This Occupy Wall Street movement, which is spread to other cities around the country,

is a new phenomenon to this generation.

It's not new, but it's new to this generation.

Those protesters claim that they represent 99% of the population,

and their aim is to occupy Wall Street where they, according to them there, the 1% who are

producing all of the wealth in America. This movement is spreading around the country,

not just Wall Street. And on the surface, you say, well, there's just a group of people who are just

mischief makers.

But when you look at it at a deeper level,

you see that this type of thinking has been building up.

America that had showed the world the power of what social scientists called the Protestant work ethic. With all of its hard work and labor,

with all of its taking personal responsibility, with all of its diligent and hard work,

with all of its purpose of succeeding so that we may help others succeed. All of that is now shifting

and giving way to those who can work but refuse to work, yet they demand that those who work

are penalized for their hard work. And today I'm going to show you that this kind of attitude is totally contrary to the

Word of God.

To make things worse, we have so many opportunist politicians on both sides of the aisle

and with some misguided churchmen, by the way, who are going around claiming that Jesus and the early church have promoted socialism,

but that cannot be further from the truth. Listen to me very carefully. Many of Jesus' parables

teach us the importance of hard and diligent work, the importance of accomplishments, the importance

of free will giving.

This business of taking away by force from those who work hard, squander it on some government

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