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Allen Jackson - Hatred of God's People (Part 1)

July 12, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Hatred of God's People (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Hatred of God's People (Part 1) | July 12, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: and i know you know, but we're living in
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  • A chaotic world, things are changing globally.
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  • There's wars, there's threats of war, a lot of stuff happening.
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  • But i wanna make a suggestion, don't focus on the negative,
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  • Don't get caught up in the uncertainty.
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  • That'll bring fear and anxiety and worry.
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  • It's not helpful.
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  • Let's determine to focus our attention on the lord.
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  • We've created a tool that i believe will make a difference.
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  • It's called, "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30 day plan.
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  • Each day is directed at a different topic
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  • That's a part of our current world.
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  • It gives us a verse of scripture, a little devotional
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  • Around that topic.
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  • And then a prayer for that specific thing.
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  • The idea is we're gonna give the holy spirit an invitation
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  • To awaken us to a new place of faith.
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  • You know, we need an awakening in the midst
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  • Of the people of god.
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  • And we wanna say, "well, i am awake."
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  • Well, i get that, but, you know, i was awakened yesterday.
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  • But this morning i was awakened again, and my prayer is
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  • Tomorrow i'll be awakened yet again.
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  • We need a daily awakening by the spirit of god
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  • To find his best for us in this season.
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  • And i believe this book will help you.
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  • Allen: we're working through a series under the general title
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  • Of, "let's do difficult."
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  • The best things in life are on the other side of difficult.
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  • It--we did easy yesterday.
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  • In fact, we've done most of the easy things and now it's time to
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  • Do difficult.
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  • If we want better outcomes and we want our children and
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  • Grandchildren to have a better future, somebody's gonna have to
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  • Raise their hand and say, "i think that sounds like a
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  • Great idea."
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  • I do not believe following god is presented to us in scripture
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  • As something that's easy.
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  • Jesus said to us that we would have to take up our cross daily
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  • And follow him.
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  • Not our jewelry, our earrings, or something stamped on the
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  • Cover of our bibles.
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  • The cross was a tool for crucifixion.
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  • And he said we have to, daily, lay down our lives, our will,
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  • Our preferences.
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  • It's--which means we will engage in things on a regular basis to
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  • Which my old carnal self says, "i'd rather not.
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  • I don't think that's the best idea.
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  • I don't feel like it."
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  • Then i have to say, "hush.
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  • I'm going this way and you will like it."
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  • And those voices inside of us, you know, you're used--any an
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  • Area in your life where you exert discipline in a regular
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  • Basis, you have to learn to quiet those internal voices that
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  • Cry out against the discipline.
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  • If it's exercise, if it's a diet, if it is learning, it's so
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  • Easy to say, "well, you know, my memory doesn't work," or, "i
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  • Don't like to read," or, "it's not easy for me."
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  • Okay.
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  • Let's go do it anyway.
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  • Let's do difficult.
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  • So, that's the invitation.
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  • In this particular session, i want to talk a bit about the
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  • Hatred of god's people.
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  • It's a little more personal for me today, and i'll acknowledge
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  • It on the front end.
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  • I had an invitation, and yesterday i was in washington dc
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  • At the israeli embassy for a review of the raw--some of the
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  • Raw footage from october the 7th.
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  • And it was more than unsettling. not because of the violence.
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  • We knew that hundreds of people had been killed.
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  • And that is unsettling enough, to see hundreds of
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  • People murdered.
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  • Men, women and children, to watch fathers murdered in front
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  • Of their children.
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  • And the children have to deal with the trauma of that before
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  • They're murdered.
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  • To watch women abused physically, to watch the joyful
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  • Glee of the people who invaded israel take a cellphone from
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  • Somebody they just murdered, call their parents in gaza and
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  • Say, "i have murdered ten jews today with my own hands."
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  • And you hear the parent responding in the
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  • Background, "kill.
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  • Kill."
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  • I think the most troubling was they loaded some hostages into
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  • The back of trucks and even some corpses.
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  • I listen to people who--in some sort of command, giving
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  • Instructions over cell phones.
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  • What we were witnessed came through body cams, and cell
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  • Phones, and security cams.
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  • It's cobbled together from a variety of sources.
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  • And i heard people on cell phones saying, "bring back 10 or
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  • 12 heads.
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  • We want to carry them through the streets so that people can
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  • Celebrate with us."
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  • And you--when you hear it, you think, oh, surely not.
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  • And then i watch these trucks with people in the back, some
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  • Alive, some not.
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  • They drive into gaza into heavily populated areas and
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  • Enormous throngs of people in the most exuberant celebrations
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  • You can imagine.
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  • And if they can push through the crowds, adding their own
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  • Expressions of abuse towards the individuals there.
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  • And again, we've been told all those things.
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  • We had a friend here from israel last week who told us most of
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  • Those same things.
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  • So, i can't say it was surprising, but it was beyond
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  • Shocking to see the celebration of the people.
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  • You know, without that, you might convince yourself that the
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  • Few hundred people who invaded israel were somehow unique.
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  • But it certainly did not appear that way.
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  • And then i hear the--some of the most influential people in our
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  • Nation, certainly the most influential in education, some
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  • Of the most revered seats--professional seats in our
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  • Nation refusing to condemn what happened, and i'm quite
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  • Confident they had access to far more than i did.
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  • And they refuse to condemn it.
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  • It's unacceptable.
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  • I don't have the language skills to label it.
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  • They didn't behave like animals.
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  • I've spent my life around animals, they behave better.
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  • And i hear the cries for stoppage for humanitarian
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  • Reasons and i think, are you paying attention?
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  • You can't negotiate with evil.
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  • You can't bargain with it.
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  • It'll simply wait for the next vulnerable moment to give
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  • Expression to its evil intent.
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  • It's not hidden, it's not quiet, it's not a matter of debate to
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  • Imagine that the united nations, as a program, to work on behalf
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  • Of the palestinian people and people that are working for the
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  • United nations participated in the planning and the execution
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  • Of that murderous raid is beyond consideration and we have
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  • Supported it.
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  • So, it brings me to this topic with that happy introduction of
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  • The hatred of god's people.
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  • I left the embassy and went directly to the airport and i'm
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  • Waiting for my flight and a man asked me--says something about
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  • Why i'm there.
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  • So, in a sentence i tell him why i'm in washington.
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  • And his response to me was, "oh, i didn't really think
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  • That happened."
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  • And he was an educated person.
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  • Person who travels and sees a great deal.
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  • And i realize the degree to which we're just disconnected.
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  • I'd read an article two or three days before that, before i even
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  • Knew that i would be going, that said that because of the open
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  • Border we have had for such a lengthy period of time that
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  • There's a very high degree of probability that we'll have an
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  • Event similar to that in our own country.
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  • And i think, for the most part, we're just oblivious.
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  • And we think it's a political issue or it's some debate
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  • Between some group of people on the other side of the planet.
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  • And what i would like to invite you tonight to is understanding
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  • More of what i believe the root of that is and hopefully to help
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  • Us understand why it's going to take a courage and a boldness
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  • And a determination to do some difficult things if we are to
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  • Secure the future for the generations coming behind us.
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  • There are israelis tonight, friends of mine, who are either
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  • Going into tunnels or have sent their children into those
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  • Tunnels to try to secure a future for themselves.
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  • Now, we haven't been asked to do that, but i'm quite confident
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  • God has asked us to do some things that we
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  • Consider difficult.
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  • And the question is: are we willing to do it?
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  • Or are we going to continue to worship at the altars of comfort
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  • And convenience?
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  • Allen: so, we'll start with the hatred of god's people.
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  • I think two big buckets we can kind of organize that in, and
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  • It's a little offensive to both sides, so i will acknowledge
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  • That on the front end of this discussion, anti-semitism.
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  • Anti-semitism is a rather elaborate word for the hatred of
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  • The jewish people.
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  • And they have been hated for a long time.
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  • I'm gonna share a bit of that with you as a part of this
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  • Presentation and right alongside of anti-semitism, because i
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  • Believe they're both fueled by the same thing, is the
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  • Expression of the spirit of antichrist.
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  • The anti meaning has two meanings.
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  • It can mean in place of or against.
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  • And i believe what really fuels anti-semitism is the spirit
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  • Of antichrist.
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  • That will be offensive to my jewish friends because the
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  • Incubator for most expressions of anti-semitism through history
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  • Have come from organized christian religion.
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  • If you don't know the history, that's lost on you, but i assure
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  • You those are the facts.
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  • I'm not saying it's genuine, but under the flag of christianity,
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  • The most heinous things have been done to the jewish people.
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  • They're far more comfortable with the muslim world than the
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  • Christian world, our jewish friends.
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  • So, anti-semitism and the expressions of the spirit of
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  • Antichrist are the labels that we're gonna attach to this
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  • Hatred of the people of god, the jewish people, the covenant
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  • People of god, through whom, the book of romans tells us, we have
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  • The law, the prophets, a messiah.
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  • We have the story.
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  • Without the jewish people, we have no story.
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  • We're told that the--christianity is not
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  • Something new made out of whole cloth.
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  • We're grafted in to the covenant that god made with abram.
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  • And it's the arrogance of christians that have added a
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  • Great deal of the voice to the destruction of the jewish people
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  • With erroneous--wrong headed ideas that god replaced the
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  • Jewish people.
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  • That every place you read jewish or israel, you can just pencil
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  • In christian or church.
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  • It's bad theology and it has contributed to this--the
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  • Attitude that has made it much easier to just--to attack and
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  • Mutilate and destroy the jewish people.
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  • In 1 john chapter 4 and verse 3--i made it to your notes,
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  • Victory number one.
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  • John writes, "every spirit that doesn't acknowledge jesus is not
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  • From god.
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  • This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard
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  • Is coming and even now is already in the world."
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  • The new testament describes this in three ways, and i'm not going
  • 00:13:34.396 --> 00:13:37.533
  • To walk you through all the references tonight, perhaps at
  • 00:13:37.533 --> 00:13:39.568
  • Another session, but it describes the spirit of
  • 00:13:39.568 --> 00:13:42.204
  • Antichrist that we just read about.
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  • A spirit in the earth that gives expression to that attitude of
  • 00:13:44.673 --> 00:13:48.744
  • Being in opposition to and desiring to replace the true
  • 00:13:48.744 --> 00:13:52.314
  • Christ, the messiah, the anointed one of god.
  • 00:13:52.314 --> 00:13:55.517
  • Then the bible talks about many antichrist, individuals that
  • 00:13:55.517 --> 00:13:58.053
  • Have stepped onto the stage of human history and behaved in
  • 00:13:58.053 --> 00:14:01.223
  • Such a fashion that it's not difficult to see them as an
  • 00:14:01.223 --> 00:14:04.727
  • Embodiment of that spirit.
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  • And it wouldn't take us long.
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  • I mean, hitler is the one that comes to mind immediately, but
  • 00:14:08.731 --> 00:14:10.733
  • He is by no means alone on the stage of history.
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  • And then in the book of revelation we have a rather
  • 00:14:14.036 --> 00:14:17.573
  • Elaborate description of the antichrist, this--the
  • 00:14:17.573 --> 00:14:20.976
  • Penultimate individual that will make that bargain with the devil
  • 00:14:20.976 --> 00:14:23.779
  • That jesus rejected.
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  • "if you'll worship me, i'll give you authority over all
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  • These kingdoms."
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  • In the new--he's described in the book of revelation as a
  • 00:14:29.118 --> 00:14:32.054
  • Beast, that he will behave in a beastly manner.
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  • But you shouldn't imagine that the spirit of antichrist won't
  • 00:14:36.992 --> 00:14:39.495
  • Be at work until the beast is present.
  • 00:14:39.495 --> 00:14:42.998
  • The spirit is at work today.
  • 00:14:42.998 --> 00:14:46.368
  • Giving--expressing murderous hatred and rage towards the
  • 00:14:46.368 --> 00:14:50.506
  • People of god.
  • 00:14:50.506 --> 00:14:53.475
  • And you don't need great discernment to recognize that,
  • 00:14:53.475 --> 00:14:55.844
  • You just need a willingness to acknowledge it.
  • 00:14:55.844 --> 00:15:01.283
  • In fact, any behavior that you see directed towards the jewish
  • 00:15:01.283 --> 00:15:03.919
  • People, you should assume will be directed at the balance of
  • 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:07.656
  • The people of god, that it will be directed at the christian
  • 00:15:07.656 --> 00:15:09.825
  • Church, the true church.
  • 00:15:09.825 --> 00:15:12.761
  • And if you haven't yet matured to the place that you can
  • 00:15:12.761 --> 00:15:14.964
  • Accommodate in your thinking a false church and a true church,
  • 00:15:14.964 --> 00:15:18.000
  • I would invite you to begin to meditate and think about that.
  • 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:22.104
  • The fact that we fly the flag of christian does not mean we
  • 00:15:22.104 --> 00:15:25.507
  • Behave in a manner that we have yielded our lives through
  • 00:15:25.507 --> 00:15:28.143
  • Obedience to the lordship of jesus of nazareth.
  • 00:15:28.143 --> 00:15:31.613
  • And if you haven't done that, no matter the building you sit in,
  • 00:15:31.613 --> 00:15:35.651
  • Or the jewelry you prefer, or the holy book you read, or the
  • 00:15:35.651 --> 00:15:40.389
  • General group you identify with, you shouldn't imagine yourself
  • 00:15:40.389 --> 00:15:44.026
  • To be christian.
  • 00:15:44.026 --> 00:15:45.394
  • You cannot be pursuing your own self determined agenda, and your
  • 00:15:45.394 --> 00:15:49.164
  • Own self determined objectives, ignoring the invitations of god,
  • 00:15:49.164 --> 00:15:52.835
  • And imagine you're a christ follower.
  • 00:15:52.835 --> 00:15:55.804
  • The recitation of a prayer and a dip in a pool is a
  • 00:15:55.804 --> 00:15:59.241
  • Beginning point.
  • 00:15:59.241 --> 00:16:00.576
  • I believe in conversion, salvation, the new birth
  • 00:16:00.576 --> 00:16:02.778
  • Absolutely, unequivocally, but it's the doorway into a life
  • 00:16:02.778 --> 00:16:07.483
  • Yielded to the lordship of jesus.
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  • And the people who choose to do that will be hated.
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  • Less so in the part of the world where we have lived for many,
  • 00:16:19.528 --> 00:16:22.131
  • Many years.
  • 00:16:22.131 --> 00:16:24.266
  • The hatred is growing and becoming more visible.
  • 00:16:24.266 --> 00:16:27.002
  • We've watched it incrementally come.
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  • Don't pray in that name.
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  • Don't post those commandments in our schools.
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  • Don't bring that worldview into our corporate boardrooms.
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  • And we so meekly, sheepishly, in cowardly ways, have withdrawn
  • 00:16:38.814 --> 00:16:47.156
  • While we have watched other world views and other ideologies
  • 00:16:47.156 --> 00:16:50.192
  • Be driven into all of those places on our watch.
  • 00:16:50.192 --> 00:17:00.035
  • I brought you just a sampling of what jesus had to say.
  • 00:17:00.035 --> 00:17:05.407
  • Matthew 10, "should be on your guard against men; they will
  • 00:17:05.407 --> 00:17:10.546
  • Hand you over to local councils and flog you in
  • 00:17:10.546 --> 00:17:12.748
  • Their synagogues."
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  • "religious people are gonna hate you," jesus said.
  • 00:17:14.249 --> 00:17:17.686
  • "on my account," you should circle those three words, "on my
  • 00:17:17.686 --> 00:17:21.290
  • Account you'll be brought before governors and kings as witnesses
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  • To them and to the gentiles.
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  • But when they arrest you," not if they arrest you, "when they
  • 00:17:28.464 --> 00:17:31.033
  • Arrest you, don't worry about what to say or how to say it.
  • 00:17:31.033 --> 00:17:35.571
  • At that time you'll be given what to say, for it will not be
  • 00:17:35.571 --> 00:17:37.973
  • You speaking, but the spirit of the father speaking
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  • Through you."
  • 00:17:40.075 --> 00:17:41.877
  • But it gets even worse.
  • 00:17:41.877 --> 00:17:43.745
  • I mean, that's not comfortable.
  • 00:17:43.745 --> 00:17:46.081
  • And some will say, "well, he was speaking to a first
  • 00:17:46.081 --> 00:17:48.050
  • Century audience."
  • 00:17:48.050 --> 00:17:49.651
  • Well, you would need to share with me the discernment that
  • 00:17:49.651 --> 00:17:52.020
  • Enables you to read the story and know precisely which verse
  • 00:17:52.020 --> 00:17:55.257
  • Appeals to the 1st century and not to the 21st.
  • 00:17:55.257 --> 00:17:59.862
  • And i'll share it with a few of passage next that it dealt with
  • 00:17:59.862 --> 00:18:02.297
  • The period beyond the 1st century without any question,
  • 00:18:02.297 --> 00:18:05.234
  • But he went on to say in verse 21, "'brother will betray
  • 00:18:05.234 --> 00:18:08.003
  • Brother to death, and a father his child; and children will
  • 00:18:08.003 --> 00:18:14.877
  • Rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
  • 00:18:14.877 --> 00:18:19.047
  • And all men will hate you because of me, but he who stands
  • 00:18:19.047 --> 00:18:24.987
  • Firm to the end will be saved."
  • 00:18:24.987 --> 00:18:28.223
  • Now, in most of our discussions around salvation and conversion
  • 00:18:28.223 --> 00:18:31.393
  • And the new birth--again, i believe in that entry
  • 00:18:31.393 --> 00:18:34.129
  • Experience, the initiation into the kingdom of god.
  • 00:18:34.129 --> 00:18:37.633
  • But the idea that there's a such a totality in that moment, that
  • 00:18:37.633 --> 00:18:41.069
  • There's nothing left for us to stand watch over, ignores what
  • 00:18:41.069 --> 00:18:45.307
  • Jesus said.
  • 00:18:45.307 --> 00:18:46.642
  • He said, "the one who stands firm to the end will be saved,"
  • 00:18:46.642 --> 00:18:49.511
  • And that the challenges will come because of him.
  • 00:18:49.511 --> 00:18:54.816
  • Same book, same author, same story.
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  • Matthew 24, it's jesus's most lengthy prophetic discourse.
  • 00:18:58.420 --> 00:19:02.057
  • He's talking about the end of the age, what was beyond
  • 00:19:02.057 --> 00:19:05.627
  • His time.
  • 00:19:05.627 --> 00:19:07.262
  • He said, "these are the beginning of birth pains."
  • 00:19:07.262 --> 00:19:08.997
  • He's just listed about a dozen symptoms that would begin, but
  • 00:19:08.997 --> 00:19:12.401
  • He said, "that's just the beginning.
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  • The pains are gonna intensify.
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  • They're going to become more severe.
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  • You'll be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and
  • 00:19:17.439 --> 00:19:22.644
  • You'll be hated by all nations because of me.
  • 00:19:22.644 --> 00:19:28.417
  • And at that time many will turn away from the faith and will
  • 00:19:28.417 --> 00:19:31.887
  • Betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear
  • 00:19:31.887 --> 00:19:36.692
  • And deceive many people."
  • 00:19:36.692 --> 00:19:40.429
  • That's a pretty sobering passage.
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  • And i don't believe it's helpful to think that you can count on
  • 00:19:44.199 --> 00:19:47.202
  • Some escapist theology that says you're just gonna get to avoid
  • 00:19:47.202 --> 00:19:51.873
  • All of that.
  • 00:19:51.873 --> 00:19:54.409
  • I don't know why jesus would have warned his people about
  • 00:19:54.409 --> 00:19:57.145
  • What would be coming if we--wasn't to prepare
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  • His people.
  • 00:20:00.048 --> 00:20:03.118
  • Makes sense?
  • 00:20:03.118 --> 00:20:05.087
  • I believe in some very triumphant things at the end of
  • 00:20:05.087 --> 00:20:09.891
  • The age, but i believe between where we stand today and the
  • 00:20:09.891 --> 00:20:13.595
  • Return of our lord and king, we're gonna have to walk through
  • 00:20:13.595 --> 00:20:16.131
  • Some challenging places.
  • 00:20:16.131 --> 00:20:18.834
  • "well, i don't wanna do that."
  • 00:20:18.834 --> 00:20:20.168
  • Okay. duly noted.
  • 00:20:20.168 --> 00:20:22.871
  • But, may i encourage you to prepare anyway?
  • 00:20:22.871 --> 00:20:25.774
  • If i'm completely wrong and you don't have to face anything
  • 00:20:25.774 --> 00:20:28.310
  • That's difficult, i will apologize when we get the glory.
  • 00:20:28.310 --> 00:20:34.016
  • I would rather issue that apology than not do my best to
  • 00:20:34.016 --> 00:20:37.686
  • Help us be prepared.
  • 00:20:37.686 --> 00:20:40.255
  • And jesus said, "many will turn away from the faith."
  • 00:20:40.255 --> 00:20:44.192
  • Why would that happen?
  • 00:20:44.192 --> 00:20:46.094
  • They'll turn away because people are being arrested, and
  • 00:20:46.094 --> 00:20:49.097
  • Persecuted, and put to death.
  • 00:20:49.097 --> 00:20:52.467
  • The weight of public pressure, the opinion, the threat,
  • 00:20:52.467 --> 00:20:59.775
  • The hatred.
  • 00:20:59.775 --> 00:21:02.411
  • We see leading voices, influential voices, whole groups
  • 00:21:02.411 --> 00:21:07.549
  • Amongst those that we have stood with, who are adopting a very
  • 00:21:07.549 --> 00:21:13.488
  • Covert approach to their faith, encouraging us to make friends
  • 00:21:13.488 --> 00:21:18.360
  • With the world, to embrace ungodliness as an
  • 00:21:18.360 --> 00:21:22.164
  • Evangelism strategy.
  • 00:21:22.164 --> 00:21:24.700
  • It's also very good camouflage.
  • 00:21:24.700 --> 00:21:28.570
  • If you say nothing about ungodly behavior, and you say nothing
  • 00:21:28.570 --> 00:21:31.406
  • About immorality, and you say nothing about transforming
  • 00:21:31.406 --> 00:21:34.976
  • Fundamental biblical principles to fit an emerging culture that
  • 00:21:34.976 --> 00:21:38.146
  • Is further and further away from a biblical world view, if you
  • 00:21:38.146 --> 00:21:40.916
  • Don't use your voice to speak about those things because you
  • 00:21:40.916 --> 00:21:43.151
  • Say, "oh, it's political," aren't we just camouflaging
  • 00:21:43.151 --> 00:21:47.856
  • Ourselves with the same ungodliness of the world?
  • 00:21:47.856 --> 00:21:50.325
  • Because we don't want to deal with the consequences of raising
  • 00:21:50.325 --> 00:21:52.694
  • Our voices?
  • 00:21:52.694 --> 00:21:59.167
  • Many will turn away, there'll be many false prophets.
  • 00:21:59.167 --> 00:22:01.503
  • There'll be a lot of voices that give you--a prophet's assignment
  • 00:22:01.503 --> 00:22:05.140
  • Was to give to the people a god perspective.
  • 00:22:05.140 --> 00:22:07.376
  • How does god think about this?
  • 00:22:07.376 --> 00:22:08.744
  • What does god feel about this?
  • 00:22:08.744 --> 00:22:10.312
  • How does--what does god think about your responses?
  • 00:22:10.312 --> 00:22:12.414
  • And he said, "there will be many people giving you inaccurate
  • 00:22:12.414 --> 00:22:15.450
  • Responses saying they're godly."
  • 00:22:15.450 --> 00:22:18.420
  • And i think the narrowest way to think of a prophet is to think
  • 00:22:18.420 --> 00:22:20.956
  • Of it in terms of religious terms.
  • 00:22:20.956 --> 00:22:22.724
  • I think it's pretty accurate with the biblical presentation
  • 00:22:22.724 --> 00:22:25.494
  • That the prophet is the person you expect to tell you
  • 00:22:25.494 --> 00:22:27.295
  • The truth.
  • 00:22:27.295 --> 00:22:29.197
  • To be a truth teller amongst the people so that the people can
  • 00:22:29.197 --> 00:22:32.000
  • Know the truth and then navigate accordingly.
  • 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:34.102
  • There are rocks there, don't steer your ship towards it.
  • 00:22:34.102 --> 00:22:37.239
  • So, a false prophet is someone you would expect to tell you the
  • 00:22:37.239 --> 00:22:39.808
  • Truth and, in fact, they are being deceptive.
  • 00:22:39.808 --> 00:22:42.010
  • Is it safe to say we are having an explosion of false prophets?
  • 00:22:42.010 --> 00:22:46.982
  • And i don't just mean in the religious settings.
  • 00:22:46.982 --> 00:22:53.355
  • And then jesus said, "because of that," because of the pressure,
  • 00:22:53.355 --> 00:22:56.358
  • Because of the threat, because of the deception, many people
  • 00:22:56.358 --> 00:23:01.229
  • Are gonna be deceived.
  • 00:23:01.229 --> 00:23:06.902
  • "because of the increase of the wickedness, the love of most
  • 00:23:06.902 --> 00:23:10.138
  • Will grow cold, and he who stands firm to the end will
  • 00:23:10.138 --> 00:23:12.674
  • Be saved."
  • 00:23:12.674 --> 00:23:14.009
  • It's the identical thing that was recorded in chapter 10,
  • 00:23:14.009 --> 00:23:16.178
  • Verse 22.
  • 00:23:16.178 --> 00:23:18.513
  • Same author so i'm not surprised.
  • 00:23:18.513 --> 00:23:21.917
  • "and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole
  • 00:23:21.917 --> 00:23:24.352
  • World as a testimony to all nations, and the end will come."
  • 00:23:24.352 --> 00:23:27.489
  • What a triumphant penultimate line.
  • 00:23:27.489 --> 00:23:30.559
  • He said, "there's gonna be persecution, and there's gonna
  • 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:32.327
  • Be a falling away, and there'll even be some martyrdom, and
  • 00:23:32.327 --> 00:23:36.598
  • There'll be false prophets.
  • 00:23:36.598 --> 00:23:38.099
  • But in spite of that, the gospel of the kingdom will be preached
  • 00:23:38.099 --> 00:23:41.369
  • In the whole world."
  • 00:23:41.369 --> 00:23:44.406
  • It's a proactive message.
  • 00:23:44.406 --> 00:23:47.042
  • In the face of all of the hatred there will be opportunities for
  • 00:23:47.042 --> 00:23:51.046
  • The proclamation of the gospel that will exceed any generation
  • 00:23:51.046 --> 00:23:54.115
  • That's ever existed on the planet.
  • 00:23:54.115 --> 00:23:56.451
  • And there will be men and women, young people and old people,
  • 00:23:56.451 --> 00:23:59.154
  • Willing to do whatever it takes to see that happen.
  • 00:23:59.154 --> 00:24:02.724
  • Let's go. let's go.
  • 00:24:02.724 --> 00:24:06.628
  • But matthew 24 is an escalation of what was said in matthew 10.
  • 00:24:06.628 --> 00:24:10.966
  • But, again, it's the same narrative and as the story is
  • 00:24:10.966 --> 00:24:14.469
  • Unfolding and jesus is drawing nearer and nearer to his
  • 00:24:14.469 --> 00:24:17.005
  • Passion, the intensity grows.
  • 00:24:17.005 --> 00:24:20.542
  • But i brought you a couple of passages from john.
  • 00:24:20.542 --> 00:24:22.344
  • I think he he echoes a similar message.
  • 00:24:22.344 --> 00:24:25.180
  • John 15, jesus again, "'if the world hates you, keep in mind
  • 00:24:25.180 --> 00:24:28.216
  • That it hated me first.
  • 00:24:28.216 --> 00:24:30.552
  • If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own.
  • 00:24:30.552 --> 00:24:33.722
  • As it is, you don't belong to the world," in the new
  • 00:24:33.722 --> 00:24:35.490
  • Testament, the notion of the world is the order of this
  • 00:24:35.490 --> 00:24:40.262
  • Present age that does its best to displace allegiance to jesus
  • 00:24:40.262 --> 00:24:45.200
  • Of nazareth.
  • 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:46.835
  • To convince you that you can be self sufficient and you should
  • 00:24:46.835 --> 00:24:49.604
  • Be self indulgent.
  • 00:24:49.604 --> 00:24:52.007
  • And the order of this age certainly seems to have gained
  • 00:24:52.007 --> 00:24:56.044
  • Some ascendancy.
  • 00:24:56.044 --> 00:24:58.313
  • And jesus said, "they'll hate you, but remember, they hated
  • 00:24:58.313 --> 00:25:01.917
  • Me first.
  • 00:25:01.917 --> 00:25:03.251
  • You stand in opposition to what they're advocating for."
  • 00:25:03.251 --> 00:25:06.154
  • John 16, "'all this i have told you so that you'll not
  • 00:25:06.154 --> 00:25:09.024
  • Go astray.
  • 00:25:09.024 --> 00:25:10.992
  • They will put you out of the synagogue," they'll put you out
  • 00:25:10.992 --> 00:25:12.994
  • Of religious institutions.
  • 00:25:12.994 --> 00:25:14.362
  • You understand, the antichrist will be a very
  • 00:25:14.362 --> 00:25:16.231
  • Religious character.
  • 00:25:16.231 --> 00:25:19.467
  • He won't be absent religion.
  • 00:25:19.467 --> 00:25:20.802
  • He will be very religious in language, and behavior, and
  • 00:25:20.802 --> 00:25:23.305
  • Routine, and ritual, in clothing, in architecture.
  • 00:25:23.305 --> 00:25:29.778
  • You won't distinguish him as a beast because of his behavior on
  • 00:25:29.778 --> 00:25:33.481
  • The weekends at worship times.
  • 00:25:33.481 --> 00:25:38.386
  • "they'll put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is
  • 00:25:38.386 --> 00:25:40.589
  • Coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a
  • 00:25:40.589 --> 00:25:43.658
  • Service to god."
  • 00:25:43.658 --> 00:25:46.761
  • But i think it's extraordinarily naive and a very poor
  • 00:25:46.761 --> 00:25:51.800
  • Application of biblical interpretation to suggest it was
  • 00:25:51.800 --> 00:25:54.402
  • Only a first century problem.
  • 00:25:54.402 --> 00:25:58.139
  • If that's the case, then the scripture's affording us very
  • 00:25:58.139 --> 00:26:00.809
  • Little guidance.
  • 00:26:00.809 --> 00:26:02.777
  • Allen: hey we have a tool that we think will help
  • 00:26:06.815 --> 00:26:09.317
  • Strengthen you in this season.
  • 00:26:09.317 --> 00:26:11.119
  • A lot of confusion and chaos in our world,
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  • A lot of fear.
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  • I hear from people every day battling in their minds,
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  • In their lives with the uncertainty of our world.
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  • Well, it's a booklet called "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30 day plan, every day has a theme with a scripture,
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  • A little devotional, and a prayer for that specific theme.
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  • The idea is that every day we're gonna ask the spirit of god
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  • To awaken us to a new aspect of god's provision in our lives.
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  • You know, hopefully we wake up everyday to the opportunities
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  • And the challenges of that day.
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  • Well, this is gonna correspond to that.
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  • We're gonna ask the spirit of god to awaken us
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  • To what god is doing in this season.
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  • We're not alone and we don't have to be overcome by fear.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, i thank you that there's nothing
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  • That confronts us that intimidates
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  • Or threatens you.
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  • That you have made provision for complete victory
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  • In every aspect of our lives.
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  • Lead us now as we turn our faces to you
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  • To a season of peace and hope and wholeness
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • This book, it'll be a blessing.
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  • ♪♪♪
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