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Every Word Matters
00:02:15
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| If we don't fight for America, who is? | |
| That's right. | |
| We've almost lost America. | |
| Right. | |
| And it's time for the church to stand up for unity and love, but that doesn't mean we give up our freedom of speech. | |
| It doesn't mean we give up our churches. | |
| This is what bothers me is because people think, well, if you're good Christians, you just lay down and die for the devil. | |
| You just give up your freedom of speech. | |
| What? | |
| Without the word, there's no hope. | |
| Faith cometh by hearing and what? | |
| Hearing by the word of God. | |
| By the word. | |
| But we have to fight. | |
| And I like what you said. | |
| You're passionate about this. | |
| Every believer, every Christian, every minister ought to be rejoicing right now because we have the freedom of speech, you know. | |
| And I've known pastors across the country that wanted to convey certain things to their congregations, but they were afraid that if you say something, it could affect your status of the church. | |
| But now, hey, we're going to cry loud and spare not and lift up our voice like a trumpet in Zion. | |
| Amen? | |
| We are passionate about this and we're thankful. | |
| Yes, we are. | |
| Here's what I think is happening. | |
| I think we, as Christians in the United States of America, this is such a new thing for us. | |
| What we have witnessed with the president signing this bill, this executive order, he signed, this order, for this to happen. | |
| It goes back to 1954, the whole Johnson Amendment thing. | |
| Well, I think we don't even know how to respond or react. | |
| People are feeling a little like, are we allowed to clap our hands? | |
| Are we allowed to say thank you? | |
| Everyone's kind of on edge, like, is this really happening? | |
| Because we have been so, we've been so trained in a different way. | |
| Induced by the enemy. | |
| It's like the children of Israel coming out of Egypt bodily, but mentally, they were still enslaved by the enemy. | |
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Culture's Grip on Church
00:00:56
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| That's what it is because we've been so conditioned. | |
| We've been so conditioned to act a certain way, be a certain way. | |
| Don't say this. | |
| Trouble if you say that in church. | |
| I think we have allowed the culture to tell the church how to live, what to think, how to act. | |
| And the culture has infiltrated the way the church is supposed to act. | |
| I come from a culture that in the inner city that you don't care about what people think. | |
| You just be you. | |
| Yes. | |
| When you live in Christ, you have the freedom to be you. | |
| So why allow the culture to dictate what the church should do and what should we preach about? | |
| Should we lay hands on people? | |
| Should we get involved with community service? | |
| You know, Joel, on his comment, he said, all they want the church to do is to feed the poor and shut up. | |
| That's what he said. | |