The Essential Church | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Transcript

00:00 God's truth is enduringly true throughout all the generations.

00:06 It transcends culture.

00:08 The church is always going to be an embattled people.

00:13 If it's swimming with the tide, it's not being the church of Jesus Christ.

00:18 Look to the past, learn from the past, because the whole world lies in the power of the evil

00:24 one.

00:25 China has more than 200 confirmed cases of coronavirus, it's called.

00:29 The entire state of California ordered to stay at home, that's 41.

00:32 California has some of the strictest policies, leveled against churches.

00:35 Gavin Newsom's executive order threatens jail time and a $1,000 a day fine.

00:40 Government stopping people from going to church, Dr. Fauci.

00:43 When I went into the White House, when I sat in on the task force meetings, was a shocking

00:48 level of gross incompetence.

00:51 Mortality rate from the virus was 0.2%, you know, 99.8% survival, rather than the 3 or

00:57 4% mortality that the people were saying at the time.

00:59 The culture and the understanding of the people of Grace Church has always been, not only

01:03 do you obey government, but you honor government.

01:07 Thousands of people in the streets, but you can't have church?

01:11 The hypocrisy of letting people riot, it helped us all understand one thing, this is not what

01:16 they say it is.

01:17 By meeting, we're testifying the government has no jurisdiction here.

01:21 I was arrested and driven to a maximum security prison.

01:27 The government has obviously turned up the heat on churches.

01:35 When the churches fall silent, the only religion left is the state.

01:41 We needed to make a biblical statement, because we always put ourselves under the authority

01:47 of the word of God.

01:48 LA County threatened Pastor John MacArthur with jail time and arrest.

01:54 We were going to be sued.

01:56 They wanted Grace Church shut down.

01:59 We wanted to go on the offensive and attack the health order as unconstitutional.

02:05 This wasn't about health and safety, this was all about control and opposition to religious

02:11 freedom.

02:12 As the government gets more corrupt and more corrupt, snitches get rewards.

02:18 Its totalitarian control has to increase.

02:21 You have to have a mask on.

02:23 And as they shut down any attacks against them, this is not about freedom or personal

02:29 choice.

02:30 The last thing standing is going to be the church.

02:33 [music]

02:34 [music]

02:39 (thunder rumbling)

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