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This is What's Right, What's Left. As you can tell, this is not Pastor Ernie Sanders. I'm Pastor Richard Lewis and filling in for Pastor Sanders tonight. We're going to have a great show.
I'll explain the situation with Pastor Sanders in a minute. I do want to welcome everyone here in the studio. We have a full studio and we have Pastor Joe on the line too. Welcome, Pastor Joe.
Joe Larson. Glad to be back with you. Amen.
Amen. And in our control unit, there are engineer and director, Stiles. Hey, Pastor Lewis, how are you?
Okay. Always good to have Stiles here. I was wondering, filling in here, whether he'd be in control or not. And I'm glad he's here. Also, we have Randall Barkley. Amen. Amen.
Our God, he still works miracles. Yes. Amen. And Lisa is in the studio with us. Good evening, everyone. And also Eric. Quietly. Yes. Eric's going to lead us in a prayer in a minute.
Let me just give an introduction here on why I'm doing the program. Pastor Sanders was having some chest pain and to play it safe, he decided to go to the hospital. So we ask you, please don't call him. He's getting some medical treatment and we'll have an update probably maybe later on in the show or next day at least. But just understand he just needs some rest and whatever is going to go on, he's going to be in good hands.
He's at the hospital. So he asked if I would fill in for him. And we have enough support here for with Joe Larson, Pastor Joe Larson on the air and everybody here in the studio. So we'll have a great program and we'll do Pastor Sanders justice.
We want to open with a prayer. Eric, you're going to do a prayer and then we're also going to ask Randy to I'm sorry, Randall. Do you go by Randy? I always call him Randall. Okay.
Elder Barkley. Okay. But Eric, would you please do yours first? I offer you this psalm. Blessed Holy Spirit, please give us the health and strength to carry on our Lord's divine work so that we may all serve him, even under these overwhelming and oppressions. We are his servants. We are his army.
Please, O Holy Spirit, deliver this message to our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus the Nazarene. Amen. Amen. Okay.
And Elder Barkley, would you specifically bring up Pastor Sanders? Amen. Eternal God, we come before you truly. We thank you, Lord God, for just being able to be together here.
This is a day in which you have made. We will rejoice and be glad in it because, God, you are yet in control. And so, Father God, we come to you in faith, not fear. You said if any man will come to you, he must first believe that you are and that you are a rewarder of them that diligently seek you. And so, Father God, we seek you tonight on behalf of Pastor Sanders. We lift him up unto you, Father God, right now.
Father God, you said that men are to always pray and not to faint. And so, Father God, we pray, Father God, for the listeners, Lord God, for their faith to be strengthened right now in agreement, Father God, that heaven might move on Pastor Sanders' behalf. We know that there are so many that are affected and so many that are impacted by the great work that he does. And so, Father God, we just want to lift up this man of God right now, your servant who is faithful in the battlefield. And Father God, he needs you right now. And so, Father God, we call on that compassion that we know that you have, Lord God, the healing power that we know that you have, Lord God, to touch his body, Lord God.
We pray that you might be with the doctors, be with the nurses, be with the staff, Lord God, that's overseeing his care right now, Father God. But we know ultimately you are the one that is overseeing and taking care of everything because, Lord God, we are fearfully and wonderfully made in your image, Lord God. And we pray that you, Father God, would take care of him. You, Father God, you are the author and the finisher of our faith. And I'm also reminded of even when Martha and Mary, they were going through at the loss of their brother Lazarus, Lord God, you reminded them and you said, I am the resurrection and the life.
He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. And so, Father God, we just put our trust in you right now, Father God, for you to bring this man of God through. And again, we pray that you would be a comfort, Lord God, to his wife and to the church and to those abroad, Lord God.
Again, who know Pastor Ernie personally, Lord God, and who this may be affecting that they would stand strong, stand in faith and trust you to see us through. We thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen.
Amen. Pastor Joe, would you like to say any prayer for Pastor Sanders on the air? I'd just like to add something dear Heavenly Father. Pastor Ernie has been my mentor, my great friend, my brother. And we always pray that if it be thy will and that you would just, if it's your will, Lord, that you would bless Pastor Ernie and the way you see fit.
Give him the blessing that you know that he needs. After all, you're the great physician. You know far more than the men at the hospital, the doctors and the nurses. So we just put him into your capable hands and we are told to give you all of our concerns. Lay them at your feet, Lord. So you know how much we love Pastor Ernie. I just also ask that you be with Ellen and his son and all those that love him tonight. And that I just would want all the listeners out there to offer up their voices in prayer.
Just a short prayer for Pastor Ernie that the Lord would bring healing and strength to him. And that thy will be done this night. In Jesus' precious name we pray. Amen. Amen and amen.
Amen. That's what we want to do is keep him up. And like we said, I wanted to make that announcement of what was going on with him. But at the same time, please, please don't call him. Let him rest and let him, his wife is with him and let the doctors do what they're going to do.
But the most important thing you can do is pray for him. Yes. Yes. Amen. We have all these listeners that listen to this program all the time. Here's a fantastic prayer group and a prayer meeting so we just need to lift them up in prayer.
So please, everyone, when you think about that, just let the Lord know you're thinking about Pastor Sanders and praying for his well-being. Amen. Thank you. When we know something, we'll tell. Yes.
Yes. We'll announce it as soon as we know something so we're not going to keep it back. And even if we hear something later during the program, we'll announce it. Amen. Pastor Richard, we have a reason to rejoice and be confident in prayer even as we're listening to Pastor Joe tonight. You know, we had been praying for you, Pastor.
You were on Pastor Ernie's heart and he was so concerned because he couldn't get in touch with you. And we have just been praying and praying and, you know, even off air we have been praying. So to hear you on the air tonight is a testament to God's working power. So praise God. Amen. Yes. Thank you. We just were without little things like telephone, electricity off and on and had to dig our way out some flooded roads.
But wife and I, everybody's fine, just had a few problems. Wow. Just thank you for the prayers. Absolutely.
Absolutely. So what I wanted to talk about a little bit tonight, Pastor Sanders was talking about different memorials in the Bible. And in the past programs. And I don't want to jump on in the middle of his teaching there because I know he was systematically going through a few of the memorials. But so what I thought we would talk about tonight is something that happens every every night that Pastor is on the air is at the end of each of the programs. He leads people in a prayer and talk about salvation. And so what I thought we would do today for a subject matter in scripture is the things that happen at the moment that a person is saved. And there's a whole lot of things that happen to a person when they're saved. And sometimes we don't spend the time talking about that and people kind of look at salvation and we'll talk to people that have not been saved. And and they say, well, I don't know, I'll think about that when I get closer to dying or something like that. And as a believer, we know that that's that's the wrong thing because none of us are guaranteed even the next breath, let alone the next day.
But at the same time, sometimes people look at it and say, well, what's in it for me? So what I want to do is I want to hit a few of these points. I have a list here of I think there's 33 or so things that happened to you at the moment of salvation. And so we're just going to read through some of these things. And Pastor Joe, if you hear as we're reading through these, you don't have the paper in front of you.
We have them. But as we go through them, if you think of something or comment on what what it talks about, please jump right in. OK. All right. Sure thing. OK.
So the first there's a couple points about salvation. All things we cover are they're not experiences. They they can't be feel. You can't feel these things. God does this to you. It's not emotional.
It's not progressive. It happens at once, 100 percent at the moment of salvation. Not related to merit, nothing that we deserve.
The sovereign purpose of God to do his will. It's eternal in character. They last forever. That's our salvation.
That's what we get. And it does last forever. It's eternal. And only known by revelation. It's only known by what? How do we know we're saved? By the word of God. And it is a work by God alone. This is what God does.
Let me hit the first one and then we'll just kind of have some of the people here read the other ones. It says, We are sealed. Ephesians 1, 13 through 14. But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us. So we are sealed at the moment of salvation in Jesus Christ.
Want to hit number two? Elder? Yeah, number two reads, We get adopted. This is a concept of a child being brought into a new family. Romans 8 and 15, it says, For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. But ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father. And then also there's Galatians 4 and 5 and Ephesians 1 and 5, which you can look up.
Yes, yeah. And you know, when you think about that, God says that we are adopted at the point of salvation. Now, our society has a tendency to think of people, especially like a child or something, and they were adopted like it's something that's a lower, but it's actually you were chosen. When you're adopted, you are chosen by God, and that's a very high honor. And so a child, when they're adopted by a family, that's a very high honor to be adopted. And so when we look at that word, we need to put some power to it and understanding that it's really a blessing and such an honor to be adopted by God. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Mr. Richard, it's more than that. Actually, legally, an adopted child has a greater standing than a natural child. This was in the Bible Jewish custom. A child that was adopted can never be excommunicated from the family. A physical or natural child can be excommunicated, kicked out of the family. But if you're adopted, you can never be pushed out of the family, excommunicated, so to speak. We have a higher rating than a natural-born child being an adopted son of God. Yes, wow, that's fantastic.
Great to know, yeah. And so you want to read number three, Lisa? OK. We are redeemed. Redemption means taken out of circulation, removed from the marketplace of sin, brought out through Christ. Galatians 3, 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.
For it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Also, Ephesians 1, 7, Titus 2, 14, and Romans 3, 24. OK, so we are redeemed. So we're taken out of that sin nature, out of that sinful world, and being redeemed. And remember, these things happen immediately, as soon as you're saved. All of these things that we're reading, and when we talk about salvation and we talk about that, when we talk to a Christian, normally the only regret a Christian has is that they didn't obey the gospel sooner.
They would have been much happier if they would have done it sooner. And why do they say that? If you're not saved, a lot of people say, Well, why would you say that? What does it matter to you while you're here on earth that only means you're going to heaven? No, there's so many, many blessings that we get at the point of salvation. And sometimes we don't spend the time talking about these things. But there are so many blessings that God gives us.
He takes care of us and he showers us with blessings during the day, of course. But these things happen to us immediately, as soon as we are saved, we get these things. Yeah, and you know about that redeemed, it's something that we should not take for granted. I'm reminded, there's a song that we sing, I've been redeemed, I've been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
But then I've also heard, and sometimes you hear this saying, we have a song that the angels cannot sing, that I've been redeemed. Because we blew it, they blew it, but we got redemption through Jesus Christ. And it reminds me of the scripture, What is man that thou art mindful of him?
And again, he didn't have to do it, but he did. And because of that, we should be extremely grateful. And one last thing, even to the fact that he told his disciples, because they were ecstatic about the fact when he gave them power over unclean spirits and all of that. And when they came back, you know, they were again, they were ecstatic that, hey, we you know, we were cashing out devils and all this.
And he looked at them and he said, look, I beheld Satan fall like lightning. The thing that you need to be rejoicing about is that your names are written in heaven and in essence in the Lamb's Book of Life. That's what we need to be thankful for.
Yes, yes. And that's what we need to focus on sometimes daily is just to remind ourselves what's really going on in that. Another category, another item here we've listed is we are reconciled. Reconciled as being bringing the lower one to the higher one. We are brought up to God's standards. And I'm going to read Romans 5 10, but this reconciled, this is what what we do and why we are so adamant about the authorized version is because the authorized version. People want to lower the Bible down to a guttural language. And that's not what God wants us to do with some of these translations are trying to lower the the word of God down. What we need to be doing is lifting ourselves up to the word. We should be increasing our knowledge and not say, oh, that's that's some words that I can't understand. Well, good.
Get a dictionary and figure them out. But we shouldn't be saying, oh, well, let's change that word because it's it's too hard for me. I want it lowered down to my level. No, we need to be reconciled, lifted up to God's level. Romans 5 10 says, For if when we are were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more being reconciled. We shall be saved by his life. Amen.
You want to read number five? We become free from the law. The law is not a code of conduct. It is our schoolmaster to bring us to Jesus Christ. Law equals do and you will be blessed. But grace equals you are blessed. Now do and Galatians three, twenty four and twenty five says, Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. OK, praise the Lord.
Joe, anything you want to jump in on that? Well, I'm not knowing what where all you're going, but that back to a minute ago when we're redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, we become instantly a new creature, a new creation. And most of us that the people I've talked to when they were born again, they felt the change.
They felt a peace. They felt different. They were not the same as they had been just moments before. So when somebody says, how do you know you were saved? I know I was saved because I was changed. I knew the change. I felt the change because I was no longer the old me. I was a new me. I didn't understand totally the new me, but I knew I was not the same.
Yes. And you know, the thing is, some people are immediately, when they're saved, they immediately feel a change or have a change in themselves drastically. Other times it seems like sometimes people will kind of seem to stay in their sins and you kind of wonder, did they really get saved?
But you know what? The thing is, if you are saved, what will happen is if you do sin, you're going to feel a lot different about sin. Before you might have said, oh well, it didn't mean anything. All of a sudden your conscious is going to start bothering you and affecting you because you are saved now, because the Holy Spirit is in there.
You might be blocking the Holy Spirit inside of you, but you're going to feel something different. Let's do four or five real quick. Okay. Oh, it's number six.
I'm sorry. We are acceptable. We are accepted by God Almighty through Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1.6, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved. Okay. We are accepted by Jesus Christ that way. We're just hitting a few of these and we're coming up to a break here, but I want you to know that there are so many blessings.
I mean, we're going to hit a few more of these after the break, but right now we're going to break for this. And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, come and see. And I saw and behold, a white horse. There's a man going round, taking names, and he decides who to free and who to blame. Everybody will be treated all the same. There'll be a golden ladder reaching down when the man comes around.
At the terror in each sip and in each sip, will you partake of that last offered cup or disappear into the potter's ground? When the man comes around, hear the trumpets, hear the vipers, one hundred million angels singing. Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum, voices calling, voices crying.
Some are born and some are dying. It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come. And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
The virgins are all trimming their wigs. The whirlwind is in the thorn tree. It's hard for thee to kick against the priests. Till Armageddon, no shalom, no shalom. Then the father hen will call his chickens home. The wise men will bow down before the throne, and at his feet they'll cast their golden crowns. When the man comes around, whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still. Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still. Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still.
Listen to the words long written down when the man comes around. Hear the trumpets, hear the vipers, one hundred million angels singing. Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum, voices calling, voices crying.
Some are born and some are dying. It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come. And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
The virgins are all trimming their wigs. The whirlwind is in the thorn tree. It's hard for thee to kick against the priests. In measured a hundred weight and fifty pounds, when the man comes around. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, and I looked, and behold, a pale horse.
And his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. Okay. That's quite a touching song there, huh? Yes. It talks about the end times, and it gives us some quotes from the book of the Revelation, a very fascinating book to spend some time with.
And if you do spend some time with it, it's recommended that you have a good handle on the first fifty or sixty-four books first. Yes. I do want to mention that one of Pastor Sanders' members of his church had gone home recently, Chuck Reisinger, and we want to pray for his wife, his Claudia, and his family. Lord, this is a tough time. When somebody goes home, it's wonderful for them, because they can shed these frail bodies and be with Jesus. But for those that are left behind, those that are still here, it's sometimes lonely and painful.
And it's a tough thing to go through. You're rejoicing in one factor that you know they've gone to heaven, but at the same time, you're feeling that great loss and that friendship and that fellowship that you had so close with a husband or a father. So I'd like Elder Barkley to just pray for the Reisinger family.
Amen. Father God, we come before you again. We want to lift up to you, Father God, the Reisinger family, Father God.
It is at this time, Lord God, that they are grieving their loved one right now, Lord God, and we know with that, Lord God, there comes questions. There is hurt. There's pain. And Father God, we are asking you to come in and to comfort. And we're so thankful because sometimes we have family, we have friends, but then people are left wondering, Well, God, where are you? But your word declares that you are actually near unto the broken hearted. And so, Father God, if we're looking for your presence, if we're looking for where you are, you're near the broken hearted. And so, Father God, we pray that they might feel your presence.
They might feel your love. They might feel your touch through this, Lord God. And we pray even as Revelation talks about this coming that day where you will wipe away every tear. We pray that the tears that need to fall right now, that they flow, Father God, but that, Father God, that you will soon dry those tears and give this family comfort and allow them to know that as their loved one is home with the Lord, Lord God, that they can find comfort in that, in that, Lord God. If we live according to your word, Lord God, and we have accepted you there, Father God, we will be reunited. So, again, give this family comfort and those that are in the listening audience, Father God, that have lost loved ones as well.
Lord, you are near to the broken hearted. We thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
Amen. And losing a spouse is, I don't think you ever get over that. It's a hole in your heart that may heal us to some degree, but you'll always have that hole there. So that loss of that person. I lost my wife two years ago, and it still at times bothers me, and I'm strong in the word and everything else, and I'm very active. But, you know, you can't help but think about those times that you were together, and we were together over 50 years, so it's a huge loss. And like I said, it's been two years for me, and it still affects me. So I can imagine what the Reisingers are feeling now, and I certainly can relate to how this time will go on, and you'll be able to deal with it easier, but it still always will be there. Yes.
So I have... Dr. Richard? Yes, pardon me? I'll just say one thing to help in understanding to some people out there. When you love somebody, you really, in a sense, give them a portion of your heart.
Yes. And you have an empty space. Their love, you take, and that place that you gave your love out is replaced by their love. God says the two become one, you kind of exchange parts of your heart with one another, so when a married couple that God has made one, one of the spouses dies, there is an emptiness there because you've been used to being one, the two become one, and now that one is alone. And it is a natural order, but that's how we understand just how much we love and we were loved and how important that marital relationship is.
It's God's way of letting us know how valuable it truly was. Yes, and the first shock of that death and everything and that separation is like you were saying, Joe, you become one, so it's like all of a sudden now half of you is ripped apart off of you. Exactly.
You're bleeding, emotionally you're bleeding because half of you have been just ripped off from your body, so yeah, it doesn't go away quickly. I tell people that are getting married, like with my wife, I don't love my wife because I need her, I need my wife because I love her. Yes. It's one of those, yes, some people have to sit and think for a minute, I don't love her because I need her, I just need somebody to take care of me, this and that, you know, but I need her so desperately because I love her so much is why I need her. Yes. And I think that helps explain to a lot of people, they just don't seem to grasp that concept of real true love that God gave this wonderful gift to us when he gave us the institution of marriage.
Yes, it's a mystery, God, when he makes two into one, the scriptures tell us it's a mystery and we can't understand it, but when it's been a long time that you have been together and then all of a sudden you're ripped apart by death, it is painful. And so we want to just remember the Reisingers and keep them in prayer and Pastor Sanders in prayer. I have an announcement here, matter of fact, a couple, I don't know, a couple of programs ago and I don't remember exactly when it was, but Laura and Tom Haviland were on the air with Pastor Sanders, I think that was... That was last night. Last night? Yeah.
Okay. So Tom Haviland will be speaking on this chemical makeup of the white fibrous clots found by embalmers and cath labs workers from patients that had taken the jab and he's going to be speaking Saturday, June 14th at 9 a.m. in Medina. He's going to be at the Thirsty Cowboy at 2743 Medina Road, that's Route 18 right in Medina and that Thirsty Cowboy location is right off of Route 71, just east of 71 and if you're coming on 77 and then it would be west on Medina Road down a wave. Almost to Route 71, but he's going to be there June 14th at 9 a.m. and if you heard him on Pastor Sanders' program, him and Laura have some fantastic information and they're always updating the information. Laura sends out a good email, I always am reading those, but this will give you an opportunity if you heard him on the program to ask him some questions. So if you are in that area or you're local, at least in the Cleveland area or Ohio or Akron area, here's a great opportunity to run over there and listen to him speak and probably get some of your questions answered if you'd like.
So mark that on your calendars, that's Saturday, June 14th at 9 a.m. Thirsty Cowboy on Medina Road. Okay, we were going through with these and I think we have some news articles and I want to hit those too, but let me hit a few more of these things that happened to you at a moment of salvation because I think especially for those that aren't saved out there, you need to know the blessings that you could just be enjoying and having immediately. And also for the ones that are saved that kind of maybe get in a humdrum feeling sometime, you know, what's that song, Count Your Blessings? Playing them one by one, isn't that? And see what God has done.
And this is a way of counting your blessings, just looking at these. Is there any particular one or two you'd like to read, Elder Barkley? Why don't you finish the first ten? Why don't you finish the ten, first ten? First ten? Okay. Yeah, you got the number six, so why don't you give us seven through ten? Okay, we'll do that. Thank you, good suggestion.
Go do seven then. Yeah, and it says, We are made righteous. We are right in the sight of God. 2 Corinthians 5 and 21, For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
And if I could just touch on that real quick. I really like the layout that you gave in this because when you think about what happened when sin entered the world, you think about all of the things that happened, sin, death, sickness, all of the things that we're dealing with and so many other things that happened because of that fall. And there's a contrast here between Adam and Christ in Romans 5, and it says this, For if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in the life by one Jesus Christ. Therefore, as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification. And the last verse is, For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. And again, there's a contrast between Adam and Christ, what Adam did in bringing in the sin. But then like what we're reading right here, because of that atonement of Christ, because of the work of Christ, we're reading so many. We're going through as many benefits as we can right now, but it shows how many benefits we have because we've accepted Jesus Christ. Yes, and again, that's just at the moment of salvation. It's not like, oh well, once you're a Christian for a period of time, or if you read through the whole Bible one time, then you'll get some of these blessings. No, this is at the moment of salvation, folks. You want to read number eight?
Okay. We are sanctified. We are set apart from the rest of the world, 1 Corinthians 6.11. And such were some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Okay, we're sanctified. That's set apart from the rest of the world. We're special. Just as you were saying, Joe, about being adopted, this is also very special. Not only God identifies that as us being special here. Definitely there. Yes.
Number nine here. We are perfected. We are made perfect through Jesus Christ without sin. Hebrews 10.14, for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. So we have perfected through the blood of Jesus Christ. We are made perfect in that way. And number ten is we are made meet. Meet is being suitable, fit, just, right.
Colossians 1.12, giving thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. Okay. That's the first ten.
Let me just review it for anybody that's just tuned in. These all happen at the moment of salvation. We are sealed, we are adopted, we are redeemed, we are reconciled, we become free from the law, we are acceptable, we are made righteous, we are sanctified, and we are perfected.
And we are made meet. Praise the Lord. That's the first ten.
Is your name written in the book of life go with sealed or is that one by itself? I think that's probably, I think that's by itself, but I'm leafing through the other ones here. I can read through the other ones real quick here if we want to do it. Yeah, because we got justified. We are justified. Yeah, it was the next one.
Yeah, that was the next one. We become the elect of God. We are chosen. We are called.
We have been forgiven all trespasses. We become a child of God. We are born again.
Very important. Yeah, we are regenerated. We are quickened. We become the sons of God. We are now new creatures. We are delivered from the power of darkness.
We are circumcised in Christ. We are kings. We are priests.
We are a chosen generation. We are a royal priesthood. We are a holy nation. We have become heavenly citizens. We are glorified. We are made complete in Jesus Christ. We possess all spiritual blessings and we are lights to the world. Wow. I bet you there's some people jumping up and down, Pastor Joe, saying, I want to get saved right now. Yes.
I want to add to that that my name was written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Yes. Amen. Yes. Yep.
And these are all fantastic things that we as Christians enjoy. So let's look at some of the news here. I think we have some articles.
Lisa, you want to read the first one? Okay. President Trump has once again come under fire for admitting white South Africans to the United States under claims of genocide. So far, 59 white South Africans have been granted asylum in the US, citing racial persecution and violence. The same media and politicians who want deported MS-13 gang members returned to the United States have decided that there's no genocide in South Africa. Well, while no international court has formally declared it a genocide and the legal threshold for such a designation is high, the facts on the ground are difficult to ignore. White South Africans are being persecuted.
They face the constant threat of violence, along with a legal framework that restricts their career opportunities and threatens to strip them of their land. South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world, and at least half a million people have been murdered in South Africa since the end of apartheid. Some sources claim that as many as a quarter of those victims, particularly in the early years of the current system, were white. Attacks on white-owned farms, including theft, rape, assault, and murder, are well documented.
Since 1994, there have been approximately 3,398 farm murders, many involving white farmers. In 2024 alone, South Africa recorded nearly 20,000 homicides, including 32 farm-related murders and 256 farm attacks, most of which targeted white farming families. These numbers point to a disproportionate threat faced by white South Africans. Some South African political figures, such as Julius Malema of the Economic Freedom Fighters, have made inflammatory statements about land redistribution.
Malema has positioned the EFF as a radical alternative, accusing the ruling ANC of failing to address inequality in the transfer of land from white to black South Africans. He is known for his incendiary rhetoric, including remarks about arming Hamas, singing Shoot the Boer, and making statements widely seen as threatening to white South Africans. Beyond physical violence, white South Africans also face institutionalized discrimination through race-based laws and policies that enforce racial quotas in hiring and promotions, effectively excluding them from many public and private sector opportunities.
In addition, land redistribution legislation threatens the possibility of white-owned farms being seized without compensation. I know President Trump has addressed that a number of times, but Africa, most of the wars and the terrible things that go on in Africa, this article was talking about the white farmers and that, but the Christians, whether they're white or black or whatever color they may be, in Africa really take persecution. The persecution in Africa is just tremendous against Christians.
Yes. It always reminds me about the Ethiopian eunuch in chapter 8 of the book of Acts. You know that Ethiopian eunuch that Philip converted? He went back to Ethiopia, and Ethiopia remained a Christian nation until 1953. And the only influence that Ethiopia had that we have in the record in the Bible is from that Ethiopian eunuch. So by one man going back to Ethiopia, and he did not have any special powers besides the word of God, that entire country became a Christian nation for 1,953 years. That is fantastic on what the word of God can do.
I always think of that when somebody reads an article on Africa, because it's such a miracle that God does there. Okay, we have about two, three minutes left. You got an article that we can squeeze in there? Yep. Can I have a quick comment on that story? Yes. Yes, you can.
Go ahead. Ernie and I talked about this in the radio several years ago when this started. It is not something new, but the interesting thing, there have been several things like this in Africa. White South Africa had been the breadbasket. There was another country that produced so much food that they were feeding half of Africa, and the minute this type of violence and hatred started, the production went down and down, and now they have to import food. And I wish I could think of the name of the other country.
There was another country, just the same thing had happened. They had just been sending food all over, and now they're starving to death. So when you see evil, one of the things about evil is it brings some terrible consequences like food scarcity, starvation, along with the hate and violence. So it should be a big lesson there. Hatred is not a good thing, and the results of hatred are really horrible for mankind. Yes, and God will bring blessings upon people that are standing for His Word, but He also will take those blessings away.
With the food supply, that's so crucial for any country, and if they have to import so much, certainly they'd be starving in that. So yeah, that goes on. We're getting close to a break. I think we got, what, one minute here?
Yeah, a little over a minute. Okay. So we won't read another article right now, but in the second half of the program, we're going to cover a few more articles, and then we're probably going to open up the lines for any callers that have any comments or questions on the second half. So we'll probably be doing that. So stay tuned, and we're going to be covering a number of interesting articles.
We have a stack of them here, and we'll try to get through some of them as we go along. And also, I pray that that little list that we did of what you get at salvation really touched the hearts of some of the people, and possibly those that have not made that decision for Christ yet. When we give the invitation at the end of the program, we pray that you would just step forward and be with God, because we want to see you in heaven.
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