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("Best-of" Edition from 7/15/20) How did Hitler become such a beloved figure in Germany even for the church?

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0:00 - 15:00. Mark 4:13-20. The cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts for other things have the potential of making the Word of God unfruitful in our lives. 18:00 - 35:00. How did Hitler become such a beloved figure in Germany even for the church? 38:00 - 54:30. God must have no rivals in our hearts. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call : 877-616-2396

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
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0:32Good evening.
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0:39I'm your host Abraham Hamilton III,
0:41and I am joined by the full squad.
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0:56of the program.
0:59Right now, many of you are making that transition from your part-time work to your full-time work.
1:05Although some of us, we have integrated that phenomenon in some states.
1:09You might have been releasing that. I'm trying to pull you back in. Wherever you are, wherever you are,
1:18again, I thank you for joining the program, but I want to make sure you understand
1:21that we all understand that what we do to generate an income that is not our identity.
1:27And I know we describe it as full-time work, you know, based on hours and a week and so on.
1:34But I just want to let you know what you do for a living is a part-time job.
1:39Your full-time job is discharging faithfulness to the Lord and especially taking advantage
1:48of the opportunity to do so in a primary context that He has created for us within our families.
1:56This is our full-time job.
2:01This is our full time job.
2:04All too often we have sacrificed our families, many of us, many of us, on the altar of external
2:11faithfulness that we have turned our attention and our focus has been dedicated so much to
2:18making things happen outside of our families that we wake up to realize, hmm, probably should
2:25have been more present when I was present.
2:30scripture teaches clearly that when it comes to the offspring of children born into Christian
2:36families, it's not the church's job to make disciples of our children. It's not the school's
2:42job, especially the schools that systematically exclude the knowledge of God. How would they
2:46make a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ? It's the parent's job with the fathers leading
2:58their families. So I know that's not politically correct. Hey, Ram, did you just say fathers
3:02Are they all the lead families?
3:03Yes, I did.
3:05Because my concern is that I am biblically correct,
3:08not politically correct.
3:12And if someone has a problem with God making men
3:15or maybe more specific, you know, in this crazy time,
3:19making husbands the head of their families,
3:22their issues, their issue is with God, not with me.
3:26I didn't create that idea.
3:28It is not my original thought.
3:31I am repeating what was orchestrated and ordained by the heavenly Father.
3:37And it just so happens, it just so happens that when we obey God's instructions, things
3:46go well with that.
3:48But when we don't obey God's instructions, well, let me say it this way.
3:56You can do your own research to see the impact of, I'll say it this way, headless homes.
4:04You can do your own research to see the down the line implications, not only for men, but
4:10for women.
4:11In case you don't know, men were once boys and women were once girls.
4:18Obeying God has great benefit for all of us.
4:22And so my encouragement is simply for us to re-establish the biblical understanding generally
4:28and specifically as it pertains to the family.
4:31when you understand the role you have within your home,
4:37you recognize, man, this is the primary context
4:40for ministry.
4:41Do you realize that you have the opportunity to change the world
4:44by shepherding your families well?
4:48You do.
4:49You do.
4:50You have the opportunity to literally change the world
4:55by serving well in your home.
4:57And the unfortunate thing is that the God haters understand this
5:02and there's so much so that they work feverishly to make sure they box you and I out of having
5:07influence on our own children so that they dominate the shaping of the minds, hearts, and the cultures
5:15for future generations. It's very easy to point at the craziness that's going on around us and say,
5:21look how bad things have gotten, but how much of what is happening right now has happened with your
5:26consent, with my consent. To the word of God we go. Mark chapter 4. Mark chapter 4.
5:35verses 13 through 20. This is where Yeshua the Messiah explained in private to
5:49his disciples his parable of the soils. You know he told the parable in public
5:56then he pulled his disciples up close to him and asked him do you understand
6:01what's going on here and this is where we've been granted a peek into this
6:06conversation because the Lord knew this would edify us. This is what the word of
6:14God says. Verse 13, and he, yeshua, said to them, do you not understand this parable?
6:19How then will you understand all the parables? The sower sows the word and
6:28these are the ones along the path where the word is sown. When they hear Satan
6:35immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them and these are
6:401. Are the one sewn on rocky ground, the ones who when they hear the word immediately receive
6:46it with joy, and they have no root in themselves, but endure for a little while, and then when
6:54tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. And
7:06others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, but the cares of the world,
7:13and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word,
7:21and it proves unfruitful. But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the
7:27word and accept it and bear fruit, 30 fold, 60 fold and 100 fold. Now I'm pretty sure
7:37just like me you have probably heard many people abuse this text to make it say
7:44things that are not being conveyed to us by the scripture. The seed that was sown
7:49is not money. Jesus is explicit. Yeshua is explicit. The seed is the word of God.
8:01The seed is the Word of God.
8:03And as he goes on to explain the various types of soil,
8:09he explains the seed that was sown along the path
8:13as those who hear the word, but immediately Satan is able to steal the word from them.
8:18Then he goes on to explain the rocky ground, the seed, or the word that is sown on the rocky ground.
8:25It's a parable, so it's representative of those people who hear the word
8:32and upon initial reception of it, they respond exclusively emotionally.
8:39Now notice I said exclusively emotionally, because there are some people who try to
8:45completely eliminate the reality that God has given us emotion. If you listen to me
8:51for any length of time, you know I say repeatedly that emotions are a gift to us
8:56from God. But God did not give us emotions for them to lead us. Emotions
9:03are horrible generals, but they are tremendous foot soldiers.
9:07That's why the Lord tells us, tells us in his word things like,
9:10set your affection, that we have the capacity to direct, to aim,
9:16and to launch our emotions in a productive and a fruitful direction.
9:22But when we allow our emotions to get out of place,
9:25when they begin to drive our engagement, they dictate to us what we do,
9:30then our emotions have become disordered.
9:33Lord has never given up emotions so that they lead anything.
9:37Why didn't you do this?
9:38Because I didn't feel like it.
9:39Okay.
9:41I didn't ask you what you felt like.
9:43You know, this is also a part of the reason why I have such a great objection to the romantic
9:48comedy display of love.
9:50You know, people say, I fell in love.
9:52I fell out of love.
9:53Listen, you can't fall in and out of love.
9:56I've said it before, love is an act of the will.
9:59It is accompanied by emotion.
10:02But it is an act of the will.
10:05One of the foremost demonstrations of love is commitment.
10:10That may not go to too many marriage conferences.
10:13I know people like to feel their way about,
10:15no, love is an act of the will.
10:17And before you say, yeah, but men are not emotional.
10:19That's not true.
10:20Have you ever watched the Saints gang with the Saints fan?
10:23Who happened to be a man?
10:24Drew Brees, what are you?
10:26You never hear anybody saying,
10:27I really wish Drew Brees would throw a more accurate pad.
10:32You know, you ever saw a man on a golf course like Jeffrey?
10:35Oh, Jeff Turner's around saying, I lost that one, Jeff.
10:41I mean, I lost that one, Rob, in the drink again.
10:46Of course not, men have emotions.
10:49We express them differently, but we have them
10:52because all humans have them.
10:55Let me keep going.
10:58But the seed that was sewn on the Rocky Grounds
11:00was representative of the people who hear the word
11:03and receive it emotionally, but they have no root.
11:07of your relationship with the Messiah is exclusively emotional. It's very likely that it has no root.
11:19This is why I can say that there is no competition between the word of the Lord and the Spirit of
11:25God, because it is the Spirit of God that aids us in loving the Lord with our mind. But when
11:36But when Emotion-alism is the base of your relationship with the Lord, as the Scripture
11:44says plainly, when difficulty comes, tribulation or persecution, notice those things are not
11:51identical, but tribulation or persecution.
11:54And guess what the Bible says?
11:55On account of the Word.
12:01Do you realize that there are persecutions and tribulations that come our way because
12:11of the word of God and our commitment to it.
12:18I know that messes some people theology up right now as well, because some have been persuaded
12:23by charlatans that faith in Christ means you live life on flowery beds of ease.
12:30No man, no sir.
12:33All who live godly will face persecution.
12:40Then Jesus goes on in his explanation and said, and others are sown among the thorn.
12:46those who hear the word, but the cares of the world, the cares of this life, and the deceitfulness
12:57of riches. So that's not even the acquiring, the obtaining of riches. It is the deceitfulness
13:05of riches, as well as the desires or the lust for other things. They choke the benefit of the
13:16the word in our lives, making it unfruitful. I want to ask a question. Why are you following
13:30Jesus? You remember when Jesus had performed miracles and specifically he turned the little
13:39boys, fish po' boy, into food for thousands where they had leftovers? He crossed to the
13:46other side and next thing you know he gets on the other side of the body of water? The crowds
13:50continue to harass him. And Jesus turns to his disciples. Don't trip. Look, this is the
13:55the Abe translation.
13:57Don't trip.
13:58They just want to sandwich.
14:01These people are not following me
14:02because they are invested in me as a Messiah.
14:04They want me to feel their bellies.
14:09They want me to be the genie from the Aladdin movie
14:12so they can rub me whatever they want
14:14and so they can get another poll board.
14:17But I'm asking you, are you following me
14:22because of your investment in who I am as a Messiah?
14:27Because folks, we're living in a time
14:29where everything that can be shaken will be shaken.
14:33And your allegiance will be exposed in this hour.
14:38So I want you to encourage us to not be those
14:41who merely have an emotional affinity
14:44for the resurrected Christ,
14:45but we welcome the Lord to give us girth and depth
14:49in that we are grounded and rooted in Him.
14:53Because without the Messiah,
14:54where else will we go for the words of eternal life.
15:02And now your two-minute health and prayer is update
15:05from the Presidential Prayer Team,
15:07a ministry of the Pray First Radio Network.
15:11Rather effective today,
15:12requiring all counties to close their indoor activities,
15:17their indoor operations in the following sectors,
15:21restaurants, wineries, tasting rooms,
15:23movie theaters, family entertainment centers,
15:26zoos and museums, card rooms,
15:29and the shuttering of all bars.
15:31This is in every county in the state of California.
15:35Let me just close by soberly saying that we lost
15:39another 23 lives to this pandemic in the last day,
15:4623 human beings that family members have lost loved ones.
15:52Being torn apart, it's a reminder of the deadliness
15:55of this disease.
15:56We had 72 individuals on Saturday.
15:59Hello, this is Jim Boldhouse, President of the Pray First Radio Network.
16:03During these times of uncertainty, we're here for you, with current information about the
16:08COVID-19 virus, as well as important prayer points to guide you in prayer at a time when
16:14our country needs it most.
16:16Psalm 27-1 reminds us of the love and strength we receive from God.
16:21The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear.
16:25The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid.
16:29We'd like to invite you right now to join us in prayer.
16:33Dear Heavenly Father, strengthen and help us to stand strong in our daily battle.
16:38Lift up our hearts and our spirits and guide us as we navigate an uncertain path.
16:44Keep us focused on your love for us.
16:47We ask these things in Jesus' name.
16:52To access free prayer resources that guide you in prayer and to see updates about the COVID-19
16:57virus, go to Pause2Pray.org.
17:00His Capital Punishment Biblical.
17:02Brian Fisher here with today's Life in Liberty Minute.
17:04White supremacist Daniel Lewis Lee was executed Monday
17:08for the torture and murder of an Arkansas family,
17:10including an eight-year-old girl.
17:12In 1996, Lee shot them to death, put plastic bags over their heads,
17:16weighed down their bodies with rocks, and dumped them in an Illinois bayou.
17:21God says in Genesis 9,
17:22who ever sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed for God made man in his own
17:29image.
17:30Taking the life of an innocent human being is such a severe breach of the law of God and
17:35man that the murderer must be required to forfeit his own life in the interest of justice.
17:40The only question is why did our government take 24 years to put this guy to death?
17:46If justice delayed is justice denied, the families and friends of these victims were denied justice
17:51for far too long. Catch Brian Fisher on focal point weekday afternoons at 105
17:56Central on American Family Radio. Shining lightning to the darkness this is
18:07the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio. Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner here
18:12on American Family Radio. There's a lot a lot a lot going on in the world and I
18:21I just, I'm not gonna explain this.
18:27Talking to people, and I've heard people say some things,
18:30and my ears perk up, and it's in conversations,
18:38especially with members of the family of God.
18:41And I'm hearing, I have heard something said repeatedly,
18:49and in my heart, I've had like,
18:53whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what exactly are you saying?
18:57And what I'm referring to is I'm hearing people repeatedly say things, you know,
19:06we got to fight for God in country.
19:07You know, we got to fight for God in country.
19:08You know, we got to fight for God in country.
19:10And I'm saying, you send out a little too quickly for me.
19:15You guys know, if you've listened to the program I've explained,
19:17idolatry biblically has been the communication, especially using the Old Testament
19:23examples that when it wasn't complete rejection of Yahweh worship,
19:28was simply the elevation to the same level of Yahweh as everything else.
19:35Other things.
19:36You know, throw a little Yahweh on top, a little Ba'al, Asterith, we put them all in a pot together.
19:41And I want to be clear, everybody understands this.
19:44I remember when I, on the 4th of July, I tweeted out,
19:49I am grateful to live in the land that God has ordained for me to be born.
19:54When I quote Act 1726, that before time,
20:00God established the boundaries of our habitation and the times that we would live in.
20:05I mean that.
20:08And the United States of America, I say it unabashedly.
20:12I say it with my chest is the greatest nation in the history of the world.
20:20Having said that, the United States of America is not my God.
20:28I would just let that set in for a second.
20:32my commitment to God supersedes and transcends any other commitment or affiliation in my life.
20:41And I would pray that you have the same standpoint. The reality is, it is, our allegiance is to God.
20:50And because of God and is sovereign ordinance of the place of our birth and our rearing or the place
20:56place where we have migrated to legally, then we as the Lord commissioned the Hebrew
21:06boys, we seek the peace and the betterment of the place where God has planted us.
21:13And my wife, actually my wife was first, you know, I have a, I got a lot of books from
21:18my house.
21:19And now on my nice stand, I got a stack of the books, those are the ones in queue at the
21:21moment.
21:22And I had one in queue and my wife kind of pulled it out before me, so she read it first, and
21:27and we were kind of discussing it together and I have it now.
21:30But it's a book I've had for a while
21:31that's titled Hitler's Cross,
21:34written by Erwin Lutzer,
21:36you know, the pastor, emeritus,
21:38at Moody Bible Church.
21:40And as I'm reading this book,
21:43I cannot help but recall conversations
21:46that I've had with people, things I've read,
21:49and that's all, I do stuff kind of seems similar in some way.
21:53Now let me be clear about something else.
21:57I don't want anybody to take anything about this conversation to try to project it on to an issue
22:02about presidential elections or anything of that nature. What I am driving at today is
22:10really an introspection invitation to where our loyalties lie because there are some people
22:16who are saying we need to contend for God and country. What they're saying is that they want to fight
22:22for the American way of life. There are some people, not all. I know that many people use the phrase,
22:27I'm not and I'm not even coming at the phrase. They don't think I'm trying to get people to stop using a phrase
22:31But they are some who when they use that phrase their highest allegiance is to wanted to preserve the ability to have a 401k
22:38Or the ability, you know like Jeff to go golfing
22:42Or the ability, you know to continue to have you know manual
22:46I mean automatic transmissions air condition and the type of
22:51Existence where you know if you don't want to go to a restaurant the restaurant come to you with uber eats and these kind of things
22:56Y'all get what I'm saying?
22:58And if we're not careful, and what I mean careful,
23:03I mean we should be students of history,
23:06but more importantly, students of the word of God.
23:09Because in the parable of the soils, you notice Jesus explained,
23:14oh, you know what that was that choked the word?
23:17The cares of this life.
23:19It wasn't that it was an overt hostile military action.
23:22It was simply the cares of this life mounting to such a degree
23:26to where it captured our attention and it boiled over to the
23:31lust of other things that it caused the word of God to be
23:34unfruitful.
23:36For us now, what am I driving at? One of the things throughout
23:40history, most of the time when you have dictators, the people that
23:43are subjugated by the dictators usually, usually, usually hate the
23:51dictator. But you know, and exception to that was Adolf Hitler.
23:56Do you realize that Adolf Hitler was beloved by the German people, including the church?
24:08Yes, there were some in the church who resisted Adolf Hitler, but many of them did so only
24:14after it was too late, and they were an extreme minority in the church.
24:21If you know anything about the Hitler's ascendancy, you know that the German people were reeling
24:30from World War I, they felt like their nation had been crushed, their national identity had
24:34been crushed, and they were almost craving, you know, a strong man to come to power.
24:40They had even concluded, you know, with the Wyoming Republic that their experiments, even
24:44in democratic participation, only resulted in weak government.
24:49So they almost craved a strong man.
24:54And one of the things that they sought was for economic stability and security.
25:05The cravings were so strong that they even penetrated the church.
25:14And I'm going to give you an example of what I mean.
25:16What I mean.
25:17I have a couple of things that I'm just going to pull out.
25:18I'm not going to read the whole book.
25:19I don't want to pull out a couple of things for your benefit.
25:24So first in his book, and many of you remember this, many of you have heard about it, but
25:33Erwin Lützer recalled his conversation with a man who was a Christian living in Germany
25:40during the Holocaust.
25:42And the man shared his testimony and he said this, quote, I lived in Germany during the
25:51Nazi Holocaust.
25:52I consider myself a Christian.
25:55We heard stories of what was happening to the Jews, but we tried to distance ourselves
25:58from it.
25:59Because what could anyone do to stop it?
26:01A railroad track ran behind our small church, and each Sunday morning we could hear the whistle
26:06in the distance, and then the wheels coming over the tracks.
26:10We became disturbed when we heard the cries coming from the train as it passed by.
26:17Jews like cattle in the car.
26:20Week after week the whistle would blow.
26:22She dreaded to hear the sound of those wheels because we knew that we would hear the cries
26:27of the Jews en route to a death camp.
26:30Their screams tormented us.
26:33We knew the time the train was coming and when we heard the whistle blow we began singing
26:37him.
26:40By the time the train came past our church we were singing at the top of our voices.
26:47If we heard the screams we sang more loudly and soon we heard them no more.
26:57have passed and no one talks about it anymore, but I still hear that train whistle in my sleep.
27:02God forgive me, forgive all of us who called ourselves Christians, yet did nothing to intervene.
27:10Now I know many of us have heard that before and even many of us have heard the comparisons
27:18to the Holocaust in Germany, to the silent Holocaust in our nation, with children who were
27:34being slaughtered and then mothers will. And, and hear me well, not everybody agree with
27:43this, but those who opposed it were in the minority. By and large brothers and sisters,
27:48I'm going to tell you the reason why large swaths of the church at that time failed to
27:57oppose Hitler's not suffocation of Germany, including the church, to where he replaced
28:03the cross of Christ with the broken cross of the swastika was because under Hitler, they
28:11had full tummies. Under Hitler, they were able to have an elevation of their national
28:21patriotic identity. And opposing Hitler ultimately was a risk of your life. But earlier on,
28:33they saw it as a way to make Germany great again. Just as this man's testimony says,
28:42they increased the volume of their voices.
28:46And as I said, they didn't want to mess up the good things
28:49that came under Hitler.
28:50You had many churchmen who marveled after Hitler
28:54became chancellor and seized all political power
28:57for himself that he did things socially
29:03that helped the Germans live better lives.
29:09So like this Christian, they were willing to sing
29:14a little louder because the economic status
29:19the country was increasing. And isn't it remarkable? One of the primary reasons that are offered
29:30to normalize the intentional annihilation of children in the womb is that they're willing
29:36to sacrifice the child or the mother. It's remarkable. Well, I'll save that later. And
29:49I want you guys to hear this because we know many of them. And again, I'm not trying to
29:54paint with the barber's. There were some who opposed this, but they were a gross minority.
30:00Do you realize that many of the SS troops who committed the atrocities, do you know most
30:10of those people went to church?
30:13Christian churches?
30:16They could be involved in untold atrocities during the weekend, gather for worship on
30:19Sunday because they had invested into a severance of morality.
30:29They, what we were describing as biblical morality
30:33was merely a private matter in Germany.
30:36This is what their churches were teaching.
30:39But in his role, in their roles as soldiers,
30:42there was a separate morality for the state.
30:46Does anybody notice in the United States of America
30:48there's a continuous push to make
30:50faithfulness to God a private thing?
30:58Some of these church attending soldiers
31:00would say things like this.
31:04As Hermann Goring said, quote,
31:07I have no conscience.
31:09Adolf Hitler is my conscience.
31:12It is not I who live, but the fuhrer who lives in me.
31:24On August 30th, 1933, now remember, 1933, this is before the true fangs of Hitler were revealed.
31:34But on August 30th, 1933, Pastor Julius Luthers Sir gushed about Adolf Hitler.
31:40He said this quote, Christ has come to us through Hitler.
31:45Through his honesty, his faith, and his idealism, the Redeemer found us.
31:51We know today that Savior has come.
31:53We have only one task, be German, not Christian."
32:09This is what the pastor said.
32:11We have one task.
32:12See, many of us may not be aware, but Hitler presented himself to the German people as a
32:16messianic figure.
32:18He would represent himself as if he was sent to be the savior of the Germanic people.
32:27In early on, many Christians agreed with him.
32:35Erwin Lützer made this observation following this quote from Pastor, excuse me, from Pastor
32:41Julie Lertzer.
32:42Erwin Lützer said this quote, today pictures of this holy union between the German church
32:51and Hitler.
32:52Startle us, but in Hitler's day, being a good Christian involved being a good German nationalist,
32:59God and country were practically one and the same. Hitler said, if you want to serve God,
33:08you must serve the German state. I'll give you this quote. Erwin Lützer is making an observation
33:14here. Quote, the humiliating tree of Versailles, the communist and the liberal elite who believed
33:21in democracy, all of these were seen as threats to Germany's recovery. Even for those who call
33:25call themselves Christians, a strong Germany was more highly valued than a strong gospel
33:31witness. Unless the gospel, as was often the case, was reinterpreted to be a plea for loyalty
33:39to the German cause. The churches were so enamored with Hitler's successes, now this is
33:47talking about, let me explain, this is talking about soon after Hitler was made the Chancellor,
33:52and when he became Chancellor, he started making all kinds of changes that increased early
33:56on the socioeconomic status of the nation.
33:59Ermoulouza says this quote,
34:01The churches was so enamored with Hitler's successes that they did not pause to ask in
34:06whose name these benefits had come.
34:09They spoke of the political resurgence as a revival, a time of renewal and spiritual strength.
34:16The churches derived strength from the improved economy and giddy optimism about a new day
34:22for Germany.
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39:02And it's just one of those where I'm like,
39:05let's have a little bit of introspection
39:07because there's much about not only the fawning.
39:13I mean, the reality is people in Germany
39:15worshiped Hitler. He required worship, including many in the church, including
39:26many in the church. There's one more, I got a couple more, I got so much stuff I
39:32could share from this, but I won't have time to get to all of this. I'll share
39:38another quote with you from Erwin Luther. He wrote this, while making overtures
39:45publicly in the beginning that Hitler wanted to support the church's ability
39:54to be independent. In the beginning, he would privately have these kinds of conversations.
40:00This is what Erwin or Lutus says.
40:02Hitler spoke of both Protestants and Catholics with contempt, convinced that, and listen to
40:07this closely, convinced that all Christians would betray their God when forced, when they
40:12were forced to choose between the swastika and the cross. Hitler said this, quote, do you
40:19You really believe the masses will be Christian again?
40:22Nonsense.
40:24Never again.
40:25That tale is finished.
40:28No one will listen to it again, but we can hasten matters.
40:32The Parsons will dig their own graves.
40:35They will betray their God to us.
40:39They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable jobs and incomes."
40:45You see why I'm asking the questions that I'm asking here today?
40:54was able to seize on the Germanic people's hunger, literal hunger, seize on their desire
41:04for national identity and seize on their affinity for Hitler. Hitler's for an Alfred Rosenberg
41:26literally blasphemed the church in proposing a national Reich Church of Germany. He had a 30
41:3530-point program, but these are just a couple of the points from it that I want you to consider.
41:41Set, the National Reich Church of Germany categorically claims the exclusive right and
41:48the exclusive power to control all churches within the borders of the Reich.
41:53It declares these to be the National Churches of the German Reich.
41:56It goes on.
41:58The National Church demands immediate cessation of the publishing and dissemination of the
42:02Bible in Germany.
42:05The National Church declares that to it and therefore to the German nation, it has been
42:09decided that the purest mind comps is the greatest of all documents.
42:14It not only contains the greatest, but it embodies the purest and truest ethics for the present
42:20and future life of our nation.
42:24The National Church were clear away from its altars, all crucifixes, Bibles, and pictures
42:29of saints.
42:31On the altars there must be nothing but mind comps, to the germination and therefore to
42:35God the most sacred book and to the left of the altar of sword.
42:42One more.
42:43On the day of its foundation, the Christian cross must be removed from all churches, cathedrals
42:48and chapels, and it must be superseded by the only unconquerable symbol, the swastika.
43:01You see why I'm having this conversation today?
43:04Do you see?
43:06And again, there were a minority of Catholics, there were a minority of Protestants, and
43:13who resisted Hitler. I don't want to make it like it was everybody in the church, but they were a minority.
43:20Many saw Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a troublemaker. Many saw Martin E. Moller as a troublemaker
43:32who redeemed enemies of Germany because of their resistance to Hitler's notcification of the church.
43:42And I want to reiterate, many of them, they felt the economic instability that followed World
43:54World War I.
43:55Many of them wanted protection.
44:00I had Jeff to do a little digging for me because I remember reading it.
44:05Do you realize among voters across the board in 2016, the top two issues that were issues
44:10for the voters were economic stability and national security?
44:16Now that would be one thing is that was if that was limited to voters in general.
44:19you want to know what some of the top two issues were for Christian voters in 2016,
44:23economic security, I mean economic stability and national security. Now listen,
44:30I'm a man, I'm a husband, I'm a father. I want my economics to be stable. Don't
44:35misunderstand me. And yes, you guys know how I talk about the threat to our national
44:40security. But the moment those things become equally as important to me as
44:46as religious freedom, I have a problem.
44:49Now see what I'm saying.
44:53Now before we get high in our horses,
44:55wagging our fingers at the German church,
45:01remember when I was having the conversation
45:04a couple of weeks back, maybe I don't remember the exact day,
45:06but I was talking about the normalization of Godlessness?
45:10You know, I've talked about the silent holocaust
45:17with abortion, but remember when we had the conversation,
45:21The Bible teaches us that fear of the Lord is a beginning of knowledge, right?
45:26But we have accepted as normative a standard of education that excludes the knowledge of God.
45:36And many of us, why do we do it? Because we want our children to be smart. Many of us know the God,
45:43know about the godlessness that reigns on most of the college campuses in our country. But we still
45:51So send our children with our money.
45:55Why?
45:56Because we want them to have successful life, prosperous life.
46:14Have we not witnessed what the godless brainwashing has done to our country?
46:24But we continue it.
46:26Folks, that is an example.
46:28That gives you a little indication.
46:30I still want many of, and they called them the church members who embraced and
46:39endorsed and supported the notification of the church in Germany.
46:42They called them quote German Christian, unquote.
46:47So the ones like Bonhoeffer and Nemoler and others,
46:50they weren't German Christian, but the, the mainstream,
46:53they were called German Christian. Don't get me wrong.
46:59I'm not anti education. I understand, you know,
47:05But I want you to understand.
47:09These are how these things happen.
47:11Remember when Jesus described in the parable of the soils?
47:15When he described the seed, the word that fell, that was choked,
47:24it was the cares of this night.
47:26It wasn't a full-on blitzkrieg of an assault.
47:30It was more tacit.
47:33It was more subtle.
47:35It was more, but this is important too.
47:38Which I understand these things are important, but they're not more important. They're not more important
47:46I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and we were talking about the wicked BLM organization, right?
47:54And I asked him I said now if there was an organization
47:59That's that said they wanted to do a feeding program, but you knew it was a Nazi program
48:05Would you spout Nazi phrases just so you can get your children in neighborhood fed?
48:10He said no. I said then why would you spot Marxist phrases? They have told us that
48:21they're trained Marxists. They have written about their Marxism on their
48:29website. Yet our nation is bending over backwards right now to try to prove that
48:37it's like it's like I'm not a partial I'm not partial tag right? Man if you're not
48:43partial why do you have to prove it to anybody? What I'm saying folks you have
48:49these subtle incursions, these subtle incursions, these subtle incursions until they're no longer
48:56subtle, until they're no longer subtle. Think about how for generations in our own nation,
49:12instead of the church standing up with one voice condemning the subjugation of fellow
49:17image bearers, you had a church split and I can tell you much of the concern was not theological.
49:27It was economic.
49:33I'm not trying to start a pot.
49:34I just want you to understand.
49:36It was economic.
49:38But you had an entire secession that was so potent
49:46that today you'll have people that would say,
49:48oh Abraham the Civil War wasn't about slavery.
49:52It was about states rights.
49:57States rights to do what?
50:01So it had nothing to do with it.
50:04Then if that's the case, and I remember I asked this question,
50:06if that's the case, then if slavery had nothing
50:08to do with the Civil War, then why?
50:11Was Jim Crow such an immediate response
50:14once Southerners were able to reestablish themselves
50:17in authority in the South?
50:19Did Jim Crow just spring out of nowhere?
50:24Did Vice President of the Confederacy,
50:31Stevens just happen to make up that it was the only nation
50:34that would be built on the cornerstone
50:39that the so-called white man was superior
50:42to the so-called black man?
50:43Did he just make that up?
50:51Folks, what I'm talking about, what I'm talking about,
50:54and I know I gave the phone number,
50:56I'm not gonna get to, I'm not gonna have time for call.
50:59I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
51:03But I want you to understand,
51:05I want you to understand,
51:06the encroachments are never a blitzkrieg initially.
51:10They're always incremental
51:14to the point where they're nearly imperceptible.
51:17And then the next thing you know, you have Jim Crow.
51:24The next thing you know, you have German Christianity.
51:27The next thing you know,
51:28you have Dean Bonhoeffer, an enemy
51:32of German Christianity.
51:38It doesn't mean that economics is not important,
51:41but economics are not more important than the Lord.
51:44You had German theologians who argued
51:48for eliminating the Old Testament
51:50because of its Jewish influence
51:53and described Apostle Paul's teaching
51:55as a perversion of Christianity.
52:02You had German Christians who,
52:05in spite of Bonhoeffer's pleading with them,
52:12They would sign documents of allegiance to Adolf Hitler
52:22because they did not want the greatness to serve.
52:32And in case you haven't noticed yet,
52:35things are getting hot in our own country
52:39against the cross of crime.
52:45And my question for the remnant,
52:47this is a real question for the remnant,
52:50is will we be able to stand, or will we be like those
52:55who Jesus discussed, who received the word with joy,
52:59The receptivity was merely emotional
53:03but having no root so that when persecution comes,
53:07because of the word, because of the word,
53:14they were not able to stand.
53:19What I'm saying folks is that if we find ourselves
53:25saying we are standing for God and country,
53:27a little too quickly together,
53:28I would encourage you to slow that down.
53:31I love this country.
53:34I will continue to fight for this country,
53:36but this country is not my God.
53:38And guess what?
53:39The moment this country
53:43can turn this ire on the truth of what my God preaches,
53:47guess what you will find me?
53:49My God's grace.
53:51I'm not trying to talk like I'm some big guy,
53:53but I'm saying by God's grace,
53:54may I be found standing on his word.
53:58Because if you haven't noticed yet,
54:00homosexuality's being mainstreamed,
54:02abortion has been mainstreamed,
54:04a whole lot of other things have been mainstreamed,
54:06but where will we stand?
54:10The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast
54:13may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.

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