‘We have to make America godly again’: Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer
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Our founding fathers understood something.
Our form of government only works if you have, according to their words, a just and moral people.
So you have to have a just and moral people for this form of government to work.
And so, you know, my phrase when I was really out on the campaign trail was if we want to make America great again, we have to make America godly again.
People that are pursuing the relationship with God, people that know that there is a standard that God Himself has put out for how humans are to behave.
There's a natural law that most people recognize.
And so to me, you know, that's um obviously biased in this, uh that's the answer I see as people coming back to knowing God and living for God will produce a change in the culture.
I'm a firm believer.
All of us are capable of much greater than what we believe we can achieve, but all of us are also capable of much worse than what we think we would ever do.
And so we gotta guard our hearts, guard our minds.
That's why I bring up the social media thing consistently, is because if you're feeding yourself this rage, this anger, this hatred, you're going to become rageful.
You're gonna become hateful, and you're gonna become very angry.
And sometimes people act on those things, and we see the devastation uh because of that.
And so we've gotta be just over the top on guard of what we see and what we hear and what our hearts begin to think.
I find myself quoting Sultze Heetsen often lately, especially this line that the line between good and evil cuts through every human heart.
You're exactly uh exactly what you were speaking to here.
I think it's of profound import what what you just said, actually.
Well, uh, you know, they say it in physical training, you are what you eat, and you are what you consume in your mind.
Uh you know, and your mind is so important to guard because there is an enemy out there that wants to corrupt your mind to do things that you should never ever do.