In spite of the results of this past election... here is my 'pastoral' encouragement to me and for you, if you are interested.!
Misc. facts read in the audio sermon...

• We knew!
• We know!
• No winners from either side!
• We know we will be seeing more of the folly of religion be exposed - even 'ours.'
• Is it that only by pride cometh contention?
• Proverbs 13:10 - Only by pride cometh contention: ...

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• NO!
• That is what has gotten us into the mess we are in today!
• II Timothy 2:15,16 - profane and vain babblings has led all to a false Christianity - ungodliness!
• II Timothy 3:1-9 - godliness denying the power thereof... nobody has turned away from it all!
• I Timothy 6:10 - love of money
• I Timothy 6:5c - supposing that gain is godliness

• Paul not in every church - I Corinthians 4:17: For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
• Do not fully know - II Timothy 3:10,11 - But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, Persecutions, afflictions,
• Did not do... - Philippians 4:9 - Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
• Would not endure sound doctrine - Titus 2:1-14; II Timothy 1:13
• Did not speak as Paul told Titus - Titus 2:15 - These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
• Did not Titus 3:9,10 -  But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
• Did not II Timothy 4:2 -  Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
• Followed Demas instead of Paul - II Timothy 4:10 - For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
• Men have not - II Timothy 2:2 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
• Run by leaders who are... I Timothy 6:4-5 - ... proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
• Run by leaders who are ... II Timothy 2:26b - ...are taken captive by him at his will.
• The law was not properly used - I Timothy 1:8 - But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
• Liberty in Christ was not properly modeled after by the nation - Galatians 5:1 -  Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
• People trusted in the folly of the power of prayer rather than Scriptural wisdom and guidance - and let it all happen.  II Timothy 3:16 - All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
• Caught up in Ephesians 4:18-21 - in the vanity of their mind with the appropriate 'fruits!'
• Having the understanding darkened
• being alienated from the life of God
• through the ignorance that is in them,
• because of the blindness of their heart:
• Who being past feeling
• have given themselves over unto lasciviousness,
• to work all uncleanness with greediness.

• Ephesians 5:8-13
• II Timothy 3:12,13
• We will be seeing more and more of Revelation 13:5; Daniel 11:36-39

• ...but with the well advised is wisdom.  Psalm
• We cannot get entangled
• II Timothy 2:4 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
• We must trust in the Living God and not in the riches of the unknown God!
• I Timothy 6:17,21; Acts 17
• We must NOT be troubled about it all
• II Thessalonians 2:1-3
• We must NOT fear
• II Timothy 1:7 - For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
• We must endure hardness
• II Timothy 2:3 - Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
• We must endure sound doctrine
• II Timothy 4:3 - For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

• Do our best to turn our lives from darkness to light - from the power of Satan unto God! Acts 26:18
• Do our best to live Paul's manner of life!
• Philippians 4:9 -  Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
• II Timothy 3:10 - But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

• Do thy diligence to come before winter!
• II Timothy 4:21

• In the grace of God!
• Acts 13:43 - : Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
• In the faith
• Acts 14:22
• Teaching & preaching the word of the Lord
• Acts 15:35
• Truth of the gospel
• Galatians 2:5
• With Paul
• Philippians 1:25
• In Paul's doctrine as a testimony for others!
• I Timothy 4:16
• in prayer with thanksgiving
• Colossians 4:2
• With what we have learned and knowing from whom!
• II Timothy 3:14

• II Peter 3:3,4 - doubt about Christ's coming!
• I John 2:19 - quit

• And that will be our testimony!
• Philippians 4:6,7 - Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
• I Thessalonians 1:9 - For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
• I Thessalonians 5:12-13 - And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.