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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Looting Interrupted (Part 2) | December 30, 2024
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- Allen jackson: and so, i'm concerned about our generation
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- And what we're doing.
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- I made a list of some things happening.
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- Looting has become so prevalent, i think we're almost immune
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- To it.
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- I think we've accepted as a normal way of living.
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- It's become it's--and i'm--it isn't--i'm not talking about
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- Some recent administration.
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- This has been happening for some decades now.
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- Both political parties involved.
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- I've arrived at a place where--up until recently, i've
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- Just thought of it as a uniparty.
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- It's kinda like a globetrotters game.
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- And everybody rides the same bus to the game, they put on
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- Different uniforms, and they split the gate after the game.
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- I wanna be clear, i'm not suggesting to you that the
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- Ransacking of a grocery store or a drugstore is the heart of
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- This problem.
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- I think it's far more profound than that.
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- I think it's happening on a national basis in a far more
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- Widespread way, but i think it's being expressed in micro ways,
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- In that, things that we used to would have considered to be
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- Reprehensible, we now kinda shrug our shoulders at and go,
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- "yeah, it's unfortunate."
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- We've got a whole new vocabulary for it.
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- Smash and grabs now become a description for an evening out.
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- Somebody asked me, one of our volunteers asked me recently if
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- We cared if people took things from the next chapter.
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- And i said, "yes, we do."
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- You should stop them.
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- It's not okay.
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- Something has happened to our hearts and our attitudes.
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- I just sat down and made a list of some things that i think have
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- Contributed to this.
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- And some of these are contributive and some of them
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- Are expressions of the looting that's taking place.
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- Globalism, this move towards a global economy and currency.
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- The diminishment of nationalism where we shouldn't be proud of
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- Our country, we should be embarrassed of it.
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- Causes us not to value the things that are valuable to us
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- As a people.
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- That diminishment of nationalism is associated with the
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- Demonization of colonialism.
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- And into that discussion they roll in missional activities.
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- I'm talking about discussions at the most celebrated academic
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- Institutions in the country.
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- Academia often teaches that christian missions are a
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- Reflection of an antiquated view of people and culture.
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- That we shouldn't presume to have a message of salvation
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- Which needs to be shared.
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- And in order to discourage people from embracing that and
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- Please understand they've been telling your young people in our
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- Universities for decades now, that the idea of missions is
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- Inappropriate, it's wicked, it's evil, condescending.
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- And they'll cite the worst examples they can find of
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- Cultural, missional activity.
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- We try to convert people's clothing and not change
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- Their hearts.
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- They tell us christian nationalism is wicked.
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- It's become a derogatory term.
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- Language has been manipulated to suggest that a love of country
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- Combined with an awareness of the sovereign intervention of
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- God in history is not only inappropriate, it's dangerous.
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- We should be investigated, monitored, watched.
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- Christian zionism gets dumped in that same bucket that's the
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- Christians who believe god has given the land of israel to the
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- Jewish people.
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- We were recently included in the jerusalem post as one of the
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- Leading expressions of christian zionism in the world.
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- I took it as a complement.
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- But i can give you some expressions of the looting
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- Of america.
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- And one of them is the intentional marginalization of
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- A biblical worldviews.
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- Folks, that's our heritage.
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- That's our heritage.
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- Imagine denying the heritage of the indigenous people of this
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- Nation, the native american people, tell 'em that the way
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- They worshiped should not be remembered.
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- We should be eliminated.
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- We should find the worst examples of how it
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- Affected behaviors.
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- You wouldn't think of it, but they've taken our
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- Christian heritage.
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- So, now we see apostasy within the church.
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- And we see assaults upon our faith from without.
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- You understand, i hope that marxism requires the
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- Diminishment of faith.
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- Marxism is not a mystery, it's been practiced now for, well,
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- Over a century and wherever they come into authority, wherever
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- They gain power, one of the first things they do is close
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- The churches, eliminate the leadership and the voices.
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- The movement of manufacturing away from our nation is
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- A plundering of our nation.
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- I mean it's been going on.
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- It started in a very significant way, in an intentional way in
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- The 1970s.
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- Moving manufacturing overseas, offshoring.
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- There's a lot of statistics and a lot of numbers.
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- I'll give you some high view stuff.
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- As a result, the us currently has a deficit of goods and
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- Services of over $500 billion a year.
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- We don't make things anymore.
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- We don't even wanna go to work anymore.
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- We don't even wanna go to the office anymore.
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- We wanna work in our pajamas.
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- It's become a national infection.
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- But we didn't get to this point in a day or a week.
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- It's not the result of a current administration, folks.
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- This has been coming on us sequentially for quite a season.
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- The devaluing of work and effort.
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- Let me give you a list, converse shoes, gerber baby food, schwin
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- Bicycles, craftsman tools, under armour, sports clothing, and
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- Shoes and gear, york peppermint patties.
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- How many of those you think are still manufactured in the us?
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- None of them. none of them.
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- Gerber baby for the rest of 'em i can tell you where they're
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- Manufactured, but gerber doesn't disclose its
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- Manufacturing sites.
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- Nestlé, the owner of gerber just states that they have 418
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- Factories in 86 countries.
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- But they don't make any of it here.
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- I'll give you another component of the looting of america, the
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- Refusal to use american energy sources.
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- We spend billions of dollars annually spending it with other
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- Nations depriving us companies and citizens of the revenue and
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- The jobs.
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- We are looting our country.
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- Terrorism.
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- The targeting of civilians, and acts of violence and war, and we
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- Won't say it.
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- We relabel.
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- We don't wanna create angst towards anyone.
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- And if you dare to say some people group sponsor terrorism,
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- You're xenophobic or some other phobic.
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- We watched it in spades on 9/11.
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- Airplanes were weaponized.
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- Terrorism on our planet is not exclusively an islamic issue,
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- But it has been a predominantly islamic issue.
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- Trillions of dollars spent to try to make us safe.
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- The loss of thousands of lives.
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- They are looting our nation.
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- Targeting civilians, men and women and children.
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- And we are reluctant to say it.
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- We are so addled, so confused.
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- They tell us we deserve it.
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- And we pay for our children to sit in the classrooms where that
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- Is taught.
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- Illegal immigration.
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- American taxpayers spend more than 150 billion, and these are
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- Conservative numbers, on immigrants illegally in the
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- United states in 2023 alone.
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- $150 billion.
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- Illegal is the key word.
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- If we wanna change the immigration system, if we wanna
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- Change the--it's okay, we can do that.
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- You and i would go to prison for making illegal withdrawals from
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- The bank.
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- We call it stealing.
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- When people come to our country uninvited, intentionally avoid
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- The immigration process, and consume our services of
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- Education, of health care, our social services, they are
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- Overwhelming us.
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- It is looting our country.
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- And we're so addled as a nation we have trouble saying it.
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- We have sanctuary cities.
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- Major american cities, some of the most celebrated american
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- Cities that refuse to obey federal laws, but demand
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- Federal funding.
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- Looting this nation, taking money from people who pay their
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- Taxes, and refusing to enforce the laws that we have agreed
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- To yield to.
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- I've been considering declaring myself a sanctuary person.
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- Do you suppose i could avoid the irs that way?
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- Probably not.
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- We've used our military as a social experiment.
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- Looting our nation.
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- Diminishing the ability of our fine men and women who
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- Voluntarily raise their hands to do the two things they're
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- Supposed to do in the military, defend our country and defeat
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- Our enemies.
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- And we've watched them be turned into a dei experiment.
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- We've watched them turn them into an lgbtqi2 and whatever
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- Number they had this week.
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- And they've rendered them ineffective.
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- They've mocked them.
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- They've hunted down people in the military who had a strong
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- Biblical worldview and have expelled them.
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- They are looting our country.
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- And what do the christians say?
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- "oh, we don't wanna talk about that.
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- Could we do a bible study on the pharisees."
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- Folks, i believe in studying the bible, but the point of that is
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- To be salt and light.
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- The list goes on.
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- We've defunded the police.
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- You know, the ultimate outcome of all of this, if the looting
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- Continues unchecked, i'll tell you where it's going.
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- There'll be a complete absence of any leadership from churches.
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- Will simply be asked to be cultural voices.
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- Not to be advocates for a biblical worldview.
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- We'll just be asked to repeat whatever the mantra is of
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- Whoever happens to have authority over us.
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- That'll be the only way to maintain our status, you'll have
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- To deny your faith.
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- You better use your freedom while you have freedom to be an
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- Advocate for a biblical worldview.
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- There's another outcome.
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- It doesn't take any imagination.
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- This is not prophetic, folks.
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- We'll be bankrupt.
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- We are currently--they say $36 trillion in debt, but that's
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- Really a tiny expression of the total debt that we have.
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- If the numbers are so far beyond imagination, it--i--the interest
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- Payment on our debt for this year is projected to be
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- $892 billion.
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- If you don't know, that's more than we we spend on our entire
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- Defense budget.
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- And it's almost a third higher than the interest payment on our
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- Debt in 2023.
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- It is not sustainable, they are looting our country.
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- Lawlessness will grow rapidly.
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- What you saw in the little video is an hors d'oeuvre.
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- Widespread violence is growing.
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- Our children are being preyed upon and they're not being
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- Educated well.
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- They're seen as profit centers in the healthcare community
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- While they're mutilated.
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- Biological sex is not confusing, they are looting our homes.
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- The health care system as we have known it, will collapse.
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- We will watch an unbridled pursuit of pleasure.
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- Hedonism.
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- I could go on.
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- I think you get a sense.
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- Allen: 2024 has almost slipped past us.
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- Thank you for your partnership this year.
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- It's been the most remarkable season we've ever
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- Known together.
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- And i thank you for your faithful investment of time,
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- Energy, and prayers in our ministry.
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- Change is taking place in the earth.
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- We're seeing in our own nation, god responded to us with
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- Tremendous mercy and grace.
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- We have leaders that are headed to washington, d.c.
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- To enact changes to restore a set of values that have brought
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- Strength to our nation.
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- It's a time of great optimism, and hope, and anticipation, and
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- I believe that's true in the church as well.
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- Folks, we can't stand on the sidelines and expect somebody
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- Else to be the change.
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- We need the presence of god to emerge in our schools, on our
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- College campuses, back in our churches.
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- And so, i think it's a critical time that we bring the message
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- Of the truth of jesus christ.
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- It's a hopeful message.
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- It's a message of wholeness, and healing, and deliverance, and
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- Freedom that we desperately need in our cities, in our
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- Communities, wherever god's people gather.
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- Join us.
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- Let's be a part of what god is doing in the earth, and we will
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- Celebrate his faithfulness to the people of our generation.
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- Thank you for being a part.
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- Female announcer: god has uniquely blessed us.
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- The best is yet to come.
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- God has heard our prayers.
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- God has delivered us from oppression.
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- We live in a season of shaking, but together we stand.
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- United in heart and purpose to accomplish the will of god in
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- Our generation.
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- We will not stop.
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- Allen: i wanna ask you to make a sacrificial investment in
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- Our ministry.
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- We have a generous partner who'll match every gift between
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- Now and the end of the year.
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- We're making plans for the year ahead with a boldness and
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- A courage, unlike anything we've done in the past.
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- We wanna make as clear a statement for the gospel of
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- Jesus christ.
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- We wanna strengthen the church.
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- We want to tell the truth in a way that people can rally
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- Around it.
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- God is moving in the earth, and we intend to participate
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- With him.
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- I hope you'll join us as we look forward to the new year.
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- Thank you in advance for your generous investments in what god
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- Is doing.
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- God bless you.
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- Female announcer: as we step into this new season, let's be
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- Faithful to seek god.
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- Let's make room for him to refine our hearts so we can join
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- Him in what he's doing.
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- Pastor allen's new, 90-day devotional journal called, "set
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- Apart for his purposes," can help.
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- A journaling prompt.
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- Allen: i've got just a few moments.
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- I wanna give you a response.
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- I wanna go back to the biblical notion for a minute.
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- What happened when the babylonians burned the temple?
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- Didn't happen because nebuchadnezzar got up one
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- Morning on the wrong side of the bed.
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- It didn't happen in a day or a week.
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- It was the result of years of the people of god saying, "we
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- Don't intend to listen.
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- We want to do what we wanna do."
- 00:17:02.637 --> 00:17:06.874
- Some of us don't wanna pay attention 'cause we've done
- 00:17:06.874 --> 00:17:09.477
- Pretty well while the looting is taking place.
- 00:17:09.477 --> 00:17:11.646
- We've gotten some of the loot.
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- So, we'll just keep looking straight ahead, acting like we
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- Don't notice.
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- It's going to take courageous change from the people of faith.
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- The most hopeful thing i have seen in a season was the
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- Response of the election, not because of the people that were
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- Sent, but the millions of people across this nation in flyover
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- Country that raised their hands inexplicably.
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- They haven't done it in a long, long, long time.
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- It was a historic response.
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- They said, "we think we're going the wrong direction."
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- So, here's my suggestion.
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- You've got some notes for this.
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- I believe we are at a pivot point.
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- We can choose the lord with a new heart and experience
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- Freedom, or we can continue to imagine we're capable of solving
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- Our own problems and we'll face greater expressions of judgment.
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- The babylonians are not our problem.
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- A political party, a political adversary is not your problem.
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- China is not our problem.
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- They are a problem, but they're an expression.
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- Isaiah chapter 1, god said, "come now, let us
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- Reason together.
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- Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white
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- As snow; and though they're red as crimson, they shall be
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- Like wool.
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- If you're willing and obedient, you'll eat the best from the
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- Land; but if you resist and rebel, you'll be devoured by
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- The sword."
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- That didn't happen the next day.
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- It didn't happen the next week.
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- It didn't happen the next month.
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- So, people that heard it thought, "that's not
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- Serious business."
- 00:18:48.276 --> 00:18:51.312
- But the kids that were born in babylon, when they read it, they
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- Thought, "i wish they would have listened."
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- I'm tired of all the banter about how much you care for the
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- Children and you persist in your ungodliness.
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- You don't give a hoot about the kids or you'd begin to honor
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- The lord.
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- We are ravaging the generations coming with our ungodliness.
- 00:19:11.065 --> 00:19:18.072
- "well, they'll change.
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- They'll find a way, god is faithful."
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- But they'll look at us.
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- In james chapter 4, we're given a prescription says, "you
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- Adulterous people."
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- James is writing to people of faith, he's not writing
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- To pagans.
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- "you adulterous people, don't you know?"
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- And when the bible says, "don't you know," what's the answer?
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- Probably not.
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- "don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred
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- Towards god?
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- Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an
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- Enemy of god."
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- In the new testament, the word world talks about this present
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- World order, the systems in place, the means of engaging,
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- The activities.
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- He said, "to be a friend with this present world order means
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- You're an enemy of god."
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- Or do you think the scriptures say without reason that, "the
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- Spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?"
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- But he gives us more grace.
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- That is why the scripture says, "god opposes the proud, but he
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- Gives grace to the humble."
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- And then we're given a response.
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- "submit yourselves, then to god, resist the devil, and he will
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- Flee from you."
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- The first step is what?
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- Submit to god.
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- Bend your knee.
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- Decide that jesus is lord, that he's not just a sinner's prayer.
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- I believe in conversion, but the point of conversion is so that
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- Jesus can be lord.
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- Begin for yourself.
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- Don't say, "i've said that prayer and i've been baptized."
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- Is jesus really lord?
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- Are you submitted to god in your life or do you
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- Tolerate ungodliness?
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- It's a very important question for every one of us to answer.
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- The next statement is, "resist the devil."
- 00:21:10.951 --> 00:21:13.421
- Now, we can get some momentum around that, but folks, your
- 00:21:13.421 --> 00:21:16.824
- Powers, it's foolish, it's useless to try to resist the
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- Devil if you're not submitted to god.
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- "come near to god and he'll come near to you."
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- So, that's the next invitation, we wanna come nearer to god.
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- Well, how would we do that?
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- We already wanna park closer to the building.
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- Does that count?
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- "come near to god."
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- He gives us three very practical ways.
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- James is so practical.
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- He said, "wash your hands."
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- Don't leave dirt on your hands.
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- Don't leave unforgiveness on your hands.
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- Don't leave resentment on your hands.
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- Don't leave bitterness or hatred or anger.
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- Wash your hands.
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- How do you wash your hands?
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- With repentance.
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- The change of thought and a change of behavior.
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- "purify your hearts from double-mindedness."
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- James says to us, "if you're double-minded, if you're
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- Inconsistent," he said, you're unstable in every way, "you
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- Shouldn't imagine you should--you'll receive anything
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- From god."
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- "change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom."
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- It's a serious time when you recognize that the judgment of
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- God is unfolding.
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- When the layers of the exile have begun, it's a serious time.
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- Doesn't mean you can't laugh, it doesn't mean you can't recreate,
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- But you better not be chasing that as your life goal.
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- It's a time to reevaluate priorities.
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- And then the last thing he gives us is in verse 10, he said,
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- "humble yourselves."
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- You know, there's no place in the bible that god says he will
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- Humble you.
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- There are many, many places he invites us to humble ourselves.
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- If god has to bring--intervene, it's humiliation.
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- You can humble yourself, or you can be humiliated before the
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- Power of god.
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- But the invitation they were given throughout scripture is to
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- Humble ourselves.
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- Doesn't mean we have no value, that we have no worth, it means
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- We understand ourselves in god's economy that there's a god and
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- It's not us.
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- It's not saying i don't have any abilities.
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- You do, god's given you abilities.
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- He's given you influence, he's given you talents and gifts.
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- Use 'em for him.
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- Humble yourselves before the lord.
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- And then look at the outcome.
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- He will lift you up.
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- Doesn't matter who the enemy is.
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- It doesn't matter how dark the circumstance.
- 00:23:48.442 --> 00:23:51.645
- You see, we don't have to have a majority, folks, there is an
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- Authority in the truth of god.
- 00:23:54.014 --> 00:23:56.750
- God is moving in the earth.
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- I've never been--i don't believe i've ever been more excited.
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- I don't think i've ever had a greater sense of anticipation.
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- I don't think i've ever recognized a greater season
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- Of opportunity.
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- I'm reordering my schedule.
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- I'm re--and i'm not dialing it back.
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- I'm saying to the lord, "whatever, however, you show me,
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- I'll go.
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- Let's do this.
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- Let's make an impact."
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- You can do that too.
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- We can do this.
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- We're salt and light.
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- God will help us.
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- He will stop the looting.
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- You ready for a breakthrough?
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- Let's stand, we'll pray.
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- You better join hands with somebody.
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- This is a team sport.
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- Lord, i thank you for your word.
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- I thank you for the insight you bring.
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- For the clarity that you give us.
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- Lord, i thank you for your great mercy.
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- That you don't respond to us as we deserve that you respond to
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- Us with kindness and compassion.
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- That you're patient and long-suffering.
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- I thank you that you have begun to awaken us, to give us eyes to
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- See and ears to hear.
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- I thank you for every person that has stood and said, "we
- 00:25:36.150 --> 00:25:39.887
- Won't redefine marriage, we won't sacrifice our children
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- To convenience.
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- We won't teach our children immoral things."
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- I thank you for every person and i pray now that you'll give us
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- The wisdom to continue to say, "yes," to you.
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- To yield to you as we've never yielded to you before.
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- They will have the courage to resist the devil, to say, "no,"
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- To ungodliness.
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- That we will stop overlooking it and we will begin overcoming it.
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- I thank you for it.
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- Holy spirit, show us each place where we need to
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- Cleanse ourselves.
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- Whether it's forgiveness, or a change of behavior, or a change
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- Of attention, lord, whatever it is, we present ourselves to you.
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- We choose to humble ourselves.
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- To acknowledge you as our lord and our redeemer, our savior.
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- I thank you that we stand in your strength.
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- Lord, i pray that you will begin to lift us up.
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- Lift us up above the attacks of the enemy.
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- Lift us up above the hatred of your adversaries.
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- Just lift us up above the demonic torment.
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- That we might see with clarity what you've called us to in
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- This generation.
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- So that our children and grandchildren might know freedom
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- And liberty.
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- And have the opportunities that we have known.
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- We thank you for it in jesus's name, amen.
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- Hallelujah, god bless you.
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