Allen Jackson - Breakthrough... Looting America (Part 2)

January 1, 2025 | S25:E1

Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Breakthrough... Looting America (Part 2) | January 1, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: i wanna give you some examples of how i imagine
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  • America is 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, we have always
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  • Been a very diverse nation.
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  • Which means everyone doesn't believe the same thing in the
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  • Same way or worship in the same way.
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  • But we have agreed upon a set of values, a worldview which, oh,
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  • By the way, 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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  • Statesmanship.
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  • Once upon a time, that idea flourished amongst us.
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  • That we would select people to lead, give them positions of
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  • Authority, and imagine they would make decisions that were
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  • In the good of the people.
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  • The best interest of the nation, that seems bizarre in our
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  • Current landscape.
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  • We've been looted to the point that we have lost the
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  • Imagination of good character.
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  • The good of country over personal gain seems quaint.
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  • Polling in the political arena has replaced
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  • Principled leadership.
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  • How about doing the right thing even when it's not popular?
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Allen: another expression of looting has been the intentional
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  • Marginalization of a biblical worldview.
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  • The removal of the christian faith from public life in the
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  • Corporate setting, in academic world, in government settings.
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  • We've been told consistently now for decades, our faith really
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  • Wasn't appropriate in those settings.
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  • Don't bring your prayers, don't bring your bible, don't
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  • Bring jesus.
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  • He's not appropriate here.
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  • We don't want anything that could bring disruption.
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  • And then we watch in all of those settings, corporate
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  • Settings, government settings, academic settings, then they
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  • Bring a worldview and a set of values that brings tremendous
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  • Dissension and they say, "shut up!
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  • And accept it."
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  • Looting.
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  • We find within the church tremendous apostasy and
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  • Unwillingness to acknowledge the truth.
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  • There's an assault from without.
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  • Marxism, on the rise in this culture, in our academic
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  • Institutions, in our political discussions.
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  • It's a better description of our current way of life than almost
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  • Anything i can imagine.
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  • It requires the diminishment of faith.
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  • This isn't a mystery.
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  • Marxism has been on display for more than a century around the
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  • Globe, and everywhere it's come and gained authority, one of the
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  • First actions it takes is to almost totally eliminate
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  • Expressions of faith like this.
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  • We can't be silent while the looting continues.
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  • Another expression of looting, i believe, is the refusal to use
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  • Our american energy sources.
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  • We have the most abundant energy reserves of any nation in the
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  • World and yet we send billions of dollars to other nations to
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  • Purchase energy while we deprive us companies and citizens of the
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  • Revenue and the jobs.
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  • It's looting.
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  • Terrorism is another expression of looting.
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  • Targeting civilians and acts of violence and war.
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  • It's become so commonplace we're numb to it.
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  • It's not new, folks, i'm not talking about some
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  • Current administration.
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  • If you think this is political, breathe, and watch and listen
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  • A bit.
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  • 9/11.
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  • Airplanes used as weapons to target innocent civilians.
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  • Terrorism has changed the way we live.
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  • Some of you are old enough to remember going to the airport
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  • And getting on an airplane without security.
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  • Without a metal detector, or a search of your bags, or taking
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  • Off your shoes, you just like walked through the gate.
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  • And it was safe.
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  • The terrorism is not exclusively the muslim issue, but it is
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  • Predominantly fueled from the islamic community.
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  • We're not allowed to say that, it isn't politically correct.
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  • Trillions of dollars have been spent.
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  • We're being looted.
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  • The blood and the treasure spent in response to terrorist acts is
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  • Almost beyond imagination.
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  • We're being looted by illegal immigrants, not the individuals,
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  • But the process.
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  • American taxpayers shelled out last year in 2023 alone, more
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  • Than $150 billion in care for illegal immigrants.
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  • $150 billion spent for people that weren't invited here, that
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  • Came here breaking our laws.
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  • Ignoring the legal process of immigration.
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  • Billions of dollars that we didn't spend on our schools or
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  • Our universities.
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  • We're a nation of immigrants.
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  • I'm not anti-immigrant, i'm anti-illegal.
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  • Sanctuary cities are looting us.
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  • We've tolerated for decades this high-minded, arrogant, pompous
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  • Attitude where we see some of our most celebrated cities and
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  • Most arrogant leaders declare themselves sanctuaries.
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  • Understand what they're saying.
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  • They are not going to abide by federal laws.
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  • But you'll note they demand federal resources.
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  • If they wanna be a sanctuary from one, they should be a
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  • Sanctuary from the other.
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  • I believe our military as a social experiment, is a looting
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  • Of our nation.
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  • As i understand the goal of our military, it's to defend our
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  • Country and defeat our enemies hard stop.
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  • The military is not intended to be a social experiment, and yet
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  • We find that these days totally preoccupied with nonsense
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  • Like dei.
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  • It's a looting of our nation of our finest young men and women,
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  • They're made vulnerable.
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  • We are all made vulnerable.
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  • The military should not be some grand experiment in lgbtqi2,
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  • Whatever the new number is.
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  • And remember the principles, the looting is incremental.
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  • It begins in small ways, it grows.
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  • God's waiting to see if his people will cry out, if they
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  • Will change, if they'll reorient themselves.
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  • You see, we have wrongly imagined if we could benefit
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  • From the looting if we could share in a little bit of the
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  • Loot, we just wouldn't say anything.
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  • If we said something, we might forfeit an opportunity, we might
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  • Lose some revenue, we might face some pressure.
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  • So, we've watched the looting take place and we said, "well,
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  • That's not really my problem."
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  • It is our problem.
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  • It's not a political problem.
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  • We have cowered in our churches and say, "we don't talk about
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  • Current events because that's political."
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  • It's cowardice.
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  • We're salt and light.
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  • We need to turn up the light so what's happening in the darkness
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  • Won't be so shameful.
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  • Our health care is being looted.
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  • Doctor's focus has been turned away from caring for patients.
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  • They've been required to focus on government regulations, legal
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  • Threats, a whole host of things that impede them from doing what
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  • They were trained to do and what the majority of them raised
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  • Their hands to do, and that was to help people.
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  • Government and corporate entities greedily harvest
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  • Profits and healthcare providers are seen as cogs in another
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  • Profit-driven enterprise.
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  • It's looting.
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  • Hospitalists have replaced personal physicians.
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  • Protocol has triumphed over common sense.
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  • And we all suffer for it.
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  • The people working in the system and the people supposed to
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  • Benefit from the system, it's looting.
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  • Defund the police is a looting of our security.
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  • Our safety is being looted by anarchists disguised as
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  • Social reformers.
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  • We better wake up.
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  • The ultimate outcome of the looting?
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  • I gave you a list.
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  • It's not intended to be inclusive, but it is something
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  • Of a summary statement.
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  • If we don't have a change of heart, folks, i'm not talking
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  • About a political change.
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  • I'm grateful for elections, one of the most remarkable things
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  • I've seen happened in november.
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  • It wasn't about campaigns.
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  • It wasn't about debates or opportunities seized or missed.
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  • I saw millions and millions of americans in the heartland of
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  • Our nation--fly-over country, despicable people.
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  • I saw them make a sacrifice to raise their hands and say, "we
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  • Don't think we're going in the right direction."
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  • It--you say, "well, that's obvious."
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  • No, it hasn't been obvious.
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  • We didn't see it in 2022.
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  • We didn't see--there have been a lot of times it wasn't there.
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  • Only god could have stirred our hearts.
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  • But now we, the people, have to begin to say to the lord, "we'll
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  • Be different.
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  • I wanna get to that next."
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  • Here's the outcomes, if this looting is unchecked, i assure
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  • You this is our future.
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  • And understand, you think, "well, i may be in a season in
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  • My life where it won't affect me greatly," and you could be right
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  • On that.
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  • But it will affect your children and your grandchildren.
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  • If you care about them, you better do more than provide a
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  • Vacation or a holiday meal.
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  • You better make the spiritual changes that give them a
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  • Better future.
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  • If we hide from the realities that are taking place around us,
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  • Our children and grandchildren will look back at us and say,
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  • "it was our lascivious lives, it was our ungodly lives that
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  • Brought the judgment upon them because we walked through the
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  • Incremental warnings and refused to change."
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  • Female announcer: if you look, you'll find good
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  • News everywhere.
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  • Female: our baby was born healthy and strong.
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  • Female: we have the groceries we need.
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  • Male: another year cancer-free.
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  • Female: we bought our first house this year.
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  • Female: the raise came through when i needed it most.
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  • Male: i have a working car.
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  • Female: my husband came home safe.
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  • Female announcer: philippians 4 tells us to, "think about
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  • Whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable,
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  • Excellent and praiseworthy."
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  • All of these things honor god and when we take time to notice
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  • Them, we welcome god's presence and experience his peace.
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  • Allen: you know, the two most critical junctures of any
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  • Enterprise are how we begin and how we conclude.
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  • So, the beginning of a new year is a tremendous opportunity.
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  • We've prepared a tool we want to share with you.
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  • The past.
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  • We wanna start our year with an attitude of appreciation and
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  • Gratitude for the blessings of god in our lives.
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  • So, we've designed this journal so that you can use it as a part
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  • Wherever that may be, let's start our year out purposefully,
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  • I know there's challenges and we have places where we need god's
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  • Help, but we're gonna begin with gratitude and walk into the
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  • God bless.
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  • Female announcer: when you keep a good news list, you'll notice
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  • How god is constantly at work all around you.
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  • Record your good news, prayers you saw god answer, and your
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  • Current prayer requests.
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  • Allen: honestly, i think we're at a pivot point.
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  • I don't think we've got two decades to sort this out.
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  • I think the babylonians are at the gate.
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  • We can choose the lord with a new heart and then experience
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  • Freedom or we can continue to imagine we're capable of solving
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  • Our own problems and we'll face even greater expressions of
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  • God's judgment.
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  • I brought you two passages.
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  • Isaiah 1, says, "come, let's reason together.
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  • Though your sins are like scarlet, they'll be as white as
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  • Snow; and though they're as red as crimson, they'll be
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  • Like wool.
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  • If you're willing and obedient, you'll eat the best from the
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  • Land; but if you resist and rebel, you'll be devoured."
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  • Isaiah issued those words.
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  • They didn't happen in isaiah's lifetime.
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  • He saw enemies turned around at the walls of jerusalem.
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  • He was speaking to the looting of his people, the incremental
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  • Decline of the people.
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  • And they didn't listen.
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  • Then they lost everything.
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  • My concern for us is we'll think we've got enough.
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  • We've stored up enough, we've saved enough, we're far enough
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  • Along in our journey.
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  • It's not my problem.
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  • When in reality, it's those of us with enough experience to
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  • Recognize the change.
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  • The younger people don't even know they're being looted.
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  • They don't remember the temple when it had gold shields.
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  • They don't remember the public square when our faith was
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  • Welcomed there.
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  • They don't remember education when it was different.
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  • They don't remember health care when it looked differently.
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  • We have to use our voices.
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  • James gives us, i believe, the solution.
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  • "you adulterous people," he's--james's writing
  • 00:15:42.166 --> 00:15:45.269
  • To christians.
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  • "you adulterous people, don't you know."
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  • Anytime the bible says, "don't you know," what do you know?
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  • That the author imagines they don't know.
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  • "don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred
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  • Toward god?
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  • Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an
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  • Enemy of god."
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  • In the new testament, when he uses the word world, it talks
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  • About the prevailing order, the systems in place.
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  • He said, "to love the systems of the present age makes you an
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  • Enemy of god."
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  • We're called to be different, not weird because of
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  • Our wardrobe.
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  • Not weird because you're weird.
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  • Weird because you choose godliness, biblical values.
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  • Those will make you different today, they'll make you weird in
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  • This world.
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  • Look at verse 7, he gives us the solution.
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  • "submit yourselves, then, to god."
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  • That's the first step.
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  • Submit yourself to god.
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  • Boy, submit is not a good word.
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  • One of the challenges we have--i read an article in the last
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  • Couple of days where one of the most celebrated scientists in
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  • The world, his solution to gender problems in sports was he
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  • Said, "let's stop competing as men and women, let's measure
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  • Hormone levels."
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  • You know how we got in such a messed up place?
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  • 'cause several decades ago the church stopped talking about
  • 00:17:09.654 --> 00:17:12.290
  • Biblical roles for men and women.
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  • We didn't have the courage to talk about it.
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  • 'cause there was words like submit, and we weren't about to
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  • Say that in public.
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  • Well, before you get into gender roles, you see the capitulation
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  • Of the church has put us in a place now where we're in the
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  • Land of the absurd.
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  • We act like biological sex is confusing.
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  • Folks, i grew up in a barn, it isn't confusing.
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  • Submit to god.
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  • Don't--not go to church, not say the sinner's prayer, not get
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  • Baptized, not be polite, not limit your profanity, not don't
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  • Be drunk in public.
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  • Submit to god.
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  • Bend your knee to god.
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  • The only way we can participate in his kingdom is not attending
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  • Church or embracing some heightened morality.
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  • We gotta bend our knee to god.
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  • And say, "i will submit to you my time, my resources,
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  • My future.
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  • I don't want you to help me get my way, i want your will to be
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  • Done on earth as it is in heaven."
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  • Oh, that sounds like a prayer we were taught.
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  • James says, "submit to god."
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  • Look at the next phrase.
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  • He said, "resist the devil."
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  • Now, that we get a little more traction.
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  • I get a little more applause around that in presentations,
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  • But it's nonsense to think you can resist the devil until
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  • You've submitted to god.
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  • The authority you have to resist the devil emerges from
  • 00:18:48.986 --> 00:18:52.056
  • Submitting to god.
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  • But then we don't just resist the devil in our own
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  • Thought life.
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  • We don't just resist the devil in our own personal temptations,
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  • We stand against the purposes and plans of evil in the world
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  • In which we live.
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  • We resist the devil.
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  • We've overlooked evil long enough.
  • 00:19:06.571 --> 00:19:09.574
  • "well, people will label us."
  • 00:19:09.574 --> 00:19:10.942
  • No kidding.
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  • Welcome to the team.
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  • There was a government report, i think it was this week, i read
  • 00:19:16.147 --> 00:19:18.549
  • About it this week that was released from congress after
  • 00:19:18.549 --> 00:19:20.751
  • Extensive investigation.
  • 00:19:20.751 --> 00:19:22.787
  • They said that covid was caused by a virus that came from a lab
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  • In wuhan.
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  • Four years ago, when we were having church outside, we paid
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  • Two people to monitor the streaming of the service because
  • 00:19:37.735 --> 00:19:42.340
  • If i happened to say the virus from wuhan, the live stream
  • 00:19:42.340 --> 00:19:47.011
  • Would explode with hate.
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  • It's where the virus came from.
  • 00:19:53.884 --> 00:19:55.253
  • Whether it came from a lab or a wet market, it's where it
  • 00:19:55.253 --> 00:19:56.988
  • Came from.
  • 00:19:56.988 --> 00:19:58.589
  • I wasn't suggesting a nuclear strike on wuhan.
  • 00:19:58.589 --> 00:20:04.729
  • "resist the devil," that's the second component.
  • 00:20:04.729 --> 00:20:07.832
  • The third step there is equally plain spoken.
  • 00:20:07.832 --> 00:20:10.968
  • It's verse 8, "come near to god."
  • 00:20:10.968 --> 00:20:14.272
  • And then james tells us how we can do that.
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  • And you know, most of us could make notes right now of the
  • 00:20:17.241 --> 00:20:19.210
  • People we know that need to come nearer to god.
  • 00:20:19.210 --> 00:20:23.214
  • What if we just eliminate that list and begin to think
  • 00:20:23.214 --> 00:20:25.583
  • Of ourselves?
  • 00:20:25.583 --> 00:20:26.951
  • "what could i do to move more near to god?"
  • 00:20:26.951 --> 00:20:30.655
  • James gives us some very simple things, "wash your hands."
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  • If you're afraid of the virus, you'll wash your hands till
  • 00:20:34.292 --> 00:20:36.294
  • They chap.
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  • You'll carry purell in every pocket, you'll put it in
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  • Your car.
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  • You'd drink it just in case you got exposed to a virus.
  • 00:20:42.833 --> 00:20:47.405
  • Little purell shots.
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  • When we talk about being--washing our hands before
  • 00:20:51.075 --> 00:20:54.111
  • The lord, be, "oh, i don't need that.
  • 00:20:54.111 --> 00:20:56.347
  • I said the sinner's prayer 42 years ago, how could my hands
  • 00:20:56.347 --> 00:20:58.949
  • Be dirty?"
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  • Oh, i couldn't imagine a way.
  • 00:21:00.284 --> 00:21:03.354
  • "purify your hearts from double-mindedness," james says.
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  • Until you are single-minded in your decision making, in
  • 00:21:07.792 --> 00:21:10.895
  • Your priorities.
  • 00:21:10.895 --> 00:21:12.463
  • James says in an earlier passage, "to be double-minded is
  • 00:21:12.463 --> 00:21:15.700
  • To have no faith."
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  • And thirdly, he says, "we could change our laughter
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  • To mourning."
  • 00:21:22.373 --> 00:21:24.108
  • We need a sobriety, a seriousness.
  • 00:21:24.108 --> 00:21:26.177
  • We are watching the looting of our nation.
  • 00:21:26.177 --> 00:21:30.081
  • And it isn't a political failure.
  • 00:21:30.081 --> 00:21:32.516
  • It's not the chinese or the russians.
  • 00:21:32.516 --> 00:21:35.720
  • It isn't globalism, it's the capitulation of the church.
  • 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:40.958
  • We need a more serious note.
  • 00:21:40.958 --> 00:21:44.295
  • We gotta stop fighting over where we park and where we sit.
  • 00:21:44.295 --> 00:21:49.500
  • And whether stick yard is appropriate for a
  • 00:21:49.500 --> 00:21:51.736
  • Christmas celebration.
  • 00:21:51.736 --> 00:21:55.940
  • You better come early tonight, it'll be so appropriate you
  • 00:21:55.940 --> 00:21:58.309
  • Won't get in.
  • 00:21:58.309 --> 00:22:01.345
  • If you come late.
  • 00:22:01.345 --> 00:22:05.950
  • And finally, james says, "humble yourself."
  • 00:22:05.950 --> 00:22:09.387
  • It's one of the most consistent invitations in scripture.
  • 00:22:09.387 --> 00:22:12.823
  • But there's no place where god says, "he will humble you."
  • 00:22:12.823 --> 00:22:16.260
  • It always says we have to choose to humble ourselves.
  • 00:22:16.260 --> 00:22:18.596
  • It's not saying we have no value, we have no merit, it's
  • 00:22:18.596 --> 00:22:23.033
  • Understanding our relationship with god.
  • 00:22:23.033 --> 00:22:24.735
  • There's a god and it's not us.
  • 00:22:24.735 --> 00:22:27.671
  • You have gifts, and abilities, and strengths, and resources,
  • 00:22:27.671 --> 00:22:30.674
  • And time, you have many, many wonderful things.
  • 00:22:30.674 --> 00:22:33.611
  • You know they're wonderful 'cause when you consider them
  • 00:22:33.611 --> 00:22:35.913
  • Going away, if you had no more time, if you had no more money,
  • 00:22:35.913 --> 00:22:40.751
  • If you had no more strength, you would understand the magnitude
  • 00:22:40.751 --> 00:22:44.455
  • Of the loss.
  • 00:22:44.455 --> 00:22:46.690
  • Those are wonderful things, but it does not qualify us as god,
  • 00:22:46.690 --> 00:22:51.762
  • He's different.
  • 00:22:51.762 --> 00:22:53.130
  • Humble ourselves.
  • 00:22:53.130 --> 00:22:56.367
  • If we will do those things, if we'll submit, resist, come near
  • 00:22:56.367 --> 00:23:01.605
  • To god, and humble ourselves, god has said he will lift us up.
  • 00:23:01.605 --> 00:23:07.778
  • He'll lift us above every attack.
  • 00:23:07.778 --> 00:23:11.782
  • He can deliver us from the brick pits of egypt.
  • 00:23:11.782 --> 00:23:15.386
  • He can provide food in the desert, water where there's
  • 00:23:15.386 --> 00:23:18.322
  • No water.
  • 00:23:18.322 --> 00:23:19.690
  • He'll turn back the most intimidating enemies.
  • 00:23:19.690 --> 00:23:21.725
  • He'll give us a different diagnosis.
  • 00:23:21.725 --> 00:23:24.028
  • He'll bring peace in the midst of turmoil.
  • 00:23:24.028 --> 00:23:26.864
  • God will lift us up.
  • 00:23:26.864 --> 00:23:29.400
  • But we have to choose him.
  • 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:32.102
  • What if we decided, what if a group this size said, "we intend
  • 00:23:32.102 --> 00:23:37.975
  • Not to rest until the looting is halted?"
  • 00:23:37.975 --> 00:23:44.081
  • Let it start in our community.
  • 00:23:44.081 --> 00:23:47.084
  • Let it start with us.
  • 00:23:47.084 --> 00:23:49.687
  • Only god can do it, but it begins in our hearts.
  • 00:23:49.687 --> 00:23:53.524
  • I wanna invite you towards that prayer today.
  • 00:23:53.524 --> 00:23:56.894
  • We're gonna pray together.
  • 00:23:56.894 --> 00:23:58.262
  • Stand with me, if you will.
  • 00:23:58.262 --> 00:24:07.071
  • You better join hands.
  • 00:24:10.608 --> 00:24:13.511
  • If you don't know the person next to you, tell 'em who
  • 00:24:13.511 --> 00:24:15.279
  • You are.
  • 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:21.519
  • If they won't talk to you, turn loose of 'em.
  • 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:26.457
  • Rebellious prayers don't help.
  • 00:24:26.457 --> 00:24:29.693
  • "father, thank you for your word.
  • 00:24:29.693 --> 00:24:31.962
  • For its truth, and understanding, and insight.
  • 00:24:31.962 --> 00:24:34.665
  • I thank you that you're involved in the affairs of men and women.
  • 00:24:34.665 --> 00:24:39.770
  • That you're engaged in the earth today.
  • 00:24:39.770 --> 00:24:41.572
  • That you've not only called us out of darkness and welcomed us
  • 00:24:41.572 --> 00:24:44.275
  • Into your kingdom, but that you make a journey with us
  • 00:24:44.275 --> 00:24:47.177
  • Through time.
  • 00:24:47.177 --> 00:24:49.446
  • And lord, we see all around us evidence of the reality that we
  • 00:24:49.446 --> 00:24:55.185
  • Have been distracted.
  • 00:24:55.185 --> 00:24:57.588
  • Or that our hearts have been misplaced.
  • 00:24:57.588 --> 00:25:00.858
  • We've looked for ways that we might gain, that we might
  • 00:25:00.858 --> 00:25:03.794
  • Profit, that we might gain an opportunity that we could get
  • 00:25:03.794 --> 00:25:07.531
  • Our way, that we could get ahead.
  • 00:25:07.531 --> 00:25:11.235
  • And we've looked away from the things that we knew were
  • 00:25:11.235 --> 00:25:13.871
  • Displeasing to you, or wrong, or inappropriate.
  • 00:25:13.871 --> 00:25:18.108
  • We've just imagined that it wasn't our assignment or
  • 00:25:18.108 --> 00:25:20.711
  • Somebody else should do it.
  • 00:25:20.711 --> 00:25:23.981
  • Lord we come today to ask for your forgiveness.
  • 00:25:23.981 --> 00:25:29.353
  • We come today to submit to you.
  • 00:25:29.353 --> 00:25:31.789
  • To yield our hearts to you, our calendars to you, our resources
  • 00:25:31.789 --> 00:25:35.292
  • To you, our futures to you.
  • 00:25:35.292 --> 00:25:38.829
  • Lord to stand hand in hand and upright before you to say, 'as
  • 00:25:38.829 --> 00:25:43.033
  • You give us the wisdom and the ability that we will resist the
  • 00:25:43.033 --> 00:25:46.003
  • Devil in our own hearts, in our own homes, and our own
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  • Community, and wherever you send us.'
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  • Lord we wanna draw near to you.
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  • We wanna enter your gates with thanksgiving and your courts
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  • With praise.
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  • We wanna be a people who dwell in the midst of your glory.
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  • Holy spirit, if there are places that we need to make changes or
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  • To--that we--our hands might be clean and our hearts might be
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  • Pure, show us.
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  • We choose to humble ourselves.
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  • Not to be angry at others or demand that someone else change,
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  • But to offer ourselves.
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  • Lord, here we are, send us.
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  • Help us.
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  • And lord, in the midst of that, we ask you to do what we cannot
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  • Do, bring a breakthrough.
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  • May your intervention that we have seen grow.
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  • May it be multiplied, maybe it could expanded.
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  • May the truth once again be told.
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  • May integrity once again be celebrated.
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  • May moral uprightness be seen as a virtue and not a weakness.
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  • We praise you for it, father, we thank you that our children can
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  • Once again be taught in the truth and prepared for a future.
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  • We thank you for it, today.
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  • We give you glory that we will see you move in our midst.
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  • Father, we praise you today that you are well able, in jesus's
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  • Name, amen."
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  • Hallelujah, give the lord a hand, he deserves it.
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  • ♪♪♪
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