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Thank you. This is What's Right, What's Left with Pastor Ernie Sanders. What's Right, What's Left on this 16th day of March 2025. And tonight my producer, my board up and co-pilot is none other than Josh Booth. Hey, Josh.

Hey, how's it going? Okay. Josh, did I just hear this right that 59 people perished in a fire in Mass... Is that Macedonia, Ohio?

I would believe it's probably Macedonia, the country. Okay. I think it was here in Ohio. Yeah. Alrighty. Because of... Wow.

Anyhow. Why don't we start the program off with a prayer for the families of those people that perished. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, Lord God, we just want to just hold up and ask Lord God that you would be a comfort to the families of those that perished in that fire. Lord, it's a horrible thing, you know. But Lord, let it fall out in a way that people see how quickly this life can end and how they should be prepared, Lord God. Father God, that they don't run out of tomorrows today or tonight. So, Lord, let this tragedy, Lord, fall out in such a manner. This brings many, many of those family members and others to the realization that life can be very short and you need to be prepared.

Because the decision, the time of your departure is not your call. That's up to the Lord. So these things we ask in Jesus' precious name. Amen. The title of the message was, is God preparing us for what is to come?

And of course the answer to that is yes. God makes it very clear that He will always prepare us and provide us with what we necessarily need to finish the course. And we're going to start tonight in Philippians chapter 4 verses 4 through 9. Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.

Now that's an interesting thing because do you know that in this letter here, this short letter, he uses that term 17 times. Either rejoice or rejoice in. Let your moderation be known unto all men, the Lord is at hand. That's another one that he's making it very, very clear when he says that here, the Lord's return is always, the Lord's return is always imminent. Always imminent. They were looking for him, we're looking for him now. It could be any time.

He could come back before this radio program is over tonight. Be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known. Well, what is he doing here? He's telling you that, by the way, this, you know, the church in the, the Philippian church was a very, very impoverished church. They were a very poor, poor church. They also suffered great trials of affliction, both by the Jews and by the Romans. In spite of all of this, they exhibited an abundance of joy. Now Paul's message, what we just read here, be careful for nothing but in everything with prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known. So Paul's message is worry about nothing because you can pray about everything. And so we have the peace of God when we know the God of peace, and that's the other thing here when he talks about the peace of God. Here you find in, well, Colossians 3.15, we have peace with God. In Romans 5.1 we have the peace of God. And then right here in verse 9 we have the peace of God as we go through here. So he says, Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things. He goes on to say, Those things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do, and the peace of God shall be with you. And so here when he's talking about these things, think of these things, he says, Therefore, not on other things, this is, well, it's a guideline for educators. If God does not want us to think on evil or ugly things, then, well, surely our schools should have the curricula, should be, stay away from all of those things. Everything that's being taught in a public school today, this is why so many people are pulling their children out.

So here I want to move now, well, a little commentary. Recently there has been pockets of revival. Josh, I don't know if you've heard about all that's been happening this year, but a revival at Ohio State, the football team, this is amazing. People are getting saved and baptized. People professing Jesus. Just on Friday I heard that at a university in West Virginia there was a gathering of a thousand students had gathered in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and 100 of them became born again. 100 of them received Christ as their Savior. And recently, a couple of months back, there was a reported of as many as 1 million, 1 million had gathered in Iran, in the town square, a million had gathered in the name of Jesus Christ. They say that over a thousand, over 1,000, made a profession of faith and gave their heart to the Lord.

That's amazing. Now, as we are thankful, and we praise God for these long-awaited events, including the, well, including the election of last November. But yet, Josh, do you have that eerie, quiet before the storm realization that the devil and the deep state are preparing for their comeback?

Oh, yeah. Some of the evidence of that is this, that at the DOJ and the FBI and USAID, the enemy has been busy shredding documents. Their objective was to leave no paper trail that could shine the light of day on their vast amount of corruption and crimes. The deep state elite know that the people will not let them go unpunished for their crimes of molestation and murder, especially of the children. Now, it's an interesting thing because as we're seeing this, Representative Tom Burchette, he says he, in fact, this is in our newsletter, that the Epstein files don't exist anymore.

And the same thing with this Diddy files. When that Diddy story broke and that attorney general stood out and said, we're going to get to the, every name is going to be exposed, I knew exactly what was happening right there. Whenever you have a Democrat out there making that statement, I know exactly what he is saying is, all right, what's your bid?

Okay, all of you folks that are out there, how much, what are you going to pay me? What's the hush money? And that's exactly what happened. Large amounts of hush money were being paid.

But let me read this quick. In an interview with Benny Johnson, Representative Tim Burchette, revealed shocking information about the long-awaited Epstein files implying that they have been destroyed and tampered with, beyond any credibility. According to Burchette, the American people should not trust any so-called release of Epstein-related documents as any version provided by the government will be heavily doctored to protect the elites. Well, here Pam Bondi thought, Josh, that she had, she had this. And that she was told that the DOJ, the, those, the stay behinds, that they assured her, don't worry, we'll get those. But they didn't.

They were, they were busy destroying them. And here, so she comes out and she says, we're going to make this, everybody's going to know, this list is going to come out, all of those that have molested the children are going to be known. But the big hush money was being paid already. And so in New York, the FBI, when she demanded that the FBI turn over everything they had, they refused.

They refused. And then finally they had to fire the FBI agents in charge there and go in and guess what they got? Nothing but redacted. Nothing but redacted. A whole bunch of redacted files, documents.

And so you see that. Then at the same time over at USAID, they were very, very busy. Even, you know, after all those people were fired, and they, they left a few behind to run it, those, you know, in the higher offices, they put the orders out for everyone that was left there at USAID to start destroying all, shred everything, every document you can shred.

And they used burn bags. And now, you know, where were our people? Where were the Federal Marshals? Where were, they should have been there all over this. And the FBI, but nobody was there, right? Remember, Josh, you know, I did three radio programs with FBI agents sitting right there in the studios with me. Do you know why that was?

What's that for? Because somebody made false claims that I had threatened to kill Bill Clinton. And they made these false claims. So I said, well, I says, back in those days, every program was put on a four-track cassette tape, every program. They had tapes. In fact, I still have those tapes. And so they came and I says, all you have to do is play this. We already know, we already have. And they said, listen, we want to tell you something.

We're with you. Every day, I was up from three to five and then six to eight. Four hours a day for years. And they said, every day at three o'clock, every radio there, they called their offices, the shop. We turn on your program and listen to you, pastors. And I said, well, if you know that, then why are you here? And they said, well, because we have to run it down. We have to go through the motions.

We can't just say, well, we didn't check it out. And so that was on two of the times that they were there. The third time was when Lou Gilbloom. Do you remember the Kent State shootings?

Me? No, I'm not that old. Anyhow, right there on the front page of that big was a guy named Lou Gilbloom. And anyhow, you probably wouldn't remember when Ronald Reagan was in office, there was a guy that got over the White House fence.

I remember that. Well, when he hit the ground, he looked up and there were two German Shepherds that were about an inch away from his face and all he saw was teeth. But anyhow, he was there because he had been rejected by the Army, by the Marines, by the Air Force, by the Navy. He wanted to join and go fight in Vietnam, but he was rejected. So he went to the President and decided he was going to go see the President himself and to be able to join the military. Of course, by that time it was all over with.

But anyhow, so he had, somebody had said that he was plotting some kind of an assassination, whatever. But the problem with that was probably about a year after I'd already buried him. That was the strangest funeral I ever did. Lou was Jewish and there wasn't one single family member there, but there were ten pastors there.

Lou loved children. There was a lot of children there, but it was one that he had left as last instructions that I personally had to lower his casket. The casket was a plain pine box with no nails, with wooden pegs, no nails. Then I had to personally lower that into the ground and stay there until he was completely buried. And, well, I lowered it in with the help of a crane. In other words, I was on a crane and lowered it and then I held on to the ropes.

I lowered those in with the help of another person before. Yeah. And so, anyhow, that was really something. It was a long story. He left me some very sensitive information on things that he was aware of. But anyhow, so that was the days when the FBI were the good guys.

They were the good guys back in those days. And so, now at the USAD, they destroyed, you know, we're talking about a trillion dollars of all of this, who it was that the checks were going to, you know, who was getting the kickbacks on that. And then here in our latest newsletter, we have a list of the people that have been receiving checks from Social Security. And it starts out with ages 0 to 9, 38 million, you might as well say 39 million, this is almost 39 million. People under the age of 9 years old, people from 10 to 19, 44 million, 20 to 29, 47 million, 30 to 39, 52 million.

It goes all the way down the line. I mean, all of these people, and I'm talking about, we're talking about billions of dollars, billions of dollars, okay, that went, checks being written to people that don't exist. Somebody's cashing those checks.

And they wanted to destroy all those records. And so, by the way, did you know the last two that people from the ages of 190 to 199, there were 480, people from the ages of 200 to 209, 879 got checks. From 210 to 219, 866. From 220 to 229 years of age, 1,039. And for 249 years of age, there was just one.

And when it was 369 years of age, just one. You know, so, I have a hard time believing those folks are still alive, Josh. I think so too, unless they're, unless we have a new Methuselah. Yeah, and so, here now, when I picked it up where I left off, the deep state elite, they know that the country's not going to let them go unpunished for their crimes against the children.

Christian Patriot America must not arrest until there has been justice for these children. However, the devil has many devices and schemes and wiles and strategies of deception and we will experience, we're going to be experiencing them all. So, we had better be prepared. Then there are plans to use whatever means necessary to keep people from, people's attention off of the Epstein, the Diddy investigations and the others. You got to give them distractions to worry about.

I did a program the other night, we played Dr. Stephen Green. He's been doing an investigation for years into the deep state on the global, nationwide. And he's exposing, asserting their plans that they're planning to do this year or next year. And they're planning to bring, to cause a lot of fear amongst the people and what they're planning, the way they're planning on doing that.

And as they're planning, I know you're too young to remember, but back around 1949, there was a radio program that was on and it talked about an invasion from Mars. And it was so, it was just a program, but it was so real that people believed it. I mean, people were panicking. They were panicking in the city. People were rushing home. The cars, they heard on the radio that we were invaded by Mars. They went home, they got their guns and everything.

People were shooting at anything that moved in the dark. And it was just fear. It was just a radio program. Oh, and the fellow, I'm trying to think of his name. Is that Orson Welles? Orson Welles. That's exactly who it was. He was behind that, yeah. Well, this is exactly what they're planning on doing, but they're planning on doing it with high technology, with massive technology, making people see things that's not really there.

Or seeing things that, who they perceive to be one way when it's the other. And this is a plan, and this Dr. Greer has looked into this real deep. And this is one of the plans that they're planning on doing, unless enough of us can expose this. Once enough people know that this is what's coming, it won't do them any good, will it?

Then they're planning on what they're trying to do. Again, they're trying to use lawfare to disrupt and distract people's attention, especially from the Social Security scam. Hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars in that scam, okay? And so, here they want to use lawfare to try to shut down Doge.

They want to shut them down to try to keep them from uncovering any more. You know, who's getting the kickbacks? You know, when all this money, who is, they're tracing to follow the money, what do you want to bet? It goes to all the Democratic party elites.

And this is why, how do you know this? Well, it's not the Republicans that are trying to shut that down. Okay, the Republicans are pushing forward.

It's the Democratic party elites that are trying to shut it down. And so, here, and then the whole point was to use fear and deception and anger to turn the people against President Trump. And so, and against the church, too. Now I want to go to, because the Bible tells us exactly what we're to do about all this.

It doesn't leave us. Like I said, the Lord prepares us and supplies us with all that we need to be ready for these things. So we turn to Psalm 55 and read verses 19 through 23. We read this.

God should hear and afflict them. Well, this psalm is the psalm of David, and he's speaking about someone who, a fellow named Elisaphil. Do you know who Elisaphil was, Josh?

I do not. Elisaphil was King David's right-hand man. He was his top general, but he was also kind of like Mike Pence would have been to President Trump. And so, here, he goes on, and what he did is he turned, Elisaphil turned Trump's son against him, Absalom. He turned Absalom and told Absalom, look, it's time for you to take over. You're the king.

You've got to get rid of your father. He's not doing what we want him to do. And so he says, God shall hear and afflict them, this is David, even he that abideth of old, Selah, because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him, and he hath broken his covenant. The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

And he's talking about Elisaphil here. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved, but thou, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction.

Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, and I will rest in thee. So if we were to take a look at that and put it in a modern-day perspective, you know, the Bible and current events, if we look at what happened in President Trump in his first term, Obama had set it up. Obama had purged eleven four-star generals and replaced them with yes-men. And so here, you had all of these generals that cuddled up to Trump before the election.

I mean, you know, they, and I'm talking about when he was in office for the first time in 2016, you had people like H.R. McMaster, Mark Milley. Mark Milley literally committed treason. He committed high treason, okay? John Kelly, Jim, oh, the Bulldog, Jim Mattis, the Bulldog, Jim Mattis. And then you had Stanley McChrystal. All of these were high-ranking military generals, and they all betrayed and they all turned on Trump. And that was the plan from the beginning, should he had got in, okay? And so, if we take a look at the last, what he said here, But thou, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction.

Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out in their days, and I will rest in thee. Well, how did that all work out for him? Trump is back in office again, isn't he? And does he not have an agenda right now? See, that four years after they stole the election in 2020, Trump didn't sit on his laurels. He was out there, he put his team to work digging, investigating, and finding out where all the bodies were buried. Now he's back, and he's ready to go after them, and he's going to go after them in the big time, isn't he?

I believe so. Let's turn over to 2 Timothy chapter 2. In 2 Timothy chapter 2, verses 3 to 5. Thou, therefore, endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man let that warth entangle himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

And if a man also strive for masteries, yet he is not crowned, except he strive lawfully. So now here we have, this is very, very interesting because in this chapter, in this chapter here, we find out that he uses seven different names, okay, seven different figures in this chapter to illustrate the Christian life. We start out with, in verse 1, thou therefore my son be strong. So in verse 1 we're referred to as his sons. And then, in verses 3 and 4, we're referred to as soldiers.

So many times in the Bible, especially where it was Christian militant, that my whole life I've been Christian militant, especially in the right to life, the pro-life battle. It's been a real battle for over 50 years I've fought the forces of death, especially planned predators, the most wicked, evil, ungodly, unclean, creeping, calling, purveyors of death, killed more people than any army in the world. And I've gone after them, they've gone after me. And George Sorrow and this bunch has tried to put me off the air for years.

You have that moveon.org. And do you know what it is that they fear the most, Josh? What's that? The truth. The truth. Absolutely.

They can't handle the truth. So he tells us there, in 3 and 4 we're soldiers, in verse 5 we're runners, if a man also strive for masteries, that's winning a race. In verse 6 we're a farmer, he refers us to farmers, the husbandmen that laborerth must be partaker of the fruits.

So twice, one is the farmer and the other is the worker or laborer. And then in verse 21 he refers to us as a vessel, we're vessels. And then in verse 24, as bondservants there. And so here, the point of it is that we're in a spiritual battle, all Christians are called to be soldiers, to do spiritual battles.

And for Christian men, they're called also to be in a physical battle at times, we're sent out to do in a physical battle. And then if we go over to 116th Psalm, and in 116th Psalm, I'm going to have to, I think, wet my whistle here for a minute. This is the third time I'm preaching just today. And so I don't want to lose my voice. So here, in 116th Psalm, we read, Love the Lord because He hath heard my voice and my supplications, because He hath inclined His ear unto me, therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live.

In other words, He says, hey, you know, He's inclined His ear. He's listened. God has listened to it, you know. Do you think God hears our prayers?

Absolutely. You know what? The Bible says not only does He hear our prayers, but our prayers are kept. They're kept in heaven. The sorrows of death compass to me, and the pains of hell get hold upon me, and I've found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord, O Lord, I beseech Thee, deliver my soul.

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous, yes, our God is merciful. The Lord preserveth the simple, and I was brought low, and He helped me. Return unto Thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with Thee, for Thou hast delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. Do you know what He means when He said, I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living? He's referring to heaven. Heaven is the land of the living. And so that's what He's referring to the hereafter. I have believed, and therefore have I spoken, and I was greatly afflicted. I said in my haste, all men are liars.

Sometimes it seems, you know, if you watch the so-called mainstream media, you could come to that conclusion, huh? Absolutely. And so here now He says this, what shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits toward me? In other words, He's asking, how can I repay God? How can I repay the Lord for what He's done for me?

And do you know what the answer is? Well, the answer is given in the very next verse. I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord.

I will pay my vows unto the Lord now and in the presence of all His people. And so He goes on to say, precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of the saints. Why do you think He would say, precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of the saints? Why do you think He would say that? Probably because those who walk with Him, even though they are no longer here on this earth, is more precious for them as they are with Him instead of worrying about what's here in the world.

The apostle Paul sums it up in six words, absent from the body, to be present with the Lord. Huh? That's what it means. When he says that, you're right.

You're right. It's precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of the saints. So once we die here, we go to be with Him. And we live there. That's when we really just start to live then, huh?

Absolutely. Then he says, O Lord, truly I am Thy servant. I am Thy servant and the son of Thine handmaid. Thou hast loosed my bonds. I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call upon the name of the Lord.

Excuse me. You know, people often say, well, you know, we don't offer up sacrifices anymore. That's only Old Testament.

No, no, no, not at all. We are to offer our sacrifices, and what are those sacrifices? Well, today our sacrifices, under the spirit of the law and under the new covenant, are we to offer up praise and worship? Are we to sing songs unto the Lord? Absolutely.

Time, money. Okay, so then you have service. You're talking about our way to render up sacrifice of service unto God. And then our tithes, we're to offer up our tithes unto the Lord. And so, yeah, we are to offer up our sacrifices. Are they sacrifices that we are to offer up? Do they have as much meaning as when they offered up the blood of the bullocks? I'd say they're just as important. I'd say they're more important. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah, because remember, God said that he found no pleasure in the blood of the bullocks. And so here, the pleasure comes in our sacrifices of those that appraise and worship, especially in glorifying God. He says, I will pay my vows unto the Lord, now in the presence of all his people, and in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem, praise the Lord. Kind of tell you that we're supposed to be going to church and doing all of this in church, huh?

Yep. And so, and then if we go over to Proverbs chapter 3, and in Proverbs chapter 3, verses 24 through 20, if you have any questions, just jump right in and ask, you know, just jump right in there. In Proverbs 24, see, all of this is all about what, to be prepared, because they're going to be, the deep state is going to be coming down.

We're living in time. I have over here 101 signs of the end times. 101 signs of the end times things, and we're seeing them today. I mean, we're seeing them today, but the vast majority of people, you know, in this country today and in this world are biblically illiterate. They're clueless. They have no idea what's happening, okay? And so, what we're trying to do is make sure that the believers know, look, get prepared for this, because it's going to come as we get closer and closer to the rapture of the church.

We're not going to go through the tribulation, but we will have tribulation. What is the best evidence of that, Josh, do you know? I would probably say one of the best instances is just conflict with Israel. Well, that's a very good sign there.

That's right. But the conflict, but is the fact that the church and Israel, and yet the church, the persecution of the church today is greater than it's ever been. In Syria, right now today, they're experiencing, the Christians are being slaughtered, whole families are being slaughtered. That's exactly what the deep state, the dark world order has in mind for us here in America.

That's exactly what those out there today. You saw these people, well, you've seen all the anti-Israel, those same anti-Israel protests are also anti-Christian protests. You see what's taking place with these people throwing Molotov cocktails at Elon Musk's showrooms and his cars. What's happened, I couldn't believe it, on NBC, they showed these cars set on fire that were hit with Molotov cocktails. And do you know what the woman said, the talking head on NBC, she said most of these Molotov cocktails were non-violent. Have you ever seen a non-violent firebomb? No, but I did see that someone did blow themselves up and lit themselves on fire because they were trying to destroy one of those charging stations. Oh, I didn't hear that.

Was that recent? Yeah, that was the other night I saw that come up on my phone that somebody tried to destroy a charging station and instead set himself on fire. Well, they've been going after people driving Teslas. They've been going up and throwing things on the paint and, you know, beating on the Teslas. Sometimes they just go up and they put threats on the windows of the Teslas trying to scare the people. And it's causing those on the left, the communists, are saying they're selling their Teslas.

They're not going to, because of Elon Musk, but what's causing the Patriots are going out and they're buying them just for that reason. Okay? And so here, as we go through this here, we read, um, then shall they walk in the way safely and the foot shall not stumble. When thou liest down, thou shall not be afraid.

Thou shall lie down and thy sleep will be sweet. Be not afraid of sudden fear. This is the whole point.

This is what we're talking about here. Do you know how many times in the Bible it says to fear not or be not afraid? Isn't there like 365? 366. Or 66, okay.

Yeah, you were close. Yeah. Okay. And when thou liest down, thou shall not be afraid. Yeast thou shall lie down and thy sleep shall be sweet. Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

Okay? So we know that it's going to come, because we're in a war and we're going to be in that until the Lord comes back. For the Lord shall be thy confidence and shall keep thy foot from being taken. So, in this life, we're going to have plenty, plenty of hardships to worry about what could happen to add to the hardships. So why is it wrong to worry? Look, worry can do a lot of harm. People that worry a lot can do a lot.

Give you ulcers, they say. Do you know that worry has been the cause for many people to have shingles? Did you know that? I did not.

Yeah. And so, to worry never does any good. It often does a lot of harm. But the reason we should not worry... Now, there's a difference between worry and concern. There's a big difference about worry and concern. But to be concerned is simply that.

To be attentive to what's happening or what could happen. But to worry about it gives your enemy pleasure. But the Bible says it's a sin. It's a sin for us to worry.

It's a lack of faith. In fact, it tells you right here, be not afraid of sudden fear. There wasn't any stuttering there, was there?

Not at all. So 366 times when he says, there's no stuttering. Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. Before we go over to Proverbs... Well, now, let's go over to 1 Peter. Let's go to 1 Peter. And 1 Peter... I'm not there yet.

Getting close. 1 Peter chapter 5, starting with verse 5. Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. All of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility, for God resists us to proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Now, when Peter's talking here, when he's talking about the younger and the elder, is he referring to just the age of people, or is he referring to their spiritual age?

Like Timothy, Paul referred to Timothy as a very young man, but Timothy was an elder because of spiritual maturity. Or do you think possibly that both apply there? I'd say both.

Yeah, me too. And so he says here, God resists us to proud. What do we have to be proud of? What is it that we have to be proud of? We really shouldn't be proud about anything. We should be saved completely apart from any of the blessings or any of the merits that God has given us.

In other words, for us to actually be proud of something... Now, the Bible says we're to be thankful for everything, okay? But you'd have to be able to be the one that chose who your parents would be. We weren't able to do that, were we?

Nope. How about you'd have to be the one to be able to choose when you were born and what gender. Nowadays, we're back to just two genders, but we could have had a hundred of them a couple of months back. But you'd have to have been able to prove what your gender is or to choose. You'd have to be able to choose what country you'd be born in. Or would you be born in a wealthy America or Bangladesh in absolute poverty? Could we choose whether we'd be born with two arms and two legs? A lot of babies weren't. A lot of children weren't, okay? So none of those things, whether we were intelligent, whether we were strong, none of those things came by our own merit, did they? Nope. So those were all gifts of God, weren't they?

Absolutely. It's a blessing. So we have a lot of blessings.

We have a lot to be thankful for, but nothing really to be proud of, okay? Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil is a roaring lion walking about seeking whom he may devour.

Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. Okay, so I had a lady tell me one time, she said, I believe in God and I believe in Jesus, but I don't believe there's a devil and I don't believe there's a hell, because God is love and He would never make a devil or hell. I said, really? I said, let me ask you this, didn't you think that Jesus was a liar? And of course not! Well, He spoke more in hell than He did in heaven.

And she just looked at me with this blank look on her face, right? Do you think that a whole lot more people simply perish, they perish, soundbites they hear from people, little quirks that they hear from people, instead of going to the Bible and reading the Word of God? Yeah, most people won't go to the source and go to the Bible, they just go by what they hear.

Yeah, this is why, you know, one of those is, for forty-five years I was on the streets preaching in front of those bloody abortion mills, fifty-two weeks a year, winter, summer, spring and fall, and the one thing you heard more than any other would be, judge not lest ye be judged, right? They knew that soundbite. But do you know what it was they didn't know, Josh?

They didn't know the truth behind it. Yeah, they didn't know if you kept on reading, the Lord Jesus says, but when you judge, use righteous judgment. In other words, He was saying, don't hold others up to a higher standard than yourself, okay? So He wasn't telling them not to judge. In fact, in 1 Corinthians chapter 1, it says we're to judge everything. We're to judge everything. In 1 Corinthians chapter 6, it says we're going to judge angels, okay?

But they hear these little soundbites, and they repair them, and for those people that are biblically literate, they don't know how absolutely foolish they sound, do they? Now, here He says this, whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions, the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. Okay, so here, so look, we know that the devil afflicts us, right? But let me ask you, does the devil have any love for his own children? No. He doesn't love them anymore than he does us, does he? No.

And does he afflict them often the same way he afflicts us? Absolutely. Yeah. He's equal opportunity. Yeah. It's a good reason not to be on his team, huh? Yeah.

Yeah, I would say so. And then I want to go over to Hebrews chapter 13 and verses 1 through 7. In Hebrews 13, verses 1 through 7.

Well, actually 1 through 8. Let brotherly love continue, be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Do you think you've ever entertained an angel unawares? Oh, absolutely.

I'm absolutely sure that I have. Of course, and the Bible gives us a lot of examples of that. There, well, the Lord Jesus, he stood there in the plains of memory where Abraham had no idea that those two guys were the angels, huh? Well, he didn't even know that Jesus was the Lord at the beginning. Then, boy, those at Sodom and Gomorrah, LGBT at Sodom and Gomorrah, they got quite a surprise when they thought that the two men, they were going to sodomize when they found out that they weren't normal men, okay? And so, in many places throughout the scripture, people received, well, Zacharias, when he was doing his duties there in the Holy of Holies, and Gabriel appeared next to him. If he'd known who Gabriel was from the beginning, do you think he'd prove it?

I want proof? No. He probably would have just said, I got you. Yeah, yeah.

He probably wouldn't have said that. And so, remember them that are in bonds as bound with them would suffer with adversity from being yourself also in the body. You know what? Here, and this is something that's really, you know, I was in the prison ministry, well, I'm still in the prison ministry, but actively for 45 years visiting death row and that, and people don't understand a lot of, we have a lot of innocent people. We've gotten like seven different men off of death row that never should have been on death row. Many of them just went free because the evidence was stacked against them. It's not unusual for people to spend good money to have somebody else convicted and to stop an investigation.

That happens today. Our judicial, Josh, our judicial, you know, let me tell you what you have often in these courts. You've got two groups of criminals, one in charge of the other, one sending the other to prison.

That's virtually what you have in many cases. The corruption within the judicial system is outstanding. But we better, I better stop right here and just say that, folks, what we were just talking about earlier here, all of these are signs of the times that are signs that the Lord's return is imminent. Josh, do you know anyone that you know that's not going to die? No. We're all going to die, right?

Myself included. Yeah. So then what happens when you die that do you get, like, I mean, you just cease to exist or you just fall asleep and stay asleep forever? What happens when you die?

A lot of times, depending on how your family has you prepared, you either go into the ground or you're cremated. Right, but I'm talking about absent from the body and you're present with the Lord, right? Right. For believers. That's for believers. But what if you're a non-believer? Absent from the body, things don't go so well, do they? No.

They don't end well at all, do they? And now, how do we know that's true? Because it says if you do not accept Christ, then you'll go to hell. Right. Is there anything that ever existed that's more sure and more powerful than the Word of God? Nope. I mean, what else could you use to speak the universe into existence, right? That's called power there, right? Yeah.

So here's, the bottom line is this. You've got a choice. And I wouldn't wait.

You really don't, can't afford to. You need to call upon the name of the Lord now while there's time. Because you're going to die and that's a fact. It's going to happen no matter what you believe. And then when that happens, you're either going to go to heaven or hell.

And believe me, you don't want to go to the ladder. It's for eternity and don't end well at all. How much time do we have, Josh?

About 30 seconds. Well, it's time for me to say as we do every night at this time, thanks for being here. Thanks for being here, Josh. And until tomorrow, good night. God bless you.

We did it before Trump did. And always, always, always keep fighting the fight. And I say fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Have a good night, Josh. Yep, you too. 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.