Toxic Christians – 4

Subject:  The Christian Atheist

by Rick Welborne

Isaiah 29:13-16 (NIV)
¹³  The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.
¹⁴  Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
¹⁵  Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?"
¹⁶  You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can the pot say of the potter, "He knows nothing"? 

--Last week we talked about Secret Agent Christians and truly discovered that it cannot be that way…Jesus said if you confess Me before men, then I will confess you before My Father in Heaven. 

--We do not need covert operations from those of us who claim Christ…why wouldn’t we want to share the Greatest News ever?

--We should be excited and honored to wear our LIFE shirts so we can have the opportunity to share Jesus wherever we go!

--Today we will continue our series on Toxic Christians and talk about the Christian atheist…obviously this is an oxymoron…or some kind of moron. 

--Please do not get all PC on me and write an article in the paper about my insensitivity by using the word ‘moron’.  What is wrong with our world?

--We have Isis killing Christians and Americans, we have abortionist killing unborn babies (about 3000 a day), we have Supreme Court justices redefining marriage, we have our veterans not being taken care of…

--We have thousands of people coming into our country without any possible way of vetting them, we have drugs and alcohol destroying our people and we are worried about being called a name…grow up!

Father Jonathan Morris – Vote your moral values and conscience, not your feelings!

--Meanwhile back at my sermon…Christian Atheist.

Christian atheist – Someone who claims to be a Christian but lives like God does not exist.

--From our text let’s look at Hypocrisy – sin – Lordship.

1. The hypocrisy of the Christian Atheist

Isaiah 29:13 (NIV)
¹³  The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men. 

--Why or what would make us live hypocritical lives?  Why would we draw near to God with our mouths and our hearts not be close to Him?

--We become Christian atheist because we do not realize how big our God is…we almost feel that we just have to fake it to make it…how sad.

Mark Batterson:  Most people believe God is real, but few people actually live like it.  The result is a widening gap between their theology and their reality.  They allow their circumstances to get between them and God instead of letting God get between them and their circumstances.  

--We say how great God is, we sing how great God is, some of us even teach how great God is but where is the reality of Who He is and what He can do. 

--Before we condemn those in Isaiah we may need to take a good look at ourselves and see if we are drawing near during a worship service but our hearts are out there somewhere.

--Hypocrisy happens when we forget that our calling is way beyond us.  The best way to discover your dream or calling is to help someone else find theirs.

--Your greatest legacy isn’t finding your dream…it’s the dream you inspire in others.  You see…

LEGACY is Leading Every Generation Adults Children Youth

--The cure for hypocrisy is to draw near to God with a sincere heart and worship Him…the fruit of your lips giving thanks to His Name.

Hebrews 10:19-24 (NLT)
¹⁹  And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.
²⁰  By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place.
²¹  And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house,
²²  let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.
²³  Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.
²⁴  Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 

--The cure for hypocrisy is to realize our worship to God, our service for God, our sincerity before God is not all about us…it is how we motivate others to acts of love and good works.

2. The sin of the Christian atheist.

Isaiah 29:13-15 (NIV)
¹³  The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.
¹⁴  Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
¹⁵  Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?" 

--Why is it we think we can hide anything from God?  Why we think that what we do in the dark or in secret will not be exposed someday is ludicrous.

Luke 8:17 (NKJV)
¹⁷  For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.

--Isaiah says:  Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?" 

--Obviously, it would be easy to talk about all the mess that Christians participate in: lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, and the pride of life but today I want to zero on one thing…let me explain.

--All of us have heard of the Wright brothers…Orville and Wilbur…parents must have been anger to name them what they did. At age 25 Orville contracted typhoid fever and was in the bed for several months. 

--Wilbur took up an interest in human flight and would read to Orville about flight…it appeared the two were about to have a collision with their destiny.

--On May 30, 1899, Wilbur wrote a letter to the Smithsonian Institute informing them of their systematic study of flight. He asked for everything written on the subject which was not much.

--But one book “Empire of the Air” written by French farmer, poet, and student of flight Lois Pierre Mouillard.

He exhorted the world:

Mouillard: The world needs to repent of its unbelief in the possibility of human flight. 

--The world needs to repent of its unbelief in the possibility of human flight. How awesome is that statement?

I like that statement a lot.  It convicts me and challenges me at the same time.

--What impossibility in your life do you need to repent of?  You see, it is not just your sin you need to repent of, it is your small dreams.

--The size of your dream may be the most accurate measure of the size of your God.  Is He bigger than your biggest problem, your worst failure, your greatest mistake? We quote this verse but do we believe it?

Ephesians 3:14-21 (NKJV)
¹⁴  For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
¹⁵  from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
¹⁶  that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
¹⁷  that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
¹⁸  may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height--
¹⁹  to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
²⁰  Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
²¹  to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

--A God sized dream will always scare you, it will be beyond your ability, beyond your resources.  Unless God does it, it can’t be done.  But that is exactly how God gets the glory.  

--This is a call to repentance…repent of your small dreams and repent of how small you have made God out to be.  To an infinite God all finites are the same.  There is no big or small, easy or difficult, possible or impossible.

--Once Jesus was raised from the dead and walked out of the tomb on that third day, the word impossible was erased from our dictionary.  With Him nothing is impossible!

--The Wright brothers had no real funding, did not know people in high places (no pun intended), failed time and time again, but decided to never give up!

--But on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, N.C. they defied gravity for twelve seconds and went airborne.  You see, the impossible is only temporary.  Don’t give up on your dream, your prayer, your prodigal, or your impossible.

--Think about it, 115 years ago flight was science fiction and today millions are flying all over the globe at 500 miles an hour…we have been to the moon…we have a space station…we are planning on going to mars.

--Why? Two men sat in a sickbed reading about flight and their dream became a reality…what is your dream?

3. The Lordship of the Christian atheist.

Isaiah 29:16 (NIV)
¹⁶  You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can the pot say of the potter, "He knows nothing"? 

--Lordship is all about Who is in charge of your life, your dreams, your destiny…is it you or is it the Potter… Jesus Christ Himself.

--We may talk about this later but it appears to me that we have created a god in our own image…he is not who he says he is (that’s us), he cannot do what he says (that’s us), and he is not faithful (that’s us).

--Sadly, we have (or at least we think) we have become the potters of our own lives and destiny…question for you…how is that working out…not so good I am sure.

Batterson:  You are one idea, one risk, one decision away from a totally different life. Of course, it’ll probably be the toughest decision you ever make, the scariest risk you ever take.  But if your dream doesn’t scare you, it’s too small.

--The greatest decision you will ever make is to submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ…this not just for the lost but for all of us.

--The cure for living like God does not exist is to give Him all of you for the rest of your life…make Him Lord!

 

Prayer for America and the Elections

Subject:  Justice or Supreme Court Justices

by Rick Welborne

2 Chronicles 7:12-16 (NKJV)
¹²  Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
¹³  When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,
¹⁴  if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
¹⁵  Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.
¹⁶  For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

1. We are not having this time of prayer so that we can tell you who to vote for…that is your choice.

2. We are trying to convince you to vote and to let your voice be heard thru the ballot box.

3. We want you to vote and to vote for the candidates and platforms who are the closest to biblical values.

4. I hope we have the assurance that God hears our prayer and that He will answer when we pray.

5. God’s eyes and ears are open to the prayer being made here tonight.

The Choosing of Supreme Court Justices

1. We must ask ourselves as we consider who to vote for, who will choose the right people to sit on the Supreme Court?

--Let me say, first of all, that neither our forefathers nor the constitution ever intended for nine people deciding what the laws of the land should be…they were to interpret and protect the Constitution.

--We, the people were supposed to be the ones who decide what will and will not be the laws of our land but we have been stripped of being a republic.

Republic - a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

--Of course, the institution has become extremely political and this court is re-defining marriage and upholding the right for people to kill unborn babies.

--The next president will choose justices that will either uphold biblical values or will take us even further away from those values.  One candidate has put out the names of the people he would choose…constitutionalist. 

--The other candidate will choose those who will continue to push an anti-biblical agenda.

2. What does God’s Word say about justice and choosing the right people to sit in these places of leadership?

Deuteronomy 16:18-19 (NKJV)
¹⁸  "You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
¹⁹  You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.

Isaiah 59:1-9 (NKJV)
¹  Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.
²  But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.
³  For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity.
⁴  No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
⁵  They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.
⁶  Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands.
⁷  Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
⁸  The way of peace they have not known, And there is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.
⁹  Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness! 

--This is where the United States is at this moment and this is why we must cry out for God to heal our land.

Isaiah 59:14-16 (NKJV)
¹⁴  Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot enter.
¹⁵  So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him That there was no justice.
¹⁶  He saw that there was no man, And wondered that there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it sustained Him. 

3.  What we must pray for tonight.

Pray that God will place His hand of blessing on the person He has raised up at such a time as this.

Pray that the person who will appoint Supreme Court Justices who will protect the unborn, protect marriage, protect Israel, protect our religious freedom, and our right to bear arms will be elected.

Pray that scales will fall off of people’s eyes so they can see who is truly for justice in our nation.

Pray God will forgive our nation for all the lies, corruption, and injustices done every day.

Pray for revival across our land that will flow from the church house to the White House!

Toxic Christians - 3

Subject: Secret Agent Christian 

by Rick Welborne

Matthew 10:32-33 (NKJV)
³²  "Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
³³  But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 10:32-33 (NIV)
³²  "Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.
³³  But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.

Revelation 3:5 (NKJV)
⁵  He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

--Today we continue our series on the Toxic Christian and we will be talking about secret agent Christians or Christian who are in covert operations for the Kingdom of God.

--Covert means secret, underground, concealed, or hidden.

--I wonder how many of our co-workers, neighbors, classmates, or family members do not even know that we are Christians and that we attend Life Church!

--One of the greatest misunderstood concepts of witnessing or sharing the gospel is derived from this quote:  Witness to everyone you meet and use words only when necessary. 

--I completely understand that we are to so let our light shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father Who is in heaven.

--We should work hard for whomever we are working, we should be honest, we should be people of integrity, and we should resist being just like the world in everything we do.

Pastor Rick:  We don’t smoke!  We don’t chew!  We don’t go with girls who do!  We ain’t got no girlfriends!

--The Gospel will never be propagated simply because we keep our mouths shut and we do not participate in the things everyone else is doing!  There needs to be more!

1. We must fulfill the Great Commission.

--Please understand about the Great Commission…that those words are not found in your Bibles…what we are speaking about is what Jesus said to every believer at the end of two gospels.

Mark 16:15-18 (NKJV)
¹⁵  And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
¹⁶  He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
¹⁷  And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;
¹⁸  they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

Matthew 28:18-20 (NKJV)
¹⁸  And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
¹⁹  Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
²⁰  teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

A. The Great Commission is why we do Missions and Missions Trips. We support 153 missionaries here in the US and abroad. We encourage everyone to be faithful in tithing (10%) and Missions.  The Duvalls.

--Out of more than 12,000 A/G churches we are in the top 100…why?  Jesus said do it!

B. The Great Commission is why we do the House of Hope…we want to minister Jesus to those in our own communities who need extra food.  Reach their heart by feeding their bellies.  Everett Bass.

C. The Great Commission is why we receive money for Joseph Storehouse…our benevolence ministry.  When we show we care in their time of need…they respond to the Gospel.  Joy is our official basket holder!

D. The Great Commission is why we do the Hallowed King outreach with other churches every year.  People come, they get treats, and they get an opportunity to receive Christ.  Pastor Mark leads our church in this.

--We need you to man a game, park a car, cook a hot dog, work in the kitchen…why?  So hundreds of people can come and have a chance to receive Jesus.  Sign up today in the foyer!!

E. The Great Commission is why we have a bus ministry.  We go into the communities (mostly lower income) to pick up kids who would not be in church without us. Can you drive?  Jesus is calling!

Video – The Broken

--There are so many other ministries in our church that help us to fulfill the Great Commission…jump in!

2. We must confess Christ with our mouths. 

--Number one answer:

A. Jesus said we must confess Him before them!

Matthew 10:32 (NKJV)
³²  "Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 

B. Jesus said there are consequences if we do not confess Him before them.

Matthew 10:33 (NIV)
³³  But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.

--I love people who are always trying to bail Christians out when it comes to our biblical responsibilities before God…I’m saved, so it does not matter what I do or do not do!  Really?

--Who is Jesus talking to here…obviously it is believers…those who Christ owns as His…when these believers will not confess Christ before men (they disown Him)…He says He will disown them before His Father!

C. The Word says that sinners must confess with their mouths the Lord Jesus before they can be saved.

Romans 10:1& 9-10 (NLT)
¹  Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved.
⁹  If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
¹⁰  For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. 

--Wow!  Confessing Christ is so important for a sinner to be saved.

D. If confessing Christ is so important for sinners to be saved…how important is it for Christians to confess Christ to the lost?

Romans 10:13-15 (NLT)
¹³  For “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.”
¹⁴  But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?
¹⁵  And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!” 

--People cannot believe in Jesus unless someone tells them about Him…how can they believe in Jesus if they have never heard about Him?

--And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?  I purposely did not use the translation that says they preach to them because that freaks people out.  We simply tell them about Jesus!

--And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent?  Yes, we are sending missionaries all over the world but we are sending you also.

--All of you can touch people no one else can…I am sending you!  Go get them!  Everyone win one family!  I don’t know how to share Jesus with people!

Video – Touching people where you are.

3. The Church and the Gospel should never be the best kept secret in a community. 

--Maybe I am a little bit bias when it comes to Life Church but I truly believe that the word needs to get out about what God is doing here. 

--Many times when people come to our church and experience the presence of God…I hear them say…where have you guys been hiding all these years.

--I wonder why people have not heard or maybe they have just not be told by us…God help us!

--I think it is time for us to let our little light, actually the brightest light of all, to shine…hide it under a bushel...

No!  Let me just remind you of the questions we asked about a church you should connect to…

A. Does the church welcome the presence of God…do they welcome Holy Spirit to come?

B. Does the church give ample time to worship the Lord and to spend time with Him?

C. Does the church have time for prayer where you can petition God for your needs and also pray for others?

D. Does the church preach the Word of God in such a way that you know you can connect with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit?

E. Does the church, or more specific, the pastors, give an opportunity (an altar call) for people to respond to…why?  For salvation or rededication of their lives to God?

--A few other things I stated in my first point today could be added to this list:

F. Does the church attempt to fulfill the Great Commission thru Missions?

G. Does the church attempt to feed the poor?

H. Does the church operate with a benevolent heart?

I. Does the church have major outreaches to its own community?

J. Does the church provide a means for people to come who couldn’t come without it?

--Hear me…if we are the church that I have just laid out…shouldn’t people know…shouldn’t they have the opportunity to come…shouldn’t we be telling them?  Let me reiterate:

Romans 10:13-15 (NLT)
¹³  For “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.”
¹⁴  But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them?
¹⁵  And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!” 

--Here comes the concept of the shirts…L I F E.  No one is going to get saved unless they believe and no one is going to believe unless they hear about Jesus.

--No one is going to hear about Jesus unless someone from LIFE Church tells them!  No one will go and tell them unless they are sent.  We are sending you into the harvest field to tell them.

--You are being commissioned by the LIFE Church leadership to go and we are providing a tool to help you!

--LIFE Church shirts will give those of you who are timid an opportunity to tell people about Jesus!  When people ask…What is LI…FE Church…there is your door…your opportunity to tell them. Memorize this verse:

John 10:10 (NKJV) 

10  The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.          LIVING IN FREEDOM EVERY DAY

--Hear me…Hear me…the shirt is only a tool…Life Church is just one of many great churches in the area…it is all about people finding Jesus as Lord and Savior.

--You are being sent out by us to tell them about Jesus or at the least to invite them to LIFE Church where they can find Jesus…you add the prayer and you make the invitation.

Video – 46 Characters!

--Let’s stop keeping the best kept secret from the people who need Him…the secret seems to be Jesus!

Put your LIFE Church shirt on and let’s go!

Prayer for America and the Elections

Prayer for America and the Elections

Subject:  Words

by Rick Welborne

2 Chronicles 7:12-16 (NKJV)
¹²  Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
¹³  When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,
¹⁴  if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
¹⁵  Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.
¹⁶  For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

1. We are not having this time of prayer so that we can tell you who to vote for…that is your choice.

2. We are trying to convince you to vote and to let your voice be heard thru the ballot box.

3. We want you to vote and to vote for the candidates and platforms who are the closest to biblical values.

4. I hope we have the assurance that God hears our prayer and that He will answer when we pray.

5. God’s eyes and ears are open to the prayer being made here tonight.

Words:  Corrupt Language Verses Lies

1. Can God use people who are not Christians for His purposes?

--One candidate has had a life filled with being vulgar and bombastic while the other is consistently caught lying (thirty years)…also who privately uses vile language.  What a horrible choice we have.

--If we all had a choice to choose a candidate and could have them custom made…We would want a Spirit filled Christian, faithful to church, faithful to the Word, a giver, and somewhat more like us.

--I do not want to discourage anyone today but that is not our choices. Both candidates claim faith but seem to have a tough time walking that out…before we judge too harshly, many in the church have the same problem.

James Dobson:  I think it would be awesome to have a righteous leader, one that understood the intricacies of the economy, health care, defense, immigration, with great sensitivity to religious institutions, a heart for the poor, a vision for the future. If that leader was a praying person, formidable in the word of God and loved the local church, I would rejoice! I do not think that is the choice we will have in November.

--The question remains…can God use someone like this to further is Kingdom, to protect His people?

Dobson:  King Cyrus was someone who is dynamically used of God even though not perceived by many as a God follower. God has used many people in history that I would probably not like or agree with. I’m not sure I would have liked all the disciples, or David, or Moses. Somehow, God did not seem compelled to consult with me on His choices!

Dobson:  I have always admired Winston Churchill. He is seen as one of the greatest national leaders in the 20th century. Last year, I had the privilege of going through the War Museum in London. Winston is a key feature. His life is controversial. He was not always celebrated as a great leader. He was a bombastic, cigar smoking, at times crude, even misogynistic leader. It is alleged that he told off color stories to his children before bedtime! A woman once told him he was disgustingly drunk. His response was "My dear, you are disgustingly ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be ugly!"

--But, he had exactly what was needed to stop Hitler, to rouse a nation to never give up and to partner with America to find final victory in Europe. 

--You probably wouldn't want him as your pastor, maybe not even your father, but he was the right leader for that moment in England's history.  I’m not sure I would have voted for him.... but he was the right man!

2. What about the lying and vulgar language?

Ephesians 4:29 (NKJV)
²⁹  Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.

Proverbs 6:16-19 (NIV)
¹⁶  There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:
¹⁷  haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
¹⁸  a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
¹⁹  a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers. 

--I asked God what He thought and His answer to me was shocking!  Definitely humbling!  He took me to one of the major prophets during a time when Israel’s nation was hurting.

Isaiah 6:1-8 (NKJV)
¹  In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.
²  Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
³  And one cried to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!"
⁴  And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.
⁵  So I said: "Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts."
⁶  Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar.
⁷  And he touched my mouth with it, and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; Your iniquity is taken away, And your sin purged."
⁸  Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: "Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me." 

--God spoke to me…you think their words are vile and unclean and you want to judge them…everyone’s lips are unclean before Me even my great prophet Isaiah.

3. So how do we pray tonight?

Pray that we will have a revelation of God high and lifted up and His presence filling the church.

Pray that God will forgive us and our nation for having unclean and vile lips.

Pray that God will raise up whomever He will to defend our nation and to protect our Christian beliefs.

Pray that the leaders of our country will sense a divine calling and destiny to fulfill what God has raised them up to do.

Pray that God will send us into the middle of our nation to be a light and a witness to everyone we meet.

Pray that Christians will get out and vote for the platform that has the greatest Christian values.