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Let all God's people say, "Praise the Lord." >> Praise the Lord. >> Father, we thank you for this preparation time when notes and music and harmony, dug down into our hearts, broke up some of the soil that we can receive your word. Now, I pray for the help that only the Holy Spirit can give.

And I praise you right now for what you are doing. We pray everything all the time in the name of Jesus. And once again, everybody said, "Praise the Lord." >> Praise the Lord.

>> And you may be seated. Thank you so much. If you brought a Bible, Revelation chapter 17.

If you have a pad, same thing. >> [clears throat] >> I told you last Sunday this would have to be a two-part message. And if you recall, I preached about mixing.

The danger of it. Mixing means confusion. It's bringing conflicting ideas together or trying to or conflicting lifestyles or trying to I gave the illustration of a pure bottle of water.

You put anything in it, it's no longer pure water anymore. It becomes another drink. I told you how God is so displeased with a mixed marriage.

And I told you I am not talking about color or culture. Did you hear that? but about a spiritual merging.

God is displeased with that. I'm going to go to 17 of Revelation and start reading. Follow me closely.

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters." That's tough language right there. with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication. That's tough language.

And the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and 10 horns.

The woman was arrayed in, watch this, purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. That's three times that sexually immoral term has been used. And on her forehead a name was written, mystery or secret, Babylon the Great.

And [clears throat] he just revealed the mystery, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth. I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

But the angel said to me, "Why do you marvel? I'll tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and t horns. The beast you saw was, is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to predition.

And those who dwell on the earth, you get that? Those who dwell on the earth, earth dwellers, will marvel, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was and is not, and yet is. Here's the mind which has wisdom.

The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. And there are also seven kings. Five have fallen.

One is, the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. The beast that was and is not is himself also the eighth and is of the seven and is going to predition.

Isn't that fun? I'll tell you all about it right now. The 10 horns which you saw are 10 kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast.

These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings. And those who are with him are called, chosen, and faithful.

Then he said to me, "The waters which you saw where the harlot sits are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues. And the 10 horns which you saw on the beast, [clears throat] these will hate the harlot, make her desolate, and naked. >> [clears throat] >> eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill his purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words are fulfilled. And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth. What is this all about?

This is John's way of telling us through the Holy Spirit about what has controlled the world since the building of the Tower of Babel. Since Nimrod built a city, a religious man-made system that denies the true and the living God. A religious system that will gain prominence, will become rich and influential and will try to amalgamate with government or mix with government.

The very thing I'm preaching against. You see, government and religion always try to work together. And God calls it fornication.

using each other to try to gain an advantage over the people. This shows the woman. Oh, isn't she ador adorned beautifully?

Costly pearls and gold and nice religious frocks. We know we know of a great religion that does that. Sitting on the back of the beast, which is the antichrist.

So during the tribulation period, the antichrist whose endgame mindset is to destroy all religion so that everybody will worship him will tolerate this mystery harlot woman who sells her soul for power over the people. And so even though they appear to work together, they hate one another. And there will come a time when the Antichrist kingdom will rise up and 10 of those nations will decide religion is over and they will come together to destroy the religious Babylonian system that has controlled people all of these years out of fear.

that makes people afraid to leave them, that controls the mind of people and is trying to control government. And government's doing the same thing. So, you have this attempt for man-made government and man-made religion to work things out and it just won't happen.

You will see the end result of it. On the last days of the great tribulation, the antichrist himself will declare that he is God above all gods. All other religions will have been destroyed.

that when this harlot is destroyed, there will never again be a manmmade religion. Because after Antichrist is destroyed and thrown into the bottomless pit for a thousand years, Jesus Christ will set up his throne in Jerusalem and he will be the one worshiped. He will be the one adored and he will be the government.

The government will be upon his shoulders and all in the millennium will worship him as the king and the lord. But you see down through the ages men have tried to mix the two. It's it's going on right now in every branch of government in this country and all governments around the world.

>> [clears throat] >> One of my favorite scholars is John Phillips and he says on page 202 of his commentary on the revelation that in 306 AD Constantine became a Roman emperor who actually accepted Jesus Christ or accepted Christianity. and Constantine made the most fatal [snorts] attempt at mixing religion in the world that any man has ever made. In fact, John Phillip says it's the worst decision any ruler of any nation has ever made where he tried to declare that Christianity was the state religion.

And another of my favorite authors, Qualin, who wrote a history of the church, said, "All Constantine did was um paganize the church and Christianize the world. It was a [snorts] hollow marriage of nothingness. Even today, we are still wrestling with the lingering effects of Constantine trying to make Christianity the state religion uh with things such as uh this this Easter stuff, this paganized pageantry that we still celebrate around Easter with bunny rabbits and eggs.

All of that came from a mixture of Babylonian belief with the government. and it just won't go away. And I will tell you, this is not in my notes, but I read it early this morning and it I'm disturbed where our president has made a proclamation that the Sabbath, the Jewish Sabbath is to be observed.

He he is encouraging all Jews to observe that Sabbath to celebrate our 250th anniversary. And he encourages all of us to do the same thing. And when I read that, the hair on my neck stood up and I said, "You've got to be kidding me.

He's gone way beyond what he's supposed to be. You cannot let a government official make any proclamations about religion or faith or anything else." That that's just the beginning. That's opening Pandora's box.

All of the other people will say, "Well, you gave the Jews their day. Why don't you affirm our day? Why don't you recognize our religion?

See, there's no end to it. And that's why it's a mixture of hell. Let me just say this right now.

There are many religions, but there's only one faith, >> and it's the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. It's the faith of God's pure, unmixed church. any attempt to mix government with religion and again we're not a religion we're a faith but any attempt for government to come into it brings confusion but worse than that it brings impurity and impurity brings weakness and weakness brings compromise and I hear it all the time from in my opinion in uninformed people.

We need more religion in government. That's what's wrong with government now. There's not enough religion in government.

Let me tell you something, folks. We got plenty of religion in government. We got plenty of fornication going on between religion and the government, using each other for selfish advantage.

Oh, we've got we've got religion in our government. We've got Judaism in our government. You know their names.

We have Islam in our government. You know the Muslims that are there. We have atheism.

That's a religion. In our government, they say there is no God. Any recognition or mention of God is foolishness and ignorance.

We have racism in our government. Racism is a religion. I don't care who you are.

You could be a white nationalist or a black panther. If you hate another color and blame another people, that's your religion. We have agnosticism in government.

I don't know if there's a god or not. You know, I'll go along with whomever. We have deism in our government.

Oh, there is a god. We just don't know which one it is. We have the religion of the LGBTQ activists.

That's a religion. Folks, in your activism, you need to admit that your obsession with something other than Jesus is your religion. >> Don't care who it is.

Don't care what it is. That becomes your religion. Listen very carefully to your pastor.

And I'm smiling now. There has never been a Christian nation. Never.

There will never be a Christian nation. After all this is gone and said and done, there will be a kingdom. The kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.

By the way, before I go any more into this, there's no such thing as a liberal Christian or a conservative Christian. There's just Christian. You can't stretch the scriptures to a point that you say, "Well, I'm liberal in my thinking." No, sir.

You can't do that. It's just just like as we all know, there's no such thing as a white Christian, a black Christian, there no such thing as a black church in America. I preach on this all the time.

There's no such thing as white evangelical. All that is manmade stuff, a result of fornication between government and people. No sir, Christianity is pure.

It is about Jesus. It's about father, son, holy spirit, sin, salvation, shed blood, walking in the spirit, living by the word, looking for Jesus to come back, living a life worthy of the calling, walking in holiness and purity all the days of your life. That's Christianity.

And you can't lead it one way or the other. Jesus was not a liberal or a conservative. HE WAS THE SON OF GOD.

He is the savior. I believe he is the only way to heaven. He's the only door.

He's the only life. He's the only light. YOU CAN'T LEAN THAT WAY AND SAY SOMETIMES HE IS AND OTHERS THINK SOMETIMES HE ISN'T.

NO SIR. He is the way, the truth, THE LIFE. AND NO MAN can come unto the father unless they come through the son.

AMEN. [applause] >> You see, a Christian nation, well, a Christian nation would honor God all the time in everything. A Christian nation would serve the Lord God all the time, in every way.

A CHRISTIAN NATION WOULD OBEY ALL THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. That has never happened. It's not happening now.

Just because we have scriptures on our monuments and buildings and just because we have an acknowledgement of a creator in our constitution and our creeds does not make this a Christian country. Godly people were part of its inception. good godly people who believe the Bible.

This nation was founded to believe in God. Preachers traverse this continent and this world preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. But not everybody believed it and not everybody did it.

You see, I I I'll repeat myself. A Christian is somebody born from above, born again. A Christian is someone who abides in Christ and Christ abides in him.

And so for any nation to be a Christian nation, those same definitions apply. That nation would have to be born from above and abide in Christ and walk in the truth. Let me just tell you something.

A Christian nation would never have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans who are still left out and living in poverty. A Christian nation would never have thought that owning slaves was pleasing to God or that it lined up with scripture in any way, shape, or size. And we not only practiced it, but we were so obsessed with it that we went to war about it.

We had a civil war. And in that civil war, 500,000 Americans died. That's more than American Americans that died in World War II or any other war we've ever had.

Our own Civil War. We killed 500,000 of our own people so people could have the right to own other people as property. No Christian nation would murder 80 million unborn babies, mostly minorities.

Let me tell you something. The most racist stance you can have is pro-choice. I'm pro-choice.

You're for that movement. You're for that idea that babies can just be tossed aside when most of them are minorities to start with. How racist can you be?

Do you think a Christian nation would be gender confused? Do you think a Christian nation would finance and fund the butchering of children to change their sex? Do you think a Christian nation would put up with a bunch of mindless adults who abuse children by advising them to have sex changes when they're not even old enough to understand what sex is?

No Christian nation would praise and promote same sex union or any other perverted union other than one man and one woman and that's the only definition of marriage by the way the conscience of a Christian nation would not let it spend billions of dollars ers on Sports Stadia while poor, hungry, jobless people sit in the shadows of those arenas in ratinfested, rundown housing. No, a a Christian nation's conscience wouldn't put up with that. No Christian nation's heart would allow sports and entertainment to be more important than Bible knowledge and and basic SKILLS IN LIFE LIKE READING and writing and adding and subtracting.

No Christian nation would let its school system go unfunded while only the athletic and the wealthy have all the opportunities. A Christian nation would weep and do something about its military vets living in the streets. A [snorts] Christian nation would not allow sick, poor people to suffer because they cannot get medicine because big pharma corporations charge too much money.

No, a Christian nation would have a heart that would say that is unacceptable. People need medicine and relief. They need help.

No Christian nation would remove the Bible and prayer from anything, not just schools, but anything anywhere. So, I think you get the point today. God bless America.

I'm so thankful to be an American. [snorts] I thank God almost every day that I I was privileged to be born a citizen of the United States of America, the greatest country that's ever lived. Don't clap.

I'm preaching. If you don't clap about Jesus, do not clap about the United States. You can wear a cross around your neck all you want to, but that does not make you a Christian.

>> What does make you a Christian? repenting of your sins, obeying the commandments of Jesus Christ, honoring God in all that you do, taking care of your neighbor, living outside of yourself for the good of God and somebody else. I have become obsessed with this idea of the church remaining pure.

You've heard me preach long enough to know when I preach on false prophets and false teachers and devil's doctrines and things like that. There was a passion in me that rises up like a blistering fire because I know the devil is trying to slither into the congregation. And when I see people who are equally committed to their government and their party as they are to the church, it drives me insane because you cannot serve two masters.

And I know Jesus was talking about money when he said that. But I'm telling you that you cannot have equal passion for the nation or the party or your race or your culture than you have for Jesus Christ. That that you cannot mix it.

is one or the other. You either love this out here or you love him who loved us and gave himself for us. That doesn't mean you don't have pity and compassion.

That doesn't mean you don't get involved. BUT IT MEANS WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE AND WHEN IT'S ALL over that he is king. He is Lord.

He is worthy. HE IS MINE. I AM HIS and my LIFE IS IN CHRIST AND CHRIST'S LIFE IS IN ME.

AMEN. >> The condition of this country right now is a result of religion and government. We're in the condition we're in today because so-called preachers will not preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

They're cowards or unsaved or they've been trained in places that don't even believe in the Trinity or the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. And what I cry out against and try not to lose my patience over is churches that constantly have politicians in the pulpit and so-called preachers who preach social gospel and deal only with social issues and the ills of injustice. I I rise up when I hear about churches having political rallies and waving flags in the sanctuary of God or even on the property of God because I realized to the best I can that Jesus paid it all.

He gave his very last drop of blood to redeem for himself a people, a people for himself, sold out to him who do not share their life with anybody but him. He gave himself. He suffered unimaginably.

The father grieved over what happened to his son even though he gave his son for the sins of the world. When he sees people who are halfhearted, whose commitment is halfway, he laid his life down not so we could have the best of both worlds or make the country a Christian country. He laid his life down to call us out of this wicked, dark, vile world and separate ourselves unto him because he ALONE IS WORTHY OF MY ENERGY, MY TIME, MY THOUGHT, MY MONEY, MY [cheering] FAITH.

>> AMEN. [applause] So the very moment any church starts entertaining all of this stuff, they lose power with God. GOD'S HAND OF approval is no longer on it.

And I want all these preachers there, a lot of them listen to to me now. You know, you can't have uh the Reverend Al Sharpton come in and be a a preacher. He's not a preacher.

He's an activist. >> JESSE JACKSON WAS NOT A PREACHER. HE WAS AN ACTIVIST.

>> NOW, I got to call out some white folks or I'm going to be in trouble here. And I can't think of anybody right now. But I tell you, the woods is full of them.

Just forgive me cuz I can't think of it. Maybe after church you could COME UP AND GIVE ME A suggestion so THAT I CAN SHOW EQUITY AND EQUALITY IN ALL OF THIS PREACHING THAT I'm doing. Nothing makes me sicker on my stomach than to watch one of those pretenders get up and and act like they want to use a scripture and then they go into all this ranting and raving about social injustice when it's not social injustice that's destroying the nation.

It's sin. Preach against sin, >> sir. You call yourself reverend, you call yourself bishop, whatever you call yourself, you're neither one until YOU PREACH JESUS CHRIST THAT HIM CRUCIFIED.

>> YOU'RE NEITHER ONE OF THOSE. YOU'RE NOTHING. YOU'RE TAKING UP SPACE.

You just have a TITLE UNTIL YOU STAND UP UNDER THE POWER OF GOD WITH THE BOLDNESS OF GOD AND SPEAK AS AN ORACLE OF GOD AND SAY, "YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN OF THE SPIRIT." >> [applause] >> AND SO WHAT YOU SEE going on in the country today is just fornication, mystery Babylon, and the great harlot still at it. A lot of fornication going on in the country. What do we do then, pastor?

Do we isolate ourselves? DO WE PULL OUT? NO.

YOU'VE heard this before. >> [clears throat] >> There's a difference between isolation and insulation. We don't isolate ourselves.

We're all the world has. WITHOUT US, THERE IS NO TRUTH THROUGH CHRIST. WITHOUT OUR INVOLVEMENT, WITHOUT OUR LIGHT, the world just gets darker and farther away from the truth.

So what we have to do is not isolate ourselves but insulate ourselves. >> We we put on the whole armor of God. >> WE WE WALK AROUND WASHED IN THE BLOOD.

WE put on the garment of praise and wear the cloak of righteousness. AND LIKE A BRAVE FIREFIGHTER, WE PUT ON ALL THE GIVEN EQUIPMENT AND WE GO INTO A DANGEROUS place to save somebody from flames. WE'RE NOT BREATHING THEIR AIR.

WE'RE BREATHING OXYGEN THAT WE GOT UNDER OUR CLOTHES. WE'VE GOT FIREPROOF CLOTHING ON AND WE'VE GOT THE TOOLS TO DO IT. AND WE'RE NOT AFRAID TO GO IN AND DO IT.

BUT WE WANT TO SAVE SOMEBODY FROM THE FLAMES OF HELL. SO YOU DON'T ISOLATE YOURSELF. YOU DRESS UP YOURSELF WITH THE GARMENT OF GOD AND YOU GO WHERE THEY ARE AND YOU BRING THEM OUT.

>> AMEN. You know, it's amazing how people talk sometimes. From time to time, presidents have called on pastors and preachers for prayer.

[snorts] Sometimes they call on pastors and preachers that don't even know Jesus. that there are times when they call on saved, sincere, spiritfilled preachers, evangelists, and pastors to come pray with them. People say, "I I wouldn't go up there." You see, the problem is that even we if a a sincere PREACHER GOES TO PRAY for a president, he's been invited.

He goes to pray for a president, we say, "Yeah, he's on their side." WHEN A MAN OF GOD IS NEUTRAL, >> HE'S NOT GOING BECAUSE HE'S ON THEIR SIDE. HE'S GOING BECAUSE HE HAS THE TRUTH. >> HE'S GOT AN INVITATION.

HE'S GOT A ONE SHOT AT IT TO SAY TO THE LEADER OF THE WORLD, YOU NEED JESUS CHRIST. DON'T LISTEN TO FALSE PROPHETS AND FALSE ADVICE. THERE'S NOTHING I would go I'll tell you that right now if if well I'm not going to name names but if any politician of rank were to call me and say I sincerely want prayer.

I don't care who it is. Do you think I'd say no? Do you think a man of God would say no I'm not coming to pray for you?

That would be utter foolishness. It would be forgetting the call of God on your life and why you're doing what you're doing. I I remember a fellow by the name of Elijah who had constant interaction with the wickedest king Israel ever had, old Ahab.

And every time he confronted Ahab, he gave Ahab the word of God. And I remember a young lady, a beautiful young Jewish, when her people were being threatened to extermination, THE ADVICE WAS, "YOU CAN'T sit here and do nothing. You're here for this reason." NOW, WHO KNOWS BUT THAT GOD HAS CALLED YOU FOR SUCH A time as this.

I remember a fellow by the name of Daniel, a righteous man who served in three pagan administrations, served the king himself. He didn't isolate himself. He wasn't afraid he'd he'd be called a turncoat.

He said, "God has put ME HERE." I REMEMBER a guy by the name of David WHO WOULD NOT CURSE the king that was trying to KILL HIM, WOULD NOT SPEAK AGAINST him and and and mourned when the man died. I REMEMBER A GUY NAMED PAUL who was constantly standing before politicians from a grippa to Caesar and every time he stood there he gave them the truth of the Lord JESUS CHRIST. FOLKS, WE GOT to change our thinking.

>> THE WORLD CAN NEVER COME INTO THE CHURCH, BUT THE CHURCH HAS GOT TO GET INTO the world. [applause] And for all of our brothers and sisters who are in Congress right now, who are in the Senate right now, who are on the cabinet right now, and whatever place you might be, you need to know that you have a great responsibility. God put you there and you cannot squander THIS APPOINTMENT.

WE PRAY for you and asked YOU TO SPREAD LIGHT AND SALT WHILE YOU'RE THERE. DON'T COMPROMISE. DON'T LET THE WORLD GET INTO YOU, BUT MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR JESUS INTO THAT GOVERNMENT.

[applause] And I want to read this scripture that has touched my heart so many times I can't even count in Philippians chapter 4 beginning with verse 20. Now to our God and father be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. Now let's wait. Look at me everybody.

Paul is in jail. He is in a Roman jail. He doesn't know how long he has to live.

He's writing to the Philippians. Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me greet you.

ALL THE SAINTS GREET YOU, but especially those who are of Caesar's household. ISN'T THAT AMAZING? He said, 'I'm in jail here, but I'm constantly talking to believers who actually work for Caesar.

Caesar actually has some relatives, household and workers, my commentaries say, that have not compromised, that have not given in, THAT HAVE NOT BACKSLIDEN, BUT GOD HAS PUT them there. THEY DON'T WATER DOWN THE TRUTH OR THEIR FAITH, BUT THEY ARE in Caesar's household. And that's how I want to leave this today.

WE CAN NEVER LET Caesar get in God's house, BUT WE'VE GOT TO TAKE GOD'S HOUSE TO CAESAR'S THRONE ROOM. [applause] Stand with me, please. in prayer.

I felt impressed with the Holy Spirit to call a prayer meeting for tomorrow night 7:00 this week. We will celebrate our 250th anniversary. Is that right?

Of the of our nation. Is everybody hearing me? 250 years of great blessing.

a lot of sin, but God has been good to us. >> 250 years of evangelism around the world, lots of sin, but God has favored us anyway. So, tomorrow night at 7:00, I feel an urge and a call myself to come into this sanctuary and cry out to God for mercy, for humility, [music] for power.

I feel an urge to cry out to God, "Cleanse us, oh Lord. Let something happen in this nation [music] before you come back. Let revivals break out in churches.

Oh my God. LET PREACHERS BECOME fire brands. LET THEM SPEAK LIKE PROPHETS.

Let people worship like redeemed people OUGHT TO WORSHIP. LET ALTARS BE FILLED UP WITH the lost because they've heard the gospel. IF YOU WANT TO JOIN ME TOMORROW NIGHT, SANDRA AND I WILL BE RIGHT HERE.

I'm going to have a prayer meeting because I believe God answers prayer >> and I believe he'll honor a church that will come to him in faith. >> Do you? >> Would you lift your hands with me right now?

And would you ask the Lord to do a cleansing work in your heart and in the hearts of this church. Oh God. And now Lord.

Oh, I'm so glad to have that one off my chest right now, Jesus. I got one more to go, but this message has really burdened me. I've delivered it the best I know how to half the church.

God, I'm praying for strength to do it one more time. And I'm also praying for revelation knowledge that people will remember who they are in Christ, what they were called to do for Jesus, and be burning shining Lights. Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart [music] be acceptable in thy sight, oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer.

Amen. Love you, church. SEE YOU TOMORROW NIGHT.

Unless Jesus comes.