U.S. National Security: The 2 Greatest Threats
June 9, 2025
Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Guest: J.R. McGee
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 6/9/25. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Sam Rohrer:
Hello and welcome to this Monday edition of Stand In the Gap Today. As we all know, the United States is now nearly 37 trillion in debt. Unbelievable that debt is increasing unabated even under the Trump administration. It just seems to just go up and up. The general reason given over the decades for the extreme spending is nearly always linked to some assurance of, well, we’ve got to do it to provide security to the American people, right from the largest area spending of defense and off budget spending by the i a and others. It’s all for the stated purpose of assuring our national security, but even domestic spending our next largest area. It’s also been justified repeatedly by those in power telling people that it’s necessary to assure our domestic security, health, security, retirement security, or some other type ungodly politicians and leaders who rule through fear and human wisdom, which is most all.
They appeal to the innate desire of human beings to be safe and secure, something for which we all desire. Godly leaders, though understand the desire for security as well. The difference though is the ungodly leader pursues security through what the Bible says is leaning on the arm of flesh. The Godly pursues security through doing what God says is the singularly guaranteed way to assure peace and safety and living in security from one’s enemies. And that’s God’s way and we’ll talk about that. So in our current days of increasing headline news of wars and rumors of wars, America’s hope against hope that a man or men who promise to make America great again, for instance and bring peace to the world within weeks will somehow do better perhaps than the man who well promised hope and change. And throughout all the promise of national security in the midst of increasing national insecurity only serves to make more people feel insecure as they see the ground moving under their feet.
So today I’ve decided to pursue a theme with returning guest, X-treme Leadership Group founder and CEO JR McGee. The theme and the title for today is this, US National Security, the two Greatest Threats. So today’s program we’re going to identify the two greatest threats. First, the greatest threat from a human perspective, and second, the truly greatest threat as identified by God himself. In so doing we’ll also identify the solutions and the only true assurance of peace and safety and security. So stay with us the entire programs. I believe that’s going to be helpful to all who have ears to hear and eyes to see. And with that, JR welcome back to the program. Good to have you back again.
J.R. McGee:
It is always a pleasure to be with you and Sam, you and our audience, Sam and I look forward to today’s show with a great deal of anticipation.
Sam Rohrer:
Well, let’s get right into it. JR, your life has centered, as our listeners know around the issue of national security, military type things, that perspective. So let’s talk here first about the foundation of national security. From a human perspective, can you define national security and America’s, and I’m going to say likely nearly all the nations of the world, their working assumption about what it is that ensures national perspective, this all human perspective. Now as you’re looking at it,
J.R. McGee:
Sam, a lot of people talk about national security and national interests, but they really don’t understand what that means. National interests are those things that are critical to the wellbeing of an organization or a society, things that they need in order to operate with assurance that they will be safe and secure and able to live their lives and run their businesses and raise their families in a manner in which they feel safe and protected from outside influences and outside threats. We’ve done this for years with organizations like the CIA Europe has MI6, the Chinese have their groups, Israel’s got Mossad and Shin Bet. Every nation has organizations within that provide for their national security. We have the Department of Defense, we’ve also got the State Department. We’ve also got things that protect our country and look at our nation’s security and strategy and multiple different reasons.
That’s why there’s so many different cabinet offices that report to the president of the United States. Every single one of them in one form, shape or fashion is responsible for that element of security and moving America’s natural interest forward and doing better than our adversaries. This golden dome that we’re talking about, it’s to neutralize external threats. And I’m a big fan of that. I’ve been working in surface to air missile and air to air missile systems most of my life. But there’s some issues with that. And the whole point is everything that we’re doing is 100% based on man’s wisdom and what, as you said very succinctly, the Bible refers to as the arm of flesh, we always strive for the best defense, the most secure technology, the things that our people won’t need, the best trade deals, the best organizations, the best products, but none of that’s guaranteed. And in the world of strategy and special forces, we have a saying, the enemy always gets a vote. Doesn’t matter what your plans are, the enemy will always react to that and they’re working to counter that. At the same time, you’re working to advance that and whoever’s strategy is stronger, whoever’s techniques are better will win.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay? And that’s great, and I think people without getting into it that there was Babylon, the greatest nation, and what’d the enemy do? They just shut off the river and they came in under the wall, the Spartans, they brought in that Trojan horse and they won. So yeah, the best of strategy seems to always be able to be undone, but that’s moved here. That’s man’s perspective, arm of flesh. Somebody can always undo it, it seems like. But from God’s perspective, what’s the foundation of national security?
J.R. McGee:
It’s trust in God and faith in God. Sam, I don’t need faith in things that I can control. I don’t need faith in things that I understand. I need faith when I don’t understand what’s going to happen. But the Bible has a plethora of verses and references for what God tells us we should look to for safety and security. Psalm 91 is referred to as the soldier Psalm. It’s one of my favorite passages in the Bible. Psalm 91 verses one and two say, he that dwelled in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, he’s my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I will trust. And then Deuteronomy chapter 28 verses one and two, and it shall come to pass that if thou shall harken diligently into the voice of the Lord thy God and to observe and to do all his commandments, which I command me this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth and all these blessings will come upon me and overtake thee if thou shalt harken until the voice of the Lord thy God.
It’s all about trusting in God, not trusting in technology. Sam,
Sam Rohrer:
There we go ladies and gentlemen. Okay, that’s the basis national security. We hear a lot about doing more technology, more this, more that, but what does God say? Fear God, obey his commands and he will be our refuge. Okay, that’s where we begin. We come back, we’re going to start by looking at the greatest human enemy. If you’re just joining us, the theme today is this, US national security, the two greatest threats and my special guest, returning guest, JR McGee, you know him well, military background knows prophecy, understands biblical worldview and it’s always good when he’s with me because we tend to focus on events that are happening around the world on one sort or another and looking at it through the lens of what scripture says, but always a strategy perspective. And to that, he brings that which he’s dealt with for so many years in the area of the military.
Now that being the case, this issue called security, national security, we hear about it all the time, right? We’re going to look in now to this matter of the greatest human threat and we laid out in the last segment, there’s a human approach to ensuring or thinking, hoping to ensure national security. It’s the arm of flesh when you get right down to it. And then there is what God says about national security and he links it directly to fearing God and obeying his commands essentially following scripture. Now since the day that Lucifer decided to challenge God, war became a reality and the heart of war is we know rebellion. That’s where it started with Lucifer rebellion against God and God’s plan for human society. And that’s what God gives us in scripture. Now because of sin, the heart of every man we know biblically is depraved and that means it’s in a state of rebellion.
Therefore that means wars, man wars therefore against God and God’s plan in his heart and as he thinks in his heart and his mind and then operates out and through his choices assembling. When you just get a lot of these people together in one place, all individuals being the same way, you get them all together unrestrained by fearing God and following his commands, then they become nations run by people who are also in rebellion to God. And then these nations then simply attack each other from time to time, and particularly those who agree with God. In other words, they will go after Christian. That’s why they’re always persecuted and ultimately the people and the nation that God has chosen Israel and the Jews. Now in a nutshell, that’s the history of human civilization from the beginning. That’s not going to change until the kingdom of Christ arrives after his second coming and which then will occur during the time we call the thousand year millennial reign of Christ, which he will physically do here on earth.
This is not some mystical thing physically he will be in Jerusalem and he will rule with a rod of iron. But until then there are going to be wars there. Rumors of wars, nations are going to rage and people imagine a vain thing as it talks about in Psalm chapter two, and for us here in America, God has sovereignly led well he did. He led a handful of people over 400 years ago to establish a new nation that with God’s help they prayed could be a light to the nations and blessed of God. Well, for decades, America’s now been running, I’m going to say on the fumes of past blessing, but that ground is shaking and our enemies have arisen both within as we see in today’s headlines and also without now. In the next two segments, we’re going to talk about the greatest human threat to security and to America, and that’s appropriate to do the last segment, we’ll talk about the greatest threat of all, and that’s about which God says we should most greatly fear. But let’s go here from human perspective Jr. When we discuss national security, it’s generally assumed that the threat is some other nation, and in fact that could be true. So from a general perspective, which nation poses our greatest threat and what drives their hostility toward us, then we’ll walk down through some of the specific threats and strategies that they’re using really against us.
J.R. McGee:
That’s a great question, Sam. Before I answer the specifics, I want to answer that from a general perspective and no matter who it is, the world’s predators really only understand the language of strength and power. Most people think it’s money, but it’s not. Money can rent power. However, real power creates money, not the other way around. It’s really no different than dealing with a school yard bully. They don’t really expect anybody to stand up to them, let alone punch them in the nose. And I have a lot of friends that are pacifists, and I respect that, and they believe that war is not the answer, but war was the answer in response to 6 million Jews being slaughtered in World War II. It was the answer to tyranny during our American Revolution, and it was the answer to those threatening God’s chosen people in King David’s day.
However, I strongly believe that war should be the absolute last bastion of response after everything else has been tried and failed. Sam, I believe we’re right at that point today. Now, in terms of the greatest threat, I think China is without question, the greatest threat facing America today. I don’t think anything else is even close. I could list 12 to 15 different areas where China is specifically threatening the United States. The greatest of those is to our electronics and our electrical grid. And if you stop and think about it, everything in America, our entire society depends upon our electrical grid and our electronics. Everything depends on those two things and we’re extremely vulnerable. Taiwan supplies almost all of the chips and the electronics that drive our technology, and the Secretary of Defense, Peter Hegseth this weekend said that China is in the final stages of ramping up for their move on Taiwan.
He thinks that this is imminent. It’s not going to be two to five years from now. He thinks it’s imminent and China doesn’t have to attack Taiwan. They just simply have to embargo them. If you take two to three weeks where nothing gets in and nothing gets out, Taiwan will fall and that’s all China’s got to do and it would be extremely difficult for us to respond to that. Another area that China threatens the United States is our medicines, our food and our water supplies. Just recently, just in the last week or so, the Chinese tried to smuggle in some germ warfare agents if fusarium, that would completely wipe out our corn, our wheat, and several other food crops. Can you imagine if we lost our food? And they can do the same thing with our water systems. If you can’t trust drinking water, we’re extremely vulnerable to some of those things. Makes the majority of our medicines currently, and if they cut that off, it’s an extreme threat to the United States and Americans specific safety. Those things would happen very quickly. Sam, it’s incredible how vulnerable we are and how long we’ve been talking about this, but what’s most surprising is how little has been done to rectify that.
Sam Rohrer:
And that is obviously a question. Now you’re going to have some other things we’ll talk about in the next segment, but just take those, the electrical grid as an example. I want to explain a little bit about how are they able to threaten our electrical grid and in reality, I mean everybody knows we’re connected to electricity, but the question is how and how does that tie in with food security, for instance, as an example, or water? You mentioned that. Just take that as example, build that out a little bit, give people some insight. How do they actually threaten
J.R. McGee:
Now found out that China has built into our electrical system the power transformers in our substations, the electrical components that control our electrical grid. They have found that China has built in control systems that we don’t control. They do. They can either turn those off or blow them up. They can create an overload, just like what happened in Spain last month, people don’t realize how fragile the electrical grid is. Spain, Portugal and the southern part of France lost all electricity for two to three days because of an imbalance in the electrical grid caused by these very same things. This is not theoretical. This is happening today, and we found out that China has built into the control mechanisms for critical key components in our electrical grid. They can control to turn those off or overload them to collapse the system. They can do the same thing with our water supplies. We found out that China is extraordinarily good at electronic and information warfare. China gets into our control, supplies, our control software, and they can turn things on or off at will our food supply, transportation, the storage. There are multiple different nodes where these things can be attacked multiple different ways in multiple different areas, and we’re remarkably vulnerable to almost all of them.
We check people’s luggage and we take away shampoo from them in the airports, but yet we don’t protect any of these things that all the rest of it depends on Sam. It doesn’t make any sense to me.
Sam Rohrer:
No, it doesn’t make any, it’s
J.R. McGee:
Almost deliberate.
Sam Rohrer:
Yeah, well see. That doesn’t make any sense to me. It never has either. And in reality, they have the ability because of what you’re talking about, they don’t have to have somebody on the ground who walks over to a transformer and does something physical to that transformer. They can do this invisibly through the air, through cyber means or something else, correct?
J.R. McGee:
Absolutely. They control most of our software, both commercially and militarily. It’s shocking how much they have penetrated our software and every day we get cyber attacks from China, but we’re also uncovering areas where we’re vulnerable. This is why your phone systems are constantly getting software updates to patch things that they found or weaknesses or holes in the security of them. You will never make them foolproof. Fools are too ingenious.
Sam Rohrer:
So ladies and gentlemen, again, we’re at the break here. Just think about this. In its day, as I mentioned, Babylon, no one could attack them. They were totally self-sufficient, but the enemy found a way in under the wall, not just like the Chinese. They have a way in through the system, under the wall, however it may be, and just as the Babylonians had no idea that during the night when they slept, the enemy was coming within China and what JR just talked about has already put their people within the system. We’ll be back and continue some of these things just a minute. Okay, JR McGee, let’s continue in our focus on China from a human perspective now just tuning in, we’re talking about national security, US national security, identifying now the two greatest threats. The first from a human perspective is this nation of China in so many different ways, JR.
You mentioned they’re a threat, for instance, to our electrical grid because they have placed into transformers and other things that we have bought from them, switches that they can literally turn off, they can shut off our electric and cause the grid to go down and you turn off electric in America, you turn off everything. Serious food security issues, they’ve threatened that. If you talked about that pathogen that was found, two Chinese people were involved. I think it was in Michigan and it was a pathogen that could destroy the entire wheat crop. And after that JR, I heard that that specific pathogen has already been identified in several places in the country. It may be further down the road than what that would indicate. You talked about medicines, pharmaceuticals, the vast majority of what people need or think they need in that regard comes from China. Alright, now those are three. Is there another one or two that you’d like to mention and then I want to go back and just talk with you a little bit about the strategy of a China. What is this called? Because it seems like they’re just not going after one thing. They’re trying to poke at us from all kinds of directions. So name another item or two area here.
J.R. McGee:
Well, we could spend three or four shows talking just about China, but there’s also this threat from Iran. The Iranian threat is growing exponentially. The reason being is because they’ve got close to a thousand pounds of enriched uranium at 60% and it only takes a few days, maybe a week to go from 60% to 90%. That gives them six to nine bombs, maybe as many as 12 bombs, and they just ordered even more fuel and more rocket components from China to rebuild the rockets and the port that was blown up from their rocket fuel explosion from a month ago. Iran’s being very aggressive and they’re extremely good negotiators and what they’re doing is they’re negotiating from the viewpoint of simply buying time for their program to be more fully implemented and to rebuild their security systems. Israel’s not going to wait for that. I think the instability in the Middle East has a great deal of threat for the United States.
Every individual American is going to feel the consequences of that. If that continues to escalate, we think that that’s remote, it’s over there, it’s not going to affect us. That could be the tinderbox that starts another complete world war that would affect every single one of us. Then you get into this issue with Russia and Ukraine. There was some hope that there was going to be a ceasefire, but with everything that’s happened in the past week, I think even Trump’s beginning to turn away from that and say, well, let them have at it. If that grows, that’s going to bring NATO into it. That’s going to bring the United States into it. This has the strong potential to grow and very, very quickly you have been talking about how existential this threat is for a while and people thought, well, that’s just something that’s happening over there.
No, this is going to affect you, me, our families, our companies, our cities, our society, and it’s hard to overestimate how big a deal this is. It’s like Pearl Harbor. Everything was fine the day before harbor, and then after that everybody realized what a situation and a mess we were in. I think you mentioned the fact that the city was overthrown by coming in under the river in the middle of the night. God just said, no, you’ve been weighed in the balances and found warning. Everything was good that night at the party, the next morning everything was destroyed. The Trojans brought in a horse. Everybody went to sleep that night thinking everything was fine. The next morning the city is on fire and most of them were dead. These things happen. Strategy happens in the background where people don’t see it. Most people don’t understand it, but it affects everything we do, everything we are and everything that we have, and if you’re not paying attention, then you’re on the path to becoming a victim
Sam Rohrer:
And bringing it back to China, and I’m glad you went there and mentioned Iran and Russia because as we’ve talked about on other programs, when you talk about China, you also must talk about Iran and China and North Korea because they’re all in a formal alliance. The most recent one was tightened up very tight between Russia and Iran, but China’s in the middle of all of them. So we’ve often talked about this that asymmetric warfare it’s called, it’s a little bit different than what people think. I’d like you to define asymmetric warfare and talk about the alliance component because if we do something against Iran and they’re in alliance with Russia, you run that risk of Russia getting involved and China’s involved and all of them. So speak about that aspect as well.
J.R. McGee:
Sam, let me explain that by explaining what symmetrical warfare is. This is the warfare that everybody sees on the movies where two armies face each other across the battlefield and duke it out. That symmetrical warfare where it’s balanced and they’re face-to-face and the military is fighting the military. Asymmetrical warfare is totally different. It’s fought behind the scenes. It’s fought by people that you can’t see, people you can’t identify, and it’s waged against technology. It’s waged against things that you need. It takes things away from you and you don’t even know that you’re in combat until it’s over. Asymmetrical warfare is aimed at controlling you and taking things away from you when you don’t even know you’re being attacked. For example, these cyber attacks, the companies, they come in, they go home that night and everything’s fine. They come in the next morning, their software systems have been locked out and they can’t even get into their own software to control their company. Somebody else has attacked them. That is an example of asymmetrical. When you have denial of service attacks, this is where one country or one organization overwhelms the internet so that no one can use it. These things come from out of nowhere and they happen, and by the time you’ve got a problem, you’re in a bad situation. Asymmetrical warfare is a way of waging war to achieve national security interest and non-conventional way that most people have never seen and don’t understand.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay, that’s a good explanation and one of the things that’s happening is for instance, that bio weapon potentially pathogen that would be of danger to our food supply or COVID, let’s very frank, it was a bio warfare item. It was what you’re talking about. It is a way of fighting a war where you don’t necessarily leave direct fingerprints and that makes the enemy invisible and very difficult to compete against. Right?
J.R. McGee:
Lemme just give you a few more examples where we are really, really vulnerable, Sam, I could spend a lot of time on this, but economic threats. China in particular is famous for stealing proprietary information that what they can’t buy, they just take, they also subsidize their companies with money to make them far more competitive against United States companies. That’s what Trump’s trying to do with these tariffs.
Sam Rohrer:
Alright? That’s what Trump’s trying to do with the tariffs. Are you back JR?
J.R. McGee:
I’m back. I’m sorry.
Sam Rohrer:
Go ahead.
J.R. McGee:
That’s what Trump’s trying to do with these tariffs is to level out some of those playing fields and then you’ve got rare earths. China’s trying to control the rare earth and the critical minerals that the United States and most other countries need for their technology and for their societies. Whoever controls those things controls the world. Then you look at the Belt and Roads initiative, China is trying to buy other countries and buy their resources to control those, and you’ve got economic dependency. The United States has allowed itself to transfer almost all of our manufacturing to China so that we can get cheap stuff from Amazon and Temu and Costco. I love Costco, but they’re contributing to these incredibly cheap products that make it very difficult for us to compete and it’s devastated our manufacturing and some of the other aspects of our economy, our pharmaceuticals, as we talked about earlier.
I mean I can just technological threats. The 5G networks that we love so much that allow us to communicate so much information so quickly. China’s also embedded technology into 5G so that they can mine all of that information. From an intel point of view, artificial intelligence, oh my gosh, China is pretty much in the lead for AI. We think that we’ve got computers nailed down, but China has made so much progress in supercomputers and AI and frankly, whoever figures AI out first is going to dominate the world and supply chain ideological threats, human rights people get so upset about slavery that happened here in the United States 250 years ago. Why are they not more upset about the slavery that’s going on right this moment in China? I don’t hear anybody upset about the slavery that’s actually going on today. China’s using slave labor to produce goods to compete on the world market. They’re using unfair advantages to take advantage of the American people and other democracies around the world, and we’re not pushing back on that.
Sam Rohrer:
And there we are, ladies and gentlemen. China and its alliances are a grave, yes, human threat to our security. Next segment we’ll talk about from God’s perspective, what’s the greatest threat? Okay, today we’ve been talking about national security, identifying the two greatest threats. One China, its alliances, and we just spent time on that in the last two segments. We said that in this segment that we had conclude with identifying that which God says is the greatest threat to national security. Do you know what it is? Well stay with us. We’ll go through this. In segment one, we identified the foundation for national security and that involves both a human and a physical aspect of preparation to prepare is appropriate, but it requires a prior and ongoing acknowledgement and understanding of God’s exclusive role in providing for and being the only guarantor of the continuance of a nation’s security.
Now in this final segment, we’d like to identify a few basic biblical principles from which it becomes easy or easier to identify the actual degree of America’s national security. So after you listen to what JR said in the last segment and what we talked about earlier, are we in America secure? Are we insecure? Do we just think we are secure? You can have your own determination based on what JR just said, but you could not come to the conclusion that we are secure. Now, here’s some principles. God says in Deuteronomy chapter eight and 28, Ecclesiastes 12, 13 and many other places, God requires two things of nations to achieve prosperity and peace, safety and all those other things that go with it, good health and what we would call true national security. First one is fear. God. That’s what all those verses mentioned. Fear God.
Secondly, obey God’s commands. Now, JR you read from Deuteronomy chapter eight basically said, where God said, and I’m not going to read all of that due of time, but God says, diligently harken to what I say. You do what I say and I will make you blessed. And this is what he said, blessings will come upon you and they’ll literally overtake you. That’s the description of a horse overtaking somebody on foot, literally overtakes ’em and it says, simply harken under the voice of the Lord thy God. Then it lays it out. It lays out a whole list of things, lays and gentlemen go there and read that. But the point here, I believe this is what I come to call it, national security comes as a part of I’m going to term a divine package deal. In other words, when we fear God, God pours out blessings.
Verses three to six, talk about economic and agricultural blessings, plenty of food to eat, money that’s valuable, all of that. Verse seven, military dominance where you will reign supreme over your enemies. In verse 12 and 13 talks about manufacturing and banking and economic dominance where you will lend your money because you have wealth to your enemies, to others, and they will be in subservience to you. Okay? All of that. But then there’s a poison. God said, Deuteronomy eight verse 17, and here’s the key. It is pride. It is pride. God told Israel, after I’ve given you all of these things, all of these blessings, and you have this national security, your enemies are at peace with you. If you say in verse 17, if you say in your heart, my power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth and you don’t remember any longer the Lord your God that he gave you this power to get wealth, then it goes on to say, then God will turn everything upside down.
In verse 25 of Deuteronomy 28. It says this, the Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before your enemies. Verse 43, the stranger within you, the enemy that is within you, he’s going to get up high above you. I’m going to let him get up high above you and push you down because why? You refuse to serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart for the abundance of those things which I have given you. Therefore, you shall serve your enemies and the Lord will bring a nation against you from afar from the end of the earth. So that’s it, ladies and gentlemen. That’s it. Pride. When we fail to recognize that all that we have comes from God and we think that we’ve done it ourself, then we do everything we can and spend money that we do not have because we have our faith in our trust in the arm of flesh. All right, jr add additional comments to anything that I said and then give a grade for America from that perspective and add anything to this and final thoughts as we wrap up this application, because this is really key for America. Not too many people are awake on this, I’m afraid.
J.R. McGee:
Amen, Sam. And on a scale of one to 10, I give us a three. That’s the lowest score I’ve ever seen and done in my lifetime. And Sam, let me just make a couple of comments here on some things that are good. The military recruiting is now at an all time high. Just in six short months, it’s gone from drastically under expectations to all time highs. The men and women in our military today are some of the finest that I’ve ever seen. They are warriors. They want to do the right thing, but our Air Force is the smallest it’s been in my lifetime. The Navy is the smallest it’s been in my lifetime. We’ve been in constant war in combat since 1991. We now are giving these men and women who we’ve charged to protect us with worn equipment and inadequate supplies and services. We owe it to them to give them the material and the equipment that they need and they deserve to protect us.
Now, that’s in the flesh. The State Department for the first time in 30 years is making decisions and taking actions. They’re supporting our allies and having consequences for our enemies. These are all good things, but it’s depending on us. We’ve got to turn this, and especially for Christians, we need to pray and we need to put our faith in God. And Proverbs 18:10 says, the name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous run into it and are safe. We can’t do this on our own. We’ve got to have God. And we say, well, whose side God own? Well, that’s not the right question. The question is, am I on God’s side? Psalms 46, 1 and three said, God is our refuge and strength the very present. Help in trouble, therefore will not. We fear though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though the waters thereof roar and be troubled.
Though the mountains shake and tremble and swell thereof, we’ve not supposed to be afraid and is Isaiah 41:10 is a favor of mine. Fear thou not. For I am with thee, be not dismayed. For I am thy God, I will strengthen the yay. I will help the yay. I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. It’s all about righteousness, Sam. We have to be on God’s side. We have to have faith in him. We’ve got to listen to what he tells us. We have to follow his precepts and we’ve got to make a decision. Are we going to be a nation that trust in God? Are we going to be a nation that trust in men? When history has shown us at every turn, men have disappointed us. Men have let us down, men have failed us. I think for me and my house, we want to serve the Lord. We want to put our faith in God and we want to be found in that last day serving him, standing up for him and fighting for what God tells us we need to be doing and how we need to be doing it. Sam, there’s no other way.
Sam Rohrer:
There is no other way. Ladies and gentlemen, go to the end of the book of that Deuteronomy. We, God says there, I’ve put before you all people, two ways. One way leads to life and blessing. Well as described. Where that comes fear God, keep his commandments. The other leads to death and judgment. That’s a choice starts with us individually. So as we walk away from the day’s program, national security starts with, do you have a security in your own heart knowing that you have a relationship with Christ established? That’s where it starts from. If we have that security, then we will look to God for only that security that he can give. That’s true national security. May we lead the way in our own homes and our own lives in this regard. Thanks for being with us today.
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