Lt. Col. Oliver North & Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Sunday Service)

these men are not new to our church they've been here before i'm going to ask you to help me welcome them back lieutenant colonel oliver north 22 years in the marines welcome back to world outreach thank you thank you lieutenant general jerry boykin 33 years in the army [Applause] i'm going to do my best to let them talk most of the time this morning i promise because they're leaving and i'm afraid of you when they're gone so but i spent a little bit of time um reading some of the books they brought and um reviewing their careers and the more i read the more impressed i became i don't know how much of this you know some of you i'm sure know far more than i do but just on your general bio colonel north said that you received the silver star the bronze star for valor and two purple hearts thank you sir general boykin three bronze stars a purple heart but i kept reading and i didn't grow up in a military family so it goes over my head really quickly and if i do this wrong i apologize he can hurt me in many many ways okay but just the badges combat in infantry badge master parachutist badge military free fall parachutist badge i got afraid when i read that one special forces tab rangers tab army special forces distinctive unit insignia the medals armed forces expeditionary medal vietnam service medal global war on terrorism service medal korea defense service medal humanitarian service medal thank you sir i know it's not popular these days but there is much in our nation to be proud of and grateful for and it hasn't happened accidentally there are men and women who have sacrificed greatly for us to have the freedoms and liberties that define our lives and we cannot forget that even if it's fashionable to be angry at those who are in authority over us it's not appropriate so we thank you today and thank you for being back in tennessee what's not in your in your military uh biography is the depth of your faith and i think we ought to start just a little bit this morning by letting you express that to these good people because i know your journeys have been defined by your faith and have been sustained by that you came to faith in different ways but you both both made those decisions as adults they grew up as young men and boys and young men exposed to christianity but they made the decision to make jesus as lord as adults and you need to know the difference you can sit in church but not have yielded your life to the authority of jesus and you made that decision and it has shaped your lives and your careers so you want to just talk a little bit about your faith and what it's done and the difference it's made and what you want us to know i'm done let's start with start with the marines marines go first i was told that well i just just so that everybody knows the general and i have known each other a long long time goes back to the 1980s before any human women were born and uh and actually he looks older but he's younger because i'm still in better shape i i like to remind people he is a lieutenant general i'm a lieutenant colonel he's here to tell you about heaven i am here to tell you about hell uh my mom and dad met at a uso dance in 1941. in 1942 they married and in 1943 i was born at fort sam houston my dad was already gone off to fight in world war ii uh at a retirement ceremony for a senior u.s army officer fox sent me up to cover it at fort indian town gap and at that ceremony there was an older man who came up to me at the reception on a walker and i'm old enough to know an old guy when i see one he came up to me he said you were born in san antonio in 1943. i said yes that's true how do you know i delivered you i said really he said i'll tell you something else you don't know sonny you were sired that was the word he used sired right here at indian town gap i said how do you know that sir well i examined your mother i was the only ob gyn in the 95th infantry division and they left me behind to deliver all the babies that were started right here i said well how do you know that he says do the math son the division got here in january left here in april you were born in october do the math i grew up in the army i was the only army i was the only marine officer in our family i have an army next younger brother a navy ex-younger brother and a sister married an air force guy and he's the only one who's dead and i it's nothing to do with the surf how many air force folks do we have here that i just defended thank you thank you for your kazzavac guys thank you i was evacuated off a battlefield by u.s air force combat the pedros came and picked me up and brought me to safety i've been blessed to spend my whole life in the company of heroes my dad was the first hero i ever got to know and one of the things that has shaped my life is the people with whom i have kept company and i've been blessed to keep company with people who are brighter better braver than i am and that's one of the great there's no coincidences in life friends but the good lord put next to me people who were stronger in their faith who knew more about this book than i did and who encouraged me by well the encouragement came from a marine lieutenant colonel when i was a major and the encouragement was you have got to come to know your lord and savior jesus christ read this book that's pretty encouraging because it's a direct order i'm a marine i can carry out my orders we've got to board the ships in warhead city and headed for the mediterranean for a seven month deployment and i read the book from cover to cover on the way over almost quit at leviticus got to matthew's gospel and there i saw something i could recognize and that is a soldier matthew eighth chapter verses five through 13. comes down in capernaum anybody been to capernaum how many you you've got every every american needs to make at least one trip to the holy land in their lifetimes because it will inspire you like nothing else i've been over there since 1973 when i was sent over as a marine officer on a survey right after a war not a whole lot different than the one that they're fighting right now in israel and i've been back many many times since over 30 times back to israel betsy and i have led groups going out there all the time and i love going to capernaum because that's the scene where the life-changing event occurred in my out my life because this marine battalion commander had basically given me an order that today would probably get him fired at least maybe even a court martial because he ordered me to read this book and i did and i got to that chapter of matthew first chapter and and i'm yeah 8th chapter verses 5-13 and there is a roman army infantry officer i'm an infantry officer i could understand that he approaches jesus and said i've got a sick servant at home would you heal him a subordinate at least and some translations it's actually a slave and he's now risked his life to talk to jesus because jesus knows what's going to happen happen in jerusalem at passover time he knows his end and roman law is such that it says if you consort with a traitor as commit treason then you have committed treason and you're subject to the same sanction he approaches jesus as he's teaching in front of that synagogue that they've now excavated he said i've got a sick servant at home would you heal him and jesus says some of you are wondering this is the miv version the marine infantry version he says sure let's go in the roman army infantry officer a captain of infantry 100 roman soldiers centurion a century says no lord i'm not worthy you should come into my house all you have to do is say the word and i'll be my servant will be healed and jesus says you're right go ahead he's cured and then he turns to the 12 that have worn out their sandals walking all over galilee with him and he says greater faith than that roman soldier i have not seen in all israel just imagine what's going through their minds at this point wait a minute i gave up my fishing business for you matthew can say i gave up really lucrative tax collection business for you and jesus said that because he knows the roman soldiers this put his own life at risk and it suddenly dawned on me that what my battalion commander had done is put his career at risk and it turns out he'd done that hundreds of times and nobody ever put him on report why because he behaved like a servant leader the ultimate servant leader is whom jesus christ in in john's gospel he describes that last supper you've all seen the picture the photograph that was taken they're all on one side of the table you remember what happened just before that picture was taken jesus wraps a towel around himself takes a pan of water and washes their feet the ultimate sign at that point in his life of what a servant leader does and that's leading up to what's going to happen over the next three days because he goes on to make the ultimate sacrifice as a servant leader all of that came clear to me reading that gospel because i was ordered to do so and it changed my life forever and it's a good thing it did because a lot's happened and that just to conclude very quickly i now have a mission and that mission is not go out and change the world because i can't it's it's not to keep running around after marines and soldiers and guys that he served with out on battlefields because i got hurt pretty bad in the last trip out there in 2017. i was not wounded like it said in the in the media i i did get hurt and it's because i was running in the middle of the night so i wouldn't get killed and i fell in a hole and crushed my right leg now here's the really good news they gave me an experimental knee and it's number 103 on the side i've got the right knee he has the left knee right that's how close we really are because we have exactly one pair of good knees i'm gonna i'm gonna hold the rest of it until he has a chance to sit but the bottom line of my life is my life has been shaped by those with whom i keep company and my message for all of you is if you don't have a small group of people who hold you accountable encourage you when you need it admonish it when you need humility then you need to find that small group in your life right now because all of us need that kind of encouragement it's a great it's wonderful to have a great church and a tremendous pastor and that's why i love coming back here but my encouragement to you right here today is hey if you don't know the jesus christ i just described get yourself a copy of this book and read it number two find a small group that will do just what i just said thank you i grew up in the church uh in fact i grew up in a church that was very legalistic uh good people wanting to please god but uh very legalistic and we didn't worry about what sin was because everything was a sin if it looked good smelled good tasted good or sounded good it was a sin uh and i uh will tell you when when one of the ladies in the church said to me and i'm from eastern north carolina and this is the way they talk down there she said i'll just tell you what i think if they're is that right ain't polly that's how they talk see i got my family here today they're guarding my flanks and so it's good to have them here she said i'll just tell you what i think i think that football's a sin and i said well i'm going to hell and the reason was my parents had no money i had no way to go to college except play football at virginia tech on a scholarship so i just used my college years to just live like hell and and i did and uh i was not a good person during that period of time but when i came in the army that still small voice because i knew i'd been in the church i'd grown up in the church i knew what i had to do but i was running from god and that still small voice of the holy spirit said i have a plan for you i have a plan for your life but if you don't submit to me it'll never be fulfilled and the burden that i felt the burden that i was living under became so overpowering that right there at fort benning georgia knowing what i had to do i knelt down and i began to say lord i'm tired of running from you i confess that i'm a sinner now i ask you to clean me up and give me something in your kingdom that will allow me to know that i'm doing your will and that was the moment in which my life changed but let me tell you something my faith was the most important thing i had as in the 36 and a half years that i was in the united states army i saw combat on four at least four if not five continents so i was in and out of it all the time and ain't polly in my my family prayed for me during that period and i know my mom would call and say he's gone again pray for him and i've been wounded a couple of times and in fact one time they told me they were going to take my arm off i'd been shot with a 50 cal they're going to take my arm off and i said what's plan b people ask me did you pray before you made every decision in the military no the answer is no i did not and i did not because there are times when you don't have to pray you got to make a decision right now but what you have to do is believe that you've you've stored up enough goodwill with the lord you've stored up enough prayers that when you need something right now that god is going to be there and he's going to give you the wisdom you need to make that god was good to me i saw miracles if you've ever read my autobiography i saw miracles miracle after miracle even when i was shot up or hit with mortars and debilitated i still saw miracles taking place around me but there came a point in spite of my faith in spite of the miracles that i had seen in spite of the fact that my faith was growing and it was strong in mogadishu somalia during black hawk now i lost 15 men in one fight and when i watched the bodies of those dead men being placed on the helicopters and flown out i went over and sat down on my bunk i was so angry with god i wanted to let god know how i felt now let me make his point my god is a whole lot bigger than my anger but i was angry with god and i know there are people in here that have been angry with god because you've seen things you've experienced things that you just couldn't understand and therefore it turned into anger and i was angry with god and i sat down on my bunk and i said god where were you these 15 men would be alive if you had been here if you'd answered my prayers where were you and the answer came to me and the answer was there is no god but the moment i said there is no god i heard the voice of the lord and you can say oh you hear those little voices yes i heard the voice of the lord speaking to me as i said there is no god he said if there's no god there's no hope son and i began to weep and my chest was heaven as i was weeping uncontrollably saying i'm sorry god i'm sorry god it's just like peter who watched him for three and a half years raised the dead open blind eyes cast out demons and then one night he sat there in an hour and a half he denied that he existed he denied him three times no i wasn't with him no i wasn't with him it says he cursed and denied i denied jesus but as i sat there weeping saying i'm sorry i was forgiven and all i want you to remember what i say to you this morning is there's nothing in your life that you've ever done that he will not forgive you for and hey yo dude don't give me the you don't know what i've done because you don't know what i've done and you don't know what the guy next to you again you can be forgiven if you'll just confess that you're a sinner and you need jesus christ as the lord of your life amen if you out preach the preacher you won't get invited back i'm just it's kind of i don't think any of us would question the courage of these men and your military record supports that the piece that's a little less obvious i think is you have been equal advocates for your faith but that takes courage as well because there are threats to your professional advancement in the media a lot of times i think you take some unfair shots because of your faith and we're all trying to process the courage if we're going to have the courage to stand up if we're going to just capitulate can you talk a little bit about either in the military or in your own personal journeys those choices because we've got to have more courage as christians than we've had in the past or we're going to lose our freedoms i promise you that and i know you both have done that in different places but you both lived that out can you talk about it just a minute well some of you may remember that i was assigned in 1981 of the white house the national security council staff my title actually became deputy director for political military affairs and i was a marine major when that happened i mean that's the ways of washington and then in 1980 november 23rd 1986 i abruptly left the white house and it resulted in hearings in the summer actually i was invited to chat with some members of congress in the summer of 1987. the national press corps lined up at our now famous front gate when we lived in great falls virginia the lawyer who sat next to me through those hearings brendan sullivan had warned me don't run over any of them you've got enough bad press as it is the headlines of the washington compost which is one of the newspapers in our nation's capital we're generally unflattering at one point one of them held up the headline and said something like oliver norris stole the white house china to feed contras or something like that and they were all lined up and and again i'm trying to ease out the gate and i said did you read that headline and i said i read two things every morning i read that newspaper and the holy bible so i know what both sides are up to and they they moved out of the way because they're pretty sure i would run over several of them if i could the end result of all of that was that i found my faith reinforced almost every day in the midst of that now in february of 1987 six islamic radicals part of islamic jihad came to our house with the intention of killing betsy our kids four kids and me uh not widely reported uh it did make the newspapers because all of a sudden we weren't there the fbi notified us the naval intelligence service escorted us down to camp lejeune north carolina we hid out down there for about a month then to another location in the eastern shore a safe house for a certain government agency and then finally back into our own home in great falls with 37 federal agents and they drink a lot of coffee and i looked at what was was going on around us and said what's the answer to this and i found the answer that summer when and i just need to copy that book for one second that's what i need right there thank you sir and again i my faith was reinforced by all of this because i knew the good lord had given me an out and the out was if you know me you can say to people i know where i'm going and i know why i'm going there i just don't know when right now some of you may not understand that but but i saw that happening literally all around me that our government came and protected our wife and kids my wife's still the only wife since the civil war that's had to flee her home with her children because of what her husband had done and so if i were the kind of person who did not know jesus i would be full of guilt over that but i'm not because one we came through it unscathed and my children and our grandchildren know jesus christ just like we are we do because we have set the example for them you see and and that that all came out of that book right so the first day of the hearings as we're walking and the federal agents are guarding me betsy wasn't there the first day of the hearings i i didn't want her to have to suffer through it she eventually the second day she came and this went on over a span of nine days right and eventually she i got home that night of the first night she said i'm i'm not i'm not staying home i'm coming in got her sister to come down and look after the kids and she went in with us oh dark 30 in the morning on the first day of the hearings a woman reached through the double cordon of armed men and women who were the capitol hill police officers and our federal agents and handed me this card brennan sullivan you can see him as we're walking and he's taken the card from me and he puts in his pocket he's the lawyer who's that next to me and he props the card like this on the microphone stand and that's where it stayed for the full entire hearings except when we got up to leave he would put it in his pocket as we're going out one day one of the reporters got to him before the security guys could and said what's on the card sullivan pulls it out and looks at it without showing it to the guy he says what's on the card the answers [Applause] up there in the raised dice they could see it here's what's really on the card they that wait a punt is handwritten by the little lady i've never seen her since i've told the story it's in my book they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength you wonder how how did you didn't break a sweat how come they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not be faint isaiah 40 31 those are the answers uh my friends uh when i left the army i thought that uh warfare was behind me and that uh now i was going to really enjoy a very quiet life i was sitting in my office one day in downtown washington at the family research council it was 10 22 in the morning and i heard shots in the uh in the downstairs in the entrance i heard three shots i ran downstairs and i saw our building manager down on the neck of a man there with he had three bullet or he had two bullet holes in his arm one was in the elevator and two were in his arm and uh blood everywhere and there was a he he was down on top of the guy and there was a pistol laying there in front of him and i was contemplating whether to pick up the pistol and shoot the guy or what and and that man came into our building to kill us he told the judge he was there to kill us as many of us as possible he had 100 rounds of ammunition and 15 chick-fil-a sandwiches and he was going to smear the chick-fil-a sandwiches in the face of the people he killed i tell the judge i was there to kill them because they're a hate group the judge said what do you mean they're a hate group and he said the southern poverty law center has listed them on their hate map as a hate group because they hate homosexuals nothing could be further from the truth the most i would say to you the most sincere friends that homosexuals have are christians that are willing to tell them what the bible says about what they're doing just go to romans 1. if you don't have a biblical world go to romans 1. but that said what i want to say to you is the bible tells us in luke 21 that when the disciples asked jesus what the signs of his return were he gave them all the things that nation will be raised against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there will be violent earthquakes and famines and plagues in various places et cetera et cetera but he gets to he said he said this he said but before all these things they will lay hands on you and persecute you they will hand you over to the synagogues and prisons and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name but listen to the next sentence it will lead to an opportunity for you to be a witness folks we are in a period where we're going to be persecuted and you need to make a decision whether you're going to be one who is going to stand or whether you're going to be one that's going to stand on the sidelines and encourage others to stand if we don't stand and i'm talking primarily to you men right now if you don't stand in times like this if you men i don't care how old you are and i don't care how young you are if you don't stand in times like this and be counted let your voice be heard and get away from the things that are distracting you whether it's the television or whether it's your hobbies or whatever i love to hunt and fish i love those kinds of things too but your priority needs to be now being that witness that god talks about here in luke being that witness because i believe we're living in the end times but no man knows but i'm going to live like today is my last day and i believe that you need to make a decision every one of you needs to make a conscious decision am i a player or am i a spectator because now is the time for us to stand and be counted for god's kingdom what the heck let's all stand now i'll stand i'll stand say that i'll stand i'll stand i'll stand i'll stand i'll stand i'll stand for the lord for the lord for his kingdom for his kingdom for my god for my god to save my soul save my sins and washed away my sins washed away thank you lord thank you lord i'll stand i'll stand i'm not sure about you may have some leadership potential [Laughter] thank you then i'll give you another component to that as as you live with that a little bit tell the lord you're sorry for when you have it and you can offload that guilt and shame because there isn't anybody in the book that got it right every time peter had an opportunity to stand for the lord and didn't do so well but on the other side of that his strength and courage was foundational to the church in jerusalem as it was getting started so even if you haven't done it well in the past you can have a completely different outcome in the future if you'll start with that point of repentance and being re-established in the strength that he just invited us to amen all right i want to ask you a question that's out of our headlines today you two have a lot of expertise on the middle east and the rockets are flying again and the conflict is escalating can you help us understand that because sources of truth are hard to come by these days i i don't like to compare administrations because there's an enormous contrast between this one and all the other ones with whom i have a close connection what let me put it this way what's happening right now with israel would never have happened with any other administration and what's hap israel is under attack like it hasn't been in over a decade i mean i i heard 2014 mentioned yesterday in one of them but my recollection goes back i covered the 2006 operations in the north and in the south it was a two-front war that was being waged and they said it was by hezbollah in the north and by hamas in the south but it's actually iran versus israel that's what it really is okay as of this morning i again this is all i know is what was in the news this morning nearly 3 000 rockets have been fired from gaza and other places syria and iraq into israel okay every single one of them is an iranian missile every one of them the idea that this is some local disper disturbance as a consequence of measures that the israeli government was going to take about settlements is baloney and that's not the word i would normally use i mean it's it's outrageous that our media is going along with the line coming out of this administration this administration is bent on self-destruction for the state of israel it needs to be stopped the only way that's going to stop the only way that's going to stop is enough americans write both their senators and their congressmen i don't care what party he or she is in and demand that they take action to support the state of israel it's a commitment that was goes all the way back to ronald reagan and only this president's predecessor fulfilled the promise that they all made since 1948 to move our embassy to jerusalem not tel aviv and i agree with every everything you said there i first of all i want you to understand that i my children are jewish uh just by jewish law my children are jewish because their mother is jewish so i have a deep passion for israel and uh i study it i've lived over there in acco when i was in the military up north and in acco there up close to the lebanese border and uh and i came to know the jews and the jewish society and i came to know the the battlefields there because on the weekends we would travel the battlefields so i have a deep passion for israel but i want you to understand that i also have a deep passion for the palestinians now their leadership is wrong their leadership is leading them into total annihilation and i really regret that but these people who stand up and say that israel has no right to defend itself they need to be just just just be taken off the media for saying that and i guarantee you if we had rockets coming across our border instead of just illegal aliens we wouldn't just fire a proportionate number of rockets back over in in a way of saying would you please stop shooting at us we would destroy their capability to shoot at us and we should and that's exactly what israel needs to do you need to go back and study the history of this nation that we know today is this the biblical israel or not i believe the process of the fulfillment of prophecy started in 1948 on april uh on may 24 14th i believe it was the beginning of the prophecy it's not been completed yet but it was the beginning as they were being called from the north and the south and the east and the west this is their home god gave them this home they're never going to be run out of it and the quicker the world understands that the better off the rest of the world is going to be but i don't know what god's plan is as we come towards the end time but i will tell you the jews are not going to be defeated they're not going to be defeated and we need to be praying for the peace of jerusalem but at the heart of all of this at the heart of all this the primary belligerent is not fatah it's not hamas it's not mahmoud abbas it is iran and by the way think about the fact that our administration is now trying to re-enter the jcpoa or the iran deal and that puts them on a sure pathway to a nuclear weapon and if you understand anything about iran they are shia and most of the mullahs are shia twelvers and a shia twelver believes that their messiah will not return until the world is in chaos bloodshed and chaos is the term that they use and there is no better way to create the bloodshed and chaos that would throw the world into into turmoil that would stimulate the return of their messiah than for them to use a nuclear weapon on israel we cannot let that happen and this administration is just about to do that so we as americans as christians we need to be praying for the palestinians as well as the israelis but we need to be praying that that the iranians will have some more accidents like what they've had several times where they go out and try to test the missile that blows up on the launch pad or some scientist gets in his car and it blows up it's just bad technology over there i guess i don't know what huh don't you ever bet against those jews because they are not going to so lose think we have to become a little we have to invest the energy to be a little more aware of what's happening in the world and not just accept what is handed to us you know our troops are withdrawing or being withdrawn from afghanistan and i've heard you speak colonel about some obligations you feel like we have to the the people in country there that have been our allies can you talk about that just a moment there's a uh this is my column for creator syndicate last week this week it's about missiles being thrown at israel last week's article was about the 17 000 interpreters and translators that have worked for the united states in both iraq and afghanistan and their over a hundred thousand family members it is unconscionable to me to think that our government will withdraw all american troops from these countries and leave behind the people that made it possible for us to communicate with anybody in those countries it is outrageous to think of the fact that they don't care about the future because when we go to foreign countries and this man knows it even far better than i when i went to vietnam as a young second lieutenant in 1968 i didn't speak much vietnamese my roommate going through basic had been a vietnamese officer who was killed in 1972 by the during the easter offensive so i learned a tiny little bit about vietnamese everywhere that his special operations guys go they need interpreters and translators to help understand the culture and to be able to communicate right communication is the essence of this they've helped us for 20 years over 300 of them have already been killed if we leave them behind it will be a bloodbath for they and their families and our credibility around the rest of the world the next time we have to go somewhere and we will we won't find anybody who wants to help us so i urge you again 17 000 plus this president all he would have to do he's famous or infamous for the number of executive orders he's issued he could issue an executive order today if you're listening mr biden do this okay i'm sorry nancy pelosi just cut us off signed sign an executive order ordering the department of state and the department of defense to cooperate in waiving the conditions of what's called a special immigration visa get them to safety let's say guam even jimmy carter the only graduate of my alma mater to ever make it to the white house i didn't go to college i went to a trade school in annapolis right i mean there's been six or seven graduates of the united states army academy and marines of navy have one guy carter even carter took care of 250 000 cubans in the marielle boat lift remember that none of you women remember you guys remember that and 50 000 well all you'd have to do yes we'd have to it would cost us some money it's these guys talk about humanitarian help all over the place particularly when it's people illegally crossing our southern border here's people who have worked and put their lives at risk for us and they're not going to help them damn them for doing so sorry lord marines have opinions apparently you know the challenges we face are as real at home as they are across the water and general i know that you recently added your name to an open letter that was submitted i think 124 flag officers signed it uh right now it's up over 150 it's still growing so and if you ask rabbi google he'll show you the letter um it was an expression of opinion about the current events in our nation in the response of our administration and as far as i understand our constitution we still have that right to free speech but you have received some very real threats to your person and family just by expressing your opinion you understand the circumstances we're living in why we're told to be tolerant and peaceful and understanding more than 100 and maybe you first start off explaining what a flag officer is because not everybody has an extensive military background because this wasn't just a group of people recruited from the barns of tennessee although we would have stood up with you but well a flag officer simply means that you're a general in the army air force or marine corps or you're an admiral in the coast guard or the navy you reach that rank so that's called a flag officer and that's because they make a little flag with your stars on it and you sleep with it at night and cuddle it can you tell us a little bit about that letter or the the ideas embodied in that and what you wanted us to know how many of you have seen the letter that we're talking about okay we got a good number in here they have uh initially 124 of us wrote this letter to the administration uh we wrote it as an open letter and what we did was we outlined the things that we're concerned about we're outlined that we are concerned about the movement of this nation to becoming a marxist nation we talked about the border crisis and and we talked about uh the election integrity we talked about how our military is being uh exploited uh during in as part of this big con game that's being played today with our military we talked about the question of the of the president's fitness for office given that he so frequently can't name his cabinet members or can't name members of congress and these are things that when he when you realize that he's the most powerful man in the world the most powerful man in the world that can't remember his secretary of defense's name or can't remember the name of kevin mccarthy the minority leader in the house of representatives but he has the nuclear codes and even his own party is now questioning the procedures for the nuclear codes we're saying this deserves someone to look into it and do an examination of it well we went into some other things as well we went into the economy went into the pipeline canceling the pipeline and and now you see in this gas crisis so what that did is it fired the left up they came out just going after us our character they did not address a single one of the issues they came after me and they came after another brigadier up in new hampshire named don bulldoc that's running for senate up there and we're the only two by name that they came after of the 150 some on the list but coming after us then materialized into threats so we've been out here we've had a good security detail on me uh the whole time i've been out here and but they ca they they decided that they would uh they would go after us for character association assassination because they couldn't say anything about the contents of what we wrote because every american sees what we wrote and i will i will finish by telling you a a very quick story because i want to speak to you women i uh there were some terrorists down in north carolina that were arrested in 2008. uh three of them it was a father and two sons and then four were middle east terrorists and they were operating down in eastern north carolina and they got captured and they got their their uh computers and they got into their computers and there and they said they called me up and they said we need to meet you i went to meet him over in richmond these are the law enforcement people and uh and they said we uh we got into their computer and he's and they said they have targeted you they're going to capture you this is their plan because it was on their computer they want to capture you and torture you well you know my first instinct was yeah well give them my address yeah [Applause] well that sounds good but that's not practical but so i i got a the ministry that ordained me i called him and i said man you got to start interceding for me and my wife because this is a serious threat and they emphasize this is a serious threat and they and they started interceding and they called me a couple of days later and said if you told your wife and i said no they said go tell her right now we're praying but you go tell her i went home i said baby i got to talk to you she backed up against the sake grip the sink you could tell that she knew that something difficult something bad was going on i told her what was happening they had targeted me because i'd been speaking out against islamic jihad and they were after me for that and i just i looked at her and i said baby i if they come after me if they come after me they'll get you too and i can't live with that so i said i'm going to just i'm going to stop i'm not saying anything else about jihad i'm going to just i'm going to stick with the gospel i'm just going to tell people about the gospel of jesus christ that little silver-haired green-eyed woman she backed up against that sink and she dropped her head and i didn't know what she was going to say and i just stood there waiting finally she she looked back up and those green eyes looked directly into my eyes and she said let me tell you something she said i would much rather stand before the lord and say god i'm here quicker than i thought i was going to be than god i was afraid and i hid and she said you keep doing what god's called you to do i'll be with you and then let me tell you this thank you so much she looked at me and she said just make sure if they come they get both of us and we'll go together she paused for a minute and she said now go over there to your brother's gun shop and get me another pistol and i did what i don't want us to miss is that there are men and women whose careers aren't don't begin in the church that are standing for biblical worldview in our nation and they're putting themselves in a difficult position professionally physically their families they're standing up for our values there's a lot of confusion right now there's a lot of confusion with under the umbrella of the church there's a lot of confusion amongst people who speak to the church but whether we should come in our buildings and do a polite bible study and not acknowledge that we know what's happening in the world or whether we'll have the courage to talk about the events that are taking place in the world it's not an advocacy for political candidates for or against them it's a recognition that we're called to be salt and light the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy are because the people who believed jesus in nazareth to be lord christ and king engaged with the world in which they live women's rights the civil rights movement those things that have brought the best in our nation to us have come from the influence of the christians in the public life of our nation and we cannot imagine we honor the lord and hide behind a bible study and not engage in current events it's not political and i don't think we can afford to allow other persons who've chosen other careers to have more courage for their faith than we do that's every one of us so thank you for being willing to write that letter i know we've got to go we're going to do some baptisms this morning you know god is moving in some very unique ways i've been in ministry a good while and have seen the lord do a lot of remarkable things but he's stirring the hearts of people in a way i've never seen i hope you don't take current events in a way that leaves you frightened or in retreat because that's not the way i feel at all i think the best days of the church are in front of us god is establishing the jewish people in their homeland as the general mentioned but he's equally busy purifying and preparing his church and i desperately want to be included in that group of people we're going to do some baptisms in a few minutes i met a couple last night they live in new york state they watched online we had a memorial service in the church some months back for charlie daniels charlie's in heaven and they watched that memorial service and after that started watching our online worship services and they drove down to middle tennessee from new york to get baptized huh now i'm pretty sure there's a puddle of water between new york and here but i'm watching god stir the hearts of people and so don't don't you imagine that we're in a defeated position we're just being asked to stand i want to pray for these men and what they represent it's not particularly fashionable right now to stand up for people in authority for law enforcement for first responders for our military it may not be fashionable but it's important and they take a stand on our back they're not perfect but none of the rest of us are and i want to ask you we're going to pray for these men and what they represent what they've done for us because behind them are multiplied thousands of others who run towards trouble so that we don't even have to understand what that means and it's our assignment to be their advocates not to ignore their character but to be their advocates and i'm going to ask you to stand we're going to pray for them and they've got flights to catch they're going to have to scramble out of here and then we're going to pray for ourselves so don't run for the exit when i say this first amend okay we're going to pray for one another but first we're going to pray for those that god has given authority in our lives from our political leaders to our first responders to the men and women who serve in our armed forces we need their strength we are united we're not separated by our accents and our hair colors we stand under the lordship of jesus of nazareth amen father i thank you for these men i thank you for their lives and their great courage for the sacrifices they have made that so many others might know freedom and liberty and lord i thank you for all those they represent those who are standing watch on our behalf today across this nation and around the earth i pray you'd send your angels to stand guard around them to watch over them to protect them i pray for those father who are making decisions on our behalf that they would make decisions that promote godliness and righteousness and purity may they be given advisors it will speak the truth to them and those who practice deception and wickedness father i pray their plans would fail that the name of jesus would once again be lifted up over our nation we thank you for it lord i thank you for the sacrifices that have been made and i pray that you would stir our hearts to make choices that would allow your best once again to emerge in jesus name amen amen amen thank you i love you god

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Published: Mon May 17 2021