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Allen Jackson - The Essential Family (Part 1)

October 21, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - The Essential Family (Part 1)
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 - The Essential Family (Part 1) | October 21, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: you know, we're witnessing something of a crisis
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  • In our nation, something i never thought i would see: expressions
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  • Of antisemitism, hatred for the jewish people, coming from
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  • America, coming from the christian community, the
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  • Conservative side of the ideological spectrum, to a
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  • Degree and scope i've never seen before.
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  • Well, it was important enough that i stopped and put together
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  • A book.
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  • The title of it is "supporting israel: how far is too far?"
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  • It's an important concept that isn't political.
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  • It's grounded in a biblical worldview.
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  • I think we need to understand our responsibilities to the
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  • Jewish people, to the modern-day state of israel, not from an
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  • Ideological perspective, not from the perspective of nation
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  • States, but as people of god.
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  • It's important.
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  • It's an important season, a lot of voices.
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  • You know, i know there's some fatigue with the conflict in the
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  • Middle east, but we can't afford to be fatigued with our
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  • Assignments to honor god and the responsibilities that come
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  • With that.
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  • I believe the book will be a help to you.
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  • I believe it'll help you navigate the conversation with
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  • Your family and your friends.
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  • Enjoy the read.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: we've begun a new series talking about "shaping culture."
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  • And in this session we're gonna talk about "the essential
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  • Family," but the beginning of this i think is really
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  • Significant, that i believe the church's assignment is to
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  • Shape culture.
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  • Not to be shaped by it.
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  • When we're called salt and light, light is intended to
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  • Dispel the darkness.
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  • I don't think it's helpful to rage against the darkness.
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  • I think we have to turn up the light.
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  • And i think we have been desperately trying for too long,
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  • Maybe not you individually or even our particular community,
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  • But i think the church in a broader way has been desperately
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  • Trying not to notice.
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  • It's as if we just don't look, if we don't talk about it, if we
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  • Don't acknowledge it, maybe it'll go away, maybe it'll
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  • Just dissipate.
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  • Maybe we can talk about how things were in the 1st century
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  • Or how things were 1000 years before jesus was born in
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  • Jerusalem, or maybe we can be experts on the pharisees or the
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  • Sadducees, but for heaven's sakes, let's not talk about
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  • What's happening in our world.
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  • Well, i don't think that's a biblical approach.
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  • Jesus talked a great deal about what was happening in his world.
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  • All the prophets talked about what was happening in
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  • Their world.
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  • Moses took a group of hebrew slaves and had to talk a great
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  • Deal about life and boundaries and regulations and
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  • Nation building.
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  • All of that's part of it.
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  • We're called to be a part of the cultures in which we
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  • Live and to shape it with the values that come from scripture,
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  • From a biblical worldview.
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  • It's not easy, it's not simple, because we're broken people and
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  • Our stories are imperfect.
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  • We're a bunch of cracked pots.
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  • But it's through those cracked pots that the light of
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  • God shines.
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  • I'm gonna start for a minute-- i've talked to you often about
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  • The theater of the absurd.
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  • You know, that's not dependent upon any
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  • Particular administration.
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  • They just keep cranking out the hits.
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  • So we have to watch and listen and then we have to think
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  • Because there is widespread deception and manipulation.
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  • It's stunning, it's startling.
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  • It's coming at us with such rapidity and in such
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  • Significance that it's disorienting.
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  • You need--you need fellow believers that share a worldview
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  • With you that you can talk about, that you can unpack
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  • What's happening in the world, that it'll help you maintain
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  • Your stability.
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  • And then we have to act, not in anger or violence, but we have
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  • To engage with the world we're in.
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  • It's remarkable to me.
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  • There's two things.
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  • There's many, many things we could talk about.
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  • I think we're at one of those inflection points.
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  • I don't believe a decade from now that the culture around us
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  • Will reflect what we're watching.
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  • I don't know what the outcomes will be, but i think we've been
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  • Given an opportunity, but the momentum that's filled the last
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  • Decade, if it were to continue unchecked, is not a
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  • Pleasant thought.
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  • But i believe god has introduced himself in the most surprising
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  • Of ways.
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  • I didn't expect the martyrdom of a person that i considered a
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  • Friend to open the door for the proclamation of the gospel.
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  • That would not have been my choice for how to amplify the
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  • Jesus story.
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  • But god seems to have used it in that way.
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  • And what i'm conscious of is god is moving, but he's not moving
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  • In the ways i would--i would have preferred that there had
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  • Been a tremendous awakening amongst the theology schools.
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  • I mean, they're filled with faculties that have invested
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  • Their lives in studying their bible.
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  • It would have been wonderful if the spirit of god had been
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  • Poured out on all those places, they'd start cranking out
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  • Leadership for the churches with a--but that isn't what
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  • God's doing.
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  • Too many of those places are doubling down on stupid.
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  • Stupid is a greek word.
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  • It means i disagree.
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  • You know my mom is not here because if i had said "stupid"
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  • In the pulpit, she would have charged the platform.
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  • So let me just repent now.
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  • Not a good choice.
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  • But there's a couple of things i at least want to acknowledge:
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  • The rapid, unashamed promotion of lawlessness.
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  • I mean, with no shame, disregard for law and order.
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  • We are a nation of laws.
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  • The best things that have come to us as a people is when we
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  • Recognize we've had bad laws and we've changed them, but we've
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  • Been a nation under authority and there's been a persistent,
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  • Consistent effort to throw off that.
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  • The most powerful people in our nation for a long time kept
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  • Looking us in the eye and saying our borders are secure while
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  • Millions and millions of people were flooding into our country
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  • Illegally and the key word is illegally.
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  • We're a nation of immigrants, but we've been legal immigrants.
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  • The other thing that's happening is the, from the highest levels,
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  • Widespread practices of deception.
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  • It's not only practiced, it's encouraged, it's celebrated.
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  • It's held up by corporate structures and media voices that
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  • We've trusted to tell us the truth.
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  • They're false prophets.
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  • People that you expect to tell you the truth and don't tell you
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  • The truth meet the definition for a false prophet.
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  • They don't have to wear religious garb and use
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  • Religious language.
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  • I read within the last 48 hours that on january 6th, that day of
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  • Great threat, there were 274 fbi agents embedded in the crowd at
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  • The capitol.
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  • Gee, that would have been a helpful little nugget to have
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  • Known for the last 3 or 4 years.
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  • When the director of the fbi was appearing before congress, it
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  • Would have been better that he hadn't talked in
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  • Political speak.
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  • He might have just told the plain truth some of us living in
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  • The hinterland in flyover country might have been able
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  • To understand.
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  • Deception from the highest levels.
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  • Trust in the institutions that, if we are to flourish as a
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  • People, must be trustworthy has cratered because of this
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  • Unapologetic deception that is practiced and encouraged.
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  • And associated with that is the lawlessness.
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  • The numbers vary and i don't-- nobody knows because we don't
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  • Know, nobody was paying any attention.
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  • We were making a very valiant effort not to notice, but
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  • Somewhere between 12 and 20 million people came into our
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  • Country illegally.
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  • That's an enormous burden on the systems.
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  • Educationally, healthcare, social security, all the things.
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  • And anything that begins with illegal does not lead to a
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  • Good outcome.
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  • You're not a good person if you're practicing
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  • Something illegal.
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  • Now i know good people get caught up in that, but the
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  • Church has been confused on this.
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  • This is not a discussion about compassion.
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  • Would it be compassion to say, "listen, everybody that's a
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  • Little short on cash, just go to the banks today and take what
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  • You need.
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  • I mean, i know it's an illegal withdrawal, but i'm just
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  • Overwhelmed with compassion.
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  • Just go help yourselves."
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  • I mean, we chuckle because we understand the fallacy in
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  • That reasoning.
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  • This is just a macro view of the same fallacy.
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  • And now we find ourselves where ice, if you're not familiar, you
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  • Know, we hear the acronym so often, ice is the immigration
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  • And customs enforcement agency in our nation.
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  • They're under the department of homeland security.
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  • It's a federal department.
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  • A department tasked with overseeing immigrations and
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  • Customs enforcement.
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  • Customs are those things that come into our country.
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  • We want them to come in legally, not illegally.
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  • When they come in illegally, it isn't helpful.
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  • Fentanyl would be probably the most glaring example.
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  • Tens of thousands of deaths every year for many years from a
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  • Drug smuggled into our country, and ice is given the assignment
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  • Of stopping that or limiting that or diminishing that.
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  • And we are living in a season where ice officers, the people
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  • Working for ice, federal agents, are tasked with identifying
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  • Those people that have come into our country illegally.
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  • Now here's the absurd part.
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  • We have the mayors in major american cities and often the
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  • Governors in those states doing everything in their power to
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  • Keep them from being effective.
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  • They are aggressively, assertively, actively working on
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  • Behalf of people who are here illegally, many of them with
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  • Criminal backgrounds.
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  • It's unthinkable.
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  • This past week, they shot up the ice facility in dallas.
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  • And just in case we weren't paying attention, apparently the
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  • Perpetrator, at least the person accused, wrote on the
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  • Cartridges anti-ice.
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  • No kidding.
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  • Week after week.
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  • Week after week after week, the ice agents are targets of
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  • Violence, their families are targeted.
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  • They do their best to find out who the officers are so they can
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  • Dox them, so they can make their families known, their addresses
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  • Known, their children's schools known, so they can make the
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  • Families of these federal agents vulnerable for doing their jobs.
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  • They're not wearing those masks because they're trying to be
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  • Criminals or hide from surveillance cameras.
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  • They're trying to protect their families.
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  • And this is happening in our midst.
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  • Lawlessness, we become inured to it, we become numb to it.
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  • I tell you this because the church, we're the
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  • Culture shapers.
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  • And if we don't have the courage to say, "no, that doesn't seem
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  • Right to me.
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  • I don't think that's a good idea.
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  • I don't think that's helpful.
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  • We can't just obey the laws we choose and ignore the
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  • Other ones.
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  • We can't practice deception.
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  • We can't hide the truth from the people that put us in power, and
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  • Then imagine that they could be trusted with whatever decisions
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  • Are coming next.
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  • You lie to us."
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  • It's a very, very troubling time.
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  • Been a lot of noise lately.
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  • How much time have i got?
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  • I've got an outline.
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  • It's all right, i'll get there, i promise.
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  • Been a lot of noise lately about jimmy kimmel.
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  • Have you heard any of that?
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  • Jimmy mocked, in essence, charlie kirk's martyrdom, on his
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  • Platform, a late-night television host and--on abc.
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  • And he was suspended for a short time, but there was a a very
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  • Significant public outcry that it was inappropriate, declaring
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  • Free speech and censorship and all those things.
  • 00:12:02.806 --> 00:12:05.776
  • And he has returned now back to his annual salary of 16 million
  • 00:12:05.776 --> 00:12:09.079
  • People, the 200+ people that work on his show, and the fact
  • 00:12:09.079 --> 00:12:12.415
  • That his ratings have been declining for several years.
  • 00:12:12.415 --> 00:12:16.553
  • And i, you know, the free speech discussion, free speech has been
  • 00:12:16.553 --> 00:12:19.990
  • Limited for quite a season now.
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  • You understand that there are many places we can't go and talk
  • 00:12:22.993 --> 00:12:25.295
  • About jesus.
  • 00:12:25.295 --> 00:12:26.663
  • They said it was okay to kill charlie because he
  • 00:12:26.663 --> 00:12:27.998
  • Went on college campuses and talked about biblical worldview.
  • 00:12:27.998 --> 00:12:30.834
  • They called him divisive and a hater and a bigot and a fascist
  • 00:12:30.834 --> 00:12:34.037
  • And all sorts of things for advocating for a
  • 00:12:34.037 --> 00:12:36.106
  • Biblical worldview.
  • 00:12:36.106 --> 00:12:37.440
  • Where was the free speech advocacy there?
  • 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:40.243
  • We saw an expression of it in nashville this past week at
  • 00:12:40.243 --> 00:12:43.847
  • Tennessee state, but i was reminded of an incident some
  • 00:12:43.847 --> 00:12:47.317
  • Years ago.
  • 00:12:47.317 --> 00:12:48.685
  • It was 2018.
  • 00:12:48.685 --> 00:12:50.020
  • Roseanne barr, anybody remember her?
  • 00:12:50.020 --> 00:12:51.388
  • She had the most popular show on abc at the time, the most
  • 00:12:51.388 --> 00:12:53.490
  • Watched show, the most profitable show.
  • 00:12:53.490 --> 00:12:56.693
  • And she made a stupid tweet, racist tweet, about someone in
  • 00:12:56.693 --> 00:13:00.597
  • Obama's administration.
  • 00:13:00.597 --> 00:13:04.601
  • And they canceled her.
  • 00:13:04.601 --> 00:13:07.304
  • Again, it was an awful racist statement that she tweeted out.
  • 00:13:07.304 --> 00:13:11.508
  • I believe it needed to be addressed, but her apology made
  • 00:13:11.508 --> 00:13:14.411
  • No difference.
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  • She was completely removed from the air.
  • 00:13:17.147 --> 00:13:18.682
  • There were no outcries of censorship.
  • 00:13:18.682 --> 00:13:22.352
  • Again, if we're going to have the discussion, we have to watch
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  • And listen and think and pay attention.
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  • They tell you not to say jesus in the public square, it's
  • 00:13:27.357 --> 00:13:29.593
  • Not okay.
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  • They tell you not to put the ten commandments in the school and
  • 00:13:31.461 --> 00:13:33.597
  • We go, "oh, that's all right."
  • 00:13:33.597 --> 00:13:34.965
  • Don't pray.
  • 00:13:34.965 --> 00:13:36.299
  • And if you pray, don't pray in the name of jesus.
  • 00:13:36.299 --> 00:13:37.767
  • Don't bring jesus into the corporate boardroom.
  • 00:13:37.767 --> 00:13:39.102
  • By the way, we're pro lgbtq whatever else is added on
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  • This week.
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  • We have to pay more attention.
  • 00:13:43.874 --> 00:13:47.010
  • We have to pay attention because we're culture shapers--if we're
  • 00:13:47.010 --> 00:13:49.079
  • Not shaping culture, we're being shaped by it and that will not
  • 00:13:49.079 --> 00:13:51.381
  • Bring the best outcomes to our children and our families.
  • 00:13:51.381 --> 00:13:54.417
  • I don't want you to be angry.
  • 00:13:54.417 --> 00:13:56.253
  • I want you to understand what you believe and why you believe
  • 00:13:56.253 --> 00:13:58.421
  • It and why it's important.
  • 00:13:58.421 --> 00:14:00.190
  • We've gone to church for too long, numbly, thinking we could
  • 00:14:00.190 --> 00:14:02.726
  • Leave our brain someplace else.
  • 00:14:02.726 --> 00:14:04.194
  • We could scroll the sports scores on our phones because we
  • 00:14:04.194 --> 00:14:06.863
  • Didn't need to think about what was happening at the church.
  • 00:14:06.863 --> 00:14:09.900
  • We thought we had our ticket to heaven punched, and there wasn't
  • 00:14:09.900 --> 00:14:12.135
  • Really anything significant left to do.
  • 00:14:12.135 --> 00:14:13.737
  • We were gonna go to heaven.
  • 00:14:13.737 --> 00:14:15.071
  • What else should we--what else should matter?
  • 00:14:15.071 --> 00:14:17.774
  • Have you said the sinner's prayer?
  • 00:14:17.774 --> 00:14:19.109
  • It was the only invitation we ever gave at church because it
  • 00:14:19.109 --> 00:14:21.011
  • Was the only focus we ever had.
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  • I believe in conversion and in the new birth, and it's
  • 00:14:22.479 --> 00:14:24.681
  • Essential for your participation in the kingdom, but the purpose
  • 00:14:24.681 --> 00:14:27.450
  • Of being born into the kingdom is to live as a christ follower,
  • 00:14:27.450 --> 00:14:30.921
  • To make a difference in our world.
  • 00:14:30.921 --> 00:14:34.824
  • So we've turned our building for a few weeks into a storyboard.
  • 00:14:34.824 --> 00:14:37.928
  • There's messaging that we need beyond what we can do
  • 00:14:37.928 --> 00:14:40.163
  • In sermons.
  • 00:14:40.163 --> 00:14:41.498
  • We wanted to make it available to children.
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  • We're fixing scavenger hunts for the kids to go through the
  • 00:14:42.866 --> 00:14:45.235
  • Building and have learning opportunities that they can
  • 00:14:45.235 --> 00:14:47.771
  • Bring back to you that you can engage with them on.
  • 00:14:47.771 --> 00:14:51.174
  • We're expanding our campus because we think there's things,
  • 00:14:51.174 --> 00:14:53.643
  • Experiences, that children and families and students need,
  • 00:14:53.643 --> 00:14:56.313
  • Again beyond what we do in just a classroom setting.
  • 00:14:56.313 --> 00:14:58.481
  • We are adrift in messaging that cascades over us like a
  • 00:14:58.481 --> 00:15:02.619
  • Waterfall day after day after day, some intentional through
  • 00:15:02.619 --> 00:15:05.956
  • Our exposure in social media, some unintentional from all the
  • 00:15:05.956 --> 00:15:08.725
  • Messaging that comes at us.
  • 00:15:08.725 --> 00:15:11.194
  • I assure you there are digital experts tracking your thoughts
  • 00:15:11.194 --> 00:15:15.398
  • And feeding you content based on the thumbprint they have of your
  • 00:15:15.398 --> 00:15:19.035
  • Digital life, and they have one, i promise.
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  • Allen: now how should we respond to the nation of israel and the
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  • Jewish people?
  • 00:15:32.248 --> 00:15:33.616
  • It's a complex question in today's world.
  • 00:15:33.616 --> 00:15:35.785
  • Well, i've written a book, "supporting israel: how far is
  • 00:15:35.785 --> 00:15:38.555
  • Too far?"
  • 00:15:38.555 --> 00:15:39.923
  • To help us establish a biblical perspective on what has become a
  • 00:15:39.923 --> 00:15:43.793
  • Complex question in contemporary culture.
  • 00:15:43.793 --> 00:15:46.796
  • We don't wanna follow the guidance and the counsel of some
  • 00:15:46.796 --> 00:15:49.666
  • Of the elite universities in this nation.
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  • We wanna form a perspective that's built from god's word.
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  • If we'll do that, it'll bring his blessings to our lives.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • Female announcer: from the pages of scripture to the frontlines
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  • Of today's news, israel stands at the center of god's purposes.
  • 00:16:01.611 --> 00:16:06.049
  • Pastor allen's new booklet, "supporting israel: how far is
  • 00:16:06.049 --> 00:16:09.586
  • Too far?"
  • 00:16:09.586 --> 00:16:10.920
  • Offers a quick way to gain a biblical perspective on israel,
  • 00:16:10.920 --> 00:16:13.890
  • Why israel matters to god, and why it should matter to us.
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  • Request your copy with your gift of any amount today at
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  • Allenjackson.com or by calling...
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  • Allen: i want to take a section of the lobby as our beginning
  • 00:16:29.406 --> 00:16:31.574
  • Point and then i want to use a part of our reading for this
  • 00:16:31.574 --> 00:16:33.777
  • Week as kind of an example of that, a case study of that.
  • 00:16:33.777 --> 00:16:37.380
  • That's the plan.
  • 00:16:37.380 --> 00:16:38.982
  • "the essential family," if you step into our lobby, the light
  • 00:16:38.982 --> 00:16:41.551
  • Lobby, that's the section of the lobby where there's a big
  • 00:16:41.551 --> 00:16:43.653
  • Chandelier light fixture.
  • 00:16:43.653 --> 00:16:45.021
  • We're very creative, so we call that the light lobby.
  • 00:16:45.021 --> 00:16:50.727
  • Before that chandelier was in there, there was a globe hanging
  • 00:16:50.727 --> 00:16:53.063
  • From the ceiling.
  • 00:16:53.063 --> 00:16:54.397
  • Guess what we called that lobby then?
  • 00:16:54.397 --> 00:16:56.366
  • The globe lobby.
  • 00:16:56.366 --> 00:16:57.734
  • This is the quick group.
  • 00:16:57.734 --> 00:16:59.302
  • Well, if you go to the light lobby and walk towards three
  • 00:17:03.473 --> 00:17:06.910
  • Crosses, you'll see on the walls some expressions of some
  • 00:17:06.910 --> 00:17:10.413
  • Celebrations of hospitality and the significant role it plays in
  • 00:17:10.413 --> 00:17:14.150
  • God's purposes.
  • 00:17:14.150 --> 00:17:15.485
  • The thing people say to me, 100 to 1 over anything else, is
  • 00:17:15.485 --> 00:17:17.220
  • "what can i do?
  • 00:17:17.220 --> 00:17:18.555
  • I feel powerless.
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  • I don't have a platform.
  • 00:17:19.923 --> 00:17:21.257
  • I'm not an influencer.
  • 00:17:21.257 --> 00:17:22.625
  • I'm not an elected official."
  • 00:17:22.625 --> 00:17:23.960
  • I'd remind you charlie kirk wasn't an elected official and
  • 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:26.296
  • He wasn't--he wasn't a pastor or a theologian.
  • 00:17:26.296 --> 00:17:29.332
  • He just had conversations.
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  • You can't imagine how your voice sounds to the devil, when you
  • 00:17:32.936 --> 00:17:37.474
  • Choose to use your voice for god's truth.
  • 00:17:37.474 --> 00:17:39.476
  • Hospitality, opening your life to engage with other people, is
  • 00:17:39.476 --> 00:17:44.214
  • A profound expression of advocacy for the kingdom of god.
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  • And i'm gonna submit to you, and we're gonna talk about it in
  • 00:17:50.320 --> 00:17:52.489
  • Some detail, that your kitchen table is a primary arena of
  • 00:17:52.489 --> 00:17:57.026
  • Spiritual responsibility in your life.
  • 00:17:57.026 --> 00:17:58.795
  • I've been saying to you for a long time that changing the
  • 00:17:58.795 --> 00:18:00.997
  • World begins at our kitchen table.
  • 00:18:00.997 --> 00:18:03.766
  • It extends to the holiday table, then it extends into your
  • 00:18:03.766 --> 00:18:06.369
  • Circles of influence, but at the center of god's planning for our
  • 00:18:06.369 --> 00:18:10.573
  • Well-being is this biblical notion of family.
  • 00:18:10.573 --> 00:18:14.444
  • And it's been redefined and it's been manipulated and it's been
  • 00:18:14.444 --> 00:18:17.847
  • Denigrated and we're told it's out of date.
  • 00:18:17.847 --> 00:18:19.883
  • I don't believe that.
  • 00:18:19.883 --> 00:18:21.217
  • I don't believe god is out of date.
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  • I refuse to apologize for believing my bible.
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  • Don't ever apologize intellectually because you've
  • 00:18:25.421 --> 00:18:27.457
  • Chosen to believe the scripture is authoritative.
  • 00:18:27.457 --> 00:18:31.327
  • I've studied in some remarkable institutions.
  • 00:18:31.327 --> 00:18:33.029
  • I've never yet heard an argument that made me want to step away
  • 00:18:33.029 --> 00:18:35.298
  • From the authority of scripture.
  • 00:18:35.298 --> 00:18:36.699
  • In matthew chapter 19, jesus is talking.
  • 00:18:40.303 --> 00:18:43.373
  • I chose matthew 19.
  • 00:18:43.373 --> 00:18:44.741
  • We could have done this from the hebrew bible, the old testament,
  • 00:18:44.741 --> 00:18:46.910
  • But some of you prefer--this always makes me smile.
  • 00:18:46.910 --> 00:18:50.446
  • People prefer the new testament because they think it's softer.
  • 00:18:50.446 --> 00:18:52.815
  • Do you understand the ignorance of the new testament
  • 00:18:55.785 --> 00:18:57.820
  • That reflects?
  • 00:18:57.820 --> 00:19:00.690
  • I suppose we could agree that noah's flood was probably the
  • 00:19:00.690 --> 00:19:03.259
  • Most catastrophic expression of god's judgment in the
  • 00:19:03.259 --> 00:19:07.430
  • Old testament?
  • 00:19:07.430 --> 00:19:09.332
  • Eight people saved.
  • 00:19:09.332 --> 00:19:11.568
  • Well, you know, the new testament, the conclusion of the
  • 00:19:11.568 --> 00:19:13.203
  • New testament, is about god's judgment upon this present age.
  • 00:19:13.203 --> 00:19:16.739
  • And it's gonna be a minority of the population that are included
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  • In the kingdom of god.
  • 00:19:20.109 --> 00:19:21.444
  • Jesus said that it's a narrow gate and few enter in and
  • 00:19:21.444 --> 00:19:23.346
  • There's a broad gate and many enter in.
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  • It leads to destruction.
  • 00:19:25.014 --> 00:19:27.617
  • That's the revelation at the end of the new testament.
  • 00:19:27.617 --> 00:19:31.154
  • It's not a cuddly book.
  • 00:19:31.154 --> 00:19:34.324
  • It's an open book so that you can be in the right place at the
  • 00:19:34.324 --> 00:19:37.660
  • Right time for the blessings of almighty god.
  • 00:19:37.660 --> 00:19:40.597
  • But in matthew 19, jesus is talking about marriage, and he
  • 00:19:40.597 --> 00:19:43.299
  • Said, "haven't you read that at the beginning the creator 'made
  • 00:19:43.299 --> 00:19:45.835
  • Them male and female.'"
  • 00:19:45.835 --> 00:19:47.837
  • And he said, "'for this reason a man will leave his father and
  • 00:19:47.837 --> 00:19:50.106
  • Mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become
  • 00:19:50.106 --> 00:19:52.575
  • One flesh'?
  • 00:19:52.575 --> 00:19:53.910
  • So they're no longer two, but one.
  • 00:19:53.910 --> 00:19:55.445
  • Therefore what god has joined together, let man not separate."
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  • Been incorporated into the marriage ceremony, those that
  • 00:19:58.581 --> 00:20:00.984
  • Still use something of a biblical model.
  • 00:20:00.984 --> 00:20:03.886
  • But jesus made some points that are very relevant for the
  • 00:20:03.886 --> 00:20:06.189
  • Current cultural discussion, that god made us male
  • 00:20:06.189 --> 00:20:08.291
  • And female.
  • 00:20:08.291 --> 00:20:10.860
  • And then because of that covenant that god instituted
  • 00:20:10.860 --> 00:20:13.563
  • Between a man and a woman in marriage that we would separate
  • 00:20:13.563 --> 00:20:16.799
  • From our family of origin and begin our own families.
  • 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:19.168
  • That's god's plan.
  • 00:20:19.168 --> 00:20:20.536
  • It's introduced to us in the opening chapters of genesis.
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  • It's affirmed to us, interpreted to us by jesus in the gospels.
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  • And it's not been amended.
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  • It hasn't been changed.
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  • You don't have the authority.
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  • I don't have the authority.
  • 00:20:32.248 --> 00:20:33.616
  • A sociologist doesn't have the authority.
  • 00:20:33.616 --> 00:20:34.984
  • The american psychiatric association doesn't have
  • 00:20:34.984 --> 00:20:37.987
  • The authority.
  • 00:20:37.987 --> 00:20:39.389
  • The supreme court, the--nobody.
  • 00:20:39.389 --> 00:20:41.324
  • God implemented that idea.
  • 00:20:41.324 --> 00:20:44.460
  • And we don't have to be angry at anybody.
  • 00:20:44.460 --> 00:20:46.062
  • We don't have to hate anybody else, but we don't have to
  • 00:20:46.062 --> 00:20:48.364
  • Apologize because, as we say, this is what we believe.
  • 00:20:48.364 --> 00:20:52.101
  • When somebody tells me they don't believe in god, i'm not
  • 00:20:52.101 --> 00:20:54.003
  • Mad at them.
  • 00:20:54.003 --> 00:20:55.371
  • I'm like, all right, you're entitled to that opinion.
  • 00:20:55.371 --> 00:20:56.706
  • I'm equally entitled to my own.
  • 00:20:56.706 --> 00:21:00.143
  • This was god's perspective.
  • 00:21:00.143 --> 00:21:02.245
  • And then within that context, god established authority within
  • 00:21:02.245 --> 00:21:05.248
  • The home.
  • 00:21:05.248 --> 00:21:06.716
  • And this is where i think the church has been co-opted to a
  • 00:21:06.716 --> 00:21:09.519
  • Significant extent by our culture.
  • 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:12.488
  • Men have been given this assignment biblically to love
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  • Their wives.
  • 00:21:14.590 --> 00:21:16.826
  • Women are given the assignment, the task, of respecting
  • 00:21:16.826 --> 00:21:19.362
  • Their husbands.
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  • That could be more difficult, but i won't get into that.
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  • Ephesians 5:33, you have it.
  • 00:21:25.001 --> 00:21:27.303
  • Paul's writing to a church, a group of believers, and he says
  • 00:21:27.303 --> 00:21:31.107
  • To them, "each one of you must love his wife as he loves
  • 00:21:31.107 --> 00:21:34.577
  • Himself, and the wife must respect her husband."
  • 00:21:34.577 --> 00:21:36.979
  • There's the assignment.
  • 00:21:36.979 --> 00:21:38.348
  • There is some structure to the family.
  • 00:21:38.348 --> 00:21:40.383
  • It's not a free for all, biblically.
  • 00:21:40.383 --> 00:21:44.754
  • People say, "what can i do?"
  • 00:21:44.754 --> 00:21:46.089
  • You can start by loving your wife.
  • 00:21:46.089 --> 00:21:47.457
  • "well, you don't know my wife."
  • 00:21:47.457 --> 00:21:50.326
  • I did everything i could: i checked original languages, i
  • 00:21:50.326 --> 00:21:52.862
  • Checked textual problems.
  • 00:21:52.862 --> 00:21:54.597
  • I looked for some way around that.
  • 00:21:54.597 --> 00:21:57.533
  • It doesn't say love your wife when she's doing what you want.
  • 00:21:57.533 --> 00:22:00.770
  • The assignment, fellas, we have a biblical mandate.
  • 00:22:04.807 --> 00:22:09.479
  • And wives?
  • 00:22:12.815 --> 00:22:14.684
  • You have one as well: to respect your husbands.
  • 00:22:14.684 --> 00:22:17.653
  • Eye rolls all over the room.
  • 00:22:17.653 --> 00:22:19.155
  • Same chapter, ephesians 5, a couple of verses earlier:
  • 00:22:23.292 --> 00:22:25.628
  • "husbands, love your wives, just as christ loved the church and
  • 00:22:25.628 --> 00:22:28.931
  • Gave himself up for her."
  • 00:22:28.931 --> 00:22:30.299
  • Now he's getting meddlesome.
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  • Love your wives like christ loved us.
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  • That was a sacrificial expression.
  • 00:22:36.806 --> 00:22:40.209
  • Jesus came as the greatest servant leader the world has
  • 00:22:40.209 --> 00:22:42.779
  • Ever known.
  • 00:22:42.779 --> 00:22:45.281
  • He didn't look at the disciples around him, says, "what do you
  • 00:22:45.281 --> 00:22:47.183
  • Think we should do?"
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  • He said, "i'm going to jerusalem.
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  • When i get there i'm gonna lay down my life."
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  • But once he'd established that objective, he did everything in
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  • His power to get those people with him across the finish line.
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  • Fellas, i believe that's a primary assignment to help
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  • Everybody in your family find their way into the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • I think it's more important than teaching them to sing rocky top.
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  • And i'm not opposed to ut or the southeastern conference or all
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  • Those things, but they better be secondary.
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  • Again, we've lost our balance.
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  • It's made it easier for us to be shaped by culture more than we
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  • Shape culture.
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  • Ephesians 5, here's the word-- the words.
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  • This is toxic.
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  • This will raise blood pressure.
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  • "wives."
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  • Husbands, act like you've never read this before.
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  • Do not quote it.
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  • "wives, submit to your husbands as to the lord.
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  • For the husband is the head of the wife as christ is the head
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  • Of the church, his body, of which he is the savior."
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  • Libraries filled with books, debate halls filled with angst.
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  • It doesn't seem that complicated to me.
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  • If we take those biblical instructions, it's an atmosphere
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  • Of sacrifice.
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  • It's not about entitlement.
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  • It's not about a flex on who's in charge.
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  • It's a recognition it's two people bound in a covenant to
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  • Lay their lives down so that the purposes of god can
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  • Come forward.
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  • It's not about being fulfilled.
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  • It's not about finding someone who completes you.
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  • Nobody's going to complete you.
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  • Only god can complete you.
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  • Jesus modeled a servant's life.
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  • Marriage is not a fifty-fifty endeavor.
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  • It just isn't.
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  • There may be days you're the beneficiary of much that's
  • 00:24:33.990 --> 00:24:37.126
  • Happening and there's maybe days you're called to make sacrifices
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  • So that others benefit.
  • 00:24:40.296 --> 00:24:42.632
  • People say, "you know, i'm afraid i'll be taken
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  • Advantage of."
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  • Let me help you with that.
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  • You will.
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  • Just establish it.
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  • That's the nature of relationship.
  • 00:24:54.911 --> 00:24:59.048
  • Now, preferably it doesn't happen all the time and every
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  • Moment, but there will be times when you think, "well, this
  • 00:25:01.617 --> 00:25:03.352
  • Isn't fair," no duh.
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  • Jesus on the cross, not an expression of fairness.
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  • Nothing about it.
  • 00:25:11.961 --> 00:25:13.963
  • Jesus recruiting a bunch of knuckleheads to try to shape
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  • Them into disciples and then apostles and entrust him with
  • 00:25:16.866 --> 00:25:19.735
  • A mission.
  • 00:25:19.735 --> 00:25:21.103
  • I mean, he looks at them on multiple occasions, "are you
  • 00:25:21.103 --> 00:25:22.805
  • Really that slow?"
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  • And you're reading and thinking, "yeah, they really are, jesus.
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  • Maybe you should start over."
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  • Love your wives, fellows, as christ loved the church.
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  • Wives, respect your husbands.
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  • Why?
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  • You have an assignment in that covenant.
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  • And it's about something more than us.
  • 00:25:43.125 --> 00:25:46.195
  • It's more than our pleasure and our fulfillment and
  • 00:25:46.195 --> 00:25:48.698
  • Our experience.
  • 00:25:48.698 --> 00:25:50.600
  • The church has lost--we've been co-opted.
  • 00:25:50.600 --> 00:25:53.636
  • Stop telling your children that they're the same, biologically.
  • 00:25:53.636 --> 00:25:58.874
  • Boys and girls aren't the same.
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  • They can't do the same things.
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  • We're not identical.
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  • You might pull that charade off until hormones kick in.
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  • I know you love your children.
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  • I understand you don't want them to be denied opportunities, but
  • 00:26:13.422 --> 00:26:16.225
  • If you tell them they can do anything that someone of the
  • 00:26:16.225 --> 00:26:18.628
  • Other sex can do, you're confusing them.
  • 00:26:18.628 --> 00:26:21.931
  • Allen: you know, i used to believe that antisemitism was a
  • 00:26:21.998 --> 00:26:24.467
  • European problem or an issue in the islamic nations of the
  • 00:26:24.467 --> 00:26:28.170
  • World, but now we see it flourishing in our nation on
  • 00:26:28.170 --> 00:26:31.774
  • Elite college campuses, even amongst the political class and
  • 00:26:31.774 --> 00:26:35.544
  • Now on the conservative ideological spectrum.
  • 00:26:35.544 --> 00:26:39.281
  • It's troubling.
  • 00:26:39.281 --> 00:26:40.616
  • So i wrote a book, "supporting israel: how far is too far?"
  • 00:26:40.616 --> 00:26:44.654
  • You know, i know we've all got a little battle fatigue with the
  • 00:26:44.654 --> 00:26:47.223
  • Constant conflicts in the middle east and beyond, but what we
  • 00:26:47.223 --> 00:26:50.559
  • Desperately need is a biblical perspective on how to navigate
  • 00:26:50.559 --> 00:26:54.230
  • What's unfolding in our world, and i believe the word of god
  • 00:26:54.230 --> 00:26:57.600
  • Gives that to us with clarity.
  • 00:26:57.600 --> 00:26:59.802
  • So we put this book together to help you find yourself in a
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  • Place that will bring the blessings of god to your life.
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  • I wanna pray that we'll have his wisdom.
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  • Father, you said when we lack wisdom, we could ask and that
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  • You would give it to us without criticism.
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  • We want to stand with you in what you're accomplishing in the
  • 00:27:12.214 --> 00:27:14.583
  • Earth so that your purposes can come forth.
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  • Holy spirit, give us the discernment we need in jesus's
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  • Name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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