Speaker 1: How are we doing church. Oh yeah, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: some fun. I want to speak in the next couple
Speaker 1: of minutes on crushing arguments against voting, Biblical citizenship, crushes
Speaker 1: arguments against your excuses to not get involved. Well, I
Speaker 1: just don't think I'm going to vote this year. Goodness gracious, myrtle.
Speaker 1: Number one, here's some excuses I don't think it's important
Speaker 1: to vote. Okay, So let me address that one. Our
Speaker 1: nation was founded upon justice, liberty, and dignity for each human.
Speaker 1: These biblical values formed our union, and we're the foundation
Speaker 1: of our constitution. We are a nation of laws under
Speaker 1: the law giver. We are called as a people to
Speaker 1: enforce and uphold these principles through participation. The form of
Speaker 1: government that we have is wonderful when we participate, but
Speaker 1: it is extremely dangerous when the upright fail to engage
Speaker 1: through voting participation. Now, listen to Romans thirteen four, King James,
Speaker 1: Romans thirteen six, and I want you to hear it.
Speaker 1: Just with it in mind that what we're doing is
Speaker 1: we're moving God's choices forward. Because Romans thirteen four, for
Speaker 1: he is the minister of God speaking of government, Government
Speaker 1: is the minister of God to you for good. And
Speaker 1: I want you to just focus in on government is
Speaker 1: the minister of God. I want you to see that.
Speaker 1: And so when we vote, that's what we're pushing forward.
Speaker 1: We're pushing forward. Actually, the ministry, the ministry of God
Speaker 1: for the good of our communities, that's what we're pushing forward.
Speaker 1: Look at verse six to this cause pay ye tribute,
Speaker 1: King James, also for they are God's ministers.
Speaker 2: Why do we That's.
Speaker 1: Interesting Here we tithe because here we have a form
Speaker 1: of God's ministry. We also pay taxes because that's a
Speaker 1: form of God's ministry.
Speaker 2: We pay tribute.
Speaker 1: Because these in government are ministry of God. But none
Speaker 1: of us want to give financially tribute to those who
Speaker 1: are ministers of Satan. But it's our voting that makes
Speaker 1: the difference. Are we going to pay tribute to ministers
Speaker 1: of Satan? So it's our voting, it's our voting. It's
Speaker 1: our voting that moves these principles forward. And we have
Speaker 1: this tremendous privilege under a democratic republic. Number two, God
Speaker 1: is sovereign. My vote won't change what he's about to do.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to interfere with his sovereignty. God
Speaker 1: is sovereign. He's gonna make oh whatever you know, God,
Speaker 1: God sets in the leaders he wants. But the Word
Speaker 1: says he doesn't do this without the participation of the
Speaker 1: people of faith and without the participation of the prophetic word.
Speaker 1: Let me, let me, let me just look at these verses,
Speaker 1: and first I'll read this to you. Yes, yes, God
Speaker 1: is sovereign, but his sovereignty is manifested through the leading
Speaker 1: of the spirit upon the hearts of those who follow him.
Speaker 1: So he's already talking to you about who to vote
Speaker 1: for him, and that's how he exercises his sovereignty. He's
Speaker 1: already convicting you. He's already leading you. He's already showing
Speaker 1: you who to vote for. And in that he's exercising
Speaker 1: his sovereignty. For you to back away from participation by
Speaker 1: faith in how he's leading you is actually to circumvent
Speaker 1: his sovereignty, because he's moving through the hearts of his
Speaker 1: people Amos three seven. Surely the sovereign Lord does nothing
Speaker 1: without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets. Now
Speaker 1: that's old Testament, but you know what new Testament is.
Speaker 1: Revelation nineteen ten the testimony of Jesus in your heart,
Speaker 1: the testimony of Jesus in the raima of his word
Speaker 1: over you. Is the spirit of prophecy New Testament, isn't Oh,
Speaker 1: I got to find a prophet to tell me how
Speaker 1: to vote. Oh, the prophet and the spirit of the
Speaker 1: prophet lives in me by the indwelling Holy Spirit. Because
Speaker 1: I've invited Jesus to be the lord of my life.
Speaker 1: This is how he exercises his sovereignty. Is he speaks
Speaker 1: to us, and then we partner with him to move
Speaker 1: the Promised landforward. Number three, there's not a perfect candidate.
Speaker 1: That's true. There's not a perfect candidate. There's not a
Speaker 1: perfect candidate for any of these positions, local or national.
Speaker 1: There is not a perfect candidate. But I got news
Speaker 1: for you. There's not a perfect husband either. I haven't
Speaker 1: met a perfect wife yet. There's not a perfect pastor. Well,
Speaker 1: I wish there was one, but there is a There's
Speaker 1: not a perfect pastor. There's not a perfect school teacher.
Speaker 1: But you're all going to send off your kids on
Speaker 1: Monday back into instruction, whether it's Christian, private homeschooling. By
Speaker 1: the way, if you're the homeschooling, queen of your home,
Speaker 1: or king.
Speaker 2: You're not even perfect. Come on, wake up.
Speaker 1: There's not a perfect one, right, He's the perfect one,
Speaker 1: and we keep getting transformed into his image. And so
Speaker 1: that's not a good excuse. But there is clearly a
Speaker 1: more godly platform. There is more godly candidates and those
Speaker 1: who have sympathy and empathy toward the Christian biblical view
Speaker 1: of liberty and of our constitutional values. And so that's
Speaker 1: who we're going to vote for, and that's who we
Speaker 1: want to move forward. Fourth excuse, Evil will prevail. Evil's
Speaker 1: supposed to prevail. Evil should prevail because these are the
Speaker 1: last days. Man. We should prepare for things to decline.
Speaker 1: We should prepare for this stuff because it's inevitable. Everyone.
Speaker 1: We are now selling containers. You can get a twenty
Speaker 1: foot or a forty foot. Purchase yours right after service,
Speaker 1: dig a hole in the ground, put it in there.
Speaker 1: Become a prepper with us. No, this is not kingdom.
Speaker 1: This is not kingdom. This end time theology that is
Speaker 1: prevalent in the church, that's causing us to disengage from culture,
Speaker 1: causing us to throw away our faith, causing us to
Speaker 1: watch more football.
Speaker 2: Instead of prayer. Come on.
Speaker 1: The average pastor in America praise seven minutes a day,
Speaker 1: the average Christian less than five. This kind of hopeless
Speaker 1: theology is not the historical theology of the Church. The
Speaker 1: Church is an overcoming army, an overcoming machine. The Church
Speaker 1: is called and it's been determined that we will tread
Speaker 1: upon serpents, scorpions, and all the power of the devil.
Speaker 1: And before I wax eloquent on my endtime theology and
Speaker 1: get myself in mountains of postmillennial trouble, let me just
Speaker 1: mention to you some other thoughts that I think we
Speaker 1: should consider. First of all, Ephesians for eleven through thirteen.
Speaker 1: First of all, it searchs in verse eight, and it
Speaker 1: says that when he ascended, he distributed his gifts to men.
Speaker 1: And then he names the gifts, and these we call
Speaker 1: him office gifts. And he names the fivefold office gifts
Speaker 1: apossible prophet, pastor, teacher, evangelist, and he names those gifts,
Speaker 1: and then he says, these gifts will be given to
Speaker 1: the ecclesia, given to the church until we all come.
Speaker 1: We have the verse, until we all come into the
Speaker 1: full stature of the mature man of that which belongs
Speaker 1: to Christ. Is anybody at that level? Anybody walk on
Speaker 1: water this morning, anybody pay your taxes by asking a
Speaker 1: fish to pull it out of the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you a generation like that is coming.
Speaker 1: But we are not that generation. And so for us
Speaker 1: to think, oh, yeah, the Lord's coming back, the Lord's
Speaker 1: he is coming back, but there are signs and symbols
Speaker 1: in the Bible that tell us when, and this is
Speaker 1: not the win. We are not the glorious Church. Now,
Speaker 1: let me define the glory. The glorious church is in
Speaker 1: Ephesian chapter five. Can I define the glorious.
Speaker 2: Church for you?
Speaker 1: It's without spot or wrinkle. Any spots or wrinkles in
Speaker 1: the church. Now the other symbol, I mean, I think things.
Speaker 1: I guarantee things are gonna warm up, heat up, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna get so good. It's gonna get so much gooder.
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna stop in at a church in Tacoma
Speaker 1: and it's gonna feel like the one in Fife. You're
Speaker 1: gonna stop in a church in Federal Way and it's
Speaker 1: gonna feel like the one in five. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: chop in a church in Seattle, and it's gonna feel
Speaker 1: like the one in five. You're gonna run back to
Speaker 1: Detroit and stop into a church and feel like it's
Speaker 1: the one in Fife. Why Because it says, until we
Speaker 1: all come into the unity of the faith, of the
Speaker 1: full stature that belongs to the Sun. So all of
Speaker 1: this division and divisiveness, all of these doctrines of demons,
Speaker 1: all of this selfish ambition and pride, it's all going
Speaker 1: to be going away as he perfects the church and
Speaker 1: he washes out the spots and he irons out the wrinkles.
Speaker 1: Can I give you one more? Where's Israel at today?
Speaker 1: Where's Israel at today? Have you been to Israel ately?
Speaker 1: Most of the Jewish people are secular. Most of the
Speaker 1: Jewish people are secular. But I'm telling you there's a
Speaker 1: promise before the Second Coming. It's not a post second
Speaker 1: coming promise. The promise before the Second Coming is that
Speaker 1: they will come in.
Speaker 2: They will be.
Speaker 1: Grafted back in. And it says, and we have the verse.
Speaker 1: Can we go to it? Out of Romans chapter eleven.
Speaker 1: And I want you to work with me, because I
Speaker 1: don't want you to thinking I just need to get
Speaker 1: out of here. No, it's not a time for you
Speaker 1: to get to heaven. It's a time for you to
Speaker 1: work your tail off to get heaven on earth. This
Speaker 1: is where God is taking the Church. He's taking the
Speaker 1: Church to heaven on earth, not getting you to heaven.
Speaker 1: And so look at that it talks about us. It says,
Speaker 1: if their rejection, God rejected Israel and he issued them
Speaker 1: a divorce, but not fully. He left a stump. And
Speaker 1: then we've been grafted into that stump. And it says,
Speaker 1: if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, the Gentile nations,
Speaker 1: what will their acceptance be for the world but life
Speaker 1: from the dead. I'm telling you that where we're headed
Speaker 1: with the Church, as she becomes glorious, as we are
Speaker 1: without spot and wrinkle, as we come into the unity
Speaker 1: of the faith, of the full stature of the Sun.
Speaker 1: We're headed into this place where the Jewish people Israel
Speaker 1: will be grafted back in. And if you think when
Speaker 1: God turned to the Gentiles it was amazing, wait till
Speaker 1: he brings the Hebrew people back in. It's going to
Speaker 1: be like a resurrection from the dead to the entire earth.
Speaker 1: Has that happened, huh? Then I'm not worried about the
Speaker 1: Lord coming back today. Now I'm gonna live like he is,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna plan like He wants me to be
Speaker 1: engaged in bringing heaven to earth. He wants me to
Speaker 1: live with faith and hope and victory. He wants me
Speaker 1: to bear witness of his kingship. He wants me to
Speaker 1: believe in his glorious coming, in the Word, in the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven, in the expansion of such. And he
Speaker 1: wants me to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, the
Speaker 1: peace while she's reprobate, the peace of Jerusalem that will
Speaker 1: come as she comes back in the peace, as she's
Speaker 1: sanctified the peace, as she rejoins the gentile Church, and
Speaker 1: we become one church with no dividing wall Ephesians II.
Speaker 1: The dividing wall has been pulled down, and he is
Speaker 1: making us one new person, one new people that out
Speaker 1: of every tribe, tongue, kindred, race, nation, and people, he's
Speaker 1: bringing a glorious church. Jew and Gentile stand with me
Speaker 1: this morning. I say all of that because I don't
Speaker 1: want you using any excuses to not vote. We live
Speaker 1: in a privileged land, a privileged nation, and our voting
Speaker 1: is the most strategic part of the democratic republic, wherein
Speaker 1: we can exercise our participation.
Speaker 2: To move.
Speaker 1: God given liberty, tutional freedom, biblical values forward by selecting
Speaker 1: through initiative, through vote, selecting representatives and lawmakers, getting behind
Speaker 1: those that will continue to stand for what our founding
Speaker 1: fathers saw as a great nation with liberty and justice
Speaker 1: for all.
Speaker 2: I want you to leave here today.
Speaker 1: And you know there's a bunch in my tribe, but
Speaker 1: I want you to leave here today.
Speaker 2: Dwain Alan Wolfe.
Speaker 1: Nearly sixty six, guest speaker, October twenty third, coming right up.
Speaker 1: I want you to leave here today, texting, phoning, emailing,
Speaker 1: social mediating every single human you know, encouraging them to vote,
Speaker 1: encouraging them about some of what you're learning, like Dave Larsen,
Speaker 1: like Dave Olson, like Kelly Chambers. Right, I want you
Speaker 1: encouraging them with the confidence of oh, we can make
Speaker 1: a difference, not only at the national level, but at
Speaker 1: the local level. We can make a difference and we
Speaker 1: can push values forward. Did you hear what Dave Olson said?
Speaker 1: He said, not only are the parents rejoicing over the policy,
Speaker 1: the anti social media policy with phones in the gig
Speaker 1: Harbor School District. Not only are parents rejoicing, not only
Speaker 1: are teachers rejoicing. Did you hear who's rejoicing?
Speaker 2: The students are thanking us. Huh.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a proverb. When the righteous are in rule,
Speaker 1: When the righteous reign, the people rejoice. When the wicked rule,
Speaker 1: the people grown, the people grown. Even the students are thankful.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you everybody in our state is going to
Speaker 1: be thankful if we will rise up and encourage godly values.
Speaker 1: And I would rather say it as upright values. Try
Speaker 1: not to get too spiritual or religious outside of the
Speaker 1: context of this room. These are healthy values, These are
Speaker 1: upright values.
Speaker 2: I love what you know.
Speaker 1: I saw a little thing with Elon Musk yesterday and he's,
Speaker 1: you know, he's somewhere. He doesn't espouse to be a
Speaker 1: believer whatsoever, but he's somewhere, and he's like, what in
Speaker 1: the world. I'm being told that free speech is a
Speaker 1: right wing thought. No, it's a constitutional thought. These things
Speaker 1: are not right wing, their constitutional liberties. Yes, So as
Speaker 1: you think about your family, you think about your friends,
Speaker 1: try to take I know, in this environment we use
Speaker 1: the word godly values, and you know it fits here
Speaker 1: and it makes sense, but try to strip your phrasing
Speaker 1: of Christian easee and try to get the wisdom from
Speaker 1: above to just use words that are more appealing to
Speaker 1: the unsaved heart. Amen, thought, we thank you for your
Speaker 1: grace on us right now to make wisdom appealing, to
Speaker 1: make wisdom wise, to make wisdom popular, to make wisdom acceptable.
Speaker 1: We just say, there's a grace on us today and
Speaker 1: on every person watching this stream to move forward with
Speaker 1: the wisdom from above, to talk about it, to share it,
Speaker 1: to make it appealing. We give you the praise for
Speaker 1: it in Jesus' name. And everybody said, on your way out,
Speaker 1: get the pastor's picks or the Pierce County picks, Pastor's
Speaker 1: pixes for King County, the white vanilla one is for
Speaker 1: Pierce County. Get your platform comparison. And then one final thing. Tonight,
Speaker 1: Ladies night out is in this room. That means we're
Speaker 1: going to transform the room. We need about ten of
Speaker 1: you strong men to help us transform the room. Remove
Speaker 1: these chairs, set up some tables, work with the team.
Speaker 2: As we go.
Speaker 1: God, bless you, thanks for making this house amazing.
Speaker 2: We love you.