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It is Woke Jesus, the False Messiah Destroying Christianity. I want to welcome Pastor Lucas Miles. He's also a film guy as well.

He produces movies, films, shorts, documentaries, variety of different film products, as well as an author, as well as a pastor. So I want to welcome Pastor Lucas Miles. Welcome. Good to have you back. Hey, Greg. Good to be back. Good to see you. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Well, wow. Woke Jesus. So talk to me about, you know, I had Trevor Loudon on last Friday, and we talked about, you know, enemies within the church and, you know, and then his new stuff about the communist senators and what have you. Woke Jesus, though, really identifies how they're getting away with being an enemy within the church. Would you agree with that? Yeah, I think that it gets us there. I mean, look, my goal on this was to really write the definitive work on understanding wokeism, both its history, the modern implications, and then ultimately what we can do about it. And I think that in order to effectively defeat this, to push it back, to at least eradicate it from the church, that we have to understand it properly. And in order to understand it, we need to understand where it came from. And so in the book, I do a deep dive starting in the 1700s, kind of working my way forward in order to really bring out, you know, what sort of ideological and theological components led us to where we are today. Do you tie in or do you think it ties in, you know, they began with the Enlightenment, right? They began to try to deify Christ, they began to say, you know, Jesus didn't perform miracles, that the sea was frozen, that, you know, trying to bring in the heresies of the Book of Thomas and things of that nature. Is that because I think it's interesting, when you mentioned going back to the 1700s, you know, most people are like going, well, you know, 50 years ago, I mean, I've even gone back 100 years and said, you know, look at what evolution did, right?

Look what evolution has done. But you're talking about the 1700s. I don't want to steal from it.

I want people to read it. But talk to you about some of the things that you identified, even in the 1700s, that germinated into what we see today. Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, I think in order to think about this, right, Christianity is a really big ship.

And you don't just turn a big ship around, you know, quickly. It's a slow process, you know, and so this has taken some time. And this is why, you know, I think in many ways, it's been that frog in the kettle, where it hasn't been very noticeable to people, because it's been happening over decades and centuries, you know, rather than months and years, the way that we typically think about it. I think that there's a lot of people that woke up and said, man, you know, when did all this happen? When did, you know, when did churches start hosting drag shows? And when did people start saying that, you know, calling the Holy Spirit as she and you know, this sort of stuff.

And you know, this is, of course, very radical, you know, evil things that are happening. But we got here slowly. And and I think in many ways, we got here while the church was sleeping in that process.

So you're absolutely right. After the Enlightenment, there was a big push to really minimize the divinity of Christ to uplift his humanity. We saw Jesus kind of more as the great social, you know, reformer and the champion for the state rather than the Savior of the people. And and this sort of, you know, crept into our academic, you know, theological centers for churches, and raising up clergy. We saw this push for what's known as critical theology, which was sort of inspired by this kind of same Marxist undertone that was impacting a lot of things in the early 1900s, we had the birth of liberation theology. And then and then later, black liberation theology in America, which is kind of this hybrid between Marxism and Catholicism, and the Marxism and the black church in America. And you know, this, this, it kind of created these theological hitchhikers along the way I call them this, this sort of, you know, amalgamation of Christian faith with a little bit of other, you know, extra biblical ideas added in, they weren't noticeable at first until they hit kind of critical mass here in the last, you know, decade or so.

And then all of a sudden, people are starting to wake up and realize, how did we get here, and all of a sudden, we have, you know, what, what I'm calling in this book, woke Christianity is massively on the rise. It's interesting that I've, I've pointed a lot to, you know, how, how it kind of germinated in the 1960s. And what I reference is, is that in the 1960s, you had the Vietnam War, which I was, I was a Cold War vet in the 80s. But I look back at the 60s, the 50s, I look back at, you know, the creeping of communism that was happening after World War Two. And there's no question in my mind that that Vietnam started out that way, according to Pachepo, who who gave us a documentary called Disinformation, he talks about how they spun Vietnam to try to get America to turn against itself.

I'm sorry, I don't want to be long winded in it. But very quickly, the idea is, is that you could get an exemption through academia, or religion. Yeah. And it seemed as though the communists stayed home and took over our seminaries. And then they reintroduce the Alexandrian perversion of Scripture, and Westcott Hort, and began spinning out all of these different versions of the Bible. That was a long term goal. Would you agree with that? Yeah, the communists and socialists are always happy to play the long game. This has been I mean, a lot of people aren't aware that there was a Socialist Party in the United States before even the formation of the USSR. And so this is, this is, you know, I think something that we have to understand and come to terms with is that there has been a concerted and and very deliberate attempt, and and in many cases, successful attempt to to subvert to, to kind of worm their way into massive, you know, denominational structures in the United States and theology centers and Christian academia and, and in order to begin to change the messaging in order to disrupt the faith, I think, you know, on just maybe using more modern terminology, the left knows they can't win elections unless they capture the church. You know, if every Christian were to vote kingdom values, you know, democratic socialists would never win an election for the rest of eternity in the United States. But if they can confuse the church on Jesus's message, if they can start pushing ideas, like Jesus was a socialist, you know, Jesus would be trans affirming, you know, Jesus would be for open borders. I mean, after all, he was a refugee for a while, you know, they start using kind of these little, you know, half truths from, from the scriptures in order to create kind of propaganda lines to push these ideas. And I think it leaves a lot of people that have, you know, a growing degree of biblical illiteracy, you know, confused about what way is right, what way is wrong. And oftentimes, I think that they went are able to win people over with this. And we've seen this divide in the church now that I believe arguably is greater than the divide even during the Protestant Reformation. So to that end, what is the answer in in your in your opinion, Pastor Miles to us coming back to to a firm foundation?

How do we get back there? I think a couple things I think on a personal level, you know, we all have to educate ourselves on these topics. I mean, this is why I have this book out there, I want people to be able to be equipped in these things. So they have answers, you know, you're gonna have conversations in the grocery store line, on social media, you know, with family at Thanksgiving, right? And you need to be able to have an answer that's not just Marxism's bad, you know, you need to be able to talk about these things in a way without just getting emotional without getting heated, that you can actually dismantle these ideas.

And I've tried to provide that for people in the book. I think additionally, we have to continue to put pressure on elected, you know, leaders that to recognize Marxist ideology for what it is that that it really is a form of religion. And what we're seeing right now is the government in many cases is giving preference to one religion over another, as they give preference to woke ism over Christianity. I think that also, we have to make sure and this might be the most important, you know, on from a Christian standpoint, is that we're not attending or supporting a woke church. You know, if you're in a church, and you've been there for a while, and you start seeing the pastor, you know, he didn't celebrate the dismantling of Roe v. Wade, he didn't, you know, he didn't know how to handle maybe things through COVID very well, you know, church was shut down for, you know, extended period of time.

You know, maybe he's trans affirming. Of course, we have these kind of radical sides that become a little bit more obvious. But even if your pastor, you know, they're kind of doing this soft CRT sort of messaging, you know, apologizing and repenting for your whiteness and these sorts of things. I mean, dividing people based upon race and skin color rather than just, you know, preaching the gospel. This is all signs that you could be a woke church, it's time to stop funding that.

Meet with the leaders, express your concern. We have a lot of people that are buying copies of this book for their pastor to say, hey, what do you think about this just to make sure they're on the same page, and that they haven't found themselves kind of inadvertently within a woke church. The other thing, and I've talked about this for years, you know, 20 years ago, the Lord showed me, you know, the next great battle is going to be over the validity of Scripture, and they're going to come after translation because they can use translation.

And it's interesting, and it is factual. There's 1400 missing verses in the NIV. And the NIV became one of the big, you know, sellers, right? You know, you had all these preachers that were coming up and preaching out of the NIV. And people didn't realize how much they had gutted that book and its connection to the authors, Westcott and Hort, who were considered to be heretics in the 1890s, which I'm sure you discovered in your research. Yeah, and look, I think that there's a lot of, you know, when you dive into this, what you see is there's a lot of enemies kind of on the outside of the church that are kind of coming against it. But you also have sort of this Trojan horse-ism that's sort of found its way with inside of the faith.

And, you know, it's whether we're talking about that historical Jesus movement of the kind of post-Enlightenment or, you know, this more kind of liberation theology of modern day, we're seeing this push. I think that, you know, people, look, I don't necessarily endorse a single Bible translation, but I tell people you need to get, there's great, valid, very, like, long-held translations that are there. And I encourage people to read multiple of them. I personally am preaching out of the Christian Standard Bible, probably the most right now. It's sort of my main preaching text. But if I sit down to study, I'm looking at four or five different translations. You want to make sure that these translations are sound, they've stood the test of, you know, kind of, you know, good solid evangelical scrutiny, you know, over these things, and that you're not getting something that is just an emotional reading of the text or some sort of distortion, or as you mentioned, something that's actually leaving out some of those verses.

I was a guy who grew up on the NIV. I still have one of my collection of Bibles, you know, and I will probably look up certain things in there if I'm studying, but that's, it's, you know, you have to recognize, you know, what it is and what it isn't. Well, you discern it. Yeah, you discern it. You discern it. I remember as a teenager, you know, coming up, and it was the King James, and then it was the New American Standard, and then there was a living, which was like the word for word translated into a more modern language. And I looked at those three, and I would go back to the King James as my baseline, and then I would move from there and say, okay, I'm not quite understanding this language.

How do I, how do I, how do I make that connection? But you know, but finding, you know, finding the baseline, and you know, you look at that. We just, we talked about, you know, how important it is that we get back to those fundamentals, to that foundation.

You know, the other thing that I hear so much when I bring this topic is this program is, they say it's political. Well, you know what? God's the one who established nations, in my mind. I mean, that's how I see it. God made nations, and I believe that God made this nation. I also believe that He has something to say about every part or aspect of our lives. But the minute you bring God into it, they immediately say, oh, you're just talking about social issues. What's your response to that? So look, somewhere along the line, pastors and Christians have bought this lie that, you know, marriage, abortion, sexuality, gender, you know, even more topics like, you know, moral sovereignty and these things, that these are first and foremost political issues.

And I would say that that's a deception. These are not political issues first and foremost. They're theological issues first and foremost. Then they're moral issues. Then they become civic and political issues. But it's very important to recognize that our politic flows downstream from our theology. And so, you know, if you want to, you know, be able to talk about something politically, you have to oftentimes think about it first theologically. And so and really morally to decide whether or not this is right or wrong.

These issues that were, you know, we're seeing is kind of these hot topics. I mean, here's the goal. If you can convince Christians that abortion, sexuality, gender, marriage, you know, all of these things are first political, then what you and then you push this lie that the separation of church and state. Well, then the church can't talk about anything. You know, we're regulated. Basically, we can read the Beatitudes.

And that's about all you can do. And then, you know, isn't it doesn't it also, you know, and I remember, you know, Dr. Dobson talked about, you know, why why it's important that that we're not, you know, pushing Santa Claus, for example, at Christmas. Because your kids already are told on Sundays in Sunday school, a story, okay. And when they go to school, the teacher tells them, you were learning a fable. And so the Bible becomes more fableistic. And because of that, then we discount it. When we come into real life, people have, I mean, we've, that we've built that, I mean, we've got generations that believe that the Bible is, is really more fableistic. It's more like an Aesop's fable than it is actual reality. It's it's allegories.

Yeah, you know, the stats are pretty concerning right now. There's about 24%. According to a recent study, I believe it's Pew Forum that showed that only about 24% of churchgoing Christians believe that the Bible is the inerrant authoritative Word of God. That means that 24% of people who are attending church every single Sunday, have a more diminished view of Scripture. Some might believe it's inspired, but not, you know, but not inerrant.

They might believe that, you know, there's, it's mytho history, they might believe it's fable, but good, you know, teachings for life, you know, there's all different views that could come out of that in that spectrum. But what's important is that we see this massive decline. And so this is the lowest that it's been, you know, really, since our nation's, you know, founding. And that's not going in a good direction right now. And so although I am optimistic, I do believe that the church wins in the end, we have to remember that doesn't mean the American church always is going to thrive. And so, you know, if we don't want to see the church in America go the way of the church in Europe, where they have nice beautiful buildings, but you know, really dead congregations, I think it's very important that we as believers, we come back to our faith, we come back to the Word of God. And we really look for ways to engage society that is going to, you know, influence and inspire people and call them into repentance, you know, rather than just, you know, kind of this escapism, I think that we've seen so prevalent, you know, in the last, you know, several decades.

Darrell Bock As we're closing out, we have about five or six minutes left. When we think about this woke Jesus, one of the things that crops up to me is recognizing that we really are in a battle between good and evil. And that evil is a real thing that, you know, that there really is a demonic, that there are demons there are, you know, the devil is not a fable, he's not made up.

He's for real and his goal is to make us believe in this false idol. How significant is that spiritual warfare aspect of understanding what we're battling? Matt Cochrane I think it's imperative, you know, in the book of Ephesians in chapter six, Paul gives us this, this really mandate to put on the armor of God. And that's because we recognize that this is not a physical battle, it's first and foremost, a spiritual battle, it might, it might have certain aspects of it that take place in the physical dimension that we see in politics, and we see in culture.

But really driving this as a spiritual is a spiritual battle. And so, you know, in the armor of God actually lay this out in my book, Woke Jesus, we see all these different pieces of armor that actually protect us from false gospels and false ideas, you know, being able to put on the helmet of salvation, you know, there's a lot of people that are preaching this idea of universalism, or that, you know, some sort of, or maybe that there's not even a heaven or hell that it's just, you know, this, this life is all that there is the helmet of salvation helps us to be able to put that into perspective, we put on the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, you know, these things all show us something, there's a lot of people preaching the gospel, where basically human behavior doesn't matter, it doesn't matter how you live, it doesn't matter what your life is like, right, that's irrelevant the breastplate of righteousness shows us differently, it shows us there is this thing called righteousness, there is a standard and we don't have we don't we never gonna meet that on our own. But through this gift of righteousness, we're able to kind of withstand and we have protection against the things of this life. You know, our feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace, it reminds us that evangelism matters that there's a lost dying world out there that we have to go to them, we have to have our feet fitted and ready to be able to take this gospel onto the the ends of the earth. Well, and and and the crucifixion, you know, when I when I lead people in in, you know, in in prayer in India, you know, one of the declarations that I have them make is Galatians 220. 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, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. It's that, you know, so many get into this idea, I think, Lucas where it's, well, I'm, you know, I'm just gonna go get cleaned up, we go, absolutely, you come and you're not what you need to be. Right. But Jesus encounters you and even the word grace, that word Charis, you know, if you if you dig that definition, you'll find that it says, it is God exuding his spirit upon the soul of man, turning him, that's a 180. Yeah. You know, Luke, Luke, chapter 24, Jesus talks about, you know, repentance and remission, that we are to go and preach repentance, and remission, that that's part of the Great Commission that gets left out, is you're supposed to be preaching and and and repentance from what?

Well, you better be talking about sin. Yeah, yeah. So good. No, I think that these, you know, we have to, we have to take what is happening today as a reminder and and really a mandate on our life to prepare our hearts to know the truth, to be able to recognize falsehood, and to really be able to, you know, work to to really push back and eradicate this false gospel of wokeism from the pulpit today in America. And woke Jesus, the false Messiah destroying Christianity is the book, Pastor Lucas Myles is the author, you can get it wherever fine books are sold, correct?

Yes, yeah. Amazon is number one bestseller on Amazon right now. And, you know, you can also go to Lucas Myles.org or any other, you know, book website here in America and pick up a copy. And Lucas Myles.org will also show you all the other things that Lucas is involved in.

And there's a number of projects that he's engaged in and has been engaged in. And I would encourage you to check those out. LucasMyles.org. Lucas, thanks for being with me today. I sure appreciate it. Hope you come back. Thanks for having me, Greg. Appreciate it.

You betcha. All right, folks, we're going to take a break. Let's see when we get back. John Pierce will be with us coming up. Rick Manning will be with us next here on Children Generation Radio. I'm your host, Pastor Greg.

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Instead, we are fighting an ideological battle for control of our country by contributing to causes that support your constitutional rights. I am Patriot Mobile. You can support Chosen Generation and make a tax-deductible donation by visiting www.chosengenerationradio.com. And now, back to Chosen Generation with Pastor Greg. And welcome back to Chosen Generation Radio, where no topic is off limits and everything filtered through biblical glasses. Thanks so much for joining me. I know you have a choice of where you can listen each and every day, and I thank you for keeping it tuned here to Chosen Generation Radio. Well, folks, I've got my very good friend and co-host, and it's just going to be him and I, because we're going to talk about the U-turn. And I want to welcome the president of Americans for a Limited Government, Mr. Rick Manning. Hey, Rick, welcome. Hey, Pastor Greg.

I hope you had a great Independence Day. You know what? I think so. I don't know. I think so. Is that terrible or what? No. It was relatively uneventful, but that's okay. Sometimes that's a good thing. Yeah.

Uneventful is, yeah. We'll go with that. We'll go with that. I did watch some fireworks last night and enjoyed that and spent a little bit of time on my social media stuff. By the way, folks, really, really quickly. So Facebook has decided that I am a digital creator. I don't know. I've got about 5,500, 5,600 followers, and I'm looking around, and that seems to be a pretty common number.

I was just kind of looking at a lot of different folks. Anyway, let's bump that number up. Can we do that? So I want you to go to facebook.com forward slash dosghostman.

D-O-S-E-G-H-O-S-T-M-A-N. That stands for a dose of the Holy Ghost. Dosghostman. Facebook.com forward slash dosghostman and follow me.

Let's see if we can't take that up a few notches. Dosghostman on the Facebook page. Facebook.com forward slash dosghostman.

You can also follow the Children's Generation Radio Show as well. I don't know. Just send a message. I know everybody's jumping off Facebook. I get it. I do. But there's some people there that need to hear this, and so let's try and message them.

All right. Rick, make it a YouTube. Before we go off the Facebook, let me just say it. Facebook is the... YouTube's a harder nut to crack because they're actually more ideological. Facebook's less ideological on a lot of things, and once you're determined to be a content creator, it gives the opportunity for something to happen, and that is for advertisers to advertise on your content and be able to then... And you get... The creator gets a piece of that money, and so in some ways just by cruising on Facebook and looking at your content on Facebook, once you get into the place where you're able to be monetized, it's a process with Facebook, it becomes a way to help fund the ministries you're doing simply by participating with them and sharing them on social media. So yeah, getting that number up is a big deal. I've spent, I will tell you, I've spent a decade trying to get our number up on Facebook, and sometimes it's just dead for four years, but we're up to 362,000 now and growing rapidly, and it's a... And the reach is... We have four million people reached last month on Facebook alone, so this is a medium that can be utilized for good, and if you get... When you get a check for ad revenue from Mark Zuckerberg, it kind of makes you happy. It's a... It takes some money out of his pocket for a change of pace. So anyway, that's a... So yeah, going off and following Pastor Greg, go ahead and give him how to follow you again. And I would recommend following both, because the show is where the content is most likely to get monetized, but that's really, really important.

And then, excuse me, for the show, you wanna go to facebook.com forward slash chosengenerationradio, but I will tell you... It's a growth. You just have to keep working it, and it'll grow. Well, and I'll tell you that we have started getting checks. Good. Good. That's a big deal. I mean, and that's a... And the more you... It's not one to one ratio, but the fact is, the more you grow, the more reach you get, and you've got quality content, so it's worth... So if people want it, go do that, and if you think about it, go to limitgovt, limitgovt, and that's the Americans for Limited Government Facebook page, and go ahead and just follow us as well.

And I'll put something up on our page, urging people to take a look at your page and to follow you as well. Thank you. So the... No problem. Let's talk about what we're gonna talk about. So U-turn. So I say to Rick, U-turn, and it's so funny, because that just popped in this morning as I was praying over the program. That's just what popped in my head. And the first thing Rick says to me is, well, we've made a U-turn. So I'm excited. So tell me, man.

I wanna hear your thoughts on the U-turn that we've made. Well, let me give you three examples. Okay. On the abuse of power of the bureaucratic state, where a state that determined that carbon dioxide, which we exhale, is a pollutant, meaning that mankind, all mammals are massive polluters on this planet simply by breathing out. It is that the same government, the same bureaucrats that did that can be held, can be brought into restraint. There's a Supreme Court decision last year called West Virginia versus EPA. It got battled over this last Supreme Court session as well. And the bottom line is the Supreme Court has said, in two cases now, that the bureaucrats can't go beyond what the actual elected officials passed into law. They can implement what they passed into law, but they can't just take that and then go off into wild rabbit trails to try to shut down every mud hole in America and call it federal land.

This is such a profoundly important decision. And the backup that occurred this session, saying expanding it beyond EPA, because the growth of the government has not been a growth that's been dictated by laws passed by Congress. In fact, congressmen will tell you there's nothing I can do.

The bureaucracy is out of control and they'll blame the bureaucracy when there actually is stuff they can do, but it's just easier for them to blame the bureaucracy. Bottom line is now, if Congress sits there and says, I don't like, I think they've gone too far with this regulation, they can sit there and they can say something very simple. They can say, you cannot, you cannot, we're going to take that regulation and we're going to isolate it and we're going to say that regulation goes beyond congressional intent and we are no longer funding that regulation and destroy these guys.

We can rip apart these, we can rip apart the other piece of this and I don't want to miss on something that happened on yesterday. And that is a federal judge ruled that, amazing concept, that the federal government violates the first amendment when they go and talk to the social media companies and get the social media companies to ban people from, and ban thought. And this was around COVID and a lot of the COVID censorship. But the fact is, what, you know, that is a massive, that's a massive affirmation of our first amendment rights. Another affirmation of our first amendment, religious freedom. Supreme court said, you know, you can't tell somebody makes websites, compel them to make websites from gay marriages. Imagine the concept of not having your intellectual property being, you know, you don't have any control over your intellectual property. Now there's some, there's some backlash that could happen to that because that means the left, lefties just can't be compelled to do anything, anything for us.

But the fact is they wouldn't anyway, and we wouldn't want them to. What churches want a left wing, a left wing web designer to come in and do their thing, do their website when they would totally miss the point of the whole, the whole exercise. And can I, can I add also, it also protects the church now so the church doesn't have to, I mean, that's one of the other issues that's going on that we're going to be seeing coming through the court system is because of the change to, is it title nine or title seven, because of the change of definitions now, title nine, title nine, they want to force churches to and there is a case that that is that that was turned down by the Supreme Court and, and, and remanded to the Alliance Defending Freedom is still fighting that case. No not Alliance Defending Freedom. Oh, it's the it's the legal group.

They were involved in in a number of the election cases early on. There's a number of them. I can't remember. Kelly Shackelford's group?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not one of those guys. It's one of the Institute ones. Okay.

At any rate, you know, it'll when I when I think of it, then it'll it'll come right away. But at any rate, they're still in the battle as it relates to it. But the case has to do with whether or not a church has the right. It was it I'll tell you what it was. It was a case regarding a teacher that was that was teaching race racism. And that and that's how the school saw it.

So let's see. Racism case in Christian school rejected by SCOTUS. Supreme Court declines appeal from Christian school. Okay, yeah, this is it USA Today reports this is from Oh, stop it. June 20.

Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal from a Christian college in Missouri that sued the Biden administration over its decision to shield transgender housing. Why? Really? That's not the case.

I love how they do this. Well, here it is. Here it is. I found it. So Supreme Court rejects Christian school's request to uphold firing of chaplain over racism talk.

United States Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of a Colorado based K through 12 Christian school accused of wrongfully firing a Bible teacher because he addressed alleged incidents of racism at a student gathering. And, and let's see, who is it? That's still January chaplain. Where's it say? Where's it say? Where's it say?

Where's it say? Beckett Beckett law. Okay, good. Yeah, the Beckett law group is representing the Christian school. And they said, you know, basically, this isn't over. Because the free exercise and establishment clause of the First Amendment categorically bars judicial inquiry, interference, and religious leadership disputes. And that's what's at issue there. The school is saying, wait, we get to decide who is who can and who cannot teach for us at our school. And that has been something that has been off limits that the government can't interject in.

And that's what's at issue. Anyway, go ahead, continue. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get that's okay.

I mean, obviously, no, that's fine. There's obviously going to be a lot of on on July 5, the guys who went and pledged their life liberties and fortunes to the to this country, when they signed the Declaration of Independence. And they walked away from there fully expecting to be arrested and, and killed for treason.

Okay. But you know what they did? They just walk away from there, they went and they did the next step. Nobody would have, you know, they didn't have women out there wasn't such thing as social media, it took like two months for King George to get a declaration of independence, maybe sent by ship and not fast moving ships. So it's a so you look at it and you say, it's, what did they do? They made sure that it was every town, it was posted. They had printers printing the printing copies of Declaration of Independence and posting it everywhere. They didn't went on tours around the country, reading it, reading it out loud.

And you know, every single day, you know, three times a day, they'd be in a different town reading it out loud, but riding around by horseback, spreading the word and the people found out and, and they would come in throngs to find out what was going on. That's what where we are right now. We have a, we have an opportunity for a rebirth of freedom in this country, we have an opportunity to reign in the bureaucratic state, we have an opportunity where federal judge found that they you yesterday that you can't have a, the government can censor people.

Okay, it's a by calling up social media companies and shutting you down. We have an opportunity the breadth of freedom is in the air, the breadth of liberties in the air, and the breath of God is in the air. We're seeing we're seeing revivals through you know, what happened at Asbury and what's happening around around the country. And because people are sitting there and saying, there's got to be something more than this than the government, there's gonna be something more. And they're looking for something more.

And when he's been there the whole time with his arms are reached. We are at a time of revival, if we will just allow God to use it, use us to achieve it. And so you turn with, we've been given the hope on the secular side. And we've been given the evidence on the spiritual side, that God is moving in this world. And are we going to be part, are we gonna sit there and be depressed and curl up in a ball and say, I'm moving fast enough? No, grab the wave, there's a wave, there's a swell coming, there's a wave.

Get on the wave, get on your surfboard, get on the wave and ride it for all it's worth. And be singing Hallelujah all the way because God is great. He is attractive. And he is and he is powerful. And people know it in their hearts. They just have to see it in their lives. Well, and bring it with, you know, ask the Holy Spirit for that power, for that anointing, for that authority.

You know, I think for too long, we have discounted that out of a fear. A certain portion of the body of Christ has been fearful of the use of the Holy Spirit or engaging with the Holy Spirit. And I would just encourage you, you know, Jesus did say, don't rejoice because you've been given all of this authority.

Rejoice because your name is written in the last book of life. But he also expresses to us that these signs will follow those that believe. They'll lay hands on the sick and they will recover. They'll cast out demons.

It's very clear that Jesus gave us authority for a specific purpose and for a specific reason. I know that in India, you know, in every one of our services, glory to God, we see him move. Matter of fact, just this past Thursday, and we talked briefly about it on Monday, but just this past Thursday, I didn't realize this, but we were in a village in an area that had never before in its entire history, in the history of Punjab, they never before had had an outreach in their community.

They'd never been reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ and had it preached. And 41 people responded by saying, yes, I want to follow Jesus Christ. And I believe it was 29 people that received a healing as a result of making that decision, which is just absolutely incredible.

It's just absolutely incredible. In fact, just very quickly, if you don't mind, Rick, I can tell you, there were some amazing miracles. Yeah, 41 people accepted Christ.

29 people had miracles. One sister's husband had left her and the children. She was all alone. The children and the husband had left.

She's all alone. She was thinking about committing suicide. She heard my voice being amplified and came back and heard the prayer before the meeting ended.

And before the meeting ended, as the praying was going on, her husband and her children came back and found her. Wow. And just so people have it in context, that circumstance for her was a death sentence.

Absolutely. Nobody takes care of the poor and the widows and somebody who's been left is kind of on their own. We're not talking about, oh, go get a job.

That's not what those opportunities don't exist. What an amazing testimony and blessing. Here in America, we tend to blast out the miracles that are every day in our lives. But the fact of the matter is, for those of you who've been very concerned about the direction of our country, please understand that I believe that God has provided pathways for us to be able to, if not save the country, save the DNA of the country and to be able to have pathways to be able to deliver his word and to get the things that are the government impediments that have been put in the way of his word and truth being held, being told. And that is, you know, that's amazing. That is a, you know, these are the miracles we're looking at.

And it's, you know, it may be in a complex Supreme Court decision. It could be in something that's happening in your hometown where people are getting just had enough of the evil that's being, we're having shoved in our face. I would contend, Pastor Greg, and this may seem very odd, but I would contend that the single best thing that happened, has happened is the Pride Month in June of 2023, because the evil that has been hidden under a false veneer has been revealed. And you can't, it's really hard to fight evil when people are sitting there saying, oh, it's benign.

It's no big deal. Evil has come forward, has shown its face and has admitted that their goal is to get our children, that is, they have admitted this, they have admitted it publicly and loudly. And they, there now is no excuse for anybody saying, oh, this is benign.

This is just, you know, this is anything but an evil attack on the moral fiber of America and on our children's ability to live safely. Well, and, and, you know, Paul, Paul speaks about this. In, in, in First Corinthians two, one, he says, And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom. But in demonstration of spirit and power, that your face should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

In, in Second Corinthians chapter four or First Corinthians four, 20, he says, For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. And I can tell you over and over again, we are seeing the power of God move in India in such a magnificent way. It's it's it is touching and and changing lives. There's a 15 year old girl that had been possessed with an evil spirit. She had not been able to go to school for three years. And God delivered her. Another brother that was suffering from epilepsy was not able to sit in any one place for for even an hour.

But in the meeting, he was able to sit and he had no attack of epilepsy. He sat for an hour and a half for the entire preaching of the word. God's word comes with authority and with power. And and, you know, the word says he is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we can think or ask, according to the power that works in us. It's not our power. It's his power working in us and we need to release it.

Absolutely, absolutely. Obviously, you have to accept you have to accept Christ in your word and savior. And the you know, that's the first step in all of this. And it's the only step you need for salvation. But the Holy Spirit enters you as as part of that, that process. And that's where you are empowered to be be a force that God can use for whatever or whatever purposes he has for you.

Amen. You just have to be willing to get out of the way and do it. But first step is, you know, if you haven't accepted Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior, the first step is to do that. Because without that, you're you're powerless. There's no question. And so that is a, you know, this is and salvation is almost a you look at it and you say, you know, who wouldn't want to be closer to God?

Well, some people are definitely afraid of being closer to God, because if they're closer to God, what that means is, they have to listen to them, they have to follow what he says they have to have the intellectual inquisitiveness to try to find out what he what he actually means and what and who he is. Right. And that means you have to give up yourself. Well, you have to be obedient, Rick.

I mean, I mean, it is the best way to not be obedient, though, is not as close your ears and say, I follow God, but I just can't hear you. Well, it's now it's changing the Lord ship in your life. And this is something that I preached on when I was talking with my pastors. You know, we we are slaves to something or someone that really is a reality. It's kind of interesting that there's a there's in in in in one of the marvels. They they they have this, I think it's in the first Avengers, where where you have Thor's brother that says, you know, you're you're going to be a slave to this or a slave to that. They're borrowing out of scriptures, Stan, worse, Stan, whatever his last name was, Stanley, Stanley, Stanley Batman, Stanley was actually a believer.

And and so there there is some some of that that seeps into what he's talking about. The question is, is who are you going to serve? And you are either going and there's only two choices.

You're either going to serve the devil or you're going to serve God. And we've run out of time. We've only got five seconds left. Rick Manning, thank you so much. It's been a great conversation, man. I love it.

I love it. Because this, this is the most important thing. There's nothing more important than you will do no more greater decision than you can make than to exchange your old nature for the new gift and the new nature and the promises of God. And I tell you now in the name of Jesus Christ, if you will open up and simply say, Father, forgive me for I have sinned.

And I believe that Jesus Christ died to pay the price for my sin. I desire to make Jesus Christ the Lord of my life. Holy Spirit fill me, guide me and direct me.

Open my eyes, open my ears to hear and see you in the name of Jesus Christ. I pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. That's it. I'll talk to you Monday. Okay. God bless. Bye bye.