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Look, I am for marriage between a man and a woman. I am for life from conception. I am for following the Bible and I believe that our founders started this nation on biblical principles.

I am in support of our military and believe that America should play a role in world security. I believe our Constitution was intended for a moral people and that the Bible contains the only true moral code. I believe we are all born sinners and that God in His grace and mercy sent His Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins and that if we will confess our sins, He is just and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I believe salvation is not just accomplished in a little prayer but that it is found in how that transformation is lived out. Jesus is to be the Lord of our lives and we should follow biblical precepts. This is not legalism or works but a life lived out in love and honor towards the one who died for my sins.

Faith without works is dead and is no faith at all. I believe that we will fall and that we need to have a repentant heart and that God will ultimately bring us into perfect action through Jesus Christ, spirit man perfected and soulish man in progress. I believe that we are not to live in guilt and shame when we fall but we repent and get up and move closer to Jesus. I believe that if our nation will repent and turn from wickedness that God will heal our land.

I believe that as a Christian I must occupy until He comes and that to call evil wicked and to warn about those evil acts is a part of the mandated Christianity. That to love also means to be willing to take the risk necessary to confront a friend with the truth in hopes that their heart will be turned because their life matters even if it means in that moment they will possibly hate me. It means that I must risk scorn to stand for truth and that I can never sit silently by while evil attempts to conquer the world. God is my everything and Jesus is the love of my life. That does not make me weak but strong, not silent but bold and not fearful but courageous. Therefore if you are my friend while we may not fully agree know that I share what I share because I care.

If you strongly disagree with these beliefs they are not debatable for me and you can if you choose unfriend me. I do not say this in anger but in love I wish for you eyes to see and ears to hear that Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation and that God not man gets to decide what is truth life and the way. God bless you. Welcome to Chosen Generation with your host Pastor Greg Young. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people that you should chew forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light which in time past were not a people but are now the people of God which had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.

And now chosen generation where no topic is off limits and everything is filtered through biblical glasses. And now here's your host Pastor Greg. And welcome welcome welcome. Good afternoon. Great to have you with me. Thanks for tuning in.

Got a quick message for you. I recently saw a meme kind of that said this in general. Strong men would never have let this happen so they attacked masculinity first.

And I know it was said with all good intentions to point to the assault that the left has done and that has happened against masculinity. I'm aware of that. I'm fully aware of that.

But I would suggest this. A strong Christian would not let this happen. When we started believing that there was not a connection between the Mayflower Compact, the Great Awakening, and our Declaration of Independence, and that the Constitution was written by theists and deists, we lost the soul of our country. When we say that social issues and dismiss them as minor, we say no the problem is spending.

If God was the foundation we wouldn't have a spending problem. I just took time out to call both of my senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz to ask them to vote no on a three and a half trillion dollar budget resolution because there's anti-gun legislation associated with it. And I'm all for that because I'm a strong proponent of the Second Amendment. I'm a strong proponent of Americans being able to defend themselves, not so much against a foreign attack, although that now is becoming more and more of a potential reality. In fact, it is a reality. We have an invasion at our southern border. Let's not kid ourselves.

That's a fact. There is an invasion at our southern border. But our founders wanted us armed so that in case we ended up with a tyrannical government, we would be in a position to defend ourselves and to stop tyranny in its tracks.

As I made that call, I began to think also about the amount of money that Senator Bernie Sanders has put in a budget resolution, a resolution $3.5 trillion, trillion dollars. Folks, we have a God problem. When we accept that man, apart from God, can fix this nation, we're lost. You know, I interview influencers in every area of policy that you can imagine, and all of them concede that if we don't get back to a biblical constitutional foundation, there will be nothing for the rest of it to stand on. Whether we're talking about economics, whether we're talking about security, whether we're talking about foreign relations, whether we're talking about any form of domestic policy at all, jobs, I don't care what you're talking about, the pipeline of food, energy issues, all of them, every single bit of this, it all has a principled foundation. And it's why John Adams said, our constitution is fit only for a moral people. And yet what has happened is we have taken and identified and decided that there are more important things to discuss and social, quote unquote, social issues. Well, those belong to you religious people.

Those belong to you, you know, you people that have your nose in a Bible and that pray, and that's all really nice. But we're over here doing the real work, having absolutely no idea that no matter what they do, no matter what they try to build, no matter what they try to create, no matter how they try to fit, it's putting lipstick on a pig, folks. It's putting lipstick on a pig. Because unless the foundation is God, unless a biblical worldview is applied, then the experiment that our founding fathers began laid down their lives for, the thing that many, many men have laid down their lives for, that we fought world wars over. All of that is for naught.

If we don't stand up right now, rise up right now and say enough is enough is enough. Our founders were challenged by preachers in the pulpit to make a choice between King George and King Jesus. The very ideas of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were predicated wholly on their full understanding of what scripture had to say about where those begin. I hear people all the time say, well, you know, if you're pro-life, then you believe that life begins at conception. And somehow there's a separation between understanding life beginning at conception, and the hand of God being a part of that equation. Oh, you know, but yeah, it's just a social issue.

Folks, if we don't value life, then none of the rest of it is going to come into alignment. We hear cries of the devil, we hear cries about black lives matter. And yet those very same people have no issue with a Planned Parenthood plant, a factory that murders and has murdered 25 million black babies.

That's insane. That's genocide. Genocide. The black population has remained at 13% for 50, 60 years.

Why is that? Because abortion mills kill the population. Because abortion has sterilized the women. Because welfare has driven men out of the house.

And that experiment that they were doing in black America, it's found its way onto Main Street America, folks. We have more children born to single women than we do children born to married couples. Marriage has become a contract. Well, you know what they say about contracts.

Contracts were made to be broken. That's the saying. Marriage is a covenant.

Marriage is for life. If you're having a rough time, look in the mirror. Things aren't the way you'd like them to be. Look in the mirror. It's the man in the mirror. It's the woman in the mirror. That's whose attention God wants to get to fix whatever's on in your relationships. It's not them.

They're not the problem. Start with you. Create in me a clean heart, oh Lord.

See if there be any wicked way in me. We hear judge not. No, it's not judge not. It's judge yourself first. Look inside and make sure that when you look outside, you're judging properly. And why do we judge? Why do we get engaged and involved in those judgment equations?

Because their soul matters. We don't judge because, oh, I want to be mean or cruel or, no. It's judgment out of love, but it's judgment based on not my rules, not your rules, his rules. He decides. He's written the book.

He's the one who makes the decision. And it falls right back to our country as well. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Life given by God, breathed into us. The spirit of God breathes life into every human person.

You don't live if God doesn't breathe life into you. Liberty. Liberty. Our founders understood liberty. What does liberty mean? Liberty means freedom from sin and death. That's liberty.

True liberty is what Christ purchased on the cross when he laid down his life and shed his blood, and then rose from the dead to open the door to the on the cross when he laid down his life and shed his blood and then rose from the dead to overcome death, sin. Follow me. Listen to my words.

Hear what I'm telling you. Truly read the book of Romans. Truly read Galatians 2 20. I am crucified with Christ.

Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me and the life I now live in the flesh. In the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. For without faith, it is impossible to please God. And so what did God do to make sure that you had super faith? Super faith. Not just the faith of a mustard seed, but super faith. He gave you, at conversion, the faith of his Son, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. That faith in here.

In here. So that your words have power. So that your life is a life lived out in victory. Not in bondage, but in true freedom. Liberty. Liberty. Life. Liberty. And the pursuit of happiness. I've come that you might have life and have it more abundantly, but the thief comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy.

Sound familiar? How many times are we living out a life that's full of thievery? Thieves coming, stealing, killing, destroying. Not God's plan for your life. For your life. My life.

No, no, no. His plan for victory. Victory is ours. Glory is his. Listen to those words again. Victory is ours.

Glory is his. And in 1 John 3 he says, the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Be sober, be vigilant. Be sober, be vigilant. For the thief is looking around whom he may devour, the lion whom he may devour.

But be sober, be vigilant. And in due time, in due time, he will exalt you for his glory. The victory is yours. The glory is God's.

Jesus Christ said, it's finished. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. God has given unto you all things necessary for life and godliness. Endowed by our creator.

That's what the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has done. He breathed life into us. It's in here. Christ died on the cross.

It's in here. Life, liberty, freedom from sin. Think about that. Freedom from slavery to sin. That's what Paul calls it. Slavery to sin. 1 Samuel 8, 11 through 18.

Free to serve the king Jesus. Do you know that Samuel, out of his mouth, via God's mouth to his ear, warned people in 1 Samuel? 1 Samuel 8. He warned them. He said, look, if you give yourself over to a king, if you give yourself over to a king, you're not going to like the results.

God said, you're not going to like the results. This will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you. He will take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen. And some will run before his chariots.

He will appoint captains over his thousands and captains over his fifties. Will set some to plow his ground and reap his harvest. And some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers. And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage and give it to his officers and servants. And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest young men, and your doggies, and put them to his work. He will take a tenth of your sheep and you will be his servants. And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you've chosen for yourselves. And the Lord will not hear you in that day.

Wow. Now think about where we are today folks. Think about what we've done. We have given ourselves over to this tyranny. Tyranny of bureaucracy. Tyranny of the alphabet soup. Tyranny of the alphabet soup. Tyranny of administrative state.

Tyranny. Joe Biden, his son gets rich off of us. He gets rich off of us. His buddies get rich off of us. And we slave away.

Slave away. And they come and they take 40 percent. They tax here. They tax there. They tax just almost all there is.

So you're scraping by. And now they want to spend another three and a half trillion dollars. But I say to you that God has a different plan. God has a different purpose.

And if we will put God first in our nation again. I have had such pushback over the last 10 almost 11 years of doing this program. You don't understand. We can't put the Bible back in school again.

We can't put prayer back in school again. You know what? You're right. You're right. Man cannot do it.

Man can't do it. But you know I've been ministering over in India. And I've seen tumors melt. I've seen blind see. I've seen deaf hear.

I've watched the lame walk. I've seen barren wombs give life. I've seen political prisoners set free. And I've seen favor with the people who aren't supposed to like us. But bless our ministry.

Because the favor of God rests on what we're doing. We declare the name of Jesus Christ. Victory is ours. The glory belongs to him.

Brothers and sisters, please. Strong men? No, strong men fail. Because man's strength is weak. Strong Christians succeed and always have.

Because their strength is not their own. Victory is ours. The glory belongs to God. God bless you. Have a great rest of your day.