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Ask the people of America if they’re beginning to feel the weight of the iron. if it isn’t true that things are changing, and that people are gonna lose jobs and lose their security and lose so much. And every time the Congress meets, we’re in jeopardy of our freedom because they’re passing laws that takes away from the good people that work and provide and give it to those who will not work and will not provide. As I read this article, and I’m talking about our country, we live here.

When I trusted Christ as my savior, I didn’t just get zapped out of here and I’m in heaven now. I still, when I looked in that mirror before I trusted Christ as my Savior and I was ugly, and I looked in that mirror afterwards, I was still ugly, some things have not changed. I still live in America and I still got a wife and I still got children, and I still got responsibilities.

Let’s just pretend for a moment, I’m a lost man. Here’s my wife and I got some kids. I’m lost. It’s my responsibility, I believe, to provide for my family. My responsibility to see that my kids are educated. It’s my responsibility to feed them and to clothe them. It’s not the next door neighbors, not the person in next county, the next state, and it’s not government’s responsibility to take care of my family at all, mine. You see, what are a man’s rights?

Rights are to fulfill God given responsibilities. What am I responsible for? Before there wasÃÂ, what am I responsible for? To take care of my wife and my kids and give them leadership into protection that they need. And if another person wants to harm my family, it’s my duty, my responsibility, my right, to blast them in the kingdom come. You say, I don’t like that. You ought to be thankful for what I hold back.

I have a responsibility, and I want the right to fulfill that responsibility. If I trust Christ as my Savior, because now I am a citizen of the kingdom of light, I’m not part of this world anymore. I’m still a man in a body. Did my wife cease to be my wife? through my kids cease to be my kids because, you know, in the family of God, there’s neither male nor female. When I look in that mirror, I’m still in every man.

And this didn’t change. They still need to be fed. They still need to be clothed. They still need an education. And they still need protection. And I believe that as my God-given responsibility to protect just as much as a lost man would have the right to protect his. Since when, just because I’m a Christian, I don’t have to do that anymore. I don’t have to protect anymore. Yes, I do. As long as I’m in this body, I’ll have that right.

As long as I’m living in this world, I have that right. And it is my duty. And I thank God for every Christian that has volunteered to go into the military and to fight for their country To give them the freedom that they want to have and all I have But we have a bunch of panty-way sissies out there that don’t believe in that anymore bunch of pacifist anyway, I Think my convictions are slowly leaking out here But it greatly concerns me Because you see, the Bible tells us some things that’s going to happen, and I don’t like the direction that’s going.

But I have all we can do is pray, all we can do is pray. But take your Bible and look at this verse, looking verse 49. The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the evil fly is the nation whose tongue thou shall not understand. A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old nor show favor to the young. And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle and the fruit of thy land, thou shalt be destroyed.

And right now we have the substance of America been drained dry, been milk dried. It’s like a woman goes down there to milk the cow. And the government, it’s didn’t got five of those others and you only got one other. And they’re milking her for all she’s worth. And they’re milking our jobs and they’re milking everything that you’ve ever saved and they’re milking the value of your homes. And right now, every dollar they print is making the one you got in your pocket worth less.

So you’re joking. No, I’m not joking. They’re destroying our country. We’re going into socialism. That is not what this country was founded upon. We’re not a democracy. republic and we ought to be proud that we are a republic and it ain’t over yet we should love our country and love our freedom that we’re willing to stand and to fight for our freedoms but it says now listen if you don’t listen to me this is what’s gonna happen he says a nation of fierce countenance in verse 50 is gonna come and they’re gonna eat the fruit of the cattle in the fruit of a land.

Looking verse 52, and he shall be seized the on all thy gates until the high and the fence walls come down. We’re endowed trust us throughout thy land and he shall be seized the on all thy gates throughout all the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. And shall eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters. You’re talking about it gets so bad that the people would boil their own children and eat their own kids.

And when Babylon came, this is exactly what took place because they disobeyed God. You can’t live as a nation and get away with it and live any way you please. There’s a price to pay. Pay day someday and America is going to pay for the things that we have allowed to happen in this country. Sodomy is going to be a hate word one day and this preacher is going to wind up in jail one day because I’m still against abortion.

I call it murder. I’m still against the sodomite, though I love them. God can save them and they can have eternal life, but it’s a sin of which God is judges country. And that’s going to be a hate crime. And they’ve got legislation right now to put guys like me all across this country behind bars. And that’s not a joke either. We’re losing the right to say what we believe is the truth. Well, I’m not dead yet, and I’m going to fight it every bit of the way and gum it to death if I have to.

I love living. I love life. I love the Word of God. But I believe too many of God’s people have done gone to sleep because we’re not having so much today’s to face an enemy from without. We got the enemy on the inside, and little do you understand how close you lived to this enemy. The enemy is the person that probably lives next door. It could be the person sitting right beside you in Sunday school this morning, we’re in church service right now.

The person that bags your groceries or the person down at the bank. So how do they become my enemy? when they vote away your rights. When they elect people who will vote to give them something and take it from those who produce. They’re destroying our country. That’s an enemy on the inside. And America will be destroyed without the people ever firing a shot. I heard about a movie one day, I never saw it called White Man Can’t Jump. Anybody ever heard of that movie?

White Man Can’t Jump has something to do with basketball. and that the black guys can out-junk the white guys. The white guy can’t jump. Well, I was gonna title sermon one day called white men can’t jump. Has not do with racism, but it has to do with the water that’s boiling. And you take a frog and you throw that frog into that boiling water and you’ll jump right out of there. But if you put that frog into some cold water and then turn the heat up little by little, It’ll finally get to where it’ll cook that frog cause he won’t jump out.

We’ve been like putting a pressure cooker. And little by little, this country of ours is turning up the heat and we have lost the will to jump. We can’t jump. In other words, we can’t get out of this mess. How can we get out of the situation that we’re in? Nobody knows how. Washington is not our answer. It is part of our problem. But they’re the problem because the people are the problem who put them there. And I don’t care if it’s Republican or Democrat or foot washing aborigines.

I don’t care who they are. If we had men of character that knew right from wrong, who knew what the Constitution said and go by it, pretend for a moment, I’m in a bad neighborhood. So in this bad neighborhood, I got me a pit bull and I got him on a leash. Now I feel safer as I walk down the sidewalk. Why? Because Well that pit bull loves me, hates them. And they try to get me, my pit bull gonna get them.

But I gotta leash. When the founding of this country took place, we developed what we call a Congress. We had a judicial system, the executive branch, you know the House of Representatives and the Senators. And so we created this thing, our own little pit bull, so that it could protect us from the enemy out there. But we got him on a lease. This lease is called our Constitution. And the Constitution is the change by which we bind our pit bull.

So you can’t go no further than this chain allows you to go. So the Constitution is to change upon Congress and what you can and cannot do. And we listed it, saying this is what you have the freedom to do. When you get outside of that boundary, that becomes a null and voided law. People in America that they think, think, whatever they pass, we’re supposed to obey. No. We are to challenge every law that they pass. And if it’s not a constitutional law, it is the right.

It is the duty of every American citizen to violate that law, not obey that law, because it’s a wrong law. But the only way they can do us is to make sure that we have some kids come up that don’t know their constitution, don’t know their rights, don’t understand. And then whatever he feeds me, I will swallow. Nope. And the people don’t know how to think. They have been dumbed down. Thanks to the parents and then their children. Remember, I am an evangelist.

I not only want to win souls, I warn people. I think I see a little bit further down the road than what most people do. I see where we came from, where we’re going. I see where we are. It breaks my heart to cause I see what was being done. And sometimes the naivety of the people that don’t seem to understand the situation, but see that old pit bull then broke loose from the Constitution. And buddy, they’re ravaging everybody.

Now, that pit bull has unturned on its owner. Let me make sure you understand. See, we’re different from most countries. The Bible talks about every soul be subject unto the higher power. The higher power is God. Every soul is subject to God. No legislative branch of any government has the right to pass any law that conflicts with God’s law. And when the disciples who says obey every law and every ordinance of man, obey the law until that law violated God’s law.

And then they said, here we stand. We can do no other. And it meant going to jail. They went to jail. And Paul was beheaded because he took the right. I am a legal citizen, freeborn citizen of Rome. He said, I appeal to Caesar. He knew the law. He knew his rights. And that’s why he wound up in Rome. Went to court, lost his case, lost his head. But Paul was a great man, great patriot. We are living at the most exciting time of all of human history.

And one day, our children are going to wonder why didn’t we stop it from happening? Is America gone to sleep? Wake up, America. Christians wake up. This is our country. We dishonor our veterans when we won’t preserve the country of which they died for. We become a joke. I hope you understand what I’m saying. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Romans in chapter 13. Romans chapter 13 says in verse 1, let every soul be subject unto the higher power.

For there is no power but of God, the powers that be ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God, and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works but to the evil. Will thou not be afraid of the power? Do thou which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same. For he is the minister of God to thee for good. For if thou do that which is evil, be afraid.

For he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is the minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. This is the purpose, the legitimate purpose of government. And we pay taxes for our government. But remember in America we do not have a king. We do not have a Caesar. In America, you and I are the rulers and we are the kings.

Washington, those are our servants, not our rulers. They’re not there as a king and they’re not there There’s the rule America. We rule. We are free-born, free people. We’re not in slavery. And we created a government to fulfill their responsibility to protect this country, not to rule us. They have no authority. You can’t find it in the Constitution. I’ve read it. I’ve studied it. I’ve taught it. The things that they’re doing today is not in the Constitution, it is illegal.

They have no authority to do what they’re doing. And all this borrowing of money, putting an indebted on us, now we’re even borrowing money from China, and they will begin to be the ones in all these other countries from where we get our own. They are going to start wagging the dog. become the tale because we’re so deep in debt. Who cares about government being in debt? Most families are in debt, living beyond their means. These scriptures are very simple and very clear.

Whenever you stop and think about this, the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, How would we apply that? See, our founding fathers knew that you can never trust government. So they said, we have the right to bear arms. That’s not so that I can go bear hunting. In September, I’m supposed to go bear hunting. And it’s not so I can just protect myself whenever some guy tries to break in my house. That’s not the real reason of why that’s Second Amendment’s in there.

It’s in there because they feared government. And we want the right to protect ourselves against government. And therefore, Congress shall not touch our guns because as last resorts, we ought to use them. And I don’t like it when I see them starting to mess around with the Second Amendment or want to tax the ammo so high you can’t buy. What good is a gun without ammo? Does somebody have evil in their mind? They should fear the right wingers. They should fear those people who still believe in their constitutional rights.

They should fear those veterans that come in back who fight for this country. Because if they don’t tow the mark and stay within their boundaries of the Constitution, They ought to be afraid. They ought to be afraid of their rulers, like it says right here. Feel your rulers. You and I, we’re the rulers. Those are our servants. And we’ve let our servants become that pit bull that turns on its owner. And God forbid what’s going to happen. I don’t know about you, but I can see dark days ahead unless God intervenes or raise up some patriots in America.

And say, that’s right. far enough. We wait too long, see, we won’t be able to jump out of the water. I see them turning up the heat and it seemed like the foot’s on the accelerator. I love my freedom. I love to preach the truth of God’s Word. I was not born in fear and I’ll not live in fear. The only thing that people can do to me is take my life and I’ve already given that away. I’m a child of God.

I’m a child of the King and I’m not going to live like a peasant. I’m going to live without bound my knee. I don’t worship the state. I don’t worship the government. I worship the Lord Jesus Christ and I’m going to stand for that and stand until the day I die. Now, I don’t know how that sets with a lot of people, but it really doesn’t matter to me. I don’t even know what time it is. I’m not even sure what day it is.

I never even got to my message. I really don’t even know. I was just reminded, this is Veterans Day, you ought to say something about the Veterans. So I just decided to say something about the Veterans. Either we’re fighting for something or we’re not. Because I, as a Christian, do I have the right to defend my country? I had people say, well, when you’re Christian, you’re not supposed to do that anymore. Well, then that’s a different brand of Christianity I know nothing about.

If you disagree with everything else I said, so be it, but this is very important. This is heaven and hell here. This is you and me. This is sin. We all have sin on us. God says that He loves us. He hates our sin, but he loves us. And God says that if we pay for this sin, the wages in being dead, the eternal separation from God in a place called hell. Now God doesn’t want us to go to hell, he wants us to go to heaven.

To go to heaven we have to be perfect just as righteous as God. None of us are perfect, none of us are righteous. You see, because of sin we can’t get in. God is a good God, he’s a perfect God, righteous God. And he says that he loves us, but he says, you can’t earn eternal life. You can’t work your way to heaven. You say you don’t join a church to go to heaven. You don’t give money to go to heaven.

You can’t earn eternal life. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord. God in the flesh. He came into this world because he loves us. He hates our sin because it separates us from him. So the Bible says Jesus Christ because of his love for us, he took the sin, paid for it on the cross and came back from the dead. And he said that if we would believe that he did it for us, that he had put that paymatite count and we can know that we have eternal life, know that we’re going to heaven whenever we die.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever, anybody whosoever, believe it than him, should not perish but have everlasting life. I’m going to heaven all because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross for me. And after I trusted Christ as my Savior, yes, God gave me eternal life and I became his child. But I still had the responsibility to be faithful to my wife. And we’re both living in physical bodies. That didn’t change.

I still had the responsibility to feed and clothe and educate my children. That didn’t change. And if I have the right to do all of that, did I somehow surrender my right to protect them? Where did I, where do I read that in the Bible? I don’t have to protect them anymore. If you want to break into my house and kill my wife and children, may I help you? I want to do the Christian thing here. Like I wrote Quaker said to a man one day, it broke into his house, he says, sir, I mean the no harm.

But I’ll stand right where I’m about to shoot. Now, if you didn’t get dead, somebody I’ll have to explain it to you later. But if I offered you my wallet and you accept you to have a wallet. I’ve offered you this microphone, you’d have a microphone. Well, if Jesus Christ walks up here and offered you eternal life and you accepted, what would you have? Eternal life. So can you know you have eternal life? Can you know you’re going to heaven before you die?

Yeah. That’s what it’s all about. The best news in all the world. Christian, don’t be ashamed of being a Christian. Be proud of your Christian. But live like a Christian. Speak out against the things that you know is wrong. Stand where God stands on truth. Hate what God hates. This is what I call that a hate crime. Hate what God hates. If they got a problem with it, let them deal with it. See, they might put me in jail.

So be it. We need people in there for geoministries. Do not live in fear. Fear will make you a coward. Let’s pray, shall we? Every hit by on every eye closed. If you hear today and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, friend, I wish you would. I’m not going to have you forward, not going to embarrass you, but right where you’re sitting. So I don’t understand everything. I’m not even sure I agree with everything that you said. But friend, can you believe this?

You know that God loves you? Would you believe that his son died on that cross and paid for your sins? Would you believe that if you trusted him right now, he’d save you and give eternal life? Never cast you out, never lose you. Would you trust Jesus Christ right now as your only hope of going to heaven? If you’ve never done it, do it right now. I’m going to ask for raise your hand in just a moment. Raise in your hand and just to let me know that what I said made sense to you.

And you said, preach to that made sense to me and I’ll trust Christ as my Savior. And I’d like you to pray for me. We’ll just slip you in it very quickly. Anyone at all, just God bless you man. Anyone else? No one’s going to make you. Nobody’s going to force you. uthoricking you. Not going to ask you to come up and go forward or anything like that. Don’t want you to sign anything. Anyone else say, yes, I’ll trust Christ as my Savior this morning.

I’d like you to pray for me. Just slip it up very quickly for a rep back down. You’re that no crisis you’re Savior, you’re God’s child. I don’t know where you’re standing all this stuff, but I want you to love the Lord. I want you to love your family. I want you to love your country. Be thankful for the freedoms that we’ve enjoyed. And be thankful for the people that died to give us this country. They had their lives shortened, didn’t get to live because they sacrificed theirs.

so that we could live ours, so that we could have this enjoyment, this wonderful country. Stand for truth. Freedom is an opportunity to serve God with all your heart. Our Father, we thank you so much for the individuals that indicated by an uplift at hand, that they would accept the payment you made on the cross for them. By doing so, they become your child, and you’ll never cast them out, never lose them. We ask Father your blessings upon each person here, each family.

We’re thankful Father for this day, Memorial Day to honor those who have died. We also want to remember the one who died for us on the cross and whom we serve in Christ and we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bible line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Thanks for joining us on Bible Live, and now a closing thought from Pastor Arnold. friend one day it will happen the trumpet will sound we will be changed hot up to meet the Lord in the air so live today and every day believe in that the Lord is coming soon just keep looking up