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Allen Jackson - Israel, God's People, and The Nations (Part 2)

October 28, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Israel, God's People, and The Nations (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Israel, God's People, and The Nations (Part 2) | October 28, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, we're witnessing something of a crisis
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  • In our nation, something i never thought i would see: expressions
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  • Of antisemitism, hatred for the jewish people, coming from
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  • America, coming from the christian community, the
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  • Conservative side of the ideological spectrum,
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  • To a degree and scope i've never seen before.
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  • Well, it was important enough that i stopped and put together
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  • A book.
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  • The title of it is "supporting israel: how far is too far?"
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  • It's an important concept that isn't political.
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  • It's grounded in a biblical worldview.
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  • I think we need to understand our responsibilities to the
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  • Jewish people, to the modern-day state of israel, not from
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  • An ideological perspective, not from the perspective of nation
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  • States, but as people of god.
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  • It's important.
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  • It's an important season, a lot of voices.
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  • You know, i know there's some fatigue with the conflict in the
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  • Middle east, but we can't afford to be fatigued with our
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  • Assignments to honor god and the responsibilities that come
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  • With that.
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  • I believe the book will be a help to you.
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  • I believe it'll help you navigate the conversation with
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  • Your family and your friends.
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  • Enjoy the read.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: listen to jesus's words in john chapter 8 and verse 24.
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  • This was jesus speaking to a jewish community in jerusalem.
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  • He said, "i told you that you would die in your sins; if you
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  • Don't believe that i'm the one i claim to be, you will indeed die
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  • In your sins."
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  • It's a jew speaking to jews.
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  • This predates anything that you could use or confuse with
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  • The church.
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  • It's jesus speaking to the jewish people, asking them to
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  • Consider who he is.
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  • That's my prayer for my friends in israel, that they would have
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  • A revelation of jesus, that it wouldn't be muddied by the poor
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  • Behavior of people who say they're his followers.
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  • That our bad history would not influence the decisions they
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  • Have to make for themselves and their families.
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  • It's an uncomfortable history.
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  • I sat in classrooms filled with jewish students and we'd walk
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  • Through the history and they would turn and look at me and
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  • Say, "why do you hate us so much?"
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  • There's no simple answer.
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  • In john 10 and verse 9, jesus said, "i'm the gate; whoever
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  • Enters through me will be saved."
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  • If you wanna pray with a bit more specificity for your
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  • Friends in the land of israel and the nation, pray they'll
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  • Have a revelation of jesus.
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  • Not to change faiths.
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  • Stop with your labels.
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  • Ask them to have a revelation of jesus.
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  • I believe we have a debt to israel and the jewish people.
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  • It's not just my opinion, it's derived from scripture.
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  • In romans chapter 9 and verse 3, again, the apostle paul.
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  • He said, "i could wish that i myself were cursed and cut off
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  • From 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 is 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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  • Without the jewish people, folks, we have no story.
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  • We would have no covenants, we would have no prophets, we would
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  • Have no scripture.
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  • We would have no messiah.
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  • The new testament, in the book of revelation, describes a
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  • Heavenly jerusalem, a new jerusalem coming down out of
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  • Heaven, and at the center of that new jerusalem is seated on
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  • The throne at the center of the city, an observant jewish rabbi.
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  • The gates entering the city all have the names of hebrew men
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  • Inscribed above them.
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  • It will be a very awkward place for antisemites.
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  • Romans 11, paul's carrying out this discussion.
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  • And to frame the context in verse 13, he says, "i'm talking
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  • To you gentiles.
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  • Inasmuch as i'm an apostle to the gentiles."
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  • Do you ever smile at god's sense of humor?
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  • I don't very often because his sense of humor and mine are
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  • Very different.
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  • You know, the bible tells me god says that a minute is like 1000
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  • Years and 1000 years is like a day.
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  • And i'm urgently asking god for something and he says wait
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  • A minute, and that does not feel funny to me.
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  • And i find it more than ironic that god would recruit
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  • Personally, that jesus would come recruit personally one saul
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  • Of tarsus, a pharisee of the pharisees, a rising star amongst
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  • The rabbinic community with a flawless education and a zeal
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  • To match.
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  • And he recruits him to be a messenger, not to the jewish
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  • Community, but a messenger to the non-jewish community.
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  • I have to imagine paul sure spent a lot of hours pouring
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  • Over a lot of texts to talk to these knuckleheads that don't
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  • Know any of them.
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  • But in romans chapter 11 and verse 30, i put in parentheses
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  • The groups that are being referenced.
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  • It simplified the verse a bit.
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  • "just as you (gentiles) who
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  • Are at one time disobedient to god have now received mercy
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  • As a result of (israel's)
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  • Disobedience, so they (israel)
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  • Too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now
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  • Receive mercy as a result of god's mercy to you (gentiles)."
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  • That we were blessed and they will be blessed.
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  • Same chapter, verse 25: "i don't want you to be ignorant of this
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  • Mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited."
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  • Gee, you don't think the non-jewish part of the people of
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  • God would get conceited, do you, and imagine things that, like,
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  • We were uppermost or we had the first place or that the modern
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  • Expression of god keeping his covenant to the jewish people
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  • Wasn't relevant.
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  • Well, i guess that could happen to us, couldn't it?
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  • "i don't want you to be ignorant, and so that you may
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  • Not be conceited: israel has experienced a hardening in part
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  • Until the full number of the gentiles has come in.
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  • And so all israel will be saved.
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  • It is written: 'the deliverer will come from zion; he'll turn
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  • Godlessness away from jacob.
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  • This is my covenant with them when i take away their sins.'
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  • As far as the gospel is concerned, they're enemies on
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  • Your account; but as far as the election is concerned, they're
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  • Loved on account of the patriarchs, for god's gifts and
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  • His call are irrevocable."
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  • Not a word we use a lot.
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  • It means it won't be reversed, won't be canceled.
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  • Can't be rejected because it didn't begin with us.
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  • It began with god.
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  • Just a casual analysis of that 11th chapter of romans shows us
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  • That paul uses the name "israel" to refer to those who are jews
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  • By natural descent, and to distinguish them from christians
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  • Of gentile descent.
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  • In other words, and this is important, he doesn't use
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  • "israel" as a synonym for the church.
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  • And neither should we.
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  • Well, in the midst of the culture we find ourselves in and
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  • The confusion in the world and the confusion that's added by
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  • The fake news, the first time i heard that phrase i cringed.
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  • And i thought to myself, someone get to that man and teach him
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  • A better way to speak.
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  • I'm embarrassed that some 10 years later he was telling the
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  • Truth and i wasn't wise enough to recognize it.
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  • But the question i'm asked most frequently these days is, "what
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  • Can we do?
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  • What do we do?
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  • How do we respond to this world we find ourselves in?"
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  • And on this topic of israel and the jewish people, i wanted to
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  • Conclude this with some very practical ways that i believe we
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  • Can show mercy to israel and to the jewish people.
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  • And i believe these are available to all of us.
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  • Nan was here a moment ago, and she gave us a presentation from
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  • The perspective of corrie ten boom, the daughter of
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  • A dutch watchmaker.
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  • Many of you know the story.
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  • They opened their home after the german invasion and they created
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  • A secret room and they were a part of an underground system.
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  • More than 800 jewish people made their way through the ten boom
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  • Home to safety through the underground.
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  • And as a result of that, as a respect for that, if you visit
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  • Yad vashem in jerusalem, the holocaust museum, around the
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  • Perimeter of that campus, they have planted trees, each
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  • Assigned a person, the righteous among the gentiles, those
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  • People, non-jews, that stood up or protected jewish people
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  • During the holocaust.
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  • Oskar schindler has a tree named for him.
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  • Corrie ten boom had a tree named for her.
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  • When i stood there on more than one occasion with israeli
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  • Friends and they're telling that bit of the history of yad
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  • Vashem, they've looked at the group i was with and say, "our
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  • Only regret is that there are so few trees."
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  • On the year that corrie ten boom died, i'm told that the
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  • Tree died.
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  • But i have a question for you and me.
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  • Are we willing to be a voice for the jewish people in the nation
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  • Of israel, when it's popular and when it's not?
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  • Because there'll be times and places it won't be popular to be
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  • Included in the people of god.
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  • And increasingly, i believe that will be more about whether
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  • You're a jew or a christ follower.
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  • Not a person who sits in a church, there's a difference.
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  • Allen: now how should we respond to the nation of israel and the
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  • Jewish people?
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  • It's a complex question in today's world.
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  • Well, i've written a book, "supporting israel: how far is
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  • Too far?"
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  • To help us establish a biblical perspective on what has become a
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  • Complex question in contemporary culture.
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  • We don't wanna follow the guidance and the counsel of some
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  • Of the elite universities in this nation.
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  • We wanna form a perspective that's built from god's word.
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  • If we'll do that, it'll bring his blessings to our lives.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • Female announcer: from the pages of scripture to the frontlines
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  • Of today's news, israel stands at the center of god's purposes.
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  • Pastor allen's new booklet, "supporting israel: how far is
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  • Too far?"
  • 00:10:17.866 --> 00:10:19.200
  • Offers a quick way to gain a biblical perspective on israel,
  • 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:22.170
  • Why israel matters to god, and why it should matter to us.
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  • Request your copy with your gift of any amount today at
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  • Allenjackson.com or by calling...
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  • Allen: there are some practical ways we can show mercy
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  • To israel.
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  • The first is to cultivate and express a sincere love for the
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  • Jewish people.
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  • Not a private one.
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  • Be willing to acknowledge it.
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  • Let it be known in your circle of friends.
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  • Let it be known around your kitchen table.
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  • Let it be known around your holiday table.
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  • I suspect the people who know you know the sports teams you
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  • Advocate for, who your favorite chefs are on the food network,
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  • Who your favorite home remodeler is on hgtv, whatever it is that
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  • Is of interest to you, the people who know you, even
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  • Marginally, probably know a good bit about that.
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  • Let them know that you're an advocate for the nation of
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  • Israel and the jewish people.
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  • Secondly, i would invite you to be a living demonstration with
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  • Grace and the mercy of god.
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  • I borrow a verse from romans 11:11.
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  • It says, "did they stumble as far--did they stumble as so to
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  • 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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  • Here's a wild thought.
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  • Live with enough joy and openness to the jewish community
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  • With your life filled with the blessings of god sufficiently
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  • That they'll ask you about your faith.
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  • Not do an act of conversion, but to share them--with them the
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  • Goodness of god as you know him.
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  • The reality of your faith, not the traditions of the group
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  • To whom you belong.
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  • It's not a holiday exchange.
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  • It's a living faith in a person.
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  • Let the blessings of god so fill our lives that we become
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  • A testimony in the earth to the goodness of god.
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  • And that's more than the balance in a bank account.
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  • That has to do with the moral perspectives we hold, and our
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  • Willingness to yield to the sovereignty of god and his will
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  • And his purposes for ourselves.
  • 00:12:33.635 --> 00:12:36.204
  • There's a separation that comes with being the people of god.
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  • The jewish people understand that so much better than the
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  • People in the christian community.
  • 00:12:41.810 --> 00:12:44.512
  • We've done our best to blend in, to be undercover operatives, to
  • 00:12:44.512 --> 00:12:47.415
  • Be covert, to build bridges to the ungodly and the immoral and
  • 00:12:47.415 --> 00:12:50.585
  • The wicked.
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  • There's almost no distinguishable difference any
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  • Longer perhaps, than a building where we sit for a few minutes
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  • On the weekend.
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  • We've even stopped gathering in those buildings.
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  • We just stream it now into the privacy of our own home, or
  • 00:12:58.560 --> 00:13:02.931
  • A house boat or the beach or wherever we may be that's most
  • 00:13:02.931 --> 00:13:05.733
  • Convenient because we don't want to be inconvenienced for the
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  • Sake of our faith.
  • 00:13:07.702 --> 00:13:12.974
  • The jewish people, on the other hand, have maintained
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  • A uniqueness on purpose.
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  • And perhaps if we would choose god and his sovereignty and
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  • Welcome the distinctiveness that he would bring to our lives, and
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  • We would be willing to bear that in the midst of the cultures
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  • Where we live, if we would be willing to own biblical
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  • Perspective, again really strange ideas like god created
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  • Us male and female, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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  • If we would return to those values, it'll be a bridge of
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  • Solidarity between us.
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  • And thirdly, i would submit that we would seek god's best for
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  • Israel with our prayers.
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  • The very familiar psalm 122: "pray for the peace
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  • Of jerusalem."
  • 00:14:03.424 --> 00:14:05.460
  • But now you've got a bit more of information on how to pray.
  • 00:14:05.460 --> 00:14:08.997
  • Not just an absence of conflict, but peace with god.
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  • And finally, i would submit we can seek to repay our debt to
  • 00:14:14.636 --> 00:14:17.005
  • Israel with practical acts of kindness and mercy.
  • 00:14:17.005 --> 00:14:21.576
  • I meet people frequently who say, "but i don't know any
  • 00:14:21.576 --> 00:14:23.511
  • Jewish people."
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  • You haven't been very aware.
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  • I told you that i traveled to israel when i was a boy.
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  • I've been in and out of the country many, many times.
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  • When i studied at the university there was--there was a number
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  • Of--there were hundreds of students there on a junior
  • 00:14:36.624 --> 00:14:38.559
  • Year abroad.
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  • And that was the first time i stood in a group of young people
  • 00:14:40.795 --> 00:14:43.264
  • My age that were predominantly jewish and i had a very limited
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  • Imagination to how isolated they felt.
  • 00:14:47.068 --> 00:14:51.339
  • It changed me.
  • 00:14:51.339 --> 00:14:53.942
  • It's not uncommon now when we visit israel we'll be in
  • 00:14:53.942 --> 00:14:57.211
  • A hotel.
  • 00:14:57.211 --> 00:14:58.713
  • Wasn't too long ago we were there for the high holy days
  • 00:14:58.713 --> 00:15:00.782
  • This time of year.
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  • We were in the hotel lobby, kathy and i were sitting waiting
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  • For some others in our group.
  • 00:15:04.752 --> 00:15:06.754
  • And we were just seated in the lobby and a couple came up who
  • 00:15:06.754 --> 00:15:09.524
  • Were visiting.
  • 00:15:09.524 --> 00:15:10.858
  • They sounded to me to be from new york.
  • 00:15:10.858 --> 00:15:13.094
  • They weren't from around here.
  • 00:15:13.094 --> 00:15:14.462
  • I can tell you that.
  • 00:15:14.462 --> 00:15:18.132
  • Jewish family and they began to ask us questions and pretty
  • 00:15:18.132 --> 00:15:21.402
  • Quickly they discovered that we were christians and that i was
  • 00:15:21.402 --> 00:15:23.638
  • A pastor.
  • 00:15:23.638 --> 00:15:25.273
  • And they had a list of questions.
  • 00:15:25.273 --> 00:15:27.909
  • It's like playing "jeopardy."
  • 00:15:27.909 --> 00:15:30.945
  • Christians for 1000, please, alex.
  • 00:15:30.945 --> 00:15:34.716
  • And it wasn't but a few minutes and another american couple came
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  • Up behind them from new york as well, jewish, and they started
  • 00:15:37.819 --> 00:15:40.555
  • Asking questions and the couple that was there first turned
  • 00:15:40.555 --> 00:15:42.724
  • Around and said, "we found these.
  • 00:15:42.724 --> 00:15:44.325
  • Leave us alone."
  • 00:15:44.325 --> 00:15:51.966
  • And it reinforced to me how little we actually often talk
  • 00:15:51.966 --> 00:15:55.470
  • Between communities.
  • 00:15:55.470 --> 00:15:58.139
  • Sometimes because of the hatred in the world, and the fear of
  • 00:15:58.139 --> 00:16:01.876
  • Rejection, or criticism or misunderstanding.
  • 00:16:01.876 --> 00:16:08.249
  • Again, i'm not encouraging you to change your holidays.
  • 00:16:08.249 --> 00:16:11.552
  • I'm just asking you to understand them.
  • 00:16:11.552 --> 00:16:15.523
  • There are jewish people in your spheres of influence, in the
  • 00:16:15.523 --> 00:16:17.959
  • Places where you work, that go to school with your children,
  • 00:16:17.959 --> 00:16:20.361
  • That live in our neighborhoods.
  • 00:16:20.361 --> 00:16:22.797
  • And a simple thing we can do is simply show kindness and mercy
  • 00:16:22.797 --> 00:16:27.702
  • And respect.
  • 00:16:27.702 --> 00:16:30.738
  • We were brand-new christians.
  • 00:16:30.738 --> 00:16:33.574
  • We lived in miami, florida, it's been a day, when the six day war
  • 00:16:33.574 --> 00:16:37.545
  • Broke out.
  • 00:16:37.545 --> 00:16:39.280
  • And most of our neighbors were jewish.
  • 00:16:39.280 --> 00:16:42.350
  • And that's the first time i remember my family praying for
  • 00:16:42.350 --> 00:16:45.186
  • The peace of jerusalem.
  • 00:16:45.186 --> 00:16:47.555
  • They came and said that their family--the women in their
  • 00:16:47.555 --> 00:16:50.892
  • Family in israel had left their babies and gone to fight or gone
  • 00:16:50.892 --> 00:16:53.728
  • To stand watch.
  • 00:16:53.728 --> 00:16:55.096
  • I didn't understand, i was a boy.
  • 00:16:55.096 --> 00:16:58.066
  • But from early in my life i've understood we've stood together
  • 00:16:58.066 --> 00:17:00.535
  • And that one of the great privileges we have is showing
  • 00:17:00.535 --> 00:17:03.838
  • Kindness and respect and mercy for the jewish people.
  • 00:17:03.838 --> 00:17:09.710
  • They're not all perfect, folks.
  • 00:17:09.710 --> 00:17:12.613
  • And if you'll do a casual check of the local church, neither
  • 00:17:12.613 --> 00:17:15.316
  • Are we.
  • 00:17:15.316 --> 00:17:21.589
  • It's time for the church to find a voice.
  • 00:17:21.589 --> 00:17:25.059
  • It's time to ground it in scripture.
  • 00:17:25.059 --> 00:17:27.762
  • And understand with a bit of clarity who we are and what
  • 00:17:27.762 --> 00:17:30.131
  • We've been called to be.
  • 00:17:30.131 --> 00:17:32.867
  • I believe we're at an inflection point.
  • 00:17:32.867 --> 00:17:35.937
  • God is clearly shaking the earth.
  • 00:17:35.937 --> 00:17:37.772
  • There's episode after episode.
  • 00:17:37.772 --> 00:17:39.574
  • We saw one with covid.
  • 00:17:39.574 --> 00:17:40.908
  • We saw one on october 7th.
  • 00:17:40.908 --> 00:17:42.276
  • We saw another with charlie kirk's assassination.
  • 00:17:42.276 --> 00:17:45.313
  • There's a shaking taking place.
  • 00:17:45.313 --> 00:17:48.182
  • And every time it seems there's a group that steps back, but
  • 00:17:48.182 --> 00:17:50.718
  • There's a group that steps forward, i wanna go forward with
  • 00:17:50.718 --> 00:17:53.054
  • The lord. [congregation applauding]
  • 00:17:53.054 --> 00:18:01.796
  • I want to close our service with a video and then a prayer.
  • 00:18:01.796 --> 00:18:05.266
  • So when the video's done, don't run for the exit.
  • 00:18:05.266 --> 00:18:09.871
  • Deal?
  • 00:18:09.871 --> 00:18:11.272
  • It's a short prayer.
  • 00:18:11.272 --> 00:18:13.774
  • But it's a blessing i would like you to make with me.
  • 00:18:13.774 --> 00:18:17.445
  • But the president and ceo of the international fellowship of
  • 00:18:17.445 --> 00:18:21.482
  • Christians and jews was gracious enough to make a video to share
  • 00:18:21.482 --> 00:18:24.886
  • With us.
  • 00:18:24.886 --> 00:18:26.888
  • Yael couldn't travel.
  • 00:18:26.888 --> 00:18:28.256
  • It's the high holy days.
  • 00:18:28.256 --> 00:18:30.791
  • But she made a video with tennessee in mind.
  • 00:18:30.791 --> 00:18:32.693
  • She was with us here last year.
  • 00:18:32.693 --> 00:18:35.596
  • And so i asked the crew--i'm giving them a minute because
  • 00:18:35.596 --> 00:18:37.565
  • Last night i forgot the video.
  • 00:18:37.565 --> 00:18:40.968
  • Isn't that awful?
  • 00:18:40.968 --> 00:18:43.004
  • You do a service to honor our jewish friends and you forget
  • 00:18:43.004 --> 00:18:45.239
  • The video they made?
  • 00:18:45.239 --> 00:18:52.079
  • I'm pretty sure, like, if you take the numeric value of my
  • 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:54.448
  • Name it comes out to knucklehead but don't--have you got the
  • 00:18:54.448 --> 00:18:59.554
  • Video there?
  • 00:18:59.554 --> 00:19:00.888
  • Good, let's go.
  • 00:19:00.888 --> 00:19:03.024
  • Yael eckstein: shalom, pastor allen and all of my friends at
  • 00:19:07.261 --> 00:19:09.664
  • World outreach church.
  • 00:19:09.664 --> 00:19:11.332
  • I'm here in nir oz.
  • 00:19:11.332 --> 00:19:14.202
  • This is one of the most hard hit kibbutzim on october 7th, where
  • 00:19:14.202 --> 00:19:17.805
  • 1 in 4 people who lived here were either killed or kidnapped.
  • 00:19:17.805 --> 00:19:22.643
  • The ceremony is about to begin, where israelis from all across
  • 00:19:22.643 --> 00:19:27.748
  • Israel have come to plant flags to remember and to join with you
  • 00:19:27.748 --> 00:19:33.588
  • In the flags of fellowship event.
  • 00:19:33.588 --> 00:19:38.826
  • Ditza or: dear brothers and sisters of the international
  • 00:19:38.826 --> 00:19:41.862
  • Fellowship of christians and jews.
  • 00:19:41.862 --> 00:19:45.066
  • I am the mother of avinatan.
  • 00:19:45.066 --> 00:19:48.135
  • The literal meaning of my son's name, avinatan or is profound.
  • 00:19:48.135 --> 00:19:55.476
  • Our father in heaven has given us light.
  • 00:19:55.476 --> 00:20:00.781
  • Today, avinatan is in the top elite unit of the
  • 00:20:00.781 --> 00:20:04.919
  • Light warriors.
  • 00:20:04.919 --> 00:20:06.854
  • His mission is fighting in the depths of the darkest place on
  • 00:20:06.854 --> 00:20:11.092
  • The planet earth.
  • 00:20:11.092 --> 00:20:13.060
  • These days, we are witnessing a huge outbreak of hatred for
  • 00:20:13.060 --> 00:20:17.698
  • Israel all over the world.
  • 00:20:17.698 --> 00:20:20.101
  • All the demons are trying with all their might in this last
  • 00:20:20.101 --> 00:20:24.672
  • Round to defeat god.
  • 00:20:24.672 --> 00:20:28.276
  • David nekrutman: they argue that our covenant has expired, but
  • 00:20:28.276 --> 00:20:32.380
  • Your solidarity today is repudiation of that
  • 00:20:32.380 --> 00:20:36.751
  • False doctrine.
  • 00:20:36.751 --> 00:20:38.653
  • Yes, genesis chapter 12, verse 3, is also the jews of today.
  • 00:20:38.653 --> 00:20:43.891
  • To our christian friends who stand shoulder to shoulder with
  • 00:20:43.891 --> 00:20:48.396
  • Us with the flags of fellowship, your partnership transforms
  • 00:20:48.396 --> 00:20:53.801
  • This memorial.
  • 00:20:53.801 --> 00:20:55.136
  • It declares the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob is faithful in
  • 00:20:55.136 --> 00:21:00.574
  • Each and every generation to his people.
  • 00:21:00.574 --> 00:21:04.945
  • Joshua waller: myself as a christian zionist, i look up
  • 00:21:04.945 --> 00:21:07.315
  • To you.
  • 00:21:07.315 --> 00:21:08.683
  • I believe in your role in the world.
  • 00:21:08.683 --> 00:21:10.651
  • You are the eternal people, and i wanna speak to all those of
  • 00:21:10.651 --> 00:21:14.922
  • The nations that are carrying this flag, this blessed flag
  • 00:21:14.922 --> 00:21:18.993
  • Of israel.
  • 00:21:18.993 --> 00:21:20.428
  • I wanna thank those communities, those christians around the
  • 00:21:20.428 --> 00:21:22.997
  • World, that are not just willing to talk, but that are willing to
  • 00:21:22.997 --> 00:21:27.768
  • Actually stand with you.
  • 00:21:27.768 --> 00:21:29.970
  • For all of you that are raising israeli flags across the world,
  • 00:21:29.970 --> 00:21:33.607
  • I say thank you as a christian zionist, and i know the jewish
  • 00:21:33.607 --> 00:21:36.510
  • Nation appreciates and thanks you as well.
  • 00:21:36.510 --> 00:21:40.548
  • We will stand firmly with you in raising up an army of support
  • 00:21:40.548 --> 00:21:44.518
  • From around the world until israel defeats these enemies.
  • 00:21:44.518 --> 00:21:48.723
  • Michal uziahu: our dear christian friends, thank you for
  • 00:21:48.723 --> 00:21:52.193
  • Being next to us.
  • 00:21:52.193 --> 00:21:53.794
  • Thank you for understanding that we have a common goal not to let
  • 00:21:53.794 --> 00:21:59.500
  • These darkness forces take over our precious world because we
  • 00:21:59.500 --> 00:22:04.572
  • Understand the attack on our communities on october 7 wasn't
  • 00:22:04.572 --> 00:22:09.643
  • Only an attack on our israeli communities, not only an attack
  • 00:22:09.643 --> 00:22:14.782
  • On the jewish people.
  • 00:22:14.782 --> 00:22:16.984
  • This attack was an attack on civilization.
  • 00:22:16.984 --> 00:22:21.555
  • But we are determined to be better and stronger.
  • 00:22:21.555 --> 00:22:24.925
  • With you, our dear friends, we will become better and stronger.
  • 00:22:24.925 --> 00:22:29.296
  • And in a few years from now, people who will come not to see
  • 00:22:29.296 --> 00:22:34.201
  • What has happened to us on october 7th, but to see what
  • 00:22:34.201 --> 00:22:37.872
  • Christians and jews did together the day after.
  • 00:22:37.872 --> 00:22:41.575
  • Thank you, yael.
  • 00:22:41.575 --> 00:22:44.445
  • Yael: these flags that are waving here and are waving in
  • 00:22:44.445 --> 00:22:47.848
  • Your church, these aren't political statements and this
  • 00:22:47.848 --> 00:22:51.118
  • Isn't a political story.
  • 00:22:51.118 --> 00:22:53.788
  • The same evil that did this is the same evil that's going after
  • 00:22:53.788 --> 00:22:59.794
  • Your church.
  • 00:22:59.794 --> 00:23:01.595
  • And that's what flags of fellowship represents.
  • 00:23:01.595 --> 00:23:05.833
  • It represents the silenced majority who recognizes this
  • 00:23:05.833 --> 00:23:10.938
  • Flag is spiritual.
  • 00:23:10.938 --> 00:23:14.375
  • They burn the flags, we plant them.
  • 00:23:14.375 --> 00:23:18.345
  • We stand together in answering god's call to say "hineni,"
  • 00:23:18.345 --> 00:23:25.820
  • Here i am.
  • 00:23:25.820 --> 00:23:27.254
  • Use me in whatever way you can to bring more light
  • 00:23:27.254 --> 00:23:31.692
  • To the world.
  • 00:23:31.692 --> 00:23:33.627
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:23:37.231 --> 00:23:42.069
  • Allen: to our friends at the ifcj, thank you for allowing us
  • 00:23:42.069 --> 00:23:45.439
  • To be a part of those 1500 churches today.
  • 00:23:45.439 --> 00:23:49.009
  • You're not alone.
  • 00:23:49.009 --> 00:23:50.678
  • Colonel isaacs, thank you for making the trip here.
  • 00:23:50.678 --> 00:23:53.814
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:23:53.814 --> 00:23:57.785
  • He shared last night that he's able to be with us because he
  • 00:23:57.785 --> 00:24:01.222
  • Survived october 7th for one reason.
  • 00:24:01.222 --> 00:24:03.557
  • The ifcj had provided for him an armored vehicle.
  • 00:24:03.557 --> 00:24:07.828
  • Without that, he wouldn't have survived the multiple attacks
  • 00:24:07.828 --> 00:24:10.197
  • That were made while he was reporting that morning.
  • 00:24:10.197 --> 00:24:13.667
  • God provides.
  • 00:24:13.667 --> 00:24:15.636
  • I want us to close with a blessing.
  • 00:24:15.636 --> 00:24:17.004
  • It's one of the oldest in scripture.
  • 00:24:17.004 --> 00:24:18.806
  • It's in your notes.
  • 00:24:18.806 --> 00:24:20.174
  • It's the aaronic blessing.
  • 00:24:20.174 --> 00:24:21.509
  • It's the instructions moses gave to aaron to bless the people.
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  • I believe it's appropriate as a blessing from us today for the
  • 00:24:24.912 --> 00:24:27.581
  • Jewish people, but i equally--i believe equally it's an
  • 00:24:27.581 --> 00:24:30.084
  • Appropriate blessing for one another.
  • 00:24:30.084 --> 00:24:33.120
  • It's a great blessing in your home.
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  • Teach it to your children.
  • 00:24:34.622 --> 00:24:36.924
  • Let it become a part of your routine prayer life.
  • 00:24:36.924 --> 00:24:39.293
  • It's a historical day.
  • 00:24:39.293 --> 00:24:41.262
  • I don't know what the outcome will be, but we're praying that
  • 00:24:41.262 --> 00:24:44.565
  • There'll be a release of men and women who've been held hostage
  • 00:24:44.565 --> 00:24:47.001
  • For 2 years, amen?
  • 00:24:47.001 --> 00:24:50.838
  • Can we read together just the portion that's in bold?
  • 00:24:50.838 --> 00:24:52.940
  • I gave you the context, but let's read the bold portion.
  • 00:24:52.940 --> 00:24:56.911
  • "the lord bless you and keep you; the lord make his face
  • 00:24:56.911 --> 00:25:00.814
  • Shine upon you and be gracious to you; the lord turn his face
  • 00:25:00.814 --> 00:25:05.419
  • Towards you and give you peace."
  • 00:25:05.419 --> 00:25:07.688
  • I think we can do better than that.
  • 00:25:07.688 --> 00:25:10.891
  • Like, i'm gonna take those of you that are in the stadium
  • 00:25:10.891 --> 00:25:12.960
  • Seats and you're gonna pronounce that blessing forward.
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  • So the rest of you are gonna be quiet.
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  • You're in the stadium seats, you're used to shouting at
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  • The referees.
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  • That's why you're in the stadium seats.
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  • So can you use your outdoor voices?
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  • If you're in new harvest and genesis, i need you too.
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  • You're in on this one.
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  • All right, let's read it again.
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  • "the lord bless you and keep you; the lord make his face
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  • Shine upon you and be gracious to you; and the lord turn his
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  • Face towards you and give you peace."
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  • Now those of you on the floor turn around and face
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  • Those people.
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  • It's not exactly towards jerusalem, but we're
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  • Directionally challenged since we got siri anyway.
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  • So we're gonna bless those people that just blessed you and
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  • We're gonna bless the nation of israel as we do it, all right?
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  • So in the back, you can receive this one.
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  • Ready?
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  • "the lord bless you and keep you; the lord make his face
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  • Shine upon you and be gracious to you; the lord turn his face
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  • Towards you and give you peace," amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: you know, we don't read our bibles just for exercise or
  • 00:26:27.101 --> 00:26:29.937
  • Just to be dutiful christians.
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  • We read our bibles to understand how to navigate a complex world,
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  • How to understand what's unfolding around us.
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  • We're living in a season where there's a lot of emotion
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  • Expressed about the jewish people and the nation of israel.
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  • From some very well-established elite places there are voices
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  • Saying they don't deserve our support.
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  • Well, i wrote a book, "supporting israel: how far is
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  • Too far?"
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  • So that we can have a biblical perspective on our response to
  • 00:26:53.394 --> 00:26:55.929
  • Current events.
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  • At the end of the day, i want to align myself with the purposes
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  • Of god, not the thought leaders at elite ivy league schools or
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  • The talking heads in the media.
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  • I intend to stand with the purposes of god.
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  • This book will help you unpack the current events and
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  • Understand the perspective from the viewpoint of scripture on
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  • How you and i can respond in a way that i believe will bring
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  • The blessings of god to our lives and help us accomplish his
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  • Purposes in our generation.
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  • It's worth the read.
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