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Allen Jackson - Does Church Belong In Politics? (Part 2)

May 17, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Does Church Belong In Politics? (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Does Church Belong In Politics? (Part 2) | May 17, 2026
  • Allen jackson: one of my heroes in the bible is saul of tarsus.
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  • He becomes the apostle paul.
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  • I know you know his story.
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  • He's written two thirds of our new testament by title.
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  • One of the most remarkable characters we meet in all of the
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  • Scripture, he was a pharisee with a remarkable education,
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  • Brilliant mind, and he hated jesus and jesus followers until
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  • He met jesus one day.
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  • He's on the road to damascus, and jesus interrupts his life,
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  • And he becomes the apostle paul, one of the most powerful voices
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  • For jesus that history has ever known.
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  • We put together a 90-day devotional.
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  • It's "lessons from paul."
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  • I'm still learning from paul, and
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  • I just wanted to share it with you.
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  • There's a little--there's a scripture verse, there's a bit
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  • Of a devotional, there's a place for some journaling.
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  • It's really intended to provide some direction so that you and i
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  • Become overcomers, overcomers of our past, overcomers of the
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  • Opposition in the present.
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  • Doesn't matter what the adversary is.
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  • The power of god that delivered paul, he'll deliver you and me.
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  • I believe you'll enjoy "lessons from paul."
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  • Tim barton: so, actually, this is two sermons that were printed
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  • As a book.
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  • Those were thick sermons, if those are two sermons.
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  • So--
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  • Allen: feeling convicted.
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  • Tim: well, i was just gonna say anytime they think you've gone
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  • Long, i just want to point out it used to be several hours for
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  • A sermon back in the day.
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  • David barton: wait a minute.
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  • I gotta get in on this for a minute because this several
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  • Hours for a sermon, john quincy adams, when he was president of
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  • The united states, now john quincy adams started keeping a
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  • Diary when he's 11 years old.
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  • He kept it for 68 years.
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  • So john quincy adams has this massive diary, and at one point
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  • He was talking about--he was 40 years in congress, president of
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  • The united states, served in the first several presidential
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  • Administrations, but he's talking about how that he would
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  • Go to church.
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  • And by the way, they went to church at the us capitol.
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  • Church was held at the capitol every sunday, and that's where
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  • He attended church, was at the capitol, and they would have
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  • Sermons at the capitol every sunday.
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  • And he said that one sunday, they had a brand-new chaplain
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  • That had just been hired in the house.
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  • That chaplain came in and he preached that sunday service.
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  • And john quincy adams usually goes through and analyzes
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  • Every sermon.
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  • "well, the verses were good, but he could have used this verse
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  • And he should have used this one.
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  • And the one--" and he just analyzed every sermon.
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  • And he got through and he said, "this chaplain preached this
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  • Morning and he has got to go.
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  • He only preached 40 minutes.
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  • What did he think we came to church for?
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  • We came here to be here several hours, but he talked--" and
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  • That's literally his complaint.
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  • Allen: you're applauding?
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • Tim: so this is a book with two sermons from john weiss.
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  • These sermons were actually preached back in the early
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  • 1700s, but this was reprinted in 1772 by the sons of liberty,
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  • Because in the midst of their idea of trying to get every
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  • American rallying together, working together, they said, "we
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  • Need to get everybody on the same page.
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  • How can we do that?"
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  • And this was a pastor who had been in massachusetts.
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  • David: and, by the way, just so you know, the sons of liberty,
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  • That's the group started by sam adams and john hancock and all
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  • The founding father kind of patriots.
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  • So the founding fathers are running the group that reprinted
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  • These two sermons.
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  • Tim: they decided that if we're gonna get everybody on the same
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  • Page, there was this pastor years ago who would preach these
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  • Great sermons.
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  • We should reprint those sermons and have them so americans could
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  • Read them because that would help them understand what we're
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  • Thinking and where we're coming from.
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  • Now, how would these sermons help them understand?
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  • Well, it's interesting because in one of these two sermons,
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  • John weiss, and i quote, says, "all men are created equal and
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  • Endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights."
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  • That's in the declaration.
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  • This is also where they got the idea he taught that god's
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  • Preferred form of government was the consent of the government.
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  • He taught, and this is in these sermons, these two sermons, he
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  • Taught that taxation without representation is tyranny.
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  • Those are all things that show up in the declaration.
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  • This was reprinted by the founding fathers, circulated, so
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  • When the founding fathers are trying to raise up these
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  • Patriotic people, and the way they did it is: we need sermons.
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  • I just want to point out that this is where we have a lot more
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  • Disconnect today than we realize, and if we would go back
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  • And review some history, it's amazing the role the church had
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  • In leading so much of the movement, but by the way, they
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  • Weren't leading because they wanted to be rebellious.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • David: george washington, when he retired at the end of 45
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  • Years of public service, i mean, he was the guy in america, could
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  • Have been king if he'd wanted to, he didn't want to.
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  • The bible talked about electing your leaders and so in his final
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  • Farewell address, he said, "what produces our political
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  • Prosperity is religion and morality.
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  • You can't have political prosperity without religion
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  • And morality.
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  • You can't have religion and morality if religious and moral
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  • People don't get involved in the political process.
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  • It's not gonna be the immoral and the irreligious that bring
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  • Religion and morality, and you can't have religion--you can't
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  • Have political prosperity without religion and morality."
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  • If i can, i wanna show you slides for just a couple of
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  • Minutes, show you kind of where the church is on this.
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  • We keep up with stats and do a lot of work on this kind
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  • Of stuff.
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  • So i want to show you kind of what it looks like because you
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  • Guys are facing an election this tuesday, primary elections.
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  • And by the way, i just checked while i was sitting down with
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  • You, i just checked some of the county, like shelby
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  • County, memphis.
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  • If you happen to be voting on tuesday, shelby county, in the
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  • County, there are 30 races in the county.
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  • And 15 of those races have no candidates in the race at all.
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  • Nobody even stepped up to want to be involved.
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  • If you'd lived in shelby county, you could have run for 15
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  • Different offices just by signing up.
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  • And if the godly--the scriptures say, "when the
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  • Righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule,
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  • The people groan."
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  • Only way the righteous rule is they have to get on the ballot
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  • And then they have to get elected once they're on
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  • The ballot.
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  • And this is something the church has backed away from for
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  • Several years.
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  • If i go back to the time of founding father daniel webster.
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  • In his 1840 election, voter turnout was 100%.
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  • In his particular election for congress, there were 5000 people
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  • In his district and there were 5000 votes cast in
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  • That district.
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  • So everybody felt a responsibility.
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  • I'll answer to god for what i do with my vote.
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  • He gave me a vote.
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  • What am i gonna do with it?
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  • [clearing throat] excuse me.
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  • So christians have backed away from that.
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  • I wanna show you where we are now.
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  • So let me take--put some slides up on the screen here, guys, if
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  • We can.
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  • There we go.
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  • So in voting, i'm gonna take you through the numbers real quick.
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  • 100% of those that are constitutionally able to vote
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  • Can, and that means if you're 18 years old and you're a legal
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  • Citizen, you're constitutionally able to vote.
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  • Tim: that is a big deal, by the way, that you're a legal citizen
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  • For any state that's confused on that.
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  • That's constitutional, so.
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  • David: so, within that framework, 100% of adults that
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  • Are 18 and legal citizens can vote.
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  • And at this point, only 68% are registered to vote.
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  • So you see that--or actually 65.3%.
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  • So already we have about one-third of americans who say,
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  • "i don't care what the rest of the nation does.
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  • I don't care where it goes.
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  • I'm not going to do anything to direct that."
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  • So at this point, we're having 1 out of 3 adults check out.
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  • Now, let me go back to the stats here for a minute.
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  • So with that 65.3%.
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  • That one, that went-- all right, i'll watch this way.
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  • So in presidential elections, which is where we have the
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  • Highest voter turnout, only 54% are registered to vote, and
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  • That's 54% of 65.3%.
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  • So that's not high voter turnout.
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  • That means only 36% of adults vote in the presidential
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  • Election, democrat and republican together, only 36%.
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  • Tim: and one note for this, this is from the last 5 decades
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  • Of data.
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  • What actually skews this more recently is because of covid
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  • With the mail-in ballots when there was in--president biden
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  • Had the most incredible vote count that there's ever been for
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  • Any president in american history because he's the most
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  • Popular one that's ever been elected, not to digress, but
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  • This is excluding that election.
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  • So apart from that election, when there was, actually in some
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  • Counties they had 125% voter turnout.
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  • It's fine, it's fine.
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  • But it's excluding that one election, just so you know,
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  • That's for 5 decades of data for where these numbers come from.
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  • David: so what you have is 36% of adults voted,
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  • Constitutionally able adults voted, and it only takes half
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  • That to win, which means 18% has been choosing the president of
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  • The united--now this covers 11 presidential elections.
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  • So 1 out of 5 americans is choosing the president of the
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  • United states, 11 presidential elections.
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  • If you go to off-year elections, which is where we are now, this
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  • Is where you choose senators, congressmen, governors, et
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  • Cetera, your average voter turnout drops to 38% of
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  • Registered voters.
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  • It takes half that to win the election, which is--and only
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  • 26% of registered ones vote.
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  • And so you're looking at about 13% of adults choose governors,
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  • Choose us senators.
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  • We're talking 1 out of 8 americans are choosing--people
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  • Gripe about the leaders they've got.
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  • Well, that's because 7 out of 8 didn't vote for that leader.
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  • That's because 4 out of 5 didn't vote for that
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  • Presidential candidate.
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  • And that's on us.
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  • That's not on them.
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  • So when you get down into other elections, you take that 1 out
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  • Of 5 number or that 1 out of 8 number and jump down into
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  • Local elections.
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  • At local elections, it's only 6% turnout.
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  • Now, that's 6% of registered voters, which means only 4% of
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  • Adults vote, which means, generally, we're choosing our
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  • Mayors, we're choosing our city council with 2%.
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  • I'll give you a couple of quick indications.
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  • Los angeles county, this--the county of los angeles is larger
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  • Than the population of 23 states.
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  • So if you're the mayor of los angeles, that's like being a
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  • Governor in 23 different states.
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  • Eric garcetti, the recent mayor of los angeles, brags that he
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  • Was elected with 2.9% of the vote, a total--so you
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  • Essentially have a governor that more people than most governors
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  • Have, and he's elected with 2.9% of the total vote of
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  • Los angeles.
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  • If you go to houston and texas where we are, houston is larger
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  • Than 20 states, and we elected in houston a lady named annise
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  • Parker with 4.9%.
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  • She was the first open lesbian mayor in houston.
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  • She enacted policies that said if from the pulpit you say
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  • Marriage is between a man and a woman, that is now a crime.
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  • She went after several pastors for that.
  • 00:11:12.587 --> 00:11:14.622
  • They did the same in san antonio.
  • 00:11:14.622 --> 00:11:16.224
  • They made it a class c misdemeanor to say that marriage
  • 00:11:16.224 --> 00:11:18.526
  • Is between a man and a woman.
  • 00:11:18.526 --> 00:11:20.128
  • So i can't even say what the bible says without violating
  • 00:11:20.128 --> 00:11:22.864
  • Civil law.
  • 00:11:22.864 --> 00:11:24.232
  • But again, when only 4.9% of the people in the city, and houston,
  • 00:11:24.232 --> 00:11:27.569
  • Highly christian city and san antonio is too, they just didn't
  • 00:11:27.569 --> 00:11:30.839
  • Vote in that election.
  • 00:11:30.839 --> 00:11:32.240
  • A couple more i'll point to.
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  • Fort worth, this is where all this gender confusion we've had
  • 00:11:33.608 --> 00:11:37.011
  • Over recent years that came out of fort worth, which is just
  • 00:11:37.011 --> 00:11:39.948
  • Unbelievable to me.
  • 00:11:39.948 --> 00:11:41.416
  • That's--fort worth is in the middle of texas area, but fort
  • 00:11:41.416 --> 00:11:44.519
  • Worth independent school district, they said, "you know,
  • 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:46.755
  • We've considered this and we don't think it matters anymore
  • 00:11:46.755 --> 00:11:49.257
  • What restroom kids choose or what locker rooms they go to or
  • 00:11:49.257 --> 00:11:53.128
  • What showers they use.
  • 00:11:53.128 --> 00:11:54.462
  • We're gonna let kids choose any."
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  • This is the school board of fort worth independent
  • 00:11:55.830 --> 00:11:58.366
  • School district.
  • 00:11:58.366 --> 00:11:59.701
  • They're the first ones in the nation that said this, and
  • 00:11:59.701 --> 00:12:01.736
  • That's out of a very red state and a very red city.
  • 00:12:01.736 --> 00:12:05.340
  • So what happened is arne duncan, who was secretary of education
  • 00:12:05.340 --> 00:12:08.409
  • For obama, said, "that's a great idea.
  • 00:12:08.409 --> 00:12:10.245
  • Let's make this federal."
  • 00:12:10.245 --> 00:12:11.646
  • And so this is where it went from a local city to federal
  • 00:12:11.646 --> 00:12:15.517
  • Level, and that's where it's come across all the states now.
  • 00:12:15.517 --> 00:12:18.419
  • And so what happened is, for us, it should have been
  • 00:12:18.419 --> 00:12:20.855
  • A no-brainer.
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  • Anybody that goes to the fort worth stock yards, you watch the
  • 00:12:22.190 --> 00:12:24.726
  • Cattle drive, you can tell what genders there are and there's
  • 00:12:24.726 --> 00:12:28.029
  • Only two of them.
  • 00:12:28.029 --> 00:12:29.364
  • And it's not hard to distinguish what the genders are.
  • 00:12:29.364 --> 00:12:32.000
  • Every mammal species in the world, only two genders.
  • 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:37.305
  • So the city in the world that should be clearest on genders,
  • 00:12:37.305 --> 00:12:41.576
  • At least it has visual examples every day, they were the
  • 00:12:41.576 --> 00:12:44.646
  • Ones confused.
  • 00:12:44.646 --> 00:12:45.980
  • So fort worth has 918,000 people.
  • 00:12:45.980 --> 00:12:48.349
  • It's the 13th largest city in the united states, 918,000.
  • 00:12:48.349 --> 00:12:52.487
  • I went and looked at the president of the school board
  • 00:12:52.487 --> 00:12:55.423
  • Who made this silly policy.
  • 00:12:55.423 --> 00:12:57.192
  • He was elected with a total of 1200 votes out of 918,000.
  • 00:12:57.192 --> 00:13:02.363
  • Now, i start looking in his district and i found a church in
  • 00:13:02.363 --> 00:13:05.400
  • His district and that one church alone had 3000 adults in it.
  • 00:13:05.400 --> 00:13:09.304
  • That one church could have kept him from being the president of
  • 00:13:09.304 --> 00:13:12.273
  • The school board, which would have saved the whole nation from
  • 00:13:12.273 --> 00:13:14.843
  • All this gender stupidity we've had for the last 15 years.
  • 00:13:14.843 --> 00:13:18.213
  • It came back to a local district, and a local church
  • 00:13:18.213 --> 00:13:21.583
  • Could have solved that problem.
  • 00:13:21.583 --> 00:13:23.818
  • So a couple of other examples i'll give you.
  • 00:13:23.818 --> 00:13:25.553
  • I'll take you to bentonville, arkansas.
  • 00:13:25.553 --> 00:13:26.955
  • This is the hometown of walmart.
  • 00:13:26.955 --> 00:13:28.756
  • Forty thousand people live there.
  • 00:13:28.756 --> 00:13:30.358
  • There was a lady that said, "this is not coming
  • 00:13:30.358 --> 00:13:32.260
  • To bentonville.
  • 00:13:32.260 --> 00:13:33.628
  • I'm gonna get on the school board and make sure it
  • 00:13:33.628 --> 00:13:35.096
  • Doesn't come," and she did.
  • 00:13:35.096 --> 00:13:36.431
  • In that town of 40,000, she ran for school board and received a
  • 00:13:36.431 --> 00:13:39.500
  • Total of 35 votes out of 40,000.
  • 00:13:39.500 --> 00:13:42.537
  • She got elected with a majority of 35 votes.
  • 00:13:42.537 --> 00:13:45.506
  • That's a sunday school class got her elected, essentially, is
  • 00:13:45.506 --> 00:13:48.543
  • What it amounts to.
  • 00:13:48.543 --> 00:13:49.911
  • One more example, i'll go to riceville, iowa.
  • 00:13:49.911 --> 00:13:52.280
  • There was a farmer in riceville, iowa, said, "this definitely is
  • 00:13:52.280 --> 00:13:55.149
  • Not coming to our town.
  • 00:13:55.149 --> 00:13:56.517
  • We know how many genders there are on the farm and this is not
  • 00:13:56.517 --> 00:13:59.153
  • Going to be in our schools."
  • 00:13:59.153 --> 00:14:00.488
  • So he signs up, he runs for school board, turned out on the
  • 00:14:00.488 --> 00:14:03.558
  • Day of the election, he got busy on the farm, didn't vote, and
  • 00:14:03.558 --> 00:14:05.994
  • Don't think that he lost by one vote.
  • 00:14:05.994 --> 00:14:07.462
  • That wasn't it.
  • 00:14:07.462 --> 00:14:08.930
  • There was not a single vote cast in the school board election.
  • 00:14:08.930 --> 00:14:12.333
  • If he had voted for himself, he would be sitting on the school
  • 00:14:12.333 --> 00:14:14.969
  • Board if he'd just voted for himself.
  • 00:14:14.969 --> 00:14:17.839
  • So there's stories like this that go forever and the point
  • 00:14:17.839 --> 00:14:21.209
  • Being that christians have to be involved in this arena,
  • 00:14:21.209 --> 00:14:24.712
  • Especially these down-ballot races.
  • 00:14:24.712 --> 00:14:27.081
  • It's--it takes a little bit of effort to find out who these
  • 00:14:27.081 --> 00:14:30.084
  • People are, but a little bit of effort is worth having
  • 00:14:30.084 --> 00:14:33.488
  • Good leaders.
  • 00:14:33.488 --> 00:14:34.856
  • Bible again, "when the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when
  • 00:14:34.856 --> 00:14:37.492
  • The wicked rule, people groan."
  • 00:14:37.492 --> 00:14:38.860
  • Nobody rules in america unless we put them there.
  • 00:14:38.860 --> 00:14:40.962
  • That's on us.
  • 00:14:40.962 --> 00:14:42.330
  • Tim: and notice how little-- [congregation applauding]
  • 00:14:42.330 --> 00:14:47.335
  • Notice how little it takes to make a difference
  • 00:14:47.335 --> 00:14:49.704
  • At a local level.
  • 00:14:49.704 --> 00:14:52.473
  • A lot of times we're like, "oh, there's just--it's too big."
  • 00:14:52.473 --> 00:14:55.343
  • No, you're thinking nationally when you're looking locally in
  • 00:14:55.343 --> 00:14:59.414
  • Many occasions.
  • 00:14:59.414 --> 00:15:01.049
  • Literally in bentonville, she was elected with just over
  • 00:15:01.049 --> 00:15:04.118
  • 30 votes.
  • 00:15:04.118 --> 00:15:05.453
  • That's crazy.
  • 00:15:05.453 --> 00:15:07.555
  • In iowa, now granted they didn't have early voting, so it was day
  • 00:15:07.555 --> 00:15:10.925
  • Of voting, that's fine.
  • 00:15:10.925 --> 00:15:13.294
  • Nobody, like, do you have no friends?
  • 00:15:13.294 --> 00:15:15.563
  • Could nobody show up and vote for you?
  • 00:15:15.563 --> 00:15:17.065
  • It's crazy.
  • 00:15:17.065 --> 00:15:18.433
  • But again, it does not take a massive movement sometimes to
  • 00:15:18.433 --> 00:15:24.439
  • Make a massive impact.
  • 00:15:24.439 --> 00:15:26.908
  • Sometimes it's just gideon's little army showing up and they
  • 00:15:26.908 --> 00:15:32.280
  • Can make a major difference.
  • 00:15:32.280 --> 00:15:33.948
  • And this is part of where as christians also the challenge
  • 00:15:33.948 --> 00:15:36.284
  • Should be we shouldn't be thinking about we need the
  • 00:15:36.284 --> 00:15:39.287
  • Majority to win something.
  • 00:15:39.287 --> 00:15:41.055
  • We should be thinking about being faithful to what god's
  • 00:15:41.055 --> 00:15:43.257
  • Called us to do and recognize how often god uses the little
  • 00:15:43.257 --> 00:15:48.463
  • And the faithful to do something quite significant ultimately,
  • 00:15:48.463 --> 00:15:51.699
  • Because in the end god gets credit and we can't brag about
  • 00:15:51.699 --> 00:15:53.501
  • How awesome we were.
  • 00:15:53.501 --> 00:15:54.836
  • We have to go, "man, look what god did," but it only happens
  • 00:15:54.836 --> 00:15:58.272
  • When we get involved in that process.
  • 00:15:58.272 --> 00:15:59.841
  • David: i want to give you two examples from fort worth that
  • 00:15:59.841 --> 00:16:02.143
  • Illustrate what tim was talking about.
  • 00:16:02.143 --> 00:16:03.611
  • After fort worth had this wake-up call--fort worth is
  • 00:16:03.611 --> 00:16:06.314
  • What sent this nonsense across the nation--the churches and
  • 00:16:06.314 --> 00:16:09.917
  • Pastors there said, "this should never have happened."
  • 00:16:09.917 --> 00:16:12.220
  • And so, fort worth being the 13th largest city, we got a lot
  • 00:16:12.220 --> 00:16:15.356
  • Of school boards, a lot of school districts.
  • 00:16:15.356 --> 00:16:18.092
  • Seventy churches got together and said, "hey, let's get our
  • 00:16:18.092 --> 00:16:20.962
  • Churches together.
  • 00:16:20.962 --> 00:16:22.296
  • Let's see if we can't recruit good people and run for school."
  • 00:16:22.296 --> 00:16:24.766
  • And so, what they did is out of the churches, they recruited 15
  • 00:16:24.766 --> 00:16:28.469
  • Candidates for school board.
  • 00:16:28.469 --> 00:16:30.338
  • And on election night, all 15 won and won by a major landslide
  • 00:16:30.338 --> 00:16:34.876
  • Because those 70 churches showed up to elect the people they had
  • 00:16:34.876 --> 00:16:37.645
  • Run and it was easy.
  • 00:16:37.645 --> 00:16:42.784
  • The other one i'll share is there was a single church in
  • 00:16:42.784 --> 00:16:45.920
  • Downtown fort worth area that said, "this is unacceptable."
  • 00:16:45.920 --> 00:16:49.524
  • And so, out of that church, out of that church, they ran 21
  • 00:16:49.524 --> 00:16:53.428
  • Candidates and 20 got elected out of that one church, because
  • 00:16:53.428 --> 00:16:56.998
  • That one church had enough voters to be able to--because
  • 00:16:56.998 --> 00:17:00.668
  • Again, people just don't show up for those kind of elections and
  • 00:17:00.668 --> 00:17:03.538
  • Just having a church show up, it makes a huge difference.
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  • Allen: we have an election next week.
  • 00:18:15.243 --> 00:18:17.578
  • Might i suggest you vote?
  • 00:18:17.578 --> 00:18:19.647
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:18:19.647 --> 00:18:23.918
  • And if you'll allow me, every candidate in this community,
  • 00:18:23.918 --> 00:18:27.455
  • Every candidate between now and election day is gonna say
  • 00:18:27.455 --> 00:18:30.057
  • "jesus" when asked a question.
  • 00:18:30.057 --> 00:18:32.326
  • So don't be naive.
  • 00:18:32.326 --> 00:18:34.495
  • If they've been in office, look at their body of work.
  • 00:18:34.495 --> 00:18:36.731
  • If they've done the right thing while they were there,
  • 00:18:36.731 --> 00:18:38.900
  • Support them.
  • 00:18:38.900 --> 00:18:40.268
  • If they haven't, don't pay attention, look at
  • 00:18:40.268 --> 00:18:41.602
  • The alternatives.
  • 00:18:41.602 --> 00:18:42.970
  • David: that's right.
  • 00:18:42.970 --> 00:18:45.373
  • Allen: i'm not telling you who to vote for.
  • 00:18:45.373 --> 00:18:46.707
  • I'm telling you to use your common sense.
  • 00:18:46.707 --> 00:18:49.076
  • It's important.
  • 00:18:49.076 --> 00:18:51.145
  • We can't just complain and we can't just pray.
  • 00:18:51.145 --> 00:18:53.714
  • It's like praying for food and not planting a garden.
  • 00:18:53.714 --> 00:18:57.285
  • We have to be involved in the process to get to the outcomes
  • 00:18:57.285 --> 00:19:00.421
  • That we need.
  • 00:19:00.421 --> 00:19:01.923
  • And our adversaries would like us to be quiet and talk about
  • 00:19:01.923 --> 00:19:04.692
  • The pharisees and the sadducees in the first century.
  • 00:19:04.692 --> 00:19:08.029
  • And i'm happy to have that dialogue, but we're ambassadors
  • 00:19:08.029 --> 00:19:10.965
  • For jesus of nazareth in the 21st century.
  • 00:19:10.965 --> 00:19:14.302
  • Marriage is not a political issue, it's a biblical issue.
  • 00:19:14.302 --> 00:19:17.505
  • What our children have in their libraries is not a political
  • 00:19:17.505 --> 00:19:19.907
  • Issue, it's a biblical issue, and we have to pay attention.
  • 00:19:19.907 --> 00:19:28.182
  • We got 2 minutes left and i wanna pray out, but you're doing
  • 00:19:28.182 --> 00:19:32.553
  • A lot of work for curriculum in schools.
  • 00:19:32.553 --> 00:19:36.090
  • I know you've got a 90-second summary of what wallbuilders is
  • 00:19:36.090 --> 00:19:39.393
  • Doing to make education better, but it's such an enormous body
  • 00:19:39.393 --> 00:19:43.064
  • Of work, they at least need a window into that so they
  • 00:19:43.064 --> 00:19:45.199
  • Can pray.
  • 00:19:45.199 --> 00:19:46.534
  • David: yeah, the bible says, and jesus says in 6:40, he says,
  • 00:19:46.534 --> 00:19:50.238
  • "every student when he's fully trained will be like
  • 00:19:50.238 --> 00:19:51.906
  • His teacher."
  • 00:19:51.906 --> 00:19:53.274
  • Education has a huge impact on our teachers.
  • 00:19:53.274 --> 00:19:54.942
  • So if we can get good curriculum in, so what happens is there's
  • 00:19:54.942 --> 00:19:57.845
  • Two states that drive curriculum in the united states because
  • 00:19:57.845 --> 00:20:01.082
  • Publishers publish for those two states: texas and california.
  • 00:20:01.082 --> 00:20:04.218
  • We have 24% of the nation's public school kids.
  • 00:20:04.218 --> 00:20:07.121
  • So if a publisher is gonna put $90 million in doing social
  • 00:20:07.121 --> 00:20:10.691
  • Studies curriculum, history curriculum, they're gonna choose
  • 00:20:10.691 --> 00:20:13.327
  • Texas and california.
  • 00:20:13.327 --> 00:20:14.762
  • Texas and california, we're not like each other at all.
  • 00:20:14.762 --> 00:20:17.231
  • We have very opposite philosophies.
  • 00:20:17.231 --> 00:20:19.533
  • So generally, the national publishers choose texas and
  • 00:20:19.533 --> 00:20:24.405
  • California, put our standards together, and so you get really
  • 00:20:24.405 --> 00:20:27.808
  • Bad history and we've had this going on for several
  • 00:20:27.808 --> 00:20:30.077
  • Decades now.
  • 00:20:30.077 --> 00:20:31.445
  • Texas this year said, "no, we're not doing this anymore.
  • 00:20:31.445 --> 00:20:34.081
  • We're big enough with 5.5 million students in our schools,
  • 00:20:34.081 --> 00:20:37.685
  • 5.7 million, that we'll start publishing our own textbooks."
  • 00:20:37.685 --> 00:20:41.756
  • And so what happens now in texas, we've passed several laws
  • 00:20:41.756 --> 00:20:45.159
  • In the last 3 years, but for example, now you have to in
  • 00:20:45.159 --> 00:20:49.263
  • Every class have readings from the old testament and new
  • 00:20:49.263 --> 00:20:52.266
  • Testament as part of history because that's what the founding
  • 00:20:52.266 --> 00:20:54.502
  • Fathers read.
  • 00:20:54.502 --> 00:20:55.836
  • That's what historians read.
  • 00:20:55.836 --> 00:20:57.204
  • So you have that.
  • 00:20:57.204 --> 00:20:58.539
  • We now teach patriotism.
  • 00:20:58.539 --> 00:20:59.907
  • We now teach communism is wrong, socialism is wrong.
  • 00:20:59.907 --> 00:21:02.176
  • These are all things that california is on the other
  • 00:21:02.176 --> 00:21:04.178
  • Side of.
  • 00:21:04.178 --> 00:21:05.546
  • So i'm one of the nine people selected in texas to write the
  • 00:21:05.546 --> 00:21:08.516
  • Standards for the school books in texas.
  • 00:21:08.516 --> 00:21:11.185
  • We have 23 different social studies courses.
  • 00:21:11.185 --> 00:21:14.255
  • Those textbooks will be coming out.
  • 00:21:14.255 --> 00:21:15.890
  • They will change the direction of the nation because we'll
  • 00:21:15.890 --> 00:21:18.559
  • Start raising a generation of kids that see things from very
  • 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:21.696
  • Different viewpoints.
  • 00:21:21.696 --> 00:21:23.064
  • [congregation cheering and applauding]
  • 00:21:23.064 --> 00:21:32.406
  • Allen: when i--thank you for that.
  • 00:21:32.406 --> 00:21:35.142
  • You can stand, we're gonna pray.
  • 00:21:38.813 --> 00:21:40.147
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:21:40.147 --> 00:21:49.123
  • I wanted you to know there are people that we--the weakness of
  • 00:21:49.123 --> 00:21:53.494
  • The local church is it's a local church.
  • 00:21:53.494 --> 00:21:56.564
  • And it's important to know that there are people working
  • 00:21:56.564 --> 00:21:58.799
  • Diligently across our nation beyond the ones you know to take
  • 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:03.871
  • A biblical worldview and put it back in our public square and
  • 00:22:03.871 --> 00:22:07.308
  • Public education.
  • 00:22:07.308 --> 00:22:08.776
  • It is our heritage.
  • 00:22:08.776 --> 00:22:10.945
  • Its absent is a very new--its absence is a very new thing.
  • 00:22:10.945 --> 00:22:16.317
  • And they're not only doing the work, they have the largest
  • 00:22:16.317 --> 00:22:18.853
  • Collection of--you say it with the right words.
  • 00:22:18.853 --> 00:22:21.989
  • Tim: the largest private collection of original documents
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  • From the founding era.
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  • Allen: so when the academics in these elite institutions say
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  • That's not true, they actually own the doc--they would destroy
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  • The documents.
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  • You know, they have done with our founding documents what god
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  • Does with archaeology.
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  • You know, the elite academics say that you can't trust the
  • 00:22:40.408 --> 00:22:44.478
  • Bible and god says, "well, go dig over here."
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  • Or "go look in that cave," and we find a scroll of isaiah
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  • That's 1000 years older than anything we had and it's not
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  • Corrupt, and the angels chuckle and go, "say something else."
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  • But there are many, many, many people at work to honor the lord
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  • In our generation.
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  • And you need to pray for these folks.
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  • David, david and cheryl, have been--they've been home 2 days
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  • This month.
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  • That's hard work.
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  • That's not fun after about day 4, and then that hasn't been a
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  • 4-week cruise.
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  • So pray for them.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • There are good things happening.
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  • There is truth being told and things are being put in place
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  • That will spare a generation of children from some of the
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  • Nonsense that we haven't spared them from in the past.
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  • And it's up to us to be that generation, amen?
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  • And one of the things, you know, you're not powerless, you've got
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  • To vote.
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  • And you know, at the moment, less than 5% of the people have
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  • Participated that are registered to do so.
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  • So let's make the turnout just goofy this time.
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  • Goofy being a greek word that means many more voted than
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  • Expected, okay?
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  • We have a commitment around here, when someone comes and
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  • Ministers to us that we pray for them, and not just while they're
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  • In the building, but they become a part of our prayer initiative
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  • Because we're a people who pray.
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  • And so we wanna pray for the barton family and for
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  • Wallbuilders and those affiliated with them that god
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  • Will bring a fruitfulness to them beyond anything they've
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  • Imagined, that all the things they've told you is simply a
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  • Beginning, a small deposit on what god will do.
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  • You know, we work, but god brings an outcome.
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  • God said as long as the earth exists, seed time and harvest,
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  • David and i went to oru.
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  • He clearly paid attention.
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  • I was doing other things.
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  • But we were both on campus.
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  • I was a history, that's embarrassing.
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  • I studied history at the same school where this man went.
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  • David: i was anti-history.
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  • I hated history.
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  • Allen: yeah, yeah.
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  • Uh-huh.
  • 00:24:50.738 --> 00:24:53.908
  • But god said, "as long as the earth exists, seed time and
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  • Harvest--" you plant a small seed and you get a
  • 00:24:56.143 --> 00:24:57.711
  • Disproportionate outcome.
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  • That's what the blessing of god does in all of our lives, and
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  • That's our prayer for them.
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  • They invest the effort and the energy and they do the learning
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  • And they do the things, but that god will bring an outcome that
  • 00:25:06.520 --> 00:25:09.857
  • When we stand and say, "only god could have brought that about."
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  • Is that fair?
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  • Amen, let's pray.
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  • You stretch out your hand if you're into that.
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  • If you're not, stretch out your other hand, okay?
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  • Father, i thank you for these men and their families and for
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  • Wallbuilders and i thank you for the heart you've put in them,
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  • The desire to see the name of jesus exalted in our schools and
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  • Our college campuses and the halls of government, and in
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  • This nation.
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  • And lord, we lift them before you today.
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  • Give them wisdom beyond themselves.
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  • Open the windows of heaven, release the resources that are
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  • Needed for the assignments you've given them.
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  • Bring the people to help them that have the wisdom and the
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  • Experience and the ability.
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  • Protect them from those who would diminish or distract
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  • Or disrupt.
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  • And i thank you for a harvest that will bring an extension of
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  • Liberty and freedom to generation after generation.
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  • I thank you for your church in the earth.
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  • Father, through our efforts may your name be lifted up, may your
  • 00:26:02.343 --> 00:26:05.579
  • Kingdom come and your will be done in jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah, thank you.
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  • God bless.
  • 00:26:12.620 --> 00:26:17.424
  • Allen: you know, i don't believe the primary objective in reading
  • 00:26:21.662 --> 00:26:24.698
  • Our bible or even the pursuit of our faith is informational.
  • 00:26:24.698 --> 00:26:28.168
  • I like to learn, but i believe the ultimate objective
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  • Is transformation.
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  • We've got a tool, i think it'll help, it's called "lessons
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  • From paul."
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  • The apostle paul is one of my heroes.
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  • In the face of unyielding persecution and opposition, some
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  • Tremendous physical suffering, just awful things, multiple
  • 00:26:41.215 --> 00:26:45.252
  • Assassination attempts, he remains unflinching in his
  • 00:26:45.252 --> 00:26:49.189
  • Advocacy for jesus of nazareth.
  • 00:26:49.189 --> 00:26:50.858
  • He knows the power of god.
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  • It says god did extraordinary miracles through paul.
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  • Well, i wanna learn those lessons.
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  • I wanna be transformed by them, so i can stand in this season
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  • For the purposes of god in my life.
  • 00:27:00.134 --> 00:27:01.702
  • So, we put together this devotional, it's 90 days, some
  • 00:27:01.702 --> 00:27:04.571
  • Portions from paul that are favorites of mine, some
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  • Journaling space, some prayers.
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  • It'll help us be changed.
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  • I wanna pray for you that these 90 days will be transformational
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  • In your life.
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  • Father, help us not just be hearers but to be doers of
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  • Your word.
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  • May the spirit of god bring transformation to each of us.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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