WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.656 Let's lift our Bibles up and make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:03.656 --> 00:00:09.247 Let's say this together Say Heavenly Father, I celebrate Independence Day. 00:00:09.247 --> 00:00:19.373 Not only is it my nation's birthday, but I think about the day I made Jesus my Lord and I got set free. 00:00:19.373 --> 00:00:28.327 So every day I celebrate my Independence and I give you the praise for it in Jesus' name. 00:00:28.327 --> 00:00:34.776 Amen, glory to God, hallelujah. 00:00:34.776 --> 00:00:45.682 I want you to turn to your Bibles today, to Isaiah, the 65th chapter, and also 1st Timothy, chapter 2. 00:00:45.682 --> 00:00:51.737 And let me just share with you our foundational verses for this message. 00:00:51.737 --> 00:00:55.506 And this message is entitled Happy Birthday America. 00:00:55.506 --> 00:01:03.145 Just in case and because, amen, you know some people are cursing it we're going to bless it. 00:01:03.145 --> 00:01:03.566 Amen. 00:01:03.566 --> 00:01:09.418 Isaiah 65 and verse. 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:22.302 One very interesting verse prophet Isaiah speaking for God, and he says I am sought of them that ask not for me. 00:01:22.302 --> 00:01:31.239 I am found of them that sought me, not unto a nation that was not called by my name. 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:37.316 Obviously that's not talking about Israel, because Israel was called by his name. 00:01:37.316 --> 00:01:38.983 Israel was God's idea. 00:01:38.983 --> 00:01:41.555 He said in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 00:01:41.555 --> 00:01:43.322 So it can't be talking about Israel. 00:01:43.322 --> 00:01:48.061 I believe years ago, when I came across this verse, I believe he's talking about America. 00:01:48.061 --> 00:01:57.563 I believe America was in the heart of God from before the world began and it's a relatively new nation, 244 years. 00:01:57.563 --> 00:02:05.542 It's not an old, ancient nation as nations go, but I believe these verses apply to us. 00:02:05.621 --> 00:02:16.247 And then first Timothy, chapter two, one that we practice around here a lot Paul's telling his son in the faith, timothy. 00:02:16.247 --> 00:02:35.912 I exhort, therefore that, first of all, everybody say first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and for all that are in authority, and my barge says imminent place. 00:02:35.912 --> 00:02:38.557 Why? 00:02:38.557 --> 00:02:54.501 So that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and to come into the knowledge of the truth. 00:02:54.501 --> 00:02:59.951 So I just, I just want to say again happy 244th birthday. 00:03:01.354 --> 00:03:02.697 And what a great country. 00:03:02.697 --> 00:03:04.600 Does it mean? 00:03:04.600 --> 00:03:05.522 It's without flaws? 00:03:05.522 --> 00:03:06.324 Of course not. 00:03:06.324 --> 00:03:13.550 You know, when you have a birthday party in our family, we like to get together for our birthdays, especially the children, grandchildren. 00:03:13.550 --> 00:03:18.111 And you know we get together for, let's just say, a 16th birthday. 00:03:18.111 --> 00:03:22.604 We don't celebrate the times we had to spank the child when they were five. 00:03:22.604 --> 00:03:27.644 Oh honey, I remember when you were five you were so rebellious I had to spank you. 00:03:27.644 --> 00:03:30.109 No, we talk about the good stuff. 00:03:30.109 --> 00:03:32.301 We talk about the wonderful memories. 00:03:32.301 --> 00:03:40.730 We drag out the pictures and you know all the cute little letters that they wrote, little cards, and I mean Gladys, and I save these cards from our grandchildren. 00:03:40.730 --> 00:03:47.966 I mean it's just, it's precious what they're saying and their point of view when they're six, seven, eight, 10, 14, whatever age they are. 00:03:49.008 --> 00:03:55.545 And, and so I believe America was seen by the eyes of Isaiah. 00:03:55.545 --> 00:04:14.003 God definitely sought us out and God called us, and every good thing this nation has, and every good thing this nation has done, is because our Father in heaven revealing himself to a people, and God has revealed himself to America. 00:04:14.003 --> 00:04:16.300 America is a unique nation. 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:18.507 Is it perfect? 00:04:18.507 --> 00:04:19.358 Of course not. 00:04:19.358 --> 00:04:23.343 Nobody in it has ever been perfect except Jesus. 00:04:23.343 --> 00:04:23.944 That's it. 00:04:23.944 --> 00:04:25.439 So are there flaws? 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:26.382 Are there mistakes? 00:04:26.382 --> 00:04:30.161 Are there things in our history that are not praise worthy? 00:04:30.161 --> 00:04:32.584 Of course, but are we gonna ignore the good things? 00:04:32.584 --> 00:04:34.321 Are we gonna just throw all out of way? 00:04:34.321 --> 00:04:35.677 I say no. 00:04:35.677 --> 00:04:37.083 I say no. 00:04:37.083 --> 00:04:43.401 And this nation, as a matter of fact, has been a gift to the rest of the world. 00:04:43.401 --> 00:04:45.666 Why do you say that that's so arrogant? 00:04:45.666 --> 00:04:47.341 Well, god said to Abraham. 00:04:47.341 --> 00:04:52.276 He said in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 00:04:52.276 --> 00:05:03.026 The nation of Israel is a gift to the rest of the world, and when America was formed, it was formed in conjunction with the Judeo-Christian ethic. 00:05:03.026 --> 00:05:14.175 In other words, we gave place to the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob in the fact of the 10 commandments being the root of our legal system based on the Bible. 00:05:14.175 --> 00:05:24.194 And so we, as Christians and we're known as a Christian nation listen, the Middle East, the terrorists say first comes Saturday, then comes Sunday. 00:05:24.194 --> 00:05:25.632 What in the world does that mean? 00:05:25.632 --> 00:05:27.168 The Saturday people are the Jews. 00:05:27.168 --> 00:05:30.446 Who are the Sunday people? 00:05:30.446 --> 00:05:33.615 America is the Sunday people. 00:05:33.615 --> 00:05:39.915 Isn't it amazing that other nations recognize that we're a Christian nation and now it's almost? 00:05:39.915 --> 00:05:46.406 We're shamed, we're like white privilege, white privilege, or that's just systemic racism to say that. 00:05:46.406 --> 00:05:48.661 Well, you know baloney feathers on that. 00:05:48.661 --> 00:05:53.822 I'm not accepting that, and neither should any Christian accept that. 00:05:53.822 --> 00:05:56.461 That's to ignore what God did. 00:05:56.461 --> 00:05:58.583 We were grafted in. 00:05:58.583 --> 00:06:02.401 You know, israel was the root and we were grafted into the root. 00:06:02.401 --> 00:06:12.865 And if all of the world was blessed because of Israel, then by definition, then all of the world has been blessed by America. 00:06:14.875 --> 00:06:16.702 We have not been a colonial power. 00:06:16.702 --> 00:06:18.040 You know, there were colonial powers. 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:20.101 They were all in Europe. 00:06:20.101 --> 00:06:25.584 I mean you had the Dutch, you had the French, you had the British, you had the Spanish. 00:06:25.584 --> 00:06:26.901 They all had colonies. 00:06:26.901 --> 00:06:29.504 They had their colonies were in Africa. 00:06:29.504 --> 00:06:31.180 Their colonies were India. 00:06:31.180 --> 00:06:33.182 I mean Great Britain settled India. 00:06:33.182 --> 00:06:37.565 That's why there's such anger and resentment. 00:06:37.565 --> 00:06:38.196 Why? 00:06:38.196 --> 00:06:47.004 Because colonial powers suck the wealth out of those colonies for their own benefit and they left the people, in most cases poverty stricken. 00:06:48.514 --> 00:06:53.718 You know, that's why Obama hated and gave, I think, the Queen of England when he was president of our country. 00:06:53.718 --> 00:06:55.899 I mean his resentment because he's really Kenyan. 00:06:55.899 --> 00:06:57.197 That's where he was born, by the way. 00:06:57.197 --> 00:07:05.346 He wasn't born in America, but anyway, he's Kenyan mostly, and Kenya was a colony of Great Britain. 00:07:05.346 --> 00:07:08.144 Great anger and resentment there. 00:07:08.144 --> 00:07:10.682 And I understand that I can get it. 00:07:10.682 --> 00:07:13.154 And so he gives her a playlist for a gift. 00:07:13.154 --> 00:07:17.899 Can you imagine giving somebody an iPod back when they had iPods and not iPads? 00:07:17.899 --> 00:07:20.166 You know electronic music. 00:07:20.166 --> 00:07:23.115 I mean, why would the Queen of England want to listen to? 00:07:23.115 --> 00:07:25.944 You know some kind of music list? 00:07:25.944 --> 00:07:28.000 I mean it was an insult. 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:29.459 He did it as an end. 00:07:29.459 --> 00:07:30.379 Are you with me now. 00:07:30.915 --> 00:07:39.274 So listen, folks, we've got to get back to our the good things about this nation and to whom much is given, much is required. 00:07:39.274 --> 00:07:41.141 It means that we have to get engaged. 00:07:41.141 --> 00:07:57.338 We can't be afraid of name calling, we can't be afraid of people saying the ugly things to us, and all of that Because, if we continue down the pathway that we've been for the last 40 years, the church has been asleep too long Time to wake up. 00:07:57.338 --> 00:08:06.701 It's time to really tell the truth about our nation, about the fact that it is a Christian nation To whom much is given, much is required. 00:08:06.701 --> 00:08:08.100 Haven't we been blessed? 00:08:09.615 --> 00:08:10.774 Listen, I've traveled the world. 00:08:10.774 --> 00:08:14.879 This is the greatest country I wouldn't live in. 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:16.718 Switzerland, switzerland's known. 00:08:16.718 --> 00:08:18.144 Oh, that's where the Swiss banks are. 00:08:18.144 --> 00:08:21.678 It's a crummy place to live if you don't, unless you're a billionaire. 00:08:21.678 --> 00:08:27.021 If you're a billionaire, it's pretty nice, but otherwise, if you're middle class, forget it. 00:08:27.021 --> 00:08:29.841 You're gonna live in a crummy little cubicle. 00:08:29.841 --> 00:08:33.721 You're gonna share a dishwasher with three floors of people. 00:08:33.721 --> 00:08:36.046 A dishwasher, can you imagine? 00:08:36.046 --> 00:08:38.075 Hey, have you threw a wash in the evening? 00:08:38.075 --> 00:08:40.460 Load of dishes, yet I need to wash my dishes. 00:08:40.460 --> 00:08:44.215 Yeah, you think I'm making it up? 00:08:44.215 --> 00:08:45.299 No, I'm not making it up. 00:08:45.299 --> 00:08:58.284 Listen, folks, we have a great country, we're prosperous and it's right and prosperous to celebrate the good in our history on our birthday and not just well on the faults and the failings. 00:08:59.738 --> 00:09:05.030 So in 1620, we know, most of us know the story. 00:09:05.030 --> 00:09:26.341 I don't think he gets told enough, but the Puritans landed at a place called in Massachusetts, called Plymouth Rock, and they were fleeing religious persecution in England because the king demanded everybody to go to the Church of England, which is the modern Episcopal Church, the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury I mean that guy's a fruitcake. 00:09:26.341 --> 00:09:29.318 Yeah, total nut job. 00:09:29.318 --> 00:09:40.422 Today, I mean, you know a lot of the Episcopal churches in America not all of them, but a lot of them have gone that direction Ultra liberal with homosexual pastors. 00:09:40.422 --> 00:09:43.001 Neil Gorsuch is on the Supreme Court. 00:09:43.001 --> 00:09:53.279 His church in Colorado Springs where he goes to His pastor is a lesbian and it was at that march against Trump after the inauguration. 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:54.760 Everybody remembers the funny hats. 00:09:54.760 --> 00:09:55.657 She was there. 00:09:55.918 --> 00:09:59.558 Pastor, episcopal pastor, you need to know that. 00:09:59.558 --> 00:10:01.620 See, I wouldn't have picked him for the Supreme Court. 00:10:01.620 --> 00:10:09.499 You're not a Christian if you go to a church like that, that's not Christianity, that's false, that's false religion. 00:10:09.499 --> 00:10:11.470 Pastor, I can't believe. 00:10:11.470 --> 00:10:13.140 Well, we're celebrating today. 00:10:13.140 --> 00:10:15.383 Okay, I'll get off the negative, get on the positive. 00:10:15.835 --> 00:10:17.863 But let's figure about the Mayflower Compact. 00:10:17.863 --> 00:10:18.456 What did they do? 00:10:18.456 --> 00:10:21.062 They landed in Plymouth Rock and they formed a government. 00:10:21.062 --> 00:10:22.600 And they in the quoting. 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:28.360 I won't read the whole compact, but it says in the name of our God, for the furtherance of Christianity. 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:33.105 This country was dedicated for the furtherance of Christianity. 00:10:33.105 --> 00:10:39.543 The further we get away from that, the further we get away from God, because he took us at our word. 00:10:39.543 --> 00:10:44.184 He took those pilgrims at their word on our behalf. 00:10:44.184 --> 00:10:50.639 They swore to the God of heaven, and that's why this country is a Christian nation, because it was dedicated. 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:52.879 Haiti was dedicated to who? 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:53.360 The devil. 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:58.791 You might not know that, but once upon a time it was dedicated to the devil. 00:10:58.791 --> 00:11:04.171 And you know it's just gonna take somebody a little stronger than that to get over there and revamp it. 00:11:04.171 --> 00:11:10.350 Thank God for Max Manning and all he's done over there for 40 years. 00:11:11.865 --> 00:11:13.870 So it became. 00:11:13.870 --> 00:11:16.225 It was named New England why? 00:11:16.225 --> 00:11:18.197 Because it was the New World. 00:11:18.197 --> 00:11:19.619 That's what they heard about. 00:11:19.619 --> 00:11:22.490 They heard about the New World for 150 years after it was discovered. 00:11:22.490 --> 00:11:26.576 I mean new spread into these places in Europe. 00:11:26.576 --> 00:11:29.254 Europe was ruled by kings, royalty. 00:11:29.254 --> 00:11:31.773 They had barons and baronesses. 00:11:31.773 --> 00:11:34.653 The land was locked up by the royalty. 00:11:34.653 --> 00:11:37.253 You couldn't own land as a regular person. 00:11:37.253 --> 00:11:41.916 You know there's no entrepreneurship or anything else. 00:11:41.916 --> 00:11:46.969 You might own a little shop in a big town like London or something like that. 00:11:46.969 --> 00:11:51.072 You might be a shop owner, but really you have no opportunity there. 00:11:51.072 --> 00:11:55.475 And then you've got to worship down at that church. 00:11:55.565 --> 00:12:01.309 That was against evangelical, they were against born again, they were against the gospel. 00:12:01.309 --> 00:12:03.971 Really it was all high church and liturgy. 00:12:03.971 --> 00:12:06.169 That's what it was all about. 00:12:06.169 --> 00:12:16.697 And so they fled religious persecution and came to the New World and established New England and so that's in 1620. 00:12:16.697 --> 00:12:23.013 And so then, as time went on, there was a great awakening. 00:12:23.013 --> 00:12:25.091 They call it the first great awakening. 00:12:25.091 --> 00:12:28.816 It began in 1734. 00:12:28.816 --> 00:12:33.044 And you had preachers like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield. 00:12:33.044 --> 00:12:40.230 George Whitfield was a powerful preacher and Benjamin Franklin heard him preach as a young man in Boston. 00:12:40.230 --> 00:13:02.450 It was very impressed, began to help him and publish some of his sermons and he would write them and publish them and helped him get to be very well known and newspapers began to kind of get involved even at that age, at that time, and helped spread the word and from there preaching, and he was also associated. 00:13:02.450 --> 00:13:10.931 George Whitfield was associated with John Wesley, the Wesley Brothers Methodism, and that was back when you had the shouting Methodist. 00:13:10.931 --> 00:13:22.339 You had Methodists that believed in the power of the Holy Ghost, and so there was a tremendous revival at that time, from 1734 to 1743. 00:13:23.566 --> 00:13:35.793 And that prepared the colonies, the 13 colonies, when God began to sweep across that early and this is before they're a nation, now they're still colonies of England. 00:13:35.793 --> 00:13:42.850 Now you've got a revival and now people have Bible knowledge, and so the churches grew. 00:13:42.850 --> 00:13:54.211 The churches grew in influence, and out of that influence came the idea that King George was indeed a despot. 00:13:54.211 --> 00:13:57.875 The pastors of those churches had to pray and find out. 00:13:57.875 --> 00:14:05.711 Is it okay if we violate Romans 13 that says be subject to the higher powers, obey those that have the rule over you. 00:14:05.711 --> 00:14:11.371 These are scriptural warnings to people to obey the law, not to have lawlessness. 00:14:11.371 --> 00:14:17.133 But on the other hand, you see, they're a colony and they're being taxed without representation. 00:14:17.133 --> 00:14:26.010 The wonderful riches of the new world were being drained out and shipped back to Great Britain, like all the other colonies that they had. 00:14:26.010 --> 00:14:42.530 And so these people, with the heading of the pastors behind the pulpit, prayed and prayed to the God of heaven and found out yes, he's a despot, we can rebel against him, and the American revolution was born in the church. 00:14:45.424 --> 00:14:47.951 No politically correct garbage back then. 00:14:47.951 --> 00:14:50.730 No fear then. 00:14:50.730 --> 00:14:54.869 No fear of England, no fear of the Redcoats. 00:14:54.869 --> 00:14:56.575 Now you've got to understand. 00:14:56.575 --> 00:14:59.052 This is the greatest military force on earth. 00:14:59.052 --> 00:15:03.014 The sun never sets on the British empire. 00:15:03.014 --> 00:15:05.672 They had an empire that was worldwide. 00:15:05.672 --> 00:15:12.089 They had it was just a massive amount of wealth and power that they had. 00:15:12.089 --> 00:15:16.850 And yet here we are saying we're not gonna put up with it anymore. 00:15:18.426 --> 00:15:37.533 And so out of that came the tremendous constitution we got together and, of course, on this date, or July the 4th, yesterday, 1776, 244 years ago, a group of men signed, and they pled their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor and their necks. 00:15:37.533 --> 00:15:41.932 Because what did they do when they signed that Declaration of Independence? 00:15:41.932 --> 00:15:52.446 When they signed that document, they basically became traitors to England, traitors to the crown, and they volunteered to die right there. 00:15:52.446 --> 00:16:01.495 Because if they had been arrested subsequent to that, that's what would have happened they would have been hung for sedition. 00:16:01.495 --> 00:16:03.684 Are you with me now? 00:16:03.684 --> 00:16:11.653 And we're not gonna put up with these people being demonized and put up with them amagnifying whatever faults they had. 00:16:11.653 --> 00:16:19.653 I don't know what faults they had, they had some faults, but let's think about what they did do, and what they did do changed your life and mine. 00:16:19.653 --> 00:16:21.429 We owe them. 00:16:21.429 --> 00:16:30.331 I said we owe them, and to say otherwise is being disingenuous, ignorant, and you're gonna fall under God's judgment. 00:16:30.331 --> 00:16:33.412 Because, look again, this country was God's idea. 00:16:33.412 --> 00:16:53.049 It was God's idea and so you had this great awakening that prepared people to be citizens of heaven and citizens of this new world, and they were able to bring this Constitution, this tremendous document. 00:16:53.049 --> 00:16:57.731 And let me just read to you different things that people said about the Constitution. 00:16:57.731 --> 00:17:01.352 First of all, the Bible. 00:17:02.765 --> 00:17:11.773 When the British Army heard about this, they showed up and George Washington had to take what few guys he had in flee and he had to arrange to have an army. 00:17:11.773 --> 00:17:19.532 I mean, you know, they had a continental army that was consisted of a bunch of squirrel hunters and deer hunters and people like that. 00:17:19.532 --> 00:17:22.133 I mean they didn't have professional soldiers, are you kidding? 00:17:22.133 --> 00:17:24.211 They didn't have professional officers. 00:17:24.211 --> 00:17:26.651 They didn't have an army like the British. 00:17:26.651 --> 00:17:34.290 I mean the British with their flutes and their drum sets and their marching in the red coats, line after line of them. 00:17:34.290 --> 00:17:36.250 They had to hide in the bushes and shoot them. 00:17:36.250 --> 00:17:39.328 Oh, you're not gentlemen, you're not fighting like gentlemen. 00:17:39.328 --> 00:17:43.471 Well, if we'd have fought like gentlemen, we'd have lost the very first day. 00:17:43.471 --> 00:17:51.731 But God blessed this army and we defeated the greatest army in the known world at that time. 00:17:51.731 --> 00:18:00.191 And so he fled to get his army taken care of and the Revolutionary War. 00:18:00.250 --> 00:18:01.434 There was much blood shed. 00:18:01.434 --> 00:18:05.589 You know, this constitution that we live under was not without blood. 00:18:05.589 --> 00:18:20.029 We talk about World War II, we talk about World War I, the Vietnam War, but way back there, way back there, in 1776, a lot of blood was shed on our soil and a lot of people died. 00:18:20.029 --> 00:18:24.532 And a lot of the Sinners died, a lot of their wives and children died. 00:18:24.532 --> 00:18:26.191 They were destitute, many of them. 00:18:26.191 --> 00:18:29.973 They paid a huge price for this country to exist. 00:18:29.973 --> 00:18:42.932 And so in 1801, of course, after we won the war, thomas Jefferson said that the Mayflower Compact was the foundation of the US Constitution. 00:18:42.932 --> 00:18:47.051 And what did the Mayflower Compact say? 00:18:47.051 --> 00:18:51.674 In the name of our God, it's for the furtherance of Christianity. 00:18:53.505 --> 00:19:03.347 Our second president listen to what he said John Adams Now, by the way, george Washington, after he was the winning general and all of that, he went home. 00:19:03.347 --> 00:19:13.375 He didn't establish, you know, a political party and crowned himself king of America. 00:19:13.375 --> 00:19:16.690 He went home and they drafted him to become the first president. 00:19:16.690 --> 00:19:22.237 I mean, this guy was humble and yet he's an American hero. 00:19:22.237 --> 00:19:23.569 There's no question about that. 00:19:23.569 --> 00:19:27.790 We should not put up with his statue being defaced and pulled down. 00:19:27.790 --> 00:19:30.692 There's no way. 00:19:30.692 --> 00:19:31.634 It should not happen. 00:19:32.444 --> 00:19:39.730 So the second president, john Adams, said our constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. 00:19:39.730 --> 00:19:42.571 It is wholly inadequate for any other. 00:19:42.571 --> 00:19:46.113 There is no authority, civil or religious. 00:19:46.113 --> 00:19:51.673 There can be no legitimate government but that which is administered by the Holy Ghost. 00:19:51.673 --> 00:19:59.292 So you can kinda see where we've slipped up. 00:19:59.292 --> 00:20:13.710 You can kinda see where the church has lost its footing as the guide, as the informer of its members, insisting its members number one register to vote. 00:20:13.710 --> 00:20:14.593 Number two vote. 00:20:14.593 --> 00:20:16.378 Number three vote correctly. 00:20:16.378 --> 00:20:28.817 That is a function of every local church and every local pastor, and the fact that we didn't do that for 50 or more years is why we're in the mess we're in right now. 00:20:28.817 --> 00:20:32.057 The Holy Ghost is not in charge of our government. 00:20:32.077 --> 00:20:35.076 Much here and there, little bit here, little bit. 00:20:35.076 --> 00:20:38.298 Listen, there's so much more that we could have as a society. 00:20:38.298 --> 00:20:40.721 Well, I didn't think we were gonna be able to reform this world. 00:20:40.721 --> 00:20:41.755 We're just trying to get a harvest. 00:20:41.755 --> 00:20:44.675 Well, we gotta preserve the union until we can get a harvest. 00:20:44.675 --> 00:20:48.829 If this union falls apart, we're not gonna get much of a harvest. 00:20:48.829 --> 00:20:49.933 I can tell you that right now. 00:20:49.933 --> 00:21:05.337 If the other side, these people that are screaming and hollering and burning and looting, if they get their way, we won't have a union, we won't have a country, and it's gonna be a whole lot harder to get any kind of a harvest out of it with a church under that kind of. 00:21:05.509 --> 00:21:11.333 I've heard religious statements like this all my ever since I got say well, the church does better under persecution. 00:21:11.333 --> 00:21:12.375 That's a bunch of baloney. 00:21:12.375 --> 00:21:23.237 We can have persecution without being outlawed, without having our doors closed and told that we can only be online and that's the only way we can have churches online. 00:21:23.237 --> 00:21:24.512 Well, what if they do? 00:21:24.512 --> 00:21:28.236 If they just get rid of the signal, then what if they just get any of the? 00:21:28.236 --> 00:21:36.232 Get Facebook, get YouTube, get the rest of them to not carry our services, then what Smoke signals? 00:21:36.232 --> 00:21:37.421 Cretan? 00:21:37.421 --> 00:21:38.972 Then it's air pollution. 00:21:38.972 --> 00:21:42.321 The EPA had shut us down. 00:21:42.321 --> 00:21:49.240 Cretan, cretan, our sixth president, john Quincy Adams, john Adams' son. 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:58.497 He said this in the chain of human events, the birthday of this nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior. 00:21:58.497 --> 00:22:06.800 The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity. 00:22:08.369 --> 00:22:17.614 I'm asking the question are we letting people come into this country from all the foreign lands that are willing to agree with these statements that we're giving? 00:22:17.614 --> 00:22:24.096 Are the Islamic people ready to be really American citizens and adopt the American culture? 00:22:24.096 --> 00:22:28.952 Are Hindus and every other kind of false religion around the world? 00:22:28.952 --> 00:22:34.338 We are opening our borders, we're letting them come in and we're letting them populate our population. 00:22:34.338 --> 00:22:35.796 We're letting them vote illegally. 00:22:35.796 --> 00:22:41.076 Are they the kind of people that John Quincy Adams is talking about? 00:22:41.076 --> 00:22:43.383 And John Adams is talking about? 00:22:43.383 --> 00:22:45.454 Well, you're being so ugly. 00:22:45.454 --> 00:22:47.596 That's a race and I'm not being real. 00:22:47.596 --> 00:22:56.296 This country is where it's at because we've opened the borders to every kind of person that goes against what we started with. 00:22:56.296 --> 00:22:59.156 That's the recipe for disaster. 00:22:59.156 --> 00:23:02.578 We can get them saved where they live. 00:23:02.578 --> 00:23:12.760 Then, when they get saved, they could possibly be a help to this nation, but otherwise they're not even capable of ruling themselves. 00:23:12.760 --> 00:23:13.541 Are you with me now? 00:23:15.269 --> 00:23:19.756 So all of this during the great and that happened because of revival. 00:23:19.756 --> 00:23:21.394 Everybody say revival. 00:23:21.394 --> 00:23:25.578 We have a history of great revivals in this country. 00:23:25.578 --> 00:23:30.121 God has helped this country with mighty revivals. 00:23:30.121 --> 00:23:34.038 And so then you had the second great awakening. 00:23:34.549 --> 00:23:42.455 That happened around 1800 to 1840, and right after the Revolutionary War you had people like Charles Finney. 00:23:42.455 --> 00:23:44.655 Anybody ever heard of Charles Finney? 00:23:44.655 --> 00:24:03.038 I mean, he would preach in a church and the floor would open up and the flames of hell would come up in the church building and you'd smell the hellfire and brimstone in the church and people would fall on their face and scream and repent from their sins. 00:24:03.038 --> 00:24:14.241 He wasn't preaching a greasy grace message, he was preaching repentance and people repented. 00:24:14.241 --> 00:24:16.759 I mean, well, you can't, I can't believe. 00:24:16.759 --> 00:24:17.894 Well, see, that's the problem. 00:24:17.894 --> 00:24:19.476 You don't know the power of the Holy Ghost. 00:24:19.476 --> 00:24:21.076 The Holy Ghost can do anything. 00:24:21.076 --> 00:24:26.256 When the Word of God is preached, he can open things up and people can see where they're headed. 00:24:26.256 --> 00:24:29.854 I say that's love, I say that's mercy. 00:24:29.854 --> 00:24:39.457 Right there, when people get a picture of where they're headed, they get a chance to repent and that means turn around and they can go the opposite direction, praise God. 00:24:39.457 --> 00:24:43.596 And so in that great awakening we had people like Peter Cartwright. 00:24:43.596 --> 00:24:46.438 He got saved in the first great awakening. 00:24:46.438 --> 00:24:51.615 He was at a meeting at the first time before the Revolutionary War. 00:24:51.634 --> 00:24:52.438 This was a big kid. 00:24:52.438 --> 00:24:53.353 He's 18 years old. 00:24:53.353 --> 00:24:57.155 He's six foot five, big old fella, and he was a ruffian boy. 00:24:57.155 --> 00:25:06.627 I mean, he was a wild guy and his mother was Methodist, prayed for him continually and then he'd go into sorrow and he didn't know how to repent. 00:25:06.627 --> 00:25:09.519 He didn't know how to give his heart to Jesus. 00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:18.930 So he showed up, this Cain Ridge revival in Kentucky and this other person that was at a meeting like that. 00:25:18.930 --> 00:25:24.262 There were five or six preachers preaching, this vast crowd. 00:25:24.262 --> 00:25:27.276 There was such a vast crowd that one preacher couldn't be heard. 00:25:27.276 --> 00:25:29.156 So they had five or six spread through there. 00:25:29.156 --> 00:25:39.458 They'd stand on a stump, they'd stand on a wagon back and they'd preach and people would just be everywhere and under in the woods and they'd be preaching this message. 00:25:39.458 --> 00:25:54.161 And Peter Cartwright showed up at one of those meetings and the guy that wrote this article said I've personally witnessed one day as the preaching of the gospel went forth, 500 people all at one time just went out in the spirit. 00:25:54.161 --> 00:26:04.136 They all fell out on the ground, rolling on the ground, repenting, crying, screeching at their sin, and they all got gloriously saved. 00:26:04.136 --> 00:26:07.455 That's the power of the Holy Ghost. 00:26:07.455 --> 00:26:08.278 In America. 00:26:08.278 --> 00:26:10.855 We can have that again. 00:26:10.855 --> 00:26:14.239 We've had it, but we can have it again. 00:26:14.239 --> 00:26:21.020 Well, prayer, see prayer was the cornerstone of these great revivals. 00:26:21.020 --> 00:26:24.597 And so out of that revival, peter Cartwright became a Methodist circuit preacher. 00:26:25.309 --> 00:26:42.078 Now a circuit preacher is a guy that gets on a horse and he goes from town to town to town, to town to town to town and he's preaching, he spends the night on the trail, he puts his head on a horse saddle and sleeps and covers up with a blanket and eats a rabbit or something that he kills on the side of the road and gets on down. 00:26:42.078 --> 00:26:44.309 I mean, this was a huge sacrifice. 00:26:44.309 --> 00:26:57.998 He preached like that for 40 years and he would have people come up to him and try to give him trouble and sometimes he had to administer the five-fold ministry because he was big enough to take care of himself. 00:26:57.998 --> 00:27:07.299 One time some guys came after him and he ran away from him and he said quick, you know, and he acted like he had a whole army out in the woods. 00:27:07.299 --> 00:27:10.635 He said, quick, they're right behind me, close in on them and get them. 00:27:10.635 --> 00:27:16.535 And, man, they thought horseback riders were gonna arrest them and they turned and ran the other directions. 00:27:16.535 --> 00:27:20.135 So he didn't always swing his fist, but he knew how to take care of himself. 00:27:21.150 --> 00:27:22.413 He had an unusual. 00:27:22.413 --> 00:27:27.458 He had a very unusual demonstration of the spirit that accompanied his ministry. 00:27:27.458 --> 00:27:32.737 Oftentimes, when he would preach, it didn't matter if it was in the country or in the city. 00:27:32.737 --> 00:27:42.551 He would start preaching, and preaching, people that were listening to him would start to jerk, jerk, and this was before the dance, the jerk that we had in the sixties I'm talking about. 00:27:42.551 --> 00:27:49.237 They jerked, and if they resisted jerking, the jerks came on them even more severely. 00:27:49.237 --> 00:27:53.910 And so two guys came up to him and they were giving him trouble. 00:27:53.910 --> 00:27:55.777 They were gonna try to mess up his meeting. 00:27:55.777 --> 00:27:59.990 He said if you keep fooling around here, I'm gonna cause you to start jerking. 00:27:59.990 --> 00:28:01.896 And they turned and ran. 00:28:01.896 --> 00:28:04.233 They didn't want any part of that jerking. 00:28:04.233 --> 00:28:10.829 We better get used to the Holy Ghost doing some unusual things. 00:28:10.829 --> 00:28:17.950 When we start turning things over to the Holy Ghost, he's gonna shake men until they give their hearts to Jesus. 00:28:17.950 --> 00:28:18.732 Are you with me now? 00:28:19.951 --> 00:28:23.332 So all of this in the 1800s to 1840, then the church. 00:28:23.332 --> 00:28:30.074 The history of revival is heat, light, conversions. 00:28:30.074 --> 00:28:46.657 And then people get consumed by the cares of this world, the siphon of riches, the lust of other things, entering in chokes, the word, and so then people kind of backslide in churches started sliding back in the 1840s or so and churches were not being well attended. 00:28:46.657 --> 00:29:01.698 And in New York City it was so difficult to live in Manhattan because you can imagine the horses and the horse dung and the dust and the heat and the summertime it was a nasty place to live. 00:29:01.698 --> 00:29:04.657 The big cities of the Northeast they're just a little narrow. 00:29:04.657 --> 00:29:11.698 They didn't know they were gonna grow like that and they grew up they couldn't grow out and little narrow streets and everybody was. 00:29:11.698 --> 00:29:18.917 So people moved out and moved into the suburbs and left the old churches there and they were kind of empty, nobody going. 00:29:19.289 --> 00:29:26.201 And so the Dutch reform denomination hired this young man, a guy by the name of Jeremiah Lempheer. 00:29:26.201 --> 00:29:33.397 He was a businessman and he had been gloriously saved and wanted to do something for the Lord. 00:29:33.397 --> 00:29:34.756 He said what would you have me do? 00:29:34.756 --> 00:29:39.978 The same thing that Saul of Tarsus said on the road to Damascus oh Lord, who is it now? 00:29:39.978 --> 00:29:41.133 Is it Lord? 00:29:41.133 --> 00:29:42.534 What would you have me to do? 00:29:42.534 --> 00:29:47.259 So he just prayed that prayer and God put in his heart to go to work for the denomination. 00:29:47.259 --> 00:29:49.738 They hired him to be a missionary into Manhattan. 00:29:50.369 --> 00:30:03.240 He went door to door handing out flyers and talking, ministering to people, trying to get them saved or get them into church where they could get saved, and it was a complete failure. 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:12.453 I mean, most of the people living there then were immigrants, they were workers, they were of different persuasions and they just were hard. 00:30:12.453 --> 00:30:16.959 They were hard to talk to, hard to, and he just wasn't having any success. 00:30:16.959 --> 00:30:20.076 And so then he went to the Lord in prayer again. 00:30:20.076 --> 00:30:21.633 He said, lord, what would you have me to do? 00:30:21.633 --> 00:30:22.474 It's not working. 00:30:22.474 --> 00:30:41.664 He said start a prayer meeting for the businessmen, make it, invite the businessmen because they go to lunch every day, they have a time of refreshing refreshing and liquid refreshing and invite them to the prayer meeting at the church. 00:30:41.664 --> 00:30:49.547 So he went around and he had some hand bills and he handed them out everywhere and he put one on the side of the church door. 00:30:49.547 --> 00:30:53.230 This church is a church that's right there in Manhattan. 00:30:53.230 --> 00:30:59.469 That church still stands today and during 9-11, it's right across from the World Trade Center. 00:30:59.469 --> 00:31:04.606 When the World Trade Center collapsed, hundreds of buildings were ruined. 00:31:04.606 --> 00:31:07.788 Not one pane of glass was broken in that church. 00:31:07.788 --> 00:31:09.766 It's still sitting there, perfectly preserved. 00:31:11.019 --> 00:31:14.089 The church where this prayer meeting first started. 00:31:14.089 --> 00:31:22.105 And so he went in there on the day appointed at 12, and at 12-20, nobody still was there, just him praying by himself. 00:31:22.105 --> 00:31:31.046 Then 12-32 guys showed up, so they finished up until one o'clock and then they said, okay, this time next week and tell people about it. 00:31:31.046 --> 00:31:37.330 So the next week, 10 people, 10 men this is totally by businessmen. 00:31:37.330 --> 00:31:39.185 This is a businessman's prayer meeting. 00:31:39.185 --> 00:31:43.170 No preachers there, no pastors there, businessmen. 00:31:43.170 --> 00:31:50.523 And so then the next week after that there were 50 people there, then the next week 150, and finally it outgrew the church. 00:31:50.523 --> 00:31:52.365 They had to move around to another church. 00:31:52.365 --> 00:32:06.165 It had three big floors and three rooms and before you knew it, there were over 10,000 people all over New York City and upstate New York as far as Philadelphia, they're praying and it went every day. 00:32:06.500 --> 00:32:12.484 It was a spontaneous move of God and what would happen is they'd get together and they had very few rules. 00:32:12.484 --> 00:32:13.644 This is what they did. 00:32:13.644 --> 00:32:17.449 They'd sing four or five stanzas of a hymn to get started. 00:32:17.449 --> 00:32:21.463 They always started right on time and regardless. 00:32:21.463 --> 00:32:25.488 And then they had little rules up on the bank five minute rule. 00:32:25.488 --> 00:32:26.903 You have five minutes. 00:32:26.903 --> 00:32:31.840 If you get up and you ask for prayer, you better pray what you're asking for, you've got to. 00:32:31.840 --> 00:32:37.909 If you have a request, you've got to pray, so that kind of made people have to get out of their shell. 00:32:37.909 --> 00:32:43.169 So people would get up and pray for their son to get saved, their father to get saved. 00:32:43.169 --> 00:32:48.347 They'd pray mostly for salvation, and so they would have prayer like that for an hour. 00:32:48.347 --> 00:32:50.125 Sometimes you'd have testimony. 00:32:50.125 --> 00:32:55.329 I came to this meeting three months ago and now I'm saved and my whole family is saved. 00:32:55.329 --> 00:33:02.008 You'd have testimony time, five minutes max, and the Spirit of God would fall on these prayer meetings. 00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:04.586 I'm talking about Manhattan. 00:33:04.586 --> 00:33:08.963 I'm talking about where they wrote Black Lives Matter right down the street. 00:33:08.963 --> 00:33:14.769 I'm talking about where they burned and looted and everything else they've done recently. 00:33:14.769 --> 00:33:16.704 I'm talking about that Manhattan. 00:33:16.704 --> 00:33:19.507 This is what we have. 00:33:19.507 --> 00:33:29.685 We have this foundation and this great nation that we've got to get back to letting God have His way and there's got to be some prayer made. 00:33:32.603 --> 00:33:45.165 And so they had a ship that came into the harbor from Europe and one of the guys working on the docks went and talked to the captain and told him all was going on in New York. 00:33:45.165 --> 00:33:46.546 Man, you can't believe what's happening. 00:33:46.546 --> 00:33:49.701 People are giving their hearts and lives to Jesus Christ out of God. 00:33:49.701 --> 00:33:52.787 And he got all excited and there was revival on that ship. 00:33:52.787 --> 00:33:53.884 Nobody got off the ship. 00:33:53.884 --> 00:33:59.146 They all got saved sitting there on the ship, just the influence of the Holy Ghost and the harbor. 00:33:59.146 --> 00:34:01.633 Are y'all with me now? 00:34:01.633 --> 00:34:04.605 Come on, we are not at the end of our rope here. 00:34:04.605 --> 00:34:07.365 We've got God as our ally. 00:34:07.365 --> 00:34:11.588 And so this businessman's revival. 00:34:11.588 --> 00:34:24.068 It lasted only two years and one businessman was a traveling guy and he went from New York and he traveled all the way out to as far as Nebraska, 1,500 miles. 00:34:24.068 --> 00:34:29.907 He said every city and every town that I went through had prayer meetings and they had revival. 00:34:29.907 --> 00:34:35.744 It spread all over the known colonies at that time and states at that time. 00:34:35.744 --> 00:34:43.188 We had the Louisiana Purchase, so we had a lot more territory there in 1840, 1850. 00:34:44.500 --> 00:34:47.119 So what happened in 1860? 00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:59.829 Well, that was probably the most important election in our nation's history and that's when Abraham Lincoln won the presidency and he wanted to rid the country of slavery. 00:34:59.829 --> 00:35:11.568