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Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you’ll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.

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Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I’m your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, stick around. It’ll just be a short time of motivation, inspiration, education, like our friend Jack told you, and no manipulation. That’s right, we don’t con people. We’re not trying to hustle money. We’re not trying to sell you anything. We’re not trying to build a membership. We’re not trying to do anything but give you accurate information, not human speculation, accurate information that will allow you to verify and identify the plan of God for your life if you’re interested. So the Flotline has been airing for 17 years across America, almost 1,000 shows in our reserves. And by the way, you can listen to most of these shows online on any of the major podcast platforms, such as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor. They’re all available if you go on those podcast venues and just type in The Flock Line, you’ll find us. They’re all available for you. From 2012 until now, those shows are in the podcast library with over 500 lessons right now. I understand our staff is working hard to get them all there, but the daily podcasts are available. And we have a couple of new books at the printer. Practicing your Christianity is you learning how to be a spiritual superstar, one of God’s champions. The only way to do that is understand God’s game plan and practice by God’s rules. That will be available sometime later on this summer. And Bible Promises and Principles is a revised Bible promise book with more promises organized alphabetically by category. And this version will be easier for you to carry around and use on your personal use as well. All of this should be available in July. So if you’d like to request them now, you can do that through our website and we’ll make sure you get them when they become available. Today, I’d like to talk to you about something I feel very dear about. It’s called America… Under siege. America under siege. You and I know that this nation has been under attack by satanic forces for many, many years. And this attack has been against institutions such as marriage, family, nationalism, freedom. All of these have been under attack. Nationalism even as opposed to internationalism. But the ultimate objective of Satan, as you should know, and I know is to eventually shut down this client nation and limit the impact that we have across the world for the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, we do send missionaries out all over the world. We do guard the word of God and teach the word of God. And Satan is not happy with that. And he would like to shut down this great nation by doing away with these divine institutions. In a recent article printed in The Imprimis, which is a magazine published by Hillsdale College Publications, the author Christopher Ruffo pointed out a strategy that German Marxist Rudi Deutsch had printed years ago. He was a student activist back in the 60s. And it was called, the article was called The Long March Through the Institutions. Institutions, remember that word. And that concept dealt with capturing the culture, capturing the culture by infiltrating schools, infiltrating churches, infiltrating the media. And if you could do that, you could transform the conscious thinking of society and blend it or bend it the way you want them to go. So part of that satanic plot is to introduce guilt riddled society. and in effect teach what’s called human viewpoint as opposed to divine viewpoint or what the Word of God says. Thus, you can allow activists to shape the future culture of a guilt-riddled society and impose a government based on socialism and humanism, and thus you can say goodbye God, goodbye all the divine institutions that allow for freedom and prosperity and favor from God. So there we have it. It’s coming down the pipe. America is under siege. Now, you know, this is not a political show. I’m not one of those political guys that you hear on a radio all the time that have these great shows. And I’ll agree with many of them. But what I’m talking about is a spiritual attack. They don’t normally talk about a spiritual attack. They talk about the attack on your freedom, but this is a spiritual attack to do away with the impact of the client nation of America. You should know God has ordained four, that’s right, one, two, three, four divine institutions by which the human race can be preserved and perpetuated as an extension of the prehistoric angelic conflict. We are in a conflict. It’s the war that we call the angelic conflict. If you don’t know what that is, that is Satan trying to verify his freedom to vindicate himself, to get out from going to the lake of fire and to use you and me as leverage against God’s saying God has no love or he wouldn’t have sentenced me to go to the lake of fire. That’s not a very loving God, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So Satan, in this prehistoric angelic conflict, has always attacked freedom or volition, the right to choose, marriage, family, and nationalism. And of course, you know, the first attack on the marriage was in the Garden of Eden when Satan usurped the authority of Adam and was able to convince Eve through subterfuge that she could eat the forbidden fruit. Thus God has created what we know as authority in the soul. Authority in the soul. You have a soul. And I’m going to do a radio show about this. I hope you’ll be with me when I do it. I did a recent study in Texas called God’s Grace Under Aging. God’s Grace Under Aging, During Aging. And that’s available, by the way, on DVD or MP3 if you’d like to hear it. There’s four hours of it. And I taught it at Baraka Church in Houston, Texas, recently in May. But we talked a lot about the soul and how as you get older, the important thing is not necessarily the body because it’s getting broken down and decrepit and full of disease, but it’s the soul. The soul never gets old. So we know God created an authority called in the soul, and that authority is called volition. Volition. Listen to Genesis 2, 16 through 17. The Lord commanded the man saying this, quote now, every tree in the garden you may freely eat, but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you will not eat, for in the day that you eat from it, dying you will die. So he gave Adam a volitional decision, yes or no. There’s a test right there in the garden. Either you do it or you don’t do it. And we all know what happened in the issue of that is we inherited Adam’s original sin. Because the Bible says, for by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, and now death has passed upon all, for all have sinned and all have come short of the glory of God. You and I are heir to Adam’s original sin. Thus, we are born spiritually dead and need to be born again, made spiritually alive, and that’s salvation. So the issue is your volition, always. Your volition is your freedom for you to choose. God gives each one of us the freedom to choose for or against the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s your choice. In Revelation 22, 17, the Spirit and the bride both say, “‘Come,’ and let him that heareth say, “‘Come,’ And let him that is athirst to come, and whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely. Whosoever, God gives you and me and anyone the opportunity to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. In order for a nation like the American, America, USA, in order for us to have a client nation, in order for us to have international impact, there must be freedom for our citizens. and freedom to choose for or against Christ, freedom to vote as you want to vote, and freedom to attend the church of your choice. But remember this. This is something you need to mark it down, write it down, put it in your head, and remember it. The choices you make determine the life that you will lead. The choices you make determine the life that you lead. Satan made a choice in eternity past to assert the authority of God and to assume God’s throne. And you can see where it got him. You cannot afford to be stupid like that. You must make good decisions because bad decisions limit your future options. So in order to make the right choices, you must have right information. And that information for the believer, you and I, if you’re a Christian, if you’ve accepted Christ as your Savior, it’s called divine viewpoint. And as such, divine viewpoint must be learned from the Scripture. You don’t inherit it automatically. You learn it. That’s why the Bible says, study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. And I know that many people are not willing to commit that much to studying the Scriptures. But the Bible mandates that you grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and you cannot grow, you will never grow, until you study God’s word and get out of spiritual babyhood, become a spiritually mature believer. So you have to learn what is divine viewpoint. And once you learn divine viewpoint, then you will understand it as this is the will of God for my life. And these are the mandates in the scripture he gave me and he wants me to obey him. Thus, in my soul, I have a mentality. I have the ability to think, logic, reason, comprehend. My soul’s mentality has the ability to understand the will of God. And the volition that I have in my soul is the freedom to accept that will or to reject it. So the first divine institution that God ordains for all members of the human race is freedom, volitional freedom. God designed you to be free, not to be a little robot. God didn’t design you to be dictated over. He designed you to be free. And the second divine institution is what we know as marriage. a wonderful divine institution. Every person who marries for the right reason goes through essentially three steps. They go through what’s called the attraction stage. Wow, check that out. Isn’t he handsome? Isn’t she handsome? Wow, I’d like to get to know that person. The attraction stage, how did it happen with you? Do you remember when you first met your wife or your spouse and what attracted you to that person? And then once you go through the attraction stage, then you find out if you have compatibility. Do we think alike? And the Bible tells you don’t be unequally yoked together with unbelievers because what fellowship does light have with darkness? And many Christians ignore that. and they set themselves up for a life full of frustration because the unbeliever marries the believer, and the end result is confusion. So compatibility must be there, and eventually comes the romance. Last, not first, last. So we go through the attraction stage, the compatibility stage, and eventually the romance stage. So marriage. Once you decide to get married, and it’s a divine institution, God ordained it, it’s the union of opposites in the understanding of feelings and attitudes. Love is legitimate, God ordains it, and it’s motivation to communicate with one another. It takes more energy for you to communicate than it does to copulate. I hope you understand what I’m saying. Because in a marriage, there must be communication, understanding a person’s feelings and attitudes. So marriage for the Christian, you and I, is probably the most difficult, the most challenging place in the world. and the place of more failures than anything else in life, failure in marriage. And Satan does not want you to be married. He does not want marriage to succeed into the family. He doesn’t want the family to flourish into children that would follow the will of God by the parents’ teaching. So he attacks marriage. Marriage is designed as a divine institution, not only for believers, listen carefully now, but also for non-believers. marriage is a legitimate God ordained institution. Marriage is for believers and for non-believers. So any relationship in life has to be founded on principle, especially marriage. So if, if you want your marriage to continue, there must be an understanding of the principles that both you and your spouse live by, which we call divine viewpoint or Bible doctrine. You and I, we can’t build a marriage on human viewpoint, thinking human viewpoint application on philosophical writings. The only way we can build an enduring marriage that lasts forever. As long as you’re alive here is to know and apply the biblical principles that are needed for a sound, solid marriage, because marriages don’t fail just because of financial problems. They don’t fail because of unfaithfulness or other controversial things, but because believers, believers like you and I, we fail to execute the protocol plan of God, especially in the area of virtue love, impersonal love. Impersonal love is a problem-solving device for you and for I. It is problem-solving device number eight in the plot line of your soul. And it’s you having the ability to love the other person even though they’re not lovable. It’s you loving that person based on your character, not their character. Is this not what God did for you? Listen to what the Bible says, God so loved the world. Now what was there about you for God to love? You were a sinner. You were obnoxious and he loved you. He loved you before you even knew who he was. He loved you. This is an impersonal love for all members of the human race. And then once you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and come into God’s royal family, there’s personal love where God loves you as a member of the royal family. So personal love for God and impersonal love for others are two virtuous things you must understand in your life so that you can live by principle in order that you can have a great marriage because marriages are critical. There are three basic enemies to marriage. I would call them bitterness, jealousy, and anger. bitterness, jealousy, and anger. Anger represents all the emotional sins that you have in your mind. Emotional sins are sins that you commit in your mentality. It’s when you react instead of responding to unfavorable circumstances. Emotions are wonderful appreciators of the soul, but they are never designed to dictate policy to your soul. You can’t live by emotional policies. They will deceive you and distract you. So marriage has to be about more than just finding the right person. Marriage really has to be about you being the right person because a happy marriage is a long, long, long conversation that always seems just way too short. God’s motivation for creating the woman is found in Genesis 2, verse 18. Listen as I read it to you. Then Jehovah Elohim said, it is not good for the man to be alone, I will build or construct a helper corresponding to him of the same species. It is not good for man to be alone. Someone once said, man cannot live on bread alone. He must have peanut butter. Well, that’s what we’re talking about. Man can’t handle it alone. He needs a helper. He needs a corresponding person of the same species. Therefore, in grace, the Lord Jesus Christ manufactured this woman, Eshah, Esh for Adam and Eshah for the woman and brought her to him. So here’s some principles I want you to remember. Man is helpless to find this woman as he is to save himself. You can’t save yourself and you’re helpless about finding this woman. Therefore, are the woman finding the man? You can’t save yourself and you can’t find the right person with God’s help. Therefore, there must be the maximum function of what we call in a problem-solving device number three, the faith rest drill, standing on the promises of God. learning the word of God and waiting and being faithful to wait on God to reveal who the person is. Not to fall in love with the first mouthful of teeth you see, the first beautiful red lips you see, not the first big bulging biceps you see sticking out underneath that shirt. What you’re looking for is what does that person think? Do you have compatibility of souls? Because marriage was established in the Garden of Eden during what we call the first dispensation and God made it a divine institution when Adam and the woman were married by God, originally designed for two perfect people. Marriage has only changed in that there’s no longer anything like a perfect person because now we have our sin natures. So marriage is now designed for two imperfect people who have sin natures, having different sin nature trends. we really don’t make friends or select a wife based on compatibility of old sin natures. We don’t do that. If you’re doing that for compatibility of an old sin nature, it means as if you could be a friend today and fall out tomorrow and that’s the end of that old sin nature trends like sex, lust, power, lust, money, lust, attention, lust, motivation, things like this. You don’t build a relationship having the same lust patterns because marriage was not designed. Even in the beginning stage for people to be happy, it was designed for virtue. And virtue is designed for happiness. So the idea that marriage brings you happiness is a myth. When you combine the sin natures of two people together, you don’t necessarily have happiness. There is a way to be happy. The Bible tells you what that way is. Jesus Christ said it himself when he said, happiness belongs to those people who hear my father’s word and keep it. So happiness in marriage comes from true virtue, true virtue, personal love for God, impersonal love for others. And that virtue comes from you understanding, learning, using God’s problem-solving devices, the flat line on your soul. And this means that the greatest attack on this divine institution of marriage can come from Christian degeneracy. Now there’s a third divine institution called the family. God provided certain divine laws such as authority of parents to protect for, care for, nourish, provide, train, and discipline children for life. And parental authority is a way of preparing children for a normal life, and permissiveness destroys this. There has to be recognition of authority and orientation to certain principles in life. So the highest expression that any parent can show love to their child is to inculcate through that child the form of respect for authority by using discipline. They must be trained. They must be trained to respect the privacy and the property and the rights of other people and not to abuse the freedom of anyone else and to have total respect for authority. That’s essential. And no nation can survive until these children understand this. This is one of the problems today. I’ll show you in a minute. And the fourth divine institution is what we call nationalism. If the entire human race were under one rule prior to the millennium, it would indeed self-destruct. That’s why God outlaws internationalism in the Bible. It’s said to be evil by the word of God. So to perpetuate the human race and bring history to its logical conclusion, God designed a nation to protect the freedoms and the rights of X number of people on this planet. And we call it nationalism as opposed to internationalism. Internationalism, one language should be recognized. It says that in a nation, only one language should be recognized. Let me back that up just a minute. Let me clarify that. When you have nationalism, God sets up one language, English, for us in America. That’s what our nation is founded on. Learn to speak English if you want to live here. Come live here, fine. Come legally, fine, but learn to speak English. We don’t speak Spanish as our laws. We don’t speak whatever language it is. If you’re an American, learn to speak English. with the divine judgment of the original United nations at the tower of Babel, the human race was then divided into nations. And this division was originally based on racial, geographical, then linguistic norms. So God put people in Africa. God put people in South America. God put people in China. God put people in Russia. These are important things to understand. So As the human race continues in history, true racial distinctions were obliterated by the rise of civilization, and thus what we knew as racial purity began to be a myth, except in certain areas. And today, you and I both know that race is used by politicians to create false issues. The formation of what we know as a Jewish nation set up the perfect standard of what a national entity should be. And the biblical proof that nationalism is authorized by God is found in Genesis 10, 5, Deuteronomy 32, 8, and Acts 17, 26. So any nation who follows these norms and standards that I’m calling divine institutions, as my pastor taught me, they possess the following characteristics. They have interior protection of freedom provided through proper system of law. The rule of law must be enforced. Jurisprudence must be there in a system of law whereby each person is innocent until proven guilty and where only proper testimony is allowed and no hearsay is permitted and where double jeopardy does not exist. So the exterior protection, not interior, exterior protection comes through a well-prepared, very strong military system. So if you follow the trends of history in today’s society, you see each of these institutions being attacked. Freedom of volitional responsibility is attacking, for example, the China virus. That pandemic took away many of your freedoms and still does even today. When you are mandated, you must take that shot. You must wear this mask. You must do this. You must do that. Or you’re a criminal. You remember how that goes. Marriage has been under attack since the 70s with the advent of free love, no marriage responsibility, and the result is that good many young Americans find cohabitation acceptable rather than the marriage commitment. It’s the way it is today. Family discipline is almost null and void. Failure to establish respect for authority in the home is reflected in criminal activity in the streets of America today. And internationalism is being pushed rather than an autonomous nation standing strong and free alone. We had a former president that believed in nationalism and autonomy, free nation, America first, but that’s gone today. Internationalists are in charge and characterized by opposition to nationalism and characterized by opposition to isolationism. in favor of more things like international unions, you know, like the United Nations, globalism, one world government, and everything associated with it. So wake up, America. You are under siege, and that is to destroy these divine institutions. and remake you, change the way you think, as we started off with, that whole concept called the long march through society, that strategy, and you have to learn to think divine viewpoint, and that’s the only thing that’ll save us in the future. America is under siege. What can you do about it? Well, you can grow to spiritual maturity. You can become the person God intended for you to be, and that’s what the solution is to this whole problem. A lot more to say, not enough time to say it, but I promise you more to come. Thank you for listening to The Flatline. Thank you for being with me today. I hope you’ll return next week, same time, same place. Until then, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.

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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you’d like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.