Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Well, Candy and I are absolutely delighted to be here with you. It was looking kind of grim for a while

there. But the Lord worked it all out. We were stuck by the weather. We were sitting next to

a pilot and he had a map out of the storm and we said, why couldn't you just fly around the

bottom of the storm? And he said the plane is not equipped with rafts. But the Lord worked it all out

and so glad to be here and with all the other campuses and the online services.

But I want to start with a word of prayer, kind Father in Heaven. We thank you for bringing us together

in this setting where we have freedom to worship you. And we ask that the words that are spoken

not be mine but yours and that their minds be receptive in the worthy name of Jesus. Amen.

Now, before I start, I should make a little disclaimer. Everybody makes disclaimer these days.

They say, I belong to this board or this organization so you have to take everything with a grain of salt.

Well, my disclaimer is I am not politically correct. So I'm definitely not woke, but I do think that our

country is ripe for a great awakening. Once again, you know, we've had several. We've had four

religious awakenings in the history of our country. And they were all around the times of wars or

pestilence. Now we have both. So I think we are definitely ready at this point. And I think people

have had a chance to really get a look at what happens when you reject the principles of God.

And it's so clear right now. I don't know how it's going to get much clearer than this. And when we

look back on our history and how effective we were, you think back to George Washington.

How many of you have heard the story of the bulletproof George Washington? A few of you have. Well, it used

to be in all of our history books. And then they took it out. You know, George Washington was a

courier for General Braddock during the French and Indian War. And all the couriers were shot to death.

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