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We are looking for questions, not sermons, I\u2019m the preacher here, I give the sermons, I have a monopoly. But if you can just, if you\u2019ve got a question for Curtis this is a great time to ask and I\u2019m going to walk around with the mike and he\u2019s going to his best to answer.\r\n\r\nI\u2019m going to, as I\u2019m moving out there I\u2019m going to ask the first question; you ready, this is the elephant in the room. We are in the middle of a Republican primary and you in your video, what I could tell, came out and endorsed Ted Cruz, did you not?\r\n\r\nCurtis Bowers: Yeah, for what we have running.\r\n\r\nAndy Woods: for what you have running, and so maybe you could just briefly give us your take on that.\r\n\r\nCurtis Bowers: Well, I just\u2026 unfortunately you\u2019d think with 330,000,000 million people we\u2019d have a better and deeper and more excellent choice for the position of President of the United States but we usually don\u2019t. But all of them have issues and problems and whatever little things here and there. It\u2019s always going to be that way on this earth. But I feel that Ted Cruz at least seems to understand the issues and the agenda more than some of the other ones. I think his father, I do know his father a little bit, I don\u2019t know him personally, I know his father; his father is a great Christian man that has tremendous influence on his son. He lived under communism in Cuba so he understands that and he knows it\u2019s evil and it\u2019s wrong and that he escaped from there. So I think, again, I don\u2019t like some of the things about Ted Cruz\u2019s wife, if you read about some of the things she\u2019s involved in, I really don\u2019t.\r\n\r\nBut I think this, if we could get someone like that or if God allows us to have a decent candidate in there we need to do something different than we\u2019ve ever done before. You know what that is? The day they get in there just keep pounding and demanding and pushing, you said you were going to stand for us, you\u2019d better do it. And then when they stand for something good the switchboard is shut down at the White House because we\u2019re saying thank you for doing what you told us you would do. And when they don\u2019t do something they should have done the switchboard is shut down, because how dare you lie to us.\r\n\r\nWe never hold anybody accountable, any of them. We get out guy in there and oh good, four years and we go play golf and have some coffee and they\u2019ve not been faithful to what they\u2019ve told us they would do. Neither party, they just have not been\u2026 they know what we want to hear, they\u2019re excellent and they\u2019re crafty in their little speeches and we go, man, that\u2019s the right guy. But then we never follow up by looking at their record to see, yeah, did they do those things they talked about. And they always have a good excuse why they didn\u2019t, but they didn\u2019t! And we allow them to be re-elected and re-elected and re-elected, generationally, and they\u2019re liars, a lot of them.\r\n\r\nSo I think he is the best one from my opinion in an imperfect world, but I think if we can get him in there we have to be vigilant but demanding that he does the things he said he would do. And if he veers off that we\u2019re the first one to have signs outside of the capital saying How Dare You Lie to Us, we voted for you and we\u2019re demanding you do what you said. We\u2019ve got to be willing to put some feet to our action.\r\n\r\nSome lady says: Curtis, earlier when you were talking about the connection between the Islamist and the KGB I think you said that the head of the KGB was a KBG agent, but I think you meant to say the head of Al-Qaida.\r\n\r\nCurtis Bowers: Yes, it\u2019s Al-Qaida.\r\n\r\nSame lady: Right.\r\n\r\nCurtis Bowers: Sometimes I get tongue tied, so yes it\u2019s Al-Qaida.\r\n\r\nSame lady: Wow! And how did you, without\u2026\r\n\r\nCurtis Bowers: That was from Alexander [can't understand word], that KGB agent who defected and was poisoned. He said, he\u2019s the one that exposed that the terrorists attacks were frauds, they had actually been done by the KGB and then he says, by the way, the head of Al Qaeda is one of our guys. And that\u2019s why he, [can't understand word] said that\u2019s why he\u2019d been poisoned, because Putin knew he was getting ready to unload all this stuff and so he secretly poisoned him. And he would normally have gotten away with that, because they said they had done that to hundreds of people all over the world, but most people aren\u2019t shrew enough. Doctors don\u2019t\u2026 they\u2019re not looking for radioactive material in your system.\r\n\r\nBut he knew, since he was a KGB agent that they had done that to others; he knew, wait a minute, I\u2019m getting sick out of the blue. And it took a while for the hospital to even buy into it\u2026 no, you just have some sickness, you\u2019re ill, and he said NO, I have been poisoned, I know what it\u2019s like because we\u2019ve done it to many. And sure enough, they checked and it was radioactive material all in his stomach. Somebody had slipped something into one of his drinks, something he had drank and it just killed him, in just a few weeks he went from a healthy young man to just dead, because it just destroyed him. But that\u2019s what it was.\r\n\r\nAnother lady: Yes sir, on the environmental agenda can you speak to the significance of private property rights.\r\n\r\nCurtis Bowers: Yes. Karl Marx, when he was asked, what is communism. I mean, think of all the things he could have said when someone asked him what is communism. He said the abolition of private property. That was his answer. Private property is the way God wanted, God wanted us to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, take dominion over it. The property we live in in Idaho, when I bought it it was a field of weeds, about four feet tall. When we moved from there a year ago it was a beautiful, we had hundreds of trees, fruit trees, we put in a well so we could water them, it was a beautiful little garden in Idaho when we left it.\r\n\r\nMan is a blessing to the environment. He is needed. The lie of environmentalism is property left to itself is good and nothing can be further from the truth. Abandoned property is property in decline. All the environmental problems we face, which is not near as many as it used to be, we are getting better at this. That\u2019s the neat thing about capitalism, free enterprise. When we, back in the turn of the last century, the 1900\u2019s, when we started to get these big power plants going, if there was quite a bit of pollution, people were excited because that means productivity. But they finally realized, hey, we don\u2019t like breathing that.\r\n\r\nSo in a free system what happens? People go I\u2019ll clean that up for you for a price. And so these businesses, which creates more jobs and more, and they clean it up, and you have the money to do it because you have a productive society. And so it keeps going forward. In the system they want to create they want big government and big business to tells us what\u2019s best for the environment. Those are the two people that always destroy the environment. They could care less about the environment, they\u2019re living in their little palace or their little thing.\r\n\r\nSo free enterprise is what we need to steward and use this beautiful world that God has given us, because we do want to take care of it, but their agenda items are to remove man from nature, which makes it in decline and decay and it destroys it. Private property is the answer for any true environmental problems.\r\n\r\nAndy Woods: I think one of our Founding Fathers said private property rights are as sacred as the laws of God. I can\u2019t remember which Founding Father said that.\r\n\r\nCurtis Bowers: Yes, and I say in the movie, if you don\u2019t have private property rights you don\u2019t have any rights at all and it\u2019s true. If you have nowhere to hide, where they have all the property then you\u2019re trespassing and that\u2019s what they want eventually, to pull us into the cities where they can watch us.\r\n\r\nDo you remember Ceausescu I was telling you about? Sustainability, every time you hear sustainability, or the Green movement, or saving the planet, think of this word instead: system atomization. Ceausescu is the communist dictator of Romania, he had a plan called system atomization, which is exactly what the Green movement is today. And what it was, he bulldozed 7,000 villages throughout Romania, forcing everyone to move into the big city so he could keep an eye on them. Now they\u2019re telling us we need to move into the big cities and live in the concrete things to protect the environment. It is system atomization, it is all the environmental movement is, for power and control.\r\n\r\nSomeone else: Question: part of your resources and your research, do you have any insights regarding the global macro-economic situation and the eventual reset and financial collapse basically is being worked on behind the scenes and how that\u2019s going to unfold and what kind of time frame?\r\n\r\nCurtis Bowers: I don\u2019t have a time frame but yes, they know.. remember Rahm Emanuel, what he said: Never let a good crisis go to waste. You can always take huge leaps forward doing things you could never do before in crisis. So they love to manufacture crisis or if a natural one comes along they\u2019re like great, let\u2019s use it to take ten steps beyond what we really need to do to solve this little crisis, and so we can get more power. So yes, we know from the Bible and we know from reading their papers the last 150 years the goal of this thing is one-world government; that\u2019s the goal of the left, a one-world socialist government. Okay. So when you know that, and to have that be a possibility America has got to go. They know, we\u2019ve been the thorn in their side since the day\u2026 you know, the Liberty Bell rang, they just like oh, this country is exposing the failure of our ideas because it\u2019s sitting up here and all these socialist countries are just squalling to get by and America is sitting there, and they know, we\u2019ve got to remove, we\u2019ve got to get rid of this thing, it exposes our failure.\r\n\r\nBut yes, if they can slowly\u2026 the only reason our economy is doing as well as it is and not going down is because the whole world is in turmoil. You know, I mean, all the economies are not doing\u2026 they\u2019re all propping them up, the demographic world. If you study demographics China is in for some big trouble in 20 years, their aging population, they haven\u2019t had accepted the blessing of children as all the European\u2026 Europe is finished, which is really sad. Our entire western civilizations is gone; in my children\u2019s lifetime it will not exist. They have not had children, their birthrates are down so low that they\u2019re just killing themselves off through not having children.\r\n\r\nAnd of course, Islam is moving in and multiplying to take over. It will be an Islamic continent and when they take over we know from other places they\u2019ve taken over, they destroy all Christian symbols and history. So all of our history of western civilization in my children\u2019s lifetime will be expunged from the earth; there will be no record of it, they\u2019ll destroy every museum, they\u2019ll burn them to the ground. All the history that\u2019s in the British Museum of Natural History and different things, and it will be erased, which they love because then they can rewrite it the way they want to.\r\n\r\nBut they love to be in control, so slowly, yes, I think they\u2019ll try to produce more and more economic hard times so people will be willing in that crisis to say maybe we should have a global currency so it\u2019s more stable for everyone. That will probably be the first step. There will still be sovereign countries but we need global currency, we need a currency so everything\u2026 these countries don\u2019t keep fluctuating around. And that will be the first nail in the coffin as it floats down\u2026that inflation stealing the wealth from everyone, including us. Again, when you\u2019re in poverty they love it because they have so much power.\r\n\r\nSomeone else: Obviously you\u2019re giving us the survey course, how does one dig a little deeper, get more information and stay informed.\r\n\r\nCurtis Bowers: Good question. There\u2026 I think it\u2019s not on our website, now we had, with the first one we had a recommended reading list but we\u2019re so busy releasing this film and traveling, we\u2019ll try to get that back up on there soon, a recommended reading list on a lot of these topics. It goes much deeper. Caroline, if you could remind me to do that, we just are busy. A good one like the environment, Drenched in the Environment, Brian Sussman, one of the men in my movie has a book called Eco-tyranny, and he\u2019s a meteorologist from California, he understands weather, and it exposes this thing is read to\u2026 it\u2019s a good one. You read that book you\u2019ll go oh my word, Curtis didn\u2019t even\u2026 Curtis just barely tapped the surface. [Eco-Tyranny: How the Left's Green Agenda will Dismantle America by Brian Sussman Hardcover $16.96.Amazon]\r\nBut it\u2019s footnoted, documented, facts, of all the people behind this thing. And he\u2019s neat because when I went to interview him for the second film he\u2019d never seen the first film. And he\u2019s raised in California so I [can't understand words], and he said now I don\u2019t want to sound like a nut to you or something, but he had that happen, he lost his job as a meteorologist in San Francisco because he wouldn\u2019t say every storm was from global warming. But he wasn\u2019t really conservative, he was just a normal guy, but he thought that\u2019s weird, why are they telling me I always have to say that. And he was independent enough to go I can\u2019t say every storm is from global warming, I don\u2019t k now if that\u2019s true or not. And they said you will say that. And he said no, and they fired him. He had won awards for broadcasting, he\u2019d been there ten years and he dug in, he goes what is going on that they\u2019d\u2026 he didn\u2019t understand that, and they\u2019re interviewing him and he goes Curtis, I know this sounds nutty and he knows where I\u2019m coming from, I dug in because I couldn\u2019t believe what had happened to me, I go why are they demanding that we say its\u2026 and do you know what this all goes back to.\r\n\r\nAnd I said no, tell me.\r\n\r\nAnd he goes Karl Marx.\r\n\r\nAnd isn\u2019t that amazing, a totally independent he said this entire\u2026 and my movie gets into it a little bit but his book gets into it in detail, this is from Karl Marx. He\u2019s the first one that wrote a paper, the year he died, on how you need to use the environment to destroy capitalism. I couldn\u2019t believe it myself when he told me that. And he went through all the stuff but he goes\u2026 he was smart enough to say that the pollution was going to cause cooling and we\u2019d all starve to death because there wouldn\u2019t be a long enough growing season. That is a legitimate fear. The warming which they accuse us of, you know, be fearful of warming, warming is wonderful, if we could warm this planet a degree or two we would have an abundance of food, Canada and Russia would have so many fertile fields that they could actually have a long enough time to grow food. It would be a blessing not a curse, it would be wonderful but they tell us be fearful of warming, but cooling\u2019s what\u2019s the disaster.\r\n\r\nSomeone says something, can\u2019t hear: Curtis says: Brian Sussman, in The Eco-Tyranny, he might even have another one out now but that\u2019s a good one to give you the foundation of how this is about tyranny, the whole environmental movement. You know, in each of the other topics in the film there\u2019s other good books, I will try to get a list out soon to help direct you at least towards some good ones I know of. But there\u2019s a lot of good stuff out there.\r\n\r\nSomeone says: So I have ADD and right now my brain feels like a pinball machine but you\u2019ve got me going in so many directions, but at any rate, one thing I just throw in right off the bat is there\u2019s a nova documentary that was done called Magnetic Storm. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re familiar with it or not. It was actually done before Gore took off with the environmental thing and it presented the results of NASA research over a long period of time over the rapidly decreasing force of the magnetic field of the earth. And if you actually look at that it would explain climate change and a number of other things, but of course with NASA\u2019s funding under threat that just got shelved and you don\u2019t hear anything about that any more. But it was very conclusive at the time. But the other thing I just want to mention is that I thought it was shocking in the months leading up to the environmental confab that they had recently in Europe, was it Paris, and even the Pope was weighing in on the environment, right. And from the Bible we know that there\u2019s going to be this three legged stool and it\u2019s just the religious, the commercial and the political and all of them are in there. But the political one is largely the threat of terrorism. And you just made another statement about Europe becoming Islamic but previously in your presentation you stated that radical Islam was a tool of communism, which I think is correct. So my thought is that it\u2019s not that Europe is going to become Islamic, it\u2019s that Europe is going to have a conflict with Islam. And that conflict will precipitate chaos and in that chaos then the communists actually be able to achieve their goals, ultimately, which is really the one-world government, it\u2019s not necessarily communism, it\u2019s just power. But anyway, that\u2019s what I think.\r\n\r\nCurtis Bowers: Well, I think, again, they don\u2019t mind, I feel, knowing, studying the communist mind for ten years almost fulltime now, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if a lot of these top Islamic leaders are Marxists, they\u2019re not Islamic, they could care less about Allah, so I think they\u2019re fine using religion; it\u2019s a very powerful tool to use. They just want control, they don\u2019t care what people want to pray to Allah five times a day, they could care less; they just want control of the people. And that gives them absolute control. So yeah\u2026 anyway.\r\n\r\nSomeone says: I have a question about eco-tyranny and the harp, weather warfare system and the [can't understand word] particle accelerator. I\u2019m wondering when I see such extreme weather patterns if you want to speak to what might be going on there. I have my own theories but\u2026\r\n\r\nCurtis Bowers. Here\u2019s a couple of things: one is we have to again know the facts so we know what we\u2019re dealing with. Since 1840 the global average temperature has gone up .7 of 1 degree Celsius, that\u2019s a fact. Okay. Point .7 of 1 degree since 1840; 88% of that was before 1940. Okay. So there\u2019s hardly any change in the environment, I mean, as far as consistent, like it\u2019s getting way warmer or way colder or whatever. But we do know from studying weather patterns of history that a thousand years ago it was a lot hotter than it is now. We know that because there\u2019s the remnant\u2026 Greenland, I mean, do you know Greenland is just a sheet of ice today. As they dug down into the ice they found entire vineyards of grapes. So they know obviously at some point in history this was grow able, you could grow grapes and things. And now it\u2019s just a sheet of ice. So we\u2019ve had much warmer times and the polar bears made it through that just fine. And that was just funny, they\u2019re exploding all over the world.\r\n\r\nBut here\u2019s the thing, we have to have enough facts to go\u2026 the weather has always been changing. When I was a kid in Tampa, Florida it snowed in 1976 when I was there. And things just change, that\u2019s just the cycles of weather. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s\u2026 there\u2019s just changes. Our life span is so short we only get to live through one cycle so we say oh, it\u2019s changing. But I think it\u2019s just God\u2019s in control of the weather, okay; total control. And so I think it\u2019s just the way he designed things; it just fluctuates.\r\n\r\nAnd again, this creation, is it perfect? No, it\u2019s been cursed by sin so it\u2019s not doing things the way He designed it. It\u2019s corrupted. But could they be doing things to change things. Of course, I wouldn\u2019t put anything past them to make the problem seem worse so that there needs to be a bigger solution because it\u2019s a bigger problem, that\u2019s always part of their agenda. But for us to be fearful of environmental things or something when our God\u2026 there\u2019s not a drop of rain that can fall to the earth without His permission. There\u2019s not a tsunami that can hit a country without His permission. There\u2019s not a hurricane\u2026 we have given over the sovereign God of the Bible as sitting on His throne, we\u2019re still like ooh, you know, He\u2019s in charge of everything. Okay. He allows things to happen always for a good purpose. Remember when the big tidal wave and stuff hit Japan. The media attack was how could God allow that to happen. My first reaction as a Bible believing Christian, maybe God hasn\u2019t given up on them, they\u2019ve been in rebellion against Him for over a thousand years in their paganism. Maybe He\u2019s trying to shake them up so they\u2019ll repent and turn back to Him. It\u2019s how you look at things from the biblical worldview. God doesn\u2019t\u2026 there\u2019s no accidents, there\u2019s nothing out of His grasp or control, ANYTHING. And we need to live like that and if something happens to you that you oh, this is terrible.\r\n\r\nGod had a purpose in it. Trust and obey; trust Him, He is worthy to be trusted. We had, over the last four years since 2012, we lost three little stillborn baby boys of [can't understand word] family. Now that\u2019s not something you want to go through but it\u2019s not about us, it\u2019s about Him. And we\u2019ve already learned from that, accepting that from God, You know what\u2019s best, if You wanted to take those little babies home we trust You. But we\u2019ve been able to be a blessing to so many other people that have had those experiences. We realize God wanted us to go through that so that when someone\u2026 and two months later our church a lady had a stillborn child, we were able to go hug her, we meant something to her because she knew we\u2019d just been through that.\r\n\r\nAgain, we are so \u201chow could God let this happen to me?\u201d God has a purpose, a wonderful purpose in everything, even some tragedy in your life, loss of a loved one, a storm, a disaster, a bankruptcy in your business, He has it under control if you\u2019re serving Him. Now if you know you\u2019re not doing things His way it might be a spanking to get your attention, and then you need to wake up and repent, God, I\u2019m sorry, I see what\u2026 You let my business go because I wasn\u2019t doing it Your way. I\u2019m sorry for that, but from now on I will do, if I have a business I will do it the way You would want me to do it.\r\n\r\nOr whatever it is, but don\u2019t let the world tells us God\u2019s a little sissy up there wringing His hands. He is an absolute\u2026 when a storm hits he allowed it hit. He\u2019s trying to say something through that, that we need to wake up and go, and share the gospel and help the needy and stuff. But do it under His\u2026 you know, mantle of\u2026 [can't understand word] God\u2019s in charge, God\u2019s trying to wake you up or whatever, He has a purpose in it whatever it is. Sometimes we don\u2019t know what it is but He does and we need to remember that. Okay.\r\n\r\nSomeone says: I kind of wanted my question was similar to the gentleman over here, certainly I am\u2026 well, I am concerned about communism, I\u2019m concerned about Islam. So help me straighten, get me straightened out, as you said, you brought out that Islam was infiltrated to a great degree by Marxist, right. Curtis: Okay. Same lady: So how does that help me in dealing with my Muslim neighbors. Sugar Land itself has one of the largest mosques in the United States, the area where I live is just saturated.\r\n\r\nCurtis Bowers: Well, again, a couple of things, as a Christian if God has allowed them to come here we need to be sharing the gospel with them. We have to be sharing the gospel with them, otherwise you\u2019re just wasting opportunity to have a ministry to them while they\u2019re here. But it\u2019s, again, it\u2019s purposeful why they\u2019re bringing them here. The United Nations is the one bringing them here. We gave them permission to decide who comes to America decades ago. And if you study the United Nations for five minutes you see it was set up in 1945. F.D. R, the President, his right hand man, Secretary of State was a man named Alger Hiss. Alger Hiss is the one that wrote the charter for the United Nations. Alger Hiss was the first Secretary General of the United Nations. So as I was studying this stuff, well, who\u2019s Alger Hiss? I realized, you know what, he\u2019s a Soviet agent in the F.D.R. administration. And that\u2019s a fact, now we know from the [can't understand word] files and the KGB files that were released in the early 90\u2019s. He was a Soviet, so of course that thing is set up.\r\n\r\nWe had a friend, [can't understand word], that infiltrated the New Zealand Communist Party in the early 80\u2019s, acted like a communist, got sent to the Soviet Union to train at Lenin\u2019s Institute of Higher Learning, where they have 6,000 students at a time and some of them as long as seven year courses. Okay, just a subversion infiltration and dismantling all opposition. And he went there and they said the United Nations is our thing, we own it, we will rule the world through it, that\u2019s our thing. They also said this is 1983, he was there, we\u2019re going to be making some huge changes, don\u2019t be concerned about global communism, we\u2019re making some huge changes because we realize now we do much better [not sure of word, sounds like: dancing] things when people don\u2019t feel threatened by us, just behind the scenes that when there\u2019s clear conflict of ideas. So that was all years before the wall came down. So they knew what they were doing. They\u2019re very strategic in everything.\r\n\r\nSo Ma\u2019am, totalitarian ideology, it doesn\u2019t matter what flavor, they are all about abusing mankind and power and control. So yeah, it\u2019s not a good thing, we need to educate others, we need to try to wake people up to the truth. But here\u2019s the things too, as a Christian, key point again; instead of being fearful of Obama or the United Nations or all these different people and groups we should be fearing God. Why is God allowing that to happen? That should be the heart of our concern. Why is an all-powerful, holy God, He hates what these people are doing worse than we do.\r\n\r\nAnd I talk about this at the end of the second movie. That\u2019s what should make us fearful. God, what have we done so You\u2019ve removed Your hand of blessing? What have we done individually? What can we change? What can we repent of individually so You\u2019ll put your hand of blessing back on our country, You\u2019ll protect us from this evil that\u2019s just flourishing all around us. He hates evil too, that\u2019s\u2026 but He allows, if you study Bible history He allows it to flourish when He\u2019s punishing the righteous because they are not acting righteous and holy. So that\u2019s what we really need to focus on as individuals.\r\n\r\nAndy Woods; Okay, we\u2019ve probably have time just for a couple more, and as I\u2019m passing the mic, if you had one thing to say to the pastors of America, if this room was filled with pastors, and you could say one thing to them, what would it be?\r\n\r\nCurtis Bowers: You have to repent of your cowardice to stand for Genesis through Revelation in the Bible, on God\u2019s Word; only be concerned about what God thinks about what you are doing and no one else. You need to repent of being fearful of man, many of you need to get saved. You need to quit teaching theology and doctrines and bow your knee before Jesus Christ and accept His free gift where He will regenerate you and you will be a new creature, and you must then stand, realizing the tremendous responsibility you have as a pastor. God has put you in that position of authority to shepherd and lead, protect, defend and nurture His people, encouraging them and admonishing them to stand for the truth, regardless of the cost. And I would go on more on that but that\u2019s what I would say. It is\u2026 everything is about Jesus Christ. Anything you do any day of the week that is not glorifying Him it is sin. He is a holy God that hates what is evil and He loves what is good, and we need to repent as Christians of anything in our life that is not pure and godly and righteous, whether it\u2019s our music, our movies, whatever we do, if it is not glorifying to the King who is holy we need to get it out of our life, repent of it and then turn, which is what repentance is, and do the opposite. We have to do that. I know He loves us, He loves His children, those that are saved. And He loves the truth, but we have not done a good job standing for Him.\r\n\r\nOur light, as things get dark, which they\u2019re getting very dark, if we\u2019re willing to do that our lights are going to be so bright. The world is going to be looking at us\u2026 I know I catch people all the time just starring at our family, [can't understand word] or something, and it\u2019s a little light here and when they say, \u201cman, your family is different,\u201d I go \u201cyeah, Jesus makes a huge difference in our life. It wouldn\u2019t look quite like this without Him.\u201d We have to give credit to whom credit is due and we have to tell people about Jesus, the wonderful free gift of salvation because that\u2019s how you turn your enemies into your friends. That\u2019s how the Islamic becomes our brother and sister in Christ, when they understand who Jesus is and He saves them and then they are a powerful force on our side to help witness to other people that are in the Islamic faith, because they\u2019ve been there and they see the lie that\u2019s so\u2026 it\u2019s just vital, our role is so important because we\u2019re representing the King. We\u2019re His ambassadors here on earth to every person we meet, every place we are, in our homes.. Is your home just a bouquet of righteousness and beauty and godliness where people just come to visit?\r\n\r\nIf I went to your neighborhood and knocked on the first door and say sorry for bothering you, is there any Christians that live in this neighborhood? Would they turn and go yes, that house right there, they\u2019re so kind and loving, they\u2019re always baking cookies for us and giving us things, they invite us to church, that\u2019s the house, go knock on that house, you\u2019ll find Christians there. Would that be your house? It should be, for all of us. I know it takes time and effort to do that but we have to because it\u2019s about Jesus. It\u2019s about making Him look good. So when we share the gospel they realize that person is different, maybe Jesus really does make a difference. And that\u2019s what we gotta do. It\u2019s worth it.\r\n\r\nThis life is a vapor it\u2019s going to be gone before you know it. The good old little thing grandma taught you, \u201conly one life, will soon be past, only what\u2019s done for Christ will last.\u201d It\u2019s true, do it, be committed, read your Bible every day, you have to otherwise you\u2019re spiritually starving to death. Of course you\u2019re not going to be some courageous Christian out there, you don\u2019t even know what God\u2019s Word says. Read it and obey it and be faithful and cheerful and grateful that He has saved your soul. He knows exactly what you\u2019re going\u2026if you have to go through.. where you\u2019re going, if some terrible thing happens where they do start executing those who oppose them, okay, I know exactly where I\u2019m going. It\u2019s the greatest gift they could give me. I\u2019m going straight to heaven to spend eternity with Jesus Christ. That\u2019s the way we have to look at things, as our forefathers did and [can't understand word] for the last 2,000 years of the church, they were willing to die even being burned alive for the smallest detail, they would no capitulate on truth and we can\u2019t either.\r\n\r\nThank you pastor.\r\n\r\nAndy Woods. Awesome, that\u2019s a great way to close. So thank you. Let\u2019s give Curtis a hand.[clapping] And I\u2019m going to dismiss us in a word of prayer and that will be it. Father, we thank You so much for these sessions that we\u2019ve had; we thank You for the tremendous example that Curtis and his family have shown to all of us. We do ask for Your hedge of protection around him personally and his family. We ask for their provision and safety and traveling mercies. And we are so grateful for their ministry and ask that they would just be able to continue on and on with this wonderful ministry that they have. And we draw our hearts close to You as we enter the resurrection Sunday season and help us to remember that Jesus gives us the final victory, even though the world can look discouraging Jesus gives us the final victory because of His bodily resurrection from the dead. We ask these things in Jesus name, and God\u2019s people said Amen.","series_sermon_number":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t