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Allen Jackson - Into The Lion's Den (Part 2)

October 8, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Into The Lion's Den (Part 2)
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 - Into The Lion's Den (Part 2) | October 8, 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, to a
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  • 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 state of israel, not from an
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  • 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.
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  • A lot of voices, and i know there's some fatigue with the
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  • Conflict in the middle east, but we can't afford to be fatigued
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  • With our assignments to honor god and the responsibilities
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  • That come 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: we have a biblical assignment to resist evil in
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  • Our world.
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  • And i believe that assignment belongs to all of us.
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  • Why?
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  • Because there's a lion prowling the earth.
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  • Evil exists, folks.
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  • Evil exists and if you don't have a plan for how to resist
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  • It, you are unprepared, you're ill equipped.
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  • Your christianity is not fully formed.
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  • Jesus was tempted by satan.
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  • Do you remember that, after his baptism?
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  • Holy spirit led him into the-- this is not in your notes, but
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  • It really is in the bible.
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  • Just hang with me a minute.
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  • I'll quit on time.
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  • Led by the holy spirit into the wilderness where he's tempted by
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  • Satan, three separate episodes.
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  • He's fasted for 40 days, he's hungry, and satan says, "you've
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  • Got the power to turn this bread into--the stones into bread."
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  • But he begins the temptations by saying, "if you're the son
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  • Of god."
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  • He recognizes that he has power and status and standing in the
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  • Kingdom of god, but he's still calling into question who he is.
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  • He comes to us in the same way.
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  • But you know, if the lord had responded to satan with coaching
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  • From our current cultural settings, those dialogues would
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  • Have been different.
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  • And he would have said, "you know, satan, listen, i want you
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  • To know i understand.
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  • You were in heaven.
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  • I was in heaven.
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  • I had a better spot than you had.
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  • I understand you were jealous.
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  • You know, it's unfortunate that you were jealous.
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  • You had a lot of good things.
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  • You're one of the most beautiful of all the created creatures.
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  • Can't we just make peace?
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  • You know, can't we just hug this out?"
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  • Does that sound about right?
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  • There are no words of conciliation, there are no words
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  • Of understanding.
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  • There are no--and i'm not trying to make you belligerent.
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  • I'm trying to awaken you to the reality of evil.
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  • You don't negotiate with evil.
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  • You don't bargain with evil.
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  • Evil doesn't yield.
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  • His instruction was, "get behind me.
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  • You have no place here."
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  • And when he's done, he's so exhausted that the angels came
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  • And ministered to him, even to jesus.
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  • We're no match for that lion of satan and his roars.
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  • We're not gonna overcome him with our emotional determination
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  • And our physical perseverance.
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  • We need the help of god.
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  • It's why the church is the only response to evil, and i don't
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  • Mean a congregation.
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  • I mean church with a capital c.
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  • We're the only response to evil that works.
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  • The other lion is in revelation chapter 5.
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  • It's a very different setting.
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  • It's the throne room of god.
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  • And john has this majestic vision of god's throne room and
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  • All that's there.
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  • And there's a book that's presented, a scroll, that
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  • Contains the message of the end of the age, how the world's
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  • Gonna come to a conclusion this present age, and john's very
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  • Anxious to see the revelation, and the message is given him
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  • That there's nobody there that has the authority to open the
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  • Book and john begins to weep.
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  • He's upset, he's--and then the message changes.
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  • He said no, there's--there is one here who can open it.
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  • The lion of the tribe of judah has triumphed.
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  • Then he's worthy to open the book.
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  • It's jesus.
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  • The title that he's given in revelation 5 in the scene in the
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  • Throne room of god is he's the lion of the tribe of judah.
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  • The judah is one of the 12 tribes of israel.
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  • It's the one from which we get the word "jew."
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  • So it's worth noting that in the throne room of god at the end of
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  • The age, jesus is still identified with the
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  • Jewish people.
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  • Then he opens the book.
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  • So what i'm gonna submit to you is that your life and mine is
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  • Aligned with one of those two lions.
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  • There's no third rail.
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  • You can't do both.
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  • We either have aligned ourselves and our values and our behaviors
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  • And our objectives and our goals with the roar of satan and his
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  • Kingdom or we have aligned ourselves with the lion of the
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  • Tribe of judah.
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  • And we have to choose.
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  • And we wrestle with that, we struggle with that.
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  • That's not a one-time decision.
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  • Most all of us have said at one time or another, "oh, i want to
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  • Be godly," and then we find ourselves being very ungodly,
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  • Which, while that's a part of the journey, the appropriate
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  • Response for a christ follower is repentance to say, "oh, i
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  • Thought wrong and therefore i behaved inappropriately, but
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  • I've changed my thoughts.
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  • I no longer think that behavior is appropriate, so now i'll
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  • Change my actions."
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  • That is repentance, a change of thought and a change
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  • Of behavior.
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  • As i walked through this week and the unfolding news and all
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  • That's happened, i've arrived at a conclusion that we have a
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  • Challenge amongst us in the christian community.
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  • I've spent my adult life in the christian community, not a
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  • Single denomination or expression, but across a pretty
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  • Wide swath of that.
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  • But a frequent phenomena is what i'm gonna label, in this season
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  • At least, trans-christians.
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  • And i'm not talking about transgender persons or
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  • Transsexual persons, but i want to borrow that imagery because
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  • It's very prevalent amongst us and very celebrated amongst us.
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  • A transgender person, we're told, can assert that their
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  • Identity is fluid.
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  • That they can identify as a woman or a man irrespective of
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  • Their biology, right?
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  • You've heard this, right?
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  • I'm not, like, alone.
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  • Pretty prevalent talking point these days.
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  • It's even recognized by places like the ama and the--i mean,
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  • Some crazy places.
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  • But individuals that struggle with this imagine that their
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  • Choice is the determining factor.
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  • What i feel, how i identify, not my biology, not my chromosomes,
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  • Not every cell in my body.
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  • I can choose.
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  • It is fundamentally rebellious before god, even to the point
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  • That biology won't cause us to yield.
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  • And tragically, we live in a culture right now where the most
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  • Vulnerable amongst us, those that are in the transitionary
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  • Ages of their lives when they're just trying to figure out those
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  • Things have been targeted by some very powerful groups.
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  • Well, i wanna borrow that image and bring it back to this notion
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  • Of trans-christians.
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  • Trans-christians, i'm not talking about your biology or
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  • Your sexual identity.
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  • Trans-christians choose behaviors that are clearly
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  • Prohibited by scripture but then choose to affiliate with a
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  • Church or christians.
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  • We're pretty fluid.
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  • We can commit adultery and then sit in a church service and say,
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  • "oh, i'm good to go."
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  • We can be filled with greed or envy or lasciviousness or
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  • Practice all sorts of immorality, fornication.
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  • We live together without the benefit of marriage, but we sit
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  • In a church and raise our hands and we think, "oh no, i'm good."
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  • And we move in and out of the christian faith with the same
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  • Hubris that somebody says, "i can identify as male or female.
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  • My physical biology is irrelevant."
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  • Well, i don't believe our opinion on our standing with god
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  • Is the issue.
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  • God is sovereign.
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  • And part of the challenge we face as a church in this culture
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  • Is will we yield to the sovereignty of god and the
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  • Authority of god.
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  • It's not easy.
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  • It's not simple.
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  • We shouldn't pretend it's simple.
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  • It's a free invitation to every person, but yielding ourselves
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  • To godliness takes a determination and a willingness
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  • To submit our wills to the will of god, and that does not
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  • Come simply.
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  • There are powerful voices inside of all of us that say i want and
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  • I think and i feel and i wanna do what i want and because we've
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  • Had such a low commitment to the lord, we've just surfed right
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  • Along with the trans-christian movement.
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  • We don't wanna be offensive.
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  • Not a new thing.
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  • We shouldn't imagine this is a 21st--this isn't driven by
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  • Social media.
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  • This isn't the result of our kids spending too much times
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  • On devices.
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  • There's some things that come from that, but not this.
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  • I put a passage in your notes.
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  • It's 1 corinthians 6.
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  • Paul's writing to a church.
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  • In fact, it's a larger discussion.
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  • It's a much--the corinthian church was a mess.
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  • Do you know that?
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  • They're also the most spirit-filled church in the new
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  • Testament, miracles, supernatural, and some really
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  • Carnal behavior.
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  • He said, "you're not really--" he said, "i have no--" he said,
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  • "i know--i have no affirmation for you on this."
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  • He said, "when you get together, some of you get drunk, some of
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  • You are gluttonous."
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  • I mean, that's an awkward letter to write to a church.
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  • He's not saying you get drunk at home.
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  • He said, "when you get together."
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  • But in 1 corinthians 6, he says, "do you not know that the wicked
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  • Will not inherit the kingdom of god?"
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  • He wouldn't ask the question if they knew.
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  • They've lost their perspective.
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  • He said, "don't be deceived: neither the sexually immoral nor
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  • Idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual
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  • Offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor
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  • Swindlers nor--will inherit the kingdom of god."
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  • It's not an all-inclusive list.
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  • He's inviting them towards an imagination.
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  • You can't choose your behavior and imagine you're at peace
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  • With god.
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  • Allen: now how should we respond to the nation of israel
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  • And the 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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  • Allen: so what has happened to us?
  • 00:12:15.785 --> 00:12:19.388
  • How did we get to this place?
  • 00:12:19.388 --> 00:12:22.958
  • Well, i think first of all we have to know that opposition to
  • 00:12:22.958 --> 00:12:25.561
  • Godliness is not new, it's not a 21st century phenomenon, it's
  • 00:12:25.561 --> 00:12:28.564
  • Not the result of technology.
  • 00:12:28.564 --> 00:12:31.033
  • We have an adversary.
  • 00:12:31.033 --> 00:12:32.401
  • There's a roaring lion looking to devour people.
  • 00:12:32.401 --> 00:12:36.939
  • And we have to choose to avoid that.
  • 00:12:36.939 --> 00:12:38.507
  • We have to choose to align ourselves with the lion of the
  • 00:12:38.507 --> 00:12:41.076
  • Tribe of judah.
  • 00:12:41.076 --> 00:12:43.913
  • 2 timothy 3, paul's writing to a young man, he's coaching, and he
  • 00:12:43.913 --> 00:12:47.683
  • Said, "you know all about my teaching, my way of life, my
  • 00:12:47.683 --> 00:12:50.252
  • Purpose, my faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions,
  • 00:12:50.252 --> 00:12:54.490
  • Sufferings--what kinds of things happened to me
  • 00:12:54.490 --> 00:12:56.425
  • In antioch."
  • 00:12:56.425 --> 00:12:58.060
  • And you probably don't know the story.
  • 00:12:58.060 --> 00:12:59.461
  • In those cities, he was arrested, he was beaten, he was
  • 00:12:59.461 --> 00:13:02.798
  • Left for dead.
  • 00:13:02.798 --> 00:13:04.400
  • I mean, he suffered physically because of his faith, not
  • 00:13:04.400 --> 00:13:07.436
  • Because he was stealing, not because he was trying to
  • 00:13:07.436 --> 00:13:10.606
  • Overturn the roman government.
  • 00:13:10.606 --> 00:13:12.041
  • He was advocating for jesus of nazareth.
  • 00:13:12.041 --> 00:13:15.811
  • And because of that he suffered physically.
  • 00:13:15.811 --> 00:13:17.913
  • In verse 12, he says to timothy: "in fact, everyone who wants to
  • 00:13:17.913 --> 00:13:21.083
  • Live a godly life in christ jesus will be persecuted."
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  • I'd just like to white that out.
  • 00:13:28.290 --> 00:13:29.625
  • I've got a pen.
  • 00:13:29.625 --> 00:13:30.993
  • You think if we marked it out, it would change it?
  • 00:13:30.993 --> 00:13:33.529
  • No, i don't either.
  • 00:13:33.529 --> 00:13:35.264
  • The reality is godliness is going to bring a response and
  • 00:13:35.264 --> 00:13:38.934
  • It's not always going to be applause, but we choose
  • 00:13:38.934 --> 00:13:42.338
  • Godliness anyway.
  • 00:13:42.338 --> 00:13:44.707
  • You know, when god commissioned moses to go back to egypt, he's
  • 00:13:44.707 --> 00:13:47.076
  • Got the tricky little shepherd staff, you know, that becomes a
  • 00:13:47.076 --> 00:13:50.412
  • Snake and then it doesn't, and he's got that little party favor
  • 00:13:50.412 --> 00:13:53.782
  • With his hand in and it's sick and his hand back out and it's
  • 00:13:53.782 --> 00:13:56.585
  • Whole again.
  • 00:13:56.585 --> 00:13:57.953
  • I mean, he's really well prepared.
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  • I put it in your notes, it's exodus 4.
  • 00:13:59.355 --> 00:14:00.956
  • God says to him, "now, you can go back to egypt.
  • 00:14:00.956 --> 00:14:02.758
  • The people who wanted to kill you are dead."
  • 00:14:02.758 --> 00:14:05.928
  • And it's plural, there were a lot of people there that wanted
  • 00:14:05.928 --> 00:14:07.630
  • To kill moses.
  • 00:14:07.630 --> 00:14:08.964
  • He said, "you can go back now."
  • 00:14:08.964 --> 00:14:10.332
  • Well, the reality is there's gonna be a whole new
  • 00:14:10.332 --> 00:14:11.667
  • Crop of people who want to kill mo.
  • 00:14:11.667 --> 00:14:14.036
  • But he's got a god assignment to do anyway.
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  • We don't serve the lord because everybody applauds, we must
  • 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:19.041
  • Serve the lord because we think he's real.
  • 00:14:19.041 --> 00:14:22.044
  • We understand the nature of the relationship means there will
  • 00:14:22.044 --> 00:14:24.680
  • Be antagonism.
  • 00:14:24.680 --> 00:14:27.449
  • But we don't do--we're not angry by that.
  • 00:14:27.449 --> 00:14:29.485
  • We're not embittered by that.
  • 00:14:29.485 --> 00:14:30.819
  • It's the nature.
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  • I'm not angry.
  • 00:14:32.154 --> 00:14:33.522
  • I had a big fire going friday afternoon and i singed the hair
  • 00:14:33.522 --> 00:14:36.258
  • On my face, which is stupid.
  • 00:14:36.258 --> 00:14:40.496
  • How many of you know fire's hot?
  • 00:14:40.496 --> 00:14:41.830
  • How many know a big fire is gonna be, like, really hot?
  • 00:14:41.830 --> 00:14:48.037
  • I'm not the brightest bulb in the box 'cause i got my face in
  • 00:14:48.037 --> 00:14:50.906
  • A big fire and i smelled this thing and i go, "oh, that's
  • 00:14:50.906 --> 00:14:53.575
  • My hair.
  • 00:14:53.575 --> 00:14:57.579
  • You know, maybe i should step back from the fire."
  • 00:14:57.579 --> 00:15:02.051
  • I didn't have to google it.
  • 00:15:02.051 --> 00:15:04.887
  • What do you do when your hair's melting?
  • 00:15:04.887 --> 00:15:09.792
  • Well, we should understand the nature of this relationship.
  • 00:15:09.792 --> 00:15:12.461
  • To be a christ follower means there's antagonism.
  • 00:15:12.461 --> 00:15:15.164
  • Don't be embittered by it.
  • 00:15:15.164 --> 00:15:16.498
  • Don't be angry at the other person.
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  • Oh, you're aligned with that roaring lion crowd.
  • 00:15:18.133 --> 00:15:22.738
  • Well, let me tell you about the lion of the tribe of judah.
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  • He's changed my life.
  • 00:15:25.975 --> 00:15:27.309
  • He's made it better.
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  • He's been good for me.
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  • I'm not recruiting you to be religious.
  • 00:15:30.346 --> 00:15:31.914
  • I'm recruiting you to a place of greater peace and hope where you
  • 00:15:31.914 --> 00:15:35.684
  • Don't have to carry anxiety.
  • 00:15:35.684 --> 00:15:37.086
  • You don't have to be burdened with bitterness and anger and
  • 00:15:37.086 --> 00:15:40.089
  • Hatred and all those things that clog your heart.
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  • We can be different.
  • 00:15:46.328 --> 00:15:49.331
  • Jesus is engaged with something today that extends far beyond
  • 00:15:49.331 --> 00:15:52.735
  • Turning point usa or charlie kirk, and i'm not belittling
  • 00:15:52.735 --> 00:15:56.171
  • Those, but charlie was simply a portion of an expression of
  • 00:15:56.171 --> 00:16:00.009
  • Something that jesus is doing.
  • 00:16:00.009 --> 00:16:01.343
  • It's in your notes, matthew 16:8.
  • 00:16:01.343 --> 00:16:03.012
  • Jesus said, "i'll build my church, and the gates of hell
  • 00:16:03.012 --> 00:16:06.015
  • Won't stop it."
  • 00:16:06.015 --> 00:16:07.483
  • It's not a church besieged, it's not a church retreating.
  • 00:16:07.483 --> 00:16:10.252
  • He said hell won't be able to stop it.
  • 00:16:10.252 --> 00:16:11.954
  • Now, he wouldn't have had to say, "hell won't be able to stop
  • 00:16:11.954 --> 00:16:14.456
  • It," unless hell was gonna try to stop it.
  • 00:16:14.456 --> 00:16:17.259
  • We needed that.
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  • You've never flown before and you're getting ready to get on a
  • 00:16:20.029 --> 00:16:22.064
  • Flight, i say, "you know, when you get to a certain altitude,
  • 00:16:22.064 --> 00:16:24.767
  • Your ears are gonna pop."
  • 00:16:24.767 --> 00:16:27.836
  • I wouldn't tell you that if you weren't leaving the ground, you
  • 00:16:27.836 --> 00:16:29.805
  • Wouldn't need to know.
  • 00:16:29.805 --> 00:16:32.074
  • You know, i don't wanna tell you, "you know, when
  • 00:16:32.074 --> 00:16:33.442
  • You're walking to your car today, your ears are gonna pop."
  • 00:16:33.442 --> 00:16:35.277
  • No, they're not.
  • 00:16:35.277 --> 00:16:37.780
  • You don't need that bit of warning, but if jesus said, "i'm
  • 00:16:37.780 --> 00:16:41.050
  • Gonna establish my church," and that's not about a denomination
  • 00:16:41.050 --> 00:16:44.386
  • Or an organization or a single congregation.
  • 00:16:44.386 --> 00:16:47.823
  • Church is every person from every race, language, tribe, and
  • 00:16:47.823 --> 00:16:50.759
  • Nation that's acknowledged jesus of nazareth as lord and king.
  • 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:54.363
  • And jesus said, "i will establish my presence in the
  • 00:16:54.363 --> 00:16:56.865
  • Hearts of human beings, and hell won't stop it."
  • 00:16:56.865 --> 00:17:00.936
  • Well, we needed that little nugget because hell's gonna try.
  • 00:17:00.936 --> 00:17:06.308
  • But i gave you some support.
  • 00:17:06.308 --> 00:17:07.676
  • I won't read them all, but jesus is the head of the church.
  • 00:17:07.676 --> 00:17:10.279
  • That's better than presidents or supreme courts or the un.
  • 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:15.417
  • Jesus is the head of the church.
  • 00:17:15.417 --> 00:17:16.785
  • You remember him?
  • 00:17:16.785 --> 00:17:18.120
  • The king of kings, the lord of lords, the ones that have been
  • 00:17:18.120 --> 00:17:20.122
  • Given a name by the creator of heaven and earth where every
  • 00:17:20.122 --> 00:17:23.225
  • Knee will bow and every tongue confess that jesus of nazareth
  • 00:17:23.225 --> 00:17:26.695
  • Is lord?
  • 00:17:26.695 --> 00:17:28.897
  • So aligning with jesus isn't just about sitting in a
  • 00:17:28.897 --> 00:17:31.934
  • Building, in a worship service.
  • 00:17:31.934 --> 00:17:33.635
  • We take his values and we begin to incorporate them as
  • 00:17:33.635 --> 00:17:36.305
  • Our values.
  • 00:17:36.305 --> 00:17:38.273
  • He defined things like marriage.
  • 00:17:38.273 --> 00:17:40.175
  • We didn't.
  • 00:17:40.175 --> 00:17:41.610
  • He gave us boundaries for human sexuality.
  • 00:17:41.610 --> 00:17:43.745
  • We don't make those choices.
  • 00:17:43.745 --> 00:17:45.180
  • We have drives and temptations that are outside of
  • 00:17:45.180 --> 00:17:47.483
  • Those choices.
  • 00:17:47.483 --> 00:17:48.851
  • That's why he had to define them for us.
  • 00:17:48.851 --> 00:17:50.319
  • He said those temptations, those impulses, are not helpful.
  • 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:53.655
  • They're not healthy.
  • 00:17:53.655 --> 00:17:56.091
  • And you and i have to decide if we'll submit to the authority of
  • 00:17:56.091 --> 00:17:59.194
  • The lord, every one of us.
  • 00:17:59.194 --> 00:18:02.064
  • It's more than just a profession of faith.
  • 00:18:02.064 --> 00:18:04.099
  • I believe in the new birth, salvation, conversion, but on a
  • 00:18:04.099 --> 00:18:07.136
  • Daily basis, you and i have to choose to submit to the
  • 00:18:07.136 --> 00:18:10.472
  • Righteousness of god.
  • 00:18:10.472 --> 00:18:12.708
  • Not easy, not easy.
  • 00:18:12.708 --> 00:18:16.345
  • It really isn't.
  • 00:18:16.345 --> 00:18:17.713
  • You know, we come into church and we act like we're this nice
  • 00:18:17.713 --> 00:18:19.648
  • All the time.
  • 00:18:19.648 --> 00:18:21.016
  • We're not.
  • 00:18:21.016 --> 00:18:22.851
  • I watch you leave campus.
  • 00:18:22.851 --> 00:18:25.387
  • You watch way too much nascar.
  • 00:18:29.057 --> 00:18:30.726
  • I got that, i'll tell you.
  • 00:18:30.726 --> 00:18:32.094
  • It's just like--it's not good.
  • 00:18:32.094 --> 00:18:35.230
  • Jesus is the head of the church.
  • 00:18:35.230 --> 00:18:36.899
  • You know the root of the problem?
  • 00:18:36.899 --> 00:18:39.101
  • I know, i gotta stop.
  • 00:18:39.101 --> 00:18:41.136
  • But i'll give you this and we'll work on it a little bit more in
  • 00:18:41.136 --> 00:18:43.272
  • The next session.
  • 00:18:43.272 --> 00:18:44.640
  • You know what the root of the-- it's not political.
  • 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:46.542
  • It's not about republicans or democrats.
  • 00:18:46.542 --> 00:18:48.644
  • Stop that.
  • 00:18:48.644 --> 00:18:49.978
  • I look forward to having political--multiple political
  • 00:18:49.978 --> 00:18:52.314
  • Parties that embrace a biblical worldview and we can choose
  • 00:18:52.314 --> 00:18:55.317
  • Between how we apply them.
  • 00:18:55.317 --> 00:18:57.419
  • Wouldn't that be wonderful?
  • 00:18:57.419 --> 00:19:01.023
  • Not a theocracy.
  • 00:19:01.023 --> 00:19:02.457
  • People are so afraid of a theocracy.
  • 00:19:02.457 --> 00:19:03.959
  • Folks, we don't have that much unity inside a single
  • 00:19:03.959 --> 00:19:06.161
  • Congregation, right?
  • 00:19:06.161 --> 00:19:08.730
  • We can't get together about-- anyway.
  • 00:19:08.730 --> 00:19:12.334
  • The root of the problem is the corruption of human character.
  • 00:19:12.334 --> 00:19:17.439
  • We are not fundamentally good.
  • 00:19:17.439 --> 00:19:19.341
  • And then there's all sorts of external things that act upon us
  • 00:19:23.378 --> 00:19:26.215
  • That cause our character to deteriorate; not just my
  • 00:19:26.215 --> 00:19:28.584
  • Opinion, it's biblical.
  • 00:19:28.584 --> 00:19:29.918
  • 2 timothy 3, paul says, "mark this: there'll be terrible times
  • 00:19:29.918 --> 00:19:33.055
  • In the last days."
  • 00:19:33.055 --> 00:19:34.456
  • The word that's translated "terrible times" literally says
  • 00:19:34.456 --> 00:19:36.692
  • "exceedingly fierce."
  • 00:19:36.692 --> 00:19:39.094
  • It's a very, very strong phrase.
  • 00:19:39.094 --> 00:19:44.499
  • Exceedingly fierce times.
  • 00:19:44.499 --> 00:19:46.768
  • And then he lists 18 aspects of human character, not really
  • 00:19:46.768 --> 00:19:50.105
  • Behavior but human character that will deteriorate.
  • 00:19:50.105 --> 00:19:53.408
  • And i believe the first one cited is really the key.
  • 00:19:53.408 --> 00:19:55.877
  • He said people will be lovers of themselves.
  • 00:19:55.877 --> 00:19:59.214
  • We'll be so engaged in what we wanna do and how we feel and
  • 00:19:59.214 --> 00:20:02.284
  • What we think and what's in it for us that it will lead to the
  • 00:20:02.284 --> 00:20:06.188
  • Deterioration of our behavior with one another.
  • 00:20:06.188 --> 00:20:11.526
  • And there's abundant evidence about that.
  • 00:20:11.526 --> 00:20:13.929
  • What we have to understand about corruption is it's irreversible.
  • 00:20:13.929 --> 00:20:18.900
  • You know, summertime in tennessee means lots of things
  • 00:20:18.900 --> 00:20:20.969
  • Are growing, vegetables and fruits and i love summertime.
  • 00:20:20.969 --> 00:20:24.039
  • I like all the fresh stuff.
  • 00:20:24.039 --> 00:20:26.174
  • I like the green beans and the new potatoes and the
  • 00:20:26.174 --> 00:20:28.176
  • Fresh tomatoes.
  • 00:20:28.176 --> 00:20:30.679
  • The strawberries and the water-- the whole thing, but you know,
  • 00:20:30.679 --> 00:20:33.482
  • Somebody gave us a box of peaches the other day.
  • 00:20:33.482 --> 00:20:36.218
  • They were beautiful.
  • 00:20:36.218 --> 00:20:37.953
  • That's an amazing piece of fruit.
  • 00:20:37.953 --> 00:20:40.389
  • I mean, you even pick it up and it came--comes in a
  • 00:20:40.389 --> 00:20:42.357
  • Fancy package.
  • 00:20:42.357 --> 00:20:44.960
  • It's like god was showing off, you know, don't just make it
  • 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:47.329
  • Taste good, put it in this nice fuzzy little package.
  • 00:20:47.329 --> 00:20:51.600
  • I mean, who would have thought of that?
  • 00:20:51.600 --> 00:20:52.968
  • Not the government, it would have been gray.
  • 00:20:52.968 --> 00:20:55.270
  • So you take that peach, as beautiful as it is, if you leave
  • 00:20:59.408 --> 00:21:02.477
  • It on the counter and you walk away and you come back in 2
  • 00:21:02.477 --> 00:21:04.479
  • Weeks, it's not gonna be so pretty.
  • 00:21:04.479 --> 00:21:08.250
  • You can put it in the refrigerator, but it's not gonna
  • 00:21:08.250 --> 00:21:10.285
  • Last for 6 months.
  • 00:21:10.285 --> 00:21:12.254
  • You can refrigerate it and you can slow down the progression of
  • 00:21:12.254 --> 00:21:15.424
  • The corruption, but you're not gonna reverse it.
  • 00:21:15.424 --> 00:21:18.460
  • I think too much of our religion has been about refrigeration.
  • 00:21:18.460 --> 00:21:23.532
  • That's another message.
  • 00:21:23.532 --> 00:21:24.866
  • I'll come back to that one, okay?
  • 00:21:24.866 --> 00:21:28.804
  • But the only solution for corruption is a new creation.
  • 00:21:28.804 --> 00:21:33.375
  • And that's the message that we hold out to the world.
  • 00:21:33.375 --> 00:21:36.611
  • Don't use your energy and your thought and your intellect and
  • 00:21:36.611 --> 00:21:39.848
  • Your self-will and your self-discipline to try to hide
  • 00:21:39.848 --> 00:21:43.251
  • The fact that we are fundamentally ungodly.
  • 00:21:43.251 --> 00:21:48.223
  • Let's come to the lord and say, "i'm a sinner and i need
  • 00:21:48.223 --> 00:21:52.361
  • A savior.
  • 00:21:52.361 --> 00:21:54.262
  • I need a change of heart.
  • 00:21:54.262 --> 00:21:56.431
  • I have to be different."
  • 00:21:56.431 --> 00:21:57.799
  • Now, that unleashes something.
  • 00:21:57.799 --> 00:21:59.634
  • It doesn't fully accomplish it.
  • 00:21:59.634 --> 00:22:01.203
  • You get full legal rights to the kingdom of god, but the benefit
  • 00:22:01.203 --> 00:22:04.706
  • Of that transaction does not transform you 180 degrees in the
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  • Moment you receive jesus as lord into your life.
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  • You and i have to take that tendency that we're hardwired
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  • With to be ungodly because we all have that.
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  • If you don't know you have it, you know somebody you live with
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  • Has it.
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  • We have to take that tendency and we have to execute it.
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  • The biblical languages we have to crucify it.
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  • We have to put it to death.
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  • The best image i have for that is how do you do that?
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  • What do you do with that part of you that says "i want what
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  • I want"?
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  • Well, if you imagine a competition between a lion and a
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  • Puppy, what's the only conceivable way that a puppy
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  • Could overcome a lion?
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  • You've gotta starve the lion and feed the puppy.
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  • So what do you do with that part of you that's ungodly?
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  • Don't feed it.
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  • Don't put it in places.
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  • You have to change how you think, you have to change what
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  • You expose yourself to, you have to change what you watch and
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  • Listen to.
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  • You have to change what you do with your discretionary time so
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  • That you're not adding fuel to the part of you that causes you
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  • To be ungodly.
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  • The reason there's been so much trans-christianity is we spend
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  • So much time filling our hearts and our minds and our thoughts
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  • And our appetites with things that are ungodly.
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  • The voice for godliness is so small we just drift in and
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  • Out, cluelessly.
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  • Folks, it leads to destruction.
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  • The new testament passages, and there's multiple ones, talks
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  • About weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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  • It's a phrase that describes people who were very close--so
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  • Closely aligned with the things of god that they're
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  • Really indistinguishable.
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  • They're brides waiting for the arrival of the bridegroom.
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  • They're all waiting for the arrival of the bridegroom.
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  • Some are ready and some aren't.
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  • They're all servants who have been entrusted with talents from
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  • The master, and yet they come-- the master comes back and said,
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  • "you're wicked and lazy.
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  • Get him away from me.
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  • I want nothing to do with him."
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  • The phrase that's used is "weeping and gnashing of teeth"
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  • Because they were so close in proximity and opportunity to
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  • Things of god, but they didn't choose to engage until the
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  • Opportunity was withdrawn and the opportunity was forfeited.
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  • And then the response of those individuals is tremendous angst,
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  • Weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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  • "it was so close to me.
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  • I had every--it wasn't a lack of knowledge, it wasn't a lack
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  • Of opportunity.
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  • I didn't have the intent, i got caught up."
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  • Starve the lion and feed the puppy.
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  • I think it's really important for a season and it's a
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  • Short season.
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  • I'm not trying to drive attendance, it creates hassles.
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  • Present in public with the people of god.
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  • Let the secularists who are watching know that your faith
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  • Matters to you.
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  • That you'll acknowledge it in the public square.
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  • That you'll live with an allegiance to jesus first
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  • And foremost.
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  • If we will do that, it will do more to secure the future of our
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  • Children and grandchildren than any election.
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  • I brought you a prayer.
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  • I actually put it in your notes this time.
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  • It's a simple prayer.
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  • You could repeat it.
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  • Let's stand together, we can pray together.
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  • You ready?
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  • "heavenly father, forgive me of my sin.
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  • I repent of my indifference, of my disobedience, and my
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  • Rebellion against you.
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  • Forgive me, cleanse me, restore to me the joy of my salvation.
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  • Create in me a clean heart, a desire to honor you, to serve
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  • You and to walk uprightly before you.
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  • Grant me listening ears and an understanding heart, lead me not
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  • Into temptation--but deliver me from evil.
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  • May your will be done in the earth, in jesus's name, amen."
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: you know, i used to believe that antisemitism was a
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  • European problem or an issue in the islamic nations of the
  • 00:26:24.966 --> 00:26:28.670
  • World, but now we see it flourishing in our nation, on
  • 00:26:28.670 --> 00:26:32.273
  • Elite college campuses, even amongst the political class and
  • 00:26:32.273 --> 00:26:36.044
  • Now on the conservative ideological spectrum.
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  • It's troubling.
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  • So i wrote a book, "supporting israel: how far is too far?"
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  • You know, i know we've all got a little battle fatigue with the
  • 00:26:45.153 --> 00:26:47.722
  • Constant conflicts in the middle east and beyond, but what we
  • 00:26:47.722 --> 00:26:51.059
  • Desperately need is a biblical perspective on how to navigate
  • 00:26:51.059 --> 00:26:54.729
  • What's unfolding in our world, and i believe the word of god
  • 00:26:54.729 --> 00:26:58.099
  • Gives that to us with clarity.
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  • So we put this book together to help you find yourself in a
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  • Place that will bring the blessings of god to your life.
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  • I wanna pray that we'll have his wisdom.
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  • Father, you said when we lack wisdom we could ask and that you
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  • Would give it to us without criticism.
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  • We want to stand with you in what you're accomplishing in the
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  • Earth so that your purposes can come forth.
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  • Holy spirit, give us the discernment we need, in jesus's
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  • Name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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