“Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If you truly want to follow me, you should at once completely reject and disown your own life. And you must be willing to share my cross and experience it as your own, as you continually surrender to my ways. For if you choose self-sacrifice and lose your lives for my glory, you will continually discover true life. But if you choose to keep your lives for yourselves, you will forfeit what you try to keep. For even if you were to gain all the wealth and power of this world—at the cost of your own life—what good would that be? And what could be more valuable to you than your own soul?”
The Lord was reminding me this morning in a very unusual and powerful way that the weaknesses of our past as a nation and specifically as a Church are what put us in this position of having to fight tooth and nail to make progress in politics and culture. I’m not saying every one of us did this, many of us probably did not -- but collectively we stood down and permitted ourselves to be governed by people who did not and do not fear God. We were not paying attention as Marxists and perverts infiltrated every major institution in our society. We allowed tv studios in Hollywood to raise our children and dictate morality instead of setting firm boundaries and rejecting their indoctrination. We were for a long time as a nation unknowingly forfeiting our own future and that of future generations. And so I ask for you to join me today in repenting for that on behalf of the Church and the nation. And commit to take up your cross, reject the ways of the world - as so many of you already have -- and follow Jesus in self-sacrifice. I believe that the way to turn this nation around and turn our families around is through humility, repentance and obedience to the call of the Lord.
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