In the Midst of Darkness: Hope with Pastor Phil Hopper
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Karl Marx had a dream—and his “dream” resulted in the deaths of untold numbers of people around the globe. His dream? To implement a fully secularized government and rid the world of the “opioid” of religion. He wanted to see atheism in the seat of government. Secularized nations worship the government, and nowhere is that more clearly seen right now than in the United States. We are giving more and more of our God-given rights to government and as Christians have removed themselves from government, we see the rise of Marxism right along with it. We are living in a post-Christian era. Indeed, we are, in many respects, back to the days of the early church. These are exciting times for committed Christ followers, and today, Phil Hopper joins me to bring much needed clarity and hope. As we see a false church emerging… the real church is growing stronger by the day.
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| 0:34.0 | found me at my little corner of the internet today is Wednesday, December 15th. You guys |
| 0:38.5 | are just beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And I'm excited today to have my friend Pastor |
| 0:43.9 | Phil Hopper on the show with me for part two of our interview about the state of the nation. |
| 0:49.1 | And we're going to touch a little bit on the book of Revelation today. How does COVID |
| 0:53.1 | fit into this? What does it mean this this force vaccination could possibly be the mark |
| 0:58.2 | of the beast? This is a fascinating conversation. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 1:02.4 | I love to see churches like Abundant Life, you know, recognizing, wow, the church has |
| 1:15.8 | a very important role to play right now. And I think, and I think you, I think you do also |
| 1:24.2 | that if we can follow the Lord through this and walk in obedience to him and actually take |
| 1:29.4 | our place on the stage of, you know, the world stage or the county stage or whatever it |
| 1:33.6 | is and say, you know, here I am, Lord, send me what do you want? I think we're going to |
| 1:37.0 | live to tell stories to our grandchildren and our great grandchildren about the things |
| 1:41.1 | that God did that we were able to watch happen. In spite of it all, I'm incredibly optimistic |
| 1:46.6 | about the future. Hey, again, go back to the early days of Christianity. 120 people filled |
| 1:52.8 | with the spirit of God who were not afraid to follow the son of God, whatever they cause. |
| 1:59.1 | They changed the world. So all the diagnostics say, oh, the church is in trouble in America. |
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