TRANSCRIPT OF TALK
LT GOVERNOR MARK ROBINSON
AT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdIyomHWxjQ
The very first thing we're going to do is thank the
Lord, the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. You know I do that at every event that
I’m at and you would be shocked at how much pushback I get on that on social
media platforms twitter facebook, all the social
media universe people tell me all the time. Matter of fact I just got a
message, another message, the other day from someone who says, “I support you
but I’m not a Christian and I think that you shouldn't emphasize Christianity
so much because everyone's not a Christian”. And you know I kind of wanted to
respond back to him, and I wanted to respond back to several of those folks,
but I’ve chosen to do it corporately in venues like this. You know I’m not a
Muslim, I’m not a Buddhist, but I don't fault anyone who is a Muslim or a
Buddhist for speaking up for their faith. Why is it
that everyone always wants to fault Christians for speaking up for their faith.
When was the last time you saw a anybody in the public
who was a Muslim, who chose to give Allah praise, being demonized? When was the
last time you saw Buddhists being demonized for being a Buddhist? It's always
Christians who are told to be quiet, to be silent about your faith. The truth be told we should be the ones who should be the loudest,
because every good and holy thing that has ever happened on this planet and yes
in this nation only came at the behest of Christians. Was it any other religion
that brought this nation into being? See I like to say it like this, and this
is true, this is a true fact, I believe it with all my heart. What sets this
nation apart from any other nation is this, when our founding fathers sat down
and wrote that declaration of independence they wrote these words: they said we
hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they
are endowed, not by a king, not by a senator, not by a president, not by any
man on earth, but by their creator with certain inalienable rights. And I
believe when God heard those words he set up on His throne and He said, that is a nation that finally gets it. That's a nation I
can get behind, and I will. And you think about it, even at our inception when
we were stained with the filth of slavery, even at times in this nation at our
lowest points we were torn apart by our civil war, and we were involved in
world wars. You think about who it was it brought us
through. We didn't go back and reach back to some egghead, thinking he had all
the solutions. We had pastors and presidents and pundits that got down on their
knees. The churches were full at the worst times in this country. That's what
brought us through. One of the things that blows my mind more than anything I
can remember distinctly before 911 happened (and I can think about all the
anti-Christian rhetoric that I heard coming from the news media and coming from
education and coming from every corner in this country) but when those
buildings came down and we saw that mass murder happen right in front of our
eyes, this country ran back to God. They ran back to that flag. And something
tells me that if you stayed there up underneath it maybe that never would have
happened. That's what brings us through at every turn, and that's what lets us
know that Christianity is what sets us apart in this world. It's what set this
nation as a shining light on the hill. It's not those founding documents, it's what's behind those founding documents. And
what's behind those founding documents is the word of God, and his wisdom, and
the faith that we have in it. So we give Him thanks first and foremost as
always. So what we're going to talk about today is something I talk about a
lot.
Politics
I’m not going to talk about politics. I’m going to
talk about the opposite of politics. You see there are a lot of churches out
there. I’ve heard a lot of pastors say this, “I’m not political and my church
is not political we don't do politics”. Pastors who say that they're not Political are oftentimes politically correct. What do I mean
by that? Pastors that say that they're not political are the ones that kowtow
to the federal government. They're the ones that are afraid to speak up about
the issues they need to speak up about because they're afraid folks might start
leaving the pews. They're afraid to speak up for those issues because they're
afraid the federal government might come in and snatch away that tax exempt
status. They're afraid because the news media might come in and say something
bad about them. Pastors who say they're not political are politically correct.
In short they're nothing but cowards! And why do I say that? I say that because
the issues that face this nation in this world are not political. We have
turned those things over to the politicians, things that we should be dealing
with right here in the church we have turned over to the politicians. And
because of that we are creating, literally creating, chaos. You see the church
has the answer politicians don't have. To a politician the answer is, I’m going
to write a bill that's going to make me look good so I can get real left.
That's the politician's solution. The church, the Word of God has the solution.
We turn these issues over. We turn them over to people that don't have our best
interests at heart, that are not going to put God's wisdom into it. And what
are those issues? The number one issue on my radar is, I tell people all the
time certain things I'm not going to give on. I don't care what they say about
me. I don't care what they call me. I’m not going back on it! I’m not turning
back on the number one thing; abortion.
Abortion
I don't care who you are. I don't care how cleaned up
you are. I don't care how many PhDs and abc's you got
behind your name. If you believe in abortion I’m not voting for you and I’m not
riding with you. See abortion is not just is not a political issue because I’m
going to tell you something, when it comes time to pay the bill for abortion
we're not going to pay that bill to the supreme court, or the senate, or the
congress, or some foreign country, we're going to pay that bill right here;
Yeah it's going to be paid in Jesus Christ. we're going to have to give an
account as to why we stayed silent while innocent life was taken with impunity
in this nation, time and time and time again. It's going to be a price to pay
because of that, just like there was a price to pay for the awful sin of
slavery in this nation. And boy did we pay it! Often times we forget what a
terrible time this nation went through over that pivotal issue; all the
hundreds of thousands of lives and all the blood that was shed over that sin.
Abortion is the same way. This nation that calls itself a free nation, whose
first tenant, our very first tenant in our founding documents, is the right to
life. That's not hard to understand, the right to life. We'll have to give an
account in this nation, where we say that life is the very first tenet of our
founding documents, while we're so willing to snatch life away, innocent life
away, without even a second thought. You know it grieves me when I see people
standing outside of prison protesting the death penalty for some mass murder,
some person has killed 20 people, four or five people, or grievously killed
some family, or grievously killed some children. People will stand outside and
protest those people's execution and lament about how the death penalty is not
right for criminals who have committed these egregious crimes. Meanwhile some
of those same people will stand outside and gleefully invite people to come into
the abortion clinic kill babies that are blameless in this world.
Daddies
You see God said he knew us before he formed us in the
womb. That's all I need to hear to know that that's a human being inside that
womb. It's not your body anymore, it's not your body, and when I say it's not
your body I’m talking about the daddies too. Can't leave them out of the
equation because I firmly believe if it wasn't for so many of these sorry
wrestlers out here that won't take care of their children and won’t, stand up
and make a home with these women, they wouldn't be running that abortion
clinic. So as a man I don't blame the abortion crisis on women. I blame it on
men who have abdicated their throne as fathers, and heads of their household.
But it is not a political issue, it is a spiritual issue. It
needs to be picked up; a mantle that needs to be picked up by the church and
pastors. And you all should consider yourselves lucky to sit under one
who's not afraid because in this day and age they are rare.
And another issue it's going to sound kind of funny to
some people, and I’ve had people question me about this. Another issue is this
thing called the second amendment. Now why in the world would I be standing up
here in the pulpit talking about owning guns and having the right to keep and
bear arms. Why in the world would you say that's a
spiritual issue. Well let's just go back to the
founding documents. We don't even really have to go back to the Bible. And
there's plenty examples in it where Jesus told folks they should own a sword;
you know go get your sword you need your sword. You know you don't need a sword
for cutting down grapes and chopping up vegetables. We all know what a sword is
for. But then our founding document says its rights come from God. Now I want
you to think about this. To every animal God has given the ability to defend
itself. You know I was reading a story one time about slugs. Garden slugs are a little disgusting creatures that make your skin crawl when
you see them. They look absolutely objectionable. But God didn't even leave the
garden slug out. A garden slug has little enzymes in it that make it
unappealing for folks to eat. Certainly we wouldn't want to eat them. But even
some animals look at garden slugs and find them unappealing, because there's an
enzyme in them that gives off something that drives creatures away. And there's
even an inside enzyme in some of them that if creatures eat them they'll
automatically spit them out. God gave the garden slug a way to defend itself.
Now if God gave the garden slug a way to defend himself, what makes you think
he didn't give man, who he created in his own image, a way to defend himself. Those ar15s and glock 9
millimeters or 45 calibers; where do you think they came from who do you think
inspired them? God knew the world he was putting us into, so he formed in our
mind the ability for us to be able to defend ourselves from anybody who may
threaten us. We're going to go ahead and get this out of the way right now.
That second amendment that is written in that constitution ain't
got a thing in the world to do with hunting. The men that wrote that wrote it
after they had to free themselves from tyranny, and they weren't being
tyrannized by deer and elk and ducks. They were being tyrannized by those who
had their thumbs on their necks, who considered themselves to be God on earth.
We had to show them what for with what we had in our hands. So that second
amendment, that right to keep and bear arms, that is a spiritual issue that
needs to be taken up right here in this church to make sure that God's people
have a way to defend themselves because let's think about what has happened and
transpired over the last just the last 10 years.
Jackbooted
Thugs
People used to tell me I was crazy when I’d say there's
going to be a day when jack booted thugs would walk into the church and shut
the church down, and tell you you couldn't have
church. They used to literally tell me I was crazy, that would never happen in
Education
They have turned their backs, and turned it over to a
bunch of people who do not have your best interests at heart, and certainly
don't have your children's best interests at heart. I sit on the state school
board every day and one word I hear more than anything the one word I hear more
than education it's this crazy word they got, equity. Equity, equity we have to
make sure everything is equity. I get so tired of hearing that word I don't
know what to do. It's not about education anymore. Folks I’ll tell you exactly
what it's about it's about a word we call indoctrination. That's what's going
on in our schools. People don't like to hear it. They don't want to hear. But
that's what's going on. Why should the church pick this up, because I’m going
to tell you like this, if you study through history the church is the one that
formed the schools. There wouldn't be any public
education if it wasn't for the church, even higher education. Harvard itself
was formed by the church. Public education was championed by folks in the
church using Christian principles. There used to be a time in this nation you
couldn't walk in to a school and not see the Ten Commandments, not see a Bible,
not see folks praying. The further we move away from it the further we find our
schools in chaos. The very moment they fired God from the public school, when
they said no more prayer, was the very moment public schooling started to take
a nosedive. And it's been headed towards the ground ever since. And there's still people that don't believe it, even through all
the chaos that we saw in public schooling during the 1970s, even when what we
saw through the 1980s and the 1990s. We have reached a point in public schools
now were we're telling our children, don't be so sure you're a little girl, or
a little boy you know you can question that. You know nothing blows my mind
like this. There are people out there that think that even though I’m a 53 year
old man with no criminal record, and served in the
Race
And it's not going to happen until the people of God
stand up and demand different; the same people of God that established those
schools to begin with. We talk about critical race theory. Nothing angers me
more than when we talk about that. I want you to think about something. Think
about how far this country has come in such a short time in race relations.
Think about it! Think about where we used to be not two God awful long ago. You
could have left and walked out the doors of this church and walked right down
the street and see slave shacks. Wasn't too long ago, some of those buildings
are still standing right now. There are some people who knew folks who lived in
that condition still to this day; wasn't that long ago. It wasn't that long ago
when some folks couldn't go everywhere in town. Everybody couldn't go to school
together, couldn't eat together, couldn't worship together, and couldn't marry
one another. If we don't walk through all that pain and all that suffering and
learn all those lessons and come together. Now we worship together, eat
together, learn together, serve together. We got this
country that's more racially harmonized than any other place on earth. And I
dare you to find one. Now you got these morons, (and yes, where's the camera
at, I call them morons) want to take our children into schools our teachers in
the schools and teach them a theory that says everybody is still racist; and
not drive us forward but drive us backwards, not drive us closer together drive
us further apart. It's insanity! And again if it isn’t time for the church to
get involved I don't know when it will be. The key to ending critical race
theory (that lion in
Police
We have courageous men and women in this country that
have given their lives for that flag and what it stands for, and giving their
lives for us. It's time for the church to stand up, and pick that flag up and
carry it on in those people's honor, and make sure that they come first and not
last. And so veterans it's not a political issue. That's a spiritual issue, and
should be picked up by the church. Finally, another that goes hand in hand with
those veterans is these police officers out here. One thing in this nation
right now that's more dangerous than anything is what's going on with our
police officers. If somebody had told me five years ago that some morons,
because that's the only way to describe them, were going to be running around
in the streets hollering black lives matter and saying that we need to defund the police, I would have told you that you were
crazy. But it's here. Let me tell you about police officers. If you don't know,
and I’m sure all y'all know, but if you got friends and neighbors who
misunderstand this, we need to tell them that a police officer is a man or a
woman who gets up every day puts on a badge puts on a uniform puts on a gun
gets in a patrol car goes into a neighborhood full of a bunch of people that
can't stand them, and risk their lives for the people in their neighborhoods
who can't stand them. Who does that sound like? What does that sacrifice remind
you of? Despised, disrespected, spit on disregarded,
underpaid, demonized, but sacrificing their lives for the very people who are
doing that to them, who does that sound like? If there's ever a blessing
that we have in this nation it is that we still even have just one person
that's willing to put that uniform on. Not only do we have one we have
thousands hundreds of thousands that are willing to do it, not because they
want to get rich or famous or be the big man in town, but because they know
it's the right thing to do. They feel led by God to do it. And if there's a
mantel to be picked up by the church and by our pastors it should be to defend
the police, not defund the police. Stand arm and arm
with them because this is a spiritual issue. Policemen just didn't come up out
of ether. Just because the same God who looked and said I will bless this
nation, He blessed this nation with men and women who would stand up and fight
for it. He blessed this nation with men and women who would stand up and
protect us on our streets. Now that he's given it to us across the nation let
me tell you this, there is no other place on earth that is patrolled and
policed like this land. Other people come from other countries and they are
amazed that we have police officers that are as honest as they are. They don't
understand it. They don't understand how in a nation this size all police
officers are not corrupt. They don't understand it because where they come from
most of their police officers are corrupt.
Black
Lives Matter
But in this nation God has seen fit to give us good
decent men and women who are willing to do this difficult job. And what have we
done? How do we repeat talk of defunding them? You're
kidding me. So many in the church have been silent and been afraid to speak up.
They've been brow beat by folks like black lives matter. Let me tell you about
black lives matter. Black lives do not matter to black lives matter. You know
how I know that? Because if they did, you know where they would be instead of
being at the police station, they would be down at the gang hangout, in the
drug dealer's house, burning that down. They'd be down there at the abortion
clinic burning that down, if black lives really matter to them. Don't be afraid
of those folks. Those folks are nothing but socialist liars and nitwits. They
don't have the truth on their side. They don't have God on their side! And
again defending these police officers and law enforcement in general is a mantle
the church needs to pick up, and carry, and fight for, and believe in, and not
be afraid to do so because it's not a political issue at it's core it's
spiritual. Now I haven't said all this about all these issues for nothing. None
of this will make any difference, none of it will make any difference, without
one thing, without one thing, and that's you. And no you won't make a
difference in the fight unless you make that decision. And what is the
decision? It is the decision to stand up and fight. Maybe is it the decision of
what political side you'll stand on. Maybe the ultimate decision you make is
whether or not you're going to go to heaven; whether or not you're going to go
to hell. Being a republican doesn’t last that long. Being a democrat doesn’t last
that long. Being American doesn’t last that long. But where you go after you
leave here lasts forever. Think about this. Tomorrow is the first day of
eternity forever. Every day when you wake up in eternity it will be the first
day of eternity forever. There isn’t any clock in eternity, you'll be there
forever. And the most important decision you'll ever make in your life is
whether or not you'll follow Jesus Christ, and give him your life, or allow the
devil to rule your life. It doesn’t have a thing to do with politics. It
doesn’t have a thing to do with your nationality. It doesn’t have a thing to do
with your cult. And I tell you this right now. I believe we're going to be real
shocked about who we see in there, and I think we're going to be more shocked
about who we don't see. So the decision we need to make today, before we move
forward on any of these issues, fighting for any of these issues, we got to
make sure that we get ourselves right. We got to make sure that we get right
with God. Stand With Both Feet! We got to make sure that we stand with both
feet, both feet. Not like I used to be. I used to stand firm with both feet,
one foot in one world and one in another, and walked that way for many a year.
I walked that way and my life went nowhere. I was not useful to God one bit by
having one foot in His Word and one foot in the world. Wasn't useful to Him a
bit! It was only when I raised up that other foot and
put it on His side that I became useful. He gave me what I needed to do in
order to do His will not my own. And so today as you think about all those
issues, and how we can combat all those issues, and pick up the mantle of those
issues, and fight for those issues, the very first thing you need to do is ask
yourself, am I ready? And the only way you're really going to be ready as a
warrior for Christ is to give your life to Christ. So I’m asking you today,
have you given your life to Him? Have you given your life? Do you think about
it deep? And if you haven't I encourage you to do so folks because we need
warriors on this side. We need warriors who are standing in the camp of Jesus
Christ. I don't need warriors necessarily to stand with Republicans Democrats
and nobody else. I need warriors who first decide they're going to stand with
Jesus Christ, and stand on His Word, because His Word is infallible. His
strength cannot be matched, and He will not be defeated because I flipped to
the back of the book. Now I don't care what Joe bidden says. I don't care what
anybody says. God's people win. In there we'll stand victorious as long as we
stand with Him. So I ask are you ready? Are you ready for this fight? Do you
stand with Jesus? Have you asked Him to be your Savior? If the answer is yes
come on let's go. But if the answer is no I encourage you to fall down on your
knees, say that prayer and ask Him to come into your heart. I remember
distinctly the day I got saved I don't remember what the preacher said. I don't
even remember the preacher's name. But I knew when I walked out of that service
that I was safe, that I was changed. It didn't happen overnight, but I knew I
was changing. I was on my way to some place different than I had been
previously. So that's what I’m going to leave you with. Get ready for the fight
that we got ahead to save this nation. And the best way you can do that is fall
down on your knees and ask Jesus Christ to save your soul. And then ask Him
what He wants you to do to carry out His will. You do that! And if we do that
all across this nation we'll continue to see this nation thrive, we'll continue
to see it live. And future generations can look back and look at us and say
that we were the people of God who saved this nation; not some political Do
Business With God organization. Not some guy in