“Ekklesia” - Special Guest, Pastor Rob McCoy

You all are sweet.

I met Scotty at the airport last night, and I know his brother Rick, but when I met

Scotty, I was thinking, there's mischief in that smile.

I can't hang around him, but we're getting a lot of trouble.

What a precious congregation you are.

Thank you.

I, uh, overwhelmed by the spirit of Lord during worship.

God has great joy in this fellowship.

He bless him.

You bless me.

I wanted to say in relation to what Scotty was saying

for prayer that's going to get charismatic,

I always look at prayer like labor and delivery.

And when my wife was given birth, she's like,

and the woman next door was like,

people deliver different ways but bring it the lord loves prayer if my people who are called by

my name will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways then i will hear from

heaven and heal their land and our land needs healing our land needs healing this is six states in

five days pushing to get people to vote.

And the most apathetic voting block in America is self-professing evangelical Christians.

35 million of them aren't going to vote.

I just can't process that.

I don't know where in the scriptures you get that justification to be apathetic.

And I'm not here to condemn.

I'm just, I'm truly confounded.

I don't know how a Christian can profess faith in Christ and live in a constitutional republic

where we have the ability to elect our representatives.

And you say, well, it's all tainted and it's all dirty.

Politics is dirty.

Well, so is the church.

What's your point?

Well, I'm tired of voting for the lesser of two evils.

Unless Jesus Christ is running for office, you'll always be voting for the lesser of two evils.

No, you don't understand, pastor, the conspiracy.

They've infiltrated every vestige of culture.

They've been doing that for 6,000 years.

What's your point?

You're telling me that government's greater than God?

You're telling me that evil's greater than God?

I mean, I'm pre-millennial.

I believe in a rapture.

but I don't sit around eschatologically looking at eschatological lint in my belly button while I wait for the end.

Jesus had occupied until I come.

He says you don't know the day or the hour.

And you're looking at the horizon and you see the mass of misery and you think, well, now he's coming.

And I don't have to do anything.

And it's like self-fulfilling prophecy.

You're ushering in the decline of Western civilization.

And tell your children you don't have any.

any hope for their future.

A nation grows great

whose citizens plant trees of the shade

they'll never know.

You're standing on the shoulders

of mighty men and women

who went before you

and gave you the freest nation

on the face of the earth.

Come 2026, it'll be 250 years old.

The oldest nation

in the history of the world

under one article of incorporation,

the United States of America.

America. America represents 4% of the world's population.

4%. We have more patents, more Nobel Peace Prize winners, more symphonies, more accumulation of wealth than any other nation in the history of the world.

It's not a Christian nation. No, it isn't. It's not a Christian nation. It has a Christian form of government.

but Christians have abdicated their responsibility to participate.

We have common law, which is right from the scriptures.

Even our three branches of government comes out of Isaiah 3322.

The Lord is our king, our lawgiver, and our judge, executive, legislative, and judicial.

The first 13 colonies, first 13 states of this nation.

And their constitutions declare that anyone holding office had to have a profession of faith in Jesus Christ.

We have a Christian form of government that Christians refuse to participate in.

52 years ago we abdicated our responsibility in the public square

and we were we were indoctrinated to say

and by the way what I'm about to express

is a first century heresy called Gnosticism

where you don't touch anything tainted or dirty

because we're just heavenly minded and it was a heresy

in the first century church it almost destroyed the church and it's back again

and here's how you know a heretic

I just preach the gospel.

I don't do politics.

You're a heretic.

Now let me tell you why.

You're clapping.

Oh, they're heretics, yeah.

Let me tell you why.

The word politics, you think the meaning is

Pauli, meaning many, and ticks meaning blood-sucking parasite.

politics defined by Aristotle deals with the word polis,

which means, are you ready for this, the concerns and the affairs of the city?

Jeremiah 29:7, pray for the peace of the city, for in its peace, you'll have peace.

Jeremiah 29:7

Pray for the peace of the city in which you dwell.

For in its peace, you'll have peace.

You see, politics is a standard.

of rules on how to get along with your neighbor.

Well, let's just make it real simple.

If God didn't intend us to be in politics,

he would have never invented marriage.

I mean, really, to celebrate a birthday,

you've got to stay alive to celebrate an anniversary.

You've got to stop from killing each other.

Or maybe not you.

But this is the idea that there's,

how then shall we now live?

Who says, what are the rules?

Who makes the rules?

Who makes the rules?

Well, God did.

Our founders understood that.

That's how they designed the freest nation on the face of the earth.

You ride in an elevator was invented by an American.

You fly in an airplane.

It was invented by an American.

You enjoy air conditioning.

It was invented by an American.

You enjoy lighting.

It was invented by an American.

You enjoy the Internet.

It was invented by an American, not Al Gore.

How'd they do it?

They struggled.

And it was a Scottish preacher of descent,

Scottish descent on the eastern seaboard of this great land.

He influenced after the first great awakening with George Whitfield,

and our founders all grew up under that influence of a return.

to the Bible. They were all biblically literate. In the prayer of Benjamin Franklin in the

Constitutional Convention, he invokes God and Scripture over 20 times because he had a working

knowledge of Scripture, which most Christians don't. And John Adams, one of our founders,

one of the presidents of our country, he was so moved by this minister.

that he said this minister was responsible for the war of independence.

His name was Jonathan Mayhew.

He died in 1766.

And I came to rediscover him during my trials in California when the governor, you know, that's warm in here.

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be bulky, but it's just, it's like, hot.

Now you get to see that I used to be an all-American swimmer, now I'm a buoy.

I got a furniture problem.

My chest went into my drawers.

Where were we?

I came to rediscover Jonathan Mayhew

when we were facing the tyranny of Governor New Salini.

Governor New Salini declared that the church in California

was non-essential.

The bride of Christ, non-essential.

Strip clubs were essential.

Abortion clinics were essential.

Cannabis distributors are essential.

Liquor stores were essential.

Costco was essential.

The church was non-essential.

The church was open during the bubonic plague, for goodness sakes.

They had us so convinced by fear,

which God hasn't given us a spirit of fear,

but if power, love, and a sound mind,

and COVID was a highlighter to really show how weak the church was.

Had they said that COVID could only affect you above five feet,

they could have had the entire country crawling on their knees.

And as Governor Newsleini was declaring that the church was non-essential

and the counties were enforcing these orders,

the governor's got a lot of power,

but he doesn't have the power to say the church is not essential.

essential. Our founders, when they put this nation together, and they declared independence,

they did it because of this preacher, Jonathan Mayhew. You see, when I defied the governor,

all the pastors called me, not all of them, but a lion's share of them called me. And they said,

you're on the wrong side of history. You're in disobedience to Romans 13, which is the most

quoted verse in Nazi Germany to silence the church, which is God appoints all positions of authority,

and you're to submit to those authorities.

That's a real simple, yes sir, yes sir, oh yes sir.

Jonathan Mayhew exegeted the text and he did it properly.

And he did it for all the Eastern seaboard pastors to preach from the pulpits

because the oppression of the king of England against these colonies was so overwhelming

and they were wondering, what do we do, they're not listening to us, they've disbanded our branches

of government, we have no representation.

And Jonathan Mayhew said, listen, the passage says that God appoints all positions of authority,

but they're there for our good.

And then he said, when they cease to do good,

they cease to be the authority.

It's not unlimited submission to tyranny.

It just isn't.

Liberty's not man's idea.

It's God's idea.

Second Corinthians 317, where the Spirit of the Lord is,

there's liberty.

I have come to set the captives free.

Jonathan, may you preach this,

and he coined a phrase,

that was the inspiration of the war of independence

that you've enjoyed for 250 years.

He said, disobedience to tyrants

is obedience to God.

Now, he also said,

you don't disobey for light or transient causes.

I didn't like the way that he made his imprint on the coins.

I don't like that it's a 1% increase in the taxes.

No, it's got to,

not to be not for light or transient causes,

our founders, when they did the Declaration of Independence,

they said, went in the course of human events,

it becomes necessary for one people to separate.

And they went on to list all of the reasons, all of them.

And they said, we hold these truths to be self-evident

that all men are created equal,

endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights,

among those being life, then liberty,

then the pursuit of happiness.

is life.

Liberty is of scarce little value.

They did it in order.

Liberties of scarce little value if you're dead.

We are a nation of life.

It's not a choice.

It's a baby.

Oh, three of you.

Listen, I'm not here to condemn.

Every person in this room has been affected by abortion.

But I will say this.

Let's stop doubling down and start doing it right.

It's a baby.

No, it's too small.

So you're telling me a smaller person's less valuable than a larger person?

Well, it's its level of development.

It's not fully developed.

So you're telling me an adolescent is less valuable than a fully grown adult?

What's its environment?

It's in the womb of the mother.

So you're telling me I'm less valuable in Idaho than I am in California?

It's this degree of dependence.

It's dependent on the mother.

So you're telling me someone in this room dependent on insulin or oxygen is less value.

people and non-human. You have no argument. It can't be anything else but a human being. And it should be

the safest place in the country. You say, what if it's been raped? I have a granddaughter whose

mother was raped. And my kids led her to the Lord. And it was the most cathartic, blessed experience

she could have had. I don't buy that anymore. I adopted. There are more parents waiting for

children than there are children. And they're a blessing from the Lord, no matter how they enter the

world. And if we start looking at it that way, we'll start understanding the value of life.

Then liberty. We think liberty is the freedom to do whatever we want. Liberty is the freedom to do

what's right. That's why they said the pursuit of happiness. They were listing the highest virtue of

Aristotle and the Greeks, the highest virtue, the highest good. The highest good. He said you gave me water

and I lost it. Oh, here we go. This water container is good because it's doing what it was designed to do.

Hold water.

Pursuit of happiness is the pursuit.

In him is the fullness of joy.

The pursuit of happiness is doing what you've been designed to do.

And in doing good and doing right, you flourish.

If you think that freedom and liberty is the ability to sin with license and impunity

and to traffic children and to mutilate them and call that health care,

As you give Chloe Cole a double mastectomy at 15, that's not liberty.

That's evil, and it needs to be stopped.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

For this reason, governments were instituted among men for the preservation of those inalienable rights.

That's the purpose of government.

And four times in that birth certificate, they listed God.

And they appealed to God at the end because they appealed to God.

because they were taking on the greatest nation

on the face of the earth

that had just defeated the second greatest nation

on the face of the earth.

The sun didn't set on the British Empire.

Their soldiers were trained.

And these 13 colonies barely mustered a continental force

and only one in nine Americans fought in the Revolutionary War.

Only one in nine.

And at the conclusion of this document,

they pledged their lives, their fortunes,

and their sacred honor.

and they knew they were all going to hang.

And that was done on July 4th of 1776,

and what inspired that was what happened in March of that same year.

In January and February, Washington's Continental Forces

had occupied Dorchester Heights

and overlooking Boston Harbor that the British were occupying.

And Washington, excuse me, Washington couldn't remove the British from Boston

because he had no artillery.

He had the heights, but he had no artillery.

It was worthless.

And as he was just positioned up there

and waiting for how, and the snows to melt,

for how to come in the spring,

march up Dorchester Heights

and wipe out the continental forces,

Washington needed artillery.

He had none.

And in Boston was a 20-year-old rotund,

heavyset bookseller by the name of Henry Knox,

and this rotund, 20-year-old bookseller,

approached Washington, he said, I know where you can get 61 tons of artillery. He goes, where?

He says from Fort Ticonderoga that's been abandoned. He says, how do you know this? He says,

I read a book. He would become his artillery commander of the Continental Forces at 20.

Most of our founders were very young. Jefferson was in his 20s. So Henry Knox takes the supplies

needed that was requisitioned by General Washington, and he performed one of the greatest feats in

civil engineering to take 61 tons of artillery over two frozen lakes, two rivers, and a mountain

range, and got it up on Dorchester Heights by March 6 as the fog lifted over Boston Harbor,

and Howe was assembling his troops to march up, and right then they began to shell Boston Harbor.

Howe realized he had lost, he waved the surrender flag, he said to Washington, if you cease to fire

upon us with artillery, we won't burn the city if you'll allow us to evacuate peacefully, and they

did. And they thought, we've got a victory, and they were all excited about it, and a couple other

skirmishes, and they entered in to July, and they signed this Declaration of Independence, and they

declared war. And after that, when they signed that document, guess what happened? They lost

battle after battle after battle, after battle. They were down to 12,000 continental soldiers on Manhattan

an island, and the British had surrounded Manhattan with British battleships. Continental forces had

no fleet to speak of. The British own the seas. They took Fort Washington. They captured all of

the ammunition supplies of the continental forces. Washington under the dark of night and heavy,

thick fog crossed out of Harlem on the East River and was able to evacuate with 12,000 soldiers

and get up to Valley Forge by the winter. And of the 12,500, 5,400 were remaining because the others

were dying of dysentery. 5,400 continental forces were left. And this was December of 1776.

and by January 1st, all conscriptions and the continental forces would be up,

and this experiment in liberty would be over.

Washington was writing letters to Martha and others saying this is over.

It's bleak.

It's frightening.

I don't see an end to this in any capacity.

Washington had sacred gatherings every morning in a separate tent.

It was his prayer tent.

He'd call in his officers, and they'd pray.

It was a man of prayer.

He read a pamphlet that was written by an atheist.

And it's interesting,

the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

When we defied the governor,

and he said, he named me in a,

a thousand congregants or visitors that we would be arrested.

And I remember showing up defying the restraining order,

and I didn't know what to expect that day.

When I showed up,

men and women, just like you from all over the country,

descended on our church and surrounded us and said,

we'll take the citation, you worship in peace.

And one man in particular, when I was the mayor of the city of thousands,

Oaks. I had helped him open the first gun store in Thousand Oaks. That's like a unicorn.

And he opened this gun store, and I helped him do that. And then my son-in-law and his friend,

who our gun enthusiasts, went in and helped him drywall his store to get it open. He said,

why are you doing this? He said, my son-in-law said, we wouldn't have the First Amendment without the

second. And he goes, I never thought about that. He was just a gun enthusiast. And he was so moved by

their selfless labor of love and his store open that the day we defied the restraining order,

I saw him out there with this sign, made it on the news, it said it took this kind of S-H-I

to get this atheist to church.

He wanted freedom. He just didn't know the source.

Folks like that were all swimming in the streams of liberty, but they wanted to know the source.

And the source is Jesus. It always has been and it always will be for man.

Christ has come to set man free. Man tries to enslave man.

Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy. The gates of us.

of hell. The reason why I say this is because Thomas Bain was an atheist, and he had written a

pamphlet called the American Crisis that so moved this godly general that he read it. These are the

times that try men's souls, the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot when the seasons shrink

from the duty of their country, but those who defend it now deserve the love and respect of all men

and women. He goes on to share, and I wish I have it fully memorized, but he goes on to share. And I wish I've had it fully

memorized, but he goes on to share that tyranny like hell is not easily conquered.

The way he says it is this.

There it is.

Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered, yet we have this consolation with us

that the harder the conflict, the more glorious, the victory, the triumph.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteemed too lightly.

It is dearness only that gives everything its value.

heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods,

and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom

should not be highly rated.

Thomas Payne.

Washington had that reprinted and passed out to all the soldiers who could muster,

5,400 of them.

And they read it, and then on December 24th he mustered what was remaining,

and of the 5,400 that mustered, a third of them

had to wrap their feet in burlap sacks because they didn't have boots.

They left an 11-mile trail of blood all the way to the Delaware

in one of the worst snowstorms in eastern seaboard history.

There was supposed to be a split and a two-fronted attack,

and one didn't make it across in time,

so only 2,400 soldiers attacked the Hessians on Christmas Day.

It secured a victory that turned the tide of the war,

and here you are today, almost 250 years later,

having enjoyed unprecedented freedom,

and you're being called on in the most critical moment in modern history,

probably the entirety of the history of this republic, and you're going to sit it out?

Who does that? My atheist friend who doesn't believe in God sees the realization and the

importance of this? Where do we as Christians get off with our moral pietism that somehow we don't

soil our hands in politics? Or we're too busy to contend

for our neighbor.

In this country,

to contend for them, we pull a lever.

Well, the voting's corrupt.

How did it get that way?

Where were you?

How do we fix it?

Apathy?

Rescue rapture?

Some of you don't like that, I understand.

But I'm pre-tribbed too, so back off.

Nowhere does God allow you to have justification

to abdicate your responsibility to your neighbor.

And I want to invoke scripture before you think I'm a heretic.

I want to read to you if you'd open up your Bibles to Matthew 16.

I have no clock. You tell me when to stop.

I can't see anything up here. I need to know what I'm doing.

Honestly, I'm Scotch Irish. I can talk forever.

I won't, though. I won't bore you to death.

I'll say to you what Henry the 8th.

said to his third wife, I won't be keeping you long.

All right. Matthew 16, we're going to pick up at verse 5. This is Jesus speaking to his disciples.

Now when his disciples had come to the other side of the Galilee, they had forgotten to take bread.

Then Jesus said to them, take heed and beware of the leaven, of the fathen, of the

Pharisees and the Sadducees. And by the way, in Mark 8, it says,

Beware, Jesus says, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. So we have Pharisees,

Sadducees, Herod. Everyone let's do that together. Pharisees, Sadducees, Herod. One more time.

Pharisees, Sadducees, Herod. Thank you. And they reasoned among themselves saying,

is it because we have taken no bread? But Jesus being aware of it, said to them,

oh, you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves? Because you brought no bread.

Do you not yet understand to remember the five loaves and the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?

And he did that twice, that miracle twice.

It's like, are you worried about bread?

This is a lesson, fellas.

He says, nor the seven loaves or the four thousand and how many baskets you took up.

How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees,

and of Herod, Mark 8, if you want to look it up.

Then they understood, and he did not tell them, that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread,

but of the doctrine of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Herod.

Before we read on, let me cover that.

Leaven is a microorganism that you put into the dough, and it causes it to rise,

Because these microorganisms flageolate and allow, it gives sourdough a whole new meaning.

He's like, I'll pass.

That's what they did.

But it creates air pockets in bread and makes it rise.

It causes something to look larger, but there's no substance in it.

it's 11 is also equated with sin

but Jesus invoked three

people or two groups

Mark got it right

Matthew

who was of the religious sect

was a priest

he understood to include the Sadducees

you see in 6,000 years of recorded history

there's the priestly class and the kingly class

and these two realms of classes have throughout all of history suppressed them the masses with their hocus pocus and their armies and their authority.

They look at the mass of humanity as saddles for themselves to ride.

Never before in the history of the world had a nation arrived where they declared who the sovereign in the nation was,

because for 6,000 years of recorded history, all it was was oligarchies.

The few would rule the many, and you would be their saddles, and you would be their slaves.

But our founders searched all of history, and they realized none of these governments would work if we're to follow the scriptures.

They even, the most quoted book of all the founders was the Bible, and the most quoted book of the Bible was Deuteronomy.

They searched civil law to understand government.

And at the Constitutional Convention, they came to loggerheads,

and the only founder that have his signature on the three major documents of our founding,

the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Paris Peace Agreement,

which was signed with Yorktown, the surrender, was Ben Franklin.

And at the Constitutional Convention, they'd had enough

because these 13 colonies were arguing.

The states had the larger population, wanted greater representation,

the smaller states wanted equal representation,

They were going back and forth.

The slaveholding states, the northern states didn't want the slaves.

They wanted a sunset cloth in slavery.

They went back and forth and forth and back, and they were yelling and arguing, and they were disbanding.

It's this moment, this 80-plus-year-old man whose feet were riddled with gout stands up.

And he says, when we were in war with England, we met in these chambers every day for prayer.

have we forgotten so great a friend we have searched the handles of history to find a government

suitable we've found none but have we thought about appealing to the father of lights that a sparrow

doesn't fall from the sky without his full knowledge how can any government rise or fall without

his strength he said i move that we have adjourned for three days of fasting and prayer and return

you need to read this. It's documented. When they returned, they came up with one of the most

amazing inventions of political science ever invoked, and it was called a bicameral legislature.

They said, we're going to create a house of representatives. And based on the population of the

state, you will have that number of representatives for the larger states, have more population,

they'll have more representatives, a smaller states will have a lesser amount of representatives.

but each state, the representatives of that state,

will be allowed to elect or appoint their two senators,

and every state gets two senators.

That's the upper house.

And then these elected congressional representatives in the lower house

not only appoint the two senators for the state,

but they get by the electoral college to elect the president.

And the president will appoint a judiciary.

and in the preamble of the Constitution,

they declare who the sovereign of the country is,

and they design this country so that you would have the power.

And the preamble which every child used to memorize,

and most everyone here doesn't know,

is we the people of the United States.

In order to form a more perfect union,

do ordain and establish this Constitution.

And it goes on to say the purposes of government

and the seven articles of the U.S. Constitution,

And the question that you ask people is,

how many rights does the Constitution give us?

None.

It's designed to protect the rights given to us by God,

and those seven articles are there to protect us

from those who would represent us

because they are constrained by those seven articles.

And if anyone in this room wants my endorsement for office or you're running,

I'm going to ask you one simple question.

Name the seven articles in the Constitution,

that you're going to swear to defend

against all enemies sworn and domestic.

If you're a frontline officer or military personnel

and you're swearing to defend something,

you know nothing about, why?

Those things protect us.

That's why we taught our children,

and we've neglected to do that

because we don't do school board meetings anymore.

Why teach civics anymore?

While we've been sleeping, the left has taken over.

And here we are today, in the freest nation

in the face of the earth,

in the third-grade crisis of our country.

This first one I'm speaking of is the War of Independence,

and they come up with this bicameral legislature,

and here's what they do.

They say, we the people, we're going to allow the people of this country

to directly elect the House of Representatives.

And they will be the most powerful branch of government, the lower house.

And the reason why they're going to be powerful is because they're going to appoint the senators,

and they're also going to elect the president,

and we're going to give them the purse strings.

They're in charge of the budget.

that's a powerful lower house.

And then they give the Bill of Rights.

The first 10 amendments to the Constitution, there's 27, by the way.

And the very first amendment, the very first amendment.

A lot of you know the second one.

Right to bear arms.

Let's do this.

I got one right here, pastor.

I got a Glock for the flock.

you have that Glock because you're to protect the first 16 words of that First Amendment

the Declaration of Independence is poetic and beautiful

the preamble the Constitution's lovely we the people

but the First Amendment is prohibitive and angry Congress

shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion

nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

No government will ever get in the way

of man worshipping God ever.

Wow.

Now,

now rights are like muscles.

You don't exercise them.

You lose them.

you can't exercise, then you lose it.

This is critical in a republic because it's your nation.

And you're saying you're not going to vote.

You're abdicating your responsibility given to you by those who established it,

where you've enjoyed the unprecedented freedom,

but you won't even lift a finger to participate in the preservation of that republic.

How can that be your Christian?

duty. The Apostle Paul invoked his Roman citizenship and knew it better than you know your own

constitutional republic citizenship. How is that possible? Well, this nation flourished under that

formal government. They had a sunset clause to remove slavery. Actually, the fourth amendment that they,

excuse me, the fourth item in the Declaration of Independence was the slavery issue,

and it was the Southern states.

I wouldn't say Southern, but the slaveholding states that pulled that out of the Declaration

of Independence.

The three-fifths compromise and the Constitution was, look, these slave states,

if you're going to count these as people for your representation in the lower house,

but not allow them to be human beings to operate with freedom, then you get three-fiths.

And they had to come to a consensus because they were about to be invaded again.

and they had a sunset clause written into it,

and the Northwest Ordinance,

you couldn't be a new state in the union

if you were a slave state.

You couldn't be a new state,

according to the Northwest Ordinance,

if you didn't teach the Bible in schools.

Well, Calhoun came along with Andrew Jackson

in the formation of the Democratic Party,

and they reinvigorated slavery

and tried to thwart the Constitution.

I can't imagine any elected officials,

is trying to thwart the Constitution.

It's shocking to me.

It certainly hasn't happened in modern days.

And so slavery rises in these southern states

start to gain their wealth on the back of other human beings

based on their melanin content.

And if you're a revisionist historian

and you're sympathetic to the South and you've read Shelby Foot,

and I'm a historian, I've majored in that,

and you say, no, it wasn't about slavery, it was about states' rights.

You were so wrong.

I'm sorry.

I just, that's one of the, I don't know where you came.

Somebody wrote that and you read it and you believed it.

Just read the secession documents of the southern states.

It was exactly about slavery.

But the North didn't want it to be about slavery.

It's like we don't want to talk about abortion.

It's too difficult of a topic.

And I love the cotton coming from the south and the garments.

and I do buy and trade and sell, and my industry's tied in with theirs and the north.

And, you know, it's bad and I kind of feel bad about it.

And there's some that we're pushing the Overton window, which is this window that when you have,

you know, fanatics on the right and the left, the more fanatical are,

the more they pull the issue to the right or to the left.

And then you had abolitionists, you know, John Brown.

You had John C. Calhoun that they're not even human.

And then the nation is fighting in this capacity.

You had just the folks in the middle that are just, what do we do with this?

But the folks were being enslaved saying, when's this going to end?

They're being sold.

Frederick Douglass's niece.

Frederick Douglass, his niece was auctioned, and they rejoiced in that in the South, mocking the North.

Lincoln who had, and this is the second great crisis in American history, Lincoln, who had never held office with the exception of a fresh

a freshman Congress member from Illinois, one term.

He never professed faith in Jesus Christ.

He never had membership in a church.

He was never publicly baptized.

But no president in the history of the Republic

has quoted more scripture,

invoked more scripture in his inaugural addresses,

than Abraham Lincoln.

And he saw it clearly.

It's like what Peter Drucker says.

he saw the future that had already happened.

He knew it was wrong.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer,

but when the governor said the church was not essential,

I didn't need to know the severity of the virus.

I just knew he was wrong.

The rest I'd figure out.

Come to realize it just was a cold.

22 million people across the world have died from the clot shot.

22 million. That's more than we lost in World War I. And we let them do that to us and our children.

And they devastated our economy and our buildings and they used it to take over an election.

And no one ever believed it. The more we go along with it, we're like, oh my goodness, this is what's happened.

Well, Lincoln saw the future that it already happened. And he looked down and he said, this war isn't about anything but slavery.

And when he does the emancipation proclamation, it angers the north.

And Lincoln's not going to win re-election.

He's going to lose the McClellan, General McClellan, who is a southern sympathizer.

He's going to seal the border and let the South be the South and the North be the North

and have two separate nations.

And he's good with that, the Mason-Dixon line.

And he's winning.

The Democrat candidate's winning.

Nobody wanted to fight for the voiceless.

Nobody wanted to do what's right.

I mean, I don't hold slaves, but who am I to say, you know, their farm, their choice?

Lincoln realized he's going to lose the election,

calls Frederick Douglass into the White House.

The first black man brought in not as a servant or a slave, but as a human being.

He says to Frederick Douglass, I need you to get north, excuse me,

I need you get south of the Mason-Dixon line and tell every black man and black woman and black child to get north.

Because when McClellan wins, he's going to seal the border.

and Frederick Douglass said I left there realizing this was an amazing man.

Sherman, General Sherman, fought.

He split the south right down the middle and made it down to Atlanta where I was just at yesterday,

rallying people to get out the vote, swing state critical.

And when he splits the south, the tide of the war turns, everyone was sick and tired of death.

650,000 soldiers had died in the civil war in a nation of 33 million people.

Every family had lost a father, a son, a husband, a brother, a friend.

Every family.

Well, Lincoln wins re-election because of Sherman.

And the second inaugural address makes the rest of the North angry

because he invokes the idea that God's going to will what he's going to do.

do if we're going to enslave humanity and he made it all about slavery in the second inaugural address

he wanted to bind up the wounds of the nation he wanted to repent he was more consumed with the will

of god than the pulpits in america were as a war was coming to a close

Lincoln decides to go to the theater.

His wife had had a mental breakdown.

She had finally recovered.

He had lost two sons in the course of the war.

He was exhausted.

He was gaunt.

He was frail, sickly.

No one would go to the theater with him.

No officers of importance.

So a major, which is a very low rank in the Army,

a major and his wife traveled.

and met the president there at Ford's Theater.

And Lincoln is sitting in the presidential box at Ford's Theater

to watch my American cousin.

And as he's watching the play,

he leans into Mary Todd Lincoln,

which she, this is confirmed by Mary Todd Lincoln herself

in the curator of Lincoln Library.

She leans into, he leans into his wife,

and he says, my dear, when this is all over, meaning the war,

I long to walk with you in the footsteps of our Savior.

He wanted to go to Israel.

He wanted to go to Jerusalem.

And right when he said that,

it was John Wilkes Booth

who approached the back of his head with a derringer.

He said, when this is all over,

I longed to walk with you in the footsteps of our Savior.

Bang!

Right to the back of the head.

He collapses.

He's still alive.

It's April 14th, 1865.

They carry him across the street.

He lives through the night

to April 15th, 1865.

and breathes his last.

He died on Friday, April 15th, 1865.

He died on Good Friday, April 15th, 1865.

And you know what the pulpits in America said about the great emancipator?

They decried the fact that he died in a theater on Good Friday.

Moral pietism.

The man saved the republic and the church was silent.

And now we're to third great crisis in our nation.

Let's go back to the text.

Verse 13.

When Jesus came into the region of Cessori of Philippi,

he asked his disciples saying,

who do men say that I the son of man am?

So they said, some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others Jeremiah were one of the prophets.

And Jesus said to them, but who do you say that I am?

Simon Peter answered and said, you are the Christ, the son of the living God.

You're the Messiah of the world.

Jesus answered and said to him, blessed are you, Simon Barjona for flesh and blood,

has not revealed this to you, but my father who is in heaven and upon this rock.

I will build my...

What?

That's what it says church, huh?

Upon this rock, I'll build my church,

and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

Upon this rock.

You know, Tyndale, which is the very first English-speaking Bible,

the Tyndale Bible, the very first English-speaking Bible

that was written from the original manuscripts.

It transformed the Western world.

It's one of the reasons why England became Great Britain

is because they had the written word

and they had a complete Bible.

It was Vodi Baccombe who teaches seminary in an African nation.

He has these black African students,

and he puts up a map of the concentration of the wealth of the world.

He says to his black African students,

what do you surmise from this?

Because all the wealth is concentrated in Western Europe and America.

He says,

the white man is superior.

Now Vody Bakum's black.

He gets pulled over for riding a motorcycle for tinted windows.

I mean, he's that black.

And Vody takes another map and overlays it with that map

of the spread of the gospel that went through Europe and America.

He says, now what do you surmise?

And these black seminary students say,

the white man's not superior, his God is.

Jesus.

When Tyndale translated this word

in the very first English-speaking Bible,

he got to Matthew 16, 18,

and he translated the word church correctly.

And because of the way he translated it,

the king of England had him hung

and his remains burned.

What in the world could he have done?

He translated it correctly from the original language.

And it read this way.

Upon this rock, I will build my assembly.

I mean, why are you burning me?

Why are you hanging me?

Because he invoked the real Greek word.

Church didn't come to hundreds of years later.

The word that was used in the original language was ecclesi,

Ecclesia, the etymology of Ecclesia goes back hundreds of years before Christ used it.

Christ didn't use a religious term.

He didn't say synagogue or temple.

He said Ecclesia.

And Ecclesia according to Aristotle and all the Greek philosophers.

It was the building they gathered for the citizens of the city-state to decide the welfare of the city.

and above the doors of every ecclesia in the Greek city state

were isonomia and elotheria, liberty and equality.

And they gathered there to decide the laws for the future of their community.

So when Jesus says,

blessed are you, Simon Barjona,

and any other person who professes that I am the Messiah of the world,

blessed are you?

For flesh and blood has not revealed that to you,

but my father who is in heaven.

And upon this rock,

I will build the city hall,

the public square and the gates which enslave will not prevail. No man will be a saddle for another

to ride. They will be free. If my people who are called by my name will realize they've neglected

so great of freedom and humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways of apathy

and inactivity, then I'll hear from heaven and heal their land.

The lighthouse of the gospel, 80 cents, and every dollar in evangelism comes for the United States of America.

You bind the strong man, this nation's finished.

We're in the third great crisis.

It was the civil war.

And now we're in a constitutional crisis, a Christian form of government without active Christians participating.

Because I just preach the gospel.

I don't do politics.

and you've now brought heresy into the church.

Jesus said, upon this rock, I'll build my public square, my city hall,

and the gates which enslave, the gates of hell.

Let me bring it all together and call it a day.

The leaven of the Pharisees, and Herod,

Jesus brings them up to the headwaters of the Jordan and Cessori of Philippi.

If you've ever been there, I've been there 22 times.

it is the most resplendent park-like setting you can imagine

and every culture that's dominated the region

has carved into the cliff a temple to their god or goddess.

There's unbelievable amounts of them just carved into the hillside.

And at the time, Rome occupied the region.

So they had a temple of Tobacus, the god of alcohol, Aphrodite,

the goddess of sensuality.

These Orthodox Jewish boys gets to the headwaters of the Jordan.

It's a long way from the Galilee.

And they get there and there's probably drunken nudity and revelry going on.

And they're just frolicing in the waters of the Jordan.

They're knee deep.

And these Jewish boys are going, hey, look at this.

Roman women bouncing around just drunk.

So you imagine with me, in the cacophony of noise of pagan worship,

these Jewish boys are looking at a turban.

tyrannical empire and licentiousness and debauchery.

And he says, who do men say that I am?

Some say John the Baptist, I say Jeremiah, say Elijah.

Who do you say that I am?

Because you're a need to understand something, fellas.

The leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees will result in this mess.

but upon this rock your testimony i'll build my city hall i'll build government and gates will not enslave them

more than a third of rome were slaves now one more more and i'm going to bring you constant to history

i want to talk about three to five million slaves three to five million crying out to god for freedom

and God sends an 80-year-old man by the name of Moses.

80 years old.

They're like, do you have anybody else?

I got this.

The first 40 years of his life, he was a somebody.

He was raised in all the wisdom of the Egyptians,

handsome in word and deed.

Then he kills an Egyptian officer guard,

and then he runs into the Midian Desert.

And for 40 years, he's in the backside of the Middle East.

Midian Desert, his face is leathery and his beard is long and he's been talking to goats so much,

he has a speech impediment. And all of a sudden, this bush starts burning without being consumed

and the voice comes out. Tell Pharaoh to let my people go. Moses says, he says, who do, who do men,

He says, who shall I say has sent me?

I am.

Do you have another name?

Because that's really weird.

It's a tetragrammaton, Jehovah, Y, W, H, W, W, it's this idea of, I am, I'm, I'm not creative.

I've always existed.

I am and will always be.

And his name is always connected to an attribute.

Jehovah Jira, Jehovah Tisdakeneu, Jehovah Shalom.

And he's saying to Moses, I will be for you whatever you need when you need it.

Now go and do what I told you to do.

Confront Pharaoh.

He's the most powerful man on the face of the earth.

I don't care.

Listen, folks, you're scared and you're using excuses not to participate

and you think it's so overwhelming that all you can do is tell everyone else

what the problems are without coming up with any solutions or making any effort to change it.

And I have news for you. I'm in California. We don't get a lot of victories there.

But I've learned one thing. I'm not in charge of the outcome. I'm in charge of the obedience.

So Moses confronts Pharaoh and says, let my people go. And Pharaoh like every tyrant says,

who is God that I should obey him.

You're at the wrong convention.

You need to go to the smaller one down the street.

And Moses goes,

You've opened up a can of Jesus, you're not going to get the lid on.

Ten plagues, last one is the Passover, the angel of death, the first born and every family dies.

Farrell loses his son.

He relents.

He allows the Egyptian slaves to leave with the wealth of the Egyptians.

And as they're exiting Egypt, Pharaoh realizes he's losing his slave.

his slave economy, so he doubles down and he pursues them with the entirety of the Egyptian

army. Oh, and by the way, let me back that up. Before he did that, when he says who is God that

I should obey him, you know what Pharaoh did? He doubled the brick output and reduced the materials.

And you know what all the three to five million Israelites wanted to do? Kill Moses.

People want freedom. They just don't want to have to work for it. You don't want freedom. You just want to be

taken care of. That's why you're subject to a nation that will give you everything.

Just stay at home and order DoorDash. And I get a check every day. I get larger.

No. They wanted to kill Moses. But God is the majority, and one man in God constitutes a majority.

Ten plagues, Pharaoh relents. As they're exiting, he realizes he's losing a slave economy,

sends his forces after him. Moses gets to the Red Sea, mountain ranges on either side,

and the Egyptian army bearing down,

the most powerful army on the face of the earth,

bearing down, and all the Israelites complain to Moses.

People want liberty, they just don't want to have to work for it.

Moses goes to God, God parts the Red Sea.

They go through in absolute clarity.

The Egyptians are in abstract darkness.

They stumble, fall.

There's a distance between them.

When they all get safely to their side,

he brings the part back to normal and drowns them.

They end up in the desert.

God provides manna every morning.

He provides water,

where there isn't. He blows quail off course so they can have meat coming out their nostrils.

Their shoes don't wear out for 40 years. Their clothes don't wear out for 40 years.

But here's the greatest miracle. Moses goes up on Mount Sinai and gets a downloaded moral app.

He comes back down and Aaron has melted the golden, he's melted all the gold and made a golden calf.

And there's a rave party going on and there's a boat, boat, boat, boathe, boat

And he does what God says.

He instructs the children and the grandchildren,

and he places the decalogue, the moral law in the center of the community.

He commands us and believers today to know this law.

I'd be hard-pressed to find 10 of you who can recite the 10 commandments.

I'm going to teach them to you quickly.

Hold up one finger.

Say one God.

Take two fingers.

Bend the second one.

say no idols don't bow down three fingers put them over your mouth don't take the name of the lord your god in vain

i didn't hear you i still couldn't hear because your hands are over here no okay

four make a pillow honor the sabbath day rest five salute on your mother and father

six don't murder seven there's two

in a marriage, not five, don't commit adultery.

Eight, hide your thumbs,

because if you steal, we'll cut them off.

Nine, this is five, not four, this is four, not five,

don't lie, don't bear false witness.

Ten, don't covet.

Don't pursue socialism.

This is the Levin of the Pharisees, Sadducees and of Herod,

from the moral law, come civil law.

And when the moral law is applied to civil law,

and that's the filter that we in the first five commandments are accountable to God,

the laws of nature and nature's God,

and the second five commandments were responsible to,

each other not to steal, not to lie, not to covet, not to commit adultery, not to murder.

That's the moral law.

And then the Pentateuch that's applied to all the moral law.

And here's the greatest miracle of all.

These three to five million Jews lived together for 40 years without a police force or a standing

army because they were accountable to God and to each other.

And if that moral law is a part of a culture, as it used to be on the facades of all of our

Supreme Court buildings and our elected officials know that law and apply it in their civil law.

It will be, as it says, in the graduating class, it's invoked every graduating class at Harvard

University.

It was first invoked in 1915.

It's in a plaque on the stairwell of Harvard Law School.

It says the law is the wise restraints that make men free.

You say, how do restraints make you free?

Well, there's athletes in the room, you understand this.

you apply restraints towards evil.

While your buddies and your classmates are out partying on Friday night,

you're in bed early because you've got a three-hour practice on Saturday morning.

And if you're going to stand on that victory block, you've got to apply restraints.

Any parent understands this with their students, their children,

that no, they're not going to play the idiot box, Nintendo, Game Box, whatever X, I don't know.

And they're not going to eat miserable food and sit in front of the TV all day.

No, you're going to turn that off and go do your homework.

Because freedom is having choices.

the more you front-load your life and you educate yourself and you apply restraints towards evil

in order to pursue excellence, then that nation will flourish. And even though it's 4% of the world's

population, it will dominate the sea lanes. It will set the captives free from fascism in Europe.

It will turn the tide of the war in all of Europe. It will end slavery, child labor laws.

Because we front-loaded it. We apply restraints towards evil in order to pursue excellence.

but if you remove the moral law.

By the way, the law doesn't save.

But Galatians 3 says that the law is a school teacher,

a guardian to point us to Christ until faith comes.

That atheist had held the sign came to Christ

because he knew that that was the source of liberty.

Because those laws have consequences.

And they understand there's a God.

You can be an agnostic, which means without knowledge.

I know he's there.

I know there's a designer.

I just haven't met him.

I believe in absolute truth.

Well, his name is Jesus.

us. And in the pursuit of this, those wise restraints will make us free, applying restraints

towards evil in order to pursue excellence. But let me tell you what happens if you remove the moral

law. The law just becomes a weapon to enslave mankind. It becomes the leaven of the Pharisees and the

Sadduceeses and Herod. They enslave you with addiction. They cross your borders with fentanyl.

and kill your children, they traffic your children, they mutilate your children, they indoctrinate your children,

they bankrupt your country because you have no moral compass. And the reason why there's no moral

compass is because moral men and women have done nothing. All that's necessary for evil to prosper

is for good men and women to do nothing. And this is the final thing.

I'm gonna

you guys

your child comes home from school

and I want to teach you the difference between morality and character

morality is not doing what's wrong

I would

venture to guess this is a room of moral people

and I'm glad about that

you don't drink smoke too, hang around with those who do

I drink

a little bit

Hey, stop.

It's for my stomach ailment.

Paul told me to do it.

Moral people don't do what's wrong.

Character's different.

Character's doing what's right.

So your child comes home from school and says,

Mommy, Daddy, all the kids in the school called Susie Fat.

But I didn't.

And you say, well, that's the moral thing to do, child.

But where's your character?

What do you mean?

why didn't you tell the other children to stop it?

I would have been the only one in the class.

It would have laughed to me.

It doesn't matter.

You're Christians.

You're more than conquers in Christ Jesus.

God hasn't given you a spirit of fear,

but a power, love, and a sound mind.

And in 20 years, if we don't stand up

and contend in those school boards

and contend in this government in the ecclesia,

for the sake of the next generation,

these mutilated children with double mastectomies

are going to look at us and say,

where were you?

You profess that your Savior is truth.

And you allowed them to do this to me.

Yeah, there's no apathy in the body of Christ.

Jesus said,

the gates of hell will not prevail on that testimony

because Christians will occupy the ecclesia.

And while we've been busy playing church

with budgets, buildings, and baptisms,

a secular progressive left has enslaved our children.

Let's go and set them free in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Thank you, everybody.

Thanks, everybody.

Thank you.