Moral Monday: Prophetic Witness Outside the White House (05/18/2026)
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Got when I say forward together, can you say not one step back? Forward together. Not one step back.
8 seconds
Forward
together. Not one step back. One more time. Forward together. Not one
step back. You ready to sing together a little bit?16 seconds
There's
something that happens when we all come together and we're arm and arm
pretty much and we talk about it all the time. It's that collective24 seconds
effrovescence. That energy that breaks yolks, right? That energy that can destroy lies. That energy that can lift33 seconds
us up from the places where lies have kind of weighted us down a little bit.38 seconds
We
know there's a lot of lying going on, but that's all right because when
we woke up this morning, we woke up with our minds stayed on justice.46 seconds
Despite
the lies, despite the the everything that we're facing, we woke up this
morning. You're here. That's proof that you woke up with your mind
stayed on freedom. Let's try that.1 minute, 25 seconds
Yes.1 minute, 51 seconds
Woke up this morning with my mind.1 minute, 56 seconds
Stay on free. Can we speed it up a little bit? Woke up this morning with my mind.2 minutes, 5 seconds
Stay on free. I said I woke up this morning with my mind2 minutes, 14 seconds
stayed on freom. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.2 minutes, 23 seconds
Hallelujah.2 minutes, 27 seconds
You know I'm walking and talking with my mind.2 minutes, 33 seconds
Stay on freom. I said I'm walking and talking with my mind.2 minutes, 42 seconds
Stay on freom. I said I'm walking and talking with my mind.2 minutes, 51 seconds
Stay on freom. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.3 minutes
Hallelujah.3 minutes, 2 seconds
We said there were a lot of lies going on. So let's woke up. Wake up with truth. I woke up this morning with my mind.3 minutes, 12 seconds
Stay on truth.3 minutes, 16 seconds
I said I woke up this morning with my mind.3 minutes, 21 seconds
Stay on true.3 minutes, 25 seconds
You know I woke up this morning with my mind.3 minutes, 31 seconds
Stay on you. Hallelujah.3 minutes, 38 seconds
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Yeah.3 minutes, 45 seconds
I'm singing and praying with my mind.3 minutes, 51 seconds
Stay on freom.3 minutes, 55 seconds
I said I'm singing and praying with my mind.4 minutes
Stay on freedom. I said I'm singing and praying with my mind.4 minutes, 10 seconds
Stay on freedom. Hallelujah.4 minutes, 18 seconds
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.4 minutes, 24 seconds
I said I'm walking and talking with my mind.4 minutes, 30 seconds
Stay on freedom.4 minutes, 35 seconds
Oh yes, I'm walking and talking with my mind.4 minutes, 40 seconds
Stay on freom. I said I'm walking and talking with my mind.4 minutes, 50 seconds
Stay on freom. Hallelujah.4 minutes, 57 seconds
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Can you play it for us one time, Freddy?5 minutes, 42 seconds
We woke up without my state on voting. Woke up this morning with my mind.5 minutes, 50 seconds
Stay on voting.5 minutes, 54 seconds
I said I woke up this morning with my mind.6 minutes
Stay on voting. I woke up this morning with my mind.6 minutes, 10 seconds
Stay on voting. Hallelujah.6 minutes, 17 seconds
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.6 minutes, 29 seconds
Right. Well, let's do one more.6 minutes, 33 seconds
We shall not be moved like a tree. How many of you believe that though? Cuz cuz the important thing is that yeah, we6 minutes, 40 seconds
sing it, but do we believe it? Do we mean what we're really singing? Right.6 minutes, 45 seconds
Okay. Here we go. We shall not We shall not be moved. It's a declaration. We6 minutes, 55 seconds
shall not We shall not be moved. Just like a tree planted by the water.7 minutes, 7 seconds
We shall not be moved.7 minutes, 13 seconds
We're standing together.7 minutes, 17 seconds
We shall not be moved. We're standing together.7 minutes, 23 seconds
We shall not. Oh, just like a tree planted by the water,7 minutes, 34 seconds
we shall not be moved.7 minutes, 40 seconds
And you can go tell this president we shall not be moved.7 minutes, 48 seconds
Go tell this president we shall not be moved. Just like a tree7 minutes, 57 seconds
planted by the water, we shall not be moved.8 minutes, 9 seconds
We're fighting for our families. We shall not be moved.8 minutes, 16 seconds
We're fighting for our families.8 minutes, 20 seconds
We shall not all like a tree planted by the water.8 minutes, 31 seconds
We shall not be moved.8 minutes, 38 seconds
We're standing for peace and we shall not be moved.8 minutes, 46 seconds
We're standing for peace and we shall not be moved. Just like a tree8 minutes, 55 seconds
planted by the water, we shall not be moved.9 minutes, 8 seconds
We fight for living wages. We shall not be moved.9 minutes, 15 seconds
We fight for living wages.9 minutes, 19 seconds
We shall all just like a tree planted by the water.9 minutes, 30 seconds
We shall not be moved. We're fighting racist politics.9 minutes, 40 seconds
We shall not be moved. We're fighting racist politics.9 minutes, 47 seconds
We shall not be moved. Just like a tree planted by the water,9 minutes, 58 seconds
we shall not be moved.10 minutes, 15 seconds
I came prepared today.10 minutes, 23 seconds
I said on the way here it's going to be a hot one.10 minutes, 28 seconds
And when you don't have a full head of hair, well, the sweat doesn't stop. Earth.10 minutes, 36 seconds
Holy one, source of life and truth.10 minutes, 40 seconds
We gather today from many faiths, traditions, and paths of conscience.10 minutes, 48 seconds
Standing together for peace, justice, and the dignity of every human being. In a world wounded by war, violence, fear,10 minutes, 57 seconds
and division, we pray for the courage to choose compassion over cruelty,11 minutes, 3 seconds
dialogue over destruction, and mercy over policies that harm the vulnerable.11 minutes, 12 seconds
Spirit of truth, blow through these streets today. Yes.11 minutes, 17 seconds
Open hearts that have grown hardened by power, fear, or pride.11 minutes, 22 seconds
Guide the leaders of this nation, especially those entrusted with authority to govern not through hatred11 minutes, 30 seconds
or violence, but with wisdom, humility, justice, and love for all people.11 minutes, 39 seconds
Yes. May those who make decisions remember the the suffering children. The cries of the poor,11 minutes, 45 seconds
the fears of immigrants and refugees, the grief of families torn apart by war and oppression11 minutes, 54 seconds
and the sacred worth of every human being.11 minutes, 58 seconds
Strengthen all gathered here today to have strong voices for peace,12 minutes, 5 seconds
courage and patience for working for justice. And may truth rise above the propaganda.12 minutes, 15 seconds
Love rise above fear and peace rise above war.12 minutes, 21 seconds
Amen. Amen. A shalom. Shalom. Blessed be and may it be so.12 minutes, 34 seconds
I'm Alvin Jackson with the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ. I'm grateful to Bishop William Barber, Dr.12 minutes, 42 seconds
Hannah Broom, and the Repairs of the Breach team for calling us to engage in the best of our prophetic traditions.12 minutes, 49 seconds
Yeah. Yeah. To stand here in a place where politicians abuse power, even right here in front of this White House.12 minutes, 59 seconds
And so I've come today with all of you and in 16 states across the country to13 minutes, 6 seconds
say that I may be old and retired and sometimes tired and slow. I may not be at every march13 minutes, 14 seconds
and
rally, but as long as God gives me breath and strength, I'm going to
stand and speak out uh when we need to stand and speak out.13 minutes, 26 seconds
We've asked over 12,000 preachers to post and crossost these gatherings.13 minutes, 33 seconds
We're turning this place into a public place of proclamation.13 minutes, 38 seconds
Uh a public place of proclamation as we gather here on Mondays.13 minutes, 44 seconds
And so we have come today for if there ever was a time when we needed to stand and speak out,13 minutes, 53 seconds
don't you know it's right now? We we we we don't have to we don't have to let the madness of this moment have the last word.14 minutes, 2 seconds
We don't have to let the madness of this moment have the last word.14 minutes, 8 seconds
And so we have come to proclaim in this place and to share God's word. What does the what does God require of us but to14 minutes, 17 seconds
do
justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God. I hate I
despise your religious festivals, your assemblies that are are stench to
me.14 minutes, 29 seconds
Even though you bring me bread offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship14 minutes, 37 seconds
offerings, I will have no regard for them uh away with the noise of your songs. I will not listen to the music of14 minutes, 46 seconds
your heart. But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an everflowing stream. We have come today14 minutes, 55 seconds
to say, "Stop the distractions. Stop the war. Stop the violence. Stop the madness.15 minutes, 3 seconds
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." a nation already spending 63% of every15 minutes, 13 seconds
discretionary dollar on bombs and bullets and for a president and Congress to try and increase that spending to15 minutes, 21 seconds
$1.5 trillion dollar annually and deny the needs of the people is madness.15 minutes, 28 seconds
There's a whole lot of madness coming out of this house behind us. There's a whole lot of madness on Capitol Hill.15 minutes, 35 seconds
There's a whole lot of madness coming from the Supreme Court. And we've come today to say, "Stop the madness.15 minutes, 42 seconds
Stop the madness.15 minutes, 44 seconds
Denying peace, but choosing an unholy war of choice in Iran is madness.15 minutes, 50 seconds
Denying voting rights is madness.15 minutes, 53 seconds
Denying living wages is madness. Denying freedom from poverty is madness. Denying16 minutes
labor rights is madness. Denying statethood for the citizens of of DC is madness.16 minutes, 9 seconds
Denying the rights of indigenous people is madness. Denying a welcome to our immigrant brothers and sisters is16 minutes, 17 seconds
madness. Denying climate change is madness. Stop the madness. Stop the16 minutes, 24 seconds
distraction. Stop the war. Stop the violence. We are standing. We are speaking up. Silence is not an option.16 minutes, 32 seconds
Stop the madness. Stop the war. Stop the violence. Stop the violence. Love16 minutes, 39 seconds
forward. Love forward together. Love forward. Love forward together. Stop the madness.16 minutes, 48 seconds
Love forward. And not one step back.16 minutes, 58 seconds
Yes. Tell her introduce need I am Reverend Dr.17 minutes, 6 seconds
I am Reverend Dr. Dela Owens Barber. I'm here today as a public witness,17 minutes, 14 seconds
a senior pastor from North Carolina and I am an American. Yeah, but my spirit is troubled17 minutes, 23 seconds
when I see a golden image of the president erected and I hear of a rededication of the nation.17 minutes, 32 seconds
I'm trouble because there have not been any repentance.17 minutes, 38 seconds
If you're going to rededicate, there must first be repentance. And repentance17 minutes, 45 seconds
is an act of reviewing one's action, feeling genuinely remorse, a contriction17 minutes, 52 seconds
for past wrongdoings, and making a sincere commitment to personal change17 minutes, 59 seconds
and better behavior. It involves both a change of heart and an active shift in direction away from negative habits.18 minutes, 12 seconds
Repent. I say repent for the child slavery of 4.4 million African people in18 minutes, 22 seconds
the United States that lasted roughly four 246 years.18 minutes, 30 seconds
Repent for approximately 4,743 people that were lynched in the United States.18 minutes, 40 seconds
Repent for the trail of tears when between 10,000 and 15,000 Native Americans that18 minutes, 49 seconds
tried to cross and go and be re re uh relocated in the 1830s, they died.18 minutes, 58 seconds
Repent.19 minutes
Repent. repent for refusing to address the 250,00019 minutes, 6 seconds
people that die every year from poverty and those who die because of denial of19 minutes, 14 seconds
health care. We I'm calling you to repent. Repent for not having a national19 minutes, 21 seconds
day of mourning for more than 1.2 million Americans who die from CO globally. 7.1 million who died from CO.19 minutes, 32 seconds
Repent. Repent for engaging in an unholy war. Repent.19 minutes, 40 seconds
Repent for creating unjust laws and oppressive policies that exploit the19 minutes, 48 seconds
poor, the needy, the widow, and the orphan. Repent for engaging in19 minutes, 55 seconds
unnecessary hurt and violence.20 minutes
And as we approach Pentecost Sunday, it is my prayer that the Holy Spirit will fall down.20 minutes, 10 seconds
That the Holy Spirit will fall fresh on this nation.20 minutes, 15 seconds
That you have turned your hearts away from God. For it is time to turn away20 minutes, 22 seconds
from the meanness, away from violence, away from hurt, and return to God. For he is the only20 minutes, 30 seconds
one that can change a stony heart to flesh. For he is the one. Repent20 minutes, 39 seconds
for the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent.20 minutes, 51 seconds
This is our moral response to religious nationalism.20 minutes, 57 seconds
for use faith our faith our God in the name of war21 minutes, 6 seconds
beloved as we gather today I am Reverend Dr. Hannah R. Broom national scripture, but it crushes the stranger.21 minutes, 14 seconds
It calls on God, but it cuts out healthcare.21 minutes, 18 seconds
It waves the flag, but it wages war on the poor.21 minutes, 22 seconds
It sings hymns, but it silence voters.21 minutes, 26 seconds
It talks about family values, but abandoned families at the border. It abandoned families in a hospital room.21 minutes, 34 seconds
It abandoned families in lowwage jobs.21 minutes, 36 seconds
It
abandoned families and communities left without clean air, clean water,
and real opportunity. And let us say clearly that it is not
righteousness.21 minutes, 47 seconds
That is religious nationalism dressed up in Sunday clothes.21 minutes, 52 seconds
The prophets, sages, and sacred truth tellers knew the difference.21 minutes, 57 seconds
Moses knew the difference when he stood before Pharaoh and said, "Let my people go." Miriam knew the difference when the when22 minutes, 4 seconds
she sang freedom on the other side of the sea.22 minutes, 8 seconds
Isaiah knew the difference when he cried, "Woe to those who make unjust laws." Amos knew the difference when he22 minutes, 15 seconds
thundered,
"Let justice roll down like waters." Micah knew the difference when he
declared that God requires us to do justice, love mercy, and walk
humbly.22 minutes, 26 seconds
Mary, Jesus's mother, knew the difference when she sang a song of God, who brings down the powerful and lifts up the lowly.22 minutes, 36 seconds
Jesus knew the difference when he said, "Whatever you do to the least of these, you do also unto me."22 minutes, 42 seconds
And our Muslim brothers and sisters know the truth is this. The prophet Muhammad, peace be unto him, taught that faith22 minutes, 50 seconds
cannot be separated from mercy, justice, and the care of our neighbors. The Quran calls people to stand firmly for justice22 minutes, 58 seconds
even when it cost them something. Our Jewish brothers and sisters know this truth. You cannot claim covenant while23 minutes, 6 seconds
crushing the stranger, the widow, the orphan, and the poor. Our sik brothers and sisters know this truth. No one is23 minutes, 14 seconds
high, no one is low, and every human being carries sacred worth. Our Buddhist brothers and sisters know this truth.23 minutes, 22 seconds
suffering must not be ignored and compassion must become practiced. Our Hindu brothers and sisters know this23 minutes, 29 seconds
truth. Righteousness is not private belief alone. It is the right action in the world. So let us be clear across23 minutes, 37 seconds
many truths, across many faiths and our moral convictions. The sacred witness is23 minutes, 44 seconds
the same. Any religion that makes people disposable is not defending God or the23 minutes, 51 seconds
great creator. It is defending power and empire.23 minutes, 56 seconds
Empire always needs religion to make its violence look respectable.24 minutes, 2 seconds
But we are here to say not in our name not in our not with our scriptures not with our prayers24 minutes, 11 seconds
not with our pullpits not with our synagogues our synagogues not with our temples24 minutes, 18 seconds
not with our silence not with our because policy violence is still violence.24 minutes, 24 seconds
When
a worker cannot live on their wages that is violence. When a
grandmother has to choose between medicine and groceries, that is
violence.24 minutes, 33 seconds
When voters are pushed out of the democracy by design, that is violence.24 minutes, 38 seconds
When bombs get funded and bodies get abandoned, that is violence.24 minutes, 43 seconds
When
a nation can find money for war, but cannot find money for housing,
health care, food, schools, and living wages, that is not a budget
problem.24 minutes, 52 seconds
That is a moral problem. Yeah.24 minutes, 54 seconds
And we have come to declare on these sacred streets we have made holy that truth across all faith traditions25 minutes, 2 seconds
and moral convictions. No one is disposable. The poor is not disposable.25 minutes, 8 seconds
The children are not disposable. Elders are not disposable. Immigrants are not disposable. Migrants are not disposable.25 minutes, 16 seconds
Workers are not disposable. LGBTQ community is not disposable. People without health care is not disposable.25 minutes, 23 seconds
People in war zones is not disposable.25 minutes, 26 seconds
People
in forgotten counties, abandoned neighborhoods and over police streets
are not disposable. Every person carries sacred growth. Everybody bears
dignity.25 minutes, 36 seconds
Every community deserves protection. And every policy must be judged by what it does to the least protected among them.25 minutes, 44 seconds
So I want you to know now, love is not weak.25 minutes, 47 seconds
Love is not quiet in the face of cruelty. Love does not step aside while people are crushed. Love shows up. Love25 minutes, 55 seconds
speaks up. Love organizes. Love mobilizes. Love stands in the street. So let the nation hear us and hear us well.26 minutes, 5 seconds
We will not bow down to religious nationalism. We will not bless policy violence. We will not let cruelty wear26 minutes, 12 seconds
the name of God. We are here because our faith teaches us better. We are here because our ancestors taught us better.26 minutes, 19 seconds
Our prophets taught us better. Our mors traditions teach us better. And until justice rolls, until peace is policy,26 minutes, 28 seconds
until democracy is protected, until the poor are lifted, until every life is treated as sacred, we will keep showing up.26 minutes, 39 seconds
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Keep showing up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.26 minutes, 48 seconds
Can we take this other mic off so we don't get all this reverb and then we don't Can you cut that one off?26 minutes, 55 seconds
Now, I want to remind us today I'm going to come back later and give us our charge.27 minutes, 3 seconds
But we're not here in the street today in general. We're here because of what happened yesterday. Somebody say yesterday.27 minutes, 11 seconds
And yesterday we saw the administration call so-called27 minutes, 21 seconds
Christian nationalist, I don't use that term, together to rededicate this nation to God.27 minutes, 32 seconds
To rededicate the nation. And we have to respond.27 minutes, 37 seconds
But I want y'all to hear something. And I'm I told somebody being a bishop now, I say things that sometimes folk don't27 minutes, 44 seconds
like, but they need to be said. Okay. Trump ain't the problem.27 minutes, 55 seconds
Reverend
Dela said something that I want all of us to say for a minute and
Hannah, you pulled on it at the end and Reverend Jackson hit it
something too28 minutes, 4 seconds
and that is 800 people were dying a day from poverty before Trump.28 minutes, 10 seconds
Okay, where's the repentance?28 minutes, 17 seconds
COVID happened and over a million people died. Where was the repentance?28 minutes, 23 seconds
Reverend Reverend Dell, where was the repentance?28 minutes, 31 seconds
The Voting Rights Act was gutted in 2013. Why are we just in these streets now?28 minutes, 40 seconds
That's hard for me to say it. Say it to myself.28 minutes, 44 seconds
But we can't just point all of this to MAGA. Bye. Byebye.28 minutes, 52 seconds
A level of madness is the level of quietness of the church of faith in the29 minutes
face of so much violence, policy violence that wasn't spoken against.29 minutes, 6 seconds
That opened the door for this unclean spirit that now possesses so much of our democracy.29 minutes, 17 seconds
I knew y'all get quiet when I said that.29 minutes, 21 seconds
But I but but Rean told me that in the room. She said, "Re," she said, "bop a bishop, ain't nobody talking about repentance."29 minutes, 31 seconds
And
I want us to pause for a second because about seven people are going to
come and they're coming to speak against what happened yesterday.29 minutes, 40 seconds
But yesterday was set up by what had happened yesterday before yesterday. Okay.29 minutes, 49 seconds
the the the the Pew Foundation found in in in 2018,29 minutes, 58 seconds
2019 that they studied 50,000 sermons in30 minutes, 5 seconds
Christian pullpits and found that the issue of poverty and the issues that Jesus started with were30 minutes, 14 seconds
preached about less than 1% of all the sermons in all the churches and synagogues in my in the nation.30 minutes, 26 seconds
There is a reality that if we don't grab it, just coming30 minutes, 34 seconds
down hard on this administration won't be enough. If you remember when when when Joshua and the people lost at Ai30 minutes, 42 seconds
after they had won at Jericho, God told Joshua, "Check your camp.30 minutes, 49 seconds
Check
your own camp." When the Philistines beat the people of Israel in the
days of Samuel and they wanted to go back and fight, God said,30 minutes, 58 seconds
"No, don't go fight. First, go to Mispa and repent." The scriptures tell us in Luke chapter31 minutes, 5 seconds
11 that that if you clean a house31 minutes, 12 seconds
and it's not occupied and you leave it unoccupied, then something will come in seven times stronger.31 minutes, 21 seconds
All of us. And and you say, "Well, remember, I didn't do it. I didn't do it." See, that's not prophetic.31 minutes, 27 seconds
Prophets repent even if they did the right thing and the people didn't. This is how prophets sound like Isaiah. Lord,31 minutes, 36 seconds
uh, I'm a man of unclean lips and I live in the midst of a people. In other31 minutes, 43 seconds
words, you we have to repent for those that don't have sense enough to repent.31 minutes, 47 seconds
We have to repent for years when we took vacation when we should have been in this street.31 minutes, 54 seconds
We should have been setting these streets doing rush hour down long before now. And if we repent, then maybe God32 minutes, 2 seconds
will use our efforts now. But we can act like we did everything right. Trump did32 minutes, 9 seconds
not get into office because he was so powerful. Trump got into office because too many folk were so apathetic.32 minutes, 20 seconds
Preach Bishop So I want us before Hannah introduces the others and I try to come back is to32 minutes, 28 seconds
take five minutes and repent.32 minutes, 34 seconds
God said to Amos, I can't help you until a crowd gets in32 minutes, 42 seconds
the street that cries and laments. Turn this mic up. cries and laments and acts as though something is wrong.32 minutes, 52 seconds
If all you're doing is shouting down Trump, you are missing it.32 minutes, 57 seconds
This
nation needs a healing greater than Trump being out of office. Because
if you're fighting to go back to normal, you just waiting to set up
Trump too.33 minutes, 12 seconds
Normacy is not what we need. Repentance is what we need.33 minutes, 17 seconds
Metadora for all the years.33 minutes, 25 seconds
Democrats haven't even addressed poverty.33 minutes, 31 seconds
You can't be scared to say that. I know what they'll say. You don't be beating up on us. It's not about beating up on anybody.33 minutes, 40 seconds
Folk
met in the street in Montgomery this weekend. I know we help put money
down there. We put people. But why did it take from 213 to 226 after we
lost?33 minutes, 57 seconds
Think about that. After we lost.34 minutes, 4 seconds
So
those of you that are coming to react to tomorrow, bring the word that
is in you. But let's take three more minutes of quietness.34 minutes, 15 seconds
and and um just repent and and Freddy, I don't know where you34 minutes, 24 seconds
are, anybody, but what we really need is what Ketta Scott King sung after they murdered her husband.34 minutes, 33 seconds
Come by here, my Lord.34 minutes, 39 seconds
Come by here.34 minutes, 44 seconds
Come by here, my Lord. Come by here.34 minutes, 54 seconds
Come by here, my Lord. Come by here.35 minutes, 3 seconds
Oh, come by.35 minutes, 10 seconds
We've not repented, Lord.35 minutes, 17 seconds
Our nation hasn't repented, Lord.35 minutes, 24 seconds
We've not repented, Lord.35 minutes, 31 seconds
Oh Lord, come by here.35 minutes, 38 seconds
This is a crying time. All right, hand.35 minutes, 45 seconds
This is a crying.35 minutes, 56 seconds
Hung by here.36 minutes
Oh Lord, hung by here.36 minutes, 7 seconds
All of our sacred texts speaks against idolatry.36 minutes, 14 seconds
We have Reverend Sandy Sor that's going to come and give us a word.36 minutes, 25 seconds
Sandy Sorenson with the United Church of Christ. Yesterday on the mall, we saw a grandiose display of false religiosity36 minutes, 34 seconds
and the power of empire cloaked in Christian nationalism. It's up.36 minutes, 39 seconds
But the biblical prophets are clear. God takes no delight in your solemn assemblies. God despises your festivals.36 minutes, 49 seconds
Without repentance, without love and justice, the empty display of false religion we saw yesterday is nothing but36 minutes, 57 seconds
an attempt to conceal the policy violence and corruption of this administration and all who enable it.37 minutes, 4 seconds
Yeah, it is an affront to the God of justice who centers those that the powerful dismisses as the last, the37 minutes, 13 seconds
least, the disposable. But God is not deceived. God will not be mocked.37 minutes, 20 seconds
And we are not fooled and we are not distracted.37 minutes, 24 seconds
We will not allow our faith to be hijacked by conmen and charlatans who only seek their own gain. Here today we37 minutes, 33 seconds
affir affirm the truth and calling of our many religious traditions. We will do justice. We will love kindness and mercy.37 minutes, 42 seconds
We will walk humbly.37 minutes, 44 seconds
We will walk together in beloved community where all are welcomed in the fullness of their humanity.37 minutes, 50 seconds
We will live out loud in our common life.37 minutes, 54 seconds
We will continue to cry out and act for an end to this war to save lives. to stop the policy38 minutes, 2 seconds
violence that tramples the poor and the mar marginalized.38 minutes, 7 seconds
We will move forward together in love and not one step back.38 minutes, 25 seconds
some. Yeah. Uhhuh.38 minutes, 29 seconds
Reverend M. Polus Norris from the 7th Day Adventist Church is going to bring us a word.38 minutes, 36 seconds
Right. As well as uh Reverend Adam Taylor from Sir Jouers.38 minutes, 46 seconds
Amen.38 minutes, 48 seconds
As you heard, my name is Milo Norris and I stand before you as the proud American son of South African immigrants, a union38 minutes, 57 seconds
worker, and as an Adventist Christian concerned with the soon return of our Lord Jesus Christ and his judgment.39 minutes, 6 seconds
God's wrath is kindled against our nation for committing the great sin of taking the Lord's name in vain and39 minutes, 13 seconds
abusing it. Our leaders claim we're a Christian nation. Yet, they have shown themselves diametrically opposed to all39 minutes, 21 seconds
that is called by Jesus Christ and his gospel.39 minutes, 25 seconds
They
are those who call wars of choice holy wars, recklessly massacring the
innocent bodies of our brethren, the Arabs and Muslims.39 minutes, 35 seconds
Judgment is set against imperial greed, which cries liberty while serving American oligarchy.39 minutes, 43 seconds
Yet the Christ of the Bible says that the peacemakers will be called the children of God, but all liars and all39 minutes, 52 seconds
murderers will have their part in the lake of fire.39 minutes, 57 seconds
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Johnson gerrymandering and blocking congressional representation of not just DC but Puerto40 minutes, 6 seconds
Rico, the US Virgin Islands, warm American Samoa denies the creator who made every human fearfully and wonderfully.40 minutes, 16 seconds
Mr. President, Mr. Trump abusing the Lord's name is profiting billions from40 minutes, 23 seconds
predatory betting sites, fake currencies, imaginary mobile phones while robbing Americans of essential40 minutes, 32 seconds
services while they're crushed with trillions in debt.40 minutes, 36 seconds
And perhaps worst of all, abusing the name of Christ is defending the Epstein40 minutes, 42 seconds
class of sexual abusers, pedophiles, and rapists, turning our country into modernday Sodom and Gomorrah.40 minutes, 55 seconds
The
prophet Isaiah describes the spiritual pathology of America today.
America serves Jesus with her lips, but her heart is far from him.41 minutes, 9 seconds
And so the name of the Lord is blasphemed.41 minutes, 12 seconds
By
your fruits, America, you show yourselves not servants of Jesus, but
servants of money, the Antichrist, and Satan, despising the Savior.41 minutes, 25 seconds
All you who profess America first and all you who profess MAGA, put on the41 minutes, 32 seconds
mind of Christ who said the first and the greatest in the kingdom of heaven must become the servant of all.41 minutes, 42 seconds
We as a nation have fallen into the leodian stuper.41 minutes, 50 seconds
We
boast on the world stage that we are blessed by God. We are in need of
nothing, not realizing that we are poor, blind, and naked. In closing,
Mr.42 minutes, 2 seconds
president. Just yesterday at rededication 250, you yourself prophesied over this nation in quoting 242 minutes, 9 seconds
Chronicles
7, the legacy of America's past sins, genocide, slavery, and
exploitation continue to echo today, and God will not contend with you
forever.42 minutes, 22 seconds
Today, God is pleading with us to repent, accept the free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ alone.42 minutes, 30 seconds
tear the garments of your soul and obey the uncction of the Holy Ghost.42 minutes, 36 seconds
Mr. President, you quoted this yesterday. 2 Chronicles 7:14.42 minutes, 42 seconds
Oh leaders of America, if you are truly called by the name of Christ, humble42 minutes, 48 seconds
yourselves and pray and seek God's face, turn from their wicked ways, and then42 minutes, 55 seconds
and only then will God hear from heaven, forgive your sin, and heal this land.43 minutes, 4 seconds
Adam Taylor is coming now, and he would be followed by Bishop Bill Hirsch. All right.43 minutes, 11 seconds
Reverend
Adam Taylor, I have the privilege of serving as a president of
Sojoners. I want to thank Bishop Arbor and others who have reminded us
of the43 minutes, 19 seconds
call to repentance which is desperately in this time.43 minutes, 23 seconds
There's
a word from the Lord in the Gospel of Matthew. And I'm a Baptist
preacher. So I want you to turn to your neighbor and say, "Weigh your
matters.43 minutes, 32 seconds
Weigh your matters." In this text, Matthew 25,43 minutes, 42 seconds
we see Jesus boldly and provocatively challenging the religious hypocrisy of43 minutes, 50 seconds
his time. This is not a mild and meek Jesus. No, this is our Lord and43 minutes, 57 seconds
Liberator who is filled with righteous indignation about the hypocrisy of the Pharisees of his time because that44 minutes, 6 seconds
hypocrisy has oppressive and harmful realworld consequences to the disinherited and it corrupts the faith.44 minutes, 17 seconds
He says, "Woe to you teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You give a tenth of your spices, mint, dill, and44 minutes, 26 seconds
cumin. But you have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faithfulness.44 minutes, 38 seconds
I too am filled with righteous in the nation. When I think about all that transpired on the mall yesterday at the44 minutes, 46 seconds
rededicate 250 and national jubilee of prayer, praise and thanksgiving ceremony.44 minutes, 54 seconds
I believe that that ceremony, the Christian nationalism that we saw platformed and privileged on the45 minutes, 1 second
National Mall with, yes, some of our taxpayer money is not only an egregious violation of45 minutes, 9 seconds
the
separation of church and state, but it is a threat to our very
democracy and a threat to the integrity of our Christian witness.45 minutes, 19 seconds
Let's
be clear. We believe in the power of prayer. We believe that it's
important to pray for nations and to pray for our elected officials.45 minutes, 27 seconds
But that is fundamentally different than people praying that that that our religiously plural pluralistic nation45 minutes, 35 seconds
should be rededicated to their ideologically narrow version of God.45 minutes, 42 seconds
What we saw in the mall was a effort and a a historical and revisionist effort to pretend that our founding fathers45 minutes, 50 seconds
somehow wanted us to be an overtly Christian nation despite the fact that they had the foresight and the brilliance to make our45 minutes, 58 seconds
first amendment the very amendment that protects our religious freedom and precludes any establishment of religion.46 minutes, 7 seconds
What
we saw in the mall was an effort to bless and anoint the Trump
administration's leaders, dangerously giving religious cover to policies
and46 minutes, 15 seconds
rhetoric that directly betray Jesus' call to prioritize the weightier matters of the law.46 minutes, 24 seconds
I find it striking that the event referenced Jubilee.46 minutes, 29 seconds
And I wonder, do they even understand what biblical jubilee is all about? The call in the book of the living that46 minutes, 36 seconds
every seven times seven years we are called to commit to a radical reordering and transformation of our46 minutes, 44 seconds
society where debts are forgiven where the captives are set free and where the land is left.46 minutes, 52 seconds
But
instead of jubilee what don't we see skyrocketing credit card debt
inflation and support for an immoral and illegal war in Iran.47 minutes, 3 seconds
But we are here to remind this nation and this White House that it's and its religious supporters47 minutes, 11 seconds
that Jesus stood for the weightier matters of justice of mercy and faithfulness. And if we who call47 minutes, 19 seconds
ourselves
Christian are going to be followers of Jesus, we too must courageously
defend and advocate on those weightier matters as well.47 minutes, 30 seconds
Matter of fail. So journ uh the Reverend Claudia Allen from the 7th Adventist Church will come followed by the47 minutes, 39 seconds
Reverend Dr. Christopher Zachcharias from the EM Zion Church followed by Reverend Doug. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah.47 minutes, 46 seconds
As
a good bishop said, "My name is Claudia Allen of Adventist Peace and my
siblings in Christ, the first amendment is not a suggestion.47 minutes, 57 seconds
It is the foundation." Exodus 20:es 2-3, the Bible says, "I am the Lord thy God.48 minutes, 4 seconds
Y'all shall have no other gods before me. Before thou shalt not kill, before thou shalt not steal. Before, remember48 minutes, 13 seconds
the Sabbath day, God says, "Worship no one and no thing but me." And yet,48 minutes, 21 seconds
we had the audacity to sit here and watch them claim to rededicate America.48 minutes, 29 seconds
Reverend Dr. Dela Barber mentioned this earlier at the Trump National Doral.48 minutes, 35 seconds
They unveiled a 22 foot statue of the president of the United States. Gold48 minutes, 42 seconds
leafed fist raised dedicated by a pastor blessed in the name of Jesus. And they called it Don Colossus.48 minutes, 53 seconds
staring at the image of this golden statue, this golden idol beckoning the worship of America. I was reminded of49 minutes, 1 second
Daniel 3 where the scripture declares that Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold and set it up in the plain49 minutes, 9 seconds
of Dura. And the Bible says that the decree went out and the music played and the Babylonian nationalists bowed down49 minutes, 18 seconds
and worshiped the golden idol except for three.49 minutes, 23 seconds
Shadrach, Meach, and Abedneo, they did not bow, family. But I need you to know that this is the script of empire. Build49 minutes, 31 seconds
a statue, demand the people's worship, and burn the denters. This is what Christian nationalism is. It is not49 minutes, 40 seconds
Christianity. It is idolatry. It is nationalism with an altar built to their God of power, greed, and war. And like49 minutes, 49 seconds
those three Hebrew boys, we will not bow down.49 minutes, 53 seconds
We will not bow as they baptize cruelty and call it policy. We will not bow down as they cage the stranger that scripture50 minutes, 1 second
has told us to welcome. We will not bow down as they bomb Iran. We will not bow because Daniel 4 reminds us that every50 minutes, 11 seconds
golden statue falls, every empire will kneel before the true king of kings and50 minutes, 17 seconds
the lord of lords. So in the face of m redistricting, we will not bow. In the face of corporate greed, uh we will not50 minutes, 26 seconds
bow. Uh in the face of starving children, uh we will not bow. Uh in the face of homeless families, uh we will50 minutes, 35 seconds
not bow. Uh in the face of inaccessibility to health care, we will not bow. In the face of Christian50 minutes, 43 seconds
nationalism, we will not bow.50 minutes, 52 seconds
Good afternoon. My name is Clinton Wright and I'm a senior social justice organizer at Repairs the Breach. And I50 minutes, 59 seconds
am a 10-year veteran elementary school teacher. And I'm here today because there is a war on our students. There51 minutes, 8 seconds
are bombs dropping every day on our public schools. The bombs of underfunding.51 minutes, 14 seconds
In my state, North Carolina, our teachers themselves are struggling to put food on their tables. They're51 minutes, 22 seconds
struggling to pay rent because they are paid poverty wages. They haven't gotten51 minutes, 29 seconds
the raise that they were promised by both the Democrats and the Republicans in our state legislature. Our students51 minutes, 37 seconds
in North Carolina are being held hostage by the magalled general assembly who is51 minutes, 44 seconds
hellbent on weasling funding away from our public schools in order to fund the51 minutes, 50 seconds
violent and unconstitutional plague of school privatization. Our legislature in51 minutes, 58 seconds
North Carolina, our US Congress, and this administration are in bipartisan support of sending their military and52 minutes, 7 seconds
ICE recruiters to our public schools to groom our children, recruiting them into the death dealing cult of the US52 minutes, 15 seconds
military war machine. This war is deeply connected to our public schools. We52 minutes, 22 seconds
fight here today for fully funded public schools from Head Start to PhDs because52 minutes, 30 seconds
as we learned in our kindergarten classrooms, we stand up to our bullies.52 minutes, 35 seconds
We do it nonviolently and we boldly declare to our state legislators, to Congress, and to the president of the52 minutes, 43 seconds
United States that we conscientiously object to your war, to your attacks on our children and our schools. Fund52 minutes, 52 seconds
public education, not war and violence. Fund teachers, not bombs and drones. Fund children, not ICE.53 minutes, 4 seconds
Yeah, my name is Reverend Dr. Christopher Zacharias, pastor of John Wesley Am Zion53 minutes, 12 seconds
Church. And we have heard the call to rededicate this nation to God. But we must ask whose real name of God are we53 minutes, 20 seconds
calling
upon and on whose backs? Because the prophet Isaiah heard God say
plainly that these people honor them with our lips, but their hearts are
far from me.53 minutes, 31 seconds
And what was the evidence of that distance? We must read the prophet Isaiah 58 just verses before the promise53 minutes, 38 seconds
of the repairers of the breach. You will find God's indictment. They fasted while exploiting the workers. They prayed53 minutes, 46 seconds
while the poor went hungry. They called on God's name while the homeless had no shelter and the oppressed had no relief.53 minutes, 54 seconds
The Apostle Paul spoke about it in Galatians with a word that cuts through every ceremony. God is not mocked. You54 minutes, 3 seconds
cannot sow neglect of the poor and reap God's blessing on a nation. You cannot sow policies that crush the widow, crush54 minutes, 12 seconds
the
immigrant, crush the worker and the child and stand at an altar and
call on the consecration of America. The repairs of the breach stand
today and know this.54 minutes, 24 seconds
They are not called to bless what is broken. They are called to rebuild and to rededicate does not begin with a54 minutes, 32 seconds
ceremony. It begins with repentance. It reins begins with loose the chains of injustice. Share your bread with the54 minutes, 40 seconds
hungry. Bring the homeless into the house and cover the naked. That's what God calls for rededication. So we will54 minutes, 49 seconds
not lend our amens to rededication that ask God to bless a nation while the54 minutes, 55 seconds
least of these are still waiting and wanting and hurting. We speak today from the bottom, from the margins, from the55 minutes, 4 seconds
forgotten communities, from those whose labor built this country in the first place and whose prayers still hold it55 minutes, 12 seconds
together. So we are not mocking God. We are asking those from white Christian nationalism, stop mocking God. Repair55 minutes, 21 seconds
the breach by doing justice, loving mercy, and then and only then can we rededicate America forward together.55 minutes, 32 seconds
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.55 minutes, 44 seconds
My my my. So, what do we do with all of this?55 minutes, 52 seconds
What do we do with all of this?55 minutes, 56 seconds
I was thinking as I was sitting there, what if this was the kind of56 minutes, 3 seconds
preaching that was happening all over the country.56 minutes, 12 seconds
Yesterday when we saw National Idol worship day,56 minutes, 22 seconds
National Idol worship Day, called by MAGA56 minutes, 29 seconds
madness where people are trying to56 minutes, 38 seconds
dedicate rededicate us to something that never was. The founders were not Christian they were56 minutes, 45 seconds
theist and even in the founding they were flawed.56 minutes, 51 seconds
Okay. Okay. They were flawed.56 minutes, 58 seconds
It was so flawed that Thomas Jefferson once said, "When I consider that God is just57 minutes, 7 seconds
and I look at the actions of this nation and know that his justice will not sleep forever.57 minutes, 19 seconds
I tremble for this nation."57 minutes, 26 seconds
What we saw yesterday is as bad as people coming to a Martin Luther King57 minutes, 36 seconds
celebration and after the celebration not engaging in passing the policies he stood for.57 minutes, 43 seconds
Well, well, and if we don't speak out against things57 minutes, 51 seconds
like that, we actually open up the door for things like what we saw yesterday. Right. Right.57 minutes, 57 seconds
How many times have you seen folk put on the MLK program and have people speak at that program that are actively fighting58 minutes, 5 seconds
the very things that Dr. King stood for?58 minutes, 11 seconds
I I'm coming from a different place today because I'm stuck in this call for repentance. You know, I was thrown out58 minutes, 19 seconds
of a church, a black church in Selma for standing up when the attorney58 minutes, 28 seconds
general of Alabama said that voting rights, voting ID laws were a tribute to58 minutes, 35 seconds
the people that walked across the Edmonds Petty Bridge.58 minutes, 40 seconds
And when I stood up with my friend uh Bob Zelnner and Kittton and others,58 minutes, 47 seconds
about
50 of us, the pastor stood up and said, "Wait a minute. We let
everybody speak in this church." And I said, "But he's lying.58 minutes, 59 seconds
He's lying in front of the pews where the blood is still stained that they were that poured out of them in 1965."59 minutes, 7 seconds
And he said to me and them, "Leave." And then afterwards said, "You know, we59 minutes, 15 seconds
got to raise some money." It's because we don't challenge59 minutes, 26 seconds
foolishness that more foolishness occurs. All right.59 minutes, 35 seconds
any gathering, including the one yesterday that claims59 minutes, 43 seconds
to be representing faith or religious faith, that doesn't speak out against59 minutes, 50 seconds
unholy war, that doesn't challenge poverty and the death.1 hour
My brothers and sisters, think about how many religious events we're having in this nation1 hour, 8 seconds
while 800 people are dying a day from poverty.1 hour, 13 seconds
When 500 people were dying a day from COVID, we called it a what?1 hour, 20 seconds
And
yet now what do people say politically? Uh now they're saying we have
to address what what's the new a word? Why can't they say poverty?1 hour, 33 seconds
See, when you don't call it what it is, what happened yesterday happens.1 hour, 40 seconds
The longer we are lukewarm in our critique, it opens up the door for this kind of foolishness.1 hour, 51 seconds
any gathering that calls itself religious and claiming to serve God that doesn't speak out against the denial of1 hour, 59 seconds
voting rights is contrary.1 hour, 1 minute, 3 seconds
You know voting rights is not something somebody gave you. Voting right is a gift of your humanity. It is a gift of1 hour, 1 minute, 12 seconds
being made in the image of God. Is a part of what means to be made in the imi.1 hour, 1 minute, 17 seconds
See, a dog can't choose to be anything but a dog.1 hour, 1 minute, 23 seconds
A rat can't choose to be anything but a rat.1 hour, 1 minute, 27 seconds
But God gave human beings free will, choice.1 hour, 1 minute, 33 seconds
And whenever somebody tries to take away your ability to choose, they are suggesting you're not human.1 hour, 1 minute, 44 seconds
You're not made in the image of God.1 hour, 1 minute, 46 seconds
and then to try to cloak that whether it's actively fighting against1 hour, 1 minute, 53 seconds
voting rights or passively refusing to do what you promised John Lewis is1 hour, 2 minutes, 2 seconds
all sin. You know how many Congress people promised John Lewis before he died they were going to pass the Voting Rights Act?1 hour, 2 minutes, 11 seconds
And
if it had happened what the Supreme Court would not have been able to
do what they did a few weeks ago. Come on, talk to me. If this is going
to be a1 hour, 2 minutes, 19 seconds
pull pit for preaching, we going to be real.1 hour, 2 minutes, 23 seconds
Anybody that's denying health care and and for every 500,000 people that are denied health care, 2500 people die.1 hour, 2 minutes, 35 seconds
In fact, you should know that every piece of policy violence has a death measurement. I didn't know that until we1 hour, 2 minutes, 44 seconds
started
working with these um uh think tanks and one day one of them said, "Re
bar, do you know that every piece of policy violence has a death
measurement?1 hour, 2 minutes, 55 seconds
Vote denial of voting rights, denial of healthcare, denial of climate change. It has a death measurement.1 hour, 3 minutes, 5 seconds
People die.1 hour, 3 minutes, 9 seconds
denying immigrant rights.1 hour, 3 minutes, 13 seconds
You know why a part of yesterday was possible?1 hour, 3 minutes, 17 seconds
Because
when Trump came down that escalator and declared that Mexicans were
rapists and abusers, the church didn't speak out in mass.1 hour, 3 minutes, 31 seconds
I said in mass, maybe here and there, but there was not a man say, "Uh-uh.1 hour, 3 minutes, 36 seconds
This
can't No, you can't run for president in a in a country of immigrants.
There was not a Cuz most folks said, "See, that's them." Right. Right.1 hour, 3 minutes, 47 seconds
Cuz the truth of the matter is some of us don't like the immigrants.1 hour, 3 minutes, 55 seconds
Truth of the m some black folk don't like Native Americans.1 hour, 4 minutes, 1 second
Some white folk don't like there was Barbara my dear and she's one of my heroes out of Texas. Barbara1 hour, 4 minutes, 9 seconds
Jordan spoke against immigrant and if you don't challenge it1 hour, 4 minutes, 18 seconds
in every place it opens up and and what somebody say behind me say that again. and in ourselves.1 hour, 4 minutes, 28 seconds
I don't trust nobody that that can at least say I'm a I'm a constantly recovering racist1 hour, 4 minutes, 38 seconds
and I'm black and I'll say that God's got to keep on working on me. Some of the stuff that white people did to me1 hour, 4 minutes, 45 seconds
developed in me are hatred for a more and God had to pull it out and he's still working on it.1 hour, 4 minutes, 58 seconds
What happens like what happened yesterday doesn't just happen.1 hour, 5 minutes, 3 seconds
What doesn't just what doesn't happen any any gathering that doesn't do what Jesus said to nation. If if a nation is1 hour, 5 minutes, 11 seconds
going to be righteous, did you feed the hungry? Did you visit the sick, heal the sick? Did you visit the prison? Did you1 hour, 5 minutes, 19 seconds
welcome the immorate? Did you take care of the stranger? Those are the questions of whether or not a nation1 hour, 5 minutes, 26 seconds
is even attempting to try. And and and we have to we have to confess and repent in this moment of1 hour, 5 minutes, 36 seconds
both the active injustice and the passive aggression.1 hour, 5 minutes, 45 seconds
You have never heard in a presidential uh debate in your life the issue of1 hour, 5 minutes, 51 seconds
poverty taken up for one hour and we're not so we're not even asking1 hour, 5 minutes, 58 seconds
people who run to lead this country where if you get elected if you get a majority what will you do on these1 hour, 6 minutes, 5 seconds
issues
which is why even now as we see people wanting to run for office I
don't want to hear personally anymore how much you're against Trump. We
got that.1 hour, 6 minutes, 16 seconds
I want to know if you get a majority, what are you going to do in the first 50 days? Because critique does not keep people.1 hour, 6 minutes, 25 seconds
Critique can exhaust you.1 hour, 6 minutes, 28 seconds
Somewhere there must be a vision. Write the vision, make it plain, and then the people can run.1 hour, 6 minutes, 35 seconds
You can't run with critique. You only run with vision.1 hour, 6 minutes, 42 seconds
What happened yesterday was Trump worship. It was heresy.1 hour, 6 minutes, 52 seconds
Every media company that ran it without a critique ought to be ashamed.1 hour, 6 minutes, 59 seconds
They should have had preachers on CNN and on MSNBC questioning.1 hour, 7 minutes, 4 seconds
How
do you claim to be Christian and you never called the name of Jesus?
And certainly you never even called the thing Jesus cared about. Help me
a little bit with this Mike.1 hour, 7 minutes, 14 seconds
But I got a question for you cuz this was what we saw was irrelig. It was irreligious.1 hour, 7 minutes, 21 seconds
And I heard my dear sister and my wife bring up this question. They built this 21 ft statue1 hour, 7 minutes, 28 seconds
the week before this trump colossus.1 hour, 7 minutes, 33 seconds
And I heard my dear sister say that in Daniel 3, Nebuchadnezzar did the same thing.1 hour, 7 minutes, 41 seconds
And I'm thank my sister for bringing up that Shedrach, Mach, and Abedneo didn't bow.1 hour, 7 minutes, 49 seconds
But I want to flip it over and ask another question.1 hour, 7 minutes, 53 seconds
Did Nebuchadnezzar build it because he knew only three wouldn't bow?1 hour, 8 minutes, 10 seconds
What gave Nebuchadnezzar the courage?1 hour, 8 minutes, 15 seconds
There's no record that it says anybody had ever done that before in Babylon.1 hour, 8 minutes, 22 seconds
And yet Nebuchadnezzar surveyed the country and found that the apathy was so high1 hour, 8 minutes, 31 seconds
And the resistance was so low that most people would just go along to get along.1 hour, 8 minutes, 39 seconds
See
the tragedy of that text is it's it's not that the as one said the fact
that Nebuchad Shadrach and Meshach and Abedneo didn't bow. That's the1 hour, 8 minutes, 48 seconds
anti-limax. The climax is even if God doesn't rescue it.1 hour, 8 minutes, 54 seconds
Sir that's the climax.1 hour, 8 minutes, 59 seconds
Even if God doesn't rescue us, we still not going to bow.1 hour, 9 minutes, 4 seconds
And and the other part of it is why only three?1 hour, 9 minutes, 9 seconds
Do you realize that every time we say we're not going to bow, but every time 90 million people don't vote, we are bowing.1 hour, 9 minutes, 23 seconds
For 13 years, we didn't fix the voting rights act. We are bowing.1 hour, 9 minutes, 31 seconds
The
reason that you can come in Washington DC and not 500 clergy have ever
done a sitting in the capital or in the legislative hall in this nation.1 hour, 9 minutes, 42 seconds
We are bowing when you want statehood but every s every person in DC doesn't stand up and demand it. We are powering.1 hour, 9 minutes, 58 seconds
If you have called your friends and asked them where are you on tomorrow month, where are you?1 hour, 10 minutes, 5 seconds
Why aren't you with me? In a sense, we are bound.1 hour, 10 minutes, 11 seconds
200 clergy can't go in every state capital in this country and sit down1 hour, 10 minutes, 19 seconds
with placards on their chest saying, "I'm here until you pass policies that'll lift the poor. I'm here until1 hour, 10 minutes, 27 seconds
you
give everybody healthcare. I'm here until you pass voting rights in
this state capital. I'm here until you treat everybody right. We are
bowing.1 hour, 10 minutes, 42 seconds
You and I must know we've been we've been bowing a long time in this nation. That's the problem.1 hour, 10 minutes, 50 seconds
But MAGA didn't start with Trump. It started with Reagan. Come on now.1 hour, 10 minutes, 56 seconds
I wish I had an amen here. It was Reagan. Yeah. Yeah.1 hour, 11 minutes, 4 seconds
Standing in Mississippi. in money Philadelphia, Mississippi. Money, Mississippi. Yeah. Yeah.1 hour, 11 minutes, 12 seconds
Where Swana Chaining Goodman had been killed.1 hour, 11 minutes, 16 seconds
And he used the backdrop of that racist symbolism to declare if you elect me, America will be great again.1 hour, 11 minutes, 27 seconds
Trump wasn't smart enough to come up with it. No.1 hour, 11 minutes, 32 seconds
But it has it lasted. It took root because too many are bowing.1 hour, 11 minutes, 40 seconds
My my my.1 hour, 11 minutes, 43 seconds
Why is it we haven't raised the minimum wage since 2009 and we've had Democrats in both the1 hour, 11 minutes, 51 seconds
House
and the Senate and the White House. When you don't raise minimum wage,
when you got the power, you open up what happened yesterday.1 hour, 12 minutes, 3 seconds
When you don't pass voting rights when you have the power, you open up what happened yesterday.1 hour, 12 minutes, 10 seconds
When you don't do DC statehood, you lie to folk and tell them if they elect you.1 hour, 12 minutes, 15 seconds
And
when they get elected, you say, "Well, now we've got to work together
and compromise." You open up what happened yesterday, I knew it was
going to get quiet.1 hour, 12 minutes, 26 seconds
When you pass the Affordable Care Act, rather than passing universal healthcare, you open up1 hour, 12 minutes, 35 seconds
you open up the opportunity for mean, angry, greedy, anti-American, anti-Christian,1 hour, 12 minutes, 43 seconds
anti-faith movements to exist.1 hour, 12 minutes, 50 seconds
So, let me close what we saw. Lord, help me today1 hour, 12 minutes, 59 seconds
cuz I know the words are going to going to bring pain.1 hour, 13 minutes, 8 seconds
But yesterday was wickedness.1 hour, 13 minutes, 15 seconds
And those that ordained it and blessed it participated in wickedness. Yeah.1 hour, 13 minutes, 23 seconds
And
it would be wickedness if Democrats were doing it. It'd be wickedness.
I'm just saying it would that that not is wickedness. You said, "Baba,
why would you say that? You know where you are.1 hour, 13 minutes, 32 seconds
You know how many people are listening. You know what it might cause?" Yes. Yeah.1 hour, 13 minutes, 36 seconds
But in Hebrew, Hannah, the word wicked is Russia.1 hour, 13 minutes, 42 seconds
And wickedness in the Bible, particularly in the Old Testament, is three things. deliberate disregard1 hour, 13 minutes, 51 seconds
for justice, intentional exploitation, and the refusal to repent.1 hour, 14 minutes, 2 seconds
That's what wickedness is, right?1 hour, 14 minutes, 4 seconds
Wickedness is not somebody smoking a blunt that wickedness is not somebody having premarital sex.1 hour, 14 minutes, 17 seconds
Wickedness Russia is whenever there is a deliberate1 hour, 14 minutes, 26 seconds
disregard for justice and you try to worship without addressing justice.1 hour, 14 minutes, 33 seconds
Wickedness is intentional exploitation.1 hour, 14 minutes, 41 seconds
Wickedness is the refusal to repent of destroying1 hour, 14 minutes, 48 seconds
innocent lives lives through policy and war.1 hour, 14 minutes, 54 seconds
Wickedness is oppression of the vulnerable.1 hour, 15 minutes
Wickedness is targeting the helpless and hunting down and kicking on and plotting against1 hour, 15 minutes, 8 seconds
the poor and the widows and the children.1 hour, 15 minutes, 13 seconds
Wickedness is using dishonest scales and making money off of your political position and1 hour, 15 minutes, 22 seconds
stealing land and refusing to pay people a living wage. That's Russia.1 hour, 15 minutes, 30 seconds
That's wickedness.1 hour, 15 minutes, 32 seconds
Wickedness is violence against those who choose to challenge you. Wickedness is1 hour, 15 minutes, 39 seconds
systemic cruelty against those prophets who dare to challenge your injustice.1 hour, 15 minutes, 46 seconds
Wickedness is practical atheism.1 hour, 15 minutes, 51 seconds
When you claim you love God, but your living and your policies are far from God.1 hour, 15 minutes, 59 seconds
And wickedness is when a man in his pride1 hour, 16 minutes, 6 seconds
says he has no room for God, but he has room for killing.1 hour, 16 minutes, 13 seconds
He has room for war. He has no room to give daycare for poor children, but he's got room for injustice.1 hour, 16 minutes, 21 seconds
The Bible says in Psalm 10:4, that's wickedness.1 hour, 16 minutes, 26 seconds
Greed and boasting about your greed and paying folk off is wicked.1 hour, 16 minutes, 35 seconds
What do you do?1 hour, 16 minutes, 38 seconds
Not just when the nation has some failures, cuz we've already had failure.1 hour, 16 minutes, 44 seconds
Not just when the nation has some troubling politicians because we've always had some troubling. Not when the1 hour, 16 minutes, 51 seconds
nation has imperfect presidents because we've always had imperfect president.1 hour, 16 minutes, 57 seconds
But what do you do when you have a president and a movement that every minute violates the six things that God hates?1 hour, 17 minutes, 11 seconds
Hey, come on a lying lips,1 hour, 17 minutes, 19 seconds
dividing the community, proud looks, murdering, killing,1 hour, 17 minutes, 28 seconds
wickedness, Russia.1 hour, 17 minutes, 33 seconds
The only response from Washa is you've got to have mass preaching in the public1 hour, 17 minutes, 40 seconds
square that never turns off when you face wickedness. Jeremiah 22 says, "Go down to where the king lives.1 hour, 17 minutes, 52 seconds
Take a wooden yolk and if they break that, put on an iron yolk,1 hour, 17 minutes, 58 seconds
but stand in front of the house and preach the truth.1 hour, 18 minutes, 5 seconds
In order to do that, you got to have mass massive public prophetic revival.1 hour, 18 minutes, 13 seconds
My brother from Sojour, we got to find a way to hook up to have a third not only reconstruction but we awakening.1 hour, 18 minutes, 21 seconds
It's revival time now.1 hour, 18 minutes, 25 seconds
We got to find a way, Adam, to have massive revival, right? Beginning with repentance.1 hour, 18 minutes, 34 seconds
People come out and cry on behalf of the nation and then commit themselves to the things of God. You must have a strategy1 hour, 18 minutes, 42 seconds
of nonviolent resistance, not one-day events. That's why we've done Monday 8. It's not about an event.1 hour, 18 minutes, 51 seconds
Not about how many people come this time but don't come this time. You got to have constant Yeah.1 hour, 18 minutes, 56 seconds
nonviolent
resistance. And then you got to name the vision, the policy that has to
be embraced in order to break the whole of wickedness.1 hour, 19 minutes, 7 seconds
It's not enough to call wickedness wickedness.1 hour, 19 minutes, 10 seconds
You have to have a policy that says, "Here's how we deal with systemic racism.1 hour, 19 minutes, 15 seconds
Here's
how we deal with systemic poverty. Here's how we deal with ecological
devastation. Here's how we deal with denial of healthcare. Here's1 hour, 19 minutes, 22 seconds
how
we deal with the militarization and the of our communities and the war
economy. Here's how we deal with the false narrative religious
nationalism.1 hour, 19 minutes, 30 seconds
And you must demand that these policies be embraced by everybody, not just one party.1 hour, 19 minutes, 39 seconds
In fact, anybody that says the only answer now is to1 hour, 19 minutes, 47 seconds
elect Democrats, you are bowing. Now, now, let me say what I mean by that. I'm not saying you ought we ought not move1 hour, 19 minutes, 55 seconds
some folk out of office. That's another real. But if you think just electing people on being against Trump and they1 hour, 20 minutes, 3 seconds
don't tell you what they're for is the answer, That's what got us here in the first place.1 hour, 20 minutes, 13 seconds
Amen.1 hour, 20 minutes, 14 seconds
And so my brothers and sisters, I shout what my sisters shouted and say what my wife said. We must not bow.1 hour, 20 minutes, 25 seconds
We've got to stand until this war is stopped.1 hour, 20 minutes, 32 seconds
But more importantly, this war mentality is stopped. And I hear somebody saying, "Well, it ain't going to never stop till1 hour, 20 minutes, 40 seconds
the Lord comes." Well, let's stand till then.1 hour, 20 minutes, 44 seconds
If that's what it's going to take for all the rest of your life, be on the side of nonviolence.1 hour, 20 minutes, 50 seconds
The rest of your life, be on the side of peace.1 hour, 20 minutes, 55 seconds
We've got to stand against the abuse of the poor.1 hour, 20 minutes, 58 seconds
We've got to stand until the abuse against children stops. stand until the abuse of the sick stops.1 hour, 21 minutes, 7 seconds
We got to stand until this in the richest nation in the world, people are still working for poverty wages.1 hour, 21 minutes, 15 seconds
And we must stand and we must stand committing to love1 hour, 21 minutes, 22 seconds
forward together. Those of you that are listening at us out here preaching, turning this street into a public pull1 hour, 21 minutes, 29 seconds
pit, uh, we must stand and love forward together by voting together and speaking1 hour, 21 minutes, 36 seconds
up together and admitting our own struggles together. Yes. And claiming that we are not perfect.1 hour, 21 minutes, 46 seconds
One
of the great repentances that you and I have to admit now is if that
impure spirit could get a hold of Trump, it could get a hold of you.1 hour, 21 minutes, 55 seconds
Is there anybody here that will say but for the grace of God?1 hour, 21 minutes, 59 seconds
There go I but for the grace of God. We are in a time when we need some real people. real1 hour, 22 minutes, 7 seconds
people who understand that wickedness ain't nothing to play with.1 hour, 22 minutes, 12 seconds
And
the spirit of wickedness is nothing to play with. And the only thing
that can overpower it is the grace and the love and the power of God.1 hour, 22 minutes, 23 seconds
And it requires not bowing.1 hour, 22 minutes, 26 seconds
But you will never not bow in your own strip.1 hour, 22 minutes, 31 seconds
See, the story that's not told as I close is why Shadrach, Mach, and Abedneo didn't bow.1 hour, 22 minutes, 41 seconds
Y'all don't hear me.1 hour, 22 minutes, 43 seconds
They didn't bow cuz they never accepted their Babylonian name. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying?1 hour, 22 minutes, 51 seconds
That That wasn't their name. That's what Babylonian called them.1 hour, 22 minutes, 55 seconds
But they had been named by their foremothers.1 hour, 22 minutes, 59 seconds
They
had been named by their fore and though Nebuchadnezzar called them
Shedrach and Amach and Abednego, they never accepted their name.1 hour, 23 minutes, 12 seconds
I dare somebody to turn to your neighbor and say, "I'll never accept their name.1 hour, 23 minutes, 18 seconds
My name is not apathy.1 hour, 23 minutes, 22 seconds
My name is not bowing down.1 hour, 23 minutes, 27 seconds
My name My name is not fear. Not fear.1 hour, 23 minutes, 31 seconds
My name My name is not lying.1 hour, 23 minutes, 34 seconds
My name My name is not quitting. Not quitting.1 hour, 23 minutes, 38 seconds
I was named by my mama.1 hour, 23 minutes, 42 seconds
And my daddy and the four parents of the movement.1 hour, 23 minutes, 48 seconds
My name is truthtelling. Truth telling.1 hour, 23 minutes, 51 seconds
My name is courage.1 hour, 23 minutes, 55 seconds
My name is standing in the power of God.1 hour, 23 minutes, 59 seconds
My name is filled with the Holy Ghost. My name is a child of the living God.1 hour, 24 minutes, 7 seconds
My name is a lover of humanity. And I choose to stand in my name.1 hour, 24 minutes, 15 seconds
And I stand in the name of the one who made everything, the God of this universe. In that name, we will protest.1 hour, 24 minutes, 26 seconds
In that name, we will not bow.1 hour, 24 minutes, 30 seconds
In that name, we'll never give up.1 hour, 24 minutes, 34 seconds
In that name, we will always do what is right.1 hour, 24 minutes, 38 seconds
In the name, we will change this nation. Why? Because his truthing on.1 hour, 24 minutes, 46 seconds
Yesterday won't be the last word.1 hour, 24 minutes, 48 seconds
God's truth is marching on. What Trump is doing won't be the last word.1 hour, 24 minutes, 53 seconds
His truth is marching on. What this Congress is doing won't be the last word.1 hour, 24 minutes, 59 seconds
God's truth is marching on.1 hour, 25 minutes, 3 seconds
Stand in the name of God.1 hour, 25 minutes, 19 seconds
So, now that we know what it takes to stand, and now that we know what it takes to make that commitment not to bow down,1 hour, 25 minutes, 27 seconds
I'm standing over there and I'm listening and I'm receiving and a song fell on me.1 hour, 25 minutes, 33 seconds
So, we're going to build it together right here. How about that?1 hour, 25 minutes, 36 seconds
This
is call and response. The words are, "We won't bow down." We won't bow
down. We won't bow down. We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 25 minutes, 45 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 25 minutes, 48 seconds
And then I'll say, "There's no statue, there's no man, there's no policy that can make us bow.1 hour, 25 minutes, 57 seconds
We're telling you now, we won't bow down." Okay, this is a first. So, let's try it. Let's try it.1 hour, 26 minutes, 39 seconds
Man,1 hour, 26 minutes, 56 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 27 minutes, 5 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 27 minutes, 14 seconds
There's no statue. There's no man. There's no policy that can make us bow.1 hour, 27 minutes, 25 seconds
I'm telling you now, we won't bow down. We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 27 minutes, 34 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 27 minutes, 40 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 27 minutes, 50 seconds
There's no statue. There's no man. There's no policy that can make us bow.1 hour, 28 minutes, 1 second
We're telling you now. We won't bow down. Can we do it again? We won't bow down.1 hour, 28 minutes, 10 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 28 minutes, 16 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 28 minutes, 25 seconds
Cuz there's no statue. There's no man.1 hour, 28 minutes, 30 seconds
There is no policy that can make us bow.1 hour, 28 minutes, 36 seconds
We're telling you now, we won't bow down.1 hour, 28 minutes, 41 seconds
We can all do this. No, no, no, no, no, no.1 hour, 28 minutes, 56 seconds
No, no, no, no.1 hour, 29 minutes, 1 second
I said there's no statue, there's no man, there is no policy that can make us1 hour, 29 minutes, 11 seconds
bow. I'm telling you now, we won't bow down. Y'all sound so good. Let's do it one more time. No, no, no.1 hour, 29 minutes, 23 seconds
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.1 hour, 29 minutes, 37 seconds
I said there's no statue. There's no man, there is no policy that can make us1 hour, 29 minutes, 48 seconds
bow. We're telling you now, we won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 30 minutes, 4 seconds
That's how the music of the movement is born.1 hour, 30 minutes, 7 seconds
Now, all of you listening out this week, you ought to be singing that. Yes.1 hour, 30 minutes, 12 seconds
Get the tape. Rewind it. Get your Theo musicologist. Call Yara. Call Freddy.1 hour, 30 minutes, 17 seconds
Call them. Play it. Unless we We won't bow down.1 hour, 30 minutes, 21 seconds
Now, before we leave these streets, y'all, we done done it again. Took the streets during rush hour. Lord have mercy.1 hour, 30 minutes, 28 seconds
And thousands and thousands of people have heard preaching from this pull pit in the street.1 hour, 30 minutes, 35 seconds
When we were in St. Louis, Missouri.1 hour, 30 minutes, 39 seconds
Actually, it was um where Michael was killed. Um young man was killed. Ferguson.1 hour, 30 minutes, 46 seconds
We went over one day and the folk got angry because they said people came over who were only coming for a picture.1 hour, 30 minutes, 56 seconds
And we asked them, "Then what do we need to do to be welcomed?" And they said, "Would you at least walk around the spot1 hour, 31 minutes, 3 seconds
where his blood still stains?" and show to us that you're not just here for a moment,1 hour, 31 minutes, 10 seconds
but you're here because you care about a movement.1 hour, 31 minutes, 15 seconds
I want to ask if you all would if we could do something three times, this being the starting1 hour, 31 minutes, 24 seconds
point, and just walk around while we hum, we won't bow down1 hour, 31 minutes, 32 seconds
as a symbolic consecration that this is now. a public pull pit. Bye-bye. Byebye.1 hour, 31 minutes, 39 seconds
And we're gonna skip one week next week and then we want you all to work and we're going to invite preachers that got1 hour, 31 minutes, 48 seconds
the backbone and the courage to come and stand every week for an hour and preach right here1 hour, 31 minutes, 56 seconds
in front of the White House. That's where the inaugural sermon is held. Right there in that church.1 hour, 32 minutes, 4 seconds
This is where the prophetic witness will be held.1 hour, 32 minutes, 8 seconds
Right here in the street. That is a place of grace.1 hour, 32 minutes, 13 seconds
This will be a place of prophecy right in front of the White House. We're going to do what God told Jeremiah. Go1 hour, 32 minutes, 21 seconds
down. go down to the king's palace and tell him, you know, 2 Chronicles 7 that that they1 hour, 32 minutes, 30 seconds
quoted
as somebody said earlier, my brother who's an Adventist was a
condemnation because it says, "If my people call by my name will turn
from1 hour, 32 minutes, 39 seconds
and we just found out wickedness is rasha is greed and mistreatment of1 hour, 32 minutes, 46 seconds
people." It says in that scripture, what will happen if you turn and what will happen if you don't turn.1 hour, 32 minutes, 53 seconds
Our job is to declare the gospel holy truth.1 hour, 33 minutes
Ezek God told Ezekiel, they may not listen, but make sure that at least they know there have been a prophet among them.1 hour, 33 minutes, 11 seconds
on
this sister right here carrying the sign. If you'd step out in the
street and following her one, three circuits around this pull pit.1 hour, 33 minutes, 23 seconds
Starting with my brother Hannah, let him come in and then y'all come around and we're going to do one, three circuits.1 hour, 33 minutes, 29 seconds
Just come in front of the pull pit. Come right on in front. She's going to take a left turn and come around.1 hour, 33 minutes, 41 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 33 minutes, 50 seconds
We won't bow down. No. No. No. No.1 hour, 34 minutes, 4 seconds
No.1 hour, 34 minutes, 8 seconds
No. No statue, there's no man, there is no1 hour, 34 minutes, 19 seconds
policy that can make us bow. I'm telling you now, we won't bow down.1 hour, 34 minutes, 31 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 34 minutes, 40 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 34 minutes, 49 seconds
Cuz there's no statue. There's no man.1 hour, 34 minutes, 55 seconds
There is no policy that can make us bow.1 hour, 35 minutes, 1 second
We're telling you now, we won't bow down.1 hour, 35 minutes, 8 seconds
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,1 hour, 35 minutes, 18 seconds
no, no, no, no, no.1 hour, 35 minutes, 26 seconds
Because there's no statue, there's no man, and there is no policy1 hour, 35 minutes, 35 seconds
that can make us bow. We're telling you now, we won't bow down.1 hour, 35 minutes, 45 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 35 minutes, 55 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 36 minutes, 6 seconds
There's no statue. There's no man. There is no policy1 hour, 36 minutes, 13 seconds
that can make us bow. We're telling you now. We won't bow down.1 hour, 36 minutes, 24 seconds
We're going to stand. We're going to stand.1 hour, 36 minutes, 33 seconds
We're going to stand. We're going to stand.1 hour, 36 minutes, 43 seconds
Because there's no statue, there's no man, there's no policy that can make us1 hour, 36 minutes, 54 seconds
bow. We're telling you now, we won't bow down.1 hour, 37 minutes, 2 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 37 minutes, 11 seconds
We won't bow down. We won't bow down.1 hour, 37 minutes, 22 seconds
Oh, there's no statue. There's no man.1 hour, 37 minutes, 27 seconds
And there is no policy that can make us bow. We're telling you1 hour, 37 minutes, 35 seconds
now, we won't bow down. We're going to fight.1 hour, 37 minutes, 46 seconds
We're going to fight. We're going to fight.1 hour, 37 minutes, 55 seconds
We're going to fight. There's no statue. There's no man.1 hour, 38 minutes, 5 seconds
There is no policy that can make us bow. We're telling you now we won't bow down.1 hour, 38 minutes, 30 seconds
Compassionate God, move in us. Remind us of our names. Let your spirit fill our1 hour, 38 minutes, 39 seconds
lungs. Not for our sake, but for the sake of the children, for the sake of1 hour, 38 minutes, 46 seconds
the immigrants, for the sake of the poor, for the sake of the oppressed, for the sake of the trans women on these1 hour, 38 minutes, 54 seconds
streets, that let us not bow down so that you may be worshiped in this land1 hour, 39 minutes, 1 second
in a way that brings peace and mercy and justice. In all your holy names, we pray. Amen.
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