Romans: Sin, Judgment, and Gospel Foundations: Praying Against the Wicked

A Call To Prayer - Part 1

Transcript: AI Transcript

Professor: John Weaver

Subject: New Testament Studies

Genre: Sermon

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Date: 2023-02-03

Synopsis: This sermon introduces a call to genuine, desperate prayer in the face of rising global tyranny and anti-Christian agendas. John Weaver distinguishes between merely saying prayers and truly praying, emphasizing that believers must learn to pray imprecatory prayers against God's enemies, not just for personal needs. He argues that the current evil forces—such as the Great Reset, digital control systems, and disarmament—require Christians to cry out to God for justice and deliverance, trusting in His sovereignty to defend His church.

[John Weaver] Psalm 17 and we're just really going to read verse 1 because this message today is basically an introduction and foundation for that which I want to share with you next week. So the title of the message is A Call to Prayer. So look, if you would, beginning with verse one of Psalm 17, David says, Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips or hypocritical lips. A call to prayer is an easy title and an easy subject in one sense of the word. However, when you consider prayer, I'm talking about real, genuine, and true prayer, neither the subject nor the matter is easy.

[John Weaver] And there's a vast difference between saying prayers and praying. Normally, when we raised our children, we would ask them as we took them in bed, did you say your prayers? Instead of asking them, did you pray? And the truth of the matter is most mature and adult Christians end up saying prayers rather than praying. You know, it's interesting that our Lord pointed out that even the heathen pray. They don't necessarily pray to the one true and the living God. They don't pray in faith, and they don't pray according to his will, but at least they do pray. For our Lord said in Matthew 6 and verse 7, but when you pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

[John Weaver] I hope you understand that Muslims hear the call to prayer five times a day. I could ask you this question, do you pray five times a day? At least the heathen pray even if they use vain reputations. I am much afraid that we have become really and truly a prayerless people And I'm afraid that most of us really do not pray, really don't even know how to pray, and we're guilty of just simply saying prayers instead of actually praying. But God has a very unique way of bringing things to pass in our lives, whether it's incidents, whether it's afflictions, whether it's tests or trials that kind of nudge us and really and truly get us to pray. But it's a sad thing to say that really and truly, but most Christians have to be forced to pray. How often do you pray? Well, how often did they pray in the Bible?

[John Weaver] David said in Psalm 5 in verse 3, My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord. In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. So David said, I'm going to pray, but I'm not only going to pray in the morning, I'm going to look up. That is, I'm going to expect an answer from you. And then in Psalm 55 in verse 17, he said, Evening and morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud and thou shalt hear my voice.

[John Weaver] So that was three times a day there. In Psalm 86 and verse 3, he said, Be merciful therefore unto me, Lord, for I cry unto thee daily. So clearly in the Bible, David prayed not only in the morning, not only daily, but sometimes three times a day. So I could ask this. Should we pray three times a day? Should we pray five times a day? Or how often should we pray? Well, the scripture tells you in 1 Thessalonians 5 and verse 17 that we are to pray without ceasing. If you look up the Greek word, you will find that the word actually means to pray without ceasing, to pray without intermission, to pray incessantly, and to pray continually. So someone is going to ask, how in the world is that possible?

[John Weaver] Because I have work to do, I have plans to make, I've got to run here, I've got to run there. How in the world can I pray without ceasing? Prayer does not necessarily mean that you have to stay on your knees 24-7. But I think there's one verse that will help, and I'll explain this a little more next week, Lord willing. But that's Philippians chapter 4 and verse 6, where the Apostle Paul said, be careful for nothing. But in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God." But note what he said, be careful for nothing, but in everything with prayer and thanksgiving.

[John Weaver] It was Stonewall Jackson who said that every letter that he wrote and every letter that he sent, he would always pray and ask God's blessing not only upon the letter but upon the recipient who would be reading that letter as well. So it was an attitude basically of constant and consistent prayer. So it's true we must work But we can ask our Lord, our Heavenly Father, to bless our work. We can also ask Him to bless our plans. We can also ask Him to direct our steps, order our paths.

[John Weaver] In other words, everything that we do can be centered upon Him. So let me put it to you like this. I believe that praying without ceasing means that our mind is constantly and consistently upon God and upon His Word. In other words, our whole life rotates around Him. Everything is centered upon Him because we recognize that He is our all in all. He is our source of everything.

[John Weaver] He is the supplier of our every need. And without Him, according to our Lord, John 15, verse 5, He said, without me, you can do what? Nothing. It's work something. It is, that means you need him. Is planning something? It is, and therefore you need him. Is prayer something? And the answer is yes, therefore you need him. Obviously, we cannot even pray without him. The Bible tells us in Romans chapter 8 that oftentimes when we pray we know not what to pray for as we ought, but it's the Holy Spirit who prays in us with groanings which cannot be uttered. So prayer is something, and that means that we need Him to enable us to pray.

[John Weaver] So praying without ceasing is actually living your life in His presence. Praying without ceasing is recognizing that you need Him in every act, in every thought, and in every decision. Without Him we cannot pray. Without Him we cannot even breathe. For he holdeth our soul and life, and our times are in his hand." So praying without ceasing then is basically a continual and constant recognition of our Heavenly Father and a reliance upon him to supply our every need through the Lord Jesus Christ.

[John Weaver] Now, let me make a clarification. Although this message is titled A Call to Prayer, this message is not about prayer. This message is about praying. I believe that there is a time coming in the not too distant future that we will be praying. I think we'll be forced to pray. I think the time is actually now that we need to understand this and begin praying as well.

[John Weaver] I believe you're quite aware of a simple fact, and that is that evil and wicked men are planning everything that they can plan with the purpose of destroying Christianity, destroying our country, destroying lives. In fact, they've already said openly that five billion people need to die. that we are useless eaters. And the sad fact is that our own government is complicit in this. So we cannot look to man for help. We cannot look to our government for help. We really cannot look to ourselves for help, for we have no power in and of ourselves. So the only source of help that is left is God himself. So we must learn to cry as David did three times in Psalm 80 when he prayed, turn us, O God, and we shall be turned. Also in that same Psalm, he said, quicken us, O Lord, and we shall call upon my name. It's interesting to really pray we must be quickened.

[John Weaver] Now let me just try to give you a little bit of insight of the motivation for this message. It's been based on a number of things that I've been reading for the last several weeks. So let me just ask you, did you know that Klaus Schwab, George Soros, and the Great Reset are now saying that China must lead in the New World Order? China must lead in the New World Order. Did you also know that Klaus Schwab and the Great Reset are now saying that people must give up their automobiles.

[John Weaver] Now, most people, when you hear that, would say, well, they're mighty stupid if they think I'm going to give up my automobile. I need this to go back and forth to work. I need this for that reason and for that reason. No, I'm not giving up my automobiles. Why in the world would they suggest that you must give up your automobile? And the answer is because they have developed what they are calling 15-minute cities. Now if you doubt what I'm telling you, just go home, get on the internet, and Google 15-minute cities. And so what they're proposing now is this, that cities are going to be built And they're going to have everything that you need within 15 minutes of where you are living. Your health resources will be within 15 minutes. Your food resources will be in 15 minutes. You don't need a car because you can walk within 15 minutes.

[John Weaver] That means you would be watched, you'd be tracked, you'd be confined, you'd be controlled, because if you leave your area that you have been assigned, you'll either be fined or arrested. Isn't that amazing? Which would be absolutely total control. And here's one. This will really shock a lot of people. And of course, I think they're in for a rude awakening on this. Let me read it to you.

[John Weaver] The World Economic Forum is now calling for millions of cats and dogs worldwide to be slaughtered in an effort to reduce the carbon paw print they produce as a result of eating meat. The World Economic Forum, which has ordered mainstream media outlets to begin pushing the narrative, wants to introduce an international policy that would require the majority of pet owners to euthanize their own animals. Wow. They don't understand some things about pet owners, I can assure you, especially when some folks like Alice Knight believe that our pets are our children.

[John Weaver] I'm just simply saying, it's absolutely insane. And you consider the fact that now our food sources are being deliberately destroyed as well. The fake and false and foolish agenda of climate control is now being used to foster the overthrow of farming because they are now denying the use of nitrogen and nitrogen-based fertilizers, which have been used for years for the production of food. So farms now are being confiscated globally.

[John Weaver] I want you to listen to this. Here's the headline, Netherlands to confiscate 3,000 farms under the guise of saving the environment. Here's just a couple of paragraphs. One of the biggest sources of rancor In the summertime, Dutch farmer protests went beyond the comparatively minor edict that farms may no longer use nitrogen-based fertilizers, so that the government could acquiesce to the United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, but was rooted in rumors that the government had planned to forcibly seize farms and shut them down. And while those rumors were often derided as mere conspiracy theory, recent reporting shows that they were just another bona fide fact.

[John Weaver] Now, when you stop and think, when I was a boy and I was raised on a farm, my father, way back then, farmed five and six hundred acres at the time. Today, a lot of farmers farm thousands of acres at the time. Do you realize how much food you could actually grow on 500 acres? Do you realize how much food you could actually grow on a quarter of an acre if you really, truly tried to grow food for yourself? When you begin closing down thousands of farms, huge farms, you're going to be destroying a large food source.

[John Weaver] And that is basically what is happening. There's also a push for transhumanism.

[John Weaver] Now, I read an article this past week concerning the combining of humans with artificial intelligence. And already tests and trials are being conducted and plans are being made basically for the overthrow of humanity because you don't need a lot of people when you've got all the robots artificial intelligence doing exactly what they need to do. In fact, I just read another article where McDonald's now is going to be staffed with all robots. Well, that may or may not come to pass, but that was what the article said. On top of that, you have to understand that plans are being made, legislation called for and passed to ban all of our weapons, even hunting rifles. In Canada, they are now banning hunting rifles. Do you understand that once your weapons are taken, you are absolutely defenseless? Tyrants always seek to destroy the weapons of their subjects.

[John Weaver] You cannot enslave an armed population. Let me show you. I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, to 1 Samuel chapter 13. 1 Samuel chapter 13. And look if you would, beginning there with verse 19. 1 Samuel chapter 13 and verse 19. I want to show you how helpless people are without weapons. 1st Samuel chapter 13 in verse 19. The Bible says now there was no Smith found throughout all the land of Israel That is there was no blacksmith there. There was no one there that could really work with metals So now there was no Smith found throughout all the land of Israel for the Philistines said Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears But all the Israelites and went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share in his coulter

[John Weaver] and his axe and his matic Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads." Now watch this. "'So it came to pass in the day of battle that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan, but with Saul and Jonathan his son were they found.'" In other words, Saul and Jonathan were the only two that had any real arms.

[John Weaver] The entire Hebrew nation had been disarmed by the Philistines. Now, if you are naive enough to believe that your government is going to protect you, I have a bridge I need to sell you and it's located in the Mojave Desert. And if you really think the government has your best interest in mind and they're going to protect you, just ask the American Indians. That would be smart. Do you realize, you say, well, you don't need weapons because we have the police. Do you realize that the police have no constitutional authority to protect you at all?

[John Weaver] You remember The shooting at the Marjory Stoneman School in Parkland, Florida, I want to give you a quote. Listen to this. The following last February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, some students claimed local government officials were at fault for failing to provide protection to students. The students filed suit, naming six defendants, including the Broward School District, the Broward Sheriff's Office, as well as School Deputy Scott Peterson and Campus Monitor Andrew Medina.

[John Weaver] Now, here's what Darren L. Hutchinson, who is a professor of law at the University of Florida School of Law, here's what he said. Listen carefully. Neither the Constitution nor state law impose a general duty upon police officers or other governmental officials to protect individuals from harm, even when they know that harm will occur. He goes on. Police can watch someone attack you, refuse to intervene, and not violate the Constitution. Now listen carefully to this next statement. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government has only a duty to protect persons who are in custody. So the only people the police have any right and power to protect are those that they have arrested. So if you're not arrested, they do not necessarily have to protect you.

[John Weaver] Now, all I'm trying to say is, They're trying to take all of our weapons and leave us absolutely defenseless. You must also consider the coming digital dollar, which is known as FedNow. Once you submit to a digital dollar, you've not only given up all your rights to privacy, at the same time, you're going to be totally controlled by a computer. Here's what one author has said, listen carefully. All the pieces are now coming together to control the global population, and this digital prison is already mostly built.

[John Weaver] When it is finished, it will be the final lockdown of mankind. An international vaccine passport, digital identity, a social credit system, and a central bank digital currency form a digital control system that will lock down the population in perpetuity. Facial recognition is an essential part of the control structure, as it's the password to your digital identity. By the end of 2022, which is a week away, By the end of 2022, there will be 1 billion data-collecting surveillance cameras in the world, all connected to the Internet and artificial intelligence. Cameras and audio recording devices in cell phones, automobiles, and smart appliances also collect and share data. All these data are then used to give each person an individual score based upon their behavior, expression, and interaction with the world. Ultimately, your social credit score will dictate what you can and cannot do, what you can and cannot buy, and where you can and cannot go. Artificial intelligence is an absolutely crucial component without which the control system cannot work. The easiest way to push against this system is to starve the artificial intelligence of data by refusing to use technologies that collect and share your personal data.

[John Weaver] Now that I have your attention, hopefully, let me make a statement. I know and I believe that God is absolutely sovereign, that God is in control, And when someone says everything's going wrong, I would add that everything is going wrong just right. But I do not believe for one instance, I do not believe for one instant that God is going to hand over his creation to a handful of petty bureaucrats who claim to be God in order to destroy everything that he's created. Moreover, I do not believe that God is going to allow His people, His church to be destroyed.

[John Weaver] That does not mean that we will not suffer. That does not mean that some of us will not die. But it does mean he is not going to allow his church to be destroyed. I want you to look in your Bibles, if you would, to Psalm 105. And let's look there at verses 13 through 15. Look at what the Bible says. Psalm 105, beginning there with verse 13. Look. In fact, let's begin reading with verse 11. Watch.

[John Weaver] So we're talking about Israel. When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people, He suffered no man to do them wrong, yet he reproved kings for their sake, saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm." When you think of the fact that the church of Jesus Christ is the body of Christ, that means that he is our head. You can read in the book of Ephesians, the book of Colossians, where Jesus Christ is called specifically the head of the church. When you attack the body, you attack the head. So when Christians are attacked by governments, by individuals, they're not only attacking the body, they are attacking the head. And the head happens to be the unbegotten son of God. And God the Father does not take kindly or lightly that someone attacking his son.

[John Weaver] So no, I do not think that the Great Reset, I do not think that the New World Order is going to destroy Christianity. I don't think it's going to destroy the world. But it does mean that it is an evil force that we must face and we must deal with and we have responsibility to do so. That means we must learn to pray against them. I want to emphasize that. I did not say pray for them. I said pray against them. Now, you're going to object and say, Pastor, that's not biblical. The Bible tells us that we're to pray for kings and rulers and for those that are in authority. Yes, it does. But have you ever noticed why God said we're to pray for them?

[John Weaver] If you haven't, let me show you. Look in your Bibles to 1 Timothy chapter 2. 1 Timothy chapter 2. And let's begin reading there with verse 1. 1 Timothy chapter 2 and verse 1. Watch if you would what is said. 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse 1. Paul writes, I exhort therefore first of all supplications, prayers, intercession, and giving of thanks be made for all men. That's all men in general.

[John Weaver] Then he specifies in verse 2, for kings and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior. Now someone says, well, we need to pray for them that they shall be saved. The truth of the matter is, if they were not already saved, they should not be in positions of rulership.

[John Weaver] Read Deuteronomy 17 when you get back home. all through the Word of God. God said, Thou shalt appoint not a stranger, but a brother. But note, if you would, why are we to pray for them? Look in verse 2. For kings and for all that are in authority, why? That we, that is God's people, may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior. We pray for them that they would leave us alone. that we can do what God has commanded us to do we're not praying for their benefit we're praying for our benefit now so let me go back and repeat this we must learn to pray against them you say pastor I don't think that's a biblical attitude but it is indeed a biblical attitude did you know Do you realize that God even commanded Jeremiah not to pray for the people? In fact, Jeremiah wanted to pray for them in Jeremiah chapter 7 and verse 16, and yet God said, Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me for them, for I will not hear thee.

[John Weaver] He said, Jeremiah, don't you pray for them. I'm not going to listen to you. Then when you get to Jeremiah 11 and verse 14, again, God says to Jeremiah, therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me in their trouble. God said, I'm not going to listen to you, Jeremiah, praying for them, and I'm not going to listen to them praying to me. I'm just not going to listen to them. Things were so bad and Jeremiah really wanted to pray for the people. And finally, when you get to Jeremiah 14 in verse 11, God said, all right, Jeremiah, I'm going to let you pray for them. But here's what I want you to pray. Listen carefully. Jeremiah 14 verse 11. Then said the Lord to me, pray not for this people for their good. You want to pray for them? You pray that I'll destroy them because that's exactly what I'm going to do.

[John Weaver] So Jeremiah made intercession against them. Years ago, I preached four messages on imprecatory praying, imprecatory prayers. Maybe I need to re-preach those messages. Or at least maybe you need to go to sermonaudio.com forward slash weaver and listen to them again. When we talk about imprecatory prayers, You must understand that an imprecation is a curse. It is a judgment. It is a condemnation. And when you pray those imprecatory prayers of the Bible, you're calling down God's curse, God's judgment, God's condemnation upon the wicked.

[John Weaver] Now, you might say to me, well, pastor, I don't think that's biblical either. Well, let me encourage you. to go back and listen to another old message that I preached years ago, the biblical doctrine of hatred. And there's a more recent one that I preached a few years back on the doctrine of love and hate. You say it's not biblical for Christian hate. Oh, yes, it is. In fact, if you go back and listen to the message on the biblical doctrine of hatred, I can remember the three main points. Because I preached, number one, on the sovereign's hatred, and I took you through the Bible and showed you. Number two, the Savior's hatred. And finally, number three, the saint's hatred.

[John Weaver] And I'll show you a good illustration of that. If you'll look in your Bibles to Psalm 139, Psalm 139. And let's begin reading there with verse 19. Psalm 139, verse 19. Look what David said. David said, surely, that will slay the wicked, O God." In other words, God's going to destroy the wicked. That's all there is to it. It's just a matter of time. So David says, surely that will slay the wicked, O God.

[John Weaver] Depart from me, therefore, you bloody men. In other words, I don't want to be around the wicked because I know that lightning's going to strike them sooner or later. And here's why. Here's what they do. Look in verse 20. For they speak against thee wickedly. That is, they speak against God wickedly. Psalm 139. Verse 20 for they speak against thee wickedly and by the enemies take thy name in vain Thine enemies take thy name in vain. So they speak against God they curse God and Look what David says in verse 21 do not I hate them? Oh Lord that hate thee and I'm not I agree with those that rise up against thee. I hate them with perfect hatred I count them mine enemies Now, watch if you would. Here are God's enemies, and David says, Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? And am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them mine enemies. Here is a man after God's own heart saying that he hates God's enemies with a perfect hatred.

[John Weaver] And to show you the holiness and the godliness of his heart, He ends that prayer in verses 23 and 24 by saying, Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. It's God's enemies that speak against him. It's God's enemies that take his name in vain. It's God's enemies that seek to dethrone him and overthrow him. It's God's enemies that hates his rule and its reign. It's God's enemies that despise his word. It's God's enemies that try to destroy his people. It's God's enemies that try to destroy his ministry. And David expressed a righteous and a holy hatred for all of those who hated God.

[John Weaver] Let me point something out. We pray for our enemies. We pray against his enemies. Now his enemies actually become our enemies as well. But when we're commanded to pray for our enemies, it's not that our enemies are necessarily his enemies. Usually our enemies are our enemies from our own making because our own incivility, our own wickedness, our own depravity, our own hatefulness. So we pray for our enemies, but we pray against His enemies. Let me tell you something.

[John Weaver] It is impossible to love God unless you hate everything contrary to Him. That's why He said in Amos 5 and verse 15, hate the evil and love the good. You can't love the good unless you hate the evil. You can't love God unless you hate everything that's contrary to Him. So, here's something else. Do not take that old, lame, trite and wicked position saying, well, here's what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to love the sinner but hate the sin. That is an impossible position. It's an impossible position because you cannot separate the sinner from the sin. Have you ever stopped to think that sin is in the sinner? There would not be any sin if there were not any sinners. There is sin because there are sinners.

[John Weaver] Since you're in the book of Psalms, go back in your Bibles to Psalm 5, Lord willing, next Lord's Day, I'm going to be expounding this Psalm. This is why I said that today is basically an introduction and foundation for what I'm going to be sharing with you next week. I expound Psalm 5, but just look at verses 4 and 5. We're not going to look at anything else in this Psalm today, but look in verse 4.

[John Weaver] David says, for thou art not a God that hath pleasure and wickedness, but Neither shall evil dwell with thee. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight. Thou hatest all workers of iniquity." It's not just the iniquity that God hates, it's the workers of iniquity. There would not be any iniquity if there were not any workers of iniquity. So you cannot separate the sinner from his sin.

[John Weaver] You need to let this sink into your heart and in your mind. And here's something else. When you understand this, You also have to understand that in the age that we are living in today, our own governments have become our enemies because they are seeking to destroy us in every area of our lives. They seek nothing but absolute and total enslavement. So will you sit still and be nothing?

[John Weaver] Will you not really pray, not say prayers, but really pray? Here's one of the founding fathers, Sam Adams, who said this, if you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. He said, go home and couch down and lick the hands that feed you. Now, you may ask this question.

[John Weaver] What good will a desperate prayer do in a desperate situation? I would imagine it does quite well. It did for Daniel in the lion's den. It did for the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace. It did for Peter as he was sinking beneath the waves. Those were all desperate situations and desperate prayers. That is for sure.

[John Weaver] Now, I want you to turn in your Bibles to the book of Luke chapter 18. I told you this was not a message on prayer. This is a message on praying. So I want you to look at Luke chapter 18. Because once again, our Lord is telling us about praying without ceasing. He begins in verse 1 and he says this, and he spake a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray and not to faint.

[John Weaver] Words, we're to never give up, we're never to give out, we're never to quit. We're to always pray and not to faint. Then he gives us his illustration. Saying there was in a city a judge which feared not God Neither regarded man. So I have no fear of God wasn't going to do anything right or holy and no regard for a man didn't care and There was a widow in that city and she came on him saying avenge me my adversary And he would not for a while But afterwards he said within himself, though I fear not God, nor regard man, yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me."

[John Weaver] Now I want you to note, here's a man who could care nothing about justice, nothing about righteousness, nothing about holiness. And this would have kept coming and saying, avenge me, my adversary, avenge me, my...

[John Weaver] Finally, he said, I'm going to do it just to get her off my back. I'm so tired of this. And then our Lord makes the application. Look at it, if you would, in verse 6. Our Lord said, hear what the unjust judge said. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. So here's the point. Our Lord is asking, do you think that God the Father is like this unjust judge? Do you think he's uncaring? Do you think he's not interested in justice and righteousness and holiness and truth? The problem is not with God. Our Lord is saying the problem is with us. We're not crying day and night.

[John Weaver] Men ought always to pray and not to faint. We're not crying. We're not screaming. We're not praying. We're not seeing how desperate our situation really is. We're not seeing how desperately we need God. We need His power. We need His strength. We need Him to make bare His arm and take care of the situation. We need that. And this is exactly what He's saying. Martin Luther, the reformer, said this, we should pray that our enemies be converted and become our friends.

[John Weaver] And if not, that their doing and designing be bound to fail and have no success and that their persons perish rather than the gospel and the kingdom of Christ. So it all boils down to this. Who do you rather see perish? the kingdom of evil or the kingdom of Christ? Who do you rather see defeated, the enemy or the Lord Jesus Christ? Who do you rather see destroyed, the wicked or the godly and the righteous? Who do you rather win, those who hate and oppose God or those who love Him and serve Him?

[John Weaver] It was the Puritan David Dixon who said this, If any of the enemies of God's people belong to God's election, the church's prayer against them giveth way to their conversion, and seeketh no more than that the judgment should follow them only until they acknowledge their sin and turn and seek God. You say, well, some of these wicked people may be God's elect, may be God's sheep. That's fine.

[John Weaver] If you had taken a poll in the first century of the man most likely to bust hell wide open, Saul of Tarsus would have won it hands down. Consenting to the death of Stephen, persecuting the church, hailing men and women, casting them into prison. He himself confessed to persecuting the church. And yet Saul of Tarsus met the Lord Jesus Christ on the Damascus Road and became Saul's Became Paul the Apostle. So I'm just simply saying here was one of God's sheep and now undoubtedly the church was praying against him I would have been and This is what? Dixon is saying if there are some of God's people in those enemies who are persecuting us our prayers against them will go just far enough to drive them to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ now When you stop and think about the enemies that we're facing We're not asking, we're not asking God

[John Weaver] to do what we want done to them. We're asking God to deal with the situation in the way that he pleases. Do you realize that God can do one of three things? Number one, he could convert them. And if he converts them, they're no longer our enemies, they're our friends. Saul of Tarsus became the Apostle Paul and became a friend of Christ and believers. The second thing God could do is he could just simply destroy their power, destroy their money supply, or thirdly, God could just remove them. He could kill them. You say, well, I don't know that God should do that or would do that. Oh, yes, he would. In fact, if you will look in your Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 7, not only will God do it, God is not reticent to do it. If you look in Deuteronomy chapter 7, and let's begin reading there with verse 9, Deuteronomy 7 and verse 9, look what God says.

[John Weaver] Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God, The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him, and keepeth his commandments to a thousand generations. Now look. And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. What? God's not embarrassed to strike the wicked down. He will pay him, the Bible says, to his face.

[John Weaver] Now, one thing that I do in praying is I ask God to take away the power of the enemy. Political power. Monetary power. Take it away from those individuals and give it to someone who will use it to advance his kingdom and bring him honor and glory. Where would George Soros be without his billions? Where would Klaus Schwab be? Where would Zuckerberg be? Where would Bill Gates be?

[John Weaver] If they have no money, they have no influence. They have no power. I'm just simply saying, and God can take that away just as easy as pie. So, I'm talking about praying. So in light of the situation that we're living in, and the dangers that we're facing, how should we pray? Well, I can give you some scriptures. I believe that we should pray the scriptures. There are numerous imprecatory prayers in the Bible. Just for time's sake, let me quote some. You write down the scriptures if you would, please.

[John Weaver] For instance, how about this one? You will find this in Psalm 104 and verse 35 Think about this now Psalm 104 verse 35 David prayed Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more Blessed thou the Lord O my soul praise ye the Lord. Did you hear what he prayed? Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more You say how can I pray such a thing? Have you ever prayed the Lord's Prayer?

[John Weaver] Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. Do you know what's going to happen when His kingdom comes fully, completely, totally? You need to read 2 Thessalonians 1, beginning with verse 7. And you who are in trouble, rest with us. When our Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven in flaming fire, taking vengeance on those that know not God and obey not the gospel. What? What's He going to do?

[John Weaver] That's exactly what David is praying. Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more. He's praying, basically, thy kingdom come, the fulfillment, the totality of thy kingdom. And I like this one in Psalm 7 verses 8 and 9. Listen to this one. The Lord shall judge his people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity that is in me. And then David says this, O, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the just, for the righteous Lord trieth the reins in the heart. Let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the just.

[John Weaver] By the way, that is a wonderful prayer concerning Jesus Christ. You know what he's called in the New Testament, the just one. Establish thou the just. Yes, establish the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Establish the Son of God. How about this one? In Psalm 59 in verse 13, where David prayed, consume them in thy wrath, consume them that they may not be, and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Consume them. Let them know that God is on the throne. Here's another one. Psalm 83 verses 17 and 18. David prayed, let them be confounded and troubled forever. Yea, let them be put to shame and perish that men may know that thou whose name alone is Jehovah are the most high over all the earth. Let men know that you are How about this one in Psalm 55 verse 23? David said, but thou, O Lord, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction.

[John Weaver] Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. And I love this one in Numbers chapter 12 verse three, because Moses prayed this As they took up the ark, as the camps moved, he prayed, rise up, O Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let those that hate thee flee before thee. Another one that is quite similar to that is Psalm 68, verses one through three. And I love that passage. Where the word of God says, let God arise, Let his enemies be scattered. Let them also that hate him flee before him.

[John Weaver] And then he gives several illustrations. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melted before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. But let the righteous be glad and let them rejoice before God. Yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. Let God arise. Let his enemies be scattered. Let also them that hate him flee from before him." There are multitudes of prayers against God's enemies in the Bible. There are multitudes of imprecatory prayers. We must learn to pray these prayers with intensity, with determination. The saints of old prayed these prayers.

[John Weaver] This message today, I entitled it a call to prayer. Not just to say prayers, but actually to pray. Because we are given in the Word of God where God is interested in justice. Justice, the Bible tells us, is the habitation of His throne. And you look around at all of the injustice that we see, not just in this country, but globally. And God is the one who's able to take care of this.

[John Weaver] And in order for him to do so, we must repent. We must seek him. We must obey him. We must believe. We must pray.

[John Weaver] Now, let me make a couple of applications. The first one is this. David prayed for deliverance from his persecutors. He was wickedly and wrongly persecuted. Remember David was a man after God's own heart. Here's a sample in Psalm 142 in verse 6 David prayed Attend unto my cry for I am brought very low deliver me from my persecutors For they are stronger than I He recognized the strength of the enemy and he prayed against them Psalm 28 in verse 1 he said unto thee will I cry O Lord my rock be not silent unto me lest if thou be silent unto me I become like them that go down to the pit in other words God you've got to do something or my enemies will overwhelm me it's what he's saying finally in 64 Psalm 64 in verse 1 hear my voice O God in my prayer preserve my life from fear of the enemy So he's asking God to protect him and preserve him.

[John Weaver] So we must learn to pray these prayers. Here's the second one. We must learn to think generationally. Let me show you what I'm talking about. I want you to turn in your Bibles to Isaiah 39. Isaiah 39 and get ready. Just turn to Isaiah 39, and here's what I mean that we must learn to think generationally. When we think of all the evil that is facing us, when we think of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, out there planning our chains, making us live in 15-minute cities, Well, like Klaus Schwab said, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy. Really. You know, when we think of all that, I could take this attitude if I wanted to. I could say, all this doesn't matter to me. Why? Well, I'm 78 years old. I don't have much longer to live anyhow. I could say, all this is going to come upon people when I'm gone.

[John Weaver] Probably Do you realize that's a wicked wicked wicked thought What about my children What about my grandchildren? What about my great-grandchildren? What about all the other children all the other people all the Christian folks, huh? Hezekiah was sick and God healed him The king of Babylon sent ambassadors to Hezekiah, and he showed them everything in his kingdom, all of his treasures. He did not show them Isaiah, who was the greatest treasure, because he's the prophet of God.

[John Weaver] But I want you to watch what happens. Look in Isaiah 39, beginning there with verse 3. Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men, and from which came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in thine house have they seen.

[John Weaver] There is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them. Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah Hear the word of the Lord of hosts behold the day come the days come that all that is in mine house And that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day shall be carried to Babylon Nothing shall be left said the Lord and of my sons That shall issue from thee Which thou shalt beget, shall they take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord, which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, for there shall be peace and truth in my days.

[John Weaver] What did he just say? It won't happen when I'm around. What about his sons? What about all the other people in the nation? His attitude was, I'm going to get out of it. It'll happen after I'm gone. No, it's wicked and wrong to think I can escape it, let everybody else suffer. We have to understand there's more involved than our lives. It's the lives of a multitude of people.

[John Weaver] I want you to go back to our text in Psalm 17, because here's the last thing I want to share with you today. I want you to watch this. And I want to end with some questions. Look at this. Psalm 17, verse 1. David prays, Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry. Give ear unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips. Do you really believe that God will hear the right? Do you really believe that God is a God of justice and that God is interested in justice? And do you really believe that God hears the prayers that go out of unfeigned lips? Do you really believe that God hears real, genuine, true, sincere prayers?

[John Weaver] Better for His honor and glory and for the good of His people. If you really believe those things, you better start praying instead of saying prayers. Because we are facing an enemy that is seeking the destruction of the church and the destruction of a nation and the destruction of a world. And we need the hand and the power of God to deal with the situation. We must learn to pray.

[John Weaver] Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we bow before Thee. Help us, Lord, to pray. Not just say prayers. but to pray. Praying out of desperation as Peter when he said help Lord. Praying Lord, recognizing that thou and thou alone are the God of justice and mercy and right and truth. Give us grace Lord that we may cry unto thee and look up expecting the answer from the God of grace and mercy. Teach us thy word. Give us, Lord, your mercy. In the name of Jesus Christ, we ask and pray. Amen.

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A Call To Prayer - Part 1

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Speaker	John Weaver
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Subject	New Testament Studies
Course	Romans: Sin, Judgment, and Gospel Foundations: Praying Against the Wicked
Genre	Sermon
Date	2023-02-03
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Book	Book 180: A Call To Prayer — Chapter 1
Source Timed Segments	78

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Introduction: The Difference Between Saying Prayers and Praying

Weaver opens with Psalm 17:1, stressing that real prayer is not easy and that most Christians merely say prayers rather than truly pray. He notes that even heathen pray, but believers must move beyond vain repetition.

Psalm 17, and we're just really going to read verse 1 because this message today is basically an introduction and foundation for that which I want to share with you next week. So the title of the message is "A Call to Prayer." So look, if you would, beginning with verse one of Psalm 17, David says,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 17:1

"Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips"

or hypocritical lips. A call to prayer is an easy title and an easy subject in one sense of the word. However, when you consider prayer, I'm talking about real, genuine, and true prayer, neither the subject nor the matter is easy. And there's a vast difference between saying prayers and praying. Normally, when we raised our children, we would ask them as we took them to bed, "Did you say your prayers?" instead of asking them, "Did you pray?" And the truth of the matter is most mature and adult Christians end up saying prayers rather than praying. You know, it's interesting that our Lord pointed out that even the heathen pray. They don't necessarily pray to the one true and the living God. They don't pray in faith, and they don't pray according to his will, but at least they do pray. For our Lord said in Matthew 6 and verse 7, "But when you pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking."

I hope you understand that Muslims hear the call to prayer five times a day. I could ask you this question, do you pray five times a day? At least the heathen pray even if they use vain repetitions. I am much afraid that we have become really and truly a prayerless people. And I'm afraid that most of us really do not pray, really don't even know how to pray, and we're guilty of just simply saying prayers instead of actually praying. But God has a very unique way of bringing things to pass in our lives, whether it's incidents, whether it's afflictions, whether it's tests or trials that kind of nudge us and really and truly get us to pray. But it's a sad thing to say that really and truly, but most Christians have to be forced to pray. How often do you pray? Well, how often did they pray in the Bible?

Biblical Frequency and Nature of Prayer

Examining David's example and 1 Thessalonians 5:17, Weaver explains that praying without ceasing means living in constant recognition of God's presence and reliance on Him in every aspect of life.

David said in Psalm 5 in verse 3, "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord. In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up." So David said, "I'm going to pray, but I'm not only going to pray in the morning, I'm going to look up." That is, I'm going to expect an answer from you. And then in Psalm 55 in verse 17, he said,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 55:17

"Evening and morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud and thou shalt hear my voice."

So that was three times a day there. In Psalm 86 and verse 3, he said, "Be merciful therefore unto me, Lord, for I cry unto thee daily." So clearly in the Bible, David prayed not only in the morning, not only daily, but sometimes three times a day. So I could ask this. Should we pray three times a day? Should we pray five times a day? Or how often should we pray? Well, the scripture tells you in 1 Thessalonians 5 and verse 17 that we are to pray without ceasing. If you look up the Greek word, you will find that the word actually means to pray without ceasing, to pray without intermission, to pray incessantly, and to pray continually. So someone is going to ask, how in the world is that possible?

Because I have work to do, I have plans to make, I've got to run here, I've got to run there. How in the world can I pray without ceasing? Prayer does not necessarily mean that you have to stay on your knees 24-7. But I think there's one verse that will help, and I'll explain this a little more next week, Lord willing. But that's Philippians chapter 4 and verse 6, where the Apostle Paul said, "Be careful for nothing. But in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God." But note what he said, "be careful for nothing, but in everything with prayer and thanksgiving." It was Stonewall Jackson who said that every letter that he wrote and every letter that he sent, he would always pray and ask God's blessing not only upon the letter but upon the recipient who would be reading that letter as well. So it was an attitude basically of constant and consistent prayer. So it's true we must work. But we can ask our Lord, our Heavenly Father, to bless our work. We can also ask Him to bless our plans. We can also ask Him to direct our steps, order our paths.

Scripture Reading — John 15:5

In other words, everything that we do can be centered upon Him. So let me put it to you like this. I believe that praying without ceasing means that our mind is constantly and consistently upon God and upon His Word. In other words, our whole life rotates around Him. Everything is centered upon Him because we recognize that He is our all in all. He is our source of everything. He is the supplier of our every need. And without Him, according to our Lord, John 15, verse 5, He said, "without me, you can do what? Nothing." It's work something. It is, that means you need him. Is planning something? It is, and therefore you need him. Is prayer something? And the answer is yes, therefore you need him. Obviously, we cannot even pray without him. The Bible tells us in Romans chapter 8 that oftentimes when we pray we know not what to pray for as we ought, but it's the Holy Spirit who prays in us with groanings which cannot be uttered. So prayer is something, and that means that we need Him to enable us to pray.

So praying without ceasing is actually living your life in His presence. Praying without ceasing is recognizing that you need Him in every act, in every thought, and in every decision. Without Him we cannot pray. Without Him we cannot even breathe. For he holdeth our soul and life, and our times are in his hand. So praying without ceasing then is basically a continual and constant recognition of our Heavenly Father and a reliance upon him to supply our every need through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, let me make a clarification. Although this message is titled "A Call to Prayer," this message is not about prayer. This message is about praying. I believe that there is a time coming in the not too distant future that we will be praying. I think we'll be forced to pray. I think the time is actually now that we need to understand this and begin praying as well.

The Urgent Need for Prayer Amid Global Conspiracy

Weaver details current threats: the Great Reset, 15-minute cities, pet euthanasia proposals, farm confiscations, transhumanism, weapon bans, and the digital dollar. He argues these are part of a plan to control and destroy humanity.

I believe you're quite aware of a simple fact, and that is that evil and wicked men are planning everything that they can plan with the purpose of destroying Christianity, destroying our country, destroying lives. In fact, they've already said openly that five billion people need to die, that we are useless eaters. And the sad fact is that our own government is complicit in this. So we cannot look to man for help. We cannot look to our government for help. We really cannot look to ourselves for help, for we have no power in and of ourselves. So the only source of help that is left is God himself. So we must learn to cry as David did three times in Psalm 80 when he prayed, "turn us, O God, and we shall be turned." Also in that same Psalm, he said, "quicken us, O Lord, and we shall call upon thy name." It's interesting to really pray we must be quickened.

Now let me just try to give you a little bit of insight of the motivation for this message. It's been based on a number of things that I've been reading for the last several weeks. So let me just ask you, did you know that Klaus Schwab, George Soros, and the Great Reset are now saying that China must lead in the New World Order? China must lead in the New World Order. Did you also know that Klaus Schwab and the Great Reset are now saying that people must give up their automobiles.

Now, most people, when you hear that, would say, "Well, they're mighty stupid if they think I'm going to give up my automobile. I need this to go back and forth to work. I need this for that reason and for that reason. No, I'm not giving up my automobiles." Why in the world would they suggest that you must give up your automobile? And the answer is because they have developed what they are calling 15-minute cities. Now if you doubt what I'm telling you, just go home, get on the internet, and Google "15-minute cities." And so what they're proposing now is this, that cities are going to be built and they're going to have everything that you need within 15 minutes of where you are living. Your health resources will be within 15 minutes. Your food resources will be in 15 minutes. You don't need a car because you can walk within 15 minutes.

That means you would be watched, you'd be tracked, you'd be confined, you'd be controlled, because if you leave your area that you have been assigned, you'll either be fined or arrested. Isn't that amazing? Which would be absolutely total control. And here's one. This will really shock a lot of people. And of course, I think they're in for a rude awakening on this. Let me read it to you.

The World Economic Forum is now calling for millions of cats and dogs worldwide to be slaughtered in an effort to reduce the carbon paw print they produce as a result of eating meat. The World Economic Forum, which has ordered mainstream media outlets to begin pushing the narrative, wants to introduce an international policy that would require the majority of pet owners to euthanize their own animals. Wow. They don't understand some things about pet owners, I can assure you, especially when some folks like Alice Knight believe that our pets are our children. I'm just simply saying, it's absolutely insane. And you consider the fact that now our food sources are being deliberately destroyed as well. The fake and false and foolish agenda of climate control is now being used to foster the overthrow of farming because they are now denying the use of nitrogen and nitrogen-based fertilizers, which have been used for years for the production of food. So farms now are being confiscated globally.

I want you to listen to this. Here's the headline, "Netherlands to confiscate 3,000 farms under the guise of saving the environment." Here's just a couple of paragraphs. One of the biggest sources of rancor in the summertime, Dutch farmer protests went beyond the comparatively minor edict that farms may no longer use nitrogen-based fertilizers, so that the government could acquiesce to the United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, but was rooted in rumors that the government had planned to forcibly seize farms and shut them down. And while those rumors were often derided as mere conspiracy theory, recent reporting shows that they were just another bona fide fact.

Now, when you stop and think, when I was a boy and I was raised on a farm, my father, way back then, farmed five and six hundred acres at the time. Today, a lot of farmers farm thousands of acres at the time. Do you realize how much food you could actually grow on 500 acres? Do you realize how much food you could actually grow on a quarter of an acre if you really, truly tried to grow food for yourself? When you begin closing down thousands of farms, huge farms, you're going to be destroying a large food source. And that is basically what is happening. There's also a push for transhumanism.

Now, I read an article this past week concerning the combining of humans with artificial intelligence. And already tests and trials are being conducted and plans are being made basically for the overthrow of humanity because you don't need a lot of people when you've got all the robots artificial intelligence doing exactly what they need to do. In fact, I just read another article where McDonald's now is going to be staffed with all robots. Well, that may or may not come to pass, but that was what the article said. On top of that, you have to understand that plans are being made, legislation called for and passed to ban all of our weapons, even hunting rifles. In Canada, they are now banning hunting rifles. Do you understand that once your weapons are taken, you are absolutely defenseless? Tyrants always seek to destroy the weapons of their subjects.

You cannot enslave an armed population. Let me show you. I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, to 1 Samuel chapter 13. 1 Samuel chapter 13. And look if you would, beginning there with verse 19. 1 Samuel chapter 13 and verse 19. I want to show you how helpless people are without weapons. 1 Samuel chapter 13 in verse 19. The Bible says,

Scripture Reading — 1 Samuel 13:19-22

"Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel."

That is there was no blacksmith there. There was no one there that could really work with metals.

Scripture Reading — 1 Samuel 13:19-22

"So now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears. But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share and his coulter,

and his axe and his mattock. Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads." Now watch this. "So it came to pass in the day of battle that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan, but with Saul and Jonathan his son were they found." In other words, Saul and Jonathan were the only two that had any real arms. The entire Hebrew nation had been disarmed by the Philistines. Now, if you are naive enough to believe that your government is going to protect you, I have a bridge I need to sell you and it's located in the Mojave Desert. And if you really think the government has your best interest in mind and they're going to protect you, just ask the American Indians. That would be smart. Do you realize, you say, "Well, you don't need weapons because we have the police." Do you realize that the police have no constitutional authority to protect you at all?

You remember the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman School in Parkland, Florida. I want to give you a quote. Listen to this. The following last February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, some students claimed local government officials were at fault for failing to provide protection to students. The students filed suit, naming six defendants, including the Broward School District, the Broward Sheriff's Office, as well as School Deputy Scott Peterson and Campus Monitor Andrew Medina.

Now, here's what Darren L. Hutchinson, who is a professor of law at the University of Florida School of Law, here's what he said. Listen carefully. "Neither the Constitution nor state law impose a general duty upon police officers or other governmental officials to protect individuals from harm, even when they know that harm will occur." He goes on. "Police can watch someone attack you, refuse to intervene, and not violate the Constitution." Now listen carefully to this next statement. "The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government has only a duty to protect persons who are in custody." So the only people the police have any right and power to protect are those that they have arrested. So if you're not arrested, they do not necessarily have to protect you.

Now, all I'm trying to say is, they're trying to take all of our weapons and leave us absolutely defenseless. You must also consider the coming digital dollar, which is known as FedNow. Once you submit to a digital dollar, you've not only given up all your rights to privacy, at the same time, you're going to be totally controlled by a computer. Here's what one author has said, listen carefully. "All the pieces are now coming together to control the global population, and this digital prison is already mostly built." "When it is finished, it will be the final lockdown of mankind. An international vaccine passport, digital identity, a social credit system, and a central bank digital currency form a digital control system that will lock down the population in perpetuity. Facial recognition is an essential part of the control structure, as it's the password to your digital identity. By the end of 2022, which is a week away, by the end of 2022, there will be 1 billion data-collecting surveillance cameras in the world, all connected to the Internet and artificial intelligence. Cameras and audio recording devices in cell phones, automobiles, and smart appliances also collect and share data. All these data are then used to give each person an individual score based upon their behavior, expression, and interaction with the world. Ultimately, your social credit score will dictate what you can and cannot do, what you can and cannot buy, and where you can and cannot go. Artificial intelligence is an absolutely crucial component without which the control system cannot work. The easiest way to push against this system is to starve the artificial intelligence of data by refusing to use technologies that collect and share your personal data."

God's Sovereignty and the Church's Security

Despite the evil, Weaver affirms God's sovereignty and promises that He will not allow His church to be destroyed. He cites Psalm 105:13-15 to show God's protection of His anointed.

Now that I have your attention, hopefully, let me make a statement. I know and I believe that God is absolutely sovereign, that God is in control. And when someone says everything's going wrong, I would add that everything is going wrong just right. But I do not believe for one instance, I do not believe for one instant that God is going to hand over his creation to a handful of petty bureaucrats who claim to be God in order to destroy everything that he's created. Moreover, I do not believe that God is going to allow His people, His church to be destroyed. That does not mean that we will not suffer. That does not mean that some of us will not die. But it does mean he is not going to allow his church to be destroyed. I want you to look in your Bibles, if you would, to Psalm 105. And let's look there at verses 13 through 15. Look at what the Bible says. Psalm 105, beginning there with verse 13. Look. In fact, let's begin reading with verse 11. Watch.

So we're talking about Israel. "When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people, He suffered no man to do them wrong, yet he reproved kings for their sake, saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm." When you think of the fact that the church of Jesus Christ is the body of Christ, that means that he is our head. You can read in the book of Ephesians, the book of Colossians, where Jesus Christ is called specifically the head of the church. When you attack the body, you attack the head. So when Christians are attacked by governments, by individuals, they're not only attacking the body, they are attacking the head. And the head happens to be the unbegotten son of God. And God the Father does not take kindly or lightly that someone attacking his son.

So no, I do not think that the Great Reset, I do not think that the New World Order is going to destroy Christianity. I don't think it's going to destroy the world. But it does mean that it is an evil force that we must face and we must deal with and we have responsibility to do so. That means we must learn to pray against them. I want to emphasize that. I did not say pray for them. I said pray against them. Now, you're going to object and say, "Pastor, that's not biblical. The Bible tells us that we're to pray for kings and rulers and for those that are in authority." Yes, it does. But have you ever noticed why God said we're to pray for them?

Praying Against God's Enemies: A Biblical Mandate

Weaver argues that Scripture commands believers to pray against God's enemies, not just for them. He uses 1 Timothy 2:1-2 to show that prayers for rulers are for the church's peace, and cites Jeremiah's imprecatory prayers and Psalm 139 to demonstrate righteous hatred of God's foes.

If you haven't, let me show you. Look in your Bibles to 1 Timothy chapter 2. 1 Timothy chapter 2. And let's begin reading there with verse 1. 1 Timothy chapter 2 and verse 1. Watch if you would what is said. 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse 1. Paul writes,

Scripture Reading — 1 Timothy 2:1-2

"I exhort therefore first of all supplications, prayers, intercession, and giving of thanks be made for all men."

That's all men in general.

Then he specifies in verse 2, "for kings and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior." Now someone says, "Well, we need to pray for them that they shall be saved." The truth of the matter is, if they were not already saved, they should not be in positions of rulership. Read Deuteronomy 17 when you get back home. All through the Word of God, God said, "Thou shalt appoint not a stranger, but a brother." But note, if you would, why are we to pray for them? Look in verse 2. "For kings and for all that are in authority," why? "That we," that is God's people, "may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior." We pray for them that they would leave us alone, that we can do what God has commanded us to do. We're not praying for their benefit, we're praying for our benefit. Now so let me go back and repeat this. We must learn to pray against them. You say, "Pastor, I don't think that's a biblical attitude." But it is indeed a biblical attitude. Did you know, do you realize that God even commanded Jeremiah not to pray for the people? In fact, Jeremiah wanted to pray for them in Jeremiah chapter 7 and verse 16, and yet God said, "Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me for them, for I will not hear thee."

He said, "Jeremiah, don't you pray for them. I'm not going to listen to you." Then when you get to Jeremiah 11 and verse 14, again, God says to Jeremiah,

Scripture Reading — Jeremiah 7:16; 11:14; 14:11

"Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me in their trouble."

God said, "I'm not going to listen to you, Jeremiah, praying for them, and I'm not going to listen to them praying to me. I'm just not going to listen to them." Things were so bad and Jeremiah really wanted to pray for the people. And finally, when you get to Jeremiah 14 in verse 11, God said, "All right, Jeremiah, I'm going to let you pray for them. But here's what I want you to pray." Listen carefully. Jeremiah 14 verse 11. "Then said the Lord to me, Pray not for this people for their good. You want to pray for them? You pray that I'll destroy them because that's exactly what I'm going to do."

So Jeremiah made intercession against them. Years ago, I preached four messages on imprecatory praying, imprecatory prayers. Maybe I need to re-preach those messages. Or at least maybe you need to go to sermonaudio.com forward slash weaver and listen to them again. When we talk about imprecatory prayers, you must understand that an imprecation is a curse. It is a judgment. It is a condemnation. And when you pray those imprecatory prayers of the Bible, you're calling down God's curse, God's judgment, God's condemnation upon the wicked.

Now, you might say to me, "Well, pastor, I don't think that's biblical either." Well, let me encourage you to go back and listen to another old message that I preached years ago, "The Biblical Doctrine of Hatred." And there's a more recent one that I preached a few years back on the doctrine of love and hate. You say it's not biblical for Christian hate. Oh, yes, it is. In fact, if you go back and listen to the message on the biblical doctrine of hatred, I can remember the three main points. Because I preached, number one, on the sovereign's hatred, and I took you through the Bible and showed you. Number two, the Savior's hatred. And finally, number three, the saint's hatred.

And I'll show you a good illustration of that. If you'll look in your Bibles to Psalm 139, Psalm 139. And let's begin reading there with verse 19. Psalm 139, verse 19. Look what David said. David said,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 139:19-24

"Surely, thou wilt slay the wicked, O God."

In other words, God's going to destroy the wicked. That's all there is to it. It's just a matter of time. So David says,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 139:19-24

"Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God." "Depart from me, therefore, you bloody men."

In other words, I don't want to be around the wicked because I know that lightning's going to strike them sooner or later. And here's why. Here's what they do. Look in verse 20.

Scripture Reading — Psalm 139:19-24

"For they speak against thee wickedly."

That is, they speak against God wickedly. Psalm 139, verse 20,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 139:19-24

"For they speak against thee wickedly and thine enemies take thy name in vain. Thine enemies take thy name in vain."

So they speak against God, they curse God. And look what David says in verse 21,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 139:19-24

"Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them mine enemies."

Now, watch if you would. Here are God's enemies, and David says,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 139:19-24

"Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? And am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them mine enemies."

Here is a man after God's own heart saying that he hates God's enemies with a perfect hatred.

And to show you the holiness and the godliness of his heart, he ends that prayer in verses 23 and 24 by saying, "Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." It's God's enemies that speak against him. It's God's enemies that take his name in vain. It's God's enemies that seek to dethrone him and overthrow him. It's God's enemies that hate his rule and its reign. It's God's enemies that despise his word. It's God's enemies that try to destroy his people. It's God's enemies that try to destroy his ministry. And David expressed a righteous and a holy hatred for all of those who hated God.

Let me point something out. We pray for our enemies. We pray against his enemies. Now his enemies actually become our enemies as well. But when we're commanded to pray for our enemies, it's not that our enemies are necessarily his enemies. Usually our enemies are our enemies from our own making because our own incivility, our own wickedness, our own depravity, our own hatefulness. So we pray for our enemies, but we pray against His enemies. Let me tell you something.

It is impossible to love God unless you hate everything contrary to Him. That's why He said in Amos 5 and verse 15,

Scripture Reading — Amos 5:15

"Hate the evil and love the good."

You can't love the good unless you hate the evil. You can't love God unless you hate everything that's contrary to Him. So, here's something else. Do not take that old, lame, trite and wicked position saying, "Well, here's what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to love the sinner but hate the sin." That is an impossible position. It's an impossible position because you cannot separate the sinner from the sin. Have you ever stopped to think that sin is in the sinner? There would not be any sin if there were not any sinners. There is sin because there are sinners.

The Parable of the Persistent Widow and Desperate Prayer

From Luke 18:1-8, Weaver illustrates that God will avenge His elect who cry day and night. He emphasizes that the problem is not God's unwillingness but our failure to pray persistently.

Now, I want you to turn in your Bibles to the book of Luke chapter 18. I told you this was not a message on prayer. This is a message on praying. So I want you to look at Luke chapter 18. Because once again, our Lord is telling us about praying without ceasing. He begins in verse 1 and he says this,

Scripture Reading — Luke 18:1-8

"And he spake a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray and not to faint."

In other words, we're to never give up, we're never to give out, we're never to quit. We're to always pray and not to faint. Then he gives us his illustration.

Scripture Reading — Luke 18:1-8

"Saying there was in a city a judge which feared not God, neither regarded man."

So he had no fear of God, wasn't going to do anything right or holy, and no regard for man, didn't care.

Scripture Reading — Luke 18:1-8

"And there was a widow in that city and she came unto him saying, Avenge me of my adversary. And he would not for a while. But afterwards he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man, yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me."

Now I want you to note, here's a man who could care nothing about justice, nothing about righteousness, nothing about holiness. And this widow kept coming and saying, "Avenge me of my adversary, avenge me of my..." Finally, he said, "I'm going to do it just to get her off my back. I'm so tired of this." And then our Lord makes the application. Look at it, if you would, in verse 6. Our Lord said, "Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily." So here's the point. Our Lord is asking, do you think that God the Father is like this unjust judge? Do you think he's uncaring? Do you think he's not interested in justice and righteousness and holiness and truth? The problem is not with God. Our Lord is saying the problem is with us. We're not crying day and night.

Men ought always to pray and not to faint. We're not crying. We're not screaming. We're not praying. We're not seeing how desperate our situation really is. We're not seeing how desperately we need God. We need His power. We need His strength. We need Him to make bare His arm and take care of the situation. We need that. And this is exactly what He's saying. Martin Luther, the reformer, said this, "We should pray that our enemies be converted and become our friends."

Imprecatory Prayers in Scripture

Weaver provides numerous examples of imprecatory prayers from Psalms and Numbers, urging believers to pray these scriptures with intensity against the wicked, trusting God to deal with them as He sees fit—whether by conversion, removal of power, or destruction.

For instance, how about this one? You will find this in Psalm 104 and verse 35. Think about this now. Psalm 104 verse 35. David prayed, "Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Blessed thou the Lord, O my soul. Praise ye the Lord." Did you hear what he prayed? "Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more." You say, "How can I pray such a thing?" Have you ever prayed the Lord's Prayer?

"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done." Do you know what's going to happen when His kingdom comes fully, completely, totally? You need to read 2 Thessalonians 1, beginning with verse 7. "And you who are in trouble, rest with us. When our Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven in flaming fire, taking vengeance on those that know not God and obey not the gospel." What? What's He going to do? That's exactly what David is praying. "Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more." He's praying, basically, "Thy kingdom come," the fulfillment, the totality of thy kingdom. And I like this one in Psalm 7 verses 8 and 9. Listen to this one. "The Lord shall judge his people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity that is in me." And then David says this, "O, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the just, for the righteous Lord trieth the reins in the heart. Let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the just."

By the way, that is a wonderful prayer concerning Jesus Christ. You know what he's called in the New Testament, the just one. "Establish thou the just." Yes, establish the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Establish the Son of God. How about this one? In Psalm 59 in verse 13, where David prayed, "Consume them in thy wrath, consume them that they may not be, and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth." Consume them. Let them know that God is on the throne. Here's another one. Psalm 83 verses 17 and 18. David prayed, "Let them be confounded and troubled forever. Yea, let them be put to shame and perish that men may know that thou whose name alone is Jehovah are the most high over all the earth." Let men know that you are. How about this one in Psalm 55 verse 23? David said, "But thou, O Lord, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction."

"Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee." Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. And I love this one in Numbers chapter 10 verse 35, because Moses prayed this as they took up the ark, as the camps moved, he prayed, "Rise up, O Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let those that hate thee flee before thee." Another one that is quite similar to that is Psalm 68, verses one through three. And I love that passage. Where the word of God says, "Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered. Let them also that hate him flee before him." And then he gives several illustrations. "As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melted before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. But let the righteous be glad and let them rejoice before God. Yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. Let God arise. Let his enemies be scattered. Let also them that hate him flee from before him." There are multitudes of prayers against God's enemies in the Bible. There are multitudes of imprecatory prayers. We must learn to pray these prayers with intensity, with determination. The saints of old prayed these prayers.

This message today, I entitled it "A Call to Prayer." Not just to say prayers, but actually to pray. Because we are given in the Word of God where God is interested in justice. Justice, the Bible tells us, is the habitation of His throne. And you look around at all of the injustice that we see, not just in this country, but globally. And God is the one who's able to take care of this.

Applications: Praying for Deliverance and Thinking Generationally

Weaver applies the message by calling for prayers for deliverance from persecutors (Psalm 142:6) and warning against the selfish attitude of Hezekiah, who cared only for peace in his own days. He urges believers to consider future generations.

Now, let me make a couple of applications. The first one is this. David prayed for deliverance from his persecutors. He was wickedly and wrongly persecuted. Remember David was a man after God's own heart. Here's a sample in Psalm 142 in verse 6. David prayed, "Attend unto my cry for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I." He recognized the strength of the enemy and he prayed against them. Psalm 28 in verse 1 he said, "Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock. Be not silent unto me, lest if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down to the pit." In other words, God, you've got to do something or my enemies will overwhelm me. It's what he's saying. Finally, in Psalm 64 in verse 1, "Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy." So he's asking God to protect him and preserve him.

So we must learn to pray these prayers. Here's the second one. We must learn to think generationally. Let me show you what I'm talking about. I want you to turn in your Bibles to Isaiah 39. Isaiah 39 and get ready. Just turn to Isaiah 39, and here's what I mean that we must learn to think generationally. When we think of all the evil that is facing us, when we think of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, out there planning our chains, making us live in 15-minute cities, well, like Klaus Schwab said, "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy." Really. You know, when we think of all that, I could take this attitude if I wanted to. I could say, "All this doesn't matter to me. Why? Well, I'm 78 years old. I don't have much longer to live anyhow. I could say, all this is going to come upon people when I'm gone."

Probably. Do you realize that's a wicked, wicked, wicked thought? What about my children? What about my grandchildren? What about my great-grandchildren? What about all the other children, all the other people, all the Christian folks, huh? Hezekiah was sick and God healed him. The king of Babylon sent ambassadors to Hezekiah, and he showed them everything in his kingdom, all of his treasures. He did not show them Isaiah, who was the greatest treasure, because he's the prophet of God.

But I want you to watch what happens. Look in Isaiah 39, beginning there with verse 3.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 39:3-8

"Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men, and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in thine house have they seen." "There is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them. Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts. Behold, the days come that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord, which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days."

What did he just say? It won't happen when I'm around. What about his sons? What about all the other people in the nation? His attitude was, "I'm going to get out of it. It'll happen after I'm gone." No, it's wicked and wrong to think I can escape it, let everybody else suffer. We have to understand there's more involved than our lives. It's the lives of a multitude of people.

Conclusion: A Call to Genuine Prayer

Returning to Psalm 17:1, Weaver challenges the congregation to truly believe that God hears sincere prayers and to start praying desperately against the enemies seeking to destroy the church and the world.

I want you to go back to our text in Psalm 17, because here's the last thing I want to share with you today. I want you to watch this. And I want to end with some questions. Look at this. Psalm 17, verse 1. David prays, "Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry. Give ear unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips." Do you really believe that God will hear the right? Do you really believe that God is a God of justice and that God is interested in justice? And do you really believe that God hears the prayers that go out of unfeigned lips? Do you really believe that God hears real, genuine, true, sincere prayers?

Better for His honor and glory and for the good of His people. If you really believe those things, you better start praying instead of saying prayers. Because we are facing an enemy that is seeking the destruction of the church and the destruction of a nation and the destruction of a world. And we need the hand and the power of God to deal with the situation. We must learn to pray. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we bow before Thee. Help us, Lord, to pray. Not just say prayers, but to pray. Praying out of desperation as Peter when he said, "Help, Lord." Praying, Lord, recognizing that Thou and Thou alone are the God of justice and mercy and right and truth. Give us grace, Lord, that we may cry unto Thee and look up expecting the answer from the God of grace and mercy. Teach us Thy word. Give us, Lord, your mercy. In the name of Jesus Christ, we ask and pray. Amen.

Study Guide

Major Themes

Genuine Prayer vs. Saying Prayers

Summary: Weaver emphasizes that most Christians merely recite prayers rather than engaging in real, heartfelt communication with God, and that true prayer is difficult and requires sincerity.

Evidence: There's a vast difference between saying prayers and praying... most mature and adult Christians end up saying prayers rather than praying.

Praying Without Ceasing as a Lifestyle

Summary: Praying without ceasing means maintaining a constant awareness of God's presence and dependence on Him in every thought, decision, and action, not necessarily being on one's knees 24/7.

Evidence: Praying without ceasing is actually living your life in His presence... a continual and constant recognition of our Heavenly Father and a reliance upon him.

Global Conspiracy and Tyranny

Summary: Weaver outlines a coordinated effort by elites to control populations through digital currency, surveillance, disarmament, and food supply destruction, framing it as an attack on Christianity and freedom.

Evidence: Evil and wicked men are planning everything that they can plan with the purpose of destroying Christianity, destroying our country, destroying lives.

God's Sovereignty and Protection of His Church

Summary: Despite the rise of evil, God remains in control and will not permit the ultimate destruction of His church, though believers may suffer; He defends His anointed as a head defends its body.

Evidence: I do not believe for one instant that God is going to hand over his creation to a handful of petty bureaucrats... nor allow His church to be destroyed.

Imprecatory Prayer Against God's Enemies

Summary: Believers are called to pray against God's enemies, invoking divine judgment and curses upon those who hate God and seek to destroy His people, as modeled by David and Jeremiah.

Evidence: We must learn to pray against them. I did not say pray for them. I said pray against them.

Righteous Hatred of Evil

Summary: Loving God necessarily involves hating what is contrary to Him, including the workers of iniquity; the common saying 'love the sinner, hate the sin' is unbiblical because sin cannot be separated from the sinner.

Evidence: It is impossible to love God unless you hate everything contrary to Him... you cannot separate the sinner from the sin.

Persistent, Desperate Prayer

Summary: Using the parable of the unjust judge, Weaver teaches that God will answer the persistent cries of His people; the problem is not God's reluctance but our failure to pray with desperation and consistency.

Evidence: Men ought always to pray and not to faint... We're not crying. We're not screaming. We're not praying.

Generational Responsibility in Prayer

Summary: Believers must not be like Hezekiah, who was content with peace in his own lifetime while ignoring the coming judgment on his descendants; we must pray and act for the sake of future generations.

Evidence: What about my children? What about my grandchildren? ... It's wicked and wrong to think I can escape it, let everybody else suffer.

Key Arguments

Most Christians do not truly pray

Summary: Weaver argues that the majority of believers have substituted rote 'saying prayers' for genuine, heartfelt prayer, and that this spiritual deficiency leaves them unprepared for the current crisis.

Evidence: I am much afraid that we have become really and truly a prayerless people... most of us really do not pray, really don't even know how to pray.

Prayer must be a constant, all-encompassing attitude

Summary: Praying without ceasing is not about perpetual kneeling but about a life oriented around God, where every action is accompanied by prayerful dependence.

Evidence: Everything that we do can be centered upon Him... our whole life rotates around Him.

Current global events are a coordinated attack on Christianity

Summary: Weaver presents evidence of a deliberate plan by elites to enslave humanity through technology, policy, and disarmament, and insists this is a spiritual battle requiring prayer.

Evidence: All the pieces are now coming together to control the global population, and this digital prison is already mostly built.

God will defend His church, but we must pray

Summary: While God is sovereign and will not let His church be destroyed, He works through the prayers of His people; our prayers are the means by which He acts.

Evidence: I do not believe that God is going to allow His people, His church to be destroyed... we must learn to pray against them.

Scripture commands imprecatory prayer

Summary: Weaver demonstrates from multiple biblical texts that praying for the destruction or defeat of God's enemies is not only permissible but commanded, and that such prayers are an expression of love for God.

Evidence: David expressed a righteous and a holy hatred for all of those who hated God... we pray against His enemies.

The 'love the sinner, hate the sin' mantra is unbiblical

Summary: Weaver contends that sin is inseparable from the sinner, and that God hates the workers of iniquity, not just the abstract sin; therefore, believers must also hate those who hate God.

Evidence: Thou hatest all workers of iniquity... you cannot separate the sinner from his sin.

Persistent prayer is the key to divine intervention

Summary: The parable of the unjust judge teaches that if an unrighteous judge can be moved by persistence, how much more will a righteous God answer the continual cries of His elect.

Evidence: Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him... I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.

We must pray generationally, not selfishly

Summary: Hezekiah's indifference to the fate of his descendants is condemned as wicked; believers must pray and act with concern for the spiritual and physical welfare of future generations.

Evidence: Hezekiah's attitude was, 'I'm going to get out of it. It'll happen after I'm gone.' No, it's wicked and wrong.

Scripture References

Psalm 17:1

Context: Introduction to the sermon; David's plea for God to hear his sincere prayer.

Matthew 6:7

Context: Jesus warns against vain repetitions in prayer like the heathen.

Psalm 5:3

Context: David's commitment to pray in the morning and look up for an answer.

Psalm 55:17

Context: David prayed evening, morning, and noon.

Psalm 86:3

Context: David cried unto the Lord daily.

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Context: Command to pray without ceasing.

Philippians 4:6

Context: In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

John 15:5

Context: Without Christ we can do nothing.

Romans 8:26

Context: The Spirit helps our infirmities in prayer with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Psalm 80:3,7,19

Context: David's cry for God to turn and quicken His people.

1 Samuel 13:19-22

Context: Israel disarmed by the Philistines, illustrating helplessness without weapons.

Psalm 105:13-15

Context: God's protection of His anointed; He reproved kings for their sake.

1 Timothy 2:1-2

Context: Prayers for kings and authorities so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life.

Jeremiah 7:16; 11:14; 14:11

Context: God commands Jeremiah not to pray for the people, and later to pray for their destruction.

Psalm 139:19-24

Context: David's hatred of God's enemies with a perfect hatred, followed by a plea for God to search his heart.

Amos 5:15

Context: Hate the evil and love the good.

Psalm 5:4-5

Context: God hates all workers of iniquity.

Luke 18:1-8

Context: Parable of the unjust judge; men ought always to pray and not faint.

Deuteronomy 7:9-10

Context: God repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them.

Isaiah 39:3-8

Context: Hezekiah's selfish response to prophecy of future judgment; peace in his days.

Historical References

Stonewall Jackson

Context: Jackson prayed over every letter he wrote and sent, exemplifying a constant attitude of prayer.

Klaus Schwab and the Great Reset

Context: Schwab is named as a leader pushing for China to lead the New World Order and for people to give up automobiles.

George Soros

Context: Mentioned alongside Schwab as a financier of the Great Reset; Weaver prays for God to remove his monetary power.

15-minute cities concept

Context: A proposed urban plan to confine people within walkable zones, eliminating need for cars and enabling total control.

World Economic Forum pet euthanasia proposal

Context: The WEF allegedly calls for slaughtering millions of pets to reduce carbon footprint.

Netherlands farm confiscations

Context: Dutch government seizing farms under environmental pretext, linked to UN Agenda 2030.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

Context: Used to illustrate that police have no constitutional duty to protect individuals.

FedNow digital dollar

Context: A central bank digital currency that would enable total financial surveillance and control.

Sam Adams (Founding Father)

Context: Quoted urging those who prefer servitude to go home and lick the hands that feed them.

Martin Luther

Context: Luther's statement that we should pray for enemies' conversion, or if not, that their plans fail and they perish rather than the gospel.

Important Quotes

There's a vast difference between saying prayers and praying.

Significance: Core thesis of the sermon, distinguishing rote recitation from genuine communion with God.

I am much afraid that we have become really and truly a prayerless people.

Significance: Weaver's indictment of the modern church's spiritual lethargy.

Praying without ceasing is actually living your life in His presence.

Significance: Defines the biblical concept of unceasing prayer as a lifestyle of God-consciousness.

It is impossible to love God unless you hate everything contrary to Him.

Significance: Theological basis for righteous hatred of evil and evildoers.

Thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

Significance: Scriptural proof that God's hatred is directed at persons, not just abstract sin.

Men ought always to pray and not to faint.

Significance: Jesus' command to persistent prayer, used as the sermon's rallying cry.

What about my children? What about my grandchildren? What about my great-grandchildren?

Significance: Rebuke of selfish, short-sighted Christianity that neglects future generations.

Discussion Questions

What is the difference between 'saying prayers' and truly praying, and how can we examine our own prayer lives in light of this distinction?

Context: Weaver opens by asserting that most Christians merely say prayers rather than engage in real prayer.

How can we practically 'pray without ceasing' in the midst of busy daily routines?

Context: Weaver explains that praying without ceasing means living with a constant awareness of God's presence.

In what ways do the current global trends (digital currency, surveillance, disarmament) reflect a spiritual battle, and how should that shape our prayers?

Context: Weaver details various conspiracies as attacks on Christianity and freedom.

Is it biblical to pray against specific people or groups? How do we reconcile imprecatory prayers with Jesus' command to love our enemies?

Context: Weaver argues for praying against God's enemies, citing Jeremiah and the Psalms.

What does it mean to hate evil with a 'perfect hatred' as David did, and how can we cultivate that without falling into sinful anger?

Context: Weaver expounds Psalm 139:19-24 and the concept of righteous hatred.

How does the parable of the unjust judge challenge our expectations about prayer and God's timing?

Context: Weaver uses Luke 18 to illustrate persistent, desperate prayer.

In what ways might we be like Hezekiah, content with peace in our own time while ignoring the spiritual threats facing future generations?

Context: Weaver condemns Hezekiah's selfish attitude and calls for generational thinking.

What practical steps can we take to move from a prayerless life to one marked by desperate, persistent, and imprecatory prayer?

Context: The sermon concludes with a call to start praying genuinely in light of the current crisis.

Applications

Examine your prayer life for sincerity

Summary: Evaluate whether your prayers are genuine, heartfelt cries to God or merely rote recitations, and repent of prayerlessness.

Evidence: Most mature and adult Christians end up saying prayers rather than praying.

Cultivate a constant awareness of God

Summary: Practice turning your mind to God throughout the day, offering every task and decision to Him in prayer, so that your life revolves around Him.

Evidence: Everything that we do can be centered upon Him... our whole life rotates around Him.

Pray against the enemies of God

Summary: Learn to pray the imprecatory Psalms and other biblical prayers against those who hate God and seek to destroy His church, asking God to thwart their plans or convert them.

Evidence: We must learn to pray against them... we pray against His enemies.

Persist in desperate prayer

Summary: Do not give up in prayer; cry out to God day and night like the widow before the unjust judge, trusting that He will avenge His elect speedily.

Evidence: Men ought always to pray and not to faint... We're not crying. We're not screaming. We're not praying.

Think generationally in your prayers

Summary: Reject the selfish mindset of Hezekiah; pray and act for the spiritual and physical welfare of your children, grandchildren, and all future believers.

Evidence: What about my children? What about my grandchildren? ... It's wicked and wrong to think I can escape it.

Trust God's sovereignty while praying fervently

Summary: Believe that God is in control and will not let His church be destroyed, but also recognize that He works through the prayers of His people to accomplish His purposes.

Evidence: I do not believe for one instant that God is going to hand over his creation... we must learn to pray.

Hate evil as God does

Summary: Develop a righteous hatred for everything contrary to God, including the workers of iniquity, as an expression of your love for Him.

Evidence: It is impossible to love God unless you hate everything contrary to Him.

Pray for deliverance from persecutors

Summary: Like David, cry out to God for protection and deliverance from those who are stronger than you and seek your harm.

Evidence: Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I.

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A Call To Prayer - Part 1

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Psalm 17, and we're just really going to read verse 1 because this message today is basically an introduction and foundation for that which I want to share with you next week. So the title of the message is "A Call to Prayer." So look, if you would, beginning with verse one of Psalm 17, David says, "Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips" or hypocritical lips. A call to prayer is an easy title and an easy subject in one sense of the word. However, when you consider prayer, I'm talking about real, genuine, and true prayer, neither the subject nor the matter is easy.
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And there's a vast difference between saying prayers and praying. Normally, when we raised our children, we would ask them as we took them to bed, "Did you say your prayers?" instead of asking them, "Did you pray?" And the truth of the matter is most mature and adult Christians end up saying prayers rather than praying. You know, it's interesting that our Lord pointed out that even the heathen pray. They don't necessarily pray to the one true and the living God. They don't pray in faith, and they don't pray according to his will, but at least they do pray. For our Lord said in Matthew 6 and verse 7, "But when you pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking."
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I hope you understand that Muslims hear the call to prayer five times a day. I could ask you this question, do you pray five times a day? At least the heathen pray even if they use vain repetitions. I am much afraid that we have become really and truly a prayerless people. And I'm afraid that most of us really do not pray, really don't even know how to pray, and we're guilty of just simply saying prayers instead of actually praying. But God has a very unique way of bringing things to pass in our lives, whether it's incidents, whether it's afflictions, whether it's tests or trials that kind of nudge us and really and truly get us to pray. But it's a sad thing to say that really and truly, but most Christians have to be forced to pray. How often do you pray? Well, how often did they pray in the Bible?
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David said in Psalm 5 in verse 3, "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord. In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up." So David said, "I'm going to pray, but I'm not only going to pray in the morning, I'm going to look up." That is, I'm going to expect an answer from you. And then in Psalm 55 in verse 17, he said, "Evening and morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud and thou shalt hear my voice."
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So that was three times a day there. In Psalm 86 and verse 3, he said, "Be merciful therefore unto me, Lord, for I cry unto thee daily." So clearly in the Bible, David prayed not only in the morning, not only daily, but sometimes three times a day. So I could ask this. Should we pray three times a day? Should we pray five times a day? Or how often should we pray? Well, the scripture tells you in 1 Thessalonians 5 and verse 17 that we are to pray without ceasing. If you look up the Greek word, you will find that the word actually means to pray without ceasing, to pray without intermission, to pray incessantly, and to pray continually. So someone is going to ask, how in the world is that possible?
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Because I have work to do, I have plans to make, I've got to run here, I've got to run there. How in the world can I pray without ceasing? Prayer does not necessarily mean that you have to stay on your knees 24-7. But I think there's one verse that will help, and I'll explain this a little more next week, Lord willing. But that's Philippians chapter 4 and verse 6, where the Apostle Paul said, "Be careful for nothing. But in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God." But note what he said, "be careful for nothing, but in everything with prayer and thanksgiving."
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It was Stonewall Jackson who said that every letter that he wrote and every letter that he sent, he would always pray and ask God's blessing not only upon the letter but upon the recipient who would be reading that letter as well. So it was an attitude basically of constant and consistent prayer. So it's true we must work. But we can ask our Lord, our Heavenly Father, to bless our work. We can also ask Him to bless our plans. We can also ask Him to direct our steps, order our paths.
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In other words, everything that we do can be centered upon Him. So let me put it to you like this. I believe that praying without ceasing means that our mind is constantly and consistently upon God and upon His Word. In other words, our whole life rotates around Him. Everything is centered upon Him because we recognize that He is our all in all. He is our source of everything.
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He is the supplier of our every need. And without Him, according to our Lord, John 15, verse 5, He said, "without me, you can do what? Nothing." It's work something. It is, that means you need him. Is planning something? It is, and therefore you need him. Is prayer something? And the answer is yes, therefore you need him. Obviously, we cannot even pray without him. The Bible tells us in Romans chapter 8 that oftentimes when we pray we know not what to pray for as we ought, but it's the Holy Spirit who prays in us with groanings which cannot be uttered. So prayer is something, and that means that we need Him to enable us to pray.
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So praying without ceasing is actually living your life in His presence. Praying without ceasing is recognizing that you need Him in every act, in every thought, and in every decision. Without Him we cannot pray. Without Him we cannot even breathe. For he holdeth our soul and life, and our times are in his hand. So praying without ceasing then is basically a continual and constant recognition of our Heavenly Father and a reliance upon him to supply our every need through the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Now, let me make a clarification. Although this message is titled "A Call to Prayer," this message is not about prayer. This message is about praying. I believe that there is a time coming in the not too distant future that we will be praying. I think we'll be forced to pray. I think the time is actually now that we need to understand this and begin praying as well.
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I believe you're quite aware of a simple fact, and that is that evil and wicked men are planning everything that they can plan with the purpose of destroying Christianity, destroying our country, destroying lives. In fact, they've already said openly that five billion people need to die, that we are useless eaters. And the sad fact is that our own government is complicit in this. So we cannot look to man for help. We cannot look to our government for help. We really cannot look to ourselves for help, for we have no power in and of ourselves. So the only source of help that is left is God himself. So we must learn to cry as David did three times in Psalm 80 when he prayed, "turn us, O God, and we shall be turned." Also in that same Psalm, he said, "quicken us, O Lord, and we shall call upon thy name." It's interesting to really pray we must be quickened.
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Now let me just try to give you a little bit of insight of the motivation for this message. It's been based on a number of things that I've been reading for the last several weeks. So let me just ask you, did you know that Klaus Schwab, George Soros, and the Great Reset are now saying that China must lead in the New World Order? China must lead in the New World Order. Did you also know that Klaus Schwab and the Great Reset are now saying that people must give up their automobiles.
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Now, most people, when you hear that, would say, "Well, they're mighty stupid if they think I'm going to give up my automobile. I need this to go back and forth to work. I need this for that reason and for that reason. No, I'm not giving up my automobiles." Why in the world would they suggest that you must give up your automobile? And the answer is because they have developed what they are calling 15-minute cities. Now if you doubt what I'm telling you, just go home, get on the internet, and Google "15-minute cities." And so what they're proposing now is this, that cities are going to be built and they're going to have everything that you need within 15 minutes of where you are living. Your health resources will be within 15 minutes. Your food resources will be in 15 minutes. You don't need a car because you can walk within 15 minutes.
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That means you would be watched, you'd be tracked, you'd be confined, you'd be controlled, because if you leave your area that you have been assigned, you'll either be fined or arrested. Isn't that amazing? Which would be absolutely total control. And here's one. This will really shock a lot of people. And of course, I think they're in for a rude awakening on this. Let me read it to you.
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The World Economic Forum is now calling for millions of cats and dogs worldwide to be slaughtered in an effort to reduce the carbon paw print they produce as a result of eating meat. The World Economic Forum, which has ordered mainstream media outlets to begin pushing the narrative, wants to introduce an international policy that would require the majority of pet owners to euthanize their own animals. Wow. They don't understand some things about pet owners, I can assure you, especially when some folks like Alice Knight believe that our pets are our children.
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I'm just simply saying, it's absolutely insane. And you consider the fact that now our food sources are being deliberately destroyed as well. The fake and false and foolish agenda of climate control is now being used to foster the overthrow of farming because they are now denying the use of nitrogen and nitrogen-based fertilizers, which have been used for years for the production of food. So farms now are being confiscated globally.
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I want you to listen to this. Here's the headline, "Netherlands to confiscate 3,000 farms under the guise of saving the environment." Here's just a couple of paragraphs. One of the biggest sources of rancor in the summertime, Dutch farmer protests went beyond the comparatively minor edict that farms may no longer use nitrogen-based fertilizers, so that the government could acquiesce to the United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, but was rooted in rumors that the government had planned to forcibly seize farms and shut them down. And while those rumors were often derided as mere conspiracy theory, recent reporting shows that they were just another bona fide fact.
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Now, when you stop and think, when I was a boy and I was raised on a farm, my father, way back then, farmed five and six hundred acres at the time. Today, a lot of farmers farm thousands of acres at the time. Do you realize how much food you could actually grow on 500 acres? Do you realize how much food you could actually grow on a quarter of an acre if you really, truly tried to grow food for yourself? When you begin closing down thousands of farms, huge farms, you're going to be destroying a large food source.
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And that is basically what is happening. There's also a push for transhumanism.
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Now, I read an article this past week concerning the combining of humans with artificial intelligence. And already tests and trials are being conducted and plans are being made basically for the overthrow of humanity because you don't need a lot of people when you've got all the robots artificial intelligence doing exactly what they need to do. In fact, I just read another article where McDonald's now is going to be staffed with all robots. Well, that may or may not come to pass, but that was what the article said. On top of that, you have to understand that plans are being made, legislation called for and passed to ban all of our weapons, even hunting rifles. In Canada, they are now banning hunting rifles. Do you understand that once your weapons are taken, you are absolutely defenseless? Tyrants always seek to destroy the weapons of their subjects.
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You cannot enslave an armed population. Let me show you. I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, to 1 Samuel chapter 13. 1 Samuel chapter 13. And look if you would, beginning there with verse 19. 1 Samuel chapter 13 and verse 19. I want to show you how helpless people are without weapons. 1 Samuel chapter 13 in verse 19. The Bible says, "Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel." That is there was no blacksmith there. There was no one there that could really work with metals. "So now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears. But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share and his coulter,
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and his axe and his mattock. Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads." Now watch this. "So it came to pass in the day of battle that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan, but with Saul and Jonathan his son were they found." In other words, Saul and Jonathan were the only two that had any real arms.
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The entire Hebrew nation had been disarmed by the Philistines. Now, if you are naive enough to believe that your government is going to protect you, I have a bridge I need to sell you and it's located in the Mojave Desert. And if you really think the government has your best interest in mind and they're going to protect you, just ask the American Indians. That would be smart. Do you realize, you say, "Well, you don't need weapons because we have the police." Do you realize that the police have no constitutional authority to protect you at all?
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You remember the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman School in Parkland, Florida. I want to give you a quote. Listen to this. The following last February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, some students claimed local government officials were at fault for failing to provide protection to students. The students filed suit, naming six defendants, including the Broward School District, the Broward Sheriff's Office, as well as School Deputy Scott Peterson and Campus Monitor Andrew Medina.
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Now, here's what Darren L. Hutchinson, who is a professor of law at the University of Florida School of Law, here's what he said. Listen carefully. "Neither the Constitution nor state law impose a general duty upon police officers or other governmental officials to protect individuals from harm, even when they know that harm will occur." He goes on. "Police can watch someone attack you, refuse to intervene, and not violate the Constitution." Now listen carefully to this next statement. "The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government has only a duty to protect persons who are in custody." So the only people the police have any right and power to protect are those that they have arrested. So if you're not arrested, they do not necessarily have to protect you.
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Now, all I'm trying to say is, they're trying to take all of our weapons and leave us absolutely defenseless. You must also consider the coming digital dollar, which is known as FedNow. Once you submit to a digital dollar, you've not only given up all your rights to privacy, at the same time, you're going to be totally controlled by a computer. Here's what one author has said, listen carefully. "All the pieces are now coming together to control the global population, and this digital prison is already mostly built."
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"When it is finished, it will be the final lockdown of mankind. An international vaccine passport, digital identity, a social credit system, and a central bank digital currency form a digital control system that will lock down the population in perpetuity. Facial recognition is an essential part of the control structure, as it's the password to your digital identity. By the end of 2022, which is a week away, by the end of 2022, there will be 1 billion data-collecting surveillance cameras in the world, all connected to the Internet and artificial intelligence. Cameras and audio recording devices in cell phones, automobiles, and smart appliances also collect and share data. All these data are then used to give each person an individual score based upon their behavior, expression, and interaction with the world. Ultimately, your social credit score will dictate what you can and cannot do, what you can and cannot buy, and where you can and cannot go. Artificial intelligence is an absolutely crucial component without which the control system cannot work. The easiest way to push against this system is to starve the artificial intelligence of data by refusing to use technologies that collect and share your personal data."
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Now that I have your attention, hopefully, let me make a statement. I know and I believe that God is absolutely sovereign, that God is in control. And when someone says everything's going wrong, I would add that everything is going wrong just right. But I do not believe for one instance, I do not believe for one instant that God is going to hand over his creation to a handful of petty bureaucrats who claim to be God in order to destroy everything that he's created. Moreover, I do not believe that God is going to allow His people, His church to be destroyed.
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That does not mean that we will not suffer. That does not mean that some of us will not die. But it does mean he is not going to allow his church to be destroyed. I want you to look in your Bibles, if you would, to Psalm 105. And let's look there at verses 13 through 15. Look at what the Bible says. Psalm 105, beginning there with verse 13. Look. In fact, let's begin reading with verse 11. Watch.
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So we're talking about Israel. "When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people, He suffered no man to do them wrong, yet he reproved kings for their sake, saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm." When you think of the fact that the church of Jesus Christ is the body of Christ, that means that he is our head. You can read in the book of Ephesians, the book of Colossians, where Jesus Christ is called specifically the head of the church. When you attack the body, you attack the head. So when Christians are attacked by governments, by individuals, they're not only attacking the body, they are attacking the head. And the head happens to be the unbegotten son of God. And God the Father does not take kindly or lightly that someone attacking his son.
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So no, I do not think that the Great Reset, I do not think that the New World Order is going to destroy Christianity. I don't think it's going to destroy the world. But it does mean that it is an evil force that we must face and we must deal with and we have responsibility to do so. That means we must learn to pray against them. I want to emphasize that. I did not say pray for them. I said pray against them. Now, you're going to object and say, "Pastor, that's not biblical. The Bible tells us that we're to pray for kings and rulers and for those that are in authority." Yes, it does. But have you ever noticed why God said we're to pray for them?
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If you haven't, let me show you. Look in your Bibles to 1 Timothy chapter 2. 1 Timothy chapter 2. And let's begin reading there with verse 1. 1 Timothy chapter 2 and verse 1. Watch if you would what is said. 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse 1. Paul writes, "I exhort therefore first of all supplications, prayers, intercession, and giving of thanks be made for all men." That's all men in general.
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Then he specifies in verse 2, "for kings and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior." Now someone says, "Well, we need to pray for them that they shall be saved." The truth of the matter is, if they were not already saved, they should not be in positions of rulership.
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Read Deuteronomy 17 when you get back home. All through the Word of God, God said, "Thou shalt appoint not a stranger, but a brother." But note, if you would, why are we to pray for them? Look in verse 2. "For kings and for all that are in authority," why? "That we," that is God's people, "may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior." We pray for them that they would leave us alone, that we can do what God has commanded us to do. We're not praying for their benefit, we're praying for our benefit. Now so let me go back and repeat this. We must learn to pray against them. You say, "Pastor, I don't think that's a biblical attitude." But it is indeed a biblical attitude. Did you know, do you realize that God even commanded Jeremiah not to pray for the people? In fact, Jeremiah wanted to pray for them in Jeremiah chapter 7 and verse 16, and yet God said, "Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me for them, for I will not hear thee."
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He said, "Jeremiah, don't you pray for them. I'm not going to listen to you." Then when you get to Jeremiah 11 and verse 14, again, God says to Jeremiah, "Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me in their trouble." God said, "I'm not going to listen to you, Jeremiah, praying for them, and I'm not going to listen to them praying to me. I'm just not going to listen to them." Things were so bad and Jeremiah really wanted to pray for the people. And finally, when you get to Jeremiah 14 in verse 11, God said, "All right, Jeremiah, I'm going to let you pray for them. But here's what I want you to pray." Listen carefully. Jeremiah 14 verse 11. "Then said the Lord to me, Pray not for this people for their good. You want to pray for them? You pray that I'll destroy them because that's exactly what I'm going to do."
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So Jeremiah made intercession against them. Years ago, I preached four messages on imprecatory praying, imprecatory prayers. Maybe I need to re-preach those messages. Or at least maybe you need to go to sermonaudio.com forward slash weaver and listen to them again. When we talk about imprecatory prayers, you must understand that an imprecation is a curse. It is a judgment. It is a condemnation. And when you pray those imprecatory prayers of the Bible, you're calling down God's curse, God's judgment, God's condemnation upon the wicked.
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Now, you might say to me, "Well, pastor, I don't think that's biblical either." Well, let me encourage you to go back and listen to another old message that I preached years ago, "The Biblical Doctrine of Hatred." And there's a more recent one that I preached a few years back on the doctrine of love and hate. You say it's not biblical for Christian hate. Oh, yes, it is. In fact, if you go back and listen to the message on the biblical doctrine of hatred, I can remember the three main points. Because I preached, number one, on the sovereign's hatred, and I took you through the Bible and showed you. Number two, the Savior's hatred. And finally, number three, the saint's hatred.
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And I'll show you a good illustration of that. If you'll look in your Bibles to Psalm 139, Psalm 139. And let's begin reading there with verse 19. Psalm 139, verse 19. Look what David said. David said, "Surely, thou wilt slay the wicked, O God." In other words, God's going to destroy the wicked. That's all there is to it. It's just a matter of time. So David says, "Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God."
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"Depart from me, therefore, you bloody men." In other words, I don't want to be around the wicked because I know that lightning's going to strike them sooner or later. And here's why. Here's what they do. Look in verse 20. "For they speak against thee wickedly." That is, they speak against God wickedly. Psalm 139, verse 20, "For they speak against thee wickedly and thine enemies take thy name in vain. Thine enemies take thy name in vain." So they speak against God, they curse God. And look what David says in verse 21, "Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them mine enemies." Now, watch if you would. Here are God's enemies, and David says, "Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? And am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them mine enemies." Here is a man after God's own heart saying that he hates God's enemies with a perfect hatred.
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And to show you the holiness and the godliness of his heart, he ends that prayer in verses 23 and 24 by saying, "Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." It's God's enemies that speak against him. It's God's enemies that take his name in vain. It's God's enemies that seek to dethrone him and overthrow him. It's God's enemies that hate his rule and its reign. It's God's enemies that despise his word. It's God's enemies that try to destroy his people. It's God's enemies that try to destroy his ministry. And David expressed a righteous and a holy hatred for all of those who hated God.
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Let me point something out. We pray for our enemies. We pray against his enemies. Now his enemies actually become our enemies as well. But when we're commanded to pray for our enemies, it's not that our enemies are necessarily his enemies. Usually our enemies are our enemies from our own making because our own incivility, our own wickedness, our own depravity, our own hatefulness. So we pray for our enemies, but we pray against His enemies. Let me tell you something.
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It is impossible to love God unless you hate everything contrary to Him. That's why He said in Amos 5 and verse 15, "Hate the evil and love the good." You can't love the good unless you hate the evil. You can't love God unless you hate everything that's contrary to Him. So, here's something else. Do not take that old, lame, trite and wicked position saying, "Well, here's what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to love the sinner but hate the sin." That is an impossible position. It's an impossible position because you cannot separate the sinner from the sin. Have you ever stopped to think that sin is in the sinner? There would not be any sin if there were not any sinners. There is sin because there are sinners.
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Since you're in the book of Psalms, go back in your Bibles to Psalm 5. Lord willing, next Lord's Day, I'm going to be expounding this Psalm. This is why I said that today is basically an introduction and foundation for what I'm going to be sharing with you next week. I expound Psalm 5, but just look at verses 4 and 5. We're not going to look at anything else in this Psalm today, but look in verse 4.
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David says, "For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness, neither shall evil dwell with thee. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight. Thou hatest all workers of iniquity." It's not just the iniquity that God hates, it's the workers of iniquity. There would not be any iniquity if there were not any workers of iniquity. So you cannot separate the sinner from his sin.
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You need to let this sink into your heart and in your mind. And here's something else. When you understand this, you also have to understand that in the age that we are living in today, our own governments have become our enemies because they are seeking to destroy us in every area of our lives. They seek nothing but absolute and total enslavement. So will you sit still and be nothing?
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Will you not really pray, not say prayers, but really pray? Here's one of the founding fathers, Sam Adams, who said this, "If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." He said, "Go home and crouch down and lick the hands that feed you." Now, you may ask this question.
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What good will a desperate prayer do in a desperate situation? I would imagine it does quite well. It did for Daniel in the lion's den. It did for the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace. It did for Peter as he was sinking beneath the waves. Those were all desperate situations and desperate prayers. That is for sure.
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Now, I want you to turn in your Bibles to the book of Luke chapter 18. I told you this was not a message on prayer. This is a message on praying. So I want you to look at Luke chapter 18. Because once again, our Lord is telling us about praying without ceasing. He begins in verse 1 and he says this, "And he spake a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray and not to faint."
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In other words, we're to never give up, we're never to give out, we're never to quit. We're to always pray and not to faint. Then he gives us his illustration. "Saying there was in a city a judge which feared not God, neither regarded man." So he had no fear of God, wasn't going to do anything right or holy, and no regard for man, didn't care. "And there was a widow in that city and she came unto him saying, Avenge me of my adversary. And he would not for a while. But afterwards he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man, yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me."
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Now I want you to note, here's a man who could care nothing about justice, nothing about righteousness, nothing about holiness. And this widow kept coming and saying, "Avenge me of my adversary, avenge me of my..."
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Finally, he said, "I'm going to do it just to get her off my back. I'm so tired of this." And then our Lord makes the application. Look at it, if you would, in verse 6. Our Lord said, "Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily." So here's the point. Our Lord is asking, do you think that God the Father is like this unjust judge? Do you think he's uncaring? Do you think he's not interested in justice and righteousness and holiness and truth? The problem is not with God. Our Lord is saying the problem is with us. We're not crying day and night.
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Men ought always to pray and not to faint. We're not crying. We're not screaming. We're not praying. We're not seeing how desperate our situation really is. We're not seeing how desperately we need God. We need His power. We need His strength. We need Him to make bare His arm and take care of the situation. We need that. And this is exactly what He's saying. Martin Luther, the reformer, said this, "We should pray that our enemies be converted and become our friends."
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"And if not, that their doing and designing be bound to fail and have no success and that their persons perish rather than the gospel and the kingdom of Christ." So it all boils down to this. Who do you rather see perish? The kingdom of evil or the kingdom of Christ? Who do you rather see defeated, the enemy or the Lord Jesus Christ? Who do you rather see destroyed, the wicked or the godly and the righteous? Who do you rather win, those who hate and oppose God or those who love Him and serve Him?
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It was the Puritan David Dixon who said this, "If any of the enemies of God's people belong to God's election, the church's prayer against them giveth way to their conversion, and seeketh no more than that the judgment should follow them only until they acknowledge their sin and turn and seek God." You say, "Well, some of these wicked people may be God's elect, may be God's sheep." That's fine.
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If you had taken a poll in the first century of the man most likely to bust hell wide open, Saul of Tarsus would have won it hands down. Consenting to the death of Stephen, persecuting the church, hailing men and women, casting them into prison. He himself confessed to persecuting the church. And yet Saul of Tarsus met the Lord Jesus Christ on the Damascus Road and became Paul the Apostle. So I'm just simply saying here was one of God's sheep and now undoubtedly the church was praying against him. I would have been. And this is what Dixon is saying, if there are some of God's people in those enemies who are persecuting us, our prayers against them will go just far enough to drive them to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. Now when you stop and think about the enemies that we're facing, we're not asking, we're not asking God
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to do what we want done to them. We're asking God to deal with the situation in the way that he pleases. Do you realize that God can do one of three things? Number one, he could convert them. And if he converts them, they're no longer our enemies, they're our friends. Saul of Tarsus became the Apostle Paul and became a friend of Christ and believers. The second thing God could do is he could just simply destroy their power, destroy their money supply, or thirdly, God could just remove them. He could kill them. You say, "Well, I don't know that God should do that or would do that." Oh, yes, he would. In fact, if you will look in your Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 7, not only will God do it, God is not reticent to do it. If you look in Deuteronomy chapter 7, and let's begin reading there with verse 9, Deuteronomy 7 and verse 9, look what God says.
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"Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him, and keepeth his commandments to a thousand generations." Now look. "And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face." What? God's not embarrassed to strike the wicked down. He will pay him, the Bible says, to his face.
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Now, one thing that I do in praying is I ask God to take away the power of the enemy. Political power. Monetary power. Take it away from those individuals and give it to someone who will use it to advance his kingdom and bring him honor and glory. Where would George Soros be without his billions? Where would Klaus Schwab be? Where would Zuckerberg be? Where would Bill Gates be?
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If they have no money, they have no influence. They have no power. I'm just simply saying, and God can take that away just as easy as pie. So, I'm talking about praying. So in light of the situation that we're living in, and the dangers that we're facing, how should we pray? Well, I can give you some scriptures. I believe that we should pray the scriptures. There are numerous imprecatory prayers in the Bible. Just for time's sake, let me quote some. You write down the scriptures if you would, please.
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For instance, how about this one? You will find this in Psalm 104 and verse 35. Think about this now. Psalm 104 verse 35. David prayed, "Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Blessed thou the Lord, O my soul. Praise ye the Lord." Did you hear what he prayed? "Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more." You say, "How can I pray such a thing?" Have you ever prayed the Lord's Prayer?
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"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done." Do you know what's going to happen when His kingdom comes fully, completely, totally? You need to read 2 Thessalonians 1, beginning with verse 7. "And you who are in trouble, rest with us. When our Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven in flaming fire, taking vengeance on those that know not God and obey not the gospel." What? What's He going to do?
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That's exactly what David is praying. "Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more." He's praying, basically, "Thy kingdom come," the fulfillment, the totality of thy kingdom. And I like this one in Psalm 7 verses 8 and 9. Listen to this one. "The Lord shall judge his people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity that is in me." And then David says this, "O, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the just, for the righteous Lord trieth the reins in the heart. Let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the just."
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By the way, that is a wonderful prayer concerning Jesus Christ. You know what he's called in the New Testament, the just one. "Establish thou the just." Yes, establish the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Establish the Son of God. How about this one? In Psalm 59 in verse 13, where David prayed, "Consume them in thy wrath, consume them that they may not be, and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth." Consume them. Let them know that God is on the throne. Here's another one. Psalm 83 verses 17 and 18. David prayed, "Let them be confounded and troubled forever. Yea, let them be put to shame and perish that men may know that thou whose name alone is Jehovah are the most high over all the earth." Let men know that you are. How about this one in Psalm 55 verse 23? David said, "But thou, O Lord, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction."
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"Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee." Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. And I love this one in Numbers chapter 10 verse 35, because Moses prayed this as they took up the ark, as the camps moved, he prayed, "Rise up, O Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let those that hate thee flee before thee." Another one that is quite similar to that is Psalm 68, verses one through three. And I love that passage. Where the word of God says, "Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered. Let them also that hate him flee before him."
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And then he gives several illustrations. "As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melted before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. But let the righteous be glad and let them rejoice before God. Yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. Let God arise. Let his enemies be scattered. Let also them that hate him flee from before him." There are multitudes of prayers against God's enemies in the Bible. There are multitudes of imprecatory prayers. We must learn to pray these prayers with intensity, with determination. The saints of old prayed these prayers.
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This message today, I entitled it "A Call to Prayer." Not just to say prayers, but actually to pray. Because we are given in the Word of God where God is interested in justice. Justice, the Bible tells us, is the habitation of His throne. And you look around at all of the injustice that we see, not just in this country, but globally. And God is the one who's able to take care of this.
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And in order for him to do so, we must repent. We must seek him. We must obey him. We must believe. We must pray.
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Now, let me make a couple of applications. The first one is this. David prayed for deliverance from his persecutors. He was wickedly and wrongly persecuted. Remember David was a man after God's own heart. Here's a sample in Psalm 142 in verse 6. David prayed, "Attend unto my cry for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I." He recognized the strength of the enemy and he prayed against them. Psalm 28 in verse 1 he said, "Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock. Be not silent unto me, lest if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down to the pit." In other words, God, you've got to do something or my enemies will overwhelm me. It's what he's saying. Finally, in Psalm 64 in verse 1, "Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy." So he's asking God to protect him and preserve him.
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So we must learn to pray these prayers. Here's the second one. We must learn to think generationally. Let me show you what I'm talking about. I want you to turn in your Bibles to Isaiah 39. Isaiah 39 and get ready. Just turn to Isaiah 39, and here's what I mean that we must learn to think generationally. When we think of all the evil that is facing us, when we think of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, out there planning our chains, making us live in 15-minute cities, well, like Klaus Schwab said, "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy." Really. You know, when we think of all that, I could take this attitude if I wanted to. I could say, "All this doesn't matter to me. Why? Well, I'm 78 years old. I don't have much longer to live anyhow. I could say, all this is going to come upon people when I'm gone."
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Probably. Do you realize that's a wicked, wicked, wicked thought? What about my children? What about my grandchildren? What about my great-grandchildren? What about all the other children, all the other people, all the Christian folks, huh? Hezekiah was sick and God healed him. The king of Babylon sent ambassadors to Hezekiah, and he showed them everything in his kingdom, all of his treasures. He did not show them Isaiah, who was the greatest treasure, because he's the prophet of God.
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But I want you to watch what happens. Look in Isaiah 39, beginning there with verse 3. "Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men, and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in thine house have they seen."
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"There is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them. Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts. Behold, the days come that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord, which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days."
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What did he just say? It won't happen when I'm around. What about his sons? What about all the other people in the nation? His attitude was, "I'm going to get out of it. It'll happen after I'm gone." No, it's wicked and wrong to think I can escape it, let everybody else suffer. We have to understand there's more involved than our lives. It's the lives of a multitude of people.
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I want you to go back to our text in Psalm 17, because here's the last thing I want to share with you today. I want you to watch this. And I want to end with some questions. Look at this. Psalm 17, verse 1. David prays, "Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry. Give ear unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips." Do you really believe that God will hear the right? Do you really believe that God is a God of justice and that God is interested in justice? And do you really believe that God hears the prayers that go out of unfeigned lips? Do you really believe that God hears real, genuine, true, sincere prayers?
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Better for His honor and glory and for the good of His people. If you really believe those things, you better start praying instead of saying prayers. Because we are facing an enemy that is seeking the destruction of the church and the destruction of a nation and the destruction of a world. And we need the hand and the power of God to deal with the situation. We must learn to pray.
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Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we bow before Thee. Help us, Lord, to pray. Not just say prayers, but to pray. Praying out of desperation as Peter when he said, "Help, Lord." Praying, Lord, recognizing that Thou and Thou alone are the God of justice and mercy and right and truth. Give us grace, Lord, that we may cry unto Thee and look up expecting the answer from the God of grace and mercy. Teach us Thy word. Give us, Lord, your mercy. In the name of Jesus Christ, we ask and pray. Amen.
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A Call To Prayer - Part 1

John Weaver | Freedom Ministries

This sermon introduces a call to genuine, desperate prayer in the face of rising global tyranny and anti-Christian agendas. John Weaver distinguishes between merely saying prayers and truly praying, emphasizing that believers must learn to pray imprecatory prayers against God's enemies, not just for personal needs. He argues that the current evil forces—such as the Great Reset, digital control systems, and disarmament—require Christians to cry out to God for justice and deliverance, trusting in His sovereignty to defend His church.

Introduction: The Difference Between Saying Prayers and Praying

Scripture Reading — Psalm 17:1

"Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips"

Biblical Frequency and Nature of Prayer

Examining David's example and 1 Thessalonians 5:17, Weaver explains that praying without ceasing means living in constant recognition of God's presence and reliance on Him in every aspect of life.

Scripture Reading — Psalm 55:17

"Evening and morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud and thou shalt hear my voice."

Scripture Reading — John 15:5

In other words, everything that we do can be centered upon Him. So let me put it to you like this. I believe that praying without ceasing means that our mind is constantly and consistently upon God and upon His Word. In other words, our whole life rotates around Him. Everything is centered upon Him because we recognize that He is our all in all. He is our source of everything. He is the supplier of our every need. And without Him, according to our Lord, John 15, verse 5, He said, "without me, you can do what? Nothing." It's work something. It is, that means you need him. Is planning something? It is, and therefore you need him. Is prayer something? And the answer is yes, therefore you need him. Obviously, we cannot even pray without him. The Bible tells us in Romans chapter 8 that oftentimes when we pray we know not what to pray for as we ought, but it's the Holy Spirit who prays in us with groanings which cannot be uttered. So prayer is something, and that means that we need Him to enable us to pray.

The Urgent Need for Prayer Amid Global Conspiracy

Scripture Reading — 1 Samuel 13:19-22

"Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel."

That is there was no blacksmith there. There was no one there that could really work with metals.

Scripture Reading — 1 Samuel 13:19-22

"So now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears. But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share and his coulter,

God's Sovereignty and the Church's Security

Despite the evil, Weaver affirms God's sovereignty and promises that He will not allow His church to be destroyed. He cites Psalm 105:13-15 to show God's protection of His anointed.

Praying Against God's Enemies: A Biblical Mandate

Scripture Reading — 1 Timothy 2:1-2

"I exhort therefore first of all supplications, prayers, intercession, and giving of thanks be made for all men."

That's all men in general.

He said, "Jeremiah, don't you pray for them. I'm not going to listen to you." Then when you get to Jeremiah 11 and verse 14, again, God says to Jeremiah,

Scripture Reading — Jeremiah 7:16; 11:14; 14:11

"Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me in their trouble."

Scripture Reading — Psalm 139:19-24

"Surely, thou wilt slay the wicked, O God."

In other words, God's going to destroy the wicked. That's all there is to it. It's just a matter of time. So David says,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 139:19-24

"Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God." "Depart from me, therefore, you bloody men."

In other words, I don't want to be around the wicked because I know that lightning's going to strike them sooner or later. And here's why. Here's what they do. Look in verse 20.

Scripture Reading — Psalm 139:19-24

"For they speak against thee wickedly."

That is, they speak against God wickedly. Psalm 139, verse 20,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 139:19-24

"For they speak against thee wickedly and thine enemies take thy name in vain. Thine enemies take thy name in vain."

So they speak against God, they curse God. And look what David says in verse 21,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 139:19-24

"Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them mine enemies."

Now, watch if you would. Here are God's enemies, and David says,

Scripture Reading — Psalm 139:19-24

"Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? And am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them mine enemies."

Here is a man after God's own heart saying that he hates God's enemies with a perfect hatred.

It is impossible to love God unless you hate everything contrary to Him. That's why He said in Amos 5 and verse 15,

Scripture Reading — Amos 5:15

"Hate the evil and love the good."

The Parable of the Persistent Widow and Desperate Prayer

From Luke 18:1-8, Weaver illustrates that God will avenge His elect who cry day and night. He emphasizes that the problem is not God's unwillingness but our failure to pray persistently.

Scripture Reading — Luke 18:1-8

"And he spake a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray and not to faint."

In other words, we're to never give up, we're never to give out, we're never to quit. We're to always pray and not to faint. Then he gives us his illustration.

Scripture Reading — Luke 18:1-8

"Saying there was in a city a judge which feared not God, neither regarded man."

So he had no fear of God, wasn't going to do anything right or holy, and no regard for man, didn't care.

Scripture Reading — Luke 18:1-8

"And there was a widow in that city and she came unto him saying, Avenge me of my adversary. And he would not for a while. But afterwards he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man, yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me."

Imprecatory Prayers in Scripture

Applications: Praying for Deliverance and Thinking Generationally

But I want you to watch what happens. Look in Isaiah 39, beginning there with verse 3.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 39:3-8

"Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men, and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in thine house have they seen." "There is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them. Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts. Behold, the days come that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord, which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days."

Conclusion: A Call to Genuine Prayer

A Call To Prayer - Part 1

John Weaver | YouTube

Lecture Metadata	Details
Speaker	John Weaver
Source	YouTube
Media ID	cRAltgRAwfE
Subject	New Testament Studies
Course	Romans: Sin, Judgment, and Gospel Foundations: Praying Against the Wicked
Genre	Sermon
Date	2023-02-03
Dictation Name
Book	Book 180: A Call To Prayer — Chapter 1
Source Timed Segments	78

Lecture Guide

Outline

Introduction: The Difference Between Saying Prayers and Praying: Weaver opens with Psalm 17:1, stressing that real prayer is not easy and that most Christians merely say prayers rather than truly pray. He notes that even heathen pray, but believers must move beyond vain repetition.
Biblical Frequency and Nature of Prayer: Examining David's example and 1 Thessalonians 5:17, Weaver explains that praying without ceasing means living in constant recognition of God's presence and reliance on Him in every aspect of life.
The Urgent Need for Prayer Amid Global Conspiracy: Weaver details current threats: the Great Reset, 15-minute cities, pet euthanasia proposals, farm confiscations, transhumanism, weapon bans, and the digital dollar. He argues these are part of a plan to control and destroy humanity.
God's Sovereignty and the Church's Security: Despite the evil, Weaver affirms God's sovereignty and promises that He will not allow His church to be destroyed. He cites Psalm 105:13-15 to show God's protection of His anointed.
Praying Against God's Enemies: A Biblical Mandate: Weaver argues that Scripture commands believers to pray against God's enemies, not just for them. He uses 1 Timothy 2:1-2 to show that prayers for rulers are for the church's peace, and cites Jeremiah's imprecatory prayers and Psalm 139 to demonstrate righteous hatred of God's foes.
The Parable of the Persistent Widow and Desperate Prayer: From Luke 18:1-8, Weaver illustrates that God will avenge His elect who cry day and night. He emphasizes that the problem is not God's unwillingness but our failure to pray persistently.
Imprecatory Prayers in Scripture: Weaver provides numerous examples of imprecatory prayers from Psalms and Numbers, urging believers to pray these scriptures with intensity against the wicked, trusting God to deal with them as He sees fit—whether by conversion, removal of power, or destruction.
Applications: Praying for Deliverance and Thinking Generationally: Weaver applies the message by calling for prayers for deliverance from persecutors (Psalm 142:6) and warning against the selfish attitude of Hezekiah, who cared only for peace in his own days. He urges believers to consider future generations.
Conclusion: A Call to Genuine Prayer: Returning to Psalm 17:1, Weaver challenges the congregation to truly believe that God hears sincere prayers and to start praying desperately against the enemies seeking to destroy the church and the world.

Major Themes

Key Arguments

Most Christians do not truly pray

Weaver argues that the majority of believers have substituted rote 'saying prayers' for genuine, heartfelt prayer, and that this spiritual deficiency leaves them unprepared for the current crisis.

I am much afraid that we have become really and truly a prayerless people... most of us really do not pray, really don't even know how to pray.

Prayer must be a constant, all-encompassing attitude

Praying without ceasing is not about perpetual kneeling but about a life oriented around God, where every action is accompanied by prayerful dependence.

Everything that we do can be centered upon Him... our whole life rotates around Him.

Current global events are a coordinated attack on Christianity

Weaver presents evidence of a deliberate plan by elites to enslave humanity through technology, policy, and disarmament, and insists this is a spiritual battle requiring prayer.

All the pieces are now coming together to control the global population, and this digital prison is already mostly built.

God will defend His church, but we must pray

While God is sovereign and will not let His church be destroyed, He works through the prayers of His people; our prayers are the means by which He acts.

I do not believe that God is going to allow His people, His church to be destroyed... we must learn to pray against them.

Scripture commands imprecatory prayer

Weaver demonstrates from multiple biblical texts that praying for the destruction or defeat of God's enemies is not only permissible but commanded, and that such prayers are an expression of love for God.

David expressed a righteous and a holy hatred for all of those who hated God... we pray against His enemies.

The 'love the sinner, hate the sin' mantra is unbiblical

Weaver contends that sin is inseparable from the sinner, and that God hates the workers of iniquity, not just the abstract sin; therefore, believers must also hate those who hate God.

Thou hatest all workers of iniquity... you cannot separate the sinner from his sin.

Persistent prayer is the key to divine intervention

The parable of the unjust judge teaches that if an unrighteous judge can be moved by persistence, how much more will a righteous God answer the continual cries of His elect.

Shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him... I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.

We must pray generationally, not selfishly

Hezekiah's indifference to the fate of his descendants is condemned as wicked; believers must pray and act with concern for the spiritual and physical welfare of future generations.

Hezekiah's attitude was, 'I'm going to get out of it. It'll happen after I'm gone.' No, it's wicked and wrong.

Scripture References

Psalm 17:1: Introduction to the sermon; David's plea for God to hear his sincere prayer.
Matthew 6:7: Jesus warns against vain repetitions in prayer like the heathen.
Psalm 5:3: David's commitment to pray in the morning and look up for an answer.
Psalm 55:17: David prayed evening, morning, and noon.
Psalm 86:3: David cried unto the Lord daily.
1 Thessalonians 5:17: Command to pray without ceasing.
Philippians 4:6: In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
John 15:5: Without Christ we can do nothing.
Romans 8:26: The Spirit helps our infirmities in prayer with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Psalm 80:3,7,19: David's cry for God to turn and quicken His people.
1 Samuel 13:19-22: Israel disarmed by the Philistines, illustrating helplessness without weapons.
Psalm 105:13-15: God's protection of His anointed; He reproved kings for their sake.
1 Timothy 2:1-2: Prayers for kings and authorities so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life.
Jeremiah 7:16; 11:14; 14:11: God commands Jeremiah not to pray for the people, and later to pray for their destruction.
Psalm 139:19-24: David's hatred of God's enemies with a perfect hatred, followed by a plea for God to search his heart.
Amos 5:15: Hate the evil and love the good.
Psalm 5:4-5: God hates all workers of iniquity.
Luke 18:1-8: Parable of the unjust judge; men ought always to pray and not faint.
Deuteronomy 7:9-10: God repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them.
Isaiah 39:3-8: Hezekiah's selfish response to prophecy of future judgment; peace in his days.

Historical References

Stonewall Jackson: Jackson prayed over every letter he wrote and sent, exemplifying a constant attitude of prayer.
Klaus Schwab and the Great Reset: Schwab is named as a leader pushing for China to lead the New World Order and for people to give up automobiles.
George Soros: Mentioned alongside Schwab as a financier of the Great Reset; Weaver prays for God to remove his monetary power.
15-minute cities concept: A proposed urban plan to confine people within walkable zones, eliminating need for cars and enabling total control.
World Economic Forum pet euthanasia proposal: The WEF allegedly calls for slaughtering millions of pets to reduce carbon footprint.
Netherlands farm confiscations: Dutch government seizing farms under environmental pretext, linked to UN Agenda 2030.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting: Used to illustrate that police have no constitutional duty to protect individuals.
FedNow digital dollar: A central bank digital currency that would enable total financial surveillance and control.
Sam Adams (Founding Father): Quoted urging those who prefer servitude to go home and lick the hands that feed them.
Martin Luther: Luther's statement that we should pray for enemies' conversion, or if not, that their plans fail and they perish rather than the gospel.

Important Quotes

There's a vast difference between saying prayers and praying.

Core thesis of the sermon, distinguishing rote recitation from genuine communion with God.

I am much afraid that we have become really and truly a prayerless people.

Weaver's indictment of the modern church's spiritual lethargy.

Praying without ceasing is actually living your life in His presence.

Defines the biblical concept of unceasing prayer as a lifestyle of God-consciousness.

It is impossible to love God unless you hate everything contrary to Him.

Theological basis for righteous hatred of evil and evildoers.

Thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

Scriptural proof that God's hatred is directed at persons, not just abstract sin.

Men ought always to pray and not to faint.

Jesus' command to persistent prayer, used as the sermon's rallying cry.

What about my children? What about my grandchildren? What about my great-grandchildren?

Rebuke of selfish, short-sighted Christianity that neglects future generations.

Discussion Questions

[Question]

What is the difference between 'saying prayers' and truly praying, and how can we examine our own prayer lives in light of this distinction?

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Weaver opens by asserting that most Christians merely say prayers rather than engage in real prayer.

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How can we practically 'pray without ceasing' in the midst of busy daily routines?

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Weaver explains that praying without ceasing means living with a constant awareness of God's presence.

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In what ways do the current global trends (digital currency, surveillance, disarmament) reflect a spiritual battle, and how should that shape our prayers?

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Weaver details various conspiracies as attacks on Christianity and freedom.

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Is it biblical to pray against specific people or groups? How do we reconcile imprecatory prayers with Jesus' command to love our enemies?

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Weaver argues for praying against God's enemies, citing Jeremiah and the Psalms.

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What does it mean to hate evil with a 'perfect hatred' as David did, and how can we cultivate that without falling into sinful anger?

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Weaver expounds Psalm 139:19-24 and the concept of righteous hatred.

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How does the parable of the unjust judge challenge our expectations about prayer and God's timing?

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Weaver uses Luke 18 to illustrate persistent, desperate prayer.

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In what ways might we be like Hezekiah, content with peace in our own time while ignoring the spiritual threats facing future generations?

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Weaver condemns Hezekiah's selfish attitude and calls for generational thinking.

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What practical steps can we take to move from a prayerless life to one marked by desperate, persistent, and imprecatory prayer?

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The sermon concludes with a call to start praying genuinely in light of the current crisis.

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