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Allen Jackson- Christianity and Antisemitism (Part 2)

June 3, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson- Christianity and Antisemitism (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson- Christianity and Antisemitism (Part 2) | June 3, 2026
  • Allen: you know, around the world,
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  • People are searching for truth, and together we're doing our
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  • Have heard the gospel otherwise.
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  • Known right here at home and around the earth, wherever
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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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  • Allen jackson: i want to take two or three passages.
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  • How much time have i got?
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  • I got a bit.
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  • It's a confusing topic, and i'm going to take just a minute.
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  • It's a less formal service.
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  • I said one time to a group of people with whom i was traveling
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  • To israel that the average israeli on the street was much
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  • More comfortable with a muslim than they were with a christian,
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  • And one of the men that was traveling with me came and he
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  • Said, "allen," he said, "i think you misspoke."
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  • And he repeated the phrase, and i said, "no, i didn't misspeak."
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  • And he said, "well, i don't understand."
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  • And i said, "well, the christian community has killed far more
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  • Jewish people than the muslims have ever imagined."
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  • And it's really a lack of awareness of our own history to
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  • Understand the degree to which the church has been involved
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  • In this.
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  • In fact, the church has been--and when i say church, i'm
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  • Not speaking of the true church but i'm speaking of generic
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  • Church, buildings and labels and denominations
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  • And movements--
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  • But the church has been the--a primary incubator of a hatred of
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  • The jewish people for century upon century upon century.
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  • The churches of europe did precious little during world war
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  • Ii to project--to protect the jewish communities.
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  • That's just a matter of fact.
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  • Hitler was a baptized catholic.
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  • I'm not denigrating the catholics, and the good people
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  • Of faith would say, "well, he wasn't a good one."
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  • But you will understand if the jewish people are not impressed
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  • With your distinction.
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  • They just understood he was a man of faith.
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  • We had a terror event on new year's day in new orleans by a
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  • Man who was muslim, and there are those amongst the islamic
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  • Community that will say, "well, he wasn't a good one."
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  • For the families involved in that event, that distinction is
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  • Not simple.
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  • You understand?
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  • It's infiltrated particularly western culture but primarily
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  • Through the influence of the church.
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  • The reason i'm taking a moment with it is we have to be a voice
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  • To begin to change it.
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  • You see, the bible tells us in the book of romans that we are
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  • Indebted to the jewish people.
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  • Without the jewish people, we would have no scripture, we
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  • Would have no prophets, we would have no messiah, we wouldn't
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  • Have known the law of god.
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  • We would have no story.
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  • I'm going to read you some passages in just a moment, but i
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  • Want to set a--the formal language for this is replacement
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  • Theology; that god replaced the jewish people, and every place
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  • You see israel or jewish people you just pencil in church, and
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  • It--i believe it's bad exegesis and bad theology, but it's
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  • Caused now--because we have such a gulf between the communities,
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  • It's a difficult conversation and the christians' lack of
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  • Awareness doesn't help us.
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  • When i studied in hebrew university, i was in a program
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  • For overseas students.
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  • There were a few dozen of us that were graduate students, but
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  • There were several hundred that were taking a junior year
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  • Abroad, jewish students.
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  • And i was there several weeks in class before it became--somehow
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  • It came out in class that i was a pastor.
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  • I'd been wearing shorts and a t-shirt for several weeks, i
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  • Didn't look like one, and the whole class turned around and
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  • They said almost in unison, "we've never seen one of you
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  • Before up close."
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  • And they were overwhelmingly american students, but they had
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  • Had very little dialogue with anyone in the
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  • Christian community.
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  • I remember that day in class they said, "why is your bible
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  • So small?"
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  • Speaking of the new testament.
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  • They said, "ours is much bigger," speaking of the old
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  • Testament, and the majority of them had never read the
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  • New testament.
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  • That's why when i say to christians we're going to read
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  • Our bible, they go, "oh, i don't like reading the old testament."
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  • I'm like, "oh, that's helpful.
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  • That's helpful."
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  • You know, that's like signing a contract and only reading the
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  • Parts you like, the part that entitles you to the goods and
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  • Services you want and you just skip over the part that talks
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  • About your responsibilities.
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  • You understand it's illogical with the contract.
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  • It's equally illogical with your bible.
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  • But on that one extreme, we have replacement theology that says
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  • The jewish people failed and therefore they've been
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  • Set aside.
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  • On the other end of the spectrum, we have a dual
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  • Covenant theology; and this is prevalent in many places as
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  • Well, and it says that the jewish people don't have to deal
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  • With jesus, that god made a special covenant with abraham,
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  • And that it--so we don't have to have that awkward conversation
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  • With the jewish people.
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  • Well, i believe that's equally erroneous.
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  • Our messiah was an observant jewish rabbi.
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  • When you walk through the gates of the new jerusalem, the book
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  • Of revelation tells us that the gates you enter on will be
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  • Inscribed with the names of hebrew men, and at the center of
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  • The city is the throne with that observant jewish rabbi
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  • Seated there.
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  • It'll be an awkward place if you hate the jewish people.
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  • You can't really understand the redemptive work of jesus apart
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  • From the old testament or the hebrew bible.
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  • So we--if we love the jewish people, we have to be willing to
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  • Tell them what we know of the person of jesus.
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  • Now, bear with me a moment.
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  • The goal is not to convert them to christianity.
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  • The goal is to introduce them to their messiah.
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  • Christianity is a label.
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  • We got lots of people that sit in churches that call themselves
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  • Christians that don't honor the word of god.
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  • I'm concerned for them.
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  • So the goal in our interaction with our jewish friends is not
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  • To teach them to worship like we worship but to introduce them to
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  • The person of jesus so that they might know him as their messiah.
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  • Now, there's a lot of labeling that goes on around that and my
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  • Encouragement to you is don't get into it.
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  • I mean, we all--to all of us--all of us want to find ways
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  • That make us special.
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  • "our worship's better than your worship.
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  • The translation we read is better than your translation.
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  • Our dna is better than your dna."
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  • Something, it's--self-righteousness is a
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  • Malady of religious people, and we all are pretty good at it.
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  • And when you can, it's better to stay out of those places where
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  • You're trying to elevate yourself above other persons
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  • Because your nomenclature, your labeling is better than theirs.
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  • Talk to them about the person of jesus and why you understand him
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  • To be the messiah.
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  • The language--when we talk about church, at this point in the
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  • Unfolding of the story, is very much a non-jewish institution.
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  • I have a lot of jewish friends that are very comfortable in
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  • Church world, but i have a lot of jewish friends who are not.
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  • Synagogue is a jewish word for the place where they worship,
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  • And most christians wouldn't be comfortable there.
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  • We're not trying to convert them to a label change, we want to
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  • Introduce them to a person of jesus.
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  • Now, with that in mind, i want to take you back to the new
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  • Testament because the reality is we better stand together.
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  • Amen?
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  • Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 2, this is paul writing to a church
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  • In a roman city where he began his ministry by going to
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  • The synagogue.
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  • And when he gets tossed, he'll go talk to whoever will listen.
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  • "remember that at that time you were separate from christ--"
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  • He's talking to a group of predominantly gentile,
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  • Non-jewish believers.
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  • "you were separate from the messiah, excluded from
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  • Citizenship in israel and foreigners to the covenants of
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  • The promise--"
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  • And if you were in that position, he
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  • Describes your condition.
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  • He said you were without hope and without god in the world.
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  • "but now--"
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  • And christ and messiah are interchangeable terms.
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  • "in the messiah jesus you who once were far away have been
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  • Brought near through the blood of christ.
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  • For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has
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  • Destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility."
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  • We stand together, united through the shed blood of jesus
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  • And his redemptive work; that it isn't about our dna, it's about
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  • Our faith in jesus.
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  • The new testament says that jesus was the end of the law as
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  • A means of righteousness.
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  • One of the habits we have in reading our bibles is we change
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  • The punctuation and we--i'll
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  • Give you another verse where we do that.
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  • In ephesians 6 it says, "for we wrestle not against flesh
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  • And blood."
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  • You know the verse?
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  • We've changed the punctuation.
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  • We wrestle not.
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  • Hard stop.
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  • That's not what it says.
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  • When the scripture says jesus was the end of the law as a
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  • Means of righteousness, it doesn't say he was the end of
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  • The law.
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  • God didn't change his mind and murder and adultery became okay.
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  • But we don't establish our righteousness with god by
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  • Keeping the rules.
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  • It doesn't mean that the rules don't have merit.
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  • God's character hasn't changed.
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  • You can't be murderous or adulterous or a fornicator and
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  • Participate in the kingdom of god.
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  • I don't care how often you sit in church.
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  • Allen: hey, we're celebrating this year the 250th anniversary
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  • Of the signing of the declaration of independence.
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  • What a wonderful privilege we have.
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  • You know, god has blessed our nation so many good things.
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  • People say to me, "well, our whole history is not good."
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  • Well, folks, you know, my history is not great.
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  • Your family history is not perfect.
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  • But you love your family, you love your children.
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  • In spite of our weaknesses-- well, our nation hadn't been
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  • Perfect, but through that whole story, the goodness of god
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  • Is evident.
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  • It still is.
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  • Let's ask god to bless america again.
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  • I believe he will.
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  • Female announcer: as we celebrate 250 years of god's
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  • Faithfulness to our nation, we want to help you carry
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  • Allen: in romans chapter 11, the church in rome has been divided.
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  • The jewish leadership that brought that church into
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  • Existence was expelled by an emperor so the gentiles stepped
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  • Into the leadership roles.
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  • There was an emperor change.
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  • The jewish people were welcomed back into rome, but they weren't
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  • Welcomed any longer amongst the believers because the gentiles
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  • Now were holding the higher seats.
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  • And so the message has already begun that god rejected the
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  • Jewish people, and paul addresses it.
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  • It's romans 11.
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  • He said, "i ask then: did god reject his people?"
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  • And that next phrase is the strongest available term in the
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  • Greek language.
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  • By no means.
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  • God forbid.
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  • May it never be.
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  • You'll find it translated all of those ways.
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  • It's a very emphatic response.
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  • "there's just no way he did," he said.
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  • "i'm an israelite myself, a descendant of abraham, from the
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  • Tribe of benjamin.
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  • God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew.
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  • Don't you know what the scripture says in the passage
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  • About elijah, how he appealed to god against israel?"
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  • And the answer is no, we don't know the scripture far
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  • Too often.
  • 00:13:52.013 --> 00:13:54.582
  • Same chapter, verse 22, "consider therefore the kindness
  • 00:13:54.582 --> 00:13:57.919
  • And the sternness of god: sternness to those who fell, but
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  • Kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness."
  • 00:14:02.857 --> 00:14:10.465
  • It intrigues me that we are willing to say to the jewish
  • 00:14:10.465 --> 00:14:14.335
  • Community, "you rejected an opportunity, and therefore you
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  • Have been separated from the opportunities in the kingdom
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  • Of god."
  • 00:14:22.543 --> 00:14:24.045
  • And typically where you'll find that perspective, you'll find an
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  • Equal perspective that says as christ followers, there's
  • 00:14:27.548 --> 00:14:30.652
  • Nothing you can do to forfeit your place in the kingdom.
  • 00:14:30.652 --> 00:14:35.523
  • Understand those two statements side by side are incompatible.
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  • So listen to what paul is saying.
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  • "otherwise, you also will be cut off.
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  • And if they don't persist in unbelief, they will be grafted
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  • In, for god is able to graft them in again.
  • 00:14:49.337 --> 00:14:53.207
  • After all, if you were cut off of an olive tree that is wild by
  • 00:14:53.207 --> 00:14:56.477
  • Nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated
  • 00:14:56.477 --> 00:15:00.782
  • Olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural
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  • Branches, be grafted into their own olive tree."
  • 00:15:04.752 --> 00:15:09.424
  • Paul is using the image of an olive tree, and he's
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  • The--representing the jewish people, and he said that they
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  • Were branches cut off because of their unbelief, and as a result
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  • Of that, there were those of us who were not a part of the
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  • Original plant were grafted in.
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  • So our nourishment, our sustenance, our viability comes
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  • From our relationship with that original tree.
  • 00:15:31.980 --> 00:15:35.817
  • And he's cautioning us.
  • 00:15:35.817 --> 00:15:37.785
  • He said, "if the original branches were cut off, what
  • 00:15:37.785 --> 00:15:41.055
  • Makes you think you're above that same pruning?"
  • 00:15:41.055 --> 00:15:46.828
  • And then he also says that those branches can be grafted back in.
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  • God has not rejected the jewish people.
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  • He's provided for them the same thing he's provided for every
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  • Person born on this planet, and that's an invitation to
  • 00:16:01.109 --> 00:16:04.779
  • Redemption through his son, jesus of nazareth.
  • 00:16:04.779 --> 00:16:09.183
  • It's not secured by joining a church, a denomination, by
  • 00:16:09.183 --> 00:16:13.321
  • Keeping a set of rules, by being kind or generous or loving.
  • 00:16:13.321 --> 00:16:18.826
  • It's not that those things are wrong, but they will not qualify
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  • You for redemption before an almighty god.
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  • It requires of us receiving by faith the gift of righteousness
  • 00:16:27.602 --> 00:16:33.541
  • Made through the sacrifice of jesus of nazareth, an observant,
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  • Jewish man.
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  • So it makes perfect sense to me that satan would cause the
  • 00:16:42.150 --> 00:16:46.354
  • People of faith to hate the jewish people.
  • 00:16:46.354 --> 00:16:51.392
  • There's a very clear logic in that for me.
  • 00:16:51.392 --> 00:16:53.294
  • If you wanted to disrupt the momentum of the people of faith,
  • 00:16:53.294 --> 00:16:56.564
  • If you wanted to disrupt the purposes of god, you would turn
  • 00:16:56.564 --> 00:16:59.867
  • Them against one another and create an irrational, illogical,
  • 00:16:59.867 --> 00:17:03.204
  • Blinding hatred and separate them.
  • 00:17:03.204 --> 00:17:08.910
  • It's not new.
  • 00:17:08.910 --> 00:17:10.912
  • It's been a challenge for the people of faith since the season
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  • When the new testament was assembled, and it persists in
  • 00:17:14.882 --> 00:17:18.286
  • The earth today.
  • 00:17:18.286 --> 00:17:21.055
  • It's illogical.
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  • It's irrational.
  • 00:17:22.957 --> 00:17:25.226
  • Hamas, a group of terrorists, attack a group of civilians in
  • 00:17:25.226 --> 00:17:30.331
  • The most brutal of ways.
  • 00:17:30.331 --> 00:17:32.366
  • I saw the videos.
  • 00:17:32.366 --> 00:17:35.036
  • It's unbelievable.
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  • I wouldn't--it's not necessary to describe them.
  • 00:17:36.404 --> 00:17:40.608
  • It's unthinkable.
  • 00:17:40.608 --> 00:17:43.077
  • And it wasn't just terrorist actors.
  • 00:17:43.077 --> 00:17:46.647
  • Within the second hour after the attack began, i watched the
  • 00:17:46.647 --> 00:17:49.984
  • Video, the cars and trucks began coming from gaza.
  • 00:17:49.984 --> 00:17:56.324
  • I saw citizens pushing wheelbarrows and pulling wagons,
  • 00:17:56.324 --> 00:18:00.328
  • Not simply to loot the property, to do heinous, murderous things.
  • 00:18:00.328 --> 00:18:07.301
  • Now, i understand not everybody that lived in gaza was that way,
  • 00:18:07.301 --> 00:18:11.172
  • But to demonstrate on behalf of that behavior and to assign a
  • 00:18:11.172 --> 00:18:18.112
  • Moral equivalency between a sovereign nation defending its
  • 00:18:18.112 --> 00:18:21.182
  • Citizens against that kind of brutal attack against innocent
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  • Civilians and to have it supported by the previously most
  • 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:30.892
  • Elite institutions in our nation is an expression of a hatred
  • 00:18:30.892 --> 00:18:37.098
  • Towards the purposes of god that is stunning.
  • 00:18:37.098 --> 00:18:41.302
  • Anti-semitism is fueled by the spirit of antichrist.
  • 00:18:41.302 --> 00:18:48.476
  • The same spirit that will drive all the destruction and the
  • 00:18:48.476 --> 00:18:51.245
  • Hatred that you read in the book of revelation is the spirit that
  • 00:18:51.245 --> 00:18:54.715
  • Has been poured out upon the jewish people.
  • 00:18:54.715 --> 00:18:58.753
  • So i would encourage you not to engage with the ideas that the
  • 00:18:58.753 --> 00:19:04.725
  • Jewish people have been replaced, nor to engage with the
  • 00:19:04.725 --> 00:19:07.295
  • Ideas that say they don't need to deal with jesus.
  • 00:19:07.295 --> 00:19:11.065
  • But you're not trying to convert them to your style of worship.
  • 00:19:11.065 --> 00:19:16.537
  • The new testament says don't let anyone judge you with regard to
  • 00:19:16.537 --> 00:19:19.040
  • Holy days or new moon celebrations or all of
  • 00:19:19.040 --> 00:19:22.276
  • Those--and it intrigues me that to this day we argue about which
  • 00:19:22.276 --> 00:19:26.647
  • Is the right day to worship.
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  • Every day.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Allen: if people will come, we'll have church
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  • On tuesday at 3 o'clock.
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  • I tell you this because the days ahead of us, and i don't mean
  • 00:19:48.102 --> 00:19:51.539
  • The week ahead of us but the season ahead of us, i believe
  • 00:19:51.539 --> 00:19:55.343
  • The distinction between the true church and the false church is
  • 00:19:55.343 --> 00:19:58.613
  • Going to continue to become more and more clear.
  • 00:19:58.613 --> 00:20:03.451
  • We see already major expressions of established christendom
  • 00:20:03.451 --> 00:20:07.555
  • Rejecting the authority of scripture and biblical values
  • 00:20:07.555 --> 00:20:10.691
  • And marriage and--any number of ways, and i believe that
  • 00:20:10.691 --> 00:20:15.863
  • Will escalate.
  • 00:20:15.863 --> 00:20:17.531
  • Even while we see great revival and an outpouring of the spirit
  • 00:20:17.531 --> 00:20:20.434
  • Of god, the distinction between the true church and the false
  • 00:20:20.434 --> 00:20:23.070
  • Church will grow and you have to--you'll have to be able to
  • 00:20:23.070 --> 00:20:26.474
  • See beyond labels and affiliations that for
  • 00:20:26.474 --> 00:20:29.777
  • Centuries--for decades, at least, have been reliable.
  • 00:20:29.777 --> 00:20:33.180
  • They're no longer reliable.
  • 00:20:33.180 --> 00:20:36.484
  • You can't distinguish every congregation just by a label.
  • 00:20:36.484 --> 00:20:41.722
  • You'll have to know the word of god and the character of god and
  • 00:20:41.722 --> 00:20:44.125
  • The spirit of god well enough to make those distinctions.
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  • Rabbinic judaism, which--there's many ways of understanding
  • 00:20:47.061 --> 00:20:52.600
  • Judaism, but rabbinic judaism, which focuses on keeping the
  • 00:20:52.600 --> 00:20:55.970
  • Rules, is one of the most profound expressions of the
  • 00:20:55.970 --> 00:20:58.172
  • Spirit of antichrist in the world, but it's matched by some
  • 00:20:58.172 --> 00:21:02.710
  • Expressions of christendom that are very prevalent in america.
  • 00:21:02.710 --> 00:21:07.415
  • We're going to have to be wiser.
  • 00:21:07.415 --> 00:21:08.916
  • We're going to have to be biblically-informed.
  • 00:21:08.916 --> 00:21:12.853
  • Our instructions are to pray for the peace of jerusalem, not an
  • 00:21:12.853 --> 00:21:16.924
  • Absence of conflict.
  • 00:21:16.924 --> 00:21:19.827
  • Jesus said he gave us his peace.
  • 00:21:19.827 --> 00:21:21.429
  • Jesus didn't live a life free of conflict.
  • 00:21:21.429 --> 00:21:25.032
  • He faced consistent, persistent conflict throughout his life and
  • 00:21:25.032 --> 00:21:28.302
  • He's ultimately crucified as a criminal, tortured to death in
  • 00:21:28.302 --> 00:21:31.372
  • Public, but he said, "my peace i give to you."
  • 00:21:31.372 --> 00:21:34.642
  • We never find jesus panicked or anxious, even when he stands in
  • 00:21:34.642 --> 00:21:39.013
  • The face of authorities that are threatening to execute him.
  • 00:21:39.013 --> 00:21:43.284
  • Whether he stands in the face of a storm or he's confronted with
  • 00:21:43.284 --> 00:21:46.087
  • Death or demons or disease, he always responded with the
  • 00:21:46.087 --> 00:21:50.257
  • Authority of the kingdom that he presided over, and he said,
  • 00:21:50.257 --> 00:21:54.795
  • "that peace i give to you."
  • 00:21:54.795 --> 00:21:58.399
  • We may face storms or challenges or threats, but we can stand in
  • 00:21:58.399 --> 00:22:03.604
  • The authority of our king and his kingdom because we are
  • 00:22:03.604 --> 00:22:07.441
  • Submitted to him.
  • 00:22:07.441 --> 00:22:09.643
  • We follow him and we bear his name.
  • 00:22:09.643 --> 00:22:14.348
  • And with his help, we will show the respect that is due the
  • 00:22:14.348 --> 00:22:17.952
  • Jewish people and the debt that we owe to them, and we will love
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  • Them enough to tell them the truth in gracious ways.
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  • I brought you a proclamation.
  • 00:22:28.929 --> 00:22:30.264
  • I don't want to read the whole thing with you here, i want to
  • 00:22:30.264 --> 00:22:32.833
  • Say a prayer, but i think it's a wonderful proclamation you can
  • 00:22:32.833 --> 00:22:36.203
  • Take with you.
  • 00:22:36.203 --> 00:22:37.571
  • It's a psalm from the time when the jewish people were exiled,
  • 00:22:37.571 --> 00:22:39.874
  • When they be--forfeited their place in jerusalem.
  • 00:22:39.874 --> 00:22:43.010
  • You know you can be the covenant people of god and forfeit
  • 00:22:43.010 --> 00:22:45.312
  • Your freedom?
  • 00:22:45.312 --> 00:22:47.415
  • I think that should be on the radar, on the breath of every
  • 00:22:47.415 --> 00:22:51.919
  • American believer.
  • 00:22:51.919 --> 00:22:53.721
  • If we don't choose to honor god, we will forfeit our freedoms.
  • 00:22:53.721 --> 00:22:58.325
  • I'd get mail.
  • 00:22:58.325 --> 00:22:59.660
  • I know not everybody likes that, but i believe it to be true.
  • 00:22:59.660 --> 00:23:03.330
  • But psalm 137 says, "by the rivers of babylon we sat and
  • 00:23:03.330 --> 00:23:07.601
  • Wept when we remembered zion.
  • 00:23:07.601 --> 00:23:09.804
  • There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors
  • 00:23:09.804 --> 00:23:12.706
  • Asked us for songs, and our tormenters demanded songs of
  • 00:23:12.706 --> 00:23:16.477
  • Joy; they said, 'sing us one of the songs of zion!'
  • 00:23:16.477 --> 00:23:21.315
  • How can we sing the songs of the lord while we are in a
  • 00:23:21.315 --> 00:23:24.051
  • Foreign land?
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  • If i forget you, o jerusalem, may my right hand forget
  • 00:23:25.619 --> 00:23:28.522
  • Its skill."
  • 00:23:28.522 --> 00:23:30.357
  • We don't want to forget the purposes of god.
  • 00:23:30.357 --> 00:23:33.160
  • We're too easily captivated by the pressures of our own selves
  • 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:37.064
  • And our own sphere.
  • 00:23:37.064 --> 00:23:39.533
  • If we can recognize that we're a part of the larger purposes of
  • 00:23:39.533 --> 00:23:42.903
  • God, it will bring a meaning to your life and a purpose to your
  • 00:23:42.903 --> 00:23:46.073
  • Life that will enable you to overcome those personal
  • 00:23:46.073 --> 00:23:49.310
  • Challenges that feel we were so aware of.
  • 00:23:49.310 --> 00:23:55.249
  • We've been called to something larger than that, not to ignore
  • 00:23:55.249 --> 00:23:59.453
  • Ourselves, but to understand we are servants of a king and the
  • 00:23:59.453 --> 00:24:03.524
  • Purposes of his kingdom.
  • 00:24:03.524 --> 00:24:05.960
  • Amen?
  • 00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:07.328
  • If you'll stand, i'd like to pray with you.
  • 00:24:07.328 --> 00:24:17.004
  • There's too many coughs in the room to ask you to join hands.
  • 00:24:17.004 --> 00:24:21.775
  • Afraid you'll start spraying one another with lysol.
  • 00:24:21.775 --> 00:24:26.180
  • Remember those days?
  • 00:24:26.180 --> 00:24:29.350
  • Thank god we've been delivered.
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  • Father, thank you for your word.
  • 00:24:30.718 --> 00:24:32.953
  • I thank you that you have a people in the earth; that you've
  • 00:24:32.953 --> 00:24:36.123
  • Called us from every nation, race, language, and tribe; lord,
  • 00:24:36.123 --> 00:24:41.262
  • That through the blood of jesus we have been delivered out of
  • 00:24:41.262 --> 00:24:43.464
  • The hand of the enemy, that his power over us has been broken,
  • 00:24:43.464 --> 00:24:48.369
  • Every claim against us has been canceled.
  • 00:24:48.369 --> 00:24:51.472
  • We praise you for that tonight.
  • 00:24:51.472 --> 00:24:54.108
  • And, lord, i pray for your people in the earth, that you
  • 00:24:54.108 --> 00:24:56.377
  • Would awaken us to your truth.
  • 00:24:56.377 --> 00:24:58.612
  • Give us a hungering and thirsting for yourself beyond
  • 00:24:58.612 --> 00:25:01.415
  • Anything we've ever known.
  • 00:25:01.415 --> 00:25:03.517
  • We pause tonight to pray for the people of jerusalem, for the
  • 00:25:03.517 --> 00:25:07.154
  • Inhabitants of the land.
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  • Grant them a revelation of yourself.
  • 00:25:08.923 --> 00:25:12.560
  • It will write a new future for them.
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  • Lord, i pray for those men and women that have been held
  • 00:25:15.162 --> 00:25:17.164
  • Hostage for so long.
  • 00:25:17.164 --> 00:25:19.833
  • I pray that you would strengthen them, that your angels would
  • 00:25:19.833 --> 00:25:22.069
  • Stand guard around them.
  • 00:25:22.069 --> 00:25:24.004
  • Lord, we pray that they would be released expeditiously.
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  • Lord, i pray you would restore what seems to have been taken.
  • 00:25:28.108 --> 00:25:32.413
  • I pray that you'll comfort those who have suffered.
  • 00:25:32.413 --> 00:25:34.481
  • We pray for the families in new orleans that are overcoming.
  • 00:25:34.481 --> 00:25:37.985
  • Lord, i pray for those in california that are facing a
  • 00:25:37.985 --> 00:25:41.322
  • Horrific fire.
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  • Lord, we are a people who are dependent upon an almighty god
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  • And we cry out to you tonight.
  • 00:25:49.029 --> 00:25:51.799
  • Lord, we turn our hearts to you and we know that you are well
  • 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:54.201
  • Able to deliver and heal and restore, and i thank you that we
  • 00:25:54.201 --> 00:25:59.006
  • Will see it with our own eyes.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
  • 00:26:06.380 --> 00:26:07.748
  • Stay warm.
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  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:26:09.883 --> 00:26:15.723
  • Allen jackson: hey, i've encouraged you for a long time
  • 00:26:15.823 --> 00:26:17.358
  • To lead with your faith.
  • 00:26:17.458 --> 00:26:18.892
  • Take you faith outside the church building
  • 00:26:19.026 --> 00:26:19.793
  • Into all the places that your life takes you,
  • 00:26:20.995 --> 00:26:23.130
  • Where you have influence, where you have a voice.
  • 00:26:23.130 --> 00:26:25.532
  • We've created some pieces to help you do that:
  • 00:26:25.532 --> 00:26:27.568
  • A tote bag, a blanket.
  • 00:26:27.568 --> 00:26:29.236
  • Maybe you're going to a ball game or the park or the beach,
  • 00:26:29.236 --> 00:26:31.805
  • Wherever that may be.
  • 00:26:31.805 --> 00:26:33.140
  • You take these along, they are a celebration of our nation's
  • 00:26:33.140 --> 00:26:36.176
  • 250th anniversary.
  • 00:26:36.176 --> 00:26:38.512
  • Somebody will want to know where you got it, what it's about.
  • 00:26:38.512 --> 00:26:41.081
  • It gives you an opportunity to share your faith.
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  • You know, i've had the privilege of living in some places outside
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  • The united states.
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  • Things like a grocery store or fast food or food delivery,
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  • Those things weren't possible in the places i lived.
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  • When i come home, just walking through a grocery store reminds
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  • Me of the goodness and the faithfulness of god,
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  • His blessings on our nation.
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  • Use your voice to say god has blessed america.
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  • Something as simple as a tote bag can open a door
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  • For your god story.
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  • Together, we're gonna lift up the name of jesus in this
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  • Generation and see god bless america again.
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  • ♪♪♪
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