The Cry Against | Pastor John Greiner

In this fiery evening message, Pastor John Greiner introduces "the cry against," a form of Spirit-led prayer that goes beyond petition into active, voiced opposition against evil and injustice. Drawing from Jonah, 2 Chronicles, James, and Isaiah, he challenges believers to stop playing defense and start boldly crying out against corrupt institutions, stolen wages, political wickedness, and spiritual darkness. Weaving together biblical examples like Abijah and Jehoshaphat with personal stories and a vision of end-time wealth transfer, he calls the church to find its voice, get on God's side, and pray with the kind of earnest intensity that moves heaven and shifts nations.

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Opening Praise And Hunger For More

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Pick your Bibles up and wave them around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad. Let's say this together. Say, Heavenly Father, thank you for Sunday night. I did take my pastor's challenge, and I do want more. More of the Holy Ghost, more revelation and prayer. Lord, teach me how to pray in the last days. Things are different now than they were a generation ago. You're the same God. You've got the same word, but we've got new strategies today. In Jesus' name. Amen. Let's turn in our Bibles to the book of Jonah. Chapter 1, and then also 2 Chronicles 13. We'll start in the Old Testament. The Old Testament is types and shadows. Old Testament is a shadow. We have the substance. All right, Jonah chapter 1, verse 1. Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amitai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before me. Cry against it. And so, you know, I was reading that in my normal reading one time. I got to the part about go to Nineveh, that great city, and just like lightning, the Holy Ghost said, Houston is a great city. Houston is a great city. Houston is a great city. And it's, you know, its sin is coming up before God. We're here to cry against that stuff. Alright, and then thank you for your enthusiasm. Alright, 2 Chronicles 13. Pastor, this is so negative. Well, you haven't heard it yet. 2 Chronicles 13, verse 2, verse 1, in the 18th year of King Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah, and he reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Micaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. Now that this is the king, Abijah is the king of the southern kingdom, which is Judah and Benjamin. And Jeroboam is an evil king. He did evil inside of God, and he's the king of the ten tribes, the northern tribes. And this is right after Solomon died a couple of generations after that. And Abijah set the battle, everybody said there was war. I mean, these are Jews. They're fighting each other. It kind of reminds you of America. We're all Americans, but there's two sides. And one is evil and one is good. Y'all are looking at me shocked. No, one is evil and needs to be cried against. Abai just set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even 400,000 chosen men. Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with 800,000 men, being mighty men of valor, two to one. That's kind of the odds against us. When you've got the news media and you've got all the people with big voices in Hollywood, and you've got all the billionaires that have got their money, some of them proudly and some of them secretly, funding all of this garbage. It's almost like that two to one, you know. And so then in verse uh skip down to verse uh 12, and this is this is uh Abijah, and he's talking to Jeroboam, and he's putting out his case that we're serving God and you're not. And in verse 12, he said, Behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. Oh children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God. See, children of Israel, he's talking about the northern kingdom, Israel and Judah. Israel's the northern kingdom. Don't fight against God, don't fight against God. And uh the Lord God of your father, for you shall not prosper. You shall not prosper. But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them, and so that they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them. In other words, they surrounded. The children of this world are many times smarter and more devious than the children of light. They don't play fair, they don't fight fair. And so they surrounded, and their numbers are two to one, so it's looking bad for Abijah. So then the men of Judah gave a shout. Well, verse 14, when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind, they cried unto the Lord. Everybody say they cried unto the Lord. And the priests sounded with the trumpets. And then the men of Judah gave a shout. And as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. And the children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand. And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter, so that there fell down slain of Israel

Jonah And A City Called Houston

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five hundred thousand chosen men. Now they're down to three hundred thousand. Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed because they relied upon the Lord God of their fathers. And of course, Abijah dies. Abijah was the son of Solomon's servant. He was not of the seed royal. He had no right to be king of anything. He's just a rabble rouser. That's what we have in this country. We've got people that are not worthy to be called congressmen, senators, or anything else, honestly. They're just not worthy. They're evil. And, you know, we need to understand that the church has got to lift a voice and cry. I'm talking about tonight the cry against. Been teaching on prayer. Prayer's joining forces with God. We see there, you know, that you've got to see that Judah, Judah joined forces with God. God was their captain. They boldly declaimed, hey, look, God, we're on God's side. He's out here with us. See, we can't ask God to come on our side. We've got to get on his side. Then it's automatic then. Then he's for you. He's always for the people who are for him. You can't say the Democrats are for God. You can't say that. They're not for anything but power. That's all. They're not even for the people. They're not even for the voter. They're for the way they can cheat and win elections. That's what they're doing in California right now. They're cheating. They're cheating their heads off. So the cry against, you know, God has given us a voice. And these are the times where the sons of God need to raise their voice and find their voice. Yesterday was the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day invasion. And you had the Allies that landed, I guess, the greatest military battle, million men gathered in England, and then they went across the English Channel, and there was a whole lot of tough. It was a tough battle. We lost a lot of young men there, a lot of blood was shed. But just nine months later, Hitler fell. I mean, that war had been going six years, and in nine months, when we hit the shores of Europe, it was over. Forget about England, forget about Poland, and forget about our allies. It was America. Okay? We won in spite of Montgomery and in spite of some of the stupid political decisions that Eisenhower made to please these one-worlders that are still around here today. We took the toughest part of the battle. The toughest beach. Omaha Beach was the worst one. You know, how did we get that? It's not our continent. We're not in Europe. We're in America. Why do we have to go over there and do that? Why do we have to rebuild Europe? Good questions. I think the church needed to be more engaged back then. But anyway, I digress. I think about the Jews that were going into the ovens when they discovered where they were headed, when they realized that they were not there for a shower, that they were there to be executed with gas. They must have cried on God. They must have cried out to God. It must have been a horrible cry up to God, crying out. I tell you, God, that cry is a covenant cry. You know, I'm reminded of Exodus chapter 3, where God appeared to Moses in the burning bush. And he told Moses, he said, I have seen the affliction of my people. I know their sorrows. I have heard their cry singular. I've heard their cry. And I am come down. And I've come down to do what? To deliver them out of and to bring them into. And I'm just really reminded about the cry of the covenant. God, it talks about how God remembered Abraham and how God remembered the word remember is a covenant term. The cry of his covenant partners must be answered. God cannot not answer the cry of faith. Are y'all with me now? He teaches something about crying against, and that's part of our prayer, a lot of our prayer. A lot of our prayer is crying against things. Well, Pastor, it's negative. Well, you can't be positive all the time. Jesus wasn't. Let's look at John chapter 2. I'll prove it. Now we have this idea, this religious idea of Jesus. And really, when you read your Bible carefully, it kind of just disintegrates. This idea that Jesus is so soft and so cuddly and all of that. John 2.13, the Jews' Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem and found in the temple those that had sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changers of money

A Battle Won By A Cry

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sitting. He found that. And then it says, and when he had made a scourge of small cords. So just get the picture. He goes into the temple, he sees all this merchandise going on. He sees money changers. What are they doing? Well, you know, you've got people from different provinces, they've got different currencies. They have to come in and they have to change their currencies to in order for them to purchase a calf, a dove, you know, something to sacrifice. They've come a great distance. They couldn't bring the animals with them. So they get ripped off at the money changer because they don't get full credit for their money, and then they get ripped off buying the animal. Doesn't say that, Pastor. Well, that's what happened. And he got so mad he went out and he took time to make a whip. That's how long he was mad. He didn't just flash and do something. He went outside, made a whip, came back in, threw over their tables, and whipped them out of there. Beat them with a whip. Come on. I'm talking about God is not neutral. He's not, listen, he doesn't suffer fools gladly. I have to think that God is really angry at some of the things that we've allowed to go on in America. And I say we've allowed because we haven't cried against it. That's what's going on right now. We're beginning to find our voice and we're beginning to make some noise, and you know, it's gonna, time will only tell. I mean, it's it's well, why you why I don't know how it's gonna end. You know, America could go down. It could go down. If the church doesn't rise up, the church, this nation is gonna go down. Because the Democrats get back in charge, it's over. Am I saying that God's gonna fall off the throne? Of course not. I'm just saying, though, that this this this wonderful harvest that's been building, and we have the opportunity now to get billions of people saved. And America, I don't care who you, anywhere you go, this is where the source of the money is for that to happen. It takes money. And if they get in control, they're gonna just, you know. I've heard all this religious stuff all my days as a Christian. Well, the church is better when it's under persecution. No, it's not, it's better when it's at peace. Otherwise, you know, Paul wouldn't have said, pray for the for that you might have a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. That's better for the gospel, not persecution. So we've got to find our voice. I believe we are finding it. We have power and we have responsibility. Now, the fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride and arrogancy and every evil work. We have to we have to not equivocate, we cannot compromise with evil, we can't we can't get across the aisle and try to work with evil. We need to defeat evil. That's what that's the answer. The old days of Democrats and Republicans, you know, bipartisan, that's a bunch of hogwash. There's no bipartisan nothing. Most of the bipartisan is by the rhinos and the Democrats. Republicans in name only, in case you wondered what rhino means. And I'm I'm not glorifying Republicans, it just so happens, though, that their platform happens to be closest to God's word. And so that's why I'm for them because they're they're on God's side on a lot of issues. Not every issue, but on a lot of issues, and they there's a lot of Christians that are involved. A lot of people are working, working, working. This is the week where we've got these state conventions. A lot, some of you are involved in it, and James is neck deep in it, and it's it's just a lot of it's a lot of work. And and part of the reason he is is because this church has got a mandate to wake up the church. And to cry against these things that are going on. It's time to cry against evil and overturn the engines of iniquity. In other words, their methods, their schemes, their fronts, their organizations, their political action committees, their uh so-called 501c3 organization, charities, tax-exempt charities. I mean, these these are frauds. And they funnel money into the Democrat coffers to win elections. Billions and billions of dollars ripped off of Medicare, food state, you name it. Anything, any government, any government-ish thing that's involved with money, they have found a way to infiltrate and siphon off billions and billions of dollars while the rest of us live with you know double-digit inflation almost back before Trump took over and lowered it a little bit. Inflation is theft. I said, inflation is the theft of your money and your assets. And they're the reason that we had it. They're the reason. So, um, you know, we talked about Ephesians chapter 6 this morning, how we take on the whole armor of God that we may stand. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, rulers of darkness of this world and wicked spirits in the heavenly places. And see, these powers have been dethroned, but they still exist and they can still wield power when they're not addressed, when they're not uh dealt with in the spirit realm in prayer. If you do nothing, they then act like they have a throne. They then act like they haven't been defeated by Jesus. Jesus did defeat them, but that's the shame of it. The church has just let them get away with murder. And I got a couple of them that uh Psalm 74. Let's look at this, I'm gonna teach you a little bit. Because when we deal, when we deal in prayer, prayer meetings, and and we have, and we're gonna be praying some some Sunday nights coming up before the election. We're gonna stand our ground. Psalm 74, verse uh 13. You did you divide the sea by your strength. You breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. Uh the word dragons, it says whales, but really it's not really whales. It's a kind of an interesting Greek word. It doesn't really have a, it's like a mytholic mythological creature. Then the next verse, thou breakest the heads of Leviathan in pieces, and gaveest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. Leviathan, the intimidator. When you look it up, he's a fire-breathing dragon. It's a mythological creature. It's a demon power. He's the intimidator. He's intimidating. He that's what you have in charge of the Democrat Party. They lie and intimidate everybody to shut up. Don't you dare say that. Don't you dare say all lives matter. Don't you dare. See, that's a demon power. All lives do matter. Eat your heart out. So, and then another one is found over in uh Revelation, chapter 9, verse 11. 9-11. That's interesting, isn't it? I'm talking about these principalities and powers that we come up against and the kind of praying we do around here. It's probably not the praying you're gonna do at home. Revelation 9, verse 11.

D-Day, Covenant Cries, And Deliverance

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It's describing in the book of Revelation all these, it made them look like beings. It's possible it's helicopters. I don't know. You know, you could you're you've got people that 2,000 years ago they're trying to tell you what a helicopter looks like. It's a gunship, it's got fire shooting out of the front of it, and and a stinger in the tail and all that. They they don't know what, then it's got a whirly thing around that looks like wings and it's it's got it makes a lot of noise. I'm not saying it's a helicopter, but I mean it in the verses before that. But look at verse 11. They had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue. Hath his name, Apollyon. Now Margin says Apollyon the destroyer. And so he's the king of the bottomless pit. He's sitting there ruling over hell. He gets to see people destroyed. He gets to see people enter into hell and they're never coming out. And uh he's an evil spirit. He's dragging as many people as he can. He's a destroyer. He's destroying people's lives left and right. So uh when I think about the D-Day invasion, I just think about the world back then. I mean, really, I don't think America was at that great a risk for Nazis to ever really reach American soil. We didn't have intercontinental ballistic missiles, we didn't have planes that could fly across the waters. I mean, we had both oceans. And really, I don't think they could have ever successfully conquered us, but we elected to get involved. We got attacked because we were asleep. And that was, of course, Japan. Got attacked. But again, that's way out there. It's way a long way away. I don't, I don't think America was ever really that much at risk. I'm not saying we shouldn't have gotten involved. I'm just saying, though, that the cries of those Jewish people, they started getting persecuted in the way long time before the war. They were already persecuted and marginalized and dehumanized, and they had propaganda constantly. They had it in their schools. They taught their children that they were subhuman. And so they just they delegitimized them. They still do the same thing today. The devil hadn't had any tricks. And uh, and so that what I'm saying is their cry came before God, and I believe this nation answered. He said, Who will go before me? And we said, Yeah, we'll go send us. And we did go, and I'm glad we did. I'm not, I don't regret that we did. I know a lot of our boys died, girls died. But uh, it was a necessary war. I believe this war that we're fighting right now is necessary. It should have been fought back when we got those back in the 70s. Carter should have should have gone done something. And then how about Reagan? We love Reagan. Well, he didn't do anything either. So all of these, all of these presidents, as far as I'm concerned, have a black mark on them for doing nothing. And now we're stuck. We got to get this finished now. You can't you can't just kind of swat at the at the waf's nest. I mean, you've got to take it down. You gotta take it down. So, Pastor, what does it have to do with prayer? Because this is what we pray about all the time. I just want to take a second. I won't, I didn't bring my notes from 2021, 2022, 2023, but especially 20 and 21, 22, when the Democrats stole the last election, they did steal it. We prayed against it. We cried against it on Sunday night, power hour. Man, I mean, we cried against it. God gave me all these little pictures. Upset their apple cart. We prayed, upset their apple cart out. You know what's going on right now? Their apple cart is getting upset. Remember when God looked through the cloud and saw Pharaoh's chariots going through the Red Sea following the children of Israel, and he and he had contempt for them, and the angels came and knocked the chariot wheels off, and they got stuck in the bottom of the Red Sea, and the Red Sea just came back on top of them. Say, that's what's going on right now. But guess what? This church has got to start praying like that. We've got to begin to, we've gotta, we've got to seize the moment. Y'all are really looking at me crooked now. Wow, what kind of praying is this? End time, Brad. End time, Brad. I mean, look at look at uh Abijah. Abijah knew he was on in covenant with Almighty God. He had confidence to go up against the odds that were two to one against him, and he warned them don't do it, don't do it, don't fight against God, you're gonna lose. And they did and they lost. And I mean they lost big time. Jeroboam got killed and 500,000 others. A lot of blood. I said, a lot of blood. So let's turn in our Bibles now to James chapter 1. What are we crying against? I've got some things we can cry against that we've done before, and we have new folks that haven't heard these uh revelations before, and so I'm gonna do my best to share a few of these. I might not have time tonight to get it all done, but James chapter 5. Notice, you know, James chapter 5, we used verse 16b, the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. That's in chapter 5. James is an end-time book because he talks about the Lord of the harvest. He talks about God has long patience for the precious fruit of the earth. And so our praying, the context of the prayer that we've been learning about is end-time praying, how much power there has to be distributed for us to get the to get the results in. It's up to us to get this harvest in. It's going to take prayer. And so look at James chapter 1, I mean 5 verse 1. And uh James is the Lord's brother. I like James because he's a little bit on the negative side, I guess. He comes from a negative side. He talks about in one of the chapters, you know, just your tongue can set a whole forest on fire. You know, that type of thing. The tongue is evil and no man can tame it. What can tame your tongue? Speaking in tongues. Tame your tongue. All right, the cry against. So here he says, go to now, which means come now. Come. He's gathering up rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Now he's talking about the unrighteous rich. He's talking about Bill Gates, he's talking about George Soros, he's talking about these kind of people that are evil, that do evil with their riches. The Ford Foundation, all these foundations that were formed back in the turn of the century. The Ford Foundation, uh, Rockefeller Foundation, these people were so filthy rich they they they got their money in a foundation to preserve wealth for generations. And what is that wealth doing? It's buying uh leftist causes, it's funding all kinds of horrible stuff. It ought to be broken up like the mafia was broken up. All the money ought to be turned over to the treasury to reduce the national debt. Pastor, you're talking about confiscating. Yep, sure am. They're illegal, they're they're immoral. We need to cry against it. We're gonna get to that in a second. All right, so he said, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. So that's prophetic interpretation. In other words, this is something that he's prophesying here that's in the future. Come on, rich people. Come on. Your riches are corrupted, your garments are moth-eaten, your gold and silver is cankered, and the rest of them shall be a witness of it, shall be, shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days. God let them get rich, God let them multiply, and God's gonna take that money because it belongs to Him. All the gold and all the silver belongs to God, all the cattle on the thousand hills belong to God. We put our name on it, we put our name on land, we put our name on bank accounts, but God owns everything. It's his. He lets us be stewards over what we call ours. But we're just stewards. We're stewards of this country. If we lose it, we're gonna answer for that. Because he gave us this wonderful country and we didn't keep it. Hopefully we will. Hopefully, we'll wake up enough in time to seize the moment. Are y'all getting anything out of this? Am I just kind of so they've heaped up treasure together for the last days. What's going to happen in the last days? The last days harvest. Yeah. Behold, now, verse 4, look in now. The hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth. And the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of the Sabbath or the Lord of the armies of heaven. Alright, let's break that sentence down. It's pretty amazing. First of all, it says wages are crying out. Years ago, 2006, when I started getting light on this, 20 years ago, I said, God, what is the deal with wages? How can wages cry out? He said, they're like blood. You work for somebody, it's your life. The life is in the blood. You sweat, blood, sweat, and tears, you do everything, you show up at work, you get up before daylight, get home after the sun goes down 40 years, and you wind up with just a little pittance to retire on. And uh, you know, it that those wages that have been defrauded are crying out, just like the blood of Abel, righteous Abel. His blood cried out vengeance. The blood of Jesus cries out what? Mercy. But that that the wages that have been cheated, that have been defrauded, have a voice and they're crying out. And then it says, not only that, but the laborers themselves. The laborers themselves, the cries of them which have reaped, in other words, the laborers, have entered into the ears of the Lord of the armies of heaven and remain. The word cry means to shriek, it means to scream, it does not mean, you know, barely audible. It means you're excited about getting back what the devil stole. Well, Pastor, I'm, you know, I just let bygones. Well, you know, that's just religious talk. You need to get every dollar that's owed you so that you can help fund the end time harvest. That's what this is all about. Don't forget what it's about. It's not about us having the lap of luxury, it's about us funding the end time harvest. It takes money to do it. You can't get people to go overseas and tell them to just, you know, beg. Who's gonna send the labor? Who's gonna send the laborer across the waters? Who's gonna support somebody with underground churches in Asia? Muslim countries where they have to hide. They can't even be out in the open, they have to, they have to use all kinds of subterfuge and all kinds of strategy. The Holy Ghost constantly guiding them to where they don't get caught and thrown in prison. It's not easy. The least we can do is support their bank account where they don't starve. Are y'all with me now? So there's a what I see here is a transfer of wealth out of the hands of the wicked into the hands of the righteous. I've I've believed this all since I got saved. I believed in a transfer of wealth, and when I discovered this in 2006, I said, there it is. I went to see Brother Roberts. I wanted to hear his uh take

Jesus Gets Angry At Exploitation

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on the transfer of wealth, and he just didn't really answer the question. I don't think he had any light on this verse right here. Now he's still talking to the rich people that got rich off of you and I. In a moment, I'll tell you how that is. You've lived in pleasure on the earth and it have been wanton. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. You ever feed a calf? No, most of you haven't raised calves, but you know, when you when you got a calf, you know, what do you do? You feed the calf corn. I mean, you get him fat and then you slaughter him, and you've got some good meat then. And that's what he's talking about. He's talking about he's he's letting these guys feed on this wealth, and here they're gonna get slaughtered. It wouldn't surprise me if some of these people start falling dead. You have lived in pleasure on the earth, been wanting, you've nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter, you have condemned and killed the just, and he does not resist you. Then it goes and starts talking to us. Be patient, therefore, brethren. Unto the coming of the Lord. The husbandman, see, we've been talking about the husbandman, the vine dresser, the gardener. He has long patience for the precious fruit of the earth. He's growing a crop. How many of you know God knows how to grow a crop? He knows how to have a harvest. But we're his harvesting instrument. He's not coming down here. It's the church that's going to be the harvesting instrument. So be patient for the precious fruit of the earth. And he's got, he waiteth, the husband waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it until he receives what? The early and latter rain. There's the word, see. So we're coming into the time of the early and latter rain. The miracles, the signs, the wonders that's gonna produce the hunger. It's gonna open the eyes of people that have, that are ready to get saved. We can't tell whether somebody's past the point of no return. I know by the Spirit there's a lot of these people past the point of no return. There's no saving them. But I don't know who they are. I'm not gonna presume to say who they are because I don't know. I'm not God. God knows. So what do we do? Well, we've got to turn on all of our uh resources to get out there and reap the harvest that that comes from the miracles and signs and wonders, the rain, the early and the latter rain. Be you also patient, establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draws nigh. Well, that's 2,000 years ago. How many of you know it's a lot closer now? A lot closer now. So we need to cry, number one, against unjust compensation. That includes wages. It includes taxes. I mean, they've raised the taxes. We shouldn't be paying income tax. The income tax is evil. We should not pay income tax. We ought to keep every dollar we earn. The only purpose for government should be just basically to kind of watch militarily and make sure that we're covered security-wise, and otherwise get out of our way and let us do what we do. We wouldn't have near the poor people as we have if we just turned the economy loose and let everybody work and quit importing cheap labor from all these third world countries. Again, we've been asleep. Wages, taxes, dues. Some of us are, you know, they take, you know, the teachers' unions, they take dues. If you're in a labor union, they take dues, fees. They've got all kinds of ways. I I saw I saw a bill somebody put on the on Facebook, you know, they went to eat, and uh the the bill was, you know, quite a lot of money. They had alcohol on there, so it was it was like a $600 tab at this restaurant, and 18% was for the uh and taxes, and then 18% for the tip. And then at the bottom, they had another 28% uh fee. They called it something that went to the restaurant, and the waiter waiter said, that doesn't go to the waiter, the wait person. So you're you've got they expect you to pay this extra and then tip on top of that. They've they've taxed you already. They they charge you more, 20-something percent more for your bill that you have to pay, by the way. You don't have to tip, but you have to pay that 20-some odd percent. Otherwise, you can't leave the restaurant without washing dishes. Isn't that silly? I mean, they're nuts. So uh let's look at Deuteronomy 24. I want you to see something about crying out. Remember, your wages that have been cheated are crying out, and you ought to at least agree with them. You ought to at least agree with the wages, and you don't know how much that is, and you don't know where it is, but God does. God keeps the books. He knows where every dollar that you've been cheated out of is. He knows who has it, and he's got he keeps track of it, so why don't you just agree? You don't have to know the figure. All right, Deuteronomy 24. God gave me this. All right, verse 14. You shall not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, neither be of thy, whether he be of your brethren or of strangers that are in the land within thy gates. At his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the son go down upon it, for he's poor, and setteth his heart upon it. See, this is day laborers. This is somebody that's working, and you need to pay them at the end of the day. I mean, they they can't wait. And I know we don't do that often anymore, but most people, you know, get paid by the week. Some people get paid twice a month, it depends. But what if you didn't get your paycheck? What if it's two weeks and you didn't get your paycheck? Well, you'd be in trouble, wouldn't you? Most people kind of have to have that. And so he said, don't do that to the and they that the poor, he setteth his heart upon it. He lifteth his soul unto it, lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto you. So your servant, when you withhold will label, when you withhold his wages and don't treat him right, he cries to the Lord, and the Lord's gonna punish you. I think he's got a lot of people he's gonna punish. And then uh verse um 19. When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the

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boughs again. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. And when you gatherest the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. In fact, in another place he talks about the corners of your field. You know, the corner of your field is kind of hard to harvest because it's a corner. Leave it for the poor. They come along. This is how Ruth went out there, Boaz, and he watched after her, and she took the gleanings of the of the of the of the harvest. That was how the Jews got blessed. They remembered the poor, and that that's part of their heart, part of their harvest. That's their harvest, but they didn't clean it up every little drop of it. See, that means us, we ought to be keeping in mind the poor. We ought to keep in mind people are less fortunate than we are. We ought to take some of our money and help them with it. Same thing. That's a godly principle. But the Democrats want to take your money and give it away, and they don't, they don't take any of their money. Are y'all with me now? So these wages were stolen, and before the laborers cried out, the wages were crying out, and now finally the laborer finally decided to cry out, and so his cries are entered into the Lord of the armies of heaven and remained. So, what does the Lord of the armies of heaven do with that? Well, he dispatches angels. He's Lord over the angels of God. And Jesus is the Lord of the harvest. He's the Lord of the Sabbath. He is the one that when we cry out, He's gonna send the laborers out there to find the money that we've lost, that we've been defrauded. Well, Pastor, I can't really know. Well, I mean, anytime you've been passed over for a promotion that you had coming, you might not have known if they might have decided in the back room and you didn't find out about it. God knows. You might have been due a raise and they decided not to give it to you, and you didn't know about the raise. It was supposedly going to come your way, but they somebody short-changed you, short-circuited the whole thing, and you didn't know about it, but God knows. And that's your life. What about your pop and mom? What about your grandparents? What about your great-grandparents? What about all the way in your family line, all the way back to possibly slavery? What if your forefathers were slaves or indentured servants? You know, some Irish people they had indentured servants. They were not black, they're Irish, they came to this country and they were like slaves. There's a lot of things that happened in this country and other countries all over the world. We're the only country that fought a war to get rid of it. But nonetheless, that money belongs to you because it should have passed through successive generations until you had an inheritance. And I thought, man, I started thinking about my grandparents. I never knew my grandfathers. Both of them died before I was born. My dad's dad was injured in the oil patch in Umble. He got hit in the head with a pipe on one of those rigs. They fired him, they sent him home. The precursor, what's it, pre- what's the name of the oil company before Exxon? It wasn't Umble, it's before Umble. It wasn't standard anyway, regardless. I mean, they just fired him. 60 years old, sent him home with a, you know, and he died three months later. There's no insurance, there's no payout, there's nobody there. So my grandmother and her her boys took care of her and rallied around her and watched after her and made sure she was okay. That's what people did back then. Families took care of each other. But my grandfather didn't leave anything. I didn't have anything in the till. My parents didn't get anything from them, and I didn't get anything, you know, from that, and it just, you know, went, it's gone. And then I thought about my grandfather on my mother's side. He died before she was born. A railroad accident. He's 30 years old. Leaves a 30-year-old widow pregnant with my mother and three other children, a brother and two sisters. She's a Cajun woman. She's unable to read, write, drive, but she could cook. So the oldest daughter got married, and that brother-in-law of, you know, would, you know, he uh he took it on himself. He was a wildcatter, and he took it on himself to stake her. And they they had a boarding house in Umble. And he she used to have Roughnecks stay there and she'd cook for him, and then she made a living cooking for Roughnecks. And then finally she moved in with my parents. We had a two-bedroom, one-bath house in Galena Park. She lived in one bedroom, parents in the other bedroom, and all the other four kids are scattered around the house. You know. My sister slept on a screened-in porch with the boards boarded up in the wintertime and a bunk bed. My brother slept on a hidea bed in the den in the living room, the only living room, with a cardboard box for a closet. And I slept at the foot of my parents' bed till I'm in the third grade. I mean, you know, we didn't we didn't have we didn't know we were poor. But you know what? We had wages stolen from us. Are y'all with me now? I want every dollar that's due to me. I want every dollar. I want interest on that money. I want, in fact, I, you know, I want, I'm gonna get blood out of a turnip. Pastor, you're seeking to be rich. No, I'm seeking for what belongs to me so that we can have what it takes to fund the end time. Come on, lift your hands right now. I hope this is going off inside of you. And I hope you'll take this message to heart and hear it, hear the heart behind it. And and really, unjust compensation is is something I've seen all of my adult life. These corporations, I remember when we first opened the church in '95, several of our men were working for Compact Computer. Rod Canyon had started that business, and it was booming right here in town. He worked for IBM and God gave him an idea for a personal computer, and and it was it was it was amazing. You know, the computers were the size of a room, you know. And he he wound up, you know, having the vision for a personal computer that you sit on your desk. And it was revolutionary back then. And we had several of our members that worked there. And then all of a sudden, the board of directors decided hey, we don't like the way he's paying our employees. He's too loyal, he relates too much to them, he pays too much. We can make a lot more profit if we just import the labor. Let's fire him. He's the one that started it. And they went public, and so now he's lost control of his company, and now the board fires him and hires this German named Eckhart Pfeiffer. And he's the henchman. He comes in and he has an associate that's German, and they have board meetings. All of this came out in the Houston Chronicle on the front page. They would have board meetings and speaking German, and the rest of the board didn't even know what they were talking about. And they they engineered a when they went, when they laid off these people, their stock price went way up, and they got a percentage of the stock as income for themselves. They got the golden parachute, and two years later they were fired for sexual uh, you know, they they got they got handsy with the ladies. They were both fired. It all came out in the paper. You know why? Because we started crying against it. We started speaking against that move because they enriched themselves and they they changed the lives of a lot of their employees. And some of them never really recovered. I mean, they were getting well paid, and then all of a sudden they're out of job and they couldn't find anything comparable. Are y'all getting this now? Unjust compensation. When you pay a pay a CEO and give him a uh a reason to lay people off to increase his income, that's wrong. That's a conflict of interest, and it's short-sighted because the stock goes up, but then when everybody leaves and they get the the other hires in, they don't they don't produce near as well, and so the stock drops by that time the CEO is gone. And they start the whole process again. This is I've watched this for 40 years, and we're crying against it. Why are you, Pastor? Well, you're going into all this detail. Listen, we need the wealth of the wicked to come into our control. Are y'all with me now? So, um, all right. There's so many examples. Okay, I'll give you one more and I'll get off this example. Unjust compensation. And that's when they rob you. I was uh building houses in uh Candlelight Hills, subdivision off of Lueta and close to 45. And I had a couple that uh was moving to town. They had they were gonna move in a few months. They weren't ready to move yet, but they wanted to buy a house and and they've never built a house just for themselves. They'd always bought houses. But this time they had an opportunity to build a custom house, so they uh walked through one of my houses, liked the floor plan. So I we agreed on a price and and I'm gonna build a house for them with this floor plan and with their with their selections. And uh so I asked, I mean, well, you know, what do you do? He said, Well, I work for Shell Oil. I said, Shell, okay, yeah. He said, uh, and she she piped up, she said, yeah, this we've lived in 22, we've lived in 23 cities in 22 years. And I said, What? She said, Yeah, this will be the first time we've ever really been able to be here. I think we're gonna be here longer. This promotion is gonna leave us here in in Houston longer, and and that's why we're wanting a house that's

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ours, because we've always just had to rent or we've had to just, you know, buy whatever we could buy, and now we want something for us. He died the next year. She's a widow in one of my houses. They just they sucked the life out of him 45 years old. See, that's just one example. There's lots and lots of them. Are y'all with me now? All right. The second cry against is unjust war, unjust attack, or accusation. So again, you know, 2 Chronicles 13, that was an unjust war. That's just a uh uh Jeroboam wanting to flex his muscles. He's wanting to take the whole kingdom. Ten tribes wasn't enough for him and his big ego, and uh, it's unjust. And so they cried against it, and God heard them and intervened. Uh Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 20. Let's look at that real quick. I'm talking about the covenant cry. It's a cry of faith, it's not a cry of like your crybaby. It's it's it's lifting your voice boldly and claiming what's yours and and and prosecuting before the court of heaven on your behalf. You've you're the prosecuting attorney. You're bringing a suit against the enemy. Are y'all getting this now? 2 Chronicles 20. Jehoshaphat, verse 31, reigned over Judah. He was 35 years old when he began to reign, grand 25 years, and he walked in in the way of Asa. He did that was right in the sight of God. And uh it says here down that uh that he uh I got past it here. There came the verse chapter verse one, it came the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them others beside the Ammonites, those descendants of Lot, by the way. Descendants of Lot. And uh they came against Jehoshaphat to battle, and they came to tell him, There come a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side of Syria. Behold, they'll be and told him where they were. And Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast. And they gathered themselves together to ask help of the Lord, even out of all the cities of Judah. And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah in Jerusalem, and and he and he began to quote the word of God. He and he said, O Lord God of our fathers, art thou not God in heaven, and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? And in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? Art not thou our God who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to be the seed of Abraham, thy friend forever? Covenant? Talking about the covenant? Didn't you do that? And they dwelt therein and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying, If when evil come upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence or famine, and in thy presence, for thy name is in this house, and cry unto thee in our affliction that thou wilt hear and help. See, reminding God what he promised. He reminded him, and so he said, We're crying right now. We're lifting our voice. We're saying, You're our covenant friend, you're our covenant partner. They're coming against us. And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir. Now listen, what what look at this one right here. This is so cool. Whom you would not let Israel invade. When Israel came into the promised land, God wouldn't let them attack Lot's descendants. Even though they were mean and they wouldn't let them have any water and they wouldn't let them do anything, God wouldn't allow them. And so now he's reminding God, this is the reason they're giving us trouble, you wouldn't let us destroy them in the first place. You whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and destroyed them not. Behold, I say how they reward us to come cast us out of our possession, which thou hast given us to inherit it. Our God, wilt thou not judge them? Will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that cometh against us, neither know we what to do, but our eyes are upon thee. And of course, you know the story. They sent out the priests, and they said, For the Lord is good and his mercy endureth forever. And I mean they didn't have to fight the battle. I mean, God fought the battle in front of them, and uh the hordes fell and they took a great spoil. Wilt thou not judge them? We're in the judgment phase right now in this nation. God is judging corporate woke corporations, he's judging people that have backed the woke agenda, the LGBTQ agenda, the child mutilation agenda, the trench, all of that garbage, uh, the COVID scandal. They haven't even really worked very hard to find out that our health system is responsible for for no telling how many thousands of people's deaths because they covered up the risk of the of the vaccine. That's the jab. We knew what it was. We had we had people come and speak. Dr. Hochi came and spoke about how evil it was, how bad it was. Don't get it under any circumstance. But a lot of people didn't do that. A lot of people just went along and then they're dead. You know, that that requires judgment. That requires somebody to pay a price. How's it gonna happen? We're gonna have to pray it out. That's how. Isaiah 54, 17. Let's look at that one. I'm talking about crying against unjust war, unjust attack, unjust accusation. You know, you know, people can attack you, but they do it at their peril. Well, Jesus said to turn the other cheek. Well, you know, if somebody's trying to tear your reputation down that you spent decades building, I think you ought to answer that in prayer. You know, you might not go up to the person and chew them out, but you can you can go to God with it. Look at Isaiah 54. Most of you can quote it. No weapon formed against you shall prosper. See, it didn't say it wouldn't be formed, it just said it wouldn't prosper. Weapons are formed against us on a constant basis. People talk about us, too. You'll lie about us. And that just goes with the territory, but we have an answer. No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment shall you condemn. All this religious stuff about, well, let's just turn the other cheek. Well, you know, let's just walk in love. Well, we're walking in love. How about loving yourself? I love myself, and I don't like when people lie about me or lie about my kids, especially. I'm gonna I'm gonna condemn that tongue. I'm gonna condemn it in prayer. I'm not gonna go to the person and try to get personal satisfaction. I'm not talking about that, but I am gonna deal with it according to God's word. Are y'all with me now? And look what look what it says. You shall condemn that tongue. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. What do you want? What kind of a green light do you need to handle uh these attacks, these unfair attacks? Some of us are lied about on the job. We've had people lie about us to our boss. I had a guy one time I was working, you know, for my my he hired my company to do some work. I'm a builder, he's a builder. I knew him from Lakewood. He hired my company, and and I'm just gonna watch his construction. And as time went on, he just kept trying to get me to spend more time, more time. He's just trying to eat all my time up, didn't want to pay me more money. And uh, and and and so he said, Well, the concrete, you're gonna have to stay out here on the concrete. Uh when they pour that slab, if you leave, they leave. I said, Well, that's your problem. You need to hire a better concrete man that takes care of the concrete. I am not staying out here during dark 30. I've got an hour and a half drive home. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna get out here before daylight and come home after day. I'm just not doing it. You're not paying me that kind of money. So I refuse to do it. I mean, I'm gonna watch it while I'm there, but I'm not gonna spend all, I don't do that for myself. I hire a guy that I can depend on. Which he didn't. He had subs that were the worst subs you ever saw. So then the next stage, he said, Oh, would you go by this house? I've got some warranty work. It's a stairway. See what you can do to fix it. Stairway is loose. I said, Man, I don't want to go behind you. I know your subs and everything. I don't, what am I gonna do if it's wrong? I'm gonna tell them the truth. I am not gonna lie to them. Oh no, it's not, it's not major. He's making a big deal out of it, it's nothing major. And so I went over there to see the house. It's a two-story entry hall, and it's got this long stairway. Way, it goes way up, and you've got the handrail, you've got the starting nood at the bottom, you know, the starting post, and the handrail comes out of that, and balusters go up. And you can grab the hand, the nool at the bottom of the stairs and go like this. It is the crummiest, stupidest, most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in a new house. And I said, Man, this isn't right. This wasn't built right. This can't be made right. The only way to fix this is to tear the entire thing. Are y'all willing to have this all torn out and start over? That means you're gonna have to have the framing carpenter, the trim carpenter, the painter. It's gonna be a project. He said, We want it fixed. It's terrible, it's embarrassing. And besides that, we're concerned that one of the kids will fall, you know, fall and fall through it. It was just, I mean, the trim carpenter, what an idiot. He just set it on top of the step and toenailed it. You're supposed to cut a notch and sink it down in there. And you're, you know, there's a way to do it. And he didn't do it correctly. So I went back and I told him, he said, he got all mad. I said, well, then don't ever send me to your disaster areas. Go handle it yourself. I'm I told you I was gonna tell the truth, and that's the truth. You need to tear that thing out. If anybody sees that, your your reputation in this neighborhood is gonna be gone if it isn't already. He's a build-on-your lot guy. He would build a house on your lot. That was his his job. Well, you know, he went to Brother Osteen and complained to Brother Osteen about me and said that I wasn't doing my job. Did you think I turned the other cheap? Brother Osteen called me in his office and said, John, I got something to talk to you about. I got to complain about you. I said, Really? Yeah. Well, what is it? He told me. And I got mad. I said, Well, that's a bunch of poppycock. I said, he doesn't pay me enough to do all the stuff he wants me to do. And I gave him a couple examples. I said, I'll straighten him out. He said, John, I've never seen you like this. You're really mad, aren't you? I said, You better believe it. He's gonna feel the heat, too. See, I didn't, I mean, I didn't show that side to Pastor Osteen. That that pat I didn't need to. I mean, I'm his servant, I'm serving him, I'm assisting him, I'm all my attention's on him. I'm not talking about me. But then somebody comes in and lies and gives the wrong information. Impression. I, you know, you you have the right to answer and condemn the words against you. Hallelujah. And we did get it straight. Praise the Lord. He said, Oh, I'm sorry, John. I spoke out of turn. I was trying to impress Brother Osteen. I said, I told him that's what you were trying to do. All right, cry against uh unjust compensation, unjust war, attack, or accusation against injustice, sin, and wickedness. And of course, we know we have that. Go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it, for its wickedness has come up before me. And uh we've got uh wickedness in this city, we've got corruption in this city, we need a new county judge, we need we need a new mayor. I don't know if we have a chance to ever get a new mayor here. It's it's just very hard. The city is so blue, but we have a chance to get the county turned back, and we need to get the county turned back red, we have to. Because another, if we have another uh another one like uh uh you know, Lena, baby, uh it's gonna be tough. She's gone now. She's and and what was amazing, and Nice Parker didn't, she got beat. So this other lady is highly progressive. She is a train wreck. God can't remember her name. Uh Plumber. Oh, God. You don't want her. Orlando Sanchez is more of a moderate. He's not real conservative, but he's a better choice.

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We've got to have Orlando. We've got to have him. And uh and so we need to cry against sin and wickedness, corruption. Um we've over the years we've we've lifted up our voice against abortion, against sexual perversion, you know, the bathroom. They tried to get men and women's bathroom in Houston. We we acted against it, we put our money where our mouth was, we went and testified it at City Hall against it. And uh and so these are the kinds of things that the cry against is valuable, that we need to know where we stand when we when we do that. We need to know that we're on God's side and He's expecting us to take his part on earth. As it is in heaven, so it shall be on earth. Come on, lift your hands. The cry of against, the cry against, amen. Praise God. Did anybody get anything out of this? I rambled a little bit, but I have a perspective that's been uh decades in the making, and I go back and to our beginnings of all the things that we've cried against, and here we are 31 years later, and we're just entering into I believe the most fruitful part. I really believe between now and November we're going to see a groundswell of people that are waking up. I just really believe that. I I'm I'm I'm not negative about November. I'm just saying, look, we can't take it for granted. I mean, the fact they stole 20. I was just so confident that 2020 was going to be ours and they stole it. They stole it. We can't let them steal this one. We can't let them steal it. Let's leave lift our hands. Father, we thank you for the cry against. We thank you that we're anointed, that we're joined forces with you, Heavenly Father, and that we uh are committed to being on your side. We're gonna always look to you to find out your perspective on everything before we make decisions. Hallelujah.