I'm John Carter in Moscow.
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In Havana, Cuba.
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Now in Kiev, the
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Right here in Communist China.
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Reporting from India.
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Hi, I'm John Carter
in the Solomon Islands.
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From El Salvador.
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I'm John Carter
in Sydney, Australia.
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Will America survive?
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The solution to
corruption, crime and anarchy.
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Now here is John
Carter with today's message.
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Hello, friend.
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I'm John Carter in
Southern California.
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Welcome to the program.
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Just look at the
topic, "Will America survive?
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The solution to
corruption, crime and anarchy."
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Hot topic.
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We're going to give you
some great answers today.
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I've now lived with my family
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in the United States
of America for 35 years.
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I love America.
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Beverley and I
have been watching
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some programs
with the Smithsonian,
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great documentaries
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that highlight the great states
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of the United States of America.
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Absolutely astounding.
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Quite amazing.
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The place is so big
and so vast and so wealthy
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and so, so just wonderful.
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So I'm proud
that I am an American,
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lived here for 35 years,
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I know a little
bit about this country.
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I love this place.
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I love its ideals.
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I love the dreams.
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America has been
very, very good to me.
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And when I came to America,
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just wondering how I
was going to get along,
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I discovered
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that this was a
land of opportunity.
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And if you were to do your best
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that you would succeed
in the land of America,
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I love America.
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I also love the
land of my birth,
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the land down under Australia.
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But today we're talking about
the United States of America.
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And we're going to try to answer
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this question,
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Will America survive?
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The solution to
corruption, crime and anarchy.
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Because there are
lots of folks today
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who are predicting
the demise of America.
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I'm going to take my Bible
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and I'm going to come
over here to 2 Chronicles.
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I want you to stay
with me, my friend.
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I'm going to come over
here to 2 Chronicles Chapter 7.
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And it's talking about Solomon.
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They say he was
the most wise man,
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the wisest man on
the face of the earth.
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Now that is debatable.
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He had about 1,000
wives and concubines.
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But in spite of
that, God spoke to him.
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And
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2 Chronicles 7:13-14,
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it says these words.
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This is the key thought.
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When I shut up
heaven and there is no rain,
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or command the
locusts to devour the land,
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or send
pestilence among My people,"
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my people, the people of God,
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those who profess to
follow the ways of God
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and the truths of the Bible,
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like the American people,
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"if My people
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who are called by My
name will humble themselves,
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and pray and seek My face,
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and turn from their wicked ways,
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then I will hear from heaven,
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and will forgive their
sin and heal their land."
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This is a pretty important text.
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The Bible says,
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"If the people of God
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turn away from
the truths of God,
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and God sends them
pestilences and disasters."
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Then it says this,
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"If my people
who call by My name."
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Of course, the American nation
was founded on God's name.
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Don't believe the big lie
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that this nation
was founded by atheists.
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I'm proud of the founding
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of the United States of America.
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George
Washington said these words,
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he said, "It's impossible
to rightly govern a nation
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without God and the Bible."
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This leads me to this truth.
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And please notice it
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because it's of
paramount importance.
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It is the theme of
this discourse today.
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Healing,
prosperity, peace, security,
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and greatness come from God.
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People who say today,
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people who don't believe in God,
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people who are just secular,
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they say, no,
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prosperity comes from the state.
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Prosperity comes from us.
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But the Bible
teaches, look at it.
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Healing,
prosperity, peace, security,
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and greatness come from God.
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I say to you, my
friend, this is the truth.
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Don't forget it.
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And this is a
little controversial
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in today's climate.
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Greatness does not
come from political parties.
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Oh, now, it doesn't come
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from a grand
coalition of church and state.
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Now some years back in
Southern California here,
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I looked out the
window of my home.
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It was after one
of the elections,
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a lady was
driving up the street,
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and she had a big banner.
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And it said, "Jesus
won, Jesus won the election."
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I don't think so.
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Peace and prosperity,
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they do not come
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from the great
coalition of church and state.
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That was
something that was anathema
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to the founding fathers
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of the United States of America.
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Those people who advocate today,
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a coalition,
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a grand coalition
of church and state
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are going against everything
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that America
stands for or stood for.
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May I take it a little further?
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Healing,
prosperity, peace, security,
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greatness come from God,
not from the White House.
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Oh, now.
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Not from the White
House, not from the Senate,
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not from the
Congress, not from the Senate.
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I say again,
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not from the Republicans
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or the Democrats,
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or the
independence or the socialists,
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not even from,
now wait for this,
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not even from the
great military might
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of the United States of America.
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Now it is a fact
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that America has the
greatest military might
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in the history of the world.
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But our greatness is not
found in our aircraft carriers
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or our soldiers.
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Just remember this,
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there are other
countries like Russia
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that have military might,
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and if they were a nuclear
war, we would all be destroyed.
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So let us slow down,
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let us not put our
confidence in the might of man.
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Greatness, my friend,
greatness comes from God.
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Now listen to this truth.
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I wanted to sink down
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into the molecules of your mind.
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Greatness comes from God
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because our nation's greatness
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is in
proportion to its goodness.
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Oh, now.
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Oh, now.
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A nation's
greatness is in proportion,
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what does it say?
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It says, it's in
proportion to its goodness.
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And if you want to
make America great again,
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which is an admirable ambition,
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but if you want to
make America great again,
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you need to make
America good again.
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Now I'm going to
turn to a couple of texts
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in the Old
Testament, another couple,
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going to come over
here to Isaiah Chapter 57.
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I just love the Book of Isaiah.
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It's one of my favorite books.
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Isaiah 57.
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Let me see now, verse 19 to 21.
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Are you ready for this text?
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Listen.
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"I create the fruit of the lips:
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God says, 'Peace,
peace to him who is far off
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and to him who is
near, ' says the Lord,
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'And I will heal him.'
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But the wicked are
like the troubled sea,
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when it cannot rest,
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whose waters cast up,
listen, mire and dirt.
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A filth.
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'There is no peace,
'says my God, 'for the wicked.'
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" My friend, if we
break the laws of God,
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if we turn away from
the truth of the Bible,
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then my friend there
is nothing but darkness.
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The Bible says there is no peace
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says my God for the wicked.
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Now I'm going to
come over a little further
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to Jeremiah Chapter 18.
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Just give me a moment here.
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Jeremiah 18:15
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down to 17.
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You ready? Here we go.
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"Because My
people have forgotten Me,
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they have burned
incense to worthless idols.
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They have caused themselves
to stumble in their ways,
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from the ancient paths,"
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they've forgotten
where they came from,
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"to walk in pathways
and not on a highway,
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to make their land desolate
and a perpetual hissing,
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everyone who passes
by it will be astonished
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and shake his head.
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I will scatter them
as with an east wind
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before the enemy,
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I will show them the
back and not the face
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in the day of their calamity."
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Goodness, what
is it talking about?
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Talking about the Jewish nation.
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They were the
chosen people of God.
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They were the
people whom God raised up
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and to handle the land of Egypt.
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But God said, "If you
turn away from My ways,
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and if you go the
ways of wickedness,
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then great desolation
is going to come upon you."
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Don't think that you
are going to be saved,
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because somehow you
have a special corner
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on God's favor.
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It doesn't work
that way, my friend.
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Nation's greatness is
tied up with its goodness.
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Listen to this
because this is controversial.
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Here it comes.
This is controversial.
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Some of you are
going to find this
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very hard to believe,
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but it's the truth.
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So listen to it.
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No nation,
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however mighty is immune
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to the growing
sickness of the decay,
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dissolution and death.
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We sometimes think that,
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you know, where,
we are just blessed
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and we can do anything we like.
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When you go and read
the story of the Bible,
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and you come to
the prophecy of Daniel,
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there you have
the great mythical man
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and some of you know
what I'm talking about.
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We're talking here
about the great dream
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that was given to
the Prophet Daniel
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2,500 years ago,
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that portrayed
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the great nations of
the world in advance.
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Babylon,
greatest power in its day,
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they thought they're
going to last forever.
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But greatness is
tied up with goodness
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and Babylon
never had the goodness.
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Babylon went down,
followed by Medo-Persia,
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followed by
Greece, followed by Rome,
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they all had
their moment in the sun.
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And they thought
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they were going to last forever,
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a little bit like us today
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in the United States of America.
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Then you had the
kingdoms of Europe.
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They had their
moment in the sun.
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And then you have
the greatest empire
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the world has ever seen.
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You say, "Oh,
well, that was Rome."
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No, it wasn't the Roman Empire.
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It was the British Empire,
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land of hope and glory.
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I was brought up on this.
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I can remember as a kid
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going along to
school in Brisbane,
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the teacher would put up
a map on the wall and say,
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"Look at all the
red parts, we own that."
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That was a lot of the world.
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But what went wrong?
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Land of hope and
glory, mother of the free,
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land of the great reformation,
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land of truth and goodness
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with the greatest
empire in the world,
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what went wrong?
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Well, not waiting
to be too offensive.
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But let me tell you this.
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What's happened
to England today?
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Well, they've
got a prime minister,
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who seems to
flout all of the laws.
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Hey,
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he leaves the nation,
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openly he has
committed adultery.
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You say, "Now is this true?"
Yes, of course, it's true.
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Everybody knows it.
00:14:41.74\00:14:43.85
A child out of wedlock,
00:14:43.88\00:14:45.81
and we wonder
why England has lost
00:14:45.85\00:14:48.88
its resilience and its power.
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Did you know this?
00:14:52.75\00:14:54.36
Desolation is,
00:14:54.39\00:14:55.72
because this is sort of amazing.
00:14:55.76\00:14:58.09
More Muslims go to the
mosque today in Great Britain
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than Christians go to church.
00:15:04.13\00:15:07.97
Did you hear this?
00:15:08.00\00:15:09.34
More Muslims go to
their place of worship,
00:15:09.37\00:15:11.84
they go to the mosque on Friday
00:15:11.87\00:15:14.51
than Christians go to
church on the weekend.
00:15:14.54\00:15:18.08
If you want to see
00:15:18.11\00:15:19.45
some of the biggest
mosques in the world,
00:15:19.48\00:15:21.78
go to this land here.
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There's something went wrong,
00:15:24.85\00:15:26.19
my people of the Bible says
have committed this great sin.
00:15:26.22\00:15:29.62
They've turned away from me,
00:15:29.66\00:15:31.29
and they've made
themselves cisterns
00:15:31.33\00:15:33.76
that can hold no water.
00:15:33.80\00:15:35.76
The water of
goodness have flown away.
00:15:35.80\00:15:39.77
Listen to the
words of Lord Tennyson,
00:15:39.80\00:15:42.97
one of my
favorite authors, he said,
00:15:43.00\00:15:45.64
"Our little
systems have their day,
00:15:45.67\00:15:49.58
they have their
day and cease to be:
00:15:49.61\00:15:53.95
they are but
broken lights of thee,
00:15:53.98\00:15:57.29
and thou, O Lord,
art more than they."
00:15:57.32\00:16:02.66
But somehow we've
got it into our brains
00:16:02.69\00:16:05.99
that we can do anything we like,
00:16:06.03\00:16:08.33
and we can enjoy
the blessing of God.
00:16:08.36\00:16:10.77
It's not true.
00:16:10.80\00:16:15.00
Every nation has had
its moment in the sun.
00:16:15.04\00:16:19.37
Great Britain was great, great.
00:16:19.41\00:16:22.68
Great Britain was
when she had faith in God
00:16:22.71\00:16:25.98
and followed the Bible.
00:16:26.01\00:16:30.02
But the
greatness today has gone.
00:16:30.05\00:16:35.86
Now you all know
about Dr. Ben Carson,
00:16:35.89\00:16:37.69
don't you?
00:16:37.73\00:16:39.23
He's a member of the cabinet.
00:16:39.26\00:16:42.30
Dr. Ben Carson, I
saw him some years ago,
00:16:42.33\00:16:45.87
he attended a prayer
breakfast in Washington.
00:16:45.90\00:16:50.51
He was asked to be
the keynote speaker.
00:16:50.54\00:16:53.34
President Obama
was sitting there
00:16:53.38\00:16:55.58
and other people
from the White House.
00:16:55.61\00:16:59.88
And this famous
surgeon had the audacity,
00:16:59.91\00:17:05.29
some would say,
00:17:05.32\00:17:06.65
the courage to get up
00:17:06.69\00:17:08.69
and tell the President of
the United States of America
00:17:08.72\00:17:12.69
that we were walking
00:17:12.73\00:17:14.06
in the footsteps of
the old Roman Empire.
00:17:14.10\00:17:18.50
Hey, he caused a stir.
00:17:18.53\00:17:21.00
I can remember the
people looking at him.
00:17:21.04\00:17:23.94
Well watch this guy.
00:17:23.97\00:17:25.74
What a nerve he's got to say
00:17:25.77\00:17:28.04
that we are walking
00:17:28.08\00:17:30.41
in the footsteps
of the Roman Empire
00:17:30.45\00:17:33.48
because Dr. Carson knew
00:17:33.52\00:17:36.32
that greatness is tied
up with goodness, you see.
00:17:36.35\00:17:41.79
And I've got a feeling
that Dr. Carson had in his mind
00:17:41.82\00:17:45.39
some rather unpalatable facts.
00:17:45.43\00:17:49.53
He had in mind
00:17:49.56\00:17:50.90
I think the millions of
unborn babies slaughtered.
00:17:50.93\00:17:57.67
The idea that
marriage is no longer marriage
00:17:57.71\00:18:00.64
between a man and a woman.
00:18:00.68\00:18:03.61
And we could add the
exploitation of the poor,
00:18:03.65\00:18:07.45
the crime in our great cities,
the looting, the lawlessness,
00:18:07.48\00:18:13.42
the terrible
immorality, the porn industry,
00:18:13.46\00:18:18.29
the corruption in high places,
00:18:18.33\00:18:21.36
the lying and the cheating.
00:18:21.40\00:18:25.57
Lying today has become
00:18:25.60\00:18:27.57
an acceptable
means of communication,
00:18:27.60\00:18:30.64
but the Bible
teaches very, very plainly
00:18:30.67\00:18:33.27
in the Book of Revelation
00:18:33.31\00:18:35.98
that liars will not go
into the kingdom of God,
00:18:36.01\00:18:39.31
but they will go
into the fires of hell.
00:18:39.35\00:18:41.42
You can read that in
the last book of the Bible,
00:18:41.45\00:18:43.65
Revelation Chapter 22,
00:18:43.69\00:18:45.42
the last chapter
of the last book.
00:18:45.45\00:18:48.42
And remember these words,
00:18:48.46\00:18:51.36
Dr. Carson may have had
these words in mind too,
00:18:51.39\00:18:54.10
the words of the
great Thomas Jefferson.
00:18:54.13\00:18:56.67
I just admire
00:18:56.70\00:18:58.57
the founding fathers
of this great nation.
00:18:58.60\00:19:01.50
I wish they were alive
today to speak truth to power.
00:19:01.54\00:19:08.38
God is just:
00:19:08.41\00:19:10.45
that His justice
cannot sleep forever.
00:19:10.48\00:19:14.02
He said, said Jefferson,
00:19:14.05\00:19:17.39
He said, "I am moved in my soul
00:19:17.42\00:19:21.39
when I think that God is just
00:19:21.42\00:19:24.56
and justice cannot
sleep for forever."
00:19:24.59\00:19:29.03
So Ben Carson said
00:19:29.06\00:19:30.47
that we're walking
00:19:30.50\00:19:31.83
in the footsteps of
the old Roman Empire.
00:19:31.87\00:19:34.34
I wonder what he'd say today.
00:19:34.37\00:19:36.10
I don't think
00:19:36.14\00:19:37.47
he would have
changed his sermon.
00:19:37.51\00:19:39.57
I believe, unfortunately, today
00:19:39.61\00:19:42.08
that many are looking to
Washington for salvation.
00:19:42.11\00:19:46.11
And here in California,
they're looking to Sacramento,
00:19:46.15\00:19:49.62
in Texas, they're
looking down to Austin
00:19:49.65\00:19:51.52
or some other
provincial capital.
00:19:51.55\00:19:55.02
We expect that some
politician is going to arise
00:19:55.06\00:20:00.06
and that politician
is going to save America.
00:20:00.10\00:20:04.93
Dream on.
00:20:04.97\00:20:06.80
Greatness comes from God.
00:20:06.84\00:20:10.64
And greatness is
tied up with goodness.
00:20:10.67\00:20:14.04
There is no greatness
00:20:14.08\00:20:16.88
without a spiritual rebirth.
00:20:16.91\00:20:22.35
I want to read a
couple of more texts
00:20:22.38\00:20:23.72
here in the Book of
Isaiah, if you don't mind.
00:20:23.75\00:20:26.65
Going to come
over Isaiah Chapter 47,
00:20:26.69\00:20:31.19
just give me a moment
here to find these texts,
00:20:31.23\00:20:34.23
Isaiah 47:13-14.
00:20:34.26\00:20:41.07
These are the words
of the Prophet Isaiah.
00:20:41.10\00:20:46.11
"You are wearied
00:20:46.14\00:20:47.48
in the multitude
of your counsels."
00:20:47.51\00:20:49.11
Talk, talk, talk, talk,
talk, don't you get sick of it?
00:20:49.14\00:20:52.91
"Let now the
astrologers, the stargazers,
00:20:52.95\00:20:57.09
and the monthly
prognosticators, "
00:20:57.12\00:21:00.42
it's a nice word, isn't it?
00:21:00.46\00:21:01.79
"Prognosticators to
stand up and save you
00:21:01.82\00:21:05.09
from what shall come upon you.
00:21:05.13\00:21:07.76
Behold, they
shall be as stubble,
00:21:07.80\00:21:11.27
the fire shall burn them,
00:21:11.30\00:21:13.77
they shall not
deliver themselves
00:21:13.80\00:21:15.60
from the power of the flame,
00:21:15.64\00:21:17.17
it shall not be a
coal to be warmed by,
00:21:17.21\00:21:21.04
nor a fire to sit before!"
00:21:21.08\00:21:22.91
If people think
00:21:22.94\00:21:24.28
that these people
are going to save you,
00:21:24.31\00:21:29.38
you going to be
very, very disappointed
00:21:29.42\00:21:31.32
because the Bible says
salvation is found in God.
00:21:31.35\00:21:35.06
And Isaiah 48:18-19,
00:21:35.09\00:21:40.70
dear hearts and gentle
people, listen to this.
00:21:40.73\00:21:44.80
"Oh, that you had
heeded My commandments!
00:21:44.83\00:21:48.00
Then your peace would
have been like a river,
00:21:48.04\00:21:50.87
and your righteousness
like the waves of the sea.
00:21:50.91\00:21:54.18
Your descendants
00:21:54.21\00:21:55.54
also would have
been like the sand,
00:21:55.58\00:21:57.65
and the offspring of your
body like the grains of sand.
00:21:57.68\00:22:01.58
His name would
not have been cut off,
00:22:01.62\00:22:03.69
nor destroyed from before Me."
00:22:03.72\00:22:07.49
Jerusalem was
destroyed and went down
00:22:07.52\00:22:10.46
because they
turned away from God
00:22:10.49\00:22:12.56
and from His commandments.
00:22:12.59\00:22:15.26
Now, as you folks know,
you know me a little bit.
00:22:15.30\00:22:20.84
You know, I'm not a
member of any political party.
00:22:20.87\00:22:24.31
People say, "Oh, no, you got."
00:22:24.34\00:22:25.67
No, no, no.
00:22:25.71\00:22:27.54
I believe in
thinking for myself.
00:22:27.58\00:22:31.71
Now, I'm not trying to
be offensive to any person
00:22:31.75\00:22:34.58
who belongs to
a political party,
00:22:34.62\00:22:36.75
but I want to tell you this.
00:22:36.79\00:22:38.62
I don't want you to be offended,
00:22:38.65\00:22:39.99
but here it is
from my heart to yours,
00:22:40.02\00:22:42.59
if you can take it.
00:22:42.62\00:22:44.99
Salvation is not found
in any of these parties.
00:22:45.03\00:22:49.83
Salvation is found
00:22:49.86\00:22:51.90
in the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:22:51.93\00:22:57.31
who gave us His commandments.
00:22:57.34\00:22:59.71
Remember,
00:22:59.74\00:23:01.08
greatness and
goodness are tied up together.
00:23:01.11\00:23:05.28
Yes, I believe,
make America great again.
00:23:05.31\00:23:08.98
But I say to you,
00:23:09.02\00:23:10.35
make America good again
00:23:10.39\00:23:11.72
because you can't
make America great
00:23:11.75\00:23:14.42
until America has
a spiritual rebirth.
00:23:14.46\00:23:21.26
Just remember again.
00:23:21.30\00:23:24.20
The lady I saw driving the car
00:23:24.23\00:23:25.87
after a federal
election some years back.
00:23:25.90\00:23:31.17
She thought
salvation came from Washington.
00:23:31.21\00:23:34.84
She got it all wrong.
00:23:34.88\00:23:36.31
So she had the big sign up,
00:23:36.34\00:23:39.21
"Jesus won, Jesus won."
00:23:39.25\00:23:43.28
My friend, Jesus...
00:23:43.32\00:23:49.12
Listen, this is
so, so important.
00:23:49.16\00:23:52.79
I never say it slow.
00:23:52.83\00:23:54.20
And I don't want to offend you,
but here it is, it's the truth.
00:23:54.23\00:23:58.63
God is not an American.
00:23:58.67\00:24:01.10
Wow now.
00:24:01.14\00:24:03.41
God is not an American.
00:24:03.44\00:24:05.67
He's not a Republican,
or He's not a Democrat.
00:24:05.71\00:24:11.85
He's not an independent.
00:24:11.88\00:24:14.05
He is not a socialist.
00:24:14.08\00:24:16.42
He is not a member
of any political party.
00:24:16.45\00:24:19.79
Jesus, listen brother, sister,
00:24:19.82\00:24:23.76
Jesus did not belong
to any political party.
00:24:23.79\00:24:26.93
Oh, no. Yes, He did.
00:24:26.96\00:24:28.43
Jesus was a great politician.
00:24:28.46\00:24:29.86
No.
00:24:29.90\00:24:31.23
Jesus did not belong
to any political party
00:24:31.27\00:24:36.91
because Jesus knew that
salvation comes from God.
00:24:36.94\00:24:42.64
He is a righteous God.
00:24:42.68\00:24:45.51
The God we're
talking about today,
00:24:45.55\00:24:46.92
He is a righteous God.
00:24:46.95\00:24:49.38
We're talking about
the God of the Bible.
00:24:49.42\00:24:51.15
We're talking about the
God of our Lord Jesus Christ.
00:24:51.19\00:24:53.79
We're talking about
the Savior of the world.
00:24:53.82\00:24:56.16
We're talking about the judge
of the dead and the living.
00:24:56.19\00:24:59.73
Salvation is found in God.
00:24:59.76\00:25:04.60
Not in any political system,
00:25:04.63\00:25:07.24
it is found in God.
00:25:07.27\00:25:11.81
So, make America great again.
00:25:11.84\00:25:15.81
Yes, I believe
this, I say amen to this.
00:25:15.84\00:25:19.45
But how do we make
America great again?
00:25:19.48\00:25:22.88
Here it is.
00:25:22.92\00:25:24.25
Make America good again
00:25:24.29\00:25:26.89
because there is no
greatness without goodness.
00:25:26.92\00:25:32.29
This is the truth.
00:25:37.00\00:25:39.30
This is the very truth of God,
00:25:39.33\00:25:41.97
how to save America
00:25:42.00\00:25:45.97
from the
creeping paralysis of sin,
00:25:46.01\00:25:51.58
and death and desolation.
00:25:51.61\00:25:54.65
Now, I got a lot more
00:25:54.68\00:25:56.02
that's going to
come out of this book
00:25:56.05\00:25:57.39
and that's going to
come out of my soul.
00:25:57.42\00:26:00.29
I want you to
just stay tune with me,
00:26:00.32\00:26:02.49
I'm going to be back
in just a few minutes,
00:26:02.52\00:26:06.23
more great truths
from the Word of God,
00:26:06.26\00:26:09.76
hot from the heart of God.
00:26:09.80\00:26:11.80
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