Allen Jackson - Robert Jeffress

July 14, 2025 | 28:35

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

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  • Allen jackson: and i know you know, but we're living in
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  • A chaotic world, things are changing globally.
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  • There's wars, there's threats of war, a lot of stuff happening.
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  • But i wanna make a suggestion, don't focus on the negative,
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  • Don't get caught up in the uncertainty.
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  • That'll bring fear and anxiety and worry.
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  • It's not helpful.
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  • Let's determine to focus our attention on the lord.
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  • We've created a tool that i believe will make a difference.
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  • It's called, "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30 day plan.
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  • Each day is directed at a different topic
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  • That's a part of our current world.
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  • It gives us a verse of scripture, a little devotional
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  • Around that topic.
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  • And then a prayer for that specific thing.
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  • The idea is we're gonna give the holy spirit an invitation
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  • To awaken us to a new place of faith.
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  • You know, we need an awakening in the midst
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  • Of the people of god.
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  • And we wanna say, "well, i am awake."
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  • Well, i get that, but, you know, i was awakened yesterday.
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  • But this morning i was awakened again, and my prayer is
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  • Tomorrow i'll be awakened yet again.
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  • We need a daily awakening by the spirit of god
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  • To find his best for us in this season.
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  • And i believe this book will help you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: and then i brought you just a
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  • Quick sampling.
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  • I think it's worth noting that, what jesus told his friends
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  • About, they got to see.
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  • But i think it's extraordinarily naive and a very poor
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  • Application of biblical interpretation to suggest it was
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  • Only a first century problem.
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  • If that's the case, then the scripture's affording us very
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  • Little guidance.
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  • In revelation chapter 1, this is john's self analysis.
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  • He said, "i, john, your brother and companion," i read that, and
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  • I think, "oh, this is going to be good."
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  • The disciple, the apostle that jesus loved the most, he's about
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  • To show us how he understands what it means to be jesus's
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  • Friend, "your brother and companion in the suffering and
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  • The kingdom and the patient endurance that are ours in
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  • Jesus christ."
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  • Now, if he were a 21st century person, he would have said, "in
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  • The health and the prosperity."
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  • And i'm not opposed to either of those.
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  • In fact, i trust god for those things in my life.
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  • But when john is identifying after years of having walked
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  • With and served the lord, he's, the things he extends to those
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  • He's addressing is that, in christ, we'll face suffering and
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  • Be required to patiently endure, "that our hours in jesus; i was
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  • On the island of patmos because of the word of god and the
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  • Testimony of jesus."
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  • He's been exiled.
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  • He's been imprisoned on an island, not because he's a thief
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  • Or a murderer or an extortionist.
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  • He's on a, he's a prisoner because of the word of god and
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  • The testimony of jesus.
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  • In acts chapter 4, in verse 18, this is peter and john; they're
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  • Before the sanhedrin, the same group that orchestrated jesus's
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  • Execution, "and they called him in again and they commanded them
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  • Not to speak or teach it all in the name of jesus."
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  • He's dead; as far as the sanhedrin knows, they
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  • Killed him.
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  • But now his pesky disciples are here, and they're commanding
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  • Them, "don't you mention his name; we'll do to you what we
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  • Did to him."
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  • That's a real threat.
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  • If you'd been with jesus and saw him walk on the water
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  • Or raise the dead or open blind eyes, and they crucified him,
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  • You would take it seriously when they pointed their finger
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  • At you and said, "you're gonna get the same."
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  • They didn't relent.
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  • Acts chapter 12, it says, "it was about this time that king
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  • Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to
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  • Persecute them.
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  • He had james, the brother of john, put to death with
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  • The sword."
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  • Two of the apostles that jesus recruited, martyred.
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  • By the time we get to acts chapter 12, the church has
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  • Barely broken out of jerusalem.
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  • Acts 22, paul is in jerusalem.
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  • He's gone to the temple prepared to make vows to assure the
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  • Religious community that he's still an observant pharisee.
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  • And they become so angry with him that they shed upon him as
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  • A mob.
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  • And so he gives his testimony, and i brought you the line that
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  • Incited them to such a murderous rage that the romans would come
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  • And get him, but he said, "the lord said to me, 'go, i will
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  • Send you far away to the gentiles.'
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  • And the crowd listened to paul until he said this.
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  • Then they raised their voices and shouted, 'rid the earth
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  • Of him!
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  • He's not fit to live!'
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  • As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and
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  • Flinging dust into the air, the commander," the roman commander,
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  • "ordered paul to be taken into the barracks.
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  • He directed that he be flogged and questioned in order to find
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  • Out why the people were shouting at him like this."
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  • So, our heroes, the men and women whose faithfulness we
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  • Revere in trying to navigate our own journey through time, the
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  • People whose stories we read from the pages of scripture, who
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  • Gave rise to the churches that occupy the second 2/3 of our new
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  • Testament by title, they faced the challenges that jesus said
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  • They would.
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  • So i have a question.
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  • Do you imagine that you and i are going to live at the
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  • Culmination of the age when the great battle of the ages is
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  • Going to rage, the spiritual conflict of all spiritual
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  • Conflicts, do you think we're going to face that and have
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  • No challenges?
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  • We've kind of flipped the script.
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  • You know, a challenge for us is our parking place at church
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  • Was inconvenient.
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  • Well, i agree with you, that's a lift.
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  • Or somebody sits in your seat, or we read from the wrong
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  • Translation of the bible.
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  • Folks, it's not our children that are soft.
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  • They have caught that infection from us because they've seen us
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  • Model that our faith is connected to the weather and
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  • Convenience and ease and alternative forms
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  • Of entertainment.
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  • And i would submit to you that we have an assignment before us
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  • That is unique, that the return of the king is connected to a
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  • Willingness of his people to see the gospel proclaimed in the
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  • Whole world.
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  • And that will take the very best that that generation has and
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  • That we'll have to do it in the face of some difficulty.
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  • I wanna give you just a little bit of history.
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  • I started with what happened with hamas and the the israelis
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  • On october the 7th.
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  • I find that our understanding of history is pretty limited; my
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  • Own is in many ways.
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  • But persecution of the jewish people is not new.
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  • And i wanna submit to you that there's a spirit behind it that
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  • Has very little to do with politics or muslim or christian,
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  • That there's a spirit that has driven it through the centuries.
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  • You don't have to be particularly creative.
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  • We can go all the way back to the book of exodus when the
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  • Pharaoh ordered the hebrew children, the hebrew baby boys
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  • To be murdered.
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  • And the midwives defied pharaoh's order.
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  • You know the story because moses's parents hid him to
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  • Protect him from being murdered.
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  • So the murder of the jewish boys goes all the way back to the
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  • Book of exodus.
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  • That's very near the beginning of the story.
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  • And you can scroll forward more than 1000 years to bethlehem in
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  • The time of jesus's birth when king herod, tricked by the the
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  • Wise men, orders that the baby boys in bethlehem two years and
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  • Younger be murdered.
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  • And inexplicable, really, i mean, you can put some reasoning
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  • Around it, but it's illogical.
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  • It's irrational, it's murderous, it's evil.
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  • Well, i'll add a bit more contemporary history to that.
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  • The spanish inquisition.
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  • Some of you, i have no doubt, have heard about it.
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  • March 31, 1492, in the alhambra hall, the hall of the
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  • Ambassador, king ferdinand and queen isabella signed an edict,
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  • The alhambra decree, expelling all the jews from spain.
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  • Sounds so clinical, so clean, as if your visa had been revoked.
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  • But it's really far more difficult than that.
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  • Spanish catholics had come to believe that the jews had too
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  • Much economic influence over the kingdoms, and resentment because
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  • Of that, combined with religious president, religious prejudice,
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  • Is really what led to the will of the people that the jews
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  • Be expelled.
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  • But, in reality, on the ground, there was so much hatred that
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  • Many jews were killed.
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  • Now, you could avoid expulsion or murder if you would adopt
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  • Christian beliefs, if you would renounce judaism and
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  • Embrace christianity.
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  • So there was a significant group of people who converted, but
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  • They lived under continuing prejudice and suspicion.
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  • And there remained a significant population of jews who just
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  • Professed their conversion but quietly, privately, secretly
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  • Continued to practice their faith.
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  • And what we should all understand and at least be
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  • Willing to acknowledge as a part of history is that all of that
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  • Unfolded with the permission of the pope.
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  • Now, we will say, "well, those aren't our kinds of
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  • Christians, perhaps."
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  • But you'll understand if the jewish community fails to make
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  • That distinction.
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  • Fifteenth century, spanish inquisition.
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  • There's a word that is not common, i don't, you may or may
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  • Not be familiar with it.
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  • The word is pogrom; it's a russian word that means to wreak
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  • Havoc, to demolish, even violently.
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  • Well, historically, that word has been applied to violent
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  • Attacks by local populations who were not jewish upon the jews
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  • Immediately available to them, initially in the russian empire,
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  • But it spread to other countries.
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  • One of the first such incidents to be labeled the pogrom was an
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  • Anti-jewish riot in odessa in 1821.
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  • And, from that behavior, it made its way into the vocabulary to
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  • Describe these anti-jewish riots that swept southern and western
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  • Provinces of the russian empire in the late 1800s.
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  • Roman, romanian-- it spread beyond russia.
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  • Romanian officials and military units, assisted even by german
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  • Soldiers, killed 8000 jews during a progrom; thousands and
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  • Thousands of jews were killed in this way.
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  • And it was very common for the instigator to be the russian
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  • Orthodox church.
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  • If there was a drought, it's because of the jews.
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  • If there's a plague, it's because of the jews.
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  • How many of you have seen the movie or the play fiddler on
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  • The roof?
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  • You don't have to raise your hand.
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  • But the persecution of the jewish people, being driven from
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  • One place to another, being mistreated for no reason other
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  • Than the fact that they were jewish.
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  • During world war ii it became popular to organize mobile
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  • Killing units.
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  • They got their orders from the security police chief, and they
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  • Encouraged indigenous populations living in these
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  • Newly conquered places that the nazis had come to dominate to
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  • Launch pogroms wherever they might be.
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  • Again, using local civilians-- you have to have a population
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  • That carries the antagonism.
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  • It isn't something that is forced upon them.
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  • There's no, you can't explain what happened in europe in world
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  • War ii as a result of just the nazis because europe gave up
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  • Their jewish communities.
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  • You know some notable notable exceptions, like the hiding
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  • Place with corrie ten boom and a family who hid jews.
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  • But they were exceptions, and they certainly weren't the rule.
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  • Maybe the most celebrated of the pogroms is
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  • Called kristallnacht.
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  • It's the night of crystal; literally, it refers to a night
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  • Of broken glass, and it refers to a whole wave of anti, a very
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  • Violent anti-jewish pogroms or violent attacks which took place
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  • On november the 9 and 10 in 1938.
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  • It was in germany, austria, czechoslovakia.
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  • Again, it was far more widespread than our typical
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  • Casual glance that history has led us to believe.
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  • The rioters destroyed hundreds of synagogues, jewish
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  • Institutions, throughout the-- germany, austria,
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  • Czechoslovakia-- throughout the night in full view of the public
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  • And of local firefighters who'd received orders not to
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  • Intervene, only if the flames threatened other buildings.
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  • They estimate that thousands of jewish owned commercial
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  • Establishments and synagogues were looted, destroyed, burned,
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  • And there's really not an accurate count of the number of
  • 00:13:34.330 --> 00:13:36.298
  • The jewish people who lost their lives.
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  • You just go forward a little further to october the 7th,
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  • 2024, and hundreds of jewish people, israeli citizens, are
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  • Slaughtered in their homes, men, women, and children, and the
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  • Global community looks on, and the united nations supports it
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  • And participates in it.
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  • Not all the united nations; you'll excuse me if i don't
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  • Really pay much attention to your distinction.
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  • And voices at the leading universities in our nation, some
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  • Of the most prestigious seats in academia, refused to condemn it.
  • 00:14:08.631 --> 00:14:14.837
  • Some of them lost their positions, but they haven't lost
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  • Their jobs.
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  • They're still being honored; the faculty very publicly stood
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  • Behind them.
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  • They can do that because those ideas have such deep seats in
  • 00:14:25.614 --> 00:14:28.784
  • American academia today.
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  • What you should understand, i would invite you to consider, is
  • 00:14:32.021 --> 00:14:37.326
  • That it's a spirit behind it.
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  • And the same spirit that hates the jewish people hates the
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  • Entire covenant people of god.
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  • Allen: but i brought you two or three passages.
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  • I'll touch them really quickly because they lead in the
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  • Same way.
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  • In jeremiah, jeremiah had a difficult assignment, to tell
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  • The people that the babylonians were coming and there's nothing
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  • They can do about it.
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  • It's a more difficult assignment than some in scripture.
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  • Isaiah got to go tell king hezekiah that the
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  • Assyrians, god would put a hook in their jaw and take them back
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  • The way they came; you don't have to worry about them.
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  • Most of us tell our stories and imagine that god responds to us
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  • As he did to hezekiah.
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  • But jeremiah, a prophet of god, had to say to the covenant
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  • People of god, the enemy is coming, and they'll destroy your
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  • City, and murder you, and destroy the temple, and there's
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  • Nothing you can do.
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  • The condition of your hearts is such that god is
  • 00:16:36.211 --> 00:16:38.347
  • Bringing judgment.
  • 00:16:38.347 --> 00:16:42.317
  • It's a very similar passage to the new testament when we find
  • 00:16:42.317 --> 00:16:44.686
  • Jesus in the book of acts, and the disciples say, in acts
  • 00:16:44.686 --> 00:16:47.489
  • Chapter 1, "are you going to restore the kingdom to israel?"
  • 00:16:47.489 --> 00:16:50.192
  • And jesus said, "it's not time for you to know; that's none of
  • 00:16:50.192 --> 00:16:53.262
  • Your business, really."
  • 00:16:53.262 --> 00:16:54.830
  • And contemporary christian audiences say, "see, jesus told
  • 00:16:54.830 --> 00:16:57.900
  • Us not to be political."
  • 00:16:57.900 --> 00:16:59.902
  • I don't believe that's an accurate reading of what
  • 00:16:59.902 --> 00:17:01.703
  • Happened because, if you go to luke's gospel, and luke is the
  • 00:17:01.703 --> 00:17:04.573
  • One who authored the book of acts, on more than one occasion
  • 00:17:04.573 --> 00:17:07.342
  • In luke's gospel, jesus says to the audience; he's weeping over
  • 00:17:07.342 --> 00:17:10.112
  • The city of jerusalem, and he said, "your enemies are gonna
  • 00:17:10.112 --> 00:17:12.648
  • Build an embankment against you.
  • 00:17:12.648 --> 00:17:15.017
  • They'll circle you in, they'll hem you in on every side,
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  • They'll dash the heads of your children against the stones of
  • 00:17:19.588 --> 00:17:22.324
  • This city.
  • 00:17:22.324 --> 00:17:24.693
  • They'll tear this temple down."
  • 00:17:24.693 --> 00:17:26.495
  • He has already spoken judgment over the city.
  • 00:17:26.495 --> 00:17:31.100
  • Now, the disciples haven't caught up with it yet.
  • 00:17:31.100 --> 00:17:34.703
  • They're asking for an isaiah proclamation from jesus in acts
  • 00:17:34.703 --> 00:17:38.173
  • Chapter 1, "tell us that you're gonna put a hook in the jaw of
  • 00:17:38.173 --> 00:17:41.243
  • The romans and take them away."
  • 00:17:41.243 --> 00:17:42.778
  • And jesus said, "that question has been asked and answered."
  • 00:17:42.778 --> 00:17:48.517
  • It wasn't that he was avoiding the current events that were
  • 00:17:48.517 --> 00:17:52.221
  • Going to shape their future.
  • 00:17:52.221 --> 00:17:54.156
  • He had already told them.
  • 00:17:54.156 --> 00:17:57.459
  • Jeremiah 27, "with my great power and outstretched arm i
  • 00:17:57.459 --> 00:18:00.629
  • Made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it,
  • 00:18:00.629 --> 00:18:04.399
  • And i give it to anyone i please.
  • 00:18:04.399 --> 00:18:07.302
  • And now i'll hand all your countries over to my servant
  • 00:18:07.302 --> 00:18:11.540
  • Nebuchadnezzar, the king of babylon; i'll make even the wild
  • 00:18:11.540 --> 00:18:15.777
  • Animals subject to him.
  • 00:18:15.777 --> 00:18:17.846
  • All nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until
  • 00:18:17.846 --> 00:18:20.983
  • This time for his land comes; and then many nations and great
  • 00:18:20.983 --> 00:18:25.454
  • Kings will subjugate him."
  • 00:18:25.454 --> 00:18:27.723
  • Very clearly, god is involved in the affairs of nations.
  • 00:18:27.723 --> 00:18:33.595
  • He calls nebuchadnezzar his servant; he's an evil pagan.
  • 00:18:33.595 --> 00:18:41.136
  • Daniel, who spent much of his life serving in the babylonian
  • 00:18:41.136 --> 00:18:47.643
  • Court, has some interesting perspectives on this.
  • 00:18:47.643 --> 00:18:52.114
  • In daniel chapter 2, after he's, daniel's been told he's gonna be
  • 00:18:52.114 --> 00:18:56.018
  • Killed on the next day because the wise men of the realm are
  • 00:18:56.018 --> 00:19:00.989
  • Not able to provide what the king is demanding.
  • 00:19:00.989 --> 00:19:04.493
  • And daniel asks for an evening to seek god, and god reveals to
  • 00:19:04.493 --> 00:19:09.298
  • Him what's being requested, some of you know the story.
  • 00:19:09.298 --> 00:19:12.501
  • And, at the end of that, daniel prays, and we just hear his
  • 00:19:12.501 --> 00:19:14.836
  • Prayer, daniel prays to the god of heaven.
  • 00:19:14.836 --> 00:19:16.838
  • He said, "praise be to the name of god forever and ever; wisdom
  • 00:19:16.838 --> 00:19:20.442
  • And power are his.
  • 00:19:20.442 --> 00:19:22.344
  • He changes times and seasons.
  • 00:19:22.344 --> 00:19:24.713
  • He sets up kings and he deposes them.
  • 00:19:24.713 --> 00:19:27.516
  • He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning."
  • 00:19:27.516 --> 00:19:31.553
  • Daniel imagined that god put kings and rulers in place,
  • 00:19:31.553 --> 00:19:36.491
  • Sometimes to the benefit of his people and sometimes to execute
  • 00:19:36.491 --> 00:19:40.028
  • Judgment upon his people.
  • 00:19:40.028 --> 00:19:42.864
  • We keep naively waiting for the next election to fix us while we
  • 00:19:42.864 --> 00:19:46.368
  • Don't change our hearts.
  • 00:19:46.368 --> 00:19:48.637
  • If we don't change our hearts, the elections are an expression
  • 00:19:48.637 --> 00:19:52.140
  • Of god's judgment.
  • 00:19:52.140 --> 00:19:55.844
  • How many times do we have to repeat the cycle before we take
  • 00:19:55.844 --> 00:19:59.047
  • It seriously?
  • 00:19:59.047 --> 00:20:02.351
  • Daniel chapter 4, nebuchadnezzar has a dream, and he's relating--
  • 00:20:02.351 --> 00:20:07.055
  • So the pagan king is relating his dream.
  • 00:20:07.055 --> 00:20:10.692
  • "the decision is announced by messengers; the holy ones
  • 00:20:10.692 --> 00:20:13.629
  • Declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the most
  • 00:20:13.629 --> 00:20:16.832
  • High is sovereign of the kingdoms of men and gives them
  • 00:20:16.832 --> 00:20:20.869
  • To anyone he wishes and sets them over the lowliest of men."
  • 00:20:20.869 --> 00:20:24.840
  • This is the dream nebuchadnezzar has had, and he's relating the
  • 00:20:24.840 --> 00:20:28.043
  • Dream, and he's asking for an interpretation; it's a mystery
  • 00:20:28.043 --> 00:20:30.512
  • To him.
  • 00:20:30.512 --> 00:20:32.047
  • He doesn't imagine there's any ruler anywhere in all of
  • 00:20:32.047 --> 00:20:35.217
  • Creation with authority greater than his.
  • 00:20:35.217 --> 00:20:38.453
  • And daniel gives him the interpretation.
  • 00:20:38.453 --> 00:20:40.889
  • You think it took some courage to say this to an ancient near
  • 00:20:40.889 --> 00:20:43.592
  • Eastern monarch?
  • 00:20:43.592 --> 00:20:45.227
  • I promise you, "this is the interpretation, o king; this is
  • 00:20:45.227 --> 00:20:51.533
  • The decree the most high has issued against the lord, my lord
  • 00:20:51.533 --> 00:20:56.672
  • The king."
  • 00:20:56.672 --> 00:20:58.373
  • And he goes on to say that the god of creation has said,
  • 00:20:58.373 --> 00:21:01.043
  • "you're going to lose your mind, and you'll live like an animal.
  • 00:21:01.043 --> 00:21:06.481
  • You'll wander in the field and lick the dew off the grass, and
  • 00:21:06.481 --> 00:21:09.551
  • Your nails will grow long like the claws of an animal."
  • 00:21:09.551 --> 00:21:13.689
  • And it happened.
  • 00:21:13.689 --> 00:21:18.293
  • And, when nebuchadnezzar comes back to his senses, daniel 4 is
  • 00:21:18.293 --> 00:21:24.333
  • His response, "at the end of time, i, nebuchadnezzar raised
  • 00:21:24.333 --> 00:21:27.035
  • My eyes towards heaven, and my sanity was restored.
  • 00:21:27.035 --> 00:21:31.373
  • Then i praised the most high; i honored and glorified him who
  • 00:21:31.373 --> 00:21:34.643
  • Lives forever."
  • 00:21:34.643 --> 00:21:35.977
  • You think?
  • 00:21:35.977 --> 00:21:38.480
  • And listen to what he says about god, "his dominion is an eternal
  • 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:42.184
  • Dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation.
  • 00:21:42.184 --> 00:21:46.788
  • All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing.
  • 00:21:46.788 --> 00:21:49.991
  • He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples
  • 00:21:49.991 --> 00:21:53.295
  • Of the earth.
  • 00:21:53.295 --> 00:21:54.629
  • No one can hold back his hand or say to him, 'what have
  • 00:21:54.629 --> 00:21:57.833
  • You done?'"
  • 00:21:57.833 --> 00:22:00.268
  • And, if we scroll forward to the 21st century, i would submit to
  • 00:22:00.268 --> 00:22:04.773
  • You that the people who fill our churches struggle to make a
  • 00:22:04.773 --> 00:22:07.008
  • Statement with the same courage and boldness and faithfulness
  • 00:22:07.008 --> 00:22:09.611
  • That nebuchadnezzar did.
  • 00:22:09.611 --> 00:22:12.080
  • And it would be good for us to meditate and reflect, to think
  • 00:22:12.080 --> 00:22:14.583
  • About a little bit, the fact that god is all powerful, he's
  • 00:22:14.583 --> 00:22:17.686
  • Almighty, and that we would rather align ourselves with him
  • 00:22:17.686 --> 00:22:21.723
  • And be obedient to him and submit to him than demand our
  • 00:22:21.723 --> 00:22:24.693
  • Own ways and demand that all of heaven be focused on giving me
  • 00:22:24.693 --> 00:22:27.396
  • What i want.
  • 00:22:27.396 --> 00:22:29.631
  • How might we cooperate with you?
  • 00:22:29.631 --> 00:22:32.701
  • Evil exists in the world.
  • 00:22:32.701 --> 00:22:35.504
  • It won't be banished until the king of kings returns to
  • 00:22:35.504 --> 00:22:38.106
  • Address it.
  • 00:22:38.106 --> 00:22:39.775
  • In the meantime, we stand in his authority and his power to hold
  • 00:22:39.775 --> 00:22:43.779
  • Out the truth of jesus christ, that it's available to transform
  • 00:22:43.779 --> 00:22:47.015
  • Any human life to deliver us from the authority of the
  • 00:22:47.015 --> 00:22:50.252
  • Kingdom of darkness and bring us into the kingdom of the son he
  • 00:22:50.252 --> 00:22:52.988
  • Loves, that we submit ourselves to that authority, acknowledging
  • 00:22:52.988 --> 00:22:58.026
  • Our need for a savior, repenting of our sins, asking for
  • 00:22:58.026 --> 00:23:01.897
  • Forgiveness, forgiving those who have sinned against us.
  • 00:23:01.897 --> 00:23:04.499
  • And we are granted this most remarkable, most supernatural
  • 00:23:04.499 --> 00:23:07.769
  • Birth into another kingdom.
  • 00:23:07.769 --> 00:23:10.639
  • And, from that point on, we spend our days learning to yield
  • 00:23:10.639 --> 00:23:15.444
  • And serve the king.
  • 00:23:15.444 --> 00:23:18.747
  • We will face challenges.
  • 00:23:18.747 --> 00:23:21.416
  • I have no doubt that the hatred in the world for the people of
  • 00:23:21.416 --> 00:23:24.019
  • God will grow.
  • 00:23:24.019 --> 00:23:27.255
  • I don't doubt that the israelis will deal with hamas, and most
  • 00:23:27.255 --> 00:23:31.226
  • Of the kingdoms of this world will moan and scream
  • 00:23:31.226 --> 00:23:33.962
  • Against them.
  • 00:23:33.962 --> 00:23:35.831
  • But i don't imagine that they will banish expressions of evil
  • 00:23:35.831 --> 00:23:38.800
  • Towards the jewish people.
  • 00:23:38.800 --> 00:23:41.169
  • Nor do i imagine that the hatred for the christian community in
  • 00:23:41.169 --> 00:23:44.773
  • Our culture is going to continue to stay underground.
  • 00:23:44.773 --> 00:23:48.109
  • What we've seen in corporate boardrooms, in academia, in the
  • 00:23:48.109 --> 00:23:51.613
  • Halls of our universities.
  • 00:23:51.613 --> 00:23:55.550
  • We protect pornographic books in our children's libraries.
  • 00:23:55.550 --> 00:23:58.553
  • We're mutilating children in our finest hospitals.
  • 00:23:58.553 --> 00:24:07.529
  • I watched, i saw a video, i remember stories from 1948 from
  • 00:24:07.529 --> 00:24:11.233
  • People that i knew, that said women were mutilated in the
  • 00:24:11.233 --> 00:24:14.169
  • Streets of jerusalem when israel became a state in '48.
  • 00:24:14.169 --> 00:24:17.539
  • And that wasn't because of persecution in the region.
  • 00:24:17.539 --> 00:24:19.941
  • It was a hatred for the jewish people.
  • 00:24:19.941 --> 00:24:22.911
  • I saw videos of similar behaviors this week.
  • 00:24:22.911 --> 00:24:28.683
  • As i watched them, i was reminded that we're mutilating
  • 00:24:28.683 --> 00:24:31.019
  • Our own young women in the hospitals of our nation.
  • 00:24:31.019 --> 00:24:35.724
  • The same spirit drives it all.
  • 00:24:35.724 --> 00:24:39.961
  • It's the spirit of antichrist; it hates the principles of god
  • 00:24:39.961 --> 00:24:44.332
  • And the people of god.
  • 00:24:44.332 --> 00:24:45.700
  • We're the church; we have an assignment.
  • 00:24:45.700 --> 00:24:49.337
  • It's a privilege to bear the name of jesus.
  • 00:24:49.337 --> 00:24:52.607
  • Now, let's use our influence in the places god has given to us
  • 00:24:52.607 --> 00:24:56.144
  • To be advocates for the kingdom of light, amen?
  • 00:24:56.144 --> 00:25:00.315
  • Let's go do difficult, in jesus's name.
  • 00:25:00.315 --> 00:25:03.318
  • Why don't you stand with me?
  • 00:25:03.318 --> 00:25:07.756
  • Father, thank you.
  • 00:25:07.756 --> 00:25:09.724
  • Thank you that you have awakened us, that you have given us an
  • 00:25:09.724 --> 00:25:13.595
  • Assignment and a purpose.
  • 00:25:13.595 --> 00:25:15.630
  • I thank you for the freedom and liberty we have, the resources
  • 00:25:15.630 --> 00:25:18.333
  • At our disposal, the freedoms to come and go, the technology, the
  • 00:25:18.333 --> 00:25:22.003
  • Tools to communicate.
  • 00:25:22.003 --> 00:25:23.371
  • You have blessed us.
  • 00:25:23.371 --> 00:25:25.340
  • We pray tonight for the peace of jerusalem.
  • 00:25:25.340 --> 00:25:29.044
  • They give the people of the land the wisdom to address the
  • 00:25:29.044 --> 00:25:31.646
  • Threats that they face in a way that will bring your security
  • 00:25:31.646 --> 00:25:35.617
  • To them.
  • 00:25:35.617 --> 00:25:36.985
  • Open their hearts to you as never before.
  • 00:25:36.985 --> 00:25:39.554
  • Give them a revelation of jesus of nazareth as their messiah.
  • 00:25:39.554 --> 00:25:45.226
  • They will bring peace to their hearts and peace with you.
  • 00:25:45.226 --> 00:25:48.463
  • I pray for your church and the earth, that you would awaken us
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  • From our slumber, from our distractions, from the things
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  • That have diminished us, and that we'd yield our hearts to
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  • You with a determination beyond anything we've ever known.
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  • Father, may our lives be pleasing to you.
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  • May we live in such a way that, when our days are spent and our
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  • Strength is diminished, that you can say, "well done."
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  • I thank you for it, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • Allen: you know no matter what source of news you turn to
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  • It's hard some days not to be overwhelmed with despair,
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  • The deception, the conflict in the earth,
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  • The suffering that's taking place in so many places,
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  • The struggling church in our own nation.
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  • But there are reasons for hope.
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  • God is moving in the most remarkable ways
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  • But we need to have a plan, a method, even a tool
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  • To help us give our thoughts and our hearts focused on god.
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  • Well, i have a suggestion, it's a little booklet
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  • We put together, it's called "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • It's built by topic each day with a scripture,
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  • A little devotional, and a prayer topically directed
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  • To help focus our thoughts at an awakening
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  • To god's invitations to us around that specific theme.
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  • We're awakened every day for the challenges of that day.
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  • Well let's ask the spirit of god to awaken us
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  • Consistently to what he would have us doing
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  • In this most unique season.
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  • God is moving, i want to move with him,
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  • And i believe you do too.
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  • And i believe "awaken us" will be a help.
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