The Party of Death

My wife Tess and I like to listen to Pastor Mike Hoggard’s sermons. Unfortunately he’s still under the influence of dispensationalism, but other than that he’s right on in our opinion. Nobody’s perfect.

This talk is so good and timely that I felt inspired to do a transcription of it.

Transcription

Take your Bible if you would, please. I want you to turn to two places. Turn to Psalm chapter two.cLet’s start there.

I mentioned earlier, this is a first for me. I’ve been preaching now since 1990 in a sort of a full-time capacity. I was called to preach back in 1982 and I can truly say that I think definitely my sermons have gotten longer since 1982. Maybe they haven’t gotten more substantive, but definitely longer since 82. But this is the first time I’ve ever, ever, ever preached a message like I’m gonna preach this morning.

And I want you to pray for me. Pray that the message will be comprehended and understood. I’m gonna let the scriptures break down some long-standing principles that are in people’s minds and hearts.

And I’m basically referring to church people. I never really understood, I never really understood how Christian people could align themselves with certain viewpoints and still believe that they are right with God. I never understood that.

I’m not saying that I’ve been right on everything I’ve ever taught. And I am not going to promote one political party over another. That would be unwise, that would be ignorant on my part because I think that in this world, both of them have failed this country in severe ways.

We are truly living in a time when corruption runs deep in this nation. One of the things that made me feel alarmed when I went to Kenya in 2011 was the corruption that I saw. An immigration official in the Jomo Kenyatta airport basically demanded a bribe in order for him to release our luggage. I watched it happen. And it angered me because I thought I could have my luggage full of drugs, weapons, bombs, you name it, and this guy just sold his country out for what amounted to five dollars. And I was really put out over that. But since then, I guess I’ve had the scales taken off my eyes, as it were, about the corruption that exists in our own country. And that corruption does run very deep.

In Psalm chapter two, we’re given a sort of an understanding of how things work behind the scenes, not just in this country, but around the world.

It says,

Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together.

Now that phrase, “take counsel together,” that is a conspiracy phrase. That phrase tells you that there is a conspiracy at work in this country, in the state of Missouri, it occurs, I would even say in Jefferson County politics, to some extent, but definitely on a national scale, that conspiracy is at play.

And we see it in the various forms that I’m gonna preach about this morning. That the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed. That, of course, is Jesus Christ.

And I would say, because by nature of all of us being in Christ and being anointed by the Holy Spirit, I would say that it does, in some way, apply to us as well. I could just simply ask you the question, do you believe that there is a conspiracy against Bible Christianity in this nation, would you say amen to that? Absolutely, there is no doubt in my mind about it.

“And against his anointed saying,” and notice what it says, “let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us.”

When you have people at a gay pride celebration that openly confess and announce their hatred for God, their hatred for Jesus Christ, their hatred for the church, church people in general, their hatred for the Word of God, even displayed by some of its members that wear shirts that have things on there like Satan bless me today, or I hate Jesus, or just things like that. They want to remove the bands.

This ring my wife gave me is a token of the bond that exists between she and I. She’s wearing hers, I’m wearing mine. It is what binds us together. It is what keeps us together. It is there as a display to our children, to our grandchildren, and to everybody who knows me and knows my wife, that we stand for marriage. And we stand for marriage God’s way. One man, one woman. That’d be a time you say amen.

They’re attempting to break the bands asunder. We are the salt of the earth, Jesus said. “But if the salt has lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is therefore good for nothing to be cast out and trodden under the foot of men.”

And we are being trodden under the feet of evil people in this country right now. All you have to do is watch one episode of The View. You will understand and know just how much they hate the views given by the Word of God that marriage exists between a man and a woman. There’s only two genders, period.

Just ask the horse. Ask the dog. Ask the goldfish, the guppies, the hamsters, all the little animals, the mice. They all know that there are only two genders in this world. But that’s just a sign and a symbol of the bands that they want to tear apart.

They also want to tear apart the bands and the bonds that make us Americans. You’re only an American if you are a citizen of America. They want to break those bands as well and cast away their cords from us.

But look at verse four.

“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall have them in derision.”

I mentioned this during Sunday school, this thing about Sean Diddy Combs. I still don’t know what he did to get all of his money. Yeah, it’s not talent. I can’t tell you that I’ve ever heard or listened to anything that he’s ever produced. I just don’t know who he is. But apparently, he is, I guess, the Hollywood version of Epstein. And there’s a lot of people now that are very, very afraid. And if I was Sean Diddy Combs, I would either use what money I had to hire me some in-house protection, or he’ll be Epsteined as well, or I would get down on my knees and call upon the name of the Lord. I’d be asking God to protect me because I’m sure he’s marked for sudden death, certain death.

But God is gonna laugh in the end.

Then shall he speak, verse five, unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

And we know who that is, that is Jesus Christ.

I will declare the decree the Lord hath said unto me, thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.

Now I want you to turn to Exodus chapter 20. If you know what is in Exodus 20, then you know where we’re headed. This is the 10 Commandments. Look at verse 13. Four simple words: Thou shalt not kill.

I want you to look up on the screen. Over 63 million abortions have occurred in the United States since Roe v. Wade in 1973. America saw more than one million abortions each year between 1975 and 2012.

Now the Supreme Court basically said, it overturned Roe versus Wade.

And I’m gonna say this, I’m gonna say a lot of things that may make some people mad. It’s not that I don’t care because I do, but I have to say them. I’ve been given the responsibility to say things that are unpopular that will get me listed in some kind of list somewhere. Even if it’s just a bunch of preachers that say stay away from Mike Hoggard, which exists. But I am gonna have to say some things that need to be said. I’ll give you the biblical argument of why I’m supposed to preach something like this.

The justification that I have for preaching this is, some people have of their opinion that politics and religion should never mix. I am of the absolute firm opinion that we do not ever take our relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ and set it aside for any reason.

Our religion is who we are. It is not just a part of us. You can’t be part of something that dishonors God and then be part of something that tries to honor God. You cannot serve two masters. You cannot have a duality about you that Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, you live for Jesus and the rest of the time, you live for the devil. They call those hypocrites and that’s exactly what they are.

Historically, you can look at this in the Bible, you can name just about any prophet that you want to and I almost guarantee you, they had a responsibility to preach to the king, to the governors, to the ones who were in charge.

Daniel even had a responsibility to tell the truth to Nebuchadnezzar. He had a responsibility to tell the truth to Belshazzar when Belshazzar saw the writing on the wall and he called in Daniel, wanted to know what it said and Daniel said, “Well, here’s the short of it, King Belshazzar, you’ve got about six hours to live because the Medes and the Persians are gonna come in here and they’re gonna take this place over and you’re gonna be a dead man.” And he had to tell him that, Jeremiah had to tell King Jehoiachin the things that God had him write down on paper. Jehoiachin thought so much of it that he took three or four leaves up after he read a few leaves of it, he took the whole thing, cut it up with a pen knife, and threw it into the fire, thus assuring Jeremiah’s stay in prison.

And it doesn’t matter who we’re talking about, Elijah. Elijah had to preach what he preached to Jezebel and Ahab. There are always examples, amen. Elijah had to preach to the king, and Nathan the prophet had to deliver to King David the bad news about he found out what happened between him and Bathsheba and the child was gonna die. Solomon had his prophets who had to tell him what he probably didn’t wanna hear, Isaiah did it, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the list goes on.

John the Baptist had to point out to King Herod that he took his brother’s wife unlawfully and for that, Herod had him put in prison. Once he was in prison, then his wife had him order that he take the head of John the Baptist off of his body, put it on a charger, and be brought to her. John the Baptist ended up dying for telling the king what he had to tell him.

I’m not putting myself on the level of those men in any way, but it is the Word of God and the Word of God is superior to all earthly kings and rulers. In fact, God even told a future king of Israel, the law was that if he became king of Israel, that the scribes had to bring him enough paper and enough ink and a copy of the law and he had to write out his own copy of the law before he was qualified to be king over God’s people. So there’s always, no matter how high the authority goes in this or any other country, there has to be a higher authority than them and that authority is the Word of God.

Just in case somebody might misinterpret, thou shalt not kill, you might question me, I’m gonna go out in November and I’m gonna try my best to kill a deer. It doesn’t mean that. Doesn’t mean thou shalt not kill anything. I believe in capital punishment. I believe in the death penalty. I think it ought to be administered more than what it is and not less.

By the way, Jesus did not contradict the death penalty. He upheld the law. He was just there to fulfill the law.

But it says in Matthew 19, he saith unto him, which Jesus said, thou shalt do no murder. When the Bible says thou shalt not kill, it is applied to killing the taking of innocent life. And there is no life, no blood more innocent than an unborn child.

Now, without saying what party I’m talking about, there’s a reason why I call it the Party of Death. Number one, they promote all forms of abortion and as late as late-term, with some promoting postnatal abortions. They call it euthanasia. They believe that they should have the right to kill the baby even after it takes its first breath. The Party of Death advocates for violent offenders. People guilty of murder, rape, incest, child abuse or molestation, physical assault, et cetera. Activist judges or district attorneys setting offenders free from prison, think COVID. Or giving them probation, parole or no prison time at all. Most, if not all, become repeat offenders.

How many times have we heard of some horrible death taking place only to find out that some activist judge put that person out on the street and that person did not belong out on the street? That happened out in California last year. If you remember, there was a California highway patrolman who died or a county sheriff deputy who was killed at a traffic stop that he initiated. Come to find out the guy that killed him, a judge set him free when she had no legal right to do so.

The prosecutor told her, listen, this is under the three strikes law. We can’t set him free on bail until his trial. The law says we have to put him in jail right now. The judge said, one more word out of you, I’m gonna have you held in contempt. And she turned that man loose and that man went out a few weeks later and killed someone who is charged with defending the people of that county.

That angers me. That’s a Party of Death. They promote open border policies, allowing third-world prisons to be emptied into not just border towns, but paying for them to be shipped all over the country.

Untold thousands have been released into this country and have committed murder, rape, assault, armed robbery, DWI-related crimes, human trafficking, and drug trafficking. Where do you think all this fentanyl’s coming in from? Canada? Think it’s coming in from Canada? Is it coming in from the ports there in New York? Now all the drug mules know that they just have to find a bunch of people that are walking freely across the border into this country. None of them are being checked to see if they’re carrying anything illegal into this country.

We are setting ourselves up for a huge disaster. Some rogue nation somewhere like North Korea or Syria or Iran, all they have to do is generate some kind of virus, and turn it loose into the migrant population as they’re going from Mexico to the United States. And with our policy now under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, they’re taking these people from the border and they’re shipping them all over the country.

Are you kidding me? All they would have to do was release a virus to those people before they crossed over and then America is gonna spread the virus for them. Now you tell me how dumb that is. And there is one party responsible for that.

Now, John chapter eight, I’m gonna give you scriptures.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lust of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

So you listen to the politicians. You listen to them spread their lies, lying and getting the mainstream media to lie for them. That’s what most Americans now have come to the conclusion is they can’t trust what they hear on their evening news. The daily news cycles, the talking heads that are on Fox and MSNBC and CNN all day long and all night long, telling and retelling the same lies over and over and over again. Some people choose to believe them.

The smart people will refuse. But those who are part of the Party of Death, the originator of that is the devil. Do you not remember your American history? What political party was it that fought against Abraham Lincoln freeing all the slaves? That’s the political Party of Death.

Slavery, now, let me just say this. My grandpappy was a Southern Union Democrat. He was a good guy. I loved him, I loved him dearly. But I was too young to have any conversation with him about politics. But I know that’s what he was. My aunt and uncle, his daughter and son-in-law, Southern Union Democrats. My daddy was, for a while, until he got his eyes open, with Richard Gebhardt, Southern Union Democrat.

Needless to say, the party of Roosevelt and Truman doesn’t exist anymore. That ship has sailed a long time ago. And now you have even those Democrats leaving the ship. R.F.K. Jr. said I cannot tolerate this party any longer.

So, whatever your daddy or your granddaddy was, whatever they told you to be, told you how to vote, however your union tells you to vote, when my son was breaking into the construction trade, as a carpenter, I warned him, son, you’ve got a union job, you’re going to make a good wage, but don’t let them tell you how to vote.

I’ll never forget, when he’d come home one time real excited, and said, “Dad, boy, you should have seen it. At lunchtime, these guys brought out all this food and sodas for everybody to drink, and he said, Man, it was just like we just had this whole lunch catered to us.” And I went, “uh-huh.” And he said, “Then they had to tell us who to vote for.”

I said, don’t listen to that. Am I telling it right, son? He said, don’t listen to that. Don’t listen to it.

Whatever it used to be years ago, that’s all changed now. And I would say, to some extent, so has the Republican Party. It’s been infiltrated.

And both of them, no matter who they are, can be a sell-out to their country. 2 Corinthians chapter 3. I want you to understand, this actually, this message, has more to do with my proof from Scripture that abortion is murder. First-degree murder. Because the argument is, that life begins at birth. That’s what the Party of Death wants you to believe. That’s what the people and the industries behind the abortion mills want you to believe. But that is not what your Bible teaches you.

Paul said in 2 Corinthians chapter 3,

Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men. Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. Not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. And such trust have we through Christ to Godward. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God. Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.

And what I’m trying to show you is, is that God is a God of life. Not a God of death. God even said in Ezekiel 33 that he gets no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked should turn from his ways. God even hates it to have to cast somebody into hell. It grieves God, he gets no pleasure in it. So if God gets no pleasure even from the death of the wicked, how do you think he feels concerning the death of the innocent?

One of the arguments that these young, I call them women I guess, they’re not ladies. One of the arguments that they make about what’s inside the womb of the mother is that it’s just a clump of cells. And yet, in every cell in that clump, there’s DNA. And you know what DNA is? Life. Life. Everything that lives, their life comes from their DNA. It is a book of, it’s the book of life. So even that clump of cells is a living creature. It has blood. What is blood according to the Bible? Life.

You’re just not gonna be able to sell it. The idea is that inside the woman’s body it’s just a clump of cells. Or they make this argument. It’s my body.

I’m gonna show you where that came from in a minute. John chapter one,

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life. And the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.

There are some people who listen to this message that will just not get it. They will totally not get it. And it’s because there is no light in them.

People who abide in darkness, no wonder they are people of death. John chapter five,

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live. For as the Father hath life in Himself so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself.

God is a God of life. His Son gave His life so that you could have life.

John six,

For the bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world. They said unto Him, Lord evermore give us of this bread and Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never hunger and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

And I want you to understand this. That inside the womb of the mother the mother is giving that clump of cells its life. God fixed it so that a cord of life runs from the mother to the child so that in everything that the woman eats and takes in she then gives to that child that is in her.

Women are life givers by nature. It’s in your nature, ladies to both give life and bring forth life. And my goodness for the first two years of that child’s life who’s feeding it? The mother.

Unless you’re one of these 21st century males that walk around I won’t even describe that. John 10, 10, look at this.

The thief cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.

That’s your Savior, that’s Jesus, that’s God. Job 24, 14, who’s the thief? The murderer is the thief. The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy and in the night is as a thief. We’re talking about the devil. It is God who gives life. The devil, he just takes it away. He’s a murderer.

Acts chapter 3,

When Peter saw it he answered unto the people, you men of Israel why marvel ye at this or why look ye so earnestly on us as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob the God of our fathers has glorified his son Jesus whom ye delivered up and denied him in the presence of Pilate when he was determined to let him go but ye denied the Holy One and the just and desired a murderer to be granted unto you and killed the Prince of Life whom God hath raised from the dead wherever we are witnesses.

So it stands as no great mystery that there are people in this world who would choose a murderer over someone who would give life. Every time I hear some woman on The View or on CNN talk pompously about how much they desire women to be free let me tell you since God is the one who created the nature of all women God has ordained it that the woman who delivers her child over to the murderer never ever recovers from that. You never get over it. It is forgivable, thank God it is forgivable. That’s a really good God. That’s who He is. But that woman is going to be in bondage to that child the rest of her life.

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