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Progressive Stifling of Religious Liberties
00:02:09
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| Could you tell I know you probably shouldn't, but what they said would happen if we hadn't had the new president, what would happen to us? | |
| What would happen to the church? | |
| What was going to happen to us next year? | |
| Well, that's it, now. | |
| That's right. | |
| Well, the challenge with the Supreme Court is that once the left has a pathway to get what they want, not by voting, not by popular decree or popular consent, but by litigation, every single opportunity to shut down the church would have made a pathway to the court. | |
| And you would have seen the progressive, almost like an anaconda. | |
| You would have seen the progressive stifling of religious liberties. | |
| And then what's worse is the way the game is set up is big media and big Hollywood and big universities, academia, entertainment, and media, are under the control of principalities right now. | |
| So they become the brainwashing tool that makes us look bad and everyone else look like the tolerant, open-minded citizens that are going to shut down the extremists. | |
| And then we would be more and more the extremists who would be in court and we'd be shutting our ministries down. | |
| We would be getting audited aggressively. | |
| And you would see us vilified by those spirits because we would be the bad guys. | |
| And this would have happened so quickly because the devil knows who actually his real enemies are, and they are the mobilized believers. | |
| George Barn has a great statistic. | |
| He says that he gives a list of like 10 top cultural issues that America is divided over and asked pastors, does the Bible address these issues? | |
| 92 percent said clearly the Bible addresses these issues from race to sex to this to that to economics. | |
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Amplifying the Voice of Reason
00:00:57
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| Asked again, do you address these issues or will you? | |
| 92 percent of pastors said no, we don't think it's necessarily appropriate or productive for us to be getting into those issues. | |
| So if 92 percent of the issues that America needs to hear about on college campuses and on T V and at the coffee shop and over here at Star Wars, if 92 percent are supposed to be subjects Christians are conversant on, but 92 percent of pulpits refuse to talk about it, you will end up with a morally illiterate, politically confused babble of a culture, which is what we've got right now. | |
| So the answer is not shutting down the voice of reason, but amplifying it. | |
| And I'll suggest to you that there's an anointing. | |
| Even some of you, I see you're older. | |
| You're like me. | |
| I turned 60 this year. | |
| So this movement is going to be upon the old and the young. | |