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Warriors of Faith
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| Very few churches are standing up for what we're going through right now in this election. | |
| I know one thing, General Boykin, you know, he's ordained under us, so I have to call him every week to be sure he's still a Christian because he has to spend so much time in Washington, D.C. | |
| I know, you know, this is a serious issue, but I do call him a lot, and Jerry is still a Christian. | |
| And he gives me the same answer I won't give you here, but I had to restrain one time. | |
| He said he was going to deck the next person who came up to him and said, well, God's in control. | |
| Oh, yeah, right. | |
| Because he is so frustrated with, of course he is, or he could be, but he's given us things to do. | |
| And most of the people that use that over and over use it in order to not do anything. | |
| Right. | |
| Not be engaged, not be, of course, God could be in control, but you know, he sent us the helper, not the doer. | |
| He's not going to do our part. | |
| He will help us. | |
| He wants us to be the salt. | |
| He wants us to be the light. | |
| He wants us to stand for his truth, for righteousness, for justice, for all of these things. | |
| He wants us to be engaged as we're called to be, and he will help us. | |
| But now there are times when the Lord, those couple of times, it's actually less than 1% of the time, does he say, okay, sit out this one. | |
| I'm going to do this. | |
| I'll take care of this. | |
| Jerry got trapped in that himself when the president of the United States attacked Jerry. | |
| And Jerry just said, well, I'm going to let the Lord fight this one for me because he's thinking only the Lord outranks the president. | |
| And his wife said, no, you're not. | |
| She got, if you know Ashley, little Ashley, she got in his face and no, you're not. | |
| You're going to fight this. | |
| That is not just. | |
| Everybody said, you've got to fight. | |
| And he took his stand, and of course he won. | |
| And yeah, I think we are warriors. | |
| You know, they say in the Army, they're soldiers and then they're warriors. | |
| Not all soldiers are warriors. | |
| Matter of fact, very few are. | |
| But now, a soldier can be great. | |
| A soldier can be a hero and do great things. | |
| But there's some that are born to fight. | |
| You know, it's their nature. | |
| They may hate it, but they were made for it. | |
| You know what I'm saying? | |
| It's just their nature. | |
| And that's what I was told when I inquired way back in 2015 on what our next president needed to be. | |
| He said, you need an alley fighter, someone who can fight in a lot of directions at once. | |
| Wow. | |
| And then he said, now, I only shared this with a few close friends because this can get out of hand, but he told me that the New England Patriots were going to win the Super Bowl that year. | |
| Now, this was early in the football season. | |
| He said, the Patriots are going to win, and it's going to be a sign to you that patriotism is going to win again. | |
| Woo! | |
| Yay! | |
| And I thought I was a false prophet until the last play of the game. | |
| You know, when they intercepted the pass, but they did win, and I've never forgotten that, but I've also never forgotten we need a fighter. | |
| But I think we need that in the church, too. | |
| We need the warriors to rise up. | |
| All of God's people. | |
| We're growing up into the king of kings. | |
| And over and over in scripture, the Lord is called a warrior. | |
| And we're growing up into his nature. | |
| And, you know, it's a warrior that will get engaged when they could stay out of it. | |
| A warrior runs to the sound of battle, not away from it. | |
| You know, it's their nature. | |
| And if we're growing up into his likeness, and look up all the times, it talks about him being a warrior and being called a warrior. | |
| Lord of hosts. | |
| Lord of armies, that's his title. | |