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032 2 Peter 2 Pt 2

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  1. Do you know the Bible is God's Holy Word? Do you know it is

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  4. draweth nigh. Welcome, Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the program. We

  5. are your host Leonard and Matthew tonight said we're going to be going back to

  6. well, not very this message is not too pleasant. Most people don't even

  7. want to hear it. But tewod Peter chapter two. It is what's what's

  8. going to come to pass, and in more ways than one. But I've

  9. you know, ladies and gentlemen, I think there's probably a few things going

  10. on that the majority of you just you have no reasonable comprehension about what's going

  11. on in the world around you because the mainstream news is not telling you what's

  12. going on. I mean, what would you do if I told you that

  13. just in one week in November sixty four bank branches were closed and not from

  14. small banks. These all come from the four largest banks in America. There's

  15. no precedence for that. Ladies and gentlemen. We we lived through the Great

  16. Recession, right, we lived through COVID. I'm telling you there was never

  17. anything like that. I just read an article from the IRS now that should

  18. get your attention. It should have been on the evening news on all the

  19. major networks. They come out and said that over half of Americans make below

  20. forty thousand dollars a year. Now, I don't know where you think we're

  21. going, but those are just two things that should tell you we're going someplace

  22. you don't want to go. Because if we're showing situations like that that are

  23. way worse than the Great Recession, way worse than when things were in the

  24. deep of COVID, you need to be aware of the only way I can

  25. put it is the climate, because the climate is going to change very rapidly.

  26. Now I'm not the reason why I put it like that, because it's

  27. not not the economy. Okay, it's not the public school system, it's

  28. not the transportation system. I'm here to telling you that the whole thing is

  29. going to change, and the proper English terminology for such a change is climate.

  30. Your entire situation is going to change. Now, this is not too

  31. popular message that Second Peter Chapter two hammers out, but this much is is

  32. true. Just taking a look at just one of these verses. I've already

  33. read it. I've read it last week. But there's one word here that

  34. you're not being able to see in the New American Standard Bible. You're not

  35. going to see it in the English Standard version. The KJAV hits it right

  36. on the head because the word used, well, it's how would we use

  37. it in modern terms? Our English word would be traveling salesman. That's what

  38. it would be because it's comprised of two Greek words, and you put these

  39. two words together and it means a traveling set. Well, everybody knows what

  40. a peddler is. Right. Well, when you take a look at verse

  41. three of psycond Peter chapter two, the English Standard versho says, and in

  42. their greed they will exploit you. No, no, that's not the word

  43. for exploit. No it's not. Let's try the New American Standard Bible.

  44. It says. Guess what it says. It's the same thing. In their

  45. greed they will exploit you. That's not what it is. The KJV has

  46. it right. And through covetousness shall they be fanned words make merchandise of you,

  47. ladies and gentlemen. That's what we've got going on wholestsale in christ Church

  48. today. And unfortunately, Leonard has had experience across this way, across denominational

  49. lines. And the only conclusion that I can come to with the many conversations

  50. that he and I have had publicly and privately about these different pastors that he's

  51. interviewed, is that they had no interest whatsoever in saving their own congregations.

  52. That's not what they were doing it for. And you all need to be

  53. aware of that, and you need to know that they're probably not edifying you.

  54. And when it comes to chapters in the Bible like Second Peter chapter two,

  55. you need to deal with it yourself. You need to come to a

  56. dead reckoning of what Second Peter chapter two says, because the Lord thy God

  57. wrote it for you. I mean, it blows me away. How when

  58. I confront Christians today, many times I'll get into this conversation and I'll ask

  59. them, do you know that Jesus Christ personally sacrificed himself for you personally?

  60. Do you not realize that because you're not acting like you do. Let me

  61. say that again, ladies and gentlemen, I don't care where you are who

  62. you are. I don't care what nationality you are. I don't care what

  63. your native language is. I don't care. I don't care. To me,

  64. there's only two different types of people, Jews that have accepted Christ and

  65. Gentiles that accept of Christ. That's the only thing I really care about.

  66. So I don't care your height you're with. I don't care about none of

  67. that crap. But I'm here to tell you that you should be acting as

  68. if the Son of the Living God came down here just to say, sacrifice

  69. himself for you. Because he did, and you have no hope. You

  70. have no hope outside of the hollow of his hand. That's it. That's

  71. the only hope you've got. Leonard, what's your thoughts for this week on

  72. this program? What's what's your thoughts? What's what's your situation? You know,

  73. my situation is just being blameless, you know, amongst the unbelievers,

  74. amongst amongst the ungodly. And I think that in second Peter, these people

  75. are not blameless. It's the exact opposite, just dealing with people, you

  76. know, for the last two weeks, there's no excuse on how how we

  77. should conduct ourselves as believers. You know, amongst non believers. It's just

  78. no excuse. When you have Christ in your heart, has to be that

  79. conviction of the spirit of God convicting you on to live blameless because you are

  80. a testimony of Jesus Christ. Your life is a testimony of Jesus Christ.

  81. The way you live your life amongst an unbeliever is a testimony gives testimony to

  82. that sacrifice that Christ did for you. That's what it does. And not

  83. only just living blameless, but you know where they can't have a where they

  84. can't come against you with an accusation, but also in love though you know,

  85. not being an angry person. I mean you might be blameless from sin

  86. when it comes to sins that they consider you know, okay, that you

  87. don't do, but you might be irritated and you might deal with them in

  88. an irritated way because you know of the sin that they carry. You know,

  89. our hearts need to break, you know, for the ungodly, just

  90. like Lot's heart broke for Sodom and Kamara. I mean Sodom mean Lot pleaded

  91. to God to save the city. Even though these people were wicked. He

  92. had a heart not to destroy them, but that God would save them.

  93. And I think a lot of times us as believers, we can think that

  94. we're blameless because I don't sin, But a lot of times we have that

  95. hard heart towards a non believer. And I think that us, being a

  96. believer, we should have that soft heart that God save them. And how

  97. many prayers do we pray that God saved them, that God saved the city

  98. if you find ten righteous men in this city? I mean when was saying

  99. that it wasn't just for those five ten righteous men, it was for the

  100. whole city to be spared and not destroyed. And as we read in his

  101. verses, his heart was broken from the sin that he'd constantly seen in what

  102. was going on. But by reading this, it kind of shows lots of

  103. character that he didn't build bitterness within his heart towards these non believers. There

  104. wasn't a resentment towards them or anger towards them. So I think us as

  105. believers that we need to have a heart of love dealing with people and not

  106. in an irritated way, because when you deal with people in an irritated way,

  107. that also brings a bad testimony of Jesus Christ. That also does too.

  108. There needs to be heart of compassion. There needs to be love,

  109. a genuine caring for that person's soul, because we were all once sinners.

  110. I was, And sometimes it can be easy to forget. When we're walking

  111. in our life with the Lord and we surround ourselves with just other brethren that

  112. are like minded like us, it's easy for us to forget where we came

  113. from, what Christ saved us from. Because remember, like Matthew said,

  114. he came to die for you and you alone, and he also came to

  115. die for them. As we read here and tewod Peter. These shepherds here,

  116. they do none of that. It's the exact opposite. They look at

  117. the people to gain money or sexual gratification, to do things for their own

  118. greed, their own senses, their own lust. See, exact opposite.

  119. Yes, He's what he's describing here is not preachers. They're predators, you

  120. know. I mean, listen, something that you said kind of caught me

  121. sideways. I'm a little bit hesitant to say this, but it's the truth.

  122. You know, Ladies and gentlemen, finding a ministry that you can participate

  123. in it's not easy. It is not easy nowadays. I mean, you

  124. would think that every single church would have an outreach program. Right, you

  125. would think that at the least you could go help out with Sunday School every

  126. Sunday, Right, I mean, surely, surely you can find a church

  127. to you know, help, I mean, do anything, help out with

  128. the food pantry or maybe a clothing bank for you know, for people in

  129. need. I'm telling you it's gotten to the point it is hard to find

  130. a ministry just so you can participate in and bear fruit for the Kingdom of

  131. Heaven. Because I hope you all know you are not getting out of judgment

  132. day. And if I'm the first one that's getting ready to tell tell you

  133. this, I truly feel sorry for you. But you need to understand.

  134. The first thing God's going to want to know is is how much fruit did

  135. you bear for the Kingdom of Heaven. If you don't know that, it

  136. tells me that you have not read the New Testament. You are disconnected from

  137. reality. Because if you're calling yourself a Christian and you have not read the

  138. New Testament, you're disconnected from reality. You have no idea that you are

  139. required by the Lord your God to bear fruit in one way, shape or

  140. another. I mean the very bare minimum of ministering to people. You should

  141. know this repeatedly from the New Testament is orphans and widows. I mean,

  142. right, Leonard, correct. It repeatedly talks about surely you can take care

  143. of the widows and orphans. Really, really, most of you don't understand

  144. the season that you're in because in most states it's illegal to have orphanages anymore.

  145. You can't have children's homes. That's what CPS is for, Leonard.

  146. Do you know of any orphanages that you could go help out and take them

  147. food? Maybe even you know, I mean I remember historically what some of

  148. the people in my church. Did you know they would they would volunteer for

  149. all birthdays at the children's home. They would supply all the cake and ice

  150. cream. Come on, Leonard, do you know if one orphanage you could

  151. go help? Nope, I haven't seen I haven't seen one. There used

  152. to be a boy's home and that closed down a long time ago, and

  153. there are there is no orphanages. I have asked people about that, because

  154. me and my wife wanted to do something like that. I had a friend

  155. that did that named Ryan, that he his mother got sent back to Mexico

  156. and she opened. They helped her open an orphanage out there, six thousand

  157. dollars. They built walls in the roof and all the kids that were living

  158. in the landfills. She went and gott and they take care of that.

  159. That's like an orphanage right there. They take care of all these kids who

  160. don't have parents got killed. No, no, you can't. CPS took

  161. that over. The closest thing you could do is foster care. But even

  162. then you have to abide by the state rules. So the best thing you

  163. could do is adopt a child. So what an upset and the bud don't

  164. ladies and gentlemen. I mean, let me just ask Leonard. This,

  165. Leonard, you got quite a few churches in your neck of the woods,

  166. right, Oh yeah, So do you know if any that at least has

  167. a food bank that you could volunteer at. Yeah, there's one that my

  168. wife does on Saturdays. Do you go to church there? And no,

  169. it's too far, I mean it's too far from me to get there that

  170. early. Well, thank god for your wife. Right. My son is

  171. the one that volunteered and that's how we found out about it. So you

  172. know this firsthand that it's very difficult to find a ministry you can participate in

  173. it anymore, isn't it right? And even through my daughter's school, my

  174. wife helps out with the women's home because the school helps make lunches for the

  175. women's home there. It's a Christian woman something. My daughter goes to a

  176. Christian school, so they go and they volunteer to make lunches for them and

  177. all that my wife volunteers there. Well, thank god. I mean,

  178. ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry if this is the first time you've heard this.

  179. You are required to bear fruit for the Kingdom of Heaven, so you

  180. better do something. I mean, I know what the big fat is today.

  181. I mean, it's in to go to these worship centers. They don't

  182. even call them churches. Right, You just go to there to worship,

  183. right, I mean it's basically you go there for a concert. Right.

  184. Oh yeah, they're building run right down the street from my house, a

  185. big, giant one man. That's a dead issue, okay, because when

  186. you get up in God's face, He's not going to ask you if you

  187. just worshiped him? What did I just was that a shock to your system?

  188. No, He's going to ask you where's your fruit that you bore for

  189. the kingdom of heaven. If you don't know that, you probably should at

  190. least think about reading the New Testament before you meet your maker, because,

  191. by God, you're going to. I mean, it amazes me how most

  192. Christians nowadays they think that become a good Christian is to get out of jail

  193. free card. It blows me away. I mean, we list you know,

  194. if you've never read the New Testament, you need to do it.

  195. I mean, I could say this in so many different chapters and verses.

  196. It's just I mean, if I wanted to overwhelm you, I could.

  197. I mean, I have all the New Testament knowledge you could ever want.

  198. But if you don't realize that, if you don't realize that God himself is

  199. requiring you to bear fruit for the kingdom of heaven, and you just think

  200. that God's just going to ask you if you worshiped him or not, oh

  201. my goodness, you've lost a connection with reality. You do need to know

  202. this, especially those of us who are teachers of God's word. God's word

  203. illicitly tells us that we will have a harsher judgment. Now you would think

  204. that would spur people on to do even more. But like I said,

  205. most people in most churches just they just warmed the pews. They don't do

  206. nothing. And you know, this has been happening even when Christ came.

  207. That's the whole point of John the Baptist, you know, going out and

  208. he was talking to these people. You know, well, that's a good

  209. point. How much evangelism gets done Leonard, And the church is very little.

  210. I went to one church. I went to one church and this lady

  211. brought up we should go to Walmart. It was a small little church of

  212. just visiting. She's like, we should go to Walmart and go to prayer.

  213. And the pastor looked shocked, but it almost it almost seemed like he

  214. was on the spot and he's like, oh oh oh, oh yeah,

  215. yeah, we'll do that. We'll do that. As she stood up and

  216. said that, I don't know if they did it again, but I know

  217. they did it one time. I don't know if they made it every Saturday

  218. thing, but which they should. But you know a lot of pastors are

  219. just too busy with ministry stuff. Well I'm just saying that's what they say.

  220. Oh I know, that's what they say. You know, really,

  221. what do you do? Right? So you prepare for your Sunday sermon six

  222. days straight? Now, I've actually countered pastors legy jump because I can do

  223. this on the fly. Yeah, see that That always got me though,

  224. Matthew, Like, what are you doing? You're twenty four hours a day

  225. preparing for your sermon for real? You know, Leonard, the church is

  226. in for a root awakening. It really is. Yep. And that's what

  227. I was telling you before we got on. It's twofold Matthew that you know,

  228. there's the powers that be that are making these things happen, and it's

  229. God allowing it because He's He's going to test men's hearts. That's just what

  230. it is. He's already doing it, he's been doing. It's going to

  231. pull the rug from underneath their feet quickly. And this is going to happen

  232. quickly. And to those that ain't ready, it's going to come as a

  233. surprise. But to those that are ready, ain't going to be no surprise.

  234. You know. It's amazing how four knowledge is no comfort, No,

  235. it ain't. I mean, it's I mean, ladies and gentlemen, if

  236. you know it's coming it almost makes it worse. But you know this this

  237. text of two Peter chapter two, I mean, I love how it comes

  238. right out of the gates and says, you know, look, if God

  239. didn't spare the angels, ladies and gentlemen, God did not spare the angels

  240. that sinned. Let's just let that sink in. Most of you, half

  241. of you don't have a proper reckoning is to what this verse is saying,

  242. because most of you don't even believe that angels sinned. Well, I'm here

  243. to tell you that yes they did, and if God did not spare them,

  244. it would behoove you to get familiar with what is to come, because

  245. God trips over himself explaining to you what's to come? Now. Yeah,

  246. you know, Leonard is right. What this talks about about law. It

  247. says that verse seven, and if he rescued righteous law oppressed by the sensual

  248. conduct of unprincipled men, for by what he saw and heard, that righteous

  249. man, while living among them, his righteous soul poor met a day after

  250. day by their lawless deeds. Does this describe you, ladies and gentlemen?

  251. Because I had to tell you the mighty Assyrians, in all their wickedness.

  252. They never murdered half the babies we do one week at a time. That's

  253. a fact. And you can add all the babies that they've killed and it

  254. doesn't even equal. I mean, we're going up to two billion with the

  255. b billion. If the thing's going on around you does not torment you,

  256. you should be very afraid. You know. I, for one, I've

  257. made it public publicly known on this ministry. You could get hundreds of hours

  258. of recordings back thirteen years of me saying this. I hate this place.

  259. I hate your clocks, I hate your currencies. I hate it. The

  260. only reason why I'm here participating in it is because God forces me to do

  261. so. You think I was You think I wanted to be born here.

  262. That's a joke. If any of you should have the opportunity to have a

  263. conversation with my wife, ask her. She will forthrightly tell you I'm here

  264. because I have to be. And if you would rather be here than in

  265. the Kingdom of Heaven, I say, you've got psychological problems. I God,

  266. man, you have psychological problems. So you need to consider that.

  267. Those of you who are going to go to these worship centers on Sunday and

  268. be entertained, just so you know, everybody thinks it's funny, but god,

  269. it's the heaped up ones. What do you how long do you think

  270. this charade that we're playing here in the United States of America? How long

  271. do you think this charade is going to last? It's already starting to end,

  272. Matthew. But people, you know, like you said, don't notice,

  273. but they will. There's going to come a breaking point where their attention

  274. is going to you know, it's going to be shook, like something is

  275. going to grab their attention because it's going to happen drastically, and all the

  276. pleasures that they enjoyed, and all the security that they feel like they have

  277. and all the things that they put their trust in is going to come to

  278. a straight hault. Man. It's already happening. They just don't see it.

  279. But there's going to come a point. Well, that car is going

  280. to crash right into that wall. Man. Right now, the breaks are

  281. being people are spinning out of control and they don't even know it. You

  282. ever spin out of control? Yes, I have slow motion. It's kind

  283. of amazing, isn't it. Yeah, I feel like I can almost jump

  284. out of the car, you know, when it happened to me. One

  285. of the times that happened to me, of course, extremely treacherous conditions.

  286. Of course, North Dakota is its own universe. I mean, imagine,

  287. if you will, a windshill factor negative fifty. Now most people can't calculate

  288. that freezing is thirty two degrees above zero. So literally driving down the road

  289. in end that is eighty two degrees below freezing, very treacherous conditions. Literally,

  290. I was driving, I wasn't driving on pavement, I was driving on

  291. ice and I start spinning, you know, uh, just around about I

  292. went down the interstate for about one hundred and one hundred and twenty feet before

  293. I finally hit the ditch. But you talk about surreal, there's nothing out

  294. with you. I was just spinning in for end down the highway. Now

  295. what'll blow your mind is I never crossed the yellow line, but I spun

  296. until finally went off the road and hit the snow bank. Because the snow

  297. on the side of the road of Implow it is probably two or three foot

  298. deep, and that's what saved me. Albeit it took me two hours to

  299. shovel myself out out of the ditch. But you're right, Leonard, it

  300. was That's the only way you can describe it. And if the ladies and

  301. gentlemen, if you don't know what we're talking about, you just don't know

  302. what we're talking about. But it really was slow motion because there was nothing

  303. I could do. But I spun at least five times going sixty five miles

  304. an hour. Now because I hit the snow, not a scratch, not

  305. a dent on the bumper or nothing. Kruk was perfectly fine. I was

  306. perfectly fine. I think I probably lost a whole lot of hair in the

  307. incident. But it was the truth. It was slow motion. Is that

  308. the same thing that happened to you? It really was slow motion. It

  309. was slow most and man, until I hit the pole and then I didn't

  310. have my seat belt. I was going ninety five miles an hour. Somebody

  311. else was driving and they were like, we're in a stolen car. I

  312. I was a teenager, and he never drove, and he was trying to

  313. show off for the girl that was in the back seat, and he kept

  314. playing with the steering wheel and I grabbed his hand. I told him to

  315. stop, and when I did that, he pushed my hand away and he

  316. spun the steering wheel and then we just spun like and it felt like I

  317. it felt like I could jump out of that car. Car like like it

  318. was going so slow. It's like I had a moment that, you know,

  319. in my mind, I could thought I could jump out of that car.

  320. Then I hit the pole. I didn't have a seat belt on.

  321. Nobody had a seatbelt on. But we were all fine. I think I

  322. just the girl just jammed her knee in the back and against my seat.

  323. But yeah, we're going ninety five miles an hour. This s Matt wrapped

  324. the car around a poll and walked away from at three people, and three

  325. of us walked away from there, no seatbelt on, nothing, nothing but

  326. God's good intentions. That's it, man. You know what you're describing is

  327. really what well. I mean, A great recession was kind of that way,

  328. you know. I knew that when instigated was the Chinese correction in September

  329. of two thousand and seven. I was aware of what happened, and nobody

  330. in the United States got what happened until two thousand and eight. That's when

  331. it hit our markets and all that went down andwo thousand and nine was just

  332. like this, Like all of two thousand and eight was slow motion, and

  333. there was no getting out of the vehicle. But it was going so slow.

  334. I thought to myself, you know we could, really, you know,

  335. get out of this vehicle. No, you can't, but you know

  336. it's amazing how you're going ninety five miles an hour and then you're not right.

  337. In an instant, look, this is exactly what happened to me.

  338. In an instant, I was going sixty five, had the cruise control set,

  339. as I always do, I never break the law, had the cruise

  340. control set. It's ten o'clock in the morning, suns out, sunny day,

  341. and I'm telling in an instant, I just start going in fri end

  342. and it was. It was uncanny. In an instant, I was going

  343. from sixty five miles an hour or two. I swear I was only going

  344. five miles an hour, perfectly aware my surroundings that I'm looking around realizing there's

  345. nothing I can do. As a matter of fact, I let go of

  346. the wheel. There was no reason to hold it, and I put my

  347. hit out at my side and looked around and watched everything spin. But know,

  348. in your heart, ladies and gentlemen, that Leonard is right. There's

  349. going to be a trigger. It's kind of like an avalanche up in the

  350. snowy peaks of the mountains. You never know what does it. But once

  351. it's done, once you feel and hear the roar, there's nothing you can

  352. do. You can sit there and watch the snow coming towards you because it

  353. really does do it in slow motion and there's not a force on the earth

  354. that can stop it once it gets in motion. It's like being on the

  355. seashore and watching the water get sucked out, because once the water rushes out,

  356. there's really nothing you can do. The tsunami is coming. Just got

  357. to brace for impact. Most people are embracing for nothing. They're completely oblivious.

  358. Yep. They're gonna wake up one way or the other. E They're

  359. gonna wake up angry, hating the Lord, or they're gonna wake up in

  360. repentance. They're gonna wake up though one way, one way or the other.

  361. They are gonna wake up. They're gonna cry out, whether it's in

  362. anger or anguish, but they are gonna cry out. Yes they will,

  363. Leonard, You got that right, Oh yes, they will. Now all

  364. of you need to get prayed up, because you know I'm here to tell

  365. you there's only one right answer. I mean, God says this repeatedly in

  366. his prophets, that he who calls out for the name of the Lord,

  367. they will be saved. Those who called upon the name of the Lord will

  368. be saved. This says that in multiple prophets. So you can cry out

  369. in anguish, but if you cry out in anger, you're doomed already,

  370. because if you think it's going to help you to get angry, you are

  371. not aware of the bravity of your situation. But you will be. Yeah,

  372. Matthew, is just a matter of time. And when I say time,

  373. I mean short time. I'm very long from now. How many children

  374. you got, Leonard eleven? How many are near you? Uh? Eight?

  375. Mm hmmmm. So three of them are are? They at least an

  376. hour away from you? Ones in uh, Michigan, and then the other

  377. two are in California. They went back. Oh, you know, when

  378. the time comes, there'll be nothing for it, you know, Matthew,

  379. I've already given all the tools that I can give, And like I tell

  380. my children, you are in God's hands. I love you. I've given

  381. you everything that God has given me, everything that God has shown me,

  382. everything that God has taught me, have taught you, and you're in the

  383. Lord hands. You know this, Leonard, Do you remember nine to eleven?

  384. Yes? I do. I went to work that day and when I

  385. got off work, the gas price had doubled. It was exactly twice as

  386. much. Last time I bought gas was four dollars and thirty five cents.

  387. No one understands this. Ladies and gentlemen. Right now, you could probably

  388. to go rescue your children that have wandered off. Let's just put it like

  389. that. But if the gas price changes tomorrow and you get up tomorrow and

  390. it's eight dollars and seventy cents, you won't be able to go get them.

  391. The state of Michigan might as well be on the far side of the

  392. moon. Let me say that again. When this happens, don't you realize

  393. that all your resources will go just to pay utilities and food. There will

  394. be no going anywhere to fetch anybody any And Matthew might be worse than that.

  395. You might. All that might happen and your money might not be You

  396. might not be able to get your money out. You know, that's never

  397. happened in anybody's lifetime, has it? Not my lifetime, not your lifetime?

  398. Has it? Nope? I mean we even have checks, right,

  399. I mean whenever we go somewhere, My wife always has checks in the in

  400. her in her purse, just in case. Ladies and gentlemen, think about

  401. what Leonard just said. What he said, I don't think you understand.

  402. Let me put it to you a different way. Ladies and gentlemen, what

  403. would you do if your money stopped working? Do you understand when I put

  404. it like that? Right now? None of you have your money, None

  405. of you, most of you. If you have, if you carry any

  406. cash, it's very little. Most of you. Oh, your money is

  407. in the bank. What happens the day that stops working? And Lenard's quite

  408. right at that point, it doesn't matter if the gasoline is twenty dollars a

  409. gallon, It don't matter if none of the pumps will accept your cards.

  410. What are you going to do when your money don't work? What are you

  411. going to do when all those utilities that you pay for by automatic withdrawal from

  412. your funds? What happens if the water company calls you up and say we're

  413. not doing that no more. You have to pay us cash. Or if

  414. you think you own your house and you have to pay your taxes, because

  415. you don't really own anything, you stop paying your taxes. After your house

  416. that's paid off, you see how quick that house gets taken from you.

  417. Yeah, the sheriff will collect it straightforward. It's a good point. Letter.

  418. Although most people don't own their house, the bank does. Yep,

  419. they don't actually have the deed. The bank does. But even if they

  420. have the deed, you still have to pay taxes. You still have to

  421. pay taxes. You don't pay those taxes, they will take that home from

  422. you. Yes, because it is the state's property. Yes, you're a

  423. tenant. People. It's all big sham man, it's all. It's all.

  424. It's all one big fraud and that, and everybody's gonna find out real

  425. quick. And they're all going to find out at the same time, aren't

  426. they. Yes, they are something that, but but we have a we

  427. have a true foundation. And those that are believers in Christ have a true

  428. foundation. But those that say they believe in Christ without the foundation, that

  429. sinking sounds going to swallow them up real quick. Yeah, you got that

  430. right. They have failed to build their house on the rock. But it's

  431. amazing how those very simple parables I was taught with a child, Oh my

  432. goodness, they ring true. They really do ring truth. You know.

  433. I hope that everybody's that's listening to my voice. I hope you're participating in

  434. a ministry. I hope you're doing something. When are Uh when's the last

  435. time you got out in? Uh? Did death wages? Then? Two

  436. weeks ago? I thank the Lord for that, Leonard. You know when

  437. I try to get people to come with me and they say they're going to

  438. meet me, and the day of oh, man, my throat hurts.

  439. So you know, if my sons are not working, I'll take one of

  440. them. But if not, I'll go on myself. Man, because I'm

  441. never really by myself, because the spirit of the Lord is with me.

  442. So a lot of times I've been by myself. Very I can count with

  443. it on both hands, how many people have came with me. And you

  444. only go to skate parks. I only go to skate parks. That must

  445. be pretty easy. I mean that's a pretty good targeted I'll get audience there.

  446. I mean, that's actually a pretty cunning idea. You know, my

  447. heart is with you, and if I was there, i'd go with you.

  448. I know you would. We go stomp them pay. We're gonna stomp

  449. the pavement together. Man. I you know, I enjoy doing it.

  450. Man. It brings me joy. I got just uh. It fills me

  451. up. Put it that way, fills me up. I leave sometimes broken

  452. hearted, but I also leave like wow, lord wow. I mean God

  453. knows what he's doing. Yeah, I know what he's doing. He's he's

  454. giving them a fighting chance. Yep, that's what he's doing with you,

  455. Leonard. He's giving them a fighting chance. Nobody else seems to be doing

  456. it. Nope. I had one pastor told me, oh, you should

  457. get with churches, and you know, and then church leaders say, well

  458. don't you should direct them to a church. And I'm like, well you

  459. want to go with me? Well, I uh, exactly wow, Because

  460. they talk. Some people are like I'm doing it wrong because I'm not directing

  461. them to a church or just saying that I can't do that. And I

  462. said, well, you want to go, and your church is right here.

  463. Maybe you can do this every weekend and maybe you can be here all

  464. the time and they just say well, and I say exactly, Wow,

  465. I'm stunned. So these jokers say you should direct them to a church.

  466. So you ask him, well, why don't you come and you can invite

  467. them to your church, And they're like, no, man exactly. Some

  468. of them will say, yeah, it sounds like a good idea, A

  469. A I'm going out next Sunday. You ready to roll? Well, I,

  470. well, you know I have service. Now we'll go after your service.

  471. You know, we'll go like around four o'clock. Well, exactly,

  472. man, exactly. So I'll continue to keep doing what God put in my

  473. heart. You keep doing it. And as for them, they've received their

  474. reward in full praise out of here Leonard, Oh Deavenly Father, in the

  475. name of Jesus, Lord God, we just come to you right now,

  476. and we thank you, Lord God for giving us the ability to come on

  477. here and to edify the believers that will be listening to this. Lord,

  478. I just pray that you stir their hearts up. Put a desire, Lord

  479. God, to reach the loss, but a desire to love those that are

  480. heart to love. Lord God. Just put a desire in them to speak

  481. bold, Lord God, and have compassion. You pray, Lord God,

  482. all the believers that claim to bear your name upon themselves, Lord God,

  483. will will not be afraid, Lord God, if they can't speak, will

  484. not be afraid if they're not able to do this, because it's you that's

  485. going to equip them, Lord, not them, but you is by your

  486. strength. Pray that the believers, Lord God, get ready for what's to

  487. come. Lord, not to be Lord. You show us things not to

  488. scare us, but to prepare us. Lord, and we thank you for

  489. that. Be with each and every one of our families, our brothers and

  490. sisters. Out there are their families, and all the trials and tribulations,

  491. is that they may be going through, Lord God, that through that testing,

  492. Lord God, that they be found true. Give them the strength to

  493. get through it, and give them the peace, Lord God that surpasses all

  494. understanding. Be with my brother Matthew, Lor God and his family. Continue

  495. to speak to him, Lord God. But give him peace that he needs.

  496. Lord, give him the strength that he needs, Lord God, and

  497. help him not grow weary and well doing. Lord and Jesus name, we

  498. pray Amen, Amen and Amen John. Next time, ladies and gentlemen,

  499. God bless God speed. Thank you for listening to Marinath the Ministries with Matthew

  500. Miller. I appreciate you tuning in. For more information, stop by and

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  506. my feet and a light unto my path. It's your words. Will I

  507. hide in my heart that I might not sin against God