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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Breakthrough... Looting America (Part 1) | December 31, 2024
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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.
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- They're helping us understand our scripture.
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- If you look at verse 42, it says, "god turned away and gave
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- Them over to the worship of the heavenly bodies."
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- You see, when we see looting begin, what we can understand--
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- You watch the behavior, the diminishment of resources, the
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- Diminishment of liberties, the diminishment of opportunities.
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- We recognize that the protection that's been in place, the
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- Provision that has been in place has diminished.
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- 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.
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- It's a spiritual issue.
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- It's being worked out in those arenas, but it begins with the
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- 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.
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- The outcome of looting, if i can use the word, john chapter 10,
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- These are jesus's words.
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- 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
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- It abundantly."
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- When life is abundant and opportunities are flourishing,
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- 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
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- Stepped back.
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- 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?"
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- That's why we use the word looting.
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- 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
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- That significant.
- 00:14:21.809 --> 00:14:23.144
- If you don't pay attention, ultimately it ends in the
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- Destruction of jerusalem and the destruction of the temple and 70
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- Years living in a foreign land as slaves.
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- 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
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- 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
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- The lord and pursue the lord, the generations who follow us
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- 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,
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- Those things will be completely forfeited.
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- It's happening incrementally.
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- Are you watching?
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- 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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- 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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- 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.
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- Retailers are closing places because of our inability to
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- Protect them because we have the idea somehow we're entitled.
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- And there's not the will or the desire or the intentionality to
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- Defend those retail outlets.
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- But what i want to suggest to you is that looting on a rather
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- Small scale is emblematic of what is happening on a very
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- Grand scale.
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- Please don't misunderstand me.
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- 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.
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- This is a heart issue.
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- We may see changes come in the political arena, but the
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- 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
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- 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
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- Tribal loyalty.
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- We've been united by a worldview, a faith in the god of
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- Abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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- That's been our story since the founding of this nation.
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- We have never been a uniquely christian nation.
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- We have always been a very diverse nation,
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- 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
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- Set of values, a worldview which, oh, by the way,
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- 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
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- Our civilization.
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- We've believed in equality before the law, that justice
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- 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
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- A heritage.
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- That heritage has been looted for years.
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- It's been mocked, it's been ridiculed, it's been denigrated.
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- Our children have been taught this very systematically.
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- Phrases like "christian nationalism" have become
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- Derogatory terms.
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- Language has been crafted, manipulated to suggest that if
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- You love this country and you combine it with an awareness of
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- The sovereign and intervention of god, that it's inappropriate.
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- In fact, it's told--we're told now, publicly, that
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- It's dangerous.
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- There's a bit of an aside.
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- Christian zionist is another term that is frequently used.
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- People suggest that if you believe god has given the land
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- Of israel to the jewish people, you're a christian zionist and
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- You're dangerous.
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- "the jerusalem post" recently printed a list of the top--the
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- Most recognized 10 christian zionists in the world.
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- They included us.
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- I considered it an honor.
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- Another way we're being looted is globalism.
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- I'm not an isolationist.
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- 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,
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- A global currency.
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- Both of which require, demand, necessitate the diminishment
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- Of america.
- 00:22:38.406 --> 00:22:40.574
- Globalism, to an alarming degree, has hollowed out our
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- Sense of purpose.
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- 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.
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- It has greatly diminished our manufacturing abilities.
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- We just don't make anything anymore.
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- I mean, there are some exceptions, but as a general
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- Rule, compared to our historic productivity, it is a shadow of
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- Our former selves.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Goods and services in excess of $500 billion.
- 00:23:27.888 --> 00:23:34.862
- 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
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- The united states?
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- Oh, you got a bias, i know.
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- None of them.
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- 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.
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- Gerber doesn't even do that.
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- 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.
- 00:24:40.594 --> 00:24:42.196
- And this isn't just something that's heartfelt, it's being
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- Taught in our finest schools.
- 00:24:44.164 --> 00:24:47.868
- Our children are being indoctrinated.
- 00:24:47.868 --> 00:24:52.039
- The pride of country or accomplishment, we're told,
- 00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:55.442
- 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.
- 00:25:00.814 --> 00:25:02.182
- It wasn't unique to this nation.
- 00:25:02.182 --> 00:25:05.085
- It's a part of the story of civilization's advancement and
- 00:25:05.085 --> 00:25:08.589
- 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.
- 00:25:16.330 --> 00:25:19.833
- Academia often teaches that christian missions are a
- 00:25:19.833 --> 00:25:23.203
- Reflection of an antiquated view of people and culture.
- 00:25:23.203 --> 00:25:26.674
- That we should no longer presume to have a message of salvation
- 00:25:26.674 --> 00:25:30.110
- Which needs to be shared.
- 00:25:30.110 --> 00:25:32.746
- 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.
- 00:25:44.758 --> 00:25:48.596
- Discipline has been removed to a great extent from our schools.
- 00:25:48.596 --> 00:25:51.699
- Parents won't tolerate it.
- 00:25:51.699 --> 00:25:54.168
- 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.
- 00:25:58.939 --> 00:26:03.877
- There isn't anything to be celebrated.
- 00:26:03.877 --> 00:26:08.682
- 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.
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- 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
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- Been taking place.
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- 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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