Summer Vibes 7 | This Land Is Your Land

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How are you this morning?

I see a lot of our church family are enjoying the beautiful summer in the Okanagan and are away on holidays, and we've met a number of families already that are joining with us today, and we just want to welcome you in Jesus' name.

Thank you for coming and connecting with us.

It's been a real blessing to have you.

Well, we've been on a mission this uh this summer to talk uh a series called Summer Vibes, and we've been taking uh we've been taking ideas of songs and everything and using them as a as a tool to uh express some, I think, biblical and scriptural values and the DNA that exists around our church as a whole.

But before uh we listen to the song that that I hope will target some of that, I'd like you to stand with me, would you please?

And I'd like you to read the word of God with me.

I always like the, as I've said before, the sense of respect and honor that we've got to have for the word of God.

Do you believe that?

Thank you, Lord, for your word.

Isaiah 41, verse 4 comes from the amplified version, and I've added a few other implications, aversions in it, but let's let's just convey this today together, okay?

Isaiah 41:4

Who has prepared and done this?

Calling and guiding the destinies of the generations of the nations from the beginning?

Who has determined the course of history from the beginning?

I, the Lord, the first, existing before history began, and with the last and ever-present, unchanging God, I am He.

Don't you like that?

He asks the question and then answers it.

He asks you, who do you think is in control?

Who do you think is watching over the nations of the world?

Do you think that you have the ability to do that, like I've got the ability to do it?

Actually, God set the very course of nations into place.

I believe that.

And the Bible says he established those nations' borders, not wars.

God establishes borders.

And so this morning we're going to talk about Canada.

We're going to talk about some things because how many of you know there's a federal election coming up very soon, uh, closing in on October.

It has to happen before, I think, the 26th of October.

And so we're going to trust God for some wisdom today as I begin to share my heart with you about uh preparing ourselves as the church as we head into what might be the most important election in Canada's history.

Let's pray before we do that, okay, Father?

Will we welcome you into this place?

We've welcomed you through our praise.

You said we enter in through the gates with thanksgiving in our heart and enter the courts with praise.

So we've done that.

We've entered into your presence.

And now we're asking for your presence to enter into us.

Sovereignly and supernaturally, trigger some things in our lives so that we have clarity about our future.

And give us wisdom, Lord.

Give us the wisdom of Issachar, the wisdom of people who saw things ahead and were able to plan accordingly.

We asked for that, Father, this morning, and everyone said, Amen.

Steve, could we, you may be seated, could we play that little song?

And you might be able to remember it if you do.

Why don't you sing along with me?

It's one of my favorite songs.

Yeah, give yourself a hand this morning.

Well, I am Canadian.

Okay?

Now, I'm also part of an immigrant family that came out of Normandy, France, who were what they would call Huguenots.

And the Huguenots were like the pilgrims.

Do you remember the pilgrims to the United States?

The Huguenots were French Protestants that were fleeing persecution for their faith, and they settled, our family settled in the Laurentians in Montreal, and that's where they uh grew up and uh followed the Lord, and our family has been walking with the Lord for many generations as a result of that.

Very grateful for the freedom that they encountered when they came to Canada.

How many of you are grateful for that freedom?

I had the opportunity to be born in New Brunswick.

Anybody, any New Brunswickers here?

I don't see anybody.

Well, they say all, you know, the wise men come from the east, and so I'm I'm here.

I'm here.

Uh then we lived in Nova Scotia and I lived in Quebec for a while, and then spent most of my life in uh in British Columbia, and particularly the last 37 years of it in Kelowna.

Beautiful place uh to be in the will of God, right?

Um in the meantime, we had an opportunity to, as kids, to be in the vehicle, and in those times you could sleep on the back window.

Anybody remember those times?

My sister would lay out on the on the back of the seat of the car, and I would get up with a pillow in the back window, and we would sleep because it was a long way to go across Canada.

5,000 kilometers, days upon days upon days.

But as I looked at some of the pictures that we were showing in that song, it brought fresh memory to me about what Canada, how beautiful Canada is in all of its glory, from one part of the country to the other.

And some of you had a chance to do that.

I know my sister and her husband spent, I think it was almost two months last year traveling across Canada.

If you haven't had a chance to do that and take in the uh the Maritimes or or the history of Quebec and Ontario, uh, or see the incredible uh beauty of the prairies, right?

When the dog can leave home a week ago and you still see them.

Jogging down.

We were on a we've talked about this before, but uh was with some uh some people from Saskatchewan and we were going up to uh Alaska and looking at all those beautiful mountains.

I said, Isn't this beautiful?

And they said, Yeah, it is, but the mountains get in the way of the view.

I remember when I was five years of age, I visited Parliament Hill, and I got a little picture of me uh standing beside one of the RCMP officers there, and I think that that was the moment that God planted a seed in my heart about Canada.

I remember in my heart going, listen, I have a passion to see my nation strong and prosperous and kind and compassionate, uh at peace, culturally uh connected, financially strong, morally and ethically and spiritually strong.

And I think that that's your heart too.

Before I get into sharing some of those things, I want to share with you a few bits of Canadian trivia you may not have known.

Do you know that Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined?

I know that personally because I have a belly boat and I walk into the bush way up here past uh my uh past the uh Beaver Lake area, and uh I call it St.

David in the Woods Lake.

And uh great, great, great fishing in that lake, right?

But we can almost each have a lake named after us.

One out of ten, eleven people, we've got our own lake.

Isn't that phenomenal?

Take a look at the second one.

We've got the largest border between two nations, and are we glad that at least uh we have some peace in those borders?

I think that's really important.

Our motto, Amare Uske Asmar, Mari, uh, what does that mean?

From sea to sea.

It comes from the biblical uh mandate of that he will have dominion from sea to sea.

What about Canada being the second largest country in the world?

Who's the first?

Russia is the first man, you're going pretty good.

The average age expectancy is 81.6 years of age.

That means they've got, as of yesterday, 14.6 years to look to go.

Or 13.14.

14, boy, that year really makes a big difference.

Uh we've got the longest coastline of any uh of any country in the world.

Did you know that we have a hundred and fifty-one thousand kilometers of coastline?

That's a lot to be watching over, isn't it?

That's why we probably had one of the largest Coast Guard fleets in the world.

Uh we're the ninth most sparsely populated country in the world.

Why one of the reasons why our doors are wide open to the world in coming.

8.6, I don't know what the 0.6 is, but 8.6 people per uh square mile in Canada.

Hello.

That's pretty sparse.

Do you know that we all we have 9% of the total fresh water supply of the entire world in Canada?

And when people come here and they realize we can go up into the mountains and cup some water out of a stream and not necessarily get beaver fever, uh, but but be pretty confident that there's safety in doing so is phenomenal.

And listen, by the way, how many of you know the answer to this?

Canadians on average eat 23.4 pounds of what per annum?

The most in the world?

Bacon?

By looking at some of us, probably that's true.

How about anybody else got an idea?

Potatoes?

No.

Chicken?

No.

Do you know what it is?

Would you like to know?

I'll tell you at the end of the service, okay?

It's uh cheese.

And and do you know what cheese we like the most?

Cheddar cheese.

Hello?

And how many of you know what the official sport in Canada is?

Pardon me?

Oh, wow.

I thought you guys I'd trip you up this morning that it would come back as hockey, but it's lacrosse, even though we established both of them.

We're a blessed nation, right?

You did pretty good on that little trivia in Canada.

I'm really blessed.

You look at some of these programs on television where they come up to someone with a microphone and said, you know, who won World War II?

You know?

And they go, you know, they don't know anything.

You guys did really good.

You passed the test.

We're a blessed nation.

And that blessing is rooted into our beginnings.

The blessing comes from its beginning.

When leaders that gather together to create a constitution and a nation together, a confederation, saw that Canada would succeed best if its governance was based upon biblical law.

When a nation drew its strength from a belief in God and walked covenantally with God.

That's in our history.

Now, some of that history is being airbrushed out of our our history books.

But that's the truth.

And going back to the beginnings of something is very, very important to me because it tells us something about original intent and purpose.

The rights and freedoms that we enjoy today as citizens were not given to us by our government or a charter, but through an acknowledgement that we are the product of a creator who has given each one of us inalienable rights and freedoms and placed them in our heart and mind for every man, every woman, every child, and that that is rooted into divine law.

God established it.

And that, of course, I believe when God gives it to you, no one can take it away.

I can be in jail and I'm free.

Our sense of right and wrong was not established by human opinion or social polls.

Our personal and our corporate conscience as Canadians is the result of a biblical and moral plumb line that has been dropped into the midst of our nation for centuries.

We recognized a higher moral code existed above our highest personal value systems, and that that moral code created a common base for social justice.

We can all go back to that common base and resolve our issues.

It's almost like a, you know, a covenant that happens between a husband and wife.

If you try to resolve your challenges and conflicts on the basis of your personal opinions and feelings, it won't work.

You have to have a covenantal contract that you go back to and go, we made a pledge to God, to each other, about how we're going to live.

And let's go and take a look at what God says I should be in this relationship.

We have to have a moral code that goes beyond our opinions and our feelings.

And when Canada was originally established, it was established on the social justice that flows from the biblical law of God.

Our love for the immigrant, for the poor, and the disenfranchised globally, the unjustly treated, the women who are caught up in the sexual trades.

It didn't emerge from the heart of man creating social systems to care for the needy.

That love for the immigrant and for the poor and the disenfranchised emerged from the heart of God, who put his love, that love that God has for the whole world, in our hearts for the hurting and the broken of humanity.

Do you believe that?

It's not the base on the basis of my capable compassion, because our compassion sometimes is pretty much ruled by selfishness.

But it flows from the heart of God.

He loves everyone.

How many of you know that heaven is not going to be selective about who can get there?

Right?

God opens a door widely and broadly to every culture, every color, every every you understand what I'm saying?

There is a divine tension that exists in Scripture, and it comes out of two verses.

One is this verse, Psalm 33, verse 12, that says, Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.

Psalms 33:12

Do you believe that?

When God is Lord, he rules.

And when we use that word Lord, we're not talking about uh we're not talking about God suggesting stuff.

We're talking about when we say that Jesus is the Lord of my life, we mean that we have submitted our entire life to God's oversight, his thinking, his feelings, his will, his opinion.

Hello?

That's not a very not a very easy term to be able to bring to the generation that is existing today, but all the way through scripture, it makes it clear that unless Jesus is Lord, you're not a Christian.

That the person who crosses over from a religious affiliation to Christianity into real Christianity has to go cross the bridge of Lordship.

And we've got to come to that place that say, Jesus, you created me.

You know what your intent was for my life and why you created me and for what purpose, and I yield my life to you.

You talk to me, and I'll go where you want me to go.

I'll do what you want me to do, I'll say what you want me to say, I'll be what you called me to be.

I'm not getting a lot of amens and praise God's on that one, but uh, maybe you need to revisit the Lordship message in Scripture.

We are saved when we call upon and invoke the name of the Lord.

So on one side of the equation, blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.

On the other side, we have Proverbs 14, 34 that says, Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

One of the translations says, but sin diminishes people.

How many of you know that sin diminishes people?

On another translation says, sin will bring people down.

Agreed?

Say amen.

If you believe that.

Sin is a people's ruin.

So on the one hand, blessed is the people whose God is the Lord, and on the other side, righteousness will exalt a nation, but sin will be a reproach to any people.

And when you look at that, that tension between those two scriptures, when we yield as a nation to the reason why God not only created us, but created this nation and abide by his will and direction and purpose, we're blessed.

But when we reject God's purpose and go our own way and do our own thing, we fall into disgrace.

Are you hearing my heart?

It's the same way when it comes to us personally.

God created you and He created you for a purpose and a reason.

And if you go to the Creator and ask him why you're here, he'll tell you.

He'll give you understanding about the things that he's called you to do and to be.

And then your life can take on daily meaning by yielding to the direction of the Lord.

If we try to be something God has not created us to be, it leads us into dysfunction and trouble.

And the same thing goes for a nation.

When you go back to the formation of Canada and its eternal creation in the heart of God, why God permitted Canada to become a nation, you find out that God's purpose for it was aligned to certain things and certain ways and certain laws and certain uh a certain DNA.

And when we reject that DNA in the essential, we we change, we shift.

And by the way, we lose our sense of identity of who we are.

And by the way, for years now, Canada has been flailing around trying to find itself.

And by doing so, has wound up trying this and trying that and becoming convoluted in the process.

Where people don't know.

I travel fairly significantly over the last number of years, and I go to nations around the world, and the common statement has been what's happening to Canada.

And the reason why what's happening to Canada is a question globally, is because people are trying to understand this is what we believe Canada stood for, but now it's changed.

How many of you know change has been happening very quickly?

Canada's facing many challenges to its identity.

When we look at division across the nation, we have cultural division, multiculturalism.

We are a mosaic, not a melting pot.

And what's happened in the process, and as we've invited the world to join us, and that's a godly principle, to have that love for the stranger and that hospility for everyone who comes.

In the process, people have come here and created isolation rather than blending.

Into a new Canada.

Multiculturalism is a blessing in one way, and it's also become a problem that's creating division across the nation as people are conflicted.

We're nations within nation.

We see it economically, there's a division, the disparity of wealth and resources.

We see racial division, French and English, white and native.

We see the siloing that happens as people begin to create their defenses and compete and compare and strive against one another.

And this, all you'd have to do is go on the television and listen for a few minutes and you'll see what I'm talking about.

There's geographical division between the east and the west and Quebec and Ontario and North and South and Upper and Lower.

Hello.

And when we try to govern this great nation, you see that there are many regional territories that are fighting against one another.

There's gender division, not just male and female, but there's all kinds of ideological shifts that are taking place today to actually redefine humanity and this breeding an incredible level of confusion.

We find generational division.

The younger don't get the older, and the older don't get the younger.

And we've now we're living in a culture where there is a blending of generations all flowing at the same time.

Whereas in years gone past, it would take maybe 500 to 1,000 years to create a new generation in the way that they thought, in the way they processed.

Today, generations are being created within two years.

So that a five-year-old and a seven-year-old in the same home can be on tracking on different values and different technologies and different ways of thinking and valuing life.

We have that on a Sunday morning when we come together.

It's not just a matter of our age differences, it's a matter of the DNA feelings, the generational shifts that are going on, and many of us are trying hard to keep up.

Anyone here?

Well, hello.

Are you still here?

I said, anybody here feel the same way where you're caught with trying to bring about those changes and integrate those changes in your life?

And it seems like life is passing you in the fast lane.

Well, just it's because it was my birthday yesterday and I'm feeling older.

We have religious division, an inability to lay down what separates us for what could unite us.

We have ideological division, and there is a civil war of ideology going on in Canada today.

And how many of you know that ideology and those value systems, uh, you don't check them at the border.

They come in through various streams into the life of the nation and sooner or later start to dominate everything about how we think and what we feel and what we value and reprioritize.

And so when we guard over the nation, we can't just guard over it at the border because these are ideas that we're having to deal with.

And I remember Napoleon made the statement, he says, I'd rather a great idea than a great army.

Simply put, great ideas can cause an entire nation to be subjugated to them, depending upon how those ideas are pushed.

We have political division where there was times when in past that I and I go back 35 years of working with with uh parties in Ottawa where you could sit down from all different spheres of the of the of the of the uh parliament and talk to people and they work towards finding something that was a solution for the good of Canada.

We no longer have that going on within our nation.

There's a divide and a separation and an inability and an and an incapacity to dialogue and to talk.

So are we are we in a little bit of a mess here?

We have judicial division that's going on where judges are beginning to frame what you should believe and how you should think.

Unelected, appointed people who are redefining the culture and the values of Canada.

It's creating disagreement and debate and criminalizing debate.

We have a truth division in Canada.

When we try to find out what actually is the truth and we're caught with superficiality and in quotes, fake news.

Where it used to be.

Do you know when the first newspapers were created in in England?

You know why they were created?

To deal with gossip.

And to report on acts of God.

Two reasons why newspapers were created.

To deal with gossip so that things would not be said that would undermine the general good of a population that were not true.

And acts of God to report on fires and earthquakes and floods, etc.

etc.

Do you think we've departed from that?

And we have a lot of spinning that goes on, and you have a uh a generation of people growing up going, oh God, what's the truth?

I don't know what the truth is.

You can't even Google it.

You just have to get into your prayer closet and say, God, please talk to me.

Help me understand so that I can be a wise individual and handle life.

What's the solution?

I've exposed some of the problem.

Do you agree that there's some problems?

What's the solution for healing these divisions that have occurred?

I believe Canada needs a come to Jesus moment.

Canada will watch its culture and the greater society deteriorate and devolve into its lowest common moral and cultural denominator the longer it separates itself from truth and godliness.

Paul writes this.

He said, the wall of division between people has been taken down.

And he said, his blood has brought unity, broken the power of race and language and culture and gender and generational occurrences.

He writes in Ephesians 2.14 this.

He says, Christ tore down.

I think I have that written.

Maybe I don't have it outlined.

I'm going to read it to you from Ephesians 2, 14 to 20.

Christ tore down the wall we used to keep each other at a distance.

Who did that?

I'm going to say it again.

Christ tore down the wall we used to keep each other at a distance.

We used law, customs, opinions, feelings to keep each other out of each other's space.

But God, through Christ, broke down the wall that kept everybody at a distance.

He repealed the law code that had become so clogged with fine printed footnotes that it hindered us more than it helped us.

Then he started all over.

Instead of continuing with two groups of people separated by centuries of animosity and suspicion, he created a new kind of human being, a fresh start for everybody.

The cross got us to embrace.

I don't care if I've known them one minute or one year or a hundred.

Love you.

God bless you.

You know?

That's not necessarily who everyone else is here, and I get that.

But when you give your life to Jesus and the walls of division have been broken down between us, it's easy to hug because we've moved from being a stranger into a and passed a friend into family.

You're now my brother, you're now my sister.

We have the same father, the same elder brother, the same spirit in us, the same blood in our veins.

He said it's the cross that got us to embrace.

And that was the end of hostility.

He treated us as equals and so made us equal.

Through him, we both shared the same spirit and have equal access to the same Father.

That's plain.

You're no longer wandering exiles.

The kingdom of faith is now your home country.

You're no longer strangers or outsiders.

You belong here with as much right as anyone.

God is building a home and he's using all of us, irrespective of how we got here, in what he's building.

So, the answer to Canada.

Remember that song, This Land is?

Your land.

This land is my land.

It's our land.

It's where God placed us.

It's where God put us and said, serve.

Love the nation.

Love its destiny.

Love its identity.

Love its purpose.

Work for its good.

Like he spoke in Jeremiah to the slaves that had been brought into Babylon.

You build houses and live in them.

You plant gardens and eat from them.

And we have a number of that, a number of those who do that in this place.

Raise children, have married and raise children and pray for the peace of that city.

Pray for the peace of that nation.

I don't know if we do that anymore like we should.

Do you actually ever take time to say, Lord, as we were singing the song, peace to Canada?

To resolve the troubled waters and the storms that we're facing.

But Paul reveals the solution.

And he said, the solution to Canada is found in number one, Christ.

If any person is in Christ, they are a new creation.

Oh, yeah, but I want to keep my distinctiveness.

I get that.

I understand that.

But there is a thing called the culture of heaven, the kingdom of God.

And he takes us out of this kingdom, this earthly kingdom of darkness, and by his son transposes us into the kingdom of his son Jesus, into a kingdom of light.

And we're moved from being Caucasian or Jamaican or Chinese or Korean.

We're moved from that or First Nations and we're moved into a new and unique creation called Christian.

And I have to give up stuff from my past, and others have to give up stuff from their past.

And we all adopt a new DNA called Christ and his kingdom.

And I want to tell you, I want to tell you, heaven is going to be a phenomenal place where people from every tribe and nation are gathered together, and it's the solution to that unity that they find around the throne, is the fact that they've all come into a common experience and embrace of Jesus.

And Jesus paid the price for our uh our anger and our violence and our attitude and our divisiveness with each other.

He paid the price by going to the cross.

And through the cross, when we all come through the door of the cross and lay our stuff down, we pick up what it means to be reconciled back to God and then reconciled to one another, and we are now the hope of Canada.

Because we've come through Christ and we've come through the cross and we come through his church.

So I'm going to say this from my heart to you: the hope for Canada is Christ, the cross, and his church.

And if we lose that, if we don't value the process that God has taken place in the position that knows how to draw the world to himself, that, you know, God so loved the world, that hug that wrapped itself around the entire world.

If we lose that, we lose our ability to function in community, become family, become a nation under God.

It is Christ through the new creation.

It is the cross that paid the penalty for all of our divisions and our mess.

And it is the church that is the purveyor of this hope for the nation.

That we can actually be get along with each other.

We can love each other.

We can work out our differences.

Why?

Not because of my background or my skill set, but because Christ has shifted and changed something in my life.

And I love you.

That's the foundation.

Are you hearing my heart this morning?

Or are you hearing God's heart?

We have elections coming up.

I want to take about two, three minutes on this and say this to you.

Under restrictions from Revenue Canada on charity law, I can't tell you who to vote for, and I wouldn't.

I'm a citizen like you are.

I'm a citizen of the kingdom first.

I'm a do- I've got dual citizenship.

Did you know that?

My citizenship is first and foremost heaven.

Secondly, it's Canadian.

And heaven citizenship affects as an ambassador of heaven to Canada how I look at Canada and what I want to see for my nation.

First thing we need to do is pray.

You got two months.

I said, you got two months.

You need to pray.

You say, well, we can organize a prayer meeting and get no, you need to make it a matter of daily prayer and lift our nation up to God.

This is probably the most critical election in Canada's history.

People may have said that before.

I'm saying it to you.

You've never heard me say that from this pulpit.

I'm saying that to you.

It's the most critical nation.

If you don't vote, it's a significant loss to the destiny of Canada.

So pray for those of authority.

The Bible says, do so that we may live in peace.

So that the Christian community can function in peace.

Not just be tolerated, but be celebrated as part of the nation and its history and its foundation and its DNA.

Unfortunately, that is not happening in Canada today.

And it has to be reborn.

And the only way I know how to reborn it is to pray so that we can live in peace.

Secondly, you need to stand on guard for your nation.

You need to stand on guard for your nation.

Here's some issues that right across the board, whether you're Christian or non-Christian, young or old, there is a common concern in Canada about these values.

So I'm going to lay them out for you.

And if you want to hear them again, you can go to the site.

You need to guard over parental rights to raise and to educate your children the way that you have a belief in value system.

Anyone you vote for should value parental rights.

Parental rights are at risk today in our nation.

And the more potentially socialist we become, the more the state has control over the children that you've born.

Secondly, you need to guard over your electing civil servants who will protect your freedom of religion, your right to believe, your freedom of speech and conscience.

We have significant spheres within the country that are being affected by the loss of conscience, where they're they have lost their ability to say no on the basis of their conscientious objection.

You need to pray, but you need to guard over this country in reference to parental rights and your freedom of religion, your right to assemble, your freedom of speech, your freedom of conscience.

You need to battle for that.

It used to be that it was a right that was inalienably yours.

It is no longer that.

You have to fight for it.

If you don't fight for it, who will?

If not you, who?

If not now, when?

If not here, where are you gonna do it?

The third thing you need to guard over is the safety and security of all of Canadian citizens, but especially those who are vulnerable.

Some of you have gone and seen the movie Unplanned.

The unborn are vulnerable.

The aged are vulnerable.

The homeless, and you see them on our streets in Kelowna, are vulnerable.

The mentally infirm are vulnerable.

The women who are caught in the sex trade are vulnerable.

And we need to have the Spirit of God flowing through our country again with that incredible compassion to break the chains that bind, to bring healing to the hearts, and to restore a humanity that is very, very broken.

You need to guard over parental rights, you need to guard over religious freedom.

And you need to guard over those who are vulnerable among us and the security and the safety of his citizens.

And lastly, I believe this.

We need to guard over growing debt in our country.

Go home, Google it, see what's happening in our nation.

But I want to tell you this: that the more debt our generation produces, the more debt the next generation has to carry.

The Bible says that the borrower is in debt, is a slave to the one who gives the money, who lends.

Reality, my generation is lending to the next generation and creating bondage and indebtedness and slavery in them to me.

They'll have to pay the bill.

Those things for how many?

Number one, parental rights, number two, freedom of religion.

Number three, watch over the vulnerable.

Number four, stewardship of our resources and wealth so that we leave the next generation hope and opportunity.

You're so quiet.

This land is our land.

This land is your land.

This land is my land.

From Bonavista to Vancouver Island, from the Arctic to the Great Lakes waters.

This land was made for you and me.

It's your land, it's your nation.

You have a responsibility.

The next two months, you need to awaken your soul and say, God, how do you want me to vote?

Because lastly, you've got to get out and vote.

It's the way you speak into this nation's destiny.

Amen.

Amen.

Father, help us.

We cry out to you this morning and say, help us.

Help us to be the church in Canada.

Help us to understand that we actually have solutions for our nation to bring unity to that which divides through Christ, through the cross, and through the church.

Help us to rise up strong with these solutions, to provide alternatives to a nation that's struggling to find itself.

And help us, Lord, because you the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord.

Help us, Lord, to bring about a government in Canada in October that will love its people and be a healing agency from sea to sea.

Bring us the protection and the safety and the security and the health and the heart and the compassion and the moral integrity that will make our nation strong.

We ask for that in the name of Jesus.

And everyone who agrees with that say, Amen.

God bless you this morning.

Thank you for listening.

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