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Allen Jackson - Looting America (Part 1)

May 13, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Looting America (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Looting America (Part 1) | May 13, 2026
  • Allen jackson: one of my heroes in the bible is saul of tarsus.
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  • He becomes the apostle paul.
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  • I know you know his story.
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  • He's written two thirds of our new testament by title.
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  • One of the most remarkable characters we meet in all of the
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  • Scripture, he was a pharisee with a remarkable education,
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  • Brilliant mind, and he hated jesus and jesus followers until
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  • He met jesus one day.
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  • He's on the road to damascus, and jesus interrupts his life,
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  • And he becomes the apostle paul, one of the most powerful voices
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  • For jesus that history has ever known.
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  • We put together a 90-day devotional.
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  • It's "lessons from paul."
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  • I'm still learning from paul, and
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  • I just wanted to share it with you.
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  • There's a little--there's a scripture verse, there's a bit
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  • Of a devotional, there's a place for some journaling.
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  • It's really intended to provide some direction so that you and i
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  • Become overcomers, overcomers of our past, overcomers of the
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  • Opposition in the present.
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  • Doesn't matter what the adversary is.
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  • The power of god that delivered paul, he'll deliver you and me.
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  • I believe you'll enjoy "lessons from paul."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: we're walking through a series under the
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  • General theme of "breakthroughs."
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  • Interventions, god's interventions in our lives.
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  • Those times where god steps into time and makes a difference in
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  • Our experience.
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  • I don't believe that we can fulfill god's intended purpose
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  • For our lives without his breakthroughs.
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  • I don't believe there's any such thing as a faithful christian
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  • Disciple who isn't engaged with the supernatural power of god.
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  • Because we can't fulfill what god created us for with our own
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  • Intellect and our own strength and our own intended efforts.
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  • We need breakthroughs.
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  • We need god's interventions.
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  • And we--the bible's filled with them from cover to cover.
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  • I won't take the time to highlight all of them, but you
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  • Know the characters.
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  • They're your heroes.
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  • When god recruited moses, he was a murderer and a failure on the
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  • Backside of the desert and there's an intervention, but the
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  • Real breakthrough is god said, "i'm gonna deliver my people,
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  • The hebrew people, from egyptian slavery.
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  • They've been there 400 years."
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  • They didn't have the power, the military.
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  • They didn't have the votes.
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  • They didn't have the finances.
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  • They didn't have any advocates.
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  • They had no way out of the place where they were and god showed
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  • Up and said, "i have seen their condition and i'm here to set
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  • Them free.
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  • And moses, i'm sending you."
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  • And you know that moses wasn't overly enthusiastic about the
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  • Assignment, but it was a breakthrough.
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  • It wasn't easy.
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  • It wasn't comfortable.
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  • Some of you prefer the new testament on the road
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  • To damascus.
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  • Paul--saul of tarsus met one jesus of nazareth.
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  • At that time, saul was an angry, violent, murderous man.
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  • He hated people who said jesus was the messiah and he met
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  • That messiah.
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  • It was a breakthrough, but it changed everything about
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  • His life.
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  • You see those divine intervention, those times when
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  • God intervenes in our lives, those breakthrough moments are
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  • Not simply to alleviate pain or to reverse a diagnosis or to
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  • Open a monetary opportunity.
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  • They may do all of those things, but they're really intended to
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  • Open our lives more fully and completely to the purposes
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  • Of god.
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  • To change the trajectory of our existence.
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  • To help us realign values and goals and perspectives.
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  • See, the traditional--and it often flourishes in pulpits.
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  • The traditional idea of a breakthrough is we have a
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  • Problem, we ask god to help, and we want him to solve our
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  • Problems so we can go back to whatever we were doing before we
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  • Asked god to help.
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  • And that, truthfully, is not a great blessing.
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  • It might be a blessing in the moment.
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  • It might be victory over a diagnosis or some form of
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  • Provision, but ultimately you want to cooperate with god
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  • More completely.
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  • And so, when we talk about breakthroughs, we're trying to
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  • Understand the components so that we could cooperate with
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  • Them more fully in our lives because folks, we need
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  • A breakthrough.
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  • We're in a desperate place.
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  • In this session, i want to talk specifically about the looting
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  • That's taking place in america.
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  • But i want to do it in the context of a breakthrough, a
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  • Deliverance, a revelation, insight, understanding,
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  • A redirection.
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  • When god's purposes and plans are initiated, when they're
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  • Completed, when they're revealed, when they're advanced,
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  • When they're welcomed, when they're understood.
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  • Not that idealistic thing where we just get the answer we want
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  • And we can continue to do whatever we want.
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  • Life is very seldom ideal.
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  • It's often more challenging.
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  • And i want to start with a biblical perspective that i
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  • Don't hear it discussed a great deal.
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  • I don't think it's anything unique to us, but this notion of
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  • Looting, plundering could be understood in a biblical context
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  • In a different way as the judgment of god.
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  • It's a consistent, persistent theme of scripture from the
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  • Old testament right into the new testament--
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  • That when god begins to discipline his people, his
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  • Protection is not there and they begin to forfeit things he
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  • Intends them to have.
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  • If you want it in a spiritual language, satan, the devil,
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  • Steals the blessings that god intends for his people.
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  • If you want to evaluate it in a secular term, they're plundered
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  • By more powerful people--
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  • People with superior technology,
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  • People who make better choices.
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  • However you choose to describe it, whether you do it
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  • Spiritually or in a secular way, the outcome is the people of god
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  • Are diminished frequently, incrementally, bit by bit, the
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  • Idea being that they will turn their faces to the lord and say,
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  • "we need help."
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  • I brought you some examples.
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  • Again, this is a common part of scripture.
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  • We see it on the national basis, not the individual, not just the
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  • Individual basis or the tribal basis.
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  • Israel or judah often are presented in scripture as a
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  • Vassal state subjugated to another nation.
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  • It's an expression of god's judgment.
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  • It's not a failure of their military.
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  • It's not an economic downturn that makes them vulnerable.
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  • It's not the location of the land that god promised them.
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  • I assure you god is capable of providing and protecting israel
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  • Even though the land they occupy makes them seem vulnerable.
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  • Modern history is a great example of that.
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  • Most improbably tiny israel flourishes today in the midst of
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  • Hundreds of millions of people who are sworn to
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  • Their annihilation.
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  • God is the only explanation.
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  • Well, it's true in history as well.
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  • So, when the looting begins, it's an expression of
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  • God's judgment.
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  • It is not principally about military might or
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  • Political maneuverings.
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  • There are many accounts of god delivering his people in the
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  • Face of overwhelming odds.
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  • It's the story of scripture.
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  • David and goliath.
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  • I mean, it's almost a limitless number of stories.
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  • Defeat is typically an expression of discipline.
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  • It's very important to get these ideas grounded.
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  • They're gonna support everything we're gonna look at for the next
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  • Few minutes.
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  • This incremental decline, the looting of the purposes of god
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  • For a people is not an expression of a
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  • Superior adversary.
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  • It is an expression of disobedience in the hearts of
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  • God's people that brings his judgment.
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  • I can give you some examples in the book of judges chapter 4.
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  • You have it in your notes.
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  • "after ehud died," he would have been a leader in israel, "the
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  • Israelites once again did evil in the eyes of the lord."
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  • These are the covenant people of god.
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  • They keep sabbath and keep kosher.
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  • They celebrate passover.
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  • They have lots of religious activities and religious rules
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  • And religious behaviors, but it says, "they did evil."
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  • Did you know you can sit in church and do evil?
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  • Look at the person on your right--no, don't do that.
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  • The israelites once again did evil in the eyes of the lord.
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  • "so the lord sold them into the hands of jabin, a king
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  • Of canaan.
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  • He reined in hazor.
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  • The commander of his army was sisera, who lived somewhere.
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  • And because he had nine hundred iron chariots and had cruelly
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  • Oppressed the israelites for twenty years, they cried to the
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  • Lord for help."
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  • For 20 years, they suffered.
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  • Not because someone had superior military technology.
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  • He did.
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  • He had iron chariots.
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  • It gave him an advantage in the flatlands and the plains and
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  • The valleys.
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  • But it wasn't his technical advantage that gave him the
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  • Authority over the people.
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  • It was the fact that they did evil in the eyes of the lord, so
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  • God sold them into the hands of jabin.
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  • God's people were being looted.
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  • Same book, the book of judges chapter 6.
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  • "again the israelites did evil in the eyes of the lord,
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  • And for seven years he gave them into the hands
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  • Of the midianites."
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  • God did that.
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  • See, disobedience is not arbitrary.
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  • We think we got away with it.
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  • There wasn't a lightning bolt.
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  • We think we can be immoral and ungodly and greedy and filled
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  • With all sorts of things that we're not necessarily proud of
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  • And we think there's no consequence, but the bible very
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  • Clearly tells us that god is the judge of all and his judgment
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  • Isn't just for eternity.
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  • It's not just a judgment of destination--heaven or hell.
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  • He judges our actions in our lives, both in time in history,
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  • And then he will judge them out of time.
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  • The israelites did evil in the eyes of the lord.
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  • Again, these are the covenant people of god.
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  • They're going to worship, they're going to temple, they're
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  • Offering sacrifices.
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  • And god gave them into the hands of the midianites, "because the
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  • Power of midian was so oppressive, the israelites
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  • Prepared shelters for themselves in mountain cliffs,
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  • Caves, strongholds.
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  • Whenever the israelites planted their crops, the midianites and
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  • Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country.
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  • They camped on the land.
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  • They ruined the crops.
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  • They didn't spare a living thing for israel, neither sheep nor
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  • Cattle nor donkeys."
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  • What are they doing?
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  • They're looting the country.
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  • Every year at harvest time, these foreign peoples would
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  • Invade and take the plunder.
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  • They would loot the country.
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  • Why did they do that?
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  • Because god gave it into their hands.
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  • 1 kings, there's a monarchy now.
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  • There's a king. there's an army.
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  • You would think there's a new power structure, perhaps they
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  • Will be free of that.
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  • "in the fifth year of king rehoboam boam, the king of egypt
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  • Attacked jerusalem.
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  • He carried off the treasures of the temple of the lord and the
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  • Treasures of the royal palace.
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  • He took everything, including all the gold shields solomon
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  • Had made.
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  • So the king made bronze shields to replace them and assigned
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  • These to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to
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  • The royal palace."
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  • Israel becomes a vassal state of egypt in the egyptian kingdom.
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  • The temple in jerusalem was the national bank.
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  • It's the national treasury.
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  • It's why there was such an ostentatious display of wealth.
  • 00:11:38.423 --> 00:11:41.426
  • It's the center of the country, an the egyptian king sees it
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  • And he takes away--he loots the temple.
  • 00:11:44.963 --> 00:11:48.767
  • It's the most humiliating thing you could do to the people.
  • 00:11:48.767 --> 00:11:52.270
  • They believe what gives them status and standing is the
  • 00:11:52.270 --> 00:11:55.807
  • Presence of god in their midst and the egyptian king, the pagan
  • 00:11:55.807 --> 00:11:59.344
  • King, loots the temple of god and the response of the king of
  • 00:11:59.344 --> 00:12:03.081
  • Judah is to make bronze shields.
  • 00:12:03.081 --> 00:12:08.119
  • Nothing to see here.
  • 00:12:08.119 --> 00:12:13.725
  • It's not just an old testament idea.
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  • When the new testament opens and the gospels begin, israel is
  • 00:12:16.928 --> 00:12:21.099
  • Still a vassal state.
  • 00:12:21.099 --> 00:12:23.501
  • In matthew, mark, luke, and john, during the days of jesus,
  • 00:12:23.501 --> 00:12:25.870
  • It's not a vassal state to egypt or assyria or babylon, they're a
  • 00:12:25.870 --> 00:12:29.541
  • Vassal state to rome.
  • 00:12:29.541 --> 00:12:33.578
  • And once again, it's because of the condition of their heart.
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  • God sent jesus.
  • 00:12:37.615 --> 00:12:38.983
  • Jesus said, "i came to seek and to save those who are lost."
  • 00:12:38.983 --> 00:12:45.190
  • He came on a search and rescue mission.
  • 00:12:45.190 --> 00:12:48.226
  • And do you remember what the response of the people was?
  • 00:12:48.226 --> 00:12:50.295
  • They stood in the streets of jerusalem and said,
  • 00:12:50.295 --> 00:12:52.130
  • "crucify him."
  • 00:12:52.130 --> 00:12:54.966
  • Be careful, because when jesus comes back the second time, the
  • 00:12:54.966 --> 00:12:58.670
  • World will be in such a desperate place, on the brink of
  • 00:12:58.670 --> 00:13:02.574
  • Total destruction.
  • 00:13:02.574 --> 00:13:04.442
  • And he will come back on another search and rescue mission.
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  • When the lord returns, you and i won't look up and go, "oh, it's
  • 00:13:09.914 --> 00:13:12.250
  • Nice to have you back."
  • 00:13:12.250 --> 00:13:15.019
  • The answer will be, "without your arrival, survivability was
  • 00:13:15.019 --> 00:13:18.656
  • Not possible."
  • 00:13:18.656 --> 00:13:21.159
  • The new testament, you've got it.
  • 00:13:21.159 --> 00:13:22.493
  • Romans chapter 1, it says, "god gave them over," his covenant
  • 00:13:22.493 --> 00:13:25.563
  • People, "he gave them over in the sinful desires of their
  • 00:13:25.563 --> 00:13:29.467
  • Hearts to immorality, to the degrading of their bodies.
  • 00:13:29.467 --> 00:13:32.871
  • And they exchanged the truth of god for a lie.
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  • God gave them over."
  • 00:13:36.608 --> 00:13:37.942
  • He repeats it twice.
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  • Acts chapter 7, it's talking about that exodus generation,
  • 00:13:39.310 --> 00:13:43.581
  • But it's the new testament.
  • 00:13:43.581 --> 00:13:44.916
  • They're helping us understand our scripture.
  • 00:13:44.916 --> 00:13:46.684
  • If you look at verse 42, it says, "god turned away and gave
  • 00:13:46.684 --> 00:13:50.088
  • Them over to the worship of the heavenly bodies."
  • 00:13:50.088 --> 00:13:54.325
  • You see, when we see looting begin, what we can understand--
  • 00:13:54.325 --> 00:13:57.595
  • You watch the behavior, the diminishment of resources, the
  • 00:13:57.595 --> 00:14:00.698
  • Diminishment of liberties, the diminishment of opportunities.
  • 00:14:00.698 --> 00:14:05.036
  • We recognize that the protection that's been in place, the
  • 00:14:05.036 --> 00:14:07.472
  • Provision that has been in place has diminished.
  • 00:14:07.472 --> 00:14:09.941
  • It's been withdrawn.
  • 00:14:09.941 --> 00:14:11.309
  • It's not as available.
  • 00:14:11.309 --> 00:14:13.478
  • It isn't a political issue.
  • 00:14:13.478 --> 00:14:14.913
  • It's not an economic circumstance.
  • 00:14:14.913 --> 00:14:16.915
  • It's a spiritual issue.
  • 00:14:16.915 --> 00:14:19.484
  • It's being worked out in those arenas, but it begins with the
  • 00:14:19.484 --> 00:14:23.087
  • Attitude of the people of god.
  • 00:14:23.087 --> 00:14:24.889
  • It's not about the technical superiority of the ungodly.
  • 00:14:24.889 --> 00:14:29.861
  • It's the withdrawal of the hearts of the people of god.
  • 00:14:29.861 --> 00:14:34.198
  • The outcome of looting, if i can use the word, john chapter 10,
  • 00:14:34.198 --> 00:14:37.468
  • These are jesus's words.
  • 00:14:37.468 --> 00:14:38.903
  • He said, "the thief," satan, "comes only to steal, to kill,
  • 00:14:38.903 --> 00:14:43.074
  • And to destroy; i've come that you might have life, and have
  • 00:14:43.074 --> 00:14:46.811
  • It abundantly."
  • 00:14:46.811 --> 00:14:48.179
  • When life is abundant and opportunities are flourishing,
  • 00:14:48.179 --> 00:14:50.782
  • There's a cooperation with the lord.
  • 00:14:50.782 --> 00:14:52.317
  • It's the biblical model.
  • 00:14:52.317 --> 00:14:54.118
  • When the looting begins, we understand that god has
  • 00:14:54.118 --> 00:14:58.289
  • Stepped back.
  • 00:14:58.289 --> 00:14:59.657
  • His people have walked out from under his protection.
  • 00:14:59.657 --> 00:15:03.294
  • "well, pastor, what about god's grace and mercy?"
  • 00:15:03.294 --> 00:15:06.364
  • That's why we use the word looting.
  • 00:15:06.364 --> 00:15:09.167
  • It's incremental.
  • 00:15:09.167 --> 00:15:11.169
  • It's bit by bit.
  • 00:15:11.169 --> 00:15:13.204
  • It starts in small ways that you can overlook.
  • 00:15:13.204 --> 00:15:17.442
  • You could maybe find a way to be distracted and think it's not
  • 00:15:17.442 --> 00:15:20.645
  • That significant.
  • 00:15:20.645 --> 00:15:21.980
  • If you don't pay attention, ultimately it ends in the
  • 00:15:21.980 --> 00:15:24.148
  • Destruction of jerusalem and the destruction of the temple and 70
  • 00:15:24.148 --> 00:15:27.418
  • Years living in a foreign land as slaves.
  • 00:15:27.418 --> 00:15:32.857
  • The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and destroy.
  • 00:15:32.857 --> 00:15:35.526
  • I've taken a minute with that because i want to take the next
  • 00:15:35.526 --> 00:15:39.197
  • Segment and talk a bit about what we're watching around us.
  • 00:15:39.197 --> 00:15:43.801
  • I believe we are witnessing the looting of america.
  • 00:15:43.801 --> 00:15:47.939
  • And i don't imagine it's really a political problem.
  • 00:15:47.939 --> 00:15:50.308
  • I don't believe it's about international events.
  • 00:15:50.308 --> 00:15:52.577
  • I don't believe it's about technical superiority.
  • 00:15:52.577 --> 00:15:56.047
  • I don't even think it can be fully understood in economic
  • 00:15:56.047 --> 00:15:58.549
  • Terms or military terms.
  • 00:15:58.549 --> 00:16:01.119
  • I think if the people of faith would honor the lord and seek
  • 00:16:01.119 --> 00:16:03.755
  • The lord and pursue the lord, the generations who follow us
  • 00:16:03.755 --> 00:16:07.091
  • Could understand freedom and liberty as we have known it.
  • 00:16:07.091 --> 00:16:10.628
  • I think if we continue in the direction that we're going,
  • 00:16:10.628 --> 00:16:14.165
  • Those things will be completely forfeited.
  • 00:16:14.165 --> 00:16:17.268
  • It's happening incrementally.
  • 00:16:17.268 --> 00:16:18.903
  • Are you watching?
  • 00:16:18.903 --> 00:16:22.407
  • We have a whole new vocabulary for looting.
  • 00:16:22.407 --> 00:16:25.109
  • It's almost become recreational.
  • 00:16:25.109 --> 00:16:26.511
  • It's smash and grab.
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  • It's like an outing for the weekend.
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  • Allen: now, i don't want to suggest that the looting of a
  • 00:17:37.381 --> 00:17:39.283
  • Cvs or a grocery store is the essence of what i'm
  • 00:17:39.283 --> 00:17:42.954
  • Talking about.
  • 00:17:42.954 --> 00:17:45.389
  • That's not really our problem.
  • 00:17:45.389 --> 00:17:46.724
  • I mean, it's happening with greater frequencies.
  • 00:17:46.724 --> 00:17:48.359
  • Retailers are closing places because of our inability to
  • 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:52.597
  • Protect them because we have the idea somehow we're entitled.
  • 00:17:52.597 --> 00:17:56.367
  • And there's not the will or the desire or the intentionality to
  • 00:17:56.367 --> 00:17:59.604
  • Defend those retail outlets.
  • 00:17:59.604 --> 00:18:01.572
  • But what i want to suggest to you is that looting on a rather
  • 00:18:01.572 --> 00:18:04.308
  • Small scale is emblematic of what is happening on a very
  • 00:18:04.308 --> 00:18:08.179
  • Grand scale.
  • 00:18:08.179 --> 00:18:10.548
  • Please don't misunderstand me.
  • 00:18:10.548 --> 00:18:11.916
  • I'm not talking about politics and political parties.
  • 00:18:11.916 --> 00:18:13.918
  • This has been happening for decades.
  • 00:18:13.918 --> 00:18:17.488
  • This is a uniparty issue.
  • 00:18:17.488 --> 00:18:19.824
  • This is a heart issue.
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  • We may see changes come in the political arena, but the
  • 00:18:21.959 --> 00:18:25.029
  • Motivation for the change will come from the hearts of
  • 00:18:25.029 --> 00:18:27.265
  • The people.
  • 00:18:27.265 --> 00:18:29.500
  • I want to give you some examples of how i imagine america is
  • 00:18:29.500 --> 00:18:32.136
  • Being looted today.
  • 00:18:32.136 --> 00:18:33.471
  • One is they're looting our heritage.
  • 00:18:33.471 --> 00:18:35.840
  • America is the greatest experiment in self-government
  • 00:18:35.840 --> 00:18:38.142
  • Our world has ever seen.
  • 00:18:38.142 --> 00:18:40.511
  • That's the truth.
  • 00:18:40.511 --> 00:18:42.413
  • We are bound together--not by ethnicity, race, or some
  • 00:18:42.413 --> 00:18:45.349
  • Tribal loyalty.
  • 00:18:45.349 --> 00:18:46.851
  • We've been united by a worldview, a faith in the god of
  • 00:18:46.851 --> 00:18:50.721
  • Abraham, isaac, and jacob.
  • 00:18:50.721 --> 00:18:52.557
  • That's been our story since the founding of this nation.
  • 00:18:52.557 --> 00:18:57.361
  • We have never been a uniquely christian nation.
  • 00:18:57.361 --> 00:18:59.664
  • We have always been a very diverse nation,
  • 00:18:59.664 --> 00:19:02.934
  • Which means everyone doesn't believe the same thing in the
  • 00:19:02.934 --> 00:19:05.836
  • Same way or worship in the same way, but we have agreed upon a
  • 00:19:05.836 --> 00:19:10.775
  • Set of values, a worldview which, oh, by the way,
  • 00:19:10.775 --> 00:19:15.246
  • Were derived from the scripture.
  • 00:19:15.246 --> 00:19:18.549
  • Principles like the sanctity of human life.
  • 00:19:18.549 --> 00:19:22.386
  • The very young and the very old, that every life had a dignity.
  • 00:19:22.386 --> 00:19:26.190
  • The biblical language for it is we're the image bearers of god.
  • 00:19:26.190 --> 00:19:31.829
  • We have believed in the importance of family.
  • 00:19:31.829 --> 00:19:35.066
  • We have understood marriage as the foundational contract of
  • 00:19:35.066 --> 00:19:38.002
  • Our civilization.
  • 00:19:38.002 --> 00:19:40.071
  • We've believed in equality before the law, that justice
  • 00:19:40.071 --> 00:19:43.841
  • Should be blind.
  • 00:19:43.841 --> 00:19:45.876
  • We have believed collectively that it was not okay to steal,
  • 00:19:45.876 --> 00:19:49.981
  • That you shouldn't lie.
  • 00:19:49.981 --> 00:19:51.882
  • There was a set of values that bound us together.
  • 00:19:51.882 --> 00:19:54.685
  • We looked different, we had different accents, but we had
  • 00:19:54.685 --> 00:19:58.322
  • A heritage.
  • 00:19:58.322 --> 00:20:00.424
  • That heritage has been looted for years.
  • 00:20:00.424 --> 00:20:04.962
  • It's been mocked, it's been ridiculed, it's been denigrated.
  • 00:20:04.962 --> 00:20:10.434
  • Our children have been taught this very systematically.
  • 00:20:10.434 --> 00:20:16.007
  • Phrases like "christian nationalism" have become
  • 00:20:16.007 --> 00:20:18.509
  • Derogatory terms.
  • 00:20:18.509 --> 00:20:21.212
  • Language has been crafted, manipulated to suggest that if
  • 00:20:21.212 --> 00:20:24.081
  • You love this country and you combine it with an awareness of
  • 00:20:24.081 --> 00:20:27.551
  • The sovereign and intervention of god, that it's inappropriate.
  • 00:20:27.551 --> 00:20:33.924
  • In fact, it's told--we're told now, publicly, that
  • 00:20:33.924 --> 00:20:37.561
  • It's dangerous.
  • 00:20:37.561 --> 00:20:41.232
  • There's a bit of an aside.
  • 00:20:41.232 --> 00:20:43.434
  • Christian zionist is another term that is frequently used.
  • 00:20:43.434 --> 00:20:47.471
  • People suggest that if you believe god has given the land
  • 00:20:47.471 --> 00:20:50.508
  • Of israel to the jewish people, you're a christian zionist and
  • 00:20:50.508 --> 00:20:53.878
  • You're dangerous.
  • 00:20:53.878 --> 00:20:56.180
  • "the jerusalem post" recently printed a list of the top--the
  • 00:20:56.180 --> 00:21:02.219
  • Most recognized 10 christian zionists in the world.
  • 00:21:02.219 --> 00:21:06.891
  • They included us.
  • 00:21:06.891 --> 00:21:09.660
  • I considered it an honor.
  • 00:21:09.660 --> 00:21:16.334
  • Another way we're being looted is globalism.
  • 00:21:16.334 --> 00:21:21.572
  • I'm not an isolationist.
  • 00:21:21.572 --> 00:21:22.940
  • I understand we live amongst the constellation of nations, but
  • 00:21:22.940 --> 00:21:26.777
  • There has been a relentless march towards a global economy,
  • 00:21:26.777 --> 00:21:29.980
  • A global currency.
  • 00:21:29.980 --> 00:21:32.383
  • Both of which require, demand, necessitate the diminishment
  • 00:21:32.383 --> 00:21:37.054
  • Of america.
  • 00:21:37.054 --> 00:21:39.223
  • Globalism, to an alarming degree, has hollowed out our
  • 00:21:39.223 --> 00:21:43.327
  • Sense of purpose.
  • 00:21:43.327 --> 00:21:45.363
  • It is diminished amongst us things like the dignity of work.
  • 00:21:45.363 --> 00:21:49.533
  • National exceptionalism has been replaced with selfish ambition.
  • 00:21:49.533 --> 00:21:56.340
  • It has greatly diminished our manufacturing abilities.
  • 00:21:56.340 --> 00:21:59.243
  • We just don't make anything anymore.
  • 00:21:59.243 --> 00:22:01.579
  • I mean, there are some exceptions, but as a general
  • 00:22:01.579 --> 00:22:03.981
  • Rule, compared to our historic productivity, it is a shadow of
  • 00:22:03.981 --> 00:22:08.185
  • Our former selves.
  • 00:22:08.185 --> 00:22:09.520
  • The movement of manufacturing away from america, it really
  • 00:22:09.520 --> 00:22:12.757
  • Gained tremendous momentum in the '70s, the 1970s.
  • 00:22:12.757 --> 00:22:17.928
  • Manufacturing began moving off--overseas, offshore.
  • 00:22:17.928 --> 00:22:22.700
  • As a result, last year, the united states had a deficit of
  • 00:22:22.700 --> 00:22:26.537
  • Goods and services in excess of $500 billion.
  • 00:22:26.537 --> 00:22:33.511
  • I wanna give you a little list-- products you'll know.
  • 00:22:33.511 --> 00:22:37.348
  • Converse shoes, gerber baby food, schwinn bicycles,
  • 00:22:37.348 --> 00:22:40.918
  • Craftsman tools, under armour-- the sports apparel and
  • 00:22:40.918 --> 00:22:45.756
  • Equipment company--york peppermint patties.
  • 00:22:45.756 --> 00:22:52.563
  • How many of those products do you imagine were manufactured in
  • 00:22:52.563 --> 00:22:55.466
  • The united states?
  • 00:22:55.466 --> 00:22:57.501
  • Oh, you got a bias, i know.
  • 00:22:57.501 --> 00:22:59.637
  • None of them.
  • 00:22:59.637 --> 00:23:01.272
  • None of them.
  • 00:23:01.338 --> 00:23:02.673
  • All of them, with the exception of gerber, tells us where it was
  • 00:23:02.673 --> 00:23:05.676
  • The products were made.
  • 00:23:05.676 --> 00:23:07.044
  • Indonesia, taiwan, central and south america, mexico.
  • 00:23:07.044 --> 00:23:12.817
  • Gerber doesn't even do that.
  • 00:23:12.817 --> 00:23:14.385
  • They simply acknowledge that they have company manufacturing
  • 00:23:14.385 --> 00:23:18.389
  • Factories in 418 places, in 86 different countries.
  • 00:23:18.389 --> 00:23:25.696
  • The outcome of that is the things like pride in our work,
  • 00:23:25.696 --> 00:23:29.700
  • Effort, sacrifice, a job well done have evaporated amongst us.
  • 00:23:29.700 --> 00:23:36.073
  • Globalism has contributed to a great diminishment
  • 00:23:36.073 --> 00:23:39.243
  • Of nationalism.
  • 00:23:39.243 --> 00:23:40.845
  • And this isn't just something that's heartfelt, it's being
  • 00:23:40.845 --> 00:23:42.813
  • Taught in our finest schools.
  • 00:23:42.813 --> 00:23:46.517
  • Our children are being indoctrinated.
  • 00:23:46.517 --> 00:23:50.688
  • The pride of country or accomplishment, we're told,
  • 00:23:50.688 --> 00:23:54.091
  • Are inappropriate.
  • 00:23:54.091 --> 00:23:56.126
  • And associated with that is the demonization of our history--
  • 00:23:56.126 --> 00:23:59.463
  • Things like colonialism.
  • 00:23:59.463 --> 00:24:00.831
  • It wasn't unique to this nation.
  • 00:24:00.831 --> 00:24:03.734
  • It's a part of the story of civilization's advancement and
  • 00:24:03.734 --> 00:24:07.238
  • It's been demonized.
  • 00:24:07.238 --> 00:24:08.672
  • And along with colonialism being demonized, missional activity by
  • 00:24:08.672 --> 00:24:13.077
  • People of faith has been demonized.
  • 00:24:13.077 --> 00:24:14.979
  • It's wrong the children are taught.
  • 00:24:14.979 --> 00:24:18.482
  • Academia often teaches that christian missions are a
  • 00:24:18.482 --> 00:24:21.852
  • Reflection of an antiquated view of people and culture.
  • 00:24:21.852 --> 00:24:25.322
  • That we should no longer presume to have a message of salvation
  • 00:24:25.322 --> 00:24:28.759
  • Which needs to be shared.
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  • And they'll frequently cite examples, the worst-case
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  • Examples of people in the name of faith bringing cultural
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  • Changes that have very little to do with faith.
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  • Our educational system is being looted.
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  • Discipline has been removed to a great extent from our schools.
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  • Parents won't tolerate it.
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  • Hatred for our history has been--has replaced the love of
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  • Our country.
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  • It is being taught in our schools and our universities.
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  • There isn't anything to be celebrated.
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  • Judeo christian values have been diminished.
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  • Marxist, secularist values have been championed.
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  • Folks, this is not theoretical.
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  • Education has been perverted to focus on experience, not
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  • Disciplined preparation for a better future.
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  • Teachers unions now openly, blatantly, boldly assert
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  • Authority over children's lives that they believe should
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  • Supersede parental authority.
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  • Parents have been largely distracted while the looting has
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  • Been taking place.
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  • Our political process has been looted.
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  • Fair elections--those seem very difficult to secure these days.
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  • We just concede the fact that there are highly orchestrated
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  • Schemes to manipulate.
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  • We accept that as the norm.
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  • Why would we accept that?
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  • Allen: jesus was frequently in trouble because he wouldn't keep
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  • Ungodly rules.
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  • I don't intend to yield to ungodliness.
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  • I want the lord to be pleased with us.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, we want your approval more than we want the approval
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  • Of any person or any organization.
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  • May you be pleased with us in jesus's name, amen.
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  • Allen: you know, i don't believe the primary objective in reading
  • 00:26:23.007 --> 00:26:26.043
  • Our bible or even the pursuit of our faith is informational.
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  • I like to learn, but i believe the ultimate objective
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  • Is transformation.
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  • We've got a tool, i think it'll help, it's called "lessons
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  • From paul."
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  • The apostle paul is one of my heroes.
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  • In the face of unyielding persecution and opposition, some
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  • Tremendous physical suffering, just awful things, multiple
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  • Assassination attempts, he remains unflinching in his
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  • Advocacy for jesus of nazareth.
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  • He knows the power of god.
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  • It says god did extraordinary miracles through paul.
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  • Well, i wanna learn those lessons.
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  • I wanna be transformed by them, so i can stand in this season
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  • For the purposes of god in my life.
  • 00:27:01.478 --> 00:27:03.047
  • So, we put together this devotional, it's 90 days, some
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  • Portions from paul that are favorites of mine, some
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  • Journaling space, some prayers.
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  • It'll help us be changed.
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  • I wanna pray for you that these 90 days will be transformational
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  • In your life.
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  • Father, help us not just be hearers but to be doers of
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  • Your word.
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  • May the spirit of god bring transformation to each of us.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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