The Song of the Slandered Saint — Shane Idleman

The Song of the Slandered Saint in Psalm 7

The title of tonight's message is The Song of the Slandered Saint. The Song of the Slandered Saint. You try saying that three times fast. Now, where did I get this? Well, from Charles Spurgeon looking in his Treasuries of David.

This title just jumped out at me and I wanted to just borrow it. The Song of the Slandered Saint. And what you're going to find is throughout Psalm 7, we're in Psalm 7, if you want to turn your Bibles there, he's going to switch from triumphant victories to complaining.

Have you ever been there? Mountaintop experiences to valleys. And that song we just sang, it's going to be very near and dear to your heart as the church gets more and more persecuted. Because he's standing there with you in the fire, standing with you when the waves in the ocean overcome you.

And one of the hardest things I think it was for me to learn about being a Christian, and I'm sure you've noticed this, is that it's not all a bed of roses. I learned that a long time ago. This is a fight, this is a struggle, there's conflict, there's controversy, there's mountaintop experiences.

Like I don't know if you're here Sunday, but I left here just, oh, this is close to heaven. And then Monday gets here, and different things, it gets difficult. If you have the article in front of you, bowing to the LGBTQ agenda, tolerance only validates sin, was actually pulled from our local paper.

It was going to be in this weekend, it's not now, it's been pulled from Facebook, so you might want to hold on to it, it might be worth some money someday. But there's, the enemy is ramping up his attack, his assault on believers.

And we know that Facebook does a lot of what they call shadow banning, where they'll, you know, videos that will have hundreds of likes will then have three, because on the back end they just hide it from everyone.

The media, entertainment, there's so many things that are coming against those who truly believe in Jesus. Amen? You can get through life and not have a lot of controversy as long as you don't get serious about Jesus.

Serious about God's word, serious about holiness, serious about his standard of righteousness. Then you're going to get persecuted. But why a song, the song of the slandered saint, but why a song? Because a song reflects joy, it reflects trust, and it reflects peace.

And that's what David would do, many Old Testament writers, especially in the book of Psalms, the whole book, is a lot of these are songs where people would actually sing from their heart and lift God up.

It wasn't just writing, it was a joy-filled expression of what God is doing in their heart. C .S. Lewis famously wrote, in The Problem of Pain, I don't know if you've read that book, he said, God whispers to us in our pleasures, he speaks in our consciousness, but he shouts in our pain.

It is the megaphone to rouse a deaf world. And conflict is going to sometimes rise us up out of our slumber, get us on the right footing again. I don't know if you've heard of a lady, I believe it was shared, John Piper shared her story, I think I've heard on Focus on the Family or different places.

Her name is Vanitha Reisner, and she went from sickness in infancy to childhood surgeries and bullying to relational heartbreak and the parental nightmare of losing a child. And she says, in suffering, I often see God most clearly, perhaps because I am more desperate to find him.

Isn't that true? Your relationship with God is directly related to how well you pursue him. Little pursuit, little relationship. And I wish it wasn't the case, but she is right on the money. In suffering, I often see God most clearly, perhaps because I am more desperate to find him.

And now she's suffering what they call post-polio syndrome. She says, as my body weakens, withers away, God has become more real and present than ever. And that's one thing that Christians can understand about pain and persecution.

You've heard me say it before, this isn't new, that it can drive you to the cross, drive you to worship times, drive you to prayer meetings, drive you to church, and drive you to God. And then you can look back and say, I didn't want to go through that, but I'm glad I did.

And anytime I get persecuted, whether it's any number of areas, it really makes me appreciate who God is. But the context for Psalm 7 is this. It could be that Cush the Benjamite accused David of treason under Saul's leadership, because it begins like this.

David sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjamite. So it could be, they speculate, that he was, this guy Cush, was not very nice, and he would go to Saul and try to get David in trouble. And they didn't mess around in the Old Testament.

I'm telling you. When a king would be dethroned, they would kill the family of the heirs if they were fighting for the kingdom. And it was just a bloody, messy, the Old Testament is ruthless. It reminds me of some third world countries today.

If you go to, let's say, Syria or Iraq or what you're seeing the rise of ISIS and what happened recently, it's brutal, it's Old Testament brutality. So David knew this could eventually end his life, whatever is going on.

Trusting God When Persecution Threatens

So he opens in 7 .1, O Lord my God, in you I put my trust. Now highlight that because you need to open your mornings with this. This will get you back on track. Not, oh, woe is me. Woe is me. Here's another day.

Oh God, I'm complaining. Why do I live here? My friends get to move. And you look at Facebook and think everybody's having fun except me. But he clarifies it. It's a very good point. O Lord my God, in you I put my trust.

Save me from all those who persecute me and deliver me lest they tear me like a lion rendering me in pieces while there is none to deliver. So I don't know if you've been here but there's a threat coming against him.

Maybe a relational issue. It's hard for us because we read this and they take it up to the next level. We've never had somebody pursuing you to kill you, most of us. We haven't had being tore to pieces by lions and beasts and different things.

It was a very difficult period to live in. So what he's saying, Lord, I'm putting my trust in you because there are those after me and they want to tear me like a lion. So here's the key from this first point.

You must have faith when praying to God. Prayer without trusting God is futile or futile depending on how you pronounce it. You have to have trust in God as you pray and we've been talking about prayer the last few weeks.

You must have faith when you pray to God. Go to God believing that he will answer, believing that he hears you. But Shane, I don't see anything. Right, that's faith. Faith is the evidence of things not seen.

It's things we hope for. That's what faith is. So we begin, we're ending this series on prayer even though the message isn't titled prayer. It really is focusing on building our faith and trusting in God.

The Furnace of Affliction and the Cost of Christian Discipleship

Here's what we have to learn. Faith is like, how many of you have lifted weights before? And you get stronger, you get stronger, you get stronger. Your muscle adapts to that. That's what faith often has to do.

It has to be challenged. And you want to say, God, I want to trust God. Lord, I want to trust you with all of my heart. Be careful because how do you develop trust? You have to go through situations where trust is challenged, where trust is built up.

I remember it was 1950s, I believe, A .W. Tozer, maybe the 40s, he was a little bit young. He told a man, he said, oh, I want to live for God more than anyone in my generation. And he said, Tozer, be ready to suffer.

That is very true. There's what they call the furnace of affliction. Have you heard that term before? The furnace of affliction. They would put gold into a furnace or precious metals and the heat would bring out all the impurities and what would be left would be the fine gold, the fine silver.

They would get rid of what they called the dross. It was not good. But they had to go through the furnace in order for that to happen. So they call it the furnace of affliction. When the world or the enemy or whoever afflicts us and through that affliction you come out better and stronger and more in love with God and trusting him.

See, the thought that Christianity is easy and carefree really was brought in part of the American gospel. To be healthy and wealthy and Jesus just wants to be your butler and that genie in the bottle.

Man, it's just wonderful. It's battle. It's warfare. It's warfare. I wake up every day realizing I'm going to battle for my family, for my children, for this church, for our nation. And I don't want to look back on my life and say I didn't do much.

I thank God that he's called us to make a difference in our society, don't you? Could you imagine living your whole life and well, I did get a work. I saved. I retired. I've got a good 401k. I'm going to go just relax now.

And doing nothing for God? The Christian life is a life of battling and struggling, contending and building. But you know, many of you that have worked out before, back to the muscle analogy, don't you feel better?

I mean, when I can get up and I can go run for an hour or jog, I don't run. I should probably jog or walk fast. But I feel better. I've done something, done something laborious. And I remember one thing I miss about construction, some people make fun of my construction background like everybody should be a lawyer, I guess.

But one thing I miss is getting home and you did something. You know, you builders have built houses or done something. I was in heavy equipment. I was all underground utilities. I did everything underground.

Digged for Southern California Edison, Southern California Gas. And you got off of work and you're dirty. I'd use eight Q-tips getting all the dirt out of my ears and nose and did something. You're created to do something.

You felt good to do that work. Now that's also what's happening you're seeing in America is this entitlement society. I don't know if you know what that is, but the reason socialism is popular now among young adults and millennials is because I don't have to work as hard.

And doesn't that sound good? It sounds good, but it's not even biblical because God rewards those who are diligent and work hard. And we're supposed to help those in need. I'm not talking about that. But people will feel good about themselves when they contribute to society.

Just getting a check in the mail and having house payment paid and food paid and you just sit around and get a check in the mail all the time, doesn't make people feel well. They don't feel like they've done anything.

That's why a lot of times they're crabby or in a bad mood. And again, disclaimer, because I don't want to get, anytime we're talking about this, I get emails, people saying, well, I'm the exception to the rule.

Yes, yes, we need to help people. But we are helping way too many people the wrong way. And there's something about working hard and making a difference. But this really stood out. Oh Lord, my God, in you I put my trust.

Passion, Position, and Promise in Prayer

For some reason I saw passion, position, and promise. Boy, that's a good sermon. I found three Ps, three points there. But there's a passion when you go into prayer. If you just wake up just tired and I guess I gotta do this, do you think that's gonna be dynamic?

Passion, there has to be a passion. God, hear me this morning. I got up this morning, I said, God, I need to hear from you. Just turn the little light on and just want to hear from you and read the word and God, speak to me and there's a passion because you're hungry for it.

This type of hunger is never satisfied, is it? The hunger for God is never satisfied. I have a thirst, I have a thirst for God that no earthly stream can fulfill. I've got a thirst for God, no river here on planet Earth can fulfill that thirst.

This is a deep thirst of deep calling deep. So there's a passion but there's also a position. Lord, my God. This really struck me this week because I thought about how many, do you know how many billions of people are on the Earth?

Of course nobody knows, they speculate. Between six, seven billion. Do you know what percentage can actually say my God? My God. Can you, the gravity of that, the weight of, you can call him God, your God and you can come before God and say my God, my savior, my king and he listens.

So there's a passion, there's a position that he is your God and there's a promise. Lord, I put my what in you? My trust in you. So I really want to encourage people to enter prayer that way. To wake up with a passion.

But Shane, I don't wake up for a passion for prayer. I can guarantee it's because of what you're feeding your mind the day before. Almost nine times out of 10, we can cultivate a passion and a desire for God or we can quench it by how we live our life.

Can you imagine saying, Lord, I'm turning off the television tonight, I don't care if it's game seven. I'm gonna read your word, I'm gonna pray, I'm gonna have my office already cleaned and ready, I'll have the coffee or the tea ready or whatever it is and I'm gonna get up in the morning, I've got my journal out, I'm looking forward to spending time with you.

I'm gonna get to bed early so I can get up early and meet you in the morning before I, and you're looking forward to that. There's a passion, there's a position, God is your God and there's a promise.

As you put your trust in him, he will see you through. But it's interesting there, he said, avoid them from, or help me, Lord, don't let them rend me in pieces. What does that mean? Well, a shepherd would often see a lion or a beast take away a lamb.

And so, I'm sure he saw this before, I've told you a while back, I saw my little puppy get taken by a coyote and it's not a good thing to see, I cannot catch that thing if I tried. He just grabs it and just takes off, about 25, 30 feet away.

And life experience, life experience will teach you how to pray. Life, oh, life will teach you how to pray. The best, when you hear, do you ever hear people and go, that's a prayer warrior? Where did they learn that?

They didn't learn it at school. They learned it through the school of hard knocks. They learned it through life's pressures, the travail of life, the difficulties of life. So he says, Lord, don't let them rend me in pieces.

And we think here, what father would remain silent when his son is being ripped apart by a wild beast? So that's how God, get that picture, get that picture in your head. I do, I have to. God, they're coming after your anointed.

God, they're ridiculing me. They're trying to pull us down. God, don't let them rip us in pieces. Don't let them have their way. God, pray for our nation. Oh, cause you ain't pray that prayer. God, look what they're doing to our children.

Look what they're doing to those little boys and girls who need to be pointed to you, not to a sex change surgery. I can't even believe I'm saying this. God, look what's happening. Cry, weep for our children and our grandchildren, the state of a nation, these little innocent lives that are being tossed to and fro and being used and abused.

Oh God, don't let them rip them apart. Don't let them rip my family apart. God, do something and say something. And you call on God. Spurgeon said, we must be ready for trial, for a trial, for they will surely come.

If God was slandered in Eden, we surely will be slandered in the land of sinners. Gird up your loins, you children of the resurrection, for the fiery trial awaits you. Boy, they could write back then.

In other words, put on your pants, get ready. Get ready, this is battle, this is warfare. This is why we're losing, because we don't understand that it's warfare. This is how I fight my battles, watching Netflix.

This is how I fight my battles, staying busy. I almost sound like Ronnie. No, okay, thank you. I can't do Brant yet. Deep voice. Oh Lord, my God, verse three. If I've done this, have I done what? If there is any iniquity in my hands, in other words, you go before God and you say, Lord, if there is anything in me that is not pleasing to you.

How many of you pray that when you pray? When you go before God, and I do it often, Lord, is there anything in me that is not pleasing to you? And here comes that thought. I gotta deal with that. If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me, or if I have plundered my enemy without cause, let the enemy pursue me and overtake me.

Yes, let him trample my life to the earth and lay my honor in the dust. Why would David say all that? He's just saying, God, if I've done anything wrong, I haven't, so what this guy is doing to me is not justified.

God, would you hear my prayer? David was careful to guard God's anointed. This is probably referring to where David could have killed King Saul twice. God told David, you're going to be king. Did you know that?

God told David when he was a youth that he was going to be king. Samuel went to the house of Jesse, David's dad's house, and he said, I need to see your sons. And Jesse brought out all these sons, and oh man, this has gotta be it, because Samuel's looking at the eyes, looking at the appearance.

Oh, this has gotta be God's anointed. Be careful. Who do you think God is going to use often? He'll just switch it on you. Connie West. Or me, or whoever. He just, the least likely, the least likely God will use.

So anyway, Samuel was going, and he's going, not this one, not this one, not this one. I must have missed God's will. I must have not heard him correctly, because it's not here. There's no one else? And Jesse goes, oh, there's a little lad in the back, tending sheep.

And he said, go grab him. And when he saw David, he poured the oil over his head, that signifies anointing of God. And the Bible says the oil flowed. It was pleasing to God to anoint this man king. Now here's what's interesting.

He was anointed, but he wasn't yet appointed. I'm starting to sound like a TV preacher now. You're anointed, but you might not be appointed. But that's true. That's true. He was called of God. And this might be for some of you.

God has anointed you to do something. Wait for his timing. Wait for his, wait. But Shane, what about if I miss it? You won't, because God pushes you when it's time. God will open doors that no man can shut.

He shuts doors that no man can open. Job actually says when he imprisons a man, there is no release. When God does something, he sees it through. And David was called, he's anointed, all right, what do I need to do?

Go tend sheep for a while. But often knowing what you're going to do or knowing what God is calling you to do helps prepare you. Because now you can start preparing for the weight of responsibility that you will carry someday.

And again, quoting Spurgeon, as the shadow falls, I'm sorry, as the shadow follows a person, so envy pursues goodness. This man was envious of David. It is only at the tree laden with fruit that men throw stones.

If we would live without being slandered, we must wait till we get to heaven. Let us be very needful not to believe the flying rumors which are always harassing gracious men. In other words, if you live for Jesus in this day and age, you will be harassed.

You will be slandered. Instead of us going, oh, oh, I feel so bad. That's kind of a badge of honor. Saying, okay, I'm doing something for, now remember, they can dislike the truth, but don't have them dislike you.

They don't have to, you should have a loving attitude, a gracious attitude, a humble attitude, but they're going to hate the truth that you proclaim and they will slander you. You would be amazed at how many people have over the years and are currently trying to slander this church.

Stuff I even laugh at. Like, where did they get that? They just make up stuff. They just completely make up stuff about that church. Oh, that's the cult up there. Oh, they're into moralism, following all these rules.

Oh, this and all that. It's just a bunch of people that are disgruntled, slandering us. The LGBT community, which some of them I know, some of them I reach out to, I talk to them, but a lot of them call that just a mean, right-wing, conspiracy theory, white supremacist.

I mean, they just start throwing all these things at you and slandering you. Slandering you, why? To try to discourage you. So slander's going to come from anyone following Jesus. So it does beg the question, if you're not being slandered, if you can just go to work and nobody knows anything, now, don't go get fired.

You got to use wisdom. But there should, when you look, when you have the light of Christ in you, you look a little bit different. People are going to see there's a difference there. And then verse six, arise, oh Lord.

It's funny when the writers of the Bible say this. It's like, come on, God, get up. Get up, arise. You ever tell your kids that? Come on, get up, we're running late. So David's, come on, Lord, get up, we're running late.

This is coming against me, come on, arise, Lord. Don't you do that? We don't say arise, Lord, but we say hurry up. I need to know by the month's end. I need to know what's going on. I need to know, Lord, what to do.

And many times it's just wait. Do what you're supposed to do. Show up on Wednesdays and preach. Show up on Sundays and preach. Meet with people, lead the church, be faithful wife, be a faithful husband.

Tongue-tied tonight. And do these things what I've called you to do. Rest in what you already know to do. So arise, oh Lord, in your anger. Lift yourself up. Come on, God, get off the couch. You tell your kids that?

Get off that couch. Come on, do something. David's getting, so what I like about this is there's legitimate frustration. I say, come on, God, do something. Don't let this, don't let this drag on. And often God will change my heart.

Here's what happens. I say, go get them, God. And I start to pray for them. Because do we really want God to go get them? Or save them? One of the things I'm praying for our legislators in this state is God either save them or remove them from office.

God, please, wake up. Wake up. Rise up for me to judgment you have commanded. So the congregation of the people shall surround you for their sake, therefore return on high. David may have felt that God was sleeping or inactive.

Have you ever been there? God, you're not hearing me. This is not working. I like what Psalm 121 says in the Berean Study Bible. Behold, the protector of Israel will not slumber or sleep. If you take anything away tonight, take that one.

The God you serve. That's why I love that word they use. Behold, the protector of Israel. The protector of his people. That God never sleeps nor slumbers. He doesn't have to have seven hours of sleep.

He's not resting. He's not away somewhere. This is an ever-present help in time of need. You cry out and you call out to God. But shame, he's not moving on my behalf. But at least he hears. At least he's saying, wait, wait.

Wait on me. But what does waiting do? Those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They will mount up wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint. Those who wait on God.

Because see, it's in the waiting time that my strength begins to get back. Isn't it interesting that a Samson began to wait and began to tread with the oxen and his hair began to grow back. The anointing of God began to grow back on Samson's life.

As he waited on God. Lord, my eyes are gouged out. There's nothing I can do. But his anointing came back as he waited on God. And that little boy took him by the hand. And he felt the pillars. He could literally feel the pillars of the Colosseum.

And he said, oh my God, avenge me for my two eyes and let this come down on the Philistines. Kill these wicked people. And the anointing of God came back on this man's life because he waited on God. He was broken and humble and he pushed with all his might and the Colosseum came down.

And I love what the King James says. The dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life. Meaning he finished strong. He messed up but God used him again. And he's saying here, rise up to the judgment you have commanded.

So the congregation of the people you shall surround you. God, the congregation needs you. Have you said that before? God, my family needs you. God, this church needs you. And then verse eight, the Lord shall judge the peoples.

God as Just Judge and Defender of the Righteous

Judge me, oh Lord, according to my righteousness and according to my integrity within me. And it's interesting. Some people don't like this part. They're like, well, David's saying he's righteous and there's integrity within him but God says that he will give every man and woman according to the fruit of their doing, according to their ways.

Where's their heart? Do they have a heart of repentance? And he said here, according to my righteousness and according to my integrity within me. Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end but establish the just for the righteous God tests the hearts and minds.

See, I knew I read that somewhere. The righteous God tests the hearts. He tests the minds. Verse 10, I love this verse. This week it really just ministered to me. My defense is God. Your defense is God.

Yes, you will be outnumbered. You will be outfunded. You won't have many voices but you plus God is what? A majority. My defense is God. Yes, it looks like the political system is falling apart. Is there any Christians left on the planet?

Or at least in America? Of course, we know that. But you look around, we're outnumbered. The media, the fake news. Do you know you can't believe everything you read on the internet? And it's like just avalanche, just school districts.

The government, it's just like Lord, we are being overrun. God says no, you're not. I'm still on the throne. My defense is God. God, you're my strong tower. That's why I said we will live that song out.

There's another in the fire. When all hell's breaking loose and everything's coming against you. There is another standing by you when the waves of adversity come to take you over. There is another one holding back the sea.

See, that's what God does. He gives us what we can handle or actually gives us more than we can handle. And we begin to trust in him and rely on him and look to him and say, you are my defense. How are you going to say God's my defense unless you've ever been attacked?

He saves the upright in heart. God is a just judge and God is angry with the wicked every day. Remember I talked about earlier, the mountains and the valleys. And he's changing his tone here. Arise God, you are my defense.

And God judges. God judges. When my enemy bears down, my strength only increases often because God is there holding me up. He is a just judge. He is angry at wickedness and sin. And you need to know that this evening.

Just because we don't see a lot of things happening, God is angry at sin. He's angry at wickedness. And then verse 12. If he does not turn back, he will sharpen his sword. He bends his bow. In other words, if he does not turn back, notice how it's not a capitalized he.

If he does not turn back, if the warnings that God puts out there, if that person doesn't turn back, did you know that God is gracious? I'm just reading in Jeremiah this morning, I can't believe how gracious God is.

He tells Jeremiah go prophesy against these people. They're not going to listen to you. However, could it be that they relent? I'm sorry, could it be that they turn back to me and I relent the disaster that I'm going to have come upon them?

Could it be Jeremiah preached to these people? So it's the same thing here. If he doesn't turn back, God will sharpen his sword. He bends his bow and makes it ready. Well, does God really have a sword or a bow?

No, what he's saying here, what he's saying here is that God does not shoot at random. You're going to read he makes his arrows into fiery shafts. God does not shoot at random. It's precision and it's precise.

He also prepares himself instruments of death. He makes his arrows into fiery shafts. So you have to read all of God's word to get his, understand his true nature. So many people do daily devotionals and they turn right to the scriptures they like.

Oh look, God is love. Jesus forgives me. Don't cast a first stone. Love your neighbor. But you have to read it, the whole scripture to see what his heart is. God has set his standard. If he does not turn back, I will sharpen my sword, I will bend my bow and I will make it ready and I will prepare myself instruments of death.

He makes his arrows into fiery shafts. So remember this, God sets a standard that you have to turn back to. Now, I don't know if this is for anyone here this evening, but it might be. It could be that you're unhappy.

Could it be that things are not going well. Could it be that you've drifted from God and that God says return back to me. God's not going to go, oh that's right. Let's compromise. I told you this Sunday, God's not in heaven saying let's make a deal.

What's he saying? This is the deal. This is the deal. We're not going to make a deal. This is the deal. Turn back to me. He would cry out to the children of Israel. He would cry out to wayward nations.

He would cry out to his people. His cry goes out, turn back to me. But if you don't turn back, my judgment hand must fall. Consequences must happen. Discipline must take place. And people say, but Shane, I don't understand that.

How could God do this? Here's why. Because God is truth. Once he sets truth in motion, it can't be discarded. Then it becomes a lie. Then it becomes falsehood. So when God says, choose life that you may live.

Follow me. Follow my commandments. Your days will be well. I will be with you if you do these things. And if we don't do these things, God can't go, well, you know what? Yeah, I take all that back. He sets truth in motion and truth will not return void.

So that's why God's word is so important in these dire times. We have to look to that. That's your gauge. And how many times did God say, if you turn back, I will relent. If you turn back, I will relent.

It's not a one time. He was constantly pleading with the people. A man by the name of E .W. Hengstenberg, 1845. He said, so hard and stiff-necked and unabashed are the ungodly that however many threatenings may be urged against them, they will still remain unmoved.

Have you ever met those people? They're so prideful. Only God himself can move them. But in these words, he goes on to say, but in these words, he forcibly describes how God's anger presses hard upon the ungodly, though they will never understand this until they actually experience it.

See, that's why God presses down on people so they experience that and they turn, they change. Like this, the pressure cooker, have you ever used those when the heat's turned up? Or pressure of a vice.

Vice, ow, okay. So when God turns on the pressure, that's when people hopefully respond. And again, he makes his arrows into fiery shafts. In other words, he does not shoot at random. Remember that, guys.

He has a purpose. He is methodical. God is precise. He does not miss it. He doesn't almost get it. He doesn't change course and change his mind and say, I could have things done better. He's always on time.

He's the on-time God. He's precise. He's right to the point and according to his will. And then verse 14, behold. Behold means look at this. Look at this. The wicked brings forth iniquity. Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood.

That's what the wicked do. That's what they're doing in our nation right now. They are conceiving trouble. They are bringing forth falsehood. They are bringing forth lies. That's why so many, that's why I have a heart for the younger generation.

Because they're believing lies. They hate our president. They hate the direction of America because they're believing lies. Where do you get your information from? Ask them. Well, CNN and the Huffington Post.

Oh, well. That's not a good source usually. You have to go to God's word and you look at Christian character and you get the right information. Behold the wicked brings forth iniquity. Yes. Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood.

God’s Judgment and the Wicked Reaping Their Own Destruction