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Allen Jackson - How Far Is Too Far? (Part 1)

July 5, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - How Far Is Too Far? (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - How Far Is Too Far? (Part 1) | July 5, 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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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: the topic is "supporting israel--how far is too far?"
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  • It's a question that's relevant this week because israel is
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  • Still at war.
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  • They've been at war for over 600 days.
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  • There's a new chapter in that initiative.
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  • The conflict with iran has broken into a more
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  • Direct confrontation.
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  • Israeli planes have been over iran.
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  • Part of what sparked my response in this lesson wasn't
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  • Those things.
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  • I was supposed to be in jerusalem this week.
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  • But the--so much of what i have--the discussion i've heard
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  • In the public square has had to do with severe questioning about
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  • The appropriateness of what israel is doing.
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  • And perhaps more on point, the desire that's been expressed
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  • Repeatedly that the united states not be a part of that.
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  • And i've heard a lot of confusion and a lot of
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  • Equivocation and a lot of things candidly i don't agree with.
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  • And so i wanted to take a bit of time with you and see if we
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  • Could look at it from a biblical perspective on what that
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  • Would be.
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  • I'm not at all interested in the united states getting involved
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  • In another war in the middle east.
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  • I think we have paid a great deal of blood and treasure.
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  • On the other hand, i don't think every conflict is the same, and
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  • The voices that were cheering for us to go to ukraine and
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  • Flying ukrainian flags and wearing ukrainian pins and you
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  • Were chic if your social media was plastered with support for
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  • Ukraine are many of the same voices now that are decrying
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  • Whatever involvement we have on what's going on in iran.
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  • So i think we needed a bit of a biblical perspective and that's
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  • Where i wanna start.
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  • In your notes it says "operation rising lion," that's the name
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  • That's been given by the israeli to this current operation, their
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  • Attempt to eliminate iranian nuclear ambition.
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  • And if you haven't been paying any attention for the last
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  • Couple of decades, the iranians have had an unrelenting ambition
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  • To secure nuclear weapons and they've said that as soon as
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  • They did that, they would eliminate israel and attack the
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  • United states with those nuclear weapons.
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  • And if i've learned anything with my engagement in the middle
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  • East through the years, it's that if your adversary tells you
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  • What they intend to do, you should believe them.
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  • It's not a part of the world where idle threats tend to carry
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  • The day.
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  • So i want to start in revelation chapter 5 and verse 5 with
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  • A verse, the scene is in heaven and john can--has been taken
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  • Into the throne room of god.
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  • There's a scroll that holds the keys to the future, and the
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  • Message is that there's no one worthy to open the scroll.
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  • It's a book and nobody's worthy to open the book, and john
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  • Begins to weep because he's anxious to know the purpose of
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  • The vision and what the future holds.
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  • And that's where we step into the narrative.
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  • It's revelation 5:5.
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  • Says: "one of the elders said to me, 'don't weep!
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  • See, the lion of the tribe of judah, the root of david,
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  • Has triumphed.
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  • And he is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.'"
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  • Do you know who the lion of the tribe of judah is?
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  • It's not a trick question.
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  • It's jesus.
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  • It's one of the titles attributed to jesus.
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  • And the message that's given to john is jesus is here and he's--
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  • He is worthy to open the scroll.
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  • I think what is noteworthy is that the last book of the new
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  • Testament refers to jesus as the lion of the tribe of judah.
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  • It's very much a hebrew title.
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  • By this point in the unfolding narrative of the scripture, we
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  • Understand jesus is the head of the church.
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  • But that's not the title attributed to him in revelation.
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  • Doesn't diminish that reality.
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  • I'm not suggesting it does.
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  • I'm telling you i think there is significance that jesus is
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  • Presented at that point as the lion of the tribe of judah.
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  • And if you ask me for my conclusion from that, it's that
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  • God has in no way distanced himself from the jewish people.
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  • Quite the opposite: in the conclusion of the book, at the
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  • Culmination of the age, it's the lion of the tribe of judah
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  • That's returning to the earth.
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  • It's an important point.
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  • In fact, jesus has gathered from the nations of the world, the
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  • Jewish people and is establishing them in the land
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  • That he promised to abraham.
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  • And before we get to the conclusion of that book and the
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  • Conclusion of this present age, the jewish people will once
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  • Again emerge at the center of the message of the kingdom of
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  • God as we prepare for the return of the messiah.
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  • Fact.
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  • "i don't like it."
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  • Okay, doesn't change it.
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  • And if you permit me, i would submit to you that operation
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  • Rising lion, israel's attempt to prevent iran from obtaining
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  • Nuclear weapons, is underway these days.
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  • And i am very confident that the lion of the tribe of judah is
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  • Fully engaged.
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  • So i'll give you a hint.
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  • I think our engagement in that to an extent makes
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  • Perfect sense.
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  • And to deny it and act like we don't notice it or to ignore it
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  • Would put us in a very precarious place and i'll
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  • Explain that a bit more.
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  • The best way i know to understand our world these days,
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  • And i've said it to you on multiple occasions, is that
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  • We're living through a season of shaking.
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  • And that's more than a month or a few weeks or even the change
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  • Of season that we're used to in a calendar.
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  • That season of shaking in my awareness was initiated when we
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  • Heard about a virus coming our way from wuhan, way back now
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  • In 2020.
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  • There's a verse in hebrews chapter 12 that i think helps us
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  • Understand what i mean by this, and it's repeating a prophecy
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  • That had been made earlier in scripture, but we'll limit it to
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  • Hebrews 12.
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  • Says: "at that time god's voice shook the earth, because he
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  • Promised, 'once more i'll shake not only the earth but
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  • The heavens.'
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  • The words 'once more' indicate the removing of what can be
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  • Shaken--that is, created things--so that what cannot be
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  • Shaken may remain."
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  • It goes on in the passage to explain that the reason god
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  • Shakes the earth is to let you see those things that are not--
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  • That are not stable, that are not trustworthy, to expose that
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  • Which can withstand the shaking.
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  • And he says the only thing ultimately that will withstand
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  • The shaking is the kingdom of god.
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  • From 2020 until today it seems to me there have been a number
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  • Of things we have watched crumble.
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  • And i don't believe it's the devil causing that to happen or
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  • The demonic host or the spiritual forces and
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  • Principalities of darkness.
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  • I think god is shaking the earth.
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  • I think god moved in the midst of all of the drama around covid
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  • And exposed things that we thought, that i thought, were
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  • Trustworthy that proved not to be.
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  • I would have told you i trusted the cdc implicitly prior
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  • To 2020.
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  • Was not even enough.
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  • I trusted places like the fbi.
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  • I mean, that seems laughable from the position we stand
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  • In today.
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  • But until the shaking began, it just wasn't as clear to me.
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  • Now you may think i was naive and i'm willing to live
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  • With that.
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  • Well, i would submit to you, and there have been a number of
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  • Episodes of shaking, tremors if you prefer, if you're gonna use
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  • Earthquake as the image.
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  • I think there have been a number of tremors and october 7th,
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  • 2023, when hamas attacked israel, was another one of those
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  • Episodes of shaking.
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  • The fact that there was people in the muslim world that hated
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  • The jews, that wasn't news.
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  • We didn't need any shaking to know that.
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  • We've been living with that for quite a season.
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  • What was not clear to me at that point was the depth of the
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  • Antisemitism, the--antisemitism is a fancy word.
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  • It just means the hatred of the jewish people.
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  • And i was not aware of the depth of the hatred of the jewish
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  • People that was flourishing in this nation.
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  • I've been--i was caught unprepared by that.
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  • I wasn't prepared for some of the most celebrated academic
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  • Institutions in our nation to defend hamas and the people that
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  • Perpetrated that attack.
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  • You see, i was invited to washington, dc, to the israeli
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  • Embassy to review the footage of what happened on october 7th.
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  • And to be perfectly blunt, it was too awful to describe very
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  • Much of it.
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  • It wasn't human in its behavior.
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  • I spent a good deal of my young adult life taking care of
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  • Animals, and animals behave far more appropriately towards one
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  • Another than what i watched in those videos: hamas and people
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  • From gaza, because the first wave of the attack were the
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  • Terrorists that were trained and funded and supported by iran,
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  • But the 2nd and 3rd waves of that were the inhabitants of
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  • Gaza coming over on bicycles and their personal vehicles or
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  • Motorcycles, whatever they could do.
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  • Once they understood it was open season here, they came.
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  • I watched them cut off the heads of people with hoes.
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  • I watched them break into homes and watched them gather a family
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  • Together, fathers and sons and daughters and wives and rape the
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  • Women in front of the husband and fathers and then murder the
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  • Men in front of the women.
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  • And then put the women in vehicles to take them back
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  • To gaza.
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  • So it was very uncomfortable for me then when i saw people at
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  • Some of our most celebrated academic institutions and the
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  • Faculties and the administrations and the
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  • Politicians who support them and give billions of dollars to
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  • Those institutions, defending that behavior.
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  • It was unthinkable to me that there could be a hatred for the
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  • Jewish people that was that deep.
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  • That's been a little less than 2 years ago, the 600 days israel's
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  • Been at war since that day until this one.
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  • And i wasn't aware when that shaking began, the antisemitism
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  • Was uncomfortable for me, i didn't have any imagination what
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  • The outcomes were going to be.
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  • At that point, hamas was deeply entrenched in gaza.
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  • Hezbollah, hezbollah in the north, in syria, and lebanon
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  • With tens of thousands, over 100,000 rockets, iranian-built
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  • And funded, some with russian support, aimed at the heartland
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  • Of israel.
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  • Israel was caught on a multi-front war with very
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  • Well-funded adversaries.
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  • There seemed no way to survive.
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  • It seemed unimaginable 20 months ago that we would arrive at
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  • A place where we are today where hamas has been decimated,
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  • Hezbollah has lost their influence, syria's leader has
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  • Been deposed, and iranian capability to defend themselves
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  • Has been almost totally eliminated.
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  • It was unimaginable 20 months ago.
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  • And that happened with an administration in washington,
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  • Dc, that was not supportive of that.
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  • The constant hue and cry from our media and from many of our
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  • Intellectual elites was that we needed a humanitarian ceasefire.
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  • And the general population are so disengaged and unaware that
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  • Allen: the shaking, this most recent episode, it seems to me
  • 00:14:29.385 --> 00:14:32.354
  • Has exposed something in our nation, and if god exposes it,
  • 00:14:32.354 --> 00:14:35.858
  • He gives us an opportunity to change it.
  • 00:14:35.858 --> 00:14:39.295
  • One of the lessons we've been processing since covid is we
  • 00:14:39.295 --> 00:14:41.463
  • Don't want to just live through sin.
  • 00:14:41.463 --> 00:14:44.733
  • If you find yourself caught in something that is ungodly,
  • 00:14:44.733 --> 00:14:47.736
  • Whether it was done intentionally or you find
  • 00:14:47.736 --> 00:14:50.472
  • Yourself in that place and you didn't necessarily do it
  • 00:14:50.472 --> 00:14:53.242
  • Intentionally, but you discover that you're standing in an
  • 00:14:53.242 --> 00:14:55.611
  • Ungodly place, the goal is not to hurry past it.
  • 00:14:55.611 --> 00:15:00.382
  • The goal is not to whistle more loudly.
  • 00:15:00.382 --> 00:15:02.318
  • The goal isn't to blame somebody else.
  • 00:15:02.318 --> 00:15:04.553
  • The biblical prescription is to repent.
  • 00:15:04.553 --> 00:15:08.457
  • If you live past it, you keep the consequence.
  • 00:15:08.457 --> 00:15:12.261
  • If you deny it, if you say it wasn't my fault, all the things,
  • 00:15:12.261 --> 00:15:15.764
  • You live in the consequence, the judgment's yours.
  • 00:15:15.764 --> 00:15:18.067
  • If you repent, you can be forgiven and set free.
  • 00:15:18.067 --> 00:15:24.273
  • So the point of the shaking, i think oftentimes is to help us
  • 00:15:24.273 --> 00:15:27.076
  • Understand with clarity where we are.
  • 00:15:27.076 --> 00:15:28.444
  • It's diagnostic in its attempt and i think the events that have
  • 00:15:28.444 --> 00:15:32.314
  • Been unfolding have tremendous potential for change in our
  • 00:15:32.314 --> 00:15:36.018
  • Nation, which perhaps would help you understand why i've been
  • 00:15:36.018 --> 00:15:39.922
  • Uncomfortable these last few days where a lot of people who
  • 00:15:39.922 --> 00:15:42.758
  • Have rather conservative worldviews and significant
  • 00:15:42.758 --> 00:15:45.160
  • Voices are saying what's happening in israel with our
  • 00:15:45.160 --> 00:15:48.330
  • Engagement is completely inappropriate.
  • 00:15:48.330 --> 00:15:54.303
  • Sometimes they'll say, well, you know, israeli politicians
  • 00:15:54.303 --> 00:15:56.372
  • Aren't honest.
  • 00:15:56.372 --> 00:16:01.410
  • Put all of those in america.
  • 00:16:01.410 --> 00:16:05.247
  • I assure you that israel is every bit as polarized
  • 00:16:05.247 --> 00:16:11.020
  • Politically, in the media, in all those ways as we are
  • 00:16:11.020 --> 00:16:14.323
  • At home.
  • 00:16:14.323 --> 00:16:16.425
  • So reading a quote from the media in israel can be every bit
  • 00:16:16.425 --> 00:16:20.095
  • As difficult to understand as reading a quote from the media
  • 00:16:20.095 --> 00:16:22.531
  • In the united states.
  • 00:16:22.531 --> 00:16:24.299
  • Where do you go for truth?
  • 00:16:24.299 --> 00:16:27.269
  • So we need a little different understanding.
  • 00:16:27.269 --> 00:16:29.104
  • We need a little bit more insight.
  • 00:16:29.104 --> 00:16:31.840
  • And i think to get to that, to me this isn't fundamentally
  • 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:34.710
  • A political issue.
  • 00:16:34.710 --> 00:16:37.079
  • Our response to israel does not begin with geopolitical
  • 00:16:37.079 --> 00:16:40.749
  • Decisions and ideas about nation states and military capacity
  • 00:16:40.749 --> 00:16:44.720
  • Because what we've watched happen in the last 20 months
  • 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:46.422
  • Was impossible.
  • 00:16:46.422 --> 00:16:48.891
  • It was just impossible.
  • 00:16:48.891 --> 00:16:50.259
  • It was unimaginable.
  • 00:16:50.259 --> 00:16:51.693
  • It couldn't be accomplished.
  • 00:16:51.693 --> 00:16:54.797
  • And yet it has been.
  • 00:16:54.797 --> 00:16:56.899
  • So i think we need another layer of understanding.
  • 00:16:56.899 --> 00:17:00.169
  • It isn't about politics or petroleum dollars.
  • 00:17:00.169 --> 00:17:03.539
  • Truthfully, israel and the jewish people are not just
  • 00:17:03.539 --> 00:17:05.541
  • Another country or another group of people.
  • 00:17:05.541 --> 00:17:08.177
  • They occupy a different place in god's economy.
  • 00:17:08.177 --> 00:17:11.246
  • Doesn't mean everything they do is right, doesn't mean we should
  • 00:17:11.246 --> 00:17:13.515
  • Support everything they do.
  • 00:17:13.515 --> 00:17:15.417
  • Every expression of ungodliness or wickedness or evil that you
  • 00:17:15.417 --> 00:17:18.120
  • Can find in middle tennessee flourishes in the land
  • 00:17:18.120 --> 00:17:20.389
  • Of israel.
  • 00:17:20.389 --> 00:17:24.493
  • Nevertheless, i think we need to understand why israel matters
  • 00:17:24.493 --> 00:17:27.729
  • And i think our map will help us.
  • 00:17:27.729 --> 00:17:30.933
  • If nothing else, it'll probably help me embarrass myself.
  • 00:17:30.933 --> 00:17:34.570
  • And you can be witness to that.
  • 00:17:34.570 --> 00:17:38.707
  • I don't think we're probably overly aware of geography,
  • 00:17:38.707 --> 00:17:41.844
  • It's--education being what it is.
  • 00:17:41.844 --> 00:17:47.616
  • I was not educated on electronics, so my ignorance is
  • 00:17:47.616 --> 00:17:51.420
  • Here for all of you.
  • 00:17:51.420 --> 00:17:52.754
  • Israel is a tiny little strip of land at the end of
  • 00:17:52.754 --> 00:17:56.592
  • The mediterranean.
  • 00:17:56.592 --> 00:17:57.960
  • It's not much larger than middle tennessee, or new jersey if
  • 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:01.730
  • You prefer.
  • 00:18:01.730 --> 00:18:03.065
  • I prefer middle tennessee.
  • 00:18:03.065 --> 00:18:04.433
  • It's a small place.
  • 00:18:04.433 --> 00:18:06.101
  • It's very easily overlooked.
  • 00:18:06.101 --> 00:18:07.436
  • It isn't significant.
  • 00:18:07.436 --> 00:18:09.872
  • This is israel.
  • 00:18:09.872 --> 00:18:14.343
  • Their worldview stands isolated in the region.
  • 00:18:14.343 --> 00:18:18.981
  • In fact, if you take the surrounding countries from
  • 00:18:18.981 --> 00:18:21.783
  • Turkey through the middle east to iran, the countries north of
  • 00:18:21.783 --> 00:18:28.390
  • Iran to afghanistan, you come south to saudi arabia, the gulf
  • 00:18:28.390 --> 00:18:32.094
  • States, across north africa, all of those nations, that entire
  • 00:18:32.094 --> 00:18:37.266
  • Geographic region, is under the influence of islam.
  • 00:18:37.266 --> 00:18:44.373
  • There's a significant size disparity: iran is 80 times
  • 00:18:44.373 --> 00:18:47.509
  • Larger than israel, just iran.
  • 00:18:47.509 --> 00:18:51.680
  • But this from turkey all the way around through north africa, and
  • 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:54.516
  • It really extends beyond that, but just that part that fits
  • 00:18:54.516 --> 00:18:56.919
  • Onto this map, that portion of the geography for the--
  • 00:18:56.919 --> 00:19:00.122
  • Geography of the middle east and north africa is under the
  • 00:19:00.122 --> 00:19:02.991
  • Influence of islam.
  • 00:19:02.991 --> 00:19:04.359
  • This is tiny israel, about 7 million israelis there.
  • 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:08.630
  • And the global talking point echoed by the eu, the united
  • 00:19:08.630 --> 00:19:12.467
  • Nations, most of the elite voices in the global community,
  • 00:19:12.467 --> 00:19:18.440
  • That has been echoed for decades, is there cannot be
  • 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:22.144
  • Peace in the middle east until israel gives up some land.
  • 00:19:22.144 --> 00:19:28.617
  • How many of you have heard that?
  • 00:19:28.617 --> 00:19:34.990
  • Land for peace.
  • 00:19:34.990 --> 00:19:37.893
  • Well, i think it's just worth noting in passing, as time will
  • 00:19:37.893 --> 00:19:41.163
  • Be an issue, that lebanon, the country to the immediate north
  • 00:19:41.163 --> 00:19:45.968
  • Of israel, no longer has a sitting government.
  • 00:19:45.968 --> 00:19:48.870
  • They were displaced by hezbollah, funded by iran, the
  • 00:19:48.870 --> 00:19:52.741
  • Nation at one time the most beautiful nation in the middle
  • 00:19:52.741 --> 00:19:54.943
  • East, a christian arab nation at one time, it's hard to
  • 00:19:54.943 --> 00:19:57.546
  • Believe today.
  • 00:19:57.546 --> 00:19:58.947
  • They've been totally disrupted.
  • 00:19:58.947 --> 00:20:01.283
  • They have no functional government.
  • 00:20:01.283 --> 00:20:03.085
  • It's difficult to talk about them as an independent state.
  • 00:20:03.085 --> 00:20:06.021
  • Syria's dictator assad of many years has been removed.
  • 00:20:06.021 --> 00:20:09.825
  • Syria is a kind of a blank slate at the moment.
  • 00:20:09.825 --> 00:20:14.863
  • They've had a civil war that caused more than 5 million
  • 00:20:14.863 --> 00:20:17.499
  • Syrians to be pushed into europe, displaced from their
  • 00:20:17.499 --> 00:20:20.636
  • Historic homeland.
  • 00:20:20.636 --> 00:20:23.038
  • And there's been no call from the muslim street, muslim world,
  • 00:20:23.038 --> 00:20:26.908
  • From the global community, from the eu, from the un, from the
  • 00:20:26.908 --> 00:20:31.213
  • Ngos, that those syrians that were displaced into europe be
  • 00:20:31.213 --> 00:20:35.217
  • Returned and reestablished in their historic places in syria.
  • 00:20:35.217 --> 00:20:39.821
  • They've been quite happy for them to be an invading force
  • 00:20:39.821 --> 00:20:42.057
  • That got pushed into europe.
  • 00:20:42.057 --> 00:20:45.927
  • So there's no peace in lebanon, there's no peace in syria.
  • 00:20:45.927 --> 00:20:48.163
  • We know a bit about iraq and the unrest and the disruption that's
  • 00:20:48.163 --> 00:20:51.333
  • Been there.
  • 00:20:51.333 --> 00:20:52.701
  • We know a bit about iran today.
  • 00:20:52.701 --> 00:20:54.469
  • I mean, we could go around the map.
  • 00:20:54.469 --> 00:20:56.371
  • So, places where they have no peace said they will not give
  • 00:20:56.371 --> 00:21:00.342
  • Peace until israel gives up some of their land.
  • 00:21:00.342 --> 00:21:04.746
  • It's absurd.
  • 00:21:04.746 --> 00:21:08.150
  • It's as absurd as some of the things happening in our
  • 00:21:08.150 --> 00:21:10.352
  • Own nation.
  • 00:21:10.352 --> 00:21:11.687
  • There's no logical explanation for some of the things we're
  • 00:21:11.687 --> 00:21:13.855
  • Watching happen in our nation.
  • 00:21:13.855 --> 00:21:15.757
  • The only way you can rightfully understand them is if you have
  • 00:21:15.757 --> 00:21:18.427
  • An awareness or a willingness to accept spiritual influences that
  • 00:21:18.427 --> 00:21:22.297
  • Influence human behavior.
  • 00:21:22.297 --> 00:21:25.067
  • There's no logic to this.
  • 00:21:25.067 --> 00:21:29.104
  • And again, the fulcrum, the complaint, has been--wonder if
  • 00:21:29.104 --> 00:21:33.942
  • I can--pray for me.
  • 00:21:33.942 --> 00:21:42.117
  • Look at me.
  • 00:21:42.117 --> 00:21:44.886
  • Gaza is this tiny little place here, and the west bank is
  • 00:21:44.886 --> 00:21:49.224
  • Outlined in white.
  • 00:21:49.224 --> 00:21:52.027
  • So people that they argue have been displaced and i'll come
  • 00:21:52.027 --> 00:21:54.563
  • Back to that.
  • 00:21:54.563 --> 00:21:55.964
  • What's been said about israel for more than three decades now
  • 00:21:55.964 --> 00:21:58.700
  • Is there can be no peace until those people are established in
  • 00:21:58.700 --> 00:22:01.536
  • That homeland, but those rules don't apply to syria.
  • 00:22:01.536 --> 00:22:04.306
  • They don't apply to lebanon.
  • 00:22:04.306 --> 00:22:05.807
  • They don't apply to all the jews who were expelled from the
  • 00:22:05.807 --> 00:22:08.143
  • Nations of the middle east when modern israel was reborn.
  • 00:22:08.143 --> 00:22:12.381
  • It's not a logical argument.
  • 00:22:12.381 --> 00:22:14.983
  • You can't understand the conversation that's happening
  • 00:22:14.983 --> 00:22:17.652
  • Today about israel and iran, and iran's threats to annihilate
  • 00:22:17.652 --> 00:22:23.024
  • Israel, if you just look at it from a purely
  • 00:22:23.024 --> 00:22:27.863
  • Geopolitical context.
  • 00:22:27.863 --> 00:22:30.665
  • And the people saying we shouldn't be involved say that
  • 00:22:30.665 --> 00:22:32.834
  • The united states military industrial complex can't
  • 00:22:32.834 --> 00:22:36.338
  • Be trusted.
  • 00:22:36.338 --> 00:22:37.706
  • No kidding.
  • 00:22:37.706 --> 00:22:39.207
  • Abundant evidence for that.
  • 00:22:39.207 --> 00:22:40.542
  • I don't disagree in the least.
  • 00:22:40.542 --> 00:22:42.944
  • We have politicians who will line their pockets,
  • 00:22:42.944 --> 00:22:45.213
  • Who take bribes.
  • 00:22:45.213 --> 00:22:46.681
  • If we've learned anything since the beginning of this year, it's
  • 00:22:46.681 --> 00:22:50.118
  • The fraud, the waste, the looting, the stealing, the
  • 00:22:50.118 --> 00:22:52.888
  • Dishonesty that's been taking place in our nation at the
  • 00:22:52.888 --> 00:22:56.124
  • Highest possible levels is really beyond our ability
  • 00:22:56.124 --> 00:22:58.827
  • To comprehend.
  • 00:22:58.827 --> 00:23:02.364
  • But that's not really an adequate way to understand
  • 00:23:02.364 --> 00:23:04.232
  • What's happening with israel.
  • 00:23:04.232 --> 00:23:07.135
  • Israel didn't cause that.
  • 00:23:07.135 --> 00:23:08.503
  • They didn't initiate that.
  • 00:23:08.503 --> 00:23:11.273
  • I think those of us who are christ followers, we need
  • 00:23:11.273 --> 00:23:14.276
  • A little different level of understanding and engagement.
  • 00:23:14.276 --> 00:23:21.016
  • I'm trying.
  • 00:23:21.016 --> 00:23:24.052
  • Look at me.
  • 00:23:24.052 --> 00:23:30.492
  • If i can use that map and not say something inappropriate,
  • 00:23:30.492 --> 00:23:32.928
  • We've all had a miracle right here in front of god
  • 00:23:32.928 --> 00:23:34.696
  • And everyone.
  • 00:23:34.696 --> 00:23:38.600
  • There's some biblical verses i would share with you, and some
  • 00:23:38.600 --> 00:23:41.236
  • Of you say, you know, "you just--don't drag the bible
  • 00:23:41.236 --> 00:23:43.305
  • Into this."
  • 00:23:43.305 --> 00:23:44.673
  • It is about the bible.
  • 00:23:44.673 --> 00:23:46.241
  • It has a great deal to do with that.
  • 00:23:46.241 --> 00:23:47.609
  • If it--since i have a session where i'm probably going to
  • 00:23:47.609 --> 00:23:53.081
  • Annoy a good number of people, if we don't imagine that the
  • 00:23:53.081 --> 00:23:55.884
  • Word of god should be engaged in current culture, your bible's
  • 00:23:55.884 --> 00:23:59.120
  • No good.
  • 00:23:59.120 --> 00:24:01.556
  • You're no different--you're just a historian, you're
  • 00:24:01.556 --> 00:24:04.759
  • A theoretical theologian.
  • 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:07.062
  • And my lord was not a theoretical theologian.
  • 00:24:07.062 --> 00:24:09.631
  • He offered himself on a cross.
  • 00:24:09.631 --> 00:24:10.999
  • That wasn't a theory.
  • 00:24:10.999 --> 00:24:13.301
  • And human nature hasn't changed.
  • 00:24:13.301 --> 00:24:15.203
  • We desperately need a biblical worldview or we'll offer our
  • 00:24:15.203 --> 00:24:18.206
  • Children up for mutilation.
  • 00:24:18.206 --> 00:24:20.075
  • We'll offer them up for sacrifice.
  • 00:24:20.075 --> 00:24:21.710
  • We'll allow secular culture to redefine marriage, and we will
  • 00:24:21.710 --> 00:24:25.213
  • Stand on the sidelines and act like we don't notice, and we'll
  • 00:24:25.213 --> 00:24:27.849
  • Have a polite bible study and talk about first century
  • 00:24:27.849 --> 00:24:30.785
  • Political leaders.
  • 00:24:30.785 --> 00:24:34.022
  • And then we'll have to give an account.
  • 00:24:34.022 --> 00:24:36.925
  • So i think the biblical perspective on who the jewish
  • 00:24:36.925 --> 00:24:39.661
  • People are and what role god intends for them is essential to
  • 00:24:39.661 --> 00:24:45.600
  • Understanding how our nation should respond to the
  • 00:24:45.600 --> 00:24:48.236
  • Jewish people.
  • 00:24:48.236 --> 00:24:49.704
  • It is not just a political decision.
  • 00:24:49.704 --> 00:24:52.374
  • It should have very little to do with political parties and
  • 00:24:52.374 --> 00:24:54.709
  • Alliances and allegiances.
  • 00:24:54.709 --> 00:24:56.278
  • It should have a great deal to do with biblical worldview.
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  • And again, we don't live in a theocracy.
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  • I understand the people that say you're gonna plunge the world
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  • Into a nuclear war because we believe in arms.
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  • Stop.
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  • Who's been plunging us into all the other wars?
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  • Genesis 12, i've told you on many occasions that the opening
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  • Chapters of genesis establish the big rock ideas of the bible,
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  • The ideas that are fleshed out in the 65 books that
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  • Follow that.
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  • And in genesis 12, god is speaking to abram and he said,
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  • "i will make you into a great nation.
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  • I will bless you.
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  • I'll make your name great, and you'll be a blessing.
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  • And i'll bless those who bless you and whoever curses you, i'll
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  • Curse; and all the peoples on earth will be blessed
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  • Through you."
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  • That promise isn't made to everybody, it's made to abram.
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  • You and i receive blessings from almighty god, the creator of
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  • Heaven and earth, today because of the covenant that god made
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  • With abram in the book of genesis.
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  • Allen: hey we have a tool that we think will help
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  • Strengthen you in this season.
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  • 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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