WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.407 Pick our bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:03.407 --> 00:00:09.185 Let's say this together say heavenly Father, I'm not here by accident. 00:00:09.185 --> 00:00:19.303 I'm not here just because this is a thing to do, but I have a divine appointment to hear from heaven about my life. 00:00:19.303 --> 00:00:26.089 I'm listening for me, I have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to me. 00:00:26.089 --> 00:00:27.564 I'm teachable. 00:00:27.564 --> 00:00:41.262 I don't know everything, but the Word of God is coming forth today for my benefit and I believe I receive from the Word of God everything I need. 00:00:41.262 --> 00:00:49.070 In Jesus' name, amen, let's turn in our bibles to Psalm 11. 00:00:49.070 --> 00:00:54.668 And then also to Second Chronicles 32. 00:00:54.668 --> 00:00:57.366 Second Chronicles 32. 00:00:57.366 --> 00:01:00.645 We're gonna start with Psalm 11. 00:01:02.307 --> 00:01:10.424 In verse three, the King James says if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? 00:01:10.424 --> 00:01:13.647 I like the passion translation. 00:01:13.647 --> 00:01:22.447 What can the righteous accomplish when the truth's pillars are destroyed and law and order collapse? 00:01:22.447 --> 00:01:30.790 I mean, you've got crazy people calling for the defunding of police. 00:01:30.790 --> 00:01:35.430 I mean, how dumb can you get and still breathe? 00:01:35.430 --> 00:01:39.206 I mean, amoeba are smarter than that. 00:01:39.206 --> 00:01:43.944 What can the righteous do? 00:01:43.944 --> 00:01:49.704 And I know that it gets to be a little tempting to think nothing. 00:01:49.704 --> 00:01:53.825 It gets a little tempting to think, well, what can we do? 00:01:53.825 --> 00:01:59.929 I mean, it seems like the country's falling down around our ears and even the church is still asleep. 00:01:59.929 --> 00:02:07.606 And there's still churches that are closed in Texas and we've been open all this time. 00:02:07.606 --> 00:02:10.921 We've been open all this time and other churches. 00:02:10.921 --> 00:02:12.587 Just what kind of attitude? 00:02:12.587 --> 00:02:13.562 Are they hungry? 00:02:13.562 --> 00:02:15.945 Are they thirsty for God? 00:02:15.945 --> 00:02:17.586 Do they want what God has for them? 00:02:17.586 --> 00:02:18.584 No, I guess not. 00:02:18.584 --> 00:02:19.602 They just soon. 00:02:19.602 --> 00:02:22.283 Well, I'll just get it online and then pretty soon. 00:02:22.283 --> 00:02:25.147 How often they watch and how long they watch? 00:02:25.147 --> 00:02:29.284 Good question, what can the righteous do? 00:02:29.284 --> 00:02:30.161 You know? 00:02:30.161 --> 00:02:31.526 What can the righteous accomplish? 00:02:31.526 --> 00:02:34.508 I'm gonna answer the question with the word. 00:02:34.549 --> 00:02:36.766 This morning let's look at second Chronicles, 32. 00:02:36.766 --> 00:02:46.907 And we'll start reading with verse one, one of my favorite testimonies in the Bible. 00:02:46.907 --> 00:03:00.385 After these things and we'll talk about what things and the establishment thereof Sonakhrib, king of Assyria, came and entered into Judah and encamped against the fence cities and thought to win them for himself. 00:03:00.385 --> 00:03:16.086 And when Hezekiah that was, the king of Judah saw that Sonakhrib was come and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains, which were without the city, and they did help him. 00:03:16.086 --> 00:03:26.508 So there was gathered much people together who stopped all the fountains and brooks that ran through the midst of the land, saying why should the king of Assyria come and find much water? 00:03:26.508 --> 00:03:29.207 See, that was a little strategy they had. 00:03:29.207 --> 00:03:32.805 They moved the water from outside the walls to inside the walls. 00:03:35.181 --> 00:03:46.304 And also king Hezekiah strengthened himself and built up all the wall that was broken and raised it up to the towers and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David. 00:03:46.304 --> 00:03:50.830 And he made a swords and weapons and shields in abundance. 00:03:50.830 --> 00:03:54.588 So he prepared himself and the people for war. 00:03:54.588 --> 00:04:18.567 And he set captains of war over the people and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city and spake comfortably to them, saying be strong and courageous, be not afraid or dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him, for there is more with us than with him. 00:04:18.567 --> 00:04:28.747 With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord, our God, to help us and to fight our battles. 00:04:28.747 --> 00:04:40.944 And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and I like what the message Bible says about that last verse. 00:04:40.944 --> 00:04:51.793 Hezekiah's words put steel in their spines, as the Cai's words put steel in their spines. 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:56.529 And so my message today is entitled Stealed for Victory. 00:04:56.529 --> 00:04:58.886 Stealed for Victory. 00:04:58.886 --> 00:05:01.970 And this time, right now, you come to church. 00:05:01.970 --> 00:05:08.312 You come to church not to be burdened, not to be with all the bad news out there. 00:05:08.312 --> 00:05:32.704 I'm not gonna rehearse all the bad news, but last week we were talking about the history of our country and especially the revivals that came before every critical time in our nation's history, and I mentioned about the businessman's revival of 1857 to 1859, right before the Civil War and I heard Mark Levin say the other night on the radio program. 00:05:32.745 --> 00:05:38.379 He said in his view, there were three great turning points. 00:05:38.379 --> 00:05:47.245 We heard turning point this morning Three great turning point elections in this nation First, the election of George Washington, for our first president. 00:05:47.245 --> 00:05:52.355 Second, in 1860 and 1864, the election of Abraham Lincoln. 00:05:52.355 --> 00:05:57.031 And the third is the election of Donald Trump in 2020. 00:05:57.031 --> 00:05:59.365 Now, that was what he said. 00:05:59.365 --> 00:06:02.295 He's a scholar, he's a lawyer. 00:06:02.295 --> 00:06:03.560 I've been listening to him for years. 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:13.122 He's a smart guy, and so last week we talked about how God's not divorced from this nation. 00:06:13.122 --> 00:06:15.009 God, this is the one nation under God. 00:06:15.009 --> 00:06:17.767 This nation was a gift to the world from God. 00:06:17.767 --> 00:06:21.269 You think that God doesn't care about this nation? 00:06:21.269 --> 00:06:32.968 You don't think that God is hearing all of the blasphemy and all of the garbage coming out of these people's mouths on a daily basis and it doesn't seem to me like there's very much pushback. 00:06:32.968 --> 00:06:40.944 But we're pushing back and I don't want you to think that that's in vain and I don't want you to think that it's not without power. 00:06:40.944 --> 00:06:48.144 Our God is hearing us, just like he heard Hezekiah and Hezekiah's words. 00:06:48.144 --> 00:06:49.067 You know. 00:06:49.108 --> 00:06:53.930 He had to communicate to his subjects and it put steel in their spine. 00:06:53.930 --> 00:06:56.545 What if he had gone up there and said well, it's looking bad. 00:06:56.545 --> 00:07:02.108 Y'all better get ready, you better pack your bags, get ready to leave, better find a mountain top to get on? 00:07:02.108 --> 00:07:04.625 That's what they said during Y2K. 00:07:04.625 --> 00:07:06.846 I heard preachers saying yeah, I'm preparing. 00:07:06.846 --> 00:07:09.146 The church has bought some land in Arizona. 00:07:09.146 --> 00:07:10.906 I don't know what magic about Arizona. 00:07:10.906 --> 00:07:13.523 I think if I was gonna pick someplace to go, it wouldn't be Arizona. 00:07:13.523 --> 00:07:15.007 How about Hawaii? 00:07:15.007 --> 00:07:15.608 That'd be a lot. 00:07:15.608 --> 00:07:23.266 Oh, arizona, if you're from Arizona, please forgive me, I'm not ragging. 00:07:23.266 --> 00:07:24.244 I'm just thinking how. 00:07:24.244 --> 00:07:26.466 You know what's great about Arizona. 00:07:26.466 --> 00:07:31.069 So, but my job is to encourage you and strengthen you. 00:07:31.069 --> 00:07:34.050 Put steel in your spine and encourage it. 00:07:34.050 --> 00:07:35.846 Strengthen you like Judah. 00:07:36.261 --> 00:07:37.726 We're facing overwhelming odds. 00:07:37.726 --> 00:07:45.192 It looks like everybody's going against what we're saying, and so let me just rephrase this. 00:07:45.192 --> 00:07:54.394 You know, we had a word, you know, from God back September, and God talked about this is our greatest year yet. 00:07:54.394 --> 00:07:56.288 Anybody remember that? 00:07:56.288 --> 00:08:00.548 On Rosh Hashanah night, september, what was it? 00:08:00.548 --> 00:08:01.872 19, 2019? 00:08:01.872 --> 00:08:09.471 I mean, you know that was an amazing word, and when I delivered that word, I knew what was gonna fall on me. 00:08:09.471 --> 00:08:15.105 I was gonna have to keep you encouraged and keep you fed, and I knew the devil was gonna fight us tooth and nail. 00:08:15.105 --> 00:08:18.911 I had no idea how the devil was gonna fight us, but now we kinda know, don't we? 00:08:18.911 --> 00:08:22.348 Now we can look back and see what happened started happening. 00:08:22.348 --> 00:08:25.918 You know, you had this craziness that they're calling the COVID. 00:08:25.918 --> 00:08:28.651 I call it the Kung flu. 00:08:28.651 --> 00:08:29.915 You know the Kung flu. 00:08:29.915 --> 00:08:32.510 You can argue that this is. 00:08:35.145 --> 00:08:44.309 I know people that really sincerely believe that this is warfare, this germ warfare that was done on purpose. 00:08:44.309 --> 00:08:47.490 Well, whether it was done on purpose, we know it was covered up on purpose. 00:08:47.490 --> 00:08:55.033 It might've been incompetence and stupidity on their palm, china's part, and they're always messing around in that lab. 00:08:55.033 --> 00:08:57.394 It's not the first time they've had trouble in that lab. 00:08:57.394 --> 00:09:02.687 Most of the flu comes from the south of China, and this is the first time in the middle of China that it so. 00:09:02.687 --> 00:09:17.485 That tells me they're always messing with germs, they're always messing with experimentation, and this might've been a mistake, or it could've been on purpose, I know, for, on purpose, though, the World Health Organization and the Communist China government. 00:09:17.485 --> 00:09:19.633 They absolutely withheld information. 00:09:19.633 --> 00:09:23.308 They covered it up and killed the scientists that tried to blow the whistle on it. 00:09:23.308 --> 00:09:25.168 We know that. 00:09:25.884 --> 00:09:28.408 So which differences it make, you can call it either way. 00:09:28.408 --> 00:09:30.294 We're under attack, aren't we? 00:09:30.294 --> 00:09:39.533 And then you've got, you know, a whole political party and a bunch of other people associated with them that try to take advantage of every crisis. 00:09:39.533 --> 00:09:40.528 That's what they say. 00:09:40.528 --> 00:09:44.092 We've got to take advantage of every crisis. 00:09:44.092 --> 00:09:47.052 Well, let's us take advantage of the crisis. 00:09:48.404 --> 00:09:51.668 So we could pray this prayer, one of the words that God put. 00:09:51.668 --> 00:09:55.091 He said but you don't know what I'm facing. 00:09:55.091 --> 00:09:58.990 And God said, in the face of what you face, I do know what you're facing. 00:09:58.990 --> 00:10:07.197 And he said, in the face of what you face, you confess no other thing except this is my greatest year in my history. 00:10:07.197 --> 00:10:08.087 So he told us. 00:10:08.087 --> 00:10:09.192 He told us way back then. 00:10:09.485 --> 00:10:12.114 So, in the face of what we face together right now. 00:10:12.114 --> 00:10:15.350 Be strong and very courageous. 00:10:15.350 --> 00:10:39.669 Be not afraid of the multitude of communists and socialists and Democrats and fake news media and university experts and Washington elites and non-elected bureaucrats and billionaire globalists and everyone else that they have deceived, for there is more with us than with them. 00:10:39.669 --> 00:10:41.875 Hallelujah. 00:10:41.875 --> 00:10:55.251 With him and with them is the arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord, our God, to help us and to fight our battles. 00:10:55.251 --> 00:10:57.687 Glory to God. 00:10:57.687 --> 00:11:00.312 You know, isn't it good that we don't have to fight the battle? 00:11:01.284 --> 00:11:01.947 I get caught up. 00:11:01.947 --> 00:11:02.807 I'll just be honest. 00:11:02.807 --> 00:11:08.610 The last couple of several weeks has just been one grinding teeth, grinding after another. 00:11:08.610 --> 00:11:19.254 I go from outraged to disappointment, to kicking things, wanting to throw things, and then I have to catch myself and start praising God. 00:11:19.254 --> 00:11:21.615 You know, if they're gonna curse God, I'm gonna bless him. 00:11:21.615 --> 00:11:24.753 If they're gonna curse America, I'm gonna bless America. 00:11:24.753 --> 00:11:28.696 It's not perfect, but it's the best thing going. 00:11:28.696 --> 00:11:30.793 There's no better place on earth. 00:11:30.793 --> 00:11:32.350 There's no place I'd rather be. 00:11:32.350 --> 00:11:37.908 I kinda wish everybody that didn't like it leave, go, get out, go find the place. 00:11:37.908 --> 00:11:39.470 Is there another place? 00:11:39.470 --> 00:11:41.264 Go find it. 00:11:41.264 --> 00:11:43.712 If it's so good, maybe you can invite me to come see you. 00:11:43.712 --> 00:11:47.248 Why do you have to stay here? 00:11:47.248 --> 00:11:49.394 You don't. 00:11:49.394 --> 00:11:53.712 But you know that's just kinda counterproductive. 00:11:53.712 --> 00:11:58.951 So I just had to get back to what the Bible says and encourage myself. 00:12:00.589 --> 00:12:11.592 You know, when David was all fighting the battles, he came back to his city of Ziklag this is before he was king and the Amalekites had come through and stolen everything. 00:12:11.592 --> 00:12:26.649 They stole all the women and the stuff and the families, the kids, and I mean everybody was weeping, they were crying, they were crying their eyes out and then they started blaming David and they started, you know they thought about maybe stoning David. 00:12:26.649 --> 00:12:27.788 They were so upset. 00:12:27.788 --> 00:12:29.890 That's the way it is with leadership. 00:12:29.890 --> 00:12:31.871 You know, you're either the goat or you're the king. 00:12:32.004 --> 00:12:34.711 One of the two Depends on how things are going. 00:12:34.711 --> 00:12:36.216 If things are going good, you're a hero. 00:12:36.216 --> 00:12:38.874 If things are going bad, you're the reason why. 00:12:38.874 --> 00:12:45.947 But David encouraged himself and the Lord, his God, began to acquire the Lord, do I pursue? 00:12:45.947 --> 00:12:47.229 Do I go after them? 00:12:47.229 --> 00:12:50.192 He said pursue and you shall surely recover. 00:12:50.192 --> 00:12:56.250 All you know, I'm not responsible for the results of our efforts. 00:12:56.250 --> 00:12:59.273 What we're responsible for is pushing back. 00:12:59.273 --> 00:13:06.599 What we're responsible for is speaking up and out against what we see is wrong, and there's plenty wrong. 00:13:06.599 --> 00:13:08.572 There's plenty of deception out there. 00:13:08.572 --> 00:13:11.312 Let's not get hung up on all the results. 00:13:12.284 --> 00:13:28.014 I mean, after looking at the Supreme Court and the absolute asinine decisions that they have made, and I heard the president say, you know, and Mike Pence yesterday, the most important thing coming up in this election are the Supreme Court picks. 00:13:28.014 --> 00:13:29.149 And I thought, well, you know what? 00:13:29.149 --> 00:13:33.268 Whatever we're using to pick the Supreme Court is not working. 00:13:33.268 --> 00:13:40.293 We need a whole other system of picking judges now, because the ones we picked were supposed to be fantastic. 00:13:40.293 --> 00:13:44.708 I mean, I almost fell on my sword for Kavanaugh because he's been a total disappointment. 00:13:44.708 --> 00:13:50.947 And Gorsuch I knew because I knew what church he went to his pastor. 00:13:50.947 --> 00:14:03.282 His pastor is a lesbian, that's married and she was at the funny hat meeting right after our president was an artist, so that's her. 00:14:03.282 --> 00:14:07.945 And you pointed him on the Supreme Court and that's what he goes to church. 00:14:07.945 --> 00:14:09.389 He goes to church like that. 00:14:09.389 --> 00:14:11.203 That's not a Christian church. 00:14:11.203 --> 00:14:12.668 They don't believe the Bible. 00:14:12.668 --> 00:14:17.708 He couldn't possibly rule on anything. 00:14:17.708 --> 00:14:20.283 How did you pick him? 00:14:20.283 --> 00:14:22.590 How did you pick Kavanaugh? 00:14:22.590 --> 00:14:27.331 That makes me wonder how did John Roberts ever get on the Supreme Court? 00:14:27.331 --> 00:14:30.807 How he's supposed to be a conservative. 00:14:30.807 --> 00:14:35.424 So you've got three conservative judges that aren't worth spit. 00:14:37.460 --> 00:14:38.361 Pastor, I can't. 00:14:38.361 --> 00:14:40.527 I'm saying it into the camera. 00:14:40.527 --> 00:14:41.809 They're not worth spit. 00:14:41.809 --> 00:14:45.125 They ought to resign tomorrow. 00:14:45.125 --> 00:14:46.942 Let us try. 00:14:46.942 --> 00:14:47.946 And I don't even know who. 00:14:47.946 --> 00:14:48.609 We'd replace them. 00:14:48.609 --> 00:14:54.892 Number one, who would volunteer to go through that hellhole of a confirmation process? 00:14:54.892 --> 00:14:59.549 And then number two how can you trust them? 00:14:59.549 --> 00:15:01.279 They all answered the same question. 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:02.543 Yes, I'm a literalist. 00:15:02.543 --> 00:15:06.091 I believe in interpreting the Constitution as it was written. 00:15:06.400 --> 00:15:10.941 Liar, you're a liar, of course it's. 00:15:10.941 --> 00:15:11.682 You lied. 00:15:11.682 --> 00:15:18.147 Well, pastor, you're so mad. 00:15:18.147 --> 00:15:21.269 Well, see, that's why I'm preaching this, because we've got an answer. 00:15:21.269 --> 00:15:24.910 See, we don't have to get all down in the dumps over all this. 00:15:24.910 --> 00:15:26.484 It's not our job to solve it. 00:15:26.484 --> 00:15:31.500 It's our job to cry out the truth and let God begin to intervene. 00:15:31.620 --> 00:15:34.089 I know God can turn things around all by himself. 00:15:34.089 --> 00:15:35.144 He doesn't need a lot of help. 00:15:35.144 --> 00:15:38.366 He just needs a people that will trust what he said. 00:15:38.366 --> 00:15:45.673 So when he addressed you know he gave an address, you know, to His people. 00:15:45.673 --> 00:15:49.080 They leaned on the words of Hezekiah. 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:52.528 They received steel in their spines. 00:15:52.528 --> 00:15:54.041 Why? 00:15:54.041 --> 00:15:55.485 Because they believed what he said. 00:15:55.485 --> 00:15:58.668 And I tell you, if it's true of them, it's true of us. 00:15:58.668 --> 00:16:00.745 They're more with us than there are with them. 00:16:00.745 --> 00:16:03.585 And I know that we're not. 00:16:03.585 --> 00:16:07.500 We don't believe that because we're just assaulted on every side. 00:16:08.381 --> 00:16:13.287 Every leader seems like we have, from the governor on down, is making the wrong decisions. 00:16:13.287 --> 00:16:15.928 They're not looking at the same data that I'm looking at. 00:16:15.928 --> 00:16:18.388 They're not listening to the same experts I listen to. 00:16:18.388 --> 00:16:20.224 There's no need for mass. 00:16:20.224 --> 00:16:21.789 There's no need for any of this. 00:16:21.789 --> 00:16:23.004 None, none of it. 00:16:23.004 --> 00:16:26.240 And the hospitals are no more full. 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:28.106 That's the lie they keep telling you. 00:16:28.106 --> 00:16:30.167 They keep telling you oh, we're just full. 00:16:30.167 --> 00:16:32.006 They're no more full than they ever are. 00:16:32.006 --> 00:16:34.639 You know these hospitals have to make a profit. 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:37.903 I know they're nonprofit corporations, but they still have to make. 00:16:37.903 --> 00:16:45.572 They have to have money coming in, and so they don't have a big, gigantic ICU unit with 20% capacity. 00:16:45.572 --> 00:16:50.351 They operate at a close to 90%, 95% capacity all the time. 00:16:50.351 --> 00:16:56.446 Or, if they don't, they fire the guy that's run the hospital Because he doesn't know what he's doing. 00:16:56.446 --> 00:16:59.479 Why don't we have grow a brain? 00:16:59.479 --> 00:17:03.306 I mean, I know this and I'm not a healthcare expert. 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:06.503 This is all fake news. 00:17:06.503 --> 00:17:08.228 It's all fake panic. 00:17:08.228 --> 00:17:11.425 We're not panicking, we're not intimidating. 00:17:11.425 --> 00:17:18.407 It might seem like that there's more of them than there are of us, but no, god's word says there's more with us than there is with them. 00:17:18.407 --> 00:17:24.028 With them is the arm of flesh With us is our mighty God. 00:17:24.028 --> 00:17:26.583 He's on our side. 00:17:26.583 --> 00:17:34.991 So, just like today, the enemy likes to talk. 00:17:34.991 --> 00:17:37.970 I mean they're talking full steam, full blast ahead. 00:17:37.970 --> 00:17:39.586 I mean Hollywood is talking. 00:17:39.586 --> 00:17:43.327 You know, you've got these retired generals, they're talking. 00:17:43.327 --> 00:17:48.143 You've got all these people with big mouths, they're talking. 00:17:48.143 --> 00:17:51.440 Nobody's really listening to us while God's listening to us. 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.221 So let's make sure what we're speaking is faith, amen. 00:17:56.601 --> 00:18:00.920 And so the Kingdom of Syria had already taken the Northern Kingdom. 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:02.224 Just to give you a little example. 00:18:02.224 --> 00:18:16.151 Now you know, right after Solomon died, the Kingdom split into his sons, and so one of them took the 10 tribes and went to Samaria. 00:18:16.151 --> 00:18:28.503 And then the Southern Kingdom consisted of Judah and Benjamin, and so they were split again and you had the Northern Kingdom up in Samaria, the Southern Kingdom. 00:18:28.503 --> 00:18:30.660 And so the Northern Kingdom never did serve God. 00:18:30.660 --> 00:18:43.857 They had one evil king after another until God's judgment fell and the Assyrians came and conquered them and occupied all of Samaria and all of the cities that had been with the 10 tribes. 00:18:43.857 --> 00:18:45.400 They lost everything God gave them. 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:51.989 They lost their inheritance because of disobedience and really, if you look at it, it was idolatry that cost them. 00:18:53.280 --> 00:19:12.924 I heard Brother Hagin say this one time it says you know, we seem to get all fixated on certain kinds of sins as the worst kind, but he said really in the according to the Bible, the worst kind of sin that God, you know, holds people accountable for more than anything, is idolatry, worship of other gods. 00:19:12.924 --> 00:19:26.400 And this is the danger our nation has entered into by importing all of these false religions into our country from Islam and from, you know, nations of the East, hinduism and all of these other false gods. 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:39.849 Now our nation has been leavened to the degree now that there's a whole lot more notice given to all these false religions than there are the God of Abraham Isaac and the father of our Lord, jesus Christ. 00:19:39.849 --> 00:19:40.844 That's just a fact. 00:19:40.844 --> 00:19:44.250 Hey, let's start magnifying God. 00:19:44.250 --> 00:19:46.347 We're the only ones that's gonna do it. 00:19:46.347 --> 00:19:50.790 And so that's what happened then. 00:19:51.660 --> 00:19:56.611 And so now he's threatening Judah. 00:19:56.611 --> 00:20:02.442 He's gonna take over Judah, just like he did the Northern Kingdom. 00:20:02.442 --> 00:20:10.520 And so, if you keep reading past verse eight on down here, he wrote a letter and says don't be trusted in that, hezekiah. 00:20:10.520 --> 00:20:15.240 You're not gonna be any different than Samaria, as Samaria tried to resist us. 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:15.983 They didn't make it. 00:20:15.983 --> 00:20:17.180 You're not gonna make it. 00:20:17.180 --> 00:20:19.255 Your God's not able to protect you. 00:20:19.255 --> 00:20:20.299 We've got our gods. 00:20:20.299 --> 00:20:22.982 Our gods are stronger than the God of Judah. 00:20:23.615 --> 00:20:25.061 And so he blasphemed God. 00:20:25.061 --> 00:20:29.838 Don't you think God hears every time these people blaspheme Him? 00:20:29.838 --> 00:20:36.502 Every time these people blaspheme, I remember when President Obama said you cling to your Bibles and your guns. 00:20:36.502 --> 00:20:40.766 Well, I cling to the Word and I have a gun. 00:20:40.766 --> 00:20:42.398 I know right where it is. 00:20:42.398 --> 00:20:45.319 At all times I don't cling to it. 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:55.563 And so be a good idea to have a gun, or two, or three or four. 00:20:55.563 --> 00:21:01.988 So he threatens God. 00:21:01.988 --> 00:21:12.584 He threatens God and Hezekiah, verse 20, it says and for this cause, hezekiah, the king and the prophet, isaiah, the son of Amos, prayed and cried to heaven. 00:21:14.897 --> 00:21:17.665 So, see, they prepared for war, but they prayed. 00:21:17.665 --> 00:21:19.098 Everybody say I'm praying. 00:21:19.098 --> 00:21:22.423 See, you hear these people? 00:21:22.423 --> 00:21:27.403 I heard Maxine Waters say you know, these people found out that praying doesn't do anything. 00:21:27.403 --> 00:21:35.035 Talking about the civil rights issue, well, who answered their prayer? 00:21:35.035 --> 00:21:36.300 I mean, civil rights have been. 00:21:36.300 --> 00:21:38.942 There's been more progress in civil rights. 00:21:38.942 --> 00:21:39.765 Are you kidding me? 00:21:39.765 --> 00:21:41.138 I grew, lady. 00:21:41.138 --> 00:21:42.423 I grew up in the South. 00:21:42.423 --> 00:21:45.980 I know what it was like when I was a kid and I know what it's like now. 00:21:45.980 --> 00:21:47.099 It's a whole lot better. 00:21:47.099 --> 00:21:50.718 And it was God that answered that prayer, lady. 00:21:50.738 --> 00:21:57.729 Praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise God. 00:21:57.729 --> 00:21:59.009 So what happened before that? 00:21:59.009 --> 00:22:04.805 So back in verse one, after these things and the establishment, so what's it talking about? 00:22:04.805 --> 00:22:38.582 In chapter 32, after these things, when you read back, when Hezekiah took over as king, he saw that the nation was back slidden and he started cleaning out the temple and he burned all the bad stuff you know, the kings, they had a lot of bad kings in Israel and Judah, just like they did in northern kingdom and he repaired the temple, he cleansed it, he restored worship, he got the Levites back in charge of the offerings, the burn offerings and the singing, and all of that. 00:22:38.582 --> 00:22:50.281 He restored the tithe and they started collecting the tithe and the tithe came in and they had heaps and heaps and there was great joy in rejoicing in Jerusalem. 00:22:50.281 --> 00:22:54.132 I mean, they had a revival. 00:22:54.132 --> 00:23:02.585 See, that's what I was talking about last week, that right before the Civil War there was a revival and before that there was a great awakening. 00:23:02.704 --> 00:23:06.415 And the second great awakening was around the turn 1800, 1820. 00:23:06.415 --> 00:23:12.051 And before that, 1730 and 40, there was the first great awakening right before the Revolutionary War. 00:23:12.051 --> 00:23:20.289 So before every crisis of this nation, god can be inquired of by his people and he will hear and answer. 00:23:20.289 --> 00:23:23.892 And so they began. 00:23:23.892 --> 00:23:26.644 They also restored the Passover. 00:23:26.644 --> 00:23:30.334 They hadn't kept Passover in Jerusalem since Solomon's day. 00:23:30.334 --> 00:23:42.955 And he issued forth the decrees all over and even into the Northern Kingdom, inviting all the Jews that were left in the Northern Kingdom come to Jerusalem and come and celebrate the Passover. 00:23:42.955 --> 00:23:47.178 And some of them weren't really clean, they were still. 00:23:47.178 --> 00:23:50.311 They had been eating wrong, they had not kept the law. 00:23:50.311 --> 00:23:54.605 And he said, don't worry, we don't have time for you to get right like that. 00:23:54.605 --> 00:23:55.704 I'll pray a prayer. 00:23:55.704 --> 00:24:00.664 And Hezekiah said oh, pardon, every one of them, they're here, they're here to celebrate the Passover. 00:24:00.664 --> 00:24:04.005 And he suspended the law enough for them to come. 00:24:04.005 --> 00:24:08.785 And they did, and they rejoiced, they kept the Passover, so they had revival. 00:24:08.886 --> 00:24:10.659 Everybody say revival, revival. 00:24:10.659 --> 00:24:16.510 And then, after these things and the establishment thereof, that's when Sonakarib came. 00:24:16.510 --> 00:24:20.892 And we've got a similar situation right now. 00:24:20.892 --> 00:24:24.614 I tell you they're coming after our country. 00:24:24.614 --> 00:24:26.672 They're trying to take it into communism. 00:24:27.365 --> 00:24:30.509 I'm through using socialism because it's not a strong enough word. 00:24:30.509 --> 00:24:32.827 It's communism. 00:24:32.827 --> 00:24:35.951 That's old, well, that's old timey. 00:24:35.951 --> 00:24:36.712 That doesn't exist. 00:24:36.712 --> 00:24:37.869 Yes, it does exist. 00:24:37.869 --> 00:24:38.586 It's still there. 00:24:39.204 --> 00:24:40.691 You just don't know what you're talking about. 00:24:40.691 --> 00:24:43.594 It's the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP. 00:24:43.594 --> 00:24:46.011 See, that's what you see all the time in the news. 00:24:46.011 --> 00:24:46.987 Now they don't even use. 00:24:46.987 --> 00:24:52.192 They use CCP, that stands for Chinese Communist Party. 00:24:52.192 --> 00:24:56.250 So every time you see CCP, that's communism. 00:24:59.005 --> 00:25:01.012 And well, communism was defeated in Russia? 00:25:01.012 --> 00:25:04.567 Well, no, all the same people that were in charge are in charge now. 00:25:04.567 --> 00:25:07.670 Putin is KGB. 00:25:07.670 --> 00:25:10.971 You can't get more communists than KGB. 00:25:10.971 --> 00:25:14.490 That's the epitome of communism. 00:25:14.490 --> 00:25:23.028 Is the state hauling you off in the middle of the night For you disagreeing with anything, and that's what we're seeing. 00:25:23.028 --> 00:25:24.851 We can't disagree with these people. 00:25:24.851 --> 00:25:28.074 They cannot stand for anyone to disagree with them. 00:25:28.605 --> 00:25:34.252 If you say Black Lives Matter is a communist organization, you're a racist, you're white supremacist. 00:25:34.252 --> 00:25:41.326 I say Black Lives Matter is a communist organization and it is. 00:25:41.326 --> 00:25:42.290 Just go look it up. 00:25:42.290 --> 00:25:45.068 All you have to do is Google it and find out what they stand for. 00:25:45.068 --> 00:25:49.532 They stand for the dissolution of the nuclear family. 00:25:49.532 --> 00:25:54.049 They don't want the nuclear family. 00:25:55.045 --> 00:26:05.093 I wonder how many people that want to have Black Lives Matter on the sidewalks and have it on the streets and carrying signs I mean maybe the phrase Black Lives Matter. 00:26:05.093 --> 00:26:07.513 Well, yeah, black Lives, white Lives, every life matters. 00:26:07.513 --> 00:26:08.650 Oh, you can't say that? 00:26:08.650 --> 00:26:10.530 Well, I can say it and I am saying it. 00:26:10.530 --> 00:26:14.048 You can't tell me what to say, buddy, we still live in America. 00:26:14.048 --> 00:26:18.991 I don't care, I've earned the right to say what I need to say. 00:26:18.991 --> 00:26:20.435 You don't like it? 00:26:20.435 --> 00:26:21.450 Ok, I understand that. 00:26:21.450 --> 00:26:22.871 Well, you don't have enough empathy? 00:26:22.871 --> 00:26:25.772 Yeah, maybe, maybe I don't, I don't know. 00:26:25.772 --> 00:26:30.009 But I know one thing we need the truth and we need to be bold about the truth. 00:26:30.009 --> 00:26:33.250 And so everybody's using this phrase. 00:26:33.250 --> 00:26:36.613 It seems innocuous, but they invented the phrase. 00:26:36.613 --> 00:26:38.211 The communists invented the phrase. 00:26:38.545 --> 00:26:40.330 Do you think they care about Black Lives? 00:26:40.330 --> 00:26:44.512 No, they don't care about any lives except their own. 00:26:44.512 --> 00:26:45.749 They want to be in charge. 00:26:45.749 --> 00:26:52.032 They've already said what they believe, and this whole get rid of the cops comes from them. 00:26:52.032 --> 00:26:54.230 And the Democrats picked it right up. 00:26:56.005 --> 00:27:08.935 If you look at the 10 things that Biden stands for came out just the other day, if we got Biden for president, we will just have the USSA United States of Socialists. 00:27:08.935 --> 00:27:13.035 Actually, usca United States of Communist America is what we'd have. 00:27:13.035 --> 00:27:15.392 That's what we'd have, because that's what he stands for. 00:27:15.392 --> 00:27:19.189 Did you know that his proposal means to get rid of all the suburbs? 00:27:19.189 --> 00:27:23.490 All the suburbs will be dissolved. 00:27:23.490 --> 00:27:25.375 Why? 00:27:25.375 --> 00:27:29.548 They want federal power over all the municipalities in this country. 00:27:29.548 --> 00:27:32.373 It's the opposite of what we have now. 00:27:32.373 --> 00:27:37.009 We have decentralized government of the people, by the people, for the people. 00:27:37.009 --> 00:27:45.990 They want everything concentrated in the ruling class, the ones that just right little circle of people that live in Washington, and everybody else is dirt. 00:27:47.924 --> 00:27:49.068 You better keep that in mind. 00:27:49.068 --> 00:27:53.412 Keep it in mind, oh pastor, I thought you were going to encourage us. 00:27:53.412 --> 00:27:55.813 Listen, god's on our side. 00:27:55.813 --> 00:28:02.431 It makes you kind of want to laugh at these people, because they're just so transparent. 00:28:02.431 --> 00:28:04.310 They're not even trying to hide it. 00:28:04.310 --> 00:28:13.231 For 50 years they've tried to hide their communist tendencies and now they're just ripped off the jacket and they've got red with a star on it. 00:28:13.231 --> 00:28:16.951 Yeah, we're commies and we're proud of it. 00:28:16.951 --> 00:28:20.750 Well, I tell you, I love God. 00:28:20.750 --> 00:28:23.009 I said I love God. 00:28:23.984 --> 00:28:28.671 So they prepared, they celebrated Passover the first time since Solomon's time. 00:28:28.671 --> 00:28:32.432 And now, after this revival, this threat. 00:28:32.432 --> 00:28:35.369 Well, he didn't just sit around and pray. 00:28:35.369 --> 00:28:39.192 I mean, they did pray, but they didn't just pray. 00:28:39.192 --> 00:28:43.809 We're going to pray and we have been praying, but we can't just pray. 00:28:43.809 --> 00:28:46.369 And so what did he do? 00:28:46.369 --> 00:28:48.471 Well, they built up walls and weapons. 00:28:48.471 --> 00:28:50.150 He diverted the water. 00:28:50.150 --> 00:28:59.093 He didn't want the enemy to be able to come up in camp against Jerusalem and have all that water out there to feed his horses and camels and everything else. 00:28:59.093 --> 00:29:03.207 And so they diverted the water to come inside the walls of the city. 00:29:03.207 --> 00:29:09.767 And so let's look at it here in chapter 32. 00:29:11.896 --> 00:29:23.259 And so the last thing we said in verse 20, amos I mean Isaiah and Hezekiah prayed and cried to heaven by crying. 00:29:23.259 --> 00:29:25.204 They cried in faith, they prayed. 00:29:25.204 --> 00:29:28.124 They didn't cry tears, they cried out. 00:29:28.124 --> 00:29:36.179 And the Lord sent an angel, one angel, I said one angel. 00:29:36.179 --> 00:29:39.363 You know, one angel can do a whole lot of damage. 00:29:39.363 --> 00:29:44.986 God sent an angel which cut off all the mighty men of valor. 00:29:44.986 --> 00:29:45.919 I don't know exactly. 00:29:45.919 --> 00:29:47.578 Cut off, what does that mean exactly? 00:29:47.578 --> 00:29:48.101 I don't know. 00:29:48.101 --> 00:29:53.885 It doesn't sound like they survived their encounter with the angel. 00:29:53.885 --> 00:30:00.280 Cut off all the mighty men of valor and the leaders and the captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. 00:30:00.280 --> 00:30:10.260 So he returned with shame of face to his own land and when he was come into the house of his God, they that came forth of his own bow slew him there with the sword. 00:30:10.260 --> 00:30:21.441 Problem solved, but you know, they had to do their part. 00:30:21.595 --> 00:30:23.280 See, this is the point that I'm making here. 00:30:23.280 --> 00:30:25.159 I mean, are we gonna pray? 00:30:25.159 --> 00:30:29.384 Have we been praying, yes, but we also need to prepare. 00:30:29.384 --> 00:30:37.741