April 15, 2017 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide, as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Test Pool is your host, James Edwards.
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Let us talk of all these wondrous love and change.
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And these were the kinds of songs that I grew up singing.
What a special night.
To me, this is one of the most memorable broadcasts I've done in 10 years because we're kicking off Confederate History Month and celebrating Easter one hour to another, back to back.
And making tonight even more special is I've got a man I have known my whole life with me sitting right next to me here in the studio tonight.
He has been my pastor for virtually all my life.
He led me to Christ at a very young age.
I still remember that night vividly.
This is a man who has buried anyone in my family that I've ever loved.
All of my grandparents and uncle and then some.
He campaigned for me when I ran for state representative in 2002.
He married me.
You know, I would never have met my wife if it was not for this man.
And not only that, when I met my wife, well, he didn't marry me.
He married my wife, I should say, but I would have never met my wife if it had not been for this man.
And ironically, in terms of what we were talking about in the previous hour, the day I met my wife, I was driving a group of people to church camp, and they were having their youth camp revival at Nathan Bedford Forest Park right here in Tennessee.
How about that?
He's been at the hospital for the birth of both of my children, been on our show before a few times, including he co-hosted with me actually in the interview with Ray Stevens a couple of years ago.
Basically, any important happening in my life, this man has been there for me.
And he's my pastor.
How you doing, Pastor?
James, you make me feel so old.
I'm telling you.
I was sitting here thinking, James, you're talking about how long I've known you.
I can remember I used to do a children's sermon.
You remember that in church in our little church over on Summer Avenue?
And I would come down out of the pulpit and the children would all come and sit on the floor in the carpet down at the front of the church.
And I can remember you coming down the front of the church and sitting on the floor for that children's sermon.
Did you ever think on that day, did you ever think we'd interview Ray Stevens together?
No.
I did on the radio.
Well, James talks about Ray Stevens.
My hometown is Pascagoula.
Where one of the great miracles in all of Christianity took place, the Great Mississippi Squirrel Revival.
If you're a Ray Stevens fan, you know about the first self-righteous church in Pascagoula.
Well, tell us a little bit about your background in terms of you becoming obviously a pastor, your studies.
We know you were born in Pascagoula and you've had to suffer through me and my dad, my grandparents your whole life.
But tell us.
I grew up in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
It was a little town.
Wonderful, godly Christian parents.
My dad was a business owner.
He was a mechanic, had his own shop.
Mother was a stay-at-home mom.
I've heard people say, well, you know, Andy Griffin and Ozzy and Harrod, all those old TV shows, those are myths.
I want to tell you they're not because I grew up in a home like that.
I never heard my dad say a cuss word.
I never heard my mom say a cuss word.
When Sunday morning came, there was no, are we going to church or not?
We're going to church.
And we went every Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night.
I used to tell people, somebody one time said to me, so y'all were there when the doors opened?
I said, we opened the doors.
And I just had a wonderful upbringing.
Went to public school there and got a good education.
It was a different time back then in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Got a great education in public school, went to Mississippi College and Mobile College, both Baptist schools.
And then I went to Mid-America Seminary here in Memphis, which is a very solid, conservative, Bible-based Christian school here, Baptist school here in Memphis, and got a great theological education there.
And while I was there, I started pastoring a little church on Summer Avenue part-time.
It was about half a mile, James, from your home where you grew up.
If that.
And he's talking about, I know we have a worldwide audience, but Summer Avenue right here in Memphis, near Bartlett, Tennessee.
Yeah, and one day this sweet, sweet lady showed up in church.
And when I went to visit her, I met James's grandmother.
And she became a member.
It wasn't long before he's dead, and the whole family came.
I don't think Jesse had been born yet then.
That's my brother, for those of you at home.
I should have mentioned that, but Jimmy and Susan and Pooh.
Hey, now, I thought we had some rules here.
We don't give away my baby nickname.
James, they called James Pooh till he started school.
And they mean high school.
But they came and we grew to be great friends.
And I'm still dear friends.
I talk to James' dad several times a week by phone.
In fact, I need a little favor this week.
And the first person I always call and I need a favor is Jimmy, James' dad.
And we've just been a close friend.
We're there, dear, dear, good friends.
Well, you mentioned growing up and how that was such a special part of your upbringing.
I want to let the people know that if it were not for my upbringing, how lucky I was.
All of those Sundays, some of my best memories, looking back on it now, my only regret is that I wasn't there every single Sunday and I've had it to do over again.
You just think things will last forever and that everything is limitless, but everything has a number on it.
But I was very lucky to have had the family that I have.
And that's what Gene Andrews was talking about.
His ancestors and ancestors' ancestors going all the way back to some of the great Christian revivals in the Confederate Army when his ancestor came to know the Lord and through that all the way down the line his family had been raised in church.
And I was lucky to have that kind of an upbringing where my parents took me to church.
And if it wasn't for that, I don't think it would have ever been instilled in me to love my family and to get involved politically in the ways that I have.
I just think it's all overlapping.
And I'm lucky to know this man sitting next to me.
And I think we've given you at least a brief example of some of the ways that we have grown so close and come to love each other over the course of my entire lifetime.
And it's just been a very special relationship.
And it's great to have you back on the night before Easter, Pastor.
Always good.
Whenever James and I can't call each other on the phone for a brief conversation, if we call each other on the phone, he'll say to me, well, what do you think about what was on the news today?
Yeah.
And we'll end up in a 45-minute conversation about political things and that sort of stuff.
I'm not as involved as I used to be.
Pastor used to be every bit the animal that I still try to be.
And I enjoy talking and working with pastor on political endeavors.
Not that we always vote for the same people.
Most of the time.
But listen, I love this man very much.
And it's, listen, we're going to, you know how we know each other now.
But I wanted to paint that picture before we move forward.
I'm glad we had the opportunity to do that.
We're going to talk a little bit about politics after this and then get into the Easter men.
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Many a Sunday morning singing these songs.
Every song that we've selected for this third hour were songs that I sings with the pastor many, many, many times.
Love them.
Can still sing them word by word, and I'm a better man for it.
We are celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ here on Easter weekend on the political cesspool.
And I've got my very own pastor, man, that I love, as you know, and who has played such an integral role in my development and life.
But we talk politics too, a pastor and I do, and we certainly agree on a great number of issues.
And we were talking in between hours, between the second and third hour, about a topic that we frequently visited here on the political cesspool, and that is basically the surrender of a lot of churches to the false gods of political correctness.
It seems as though they'd rather sin against God and Christ than sin against cultural Marxism.
And we see these churches, Pastor, that not only allow homosexual unions, but would ordain practicing homosexuals to be clergy.
Your thoughts on that?
Well, you know, James, we look hard at the homosexual aspect of it.
I would have as much trouble with a church that had a pastor who was an open adulterer.
But to live in perpetual sin, is that you just, you know, made no bones about.
Right, sure.
That this is the way I'm going to live, but I want to continue to be your pastor.
When our church was growing and flourishing, and we had, I mean, folks came in and they taught Sunday school.
They had positions of responsibility and authority.
We never said to anybody, well, first of all, you have to reach a level of perfection before we're going to allow you to hold a position of authority.
But there's a standard in the Bible that's seen in 1 Corinthians 5, and I won't discuss in detail there, but there's someone involved in a sin, and Paul is writing to the church there, and he said, even the world, lost people, know this is wrong.
Lost people know that it's wrong for people to be unfaithful to their spouse.
Lost people know that it's wrong for people to be involved in a dishonest business.
You wouldn't have a pastor that you knew was cheating people in the course of his business.
And you wouldn't have a pastor, or as far as that goes, a Sunday school teacher or anybody else in a position of responsibility that blatantly violates a clear commandment of scripture and says, I'm going to continue to do this, but I want to tell other people how to live for God and how to be holy.
It's just crazy.
And we've seen this in Indiana this week, where people who apparently undoubtedly have never been to church before, these practicing homosexuals, will go and say, Jesus had two daddies talking about God the Father and Joseph as if they were involved in some sort of a homosexual tryst, I guess.
Who knows what they mean?
They don't know what they mean.
Jesus had two dads and he turned out all right.
God is love.
God's basically a cosmic butler that is there to sanction whatever you do and make you feel good about yourself.
Well, one of my primary things I say to people all the time when they start telling me how, you know, what they believe about God, I say to them, where did you get your information about God?
Where did you decide that God approves or disapproves of this?
And we've come to an age where people have a homemade God.
I have people say to me all the time, well, you say your God disapproves of homosexuality, and they'll make this statement, James.
They'll say, but my God wouldn't do that.
If you know anything about the Bible, you read about all these Old Testament folks that had all these false gods.
They made them out of wood and stone and whatever else.
We don't make them out of wood and stone.
We make them out of ideas.
And we make up a God that suits what we want to believe.
Not that we pattern ourselves after God, but we pattern God after us.
And it would be one thing if it was just the people on the street that have never been to church, but you do have people with some sort of ordination making these plain claims as well in some cases.
Well, in many cases, James, I have come to the conclusion that most buildings with a cross hanging on the outside of them or a steeple on top of them are not biblical churches.
And when I say they're not biblical churches, what I mean is they don't guide themselves according to the tenets of Scripture, to what the plain teachings of the Bible are.
And if you want to form a religion that is not a Bible-based religion, isn't it great?
We live in a country that will let you do that and won't penalize you for it.
And you can worship your made-up God if you want to.
But don't claim that you're a Bible church.
A Christian church.
When you say, well, I don't like that part of Scripture.
Let me chunk that.
People say, well, you ought to be able to choose.
This is not a smorgasbord.
We're talking about God sets the laws.
We understand the simple principle about our civil laws.
A guy comes in and the judge says to him, you've been accused of holding up this place with a gun.
And what do you have to say for yourself?
And the guy looks up and says, I don't think there's anything wrong with holding up a store with a gun.
Is the judge going to say, well, as long as you don't think it's wrong, that's fine.
But we come back to God and say, well, God says thou shalt not.
And we look him in the eye and say, well, I don't think that's wrong.
I don't care what you say.
And people say, well, I guess if you don't think it's wrong, it's okay for you.
That's insane.
You don't get to choose what is right and wrong any more than you get to choose which laws are going to be enforced.
And as we were talking about before, you know, the reason America and the West and Europe throughout the ages had received so many blessings, in my opinion, and people are free to disagree with me, is because it was synonymous with Christianity.
Europe was Christendom, and by extension, America became a Christian nation for a long time.
And then a few decades ago, we began a radical turn away from the faith of our fathers, and the results have been predictable.
Now, that's not entirely the reason America has gone to pot, but it certainly plays a significant role.
And, you know, we were talking about that, the history of Christianity.
I know a lot of people who agree with us politically, but aren't willing to accept our faith because it has become in many ways a very weak religion that will allow this tide of Filth to just wash over it and wash it away.
And so we see that the people who oppose Christianity getting out in the streets and taking a stand, albeit a very wrong and evil stand, in my opinion, but you don't see the fighting spirit in Christians anymore.
And I'm not talking about fighting in terms of going out and being rude, but I'm talking about standing up without apology, defending the faith as Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski did when they staved off their utter destruction.
Well, the thing is this, James: nothing more devalues currency, money, than counterfeit currency.
Nothing more devalues the Christian faith than counterfeit Christian faith.
And I don't care what kind of robe you put on it.
I don't care what kind of stole the guy wears around his neck, if he wears his collar backwards.
None of that matters.
I don't care what institution he's been to, how many letters he has after his name, if he's pastor, reverend, doctor, whatever.
If he doesn't adhere to what the scripture teaches, his faith is counterfeit.
And the counterfeit always devalues the real.
Well, I mean, obviously, you're stating a fact.
It's sad that this conversation has even needed to be had because it should just be common sense.
And we should know that the media and people practicing apostasy don't speak for the genuine article.
It's not that we hate these people.
We want them to all receive salvation and learn the errors of their ways.
But unfortunately, they are willing to stand up and defend their beliefs.
And I remember you told me one time you could see the day if current trends persist where Christianity is forced to go underground.
I mean, legitimate Christianity is forced to go underground in this country.
Let's pray that's not the case, but prepare for any such situation should it arise.
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How many times have you sung this one, Pastor?
Oh, I can't remember.
We love that song, and we must have sung it at least once a month.
At least.
I was going to say once a week.
But I want to ask you, we have a message, and the reason I brought you in was something far more serious than even any of these political issues that are very serious that we've been talking about in passing here.
But I got one question from the audience.
One of our listeners in Kentucky wants me to ask you, in follow-up to what we mentioned a moment ago, you saying that if current trends persist, you know, there used to be a song, Onward Christian Soldiers.
There's nothing wrong with the Christian fighting a righteous battle in terms of standing up for the faith and not apologizing and not retreating.
And that's what I think we need more of.
But talking about the potential of Christianity going underground, you look at the America in 1950 and the America of 2015.
You do another 50 years in that direction, and Christianity, real Christianity will be underground.
Your thoughts on the potential, a listener asks, of churches losing their tax-exempt status in the near future over refusing to perform homosexual marriages?
I think that's a very real possibility.
But let me tell you very frankly, James, I'm not concerned about the church losing its tax-exempt status.
That's a wonderful privilege we've had for many, many years now.
But it is by no means a right that the church has.
If the government affords us that because it feels like the people feel like the work that the church does would be impeded, the separation of church and state, all of those things that come into play there.
But if the church loses its tax exempt status and people begin to say, oh, whoa, the church is in trouble, you're confused.
The tax exempt status will not sap the strength of the church.
So, oh, but what about the finances?
Where do you think our money comes from?
Do you think it comes from the government?
Some people will say, oh, it comes from the folks in the pew.
It may come through the people in the pew, but everything the church gets comes from God.
God may bring money from heaven.
I have never seen a time when we did God's work God's way that there wasn't God's finances.
It's always worked that way.
Maybe the churches should willingly give it up now so they could play a bigger part in this culture war that they are fighting a quickly retreating battle on.
Again, we could talk about this for the rest of the hour and it make for reviewing radio.
In fact, I hope that we can have you on much more often.
I am embarrassed that we haven't taken advantage of this more because it's so refreshing just to hear from a normal Christian and one that understands these things.
But there is something, especially here on the eve of Christ's resurrection, that's far more important than I know.
It was, of course, the primary reason that I wanted to have you on the program.
Let's talk about the biblical story of Easter and what it means and the promise that it holds for everyone.
Well, James, the story of Easter is the story of God's relationship with man.
One of the things that we often forget is that God is the creator God.
Long before the creation of the world, God deemed in his infinite wisdom to create us, and he created us in his image.
A lot of questions about what it means in his image.
I don't think it means two hands and two feet.
I think it means with a spirit like his.
In fact, in the creation story, we read that as he created all the plants and animals and everything else, when he created man, he took, set aside a whole day to do that.
And when he had created him out of the dust of the earth, it says he breathed into him the breath of life.
Now, that word breath is the same word for spirit.
And the fact that God's breath came into the breath of man tells us that we have a spirit like God's.
We were created with a spirit like God's.
Of course, Adam sinned, Eve sinned, they fell, were kicked out of the garden, and the process of redemption began.
You know, the Easter story doesn't start on Good Friday.
The Easter story really begins at Christmas time.
At Christmas, we celebrate the incarnation of Jesus Christ.
God becomes man.
I don't know how much thought your listeners have given to the fact that the moment before God became man, he was in his celestial heaven, surrounded by angels that did his bidding.
They sang his glory day and night, were constantly singing his praises at his disposable.
And then in a dirty cow stall, God stepped from heaven through the virgin's womb into the ghetto of earth.
And there, not in a palace, but in a place where there were animals in the stalls, possibly chickens in the rafters.
We often hear how he made his bed in a manger.
My parents grew up on a farm, and I visited the farm regularly as a child, and I never will forget going out to the barn to feed the cattle.
And I went with a cousin, and he said to me, we have to put the feed in the manger.
The only thing I ever thought of a manger was where you put the baby.
But we put the feed in that wooden feed trough that was gnarled around the edges where the cattle had gnawed on it.
It was black with a slobber of all the cattle that had eaten out of that trough over the years.
And that's where the infant baby laid.
And he came on a mission.
God became a man, had a body like ours, lived in this terrible, terrible place as opposed to heaven.
And he was a man on a mission.
And his mission was to rescue us from certain ruin.
What we tend to forget is that we are not good people.
Jesus said there is none, there is no one that is good.
Paul wrote to the Romans, there is none righteous, not one.
We tend to say, well, I'm a pretty good guy.
I'm not as bad as somebody else.
You know, I'm not the best person in the world, but I'm not the worst person either.
I heard a man one time say, that's like going on down on death row and talking to those cold-blooded murderers.
And one of them looks you in the eye and said, I'm not as bad a murderer as he is.
I only killed six people.
He killed 12.
We're all sinners.
And the Bible is very, very clear.
The wages of sin is death.
If we get what we deserve, every once in a while I hear somebody say, I just want to get what I deserve.
I don't want what I deserve.
If I get what I deserve, James, I'll spend eternity in hell separated from God.
That's what I got coming.
You say, oh, but you're not that bad a guy.
Let me tell you what I am.
I'm a liar.
I've told many lies.
I'm an immoral person, done many things that I hope nobody finds out about.
I used to say that from the pulpit, and I'd see people look at me with their eyes wide open.
And I would say, if we could all look in your mind and your heart, you'd hide your eyes what you'd do.
If the things that we were done is what we were judged for, we'd be in big trouble.
But Jesus said, you'll be judged for what you thought.
When's the last time you just would like to wrung somebody's neck?
Well, Jesus said you're guilty of that.
If you wanted to do it, you just didn't do it because you didn't have the opportunity to, you're guilty.
We deserve.
Go to hell.
And Jesus came on a rescue mission.
When he came, he was rejected by everyone.
You say, oh, but the 12 didn't reject him.
Yeah, they did.
They walked away from him on the day of his crucifixion.
But his mother, no, one time his mother came and told his friends, come get him.
He's mad.
He's lost his mind.
Come get him.
The rich, the poor, the religious, all rejected him, and we're in that category of having rejected him in our lives.
We're going to take a break with that and come back.
Man, I wish this was more than a three-hour show tonight.
One more segment tonight, and it's going to be all about what Easter is and why it's important to everyone listening this evening.
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Rejoice, rejoice, O creation!
Lift up your voice and see, eternal hallelujah.
I love you.
Some of us know it or not, but Easter's tomorrow.
And I'm just really excited about this show.
This was a very meaningful show to me, well in advance of us executing it this evening.
You know, there's a lot of things that motivate us to take action on this radio program and the issues that drive us to activism.
And we sincerely believe in all of them.
And everything that we advance on this program, we believe in 110%.
But if you go to our statement of principles, the very first thing you'll read in spot number one, and there's no accident that it is placed there, is that this is a Christian program.
And I put up a little article yesterday, Getting Ready for Easter, is the title.
I'm not going to read it all because I want Pastor to have the lion's share of what time remains in this final segment.
But, you know, there's a lot out there that can discourage us and a lot of it happening in our own churches.
But just remember that he promised that we would do even greater things than he because he would be working through us.
And take the time to ponder that promise as we go into the celebration of Easter tomorrow.
But that promise will only be fulfilled if we work for it.
We have to put forth a little effort.
Pastor.
James, I've enjoyed sharing these things.
I know most of your listeners know this stuff by heart, but it's good to remind our hearts again.
Easter is a love story.
For God so loved the world.
Those of us who love someone, our children, our spouse, our parents, we know what it is to love someone.
I recently heard that my nephew had been hit by a car.
And the first thing I thought, not knowing what the extent it was, by the way, it was very minor.
He wasn't hurt badly.
But when I first heard about it, the first thing I was wanting to know, what do I need to do?
I need to go to my brother, whose son it was that was hurt.
I need to, does he need money?
Does he need somebody to take care of it?
What does he need for me to do?
God looks at us and he sees that we were lost.
We chose to rebel against him and we chose a path of death.
And God loves us and he sent his son to save us.
Calvary and the cross was not a blunder.
It was not a mistake.
It was God's plan from the beginning.
In Isaiah, Old Testament, the scripture says that he was crucified for us.
He was a lamb without spot that was slain for us.
Easter, excuse me, the cross was the plan all along.
Jesus' life was not ripped from him.
He gave it up.
Jesus said, no man takes my life from me.
I lay it down freely.
When Peter took a sword and tried to defend him, Jesus said, Peter, put your sword up.
Don't you realize that my heavenly Father could call 12 legions of angels?
Now, Roman legion was something fierce.
An angelic legion, much, much more.
Jesus said, Peter, I don't need you to rescue me.
I've been on the way to the cross since I left heaven to come to earth.
And he went to the cross willingly, voluntarily.
And he went there to do one thing, and that was to pay my sin debt, to pay your sin debt.
If you've ever looked at the seven sayings of Jesus on the cross, one of them is recorded in Hebrew, and it says, Tel Telesti, which is the word that means paid in full.
That's the writing that would have been written on a document that like we would stamp paid on a receipt that we had or on a bill that we had.
They would write across it, Tel Telesta, paid in full.
And what Jesus said on the cross, when he said, Tell Telesti, what he said is the sin debt is paid in full.
Now, guys, I don't know if you ever thought about this.
I'm getting a little older.
I'm 67 years old, and I'm getting closer to death every day.
And I'll be real honest with you.
I believe I'm going to heaven.
I know I'm going to heaven when I die, but I'm not in a big hurry to die.
It scares me a little bit to think about dying.
But I want to tell you what scares me a thousand times more.
And that is to think that if I were not saved, I would be on my way to hell in a few years.
And any of us who are not born-again believers are on your way to hell.
And you say, isn't that awful narrow-minded?
And my answer to that is, yes, it is.
Jesus was not a very open-minded person.
He said there's one way, and here it is.
Now, you can choose not to go that way and take your chances.
Or you can go that way.
He was crucified and was laid in the grave.
I just want to interrupt you very quickly, Pastor, because what you're talking about led me to one of the great quotes I remember from church, and that is, Christ didn't come to give us fire insurance.
He came to give us life insurance.
That's good.
That's exactly right.
And he came to save us from our sin.
The great thing about Holy Week is not the day of crucifixion, but is a day of resurrection.
On Good Friday, everybody wept.
On Easter Sunday morning, everybody rejoiced.
Jesus rose from the grave.
I read a little devotion from Adrian Rogers this week, and he said the resurrection is a fact, and there's no, I kind of believe in it, and I kind of don't.
Either you believe in the resurrection or you don't believe in the resurrection.
It is a great divider of all of history.
If you don't believe Jesus rose from the dead, you have no hope of rising from the dead.
If God didn't raise his own son from the dead, what makes you think you're going to rise from the dead?
My father used to have a saying when something died and he wanted to emphasize he was really dead.
He said, his graveyard dead.
Well, the day is going to come when we're all going to enter that grave.
And except for the fact that Jesus rose from the grave, we would be doomed to be there for all eternity, not just in a cold grave, but we would be doomed to be in hell for all eternity.
But Jesus rose from the grave.
But that's not where the story ends.
40 days later, he ascended into heaven.
I don't know if you ever thought about this, but the scripture says that Jesus will reign in heaven.
You know what that means?
A man with flesh and blood like yours and mine sits on the throne of heaven.
And why?
Because one day he's going to come back and bring all those that know him to be in heaven with him.
The Bible talks about him having with him 10,000s of his saints.
And by the way, the word saint just means somebody is saved.
It doesn't mean somebody is real special and saved.
If you're born again, you're a saint.
And the Bible says that all of those who are his will be with him for all eternity.
I talked to a lady not too long ago and she said, you know, David, I just wish that I didn't always have some kind of a financial problem, some kind of a health issue, some kind of relationship issue.
I just wish I didn't have to deal with all that stuff.
And I said, you're ahead of schedule.
And she looked at me and said, what do you mean?
I said, what you're talking about is heaven.
Heaven is where we'll be, and there'll be no more tears, no more sorrow, no more pain.
And all of this is possible because of what we will celebrate tomorrow morning.
He is risen from the dead.
And Corinthians, Paul said, oh, death, where's your sting?
Oh, grave, where's your victory?
Somebody asked me one time, where would you like to be when the second coming has in the, and I've said many times, I'd like to be in the cemetery.
I'd like to be there when all those folks come out of the grave.
Wouldn't that be great?
And the day is coming because of what we celebrate tomorrow.
And Pastor, should there be anyone listening tonight, and we only have seconds remaining, and I hope I'm not being pretentious in this, and I sure don't want to rush it.
But if somebody out there would like to know how to accept Christ.
The scripture very simply says this.
The Bible says that if you're willing to confess your sin and ask Jesus to be your Lord and Savior, that he will forgive your sin and that he will save your soul.
If you want to be saved, I encourage you that you do this, that you pray that prayer.
Find a Bible-believing church and tell the pastor there what's happened to you.
Thanks for joining us.
Thank you, Pastor, for being with us.
Happy Easter, everybody.
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We'll be back to the regular Standard Fair with Keith and Eddie as well as yours truly.