Allen Jackson - Looting Interrupted (Part 2)

December 30, 2024 | S25:E102

Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

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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
  • 00:14:26.481 --> 00:14:29.417
  • Freedom that we desperately need in our cities, in our
  • 00:14:29.417 --> 00:14:33.021
  • 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.
  • 00:14:54.342 --> 00:14:58.146
  • 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
  • 00:15:14.495 --> 00:15:16.965
  • Our ministry.
  • 00:15:16.965 --> 00:15:18.333
  • 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
  • 00:15:21.903 --> 00:15:24.973
  • 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
  • 00:15:50.631 --> 00:15:52.834
  • 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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  • Allen: i've got just a few moments.
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  • I wanna give you a response.
  • 00:16:37.311 --> 00:16:40.448
  • I wanna go back to the biblical notion for a minute.
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  • What happened when the babylonians burned the temple?
  • 00:16:42.650 --> 00:16:46.187
  • 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
  • 00:16:54.495 --> 00:16:59.834
  • Don't intend to listen.
  • 00:16:59.834 --> 00:17:02.637
  • 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.
  • 00:17:11.646 --> 00:17:15.383
  • So, we'll just keep looking straight ahead, acting like we
  • 00:17:15.383 --> 00:17:18.219
  • 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
  • 00:17:26.294 --> 00:17:29.797
  • Response of the election, not because of the people that were
  • 00:17:29.797 --> 00:17:32.366
  • Sent, but the millions of people across this nation in flyover
  • 00:17:32.366 --> 00:17:36.871
  • Country that raised their hands inexplicably.
  • 00:17:36.871 --> 00:17:40.575
  • They haven't done it in a long, long, long time.
  • 00:17:40.575 --> 00:17:42.677
  • 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.
  • 00:17:55.690 --> 00:17:57.225
  • 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
  • 00:17:59.560 --> 00:18:02.830
  • Our own problems and we'll face greater expressions of judgment.
  • 00:18:02.830 --> 00:18:07.034
  • The babylonians are not our problem.
  • 00:18:07.034 --> 00:18:09.737
  • A political party, a political adversary is not your problem.
  • 00:18:09.737 --> 00:18:14.108
  • China is not our problem.
  • 00:18:14.108 --> 00:18:15.776
  • They are a problem, but they're an expression.
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  • Isaiah chapter 1, god said, "come now, let us
  • 00:18:22.250 --> 00:18:25.019
  • 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
  • 00:18:28.923 --> 00:18:31.859
  • 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
  • 00:18:35.229 --> 00:18:37.698
  • The sword."
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  • That didn't happen the next day.
  • 00:18:39.600 --> 00:18:41.903
  • It didn't happen the next week.
  • 00:18:41.903 --> 00:18:43.237
  • It didn't happen the next month.
  • 00:18:43.237 --> 00:18:46.607
  • So, people that heard it thought, "that's not
  • 00:18:46.607 --> 00:18:48.276
  • Serious business."
  • 00:18:48.276 --> 00:18:51.312
  • But the kids that were born in babylon, when they read it, they
  • 00:18:51.312 --> 00:18:55.950
  • 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
  • 00:18:59.086 --> 00:19:01.556
  • Children and you persist in your ungodliness.
  • 00:19:01.556 --> 00:19:04.225
  • You don't give a hoot about the kids or you'd begin to honor
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  • The lord.
  • 00:19:06.661 --> 00:19:11.065
  • 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
  • 00:19:27.114 --> 00:19:30.451
  • 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?"
  • 00:19:37.191 --> 00:19:39.860
  • And when the bible says, "don't you know," what's the answer?
  • 00:19:39.860 --> 00:19:43.297
  • Probably not.
  • 00:19:43.297 --> 00:19:45.666
  • "don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred
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  • Towards god?
  • 00:19:48.669 --> 00:19:50.371
  • Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an
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  • Enemy of god."
  • 00:19:52.707 --> 00:19:54.075
  • 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.
  • 00:20:00.448 --> 00:20:01.782
  • He said, "to be a friend with this present world order means
  • 00:20:01.782 --> 00:20:04.852
  • You're an enemy of god."
  • 00:20:04.852 --> 00:20:07.455
  • Or do you think the scriptures say without reason that, "the
  • 00:20:07.455 --> 00:20:10.024
  • Spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?"
  • 00:20:10.024 --> 00:20:14.095
  • But he gives us more grace.
  • 00:20:14.095 --> 00:20:16.330
  • That is why the scripture says, "god opposes the proud, but he
  • 00:20:16.330 --> 00:20:19.267
  • Gives grace to the humble."
  • 00:20:19.267 --> 00:20:21.836
  • 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
  • 00:20:44.558 --> 00:20:48.396
  • Jesus can be lord.
  • 00:20:48.396 --> 00:20:51.799
  • Begin for yourself.
  • 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:53.134
  • Don't say, "i've said that prayer and i've been baptized."
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  • Is jesus really lord?
  • 00:20:56.437 --> 00:20:58.239
  • Are you submitted to god in your life or do you
  • 00:20:58.239 --> 00:21:02.009
  • Tolerate ungodliness?
  • 00:21:02.009 --> 00:21:07.214
  • It's a very important question for every one of us to answer.
  • 00:21:07.214 --> 00:21:10.951
  • 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
  • 00:21:16.824 --> 00:21:21.228
  • Devil if you're not submitted to god.
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  • "come near to god and he'll come near to you."
  • 00:21:29.437 --> 00:21:34.775
  • So, that's the next invitation, we wanna come nearer to god.
  • 00:21:34.775 --> 00:21:39.547
  • Well, how would we do that?
  • 00:21:39.547 --> 00:21:42.917
  • We already wanna park closer to the building.
  • 00:21:42.917 --> 00:21:44.885
  • Does that count?
  • 00:21:44.885 --> 00:21:47.888
  • "come near to god."
  • 00:21:47.888 --> 00:21:49.256
  • He gives us three very practical ways.
  • 00:21:49.256 --> 00:21:50.591
  • 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.
  • 00:21:57.098 --> 00:21:59.166
  • 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?
  • 00:22:03.270 --> 00:22:06.240
  • With repentance.
  • 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:08.042
  • The change of thought and a change of behavior.
  • 00:22:08.042 --> 00:22:11.145
  • "purify your hearts from double-mindedness."
  • 00:22:11.145 --> 00:22:14.081
  • James says to us, "if you're double-minded, if you're
  • 00:22:14.081 --> 00:22:17.985
  • Inconsistent," he said, you're unstable in every way, "you
  • 00:22:17.985 --> 00:22:21.322
  • Shouldn't imagine you should--you'll receive anything
  • 00:22:21.322 --> 00:22:23.424
  • From god."
  • 00:22:23.424 --> 00:22:26.794
  • "change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom."
  • 00:22:26.794 --> 00:22:31.265
  • It's a serious time when you recognize that the judgment of
  • 00:22:31.265 --> 00:22:34.068
  • God is unfolding.
  • 00:22:34.068 --> 00:22:37.071
  • When the layers of the exile have begun, it's a serious time.
  • 00:22:37.071 --> 00:22:41.675
  • Doesn't mean you can't laugh, it doesn't mean you can't recreate,
  • 00:22:41.675 --> 00:22:45.212
  • But you better not be chasing that as your life goal.
  • 00:22:45.212 --> 00:22:49.583
  • It's a time to reevaluate priorities.
  • 00:22:49.583 --> 00:22:53.521
  • And then the last thing he gives us is in verse 10, he said,
  • 00:22:53.521 --> 00:22:55.990
  • "humble yourselves."
  • 00:22:55.990 --> 00:22:58.659
  • You know, there's no place in the bible that god says he will
  • 00:22:58.659 --> 00:23:02.196
  • Humble you.
  • 00:23:02.196 --> 00:23:03.931
  • There are many, many places he invites us to humble ourselves.
  • 00:23:03.931 --> 00:23:08.269
  • If god has to bring--intervene, it's humiliation.
  • 00:23:08.269 --> 00:23:12.640
  • You can humble yourself, or you can be humiliated before the
  • 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:16.343
  • Power of god.
  • 00:23:16.343 --> 00:23:17.945
  • But the invitation they were given throughout scripture is to
  • 00:23:17.945 --> 00:23:20.247
  • Humble ourselves.
  • 00:23:20.247 --> 00:23:21.582
  • Doesn't mean we have no value, that we have no worth, it means
  • 00:23:21.582 --> 00:23:24.251
  • We understand ourselves in god's economy that there's a god and
  • 00:23:24.251 --> 00:23:27.388
  • It's not us.
  • 00:23:27.388 --> 00:23:30.024
  • It's not saying i don't have any abilities.
  • 00:23:30.024 --> 00:23:31.659
  • You do, god's given you abilities.
  • 00:23:31.659 --> 00:23:33.194
  • He's given you influence, he's given you talents and gifts.
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  • Use 'em for him.
  • 00:23:36.197 --> 00:23:39.133
  • Humble yourselves before the lord.
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  • And then look at the outcome.
  • 00:23:41.869 --> 00:23:44.038
  • He will lift you up.
  • 00:23:44.038 --> 00:23:46.140
  • Doesn't matter who the enemy is.
  • 00:23:46.140 --> 00:23:48.442
  • 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
  • 00:23:51.645 --> 00:23:54.014
  • Authority in the truth of god.
  • 00:23:54.014 --> 00:23:56.750
  • God is moving in the earth.
  • 00:23:56.750 --> 00:24:00.020
  • I've never been--i don't believe i've ever been more excited.
  • 00:24:00.020 --> 00:24:02.690
  • I don't think i've ever had a greater sense of anticipation.
  • 00:24:02.690 --> 00:24:05.326
  • I don't think i've ever recognized a greater season
  • 00:24:05.326 --> 00:24:07.328
  • Of opportunity.
  • 00:24:07.328 --> 00:24:09.864
  • I'm reordering my schedule.
  • 00:24:09.864 --> 00:24:13.267
  • I'm re--and i'm not dialing it back.
  • 00:24:13.267 --> 00:24:19.006
  • I'm saying to the lord, "whatever, however, you show me,
  • 00:24:19.006 --> 00:24:22.576
  • 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.
  • 00:24:32.553 --> 00:24:33.921
  • We're salt and light.
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  • God will help us.
  • 00:24:35.890 --> 00:24:41.161
  • He will stop the looting.
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  • You ready for a breakthrough?
  • 00:24:48.536 --> 00:24:50.971
  • Let's stand, we'll pray.
  • 00:24:50.971 --> 00:24:56.410
  • You better join hands with somebody.
  • 00:24:56.410 --> 00:24:57.945
  • This is a team sport.
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  • Lord, i thank you for your word.
  • 00:25:06.320 --> 00:25:09.657
  • I thank you for the insight you bring.
  • 00:25:09.657 --> 00:25:13.027
  • 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
  • 00:25:39.887 --> 00:25:42.656
  • 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
  • 00:25:49.096 --> 00:25:52.666
  • The wisdom to continue to say, "yes," to you.
  • 00:25:52.666 --> 00:25:57.004
  • 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,"
  • 00:26:00.841 --> 00:26:03.844
  • 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
  • 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:16.490
  • Cleanse ourselves.
  • 00:26:16.490 --> 00:26:19.093
  • 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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