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Thank you. This is What's Right, What's Left with Pastor Ernie Sanders. Good evening and welcome to another edition of What's Right, What's Left.

The voice of the Christian Resistance on this 27th day of April 2025. Tonight I have my, well, illustrious and highly, highly esteemed co-host, none other than Kenny. Good evening, Pastor.

Good evening, Kenny. We have quite a message tonight. And so, you know, the Bible clearly teaches that God has expectations of us and we have obligations to Him.

He owes us nothing. We owe Him everything. But do you think a lot of people kind of take God for granted? Oh, absolutely.

It's like, well, you know, when I get in trouble, when I really need Him, I'll call upon Him, you know, see if He can get me out of the mess. But how often do they think about God during the day? I think a lot of people end up using prayer as a wish list instead of just thanking God for everything that you already have. That's exactly right. Not only everything that we have, but all the things that we don't have, you know?

That as well, yeah. And so here, that's what we're all about. The title of the message tonight is Reverential Awe, because we have an awesome God, an awesome God.

Sure do. And He reigns from heaven above. And so we're going to, tonight, take a look at that as we go through this. Now, you know, my job as a preacher is to preach what people need to hear, not what they want to hear. And so when the preacher is preaching this message, sometimes it applies to the preacher, too, huh?

In fact, it applies to the preacher first and foremost. And so here, since you're with me tonight, I'll put you on the spot. Okay. Great.

All right. Let's start tonight in Malachi, chapter 3 in Malachi. And here we're going to start in verses 16 through 18, and then chapter 4 of Malachi, verses 1 through 3. So we start, and this is one of my favorite verses, too, in Scripture, verse 16 of Malachi chapter 3.

The nay that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it. And a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon His name. Now, there were seven different books, other than the books, the Bible speaks of the 66 books of the canon. In those 66 books, it speaks about seven other books, okay? And one of them is here, the book of remembrance. You've got the book of law and the book of war, okay?

The book of life and the book of the living. So anyhow, it says, so then they that feared the Lord spake often to one another, and the Lord heard it, hearkened, and He heard it. And so here in heaven, God keeps records of not just the actions of His people, but even their thoughts. He says here, and He heard, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared Him and them that thought upon His name.

So He keeps records not just the actions of His people, but even of their thoughts. Here, this verse indicates a particular pleasure of God when His people truly fear the Lord, and He occupies both their conversations and their inward thoughts. You know, now, can we say, either one of us, the people we know, how many of our contemporaries, how many of our friends in that that I know, like I preached this message today, and you know, I saw the looks on the faces of the people, and they were thinking, boy, it was hitting home. But how many people do we know who really spend very much time in God, does God occupy their conversations, does God occupy their thoughts? How many, you know, during the day now, I know the people in the church and the people I deal with, and of course I have conversations with a number of pastors, so that'd be a little different. But most folks out there, they kind of hardly don't mention God much during the day, do they? No, I would say hardly any, at least out in the open, that, you know, their normal conversations, you know, that they really don't mention God much at all. Now, as far as their thoughts, I have no idea. You know, they may be thinking of God quite a bit and just not speaking it, you know, or maybe I'm not around when they are speaking it.

You know, that's entirely possible too, but from my experience, there's really not that many. I find that it's the older folks that I'm around, the older folks that, you know, will often say, Lord's willing, and the good Lord thinks so, or much more than the younger people. In verse 17, he says, And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my jewels, and I will spare them as a man, spare his own son that serveth him.

You know, so that word, jewels, can be translated there as a special treasure, a peculiar, a peculiar treasure. So those of us to think upon his name, he looks upon us as a peculiar treasure, and he says, And I will spare them as a man, spare his own son. That means that God's wrath doesn't come upon him, okay? And then he says, Then shall you return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. Psalm 58, 11 says kind of the same thing. So, here, when we hear this, Then shall you return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth not.

We're to judge everything, aren't we? And so, then he talks about those that don't pay attention, don't think upon God. In fact, as we go through here today, we're going to see how one of the things that really displeases God is not only those that don't reverence him, but those that have their religion, they put on a false front the hypocrisy and pretense of honoring God when their heart is far from God and they're honoring everyone but God.

And he says here, For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yes, all that do wickedly shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up, said the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Now, that's very clearly said there, and here, people really need to understand what he's talking about. See, again, I'm dealing with people, some people are very close, you know, and it's like, yeah, yeah, you know, I hear you preaching, right, but it doesn't seem to be registering.

In one ear and out the other. Yeah. But unto you that fear my name shall the Son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and you shall go forth and grow up as calves in his stall. You know, that's a normal Hebrew word for wings here.

And here, that passage, right, to remember you the laws of Moses, okay, well now, let me go back for the healing in the wings. Now, it's a normal word, a Hebrew word for wings here, but sometimes it's understood as rays, and that's instead of wings. And it's translated, that word can be translated in various ways. But mostly you'll find it being used to as projecting, projecting out there like rays of light and like a healing in the wings.

The way that it's used is used in various different ways. But anyhow. It's almost, it sounds almost poetic in that way. Yeah. And then he says, and you shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts. Well, he sure didn't stutter there, did he? Not at all.

Okay. And so now, I'd like to go over to Deuteronomy chapter 28. In Deuteronomy chapter 28, verses 28 through 33, we read here, And the Lord heard the voice of your words when you spake unto me. And the Lord said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto me, and they have well said all that they have spoken. Here, the Lord had just reiterated the laws concerning the very same Ten Commandments that he had delivered to them over in Exodus chapter 20. And the people were fearful and then very quick to agree, yes, we will be obedient, we will obey, yes, and we will reverence, we will fear the Lord, reverence the Lord.

But here, didn't last long. They were, just like when, remember when, it didn't take long when Moses went up on the mountain, boy, they were fear and all, but when he come down, they were out there having orgies, sacrificing children. And so, here, he says, Oh, that there was such a heart in them that they would fear me. Oh, that there was such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever.

Okay? And so, he said, I just wished that they actually did what they said they would do here. And so, then he says, Go say to them, Get you unto your tents again. But as for thee, stand here, thou there by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I will give to possess it. You shall observe to do, therefore, as the Lord your God hath commanded you, you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left. You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, that it may be well with you, that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess. So, the Lord really said it very, very clear here, but he knew the hearts of the people like he was saying. If they only actually did what they would say they would do, okay, how quickly they change. Remember how quickly, after he took them out of Egypt, took them out of bondage, how quickly they forgot what he did for them, huh? And so, here, when we take a look at this, how sad it is when people believe that their relationship with God can be in accordance as they think it should be, and not as God requires it to be.

In other words, how many times have you heard people say, this is my God, my God is, well, I had a woman one time coming to the church and she was telling me that her God was a God that was non-judgmental. What? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. And that he accepted people and their lifestyle just the way they were. He didn't judge them and so, she went on telling me about all these things and I told her, I said, well, your God exists in your head. Yes.

Okay. She said her God was tolerant. He tolerated people, he tolerated their sin.

I don't know what she's reading, but that does not sound like anything. She came from the United Church of Christ. I call it the United Church of Antichrist, which are totally apostate. And this is the kind of stuff that they, their God exists in their mind, okay? And I told her, I said, let me tell you, the God that's going to judge you, that you're going to stand before, where it comes to tolerance of sin, there was no one who was more intolerant of sin than the Lord Jesus. And he is the great judge.

He'll be the judge at the right throne judgment, okay? And so, again, the God that's in your mind and the God that you're going to stand before are two different gods. Well, she said, I've never heard that preached. They don't preach that in my church.

And I said, well, then you should find a real church, huh? But anyhow, so here, when he, he tells you that, and, you know, it breaks my heart to see people that I love and here to give, that they give God so little space in their lives. You know, they don't say it in so many words, but their actions shout it.

You know, I've got a life and God will have to be, well, I have to be satisfied with what I, what time I have, what time I can spare for him. They don't say that outright, but you can tell that's their actions. And I know people that would never, they would never, ever disrespect their employers by coming in to work late every day. But they, those same people, they don't have any problem at all showing up in the middle of a church service, you know, just walking in the middle of the service. Now, so what does that tell you, what kind of respect are they showing for the house of God? None at all. Now, what did we just read?

Very little. We just read in Malachi that God keeps a record of all this, doesn't he? Absolutely. Not just their actions, but their thoughts, too. And so here, and then here, you know, you see them, well, one of the things that really, that I'm really concerned about when it comes to marriage and the family, that, you know, the very first divine institution that gave us was marriage and the family.

Yeah. And so here today, you have many, many professing Christians today that have absolutely no respect for the first divine institution. Today you have, you know, multiple divorces. Or these open marriages where they're not divorced but they're sleeping around and it's okay to them somehow? So what they've done is they've taken the divine institution that God has given them and they've soiled it, huh? They've made it into an unclean thing, huh? Yeah.

And so here... Or they're trying to anyways. Yeah. And so, yeah, you have these so-called open marriages and today you have a lot of people that just say, well, you know, marriage is a thing of the past. We, you know, we just live together, okay?

Yeah. And sometimes they go and they have little contracts and agreements. These don't last and, you know, how the thing that's shifted on that so much is, you know, by nature, at least in my lifetime and the way it's been in the past, men have been the one where it comes to morality that have had the bigger problem with morality than women. You know, women, I remember, you know, how it meant something for women to be chaste, you know?

To be called a lady, okay? And we always, you know, treated our women much better and give them much, you know, more privacy because we understood that their women are different than us. And the Bible says they're the weaker vessel. And so, you know, we kind of protected them. Sometimes we had to protect them from themselves, I think, but anyhow, today they got the ones that are leading this thing for living together instead of getting married, for not having children.

You know, what's the very first command that God's Word, the Bible gives you? Have children. They have children to be fruitful and multiply. Fruitful, yeah, multiply.

Between Genesis 1 and Genesis 9, he gives you three times to be fruitful and multiply. That wasn't a suggestion, but that was after marriage, after marriage, okay? And so one man, one woman, not this open marriage thing that they have, okay, today. So what are they doing? They're totally disrespecting God's divine institution, aren't they?

Yeah. And then, you know, some people out there today, and I'm talking now, you know, I'm talking about professing Christians, they don't have a problem with always going out on a Saturday night, spending large money, you know, in expensive restaurants or taking in theaters. But then the next day, Sunday morning, they skimp on their tithes.

You know, well, you know, we got to come back, we spent too much last night. What does God say about tithing? Well, let me ask you this. Does God need your money? No.

He doesn't need your money. Do you need to tithe? Absolutely. Because God, what is it? It's a show of faith, right? It's a show of faith and gratitude. Absolutely. Because you wouldn't have it if it were not for his blessings, huh?

Absolutely. And so, you know, and you hear people say that God doesn't need my money. Again, God keeps a record, okay? And, you know, here again, when it comes to tithing, you know, we want to preach on tithing the way it should be preached and not, you know, what these prosperity preachers do. Because what they're talking about is not tithing, it's fleecing the flock, isn't it? Yeah, they're just trying to get rich off of everyone else.

They're playing off people's greed and they have a charge. I had to laugh just recently. Of course, Benny Hinn, he's come out several times now and said he's not going to do any more of that prosperity preaching, it was wrong. He shouldn't have done it in the first place, but then he goes ahead and does it again. A double-minded man is unstable in how many of his ways? All of his ways, yeah. And then you had, oh, the woman Joyce, Joyce Riley? No, not Riley, Joyce, oh, I can't even think of her last name, but I've listened to her, a couple of hers. Meyer?

Joyce Meyer, yeah. And she recently came out and said, sometimes we overdo it, sometimes we overdo the tithing thing, sometimes we overdo, like, that's justified. I think maybe some of these people are starting to be convicted, okay?

Hopefully that's the case. And so, what about, you know, there are people, too, out there who, they'll spend all day on Facebook. Now, I know some people, some people close to me, and they spend, and I'm not talking about kids, I'm talking about some of the older time, old-timers, mostly women, that spend a whole lot of time on Facebook.

But you know what? They read the Bible one day a week. One day a week they'll go, when they're in church on Sundays, they read the Bible.

Stay away from the good book and stay on Facebook. So, how much time are they giving God compared to how much time they're giving to themselves? Yeah, a fraction. God says He's got to be number one. You've got to put Him first. That's what He says, right?

Well, I'm going to tell you. So now, people don't like to hear this kind of a message at all, but they need to hear this kind of a message, huh? Yeah, and it's like you said, your job is to preach what they need to hear, not what they want to hear.

Absolutely. And so, I want to go now over to 1 Samuel, in 1 Samuel chapter 12. 1 Samuel chapter 12, starting with verse 14 through verse 25, and if you will fear the Lord and serve Him and obey His voice and not rebel against the commandments of the Lord, then shall both you and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the Lord your God. But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord but rebel against the commandments of the Lord, then shall the hand of the Lord be against you as it was against your fathers. Now, therefore, stand and see the great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes. Now listen to this because most people would not understand this at all, okay? Is it not wheat harvest today?

Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call unto the Lord and He shall send thunder and rain that you may perceive that you see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord in asking you a king. Now Samuel, you know, here, you know, they wanted Saul, they wanted a king, they wanted to be like Teith.

Now here's the problem. The problem is they had the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings, okay? And they had Samuel as their leader. And Samuel felt, man, these people, they're telling me I'm not good enough for them. They're also saying the Lord's not good enough for them. Well, that's what God said to Samuel.

No, Samuel, it's not you they're rejecting, it's me that they're rejecting. That's what He told Samuel, huh? And so here now, he said, is it not wheat harvest today? Now one of the things about this here is that a thunderstorm during the time of wheat harvest was almost unheard of in Israel. And it was considered a miraculous answer to Samuel's prayer. See, Samuel prayed that for these people to teach them a lesson, huh? He shall send them thunder and rain.

In other words, you know, you don't get thunder and rain during the day of the wheat harvest out there this time of year. And that you may perceive that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking you a king. So Samuel called unto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel. And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God that we die not, for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king. Again, here they have, God is their leader. God has pulled them out of one mess after the other mess after the other mess. When they were hungry, God gave them food. When they were thirsty, God gave them water. When their enemies were surrounded about them, God delivered them out of the hands of their enemies.

When they were in captivity in Egypt, God took them out of their bondage. And very short-lived, right? Yeah, they continued to provide for them and provide and provide and provide, and at the drop of a hat, they just completely forget about it. Yeah. And it's kind of like people today.

Yeah. Remember what happened in 9-11? There was two great big dust storms, two big dust storms, one when the buildings came down and the other across the entire country because they were pulling Bibles off the shelves and the dust was filling the air. Here, they thought the people, many people thought, we're going into war. This is going to be World War III. It's war. And so, all of a sudden, now they're going to be calling upon God, right? Yeah. And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not, for you have done all this wickedness, yet turn not aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart, and turn you not aside, for then should you go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

And how do you think that would apply to today? I don't know. Maybe greed? Maybe just doing whatever you can to get more money?

Yeah. Vain things, things usually of pleasure, but there's things, I know people that have their own gods in the sense that I knew a fellow who, his yard was his god. He didn't give God any time during the day, never went to church at all. But he worked on his yard. His yard had to be the best yard ever. I mean, he worked out there.

Never gave God the glory, gave himself the glory, because he wanted, for some reason, to have the best looking yard around. I knew another guy one time. He had his car, and this car, I'm thinking back, because there was two different occasions, but it was spotless. It was, this guy had, I'm thinking it was a 57 Chevy with this, you know, the deep paint job on it where you could, you know, and I remember, it's all this guy could talk about was his car. And there used to be places called Dog and Suts where you would pull in, they had root beers and hot dogs and coney dogs, and so it would be, this guy would actually pull his car in there, but he wouldn't go up to where you order. He would park it at the end, and he would stand by his car to make sure. Just to show it off. Well, not to make sure nobody could get close to him.

He wouldn't let anybody else park within feet of his car. They had, you know, he would, yeah, I guess to show it off there, you know. And so, it was, you know, an amazing thing. In other words, still pulling up and sitting in your car. That's what it was all about.

But that car was this guy's whole life, that car, okay? And so, in ways, they become other gods. False idols.

Yeah, that's exactly what they are, false idols. And again, here, he goes on to say, For the Lord will not forsake thee, this people, for this great name's sake, because you have pleased the Lord to make, it has pleased the Lord to make you his people. Moreover, as for me, God forbid, now Samuel, now just think about this, it shows you Samuel had a servant's heart, because the people had just let him know, we don't want you, we want a regular king, right? Moreover, as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you, but I will teach you the good and the right way. So Samuel said that, tells them that even after the way they treated him. Only fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart, for consider how great things he has done for you. But if you should do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king. And so, he didn't mix any words there, did he?

No. Let's go over to Isaiah chapter 40. In Isaiah chapter 40, we have an interesting message there, verses 20, just a couple of verses, verses 25 and 26.

For whom then will you liken me? Or shall I be equal with, said the Holy One? Lift up your eyes on high, and behold, who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might.

For that he is strong in power, and one in power, not one that faileth. So here, God, this is in no uncertain terms here, is demanding reverence, respect, and obedience. He calls out all of creation, asking who will challenge him, for he has no equal. God has no equals, right? In verse 22 it says, It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, that the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, that stretches out his heavens as a curtain, and he spreadeth them out an intent to dwell in.

Now, again, the point he s making here is, Do you know who I am, when you re praying to me? You know, I ve heard well-meaning people talk about, Well, now, you know, I guess I get along pretty good with the guy upstairs. The guy upstairs? Yeah. Right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, that s what you want to call them, and I don t know how well that s going to be received, but it doesn t sound... That s not smart, is it? No. No, these people... It doesn t sound respectful at all. No.

And for the most part, they don t mean to sound disrespectful, but they re biblically illiterate, right? Yeah. You see, if they understood what God has said, you know, they should approach him with fear and trembling. Mm-hmm. Again, it goes back to the fear and trembling goes back to the fact God has expectations of us, we have obligations to him, and the fear should be that we don t meet his expectations.

Yeah, we come up short. Yeah. And so... And knowing that is why you should fear him. Yeah. And so, you know, and to hear people say, Well, you know, I guess my good outweighs my bad, and I think I can work things out with the man upstairs.

That sounds like a foolish plan. Yeah, it does. But this is the kind of thing you get, okay? And so folks really, really need to understand, and they need to make the salvation sure. Well, you see, that s the thing, though, too, because, I mean, we know that we re going to come up short, but it doesn t mean that you don t continue to try. Right. Because then someone will just come and be like, Oh, well, you know, none of us are worthy, you know, so why bother?

Well, why bother? Bothering is the reason that we re saved, because you bother, because you try, at least. That s exactly right. Let him that is... we re over in Galatians 6, verses 6 through 10. Let him that is taught in the Word communicate. That means to support. That means to support, okay, unto him that teaches in all things.

In other words, support the preacher, support the teacher. Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. He that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap everlasting. So let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

As we have, therefore, opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them that are of the household of God. So, again, be not deceived, God is not mocked. God is not mocked. Now, when you hear people mocking God, if you re there and there s people, and you often hear that a lot of things, a lot of times a lot of people just... so professing Christian, I mean Christians will stand and listen. Sometimes if they feel peer pressure, they feel... and they tell dumb jokes. You know, and yet instead of rebuking and refuting, a lot of these professing Christians will even go along with the peer pressure there and laugh like it s funny.

Go along to get along. Yeah, and the Bible says that what God... He remembers, okay, He remembers all of their thoughts, all of what they ve done, okay? He keeps a record that s all recorded, huh? And so that s not a very smart thing to do, is it?

No. Let s go over to Philippians chapter 2, and in Philippians chapter 2 verses 12 through 16 here. Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Now that is one of those verses that s taken and it s spinned and they spin it and they twist it to try to make it say something else. Some of the other perversions, you know, of the Bible will twist that to say work for your salvation, though they re saying we re working for your salvation. Keep working and someday you ll have salvation.

But that s not what it says at all. It s saying that the salvation you have... can you obtain salvation by works? No.

No. But he s telling you is that the salvation you have, that you work it out with fear and trembling... again, that goes back to what? To honoring God, okay, and to meeting, try to meet God s expectation to reverence God. And all during the day... how many things do you think you have to thank God for during the day? Everything. Yeah, everything.

Literally everything. That s right. For it is God which worketh in you, both to well and to do of his good pleasure.

Okay, so here it goes. It s back to not God pleasing us, but us pleasing God. It s back to that s our goal is to please God. Do all things without murmuring and disputings. Boy, did that get Israel in big trouble when he took them out of Egypt, huh?

How many times did that get them in big trouble? That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of the crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain. Of course, the day of Christ is the day of salvation, huh?

Yeah. So here, going back to summing up the speaking, to the speaking of professing Christians, he s not saying again to work for your salvation. He s saying to work out the salvation that you have. And this, again, try not to come work hard, not to come short of God s expectations. We want to hear these words, Well done, my good and faithful servant, right? And so here he s telling us very clearly to do God s will without murmuring, without complaining. Okay. Because God never said it was going to be easy, did he?

No. And sometimes he gives us work to do, but like the Apostle Paul says, he finds it all glory to be found worthy to be persecuted for the Lord s sake. And we re never put in a position or a situation that we can t handle. God will always give us, when he sends us out, he ll equip us, won t he? Yes, absolutely.

And so what about a way to rise above the ways of the world and act as sons of God? Yeah. That s what he says. Yeah, we re supposed to be that light. And that s what he says.

He says that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Boy, that s us for sure, huh? Without a doubt. Yeah. Especially everything that s gone on these past five years, four and a half years. Yeah. I mean, I don t think we ve seen anything yet. It s gonna get more and more interesting. Let s go over to Isaiah, because in Isaiah chapter 66, and I think most people don t quite understand this passage of Scripture, verses 1 through 4.

It s at 66. Isaiah 66. Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house that you build unto me, and where is the place of my rest? First of all, he says he occupies the entire universe. It takes the entire universe to hold, because God is omnipresent, isn t He? For all these things hath mine hand made, and all these things have been said, saith the Lord. But all of these things have been said, saith the Lord. But to this man will I look even to him that is poor, and of a contrite spirit, and a trembling at my word. So it s kinda referring to the Lord Jesus, huh?

Mm hm. Now, in the future, this is about 800 years before the birth of Christ. But listen to this now. He s talking to the religious leaders. The religious leaders, and think how this applies to today, that in their hypocrisy, they go through the motions that go to church, and some of these churches, but they really, their hearts are not towards God. They have, like that woman we talked about, a God who, when it comes to sin, would accept every kind of sin. United Church of Christ, it s mostly today, mostly all women as pastors, which here, again, they re not supposed to be there. They re totally violating God s laws and God s statutes, right?

Yeah, I mean, from the get-go. But then they teach that God is a loving God and an acceptance, and so they embrace sodomy. They embrace the sin of sodomy.

They say that killing a child, a woman has a right, and people like Al Sharpton even says the Bible justifies abortion and even condones it. It doesn t. That s absurd. Well, yeah, I know. And so here now, he goes on, and here s how God compares that and Isaiah s day. He that killeth an ox, as if he slew a man. Okay, do you understand what that means?

No. Okay, here, he s taken, he s supposed to be offering up a sacrifice. But in his heart, there s no difference.

He would kill a man just as easily, okay? So then not only that, but he s reluctant to sacrifice one of his own ox. In other words, he s supposed to be given a sacrifice, but he acts like, oh, geez, this is, you know, he would be as much against killing his ox as he would killing a man. His heart s not towards God at all, is it?

No. And he says he that sacrifice a lamb as if he cut off a dog s neck. The significance of that, in the Middle East at that time, the most revered animals were lions.

The most despised animals were dogs. And here, he s making a point there in his hypocrisy that, you know, the lamb, the paschal lamb to offer a sacrifice. To them, they re just going through the motions.

Their heart s not with God. And he knows their thoughts, doesn t he? Yeah.

He says he that offered an oblation as if he offered swine s blood. Oh, boy. Okay. These are not good things, are they? No.

No, not at all. Okay. He that burneth incense as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. But now listen to this next verse, because we re living this this day.

We re seeing this in spades today. I also will choose their delusions and will bring their fears upon them. You remember these people when Donald Trump got elected? They were crying and screaming. I mean, and even now, all these corrupt, crooked judges.

Yea. These corrupted judges out there today. Unbelievable black-robed whores.

The Bible refers to them there, both in Hosea and Ezekiel, whores. I also will choose their delusions and will bring their fears upon them, because when I called, none did answer. And when I spake, they did not hear. But they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that which I delighted not. And so, in other words, God s telling, didn t get any respect from you.

I don t see any fear in trembling there. But you don t seem to hold me in very high esteem, do you? Yea. And they just didn t take God seriously, did they? No.

And for that, they paid an awful price, didn t they? Yea. And that s what s happening today with these, you have out there today these, with the Democrats and the apostasy. And then, in Jeremiah, chapter 5, verses 21 through 25, Hear now, this, O foolish people, without understanding, which have eyes, and see not, and have ears, and ears, fear you not me, saith the Lord, will you not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass, and though the waves therefore toss themselves, yet can they not prevail, although they roar, can they not pass over it? Do you understand what he s saying there, Kenny? Kind of, that he s saying that, I ve done all this and you don t fear me. It s almost like he s flabbergasted.

Like, seriously? Well, yea, that s exactly what he s saying. Look, I made the oceans out there. I made the seas out there. I kept them from overflowing the land.

They do what I tell them to do, okay? And so now, he goes on, But this people have a revolting and a rebellious heart, and they are revolted and gone. And that means that we re gone means they ve departed, you know, from him. And so, Neither say they in their hearts, Let us now fear the Lord our God that giveth rain, both the former and the later, in a season.

He reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. For among my people are found wicked men.

They lay weight as they set of snares, like they do, they set of snares, and we ve all had to go through that, the corrupt courts, and how they re going after President Trump. And then, uh, in Hebrews 12, I want to go to Hebrews 12 really quickly, and in verse 28 and 29, Wherefore we receive a kingdom which cannot be removed. Let us have grace, whereby we have, we may serve God, and accept, acceptably with reverence and godly fear, for our God is a consuming fire. I think if we go back one verse, verse 27, And this word he wants more signifies the removing of these things that are shaken, as of the things that are made, that these things which cannot be shaken may remain. In other words, he s telling you, even though God is a consuming fire, that s very same consuming fire that he brings down upon the wicked, has no effect at all on the righteous.

In other words, that his people, that consuming fire, won t touch them. And so here, and then, very quickly, because I know we re just about out of time, I want to jump over to one final, uh, here. And further, by these my son, we re in Ecclesiastes 12.4, Be admonished of making many books. There is no end, and much study is the weariness of the flesh. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Here you go. This is what it all comes down to.

You ready, Kenny? Fear God, keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. This is the whole duty of man.

Let me read that again. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Now, we cannot keep the commandments under the law.

We can t do that. So what s the solution? The solution is Jesus Christ. And so, For God shall bring every work unto judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. There s no stuttering there, right? Absolutely.

Okay, so, anyhow, we re out of time for tonight. God requires obedience, folks. He requires obedience. He requires for you to put him first. And I ve got to tell you, he did something before you. He took your place at Calvary, and if you have not called upon the name of the Lord Jesus, time might be short for you. Every time you hear the preacher ask that, okay, that s the Lord speaking to you. Have you called upon the name of the Lord Jesus? Have you gone before God with fear and trembling because of what Jesus did for you? Are you respecting the sacrifice that Christ made, the ultimate sacrifice at Calvary, or are you disrespecting that?

And are you willing to pay a horrible, horrible price for that? That s the question. Well, we re up against it as we come to every night at this time, where we say thanks for being here, thanks for listening, and until tomorrow, we want to say good night, God bless, and always, always, always keep fighting the fight. Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight. Thanks for listening to the Voice of the Christian Resistance What s Right, What s Left, hosted by Pastor Ernie Sanders. To learn more about our ministry, please visit us online at www.wrwl.org. Please tune in next time for another edition of What s Right, What s Left.