Tony Evans’ Powerful Sermon, Surviving a Declining Culture, Preached on August 1, 2021

Dr. Tony Evans preached Surviving a Declining Culture on August 1, 2021.

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lord we are familiar with the tv program

survivor where

people have to survive the most

difficult of circumstances

as we speak this month each week

through those who stand in this pulpit

about surviving the various realities of

life

which reminds us we’re more than

conquerors

in christ jesus who loved us and gave

himself for us

in jesus name

amen

i have said it before and i want to

reiterate it again today

that

christians have lost home field

advantage

we’re no longer the home team

if you are a serious christian not just

a church goer not just a religious

person

not just somebody who believes in god

but somebody who believes god

then you are

part of the visiting team

that means the crowd is not supporting

you

means the public is not in your favor

there was a time when if you were a

serious christian you were the home team

you were supported in school

you’re supported at home you were

supported in media you were supporting

the culture even if they didn’t agree

with you they respected you enough

to let your voice be heard

but you are the visiting team now

no longer do you live

in a land that

holds high the judeo-christian worldview

and the more serious christian you are

the more isolated you’re liable to be

so i don’t want to

paint

the picture other than what reality says

it is

we are individually and collectively as

a ministry

your family your definition of life your

definition of of marriage your

definition of

male female realities your definition of

dignity your definition of

of appropriateness your definition of

of life itself from womb to tomb has

made you part of the visiting team

that that is where you are

and as a result of that

loss of home field advantage

many christians have decided to become

treasonous

they’ve decided to be nicknamed benedict

arnold

because they want to be accepted by the

culture they want to be affirmed by the

culture they want to be embraced by the

culture they want to be applauded by the

culture at the expense

of their commitment to christ

and their commitment to god and their

commitment to truth

based on his word

and the problem is

that the benedict arnold still go to

church

that the benedict arnold still

has a religious

facade

that makes them feel part of the home

team

so the question on the floor

as our culture becomes continue

continuously

secularized

humanized

and functions in rebellion to god’s

truth

while we pay the repercussions for it

the question is

how do we survive a decaying culture

we get some hints at that in daniel

chapter 1.

and i want to say i’m glad to see some

of the young people here

today with their parents because

daniel is a teenager in daniel chapter

one

and so it’s very relevant for

our young people and for the parents of

those young people

and even if you’re not a parent those

who are in your circle of influence to

influence

because one thing is true if you’re the

visiting team you’re going to be booed

when you try to score

you’re going to be booed

when you don’t go with the program

that’s the popular program on the field

of play

in 605 bc

god’s judgment was hurled out against

israel for their rebellion

against judah for their rebellion

against god

that rebelled against god they had

wandered into

idolatry and the judgment was

to be captured by nebuchadnezzar

and the nation of babylon

and that is what has happened here

and the saints of

god’s people were now

living on living on foreign soil

they were now transported

from god’s place

to babylon

a pagan environment

an environment full of all manner of

evil but that’s where they had to live

and that’s the way it

was their spiritual rebellion and it is

our spiritual rebellion that has helped

put us in this mess

and so that’s how the book of daniel

opens daniel chapter 1

when nebuchadnezzar verse 1 besieges

jerusalem

it says the lord gave them over

god said you don’t want me i’ll let you

hang out with them

they took the vessels of the house of

god verse 2 brought them into the land

of shinar to the house of his god

and he brought the vessels into the

territory of his god do you hear what he

said he went

and he took what belonged to the true

god and offered it to the false god

well

if the saints weren’t going to use it

the idols would

so

everything is turned topsy-turvy

he then says nebuchadnezzar king of

babylon

he talks to his official ashpenaz and he

says in verse 3

i want you to get some of the sons of

israel include some of the royal family

of the nobles

youth

teenagers

in whom there is no defect good-looking

showing intelligence and every branch of

wisdom endowed with understanding and

discerning knowledge

and who had ability for serving in the

king’s court and he ordered him to teach

them the literature and the language of

the chaldeans the babylonians the king

appointed for them a daily ration from

the king’s choice food and from the wine

which he drank and appointed that they

should be educated three years and at

the end of which they will have entered

into the king’s personal service

now among them were the sons of judah

daniel and anaya mitchell and azariah

these are four boys

from god’s people

who were

caught up

in the judgment

that god brought

they were caught up it wasn’t that they

contributed to it they just got caught

up in it

and so they find themselves in a secular

society

and the secular society began

the process of brainwashing

in case you don’t know it our culture is

trying to brainwash you

they they trying to brain they’re trying

to brainwash you your mama and your

children

the culture is trying to brainwash you

because that is the nature of the

environment

and how do you

protect yourself your family from being

brainwashed

by nebby and his posse

by the babylonians the secularists

those who deny the true god

and want to bring stuff into their god’s

house

we’re living in a day when all of the

major institutions

have become god denying

institutions

the media is a god-denying

institution of communication

now there are exceptions

there are exceptions but i’m talking

about what’s become normal

you have to look at stuff and hear stuff

that your mama didn’t have to look at in

here

even when you’re watching commercials

the media has decided to brainwash you

and if you don’t think you’ve been

brainwashed

look at how unoffended you are now to

how offended you were when it first

happened

because you’re being hit with it so much

that it down rolls off you like a duck’s

back and one of the ways you know it’s

affecting us is your children have

picked it up

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because it’s normal

it’s normal

our

education institutions have become pagan

there are exceptions

but i’m talking about what’s being

normalized

what they are teaching

in theory to deny divine facts

how they are

re-educating your children how they are

trying to

tell them certain kinds of identities

certain kinds of orientations are normal

and they should choose

so let me say something before we get

started here well i already got started

but let me say something while we while

we’re in the middle of this you better

make sure as early as possible you tell

your kids who they are

because if you don’t your school teacher

might

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because we are in a decaying culture

a culture in decline

they went through a series of things

to de-israelize them

and

pro-babylonize them

to take away how they were raised

and bring them into a new environment

to think different act different walk

different talk different and most

importantly believe different

first of all they were isolated they

were removed from their spiritual roots

they were taken from jerusalem and taken

into babylon it’s like a kid growing up

in a christian home who now goes to a

secular ivy league college

they’ve been removed from the training

they’ve been removed from mother and

father they’ve been removed from their

history and and and community and church

background and now they’re in an

environment where the environment itself

is seeking to reprogram them

so they were isolated they now couldn’t

call mama they couldn’t call daddy they

they couldn’t run to auntie they

couldn’t run to uncle because they had

been transported to a different

environment

so there was isolation

then there was

a new identification

notice verse seven then the commander of

the officials assigned new names to them

to daniel he assigned the name

beltashasa to hananiah shadrach to

michelle meshach and to azariah of

indigo he changed

their names

your name is your identification i call

you by your name you call me by my name

that’s how we identify ourselves

change their name

so let me tell you about the names

because this tells us a little bit

parents about mom and daddy

because mom and daddy named them

daniel

e.l

on the end of daniel is the name for god

elohim

it means god is judge

so when baby boy came out of mama’s womb

they said every time your name is called

you’re going to be reminded god is your

judge

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every time we call your name uh by the

way parents have you named your children

i’m talking about

have you given them a divine

way of thinking

in their name

their parents want to make sure you

can’t get away from god because you

can’t get away from your name

that was not only true of daniel’s mom

and daddy

that was also true of

michelle

that’s a god name

but what about

hananiah and azariah you see on the end

of that i-a-h

i-a-h is short for jehovah

so the other two had a god name too

one was elohim the other was jehovah

so all of these parents made sure

that these kids were raised with a

divinely oriented way of thinking

walking talking believing living and

they couldn’t get away from it because

that was their name

your job as a parent is to give your kid

a divine identity

to raise them in the fear of the lord

the bible says

so that they keep running into like a

pinball machine god

that’s why you have family devotions

that’s why you don’t give them a choice

about whether they’re coming to church

i wish i would have thunk it

you know the only way i got out of going

to church

was i had to lie

and tell my daddy i was sick

i was dying

you know coughing and trying to make it

sound real

until he found out i was lying

he said okay you’re gonna stay home but

you ain’t going to like it

in other words you want to make sure

they keep running in the guard so that

you put a bungee cord on them so that if

they go left they have something to

bounce back

now we’re going to do our part that’s

one of the things we’re doing is mom

we’re working hard on our children’s

ministry we’re upgrading our youth

ministry we’re working on all of that so

that we give you

and help you have a bungee cord but let

me explain something the church can help

you it can’t replace you

that’s your responsibility

particularly the fathers

it’s your responsibility to make sure

that they’re raised in the fear of god

and that god’s they can’t get away from

it

so what did nebuchadnezzar do he changed

their names

he didn’t want them thinking about god

anymore

guess what the names he changed them to

the names of babylonian gods

these are babylonian god names

so you see changing your name is not

just changing your nomenclature it’s

adjusting your belief system

you got all kind of names out there

today where people are being

re-identified and re-classified

by the environment and the culture

and you got christians in the name of

illegitimate sympathy

i’m not talking about being mean but i’m

talking about leaving the truth

in the name of sympathy

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but we got to get back to the truth

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and not be co-opted by the culture he

changed their names

because he wanted to change their

identity

he gave him a new id card

they said i want to hear no more about

daniel up in here

you’re not daniel anymore

you don’t live in that christian world

anymore

not only that

he indoctrinated them

verse 4

he says i want you to teach them

he says i want you to teach them in the

literature and the language of the

chaldeans

and i want you verse three sent them to

college for three years average five

educate them three years

i want you to send them to babylonian

school

to get babylonian education

to get babylonian

indoctrination

i want them no longer to think like an

israelite i want them to think and

believe like a babylonian

forget all that stuff they were raised

to believe

that is what’s happening to you and me

and our offspring and our children and

our grandchildren they are being taught

to forget their christian foundation

or to so make it out there that it

doesn’t mean anything

and they are doing a great job

because they’re winning

one of the reasons that they’re winning

it’s because families have eroded

families ever wrote it

it is part of the playbook

if we’re going to destroy the culture

and the world view we must dismantle the

family

we must dismantle the family

let me be quite direct since i don’t

have to worry about you all the rest of

august

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you don’t get to get divorced just

because you’re not happy

you don’t get the divorce just because

you’re not happy

now i’m not talking about abuse i’m not

talking about abuse

that’s a different story

but you not happy

okay you got to be starting with the men

you got to have a little bit more man in

you than that

she ain’t treating me right okay hey

a lot of people ain’t gonna treat you

right you don’t just get up and leave

that’s that’s what punks do that’s not

what men

don’t leave

no you double down

you love harder you you be committed

more you say oh wait well then you gonna

have to go because i ain’t going nowhere

as for me and my house we will serve the

lord up in here up in here

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dismantling of the family

we gotta we gotta we gotta break down

this family so that we don’t have two

parents in the home raising these kids

like it was meant to be and i praise god

for the single mothers who have to and

who are doing a bang-up job i praise god

for you i thank god for you

and we will do what we can to help and

supplement

but but what what you’re seeing now

with over 70 of children

being raised with with one parent

that that’s not how the creator meant to

be

but that’s how the culture needs it to

be

so what it did it came up with no fault

divorce

you don’t have to have a reason you just

don’t want to be there anymore

women have abandoned the home

far too much

nothing wrong with a woman working but

not to the abandonment of the home

christianity has been removed

from our schools

he says you educate him

you educate them

into evil you educate them into

ungodliness you educate them into

secular thinking not because it’s all

wrong but it’s all been colored by

humanism

they

they they sprinkle homocracy a

man-centered world view

well what was the motivation what were

we going what

well they not only gave them isolation

and indoctrination

and re-identification

they offered them some gratification

verse five he appointed them a daily

ration of the king’s choice food

that’s the good stuff

and the wine which he drank

and then he offered them a big job with

a big salary

oh the end of church 5 at the end of

which

they were to enter the king’s personal

service

oh

we’re going to give you a good job

you’re going to make a lot of money

you’re going to be somebody cause you’re

gonna be working for the government

that’s what it says the king service

that’s the government

you’re gonna be you’re gonna be a

government employee

we’re gonna pay you and we’re gonna let

you you’re gonna let you dine with the

high

with the big folk and you know you’re

gonna be part of the elite class

and and so

you adjust to your lifestyle if you want

to keep this job

if you want to keep making this salary

you must adjust to the training we’re

giving you in our schools if you want if

you want all this then you better adjust

to us because we got your money we got

your job we got your significance we own

you

if you name the name of jesus christ

only one person owns you

and it is not the secular culture

you’re owned by the lordship of jesus

christ

now of course you should do your best

you should be your best you should get

as much training in whatever field

you’re in as you can get but what you

don’t do

you can’t you can’t change

what other folk call you but you can

sure change what you call yourself

and guess what when they wrote the book

of daniel they called him daniel

because that’s his god name

if you are a kingdom disciple

that means that you are

willing to be known as a follower of

jesus christ not just a believer in god

it means you belong to jesus christ

paul says i am not ashamed of the gospel

it is the power of god unto salvation to

all who believe

we are people ain’t ashamed of nothing

else why are you going to be ashamed of

jesus christ

but the culture is stealing

our families are stealing our kids

suppose somebody broke into your house

while you were asleep and stole your kid

you would lose your mind

well somebody has broken into your house

and they’re stealing your kids and you

ought to be losing your mind

you ought to tell the

public school where you ought to be at

the pta meetings you ought to review the

books that they’re being taught you

ought to review who’s teaching them you

better you better you you you better

find out what they’re being taught

or else they’ll be stolen

we have not abandoned the public schools

that’s why we’ve adopted all these

public schools to try to bring as much

christian influence but it’s also why

we’ve established our own christian

school so that we can establish a

biblical worldview so that people can

have a kingdom-oriented understanding to

truth and knowledge

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because you are living in a

post-christian world

and no amount of uh

tip-toeing through the tulips

is going to dumb down on that

so what god is looking for are not

church members he’s looking for kingdom

disciples

visible verbal full-time followers of

christ

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are you known by that on your job are

you known as a full-time follower of

jesus

christ or do you just talk about where

you go to church

that

that is meaningless

what’s meaningful is that you are known

as a christ follower

so he offers him

notoriety significance

in a foreign kingdom

and you know this world can give you

significance in the wrong kingdom

let me give you a title it gives you a

name

gives you money and no those are not

wrong in and of themselves don’t get me

wrong they’re not illegitimate

in and of themselves except when they

want to

reclassify you

so what do you do to survive

when you’re in the visiting team

verse 8 says but daniel made up in his

mind

that he would not defile himself with

the king’s choice food or with the wine

which he drank

so he saw permission from the count from

the commander of the officials that he

might not defile himself

okay so let me tell you what daniel did

if you’re gonna survive meaning god’s

gonna be with you

i’ll explain that in a minute

he drew a line in the sand

he did a popeye yeah i got all i can

stand and i can’t stand no

more he drew a line in the sand he says

i can go this far but i can’t go there

he made up in his mind

he would not defile himself with the

king’s choice food now wait a minute he

did go to the king’s school yeah

he went to the king’s school

he is going to take the king’s job he is

going to take the king’s salary

so he didn’t he didn’t go in some

monastery and become some monk

this his reality was he’s in babylon now

okay and you and i are in babylon now

yeah so that’s the reality

so you got to go to your secular job or

your secular school

or live in your secular neighborhood so

so okay

but there comes a point where there’s a

line in the sand

there comes a point where you say

well now yeah i will do all that but

what i’m not going to do is defile

myself

now what did he mean by that

well daniel grew up at

oak cliff bible fellowship

and

he learned that the bible is the truth

and so when he read the bible

and looked at the scriptures

it became clear that

the bible had said in exodus 34 and 14

and 15

to not eat the food that was offered to

idols

we already see that he brought the stuff

into uh the house of the gods the false

gods

so they were offering food that had been

offered to idols

then in leviticus chapter 7 verses 23 to

26 27

it talks about food being unclean

then in the old testament and so it was

unclean he talks about it in leviticus

chapter 11. so there were two problems

the wrong food and they’d been offered

to the wrong god

you know what they were asking them to

do

get rid of your faith

and we didn’t already take it we already

gave you a college scholarship

but already uh you know pay for your

career we didn’t already offered you a

job in advance for when you graduate yes

we’ve already told you what we’re gonna

pay you yes

now the only thing left for you to do

is to

bow

your knee

to our god yes

yes

because it was the food sacrificed to

idols

and that’s where he drew the line

i’m gonna go to your school but i ain’t

gonna give up my god

i’ll take your job but i ain’t gonna

give up my god i’ll spend your money but

i ain’t gonna give up my god i’ll be

your friend but i ain’t going to give up

my god i i’ll i’ll do what i need to do

but once you ask me

to give up my god you have lost your

mind

made up in his mind he would not give

away his faith in order to placate his

culture

uh have you drawn the line in the sand

is it clear that you’ve drawn the line

and said have you taught your children

your teenagers to draw a line in the

sand

that’s what girls have to do with guys

hey there’s a line here buddy yes

yeah you see this line here you see do

you see this

you see that yeah

don’t don’t don’t don’t cross that line

this line that’s like you say he says

are you made up in his mind

you ain’t gonna take my faith now

i’ll give you my best i’ll be your best

worker but don’t mess with my faith

cause it’s not for sale

you want to survive in a secular culture

i tell you how to survive draw a line

draw a line you say but they may not

like that they may not want me they may

not employ me they may not give me a

raise he may not marry me he may you

know you could go on and on and on and

on and on but the verse nine now god

hello

uh

god did not intervene until

daniel made a decision

ah

now god

see a lot of us want to see god work

before we make a decision

god why don’t you answer my prayer why

aren’t you blessing me why aren’t you

changing me why are you not giving me

this raise why are you not promoting me

why is my son not coming back home why

why why why have you drawn the line yet

god did not jump in until the line had

been drawn

it says he drew the line and he went to

the captain of the army and says would

you would you would you not ask me to

defile myself

and he wasn’t mean he wasn’t religious

in fact he was very respectful i would

appreciate it

if you didn’t ask me

to defile myself

to play to give up my faith i would

really

appreciate it

wait a minute daniel you’re going down

there you’ve just gone from

from the hood to highland park

you’d gone from a volkswagen to benz

i mean

you have the opportunity to live large

don’t mess that up

don’t mess that up

he says there’s a line in the sand

you’ve asked me to give up my faith i’ll

go to your school i’ll do your job i’ll

work for the government i do all of that

but i will not

compromise

my commitment to the lord

don’t ask me that one

because that’s not that’s not available

so you’re lying in the sand now god

granted daniel favor everybody wants

favor

i’ve been blessed in highland favor

everybody wants favor

let me tell you get favor let god see a

line

because if you don’t see a lie that

means he don’t know he can trust you

with favor

everybody come to church to be blessed

who don’t want to be a blessing because

there’s no line

you’ll go back you’re going to get

blessed today and go back tomorrow and

cuss like everybody else

you’ll go back the other day and steal

like everybody else you’re going to go

back the other day and be secular like

everybody you’re gonna be like everybody

else but you coming for your blessing

he says no now god granted him favor

and what was the favor god granted him

the favor of an idea

in favor of an idea

because

he says to him

verse 12 please test your servants for

10 days and let us be given vegetables

to eat and water to drink and let our

appearance be observed

in your presence and the appearance of

the youths who are eating the king’s

choice food

always god gave him a b

and i did

see favor ain’t just having money

favors being able to think in your right

mind

okay

so god gave him up

an idea

and what did god do verse 17 and for

these four youths god gave them

knowledge and intelligence and every

branch of literature and wisdom daniel

even understood the kinds of visions and

dreams and at the end of the days when

when they went to check them all out and

he talked to them for these he they

entered into his personal service verse

20 and for every uh matter of wisdom and

understanding about which the king

consulted them he found them ten times

better than all the magicians and

congress who were in the realm

did you know

that god decides who gets promoted

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and how you get promoted

even in a secular godless culture

god can so favor you that even sinners

can appreciate you because

nebuchadnezzar is thinking to himself

i don’t believe in their god

i don’t like their faith but then people

are going to make me some money let’s go

let’s hire them

and people go help me out

see a lot of people think drawing a line

in the sand you’re going to lose no

drawing a line in the same and god helps

you to win

so have you drawn that line is it clear

not because we’re perfect we’re all

imperfect we all sin that’s why god

calls us to repent

but is the line clear

because if the line is clear you won’t

even feel the need to repent

because you didn’t have a line to repent

of

your children need to be taught to draw

a line in the sand

every time they come home or on a

regular basis you need to be

deprogramming them

okay what did they teach you today what

did you learn today which means that

they can’t spend all of that time on

social media or playing games

and you can’t spend all of your time in

front of the television you got to be

sitting down with them and say what did

they teach you tell me who you playing

with with your friends saying you want

to find that out cause if you don’t the

culture will steal them

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he made a decision based on scripture

because he was tethered to the truth

he maximized his presence

he went way up the ladder

but all throughout his life

and the three hebrew boys life

they were drawing lines in the same

chapter three

you remember the the three boys in the

fiery furnace

and and the government said bow to the

government okay

bow to the government nebuchadnezzar in

chapter three he built this image he

told he calls everybody to bow he tells

them in verse 415 if you’re ready now

you can bow and i won’t i won’t uh i

won’t hurt you but but if you don’t bow

you will you’ll be in the fire

because you will be fired

what do three hebrew boys say

in verse

17.

if it be so our god whom we serve is

able to deliver us from the furnace of

blazing fire and he will deliver us out

of your hand o government o king but

even if he does not let it be known to

you o king that we are not going to

serve your gods or worship the golden

image with you have set up there is a

line in the sand

and if i got to go to fire i will be

fired

i know that’s radical

but i’m not talking about five because

you do a bad job fire because you’re

dishonest i’m talking about because

you’re not willing to compromise your

faith

and bow

to an evil system

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but the good news of that story you

remember god joined him in the fire he

didn’t keep him from the fire he just

joined in the fire and the boss repented

chapter six

oh by the way chapter six daniel’s like

he started off with a teenager in

chapter one in chapter six daniel’s like

um

85 years old

so he’s an old man guess what

nebuchadnezzar dead

babylon has been defeated by persia

daniel doing fine

man 85 years old now and he just rolling

on

everything changing around him

because he took a stand so so they

didn’t like him in babylon they didn’t

like him in persia and what did they try

to do they said in verse 5 of chapter 6

then these men said we will not found

any ground of accusation against this

daniel unless we find it against him

with regard to the law of his god

now if you read the verses leading up to

that he was honest at work

they they tried to find him cheating at

work he wasn’t cheating at work one

stealing one robin wasn’t

wasn’t doing what all the other folks

were doing but they couldn’t find

anything wrong with his government

employment he said so we got to get him

away from his faith so they came up with

a law that you can’t pray to any god for

30 days

that was the rule

so the law was signed verse 10 okay

because now we’re dealing with religious

freedom in america

okay so this is religious freedom

now when daniel knew that the document

was signed he entered his house now in

his roof chamber he had windows open

toward jerusalem and he continued

kneeling on his knees three times a day

praying and giving thanks before his god

as he had been doing previously

the law the law the government

said you can’t pray

oh daniel said oh no oh no no

oh y’all haven’t lost your mind

y’all are going crazy

no no no i give you my stuff at work but

you ain’t gonna mess with my

relationship with god

so guess what he did verse 10

he went home and the author wants you to

know

he kept his windows open

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that’s how they knew he was praying

because they looking in his window he

said well i ain’t closed my windows all

these years i ain’t gonna start closing

them now

i ain’t gonna be no secret agent

christian now

oh no all right

then but he couldn’t he still could have

faked it he could have just pretended to

walk around the house lord i just want

to thank you you’re such a good guard

and i just want to thank you

my boy hit his knees

so you know what he’s doing

because he’s not an apologetic christian

he’s not a cia representative

he’s not a covert operative

it should be clear

that you represent jesus christ

in the marketplace

in the public square

should be clear

that you take your stand

imperfect as we are it should not be

vague

now time am i going to church the time

by believing in god i’m talking about a

commitment publicly to jesus the christ

and so

the world is trying to put you and me in

the squeeze play you know baseball

trying to put you in a squeeze please

try to try to squeeze you

they’re trying to squeeze you they

trying to squeeze us they trying to

squeeze the church down

this is this is coming fast and furious

this issue of religious freedom

is it’s becoming a beast

and some of you haven’t but in my

position position of of leaders around

the country we we see it coming we see

it coming down you know we have to deal

with law firms that are defending

religious freedoms and and stuff because

now they want to they want to now

control your life when you bring your

faith into it

okay

they threatening tax exemptions for

people who don’t do it if you don’t use

your facilities for any kind of group

now that that is uh that community can

come in they’d say well now you’re

discriminating and so so so this thing

is coming in so so let me be clear

let me be clear okay

we are not as long as tony evans is here

gonna compromise this word

to satisfy

this culture

we take our stand

on god’s word

and on the lord jesus christ and we do

it without apology

because i want favor

i want you to have favor

i want you to have favor i want you to

have favor

i want you to have favor

and there is no favor if you don’t draw

a line in the sand

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