Hypocrisy — August 7, 2022: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:01 Good morning and welcome we want to thank you for joining us we’re going to read our scripture reading this morning. In James chapter 4 verse 7. It says therefore submit to God this morning we have to make a choice to submit to Christ to God and his word says resist the Devil he will flee from you this morning praising God it says we’ll beat back and resist the enemy so praise God this morning draw near to God and he will draw near to you see again we have another choice to draw near to Jesus Christ to God our father in heaven and he will draw near to you you take a step toward him he takes a step towards you that we got to draw near to God this morning cleanse your hands you sinners.

▶ 0:55 Purify your hearts you double-minded. See there’s a solution if you’re a sinner you don’t have to stay in sin you don’t have to beat yourself up you just cleanse your hands you get cleansing from God and you move on. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he will lift you up humble yourself this morning we need to humble ourselves Jesus reminds us in Matthew 21 verse 13 it is what written. My house shall be called a house of prayer. Another word also for that is worship we come into his house and we pray and we worship God there’s going to be a time of prayer after the word there’s going to be time right now to worship Jesus to give him glory and honor so we’ve got we want to do with all of our heart we want to do it if you if you love God it says love the Lord with all your what strength all your soul all your mind everything you’ve got so when you worship God put everything you have into it.

▶ 2:04 Psalms 100 as we stand and prepare to worship and finishing our scripture reading enter into his gates with thanksgiving how many can give thanks to God this morning. Into his courts with praise how many can say something of praise to God. For the Lord is what he is good his mercy is everlasting and his truth endures to all generations let’s worship God this morning. Is.

▶ 3:12 Jesus. Thank you thank you Lord praise your praise holy holy name. My. Some trust is.

▶ 4:17 But we will remember the name of the Lord our God. Some trusted chariots. We will remember. Is. But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

▶ 5:18 Some trust in chariots and some and but we will remember. They are. Come on come on.

▶ 6:30 Some trust. Is. With the saving strength of his right hand. We will remember.

▶ 8:01 Jesus. Ohio. Is. The Lord has taken away his judgment he.

▶ 8:57 Is. The Lord has taken away the judgment. He is the Lord. His name is Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus. His name is Jesus Jesus Jesus.

▶ 10:02 Not ashamed Jesus proclaim his name I’m not ashamed to proclaim his name so let’s proclaim the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is his name Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is his name Jesus Christ Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is his name Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is his name so let’s proclaim the name of the Lord he is the king the kings he.

▶ 10:59 His name is Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus. Is.

▶ 12:01 Um. So. God of Israel is. Enemies. The God of Israel is our champion.

▶ 13:19 His right arm has got the victory. His praises rises incense before him he fights for us and rouse the enemy. War is. Victory. Is.

▶ 14:22 His enemies. Sing and dance. Sing and dance. Glory to God all night glory to his holy name.

▶ 15:44 Is. Jesus. Victory. Lit your voice. Is.

▶ 16:52 Is. Glory.

▶ 18:16 The Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard and you shall have a song in the night. See his glory and his mind. Is. Shall be heard in the power of his word the mighty one of Israel. The eyes of the blind shall be opened and they’ll see the ears of the dead shall hear.

▶ 19:18 The lament shall jump and shall leave as a heart. This. Is. Be strong and listen to his voice.

▶ 20:26 His voice shall be heard in the power of his work. Is. Is. Is.

▶ 21:51 Is. We praise you. Is. Me.

▶ 23:02 The Lord shall cause his glory. His voice to be heard and you shall have a song in the night. Come to the mountain. Lord. See his glory and his life. Oh. See. His glory and his mind.

▶ 24:12 Do. Before we continue on let’s just say this declaration sing this declaration he’s the mighty one of Israel one more time and then we’ll pray and invite the speaker let’s lift up our hands together standing. He’s the mighty one of Israel. Is. Thank is Lord you are the mighty one God.

▶ 25:18 Jesus Jesus. Lord God we’re coming for you this morning we recognize Jesus that it’s not just that you’re the mighty one of a country over in the middle east God you’re the mighty one over the church of God Lord Jesus you’re the mighty one in this place you’re the mighty one in our country in our city God Lord Jesus and we look to you to hear your voice God to hear the power of your word God it’s not some kind of military might God but it is the word and power of God in your voice Jesus and Lord this morning as the preacher comes God we invite you God to speak to us Lord Jesus not only to us but Lord draw people to you God speak to them into their hearts God we pray that you come with conviction for those in the church for those outside of the church Christian non-Christian believer unbeliever learn to unlearn all of us God that you would draw all nations to you God Lord this morning we lift you up you said if we lift you up you would draw all nations God

▶ 26:49 we call on you this morning Lord draw people unto you draw your people unto you God we call on you and we thank you and everyone said amen you may find your seats as we invite Pastor Kincer up. Continuing in Jesus typical gathering a typical church service. We found that they come to hear him not just to get healed not just to see miracles. And they were amazed at how he taught with authority to back it up not as the scribes and the Pharisees and ministers like me. He taught things kept secrets at the beginning of the world. And he taught in parables and he explained them to his disciples you can understand the parables he wants you to understand them and he exposed.

▶ 27:50 He taught exposing immorality unrighteousness. Lies untruth and he did it very wisely and very precisely. Very detailed. And he did it publicly. He didn’t take the people aside and talk to him person the person. He talked to him right there in the public places where people were gathered. So today we’re going to take a look at. His teaching on hypocrisy. He hit subjects that we don’t hear much about today when he held a church service. Hypocrisy. If you look in your dictionary it will give you the definition of a failure to follow one’s own.

▶ 28:51 Express moral rules. Okay if you like young ministers do love to go to the greek and hebrew meaning a thing. You will find that the word in the greek is play acting pretending. But when you go to the Bible definition and what Jesus said. It’s a person claiming to be honest. Claiming to follow God. Claiming to treat others right. But are not. Doing what they claim to do totally different than me setting my own standard of morals and following them. He who sums it up by saying.

▶ 29:47 They claim to do these things they claim to love their neighbor. They don’t love their neighbor as themselves. They don’t do unto others as they would have them do unto you they don’t treat others like they want to be treated and Jesus says that’s hypocrisy. How many like Jesus’s definition. That covers everybody it’s not just a church thing right so bill maher by the way. He has a standard of morality that any kind of sex is okay there is no God drinking taking drugs hey that’s what life’s all about he’s a very famous guy that. Attacks the church and the Bible all the time.

▶ 30:43 So you can have your own moral standard and you can back it up he backs it up he has sex anybody he can have sex with. He takes drugs and he gets drunk with alcohol and all the rest he backs up his moral standard. But not God’s and not common sense it is just not common sense when you have people being destroyed by his level of morality there’s something wrong isn’t that right. So Jesus is going to give us 12 accounts of hypocrisy. Seven of these are directly to the scribes Pharisees and Sadducees their leaders and their members.

▶ 31:35 Directly he’s going to talk to him directly right in public. And he’s going to call him hypocrites. And he’s going to tell them why. The other five are for everyone. Number one in Matthew chapter 6 verse 1 do not your alms to be seen of men as hypocrites do otherwise you have no reward of your father in heaven in the Old Testament God says he will reward those that give to the poor but God says if you’re going to do it so people can see you then I’m not going to reward you. Number two. Verse 5 when you pray be not as the hypocrites to be seen of people they have their reward what is their reward they’re seeing of people God doesn’t hear the prayer.

▶ 32:34 They’re just seeing a people and I had a hard time with this as a young Christian I was a bashful boy and everything else and to speak out was just a killer. Let alone when I spoke out. I would grab somebody’s prayer that I thought really prayed good and I would pray. And God wasn’t happy with that. But I was learning you know and and when you grab somebody else’s prayer and and pray it it’s because you want people to think you know how to pray. You understand God doesn’t care he wants you to be you and I had to learn that I had to learn to pray audibly with me talking to God no matter who is praying by me and you can too you can learn this.

▶ 33:30 And their reward is they are seen of people number three when you fast be not as the hypocrites to appear unto men to fast they have their reward again their reward is their scene of men now I don’t know how you go on a three-day fast without a not appearing at your fasting your mouth gets parched and dry your lips get this coat of I mean any idiot looking at you goes are you faster. But it’s the attitude he’s talking about you’re doing it to see God and you don’t have to hide yourself in a closet to fast if it shows up it’s not because you’re wanting it to be seen you know you do wash your clothes and your brush your teeth and put some listerine in it and comb your hair and all that but I can lose five to six pounds in a three-day fast.

▶ 34:25 And uh and and when I was skinny ever it showed. But anyway it’s the attitude he’s getting at number four. First cast the beam out of your own eye you hypocrites. Then you’ll be able to see clearly to cast the toothpick. Out of your brother’s eye. Okay first deal with yourself so that you can. Clearly see a problem in your brother and help him get through it. Isn’t that just why statement now the verse before this says judge not lest you be judged is the famous verse that the same-sex people use to tell us not to judge them but he didn’t send that he said before you judge others you get yourself right is that a good that’s a good principle.

▶ 35:24 Okay number five. Now all these first four were to anybody. Uh anybody that’s seeking God with alms and prayer and fasting and judging and so forth and then he addresses the Pharisees the Sadducees and the scribes directly. You hypocrites. Hypocrites you teach. The laws of men over. The laws of God. You take a law of God like the Sabbath day and remember it and then you make laws out of it yourself that. Going only so much distance on the Sabbath day is approved you can’t travel anywhere you want you don’t you’re limited before you can travel Bible never says that.

▶ 36:20 And I can go on and on and on do you take care of your parents you don’t have to take care of your parents you just give the money that you would take care of your parents to the temple of God and your release from your parents God didn’t say that that’s doctrines of men are you with me. It’s hypocritical. We all ministers only have the authority to preach. The gospel that God told us to preach you can’t put in your own view and your own opinions unless you say it’s your opinion and if you’ve got to say it’s your opinion then it might be better just be silent on the issue could that be true. Yes now. You’ll notice that these first four laws are spiritual laws.

▶ 37:14 They’re not civil laws they can’t put you in jail for not giving to the poor they can’t put you in jail for not praying. Civil authorities can put you in jail for stealing you know murder and the civil law. Nor are they shadow laws. All right and you got to know this stuff if you’re going to really. Contest this world with the truth of God you’ve got to know the difference between shadow laws civil laws and spiritual laws. All right. Now. Let’s continue. Number six. You hypocrites. You can discern the face of the sky for weather.

▶ 38:05 And uh you can tell when the rain’s coming you could tell when it’s going to be hot you can tell when it’s going to be cold you can do that he’s talking to scribes and Pharisees. Religious leaders and religious people. Who believe in God. And these scribes were teaching that the messiah the king the prophet the priest and the savior was coming. And Jesus is right there. They’re preaching he’s coming and he’s there and they can’t see him. Are you there is it possible. That we can be believing something that’s attainable to us and we can’t see it. Absolutely in fact it’s very common.

▶ 39:00 Now. Number seven you hypocrites why do you test me with your trick questions. And uh they come up to him you know this woman had seven husbands all the other husbands died and and and when they go to heaven when they in the afterlife whose husband is she gonna be. Trick question because they didn’t believe in an afterlife. And we got them today. The thief on the cross you don’t have to be baptized because the thief on the cross wasn’t baptized so baptizing doesn’t save you and has nothing to do with salvation. That’s a trick statement and question. Are you there. Thousands of believers got baptized. Because they didn’t die that day.

▶ 39:54 The thief was dying that day and the thief did believe in Christ and he confessed his sin to Christ and he has Christ to forgive him and and give him eternal life he did those works on the cross are you with me and we do this stuff. Number eight. You hypocrites. You shut the door of the kingdom of God for others and you don’t enter in yourself. And why didn’t they enter they knew the kingdom of God was coming they knew there was a kingdom of God but that kingdom is righteousness peace and joy and power in the Holy Spirit that kingdom is initiated ignited and sustained.

▶ 40:47 By the spirit of God. Not human intellect not human reasoning not human power. Okay so why didn’t they enter was it their lack of knowledge. Was it their lack of faith was it the lack of God’s grace. No. It was their lack of righteous living Jesus told them as we learned before unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees you shall in no case enter the kingdom of God the righteousness of God the peace of God the joy of God the power of God unless your righteousness exceeds it now folks there’s two righteousness imputed righteous is I am righteous because Jesus died for my sin justified pain fight me and made me write it but my behavior.

▶ 41:51 May not line up to my imputed righteousness. And that’s why John said they that do righteousness are righteous are you with me and yes when you’re a baby you’ve got to have Jesus said I’ll finish the good work he begun in you you’ve got to have patience with baby Christians and you’ve got to give them time to learn the word and time to obey the word and so does God. Amen God’s very merciful to baby Christians but when we’re 10 years old a believer and we’re still a baby Christian God’s not very happy it only takes three years for the tree to grow and produce fruit are you with me hallelujah now. Number nine you hypocrites.

▶ 42:43 You Pharisees you Sadducees you scribes you religious leaders and religious people you devour widows houses and pretend to pray. Why would they devour widows’ houses for the money. For the money in third world nations when I was over there and there was a death in the family man the people came to get what they could. And one widow. Come to me while I was there and says these people are going to come after everything my husband left you got to help me so I stood in the doorway and helped her her dad wanted something his dad wanted something I said no. You ain’t getting in this house. And they didn’t go by me either are you there.

▶ 43:36 They come it’s the money as the saying goes follow the money. Why are people behind something that they shouldn’t be behind the money and then they devour widows’ houses then they come to the temple and pray ah like they are really spiritual. Jesus said that is a hypocrite how many agree. And he does this publicly with these people right in his congregation. The church today doesn’t know how to wisely and precisely. Deal with hypocrisy do they we want everybody we want to be nice to everybody. You know we don’t want to stir up any problem. We want our church. Pews filled and yeah yeah God is love.

▶ 44:34 And we wonder why America. Is has been in decades of decay. Number 10. Hypocrites. You make converts you change people’s lives. And you make them two times the children of hell than yourself are he’s hypocrites go to hell and these people believe in God now they believe in the messiah that’s coming a king that’s coming they believe this stuff. But they’re not converting people to God or Christ. They’re converting them to themselves and that’s what it says in acts of your own selves men shall arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after. Them.

▶ 45:29 Folks we got to lead people to Jesus he’s the shepherd he’s the savior he’s the king he’s the captain of the host we gotta lead people to Jesus. And if we haven’t attained we still preach what he told us to preach you don’t have to attain everything to speak everything that God told us to preach do we do it. Hallelujah. You can preach prophecy without ever prophesying. It’s a truth. Today we make people catholics. Protestants baptists presbyterians pentecostals we make them followers of faith this is a big one I mean I deal with this all the time on the internet I had a great successful week on the internet.

▶ 46:24 I talked to thousands of people all over the world but one guy posted in truth and said this group. We have a group called truth it’s grown from a handful of people to 1800 people now. He said this group is great. I can get information and knowledge from here to share with others isn’t that what we want without charge or anything the information is there and they want to share it. Another one this week said sir after a men that we put up and conversed on you are a man of excellence what he’s really saying is the word he’s hearing is an excellent word we have a tendency to give credit to a speaker.

▶ 47:23 Instead of the word that’s being spoken but I caught his drift he caught the word God convicting him of the word and folks. It took me over three years now as the response is growing the response is growing and growing and growing. And so. Share the word hallelujah. Make people followers of the word and Jesus Christ the ones that really want the word in Jesus Christ will come around it takes time it took me time but they will come around we make them followers of grace some churches are built on just one issue in the Bible grace faith miracles tongues you know prosperity. I even run into people who say we are followers or this is what they say.

▶ 48:19 Apostle Paul is our apostle. I go you’ve got to be kidding me. You’re putting Jesus a Paul above Jesus Christ Jesus said follow me he didn’t say follow Paul Paul said follow me as I follow didn’t he you see what we do it’s hypocrisy. Jesus nailed it and the church has got to wake up and learn how to wisely and precisely. And justly. Confront and handle. These hypocritical. Behaviors and doctrines. Number 11. You scribes Pharisees Sadducees you hypocrites. You pay 10.

▶ 49:13 Of the slightest little increase. But you omit the heavy laws the weightier matters of the law. Are we under law according to this verse. You’re not sure huh. Paul said you’re not under the law you’re under grace. Do you know Jesus never used the word grace. Did you know that. Some of you are looking at me like really. You see we don’t study specifically and we don’t read our words sometimes specifically and you have to get into that specific mentality. To get things from God but you know they promote grace like it’s the magic word and the other magic word is faith faith and grace is the magic word.

▶ 50:15 And Jesus used the word belief more than any word. Belief. Never use grace and he says you can’t omit. The weight of your laws and he tells us what they are justice. Justice is making a judgment to do right and standing for right and delivering those that are wrong that’s justice the church is weak in this area. Oh we’re good at getting in our little church circles and worshiping God and feeling the presence and going home and having. Lunch at the restaurant and jabbing and talking about how great God is but we don’t stand up for the innocent in America.

▶ 51:08 On a big scale we are silent. Is that true. Mercy. He has shown the o man what is good and what does the Lord require of you Micah 6:8 to do what justly to love what mercy and to walk humbly with thy God I told you Moses was the most humble man and the reason he was humble is when the whole congregation two and a half million people almost a few Levites didn’t wanted to go back to Egypt he stood for God. That’s what made him humble. They wanted to stone him. And he stood for God he stood for God’s laws he stood for God’s word how many want that kind of humility.

▶ 52:07 That humbleness yes. Hallelujah. And faithfulness loyalty. Loyalty to your brother loyalty to your sister loyalty to your parents loyalty to your friends loyalty to Christ in his church. When innocent people are living. An innocent life we got to be loyal to them and stand up for them isn’t that right. Loyalty. Loyalty in marriages half of of Christians today are divorced. Where’s the weightier matters of loyalty and then mercy where’s the mercy there and where’s the justice.

▶ 53:03 Somebody dropped the ball. Are you with me. And children. You know they’re affected by this. Level of morality in America number 12. This is a good one. This is the end time chapter Matthew 24. And God said he made faithful and wise rulers over God’s servants God’s house. He says but if those faithful and wise rulers become evil. Harmful. And they start mistreating God’s people. And they start eating and drinking with the intoxicated.

▶ 53:57 It’s a sin to get intoxicated so they’re eating and drinking with sinners well Jesus ate and drink with sinners yes he did but he ate and drink with sinners to bring them to repentance to preach the gospel of eternal life to them and Zacchaeus got saved. He didn’t go. To be inclusive. And be with them and partake of their sins are you with me. There’s a big difference me and mr Barnes used to go into bars and preach to the marines and stuff in those bars and get them down to the service center where we were going to preach the gospel to them and get them in heaven. We didn’t go in our drink with them. And pick up some chick with them. We went there for the same reason Christ went.

▶ 54:49 And by the way people would see me coming out of bars and they would start gossiping. Because that’s what we do best gossip. Remember those days mr Barnes. Yes I’d drag him into these bars. Come on barn let’s go. Call them hypocrites and he says they’re going to have their place with weeping and gnashing of teeth that is their portion. And they that do these things and and I’ve seen a lot of good pastors and church ministers youth leaders turn and go back to loving the world as Paul said one of his group did they went back to loving the world. And he says that that’s hypocrisy.

▶ 55:46 Now. God’s solution to hypocrisy is very simple. The wisdom that is from above. Is first pure then peaceable. Gentle. Easy to being treated entreated or easy to cooperate with right things they they’re not in conflict with doing with joining a group and doing things together. Full of mercy and good fruits there’s that. Micah 6:8 again what does the Lord require of thee to do what justly love what mercy and walk what humbly and obedience with your God.

▶ 56:42 Full of good fruits. Good works that a lot of people say we’re not under. Without partiality. No female no male no rich no poor. No mexican no hillbilly. No african no chinese. No partiality. And where does it come from above. The wisdom from above has it already there and without what hypocrisy. You get Jesus. You get the ability to not be a hypocrite. And not be partial it’s all part of his package.

▶ 57:37 Then in James 1:5 this is James 3:17. He says if any of you lack wisdom how many lack wisdom. I could use a whole a lot more myself. Let him ask of God that’s it. That’s it. Well when’s the last time you asked for wisdom. In your prayer time. We pray for all kinds of things. But we miss praying for things God told us to pray for. And wisdom is equal with love in the level. Of the spirit world love and wisdom is side by side they’re both at the top all right. If you ask he gives it to all men how many men.

▶ 58:33 Does it matter if you’re young or old. Does it matter if you’re male or female no. Does it matter if you’re a republican or a democrat no. He gives it to all men and how. Liberally abundantly. Not a little bit he’ll give you a little time don’t get me wrong because you’ve got to be able to handle it but he’s ready to give you. A wisdom that grows in you and you need wisdom to run a home you need wisdom to be a good employee or run a business. You need wisdom. Not just intellect and intellect today is a joke almost they teach you things in college that totally opposite of what God calls wisdom. Now look at this first Corinthians 1:24.

▶ 59:29 Look at this. Christ the power of God and the what wisdom of God how many receive Christ into your life. Okay then what came with him. Power and wisdom wow. See that makes us different from the world is the reality of Jesus Christ and not only that but there’s a spirit of wisdom. The Holy Spirit and there’s a spirit of power you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you so here we get it in Jesus and here we get it in the Holy Ghost and thy word has made me wiser than my enemies so his word is what wisdom.

▶ 1:00:22 Okay and the word of God is sharp and powerful than any two-edged sword so the word is power and the word is wisdom the spirit is power the spirit is wisdom Jesus’s power and Jesus is wisdom and it comes with the package and you don’t have to worry about being a hypocrite he will cause you to walk without hypocrisy and without high partiality and if you make a mistake you simply repent and say whoops I goofed and he what cleanses you that sin and you’re still righteous before God. Amen. Very powerful. What we got in America today. Is a lack of respect. A lack of value. A lack to stand up.

▶ 1:01:20 For my neighbor. Because I would want him standing up for me. If I was in his situation. Are you hearing me. Hallelujah. Last week in the news. A pizza man was delivering pizza. And as he was going. To the house to deliver he saw a fire and another house. And he saw three kids in the upstairs window. That pizza man dropped his pizza boxes. Went into that fiery house. And save those three kids. Because he wanted to help his neighbor.

▶ 1:02:16 Like he would wanted to be helped if he was there. He brought these three kids to the smoke and the fire and outside and when they got outside the kid says we got another. Brother back in there he’s in this room. And this guy got up and went back into that fiery house. Found that kid. And brought him out. That’s exercising love your neighbor as yourself that’s exercising doing under others as you’d have them do unto you they were in a crisis and he rescued them and he got so. I don’t forget what the word is but overtaken by the smoke and the gas that he just collapsed on the ground the paramedics arrived.

▶ 1:03:16 And the first words out of his mouth when they were tending him. Was are the kids okay. Are the kids safe. He wasn’t worried about himself. Another story in the news. The family went fishing in Michigan. Has all these great lakes. A father a grandfather. Nine-year-old and a three-year-old. The three-year-old somehow. Got tossed out of the boat. The dad immediately jumped in but went the wrong direction.

▶ 1:04:12 Now these great lakes are like the ocean I don’t know if you know that it’s not like Elsinore lake it’s got waves and you know it’s got cairns it’s yeah. And so the dad got drifted away from the three-year-old. The grandfather dives in. To save his grandson. 71 years old. And he didn’t think about himself. He was exercising the principle. Do unto others as you have them do unto you. The nine-year-old boy had enough sense. To grab his dad’s phone and call 9-1-1. And when they got there.

▶ 1:05:06 They got the little boy. And they got the dad out of the water. But the grandpa was dead. He couldn’t handle. The event the situation and he died. Now folks. That’s what Jesus is talking about. Hypocrisy is claiming that you don’t hurt others. And you would treat them like you would want to be treated and then you don’t. Now we got big problems in America. The same-sex activists are grooming our children. In public schools.

▶ 1:06:04 They’re grooming them and preparing them. To be exploited sexually. And only a few of Americans are speaking up. Get in our churches and we worship and we hear a word yeah and we go to lunch and we yeah. And these kids minds are being destroyed and I can prove it to you in 72 when the homosexuals started their movement they were less than one percent of Americans. Now they are seven percent. From getting in the public schools and teaching that generation and growing up and they don’t know if they’re a man a boy or girl now. And the church all over America.

▶ 1:06:59 Just keeps going through the routine. But what does the Lord require of us to do what justly. Not to just talk about that verse. But to stand up and do what we can to rescue. These children doesn’t matter if you’ve got kids in public school. And if you do God help you they’re they’re going to rob your kids. Of your moral standards they’re going to do that they’re out to do that and the teachers union is focused to do that. And I can go on and on. There’s a grooming of America. Morally.

▶ 1:07:53 There’s a grooming of America economically. There’s a grooming of Americans politically. And they’re slowly capturing. The minds of America. To take it over morally immorally in their case economically. And. Through government. So we’re going to sing out of Jeremiah 29:13. God says and you shall seek me. And you shall find me I’m not hard to get I’m not playing hard to get if you seek me you’ll find me when you search for me not your church.

▶ 1:08:54 Not your family. Not your job. But search for me with all your heart mind soul body. And I will be found of you. When you seek me with all your heart. So during this prayer time. Let’s pray and seek God for Christ’s power and wisdom. That rids us of partiality and hypocrisy could that be an amen. You see everything is in him. And if we find him he’ll get rid of the hypocrisy he’ll get rid of the partiality. Let’s see God for the Holy Spirit’s power and wisdom. And let’s see God for the scriptures power and wisdom three witnesses.

▶ 1:09:49 That we can go to and be different people and I’m going to ask the church pastor Mike to come and lead us in this prayer. We’re going to sing it first. And you shall seek me and you shall find me. And if you really want to find him in his power and in his wisdom will you stand with me and Mike broke the pandemic. Ceremonial thing last week it would pay to come forward step out of our seat and come forward and seek. Him and he shall. Seek me. And he shall. Find me.

▶ 1:10:44 When he shall search for me. With all your heart. And I shall be found of you. I shall be found of you. When he shall see. Me. With all your heart right now I’d like to invite you to come up to the front together and we’re gonna this is our act of seeking God this morning if you uh heard the message don’t want to be a hypocrite want to be genuine and loyal faithful to justly love mercy.

▶ 1:11:41 If you want wisdom like he was talking about let’s come and let’s ask for it let’s seek God for him to find him to follow him as we sing this again come forward let’s seek Jesus this morning. And he shall see seek me. And he shall. Find me. When he shall search for me. With all your heart. Yes I will be found up.

▶ 1:12:37 When you shall see. Me. With all your heart at this time we’re going to lift up our voices we’re going to pray for wisdom we’re going to pray for the and seek him ask him to come we’re going to pray that we would follow him let’s lift up our voices together and just call on our God this morning Lord. Jesus the Lord. Foreign.

▶ 1:14:12 Jesus Jesus. Please. Yes. Shall. Seek me. And he shall mind.

▶ 1:15:09 When he shall. Search for me. With all your heart. Yes. When you shall see. Me. In the Old Testament several times the kings or kings of the time they went to God and inquired of the Lord and they would not move forward unless they knew what God wanted them to do David in his battle in some of his battles he said Lord how do you want me to approach this situation how should I defeat the enemy what do I need to do in one case he had to wait for a sound in the trees in another case he was told to split up his his military in another case all these other things happened God gave him direction and today we have an enemy in our country.

▶ 1:16:33 Like he was talking about a spiritual enemy that is that is making such headway and we need to ask God and inquire of the Lord how can we go and defeat the enemy how what can we do this little church small as we are just like Gideon is 300 he didn’t have many but Gideon had a way he had a he approached it the way God told him to approach it and God and we need to pray and ask for how he wants us. To go and defeat the enemy so let’s look up our voices let’s come before our God this morning and pray for our country and how to defeat the enemy God before you this morning Jesus we lived up here our voice. How can is come before the enemy Jesus Jesus.

▶ 1:17:56 God Lord Jesus. Is. Oh. With all your hearts.

▶ 1:19:17 Yes I will be found. With all your in closing we’re going to come in a circle we’re going to pray we’re going to pray for our church we’re going to pray for the churches around here. That we would be stirred to unite and fight that we would seek after. Not only to have faith but but but fighting the enemy we need to have a heart to fight the enemy let’s come forward everybody out of your seats come we’re going to get in a circle we’re going to pray we’re going to pray for our churches we’re going to gather together here this morning and we’ve got to lift up our voices together with one accord united we’re gonna ask that God would come Lord Jesus.

▶ 1:20:36 Oh. Is. Is. Closing.

▶ 1:22:09 Would yes go into the courtroom break a federal law. To set free a slave on trial. Or. Running away or for being free but within. Lord the spirit that you gave our founding fathers. Lord to sacrifice their wealth their life and their sacred honor Lord stand up to Britain. And Lord when they gave in this great constitution and this great nation Lord you need to come to your church and give us that same fighting spirit.

▶ 1:23:12 Only for spiritual things for spiritual truth. To have somebody standing up for their rights. And everyone said let’s say amen to that prayer. Amen. Praise the Lord. Amen. Praise the Lord.

▶ 1:24:10 Glory hallelujah. Praise the Lord. We’re gonna jump down turn around touch me praise my Lord. Those online thank you for joining us this time we trust that you heard God’s words God’s word this morning we trust that God’s word will change you. We uh. Invite you to go and pray and write these things down ask God that to put them into you and make them real to you God bless you thank you for joining us have a great day.