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We'll get it right out to you. I spoke recently at Mercy Culture at their conference on reformation. This is a church I work with in Fort Worth, Texas.
It was Sunday morning, June 23rd. And in the first service, I brought this message, the time for reformation is now. And I thought that because it has the energy of a preached message with a live audience, that it would be something worth playing for you on the air.
And because we can get the whole message in over the course of this broadcast, just broke it up over the course of this broadcast, we thought it would be just a good thing to do. So again, this was a conference in a church that's about five years old that now has six campuses and thousands of people attending the campuses. But what they're marked by is young people. Many, many young people go there.
Young families go there. And the reformation conference was not just a bunch of older believers burdened about the culture, but mainly younger believers saying, well, here we are. What can we do to bring about positive change through the gospel? So I'm going to take you into this message. We'll break it up into four parts. The time for reformation is now. I pray that it will bless you and stir you and encourage you. If you want to watch the entire message without break, you can just go to the Mercy Culture channel on YouTube. That's Mercy Culture.
You can watch that. And then a different message I preached in the second service on Sunday morning dealing with the problems, the scandals, the shaking in the church today. That's a separate message we won't be playing on the air. So here we go. Let's get into the message. The time for reformation is now. All right, let's pray.
Abba, Father, we love you and we are here as your children wanting to bring you honor and joy and wanting to be your representatives here on the earth. Lord, give us ears to hear what your spirit is saying. Open our hearts and minds and may a spirit of faith and courage rise within us. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. All right, the time for reformation is now.
Amen. What I want you to hear today is why I am so convinced of this. Why I'm so convinced this is the will of God and the heart of God. Number one, the word itself gives us hope. Many of us were raised in spiritual environments where we were told everything is going to get worse until Jesus comes.
So why bother? Everything is going to get worse and all we can look forward to is Jesus coming to zap us out before it gets really bad. You know who loves that message? The devil because it takes away any hope.
It takes away any initiative. The moment you hear bad news, you think it's only going to get worse. When I got saved in 1971, we were told Jesus is coming any minute. We were told it's all over. All the prophecies have lined up. Jesus is coming any minute. The counterculture revolution of the 60s was the final apostasy and it was over. And we point to a verse here or a verse there normally taken out of context to indicate there is no hope.
You can only expect things to get worse. And you have to ask yourself, what if Christians in every generation had that mentality? There'd be no overturning of Roe v. Wade.
There'd be no abolition of slavery. There'd be no moral reformation, cultural reformation ever because you just accept the moment and say it's all getting worse before Jesus returns. So for sure, the closer we get to the end of the age.
However close that is or however far that is, things will intensify on all fronts. But I want you to hear the perspective of scripture. Number one, verses we know well, Matthew 5, 13 to 16. Jesus says to us, you are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?
It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. We'll turn that around. If we don't lose our saltiness, then we are good for something. If we don't lose our saltiness, we are making a difference. He's telling us you are supposed to make a difference. You by your nature as salt will be a moral preservative in the country.
You will be a moral conscience for the place where you live. And then he says this, you are the light of the world. Light by nature shines. Light by nature makes a difference. As I said at the round table last night, for many years now, my great concern in America has not been the presence of darkness but the absence of light. And that's the question, what's the matter with the light?
When you turn the light on, it dispels darkness. So yes, we're grieved by the darkness, it breaks our heart. That's people suffering, that's people hurting. That's people who don't know God, that's his name being blasphemed.
That grieves us, we talk about it to expose it. But the goal is not to curse the darkness, it's to turn the light on. And when the lights turn on, something happens.
Jesus says a town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on a stand and it gives light to everyone in the house. We are called to give light to everyone in the house. Then he says this, in the same way let your light shine before others that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. He doesn't say why bother shining the light because it's only gonna get worse. Why bother shining the light because everyone's gonna curse you. No, shine the light and others will praise God. You know, I know churches that have been in communities for decades.
And then they'll take a stand on a moral issue and a cultural issue and the press will go after them and vilify them. But the people in the community love them because they know you're the one doing the good works here. You're the one helping our kids. You're the one with the rehab program.
You're the one that's distributing food. They know who you are by the light that shines. What does it say in John chapter 1 verse 5? The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. Why do we have more faith in darkness than life? Why do we have more confidence in the power of Satan than the power of God? Why do we believe more in the power of the flesh than the power of the Spirit? No, the light shines and the darkness cannot extinguish it. Cannot comprehend it.
Cannot overcome it. This is the mentality of Scripture. That's why I walk in faith. Not just because I'm an optimist by nature.
Not just because I can be Pollyannish and just always think tomorrow's gonna be better than today. No, the Word of God gives me hope. And I don't understand how you can know the Lord, have an intimate relationship with him, and gaze on his beauty and not have hope. Here's some more from Scripture. Romans 13, 11 and 12. As Paul is calling us to put away the deeds of the flesh and the deeds of darkness.
Look at what he says. And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
And look at this perspective. The night is nearly over. The day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of life. The biblical perspective is that the night is passing.
This is for 2,000 years. The biblical perspective is that we're getting closer and closer to the light shining even more brightly. So yes, there will be final conflict at the end of the age and there'll be final upheaval. As I understand Scripture, it'll be a time of parallel extremes. Great darkness, great light, Satan bearing his arm, God bearing his arm. It'll be an amazing time to live and an intense time to live. And it'll be the final purging and the final shaking but all moving towards the coming of the kingdom of God.
All moving in the direction of light shining. Here's some more of the New Testament mentality. 1 John 2, 7 and 8. Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.
Yet I am writing you a new command. Its truth is seen in him and in you because the darkness is already passing and the true light is already shining. This is a 2,000-year-old perspective.
The darkness is passing and the true light is already shining. You know, every so often there'll be a gathering of atheists and mocking God and mocking religion. I remember a gathering in D.C. a few years ago. I don't know if it was supposed to be massive. Maybe there were 10,000, 20,000 people.
It was not a massive event at all for a big D.C. thing. And if I recall, it was a beautiful sunny day and I remember thinking, who are they going to thank? You know, it's a beautiful sunny day but you can't say thank God for a beautiful sunny day or if the clouds suddenly pass. They're railing on God and railing on religion and I just feel so bad for them.
What are you doing? You think you're intellectual and some of them have been hurt by church or religion or whatever. Some are hurting, some are hardened, all different people. But when they're mocking God and religion is going to die out, I'm thinking man-made religion is going to die out.
All this other junk is going to die out but the kingdom of God is advancing every day. Every single day. I feel bad for the mockers and the critics. It doesn't wound us. I just think, oh, if you could only know how good God is. You know, it's a trite, trivial thing but it's true. You know, when people say, we read the end of the book and we win, right? And it just becomes this little saying and everyone, yeah, hallelujah. Or you can look in the grave and Mohammed's still there but Jesus isn't there and we all get worked up. But it's true.
It's true. We may have trivialized it, made it chief of the charismatic say, but it's all true. Despite our failings, despite our weaknesses, despite all the things we mess up, God's purposes will come to pass in the earth.
We do know the final end of the story. All right, we're going to take our first break and then continue with this message on the other side of the break. May I encourage you as you're listening to say, Lord, what are you saying to me? Lord, where do I fit? Lord, how can I bring about change as a businessman? How can I bring about change as a college student?
How can I bring about change as a homeschooling mom? How can I bring about change as a pastor? How can I bring about change as someone with a political burden? As someone wanting to care for the needy? Where do I fit as a prayer warrior? How can I bring about change because the fact is, Bob wants to meet each one of us for his purpose and his glory. Welcome back to the Line of Fire.
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So we thought you'd benefit from them as well. And they help us do the very thing we're doing now, broadcast this show around the country. We go back to the message, the time for Reformation is now, preached at Mercy Culture in Fort Worth on June 23rd. So it's not just the word that gives me hope, the perspective of scripture about the ongoing move of the kingdom of God, which I give you other verses for, and the spreading of the kingdom through the earth until Jesus returns. But history gives me hope as well. When I look at the working of God through history, through the church, that gives me hope.
That doesn't give me despair, that gives me hope. So just think for a minute. The early church, over a period of centuries, brought about tremendous social transformation. You know, one of the things that happened in the ancient world was that men could kind of do what they wanted. Men could sleep around, men could have a mistress on the side. Men didn't have to preserve their virginity until marriage, but women did. And then the gospel comes along and it gets leveled for everybody.
Men have to be sexually pure as well as women. That was impactful. You had the gladiatorial events, what happened to that? What happened to actually killing people in advance, killing slaves and things like that?
What happened to all that? Well, the gospel continued to spread and that practice ended. The early church was known for its care for the poor and the outcasts. And the early church began to rescue babies that were abandoned.
Because it was the practice of the ancient world. Especially if you already had a boy, you had another kid, you didn't need a girl, just throw away. Or the child's handicap, just throw away, throw them away. Just leave them somewhere out in the wilderness for animals to get them. Or just throw them somewhere they're going to starve and just little babies. It was just common practice. Discard it.
Discard it. Well, the church said no, those are human beings. And even though it was illegal, they started to rescue them. And as you see change coming over a period of centuries, it flows out of the gospel. It flows out of the Christian message, the message of the New Testament being lived out by people. And it brings transformation in society. People get saved, they now live differently. John Wesley began to see it happen. That you had these people who were ungodly coal miners, they were drunkards, they were gamblers.
Now they get saved, now their family life starts to change. You know, people say, well, show me in the Bible, were you supposed to do this and this and this and this in terms of social stance? Of course, there are lots of verses we could look at. But I just ask a simple question. Is the Great Commission the commission to go and make disciples of the nations?
Yes. Well, the question is, how does a disciple live? When a disciple sees racism, what does he do? What does she do? When a disciple sees innocent life being taken, what does he do?
What does she do? How do disciples live? As disciples live, as disciples, automatically things change.
It's not rocket science. William Carey goes to India. He goes there with a mission to reach people with the gospel. Teaches himself the languages of India, ends up being a professor with multiple languages.
He was just a shoemaker. Called by God, suffers tragedy, sickness, death in the family. But he just keeps persevering to make disciples, to win the loss, to make disciples.
That's why he's there. He sees a horrific practice. This is in the 1700s. He sees a horrific practice of widow burning. When the husband would die in a family, so the husband dies before the wife. So in Hinduism, you burn the body on a funeral pyre, that the wife would then jump in on top of it and be burned to death. And they'd be singing and playing drums and making noise so you couldn't even hear her screams.
But he said, what is this? Well, it was a practice because the widow was not going to be supportive with the absence of her husband. And it was considered better for her reincarnation.
So it was part of the culture. He fought against it for years until it was outlawed. He wasn't there as a social reformer.
He was there as a soul winner. But as a follower of Jesus when he saw this atrocity, he had to do something. And he brought about change. And that change lasted for a couple of centuries. Abolition of slavery.
Come on, we know the story. It was followers of Jesus who were the principal ones that were used in the abolition of slavery in the slave trade. And it was over a period of years. And we cannot relate to the reality of the world at that time. We cannot relate to what was because we live in such a different world.
But for example, in the British Empire, slavery and the slave trade were just intertwined. It was just part of life. It's how the economy worked. It's how the nation functioned.
The idea of banning it was a complete impossibility. And yet it was done. And it took years and years and years and perseverance and overcoming. But it was done. We don't know if the story is accurate or not. But we do know Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the little book. Wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. And that helped shape the conscience of the nation.
So there's a story, whether it's accurate or not, it's disputed. But the story is that when Harriet Beecher Stowe met with President Lincoln, he said to her, So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war. She had a conscience. She was a northerner with a conscience.
She wrote something. It gripped the conscience of the nation. Christians leading the way. This is what we do as followers of Jesus, Yeshua. This is how we live.
We shine light. For those who are pessimists. For those who glory in bad news.
For those who always have to put a wet blanket on every good testimony you hear. Well, take this. Roe v. Wade has been overturned. Come on. Come on. It couldn't happen. It'll never happen. It happened. It happened. What a blow to pessimism that is. What a blow to hopelessness and negativity.
Take that. When I got saved in 71, there was no social consciousness in our church at all. It was all individual piety. It was your relationship with the Lord, loving Jesus, living a godly life, sharing the faith, praying, reading the Word.
I'm so glad for those foundations that were deeply laid in my life. But to the best of my memory, starting college in 73, I don't remember hearing anything about the Roe v. Wade decision. It was just nothing we talked about or thought about. And the church I was in after that, from 77 to 82, it had a deep social conscience. And we were actively pro-life and sponsored refugees from the boat crisis in Vietnam and the fall of the country there. We took refugees in our home and we were active socially in different ways.
We'd even write a letter to a politician before we left the service. It was a very different mentality. But as I remember in those early days, especially the evangelical world, no one was talking about the pro-life movement. It's very, very rare. There's many Catholic communities.
But colleagues of mine that have been involved the whole time have told me how difficult it was. That after Roe v. Wade, there was tremendous discouragement. It's done. It's over.
The die has been cast. Tremendous discouragement, tractioning of the different groups. They were divided between themselves. And friends have told me that the pro-life Christians in the early 70s were more hated than we are today for opposing LGBTQ activism. That's how difficult it was. And then the Supreme Court in the early 80s has an opportunity to overturn it and instead reinforces it.
So those who've been at it for decades knew it was an impossibility in the natural. But God. But God.
All right. We will take another break and then we will be back on the other side of the break. The time for Reformation is now.
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Michael Brown here. Doing my level best before the Lord daily on talk radio since 2008 to serve as your voice for more sanity and spiritual clarity. But since 1973, I've been preaching and that always burns deeply in my heart. I teach at many schools, but preaching, stirring hearts, inspiring.
It's a major part of what I've done over the years. So let's go back to this message where I'm preaching at Mercy Culture in Fort Worth, Texas. The subject. The time for Reformation is now. It was the end of a Reformation conference.
This was June 23rd. I remember Lou Angle asked me to speak in the early days of the Justice House of Prayer. And they're going day and night, day and night, crying out, crying out in their months and things like that. And you got to feel like, hey, something's happening. Something's happening. We're making an impact.
We're making a dent. And I said to them, probably from Satan's perspective, he'll come back in a few years to check to see if you're even here. In other words, this is going to be a long battle. You got to be in this for a long while.
They knew it, but I just wanted them to understand it even more deeply. You know, these are large demonic strongholds to be overturned. And now our work is cut out in another intense way.
So there's been a federal law change. Now we've got to change hearts. We've got to change hearts. And if we don't effectively change hearts, then what's going to swing back is going to be more intense.
So now we know, okay, this is a massive stronghold, massive first step, massive reason for rejoicing. Now let's reach out. Let's change hearts. Let's reach out. Let's change hearts.
And let's save all the babies we can. Amen? History gives me hope.
Let's keep going. So the Word gives me hope. History gives me hope that we can see change come. And for some of us, just like we were singing in our service over and over about the blood of the Lamb, the blood of the Lamb, the blood of the Lamb.
And I'm praying as you're praying, Lord, give me revelation, give me insight, open my eyes, show me even more, show me the power of the blood of the Lamb. Sometimes we have to bathe our minds and renew our minds because some of us have been so raised and trained in this pessimism. So raised and trained in this idea that things will only get worse. You know, when I'm doing my live radio show and I'll just mention the latest crazy thing happened in society.
Inevitably, someone will call in and say, yeah, that's it. That's the last days. It's all getting worse.
Yes, it's bad. Yes, it's crazy. But here's what God's doing. Here's what God's doing. And around the world, the gospel is spreading in unprecedented numbers. I mean, one of the fastest growing churches in the world is in Iran and an impressive Islamic regime. And God is moving powerfully in incredible ways.
I've got colleagues of mine involved on the front lines in these places. God's moving. The continent of Africa has been radically rocked by the gospel in the last century. South America, great increase.
Asia, great increase. In the midst of every persecution in India, where I go every year. Amazing things happening.
God is on the move. So the Word gives me hope. History gives me hope. And then God's promises to me give me hope. I want to bear witness here personally. The same God who promised me that I would serve in a revival that would touch the world, promised me that there would be a gospel-based moral and cultural revolution.
And I get to be in the thick of it. I'm just bearing witness. I'm just testifying here in my own life. It was in April of 1983 in prayer and travail after having been excommunicated by my home church because of an outpouring of the Spirit. Many years later that pastor came to me in tears and said, Mike, the next time God moves I don't want to miss it. But having been excommunicated now immediately in another church and under another pastor, the Holy Spirit fell on me as I was in travail.
And he said to me, you'll serve in a revival that will touch the whole world. And I thought, you're crazy, man. You've lost your mind. You're deceived. Like one of these guys that's gone off the deep end.
That's literally what I first thought. And I was not a known figure. I was finishing my Ph.D. at New York University and just part of a local church and did a little preaching in the area in the past. But the more I prayed, the more God made it real. The deeper it got, the more intense it got. And God connected me with men of God and leaders like Leonard Ravenhill and David Wilkerson. And the fires burned all the more deeply. And then once God called me to serve in the midst of the Brownsboro revival, friends of mine would come that I had talked to when I lived in Long Island.
They said, Mike, you told us this was going to happen. They would come from all over and just, they'd get in the service. I'd say, hey, there's a side door. You only have to get there one hour early instead of 12 hours early. Actually, 13 hours only.
Only one hour early. And they'd see the crowds. They'd see what God was doing. People from over 130 nations. To this day, as I travel around the world, people come up to me all excited, charged, sometimes with tears in their eyes. I was there 30 years ago, 25 years ago. God changed my life.
I mean, they're burning. When I was in Jerusalem about 10 days ago, a woman comes up to me. She goes, I went multiple times with my family when I was a girl. You know, young girl, like nine years old. I said, what happened? She goes, marked me for life. I was preaching in the area here not that long ago. A woman comes up to me, starts crying. She said, I was there when I was 17. She said, Jesus changed me.
I've never been the same. It was 25 years later. A few years ago, I was in Washington, D.C. And it was a meeting Franklin Graham had called for just to focus on the suffering church around the world. So leaders from the church around the world were there in the midst of suffering and persecution.
And other leaders from the states were invited to be there. So I went to the meeting and we get picked up. We're told, meet at a certain place. The shuttle will take you to the hotel.
I get on the shuttle with some others. There's a brother from Indonesia. He said, Dr. Brown, you prayed for me 27 years ago at Brownsville. He said, I was there with my pastor, pastor of the largest church in Indonesia. He said, it was prayer time. And I said to the pastor, let's go up and pray for prayer. And he said, no, if God wants us to get prayer, he will send someone to us.
I don't remember this at all. We prayed for thousands of people. He said, no sooner did the pastor say that, you came running in our direction. He said, I've never been slain in the spirit.
You touched me. He said, I was out and God called me out of the business world. I've been serving in ministry ever since.
That moment changed my life. We hear this around the world. But I'm telling you, because the same God that promised this to me beginning in the late 90s, over and over and over and over spoke the same thing to me. There will be in America a gospel based moral and cultural revolution and you will be in the thick of it. And here we are at the Reformation Conference.
What do you know? And here's the other thing. I mentioned these books, Seize the Moment and Turn the Tide. There has been a fresh wave of the spirit.
Oh, there's a lot of junk and bad stuff and people leaving the church. But there are plenty of places all over America where the spirit is moving, where revival is. In the early stages, eight days before Asbury, I got on the radio and I said, I've known this for some months, but I want to say it now. The very beginning of the next wave, the first wave of the next revival is already here in America. And then eight days later, Asbury hits and the whole nation's talking about revival.
And I got back on the air. I said, I told you, the beginning is here. So from revival to what? Reformation. As the church comes alive, the church has a life giving impact on society. As Jesus revolutionizes us, we now have a revolutionary impact on society.
Not with anger, hatred, intimidation or, God forbid, violence. We overcome evil with good. We overcome hatred with love. We overcome the power of the flesh with the power of the spirit.
And this also encourages me. All the stuff we've seen happen in society from the perspective of gay activists and trans activists. This is a good thing they're fighting for. They're fighting for the kids.
They're fighting for their rights. In our perspective, it's a bad thing. But so much of what has gone wrong in the society, I saw years ago was coming. It just seemed like spiritual common sense to see the trajectory. So here are things I've been saying for almost 20 years and I put them in writing in my book, A Queer Thing Happened to America in 2011.
So God showed me the bad that would come and the pushback that would follow. Here's what I wrote and had been saying for almost 20 years. First, gay activists came out of the closet. Second, they demanded their rights. Third, they demanded that everyone recognize those rights. Fourth, they want to strip away the rights of those who oppose them. Fifth, they want to put those who oppose their rights into the closet. When I first started saying this, people said, you're crazy. No one's trying to put you in the closet. Then a few years later, they changed it to, bigots like you belong in the closet.
I wrote this 15 years ago or so. From here on, embracing diversity refers to embracing all kinds of sexual orientation, homosexual expression, and gender identification. But rejects every kind of religious or moral conviction that does not embrace these orientations, expressions, and identifications. You hear a lot about DEI, the D is diversity. We've been talking about this for a long time. Tolerance.
Wrote this again years ago. From here on, tolerance refers to the complete acceptance of, used to be a G first, GLBT, lifestyles, and ideology in the family, in the workplace, in education, in media, in religion, while at the same time refusing to tolerate any view that is contrary. Inclusion. From here on, inclusion refers to working with, supporting, sponsoring, and encouraging gay events, gay goals, while at the same time systematically refusing to work with and excluding anyone who is not in harmony with these events and goals.
I once reached out to a local company in the Charlotte, North Carolina area that for the first time was going to sponsor a gay pride event. And I said, why don't you just stay neutral? It's kind of divisive in the city, and we're not asking you to put Bibles in your coffee shops, a place called Caribou Coffee.
I said, but why not just remain neutral? And they wrote back and they said, we want to support every part of our community. And I said, hey, we're having a rally in support of celebration of life from the womb and abstinence before marriage. Would you sponsor our event? And they said, no, because we're inclusive.
I got the letter. I mean, you talk about double talk. But we said it was going to happen. Hate. From here on, hate refers to any attitude, thought, or word that differs with the gay agenda, while gays are virtually exempt from the charge of hate speech, no matter how violent and sendery the rhetoric, since they're always the perceived victims and never the victimizers. And we're talking about activists. Your average person who identifies as gay, lesbian, bi, trans, they're just trying to live their lives. They just want to live their lives in peace and not be bothered. But the activists have come knocking on our door while we have responded to the knock, friends. We have answered.
I asked this again almost 15 years ago. How does this work out in everyday life? Children in elementary schools will be exposed to the rightness and complete normality of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgender expression. Witness highly praised academic books such as the queering of elementary education and opposing views will be branded as dangerous and homophobic, to be silenced and excluded from the classroom.
We said this was coming. Middle schools, high schools, and colleges will go out of their way to encourage both the celebration of homosexuality and deep solidarity with gay activism. Witness the annual day of silence in our schools in recognition of the oppression and persecution of LGBT people and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender students bill of educational rights in our universities. I mentioned queer study programs and the celebration of gay parole. We said this is going to increase.
I wrote this almost 15 years ago. The federal and state governments will legalize same-sex marriages. Said it's going to happen on a federal level.
As has already been done in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Iowa, along with currently 10 countries worldwide including Canada and Spain in the same week in 2005, meaning that all heterosexuals must accept the legality of these marriages and that anyone refusing to do so could be prosecuted for discriminatory behavior. We said this was going to happen. Alright, we've got one last segment to go. And I want to encourage you, friends. God is at work in the nation. And one day after another, more good things are happening.
I know there's bad stuff all the time, really bad stuff, grievous, heartbreaking, painful, without a doubt. And I grieve just like you grieve. But oh my, God is working.
Be encouraged. Jesus is Lord. All authority in heaven and earth belongs to Him.
And when we go preaching to make disciples and to pray, we go in His authority, not our own, not to take over, but to bring transformation through the Gospel. And we'll be right back with one more segment. It's the line of fire with your host, Dr. Michael Brown. Get on the line of fire by calling 866-344-TRUTH.
Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Alright, we go right back into the last segment of the message. The Time for Reformation is now preached June 23rd at Mercy Culture. I don't rejoice in someone who's same-sex attracted, feeling that they hate it.
I don't rejoice in someone who struggles with gender identity, feel that they're rejected. If there's any place that should be a safe place for someone to come in with struggles and write who they are, write where they are, start from there to find the Lord. It should be our circles. It should be our churches.
It should be our homes. At the same time, we will aggressively push back against an agenda that we believe is destroying society, targeting our children, and bringing judgment, not blessing. So last year, gay pride overplays its hand. The pushback rises. And look, even the world recognizes something is wrong.
And this is something that is really, really fascinating. I could give you quote after quote after quote pushing back against radical trans activism, pushing back against some other extremism taking place in our society today. And I don't have to quote the Bible, and I don't have to quote Christians. I can quote atheists.
I can quote worldly people. Oh, they're not my authority, but I want to illustrate a point. Some of the most outspoken voices in America and Europe today speaking against radical trans activism are not just non-believers.
They are people who have been historically hostile to the Christian faith. Richard Dawkins, most famous atheist on the planet, author of a book that was a bestseller for years, The God Delusion. Richard Dawkins celebrated science professor but then made a name for himself as an outspoken atheist. He lost his Humanist of the Year award a couple years ago because he dared to say there are only two sexes. Richard Dawkins is now an outspoken critic of transgender activism, arch-atheist. You want to know another one that we can quote? Bill Maher. Bill Maher actually makes a documentary mocking religion.
And just because of common sense. You see, this is what happens. Those with extreme agendas that depart from the foundations of God, they will always overplay their hand.
There's always a trajectory. Look, if you take truth and multiply truth endlessly, you end up with a whole lot of truth. If you take love and multiply love endlessly, you end up with lots and lots of love. If you take bitterness and multiply it endlessly, you have anger and hatred and murder and every kind of crime. You take sexual immorality and multiply it endlessly and you have perversions beyond what any of us could even imagine. So when things just reproduce after themselves, it's a law established by God in Genesis, the first chapter. Everything reproduces after itself. So when things deviate from the plan of God for marriage, family, sexuality, you are going to get things that become so extreme that even your average person says something is wrong here.
And the same ones who said, look, why can't two men marry or two women marry? Like my cousin, he's the nicest guy in the world. He's a great guy.
And he's always been a little different, always been attracted to boys. And he met a really good guy. They're a wonderful couple. They care for each other. They want to adopt a kid and raise him. And they're wonderful people.
You'd love them to have you next door. Why shouldn't we rethink the meaning of marriage? After all, who made the rules? Those same people are now saying, I didn't sign up for a boy to be sharing the locker room with my daughter at school. I didn't sign up for her to have to hold it in all day because she can't go to the bathroom for fear of a boy being in there. I didn't sign up for my daughter cutting me off and not talking to me anymore because she's dead set on getting hormones and wants to remove her breasts at the age of 13 because she's convinced she's in the wrong.
I didn't sign up for that. But it's the inevitable trajectory. There is a famous gay blogger, brilliant guy named Andrew Sullivan, last year wrote a long article called the homosexuals versus the queers. He's basically saying, we didn't sign up for this radical agenda.
We were not looking for this, but we just wanted to live our lives in peace and be accepted for who we were. And I wrote an article responding saying, you cannot separate the T and the Q from the LGB. There's an inevitable trajectory. Here's someone else I can quote, Joe Rogan. When you think Joe Rogan, you don't think Joe Rogan Bible, right? I mean, he's multi-talented in different ways, but, you know, his podcast is the world's biggest podcast. And he often has interesting guests on which I listen to except what he talks every other word is the F bomb. It's just the way he is.
I don't know how to smoke pot on his show. I don't mean he's this evil, evil guy. I'm just saying he's not born again, all right? He's not born again. And Joe Rogan's done these dynamic shows like interviewing Abigail Shrier.
You're outspoken against girls mutilating themselves and things like that and trans activism. And, you know, last year he's talking about Target. Target stores. And he said, you know, they got these bathing suits. They're called tucked bathing suits.
It's a lady's bathing suit with a little extra fabric, you know, if it's a guy wearing it. And he goes, that's weird. He goes, I don't get a Target to see that.
That's weird. Joe Rogan. JK Rowling, author of Harry Potter.
Long, by the way, in case you haven't read the books, Harry Potter is not a biblical character. She's long time gay lesbian allies, a straight woman. Long time gay lesbian allies. She is one of the loudest voices in the world now against trans activism. People tried to blacklist her because when someone made the statement, people menstruate, she said, no, women menstruate.
This outcry. People tried to blacklist her, get her dropped by her talent agency and all that. You're one of the world's best-selling authors ever, let alone best-selling female authors. She recently took on the nation of Scotland.
Do you know that? Because Scotland passed a rule, you know, that no hate speech against trans, so you can't, quote, deadname someone. So I could not legally say Bruce Jenner because Bruce is Caitlyn. Or I could not, I could not misgender, I could not refer to Bruce Jenner as a he. So she just starts posting stuff publicly to challenge the government of Scotland.
And they backed down. What do you know? Piers Morgan. Pastor Landon reached out to me about 11 years ago after seeing me on Piers Morgan. When Piers Morgan, I was Duck Dynasty controversy, so he's challenging me, you know, Dr. Brown showed me one verse in the Bible where Jesus said anything about gay or being gay, etc.
So he saw my response and just felt we were to, I was to be involved in his life and God connected us. So Piers Morgan was known for always attacking Christians on the subject. Now Piers is aggressively going after radical trans activism. He actually did a show some months back where he identified as a cat. And he's saying this crazy, he says, this is happening in our schools.
They have children meowing and barking and refusing to talk. He said, this is not satire, it's real. And then he gets so grieved over it last June, everything, everything, everything was gay pride, gay pride, gay pride everywhere you turn. And he has a gay activist on and he says, look, don't you want to win people to your cause?
It's just like everywhere I turn, it's, you know, it's just enough already. This is a strong gay ally, friend of Elton John for years, right? And the guy says, well, everywhere I look, I see straight flag and Piers says, where's my flag? Where's my straight flag?
I've been having this battle. Piers Morgan, Kid Rock, and I've not followed the career of Kid Rock, but I can say with assurance that Kid Rock does not know Jesus or have the fruit of the Spirit. He sparks the Bud Light boycott for celebrating a man who identifies as a woman is now the poster girl of Bud Light.
He gets his gun out and starts shooting cans of Bud Light in his backyard. The Bud Light boycott was not led by born again Christians. Come on, let's stop drinking that beer. We'll put a dent in the, come on. Even the world is waking up. Here's the deal, though.
Here's the deal. It will all fail unless the church leads the way, and that's our destiny, and that's our calling, and it is time. It is time.
It is time. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
I say this last thing. When we would have massive meetings in the midst of the revival and the crowds coming from all over and getting dramatically touched and transformed, you're seeing that every night you can believe for anything. Young people being touched, kids being touched, power of God formed. You can believe for anything. And our student body was almost 1,200 students, 1,175 full-time students, and sometimes in a chapel service, I said, look at me. We're not dreaming.
Look at me. I'm not dreaming. This is going to happen. And when we went to the Call event together, we had the largest single group, 17 buses, 780 of our people, 22-hour drive up to D.C. to be part of the Call D.C. With several hundred thousand young people, Sean Floyd being one of them, we gave away that day over 70,000 copies of my Revolution book, which had just been printed. Over a million dollars of books given away.
Supernaturally, Sean got one of them. Others did. And the students out there looking at the crowd, it's like, I told you, we're not dreaming. And all those rallies and the tears and the prayer and the fasting, that has paved the way for what is happening today.
None of it was in vain. Right now is our time to seize the moment. Right now is our time to turn the tide. Right now is our time to say, Lord, here I am. Send me.
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