CGR WEDNESDAY 092723 Melanie Collette Clare Lopez Rick Mannng

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I am Patriot Mobile. That was a shooting gallery up there. I could hear the tremble in his voice. She suffered a very severe being. The video is pretty graphic.

Justice for us seems almost impossible. It's not fun to watch somebody die, and they knew she was in mortal peril. They had not asked the hard questions. Why was the Capitol intentionally unsecure that day? The FBI had information about security concerns before January 6th. They're out for blood, and they're getting it. They appear to be winning. Were the actions of the Capitol Police out of line? Were there violations in use of force?

Now I describe it as an inside job. I'm ready to do whatever God calls me. There's an old Chinese saying my ancestors learned before the Communist Party took over our country. The family is the essential unit of human society, and that you must have honor and defend your family. But it's not always easy to do.

When the regime gives the order, you have to kill. My heart was pounding. I felt my body bouncing and twisting on the floor. They put numbers on our shoulders, and separated us into rows of even and odd numbers.

I was number nine. My brother, he's still in prison, and my sister, she was sent to a labor camp without a trial. But there's one piece of evidence they haven't been able to destroy yet.

I left everything behind. If I can't expose what they did to us, then all of our suffering would be for nothing. 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 shoe 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. I'm going to play this. It's going to go over, so we've got to be quiet while it's playing, but I want you to hear it.

Here we go. 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 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. And that, folks, is the genesis, the foundation upon which Chosen Generation Radio stands. And I think, I think it just really encapsulated the Christian life. I loved the part where you talked about how it wasn't about legalism because I do think that many people view Christians as legalistic. And I think that there are some, that some Christians deserve some credit for that thought that people have.

And it's one of the complaints that I've had about, you know, social media and Christianity and how some of us, some of the things that we post as Christians not realizing that non-Christians are looking on and it appears to be legalistic and not out of love. I loved the fact that you addressed falling because I think that many Christians present themselves as ones who don't fall when it's really the opposite. One of the reasons why we're Christians is because we know we fall a lot and that we need God, we absolutely are in need of God's grace. That was just really good, very powerful. Thank you, Sister. I feel like I want to take that pledge, like I want to voice that pledge myself and give, because I really just think it was a very well-balanced articulation of what Christianity is. And thank you, thank you for that. I appreciate that. And you know, and we do, there is, we do fall at times and the Lord knows that and there is grace for that.

You know, I've talked about this quite a bit this week and maybe to bring it up again because I think it's an important point to reiterate. There's three ways that we interact with the world as Christians, okay? The first is with the sinners. And when we interact with them, it's not from a position of we're judging them. Remember that Jesus said in John chapter 3, the world is already judged. He didn't come to judge the world because judgment already was there. And then he goes further on to say that light has come into the world but men prefer darkness to light, okay? So when they reject your initial, you know, I don't know, offer, if you will, of walking into the light, don't be discouraged and don't be surprised. Because Jesus Christ said that man has rejected the light and has, because he's comfortable in his darkness. So we build a relationship but the word also says in 2 Corinthians chapter 6 not to be unevenly yoked and that's not just talking about marriage. We don't, we're not in business, we don't partner with unbelievers.

They don't have the same values. They don't walk under the same covering, okay? That covering is critically important in how we walk out. So that's the first, so but we are going to be in the world.

We're going to do business in the world. Paul even says in one of the worst cases in 1 Corinthians chapter 5, I'm not saying that you are not in the world because you have to be in the world in order to operate plus the fact, and this was something that the Jews were, was not necessarily because in Judaism you were born a Jew and so there really wasn't a question of whether or not you were a Jew or weren't a Jew because you were born one. That was the way that worked. Now Paul was introducing the reality that now you have Gentiles that are grafted in and so now the gospel is advancing in a different way because you're not born into the gospel, you're born into sin. But now you have an opportunity to receive salvation and accept Yeshua HaMashiach, the Messiah, and the covering of His sin. So the second piece of this is the individuals that are struggling with issues. Those that are, you know, more regularly they're struggling.

In other words, they walk well for, you know, maybe it's six months or what have you and then they get trapped in a spiral. Listen, our responsibility is to bear one another's burden and to restore such a one in a spirit of meekness lest we also should be tempted. That's the spiritual principle. That, you just said a word right there, and in the spirit of meekness, and I find with legalistic Christians in particular, particularly on social media, and I get it, I get it, especially if you're a new Christian, right?

I get it. But there's this habit, I think, that many Christians have of not coming from a position of humility as if you cannot end up in that same position that you're criticizing other people for doing, or that you did not come from that before you got saved. And I will tell you that it irritates the heck out of me because, you know, I say to those people online all the time, I'm like, you know, non-Christians are looking on at this, or Christians arguing with each other, like Paul warned us not to do, about something very legal legalistic, you know, and I'm like, why would anybody looking at this thread, who's not a Christian, be interested in Christianity? If you're not coming from a position, as you said, of meekness and love, Melanie, and love. Now, I'll give you an example. I had a debate with someone on the show on Monday, a chaplain that came on, and I had brought up, because there was a tweet that had gone out, that Andrew, the Muslim guy, Andrew Tate, yeah, Andrew Tate, had liked, and I've followed some of what he's doing, and I've commented on that it's a shame that morality is being preached by a Muslim and not by Christian leadership.

Sir. Okay, so anyway, yeah, so there was something that was on there that was talking about how the Jews were responsible for World War II, and basically justifying Hitler's Holocaust, and you have to understand, that was the under, okay, that was kind of underlying, right? You know, Hitler was, you know, justified in his war because of da-da-da-da-da, and then they compared that to Russia and Putin invading the Ukraine. Oh yeah, oh yeah, anyway, so what I, okay, well, because he had made a comment about history, and so I referenced this to bring that in and to say, and then to comment on how it was a shame that you had a, you know, a Muslim who was having to remind Christians of what truth is, right? Well then he went into, well, you know, that narrow view of Jesus is the only way, you know, that's a narrow view, that's really not, that's, you know, Muslims, you know, a good Muslim and a good Hindu and a good Jew and a da-da-da-da-da, they're all going to end up in heaven, and I was like, put the brakes on bud, you know, the Word of God says, and so then we went down the road, and at one point I said to him, I said, so what you're saying is, is that God sent his Son, put him on the cross, crucified him for no real good reason because it really wasn't necessary. That's not the God of the Bible that I know.

And now, and now when you say that, now this is a substantive discussion that needs to be had. This is not, in my opinion, what Paul was talking about when he was saying, I think they were arguing about, in Corinthians, about like these people eating meat and, you know, are they really Christians for not getting circle, all these, you know, legalistic things. But this, when we're talking about the cross, that is not, you know, that is a core, that's the core, that's it, that's the foundation. Well, like in the statement about marriage, when I talk about what God has instituted as marriage between a man and a woman, look, if you're a Christian, you can't support what God's called an abomination.

No. You know, sexual immorality is something that Paul, you know, clearly continues through into the New Testament as something that, because why? Because it's a violation of this temple and who dwells in this temple?

The Spirit of God, if you've received Christ. Indeed, and I'll tell you, you know, one of the things that bothers me continually, especially on the social, in the social media space, are Christians who go really hard against the LGBTQ community. And I'm not going to attend that marriage because of it. I'm not saying that you should, but you need to keep that same energy if you knew that a heterosexual couple were living together.

Like you needed to me. I don't disagree. Yeah, I don't disagree. But here's, here's, here's where I'm going to draw a line and, and, and we may or may not agree on this. Here's the, here's the thing. And that's okay.

Here's the thing. The, the LGBTQ, the problem with, like, for example, once same sex marriage became legal, what people are missing is the reason they're cutting up children, the reason they're grooming kids, the reason that they are, are, you know, you have, you have seen in, in, in just the last four or five years, it was since Obergefell. And as that became the thing, okay. It used to be 3% laid claim to LGBTQ.

Okay. Now between the ages of 16 and 25, that number is as high as 40%, 40% and they have, they have a legal ability to indoctrinate. And this is what I warned about when I first came on air.

It's one of the reasons why God said to me, there's three things that I particularly want you to make sure you address the LGBTQ agenda, Islam and secular humanism, secular humanism, and the removal of God from the education process takes room for a false religion to come in, which is Islam and Islam, while it absolutely rejects quote unquote, the LGBTQ, the irony of that is, is that you can talk to any of our soldiers that served overseas in Afghanistan and places like that. And, and they had what they, what they basically call, but buddy, I think it was either Tuesday or Thursday. And they would shine as a, you know, kind of as a, as an embarrassment, but they would take and shine the infrared into the barracks of the Afghani soldiers. And they were all having sex with one another man on man before I've heard. Okay. And, and, and, and, and I have a story, a soldier's story about one of our own that, that was raped in the showers.

And then he was the one that was castigated and threatened with being turned over to the Afghani authorities who were going to prosecute him for falsely for quote unquote, falsely accusing their officers of, of raping him when in fact they did folks, I'm telling you. So, so there, but here's the thing, Islam will let our moral system be destroyed of course so that they can come in and institute theirs. Exactly. And you know, I was just explaining to someone last night, a friend of mine, we were talking about, actually it was a relative and we're talking about a cousin of ours who is homosexual, has been married to her wife for many, many years. Listen, they know how they have kind of gotten rid of me because they know my stance on it, but I've never treated them any differently. Like as far as I'm concerned, she's, she's, she's family.

She's been around forever. She's just another cousin to me. That's how I look at it. But after they, I must've posted something or whatever. And once they found out, like I did, I believe it's wrong.

Then I was like persona non grata, which is crazy. Because I'm like, I've never, I've never said anything to you. You guys are grown.

You have your own relationship with God. Like what is it? But she, we were talking about how going abroad is what we were talking about. And we were talking about how my, my sister was saying to me, I didn't realize that she couldn't go to like Dubai and all these different countries. And I was like, Oh yeah, that's a huge no.

Cause they'll kill you over there. Yeah. Well, and so that, so Melanie, that brings us, so we've talked about the first one is, is dealing with sinners. The second one is dealing with those that are struggling with an issue, but are trying to do the right thing. In other words, they're trying to align themselves with God and they have a problem, whether it's a, you know, an alcohol or a drug or a sex thing or whatever it is, and you're helping them. So you walk alongside of them to help them get on track and walk.

Right. But the third one is those like your cousins, as an example, who say, I'm going to walk in my sin. Well, even as a believer, I have to tell you, this is what Paul says in first Corinthians five.

He says, you have to, you have to distance yourself. In other words, you, they, you either treat them as though they are a sinner, but when they start saying, Oh no, I'm a Christian, but I'm walking in my, no, you, no, you're not. I'm sorry, but you're not.

I can't that you can't. And, and not because you're offending me, but I, there is not a single, and I've said this so many times over the years, there's not one person who is going, who is walking in opposition to God's word, who is openly walking in sin, yet proclaiming Jesus to be saved or a follower of Christ. They support, but they support a sin position that is going to be being sent to hell because God's judgment is, is that's it. If the word of God says no, then the answer is no, you don't get to change it. It's not subjective. It's not an objective thing. It is a subjective thing.

It's objective. It's, that's it. There's not one person that's going to be on their line way to hell, who's going to turn to you and say, Oh, hey, thank you for not offending me. Thank you for not, you know, confronting me.

Thank you for not saying anything to me. And in fact, the word of God says in Ezekiel chapter three, if you warn someone who's walking in sin, that they're walking in sin and they turn you saved a soul. But if you don't warn someone who's walking in that rebellion, then their blood may well be required at your hands and you, you may lose your salvation. Indeed, indeed. And I feel the same way.

I feel like if we're going to, and I understand exactly what you, what you're saying, because there isn't necessarily a fornication marriage outside of wedlock agenda, but I feel like the reason why it's not an agenda is because it's so accepted. Well, in part, but I think it's also, yes, I agree. No, I well, but, and they do the other one as well. No, I don't disagree with that. Like, isn't it all under cornea or whatever, whatever the word is for fornication? Like, biblically, isn't it all in the same category? No, I agree.

But here's, here's what I would say. There, the people who are living together, okay, most churches, up until, up until they started accepting homosexuality, but most churches would never put a person like that in a leadership position knowing that they are living in sin. They're not gonna, you see what I'm saying?

They're not gonna reject them from a tent. In other words, where's the best place for a sinner to be on Sunday mornings or Saturday evenings or Friday nights is in fellowship with believers learning how to overcome their sin and how to, and how to live right. That, that's where, that's where they should be. They should never be in a leadership position because that means you're saying follow their example. No, absolutely not. There are sinners sitting in pews every Sunday.

If you know. Right, absolutely, because the Word of God says that your house needs to be in order or you shouldn't be in that place. So the point, so the point I'm making, and to your point is, is, is that, you know, if they're in, it's just like if, if you've got a homosexual couple, quote unquote, coming to your church, they're welcome to come, but don't water down your message to try to accommodate.

And if they start trying to push an agenda, if I, listen, I had years ago, and we're gonna run out of time, but this has been a great conversation. It's great, but I had years ago, I had three couples that were coming to our little fellowship that were living together, three. And, and two of them had been living together for many, many years.

Just get married. All right. No, well, wait, no, listen. So I, but I love, I was, the reason they came is, is that I, we were loving on their kids and their kids were coming. And so they started coming.

And so here they are. I preached a father's day message. I didn't say, get married. What I said was, is I said, dads want to be heroes. Wives support your husband so they can be all that God wants them to be, because then they'll be all you want them to be. And I, and I, and, and then I, but I challenged fathers to step up and be fathers and, and, and be husbands and so on. Within 48 hours, all three of them reached out to me and said, when can we make an appointment? We want, we, we've picked up our marriage licenses and we want to get married.

All three of them. I never said you're, you're living in sin. You better, you better get your, you better get your marriage license.

I didn't, I, I didn't need to. What I held up for them was this, here's what the Word of God has to say about what a husband and a wife looks like and the biblical example of a man and a woman. And they read that and said, we want that in our lives. I love it.

I love it. And that's exactly the way it should work. Because it was the Spirit of God that convicted them, not the pastor. It may, he may have used my words, but it was the Spirit of God that caused the conviction that caused the change. And that's why, going back to, and that was the Holy Spirit that just said, play I believe. I'm like, I don't do that.

Folks will tell you. I mean, I play I believe every day, but I don't play it so my guests can hear it, generally. But I heard the Lord say, play this. And, and again, it's as, as you, and thank you, you pointed it out. The message has to come.

Paul said very clearly, and then we are really out of time, but Paul said very clearly, he said, I can, I can do all these things, but if I don't do it in love, then I'm nothing but a clanging cymbal. I'm not, I'm going to be nothing but an annoyance that drives people away. It has to, the people you're talking to have to sincerely believe that what you're saying, you really are saying it because you really love them, and, and, and you believe it, and then you back it up and say it's, it's the truth. It is the truth. And there's only one truth, and I said this yesterday, we need to stop, we need to stop mitigating and saying, well, you know, the Word of God, oh, I don't believe the Word of God. Oh, well, then let me find another way.

No, I don't need to find another way. Let me explain something to you, okay? God is God, whether you want to believe that He's God or not, okay? I don't want to be standing next to you when He snatches the breath out of you. Let me tell you that. I need you to send me your monologue. Okay.

I think I want to do a video about it. Okay. Send it to me. I will. Please. Yes, ma'am. I will.

All right. Love you, sister. This has been great. Thank you so much. Love you, too. Thank you so much for having me, Pastor Greg. Absolutely.

All right, folks. Claire Lopez, Rick Manning joining us on the other side. I'll be back with more Chosen Generation Radio coming up right after this. Get more at the website chosengenerationradio.com.

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