WEBVTT 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:11.439 Hey, I'm Steve Holt, the senior pastor of the Road at Chapel Hills. 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:12.880 This is the Road Podcast. 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:14.240 Thanks for joining us. 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.600 My heart is to empower you to change the world. 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:20.399 I hope this message impacts you. 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:33.920 I want to be in Psalm 2 because in my opinion, we are in a Psalm 2 time period in history. 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:37.920 Never has Psalm 2 been more valuable, more important. 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:41.200 If I could give you a little idea of Psalm 2. 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:58.880 What Psalm 2, three aspects to that would be that number one, it is the strategic, it gives us no other place in all the Bible gives us the strategic plan of God and Satan in the last days. 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:03.200 It is actually a last day psalm. 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:11.120 And the fact that David would have this insight and inspiration about the latter days is nothing less than miraculous. 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:16.159 And that's what I believe about all the scripture, but this is one of those that really stands out today. 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:18.079 And you'll understand as we go through it. 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:23.200 If you haven't read Psalm 2 copiously before, you'll understand it much, much better at the end. 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.159 But number one, it's the strategic plan of God and Satan. 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:36.159 Number two, it shows you why Satan is on the move to try to shut down America and shut down the church. 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:40.560 And then number three, it shows the last day's triumph of Christ. 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:42.640 The last days triumph of God. 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:48.239 It's a really, really positive psalm, but it's also very sobering. 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:59.200 So turn to Psalm 2, and let me read, I'm gonna read the whole thing, and then you'll get a kind of a bird's eye view of the whole psalm, and then we're gonna break it down verse by verse. 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:05.120 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot a vain thing? 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:09.840 And the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together. 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:13.120 That's a really key, that's something you should underline or circle. 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:16.960 And the rulers take counsel together. 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:25.680 Against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cores from us. 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:26.960 Sound familiar? 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:27.840 Okay. 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:30.639 He who sits in the heavens laughs. 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:32.400 I love this part. 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:39.680 The Lord shall hold them in derision, then he shall speak to them in his wrath, and distress them in his deep displeasure. 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:43.840 Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion. 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:49.759 I will declare the decree, the Lord has said to me, You are my son, today I've begotten you. 00:02:49.919 --> 00:03:02.479 Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession, and you shall break them with a rod of iron, you shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel. 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:07.599 Now therefore, be wise, O kings, be instructed, you judges of the earth. 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:17.520 Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling, kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way. 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:23.840 When his wrath is kindled but a little, blessed are those who put their trust in him. 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:34.960 Now I'm I'm recognizing here as I begin that I was driving, I was just getting ready to come and get in my car to come here, and I'm walking in the woods. 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:41.439 What I typically do on Sundays is I'll walk in the woods on our property and pray about the message. 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:45.919 And so it's usually a beautiful morning, typical Colorado, especially in the summer. 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.840 I don't do this when it's a foot of snow, but you know, it's good right now. 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:52.000 So anyway, just walking around praying. 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:57.840 And as I'm praying, I just felt like the Holy Spirit said, look at your emails. 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:04.159 And I usually just put everything away when it relates to Sunday so that I'm not distracted. 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:05.919 But there on the lead was the Defender. 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:07.120 Are you all familiar with Defender? 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:07.680 But Robert F. 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:10.479 Kennedy Jr.'s newsletter, The Defender. 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:19.680 And uh, and that's where I get almost all my news in relation to medical stuff, related to the vaccine, related to diseases and viruses. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:20.399 Robert F. 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:23.279 Kennedy Jr.'s website, The Defender, is the best. 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:27.680 So what they have on Sundays is the top picks of the week. 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:31.680 It's called the Top Picks or the most read of the week. 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:36.160 So I open it up, and there are my talking points today. 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:43.600 I mean, it's really the talking points that I'm gonna give you at the beginning of this message could be straight from The Defender by Robert F. 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:50.000 Kennedy Jr., about the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, and the Great Reset. 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:53.199 So I want to talk about this, and I've already talked about it. 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:59.839 Let me just give you guys a date and a title if you were not here on March 27th. 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.279 So on March 27th, I did a sermon called The Invisible War, The Great Reset. 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:08.000 The Invisible War, the Great Reset. 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:15.040 And on March 27th, I taught on Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum, the Great Reset, all that. 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:17.920 And I go into a lot of detail on that. 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:21.920 So if how many are not, I mean, I shouldn't say it that way. 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:28.720 How many are familiar with the WEF, World Economic Forum, Dave of Switzerland, Klaus Schwab? 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:30.639 Okay, 90% of you in here. 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:50.879 Okay, so for you guys that either didn't hear the sermon or you don't know about this, you should go back to thero.org slash sermons and then look under the rubric of the invisible war from Ephesians, and then go to March 27th called the Great Reset, or you can put it on search, I think Great Reset would be good enough. 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:57.360 I got a lot of um positive, actually, I don't think I got any criticism from it, which was kind of rare. 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:03.199 Um and what I mean by that is not in this church, but I mean outside in the community and stuff. 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:04.800 I mean, I guess maybe I did. 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:05.759 I I never read it. 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:07.279 I never read people's comments. 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:11.920 So just so you guys know, if you send me something, positive or negative, I don't read it. 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:12.720 So, okay. 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:22.399 If it if it's really, really good, then then uh either Isaac or my daughter um Anna will send it to me and say, this is a really positive, you ought to read that, you know. 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:24.879 And and then I say, if it's in negative, I don't want to see it. 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:29.759 So, and that's not because I I want to be arrogant or anything, it's just that I don't have time. 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:31.680 I don't have time to mess with that. 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:33.120 I know what I believe. 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:35.279 Um, but I appreciate people commenting. 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:36.000 I think it's great. 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:36.879 It's fantastic. 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:38.160 Um, that it's a free country. 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:39.439 You can do whatever you want. 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:45.519 Um, it's just that, you know, in the reality of things, you have to decide, you know, what do you spend your time on? 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:53.360 And way too many pastors and way too many leaders, in my opinion, respond to the dumbest criticism, including our past president. 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:58.480 I mean, if Trump had just done his job and quit worrying about what they think, he'd probably still be president. 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:12.160 So, so if you get too captured, and I'm gonna say this for for you guys, if you're in a job, you're working at a job, and you're getting critiqued, you know, just thank people, love them, bless them, but don't listen to any of their stuff, man, if you know what you believe. 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:14.560 If you don't know what you believe, then don't say anything. 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:20.160 Just keep your mouth shut because you're an idiot to go out there and start talking about stuff you don't know anything about. 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:26.240 But if you know what you're talking about, then just be confident, be joyful, but be humble and loving and kind. 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:31.680 And if you get too caught up in the criticisms that come your way, it makes you critical. 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:36.000 So criticism makes you critical and it makes you bitter in your heart. 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:37.360 Don't do that, don't go there. 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:42.720 I don't know what these people say most of the time about me, even in the city. 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:55.199 Like I was greeting someone at something that I was at, some political event, I think it was an assembly that I did a prayer at, and I just was having the greatest conversation with this guy, and I just patted him on the back, said, Right on, awesome, leaving. 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:58.560 And then someone came to say, Man, that guy hates your guts. 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:00.639 And I go, What are you talking about? 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:05.040 And he goes, Oh man, I was at this meeting, and he was just saying, Steve hold this and Steve Holt that. 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:10.879 And I go, Well, maybe it's changed today, but I didn't know it, so it didn't bother me, so I was just really nice to him. 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:13.839 So, you guys hear what I'm saying? 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:18.800 Okay, so just stay humble, be kind, be loving, be kingdom of God. 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:27.040 I don't think Jesus meant, I mean, Jesus usually, when he was asked a question by the religious community, you know how he responded? 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:29.759 He usually responded with another question. 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:35.279 He didn't get bitter and all upset over it, he just and he just gave them another question and then he moved on. 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.519 And he built his disciples and he built the kingdom, and that's what we're supposed to do. 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:40.480 So there you go. 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:42.080 That's not even in my notes. 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:44.320 So let's get back to Psalm 2. 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:56.000 So let's look at verses 1 through 3, and uh verses 1 through 3 is really about the last days um world um culture. 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:57.120 I'll just say that. 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:01.600 Why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing? 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:13.039 The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from it. 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:15.840 So there's two kinds of churches, gang. 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:27.120 In these last days, I think you're gonna see two types of churches that have been emerging, especially, they were already there, but especially since COVID and during COVID. 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.080 One is I'll call the progressive church. 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:31.840 So the first is a progressive church. 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:37.360 The progressive church thinks they're progressive because they acquiesce to the culture. 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:42.720 They're churches that are more about um butts and bucks. 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:46.879 They're more about butts in the pews and bucks in the coffers. 00:09:47.039 --> 00:10:01.279 So it's more important to keep everybody comfortable and excited about just coming to church and hearing wonderfully good little spiritual messages than really equipping the saints for what's actually happening out there, okay? 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:03.600 So I'll call that the progressive church. 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:07.360 The second would be what I'm gonna call a word and spirit church. 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:13.360 So a word and spirit church is who we are, and we're about the word and the power of the spirit. 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.799 So if that makes you uncomfortable, then you're in the wrong church, okay? 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.879 And if it makes you uncomfortable, but you wanna grow, then you're in the right church. 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:28.080 And so word and spirit means that we're grounded in the word, engaging culture with the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:30.080 That's why we make the declaration that we make. 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:33.440 So there's two kinds of churches that are gonna come up in the last days. 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:45.039 So, when you read verses one through three, many churches will not be challenged, i.e., the German church under Hitler. 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:48.000 So they made a choice to be progressive. 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:54.480 They made a choice to not stand up to the Holocaust that was happening with the Jews. 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:04.320 They chose not to stand up during the crystal night when the brown shirts came in and started wrecking the shops and started taking away their Jewish neighbors. 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:05.279 No, they didn't want to. 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:19.679 They wanted to be fitting into the culture, riding in the stream of culture because they because they were more fearful for their own lives and more fearful for standing against Hitler than they were about obeying God. 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:22.399 You understand what I'm saying? 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:39.200 I would rather go down with the ship, go to prison, get executed, whatever, and be known for that, than to live this nice little life that floats along and lets anything go because the enemy's at work. 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:43.360 So this is about, listen, guys, look at verses uh one. 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:46.000 This is about nations raging. 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:49.120 This is not about just political ideology. 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:51.679 Whole nations are gonna rage against God. 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:54.720 And God says it's a it's a vain thing. 00:11:54.960 --> 00:12:01.200 It's not going to work, it's not going to happen the way they think it is. 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:02.240 It's a vain thing. 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:04.720 They plot a vain thing. 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.200 Nations will rage. 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:28.240 Kings of the earth, presidents of parliaments, prime ministers are gonna set themselves and the rulers, and the oligarchs, and those that are presidents of huge companies, billionaires, are gonna plot together. 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:34.960 They're gonna take counsel together against the Lord and against Christ. 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:43.200 Klaus Schwab is the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.720 If you don't know anything about him, look him up. 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:49.600 I'm gonna call it the WEF from this point on. 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:53.200 I'm not gonna I don't want to spend a ton of time on this because we've already I've already done this before. 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:54.639 You can go back and look at it. 00:12:54.879 --> 00:13:07.120 But it's an organization made up of the world's political, economic, and cultural elites that meet regularly in Davos, Switzerland. 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:11.279 Alongside Klaus Schwab is Theory Mallaret. 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:21.759 Theory Mallarat, co-founder and main author of the monthly Barometer and the most eye-opening book, COVID-19, The Great Reset. 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:32.639 Okay, so interesting that the Great Ret, the COVID-19, the Great Reset, came out, guys, in the summer of 2020. 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:44.399 There's no way that that book could have been written as copiously as it was if it wasn't being researched and developed before COVID-19 came. 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:47.120 These guys were behind it. 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:54.159 Klaus Schwab is most famous for saying, by 2030, you will own nothing and be happy about it. 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:58.080 Meaning he will own everything and he will be happy about it. 00:13:58.240 --> 00:13:59.039 That's what he means. 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:13.279 Okay, the goal of the World Economic Forum, controlled by the world's most powerful billionaires, is to control everything on the planet from how money is distributed, the houses that you live in, and the food that you eat. 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:24.399 Their goal is that we will be completely controlled by the government and big tech because you will be completely dependent on the government and big tech. 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:30.720 And that's why we've got a whole team working right now, and we're gonna present it Tuesday morning to the men. 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:44.399 So if you haven't been coming Tuesday morning, you ought to come on Tuesday morning, and we're gonna have Glenn Holloway and Mark McWilliams sharing our perspective on food supply chains and how we're gonna try to take care of each other in the days ahead. 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.679 And so we're gonna present it there, and then eventually we'll present it here. 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:55.679 The WEF, elite billionaires, and globalists are actively working for a one-world order. 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:57.120 So that's their goal, gang. 00:14:57.279 --> 00:15:03.360 And it's interesting to see the defenders saying almost exactly point by point what I'm talking about right here. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:17.919 They don't believe in the sovereignty of individuals or nations and want to erase all borders, i.e., southern border, and nobody's more, no one's more of a puppet than President Biden. 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:19.200 He's just a puppet. 00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:21.759 He doesn't, I mean, he can't even ride a bike. 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:26.639 Or he can't get off a bike. 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:28.960 I guess he can ride it, he can't get off of it. 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:37.440 Makes you wonder if, you know, he had a team get him on it, and then they weren't there when he came up and said, you know, he falls down. 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:38.960 You guys all know what I'm talking about. 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.120 If you don't, just look up bike ride, president bike. 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.720 I mean, I don't mean to make fun of old people or anything. 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:48.320 Okay, I'm sorry. 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:50.080 I'm just saying, though. 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:53.840 He's not he's not really the master behind what's going on. 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.039 He's simply a puppet. 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:55.919 He's not smart enough. 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:56.879 Everybody knows that. 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:57.360 Okay. 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.559 Two biggest obstacles to the WF, and this is really important. 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:08.559 The two biggest obstacles are a healthy, vibrant America and a healthy, vibrant church. 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:12.159 They want to shut both down. 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:16.960 You get a healthy, vibrant church, and we are not gonna put up with this stuff. 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:20.639 You have a healthy, vibrant America, we will not put up with this stuff. 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:37.039 We are a liberty-loving, democratically formed, constitutionally founded country, and we come against this kind of stuff, and so they're trying to shut you down because they want a new world order, a one world government, and they want open borders. 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:46.480 It was Walter Cronkite 50 years ago and President Obama 10 years ago who said America must learn to give up her American sovereignty. 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:53.919 This is what Joe Biden said three months ago, quote, now is the time, things are shifting, there's going to be a new world order. 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:57.600 We've got to unite the rest of the free world and do it. 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:01.279 Doesn't that sound like he's speaking from some notes that were formed for him? 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:08.400 Make no mistake about it, the COVID pandemic was controlled by big tech, big pharma, and the elite billionaires. 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:11.839 It was never about health, it was always about control. 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:14.880 That's what that and that just continues. 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:21.039 The elite hate-free enterprise, private property, and free speech. 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:25.680 You cannot usher in a one-world order if you still have strong nations. 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:28.960 Including US, Russia, and China. 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:39.279 In other words, the biggest issues right now is how do we somehow put these larger countries in a manageable level so we can control them. 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:46.559 So, thus, with the whole thing with Ukraine, everything coming against Russia, they're trying to cut Russia down. 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:52.160 Then it'll be China next, so we cut China down, and they're always trying to do that in America. 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:59.359 After the collapse of the old Soviet Union, the left had to reinvent its Marxist socialist agenda. 00:17:59.920 --> 00:18:01.119 There's a new socialism. 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:02.559 There's a new socialism. 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:11.440 They tax and regulate you to death, and we're being held by a few oligarchs, held captive to a few oligarchs. 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:12.799 Let me give you my definition. 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:24.640 The new 21st century socialism are oligarchs, which are a few cultural political business leaders using monopolistic tactics to dominate an industry. 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:29.279 They possess political and media power to promote their own interest. 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:33.440 They control decision making over a nation to promote their own interest. 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:45.759 So what you're gonna see with free enterprise and private property and free speech is oligarchs, large-scale key billionaires controlling things that will also control, and just you know, what is it, five? 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:50.480 I think it's five or six uh key people control all of the news that you hear. 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:52.000 And so be super careful. 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:57.920 They all sound exactly the same, and so you've gotta start finding alternative forms of newscasts. 00:18:58.000 --> 00:18:59.119 So, but here's the goal. 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:06.319 This is what's so cool about Psalm 2, is that David, under the inspiration of scripture, is prophesying the last days. 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:08.240 He's saying, this is what their goals are. 00:19:08.559 --> 00:19:16.400 They hate anything that would put bonds or limits on what they can do. 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:25.359 Verse 3, let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us. 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:26.880 So here's what they hate. 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:30.480 Here's what the globalists, the WF, and the and the oligarchs hate. 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:34.640 Number one, I'm gonna give you three things, and I could give you ten, but just for the sake of time. 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:44.480 Number one, they hate that we, I'm speaking of the church here, hold to a standard of truth, which is this book, the Bible. 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:46.640 They hate the Bible. 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:52.720 We shouldn't be shocked that in our schools anything to do with the Bible they hate. 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:54.799 They hate those standards. 00:19:55.039 --> 00:20:03.839 And by the way, for you with young kids, you've got some decisions to make in the days ahead. 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:23.359 We pulled our child out of TCA, college pathways, because of the issues that we were gonna deal with with the university where she'd be taking classes at Pikes Peak Community College, and we then re-enrolled her in a similar program with CCU. 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:26.480 You're gonna have some decisions to make. 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:38.799 So we've done the best that we can to try to have an impact on school board elections, and we've been very, very, very successful with that. 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:53.680 But you'll also have some decisions to make about how much of the culture you're gonna want your kids to be exposed to, and it might be that homeschooling or other uh school options are something you should consider. 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:59.680 So they hate, number one, that we have a standard of truth built on this book called the Bible. 00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:10.880 Number two, they hate that we believe in a standard of morality of right and wrong, that we actually believe that there's boundaries of right and wrong. 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:16.160 Because what they, what anybody, I'm not even talking about Christians. 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:36.559 I'm talking about anywhere in the world, even Rome, under the emperors at the time of Christ, were very clear, they didn't follow it, about what morality was and what right and wrong was, especially in sexual and gender areas. 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:37.920 It was very clear. 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:52.240 All of cultures, the most primitive, in Papua New Guinea, all the way to the most developed countries of the world, until 25, 30 years ago. 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:59.759 Really starting with Kinsey in 1948, is where it began, but that was just one individual, quote unquote scientist at that time. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:12.000 And psychologist believed that they understood and had a definition of a man and a woman. 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:15.759 This is not hard stuff, you guys. 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:17.200 This is not difficult. 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:29.200 And yet, to see the idiocy of a culture that can't just stand up and say, come on, you guys. 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:32.880 This is basic stuff. 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:35.839 But that's the power of the media. 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:39.519 And here's the here it was: it's the power of fear. 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:44.480 People are fearful, especially the pulpit, is fearful to say anything. 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:48.640 So they hate that we actually believe in a standard of morality. 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:53.279 And number three, they hate that we oppose the agenda for world dominion. 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:57.599 They hate that we oppose their agenda for world dominion. 00:22:58.160 --> 00:22:59.839 There are still churches. 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:06.799 There are still people that believe in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:16.799 There are still people and churches that oppose big gov, big pharma, and big tech. 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:27.359 There are still people in churches that believe you should have the freedom to worship, that you should have free speech, and that censorship is wrong. 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:29.359 So what is God's response? 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:34.079 And I've got to move through this because I can spend way too much time on verses one through three. 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:35.200 Look at verse four. 00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:38.960 Here's God's response here in the last days. 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:50.960 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall hold them in derision, then he shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure. 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:55.839 Well, this isn't the only place where it talks about God laughing. 00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:57.920 Now let me just say this. 00:23:58.400 --> 00:24:00.720 I think this is the way I would describe it in the PowerPoint. 00:24:01.119 --> 00:24:08.319 God laughs not at people, because he loves all people, and that's really important to understand. 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:11.759 But he laughs at their sinful confidence. 00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:17.279 Have you ever been in a discussion with someone and you really know the topic well? 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:21.359 I mean, you're pretty you're pretty versed in something. 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:27.279 Um it could be scientific, it could be political, it could be mechanical. 00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:40.720 Like if I was in a conversation about mechanics on my car, I'm sure that a mechanic, if I gave my analysis of something with my car, would smile. 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:46.160 Might even with his friends later laugh. 00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:52.480 And they're not laughing at me, it's just that I think I know something I know nothing about. 00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:53.839 Right? 00:24:54.079 --> 00:25:01.920 So I've been in those conversations on certain topics, and you're listening to them, and you, and the guy doesn't have a clue what they're talking about. 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:05.440 Like some of the critiques I see of other Christians and things like that. 00:25:05.599 --> 00:25:16.480 I've been around so long and I've been around so many different believers, I realize this person, I don't care how popular that podcast is, really doesn't understand that particular topic. 00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:17.759 And you kind of laugh at it. 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:19.279 But I'm not laughing at them. 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:20.880 They're doing the best that they can. 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:25.680 They just are, you know, confident about something they actually know nothing about. 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:30.799 So God laughs at this vain thing. 00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:34.240 So in Psalm 37, he laughs. 00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:39.680 The wicked plots against the just and gnashes at him with his teeth. 00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:47.039 The Lord laughs at him, for he sees that his day is coming. 00:25:48.400 --> 00:26:05.279 Wouldn't it be interesting to have someone you're standing next to, and they're just so confident they're gonna win this election, or they're gonna, or they're gonna get this job, and you have actually have behind the scenes information of how everything's gonna turn out, and you just listen and you smile. 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:07.119 Maybe you even laugh. 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:08.880 I think that's the way God works. 00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:10.720 Psalm 59, 8. 00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:13.920 But you, O Lord, shall laugh at them. 00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:18.640 You shall have all the nations in derision. 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:31.359 One writer explaining this passage says, quote, it's a holy laugh in the face of absolute pride that presumes that their wickedness can defeat him. 00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:46.000 It is the ultimate laugh of triumph, of supreme power amid those who think they have supreme power, yet they have absolutely no real authority. 00:26:46.319 --> 00:27:06.240 So Satan, who's using world leaders, continues to think he can somehow defeat God and the church and continues to make every effort to do so, and he's actually playing in to God's end-time strategy of triumph and a kingdom of God revolution. 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:20.319 Even as Satan and the world's elite mobilize to take down and attack God and his church, utilizing all the resources they can muster, God doesn't even stand up. 00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:22.000 So look at the verse again. 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:23.200 Look at verse 4. 00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:31.359 It says, He who sits, he who sits in the heavens laughs. 00:27:31.920 --> 00:27:33.440 He didn't even get up. 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:35.680 He's not even worried about it. 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:40.960 He's just sitting there going, are you kidding me? 00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:42.000 Really? 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:43.200 Really? 00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:47.920 When Stephen was martyred in the first century, he stood up. 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:51.839 Stephen said, I see the Lord standing. 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:58.480 The Lord will stand for a martyr, and he sits for these clowns. 00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:00.720 It's really important. 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:15.519 Matthew Henry, in his commentary on this passage, writes, Quote, Sometimes God is said to awake and arise and stir up himself for the vanquishing of his enemies. 00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:21.759 But here is said to sit still and vanquish them. 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:31.519 For the utmost operations of God's omnipotence create no difficulty at all, not the least disservance of his eternal rest. 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:35.440 And guys, that should be true of us. 00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:37.599 We need to stay calm. 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:46.720 We need to be full of peace and confidence and joy that God's got this, and he wants to use you. 00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:53.519 It doesn't mean sit on the side and don't do anything, but you ask the Lord, Lord, what would be my role in these last days? 00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:55.599 How do you want to powerfully use me? 00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:57.839 Because here's what you get out of Psalm 2. 00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:04.640 There's the rise of evil in the last days, and there's rise of the power of God through the church in the last days. 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:05.519 Okay? 00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:07.440 Listen, this is really important. 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:09.920 There's 150 passages. 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:11.119 Jot this down. 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:15.440 There's a hundred and fifty passages in the Bible about the last days. 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:18.000 150 passages in the Bible in the last days. 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:24.799 There's more about deception than tribulation. 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:27.519 That's super important, gang. 00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:30.160 In other words, we spend so much time. 00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:35.440 Are we going to go through the tribulation? 00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:37.039 Are we not going to go through the tribulation? 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:38.160 Are we going to get raptured? 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:39.200 When are we going to get raptured? 00:29:39.279 --> 00:29:40.480 Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. 00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:43.440 You don't know. 00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:46.160 If you act like you know, I smile. 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:55.119 I mean, I do, because I've I know all the different end times theological concepts. 00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:56.799 I've read them copiously. 00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:01.680 I know premillennial, post-millennial, mid-millennial, preterist, all that stuff. 00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:04.240 It's not conclusive. 00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:05.519 I don't care what you think. 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:07.359 Here's what we know, though. 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:08.640 Here's what we know. 00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:17.440 That when the when the last days are upon us and we're in the midst of all this stuff, don't be deceived. 00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:19.680 Stand on the truth. 00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:24.319 And and you may be walking out your door one day and woo, you're out of here. 00:30:24.559 --> 00:30:30.160 Because it's going to come at a day when you least suspect Matthew 24. 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:32.720 Okay, so don't try to figure it out. 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:39.119 Pray for a pre-trib rapture. 00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:40.559 Pray for that. 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:46.640 But prepare for a post-trib revelation and rapture. 00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:47.680 You hear what I'm saying? 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:56.400 So if you think just sitting around and oh, you know, I said I said it's all gonna go to hell anyway, I don't see any place in Scripture that backs that up. 00:30:56.640 --> 00:30:59.359 I see that we occupy until he comes. 00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:02.400 I see that we possess until he comes. 00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:06.000 And so we do everything we can to make an impact in El Paso County. 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:09.039 We do everything we can to make an impact in our community. 00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:11.279 We do everything we can to work in the school system. 00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:16.480 We do everything we can to be the best parents we can be and have the best marriage that we can, and be the best single person that we can be. 00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:22.400 Be godly, fired up, excited about Jesus, and then he takes care of all the other stuff. 00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:26.079 So there you go. 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:28.400 So don't miss this. 00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:30.480 And now he says this. 00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:35.920 Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion, verse 6. 00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:37.359 I will declare the decree. 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:39.759 The Lord has said to me, You are my son. 00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:42.000 Today I have begotten you. 00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:48.480 Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession. 00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:54.880 You shall break them with a rod of iron, you shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel. 00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:56.400 Here's God's decree. 00:31:56.559 --> 00:31:57.759 Here's his first decree. 00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:03.519 His first decree is Jesus is the king in Zion. 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:07.200 Jesus is the king in Zion. 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:13.680 This is a work of God, speaking of a kingdom of God revolution that he is elevating as king. 00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:16.319 And it says in Zion. 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:29.599 So I believe that temple will be rebuilt in the last days, and somehow, someway, and I don't understand all of it, Jesus is actually gonna reign in that temple as the king over Zion, and all the world's gonna see it. 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:31.200 They're all gonna see it. 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:45.440 All these, all these oligarchs, all these billionaire elites, all these big tech, big gov, big farm of people, they're gonna see Jesus raised up and the kingdom of God flourishing all over the world. 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:47.279 And you get to be a part of it. 00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:56.559 If this is indeed the last days, or just maybe it's just the beginnings of it, or maybe we're more into it than we know, we're gonna see a more powerful church get raised up. 00:32:56.720 --> 00:33:13.519 You're gonna see the progressive church begin to lose out, it's gonna begin to, it may have a lot of people, but there'll be no power on it, and you will see confrontations occur where Jesus is the king in Zion. 00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:15.039 That's what it says. 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:18.319 And he's gonna use you and me to do that. 00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:19.519 Look at verse 7. 00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:24.319 And I will declare the decree, the Lord has said to me, You are my son, today I've begotten you. 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:30.319 Number two, God's decree, Jesus will be proclaimed as God's son. 00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:31.759 Now that's so important. 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:35.200 We just had Eric Metaxis here talking about is atheism dead? 00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:38.000 Because the atheists are freaking out right now. 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:42.720 They are, because more and more their theories are getting deconstructed. 00:33:42.880 --> 00:34:02.160 From Sam Harris to Richard Dawkins to Christopher Hitchens, they're being overwhelmed, and I'm reading the data out there, I'm reading the articles, they're getting overwhelmed because the foundations that they build their atheism on are being deconstructed by solid biblical Christians who know how to stand up for truth. 00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:05.119 That's pretty good news, right? 00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:06.400 Kinda? 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:07.920 Right? 00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:12.559 Atheism is dead. 00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:16.000 Atheism is dead. 00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:21.119 Now they don't know it, and a lot of people don't know it yet, but it's already dead. 00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:22.800 We know that. 00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:29.679 It holds not a candle intellectually anymore or scientifically. 00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:37.840 But God's gonna allow the tares and the wheat, you guys, they're gonna grow together until the harvest time. 00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:38.719 They're gonna grow together. 00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:39.920 Here's what Jesus said. 00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:44.400 The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in the field. 00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:50.079 But while men slept, the enemy came and he sowed tares among the wheat and he went his way. 00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:54.880 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 00:34:55.039 --> 00:35:00.159 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? 00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:01.920