so pick up your Bibles please.

And my whole point of this is to encourage you but not to patronize you.

Amen.

I mean, we're not gonna to ignore what's going on and hope we don't have to talk about it.

No, we're gonna talk about it, but we're gonna talk about the solution.

So let's lift our Bibles up.

This is the solution to all our problems and all our troubles and all the tumult.

Excuse me, let's say this together.

Let's say Heavenly Father, I've tuned in tonight for the answers of the Word of God.

I look to God's Word and to God's Spirit in all matters of life and I believe God's Word and I listen to God's Spirit, and that is how I have victory in Jesus' name.

Before I get into it, I was just thinking about this church, and I guess one major catastrophe this country went through was 9-11.

And 9-11, 2001,.

I just didn't see it coming.

In his way, he warned me.

I just looked at what he was telling me as a positive rather than a negative, and here this thing happened.

And what was it?

Well, it was God taking his hand of protection off of our nation.

It was partial judgment.

God didn't send those planes into the World Trade Center, but he is our protector.

When we have tragedies like that, we have to ask ourselves what did we do as a nation to open the door?

And that question was not asked at that time.

We were at that time, we were talking about it, we were preaching about it, but nobody else much was.

Everybody was talking about building up bigger and higher and greater, but what happened in that time was a bad recession, economic downturn.

But at the same time, the miracle that allowed us to have this property free and clear came about, and that was the stock market went down.

Anytime the stock market moves, it doesn't have to go up for you to make money.

You can make money when the stock market goes down.

Any market fluctuation has the possibility of a profit, and a businessman made $20 million on the stock market falling.

He shorted the stock market and he gave this church our property free and clear.

So a miracle happened for this church during a very big crisis.

So listen, let's look up for our redemption.

Draweth nine, amen, he's coming soon, all right.

Hebrews, chapter eight, verse one.

I began this Sunday, the present day, ministry of Jesus, and it says here in verse one now the things which we have spoken.

This is the sum.

We have such a high priest, who is set, in other words appointed, on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched in not man, verse six but now he has obtained a more excellent ministry.

By how much more?

How much?

Also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

So we've started this discussion about what Jesus is doing right now.

We know he died on the cross, he gave his life for us, but he was risen from the dead and he is alive now and he's not just sitting there.

He has got a specific ministry and he has five different things that he fulfills.

First of all, he's the high priest of our profession.

We find that over here in Hebrews, chapter three.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider, put your mind down on, focus on, lock in on the high priest and the apostle and high priest of our professional, our confessional.

What we say, he backs up what we say, and so that's his number one.

That's what he does.

And number two we've read about the mediator.

That is a go between A mediator has his hand on one party and a hand on.

For instance, if you've ever been in a legal position, maybe you've got a controversy with a business, maybe they cheated you and you signed a contract, said you can't sue them, you have to go to mediation.

You get a mediator which is an attorney, and so the attorney puts his hand on you and the attorney puts his hand on the company and so it's not, and so he hears your side and hears their side and then he judges.

So it avoids a whole lot of legal fees, avoids having a judge get involved and you've agreed to it ahead of time.

So that's what a mediator Jesus is the mediator between God and man, and then he is also an intercessor.

I mean he ever lives to make intercession for us and advocate.

He's like the family attorney, and then he is Lord and head of the church.

And so tonight we talked about the high priest on Sunday and I won't go back over all of those points, but it's very important for you to understand that a high priest administers, executes, implements and carries into effect what we say.

And of course, what we say has to come from God, in other words, when we agree with God's word or when we agree with God telling us about what his perspective is, about the election, for instance, or about the country, and so when we speak about that, then God Jesus is going to carry it into effect.

So today I wanted to talk about Christ the intercessor and the advocate.

There's two separate things, but they're very similar, they work hand and glove, and so I wanted to get into that, because I believe it has something to do with what we're facing in our nation the church and the nation facing things.

And so let's look at Hebrews, chapter seven, verse 25.

And then first John two.

While you're out flipping through your Bible, get first John, chapter two, and we will start with Hebrews seven, 25.

Wherefore he is able that's all about Jesus.

He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth, to make intercession for them.

And so that word save there let's not get just limited to going to heaven.

It's true of that.

When we pray for people down on earth, jesus is praying for them in heaven.

He wants people to come to him, come to God through him.

He wants to save them.

But the words save there is the Greek word sotoe, which carries with it the idea of preservation, soundness, healing, provision and safety.

So all of those enter into that Word save.

And how do we access that?

We come unto God through Jesus, and he is the intercessor.

He is again very much like a mediator.

Jesus is standing between, just like he did on the cross.

The cross bridged the gap between sinful man and holy God, and now that he's at the right hand he does the same thing.

He takes up the hedge or the gap between man and God.

Man has done something and he needs help to get his standing with God and Jesus as the intercessor All right.

And then 1 John, chapter 2, let's look into the Bible.

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Praise God.

It's the answer to everything we're facing.

1 John, 2, verse 1.

1 John 2:1

My little children, these things right under you that you sin not.

And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father.

And who is it?

Jesus Christ, the righteous, and he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Think about that.

He is the propitiation.

He's the mercy seat for the sins of the whole world, not just for people that have it all together.

He's the mercy seat for people in black lives matter.

He's the mercy seat for Joe Biden.

He's the mercy seat for all these people that are doing this evil, and all they've got to do is do what?

Well, they've got to turn to him, amen.

And so Jesus is praying for him.

I got amazed at a testimony one time of a very prominent businessman.

He had a number of bakeries, he was a high up in the full gospel businessmen and he was on the board of deacons of his church and he was unsaved.

He didn't know God and his wife was a wonderful prayer warrior.

So he went to church one Sunday and I mean the man was a I won't go into all of his sins, but I mean he was a rough customer.

I mean his wife's blessed her heart, you know.

She knew what she had married.

She got saved after they got married, but he didn't get saved and he kept living that sinful life and she just prayed for him.

So here they have a church service and the preacher's up there preaching and he's not even.

He's not talking specifically about that man, but everything he said that man had committed.

He started talking about this sin and that sin and adultery, and this, that and the other, and that guy became convinced and it was really the conviction of the Holy Spirit is what it was.

Because his wife had been praying for him, interceding for him, and Jesus had been interceding for him.

And he got under conviction.

But he got angry at the preacher and she said I know what's going on here.

She has spilled her guts to the preacher and he's up there gunning for me.

I'm not gonna sit here and take, you know, build rich guy proudful.

You know he didn't like being his sins being drugged out.

He thought everybody knew that the preacher was talking about him.

See, that's what the Holy Ghost can do.

And he said I heard him give these testimonies.

He said I got up and I strolled right out of the church and I got to the front door.

I went through bang, I rampant through the front door.

I got my foot, hit the first step and he said I heard this loud voice.

He said, and he called him by name, which I can't remember his name now he said if you take another step, I'm through with you forever.

I mean, we don't have endless chances.

And that man, I mean he melted.

He knew it was God's voice.

He turned around and there was nobody standing there.

It was God talking audibly to him.

If you take one more step, I am through with you forever.

See, we don't have endless, we don't have that.

I tell you.

There comes a time when you have to fish or cut bait.

There's a reason I'm saying all these things, because it applies to America, the nation.

So he turned around meekly and he said you know, I fell to my knees and he said all the strength left my body and I couldn't even crawl.

I had to wiggle like a snake on my belly up the middle aisle of that church and every eye in the church was on him and he wiggled and he wiggled.

It took him forever.

He's sweating, he's just, you know, and that's the day he got gloriously saved.

Ha ha, ha, ha, ha ha.

But oh, I tell you, christ, the inaccessor and the advocate, praise God.

And so we need, you know, we need an inaccessor and an advocate.

Why?

Because we live in a world filled with demon powers.

We're not of the world, but we're in it.

We're tempted constantly, and our flesh, I mean.

I was tempted today, I'm tempted, to get so angry at these people.

They just are boundless in their energy to do wrong, and you get, you know, you want to, ah, you want to.

You know you want to hit them over the head, but no, you got to pray.

We got to pray and not resort to violence.

And so, and we live in a body of flesh and that flesh gets, you know, inflamed.

But Jesus is merciful and faithful.

He's the mercy, he's the propitiation.

The blood has been shed for us.

We have access to be cleansed.

First, john 1, 9,.

If any man sin right above that, a couple of verses above the ones we just read if any man sin, it says if we confess our sin, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and cleans us of all unrighteousness.

And so we don't have to live in sin, we don't have to live in the wrong.

We can get rid of it.

Why?

Because Jesus is our advocate.

He's there as soon as we confess the sin.

Notice, you got to say it out loud oh Jesus, I did that, I failed to walk in love with my brother.

I did this, I did that, I missed it.

Oh, I'm sorry, forgive me.

And then, that instant, we don't have to have penance, we don't have to go on a 40 day fast, we don't have to, you know, complete a novena to marry.

We don't have to do all that religious stuff.

We just do what the Bible says, and then we say I believe I received my forgiveness and my cleansing, thank you Lord.

And then we don't bring it up again.

We're free and see, that's what we have with Jesus, and he himself is praying for us.

He knows we need help and he's our family lawyer.

I mean, you know, he's up there, and when we confess our sin, he's right there by the father.

Father, my blood is right here in the mercy seat, right here.

And so he, you know, and the father forgives, and that's why we have to forgive others that have wronged us, because we've been forgiven a thousand times, a thousand times, you know.

And so intercessor and advocate, and of course the high priest is entered in there too, and then really so is the mediator.

Intercession and mediation are kind of very kin.

They're very similar.

It's that picture of one person with their hand on a person that's needy and the hand on God, and the advocates the same way, the media, all of that comes together.

They have those shades of differences, but that's what Jesus is doing right now.

So let's look a little bit more in more detail about what happens when a believer sins.

First, john, chapter three, because a lot of people are all fouled up.

They let the devil accuse them for weeks and months and days after they've already confessed their sin.

They're still thinking about it and they're what we call sin conscious.

If you're a sin conscious, you're not gonna it's gonna hurt your faith.

You're saying to God that his word isn't true.

You're saying to God that you've got to do something besides trust God and see that's really pride.

If you really get right down to it.

That's just pride, is what that is.

You wanna be deserving and see that's not ever gonna happen, because we'll never be deserving of what we have.

All we have to do is just receive it, because Jesus got it for us.

Amen, he got it for us.

So first John, chapter three, verse 19.

We love him because he first loved us.

If a man say I love God and hate if it's brother, he's a liar.

For he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

And this commandment have we from him that he who loveth God loveth his brother also.

And so when we violate the law, we have all these ideas of the terrible things that God is insulted by.

But really, the simple law of love is the only commandment we have and we know the instant that we violated.

Why do we know?

Because our spirit does never agree with it.

Our spirit is righteous before God.

Our spirit never has sinned.

Once we got saved, our spirit never sinned what?

No, it never did.

It never agreed.

Your flesh or your mind agreed together and they voted and they did something wrong.

They walked outside the bounds of love, they gossiped about somebody, they got mad at somebody and didn't go back and make it right, so forth and so on.

But your spirit never agrees with it and you know your conscience is hurt and you know that a minute, that that happens.

And so in Hebrews 10, 22, talking about what happens when a Christian sins, it says let us draw near verse 22.

Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from a evil the King James says it really means from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

So if you're like me and you miss it, you commit a sin and your conscience hurts you and you go to God right now and you confess it, you ask God to forgive you and you believe you receive it.

Thank you, lord.

And then, later on, the thought of you doing that comes up.

And now you've got this guilty conscience again.

Well, don't live with that guilty conscience.

Then start speaking this verse right here oh Father, I thank you that my heart, I have my heart sprinkled with the blood of Jesus.

That delivers me from this guilty conscience.

I refuse to have a guilty conscience.

All everything is under the blood and I'm restored to full fellowship, hallelujah.

So you've got to answer these things with your confession, and then Jesus, the high priest, and Jesus the inaccessory, and all of these things start working together.

You're advocate, all of them work together.

So All we have to do is admit that we've sinned that's all we have to do and confess it.

And he's faithful and just.

It's all about God being faithful and just.

And so here in John 14, why are we going through this pastor?

I've heard this before.

Well, because you need to get the comparison between what's going on with you as a Christian and what's going on with the church, and there's a difference between that and what's going on with the nation.

Because the nation has sinned.

We're going to get into that, but let's, let's, let's look at the way out here.

John 14, 16,.

Jesus said I will pray the Father and he will give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever.

So he, so Jesus, has been praying for us and he's our advocate.

But now we're going to have an advocate living on the inside.

Amen.

So we, whenever we've sinned and missed the mark, our fellowship is restored, sins are gone.

There's, and you've got, you've got to stand firm on that.

You can't allow a guilty conscience to rob you of the faith you need.

If your faith, if your heart condemns you, then you can't have faith to trust God for your prayers to be answered.

Amen, so you've got to get rid of that.

I believe I received my forgiveness and cleansing in the name of Jesus.

I, whenever I confess my sin, I always follow it up with that confession and Jesus, the high priest, backs it up and carries it into effect.

And the devil knows better than to try to make me feel guilty, but but occasionally, you know, he'll try to make me feel guilty about something I did yesterday, the day, the day before that.

Well, I'm not going to accept it, because that's under the blood.

We learn to be strong in these things, and so, hebrews, chapter four, we need to receive the present day ministry of Jesus.

You need to come.

You know, when you do wrong, don't run from God, run to Him.

Hebrews, chapter four, is wonderful, I tell you.

When I first got saved and Brother Osteen was teaching on these things, it just revolutionized my life.

You know, I grew up Catholic.

We had to go to confession was one of the things I hated to do.

I hated going to confession and confessing my sins to some person behind the veil there, and but that's not what we have to do as Christians at all.

We just need to confess our sins to God.

Hebrews, chapter four, verse 14, seeing, then, that we have a great high priest and don't we?

Don't?

We have a great high priest that has passed into the heavens, jesus, the Son of God.

Let us hold fast our profession or our confession.

See, that tells me that it's easy for us to let it slip.

It's easy for us to say the wrong thing.

Oh, oh, no, oh.

I'm remembering what I did a couple of days ago.

Oh God, forgive me.

Oh, please forgive me.

I was watching the Patriot.

Have you ever watched that, that Patriot?

It's about the Revolutionary War and the main character.

I think he's Catholic, but anyway, during the French and Indian War he had massacred a bunch of Indian soldiers because they had massacred some of his army friends, and he was telling his son he says not a day go by that I don't beg God to forgive me for that terrible thing.

Well, yeah, that's silly, you don't have to do that.

You do it one time.

You mean murder?

Yeah, well, it was war and he went overboard.

He went past the mark, I guess.

But even so, you don't have to ask God over and over.

See, you've got a whole faster profession of faith, without wavering Verse 15, for we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities but was in all points tempted, like as we are, yet without sin.

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find the grace to help in time of need.

Say go to God, run to God.

Well, pastor, I'm glad to hear all that.

I've heard it before.

Well, I know it's just going to be water your faith and help you to clean up some things that may be little habits that you get into, and so forth and so on.

But the main reason I want to share it tonight is because America has got sins that are hanging on.

They haven't been repented of.

They've been going on and on and on and on.

I just think about how many million babies have been killed and there's been no repentance, there's been no change of policy, there's been no recognition by the official government of the United States and of course, we know through our Constitution, what about that government?

Well, that government is of the people, by the people.

Well, pastor, I've never voted for a pro-choice guy.

I know you haven't and I haven't either, but we are in this country and so therefore, we have to help our country and pray for our country correctly.

And it's a different situation with a country than it is or a nation than it is with you and I.

And there's a difference between the covenant that God has with America and the covenant that God has with the church.

Our covenant is a better covenant.

Better than what?

Better than Israel, better than Israel's covenant.

And I was talking the other day about this and I think I was talking to my staff and I said you know, the problem with America is that the founders patterned it after Israel and they cut the covenant with God and promised him that we would be formed to the glory of God and for the furtherance of the gospel.

And early on that's pretty much what happened.

It's got a lot of blood on its hand, it had slavery, it had imperfections, but America has been so blessed in its history and but not because we've always been right in our behavior we have some national sins that are there that have an F and so, hey, you know, slavery was repented of.

As a nation we fought a war and 60s, 600 or 700,000 people died.

I would think God counted that to our account and cleansed the nation of that sin.

What do you mean?

Cleansed the nation?

How does a nation sin?

Well, let's look at some things about that.

I was coming across Deuteronomy.

I was in my normal reading.

Let's look at Deuteronomy 18.

And I won't bore you with all the kinds of sin that 18 talks about.

It's pretty gross, to be honest with you.

I don't.

I read it but I don't like to preach necessarily about it.

But the Canaanites, where the Promised Land was in Deuteronomy 18, they had sin.

They had practices that they practiced on a regular basis.

One of those practices was worshiping idols and part of that worship was to make their children walk through fire as a sacrifice to those demon gods and they were bowing down to man-made idols.

I mean, they had to know that's not God, something they whittled out of a stick, something that they carved out of stone.

They know that that's not God and yet they bow down to it as if it is.

So they're not stupid people.

They had enlightenment in a lot of things, so they did it willfully, and so God said here in Deuteronomy 18,.

He said to them don't practice what the inhabitants of the land did, lest the land vomit them out.

So it talked about the land vomiting them out because of the abominations that they practiced, and then later on and down in the, it says it spewed them out, that the land would spew them out based on the abominations that they practiced.

I just ask a question could it be that the land of America is trying to tell its inhabitants something Because we've been invaded by China?

China has come into our country and they have bought a significant amount of political power.

They've paid off, or else they have blackmailed a lot of our political leaders.

They're dirty as they can be.

This has all come out in the last few years.

God is showing us the evil.

Right now, let's not act like he's not.

Let's know that that sin, that sin is there, and then you've got, of course, you've got abortion.

We already know that All kinds of sexual sins that were practiced in the land, in the Canaan land, most of it having to do with their rights that they would practice with their worship of false gods.

And so all right.

Leviticus 18, not Deuteronomy Leviticus, it says defile not verse 24, defile not yourselves in any of these things, for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you, and the land is defiled.

Therefore, I do visit the iniquity there of appointed, and the land itself vomited out her inhabitants.

So, keep my statutes and judgments.

Well, that's what the founders said they would do.

They said they would glorify God in their government.

They are early government man.

We have a tremendous Judeo-Christian tradition in our early founding fathers and today they're trying to completely rewrite history and say that they were slave owners and slavery.

They love slavery.

Some of them did have slaves, but that was slavery, was in all of the world at that time and still is in a much of the world today, and that doesn't make it right, but it doesn't make it unusual.

And so, anyway, it says for all these abominations have the men of the land done which were before you, and the land is defiled, that the land spew not you out, also, when you defiled it, as it spewed out the nations that before you.

So listen, we can't be spewed.

As a Christian, I don't have anything that's spewing me out of my land.

Because, why?

Because when I confess my sin, it's cleanse.

I'm telling you, god forgot about it.

There's nothing, there's no more left.

It's been wiped out, wiped away, washed away by the blood.

But that's not true of the sins of nations.

Oh, pastor, what do you mean?

Well, let's look at another example, genesis 15.

God is talking to Abraham, and Abraham had just cut, you know, slew, the bullet on behalf of God.

God cut the covenant with Abraham.

He said get me a heifer and divide it into, and then some birds and all of that.

And so he did that and he walked in the midst of all that blood and God came down and consumed the sacrifice and he swore to Abraham, and then it says he said under Abraham, verse 13,.

He said under Abraham, no, of a surety that your seed, see, that's the Jews, shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, that's Egypt, and shall serve them.

And they shall afflict them 400 years.

And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge.

And afterwards shall they come out with great substance.

And you shall go to your fathers in peace.

You shall be buried in a good old age verse 16, but in the fourth generation they shall come here again, for the iniquity of the Emirates is not yet full.

The iniquity of the Emirates is not yet full.

So two things had to happen in order for the children of Israel to be delivered.

First of all, there had to be a big enough sin against his people that he would judge Egypt by removing their slaves.

I mean, they lost a bunch of wealth when the slaves walked out.

Plus they lost the firstborn of all, the firstborn of men and beast, plus all the plagues.

They were hurt in every way because of their persecution.

So God judged Egypt, but before he could bring them into the promised land, the all of the heights, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Jebusites, all the heights, all of them, it says the iniquity was not yet full.

What do we mean?

Well, sin fills a cup.

That cup was not yet full.

Are you with me now.

I was reading this years ago.

But in Revelation, verse 15, it talks about verse seven, and one of the four beasts gave, under the seven angels, seven golden vials, or seven golden cups full of the wrath of God.

So sin must be judged, sin has to have a sacrifice, sin must be dealt with.

In our case, as a Christian, the blood of Jesus is washed as clean.

All we have to do is admit what we've done.

It's gone.

But in an area of nations, their sin fills a cup and at some point, when it's full, that cup is poured out.

In the book of Revelation, a bunch of those cups, seven of those big cups.

They're not little cups, they're big cups and they're full of the wrath of God.

Why is God mad?

Because of the sin that has not been repented of, and in fact it talks about in the book of Revelation, men would gnaw their tongues for pain, and yet they would not repent of the uncleanness and the sin that they had committed.

They refused to repent.

And so, pastor, why are we talking about?

Well, we need to know how to pray for our nation going forward, we're gonna have to keep praying for our nation interceding.

Our Jesus is interceding.

He's a mediator between God and all men, not just the church.

He wants America.

He wants America, the ones that aren't saved, to come to Jesus.

He wants the Christians that are not really living up to their godly purpose to come up higher.

He wants them to wake up and start doing what they should do.

I mean, god is not against us, he's for us.

But there's something that's standing between many of these people and God, and that's the sin that has not been repented of.

Abortion, all of the different LGBTQ, all of that stuff is filling cups, and those things, those things have to be dealt with.

So how do we pray for?

How do we pray?

Well, let's go before God and plead the cause, because they're.

You know, any nation is saved by its works.

You know the Bible talks about the sheep nations and the goat nations, and so America's no different.

They will be saved by their good works, especially the good works toward Israel.

And so when we let's look at Isaiah 43.

Been going a while, are y'all still with me?

I hope you're still watching.

I know you are.

Isaiah 43, y'all are so hungry for the Word and after today, I mean you know it'd be good.

You know we're not giving up.

Hey, we're just in.

We're in this battle, you know, for our nation and God's not finished with her.

And I just believe that if we'll pray correctly and God will begin to move.

Isaiah 43, verse 25, I, even I, am he that blotted out thy transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 43:25

Put me in remembrance.

Let us plead together.

Declare thou that thou mayest be justified.

Now, that word plead there means of.

It means a judicial action like pleading guilty, pleading innocent, inter-a plea.

You know that's what it means before a judge, and God is the judge.

America has sinned in front of the judge.

This sin, over decades of abortion, has filled a cup.

Decades of bad treatment toward Israel has filled a cup.

Decades of not holding marriage in high esteem and now redefining marriage and so forth and so on.

There are just so many things that God is filling that cup up.

And difficulties.

Judgment is being poured out in the form of difficulties, tumult, you know, division, and at the same time, god is just showing you where the evil is and where the good is.

I think about the two candidates that ran for Georgia last night.

I know they cheated, but a whole bunch of Georgians voted for two horrible individuals.

I mean they're horrible people.

I mean they're horrible people.

They believe horrible things and they're going to do nothing but bring down wrath upon Georgia and upon America, if they indeed are seated I think you know it's it still hasn't happened.

So maybe you know God didn't finish.

We just have to pray.

So what do we do?

We need to plead America's case.

He said come and plead.

He said come and let us declare.

Now that I may be justified, what I've been doing is I've been, I've been pleading America's case.

I've been saying God, you know all the good things that we've done.

We have set more people free in this world.

We have, we have shed our blood for the on behalf of Europe, on behalf of all kind of countries, that we've gone over every kind of disaster and we are always the first one there, the most money, the most help to rescue people out of floods and earthquakes and cyclones and tsunamis, you name it.

And this, this nation, has been a gift to the rest of the world.

So you know, we need to put him in remembrance, we need to let it since since now see, we're not saved that way, we're not trying to tip the scales of justice one way or the other.

No, that that's not for Christians.

We're not saved like that.

We're saved by faith, by grace, through faith.

But nations are saved by preponderance of their works good works.

And so we need to plead America's case with God, and I believe God will hear us.

He wants to hear us, but he wants an intercessor, and I believe we have a unique opportunity right now to get in the middle of a dysfunctional, messed up country, america.

It's been so good for so long and now it just seems like in the last four years we've just almost fallen apart.

Well, we're not all the way there.

Let's get in the middle of it.

Let's get on, let's get in between this dysfunctional wickedness that's going on in our nation, the lying let's call it out.

And then, at the same time, let's plead the case of the good things that have happened and there are good people running for office that there had been, the election was stolen and so forth.

Let's just cry out to God and I believe God will hear us.

God wants to hear, god wants to intervene on behalf of this great nation.

It's still a great nation, even though there's a lot of wrong with it.

It's still a great nation.

People have come and they're trying to steal and I think we can make a case for God to intervene, amen.

So let's remember God's mercy, habakkuk 3-2.

This is one of prayer I pray a lot.

Oh God in wrath, remember mercy In wrath, remember mercy.

Habakkuk 3-2.

So there's a lot of wonderful scriptures we can pray over our nation.

Let's not quit praying for our nation.

Let's not quit praying for the church to wake up and occupy its place of authority.

Amen, the present day ministry of Jesus.

All right, I hope and I trust that you got something out of that and strengthen you and your days ahead.

We're just we're.

You know.

The only way that we lose is if we quit, and I don't plan on quitting, amen.