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Allen Jackson - How Far Is Too Far? (Part 2)

July 7, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - How Far Is Too Far? (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - How Far Is Too Far? (Part 2) | July 7, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, i know you know, but we're living in
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  • A chaotic world.
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  • 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 want to make a suggestion.
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  • 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 that's a part of
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  • Our current world.
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  • It gives us a verse of scripture, a little devotional
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  • Around that topic, and then a prayer for that specific thing.
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  • The idea is we're gonna give the holy spirit an invitation to
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  • Awaken us to a new place of faith.
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  • You know, we need an awakening in the midst of the people of
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  • God and we wanna say, "well, i am awake."
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  • Well, i get that, but you know, i was awakened yesterday, but
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  • This morning i was awakened again and my prayer is tomorrow
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  • I'll be awakened yet again.
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  • We need a daily awakening by the spirit of god to find his best
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  • For us in this season, and i believe this book will help you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: genesis 12, i've told you on many occasions that the
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  • Opening chapters of genesis establish the big rock ideas of
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  • The bible, 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, and i'll
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  • Bless those who bless you and whoever curses you, i'll curse;
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  • And all the peoples on earth will be blessed 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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  • I can show that to you scripturally.
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  • In john chapter 4 and verse 22, jesus is speaking.
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  • I'm gonna touch these really quickly.
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  • You can reflect on them at your leisure, but jesus is speaking.
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  • And he said, "the samaritans worship what you do not know;
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  • But we," the jews, "worship what we do know, for salvation is
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  • From the jews."
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  • Jesus's words.
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  • No jews, no salvation.
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  • Every spiritual blessing, my entire spiritual inheritance,
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  • I owe to one people: the jewish people.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Ephesians 3 and verse 6 says: "the mystery is that through the
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  • Gospel the gentiles," gentiles is the word in the new testament
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  • For everybody who's not jewish.
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  • There's two groups of people in the new testament: the jews and
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  • The gentiles; the jews and everybody else.
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  • "the mystery is that through the gospel," the good news about
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  • Jesus, "the gentiles are heirs together with israel, members
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  • Together of one body, sharers together in the promise in
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  • Christ jesus."
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  • Not something separate, not something apart from.
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  • I'll show you a bit more in a moment.
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  • Look in galatians 3 and verse 29: "if you belong to christ,
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  • Then you're abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."
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  • To what promise?
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  • To the promise god made to abraham.
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  • See, we--there's an arrogance in the christian church.
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  • It's predominantly non-jewish.
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  • We're highly critical of the jewish people.
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  • We've been very condemning.
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  • I'll show you a bit of history in a moment.
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  • And it's because we haven't understood the scripture.
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  • It's been far more about our carnality and our pride and
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  • Our arrogance.
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  • We've been far more proud of our denominational affiliation, and
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  • Our denominational heroes and our favorite songwriters or hymn
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  • Writers or worship leaders or whomever.
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  • We've been very quick to condemn the jewish people.
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  • There's a significant school of thought that said the jewish
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  • People were eliminated from the purposes of god.
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  • It isn't biblical.
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  • Look at romans chapter 9. paul is writing.
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  • Paul is a pharisee, a jew.
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  • He said, "i have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in
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  • My heart.
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  • For i could wish that i myself were cursed and cut off from
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  • Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race,
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  • The people of israel.
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  • Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory, the
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  • Covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and
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  • The promises.
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  • Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human
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  • Ancestry of christ, who is god over all, forever praised!
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  • Amen."
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  • There's some conclusions you can reach from that passage.
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  • God adopted the jewish people as a nation.
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  • That's his word, not ours.
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  • The divine glory, the manifest supernatural presence of god,
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  • Was with israel as long as they walked in obedience to god.
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  • The covenants, all the biblical covenants, are with israel,
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  • Except for those that were made before israel was a nation.
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  • The covenant god made with abraham predates the nation
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  • Of israel.
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  • You can't talk about a jewish people when we're reading
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  • The book of genesis.
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  • But all of those covenants come through either before the
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  • Existence of israel or the people of israel.
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  • They're receiving the law.
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  • The law was given to israel.
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  • We know the character of god because of his interaction with
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  • The jewish people.
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  • The temple worship, the priestly service of god, was given
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  • To israel.
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  • The human ancestry of christ, paul said, through the jewish
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  • People, through israel, that jesus christ, our messiah, came
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  • To the world.
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  • His arrival was not through any other people than the jews.
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  • And then christians will say, "well, do you think we have
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  • Any obligation?"
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  • Yes, i do.
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  • Doesn't mean everything they do is right.
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  • Doesn't mean everything they do we should support.
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  • But it does mean that we are indebted to them.
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  • There's a very significant school of thought that occupies
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  • A place in much of contemporary christendom in our nation and
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  • Beyond, but it flourishes in our nation: replacement theology,
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  • That god replaced the jewish people and everywhere you read
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  • "israel" in the bible, you could just pencil in "church."
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  • And then when we read something about the jewish people, you can
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  • Write in "christians."
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  • My understanding of jesus: he said, "if you mess with one jot
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  • Or tittle," the least stroke of a pen, "judgment will come
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  • On you."
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  • So i would strongly encourage you away from that school
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  • Of thought.
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  • I don't believe it's accurate.
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  • I understand a bit how it made its way into history.
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  • I think i understand even some of the forces that are
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  • Behind it.
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  • In acts chapter 18, in the book of acts, we're told that there
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  • Was a roman emperor, that's not in your notes.
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  • They're searching their page.
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  • Acts 18 is in your bible, it's right between 17 and 19.
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  • You can check me later.
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  • The first two verses, paul-- luke is writing, and he said
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  • That the emperor claudia expelled the jews from rome.
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  • And some of those who were expelled from rome, there was
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  • A natural disaster in rome and they needed a scapegoat.
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  • Not surprisingly, the jews were chosen as a scapegoat, so they
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  • Were all driven out of rome.
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  • Rome's economy diminished greatly.
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  • And a succeeding emperor invited them back.
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  • It happened to be nero, who was crazy as a loon, an evil man.
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  • He ruled from ages 16 to 30.
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  • He came to power in 54 ad.
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  • He invited the jews back.
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  • Well, the church by that point was already established in the
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  • City of rome.
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  • It was the leading center of the empire.
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  • There was a vibrant church there.
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  • Not surprisingly, the church had begun in the synagogues, the
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  • Leadership in the church was jewish.
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  • So when the jews were expelled from rome, there was
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  • A power vacuum.
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  • They needed new pastors and leaders and so they replaced
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  • Them with people who weren't jews because that's all that
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  • Was available.
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  • Guess what happened when the jews came back?
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  • They didn't want them.
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  • They had moved into the corner office.
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  • They'd written their name into the org chart.
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  • Did you know that's all in your bible?
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  • I brought you a little sample.
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  • It's in romans chapter 11.
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  • It's part of what paul is writing to the believers in rome
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  • About, because what the non-jews are saying is that the jews
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  • Messed up and they lost their place.
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  • So in romans 11, verse 1, paul writes: "i ask then: did god
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  • Reject his people?
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  • By no means!
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  • I'm an israelite myself, a descendant of abraham, from the
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  • Tribe of benjamin.
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  • God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew."
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  • That's about as plain as it can be.
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  • God didn't reject them.
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  • So if somebody says to you, "god rejected the jewish people,"
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  • You know one of two things.
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  • They're biblically ignorant.
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  • Or they don't read well.
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  • And don't pay any attention.
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  • I'm gonna go with the apostle paul.
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  • He made the book.
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  • Same chapter, verse 11, he said, "again i ask: did they stumble
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  • So as to fall beyond recovery?"
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  • He's not making this up.
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  • By the middle of the 1st century, this was the accusation
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  • Being leveled at the jewish people by christ followers.
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  • They've stumbled so badly, they messed up so badly, they're
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  • Beyond redemption, they missed their opportunity.
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  • They deserve what they get.
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  • "i ask: did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery?
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  • Not at all!
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  • Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has
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  • Come to the gentiles to make israel envious."
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  • Same chapter, verse 17: "if some of the branches," paul's using
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  • The analogy that israel, the jewish people,
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  • Are an olive tree.
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  • And he says, "if some of the branches are broken off, and
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  • You, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the
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  • Others, now share in the nourishing sap from the olive
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  • Root, do not boast over those branches."
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  • Do you understand the analogy?
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  • He said there was a tree, an original tree, israel, the
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  • Jewish people, and some branches were broken off and people who
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  • Weren't a part of the original tree were grafted in.
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  • But you're sustained by the roots of that original tree.
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  • Don't boast over the branches.
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  • If you do, consider this, you don't support the root, the root
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  • Supports you.
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  • "and you'll say then, 'branches were broken off so that i could
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  • Be grafted in.'
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  • Granted.
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  • But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand
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  • By faith.
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  • Don't be arrogant, be afraid.
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  • For if god didn't spare the natural branches, he won't spare
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  • You either."
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  • All of us are required to lead our lives by faith.
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  • And we shouldn't imagine that the jewish people have
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  • Been rejected.
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  • We should understand god is moving in their midst.
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  • Allen: hey, we have a tool that i think will help you overcome
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  • Some of the chaos in the world and stay focused on the good
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  • Things that god is doing.
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  • It's called "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • Allen: again, i think we need a biblically informed attitude
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  • Towards the jewish people.
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  • You need a bit of history here.
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  • I'm not tim barton.
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  • My drawl makes that unlikely.
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  • But i can tell you this, the jewish people across a large
  • 00:12:55.925 --> 00:13:00.496
  • Span of history, predating the church, but i'll focus on the
  • 00:13:00.496 --> 00:13:03.332
  • Church, our time is limited.
  • 00:13:03.332 --> 00:13:05.467
  • The jewish people have been hunted, hated, and unwanted.
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  • Hard stop.
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  • Across empires, across nations, across continents, across
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  • Hundreds, across thousands of years, the jewish people have
  • 00:13:17.046 --> 00:13:20.449
  • Been hunted, hated, and unwanted.
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  • But i'll show you in a moment how god keeps his promises.
  • 00:13:24.353 --> 00:13:28.557
  • And i believe we're watching that unfold in our news media
  • 00:13:28.557 --> 00:13:32.161
  • These days.
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  • For 2,000 years, the primary incubator of hatred of the
  • 00:13:33.996 --> 00:13:40.169
  • Jewish people have been the christians.
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  • Fact of history.
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  • It's not really debatable.
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  • I don't have time to do it in a great deal of detail.
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  • I can give you the highlights.
  • 00:13:49.912 --> 00:13:51.347
  • I just read you a portion.
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  • It was an issue in the first century while our bible was
  • 00:13:52.715 --> 00:13:56.151
  • Being put together.
  • 00:13:56.151 --> 00:13:57.486
  • It made it into the most masterful theological treatise
  • 00:13:57.486 --> 00:14:00.689
  • That i believe humanity has ever had, the book of romans.
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  • And it was--it had to be addressed in the church of rome.
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  • And it required no one of less significance than the apostle
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  • Paul to address it.
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  • I wish i could say it stopped there, it didn't.
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  • I could take you to about just any following civilization that
  • 00:14:18.107 --> 00:14:22.044
  • Unfolded, and there is a very pronounced, very intentional,
  • 00:14:22.044 --> 00:14:26.148
  • Very violent hatred of the jewish people unleashed and
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  • Typically supported by the most influential voices in the
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  • Christian community.
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  • In europe, in spain, i--well, there's many, many examples.
  • 00:14:35.791 --> 00:14:38.961
  • I'm just giving you a limited-- in spain, the spanish
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  • Inquisition in the 15th century.
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  • By that time spain's a catholic country.
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  • But there's political turmoil and upheaval and the jews are
  • 00:14:46.635 --> 00:14:49.571
  • Gonna be scapegoated again and the jews are arrested, their
  • 00:14:49.571 --> 00:14:52.007
  • Properties confiscated.
  • 00:14:52.007 --> 00:14:53.909
  • Many of them have been successful, many have
  • 00:14:53.909 --> 00:14:55.511
  • Flourished, so their property, their wealth, is confiscated.
  • 00:14:55.511 --> 00:14:58.314
  • They're given options.
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  • They can convert to christianity, they can be
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  • Executed, or they can leave the country and we will keep
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  • Your things.
  • 00:15:07.256 --> 00:15:10.125
  • Thousands of jews arrested, many driven out of the country,
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  • Not unique.
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  • Just the spanish version.
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  • The roman catholic church, and i'm not anti-roman catholic.
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  • Listen to the podcast.
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  • But the roman catholic church until the 1970s, their public
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  • Attitude was that the jewish people were guilty of deicide.
  • 00:15:32.348 --> 00:15:36.652
  • They killed the messiah.
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  • They've changed that.
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  • But for hundreds of years, official policy.
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  • Gee, do you think that could incubate hatred?
  • 00:15:46.795 --> 00:15:52.768
  • How do you arrive at christian europe--christian europe, that
  • 00:15:52.768 --> 00:16:00.042
  • Would surrender the jewish population in all of their
  • 00:16:00.042 --> 00:16:02.911
  • Leading cities to be rounded up, shipped off to death camps, and
  • 00:16:02.911 --> 00:16:09.985
  • Christian europe would barely lift a finger?
  • 00:16:09.985 --> 00:16:15.691
  • How could that happen?
  • 00:16:15.691 --> 00:16:18.327
  • Because for hundreds of years there was a malevolent hatred
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  • Directed at the jewish people.
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  • It's in shakespeare's writings.
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  • It's in the literature.
  • 00:16:28.937 --> 00:16:31.440
  • In many of the nations, they weren't allowed to own property.
  • 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:35.744
  • So they couldn't farm, so they had small businesses.
  • 00:16:35.744 --> 00:16:39.848
  • They were money changers.
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  • They had jobs they were allowed to have.
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  • They were broadly discriminated against.
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  • I don't believe it's accidental and it's more than a bit ironic
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  • That modern-day israel leads the world in most agricultural
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  • Breakthroughs: irrigation, dairy production, milk production, the
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  • Finest fruits and vegetables in the markets of europe come from
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  • The greenhouses of israel.
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  • The people who were not allowed to own property and farm
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  • Throughout europe are now feeding the most elite
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  • Of europe.
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  • God has a sense of humor, and a sense of justice.
  • 00:17:13.449 --> 00:17:19.788
  • You see, the holocaust in world war ii is the part we're
  • 00:17:19.788 --> 00:17:23.525
  • Probably the most familiar with, was only made possible because
  • 00:17:23.525 --> 00:17:27.729
  • Of the silence of the christian church.
  • 00:17:27.729 --> 00:17:35.904
  • We're ignorant of our history or it's inconvenient for us to be
  • 00:17:35.904 --> 00:17:38.574
  • Reminded of it, so we don't think about it.
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  • The nazi war criminals that escaped at the end of world war
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  • Ii, many of whom did so with the help and the engagement of the
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  • Catholic church.
  • 00:17:48.016 --> 00:17:49.585
  • And again, i'm not trying to trash the--protestant europe
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  • Did no better.
  • 00:17:52.154 --> 00:17:57.025
  • What we see is this lengthy period of time, more than 2000
  • 00:17:57.025 --> 00:18:00.529
  • Years, of hatred and violence directed against a small group
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  • Of people across varying empires, different economic
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  • Systems, different political powers, different political
  • 00:18:09.037 --> 00:18:12.107
  • Structures, but the hatred of the people is consistent.
  • 00:18:12.107 --> 00:18:16.879
  • And if you'll allow me to expand it just a bit more, the pages of
  • 00:18:16.879 --> 00:18:19.715
  • Your bible illustrate it, we just don't think about it.
  • 00:18:19.715 --> 00:18:24.953
  • In the book of exodus, the male children of the hebrew slaves
  • 00:18:24.953 --> 00:18:28.924
  • Are being murdered because they're perceived as a threat.
  • 00:18:28.924 --> 00:18:33.595
  • It's illogical.
  • 00:18:33.595 --> 00:18:34.930
  • It's irrational.
  • 00:18:34.930 --> 00:18:36.298
  • You have a group of people enslaved.
  • 00:18:36.298 --> 00:18:37.633
  • You want the strength of the males in the population,
  • 00:18:37.633 --> 00:18:39.234
  • But they're being murdered.
  • 00:18:39.234 --> 00:18:42.037
  • Moses is saved out of that.
  • 00:18:42.037 --> 00:18:44.039
  • Scroll forward more than 1000 years until we get to the day of
  • 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:49.278
  • Jesus and jesus's birth in bethlehem.
  • 00:18:49.278 --> 00:18:51.146
  • When jesus is born, what happens?
  • 00:18:51.146 --> 00:18:54.550
  • All the male children are slaughtered in bethlehem.
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  • It becomes--it begins to become so consistent and so repetitive.
  • 00:18:58.820 --> 00:19:01.957
  • In the holocaust, in the death camps of europe, more than 1 1/2
  • 00:19:01.957 --> 00:19:07.930
  • Million jewish children were murdered--1 1/2 million.
  • 00:19:07.930 --> 00:19:15.837
  • I've read report after report where the train cars
  • 00:19:15.837 --> 00:19:18.407
  • Transporting the jews like cattle would rumble past
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  • Churches and if it--on a sunday when the church was gathered and
  • 00:19:22.578 --> 00:19:27.716
  • The people in the cars are crying for help.
  • 00:19:27.716 --> 00:19:31.320
  • The people would sing more loudly so they couldn't hear the
  • 00:19:31.320 --> 00:19:33.322
  • Cries of the people.
  • 00:19:33.322 --> 00:19:36.658
  • How do you explain thousands of years and hatred towards
  • 00:19:36.658 --> 00:19:41.096
  • A specific group of people who didn't even occupy a nation,
  • 00:19:41.096 --> 00:19:44.399
  • They didn't occupy a space?
  • 00:19:44.399 --> 00:19:47.669
  • I don't believe you can understand it apart from
  • 00:19:47.669 --> 00:19:49.771
  • Spiritual explanations.
  • 00:19:49.771 --> 00:19:52.975
  • I believe it's a spiritual force.
  • 00:19:52.975 --> 00:19:55.877
  • I believe antisemitism, the hatred of the jewish people,
  • 00:19:55.877 --> 00:19:59.147
  • Is fueled by the spirit of antichrist.
  • 00:19:59.147 --> 00:20:03.418
  • So it captures my attention when i start to hear powerful voices
  • 00:20:03.418 --> 00:20:06.388
  • And people with big blocks of influence saying we shouldn't
  • 00:20:06.388 --> 00:20:09.691
  • Support them when they're being threatened with annihilation by
  • 00:20:09.691 --> 00:20:12.227
  • An enemy.
  • 00:20:12.227 --> 00:20:15.530
  • Really?
  • 00:20:15.530 --> 00:20:18.000
  • "we don't want to get drug into another useless war."
  • 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:20.235
  • It isn't quite the same.
  • 00:20:20.235 --> 00:20:23.505
  • I don't think they should have carte blanche.
  • 00:20:23.505 --> 00:20:24.940
  • I don't think we should surrender our independence, that
  • 00:20:24.940 --> 00:20:26.975
  • We shouldn't use our thought, but i do believe we have
  • 00:20:26.975 --> 00:20:29.344
  • A responsibility.
  • 00:20:29.344 --> 00:20:33.282
  • And i believe we have to grapple with the awkward reality that
  • 00:20:33.282 --> 00:20:36.285
  • We've ignored our responsibilities for so long.
  • 00:20:36.285 --> 00:20:41.056
  • You know, the most awkward part perhaps of the hatred of the
  • 00:20:41.056 --> 00:20:45.894
  • Jewish people comes in the chapters immediately after world
  • 00:20:45.894 --> 00:20:48.897
  • War ii, when the camps were discovered.
  • 00:20:48.897 --> 00:20:52.868
  • Eisenhower took in film crews.
  • 00:20:52.868 --> 00:20:54.236
  • He said, "nobody will believe this.
  • 00:20:54.236 --> 00:20:55.570
  • It'll be denied in a few short years.
  • 00:20:55.570 --> 00:20:58.106
  • We've got to capture this.
  • 00:20:58.106 --> 00:20:59.474
  • We have to make a historical record."
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  • I attended a christian university for my
  • 00:21:00.942 --> 00:21:02.911
  • Undergraduate work.
  • 00:21:02.911 --> 00:21:04.246
  • I went to oral roberts university.
  • 00:21:04.246 --> 00:21:05.947
  • At the time, it was a very well-respected
  • 00:21:05.947 --> 00:21:08.216
  • Academic institution.
  • 00:21:08.216 --> 00:21:09.885
  • I earned a degree in history there.
  • 00:21:09.885 --> 00:21:11.219
  • One of my history professors said that the holocaust did
  • 00:21:11.219 --> 00:21:14.389
  • Not happen.
  • 00:21:14.389 --> 00:21:17.826
  • He said, "oh, sure, there were a few thousand jews that
  • 00:21:17.826 --> 00:21:20.028
  • Were killed.
  • 00:21:20.028 --> 00:21:21.396
  • But there were millions of deaths in the war.
  • 00:21:21.396 --> 00:21:25.834
  • The rest of it," he said, "is completely manufactured."
  • 00:21:25.834 --> 00:21:28.670
  • This isn't new.
  • 00:21:28.670 --> 00:21:30.739
  • It's not something unusual, but after world war ii when the
  • 00:21:30.739 --> 00:21:34.009
  • Camps had been exposed and the jewish people had been set free,
  • 00:21:34.009 --> 00:21:38.146
  • What do you suppose happened?
  • 00:21:38.146 --> 00:21:40.515
  • The majority of europe did not want the surviving jews back.
  • 00:21:40.515 --> 00:21:45.721
  • They'd confiscated their homes, they'd liquidated their bank
  • 00:21:45.721 --> 00:21:48.423
  • Accounts, they'd appropriated their art, their places had
  • 00:21:48.423 --> 00:21:51.259
  • Been filled.
  • 00:21:51.259 --> 00:21:53.729
  • Sounds a lot like the book of romans.
  • 00:21:53.729 --> 00:21:57.366
  • They didn't want them back.
  • 00:21:57.366 --> 00:21:59.634
  • They didn't want to be reminded of their silence.
  • 00:21:59.634 --> 00:22:03.338
  • They didn't want to deal with the awkwardness of it.
  • 00:22:03.338 --> 00:22:05.340
  • They were gonna live through their sin.
  • 00:22:05.340 --> 00:22:07.309
  • They weren't gonna repent of it.
  • 00:22:07.309 --> 00:22:08.643
  • There's some--there are some shining examples that
  • 00:22:08.643 --> 00:22:10.479
  • Were different.
  • 00:22:10.479 --> 00:22:11.813
  • Many of you know the story of corrie ten boom and "the
  • 00:22:11.813 --> 00:22:13.548
  • Hiding place."
  • 00:22:13.548 --> 00:22:15.584
  • Some of you have seen the movie of "schindler's list" and you
  • 00:22:15.584 --> 00:22:17.786
  • Know the story of oskar schindler.
  • 00:22:17.786 --> 00:22:20.722
  • If you visit israel today, in jerusalem there's a holocaust
  • 00:22:20.722 --> 00:22:23.158
  • Museum, and the perimeter of the museum has trees that have
  • 00:22:23.158 --> 00:22:26.428
  • Been planted.
  • 00:22:26.428 --> 00:22:27.796
  • Each of them has a name attached to it representing the righteous
  • 00:22:27.796 --> 00:22:30.665
  • Of the gentiles, the righteous from among the nations, the
  • 00:22:30.665 --> 00:22:33.001
  • Non-jews who stood up for the jews, and i've been there with
  • 00:22:33.001 --> 00:22:36.271
  • Thousands of people, and i've heard my israeli friends say so
  • 00:22:36.271 --> 00:22:39.374
  • Many times, they would look at the groups i'm with and say,
  • 00:22:39.374 --> 00:22:41.943
  • "why are there so few trees?"
  • 00:22:41.943 --> 00:22:48.049
  • The year that corrie ten boom died, her tree died.
  • 00:22:48.049 --> 00:22:56.591
  • When the jews were released from the camps, they were still
  • 00:22:56.591 --> 00:23:00.228
  • Hunted, hated, and unwanted.
  • 00:23:00.228 --> 00:23:03.965
  • There's a chapter of that that we don't know a great
  • 00:23:03.965 --> 00:23:05.667
  • Deal about.
  • 00:23:05.667 --> 00:23:07.002
  • They had nowhere to go.
  • 00:23:07.002 --> 00:23:08.870
  • And there wasn't clear direction.
  • 00:23:08.870 --> 00:23:10.238
  • All of europe was in disarray.
  • 00:23:10.238 --> 00:23:11.573
  • The world was trying to sort out what we were going to do next.
  • 00:23:11.573 --> 00:23:15.210
  • The leaders of the surviving powers were dividing up
  • 00:23:15.210 --> 00:23:19.214
  • The world.
  • 00:23:19.214 --> 00:23:21.316
  • And so the jews decided they would try to reestablish
  • 00:23:21.316 --> 00:23:25.187
  • Themselves in their historic homeland of israel.
  • 00:23:25.187 --> 00:23:29.825
  • By that time, it was a region of the world.
  • 00:23:29.825 --> 00:23:31.793
  • It wasn't really designated into countries.
  • 00:23:31.793 --> 00:23:33.662
  • The region of the world was known as palestine.
  • 00:23:33.662 --> 00:23:36.231
  • There was no central government of palestine.
  • 00:23:36.231 --> 00:23:38.133
  • There was no president of palestine.
  • 00:23:38.133 --> 00:23:41.570
  • I'll talk about that a bit.
  • 00:23:41.570 --> 00:23:43.205
  • Time's not going to allow.
  • 00:23:43.205 --> 00:23:45.307
  • But they began to--they would find anything that would float
  • 00:23:45.307 --> 00:23:47.876
  • And try to go back to israel.
  • 00:23:47.876 --> 00:23:51.713
  • The most famous of the ships was "the exodus."
  • 00:23:51.713 --> 00:23:55.050
  • It was renamed.
  • 00:23:55.050 --> 00:23:56.918
  • It's inspired--some of you may know the author, leon uris.
  • 00:23:56.918 --> 00:24:00.155
  • It inspired the best-selling book by that same title and
  • 00:24:00.155 --> 00:24:04.926
  • A movie that came from it.
  • 00:24:04.926 --> 00:24:06.294
  • I found a picture. i didn't.
  • 00:24:06.294 --> 00:24:07.662
  • Somebody that helps me found a picture.
  • 00:24:07.662 --> 00:24:09.664
  • It's not exactly a luxury cruise liner.
  • 00:24:09.664 --> 00:24:13.869
  • It'd been condemned as a boat, but it was something they found
  • 00:24:13.869 --> 00:24:16.238
  • That could float.
  • 00:24:16.238 --> 00:24:18.406
  • And they filled it with hundreds of people and they made their
  • 00:24:18.406 --> 00:24:21.910
  • Way to the shores of modern-day israel under the authority of
  • 00:24:21.910 --> 00:24:26.548
  • The british government, the british mandate, and the british
  • 00:24:26.548 --> 00:24:28.683
  • Wouldn't let them disembark.
  • 00:24:28.683 --> 00:24:32.254
  • And there were no nations in the world that wanted them.
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  • There were no nations in europe that wanted them.
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  • So they sailed back towards europe and they sat on the boat
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  • For days.
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  • And finally they were forced off the boat and they were put in an
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  • Internment camp.
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  • Think of it.
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  • Their families were rounded up.
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  • Their property was confiscated, their wealth was stolen.
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  • The majority of their families were murdered in death camps.
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  • After the war they were released.
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  • They weren't welcomed back into the cities from which they'd
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  • Been collected.
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  • They tried to go to modern-day israel, they weren't allowed to
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  • Land there and they find themselves in
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  • An internment camp.
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  • Hated, hunted, and unwanted.
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  • Today, we looked at the map a moment ago, there's about
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  • 7 million jews in the sea of hundreds of millions of people
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  • Who are sworn to their destruction.
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  • They occupy a tiny little strip of land, hardly worth noticing
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  • On a global map.
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  • The wealth of iran is immense.
  • 00:25:37.385 --> 00:25:40.789
  • The petroleum wealth of iran has funded hezbollah, and the wealth
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  • And the resources needed to threaten israel with terrorists
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  • For decades, to fund hamas and the terrorists who decimated
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  • Those communities along gaza.
  • 00:25:51.466 --> 00:25:55.303
  • All the while doing everything in their power to create the
  • 00:25:55.303 --> 00:25:59.107
  • Ability to create a nuclear weapon, saying they would use it
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  • On the free world as soon as they could.
  • 00:26:01.876 --> 00:26:05.880
  • And the nations of the world said, "let's talk about it."
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  • Allen: hey, we have a tool that we think will help strengthen
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  • You in this season.
  • 00:26:19.194 --> 00:26:20.862
  • A lot of confusion and chaos in our world, a lot of fear.
  • 00:26:20.862 --> 00:26:24.065
  • I hear from people every day, battling in their minds and
  • 00:26:24.065 --> 00:26:27.035
  • Their lives with the uncertainty of our world.
  • 00:26:27.035 --> 00:26:30.305
  • Well, it's a booklet called "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • Every day has a theme with a scripture, a little devotional,
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  • And a prayer for that specific theme.
  • 00:26:35.744 --> 00:26:38.413
  • The idea is that every day we're gonna ask the spirit of god to
  • 00:26:38.413 --> 00:26:41.516
  • Awaken us to a new aspect of god's provision in our lives.
  • 00:26:41.516 --> 00:26:46.321
  • You know, hopefully we wake up every day to the opportunities
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  • And the challenges of that day.
  • 00:26:49.124 --> 00:26:51.326
  • Well, this is gonna correspond to that.
  • 00:26:51.326 --> 00:26:52.694
  • We're gonna ask the spirit of god to awaken us to what god is
  • 00:26:52.694 --> 00:26:55.563
  • 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 that confronts us that
  • 00:27:02.170 --> 00:27:05.106
  • Intimidates or threatens you.
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  • That you have made provision for complete victory in every aspect
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  • Of our lives.
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  • Lead us now as we turn our faces to you, through a season of
  • 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:15.183
  • Peace and hope and wholeness, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • This book, it'll be a blessing.
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