The Argument of God - Part 1 // Isaiah 1 & 2

Church let's grab our Bibles tonight and turn to the Book of Isaiah and by God's grace we'll get into chapter 1 and by God's super grace we'll get into chapter 2 tonight no promises but Isaiah chapter 1 last week we looked at the introduction a little bit and we'll leave that you can look at it later online or through the media ministry but tonight we're looking at the argument of God the argument of God discovering the salvation of the Lord through the grace of God that's what Isaiah's name is all about that the Lord is salvation and that's what is a message is about the great prophet Isaiah considered or known as the evangelical prophet of the Old Testament spoke more about salvation than any other Old Testament book in the Bible Isaiah spoke about the Christ the Messiah more than any other book of the Bible it's the book of Isaiah that speaks more about the millennium and the Tribulation Period than any other book in the Bible amazing book now are you in Isaiah chapter 1 you have your finger there let's go to the beginning of Isaiah's ministry that's in chapter 6 hold your finger there turn to chapter 6 we got to do this in order chapter 1 and 2 and 4 a 3 4 and 5 couldn't have happened without chapter 6 chapter 6 Isaiah is milling about doing his business living his life he was from an affluent family he was of note because we know that he had access to the Kings and to the higher court of the rulers of Judah and he even had an influence in the nation or of the divided Kingdom in Israel to the north but Isaiah regarding King Uzziah so Isaiah is a man who is involved in court affairs apparently and as he was than southern part of the kingdom divided Judah was enthralled with King Uzziah king uzziah was a really good king he was a reformer and he was a tremendous builder and he was a really really bright guy very beloved by the people and Isaiah clearly loved them as well and now watch what happens with that in mind remember with that in mind the nation is declining it's it's that fluent people are doing really well their 401 k's are doing great everybody's driving a new car but the culture was waning and there were indicators on the horizon that the nation was in trouble at that moment this is what happens Isaiah 6 verse 1 and the year that King Uzziah died and you would hear a collective the beloved kings dead well look what happened to Isaiah when the King died I saw the Lord sitting on a throne high and lifted up and the Train or the glory of his temple filled the temple the glory of his robe filled the temple above it stood Seraphim those are remarkably bizarre order of angels these guys are interesting to say the least in appearance each one had six wings with two he covered his face with two he covered his feet and with two he flew and one cried to another saying holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory and the post of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out and the house was filled or the temple with smoke so I said woe is me for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips why for my eyes have seen the king the Lord of hosts the word the Lord of hosts is the lord of armies heavenly armies then one of the Seraphim flew to me okay you guys stop at that comma for a moment hmm put yourself excuse me in his sandals for a second the King dies he's shocked and then he sees this vision and the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord he's seen this vision transpire it's more real than real are you with me everybody this is unbeliev you seen this amazing thing that's happening he's not sleeping he's not dreaming the the word vision means he was out and about doing his business and and he was struck by this this either atmospheric manifestation in front of him or by spirit he saw or was transported by revelation to the very throne room of God whatever it is it is absolutely epic in Revelation and you might say well that's his drug-induced trip he's having maybe he's having a seizure yeah I understand where you're coming from except that from this event comes the Book of Isaiah and some of the greatest prophetic utterances known to mankind recorded in the Bible awesome so all this is going on and if the Seraphim weren't freakish enough by the way a little bit of detail they've got one a Seraphim has one body with with six wings and the Bible tells us in another place they have one head with four faces on their head so you see my face right here how can you not see this fat face imagine this and then I turn this way so the Bible says one has the face on his face is the face of a man okay the other side here is the face of an eagle this face in the back is the face of a lion this space on this side is the face of an ox you see that's freaky you want to hear freaky those are the exact four symbols of the four Gospels in the manifestation of Jesus and the four Gospels the Seraphim represent the four Gospels the fourfold Ministry of Jesus Christ when he would come to earth King the lion God represented as an eagle a man Luke tells us Jesus is the Son of Man and Mark's Gospel the shortest Gospel of all has the most miracles as he's the servant of God in the Gospel of Mark the ox it's all laid out there absolutely awesome so he's seen this thing manifested in front of them and it's got to be amazing and the Seraphim flew to me in the middle of verse six having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongue from the altar and he touched my mouth with it and he said behold this has touched your lips your iniquity has taken away and your sin purged also I heard the voice of the Lord saying whom shall I send and who will go for us and then I said can you believe he said anything at all this is awesome then I said Here I am send me oh my goodness and he that is the Lord said go and tell this people this is the call of the Prophet his response was send me it is an absolutely awesome thing that we're looking at so as we consider this look in Chapter 1 where we see right here the argument of God he God is saying to the nation of Israel in specifically Judah the southern kingdom he's asking them to consider this look what's happened to your life God is speaking now in chapters 1 & 2 look what's happened to your nation look what's happened to your life and in verses 2 & 3 we see the challenge that they haven't taken in thing to heart he says hear o heavens verse two and give ear o earth for the Lord has spoken and so what he says I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me verse three the Ox knows its owner and the donkey its master's crib but Israel that is Israel to the north of course but Israel is a nation God didn't see them as divided so much does not know my people do not consider so the first thing we see right here is you hear God announcing through the prophet Isaiah so now when God says I'll go tell my people this is what he's saying chapter one listen call out to them and look what God says he calls to witness his indictment against this nation Israel he says hear o heavens give ear you know earth for the Lord has spoken nobody's listening Isaiah is speaking for God and nobody in the nation is listening to the voice of God sound familiar in our country God is saying listen no one's listening so he does this and godless and God will do this and he's doing it to us God will say heavens I'm going to speak you be the witness against these people earth listen up and it's as though heaven perks up and listens and the earth sits up and takes notice what are you about to say and God is going to say this I'm going to speak to my people but they won't listen to me I believe God is speaking to America and he has been but very few people are listening if Jesus said am sparrow cannot fall to the ground without God notice in it don't you think that with all that's happened in our nation that God who knows all things he's speaking trying to get us to pay attention I believe he is and so he's asking the creation to take notice I'm calling these to be my witness now why would God say this he's he's announcing if disaster comes upon this nation of Israel or Judah in the south israel to the north if disaster comes God is saying I want you heavens to take a record of it in you earth sit up and watch listen I will not be blamed for their disaster and America cannot blame God for its disaster emotionalism will try to blame it on God but God has said warnings and God has sent warnings to Israel and he sent warnings to Judah and they will listen and it's in an interesting time because King Uzziah had led the people into great prosperity we'll hear more about this a little later but look is this is the heart a break of this in my opinion he says I've nourished and brought up children but they've rebelled against me that is the worst in my opinion the worst possible thing that can happen it's bad enough if your kid is stricken with a disease or has taken away by an accident or something that's that over-the-top painful but something worse is when a child grows up and then turns their turns around and shakes their fist at you and rejects all of your generosity and all of your love and all of your guidance and says get out of my face and the nation was saying to God get out of my face we don't need you we're rich we've got everybody's got a donkey in their garage we've got we've got you know all these cool things going on we've got water the nation's happening we're safe by the way all this was going on in Israel and Judah Israel to north Judah to the south all this affluent feeling was happening but as we mentioned last week in the introduction all the surrounding nations remember they were sharpening their swords for battle I heard a news report this week that one of our top national figures in Washington DC said that the ISIS situation in the Middle East has not reached the level of that warrants our concern and translation it's happening over there so far away and I'll just people we don't know we're getting killed ladies and gentlemen at what point do you wake up to the invading armies you better wake up to the invading armories while they're on their soil it's too late when they're on your soil that's a bizarre way of thinking man oh don't worry about it till they're knocking on your door then worry Wow nope listen pretty amazing Israel was surrounded by nations at that time that we're sharpening their swords for battle and they are the target but they didn't think it they didn't feel like it they didn't understand that Isaiah chapter 3 our verse 3 I should say says the Ox knows its owner and the donkey its master's crib but Israel does not know and my people do not consider this is amazing because an ox has a voice command to it an ox you can make noises or speak to an ox now we think of an ox right we'll put a dumb ox they look dumb uh by the way if you ever seen an ox look worried you know they don't look worried I don't people they would dumb ox well I don't know if that's fair we don't know what's going on in that head and why do we put them down well they're just beasts of burden oh you know at least they have a job they don't complain they look happy doing what they're doing and they're just plodding along and and God says you know what the Ox knows its master so before we call an ox dumb I know humans who do not know their God hmm and then he says the donkey the donkey knows its master's crib the stall or the the Masters house the donkey now see or would a what a dumb donkey I'm not going to use the old King James word but with my name I'm kind of halfway there jack and we make fun of them all what a dumb ox on that dumb donkey wait a minute did you know that if a donkey's lost actually a donkey can't get lost you can try to steal a donkey you can hijack a donkey but the moment you let the donkey go guess where the donkey goes the donkey goes home there used to be stories where criminals would use a donkey to do some bad stuff and run away from the front the crime scene but they left their donkey then the guys would have released their donkey the donkey would go right back where the criminal lives they know where to go listen I know people who are people humans and they don't know to call out to God they don't know to cry out to him they don't know they go through all of this worry and all of this Fred and all of this hardship and all of this complaining and griping and God says my people are so messed up there so far from me an ox and a donkey smarter than they are well the Bible tells us by the way that in the in Romans 2 verse 4 knowing that the goodness of God leads a man or leads you to repentance you know think of that God is saying what's wrong with my nation they've rejected me and I've been good to them and you know the Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads a man to repentance you need to read the fine print though listen it's the goodness of God that leads a man to repentance meaning you're supposed to stop if you're not a believer in God you're supposed to stop and take stock of your life and you're supposed to like you know take your pulse and you got pants on right yet pants or you're you're wearing a dress or you I mean you're not naked you have sandals or a shoe on which you're not you know you know at that you're supposed to stop and say isn't God good to me isn't God good you know think about every day we get up and every day we live a whole day and go to sleep isn't God good he got you listen all of his grace got you through that entire day and by the time we come to the end of the day we should say God thank you for allowing me to live this day man the way the world's going thank you you know I didn't lose my head or get Ebola today or for crying out loud thank you God thank you for everything so good to us and the Bible says and it implies that you're thinking normal it's the goodness of God that leads you to repentance can you say in your life God's been good to you do you have anything any evidence around you to say God has been good to me yo but to watch a lot of people say well you don't know the life I've that you don't know the sorrows I've had you don't know we've listened you've got troubles I've got troubles all God's kids got troubles in the midst of all the troubles god is good he's always good somebody um I heard just recently somebody had complained about a situation it was in the front office somebody came and they had said something oh he was something it was like my house something whatever was and one of the pastors had said privately you know they should probably be a little bit more thankful that they have a house to complain about see we have a tendency to complain I can't believe I got a flat tire what we should say is thank God I got three tires that aren't flat and I have a car that was able to get a flat tire God has been good to you and he says with that that should lead you to repentance what a powerful thing God's goodness in your life is an awesome thing and he's good verse 4 alas sinful nation says the Prophet a people laden with iniquity a brood of evildoers children who are corrupters Israel as a nation as a whole south again remember Israel's to the north that kingdoms divided Judas to the south but when God says here that we are there a sinful nation so are we a people laden with iniquity so are we children who are corrupters so are we what is he speaking about that man is born into sin King David said I was conceived in iniquity think of it what does that mean it means he's not slamming us by the way don't you love the honesty of the Bible if men wrote the Bible they would make themselves look really good think about that that's one of great arguments in the Bible as to how God have wrote it even even the psalmist David under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit throws himself under the bus many times think of it we're sinners we've all sinned and yet God loves us we are all destined for hell yet God sent his son that we wouldn't have to go there if you trust him it's amazing and when you look at it with normal eyes of thinking it's like God forgive me you know when you bump into somebody who's self-justifying this is one of the original only original thoughts they've ever had in life I'm not maybe two at the most three but this is the first one and I wrote it down it was so profound I wrote it down and I actually sent it to a quote company I'm kidding I'm not kidding and they did research on it and they emailed me back and they said your quote has been approved and here's what it is of course I'm telling you now like I'm taking credit for it God must have given it to me but it's this never underestimate a man's ability to justify himself never underestimate a man's ability now that's mr. mrs. man mankind to justify himself if so listen somebody can get caught with their hand in the cookie jar hey what are you doing says the mother and that person that says well if you would have left a cookie jar loose a little bit I would have gotten in there you different met people like that it's your fault you made cookies this is honestly this is a form of insanity and not saying that to be funny that is sick why did you do that well uh if you see and there's always an answer to their action to justify them you meet somebody like that and it's best you just keep going because that's a mess why because inside we have sin we are all si N+ and you have to teach your kids right now we have we have a two-year-old grandson do you think this is what we're teaching them okay now look this is how you hit go up there and hit the dog and when you're done hitting the dog go over there and hit your cousin and then come over here and hit papa do you have you tell them that you don't tell them that you have to say don't hit the dog where does this come from or they far they get the cookie and they hide the cookie why this is what does this come from we are sons and daughters of Adam and Eve it's in our spiritual DNA you have to teach children to do the right thing you know this really drives a lot of people that are taking psychology and college right now it drives them crazy because they're being told man at the core is good just graduate and live a few years and you'll change thinking that way man is not good we need God and God is saying look this is the way the nation is and that's a serious thing verses 4 & 5 and they have forsaken the Lord they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel they have turned away backward why listen why should you be stricken again that's a strong word listen why why are you doing this why are you progressing downward they have forsaken the Lord they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel is that an amazing that God is very patient and slow to anger but the Bible does say there comes a time when he rises up did you know the book of ezekiel says in recounting the nation of israel in the wilderness in egypt when they fled and the wilderness of Sinai the Bible says listen up everybody the Bible says that because of unbelief they resisted God and they made angry his Holy Spirit so that the spirit rose up and became their enemy can you imagine God becoming your enemy you have enemies has someone ever you know criticized you or they hate you or whatever let me tell you something that's nothing if the God of the Bible is so provoked and so rejected that he rises and becomes your enemy now listen it's recorded in Scripture here's the question for you not to answer just a ponder could some individual today or even a nation today so anger God that he becomes their enemy it happened before that's a very sobering thought one thing for sure is that you don't want to be that kind of person by the way it says that notice how they forsook the Lord and they provoked the Lord and they turned away backward you guys this is a very very serious warning because they gave up on God but it happened so slowly they didn't realize they were giving up on God it doesn't you don't think for a moment that if you're going to give up on God maybe you're here tonight and you're thinking well you know I don't know listen it happened so slowly you stopped seeking God can you can I can we detect any time in our walk with God where we were more in tune with his voice we were more prone to worship Him we were more thankful we as the Bible says we were more to walk in the spirit if you can say I remember yeah that's about two years ago you're going backwards and the scary thing is if if you don't realize it you just start to slow down you know it's like a train going across the desert and you pull the power off that trains so big and it's moving 50 60 80 miles an hour it takes miles and miles and miles and miles for that train to stop and it slows down so slowly you can't tell it's slowing down a lot of these people who are living off of their past spiritual experience yeah I remember when I used to serve the Lord what are you doing now Bunko oh there was a time when verses five and six he goes on will you revolt more and more he says to them the whole head is sick spinning the head is swirling about and the whole hearted faints from the sole of the foot he's speaking of the nation even to the head there is no soundness in it but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores this implies that the sickness of the nation is so listen to this it's so grave that the nation's been falling down and hitting its head and scraping up its arms in its legs and it's been bleeding and it's all imagine this this image of a man that's the nation of Israel Israel to the north and Judah to the south or for us America and it's all bandaged up and it's kind of leaning left and right and so watch this they have not been closed up or bound up or soothed with ointment their boozing sores of infection and God says this is how I view the nation of Israel of Judah the people my people do that's sick and the whole thing implies that they don't know how sick they are it's like people is you know if you're not feeling well are you something's wrong you're not doing your you're pale something's and people go are you all right and you know I'm fine and they're like oh did you see him something's wrong with them everybody knows it but you don't know it that's that's how the nation was unable to recognize almost you know living in a fairy tale land and Fantasyland it's okay it's okay it's fine it's good very serious so he goes on verse 7 York country is desolate this is very sad your countries become a wasteland the word desolate here in the Hebrew means this that your production as the land goes is starting to wane we all need to hear this right now where we're at God says you have forgotten me you're you you've walked away from me and this is the result you're you're reeling too and frozen ation and your land is failing you your crops are filled your corn productions going down you're you're in a drought my hand of blessings been removed you've told me to get out of your life you know we had a 20% chance of rain last night in the news did you see that we prayed for rain last night woke up this morning first thing I did I'm not kidding God's my witness I got up looked out the window dry as a bone looked up at the sky beautiful dark heavy laden clouds didn't drop a drug in the book of Jude in the book of Jude it says for example that false prophets are like clouds without rain and I thought man Lord if I was the governor of this state I'd say look forgive me in advance it's only has to say everybody would forgive them forgive me in advance but if you're prone to prayer will you pray for rain for this state could you met what's wrong with that did you know the governor of Georgia did that and he got sued and it rained a week later in Georgia it's your story look it up we need rain crops are struggling in America this summer but anyway God says to the nation of Israel your country's desolate your cities are burned with fire that's bizarre because you think well I've never happened here this gets very serious strangers devour your land in your presence yikes it is desolate as overthrown by strange you stop right there you're not going to like to hear this if you're politically correct you're going to freak out strangers devour your land in your presence the word implies invaders have come into your land and taken it this is not a word about legal immigration this is a word about illegal immigration of those who are coming to destroy you I'm not talking about even illegal immigration of those who want to work to feed their family I'm talking about what the Bible is talking about here and that is illegal immigration border runners border busters border breakers coming in with a specific purpose to overthrow your land that's called an invader this week Duncan hunter on one of the news programs announced and boy has he been hushed up had announced that border agents in Texas contacted him to tell him because they know he'll do something about it even though he's from California raised he from San Diego but he's a veteran Gulf War vet right on guy but they contacted him and they said we have ten Isis warriors in our in our custody right now in Texas that was announced this week in the news and boom he made I think he made a couple of news appearances on TV and have you heard about it how many of you heard about raise your hand if you heard about that maybe ten of you well they don't want people know about that interesting invaders by the way did you know the word Philistine you know what the word Philistine means Philistine the word Philistine means invader oh you knew that or not amazing well he goes on and in verses 9 to 23 he's going to be speaking to us God's argument now is this that you're not really into the worship of me anymore you want to move on to something else unless the Lord of hosts had left to us a very small remnant we would have become like Sodom and we would have been made like Gomorrah hear the word of the Lord you rulers of Sodom give ear to the law of our God you people of Gomorrah that's amazing God speaks to the nation his nation his people and the announcement is made that a little remnant of people will be saved but if listen if God wouldn't have sovereignly I exercised His grace because you guys the nation wasn't worthy of his grace of course not but God says you know what if I wouldn't have been gracious to you you guys would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah Sodom and Gomorrah God if God were to speak to us today he said if I did an exercise grace America would be like Sodom and Gomorrah you think San Francisco is bad or Las Vegas is bad God says if it wasn't for my grace I would I would dust these whole United States I just burned it I'd wipe it off the face of the earth it wasn't for my grace God's not an American you see well this never happened you guys were talking about the nation of Israel it happened I looked some stuff up and this might provoke you to do a study on your own when he likens it to Sodom and Gomorrah human history records the rise in the fall of nations since the beginning and nations have an expiration date on them set by their own population by the views of its own populace and it's interesting we're going to put this up on the screen this is the cycle of Nations you can get this from any school book the cycle of nations the age of pioneer it's called the age of Pioneer vision passion simplicity self-rule this is when a nation is just not even a nation yet it's being born and by the way the average lifespan of a nation in human history 210 years average lifespan of a nation 210 years so in a nation begins the nation is a pioneer minded nation it takes risk it's adventurous it's it's there's a vision there's a passion there's a simplicity self rule very few laws think of it because there's a self rule you don't need a bunch of courts and attorneys there's a self rule think back think back go way back in fact you have to go way back go back to the go back to Ozzie and Harriet on TV ladies and gentlemen I grew up to that that's how I grew up watching that and I don't know what's on TV these days whatever is on TV I'm sure it's not like Ozzie and Harriet it reflects your culture and listen people were nice man growing up you listen you young people you got to hear this growing up on my street that if I did something stupid and if mr. walz neck arm is Smith found out about it they would either spank me or they would take me home knock on my parents door hey hey your son was just I just saw your son throwing rocks on my cat oh gosh thank you mr. walz Nick mr. walz Nick my dad would open the screen door bring me in the house and I you just you know he applied the Board of Education to the seat of knowledge and I never threw rocks at mr. walz Nick's cat again people watched out for each other there was courtesy there was civility nobody got away with nothing when I was little wish to ride our bikes to the beach and come home in the dark nobody molested us nobody robbed us try that now you can't even do that at 40 years of age and he could be it up some get beat up by some 39 year old or something oh we're doing this though the age of conquest the age of conquest that comes next expansion development growth the Industrial Revolution thinkable for our nation anyway the age of commerce wealth and affluence Commerce think by the way those of you in know American history it's like yep yep then it's the age of affluence leisure what comes with effluence leisure and pleasure you got money by the way do you know what the sign of leisure I mean uh affluence is the sign is time off did you know that it's not positions it's actually time off the more time you have off the wealthier you are in America the wealthy never take a minute off they may have stuff but they're not rich they don't have families they've been married thirty times or whatever right their homes are destroyed but they've got all the stuff but they can't they can't even take a time off because they're so possessed by their effluence and leisure you got to watch out when this happens because then comes the age of intellect self-reliance and arrogance age of intellect is this I don't need God I'm good I'm so smart I'm impressed with myself now on a legend in my own mind who needs God I believe that our culture is somewhere south of number five and if you doubt me just take a field trip to UCI or UCLA SC go to Cal Poly just listen Walker walk the campus and listen worship of self intellect age of decadence follows if it feels good do it look out for number one he who dies with the most toys wins survival of the fittest number seven this is the end of a culture this is before by the way number seven is what leads to them being eventually captured by another military another another nation takes them at number seven the age of decline and collapse the greatest amount of rule and law one of the indicators of of cultural destruction and the end of a nation is a massive a massive amount of laws because of lawlessness more laws are created to try to stem the lawlessness but listen only bad people break the law with me where did gun control guess what please somebody study history gun control has never once saved a life not once you want to know why because only good people obey gun control laws bad people do not obey laws especially gun control bars they just go down and buy the gun off the street from Guido to do their thing while all the good people are defenseless all the bad people walk in and take your lunch what are we going to get this the liberal mouths talking in this nation whenever something happens we need more gun control I mean seriously really listen when that happens when you start thinking about waiting we need more laws isn't it the laws listen laws are not the answer in fact laws are an indicator that we're in number seven unless there's a revival in the United States of America our collapse and then someone taking us by military conquest is inevitable it's a man I came here tonight you bum me out this is good stuff this this should this is these are things that should cause us to get very serious about prayer really really praying hard for our country and our leaders look we're out of time I'm going to end with this did we even finish chapter 1 you know what is this 66 chapters we'll be halfway through the millennium before we end you guys let's let's let's end with this you know seriously our God we're talking about the Bible here our God is ageless he's eternal we're learning that on Sundays and God's Word if if you listen if you're smart you'll listen to God's Word and you'll you'll understand what your next step should be based upon God's Word this is very this is free advice know God's Word if you do you'll know what step to make next or what step not to make next as a nation God says that he's presiding over the nations he even says in Chronicles if a nation or if a people he says called by my name if they would just repent ur the sins humble themselves seek my face call out to me I'll heal their land don't listen never in the history of America as far as I am aware of has the United States been in such absolute bankruptcy of leadership across the board I'm not just I'm not talking about just Barack Obama I'm talking about governors and senators and congressmen and mayors and leaders look and I have to be careful in this church because we have some amazing political people in this church that love God and they're doing it it's awesome but yeah but but listen a few good people on the line they need a whole lot of good people to make noise and stand behind them and to encourage them and pray for them and vote and stand it up and say we will not have this in our town the people we have drink the kool-aid of apathy and I understand I'm not bashing you for this if you are single and you haven't you know kids know nothing and maybe you're a student you're going to those schools I mentioned a moment ago I understand where you're at I get that I get that part and it's okay I we know because when you when when you're when someone's paying your tuition you don't have to work in school and all this stuff and but there's going to be a day when when you when you're out of that bubble and you're gonna get a job it's your first job you got your degree in yes then you get a job it's your first job yes and you get your first check cuz listen listen how much do you want to be paid no per hour the most what kind of salary do you want I want a big one okay take a look at your check and find out where all the money went and it's amazing and then they call up dad and they say what is this what is that thing oh that's what you have to pay now so people can people can have this right now and then if you're lucky people in the future will pay and they'll take care of you then and oh and this is for this is for not only your medical but this is for the medical for all the people who don't want to work and down the list it goes and then you come out on the other end and it's like and all of a sudden listen I have discovered because I've talked to a lot of people across this nation the more the more of liberal-minded you are I have discovered that you're usually 35 years of age or younger you probably don't have a wife or a husband you probably don't have kids you probably don't own a car you probably don't have any credit card debt because as soon as you cross over into the world of life whether you have family and kids and car you pick gasoline to commute to the job and all this guy guess what happens you start thinking very conservatively and I'm not talking a Republican Democrat here I'm talking about hey I want to work and be paid and keep the money I want to buy I want to buy it I want to buy my own house you start thinking like that guess what's happened to you you have just realized that you have value to yourself and what you do and you'll be a good citizen contributing to the community that's super duper but when we as a nation forget god there's only two people on the planet who can rob you one is a guy with a gun and the other guys from the government and what happens what happens is a nation makes more laws imposes itself upon the people and strangles the vitality of a people and how does that happen we begin by forgetting God so if you want to come back next week you're free to let's pray father we thank you for your words it's amazing here we are looking at a three thousand-year-old document and it's more up to date than tomorrow's news it just goes to show us all that human nature doesn't change unless you're invited into our lives Wow and father tonight we pray I have hope I pray for our leaders even tonight in Washington Lord give them dreams it's about 11:30 Lord I don't know where they are senators and congressmen vice president president you know exactly where they're at give them a dream tonight show them your glory may it be seen that there's a God in heaven who rules Lord show them Seraphim with six wings that freak them out enough I would think but there's hope because you are God there is hope I know many of us are under groaning many many feel very depressed at a time like this but there's hope because you are God you're alive you're not dead you're enthroned in eternity you're not stuck somewhere in some state oh Lord we pray that you would revive our land and send us Lord a great awakening that hearts and minds would turn back to the Lord we pray this in Jesus name and all God's people said you

Channel: Real Life with Jack Hibbs

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Length: 51min 46sec (3106 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 19 2014