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Allen Jackson - Why Israel Matters

July 2, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Why Israel Matters
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Why Israel Matters | July 2, 2026
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  • Female announcer: everywhere we turn, someone is telling us who
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  • We should be, how we should look, and what we
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  • Should believe.
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  • It's no wonder so many of us feel isolated, uncertain,
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  • Confused, and like we're not enough.
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  • But god has a different message.
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  • You are chosen, loved, accepted, and redeemed.
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  • And as you more fully understand how god sees you, it will change
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  • How you see yourself, how you see god, and how you live
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  • In "your identity in christ: 12 truths about who you are,"
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  • Discover your identity in him.
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  • Allen jackson: we're gonna pick up a study on why israel matters
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  • Because israel does matter, and i don't believe that you can
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  • Understand the bible, to be candid, if you don't have some
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  • Insight and understanding into the role of israel and the
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  • Jewish people.
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  • I think large sections of it will remain a mystery, or, at
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  • Least, you're easily manipulated.
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  • Well, i had planned--
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  • I--i'd known i wanted to do this for a bit and had been working
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  • On it.
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  • I thought, you know, finally, i have kind of just a nice little
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  • Polite bible study and i could get my maps out.
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  • I sat down to do our reading portion for the weekend, and i
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  • Read luke 12:56, which i put in your notes, "hypocrites."
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  • I'm like, oh, it's a little harsh.
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  • You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and
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  • The sky.
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  • How is it that you don't know how to interpret--" the older
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  • Translations sometimes say analyze "the present time?"
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  • Jesus is speaking, and he said, "how is it that you're better at
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  • Anticipating weather--
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  • You can look at the clouds and the direction of the wind and
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  • Have some some sense of what's next--
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  • But you do not have the ability to analyze the season in which
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  • You're living?"
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  • And i read it, and i read it again, and i thought, "oh, it's
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  • Not gonna fit neatly into my little thing.
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  • I got to revisit my outline, and the maps aren't gonna make
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  • The cut."
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  • You know, if i had to bring it back to our vernacular, the
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  • Wording we've been using lately, it's we have to watch and listen
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  • And think.
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  • And i don't really think we wanna do that, to be honest.
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  • We'd just rather not be bothered.
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  • We'd rather do what we wanna do and focus on what we wanna focus
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  • On and, you know, it'll work out.
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  • But we can't do that and imagine we're salt and light.
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  • And i read the passage again, but, you know, there really
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  • Isn't anything new under the sun.
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  • We struggle to read the signs.
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  • We read the ones that are convenient, and we miss the ones
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  • That aren't.
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  • I do that every time i go for a drive.
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  • Now, how many times you've been asked that question, right?
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  • "do you know how fast you were going?"
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  • "oh, i don't know.
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  • It's a mystery to me," you know.
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  • "do you know what the speed limit is?"
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  • "is there a speed limit?"
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  • I mean, you know, when it's not convenient, we have kind of a
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  • Convenient memory.
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  • And god is moving in the earth in an unprecedented way, in my
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  • Opinion, and there's tremendous confusion in the church.
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  • To be honest, i'm stunned at the capitulation of the church.
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  • Our reluctance to stand up for a biblical worldview and
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  • Judeo-christian values, but i think we've got to
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  • Pay attention.
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  • And i just thought i would start off by watching and listening
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  • And thinking with you a bit.
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  • And it is related to why israel matters, i promise, but there's
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  • So much happening at an unprecedented pace.
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  • And the most predictable constant that i can find in this
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  • Current post-inaugural season is that those who oppose president
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  • Trump will be loud and unrelenting in their opposition.
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  • Now, that really isn't new.
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  • We've been watching that for a lot of years now.
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  • But beyond politics or personal preference, the people who don't
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  • Agree with him have proven a willingness to tell any lie,
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  • Fabricate the most remarkable accusations, and then brazenly
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  • Repeat what they know to be totally false.
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  • And i've watched this charade long enough that even though the
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  • Present version, you pause and you think, "well, is
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  • That credible?"
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  • I go, "wait a minute, you have no credibility because you've
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  • Never repented or apologized or said, 'oh yeah, by the way, all
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  • That other stuff, that wasn't accurate.'"
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  • But the persistence, the volume, and the broad cooperation of the
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  • Legacy media makes it very difficult to interpret what's
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  • Truly happening.
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  • It isn't simple.
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  • I thought maybe just a few facts from history would be helpful.
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  • One of the things that these days is drawing intense
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  • Attention is doge and mr. musk.
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  • I don't know him personally, but as president trump announced
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  • Plans to restructure the federal government and remove entrenched
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  • Activist bureaucrats, the left has reacted with outrage.
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  • ...right?
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  • Many have claimed that such firings are an unprecedented
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  • Attack on the civil service.
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  • But actually history tells us a very different story.
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  • The blueprint for mass firings in the federal government was
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  • Not drafted by trump.
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  • It was authored by none other than president bill clinton.
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  • And i can give you just a few of the details.
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  • Bill clinton as president took drastic action when he
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  • Entered office.
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  • He fired many federal appointees and those reporting directly
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  • To them.
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  • He reached three levels deep into the management hierarchy of
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  • The federal government.
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  • It included upper level, mid-level, lower-level managers.
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  • Sweeping dismissals were unprecedented at that time in
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  • Modern history.
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  • The stated reason for those actions was to reform government
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  • And to make it more efficient.
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  • Under the guise of the 1993 reinventing government
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  • Initiative, clinton oversaw the termination of almost 380,000
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  • Federal employees.
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  • The initiative was led by tennessee's very own vice
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  • President al gore.
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  • And it was marketed as an effort to cut bureaucratic bloat.
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  • Clinton publicized that his administration reduced the
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  • Government payroll from 2.1 million employees to just about
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  • 1.7, almost 1.8, by the end of his term.
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  • However, while he claimed to be trimming the size of government,
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  • He was in, reality, expanding it dramatically.
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  • Again, what we're watching, at least the part we're watching
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  • Now, is not new.
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  • Rather than actually reducing the government's reach, clinton
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  • Tripled its size by shifting millions of jobs to
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  • Government contractors.
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  • The maneuver allowed his administration to hide the true
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  • Expansion of government within the bureaucracy.
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  • And the workforce under his administration grew from 2.1
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  • Million to 9.1 million.
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  • The restructuring was the foundation of what has become
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  • The deep state, an unelected bureaucratic class that
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  • Exercises significant influence over government operations,
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  • Often in opposition to elected leaders who challenge the
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  • Status quo.
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  • It's the same entity which trump is now attempting to confront
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  • Was a product of clinton's drastic reshaping of the
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  • Federal workforce.
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  • So it isn't unprecedented.
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  • It isn't unheard of.
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  • It isn't unknown.
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  • It's very much a part of the contemporary practice
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  • Of government.
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  • And our government is bloated.
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  • They spend billions of dollars on ideology and worldview.
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  • When i was in jerusalem last summer, as you approached the
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  • Consulate, the american consulate, the most prominent
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  • Visual was an enormous pride banner.
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  • They wouldn't have allowed you to flown a christian flag, but
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  • They'll take the worldview they're spending billions of our
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  • Tax dollars for and advocate for their worldview.
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  • I think as the debate over federal employment rages on,
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  • It's important to remember who first wielded the ax.
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  • Trump may be making headlines for firing government employees,
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  • But he's merely following in the footsteps with the one who did
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  • The masterclass--bill clinton.
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  • The department of education was in the news this week.
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  • God bless that man.
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  • It's a cabinet-level department that was founded by president
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  • Jimmy carter in 1980.
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  • I think the average american thinks it began in 1776.
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  • It's a relatively new insertion into the cabinet level
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  • Departments of our government.
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  • The expressed goal was to close the gap between students
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  • Performing at lower levels with the students who were
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  • Achieving higher.
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  • They've been successful.
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  • Now, everybody's at the lower level.
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  • What a colossal failure.
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  • Our educational system, by almost every metric, we're
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  • Spending more money than we've ever spent,
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  • And the outcomes are diminished.
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  • The department was a formation under president carter
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  • As a response for the help from the teachers unions
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  • During his election.
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  • It remains today a stronghold of power for the teachers unions,
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  • And the children have suffered to the point that in the
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  • Current--in the past year, the president of the teachers unions
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  • Said they were the primary authority over the education of
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  • The children, not parents.
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  • Talk about a bloated imagination of your role.
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  • Education must be reimagined.
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  • And i would submit to you, especially at the university
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  • Levels, it has failed.
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  • And then israel, remember we're reading signs.
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  • I went home this week, and i knew mr. president trump was
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  • Gonna have a news conference with the prime minister of
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  • Israel, but how many of those have we seen?
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  • And i was just kind of moderately interested.
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  • So the television was on, i wasn't pay much attention, and
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  • They did the introductions.
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  • And then i heard president trump say, "the united states is going
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  • To get involved in gaza."
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  • Well, please, understand that statement is a major shift in
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  • The discussion of israeli and mideast peace discussions.
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  • But what he did was acknowledge the obvious.
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  • What he said is so plain, you have to be so distracted to
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  • Miss it.
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  • He said, "the pattern of the last 70 years is a failure."
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  • No duh!
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  • I mean, israel has been vilified; more than half the
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  • Motions in the un deal with the nation of israel,
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  • Tiny little israel.
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  • They've been vilified by the nations of the world, far
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  • Too frequently our own, suggesting that they were the
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  • Problem in the middle east.
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  • Allen: hey, i wanna ask you a question.
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  • How do you identify: male, female, southerner,
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  • Educated, housewife?
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  • How do you identify?
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  • Well, i wanna suggest knowing your identity in christ is the
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  • Most significant component of your person for both
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  • Time and eternity.
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  • We put together a resource. it's a new booklet.
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  • It'll help you understand who you are in christ, your identity
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  • In the kingdom of god, and what the implications of that are for
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  • Your life today.
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  • It's a game changer.
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  • I believe it'll be a blessing to you and to your family.
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  • Female announcer: every day the world tries to define who we
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  • Are, what we should believe, and whether we're enough, but god's
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  • Word tells a different story.
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  • In pastor allen's new book, "your identity in christ: 12
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  • Truths about who you are," he shares biblical truths that will
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  • Help you recognize who you are in christ.
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  • Allen: and you may or may not know that, in 2017, then
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  • President barack obama gave $300 million to the palestinians for
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  • The construction of concrete production facilities.
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  • Now, we don't have the work orders that have "tunnel"
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  • Printed on them, but it's hard to imagine all that concrete
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  • That's gone into the tunnels of gaza was completely separate
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  • From the us's provision.
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  • If that isn't sufficient, this is a matter of record.
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  • President obama, just before leaving office, delivered 50
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  • Billion, with a b, dollars in cash to iran.
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  • They flew it in palletized, and that's according to facebook's
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  • Fact checkers.
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  • But get this: without congressional approval.
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  • Because he said, "it wasn't part of a treaty, and it didn't
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  • Require congressional oversight."
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  • Just a casual awareness to what's happening demands that
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  • Gaza be reimagined.
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  • The two-state solution is unacceptable.
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  • It has failed.
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  • I saw the videos.
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  • They abused wives and daughters while their husbands watched.
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  • And then they murdered the husbands as the wives and
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  • Daughters watched.
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  • They set babies on fire.
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  • You can't repopulate that.
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  • They've held hostages for over a year.
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  • When they're released, they're emaciated.
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  • It's going to require a different solution.
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  • I don't imagine that the us ends up with a territorial commitment
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  • In gaza.
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  • But i do believe we have to have the courage to say the
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  • Two-state solution has failed.
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  • Millions of syrians left syria because of a syrian civil war,
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  • And they have found homes in europe and other places of the
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  • Middle east.
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  • I believe there has to be a more effective solution.
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  • Israel's sovereignty over the west bank of the jordan river is
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  • A biblical step forward.
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  • You know, as you're watching and praying, you've got to think,
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  • And you have to think beyond the loud noise that is pumped at us.
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  • We have leaders who are willing to stand up and say, "there are
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  • Two genders and can be identified at birth."
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  • That's not only good science, that's good theology.
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  • They're willing to identify the distinctions between men and
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  • Women, not greater or lesser, we're just different, that we
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  • Shouldn't compete in athletics, that it has an impact on the
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  • Military, that our military isn't a social experiment.
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  • Their job is to win wars,
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  • That education should be to educate children, not
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  • Indoctrinate them with propaganda,
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  • That dei is ungodly and wicked.
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  • Judging people by their appearance is unacceptable.
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  • It's not a biblical principle.
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  • But the challenge, and it's a real challenge, is that, if the
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  • Politicians are the only voices that say it, it will be as
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  • Reversed more quickly than you can imagine, and what happens
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  • Will be far more severe than what was faced previously.
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  • For those ideas to gain traction and to take root, it requires
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  • The people of faith to acknowledge that they have a
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  • Biblical foundation
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  • And to use our voices and our influences to be advocates
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  • For that.
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  • And we're reluctant.
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  • We don't want to lose friends, we hear the noise, we see
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  • The pushback.
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  • And so we be quiet.
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  • And if we do, i believe, we will face the judgment.
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  • I don't want politicians to have more courage than those of us
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  • Who say we're people of faith.
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  • It's a very important season to pay attention and to stay
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  • Grounded in your bible.
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  • If you're not reading your bible, it's impossible.
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  • It's just impossible.
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  • Because we have drifted for decades so far off course, i'm
  • 00:17:53.364 --> 00:17:57.468
  • Not sure we even recognize the narrow path and the narrow gate.
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  • We've convinced ourselves that we can lead immoral lives and
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  • Ungodly lives, and god will shrug his shoulders.
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  • Folks, he won't.
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  • We've convinced ourselves that grace trumps justice, and
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  • It doesn't.
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  • We've convinced ourselves that judgment is only for somebody
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  • Else, that it won't come to us, and so we've welcomed to our
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  • Kitchen tables and our holiday tables ungodly behaviors and
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  • Ungodly activities, and then we chase it with the line, "well,
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  • They're saved."
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  • If you're leading an ungodly life, what is the evidence?
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  • The recitation of a prayer?
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  • I don't want to face eternity with that and i don't want
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  • Anyone that i care about to face eternity with that.
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  • It's a very important time for the church.
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  • It's an exciting time.
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  • It meets most of the definitions i know for biblical expressions
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  • Of renewal, or awakening.
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  • Times of change, times of upheaval, times of turmoil,
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  • Times of division--
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  • The gospels are filled with it, and it follows right through the
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  • Letters of the new testament.
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  • I happen to believe we're moving in a--living through a time when
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  • The spirit of god is moving profoundly.
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  • And i want to move with him.
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  • So let's pick up this notion.
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  • Israel is going to be in the news a bit.
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  • And you will hear all sorts of bellicose blubbering.
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  • You want to have a biblical perspective, and that's what i'd
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  • Like to take a few minutes to try to help you establish a bit
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  • Of why israel matters and, particularly, to those who
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  • Are christians.
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  • I think the first and the most significant principle is that
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  • The jewish people, the nation of israel, are a chosen people,
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  • Chosen by god.
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  • Many, many ways we could unpack that far beyond the scope of
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  • This session, but in the new testament, the word "israel"
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  • Occurs 77 times.
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  • And those words are never applied to the church.
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  • The word "jew" occurs 75 times in the old testament and 188
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  • Times in the new testament.
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  • Just as a matter of comparison, the word "christian" appears
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  • Three times in the new testament.
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  • It gives you some sense, it's not the only evidence, but it
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  • Gives you just a bit of perspective of the significance
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  • God attaches to the people in the nation of israel.
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  • And i think probably the first step in understanding that is
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  • That they are a unique people.
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  • There's just no one else like them in history, in god's
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  • Economy, in god's relationship with adam and his descendants.
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  • The jewish people were chosen.
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  • They're unique.
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  • Look at 1 chronicle 17.
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  • This is king david's prayer.
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  • He said, "there is no one like you, o lord, and there's no god
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  • But you, as we have heard with our own ears.
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  • And who is like your people israel--the one nation on earth
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  • Whose god went out to redeem a people for himself, and to make
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  • A name for yourself, and to perform great and awesome
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  • Wonders by driving out nations from before your people, whom
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  • You redeemed from egypt?
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  • You made your people israel your very own forever, and you, o
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  • Lord, have become their god."
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  • Now, again, a very straightforward passage, some
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  • Simple observations.
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  • God chose israel.
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  • They didn't choose him.
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  • He chose them.
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  • Israel is not like all the other nations.
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  • They weren't in the beginning of the book, and they are
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  • Not today.
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  • God established with them, in the words we just read, an
  • 00:21:48.532 --> 00:21:51.535
  • Everlasting covenant, or agreement.
  • 00:21:51.535 --> 00:21:53.904
  • It's the strongest word for commitment in all of scripture,
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  • Old testament or new--"covenant."
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  • It's the most binding agreement that god can make with humanity.
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  • When we pray, we don't pray for israel as if she were like all
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  • The other nations.
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  • See, i have discovered something in my journey is that the most
  • 00:22:13.090 --> 00:22:16.594
  • Effective prayers we pray, the most powerful prayers we pray,
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  • Are when we pray in alignment with the word of god.
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  • It's why we will often pray prayers that are just taken
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  • From scripture.
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  • We wanna add the authority of our voice, and there is an
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  • Authority, a spiritual authority, in your voice, but
  • 00:22:31.275 --> 00:22:33.911
  • You wanna add your voice to agreeing with what god has said
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  • He will do.
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  • Well, when we pray for israel, we want to pray in alignment
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  • With the word of god,
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  • Not the alignment of the un or a politician or a party or
  • 00:22:46.190 --> 00:22:51.562
  • An ideology.
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  • I'm pretty certain that the archangels don't have a meeting
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  • In heaven and go, you know, "do you think the un will get
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  • It right?"
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  • There are some distinct features with regard to the jewish people
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  • In the nation of israel that the scripture gives us in exodus 19
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  • And verse 5, it says, "if you fully obey me and keep my
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  • Covenant, out of all the nations you'll be my
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  • Treasured possession.
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  • Although the whole earth is mine, you'll be for me a kingdom
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  • Of priests and a holy nation.
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  • These are the words you're to speak to the israelites."
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  • It's what god says to moses.
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  • There is no other nation on the earth today, nor has there ever
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  • Been, to whom god has ever spoken those words.
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  • Imagine if it said that about the united states or middle
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  • Tennessee or your tribe.
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  • But it doesn't.
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  • One of the things that is distinctive about the jewish
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  • People is the messiah, the savior of all humanity, came
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  • Through the jewish people.
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  • Our lord and savior is an observant jewish rabbi.
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  • Look at romans chapter 9 and verse 4, "the people of israel,
  • 00:24:10.174 --> 00:24:15.479
  • Theirs is the adoption as sons, theirs is the divine glory," and
  • 00:24:15.479 --> 00:24:20.217
  • This was new testament, if you're paying close attention,
  • 00:24:20.217 --> 00:24:24.889
  • "the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the
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  • Law, the temple worship and the promises.
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  • Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human
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  • Ancestry of christ, who is god over all, forever praised!
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  • Amen."
  • 00:24:40.404 --> 00:24:42.039
  • Again, god adopted them as a nation.
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  • The divine glory--that means the manifest presence of god--was
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  • With israel as long as they walked in obedience to him.
  • 00:24:51.549 --> 00:24:56.587
  • Sometimes in the most significant ways, pillars of
  • 00:24:56.587 --> 00:25:00.357
  • Cloud and pillars of fire, the parting of the sea, the
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  • Provision of manna.
  • 00:25:03.561 --> 00:25:07.798
  • You see, we talk about the power of god and the miracles of god
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  • And the presence of god.
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  • But the pattern for that is what god did with that
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  • Covenant people.
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  • Our imagination of what the glory of god looks like is
  • 00:25:20.978 --> 00:25:23.948
  • Derived from what we saw god do in the midst of the jewish
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  • People, the nation of israel.
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  • The covenants, all the biblical covenants are with israel.
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  • Allen: there's a lot of fear in the church these days because we
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  • Recognize, intuitively, if we haven't recognized it
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  • Consciously, that the world has changed.
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  • The way we practiced our faith two or three years ago isn't
  • 00:25:42.766 --> 00:25:45.169
  • Sufficient for what's before us right now.
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  • Don't be frightened by that.
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  • Ask the lord to give you an understanding heart.
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  • We've got to learn to see in some new ways so we can respond
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  • With boldness and courage.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, i pray you'll give us new courage, new eyes to see,
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  • New understanding hearts that we may respond with great faith to
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  • What you're doing in the earth.
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  • I thank you for it.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: hey, i'm really excited about our newest publication.
  • 00:26:14.632 --> 00:26:17.234
  • It's called "your identity in christ."
  • 00:26:17.234 --> 00:26:18.769
  • It's a booklet, small book intended to help you understand
  • 00:26:18.769 --> 00:26:22.006
  • Who you are in christ, straightforward, grounded in
  • 00:26:22.006 --> 00:26:24.775
  • Scripture, but i help people take steps towards
  • 00:26:24.775 --> 00:26:27.678
  • Spiritual freedom.
  • 00:26:27.678 --> 00:26:29.046
  • The most essential component is helping them understand who they
  • 00:26:29.046 --> 00:26:32.149
  • Are in christ.
  • 00:26:32.149 --> 00:26:33.617
  • You know, we're walking through a season where there's
  • 00:26:33.617 --> 00:26:35.152
  • Tremendous cultural confusion, so much dialogue about how
  • 00:26:35.152 --> 00:26:38.756
  • We identify.
  • 00:26:38.756 --> 00:26:40.224
  • Folks, understanding who you are in christ, the price that was
  • 00:26:40.224 --> 00:26:43.694
  • Paid to give you status in the kingdom of god, it will write a
  • 00:26:43.694 --> 00:26:47.798
  • Future for you that is not dependent upon your family of
  • 00:26:47.798 --> 00:26:50.968
  • Origin, your life circumstance, the expressions of evil that
  • 00:26:50.968 --> 00:26:54.238
  • You've had to overcome.
  • 00:26:54.238 --> 00:26:55.873
  • In christ jesus we are triumphant, both in
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  • Time and for all eternity.
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  • We put this little booklet together.
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  • It'll help you. you can read it.
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  • You can do it as a small group.
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  • It's easy to share the message with children or grandchildren.
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  • Make this a part of this season in your life and in your home
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  • And with your friends.
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  • It's a game changer.
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  • ♪♪♪
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