KEITH MOORE: The reason why you have the division
is because the standard has been removed.
MICHELE BACHMANN: Amen. KEITH: You only get unity--
MICHELE: Amen. KEITH: --if you have a--there's some
standard that everyone agrees to some extent on. GEORGE
PEARSONS: Yeah, sure. KEITH: And that's standard
from America's history-- GEORGE: Yeah.
MICHELE: Amen. KEITH: --through the times, all the
way up to the times he's talking about, was the Bible.
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GEORGE: Hello. I'm Pastor George Pearsons.
Welcome to this special edition of the Believer's
Voice of Victory, "Faith For Our Nation." And I have a
distinguished group of people sitting at this table with me.
I am so excited to have Bishop Keith Butler, Congresswoman
Michele Bachmann, and David Barton with us. And we are
talking about the elections, the elections, the primary
elections that are upon us, the midterm elections that are
happening in our nation later on in this year. And I was having a
discussion some time ago with Brother Copeland about those
midterm elections. And I was saying that--that people don't
realize that those--those midterm elections are as
important as the presidential election. And then he corrected
me, and he said, "No, they're more important than the
presidential election." So this is--and typically during an
election year, midterm elections, we don't hear much
about it. There are not a whole lot of things that are said
concerning that. But this is so important. We have a
responsibility by God to vote, to let our voices be heard. And
we have a seed that we are able to sow. And to not vote is to
sow the wrong seed. And to vote for the wrong one is to sow the
right--the wrong seed. So we are here talking about these issues
this week, about how important it is that we vote. How many at
this table are going to vote at those midterm elections and
primaries? MICHELE: Oh, amen. GEORGE: Right here. MICHELE:
Always, always, always. GEORGE: And let me just share this
really quick with you, and we'll go on to our topic. But I was
talking to you early this morning about how, every time I
go to the polls, I go into the voting booth, and I pray, and I
pray in the Spirit. And I spend a long time in that voting
booth, even though I know who I'm going to vote for. I pray
for every candidate, I pray for their families. I spend time in
there worshiping God and thanking Him for the privilege
and the honor that it is to be able to vote in this nation,
have my vote--my voice heard. And I'll just stay in there and
have just a whole worship service with the Lord. And I
recommend that you do that same thing, too, that you take that
as an opportunity to use your ability to worship God when you
go in there to vote, because He's looking to us, He's looking
to you and me to be able to make the decisions necessary for this
country. He is--where that's concerned, He's not in control.
We are. We have been given delegated authority. And I've
gone to preaching, and I'm going to hear what you have to say.
KEITH: Well-- GEORGE: So-- KEITH: --and they used to say it
about prayer, though. GEORGE: Yeah. KEITH: Almost 40 years ago
when I graduated from Bible school--oh, man. Ha-ha. But that
was 40 years ago. In fact, this--this year, I graduated
from Bible school 40 years ago. GEORGE: Yeah, okay. KEITH: And
after I graduated, I'm a young pastor, and I'd only been
pastoring a church about 18 months, two years, okay. And
elections came up. And--and I was in prayer, at the altar
praying, at the church. GEORGE: Mm-hmm. KEITH: And the Lord--I
wasn't praying about elections or anything. And I heard the
Lord say to me, just as clear as day, He said, "Vote for
so-and-so." And I was shocked-- GEORGE: Mm.
KEITH: --because I would never have voted for so-and-so.
GEORGE: Mm-hmm. KEITH: I would not have considered
voting for so-and-so. It was a shocking revelation
for me. GEORGE: Yeah. KEITH: And He said, "Vote for
so-and-so." And so I was so shocked, I just hardly couldn't
believe what--so the election time came. I went in the booth,
and I--sad to say, I was so--I-- GEORGE: Ha-ha, yeah. KEITH:
--couldn't do it. GEORGE: Resisting. KEITH: So--so I
didn't do it. GEORGE: Yeah, oh. KEITH: Then I repented. GEORGE:
Oh. KEITH: But four years later, I wound up doing some stuff,
helping that guy--(Laughs) GEORGE: Now you get to make it
up. KEITH: Yeah. And-- GEORGE: That's good. That's good. KEITH:
And the Lord changed my whole thought and philosophy of
everything, because after that, I started reading the Bible
about this issue because in Bible school-- GEORGE: Yeah.
KEITH: --you're not trained to think that way. DAVID: Yeah,
yeah. KEITH: And so I started looking-- MICHELE: You should
be. KEITH: Yeah, you should be. But-- DAVID: Because it's in the
Bible. MICHELE: Amen. KEITH: Yeah. And--but I didn't, you
know? And I started going through that, and that's when I
started getting out, "Well, who stands what? And I'll start
praying over that." And the Lord upended my whole philosophy of
everything-- GEORGE: Amen. KEITH: --just by praying that
day. And I wasn't even praying about the election. So I just
kind of wanted to mention that because you were talking about
prayer. GEORGE: Prayer works in that--where that's concerned. I
want to read a scripture to you, and then we'll get on to our
topic. But it says in James 3:16, "Where envying and strife
is, there is confusion and every evil work." We've seen some
things take place in our nation where--that--that division has
tried to rise up and divide us, to separate us. And, you know,
one of the things that I see is--and I wanted to--want you to
address this because you've been right in the thick of it
in Washington, and you probably know all about this. But where
the media is concerned, I really believe that the devil uses them
to stir up that division and stir up that strife. I mean,
have you--from your experience, frustrated with the media,
frustrated with what they've done? Do we--do we know
little of what's happening in Washington because of what's
coming across the news? MICHELE: Well, yeah. You can--I think a
person can try and use the media to speak to the hearts of the
people. Ronald Reagan is probably the best example there
was-- GEORGE: Yes. MICHELE: --where the media would tell
lies, but he would just speak clearly and go right to the
hearts of the people. So that's a whole issue. But I think this
whole idea of division-- GEORGE: Yeah. MICHELE: --in America is
real. We just talked about the fact that Josh McDowell last
week told me that the young people that are coming up are
the most depressed that pollsters have ever found. Why
is there this division? Why is there this strife and this envy
that we talk about? It comes from the devil. It comes from
the devil, and it comes from focusing on things that are evil
rather than what's good. If you look at the word "university,"
for instance, "uni" is "one." GEORGE: Yeah. MICHELE: "Veritas"
is truth. "One in truth." GEORGE: Yeah. MICHELE: That's
what this Word is. GEORGE: Yes. MICHELE: His Word is truth. When
we focus on biblical principles, biblical morality, that's the
greatest form of happiness-- GEORGE: Yeah. MICHELE: --and
unity. And if you look--you know, whether it's public
schools or whether it's the media today, it's depressing.
You can't go on Netflix or somewhere today and find a
decent movie to watch. It's all depressing. GEORGE: Yeah.
MICHELE: And so just like the Scripture tells us in
Philippians, "Think on these things that are good, just,
lovely, a good report." That brings us to unity because,
again, it brings us to the face and heart of God. GEORGE: Right.
MICHELE: And that's really where unity comes. So the media,
they're sowing the envy, they're sowing the strife. GEORGE: Yeah.
MICHELE: But if our focus is on the truth of His Word, that's
where our greatest happiness comes. GEORGE: Yeah, absolutely.
DAVID: There is an aspect of this that becomes very
significant because what we're talking about is the way God
views things and the way humans view it. MICHELE: Amen. GEORGE:
Okay. MICHELE: That's right. That's right. DAVID: In God's
kingdom, you've got Revelation 7:9, where gathered around His
throne are people from all tribes, all races, all nations,
all languages. They're all one. It's really easy for Him. As a
matter of fact, I'm finishing a book that'll come out in just a
few months. And one of the sections deals with
the issue of race and the Bible. And when you look
at it, the word in the Bible is "ethnos." It's where we
get "ethnicity." GEORGE: Mm-hmm. DAVID: And
so, I wonder what the Bible says about ethnicity? Well,
you have 160--160 references to "ethnos" in the Bible. And
there's a Hebrew equivalent of that as well. So when you
look at it, what you find is, how many ethnicities
are there in the Bible? And there's only two. There's only
two ethnicities. And they're defined as those who know God
and those who don't know God. GEORGE: Ah, yes. DAVID: And so
God's view is not about color of skin or gender or anything else,
because we're told in the scriptures, "There's neither Jew
nor Greek, there's neither Scythian nor free, there's
neither male nor female--" He's got a whole different viewpoint.
And so anything that doesn't have that viewpoint is a world
viewpoint. And in America, that anti-biblical viewpoint really
came to being in the 1920s with what we now call "secular
progressives." "Secular," I mean, they're against God's
Word. But "progressive" means they want to get away from the
old ways of doing things. GEORGE: Yeah. DAVID: And the old
ways are not always bad ways. Technology needs to change, but
you don't change the principles. Rights and wrongs don't need to
change. Secular progressivism -- there's two key terms there.
"Secular", alright, that defines itself. It's not
God. God is not secular, God is spiritual. So secular is
something that excludes God and God's way of thinking.
So right off the bat, "secular" is a problem. Progressivism
is something that says, "Oh, we're always evolving, and
we don't need what was in the past, because we're
a whole lot smarter than they were. After all, we
are an evolving people." You don't evolve past
having a need for Christ in your heart. So if you don't
have a spiritual input, if you're just a secular person,
then you're going to have exactly what we had in the 20th
century, whether it be a Stalin or whether it be a Pol Pot or
whether it be with Castro or anything else. There's no regard
for human rights, because there is no God. You don't account to
Him, so I can do what I want. So progressives are always looking
to change things regardless of what works. Since they believe
that things are always evolving, they don't even use statistics
to see if it works well. "It's just a great idea, so let's do
it. It's something new." You know, we used to have really
good reading scores in education, but teachers said,
"Oh, we're tired of using phonics, so let's go to a whole
language. And it didn't work, and scores plummeted. "Oh, I got
it. Let's do Goals 2000." That didn't work. "I know! Let's do
Common Core." That's not working. They didn't test any of
them, that was just a new, great idea they had. And that's the
deal with secular progressives. Not only do they exclude God,
they're always wanting to try the newest thing, the newest fad
before they test it. You know, Jesus said, "You judge a tree by
its fruits." Let's see what kind of fruit it produces before we
really get into this. We don't do that anymore. So that's the
problem with secular progressives. Not only are they
anti-God, anti-Bible, they're wanting to move beyond all
that God said and did, because they're progressing, they're
evolving, they're moving forward. And that just is
not what human history has shown to be true. It
doesn't work that way. At the end of World War I, you've
had Europe all torn to pieces. And Europe is--you know,
they're looking to recover. And people say, "Oh, let's
go to America, got to get out of here." And so we
had so many immigrants coming to America in 1919,
the chief of naturalization did this book right here.
Now, they reprinted it in 1941 because Hitler's
moved into Czechoslovakia. He's gone into Poland. "Oh, my gosh,
it's going to happen again. Let's get out of here." So
people come to America, so they reprint this book. Now, I want
you to see what the chief -- listen what the chief of
naturalization says here about how you become an American
citizen. He says--just reading from here, he says, "An American
is a man who is greater in his soul than in his class, creed,
political party, or the section in which he lives. To be an
American, a man must have an American soul and believe in the
spiritual realities upon which America rests and out of which
America was born. America was created to light mankind with
those passions which lift and not by the passions which
separate and debase. We came to America, either ourselves or in
the person of our ancestors, to better the ideals of man and
make them see finer things--" listen to this "--to get rid of
the things that divide and make sure of the things that unite."
GEORGE: Oh. MICHELE: Amen. DAVID: Now, that was the
standard. MICHELE: Amen. DAVID: And what pro--what secular
progressives do is you--they don't see you as an individual.
They see you as part of a group. And you don't have worth unless
you're part of a group. So, "Oh, you're female. Okay. You're
African-American. I'm Anglo. That doesn't count." So we
say--and-- MICHELE: And they stereotype me-- DAVID: They
stereotype you. MICHELE: --that I only have one set of beliefs
or you have only one set of beliefs, so-- DAVID: Yeah, but
you're not-- MICHELE: --they demeaned me. DAVID: You're
not--you're not a good woman because you're not pro-abortion.
MICHELE: That's right. DAVID: So you don't fit the--but see, what
happens is--in D.C. now, you have lobbying not for people,
you have lobbying for groups. MICHELE: That's right. DAVID:
Are you gay, are you straight? Are you union, are you right to
work? Are you senior? Are you Hispanic? Are you Latin?"
whatever you are. And God says, "No, no, no. I don't look on the
outside. I look on the inside." GEORGE: Yeah. DAVID: And so all
this stuff that we see going on that separates us--and by the
way, our tax code does as well, because we had to change the
Constitution to have groups and tax code. Used to be just like
the tithe. God says, "All of you pay 10 percent." Didn't matter
whether you were rich or poor. Now, a poor--poor guy will
always pay--pay less than a rich guy because 10 percent of a
hundred bucks is 10 bucks. And 10 percent of a hundred million
is 10 million. But God treated everybody the same. And we come
in, and we amended the tax code by the Constitutional amendment
in 1913, 16th amendment, said, "No, let's have groups. And how
much do you make? Okay, you're in this group." And so now we
have rich versus-- GEORGE: Yeah, yeah, yeah. DAVID: --poor. We do
our tax codes instead of the way God does it. And so we have so
many things in our culture that divide us, including the way we
take admissions into universities now. MICHELE: Where
we pit people purposely-- DAVID: We put group against group.
MICHELE: --against each other. GEORGE: Yeah. DAVID: We--
MICHELE: And Abraham Lincoln-- GEORGE: Yep. MICHELE: --was the
one who understood, during the time of the Civil War--and I
know you're a big buff on Civil War--that a house divided
against itself cannot stand. KEITH: Mark, Chapter 3. MICHELE:
You just read a quote talking about how there is a spiritual,
a belief component that was the essence of America. DAVID: That
wasn't a pastor. That was the chief of naturalization.
MICHELE: That's right, chief of naturalization. And they also
hit a pause button in the 1920s on immigration because we had to
let people soak up to this belief and get it, because just
because someone steps foot on America doesn't mean that all of
a sudden they subscribe to the belief system of America. But,
George, I think this is a huge issue. Everybody knows it, that
America is different today than it was 20 years ago, that we're
at each other's throats. That isn't the way it should be. The
brotherhood of man wants what's best for the other. KEITH: Well,
the reason for it is very clear, and the fix for it's clear. You
talked about the scripture, a house divided against itself
cannot stand, Mark, Chapter 3. The reason why you have the
division is because the standard has been removed. MICHELE: Amen.
KEITH: You only get unity-- MICHELE: Amen. KEITH: --if you
have a--there's some standard that everyone agrees to some
extent on. GEORGE: Mm-hmm, yeah, sure. KEITH: And that standard
from America's history-- GEORGE: Yeah. MICHELE: Amen. KEITH:
--through the times--all the way up to the times he's talking
about was the Bible. GEORGE: Yeah. KEITH: And so now when you
have secular progressivism that supposedly debunks the Scripture
and removes this standard from the country, and now you've got
something of everything. DAVID: Everybody makes their own
standard. KEITH: Right. MICHELE: Well, okay, and that's--that's
also-- KEITH: So you get back-- MICHELE: --biblical of "every
man doing that which is right in his own eyes." So that's the
definition of anarchy. So when-- KEITH: That's what it means.
MICHELE: --we don't stand by that standard, we each come up
with our own morality, you have a recipe for disaster. KEITH:
That's why you have the division. MICHELE: Amen. KEITH:
The other side of that, however, to get back to the unity is,
once again, starting with the pulpit, right-- MICHELE: Mm-hmm.
GEORGE: Right. KEITH: --is that the Word of God has to be taken
back to its highest place. And the place it belongs, the
highest place in our lives, the standard of living, this is what
we believe. And you're not going to have unity in America until
that happens. MICHELE: Amen. KEITH: You'll have--you'll
continue to have the devolution, as it were-- GEORGE: Yeah.
KEITH: --of the whole fracturing of the country unless we get
back to this, so-- MICHELE: Okay. And so then how do we do
that? How does that happen? KEITH: You've got to have people
elected-- MICHELE: That's the question now. KEITH: --who
believe-- GEORGE: That -- okay. KEITH: --that this is
the standard. DAVID: That's right. If the people running for
office start looking at groups and calling them
by groups instead of saying, "You're God's children, you're
Americans," whatever. If they don't have that
standard-- MICHELE: Valuing the individual-- DAVID: --that--
MICHELE: --elevating as God does. DAVID: That's right.
MICHELE: Every person's important to God.
KEITH: Mm-hmm. MICHELE: The individual. KEITH: Right. And
they're individual. MICHELE: Amen. KEITH: Right. DAVID: You
remember in the--when they did--I think it was 2007 in
the House when they had the hate crimes, the discussion on the
committee was, "Well, we want to do hate crimes for gays and
homosexuals." MICHELE: Amen. DAVID: And one of-- MICHELE:
Amen. DAVID: One of our friends popped up and said, "All right,
I wanted to do hate crimes that you can't go after veterans or
seniors." They said, "No, those aren't groups we want to
protect. We want to protect these groups." MICHELE: That's
right. DAVID: And so when you're doing different things for
different people instead--and our founding documents say
that--as a matter of fact, our founding documents-- MICHELE:
Equal protection under the law. DAVID: You're talking
about--this is a pastor right here from 1680s. And this
pastor, John Weiss, actually, in 1680s, preached a sermon that
said, "All men are created equal. They're endowed by their
creator with certain inalienable--" which is the
Declaration. MICHELE: Mm-hmm. DAVID: He also said several
other lines. But in 1772, they brought this book back out and
spread it all over America so Americans would learn to think
biblically again. And this is where the individual stuff got--
GEORGE: Yeah. DAVID: And you're talking about that--Josh
McDowell talked about how depressed the young kids are.
They go to an education system now that only focuses on the bad
and the ugly-- MICHELE: Amen. DAVID: --it never teaches the
good. MICHELE: Amen. KEITH: And took the Bible out of--out
of education. MICHELE: That's right. DAVID: That's exactly
right. MICHELE: And prohibits it from coming-- DAVID: It's
secular education. And all they care about is groups, and which
group, and this group's oppressing this group, and
this--and you don't see the brotherhood of man anymore,
where that all men are created equal, where that, you know,
even back in America, I'm sitting here with--surrounded
with stuff that kids have not been taught today on black
history, that if they knew, they would have a whole different
view; that if whites knew, they'd have a whole different
view. And, you know, I'll just take two quick pictures here.
These are really simple things. People may recognize the
crossing of the Delaware. MICHELE: Mm-hmm. DAVID: What
they will never recognize is that you've got black guys
sitting right up front here with George Washington and white
guys. You've got Oliver Prince--Oliver Cromwell and
Prince Whipple right there. MICHELE: Oh, yeah. DAVID:
And--but we used to know these guys by name. We knew that, hey,
black and white fighting side by side. The American Revolution is
filled with so many good stories. The same here. This is
the Battle of Bunker Hill, very famous painting. And all your
eyes seems to be drawn to this guy right here, but there's two
guys over here on the side off by themselves-- MICHELE: Mm,
yeah, you're right. KEITH: Look at that. DAVID: --right there.
That guy, Peter Salem, he was the hero of the entire battle.
That's why he's featured by himself. He got 12 military
commendations for what happened here. They presented the
commander in chief. They built a monument. Kids ever heard that
name? KEITH: No. MICHELE: Hmm-mm. DAVID: And when I ask
kids today, "Who--" And that's Thomas Gruber there, and that's
Peter Salem, and say, "Who's that?" "Oh, he's the slave of
this white guy." GEORGE: Oh. DAVID: No, no, no, no. He's the
hero of the battle, you know? GEORGE: (Laughs) Yeah.
MICHELE: I want to know that story. GEORGE: Yeah.
DAVID: Well, and see, that's what all this is. And, you
know, all this is stuff that we used to know--
MICHELE: Our hearts should be singing. DAVID: --that
we don't--well-- MICHELE: --with our great history.
DAVID: Do you know, a secular progressive was Woodrow
Wilson. And he is the first guy to show a film in the White
House, and it was a Ku Klux Klan recruiting film. GEORGE: Oh, my.
DAVID: And the film was based on the history books that he wrote.
I've got his original history books of five volumes. They're
called "The History of the American People." MICHELE: And
who wrote it? DAVID: Woodrow Wilson, President Woodrow
Wilson. MICHELE: Oh, oh, oh. DAVID: He is a hardcore racist.
And people said, "Oh, he's the president of Princeton. He knows
so much." GEORGE: Yeah. DAVID: He is the guy who took all of
these names out of history. And so academics say, "Oh, man, he's
a secular progressive. He's one of us." And so we no longer
teach history where it's black and white and brown and Asian.
And we don't teach "all men are created equal." And we pair them
against each other. And that's--there's some of that in
history, no question there's some of that. But there's so
much wholesome stuff that the kids never hear anymore.
MICHELE: That's the unity. DAVID: That's the unity.
MICHELE: That's what builds our hearts together in love. DAVID:
There's God's way, and there's the world's way-- MICHELE: Amen.
DAVID: --and they keep looking at the world's way, and it's out
there. But let's also look at God's way, because that
works--that's what works. GEORGE: In the last few minutes
of this broadcast, let's pull this together in terms of the
midterm elections. MICHELE: Yeah. GEORGE: How--what--how
does this affect the midterm elections where the unity and
that lack of division is concerned? How do
we do that? KEITH: You must elect people who
have a biblical worldview and believe the Bible first.
That's the only place-- DAVID: Yeah. MICHELE: And how
do we know-- KEITH: --the only way you can-- MICHELE: How
do we know-- DAVID: If they're talking-- MICHELE: --that people
hold that view? That's--that's the question. DAVID: If they're
talking groups, if they're talking rights of gays,
or if they're--no, no, no, no. Rights of people. Everybody
has equal rights. And when you hear somebody
start breaking them into groups, you get problems.
That's not what you want to do. GEORGE: Yeah. DAVID: If you've
taken an oath to uphold our documents, our documents say
that God made everybody equal-- MICHELE: Amen. DAVID: --then
hold that position. And if you hear people start breaking
groups up and, you know, women against men and blacks against
whites and--no. That's the wrong thinking. You want a biblical
worldview. And God is not concerned--God is no more
concerned about what color I am than, Bishop, than what your
gender is. MICHELE: Amen, amen. DAVID: That does not concern Him
in the least. KEITH: You have to do some research. MICHELE: And I
think that's something that-- DAVID: There you go. MICHELE:
--that's something that people-- DAVID: Research. MICHELE:
--falsely don't understand on the hate crime issue. So we were
looking for kind of a litmus test before on the pro-life
issue, on this hate crime issue. If you have hate crimes based
upon groups and not all groups are protected equal, then that
tells you it's division. It's not unity. GEORGE: Yeah.
MICHELE: And, George, what you're saying is that we need to
have a united nation again. We need to be united in purpose--
GEORGE: Yes, yes. MICHELE: --in purpose under the Lord Jesus
Christ. DAVID: And Bishop is right-- GEORGE: This is what you
were talking about right there, the Word. DAVID: And Bishop
mentioned you've got to do research. And it will take you a
few minutes to find out about this. KEITH: And you've got to
do research. But it starts with the Church, hence, probably the
reason for these broadcasts. The Church has to become united once
again on-- DAVID: That's right. MICHELE: Amen. KEITH: --this
is-- GEORGE: Yes. KEITH: --God-- GEORGE: Yes, yes. KEITH:
--speaking to us. GEORGE: Yes. KEITH: And it must be the
highest-- GEORGE: Yes. KEITH: --form of thought in everything
in our lives. MICHELE: And you know, in every church, there
could be somebody in the church who takes this on and does the
work-- KEITH: The pastor. MICHELE: --and makes it
available. KEITH: It is the pastor's job to teach this as
the highest form. MICHELE: Amen. KEITH: That's not true in our
pulpits anymore. DAVID: Yeah. MICHELE: But there can be--even
if the pastor doesn't, there could be a layperson in that
congregation that can do the research and figure out which
candidates are going to stand for biblical values and which
aren't. And they could make that available to the congregation.
So somebody could take that on as a project in the
congregation. GEORGE: I have available--these are available
right now. We'll put this up for them. But I have all of my notes
from what I've taught during the election cycles, the assignment
that Brother Copeland gave me. He said, "You read the--the
Republican and the Democratic platforms--" That's what I have
right here. This is the--the actual ones that I studied.
"--and see where they stand." MICHELE: That's marvelous.
GEORGE: "And then--" MICHELE: That's marvelous. GEORGE:
"--present that to the congregation." MICHELE: Because
it's their own voice. GEORGE: It's their own voice. MICHELE:
It's their own voice. GEORGE: And so all of my--all of my
notes that I have for that are available to them right now
online. And we can connect them to those actual sermons. But
that's what the Lord had me do, is to do that research. And--
MICHELE: Looking for the Bible basis-- GEORGE: Yeah. MICHELE:
--in each platform. GEORGE: Yeah. MICHELE: Again, not
political, but what's the Bible say? KEITH: One thing I want to
say about that is that, what we're now discovering is that
there are Democrats who actually aren't what the Democrats stand
for, and Republicans that-- GEORGE: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
right. KEITH: --are not what the Republicans stand for. GEORGE:
That's right. KEITH: That's why you've got to do the research,
because-- DAVID: Yeah, that's right. GEORGE: Yeah, that's
right. KEITH: We don't have to time to get into that. Maybe in
the next session. GEORGE: Some of them don't--some of them
don't read their own platforms. MICHELE: No, but you're right.
But you're right because just-- DAVID: Well, they're
individuals. They're not groups. KEITH: Precisely. MICHELE: Amen.
DAVID: They're individuals. MICHELE: Amen. GEORGE: All
right. Well, let's pray over this one. Father, in the name of
Jesus, we hit this right at the root. Devil, you are the source
of the spirit of division. MICHELE: Amen. GEORGE: And
we declare that you are--you bow down, bow your knee to the name
which is above every name, the name of Jesus. And we decree and
declare that we are the United States of America. And there is
an awakening taking place in the United States, and there's an
awakening taking place in the people. And, Father, we thank
You for this--this--these primary elections and the
midterm elections, and that, Lord, we are going to vote Your
Word and people who stand for the Word of the living God.
Thank You that Washington will be covered up with prayers. In
Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Do we agree with that? MICHELE: Yes,
we do. KEITH: Yeah. GEORGE: We are in unity
on that. Ha-ha. I'll be right back. Stay with us.
KEITH: Jesus said, and Satan heard Jesus say,
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." Didn't
say, "should not stand," said, "cannot stand." In
other words, where you have disunity, you--you have stopped
the ability to bring about the growth that you want in positive
things. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, unity is
paramount. And the way that you get unity is to be able to have
one single standard. And that standard in the Church is
supposed to be the B-i-b-l-e, the Bible. The Bible is God
speaking to us. Once again, however, we must have real
teaching on these matters. We must have line-by-line teaching
on these matters so that we can get into unity on the Word. In
the--in the New Testament, it says there's a promise of God
that covers everything regarding life or godliness. So there's a
promise of God that covers economics, covers health issues,
covers justice issues, covers husbands and wives, single
issues. You name it, whatever it is, that's our standard. And
once we, once again, go back to teaching that in that kind
of detail in our churches, we'll see unanimity come once again
for people who have a pure heart for God, who really love God.
And that's where, when the Church has unity, power can
be manifest. The power of God only manifests where
individuals are united together, don't have strife,
and are standing on the Word of God.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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