He is Mine Forever (09.15.2024)

I did

want to mention again, it was in the

announcement,

but General Flynn is going to be with

us this weekend. I'm very excited about that.

This is this is,

very important subject,

human trafficking, child trafficking specifically,

exploitation of children.

The United States is the number one nation

in the entire world

for human trafficking.

This is sad. It's disgusting.

We have

so many resources, and this is what we

use them for.

It's horrible. And so,

and, by the way, the State of Colorado

is one of the top states in the

entire United States for human trafficking, too. Now,

part of that is because

we have made it easier for human trafficking

in the State of Colorado than most other

States. We pass laws constantly

that,

that make it easy for pedophiles to get

away with what they do. We take away,

penalties

for this. We take away penalties for,

the traffickers. We take away penalties for those

that are buying the children.

This is constantly what we do in the

United States.

And, it's it's sad, but it's it's reality

that Colorado leads the way in this subject.

And now, some states I need to be

fair. Some states are good about,

putting laws in place for this and to

to restrict this, but Colorado is is one

of the worst.

We made we've made that clear, and I

see this constantly, constantly

in the laws that are passed in Colorado.

Any time we try to bring up something

that would,

hinder pedophiles, hinder trafficking,

the Democrats shoot it down

100%

unanimously,

every single time.

It's,

it's horrible. And so

join us. If you can only be at

1 of the 2 days, do that. This

is going to be very beneficial, very educational.

You do have to sign up and there

is a charge.

I forget right offhand what the charge is,

but you go to the website, you can

go to events, the church website, go to

events, and go down, and under there will

be, General Flynn's,

thing. So

so hope to see you Friday, Saturday with

this.

So so, this morning, I I want to,

this is gonna be a little challenging for

us, I think.

Hopefully, it's convicting, but not just convicting, but

to the point where

it causes

a change of action, it causes something

to happen, okay?

I think that's a necessary, important part of

the process.

But but looking at where our country is,

and I wanna I wanna say give some

disclaimers for us before I jump into this.

It is

it is,

I think it's at a good place where

the country has come to, We're not there

yet. But where the church is starting to

wake up, we're starting to see,

Christians that are saying, wait a second, what

has been happening? Our country has got away

from us and we weren't paying attention.

Waking

up. And I think one of the most

important things that has contributed to this was

something, you know, it's kind of the the

scripture that says that what

Satan meant for evil, God meant for good,

is the

what Satan meant for evil, God meant for

good,

is the is the whole COVID

scam that was pulled on America.

What happened is kids started staying home, parents

started seeing

them do their work and those kind of

things, and they started realizing

that that, there's some there's some really bad

stuff going on in the schools. Not all

teachers, obviously. We have we have great teachers

in our city, we have great teachers in

our church, but that's not the norm nowadays,

okay?

And parents started to realize there's a lot

of a lot of bad stuff that's being

taught and being pushed through our school systems.

That was kind of the beginning. And part

of the reason I know that was the

major,

impetus

was because I I hear that anywhere I

go around the state and I speak. People

will come up to me every single event.

People will come up to me and say,

you know, I was not involved. I didn't

see this until

COVID.

And then my eyes were opened. There's some

other reasons, too. But what has happened with

this is the church,

There's some other reasons too.

But what has happened with this is the

church is starting to wake up.

Society in general is starting to wake up,

but specifically the church.

And the church is starting to say, wait,

we can't keep doing this. We can't keep

letting Satan destroy us, destroy our children, destroy

our country.

Now that's the disclaimer, because I'm gonna I'm

gonna kinda go a different direction with this

this morning. If we're not careful, what happens

is

we start to stand up and fight,

and we start which is necessary, which is

important, but we get a little confused as

to where the fight is and how we're

supposed to fight. And so

we start going after people.

And Ephesians,

Ephesians 6 · chapter mention

chapter 6 tells us that people are not

actually the fight.

Now, this becomes challenging

when the person at the you know, that

is the head of a 1,000 people march

in

in New York that are saying they're the

transgender

grooming march that are chanting,

We're coming for your children.

When that is headed up by a person,

it's difficult

to separate

this battle is not against flesh and blood,

right? I understand that.

I I get that. I want to try

to help us process this a little bit.

And by the way, I I mentioned this

in the Capitol, in one of the times

I got up and spoke, and I mentioned

that they that they were chanting

by the thousands, chanting,

we're coming for your children. And the Speaker

of the House galloped me down and said,

that is not happening.

And I said, There's video. And she said,

That is not happening. I said, No, but

we have video. And she said, Please leave

the well. I said, Yes, ma'am. So

but this is

I understand that it is difficult to disseminate

this. It's difficult to separate.

We know we know scripture says we're not

fighting against flesh and blood, but it's flesh

and blood that that is

the face

of evil and and Satan's push in this

country.

Satan uses people. He doesn't do it in

a vacuum. He uses people.

And so what we have to do is

we have to make sure that who we

are,

is lining up with God's word and that

our heart and our mind is right before

God with all

all of this, and that we are fighting

the right way

rather than,

human way.

It is so easy for us to use

human weapons.

But the problem is we're human using human

weapons

against spiritual

realities.

Spiritual realities. That's the trick, right?

That's the that's the challenge. And so we're

gonna we're

gonna walk down through

Psalm 73.

And there's a handful of Psalms here that

are written by Esauf that

are kind of this they're a little bit

of the same thought processes.

It's,

like, I think it's Psalm 71 or 72

that talks about it's almost how depressed,

he's getting because of the stuff that's happening.

And so there's 3 or 4 Psalms right

here. Ron, I think you should go read

them. They're read them with that understanding, that

they kind of all fit together. But this

one I'm going to pull out, because I've

been reading this over and over and over

for months now,

trying to make sure that I have the

balance that I'm supposed to have, because it

is challenging.

It is difficult for me sometimes

to to to walk into the capital

or to have

conversations in our community

that are are conversations

almost,

back and forth debate

on whether we should murder our children.

I don't I I that's not a debate

to me. That is, you are wrong, you're

evil, that's demonic.

End of discussion.

But that's that's what we're doing.

These are the conversations. This is the stuff

that's going on.

And it is difficult for me to keep

my

my cool sometimes.

I've had people tell me this a lot,

but I had this conversation a couple weeks

ago.

Where this person came up and said, you

know, I watched the speeches that you give

and I see all this stuff, and you

are always so cool and calm and collected,

in the capitol. They were serious.

And I'm like, is that the way I'm

coming across? Because thank you. That is not

how I feel.

That is not how I feel.

And,

and I'm I'm not like an overly demonstrative

person, but still,

I wouldn't call it cool, calm, and collected.

But,

but it is difficult to keep your mind,

your spirit right, and keep the balance that

you need to have.

Guys, we are supposed to hate what is

evil. We're supposed to hate what is evil.

We're We're supposed to hate what is evil.

We're supposed to fight against what is evil.

But we've got to be careful that we're

not letting this get into our spirit in

a wrong way, and then also fighting

against

people.

We're fighting against evil,

Satan.

Okay? So Psalm 73,

I broke this into

4 I broke this into 4, sections. I

actually think it would work better in 6

sections, but it becomes a little laborious that

way. So, I simplified

it to this. But this is important. The

first two verses

set the stage for the entire psalm. Now,

this is when

you're studying something like this,

like the Psalms of David, he doesn't do

the same thing, right?

He, Esav, does a different he writes a

different way. And this is one of the

things that he does. This is his opening

to

versus what we call 2 versus

is the theme of the entire thing. It's

the point. And when he gets to the

end, he's going to come back to that.

He's going to arrive back at this, but

with a declaration of action. Okay? So

so understanding that as we're reading down through,

when you get through verses 3 through

16,

there's there's a lot of stuff going on

there. You got to keep in mind these

first two verses. First one, truly God

is good to Israel. And we understand that

that includes us too.

Truly God is good to you and I,

to those whose hearts are pure. God is

good. He's he's saying this upfront. This is

the point of the psalm. It's not going

to feel like that as we go through

that through this. But that's the point of

this thing, is that God is good.

And then he says, and this sets up

the this is the opposite, right? It's like

him saying, but however

Right? He says, but

as for me,

I almost lost my footing. God is good.

He is,

to those whose hearts are pure, he's gonna

take care of you, all these things. God

is good. But as for me, I almost

lost my footing.

My feet were slipping and I was almost

gone. I almost,

let me let me kind of help you

with the the next statement. I

almost gave in

to everything that he's gonna explain. I almost

gave in to all of this and lost

my way.

I almost did.

So we need to see what he's talking

about. What is what how did he almost

if we know that God is good

to to us, we keep our hearts and

our minds and our focus on God. If

we know that, then what is he saying

when he says, almost lost my footing? We

need to know that information. So verse 3,

for I envied the proud,

when I saw them prosper

despite their wickedness

I've experienced this and I think

every single Christian will deal with this. You

can't be a Christian for very long at

all before you will get frustrated with God

in a few different ways. And this is,

I think, the easiest and the biggest way

that Satan tries to manipulate us, is

he he makes you

assess

yourself in relationship

to other people. Okay? So when he says,

when he saw the proud and he saw

that they were prospering, what does that mean?

This isn't this is inherent within the statement,

is when you say that you see somebody

else prospering, what you are saying is in

direct relationship to you.

You're not just saying in some kind of

vacuum. In other words, if on a scale

from 1 to 10, you're prospering and this

does not just mean materialistically. Okay? This means

in a lot of different ways. In fact,

I think materialistically

is probably one of the least ways that

the psalmist is trying to address. He's talking

more about,

community relationship importance,

just being,

everything going their way kind of thing.

So if if if in a prosper or

blessing or God taking care of you kind

of way, you're on a scale of 1

to 10, you're about a 7 or 8.

And the evil around you

is being blessed at a 3 or a

4, you will not say this statement. This

doesn't come into your mind. The The moment

it begins to be addressed by you and

it becomes personal to you is when you're

at about a

5 and the

person down the road that you know

is doing bad things is a 5.2,

now you're upset.

Because it's in direct relationship to how you

are assessing

your existence,

not the big picture of life,

but you have specific people that you're processing

this with. And it can be people that

don't know you. I I part of the,

part of the conversation in my head since

the presidential debate has been this, is how

how how everybody has been processing the presidential

debate.

And here's the thing. Is I really and

I don't think I'm the only one. I

think every almost every one of us in

here could have figured this out. But you

could have written the you could have written

this script for this thing

before they did the debate.

It's amazing to me how many people online

are like, well, how could ABC act like

that? They just came after Trump.

I'm like, are you where have you been?

Where have you been? They didn't need Kamala

in that.

They didn't even need her there. They were

gonna take care of Trump. They gave her

all the questions ahead of time, prepped her,

and she barely, barely held her.

Guys,

this is the thing, is then we get

all upset. And, and here's what happens. And

I understand there's some legitimacy to this, but

I think, I think, I think the church

is going overboard. A lot of

ways, I think the Christians are going overboard.

We just rant and rave online. This is

horrible. And it's not like somebody opened up

your Facebook account and was like, ABC was

dishonest? What?

I don't know.

It's not like that's

and I understand. Sometimes, you just need to

say what is right and truth. I get

that. Okay? I get that. But I think

a lot of times, we're just ranting and

raving on on x or or Facebook or

something,

and it literally accomplishes nothing, except it just

accomplishes more anger between everybody. Everybody's more angry.

Even all the people that are all on

your side. You know, you put some on

Facebook and 10 other people read it, They

all agree with you a 100%, but at

the end, the only thing that happens is

everybody's more mad.

But are we doing something?

Are we trying to change something? Is there

some action taken

or are we confusing

verbalization

with no results as actual action?

And then do we let it get in

our spirit wrong? Is there other things that

come along with this?

He said, When I saw them prosper,

despite their wickedness, they seem to live such

painless lives. Really?

Their bodies are so healthy and strong.

Do you think maybe he's over exaggerating

here a little bit?

The evil people, they're always healthy and strong.

They're always better off. Everything is always better.

Verse 5, he says, they don't have troubles

like other people.

You realize okay. So let's go back to

the to the opening line. God is good

to those who truly go after him,

who truly want relationship with him. He is

revealing to you how he almost lost his

footing.

In other words, he almost

made a major failure mistake here.

This is how he's doing it, is he

is assuming in his mind, it's a it's,

projection kind of thing that that all of

the bad guys

are all

everything goes perfect for the bad guys.

Guys, I've done this.

I thought this way.

I felt this way. I have verbalized these

kind of things.

And it's not healthy. You you build a

you build a

a falseness that's unhealthy for you. It's it

hurts you. And it's not even true to

assume

that that, the evil people don't have troubles

like other people. And I'm not trying to

justify what evil people do. I I said

this a couple weeks ago, and I I

preached an entire message about it a few

months ago,

that there are evil people.

There are bad people on this planet. There

are bad people in your neighborhood. There are

bad people at your workplace, and they want

to hurt you. Some people, the only thing

that makes them happy is when they are

hurting other people.

Some people, the only thing that makes them

happy is when they are causing

confusion and dissension.

I've seen that even within marriages, that that

one of the

people in the marriage have to stir up

a problem where they don't feel good.

I know a couple years ago that that

they would fight so then they could make

up.

I'm like, skip the fight and just make

out.

Why?

Right? Doesn't that seem better? I don't understand.

But but we do this. We build, like,

this false

mentality

thing.

I don't know who I'll take

a piano turn.

Is that a

is that a commercial? Should I pause?

He says,

he says, they don't have trouble like other

people. They're not played with problems like everyone

else. Come on. They are.

But it's but see, it's easier to to

have pity. It's easy to feel sorry for

yourself

when you can build the other side

so

much better,

right? So much.

We do the same thing with

building the other side so much more evil.

I mean, there I'm not backing away from

where I started with this, guys. There is

abject evil in this world,

and it is attacking us, and it is

attacking our families, and it is attacking our

children, and we've got to stand up against

this. But there's a difference between

the actual demonic evil that Satan is trying

to destroy humanity with and and our neighbor

disagreeing with us and their dog pooping in

our yard.

That's not demonic.

K? It's not Satan did not plan that

whole thing to destroy your world and psyche.

You you understand what I'm saying? But we

but it's easier for us

to vilify other people because we're justified by

what we feel then.

We can we can kind of ramp up

our our,

how how bad it is for us and

how justified we are by saying and doing

things

that we shouldn't.

He said, They wore pride like a jeweled

necklace and clothed themselves with cruelty.

I looked in probably 10 other translations. This

is the only translation that I've been able

to find that has it worded like this.

It's interesting

Well, I don't

know why the translators came up with this

as their their statement.

Verse 7. These fat cats

have everything their hearts could ever wish for.

These fat cats.

All the other translations

say something along the lines of,

their,

their eyes bulge with all the things that

they have.

That's what it says. I don't know how

they got fat cats out of that,

but I can tell you they better not

go to Ohio.

Yeah, I went there.

I've been trying to think because I'm I'm

an opportunist. I like to

I like to look for opportunities.

I like to make money and do stuff

like that.

I've been trying to figure out how to

make cat bacon.

Too far?

Come on, guys. Focus. Talking about God's word

here.

Verse 8.

They scoff and speak only evil.

Again, there are going to be people in

your world

that they truly speak evil.

Okay. That's a reality.

Now, here's part of the conversation is you

really can't

change that.

But you can

decide how you're gonna react to that.

You can't change them.

They scoff and speak only evil. In their

pride, they seek to crush others.

They boast against the very heavens

and their words strut throughout the earth.

So the people are dismayed and confused,

drinking in all of their words. And see,

this is this is part of our problem.

This is part of our problem. This is

a major part of our problem in our

country, but it's also a major part of

the problem in the church

is so these so the people are dismayed

and confused. The people

are dismayed and confused. But why are they

dismayed and confused?

Not because these people are saying things, not

because they're cruel or evil or scoffing at

God and all this other stuff, it's because

the people

are drinking in their words.

They're buying it.

We we were watching the debate with our

our son

and our daughter-in-law here and

And,

and and Isaac has a hard time staying

quiet

during these kind of things.

Me, I'm much more mature and reserved.

And and like every other cynist, that's a

lie. She's lying.

And, and and and and we kept saying

I think all of us kept saying this.

How can people believe that stuff? How can

people well, here's the here's the reason why.

Because they choose to.

Because to everybody, every one of us in

this room, we choose to believe certain things.

Now you say, yeah. But but what I

choose to believe is based on truth. I

would agree. I'm not I'm not picking on

you. I don't know what you believe or

don't believe, but I do know this, we

choose whether we're gonna believe something or not.

That's not a that's not a, an arbitrary

thing that just happens.

You have to make a choice.

Do I believe this or do I believe

this?

Well, you're choosing. Now I think I I

think most I would like to say all,

but I I think that's probably, percentagewise,

not possible.

But I think most of what I believe

is actually based upon truth and fact. Okay?

I believe I think that. That's why I

believe what I believe.

I I believe what God's word says because

I I believe it to be truth. So

so I understand, you know, where my source

is, but at the end of the day,

I'm the one choosing this.

Our country right now is choosing to believe

a lot of stuff because there's a lot

of things that our country

does not actually believe in their heart,

but they're choosing to believe it.

No. Nobody,

nobody down in there, unless they are completely

blinded by Satan,

nobody believes at the end of the day

that you can change your sex.

Nobody believes that.

But that's why we use a word like

gender because we can cloud it up a

little bit, make it a little more confusing.

We can't exactly define it. But but now

now we've got a word that helps us

lie to ourself,

And then we drink in all the words

and then we're dismayed and confused, which causes

bigger problems.

Verse 11, what does God know? They ask.

I I love the fact that

the people question this. This is one of

the things the funny things for me that

has always been with atheists,

people that claim to be atheists. I just

don't really believe that there is such a

thing as an atheist. I think you gotta

try really, really hard to not believe in

something that God put within you in intuitively.

Okay?

But this is one of the big things

is how much they feel a need

to fight against

God and against the idea of God or

Christianity

or the Bible. And they'll spend their life

building the arguments and fighting against this.

I

I don't believe

in unicorns

unless I'm around my granddaughter and then I

get a little hazy on weather.

Do you believe in unicorns?

But you know what? It's not my life's

crusade

to disprove unicorns.

They're they're it's not real.

I can't say that publicly,

Arch.

There are children in the room. So you

understand what I'm saying. Right?

They they ask, how what does God know?

Does the most high even know what's happening?

The the fact that you are bringing God

into the subject is a weird

conversation you are only having with yourself.

Does does God even know what's going on?

If he's God, he does. If he's not,

why do you care?

Right?

Verse 12, look at all these wicked people

enjoying the life of ease while their riches

multiply.

And then verse 13, he kind of switches

gears because he goes back to himself. But

I'm gonna include it in the first category

here. Verse 13,

did I keep my heart pure for nothing?

Have you ever asked God things like this?

God, I'm trying to do everything right,

but everything happens bad to me and nothing

happens bad to the other guy.

Make it about us,

right? Did I keep myself innocent for no

reason? I've even tried to use the, pastor

Trump card on God. Right? God, I'm I'm

one of your chosen ones.

You know, you know how much better I

am

and everyone else, Lord?

God, I'm one of your I'm I've sacrificed

my whole life for you.

Right?

You've got those versions. You just don't have

the pastor Trump card.

It's a good one.

But

here's the thing. Do you really think God's

up there like, oh, wait. Yeah. You're right.

You're a pastor.

My bad.

Did I did I keep my heart pure

for nothing? Did I keep myself innocent for

no reason?

He's this is a pity party.

I get nothing but trouble all day long.

Every morning brings me pain.

Really? Is it is life really as bad

as you're making it out here to be?

Guys, be careful because when you when you

when you start doing this, you can find

everything wrong with everything. And then, you

everything wrong with everything. Instead of pausing long

enough to say, wait a second, I'm still

breathing

air God made. That's good. Right? I'm still

smelling flowers,

a

my deck out back to pray, because

I get to look at the mountains while

I'm praying. That's

That's way better than praying in a building

like this.

It's way better.

You know what's cool? Get up into the

mountains,

get by a little

stream,

and just sit there and talk to God.

You're in the middle of his amazingness.

Not buildings,

It's easy to worship the God that made

that. Get out of the the the caving

in mentality.

I get nothing but trouble

all

day long.

Every morning brings me pain. No, it doesn't.

It doesn't have to if you don't want

it to.

You're making those decisions.

If I had really spoken this way to

others, I would have been a traitor to

your people. God, you're letting all these other

people get away but you would never let

me get away with

this. So I tried to understand why the

wicked prosper, but what a difficult

task it is. And then he begins the

process of change. Remember, what is the first

sentence?

You are good.

God, you are good to me.

That's where he's trying to get back to.

But I almost

completely had a falling out.

And he switches, and this is the second

part,

verse 17. He begins the journey that he

needs to begin back.

Then I went into your sanctuary. Oh, God.

Then I went into your sanctuary.

I've heard this for years. Even when I

was a kid, I would hear this. Somebody

hadn't been in church in forever.

And something bad goes

wrong in their life. And they show up

to church. And I would hear

other people in the church there like their

every day.

And they would say, oh, did you see

so and so was there today? Well, you

know, this bad thing happened. That's the only

reason they were at church. And they would

say, oh, did you see so and so

was there today? Well, you know, this bad

thing happened. That's the only reason they were

at church.

This bad thing happened. That's the only reason

they were at church.

Okay? Good.

They chose the right choice.

What would you rather be saying?

Oh,

well, they chose drugs and they OD'd and

died

because that bad thing happened.

It's weird how we do this. But what

happens is we can say, well, I'm there

every week. Specifically, if you volunteer and you

work and you do a lot, I'm there

every week. And who are they to just

come walking in like this place belongs to

them?

Who does it belong to?

Great

One of the things that I pray when

I'm driving back and forth to the capitol,

I pray and I pray constantly, constantly, constantly.

When I'm by myself, I pray out loud.

When I'm with others, I just pray.

But

I pray, God, help my mind and my

spirit be in the right place

room. Because if you only see

the physical, the natural,

you stay there. You get caught up in

there and that's where you're living. It's where

you're living mentally, emotionally. That's what you're fighting

or not fighting.

And and that's where you're that's where the

the domain is.

But if you can if you can transcend

it, if you can step outside of that,

and you can see the bigger picture as

he's saying here, I finally understood the destiny

of the wicked. Now, he's not finished being

negative yet, but he but he is setting

up the right mindset now. God, when I

finally get to you, I begin to understand

the bigger picture.

And here's the bigger picture. This is still

the negative, but it's the beginning of the

bigger picture. Verse 18, truly you put them

on a slippery path

and send them sliding over the cliff to

destruction.

And here's where you should at least pause

and say, do I want that of other

people?

Think about what I'm saying. Because guys, here's

where here's where being truly a Christian and

letting God's grace first change you and then

you giving grace to others, this is where

it'll be convicting to us.

Do I really want them to slide over

a cliff of destruction?

Or could I have the argument that I

just want how they are wrong

put on display?

Right?

I I want it I want every

evil lie. I want everything to be brought

to light. I want it to be surfaced.

Not all mine, but everybody else's. I want

everything

to be brought to the surface. But do

I want them destroyed?

We're talking

deeper Christianity

stuff,

stuff that's much more challenging to deal with.

Do I want them to be destroyed? I

want what they're doing to be destroyed. And

if their business is bad, I want their

business to be destroyed.

You know, if they're trafficking kids and things

like that, I want that to be destroyed.

But do I want them

and here's the ultimate way to ask the

right question do I want them to go

to hell?

In an instant, they are destroyed, completely

swept away by terrors.

When you arise, oh Lord, you will laugh

at their silly ideas as a person laughs

at dreams in the morning.

And then he finally

makes the switch.

In verse 21,

this is the 3rd section. I realized my

heart was bitter.

That my heart was bitter and I was

all torn up inside. I realized I was

bitter, which means this goes all the way

back to verse 2. This is where he

almost

derailed.

This is where he almost

completely had the fall the falling out.

Is he let it get into his heart

as bitterness

to the point where he was okay with

them being destroyed.

Because we can't do that.

I know our country is very vitriolic right

now, and everybody's being put against, everybody else,

right? That,

everybody else,

right? That

there is, there is,

everything is, everything is racist and the race

baiters

are they're pitting us against each other.

Right? Everything is homophobic. Everything is, well, you

know, whatever.

You can understand

the agenda. You can see

the evil in the darkness, and we are

supposed to hate

hate

sin.

Difficult.

And he says,

then I realized my heart was bitter. The

problem wasn't all of those people.

The problem wasn't their cruelty or how they

were trying to hurt me or other people.

The problem is not actually that at the

end of the day. The problem is my

heart is bitter.

I'm still going to fight all against that

stuff. I'm not going to let that stuff

go away. I'm not going to let I'm

not going to I'm not going to let

them groom our children. I'm not.

I'm going to fight against that because it's

demonic.

But I also and this is where praying

all the way to the capitol and back

every day

can make the difference,

is I also

need to to understand that these people are

being manipulated by Satan, Maybe, maybe voluntarily, I

think a lot of them are. They know.

They know what they're doing. But Satan is

trying to destroy them and they can't see

that.

So I got a

to

see.

They

get

to

see. Then, not only do they stop doing

all the bad stuff and stop trying to

hurt kids and stop all the,

the evil, now they're actually going to fight

against it.

I've got a great message I'm putting together

about the very first speaker of the house,

the United States, very first guy ever that

was a speaker of the house. Now,

look at what he says. I

Now, look at what he says. I realized

that my heart was bitter. I was all

torn up inside. I was so foolish

and ignorant.

I love it when guys in the Bible

say things about themselves that I say about

me regularly.

Makes me feel good.

You ever Have you ever said to yourself,

man, that was stupid.

You're just being dumb,

Right?

Why? Because

we are. That's the reason.

There you go.

He says,

I was so foolish and ignorant. And then

he says, to God, I must have seemed

like a senseless animal to you.

I must have seemed like a complete idiot

to you, God.

And you know,

I've said that to God and it's amazing

how quiet God gets at that moment.

He's not coming to my defense. No, Scott.

You're not an idiot.

He's just

Right? Because why? Guys, when we actually allow

the stuff that Satan is trying to do

to destroy us, to get in our heart

and begin to destroy us, we're the ignorant

ones.

We're the foolish ones

because that is Satan's goal and he is

being successful

and we're allowing it to happen. See, here's

the thing about bitterness.

Nobody can make you bitter.

Only you can make you bitter.

Nobody

can they People can do things to you,

but nobody can make you unforgiving.

Only you can make use yourself unforgiving.

Satan does things. He's gonna constantly do stuff

to us. Why? Because he wants to destroy

us. He wants to steal, kill, and destroy.

But he cannot

make you

be angry at God.

He cannot make you hate other people.

He cannot make you be bitter.

Bitter. We embrace that. We choose

that.

We choose to to go down the road

that Satan is paving for us.

Verse 23, yet I still belong to you.

You hold my right hand. Even though I

am ignorant and I am doing the wrong

things, you're still full of grace, and you're

gonna hold my hand. And guys, that's where

he's trying to get to with this.

We cannot let satan manipulate us

in this in this fight. Our our our

country is is in a horrible, horrible bad

place.

I don't believe we go by the Constitution

anymore, the rule of law, or any of

this kind of stuff.

All of this stuff, I had I had

so many

people from other states

calling me and asking I'm talking about,

representatives, elected officials from other states that are

calling me and asking me about what's going

on in Aurora.

And the media now in Denver is really

doubling down and trying to say, oh, there's

nothing to see here.

Are you even watching that? It's getting worse

and worse. Nothing to see here. They've taken

over entire car the Venezuelan gangs have taken

over entire car apartment complex and they actually

have people that they have

kept inside,

kidnapped and kept inside

of these apartments. And this is on video.

People have this stuff. This is not something

that people are thinking might be the case.

K. This is happening.

But it's interesting how all of this stuff

is being covered up. All of these people

are trying to do this kind of stuff.

But you know what? I have learned at

the end of the day

is that even if I even if I'm

going to buy into all of that stuff

and be ignorant, I'm going to let this

get into my spirit or what. But you

know, God will God will extend grace to

me.

He will still extend grace to

me. If you say, well, well, I don't

believe this has happened. Okay. God will still

extend grace to you.

Understand the difference in the fight. I'm not

going after people. I'm going I'm going after

the evil and the sin. I'm going after

the junk

that has become

our state and our country.

Our country is

our country is

we don't

I know I keep using this example, but

our president's not even running the country. I

believe and the people have different views about

this, but I believe the World Economic Forum

is running our country. That means people from

other countries are running our country. The reason

I'm

saying all of this is the church has

got

to stop playing games. And the church has

got to stop playing games. And the church

has got to stop playing games. And the

church has got to stop playing games. And

the

is the church has got to stop playing

games.

We need to be serious.

We need to start really praying I saw

online a group of people that actually groups

all over the country that got together during

the debate and rather watch rather than watch

the debate and get mad, they all got

together and prayed

during the debate.

And I thought, there you go.

That's what we're supposed to be doing. That's

how you fight. All I did was sit

and listen to my son get mad the

whole time.

But but I'm I'm hoping one of these

days he grows up

and be more like his daddy.

But here's the thing, guys. Those people praying,

they figured it out. That's how you fight.

That's how you do this is who the

this is who the church needs to be,

is we've got to stop playing petty little

games with everybody

on Facebook

and and and x and,

and Instagram and and that have

no bearing whatsoever on anything except makes everybody

mad.

And instead,

begin to really get in and fight. Get

your word open and pray through the word.

Pray through the things where Jesus says that

all government rests upon his shoulders.

Pray that over our country.

Guys, I I don't know what's gonna happen

in November, but I keep saying this and

I stand on this.

They are not

going to let Trump in the White House.

They are not going to let that man

get there

because he will destroy them,

and they know it.

The people

will will will tear this stuff down and

rebuild our country the way it needs to

be rebuilt.

They cannot let him get to the White

House. So you say, well, then what happens?

I don't know what's gonna happen. I do

know this. The vice president, the one who

ratifies the election,

she's gonna ratify her own election.

They're not gonna let him get there. That

means between now November, things are gonna get

worse and November, it's gonna blow up. And

guys, the church better be ready to be

the church because it could get crazy violent

in our country.

It could get crazy violent.

We don't need that.

We need the church

needs to have our eyes open and be

doing the right things at the right time,

not letting pettiness and bitterness and anger rule

the day.

We need to be the people of God.

All of us,

not a small group, but all of us

be the people of God.

That needs to start long before

election day.

We've got to figure this out.

He says, you guide me with your counsel,

leading me to a glorious destiny.

Anybody else. I've got God. I don't need

anybody else. I desire you more than anything

on earth. Is that is that our defining

statement?

Truth for you, you need to get on

your face before God because that's the only

hope

for you and that's the only hope for

those around you,

relational, anything that you could put as a

priority in your life. Lord,

I

desire you more.

My health may fail. Now, this is interesting

because he's finally coming full circle. At the

first, he was like, well, the wicked never

gets sick. Now, he's got it. He's figured

it out. Even

not about whether somebody else is not

getting sick.

It's not about whether somebody else is getting

something.

It's not about somebody else. It's do you

desire the Lord more than anything?

That's that's the point.

And he finishes it up with an action.

I'm gonna tell

people

how awesome God is. Verse 27. Those who

desert him will perish,

for you destroy those who abandon you. But

as for me, I can't do anything about

them. But as for me,

how good it is to be near God,

I have made the sovereign Lord my shelter.

And I will tell everyone

about the wonderful things you do.

I will tell everyone.

Why? Because he's the only hope. When everybody's

fighting, innergetic Jesus.

Guys, your only hope is Jesus.

I've said that to so many,

married couples over the years.

If you will repent and turn to Jesus

but heshe

If you will repent and turn to Jesus,

you can save this thing.

It's the same with our country.

As if you repent

and turn to Jesus,

we can save our country.

We can save our country.

God, we need you

so much more than we we even know.

Lord, I think this thing is crumbled even

farther than we can see. Lord, I think

this thing is crumbled even farther than we

can see. Lord, I think this thing is

crumbled even farther than we can see. Lord,

I think this thing is crumbled even

crumbled even farther than we can see.

God, that doesn't change you. You're still in

charge.

You're still

God.

You still rule

and reign.

You are still sovereign.

That there is nothing that's happening on the

planet

that is escaping you. There's no evil. There's

no plans that is that is getting by

you.

Or do you know everything,

and you're still in control.

So Lord Jesus, we trust you.

We trust you.

We need You.

Lord, I pray for my heart with this,

and I pray for every one of us

in here

that I truly

desire You

more than anything.

And Lord, if I don't reveal that to

me, show it to me.

I desire you

more than anything.

I need you more than anything.

Lord, help me to love you more than

anything.

In Jesus' name.

God, I pray against

any kind of bitterness.

I pray against anything that builds that we

allow to build up in our heart

against people.

Lord, I don't want the bad guys to

win

but I don't want them to go to

hell.

Lord, I pray you tear down their kingdoms,

and in doing so, you save their souls.

In the name of Jesus.

God, help it not to get into my

spirit. And I pray this for every one

of us. God, I I I rebuke

the spirit of of bitterness and anger and

unforgiveness.

I rebuke that.

God, deliver us from that.

Save us from that.

Cleanse our minds and our hearts,

so that so that we don't let anger

and hate rule so much.

God, it seems so prevalent in our country

right now.

Help us to get away from

it, in the name of Jesus.

Communion, I think, I think what we

should do when

we take

communion is we ask for

forgiveness.

We're remembering that Jesus died on the cross

for us.

That's the point.

If you need communion, if you didn't grab

one when you came in, raise your hand

real quick and they'll bring you.

Brainwashed.

This is the,

this is the point of community. It's to

say

I remember

I'm remembering that when you died on the

cross, you did it to say

So we're gonna, we're gonna

tie this up together this morning

by just asking the Lord just to wash

us with his blood.

Just cover us, forgive us.

Stuff to control me. I want Jesus to

be God over my life,

right?

On the night when he was betrayed, the

Lord Jesus took some bread

and he gave thanks to God for it,

then he broke it into pieces. Think about

when he broke this into pieces.

So this had been this is Passover and

it had been celebrated for,

remembered and celebrated for literally centuries,

a couple thousand few 1000 years.

And there's the point in in the middle

every time where they take at the end

and it's it's not like bread,

like yeast bread. It's non yeast bread. It's

flat, like cracker. Right? If you've ever been

at our Seder dinner, that's matzo bread.

And,

he takes and breaks this. Do you think

about this? When he breaks this, he realizes

the next thing that's going to be broken

is him.

He knows that,

and he does it.

Because the whole point is you and I.

The whole point is those disciples sitting there

that he wants them to know, I'm gonna

be broken for what reason so that you

can be put together. You can be made

whole. Said, this is my body which is

given for you. Do this in remembrance of

me. God, we thank you for what this

little piece of bread represents.

That it represents you, that it represents you.

It

That it represents you

being brutalized

for me.

Lord, I thank you for that.

I'm completely indebted to you for this.

I can never repay you.

Lord, I also know you didn't do it

for that. You did it just because you

love me.

So Lord, thank you.

Thank you for our healing

that you provide with this,

in Jesus name.

Let's take the bread together.

In the same way, he took the cup

of wine

after supper saying, this cup is the new

covenant

between God and his people,

an agreement confirmed

with my blood. It is it is bound

contractually with his blood.

Do this in remembrance of me as often

as you drink

it. For every time you eat this bread

and drink this cup, you're announcing the Lord's

death until he comes again.

Jesus, thank you for forgiveness.

Thank you for your blood.

Me. I pray for all of us. Convict

us of the things that we know

are not

right.

Convict us, Lord,

and we wanna get them right with you.

In Jesus'

name, wash us clean,

covers with your blood.

Let's take the drink together.

Thank you so much, Jesus.

Thank you for your grace.

Thank you for your mercy. And I pray

that we will be a people

that stand up for your word, your truth,

your righteousness,

and your justice.

But Lord, I pray that we do it

with your heart,

your compassion and love for the lost.

Lord, help us to tell people

how wonderful you are,

in the name of Jesus.

God, help it not to get into our

heart

and become bitterness and unforgiveness.

Lord, thank you.

Thank you for your grace.

Help us to extend it to others.

In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.

Amen. Before noon tomorrow,

God's gonna give you the opportunity

to tell somebody how wonderful God is.

Take the chance. Step out there a little

bit and just tell them.

Tell them something.