WEBVTT 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:11.759 You're listening to the road with pastor teacher Steve Holt. 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:20.000 So in Genesis I, we were given authority and power as the first couple. 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:21.120 Adam and Eve. 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:24.320 They were told to have dominion over the earth. 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:26.559 We're supposed to have dominion over the earth. 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:27.920 All things on the earth. 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:35.520 But when Adam sinned, we gave that authority over to Satan and demonic power. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:42.320 So when Jesus came, when he came to this earth, he actually kind of parachuted into enemy territory. 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:46.399 And everywhere he went, he was casting out the enemies and setting the captive free. 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:49.439 That's what we did at Memorial Park on Saturday. 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:55.200 And that group of people that became a part of the army of God is called the church. 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:56.880 We're a part of the church. 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:03.439 So our complete task before the Lord is to go ye therefore and make disciples of all. 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:09.120 We are called to lead out and disciple our country. 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:14.159 At the road, our mission is to empower people to change the world. 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:18.480 For more information on the road, visit theroad.org. 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:23.519 We hope you are encouraged by today's message from Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:29.519 We're in Nehemiah 4. 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:31.439 Okay, we were in Nehemiah 4 last week. 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:34.640 If you turn to Nehemiah 4, it's in the Old Testament. 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:39.280 And we're going through Nehemiah chapter by chapter and verse by verse. 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:49.040 And I'm confronting Nehemiah from the perspective of personal wall building and national wall building. 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:50.319 Let me explain what I mean. 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:56.560 I mean that the primary focus of Nehemiah for us is you building walls in your own life. 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:02.079 You rebuilding those ancient walls and foundations of Christ in your own life. 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:11.759 Many of us, if not most of us, and certainly all of us at times, have walls that once were strong in our life and they're no longer there. 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:13.199 They've crumbled down. 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:18.080 And so the book of Nehemiah is literally about rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem. 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:25.439 Nehemiah is called by God as a cupbearer of a king to come and rebuild walls that had fallen around the temple at that time. 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:28.080 And if you've been with us a while, you know we went into Haggai. 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:30.240 We talked about Zerebabel and all of that. 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:32.400 I won't go into the detail here because of time. 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:35.039 But today what I want to do is I want to veer off. 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:41.759 I want to talk about national, national rebuilding of walls. 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:46.479 So I'm calling it rebuilding America's walls. 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:46.960 Okay? 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:57.759 And I want to talk about the fact that we have an opportunity before us that we can either blow it or we can grow it. 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:02.800 God is putting before us two revolutions that are happening in our nation. 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:08.000 If you saw my blog on Thursday, if you're not on my blog, you should go get on my blog. 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:12.639 And what I wrote as a title is Pick Your Revolution. 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:15.759 Pick your revolution. 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:23.759 If you choose to sit on the sidelines, there is a socialist communist revolution happening in our country. 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:27.039 And it will take over our nation. 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:33.199 Or we can believe God for a kingdom of God revolution. 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:42.560 It's as clear as when I'm snorkeling down in those wrecks and those reefs in Okinawa. 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:44.080 It's that clear. 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:51.120 I can see 200 feet through a reef when I'm diving or snorkeling in some of the most beautiful ways. 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:52.719 It's that clear. 00:03:53.840 --> 00:04:11.840 There is a movement happening in America, mainly out of California, New York, that is a socialist anarchy revolution that is going to move across this land like a wildfire unless the church wakes up. 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.199 It is time to wake up. 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:19.279 Sometimes it takes a rude awakening before you have a great awakening. 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:25.360 And the rally call here this morning is Rebuilding Walls in America. 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:27.040 And I can't think of a passage. 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:30.560 There's so many great passages in scripture, but we're in Nehemiah 4. 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:33.040 I felt like God wanted me to look at Nehemiah 4. 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:39.439 Let me just rehearse something to you guys that you've heard before if you came on Wednesday night. 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:47.680 If you come on Wednesday night to our strategic prayer night, which is 6 p.m., about 100 to 150 of you guys come to that usually on Wednesday nights at 6 p.m. 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:52.560 I talked about lawlessness a couple months ago. 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:55.759 Where lawlessness is moving across our land. 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:59.920 And I talked about the restrainer of 2 Thessalonians 2. 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:02.000 2 Thessalonians 2. 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:08.399 And what I've said, I'm going to rehearse it again, I'll say it again, is that I believe there's four great restrainers. 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:16.079 There's four great biblical restrainers that are clear that hold back evil in society. 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:21.279 If those four begin to crumble, lawlessness takes over. 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:35.199 And we noted in the last days, the spirit of the Antichrist is going to move, it's going to use governments, use leaders to come in and begin to take away all of our freedoms and take over our country. 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:38.160 So here's the four restrainers, and I'll just quickly go over them. 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:39.519 Number one is your conscience. 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:45.680 Your conscience is a restrainer in your spirit given by God to keep you from evil. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.319 Number two, it's your family. 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:53.600 The family is a second great restrainer that holds us off from evil. 00:05:53.920 --> 00:06:09.600 In other words, if you grow up in a family where there's godly principles being taught and a godly life being modeled, you grow up, most of us, not every time, but most of the time you grow up with a sense of restraint and a sense of understanding of your boundaries. 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:11.120 Thirdly, is government. 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:15.279 Government is given in Romans 13 is given for the restraining of evil. 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:21.120 That also means that when government is no longer restraining evil, you resist government. 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:22.560 Do you understand that? 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:25.360 It's really important because a lot of pastors are mixed up on this. 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:29.360 They think it's almost like carte blanche, we're just going to obey government. 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:29.920 No. 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.199 If we did that, nothing would have happened in the book of Acts. 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:41.279 Because when that Spirit of God began to move in a mighty and powerful way in the book of Acts, they went against Jewish and Roman authorities. 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:52.560 Christianity has often done its best work and been the most powerful where there is constraint coming from the federal or the state government. 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:53.120 Okay? 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:54.639 So government is important. 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.040 Government is supposed to restrain evil. 00:06:57.279 --> 00:06:58.480 Everybody say that. 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:02.720 Government is supposed to restrain evil. 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:12.639 So what you're seeing in Seattle and Portland and Minneapolis and Kenosha is governments that don't understand their God-given role. 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:14.720 And then fourthly, the church. 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:25.360 And so with COVID and with all that's been happening in our society, satanic powers are on the move to shut down the church. 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:35.360 If you note what's happening in most of the cities where there's the most lawlessness, the churches are ineffective and inactive. 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:39.920 That is not going to happen in Colorado Springs. 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:46.800 And so I know of at least ten churches that were tight. 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:54.480 And we opened early and we've battled together and we have been as humble as we can be. 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:57.680 We did not pick this fight. 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:00.959 But a fight has been picked. 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:16.720 And the reality is, as we went out there in Memorial Park, our passion and our desire was that praise and worship and love and peace and a kingdom of God movement would be sparked out there. 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:19.199 And it was powerful, and I think it's begun. 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:21.120 So let me look at quickly three things. 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:22.879 Three things that I see in Nehemiah 4. 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:28.399 So if you look at Nehemiah 4, we're going to look at it a little bit different than we did last week. 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:37.679 And so it happened when Sambalat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, that he was furious and very indignant, and he mocked the Jews. 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:43.679 And he spoke before his brethren in the army of Samaria and he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:45.440 Will they fortify themselves? 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:47.519 Will they offer sacrifices? 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:50.720 Will they complete it in a day? 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.000 Will they revive the stones from their heaps of rubbish? 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.320 Stones that are burns, and mocking, mocking, mocking. 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:57.360 Now look at verse 4. 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:01.919 Hear our prayer, O God, for we are despised. 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:07.519 Turn their reproach on their own heads and give them as plunder to a land of captivity. 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:18.159 Do not cover their iniquity and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you, for they have provoked you in anger before the elders. 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:19.039 Here's the first thing. 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:26.720 First thing that I think is key in rebuilding walls in our country, and that is focused prayer. 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:37.440 You see, when the opposition came against Nehemiah, instead of complaining about it, worrying about it, being overly frustrated by it, he focused his prayers. 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:39.200 He focused his prayers. 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:42.080 And that's what we do on Wednesday night with strategic prayer. 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:46.720 Wednesday night at 6 p.m., we come in here and we have focused prayer. 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:49.519 We pray specifically about stuff. 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:52.480 And now there's all these groups starting to pop up. 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:54.159 Some of you go to these groups. 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:55.679 Nobody knows about them. 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.240 Even the senior pastor doesn't know about them. 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:00.399 And I hear about them and I love it. 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:06.000 And they're happening in the sanctuary here, and it's like four and five and six and eight people. 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:16.240 They come together and they'll pray for hours about some of these bills that are starting to pop up in California with uh Gavin Newsom. 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:19.840 God loves Gavin Newsom. 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:21.440 He really loves him. 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:24.000 But he's being used by Satan. 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:25.919 He's being used by Satan. 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:29.919 And so this pedophilia bill that's coming up, you guys, you know about that? 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:32.799 They're coming after our children. 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:35.679 They're coming after our children. 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:38.879 And this is why the election matters. 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.519 This is why if you are not registered to vote, just get registered to vote. 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:46.799 Every week more people get registered to vote. 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:51.600 33 million evangelical Christians did not vote in the last election. 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:58.000 So, so we get what we didn't do. 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:02.000 It takes guts to vote. 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:05.679 It takes courage to stand up for biblical principles. 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:07.200 Focus prayer. 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:08.399 First thing is focus prayer. 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:09.200 So here's what we're doing. 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:10.240 Everybody jot this down. 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:11.120 52 days. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:12.799 Write down 52 days. 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:16.159 So starting on September 23rd. 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:18.720 On September 23rd to November 13th. 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:24.000 September 23rd to November 13th, we're going to start 52 days of prayer. 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:26.960 52 days, and that's what we say, why 52, Steve? 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:30.320 Because 52 days is how long it took Nehemiah to rebuild the wall. 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:32.000 So in 52 days, we're going to pray. 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:33.360 So, and you say, well, what? 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:34.639 That doesn't line up with the election. 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:38.639 Of course it doesn't, because after the election is when it's going to get worse. 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:46.159 Okay, so there's gonna, if Trump wins, there's gonna be major rioting and demonstrations already planned. 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:53.519 And my prayer is that the federal government would come in and really be restrainers if that happens. 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:56.320 But I think there could be a coup. 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:58.720 I think there's potential for a coup. 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:00.480 It could occur. 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:03.679 So we're gonna go ten days past the election. 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:04.480 Alright? 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:06.879 So we're gonna start on September 23rd. 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.600 I think that's Tuesday or Wednesday a week. 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:10.960 Um, 6 a.m. 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:11.600 prayer. 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:14.559 So Monday through Friday, we're gonna have 6 a.m. 00:12:14.799 --> 00:12:15.039 prayer. 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:16.240 So there'll be 6 a.m. 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:17.919 prayer here, not 5 a.m. 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:23.279 like the last time, and I see, you know, he's just all this relief just flowing. 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:26.720 The spirit of relief is being released across our church. 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:28.480 But at 6 a.m., we're gonna come in here. 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:30.240 How about that cross that Andy built? 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.000 Isn't that beautiful right there? 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:35.519 So we're gonna come in here, we'll probably gather. 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:40.320 Last time we did this, we had about 70, about 70 or 100 of you guys would come in the morning. 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:42.320 We'll come in here and we'll pray at 6 a.m. 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:51.360 And then Sappha, with Lou Ingall and his ministry, has about 50 young people coming from all over the country to pray before the election for 21 days. 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:58.159 And they're fasting and praying, so they're gonna join us too, and they're gonna do prayer in the morning, the afternoon, and the evening every day. 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:03.039 And so it's gonna, it's gonna it's gonna be exciting with praying with those young people too. 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:06.240 So put that down September 23rd, 6 a.m. 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.039 prayer, and then Wednesday night prayer will be happening. 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:16.320 Um, we're gonna have a probably this podium right here with a big Bible open. 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:21.840 And when you come, you can come anytime from probably like 6 a.m. 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:22.960 to 6 p.m. 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:25.600 and pray and read the Bible. 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:30.960 So our vision is that we go through the whole Bible at least once in the 53 days. 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:38.960 So if you're like you've got some time, an hour from work or something like that, you can come in here and just read the word, and there'll be a journal next to the Bible. 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:43.679 You get a word from God, you write it down, put the date on it, and then just mark where you read. 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:56.480 You might write, read 10 chapters, you might read one chapter, whatever, but you write it, and if you if God speaks to you, then just underline that in this big Bible, and we're gonna have the word of God being proclaimed in the heavenlies along with our prayer. 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:57.600 Isn't that exciting? 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:58.159 Yeah. 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:01.120 So we're gonna be reading the word, okay? 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:04.879 We're gonna have the word of God being released into the atmosphere. 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:06.080 Isn't that really good? 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:59.279 You guys are starting to act like a church. 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:03.519 I guess the audience is becoming an army. 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:05.440 I read about that somewhere. 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:06.960 Okay, verse six. 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:09.120 Look at verse six, Nehemiah 4. 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:11.360 So we built the wall. 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.559 Hello, we built the wall. 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:16.879 Everybody look at me. 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:19.039 We built the wall. 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:25.519 It's important. 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:51.759 What would you do if you were on an airline and a guy came down the aisle and he had a knife and he was able to stab and subdue all the stewards and stewardesses, and then he broke in to the cabin where the captain and co-captain are, and you can hear a wrestling match going on in a fight going. 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:53.039 What would you do? 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:57.919 Would anybody here be moved to maybe help? 00:15:58.559 --> 00:15:59.200 I know. 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:01.919 That's what's happening, folks. 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:17.440 There are anarchists, there are people at work, there's satanic work, and they're coming in to take over all leadership of this country, and this plane will crash if we don't do something. 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:27.759 So, they didn't just pray about building the wall, they started coming together in verse 6 and starting to build the wall. 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:29.039 They did it together. 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:30.080 Look what it says. 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:40.320 We built the wall, the entire wall was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work. 00:16:41.759 --> 00:17:02.639 You'd be speaking Japanese or German right now if the great generation like you, my friend, who fought in the war, weren't willing to lay their lives on the line and go and fight in Europe and in Asia. 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:06.559 I don't want to come to that. 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:07.599 How about you? 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:09.839 But that's where it's going. 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:15.680 And so my second point is organized planning. 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:19.279 Number two, organized planning. 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:24.160 Americans need a mind to work. 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:27.200 You have to have a mind to work. 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:35.599 I had a young lady in our church who has been used mightily in my life and Liz's life so many times because of her prophetic words. 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:45.279 She went down to the Republican headquarters, I think it was yesterday or day before, and she said, What are you guys doing about these mail-in ballots? 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.400 And this lady said, Well, we're doing a lot. 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:49.680 Why don't you help us? 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:51.200 She said, I'm all in. 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:52.240 Let's go. 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:54.880 She said, Steve, I'm so nervous. 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:56.480 I'm not an activist or anything. 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:59.119 And I said, Well, it's about you should become one. 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:01.039 It's fantastic, and it's good. 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:02.559 They had a mind work. 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:05.839 I don't think anybody here, look, you guys, here's the story behind this. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:09.839 This is years and years the walls have crumbled. 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:14.640 These are not people that just came with Nehemiah. 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:20.400 These are people who actually live in Jerusalem and they haven't rebuilt the walls. 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:29.119 And then something happened in their heart because of Nehemiah, because of the Spirit of God and the timing of the Lord, they suddenly had a mind to work. 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:31.599 So some of you have never had a mind to work. 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:36.720 You've just been comfortable with, you know, regular life. 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:37.920 Me too. 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:41.920 We don't have that luxury anymore. 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:46.720 And God has a unique calling on all of you in this place. 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:49.119 There's two kingdoms. 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:53.119 The first kingdom, and it's the most important kingdom, is the kingdom of God. 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:57.519 And Jesus says in Matthew 5, 6, and 7, he's speaking of the kingdom of God. 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:01.519 And in Matthew 6, he says that we're all anxious about these things. 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:02.960 We're anxious about what we should wear. 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:04.720 We're anxious about our clothing. 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:06.799 We're anxious about our bank accounts. 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:07.519 Right? 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:09.279 Anybody get anxious about that? 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:10.960 You know, I we all do, you know. 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:15.440 In Ecclesiastes, Solomon said, money is the answer to everything. 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:17.599 New Living Translation. 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:18.880 No, it really is. 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:20.480 Money is the answer to everything. 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:21.680 That's what you think about. 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:23.759 Now I know what men think about. 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:26.000 It's money and something else. 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:29.039 But the reality is we do think about money, right? 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:29.839 And here's the deal. 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:31.200 Here's the deal. 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:39.839 That in that world that we live in, the cure to anxiety in those areas to seek first the kingdom of God. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.960 To give and surrender everything to Jesus Christ. 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:45.359 But it doesn't end there. 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:49.119 Some people are so heavenly minded they're no earthly good. 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:52.400 And some people are so earthly minded they're no heavenly good. 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:54.240 So first is to seek the kingdom. 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:55.680 That's the kingdom of God. 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:58.319 Second is the kingdoms of this earth. 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:01.599 And Satan controls the kingdoms of this earth. 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:10.160 Satan came to Jesus in Matthew 4 and Luke 4, and he said, Look, if you'll worship me, I'll give you all the kingdom of the world because they've been given to me. 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:24.319 So, in Genesis 1, and I've talked about this at the Wednesday night strategic prayer, but I'll just quickly, briefly explain it, that we were given authority and power as the first couple, Adam and Eve. 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:27.440 They were told to have dominion over the earth. 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:29.680 We're supposed to have dominion over the earth. 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:31.119 All things on the earth. 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:39.200 But when when Adam sinned, we gave that authority over to Satan and demonic powers. 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:46.160 So when Jesus came, when he came to this earth, he actually kind of parachuted into enemy territory. 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:50.240 And everywhere he went, he was casting out demons and setting the captives free. 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:58.960 That's what we did at Memorial Park on Saturday, and that group of people that became a part of the army of God is called the church. 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:00.640 So we're part of the church. 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:16.400 So our complete task before the Lord is to go ye therefore and make disciples of all not individuals, not just individuals. 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:20.400 We're supposed to disciple a nation. 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:25.279 We are called to lead out and disciple our country. 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:29.039 And that was the original mandate in 1620. 00:21:29.359 --> 00:21:31.200 The Mayflower Compact. 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:39.599 How many know the Mayflower Compact? 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:40.559 Anyone ever heard of that? 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:41.440 Raise your hand. 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:42.640 Awesome. 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:47.920 At Thanksgiving, I get I'll do a whole message on it, but let me just give you the first three lines. 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:59.680 Having undertaken for the glory of God and the advancements of the Christian faith and the honor of our king and country of boys. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:01.599 To plant the first calling. 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:08.480 Ladies and gentlemen, this isn't even taught in our schools anymore, but this is the first American document. 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:12.160 Mayflower Compact, 1620. 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:37.200 Okay, ten years later, about a thousand Puritans came to our country, and under the leadership of a man named John Winthrop, they wrote another document called the Arbella Compact, after the ship they were on, and it states this we shall be as a city upon a hill that the eyes of all people are upon us. 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:42.799 And then he goes on to say that we would be a model of Christian charity to the whole world. 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:46.640 That's our founding, those are our founding documents. 00:22:46.799 --> 00:22:48.559 That's what we're called to do. 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:54.880 And it's going to take organized planning on our part to take back our nation. 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:56.319 Verse 10. 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:00.960 Then Judah said, the strength of the laborers is failing. 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:04.960 There's so much rubbish that we're not able to build the wall. 00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:08.000 I mean, that's the way I feel a lot of times. 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:18.079 When I look at what's happening in the media and I look at what's happening with the fake news and all the stuff that's going on, it feels like this is impossible. 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:22.160 And I look at the kind of stuff coming through the school system, the stuff they're trying to teach our kids. 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:23.359 It's unbelievable. 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:24.880 So bad. 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:26.880 Verse 11. 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:30.160 And our adversary said, they will neither know or see anything. 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:31.599 See, that's what they're counting on. 00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:32.880 And you don't see anything. 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:34.400 You don't know what's going on. 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:35.920 You don't see what we're doing. 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:37.920 We're going to just keep slipping it through. 00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:40.000 Just kind of keep slipping it through. 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:41.599 Verse 12. 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:45.759 So it was when the Jews who dwelt near, they heard it ten times. 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:48.880 From whatever place you turn, they're going to be upon us. 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:51.440 Now this is the key verse 13. 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:52.640 Underline it. 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:53.680 Circle it. 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:55.039 Highlight it. 00:23:55.440 --> 00:23:59.759 I positioned men behind the lower parts of the wall. 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:04.720 I positioned men behind the lower parts of the wall. 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:10.160 And I said to them, take up your swords and your spears and your bows. 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:16.799 And I looked and arose and I said to the nobles and to the leaders and to the rest of the people, do not be afraid of them. 00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:21.920 Remember the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters and your wives. 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:24.960 Men and women, this is so vitally important. 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:31.359 We are battling for the soul of our nation and for the future for our sons and daughters. 00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:34.480 Number three, strategic positioning. 00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:36.720 Strategic positioning. 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:39.519 Number one, focus prayer. 00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:41.839 Number two, organize planning. 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:43.839 Number three, strategic positioning. 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:47.119 We've started a Amy, would you stand up? 00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:49.759 We've started a public policy ministry. 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:53.200 Amy was a county supervisor, and she's leading that effort. 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:54.720 And they're having a meeting this week. 00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:57.039 If you want to see her, talk to her about that. 00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:00.799 Because what we have, write down this, write down gaps and gates. 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:02.960 Just write down gaps and gates. 00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:05.359 We have gaps and gates in our wall. 00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:07.359 We have gaps and gates in our wall. 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:10.640 And these gates are like areas of business. 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:12.400 It might be media. 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:15.119 It might be education or government. 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:15.680 Whatever. 00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:19.279 People talk about the seven mountains, seven spheres of influence. 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:20.240 I don't care what you call it. 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:22.079 I'm going to call it gates and gaps. 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:26.160 There's burned down gates and there's gaps and holes. 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:26.799 Okay? 00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:32.079 If we don't do something, we will not be meeting like this two years from now. 00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:37.599 They will have strategically, because let me tell you, the enemy's doing everything I just said. 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:39.119 They're praying to the enemy. 00:25:39.440 --> 00:25:40.880 They're praying to the enemy. 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:46.079 They're strategically planning and they're positioning their people in the right places. 00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:54.640 And I'm telling you, folks, we're going to out-love them, outpray them, outplan them, and outthink them. 00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:58.640 And the way we do that is some of you need to run for school board. 00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:00.880 Some of you need to run for city council. 00:26:01.039 --> 00:26:02.960 Some of you need to be county commissioners. 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:06.720 Some of you need to start writing letters and doing op-eds in the Gazette. 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:08.319 We should take over the Gazette. 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:20.720 We should take over all these different areas and let's rebuild our economy, but let's rebuild the spiritual life and the economic life and the educational life of our county, El Paso County. 00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:22.960 I'm not responsible for Denver. 00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:26.400 I'm not responsible for New York City. 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:27.680 And neither are you. 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:30.400 We are responsible for El Paso County. 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:37.839 And if everybody across this land took responsibility for the land that they've given, God would move in revival power. 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:45.599 Revival to me is only the spark plug of a revolution that touches every part of the culture. 00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:48.799 And some of you are so uniquely gifted. 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:50.559 I mean, we have two men. 00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:52.559 One of them is in this room right now. 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:54.240 He gave money. 00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:57.920 He gave a large sum of money for us to bring in Sean Freud. 00:26:58.400 --> 00:27:01.279 Because he's a successful entrepreneur. 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:11.119 And some of you are going to be very successful as entrepreneurs, and God's going to use you to be massive givers to stuff that God wants to do, to bring the kingdom. 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:13.200 Some of you are you make money. 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:14.160 That's what you're good at. 00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:15.599 Man, keep doing that. 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.480 Don't ever, ever think that's not important. 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:22.799 And for some of you, you're like you have a you have a teaching gift. 00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:25.440 And in some way you're going to be used maybe in education. 00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:28.559 Some of you need to become school teachers, you need to get involved. 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:30.720 You need to be nurses and doctors and stuff. 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:33.839 You get in there, but don't let them change you. 00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:36.400 You change them. 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:39.599 By being a bowl worshiper memorial. 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:46.160 You've been listening to The Road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:49.279 We hope you have been blessed by today's message. 00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:53.359 To connect with us further, visit theroad.org. 00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:57.359 If you are walking through a difficult time, we want to pray for you. 00:27:57.599 --> 00:28:04.559 Go to theroad.org, click on the ministries tab, and go to our prayer page to send us your prayer request. 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:12.720 Thanks again for tuning in today, and be sure to listen to the next edition of The Road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt.