I told him, we're not passing a micro round and then we're not giving
it's not our open for so it's information home. Um, my name is
Caleb and I am I'm a pastor, and so I'm going to do my
best to be as brief as possible. But you know how that goes,
of course, because I'm a Baptist Pastor's so thank you. But here's what
I wanted. Here's my agenda, here's my my goal. I'm going to
be as transparent as possible. I have one agenda and it's advanced the Kingdom
of Gord Jesus Christ. That's it. I'm not here on behalf of the
political party. I don't care about any of those things. What I care
about is the Lord Jesus Christ. I was asked to share tonight, and
I will always talk about Jesus in any opportunity that I'm giving. So here
I am Matthew. Chapter five gives us a very clear indicator that we ask
Christ followers are to be salt and light. This is a picture that's an
illustration. Salt is a preserving agent. It is to keep things from becoming
bad or rotten. That's the idea. That's the purpose Christians are to preserve
holiness, Biblical holiness, and I'm talking about cultural ideas. I'm talking about
biblical holiness and godliness. That's our objective and that's our goal period as christ
followers. If we're trying to do anything else, it's going to be a
problem. And so light light is another illustration here. Light scatters and darkness.
As Christians, we hold the light of the Gospel that dispels the darkness
of sin, of wickedness, of depravity. We offer hope and his name
is the Lord Jesus Christ. In Judges chapter six, verses twenty five,
twenty six, there is a story about a god in Ginea and Idian has
a calling from the Lord, and that calling specifically is to tear down the
altar of Bail and Astra. These are two false gods, false ideologies,
and they're not just stuck in the Old Testament. They're not. They don't
just live there. They continue on in twenty twenty three. Yes, the
idea of bail because here context is King. So we need to have some
history here. These gods Bail and Astra that are mentioned in Judges chapter six.
Astra was the goddess of sexual activity and fertility, and bail was the
god of child sacrifice. Now in twenty twenty three, children are still being
sacrificed. They're still being sacrificed at the altar of both of these gods.
But yet they don't look like the primitive altars of the Old Testament. They
look progressive, they look fancy, they look shining, they look pretty.
I'm telling you this is this is the problem in the world today that we
have ignored the God of the Bible for far too long. We've ignored the
scriptures for far too long, and it is affecting men, women, boys
and girls Christian regardless of the cultural dictates. We have a mandate that calls
us to preserve righteousness and dispel darkness. And the only way that's done is
through the Gospel, the Lord Jesus Christ. It is not done through a
political action party. It is not done through anything else other than the preaching
of the Gospel of Romans. Chapter one, verse sixteen says that I am
on a shame of the Gospel because it has the power under salvation. That's
it, that's the pown. You don't change someone's behavior from the outward stances.
You change their behavior from transforming their heart. And the only way someone's
heart is transformed is when the Gospel penetrates a hard and transforms them from one
degree of glory to another. Some people might say, well, Caleb,
you sound like you're trying to advance in a theocracy here. We don't live
under a theocracy. Well, the fact of the matter is that we actually
do live under a theocracy. Most of us submiss them them. The theocracy
that we love under is a hedonistic system of humanism, unbridled worship of our
self. That's where we live. This is being portrayed and displayed all over
in the public square. Human beings are being indoctrinating by the immoral, false
god of a human of humanism. And if we truly believe that this is
not taking place, we're either a not paying attention or being deceived. Either
either way, they end up harming you and these few period. So in
closing, I'm calling us in the room this evening to follow. The mandate
in the first printis Chapter sixteen, Verse thirteen or fourteen says be watchful,
stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong, and let
everything you do be done in love. Now, what is the most loving
thing that you can do. If I'm heading towards if I see you and
you're walking towards a ravine and you're about to step off into that ravine and
step over to the edge, and you're gonna fall hundreds of feet down to
jagged rocks below. What's the most loving thing? And you have your eyes
closed to it and you don't see it, and I stand over in the
corner and do nothing. I say, nothing is that loving? No?
No, If I was standing over here in the street, we're going on
no Wana road over here, we stood on the street and we saw a
giant semi truck heading towards you, and I said, nothing is that loving?
Now? Here's what we have, a semist. This is not my
idea. These are not my ideas. These ideas were brought about by oh
Lord Jesus Christ, not by Caling Gordon. I'm just reading the text.
The text is King, not my opinion. The text is King. Now,
if I'm standing in the middle of the road and there is a giant
bus coming at me, and Dustin says, Caylo, You've got to get
out of the way, And I say, Dustin, you're just being a
big age. You're just being hateful, You're just being unloving. And he
said, no, no, no, Calin, I'm not doing that at
all. There is a bus about to run you over. Please move.
That's the most loving thing he can do is to tell me that there is
something coming. And I'm telling you what's coming is a God who will be
a exacting wrath on sin. Period. And I don't say that with glee.
I don't say that with joy. But I'm telling you there's hope.
Here's the hope that Jesus gave it to us. He says, behold,
the Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent of your sins and believe the
good news. What's the good news That Jesus Christ died on the cross.
He came and he lived the perfect life. He died on the cross for
your sin, for my sin. He took every ounce of sin on his
lovely head. He died for you. He was put in the grave,
and he was late there for three days. But thank God amen that three
days later he came up out of that grave. And now we have a
justify. We are justified. We have justification before only God. Now what
is that? What is just as if I've never sinned. We have the
ability to stand before God, not because I've lost them, but because I'm
forgiven. First, John, how get that? How do you put about
form? First? You don't love that? Said? If you can bless
yourselves that He Jesus is faithful and just to for you and de cleanse you
from all of your own all of it, that's the hope we have here,
the seven I mean in fight up. SMITHA. Williamson, h Well,
I just want to say yes and amen to all that or not bless
my heart to hear that. Um, Well, my name is Smith Williamson,
and I think you barns well about a year and a half now,
and I have loved it. I've read a lot of different places in my
twenty two years of wife and so that says a lot for Barnettsville. Um,
it's been a great place to live until recently. And the reason I
hear is my hope is to just bring some wide and some clarity to what's
transpired lately with the drag show that everyone's aware of that happening, but specifically
brings some light to the agreement that was passed at the meeting this past month
in April the agreement between the city and OKQ. So three councilmen voted yes
on this agreement, causing it to pass. And this was unacceptable as the
agreement was flawed and insufficient to fulfill the requests of the people and actually the
vote of the council, as they sent our attorney for our hundred twenty days
to draft ordinances to define obscenity and regulate adult entertainment in Barnsville, and after
ninety days he brought this agreement, and given its clear insufficiency, the council
should have voted no, and they should have requested the attorney to take the
remaining thirty days left to draft something better and that would be sufficient to the
wishes to people and the vote the council in January. But I'd just like
to go into some of the issues in the agreement as I've studied it,
and I'm no lawyer. I don't have college agree in this, but I
just read through and found these laws that I believe part of the negligence of
the council is that they did not properly look at this and really consider what
they were voting on. And I think that's negligent and another reason that they
should not be our leaders. So the main claim you'll hear from those who
support the agreement and support these three councilors they voted yes on it. Their
claim is the agreement is good because government should be slow and they should take
time to carefully assess things before taking action. This is not what this agreement
does actually, and sorry, hold on, I'm trying to find my place
here. So yeah, for government to move slowly, they should have taken
more time to consider this agreement and taken those thirty remaining days. So firstly,
the first of law that I saw is that the agreement is between oka
EQ and the city. And the issue here is that not as insufficient as
it does not regulate any other organizations or individuals in regards to Vidule entertainment.
So another group or individual that is not associated with ok EQ decided to host
a drag show in the public square, they could do it, and you
have this whole debac going again. And this agreement holds no power to regulate
other organizations. So I don't understand how this happened because that's that's very insufficient
for the issue. It can if another individual even me could host a drag
show and this agreement doesn't regulate me at all, ly regulates one special interest
for you. And then secondly, the agreement actually states quote, during the
term of the agreement, the city agrees to take no action to further regulate
draft performances or adult entertainment. So, in other words, by passing agreemage,
the council has hog type themselves and cannot regulate any adult entertainment or dract
performances for the term of the agreement, which makes no sense because our people
showed up in masses requesting for regulations on adual entertainment and the agreement says we
agree to not regulate adult entertainment for a year, which I don't know about
y'all, but that doesn't again those to me. Thirdly, I have a
question for you all, the concerned citizens of Bartlesville. You came before the
council for months on end to express your concerns. You've implored the council on
our city attorney with regulations on adult entertainment. You've expressed that you do not
support public dract shows or the attendance of children. Well, now these council
members have responded to you with a question, Hey, you know what,
how would you like to help pay for the provision of security for okay a
qu's next family dract show. I don't know about you, guys, but
that doesn't seem like a logical response. That is an absurd question to ask
us when you showed concern and said, hey, we don't want this happening,
and hey, do you want to doing your tax dollars to pay for
their security? How about that? That doesn't make any sense at all.
And I will just quote the agreement just for accuracy of the facts that you
know, I'm not just making things that were agreement states that during the term
of disagreement, the city agrees to provide two undue uniform officers doing Okayques twenty
twenty three Pride celebration at the city sole expense to help ensure the safety of
all parties. And this is a unique privilege being given to a special in
truce group, which is also unacceptable. One, it should not be provided
by our taxpayer schollars. And Okay two can't pay for their own security if
they feel they need that for the president. And lastly, and then there's
other issues. I'm not giving a completely conclusive, extensive, you know,
study report on this. But these are things that I've assume that are very
concerning, and I feel that our leaders should have seen all these things.
And I'm just a young twenty two year old and i saw these problems,
and I think our council should have given the example of let's do that as
well. Let's let's studied this and let's let's do something that's that's better.
This is just so insufficient it's actually kind of embarrassing. Lastly, that's perhaps
one of my greatest concerns is the innocence of children. I am a huge
proponent of protecting children from pornography, from protective children, from sexual abuse and
from being sexualized. This is heartbreaking to me. I want to see many
of women that lead by an example of steading it out for protecting children's instance,
it should not be exposed to drive shows. This is not right.
So I'm disappointed in the lack of leadership, and in one of all I've
shared with you, I am in support of removal of council and Dale Copeland,
Jim ker Junior, and Lahammizzelle. Thank you for listening. Welcome evening.
My name is aa Vaughn. For those who don't know me, I'm
just a guy. So I was asked about nine or ten this morning to
speak on representative democracy. I don't pretend to be an expert in this an
area. I'm not a constitutional scholar. I am a veteran. I fought
for the rights of every single American in this nation. It breaks my heart
to see some of the things that we've been seeing transpire over the last couple
of years, not just on a local level, but on a national level.
But on a local level, we have an obligation and a duty to
stand to protect the least of these children. I don't care what your personal
preference is behind closed doors, so far as staying there, that's my stance.
And as I go into this, I just want to say I appreciate
these men and these women to take time to show up to let their voice
be heard. Righteous righteousness city. With that said, a simple Google search
reveals a description of representative democracy as Representative democracy, also known as indirect democracy,
is a type of democracy where elected people represent a group of people,
in contrasting to direct democracy, which direct democracy is just when we the people
establish law and policy. We have representatives for a reason, we the people
trust them to exercise their authority given to them by God. I feel,
as a citizen of the city that this authority has been abused and that we've
been disregarded. Our trust has been violated. So now I say this,
how should these representatives operate? Should it be that they operate with impunity when
they disregard the desires of those they have taken an oath to represent? I
say no. Should they operate the fear fear of the battles they may say,
in the realm of litigation, or to the expense of such litigation,
when we, the people whom they represent, are funding the mechanism by which
such battles are to be fought, I say no. They are to exercise
the will of the people. Thomas Jefferson said, the will of the people
is the only legitimate foundation of any government. I would add to that that
God has the ultimate foundation. We stand upon an act as secondary. So
what is the will of the people. Well, I'll tell you two things
regarding this. One. The will of the people is not to have sexual
immorality on display in the public square period. The will of the people is
darn sure not to have our children exposed to the perversions of a French group
of severely confused, wickedly corrupted, and spiritually bankrupt minority minority within our community.
Two. The will of the people should be in line directly with the
moral standards by which our laws are established. These moral standards being a direct
reflection of the standards or laws set forth by our creator God. If these
standards by which our society operates, or all of human kind for that matter,
if these standards are jeopardized and the slightest by the haughty and perceivably pious
representatives actions and whom we the people have placed our trust, they must be
held to account for our creator, God has placed them in authority. So
what should we do with those who do not uphold the authority God has granted
them righteously? Roman says, do not be overcome by evil, but overcome
evil with good. We can love our neighbors while standing our ground. I'm
going to read this because this is the popular text that everybody, both inside
and outside of Christianity goes to when it comes to submission to authority. Romans
thirteen one through four. Let every person be subject to the governing authorities.
There is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted
by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authorities resist what God has appointed,
and those who resist will incur judge. For rulers are not a terror to
good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one
who is in authority to do what is good, and you will receive his
approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do
wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain,
for he is the servant of God. I say again that says he is
a servant to God an a venger who carries out God's wrath on the wrong
door. I didn't see any wrath being broken down on any wrongdoing that we
observed in our community. People misconstrue this whole verse. They take it out
of context. Yes, I'm to be subject to the authorities, but my
ultimate authority says that they have to operate in a certain way as well,
and when their authority is abused on the citizens on us, we have an
obligation and a duty to our God in Christ Jesus to stand against that.
Yes, so I want to break that down a little more. We the
people have an active role in the governance process. God says for us to
be subject, be under the authority of not to cowtell and run when sin
is running rampant in our community. The leader's role in this passage is to
carry out justice to the wrong viewer and to uphold peace for the good of
the people. Now, I'll contend that there is nothing good about sexually explicit
and perverse dancing in the face of my children or anybody else's in this community
or that. So what do we do with those leaders who act contrary to
God's will within their appointment? We bring it to their attention. We pray
we act within the process of the system that we've established as we the people
under God. With physical Exodus twenty three one through two. One in two
one through two, that's almost first. It says, you shall not spread
a false report, You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be
a malicious witness. You shall not fall in with the man to do evil,
Nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit siding with the many so as
to pervert justice, pervert justice. A lot of that is going on right
now. I would call you, guys, to pray, to trust in
Christ, but to stay together, let your voices continue to be heard,
and hold those accountable who replaced our trusting, who have violated our trust First
Grenthean sixteenth thirteen through fourteen. As my brother in Christ, Caleb alluded to
be watchful, stand firm, and the faith act like men, be strong,
that all that you do be done in love. I'm a veteran.
I fought in combat. I'm not up there bragging on that. I'm up
there. I am proud of it. But I'll tell you this, I'm
not running to any lines to be combative with people. I'm not running any
lines to spread violence or hate. I'm actually to the contrary, trying to
love on my neighbors. As Pastor Caleb alluded to, I'm running to stand
there and say, look, if you do you want to hurt me,
here I am. But you're not going to hurt them. This message gets
lost. It's it's lost right now. Understand this. They the council members,
are representatives have been placed into a position of authority by the ultimate authority
of God. Their job is not to active fear of litigation or to be
willing to compromise or negotiate with sin, to come out and speak. I've
been sitting in the back, though, and I've been watching my brothers and
sisters in this community plead with the council stand against sin in our community.
Some of those members of that council claim to love Christ. I'm no perfect
saint. I sin daily. I repent daily. Though also I go to
my Lord and Savior and I tell him, make me different every day,
make me strong in You every day. Help me to love my brothers and
sisters every day. Love doesn't come in the form of tolerance when it pertains
to sin. You might not like that. To defend you, I'm not
sorry. Operating out of fear and for God in a pursuit to uphold righteousness
should be our council members number one. That is their responsibility. Some of
them have failed to do that. They should not be our leaders or our
representatives anymore. My name is Aaron barn and thank God for your time or
even My name is Dustin Owen. I am a youth pastor at Barnesville First
Baptist Church, vice chairman of the thirty fourth Precinct of the Washington County GOOP
but I'm here as a husband, a father of four wonderful children, and
a deeply disturbed citizen of Bartlesville, as I have watched the darkness that is
encroaching upon our community here. As I stated at a recent city council meeting,
I have not been involved in politics much at all until recently. So
why recently, Well, that's my aim tonight is get to give you a
bit of a summary, a bit of a timeline on the way things that
have progressed here in Barrowsville now that have been a bit of going second to
last. Is you're repeating a lot of what others said, So that's all
right. But my goal is that perhaps there are some of you in here
who are like me, who maybe have thought that it's not your place,
or that Christians ought not be involved in these things. I pray the Lord
will change your hearts and show you how imperative it is that we stand in
the gap for those who are defenseless. It is no secret by now that
in September of last year, Oklahoman's for a Quality hosted their annual Pride event
this year in Unity Square. The drag show portion of this event, however,
was the catalyst for all that is happening currently, men dressed as women,
dancing provocatively and engaged in lewd behavior in the presence of children, who
even accepted tips from those in attendance, yes, including the children. Shortly
after the event, Shannon King, a godly mom and our community author a
change dot org petition calling on our city council to enforce the ordinances we already
have in place or l seek to draft ordinance to quote ensure that this never
happens in Bartlesville again. On October third, the city council heard the petition
and Bartlesville citizens showed up in force to show support of the petition and the
regulation of these draft shows. Shortly after this meeting, Shannon King formed a
group of several pastors and concerned citizens of Bartlesville to inform us that she was
approached by Mike Bailey and other city leaders in order to negotiate outside of city
council with Oklahoma's for Equality and the petitioners represented by those of us in this
group. Now, this is important. This is important because it shows that
from the beginning, the representatives of Bartlesville were ading, avoiding enforcing the laws,
and acting in the best interests of those they proclaim they represent. In
fear of litigation, we decline to negotiate with OKDQ. In November, City
Attorney Jess Kane gave his report on his understanding of our current laws and ordinances
and potential options for the city Council to pursue, and at the January meeting,
the council voted four out of five in favor of having Jess Kane look
into drafting ordinances regulating adult entertainment in Bartlesville, and was given one hundred and
twenty days to do so, even having been given the permission to obtain outside
council for assistance in developing these municipal ordinances. And finally, at the April
third meeting, the citizens of Bartlesville were malware that rather than act according to
how he had been instructed to act by this vote, Jess Kane instead began
negotiating again with ok EQ, allowing them to have their drag events indoor indoors
for one year without regulating age limit. When council members were asked to vote,
they voted three out of five in favor of this agreement. So this
is why we are pursuing recall, friends, because if you go back,
and I encourage you to do so. If you've not watched these city council
meetings, I encourage you to do so, and not to hear necessarily what
the council members are saying, but listen to the citizens of Bartels building.
I encourage you to do that because the scales are tipped overwhelmingly in favor of
protecting children from these events, and yet those who claim they are representing bartels
They'll have failed to do so. As you have heard from mister Vaughan tonight.
That's how representative government ought to Representative governments is not there to act in
a way that they think it's best for the citizens they represent, with no
accountability. No representative government means that they will do the will of the people.
They will act according to the will of people. That is why we
are pursuing recall, because these three city council members have failed in their duties
to represent the people's desires. Now, I want to address those of you
in this room who are believers, who are perhaps on the fence. Perhaps
you have got to yourself that you shouldn't be involved like I did at one
point, as I hope. You can see from my brother's commons here,
Caleb and Aaron, and my sister Samantha, it is our duty as believers
to push back against darkness in our community. Yes, God has sovereignly placed
us all here at this time and place for a purpose. God has soveridly
placed you and I in a context where the people are the power for a
reason. And if the people are the power and we stay sided and we
do nothing, then we are absolutely complicit in the sins and crimes that are
being committed against these childrens. This is no political issue. This is a
moral issue. This is an ethical issue, and this is a biblical issue.
Proverbs twenty four reveals to us that we are called to rescue those who
are carried off to death. We are called to seek the good of those
who are made in the image of God. We ought to stand firm,
stand firm in defense of those of whom Jesus said, let them come to
me, brothers and sisters. This is a hill to die on, and
I will die on it. So when it comes to the murder of children
in the womb, I will die on that hill. When it comes to
the grooming of children, I will die on that hill. You may say,
as some professing believers are. Our counsel have said, well, well,
God is on his throne, yes, but we should act like he
is. And I fear. I fear for those who use the sovereignty of
God as an excuse for apathy, as an excuse for complacency and laziness.
I am imploring with you all tonight, push back darkness. Caleb said,
we are to be the light light pushes back darkness. Stand firm and fight
for the children. Because listen, one thing is for sure. If you
don't Christian, who will If we do nothing. Okay, EQ marches on
advancing the kingdom of darkness in our community, and it will not stop.
It's time to get involved. And if that's not enough evidence of why we
are pursuing, recall look at who is supporting the three council members and Miss
Oklahoma's for Equality, who applauded when the agreement was passed Oklahomans for Equality.
Jesus said to his disciples, if you were of this world, it would
love you as its own. If brothers and sisters, if if the world
or the wicked ever come quickly to my defense, I will know beyond the
shadow of the doubt that I have taken missteps in my walk with Christ.
But if the world opposes me, I will rejoice to share in the sufferings
of my Lord Jesus Christ. You said in John seventy seven, the world
hates me because I testify that its works are evil. So let's get involved
and without further ado, you've heard the why and the recall, and now
Sarah Burnett's going to come and share the how. Thank you all so much
for being here and quartaining the time. Are here una to hearing run.
So I'm want to share what the recall will look like. Our municipal charter
states that twenty percent of the registered voters of a ward signatures are required to
put a recall in process. What will happen is once those signatures are verified,
then it can go to the ballot and all of the voters of that
ward will have the opportunity that will get non partisan vote, the opportunity to
vote whether to retain or remove that council number per the vote on April third.
This is pursuing the recall of words one, two, and three for
their vote and great it. So the packets are on flipboards like this need
volunteers to help collect signatures. So I'm going to go through the packets,
and then there's two actions you can take at the end of this meeting.
One, if you live in ward one, two, or three, please
stop at the table in the back and we can get your signature on the
petition number Two. If you're interested in helping us collect signatures and volunteers,
so go up to that same table and say that's your interest and we'll talk
through it. But these are the volunteer packets. The reasons stated for this
recall is that the Bartlesville City Council adopted an agreement with ohit EQ to continue
drag shows in the city of Bartlesville. And so this package just includes some
very basic forms and if you guys want access to any of this, we
can get it in the hands of everybody. First of all, the info
sheet, it kind of tells the story which has been outlined as well as
where our currency. The ordinances mentioned topics such as lewdness, sexual or to
business and if miners are allowed to be present at those which they are not,
and other applicable organments. So that's included. Next is a copy of
the agreements with City of Bartlesville and Oklahoma's for Equality the incorporated copied FA the
city. Then there's the ward map. It's very important if you sign this
petition that you are a registered voter who lives within that ward, so that's
why that's included. And then I just want to show this packet. So
this is the petition packet. First, it includes a warning warning it is
a felony for anyone to sign an initiative for referendum petition with any name other
than his own, or knowingly to sign his name more than once for the
measure, or to sign such a petition when he is not a legal voter.
So that's included along with the petition, the show cost statement, and
the signatures on the show cost statement. This is the stated reason for the
recall. So if you agree with this statement, then we would encourage you
to sign the petition. I'm going to read the show cost statement. Whereas
the Bartlesville City Council acknowledged the objections and Bartlesville citizens to dract shows hosted in
public and attended by children, and as a result, voted to pursue quote
drafting options for possible municipal organization which seeks to define and regulate obscenity in Bartlesville
end quote, whereas the Bartlesville City Council instead voted instead adopted an agreement with
ok EQ to continue allowing drect shows in the City of Bartlesville, whereas Dale
Copeland voting to adopt the agreement. At the Bartlesville City Council meeting on April
third, twenty point three, we the undersigned to hand the removal of Mayor
Dale Copealds. And it is the same show cost statement from World two for
mister Warren result and the identical show cost statement for Word three Mayor Jim Kerk
Junior. So that is the packets and this is going to new thousand percent
insurance to get done. There's over seventy thousand people per word, and we
need twenty percent of the registered voters in that ward to sign hard to this
petition. Finally, if you would like to help many additional ways or have
any questions at all, we have business cards back there on the table we
stake. Then these are free to be distributed. This go to the any
Okay Grassroom scott org website, and that website is just a place where you
can put your information in so that someone from our team can contact you and
make sure your name is on the petition. So, for any reason,
if you know a voter who would like to sign this petition wherever, please
take some cards and pass those out so that they can get donates added to
the petition. Thank you all so much for being here. I think I'm
gonna turn over to thank you all for being here to see me. The
mandate is clear. Something that I thought about glad was sitting there flash this
chapter three. If then you have been raised with Christ, seek those things
which are above, where Christ is seeded at the right hand of God.
Sets your minds on things that are above, not on the things of this
earth, where you have died and your life is hidden with Christ. And
when Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear
with him in glory. Put to death. Therefore, what is earthly in
you sexual im morality, impurity, passions, evil desires, and conviciousness,
which is idolatry. This is the ultimate idea that all of this, it
is an idolatrous world system. Yes, it is wicked to the core,
on an account, on an account that the wrath of God is coming.
That's not me. The word of God says, if you do not repent
of your sins, that the wrath of God is coming. And I'm pleading,
as a pastor and as a fellow citizen of humanity, repents of your
sins and trust the Lord Esus Christ to me, Father, thank you for
the opportunity for us to be able to gather here tonight and express our concerns.
God, help us to see that your word is pre eminent, that
you are pre eminent, Lord Jesus, that this is a this is a
battle that's worth fighting, and that we are in a battle. And Lord,
I asked that you would do what only you can do in these moments.
And God, I asked that you would transform hearts, that you would
change, will get into praise, men and women to forgiven. Say yes
just like you did me, just like you did everyone who has been saved
for this room. That I love you and we need you and Jesus name
Amen. In New York Business