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Romans 13:1,7 -Submit To God- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2023-10-15

Please open your Bibles to Romans chapter 13 verses 1 through 7, Romans 13 1 through 7. Would you please stand with me as we read God's Holy Word together? Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers, for there is no power but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God. And they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same. For he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid, for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore, ye must needs be subject not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For this cause pay ye tribute. Tribute also for they are God's ministers, tending uncontinually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues, tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. Father, we thank you for your Holy Word. Lord, we yearn for you to return and to rule and reign with a rod of righteousness, Lord. We're witnesses, Lord, of the abject poverty, the abject failure of human government, the inability to fulfill the calling that you placed upon human government, the corruption, enormous, enormous, incredible corruption, Lord. And looking prophetically, we know except these days be shortened that no flesh would be saved, Lord. But for the nation of Israel's sake, for the one-third remnant, Lord, during the tribulation period, you're going to intervene. And Lord, you're going to deal with all of your enemies, including the devil, the beast, the false prophet, and all of your globalists, and all those who hate the cross, all those who are living in rebellion unto you, Lord. You're going to bring every knee to bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Father, we thank you that it's a joy and a blessing to be at peace with you, to be in submission unto you, to yield our members, to yield our members and be controlled by your Holy Spirit each and every day, Lord. We have nothing to fear. So bless now, instruct and teach us in the way we should go, Lord. Undergird, strengthen us. Edify, build us up. And Lord, we do lift up Lahaina. We lift up Israel. We lift up Iran. We lift up Ukraine. We lift up Russia. We lift up all these nations that are at war and fighting and all this whole thing going on, Lord. And you told us there'd be wars and rumors of wars. God, we pray that you'd bring it all to an end, that we'd enter into the millennium. We'd enter in as you rule and reign for a thousand years, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Would you please be seated? Benjamin Netanyahu recently said, we're at war. Obey the military. How would you like that? How would you like to be under martial law at war here in America? Obey the military. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. Why should Christians submit to civil government? Three reasons given. Number one, the appointment of government. God has appointed human government to govern our society. Verse one, let every soul be subject unto the higher powers for there is no power but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God. That word ordained means appointed, established. God ordains, he appoints human government. Human government is one of three institutions that God has implemented, has given to us as human beings to help govern our lives. Number one, he established the family in Genesis chapter two. The man and the woman, the home, the family is crucial for man to be able to operate, to function. There's a great attack from the wicked one against the family, destruction of the family. Many young people don't want to get married. So many of their parents and grandparents divorced, and it looks like the family's, you know, struggling in that way. Procreation and the role models, the role model of a male and a female being confused and skewed. And God isn't the author of confusion, but we can see where the devil wants to destroy the family because it's in the family during the formative years especially where God entrusts these children. These children are alone, and we're to instruct and teach them the way they should go. And when they're old, they won't depart from it. Raise up your children, the nurture and admonition of the Lord. We have an opportunity to sow the glorious seed of God's word, the glorious gospel within these children that they would become believers. It's the greatest evangelistic enterprise we'd ever enter into that we'd be seeding heaven with these children, with these believers. Secondly, in Genesis nine, God established human government. In chapter six, it repented God that he made man because he saw within man that his thought and intent of his heart was only evil continually. So God decided that he would destroy the earth with a flood, and that, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah was perfect in his generations, and that word perfect speaks of his DNA. It speaks of his DNA wasn't corrupted by the angels that left their first estate and cohabitating with women and all. So in Genesis 3 15, God said that the seed of the woman, the virgin born son of God, that his heel would be bruised, but that he would crush the serpent's head. Well, Satan got busy. He got real busy wanting to pervert, wanting to corrupt that of the DNA of men, of human beings. And so the angels that left their first estate cohabitating with women and breeding, you know, hybrids or whatever. And I don't know if you're watching the news and all and watching alternative media, but all over the world, more and more giants are being excavated, the Nephilim, and just fascinating. So after the flood, when Noah and his family, so eight people, a preacher of righteousness for 120 years, get in the boat. The people don't want to get in the boat, and so they're mocking him. And again, he's preaching for 120 years God's long suffering. He's patient, unwilling that any would perish, that all would come to repentance. And the animals are wise enough to get into the ark, but the people by and large did not. But Noah and his family entered the ark, and when they come out of the ark, the Lord established human government and gave Noah the authority of capital punishment to enforce God's law. And so we see the family established, human government established in Genesis 9. And then in Acts chapter 2, the third that God establishes is the church, the body of Christ, a living organism. God established the church, a body of believers, and it's with the church that we're able to glorify the Lord during this church age where the gospel goes forth to whosoever will let him come. The greatest need of man is to know Jesus, is to know God. And we in the church, we have this great, great commission, not omission, to go and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, along with you always, even at the end of the age, teaching them, commanding them to observe whatsoever things I've commanded you. And so a great, great opportunity for us in the church, those of us that are part of the body of Christ. And so governments take on various forms, human government. We have a monarchy, where you have a king. We have a democracy, the people voting and voting people in, representatives and such. And case in point, America is not a democracy, we're a constitutional republic, so don't fall for that lie. Communism, socialism, fascism, the fascists, you know, the businesses taking over and such. And ours is a constitutional republic. And so a constitutional republic, the powers that be, you and I, and I'm going to jump ahead real quick, but you and I have no intention of violating the powers that be. No intention at all. Does that mean I'm going to mask up, double mask, take the jab, do everything they tell me to do? No, because they're not the powers that be. The constitution is the power that be. They are chained to the constitution. They cannot mandate or violate the constitutional republic that we have that chains them and that guarantees our, you know, bill of rights, God-given and inalienable rights that we have. And so even above the constitution, we recognize natural law that anytime the government, so-called government, human government, violates God's law, we're to obey God rather than men. And so that's a huge problem during the time of COVID and all, because the churches became incredibly passive and gave in. And I would, I would use the phrase, overwhelmingly, I'm discovering government churches. Government churches are already being established all over the world, especially in Kitsap County, especially in the state of Washington, especially in the United States. It's churches that passively go along with everything the government tells them, doesn't question anything, and even takes the money, takes the PPE money and shuts the church down. Jesus is unessential and the people seem to love it. So it's just mind-boggling to me, but COVID is the greatest thing that ever happened to this little church. And I just thank the Lord that, that I got to meet many of you through the time of COVID, where your conscience was stirred and you said, no, this isn't right. I need to worship the Lord. I need to pray. I need to meet. And by God, we're going to meet. And, and you did. A lot of you were meeting out in parking lots and stuff. Praise the Lord. You were, you refused to give in to any governor, any president, or anybody that would tell you Jesus is non-essential. The strip clubs are open. You know, the Costco's are open. The Home Depot's are open, but, but the churches have to shut, you know, and, um, and you guys saw through it. And so the reason being is because they have a limited power. There's a limited power of government. The constitution changed them and you have the right of assembly. You have rights of free speech and such. And that's another one that drives me crazy is this whole section here is politics. And through the years I've had so many people, not so much anymore because they've already left, but you can't talk about politics. You can't talk about politics. Well, should we just stop here right now? I mean, we just, is, is that, is that what we should do? We're going to be ignorant of, of, uh, government and, um, God's governing over us through human government. And, uh, we're not a conquered people in the time of Christ. The Jews were a conquered people, a conquered people react differently. We have a constitutional Republic. How many times I got to say that we fought a revolution to gain this document that changed government. We didn't want a King and a Queen. We didn't want a tyranny, the tyrannical government. And so a checks and balances, a system of, uh, where we can democratically vote for representatives, but, um, it's not the majority rule. The, the, the minority can still, uh, you know, uh, be protected because of the constitution. You know, you can't make rules to say that pastor Rick isn't allowed to read Romans one. I can read Romans one all I want. You can define it as hate speech or whatever you want in Canada, but here in America, you've got to put up with me, with my freedom of speech, period, period. And if you're in, in, in court, because I get arrested, we have what's called jury nullification. If you're, if you're aware, if you're heads up, you're that one juror that could say, no, he has a right to free speech. Period. Why else have a jury? Why else have a trial? Just railroad them to jail, you know? And, uh, so these civic lessons that we're having to relearn and I'm, I'm no expert in it, but it's pretty basic. We have a theocratic form of government. The nation of Israel enjoyed a theocratic form of government of God, uh, being their King, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And, um, uh, God governing over them. And so God took Joseph and sent him ahead and, um, of his family. And then later the 70 with Jacob went down into Egypt. Uh, this family, the Jews being formed out of the loins of Abraham, uh, their, their country, the nation of Israel is formed over 40, 430 year period of time as they're down in Egypt. By the time they leave, they leave about 2 million strong. And that first generation that's leaving Egypt led by Moses, they're going to perish in the wilderness. They're going to go in circles because of their murmuring. They're unbelieved. The second generation with Caleb and Joshua, the 10 believing, the two that believe the 10 unbelieving spies, you know, they're poisoned, the permeated the hearts of the others. And the Lord says, all right, you're, you guys are going to die. You're going to go around for 40 years. God protects them. God rules over them. God protects them from the Egyptians. The Egyptians perish in the Red Sea, not the Reed Sea. That'd be a bigger miracle, right? Drowning in two inches of water. Um, but, uh, in the Gulf of Aqaba, the chariots, the wheels, much of the chariot, the armaments, things are still there we're told. But, um, but in any event, they're, they're leaving there. They're heading over toward Canaan. They're going to enter into a land that God's going to give them. And he's protecting them with a fire, the Shekinah glory of God, uh, you know, by night and a pillar, a cloud, uh, of his glory by day to shield them from the heat of the sun. He's given a manna, the coriander, the corn, the, the bread of heaven, you know, coming to the ground for them to eat each and every day. Their shoes aren't wearing out. He's providing water out of the rock. He's ministering unto them every step of the way. Nobody can get near them. Nobody can touch them. And, uh, and then, and then they, they enter into the time of the judges when Joshua and Caleb get them into the land and the time of the judges, but another 400 year period of time, they have judges like Gideon and Jephthah and Samson and Deborah and, uh, um, Samuel, the prophets, the last of the judges, the first of the Samuel, the judge, first of the prophets. And so we're getting into first Samuel. And as they're getting into first Samuel, the nation of Israel, um, they want to have a King. They want to have a King to be like all the other nations. And, uh, they'd enjoyed the theocracy. They enjoyed God being governed by God, the name Israel. When God changes his name from Jacob to Israel, his name means governed by God. Are you and I governed by God? Are we the true Israel of God? And Isaac shall thy seed be called is, is it mixed with faith because the true Israel of God are not just the Jews externally, but internally the change of the heart, the foreskin of the heart that, uh, has been cut away mixed with faith. And so the nation of Israel, they enjoyed a theocracy. And then as we said, they, uh, um, asked for a King and God says, all right, Samuel, they haven't rejected you. They've rejected me to be their King. So Lord is going to raise up, you know, Saul, a man after their own heart. And, uh, they want to be like all the other nations. And so in first Samuel eight, verse seven, God says, hearken unto the voice of the people and all that they say unto thee, for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me that I should reign over them. Um, you and I are in submission to King Jesus. We recognize his sovereignty over our lives. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Jesus told Pilate, my kingdom isn't of this world, not yet, but you and I, we answered to him. We answered him to a, to a higher power, the highest of all powers and, uh, and a lower level. Yes, there's human government and we walk in obedience, uh, to human government. We do what we're, we're told to do unless it violates God's law, unless it violates the constitution. Then we say, no, um, your power is limited to the constitution. And then if they even make new laws, if they totally get rid of the constitution, if we go under martial law and they begin to identify certain type of people that we're supposed to, uh, throw into, uh, railroad cars and send them to, you know, gas them or whatever, you and I aren't going to do that. We're not going to say I'm just doing my job because we have a conscience and that conscience is violated and we have a relationship with the true and living God and we know that that would be wrong. Uh, and we say, no, that's, that's, that's the essence of civil disobedience. We're going to obey God rather than men. And so a tragic day, indeed, when a nation, a people, a world, a person rejects God's rule over their lives. God gave them Saul, God gave them David Solomon and a succession of pretenders as Kings, some good, some bad, mostly bad, very seldom would they have somebody that would bring reform like Josiah. They had Hezekiah, he's good, but Manasseh, he reigned for 55 years and he was worse than all the Kings of the surrounding nations. He was so evil and so wicked, the idolatry that he introduced the nation to, even to the point of sacrificing his own children, uh, as burnt offerings unto Baal. And, uh, how wicked, the incredible wickedness and ripening the nation of Israel, uh, unto judgment, uh, thereby. So God didn't completely abdicate his throne or his rule in the universe. So he allows man to pursue his own folly, but sovereignly works all things after the counsel of his own will. Man's allowed to rule himself to the point of destruction. That's how far God's going to let man go. Presently in Revelation 17, 17, God says that he's put in the hearts of Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, all of the global pretenders, these guys that think they're in charge. He's putting it into their hearts to do according to his will. So although they think they're setting up a utopian society where they're going to be in charge and all of us useless eaters, the depopulation agenda and all, and you'll own nothing and be happy. They're going to fail. They're going to radically, radically fail in this experiment and such. God's going to let them go so far to set the stage, if you will, for Jesus to intervene. He's going to destroy the antichrist, their hero with the sword of his mouth and the brightness of his coming. He's going to slaughter the globalists and all their armies at Armageddon. The blood's going to be as high as the horse's bridle. And that's when Jesus is going to take the reins of power once again, and he's going to rule and reign from Jerusalem with a rod of righteousness. He's going to force. He's going to make sure that everybody does what they're supposed to do. There's going to be sin during the millennium. The curse is going to be reversed, but there's going to be a group of Gentiles that repopulate during that time and they're going to be in their human bodies. They're going to have the propensity to sin, just as you and I do, that old, edemic, fallen nature. You and I are going to rule and reign with Christ as kings and priests in that government. David as his prince, the nation of Israel's going to be ruling and reigning. The times of the Gentiles will cease. What's the times of the Gentiles? Times of the Gentiles, a Gentile world rule over the nation of Israel. Israel will be dominant over the planet, enter into all the promises that God has given unto them. And Jesus, who is a Jew, he's king of kings, Lord of lords. He's going to be ruling and reigning. Twelve apostles on their thrones and such. And so, a glorious time, Isaiah 11, where the wolf and the lion, the lamb, the little child, everyone, you know, the curse is reversed and a lion down and a little child leading them and all. And so, that's the kingdom age, if you will. And that kingdom age does not come until Jesus subdues all of his enemies, all the enemies of the cross. We are not going to usher in the kingdom age. The kingdom now, fallacy and false teachings. Some people around the world, the church thinks that they're going to elect a certain guy in and a certain woman in and we're going to politically move in a direction that we're going to get this country back, this world back, and everything's going to be, you know, nirvana upon planet earth. The Bible says the complete opposite. Human government's going to fail miserably. Men's hearts failing them for fear of the things that's coming upon them. And in fact, except those days be shortened of the tribulation period, when God is pouring out his wrath upon a Christ-rejecting world. We see their designs in Psalm 2. Oh, how the heathen rage and imagine a vain thing against the Lord and against his anointed. Their vanity, their imagination of taking control of the planet and their transhumanism and transgenderism and confusing such. And, you know, you've all know Harari and these guys spouting off that they're going to live forever. They're finding the secret of, you know, nobody will die again. Well, that's the strong delusion of 2 Thessalonians 2 that God says he's going to give them because they reject the truth. They're going to be given over to this strong delusion to believe the lie. People that are, you know, living upon the planet at that time and their rebellion to God. They're going to follow the technocrats. They're going to follow the technology and they're delusional in thinking that they're never going to die. And one third of the planet dies with the seals opening. Another half of the planet, another quarter of the planet dies thereafter. That's over half the planet. If you've got 8 billion people, that's close to 4 billion people dying in less than seven years period of time, the tribulation period. Whole lot of dying going on. And they died and they died and they died just like in Genesis 5. And he died and he died and he died. It's appointed unto all men once to die and then the judgment. If you think you're God, if they think they're God, then be crucified, bury yourself, and raise yourself from the dead three days later to prove it. If you can't do that, then just shut up. Because Jesus was crucified, buried, raised himself from the dead, ascended the right hand of the Father, and he's coming back again. And that's the hope that we have. We don't put our hope in human government. And we fear God rather than fear government. We don't fear the government from the standpoint of passively giving in to the wickedness and the evil. And so we're salt and light, the church. We're to manage our families, manage our homes. We're to be good citizens, serve in the military, however the Lord leads and guides you. But certainly we're not to be criminals and not to be a part of a criminal government that preys upon the weak, that preys upon children. Much of our, I'm told today, much of our military bases are used for child trafficking. We were using our soldiers to guard poppy fields in Afghanistan. The whole world knows the wickedness of America. The Biden administration, the Obama administration, Trump, all of them, the incredible wickedness. And yet we're so militarily powerful and we have the de facto global currency, the dollar, with our sanctions and such. We haven't faced the consequences. We've sown to the wind. We're reaping the whirlwind. And there's a day coming where God's gonna humble us, I believe, because of our wickedness. Too much is given, much is required. And so they wanted a king. They wanted to have a king like all the other nations. And so God's allowing this human experiment. He's allowing the United Nations after World War II, the Rockefeller family, the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City, to make the United Nations. The League of Nations earlier failed. It failed because there were too many Christians that were awake. But after World War II, there was a move in a direction of a new deal of socialism that government will take care of you from the womb to the tomb. And we need to get rid of war. So we're gonna develop what's called the United Nations. And then economically, we need the World Economic Forum. We need the World Health Organization. We need BlackRock and State Street and Vanguard to consume, to absorb all of the natural resources of Ukraine. We'll give them money, but we're gonna take your grain fields. We're gonna take your pensions. We're gonna take everything. You'll own nothing and you'll be happy, is what these guys are presently doing. And so how are you gonna cover your crimes? Because the people are starting to wake up. War. We'll do war. We'll hold false flags. We'll tell people that the Hamas secretly, quietly attacked Israel and Israel didn't know about it. We'll tell people like we did concerning Saddam Hussein. He supposedly was taking babies and putting them in microwave ovens. Remember that one? He's killing babies. He's a baby killer. There's weapons of mass destruction there. The globalists have to sell the people on war. They have to sell you on war. So they'll do what's called false flags. They'll allow themselves to be attacked. They'll attack. They'll manipulate it. And now you have justification for greater and greater atrocities and less and less freedom because you give up your freedom for security. So if Adolf Hitler gains power in Germany, he's going to posture himself in such a way that he's gonna light on fire just as Nero did, lit Rome on fire. He's gonna take the Reichstag buildings, the governmental buildings, and light them on fire and blow them up and stuff and blame it on the communists. You always have to have a boogeyman. You always have to have somebody that's attacking the people. And then he's the savior. So when his own guys light these buildings on fire, then he comes back with adjustments to their constitution to give him greater and greater authority. And the whole, the salesmanship is you give up these freedoms and I'll take care of you. And so you, if you're stupid enough to do that to allow these guys greater latitude and erode and give away your free speech and your right of assembly and all your things that are there to protect you and government is established for your good, not your evil, then you give it up and it's real hard to get it back, isn't it? Very difficult to get it back. And so in Matthew 24, the abject poverty of the nations, the absolute failure of human government has seen nations shall rise against nation, that's ethnic group. What do you see presently? When I was praying earlier, have you heard anything about the fastest growing church in the world in Iran? You haven't heard a thing. Iran is going down because spiritually its mosques are empty, its synagogues are empty. The people have awakened to Jesus Christ. What a way to take down hatred. What a way to take down, not the people, but Islam. A hateful satanic ideology of kill the infidel, right? Jihad, domination, you got to bring the whole world into submission. So you infiltrate all of Europe with people with that ideology, that belief system. The United States just flooded with people with different belief systems. And our constitution guarantees their freedom, the freedom for them to build mosques, the freedom for them to worship and all, but not the freedom to implement Sharia law in Dearborn, Michigan. No, no, no, no, no. You don't get to implement Sharia law here. We have a law, it's called the constitution. And you're here as a guest, and if you want to become a citizen, there's a process of gaining that privilege, right? But you're not going to jihad us, you're not going to infiltrate and take control. But the globalist Henry Kissinger said, I think we made a mistake. He said this last week. I think we made a mistake by bringing in so many Islamic peoples into Europe. And he's showing his hand, he's saying, the same thing that's happening in Israel with these factions, with Hezbollah and Hamas and these groups, they're going to have a day of rage, and they're going to go against the Jews and the Christians in Europe and all. It's planned, it's pre-planned. But you and I have the gospel, and in Iran, God's overcoming the hatred with the gospel, with people coming to Christ. Now, so their plan is to infiltrate, and I heard one guy say it this way. He said, it's kind of like a fish tank. You have certain fish in there, and then when you bring other ethnic groups, other fish into that tank, they just fight like crazy because it's sort of bred into them, you know, from children to hate a Jew or to hate a black guy or a white guy or whatever, you know? It's horrible the way we teach children to hate, generations to hate, you know? And so with that dynamic, with that taking place, the law protects us. Somebody wants to hate me, that's fine, but you cross the line, you're going to jail. You cross the line further, we're going to see God's giving authority to government to execute you. Capital punishment. Capital punishment works. It works really well to deter crime. Dead men don't commit crimes. Dead men don't molest children. Do you realize that? Dead men don't molest little kids. That guy's never doing it again, but we want to be all pansy and prance around like Tiny Tim, you know, in the tulips or something, you know? We're going to rehab him, you know? We got a pill for him or whatever. In fact, we're going to use them to destabilize cities. We're going to release them from the prisons and destabilize the community to create the chaos we need to break this country down. The Cloward-Piven strategy of overwhelming the government system, the police officers and such, we're going to, you know, we're going to defund the police officers because some guy got choked out, you know? And just my, my, and now, you know, people stabbing each other, shooting each other, and, you know, and it's not the guns problem. It's not the, the knife's problem. It's the heart of man is the problem, and the law is there to protect those who have no intention of being criminals. But, so nation's going to rise against nation, ethnic group, Jesus saying. I don't like it. I haven't been raised to hate a certain ethnic group, but let's face it, there's going to be people that hate me because I'm white, because I'm so good-looking, you know? It just makes them, makes them so angry, you know? Nothing I can do about that. Kingdom against kingdom, there shall be famine. So this kingdom against kingdom is world wars, world wars, World War I, World War II, the wars to end all wars. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, you know, going to save lives by killing these people, by burning them up with these nuclear armaments and such, and tactical nuclear weapons. We're going to use little tactical ones in regionally, you know, in the Middle East or Ukraine or wherever, and depleted uranium everywhere, and just the enormous, the enormous technology we have to destroy life, and what we're going to see more and more, I believe, is biological, the, the releasing of chemical agents, and, and because why? Because the globalists love infrastructure. They love the buildings. They love what they're building. If they tear it down, if they destroy it in Lahaina or Gaza, it's because they're going to build a smart city. It's because Blackrock owns Ukraine now, and going to have a smart cities built all over Ukraine for the globalist agenda. But if it's already been built, and it has all their smart meters, and their smart TVs, and cameras, and such, they don't want to destroy that. They just want to destroy you, so they're going to poison you, and your food, and your air, and biologically, I believe, and vaccines, and just the, just the incredible chaos that the devil's bringing with crazy people who have rejected God. Kingdom against kingdom, there shall be famine, and pestilences, and earthquakes in diverse places, Jesus saying in Matthew 24, verse 7 is coming, and so we're watching the cataclysmic events begin to take place. Ron Paul recently said this week, the way that nations are taken down, two things. One is inflation. You've seen the prices at Costco. Costco recently released a statement that the next few months, you're going to see a huge spike in pricing of essentials. Kathy's first thought was, I got to go get some toilet paper. Got to load up on toilet paper again. Isn't that funny? That's so funny. It's first thought. My first thought is, meat. I need some meat. I need more meat, right? You can live without toilet paper. You can't live without meat, I'll tell you. All right, okay. Anyway, we won't go too far with that. So pestilence, climate chaos, the earth breaking down, a lot of this climate chaos we're watching with Dane Whittington is due to the globalists and their chemtrailing, and harp technology, and 5G technology, and all the things they're doing to move the weather and the lighting of forests on fire. Bill Gates, the nut job, he gets the Darwin award, doesn't he? Doesn't he get the Darwin award? I mean, he wants to burn down the forest. He wants to take the forest, cut it down, and then bury it to save carbon. Cut the trees down, not use them for anything good, but then he wants to bury them to keep them from catching on fire, which you've been setting on fire, and all the smoke going into the air, but we're going to eliminate smoke going into the air by burying the trees, right? Man, where do they come up with these demonic ideas? That's the Darwin award right there, you get it. That's the best one I've heard. Jesus said in Luke 21-25, there should be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, and upon the earth, distress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. So these human governments are there for the good. They're there to stop the wars. They're there to protect us and keep us safe. They're there to provide food and economic viability to where we don't bankrupt ourselves. As Ron Paul said, it's wars and it's inflation. Those are the two things that destroy nations. We have the de facto global currency, and we just print it, and print it, and print it, and print it. We'll give six billion to Iran just ahead of time. We'll give airplanes full of cash if you're Obama to Iran. You'll leave billions and billions of dollars of armaments in Afghanistan. You give money to everybody when COVID's happening for compliance, for the whole world to be in compliance to the COVID sham. You're going to run out of money someday. You're printing so much, it's going to lose its value when it cannot be pegged to the barrel of oil anymore. The Bretton Woods Agreement, you get rid of the gold standard, you get rid of the silver standard, you peg it to oil. Every barrel of oil that's sold has to be sold, you know, in the dollar. Well, that's gone. It's over. Now, the brick nations and such are able to trade. They're able to buy oil, energy, in their own currencies without the dollar. The dollar's being phased out, and as that's happening, we're losing our ability, the confidence the world's had in the dollar. We're losing our ability, our purchasing power is eroding, and it's happening very quickly. And so we're going to have the experience of Venezuela very soon. Men's hearts failing them for fear. Mental health day. The whole community is melting down mentally, and we ain't seen nothing yet. Everyone's talking about mental health, mental breakdowns, anxieties, annex, all of it. Not me, not you, not Christians. God hasn't given us the spirit of fear, but a power of love and a sound mind. There's a quality of being, there's a quality of character. His name is Jesus, who lives and dwells within us. And it's a childlike faith in him that he'll get us through no matter what. We don't need to melt down because somebody's threatening me. They looked at me, they looked at me, you know. I mean, you ain't seen nothing yet. Wait till there isn't enough food, enough energy. Wait till something real happens. And yet, more and more drugs, more and more therapeutic messages, feel-good messages. Feel sorry for myself. I'm a victim. Nobody loves me. I'm gonna cry. You want to listen to me? No, I don't want to listen to you. Quit whining. Get your eyes on Jesus. Nobody's suffered more than Jesus. Focus on him. Get your eyes off yourself. Deny yourself. Self's the problem. Take your cross up and follow Jesus. There's no guarantees in coming to Christian that you're going to be able to evade affliction. No, in fact, you're promised. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord will deliver them from them all. You're going to get stronger. You're going to gain a greater character, Christlike character, as you go through these trials, as you go through the difficulties, the tribulation, the pressure that's coming against us. Your Christianity is going to be real. You're going to live it out. Not in theory. You're going to practice it and live it out. You're going to experience the power of the Holy Spirit to overcome. You're going to experience the fruit of the Spirit, which is love, the ability to love even your enemies. Only, only from Christ. Only live like that with the help of Jesus Christ. And yet, upon the earth, the planet, men's hearts failing them for fear and looking after those things which are coming on the earth for the powers of heaven are shaken. I see in Isaiah chapter 26 that the earth is going to be knocked off its axis. It's going to wobble like a drunken man. It's going to reel to and fro like a drunken man. Mountains are going to disappear. And Jesus said, except those days be shortened, no flesh will be saved, but for the likesake those days shall be shortened. God intervenes for Israel, his elect. A one-third remnant in Zechariah 13, 8 and 9. Israel has to go through hard times, super hard times. God will use ungodly nations to judge Israel to get their attention. God will use the Babylonians to judge Israel. And then later God will judge the Babylonians for how they treated Israel with the Medo-Persians. And the Medo-Persians will be subdued by the Greeks and the Greeks will be subdued by the Romans. God uses nations, but make no mistake, God's promises to Israel are yea and amen. But God uses the Antichrist in the rebirth of the Roman Empire, the final 77 of Daniel, the time of Jacob's trouble, to preserve a one-third remnant. Two-thirds of God's people, the Jews, perish in that seven-year period of time. The world hates, the anti-Semitism gets so great that the armies of the Antichrist in Revelation 12, chasing after the woman, that the remnant has to flee to the area of ancient Moab, present-day southern Jordan, the rock city area of Petra, Petra. Verse 2, whosoever therefore resists the power resists the ordinance of God, and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. And so you resist the power, you're going to receive damnation. They don't bear the sword in vain. Even kings like Nebi recognized who really rules. And in Daniel chapter 4, Daniel interpreted a dream that King Nebi had. Nebi saw a big tree, and this tree was great and huge and all, and then this tree was able to minister to a lot of people around him. People benefited from this big tree, how fruitful it was and all. And then there came a point in time where this tree was cut down to a stump. The roots still remained, and Nebi Keneser couldn't figure out what that dream entailed. And Daniel interpreted for him, you're the tree, Nebi. You're the tree, buddy. And everybody's been enjoying the popularity and the blessings that have been upon you as a dominant global nation and all, and a global leader and all, but people are going to be calling you stumpy pretty soon because you're going to be cut down. And you're going to go out and you're going to eat grass like an ox for seven years. The dew's going to come upon you each and every evening. You're going to go from being a man with faculties as a human being, your heart's going to be changed with faculties like a beast, it says in Daniel 4. So talk about identifying as a beast. I identify as a cat, right? Everybody identifying as animals. Well, he actually is out there taking on the habits of an ox and eating grass for seven years he's out there. But he doesn't lose his kingdom because the stump still has roots and all. And it's, and it said until you know, you're going to be out there until you know that the most high rules over the kingdoms of men and gives it to whomsoever he wills. Well, the problem was Daniel was like, I can't even tell you what the interpretation of this is because only your enemy would concoct something like this, oh king. And he's kind of treading lightly, doesn't know if the king's going to be angry or not. And oh king live forever, you know, they always say. And oh, you know, you ought to go out there, oh king, and you ought to turn from your iniquity and your sins, you ought to repent and go feed the homeless and all. Maybe you can slow this process down. Well, 12 months later, Nebi came in and he says, is this not great Babylon which I have built? And the words it says weren't even out of his mouth. And he was taken and, you know, lost his mind and put out to pasture for seven years. And what a way to learn and what a picture that the Lord gives to take the strongest, biggest guy that the world has. And later it'll be the Antichrist that God does this with. But he says in Daniel 4 35, and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing. And he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. And none can stay his hand or say unto him, what doest thou? Nobody can ask, what are you doing with God? You can't even ask him that. He doesn't have to answer you. He's never going to apologize to you. He's never going to say, oops, I'm sorry. You think you have leverage on God? You think you've got a case against him? You think you're going to be able to push his back into a corner and he's going to come out saying, I'm sorry? Not going to happen. He's perfect. Absolutely perfect. He's never made a mistake. He's never had an oops, including the making of you and me. Never, ever, ever, ever. Verse 36. And at the same time, my reason returned unto me. Man, how quickly we could use our reasoning faculties. My reason returned unto me. And for the glory of my kingdom, my honor and brightness returned unto me. And my counselors and my Lord sought unto me. And I was established in my kingdom. And excellent majesty was added unto me. Verse 37. Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven. All whose works are truth and his ways judgment. And those that walk in pride, he is able to abase. Anybody out there, Yuval, Noah, Harari, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, George Soros, doesn't matter who they are. In Acts chapter 12, one of my favorites, Herod Antipas is there and he's got a Armani silver threaded suit on and the sun's hitting it and it's just glistening. And he gives this oration, you know, and the people are, the people are chanting, it's not the voice of a man, it's the voice of a God. And he receives that adulation. God shares his glory with no man. What's it saying? He was consumed by worms right there. Oh, I love that. Oh, mainstream news, you know, why couldn't it happen again? You know, just eating of worms right there. Bill Gates, you're threatening that I'm going to eat mealworms. Guess what? You're going to be consumed of worms the next time you're on television, right in front of everybody. Oh, what poetic justice that would be. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. Why should Christians submit to civil government? Three reasons. Number one, the appointment of government. Number two, the authority of government. Verse three, for rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Will thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good and thou shall have praise of the same. So back in verse one, that word subject means to submit like a soldier. So there's a chain of command. And if you understand the chain of command in all different circles, everywhere you go, there's a chain of command. God's at the top. In your home, when it says husbands, you know, love your wives like Christ loved the church, we're to lay our lives down for them. Wives, submit yourselves unto the husband. There's a chain of command. If the husband's not in submission to God, the wife's not going to be able to be in submission to her husband. Because ultimately, both are in submission to Jesus. You can't be a tyrant within your own home. You've got to take knowledge of your wife and begin to nurture and help her to discover and enter into all that God has for her and how he's made her. You don't deny her that. You don't make her in the image of your mom or your own image or force her into some sort of a mold. And so the case being that if our wives, husbands, guys, if they don't see us in submission to Jesus, they can't trust us. They're going to think we're out cheating on them, that we're doing things that are crazy, the things that we shouldn't be doing. But if they see us as men of prayer, men of the word, men that are putting Jesus forward, they're going to follow the leadership of Jesus, not you. They'll say, Lord, I know my husband's a knucklehead. He might lose it all, but Lord, you're there. You're our safety net. You're the one that's going to keep this marriage together, right? They have to have a confidence that Christ is the head of the home. So, too, in our country, a Judeo-Christian ethic, our country is supposedly built upon in God we trust on our coins. And God's to be the head. He's to be the one where you have the Ten Commandments in schools and the Bible and the prayer in the schools. And you could talk to Robbie a little bit later, but apparently Coach Joe Kennedy, he opened the door for all those things to take place again. And people don't understand the victory that he had of praying in our city with the boys, you know, out on that field and then going to court. Well, he won. And when he won, it reestablished as a precedent that it's illegal for these schools to deny prayer, the word of God and the Ten Commandments and these sort of things. But the church seems to be, you know, it's like they shoved it away. They put it underneath the rug and people aren't aware. And that's the importance of awareness. That's the importance of education. That's the importance of knowing the truth, because you can't experience the truth and actuate and live the truth unless you know it. If you don't know it, you can be lied to and made a slave. And so a subject like a soldier, the chain of command. So power speaks of delegated authority. They're not all powerful. It's a delegated authority from God to preserve that which is good, not evil. Pilate said to Jesus, know you not that I have power to crucify you? Don't you know, carpenter from Nazareth, I have power to crucify you? And what did Jesus say? You don't have any power except that which is given you from above. Jesus earlier said, I got power to lay my life down. I got power to take it again. That's the power. Can you do that? Nobody can do that. And I came to bear witness of the truth. And Pilate says, what is truth? You know, Jesus came to bear witness of the truth. He says, he is the minister. And this word minister speaks of like a shepherd. They're to be like shepherds. They're to be like servants, public servants, we call them. For he is the minister of God to thee for good. Imagine that. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid for he bears not the sword in vain for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. So governments are to praise citizens. Governments are to give out awards to moms and dads that do a good job, that help out at the PTA, to the coaches and people that play by the rules, that are a blessing in the community. They're to receive praise and honor and blessings, awards and stuff. They're to be recognized in the community. They're to get the Fauci Award for boosting the most people, you know. Didn't one of them receive the Nobel Prize recently? A couple of these nut jobs with the vaccines and such. I mean, the audacity, that's what's happening in our culture. People get rewarded for evil rather than good. Proverbs 20 verse 2 says, The fear of a king is as the roying of a lion. Whoso provokes him to anger sins against his own soul. And so the sword for capital crimes, as I said earlier, the death penalty works. A guy can't murder after he's been executed. And I don't care how you do it, you can shoot him, you can hang him, you can electrocute him. It doesn't matter. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. You want it humane? I don't know. It's just, just how they do it. They took him out and stoned him, you know. Behead him, however you want. But death deters crime. The children growing up, if they see a criminal in the hood, if they see a criminal in the family, an uncle so-and-so is molesting kids, an uncle so-and-so gets caught, an uncle so-and-so is executed, it sends a message to all the pedos, all the pedophiles, that no, this is not good for children like you're trying to sell to everybody, Oprah and all you guys. This is a heinous crime. It's a capital crime to be punished. Nobody's getting in trouble for Epstein Island. Nobody's getting arrested. I read this morning where one of the witnesses for the Epstein crimes, that she mysteriously died. Imagine that. They're dying. They're falling away. None of them are going to be arrested. Trump's not going to be able to drain the swamp. Nobody, including Biden's kids, they're going to get pardoned. Why didn't Trump pardon the January 6th guys? How come nobody's arrested? How come nobody gets punished for their evil? What's happening? It seems like they're prospering in their evil. First Peter 2.13 says, submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake. So when you follow the rules, if you're in a conquered culture like the Romans, the Christians would pay their taxes. The Christians would work hard. The Christians show up to work in China today. They play by the rules. It's when their faith is violated that they disobey, that their social credit score tanks, because they're not going to go to a government church and mimic government slogans. And they're not going to say, if you're in Rome, Caesar is Lord. They're willing to lose their life for that one infraction against the emperor. Caesar is not Lord. Jesus is Lord. Once a year, they'd have to say that. They begged Polycarp. They begged them. Just say Caesar is Lord and you'll live. In 86 years, he's been faithful to me. Why would I deny him now? Why would I deny him, you know, here and now? Not going to happen. And so you submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether it be to the king as supreme or unto governors or as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, for the praise of them that do well. So there's a chain of command. You'd be respectful to the police officers. You'd be respectful of those in authority. You pay your dues. You do what you're supposed to do. You don't demonize police officers. How crazy is that to demonize the very ones that are there to risk their lives to protect you from criminals? And we understand that. And we also understand that they can't be everywhere at once. And so we understand the second amendment, that it's incumbent upon us to protect ourselves and those that we love and to deal with evil. You don't bear the sword in vain. People fear death. They fear death. If they know you're unarmed, if they know they can burst into your home and take everything and they're not going to go to jail, if they know they can steal your car and not go to jail, guess what? You're going to see an increase in all these crimes. He says, verse five, wherefore you must needs be subject not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. So what about tyrants? What should I do if a tyrant, you know, takes over? Is it, is it okay to have civil disobedience? Is it okay if I'm Dietrich Bonhoeffer and I, you know, I won't go along with Adolf Hitler? If all the other pastors are going along with Adolf Hitler, there's only 700 that won't, but all the rest of them are putting up Hitler's cross, taking down the cross of Christ and putting up Adolf Hitler's, the swastika and stuff on their podium behind them and all. And they're all receiving money and they become government churches and they're incredibly corrupt. And Bonhoeffer and Niemöller, there's two that stand against them, 700 total that stand against Adolf Hitler. And later, such a sore loser, that of the Nazis, they hang Dietrich Bonhoeffer with piano wire at a concentration camp about a week before the war ends, you know. But he was safe. He was safe in America. And he was enamored with black churches. He loved the way the black churches would worship God. And he'd visit them when he was here in America. And he was safe. He didn't have to go back to Germany, but he did because he wanted to awaken the people. He wanted to awaken as many as he could. And he's willing to defy Hitler, live in defiance of Hitler. And he's a guy that's so many great quotes. Today, we're going to talk about false prophets on the podcast. And one of the greatest ways to see a false prophet is what Bonhoeffer identified, false prophets and heretical teachers and such, is it's not what they say, it's what they won't say. So many are silent concerning the evil around us. They won't say a thing. Oh, that's politic. Don't want to say that. Don't want to talk about that. You notice they don't talk about it until there's no risk, until it's finally past the risk point of being, you know, thought a whack job. I mean, look up the word whack job. There's a picture of me there. I mean, we don't we don't we don't worry about what people think. I'm not a politician. You know, we're here to please God. It's taken years and years and years of fighting against the lies in this community. Finally, there's some people awake. Finally, I have some fellowship with like-minded people who are seeing through the lies. It's taken a long time. COVID was the greatest false flag, the greatest conspiracy ever, greater than the JFK assassination by his own government. I'm not afraid of somebody calling me a conspiracy theorist, you know, who cares what you think. The CIA concocted that to marginalize people that would question 9-11, that would question COVID, that would question the JFK and Bobby Kennedy assassinations and Martin Luther King, Jr. Right? Now, we'll question it. We're not going to give in to your lies and your propaganda and your tyrants. Thomas Jefferson, he said, rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Isn't that what it felt like when we said we're going to still meet? We're not going to wear a mask? I'd go into these places all over Kitsap County, not wearing that mask, and man, I felt good. I got kicked out of tractor supply. I got kicked out of hair salons. I got kicked out of restaurants, kicked out of movie theaters, kicked out of the gym I love to go to because I wouldn't wear a mask. You know, I don't know how many others, but I loved it. I loved it. Just, hey, you know, I'm not going to drive around wearing two masks and you're not going to lie to me and tell me it's loving my neighbor. It's not loving my neighbor. It's idiocy. It's conformity. It's brainwashing. It's demeaning to a human being to put that thing on. It doesn't work. Read the box. It doesn't work. Gosh. And people are still pushing the mask. Still pushing it. I thought, man, this is great. And I didn't take the jab and I don't regret taking the jab. Does anybody regret not being jabbed? And I'm told the church is 75% of the people are jabbed. People are dying with turbo cancers now. Just as Sherry Tempenny said, in three years, your immune system's going to be so shot with AIDS, vaccine acquired immune deficiency, that you're going to have not just cancer, but turbo cancers, all of your organs. People are dying. The mortuaries are full. The insurance companies are saying, if you've been boosted, we're not going to give you life insurance. These are numbers under the radar, under the media that are actual real numbers affecting people all around us. And they have the audacity to say, we're going to do it again. The people that are being jabbed are getting COVID. I read this morning on Jeff Childers, coffee guy from Florida, the lawyer guy, and they're getting COVID. And then two weeks later, they're getting another COVID, a different variant. And they're getting jabbed, but it's not working. But they want everyone else to get jabbed. And then when they get sick, they blame the people that aren't jabbed. How's that make any sense? Just insanity. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. And you see Christians being passive, just giving into it. You know, forcing people to, you know, you can't come in here unless you're wearing a mask. You can't come in here unless you're jabbed. You know, you can't be a part of this church and such. And we're going to shut down and we're going to isolate the kids and such. Why'd you give into that idiocy? Why didn't you defy that? Didn't you do your due diligence? Didn't you see after two weeks, three weeks, four weeks? I was recently told, I don't know if it's true. I'll confirm it after church, but Franklin Graham said that the jab, even Jesus would take it. And he had to have surgery for his pericardium thereafter. And another member of his family had surgery. And I, I was told by Rob that he's stepping down because of health reasons. Now here's the mind boggler of all mind bogglers. Okay. You might not see it this way. Got to get ready for this one. Why would Franklin and David Jeremiah and Joel Olson, I can understand why Joel would, but why, why, why would any of these guys want to sell medicinal marijuana? I mean, you really care about people and paying that much. Now you want to go in the CBD business, whatever it is, you know, really? You don't have enough money already, David Jeremiah, you're worth over a hundred million dollars. So now you're going to sell to people that your back hurts and you're going to start selling to all the people that follow you. You're going to sell pot. Let somebody else sell pot. All right. Why don't you avoid all appearance of evil? I know there's no THC in it. I know nobody's getting drunk from it, but I'm not going to open a bar. Even though people say it's a Christian bar and we only drink one drink. No, I'm going to avoid all appearance of evil. Okay. Cause I'm a pastor. All right. You don't need the money. Why are you doing that? There's pot stores everywhere around here. Let the pot guys do the pot stuff. You know, let them eat the gummies. You need a gummy. Go ahead. You know, man, get it by mail order. You can't, as a Christian, even go into a place like that, you know, cause they don't know if you're getting high or not. Just, just stuff doesn't add up anymore. Just so bizarre. Billy's, Billy's going to roll over in his grave, right? Crazy. And you know what I want? I want an admission. I want a statement from president Trump, from Amir and from Franklin Graham. I was wrong. This jab is a crime and I don't care if Benjamin Netanyahu's friends with Pfizer and 80% of Israelis are all jabbed multiple times. It's wrong. It's wrong, Amir. It's wrong, Franklin. Jesus wouldn't take it. It's a kill shot. It's a clot shot. It's proven you've had enough track record president Trump with your warp speed jab that it's a, it's a bio weapon. Now come clean. We love people that come clean. A lot of redemption, a lot of forgiveness, a lot of love for somebody that comes clean. If just one would come clean, we'd probably love him and make him president, right? We can trust this guy now. Don't double down. The U.S. constitution, the supreme law of the land, the declaration of independence, the bill of rights, a constitutional Republic, government ministers sworn to uphold and limited by that word, limited. Obama, you're not a King. You can't change marriage. You can't say that you have enough political equity to change marriage. You were elected. You stole the election. You're not even a U.S. citizen. You don't have a birth certificate. You didn't go to Harvard. You didn't go to Occidental. You're a pedophile, homosexual. You're married to a man. You're a fraud. Did I leave anything out? So what makes you think that you're going to fundamentally transform America, that you have the political equity or cloud or leverage to change the definition of marriage in America? Now we're going to change the definition of a man, a woman, a boy, a girl. No, you're, you're bound by the constitution. You're bound. The voters voted twice for the definition of marriage overwhelmingly. And you say they got it wrong. And then you're going to light the white house up with a, with a multicolored thing. And then you can use the term love wins. How crazy is that? That isn't love. I like the article that Leo Holman had. I posted that on our Facebook, but he, he described the Pope as promoting, promoting Klaus Schwab saying he's like Jesus, that people needed to support Klaus Schwab. And I like this phrase. The Pope is fluent in blasphemy. I like that. That's a great way to describe what comes out of his mouth. He's a false prophet. He's a demon. He's horrible. And yet they can't get rid of him, can they? You can't get rid of these guys. So, you know, you're a Christian. You're not going to follow what that guy says. You don't have to listen to his hierarchical, you know, level of authority over you, that he's got some sort of thing over you, nor the president, nor the Congress, nor the military. If they violate God's law, you obey God and you suffer the consequences. If need be, they're threatening you to kill you. If you don't, well, kill me then. Their powers are limited. They have limited powers. They're chained to the constitution. So beyond our form of governor, an individual is also governed by his own conscience. In 1 Timothy 1.9, the law is for the lawless. You and I, it's love. We're motivated. We live according to love. We love God. And even though something might be legal, I can technically get away with it. You know, I'm not going to go to jail for adultery. It's not against the law anymore. I still won't do it because I love God and because I love my wife. I'm going to live by a higher standard, that of love. I'm not going to look for little technicalities and ways that I can circumvent God's laws because, you know, after all, it's legal. Well, what if they make pedophilia legal? You're going to bounce around talking to people how it's good for the kids? That's just, it's evil. It's so incredibly evil, I can't even. Unbelievable. Limited powers. In Acts 5 verse 29, they're told not to speak in Jesus' name anymore. And the response is, you can lock us up, do whatever you want, but we ought to obey God rather than men. Our conscience is violated. Civil disobedience. In Exodus chapter 1, to my hero, Shephrenpuah, they're told by the Pharaoh that when you, as midwives, whenever a Hebrew woman has a child, if the child's a girl, you can let the child live. When you're on the stool, if a baby comes out, take the baby and put it into the Nile. And they were convicted in their heart, and they defied the edict of the king, and they allowed the baby boys to continue to be born. Thus, Moses, drawn from the, his mother had an ark, a bulrush made an ark with pitch, and Pharaoh's daughter found Moses. And so, people defy the edict of the king. There's no way we're going to do this. We're not going to violate our conscience. We're not going to violate God's laws. Rahab, the harlot, she hid the two spies. Moses, the prophets, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they didn't listen to King Nebi. No way, king. We're not careful how we answer you. Daniel, there was legislation, Daniel 6, that he couldn't pray anymore. He prayed three times a day, opened the windows up so everyone can see him. John the Baptist told King Herod, hey, taking your brother Philip's wife, Herodias, you know, that's illicit, that's wrong, it's against the law. It wasn't against Roman law, it's against God's law. And he lost his head over it, right? And then we see the apostles, they obeyed God rather than men. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. Why should Christians submit to civil government? Three reasons. One, the appointment of government. Two, the authority of government. And three, the appropriation of government. For for this cause pay ye tribute also, for they are God's ministers attending continually upon this very thing. Yeah, taxes. God gives the government the power, the appropriation to make your money theirs, to assess, to levy, to collect taxes and support thereof. In the support of who? In support of you or in support of government? Larger and larger, bigger and bigger and bigger, bigger bureaucracy in government. Less and less and less and less small businesses, the regulation strangling them, COVID regulations. A centralization of power, a centralization of food, a centralization of goods and services with a form of fascism now, that of big tech companies, big large banks with government. The three-legged stool, adding the one-world religious system along with it. And so in 1st Samuel chapter 8, God warned them when they said they wanted a king. He said he will take your sons and daughters for his use. Americans don't seem to be wanting to give their kids this time around to the draft, to the military. The military is corrupt. The wars are corrupt. It's an dishonorable thing to serve in the military in many ways, in many people's minds today. So what's happening, Brandon Smith pointed this out, down in Panama there's a place where there's a pooling, an enormous amount of Chinese military and many Central American young men. And these men, not women, not families, are flooding into America every single day. Thousands and thousands and thousands of them. There's a camp called San Vicente, according to the Hagman report. He interviewed a guy. And Mayorkas went there twice in these black helicopters. The guy put up a drone. He's shown the expanse of San Vicente, this camp, this pooling here, this area of prepping the Chinese that are going to flood, that are flooding, you know, into America. So when these guys do war, and war breaks out with China in regard to Taiwan, and war breaking already happening in Ukraine, war in the Middle East and our ships off the shore there, when war, global world war breaks forth, and we're going against China and Russia and everybody else, Americans, Brandon Smith pointed this out, that these guys would be conscripted. They'll join the U.S. military and wear U.S. military uniforms. And they're not going to be loyal to uphold the Constitution against Second Amendment people. They're going to be working as mercenaries. And he cited historically, Brandon Smith, I posted the article, the Bronze Age when this happened. Rather than our government being overrun by these people, they're going to conscript them and use them against the people. What stands in the way of globalism? The middle class America. You stand in the way of globalism. They have to get rid of you. And they're going to do it with their lives. They're going to do it with war, famine, pestilence, whatever they got to do to remove the middle class from America. As Klaus Schwab said, you will own nothing and you'll be happy in these smart cities, these small little places they can monitor everything. So he will take away your sons and your daughters for his use. He will take the best of your fields, your sheep and cattle. He will take your money continually. You shall cry out in the day because of your king, which he shall have chosen you. And the Lord will not hear you in that day. So he can't hear your prayers on April 15th. He's not listening. You'll own nothing. And here's the biggest judgment. God will give us rulers after our own hearts. If we look at the Biden administration, does he represent us? Does he represent America? Not you. Represents somebody. Verse 7. Render therefore to all their dues, tribute to whom tribute is due, custom and customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. So the word tribute means yearly taxes on people, possessions and real estate. Custom speaks of sale tax on goods. And Jesus, when they tried to trip him up about paying taxes, he grabbed a denarius and whose inscription on it? You know, Caesar's. Well, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar and render unto God that which is God's. Let me ask you, what is God's? It all belongs to God. It's all his. It's all his. And so render unto Caesar that which is Caesar. Limited. Render unto God that which is God. It all belongs to him. We belong to him. Know you not that you've been bought with a price. And so human government is very expensive, leading us today toward insolvency. Jesus said in Matthew 24, 12, iniquity shall abound. Iniquity means lawlessness. The love of many waxing cold. So outbursts of lawlessness in the USA, the inflation, the wars. So the chaotic condition that we see that's just just covering the planet, its crisis reaction solution is to create the crisis, create the cloud, create the craziness, to break down the rule of law, the lawlessness increasing and government's job is to preserve the good, to deal with criminals. But instead, the government is encouraging the breakdown because they want to roll out. They want to build back better their globalism. And so that's what we're watching. Are we to be complicit? Are we to give into it? What are we to do? We're to resist evil. We're to hold to the Constitution. We're to be educated enough to say no. And in many cases, people are winning. They're winning like crazy. And so it's they cannot govern without the consent of the people. But if the people are stupid, if they're brainwashed, remember the statistic we talked about before, 30 percent of the people believe everything they say and conform. Another 65 percent live on the fence. And if they're incentivized, if they're told you can keep your and you can have money, you can prosper, they'll give into it even though they know it's a lie. And then there's 5 percent that'll say no, non-negotiable. There's no way I'll do that. And so one of the guys said, we need to work on the 65 percent to awaken them to how important it is to not give in to the bait. Because the central bank digital currency, for instance, we're told that the first way they're going to do it is they're going to put 20 grand, 15 grand in what they call your Fed account. And you go to NewYorkFed.com and you can get your federal wallet of central bank digital currency. It's going to be huge enticement for you to give up your dollars, to give up everything else and take on this central bank digital currency. What they're not telling you presently is that you're also going to need a digital ID. You're your ability to buy and sell, your ability for your health, your health records and such, track and tracing, all of it, your vaccine records, all of it are tied into an ID. If they can't get the ID in everybody, then their digital system doesn't work. So they have to collapse the present system to get people willing. So the incentive is we'll give you X amount, 15, 20 grand in your Fed account. The other way is without the carrot, if you don't bite, they're going to use the stick. They're going to make it so you can't buy, so you can't have access to anything. So Larry Fink from BlackRock said, we are going to change behavior. We are going to use their control of monies to change behavior. And that's why Disney, that's why Budweiser, that's why many of these corporations give in. And it looks like business suicide, you know, moving away from the families and such, but they're, they're influencers and they're wanting to influence our country in such a way away from God. It's a rebellion against God. And they want to assume the role of God with their trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars and the powers that go, that go with it. And so we need to resist evil, work more and more locally together. And without our consent, you know, they're not going to get away with it. Even in the tribulation period, we're not going to be here. We're going to be raptured before it. But even in that tyrannical system, there are people that survive the tribulation period who do not take the mark of the beast, who come through it with food, water, everything. And they're able to make it through. And that's, that's going to be the tightest system the world's ever seen. And yet there's people able to circumvent it by saying no. There's others, innumerable multitude of people that lose their heads. Revelation 20 verse 4, Revelation 6 and 7, innumerable number of people, tribulation saints who refuse the mark of the beast. Revelation 13, 16 through 18, who say no way. And so they'll choose eternity rather than temporary pleasure. So the chaotic conditions around. So man in rebellion to God is destined to failure. Our only hope is to submit to God. Now, I love the generation that I grew up in. I love the prosperity. I had the best of the best of the best. You could be lower middle class and feel like you're the richest guy in town. It's just amazing what the opportunities, what was available and the lifestyle, just amazing. And that's going by the wayside. If we could preserve it, if we could keep it, we'd want to. But our government is failing us. Our government is selling us out to globalist interests. And they'll want to demonize somebody else. They'll want to blame Russia. They want to sell war to you. But you're wise enough now to know it's the people that are stealing these elections who aren't even elected by you that are stealing these elections that are in power. The courts, the district attorneys all throughout our country who are criminals and won't enforce the rule of law to protect you and I. We just want a fair election. We just want to be able to vote for a candidate that'll do what he says and begin to arrest the criminals. That's all we want. Unfortunately, it's not happening. People forgot about the stolen election. They're thinking, hey, we're going to go do this again. We're going to get it right next time. They stole it from you. You didn't fix anything in their ability to steal it. What makes you think you're going to get a fair election? And who are you going to elect? Let every soul be subject under the higher power. So we submit to King Jesus. Pray thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Submit to God, to Jesus Christ who's the blessed and only potentate, which means he's God, King of kings and Lord of lords in 1 Timothy 6 15. And so question, are you in rebellion or are you in submission to God? Submit to God. Are you in rebellion to God? This world is in rebellion to God right now. This is what's happening. It's rebellion against God. Rules for radicals, dedicated to Lucifer, right? Dedicated to following the devil. Are you in rebellion or in submission to God? Today, Jesus offers his terms for peace. He's the prince of peace and he offers terms for peace. And the terms for peace is your complete submission, your complete surrender. And he offers you peace. With so many people filled with anxiety and inability to cope, can it be that they're not in submission to Jesus? Can it be they're still demanding their way? They're demanding their rights, their entitlement, what they want? Are their prayers directed prayers? Or do they pray and let the Lord know what their needs are and then say, nevertheless, not as I will, but thy will be done. Live in lives of submission unto Jesus. Tomorrow, Jesus establishes peace on earth with the sword of his mouth and the brightness of his coming. As he subdues, he will subdue every enemy of the cross. He's king of kings, he's lord of lords, and he's coming again. And we can be looking up and we can say, man, that constitution was a great document. Our form of government was good. It protected us to a certain degree. But it's holy and inadequate for an immoral people because an immoral people figure ways around it. It's only good for those who adhere to a Judeo-Christian ethic, the Old and the New Testament. When the churches are ablaze, when the churches are open, when the lights are on and people are attending church. And not just attending, but the word of God being taught so the people know the truth. And the truth not only sets them free, but keeps them free. And so our problem is one of apostasy, of rebellion, of turning our backs upon God, demanding our own way, kicking Jesus out of the church. And yet he's still knocking on the door saying, let me in. I want fellowship with you, Church of Laodicea. I'd rather you're hot or cold. If you're lukewarm, you make me sick, I'm going to spew you out. So you and I have a great opportunity to be on fire, to be filled with the Spirit, be being filled with the Spirit, live lives in submission unto the Lord. And this war, this rebellion, the answer to it is the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ. We can't force somebody into Christianity. The jihadist Islam, they try to force people. You either pay a tax, you say Allah Akbar, or we're going to cut your head off. We don't do that. We share the good news. We give the choice, the free moral agency. We identify that God doesn't force love. Love isn't forced. God wants a love relationship with you. He wants you to make a decision to be in submission to him, to surrender to him. And he and his love has washed away your sins. He's washed away all of your sins, past, present, and future. And he and his love has a plan and a purpose for you. He wants to bring you into eternity, your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life. He wants you to experience his peace that surpasses all understanding, that'll guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Today is the day of salvation. Let's pray. Father, thank you. Thank you, Lord, that you've taught us the necessity, the importance of living lives in submission unto you. And all of us, Lord, at times are disobedient. Lord, you take us to the woodshed. You chasten those you love. We're spanked. We're corrected. We're not punitive, but brought back to that place where we don't hurt ourselves. And we thank you, Lord, that where are we going to go? You have the words of eternal life. We tasted. We've seen that you're good. There's nobody else. There's nothing else. It's singular, Lord. You're the only way. You're the only one. So, Lord, we surrender afresh this morning. We surrender. We submit unto you no matter what circumstances you've allowed into our lives, no matter what injustices, no matter what seems unfair. Lord, we surrender afresh unto you. And we walk by faith, not by sight. And we cry out in worship. We cry out unto you, Lord, that you are worthy, that you are worthy. And, Lord, you're going to sort it all out. You're going to make it all right. You're going to rule and reign with a rod of righteousness. We're going to rule and reign with you. Presently, this is skewed. This is fallen. The little G-God of this world is going about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. And, Lord, we're your ambassadors. We're here to represent you, your coming kingdom. So, God, anoint and use us. Empower us to articulate, to share the glorious good news of your coming kingdom. Lord, we pray for those who are losing hope, those who don't know you, that, Lord, they'd come to a saving knowledge of you, that we'd experience the joy and the blessing of watching people transformed and changed, being turned from darkness to light, from the power of Satan unto God. Help us, Lord. While your heads are bowed and your eyes are closed, if you're here this morning and you've been living a life of rebellion against God, God's offering you the olive branch. God's offering you the cross. He's offering you the gift of his dear Son, that Jesus died in your place, that Jesus didn't rebel, that Jesus submitted himself completely to his Father, that his Father poured out his wrath upon Jesus instead of you. He died in your place. He suffered in your place, that you might have eternal life. And he offers you eternal life if you'll only submit unto God, if you'll submit unto him, if you'll surrender unto him. Don't be at war with God. Don't be fighting God. Don't insist upon your own way. Don't try to play God. Simply humble yourself. Come to the cross. Die to self. Cry out to God, God be merciful to me a sinner. And he's going to give you as a free gift eternal life by grace through faith alone in him. Anyone here this morning, you're coming unto eternal life. God's illumining your heart and mind. He's inviting you. He's saying, whosoever will, let him come. Anyone here this morning, just lift your hand up. We want to pray with you. We don't want anyone to leave here angry in a rebellion to God. Father, thank you. Thank you for your love, Lord. Your love strong enough to curtail our rebellion, strong enough, great enough to want us to fall upon you and be broken before you. Lest at judgment, Lord, you'd fall upon us and grind us to powder. Lord, we thank you for the power, the work, your strength, Lord, to come against our rebellion, to come against our selfishness. And Lord, your love, it's the kindness of God that leads us to repentance, Lord. You're not a ogre, a tyrant. You're a loving heavenly father who's given us your son. And he's our shepherd. He's the chief shepherd. He's the great shepherd. He's the good shepherd that lays down his life for the sheep. Lord, evermore, we want to walk in that newness of life and the power of your spirit. Help us, Lord, to be witnesses in these last days. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.