TODAY ON TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
OUR PROGRESSIVE CULTURE HAS HIJACKED THE WORD JUSTICE.
THE DECONSTRUCTING OF AMERICA IS IN MANY WAYS INTENTIONAL
TO GIVE WAY TO A GLOBAL MARXIST POLICE STATE.
WELCOME TO TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM,
A PRODUCTION OF CORAL RIDGE MINISTRIES.
THOUGH WE CELEBRATE AMERICA’S BIRTHDAY IN JULY,
MANY DO NOT CELEBRATE.
IN FACT, IT HAS BECOME QUITE FASHIONABLE
OVER THE PAST HALF-CENTURY
TO VIEW AMERICA AS THE ENEMY AND
TO CAST HER HISTORY IN THE MOST NEGATIVE POSSIBLE LIGHT.
ON TODAY’S PROGRAM, WE’LL LOOK AT HOW DO JUSTICE AND
TO BE A BLESSING TO THE NATIONS IN AN AGE OF FALSE JUSTICE.
AND WE BEGIN WITH A LOOK AT HOW TRENDY MARXIST IDEAS HAVE
TRAINED A GENERATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE TO REJECT PATRIOTISM
AND EMBRACE THOSE FALSE IDEAS OF JUSTICE.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED...
MANY OF US CAN STILL REMEMBER STARTING THE SCHOOL DAY
BY STANDING AND RECITING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
BUT TODAY IN MANY AREAS OF THE COUNTRY ANY FORM OF PATRIOTISM
IS BEING LOOKED AT AS BEING RACISTS AND DIVISIVE.
PATRIOTISM WHICH IS SIMPLY THE LOVE FOR OR DEVOTION TO
ONE'S OWN COUNTRY HAS BEEN UNDER ATTACK FOR DECADES
AS THIS GLOBALIST AGENDA HAS BEEN PUSHED ON SOCIETY
AND WE ARE NOW REAPING THE CONSEQUENCES.
I BELIEVE THERE IS A WAR ON AMERICA AS AMERICA WAS FOUNDED.
I'VE OFTEN ASKED THE QUESTION, IF 2024 HAD BEEN 1776,
WOULD WE EVEN HAVE AN AMERICA?
UNFORTUNATELY, THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE CULTURAL ZEITGEIST NOW
THAT SAYS AMERICA IS EVIL.
SHE'S NOT WORTH PROTECTING. SHE'S A TERRIBLE NATION.
WELL, THERE'S NOTHING THAT COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.
TO BE BORN IN AMERICA IS SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE DON’T
REALIZE THE VALUE OF WHAT THEY HAVE AND ITS VERY DISMAYING.
THE YOUTH OF AMERICA HAVE NOT BEEN TAUGHT
TO APPRECIATE THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA'S HISTORY.
EDUCATORS TODAY ARE DEFINING AMERICA BY
FOCUSING ON THE WORST PARTS OF OUR HISTORY,
DIMINISHING OUR CHILDREN’S SENSE OF PATRIOTISM.
TODAY'S EDUCATION SYSTEM BELIEVES THAT
AMERICA IS FLAWED AT ITS VERY FOUNDATION.
THEY'RE WRONG, BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY BELIEVE.
SO THEY HAVE TAUGHT YOUNG PEOPLE FROM KINDERGARTEN UP
THAT AMERICA IS FLAWED AT ITS FOUNDING.
AND THAT'S WHAT YOU DO IF YOU'RE GOING TO DESTROY A CULTURE.
AMERICA DOES NOT NEED THAT,
WE NEED TO BE UNIFIED AND
ONE OF THE MESSAGES OF 1776 IS TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.
WE STAND TOGETHER OR WE FALL AS A NATION BECAUSE
AMERICA IS TOO DIVERSE FOR EVERY GROUP TO BE ITS OWN
SEPARATE GROUP AS OPPOSED TO BEING THE WHOLE OF AMERICA,
UNITED WE’RE STRONG, DIVIDED WE FALL.
ANTI-PATRIOTISM IS A SURGING SOCIO-POLITICAL TREND.
ACCORDING TO POLLING DATA THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY'RE
"EXTREMELY PROUD" TO BE AN AMERICAN HAS BEEN FALLING
CONTINUALLY SINCE REACHING A MODERN ERA HIGH AFTER
THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.
THE YOUNG GENERATION IS NOT PROUD TO BE AMERICANS AND
I WOULD TELL YOU THAT IT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW HISTORY.
THEY DON'T KNOW THE SACRIFICES PEOPLE MADE,
THAT WE MIGHT BE A GREAT COUNTRY.
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE RECENT POLLING THAT SAID,
ONLY 18% OF AMERICANS UNDER THE AGE OF 30
THINK IT'S A GREAT THING TO BE AMERICAN.
GO BACK AND THINK ABOUT HOW THESE YOUNG PEOPLE BACK IN
THE 1940S WERE LYING ABOUT THEIR AGE SO THAT THEY COULD GO AND
FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIAL JAPAN, FASCIST ITALY,
AND THE NAZI GERMANY.
AND NOW HERE TODAY WE HAVE THESE EXACT DEMOGRAPHIC
THAT THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO AMERICA.
AND I THINK THAT IT PLAYS OUT IN WHAT WE SEE HAPPEN IN OUR
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES WHEN THESE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE
OUT THERE SUPPORTING AN ISLAMIC TERRORIST GROUP,
WHICH ON OCTOBER THE SEVENTH OF 2023
KILLED AMERICANS AND STILL HOLDING AMERICA'S HOSTAGE.
I GOT TO SAY THIS AS NICE AS I CAN,
THE PEOPLE THAT HATE AMERICA LIVE HERE,
THE PEOPLE THAT HATE AMERICA
BENEFIT FROM THE AMERICAN VALUE SYSTEM.
AND THEN THEY WANT TO TURN AROUND
AND ESSENTIALLY SPIT ON THE FLAG AND SAY, OH,
AMERICA'S BROKE AND AMERICA'S ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS.
I JUST THINK IT'S BEING UNGRATEFUL.
WE'RE ESSENTIALLY SPOILED AS A NATION.
AND I BELIEVE THAT THE DECONSTRUCTING OF AMERICA
IS IN MANY WAYS INTENTIONAL
TO GIVE WAY TO A GLOBAL MARXIST POLICE STATE.
THE PLAN OF THE CULTURAL MARXISTS IS TO REPLACE
TRADITIONAL PATRIOTISM WITH A DIFFERENT VERSION OF WHAT
IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN, ONE THAT ELIMINATES GOD
FROM THE CORE OF OUR NATION’S FOUNDING.
BEING TAUGHT THESE LEFTIST VIEWS IT HAS SPURRED YOUNG PEOPLE
TO TURN AGAINST HISTORICAL AMERICAN VALUES.
ONE OF THE TACTICS THAT THE LEFT IS USING TODAY
IS TO LABEL ANYONE WHO HAS
THE AUDACITY TO LOVE GOD AND COUNTRY,
THEY'RE CALLING THEM WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS
AS IF TO LOVE GOD AND TO LOVE YOUR COUNTRY.
TO BE A PATRIOT IS A WRONG THING.
ALL THAT IS; IS A STRAW MAN CREATED.
THERE'S NO TRUTH TO IT CREATED TO TRY TO MAKE THOSE WHO LOVE
GOD AND COUNTRY FEARFUL AND CAUSE THEM TO BE SILENT.
THE LEFT DERIDES ANYBODY WHO PROFESSES A LOVE
FOR THEIR COUNTRY, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE,
AS SOME KIND OF BIGOT WHO NECESSARILY
HATES OTHER COUNTRIES. IT’S NOT TRUE.
BUT IF YOU FOLLOW WHAT THEY’RE TRYING TO SAY,
IT’S BECAUSE THEY DON’T THINK
PEOPLE CAN TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES,
THEY DON’T THINK PEOPLE SHOULD BE DIVIDED
INTO COUNTRIES OF THEIR OWN CHOOSING.
THEY THINK THAT PEOPLE LIKE GEORGE SOROS, WEALTHY ELITES,
THESE GLOBALISTS SHOULD CONTROL EVERYBODY AND
TELL THEM HOW TO LIVE THEIR LIVES,
BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT GLOBALISM IS ALL ABOUT.
AS STEWARDS OF WHAT THE LORD IS ENTRUSTED TO US,
WE STAND, WE PRAY, WE SPEAK.
YES, WE FIGHT FOR TRUTH, AND WE'VE GOT TO CARE MORE ABOUT
WHAT IS TRUE THAN THE MARXISTS CARE ABOUT WHAT IS FALSE.
WE MUST PRESERVE OUR NATION AND NOT JUST GIVE UP.
IN HIS COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, KARL MARX WRITES,
SO, IN THE MARXIST VIEW YOU MUST ELIMINATE GOD FROM SOCIETY
BY REPLACING BIBLICAL JUSTICE THEREBY,
REMOVING GOD GIVEN RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES.
AND SO IF WE WANT TO MAINTAIN A COUNTRY THAT HAS
INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES THAT ARE ROOTED IN GOD,
WE HAVE TO FIGHT THE FORCES THAT ARE COMING FROM
THE UNITED NATIONS, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION,
AND IN PARTICULAR RIGHT NOW, THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
AND WE SAW UNDER THE CORONA VIRUS HOW VERY QUICKLY AN AGENDA SUCH
AS THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IS PROMOTING AND PUSHING,
CALLED THE GREAT RESET, NOT A CONSPIRACY.
IT'S VERY DISTURBING FOR THOSE WHO CHERISH AMERICAN LIBERTIES.
IT’S INCUMBENT UPON US AS INDIVIDUAL AMERICANS
TO LOVE THE NATION THAT WE LIVE IN,
NOT TO THINK IT'S PERFECT BECAUSE IT IS NOT,
BUT TO LOVE THAT NATION,
BECAUSE THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH BLOOD AND TREASURE
THAT HAS BEEN SPENT IN HELPING THIS NATION
TO GET TO WHERE IT IS TODAY TO BE
THE MOST IMPORTANT NATION IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
DOES THAT SOUND ARROGANT?
NO, I DON'T THINK SO BECAUSE WHEN AMERICA DOES WELL,
WHEN AMERICA IS IN ITS “A” GAME,
THE WHOLE WORLD PROSPERS FROM IT,
OUR ADVERSARIES TREMBLE, BUT OUR ALLIES STAND WITH US.
SO, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN.
AND THAT TRANSLATES INTO WHAT I CONSIDER TO BE PATRIOTISM.
WE ARE MOVING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION.
WHERE CROSSES WENT DOWN THEY COME BACK THEY’D COME BACK UP.
WHERE 10 COMMANDMENTS WERE PUT IN CLOSETS THEY COME BACK OUT.
THE LANDMARK SUPREME COURT RULING CONFIRMED THAT IT IS
NOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO ACKNOWLEDGE GOD IN PUBLIC LIFE.
AND THERE IS SOMETHING YOU AND I CAN DO RIGHT NOW
TO RESTORE GOD TO PUBLIC PLACES.
A FEDERAL JUDGE BANISHED THE GRANITE 10 COMMANDMENTS MONUMENT
FROM THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT BUILDING IN 2003 BUT
YOUR SIGNATURE ON OUR RESTORE THE 10 COMMANDMENTS PETITION
WILL HELP PERSUADE THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT
TO RETURN GOD'S LAW TO PUBLIC DISPLAY
GO TO CRM.TV TODAY TO SIGN THE PETITION.
HELP US MOVE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION.
IF YOU STAND YOU’VE GOT THE FREEDOM, WE’VE GOT THE MOMENTUM
AND I THINK WE CAN TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK.
BUT THAT’S GOING TO DEPEND UPON THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY.
PLEASE SIGN THE RESTORE THE 10 COMMANDMENTS PETITION AND
TOGETHER WE WILL LIFT UP CHRIST IN AMERICA AS LORD OF ALL.
WHEN GRATITUDE AND HUMILITY ARE REPLACED
WITH RESENTMENT AND ARROGANCE,
IT’S NOT MUCH OF A SURPRISE WHEN A GENERATION
OF YOUNG PEOPLE SPURNS THE BLESSINGS OF THEIR COUNTRY AND
DISDAINS THE FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY IT HAS OFFERED.
AND IT’S ALSO NOT MUCH OF A SURPRISE
THAT DEPRESSION, APATHY, AND DISEASES OF DESPAIR
ARE GROWING RAPIDLY AMONG OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.
THEY NEED TO HEAR THE TRUTH MORE THAN EVER,
WHICH IS WHY I RECENTLY SHARED A MESSAGE WITH
OUR CONGREGATION HERE AT CORAL RIDGE
DRAWN FROM THE PSALMS, ENTITLED “BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING.”
THE WORD OF GOD COMES TO US THROUGH PSALM 67 THIS MORNING,
A PSALM THAT SPEAKS TO OUR CALLING AS THE PEOPLE OF GOD,
OUR CALLING TO BE BLESSED IN ORDER TO BE A BLESSING,
PSALM 67.
THE GRASS WITHERS, THE FLOWER FADES,
BUT NO, NOT THE WORD OF THE LORD.
IT STANDS FOREVER. AMEN.
YOU MAY BE SEATED.
WE ARE BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING.
GOD NEVER CALLS US IN WITHOUT SENDING US OUT.
THAT IS THE MISSION AND THE CALLING OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD;
BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING.
LET’S STUDY IT TOGETHER IN PSALM 67.
THE FIRST THING I WANT TO POINT OUT REGARDING OUR CALLING AS
THE PEOPLE OF GOD IS THE SCOPE OF THIS CALLING.
WHAT EXACTLY IS PSALM 67 CALLING THE PEOPLE OF GOD TO DO
IN LIGHT OF THE BLESSING THAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED FROM GOD.
IN VERSE 2 IT SAYS WE ARE TO MAKE THIS GOD KNOWN AND
IT’S A CALL TO EVANGELISM THAT GOES BEYOND
THE PHYSICAL PEOPLE OF GOD HERE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
FORESHADOWING THE GREAT COMMISSION.
WHEN JESUS WOULD EVENTUALLY SAY GO AND
TAKE THE GOSPEL TO JERUSALEM AND JUDEA AND SAMARIA
AND THE OUTER MOST PARTS OF THE WORLD,
IT IS BEING FORESHADOWED HERE IN PSALM 67,
GO TAKE THE GOOD NEWS OF YAHWEH AND HIS SALVATION TO THE WORLD.
PSALM 67 IS THE SCOPE OF THE CALLING OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD,
AS YOU HAVE BEEN BLESSED,
YOU HAVE RECEIVED THE FAVOR OF THE SAVING KNOWLEDGE
OF JESUS CHRIST AND YOU ARE TO NOT REMAIN SILENT,
BUT YOU ARE TO TAKE YOUR FAITH AND MAKE IT A PUBLIC FAITH
SO THAT THE NATIONS WOULD BE MADE GLAD.
WE BLESS THE WORLD THROUGH TELLING THEM THAT THERE ONLY ONE
NAME UNDER HEAVEN AND UNDER EARTH IN WHICH MAN CAN BE SAVED.
THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD
AND YOU CANNOT FIND LIFE ANYWHERE ELSE,
EXCEPT THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.
THIS IS OUR MISSION AND THE WAY THAT WE BLESS THE NATIONS.
SECOND THING, WE NOT ONLY SEE THE SCOPE OF OUR CALLING
BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING,
BUT WE SEE THE SECOND THING IS THE CONFIDENCE IN THIS CALLING.
WHAT GUARANTEE DO WE HAVE AS WE GO OUT AND WE ADVANCE AND
DECLARE AND DEMONSTRATE THE SAVING POWER AND KNOWLEDGE
OF GOD TO THE NATIONS?
WHAT CONFIDENCE DO WE HAVE IN THIS CALLING?
WELL, THERE'S A FEW THINGS WE SEE IN THIS PASSAGE, BUT
ONE THING IN PARTICULAR, WE HAVE THE CONFIDENCE, IN VERSE FOUR,
THAT JUSTICE AND EQUITY IS COMING.
THE WORLD IS BROKEN.
THE WORLD IS MESSED UP.
AND FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, HUMANITY HAS BEEN TRYING TO
FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE IT RIGHT AGAIN
AND VERSE FOUR TELLS US,
LET THE NATIONS BE GLAD. WHY?
FOR YOU JUDGE THE PEOPLE WITH EQUITY AND
YOU GUIDE THE NATIONS UPON EARTH.
GOD, YOU ARE THE SOVEREIGN GOD WHO RULES THE NATIONS AND
YOU RULE IT IN SUCH A WAY THAT JUSTICE AND EQUITY
IS MADE KNOWN AND MADE A REALITY.
WE GO ABOUT OUR CALLING AS THE PEOPLE OF GOD,
BECAUSE WE HAVE THE ONLY MESSAGE AND
THE ONLY GOD THAT CAN ACTUALLY MAKE THIS WORLD RIGHT AGAIN.
NOW THAT WORD JUSTICE IS A CONTROVERSIAL WORD,
UNFORTUNATELY.
AND THE REASON THE IDEA OF JUSTICE,
EVEN WHEN WE SEE IT WRITTEN IN SCRIPTURE
IS CONTROVERSIAL IS BECAUSE OUR
PROGRESSIVE CULTURE HAS HIJACKED THE WORD JUSTICE.
AND NOW WE NO LONGER, ONLY OPERATE
WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF BIBLICAL JUSTICE,
BUT IT CONFLICTS WITH THE SECULAR CULTURE'S
UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THEY CALL SOCIAL JUSTICE.
SO WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOCIAL JUSTICE
THAT OUR SECULAR CULTURE PROMOTES AND
THE JUSTICE THAT IS PROMISED HERE IN THE WORD OF GOD?
WELL, THERE'S A FEW WAYS IN WHICH YOU CAN DISTINGUISH IT.
ONE IS WE DISTINGUISH THE TWO IDEAS OF JUSTICE,
ACCORDING TO THE STANDARD OF JUSTICE.
BIBLICAL JUSTICE, AS IT'S DEFINED HERE
AND THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE,
IS DEFINED BY UPHOLDING THE STANDARD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
CRITICAL SOCIAL JUSTICE IS SUBJECTIVE HUMAN OPINION.
SO IT REALLY IS IN THE EYE OF ANY SUBJECTIVE HUMAN BEING
AND IT BECOMES RELATIVE JUSTICE.
SO WHAT HAPPENS IN A CULTURE
WHEN WE NEGLECT AND REJECT TRUE BIBLICAL JUSTICE,
UPHOLDING GOD'S STANDARD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
HIS OBJECTIVE ABSOLUTE TRUTH, AND WE EMBRACE A CRITICAL
SECULAR SOCIAL JUSTICE IS YOU DIVIDE THE CULTURE.
YOU DIVIDE THE CULTURE AND SOCIETY BETWEEN
THE OPPRESSED AND THE OPPRESSOR.
YOU ARE ANIMATED BY A SPIRIT OF DECONSTRUCTION WHERE YOU ARE
DECONSTRUCTING AND DISMANTLING THE POWER SYSTEMS OF THIS WORLD.
AND ARBITRARILY REDISTRIBUTING POWER TO WHOEVER IN CULTURE
IS DEEMED THE MINORITY OR THE LESS ADVANTAGED,
BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, THE CRIES OF JUSTICE
AND THE CALL FOR JUSTICE IN OUR SECULAR CULTURE
LEADS MORE TO THE CONFUSION AND THE CHAOS OF OUR WORLD
BECAUSE IT LEADS TO MORE DIVISION AND MORE BROKENNESS
AND IT IS ONLY WHEN THE PEOPLE OF GOD
REDEEM AND RECAPTURE THE IDEA OF BIBLICAL JUSTICE
AND ADVANCE THE IDEA OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUS STANDARD FOR THE WORLD
THAT THE NATIONS ARE ACTUALLY BLESSED.
SO CRITICAL SOCIAL JUSTICE, LEADS TO ABORTION ON DEMAND
IN THE NAME OF REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE.
SOCIALISM IS ADVANCED IN THE NAME OF ECONOMIC JUSTICE
AND YOU CAN TAKE EVERY MODERN CULTURAL IDEOLOGY
AND JUST SLAP THE TITLE JUSTICE NEXT TO IT.
AS CHRISTIANS DO WE WANT JUSTICE?
YOU BET YOU.
BUT NOT AS THE WORLD DEFINES, OUR CRY FOR JUSTICE
IS THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, PERIOD.
THAT IS OUR CONFIDENCE IN OUR CALLING FOR JUSTICE AND EQUITY.
WE HAVE THE SCOPE OF OUR CALLING.
WE HAVE THE CONFIDENCE IN OUR CALLING,
THAT GOD'S WORD AND
HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE IS MAKING THE WORLD RIGHT AGAIN.
BUT THIRD, AND LASTLY, WHAT IS THE MOTIVATION FOR THIS CALLING?
WHAT IS THE MOTIVATION TO TRANSFORM INDIVIDUALS
LIKE YOU AND ME TO NOT WITHHOLD THE BLESSING FROM OTHERS,
BUT TO RECEIVE THE BLESSING AND THEN BE TURNED AROUND IN ORDER
TO BE A BLESSING TO OTHERS, TO BE A BLESSING TO THE NATIONS?
WELL, THE MOTIVATION COMES IN VERSE ONE, IT SAYS,
“MAY GOD BE GRACIOUS TO US AND BLESS US.”
THE BLESSING THAT HUMAN BEINGS LONG FOR IS NOT EARNED
AND IT IS NOT DESERVED BUT
IT WAS A CRY TO GOD TO BE GRACIOUS,
GOD IN LIGHT OF YOUR GRACE AND IN LIGHT OF YOUR MERCY,
WOULD YOU BLESS US AND SHOWER US
WITH YOUR FAVOR AND YOUR APPROVAL?
IT IS UNDERSTANDING THAT WE HAVE LOST THE FACE OF GOD
BECAUSE OF OUR SIN AND WITHOUT THE SOVEREIGN GRACE
AND MERCY OF GOD, WE DON'T STAND A CHANCE.
WE HAVE NOT BEEN BLESSED BECAUSE OF THE FAMILY
WE'VE BEEN BORN INTO OR BECAUSE OF OUR LAST NAME,
OR WE'VE DONE MORE GOOD THAN BAD.
WE HAVE RECEIVED THE BLESSING OF GOD SOLELY
BECAUSE OF THE GRACE AND THE MERCY OF GOD
IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED THE BLESSING AND THE FAVOR OF GOD,
WE, THE PEOPLE OF GOD, ARE THE AGENTS OF BENEDICTION,
AGENTS OF BENEDICTION TAKING THE BLESSING OF THE KING
AND SERVING AS THE KING'S PEOPLE,
TAKING THE KING'S BLESSING TO A LOST AND DYING WORLD,
THAT MY FRIENDS IS WHY YOU ARE HERE ON EARTH.
AND THEREFORE I HAVE NO BETTER WORD FOR YOU
THIS MORNING THAN THIS,
MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND MAY HE KEEP YOU,
MAY THE LORD MAKE HIS FACE SHINE UPON YOU
AND BE GRACIOUS UNTO YOU, MAY THE LORD LIFT UP HIS
COUNTENANCE UPON YOU AND GIVE YOU PEACE. AMEN
HI, I’M JENNIFER KENNEDY CASSIDY.
AS YOU JUST HEARD FROM DR. PACIENZA,
BIBLICAL JUSTICE AND GOD'S RIGHTEOUS STANDARD ARE
THE ONLY TRUE FOUNDATIONS FOR FREEDOM.
WITHOUT THEM, ALL WE HAVE LEFT ARE PEOPLE
FIGHTING EACH OTHER FOR POWER.
AND THAT’S WHAT YOU AND I ARE NOW SEEING IN OUR NATION.
GOD, IN HIS GRACE, MADE AMERICA THE FREEST NATION ON EARTH.
BUT THAT FREEDOM IS IN DANGER
AS OUR NATION DEPARTS FROM THAT BIBLICAL FABRIC AND
TRIES TO REINVENT JUSTICE AND FREEDOM ALONG MARXIST LINES.
PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT CAPABLE OF RESTRAINING THEMSELVES
ARE NOT CAPABLE OF SELF-GOVERNMENT.
AND AS FRIGHTENING AS IT IS,
WE’RE JUST ABOUT AT THAT POINT IN AMERICA.
WHICH IS WHY CORAL RIDGE MINISTRIES
WITH THE HELP OF GOOD FRIENDS AND PARTNERS LIKE YOU
IS CALLING OUR NATION BACK TO ITS GODLY CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION.
YOU’LL FIND FASCINATING AND ENCOURAGING DETAILS ABOUT
OUR RICH CHRISTIAN HERITAGE IN THE
FULLY ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER BOOK,
GOD’S PROMISES FOR THE AMERICAN PATRIOT.
IT’S OUR THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATION TO BRING THE
HOPE OF THE GOSPEL AND THE TRUTH OF GOD’S WORD
TO AMERICA THROUGH THIS MINISTRY.
GOD’S PROMISES FOR THE AMERICAN PATRIOT COMBINES HISTORICAL
EXCERPTS FROM THE SETTLERS AND FOUNDERS OF OUR NATION,
ALONG WITH PROMISES FROM GOD'S WORD,
SHOWING HOW BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES LAID THE FOUNDATION
FOR OUR CONSTITUTION
A FOUNDATION THAT WE NEED TO RETURN TO.
YOU’LL LOVE WHAT YOU READ AND MARVEL AT
WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR AMERICA.
AND IF YOU’RE ABLE TO GIVE A GENEROUS GIFT OF $40 OR MORE,
WE’LL SEND YOU THE BOOK PLUS OUR CLASSIC DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL,
ONE NATION UNDER GOD.
IT’S HOSTED BY MY DAD, DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY,
AND IT WAS SHOT ON LOCATION IN COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG,
YORKTOWN, AND MANY OTHER KEY HISTORICAL LOCATIONS.
TRACING OUR FREEDOM TO ITS CHRISTIAN, BIBLICAL ROOTS,
THIS PROGRAM FEATURES DEEPLY
KNOWLEDGEABLE HISTORICAL EXPERTS.
IT INVESTIGATES HOW THE SETTLERS AND FOUNDERS OF AMERICA RELIED
UPON THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD AND HIS REVEALED WORD IN THE BIBLE
AS THEIR LIGHT IN ESTABLISHING THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT.
YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN ARE TAUGHT TODAY
THAT WE HAVE A GODLESS CONSTITUTION,
AND THAT RELIGION IS TO BE EXCLUDED FROM GOVERNMENT.
BUT NOTHING COULD ACTUALLY BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH, AND
YOU’LL DISCOVER THE FACTS IN THIS CLASSIC DOCUMENTARY.
THAT’S THE INSPIRING BOOK,
GOD’S PROMISES FOR THE AMERICAN PATRIOT,
AS THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATION.
AND THE BOOK PLUS THE EYE-OPENING DVD PROGRAM,
ONE NATION UNDER GOD,
AS THANKS FOR YOUR GIFT OF $40 OR MORE.
IT’S FRIGHTENING, BUT THE TRUTH ABOUT
AMERICA’S GODLY HERITAGE IS SLIPPING AWAY,
THANKS TO THE LEFT’S AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN
TO ERASE OUR NATIONAL MEMORY.
BUT WHEN YOU GIVE, YOU’RE ENABLING US TO SPREAD THE TRUTH
ABOUT AMERICA AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY,
GOD’S WORD AND THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
PLEASE MAKE YOUR GIFT TODAY.
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IN JULY EACH YEAR WE MARK AMERICA’S BIRTHDAY,
AND IT’S A TIME OF PATRIOTIC CELEBRATIONS.
BUT PATRIOTISM HAS FALLEN ON HARD TIMES IN OUR DAY.
FOR DECADES, THE CRITICAL THEORISTS OF THE LEFT HAVE MADE
PATRIOTISM OUT TO BE SOMETHING PRIMITIVE AND IGNORANT.
RATHER THAN BEING DENIZENS OF OUR COUNTRY,
WE SHOULD ASPIRE TO BE WORLD CITIZENS, THEY TELL US.
EVEN JOHN LENNON SANG ABOUT IT FIFTY YEARS AGO
“IMAGINE THERE’S NO COUNTRIES.”
IN FACT, IT’S A MAJOR PART OF THE LEFT’S PROJECT
TO ERASE ALL DISTINCTIONS AND INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS
UNTIL WE’RE ONE EASILY CONTROLLABLE, AMORPHOUS BLOB.
BUT EVEN MANY CHRISTIANS HAVE BECOME CONFUSED ABOUT THE ISSUE.
SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE THEY’VE SWALLOWED THE FALSE IDEA THAT
IF YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN, YOU SHOULDN’T BE A PATRIOT,
OR THAT YOUR EARTHLY CITIZENSHIP SHOULDN’T MATTER.
BUT THIS IS A FALSE DICHOTOMY,
AND IT DOESN’T COME FROM THE BIBLE.
CERTAINLY, OUR CITIZENSHIP IN OUR NATION IS SECONDARY
TO OUR CITIZENSHIP IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
JESUS IS THE KING OVER ALL KINGS AND THE LORD OVER ALL LORDS.
AND, WE COULD ADD,
HE’S THE PRESIDENT OVER ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS.
BUT THAT DOESN’T ELIMINATE THOSE OTHER ENTITIES
IT JUST PUTS THEM IN THEIR PROPER PLACES.
IN REALITY, A LACK OF PATRIOTISM
USUALLY DISPLAYS A LACK OF GRATITUDE.
IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, WE READ THAT GOD
“MADE FROM ONE MAN EVERY NATION OF MANKIND TO LIVE
ON ALL THE FACE OF THE EARTH, HAVING DETERMINED ALLOTTED
PERIODS AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THEIR DWELLING PLACE.”
IT IS GOD WHO ORDAINED COUNTRIES,
AND IT’S GOD WHO ORDAINED WHERE EACH OF US WOULD LIVE
AND HE’S GOING TO BE GLORIFIED BY THEM.
IN THE BIBLE, AS THE JERUSALEM TEMPLE DECAYS,
HAGGAI PROPHECIES A NEW TEMPLE TO COME, SAYING,
“THE TREASURES OF ALL NATIONS SHALL COME IN,
AND I WILL FILL THIS HOUSE WITH GLORY, SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS.”
IN THE NEW JERUSALEM THAT COMES DOWN FROM HEAVEN,
THE APOSTLE JOHN TELLS US IN REVELATION
THAT JESUS WILL BE THE LAMP OF THE CITY, AND THAT
GOD IS GLORIFIED BY REDEEMING A PEOPLE
FROM EVERY NATION, TRIBE, AND TONGUE.
FAR FROM NOT MATTERING,
OUR NATIONAL AFFILIATION IS PART OF THE POINT OF IT ALL.
OUR PRIDE IN OUR NATION SHOULD NOT CAUSE US
TO VIOLATE GOD’S LAWS.
AND WE SHOULD NEVER PUT IT ABOVE GOD HIMSELF,
WHO IS THE ONE WHO EITHER BLESSES OR CURSES A NATION.
BUT IT’S ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE FOR
AN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN TO STOP AND SAY,
“LORD, THANK YOU FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
AND FOR PLACING ME IN IT.
THANK YOU FOR THE ENORMOUS GIFTS OF FREEDOM
AND PROSPERITY YOU’VE GIVEN US.
AND LORD, PLEASE FORGIVE MY NATION NOW
AS IT TURNS AWAY FROM YOU, AND BRING US REPENTANCE.”
IF YOU FIND IT DIFFICULT TO PRAY THAT PRAYER,
IT JUST MIGHT BE THAT A GRATITUDE CHECK IS IN ORDER.
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