Allen Jackson - Breakthrough... Looting America (Part 1)

December 31, 2024 | S

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  • Allen jackson: we're walking through a series under the
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  • General theme of "breakthroughs."
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  • Interventions, god's interventions in our lives.
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  • Those times where god steps into time and makes a difference in
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  • Our experience.
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  • I don't believe that we can fulfill god's intended purpose
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  • For our lives without his breakthroughs.
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  • I don't believe there's any such thing as a faithful christian
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  • Disciple who isn't engaged with the supernatural power of god.
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  • Because we can't fulfill what god created us for with our own
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  • Intellect and our own strength and our own intended efforts.
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  • We need breakthroughs.
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  • We need god's interventions.
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  • And we--the bible's filled with them from cover to cover.
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  • I won't take the time to highlight all of them, but you
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  • Know the characters.
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  • They're your heroes.
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  • When god recruited moses, he was a murderer and a failure on the
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  • Backside of the desert and there's an intervention, but the
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  • Real breakthrough is god said, "i'm gonna deliver my people,
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  • The hebrew people, from egyptian slavery.
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  • They've been there 400 years."
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  • They didn't have the power, the military.
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  • They didn't have the votes.
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  • They didn't have the finances.
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  • They didn't have any advocates.
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  • They had no way out of the place where they were and god showed
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  • Up and said, "i have seen their condition and i'm here to set
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  • Them free.
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  • And moses, i'm sending you."
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  • And you know that moses wasn't overly enthusiastic about the
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  • Assignment, but it was a breakthrough.
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  • It wasn't easy.
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  • It wasn't comfortable.
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  • Some of you prefer the new testament on the road
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  • To damascus.
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  • Paul--saul of tarsus met one jesus of nazareth.
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  • At that time, saul was an angry, violent, murderous man.
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  • He hated people who said jesus was the messiah and he met
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  • That messiah.
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  • It was a breakthrough, but it changed everything about
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  • His life.
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  • You see those divine intervention, those times when
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  • God intervenes in our lives, those breakthrough moments are
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  • Not simply to alleviate pain or to reverse a diagnosis or to
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  • Open a monetary opportunity.
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  • They may do all of those things, but they're really intended to
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  • Open our lives more fully and completely to the purposes
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  • Of god.
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  • To change the trajectory of our existence.
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  • To help us realign values and goals and perspectives.
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  • See, the traditional--and it often flourishes in pulpits.
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  • The traditional idea of a breakthrough is we have a
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  • Problem, we ask god to help, and we want him to solve our
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  • Problems so we can go back to whatever we were doing before we
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  • Asked god to help.
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  • And that, truthfully, is not a great blessing.
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  • It might be a blessing in the moment.
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  • It might be victory over a diagnosis or some form of
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  • Provision, but ultimately you want to cooperate with god
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  • More completely.
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  • And so, when we talk about breakthroughs, we're trying to
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  • Understand the components so that we could cooperate with
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  • Them more fully in our lives because folks, we need
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  • A breakthrough.
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  • We're in a desperate place.
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  • In this session, i want to talk specifically about the looting
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  • That's taking place in america.
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  • But i want to do it in the context of a breakthrough, a
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  • Deliverance, a revelation, insight, understanding,
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  • A redirection.
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  • When god's purposes and plans are initiated, when they're
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  • Completed, when they're revealed, when they're advanced,
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  • When they're welcomed, when they're understood.
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  • Not that idealistic thing where we just get the answer we want
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  • And we can continue to do whatever we want.
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  • Life is very seldom ideal.
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  • It's often more challenging.
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  • And i want to start with a biblical perspective that i
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  • Don't hear it discussed a great deal.
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  • I don't think it's anything unique to us, but this notion of
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  • Looting, plundering could be understood in a biblical context
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  • In a different way as the judgment of god.
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  • It's a consistent, persistent theme of scripture from the
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  • Old testament right into the new testament--
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  • That when god begins to discipline his people, his
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  • Protection is not there and they begin to forfeit things he
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  • Intends them to have.
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  • If you want it in a spiritual language, satan, the devil,
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  • Steals the blessings that god intends for his people.
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  • If you want to evaluate it in a secular term, they're plundered
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  • By more powerful people--
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  • People with superior technology,
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  • People who make better choices.
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  • However you choose to describe it, whether you do it
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  • Spiritually or in a secular way, the outcome is the people of god
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  • Are diminished frequently, incrementally, bit by bit, the
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  • Idea being that they will turn their faces to the lord and say,
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  • "we need help."
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  • I brought you some examples.
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  • Again, this is a common part of scripture.
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  • We see it on the national basis, not the individual, not just the
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  • Individual basis or the tribal basis.
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  • Israel or judah often are presented in scripture as a
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  • Vassal state subjugated to another nation.
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  • It's an expression of god's judgment.
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  • It's not a failure of their military.
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  • It's not an economic downturn that makes them vulnerable.
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  • It's not the location of the land that god promised them.
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  • I assure you god is capable of providing and protecting israel
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  • Even though the land they occupy makes them seem vulnerable.
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  • Modern history is a great example of that.
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  • Most improbably tiny israel flourishes today in the midst of
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  • Hundreds of millions of people who are sworn to
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  • Their annihilation.
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  • God is the only explanation.
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  • Well, it's true in history as well.
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  • So, when the looting begins, it's an expression of
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  • God's judgment.
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  • It is not principally about military might or
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  • Political maneuverings.
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  • There are many accounts of god delivering his people in the
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  • Face of overwhelming odds.
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  • It's the story of scripture.
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  • David and goliath.
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  • I mean, it's almost a limitless number of stories.
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  • Defeat is typically an expression of discipline.
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  • It's very important to get these ideas grounded.
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  • They're gonna support everything we're gonna look at for the next
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  • Few minutes.
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  • This incremental decline, the looting of the purposes of god
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  • For a people is not an expression of a
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  • Superior adversary.
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  • It is an expression of disobedience in the hearts of
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  • God's people that brings his judgment.
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  • I can give you some examples in the book of judges chapter 4.
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  • You have it in your notes.
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  • "after ehud died," he would have been a leader in israel, "the
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  • Israelites once again did evil in the eyes of the lord."
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  • These are the covenant people of god.
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  • They keep sabbath and keep kosher.
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  • They celebrate passover.
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  • They have lots of religious activities and religious rules
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  • And religious behaviors, but it says, "they did evil."
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  • Did you know you can sit in church and do evil?
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  • Look at the person on your right--no, don't do that.
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  • The israelites once again did evil in the eyes of the lord.
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  • "so the lord sold them into the hands of jabin, a king
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  • Of canaan.
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  • He reined in hazor.
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  • The commander of his army was sisera, who lived somewhere.
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  • And because he had nine hundred iron chariots and had cruelly
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  • Oppressed the israelites for twenty years, they cried to the
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  • Lord for help."
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  • For 20 years, they suffered.
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  • Not because someone had superior military technology.
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  • He did.
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  • He had iron chariots.
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  • It gave him an advantage in the flatlands and the plains and
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  • The valleys.
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  • But it wasn't his technical advantage that gave him the
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  • Authority over the people.
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  • It was the fact that they did evil in the eyes of the lord, so
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  • God sold them into the hands of jabin.
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  • God's people were being looted.
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  • Same book, the book of judges chapter 6.
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  • "again the israelites did evil in the eyes of the lord,
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  • And for seven years he gave them into the hands
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  • Of the midianites."
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  • God did that.
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  • See, disobedience is not arbitrary.
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  • We think we got away with it.
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  • There wasn't a lightning bolt.
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  • We think we can be immoral and ungodly and greedy and filled
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  • With all sorts of things that we're not necessarily proud of
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  • And we think there's no consequence, but the bible very
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  • Clearly tells us that god is the judge of all and his judgment
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  • Isn't just for eternity.
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  • It's not just a judgment of destination--heaven or hell.
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  • He judges our actions in our lives, both in time in history,
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  • And then he will judge them out of time.
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  • The israelites did evil in the eyes of the lord.
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  • Again, these are the covenant people of god.
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  • They're going to worship, they're going to temple, they're
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  • Offering sacrifices.
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  • And god gave them into the hands of the midianites, "because the
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  • Power of midian was so oppressive, the israelites
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  • Prepared shelters for themselves in mountain cliffs,
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  • Caves, strongholds.
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  • Whenever the israelites planted their crops, the midianites and
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  • Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country.
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  • They camped on the land.
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  • They ruined the crops.
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  • They didn't spare a living thing for israel, neither sheep nor
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  • Cattle nor donkeys."
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  • What are they doing?
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  • They're looting the country.
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  • Every year at harvest time, these foreign peoples would
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  • Invade and take the plunder.
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  • They would loot the country.
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  • Why did they do that?
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  • Because god gave it into their hands.
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  • 1 kings, there's a monarchy now.
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  • There's a king. there's an army.
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  • You would think there's a new power structure, perhaps they
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  • Will be free of that.
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  • "in the fifth year of king rehoboam boam, the king of egypt
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  • Attacked jerusalem.
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  • He carried off the treasures of the temple of the lord and the
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  • Treasures of the royal palace.
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  • He took everything, including all the gold shields solomon
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  • Had made.
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  • So the king made bronze shields to replace them and assigned
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  • These to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to
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  • The royal palace."
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  • Israel becomes a vassal state of egypt in the egyptian kingdom.
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  • The temple in jerusalem was the national bank.
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  • It's the national treasury.
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  • It's why there was such an ostentatious display of wealth.
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  • It's the center of the country, an the egyptian king sees it
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  • And he takes away--he loots the temple.
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  • It's the most humiliating thing you could do to the people.
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  • They believe what gives them status and standing is the
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  • Presence of god in their midst and the egyptian king, the pagan
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  • King, loots the temple of god and the response of the king of
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  • Judah is to make bronze shields.
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  • Nothing to see here.
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  • It's not just an old testament idea.
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  • When the new testament opens and the gospels begin, israel is
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  • Still a vassal state.
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  • In matthew, mark, luke, and john, during the days of jesus,
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  • It's not a vassal state to egypt or assyria or babylon, they're a
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  • Vassal state to rome.
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  • And once again, it's because of the condition of their heart.
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  • God sent jesus.
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  • Jesus said, "i came to seek and to save those who are lost."
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  • He came on a search and rescue mission.
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  • And do you remember what the response of the people was?
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  • They stood in the streets of jerusalem and said,
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  • "crucify him."
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  • Be careful, because when jesus comes back the second time, the
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  • World will be in such a desperate place, on the brink of
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  • Total destruction.
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  • And he will come back on another search and rescue mission.
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  • When the lord returns, you and i won't look up and go, "oh, it's
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  • Nice to have you back."
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  • The answer will be, "without your arrival, survivability was
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  • Not possible."
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  • The new testament, you've got it.
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  • Romans chapter 1, it says, "god gave them over," his covenant
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  • People, "he gave them over in the sinful desires of their
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  • Hearts to immorality, to the degrading of their bodies.
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  • And they exchanged the truth of god for a lie.
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  • God gave them over."
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  • He repeats it twice.
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  • Acts chapter 7, it's talking about that exodus generation,
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  • But it's the new testament.
  • 00:12:44.746 --> 00:12:46.080
  • They're helping us understand our scripture.
  • 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:47.849
  • If you look at verse 42, it says, "god turned away and gave
  • 00:12:47.849 --> 00:12:51.252
  • Them over to the worship of the heavenly bodies."
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  • You see, when we see looting begin, what we can understand--
  • 00:12:55.490 --> 00:12:58.760
  • You watch the behavior, the diminishment of resources, the
  • 00:12:58.760 --> 00:13:01.863
  • Diminishment of liberties, the diminishment of opportunities.
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  • We recognize that the protection that's been in place, the
  • 00:13:06.201 --> 00:13:08.636
  • Provision that has been in place has diminished.
  • 00:13:08.636 --> 00:13:11.105
  • It's been withdrawn.
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  • It's not as available.
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  • It isn't a political issue.
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  • It's not an economic circumstance.
  • 00:13:16.077 --> 00:13:18.079
  • It's a spiritual issue.
  • 00:13:18.079 --> 00:13:20.648
  • It's being worked out in those arenas, but it begins with the
  • 00:13:20.648 --> 00:13:24.252
  • Attitude of the people of god.
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  • It's not about the technical superiority of the ungodly.
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  • It's the withdrawal of the hearts of the people of god.
  • 00:13:31.025 --> 00:13:35.363
  • The outcome of looting, if i can use the word, john chapter 10,
  • 00:13:35.363 --> 00:13:38.633
  • These are jesus's words.
  • 00:13:38.633 --> 00:13:40.068
  • He said, "the thief," satan, "comes only to steal, to kill,
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  • And to destroy; i've come that you might have life, and have
  • 00:13:44.239 --> 00:13:47.976
  • It abundantly."
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  • When life is abundant and opportunities are flourishing,
  • 00:13:49.344 --> 00:13:51.946
  • There's a cooperation with the lord.
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  • It's the biblical model.
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  • When the looting begins, we understand that god has
  • 00:13:55.283 --> 00:13:59.454
  • Stepped back.
  • 00:13:59.454 --> 00:14:00.822
  • His people have walked out from under his protection.
  • 00:14:00.822 --> 00:14:04.459
  • "well, pastor, what about god's grace and mercy?"
  • 00:14:04.459 --> 00:14:07.528
  • That's why we use the word looting.
  • 00:14:07.528 --> 00:14:10.331
  • It's incremental.
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  • It's bit by bit.
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  • It starts in small ways that you can overlook.
  • 00:14:14.369 --> 00:14:18.606
  • You could maybe find a way to be distracted and think it's not
  • 00:14:18.606 --> 00:14:21.809
  • That significant.
  • 00:14:21.809 --> 00:14:23.144
  • If you don't pay attention, ultimately it ends in the
  • 00:14:23.144 --> 00:14:25.313
  • Destruction of jerusalem and the destruction of the temple and 70
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  • Years living in a foreign land as slaves.
  • 00:14:28.583 --> 00:14:34.022
  • The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and destroy.
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  • I've taken a minute with that because i want to take the next
  • 00:14:36.691 --> 00:14:40.361
  • Segment and talk a bit about what we're watching around us.
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  • I believe we are witnessing the looting of america.
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  • And i don't imagine it's really a political problem.
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  • I don't believe it's about international events.
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  • I don't believe it's about technical superiority.
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  • I don't even think it can be fully understood in economic
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  • Terms or military terms.
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  • I think if the people of faith would honor the lord and seek
  • 00:15:02.283 --> 00:15:04.919
  • The lord and pursue the lord, the generations who follow us
  • 00:15:04.919 --> 00:15:08.256
  • Could understand freedom and liberty as we have known it.
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  • I think if we continue in the direction that we're going,
  • 00:15:11.793 --> 00:15:15.330
  • Those things will be completely forfeited.
  • 00:15:15.330 --> 00:15:18.433
  • It's happening incrementally.
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  • Are you watching?
  • 00:15:20.068 --> 00:15:23.571
  • We have a whole new vocabulary for looting.
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  • It's almost become recreational.
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  • It's smash and grab.
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  • It's like an outing for the weekend.
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  • Allen: 2024 has almost slipped past us.
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  • Thank you for your partnership this year.
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  • It's been the most remarkable season we've ever known together
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  • And i thank you for your faithful investment of time,
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  • Energy, and prayers in our ministry.
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  • Change is taking place in the earth.
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  • We're seeing it in our own nation.
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  • God responded to us with tremendous mercy and grace.
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  • We have leaders that are headed to washington, d.c., to enact
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  • Changes, to restore a set of values that have brought
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  • Strength to our nation.
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  • It's a time of great optimism and hope and anticipation and i
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  • Believe that's true in the church as well.
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  • Folks, we can't stand on the sidelines and expect somebody
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  • Else to be the change.
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  • We need the presence of god to emerge in our schools, on our
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  • College campuses, back in our churches.
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  • And so, i think it's a critical time that we bring the message
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  • Of the truth of jesus christ.
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  • It's a hopeful message.
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  • It's a message of wholeness and healing and deliverance and
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  • Freedom that we desperately need in our cities, in our
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  • Communities, wherever god's people gather.
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  • We live in a season of shaking, but together we stand, united in
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  • Heart and purpose to accomplish the will of god in
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  • Our generation.
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  • We will not stop.
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  • Allen: i want to ask you to make a sacrificial investment in
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  • Our ministry.
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  • Now and the end of the year.
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  • We're making plans for the year ahead with a boldness and a
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  • Allen: now, i don't want to suggest that the looting of a
  • 00:18:38.733 --> 00:18:40.635
  • Cvs or a grocery store is the essence of what i'm
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  • Talking about.
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  • That's not really our problem.
  • 00:18:46.741 --> 00:18:48.075
  • I mean, it's happening with greater frequencies.
  • 00:18:48.075 --> 00:18:49.710
  • Retailers are closing places because of our inability to
  • 00:18:49.710 --> 00:18:53.948
  • Protect them because we have the idea somehow we're entitled.
  • 00:18:53.948 --> 00:18:57.718
  • And there's not the will or the desire or the intentionality to
  • 00:18:57.718 --> 00:19:00.955
  • Defend those retail outlets.
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  • But what i want to suggest to you is that looting on a rather
  • 00:19:02.924 --> 00:19:05.660
  • Small scale is emblematic of what is happening on a very
  • 00:19:05.660 --> 00:19:09.530
  • Grand scale.
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  • Please don't misunderstand me.
  • 00:19:11.899 --> 00:19:13.267
  • I'm not talking about politics and political parties.
  • 00:19:13.267 --> 00:19:15.269
  • This has been happening for decades.
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  • This is a uniparty issue.
  • 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:21.175
  • This is a heart issue.
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  • We may see changes come in the political arena, but the
  • 00:19:23.311 --> 00:19:26.380
  • Motivation for the change will come from the hearts of
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  • The people.
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  • I want to give you some examples of how i imagine america is
  • 00:19:30.851 --> 00:19:33.487
  • Being looted today.
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  • One is they're looting our heritage.
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  • America is the greatest experiment in self-government
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  • Our world has ever seen.
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  • That's the truth.
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  • We are bound together--not by ethnicity, race, or some
  • 00:19:43.764 --> 00:19:46.701
  • Tribal loyalty.
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  • We've been united by a worldview, a faith in the god of
  • 00:19:48.202 --> 00:19:52.073
  • Abraham, isaac, and jacob.
  • 00:19:52.073 --> 00:19:53.908
  • That's been our story since the founding of this nation.
  • 00:19:53.908 --> 00:19:58.713
  • We have never been a uniquely christian nation.
  • 00:19:58.713 --> 00:20:01.015
  • We have always been a very diverse nation,
  • 00:20:01.015 --> 00:20:04.285
  • Which means everyone doesn't believe the same thing in the
  • 00:20:04.285 --> 00:20:07.188
  • Same way or worship in the same way, but we have agreed upon a
  • 00:20:07.188 --> 00:20:12.126
  • Set of values, a worldview which, oh, by the way,
  • 00:20:12.126 --> 00:20:16.597
  • Were derived from the scripture.
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  • Principles like the sanctity of human life.
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  • The very young and the very old, that every life had a dignity.
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  • The biblical language for it is we're the image bearers of god.
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  • We have believed in the importance of family.
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  • We have understood marriage as the foundational contract of
  • 00:20:36.417 --> 00:20:39.353
  • Our civilization.
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  • We've believed in equality before the law, that justice
  • 00:20:41.422 --> 00:20:45.192
  • Should be blind.
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  • We have believed collectively that it was not okay to steal,
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  • That you shouldn't lie.
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  • There was a set of values that bound us together.
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  • We looked different, we had different accents, but we had
  • 00:20:56.037 --> 00:20:59.674
  • A heritage.
  • 00:20:59.674 --> 00:21:01.776
  • That heritage has been looted for years.
  • 00:21:01.776 --> 00:21:06.314
  • It's been mocked, it's been ridiculed, it's been denigrated.
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  • Our children have been taught this very systematically.
  • 00:21:11.786 --> 00:21:17.358
  • Phrases like "christian nationalism" have become
  • 00:21:17.358 --> 00:21:19.860
  • Derogatory terms.
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  • Language has been crafted, manipulated to suggest that if
  • 00:21:22.563 --> 00:21:25.433
  • You love this country and you combine it with an awareness of
  • 00:21:25.433 --> 00:21:28.903
  • The sovereign and intervention of god, that it's inappropriate.
  • 00:21:28.903 --> 00:21:35.276
  • In fact, it's told--we're told now, publicly, that
  • 00:21:35.276 --> 00:21:38.913
  • It's dangerous.
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  • There's a bit of an aside.
  • 00:21:42.583 --> 00:21:44.785
  • Christian zionist is another term that is frequently used.
  • 00:21:44.785 --> 00:21:48.823
  • People suggest that if you believe god has given the land
  • 00:21:48.823 --> 00:21:51.859
  • Of israel to the jewish people, you're a christian zionist and
  • 00:21:51.859 --> 00:21:55.229
  • You're dangerous.
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  • "the jerusalem post" recently printed a list of the top--the
  • 00:21:57.531 --> 00:22:03.571
  • Most recognized 10 christian zionists in the world.
  • 00:22:03.571 --> 00:22:08.242
  • They included us.
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  • I considered it an honor.
  • 00:22:11.011 --> 00:22:17.685
  • Another way we're being looted is globalism.
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  • I'm not an isolationist.
  • 00:22:22.923 --> 00:22:24.291
  • I understand we live amongst the constellation of nations, but
  • 00:22:24.291 --> 00:22:28.129
  • There has been a relentless march towards a global economy,
  • 00:22:28.129 --> 00:22:31.332
  • A global currency.
  • 00:22:31.332 --> 00:22:33.734
  • Both of which require, demand, necessitate the diminishment
  • 00:22:33.734 --> 00:22:38.406
  • Of america.
  • 00:22:38.406 --> 00:22:40.574
  • Globalism, to an alarming degree, has hollowed out our
  • 00:22:40.574 --> 00:22:44.678
  • Sense of purpose.
  • 00:22:44.678 --> 00:22:46.714
  • It is diminished amongst us things like the dignity of work.
  • 00:22:46.714 --> 00:22:50.885
  • National exceptionalism has been replaced with selfish ambition.
  • 00:22:50.885 --> 00:22:57.691
  • It has greatly diminished our manufacturing abilities.
  • 00:22:57.691 --> 00:23:00.594
  • We just don't make anything anymore.
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  • I mean, there are some exceptions, but as a general
  • 00:23:02.930 --> 00:23:05.332
  • Rule, compared to our historic productivity, it is a shadow of
  • 00:23:05.332 --> 00:23:09.537
  • Our former selves.
  • 00:23:09.537 --> 00:23:10.871
  • The movement of manufacturing away from america, it really
  • 00:23:10.871 --> 00:23:14.108
  • Gained tremendous momentum in the '70s, the 1970s.
  • 00:23:14.108 --> 00:23:19.280
  • Manufacturing began moving off--overseas, offshore.
  • 00:23:19.280 --> 00:23:24.051
  • As a result, last year, the united states had a deficit of
  • 00:23:24.051 --> 00:23:27.888
  • Goods and services in excess of $500 billion.
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  • I wanna give you a little list-- products you'll know.
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  • Converse shoes, gerber baby food, schwinn bicycles,
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  • Craftsman tools, under armour-- the sports apparel and
  • 00:23:42.269 --> 00:23:47.107
  • Equipment company--york peppermint patties.
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  • How many of those products do you imagine were manufactured in
  • 00:23:53.914 --> 00:23:56.817
  • The united states?
  • 00:23:56.817 --> 00:23:58.853
  • Oh, you got a bias, i know.
  • 00:23:58.853 --> 00:24:00.988
  • None of them.
  • 00:24:00.988 --> 00:24:02.623
  • None of them.
  • 00:24:02.690 --> 00:24:04.024
  • All of them, with the exception of gerber, tells us where it was
  • 00:24:04.024 --> 00:24:07.027
  • The products were made.
  • 00:24:07.027 --> 00:24:08.395
  • Indonesia, taiwan, central and south america, mexico.
  • 00:24:08.395 --> 00:24:14.168
  • Gerber doesn't even do that.
  • 00:24:14.168 --> 00:24:15.736
  • They simply acknowledge that they have company manufacturing
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  • Factories in 418 places, in 86 different countries.
  • 00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:27.047
  • The outcome of that is the things like pride in our work,
  • 00:24:27.047 --> 00:24:31.051
  • Effort, sacrifice, a job well done have evaporated amongst us.
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  • Globalism has contributed to a great diminishment
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  • Of nationalism.
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  • And this isn't just something that's heartfelt, it's being
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  • Taught in our finest schools.
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  • Our children are being indoctrinated.
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  • The pride of country or accomplishment, we're told,
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  • Are inappropriate.
  • 00:24:55.442 --> 00:24:57.478
  • And associated with that is the demonization of our history--
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  • Things like colonialism.
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  • It wasn't unique to this nation.
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  • It's a part of the story of civilization's advancement and
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  • It's been demonized.
  • 00:25:08.589 --> 00:25:10.024
  • And along with colonialism being demonized, missional activity by
  • 00:25:10.024 --> 00:25:14.428
  • People of faith has been demonized.
  • 00:25:14.428 --> 00:25:16.330
  • It's wrong the children are taught.
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  • Academia often teaches that christian missions are a
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  • Reflection of an antiquated view of people and culture.
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  • That we should no longer presume to have a message of salvation
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  • Which needs to be shared.
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  • And they'll frequently cite examples, the worst-case
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  • Examples of people in the name of faith bringing cultural
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  • Changes that have very little to do with faith.
  • 00:25:40.020 --> 00:25:44.758
  • Our educational system is being looted.
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  • Discipline has been removed to a great extent from our schools.
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  • Parents won't tolerate it.
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  • Hatred for our history has been--has replaced the love of
  • 00:25:54.168 --> 00:25:57.438
  • Our country.
  • 00:25:57.438 --> 00:25:58.939
  • It is being taught in our schools and our universities.
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  • There isn't anything to be celebrated.
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  • Judeo christian values have been diminished.
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  • Marxist, secularist values have been championed.
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  • Folks, this is not theoretical.
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  • Education has been perverted to focus on experience, not
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  • Disciplined preparation for a better future.
  • 00:26:23.631 --> 00:26:27.167
  • Teachers unions now openly, blatantly, boldly assert
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  • Authority over children's lives that they believe should
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  • Supersede parental authority.
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  • Parents have been largely distracted while the looting has
  • 00:26:38.178 --> 00:26:40.748
  • Been taking place.
  • 00:26:40.748 --> 00:26:43.884
  • Our political process has been looted.
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  • Fair elections--those seem very difficult to secure these days.
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  • We just concede the fact that there are highly orchestrated
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  • Schemes to manipulate.
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  • We accept that as the norm.
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  • Why would we accept that?
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  • Allen: jesus was frequently in trouble because he wouldn't keep
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  • Ungodly rules.
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  • I don't intend to yield to ungodliness.
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  • I want the lord to be pleased with us.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, we want your approval more than we want the approval
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  • Of any person or any organization.
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  • May you be pleased with us in jesus's name, amen.
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