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Allen Jackson - How Far Is Too Far? (Part 3)

July 8, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - How Far Is Too Far? (Part 3)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - How Far Is Too Far? (Part 3) | July 8, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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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: how do you explain thousands of years and hatred
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  • Towards a specific group of people who didn't even occupy
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  • A nation, they didn't occupy a space?
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  • I don't believe you can understand it apart from
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  • Spiritual explanations.
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  • I believe it's a spiritual force.
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  • I believe antisemitism, the hatred of the jewish people,
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  • Is fueled by the spirit of antichrist.
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  • So it captures my attention when i start to hear powerful voices
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  • And people with big blocks of influence saying we shouldn't
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  • Support them when they're being threatened with annihilation by
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  • An enemy.
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  • Really?
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  • "we don't want to get drug into another useless war."
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  • It isn't quite the same.
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  • I don't think they should have carte blanche.
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  • I don't think we should surrender our independence, that
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  • We shouldn't use our thought, but i do believe we have
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  • A responsibility.
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  • And i believe we have to grapple with the awkward reality that
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  • We've ignored our responsibilities for so long.
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  • You know, the most awkward part perhaps of the hatred of the
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  • Jewish people comes in the chapters immediately after world
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  • War ii, when the camps were discovered.
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  • What do you suppose happened?
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  • The majority of europe did not want the surviving jews back.
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  • They'd confiscated their homes, they'd liquidated their bank
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  • Accounts, they'd appropriated their art, their places had
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  • Been filled.
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  • Sounds a lot like the book of romans.
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  • They didn't want them back.
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  • They didn't want to be reminded of their silence.
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  • They didn't want to deal with the awkwardness of it.
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  • They were gonna live through their sin.
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  • They weren't gonna repent of it.
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  • There's some--there are some shining examples that
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  • Were different.
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  • Many of you know the story of corrie ten boom and "the
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  • Hiding place."
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  • Some of you have seen the movie of "schindler's list" and you
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  • Know the story of oskar schindler.
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  • If you visit israel today, in jerusalem there's a holocaust
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  • Museum, and the perimeter of the museum has trees that have
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  • Been planted.
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  • Each of them has a name attached to it, representing the
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  • Righteous of the gentiles, the righteous from among the
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  • Nations, the non-jews who stood up for the jews, and i've been
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  • There with thousands of people and i've heard my israeli
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  • Friends say so many times, they would look at the groups i'm
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  • With, and say, "why are there so few trees?"
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  • The year that corrie ten boom died, her tree died.
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  • When the jews were released from the camps, they were still
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  • Hunted, hated, and unwanted.
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  • There's a chapter of that that we don't know a great
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  • Deal about.
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  • They had nowhere to go.
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  • And there wasn't clear direction.
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  • All of europe was in disarray.
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  • The world was trying to sort out what we were going to do next.
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  • The leaders of the surviving powers were dividing up
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  • The world.
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  • And so the jews decided they would try to reestablish
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  • Themselves in their historic homeland of israel.
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  • By that time it was a region of the world.
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  • It wasn't really designated into countries.
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  • The region of the world was known as palestine.
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  • There was no central government of palestine.
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  • There was no president of palestine; i'll talk about that
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  • A bit.
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  • Time's not going to allow.
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  • But they began to--they would find anything that would float
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  • And try to go back to israel.
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  • There's some horrific stories.
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  • The ms saint louis came towards america, first to cuba and then
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  • To the united states.
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  • It was in june of 1939, before the outbreak of the war.
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  • They saw the specter of the nazis and what they were gonna
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  • Do to the jewish people.
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  • The passengers on that boat could see the lights of miami
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  • Glimmering from the deck of the ship.
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  • But the united states would not allow them to disembark.
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  • There were more than 900 jewish passengers on board that ship.
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  • They could see the lights of miami.
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  • They'd been refused entry in cuba.
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  • They were refused entry in the united states.
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  • They were refused entry in canada, and they sailed back to
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  • Europe and more than half of them were murdered.
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  • There were more than 100 ships and boats that were used to
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  • Bring over more than 100,000 clandestine undercover
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  • Immigrants trying to make their way into israel.
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  • Many of them were intercepted.
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  • The zionist movement, the people that were in favor of
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  • Establishing a jewish homeland, would do anything they could to
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  • Secure something that would float and put people on it and
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  • Send them in a flotilla towards israel.
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  • One of the ships was torpedoed by a russian submarine.
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  • And more than 780 people from that boat died.
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  • One man survived to tell the story.
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  • The most famous of the ships was "the exodus."
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  • It was renamed.
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  • It's inspired--some of you may know the author leon uris.
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  • It inspired the best-selling book by that same title and
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  • A movie that came from it.
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  • I found a picture.
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  • I didn't.
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  • Somebody that helps me found a picture.
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  • It's not exactly a luxury cruise liner.
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  • It'd been condemned, the boat, but it was something they found
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  • That could float.
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  • And they filled it with hundreds of people and they made their
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  • Way to the shores of modern-day israel.
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  • Under the authority of the british government, the british
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  • Mandate, and the british wouldn't let them disembark.
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  • 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
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  • An 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.
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  • They weren't allowed to land there and they find themselves
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  • In 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.
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  • 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, all the while doing everything
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  • In their power to create the ability to create a nuclear
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  • Weapon, saying they would use it on the free world as soon as
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  • They could.
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  • And the nations of the world said, "let's talk about it."
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  • Leaders of europe are calling for a meeting in brussels on
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  • Friday of this week to talk about it with the iranian
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  • Leaders once again.
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  • No, i think to help the israelis ensure that iran does not have
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  • The ability to unleash a nuclear weapon against them is
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  • A responsibility.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Again, i don't think we should do everything that israel asks.
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  • I don't think they have hands that are clean on every topic.
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  • I'm not suggesting that.
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  • I'm suggesting that there's enough information beyond the
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  • Immediacy of this that suggests those of us who are people of
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  • Faith have an assignment to see the hatred directed towards the
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  • Covenant people of god not be unleashed.
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  • There's a biblical verse.
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  • I'll tell you this, it's uncomfortable and i don't have
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  • Time to unpack it in detail.
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  • It doesn't make it less true.
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  • The spirit that drives the hatred of the jewish people is
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  • The same spirit that will drive the hatred towards christians as
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  • We approach the end of the age.
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  • It's the spirit of antichrist.
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  • It's very biblical.
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  • Jesus told us it would happen.
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  • It's in your notes.
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  • It's matthew 24.
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  • He said, "you'll be handed over to be persecuted and put to
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  • Death, and you'll be hated by all nations because of me."
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  • He said, "at that time many will turn away from the faith and
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  • Betray and hate each other."
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  • Why?
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  • Because there's such great pressure, people say, "i'm not
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  • One of them.
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  • I'm not one of them."
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  • I have a dear friend.
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  • He's in heaven now, but he was-- he grew up in italy, jewish.
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  • His father had a very powerful position serving the
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  • Italian king.
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  • And his father had the wisdom to understand what was approaching
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  • With world war ii, and he sent him with his wife and--this man
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  • And his sister to england.
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  • He was--the father was captured and murdered by the nazis.
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  • He thought he could survive under the flag of the italian
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  • King, but it didn't work.
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  • My friend grew up in england.
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  • His mother was terrified, she didn't tell him he was jewish.
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  • He said, "i never understood why the rabbi would come by the
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  • House and check on us."
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  • He was past 16 years of age before he came to understand
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  • His heritage.
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  • So when jesus said, "there'll be such hatred directed towards
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  • People of faith that people will betray one another and deny it
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  • And hate each other and many false prophets will appear and
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  • Deceive many people," prophets, folks aren't just people who
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  • Predict the future.
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  • Prophets are supposed to be truth tellers.
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  • And it's too narrow of a definition to think of prophet
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  • In terms of clerical robes or biblical language or king
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  • James english.
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  • Prophets are the people we expect to tell us the truth.
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  • It seems to me we have a flurry of false prophets amongst us.
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  • Many of them live in the church, but many of them live in places
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  • Where we expect the truth to be told, and it's not.
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  • The hatred that we've seen directed towards the jewish
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  • People for two millennia is coming towards us.
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  • I believe we have an assignment to stand with the jewish people.
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  • Allen: i'll give you one more bit of history.
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  • Tim inspired me.
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  • A lot of confusion about the jewish right to that land.
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  • The map of the middle east has all been drawn since the end of
  • 00:12:58.036 --> 00:13:01.039
  • World war i, all those nations, and i don't have time to unpack
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  • That in detail.
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  • Palestine was not an arab nation in 1948 when israel
  • 00:13:07.712 --> 00:13:10.715
  • Was recognized.
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  • It was not.
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  • The jewish people did not have a homeland.
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  • In 70 ad, the romans destroyed jerusalem and the temple, the
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  • Second temple in jerusalem.
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  • From 70 ad until 1948, there was no jewish homeland.
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  • They were scattered to the nations of the world.
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  • 1948 at the end of world war ii, the un, primarily through the
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  • Prompting of the united states, recognized the birth of the
  • 00:13:34.939 --> 00:13:38.910
  • Modern nation of israel.
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  • At that time, palestine was not an arab nation.
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  • The jewish people did not take over someone else's territory.
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  • At that point in history, great britain had authority over the
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  • Middle east.
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  • They'd become tired of governing the volatile area, and they
  • 00:13:53.057 --> 00:13:55.493
  • Asked the un to help resolve the problem.
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  • Before great britain was given the responsibility of
  • 00:13:58.563 --> 00:14:00.732
  • Administering the region after world war i, the turks had
  • 00:14:00.732 --> 00:14:04.302
  • Controlled the area since the 1500s, and the turks are
  • 00:14:04.302 --> 00:14:08.039
  • Not arabs.
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  • You may have heard of the ottoman empire.
  • 00:14:10.241 --> 00:14:11.743
  • It's the turkish empire.
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  • Palestine has never been the name of any country ever.
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  • The name "palestine" came from the romans.
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  • I told you the romans destroyed jerusalem in 70.
  • 00:14:22.287 --> 00:14:25.723
  • They left the jews in the land.
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  • They thought if they destroyed the temple and they destroyed
  • 00:14:27.058 --> 00:14:28.860
  • Jerusalem, they would behave.
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  • They didn't.
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  • Sixty years later, they rebelled again, the bar kokhba revolt.
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  • And that time, the--when the romans put down the rebellion,
  • 00:14:36.968 --> 00:14:40.571
  • They were so angry with the jews they forbid the jews to live
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  • In jerusalem.
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  • They did their best to eliminate the word "jerusalem" from
  • 00:14:47.011 --> 00:14:49.514
  • The vocabulary.
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  • And when they did that, an attempt to rid the region of any
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  • Jewishness, they renamed the region "philistia," after
  • 00:14:57.088 --> 00:15:00.658
  • The philistines.
  • 00:15:00.658 --> 00:15:02.026
  • Remember goliath?
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  • The word "palestine" is a corruption of the philistines.
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  • Not a corruption, something that was done bad, just how language
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  • Emerges through time.
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  • And the philistines were eliminated by the babylonians in
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  • 600 bc.
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  • They were long gone from the area.
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  • Palestine was a region; it was never a nation.
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  • In the same way we talk about middle tennessee or the
  • 00:15:25.316 --> 00:15:27.552
  • Southeast, you know, we--when we talk about the southeastern
  • 00:15:27.552 --> 00:15:31.489
  • United states, it's not a nation.
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  • There's not a president of the southeast, it's a region on
  • 00:15:33.858 --> 00:15:36.694
  • The map.
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  • There was never a president of the state of palestine
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  • Or a government.
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  • The region of palestine did not have any connection to uniquely
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  • Arab ethnicity.
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  • Muhammad wasn't even born until the 6th century.
  • 00:15:48.106 --> 00:15:52.377
  • The romans labeled the area "palestine" in the 2nd century.
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  • The vote in the un, the partition vote to establish the
  • 00:15:58.449 --> 00:16:01.586
  • Nation of israel in 1947, extended the opportunity for
  • 00:16:01.586 --> 00:16:05.857
  • Two nations to be recognized: an arab nation on the west side of
  • 00:16:05.857 --> 00:16:09.394
  • The jordan, the arab nations rejected the plan.
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  • They said they didn't want it.
  • 00:16:12.964 --> 00:16:15.900
  • Israel accepted the offer.
  • 00:16:15.900 --> 00:16:17.235
  • In may of '48, the modern state of israel was born.
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  • The day the modern state of israel was recognized by the un
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  • And the united nations, arab nations, five arab nations,
  • 00:16:23.941 --> 00:16:27.545
  • Declared war on the local population and the new
  • 00:16:27.545 --> 00:16:30.114
  • Jewish state.
  • 00:16:30.114 --> 00:16:32.283
  • There was no chance of survival.
  • 00:16:32.283 --> 00:16:35.319
  • There was no more chance of survival in that than there was
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  • A chance in october of '23 that hamas, hezbollah, and iran could
  • 00:16:37.221 --> 00:16:43.561
  • Be dismantled.
  • 00:16:43.561 --> 00:16:45.897
  • And yet we see that today.
  • 00:16:45.897 --> 00:16:49.100
  • That tiny fledgling nation with no standing government, with no
  • 00:16:49.100 --> 00:16:51.569
  • Central government, with no army, with no armaments, with no
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  • Weapon supply, somehow survived. [congregation applauding]
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  • The people in the west bank could have had peace.
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  • They chose war in an attempt to drive the jews into the sea.
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  • When the ceasefire was declared a few weeks later, israel had
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  • Defended the territory they'd been granted.
  • 00:17:13.257 --> 00:17:15.259
  • Jordan controlled the west bank and egypt controlled gaza.
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  • The people who lived on the west bank had jordanian passports.
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  • When i lived in israel and attended hebrew university, the
  • 00:17:22.767 --> 00:17:25.269
  • People on the west bank had jordanian passports.
  • 00:17:25.269 --> 00:17:30.007
  • Arabs in the west bank became a part of jordan.
  • 00:17:30.007 --> 00:17:32.076
  • The arabs in gaza became a part of egypt.
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  • When the plo was created, jordan controlled the west bank.
  • 00:17:34.579 --> 00:17:39.217
  • The palestine they wanted to liberate wasn't the west bank.
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  • They wanted to liberate israel.
  • 00:17:41.953 --> 00:17:46.524
  • It's been muddied.
  • 00:17:46.524 --> 00:17:49.160
  • The jewish-owned newspaper was called "the palestinian post."
  • 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:55.266
  • Jerusalem has only been the capital of one country: israel.
  • 00:17:55.266 --> 00:18:00.238
  • King david established jerusalem as the capital of israel about
  • 00:18:00.238 --> 00:18:04.175
  • 1000 years before christ.
  • 00:18:04.175 --> 00:18:08.246
  • If you're counting, that was 1500 years before muhammad was
  • 00:18:08.246 --> 00:18:12.984
  • Even born.
  • 00:18:12.984 --> 00:18:16.921
  • And if you're offended by the newest--newness of the israeli
  • 00:18:16.921 --> 00:18:20.324
  • Nation, jordan was created in 1922 by great britain.
  • 00:18:20.324 --> 00:18:25.563
  • The syrians were under french control until 1946.
  • 00:18:25.563 --> 00:18:28.866
  • Lebanon received independence from france in 1943.
  • 00:18:28.866 --> 00:18:32.537
  • Iraq became an independent nation in 1958.
  • 00:18:32.537 --> 00:18:39.210
  • The total land mass of arab states, not including the
  • 00:18:39.210 --> 00:18:42.513
  • Non-arab states in the middle east, iran and turkey are not
  • 00:18:42.513 --> 00:18:45.816
  • Arab states.
  • 00:18:45.816 --> 00:18:47.185
  • So if we exclude them, just the arab states of the middle east
  • 00:18:47.185 --> 00:18:50.054
  • Comprise 98.4% of the land mass, leaving israel 1.6%.
  • 00:18:50.054 --> 00:18:59.063
  • Land for peace.
  • 00:18:59.063 --> 00:19:02.033
  • The word "jerusalem" or "zion" appears nearly 1000 times in the
  • 00:19:02.033 --> 00:19:05.102
  • Hebrew bible in the new testament.
  • 00:19:05.102 --> 00:19:07.471
  • It never appears in the qur'an.
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  • The only way to understand what's happening in the middle
  • 00:19:13.244 --> 00:19:15.479
  • East is to have some spiritual awareness.
  • 00:19:15.479 --> 00:19:20.785
  • I believe israel has a right to that land.
  • 00:19:20.785 --> 00:19:22.720
  • I believe the jewish people have a god-given right to that land.
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  • I don't believe that the hatred that is directed towards them
  • 00:19:26.991 --> 00:19:32.797
  • Will relent.
  • 00:19:32.797 --> 00:19:34.532
  • We have been very active in this.
  • 00:19:34.532 --> 00:19:37.468
  • In the weeks before president obama left office, he directed
  • 00:19:37.468 --> 00:19:41.505
  • A plane loaded with $1.7 billion in cash to iran.
  • 00:19:41.505 --> 00:19:47.678
  • At the same time, he unfroze more than a billion dollars in
  • 00:19:47.678 --> 00:19:50.915
  • Iranian assets, so he put at the disposal of the iranian mullahs
  • 00:19:50.915 --> 00:19:56.287
  • Almost $3 billion.
  • 00:19:56.287 --> 00:20:00.091
  • When president biden came to office, he removed all the
  • 00:20:00.091 --> 00:20:02.960
  • Sanctions on iran.
  • 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:04.328
  • Their economy flourished again.
  • 00:20:04.328 --> 00:20:06.464
  • The events of october the 7th and 23 were made possible
  • 00:20:06.464 --> 00:20:10.234
  • Because of american funding and freedom.
  • 00:20:10.234 --> 00:20:15.339
  • So when i hear people saying we should have no involvement
  • 00:20:15.339 --> 00:20:18.676
  • Whatsoever, i don't want to see us embroiled in a long-term war.
  • 00:20:18.676 --> 00:20:24.081
  • But i believe the jewish people have a right to that land.
  • 00:20:24.081 --> 00:20:28.919
  • And i believe it will bring good things to us if we will honor
  • 00:20:28.919 --> 00:20:32.823
  • Their right to that land and do our best to see that
  • 00:20:32.823 --> 00:20:35.359
  • It's defended. [congregation applauding]
  • 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:43.934
  • My time has slipped away.
  • 00:20:43.934 --> 00:20:45.303
  • There's one more group of people that i believe very much need
  • 00:20:45.303 --> 00:20:47.371
  • Your prayers.
  • 00:20:47.371 --> 00:20:48.706
  • It's the iranian people.
  • 00:20:48.706 --> 00:20:52.243
  • The iranian people, they're persian.
  • 00:20:52.243 --> 00:20:55.112
  • They've been ruled since 1979 by a brutal, violent group of
  • 00:20:55.112 --> 00:21:02.253
  • Authoritarian dictators, the mullahs.
  • 00:21:02.253 --> 00:21:05.389
  • I've done multiple interviews myself with iranian individuals,
  • 00:21:05.389 --> 00:21:10.561
  • Some who live in this country and some who don't, pleading for
  • 00:21:10.561 --> 00:21:15.466
  • Someone to care enough about the population of iran to help them
  • 00:21:15.466 --> 00:21:19.103
  • Be liberated from the brutal authoritarian dictators that
  • 00:21:19.103 --> 00:21:24.442
  • Have threatened them.
  • 00:21:24.442 --> 00:21:28.846
  • I put the question to someone who is an expert on the region
  • 00:21:28.846 --> 00:21:32.249
  • This week.
  • 00:21:32.249 --> 00:21:33.584
  • I said, "how would we know if the people are capable
  • 00:21:33.584 --> 00:21:35.986
  • Or willing?"
  • 00:21:35.986 --> 00:21:37.688
  • And he said, "well, some would have to gather in public."
  • 00:21:37.688 --> 00:21:41.459
  • And he said then, "watch for the response of the military and
  • 00:21:41.459 --> 00:21:44.328
  • The police."
  • 00:21:44.328 --> 00:21:46.564
  • He said, "if you see them lay down their weapons," he said,
  • 00:21:46.564 --> 00:21:50.468
  • "it will crumble quickly.
  • 00:21:50.468 --> 00:21:53.270
  • But if they begin to execute the population."
  • 00:21:53.270 --> 00:21:57.208
  • So i would submit while we pray for the peace of jerusalem, we
  • 00:21:57.208 --> 00:22:00.745
  • Pray for the iranian people.
  • 00:22:00.745 --> 00:22:03.748
  • They have lived under cruel authoritarian abuse.
  • 00:22:03.748 --> 00:22:08.219
  • And the great wealth of iran has been used to murder people
  • 00:22:08.219 --> 00:22:12.490
  • Indiscriminately, not just in israel.
  • 00:22:12.490 --> 00:22:15.860
  • Americans, thousands of americans have lost their lives
  • 00:22:15.860 --> 00:22:20.431
  • And had their bodies mutilated because of the hatred that's
  • 00:22:20.431 --> 00:22:23.434
  • Been perpetrated by the iranian mullahs.
  • 00:22:23.434 --> 00:22:28.005
  • And israel, with very little support from the global
  • 00:22:28.005 --> 00:22:31.442
  • Community, has been forced to face that by themselves in these
  • 00:22:31.442 --> 00:22:36.447
  • Last 600 days.
  • 00:22:36.447 --> 00:22:39.817
  • And god has brought about a victory that is
  • 00:22:39.817 --> 00:22:41.619
  • Really inexplicable.
  • 00:22:41.619 --> 00:22:46.123
  • So, don't lose heart, don't be distracted by false prophets.
  • 00:22:46.123 --> 00:22:53.831
  • You don't have to be boisterous; we can stay humble and pray.
  • 00:22:53.831 --> 00:22:57.568
  • So let's ask the lord to complete what he has begun, and
  • 00:22:57.568 --> 00:23:01.071
  • To spare our young people that hundreds and thousands of them
  • 00:23:01.071 --> 00:23:05.142
  • Won't become embroiled in another expanding conflict.
  • 00:23:05.142 --> 00:23:09.947
  • God can do that.
  • 00:23:09.947 --> 00:23:11.282
  • If he sent david to the battlefield to take down a
  • 00:23:11.282 --> 00:23:13.017
  • Bully, he knows how to eliminate iranian nuclear threats, amen?
  • 00:23:13.017 --> 00:23:20.024
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:23:20.024 --> 00:23:24.295
  • Won't you stand with me?
  • 00:23:24.295 --> 00:23:26.664
  • If i don't stop, the nursery workers will be in here.
  • 00:23:26.664 --> 00:23:33.437
  • Thank you all, you did a great job.
  • 00:23:33.437 --> 00:23:36.106
  • Give those young people--they survived, huh?
  • 00:23:36.106 --> 00:23:42.580
  • Won't you take somebody's hand?
  • 00:23:42.580 --> 00:23:44.715
  • If you don't know 'em, tell them who you are.
  • 00:23:44.715 --> 00:23:47.952
  • If they won't talk to you, turn loose of their hand.
  • 00:23:47.952 --> 00:23:53.357
  • Father, thank you.
  • 00:23:53.357 --> 00:23:55.159
  • I thank you that you're involved in the affairs of men
  • 00:23:55.159 --> 00:23:57.695
  • And nations.
  • 00:23:57.695 --> 00:23:59.363
  • I thank you that your purposes are breaking forth in the earth.
  • 00:23:59.363 --> 00:24:08.205
  • Or they're not subtle.
  • 00:24:08.205 --> 00:24:11.542
  • It's not understated that you have begun a shaking that is
  • 00:24:11.542 --> 00:24:14.478
  • Making things clear that was not clear, and we praise you for it.
  • 00:24:14.478 --> 00:24:18.282
  • Lord, and we pause first of all to ask in humility that you
  • 00:24:18.282 --> 00:24:23.854
  • Would give us understanding hearts and eyes to see.
  • 00:24:23.854 --> 00:24:27.558
  • May we not be deceived.
  • 00:24:27.558 --> 00:24:30.094
  • We have a desire to walk uprightly before you
  • 00:24:30.094 --> 00:24:32.463
  • In obedience.
  • 00:24:32.463 --> 00:24:34.265
  • We pray tonight for the peace of jerusalem.
  • 00:24:34.265 --> 00:24:37.167
  • Those people, father, that are sheltered in homes and in
  • 00:24:37.167 --> 00:24:42.373
  • Private places away from public streets and they're unable to
  • 00:24:42.373 --> 00:24:45.376
  • Go out.
  • 00:24:45.376 --> 00:24:46.744
  • I pray for where there's great fear, that you will bring peace.
  • 00:24:46.744 --> 00:24:49.647
  • I pray that you'll turn back rockets, that you'll turn back
  • 00:24:49.647 --> 00:24:53.117
  • Missiles that have been launched at civilian populations, protect
  • 00:24:53.117 --> 00:24:56.086
  • The people.
  • 00:24:56.086 --> 00:24:57.955
  • And lord, i pray for those that are in positions of authority
  • 00:24:57.955 --> 00:25:00.691
  • That are making decisions that they would have wisdom
  • 00:25:00.691 --> 00:25:03.527
  • Beyond themselves.
  • 00:25:03.527 --> 00:25:05.796
  • That you would disrupt the threat of destruction that has
  • 00:25:05.796 --> 00:25:10.634
  • Been shouted from iran now for decades.
  • 00:25:10.634 --> 00:25:13.771
  • May it be turned back, may it be dismantled.
  • 00:25:13.771 --> 00:25:17.041
  • May it be rendered impotent.
  • 00:25:17.041 --> 00:25:19.677
  • And lord, i pray you will bring freedom to that nation.
  • 00:25:19.677 --> 00:25:23.280
  • That the iranian people will be free, that there will be
  • 00:25:23.280 --> 00:25:25.683
  • A freedom for the gospel to be proclaimed, for the truth
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  • To be told.
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  • Where they have suffered under authoritarianism and cruelty and
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  • Domination and manipulation, that there would be a new season
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  • Of freedom and liberty.
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  • Lord, it's beyond our wisdom, but we ask you to be involved.
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  • We praise you for it.
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  • I thank you, father, that you're moving in the earth and for the
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  • Great privilege that we have of being a part.
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  • May we be faithful to that assignment, in jesus's
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  • Name, amen.
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  • God bless you, and thank you for your patience.
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  • Allen: you know, no matter what source of news you turn to,
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  • It's hard some days not to be overwhelmed with despair,
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  • The deception, the conflict in the earth, the suffering that's
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  • Taking place in so many places, the struggling church in
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  • Our own nation.
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  • But there are reasons for hope.
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  • God is moving in the most remarkable ways, but we need to
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  • Have a plan, a method, even a tool to help us keep our
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  • Thoughts and our hearts focused on god.
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  • Well, i have a suggestion.
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  • It's a little booklet we put together.
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  • It's called "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • It's built by topic, each day with a scripture, a little
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  • Devotional, and a prayer, topically directed to help focus
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  • Our thoughts and an awakening to god's invitations to us around
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  • That specific theme.
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  • We're awakened every day for the challenges of that day.
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  • Well, let's ask the spirit of god to awaken us consistently to
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  • What he would have us doing in this most unique season.
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  • God is moving.
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  • I wanna move with him and i believe you do too, and i
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  • Believe "awaken us" will be a help.
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  • ♪♪♪
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