Who Is Thinking For You by Shane Idleman

[Applause] [Music] this is a very important topic we're just as confused as ever before on what's going on in the news and we sent out some questions to the ignite youth group some of them are here this evening on what are the top questions on their minds what are what are the some of the things they're questioning and confused about and we see what's happening in afghanistan what a mess what a just heartbreak and what's going on with covet and the mandates and all the different things so i'm going to try to sort through it on one hand as christians and if you're in god's word and you're you're educating yourself you have a pulse on things but you're not perfect and so i don't profess to know it all that's for sure especially on these issues because some things we thought were crystal clear other things we're not sure of and i've kind of just stepped back a little bit and taking a lot of things to prayer in seeking god's will the title is who thinks for you because somebody is thinking for you what i mean by that is god's thoughts are being planted into your soul and your spirit and then you're acting upon those or the thoughts of the world are being planted into our minds and that's really what you see out there is kingdoms colliding you see god's kingdoms god's thought process god's will god's truth is colliding with the way the world thinks who thinks for you and of course we find ourselves in romans 12 1-2 on this topic and paul is writing the church in rome and he says which i'm sure he would say to us today as well i beseech you that's that word is i i beg you and and i would if i could i would tell you i i would i beg you to look to god's word and be conformed actually transformed by god's word because the times are getting dire it's getting hard to discern the fake news the real news how to act how not to act um has any of this produced any negative attitudes in you or just me if i have another store tell me to put a mask on i don't know but you see i have to be careful i'm human too i've got emotions i've got anger i got fear i've got frustration and working through those and and but being being transformed by god's word so paul says i'm begging you by the mercies of god it doesn't get much clearer than that that this is a plea that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to god see you can't get rid away from holiness you can't get way away from that being acceptable to god and this is your reasonable service now the reason this verse is so interesting is because so many people ask me and the church what is god's will for my life have you heard that well it starts right here if you're not doing it here you're not going to know god's will in other areas of your life present your bodies as a living sacrifice holy holy before god living holy not perfect lives and it's interesting as i was even looking through david's life as i'm going through the bible i'm looking at different characters you know it was he was a man after god's own heart yet he did things that he shouldn't do even samson even sampson and i'm like why didn't the prostitute take him down but delilah did i'm like what i don't understand sometimes and and so i'm not excusing these things all i'm saying is it's an attitude of repentance and getting back on track and i'm not excusing sin i don't encourage it but when you fall fall forward and god that's you can still live holy and righteous before god if you're constantly seeking him giving him your life living holy making decisions that honor him and then the famous part of the verse as well and do not be conformed to this world young adults how many ignited in here some of you are in here this word have you ever seen them make a clay pot where they take the the clay and it's it's moldable and it's being conformed so they're saying do not let paul saying do not be conformed to this world and what he means by world the word is cosmos it means a world's way of thinking the world thinks differently than god if you haven't figured that out yet pretty clear difference here and so if you're being conformed to the direction of the world the thought process of the world you will not be transformed by the renewing of your mind according to god's word so we have this do we have this two opposing forces if you will and i don't really call the holy spirit a force it's actually the triune nature of god but the the holy spirit drawing you and can and con transforming you into the image of christ and now you have the world trying to do what the same thing so who thinks for you who who's making you do what you do who's planting the thoughts and this is where we have a huge uh choice to make and this is where i think uh the fats are won or they are lost in my life in your life as well this is where the battle is won the the battle for the mind and who who thinks for you and i'm sure you see it on facebook and different places twitter tick tock all these crazy places you see christians do things and you're like how is that possible why they're a christian now some people aren't christian they're just christian in name and and they're not they're they don't know jesus christ but some people are genuinely i believe believers but they've quenched and grieved the spirit and like why why do they disagree with me on everything from politics to vaccines to cova to the agenda to all the stuff why are there they don't see this the abortion's okay like i don't understand what's going on and it's often because the thinking who's doing the thinking for them they're conformed to what the world believes and what the world thinks and adrian rogers said something very interesting at first the man molds his idol but then the idol molds his man and that will happen to you that will happen to me the more you give yourself over to that idolatry the more that idol will begin to control you and jeremiah talked about it in in his book and i think also isaiah where they would actually go and cut down trees and they would make an idol their god and worship it in their house and then once they gave over to that that idol began to then take over in their life and so if there's anything in your life you begin to give yourself over to have you when you're younger you can handle some things but eventually those things begin to handle you and as you get older and you give yourself over to more of these things they begin to control you you once you once controlled them but now they begin to control you and it's it's this hook of idolatry and uh we give ourselves over to something then that latches on so the competing voices we've talked about god's voice and the voice of the world and really the the cry is if you if you were to sum up everything the cry is validate my sin that's what the world says i want you to validate my sin i want to live however i want and i want you to acknowledge that this is right and it is good and if not you are intolerable isn't that what we're trying to do validate sin and that's what the world wants to do god's word says something completely different and i've talked about this before so i won't go into a lot of detail but we know how to tell what is of god and what is of the world basically what is of the enemy working in our hearts our own thoughts going to the to the let's call it the dark side right it's the lust of the flesh so if your flesh craves something now it's okay to you know crave you've got to eat you got to i mean there's certain things god-given cravings but if if you're being led by the flesh something the flesh wants the flesh desires that's a pretty good indication it might be the wrong voice that's leading you the wrong wrong thought process especially when we tell there's with the youth in here don't think you want to date someone or because how they look now it's okay to be attracted to them but if you're oh i have to date them because how they look when i was younger is brad pitt who's it today oh still brad pitt who oh okay tatum little nauseas the weekend like but see but that but we're drawn to these people or you see someone at school or church and that that it might not be wrong necessarily but if that the feeling should be the caboose of the train not the engine and so we make decisions based on the lust of the flesh oh i like how that person looks are they a christian i don't know i don't care that's what we said high school did that would that wouldn't even that wasn't even on the radar until you learn the lesson later and so the pull of the flesh what the flesh craves what the eye wants the lust of the flesh the less the eye the pride of life is not of the father but it's of the world so what your eye goes after what what you want i you know i i have to have this and as a as a truck lover you know you want the next big truck you want my meow year it's a year old i want the i want the one where the tailgate we saw a commercial what was it for shane with the chevrolet you go dad you want i go that's a pretty cool tailgate you push a button and you got half a tailgate and then it comes in half another tailgate it's got tool bins it's like that is pretty cool i want that but they're expensive and so the the less the eye is taking you why why do people get in big financial debt in regard to housing in the housing market hmm buying what they don't really need often it can because see we're buying things because of how they look or how the flesh feels and we're caving into addictions or overweight or all these things because of the lust of the flesh and then we want more want the lust of the eye and then somebody tries to correct us and say hey you might not you might not be going in a good direction well i that you're just judgmental and that's the pride of life so you have the pride of life pride prevents you from being teachable and humble and open to the things of god so that's how that's how the pole the enemy works it's actually not very difficult when eve saw that the the the the fruit there was what pleasant to the eye good for food lust of the flesh lest ye and desirable to make one wise you took of an eight and so we see the enemy always uses those three things so that's one way to think okay who's thinking for me if this something my flesh wants now that's not necessarily a bad thing because afterwards my flesh is probably going to want to eat right but the the the flesh flesh inside's going to want panda express an in-n-out burger and maybe two double doubles and french fries and a chocolate shake and i tease myself i drink some and then try to throw it away but i have i can't the whole thing and so see how the flesh takes over i'm gonna start a fast i'm not gonna say i'm not gonna eat any junk food tomorrow and then here comes chocolate time the flesh is or what about women say my bio my biological clock is ticking i got to find somebody and they and we rush out ahead of things and so that's basically how this the competing voice works god says it's actually very clear filter your feelings and these lusts and these decisions filter them through my word and they don't line up with that then you know you're not going in a good direction so you actually have to saying no the blessing follows saying no you usually don't feel like it at first you feel like caving into the lust of the flesh but then when you say no and obey god's word that's when the satisfaction comes that you you either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret that's how it the scripture is clear on this and then when that happens we're hearing the wrong voice i just last night i was reading dietrich bonhoeffer's book actually it was a it was a book written by him his autobiography is not his autobiography biography of of dietrich bonhoeffer do you know who he was he was actually hung by a piano string because he was part of the attempt to kill adolf hitler he was a christian pastor in germany and i will tell you reading this book more than anything what alarms me is the parallels that we're seeing in america today silence the true churches give the liberal churches a voice control what goes in the media it has to be state sponsored get rid of the police force and bring in the brown coats that work for just hitler and the ss and so he was hung by piano string because of a failed attempt on hitler's life and what happened is they they brought a bomb in to where hitler was with some of his generals bonhoeffer didn't he was just part of it and they killed many people tortured them their wives were children because of this failed attempt and they this general brought a suitcase input underneath this 18 foot long table it was a big the wood table i think it was oak or something and so hitler was behind something like this one of the legs and so when it went off it seared him and he but he was fine but a couple people around him died it was it was a failed attempt and it's interesting what he said i i highlighted i could not believe it he went out to the the german public in the announced on radio that he said now more than ever i know that providence and god is on my side because he spared my life the wrong voice and then how many churches went with him went in his direction because he promised them safety and took away their freedoms the parallels are amazing and we shouldn't be surprised because either god is controlling you in our world system and our government different things or the enemy is there's not some something in between oh it's either antichrist against god or for god and you wonder how how in the world can that happen in afghanistan with what the current president did it's not only alarming it's appalling it's treason wrong wrong mindset how can they leave people stranded there knowing that they can be rescued leaving telling the planes they can't take off this is this is diabolical because it's the enemy working in the hearts and minds of these people i believe many of these people are pathological liars one lie after another it just keeps coming the big one i don't know if you've seen this and again i don't just oh look i read this on youtube i better tell you i i i have to research a lot of things double check triple check make sure the source but it just they the freedom of information act came out and they finally released some emails and fauci's in big trouble one of the senators rand paul was on fox news and they said they're actually some senators are calling for his arrest this isn't conspiracy theory i'm not making it up they there's ties with the wuhan lab that he knew exactly what they were testing and doing in china he knew it he called it in 2020 they predicted a massive epidemic and here's how we'll handle it oh wow isn't that coincidence and so it's all coming out you see how does this happen diabolical it's lying it's the prince of this the world it's the it's it's anti-christ and against christ and i read another survey from it was a secular newspaper who are the people against all these things the government's doing you know why are they fighting you name it max mask vaccines whatever you want the mandates you know there's different views on different things but all i think we all agree that we shouldn't be forced to do anything uh especially on something that that's experimental we don't know the ramification but like look at this group of people look at these group of people who are against all this it's it's evangelical christians oh they're the bad people well it could be that they're discerning what god is doing because they're hearing from god and they're discerning god's will and not being led away by the prince of darkness i think that's what it is it's not these people believing a conspiracy theory we see exactly what's going on and i'm going to answer some of the youth questions that came in just a minute but i want to share with you why is you know who larry elder is running for governor okay without endorsing i think you know who i might be leaning towards uh but anyway i was actually saw on paul chapel lancaster baptist tweet or facebook page he actually led him to the lord at lunch led him to the lord lunch about a week ago so i mean that's that's encouraging um but anyway a black man from the inner city who worked his tail off to get where he's at now that now the the liberals are against him now now everyone's against him wait a minute why is that are you really for with what you say you're for no they're not it's a mindset it's a kingdom's are colliding so be encouraged that's what's going on is it why so much confusion because who thinks for you we're thinking outside the box and according to god's will and the world system many in america are not so here's the big places or here's the big areas that change our thinking so young adults this is mainly for you i know a lot of you are in here tonight number one entertainment entertainment it is shaping the way you think if you're listening to songs that say hate the police and hate your parents guess what you're going to do both that's why i mentioned lil nas x and weekend and billy what's your name english or irish or whatever it's like is that was i close okay you guys know but they are influencing you more than your parents and more than your church they some of them don't know if they're a boy or a girl little nausea just did a fake youtube thing where he's pregnant posting his picture was praying what is this this is insanity insanity is the definition of doing the same thing expecting different results you cannot continue to reject god and get different results truth will always prevail you can't fight truth and so if you're listening to these people if you're listening to this type type of material you will be led astray from god that's just plain and simple there's no well no i think i can keep a good balance i even i even talked to one youth pastor 20 years ago my wife will remember this is i just just you know one of those things he goes shane but i have to listen to and watch what they watch so i can relate to them by listening to his sermons are dead there's no power in his life he's just he just looks like the world that's his excuse you can't you know it's okay to you know a little bit like what do they believe what are they thinking so you can relate to your kids but if you're entertained by it that's why it's called entertainment if you're entertained so entertainment is huge what about sports [Music] so many kids are are quoting lebron james and communism because of what he promotes and love his love for china and socialism and different things now i know these things hurt but just just look it up just if you don't believe me look does he love america does he love god and they're influencing millions and millions of people social media i don't even know who invented tick-tock but it needs to go these guys these people have too much time on their hand and even my son will watch something or my daughters i better not say point out it's like no you can't try that at home just because they tried on youtube doesn't mean it's gonna work you can't blast a rocket ship out of the backyard and so but it's influencing so you have entertainment you have sports you have social media all they're they're in they're thinking for you so your product of what you're you're being conformed to that so you look like that and that's kids that's why you don't get along often with your parents because your parents are trying to point you to christ the world's trying to take you away and there's a kingdoms are colliding well hold on i'm not done yet what about news news outlets be careful where you get your information what about friends and all these all these influence that can be counter you're going counter cultural like with with god they're pushing you into the culture and so you have all these competing voices and the big one right now well as well as false churches i've i never thought we'd see so many false churches 20 years ago i mean friends i know pastors that i've been at meetings with like well you know what i don't know if we can really trust paul's writings yeah right over that hill i can't say anything about abortion because the government okays it i mean you know submitting to the government romans 13 that is the worst exegesis of romans 13 i've ever heard is it because they're a coward not filled with the spirit false churches say we shame we just need to love everyone where they're at we don't call out sin the problem is that's not preaching that's accommodating we can be welcoming but not affirming and to truly love someone you point out see the problem is they don't have the inerrancy of scripture in their heart another many churches especially in people people i know are promoting something that you'll be hearing more about when i'm in genesis called critical race theory and basically they're using racism to try to prevent racism as we always say you have to change the heart that's we don't have a skin problem we have a sin problem you change the heart and so what this what this teaches though i'm going to get to it in just a second because one of the kids are asking this question america is bad it is evil and so guess what else is bad you're going to be hearing about this i think pretty soon if you haven't already so is the constitution you know what that means we the people in the toilet we the government are your new commanders in chief here and by the way white people you're all oppressors that's what you are you've been oppressed and you are oppressors you oppress people and so you have to apologize for that you have to work on not being so white and so what they're doing is they're actually forcing racism well shane what should we do you pointed out there's racism in the police department there's racism in the government there's racism in the churches and you change the heart you get to the heart of the problem by changing the heart but churches are apologizing for that and and they're putting the rainbows the rainbows are now if you go and go to palm springs you'll see a lot of rainbows on church on church signs and that means they're welcoming they're actually affirming of the lgbtq lifestyle that that's how god made them it's not our job to say anything and and and so you're so now you're being led astray by false doctrine well how do i know if it's true or not does it line up with scripture it's very clear god doesn't change praise aren't you glad god's word doesn't change when it's said in leviticus thou shall not lay with a man as a woman man lays with the woman thou shall not put on woman's clothing if you're a man guess what that still applies but they say but they also say don't eat seashells or shellfish i guess you just don't eat seashell do not eat seashells but they say well you look at the dietary laws true but the dietary laws guess what they're still not good for example shellfish i know it's gonna upset some people but they they're actually they live at the bottom of the ocean they are the sewer of the ocean they clean the waste of the the ocean so lobster shrimp all that is very unhealthy food and so god knew what he was doing don't eat pork you want to know what you want to get into the worms and pesticides your parasites you want to be okay avoid that so see god knew what he was doing with the dietary law very clean diet the animals are cloven hose and not cloven hose very good animals to eat digestive and and and for amino acids and for the digestion system of the human body to absorb it and work work you know work as food but then you take all these other animals that you shouldn't be eating so see god knew what he was doing outlining that but no moral law no moral law where god says thou shalt not today he says thou shalt never you won't find anything for committing adultery to the lgbtq agenda to homosexuality to you name it if it was sin then it's sin now but see but shane that's mean spirit you're not helping people actually i think i am helping people because i'll say i'll tell them and we love you i love you're in a struggle i've been in struggles we're all in different struggles come on let's be honest you don't put some sins way up there oh poor guy up there well without christ all sin is sin adultery fornication homosexual it's all sin across the board without christ and so we have to encourage people hey take your struggle to the cross and then once they do there's tremendous joy tremendous peace tremendous hope that they didn't have before so who really loves them who really wants to help them and so you have these competing voices what about in the classroom that all these teachers have you seen these videos of antifa teachers and and teachers making kids say pledge allegiance to the gay pride pray and and another teacher just screaming you know if you're if you're unvaccinated you i just hate you i want to kill and vaccinate people it's like these people have lost their mind and so now you have the classroom false churches the news and so if you're inundated on all these things but no time for god no time in his word you are not only being led astray you are led astray in your thinking that's why god is boring that's why you hate church that's why you hate your parents forcing you to go to church that's why you don't want to be here right now and you wish this service was over it's because i you've been conformed to what the world says who thinks for you but don't worry i want to encourage you there's hope young adults we need you like never before god wants to work in your heart a couple questions that the youth are asking and i want to answer them how is it possible that everyone is lying shane from the media to the president to doctors have you heard about that i mean you've you've probably thought that you know will you shane how do you know like so everyone's lying they're probably talking about covet masks vaccines and what you do is you you research you pray you seek godly counsel you use wisdom you meditate on god's word you fast you humble yourself and then you're better able to discern what is going on so i just explained why i believe there's a lot of misinformation out there is because the world's mindset is satan a creation of truth what is he called the liar the deceiver and so we see a lot of that lying and just oh i knew i had it 900 pages of documents was uncovered by the intercept it confirms what has been clear for months that the nih i believe that's the national institute for health did indeed fund research at the wuhan lab and that's going to be coming out and so what we do is we use discernment look at the numbers do you remember the fake numbers that came out the altering of numbers there's no more flu there's no more pneumonia there's nothing it's everything's coveted so of course there's going to be high numbers and then you also look at are people getting the flu and pneumonia is it is it i've talked to doctors many different doctors you follow the money yeah you ready are you ready i don't know if you're gonna believe this look it up yourself the richest companies in the world any idea what kind of companies they are pharmaceutical pharmaceutical companies and what you need to know is they have board of directors they have to hit numbers and they look at profit margins same store growth and what drug is profiting if you've ever seen american greed on tv ever heard of it i never had until i just stumbled upon it they just did a huge story two weeks ago of a major company who was giving kickbacks to doctors two thousand three thousand eight thousand but they're putting it under speaking fees so they have say hey i'll pay eight thousand doctor to speak to say whatever you want but if you prescribe this drug that actually was was for it's actually for end-of-life patients but they're just giving it to people with knee problems and shoulder problems it created and this whole thing came out to where and that's not uncommon it's not a comment they'll push certain things it's really man i'm trying to be loving here but it is a drug pushing business now there are some things that people need i'm not against that i'm not throwing out the baby with the bathwater but be careful why is it always about the drug and not what's causing the problem i've talked to doctors why do you recommend statin drugs to stop the liver from producing insulin instead of changing their diet well they won't have a patient anymore exactly why do you recommend coumadin a blood thinner because their heart's working too hard instead of getting them on a proper diet and lose weight they can do that same thing well i mean the lip i can just keep going on and on and on and and we have to understand that so in studying we understand that it's not about health it's not about health it's about pushing products i mean i can go way back into how even the medical field was and i'm not against it i think we need good doctors we need good nurses and thank god for them there's a lot of people doing good things but if you look at it's not health focused it's product driven and revenue driven that that's just the truth that that's upset you that's between you and the facts and so when you look at that who's making now why when i found out covet pay you the doctors get 16 000 for a doctor for a covert patient well hold on six sixteen thousand why don't you get that for any other kind of patient and then thirty two thousand if they're on a ventilator hold on hold on there's some there's a here's my favorite word shenanigans and so you see all of this god gives us wisdom for a gen a reason you see now there's agendas is there not there's agendas being pushed churches closing on you're not essential but let's keep the abortion clinics the liquor stores the pot marijuana houses open no biggie there obama can have his big party and nobody's mass nobody cares about anything up there wherever they were in the east coast but you know now you guys see it's just come on no more drinking kool-aid and so you you there's a holy boldness here luther was bold and fought germany zwingli was bold in switzerland god calls us to be both loving and firm and understanding but still standing up and saying this is not right if you do a co2 test with the child with oxygen they're very they're breathing some very unhealthy so are you breathing some very unhealthy byproduct did you know when you blow in what you blow out of your lungs is toxic you're getting it out of the body it's been used and regenerated in the body to bring light living oxygen in and now you're breathing it out and you can you're keeping it here and how does that even work the virus can't escape out this way and touching things i mean to do it right you need an n95 mouse sucked to your face with gloves on you take it off the right way throw in the trash and wash your hands get out of town but you nobody's so it's just you look at the outright lunacy and and and why would if if it's free dialogue free discussion why does facebook remove my messages and youtube sends me oh we had to delete your post because your video because it was false information no it's true information that you deem fault and why are these who are the fact checkers that's what i would like to know who are these fact checkers we need to fact the fact checkers and so like i said you can google this event 201 it happened in 2020. big big names out there they talked about what happens if a pandemic breaks out here's how we're going to handle it and guess what happened and so you see there's just just too much there you see can you see control and like i quoted hillary clinton never let a crisis go to waste and so yes something can be real but how we're handling it can be extremely over the top and controlling and manipulating in the in the the the enemy of our soul the liar is going to use it you don't know this and i don't know if i should tell you but oh well if when it was trump when he had the department of justice william barr i saw the letter i heard it read he actually wrote our governor a letter and said you will not deem the church as non-essential or we will fight this to the supreme court that's when he finally lifted and said okay i'm not going to can you imagine if we had who we have in office now the churches aren't going to stand that you're going to come down on you like never before because you are god's voice of truth you have the boldness and the uh the audacity to challenge their thinking everything is just hanging in the balances so when you weigh all of that i just gave you i just gave you that's why i can say most people most political leaders most people in the media are lying to the american public or they just don't have the right information i can tell you by what you believe i can tell you what news source you're listening to i walked into best buy and they got me sir security guard can you put your ma can you put a mask on yours isn't even covering your nose these people have them down on their chin what do you what is this it doesn't even work it's cloth why yeah i know but yeah it's our policy and so you see all of this is just you know it just set now maybe i need to repent to that and have a better attitude i'm trying pray for me but and and i think susie you gave me some good advice i see you up there i if they ask you to do it then do it and be nice about okay i need to work on that one guys pray for me this week and i was nice about i just said okay we're going to go to amazon thank you in order but it's like you but you see but nobody's saying anything nobody's saying anything so they're they're gonna they're gonna mask your children all day in the classrooms and nobody says anything like that like they don't touch their desk and their pencils and their sneeze they don't touch their eyes they don't touch the door handles they don't touch the urinals they don't touch your drinking fountains give me a break have you ever studied immunology do you know how viruses work and how they expand through the air and that and that most 90 of masks are like trying to keep mosquitoes out with the chain-link fence and so when you see this just just it's lunacy you feel compelled to speak up be loving and understanding not everyone agrees i understand that and so that's why many of us believe that a lot of people are lying and the media is not being forthright and i don't know if you know this but the majority of the media like 90 is owned by six or so billionaires have you heard a name like george soros i mean these people are corrupt evil people and they own the media that you're listening to that many people are listening to so just be careful you get information because they will craft stories to push a narrative it's no longer the news reporting non-biased it's like we have to push this narrative i mean for example you go on the drudge report you think the world was coming to an end everything's in bold type more coveted cases than last year labor day 49 states are affected by where we're on the fifth variant and it's like and everything's just and now again there's people sick we're praying for people if you don't want to get it we want to be we want to be on the offensive we want to you know please wash your hands stay home if you're sick do everything you can do but why is no one talking about building up natural immunity it's to me a lot of these things it just doesn't make sense so that's why we believe a lot in the media and um a president i don't want to make fun of different things but he should just not be he's not in a position mentally to be governing our nation and so you see this happening you see the the afghanistan was an embarrassment did you know that the taliban now has more black hawk helicopters than any other nation except behind the united states your enemy that took down the twin towers or part of al qaeda they have we just gave them 85 b billion 85 billion in equipment they left negotia they left translators there they left american families there if you truly love america and truly feel this is right you get your assets out you get your equipment out you get your people out and then you have the military whether it's seals or army rangers or whatever it is you have them stay and you know deal with it and then you take them out last the military outlast and that's how you handle things like this so it doesn't make any sense but watch watch the news stories watch these news stories you the lady on cnn was there they're chanting death to america but they seem pretty peaceful you you've got to be kidding me did you see that on cnn the death to america but they're but they're peaceful they seem fine we we the real enemy is within now folks they're in our universities they're teaching our classrooms they are leading our churches they are in the political office we are fighting a real battle between good and evil but you don't fight this battle with physical weapons you fight this battle with prayer and fasting and a little bit of boldness look at all the people making a difference especially in california is john mcarthur passive or bold is jack hibbs passive or bold rob mccoy passive or bold other churches that are doing that you've there's this time where you stand up and you say not on my watch not with our children you can take this and and and take it back to god's word and see if it lines up and so that was just one question let me hurry up the next question what's wrong with people doing what makes them happy if it doesn't harm anyone that's fair enough right but here's something you have to remember freedom does not come without moral responsibility so the and i don't know why god gave me this desire but i did thousands of readings of articles and books and different things early on in the ministry about the founding of america and so freedom of speech for example would not protect pornography today they did not have that in mind all of their writing said as long as there's a it's for the good of society but if it hurts society you lose your freedom you no longer have freedom to hurt people and so what happens let's let's use this one for example what's wrong if it makes me happy well what about i'll just throw out a few examples most people were talking about this area of illicit sex the reason i use that term illicit is because do you know who designed sex not hollywood god very good god-given but just like a fire in the fireplace keep it in the fireplace not on the living room floor and so once people say well i want to do whatever i want i'm not harming anyone well tell that then to the couple who has to have an abortion and it harms a child it harms them for the rest of their lives it's something they can never let go it haunts them also it devastates a marriage later on me and morgan will both tell you that we wish our past was a little bit better before we got married because you carry baggage into your relationships and so it does hurt your future spouse it does hurt your children these things hurt others not only that it quenches the holy spirit when you live outside of god's parameters you quench and grieve the holy spirit so what is happening is people are happy when they're fulfilling their lusts but heart is the way of the transgressor and ultimately they are depressed and unhappy true joy comes when we are serving the lord so this this i'm sure this question has to do with am i missing something probably has to do with what's wrong if it makes them happy it doesn't harm anyone if it's having to do with with illicit sex it always hurts someone families are falling apart because of this issue people are drifting from god so if you're saying okay lord i'm going to make this decision for example i'm going to wait until i'm married and i'm going to i'm going to make decisions it's difficult but the reward the pain of discipline and there's joy that comes from that versus caving in and supposedly not hurting anyone you do hurt people anytime you go outside of god's will you will hurt people and of course the hot topics we could stay on are our god and religion you know the world what does the world say about god and religion versus what god's word says about god and religion for example try this sometime or maybe you shouldn't but just think about it talk about god it's no big deal oh yeah i believe in god he's within me you know but you talk about jesus christ and repentance and he's the only way the only truth the only life nobody comes to the father except through him that's where you're going to ruffle feathers with the world marriage and sexuality i just talked about that many youth and even us adults are dealing with fear and depression anxiety how does the world say to deal with it they actually deal with it with more fear with more depression with more anxiety and get prescribing this and prescribing that and god's word says something different about that now another question that came in i think i wrote it down and shared it with you why is there such a lack of respect for law enforcement the military the flag america are you sensing that at all it's it's just it's it's from from harvard to yell from the school districts to the political offices what in the world is going on well i'm going to give you the snapshot of it if you want you can download my book one nation above god for free on our website church website one nation and you can read about all of this but the what they're trying to do is here's here's why this is all coming all this information came out from wall builders and the book i wrote eight 15 years ago now and all this information about how america was founded the mayflower compact and puritans and pilgrims and and you couldn't even run for office unless you believed in god and jesus you did you know that even harvard harvard who just now appointed an atheist as their chaplain yeah yeah i know and tim keller congratulated him that's a little interesting but anyway that harvard do you know that that harvard was founded as a school to teach the word of god i've quoted it before the rule said let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life which is to know christ jesus and therefore to lay christ at the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning harvard and so all this comes out so now you have to make america bad see the foundation's not good they were all slave owners they were all corrupt capitalism you hear the big push now capitalism socialism what is that young adults are loving socialism i would too if it was presented to me that way when i was younger hey they call it cradle to grave entitlements everything is free free school free phones free checks in the mail you just have to sit home and do nothing that sounds good to the flesh the problem is guys you're gonna realize nothing's free and we're leaving you a big bill and biblically speaking guess what now capitalism has its problems too i don't i don't promote any type of but god's word says work and you eat if you don't work you don't eat it blesses hard work and blesses labor and blesses those who want to people do well they excel god blesses them people do well they excel blesses them so that lines up more with what god's word says now are there abuses of course but socialism basically says hey just throw all your money in the same bucket we're all paid evenly that that's very dangerous and if you read i believe it's of plymouth plantation written by william bradford of what when the pilgrims came over they tried what was called the communal system where they all threw all the corn into one communal system they about starved to death because the hard workers would work hard and the lazy people wouldn't and it was all handouts and you actually fuel lazy mentality and people say but shane what about an axe when they all gave of their own accord and they all just came together and that's what they use for communism communal and socialism but but you forget there it says and they gave of their own will of their own accord it wasn't forced on them so if we say we're going to pay for your schooling we're going to pay for this actually what they're wanting is your vote and political power and it is not biblical it will lead in a very very dangerous direction can you imagine working your tail off and you've got to do now your tax 50 60 70 of your income to give to someone who just sits at home and smokes dope all day and i know people get upset but i'm just telling you the truth now are those who are there are those who need government handouts absolutely the welfare system which actually began as a very good thing initially how it began to help those who needed help but really that's not the role of government whose role is it exactly how can the federal government washington dc can regulate what's going on here in california and section 8 housing vouchers concepts are good disability to help those on dis concepts see there's some good things out there that that if but what what if you if you throw the baby out the bathwater and you just like like what they're doing giving out all this money and all this money and taking away and taxing more it's not healthy it's not biblical you work and you eat if someone can't and the single mom they need help or there's financial difficulties then others come around sight and they help them so that's the whole thing with the whole push with socialism what it is is government control remove god the government is your god the government is in control and why are all the people in socialist countries trying to flee the countries have you ever that ever i don't know so anyway that's what's going on with america they they hate the god-given god-given blessings that god has given us built on that's what they call judeo-christian values built on god's word from the supreme court to william blackstone's commentaries of the laws of england where we made our laws to the exec did you know the three branches of government come from the bible god said i will be your law giver i will be your king i will be your judge the founding fathers quoted that verse when they institute the three forms of government that we have so it's clearly god's word clearly built on his principles and where he's moving so is the enemy and so they want to destroy that foundation and boy if they could get rid of the constitution now you're gonna now you're seeing the supreme court probably the last decade they are looking at world law in order in order to make their decisions in america they used to look at the constitution and they used to they used to not pass laws they used to be an interpreter of the constitution and the who who's in charge when it comes to the constitution we the people so if they can remove the constitution america is bad the foundation is bad let's build a new foundation and while we're at it did you know the police are bad let's defund the police that is the most ludicrous idea i've ever heard defund the police for a few bad apples and so like hitler you get rid of the police department do you think they're going to get rid of police completely or are they going to bring in their own department they'll do what they say because when you see what you don't realize you have l.a county sheriff lapd uh texas rangers idaho police you have all these different entities controlled by sheriffs i think it's i don't know who's our sheriff right now i can't remember his name um there's a new news there's a new uh election coming up i think next year he's actually been doing pretty good but the da i've got a lot of issues with so anyway long story short he got all these sheriffs and over their communities and they're ruling over the communities and keeping it intact but if you get rid of that and then just bring in your own national force that's when you can start to legislate immorality and push it on people so you see all of this that's what's happening and that's why they're causing a race war i hope you see that is there racism in america absolutely it is live and well but we are fueling it not creating a system that cures it and i've told you before i i just i just love when i'm with this church you see you don't know it but i know it i see felons and correctional officers i'm not going to tell you who they are that's how you change the heart if you start if you start saying certain skin colors are bad and now you're putting skin colors there's actually you look at genesis 1 2 3 4. there's no race there's no races adam and eve it's it's skin pigmentation it's there it's it's so it's it's there are not different races there's one group of people under heaven and earth and i'm going to get into that in genesis but you that's so that's what's happening in america that's why and now the flag they want you to remove your flag because that's a sign of oppression they don't like the military this is a left-leaning liberal snowflake oh lord help me like well i can't tell this video is going to be off youtube so you better just make copies and save it somewhere but that's why this whole system is bad america's bad the military and is that interesting why why are we why is nobody chanting death to switzerland death to new zealand because america has been god's roman 13 throughout the world for many many years romans 13 god sends in people to he you we have the most powerful military on the face of the earth right now that's why they don't sink some of our oil containers off the coast of saudi arabia because they know they're going to have weapons firing at their at their at their uh magistrates and different things in those countries we have them at bay right now but biden is losing all respect all dignity we're being laughed at so i don't know what the future holds but i know who holds the future and so so the position is america can't be bad or good it's simply a reflection of the character of her people so you hear about slavery right the founding fathers were slave owners well in my book one nation above god i have three pages of founding fathers who abhorred the practice of slavery one of them was called the hellhound of the abolition movement and fought for it you ever heard of william black or william wilberforce who fought to end it what about the christians who stood up for women's rights and and who who with all the christians including billy graham who marched with with martin luther king jr you don't hear about any of those things you see they want to throw the baby out the bathwater if all of you can be racist and if i disagree with them now i'm a racist actually here's what the irony is those who are really racist are using that term and calling those people like us racists just because we don't agree with them i don't believe there's oppressors and oppressed people now i believe some people have more difficulty in life for sure i mean i and that was a silver spoon wasn't given to me you know my story i've explained it i'd have worked my tail off was it maybe easier than other people sure but don't think for one minute if i would have got lazy at 19 i would have lost everything i had to work and work and work and work and work and work and work and work and my dad taught that in me and if god before you see this what gets me fired up if you're a christian you shouldn't care about your skin color or what your nationality is or what your income is or how how how how many people are against you or you can't just get a job you can't get by if god is for you no one can stop your plans no one no one can thwart the plans of god and i know that's going to upset people i don't care anymore i don't even read comments anymore i'm tired of it i don't know about you but i'm tired of it it's time we have to be bold and loving and truthful i'm not i'm not going to be swayed by the opinions of men i don't know if you heard about this but i'm just the it was on the news the passengers on the plane in afghanistan were on the tarmac they were in their seats ready to go and glenn beck told his radio audience tuesday that the state department officials intervened and boarded the plane and they were told to go back to the airport and hand everything over to the taliban it's been confirmed by senators this is all this is real stuff and you just go how in the world is that happening i don't know other than the prince of darkness is leading a certain group of people this is anti-god this is and there's nothing wrong with american pride in this sense proud of what god has done in america i can be very israel was proud now if you're a proud american and you're prideful that needs to be repented of but if we're proud of lord thank you what you've done i wish i could show you pictures of some of the churches in africa they'll be sitting on on the floor right now cockroaches over here some mice over here air conditioning are you kidding me how many how many christians were killed in afghanistan this week i could go into some stories i heard so i just think we need to be bold and loving if you do have questions email them to the church we'd love to answer them who thinks for you and so if you've been drifting you've been going the wrong direction you've been listening to the wrong voices god always just says come back come back to me turn back to me repent and let me fill you with my spirit and the difference you struggle with depression anxiety fear uncertainty god can deliver you from that because you're feeding on the very things you're wanting to flee i mean i mentioned some of those people i mentioned i watch i watch two minutes of a little nausea video i'm sick or the weekends like this is demonic this stuff and he really wanted to put his blood and nikes i mean these guys this is you guys we've crossed a line little leave it to beaver and i love lucy's over we are in depravity like you've never before demonic the all these videos are sexual and perverted and demonic and satanic and if you're feeding on that no wonder no wonder you're quenching and grieving the spirit and you're full of fear and anxiety turn that over to christ tonight turn it over to christ tonight and i want to do something different i prayed it about it wrote it down but i'm just going to do it i don't know if it's it's worth it i mean it'll always be worth it but there's a few of us prayer team members here and we're going to make our way right next door we're going to be in the prayer room and so we want to pray with you if you're a young adult teenager you need god you need to break an addiction you have same-sex attraction you're going through fear suicidal thoughts let us pray for you if you're an adult let us pray for you we all need prayer we all need god's grace like never before these are these are dire times these are the times that try men's souls and we've got to be anchored to god's word like never before so i encourage you be it sundays be it wednesdays we're going to see god like never before and that's how we get delivered that's how we get set free [Music] peace

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Published: Wed Sep 15 2021