Thousands of innocent people
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are shot to death
in America every year.
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Is the gun to blame?
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And is the solution
more governmental legislation
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and interference?
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What is the root cause of hatred
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that drives individuals
to commit deeds of violence?
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Is the gun the problem?
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What causes our
culture of violence?
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Find out on the Carter Report.
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Welcome back.
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We're talking
about "Guns in America,
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God and Guns in America."
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It's a fact, this is
in the western world,
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in the so called
enlightened world,
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the most violent culture.
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Mass killings has become...
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Mass killings have
become almost the norm
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rather than the exception.
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And the reason
we're trying to explore,
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why, what's the reason?
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Now there's a text
in the Old Testament
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that gives me a clue.
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A few moments
ago, we talked about
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the necessity of man
being changed within.
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My contention today is
it's not so much the gun,
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it's the violent
culture that we have created.
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Now, some of you
will disagree with this,
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but I want you to bear with me.
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I want you to come over
here to the Old Testament
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to the Book of
Daniel 4:33 and 34.
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It talks about a man by
the name of Nebuchadnezzar,
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who was the great potentate
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of the mighty
kingdom of the Babylonians.
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"That very hour
the word was fulfilled
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concerning Nebuchadnezzar."
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He's the mighty king.
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"He was driven from men
and ate grass like oxen;
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his body was wet
with the dew of heaven
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till his hair had
grown like eagles' feathers,
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his nails like birds' claws."
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He went mad.
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"And at the end of the time,
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I, Nebuchadnezzar,
lifted my eyes to heaven,
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and my
understanding returned to me,
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and I blessed the Most High
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and praised and
honored Him who lives forever,
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for His dominion is
an everlasting dominion,
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and His kingdom
is from generation
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to generation."
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It's an historical fact
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that this man
Nebuchadnezzar went crazy.
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He was crazy for seven years.
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And in the
Bible, Nebuchadnezzar,
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when he's crazy,
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he's symbolic of the
kingdoms of this world.
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Did you know this?
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He represents the kingdoms
of this world who go crazy.
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Now, there's a lot of
craziness today in the world
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and a lot of
craziness in America.
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And the Bible says,
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"His sanity was
restored when he turned to God."
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He turned to God.
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And I'm suggesting today
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that the
solution to the problem,
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the real solution
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is when we get our sanity back
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and we turn to God.
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I was running a series
of meetings in Australia.
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And young man, he
seemed young in those days.
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He must have been
about 30 years of age.
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I thought, he
was very young man.
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He came to the meetings.
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He had a name in town
for being just a ruffian,
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used to beat up
his wife, always drunk,
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beating up people.
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Everybody had given up on Ray,
including his wife, except God.
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And he came to the meetings
and he gave his life to Christ.
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This is absolutely true story.
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People said,
"What's happened to Ray?"
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We talked about
cleaning out the well
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in the last
segment of the program.
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God didn't paint the
pump, didn't whitewash it,
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God changed his heart.
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Now, my friend, when
God gets inside a person,
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God takes out the poison.
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I'm suggesting today this.
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Something has
gone terribly wrong
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in the heart of America,
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and we need to
address a real problem.
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No more of pontificating,
no more political solutions.
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Our problem is spiritual.
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We need to clean out the well
and stop whitewashing the pump.
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And if you miss
the first segment,
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you need to see it.
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Most Americans, including me,
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think that we are
on the wrong track.
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And most Americans
are coming to the opinion
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that I formed, many years ago,
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that our solution is
not to be found in politics.
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We need more than
political speeches.
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Would you please
notice these deciding factors,
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these factors that
are deciding our destiny?
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America has had great
spiritual opportunities,
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great opportunities
to walk in the light.
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I listen to the
liberals on television,
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and they seem to be putting down
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America's heritage all the time,
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and telling the people lies.
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Have you heard of
this man, William Bradford?
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He was one of
the first governors.
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He says, said this,
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"They left that
goodly and pleasant city
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which had been
their resting place
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near 12 years,
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but they knew
that they were pilgrims
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and looked not
much on those things,
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but lift up
their eyes to heavens,
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their dearest country,
and quieted their spirits."
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The people who founded America
were a worshiping people,
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a Bible reading
people, a Christ loving people,
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a law-abiding people.
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1774,
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the first act of
America's first Congress.
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In 1774, what was it,
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it was to ask
minister to open with prayer
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and to lead Congress
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in the reading of
four chapters of the Bible.
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And the liberals tell me,
"No, these people back there,
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all atheists, all socialists."
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Oh, that's a lie.
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Washington said these words.
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"It is impossible to
rightly govern a nation
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without God and the Bible."
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This is what Washington said,
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he said, "You
can't govern America
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without God and the Bible."
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Now I put it to you.
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If you get rid of God,
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and if you get rid of the Bible,
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you're going to have anarchy,
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and you're going to
have lawlessness, crime.
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And that's what
we seem to be doing.
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In 1787, Benjamin Franklin...
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I've heard people on television
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tell me that
Franklin was an atheist.
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They say this idea about America
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having this great
heritage of Christianity,
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and all the
rest are, "All lies."
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No, they're the
liars. They're the liars.
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1787, Benjamin
Franklin declared,
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"God governs in
the affairs of men.
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And if a sparrow
cannot fall to the ground
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without his notice,"
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they are the words of Jesus,
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"is it probable that an
empire can rise without His aid?
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Without His concurring aid,
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we shall succeed in
this political building
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no better than the
builders of Babel."
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So kick God out of the
schools and the government.
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Benjamin Franklin said,
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"We're going to
have the tower of Babel."
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And that's what's
happening in America.
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Now, I'm aware that
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other countries have had
great spiritual opportunities,
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especially Great Britain,
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Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, Germany.
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These are the countries
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that had the great
Protestant Reformation.
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But no country has
had more opportunities
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to walk in the light,
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no country more than America.
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And some say
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that God shed His
grace upon America
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because she was raised up
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to defend the
truths of the Bible.
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You can't say that
about Russia or China.
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God shed His grace on thee.
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America has had great light.
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But many today in
this God blessed nation
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are rejecting the
God of our fathers
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and embracing a culture
that is pagan to the core.
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And remember the text we had
at the start of this program.
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Whatever a man sows
that shall he also reap.
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There's a great ignorance
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of our Bible
based American heritage.
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We are not just another nation.
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I believe, with all my soul,
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in the belief of
American exceptionalism.
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I do not believe
that we were raised up
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to be just another nation.
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I believe that we were raised up
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to be a shining city on a hill.
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I believe that.
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I want you to think for a bit
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of the influence
of secular education.
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Secular education
where God is left out,
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and where macro
evolution is taught,
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that we have
come from the swamps,
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and that man is the product,
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notice it, of time
plus matter plus chance.
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It's taught in
every secular university.
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We are simply
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a cosmic accident.
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Man is simply the blind product
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of random choices.
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There's no eternal
mind. There is no God.
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This is called neo-Darwinism.
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The Bible is a myth,
and there's no personal God.
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And the Bible is garbage.
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The most influential philosopher
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who shapes the minds
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of millions of American
young people and Christians
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are oblivious to this.
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But the philosopher who
has the greatest influence
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over the minds of millions
of American young people
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is Frederick Nietzsche.
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Ever heard of him?
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You should know about him.
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He's the person who is training
your young people today.
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He said this,
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"Christianity is
called the religion of pity.
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Pity stands opposed
to the tonic emotions
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which heighten our vitality.
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It has a depressing effect.
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We are deprived of
strength when we feel pity.
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That loss of strength
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which suffering as
such inflicts on life
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is still further increased
and multiplied by pity.
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Pity makes
suffering contagious."
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Does nobody
realize today in America
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that Nietzsche
was the philosopher
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who paved the way for Hitler
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and the Nazis?
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People say, no
way, I can't believe it.
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This man, Hitler
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slept with a
copy of the antichrist
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under his pillow.
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God is dead.
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And this is the
stuff that is brainwashing
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the minds of
millions of young people today
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around the world and in America.
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It's the philosophy
that might is right.
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It is the religion
of the tower of Babel.
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It is the
brainwashing of America's youth.
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The death of hope
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always leads to
the hope for death.
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And we need a restoration
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of the face of
the Pilgrim Fathers.
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Unless you have
that faith restored,
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there is nothing ahead of us,
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but hell and uncertainty.
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During the World War II,
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the young German soldiers
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who went to the Russian front
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suffered terrible traumas
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to their minds and their bodies.
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And they discovered this,
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that the young German soldiers
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that got minor
wounds on the Russian front,
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scratch, they recovered.
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No, that's what you would think.
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Those you got a
scratch, they recover. No.
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They died.
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But the ones
who got major wounds
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on the Russian front,
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they recovered
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when those with
the scratch died.
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You know why?
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Because if you
got a major wound,
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it meant you were going home.
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"Hey, they're
gonna put me on a plane.
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I'm going to be
back with mom and dad."
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Those with major wounds lived,
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those with scratches died,
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because those with
major wounds had hope.
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And if you've got
hope, you can face anything.
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But if there's no God,
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you have no
rationale to have hope.
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And the death of God
leads to the death of hope.
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And the death of
hope leads to suicides.
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Last year,
suicides were the highest
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in American history
for at least 50 years.
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They say, "We have a booming
and a marvelous economy,"
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and people are
taking their lives.
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And now young men
are walking into places
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such as in Thousand Oaks,
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and they're killing people, why?
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I want you to look at this text,
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Jeremiah 29:11.
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Jeremiah 29:11,
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"For I know the thoughts
that I think toward you,
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says the Lord,
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thoughts of
peace and not of evil,
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to give you a
future and a hope."
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What I'm
proclaiming here today is this.
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Look at me. Let me tell you.
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If this Word is true,
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then there is a
God who loves us,
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and a Christ who
died on the cross
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to save us,
00:16:06.16\00:16:07.93
and there is a heaven,
and there is life after death.
00:16:07.96\00:16:13.03
And if you have that,
then you have in your soul,
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a reason to live.
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Our liberal culture
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and the rejection of
traditional American values,
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let me comment on it.
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Not everything that comes
from Hollywood and the media
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is bad,
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just most of it.
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Now there's an excellent program
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that was put out
by American media,
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I believe it's
called Blue Bloods.
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It's about the
police commissioner
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in New York City
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and his marvelous
Roman Catholic family.
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And you see them
on Sunday nights,
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eating together
and saying grace,
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and they go to church.
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And they're old
fashioned Americans.
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So not everything
that Hollywood does is bad,
00:16:59.71\00:17:02.68
but America is
drowning in a sea of violence,
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sex, and greed.
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That's our religion now.
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If you're not
too easily offended,
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you should go and see the movie,
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The Wolf of Wall Street.
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It talks about raw
American capitalism,
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greed, greed, greed,
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and you grind the
person down into the ground.
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And the more you
can take off people,
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the better.
00:17:33.78\00:17:36.08
That, of course, is
the religion of Nietzsche.
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That's the
religion of the antichrist.
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Now, don't laugh.
00:17:42.86\00:17:44.19
Remember, Little
House on the Prairie?
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The Huxtable with Bill Cosby,
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whatever he has done or had done
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does not obliterate the fact
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that his show was a
good show on American values.
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Leave it to Beaver,
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now the liberals are
falling off their seats.
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It's a Wonderful
Life with Jimmy Stewart.
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Who would believe that garbage?
00:18:10.82\00:18:14.46
So what have we
got in its place?
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Killing,
murder, filthy language.
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If you look at
many modern movies,
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they're full of filthy language,
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especially the F word.
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You know why?
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Because their
acting ability is so low
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that they've got to shock
you with something artificial.
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They've got to have
so many special effects,
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millions and billions
they spend on special effects,
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because they can no longer act.
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They can only swear.
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Religion of Babel.
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Now liberals mock.
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But the old, strong,
decent, God-fearing America
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was the best place in the world,
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a better place.
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Time will not allow me to speak
about the war in the Bible.
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When I was
growing up in Australia,
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I was brought up in a
culture that believed the Bible.
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I remember, as a little boy,
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going with my
family to the Pound Family.
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They had about ten children,
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they sat around
the big kitchen table.
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Old Mr. Pound, he
was on that old...
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He sat up at
the end of the table
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and he read from
the Holy Scriptures,
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and they prayed together.
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You think they were going
out and shooting up people?
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Did they have
guns? Actually, they did.
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Yes, they did.
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Then we have the
war on the Sabbath.
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Look at Isaiah 58:13 and 14.
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"If you turn away
your foot from the Sabbath,
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from doing your
pleasure on My holy day,
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and call the Sabbath a delight,
00:19:51.79\00:19:53.25
the holy day of
the Lord honorable,
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and shall honor Him,
not doing your own ways,
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not finding your own pleasure,
nor speaking your own words,
00:19:57.69\00:20:01.70
then you shall
delight yourself in the Lord,
00:20:01.73\00:20:04.00
and I will cause you to ride
on the high heels of the earth,
00:20:04.03\00:20:07.07
and feed you with a
heritage of Jacob your father.
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The mouth of the
Lord has spoken."
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The Sabbath,
00:20:15.71\00:20:17.18
what will I say
about the Sabbath
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as far as guns is concerned?
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Karl Barth,
00:20:23.25\00:20:25.19
the greatest
theologian of the 20th century
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and the great enemy of
Hitler loved these words.
00:20:28.59\00:20:33.86
You'll find
this in his writings,
00:20:33.90\00:20:35.40
"When the holy day
becomes the day of man,
00:20:35.43\00:20:38.47
society and humanity wither away
00:20:38.50\00:20:41.84
and the demons rule."
00:20:41.87\00:20:45.64
Hey, what's wrong with us?
00:20:45.67\00:20:48.31
Why can't we get smart?
00:20:48.34\00:20:50.48
You give up the
Bible, you give up God,
00:20:50.51\00:20:52.71
and you give up the Sabbath.
00:20:52.75\00:20:56.05
And he said, "The demons rule."
00:20:56.08\00:20:58.65
They're ruling today in America.
00:20:58.69\00:21:01.52
We need to return to the Bible
00:21:01.56\00:21:03.59
and worshipping
together on the Lord's Day.
00:21:03.63\00:21:06.23
We need to go to church.
00:21:06.26\00:21:09.43
People say it's boring.
00:21:09.46\00:21:11.97
Well, just sit
there and read your Bible.
00:21:12.00\00:21:15.04
But you give up going to church
00:21:15.07\00:21:18.51
as a family day
at your own peril.
00:21:18.54\00:21:22.54
Then we have the war
on Christian marriage,
00:21:22.58\00:21:24.88
Jewish
marriage, Muslim marriage,
00:21:24.91\00:21:28.65
one man and one woman.
00:21:28.68\00:21:31.42
Boy, that's a strange concept.
00:21:31.45\00:21:33.56
Matthew 19:4 and 5,
00:21:33.59\00:21:36.62
"He answered and said to them,
00:21:36.66\00:21:37.99
'Have you not read
00:21:38.03\00:21:39.36
that he who made
them at the beginning
00:21:39.39\00:21:41.33
made them male and female,'
00:21:41.36\00:21:43.37
and said, 'For this reason,
00:21:43.40\00:21:45.67
a man shall leave
his father and mother,
00:21:45.70\00:21:47.74
and be joined to his wife,
00:21:47.77\00:21:49.10
and the two shall
become one flesh.'"
00:21:49.14\00:21:51.61
People say that, "I
don't believe that."
00:21:51.64\00:21:53.48
Well, you can argue.
00:21:53.51\00:21:55.04
You're just arguing with Jesus.
00:21:55.08\00:21:58.85
The bedrock of
society, mums and dads.
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You have security, love,
discipline, and happiness.
00:22:04.52\00:22:07.46
This one segment
of American society
00:22:07.49\00:22:10.99
where more than 70 percent
of the mothers are single,
00:22:11.03\00:22:17.07
and much more in
the inner cities,
00:22:17.10\00:22:20.17
and the kids are
killing each other.
00:22:20.20\00:22:24.14
When will we
wake up to ourselves?
00:22:24.17\00:22:26.94
Where are the fathers?
00:22:26.98\00:22:29.81
They've skipped town, deadbeats,
00:22:29.84\00:22:34.22
they leave their children
in poverty and insecurity.
00:22:34.25\00:22:37.89
And the gangs
become their new families.
00:22:37.92\00:22:40.56
And thousands of young men
are being killed every year.
00:22:40.59\00:22:47.16
Don Lemon of CNN said this,
00:22:47.20\00:22:50.37
"More than 72
percent of the children
00:22:50.40\00:22:54.27
in the
African-American community
00:22:54.30\00:22:56.60
are born out of wedlock.
00:22:56.64\00:22:58.37
That means absent fathers."
00:22:58.41\00:23:00.61
And Don Lemon is
an African-American,
00:23:00.64\00:23:06.31
but he's a courageous one.
00:23:06.35\00:23:07.78
I guess they'll
call him a racist
00:23:07.82\00:23:11.52
because he's saying,
00:23:11.55\00:23:13.25
"We need to have mums and dads."
00:23:13.29\00:23:17.19
I don't care whether
it's the black family,
00:23:17.23\00:23:19.96
or the white
family, or the brown family,
00:23:20.00\00:23:23.13
or the yellow family,
00:23:23.16\00:23:26.94
we need moms and dads.
00:23:26.97\00:23:29.70
Why are we afraid of the truth?
00:23:29.74\00:23:32.71
Why do we cry racism?
00:23:32.74\00:23:35.81
And it's just the truth.
00:23:35.84\00:23:37.58
It's not racism,
it's human nature.
00:23:37.61\00:23:40.35
We're all the same inside,
00:23:40.38\00:23:42.05
whether we're
black or we're white.
00:23:42.08\00:23:44.92
The solution is this.
00:23:44.95\00:23:47.92
We recognize that we've
been selling to the wind,
00:23:47.96\00:23:51.26
we wake up to ourselves
00:23:51.29\00:23:53.60
that we return to the
values that made America great,
00:23:53.63\00:23:57.40
God, Christ, Church,
00:23:57.43\00:24:01.60
the Sabbath, the
Bible, and marriage.
00:24:01.64\00:24:06.31
It's not getting rid of guns,
00:24:06.34\00:24:08.34
but getting rid of hate,
anger, revenge, resentment.
00:24:08.38\00:24:12.91
That's why Jesus said,
"You've got to be born again."
00:24:12.95\00:24:16.62
That's the solution.
00:24:16.65\00:24:17.99
Look at Ezekiel 36:25 and 26,
00:24:18.02\00:24:21.92
"Then I will
sprinkle clean water on you,
00:24:21.96\00:24:24.59
and you shall be clean.
00:24:24.63\00:24:26.39
I will cleanse you
from all your filthiness
00:24:26.43\00:24:28.93
and from all your idols.
00:24:28.96\00:24:30.93
I will give you a new heart
00:24:30.97\00:24:33.50
and put a new spirit within you.
00:24:33.54\00:24:35.80
I will take away
the hardest stone
00:24:35.84\00:24:37.74
out of your flesh
00:24:37.77\00:24:39.11
and give you a heart of flesh."
00:24:39.14\00:24:42.24
That's the solution.
00:24:42.28\00:24:44.18
You know what it is?
00:24:44.21\00:24:48.15
God can change us,
and God can renew us.
00:24:48.18\00:24:54.06
I've seen God do it in Russia.
00:24:54.09\00:24:55.79
I've seen Him do it with
the leaders of the mafia.
00:24:55.82\00:24:59.73
This man standing
here had an army of 400,
00:24:59.76\00:25:05.67
used to go
around, shooting people.
00:25:05.70\00:25:10.44
And he came to Christ.
00:25:10.47\00:25:11.81
Christ didn't
whitewash the pump,
00:25:15.81\00:25:19.08
He gave him a new heart.
00:25:19.11\00:25:22.62
So what's the solution
to the violence in America?
00:25:22.65\00:25:27.76
More regulations
from the government,
00:25:27.79\00:25:30.03
more speeches
from the politicians,
00:25:30.06\00:25:34.63
more lectures?
00:25:34.66\00:25:37.57
No.
00:25:37.60\00:25:39.77
What we need is
to come to Jesus,
00:25:39.80\00:25:45.54
and be born again.
00:25:45.57\00:25:48.44
When we come to Jesus,
00:25:48.48\00:25:51.21
when we are born again,
00:25:51.25\00:25:54.95
we become different people.
00:25:54.98\00:25:58.62
So remember this, God loves you.
00:25:58.65\00:26:01.79
Christ can renew
you. Find a good church.
00:26:01.82\00:26:05.79
There are some.
00:26:05.83\00:26:07.60
Read your Bible every day.
00:26:07.63\00:26:13.00
And love your
neighbor as yourself.
00:26:13.03\00:26:18.01
Amen.
00:26:18.04\00:26:19.37
Amen and Amen.
00:26:19.41\00:26:21.58
There's only one thing
00:26:26.75\00:26:28.08
that really
counts in this lifetime,
00:26:28.12\00:26:30.89
your relationship to Christ.
00:26:30.92\00:26:33.72
And then if you
have a right relationship
00:26:33.76\00:26:35.36
with Christ,
00:26:35.39\00:26:37.29
you want to tell
people about Christ.
00:26:37.33\00:26:40.16
That's why Jesus said,
"Go into all the world,
00:26:40.20\00:26:42.66
and preach the
gospel to every creature."
00:26:42.70\00:26:46.63
By the grace of God,
we're going to do that,
00:26:46.67\00:26:49.44
we are doing that.
00:26:49.47\00:26:51.34
That is why we're
going back to Cuba,
00:26:51.37\00:26:53.91
to this communist land,
00:26:53.94\00:26:55.91
to preach Christ.
00:26:55.94\00:26:58.31
We're accepting an
invitation to go to the vast,
00:26:58.35\00:27:02.52
huge city of Manila, the
capital of the Philippines,
00:27:02.55\00:27:06.76
been there before,
00:27:06.79\00:27:08.29
but by the grace of
God, we're going back.
00:27:08.32\00:27:11.79
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00:27:16.00\00:27:18.77
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We do.
00:27:22.07\00:27:23.41
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00:27:23.44\00:27:25.14
from the church?"
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00:27:26.54\00:27:28.01
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