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Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, teach the Word of God cover to cover, chapter by chapter, and verse by verse. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes on Mondays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
1 Corinthians 14, verse 26. How is it then brethren when ye come together, every one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation, that all things be done unedifying? If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that of course, and let one interpret. But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church, and let him speak to himself, and to God.
Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the others judge. If anything be revealed to another, that sitteth, and let the first hold his peace. For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and that all may be comforted.
And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets, for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. Let your women keep silence in churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
What, came the word of God out from you, or came it unto you only? If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandment of the Lord. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
Let all things be done decently and in order. Father, thank you for your holy word. And Lord, as we study, Lord, we pray that we'd gain clarity, that we'd gain understanding, that you're our teacher.
Lord, we're your disciples, we're your learners. And Lord, we want to be equipped. We don't want the word of God watered down.
We don't want to be surprised. Lord, we pray that you would, you would open our hearts, open our minds. As Jesus says, he that has an ear to hear, let him hear.
Lord, give us ears to hear. Give us hearts to apply that which we're learning. And let us proclaim the glorious good news of your coming kingdom to a world that's perishing.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Would you please be seated? We, we're living in a time of breakdown, a time of tremendous disorder. And this disorder, part of the Hegelian dialect, that the globalists, these demons are trying to implement is, in their new world order, is crisis reaction solution.
So they've got to create the disorder. They've got to break down society. They've got to break down, you know, the family.
They've got to break down what it means to be male, female. They've got to break down marriage, one man, one woman, one lifetime. So they've got to break down the constitution.
They've got to break down the courts. They've got to break down the currency. Just everything has to be destroyed.
So that I had an article, or I had a magazine out there that's in the tub that I used to put on the front there, that I bought from Barnes and Noble. But it's from the Rothschild banking cabal. The Rothschilds are the head of the snake of the banking cabal.
Black Rock State Street Vanguarders simply covers for the Rothschilds. It's just simply a way for them to not be recognized. And the Economist magazine had a picture of a phoenix rising out of the ashes with a coin here that was a whole new coin, a whole new digital currency.
And that article I've had out there for over five years. You know, it's not on the, out there anymore. But one of the things these globalists do is they project.
They let you know at least two years ahead of time of where they're going. They got some sort of a code, a demonic code that they've got to tell you ahead of time. And unfortunately, many of the Christians, people who are supposed to have discernment, don't see the handwriting on the wall, so to speak, of Daniel 5. And so they continue to love their lives, to stay in the dark, to stay in a place where they're, you know, hear smooth things, smooth things.
We don't want to hear the truth. You make us uncomfortable. We don't want to hear prophecy.
It's uncomfortable. So meanwhile, we continue to watch our culture, the entire world, be destroyed. And so in Genesis chapter 10, 11, we had what was the effort by the devil for the Tower of Babel.
And everybody's speaking the same language. God is the one that decided to have what's called nation states, where he would divide the world with these different tongues of men. And they'd spread out over the planet.
And they'd have borders and different governments and such. And you had what's called nation states. Well, those nation states are being broken down.
And the globalist objective is to have no borders, no nation states. And so if you're trying to be a nation state, if you're trying to resist the new world order, you know, they're saying that they're going to, you know, destroy it all. So it stands in the way of the greatest extent is Western society, who's been very, very prosperous.
And it's the middle class and the freedom that's a threat to these globalists. And really behind the globalists are, you know, the devil. The devil's the one.
We fight not against flesh and blood, but against spirits and principalities of the air. So the devil wants worship. The devil wants his Antichrist, in place of Jesus Christ, in place that the whole world would worship him.
Every man would receive a mark on his right hand, his forehead, just as we talked about worshiping once a year, saying Caesar is Lord. And so the world coming back to that place. And so we're watching the breakdown of society.
Now, back when Barack Hussein Obama was elected, he said that he was going to fundamentally transform America. Now, your Republicans are the ones that are supposed to protect you from that sort of a strategy, a plot. But they don't do anything.
So you've got a guy from Kenya, who's not even a US citizen, who's raised as a Manchurian candidate, his mother working for the CIA, his grandparents from Seattle working for the CIA. And they're groomed. They're called red babies, these red babies.
So Valerie Jarrett's one. She's of Iranian descent. She's presently, you know, in Washington, D.C. with Obama in his house.
And somehow, you know, it's their third term. And then you had another guy named Axelrod. So these three babies are, you know, communist groom-type Manchurian candidates.
And so Obama comes on the scene. And there's no vetting. There's no vetting.
Just let him do what he wants to do, you know. And it's in your face. He's taking and he's wanting to make his speech from Germany to the throne of Satan, Pergamos, where Satan's seat dwells.
And so the Germans excavated this place in Pergamos and brought it back to Berlin. And it's a place where Hitler used to do his speeches. And they wouldn't let him do it.
So what they did is they did a mock-up, like a movie set. And so it's a movie set, the democratic, you know, convention of Obama being their dude. And, you know, again, no vetting at all.
But he's letting you know he's following Satan, where Satan's seat dwells, you know. But he starts out getting help from Rick Warren. And Rick Warren brings him to the evangelicals and says, you know, my friend, you know, Barack Obama, you know.
And he tries to be hip and use, you know, an Arabic word for Jesus. And then we see him being interviewed by George Stephanopoulos. And he mistakenly says, my Muslim faith.
And George says, you mean your Christian faith? So that's his first go-around with us, to gain your trust. Once he's in, what happened? No more Christian. He's not even heterosexual, you know.
He's a homosexual. And then, anyway, just on and on and on. And again, the check and balance in the system is such that the Republicans should protect us from that.
That's what you're wanting. You're wanting order. You're wanting someone to stop the disorder, to stop the criminality.
Just one person arrested might put the fear of God in the rest of them. But all through the schools, every facet of our society is breaking down. And the Apostle Paul's looking at the Church of Corinth, and they're out of order.
They're out of order spiritually. They've been out of order, where in chapter five, one man took his father's wife. So he's with his stepmother, having a physical relationship with her.
And the Church of Corinth think that's hip and cool. That's what it means to love, man. Let's just light up the White House, and let's put the rainbow.
Love wins. We just redefine marriage. For 5,000 years, it's a no-brainer.
People understand it's a man and a woman. They can propagate. They can have children that way.
But he says, you guys got it wrong when you voted, and we're going to get it right. And he puts it out there. And the Church accepts it.
The Church is accepting gays and lesbians in the pulpit. The Church is accepting women in the pulpit as pastors. And oh, man, that toxic masculinity, man.
We're going to emasculate the boys. So male leadership is under attack, men being men. I like how the men grow the beard, and they challenge the women, we'll grow this, you know.
And all the hormone treatments and all that, it's got little hairs, you know. But what are some ugly women, let me tell you. It doesn't work, does it? I mean, God's design is phenomenal.
Women can rule the world simply just with their beauty. I mean, guys act like they're in charge, but we know who's really in charge. But when they get that butt ugly, they don't have any power anymore.
So I don't understand why they go that way. You know, testosterone injections and all that. You know, so I mean, hey, don't go down that route.
Be smart about it. Women have been ruling forever. That my big fat Greek wedding, she says, honey, you know, he may be the head, but you're the neck, and you can turn his head any which way you want, you know.
And that's so incredibly true, isn't it? We're weak. Us guys are weak. But you got to make us think that we're in charge.
You got to make us think that at least we're able to lead, you know. And so the church at Corinth, they had a lot of different areas of disorder. And so Paul comes to the charismata in chapter 12.
And then in chapter 13, he shows the proper use of those gifts in chapter 14, that of love. Without love, we're nothing. Now in chapter 14, he's trying to establish that, hey, don't let anybody forbid the speaking of tongues.
But when you do it, you need to do it decently in an order. It can't be chaotic. The devil's the author of confusion.
And that's that crisis reaction solution. They create the crisis. When Adolf Hitler wanted the constitution changed in Germany, he lit the government buildings on fire with his men, the Reichstag buildings.
And what did he do? He blamed it on the communists. The people became insecure. He promised them security.
Give up some of your freedom, I'll make you secure. So they made him to be a dictator, is what they did. And he was elected.
He was elected as their leader. And so that's part of the modus operandi of how the devil works. The people are unaware.
And order out of chaos is their theme. And so they want to break down the present order. Now when you're Romans 1, and you see the natural order, you see where God's saying, look at the stars, look at the babies that are born, look at the trees, look at the order that I have in nature.
You know, and their whole carbon credit, and there are too much carbon and all that. It totally goes against a God of order, a God of creation, where you and I breathe oxygen, the plant life gives off the carbon, or excuse me, we give off the carbon, the plant life takes in the carbon, we get the oxygen. So the rainforest and all the trees around here make the air really good.
But these guys want to light the forest on fire. Bill Gates wants to remove all the trees and bury them, you know. What a nut job.
How crazy. These guys are acting like they're the, you know, the protectors of the environment, and yet their policies are the complete opposite. Because what really is at stake, there's too many of us, and they want to reduce the population.
So they've got to create a crisis, they got to make it crazy. And you know, I love to be able to come to church and to escape the nut jobs out there. You know, to be in the world but not of it.
So I like to come here and deal with truth, look at prophecy, look to Jesus, know where we're going, know we're in God's will, do the best we can to be salt life, to slow down the corruption by speaking the truth, by exposing the lies, and it makes them furious. That's what they hate the most. And anybody of us can do that.
We can expose the lies. Republicans can expose the lies. But for some reason, we just want to go along to get along.
We don't want to pay the price of being the wackadoodle, being the crazy that stands against the lies. We just want to vote for the lesser of two evils and let them sort it out. I know I'm going to be hated, I'm going to ridiculed.
Oh, you don't vote for Trump, that's a vote for Harris. She and Biden aren't even legitimate candidates. They're illegitimate, like Obama was.
If you're living at a time where people are even considering that, what's that say about you? You're done. And if the best you can do is a fraudulent election that Republicans don't again be salt and light and expose the lies, they cower in fear and don't pardon the people of January 6 and roll away and say they're going to do it better next time, and you come up with a new boogeyman, not the communist, the deep state. Always a boogeyman, always someone to blame it on, blame it on Russia.
It's lies. Paul wants clarity. He says, let all things be done decently and in order.
So he says, number one, you need organized worship. Verse 26, how is it then brethren when you come together, every one of you has a psalm, a doctrine, a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. So let all things be done unto edifying.
We saw that word edifying means to build up. It needs to be constructive. It needs to be the church service needs to build one another up.
Edification, not exhibition. How much of the church today is exhibition? Smoke machines, lights, lasers, pixie dust coming out of the lights down on you. You know, it gets in your hair and the Holy Spirit.
Oh, you know, how much of it's fraudulent? How much is emotional? I got the, I got the buzz. I got the buzz. You know, well, you want the buzz, just pull your gummies out.
You know, you don't, you don't need to lie about it. Get a real buzz. You know, Colossians 3 16, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly and all wisdom and teaching, admonishing one another and psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
I love when the Lord anoints somebody in the body of Christ with a psalm, a hymn, a spiritual song. And that song, that hymn, that spiritual song is a gift to the body of Christ. I love to worship the Lord.
I love to, you know, find my song list and I put in my earbuds and, you know, I go to the gym or at home. I'm at the sugar shack and I put in my song. And the other day when I came home, I had one I was really, really enjoying and I cranked it up and it had a good bass section in it.
And I came into the driveway and Kathy was in the sugar shack and neighbors and I cranked it hard as I could. And I played the song over and over and over and over again. And it's so incredibly ministered to me.
And what it reminded me of is the nights of worship when we had the Roxy, we'd invite the entire community to just come out to worship. Over and over and over again we did that. Every Sunday night we'd have prayer, communion, and worship.
But we'd fill the Roxy up or half full and it was just to worship corporately, collectively. I just so incredibly loved to do that. And I love to share the gospel and see people come to Christ.
And the kids share the gospel and challenge you to share the gospel. I challenged the men to get up there and share. A lot of them never had that experience of being up in front of people.
It was exciting. And I saw Brittany with her friends, you know, 16 of them went to the Bible College. A bunch of the kids her age, Anna and Shawn, a bunch of them came to Christ during that time.
It was awesome. And if the Lord had continued to prosper us, I had a vision where I wanted to go down the coast from Washington down to California and find music venues, find theaters, old theaters that nobody wanted, and fix them up and do the same thing all along the way. And make a route where these bands could go, you know, they're in Bremerton and they can go to Medford, Oregon.
They can go down to Frisco or wherever. Kind of like the House of Blues, you know, that the world uses. If you wanted the, probably what I'd need to do today if I were thinking about it, I'd go to Nashville and see what kind of music venues they have.
And different ways to use music as a hook, as a means of bait, as a means of getting people there and worshiping the Lord. Not moving in the direction of how many seats we can fill, but the quality. And when the bands came in at the Roxy, a lot of them were moving in a direction of trying to figure out how to get into the general market.
And I told them, I said, you know, don't worry about the general market. Stay true to who you are, you know. Let the Lord give you songs.
Don't mimic the world. Let the Lord give you an anointing of music that he wants the body of Christ to sing and connect with the young people and such. And when they were doing their grunge type stuff or jumping off the stage or the mosh pit and all that kind of stuff, I just used to tell them, make sure you do it better than the world.
Make sure these worldly guys, when they come here, they respect your ability to sing, to play, to write, to do all that they do, that your God's inspiring you. Do it better. And then use it as a platform to share the gospel.
People listen to a basketball, a football, baseball player about their Jesus when they excel to such an extent that they finally get the it, but he's using his platform to share Christ. And these songs, you don't need to mimic the world. You don't need to steal from the world and get into the general market.
And one of the things I tried to get through to the guys is the power of worship music. And at the time, they weren't quite getting it. But I knew that if they would move in a direction of music for worshiping Jesus, a whole different dynamic takes place in the room where the Holy Spirit's involved.
And then eventually I noticed that that's the direction many of them began to take. And I was blessed to see that. He says, concerning tongues, verse 27, if any man speak an unknown tongue, let it be by two or at the most by three, and that by course, and let one interpret.
So believers meeting at Calvary Coast Mesa, we had believers meetings on on college and career retreats and or every Wednesday night, Chuck Mateer had a believers meeting. And so you could go out there. And after the Sunday, Wednesday night service, you could stay longer, go to the fellowship hall, and you could exercise your gifts.
And there'd be a time of waiting upon the Lord and people speaking in tongues and people interpreting. And it was in a biblical manner. It was directed toward the Lord.
If any man speaks an unknown tongue, he speaks unto God, not unto man. And so we'd recognize that truth. Prophecies directed toward the people.
And so, but if there'd be an interpreter, let him keep silent in the church, or if there'd be non-interpreter, no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church and let him speak to himself and to God. So he that speaks in an unknown tongue, primarily it's for you in your prayer closet. You're edifying yourself.
We saw at the beginning, chapter 14. If any man speaks in an unknown tongue, he speaks unto himself, not unto God. He speaks unto God.
And so, not unto man. So if you don't have an interpreter present, then speak to yourself unto God. So you're saying things that you don't intellectually understand, but it does build up your spirit.
So Romans 8, groanings which cannot be uttered, and you're, it's an act of faith and it builds up your spirit as you pray in your unknown tongue. Concerning prophecy, verse 29, let the prophets speak two or three and let the others judge. So organized prophecy, two or three, one at a time, and then you judge.
So you may have some prophetesses like Philip's daughters, four evangelistic daughters who are prophetesses, and New Testament prophets. And so you give a time for them to prophesy, and then somebody to interpret, and the goal is to edify the body. Now you're able to edify the body.
God's given a message through somebody, and it's evaluated by the body and directed toward the body. And so what is the criteria we judge the prophecy by? Four different elements, four different things to evaluate your YouTube prophets by. Have you seen these Trump prophets lately? All these people prophesying about Donald J. Trump and what's going to happen? They claim to be one of you.
They claim to be of us. Do you want to be mixed with that group? Are you sure? Pretty outlandish things that are being said. Number one, the word of God.
God will never contradict his word. So some of them are moving in a direction of the seven mountain mandate, that with Donald Trump they're going to take control of seven areas of secular society, of the schools, and banking, and media, and such. It's called Kingdom Now Theology.
We're going to take not only America back, we're going to take the world back. And when we get this world straightened out with our Messiah, then Jesus will come back. That's an aberrant teaching.
It's a false teaching. But boy, people want it. And they're angry at the rapture, because the rapture points to Jesus coming back.
Without your help, the church finishes in abject poverty, apostasy. We're absolute failures at the end. It's a remnant, a small remnant that are raptured.
The professing church helps the Antichrist be established. That's what they're being set up for, the Antichrist. God will never contradict his own word.
So again, someone in our group predicts financial prosperity for all. How many of you have been involved in the health, and wellness, and prosperity doctrines of the Copelands, and Haggans, and all them in your past, or maybe on television? And they prophesy, send in this, send in a dollar, and God will give you 10 back, you know, whatever their little marketing strategy is. We don't find that in the word of God, do we? God looking for mercenaries.
So they project financial prosperity for everybody, and yet they're the only ones prospering, and they don't even like their jets. They want a bigger jet, you know. They're never satisfied.
They're just about billionaires now, all these guys that have spent the last 40 years on Christian television lying to people with the prosperity doctrine. Jesus said in Matthew 26 11, you shall have the poor always with you. Why don't you ever hear that verse? There's no utopia now without Jesus.
They present communism as a utopian age. The new age, the new world order, everyone's going to have a universal basic income. Nobody's going to be sick or die anymore.
That's a false doctrine by the world. And then secondly, another way you can test them is the nature of God. The prophecy will not violate God's character.
God is a God of love. They present God as a God of, you know, angry and wrath at everybody all the time. No, he's a God of love.
He's a God of mercy. He's a God of peace. He's a God of faith.
He's a God of hope and holiness and comfort. So the sermon needs to be balanced with edification, exhortation, and comfort. So you edify, you're speaking to the church, and you want to edify and build them up.
You don't want to tear them down, condemn them. You want to edify them, instruct and teach them, feed them, give them something to chew on so they can grow spiritually. Then you got to stir them up.
You build them up, then you stir them up, you exhort them. Edification, exhortation, get them going. Like a coach, like a, they have what they call spiritual trainers nowadays, life coaches, you know.
And then comfort. You show them the cross, the cross of Calvary, the finished work of Jesus. Again, that there's no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
He that prophesies speaks unto them to edification, exhortation, and comfort, build them up, stir them up, cheer them up. Thirdly, the prophecy predicts the future. It must come to pass, if true.
So if it's more than a speaking forth the Word of God, if it's foretelling, projecting the future, I believe Donald Trump's going to win, and he's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and America's going to lose. We're going to have a revival. Hold them accountable.
If it doesn't come to pass, they're a false prophet. 100% accuracy. Not generalities like Gene Dixon or whoever else is out there, 9-1-1, you know, psychic, you know.
A person just goes through a divorce, and guy comes up and lays his hand on her shoulder, and I sense you're a little depressed, you know. God show me. It's kind of all over the church.
They do that stuff. They pray upon vulnerable people. It's not a prophecy.
He's a predator praying upon you. I mean, even they do it. My daughter, one of my daughters had trouble at a point in time, and you know, in an area of disobedience to her parents, to us, and then another pastor's wife says, oh honey, you just need to come over and sit at Jesus' feet with us.
What? You think, you think that she doesn't have that avenue or advantage or access here with her mom and dad? You think we're keeping her from Jesus? But she's praying upon a vulnerability, driving a wedge between us and our daughter. And then when our daughter wound up going to Israel, the guy there didn't let her get away with it. She was a spoiled pastor's daughter, and they said, we don't deal with that here.
And my daughter grew up, and her walk with the Lord flourished. Somebody loved her enough, faithful are the wounds of a friend, a kiss of an enemy or deceitful. She got in a bad, you know, way listening to people, like in Psalm 1, and listening to the ungodly.
And then the Lord put some godly people in her path, and it resonated with her spirit, and she yielded, and the Lord gave her a great, great season there in Israel. And so in Deuteronomy 18, 22, when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken, a false prophet, the Trump prophets. And man, they're everywhere.
I saw an orange-haired lady, nothing wrong with orange hair, if that's your thing, but she was a Trump prophetess, and she was going for it. She says, you know, he text me, and you know, and God told me he was going to get shot, and God told me it was, you know, he's going to save his life. And God told me, when you hear people talking in the first person, God told me, God told me, God told me, watch out.
They're speaking in the first person. They better be right 100 percent. If they're not right, then they're to be taken out and stoned.
Fourthly, discernment as a body. So we have somebody come in, and they say, yeah, I've got a vision, I've got a dream, I've got a thing that God's, you know, told me about this church. And well, we have to evaluate it by the Holy Spirit.
We've got to look at it and see if it fits with God's Word. We've got to pray about it and allow the Holy Spirit to speak that to us. Just because God has spoken something to somebody else, supposedly, doesn't mean they've spoken it to me.
So let me have some time to hear, okay? And I'll get back with you. Let me pray about that before we change everything and move in that direction, you know? And so my spirit bears witness. And so there's no check in your spirit.
There's a peace that surpasses all understanding. So if they come in 2 Corinthians 11-4 with another Jesus, if they come with another spirit or another gospel, we don't deal with them. No, we reject that, the exclusivity of Jesus Christ.
And then we evaluate it by the peace of God. It gives us a peace in our heart. We're asking the Lord.
We don't want to just run off into battle like the children of Israel. They ran up after, you know, Ai, and they didn't pray. They didn't inquire of the Lord.
They had a great victory at Jericho, but they didn't inquire of the Lord. And they went up there and got disconfinted. They got sorely defeated because there was sin in the camp.
In the tent of Achan, he took some of the Babylonian garments and some of the gold and silver. And so they're unfit for battle. They needed to get right with the Lord.
They needed to inquire of the Lord. And so verse 30, if anything be revealed to another that sits by, let the first hold his peace. So take turns.
No monopolization of the service. Now you guys have been in charismatic churches or Pentecostal churches where there's what's described here can be chaotic. It can be all over the place.
And people running up and down the aisles and and waving their banners and flags and jiggling and everything and all that. And hey, if that's the way that you roll, then roll with them. You know, we're just not like that here.
And so that's why the Lord has a lot of different churches out there. And this isn't one of them to where we're going to have a multitude of things simultaneously taking place. Hopefully the Holy Spirit speaking to each of us.
And then if we get into a small group or we get into a believers meeting, there's a time where we can wait upon the Lord. I was in a believers meeting, a small group in Balboa after I got saved in an upper room. And there was a woman there that was a mature in the Lord.
And she went around as we were in a circle worshiping the Lord, laying hands and praying on each person. And she began to prophesy over me. And other people began to speak in their prayer language and people began to sing in their prayer language.
And it was it was so thick with love, unbelievably thick in that room with love. And love is the fruit of the Spirit. And that's where I became baptized in the Holy Spirit.
So I was already saved, the Holy Spirit dwelling within me. But like six months later, like I said, I went to that encounter. And the Lord began to move and work in me in a different way.
And so that's where the power comes, the power of the Holy Spirit for service. And I've never forgotten that night, some of the prophecies that were said over me, you know, I tucked away and kind of pondered them, you know, and such. But it just seemed outlandish, seemed crazy, like, there's no way that could happen.
But let's wait and see. And then years later, I began to see these things fall into place. And so very exciting when that happens.
And so the Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit. And so what's the body's witness? And what if I were to say, Hey, the Lord showed me that all of us are moved to move up by Neah Bay, all of it, there's going to be a, there's going to be a, you know, a nuclear bomb that hits Bangor. And I really want you guys to be safe.
And I don't think Texas is safe. So you know, I want to lead all of you up to Neah Bay. And let's start a commune up there and sell your house, all your assets, everything, let's go up there.
And I'm going to wear the white robe, you guys can wear a different color robe, but mine's the white one. And we're going to go up there and stand on a mountain and wait for the Lord to come back. How many groups of people have been influenced in that way? Over the, over the church, you know, centuries of the church.
Your spirit's not bearing witness with that. Hey, he's a crackpot. I ain't going there, no way.
And, and you should, you should be able to resist, you know, the crackpots. And hopefully you do. For you may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, that all may be comforted.
So edification and comfort, the false prophets confuse, they destroy. Romans 8, 31, since God is for us, who can be against us? Jeremiah 29, 11, I know the thoughts that I think towards you, sayeth the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to bring you to an expected end. So you don't want to, you don't want to fall into the condemnation route.
God may be judging America, but you're, you're his church. Judgment begins at the house of God, whom the Lord loves. He chastens and he scourges every son or daughter.
But God is not angry at you. He's not angry. He may need to chasten.
He may need for, for restorative reasons, but he's not angry. He's not condemning. He's not taking your salvation away.
And, and so he's very pleased with his bride. He's preparing his bride for his return. And, and he'll settle the account at the Bema Seat judgment.
He's going to give rewards there in heaven, what we did while we're in our bodies, you know, whether good or bad, you know. And so the Lord wants to reward you, deck you out, so that when we come back at the marriage supper, everybody sees his bride, clean white, unspotted, unblemished garments, you know, and the righteousness of the saints. And so we, we need to encourage.
Verse 32, and the spirit of the prophets are subject to the prophets. So sometimes people will blurt out stuff and they'll say, I just had to say it because, you know, I didn't have control. It just, the Holy Spirit overwhelmed me.
And, you know, I was, I was drunk in the spirit and I had to roar like a lion and I had to walk and roll on the, on the ground because I was just so filled with the spirit, you know. And those are the abuses of the Toronto blessing and the Bethel churches. They're tunnels that the people run through and all.
And so they're, they're abusing the gifts, you know, in that manner. Guys were saying they were so drunk in the spirit, they couldn't drive home. So they'd have mocked up, you know, drunk tanks for people to sober up.
You know, the Holy Spirit so overwhelmed them and all. They get a DUI. And the spirit of the prophets are subject unto the prophets.
Verse 33, for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. And so, again, confusion means a tumult. It means a commotion, a disorder.
Jesus said in John 14, 27, peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. So in the midst of all the chaos that you're seeing in the world, all the breaking down of society, you can get away in your prayer closet.
You can open the Bible to 9-1-1, Psalm 91, verse 1, and you can sit at the Lord's feet and come under the shadow of the Almighty. You can have a place of escape in the presence of the Lord to the chaos that's happening outside there. And there's nothing wrong with that.
That's a great escape. When people say to you, oh, Christianity is just a crutch for you. No, it's far more than a crutch.
It's the entire hospital. I can't get through this life, the chaos, the craziness, the weirdness, without moment by moment fellowship with Jesus. He's, the hope that I have in Him is the only way I get through here.
I don't know how you guys get through it. I don't know how you can face another day in this crazy world without Jesus, you know. And you find out they're self-medicating, and you know, very difficult to cope and deal with life, and the chaos, and the confusion, and the wars, and all the famines, and pestilence, all the stuff that's coming.
How do people cope? How do they get through it? We go through it, but we have the Lord Jesus there with us. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, because you're with me. And if I'm in a fiery furnace, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, there's a fourth, and he's as the Son of God, the Lord Jesus there with us, because he's a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
He knows what it is, and we have the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death. And so, let all things be done decently in order. Organized worship.
Secondly, organized women. Didn't you guys marry a messy? What's a messy? Does she make her bed? Does she pick up her clothes? Does she have things on a schedule? She got one of those, yeah, things that go on the ground to vacuum. I'll never tell.
I don't know. My wife's so organized, it's unbelievable. Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
So put them under the law. Don't you love that? Genesis 3, 16. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow, and thy conception in sorrow, and thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be unto thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
That's the curse, the curse of the woman, for partaking of the forbidden fruit. And the curse is, your desire in the natural is going to be to usurp the authority over the man. There's a problem in headship.
There's a problem in the chain of leadership, in the chain of command. You were beguiled by the serpent Eve. Adam transgressed.
He knew what he was doing. He didn't want to, you know, live without you. So he followed your lead, and he transgressed and partook.
And now you're trying to cover your nakedness with fig leaves. Now you're making excuses, blaming each other, blaming the serpent and all. And so the curse upon the woman is she's going to painfully bear children.
But there's going to be a dynamic in your relationship where there's going to be this tendency within you to try and usurp that leadership, usurp authority over the man. And so how are you going to overcome that in a marriage? Who's going to die first? Because marriage is death. It's simply death.
Last week we were counseling with a guy, and I won't name him, but he says, I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead.
And yeah, that's, I'm glad you finally got that. That's true. It's death to self.
You're single. You can live for self. You get married, and you're an organized person.
You married a messy. Or she married a messy. You have to, you're not looking for this person that compliments each other and everything's the same because somebody's not thinking.
The Lord is breaking you. You're learning to die to self that Christ might live through you. I'm learning to go to the mall once a year, you know.
It's been hard road for 43 years, man. I don't, I still don't understand, but they got good places to sit down, and hey, I'm right here. I'm gonna stay in the car, you know, all that sort of stuff.
But man, oh man, oh man. Grocery shopping, no. No, a lot of differences, a lot of ways that she compliments me.
She helps me. But who's in charge? Who's going to be in charge? Who's going to lead? Who's going to follow? Corinth had some very unruly women, bremelos. Their heads were shaven as prostitutes.
Women were poorly treated. Women had no rights. They were like slaves in the Jewish culture.
And in the Greek and Roman culture, no rights. The Jewish men would wake up in the morning, and they'd pray, the Lord our God is one God. Then they'd thank God that they weren't born a Gentile, a woman, or a slave.
They had dominance over the women. And then Jesus comes along, and he elevates the woman, elevates the role of a woman in marriage, in society. He says, husbands, love your wife like Christ loved the church and gave himself for her.
A mutual submission in Ephesians chapter 5. Not just the women submitting, but a mutual submission. Peter says, husbands, take knowledge of your wives, lest your prayers be hindered. Well, good luck with that.
I've never been able to understand her, Lord. What do you mean take knowledge of her? Her head doesn't work like mine. Well, she'll let you know.
Watch, observe. Things she likes, things she doesn't like. You set the stage.
You allow her to blossom, and to grow, and to become that virtuous, godly woman that God intended. She's not to be made in the image of your mother. Stop it.
She's unique. Let her be who I've made her. She belongs to me, the Lord's saying.
She wants to sleep in, let her sleep in. She wants to stay up late, let her stay up late. Whatever her schedule is, she wants to be a stay-at-home mom, let her stay home.
She wants to work, let her work. Who are you to lord over her? Take knowledge of her. Now, one of the things the prophetess Kamala came up with, guy at the gym told me.
Guy at the gym told me this. He brought his little girl there, and hey, Rick, Rick, look, look, look at Lily, look at Lily. Oh, she's gorgeous, you know.
And this husband and wife, they fully jabbed, taking all the jabs, and they want nothing to do with Jesus. But man, they're super excited about, about their little baby, and then I said, well, my daughter's ready to have her seventh one, and I'm showing them pictures like any good grandpa would. Look at this one, look at this, you know.
And seven, and then he says to me, he gets his calculator up. That's $42,000 in tax credit. What do you mean? Well, presently, it's $2,000 per child.
Kamala's going to move it to six. And then people are like, but how are we going to pay for it? Do you know in the 50s that the tax structure was changed so women would have to enter the workforce? The tax structure changed so a woman in the 50s couldn't stay at home anymore and be mom. The most important job on the planet, being mom.
And the husbands during the sexual revolution of the 60s began to cheat on their wives, and the women feel a need to get their own career, because they can't trust this guy till death do we part. That's the breakdown of the family. But that tax credit, you give that tax credit to, you know, to a young couple today, the mom can afford to stay home, doesn't have to go into the workforce, can raise these kids in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, not worry about the public school, destroying their minds during the formative years especially.
And if she wants to do a side hustle, a side job, she can be the virtuous woman and work too and make money, whatever. But the most important job on the planet is that of being a mother. And yet we denigrate her, like you didn't go to college? What to become a liberal puke like you? A Kamala? Denigrating the role of a woman, of a mother, not even allowed to call people mother anymore, grandmother, or father.
Come a long way baby. Christianity elevated the woman in society to a place of honor. Husbands, love your wives as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for her.
So love sacrificially, make her feel secure, make her feel safe. Then once she's loved supremely, because God made the woman with the supreme desire, the number one thing the woman was shaped by God for was to be loved supremely. The man needs to feel respected.
So therein is the submission, the leadership. The man wants to feel like he's a leader, that he's beat down all week long at work, but when he comes home he wants to be the king of his castle. And his queen is there to pump his ego.
But the woman, she can go along with it as long as she knows he's not cheating on her, that he's there for the long haul and death do we part and sickness and in health, the whole thing, the vows that you took, and that he's willing to wash the dishes, he's willing to do the, he's willing to do anything, whatever is necessary to comfort her, to complete her, to minister unto her, that she feels loved and secure. Now Kathy, she don't want me washing the clothes because the reds and the whites, they get messed up, and towels get in with the shirts and lint everywhere, and she doesn't want me to cook either. Imagine that.
Imagine that. So there's things that she does really, really well, and she doesn't want me to go anywhere near, and I get it. And I would never try to outshine her in any of those areas, even if I did develop an ability to do it better than her, you know.
No way. That's her place. When it came time to decorate our house, it wasn't me.
It was her. It was her dreams, her colors, her little places to sit and all that, you know. She's the nester.
Just stay out of my garage. Don't touch a tool. I'll lock them up.
You guys stay away from my tool. No. See, even the garage, they take over.
You start out, okay, there's pretty soon there's toys and everything else pushing you out of the garage, you know. Now you got to buy sheds. Now your stuff's out in the shed, you know.
Attic's full, everything, you know. But hey, whatever you got to do. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is a shame for the women to speak in the church.
So the Church of Corinth, the ladies were blurting out, pastors trying to teach, and they're blurting out, I bought land in Idaho. Oh, did you? Yeah, whereabouts? I mean, Monday night, it's like a constant concert of people interrupting as I'm trying to teach. It's like conversational everywhere.
And sometimes I can roll with it and laugh with it. And other times I've said, hey, zip it. Zip it.
I can't teach with all these interruptions. You want to teach? You want to stop now? So to a certain degree, it's a Socratic method of teaching of asking questions and getting participation, but that interrupting all the time. So they tell me, oh, I got ADHD.
I can't. Wait a minute. The Holy Spirit, one of the fruits of the Spirit is self-control.
And this isn't I'm going to beat anybody up over. Whatever you do might wind up in the sermon. Just careful, careful, careful.
Let the women learn in silence, Paul says in 1 Timothy 2.11, with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. How does that go over in the mainstream churches today? The women are in charge.
What do they call it? Toxic masculinity. Paul was a, what was Paul? What do they call Paul? Misogynist or, you know, whatever it is to be anti-woman. And so he's saying, let her learn at home.
Now, the only way the woman can learn at home is if you guys are men of the word. The reason the women have to teach the kids the word of God and to speak up and to speak out and put little tracks in your lunch and all that, because you're unbelievers. Because you come to church just playing a role.
You think your role is you provided the bacon, you provided the money. No, God wants you to go well beyond the money. Even an unbeliever can provide the money.
Even an unbeliever can go work as hard as you, even harder than you, come home and drink a beer and sit down and be a dictator. That's not a big gift. No, what the Lord's looking for is a man that's a spiritual leader, that does all that other stuff the worldly guy does.
And he comes home and he ministers unto his wife and his family. And he's in the word. And when she has questions about God's word, she's able to talk and interact in regard to God's word.
That you're the priest within your home. That within your home, Christ is the head of your home. And that if you do anything as a husband, contrary to Christ as the head, the wife will call you out on it.
Where does it say that in the Bible? Why are you acting like that? I thought you're supposed to love me like Christ loved the church. When I first got married to Kathy, she got pregnant the second month we were married. And we started a business.
I was working day and night. But on Saturday, I thought that was a day that I could go surfing. And I thought I could go to the gym.
And I thought I could go hang with some of my friends. And she'd been home by herself all week with morning sickness and all that. And I tried to get out the door.
And I looked at her sitting there on the sofa. And I'm like, oh man, oh man. And you get away with it a couple times.
But it's no fun anymore. And all that guilt, you know. So I gave my surfboard, my wetsuit to my little brother and quit the gym.
And I began to spend Saturdays sitting on the couch or going over to mom's house mid-afternoon, you know, things like that. And really hard for me because I was antsy, ants in the pants and all that, to sit there. And now I love sitting.
I love it now. Now what she says to me is, you need to go to the gym. You need to get out of here.
You're making me crazy. So later on in life you get all that freedom back, all that stuff back. And so Christ, the head of the home, then the husband, then the woman, then the children.
And don't emasculate the boys. Raise up leaders. And make them godly leaders, loving leaders, servant leaders.
But will the men teach that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of the water by the word. So the way that the husbands love the wife is to sanctify her. She gets filthy in the world.
She gets filthy around the television, the movies, and articles, and on the phone and such. The world is trying to pour its filth into her mind and heart. And then you come home and you want to sanctify.
You want to set her apart, make her holy by washing her in the word, with the washing of water by the word. But what happens when the men refuse to lead spiritually? Then she has to lead because she really wants her children to learn about Jesus, doesn't she? So she's going to go to church for years till you have your first heart attack, or your first stupid thing you do that catches you up. And you finally are humbled enough to realize you need the Lord.
And many a woman has spent years, 20 years, waiting for you, waiting for you to wise up, waiting for you to man up. Because real men love Jesus. That's what a real man is, one that's in submission to Jesus.
Most macho guy on the whole planet is Jesus Christ. The strongest man ever is Jesus Christ, the way that he went to the cross, the way that he suffered. As a sheep before his shears is dumb, so he opened not his mouth, no whining, no complaining.
Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. When the men don't lead, there's disorder, there's confusion, there's chaos, there's insecure women usurping the authority of the men. Now women can be CEOs, business owners, business starters.
They can do a much better job than men, absolutely. Smarter than men, more capable than men, stronger than men if they need be, especially their lower bodies, I found out. They can deadlift and squat a whole lot of weight, man.
For them babies, push them babies out, I guess. The only reason they're at home to be a homemaker is because it's the most important job on the planet. Train up a child the way they should go.
When they're old, they won't depart from it. These children need their moms, they need their dads, they need their family. It's God's design.
If we're so preoccupied with material things, and we buy into the trap of the world more and more and more and more and more, then we're going to miss out. I told Kathy the other day, I said, honey, if something happened, we were ever to win the lottery. I said, you know, I don't know what I'd do.
I like being so close to the grandkids. I know you'd like a house, but maybe we could have two houses or three houses on a compound, because I really like the grandkids coming over and tapping on the door. I really like being close, because when you're a grandparent and your house is away from your kids, you might only see them once a week.
And I walked down the driveway yesterday, and it was pouring rain, and I saw Evie, my granddaughter, carrying a little thing of eggs from the chicken coop, and I saw Ruthie behind her with her boots on and an umbrella. And they went over to get the eggs, you know. That was classic.
And they come banging on the door, and I hear, Papa, Papa, Papa. And they want to go up to the sugar shack with me and watch cartoons, and chocolate milk, and candy, and Papa, do you got any more popsicles, you know? No, Grandma didn't buy them, yet we ate them all. But I mean, money can't buy that.
So you may think like, oh, wow, we're so poor with it. But there's such a quality of life that God provides children, grandchildren, mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, aunts, uncles. When I was growing up, the whole extended family used to go have picnics.
It didn't cost a thing to go to kick the ball, play ball, barbecue. We were living like Mexican families. You ever seen what Mexican families do? They all get together, a Filipino family, everyone gets together.
We're so busy with our material stuff. And I'm thinking, you know, it all stems from a mom. It stems from Grandma.
They're the ones that organize these things. They're the ones that make Sunday meals important. Coming to church, going out to eat afterwards, hanging out at birthdays, times that we can, you know.
Man, if you really love the woman God has given you, you will love her with the Word of God, saturating her with the living Word. Now, it doesn't mean that you are the only source of the Word. Part of the way that the Lord showed me to get the Word of God into my wife and my family wasn't just through me.
It was simply playing, as we're driving in the car, having Bible studies in the car, one after another. When the children are in the car, they're listening to McGee and me and different children's Bible studies as we're driving in the car, at home, in the car, wherever we go, the Word of God. So what's that mean? I scared Kathy and Rob and Vicki when we went to Arizona with them.
We went into a Western kind of a restaurant and they started playing Western music. I'm saying, hey, be quiet. I like this music.
I like this. They're going, no, you don't. Yeah, I do.
I really like it. You like the Beatles. You like this.
You like that. We got this music that we like. I like worship music.
I was teasing them. So I don't sit there and try to get my family to know all my old songs and all my old worldly music that I used to listen to. I've tried to listen to it.
I just can't anymore because I got something better. And that's what it's like falling in love with Jesus. I can do the old things, but I don't want to anymore because I have something better.
And so once you get to know him and have what's better, you don't need to be a drunk anymore. You don't need to be involved in the world and try to conjure up those old memories and all that. And so she becomes a virtuous woman, honored by her children.
Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also. And he praises her, favors, deceitful beauty is vain, but a woman that fears the Lord shall be praised. If we as men will be the spiritual leaders, God will give us virtuous women.
Who can find a virtuous woman for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband does safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of his life.
So if you've got a woman like that, you don't have to worry about a DNR. Do not resuscitate. Oh, he's sick.
He stopped breathing. Finally, I'm done with him. That's a do not resuscitate.
No, she's going to be going, give him the oxygen, put those paddles, get him going. So let all things be done decently in order. One of the reasons why the churches are proliferating with women pastors, because the men won't lead.
Secondly, the pastors are afraid of the mores of society, the pressure upon the pulpit to acquiesce and to give in to the feminism that's been permeating since the 60s and continues even from the garden. And so they're wanting to acquiesce and give in to the culture and bring on staff and have women in the pulpit on Sunday mornings teaching men and all that. And no, they have a much higher role than that, much more important role.
So let all things be done decently in an order, organized worship, organized women, ordained wisdom. Verse 36, what came the word of God out from you or came it unto you only? So is your message ordained of God? Are you teachable? Can you receive instruction? Verse 37, if any man think of himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. So ordained wisdom, Paul's saying, hey, I've got wisdom from the Lord.
You want to challenge me on this? This is from the Lord, he's saying. Jesus said in Luke 10, 16, he that hears you hears me. He that despises you despise me.
He that despises me despise him that sent me. Verse 38, but if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. That's a difficult thing in this day and age in which we are, is to just let them be ignorant.
Just let them move about. Let's just let them alone. I'm trying to reach people and we're living in a time of such great deception and ignorance.
It's mind boggling to me, but you just got to let them go. Where I'm in the strife is there's confusion, James says, and every evil word. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and of good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to them that make peace. We want peace. We want a church fellowship that's peaceful.
We don't want to be worn and fighting and factious and being like the world. Ask God for wisdom, ordained wisdom. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy and forbid not to speak with tongues.
So in your desire, desire to edify the body, to prophesy, but also speak in tongues. It's not like the MacArthur's and others would say these gifts have ceased with the fulfillment of the canon of scripture. We cover that in chapter 13.
When that which is perfect has come and that which is part shall be done away, that which is perfect, the cessationists say that you don't need these gifts of the spirit anymore because now we have the canon of scripture. That's not true. When that which is perfect has come is eternity, which is Jesus.
And when we see Jesus face to face, then we'll know even as we are known, we won't need these gifts of the spirit anymore. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy and forbid not to speak with tongues. Let all things be done decently in order, that word decently means honestly, not shameful.
Our God is a God of order. He's not confused concerning you. He made you.
He knows you. He knows all about you. He knows more about you and I than we know of ourselves.
So decently, honestly. I'm amazed presently, Kathy and I both, at how we never see people ashamed anymore. We don't see our culture ashamed.
No matter what our culture is involved in, there is no shame. There's no blushing. We don't blush anymore at our sin.
We make excuses for our sin. We say we're going to vote for the lesser of two evils. Aren't you ashamed of that? Aren't you ashamed that the republicans are leading you in a direction that it's acceptable to have an abortion in the first 15 weeks? And that a woman has reproductive rights that you can't question? Doesn't that make you ashamed? That we've so denigrated and so reached a place like that? That somehow your value system would be such, well, at least it's better than Kamala's policy.
Well, how do you factor God into that equation? Where's God in all that? Where's what He thinks? Who's willing to sacrifice for righteousness? Going to continue to compromise? I believe God will give us leaders after His heart when we put Him first. You get what you deserve. All your gifts, your talents, your abilities.
God even knows your faults, all your failures. And He still loves you. He still wants to use you.
He still wants to fill and use you and love on you for all eternity. Are you walking in harmony with His plan for your life, or are you fighting with God? How can you know? He'll give you a peace. There'll be a peace to guide your heart and mind.
There's a peace within your heart. There's joy. There's love.
There's not confusion. For me, when I'm fighting against God, when I'm challenging Him, when I'm saying, God, you know who I am? No, I don't talk like that. But my attitude's like that.
I challenge many of the things He's allowed into my life. And I say, this is unfair. I never thought you'd do this.
I never thought it'd last this long. And then what helps me is, I know I'm supposed to humble myself. And once I humble myself, and I found lately, as an expression of humility, I know I need to get on my knees.
And I don't know what your position is when you pray, maybe prostate on your face, maybe in your lazy boy chair, maybe while you're sleeping. I don't know. But something about me getting down on the ground, on my knees, and humbling myself before God really, really helps me.
It really addresses the problem in my heart as pride. And God begins to minister to me. And I begin to realize, man, I don't want my plan for my life.
You know what you're doing, Lord. Keep it up. Keep it up, Lord.
And then this peace floods my heart and mind. Because what? Now I'm walking by faith. I don't always understand.
But now I'm walking by faith. I'm not striving or fighting with God. I'm walking by faith.
And I know that He's sovereign, that He's in control. No matter what the globalists do, or all the crazies out there, no matter how the election turns out, no matter what happens to America, I know God's on the throne. He's in control.
And He's going to take care of me no matter what. And He hasn't asked me to be Mr. Fix-It. The peace, the joy, the love, I begin to recognize things in my life that are so incredibly valuable.
Like I said, my grandkids nearby, hearing their voices, hearing Judah chop wood, and the other, you know, this past week, 14 years old, and he's splitting wood. Hearing the kids over in the trees and such, and they have their samurai swords, and all that kind of stuff. Such a treasure.
Such an incredible treasure. And this season that God has Kathy and I in, it's so incredibly rewarding if we yield, if we surrender and trust Him. Because it could be taken away as in a moment.
And what could replace it? God's in control. Surrender, yield to Him. God's ordained a plan of redemption for sinners.
His Son went to the cross. It looked confusing from the outside, didn't it? The disciples were confused. The Romans were confused.
The Jews were confused. Everybody was confused. People had a false sense of security, a false sense of authority, a false sense of power.
Pilate says, don't you know that I have power to crucify you? And Jesus said, you have no power except that which is given you from above. He said in John 10, I have power to lay my life down, and I have power to take it again. I'm 100% absolutely in control.
In Colossians chapter 1 verse 17, it says, by Him all things consist. That word consist means He holds all the atoms, all the protons, all the molecules, everything in this order. And they want a new world order.
He's the God of order, and He holds it all together. And when He lets go, that's when the earth is destroyed by fire. That's a nuclear bomb right there.
The atoms being let go. He's the God of order, and He offers eternal life to whosoever will. Is your life in control? Have you given your life control to Him? Have you given Him control of your life? The Bible says in Isaiah chapter 48 verse 22, there's no peace, saith the Lord to the wicked.
He says in verse 18 of Isaiah 48, O that thou had hearkened to my commandments, then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea, one after another. What's the problem in America? It's a spiritual problem. It's a problem of thinking we're in control, of taking control, of usurping the authority that God has over our lives.
And He's created us. He's redeemed us. It's men acting like gods, acting like their god in rebellion to the true and living God.
What's the solution? Get on our knees, humble ourselves, admit we don't know. We don't know what's best. Father knows best.
He knows the way that I take, and when He's tried me, Job said, I'm going to be as gold. God knows what He's doing. Quit trying to play God.
Yield to His Spirit. He's a God of order, and He's going to allow the globalists in Revelation 17, 17, He puts in their heart to do according to His will, which is He's allowing the beast system to be fashioned and put together, because God's going to demonstrate that they're usurpers, that they're pretenders, that He's going to come back, and He's going to destroy the Antichrist, their champion, the devil, the false prophet, all of them, and they're going to spend eternity in the lake of fire. So John, write the things which you have seen, the resurrected Lord.
Write the things which are, the church age. Write the things which shall be hereafter, metatauta, after the church age. We're in the church age right now.
Come up here, and I'll show you things to come, metatauta, four and five, the church in heaven, six to 19, the tribulation period, no mention of the church until chapter 19, when Jesus comes with His bride. Chapter 20, the millennium. Chapter 21 and 22, the eternal state.
God's a God of order. He's told me ahead of time what His order is, and He gives you and I marching orders to follow Him. Follow me.
Go and make disciples of all nations, teaching them whatsoever I've commanded you, along with you always, even to the end of the age, the end of the church age. He's with us. Let's pray.
Father, thank You that it's not confusing, doesn't have to be confusing, that Lord, You said in Your Word, except we become as children, we'll no wise enter the kingdom of God. And Lord, we have trouble with that. We have trouble humbling ourselves as children.
Lord, we grow up, and we think we know. We demand, we order you around, we rub you a certain way, and you're going to pop out with three wishes. And Lord, we desire, Lord, that there be a depth of relationship, a relationship where You're on the throne, where You have Your rightful place within our heart, the throne of our heart, that we yield to You no matter what's going on, that we yield to You, that we yield to Your Spirit, that we're walking by faith, that we're filled, overflowing with Your love, that You're using us for Your kingdom and glory, the Lord, that we're seeing fruit come forth.
And Lord, we ask ever more that You would heal those who are sick. We pray that You'd save the lost within our families and friends. And Lord, there'd be a great harvest of souls, we ask in these last days.
Lord, help us during this election cycle to not be confused, to not get sucked into the vortex of the lies of the wicked one, of the devil, that we'd stand for righteousness the same way we did during COVID, where we stayed open, we didn't allow fear to overwhelm us, we weren't afraid, we didn't know what to do but except to follow You, to yield to You. That's all we knew, that You'd sort it out. Lord, evermore help us day by day to seek first the kingdom of God and Your righteousness, knowing all these other things be added unto us.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.