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I need your attention PATRIOTS - CHRISTIANS - LOVERS OF AMERICA - I have an urgent matter

FHMI-0846Shane Vaughn2023-06-12Sermon Transcript

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I need your attention PATRIOTS - CHRISTIANS - LOVERS OF AMERICA - I have an urgent matter Shane Vaughn ——— First Harvest Ministries International 1 [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] good evening everybody hello this is Professor Toto uh it's Sunday night I never go live on Sunday night um I am actually getting ready uh to leave for Miami Florida to support our president and to be there for his birthday on Wednesday um so this is not typical for me I'm going to give everybody about 30 seconds before I talk to you tonight about what's on my mind because I need for you if you know a Christian a patriot a Bible believer a lover of America if you know someone that loves this nation I'm asking you to tag them or share this I'm 2 going to give you 30 seconds let's build the audience this is not my normal time so people do not know I'm live right now so I'm just going to give you a few seconds I'll be right back would you go and hit those shares and when I come back I want to talk to you about something very important [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] everybody good evening good evening good evening Professor Toto of the conservative College I'm getting ready tonight to go to Miami Florida to be with President Trump and uh whenever he is arrested Tuesday I'll be standing there to represent all of Toto's Army I'll be 3 there for his birthday on Wednesday um but with all of that said the last thing on my mind tonight was going live I'm I'm just I'm in another frame of mind and I try very hard not to be an alarmist I really do all day long people send me emails I get thousands of emails a day from people that want me to report on certain things that um I just don't find credible many times um and so speaking of email that tell you can email me right there there's my email address but tonight as I'm sitting at my desk getting ready to get on the plane tomorrow getting all my ducks in a row a news article pops 4 up on my screen and when I read this article I'm not going to lie to you I literally had a moment of fear and I don't get fear and please don't nobody preach at me I know everything's going to be all right I get that but for the first time in my American Life I felt a fear of being a Christian and I've never felt that in America but I'm fixing to read this article to you and when you hear what's in this article you need to share this if you know Christians that need to hear this report we must I I've got you got to hear it and then after the article I'm going to tell you how this corresponds 5 to president Trump and while we must get this man back in office Yahweh is going to do it but we've got to do our part and I'm going to show you in this article why it's so important okay I'm gonna pull the article up we're going to read it together hopefully you can see it on the screen when I share it this is an article that was just put out by MSN of course I don't normally read MSN but it popped up on my news feed here's the title of the article Christian nationalism and biblical literalism independently predict conspiracy thinking a study has found let me break that down for you let me 6 tell you what that means that means according to Joe Biden the greatest threat to America is what domestic terrorism correct a study has been launched to find out who this greatest threat against America is what kind of people are they how do they think the study has released its results and it is found that you are America's greatest threat and I am not being hype I'm not using hyperbole I'm not being dramatic because I'm fixing to read the article I'll tell you what it made my hair stand up on the back of my head notice what this lady's holding in this picture a picture of Yeshua Jesus she's 7 the terrorist a new study has found that both Christian nationalism and biblical literalism are independently associated with a greater tendency to believe in conspiracy theories when people believed in both Christian nationalism and they took the Bible literally their distrust of government officials increased significantly these findings were published in the journal for the scientific study of Religion so this is a scientific study that has been Unleashed upon the citizenship of the United States it provides insight into the socio-cultural factors that contribute to the spread and the 8 Persistence of conspiracy beliefs in certain populations here are these key words now the researchers were motivated by the growing concern over the harmful effects of conspiracy theories such as the spread of misinformation about the covid-19 vaccine and the belief in a stolen election narrative which led now it's these two according to this study it's these two types of thinking that led to the January the sixth insurrection at the United States capitol they sought in this study to better understand the factors that contribute to the endorsement of conspiracy theories within specific 9 religious and ideological context here's what they found folks biblical literalism is the problem this refers to an approach to interpreting religious texts such as the Bible in a strictly literal and word for word manner it involves the belief that the Bible is accurate did anybody just hear what I said the danger to America is people that's right Sharon Payne it's coming I'm telling you it's coming they that if you believe the Bible is accurate like the word of God you you are the most dangerous thing in America I wished I was making this up I wish I was using hyperbole I wish that this was 10 not real let's keep reading it involves the belief that the Bible is an accurate and scientific account and that every Passage should be understood as directly and true they said do you can y'all believe there are people in America that believe the Bible is true they are the danger this scientific report has identified the domestic terrorists in America and how they think folks I wish I was being dramatic I read this is one time I wished I I was just being melodramatic but I'm reading this report and it literally has awakened me to my core Christian nationalism on the other hand is an ideology 11 that combines Christianity with some type of sense that America was rooted in Christian values and principles and it often advocates for policies and laws based on those beliefs okay wait a minute I'm sorry so if you believe the Bible is really true and if you believe that America was founded in Christian values you are the danger we found the problem scientifically bring it to our government show them who the problem in this nation is show them who they must begin to crack down on folks this stuff is real boy this article is literally jolted me like many we were deeply affected by the sharp 12 divisions fueled by conspiracy theories that arose around the election and covet 19. 13 explain the study author Brooklyn Evan Walker we need to research that lady who is Brooklyn Evan Walker she's an instructor of political science we noted that conspiracy theories related to covid-19 and the big lie gain Traction in religious communities that tended towards biblical literalism and Christian nationalism leading us to wonder if either of these two aspects of American religion were related to a broader tendency for Americans to think in a conspiratorial way to conduct the study the researchers used data from the 2019 wave of the Chapman University survey of American fears which 14 included measures of Christian nationalism biblical literalism and various demographic variables the survey was administered online it actress it asked respondents and then it goes on to tell you how they did the study Christian nationalism links being Christian to being American in the view of many Christian nationalists this linkage is threatened by secularization and other social changes biblical literacy is the belief that each word in the Bible should be accepted as God's word spoken directly by God and this is America's danger it's her most dangerous citizens folks let me talk to you I'm 15 not going to read the rest of the article here let me link the article for you copy I did link it on my Facebook timeline there it is I want you to hear me the Bible tells us that in the last days that you and I would be hated of all men for his name's sake I believe I can safely now say at 50 years old we've arrived we've never been hated think about it folks Christians have never been hated in America we've never been hated we've never been considered dangerous we were always considered the moral people the one folks they hate us now what does this have to do with Donald Trump let me explain 16 how can he even help us have we gone so far that it's even worth God raising up a man yes and let me explain why this is an agenda an agenda needs the power of the presidency not to Buck up against it if the agenda gets a Pulpit in the White House then the agenda has nothing to counteract it the agenda has nothing to speak the opposite of what it's saying let me show you when Donald Trump was elected in 16 do you know that he set up an office in the white house right by the Oval Office do you know who that office was for ministers Christian leaders he set them up in office to be next to him 17 how many pictures did you see when they would gather a Jetson Franklin and all of them and Rod Parsley praying for Trump on a consistent basis they had access to his office now he gets up and shows these biblical literalist people I don't agree with all of them but they do believe the Bible is the word of God and as long as someone like him is showcasing and grandstanding these people and putting them in positions of prominence that all of a sudden gives another voice for the nation to hear besides the agenda this is how Donald Trump can help save America from this radical agenda he folks I 18 just had to come on live tonight I just had to talk about this we must do everything in our power to save America that's why I'm headed to Miami I'm going to do everything I can I've got a granddaughter a grandson on the way up I'll leave them in a few years I won't be here no more but what I do now will determine what nation they have to live in how sad if they don't get to experience the life I've experienced of freedom of Christianity in America Christians Listen to me you're hated now you are hated I've never dreamed I would say that do you hear me I never dreamed I would say that they 19 hate us because we believe the Bible is true the reason they don't want us to believe the Bible is true because if the Bible is true a man cannot marry a man and a woman can't marry a woman and then you know boys can't be girls girls can't be God humans can't be dogs dogs can't be humans if you believe the Bible you believe in that Divine Law that order so therefore they must shut you up this is why we must fight for Donald Trump folks this is bigger than politics this is bigger than whether you don't like what he did with the vaccine or not this is bigger than that get your eyes off the trees 20 you've got to see the forest this is a battle literally for the very freedom of religion and Donald Trump's speech this weekend in North Carolina in Georgia freedom of religion first day in office what he's going to do to stop this agenda he's the only man that cannot be bought he is the only man that has the temerity to stop this agenda I want to say something before I go tonight some of you have start jumped on the DeSantis train let me talk to you the reason some of you told me you jumped on the DeSantis train is because you're tired of losing okay I get that I think we all are here's my 21 question and you must answer it look in my eyes look in these blue eyes look at me look I'm going to ask you a question and I need you to answer it and if you answer it correctly then I may jump on your train okay I'm on the truck train I'm going to ask you a question you said you're tired of losing that's why you're supporting DeSantis can you guarantee me that DeSantis won't lose that's my question answer it come on answer it I need you to answer it now can you guarantee me that DeSantis won't lose because if you can't then let's sit down and have a talk but if there's one iota of a chance 22 that the scientists can lose then now you've got to choose between two possible losers choose the right one

Summary

Professor Toto discusses a scientific study claiming Christian nationalism and biblical literalism predict conspiracy thinking, characterizing this research as evidence of government targeting Christians as domestic threats. He argues Christians are now hated in America for believing the Bible is true, connects this persecution to end-times prophecy, and advocates for Donald Trump as the only leader capable of protecting religious freedom and opposing a radical secular agenda.

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