Is God the Author of Egalitarianism?

The title of the sermon today is God the Author of Egalitarianism. So what is egalitarianism?

Perhaps we could say it's somewhat the word that you get equality from. Egalitarianism is a philosophy based on equality, namely that all people are equal and deserve equal treatment in all things, as an idea it can be looked at in terms of implications for individuals in both an economic and legal capacity. The question is, is God the author of egalitarianism? In one sense, we could say that God is an egalitarian. That is, according to Acts 10.34. In Acts 10.34, the apostle Peter opened his mouth and said of a truth, I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons. Of course, this was when Peter had received the vision with regard to the sheet coming down, the clean and the unclean animals, and then he finally got the message and said, I perceive that God is not a respecter of persons. And he was summoned to go to the house of Cornelius, a gentile centurion, and upon preaching, in essence, the gospel to the house of Cornelius, they received the Holy Spirit. And Peter realized and the whole world realized, and the Bible is filled with God, is not a respecter of persons when it comes to salvation. So Peter stated this response, that God is not a respecter of persons, in view of the fact that the opportunity will be given for everyone who's ever lived to receive the Holy Spirit, which means that Jew and gentile upon repentance, faith, faith in the sacrifice of Christ, baptism laying on of hands, can receive the Holy Spirit. It's not just only believe, as we shall see here this afternoon, and this fact that you go through, that is the minimum steps, faith in the sacrifice of Christ, baptism laying on of hands, you can receive the Holy Spirit. This fact refutes the damnable doctrine of predestination.

That is, God has predestined some to say be saved, while others will never have the opportunity for salvation. But Peter realized early on that God is not a respecter of persons. The process of salvation is exclusive and inclusive. First of all, let's deal with exclusive. What do we mean by exclusive? That is, there is, according to Acts 4 and verse 12, there is only one name given under heaven whereby men must be saved, and that is the name Jesus Christ. You can be saved through no other means. So salvation in that sense is exclusive. There's not a lot of avenues to the kingdom of God, regardless of what American presidents say or anybody else. No matter what John Hagee may say or any other minister might say, so-called minister of the gospel, there's only one way to the kingdom of God. But on the other hand, the plan of salvation is inclusive in that the opportunity for every person to attain the salvation is going to be made available to every person. So meaning that everyone who has ever lived will have the opportunity for salvation. So in that sense, in that sense, opportunity for salvation, God tells us that we are born equal. We have humans have an equal opportunity. In that sense, you could say, well, God is an egalitarian, that we all have this equal chance for salvation. You have heard the saying, sometimes they say on commercials or television, such and such company is an equal opportunity employer. God and Christ are equal opportunity saviors. As the apostle Peter writes in 2 Peter 3 and verse 9, not willing that any should perish, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And God's plan ensures that everyone will have an opportunity for salvation. We also note in Romans 2 and verse 11, once again, the statement, there is no respect to persons with God.

God has commanded everyone not to be a respecter of persons in judging anything.

And there are several other verses that echo that same sentiment, that God is not a respecter of persons. But now I want us to turn to Deuteronomy 1 and verse 17 and read a couple of those verses.

So we know and know that we know that God is not a respecter of persons when it comes to judgment. And as we've already noted, He is not a respecter of persons when it comes to opportunity for salvation. So in those two areas, we could say that God is an egalitarian, that He gives equal opportunity for every person who's ever lived to attain to salvation, and He wants human beings to execute righteous judgment. Of course, in today's world, righteous judgment is not being followed. You can also read what the prophet Isaiah writes in Isaiah 59, where he says that judgment has fallen into the streets, and no one really cries out for justice.

So in Deuteronomy 1 and verse 17, you shall not respect persons in judgment, but you shall hear the small as well as the great, the kind of corruption that goes on in higher circles today will not be allowed in the kingdom of God. The kind of corruption that is going on in today's world is sickening, and we only know a little bit of what's really happening. And of course, now various members of the Republican Party are saying when they get in control of the House of Representatives, they're going to have a lot of hearings, and a lot of things are going to come to light. We'll wait and see if that happens.

Now let's go to 2 Chronicles. We see something similar. 2 Chronicles 19 and verse 17.

2 Chronicles 19 and verse 17, 1 Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you, take heed, and do it.

For there is no iniquity with the eternal our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

God cannot be bribed. He cannot be bought off.

1. One might conclude from these verses that God is an egalitarian, that he is when it comes to equal opportunity for salvation and the administration of justice.

However, as we shall see, when it comes to the gifts that he dispenses to the persons of the world, one can immediately discern a different picture of reality. We know that the mental capacity of human beings varies considerably. There are many factors that go into why some people have higher IQs than others. After mountains of study on the question of human intelligence, the conclusion in broad terms has to do with genealogy, who your parents were and their parents and so on, and the genealogical tree or the ancestral tree, and then the environmental tree, and then the environment. I remember in education courses in college, they would often talk about this thing of what determines intelligence and education and so on, and they basically would summarize it with nature, that is, the environment and nurture, that is, your parents and those that went before. So you inherit a lot of the qualities of your parents and those who went before, and of course in the the nurturing part, which can to a large degree be overcome. I remember growing up until we were, until I started a school, I can only remember two books at our house. One we kept in the house was the Bible, and the other we kept outside the house, the Sears and Roebuck catalog. And there was a song that was written, it was catchy little song, a little brown shack out back. So we know that the mental capacity of humans varies considerably, and a lot of it is due to nurture who your parents are, what the ancestral tree is, and then their environment in which you grow up. So I remember when I, the first time that I really focused on a book, we went to visit my first cousin one Sunday afternoon, and she had started the first grade, and she had this little first reader, and it had such amazing sentence structure as, see spot run, and see, so jump, and this and that, and the other. And when it time to go home, I insisted that I was taking this book home with me. And they said, no, you cannot take that book home. It belongs to the, it belongs to the school, it belongs to the state, you can't have it.

And of course, I didn't get to take it home.

So thankfully, God does not dispense the process of salvation based on IQ.

He doesn't dispense it on the basis of salvation or socioeconomic status, or any of those traits or qualities or characteristics that we might think of in the human sense. However, in the parable of the talents, God gave talents according to their ability. Let's go to Matthew 25, 15, and perhaps you've never really focused on this scripture. It's in the context, the Olivet prophecy takes up Matthew 24 and 25. Matthew 24 lays out the prophecy, per se, and Matthew 25 deals with how you cope with the prophecy. In Matthew 25, in verse 15, and under one he gave five talents to another two, to another one, to every man according to his several ability, and straightway took his journey. So he gave out the talents according to their, I guess you would call it, natural abilities. Here we clearly see that God gave, and he gives gifts based on ability. So God understands that people have different abilities.

Now let's go to 1 Corinthians chapter 12, and 1 Corinthians chapter 12 is the chapter which Paul enumerates spiritual gifts. Of course, in chapter 13 he tells that the, and here he also tells that spiritual gifts are given to comfort edify and exalt people, and it's given for the benefit of everyone. But let's notice here in 1 Corinthians 12 and verse 6, and there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit everybody, for to one is given by the Spirit of the Word wisdom to another the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit to another faith, the same Spirit to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit to another the working of miracles to another prophecy to another discerning of spirits to another different kinds of tongues languages to another the interpretation of languages so here we see that God gives out gifts and no one has all of the gifts you have some of the gifts but no one has every one of them Jesus Christ of course had them all he's the only person I know of that ever lived in the flesh that had all of the gifts but all of these works that one and the self same Spirit dividing us under to every man severly as he wills as God wills he is given those gifts physically speaking some are born into wealth some are born into poverty some are born to mothers who were or are drug addicts and as a result their drug usage has affected their child with various disabilities and in some cases both mentally and physically so very sad Americans and especially politicians are quick to quote the preamble to the Declaration of Independence issued before the Revolutionary War when we declared independence from the crown from the British monarchy in England the colonists began to cry out for some relief from the burden that the crown had put on them and especially in the New England area the preamble to the Declaration of Independence begins with a famous sentence we hold these truths to be self-impident that all men are created equal and that's what the whole world is really focused in especially the US and western world that all men are created equal they are they are created equal in the sense that we talked about of God and Christ of equality of opportunity for salvation that every person is to be treated the same when it comes to judgment and judging and the affairs of that person but we know that we have vastly different abilities some are wealthy some are poor and of course God continually urges us to take care of the poor within reasonable balance but at the same time he says the poor you shall have with you always we know that poverty is not going to be totally eradicated in this age no way no how so we continue here we'll read that again all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness life the right of life the unborn doesn't have a choice they have no right to life if the mother decides to abort and sometimes you wonder now are these aborted fetuses going to be resurrected and given a chance for salvation i don't know the answer to that dogmatically but it says the right to life liberty and happiness thomas jefferson along with four other men benjamin franklin john adams robert livingston and rogers sherman were tasked by the continental congress with the responsibility of writing the preamble of the declaration of independence most of the ideas were borrowed from the philosophies of the enlightenment of the enlightenment age philosophers such philosophers as john lock thomas hobs montesquieu volterre john jock russo and so of course jefferson was widely read and highly educated in that sense so two of the main reasons for writing the preamble of the declaration of independence they had no idea that this eventually all men are created equal would become the rallying cry for every abominable behavior that you can possibly think of on the face of the earth as we'll see a little later two main purposes of that document the document intended to justify to the world why their rebellion is rational and why they deserve independence from the rule of the british monarchy empire and secondly to protect to protect the natural rights of americans to pursue life liberty and happiness virtually everyone is quick to quote the phrase all men are created equal one could say that they are created equal in the sense of the right to pursue life liberty and the pursuit of happiness but once again the aborted are not given a chance to pursue life much less liberty and happiness so this was their natural right and the national goal the national goal was to pursue to develop a governmental structure that everyone could pursue life liberty and happiness but that was not their practice some of the men who wrote the declaration of independence and the constitution were slaveholders volumes have been written about jefferson and his relationship with a racially mixed slave sally hemmings jefferson owned 600 slaves in his lifetime many of whom he and his wife inherited after the death of her father jefferson's wife not sally hemmens jefferson's wife father was a very wealthy plantation owner and upon death his slaves became the slaves of jefferson and his wife jefferson eventually freed four of them and the others were sold to pay jefferson's debts after jefferson died yet jefferson wrote against slavery and while serving as the third president of the u.s.

he was instrumental in passing laws against international slave trade of course there was a great deal of hypocrisy back then and a great blotch on the history of america that will never be healed until the millennium ensues so no matter what historical document or historical figure you want to name the fact remains that all men are not created equal in physical and mental capacity neither are they created equal in the socioeconomic sense most of us here in the socioeconomic sense would be considered at best middle class and in some cases maybe intelligentsia would not call us even middle class but god has always decreed that all humans have the opportunity for salvation and that all humans are to be treated fairly and equally under the law america fought a civil war and they went through the civil rights movement to achieve the possibility of fair and equal justice for all see i lived in an area in which when the civil rights movement was going on especially in the early 60s i lived in haddisburg mississippi which joins jones county you've seen the movie the free state of jones the county that i was born in did not secede from the union during the civil war and it became a haven for renegades from both the union and the confederacy and as the time went on of course after the civil war there were many things that the reconstruction act and so on which was not followed and and it just became an intolerable kind of situation i remember as a child going to town this was in the late 40s there would be the drinking fountains of colored and white and the colored were to sit in the back of the city bus and so on and so on and so in the middle of the civil rights movement there in the early 60s i'm living in haddisburg head football coach there very often the clan would throw flyers out in the driveway and talking about various things regarding the status of the races and so on and from that very town i went from there to being a coach at delta state university and i recruited the first black person to play at a four-year school in the state of mississippi so don't talk to me about you know bravery and that kind of thing and of course some of the members of the team then resented that person and treated him awfully to the point that eventually he left that's just a little bit of a sideline there with regard to this in today's world equality the equality issue has become an even more bitter hotter issue than it has ever been the call the demand for equality has not been extended into the moral arena until now well it began to be extended a long time ago but it's now been extended in the moral arena and this is key to understanding the many organizations the many groups who twist scripture traditional values in order to try to force their agenda on people so it's gone from civil rights and equal judgment and treatment under the law to equal acceptance of every behavior that you can think of so it's extended far beyond racial issues the civil rights had to do or whatever you choose has expanded into the moral arena all lifestyles are said to be accepted regardless of their moral beliefs and practices pedophilia incredible i mean some of these people openly defend in the public arena pedophilia the mistreatment of young children in the sexual sense so including pedophilia homosexuality gender identity gender politics and the list goes on and the great watch word is tolerance all of this has to be treated equally in equal respect to every behavior and are you guilty of hate speech and don't tell me to turn to Leviticus where god says it is an abomination for woman to lie with woman and man with man that's what god says so we have the choice of believing god or believing humankind so under the guise of all men are created equal and god loves all his children regardless of their gender identity and this thing about uh gender identity one of the great purposes try to destroy gender to make it a neutral kind of thing and if you do that you destroy the family see the very essence basis of what god is doing is based on family that he is bringing sons and daughters through begat on birth into the family of god so they say god loves all his children regardless of their gender identity and sexual practices along with a host of other questionable behaviors but that does not mean that god approves of their behavior yeah god loves everybody for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son whosoever should believe in him should not perish would have everlasting life and these issues are being used to destroy the very fabric of our society and brethren we are in a battle of battles and spiritual battles that we have never been in before and we live in a cloistered protected world here in east texas to a large degree and one of the greatest truths of the bible that i've already mentioned is the understanding of the plan and purpose of god which is based on begat on and birth into the family of god and if you destroy that if you destroy the family if you destroy sexual identity if you destroy sexual orientation you have destroyed the family structure pat buccannon many of you remember pat buccannon was a candidate for president several years ago well-known journalist been around washington for a long time he is now writing books he writes in his latest book which is titled suicide of a superpower meaning suicide of the u.s that religion race culture and tribalism are the four horsemen of the coming apocalypse destruction is coming the book is a no-holds barred description of where western civilization and especially america's headed you can read a synopsis of it quite easily on the net without having to read the book but i it's worth reading as noted earlier the power-hungry politicians and those who control the wealth of the world have made virtually all the issues surrounding egalitarianism into a political football that is used to justify all sorts of sinful behavior which i've already named pedophilia homosexuality same-sex marriage criminal behavior of all sorts and the list goes on and we have now come full circle back to the garden of eden when god commanded adam and eve to look to him for the knowledge of good and evil now families are caught up with all kinds of different views with regard to what is right and what is wrong and so many of well-intended people are taken in by god loves everybody and he does and he does not have a class but there are two classes and i pointed this out numerous times we'll do it again john one see there are two classes of children with god if you look at john chapter one the gospel of john and john chapter one we'll start in verse 10 speaking of christ john 110 he was in the world and the world was made by him of course god the father and jesus christ are the creators god created the world through christ numerous scriptures and the world knew him not he came unto his own his own received him not but as many as received him to then he gave power to become the sons of god so you have to receive what christ taught to become the son of god even to then that believe on his name which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh see god those that are born of the will of the flesh god sent his only son to die for them he's not a respecter of persons and every person is destined to give it to have an opportunity for salvation nor of the will of men but of god which were born not of blood so there are those who are natural birth and those that are born of the spirit we're not born in the spirit as we know until the resurrection so yes god loves everybody the age old admonition still cries out love the center hate the sin love the center hate the sin god gave conditions to what he promised with regard to salvation so let's look at a couple of places where jesus talks about what you have to do Jesus said in Luke 6 46 Luke 6 46 in Luke 6 46 why call you mean lord lord and do not the things which i say so those who say all you have to do is to confess that Jesus is lord i heard a preacher on Tyler radio station Sunday morning a few weeks ago and he was trying to say that you were saved just by grace and confessing that Jesus Christ and he read a few scriptures and he said now some of you may get the idea i'm i'm saying you have to do what the Bible says i don't know if he realized what he said or not but it's unbelievable so taken in with all you have to do is confess Jesus says why call me lord lord and do not the things which i say you see if you if there is a god he must have some way of communicating with us and he communicates with us through his word and his spirit and that is what we are to obey yes we can believe in god you know it says in James 2 that the devils believe and tremble the demons then even recognized Christ and said if you come to torment us before the time they know that Jesus Christ is is god i mean is you have to go way beyond just believe now let's look at John 15 in verse i started verse nine john 15 and starting in verse nine as a father has loved me so have i loved you continue you in my love if you keep my commandments you shall abide in my love even as i have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love from time to time i pointed out the great scripture you can tell immediately whether or not a person is even on the right track by john first john 2 4 first john 2 4 says he says he knows him and keeps not his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him i mean what else shall we say the truth is not in him so we continue here so christ says that he's kept his father's commandments these things have spoken into you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be filled be fooled this is my commandment that you love one another as as i have loved you not just any old way this is the way that i have loved you how much did he love us greater love had no man than this than he lay down his life or his friends you are my friends if if if you do whatsoever i command you henceforth i call you not servants for the servant knows not what his lord does but i've called you friends for all things that i have heard of my father i have made known unto you so so god makes it very clear that there are conditions the apostle paul told the philosophers on mars hill when he confronted them act 17 not going there but the intellectuals of his day and of course athens this was on the outskirts of athens the acropolis the ariopolis of whatever is called that god has commanded all men everywhere to repent regardless of who you are and what you are but today we're beaten over the head with accept and support every person regardless of their behavior and we get back to what god says about the wicked a lot of people don't like to hear these scriptures but it's in the bible and if god exists he has a way of communicating with us he communicates with us through his word and his spirit so look at psalm 7 psalm 7 verse 11 god judges the righteous and god is angry with the wicked every day god is angry with the wicked every day does god get mad well you read it hopefully you did in psalm 14 psalm 14 forward a few pages in psalm 14 verse 1 the fool has said in his heart that there is no god how many fools are walking around today they are corrupt they have done abominable works there's none that does good the lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that didn't that did understand and seek god they're all gone aside they are all together become filthy there is none that does good no not one i mean and this was written two thousand years ago have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eat up my people as they eat bread and call not upon the lord yeah the people are being devoured today and regardless of how much money is pumped into the money supply and there's more than there's ever been and they just passed a one point it was one point seven omnibus bill that's laden with pork and that means free money for so many people and so many quote causes in proverbs eight verse 13 forward a few pages yes god has emotions god is disappointed when we do not follow what he says to do god is rejoices when we do repent when we follow what he says to do in proverbs eight and verse 13 the fear of the lord is to hate evil it's to hate evil fear the lord is to hate evil pride and arrogance and the evil way and the froward mouth do i hate god hates god gets angry god has the full gamut of emotions god and christ have ordained the way that all should live and he has revealed it to the world through the ten commandments and their expansion god has ordained an instruction book the bible that reveals a central moral code and a culture for all people i don't care if you're chinese japanese tibetan german germanic france you name it there is a moral code and a central culture for all people he obviously allows for different practices and norms in many areas but when it comes to the way to relate to god and christ and to fellow humans he specifies the way to love joy and peace let's note the bible definition of the kingdom of god the bible definition of the kingdom of god is found in romans 14 17 romans 14 17 for the kingdom of god is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the holy spirit for he for he that in these things serves christ is acceptable to god and approved of men let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace and things wherewith one may edify another and then it says for meat for something like what day are you going to fast on don't let that upset the apple cart god's way rejects frank sonatras i did it my way you know frank made a lot of money singing i did it my way elvis and frank are the only two that can really sing the song but it's a wrong song i did it my way each grouping of humanity regardless of the grouping whether by race ethnic origin socioeconomic status governmental structure is required to embrace god's culture which is not bound by any laws or decrees of humankind in the millennium god will demand that all nations embrace his culture which includes every facet of human activity teachers will not be removed into the corner we'll read this verse it's often read at the feast of tabernacles we'll start in isaiah 30 verse 29 isaiah 30 and verse 29 you shall have a song as the in the night which is where you shall have a song as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept and gladness of heart when one goes with a pipe to come into the mountain of the lord to the mighty one of israel and the lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard and shall show the lightning down of his arm with the indignation of his anger and with a flame of devouring fire while destroying the hot in us that's not the scripture that i want it's 3019 instead of 29 in isaiah 30 verse 19 for the people shall dwell in zion and jerusalem you shall weep no more he will be very gracious unto you at the voice of your cry when he shall hear it he will answer you and though the lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction yet shall not your teachers be removed in the corner anymore but your eyes shall see your teachers your ears shall hear a word behind you saying this is the way walk you in it when you turn to the right hand or when you turn to the left no you're not going to be given a choice of whether or not you're going to change sexual identity whether or not you're going to marry the same sex and on and on we could go with the evils of today that we're supposed to accept in the name of equality and love now god is not the author of such things national leaders will come to jerusalem to be instructed by god and the saints they'll be taught the way of god as it says in isaiah 2 jesus said that the gate to eternal life is narrow and one must give up self to enter through the gate narrow is the gate and straighten us away you know there's three things we've talked about you have to give up self society and satan the hardest thing to give up is self christ says that deny yourself come follow me to deny oneself is the most difficult thing to do various groups may maintain certain ethnic practices in the millennium from everything as they say from soup to hay but everyone will be encouraged and if necessary forced to walk in the way that god is ordained those who refuse or cast them to top it which is the valley of hinam and top it is a place where the israelites burn their children as a sacrifice to the pagan god molec as jeremiah 7 and verse 31 we continue reading here in isaiah chapter 30 and we will see here about top it again in isaiah 30 and verse 33 isaiah 30 verse 33 once again top it is a place in the valley of hinam you know the the hebrew word in the new testament for hell fire or hell is the well there's more than one word but the one that's talking about fire is gihinah in the greek or hinam gihinah comes from hinam top it was a place in hinam the valley of where the israelites burned their children as human sacrifices so we see here in verse 33 i told you that jeremiah 731 specifies that they burn their children in top it t-o-p-h-e-t in isaiah 30 verse 33 for top it is ordained of old yes for the king is prepared he has made a deep and large the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the lord like a stream of brimstone does kindle it so god makes sure that this fire continues to burn so how many fetuses have been aborted and figuratively cast into top it in the valley of hinam in the name of a woman's right to choose who knows they say ballpark 60 million in the u.s.

a society has reached the depths of depravity when they can openly proclaim they have the right to kill their offspring no society of culture has ever survived such a practice it's ironic that the very place where israel sacrificed their children to the pagan gods as a place of the ever burning hell fire that we just read here from isaiah 30 verse 33 there's a mass exodus from christianity that's underway in america and here's why now i've talked about a lot of the social so-called issues of the day but this is really where it is it's less about hot button topics like abortion gay marriage homosexuality pedophilia corruption and government it's more about the shift from traditional values as revealed in scripture to secularism and appeals to the less of the flesh the less of the eyes and the pride of life that's what john first john two talks about these three things are of the world people talk about how each party has to do such and such in order for them to vote the democratic ticket or the republican ticket the problems are manifold there are many many reasons why the midterm elections turn out the way they did the principal reasons are spiritual it's not because of election laws it's not because of voter rights or those kind of things not because even of some of these hot button social issues all together what is it it is that they have turned our people have turned away from god and jeremiah writes that's the way they like it you know there's a song that's the way we like it that's the way we like it jeremiah perfectly describes the current condition of the u.s.

and much of the world so we want to read that now in jeremiah chapter 5 verse 21 jeremiah 5 verse 21 here now this oh foolish people i mean this is like reading of course nobody reads the morning newspaper anymore they turn on cnn or fox or local news something like that newspapers are going out of business here now this oh foolish people and without understanding which have eyes and cnot which have ears and here not fear you not me says the lord we talked about the beginning of fear is to hate evil will you not tremble at my presence which have placed this the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree that it cannot pass it yeah the waves lap up and though the waves thereof toss themselves yet can they not can they not prevail though they roar yet they cannot pass over it so the bounds of the sea have been set by the sand on the seashore but the people have a revolting and a rebellious heart and are revolted and gone neither say they in their heart let us now fear the lord our god that gives rain both the former and the latter in due season for the early harvest for the late harvest be reserved unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have withholding good things from you for among my people are found wicked men they lay in wait as he that sets the snare they set a trap they catch men of course one of the main ways they catch men like in this jeffrey upstein thing is through sexual blackmail as a cage full of birds so eat their houses full of deceit therefore they are become great and waxen rich their waxen fat they shine yes they were past the deeds of the wicked they judge not the cause the cause of the fatherless yet they prosper and the right of the needy do they not judge all they pretend they take care of the homeless and everybody else but they're more homeless now than ever before and it's increasing every day by leaps and bounds shall i not visit for these things says the lord shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this a wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land the prophets prophesy falsely the priests bear rule by their means getting a paycheck and my people love to have it so and they will and what will you do in the end thereof see the key phrase my people love to have it so people love the way that society is going they love no balance no shackles nobody's going to tell us what to do yes god is an egalitarian in some aspects but when it comes when it comes to how to live he sets the rules we must choose to obey god in christ or choose to go the way of the world we look once again at deuteronomy 30 in verse 19 we are probably in the church of god the church of god virtually every minister has turned to this scripture dozens of times the deuteronomy 30 in verse 19 i call heaven and earth to record this day against you that i've set before you life and death blessing and cursing we know where we are as a nation on the totem pole right now therefore choose life that both you and your seed may live so what choice will you make what choice will i make who will you believe who will you believe and who will you obey the voice of the maker or the voice of the wicked