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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 on the second day of June 2024. I'm Radio Pastor Ernie Sanders and indeed, this is the voice of the Christian Resistance. And tonight, the title of my message is The Green Tree and the Dry.

The Green Tree and the Dry. And we're going to be in Luke Chapter 23, verses 13 through 33. And here as we go through this tonight.

We always try to do this is try to show you how God's word and all the principles and all the teachings and the word of God, how it applies to our daily life. And it does. Believe me, as Solomon said, there's nothing new under the sun, folks, over and over again. You hear this term.

Well, lawfare, lawfare, you hear the term lawfare, lawfare. But that's nothing new. And it's it's been around for a very long time. And we'll see that as we go through this message.

Just this is being called by something different today. And so as we start here in verse 13, a pilot, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, said unto them, You have brought this man unto me as one that perverted the people. And behold, I have examined him before you.

And I found no fault in this man touching those things wherever you accuse him of. No, nor yet Herod, for I sent you to him, and though nothing worthy of death is done unto him, I will therefore chastise him and release him. For of necessity, we must release one unto them at the feast. And they cried all at once, saying, Away with this man, release unto us Barabbas, who for a certain sedition made in the city and for the murder was cast into prison. Pilot therefore willing to release Jesus, spake again to them. But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. And he said unto them the third time, Why? What evil hath he done?

I have found no cause of death in him. I will therefore chastise him and let him go. And they were instilled with the loud voices requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. And Pilot gave sentence that he should be as they required. And he released unto them him that for the sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired.

But he delivered Jesus to their will. Now, here, remember, Pilot had, Pilot's wife had had a dream, and they placed a lot of emphasis on those dreams. And she went to Pilot and said, Look, have nothing to do with this just man, nothing to do with him.

OK, this. And so Pilot was very concerned. He didn't want to have anything. He could find no fault in Jesus. Now, but here the Jews made it very clear. They made it very clear to Pilot that if that Jesus that they could go to Caesar and tell Caesar, Look, you've got another one who proclaims to be the king right there in Jerusalem. And Pilot won't do anything about it.

Pilot will not do anything about that. And so Pilot was was worried about the pressure being put on Caesar to remove him. And so here and as they led him away, they laid hold about one Simeon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they had laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus. And they're following him a great company of people and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turned to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bear and the paps that never gave suck. And then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us and to the hills, Cover us.

For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? And there were also two other male factors. Male factors simply means a male, led with him to be put to death. And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified him and the male factors, one on the right hand and the other on the left. Well, the one on the right repented, and Jesus said to him, This day you will be with me in paradise. Now, the other one didn't fare so well, and anyhow, just last week, Judge Alito's wife, she flew the Appeal to Heaven flag, which is the white flag with a green tree. This is the very same flag that General George Washington flew. Now, you may just see some of the old historical paintings in that, where that green tree, that Appeal to Heaven flag, is flying up and the Christian flag under, and the Stars and Stripes under that.

But here, she also flew the Stars and Stripes upside down, which is a sign of distress. Well, going back to the Appeal to Heaven flag, that's what Jesus was referring to when he said, If they will do these things to me in a green tree, Jesus was referring to himself as a live tree offering life-giving fruit, whereas the Jewish nation had become a dead tree, producing nothing but trouble. And here, when Jesus said, For the days are coming in which they shall say, Blessed are they that are the barren, and the wombs that never bear, and the past which never gave suck. And they shall begin to say to us, To the mountains, fall on us, and to the hills, cover us.

Because that happened not long after, in 70 A.D., when there was great, great, great persecution. And so here, what we see took place last week was the Communists, the Antichrist liberals, were going after, they wanted Judge Alito to recuse himself from hearing some of the cases because of the Appeal to Heaven flag. And that was an interesting thing because here, I watched a clip of the women, I'm not going to call them ladies, there's no ladies on The View, folks, believe me.

In fact, according if you look at the attributes and the characteristics and the things that these women say, that's where the Bible refers to them as unclean, unclean. But here, it was amazing, they had this young black reporter on there with them, and he was eating a banana. The man was sitting there, live in this program, next to Joyless Blohart, and he's eating a banana. And so, Joyless Blohart, she says, on that Trump, that the reason, and by the way, Judge Alito told his wife, look, take the flags down, and she said, no, it's a matter, the cause is a righteous cause. And then I guess he agreed and let her keep the flags up. But the interesting thing was that Joy, what's her name, says to, this tradition of flying the flag upside down was a message that Trump started that. Trump started that to energize his people, his followers. And this young guy sitting there, he says, what you just did is exactly what you've been complaining about and accusing others of doing. That flag upside down is a sign of distress.

It's always been a sign of distress. And he said, you're sitting right here practicing hypocrisy. Well, they didn't know what to do. And I'm looking at these women on The View, and they looked at each other with distress in their face because what can they do? This young guy was a black man.

Now, remember, you're supposed to, well, he's politically correct. And he's, besides that, maybe had something to do with eating a banana. I don't know. But they just looked at each other with their mouths open. They were stunned.

They didn't know what to say. Now, the interesting thing here, too, is last Thursday, you know, President Trump said, well, you know, remember, Jesus said here in verse 31, if they do these things to things in a green tree, what shall they be done in the dry? Well, last Thursday, President Trump said, if they will do this to me, the legitimate president of the United States, what will they do to the average citizen?

And it's a very good point. Now, well, we know what they will do to Christian patriots like the January 6ers, the pro-lifers busting into their homes at 2 o'clock in the morning, smashing down the doors, sticking guns in the face of their children, or home-schoolers. And so, you know, Democrats hate decent people.

They just hate decent people. And so here are those women, if you will, the unclean, wicked, communist Democrats were mindlessly, mindlessly parroting Trump as a convicted felon. They were saying this one after the other. Well, the fact is, three different courts did not want to use this, to charge Trump with this charge.

In fact, Alvin Bregg himself said in the beginning, you'll never, you can, there's no case there, there's no case, there's no crime. But then he was pressured, then he was pressured. Hillary, she took her magic wand, and she said, find him guilty, remember, if Trump gets elected, we're all going to hang, if he gets elected, we're all going to hang, find him guilty. So Hillary put the pressure, the queen of mean, today's Jezebel, she put the word out, again, remember, if Trump gets elected, you, me, Comey, and Comey's afraid because Comey knows he has committed treason, he's running around all over the country trying to go on talk shows, begging people not to vote for Trump. Merrick Garland, Chris Wray, all of these people treason, what have they done? Well, and Bob, Bill Barr, under oath, they lied to Congress under oath, they put over and over and over again, okay? And so here, going back to what Joy Blohard and all the others were saying, one after the other, how Trump was a convicted felon, well, guess what, folks, there were some very, very famous convicted felons, one of them's name was Jesus Christ, the others were Peter, Paul, John, that's right, these were righteous felons. They were righteous men, godly men, and they were convicted by the ungodly, by the wicked, by the evil, and remember, the communists will always charge you with doing what they're doing, the Democratic Party is totally corrupted today, it is completely, there's not a speck within the left that has not been corrupted. And so here, just like the Lord Jesus and all the apostles were totally innocent, Donald Trump, too, was totally innocent, not guilty of any of these so-called charges.

Well, in fact, there were three different courts that did not want to try to use that charge, three different courts said, no, it'll never fly, well, they had a corrupt judge, Juan Rochon, very corrupt, they had him waiting in the wings. I want to go now over to 2 Chronicles, and in 2 Chronicles 16, verses 21-25, now, we read, He suffered no man to do them wrong, yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm. Sing unto them, sing unto the Lord, all the earth, show forth from day to day his salvation, declare his glory, and among the heathen, his marvelous works among all nations, for great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods. Now, here, he was referring, this is King David, and King David was referring here particularly to God's warning to Abimelech concerning Abraham and Sarah. Abraham was called a prophet, it's the first time that the word was used in the Bible, and it referred to Abraham as a prophet.

Now, it's obvious that President Trump has God's anointing on him, the more that the wicked come after him, the stronger he becomes. Here, the warning from Abimelech was because Abraham, who feared for his life because Sarah, his wife, was a very beautiful woman, and she caught the eye of a lot of men, and the old king, Abimelech, she caught his eye, and Abraham feared that somebody would kill him to take his wife. So he introduced her as his sister.

Well, here, in fact, he wasn't lying because actually she was a sister, they had the same father but different mothers, she was a half-sister. Now, here, the king, Abimelech, had seen Abraham and Sarah sporting, the scripture refers to it as sporting, out there, and that kind of let him know, well, you don't do that with your sister. But then God spoke to him, and God let him know, don't touch that woman.

Well, God put the fear of God into him, and he told Abraham, get your people together and get out of here, you're going to bring God's judgment on me and my people here. And so, here, we see that God had, again, said don't touch my anointed, touch not my anointed. Well, again, it's very clear that Donald Trump is God's anointed on him. They keep going after him, he keeps rising in the polls, and more and more, even Democrats, now more and more are jumping camp and they're saying, no, they're going to vote for him. Even they can see how unjust it is.

Now, Trump's point is very clear. If they would do this to him, they'll do it to us, and people see this. They see this. They see what he did in New York. This is why so many businesses have moved out of New York. They're moving because they know what that governor, what she did, and what they did. And she said, no, no, we're not going to do it to other people, we're just going to do it to Trump because his name is Trump.

That wicked, wicked, wicked woman there. And so here I want to move over to, you know, I can tell you this, too, because just as a personal view, over the years I've been in the ministry for a long, long time. And one thing about, if the Lord is calling you and see it, it can happen either way. When the Lord first starts calling you, at least with me, it was kind of like a whisper.

And then he was speaking to you. And it was done, and other people, other men, friends of mine, other pastors would come and they would say to me, don't you see, the Lord's calling on you, are you going to resist? And one day, a good friend of mine, Ron, just stopped and he said, how long are you going to resist the Lord?

What's it going to take for you to become a pastor? And I knew he was right, but I just felt that that would be more, I don't know, more of a conviction than I wanted. And then I realized, God will speak to you, he'll whisper to you, speak to you, then whatever it takes, he knows exactly what it takes to get your attention. Like old Jonah found out. God's going to get you right where he wants you, right where he wants you.

You can do it his way or yours, and your way can be painful, like Jonah found out. And then finally, I realized, you know, don't resist the Lord. And so here, I changed, because up until the time, up until I was saved, I realized that I worked for the devil 24-7.

And after I was saved, I said, I'm going to give the Lord better than what I gave the devil, for sure. And so, folks here, in my own life, because of that, I was, you know, attacked. Many times, people would, they would get into the ministry, we had people infiltrating us, coming in, coming to try to bring down the ministry. I used a number of different methods to try to get into, betrayal people who came to me, men who were supposedly 110% with us, and when they got the opportunity, they betrayed us.

We had one situation where a fellow had been waiting for, actually two situations, for a long time. When I was to be at the prison, he convinced me, one convinced me to let him host the radio program for me. And he had been waiting for this time to speak against everything that I've been preaching, to speak against Romans 13, when we tell you, you must obey God rather than men.

For 25 years, I challenged any three neo-evangelical preachers to debate me on Romans 13, and didn't get one taker. But he waited because his apostate pastor had convinced him to do so. And what had happened, I was listening to the radio program on my way home from the prisons, when I heard him get on there and start denying everything that we believe in, totally going against what we believe, the pro-life and the prison ministry and the jail, and so he didn't know I was listening. I called in, and I let him have it. And I told him, I'm not going to mention his name now because the man repented. In fact, it was the very day that all of this took that he did this.

No, I'm sorry, it wasn't. It was the next day, the next morning. He called me and said, from that very day, the Lord shut his mouth.

Every single man in their organization quit. And so when he went to his apostate preacher to tell him, he said, I did what you told me, and it got me in a lot of trouble. He said, I don't know what you're talking about. I've got no idea what you're talking about. There you go, but you see, it wasn't anything that I did. I had no idea, but God was watching out.

I had another situation where the same thing happened. Pastor Lenz would often host my radio programs on Friday when I was in the prison. He got sick, and he knew he had to get somebody on there, so he appointed another guy who had been waiting for an opportunity. He had been on the program before, but kept his opinions to himself. And once he got on the radio, he started telling people, I would never picket, go out in front of an abortion mill and try to talk these women out of abortion as long as it was legal. As long as it was legal, I would never do that.

I would not stand against the government. And here he was totally misrepresenting Romans 13, and so I was listening again, and I called him and I confronted him, and I really turned him every which way but loose. And so, in fact, he was saying that being arrested for pro-life activity, being arrested and going to jail is nothing to be proud of.

I would be ashamed to be arrested. I said, really? I asked him, I said, have you ever heard of the prison epistles?

He said, of course I have. I said, why do you think they were called prison epistles? He said, because they were written from prison. And I says, why was Peter, Paul, Barnabas, why were these men all in prison?

Were they in prison for obeying God or the corrupt government? And he paused. And he says, boy, you got a really good point there.

I never thought of that. He said, I might have to rethink my whole stand. Yeah.

Anyhow, but when he said he would never, you would never find him out protesting abortion, I told him, I said, I would never find you doing anything that took any courage at all. We both know that, right? So, here, I'm going to go over now to 1 Kings 21. Today we call it Lawfare.

But, folks, it's been around for a long, long time where you have corrupt courts, corrupt judges, corrupt people. And here, starting in verse 7. And Jezebel, his wife, said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel?

Arise and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry. I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth and the Jezreelite. Now, listen, remember, Naboth refused to sell the property to Ahab because God had instructed him that it must never be sold out of the family. Now, Ahab and Jezebel were remarkable in their characteristic attributes to modern day Bill and Hillary. The personality of Ahab and Bill were much alike in the personalities of Jezebel and Hillary. And both Jezebel and Hillary had a long line of people who had been murdered behind them.

A long line of people that were at room temperature. And both of them, Athaliah for Jezebel was a wicked, wicked daughter. And Hillary had Chelsea. I remember hearing Chelsea say, abortion is good for the economy.

We need as much of it as we can get. That's wicked. That is really wicked. But here, so she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with his seal and sent the letters into the elders and to the nobles that were in the city dwelling with Naboth. And she wrote in the letters saying, proclaim it fast and set Naboth on high among the people. And set two men, sons of Belial, these were sodomites, these were the LGBT of that day, before him to bear witness against him saying, thou didst blaspheme God and the king and then carry him out and stone him that he may die. And the men of the city, even the elders and the nobles, were the inhabitants.

These were the people of that day, the Chris-rays, the Merrick-Garlands, the Merakas of that day, the Alvin Braggs of that day, the Juan-Merchands of that day. And the men of the city, the elders and the nobles, who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them and as it was written in the letters which he had sent unto them. And they proclaimed it fast and they set both high, set Naboth on high among the people. And there came two men, the children of Belial, and set before them and the men of Belial witness against them, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying Naboth did blaspheme God and the king.

Then they carried him forth out of the city and stoned them with stones that he died. Then they sent to Jezebel, saying Naboth is stone and is dead. And it came to pass when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stone and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise and take possession of the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money, for Naboth is not alive but dead. And it came to pass that when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead and Ahab rose up and go down to the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite to take possession of it.

Well, God's Word, the Bible says, touched up my anointed. Now, both Jezebel and Hillary were blood guilty of the deaths of many, many people, like Hillary, whose minion is one, Michelle, he used to, he worked with Hillary for. Jezebel had her own corrupt court. Now, there was not any defense for Naboth.

He had no defense. And just like with President Trump, government witnesses that he called, expert witnesses, many of them, that extremely and absolute corrupt judge, Juan Rashad, that totally corrupt judge, Juan Rashad, would not allow a defense. He would really not allow a real defense for President Trump.

And so I want to go here over to, but you know, I want to remember, too, going back and taking a look at Pilate. Pilate was well willing, even though he could find no charges, and this is what happened with President Trump. Nobody knew what he was being charged with. Trump didn't even know what he was being charged with. They had to manipulate, twist, spin, come up with something, and so Pilate could not find anything to charge Jesus with. He said this is an innocent man, purely innocent man, but he was willing to sacrifice innocent men to protect his own skin.

Again, corrupt judge Juan Rashad was willing to prosecute an innocent man in order to please Hillary and Biden and Obama, etc. And if we go over to 1 Timothy chapter 1, in 1 Timothy chapter 1, versus, well, there we go. Starting with verse 5, we read, Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and faith and fiend, from which some, having swerved, have turned aside into vain jangling. Boy, there's a lot of vain jangling taking place today.

Now desiring, now folks, think about this and see if this doesn't sound familiar to you. Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm. These are exactly what we had with all of these corrupt judges, these corrupt prosecutors out there, absolute, they're prostitutes.

They're being bought, owned, locked, stocked and barreled by George Soros and the corrupt Communist Party. He goes on to say, We know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully. Yeah. That's what the law is for. He says, Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and the disobedient, for the ungodly and for the sinners, for the unholy, for the profaned, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers. For man-slayers. Here, these people here, this corrupt judicial we have today, in fact, our law schools, the majority of the law schools, Harvard and Yale, when they were started, folks, they got the law from the Bible, from God's word, the Bible, the highest authority.

Folks. And then we had a constitution. So they taught from the Bible and they taught from the Constitution. Today, both have been banned from the law schools. They've been banned from the law schools. Today, they have statutory law, they have case law, everything but real law.

Everything but legitimate law. And here, again, I want to remind you, one more time, that it's so corrupt that even Alvin Bragg said in the beginning, these charges will never stick. We can't. But Hillary put the pressure.

You get it done. We can't go down. If we go down, if Trump gets into office, we'll all be tried for treason.

That's what she meant when she says we're all going to hang if Trump gets back into office, folks. Here he goes on to say, for whoremongers, a whoremonger is a pimp. For them that defile themselves with mankind, that's LGBTQ. For men's stealers, that is human trafficking, which, again, the Biden crime cartel is behind the human trafficking.

The government of the United States, this U.S. government, is the world's largest human trafficker. Right here. That's right.

Today. They finance it. For liars. Oh, my gosh. Liars.

Oh, boy. Mainstream media. What the propaganda are with the Democratic Party. He goes on to say, for perjured persons, boy, how many times did you see Chris Ray, Mary Garland, Mary Ockers, all lying under oath to Congress over and over and over again?

And if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious Gospel of the Blessed God, which was committed to my trust. So, here, in my lifetime, I've never seen anything like this. This is worse than third world banana republic. In fact, you know, all of this stuff, and this is why you see, you definitely see God's anointing on President Trump, because first you had the Russia, Russia, Russia scam. That fell apart. That didn't go anywhere. Here. And just imagine this. You have the legitimate President of the United States, an honest person, being tried by a jury of 12 Democrats in New York.

Folks, this is unbelievably corrupt. Well, I want to go over now to James, chapter 4. And in James, chapter 4, verses 9 through 17. Be afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and He shall lift you up. People say, well, pastor, why does God want us to be afflicted and mourn?

Well, He's telling you that, you know, why? Well, it's because every single day, thousands of people are dying and going to hell. You know, the church out there, folks, has not done its job. There are people, professing Christians, professing Christians that have never even handed out a gospel tract.

Never even handed out one. The Bible gives us three main missions. Number one, first and foremost, job one is the Great Commission. We're to preach the Word of God. We're to teach the Word of God. We're to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, folks. We're to evangelize people, to bring the gospel to them. And then again, and very few people do that today. I think I was reading from one of those polls that I think it was a really low number, I mean, a very, very low number of those single digit number of people that actually, that are professing Christians, that are professing Christians that actually hand out gospel tracts. And you say, well, why is that so important, folks?

Listen, you know how many people have been saved? In a time of trouble, when they were very distressed, broken hearted, and they sat down remembered in their pocket. They cracked it. That fellow had given to them. And they pulled it out and they read it.

And then they found the hope in there that you have through the Lord Jesus Christ's salvation. And so here, he says, speak not evil of one another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judges his brother. Well, the brother, if you're a Christian, is another Christian.

If you're a Christian, it's another Christian. And what does he mean by speak not evil? In other words, don't say anything that's not true.

Don't be saying or even embellishing. But if thou judge the law, well, you know, not just that, but even for the Democrats, you're not to say anything that's not true. When you say things that you know aren't true, that's telling a lie.

And if you're gonna tell lies, if you're gonna be like the world, you become the world. He goes on, speak not evil of one another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judges his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judges the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. As one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy, who art thou that judges another? Well, he's asking this question, okay, who art thou that judges another? Well, we're gonna look at that.

He's asking that question because we're gonna look at that here in a minute. Now, again, we don't speak evil of a brother, and we don't even speak evil of the wicked because, again, to speak evil is to say something that's not true. Here, those on the left today, they call God's laws on morality outdated, archaic, laws on abortion. This is God's law. I'm talking about God's law on abortion. God's law says abortion is murder, and anyone and everyone that says it's not is a liar and there's not a bit of truth in them. On whoredom, on sodomy.

God's word calls sodomy an abomination, an abomination in the sight, and pedophilia. These are the things here today on prostitution. The ACLU is trying to promote, they're pushing, trying to pass legislation to legalize pedophilia and prostitution. On drunkenness, on taxation, on drugs, on witchcraft. Witchcraft is something, and Satanism, they're growing. They're becoming a bigger, bigger part of the Democratic Communist Party today. More and more people are adopting that as the religion of the left today.

But also here, when it comes to the very first divine institution that God gave us, and that was marriage in the family. They preferred that. In fact, there's a movement among many of those on the left. They actually want to outlaw marriage.

They don't want to make it a legal thing anymore, or should I say lawful. You have the movement now of a lot of these young people who just want to live together. On the other side of that, you still have these with this open marriage thing, and these college girls are being taught that, look, you can have it all. You can have it all today. You can have every cake you need it to. You can have the security of marriage in a family and a job. And yet at the same time, because it's the trend, it's something that's trending, and you can have an open marriage where you can have as many bed partners as you want. Guess what?

Within four years, 91% of all of those that open their marriages within four years end up in a divorce. I wonder why, huh? Well, it's time for me to wet my whistle because this is the third time I've been preaching this today. And so here, I want to go now and remember the question. Well, oh, I'm not finished here. Go to now, you that say, today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue their year and buy and sell and get gain, whereas you know not what shall be on tomorrow.

But what is your life? It's even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Folks, that's how much time we have in this life to place up crowns in Heaven. See, people that understand the Word of God, God's Word is inerrant.

It's inerrant. Even when everything else passes away, God's Word will always stand. It will always stand.

It's the most powerful thing in existence, the most authoritative. People say, well, I don't recognize that. You will. People say, well, I don't believe in God, but you're going to. There's absolutely zero chance that you won't be a believer. Everybody in Heaven or Hell today, everyone, whether they're in Heaven or Hell, they believe now. They believe now.

For God has said, and they will believe. And so he says, and he's telling you whether you know not what shall be on tomorrow, listen, nobody is promised a new day. God doesn't promise any of you out there, even, you know, what we have right now is the here and now. We have the here and now.

This is what you and I have. We cannot reclaim five minutes ago. We can't reclaim the start of this program. But who knows? I mean, I can say we may not be here in five minutes.

Anything could happen. Only God knows. And so he's saying for that, you ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall live and do this or that. Well, that's a really good thing to do. Now, you rejoice in your boastings. All such rejoicing is evil.

Now, here you go, folks. This is the key verse. Therefore, to him that knoweth to do good and do it not, to him that is sin. Therefore, to him that knoweth to do good and do it not, to him that is sin.

What are we talking about? You're to run to the battle. When you stand before the Almighty someday and he says, what were you doing when they were killing my babies?

The only answer acceptable is everything I could to stop it. When you stand before the Lord, there'll be received judgment. Did you witness when you had the opportunity? Did you witness to these people? Well, you know, I'm not an outgoing person.

I'm an introvert. Folks, think about this. This is, your life is like a vapor that appeared before an instant that's gone.

That's the amount of time you've got to place up crowns that you will use. You're standing in eternity. Now, again, the question there was earlier about any other passage.

Who are you to judge? Well, the answer is found right here in 1 Corinthians. 1 Corinthians chapter 2, starting with verse 11. For what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God. Now listen very carefully to that again because the apostle Paul is telling you something here.

Listen carefully because he's telling you something, right? For what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God.

So the apostle Paul is saying, what I am telling you is not coming from me. What I am telling you is coming from the Holy Spirit dwelling within me. Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

Which things also we speak. Not in the words which man's wisdom teaches but the Holy Ghost teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him.

Neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual, now these two last verses are very, very important here in this passage here. But he that is spiritual judges all things. Yet he himself is judged of no man.

Now let me read that again. For he that is spiritual judges all things. He that is spiritual judges all things. How many times have you heard people, I know as I preached all those years out there saving babies at the bloody abortion mills. Often these women would come in and say judge not lest you be judged. That's the only part they knew.

They didn't know that if, they didn't, they're parroting somebody else. If you keep reading you find out that Jesus is not telling you not to judge because he goes on to say but when you do judge, judge of righteous judgment. And here he says being judged of no man.

Well the world, you say where does that come from? They're always judging us. Look at what the world says about us. Look at what they did with the J-6 years.

Look what they did with the pro-life families. Well their judgment is worthless, it's meaningless. Here for who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him but we have the mind of Christ, but we have the mind of Christ. So for again who has known the mind of the Lord that we may instruct him but we have the mind of Christ. Folks, the reality is this. All of you listening out there to me right now, you're either saved or you're not. That's the reality. You know you can't be a little bit saved.

It's like being a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead. You either are or you aren't. And here's the other reality. The salvation comes through one way. Jesus said you can only get to the Father through the Son. And he makes it very, very clear that well the Bible says it's appointed to all men who wants to die and then the judgment. All of you listening out there, someday you're going to die and there will be the judgment. You need to be prepared.

And here's what you do to get prepared. Take the words of the Lord. He said to call upon the Father, to pray to the Father and ask for forgiveness of your sins. Acknowledge the fact that you're a sinner and all sinners need a Savior. Then he said, then call upon his name. Call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now he says he's got to be number one. You've got to put him before your mother, your father, everybody. He's got to be one before yourself. And you call upon him and ask him to be the Lord of your life without any reservations, without any reservations at all. And if you do these things, God will always honor your commitment. And if you do that, you will become a new creature, a born again believer, an heir of the kingdom, and you will be indwelt with the Holy Spirit.

Now, think about this. What I'm telling you, you have God's word on this. God's word. Do you remember what it was that spoke the universe into being? I know you say, well, Pastor, how could that?

I just cannot understand. There's no way that you could speak this universe into being. Well, God tells you very, very clearly without a stutter. His ways are so much higher than ours.

God's ways are far, far, far beyond our ability to even start to comprehend. But all you've got to do is walk out on the stars, lit night, look at the skies, look at the universe out there, look at all the planets and stars and know that God said he has named every one of them. And he spoke that into being. And so go out and, folks, again, remember what we just read here when he talks about your life is but a vapor, a vapor.

It's very short. You don't have any time to waste. And so when you hear the preacher give an invitation, like I'm doing, preacher, we're just a, I'm just a messenger, folks. Just a messenger. We're giving it, that is coming from the Lord.

He's telling you. Now, how many times have you had the opportunity and not received it? How many people are going to run out of tomorrows tonight? We're out of time for tonight. Good night, God bless, and always, always keep fighting the fight. The preceding program is sponsored by What's Right, What's Left Ministries and is responsible for its content.