End Time Adjustments

I'm going to start in 2 Chronicles, chapter 7, and I'm going to sum up basically where we are in this chapter.

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King Solomon had completed the construction of the temple and he had taken time to pray and dedicate the temple, and fire came down from heaven and consumed the sacrifices, and it was a massive sacrifice.

This wasn't just one bowl and a couple of lambs, it was 22,000 bowls and 120,000 sheep.

This was massive.

This was a big deal.

This was the biggest thing that he had ever done, and when he did that, the Holy Spirit filled the temple.

And then there were additional fastings and offerings that continued on beyond that, and they continued to worship for about 22 days.

And after that, king Solomon had a dream where God spoke to him, and so I'm going to pick up in chapter 7, verse 14, and in verse 13 it says when I shut up the heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land or send pestilence among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land.

And so another way to phrase this is when you go wrong, there will be trouble.

When you don't do what's right, there will be trouble.

And God gave him the pattern to get out of that trouble.

And it's easy to sum it up in one word, and it's repent.

And so that's the pattern that God set up for his chosen people, and it works for the Old Testament, it works for the Old Covenant and it works in the New Covenant too, because that speaks to God's character and who he is.

When we repent, he is quick and merciful to respond.

And repent simply means to turn around and go the other way, and so that's still the answer today.

But I wanted to take a look at America and the condition that America is in.

The lines have never been more clear between good and evil, never more in our history than what we experience right now.

And you could say well, what about when we fought a civil war and our nation was truly divided at that time?

Well, that's true, but that war was not fought to destroy the system of governance or to destroy freedom.

It was a war that ended the economic system of slavery.

We're the only nation on this planet that fought a war to get rid of slavery.

Let's not forget that.

And it was a war to fulfill what was written in the Declaration of Independence.

The Declaration of Independence had some words in there and they could only accomplish so much when we were getting started as a nation.

But that war fulfilled the Declaration of Independence.

It says we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

All men are created equal and so not everyone looked at each other in the same way as being unequal.

It says that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.

Our rights come from God.

They don't come from government, they don't come from any person, they come from God.

And then it says among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

And so we all have the same right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

And the result of that war was that people who did not experience that right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness now get to experience those rights and defend those rights today.

This nation was a gift from God, and I believe and pastors said this before but America was in the heart of God before the world began, and yet America is in a very dark place right now.

We didn't get into this condition overnight.

We let demonic powers work in this nation to take God out of government, out of our schools, out of our institutions.

Our schools were now teaching what is perverse as if it were good and what is good as if it were hateful and intolerant.

And we have a media that loves to fan the flame and sensationalize the wickedness.

And we've also got an underground culture that you're just beginning to see, the tip of the iceberg of this evil, dark culture of pedophilia, and it's pervasive.

It's pervasive through much of what we'll call the ruling class in this nation and I believe you're going to see more of that exposed.

But America has been demoralized, and I don't say demoralized in the sense that we've been beaten down and we feel bad about who we are or feel bad about our progress Not that kind of demoralization but we have lost our morals.

Our morals have been taken away.

They've been taken out of practice, and I find that very disturbing, because that is one of the clearly written goals of Marxism is to demoralize.

That's goal number one of Marxism.

The next one is to destabilize, and then there's crisis and then normalization.

So if you want to look at the top goals of Marxism and compare where we're at today.

It's very concerning that we're in the normalization stage.

America has been demoralized.

We are no longer a moral nation when you look at what's being practiced in this land, and it's been destabilized.

Our country is greatly divided and we're experiencing a crisis right now.

Whether it's been fabricated or whether it's a legit crisis, you can look at it either way, but we're in a crisis and so the conditions that we're experiencing now.

There is a work and an effort, and it is demonic to normalize people to these conditions, to get people to consider it to be normal to wear a mask, to get people to consider it to be normal to be distant, to get people to consider it to be normal for their kids to be not in school or to have a much lower standard of learning, and I could go on and on.

But I also want to take time to mention the Black Lives Matter movement, and I'll just start off by saying every life matters.

They're the precious fruit of the earth.

Everyone on this earth matters.

That is the obvious thing.

But to state that Black Lives Matter in this context, they are using that statement to hide who they are and what they're about.

The Black Lives Movement has a declared agenda of the destruction of the nuclear family.

They want to abolish police and prisons and they want to ensure the radical and sustainable redistribution of wealth.

They want to take from the rich and give to the poor so that everyone has the same standard all the way across, regardless of what you did or didn't do to earn it.

They want to retroactively decriminalize and immediately release and expunge the records of anyone who has a drug offense or a prostitution offense.

And then they say if we don't get what we want, we will burn this place down.

Well, I'm telling you tonight take them at their word, because they're doing exactly what they said they would do.

And then also you've got the Islamic leaders around.

You know what's being taught in mosques and what's being taught in Islamic nations, and there was an Islamic leader that recently came out and stated the Black Lives Movement is our cause.

When you've got Jihadists declaring that BLM is their cause, you're starting to see the picture that all of this is connected and all of it is demonic and all of it is evil and America is in a bad place.

And so Christians, in a time like this, tend towards 2 Chronicles 713, where they can prayer that prayer.

But I want to tell you that that prayer, that set of conditions, was an old covenant condition.

Imagine if every single church in America used that model and they just went right down the list.

And if my people okay, we can say I'm Christian, I'm his people, who are called by my name well, I've been called by his name and I'm in his family will humble themselves.

I'll humble myself and pray and seek my face.

Well, I'm happy to do that too and turn from their wicked ways.

Well, I'm not that bad and I don't get it that wrong, but I'm happy to turn around from any mistakes I may have made.

Then I will hear and forgive and heal their land.

Well, that is true.

All of that is true.

In fact, that is the recipe for salvation.

If you repent and confess Jesus as the Son of God, who died and rose again, who took the price, paid the price for our sins, and we receive his forgiveness and we turn around and we seek his face and humble ourselves and chase after God and forget the old, then he will forgive us.

But this thing about healing our land, I want to ask the question what is our covenant?

Because that was an old covenant condition and we're in a new covenant condition today.

So what does our new covenant say about healing our land?

Hebrews, chapter 10,.

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Jesus said that he did this once and for all.

He offered himself once and for all One sacrifice for our sins one time.

And then he sat down at the right hand of Father and he said I'm going to stay here until my enemies become my footstool.

That is, he's not going to be getting up and down, up and down, and I've got to get off this throne and go back down there and handle some stuff, because you people messed it up, so I've got to go fix it again.

Every time you guys call out to my name and you humble yourself and you pray and seek my face and you turn from your wicked ways.

I've got to get down off this throne and come down there and heal your land, and then I'm going to come back up here and sit down again and you're going to mess it up and we're going to keep going through this process over and over.

That is not what he said.

He said I do it once and for all.

I'm going to stay here until my enemies become my footstool.

So I'll ask the question when are his feet?

They're in the body and we are his body and he is the head.

And while he is seated together up there, we are also in a spiritual place, seated together with him in heavenly places.

But we are physically here and we are to occupy until he comes.

And he gave us something to occupy and he gave us authority to occupy with.

He delegated his authority to us to rule and reign in this life.

And there's a mess here because we and I say we, christians and churches alike all through history have not done our job the way he ordained that we should.

You know, we have a covenant with God.

This nation has a covenant with God through the Mayflower Compact, the purpose of those who sailed across and came here to America.

They said in their compact with God, having undertaken for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith, those were the purposes that we covenant with God to start this nation.

And so people read 2 Chronicles, 7.13, and they have the idea that they can say oh God, we repent of all evil in our land.

Now forgive us and heal our land, amen.

Well, did the people who were doing the evil also repent and turn around and seek God, or was it just you trying to speak on their behalf and repent and turn around?

Until the people who are doing the evil in this land repent and turn around, there is no benefit to that prayer for us in this time.

God will not come down and heal this land when there is evil in this land and we are here to occupy until he comes.

And so I want to say, remind you to take a look at what Jesus said about trouble in the end times.

There is a lot of places in the New Testament where he referenced trouble, and I will start with Matthew, chapter 10, where the disciples.

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He sent out the 12 disciples and he started out by calling them to himself and he said he gave them power, exusea, which was his delegated authority.

The Holy Ghost hadn't come down yet.

The Holy Ghost couldn't come until Jesus left.

The promise of the Holy Ghost came when Jesus sat down at the right hand of the Father and completed his task and the Holy Ghost came down to dwell on the inside of each one of us.

But at this point in history, jesus is ready to send his disciples out and he said I give you my delegated authority and I'm expecting you to get out there and cast out devils and to heal all kinds of sickness and disease on the authority alone.

His authority will go a long way.

And so he sent his disciples out, but he warned them that they would experience some trouble.

And he also warned them to go to the house of Israel, to the lost sheep of Israel.

And so he told them that when you go into a place, if they don't receive you, if they don't receive the words that I have given you to speak, if they don't receive that, I want you to wipe the dust off your feet and leave them.

And Jesus said it would be more tolerable for them, for the ones who rejected his word, than it would be for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment of that city.

How can that be?

Well, because the people of Israel were a religious people.

They were people that had a covenant with God and they were responsible for that, but they wouldn't hear the words of Jesus.

Religion got in the way of truth, and so they were on the fence on so many issues between what was good and what was evil, and they were wishy-washy on both sides of all kinds of issues.

They were what I would call lukewarm.

Remember, jesus said in Revelation that he would spew the lukewarm out of his mouth.

He said that I would, that you were either hot or cold, but because you're lukewarm, I will spew you out of my mouth.

And so here it is for the city, for those people who reject his words, who claim to know something, claim to be religious, claim to have a relationship but are unwilling to be a doer of God's word and a speaker of his truth in these times.

They're lukewarm and that's a dangerous place to be.

Jesus warned of persecutions coming.

He said beware, I send men out and they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in the synagogues and you'll be brought before governors and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

But when they deliver you up, don't worry about how or what you should speak, for it will be given you in that hour what you should speak, for you will not speak, but the spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

Thank God for the Holy Ghost.

We are not responsible to make this stuff up.

We're just responsible to be willing, vessels yielded to go and to do and to say, and His word inside us and the Holy Ghost on the inside of us will give us exactly what we should say.

But he said now, brother will deliver up brother to death, and father his child and children will raise up against parents.

This is in the time of Jesus here and it sounds kind of like in time stuff, but this is what His disciples were experiencing at this time and it was a dark time for them.

A little bit later, in that talk with His disciples, he said do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth.

So this is in verse 34.

He said I did not come to bring peace, but I came to bring a sword.

So many people think of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, the sweet Jesus, this kindhearted Jesus who was always getting along with everybody.

He was getting along with the sinners and he was healing people and doing such nice things.

And Jesus is just so nice.

Well, remember the time when he was enraged when they weren't treating His Father's house the way it ought to be treated, when they turned it into a den of thieves, he said, and he took time to fashion a whip while he thought about how he wanted to beat them.

And then he walked in there and kicked over those tables and turned over their money boxes and beat them and ran them out of the temple.

Jesus is not as nice as people make Him out to be.

He has righteous anger and He'll do some things that'll surprise you.

One of those things is that he said I didn't come to bring peace, I came to bring a sword, for I have come to set man against His Father and daughter, against His mother and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and man's enemies will be those of His own household.

And he who loves Father or Mother more than me is not worthy of me.

And he who loves their kids, their daughter or son more than me is not worthy of me.

That's pretty harsh.

God, I love my family.

He said if you love your family more, you're not worthy of me.

You've got to keep your priorities right.

He's at the top of this.

So this doesn't really sound like we have any hope of peace in these times when he's given us such stark warnings.

And he said he came to be so divisive.

Jesus reminded His disciples after he sent out the twelve, he sent out seventy.

And they came back so excited they said Jesus, even the demons are subject to us in your name.

And he said yeah, yeah, I know I was there when Satan fell from heaven and I gave you authority.

He said but don't get so happy about that, just rejoice that your names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

And then he turned around and worshiped the Father and he said oh, father, thank you, you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and you've revealed them to babes.

Oh, the delegated authority of Jesus and what we can do with that.

Jesus said in another place blessed are those who are not offended because of me.

So many people in this world are easily offended.

Everybody's offended, everybody's outraged.

I'm offended, I'm offended at this or that.

And he said blessed are those who are not offended at me.

So I'll ask the question is the opposite true?

Are people cursed who are offended because of Jesus?

Yeah, when you're offended because of Jesus, that brings a curse.

There are more signs of the end times.

His disciples asked Jesus about this.

They said what will be the sign of your coming in the end of the age?

In Matthew 24,.

And Jesus said I will give you a picture of these troubled times.

He said to them take heed that no one deceives you.

If Jesus says take heed, that means pay attention.

Pay attention that no one deceives you If there's a warning that someone could deceive you.

And he said don't be deceived.

Someone might be able to deceive you, but don't let it happen.

He said, for many will come in my name, saying I'm the Christ, and will deceive many, and you will hear wars and rumors of wars.

See that you are not troubled, for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

He said nation it gets worse.

Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there will be famines and pestilences.

Pestilences here is literally diseases.

There will be plagues of disease across the earth.

Does that sound familiar?

Does that sound like a present condition?

He said there'll be earthquakes in various places and all these things are the beginning of sorrows, meaning it gets worse from there.

That's just the start, the tip of the iceberg.

He said they will deliver you up and kill you and you'll be hated by all nations for my name's sake, and many will be offended and betray one another and will hate one another.

Does that sound like a condition that we see in America today, where people are betraying one another and they hate one another?

And they said there'll be many false prophets rise up and deceive many.

And because lawlessness will abound, people have no regard for the law anymore when they're rioting in the streets and taking over people's property and breaking into places and setting things on fire and destroying.

It is lawless.

And yet it was predicted by Jesus right here.

He said and because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.

You know, there's a couple of kinds of love.

There's the emotional love, where you have a love for somebody, you fall in love.

But this is a deliberate love, where you choose to love, and people are choosing the opposite of that right now.

They are choosing not to love.

Their choice to love people has grown cold.

And then it says but he who endures to the end shall be saved.

Second Timothy 3.1 says but in the last days, perilous times shall come.

So you got Jesus warning and then Peter repeating, or Paul repeating the same warning in Second Timothy.

Parallelous times are here right now, and so we've got two things working here.

There's the law of sowing and reaping, which says that whatever you plant, you're gonna reap a harvest.

The nature of that plant takes on the nature of the seed sown.

In Galatians 6.7 it says be not deceived.

God is not mocked Whatsoever.

A man sows, that will he also reap.

For he who sows to the flesh will reap corruption, but he who sows to the spirit will reap life everlasting.

And so people have a choice what to sow.

And they're sowing evil in this time and they're reaping evil.

They sow evil and they reap evil.

And the other thing that we have working here is the law of sin and death.

What is that?

Simply put, it's the result of sin is death.

If people sin, they are separated from God, and the result is death.

It's a spiritual death, a separation from God, and so not everyone is gonna hear the truth.

Yet we're charged to speak the truth and we're charged to do it with love, and our love is also a choice.

But not everyone will hear us.

And so what are we to do with that?

If somebody doesn't hear the truth, are we supposed to keep going after them and just begging and hoping that they hear the truth and understand it?

Do you wanna go out there to these rioters in the streets and just speak the truth and love to them While they destroy your house and business and car and beat you in the street?

No, jesus said to dust the feet off of your shoes, and it will be better for Sodom and Gomorrah than it was for these people.

So do not cast your pearls before swine.

Don't waste your time.

If people don't receive it, don't waste your time.

They immediately become responsible for the truth that they hear, and God is good at getting to harvest.

One sows a seed, another waters and God gets the harvest.

And so you have no idea.

You may have just sown the seed and that's all you're supposed to do.

But don't stick around and keep trying to hammer your point.

Just, it's not a mental argument, but God's word works and he's coming for a harvest, but that harvest did not include the weeds.

You know, john the Baptist warned that Jesus was here and that his winnowing fan was in his hand and he's ready to thoroughly clean the threshing floor and gather his wheat into his barn.

But he's gonna burn up the chaff with an unquenchable fire.

And from that time forward, jesus was preaching one message repent, repent, repent.

For the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

And that was 2,000 years ago.

How much closer are we now?

As believers, we're called to be salt and light, and as it gets darker out there, our light is gonna appear brighter and brighter to those who are in the darkness and those who will see it.

Those who will be drawn to it are gonna be drawn to it and they're gonna come in.

But those who shy away and reject the light are gonna go off into darkness and there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing in teeth.

And that's not my choice, that's their choice, and God said it was gonna be like that.

We're to be salt, we're to be the saver we're to.

Salt is also a cleansing agent, and salt doesn't feel good in the wound, but salt water in a wound will clean a wound, and so not everything we're called to do by God is pleasant for people around us.

We're also called to provoke each other and provoke others to good works, and that word provoke means literally to irritate people to good works.

Not everyone is gonna like us, and so when I think about these terms like this, I think about a flock of sheep, and sheep will kind of pick a leader amongst themselves and they will wander and follow and go off their own way.

And you've got to either have the shepherd out there, but the shepherd can't always keep up with them and so sometimes they use a sheep dog and that sheep dog will run around the sheep and herd the sheep this way and that way and bring them back.

That sheep dog will bark at them and sometimes it'll nip at their heels a little bit and it's not pleasant for the sheep, but it'll save their life, it'll keep them from going in dangerous places, and that sheep dog will also sound the alarm and run predators off.

And so that's what we're called to do as believers.

That's what this church is called to do is to run the devil off, to run the enemy off, and to herd the sheep and to protect them.

But it's not always pleasant when they don't wanna go the right way.

And so if you're uncomfortable with that, the only advice I can give you is get over it and get comfortable with what God called you to do.

He told us to do some stuff, and we better be caught doing it.

We've gotta call things that are evil evil.

We can't call things that are evil not so good.

You gotta call it evil.

Call it like it is.

We cannot win the argument.

When you're arguing with the devil and the devil frames the argument in a particular way and you argue in the terms that he set the premise up.

You've lost it.

You've completely lost it.

Call things that are good, good and evil evil, and don't worry about who it's gonna offend.

The offense is on their side.

You're being salt and light and you're being somebody who runs off evil.

And so call it what it is.

And I know you know the Bible says in the Beatitudes aren't we called to be peacemakers?

Jesus said blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.

And if we run around telling people how evil what it is they're doing and we're just making them upset and being offensive to people, and then they won't like me and I'm not really being a peacemaker, I'm not bringing peace, I'm stirring things up.

Well, I propose that they don't have peace when you do that, because true peace comes when you are whole.

When you have Jesus, you have peace.

Jesus was the peacemaker, he's the prince of peace.

He brought us disciples peace.

He said my peace I leave with you.

My peace I give to you, but it's not the kind of peace that the world gives.

He said I'm gonna give you a different peace.

And so, in the midst of all of this trouble, in the midst of this darkness, don't let your heart be troubled.

In me you're gonna have peace.

In the world you have trouble, but in me you have peace.

And so for those people who will find themselves in Christ, in whatever condition is going on all the way around, you can be completely at peace and ease when you're in Christ, and so we need to help people get there.

But we don't need to help people feel comfortable when they're out there doing evil.

We need to call it what it is.

So I get back to 2nd Chronicles 713, and I don't see any place in our New Testament covenant that tells us that God will heal this land if we repent.

But the evil doers keep on doing the evil.

It's just a matter of sowing and reaping.

They're sowing evil and they're reaping evil.

You know, I looked at a graphic the other day of California and all the wildfires in California and it was very interesting how all the wildfires were very much contained to that end of the country and they didn't go on up into Canada, where people are not rioting, it was just stopped right there.

You know, it was basically the West Coast on up into Washington and Seattle and the western side of the Rockies.

There.

A ridiculous amount of wildfires, not in Canada, not here in Texas and so they're sowing something and they're reaping something there.

Jesus spoke to his disciples and parables and there's a couple of important ones here the parables of the wheat and tares in Matthew 13,.

In verse 24, jesus said the kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in a field.

It was like America when God sowed good seed in this nation.

When people came across here and brought God's word here and they sowed good seed in this nation.

They didn't get everything right all the time, but they sowed some good seed and they honored God and our founding fathers honored God.

But while men slept, his enemy came in and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.

But when the grain had sprouted up and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared and the servants came to the owner and said to him sir, do you not sow seed in your field?

And he said how do we got these tares?

And he said the enemy's come and done this.

And the servant said to him should we go out there and gather them up?

He said no, lest we gather the wheat and the tares, we're gonna damage the root of our crops.

He said let them both grow together and at the end I'm gonna separate them and I'm gonna pull my harvest in and I'm gonna throw the tares into the fire and they will burn, and that's Jesus talking.

And so I liken that to this nation.

Here we started off real good.

We started off we're men honored God, where we had churches that were calling evil evil and good good.

But they were calling it like it is and they were unafraid and unashamed of the gospel and unashamed of the truth and they could speak the truth.

And then, somewhere along the way, while men slept, while churches were lulled to sleep, while Christians just became a little bit more complacent, evil came in and we started losing the things that we held dear in the very beginning.

We started taking God out of the government, out of the schools.

We started, we stopped teaching our kids about God.

We started giving them more freedoms at home and say it's good for our kids to be free and to make more choices for themselves.

They're gonna grow up in this world and they have to live with it.

They ought to grow up and be able to be free to choose who they are, what gender they are, who they wanna marry and when they wanna start doing this.

You know California is working to change the age of consent and let kids make decisions for themselves, and I'll let you understand what that's about.

But that's evil and that's where we are today.

Jesus explained that to his disciples that we let evil in and now we've gotta wait to the end before he gets his harvest.

But he will get his harvest and the sad truth is that those weeds and those tears are gonna be lost forever.

The evil that was sown is gonna be rooted out of here and some people are gonna go with it, but God will get his harvest.

Jesus is not harsh, he is compassionate.

He is compassionate.

In Matthew, chapter nine, jesus was talking.

It says that he went into all the cities and into their synagogues and he taught in their synagogues and he was preaching the gospel of the kingdom and he was healing every manner of sickness and disease amongst the people.

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.

Remember, he went into the synagogues where they should have had a shepherd leading them.

They should have had a spiritual leader providing some leadership and some guidance into truth, and he saw them as scattered and weary as having no shepherd.

And then his answer was he said to his disciples the harvest truly is plenty, but the laborers are few.

And so you look at what we've got today the harvest is plenty and the laborers are few.

So much of the labor force is asleep.

Churches are beginning to wake up.

We're seeing more and more churches rise up.

In this time, the lines that have been drawn, it's as if God has dropped a plum line in this land and people are being forced to make a decision.

Churches are waking up.

Pastors are waking up, some slower than others, but they're waking up and they're realizing the truth of oh my goodness, that on that side is evil.

And so we have got to get on God's side on this.

God has a side on every issue and we've gotta be found on it.

But we have got to pray the Lord of the harvest.

We don't pray to heal our land.

This is what we need to pray.

We pray the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into his harvest, and be careful when you do that, because he's gonna look to you as a laborer to go into his harvest and to bring those people in.

And so, if any of this, if you're easily offended.

If you're bashful and shy and don't wanna be offensive to people, if you just say, well, that's not really me, then you're not a yielded vessel to go into this earth and be that laborer that he's called you to be.

We were born in this time, in this time when the harvest is great, and we were born here for a purpose, and we're here to get this harvest and bring it into God's kingdom.

And so let's pray that Lord, send your laborers into this harvest, and I'm willing to go If you can pray that God can use you.

We cannot negotiate with the evil that's in this world.

We cannot give place to the devil.

We cannot reach across the aisle and work with evil.

And I'll say it right now God is not a Democrat and he is not a Republican.

God is God, but we're being forced to make a decision in this nation right now.

We're coming up into November and we're forced to make a decision between one party or the other, and there is one party platform that is pure demonic and evil, and it is the Democrat Party Platform, and the other party platform of the Republican side honors God and has godly principles in there, and so there is one clear choice, and I'm grateful that there is a side that is taking God's side, and I will be found on that side.

We are called to occupy America until he comes.

We are not to give up on this nation, but we are to occupy the freedom that he gave us.

We're to occupy this land that he gave us.

We're to occupy this system of government that is found nowhere else on this earth and we're to occupy that.

We, the church, are to occupy that, and so some people need to get out of their comfort zone and run for office and take positions in government.

We're to take leadership positions in our community and we're to vote the Bible all the way down.

If anyone really needs to repent, I would say it would be the church at large, because the church went to sleep a long time ago and was lulled to sleep and let this evil come, get sown in our land.

And woe unto us if we're found to be lukewarm.

We cannot be lukewarm.

Revelation, chapters one, two and three, describes seven end time churches, and those churches are described as number one, being loveless.

There's a church that's persecuted.

There's a church that's called compromising, another one corrupt.

There's a dead church, a faithful church and a lukewarm church, and you'll find examples of these churches in the earth today.

And the answer for this trouble that we see in the churches today is to wake up, to repent and to occupy this land.

And we occupy by dispossessing the enemy out of our promised land.

We've let the enemy into this nation and we've got to dispossess the enemy and occupy this land again today.

We've got to do it.

There's no other choice, there's no other way around this.

That is what we have to do.

And so, as I look over the seven types of churches, there were five churches that received a stiff rebuke by Jesus and there were two churches that received some commendations.

And of the two, there was one called the faithful church and it was the church of Philadelphia Philadelphia's in America, by the way.

And in Revelations, chapter three, verse seven I'm gonna read a few lines out of this he says these things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David and who opens and no one shuts and shuts and no one's opens.

I know your works, I see I have set you before an open door and no one can shut it for you.

Have a little strength and have kept my word and have not denied my name.

Indeed, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews and are not, but lie.

Indeed, I will make them come and worship before your feet and to know that I have loved you Because you have kept my command to persevere.

I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world to test those who dwell in the earth.

Behold, I am coming quickly.

Hold fast to what you have that.

No one can take your crown.

He who overcomes.

I will make him a pillar in the temple of God and he shall go out no more.

I will write on him my name of God and the name of the city of God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of the heaven from my God.

I will write on him my new name, that is, the faithful church, and so we have got to judge ourselves individually.

We've got to judge ourselves as a church.

Are we speaking the truth and doing it in love?

Are we unashamed of the gospel?

Are we unafraid to call evil evil and good good?

Are we unafraid to get out there and tell people what's right and what's wrong?

Or are we gonna negotiate with the devil.

Are we gonna reach across the aisle and say I'll give you a little bit of what you want if you give me a little bit of what I want?

There is no case where giving the enemy any part of what they want has a good result.

We should give them nothing.

And we have got to take this land back.

We have got to take churches back.

We have got to wake up churches to the truth that the end is near.

And they've got a choice.

They've got seven choices.

They could fall in any one of these seven categories, but I wanna be found in this last category here, the faithful church where we receive the highest commendation of our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ.

And so calling on God to heal our land is not the answer.

Repenting is always good to turn around, but we have got to put laborers into this harvest to speak his truth.

And so let's shed the fear of being a vessel to God.

Let's just shake that fear off.

God didn't give me a spirit of fear, but one of power, love and a sound mind.

And remember I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me, and I think I heard somebody say except that, no, you can do all things through Christ, who gives you strength, and so let's be the church that we're called to be in these end times and be blessed in doing that.

Well, that's what I have for you tonight.

I hope it wasn't a complete downer.

I don't believe it is.

God's not done with America, he's just not, and we've got a little time left to do this work, and so let's get it done.

Let's be doers of God's word.