Lord. So we're gonna read together. I'm ready in case I gotta go in contingency mode. You know we know what to do. Okay. Okay. Psalms. Thank you. Psalms 23rd verses one through six. Let's read together. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Bless the Lord. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Bless the Lord for his word. And now we're going to lift him up in song. Bless God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Anybody else came to bless him on today? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Anybody else came to say thank you on today? Hallelujah. Lord, I'm so grateful. Hallelujah. God, we just lift you up today. There's nobody like you in all the earth. Lord God, we can search all over high, low, mountains, oceans, valleys, can't find nobody like you nowhere. Lord God, and I am so grateful. We're so grateful, Lord. Lord God, we come to fill the glory clouds this morning with our praise and worship, Lord God, so that you can have something to rain down on us, Lord God. Lord God, so we lift up praise and worship to you today, Lord God. Lord God, we just thank you for your goodness. We thank you for your grace. We thank you for being so holy and so perfect, Lord God. Thank you for your sacrifice, Lord God. Lord God, we can never say thank you enough, Lord God. We just want to praise you on this morning, Lord God. Forever and ever. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Anybody just want to praise him forever and ever and ever. Y'all know that's what we're practicing for, right? Y'all know that's what we're practicing for, right? I heard the angels say, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. Forever and ever. Hallelujah. We going to take it old school one time. Is that all right? Y'all going to rock with us. Come on. Hey, hey. Hallelujah. Oh. I just want to praise you forever and ever and ever for all. for me blessings and glory and honor they all belong to you thank you jesus for blessing me oh help me say I just want to praise you. forever. forever. and ever and ever. and ever. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, I just want to praise you. For blessings and glory and honor, they all belong to you. Yes, they do. Thank you, Jesus, for blessing me. Oh, I just want to praise you forever. For all you've done for a little old me. For me, for me, for me, for me. Blessings and glory. All the blessings and glory. And honor. I've got to lift my hands and say. They all belong to you. They all belong to you. Blessings and glory. Blessings and glory. And honor. And honor. They all, they all belong to you. They all belong to you. Blessings and glory. Blessings and glory. And honor. And honor. They all belong to you. Blessings and glory. Blessings and glory. We bless you. We bless you. And honor. We bless you. We bless you. They all belong to you. We praise you. We praise you. Blessings and glory. We honor you. We honor you. For blessing me, for blessing me Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah. Hallelujah. For the things that could have been and you didn't let it be so. Thank you Jesus. Thank you lord. They all belong to you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Anybody got a hallelujah in their spirit today? Hallelujah. No matter what the doctors say. Hallelujah. No matter what they say. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Anyhow. Hallelujah. Anyhow. Thank you Jesus. There's nobody like our god. Hallelujah. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. This next song declares that the world will bow down and say you are god. Hallelujah and I know that my Bible says, at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow. Every tongue shall confess that he is lord. Hallelujah. So, this song just, it just says, we want to just Hallelujah. We say in Holy Spirit, you are welcome in this place. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We call you the king of glory. We call you lord of lords. We call you holy of holies. Hallelujah. You are so wonderful. Yes, the world will bow down and say you are god. We'll bow down and say you are king. So let's start right now. Why would we wait? King of glory, fill this place. Just want to be with you. Just want to be with you. King of glory Fill this place Just wanna be with you Oh God Just wanna be with you Help me say yes the world Yes the world We'll bow down Bow down and say you are God Every man will bow down and say you are king. So let's start right now. Start right now. Why would we wait? We can praise you now. Praise you now. Oh, King of Glory, King of Glory, fill this place. Just want to be with you. Oh God, just want to be with you. Come on, lift them up. King of Glory, fill this place. Just want to be with you. So we'll sing hallelujah till you come again And we'll dance in your presence till you come again Hallelujah. Help me sing. I will dance in your presence. Come on. I will. I will. in your presence, king of glory. King of glory, fill this place. Just wanna be with you. King of glory, fill this place. of my joy. this place. Hallelujah. of my peace. this place. Hallelujah. of healing. this place. Hallelujah. I just want to dance in your presence. Sing hallelujah. Sing hallelujah. Sing hallelujah. Just wanna be with you. Hallelujah. King of glory. Fill this place. Just wanna be with you. Come on, lift up a praise and worship to the lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Lord, we love you. We adore you. We bow before you god. You're so good. You're so wonderful. You're so wonderful god. There's nobody like you. There's nobody like you. Hallelujah. If y'all knew what they said about me. If y'all knew what they said about me. Hallelujah. There's nobody like our god. I shouldn't be standing here today. I should have overdosed but there's nobody like our god. Hallelujah. He's the king of glory. He's capable of anything. He's capable of anything if you just put your trust in him. Just put your trust in him. Just put your trust in him. God is saying put your trust in him. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Lord god, we thank you everybody. We just want to welcome you to TLC Lord. We just want to lord. I'm just I'm I'm I'm trying to come out of We want to welcome you to TLC, where we love Jesus. Hallelujah. We love to praise the Lord. We love to worship. And I'm not going to apologize for the glory of the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. But we want to remind you first to silence your cell phones before the word of God. And we want to remind you that you can give online. You can also give in person online at transforminglovecc.org. And we also want to remind you that every Thursday at 7 p.m., we have Bible study on Zoom. And you can also find that link on our website, transforminglovecc.org. And you are now in the hands of Pastor Rick. Our wonderful Pastor Rick. Oh, we tagging in? Oh, we tagging in today? Okay, come on. Come on, Minister D. Bless God. Bless the Lord. Hey, you guys can sing. Where are they at? They leaving? Oh, yeah, right there. And that was excellent harmony. Bless the Lord. See, I don't know what to say because it's almost as good as me. Almost. Yeah. So, no, no, no. look, we'd be calling the paramedics if it was me right now. So, no, that was really good and I love those two songs too. So, it just blessed me. So, um we're gonna move on with the service and I'm not planning to be before you long and typically I'm not and so if you're smiling, then I'll be quick but if you start looking all crazy, I'm just Bless the Lord. I heard you. So, bless God. Let's pray real quick and get this service started. So, Father, we just thank you for what you're doing in our ministry. It's just really amazing to me, Lord. So many things always happen and I'm just not expecting You know, they weren't my expectations, but stuff just shows up. You show up. That's how you do. And Lord, there's plans in the background that we have no knowledge of. We might have heard that you're going to do this and this, but we didn't know it was today. We didn't know. We were just always astounded in you, Lord, especially those of us that are following you and looking to see What's the next unfolding of your revelation? You know, we're concerned about the day of your son's return. We're concerned about a rapture. We're concerned about just any involvement that you're going to have with us that's intricate or even corporate. We bless you, Lord. Lord, we bless you today, Lord, that we're able to still meet today. A lot of us might take that for granted, but Lord, don't let us remind us, Lord, that it's not like this for people in Uganda and other places around the world. Lord, we're very blessed right now, whether we see it or not. Lord, wake it up in us, Lord, that you're still intricately involved in our lives, and you're still opening up a pathway for us to spread the gospel, Lord. Let us really take advantage of the time we have left, Lord. And this is what we're praying for, Lord. Make this message come alive in us, Lord, and in me, because I'm guilty. So I'm not just going to get up here and be a hypocrite. I'm guilty, too. correct us, and help us to move forward, Lord, in your plan and purpose for the advancement of your kingdom. In the name of Jesus, we pray, amen. Amen. Bless God. Bless the Lord. So I named the sermon Population Control, and you'll see why. I'm not gonna go too in-depth in all the populationists. that are among us today and that have been here before, but I'll name some that I'm sure you guys are gonna recognize. So, and in this case, we're talking about the size of the earth to begin with, right? The people on the earth, populating the earth. Bless the Lord, bless the Lord. Genesis 128 says, and God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth. So God said, have dominion, subdue it, be fruitful, multiply, that means increase, right? So we know that. And then he even said it again to Noah after the ark rested on Mount Ararat or in the mountains of Ararat to get out and be fruitful. And we know that the Babylonians, they didn't listen. Am I saying Babylonians? We know the anti, yeah, antediluvians, right? I'm looking for some, right? Well, the people, you know, Noah and his family, they were fruitful. And then it came down to Babel and the people in Babel did not want to do what God told them. They were of the mindset that they were going to spare themselves from any further flooding and build themselves a tower. Right? The reason why they were reaching up into the sky is this would defeat any more flooding plans. But God had already said there will be no more floods, and he gave the rainbow for that reason, right? But the rebellious people that you guys are, you guys go out anyway and build a tower, right? So look, he told Noah, replenish the earth, right? They built a tower. And God started their move and then made them scatter all over the earth, right? Because you're gonna populate this earth whether you want to or not. You can't even communicate with each other. Get out and do what I said, right? Bless the Lord. Okay. So, be fruitful and multiply and subdue it. Subdue the earth. Already said that. So, fruitful. give birth, in this case, have babies, make generations to come, right, and follow. That fruit multiplies and then until the entire earth is filled. Now, filled with people is one thing, filled with the glory of God is another thing, right? Okay, yeah, yes, thank you. So fruitful, to bear fruit, literally or figuratively, bear fruit, bring forth fruit, to cause, to make, to be fruitful, to grow, to increase, right? Multiply, to increase. To be an authority, actually, is one of the definitions for multiply. But bring up, to continue, to enlarge, to excel, to exceed. That means exponentially, if you have two kids, and they have two kids, you got eight grandkids, four grandkids, right? It just keeps building and building and building. So, and then fill, so populate the earth, fill the earth. Okay, now I kind of went there because I thought I needed to, so bear with me, okay? Okay, so at creation, whose seat was inside of the man? Whose womb was created inside of the woman? Like Cornell pointed out a long time ago, he called it, he was explaining that woman is a woman, is a womb man, a man with a womb. You guys have heard that before. All right, so he thought it was profound, but we figured that out. So I hope he's listening. So whose seat is it inside the man? or inside the woman. It belongs to God. It's God's seed. It's his womb. Everything that we're dealing with or have right now here on this earth belongs to God. All the earth and everything therein belongs to God. Okay? Are we having a problem accepting that? I mean, really. Don't lie to yourselves. Don't be in denial. You know, I used to think things belonged to me. But it turns out they didn't when we were growing up. Those are my marbles. No, those are not your marbles. They belong to your brother. You know, we found out the hard way in some cases, right? But now we come to terms that we don't own anything. If we're believers, we need to know that everything we have, he's given us dominion over, but we don't own it, okay? So let's come to that conclusion. So Jesus is saying, I mean, God is telling Adam in the garden, populate the earth. He told Noah. And Jesus is saying, populate the kingdom. This is a different kind of population. The kingdom can't be populated by me giving birth because my child would be ruined in terms of entering into the kingdom. There's a disease that we have that's called sin. So this is not what he's talking about when Jesus is saying populate the kingdom. He's basically talking about work inwardly now. There's an inner work that we have to do in ourselves to do an inner work in someone else. And I'm gonna make that clear, okay? So it's like, we're gonna use this decaying, degenerating flesh of ours and we're gonna subdue it. and then we're gonna take dominion over it, and we're gonna make it of use to move people, first ourselves, and then people into the kingdom, okay? So it's kind of, it's not even a hard concept, but it's kind of like Jesus is telling the disciples in the garden, couldn't you even stay awake with me? The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. We're going to dominate this flesh because God said we could and we're going to accomplish his purposes. Bless the Lord. Okay. And as much as it's possible to do. So there are, I want to call it depopulation efforts, but there's populationists on earth. They've been here for forever. We'll talk about a couple of biblical figures. Pharaoh, for instance, wanted to destroy the population of God's people. Remember? Okay. So he wanted the baby boys to be killed at birth. The moment you're coming out, the midwives were supposed to kill that baby. And it's a funny setup that the midwives, I don't know that that's going on today, but they sat on a couple bricks, the pregnant woman and the midwife would be underneath waiting for the baby. the midwife was supposed to kill the baby before it was even, the parent, the mother, even knew, right? You're supposed to kill him, right? And so, but the midwives had a fear of God, the Bible says, so they didn't do it. And when they were questioned about it, they said, oh, the Hebrew women, they just spit out babies so quick, the baby's crying, you know, whatever they came up with, they did not want to do that. So the plan was, you're going to stop the reproduction and production of the seed, of the fruit. We're gonna, this is population control. And it was actually on Pharaoh's mind to control the population. He thought, like a lot of people thought, this group of people are outnumbering us or will outnumber us, right? Yeah, and overtake us. And so Herod, wanted to rid a population because his belief was that his throne would be usurped. Remember, when Jesus was born, he got tricked by the Magi. They didn't come back. And Herod said, go out there and kill all the boys, two years or under, all of them, right? That's population control. One of them is, let's get them before they're even, get them on the onset. The other one, let's kill them. Whatever the case, let's destroy, for whatever reason, right, this seed and the fruit therein that would come from this seed. Look, understandably, this is from the mind of Satan, right? Okay, so I'm not going into abortion for whatever reasons that people may have abortions. What I'm saying is that populationists push an abortion agenda. And abort means stop, cut it off, right? No life, kill it, all of that. So there's, well, let me move on. So Matthew 2.16 says, When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious. And then he sent out the decree to go and kill the babies. Now, let me say this. The spirit that would compel Pharaoh or anyone to think, I'm in charge of something so much so that I can operate against the will of God, right? Or I need to determine how many people should live, right? So Pharaoh is believing, for whatever reason, he needs to kill a people group to keep his people group, right? To keep them prominent, yeah, and in charge. And then Herod, for the sake of his throne, I'm going to kill people, babies, right? And we have some populationists today. People might argue, but Margaret Sanger was out there. She looked very I'm a loss for words today, but she looked very ethical and seemingly moral, but the reproductive centers, reproductive rights, abortion clinics and stuff, she was putting them all over in places she felt they needed to be, which were typically minority places, right? Okay, she had an agenda, it appears, right? There's others right now with an agenda, Right? We got people that just believe, I can't count all their names because it's been going on for a long time, from the Rockefellers to up to the Gates, that just believe they need to step in and take over the population because there's too many people on this planet. Right? So it's an insane idea, but the same spirit that would compel Pharaoh or Herod or Hitler or any number of people to start killing people for whatever the reason is still here and still alive. Okay? It hasn't, it is not gone. It's a spirit. The spirit, the Bible didn't say all the spirits will die after Jesus comes. They'll be annihilated or anything. They're still active. All right. And so, um, So that same spirit that dwelled in the insane thinking of Sparrow is alive and well. How do I know that spirit is thriving today? One reason that I know is because I believe the prophecies of the Bible. And Jesus says, Jesus foretells the future in Matthew 19. He says how terrible it will be for pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days. So think about what I'm saying. After the Hebrew midwives didn't do what they were supposed to do in terms of killing the babies, Pharaoh told anyone, any Egyptian, if you see a baby boy, kill him. So it was bigger than just at birth. If I come out and you got a baby, I have the legal right to take your baby and kill that baby in front of you. Now who comes up with this? This is our history here on earth. Okay. This isn't like some new concept. This is our history. We're human beings. We all came from Adam and Eve. And in our history, there was a period of time that someone could take your baby and kill your baby. Okay. So revelation is telling us how terrible it will be for pregnant women in that day. Right? or women that give suck, meaning you got a toddler or an infant, right? Okay, so Jesus is saying what has happened before can happen again. There's nothing new under the sun. And as we're seeing the progression of sin on this planet right now, we should not be ignorant to the devices of the enemy because he's cunning and he comes through the door and he looks like an angel of light. In other words, it looks right to do once he gets through convincing us, this is okay and that's okay, okay? This is what we're dealing with, all right? So we wanna wake up and know that he's still at work. Why would he wanna kill any babies? Why would he wanna take out the kingdom? I believe personally and others do too that Satan's jealous of us because we inherit what he lost and more. Okay, this is the truth. He knows what we stand to inherit because he was in the garden of God, decorated and adorned. He could walk among the fiery stones. He made music in himself as he passed you by, right? Created for God in all of these spectacular ways until unrighteousness was found in him, right? Bless the Lord. Okay, so what we have here is a jealous foe. So making friends, I used to trip because I had a bunch of Caucasian friends, I'd say white friends, I grew up with and stuff. And they was all into devil worship. It wasn't enough to just get high. They had to go worship Satan and stuff, right? Now I've just been, where are you going with that? Because the rock groups were doing it, right? And so they were all into the Leonard Skinners and the Zeppelins and whatever they're doing, they were doing, you know. Just as bad, I wasn't worshiping Satan, but he was using me. You know, I was out there doing whatever, right? Thinking this is right. I say this part all the time, and I'm gonna move on, but I was convinced that smoking weed was just good for you. Now, there's be an argument today, but this was when it was illegal. And there was this girl, she was so hippie. She was a hippie. I can't remember her names, but my nickname was Bones, B-O-N-E-S. I had a drug nickname. Everybody knew when Bones comes around, you might get high because he has some kind of get high, right? Here comes Bones. Oh, it's Bones. I love to hear people shouting my name out. It made me feel necessary and needed. You know, I come with my whatever I'm coming with. And the lady explained to me that I need to quit smoking cigarettes first, right? She said, no, you need to quit smoking the cigarettes, Buns. She didn't call me Bones, it was Buns. She was so high all the time. Buns, you need to quit smoking the cigarettes because the nicotine is bad for your lungs, right? And so I listened to her and started smoking non-methylated cigarettes. There's my answer. It's not that they weren't still full of tar and nicotine, but I really enjoyed and appreciated her working out a way for me to enjoy whatever harmful thing I was doing to myself. I appreciated her. Then she told me that marijuana cleanses the lungs, buns. So I was smoked out all the time because I'm cleansing, cleansing the lungs, okay? Now this can't be, anyone that really cared about me and knew that I was down the path of destruction, right, would have told me counter. But no, she shows up with a way for you to sin. Here's a way for you to kill yourself. You know, just going down the path, you know, I'm listening to her wisdom and I still regard her today and pray for her because I don't know if she's still, the regard that I have for her today is not, yeah, that I'm, because I'm drug free for how many, 34, 35 years. Bless God. Bless God. Bless the Lord. Now the sermon's going to take a tough turn. She won't be hollering. She might, but it's going to take a tough turn because we're going to kind of go into the political arena. So how is it that me, How would I give, as a Democrat for instance, how would I give the gospel to a Republican? Right? Okay. Or vice versa. As a Republican, how would I give the gospel to a Democrat? All right. When they bring up how they hate Kamala or Trump, what's my response? Will I put on an act? I love Kamala. You look familiar. Are you from the old church? Can't, no? Okay, okay, I'm sorry. Okay, yeah, all right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. So help me out here, because I keep looking, thinking that I know her. Okay, so, and I'm old, so look, you see this afro that speaks volumes, right? I'm old, all right? So yeah, that's why I can hardly see. So yeah, so anyway. So, but what I'm saying is, is that, If I have to, if I find out that someone is a Trump supporter when I'm a Democrat, and then I'm out witnessing, for instance, am I supposed to put on an act? Right? Because in my witness, I'm talking to the person and they're just Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. Right? And I'm saying, yeah, Trump. Now, you know, I kind of want to tell you about the Lord. Yes, the Lord is with Trump. You know, it just gets harder and harder. Right? Okay, so what I'm what I'm saying here and vice versa, right? Oh Kamala Kamala Kamala Kamala, right? All right now God has a plan for us and a use for us and he wants us to go into all the nations and spread the gospel and Right? So what are we going to find in the different nations? People that have differing views and values and cultures, right? Okay. Now, do I get to abstain from going into where the different cultures are? Do I get to resist that? Is God going to understand that I can't talk to those people? Right? All right. So what I don't want to do is go in also and pretend I also sacrifice kids to Molech, or I also do the grievous things you do, or I'm also a Trump or Kamala supporter. Because I'm coming to minister to you, and this isn't something that I'm coming to do that's going to have the effect that God wants it to have if it's just in the natural. I can't come in and lie. It needs to be a genuine heartfelt concern for you in my heart, right? Because you might be tied up in politics or in one major group or the other. But I can't let that sway me from the purpose of bearing fruit. or this fruit production that God has called us to. We're disciples, right? So what the Lord is saying here is that we're to be fruitful. And what Jesus is saying is bear fruit in keeping with your fruitful repentance. You're fruitful, right? The time is gonna come that you're gonna oppose witnessing to someone for something. If you're not ready, then it could be a number of reasons why you're not. But to put on an act is just as bad as the acts that we're probably looking at today in the political theater. God didn't call us to be actors. He wants actions that come from a pure heart. Now how is that? How is that? So Jesus' followers were to go to populate the kingdom spiritually. He's saying we would worship God in spirit and in truth. The worship is coming from here, right? So this place needs to be set up for that purpose. And if we're feeding ourselves anything, too much of anything, that's countering the food that's going to make us survive the insults, offenses, and even our own resistance, we're eating off the wrong plate. Okay, and so I'm gonna go there. I'm gonna say the political theater, it's getting more and more. It's almost something you can run home to to see who said what. Who's done what now? Even President Trump said, this makes good TV. That battle he had with the guy from Ukraine. This makes good TV. Okay, so what I want to say, or what I'm trying to say is, help me Lord. If we find ourselves submerged in anything, anything more than we're submerged in the word of God, we're involved in investing in idolatry. Let me make it plain. Running home to see your candidate or the person of your choice out with someone else, right? And spending time there and then on the phone about it and then writing about it and calling and living it everywhere you go. You become a product of the foods you're eating. Now, you might think, no, there's good things in the Republican side. That's why I'm looking at you Republicans right now, all of y'all. And over here, there's good things in the Democratic side, right? So I'm gonna look over here, right? And I'm gonna say, We need to take a look at what we're looking at regardless of the sides. That's not our food. It's really not what we should be partaking of 90% of the day with maybe 10% of the gospel. Okay, regardless of who's right or who's wrong, we can be used and our ability to share fruit and produce fruit can be thwarted or aborted like Caesar or Pharaoh inherited. They stopped the production or it was their intention to stop this production. Making sense? Okay, so the broadcast, on the narrow network, I'll just call it the narrow network because it's the narrow road. Okay, while we're hearing all that Trump's throwing around about that meeting and all the people hollering on one side or the next about the fight they had in the Oval Office, it's gone on, it's gone, look, it's not even unveiled for us that 70,000, 70 Christians got their heads cut off in Uganda. Think about this, it's not on the mainstream news. It's not. 70 Christians were led to their church and then in the church got their heads cut off. Okay, now why am I saying that? I'm saying that we have to search God out. Otherwise, we're gonna have the puppet show keep us enticed. with all this going back and forth between these parties, right? Okay, it's not a matter of your choice of party, but it's a matter of the seduction that we're under. Because we should know about Uganda and be praying about Uganda, rather than calling up, did you see what happened last night in Vance? Galinsky, and did you, you get what I'm saying? Okay, so this is a call to sanity. This is what it is for all of us, for all of us. Because I sent a girl something about Galinsky in a text message, and then it didn't open for her. And while it didn't open for her, I was thinking about what I had sent her, and I was thinking, I didn't need to do that. Right? Now she's a believer, but we could be talking about more fruitful things. How to bear fruit, how to cause an increase, how to populate the kingdom and subdue the mess, which starts here. This body of mine, this thinking of mine, it needs to be subdued. I need to take it under control. Okay? It is idolatry to feed on something more than you're feeding on the Lord. I don't care how you look at it. And it's going to be very entertaining, but we need to look at it with a scrutinizing eye. Not so much that we need to know which one is lying because they're both lying. They're both lying. Don't sit there and think that your party is not lying because anyone will do anything to maintain and retain their party. Okay? So now before we get tied up and stay tied up in that, let's think about what we're absorbing because we are what we eat. Okay? And it's going to come out of us at the time that we're supposed to be ministering. Think about it, when you walk up to somebody and you know who the Lord is, and they tell you, oh yeah, I speak in tongues, and go over here to the Catholic church. And you're thinking, do I want to bother with that? That's too many things. You do all kind of things. I think Catholics, some Catholics do speak in tongues, am I right? Yeah, yeah, some. So let me add to it. We speak in tongues, go to the Catholic church, and we handle snakes. Okay, that's a lot of things. So I'm ready to back up and resist this endeavor. This might not be easy for me. But if I'm feeding myself on the word of God and searching him out on the internet and on my TV screen, I might be ready for this inopportune situation in season. It means, preaching in and out of season means just this, you don't know when, but be ready in season. God knows when you're gonna be confronted. But it would be easy for me to just walk up to someone, Geraldine, I mean, Gina, and just start talking to her and say, yeah, do you know the Lord? Oh, yeah, Barack Obama does too. And if I'm a Democrat, I'm going with her. Yeah, you know those Republicans. Because what's in me is trying to get out. You get it? What's in me is crying, clawing to get out. Because if I'm not really dealing with myself, all the hatred that this idolatry is putting in me is building up, it's just laying dormant, but it's getting stronger, and the day of its release is coming. And what kind of evangelism is that? After we get through talking about how much we hate Trump or Kamala or Obama or Clinton or whoever number of them are, let me throw some Republicans in there before y'all stone me. Bush and some of the others, right? Reagan. After we get through talking about them, then we turn around and say, so where you at with the Lord? I mean, that's going to be kind of hard to do. And you're going to look insincere, and it will be disingenuine. What's in your heart's coming out. I don't care. Then you're going to try to recover. How would you go and minister to President Trump? How would you do it? If you had an, they afforded you an audience with President Trump, and I'm telling you to be true in your heart, and you go into the Oval Office, are you gonna be true in your heart and tell him, you know, I can't stand you, but Jesus love you, so, you know. He love you, so you wanna try this salvation? You wanna give it a shot? Right? It's kind of like that. You might think, I won't do that. But you will do what you're feeding on. It's going to exude. It's coming out. It's trying to escape right now. I see some of the eyebrows flaring up right now. OK? Just hold on. Hold on, things get better. So I'm telling you guys. It's a theater, a show I believe the devil's involved in that keeps Christians divided and where we believe that one is the devil and the other isn't. The devil's in the detail so much so that we're in the temple of idolatry. We're sucking it up and forming opinions. And guess who's helping us form these opinions? The media, the majority of it is secular. Trump is a secular person, right? Kamala is a secular person. They're not talking about their devotion to God. I'm sorry, just because I might point to God or something like that, he said himself he's not a Christian. So I'm supposed to listen to him 90% of the day? Or listen to the arguments that are coming out of a secular arena? Who's feeding me? What am I eating? What plate is this? Think about it. Think, just think about it for a minute. We're a holy nation. That means we're set apart. for his use, okay? This is what he's done. He's called Shirley and said, you're set apart for my use. You're a royal priesthood, a holy nation that I want to use to go into the nations and tell the people about the gospel. But she's filled up with the hatred from the political theater that we're engrossed and engulfed with. We owe it to God. We owe it to God to feed on his word. It has to take priority. It has to be the utmost sustenance that we're looking for in the morning and at night. I'm breaking it down. Thank you, Danny. I'm telling you, it has to be. We don't have a choice because if you're a believer, you're a disciple. And you're going to look for any way to spread the gospel, which alleviates your craving. It reduces it. It puts it to death, rather than we putting to death the fruitfulness of the gospel. We can't abort our mission. Makes sense? Bless the Lord. So you might decide in your heart right now, I'm walking out of here, which will be in a minute. Oh, a minute or two, because we have communion. You might decide in your heart, I ain't listening to him. That sound like that stuff that hippie lady was telling him. You know, this good cleanses your lungs, right? I'm here to tell you, I can't make you think. I can't change your thinking. I don't have that. I'm still in the flesh, but I'm going to come in the spirit and I'm going to share with you what I believe his spirit gave me. And we're going to feed on that today for this moment in time that we're in here in this room. And then the choice is yours to go out and feed on your smorgasbord. It's also mine. We can go walk away and forget what we look like. I really think most of us are having a problem believing we're as bad as Trump or as bad as Kamala. Let me tell you how bad we are. Think about it. Think about it. Look, God said he would give us leaders according to the dictates of our hearts. Okay? So now when we was out there doing our dictates and dictating and being dictated to, right? Look, though we've accepted the Lord, we have leaders now that are benefiting from my contribution into sin in this planet. If I don't like that leader, it's probably because they're there because of my own contribution and yours. I'm sorry if they're sinful and they wanna get down to the point of killing masses of people and we're thinking how crazy they are, consider my input. Consider your contribution. Trump is crazy, we all crazy. We need the Lord. Now that we have him, are we gonna turn our backs on the food he's trying to serve us so we can serve him? We need God. We need to align ourselves with his precepts and concepts and the stuff that he wants for us to minister to a dying, deceived world. People that believe that, you know, Trump was set in, ordained, anointed, anointed. No, he was allowed because of us. And that's the truth. You were a center. You helped make this nation the way it is. You know how some people will say, you know, when they're arguing on the job, especially if you have like a government job or something, you hear somebody come in and say, I pay my taxes. And you're thinking in your heart, you're one cent. Because that's all it is. Your one penny is not going to change my thought. You get what I'm saying? But that one cent goes a long way when it's collective. Altogether, those one cents make millions of cents. And now that one cent makes millions of cents. This is making sense. Think about it. He's crazy, but I'm not. She's crazy, but I'm not. She needs to be woke up just like I needed to be woke up. Make sense? Okay, don't go away feeling more highly of yourself and thinking that you're all this and that, all up and above. We need God and so do they. And if the Lord is saying for us to love our enemies, here's a good start. Help me first love my enemy before I even start. Because if you're saying pray for the president, which is a scripture, pray for him. Oh, I do pray for him. Oh Lord, help him. Okay, it just really, that speaks about what we've been feeding on. If it's not genuine, it's rhetoric. And Jesus is saying it's not by our much speaking. He doesn't care about me just putting on the act that I'm at that these people are putting on. So I'm going to be an actor too? And what I'm going to do is respond with action that's acting, that's rehearsed, or just even spontaneous? Think about it. We need to be genuine in our hearts, loving our enemies, and we can't do it without his help. He can cause me to love my enemy. Or if he can't, if I don't believe he can, then I doubt God. Help me with my unbelief. Bless the Lord. I had tons more to say. But it's communion Sunday and If pastor don't fire me, then I'll come again and finish the part B. Yeah, you're right, right. Yeah, bless the Lord. Okay, bless God. Bless God. So I'm gonna pray and then, unless you wanna pray, and then turn this over to Pastor Rick so we can have communion. Bless God. Bless the Lord. Bless God. So Father, we bless you, Lord. I'm praying, Lord, that you would actually correct my imbalance method. Just make it real in our hearts, Lord, what you're trying to convey through me. I know I'm gonna suffer the loss of things I should have said and could have said. I know how it works, but Lord, I didn't wanna go down this avenue and you changed the trajectory of where I was going because it's you. This is what you wanted heard today. I'm gonna be obedient and I'll suffer the losses if you help me suffer them. Help us, Lord, help us serve you and do so trusting you at the same time. Lord, that your decrees are right, that what you've called us to is right, that what you want is right for us, and that we can do all things in Christ who strengthens us. We really can. It's not just something we just want to just repeat and expect it to have happen. What we want you to do, Lord, is set the table before us so that we can eat the proper food and not have an excuse for eating that defiled food that's coming from idle temples. Help us, Father. Help us correct. Correct our diet. Help us, Lord. Help us to not abort the mission. Help us to be fruitful and bear fruit in keeping with our own repentance, Lord. and help us, Lord, so that it's not just, and don't let us ignore it, but it's not just the promises you've made to us for our obedience, but it's that you deserve so much more from us. So Lord, help us abstain and regain the potential that you're trying to give us to serve your kingdom. Let us go out and spread the gospel everywhere in as much as is possible to do with these moments left we have in this life. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen. Bless God.