I'm so concerned for our country. I'm absolutely positive that
our country is where it is because the church has gone to sleep.
We shut ourselves up in the four walls of a building. Not too
many people know we're meeting. And we're not having much effect
on this old world. We are to be salt and light in
this world. You have silently drifted. Heard me tell this story many,
many times about the little sign in the 30s and 40s that was on
the Niagara River that says, pass the redemption point. That
means if you are a boater and you go past that sign, you're
going over the falls. America is almost there. And
maybe we are there. I really don't know. It depends
on whether the church wakes up. Church is the sleeping giant
that's gone to sleep. And pastors have become little
sissy preachers who won't sound out the alarm and wake the slumberers
from their sleep. Today will be hard on you, probably. But I hope it awakes you. I want
this church Turn this city upside down and delight the fire in
this country. God is doing something with us.
You cannot explain this place separate and apart from God.
You can't. We have no money. We're a ragtag
bunch of little alley rats that have been saved by the grace
of God. And the marvels and the wonders that take place here
on a daily basis. And the support that God gives.
If you just think about just the mission, the center alone,
$5.3 million comes into that center every year. Where does
it come from? Look at us. It's a miracle, is
it not? Everything around us is a miracle. I was in the, I think it was
at the Bloomfield Hills Rotary Club. this weekend at the dinner
table, I was telling a young lady there, Moses has nothing
on me. He went through the Red Sea.
I go through it every day. In other words, I see the water
back up. I see the miracles every day. God does. And it's a marvel and wonder
to me. People often say to me, Pastor,
my heart goes out to you working over there with those people.
I go, my heart goes out to you. The chosen frozen of this world. I love being here. I love being
with you and I love you. I want you to know that there
is a difference between wanting to murder somebody and murdering
them. There is a difference between
having a desire to commit adultery and committing adultery. There
is. Somehow we have missed this in
the church, that in my flesh dwells no good thing. That's
the bottom line. Left to yourself, there's not
one thing good in you. You were born depraved, and unless
God does something, you will live your life totally depraved
and without God. But then on the other hand, when
you are born of God, that which is born of God sinneth not. That
new nature that God gives you in the new birth never, ever
sins. It's true. Now what you have
is this. You've got your flesh that never
does good. Ever. It is rotten to the core. It's a wild ass's colt that can't
be tamed. On the other hand, you have this
greater is He that's in you. than he that's in the world.
And when you're born again, the new man always wins. I mean,
in the end, he wins. We're more than conquerors through
Christ. It is true. The child of God
at times gets in the flesh and falls down. But he always gets
up. He always is moving forward.
Because greater is he that's in you than he that's in the
world. You have an ever ready battery in you. You have a motivator
in you. You have a generator in you. You have the power of God in
you. And so we went. What we are facing today is a
church that is coming closer and closer to government. A religion. Religion and government eventually
are going to get together. You do know that, don't you?
Two things you ought to fear, religion and government. They are the powerful force that
will usher in the Antichrist. Religion and government. And when you have churches of
unregenerate people, you have pure hypocrisy. And all through
the New Testament, this hypocrisy is spoken of. In fact, in the
Thessalonian letter, The Apostle Paul said, there's going to come
a time when the Holy Spirit is going to be taken out of the
way. You know, the only thing that will make church church
here today is the Holy Spirit. If He's not here, we won't have
church today. We'll go through a form, but
we won't have church. The Holy Spirit is an absolute
must. And by the way, just so you don't
get all spooky and goose pimples and all that stuff, The Holy
Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. The Spirit of Christ here. The
Holy Spirit, the Comforter. Jesus said, I'm going away, but
I'll be here with you. That's what He said in John 14,
15. In other words, the Holy Spirit is here. The Spirit of
Christ is here. The only way for people to get
saved is for the Holy Spirit to be here. And if anything I've
learned in 25 years, if a crackhead is going to have a new heart,
The Holy Spirit is going to have to give it to him or her. And that's true of all of us.
Every man that gets saved is born again. It's a miracle of
the sovereign grace of God who does the work in us. But I'm
afraid we have spawned this easy-believism. The message of sovereign grace
has gone out of the church. The old gospel has been lost.
And we've got a new gospel. I was on Ask the Pastor this
week. And one of the questions was, can you lose your salvation?
And I was the only one that said anything like this at all, even
close. I said this. It's not your salvation. It's God's salvation. If you
have your salvation, you can lose yours. But God's salvation? He saves no one to lose them.
He saves them to keep them. And then I quoted things like
this. He who hath begun a good work
in you will perform it. I give unto them eternal life
and they shall never perish. Neither shall any man pluck them
out of my Father's hand. My Father which gave them me
is greater than all. And then all four pastors denied
everything that I just said. It's true. You can watch it. But there was some little elect
out there watching, maybe in Asia, maybe in Europe somewhere,
maybe here in the United States, is going to say, that preacher
told the truth. That rings a bell with me, that God saves His people. What a wonderful truth it is.
But one of the pastors said something like this, you can turn the Holy
Spirit on by giving Jesus a chance. Now, let me tell you, my friend,
You don't first come to Christ. He first comes to you. Men are
dead in sins and trespasses. So God, you didn't first choose
God. God first chose you. And today
while the Gospel is being preached, Jesus is active. He's not an
inactive Savior. He walks the aisles as the Gospel
is being preached in power and in the power of the Holy Spirit.
So what I think we have today is a church filled with hypocrisy. The church is filled with hypocrisy. I want you to know right off
that your pastor in his flesh is capable of anything. You need
to know you are too. You put us all together. Aren't
we a mess? There go I but for the grace
of God. I am so thankful for God digging ditches and saying
you can go far but you can't go any further. God's kept us
from a lot of things, hasn't He? A lot of things. So, when I say the church is
full of hypocrisy, I simply mean this. I want us all to understand
this. That there are people who aren't
converted at all that are very churchy. We have religion today. And religion is active. And it's
all hypocrisy. Unless you've been born again,
you're a hypocrite if you go to church. Unless you've been
born again. You've got a false face on. You're
just pretending. Here's what the Apostle Paul
said in 1 Timothy. Chapter 4, verse 1. Now the Spirit expressly says
that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving
heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons. Now this
is talking about church people. It's not talking about the world.
This is talking about church folks. Folks that are meeting
today. and going through a form of worship. Verse 2 says, speaking lies in
hypocrisy. In other words, they say one
thing, but they don't practice what they preach. And even what
they say is lies. It's like they might talk about
keeping the Ten Commandments in order to be saved, but they
don't keep them. Speaking lies in hypocrisy. Having their own
conscience seared with a hot iron. Religious people whose
conscience has been seared. Let's go over to 2 Timothy 3, beginning with verse 1. But know
this, that in the last days perilous times will come. For men will
be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving,
slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors,
headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of
God. Watch it now. Verse 5, having
a form of godliness. All of these things here men
will be doing, but they'll have a form of godliness. In other
words, they'll be religious. They're doing all of the above
things, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control,
brutal, despisers of good, having a form of godliness. They're
churchy. Maybe like some of you, going
from the crack house to the church house and back to the crack house.
Hell's going to be filled with religious people. Having a form
of godliness, but denying its power, and from such people turn
away. I was talking about the Thessalonian
letter where the apostles said the Holy Spirit will be taken
away and people will do what they want to do. And the Bible
says God will send them strong delusions where they'll believe
a lie, having loved not the truth. It's one thing to know the truth.
It's another thing to love it. My question is not do you know
the five points of Calvinism, but do you love the truth of
sovereign grace? Do you love the gospel of Jesus
Christ? There is a difference. Some of
you were here Wednesday night when I introduced what I'm going
to be talking about. And because some of you were
not here, I want to introduce the series again. The series
is, Let's Play Church and Let's Talk Saved. Let's Play Church
and Let's Talk Saved. How do we play church and talk
saved? Well, first we've got to get
some people together who want to pretend, because we all want
to run the show. We don't want a lot of people
to know we're here. To play this game right, we have
some folks who are really good actors. I mean, you've got to
have some good actors if you're going to play church. And then
after the game is over, we don't want you to talk about the game,
because we will be getting our buzz on. And if you talk about
God, it'll kill our buzz. So after the game is over, don't
talk about God. In other words, when we get out
of church, don't talk about God. You can cuss and swear and do
whatever you do in the big dorm. In order to play church and talk
save, we have to have a building with a steeple. Maybe some church
pews and a few pictures of a long-haired sissy hanging on the wall who
looks like Jesus, they say. We need an altar and some candles.
and maybe even a communion table so it looks churchy. And if we're
really going to get serious about playing church and talking saved,
we have to learn a religious vocabulary. You know, if you're
really going to be religious, you've got to learn some syrupy
words like Jesus and amen, hallelujah, praise the Lord. That's the Protestant
rosary. Amen, hallelujah, thank you,
Jesus. Now, in playing church and talking saved, it requires
nothing more because we're just playing anyway. It won't cost
you anything. There's no lifestyle change if you play church. No
vocabulary reversal. You can play this game of playing
church and talking saved without any change at all. It's all free. It costs you nothing. You don't
have to give up anything. You can continue to be the same
old you. You can hate and talk about other
people. You don't have to show any compassion or mercy. What
a game! While you're playing, many others
will want to play along with you. People love this game of
playing church. And you only have to play once
a week anyway. Some of you can play once a year,
or maybe twice, Christmas and Easter. Now today, that I've
got your attention, I want to talk about voting, and I want
to talk about abortion. When I was a kid, Our old bird
dog had puppies. They were the cutest little things.
One day, my dad went out and put them in a sack, all the puppies. Had a rope around the sack. Later,
I found out he went down to the river, down to the bridge. What
do you think about that? 50 million babies were aborted
in America. What do you think about that?
Did your heart go out to the puppy dogs? How about 50 million
babies? You know who's responsible for
that? This church and every Christian in this country. It would have
never been approved had we had Christians in Washington. Somebody ought to say amen. Now, don't be backing up here
on me. We're not going to play church here. The first time William
Jefferson Clinton ran for president, 119 million Americans eligible
to vote did not vote. 29% of everyone who voted in
that election year said they were born again Christians. By the way, there are no other
kinds. Said they were born again and attended church regularly.
That's the good news. The bad news is that 36% Of the
29% who voted, voted for William Jefferson Clinton, the most pro-abortion
president in American's history until President Obama was elected. It is the civic duty of every
American to vote. It is the spiritual responsibility
of every Christian to vote. I believe that. It is the Christian's
duty to vote with the conviction of heart. This conviction of
heart. Who would Jesus vote for? We
must care as the people of God. We must be the salt of this earth. It may come as a shock to some
of you, but God is not the mascot of the Republican Party. God
is not a Democrat. God is not even an American. He's God all by himself. But
this you can be sure of. God hates the murder of innocent
unborn children. God hates it. And we Christians
must not disengage ourselves from the culture in which we
live. And I say to all of you, if I, the staff, the elders,
and many of us had disengaged ourselves, we'd still be in those
nice little churches in the suburbs. We wouldn't have been over here.
We would have been disengaged, and you still would be those
people. And now that God has saved you and brought you out
of darkness into glorious light, you must not. We don't need another
church disengaged in Pontiac. My stars, we have 400 churches
in this city. We ought to be the holiest city
in the United States of America. Instead, we are gang infested,
drug infested, bankrupt. Messed up neighborhood city.
That can all change with this church being light, being soft. Amen. I actually believe that
God is going to take this church and turn this city around. I
believe that. He is doing that now. This city
is not the same city it was 25 years ago, thank God. God didn't
save you to sit. He saved you to go. God didn't save you to come here
and absorb truth like a sponge. He saved you to go out there
wherever you are. Listen, I said in the first service,
it's more important to be Christian on Monday than it is on Sunday.
Yeah, it's mighty easy in here to let your little light shine.
Because we're all on the same page. But what about tomorrow
when you're at work? What about tomorrow over in the
big dorm? In America's churches, we've lost and are losing the
moral will to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. How on earth would I explain
to my grandmother, my Mo Nanny, who's with the Lord now, how
would I explain to her partial birth abortion? Let me read you
a little bit about partial birth abortion. I just went online.
You can go online too. Say, well, I don't want to hear
it. Well, you're going to have to leave if you don't. Because we're going
to face the truth of what's happening in this country. And it's our
fault. You don't have to go to the White
House to find fault. Just go to the church house.
Go to the little white church with the steeple. And you'll
find out why we have partial birth abortion. Because the church,
the giant, has gone to sleep. The partial birth abortion method
is a three-day procedure. During the first two days, the
abortionist must mechanically force open the mother's cervix.
This is a highly painful and possibly damaging procedure. On the third day, after the cervix
has sufficiently dilated, the abortion is performed. To begin
the procedure, the abortionist turns the baby into a breech
position by grabbing the legs with forceps, pulling the live
baby feet first out of the womb and into the birth canal. The
doctor purposely keeps the head lodged just inside the cervix. The abortionist then sharply
thrusts a pair of long surgical scissors into the base of the
skull and opens them to enlarge a hole. This, of course, kills
the baby. A tube connected to a high-powered
vacuum is then used to suction out the brain material. This
allows the skull of the baby to be crushed, making it easier
to complete the extraction. Medical experts testify at congressional
hearings that baby feels tremendous pain during the partial birth
abortion procedure. How on earth can any Christian
American vote for anybody who's for such a barbaric procedure? I hope you go away from here
haunted by the fact that you have cast your vote in a careless
manner, without finding out who's on the Lord's side. The Christian's
first duty is to God. Not to the Democrats or the Republicans
or the Independents. To God. This year, when I go
vote, the Lord willing, I'm taking my Bible. I would encourage all
of you. You don't have to take a big
one. Just take a little one like this. You don't have to be all
Seraphic. or religious, take it with you.
Be nice to have it when you go in there. You can recall what
I said about partial birth and abortion. You can think about
it a little bit and you'll have God real close there. If God
ever speaks, He speaks from His Word. It won't hurt to take it
with you. And then if they try to make
you leave it outside the booth, call me. I'll be right over.
They cannot forbid you to take the Bible into the voting booth.
I'm not talking about us becoming religious Bible thumpers. I'm
just talking about us becoming more conscious that we're Christians. We're better than this. We've
been saved by the grace of God. Right and wrong. Politicians
have told us what we can do with our morality. Keep it to yourselves.
And we've obeyed them. And the answer to politicians
who do not have moral conviction is to replace them. Replace them. Mr. Clinton was having the affair. The great cliche was, who cares? I got me a lapel pin that said,
I care. How would you like for me, as
your pastor, to commit adultery and then get up here and preach
to you on Sunday? I hope you expect something higher than
that from me. I hope you would say, Pastor,
you've got to sit down for a while. You've got to turn from your
sin and repent and mourn over it. I hope you would be active. I know some of you are looking
at me like, I didn't come to church to hear this. It's too
late now unless you get up and leave. And if you get up and
leave, we'll know you're not in agreement. Some of you ought
to run for office and listen. If you don't vote, don't complain.
Don't complain. Let the sorry rascals get in
there. Whenever a Christian votes, he or she votes against God or
for Him. It's serious business. And we
all know that. That's not hard. Well, you know,
I've always been a Republican. My mother, a few years before
she died, said to me, And I hope you'll take this right. She said
to me, Kenneboy, we were having a theological discussion. She
said, Kenneboy, I've always believed this. And I said, Mom, with no
disrespect, you've always been wrong. There is wrong and there
is right. And simply because you've always
been a Republican or a Democrat or an Independent or whatever
you are, Doesn't mean you have to stay there. I once was lost,
but now I'm found. I once was blind, but now I see. I'm not what I used to be. You
know, if Christians of America would vote, it'd bring about
a moral revolution in this country. I know we can't have heaven on
earth. We can have a little heaven on the way to heaven. God's going
to burn this whole thing up. You do know it's coming to an
end. It's coming to an end because it's going to get in total rebellion.
But that doesn't mean I just lay down and let it get in, total
rebellion. I do something about it. I scream
louder. I love this nation. I do. No
one in the world has the liberties we have. God has blessed America. And we've told him to get the
heck out, out of our schools, out of our lives, out of it.
Get out! Now you wonder why we're $16 trillion in debt? Why 61%
of our budget is for entitlement programs? But that's for next
week. What about work and work ethic?
You want to save a country? Let's do it. Let's make a difference. This is a nation whose Christian
citizens has betrayed it. My friends, Christianity is on
trial right now. And nothing's on trial except
Christianity. You just look at it, you see
Christianity on trial everywhere. The government has just recently
moved on to the turf of the Roman Catholic Church, demanding that
they pay for certain things. That the Catholic hospitals use
those dollars for women who want birth control. They say, well,
aren't you for birth control? That's not the issue. We got
a squatter on the church turf. And I don't care if it is a Catholic
church. Butt out! Government should not be telling
a church what to do. I'm starting to get a little
excited here. I'm getting that mean look on
my face. Listen, that's something I'll go to prison for. Before
I will lay down and permit government to tell this church or any other
church You talk about separation of church and state. Let's separate
government. Government has no right to be
in here. Adolf Hitler said to the clergy of Germany, the soul
of Germany, you can leave that to me. That's what Hitler said
to the clergy. He called several thousand of
them together and made one of his crazy speeches. Leave it
to me. And they did. And the clergy
and the church membership looked the other way. And they kept
looking the other way until it was too late for the soul of
Germany. And six million Jewish men and women, boys and girls,
were murdered. Six million were put into gas
chambers. You heard what I said, six million.
Wasn't that awful? That was awful. Six million Jews. You know what they did? They
put them on trains. You've seen it, haven't you? Maybe you young
people haven't seen it. But they put them in boxcars.
And many of them died. They were suffocated because
they were squashed together in these boxcars. And they didn't
feed them. And they sent them all to Poland.
When they got off the train, they took the old folks, that
would be me, and the children. And they said, now all of you
have to go to the cleansing shower. Immediately off the train. They
sent them to the cleansing showers, which was gas. And they were
gassed to death. They gave them phony soap bars
and washcloths, thinking they were going to really take a shower. They were stripped of all their
clothes. After they killed them, they cut off their hair and pulled
their gold teeth or whatever they had of value. Then they
turned their bodies into ashes. They cremated them. Horrible. They had a place where they experimented
on twins. All the twins were sent to this
medical place where identical twins, one would be given poison
where it would die slowly and gradually and finally after it
died, then they would take the living twin and kill that living
twin and they would do these autopsies on them because they
wanted to clone blue-eyed and blonde-haired people. Pastor,
pastor, surely not. Read your history. Read your
history. That's exactly what happened.
And the world stood by. But it all began with the church
butting out. It all began with Hitler saying
to the clergy, leave it to us. Leave it to us. That's why you
hear me say all the time, I believe in the big G, but it's not big
government passing out checks. It's a big God who's able to
do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we ask for things. Six
million Jews. Fifty million babies. Fifty million
babies. Six million Jews. You've all
just said that was awful. You all said, I told you the
puppy story, and I could look at all of you in the face and
you're going, Dad threw all those little puppies in the creek,
and they drowned in that bag. 50 million babies. Where are you? Where am I? Where's
the church? Why aren't we screaming to high
heaven? Why isn't there a shout going
out from this country? No! No, Supreme Court! No, Mr. President! No, government! No! Gone to sleep. These are the issues. Really,
I'm telling you the truth. Crack cocaine's not nearly the
issues as much as the church going to sleep. There are people
all over this morning went to church, went through that nice
little church service. They didn't hear anything close
to this. All popular Sunday morning religion. That's what it's called. I cut
this out of the paper. I think maybe a year ago I cut
this out of the paper and never have read it to you. Abortion
doctor accused of killing babies. Well, of course. Even the headlines is crazy. A doctor who provided abortions
for minorities. What? You know that more African
American babies are killed in the murder mills? than any one
group of people. Now we're not talking about Jews.
Now we're talking about African-Americans. If I was African-American and
I was going to be screaming about something, I'd be screaming about
this. You're killing our babies. Planned
Parenthood. Planned Parenthood? That's another
thing. Your taxpayer dollars goes to
Planned Parenthood. Millions of dollars going to
Planned Parenthood. I don't want to pay for abortions.
A doctor who provided abortions for minorities and poor women
in a house of horror clinic has been charged with eight counts
of murder and the death of patients and seven babies who were born
alive and then killed with scissors. Dr. Kermit Gosnell made millions
of dollars over 30 years performing late-term abortions. Rosinol-induced
labor forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh,
and eighth month of pregnancy, and then killed those babies
by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing
their spinal cord. Bags and bottles holding aborted
fetuses were scattered throughout the building. There were jars
Lining shelves with severed feet, little feet that he kept for
no medical purposes. He charged $325 in America. Issues. This is an issue. This is an issue for the church. Voting. Abortion. That's just the first thing.
When we talk about issues, You know, coming up real soon, we're
going to talk about same-sex marriage. It's an issue, Church.
It's an issue. You want me to tell you what's
wrong with America? The breakup of the family. The
building of a solid society. Let's talk about same-sex marriage.
Let's find out what God says. And then you vote. I'm not asking
you to become a Republican. I don't care what you are, other
than a Christian. I care about that. I don't care
what your preference is or, you know, my family has always been
Democrats. That's been our history. But
mom, you've always been wrong about what we were talking about.
She was wrong about that. And it doesn't mean, because
you have lintage, you know, times change. Some of you ought to
find out about who delivered the slaves. You'll find out who
set the slaves free. You might be surprised. It was
a guy called Abraham Lincoln. Hey, man, don't be quiet on me
now. Don't get all, now, pastor, pastor. I just want you to do
this. I don't want this church to go
to sleep. I want us to be on the front lines. I want us to
give hell more trouble than hell gives us. The church needs to
be out front, not in the back. You don't lead from the back.
Out front. Probably won't get Mr. Michiganian
next year. Because the more out front you
are, the less votes you get. Bill Sasser got the word and he wrote me,
you're about to go in the scorpion's den. You know, I talk about this
because God will honor this. As we honor God, he'll inhabit
the praise of his people. Let me just tell you how simple
this thing is. It's not a legalistic thing.
Somebody told me, you know, you start on this issue, people are
going to say you're legalistic. I'm not anti-anomanistic. That's
a big word which means no law. I don't believe you can live
like hell and go to heaven. I believe if any man be in Christ,
he's a new creation. Just so you know that. I believe
it's all by grace. I do not believe let us sin that
grace may abound. People say, well, it's all by
grace anyway. I'm going to heaven regardless of what I do. Don't
be too sure about that. You'll go to heaven through the
blood of Christ. But between here and heaven, God's going
to work on you. And He's going to change you and me. And we're going to love holiness
and love right. No one in here who's a child of God is mad at
me this morning. You know what? What the pastor
said is just right. We can't be murdering babies.
In fact, you know, even that I had to say that this morning,
think about that. I'm 67 now. I don't ever remember my dad. I don't ever remember a preacher
preaching against murdering babies. I've been in church all my life,
more than probably all of y'all in here put together. I just
don't remember it ever being brought up. I mean, when I was
a kid, I think we would have all passed out if we had read
something about partial birth. I think the church would have
been up in arms. Now just gradually, the most horrific things are
happening. And we accept it. It's a shame, isn't it? More
than a shame. It will bring the judgment of
God on this nation. In fact, I think we're already
there. I'm just telling you this. Save your money. Put some money
in the bank. I don't know, maybe buy a little
gold or silver or something. Because we're about to crash.
I wonder what all the welfare and
entitlement people are going to do when we go bankrupt here
in America. Spain's there. Greece is there.
We're $16 trillion in debt. So you've got to pay your debts.
What happens when you get so far out of control where you've
spent, spent, spent, spent, spent, spent, I mean if you're a spend
threat, and you have no more money and you can't pay your
bills, what happens? Well, we got to file for bankruptcy. That
goes true for a nation, too. You know what I tell our folks?
I've been telling Paul DeGreek and some of the other folks that
are helping us with our budget, next year, for the next three,
four, five years, we need to be real careful. Because I'm
going to tell you this, whoever's president, Mr. Obama wins, he'll print more
money and we'll go in debt. If Mr. Romney wins, he'll make
cuts and everybody will hate his guts. And there'll be rioting
in the streets because welfare, you know you're not going to
get your check. And you know there are folks out there like
this, hey! What do you mean I'm not getting my check? Well, do
you work? No? But my mama got a check,
and I get a check, and we all get a check. There ain't no money. There's no money. Man, I love
this. I got Dave talking, Nick talking. I got things going today. That's
good, though. That means you're alive. You
know, I would honestly and truly, I'd rather have a little fuss
than just you all going to sleep. I mean, I want somebody to be
alive. At least you're thinking. This is what happened this morning
in the first service. This is a touching story, and
I want to say this, and I'm through. A young man who's not in the
mission, but he was here for the service. He listened to the
message, and Quentin found him out there on the steps just bawling,
crying. And Quentin came and got me.
I went out there and sat down beside him. I had an abortion when I was
a kid. He said, you know, I mean, she went. I didn't go with her,
but she went. And today I realize I'm as responsible
as she was. Then he said this to me. I was
only 14. I bet there's some hurting people
in here. Then he went on to say, I never got any love from my
dad. I was never loved by my dad.
I hate my dad. You know, that's the real stuff.
That's what we're dealing with. This is real stuff. The church
just acts like everything is cozy in this world. It's not
cozy. People are hurting. That's why
I wrote Pornone. People hate Pornone. I get religious
hate mail occasionally about Pornone. I just told the truth. People are being molested. Kids
are being molested by their own parents. There is sexual perversion
going on in the church. People are hurting. The Gospel
is the answer. And we go to these little play
church services that are just so unreal. I'd love to see an awakening,
wouldn't you? A real revival. I'd love to see it. I'd love
for God, I want you to know, Lord, we want you to come down
here. We want your presence and pallibility.
And then I want to say to both the men and women here who've
had abortions, I said to this young man out there on the steps,
have you asked God to forgive you? He said, not until this
morning. He got rid of it out there on the steps. You can too. God is so forgiving. Many of us didn't even understand
the sanctity of life. We didn't understand that there
was really a living person. All this talk today about a woman's
rights. What about the baby's rights?
What about the unborn's rights? You know, I've got a little boy.
I got in a fight a long time ago. with the hospital about
our baby that was stillborn from the chiropractor I was in. They
would not put his name. They kept referring to him as
the fetus. I said, his name is Stuart. They
said, well, you're going to have to get his body out of here.
I said, when you put his name on the birth certificate, they
said, we will not do it. They said this to me. Then we'll
take care of his body. I said, you do, and I'll sue
this hospital for every dying man. person. So they wrote me a separate little
note that his name was Stuart. They put fetus on their papers.
Not fetus. Baby. Alive. A person. You heard what Darren
read today. Before I form thee and thy mother's
belly, I love you. And I want to tell all of you
this. There are 50 million babies in heaven. 50 million babies
in heaven. Ah, Pastor, you don't know that.
I know he had them covered by his blood. I believe that with
all my heart. I know what David said when his baby died. I can't
bring him back, but I can go where he is. That's what David
said. That's my plan, too. That's my
plan. I want you to go home not depressed,
I hope I haven't depressed you, but I hope I've made you think. And when November comes, you're
ready. I'm going to vote God. That's
all. You're not going to find a perfect man or woman running
for office. They're all going to have warts,
all of them. But as close as they can line up to the Word
of God. Say, well, what if it comes up that both parties have
a pro-abortion candidate? Write my name in. Do it right
in. I'm going to vote even if they
have two guys. And of course, I'm going to write
somebody else's name in. Amen. I'm not going to just roll over
and lay down. No, no. I hope that during this
series, you come alive. You begin to say, you know what,
Pastor? Thank you. I just never thought
about it. That young man said to me, you
know, I never thought I was responsible. I thought she was responsible.
I paid for it, he said. Or my mother paid for it. You
ever thought about this? How many abortions are done to
cover a sin? You'll find out it isn't his
baby, so I gotta kill it. Or, you know what? We're not
married and really, I don't want his baby, so let's kill it. I
mean, really, you don't say that because you don't want to say
that. But many times, it's multiple sins that cause abortion, not
just the sin of abortion. All right, I know it's been a
little tough, maybe a little tough, but hallelujah, there's
a God who's holy, who's forgiving, who's merciful and loving. Let's
stand together.