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For the next boy, I tell you 
what, everything that we read in

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the Old Testament is such a 
wonderful picture of what Jesus 

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Christ did for us in the New 
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on the cross, shed his blood. 
Well, I tell you, if you don't 

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know Jesus Christ as your 
Savior, you don't know what 

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you're missing out on. 
We get all of this is a 

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wonderful life. 
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life is is perfect, doesn't mean
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doesn't mean that there's no 
hardship, doesn't mean that 

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there's not things that you're 
going to go through in this life

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that are difficult. 
We have a wonderful life as 

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Christians and we get all of 
this and then heaven when it's 

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all over, what a wonderful thing
that is, man, to know Christ as 

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your Savior, to not have to 
worry about death, to not have 

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to worry about what happens 
after this. 

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We have it all written down in 
God's word. 

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And you've probably heard this 
many times before, but I've read

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the back of the book and we win.
We win and that's all we need 

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to, that's all we need to know. 
Or you can make it through 

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anything. 
If you know you're automatically

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going to win, right? 
You think about a basketball 

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game, you're playing the game, 
you're down by 20 points, but 

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you already know at the end of 
the game that you win. 

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What are you worried about, 
right? 

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There's nothing. 
You're not. 

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You're not. 
You're not fighting to, to, to 

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to save. 
Your life, you already know at 

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the end that you win. 
Then what do you have to lose? 

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Just get out there and play the 
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And that's the way it is. 
Just get out there and live. 

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As a Christian, we already know 
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And what a wonderful thing that 
is to know Christ as our savior.

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Exodus chapter 3. 
This morning I want to read a 

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very familiar story to most of 
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But Moses, who found himself 
being raised in Pharaoh's house 

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as basically the son of Pharaoh 
and Pharaoh's daughter, took him

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in. 
And you know the story of him 

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being found there in the bull 
rushes and his own mother being 

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able to be the one that took 
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to be brought back to the 
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But then Moses kills an Egyptian
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backside of the desert. 
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Exodus chapter 3 and verse #1 
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Jethro, his father-in-law, the 
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And he led. 
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desert, and came to the mountain
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And the Angel of the Lord 
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fire out of the midst of a Bush,
and he looked, and behold, the 

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Bush burned with fire, and the 
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And Moses said I will now turn 
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And see this great sight, why 
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And when the Lord saw that, he 
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unto him out of the midst of the
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And he said, Here am I. 
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put off thy shoes from off thy 
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thou standest his holy ground. 
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of thy father, the God of 
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the God of Jacob. 
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was afraid to look upon God. 
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seen the affliction of my people
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heard their cry by reason of 
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their sorrows. 
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them out of the hand of the 
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out of that land unto a good 
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flowing with milk and honey, 
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Canaanites, and the Hittites, 
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Perizzites, and the Hivites, and
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Now therefore, behold, the cry 
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come unto me, and I've also seen
the oppression where with the 

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Egyptians oppressed them. 
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send thee unto Pharaoh, that 
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people, the children of Israel 
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And you know the rest of the 
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Moses said, who am I? 
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And God gave him the ability to 
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But that's not exactly what I 
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What I want you to see is that 
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Pharaoh. 
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They were slaves. 
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own. 
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making bricks for the treasures 
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Their backs were bull's eyes for
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taskmasters. 
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whipped them and they beat them.
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they asked for a little bit of 
relief that they said, all 

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right, you want relief, We'll 
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You're going to do twice as much
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going to keep doing the bricks 
that you're going to keep making

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the bricks that you're making. 
But now you got to go get your 

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We'll make it harder on you. 
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But God's, God's people, we find
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The nation of Israel was in need
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And on the backside of the 
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Hebrew fugitive tended the sheep
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And as Moses was watching those 
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Bush that was burning. 
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And the longer he watched it, 
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lot to do on the backside of the
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So when you see a Bush on fire, 
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watching it. 
And he kept watching it, and it 

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just wasn't burning. 
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the backside of the desert, it's
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times. 
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was probably not all that 
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been. 
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everything was dry. 
And yet Moses, he keeps seeing 

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this Bush and it's still burning
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consumed. 
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attention to the point where he 
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at this Bush and see why it's 
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Something's weird about that. 
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realizes that he has Moses his 
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And as Moses approached that 
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God spoke to Moses from within 
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Bush, and as God spoke to Moses,
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truths concerning God himself 
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to his chosen people and within 
the divine dialogue of Exodus 

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chapter. 
Three, we can find some very 

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encouraging truths for a nation 
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There's no debating the fact 
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in that day, is in crisis. 
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nation. 
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a relief right now, but this 
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socially especially, and 
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And I'll say this, so many 
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an entire year, hundreds of 
hours campaigning, hundreds of 

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hours knocking on doors trying 
to get people to vote, hundreds 

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of millions of dollars spent on 
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only to be completely defeated 
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In this state. 
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shouldn't be involved 
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I think we should be involved 
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I think we should be out there 
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I think we should be out there 
trying to get other people to 

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vote. 
But what if those same people 

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spent those hundreds of hours 
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dollars trying to lead people to
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Do you think that we would have 
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Do you think that people's minds
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changed if they come to know 
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What if we'd spent half of that 
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stuff and half of that time 
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Do you think that we would have 
amounted to far more than what 

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we have to show for our 
political exploits in this 

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state? 
I'm not saying that we shouldn't

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do it. 
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I'm not. 
I'm not preaching against 

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political involvement. 
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to be involved in politics and 
the separation of church and 

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state. 
That they talk about all the 

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time does not mean that we 
cannot talk about what the state

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needs to do for Christ and in 
that direction and how the state

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needs to turn back to God. 
It just means that we cannot 

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have an official state religion.
That's the separation of church 

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and state. 
That's been taken completely out

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of context and, and, and made to
say something that it was never 

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meant to say. 
But at the same time, if our 

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efforts had been put into trying
to reach people to Christ and we

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had 13456 people for Christ. 
In that same amount of time, do 

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you think that we would have 
made an impact not only on this 

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state, but for all of eternity? 
I think we would. 

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Yesterday this state installed 
into office the first woman 

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governor who, though she may be 
a nice person, has shown that 

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she hates God, hates the morals 
of the Bible, opposes everything

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that the church and Christians 
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Yesterday we installed into 
office the first Muslim 

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Lieutenant governor who was 
sworn in on a Quran. 

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Yesterday we installed into 
office the first black attorney 

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general who spoke openly of 
killing his opponent's children.

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Who has very openly defied the 
Bible, Who on his first day in 

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office already announced 
sweeping changes that are going 

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to undo many of the conservative
policies that protect Christian 

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schools and churches, in 
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We installed Democrats into 80. 
Five out of the 140 legislative 

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seats that we have available in 
this state, and already they 

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have proposed things as radical 
as making abortion legal all the

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way up to birth. 
They proposed denying care to a 

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baby who survives an abortion 
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They've proposed eliminating 
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notification for a minor seeking
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They've proposed automatic 
voting rights to be restored to 

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convicted felons when their 
sentence is up. 

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They've already proposed 
marriage equality, which will 

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enshrine homosexual marriage 
rights into the. 

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Constitution of the State of 
Virginia Most Christians have 

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their heads in the sand when it 
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And most Christians say, well, 
those are political issues, we 

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need to stay out of politics. 
Those are not political issues. 

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Those are moral issues. 
Those are Bible issues. 

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And if we allow these things to 
go through in our state and we 

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don't stand up and fight against
them, and these things are 

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codified into the state 
constitution of, of, of the 

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state of Virginia, we are going 
to find a wrath of God, I 

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believe on this state like we 
have never seen before. 

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We're going to lose any kind of 
opportunity we have at the 

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blessing of God. 
And yet all the while, churches 

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are not moving in a direction 
that are taking us closer to God

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and to his word. 
We're moving in the direction 

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that's going the exact opposite 
because we want to be liked, we 

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want to be popular, we want to 
be big. 

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We want to have all of these 
things that that everybody says 

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that we have to have. 
And, and, and the things that 

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are being proposed that I just 
mentioned are just the tip of 

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the iceberg. 
And I think that the tendency 

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many times is for us as 
Christians to be discouraged to 

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think, why do we even do this? 
Why do we even try to stand up 

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against those things? 
And there is a temptation. 

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It seems like anything that we 
try to stand up against is not 

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going to happen. 
Seems like everything that they 

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want to propose is going to 
happen. 

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By the way, all of those things 
that I mentioned, almost every 

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one of those is actually. 
Going to be. 

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Brought to a vote by the people 
in November, An amendment to the

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constitution of the state of 
Virginia has to be voted on by 

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the people. 
They can, they can vote it in in

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the legislature all they want 
to. 

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It's going to be on the ballot 
this November. 

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And we're going to have to have 
people stand up against abortion

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rights in this state. 
We're going to have to have 

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people stand up against the 
homosexual rights in this state.

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I'm not against people, but I'm 
for God's word. 

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We need to do what the Bible 
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We need to stand up for what the
Bible says, not what makes 

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people feel better about 
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That's not even to mention all 
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man can walk into a woman's 
bathroom anytime he wants and 

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just call himself a woman and be
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They want, they want to make it 
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of those things. 
Women meant to be in women's 

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sports. 
All of these things are things 

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that are going to be enshrined 
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don't stand up for the truth of 
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Skip politics. 
Take all the politics out of it.

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These are Bible issues that the 
church needs to stand up for. 

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Our state needs to hear from 
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We have the answers in the Word 
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We have what this state, We have
what this country needs. 

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And yet most Christians are too 
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anything about it. 
Listen, those who are pushing 

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for all those things have no 
problem telling you exactly what

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they think about it. 
They have no problem showing it 

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all over social media what they 
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They have no problem telling you
that you ought to be willing to 

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let people have an abortion all 
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born. 
By the way, Ralph Northam, if he

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had his way, would have allowed 
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be killed. 
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That's where they're going. 
They're just taking little 

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pieces at a time. 
And when we don't stand up to 

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it, we're going to lose it. 
And the next thing you know, if 

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your baby has got a special 
needs issue and it seemed seems 

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to be a a detriment to the 
state, they're going to be able 

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to come in and just take that 
baby and put it to death if they

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if that's what they want to do. 
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It's it's happened all over the 
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Oh, this is America. 
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It's America that's losing 
freedoms. 

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It's America that doesn't have 
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that it used to have, because we
have abandoned him. 

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He hasn't abandoned us. 
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And how do you expect to have 
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And how do you expect to have a 
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is turning their backs 
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We know what this state and what
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So I want to consider some 
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From Exodus chapter 3 this 
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sound all that encouraging, but 
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our message for a state in 
crisis, our message for a state 

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in crisis. 
Let's pray and then we'll look 

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at a few things here this 
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Father, again, we thank you so 
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I thank you for the fact that we
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It has been a great state. 
It's been a state that you've 

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blessed. 
This nation has been a nation 

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that you've blessed. 
But God, we're quickly moving 

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away from that because we're 
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May you help us as a church. 
May you help us as churches who 

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still claim to stand upon the 
Word of God, that we would stand

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up for the truth of God's Word, 
that we would put you back on 

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the throne, that you belong on 
the throne that is yours. 

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God, may we put you first place 
in our lives, and may we see 

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your blessing because of it. 
May you help us this morning as 

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we go through some of these 
verses in your Word that it 

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would point us to Christ. 
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We thank you again for all you 
do for us in Jesus name, Amen. 

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I want you to understand first 
of all, that a state in crisis 

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needs to hear that God is alive.
A state in crisis needs to hear 

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that God is alive. 
Exodus chapter 3 and verse #6 In

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fact, if you'd get a ribbon or a
bookmark or something and put it

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in there, we're going to keep 
coming back to Exodus chapter 3.

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We're going to jump around to a 
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But the Bible says this. 
Moreover, he said I am the God 

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of Abraham, the God of Isaac, 
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See Moses discovered on that. 
Say that the God of the past was

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alive and well in the present. 
I don't know what Moses's 

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situation on the backside of the
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I don't know exactly what Moses 
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basis, but I can imagine that he
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Could you imagine that this 
Moses the, the one who saw 

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himself and if you, if you look 
through and, and, and read 

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through the story of Moses, when
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he, he was puffing his chest out
and he said, surely God's going 

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to use, use me to bring this 
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And the next thing you know, he 
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the backside of the desert. 40 
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I know it goes quickly. 
I'm 42 feel like I've been, I've

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been alive for a lifetime. 
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quick, but not when you're 
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desert watching sheep. 
That one that's your every 

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single day. 
Wake up, take the sheep out, sit

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there and watch him take the 
sheep back. 

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Wake up, take the sheep out, 
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What a what a life. 
What a life. 

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The Moses, who more than likely 
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and I'm talking about 
physically, had been trained in 

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Pharaoh's house. 
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the art of war. 
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everything. 
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physical specimen to look at. 
He would have been a powerful, 

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powerful man, which is one of 
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there in Egypt and had no 
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then burying his body in the 
sand and going on about his life

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as if everything was all right. 
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the desert probably felt 
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God was going to use. 
Me. 

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I made a mistake and now God can
never use me again. 

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I don't know if that's what he 
thought. 

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I don't know if he sat there 
thinking, what did I do wrong? 

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Where did I go wrong? 
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God sends me to the backside of 
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Is this where I'm going to spend
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I don't know. 
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felt abandoned. 
I can imagine that he felt that 

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God had let him down, brought 
him to the. 

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Backside of the desert to drown 
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The circumstances and the 
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were in did not mean that their 
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The God of their forefathers was
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And he says that I am the God of
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Abraham, I'm the God of Isaac, 
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your God too. 
Moses hid his face because he 

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was afraid to look upon God. 
And I can imagine that that's 

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the way that most people are 
going to look on God when they 

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find out he's still alive. 
You and I as Christians need to 

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be quick to to pocket the 
pessimistic reports about our 

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nation and our state and promote
the truth that our God is alive 

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and well and he's still on the 
throne. 

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By the way, everything that just
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state, did not take God by 
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I think sometimes we get to 
relying on Donald Trump as if he

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is God. 
I appreciate a lot of the things

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that he does. 
Some of the stuff that he does 

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is just stupid and it goes 
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And you cannot expect that God's
going to bless it. 

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I don't care who you are, if you
go against God and against his 

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Word, God is not going to bless 
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And I appreciate him. 
I appreciate the fact that he's 

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willing to stand up for a lot of
the things that he does stand up

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for. 
But when we get to relying on 

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Donald Trump as if he is the 
ultimate power instead of God 

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being the ultimate power in our 
life, and because Donald Trump 

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is on the throne, everything's 
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When it's not about Donald 
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one that's still on his throne. 
When we turn back to him and we 

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put him in the place that he 
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going to see God's blessing 
again. 

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And I think many Christians have
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don't need God. 
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You laugh, but it's the truth. 
And we're relying more on that 

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than we are on God's power. 
And that's why I believe we're 

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seeing a lot of the things that 
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Why do you think so many people 
across the board lost to people 

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that they never should have lost
to? 

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Because God's judgment, God 
takes his. 

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God removes his hand of 
protection and God removes his 

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blessing. 
And he gives us a little glimpse

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of what life is like when we 
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And I don't like it. 
I don't like life without his 

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power. 
I need his power. 

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I want his power. 
But the only way that we're 

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going to see it is we put him 
back on the throne that he 

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belongs on. 
He's alive. 

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Do you believe that? 
Do you believe that the same God

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of Peter and Paul and Moses and 
Elijah and DL Moody and Charles 

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Spurgeon and Billy Sunday is the
same God that we serve today? 

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He's still alive and well. 
Whether you believe it or not, 

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I'm here to tell you that He is 
alive. 

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Turn over to Isaiah chapter 59. 
We get so pessimistic with it. 

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Oh, God used to do things in 
this nation. 

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People used to be able to get a 
hold of God, and they used to be

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able to see God do great things 
and answer great prayers for 

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them. 
But apparently God's lost some 

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of his power. 
Apparently it's not the same God

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that we have today. 
No, he is the same God and he 

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still has the same power. 
He just doesn't have the same 

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people available to him that he 
used to. 

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Have Isaiah 59 and verse #1 The 
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hand is not shortened, that it 
cannot save, neither his ear 

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heavy, that it cannot hear, but 
your iniquities. 

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Have separated between you and 
your God, and your sins have hid

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his face from you that he will 
not hear. 

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As I've told you many times 
before, and as we're made very 

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aware of in the Bible, the most 
of the fault lies at the feet of

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Christians in this country and 
in this state. 

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We've sinned against God and 
we've moved further and further 

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away from Him, most often 
without a care or concern of 

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what it's done to the heart of 
God. 

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What's happening in this state 
is the judgment of God upon 

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churches who used to be strong 
but are. 

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Quickly moving toward 
compromise, quickly moving 

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toward ecumenism, quickly moving
toward contemporary 

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Christianity, softness against 
sin, a laid back approach to 

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evangelism, and complete, 
nonchalant attitude toward 

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church. 
You wonder why this state is 

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going the direction that it is. 
It's because the churches are 

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going the direction that they're
going in. 

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It's so sad to me that even in 
this area, there used to be a 

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lot of churches that were 
strong. 

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There used to be a lot of 
churches that were standing for 

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the truth. 
There used to be a lot of 

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churches that were focused on 
evangelism and focused on 

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getting the message of the 
gospel out and where politics 

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could fit in, will fit politics 
into it. 

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And we'll try to get the message
of conservatism out there. 

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But it's not about conservatism,
it's about Christianity. 

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I am a Christian first and 
foremost, and then I'm a 

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conservative, and then I'm a 
Republican. 

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But I'm a Christian and my 
responsibility is not to a 

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Republican Party. 
My responsibility is not to a 

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governor or to Donald Trump or 
to anybody else. 

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My responsibility is to God 
first and foremost. 

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And. 
When I take Him off of His 

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throne and put other things in 
its place, how can you expect to

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have God's blessing? 
You live as if it all depends on

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you. 
It doesn't depend on you. 

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It depends on God and your 
reliance on Him and His power 

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working through you. 
We can change this state. 

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We can, we can put the 
conservatives back into into the

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positions in this government 
that they need to be in, but 

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only when we put God in the 
position that he belongs in 

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first. 
That's how we're going to see 

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this nation and this state come 
back to God. 

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Oh, they've talked about 
Virginia, Virginia, Fornia, 

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California and Virginia. 
I heard somebody say that word 

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yesterday. 
And that's a sad thing because 

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this used to be a, this used to 
be a, a, a stronghold of 

449
00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:13,840
conservatism. 
And blame all you want to on the

450
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,360
fact that they're bringing all 
these people down from the from 

451
00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:18,720
New York and all these other 
places to move into these big 

452
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:20,680
city centers. 
That has a lot to do with it. 

453
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,880
But you know what? 
The church has lost its power in

454
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,800
those areas. 
And if the rest of the state 

455
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,440
still had strong churches in all
of those areas, it wouldn't 

456
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,040
matter what Northern Virginia is
doing. 

457
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,960
It wouldn't matter what what 
what they're doing out on the 

458
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,040
Far East. 
It wouldn't matter because there

459
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,800
would be so many other 
Christians that are willing to 

460
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,960
stand up and fight against those
things and for the things that 

461
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,960
God is for that it wouldn't 
matter what the rest of the 

462
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,080
state does. 
But we're. 

463
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,240
Losing it in all those little. 
Towns and villages across the 

464
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,320
state, because the church has 
stopped preaching what it used 

465
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,440
to preach. 
And where people who used to be 

466
00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,480
in these little towns and, and 
these little cities across this,

467
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,480
this state used to be very 
conservative because they went 

468
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,880
to church and the church wasn't 
afraid to preach the truth. 

469
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,440
And they heard the truth and 
they knew what morals were 

470
00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:12,720
because it was being preached. 
They heard it in Sunday school. 

471
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,760
They heard it at VBS. 
Now it's all God is love and he 

472
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:17,760
loves everybody. 
And love is love. 

473
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,080
And you can marry whoever you 
want to marry and you can do 

474
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:21,720
whatever you want to do because 
love is love. 

475
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,280
That's what the churches are 
preaching. 

476
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,000
And so we've lost any of that 
influence that we have across 

477
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,120
the state because the churches 
have lost their influence. 

478
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,440
I know I've told you this, this 
story before, but a husband and 

479
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,080
wife, an old couple were driving
down the road in their car, the 

480
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,040
pickup truck, one of those old 
bench seats. 

481
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,080
And the wife got reminiscing. 
She said, you know, we used to 

482
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:49,680
ride down the road and you would
have your arm around me and you 

483
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,680
would you would play with my 
ears and we would just have such

484
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,960
wonderful conversations. 
And I felt so close to you. 

485
00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:01,560
Then he said, now we sit on 
opposite sides of the car. 

486
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,280
And he looked over at his wife 
and he said, honey, I'm not the 

487
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,960
one that moved. 
That's exactly whether we treat 

488
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:12,240
God. 
Oh, God just probably doesn't 

489
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:13,720
have the power that he used to 
have. 

490
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,960
God just isn't doing things like
he used to do things. 

491
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,640
We used to be so close, we used 
to have a relationship with him.

492
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,520
Morals used to be in every part 
of our society. 

493
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,280
Now they're not anymore. 
And God looks at us and he says 

494
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,840
I'm not the one that moved. 
The Lord's hand is not 

495
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,760
shortened, that it cannot save 
his ear, is not heavy, that it 

496
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,280
cannot hear. 
Your iniquities have separated 

497
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,440
between. 
You and your God. 

498
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,840
And your sin has hit his face 
from you. 

499
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,880
We're the problem. 
We're the problem. 

500
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:50,040
God is still alive. 
He's not resigned, He's not lost

501
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,320
his power, He's not lost his 
hearing. 

502
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,840
He has not abandoned us. 
And this state needs to know 

503
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,320
that. 
This state needs to understand 

504
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:03,440
that God is still alive, and the
message is only going to come 

505
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,600
from the church. 
A state in crisis needs to hear 

506
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,720
that God is alive, but #2A state
in crisis needs to hear that God

507
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,640
is attentive. 
Turn over to Exodus chapter 3 

508
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,120
again and verse #7 look what God
said. 

509
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,440
The Lord said. 
I have surely seen the 

510
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,720
affliction of my people which 
are in Egypt, and have heard 

511
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:31,880
their cry by reason of their 
taskmasters, for I know their 

512
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,040
sorrows. 
There's several wonderful truths

513
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,280
about God in there. 
God saw the Israelites. 

514
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,120
God heard the cry of the 
Israelites. 

515
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,320
God knew their sorrows. 
God was interested, and He was 

516
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,960
in tune with the needs and the 
conditions of His people. 

517
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,760
They might have felt like God 
was distant because they moved 

518
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:54,200
away from Him, but the truth is 
that God was very near. 

519
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,960
He was very attentive. 
Turn over to Psalm 34. 

520
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,040
While you're turning over there,
let me read to you first. 

521
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,560
Peter chapter 3. 
It's very similar to Psalm 34. 

522
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,840
The Bible says, For the eyes of 
the Lord are over the righteous,

523
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:14,840
and his ears are open unto their
prayers, but the face of the 

524
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,600
Lord is against them that do 
evil. 

525
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,320
The face of the Lord is against 
them that do evil. 

526
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,840
Psalm 34 and verse #15 The Bible
says the eyes of the Lord are 

527
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,040
upon the righteous, and his ears
are open unto their cry. 

528
00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:34,120
So why is God not hearing the 
cry of the righteous? 

529
00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:37,280
Is it because he can't, or is it
because we've stopped crying 

530
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,880
out? 
God is attentive. 

531
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,400
He's there, He's just waiting. 
And I think often a world in 

532
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,000
crisis, a nation in crisis, a 
state in crisis, feels that God 

533
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,160
does not want to hear from them.
Many of them know that they're 

534
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,400
living a wicked lifestyle. 
They know that it goes against 

535
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,200
the laws of the Bible and they 
feel like God would never listen

536
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,640
to a cry for help. 
Of course we know that to be 

537
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,720
false, but they don't know that 
and they need to hear from us 

538
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,360
that God is attentive. 
God wants to hear from them. 

539
00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:06,880
God wants to forgive their sin. 
God wants to heal our land. 

540
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,360
But we've got to turn to him. 
He's listening for them to cry 

541
00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:13,160
out to him. 
God told Moses that he had heard

542
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,880
the cry of those that were under
the torment of their oppressors.

543
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,880
And I think we've only touched 
the tip of the iceberg of the 

544
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,760
torment that we're going to face
from our oppressors. 

545
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,000
And I know it's a different 
scenario. 

546
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,640
It's a different situation. 
But they're in in the Congress, 

547
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,480
in the legislature of the state 
of Virginia with all the power 

548
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,000
in their hands, they can do 
anything they want to do. 

549
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,440
And I think they will. 
They're going to take every 

550
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,800
advantage of everything. 
And, and hey, good for them that

551
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:40,800
that's what they should do if 
they're in those in those 

552
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,920
positions of power. 
I wish the Republicans would do 

553
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:44,520
that more when we have those 
positions. 

554
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,840
Weren't you afraid to stand up, 
too afraid to stand up to the 

555
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,520
people who are opposing God in a
lot of a lot of situations? 

556
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,760
But it's great news for a state 
that's being oppressed by the 

557
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:04,200
avowed enemy of God that God is 
still attentive to our prayers. 

558
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,240
The harder truth for us is that 
God told Moses so that he could 

559
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:09,960
go deliver that message to his 
people. 

560
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,400
That's why God told Moses all of
those things. 

561
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,280
Wasn't so Moses could say, wow, 
yeah, you're right. 

562
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,840
Yeah. 
Yeah, God, you still do have 

563
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,560
power and you do still hear. 
You do still know what's going 

564
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,240
on. 
He told Moses so that Moses 

565
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,680
could go take that message back 
to God's people honestly, that 

566
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,720
what would be the point of God 
sharing that information with 

567
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,480
Moses if the whole point was for
Moses to just keep it to 

568
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,320
himself, right? 
Our message to a state facing a 

569
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:41,280
spiritual crisis is that God is 
attentive and he'll hear their 

570
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:45,080
cry and he'll save them. 
And may I add that he's waiting 

571
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,040
to hear our cry for mercy. 
You know, I, I think it's sad 

572
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,040
that, that so many people and, 
and by the way, lest you think 

573
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,320
that I'm just hammering on the 
people who are involved in 

574
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,080
politics, I was involved in a 
lot of things myself. 

575
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,480
I did things on the backside 
that that a lot of people didn't

576
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,360
see when it came to politics and
trying to get people elected and

577
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,200
try. 
I was, I went to many meetings. 

578
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,800
I met with a lot of pastors and 
we did a lot of different things

579
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,880
to try to help get the word out 
that people need to vote. 

580
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:16,400
So I'm not, I'm not preaching 
against that today, but what I 

581
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,360
am saying is I wonder how many 
people who are so involved in 

582
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,320
politics and so involved in the 
political side of things never 

583
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,920
once got on their knees and 
begged God on behalf of this 

584
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:29,160
state. 
You know what that says? 

585
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:31,760
You're trying to do all of it in
your own power. 

586
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,760
You think that by getting out 
and being busy, you're going to 

587
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,760
change this state. 
Only God's power is going to 

588
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,760
change this state. 
And I learned that very early on

589
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:49,280
when we were getting ready to 
start this church, we had 25,000

590
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,640
John and Romans that we printed 
out and put in little bags. 

591
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,840
We put a little invitation to 
the church. 

592
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,520
We put a tract in there and we 
passed those things out across 

593
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,960
this entire area, 25,000 of 
them. 

594
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,680
We got out, put them on doors 
everywhere. 

595
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,720
Two months, almost two months 
solid. 

596
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,360
We were out many, many times 
during the week putting these 

597
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,160
Flyers out. 
We had groups of churches that 

598
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:16,200
came in. 
My thought is we've done all the

599
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,680
work that needs to be done day 
one. 

600
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:20,520
What are we going to do for 
space? 

601
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,200
We can only fit 75 people in the
in the in the conference room at

602
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,040
the hotel. 
What are we going to do? 

603
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,600
And guess how many people showed
up? 

604
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,440
The 10 that we started the 
church with? 

605
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,640
Nobody came. 
You know what that made me 

606
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,720
realize I can do all the work I 
want to. 

607
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,520
And I'm not saying, I'm not 
saying that we didn't pray and 

608
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,040
ask for God's blessing and ask 
for God's power and ask for God 

609
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,480
to do something. 
But I tell you this, I was 

610
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,520
relying way more on my own 
strength and I was relying on 

611
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,720
God's power. 
And I think that had to happen 

612
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,600
for God to make it plain to me, 
it ain't about you. 

613
00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:00,160
It's not about all the work that
you put into it. 

614
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,000
Oh, God uses your work, but it's
work and prayer. 

615
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:09,400
It's you do the work and you beg
God to bless that work or 

616
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,880
nothing's going to happen. 
And I think we've done that in a

617
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,800
lot of cases, but only by prayer
in God's power are we going to 

618
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,080
accomplish anything that's going
to make a difference. 

619
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:24,000
Yes, God is attentive, but it 
counts for nothing if we're not 

620
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,320
reaching out to him. 
If we're not crying out for His 

621
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,280
mercy, it does not count for 
anything. 

622
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,680
OK, God's attentive, He hears, 
but if you're not crying out, 

623
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:37,920
what is he going to hear? 
A state in crisis needs to hear 

624
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:41,640
that God is alive. 
Back on Exodus chapter 3, A 

625
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,920
state in crisis needs to hear 
that God is attentive. 

626
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:49,240
And lastly, a state in crisis 
needs to hear that God is able. 

627
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,880
Verse #7 The Bible says this. 
And the Lord said, I have surely

628
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:57,360
seen the affliction of my people
which are in Egypt, and have 

629
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,120
heard their cry by reason of 
their taskmasters, for I know 

630
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:01,760
their sorrows. 
And then he says this in verse 

631
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,560
#8 And I am come down to deliver
them out of the hand of the 

632
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:10,760
Egyptians, and to bring them up 
out of that land unto a good 

633
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,960
land, and the large, and the 
land flowing with milk and 

634
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:19,920
honey. 
As this discussion between Moses

635
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:24,320
and the Lord continues, the fact
is made very clear that not only

636
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:28,440
did God know about the situation
surrounding His people, but He 

637
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:29,880
intended to do something about 
it. 

638
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,800
God declares to Moses that He 
was come down to deliver them. 

639
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,760
God was able to turn their 
bondage into liberty and their 

640
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:44,360
sorrow in the shouting. 
A state, a nation, a world in 

641
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,560
crisis needs to hear that God 
understands, but also that God 

642
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,440
is able to undertake the things 
that he says he can do. 

643
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,760
If he says, call into me and I 
will answer the and show the 

644
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,880
great and mighty things which 
thou knowest not. 

645
00:33:55,960 --> 00:34:00,680
He can do it. 
He says, if my people, which are

646
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,120
called by My name, shall humble 
themselves and pray and seek My 

647
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,960
face and turn from their wicked 
way, then will I hear from 

648
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,840
heaven and will forgive their 
sins and will heal their land. 

649
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,520
He can do it. 
He's able. 

650
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,560
He's able. 
He's just waiting for us to do 

651
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:19,520
our part so he can do his. 
He's able. 

652
00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:23,719
God can change a life. 
Do you believe that God can turn

653
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,040
this nation and the state back 
to himself? 

654
00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:30,159
Do you believe that God can send
a revival? 

655
00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:34,960
Do you believe that God is still
in the soul saving business? 

656
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,400
And until we believe it with all
of our hearts and the way that 

657
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,880
you prove that you believe it 
with all of your heart is to get

658
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,960
out there and do it. 
Act on what God said. 

659
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,719
Get on your knees and beg God 
for this state. 

660
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,920
Get on your knees and beg God 
for this nation. 

661
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,320
Get out knocking on doors and 
sharing the message of the 

662
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,520
gospel. 
Take every opportunity that you 

663
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,800
have to tell somebody about 
Jesus. 

664
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,480
If you say that you believe it, 
then let's share that message. 

665
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:09,200
In 1847, Frederick Douglass, who
was a eloquent fugitive slave, 

666
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,840
but he was addressing an anti 
slavery convention just over the

667
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:18,680
Ohio the Ohio line in Salem and 
his own sufferings and those of 

668
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:22,280
his people in the slow progress 
that that that the great reform 

669
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,840
as they called it was making had
some people depressed and he was

670
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,320
depressed and it came out in his
speech. 

671
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,000
It was a very. 
Angry speech. 

672
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,720
And it was, it was one of those 
speeches that just it it was, it

673
00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:35,280
just had bitterness all the way 
through it. 

674
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:42,160
And an old slave by the name of 
Sojourner Truth, maybe you 

675
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,680
recognize that name, interrupted
him in the middle of the speech.

676
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:55,680
She said, Frederick, Frederick, 
stop, She said, is God dead? 

677
00:35:55,680 --> 00:36:00,800
I think that's a good question 
we need to ask ourselves this 

678
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,920
morning. 
Oh, the. 

679
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:07,040
State. 
Oh man, it used to be so strong 

680
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:08,320
conservative. 
It used to. 

681
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,520
Have a Republican governor and 
Lieutenant governor and attorney

682
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:17,040
general and we had all the 
Senate and all the House of, of 

683
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:18,800
Representatives. 
We had everything. 

684
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:25,640
Oh, this state, we've lost it. 
Is God dead? 

685
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:33,040
God's still on the throw. 
God still knows and maybe we 

686
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,080
need a wake up call to help us 
understand. 

687
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:40,480
It's not about us. 
It's not about politics, it's 

688
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:44,320
not about who's in office. 
It's about us putting God back 

689
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:45,760
on the throne that He belongs 
on. 

690
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,440
It's about us getting on our 
knees and begging God on behalf 

691
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:53,280
of this nation and begging God 
on behalf of this state and 

692
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,720
begging God for revival in our 
own lives. 

693
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,400
Begging God for revival in our 
church. 

694
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,720
Begging God for revival in our 
churches so that God will do 

695
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:07,720
something again. 
We have a message for a state 

696
00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:10,120
that's in crisis. 
Number one, they need Christ. 

697
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,320
They need Christ above 
everything. 

698
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,480
You want to. 
Change Abigail Spanberger's 

699
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,600
mind. 
Give her the gospel. 

700
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,440
You know what? 
If God changes her life, I can 

701
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,640
promise you that she's not going
to push an abortion and 

702
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:30,800
homosexuality and transgenderism
and all of those things later to

703
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:36,280
Christ. 
It's easy to mock and point out 

704
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,000
all the flaws, and there's 
plenty of them. 

705
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,160
Obviously, we don't have to. 
We don't have to just roll over 

706
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:46,080
and let them walk all over us. 
I'm not saying that, but but you

707
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,640
want to see Hashmi, our 
Lieutenant governor, who was 

708
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:53,160
sworn in on a Quran, change her 
opinions, change her views. 

709
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,720
Let's give her the gospel. 
Let's pray that she'll accept 

710
00:37:56,720 --> 00:38:00,280
Christ as her Savior. 
Hey, there's nobody better than 

711
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,840
us in this area right here. 
We're only a hand a stone's 

712
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:05,400
throw away from the state 
Capitol. 

713
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,760
We can have some interaction 
with them. 

714
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,800
You want to see the attorney 
general change his mind and all 

715
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,040
the things that he's trying to 
push through already? 

716
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,960
Let's lead him to Christ. 
They may not get saved. 

717
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:25,120
We sure can try. 
That's what they need more than 

718
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:30,920
anything. 
They need our prayers, they need

719
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,280
God's touch on their lives. 
That's what they need. 

720
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:38,080
That's what we all need, our 
message to them. 

721
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,280
You need Christ. 
We love you, God loves you. 

722
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,960
God wants to save you. 
And what you're doing is against

723
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:52,080
his word, and it brings shame. 
To him it brings shame to God's 

724
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:53,960
word. 
It brings shame to this state. 

725
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:57,880
You need to accept Christ as 
your Savior. 

726
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,520
Our message to the state in 
crisis. 

727
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,600
And we need to proclaim it loud 
and clear. 

728
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,600
God's alive. 
God is still alive. 

729
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,480
He's not dead. 
He hasn't lost his power. 

730
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,800
He didn't go somewhere else. 
He's still there. 

731
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:18,000
He's just waiting for us to 
call. 

732
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,720
He's attentive. 
He's attentive. 

733
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,640
And the probably the main thing 
that we need to understand is 

734
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:30,240
that God is able, God wants to 
use you. 

735
00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:34,040
And maybe it isn't a political 
side of things. 

736
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:39,480
Maybe it is to help get some 
political change in this state. 

737
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,840
But what we have to understand 
is this, it's not us. 

738
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,360
It's not us. 
There's a good handful of you 

739
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,760
that are doing a lot of good 
things when it comes to 

740
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,440
politics. 
I'm thankful that we have people

741
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,280
that will represent us in that 
way. 

742
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,360
We need it. 
We need it, but it's not us. 

743
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:06,800
It's him working through us. 
It's his power in us. 

744
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,800
Because it's not. 
Let's do all this stuff 

745
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:12,840
politically. 
It's let's put God where he 

746
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,600
belongs. 
Let's beg him to do something in

747
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,320
this nation, and then let's get 
busy. 

748
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,600
Our priorities have to be in the
right place. 

749
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:25,480
When our priorities in the right
place. 

750
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,200
All of these things work. 
Why do you think God used Moses?

751
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:36,880
Why do you think God used Moses?
Because Moses had put God where 

752
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,680
he belonged. 
Moses was humble. 

753
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:45,440
Moses was not. 
No wonder God finally came to 

754
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,560
the backside of the desert and 
asked me to do it. 

755
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:49,440
Been waiting for you, where you 
been? 

756
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,240
That's not what Moses said. 
He started stammering. 

757
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:55,000
I can't. 
Not me. 

758
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:57,960
There's no way that I could be 
the one to do that. 

759
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,280
A very, very different Moses 
than the one who went into that 

760
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:06,680
desert came out. 
And I've said it before. 

761
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,080
Moses spent 40 years learning 
how to be a somebody. 

762
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,080
Then he ended up on the backside
of the desert and he spent 40 

763
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,960
years learning how to be a 
nobody. 

764
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:27,120
In the last 40 years of his 
life, Moses realized what God 

765
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,600
can do with a somebody who 
thinks he's a nobody. 

766
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:35,720
That's why God used Moses, and 
that's when God is going to use 

767
00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:39,400
us. 
Oh, he's, he's still alive, he's

768
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:40,880
still attentive and he's still 
able. 

769
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:43,640
It's just a matter of what we're
going to do with that. 

770
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,160
That's that's the message that 
our state needs to hear right 

771
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,840
now. 
It's a message that our churches

772
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:55,360
need to hear right now. 
Are you going to tell him? 

773
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,600
Are you going to tell him? 
Let's pray. 

774
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,640
Father, again, we thank you so 
much for your goodness to us. 

775
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:05,640
We thank you for the opportunity
that you've given. 

776
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:13,520
As I mentioned, a good handful 
of the people in our church, the

777
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:17,800
ability and the position to work
in a political realm. 

778
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,520
We thank you for the the efforts
that have been made. 

779
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,120
But God, may we understand that 
the things that have happened in

780
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:31,280
this state and even in this 
nation are because you've 

781
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,600
allowed them. 
And I believe in a lot of ways, 

782
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:38,200
it's your judgment upon the 
church for not doing the work 

783
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:39,720
that the church was called to 
do. 

784
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,920
God, may you help us. 
May you help us to not only live

785
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,880
in a way that's pleasing to you,
but do everything we can to get 

786
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:53,080
the message of the gospel to 
those that are right here in 

787
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:57,040
this community, to those that we
work with, to those that we come

788
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:58,720
across. 
God, may you help us. 

789
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:04,480
May you help us to be bold in 
proclaiming the truth. 

790
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,120
May you help us to be bold and 
standing up for the truth. 

791
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:14,560
And may you turn the tide of the
wickedness that's flooding over 

792
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,960
this land. 
Give us mercy. 

793
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:23,280
Please, God, May you help us to 
see a revival in this nation. 

794
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:28,200
May you help us to see churches 
get back to what churches are 

795
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:32,120
supposed to be doing. 
May you help us to see lives 

796
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,320
change to the point where we 
will get out and share the 

797
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,440
message of the gospel with 
everybody that we can. 

798
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,680
And may it result in people 
getting saved, minds and hearts 

799
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:48,360
being changed. 
May we put you back on the 

800
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,280
throne. 
Thank you again for all that you

801
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,080
do for us. 
In Jesus name, Amen.