WEBVTT 00:00:02.030 --> 00:00:05.190 Welcome to Brother Andy's Church of Biblical 00:00:05.190 --> 00:00:09.470 Sanity. I'm Brother Andy, Andy Johnson. It's 00:00:09.470 --> 00:00:13.029 happened again. Someone else got shot by ICE 00:00:13.029 --> 00:00:20.289 agents today. So, I have nothing but respect 00:00:20.289 --> 00:00:23.629 for those Christians as well as Muslims and Buddhists 00:00:23.629 --> 00:00:27.690 and Jews and humanists, agnostics and atheists 00:00:27.690 --> 00:00:32.079 who are sincere in their beliefs. and who do 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:36.140 their best to live their values. This would include 00:00:36.140 --> 00:00:40.700 many of my friends and my relatives. And in my 00:00:40.700 --> 00:00:44.060 experience, most of the Christians I've met are 00:00:44.060 --> 00:00:48.619 good people, are kind people who do their best 00:00:48.619 --> 00:00:52.299 to do the right thing every day. This has been 00:00:52.299 --> 00:00:56.259 my experience. And some of my friends and family 00:00:56.259 --> 00:01:00.079 are really exceptional Christian people who go 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:04.079 about their lives saying nothing while screaming 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:09.480 the love of Jesus out of every pore. And if you 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:13.219 believe that Jesus is the Son of God and died 00:01:13.219 --> 00:01:18.280 for our sins, that's wonderful. I will do my 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:22.650 best to respect that. Your beliefs and your values 00:01:22.650 --> 00:01:27.510 are yours. They are precious to you as mine are 00:01:27.510 --> 00:01:33.430 to me. And I have no issue with you. I have issue, 00:01:33.469 --> 00:01:37.390 however, with the imitation Christians whose 00:01:37.390 --> 00:01:40.689 religion is nothing more than performance art, 00:01:41.530 --> 00:01:46.379 wallowing in narcissism and egocentricity. They 00:01:46.379 --> 00:01:51.340 equate patriotism with a perverted version of 00:01:51.340 --> 00:01:58.140 religion and morality. They proudly stand for 00:01:58.140 --> 00:02:01.659 the flag and kneel for the cross and justify 00:02:01.659 --> 00:02:06.040 killing and stealing and lying and beating and 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:12.120 suppression. 1 Corinthians 1 .13, if I speak 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:15.969 in the tongues of men and of angels, but have 00:02:15.969 --> 00:02:21.409 not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging 00:02:21.409 --> 00:02:27.310 cymbal. And I'm hearing a lot of resounding and 00:02:27.310 --> 00:02:31.110 clanging coming from a whole lot of people who 00:02:31.110 --> 00:02:34.849 claim to be Bible -believing Christians. And 00:02:34.849 --> 00:02:38.069 I'm guessing it's hard to hear the word of the 00:02:38.069 --> 00:02:42.250 Lord above all the gong and cymbal noise. So 00:02:42.250 --> 00:02:45.419 that's where I started. Brother Andy's Church 00:02:45.419 --> 00:02:51.979 of Biblical Sanity. I also started it in response 00:02:51.979 --> 00:02:55.400 to recent events. Renee Goode was murdered by 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.500 ICE agents 60 miles up the road in Minneapolis, 00:02:58.939 --> 00:03:04.139 and today another guy was murdered. ICE agents 00:03:04.139 --> 00:03:08.479 are in our communities, including here in Mankato, 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:12.599 Minnesota, and they're displaying a level of 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:16.629 cruelty bullying, and injustice that can only 00:03:16.629 --> 00:03:22.349 be described as evil. And I have a hard time 00:03:22.349 --> 00:03:26.770 believing that the Jesus of the Bible is okay 00:03:26.770 --> 00:03:30.789 with this. And I have a hard time believing that 00:03:30.789 --> 00:03:35.030 St. Paul or any of the writers of the 21 Epistles 00:03:35.030 --> 00:03:39.349 would not speak out against this if they were 00:03:39.349 --> 00:03:44.039 writing their letters today. The epistles, by 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:48.139 the way, are letters written to real people from 00:03:48.139 --> 00:03:54.780 Paul, James, Peter, John, and Jude. So, what 00:03:54.780 --> 00:03:58.240 would Paul say if he were writing a letter to 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:03.120 the Americans today? From the Book of Americans, 00:04:03.539 --> 00:04:08.800 chapter 12, verses 13 to 17, I quote, have you 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:14.539 people gone insane? Are you nuts? Are you not 00:04:14.539 --> 00:04:18.839 reading the Bible? Have you lost your sense of 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:23.699 decency and shame? Stop cherry -picking Bible 00:04:23.699 --> 00:04:27.579 verses to justify cruelty and indifference. By 00:04:27.579 --> 00:04:31.439 your justification, you're beating, abusing, 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:37.980 stealing, lying, and killing by proxy." Paul's 00:04:37.980 --> 00:04:43.519 letter to the Americans. Now, we are our country, 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:48.939 and our country is us. And we've put on Gollum's 00:04:48.939 --> 00:04:53.019 ring, and our country is changing. Our precious, 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:58.160 we say. Our wealth and abundance are ours, we 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:02.519 say. This is our country, we say. You can't have 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:08.939 it, it's ours. God loves us, we say. And while 00:05:08.939 --> 00:05:12.970 much of the world starves, we fill our grain 00:05:12.970 --> 00:05:16.709 bins with grain, and we fill our bellies with 00:05:16.709 --> 00:05:20.870 double shot, non -fat, organic, no -foam, lacto 00:05:20.870 --> 00:05:27.189 -expresso, latte -expresso. A greedy narcissistic 00:05:27.189 --> 00:05:32.750 president is turning us into a greedy narcissistic 00:05:32.750 --> 00:05:38.259 country. We take whatever we want by whatever 00:05:38.259 --> 00:05:42.060 means we want because we're bigger, stronger, 00:05:42.379 --> 00:05:47.540 more powerful, and wealthier. And we turn our 00:05:47.540 --> 00:05:51.560 backs on the children, on sons and daughters, 00:05:52.139 --> 00:05:56.199 brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers who 00:05:56.199 --> 00:06:00.779 are hungry, poor, sick, imprisoned, and in pain. 00:06:02.459 --> 00:06:07.470 And we close our eyes to the cruelty so that 00:06:07.470 --> 00:06:11.170 we can say our prayers to Jesus and thank God 00:06:11.170 --> 00:06:17.350 for America. We ask God to bless America and 00:06:17.350 --> 00:06:22.350 we say to hell with everyone else. And as you 00:06:22.350 --> 00:06:25.670 do this to the least of these among you, said 00:06:25.670 --> 00:06:31.310 Jesus, you do it unto me. You do it unto me. 00:06:32.970 --> 00:06:36.910 So, Bible -believing Christians, let's turn to 00:06:36.910 --> 00:06:41.750 our Bible verse of the day. From Proverbs 6, 00:06:42.230 --> 00:06:48.089 16 to 19, I quote, there are six things the Lord 00:06:48.089 --> 00:06:52.970 hates, seven that are detestable to Him. Number 00:06:52.970 --> 00:06:56.930 one, haughty eyes. Number two, a lying tongue. 00:06:57.610 --> 00:07:00.709 Number three, hands that shed innocent blood. 00:07:01.529 --> 00:07:05.970 Number four, a heart that devises wicked schemes. 00:07:07.290 --> 00:07:10.329 Number five, feet that are quick to rush into 00:07:10.329 --> 00:07:15.149 evil. Number six, a false witness who pours out 00:07:15.149 --> 00:07:20.290 lies. And number seven, a man who stirs up dissension 00:07:20.290 --> 00:07:23.829 among brothers. So let's take a look at these 00:07:23.829 --> 00:07:27.410 biblical words, shall we? Number one, haughty 00:07:27.410 --> 00:07:32.100 eyes. Haughty means to be arrogant. and condescending 00:07:32.100 --> 00:07:36.480 to those you feel are your inferiors. You see 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:41.500 yourself as superior to others. And this is the 00:07:41.500 --> 00:07:45.439 epitome of Donald Trump. This is the epitome 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:49.779 of the America First movement. God bless America, 00:07:49.779 --> 00:07:52.860 you say, and to hell with everyone else because 00:07:52.860 --> 00:08:00.379 we're Americans. USA, number two, a lying tongue. 00:08:01.769 --> 00:08:07.230 Donald Trump lies all the time. And that, my 00:08:07.230 --> 00:08:11.589 friends, is an empirical fact. And empirical 00:08:11.589 --> 00:08:16.170 means it can be verified by observation or experience. 00:08:17.350 --> 00:08:21.449 In fact, we can measure this empirical fact. 00:08:22.209 --> 00:08:26.189 In 2021, the Washington Post wrote that Trump 00:08:26.189 --> 00:08:32.789 made false or misleading claims. 30 ,573 times 00:08:32.789 --> 00:08:38.950 over his first four years as president. Now I 00:08:38.950 --> 00:08:42.029 know the reflexive action of some is to say, 00:08:42.169 --> 00:08:45.610 fake news, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's 00:08:45.610 --> 00:08:48.809 just a reflex. You can't help yourself. Everything 00:08:48.809 --> 00:08:52.690 that doesn't support your worldview is fake news. 00:08:53.850 --> 00:08:57.649 But let's consider, for the sake of argument, 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:02.860 that the Washington Post exaggerated. For the 00:09:02.860 --> 00:09:06.000 sake of argument, let's say that Donald Trump 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:10.480 only did a tenth of that. Let's say for the sake 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:15.379 of argument, he made only 3 ,000 false or misleading 00:09:15.379 --> 00:09:19.399 claims in his first four years. Are you still 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:25.980 okay with that? Number three, shed innocent blood. 00:09:27.430 --> 00:09:32.269 People have been killed. Rene Good was killed, 00:09:32.889 --> 00:09:36.289 as others have been. A guy was killed in Minneapolis 00:09:36.289 --> 00:09:41.029 again today, up in Blaine. I forget his name. 00:09:42.570 --> 00:09:45.590 These are just the ones we know of, by the way. 00:09:46.789 --> 00:09:49.970 Innocent people in Gaza have been killed. Innocent 00:09:49.970 --> 00:09:54.929 people were killed in Venezuela. Civilians. How 00:09:54.929 --> 00:10:00.259 many more are being killed? Now here again is 00:10:00.259 --> 00:10:04.620 another reflexive response. Oh, yeah, you say 00:10:04.620 --> 00:10:07.820 why thousands of innocent babies are killed by 00:10:07.820 --> 00:10:12.120 abortions every year. That's the reflex I often 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:17.320 get from people. And here's the thing. If you 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:22.220 believe abortions are evil, more evil does not 00:10:22.220 --> 00:10:28.799 justify that. And your excuses, Obama did this 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:33.600 and Biden did that. They're not president. Trump 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:39.220 is president. And you are supporting this man 00:10:39.220 --> 00:10:45.519 despite what your Christian Bible says. You're 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:49.519 not reading it. You're not understanding the 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:53.980 major themes. Number four. Wicked schemes. Wicked 00:10:53.980 --> 00:10:57.399 is a deliberate intent to do wrong, to cause 00:10:57.399 --> 00:11:03.039 harm. And a scheme is a plan, usually a secretive 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:08.179 plan. Using the Department of Justice for revenge 00:11:08.179 --> 00:11:13.399 and retribution, sending these ICE agents in, 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:17.820 sending in our government's military into states 00:11:17.820 --> 00:11:20.899 and cities only with Democratic governors and 00:11:20.899 --> 00:11:26.500 mayors. to abuse, intimidate, terrify and suppress. 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:32.120 These are wicked schemes. They're the results 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:37.100 of wicked schemes. These are bad and evil things. 00:11:38.179 --> 00:11:41.600 Redistricting states and suppressing votes to 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:45.620 try to stay in power. This is a wicked thing. 00:11:45.659 --> 00:11:50.809 It's called cheating and it's not okay. The ends 00:11:50.809 --> 00:11:56.470 don't justify the means here. Number five, rush 00:11:56.470 --> 00:12:02.889 into evil. Evil is the opposite of love as light 00:12:02.889 --> 00:12:08.309 is the opposite of darkness. Evil is using power 00:12:08.309 --> 00:12:11.690 to meet one's needs at the expense of other. 00:12:12.529 --> 00:12:18.269 And it has become a reflexive action by our government. 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:25.539 Good love is nurturing self, others and the environment. 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:30.200 Evil is that which destroys, takes from the self, 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:34.240 from others and our environment. Let me ask you, 00:12:34.379 --> 00:12:38.399 what's going on with this government, with ICE 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:43.419 agents, with military in our cities, with healthcare 00:12:43.419 --> 00:12:47.299 being taken away? Is that nurturing or is that 00:12:47.299 --> 00:12:53.389 taking away? Is that love or is that evil? Number 00:12:53.389 --> 00:12:58.309 seven, stirs up dissension. And a question for 00:12:58.309 --> 00:13:02.889 you, are there more or are there fewer people 00:13:02.889 --> 00:13:06.250 marching in the streets today than there were 00:13:06.250 --> 00:13:12.190 two years ago? Now, these verses have been from 00:13:12.190 --> 00:13:15.850 the book of Proverbs. And it's thought that most 00:13:15.850 --> 00:13:20.629 of this book was written by King Solomon. Question 00:13:20.629 --> 00:13:24.210 again. Was he lying when he said that the Lord 00:13:24.210 --> 00:13:28.470 detests these things? Is this the fake news of 00:13:28.470 --> 00:13:33.210 the time? And I'll end this again. I'm going 00:13:33.210 --> 00:13:37.409 to repeat. I greatly respect those who strive 00:13:37.409 --> 00:13:42.110 to live their values. I have lost my patience 00:13:42.110 --> 00:13:45.750 with the imitation Christians whose religion 00:13:45.750 --> 00:13:51.029 is nothing more than performance art. How dare 00:13:51.029 --> 00:13:54.610 you judge us you say judge not lest you be judged 00:13:54.610 --> 00:13:58.129 you've got a log in your eye. You're a bad person 00:13:58.129 --> 00:14:02.789 Okay, you'll get no argument there. I am a bad 00:14:02.789 --> 00:14:07.669 person Yet here I am judging the heck out of 00:14:07.669 --> 00:14:13.509 imitation Christians Why? We can't afford to 00:14:13.509 --> 00:14:16.190 wait until you get to heaven for God to judge 00:14:16.190 --> 00:14:20.120 you You're messing things up down here right 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:24.779 now. So if you're not going to judge yourself, 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:29.840 I guess I'm going to have to do it for you. This 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:34.100 has been Brother Andy's Church of Biblical Sanity.