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Allen Jackson - Looting Interrupted (Part 2)

May 12, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Looting Interrupted (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Looting Interrupted (Part 2) | May 12, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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  • The day our king returns.
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  • Allen: 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
  • 00:12:51.987 --> 00:12:55.858
  • 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: hey, "lessons from paul" is a 90-devotional.
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  • Some of my favorite verses that paul wrote, bit of devotional
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  • Time, and then some place to journal.
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  • The goal is to be changed.
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  • We want to be transformed by the word of god and not just
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  • Informed by it.
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  • Saul of tarsus, a hero of mine, i got to know him as the apostle
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  • Paul, an unrelenting advocate for jesus in the face of
  • 00:14:39.762 --> 00:14:43.299
  • Unyielding persecution.
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  • Folks, that sounds like the world we live in.
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  • Allen: i've got just a few moments.
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  • I wanna give you a response.
  • 00:15:27.876 --> 00:15:31.013
  • I wanna go back to the biblical notion for a minute.
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  • What happened when the babylonians burned the temple?
  • 00:15:33.215 --> 00:15:36.752
  • Didn't happen because nebuchadnezzar got up one
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  • Morning on the wrong side of the bed.
  • 00:15:38.988 --> 00:15:42.224
  • 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
  • 00:15:45.060 --> 00:15:50.399
  • Don't intend to listen.
  • 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:53.202
  • We want to do what we wanna do."
  • 00:15:53.202 --> 00:15:57.439
  • Some of us don't wanna pay attention 'cause we've done
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  • Pretty well while the looting is taking place.
  • 00:16:00.042 --> 00:16:02.211
  • We've gotten some of the loot.
  • 00:16:02.211 --> 00:16:05.948
  • So, we'll just keep looking straight ahead, acting like we
  • 00:16:05.948 --> 00:16:08.784
  • Don't notice.
  • 00:16:08.784 --> 00:16:11.286
  • 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
  • 00:16:16.859 --> 00:16:20.362
  • Response of the election, not because of the people that were
  • 00:16:20.362 --> 00:16:22.931
  • Sent, but the millions of people across this nation in flyover
  • 00:16:22.931 --> 00:16:27.436
  • Country that raised their hands inexplicably.
  • 00:16:27.436 --> 00:16:31.140
  • 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
  • 00:16:50.125 --> 00:16:53.395
  • Our own problems and we'll face greater expressions of judgment.
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  • The babylonians are not our problem.
  • 00:16:57.599 --> 00:17:00.302
  • A political party, a political adversary is not your problem.
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  • China is not our problem.
  • 00:17:04.673 --> 00:17:06.341
  • 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
  • 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:25.794
  • Land; but if you resist and rebel, you'll be devoured by
  • 00:17:25.794 --> 00:17:28.263
  • 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.
  • 00:17:33.802 --> 00:17:37.172
  • So, people that heard it thought, "that's not
  • 00:17:37.172 --> 00:17:38.841
  • Serious business."
  • 00:17:38.841 --> 00:17:41.877
  • But the kids that were born in babylon, when they read it, they
  • 00:17:41.877 --> 00:17:46.515
  • 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
  • 00:17:49.651 --> 00:17:52.121
  • 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.
  • 00:17:57.226 --> 00:18:01.630
  • We are ravaging the generations coming with our ungodliness.
  • 00:18:01.630 --> 00:18:08.637
  • "well, they'll change.
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  • They'll find a way, god is faithful."
  • 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:14.576
  • But they'll look at us.
  • 00:18:14.576 --> 00:18:17.679
  • 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?"
  • 00:18:27.756 --> 00:18:30.425
  • And when the bible says, "don't you know," what's the answer?
  • 00:18:30.425 --> 00:18:33.862
  • 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."
  • 00:18:43.272 --> 00:18:44.640
  • 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.
  • 00:18:51.013 --> 00:18:52.347
  • He said, "to be a friend with this present world order means
  • 00:18:52.347 --> 00:18:55.417
  • You're an enemy of god."
  • 00:18:55.417 --> 00:18:58.020
  • 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
  • 00:19:06.895 --> 00:19:09.831
  • Gives grace to the humble."
  • 00:19:09.831 --> 00:19:12.401
  • 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.
  • 00:19:38.961 --> 00:19:42.364
  • 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
  • 00:19:48.804 --> 00:19:52.574
  • Tolerate ungodliness?
  • 00:19:52.574 --> 00:19:57.779
  • It's a very important question for every one of us to answer.
  • 00:19:57.779 --> 00:20:01.516
  • The next statement is, "resist the devil."
  • 00:20:01.516 --> 00:20:03.986
  • Now, we can get some momentum around that, but folks, your
  • 00:20:03.986 --> 00:20:07.389
  • Powers, it's foolish, it's useless to try to resist the
  • 00:20:07.389 --> 00:20:11.793
  • Devil if you're not submitted to god.
  • 00:20:11.793 --> 00:20:20.002
  • "come near to god and he'll come near to you."
  • 00:20:20.002 --> 00:20:25.340
  • So, that's the next invitation, we wanna come nearer to god.
  • 00:20:25.340 --> 00:20:30.112
  • Well, how would we do that?
  • 00:20:30.112 --> 00:20:33.482
  • We already wanna park closer to the building.
  • 00:20:33.482 --> 00:20:35.450
  • Does that count?
  • 00:20:35.450 --> 00:20:38.453
  • "come near to god."
  • 00:20:38.453 --> 00:20:39.821
  • He gives us three very practical ways.
  • 00:20:39.821 --> 00:20:41.156
  • James is so practical.
  • 00:20:41.156 --> 00:20:42.624
  • 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?
  • 00:20:53.835 --> 00:20:56.805
  • With repentance.
  • 00:20:56.805 --> 00:20:58.607
  • The change of thought and a change of behavior.
  • 00:20:58.607 --> 00:21:01.710
  • "purify your hearts from double-mindedness."
  • 00:21:01.710 --> 00:21:04.646
  • James says to us, "if you're double-minded, if you're
  • 00:21:04.646 --> 00:21:08.550
  • Inconsistent," he said, you're unstable in every way, "you
  • 00:21:08.550 --> 00:21:11.887
  • Shouldn't imagine you should--you'll receive anything
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  • From god."
  • 00:21:13.989 --> 00:21:17.359
  • "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
  • 00:21:21.830 --> 00:21:24.633
  • God is unfolding.
  • 00:21:24.633 --> 00:21:27.636
  • When the layers of the exile have begun, it's a serious time.
  • 00:21:27.636 --> 00:21:32.240
  • Doesn't mean you can't laugh, it doesn't mean you can't recreate,
  • 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:35.777
  • But you better not be chasing that as your life goal.
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  • It's a time to reevaluate priorities.
  • 00:21:40.148 --> 00:21:44.086
  • And then the last thing he gives us is in verse 10, he said,
  • 00:21:44.086 --> 00:21:46.555
  • "humble yourselves."
  • 00:21:46.555 --> 00:21:49.224
  • You know, there's no place in the bible that god says he will
  • 00:21:49.224 --> 00:21:52.761
  • Humble you.
  • 00:21:52.761 --> 00:21:54.496
  • There are many, many places he invites us to humble ourselves.
  • 00:21:54.496 --> 00:21:58.834
  • If god has to bring--intervene, it's humiliation.
  • 00:21:58.834 --> 00:22:03.205
  • You can humble yourself, or you can be humiliated before the
  • 00:22:03.205 --> 00:22:06.908
  • Power of god.
  • 00:22:06.908 --> 00:22:08.510
  • But the invitation they were given throughout scripture is to
  • 00:22:08.510 --> 00:22:10.812
  • Humble ourselves.
  • 00:22:10.812 --> 00:22:12.147
  • Doesn't mean we have no value, that we have no worth, it means
  • 00:22:12.147 --> 00:22:14.816
  • We understand ourselves in god's economy that there's a god and
  • 00:22:14.816 --> 00:22:17.953
  • It's not us.
  • 00:22:17.953 --> 00:22:20.589
  • It's not saying i don't have any abilities.
  • 00:22:20.589 --> 00:22:22.224
  • You do, god's given you abilities.
  • 00:22:22.224 --> 00:22:23.759
  • He's given you influence, he's given you talents and gifts.
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  • Use 'em for him.
  • 00:22:26.762 --> 00:22:29.698
  • Humble yourselves before the lord.
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  • And then look at the outcome.
  • 00:22:32.434 --> 00:22:34.603
  • He will lift you up.
  • 00:22:34.603 --> 00:22:36.705
  • Doesn't matter who the enemy is.
  • 00:22:36.705 --> 00:22:39.007
  • It doesn't matter how dark the circumstance.
  • 00:22:39.007 --> 00:22:42.210
  • You see, we don't have to have a majority, folks, there is an
  • 00:22:42.210 --> 00:22:44.579
  • Authority in the truth of god.
  • 00:22:44.579 --> 00:22:47.315
  • God is moving in the earth.
  • 00:22:47.315 --> 00:22:50.585
  • I've never been--i don't believe i've ever been more excited.
  • 00:22:50.585 --> 00:22:53.255
  • I don't think i've ever had a greater sense of anticipation.
  • 00:22:53.255 --> 00:22:55.891
  • I don't think i've ever recognized a greater season
  • 00:22:55.891 --> 00:22:57.893
  • Of opportunity.
  • 00:22:57.893 --> 00:23:00.429
  • I'm reordering my schedule.
  • 00:23:00.429 --> 00:23:03.832
  • I'm re--and i'm not dialing it back.
  • 00:23:03.832 --> 00:23:09.571
  • I'm saying to the lord, "whatever, however, you show me,
  • 00:23:09.571 --> 00:23:13.141
  • 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.
  • 00:23:23.118 --> 00:23:24.486
  • We're salt and light.
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  • God will help us.
  • 00:23:26.455 --> 00:23:31.726
  • He will stop the looting.
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  • You ready for a breakthrough?
  • 00:23:39.100 --> 00:23:41.536
  • Let's stand, we'll pray.
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  • You better join hands with somebody.
  • 00:23:46.975 --> 00:23:48.510
  • This is a team sport.
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  • Lord, i thank you for your word.
  • 00:23:56.885 --> 00:24:00.222
  • I thank you for the insight you bring.
  • 00:24:00.222 --> 00:24:03.592
  • For the clarity that you give us.
  • 00:24:03.592 --> 00:24:06.561
  • Lord, i thank you for your great mercy.
  • 00:24:06.561 --> 00:24:09.197
  • That you don't respond to us as we deserve that you respond to
  • 00:24:09.197 --> 00:24:14.269
  • Us with kindness and compassion.
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  • That you're patient and long-suffering.
  • 00:24:16.805 --> 00:24:20.075
  • I thank you that you have begun to awaken us, to give us eyes to
  • 00:24:20.075 --> 00:24:24.212
  • See and ears to hear.
  • 00:24:24.212 --> 00:24:26.715
  • I thank you for every person that has stood and said, "we
  • 00:24:26.715 --> 00:24:30.452
  • 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."
  • 00:24:35.657 --> 00:24:39.661
  • I thank you for every person and i pray now that you'll give us
  • 00:24:39.661 --> 00:24:43.231
  • The wisdom to continue to say, "yes," to you.
  • 00:24:43.231 --> 00:24:47.569
  • To yield to you as we've never yielded to you before.
  • 00:24:47.569 --> 00:24:51.406
  • They will have the courage to resist the devil, to say, "no,"
  • 00:24:51.406 --> 00:24:54.409
  • 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.
  • 00:25:01.650 --> 00:25:03.285
  • Holy spirit, show us each place where we need to
  • 00:25:03.285 --> 00:25:07.055
  • Cleanse ourselves.
  • 00:25:07.055 --> 00:25:09.658
  • Whether it's forgiveness, or a change of behavior, or a change
  • 00:25:09.658 --> 00:25:14.296
  • Of attention, lord, whatever it is, we present ourselves to you.
  • 00:25:14.296 --> 00:25:18.700
  • We choose to humble ourselves.
  • 00:25:18.700 --> 00:25:21.102
  • To acknowledge you as our lord and our redeemer, our savior.
  • 00:25:21.102 --> 00:25:26.741
  • I thank you that we stand in your strength.
  • 00:25:26.741 --> 00:25:30.912
  • Lord, i pray that you will begin to lift us up.
  • 00:25:30.912 --> 00:25:35.517
  • Lift us up above the attacks of the enemy.
  • 00:25:35.517 --> 00:25:38.486
  • Lift us up above the hatred of your adversaries.
  • 00:25:38.486 --> 00:25:42.591
  • Just lift us up above the demonic torment.
  • 00:25:42.591 --> 00:25:47.162
  • That we might see with clarity what you've called us to in
  • 00:25:47.162 --> 00:25:51.366
  • This generation.
  • 00:25:51.366 --> 00:25:53.301
  • So that our children and grandchildren might know freedom
  • 00:25:53.301 --> 00:25:55.704
  • And liberty.
  • 00:25:55.704 --> 00:25:57.405
  • 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.
  • 00:26:04.946 --> 00:26:10.452
  • Allen: you know, when i read my bible, i don't read it primarily
  • 00:26:14.689 --> 00:26:17.359
  • For information.
  • 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:18.693
  • It's not just about facts and figures and dates and how to
  • 00:26:18.693 --> 00:26:21.396
  • Spell nebuchadnezzar and how many tribes they were and where
  • 00:26:21.396 --> 00:26:23.932
  • They fit in the land.
  • 00:26:23.932 --> 00:26:25.300
  • I mean, i like all that stuff, but i read my bible to
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  • Be transformed.
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  • I recognize i need the power of god at work in my life, so the
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  • Characters of the bible become more than shadowy historical
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  • People, they become my friends or my heroes.
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  • We've put together a tool, it's "lessons from paul."
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  • It's a 90-day devotional.
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  • It's really gleaned from some of my favorite writings from the
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  • Apostle paul.
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  • You know, he begins as an angry, murderous man and becomes one of
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  • The most powerful advocates for jesus that our world has
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  • Ever known.
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  • Well, i want that kind of transformation in my life to
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  • Move from the place i am to be more effective for the purposes
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  • Of the kingdom of god.
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  • I think the tool will help you in the midst of whatever your
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  • Circumstances, persecution, triumph.
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  • "lessons from paul," it'll give you a pathway forward to
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  • Cooperate with god and get to a better outcome.
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  • I think you'll enjoy the devotional.
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  • ♪♪♪
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