Almighty God, we thank you, Lord, that we have your word. We thank you that we have your Bible that can guide us in all things. We pray, dear God, that we will be humble enough, all of us, myself included, to receive this message in good faith and apply it in our lives. We pray that God that your spirit would rest upon us today, Lord, and that we would boldly declare your word and then take it out into our families and into the community and do the word. We thank you in the name of your son, Jesus Christ. Amen. Now, We've gone through different parts of life. Different types of government in life. And we've showed that the Bible applies to all of these things. After you get saved, something's supposed to happen. Unless you die in that instant, after you come to the Lord, you need to live in this world. Well, how do I live in this world? And how can the church teach you how to live in this world if every week is just another sermon on getting saved? If every week is just another sermon on baby steps? Jesus pushed the disciples to get past baby steps. to get strong, to walk as men, to walk as women in this world that actually had answers for people. The Bible speaks to politics, economics, sociology, everything in life. This Bible has an answer, but we can't be lazy. So we can't get saved and then fall asleep. And what we definitely cannot do, which has happened, you do not become saved and then fall in love with money. And that is the main thing that is undercutting the church. People want special answers, Lord. You know, why is the church so weak? What's going on in the church today? We can't put our finger on it. And so many ministers will claim that it's so hard to put our finger on something like this. Why are we so weak? That's where you have to stand up for the Lord. You can't always bring a popular message. So I'll say what many of you have wanted to say. I'll say what many ministers have wanted to say, but their congregation is holding them hostage because threatening them to take away their salary or their living quarters. I'll say it. The church has fallen in love with money. The church has become a cheap whore. that if you pay, you get the services. That's what we've become. We're worse than the Catholic Church we tried to reform. At least the Catholics, with the indulgences, still didn't permit people to be Christians as easily as we do today. We don't even make them pay an indulgence. We just get them baptized or let them say some type of cheap confession. Proof you're a Christian and no change has to take place. And now just send us the money, a seed tithe, or send money to the church for missionaries. Okay, we only give the missionaries 5% of the money that you send in for the missionaries, but send in that money for the missionaries. The church has become a whore. It has fallen in love with money. Now we are so biblically illiterate that even many pastors will look at me like, What you're saying is godless. That's not right. How can you say something like that? But I'm going to show you in the Bible, Jesus' words are more important than any pastor, or mommy, or daddy, or whoever. And you've got to stand up for Him. Jesus, in the most important and powerful sermon the world has ever heard, the Sermon on the Mount, gave us this choice. And then Paul faithfully repeats it. You cannot have a church that is a whore. We have taken the Son of God, the Holy Messiah, that was crushed for your sins and for my sins. Not just what you see during Passion Week and some cheesy movie about the crucifixion. spiritual darkness, unbelievable judgment, smashing his soul, that the God-man even asked his father, Father, you control all things, you have complete power. If this cup could pass from my lips. Now if it can't be done, Father, I'll take it, I'll drink this cup. But if you could take this cup, and the Father's answer was no, this needed to be done, and the one who never sinned had to suffer the consequences of sin for you and me, and was crushed, the Son of God crushed like a dog. Now in America, we can't understand this because we spoil our kids for the last 50 years. We give them everything. If our son scrapes his knee, oh baby, oh, you come running out. It used to be you spit, you got some spit on your head, you rubbed it on the leg, you know. That's the way it used to be, but now we progressively become the generation that can't be uncomfortable. The generation that's completely spoiled. And that's why the title of today's sermon is, The Credit Card Jesus. That's the Jesus we have. Not the Jesus I want to follow His commands. Not the Jesus that I want to study His book to learn how to live. I just need Him when my house is in trouble. I just need Jesus when the car payment is due. I just need them when I need money for college for the kids. But I don't want them in my life telling me how I'm supposed to live. So we got the credit card Jesus. Better than American Express. Better than MasterCard. When you're in trouble, just pull them out of the back of your pocket. and swipe that card. And that's exactly the way many in the modern evangelical church treat the Lord. Especially that godless trinity broadcasting network that has somebody on every week that's going to bless you if you just bless them first. Remember, Jesus is the credit card. Come out on faith. Send that prayer tithe of $1,000. And like Jesus said, you'll reap 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 times what you gave. He's talking about giving witness and having people convert through the Spirit. He's talking about spiritual work, not money. But somebody has to say it. Somebody has to confront these people. It's not okay. Ministers wanting to charge $130,000 to have you visit their church. Are they out of their minds? Or they want to raise $100,000,000 to buy a plane. Fall on your knees before God. Beg for a heart. Something that you can't buy. For a clean heart. Through the blood of Jesus. And forget about asking for all that money. This country will be smashed economically. You want to listen to your financial experts? You go ahead. You want to listen to your lion preachers just like in Jeremiah's day? They're going to tell you everything's all right. We're blessed. Look at us. Look at the stock market. Look at the home you live in. Look at the cars. They're all mortgaged and bankrupt just like Christianity in this country. Mortgage and bankrupt. You don't own it. The bank owns it. I got a car. I got a house. You have $600,000 in debt, you idiot. Christonomy is the only way Christ commands will guide you economically. It's the only way for a sound economic system. Jesus doesn't talk about money. He doesn't talk about financials. No! Turn to Matthew chapter 6, verses 22 through 24. When things melt down and they're cutting your pension, they're cutting your social security, and they're cutting your SNAP and your WIC and whatever other names they have for it, you're not going to come to this church and beat me up because I warned you ahead of time. Start saving and stop spending, baby, because God is going to visit America. Verses 22 through 24. You have to know this part of the Bible. You have to. This is the real Jesus. The light of the body is the eye. If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness. Now focus on this and you tell me if I'm lying or if I'm too firm or too judgmental what I'm saying. Listen to Jesus Christ Himself. No man or woman can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Mammon is money. The moolah, the bling, the jingle, whatever else they call it today, the wop. I want everyone to understand me. That's what it is. It's the money. It's the material things. You cannot serve both. Now we're going to see this doesn't mean you can't have money. This doesn't mean you can't be a rich Christian. This means you have to follow Christ's commands and share. You can be poor and worship money. You can be poor and worship more money than a billionaire with the way you run your life. It doesn't matter how much you have. It's your attitude towards it. And many of us who don't have, God wouldn't dare give us more because it might destroy us spiritually. Because if God gave you a billion dollars tomorrow, you might fly away from this church and from the Word of God by your own island in the Caribbean and never want to hear about Jesus again. Because that's the sin nature. We'd all be tempted. I know I'd be tempted. You're going to lie to yourself. I'm not going to lie to myself. My spiritual life would change tomorrow if I was a billionaire. Absolutely. It would just be new challenges. My wife's saying, you idiot, just take the billion and just shut up. So this is the point. We have to make a choice. Paul repeats this. We're going to be working through 1 Timothy so you can stay in that book. Turn to 1 Timothy chapter 6. Timothy was a pastoral letter. Timothy was a book written to young pastors that were going to take on a crazy world. The Greek world at that time, as bad as we've gotten, we still have more morals in a way than what the Greeks had at that time. Now we're getting there quickly. But we're traveling back to paganism. But I just want you to know, this was not an easy world, an easy life that Timothy was entering into. So Paul gives him instructions. He gives him marching orders to guide him. And lo and behold, some of the instructions that he gives Timothy involve finances and money and the heart. So we're told in verses 3 through 5, if any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine, there goes that dirty word again, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words. Wherefore cometh envy, strife, railings, evilsimizings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain--" whoa, money being addressed again. That gain is godliness, from such withdraw thyself. So Paul knows the main challenge to the church, it's not going to be when we're persecuted and when we're not doing well. It's when we're successful. You will be more challenged when your pockets are full. You will be more challenged when your health is A-OK. Because that's when we're more prone to walk away from our Father. That's the way children are. The more the parents give, Unless they're strict in their discipline, the children lose their spirit as they gain the physical. We have this whole world built on this concept today. It's not the dirty communists in another country. It's the dirty, out of control, godless capitalism and fascism that we have here also. Everything is money. Hey, Joey, you know, you really shouldn't have screwed that guy against the wall the way you did. Yeah, but you know how much money I made? Oh, well, you gotta take the money. How many people live like this? Well, I know I'm compromising myself a little bit, but look at the money he's making. How many parents do this with the children? Yeah, my daughter hasn't attended church in probably 15 years, but she's a high-powered lawyer. She has a doctorate. She's kicking butt in the law firm. Can I really say she's doing something wrong? All of us are like that. Success is money, and then we want to put a Christian label on it. You go to a Christian college to become a money changer. Well, that's not the way it's supposed to be. Now, I want to show you the connection. The way you handle your money comes from your religious beliefs. They go hand in hand. Do you know that economics is a religious system first? The way you view God will come out in the way you handle money. We treat everything else like a golden credit card. That's why Jesus has become the golden credit card. Our views towards God now influence our money. So point number two, our religious presuppositions influence every area of life. A corrupt spiritual foundation will produce a corrupt economic system. False doctrine destroys the church and the society around it. The way you believe in God, it comes out in the way you handle your money. Am I lying? Is it true? Did religious institutions really start out? Were they the first banks? Was the temple and the bank one and the same? You bet it was. Why do you think in the book of Revelation it talks about Babylon the Great? That spiritual whore that also is a money whore and dedicated to materialism. And that's what God will strike down. Let's learn the history of banking. How many people knew that banks started in Babylon? Now just so you know I'm fair and I don't have to just go to Christian websites to back up what I'm saying. I gave it to you on your outline. You can go to it yourself. It's called historyworld.net. In your spare time go to the website and you can look up this article. The history of banking. Safe in the temple. 18th century BC. We think we're so smart. Wealth compressed into the convenient form of gold brings one disadvantage. Unless well-hidden or protected, it is easily stolen. In early civilizations, a temple is considered the safest refuge. It is a solid building, constantly attended, with a sacred character which itself may deter thieves. In Egypt and Mesopotamia, gold is deposited in temples for safekeeping. But it lies idle there. Now realize, we're talking about 3,800 years ago. But it lies idle there, while others in the trading community or in government have desperate need of it. In Babylon, at the time of Hammurabi, how many learned about this with Hammurabi's code in school? That it matched what the Bible would talk about and prophesy. In Babylon, at the time of Hammurabi in the 18th century BC, there are records of loans made by the priests of the temple. The concept of banking has arrived. Who heard that in history class? Banking activities in Greece are more varied and sophisticated, this is by the fourth century BC, than in any previous society. Private entrepreneurs, as well as temples and public bodies, now undertake financial transactions. They take deposits, make loans, change money from one currency to another, and test coins for weight and purity. They even engage in book transactions. Moneylenders can be found who will accept payment in one Greek city and arrange for credit in another. How about that? You thought Chase was doing good things on your phone. Avoiding the need for the customer to transport or transfer large numbers of coins. Rome, with its genius for administration, adopts and regularizes the banking practices of Greece. By the second century AD, a debt can officially be discharged by paying the appropriate sum into a bank, and public notaries are appointed to register such transactions. Hey, the origin of the notary. Oh, I got to get this notarized. We're so fancy today. Well, they had that for over 2,000 years. The collapse of trade after the fall of the Roman Empire makes bankers less necessary than before, and their demise is hastened. Now listen to this. This is a secular website. And their demise is hastened by the hostility of the Christian church to the charging of interest. Because it makes people slaves. I lend you $100 and now I charge you 50% interest. So now you gotta come up with 50 bucks a week. So when you pay me back at the end of the year, it costs almost $6,000 to pay me back for the $100 that I loaned you. This is what your credit cards do. The church wouldn't deal with it. Now we welcome it. usury comes to seem morally offensive. One anonymous medieval author declares vividly that a usurer is a board to his own money bags, taking a fee that they may engender together. Now we go to the 12th and 13th century. The Christian prohibition on usury eventually provides an opportunity for bankers of another religion. European prosperity needs finance. The Jews, barred from most other forms of employment, supply this need. But their success and their extreme visibility as a religious sect brings dangers. The same is true of another group, the Knights Templar, who for a few years became bankers to use the mighty. They too, an exclusive sect with private rituals, easily fall prey to rumor, suspicion, and persecution. The profitable business of banking transfers into the hands of more ordinary Christian folk. First among them, the Lombards. My Italian friends with the name Lombardi, do you even know where the name comes from? It's not from your construction company. During the 13th century, bankers from North Italy, collectively known as Lombards, gradually replaced the Jews in their traditional roles as moneylenders to the rich and powerful. The business skills of the Italians are enhanced by their invention of double-entry bookkeeping. Creative accountancy enables them to avoid the Christian sin of usury. Interest on a loan is presented in the accounts either as a voluntary gift from the borrower or as a reward for the risk taken. We won't call it interest. We'll say you're giving it to me out of a love offering. Siena and Lucca, Milan in general, all profit from the new trade, but Florence takes the lion's share. That's why an ancient coin, it was known as the Florin. Oh yeah, the article says it. Florence is well equipped for international finance, thanks to its famous gold coin, the Florin. First minted in 1252. Do you hear these dates? We think we're so smart today. 1252, the florin is widely recognized and trusted. It is the hard currency of its day. By the early 14th century, two families in the city, the Barthi and the Peruzzi, have grown immensely wealthy by offering financial services. They arranged for the collection and transfer of money due to great feudal powers, in particular the papacy. They facilitate trade by providing merchants with bills of exchange, by means of which money paid in by a debtor in one town can be paid out to a creditor presenting the bill somewhere else. a principal familiar now in the form of a check. The ability of the Florentine bankers to fulfill this service is shown by the number of body branches outside Italy. In the early 14th century, the family has offices in Barcelona, Seville, Majorca, and Paris, Avignon, Nice, and Marseille. In London, Burgess, Constantinople, Rhodes, Cyprus, and Jerusalem. To add to Florence's sense of power, many of Europe's rulers are heavily in debt to the city's bankers. Therein in the short term lies the bankers downfall. Now I'd like to go on with more history. I don't have the time, but the point is it's been around a long time and the Bible knows what it's talking about when it references Babylon. Babylon was the original money center, financial center of the world. Everything you do when you walk out of here today and go to your bank, or hopefully you don't do that, or on Monday you conduct your business. It's been done before. This is how empires are formed. You have a priesthood that collects the money. And eventually they control who the king will be. Sound familiar? Stop blaming the Republican, the Democrat. I'm a Christocrat. Jesus is my president, my king. I don't care if a Republican gets in next, if a Democrat gets in next, if that secret brotherhood and priesthood behind them does not pick them, they won't get in. Stop blaming Obama, blame the church. We've sold out. When there's a grassroots movement and we recover the true sense of money, we'll be alright. Let's return to 1 Timothy, verses 6-10. What is Paul telling us? You gotta be content in godly things. But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. Remember Job? Came in naked, gonna leave naked. And having food and raiment, let us be there with content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil." Then why am I wrong for discussing economics in church? Maybe I should leave you to crash and burn in your lives. Hey, let's just get saved again this week. which while some coveted after, they have earned from the faith and passed themselves through with many sorrows. If you do not buy that car outright with the little bit of money you have, and you go and get a lease, you're on your road to bankruptcy. And most people have two cars like that. You want to see simple economics? I go to the BQE auto auction. I buy a minivan that's still running for $3,000. I've had the van for five years. Is it old? Yeah, it's almost 15 years old. Stop, don't giggle, it's a beautiful van. It's about 15 years old, but I have a van. So in five years, I spent three grand, I spent another $1,000 in repairs. So my total bill for five years is $4,000. If I went to lease that new van, because I need full coverage, it would cost me $600 per month. I don't need to be a mathematician, that's a lot of money. For the first year, Right? For one year. Even if there's no down payment, we're looking at $7,200 to own that car for one year. Times five. Right? Five years. We got $35,000. Okay, $36,000. $36,000, right? Seems like an incredible number. It's true. $600 a month is $7,200 a year. Times five, $36,000 to own a van where I went to the BQE auto auction and got my beat up van. For $3,000, another $1,000 in expenses. Stuff went wrong. $4,000 over five years I spent. My buddy's spending $36,000 to ride around in the new thing with the bells and whistles. And then people ask me, Pastor, how do you do it with seven children in Brooklyn? I only own two pairs of shoes that I buy on sale. All my cars are bought, one I bought at the BQE auto auction, one we bought from the Russian guys up here by Coney Island. Look, I'm being honest. I don't need to sound fancy. I'm telling you the truth. This is how I save money. My cars in total for five years cost me maybe $7,000. Now, even if I buy a car, you say, well, it's a piece of junk. I love when people say, oh, you've got to make the repairs on it. And my transmission died every year. And I bought a transmission for five years, even at $2,000 a transmission. I'm not paying $36,000 for the car. Do you see how this sneaks up on you? Now, most people have two lease cars. They have a house that they can't afford, that they should have bought at a cheaper rate. And many times they have a summer home. Don't even let me throw in your cell phone plans, your cable plans, $159 a month for garbage cable vision. Yeah, I will call people out, sue me. For garbage cable vision that's pumping trash into your home. And then you think God doesn't feel robbed? You're paying $160 for the cable, $36,000 for a car in five years, but you want to come in here and throw $5 at them on Sunday? As if that's your best? Let's all be careful. Money, baby. If you don't have godly principles, you are dead. How many kids take a real economic class in school? None because they want useful slaves. That's a simple example. Don't even let me get into housing and everything else. And you got to figure out where you live tolls and gas. And when I pick a certain house, I'm like, hey, you know, whatever the house is 120,000. I'm like, this is too expensive. And everybody's looking at me, I gotta be too expensive. You're not working out the numbers. Depending where you live $120,000 house is like a $400,000 house with tolls and gas and everything else. Don't let me, I'm, look. Again, I'm getting on you as it is. Don't get me started. Don't feed me elder, I'm just. So this is the point. Maybe we really do have to learn as Christians how to use our money. Do we glorify God doing something like this? Do I really need a 2015 car? with 20 computers in it that breaks down anyway after six months. Let's be wise with the way we spend. Now Paul is speaking to Christians, and this also goes for the pastors. I'm going to make a lot of friends now. If you provide your pastor with a parsonage, a place to live, and you help him put clothing on his back, and you help him out with some food, he should work part-time. Unless the congregation is so large that you need him to not work. That's one thing. But basically, as a minister, you go for the things that are spiritual. Don't go for the material. Don't ever preach for gain. Hey, what's good for the member is also good for the pastor. So let's call out everybody, right? So you make some demands that are made on churches that are not biblical. What did Paul ask for when he preached? They came, they had a place to live, maybe some clothes on their backs. He was, quote, where we get the term tent maker from. Always worked, always worked part time. All the apostles, always worked, did what they could. They were not a burden on anyone. How many times you see a church shrinking, but the salaries are going up? Should that be? Should you go from 100 members to 20, and the salary's increasing year after year? Hey, you know, people do what they want. It's between them and God. I'm just warning from the word. The backsliding church in America has adopted, see I had to show you all the other things first before you thought I was a liar with my outline. The backsliding church in America has adopted a Babylonian system of worship based on money. The church building and its financial makeup is now the standard of success. Is this the way Jesus measures the health of a church? Don't believe me? Look at some of these pastor jobs that are being posted. Look at what these churches brag about. We have a debt-free building and we have $600,000 in the bank. Okay. How many members you have? Four. Bible. You say, how healthy is your church body? I want to know about the people. I don't care about your debt-free building or your financials. How are the people doing? Is it spiritually healthy? Are they getting the word? Are they being discipled? What do people think about? What do they brag about? We all do it. I do it too. You're driving in the car. Oh wow, look at that church. I got to remind myself, that's not the church, that's the building. I'm confessing my guilt too. I'm not just preaching to people, I'm preaching to myself also. We all get caught up in that, wow, look at that building, and the parking lot, and the this and the that. And then you look at the sign and you're like, oh, same sex marriage this week. Maybe the building's beautiful, and the parking lot's great, and they're doing well financially, but they need some help with their doctrine. Maybe that's not a healthy church. Great building, really bad church. That needs repentance and God's word. Let's go back to 1st Timothy chapter 6, 11-16. What are we told? But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith." Wow, that's aggressive language. "...lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. I give thee charge in the sight of God." You don't think he's serious? who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession, that thou keep this commandment. There's no commandments in the New Testament. That thou keep this commandment. without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which in his time he shall show, who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who only hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto, which no man hath seen nor can see, to whom be honor and power everlasting." And Paul was baptized. Amen. So he's firing up. He's fighting a good fight. He's calling everybody out before God as his witness. Before Jesus as his witness. It's serious. You cannot be trapped in this money system and think you have a healthy life as a Christian. Does this mean I haven't been broke and I pulled out that last credit card to buy food? No. But what that means is I wasn't broke and I had the food and pulled out that last credit card for $500 sneakers for my son. Or for a $1,000 suit to preach with on Sunday. Pulpit robe, $99. Pulpitrobes.com. How many years has it lasted? Right? How many years now? That's a pretty good investment. Or should I charge the church for my suits, and the cleaning bill, and all those other things, and the nicest tie and the best shoes? Should I lay five or six thousand dollars on the church instead of using the money to feed the homeless? Or should I just go get my pulpit room? My religion, my spiritual beliefs influence the way I handle money. And yours has to also. Jesus is the Risen Lord who reigns in the affairs of men. The Messiah is not a credit card we utilize when we are in financial trouble. Is there anything wrong with rich people? Is there anything wrong with rich people? Does it make you automatically bad because you have money? Does it make you automatically good because you have no money? Of course not. Let's listen to the word. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy, that they do good, and what? That they be rich in good works. Oh, you're preaching legalism, Paul. No, he's not. Ready to distribute willing to communicate laying up in store for themselves And that word in the Greek laying up in store that that whole phrase means like in a bank storing away in a place That's safe laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come That they may lay hold on eternal life. I And what does Paul commit to Timothy? Does he tell him to back down from the rich or from the poor? No. Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsely so called, boy, do we need that today, which some professing have heard concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. Tell me this isn't fitting. Look at where Paul's writing from. The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia, Picatiana. When you have a bank that can charge interest on money and put any type of interest they want on that money, you are trapped. Why is America in trouble? Because we love the easy money. Like that old song, take the money and run. We've all done it at some time in our lives, but it's time to mature. Usury destroys people. We're not talking about, okay, I take a loan, you know, 3%, charge 5%. I mean, these are shocks. These are demonic, demonic rates that are being charged. So now in the next election, you'll listen to the economic professors and whoever else is debating and this candidate will have their team and that candidate will have their team. And they'll tell you how they're going to make the country better. Since our Federal Reserve was founded in the early 1900s, in only 100 years, the dollar has lost 90% of all its value. We are trillions in debt. You want to know why? The Federal Reserve is as federal as Federal Express. It's not federal. It's a private bank that only certain people and their families can hold stock in. I'm not doing too well right now. Why can't I get stock in the Federal Reserve? I'm a decent guy. Right? So what type of scheme is that? And they set up their Federal Reserve centers around the country, just like in the days of Babylon. And what they do, if Congress came to you and said, we need 500 billion to help out Planned Parenthood, you would say you're crazy. You're not taxing me for that. So what they do is the end around. They go to the Federal Reserve saying we need 500 billion. Federal Reserve prints the money and then they just come back and tax you for the debt that they're in without you ever getting a say in what the money's being used for. You will never learn that in any school or in any college. Because that's where their power is. The devil uses the lusts of men. And nothing can attain the lusts of men like money. And that's what you do. How many people have been taught that in economics class? The Federal Reserve is not a government institution. It's a private institution. Now go look it up at home, see if I'm lying. So how are we a free country if someone else is printing our money? And how is there a president that's really in control? You know what happened to Kennedy, the last real Democrat? Kennedy said this country's too much in debt. Why are we paying all this interest on this money? We'll go back to a hard type of money system. Am I lying, Mr. Sosa? And what happened to Kennedy when he went for the head of the snake? They killed the president. They killed the man that killed the president so he couldn't talk. They killed the man that killed the man that killed the president, so he couldn't talk. And then they killed the man that killed the man that killed the president, killed the man that killed the president, killed the president, he couldn't talk. And then his brother got fired up and said, you know what? You think you got rid of us? I'm going to step in and become president. And what did they do? In the old modern Italian-American vernacular, they whacked them. Now you tell me we're living in a free country, and you keep blaming Obama, foolish people, keep blaming a party, Democrat, Republican, keep worshipping a party. I don't know, my pockets weren't doing too well when Bush was here for eight years either. Now I'm not defending anyone. To me, by the way they live their lives, regardless of what they say, they're all godless puppets. So whether you're at this presidency, celebrating killing the unborn, Oh, you're the last presidency starting wars everywhere but the North Pole? And celebrating the killing of grown people for money? I don't agree with either one of you because I'm a Christian. I'm against murder and death no matter what it entails. Let's listen to someone, one of the founding fathers. I gave you this on your printout because I don't think you'd believe me if I read it on my own. Thomas Jefferson. Now think of what's happened to your financial situation through the years. And let's read this quote. The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. I am an enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but coin. If the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. before we had a central bank. That's why every faithful president was against a central bank and was for the godly principle of honest money, hard money. As I heard another pastor say in a sermon, the Romans, when the empire was falling, they started clipping the coins and mixing them with inferior metals to spread out the money supplies. It's like the way we just keep printing today to cover stuff. They used to do it. It's nothing new. And now today, take out the quarter and look in the middle of that quarter that used to be over 90% silver, there's copper in the middle. History repeats itself because we become faithless. Let's take our Bible, let's apply it to everything, let's follow Christ's commands even when it comes to our money. Amen. Almighty God, we thank you, Lord, that we have the Bible as our foundation, that we have real answers in your word, that we don't need to be economic professors or rocket scientists or brain surgeons. That you are a good God who gives us principles that should be used with everything. We thank you, dear God, we repent for the immaturity the church has had. We repent, Lord, that the pastors haven't really guided their congregations in all things according to your word. That we haven't given them a full gospel. We pray, dear God, that all Christians, pastor, member, elder, deacon, would take a little less and give a little more. and be a little more frugal and wise and more generous to people with the money that you have given them. We thank you Lord that any situation can be turned around if your people repent and if they come running to you. And we thank you Lord that we still have a spirit of hope You've turned it around for us before, Lord, and we know that Your Spirit can do it again. And we're not afraid of central banks or standing armies or any of this other trash, because we know that the real potentate, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, still calls the shots from the right hand of the Father. So we thank You, Lord, in the name of that King, the real King, Jesus Christ. Amen.