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THIS IS KENNEDY CLASSICS WITH DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY
WELCOME TO KENNEDY CLASSICS
WELCOME TO KENNEDY CLASSICS. I'M JERRY NEWCOMBE.
AND I'M JENNIFER KENNEDY CASSIDY.
AS WE LOOK AROUND, THE SPIRITUAL HEARTBEAT OF
AMERICA SEEMS TO BE WEAKENING TO THE CRITICAL POINT.
CHRISTIANS ARE MOCKED WHILE THE OLYMPICS ARE
USED BY OUR OWN PRESIDENT AS A PRO-HOMOSEXUAL PLATFORM;
AN IDOLATROUS MASS WEDDING CEREMONY IS
TELEVISED TO THAT NATION ON A MAJOR AWARDS SHOW;
AND THE GOVERNOR OF ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S LARGEST
STATES SAYS THAT PRO-LIFE, PRO-FAMILY,
PRO-CONSTITUTION CITIZENS SHOULD GET OUT.
BUT THERE IS GOOD NEWS TOO.
GOD IS NOT MOCKED, NOR DOES HIS WORD RETURN TO HIM VOID.
ON TODAY'S PROGRAM, WE'LL TAKE AND IN-DEPTH LOOK AT
THE NATION'S SPIRITUAL PULSE FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE.
WE'LL ANALYZE SOME NEWS MAKING EVENTS FROM RECENT WEEKS
AND HELP YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY MEAN FOR AMERICA.
AND WE'LL SHARE SOME RESOURCES WITH YOU THAT
WILL SHOW YOU THE HEIGHTS WE HAVE FALLEN FROM AS A
NATION AND HOW WE CAN GET BACK.
BUT FIRST, MY FATHER, THE LATE DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY
EXPOSES THE FACTORS LEADING TO AMERICA'S DECLINE AND
ALSO SHARES SOME GOOD NEWS IN HIS MESSAGE,
THE SPIRITUAL PULSE OF AMERICA.
OUR SCRIPTURE LESSON TODAY IS TAKEN FROM THE
3RD CHAPTER OF JOHN AND FROM THE 33RD PSALM.
JOHN CHAPTER 3 WE SHALL BEGIN WITH THE 1ST VERSE,
MAY WE HEAR THE INSPIRED WORD OF THE LIVING GOD -
AND IN THE 12TH VERSE OF THE 33RD PSALM WE READ -
AND MAY GOD SPEAK TO US TODAY FROM HIS HOLY WORD
AND MAY HIS NAME EVER BE PRAISED. AMEN.
HOW IS AMERICA DOING SPIRITUALLY AND MORALLY?
WELL, THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT IN MANY WAYS
THE MORAL SITUATION IN AMERICA CONTINUES TO DECLINE.
WE HAVE SUCCEEDED IN REMOVING THE BIBLE AND PRAYER
FROM OUR SCHOOLS AND THE RESULTS OF THIS
HAVE BEEN FAR MORE OVERWHELMING
THAN MOST PEOPLE HAVE IMAGINED.
YOU KNOW THERE IS A COST TO UNBELIEF.
SECULARISM COMES WITH A HIGH PRICE TAG.
OUR MORALS, WITHOUT SCRIPTURE AND WITHOUT PRAYER
HAVE CONTINUED TO PLUMMET.
AS WILLIAM J. BENNETT HAS PUT IT,
FORMER SECRETARY OF EDUCATION:
"OVER THE LAST THREE DECADES WE HAVE
EXPERIENCED SUBSTANTIAL SOCIAL REGRESSION."
TODAY THE FORCES OF SOCIAL DECOMPOSITION ARE CHALLENGING
AND IN SOME INSTANCES (I MIGHT SAY MANY)
ARE OVERTAKING THE FORCES OF SOCIAL COMPOSITION.
DON FEDER WHO IS A WITTY COLUMNIST,
NOT A CHRISTIAN; HE IS JEWISH BY FAITH, IN HIS BOOK:
A JEWISH CONSERVATIVE LOOKS AT PAGAN AMERICA,
HE SUMS UP WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR SCHOOLS IN THIS WAY,
HE SAYS, "IT REACHED A POINT WHERE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS
CAN EXPERIENCE ANYTHING; THINGS THAT
THE AVERAGE SAILOR ON SHORE LEAVE
WOULD NEVER IMAGINE ENCOUNTERING, EXCEPT GOD.
SEX EDUCATION, SUICIDE STUDIES, LIFE BOAT ETHICS,
*** DISTRIBUTION, ABORTION PLEADING
ALL OF WHICH ARE PART OF THE HUMANIST CREED
CONSTITUTE THE PROPAGATION OF ALL ASPECTS
OF PUBLIC SCHOOL EXPERIENCE IN THE 1990'S.
IT IS ONLY PRAYERS, BIBLE AND REFERENCES
TO THE SUPREME BEING WHICH HAVE BEEN RULED OUT."
OUR NATION HAS BEEN ENGAGED FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS
IN A GREAT EXPERIMENT AND THAT IS
WHETHER OR NOT ANY PEOPLE CAN LIVE WITH GOD
PUSHED INTO A CORNER OF THEIR LIVES, NEVER TO BE SEEN.
THE ACLU, THAT'S THE
"ANTI-CHRISTIAN LITIGATION UNION";
IT'S REALLY IRONIC THAT THEY HAVE CONVINCED MANY PEOPLE
THAT THEY ARE AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE.
THEY ARE THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
FOUNDED BY...
[INVITING A RESPONSE FROM CONGREGATION]
WAS IT ABRAHAM LINCOLN OR GEORGE WASHINGTON?
[LAUGHTER]
FOUNDED BY ROGER BALDWIN, WHO SAID IN A PUBLIC SPEECH
"COMMUNISM IS THE GOAL", AND ON WHOSE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS THERE WERE TWO CHAIRMEN...
SUBSEQUENT CHAIRMEN,
CHAIRMEN OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA.
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES?
HOGWASH!
OF COURSE, THEY HAVE BEEN BUSY. AS USUAL,
THEY LOVE THE HOLIDAY SEASON.
THEIR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS CAROL,
I GUESS YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS ...
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS: "AWAY WITH THE MANGER".
[LAUGHTER]
SOMEONE SAID THEY GREATLY RESEMBLED
THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS.
WELL, HE DIDN'T SUCCEED AND NEITHER WILL THEY.
THOUGH THEY HAVE DONE THEIR VERY BEST TO REMOVE
EVERY SINGLE VESTIGE OF CHRISTIANITY
FROM THE PUBLIC SQUARE.
IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT GEORGE WASHINGTON SAID
IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO GOVERN WITHOUT GOD AND THE BIBLE,
JOHN ADAMS SAID IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO GOVERN
WITHOUT GOD AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS,
WE HAVE GOTTEN RID OF THE BIBLE AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
AND WE WONDER WHY IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO GOVERN.
OR AS ONE OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS SAID,
"WE HAVE NO CONSTITUTION IN POWER CAPABLE OF DEALING WITH
AN IRRELIGIOUS OR AN IMMORAL PEOPLE."
WE HAVE NO CONSTITUTION CAPABLE OF DEALING WITH
THE KIND OF PEOPLE THE ACLU IS TRYING TO CREATE.
ONE OF THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF OUR TIME,
AND I REMEMBER SOMEBODY SAID ONE TIME THEY CAN'T EVEN
IMAGINE A CHURCH MAKING REFERENCE TO THE FEDERAL DEBT.
WHY THAT'S NOT A MORAL ISSUE, THAT'S AN ECONOMIC ISSUE.
RIGHT?
WRONG!
WHAT WOULD YOU THINK OF A COUPLE OF PARENTS WHO WENT OUT
AND LIVED SO LAVISHLY THEY CONTINUED TO BORROW
MORE AND MORE AND MORE MONEY TO DO ANYTHING
AND GO EVERYWHERE AND BUY EVERYTHING THEY WANTED
AND THEN THEY DIED,
AND THEY LEFT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS
OF DEBT FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN TO PAY OFF?
NOW THAT'S VERY OBVIOUSLY A MORAL ISSUE.
AND SO IS IT WHEN WE LEAVE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS
AND HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
OF INTEREST PAYMENTS TO OUR CHILDREN
AND GRANDCHILDREN TO PAY OFF.
THE GREAT PROBLEM IN AMERICA...
MR. BENNETT DESCRIBED IT AS SOCIAL COMPOSITION AND
SOCIAL DECOMPOSITION; THE BIBLE DESCRIBES IT
IN SIMILAR CONCEPTS BUT DIFFERENT WORDS.
YOU KNOW THE BIBLE IS ALL ABOUT THREE THINGS.
NOT ONLY IS THE BIBLE ABOUT THESE THINGS,
BUT THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF MANKIND CAN BE DESCRIBED
IN THREE SIMPLE WORDS AND THEY ARE,
"GENERATION", "DEGENERATION", AND "REGENERATION".
THAT'S THE WHOLE STORY OF THE BIBLE.
GENERATION, DEGENERATION AND REGENERATION.
GOD GENERATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH,
MAN DEGENERATED AS HE FELL INTO SIN, AND GOD,
THROUGH CHRIST AND BY HIS SPIRIT IS REGENERATING
THE HUMAN RACE.
AS WE READ TODAY, CHRIST SAID YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN.
THE THEOLOGICAL TERM FOR THAT IS REGENERATION -
RE-CREATION.
THE PROBLEMS IN AMERICA ALL BOIL DOWN TO
ONE SIMPLE WORD AND THAT IS 'SIN.'
THAT'S THE ONLY PROBLEM AMERICA HAS, SIN.
AND THE ONLY ANSWER TO THAT PROBLEM IS CHRIST.
AND BY HIS GOSPEL AND THROUGH HIS SPIRIT
LIVES CAN BE UTTERLY TRANSFORMED.
I THINK OF STAR PARKER.
IF THERE EVER WAS A WELFARE QUEEN, STAR PARKER, WAS SHE.
IN FACT, SHE DESCRIBED HERSELF IN THAT WAY.
SHE WAS INVOLVED IN ALL OF THE HAZARDS OF DRUGS,
DEBAUCHERY, PROMISCUITY, CRIME, ILLEGITIMACY, AND ABORTION.
HER WHOLE LIFE WAS JUST A LITANY OF THOSE KINDS OF WOES.
AND THEN SHE WAS DRAMATICALLY CONVERTED TO JESUS CHRIST.
SHE GOT OFF WELFARE, WENT BACK TO SCHOOL,
EARNED A DEGREE, STARTED A BUSINESS,
BECAME SUCCESSFUL, GOT INTO MINISTRY,
MARRIED A PASTOR AND IS ENGAGED
IN HELPING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. SHE WAS BORN AGAIN.
AND EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN,
HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
AH, DEAR ONE, GET INVOLVED IN THE MOST EXCITING THING
THAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WHOLE WORLD,
GENERATION, DEGENERATION, AND REGENERATION,
AND WE CAN BECOME PART OF THAT.
I AM EXCITED ABOUT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
AND YOU KNOW SOMETHING;
YOU DON'T SEE ANY OF THIS IN THE NEWSPAPER.
IT'S A SECRET.
THEY DON'T KNOW ITS HAPPENING.
DON'T TELL ANYONE.
IT'S OUR OWN LITTLE CONSPIRACY.
WE ARE GOING TO TURN THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN.
THAT'S WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT THE APOSTLES IN ACTS.
THOSE THAT HAVE TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
HAVE COME HITHER ALSO.
MAY THEY SAY THAT ABOUT US.
[APPLAUSE]
AMEN!
[MORE APPLAUSE]
ONLY WE ARE GOING TO TURN IT RIGHT SIDE UP.
WON'T YOU STAND?
OH GOD, MAY WE NOT BE ONLOOKERS, SPECTATORS
IN THE GREATEST DRAMA OF THE AGES.
THE REGENERATION OF THE WORLD,
BUT MAY WE BECOME A PART OF IT. MAY WE DETERMINE
THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE USED BY THEE TO DRAW MANY
TO JESUS CHRIST TO SEE THEIR LIVES CHANGED
AND THROUGH THEM THIS ENTIRE NATION.
FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. AMEN.
AS MY FATHER SHARED IN HIS MESSAGE TODAY, AMERICA IS
BECOMING MORE SECULAR, AND THE RESULTS HAVE BEEN STAGGERING.
AT THE SAME TIME, WITH GOD, WE ARE NEVER WITHOUT HOPE.
IT'S VITAL, HOWEVER, THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING
AROUND US FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE.
WITH A LOOK AT SOME OF THE HOT BUTTON ISSUES THAT WE'VE FACED
EVEN IN RECENT WEEKS IN OUR CULTURE, AND WHAT THEY MEAN
FOR US, HERE IS OUR OWN DR. JERRY NEWCOMBE AND JOHN RABE.
LATE LAST MONTH, A MASS WEDDING CEREMONY INCLUDING
SAME-SEX WEDDINGS WAS BROADCAST LIVE ON THE CBS
TELEVISION NETWORK.
INCREDIBLY, IT WAS DONE AS PART OF A MOCK WORSHIP SERVICE.
ON THE SAME PROGRAM, ANOTHER PERFORMER TOOK THE
STAGE AS A WITCH WEARING OCCULT SYMBOLS AND DANCING IN FIRE.
WHAT WAS THAT PROGRAM?
OBVIOUSLY IT WAS THE GRAMMY AWARDS, TELECAST TO
OVER 28 MILLION VIEWERS.
JOHN, HOW LOW CAN WE GO?
WHAT OTHER CULTURAL TABOOS CAN POSSIBLY BE BROKEN?
IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE AT THIS POINT JERRY
THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY AND PARTICULARLY THE MOVIE
INDUSTRY HAS REVELED IN TRYING TO BREAK TABOOS FOR
DECADES BUT IT SEEMS THAT THIS BROADCAST ACTUALLY
ALMOST ELICITED YAWS ACROSS THE NATION; IT'S AS
IF WE'VE GONE AS FAR AS WE CAN GO NOW.
AND I THINK THE MOST OFFENSIVE ASPECT OF THIS
WAS THE FACT THAT THERE REALLY WAS WITH THESE SAME
SEX WEDDINGS THAT WERE PERFORMED, IT WAS IN THE
CONTEXT OF A MOCK WORSHIP SERVICE BUT IT MOST
CERTAINLY WAS NOT THE TRUE GOD WHO WAS BEING WORSHIPPED.
YEAH, FOR EXAMPLE THEY HAVE STAIN GLASS WINDOWS,
AND A CHOIR, AND SO FORTH.
SO ALL THE TRAPPINGS OF A CHRISTIAN SERVICE BUT
YOU SAY THEY WEREN'T WORSHIPPING THE ONE TRUE GOD?
NO, AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE WOULD COME TO EXPECT IN
A CULTURE UNDER JUDGMENT.
ROMANS 1, PAUL TALKS ABOUT THIS EXACT THING AND HE
TALKS ABOUT A CULTURE UNDER JUDGMENT, AND IN A
CULTURE UNDER JUDGMENT IDOLATRY TAKES HOLD; THE
CREATURE IS WORSHIPPED RATHER THAN THE CREATOR,
AND THE MEN GIVE UP NATURAL USE OF THE MEN,
THE WOMEN GIVE UP NATURAL USE OF THE WOMEN.
YOU JUST WOULDN'T EXPECT TO SEE IT QUITE AS
BLATANTLY PORTRAYED AS THIS AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DID.
BUT YOU KNOW THIS DOES NOT REFLECT THE VALUES OF
MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF AMERICANS AND YET THIS IS
BROADCAST AROUND THE WORLD AND THIS IS WHERE A LOT OF
PEOPLE WILL THINK THIS IS WHAT AMERICANS ARE IN TOO.
OBVIOUSLY SOME ARE.
I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FACE THE FACT
THAT IT DOES REFLECT THE, AT LEAST THE IMPLICIT MORALITY,
OF MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF OTHER AMERICANS.
I THINK WE'RE PASSED THE POINT WHERE WE CAN SAY,
THIS IS WAY OUT ON THE EDGE OF WHAT AMERICANS BELIEVE.
AMERICAN OPINION IS MOVING IN THAT DIRECTION AS WELL
AS SO YES, I THINK IT'S BEEN LED THERE BY THE
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, BUT IT'S NOT AS IF THERE'S
A HUGE SEPARATION BETWEEN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
AND THE REST OF AMERICA ANYMORE EITHER.
A DISTURBING ASPECT OF ALL THIS JOHN IS THE FACT THAT
CULTURE, HOLLYWOOD FOR EXAMPLE, PRECEDES WHAT
HAPPENS IN POLITICS.
THAT'S RIGHT AND WE SEE IT REFLECTED IN THE RECENT,
VERY SHOCKING STATEMENT FROM THE GOVERNOR OF NO
LESS THAN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
WELL LET'S HEAR ANDREW CUOMO IN HIS OWN WORDS.
THAT'S AMAZING JOHN, THAT HE COULD ACTUALLY SAY THAT.
"THEY'RE NOT WELCOME IN NEW YORK".
NOW EVIDENTIALLY HE WALKED THAT STATEMENT BACK A
LITTLE BIT AND HE WAS TALKING SPECIFICALLY ABOUT
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN NEW YORK, AND SOME
DIVISION WITHIN THE PARTY.
BUT THE FACT REMAINS THAT THE GOVERNOR OF ONE OF OUR
MAJOR STATES FELT COMFORTABLE ENOUGH IN
TODAY'S POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE TO DECLARE THAT
PRO-LIFE, PRO-FAMILY, PRO-CONSTITUTION PEOPLE
HAVE NO PLACE IN HIS STATE, THAT'S REMARKABLE.
SO THAT'S THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF NEW YORK WHAT
ABOUT THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE COUNTRY?
WHAT HE'S BASICALLY SAID, HE'S GOING TO BYPASS THE
WILL OF CONGRESS IF THEY'RE NOT GOING TO DO
WHAT HE WANTS THEM TO DO.
WE ARE NOT JUST GOING TO BE WAITING FOR LEGISLATION
IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE PROVIDING AMERICANS
THE KIND OF HELP THAT THEY NEED.
I'VE GOT A PEN AND I'VE GOT A PHONE, AND I CAN USE
THAT PEN TO SIGN EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND TAKE EXECUTIVE
ACTIONS AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS THAT
MOVE THE BALL FORWARD.
JOHN THIS IS VERY DISTURBING BECAUSE AMERICA
IS NOT A BANANA REPUBLIC.
NO AND THE PRESIDENT ACTUALLY REITERATED THIS
STANCE IN HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS IN LATE JANUARY.
AND THE FACT IS, AS YOU KNOW VERY WELL JERRY, THE
FOUNDERS OF THIS COUNTRY WHEN THEY WROTE OUR
CONSTITUTION DID IT TO DIVIDE THE POWERS OF
GOVERNMENT BUT THEY WERE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT ONE
BRANCH OR ONE CENTRALIZED POWER OF THE GOVERNMENT
RUNNING ROUGH SHOT OVER THE OTHERS.
AND YET WHAT IS IT THAT THE PRESIDENT IS ANNOUNCING?
HE'S SAYING THAT HE DOESN'T CARE WHAT CONGRESS DOES;
HE'S GOING TO IMPOSE HIS OWN WILL BY EXECUTIVE ORDER.
HE DOESN'T HAVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
TO DO THAT AND IT UNDER MINDS REALLY THE ENTIRE
BASIS OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
DON'T WE HAVE THREE, CO-EQUAL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT?
WELL WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BY THE DESIGN OF THE FOUNDERS
BUT THIS DIRECTLY UNDER MINDS THAT.
ITS VERY DISTURBING TO SEE THIS, ESPECIALLY, FOR EXAMPLE,
WITH THE PRESIDENT GIVING EXECUTIVE ORDERS WHEN CONGRESS
IS MEETING, WHEN THEY'RE IN SESSION, NOT WHEN THEY'RE
OUT OF SESSION, BUT IN SESSION.
WELL THAT'S RIGHT AND TO DO IT WHEN YOU HAVE, IT WOULD BE ONE
THING, IT WOULD STILL BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL, BUT IF YOU
WERE 70% IN YOUR POPULARITY RATINGS AT LEAST YOU COULD CLAIM
SOME MANDATE FOR IT, BUT WHEN YOU'RE IN THE 30'S HOW DO YOU
CLAIM TO IMPOSE YOUR WILL OVER THE ENTIRE NATION?
THE PROBLEM WITH ALL OF THIS JERRY IS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
A CULTURE AGAIN THAT SEEMS TO BE UNDER THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD;
THAT IS MOVING AWAY FROM THE TRUE GOD TOWARDS IDOLATRY.
WHENEVER THAT HAPPENS THERE WILL BE A FALSE GOD THAT WILL BE SET
UP. AND UNFORTUNATELY WE SEE THROUGH HISTORY THE STATE
PRESENTS A VERY APPEALING IDOL WHEN WE'VE TURNED
AWAY FROM THE TRUE GOD.
WELL, JOHN YOU KNOW AUTHOR AND SPEAKER AND HISTORIAN
BILL FEDERER, AND WE ASKED HIM ABOUT EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
WE'RE SEEING THE DETERIORATION OF OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
LINCOLN SAID, "GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE
AND FOR THE PEOPLE", AND IT WAS HIS GETTYSBURG ADDRESS IN 1863.
WELL WHEN THE PRESIDENT HAS AN AGENDA THAT THE
PEOPLE DON'T WANT AND HE'S CONVINCED THAT IT'S SO
GOOD HE'S GOING TO SHOVE IT THROUGH ANYWAY THEN
IT'S NO LONGER A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE,
BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE; IT'S A DICTATORSHIP.
WHEN I HEARD DICTATORSHIP I THINK OF THE ULTIMATE EXAMPLE,
AND I'M NOT SAYING ANYBODY'S A NAZI HERE,
BUT ADOLF HITLER OF COURSE WAS A NAZI AND WHEN
THEY WERE IN CHARGE IN GERMANY IN 1938 THEY
PASSED A LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL TO HOMESCHOOL YOUR CHILDREN.
JUST RECENTLY A JUDGE IN GERMANY SAID THAT THIS ONE
FAMILY IS NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE CUSTODY OF THEIR
CHILDREN BACK THAT THE STATE TOOK FROM THEM WHAT
WAS THEIR CRIME?
HOMESCHOOLING THEIR CHILDREN; A LAW PASSED
UNDER HITLER AND THE NAZIS.
AND THIS IS HAPPENING IN 2014 GERMANY AND SO THE
QUESTION IS WELL WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH AMERICA.
AND AS YOU POINT OUT WE'RE NOT COMPARING ANYONE TO
HITLER BUT WHAT WE ARE SAYING IS THAT THERE IS A
LAW THAT WAS PUT IN UNDER THE ULTIMATE STATIST
REGIME IN GERMANY THAT'S STILL BEING ENFORCED TODAY.
AND THERE'S A FAMILY IN AMERICA, THE ROMEIKE FAMILY,
WE'VE UPDATED OUR VIEWERS ON THEIR STORY
NUMEROUS TIMES THAT FLED GERMANY BECAUSE THEY
WANTED TO BE ABLE TO EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN
ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES THEY WANTED TO
BE ABLE TO HOMESCHOOL THEM.
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS ACTING AND VIGOROUSLY
FIGHTING TO DEPORT THE ROMEIKE FAMILY BACK TO
GERMANY SAYING THAT THAT RIGHT TO HOMESCHOOL YOUR
CHILDREN IS NOT SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH TO
CAUSE THEM TO HAVE TO FLEE GERMANY AND ESSENTIALLY
WANTING TO RETURN THEM BACK TO THIS STATIST SYSTEM.
SO OUR OWN GOVERNMENT IS SHOWING AT LEAST SYMPATHY
WITH IT AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD
BE VERY TROUBLED BY.
YOU KNOW I THINK AS WE LOOK AS THE WHOLE AMERICAN
LANDSCAPE AND TRY TO TAKE IT'S SPIRITUAL PULSE,
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE MANY, MANY GODLY PEOPLE AND
TRYING TO DO THE BEST THEY CAN TO REAR THEIR FAMILIES
THE RIGHT WAY AND ALL THAT, BOTTOM LINE IS WE'RE
LIKE A NATION OF IDOLATERS.
WE'VE MOVED AWAY FROM THE WORD OF GOD, WE'VE MOVED
AWAY FROM THE 10 COMMANDMENTS THE FIRST OF
WHICH IS THAT YOU SHALL HAVE NOT NO OTHER GODS
BEFORE ME.
AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
THAT AS AMERICA MOVES AWAY FROM THE WORD OF GOD, AS
AMERICA MOVES AWAY FROM GOD HIMSELF SOMETHING ELSE
WILL COME IN AS GOD; WHETHER IT'S THE STATE,
WHETHER IT'S IDOLATROUS AFFECTIONS TOWARDS ONE
ANOTHER SOMETHING WILL REPLACE HIM.
AND WE'RE SEEING THE VESTIGES OF THAT ALL AROUND US.
AMERICA NEEDS TO RETURN BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT TO THE WORD OF GOD.
WE NEED REPENTANCE POURED OUT AS WE'RE RIGHT NOW A
NATION UNDER JUDGEMENT.
YOU KNOW HONESTLY JOHN WHEN I SAY GOD BLESS
AMERICA I'M ALWAYS SAYING, MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA WITH
REPENTANCE AND A THIRD GRADE AWAKENING.
AND RONALD REAGAN ONCE SAID THIS ABOUT THE HOLY WORD OF GOD,
WHICH IS WHAT WE NEED TO RETURN TO AS A NATION, HE SAID,
AND WITH THAT WE'LL CLOSE THIS SEGMENT ON THE
SPIRITUAL PULSE OF THE NATION.
JOHN THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH US.
THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME JERRY.
THERE ARE UNDOUBTEDLY MAJOR DIFFICULTIES THAT
LIE BEFORE US AS A NATION.
IT'S SIMPLY AMAZING THAT IN OUR NATION, WITH OUR
CONSTITUTION, ABORTION AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE WOULD
BE HELD UP AS SO-CALLED CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS,
WHILE ON THE OTHER HAND THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL 13 STATES WOULD FEEL
POLITICALLY SAFE IN DEMANDING THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE PRO-LIFE
AND PRO-BIBLICAL-MARRIAGE LEAVE HIS STATE.
WITHOUT A DOUBT, MUCH GROUND HAS BEEN LOST.
BUT WITH GOD'S HELP, IT CAN BE REGAINED!
ONE OF THE REASONS THIS UNGODLY, SECULAR AGENDA
HAS BEEN ABLE TO MAKE SUCH INROADS IS THAT AMERICANS
BECAME SPIRITUALLY ANEMIC AND HISTORICALLY IGNORANT.
IT'S ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL THAT WE REGAIN AN
UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHRISTIAN BASIS FOR OUR
NATION, AND THE BIBLICAL AUTHORITY THAT GUIDED SO
MANY OF OUR GREAT FOUNDERS AND LEADERS.
THAT'S WHY WE'VE PRODUCED A COMPELLING NEW DVD BUNDLE CALLED
THE BIBLE AND THE PRESIDENTS.
THIS FOUR-DVD SET CONTAINS CLASSIC MESSAGES FROM MY FATHER,
DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY, ON SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PRESIDENTS
AMERICA HAS EVER HAD: GEORGE WASHINGTON, THOMAS JEFFERSON,
AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
AND WE WANT TO SEND IT TO YOU TODAY WHEN YOU GIVE A
GENEROUS GIFT TO THE ONGOING WORK OF THIS MINISTRY.
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THOSE WHO WANT TO REMAKE AMERICA IN THEIR OWN SECULAR IMAGE
HAVE DISTORTED THE TRUTH ABOUT THESE GREAT MEN
AND THE PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH THEY GOVERNED AMERICA.
BUT IN THESE CLASSIC MESSAGES, MY FATHER CLEARS
AWAY THE FOG AND SHARES THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DEEPLY
CHRISTIAN-INFLUENCED BELIEFS OF THESE ICONIC
STATESMEN-WHICH WAS ONE OF DAD'S GREAT PASSIONS.
YOU'LL WANT TO HAVE THESE MESSAGES IN ORDER TO BUILD
YOUR OWN RESOURCE LIBRARY, AS WELL AS TO SHARE WITH
YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN-WHO LIKELY
WON'T HEAR THIS IN SCHOOL OR ANYWHERE ELSE.
AND IF YOU CONTACT US RIGHT AWAY, WE'LL ALSO
INCLUDE THE BOOKLET, WHAT THEY BELIEVED,
WHICH INCLUDES WRITTEN VERSIONS OF THESE MESSAGES.
WE'LL SEND YOU THE FOUR-DVD SET, THE BIBLE AND THE PRESIDENTS,
AS WELL AS THE BOOKLET WHAT THEY BELIEVED
WHEN YOU GIVE A GENEROUS GIFT TO THE ONGOING WORK
OF THIS MINISTRY.
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AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU DO.
AND MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA.
NEXT WEEK ON KENNEDY CLASSICS
REGARDLESS OF HOW MUCH KNOWLEDGE, FAITH, OR ZEAL
WE HAVE IF WE DON'T HAVE MUCH COURAGE WE'RE NOT GOING TO
ACCOMPLISH A LOT IN THE MINISTRY OR FOR THAT MATTER IN LIFE.
HE MET WITH A CONGREGATION ON A SUNDAY EVENING,
17 MEMBERS IN THE AUDIENCE.
HE SAID, YOU KNOW, WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.
GOD HAS USED THIS MAN, D. JAMES KENNEDY, TO SEE HUNDREDS
OF MILLIONS OF LIVES CHANGED WORLD WIDE.
THAT'S NEXT WEEK.
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