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Allen Jackson - Develop A Strategy

June 25, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Develop A Strategy
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 - Develop A Strategy | June 25, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: we have a new resource for you.
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  • I'm really excited about this.
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  • It's a book. it's a booklet.
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  • It's a small book called "your identity in christ."
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  • It was derived from years of teaching and leading in the
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  • Context of the church.
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  • We're walking through a season, folks, when there's so much
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  • Confusion about our identity.
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  • We put this together to help you understand who you are in
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  • Christ, not just about your salvation, but so that you can
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  • Lead a triumphant, victorious, overcoming life.
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  • We built it for an individual read.
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  • It's great for a small group.
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  • It's a great resource for your kitchen-table time as a family
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  • With children or grandchildren.
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  • If you know who you are in christ, it changes everything
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  • About the landscape of your life.
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  • "i'm righteous in the sight of god."
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  • "i can stand before god without fear, guilt, or condemnation."
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  • Those are such important foundational principles to get
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  • Secure in your heart, around your table with the people you
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  • Care about, in your small groups, with your friends.
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  • Your identity in christ, it's a game-changer.
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  • I believe it will add momentum to your
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  • Spiritual growth in this season.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: we're working on a little study called "when kingdoms
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  • Collide," really built around this idea that there are
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  • Multiple kingdoms that the bible invites us to be aware of that
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  • Exist simultaneously.
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  • You know, we tend to think in terms of the nation states or
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  • The realms of authority in this present age, and
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  • That's legitimate.
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  • They exist. they're real.
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  • But the bible asks us to take a step beyond that and understand
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  • There's another dimension that isn't understood in the way that
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  • We understand the dimension we're in that's defined by
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  • Matter, things that occupy space, but in the other
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  • Dimension, there's a kingdom of heaven, a kingdom of god, an
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  • Eternal kingdom.
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  • In opposition to that, there's a kingdom of darkness.
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  • We've talked a good bit about those.
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  • There's a third kingdom that you should be aware of because it
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  • Has tremendous influence in your life, and that's the kingdom
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  • Of self.
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  • That's the kingdom that's defined by me and what i think
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  • And what i feel and what i want, and if you don't purposefully
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  • Address that, you'll occupy that throne, and you will push god
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  • Out of your life.
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  • The bible--the prescription the bible gives for dealing with the
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  • Kingdom of self is that we have to execute the king.
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  • We have to take that old nature within us, that carnal nature,
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  • That adamic nature--they're all phrases the bible uses--and we
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  • Have to crucify it.
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  • We have to say, you know, "i appreciate that you have an
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  • Opinion, but it's not going to dominate every thought process
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  • Or every conversation."
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  • One of the great values in reading the word of god is it
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  • Helps you understand the nature of god and you'll see more
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  • Clearly where your selfish nature deviates from the nature
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  • Of god, and then you can make a choice.
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  • Without the awareness of the word of god, you are highly
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  • Susceptible to think that you are the master of your fate--
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  • The captain of your soul and the master of your fate.
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  • Anybody remember that poem?
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  • I had to learn it in high school.
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  • I'm sure they don't teach it any longer.
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  • When i went to high school, we had chalkboards.
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  • We did have electricity, but.
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  • The poem was "invictus."
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  • What is it?
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  • "out of the--" i will not quote you a poem, that would be scary.
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  • But it concludes with, "i am the captain of my fate, and i am the
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  • Master of my soul."
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  • No, i don't think so.
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  • But that has to be addressed or that spirit will dominate your
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  • Life, and it will write a future for you that will rob you of
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  • God's best.
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  • And you can sit in church, you can make a profession of faith,
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  • You can serve and do many religious things and still be
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  • Dominated by the kingdom of self.
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  • So we'll talk a bit more about that, but i felt like i needed
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  • To start--we talked a bit about the theater of the absurd and
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  • The corresponding releases of truth, and i'm telling you, both
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  • Places are cranking out releases on a daily basis.
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  • For me, one of the highlights in the last couple of days, it
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  • Probably came through doge, this department of government
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  • Efficiency, which feels like a bit paradoxical anyway.
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  • But with elon musk leading that initiative, and they moved into
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  • Usaid, which has been responsible for the distribution
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  • Of billions--tens of billions of dollars on an annual basis
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  • For, oh, about 60 years.
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  • And they started going through their distribution list.
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  • And the reason i think it's relevant for us--i mean, have
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  • You ever heard the idea that we should pay very careful
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  • Attention to the separation of church and state?
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  • You heard that?
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  • I suspect you have.
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  • It occupies almost any conversation in the public arena
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  • Where faith is introduced.
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  • Somebody that may not like the idea begins to shout that we
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  • Have to separate church and state.
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  • And i would remind you, while that idea has made its way into
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  • The body of our law, it did not originate in our constitution.
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  • The phrase was first used in a letter that thomas jefferson
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  • Wrote to a group of churches.
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  • And he was assuring them in the letter that the state would not
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  • Involve themselves in the business of the church, there
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  • Would be no limits, because what our constitution does provide
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  • For is that congress shall make no law abridging or interfering
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  • Or limiting with the free exercise of religion.
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  • It's in the same paragraph where we have freedom of speech and
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  • Freedom of the press.
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  • So if the press shouldn't be separated from the state, then
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  • Neither should the church.
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  • Now, i understand there's some legal issues that have come
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  • Since then, but it isn't constitutional.
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  • But the way it's used in the public square is so narrow and
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  • The church has paid so little attention--we haven't been
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  • Watching and listening and thinking--that it's used almost
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  • Exclusively to talk about those of us who sit in a church
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  • Building and read bibles and profess, "jesus is lord."
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  • But if you're going to apply that notion the way they want
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  • To, it really has to do with something that is a religion,
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  • Which really is defined by a worldview and dogmatic adherence
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  • To that worldview.
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  • And i would submit to you that our government for a long season
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  • Now has been very enthusiastically engaged in the
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  • Promotion of a religion.
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  • Far from being separated, they have been silencing traditional
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  • Historical orthodox christianity, and they have been
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  • Promoting a worldview that is diametrically opposed, spending
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  • Multiplied billions of dollars-- tax dollars--promoting that.
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  • While they told us they wanted to be--the church to be
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  • Separate from the government.
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  • And we have either been so frightened, so disinterested, so
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  • Distracted, or so uninformed that we've said nothing.
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  • It's time to use our voices.
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  • But i thought this release--i'm not sure they intended it to
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  • Be released.
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  • It's really a truth bomb that got pushed into the public
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  • Square, but i'm just gonna read you a few of the dollars that
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  • Have been spent by usaid.
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  • These are our tax dollars.
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  • Just under $8 million went to the sri lankan journalist on how
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  • To avoid binary gendered language.
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  • Twenty million went for a new "sesame street" show in iraq.
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  • Four and a half million to combat disinformation
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  • In kazakhstan.
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  • Two million for sex changes and lgbt activism in guatemala.
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  • Six million to transform digital spaces to reflect feminist
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  • Democratic principles.
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  • Twenty-five million to deloitte to promote green transportation
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  • In the country of georgia.
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  • Two and a half million to promote inclusion in vietnam.
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  • Sixteen and a half million for a separate inclusion group
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  • In vietnam.
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  • Apparently, they're not included very much over there, and they
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  • Need millions of dollars.
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  • Over $1 million to an american lgbt group, $1.5 million to
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  • Promote lgbt advocacy in jamaica, $2 million to promote
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  • Lgbt equality through entrepreneurship in
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  • Latin america.
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  • Almost $2.5 million for artisanal and small-scale gold
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  • Mining in the amazon.
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  • Almost $4 million for lgbt causes in the western balkans.
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  • Over $5 million for lgbt activism in uganda.
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  • Over $6 million for advancing lgbt issues in priority
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  • Countries around the world.
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  • And over $6 million for men who have sex with men in
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  • South africa.
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  • And the list goes on.
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  • Sounds like the funding of a worldview to me, using the tax
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  • Dollars and the authority of the american government to very
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  • Clearly promote an agenda and a worldview globally.
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  • I'm not gonna vote to spend my dollars that way, and i
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  • Certainly don't want somebody lecturing me that we need to pay
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  • More so they can have more to do that.
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  • In fact, as i was praying for that, i'll share--i think we
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  • Have been so asleep.
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  • I don't understand.
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  • I feel like we have seen god shaking the earth now for about
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  • Five years, and it comes in episodes.
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  • One was covid.
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  • It did--and when the shaking happens, there's things that
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  • Begin to become public knowledge.
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  • They break into the awareness of more people than had been
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  • True previously.
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  • Covid certainly caused that to happen in a number of arenas.
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  • I believe the october 7th attack in israel from hamas brought
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  • Anti-semitism to the forefront in ways--in places that existed
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  • That i hadn't been aware of, that it had the roots that it
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  • Did in some of the more celebrated--previously
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  • Celebrated universities in our nation.
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  • Their influence has begun to decline, and it will
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  • Precipitously decline.
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  • You can't do--you can't sponsor what they've sponsored without
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  • Repenting and not forfeit your influence.
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  • Well, i really wasn't prepared, but i believe the election last
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  • November is--the evidence seems to be growing that it was
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  • Another episode of shaking.
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  • There are things that are becoming clearer that just
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  • Weren't as clear.
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  • I'll give you one example, and it hasn't led in the news
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  • Lately, but we have sent a string of leaders to
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  • Washington, d.c.
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  • For a long time now, and many of whom, when they got those
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  • Appointments, they've spent decades and decades in
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  • Washington without any other jobs or means of employment, and
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  • They find themselves to have accumulated
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  • Tremendous resources.
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  • I mean, they stack up some great wealth, which i'm not really
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  • Opposed to that, but the organization they're leading,
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  • They're supposed to be leading our nation, they have led us
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  • Beyond bankruptcy.
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  • I mean, we are teetering on the point of total
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  • Financial collapse.
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  • What we're doing is unsustainable, and they lecture
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  • Us that we should pay more, that there's more deserved.
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  • Well, in any other arena, if you were earning obscene amounts of
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  • Money while you totally destroyed and dismantled the
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  • Organization you're leading, you wouldn't be celebrated as a
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  • Wonderful leader.
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  • You'd be ridiculed, mocked, removed, replaced.
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  • We would call that a whole host of things, but we wouldn't
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  • Bless it.
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  • Well, we have watched that happen for our lifetimes, and
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  • We've just kept doing it.
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  • I'm grateful that it seems to me that the haze is beginning to
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  • Clear and the smoke is beginning to lift.
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  • We need to look at what's happening in our nation with a
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  • Different perspective and a different set of views, and the
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  • Church is equally guilty.
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  • We've done our best to keep the hazers running, and we're gonna
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  • Have to have the courage to tell the truth.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: hey, i wanna ask you a question: how do you identify?
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  • Male, female, southerner, educated, housewife?
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  • How do you identify?
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  • Well, i wanna suggest knowing your identity in christ is the
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  • Allen: no, you have to watch and listen and think--i got home
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  • Last evening, and we turned on the news for a minute, and the
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  • President was standing there with the prime minister
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  • Of israel.
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  • Well, i've heard this news conference 700 times.
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  • The president looked at the camera, and he said, "i have
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  • A solution."
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  • I still wasn't paying much attention.
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  • I thought, "blah, blah, blah."
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  • I mean, it's like charlie brown's teacher, you know?
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  • "we're gonna rebuild gaza and invite hamas back in."
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  • And he said, "we're not going to do this again.
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  • It's everything we've done for 70--everything that's been done
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  • For 70 years has failed."
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  • And that is accurate.
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  • And he said gaza is decimated, and there's thousands of
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  • Mines over there.
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  • It's not a safe place for people.
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  • He said, "we will build new communities for the people
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  • Of gaza."
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  • I've been talking to the leaders of the middle east, and there's
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  • Gonna be cooperation, and there's a lot--i don't know if
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  • It'll happen or not.
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  • I just never heard the idea.
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  • And he said, "we'll take the gaza area, and we'll--we will
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  • Cause it to be a productive zone for the whole region with jobs
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  • And opportunities for all the people."
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  • And when you say it out loud, it's like, "well, yeah,
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  • Why not?"
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  • You can't rebuild it.
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  • They--the people that have been there have no ability to protect
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  • Themselves from the terrorists funded by iran.
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  • And you can't hand it back.
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  • And then i thought, "well, what do--" i sat down with a piece of
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  • Paper today, i said, "what do i know about the middle east?
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  • Well, i know that--" i'm gonna do this outline, i promise.
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  • Somebody asked me in the lobby, they said, "oh, we didn't think
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  • You were here.
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  • The outline's so short."
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  • Y'all know me better than that.
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  • You could give me the shortest verse in the bible, "jesus
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  • Wept," and i'd keep you long.
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  • But if you'll think about what you know about the map of the
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  • Middle east, lebanon to the north of israel is a
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  • Total wreck.
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  • I mean, the functioning government there has been
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  • Hezbollah, iranian proxies.
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  • The leaders of lebanon haven't controlled that nation for a
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  • Long time.
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  • Next door is syria, which has been in a civil war for a
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  • Long time.
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  • Their dictator, assad, bashar al-assad, just left recently.
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  • That country is decimated.
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  • Iraq is a mess.
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  • Iran is the global sponsor of terrorism.
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  • I mean, you go right on around to north africa, it's not
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  • Better--sudan, libya.
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  • I mean, all the muslim nations in the middle east and north
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  • Africa have authoritarian forms of government.
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  • There isn't liberty and freedom for all.
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  • They don't welcome diversity.
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  • The only possible spot in the middle east and north africa
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  • Where something close to democracy flourishes is in the
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  • Nation of israel, and the talking point in the united
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  • Nations and the international community is the root of the
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  • Problem is israel.
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  • So, what, we want freedom and prosperity like lebanon or syria
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  • Or libya?
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  • We want that to flourish more broadly?
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  • So what president trump had to say about gaza and being
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  • Involved to help make a peaceful, fruitful, productive
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  • Place for people to work and live is the most logical
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  • Statement about how to resolve the conflict in israel that i
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  • Have heard in a long, long time.
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  • I don't know what the outcome will be, but i can tell you the
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  • Releases of truth that are coming on a regular basis
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  • Are startling.
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  • And, to me, the big question is, will the church be able to
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  • Process it?
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  • Reminds me a great deal of some of the people god raised up in
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  • The bible, and i'm not suggesting that president trump
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  • Is occupying some biblical office, any more than i would--
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  • I'm not going there.
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  • But i do think what's happening could only be orchestrated by
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  • Expressions of the mercy and the grace of god, directed by
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  • His spirit.
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  • I've had enough birthdays and participated in enough
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  • Elections, they seldom change anything.
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  • It's kind of like a globetrotters game, they just
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  • Change jerseys and split the gate.
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  • And that's not what's happening right now.
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  • And i believe only god could have orchestrated that.
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  • So i think it's incumbent upon us--what i do find in the bible
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  • Is when josiah, as a relatively young man, is confronted with
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  • The bible that they had lost, he's so grieved at the
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  • Difference between how they're living and what the bible
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  • Instructs that he tears his clothes and he begins to go into
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  • Mourning as if a family member had died.
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  • And he initiates a set of reforms that seemed from a
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  • Distance to be rather straightforward, but i assure
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  • You, they weren't.
  • 00:21:01.275 --> 00:21:02.610
  • The temple was in such disrepair that the doors didn't work.
  • 00:21:02.610 --> 00:21:06.447
  • But what did work around the temple was all of the quarters,
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  • The facilities that had been built for prostitution.
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  • So there's priests presiding over prostitution.
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  • There's people who are visiting the prostitutes.
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  • There are people who are profiting from
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  • That infrastructure.
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  • Idolatry has been included in the temple, on the temple mount
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  • In jerusalem, and josiah begins to take down the prostitution,
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  • To dismantle the systems that have supported it, to cut down
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  • The idols to begin to restore to the nation an attention towards
  • 00:21:41.682 --> 00:21:47.088
  • Almighty god.
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  • Then i promise you there were multiplied thousands of people
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  • That were unhappy.
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  • And there's a priesthood and a whole group of people, they're
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  • Keeping kosher, they're celebrating passover, they're
  • 00:22:00.067 --> 00:22:03.537
  • Celebrating sukkot, the feast of tabernacles.
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  • They're keeping all of the holidays while they worship
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  • Pagan gods.
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  • Folks, it's like a snapshot of our nation.
  • 00:22:12.813 --> 00:22:18.386
  • And god raised up this young man, most improbably, to begin
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  • To lead this transformation.
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  • Now, the--god--the blessing is god said, "the judgment that i
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  • Was about to visit upon you, i will withhold because of what
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  • You've done."
  • 00:22:35.703 --> 00:22:37.772
  • I used to read that and think, "oh, that's harsh.
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  • God didn't say, 'because you've repented, i won't bring
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  • The judgment.'
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  • He said, 'i'm gonna withhold it in your lifetime.'"
  • 00:22:45.413 --> 00:22:49.450
  • What i've come to realize is if the--if when josiah's son, who
  • 00:22:49.450 --> 00:22:53.087
  • Followed him to the throne, had maintained the momentum, it's--
  • 00:22:53.087 --> 00:22:57.024
  • The inference--i think it's a logical, appropriate one--is
  • 00:22:57.024 --> 00:22:59.593
  • That god would have said, "i'll withhold the judgment there."
  • 00:22:59.593 --> 00:23:03.297
  • But you know what happened?
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  • His son became twice as wicked as he was when josiah started.
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  • Do you know why i believe that happened?
  • 00:23:11.372 --> 00:23:12.940
  • Not just because he was a wicked individual, because there was
  • 00:23:12.940 --> 00:23:16.110
  • Enormous pressure from the people.
  • 00:23:16.110 --> 00:23:18.078
  • You don't have to be a biblical scholar.
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  • When moses went up on mount sinai, and he was gone a little
  • 00:23:23.651 --> 00:23:26.353
  • Longer than the people liked, they came to aaron, who moses
  • 00:23:26.353 --> 00:23:29.690
  • Left in charge.
  • 00:23:29.690 --> 00:23:31.025
  • Remember what they said?
  • 00:23:31.025 --> 00:23:32.460
  • "we liked it better in egypt."
  • 00:23:32.460 --> 00:23:35.396
  • And so aaron collected their jewelry and fashioned a golden
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  • Calf, and they deteriorated into a pagan orgy.
  • 00:23:39.333 --> 00:23:47.374
  • These are the people that are eating manna, that drank water
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  • At marah, where it was too bitter to drink and god made it
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  • Potable again.
  • 00:23:54.582 --> 00:23:56.717
  • These are the people that walked through the red sea on dry
  • 00:23:56.717 --> 00:23:59.253
  • Ground and watched the egyptian army drowned.
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  • These are the people that have been sustained totally by the
  • 00:24:02.156 --> 00:24:05.392
  • Provision of almighty god and delivered by the most remarkable
  • 00:24:05.392 --> 00:24:09.230
  • Expressions of his power, and with the slightest opportunity,
  • 00:24:09.230 --> 00:24:12.800
  • They stepped right back into immorality and ungodliness.
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  • Folks, we have to pay attention to the story.
  • 00:24:16.871 --> 00:24:19.707
  • The new testament says it was written down as a warning for
  • 00:24:19.707 --> 00:24:22.943
  • Us, the ones on whom would come the end of the ages.
  • 00:24:22.943 --> 00:24:25.880
  • So while we see truth making its way into the public square,
  • 00:24:28.883 --> 00:24:31.986
  • Let's you and me be determined to become people of truth.
  • 00:24:31.986 --> 00:24:38.058
  • Don't get pulled into this--the political--making it political.
  • 00:24:38.058 --> 00:24:45.032
  • Because i don't understand it that way.
  • 00:24:45.032 --> 00:24:49.503
  • Politicians are a reflection of our heart, and there was enough
  • 00:24:49.503 --> 00:24:53.474
  • Of people raised their hand in an election and said, "we don't
  • 00:24:53.474 --> 00:24:55.876
  • Think we're going in the right direction."
  • 00:24:55.876 --> 00:24:59.113
  • And so for--inexplicably, the people that have been given the
  • 00:24:59.113 --> 00:25:03.584
  • Assignment are actually trying to choose a new direction.
  • 00:25:03.584 --> 00:25:07.721
  • Now, we're gonna have to have the courage to say, "we want to
  • 00:25:07.721 --> 00:25:10.925
  • See a biblical worldview, a judeo-christian
  • 00:25:10.925 --> 00:25:13.294
  • Worldview implemented."
  • 00:25:13.294 --> 00:25:17.531
  • This isn't new stuff, this is the story of the book.
  • 00:25:17.531 --> 00:25:22.503
  • You cannot have polite bible studies and act like you don't
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  • Hear what's happening outside the windows of the church.
  • 00:25:25.940 --> 00:25:29.610
  • That's the worst form of hypocrisy.
  • 00:25:29.610 --> 00:25:33.213
  • It's self-absorption.
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  • The point of learning the word of god
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  • Is so that we can be salt and light.
  • 00:25:37.418 --> 00:25:40.321
  • Allen: more than seven times god told joshua to be strong
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  • And courageous.
  • 00:25:43.123 --> 00:25:44.491
  • That was his commissioning, not go to theology school or read
  • 00:25:44.491 --> 00:25:47.294
  • Your bible more or do a greek word study, be strong
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  • And courageous.
  • 00:25:50.564 --> 00:25:51.966
  • I think strength and courage are more necessary for you and me as
  • 00:25:51.966 --> 00:25:54.735
  • Christ-followers today than any other set of attributes i can
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  • Think of.
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  • I wanna pray.
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  • Father, i thank you that we have bibles and churches and
  • 00:26:01.275 --> 00:26:03.377
  • Fellowship and community, but we need your help to be men and
  • 00:26:03.377 --> 00:26:06.480
  • Women of strength and courage.
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  • Holy spirit, we ask you, let a boldness for god grow in us.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:26:14.722 --> 00:26:20.327
  • Allen: hey, i'm really excited about our newest publication,
  • 00:26:20.394 --> 00:26:22.963
  • "your identity in christ."
  • 00:26:22.963 --> 00:26:24.798
  • Far too often in christiandom, we major on the minors.
  • 00:26:24.798 --> 00:26:27.701
  • We get way heated up about which church we attend, which
  • 00:26:27.701 --> 00:26:29.837
  • Denomination we belong to, which translation of the bible
  • 00:26:29.837 --> 00:26:32.306
  • We read.
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  • Most those things are all okay, but knowing who you are in
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  • Christ, it will mean freedom, or it will put you in a place
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  • Of bondage.
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  • When i help people through the steps of spiritual freedom, the
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  • Foundation of that is understanding who we are
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  • In christ.
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  • We put together this little booklet as a tool.
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  • It'll help you individually.
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  • You can do it as a small group.
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  • It's a great resource to share with your children or your
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  • Grandchildren at your kitchen table time.
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  • It'll make a difference in your life knowing who you are in
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  • Christ first and foremost as a part of your
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  • Spiritual formation.
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  • In fact, i wanna pray with you before we go that god will bring
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  • New freedom to you in this season.
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  • Father, thank you for--you have established, you have paid the
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  • Price that we can participate in your kingdom.
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  • By your spirit, awaken us to who we are in christ
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  • First and foremost.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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