00:00:01.000Today, I wanted to air a now very famous sermon speech that I have given in Rockland, California, where reporters couldn't possibly believe that I spoke to 1,400 people in person, no social distancing, no masks.
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00:03:01.000Well, I'll tell you Jimmy Garoppolo's story.
00:03:03.000And so Jimmy Garoppolo was a linebacker for Rolling Meadows High School up until his sophomore year until a sequence of injuries, they started to realize this kid had amazing talents.
00:03:31.000And he was no offers at all going into his senior year of high school.
00:03:36.000Ended up walking on at Eastern Illinois University where Tony Romo and Sean Payton went.
00:03:40.000And he ended up becoming All-American by the time he was a senior and obviously drafted by the Patriots and all that.
00:03:46.000But it's a pretty amazing story because he was, he's probably one of the most successful NFL quarterbacks that was unrecruited, not recruited out of high school.
00:05:04.000First of all, you have an amazing pastor here and a great church here.
00:05:09.000And for everyone watching online, a lot of the people that are watching online on our YouTube channel, they would be stunned to see that there are three services packed out of people here because that's not the norm across the country, as you guys know, is that actually there's like one courageous pastor for every hundred miles, is what I found.
00:05:30.000And there's a couple in this state, Jürgen, Pastor Juergen in Awakened Church San Diego, Pastor Rob McCoy, Pastor James Cadiz.
00:05:37.000Mike McClure is amazing in Calvary Chapel, San Jose.
00:05:40.000He's up against massive fines for a similar actually, he has a much more adversarial county than here.
00:05:46.000And so you guys have gone through a lot here, but what he's going through in Menlo Park, San Jose area is awful.
00:07:28.000Why should we continue to keep the country closed for you?
00:07:32.000I mean, you should be at least able to live, right?
00:07:35.000I mean, that's a good question, right?
00:07:37.000Now that we're nine months into this thing, there's at least five or six million people that have known that they've had it.
00:07:42.000And so now we're keeping everything closed for you, even though you've been through that.
00:07:45.000And so there's this incredible kind of pride that comes in to being able to say that I'm going to keep the church shut down because I'm such a good person and I don't want to contribute to the spread is say, well, first of all, it's not a victimless action.
00:08:01.000When you keep the church closed, depression goes up, lack of social contact, suicide, mental health issues, marital issues.
00:08:09.000They took Easter from us, which is the number one gathering of believers every single year and where churches really get to expand their membership and expose the church to people that only go to church on Christmas and Easter.
00:08:20.000And the other part of this where pastors, I think, they're really kind of in this handcuff where they are afraid to go against the predominant culture.
00:08:29.000And the church is always supposed to be disagreeable by nature.
00:08:32.000The church exists to say no to a secular humanist indulgent culture.
00:08:40.000And so the moment when Christianity becomes within the predominant political viewpoint or the predominant cultural tendencies of Hollywood or the tech companies, we should take pause and say, wait a second, is that really congruent with what the Bible is teaching?
00:09:32.000So to use a sloppy interpretation of Romans 13, let's even take their argument at face value.
00:09:40.000They say, submit to all leaders of authority.
00:09:42.000What are we supposed to submit to then?
00:09:43.000Submit to a government that respects your natural rights.
00:09:47.000If that government then starts to violate your natural rights, that compact is broken.
00:09:51.000All of a sudden, that voluntary compact that we have with that government, that sort of contract that we have, has been invalidated, especially when those rulers and those leaders violate the rules themselves.
00:10:04.000So when Gavin Newsom goes to French laundry and you can't go to church, stop listening to Gavin Newsom.
00:11:03.000And so some of the Christian pastors that I disagree with that are just totally wrong, and many of which, many of whom are cowards, and I say that, I don't say that lightly.
00:11:14.000They have no courage to their convictions whatsoever.
00:11:16.000They just want bigger budgets and bigger buildings and maybe some baptisms as well, the three B's that drive most of Christian Incorporated in this country.
00:11:58.000I want the California public health officials to say, you know what?
00:12:01.000No, you don't have the right to come in here.
00:12:03.000So, religious expression is clearly protected by two clauses in the First Amendment: the Free Expression Clause and the Establishment Clause.
00:12:10.000It is the only thing that we have in our country that is explicitly protected by two separate clauses.
00:12:15.000And yet, we have decided in the last six months to completely abandon the terrain of interfacing on how important the church is.
00:12:24.000Activist Christians built this country, it's a verifiable fact.
00:12:27.000Pastors from the pupils of America built the philosophical and moral framework that started the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:12:36.000The four great awakenings, the three awakenings that followed, the four total great awakenings, continued the American experiment through many sorts of seasons of up and down.
00:12:45.000And so, there's many examples in the Old Testament and the New Testament of defying tyrannical authority.
00:12:55.000This sort of theological revisionism that has now seeped its way into even some seminaries that teach a lot of youth pastors across the country around the only interpretation of Romans 13 that I already have kind of picked apart is really dangerous.
00:13:12.000So, how is a pastor who remains closed supposed to make sense of the story of Daniel?
00:13:18.000When there was an order that was a conspiracy against Daniel, right?
00:13:24.000They went up to the king, and there were a couple kings he served.
00:13:27.000I think it was Nebuchadnezzar, but I could be wrong.
00:13:29.000There's a couple, he was a counselor to multiple kings, but I think it was Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 6, where the king was convinced by bad actors to put forth an order that said, If you follow the rabbinical laws and if you follow the laws of prayer, then you will be put in prison.
00:13:53.000So, Daniel in like 6:11 or 12, I might be off by a couple of verses.
00:13:56.000It says so clearly: Daniel heard the order, he understood the order, and then he made a conscious decision to defy the order.
00:14:05.000Now, he didn't defy it in private, he didn't defy it by going into a corner and praying.
00:14:11.000He went to his home, opened up the window towards the city, and prayed towards the city, saying, You're going to have to watch me pray, and you're going to have to come arrest me because God will deliver me.
00:14:22.000Now, that is a direct act of civil disobedience of the rulers.
00:14:32.000If it was some sort of inconsequential rule, right?
00:14:37.000Then Daniel probably wouldn't have taken that kind of dramatic action.
00:14:40.000But as soon as it started to violate God's commandments, such as the assembly of believers, the worshiping of an almighty and a loving God, then Daniel said, You're going to have to come arrest me and all of that.
00:14:50.000I'm going to do it so you know that I'm doing it.
00:14:52.000And that's a very important part of civil disobedience, right?
00:14:54.000And Daniel is the ultimate example of biblical civil disobedience.
00:14:58.000He didn't flee, he didn't try to evade arrest.
00:15:03.000He said, I'm going to take responsibility for violating your stupid rule.
00:15:08.000Now, this is a very important thing, and you've lived this out as a courageous pastor.
00:15:13.000You said on Pentecost, you're going to have to arrest me.
00:15:18.000And they ended up not because a lot of their threats are baseless and they're cowards, and they actually don't want the conflict.
00:15:25.000But what you look at that biblical example of Daniel, we can also look in the first part of Exodus at the midwives that saved Moses by defying the orders of, you know, terminating or killing the firstborn children.
00:15:41.000That's against God's commandments, right?
00:15:43.000Thou shalt, I mean, and the Ten Commandments weren't even actually necessarily communicated yet, but it was pretty well, you know, it was pretty well known that murder was not looked favorably in the eyes of God.
00:17:33.000They're both at the same time, but Martin Luther King talked about, which is that if you're going to disobey, you have to be willing to then serve the prison sentence.
00:17:40.000And Daniel was the biblical inspiration for this.
00:17:43.000And so where we are right now with the church in America is they're trying to see how far they can actually push us.
00:17:50.000This is a social experiment, and we are failing miserably.
00:17:54.000And basically, what the tyrants and the autocrats, the politicians, and the bureaucrats have learned is that the American church will do exactly what we tell them to do.
00:18:03.000There might be a couple disagreeable bunches here, but when they come through and they say that your child cannot go to school without a mandatory vaccination, they know most churches will agree to it.
00:18:12.000They know that because we haven't opened our doors.
00:18:15.000Now, and that's where all of that's where this comes in.
00:18:18.000Where we are now in a season where we know how this virus operates.
00:18:20.000We know the human cost of the lockdowns.
00:18:22.000We know the erosion of private property.
00:18:24.000We know people's life savings that have vanished.
00:18:26.000Now is the greatest clarion call for a mass civil disobedience against these autocrats and these tyrants, but we must be willing to pay the price.
00:19:09.000What I love about it is that you were not planning to get in the getaway car or to abdicate it to somebody else or blame somebody else.
00:19:17.000So you deserve a lot of credit for that because you have an infinite amount more courage than the entire combined body of most pastors in this country.
00:19:58.000And if there's someone here that is, and they feel that the data analysis they do warrants them taking it, then okay, that's what liberty is all about, right?
00:20:10.000Is that you can make informed decisions.
00:20:12.000I'm not going to say I have any sort of inside information against it or for it.
00:20:17.000What I am going to say is that I have the personal agency not to take something that is suspiciously rushed to market where they are now in a very totalitarian way forced almost previewing force to say that you must take this in order to get your children here or get jobs or all that.
00:20:36.000And so I want everyone to do their own independent research of people that you trust and dive deep into it.
00:20:40.000And then you come to your own conclusions.
00:20:42.000What really bothers me, though, about that entire conversation is how they are now going to use this as a social check mechanism of whether or not your children can live the same sort of life as those that do accept that decide to do it.
00:21:19.000There are people that are going to make a tremendous amount of money behind this.
00:21:22.000And here's also where I land on just the issue of the election being the end of kind of the virus, or at least the fear-mongering around it.
00:21:35.000President Trump, and I also said this as well, that as soon as after the election, they were going to open up the country.
00:22:37.000They want to empower and embolden the pharmaceutical companies.
00:22:40.000And they have now said, and Justin Trudeau said this, who he on one of his Zoom or Skype calls that he did with foreign leaders, Justin Trudeau said this presents in a once-in-a-generation opportunity to be able to fundamentally transform our countries.
00:24:01.000Now we can do all these things that we've wanted to do.
00:24:04.000So you have a pathological, sociopathic group of people that have these deeply held political convictions prior to the virus.
00:24:12.000The virus comes, they get this anti-scientific notion of shutting everything down, which has never worked before.
00:24:18.000It's the dumbest epidemiological idea ever, which is to quarantine the healthy and then make the sick and the vulnerable have more people that are infected.
00:24:26.000We put infected people in nursing homes and we closed our schools.
00:24:28.000Like, what on earth was that all about?
00:24:31.000And then we keep the most productive, least likely to die people, which are young people between the ages of 18 to 30, sheltered in place so they can amass massive debt loads, stay out of the economic force, get high levels of depression, not get married, not have kids.
00:24:46.000They make perfect revolutionaries, by the way.
00:24:47.000Of course, they're going to burn down the country around you.
00:24:49.000They haven't done anything for six months because you shut down their country.
00:24:52.000Of course, they're going to burn everything down.
00:24:54.000And so the only solution to this is the sequence, the rate that this is going is they're going to try to lock us down worse than they did in March and April at this point.
00:25:03.000Just look, everything that happens in Europe is a preview to happen here, right?
00:25:06.000Because they're trying to create this globalist coalition where there is no difference between countries.
00:25:11.000So when Merkel McCron and Boris Johnson locked down for 60 days, like total lockdown, that's coming here next.
00:27:44.000Trump did 17 points better in Miami-Dade County.
00:27:48.000And so Trump did better, five points better in Chicago, one point better in Washington, D.C.
00:27:52.000He did better everywhere, except the four cities that stopped counting on election night.
00:27:58.000And so before I proceed any further, let's just look at this completely rationally and logically, outside of all the filters of what you see on television, because they're all lying to you, okay?
00:28:10.000And just looking at this very rationally, and some of you might say there's no widespread evidence, there's no evidence widespread of voter fraud.
00:28:22.000How can anyone possibly say in any sort of human exercise where there's 170 million participants and the prize is a $4 trillion government for four years, control of the U.S. Armed Forces, the intelligence agencies, and ultimate power that we're supposed to believe that no one's going to cheat in that exercise when 170 million people are participating.
00:29:05.000And so we're supposed to believe that we have evidence of a multi-trillion dollar money laundering industry that exists in our country, child sex trafficking industry, of a drug trafficking industry.
00:29:18.000We know organized crime hits every portion of America, everything.
00:30:18.000Okay, if all of us went into the Sacramento area to restaurants and to laundromats the next couple of days, you wouldn't see any evidence of money laundering until you were able to get the FBI or authorities involved, look through people's bank statements, see who's coming in with piles of cash, and all of a sudden you'd see who actually's trying to clean dollar bills in your local area.
00:30:45.000And so when you start to see these massive national trends and four outliers, it happened to be the most four deciding state, you know, counties and cities in the states that matter, then we have to call timeout and ask really what's happening.
00:32:06.000So let me just, here's one example that I can use, and I could go endlessly with this.
00:32:10.000Explain to me, anyone in the media, please offer me an explanation.
00:32:14.000Why in Pennsylvania there was a 1,774% increase of voter registration for 90 plus year olds in the midst of a pandemic within 90 days?
00:32:26.000No, that's a really simple, easy question, right?
00:32:29.000Why is it that there was a bum rush of 90 plus year olds in the midst of a pandemic, the likes of which we've never seen, to go register to vote?
00:32:38.000Why is it most of those lived in places where other voters are registered to vote?
00:32:42.000Those are mostly nursing homes or living centers.
00:32:45.000Well, an easy answer would be a practice that has been exposed before by certain agencies when a little bit of investigation is done.
00:32:53.000It's a term that the New York Times came up with, which is the intercepting and filling out of ballots of people that are at risk and they actually don't receive the ballots themselves.
00:33:02.000Just two days ago, a woman named Susan at a developmentally disabled clinic in downtown Milwaukee said she started to do Zoom interviews with all of her patients because of the virus, she's not able to go in.
00:33:14.00020 of them said that they wanted to vote for Trump, but the person who came in filled out the ballot for them for Biden and they were able to do nothing.
00:33:21.000Can you think of anything more sick or evil than going to developmentally disabled patients and then exerting your political will against their choice?
00:33:30.000That is an evil that I don't even want to touch right now.
00:33:32.000But again, if they think the person in office is an evil person, they're justifying their own behavior.
00:33:39.000And so there's an infinite amount of data I could go with this stuff.
00:34:29.000It is inexplicable to me that Joe Biden, while the campus of University of Wisconsin-Madison is closed, it's a ghost town, managed to get 65,000 more votes than Barack Obama did in that same county.
00:35:04.000You don't know who's actually filling out that ballot.
00:35:07.000And you guys know all too well ballot harvesting here in the state of California, what it can do to an election.
00:35:11.000And so, and even with ballot harvesting, you guys did unbelievably well in some of these elections here in California.
00:35:16.000And so the suppression of anyone that mentions this stuff is also a tell that we're onto something.
00:35:23.000How aggressive they are coming after me for just asking questions shows me that there's something to this, whether it be in Dominion voting systems or Hammer and scorecard or in SmartMatic or whatever it is, there are open-ended questions that we deserve answers to.
00:35:40.000Because here's the consequence: the consequence is that if they do what they typically do, which is sit down and shut up, you're a racist, he's going to be president, then 70 million people are no longer going to trust the system.
00:35:56.000And while that might be something that could benefit us politically in the short term, it's a really bad thing for the country.
00:36:04.000And so what happened, my working theory is this, and this is my exclusive theory, is that on Saturday before the election, the Biden campaign and the Democrats had to resort to Plan B and Plan C. Their initial plan was to win in a legitimate blue wave landslide styled after Obama in 2008 and 2012, where they would win Senate races in Montana, Iowa.
00:36:34.000That any fraud that was done would be covered up by a massive Nancy Pelosi expansion.
00:36:40.000But the Saturday before the election, they started to see what I saw, which was the Democrat polling was collapsing faster than the Nagino line in World War II.
00:36:50.000I mean, it was the French way that just surrendered, right?
00:37:02.000Married women went for Trump in a way the polling would never have expected, six points above the polling, right?
00:37:07.000Where all of a sudden decent Americans were like, I don't like his style, but he's far better than Biden.
00:37:11.000And it was happening, and the Democrats didn't know what to do.
00:37:15.000And it is my working theory, and I think I can prove it.
00:37:17.000I don't know if I'd be able to prove it in front of a judge because it's just that threshold of evidence is I don't have subpoena power, right?
00:37:23.000But I could prove it to all of you, is that they went to Plan B, which is the Chicagoization of American politics, which is we are not going to submit our election results on election night.
00:37:38.000And all of a sudden, we're going to slow down the process.
00:37:42.000Have you ever lived through an election where it takes them five days to count ballots?
00:37:45.000Where all of a sudden it's this all-week banana republic style affair of just like these slow trickle of ballots?
00:37:51.000And the reason I believe is this, is that if all the ballots were demanded to be counted on election night, I think President Trump would have won.
00:38:14.000Just strip yourself of any bias you have over Trump or whatever.
00:38:16.000Georgia had 260,000 mail-in ballots in 2016.
00:38:21.000They had 1.3 million this election cycle.
00:38:25.000What guarantees were we given that they were prepared to process 1.3 million ballots correctly and verify all those signatures and check for fraud?
00:38:35.000In 2016, 4% of all mail-in ballots were rejected for many different reasons.
00:38:41.000Less than half of 1% was rejected this election in Georgia because they weren't prepared for that kind of onslaught of mail-in ballots.
00:38:49.000And so that opens up for people that are filling in two ballots.
00:39:06.000That would be enough for President Donald Trump to now be considered the winner in Georgia.
00:39:10.000And so I know that I'm going on about this, but I think you guys are very interested in this.
00:39:16.000That this was without a doubt not their primary plan.
00:39:22.000And I think that if we can finally get the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Department of Justice involved, which I don't know where they are, and I'm not trying to make you upset, but just think about this for a second.
00:39:34.000Bubbo Wallace, Bubba Wallace, the NASCAR driver, claims that his rope on his garage is a noose.
00:40:20.000And it's as if there's this line that they're not allowed to cross because they're afraid of being called bad names.
00:40:29.000And I am confident, in fact, I'm certain that if any form of investigation was given into these cities, that there would be an organized criminal racket.
00:40:40.000People say there's no evidence, it's not true.
00:40:42.000What if I told you 10 years ago that there would be 89,000 people that would step up and say they were sexually assaulted in the Boy Scouts?
00:41:03.000You don't find something until you look into it.
00:41:06.000And when you have suspicion of something, especially something evil, you have a moral obligation to look into it.
00:41:18.000Top Resume is the world's number one authority on resume writing.
00:41:22.000How many of you are saying, I just want a job, but I just keep on getting rejected?
00:41:25.000Well, I could tell you, as someone who employs hundreds and hundreds of people, and someone who has actually rejected thousands and thousands of more, a resume makes a really big difference.
00:43:11.000So there's a verse in 1 Timothy that says, Pray for all leaders and authorities so they might live quiet and peaceable lives.
00:43:17.000And I ask this question of churches, and I would imagine this church would be able to answer it better: is, you know, do you know the names of every single school board member and city council member?
00:43:26.000And are you praying for them by name and the issues that they're dealing with?
00:43:33.000And I think that churches need to begin to dominate local government.
00:43:38.000I think that local races are so unbelievably important and they just get looked over.
00:43:43.000County supervisor races, recorder races, and they're usually on like a Tuesday in March in an off year.
00:43:49.000But they sometimes are the most consequential races to determining education and even whether or not you're going to have the California Department of Health showing up.
00:43:59.000A lot of those are results of local races.
00:44:01.000And so I will say this: what is the church supposed to do?
00:44:04.000The church needs to get more political, not less political.
00:44:08.000As I mentioned, all throughout the Old Testament, all throughout the Old Testament, there are examples of God's people trying to influence secular government.
00:44:24.000And so if a church says we don't want to be a political church, ironically, that's already a political statement, right?
00:44:31.000So whether you say you're political or we're not political or politically left or political right, no matter what you do, you're making a political statement.
00:44:38.000So just make the correct one is the next choice to make.
00:44:41.000And then the other thing is that we are going to have to take account and responsibility for what we have been given.
00:44:48.000And this is reflected in the parable of the talents.
00:44:52.000And I believe that one of the gifts that we have been given is America.
00:44:56.000And so I believe that the parable of the talents, for those of you that don't know, is basically a parable of an owner or someone in charge that distributes talents or currency to three different people.
00:45:13.000And they all get different amounts and they all decide to do something different with it.
00:45:16.000The person who gets the least amount ends up not multiplying it at all and putting it under a rock.
00:45:22.000The person who gets an intermediate amount multiplies it slightly, but the person who gets a lot multiplies it greatly and gets blessed tremendously in the eyes of Jesus telling the story.
00:45:33.000And the person who does nothing, it's one of the harshest actual sentences we have from Jesus on record, which is basically you're going to burn forever and the gnashing of the teeth.
00:45:41.000I think we're actually going to have to take account for blessings that we're given.
00:45:44.000And I actually think that we as Americans, when we face judgment, I think we are going to have a lot of explaining to do if we just decided to say that this country founded by Christians on biblical ideas that has been more equitable, more benevolent, more creative, and more generous than any other country ever, we decided it didn't matter if it disintegrated.
00:46:03.000I think that we're going to actually face judgment for that.
00:46:05.000Because this experiment that we have is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:46:10.000It has lifted more people out of poverty, given more people opportunity, given more charity around the world, been a better example for these biblical ideas.
00:46:17.000And so the church in Jeremiah, it says, care for the welfare of the nation that you're in.
00:46:22.000We should care greatly of the direction the country is going in.
00:46:27.000Number one, obviously the civic and local races, platform candidates that are around biblical ideas and support them.
00:46:35.000And the other thing is this, and this is an unusual thing that I tell people, but it's go crazy about learning.
00:46:42.000The greatest thing that the Christ, the thing that the Christian community doesn't do enough of is learn the political landscape that we're in.
00:46:50.000And I'm starting to see this happen more, I have to say.
00:46:54.000Start to read the literature that drives the left.
00:47:02.000Go read what your children are learning.
00:47:04.000Go understand what the 1619 project is.
00:47:07.000Go read the political philosophy that was inspired by Christianity that built America, from Edmund Burke, from Thomas Paine to John Locke to Socrates to Plato and Aristotle.
00:47:18.000And what I have found about Bible-believing Christians, especially Christians in a church like this, is that you're not afraid to learn.
00:47:26.000A lot of you have Bible commentaries and you listen, you go deep into the original Greek and Hebrew.
00:47:32.000So let's do a little bit of learning now on the political landscape because learning is always the first step to a revival.
00:47:39.000And a lot of your questions, let me be very clear, a lot of your questions of what do I do will answer itself the deeper you get into the texts, the deeper you get into the pursuit of truth, all of a sudden the answers will present itself.
00:47:53.000Like, oh my gosh, yes, of course I should do that.
00:47:56.000And so I want a knowledgeable Christian political community.
00:48:00.000I want a Christian community that knows the literature of the left better than their activists do.
00:48:06.000I want to see a Christian church that knows exactly where natural rights come from, that knows the writings of Aquinas versus Augustine.
00:48:13.000And if a lot of this stuff is just all a bunch of word salads, that's okay because we never had to do this before.
00:48:33.000And I think it's important for our church to hear this.
00:48:37.000You made a recommendation to me in my office.
00:48:41.000We have all kinds of different ministries here.
00:48:43.000We're a large church, youth, college, young married, you know, active adults, bunch, bunch, bunch.
00:48:52.000Who do you think we ought to hire here?
00:48:54.000I think that every church needs a political civic pastor coordinator that at least once a week or once a month has a civics night where people can come and ask really good questions that things you're wrestling with.
00:49:06.000And because with the over-political nature of our country, I'm sure a lot of people in this room have questions that you guys are wrestling with that you see on social media where people say, How can you be a Christian and support Trump?
00:49:18.000How can you be a Christian and want to take people's health care away?
00:49:52.000And so I think that every church across the country should put on their payroll someone that is designated as the civic and governmental and political pastor, where people in that church can seek out that person in person, in email, phone call, text, and weekly gatherings around these issues of how am I supposed to interact with civic government with the Bible.
00:50:14.000And if you have confusion, that's okay.
00:50:18.000That's what that person should be there for.
00:50:20.000And what I have found, and I know that you're already interested in doing this, organically, you kind of independently, I should say, we kind of came to this idea, is that as soon as you start to satisfy the flock around some of these answers, you will be stunned to see the church continue to grow and also deepen in its commitment to faith.
00:50:40.000Because when you have, especially with young people, and when you have 18, 19, and 20-year-olds that are on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube all day long, and they're hearing nothing about transgender, BLM Incorporated, more relativism stuff, and they come back to the church and they ask a pastor, hey, what am I supposed to make sense of this?
00:50:58.000And they say, oh, no, no, we don't touch this.
00:51:00.000Well, then they're not going to come ask you for marriage advice either.
00:51:03.000Okay, they're not going to come ask you for other important advice because they value that.
00:51:09.000Because there's this six-minute video about reparations, and it kind of feels good.
00:51:13.000And shouldn't we, as Christians, give reparations away?
00:51:17.000And if a pastor doesn't know exactly how to answer that, or they just say we don't do that, then they're going to be dismissed and they'll go seek somebody who is going to go answer them.
00:51:26.000And that person probably isn't rooted in biblical truth.
00:51:29.000And so I think that's a really important step for every church to take across the country.
00:51:36.000So I don't believe that God is done with America.
00:51:40.000I believe that there's a call, an anointing, a specific thing that God helped this nation to be birthed.
00:51:50.000I don't believe that God is done with it.
00:51:54.000We've talked about a lot of the challenging stuff that's in front of our nation.
00:51:58.000Can you just give these people some hope in this moment?
00:52:01.000So I'll do it in two and a half minutes if I can.
00:52:05.000If you're like me, you look at the landscape and you say there are zero powerful institutions I trust.
00:52:11.000If you're like me, you look at the news networks that many of us used to trust, the papers we used to read, the companies we bought stuff from, the colleges we sent our kids to, or your friends went to college to, or the Christian pastors you once followed, and you say, there's very little I trust anymore.
00:52:32.000That is if this, the year of 2020, I think, has become the post-institutional year, where institutions that once had such authority over our lives have been crumbling and almost like Genesis 11 just absolutely being scattered and it's happening quickly.
00:52:49.000So on the appearance, that's a really depressing thing.
00:52:53.000It's actually unbelievably exciting because now it's this barren landscape where new things can be built.
00:52:59.000Where all of a sudden, we as Christians, I think, have a call to action to do two things.
00:53:07.000So to build new things, to build bigger institutions, to expand churches that are doing the things the right way, to go deeper into all of that, to build families, to do, to build new stuff.
00:53:18.000And that is what we are called to do as Christians.
00:53:20.000It's a uniquely Christian idea, which is to go forward into the unknown, into the barren, and erect something new.
00:53:52.000I'm going to challenge all of you here.
00:53:54.000Don't ever on social media or internet indulge in a pattern of behavior where you're looking for the next failure.
00:54:02.000Do you notice how there's this irresistible appetite from the media and from the people who process media to wait for the downfall of the next person?
00:54:10.000The next podcaster, you know, the next Christian pastor, the next business tycoon.
00:54:15.000We just can't wait for the inevitable fall, right?
00:54:18.000What are we doing to actually support the good guys?
00:54:20.000What are we doing to go out of our way to say, you know what?
00:54:23.000I know that they're going to try to be attacked by the media.
00:54:26.000I know that they're going to send investigative reporters after them.
00:54:28.000I know they're going to be all these sorts of different things.
00:54:30.000I want to kind of prop up the good guys because they're going to be out of attack.
00:54:35.000Because every time we see a pattern of success in our country, all of a sudden there is this massive, nasty, venomous internet culture that takes over, ridicules, mocks that person, and tries to take them down.
00:54:49.000And again, I participate against that happens to me every day.
00:54:52.000I'm not saying it's about me, but I'm saying that it could be very, it could be really exhausting when you feel as if even people that are supposed to be on your team are kind of like, yeah, I kind of want to see him cut down because he's a little too high for me.
00:55:12.000And the defend is the other part of it, which is here's the optimistic message is that as the laws of gravity are now caving in on higher education, college, tech companies, big corporations, media institutions, all of it, then what a great opportunity to build something new.
00:55:28.000And that's where we have to lean in and say that this is going to be our greatest moment where people are going to be seeking truth, seeking courage, because it is so unbelievably rare right now.
00:55:40.000But I believe that America's best times could be ahead of us if we look at this as a new building moment, the same way the pilgrims did this very week many hundreds of years ago, where we're going to the new Jerusalem to go build something new with God's law and to be able to really fulfill his purpose here on earth and in this country.
00:55:58.000And with that, I believe our best days are ahead.
00:56:05.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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