1 00:00:00,04 --> 00:00:04,98 The following program is sponsored by Seattle open door church yet all of indoor 2 00:00:04,99 --> 00:00:10,44 church he's committed to loving God loving people and loving life our doors are 3 00:00:10,45 --> 00:00:16,51 open to whomever no masks required Seattle open door church is located in downtown 4 00:00:16,62 --> 00:00:23,48 area next to the southwest courthouse. Welcome to their Rizzo your 5 00:00:23,49 --> 00:00:28,18 host where there is hope is Richard over to your pastor of Seattle open door church 6 00:00:28,19 --> 00:00:28,55 in your. 7 00:02:04,52 --> 00:02:05,61 Love. 8 00:04:04,51 --> 00:04:04,72 She. 9 00:04:33,82 --> 00:04:36,27 Said. Oh. 10 00:06:31,97 --> 00:06:32,57 I. 11 00:07:14,53 --> 00:07:19,01 Work hard we want to be led by your spirit Father God we want to hear your voice in 12 00:07:19,02 --> 00:07:22,71 our lives or will you bring conviction where there needs to be conviction Lord God 13 00:07:22,91 --> 00:07:26,20 would you bring peace for there needs to be peace Lord God would you show us what 14 00:07:26,21 --> 00:07:31,19 you would have for us to do for our land for America or as we look at the various 15 00:07:31,47 --> 00:07:32,76 ways that we can stand 16 00:07:32,77 --> 00:07:36,53 a gap for our nation I pray Father that we would ask you what would you have me to 17 00:07:36,54 --> 00:07:39,09 do what would you have me to do as 18 00:07:39,10 --> 00:07:43,15 a follower of Jesus Christ to stand for this nation that we truly could be one 19 00:07:43,16 --> 00:07:45,79 nation under God we pray all these things in Jesus name 20 00:07:45,88 --> 00:07:52,20 a min. Amen you be seated and that song is as hip or I am my arms opened wide I 21 00:07:52,21 --> 00:07:55,99 talked about this many times people say well why why at the lift your hands in 22 00:07:56,00 --> 00:07:58,84 church where you don't have to lift your hands in church but here's 23 00:07:58,85 --> 00:08:03,26 a concept of it when you worship and you say here I am could I tell you something. 24 00:08:04,93 --> 00:08:11,56 If it's here I am. What does that give 25 00:08:12,13 --> 00:08:12,85 you think it is 26 00:08:12,86 --> 00:08:20,04 a message if it's here I am or 27 00:08:20,05 --> 00:08:25,36 if it's here I am the whole symbolism is what when you lift up your hands what are 28 00:08:25,37 --> 00:08:31,63 you doing you welcoming your surrender and you say here I am and I've talked about 29 00:08:31,64 --> 00:08:36,45 many times and in I don't know maybe many of you didn't have daddies that you lift 30 00:08:36,46 --> 00:08:40,81 your hands up to but when Daddy came home when your little kid and Daddy comes home 31 00:08:40,82 --> 00:08:44,69 what's the first thing you do when daddy comes on you lift your hands up daddy and 32 00:08:44,70 --> 00:08:49,49 why you doing that you want him you want to hold it right you want him to pick you 33 00:08:49,50 --> 00:08:55,84 up rabbits arms around you and then here I am and they would kneeled down like this 34 00:08:55,88 --> 00:09:02,84 to eat the grass they prayed in our yard their year I see that and then if you walk 35 00:09:03,12 --> 00:09:08,28 five hundred feet away from my yard you go to the Cook Inlet in the ocean and RB 36 00:09:08,29 --> 00:09:14,86 hundreds probably thousands of sea otters laying on their back. That's right did I 37 00:09:14,87 --> 00:09:20,91 come to see yeah. You know I came to Seattle to help plan a church to help 38 00:09:20,92 --> 00:09:24,63 a church that was starving I gave all that up just to help 39 00:09:24,64 --> 00:09:31,18 a church to start that's crazy wasn't because I have something that I wake up to I 40 00:09:31,19 --> 00:09:35,74 don't wake up to Bald Eagles anymore I don't wake up to see otters and I don't wake 41 00:09:35,75 --> 00:09:38,74 up to Moose anymore when I wake up I wake up to 42 00:09:38,75 --> 00:09:43,35 a beautiful young lady right here and that's we're better now but 43 00:09:43,36 --> 00:09:49,20 a cry better than any you go there is of you honey. 44 00:09:51,00 --> 00:09:55,62 OK distress in America this talk about distress in America distress in America 45 00:09:55,87 --> 00:10:00,44 America's only hope listen to me last week we talked about all the problems America 46 00:10:00,45 --> 00:10:04,31 has we have all kinds of different problems all kinds of issues America's got 47 00:10:04,32 --> 00:10:05,73 a mess America is in 48 00:10:05,74 --> 00:10:11,43 a mess our hope is not if you look on here and the image there what do you see when 49 00:10:11,44 --> 00:10:15,44 you see in the background what kind of animals on the background on the left it's 50 00:10:15,45 --> 00:10:16,89 an elephant and if I know what 51 00:10:16,90 --> 00:10:23,23 a party the elephant represents Republican Party on the right side there is 52 00:10:23,24 --> 00:10:27,62 a I'll call the donkey has another name called a donkey. There is 53 00:10:27,63 --> 00:10:32,59 a donkey and what part does it represent Democrat Party 54 00:10:34,03 --> 00:10:40,91 OK and. In the middle What do you see see the 55 00:10:40,92 --> 00:10:43,24 cross I hope isn't 56 00:10:43,40 --> 00:10:46,92 a political party in America the hope is in the land were the hope is in Jesus 57 00:10:46,93 --> 00:10:51,14 Christ if you want to see America change it is not in 58 00:10:51,15 --> 00:10:56,66 a political party should we vote we're going talk about that we should vote but our 59 00:10:56,67 --> 00:10:57,64 hope is in 60 00:10:57,65 --> 00:11:01,44 a political party or hope is in Jesus Christ only hope for America is the lamb the 61 00:11:01,45 --> 00:11:05,85 ONLY for America is that we allowed Jesus Christ to be the Lord of Lords and King 62 00:11:05,86 --> 00:11:07,47 kings in America and where is 63 00:11:07,48 --> 00:11:12,08 a start with before Jesus can be the campaigns America where it is to be the king 64 00:11:12,09 --> 00:11:18,95 of kings lot of Lords and where the church after the church where about us 65 00:11:19,55 --> 00:11:21,40 in the US so I got 66 00:11:21,41 --> 00:11:26,79 a first for you to look at as exams sixty twelve. Sixty twelve says for the nation 67 00:11:27,08 --> 00:11:30,67 and the Kingdom which will not serve you will perish and the nations will be 68 00:11:30,68 --> 00:11:37,62 utterly ruined they use who God for the nation and the Kingdom which will not 69 00:11:37,63 --> 00:11:42,92 serve God will perish in the nations will be utterly ruined what this is saying is 70 00:11:42,93 --> 00:11:44,96 a nation that turns its back on God 71 00:11:44,97 --> 00:11:47,94 a nation that says we want no more to do with God as 72 00:11:47,95 --> 00:11:54,14 a nation that will fall. And I would argue one of the great examples that is the 73 00:11:54,15 --> 00:11:55,11 nation of Israel 74 00:11:55,12 --> 00:12:01,06 a nation of Israel turned their back on God multitude because of what happened they 75 00:12:01,07 --> 00:12:05,09 would go into bondage over and over again if you read the Old Testament should read 76 00:12:05,10 --> 00:12:08,48 the Old Testament the Bible says the New Testament says you read the Old Testament 77 00:12:08,49 --> 00:12:13,21 has examples for us this is as Christians read the Old Testament not to follow 78 00:12:13,22 --> 00:12:16,39 everything the Old Testament teaches but for his example if you read the Old 79 00:12:16,40 --> 00:12:18,83 Testament you read that the nation of Israel would have 80 00:12:18,84 --> 00:12:21,07 a judge and the judge would rule over the nation for 81 00:12:21,08 --> 00:12:25,00 a period of time but that judge would turn his back on God and the judge would turn 82 00:12:25,01 --> 00:12:29,17 his back on God the nation would go into Paganism and God would walk away and 83 00:12:29,18 --> 00:12:33,77 they'd be conquered again then God raised up another judge that would be following 84 00:12:33,78 --> 00:12:38,39 after him and that judge may be good to follow God in the nation and turn from God 85 00:12:38,54 --> 00:12:42,53 and the nation would be destroyed and then you had kings and God said what other 86 00:12:42,54 --> 00:12:46,25 nation of Israel they kept saying we want to King we want to King says I'm your 87 00:12:46,26 --> 00:12:49,71 king they say they want to King but they were 88 00:12:49,72 --> 00:12:53,14 a theocracy there do all the theocracy that's ever been on the planet of the earth 89 00:12:54,09 --> 00:13:00,34 they were theocracy who was King God was king he was in charge the people said no 90 00:13:00,35 --> 00:13:04,74 no no we want to man we want to man and God speaks the prophet Samuel says you 91 00:13:04,75 --> 00:13:07,24 don't want to man to be your king because if you have a man to be 92 00:13:07,25 --> 00:13:13,100 a king he will start having you serve Him to build his kingdom you have to 93 00:13:14,01 --> 00:13:17,77 feed him and clothe him and all the relatives and build the temples the balances 94 00:13:17,78 --> 00:13:22,78 everything else you want but the people said we want was so they chose solemn saw 95 00:13:22,79 --> 00:13:25,79 they took because he looked like he was a king he was 96 00:13:25,80 --> 00:13:32,74 a real man and he led them down the path away from God So God raise 97 00:13:32,75 --> 00:13:37,07 up another king King David thinking David has this problem in his son Solomon and 98 00:13:37,08 --> 00:13:40,59 you go and you read the Bible there is king after King and then the nation splits 99 00:13:40,60 --> 00:13:40,66 in 100 00:13:40,67 --> 00:13:46,55 a divides. And you have this Southern. Which is two tribes the tribes of Judah and 101 00:13:46,56 --> 00:13:49,83 you have the Nordic king in this called The Kingdom of Israel or some area and it's 102 00:13:49,84 --> 00:13:53,77 ten tribes to separate kingdoms and they deal with that and to they go into 103 00:13:53,78 --> 00:13:57,92 captivity and now Israel is coming back together is as 104 00:13:57,93 --> 00:14:02,09 a nation because they are God's chosen people God will bring them back in the in 105 00:14:02,25 --> 00:14:06,74 but how much did they have to go through it can I tell you the way our country is 106 00:14:06,75 --> 00:14:12,37 going our countries divided you pick almost every issue if there isn't is about 107 00:14:12,38 --> 00:14:18,47 fifty fifty almost every issue it's fifty fifty it's not like seventy thirty 108 00:14:19,76 --> 00:14:25,64 the other they need the neat thing about Israel they at least did ten into the 109 00:14:25,65 --> 00:14:28,30 other problem the Tim of the ones that were the pagans in the two were the ones 110 00:14:28,31 --> 00:14:33,27 following God but out of that were split half and half you talk about and I don't 111 00:14:33,28 --> 00:14:37,02 care what subjugate you talk about abortion is going to be fifty fifty you talk 112 00:14:37,03 --> 00:14:40,97 about homosexuals marriage is going to be fifty fifty you talk about ice is fifty 113 00:14:40,98 --> 00:14:46,40 what we should do fifty fifty whatever it is our nation is divided and I'd argue 114 00:14:46,41 --> 00:14:49,46 the reason is divided because our focus is not on God we're focused on 115 00:14:49,47 --> 00:14:54,80 a party not on God You focus on Jesus Christ I think one party leans more towards 116 00:14:54,81 --> 00:15:01,21 a biblical principles absolutely absolutely the Republican Party leans more towards 117 00:15:01,68 --> 00:15:04,74 biblical principles whether you like it or not I don't care if you're Democrat I'm 118 00:15:04,75 --> 00:15:05,22 telling you been 119 00:15:05,23 --> 00:15:08,69 a Democrat and I know I shouldn't say that they're going to say it because it's the 120 00:15:08,70 --> 00:15:14,14 truth which party supports abortion the killing the innocent on URN babies but 121 00:15:14,15 --> 00:15:20,16 party supports almost sexual marriage totally against the Word of God the party to 122 00:15:20,20 --> 00:15:23,69 turns around their party platform two years ago their party platform they took out 123 00:15:23,70 --> 00:15:27,16 the name God out of their platform that should give you 124 00:15:27,16 --> 00:15:31,47 a hint what So then we take the other party talks all about God but has some of the 125 00:15:31,48 --> 00:15:37,57 most greedy politicians there is and could care less about 126 00:15:37,58 --> 00:15:39,90 a lot of the issues of the day so it isn't 127 00:15:39,91 --> 00:15:42,29 a party it has to be that we're for we see 128 00:15:42,30 --> 00:15:48,25 a Jesus Christ and him alone he's the answer so let's be real. I talked about this 129 00:15:48,26 --> 00:15:53,42 last May come out again this let's be real this be totally real America is not 130 00:15:53,43 --> 00:15:58,87 a Christian nation do you know that America is not a Christian nation never was 131 00:15:58,88 --> 00:16:03,12 a Christian nation talked about last week or about it they were going to come to 132 00:16:03,13 --> 00:16:04,86 some solutions but America was never 133 00:16:04,87 --> 00:16:07,55 a Christian nation how do we know that OK for America to be 134 00:16:07,56 --> 00:16:11,96 a Christian nation the founders had to be what Christians were all the founders of 135 00:16:11,97 --> 00:16:18,73 America Christians know many of them were Deists but are Diest 136 00:16:19,06 --> 00:16:21,62 that the AS believe that there is a God and they believe that God is 137 00:16:21,63 --> 00:16:22,48 a powerful God and 138 00:16:22,49 --> 00:16:27,74 a mighty god they believe that you should please that. A disbelief that you should 139 00:16:27,75 --> 00:16:31,52 please that God But they don't believe in it and have intimate relationship and 140 00:16:31,54 --> 00:16:33,33 they were not Christians D.S. 141 00:16:33,34 --> 00:16:36,75 Is not a Christian is not Buddhist is not a Muslim is not anything 142 00:16:36,93 --> 00:16:41,18 a distance to one who believes in God Now the DOE's who were D.S. 143 00:16:41,20 --> 00:16:45,32 Lean towards the Christian God So those who are Diest are D.S. 144 00:16:45,33 --> 00:16:49,91 That lean towards the Bible the God of the Bible but they were not Christian so if 145 00:16:49,93 --> 00:16:51,98 some of the founders were not Christians we cannot be 146 00:16:51,99 --> 00:16:58,89 a Christian nation now where some of the founders Christians absolutely remain 147 00:16:58,90 --> 00:17:04,11 even Christians absolutely where they ashame the Gospel Jesus Christ absolutely not 148 00:17:05,20 --> 00:17:10,62 read the founding father papers all the different articles that were written read 149 00:17:10,63 --> 00:17:15,99 what the early presidents are right and you will find that most of them trusted in 150 00:17:15,100 --> 00:17:21,43 the Bible for sure read their Christian not they believed in this Bible but most of 151 00:17:21,44 --> 00:17:25,40 them were made up of about five different denominations of that time and so they 152 00:17:25,41 --> 00:17:30,15 were all different denominations they are were all of one day domination at either 153 00:17:30,16 --> 00:17:32,90 a Diest or they were Christians but a nation was not 154 00:17:32,91 --> 00:17:37,86 a Christian nation it can't be a Christian nation because for appeared to be 155 00:17:37,87 --> 00:17:44,27 a Christian nation who asked to be King Jesus has to be king. Have you seen Jesus 156 00:17:44,28 --> 00:17:49,18 ever king of this nation ever he's never been king of this nation but was this 157 00:17:49,19 --> 00:17:55,36 nation founded on biblical principles absolutely if you look at the declaration of 158 00:17:55,37 --> 00:17:59,46 pended look at the Constitution you look at the Bill of Rights you look at all of 159 00:17:59,47 --> 00:18:03,19 our founding papers get fine you can have references to the Bible you have 160 00:18:03,20 --> 00:18:09,17 references to Bible principles that are there and so out of that we were founded on 161 00:18:09,18 --> 00:18:15,83 biblical principle. We're already one nation under God. And in 162 00:18:15,84 --> 00:18:20,60 a couple other secrets I pledge allegiance the United States of America one nation 163 00:18:20,61 --> 00:18:26,73 under God that was that pledge of allegiance in seven hundred seventy six though 164 00:18:27,85 --> 00:18:34,68 in my know when it came around in the fifty's OK In God we trust in our money it 165 00:18:34,69 --> 00:18:41,62 says In God We Trust did it say In God We Trust in the early money though came 166 00:18:41,63 --> 00:18:47,00 later on OK Those came later on so that wasn't part of our our founding was was and 167 00:18:47,01 --> 00:18:48,00 that but oh are we 168 00:18:48,01 --> 00:18:52,25 a nation that believes in God We man has an elbow writes Who says that man has 169 00:18:52,26 --> 00:18:55,37 enabled the rights is not doubt 170 00:18:55,38 --> 00:18:59,89 a biblical principle that all of us have rights as human beings that go up that you 171 00:18:59,90 --> 00:19:00,63 are worth as 172 00:19:00,64 --> 00:19:04,61 a biblical principle and you go along look at the Constitution you can read through 173 00:19:04,62 --> 00:19:05,96 it you can look at the declaration of 174 00:19:05,97 --> 00:19:09,50 a new Pinots and you can see that it's very clear their nation is full of typical 175 00:19:09,51 --> 00:19:13,76 principles if you look at the presidents of United States you look at the writings 176 00:19:13,98 --> 00:19:19,07 how many times they call for prayer for prayer and many times when they call for 177 00:19:19,08 --> 00:19:23,59 prayer who they pray to they pray to the Christian God they don't pray to Muslim 178 00:19:23,60 --> 00:19:25,21 God it upgrade all law 179 00:19:26,50 --> 00:19:32,84 a law if you look at Muslims were not involved in the founding of America were not 180 00:19:32,85 --> 00:19:36,12 involved whatsoever in fact if you read some of the writings one of the Thomas 181 00:19:36,13 --> 00:19:39,91 Jefferson and he actually wrote some things to say one of these we do as 182 00:19:39,92 --> 00:19:45,03 a nation to protect ourselves from what's taken place with the Muslim world so 183 00:19:45,04 --> 00:19:45,73 we're not we're not 184 00:19:45,74 --> 00:19:51,97 a Muslim country. We are country that was based upon Christian principles Bible 185 00:19:51,98 --> 00:19:53,53 principles we want 186 00:19:53,54 --> 00:19:57,67 a Christian nation the reason I say that is because Christians will go and they'll 187 00:19:57,68 --> 00:19:59,29 take it to the extreme and say we're 188 00:19:59,46 --> 00:20:04,72 a Christian nation so we need to bring back God back in you know we're 189 00:20:04,73 --> 00:20:07,92 a nation that believes in biblical principles and it's OK for God to be in the 190 00:20:07,93 --> 00:20:13,75 marketplace it's OK for God to involve and how many know it in just Bill and some 191 00:20:13,76 --> 00:20:17,33 foundation their own to get into some solutions I want to want to I want to get 192 00:20:17,34 --> 00:20:23,15 still distill lies deceptions half truths because one side lanes from one way and 193 00:20:23,16 --> 00:20:28,97 those leans another way that out of our nation when you look at our nation is 194 00:20:28,98 --> 00:20:32,72 really in our Constitution says there are certain religions that cannot be practice 195 00:20:32,73 --> 00:20:39,19 in America bill of rights freedom of religion did of our founding 196 00:20:39,20 --> 00:20:43,97 father start America so they could make it this certain religions cannot be 197 00:20:43,98 --> 00:20:50,53 practiced no nothing in there whatsoever why was America started it was the 198 00:20:50,54 --> 00:20:55,20 opposite of that it was the fact that what they did they left Great Britain they 199 00:20:55,21 --> 00:20:59,51 left England why because it was the Church of England the country is controlled and 200 00:20:59,52 --> 00:21:05,06 if you were part of the Church of England you had no freedom that was one reason 201 00:21:05,07 --> 00:21:08,62 our nation was started so they left that was the Church of England you would call 202 00:21:08,63 --> 00:21:14,63 that Christian it's the church here if you take the and we can church over there 203 00:21:14,64 --> 00:21:18,49 the church here but it was Bush in what was 204 00:21:18,50 --> 00:21:21,85 a certain former Christianity said if you didn't honor this from a Christian and 205 00:21:21,86 --> 00:21:22,26 a T. 206 00:21:22,36 --> 00:21:26,20 You would be persecuted so they started came to America so what So there could be 207 00:21:26,21 --> 00:21:30,45 freedom whatever their religion there was whatever practice there was now all of 208 00:21:30,46 --> 00:21:34,72 them came not as Muslims they didn't come as Buddhist there was 209 00:21:34,73 --> 00:21:40,55 a move just on the boats. The Muslims in the US are Christians on the bolts but 210 00:21:40,56 --> 00:21:44,10 they came and they came for freedom to have for 211 00:21:44,11 --> 00:21:47,73 a bit to practice their religion the way they had it now did they lean towards 212 00:21:47,74 --> 00:21:51,97 Christianity Absolutely but nothing in our Constitution says that there's any 213 00:21:51,98 --> 00:21:57,73 religion they can be honored but does that mean what we do that as Christians we 214 00:21:57,74 --> 00:22:03,96 have be silent so others can rise up and have their or opinion is that what we do 215 00:22:03,97 --> 00:22:08,74 as Christians we say well we want freedom of religion so what I want to do is you 216 00:22:08,75 --> 00:22:11,63 know what I want to tax dollars to go to 217 00:22:12,09 --> 00:22:15,77 a Satanic temple would use 218 00:22:15,78 --> 00:22:21,34 a Christian support tax dollars going to say tanning temple I hope not but I'm 219 00:22:21,35 --> 00:22:25,26 a challenge you should government money go for 220 00:22:25,27 --> 00:22:27,100 a Christian church to be built sure taxes build 221 00:22:28,01 --> 00:22:34,80 a Christian church I say no I say No Why 222 00:22:36,32 --> 00:22:41,18 why separation of church and state I listen to me this get that right because I try 223 00:22:41,19 --> 00:22:43,53 to set you all up a separation church or state as people have 224 00:22:43,54 --> 00:22:48,71 a wrong concept of that is that our purpose of our government in the way it was 225 00:22:48,72 --> 00:22:55,22 established was to protect the church from what the government 226 00:22:55,90 --> 00:23:02,76 was it to protect the government from the church No it was to protect us from the 227 00:23:02,78 --> 00:23:07,32 government it was not to protect the government from the church so can the church 228 00:23:07,33 --> 00:23:10,46 have influence in the government absolutely but does it mean only Christians can 229 00:23:10,47 --> 00:23:15,08 have influence on the government who can have influence on the government every 230 00:23:15,10 --> 00:23:21,17 vendor of whatever religion they are every voter there is and so out of it I do not 231 00:23:21,18 --> 00:23:25,97 want tax dollars going I do not believe in fact I believe absolutely is Insta law 232 00:23:26,14 --> 00:23:27,53 for the tax dollars to go to build 233 00:23:27,54 --> 00:23:29,94 a church why because you don't tax dollars to build 234 00:23:29,95 --> 00:23:36,10 a church what do you have to love. Then turn around they have control over it plus 235 00:23:36,38 --> 00:23:38,19 then tax dollars can go to pay for 236 00:23:38,32 --> 00:23:43,06 a state and tannic temple or whatever it may be and so their separation there for 237 00:23:43,07 --> 00:23:47,40 a purpose now what happens with Christians because I got to be careful as I go to 238 00:23:47,41 --> 00:23:52,54 get to my to the solutions but here's what happens because Christians don't have 239 00:23:52,55 --> 00:23:56,82 this foundation talking about this understand talk about they go off into extremes 240 00:23:57,01 --> 00:24:00,06 and what happens they lose the ability to make 241 00:24:00,07 --> 00:24:03,38 a difference because they go into places they shouldn't go into when they talk 242 00:24:03,39 --> 00:24:08,10 about certain things that they should talk to them people right off the going to 243 00:24:08,11 --> 00:24:15,09 say that isn't what the Constitution teaches So let me tell you something if 244 00:24:15,09 --> 00:24:18,72 we do think the government has some or any kind of organization then that means 245 00:24:18,73 --> 00:24:25,66 they can support any organization and I don't want them we don't have to 246 00:24:25,67 --> 00:24:29,22 worry about the government supporting the church because the church has WHO IS IT 247 00:24:29,23 --> 00:24:36,21 support Jesus Christ God US So if we don't 248 00:24:36,22 --> 00:24:40,67 like something happening we have freedom in America to speak and we don't need to 249 00:24:40,68 --> 00:24:44,99 make the good side we just need G.'s on our side and Jesus will work in the midst 250 00:24:44,100 --> 00:24:48,69 of all that goes on so what's happened because the church has been silent because 251 00:24:48,70 --> 00:24:54,43 the churches embrace the world because the church has become the rule. Now all of 252 00:24:54,44 --> 00:24:58,35 a sudden everything else has more power more authority everything else has more 253 00:24:58,52 --> 00:25:02,43 influence and so what happens is the encourages to get mad they say what we need to 254 00:25:02,44 --> 00:25:05,54 do is we need to vote in these people and I believe in voting we need 255 00:25:05,55 --> 00:25:09,81 a vote in these people we need to do this we need to do that we lose our rights we 256 00:25:09,82 --> 00:25:14,50 lost our rights because we haven't been a light we haven't shown 257 00:25:14,51 --> 00:25:20,06 a reason for there to be the church to have them Florence that halves and so we 258 00:25:20,07 --> 00:25:23,89 haven't been the light we haven't been who God's called us to be because of that or 259 00:25:23,96 --> 00:25:24,69 America goes 260 00:25:24,70 --> 00:25:31,14 a certain way so the solution isn't what we need to do is that make 261 00:25:31,15 --> 00:25:37,32 everybody in the government all Christians. If Allah politicians or Christians will 262 00:25:37,33 --> 00:25:43,88 be OK OK Most church is made up of all Christians of the church OK 263 00:25:45,62 --> 00:25:50,41 church is sick the American church is sick so the solution is all Christians in the 264 00:25:50,42 --> 00:25:52,10 government we got 265 00:25:52,11 --> 00:25:56,88 a problem because we have churches and churches in A doesn't work because we have 266 00:25:56,89 --> 00:25:59,74 to turn a life's over it isn't the answer of everybody being a Christian is 267 00:25:59,76 --> 00:26:03,51 a body being sold out for Jesus Christ there is a difference between being 268 00:26:03,52 --> 00:26:09,06 a Christian is sought out for Jesus Christ and so what we're looking for is the 269 00:26:09,07 --> 00:26:14,76 nation we shouldn't be looking for everything has to do with the government is the 270 00:26:14,77 --> 00:26:19,64 answer who should be the answer God be the answer so America's had some problems 271 00:26:19,65 --> 00:26:20,23 we're going to take 272 00:26:20,24 --> 00:26:24,71 a look at it but first what I want to do is look at politics is not the answer 273 00:26:24,72 --> 00:26:28,59 political candidates political parties political rhetoric political hypocrisy is 274 00:26:28,60 --> 00:26:34,85 not the answer how to know that because it will hurt Yes well we've had Republican 275 00:26:34,98 --> 00:26:37,74 presidents we have Democratic presidents we're still 276 00:26:37,75 --> 00:26:41,07 a mess we have Republican Democratic congressman we still got 277 00:26:41,08 --> 00:26:43,66 a mess they can't even fix it guess what we have we have 278 00:26:43,67 --> 00:26:50,53 a Democratic president and Republican Congress and we can't fix the mess. And other 279 00:26:50,54 --> 00:26:55,02 times we've had every public and president Democratic congressmen can't fix the 280 00:26:55,03 --> 00:26:57,96 mess other times they have a Democratic president 281 00:26:57,97 --> 00:27:02,86 a Congress they can't fix their mess in public and President Congressmen can't fix 282 00:27:02,87 --> 00:27:06,47 the mess because it's not politics politics is not the answer the solution for the 283 00:27:06,48 --> 00:27:12,16 trouble in America is Jesus Christ Lord of Lords and King of Kings the salacious 284 00:27:12,17 --> 00:27:16,15 prying the principles and guidelines found the script you have been listening to 285 00:27:16,16 --> 00:27:21,07 there is so with Pastor Richard over through Jesus Christ we can live 286 00:27:21,08 --> 00:27:27,64 a victorious life. Seattle open door church located in period committed to loving 287 00:27:27,65 --> 00:27:32,56 God loving people and loving life so you have an open door church wants you to know 288 00:27:32,57 --> 00:27:36,70 that regardless of where you've been or what you've done God loves you there are 289 00:27:36,71 --> 00:27:41,15 doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are Sunday mornings at eleven 290 00:27:41,41 --> 00:27:45,57 Seattle open door church is located at six twenty five south west one hundred forty 291 00:27:45,58 --> 00:27:48,99 ninth Street in period next to the southwest courthouse.