This week, we’re heading to Tallahassee to meet with Florida representatives, senators, and in some cases, their aides.

In today’s sermon, you will see an expanded version of the presentation we will give to these representatives. In this sermon, we will apply biblical principles to government to see what God’s word says prolife legislation should contain and not contain. We will look at protecting preborn children in the womb, preborn children in laboratories, the disabled, and the elderly. We will examine why human life should be protected, what prolife laws should not include, rape and incest exceptions, life and health of the mother exceptions, and the necessity for legislators to have the courage to do what is right. We will examine the Pain Capable Bill, the Parental Rights Bill, the Disability Abortion Bill, and the Final Disposition of Fetal Remains Bill.

Shouldn’t our laws protect every innocent human being, without exception?

Shock and Awe

After the Trump victory, many Hillary Clinton supporters and even many Donald Trump supporters have experienced shock and awe! The worst thing that could happen though would be for Christians and ProLifers to fall asleep and let trust Trump and the Republican party to defend innocent human life, restore liberty and justice for all, appoint constructionist justices, and defend the constitution. We must hold all of our elected officials (federal, state, and local) accountable to protect preborn children, establish justice, and follow the Bible. We must be salt and light and kick in the gates of Hell until Satan has not one inch of territory in our nation.

Listen to my sermon entitled Election 2016 – Shock and Awe.

Sermon Notes: Election 2016 – Shock and Awe

Opening Passage — Psalm 72.

God’s Sovereignty in Elections

Daniel 2:21 – “And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding. (NKJV)

Daniel 4:17 – ‘This decision is by the decree of the watchers, And the sentence by the word of the holy ones, In order that the living may know That the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, Gives it to whomever He will, And sets over it the lowest of men.’ (NKJV)

1 Timothy 2:1-2 – “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. (NKJV)

Proverbs 14:34 – “Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people.” (NKJV)

Psalms 33:12‑19 – “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance… No king is saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a vain hope for safety; Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength. Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy, To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.” (NKJV)

The Cultural War Over Moral Issues

Abortion – Their Blood Cries Out

“Then they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.  Provide atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel’ And atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood.” (Deuteronomy 21:7-8 NKJV)

Manasseh Filled Jerusalem with Innocent Blood – 2 Kings 21:1-16.

The Support of the Homosexual Agenda

Leviticus 18 & 20.

The Cultural War Over Fiscal Issues

The Proper Role of Government – 1 Samuel 8 & Romans 13:1-7, Exodus 20:17.

Numbers 11:4-6 – “Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: ‘Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!’” (NKJV)

The Battle for the Courts

Deuteronomy 16:18-20 – “You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment. You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God is giving you.” (NKJV)

A Call to Vigilance in Holding Elected Officials Accountable

Matthew 5:13 – “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.” (NKJV)

1 Timothy 3:15 – “… I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” (NKJV)

Matthew 16:18 – “… on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. (NKJV)

Matthew 28:18‑20 – “And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’ Amen.”  (NKJV)

1 Corinthians 15:25‑26 – “For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.  (NKJV)

Psalms 110:1 – “The LORD said to my Lord, ‘Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.’”  (NKJV)

A Call to Continued Repentance

2 Chronicles 7:13‑14 – “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”  (NKJV)

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November 4, 2014, voters in the state of Florida will vote on three proposed constitutional amendments and in counties that have a Children’s Services Council, voters will vote on whether to reauthorize the Children’s Services Council or not. Since the FL Constitution is the supreme law of Florida subject only to the US Constitution, voters have a duty to research carefully the proposed amendments. Our vote will have a lasting impact on our state for generations to come.

The following is a voter guide that will first provide recommendations and then further explanation of the rational behind the recommendations. You will also hear a sermon preached by Pastor Bryan Longworth covering the proposed constitutional amendments and county resolution.

Constitutional Amendment and County Resolution Voter Guide

Amendment 1 – Water and Land Conservation

Recommendation: Vote No

Amendment 2 – Use of Marijuana for Certain Medical Conditions

Recommendation: Vote No

Amendment 3 – Prospective Appointment of Certain Judicial Vacancies

Recommendation: Vote Yes

County Referendum – Reauthorization of the Children’s Services Council (in select counties)

Recommendation: Vote No

Voter Guide w/ Explanation

Amendment 1 – Water and Land Conservation

Recommendation: Vote No

A YES VOTE places this legislative budget issue into the Florida Constitution and mandate that for 20 years, thirty three percent (33%) of public funds from tax dollars of existing excise taxes on documents will be dedicated to buying new and improving existing water and land conservation properties through the power of eminent domain.¹

A NO VOTE allows the state government through the legislative process to continue to allocate budgeted funds for the purposes of buying and improving land and water conservation properties. Currently there is no requirement that 33% of tax revenues from excise taxes on documents be used for this purpose.¹

1 Samuel 8:14 & 17b-18 – “And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. . . And you will be his servants. And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not hear you in that day.” (NKJV)

According to MikeHofstee.com, “The total land area for the state of Florida is approximately 34,721,280 acres while the total of non -submerged lands in government conservation is 9,382,809 acres or 27% while other government land holdings push that number over 30%.”

According to Dan Peterson, Executive Director of the Orlando based Coalition for Property Rights, the State of Florida has not been able to produce a current and accurate inventory for years and that the government cannot currently afford to maintain the lands it owns.

Amendment 2 – Use of Marijuana for Certain Medical Conditions

Recommendation: Vote No

A YES VOTE legalizes the smoking of marijuana in all 67 Florida counties for “any condition”, which could include fatigue, depression, body aches, nausea, pain, and headaches. Any person at least 21 years of age could be considered a “caregiver” and sell the drug without a prescription. There are no age restrictions or parental consent requirements, so minor children would be eligible to buy and smoke marijuana without their parents’ permission.¹

A NOTE VOTE allows Florida’s current law against buying, selling and smoking marijuana to remain in effect. Voting against this amendment will not affect the 2014 law which was passed in the state legislature and allows for a special strain of non-euphoric medical marijuana in a pill to be prescribed by physicians to treat children with certain seizures and to be used for other debilitating medical conditions.¹

Romans 13:13-14 – “Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” (NKJV)

The Importance of Personal Responsibility in the Law of God

Amendment 3 – Prospective Appointment of Certain Judicial Vacancies

Recommendation: Vote Yes

A YES VOTE allows the Governor of Florida to begin the process of reviewing and selecting a new judge to replace an existing judge (who must resign because of the mandatory retirement age or ineligibility) during the time that the existing judge is still in office and not wait until after the date of retirement to replace the judge.¹

A NO VOTE requires the Governor to wait until the date that an existing judge’s term expires and an actual vacancy in the court occurs before he/she could start the process of finding a new judge. Currently, a vacancy on the court occurs for a period of time after an existing judge retires because the Governor is not allowed to begin the process of replacing the existing judge until after the date of his/her retirement.¹

Deuteronomy 16:18-20 – “You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with just judgment. You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. You shall follow what is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which the LORD your God is giving you.” (NKJV)

If amendment 3 passed, it will make it even more important to choose a governor who will appoint judges who will not pervert justice. If amendment 3 passes, the next governor will appoint four supreme court justices. Charlie Crist appointed the other three in his previous term as governor. Given Crist’s move to the left in the last four years which includes vetoing prolife legislation and supporting Obamacare, can we trust him to replace the remaining supreme court justices?

St Lucie County Referendum 4 – Reauthorization of the Children’s Services Council

Recommendation: Vote No

A YES VOTE allows reauthorizes the Children’s Services Council to continue to collect taxes from property owners to distribute to organizations that provide care for children. A portion of that money will fund Children’s Services Council buildings and staff and will not reach the intended recipients, the children.

A NO VOTE would end the Children’s Services Council in your county. A no vote would allow private citizens to choose which groups receive donations. A no vote would not prohibit other government agencies such as the county commission from funding organizations that help children.

Luke 10:25-37 — The Good Samaritan

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816 — “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”²

James Madison, 4 Annals of Congress 179, 1794 – “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”²

In the Bible, charity is command by God but is also voluntary. Our nation’s founding fathers agreed with this principle. Today, some individuals prefer to use government agencies to take money from you to do what they are unwilling to do with their own money.

Such is the case with the Children’s Services Council (CSC). CSC’s are independent taxing authorities that collects money through property tax and then distributes that money to agencies that help children. They operate in the following counties: Broward, Charlotte, Highlands, Lake, Martin, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, and St Lucie. (Other FL counties handle funding of programs that benefit children through private donations and/or assistance from the county commission.) Since CSC boards are not elected, voters have no say in how the money is spent. Voters in each of these counties will vote on whether to reauthorize the CSC in their county or not.

There is nothing wrong with many of the programs funded by the CSC. The problem is that taxpayers are forced to pay for these services. The result is that agencies that are funded don’t need to work as hard to obtain donations. They also have more money to spend and spend a larger portion of that on salaries and buildings than organizations that are funded solely by charity. The CSCs also have buildings and staff. Consequently, a sizable percentage of the money collected never reaches the children who need help.

Sadly, the CSC can fund programs that are in opposition to the values of voters. A case in point is the funding of Planned Parenthood programs by certain CSC’s including those in St Lucie, Martin, and Palm Beach Counties. Thankfully after years of protest, citizens in St Lucie and Martin counties were successful in defunding Planned Parenthood, but the Palm Beach County Children’s Services Council continues to give over $2,000,000 per year to Planned Parenthood. Moreover, the St Lucie County Children’s Services Council continues to fund that same type of graphic condom ed that Planned Parenthood used to provide.

I urge you to vote no on the County Referendum to Reauthorize the Children’s Services Council.

¹Text for Yes and No paragraphs for each amendment comes from The Florida Family Policy Council 2014 State Legislative Voter Guides.

²http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/10/founding-fathers-on-redistribution-of.html

Let Us Turn to God

At the founding of this country, it was common for pastors to preach election day sermons lasting as long as three hours. In these sermons, pastors implored their congregations to vote according to Biblical values.

John Jay said, “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”

If you haven’t voted yet, please do so today, Tuesday, August 26. The polls are open until 7 pm. View non-partisan voter guides here.

At the founding of this country, it was also common for politicians to call for national days of prayer and fasting where citizens were called upon to abstain from their servile work to pray for their country. During these times of prayer and turning to God, God did hear from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their land!

We are in a time in America today where we need to turn back to God, and on this primary election day, I ask you to join me in prayer and, if you are able, fasting for today’s election. From Daniel 2:21, we know that God removes kings and raises up kings. We also know from Daniel 4:17 that “the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, Gives it to whomever He will, And sets over it the lowest of men.”

Will you join me in prayer for America today and for His will in the outcome of today’s election? Gather in churches and public squares across this state, pray while holding a sign for a candidate, or pray where you are. Let us cry out to God on behalf of our cities, counties, state, and nation.

“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14 NKJV)

Sermon Notes: An Election Prayer – Lord Raise Up Righteous Rulers to Deliver Us

OPENING PASSAGE — Psalm 116.

“I love the LORD, because He has heard My voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live. The pains of death surrounded me, And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow. Then I called upon the name of the LORD: ‘O LORD, I implore You, deliver my soul!’ Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is merciful. The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me. Return to your rest, O my soul, For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. For You have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling. I will walk before the LORD In the land of the living. I believed, therefore I spoke, ‘I am greatly afflicted.’ I said in my haste, ‘All men are liars.’ What shall I render to the LORD For all His benefits toward me? I will take up the cup of salvation, And call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows to the LORD Now in the presence of all His people. Precious in the sight of the LORD Is the death of His saints. O LORD, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds. I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows to the LORD Now in the presence of all His people, In the courts of the LORD’S house, In the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!”

Noah Webster

“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, “just men who will rule in the fear of God.” The preservation of government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be sqandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”

[Noah Webster, History of the United States (New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1832), pp. 336-337.]

Proverbs 14:34 – “Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people.” (NKJV)

Proverbs 28:12 – “When the righteous rejoice, there is great glory; But when the wicked arise, men hide themselves.” (Ref. vs. 28) (NKJV)

Psalms 33:12 19 – “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance. . . No king is saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a vain hope for safety; Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength. Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy, To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.” (NKJV)

1 Timothy 2:1 2 – “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.” (NKJV)

Daniel 2:21 – “And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding. (NKJV)

Daniel 4:17 – ‘This decision is by the decree of the watchers, And the sentence by the word of the holy ones, In order that the living may know That the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, Gives it to whomever He will, And sets over it the lowest of men.’ (NKJV)

Daniel 4:29-36.

America is Fat and Well Fed and Has Forgotten God – Deuteronomy 8.

Judges Pattern – Obedience, Blessing, Complacency, Disobedience, Bondage, Repentance, Deliverance

Judges 2:10-23, 3:1-15.

2 Chronicles 7:13 14 – “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (NKJV)

Historic Quotes from http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=80

Jane Roe

January 22, 2014 marks Forty One years of legal child killing in America. Forty years is a Biblical generation. We have killed preborn children in America for more than a generation. It is time to end abortion and protect all innocent human life. It is time for the church to rise up and end abortion.

When I think about 40 years, I am reminded of the children of Israel. God delivered Pharaoh and his army in the red sea and promised to give Israel the land of Canaan, but the Israelites doubted whether God could deliver them from the giants in the land. That generation wondered in the wilderness until all of the men of war had died, and a new generation arose to possess the land.

In 1973, God called for His church to end abortion, but most Christians didn’t even know what abortion was. If it weren’t for a few, faithful Catholics, we wouldn’t even have had a prolife movement. For over forty years, we have sat back and allowed over 57,000,000 preborn children to be slaughtered in our country. Many of those who have been faithful have died or are near the end of their lives. It is time for a new generation to rise up and put an end to abortion and protect all innocent human life.

Will you be a part of the generation that ends abortion? Will you play a role in making history by restoring the sanctity of human life? Please download and sign The Right to Life of All Persons Recognized and Protected Amendment  Petition today. Sign up for our next volunteer conference call, and make a donation to help Personhood FL end abortion and protect all innocent human life.

National Day of Prayer

Thursday, May 2, 2013, is the National Day of Prayer. In 2 Chronicles 7:13-14, we read, “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (NKJV)

If there has ever been a time in America’s history where we need to turn back to God, this is the time! Will you join Personhood FL in crying out to God on behalf of America? Will you pray to end abortion? Will you pray that all innocent human life will be protected in your city and county, in Florida, and in the United States? I urge you to cry out to God on the National Day of Prayer and everyday for this nation that we love so dearly.

As you participate in these events, ask the organizers if you can collect petition signatures for the Florida ProLife Personhood Amendment Petition. This will put legs to your prayers as we work to end abortion and protect all innocent human life.

National Day of Prayer events are scheduled across Florida and the United States. View National Day of Prayer Events in your area, and join us in pleading with God to send us revival lest we perish in our sin.

National Day of Prayer events on the Treasure Coast: Events with a * will include presentations by Personhood FL representatives.

Indian River County National Day of Prayer Events
Join Christian FM for a National Day of Prayer event on the steps of Vero Beach City Hall. There will be prayers offered for our community and our nation. Thursday, May 2nd 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
DATE: 5/2/2013
TIME: 12:15
LOCATION: 1053 20th Pl , Vero Beach FL 32960
CITY: Vero Beach, FL

Saint Lucie County National Day of Prayer Events

National Day of Prayer to End Abortion*
Did you realize that 25 babies were aborted at the abortion mill in Ft. Pierce a few weeks ago? That number is equivalent to a classroom of children. 681 children were murdered last year. That is equivalent to an entire elementary school. This is the ONLY remaining abortion mill on the Treasure Coast.
Upholding that our rights come from God, and in observance of our National Day of Prayer, let us join as one body to seek God’s face in repentance, and intercede to change the hearts and minds of men and women in our county. If people’s hearts change, we can change this unjust law. Why not join or start a prayer meeting for repentance and intercession in your community? If you are on the Treasure Coast, please join us.
DATE: 5/2/2013
TIME: 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
LOCATION: 12th St and Delaware Ave, Fort Pierce, FL
CITY: Fort Pierce, FL

Port St Lucie National Day of Prayer
A time of gathering for our local government officials, church and civic leaders and the people in our communities, to lift up our Nation, state and city in prayer. A free continental breakfast will be provided.
DATE: 5/2/2013
TIME: 9:00 am – 11:30 am
LOCATION: 2410 SE Westmoreland , Port St. Lucie FL 34952
CITY: Port St. Lucie, FL

Fort Pierce National Day of Prayer
Date: 5/2/2013
Time: Noon – 1 PM
LOCATION: At the Gazebo in downtown Fort Pierce
CITY: Fort Pierce, FL

2nd Annual Treasure Coast National Day of Prayer*
This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Danny Lovett. Dr. Lovett has served as the Dean of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, the President of Tennessee Temple University, and is currently the Senior Pastor of the Church at the CW in Westover, Alabama. In addition to Dr. Lovett, we will be joined by St. Lucie County Commissioner Tod Mowery, Brenda MacMenamin from Personhood Florida, and Pastor Jim Sunderwirth and the Morningside Choir.DATE: 5/2/2013
TIME: 7:00 PM
LOCATION: Morningside Friends Church, 2180 SE Morningside Blvd , Port St Lucie FL 34952
CITY: Port St Lucie, FL

Martin County National Day of Prayer Events

Stuart Observance of the National Day of Prayer
Please join us in this community wide event held at Gazebo Park in downtown Stuart. We will worship God together and then join in prayer for our community, state and nation lead by leaders from our community. Hosted by First Baptist Stuart.
DATE: 5/2/2013
TIME: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
LOCATION: 50 SE Ocean Boulevard, Stuart FL 34994
CITY: Stuart, FL

Hobe Sound National Day of Prayer
Join us as we come together to pray for our community and nation!
DATE: 5/2/2013
TIME: 6:30pm – 7:30pm
LOCATION: US 1 and Bridge Road , Hobe Sound FL 33455
CITY: Hobe Sound, FL

Don’t you long for the day when we will stand with all peoples, all languages, all creeds, with people from all of history that have loved Jesus Christ and we sing and praise, lifting our voices for eternity worshiping our King. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait.

But God has called us to a task here on this earth, and He has called us to pray for our nation. He has called us to pray for those in authority over us. And I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get frustrated with those who are in authority over us. Sometimes I wish they would do things differently. Sometimes it seems like politicians from both parties aren’t doing the right thing, and I wonder whether they really care more about their personal financial gain, or whether they care about this nation, whether they care about this state, whether they care about this county, whether they care about this city.

But in America when we look at government, we must realize that we live in a very unique culture because we are the government. Our founding fathers never envisioned a time when the majority of Americans would be more likely to know who won American Idol than who the Vice President of the United States is! We have a responsibility in this nation.

We need to turn back to God, and you may ask: how do we need to turn back to God? It’s not us that need to turn back to God, it’s all those wicked people out there, but let me tell you something: when the most conservative branch of Christianity only has 9% of its members that have a Biblical worldview, we have a problem in this nation. When the majority of Christians are more likely to be influenced by TV, the news, and movies than they are from the word of God, we have a problem in this nation. When we have pastors that stand up and condone fornication, and adultery, and homosexuality, and perform homosexual marriage ceremonies, and even ordain ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ who are homosexual, something that God says is an abomination, we have a problem in this nation. When we shed the blood of over 55,000,000 preborn children for our convenience, for our figures, for our careers, we have a problem in this nation.

God has called us to be the culture carriers. He has called us to disciple the nations. He has called us to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. He has called us to be the pillar and ground of truth, and we have failed to do this in this nation. In fact, we inherited a nation that was largely discipled in God’s commandments, and we have given it away.

We have stood by and our ancestors have stood by when the idea that God created the heavens and the earth was replaced with the idea that nothing created everything out of nothing by mere chance and random mutations. You would have to be a moron to believe something like that, yet that is what is taught in our public schools today.

We stood by and maybe even participated in the sexual revolution, and we stood by when the Supreme Court ruled that a preborn child was not a person. And we stood by when the Ten Commandments, the Bible, and Prayer were taken out of schools, but folks, long before they were taken out of our schools, they were taken out of our churches and they were taken out of our homes. The family altar has been replaced with the TV set in most homes. We stood by while the blood of 55,000,000 preborn children has been shed.
It is time to stand by no more. It is time to fall on our faces before God to repent of our sins, to turn back to Him, and to get up and take this country back, not for a political party, not for a political candidate, but for the Lord Jesus Christ. He has commanded us to exercise dominion on this earth.

The Bible tells us in 2 Chronicles 7:13-14, “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (NKJV)

Father, we do come before you today, and Lord, we do pray for our nation. We pray for our president. We pray for our Congress and for the Senate. We pray for our governor and for our state senators and representatives and all of those thousands and millions of agencies and government workers that are constantly working sometimes it seems to make our lives more difficult. Father, we pray for our county officials, the county commissioners, and our mayor here in Port St Lucie, the mayor of Fort Pierce, and our City Councils. Lord, we pray that you would give them wisdom. Help them Father to rule according to your word so that we may live a quiet and peaceable life.

Lord, as we come and lift up these elected officials, we must realize that we are the ones that elected them. Either our votes or by staying at home and refusing to participate in the political process, we elected them, and Father, we pray that you would help us to take our rightful role in society. And Lord, we confess and we repent today for standing by for so long and letting so many bad things happen in this country, for standing by and allowing your word to be removed from the public square, but Lord, we do confess that in all too many homes in this nation, Your word has been removed. Sure, it may be there, but it’s on a shelf, its rarely used, certainly not used as much as the local television station.

Father, we cry out to you, and we pray that you would break our hearts. We pray that you would turn us back to you Father God. We pray that you would turn your church and this nation back to you. Lord, give us revival lest we die. Father, send us revival and reformation. Send us a fresh move of God. Shake us Lord until there is nothing left except of you. Grant us in this nation Lord another great awakening. Let is start here Father. Let it start right here in this place. Let it start with me, with each one of us. Let it start in our homes. Father, help us to turn back to you, to humble ourselves, to pray, to seek your face, and to allow you to work in our country.
Father, we see throughout history that when people turn back to You, it doesn’t matter what the odds, it doesn’t matter how many weapons they have, it doesn’t matter how much might, and how much power, and how much money they have. Lord, You delivered Israel in the past when they only had two swords, in the whole nation, and given them victory. You delivered them when they were taken captive, taken to a foreign land. Father, you can deliver us as we turn back to You, and we pray Father that you would help us to do so. In the name of Jesus Lord we pray, Amen.

Pastor Bryan Longworth

Pastor Bryan Longworth is the number one ranked prolifer and Tea Party Advocate on Twitter (@BryanLongworth) with over 200,000 followers, serves as the director of Personhood FL, a prolife organization working to pass the Florida ProLife Personhood Amendment that will end abortion in FL, as the associate pastor at Covenant Tabernacle in Port St. Lucie, FL, and as the director of SOHL, Sanctity of Human Life of the Treasure Coast. Longworth is a Wall Builders Black Robe Regiment Pastor and a Family Research Council (FRC) Watchmen on the Wall Pastor. Longworth has participated in the Alliance Defense Fund’s (ADF) Pulpit Freedom Sunday since 2010. Longworth continues to be involved in the pro-life movement and in calling the church and our nation to repentance. The church and America needs revival and reformation like never before. The blood of over 55 million children cries from the ground for vengeance, and God will avenge! God send us a true move of God lest we perish in our iniquity!

Covenant Tabernacle

Covenant Tabernacle World Outreach Center in Port Saint Lucie Florida is a nondenominational, charismatic reformed church that believes the Pentecostal gifts of the Holy Spirit are available to believers today. We believe God has called us to worship, proclaim His word, and Disciple the nations in obedience to His commandments.

Vibrant Worship

At Covenant Tabernacle, we believe in worshiping God “with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:30 – NKJV) As a part of our worship, we blow the Shofar as blown in ancient Jewish worship.

Powerful, Bible based Preaching

We believe that the word of God is true (2 Samuel 7:28) and that “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17 NKJV) We encourage all believers to develop a Biblical Worldview that shapes our view on not only our personal life but also our family, friends, loved ones, church, and civil government.

Discipleship

We believe in following Christ’s Great Commission to “‘go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’ Amen.” (Matthew 28:19-20 NKJV) As such, we believe in discipling individuals, families, communities, cities, states, and nations in obedience to God’s word.

Personhood FL Launches New Florida ProLife Personhood Amendment Petition!

Sermon, 12-18-11, What Kind of Nation Have We Become When We Value Possessions More Than Human Life, Pastor Bryan Longworth, Covenant Tabernacle

You may recall the video on the Internet of the little girl in China who wondered away from her mom and wondered into the road where she was ran over by a van. Since China is a police state with cameras everywhere, the event was caught on video. You can see the passenger of the van look out and see the girl before the van drives away. Multiple people passed by, saw the girl dying in the middle of the street, and just walked on by.

You see, there was a case in China not too long ago where a person was injured. Someone saw the injured person, had compassion on them, and took them to the hospital. The injured party recovered and then sued the good Samaritan claiming that he must have been the perpetrator. The judge agreed saying that the only reason someone would take an injured party to the hospital was if he felt guilty because he had done the crime.

How is it that an entire society has so little value for life that a judge would rule that the only reason someone would take an injured party to the hospital would be if he had committed the crime? No thought was given that it may just be that the person cared for the injured party much less the truth that we are created in God’s image, that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights.

Of course, those rights don’t exist in China. You see, China has a one child policy, and when a woman is pregnant and already has a child, China enforces this one child policy by forced abortions.

Because of this policy, China has a big problem. Every parent wants a boy to carry on the family name, so parents in China have ultrasounds prior when pregnant with their first child. If the child is a girl, they abort (kill) her. The result is that there are considerably more male children than female children. Who are these men going to marry?

This policy has had created a much bigger problem however. By systematically forcing parents to have their own children killed by abortion, China has devalued life to the point where neither its citizens nor its judges understand why anyone would attempt to save the life of an injured party unless they inflicted the wound. The evening of Thanksgiving started black Friday. Our family happened to be driving by Walmart around the time when black Friday was supposed to begin, so we decided to stop and see what deals they had.

We didn’t park in Walmart’s parking lot. It was completely full as was the parking lot to the south of Walmart. We parked in the parking lot to the north, the Golden Coral parking lot, which was almost full.

As we approached the store, we were surprised to find 14 squad cars in front of the store. I didn’t even know our city had 14 officers on duty at any given time, and here 14 were devoted to just one store on this one night. You see: customers got into fist fights earlier over the prize merchandise.

As we walked through the store, we saw several areas where hot merchandise sat, waiting to be released until the set time. Customers crowded around these piles of merchandise waiting for their chance at a bargain.

Looking at this reminded me of the scenes in the hiding place where the women rush on a pile of coats to grab one to keep them warm. The women ran and fought over something that they needed to save their life. In America, we have people with that same type of vigor, going for goods, going for possessions, going for toys, going for the latest electronic gadget, and yes, in America, there were shoppers who stepped over a dying man to get a great deal. The man was having a heart attack, but that didn’t stop shoppers. They simply stepped over him to preserve their place in line.

What kind of country have we become when life is so invaluable and when our focus is so much on material possessions and not on glorifying God, and when in this time economic uncertainty, in this time of need, in this time when we have a record number of foreclosures and people can’t pay their bills, we see more money spent on black Friday than any other Christmas ever? What kind of people have we become?

Watch the full sermon to hear how we need to seek to glorify God more than our possessions, restore the sanctity of human life, and restore fiscal responsibility. Mentioned in this sermon Abortion, the ProLife Personhood Movement, the Tea Party Movement, and Occupy Wall Street.

Sermon Notes:

OPENING PASSAGE — Psalm 139.

Glorify God and Enjoy Him Forever.

1 Corinthians 10:31 – “Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” (NKJV)

Revelation 4:11 – “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.” (NKJV)

Psalms 73:25-26 – “Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” (NKJV)

Restore the Sanctity of Human Life

Genesis 1:26-27 – “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” (NKJV)

Psalms 139:13-16 – “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.” (NKJV)

Genesis 9:5-6 – “Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man. “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.” (NKJV)

Restore Fiscal Responsibility

Proverbs 22:7 – “The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender.” (NKJV)

Psalms 37:21 – “The wicked borrows and does not repay, But the righteous shows mercy and gives.” (NKJV)

Deuteronomy 15:1-6 – “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release of debts. And this is the form of the release: Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the LORD’S release. “Of a foreigner you may require it; but you shall give up your claim to what is owed by your brother, except when there may be no poor among you; for the LORD will greatly bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance – only if you carefully obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe with care all these commandments which I command you today. For the LORD your God will bless you just as He promised you; you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.” (NKJV)

Deuteronomy 28 – “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. “And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God: “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. “Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. “The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. “The LORD will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you. “The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. “Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you. “And the LORD will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. “The LORD will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. “And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them. “So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them. “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. “Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out. “The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me. “The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess. “The LORD will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with scorching, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. “And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron. “The LORD will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed. “The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. “Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away. “The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. “The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of heart. “And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you. “You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes. “Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them. “Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be no strength in your hand. “A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually. “So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see. “The LORD will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. “The LORD will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods-wood and stone. “And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the LORD will drive you. “You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for the locust shall consume it. “You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. “You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. “You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity. “Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of your land. “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. “He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail. “Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. “And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever. “Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, “therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. “The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, “a nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. “And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you. “They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your God has given you. “You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you. “The sensitive and very refined man among you will be hostile toward his brother, toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind, “so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. “The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter, “her placenta which comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, “then the LORD will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues-great and prolonged plagues-and serious and prolonged sicknesses. “Moreover He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. “Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the LORD bring upon you until you are destroyed. “You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God. “And it shall be, that just as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess. “Then the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known-wood and stone. “And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul. “Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. “In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and because of the sight which your eyes see. “And the LORD will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.” (NKJV)

Pastor Bryan Longworth

Pastor Bryan Longworth is the number one ranked prolifer on Twitter @BryanLongworth, serves as the director of Personhood FL, a prolife organization working to pass the Florida ProLife Personhood Amendment that will end abortion in FL, as the associate pastor at Covenant Tabernacle in Port St. Lucie, FL, and as the director of SOHL, Sanctity of Human Life of the Treasure Coast. Longworth is a Wall Builders Black Robe Regiment Pastor and a Family Research Council (FRC) Watchmen on the Wall Pastor. Longworth has participated in the Alliance Defense Fund’s (ADF) Pulpit Freedom Sunday since 2010. Longworth continues to be involved in the pro-life movement and in calling the church and our nation to repentance. The church and America needs revival and reformation like never before. The blood of over 55 million children cries from the ground for vengeance, and God will avenge! God send us a true move of God lest we perish in our iniquity!

Covenant Tabernacle

Covenant Tabernacle World Outreach Center in Port Saint Lucie Florida is a nondenominational, charismatic reformed church that believes the Pentecostal gifts of the Holy Spirit are available to believers today. We believe God has called us to worship, proclaim His word, and Disciple the nations in obedience to His commandments.

Vibrant Worship

At Covenant Tabernacle, we believe in worshiping God “with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:30 – NKJV) As a part of our worship, we blow the Shofar as blown in ancient Jewish worship.

Powerful, Bible based Preaching

We believe that the word of God is true (2 Samuel 7:28) and that “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17 NKJV) We encourage all believers to develop a Biblical Worldview that shapes our view on not only our personal life but also our family, friends, loved ones, church, and civil government.

Discipleship

We believe in following Christ’s Great Commission to “‘go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’ Amen.” (Matthew 28:19-20 NKJV) As such, we believe in discipling individuals, families, communities, cities, states, and nations in obedience to God’s word.

Personhood FL Launches New Florida ProLife Personhood Amendment Petition!

Sermon, 12-18-11, What Kind of Nation Have We Become When We Value Possessions More Than Human Life, Pastor Bryan Longworth, Covenant Tabernacle

Vote for Life Yes on 26

With the loss of Mississippi’s Initiative 26, many in the prolife movement and the media have asked what is our strategy here in Florida. They are quick to point out that Mississippi is more prolife than Florida and ask how we think we can win if a similar initiative can’t even pass in Mississippi.

My first response is, what makes you think Personhood can’t pass in Mississippi? Just because it didn’t pass doesn’t mean that it can’t pass. I believe that it not only can pass but will pass because I believe that the people of Mississippi are prolife and will see past the lies of Planned Parenthood and the confusion of “prolife” Governor Haley Barbour and vote to end abortion and protect all innocent human life!

When we started Personhood FL, we knew that the percentage of Floridians who are prolife without exception was much lower than the 60% needed to pass the FL ProLife Personhood Amendment; however, we believe that every time we go out, every time we petition for personhood, every time we present the humanity of the preborn child, every time we say that you shouldn’t starve and dehydrate someone simply because they’re elderly or disabled, we make the case for life and move that percentage closer and closer to 60%.

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You see Personhood is the William Wilberforce model. William Wilberforce presented a bill to abolish slavery. It didn’t pass, so he presented his bill again the next year, and the next year, and the next year, until the people of England viewed slavery as abhorrent, and together with abolitionists in America, slavery ended for the most part world wide.

Where do you go to buy a good slave today? It wasn’t too long ago that you could go to nearly any town square and buy a slave. Today however virtually all nations view slavery as abhorrent, and one day people will look back on abortion as abhorrent. One day people will look back on the crimes committed to the preborn in the womb today and wonder why did they ever let that happen?

Personhood Florida will press on to victory! We will continue on! We will not give up! We are living in a time where we have the opportunity to participate in ending abortion and protecting every innocent human life in Florida, the United States of America, and the world! We desperately need to pass prolife personhood amendments in every state in the America, and ultimately, we need a federal personhood amendment.

We must move quickly, however, because we have now shed the blood of over 55,000,000 preborn children and wounded millions of women through abortion. According to the Bible, when innocent blood is shed, it cries out from the ground for vengeance and will only be silenced when the murderer is legally tried and executed. (In the case of abortion, this would result in prosecutors trying abortionists for crimes against humanity and seeking the death penalty upon conviction.) The scariest accounts in the Bible is found in looking at how God dealt with the Manasseh’s sin. The Bible tells us in 2 Kings 21:16, “Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another…” (NKJV) Then in 2 Kings 24:2-4, we see that God raised up adversaries to destroy Judah “because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.” In America, we have shed the blood of close to 20% of our population. We have to wonder: how many more babies can we kill in America before God wipes us of the map? We must humble ourselves before God, pray, seek his face, and turn from our wicked ways so that God can hear from heaven, forgive our sins, and heal our land. We must end abortion and protect all innocent human life while we still have a window of grace.

The good news is that leading up to and following the Mississippi vote, Personhood FL has linked up with new volunteers who are willing to help make the case for life in their county! We currently are working on a plan to contact every church in Florida between now and the end of the year so that the churches can present the Florida ProLife Personhood Petition to their parishioners in January, but we need your help to accomplish this. Will you help us take the message of life to every church, every pastor in your county? Please join us for a conference call/training tomorrow (Tuesday, November 15 from 9 – 10 PM) where we’ll go over how to contact the churches and pastors and the new FL ProLife Personhood Petition. This call will cover key strategies for ending abortion and protecting all innocent human life. Register to join us on the call here.

Sermon Notes

Opening Passage – Psalm 139.

“The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood Cries Out to Me from the Ground” – “Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. Then the LORD said to Cain, ‘Where is Abel your brother?’ He said, ‘I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?’ And He said, ‘What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.’” (Genesis 4:8-10 NKJV)

The Death Penalty Instituted to Protect Life – “Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.” (Genesis 9:5-6 NKJV)

That the People May Hear and Fear – Deuteronomy 19.

1)      Cities of Refuge

2)      Delivering the Guilty to the Death Penalty

3)      Two or Three Witnesses

4)      That the People May Hear and Fear

Forgiveness for Innocent Blood – Deuteronomy 21:6-9.

Manasseh Filled Jerusalem with Innocent Blood – 2 Kings 21:1-16.

The Righteous Reign of Josiah

1)      Hilkiah Finds the Law of God

2)       Josiah Repents Before God

3)      Judgment is Prophesied, Josiah’s Heart for God Rewarded

4)      Josiah Made a Covenant with God

5)      Josiah Ended Baal Worship and Put the Priests of Baal to Death

6)      Yet, The LORD Would Not Pardon!

Which the LORD Would Not Pardon – “And the LORD sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans, bands of Syrians, bands of Moabites, and bands of the people of Ammon; He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken by His servants the prophets. Surely at the commandment of the LORD this came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.” (2 Kings 24:2-4 NKJV)

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OPENING PASSAGE — Psalm 33.

To view a complete list of National Day of Prayer events for St Lucie County Florida, visit our National Day of Prayer page.

Our nation has been rocked with natural disasters with raging storms sweeping through Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee, killing over 300 to date. Yet this is nothing new. Since that dreadful Roe v Wade decision and the ensuing millions upon millions of unborn babies that have been killed by “safe, legal” abortion on demand, we have seen ever increasing damage from natural disasters. From flooding in the Midwest, to earthquakes in the West and elsewhere, to wild fires, to hurricanes, to tornadoes, to ice storms, to drought. It is as if creation is groaning with birth pangs, eagerly awaiting the revealing of the sons of God (Romans 8:22). It is as if creation will not willingly put up with our futility and as if God is removing His restraining hand (Romans 8:19-21). It is as if the land were vomiting out its inhabitants as God warns in Leviticus 18 and 20.

God has blessed us to live in a nation that has a strong heritage of faithful men and women who have gone before us and have given us a Biblical foundation like no other nation on earth has experienced since the Jewish nation of antiquity. As a result, this nation has experienced the blessings of God like no other nation, yet we have drifted away from that solid foundation of hearing and obeying God’s word. We have removed the Bible, Prayer, and the Ten Commandments from schools, we have cast off traditional morals for free love that once meant that boy friends and girl friends could shack up and fornicate and that lovers could commit adultery. This has now grown to the point where couples no longer need to be boyfriend and girlfriend (as in friends with benefits) or even of the opposite sex (as in homosexual relationships). As a result of this sexual perversion, we have abortion on demand and have now slain over 55,000,000 preborn children by abortion simply because the children were an inconvenience to their parents who simply desire to experience the pleasure of physical intimacy without the resulting consequences. Furthermore, thanks to Governor Mitt Romney, we now have states where men can marry men, and women can marry women. And the church has been all to willing to either stay inside its four walls and let the United States go to Hell in a hand basket, or even worse, have cast off the clear teaching of scripture and have winked at and even sanctioned these very sins. Should we wonder then that we now are experiencing such calamity and hardship?

In America, we have a long history of Christians who have cried out to God in the time of need. From the Catholic martyrs who laid down their lives to take the gospel to this nation, to the Pilgrims who covenanted with God before even stepping foot on the shore, to the Puritans who turned to God when there was an Indian uprising, a drought, or another hardship, to the founding fathers who turned to God time an time again during the Continental Congress, the Revolutionary War, and the Constitutional Convention, to Presidents, Governors, Soldiers, and Citizens throughout the ages who have turned to God for divine protection, our nation’s history is full of examples of men, women, communities, states, and yes our nation crying out to the King of kings and Lord of lords for deliverance and provision. Below is a small sampling of Founding Fathers, Governors, and Presidents calling for national days of fasting, humiliation, and prayer:

1775 Samuel Adams, Governor of Massachusetts called for a day of Public Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer (http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=43)

Revolutionary War – Washington Called for Days of Public Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer

Constitutional Convetion – 1787 Benjamin Franklin
“In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the Contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a Superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that ‘except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments be Human Wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.
I therefore beg leave to move, that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the Clergy of the City be requested to officiate in that service.”
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John Adams – 03/23/1798
This is the text of President John Adams’ March 23, 1798 national Fasting and Prayer proclamation; as printed in the The Phenix/Windham Herald, April 12, 1798.

“By the President of the United States of America

A PROCLAMATION

AS the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and blessing of Almighty God; and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him, but a duty whose natural influence is favorable to the promotion of that morality and piety, without which social happiness cannot exist, nor the blessings of a free government be enjoyed; and as this duty, at all times incumbent, is so especially in seasons of difficulty and of danger, when existing or threatening calamities, the just judgments of God against prevalent iniquity are a loud call to repentance and reformation; and as the United States of America are at present placed in a hazardous and afflictive situation, by the unfriendly disposition, conduct and demands of a foreign power, evinced by repeated refusals to receive our messengers of reconciliation and peace, by depredations on our commerce, and the infliction of injuries on very many of our fellow citizens, while engaged in their lawful business on the seas: -Under these considerations it has appeared to me that the duty of imploring the mercy and benediction of Heaven on our country, demands at this time a special attention from its inhabitants.

I HAVE therefore thought it fit to recommend, that Wednesday, the 9th day of May next be observed throughout the United States, as a day of Solemn Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer; That the citizens of these states, abstaining on that day from their customary worldly occupations, offer their devout addresses to the Father of Mercies, agreeably to those forms or methods which they have severally adopted as the most suitable and becoming: That all religious congregations do, with the deepest humility, acknowledge before GOD the manifold sins and transgressions with which we are justly chargeable as individuals and as a nation; beseeching him, at the same time, of his infinite Grace, through the Redeemer of the world, freely to remit all our offences, and to incline us, by his holy spirit, to that sincere repentance and reformation which may afford us reason to hope for his inestimable favor and heavenly benediction; That it be made the subject of particular and earnest supplication, that our country may be protected from all the dangers which threaten it; that our civil and religious privileges may be preserved inviolate, and perpetuated to the latest generations; that our public councils and magistrates may be especially enlightened and directed at this critical period; that the American people may be united in those bonds of amity and mutual confidence, and inspired with that vigor and fortitude by which they have in times past been so highly distinguished, and by which they have obtained such invaluable advantages: That the health of the inhabitants of our land may be preserved, and their agriculture, commerce, fisheries, arts and manufactures be blessed and prospered: That the principles of genuine piety and sound morality may influence the minds and govern the lives of every description of our citizens; and that the blessings of peace, freedom, and pure religion, may be speedily extended to all the nations of the earth.

And finally I recommend, that on the said day; the duties of humiliation and prayer be accompanied by fervent Thanksgiving to the bestower of every good gift, not only for having hitherto protected and preserved the people of these United States in the independent enjoyment of their religious and civil freedom, but also for having prospered them in a wonderful progress of population, and for conferring on them many and great favours conducive to the happiness and prosperity of a nation.

Given under my hand and seal of the United States of America, at Philadelphia, this twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of the said States the twenty-second.

JOHN ADAMS

By the President,
TIMOTHY PICKERING, Secretary of State
John Adams (1735-1826) Adams was an attorney, diplomat, and statesman; he graduated from Harvard (1755); leader in the opposition to the Stamp Act (1765); delegate to the Continental Congress (1774-77) where he signed the Declaration of Independence (1776); appointed Chief Justice of Superior Court of Massachusetts (1775); delegate to the Massachusetts constitutional convention (1779-80) and wrote most of the first draft of the Massachusetts Constitution; foreign ambassador to Holland (1782); signed the peace treaty which ended the American Revolution (1783); foreign ambassador to Great Britain (1785-88); served two terms as Vice-President under President George Washington (1789-97); second President of the United States (1797-1801); he and his one time political nemesis- turned-close-friend Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence; Adams was titled by fellow signer of the Declaration Richard Stockton as the “Atlas of American Independence.”
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1807 Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull Proclamation – Fasting, Humiliation
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1812 James Madison Proclamation calling for Humiliation and Prayer
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1860 Proclamation by President James Buchanan – Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer – 1860
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Isaiah 36-37.

Psalms 33:12 19 – “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance. . . No king is saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a vain hope for safety; Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength. Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy, To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.” (NKJV)

1 Timothy 2:1 2 – “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.” (NKJV)

2 Chronicles 6:24-31, 36-39

2 Chronicles 7:13 14 – “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (NKJV)

To view a complete list of National Day of Prayer events for St Lucie County Florida, visit my National Day of Prayer page.

Pastor Bryan Longworth

Pastor Bryan Longworth serves as the associate pastor at Covenant Tabernacle in Port St. Lucie, FL, as the director of Personhood FL, a prolife organization working to pass the Florida Personhood Amendment that will end abortion in FL, and as the director of SOHL, Sanctity of Human Life of the Treasure Coast. Longworth continues to be involved in the pro-life movement and in calling the church and our nation to repentance. The church and America needs revival and reformation like never before. The blood of over 55 million children cries from the ground for vengeance, and God will avenge! God send us a true move of God lest we perish in our iniquity!

Covenant Tabernacle

Covenant Tabernacle World Outreach Center in Port Saint Lucie Florida is a nondenominational, charismatic reformed church that believes the Pentecostal gifts of the Holy Spirit are available to believers today. We believe God has called us to worship, proclaim His word, and Disciple the nations in obedience to His commandments.

Vibrant Worship

At Covenant Tabernacle, we believe in worshipping God “with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:30 – NKJV) As a part of our worship, we blow the Shofar as blown in ancient Jewish worship.

Powerful, Bible based Preaching

We believe that the word of God is true (2 Samuel 7:28) and that “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:16-17 NKJV) We encourage all believers to develop a Biblical Worldview that shapes our view on not only our personal life but also our family, friends, loved ones, church, and civil government.

Discipleship

We believe in following Christ’s Great Commission to “‘go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.’ Amen.” (Matthew 28:19-20 NKJV) As such, we believe in discipling individuals, families, communities, cities, states, and nations in obedience to God’s word.

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