The Jewish Final Solution to the World's Problem - From Biblical to Secular History III

[0:00] Turn with me to the Gospel of Luke, chapter 19. And this morning, we'll be looking at the parable of money usage.

[0:22] And in Luke, chapter 19, we'll be looking at verses 11 through 27.

[0:37] While they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable. Because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.

[0:56] So he said, a nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then return.

[1:07] And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas, and said to them, Do business with this until I come back.

[1:21] But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, We do not want this man to reign over us.

[1:32] When he returned after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him, so that he might know what business they had done.

[1:49] The first appeared, saying, Master, your mina has made ten minas more. And he said to him, Another came, saying, Master, here is your mina, which I kept put away in a handkerchief.

[2:37] For I was afraid of you, because you are an exacting man. You take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.

[2:50] And he said to him, By your own words, I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow?

[3:10] Then why did you not put your money in the bank? And having come, I would have collected it with interest.

[3:22] Then he said to the bystanders, Take the mina away from him, and give it to the one who has the ten minas.

[3:32] And they said to him, Master, he has ten minas already. I tell you that to everyone who has, more shall be given.

[3:45] But from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away. But these enemies of mine, who do not want me to reign over them, bring them here, and slay them in my presence.

[4:10] It is abundantly obvious that this, which Gary just read, is one of the several parables given by our Lord. And as to remove all doubt, we are told in verse 11 that it is a parable.

[4:24] And the significant thing to note about a parable, as someone has said, it's an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. A parable is something that Jesus simply made up, deliberately made up.

[4:36] This is not being presented as a true, actual, historical story. But he is contriving this story, and using it to illustrate the principle of responsibility. And no, it is not our task this morning, to exegete or to explain this parable in any detail at all, except to say we are simply going to focus on the principle that is found in verse 27, and that has been erroneously applied by many in religious authorities down through the years, particularly in the early centuries of our history.

[5:13] But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here, and slay them in my presence. As amazing as it seems, this is one of several passages of scripture that was actually used by the authorities in the Roman Catholic Church in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th century to justify the persecution and the murder of multitudes of Jewish people, simply because they would not submit to the authority of Christ.

[5:51] They would not submit to what was referred to as Christian baptism. They would not submit to joining the Catholic Church. And at different times in church history, Jews were seen as legitimate targets for destruction.

[6:09] At other times, they took a rather less oppressive view, and one of the favorite kind of connotations that was utilized on behalf of the Jew when they were willing to allow them to exist was this.

[6:23] We will allow them to survive, but not to thrive. In other words, the Jew was put in a position by the secular society around them that they would not be able to benefit to any great extent.

[6:38] They were merely permitted to eke out a humble existence without any improvement, advancement, benefits, or anything of the kind. And the watchword was, they may survive, but not thrive.

[6:52] And it was up to those who regarded themselves as Christians to see to it that the Jews did not thrive. And, strange as it may sound, predicated upon verse 27, and taken out of context and entirely misinterpreted, they used that as justification for the persecution of the Jews.

[7:16] At the outset of this study this morning, I want to remind you again that we are entering and continuing a phase that I have never undertaken in the 45 years that I have been your pastor.

[7:29] Never have I found it necessary to depart from the Scripture and what I was teaching you on a Sunday morning. But we are doing so for this session and for two sessions that will follow.

[7:40] We did so for the previous session simply because the content that I feel so burdened for you to hear is not in the Bible. These things transpired in history after the Bible was complete and what was known as the church was well on its way into multiple centuries, working its way up to even where we are now.

[8:04] So, I want to share with you several observations that we have already logged and remind you of them. And by the way, I am appealing to this book.

[8:16] It is a 700-page tome called Constantine's Sword, The Church and the Jews by James Carroll.

[8:27] And it does not paint the church in a very pretty picture. And when I say the church, I am talking about the Christian church in general, which would be consisting of Catholic and Protestant together.

[8:42] It is a very dark picture, but a very accurate one historically, and it is one that we all need to know and be appropriately ashamed of. Because there is a basis here for shame for those who name the name of Christ.

[8:56] And by the way, I also want to mention that the author of the book is the author of the National Book Award in American Requiem. The author's name is James Carroll.

[9:09] And he is a practicing Roman Catholic, I trust, in good standing with the Roman Catholic Church. So, I am sure that his penning these things were in many respects especially painful for him because it is his church historically that was responsible for some of the attitudes and atrocities that we are going to share with you.

[9:33] And what I have done, no, I'm not going to read you the 700 pages, but I have earmarked a number of excerpts that you really do need to hear. And I want to emphasize that everything that will be coming from this book is verifiable by way of the heavily provided footnotes in the back as regards source material.

[9:54] It can be utilized by anyone plus the information is available online. And none of what I am sharing with you this morning claims to be any kind of a secret or special insight.

[10:07] This is public information. And it has been available for hundreds of years and it is still available so anyone can check it out independently if they want to. So let me briefly run through the several observations that have already been logged because they are important and I am posing these as propositions before we look to the pages of this book.

[10:28] First of all, there is the blinding power of sin upon rational and logical thinking. I have told you time and again that fallen man thinks with a fallen intellect.

[10:43] It is not just his body that has fallen. It is his mind and his thinking and his reasoning capacities that have fallen as well. Man reasons with a warped intellect and a skewed logic that enables him to reach ridiculous conclusions about issues important and unimportant.

[11:05] And where do you think we get all of the variety of opinions and ideas that are held by the multitudes of people today? Most of them are generated by their own mind and their own mind sometimes does not serve them well because our minds tend to think with a skewed logic.

[11:23] That's due to a limited perspective and due to a fallen nature that enables us to interpret things in such a way other than what they are. This is just part of the human condition and we need to understand that in order to combat that the only authoritative corrective that has been provided is the word of God.

[11:44] God and it serves that purpose among numerous other purposes and that purpose is to give us the truth about life and matters and issues and everything that encompasses human living.

[11:59] The Bible presents the truth and the real scoop. Our own thinking and our own wisdom according to 1 Corinthians 1 and several other passages will lead us astray and the Bible talks about the foolishness of man's thinking when he writes to the Corinthians.

[12:16] There is the heinous nature of sin and its ability to dehumanize people to act in barbaric manners. We see this today in our present society.

[12:29] People around the country who want to cut off other people's heads imprison them etc. It all comes from this heinous nature of sin because in it and with it there is an ability to dehumanize people and to act in barbaric manners.

[12:47] It is incredible what some human beings are willing to inflict upon a fellow human being. We shake our heads in unbelief.

[13:00] How could they? How could people do those kind of things to human beings? How could they do that? They do that because they have a fallen nature.

[13:11] that skews their thinking that warps their logic that enables them to reach the conclusions they reach and then act upon them. And we have also noted the determination of God to allow man with the volition God has given him to go to such horrible extremes without divine intervention.

[13:35] religion. If you and I had our way we would have God stop those who were about to behead someone by rendering them incapable or unable or striking them dead or doing something.

[13:50] Where is God when you need him at a time like that? Why does he allow this stuff to go on? It's because God has bestowed upon man a volition. That means the power to do right and the power to do wrong.

[14:05] And he would completely negate that volition if he were to interrupt each time somebody was prepared to do something that is especially evil.

[14:16] We of course would have him do that. I would do it wouldn't you? Of course you would. And we fault God for not doing it our way.

[14:27] But listen when God gave humanity a volition it's not a joke and it's nothing to be toyed with. Having a volition possessing a will as a human being is a very very serious thing.

[14:44] And we are all going to give an account of what we did with it. We noted the innate tendency of all institutions whether governments and this is important please hear this carefully.

[14:57] The innate inborn inbred automatic tendency of all institutions whether governments religious denominations schools or parachurch organizations towards spiritual and moral corruption.

[15:17] That's the natural path they all take. That's the bent. That's the way it all goes without exception. There is a safeguard against it that can be implemented to keep an organization from going down that route.

[15:33] Most of them do not take it. And they end up with the massive wholesale corruption and immorality that inundates this nation today.

[15:46] From the White House and the Congress to the state houses to the counties to the towns it's all over everywhere. It is innate.

[16:00] The Jews experienced wholesale idolatry that led to their frequent divine chastenings. This was spiritual and moral corruption on a national scale.

[16:15] Both the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom had succumbed to idolatry of the rankest sort. Some of them even engaged in the practice of sacrificing their own children to these false idols like their pagan neighbors around them.

[16:31] Elijah was the prophet who complained to God. Why don't you just take my life? Everybody's against me. Everybody hates me.

[16:42] I am all alone in this. I am the only one who is willing to serve you and worship you. Everybody else is given over to idolatry. Why don't you just take my life too? And God came to Elijah and said, you're not alone.

[16:58] I have 7,000 who have not bowed the knee to Baal. Well, no doubt Elijah felt like he was alone, felt like he had a big bullseye on his back and everyone was out to get him.

[17:13] And when God informed him that he had 7,000 others who had not bowed the knee to Baal, do you realize what that's saying? Do you have any idea what the population of Israel was at this time?

[17:24] it numbered in the millions? And God's got 7,000? Big deal! What's 7,000 compared to the vast multitude of millions out there?

[17:39] 7,000 is but a pittance. But all God was trying to assure Elijah of was this. He wasn't alone. He did have 7,000 compatriots.

[17:51] And where was all the rest of the country? They had already slid into moral spiritual corruption, idolatry, sacrifice, blasphemies, illicit sexuality in every way describable and imaginable.

[18:08] That's what the nations, both the northern and the southern kingdom, had come to. It was just really rotten, rotten to the core. Judaism was thoroughly corrupt during the three-year ministry of Christ.

[18:25] Jesus was in perpetual conflict with the establishment of the Sadducees, the Pharisees, the high priests, the chief priests, all of whom constituted the religious power of the day, and it had all slipped into corruption.

[18:39] Why? Why? What is it that enables these institutions to become corrupt and immoral like they do? What is it that gives them this natural tendency to do that?

[18:52] Why is that the way man goes? It's because of his spiritual DNA. It's because of his fallenness. And it is because, never forget this, it is always because, always because, always because, they have abandoned the authority of thus saith the Lord.

[19:17] and the U.S. of A has done that in huge proportions. We, as a nation, have turned away from the authority of the Bible, the authority of the Word of God, and the authority of everything spiritual.

[19:36] It's been reduced to mockery, rejection, ridicule, exclusion, everything that goes with it. that's the secularization of a society.

[19:49] And when a society goes secular, it excludes God. No, I'm not opting for a theocracy. I'm not saying we should be governed by the New Testament, and we should hold people responsible who are disobedient.

[20:04] I'm not talking about a theocracy. I'm not talking about making people go to church. I'm not talking about making people pray, or anything of the kind. I'm simply saying, when the time comes that we will not recognize that people have the freedom of conscience, and the freedom to worship, and the freedom to express themselves as the Constitution allows us, there is nothing left for you.

[20:27] You have nowhere to go but corruption, and it's coming on in spades. The earliest years of organized Christian religion comprised mostly of former pagans, who embrace Christ through the Apostle Paul's mission, and others like Barnabas and Silas and so on, others soon succumb to corruption spiritually and morally, because that is the natural tendency.

[20:58] Man who is left to his own devices, who is not reliant upon and dependent upon God's word and its authority, you've got nothing left but yours.

[21:10] That's all you've got left. Or the latest philosopher, or the latest prescribed genius in American science or whatever. That's all you've got left. And you're on a downward slope.

[21:22] It is inevitable and no civilization at any time in history has ever escaped this. We will not escape it either.

[21:33] Unless there is a radical change. Historically, history is replete with corrupt popes and cardinals and priests in every generation as told by their own Roman Catholic followers and historians.

[22:03] Americans. This is not a case of Protestants picking on Catholics and making them look bad. These records are established by Catholics who have researched Catholics and Catholic behavior and the Catholic Church through the years and have been honest enough and forward enough to record the facts.

[22:22] in the 1500s, the corruption in the Catholic Church hit a new low. It was due to Tetzel's sale of indulgences to help fund the construction of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

[22:35] The Pope was undertaking this enormous architectural project and I have been there and some of you have been there too and have seen the handiwork that was created by those in the 15, 16, 1700s with St. Peter's Square and the Basilica and it is jaw-dropping.

[22:56] It is incredible. It is massive. It is beautiful. It is an architectural marvel and I just stand there in all of those columns and pillars and the stonework and all the rest of it and I am almost overwhelmed by it.

[23:13] But how do you pay for something like that? They came up with the brilliant idea of selling indulgences. if you as a Catholic will give a certain amount of money to the funding of building St. Peter's Basilica, the church will reward your gift by granting your loved ones time off in purgatory and your dear sainted mother who may be now punished for her sins in purgatory.

[23:44] You can give money that will release her prematurely so that she'll be able to go to heaven. Wouldn't you want to buy some indulgences? And that just so infuriated a man who was already a deeply respected entrenched Roman Catholic priest of the Augustinian order and his name was Martin Luther and he was so incensed by this gross behavior of his own church that he began writing and teaching against it and of course brought the wrath of the Pope and all his cardinals down upon him.

[24:29] And eventually he was excommunicated from the church and eventually Martin Luther founded what became known as the Protestant Reformation. For Luther it all came down to authority.

[24:43] It was the church or the Bible. Which? For Roman Catholics the official position was the church was infallible because the Pope was the vicar of Christ.

[25:01] And if you are going to charge the Pope as doing something wrong, it is tantamount to charging Christ with doing something wrong.

[25:11] Are you prepared to do that? Of course most were not and most would not think because when the Pope spoke ex cathedra, that is officially from the chair of Peter, it was just as if Jesus Christ himself was speaking.

[25:29] And who's going to be brave enough to go against that? In its moral and spiritual corruption, the church excommunicated Luther. And you need to understand, Martin Luther had no interest in leaving the Catholic Church, never intended to leave the Catholic Church, but he wanted to reform it.

[25:49] That's why he's called a reformer. As was John Wycliffe, a reformer. As was William Tyndale, a reformer. These were all Roman Catholic priests who had been in good standing in the Roman Catholic Church.

[26:06] The problem was the church did not want to be reformed, thank you. We like things just the way they are. Our own U.S.

[26:16] Congress does not want to be reformed, thank you. They want to leave things just as they are. And the Roman Catholic Church is corrupt today.

[26:33] Of course it is. Of course it is. Dare we say that? Are we just being critical of another body of religion? Yeah, I guess we are.

[26:44] But I've got the same criticism to level against the Protestant Church. It's not faring any better. It's corrupt too. Both of these entities have long since departed from the authority of Scripture.

[26:56] And corruption is the only thing left for them. That's where they are. Protestant and Catholic. What about Grace Bible Church? Are we corrupt? Do we have some kind of exemption from this?

[27:12] Are we immune to corruption? Absolutely not. Neither is any other organization. I don't care how squarely they are set with Scripture. If they abandon the authority of Scripture, corruption is the only thing that's left.

[27:27] And they will go that way. And if the time ever comes when Grace Bible Church abandons the authority of the Word of God and its infallibility, we will suffer the same kind of corruption as all the rest.

[27:40] We are not immune from it. Recent scandal involving scores of Catholic priests who sexually abused children while carrying out their religious duties, to the corrupt bishops and cardinals who shuffled them off to unsuspecting dioceses, rather than punish them, rather than prosecute them, rather than dismiss them from the priesthood.

[28:05] They would just pass them on to a new assignment. And you know as well as I do, if you've read the newspapers or heard any of the reports on the news, the Roman Catholic Church has had to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to those whom priests have abused over the past several decades.

[28:32] And who knows how far back this thing goes. And there have been cases where the whole thing has been brought into court and the children brought into court, some of whom are now in their 20s and 30s.

[28:43] And accusations leveled and juries impaneled and verdicts reached. And the Catholic Church from the Pope on down through the Cardinals have uttered and offered scores of apologies and admissions of their wrongdoing and asking for forgiveness.

[29:01] forgiveness. And why did they do that? How did they not root those people out long ago? For the simple reason that they made the church the authority rather than the Bible.

[29:12] And when you make the church authority, then you make the people who run the church and head the church, they become the authority. And when you're in power, you can do whatever you want when you're in power.

[29:23] And that's the way it worked. It's a very ugly thing. And Protestants are not exempt from this moral spiritual corruption by no means. Protestant denominations are far from lily white.

[29:38] All who have abandoned the authority of Scripture have nowhere to go but to corruption. It is inevitable. And you look at these denominations, hundreds and hundreds of years old, many of them, not only espousing same-sex marriage, but being proud of it and ordaining people to the clergy who are admitted and vowed practicing homosexuals.

[30:05] This is corruption, large scale. It isn't going away. It's getting worse. Nothing can change it unless there is a massive turnabout that could be brought only through a spiritual revival that is of a genuine nature we hold out hope for it, but we see no signs of it on the horizon.

[30:28] Harvard University. Do you realize Harvard University was founded 15 years after the Pilgrims landed? 1635!

[30:42] And why was it founded by John Harvard? For the exclusive purpose of training and educating young men for the gospel ministry. today, Harvard has a divinity school.

[30:57] It's a joke. It's pathetic. Along with many other institutions, they too have rejected the authority of scripture, have bought in the biological evolution wholesale and everything that comes with it.

[31:12] They are as corrupt as they can be, and they are endowed, most of them endowed, with endowments in the hundreds of millions of dollars stashed away in their endowment funds.

[31:24] And I'm talking about not just Harvard, but Yale, and Princeton, and all of the so-called Ivy League schools. They are all corrupt, morally, spiritually, corrupt, through and through, because that's the only thing you get when you abandon the authority of scripture.

[31:42] Today, we have an entire nation given over to spiritual and moral corruption, not just our educational institutions, not just academia.

[31:54] They are leading the charge, by the way, but they are not alone. Not every person, of course, in the U.S. of A., but the nation as a whole, and the very cesspool of corruption, is Washington, D.C., nationally, governmentally, officially, we have abandoned our founding principles, we have moved away from our moorings, when did this all start?

[32:24] It might shock you to know it wasn't long after 1776 that it began, and it has simply intensified and grown through the decades, and today, it is rampant.

[32:41] it's been growing ever since. Today, it reaches epic proportions in the wanton murder of the unborn, all because people insist on engaging in irresponsible sexual behavior while refusing to accept the consequences thereof.

[33:00] And you know what this garbage is passed off as? Women's health care! women's health care! The murder of the unborn comes under the rubric of women's health care?

[33:16] Yeah, this is what it is.

[33:32] I don't care what you call it. Listen. And remember that you got it here. The whole demand, the entirety of the demand of abortion on demand has absolutely nothing to do with women's health care.

[33:53] It has everything to do with people insisting on the right to engage in any kind of sexual behavior they choose with anyone they choose but without having to deal with the negative consequences of conception.

[34:14] That's what it's all about. Abortion is all about the demand for sex without consequences. That's it. That's all. Call it whatever you want.

[34:27] Woman's right to her body, woman's health care, all the rest, means nothing. Bottom line is they want to engage in promiscuous lifestyle, sexuality, without consequences.

[34:39] I speak somewhat with knowledge of this because I am the product of a conception without marriage.

[34:54] I'm really grateful that my mom never considered me being a problem to which provision for her health care would be a solution.

[35:08] same-sex marriage is such a corruption that it defies description, but it is the law of the land and the Supreme Court of the United States has made it such.

[35:25] The Bible is not simply discarded, it is unwelcome as is prayer and recognition of a supreme being. And yet, it is ironic to note that as you walk around Washington, D.C.

[35:40] and visit the government established official places of business where government is conducted executive wise, legislatively and judicially, you see splashed all over the area verses of scripture engraven in stone put there by those who at one time respected the authority of the word of God and everything that came there from.

[36:19] We as a nation are presently as I speak we are right now engaged in an act of national suicide.

[36:32] You realize that? we are right now engaged in an ongoing act of national suicide. We are about the business of doing ourselves in morally and spiritually.

[36:50] Our very demise is underway and the outcome is inevitable unless there occurs that national repentance that would inundate this land including the nation's capital.

[37:02] God help us that it may be so. It's hard to be optimistic and say I see signs of it coming because I don't.

[37:14] Maybe next month it'll be different. I don't know. We are on the cusp right now. We are on the verge of losing everything this nation has been about for the last 230 plus years.

[37:31] We are just about to throw it into the trash bin. It is this moral and spiritual corruption that allowed for and even demanded the persecution and wanton murders of the Jewish people from the earliest ages of the Christian church mostly identified as the Roman Catholic church because the only thing that existed in the 300s 400s 500s 600s centuries gone by the only thing that existed was just a few splits and splinters of things that didn't belong to the Catholic church some of whom were made up of genuine believers and many of them were not and within the Catholic church those who were carrying out these persecutions those who in the 1400s were involved in the persecutions of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisitions many of those were not true believers at all they were just into churchianity like a lot of people are today but make no mistake about it there were some who were no doubt true believers and just engulfed in and caught up in this thing that made it so easy to hate and persecute the

[38:55] Jew where were they coming from they were coming from the spiritual moral blindness of which we speak they were coming from their worldview from their lifestyle when the break from the Roman Catholic Church occurred in the 1500s and the Protestant Reformation got underway the Protestants including Luther and his followers brought with them certain kinds of theological baggage from the Roman Catholic Church after all the doctrines they had embraced while priests in the Roman Catholic Church were the only doctrines they knew and they considered them all valid and worthy of practicing apart from those of course that they regarded as unacceptable like the selling of indulgences and so on but they brought with them theological baggage from the

[39:59] Roman Catholic Church now please hear me well because this is so critical one of the major pieces of baggage that Luther brought with him and adopted and perpetuated was the replacement theology also called supersessionism that the Jew is under the curse of God that God has damned the Jew and we need to damn him too we need to punish the Jew and make him pay for his ancestors murdering God that view has continued apace in many most of the major denominations today not that they're willing to go to the extent of persecuting the Jew but the foundation is laid for it when you adopt the idea of replacement theology it makes it very much easier to move on to active persecution when you see and view these people as being under the curse of God and they deserve to be punished makes it a lot easier to do made it a lot easier for

[41:21] Hitler to do that under earlier Protestants the Jew was still regarded cursed by God as Christ killers they were the murderers of the deity and they should be made to feel the full negative consequences of that crime of all crimes thus the persecution of the Jew was perpetuated in different ways to different degrees and this is what we continue to explore ever so briefly from the book the sword of Constantine by James Carroll who by the way as I mentioned is a practicing Catholic and you must realize that that last passage that was read from Luke chapter 19 helps to justify that those who would not be ruled over by me bring them here before me and slay them and that is precisely what was done with untold numbers of

[42:23] Jewish people just because they insisted on remaining as Jews and the Roman Catholic Church was more than willing to violate the Jewish conscience by demanding that they convert and submit themselves to baptism into the Roman Catholic Church then the pressure will be taken off today we've got the same kind of scenario the only difference is they're a Muslim instead of Christian today Islam in its radical portions demands compliance and conversion to Allah as the only true God and Muhammad is his prophet or we have a responsibility to kill you now that's pretty extreme but after all cutting off people's heads is pretty extreme where does this kind of mentality come from where do people get these kind of weird ideas so bizarre so inhumane so unthinkable where does this come from listen all information all information of any and every kind has but three sources there are but three sources of all information one is the mind of man and it's capable of some pretty wonderful things and it's capable of some pretty ugly things but that's one source and the mind of

[44:05] Satan he has his own game plan he has his own agenda he fuels people's thoughts when Jesus said to Peter get they behind me Satan you savor the things not of God but the things that be of man all he was doing was reminding Peter he is a fallen human being and he is thinking with a warped logic and skewed reasoning that leads him to the positions that he's taking God has an entirely different viewpoint and the third possible source of information is God himself the word of God and we need to come to the place if we to trust the logic and reason of humans and rely upon the divine logic that is provided in the word well my apologies what

[45:06] I have just given you was preparatory to getting to these marked pages in this book and I haven't gotten to the first one you're not surprised are you no well will you trust me next week to start with the book okay I'll try to do that but what we have given you is preparatory to what is coming you realize of course this is going to throw me behind a week too so I'm eager to start the material and prophecy as I know many of you are but I cannot do it without this foundation being laid because once it is and you get this into your psyche then you will have far greater appreciation for the prophetic studies that will be coming because you will be able to see them so much more clearly and connect the dots so much more consistently so boy well let's pray father we honestly do regret the things that have been said not because they aren't true but because we so deeply sense a need to say them to warn to remind what else is a preacher supposed to do and these words no doubt will come across to some as extreme or unfounded or unworthy of pulpit time or whatever but we believe that an adherence and an insistence upon truth has to overshadow everything and while we do humbly apologize for a country that has gone in such a direction that there is even a need to say these things we don't begin to apologize for the truthfulness of them or the necessity of sharing them would you be pleased to use this content in any way you see fit in the minds and hearts of these who are gathered here today beginning with myself may we make a recommitment to you to be available and willing to be used as an instrument in any fashion that you deem wise we just want to be at your disposal as pastor and we trust that this would be true of every person who is here today we recognize that the human picture is not a pretty one has capabilities of being wonderful and achieving and loving and giving but of late we've seen so much ugliness and darkness and denial of truth and rejection of

[49:01] Christ and everything that the Bible stands for it saddens us because we realize from the birth of this great nation we've had a special place with special blessings and special opportunities and Lord we don't want to see them squandered we don't want to as a nation turn our backs upon a God who has so benevolently blessed and provided us with so much we want to awaken ourselves and awaken others to the real danger that is there and we look to you for direction we confess that our minds and our logic can be a subject to wrong thinking and wrong conclusions as the most committed pagan and the only thing that can straighten out our thinking like everybody else's is a thorough recognition and commitment to the authority of the word of

[50:07] God and all that sets forth may this church these people always be behind that kind of commitment we pray in Christ's name and for his sake amen we could thank you so we could say