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You need to know. From Alex McFarland Ministries, this is Truth for a New Generation Radio. And now the man who preached in 50 states in 50 days, speaker, writer, and advocate for Christian apologetics, Dr. Alex McFarland. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. That's Psalm 33 12.

We'll come back to that. Blessed is the nation, the word blessed or blessed, happy, prosperous, safe, stable. The Bible has a lot to say about blessedness. The Bible speaks about when Christ returns and there's heaven on earth one day during the millennium, every man will safely relax and be at rest under the shade of his own tree. That's a state of blessedness. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.

Hi, Alex McFarland here. Welcome to the Truth for a New Generation Broadcast. And I want to talk a little bit about Psalm 33, and I want to talk about the rise of socialism in the nation. And I want to talk a little bit about where we are as a country, not only culturally, economically, politically, but really ultimately spiritually.

And what I believe are some of the problems with socialism and what we can do about that. But I do welcome you to the program. I trust you're having a good month so far, strange as the world has become. And you know, it's funny, I was preparing for the radio show and I went to my mailbox and I got a letter from Planned Parenthood. And this does relate to how, you know, people see the country right now.

Just every day I get dozens and occasionally over a hundred emails in one day where people say, you know, what is going on? We've witnessed the riots of the Black Lives Matter movement, and we've witnessed the tearing down of statues and burning of the American flag. And now municipalities are taking down statues, that many of which have been up for decades, if not more than a century, to honor the dead of World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, honoring not only the founders, but the veterans that have helped preserve our freedom. And it seems to be crumbling all around us.

Why is that? And I get this letter in my mailbox from Planned Parenthood and it says, Dear friend, exploiting a global pandemic to score political points is just shameful. But that's exactly what our president is doing, says Planned Parenthood. And this is underlined and it's an appeal for money for Planned Parenthood, which of course, I would not give money to this organization that makes millions of dollars a year off of the killing of babies. But it says this, and this is underlined, that abortion is essential, time sensitive health care. Pregnancy can't be put on hold, but states like Texas have already made it illegal to provide this type of health care. And it's underlined, abortion is essential, time sensitive health care, they say. And so they want my donation money to help murder more babies.

Isn't that something? Health care, how can it be health care when it results in a homicide, the loss of a human life. But friend, that relates to why we are not living in the state of Psalm 33 12. We're not blessed right now. We're not stable, free, safe, prosperous. And the Lord is not our God as He once was here in America.

And it goes on in verse 18 of Psalm 33, Behold, the eyes of the Lord are upon those that fear Him, upon them that hope in His mercy to deliver their soul from death and to keep them from famine. See, the hedge of God's favor, and the safety of God's protection, and the favor of God's increase in prosperity doesn't really seem to be with our nation like it once was for so many years. And there's a lot I could say, the legalization of gay marriage, now recently the Supreme Court decision about gender identification being constitutionally protected.

And you can be transgender, cross-dressing, you can be a genetic male but identify as something else, and more and more in the workplace. And friend, this is going to be the end of the church in America apart from a great revival. That you're going to have to be forced in your Christian daycare, your Christian school, your church, to be forced to hire clergy and workers that are openly gay, transgender, repudiate and reject what the Word of God clearly says. And more and more the government is making it illegal to be a biblical Christian.

You don't think so? Did you see this week in California where you can't sing in worship? Now in California can't sing. And don't think, we said this was coming, don't think the government is not going to try and get in and tell you how you can and can't run your church. I remember four years ago Hillary Clinton during her campaign would continually use the phrase freedom of worship. Now the founders bled and died for freedom of religious expression and freedom of conscience. Not only can you think and believe what you want to believe, you can follow your own religious convictions, but the founders envisioned an America with free speech and free religious expression. But now freedom of worship, which the woke left uses, is a phrase that basically means you can believe what you want to believe but you can't publicly express it. And it's one thing when they want to publicly restrict your speech. But now they're saying, and they're using the the pandemic, which some call the plandemic, as a ruse to restrict what can be done in and out of church.

Within church you can't sing now in California. Friend, we are going further and further down into a tailspin that we've got a God-sized problem and only the Lord can turn this thing around. But I want to say this friend, when people ask me why has the hand of God's favor been removed and the hedge of God's protection seemingly restricted, there's a lot I could say. But listen, you kill babies for 45 years, you kill tens of millions of babies, roughly 3,000 babies a day murdered, God will get you.

There's a lot I could say. But friend, we deviated from the moral conscience that is written on every heart that we know is wrong. We've tried to be pluralistic and said that all beliefs are equally valid as long as they're sincerely held.

No, no. Psalm 33-11, the counsel of the Lord stands forever. The thoughts of his heart to all generations. So here's the thing, God's word doesn't have an expiration date. The Bible will never go out of date. Jesus was the one and only Savior. Today, friend, Jesus is the one and only Savior. Heaven and earth will pass away. God's word will never pass away.

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Alex McFarland here. Let me read you another little word from Psalm 33. I love verse six. It says, By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. God created, remember, he spoke and commanded the world to be, and it was, God spoke the world into existence. Ex nihilo, from out of nothing, the Latin phrase there, and God created the world. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap.

He lays up the depths in storehouses. Now verse eight of Psalm 33. Let all the earth fear the Lord and all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

For he spake and it was done, he commanded and it stood fast. Now verse 10 is a verse that I take a lot of comfort in these days, and I want to encourage you to please pray for America. And look, lest anybody say what I get sometimes in correspondence from people, they'll say when we talk about the elections, when we talk about making sure that the people that are in the various offices across the land believe in God, believe in moral truth, and have the right world view. People will email me and they'll say, well, Alex, you're a Christian. You get so passionately engaged about America. I thought your home is in heaven.

Look, it is. But as we've shared many times, Augustine, who lived 354 to 430, Augustine wrote the very famous book City of God. And look, if you're a Christian, your home is in heaven, the City of God. But until you are in the City of God, you have an obligation to the City of Man. See, that's part of the Christian life, that we are to be salt and light.

And we know Christ is coming back, and we know time as we know it will one day come to an end. But we have an obligation to the City of Man to be salt and light. Now, hopefully, with the next election, and if enough believers are willing to get out there and vote, we'll see verse 10 of Psalm 33 come to pass. The Lord brings the counsel of the heathen to naught. He makes the devices of the people to none effect.

I want to talk a little bit about the counsel of the heathen and the devices of the people. I'm holding in my hand some of what you're not going to hear in the Joe Biden ads. It's talking about, you know, defeat Trump and make this country a better place, at least according to the liberals. But do you know what? Here is what the liberal progressive Democrats want to do over the next four years. And this is in order.

And you're not going to hear this in the news. But this is what their counsel, their plan for your life is. Number one, add two to four justices to the Supreme Court, which they can do with a president, vice president, and 50 Democrat senators. And the number one thing, part of the reason that the liberals so vehemently want Trump to fail because of that plum prize, the appointment of Supreme Court justices.

Number two, now listen very carefully. Give citizenship, including voting rights, to 10 to 15 million illegals. They want to give citizenship to 10 to 15 million current illegals. That includes voting rights.

Number three, relax border security and add one to two million illegals to the voting rolls each year. This is why, listen, if Trump loses, you and I will never live long enough to see another Republican, conservative, constitutionalist president. That's why, listen, they want the rule of law to continue to diminish and anarchy and lawlessness to continue to be in the streets.

It's very sad because it grows their power base. All right, change voting laws to allow unregistered voters to vote on election days and make it illegal to have the requirement to show photo ID for voting. And then they also want to abolish the electoral college because it is the electoral college that brilliantly our founders made it so that places with disproportionately high numbers of voters would not be able to override the voice of parts of the country where there are lower numbers of voters. The popular vote and the electoral college vote are a brilliant system.

It is a brilliantly designed system to yield a fair and honest result. And that's why one of the things that I would urge you, almost beg you to pray about, friends, look, if you care about this country, if you care about the future of America, pray that God in His providential power will rule and overrule so that we will have a fair result for the election coming up. Now, one of the things that is a law that the leaders in our states are to cast the electoral votes that they are supposed to based on the tally.

And, you know, there's been pushback. And in the last election, there were states that did not want to cast the electoral votes to lawfully, legally, by our protocols, make the president the president. But the Democrats have long wanted to abolish the electoral college.

Why? Because it mitigates against their plan to try to make this country more and more socialist. One of the things that they want to do is reduce the voting age to 16 or 17 years old.

And this is already being done in some local elections in Maryland and California. Now brace yourself. And look, I've got this.

I'm staring at the ink on paper. And this is true, although you're not going to hear it in the media, but they want to make it legal for felons and prisoners to vote. Now, it's interesting.

It's interesting, folks. If you're a convicted felon serving time, two things, you can't own a firearm and you can't vote. But lawful, law-abiding citizens, the liberals want to take away the right of gun ownership and self-defense. And so it's this incredible irony. It's really a slow, toxic American suicide.

They want to make sure that law-abiding citizens don't have the right to own firearms, but convicted felons do have the right to vote. And so, friend, we are in a spiritual battle. Now, when we come back after this brief break, I want to talk about why the rise of socialism.

And I'll give you an amazing statistic about what university professors are teaching students these days. But stay tuned. There is some good news in this otherwise, otherwise for the moment, bleak and likely bleaker picture. When Truth for a New Generation comes back, I want to talk about how the plans of God override the schemes of man. The Lord has a 100 percent track record in keeping His promises, and He lovingly offers to help everyone prepare for life and for eternity. Join Alex McFarland at the Cove as he shares from the Old Testament book of Daniel and the New Testament book of Revelation, the two most well-known books of Bible prophecy. Each reveals things about world history and the future that only God could know. Their prophecies could be a source of motivation, warning and assurance.

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Our heart shall rejoice in Him because we have trusted in His holy name. Welcome back to Truth for a New Generation. Alex McFarland here. I want to resume talking about the rise of socialism and a Christian response to it, but I do want to remind everybody that this month I will be at The Cove, the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove, teaching Daniel and Revelation. There is still time to register, and I'm excited because they tell me people are coming from all across the country.

Listen, folks, COVID notwithstanding, my speaking tour is resuming. You can go to my own website, which is alexmcfarland.com, to find out where I'll be and when. I do thank God that we can preach the gospel on the radio, online. We do a three-day-a-week webcast that we're now in our third month of doing. Just go on Facebook, Rev Alex McFarland.

Please subscribe if you do subscribe publicly. You're automatically entered in our book giveaway. We give away a book every Friday, and I thank God for the more than 3,000 people just this year that have indicated they've trusted Christ, they've prayed to receive Christ, we've sent them material, and we are sending out materials all the time. And obviously, job one is to evangelize the lost and to see people saved. But America is in a spiritual battle because of the fact that this country was founded on biblical principles. This country, at least up until recently, has been that paragon of gospel truth, Christian influence, and moral truth. And it does hang in the balance. There are a lot of people that want America to fail and to fall.

And you may ask the question, as many ask me, so why? You know, if the liberal progressives are so bent on expunging Christianity from America and turning this into a secular utopia or a man-envisioned secular utopia, why? Well, look folks, Karl Marx rejected Christianity, and for Marx, God became the government. And that's how people are today. The Black Lives Matter movement is a Marxist movement. What you're watching, friend, the tearing down of statues, and as cowardly city council members across the country, sometimes because of one complaint, and sometimes because of no complaints, they're pulling down veterans memorials, they're pulling down statues to our founders from Columbus to Washington, even Lincoln, Ulysses Grant.

Folks, what you've been watching is a slow, incremental overthrow of the US government. But part of the reason that people are so bent on changing America and ushering in socialism is because like Karl Marx, they don't have God, so government becomes God. They have no hope of heaven, so only a panacea and utopia in this world is what they hope in. Now, Will Durant, who I love and I read and study his history, Will Durant in his summary volume after writing The History of Civilization, the summary volume says in The Lessons of History that there is no historical example of morality apart from God in all these nations. There's only the might of the state, and without God, we don't have morality.

Now, listen to this. In the end of the 19th century, a lot of elite liberals were concerned that more and more money and wealth was going into the hands of the blue collar, you know, heretofore agricultural and blue collar workers. And so they were concerned about taking control of the electorate and making sure that liberal progressives had the power. And it's interesting, there was a man named Frederick Keppel, K-E-P-P-E-L, and he commissioned a Swedish left-leaning sociologist named Gunnar Myrdal, M-Y-R-D-A-L, and this is in Paul Johnson's History of the American People. Well, Myrdal did a study on voting habits in America.

Now it's interesting, he was paid $300,000, which was an amazing amount of money in the early 20th century. He ended up writing a book called An American Dilemma, a 1000 page book with 250 pages of notes and ten appendices. It finally came out in 1994, and in An American Dilemma, Myrdal, who was a follower of the German atheist Friedrich Nietzsche, he said this, he said, Democratic politics are stupid, quote unquote. And he ultimately said, the American people are impervious to rational argument, especially when it comes to voting.

Now, here's my point. Myrdal ultimately became a socialist. He was one of the co-founders of the Swedish Socialist Party, and his book, An American Dilemma, is basically a 1000 page book that trashes America, trashes our moral, God-based representative republic.

Now, why am I telling you this? Because you've got to understand, over the last 30 years, when secular university professors are interviewed about the books that most influenced their life, Myrdal's book, An American Dilemma, which is a socialist trashing of America, it is one of the top three most influential books. Well, you have professors that come into the classroom with this kind of a perspective for three and four decades. It's no wonder that eventually, incrementally, gradually, the voting public starts to think socialistically, because they've sat under socialist professors. And so today, a Harris poll from a year ago says that half of millennials, Gen Z, and Americans younger than 30, say that they would prefer to live in a socialist country. A Gallup poll from a few months ago found that 43% of Americans believe socialism would be quote, a good thing for the country.

And that's a doubling of the amount in the last 20 years. Psalm 33 says, Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear Him. Verse 18, upon them that hope in His mercy to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord. Now, Psalm 33 22. And this is our prayer. And this is why, friend, you must pray.

You must vote. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope indeed. Not only do I pray that you will hope in God, I pray that boldly, courageously, with your voice and your vote and your life, you will stand for God. And Truth For A New Generation is here to inspire, inform, and equip, and to help you do that. Thanks for listening.

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