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Allen Jackson - Run With the Horses (Part 1)

July 17, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Run With the Horses (Part 1)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Run With the Horses (Part 1) | July 17, 2025
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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: we've been working through a series under
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  • The general title of "let's do difficult."
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  • I don't believe our faith was intended to be easy, and,
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  • Unfortunately, i think we have been, for the most part,
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  • Addicted to comfort and convenience.
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  • So, we've been trying to establish some premises, kind of
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  • Foundational ideas for this little series, like we did easy
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  • Yesterday, that we're finished with easy, that we're willing to
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  • Raise our hand and say, "we'll do difficult," or "give us the
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  • Assignments others don't want."
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  • We'll go to places where people don't wanna go.
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  • We will pray through those difficult places.
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  • If you're searching for men and women that will say yes to you,
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  • Lord, we wanna raise our hands.
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  • We wanna join that great chorus of men and women through the
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  • Ages that have said, "here i am."
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  • Let's do difficult.
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  • Don't be afraid of it.
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  • Look, you can't do easy if god doesn't help you.
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  • Come on.
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  • The fact that we have small faith so we're afraid to trust
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  • God is not a declaration of great courage, and we're facing
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  • Some real challenges.
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  • I was invited this week on rather short notice to go to
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  • Washington, d.c., to the israeli embassy with a group of people
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  • To review raw footage from october the 7th.
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  • I agree.
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  • It--i wouldn't describe it to you in this setting.
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  • It was more than unsettling.
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  • It was brutal, it was beastly, it was ghastly.
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  • It was all of those things.
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  • More than 1200 israelis murdered.
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  • The darkest day in jewish history since the holocaust, by
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  • Their explanation, by their neighbors.
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  • There's a lot of feelings, a lot of questions, a lot of things to
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  • Be sorted out, but as i--it was video that was captured from
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  • Body cams.
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  • Many of the hamas attackers wore gopros.
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  • Some was from security cameras, some was from cell phones,
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  • Calling--they'd pick up the phone of someone that had been
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  • Murdered and call their family back in gaza and celebrate.
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  • "i've killed jews today."
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  • And you hear voices shouting in the background, "kill!"
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  • The most unsettling part wasn't the violence and the bloodshed.
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  • The most unsettling part was the absolute glee being expressed by
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  • Those who were committing those heinous acts.
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  • Then they loaded some hostages.
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  • There's still 120 or so.
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  • The numbers are difficult--but more than 100 hostages.
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  • They put some of them in the back of pickup trucks along with
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  • Some bodies.
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  • The request came from somebody in authority back in gaza,
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  • "bring the--bring some heads with you so we can carry them
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  • Through the streets.
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  • We want the people to be able to celebrate our great victory."
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  • And they put hostages in the back of the trucks and some of
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  • The bodies, and they drove back into gaza, and this is the part
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  • That was, to me, was the most unsettling: thousands and
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  • Thousands of people poured into the streets, celebrating with an
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  • Enthusiasm that exceeds anything you'd see in times square on new
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  • Year's eve.
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  • Ecstatic. ecstatic.
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  • And if they could push their way through the crowds--and most of
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  • Them couldn't, it was way too thick--to get to the truck
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  • Where the hostages were, they'd begin their own expressions
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  • Of abuse.
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  • I don't think you can understand what happened apart from
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  • A spiritual reality.
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  • You see, there's a spirit that drives all of that.
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  • It isn't political.
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  • It isn't about a race of people or a form of government.
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  • It's an expression of hatred and violence and behavior that can
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  • Only be understood as evil, and that is driven by a spirit.
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  • But i also listened to some interviews from families of
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  • Hostages, and they're exerting all the pressure they're capable
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  • Of on the israeli government to make whatever deal is necessary
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  • To have the hostages released.
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  • I understand that.
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  • Makes sense to me.
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  • There's tremendous international pressure for a ceasefire.
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  • Some of the most elite leaders in our own nation, certainly in
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  • Academia, have added their voices and their influence.
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  • They even refused to condemn the attack.
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  • Tremendous pressure.
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  • Then there's the pressure from the citizens that live in that
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  • Part of israel whom the government had promised that if
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  • They would live there on the border, that they guaranteed
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  • Their safety and security, and now more than 1,000 of them
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  • Were dead.
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  • The attack took place on simchat torah.
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  • It's one of the most sacred of all the sabbaths in israel.
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  • They--it's the time of the year when they celebrate the
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  • Completion of the scripture-reading-pattern cycle.
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  • They'll go to synagogue and they'll bring the torah scrolls
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  • Out on the streets, and they'll literally dance with the torah.
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  • It's a--the attack was timed to catch the israelis at a most
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  • Vulnerable, unprotected, unguarded moment, and,
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  • Tragically, it was successful.
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  • So, there's a tremendous breach of trust with their
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  • Own citizens.
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  • As i sat and listened and i thought about it since, there's
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  • No easy answer to anything.
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  • Those that are making decisions right now, they're gonna do
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  • Something difficult.
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  • You know, life doesn't always bring us easy things, and being
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  • A person of faith, being a born-again, spirit-filled,
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  • Bible-reading, demon-chasing, prayer-praying christ follower
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  • Does not remove you from the arena of difficulty.
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  • Nonsense.
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  • And we've had this adjusted gospel, this easy believe-ism,
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  • This kind of shallow something or other.
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  • Now, i'm happy when things are simple and when they go easily
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  • And when there's no complications.
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  • I rejoice on those days.
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  • But i wanna invite you to consider with me what it means
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  • To be the people of god that face difficult decisions because
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  • If we're not prepared for that, i do not have the imagination we
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  • Can flourish with what's before us.
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  • We did easy yesterday.
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  • I put a quote in your notes.
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  • I thought it was fun.
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  • It's from teddy roosevelt.
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  • He said, "if you could kick the person in the pants responsible
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  • For most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
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  • In a culture of victims, i like that a lot.
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  • If you'll allow me, i wanna submit that we've lived apart
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  • From spiritual awareness for too long.
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  • We've been so blessed.
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  • We've had such abundance.
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  • We've had so much freedom and so much liberty and so
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  • Much opportunity.
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  • We've imagined those things come from governments or politicians
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  • Or political parties or academia or economic cycles or something.
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  • We have separated our world into religion and science and acted
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  • As if that made sense, as if science could provide all
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  • The answers to our lives.
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  • Really?
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  • Follow the science, we're told, that if you follow god, you're
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  • Like a goofball.
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  • I'm an advocate for science.
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  • I spent a lot of academic time in the sciences.
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  • I have no problem with following the science.
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  • Science is a method.
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  • It's a method of understanding our world, of learning, of
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  • Growing, of exploring.
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  • When it becomes authoritarian and politicized, it's no
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  • Longer science.
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  • When it changes its state borders, it's not science.
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  • I wanna invite you as god's people back to this awareness of
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  • God and the spiritual forces as transcendent in our world.
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  • I've fully acknowledged the empirical world of our senses
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  • That can be measured and evaluated and judged.
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  • It's important, i don't wanna deny it, but there's a greater
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  • Authority, and the church has to believe that.
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  • In our recent snow and ice escapade--because in tennessee
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  • If we have any snow and ice, it's an escapade.
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  • We do not do that gently.
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  • Someone told me that they saw a snowman--i suppose now that's
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  • A snowperson--in the yard, and they said they drove by and
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  • Thought, "isn't it a wonderful example of evolution?
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  • All those snowflakes just falling in the right place.
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  • And that carrot emerging right there in the middle of that
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  • Top--" yeah.
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  • John chapter 4, in verse 24, says, "god is spirit, and his
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  • Worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
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  • The church has got to understand our dependence upon the spirit
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  • Of god.
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  • I love to learn, i like to study, i believe in discipline--
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  • All of those things--but there's a component beyond us,
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  • Beyond the nature of the fact that we are creatures: the
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  • Spirit of the living god within us.
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  • And we've got to be willing to open our hearts and our minds to
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  • That because we need outcomes that we can't organize.
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  • We need outcomes that are beyond our strength, beyond our wisdom,
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  • Beyond our experience.
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  • It doesn't mean we won't work and use our strength and our
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  • Experience and our resources, that we've expended all of
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  • Those things.
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  • We're looking to god, saying, "now bring an outcome that only
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  • You can bring."
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  • It's the church's unique role.
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  • It's why we're salt and light.
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  • We're a conduit for something that this world does
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  • Not represent.
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  • Evil exists in this world beyond the evil that just exists in the
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  • Hearts of people.
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  • Beyond our carnal, selfish nature, there is an evil in
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  • This world.
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  • The new testament describes it as principalities and powers and
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  • Spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
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  • We looked at that in more detail in a previous session.
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  • And if we imagine we can bal-- we can challenge those spiritual
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  • Forces of wickedness with only our intellect and our physical
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  • Strength, i assure you we're overmatched.
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  • So, it's necessary for the church to be aware and to have a
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  • Voice and the courage to use it, to acknowledge righteousness, to
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  • Not capitulate.
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  • Our assignment is to not build bridges to evil but to have the
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  • Courage to share the truth.
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  • Now, we can do it in love and compassion.
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  • We don't have to be angry or belligerent.
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  • We certainly don't have to be violent, but we
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  • Cannot capitulate.
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  • We cannot.
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  • Allen: hey we have a tool that i think will help you
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  • Overcome some of the chaos in the world
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  • And stay focused on the good things that god is doing.
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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's got a scripture, a little devotional,
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  • Allen: just a casual glance at current events shouts at us--
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  • What the prophet isaiah described as having our eyes
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  • Shut and our hearts covered.
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  • It seems we're not paying attention.
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  • I mean, it's as if we're in some sort of a stupor, some
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  • Self-induced something, coma, with just self-gratification:
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  • "if it works for me and i'm happy and it looks like we're
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  • Going along, okay, it's not my problem, and if i raise my hand
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  • Or use my voice or i stood up or if i broke my routine or i
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  • Missed whatever, it might have an impact upon me.
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  • It might force me to sacrifice something, and if it caused my
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  • Children to sacrifice something, then, by all means, i wouldn't
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  • Do it."
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  • If you're looking for the label for that, it's cowardice.
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  • Failure to stand up for what's right may have an immediate
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  • Cost, but the failure to do that will have a much higher cost,
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  • Not only for you but for the generations you think you're
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  • Protecting with your silence.
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  • History validates that.
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  • It's not my imagination.
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  • Just a real casual review--you don't have to--i'm not asking
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  • You to scour the media for the greatest events.
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  • Just a pretty quick glance through the window of recent
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  • History was september the 11th, 2021, that the united states
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  • Withdrew from afghanistan.
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  • September the 11th 2021, not very long ago, not quite three
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  • Years, about 2 1/2 years.
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  • We abandoned bagram air force base for our own security here
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  • In middle tennessee, one of the most strategic places on the
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  • Planet, and wherever else you might live in this nation.
  • 00:14:52.608 --> 00:14:57.446
  • We abandoned us citizens and personnel, breaking our
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  • Commitment to people who had supported us in a 20-year war
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  • Within days--and, honestly, within hours.
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  • With that last plane taking off--many of you remember
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  • The pictures: people hanging on the planes.
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  • Within hours of that departure, the taliban was in control
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  • Of afghanistan.
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  • Women were being brutalized.
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  • Children began to suffer in new ways again.
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  • Billions of dollars of weapons were in taliban control.
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  • September the 11th, 2021.
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  • Scroll forward just a few months, not long, not long
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  • At all.
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  • February of 2022 russia invaded ukraine.
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  • Now, there were many factors to that.
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  • I agree, it's a complex thing, but a significant factor in that
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  • Was our nation's unwillingness to deconstruct provocation.
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  • We took positions and asserted policies that made that invasion
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  • Almost a certainty.
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  • No question.
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  • Since that time, since february of 2022, just two years,
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  • The united states has provided more than $75 billion in support
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  • Because the border of ukraine was violated.
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  • There have been more than 500,000 casualties in two years.
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  • You haven't heard any demands from the international community
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  • For humanitarian ceasefires.
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  • You haven't heard any rumbling from the intellectual elites
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  • Of our most celebrated universities.
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  • I won't call them prestigious anymore.
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  • They're just celebrated.
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  • Five hundred thousand casualties.
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  • Scroll forward two years: february of 2024.
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  • Our own nation is unwilling to protect our border.
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  • They actually, with a straight face, look at us and say, "we
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  • Don't have the money to build a fence."
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  • But we're busy.
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  • We got ball games to go to, things to do and trips to take
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  • And vacations to plan, so we don't really pay much attention.
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  • Millions of people have invaded our own country illegally.
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  • Illegally is the important part.
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  • We're a nation of immigrants.
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  • I'm an advocate for immigration, but it needs to be
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  • Done legally.
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  • Otherwise, we're giving multiplied millions of people
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  • From more than 160 nations.
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  • Many estimates suggest that since 2021, eight million people
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  • Have made their way illegally into our nation.
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  • If they gain access illegally, there should be no imagination
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  • That they're required to obey any of the other laws that
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  • We have.
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  • It's just fanciful.
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  • It's a fantasy.
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  • Then we act like we don't notice.
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  • And the christian community says, "well, it's compassion."
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  • Folks, if you help somebody do something that's illegal, you're
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  • Not being compassionate.
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  • You're an accessory.
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  • And the illegal behavior continues with very
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  • Minimal consequences.
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  • This is not imagination.
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  • Just this past week, we found out, coming from the halls of
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  • Congress, you can drive if you're illegal--if you're here
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  • Illegally, and if you're here legally, if you're a citizen,
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  • This does not apply to you, but if you're here illegally, you
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  • Can drive under the influence of alcohol and be arrested for
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  • Felonies, and that's not sufficient reason for any
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  • Significant punishment.
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  • We certainly wouldn't deport you.
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  • We'd want to participate with your illegal behavior.
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  • That's per our congress.
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  • Multiplied billions of dollars for borders of other places and
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  • Such a lack of concern for our own citizens and the quality of
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  • Life in our cities, for our health care systems and our
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  • Educational systems, and the people that are trying to make
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  • Our local communities work, that we just close our eyes and stop
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  • Our ears at millions of people flooding into our nation
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  • Illegally from the nations of the world.
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  • I've read multiple reports of late that said the attack of
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  • October the 7th in israel is all--some form of that is
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  • Almost a certainty in our nation.
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  • Do you think the spirits of hatred--folks, if it isn't
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  • About race and it isn't about organized religion, if it's
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  • Spiritual, do you think those spirits aren't present in
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  • Our nation?
  • 00:19:52.374 --> 00:19:55.944
  • Spiritual forces are shaping our lives more than economic and
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  • Political forces are.
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  • What we're watching--if you just watch it casually, you
  • 00:20:01.283 --> 00:20:04.119
  • Don't have to study it.
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  • You don't have to meditate on it.
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  • Don't give great hours to it.
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  • If you watch it just casually, it's very plain it is
  • 00:20:08.190 --> 00:20:11.293
  • Both illogical.
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  • It cannot be understood in terms of economic or political policy.
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  • It breaks all rational streams of thought that way.
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  • And i know the answers.
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  • I hear them frequently.
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  • "well, to make changes will be difficult.
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  • We have systems."
  • 00:20:30.045 --> 00:20:31.413
  • Stop telling me about your systems.
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  • If there's millions of people pouring across the border, i
  • 00:20:32.748 --> 00:20:34.950
  • Don't wanna hear about a system.
  • 00:20:34.950 --> 00:20:41.657
  • Or we say, "well, you know, i'm not responsible."
  • 00:20:41.657 --> 00:20:43.458
  • No, you're responsible for your table, for your little sphere
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  • Of influence.
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  • "well, i'm doing okay."
  • 00:20:48.664 --> 00:20:51.133
  • That is a very short-sighted perspective.
  • 00:20:51.133 --> 00:20:54.336
  • And this is probably the most honest thing i hear: "well, i
  • 00:20:54.336 --> 00:20:56.138
  • Would really prefer someone else do something.
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  • So, can we elect somebody or we could appoint somebody or will
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  • You be a spokeswoman?
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  • Can we get somebody to do something?"
  • 00:21:03.979 --> 00:21:06.581
  • Well, go home and find a mirror and just--and make
  • 00:21:06.581 --> 00:21:08.750
  • The announcement: "i have found someone."
  • 00:21:08.750 --> 00:21:12.587
  • It's a beginning point.
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  • So, here's the invitation: let's do difficult.
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  • I would submit to you that throughout the course of
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  • Scripture, throughout the story of the bible, season after
  • 00:21:20.162 --> 00:21:23.799
  • Season, place after place, change in empire, whatever it
  • 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:27.703
  • May be, god has called on his people to do difficult things.
  • 00:21:27.703 --> 00:21:32.341
  • One of my favorite passages in the bible is the book of
  • 00:21:32.341 --> 00:21:35.010
  • Jeremiah, and i think jeremiah has one of the most difficult
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  • Job descriptions in the bible.
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  • He's a prophet in jerusalem and his message is "destruction is
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  • Coming and there's nothing you can do."
  • 00:21:43.085 --> 00:21:46.088
  • That will not get you invited on the a-list banquet circuit.
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  • I promise, it will not.
  • 00:21:50.926 --> 00:21:55.297
  • He didn't get to announce that there was going to be a great
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  • Deliverance or a supernatural intervention.
  • 00:21:57.199 --> 00:21:59.468
  • He's saying to the covenant people of god, "the enemy is
  • 00:21:59.468 --> 00:22:02.738
  • Coming, and your blood will run in the streets because of the
  • 00:22:02.738 --> 00:22:06.742
  • Condition of your heart, so there's nothing you can do."
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  • Jeremiah has complained to the lord, and god answers jeremiah.
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  • Chapter 12 and verse 5, you have it.
  • 00:22:15.917 --> 00:22:17.919
  • He said, "jeremiah, if you've raced with men on foot and
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  • They've worn you out, how can you compete with the horses?
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  • If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the
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  • Thickets by the jordan?"
  • 00:22:28.697 --> 00:22:31.133
  • Then maybe it's 'cause i grew up around horses.
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  • I spent a bit of time in stalls and cleaning those, doing all
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  • The things you have to do if you spend time around horses, and
  • 00:22:37.939 --> 00:22:41.643
  • When--as a little boy, when i was around them, they
  • 00:22:41.643 --> 00:22:43.678
  • Frightened me.
  • 00:22:43.678 --> 00:22:45.046
  • They were stronger than i was and more powerful than i was,
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  • And they snorted and stomped and blew, made a mess.
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  • I knew i was overmatched completely.
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  • My dad was a veterinarian.
  • 00:22:56.458 --> 00:22:57.826
  • He didn't have that fear. he loved horses.
  • 00:22:57.826 --> 00:23:00.462
  • So, if you lived with him, you were gonna learn to be
  • 00:23:00.462 --> 00:23:02.063
  • Around horses.
  • 00:23:02.063 --> 00:23:03.398
  • I complained.
  • 00:23:03.398 --> 00:23:04.766
  • It was not registered.
  • 00:23:04.766 --> 00:23:07.202
  • If he needed an assistant--i was the oldest for a while--i
  • 00:23:07.202 --> 00:23:09.771
  • Got recruited.
  • 00:23:09.771 --> 00:23:11.139
  • My brothers, thankfully, stepped into the breach, but for a while
  • 00:23:11.139 --> 00:23:12.808
  • I was the recruit.
  • 00:23:12.808 --> 00:23:14.543
  • You know how that works, right?
  • 00:23:14.543 --> 00:23:15.877
  • You go into a stall of some old farmer's barn, and if you
  • 00:23:15.877 --> 00:23:19.147
  • Haven't been in farmers barns, they don't clean their stalls,
  • 00:23:19.147 --> 00:23:21.583
  • Like, every four hours, so there's an accumulation of
  • 00:23:21.583 --> 00:23:25.654
  • Organic matter, and they're often not lit very well, and
  • 00:23:25.654 --> 00:23:31.593
  • It's not uncommon that they don't call the veterinary until
  • 00:23:31.593 --> 00:23:33.929
  • The end of the day, 'cause they wait all day to see if the horse
  • 00:23:33.929 --> 00:23:35.931
  • Is gonna get better.
  • 00:23:35.931 --> 00:23:37.933
  • When the horse doesn't get better, it's getting dark,
  • 00:23:37.933 --> 00:23:39.534
  • "maybe we better call the doc."
  • 00:23:39.534 --> 00:23:42.170
  • So, off we go in the dark.
  • 00:23:42.170 --> 00:23:44.940
  • So, we take a flashlight in there.
  • 00:23:44.940 --> 00:23:47.709
  • We'd catch the horse and secure him, and he'd begin the
  • 00:23:47.709 --> 00:23:50.111
  • Examination--and that sounds polite, but if an animal doesn't
  • 00:23:50.111 --> 00:23:53.215
  • Feel well, if they got a cut or a puncture wound or an abrasion
  • 00:23:53.215 --> 00:23:57.519
  • And it's gonna require treatment, guess what the
  • 00:23:57.519 --> 00:23:59.654
  • Doctor's gonna do?
  • 00:23:59.654 --> 00:24:02.057
  • He's got a push on it, prod it, poke in it, irritate it.
  • 00:24:02.057 --> 00:24:08.363
  • If you've never been around a horse, they don't like that.
  • 00:24:08.363 --> 00:24:12.801
  • They just don't, so they get agitated.
  • 00:24:12.801 --> 00:24:15.537
  • Guess what your assignment is?
  • 00:24:15.537 --> 00:24:16.905
  • Hold the horse still.
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  • Oh, sure, no problem, obi wan.
  • 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:22.978
  • Well, you know, i weighed in at about 120, all muscle,
  • 00:24:22.978 --> 00:24:29.284
  • And he makes the diagnosis and he's gotta go back to the truck
  • 00:24:32.754 --> 00:24:35.156
  • To get the medicine to take care of the sick animal.
  • 00:24:35.156 --> 00:24:38.159
  • "but we won't turn the horse loose, so i'm gonna leave you
  • 00:24:38.159 --> 00:24:42.197
  • Alone in the dark."
  • 00:24:42.197 --> 00:24:45.767
  • You know what you do during those little interims, right?
  • 00:24:45.767 --> 00:24:48.336
  • You pray for the rapture, right?
  • 00:24:48.336 --> 00:24:51.773
  • "god, any moment now."
  • 00:24:51.773 --> 00:24:56.978
  • But i had enough experience that horses don't frighten me--big
  • 00:24:56.978 --> 00:25:01.116
  • Ones or little ones, angry ones.
  • 00:25:01.116 --> 00:25:03.618
  • But i was always amazed at their strength.
  • 00:25:03.618 --> 00:25:06.855
  • They can pick you up off the ground with just their
  • 00:25:06.855 --> 00:25:08.423
  • Neck, even be today.
  • 00:25:08.423 --> 00:25:11.826
  • That's a lift.
  • 00:25:11.826 --> 00:25:14.829
  • Tremendous strength.
  • 00:25:14.829 --> 00:25:16.197
  • And god says to jeremiah, "jeremiah, if you're complaining
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  • Because you're running with the foot soldiers, son, i need you
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  • To run with the horses."
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  • Somebody stopped me somewhere along the street.
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  • She said, "yeah, but it's been difficult."
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  • Okay, i'm asking you to recalibrate, recalibrate.
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  • Difficult for a toddler is different than difficult for
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  • A 16-year-old.
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  • It's different for someone who's 30.
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  • We recalibrate all through our lives.
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  • I'm asking you to begin to prayerfully say to the lord, "i
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  • Would like to grow with you.
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  • Let's do difficult.
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  • I wanna run with the horses."
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  • Allen: hey we have a tool that we think will help
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  • Strengthen you in this season.
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  • A lot of confusion and chaos in our world,
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  • A lot of fear.
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  • I hear from people every day battling in their minds,
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  • In their lives with the uncertainty of our world.
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  • Well, it's a booklet called "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30 day plan, every day has a theme with a scripture,
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  • A little devotional, and a prayer for that specific theme.
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  • The idea is that every day we're gonna ask the spirit of god
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  • To awaken us to a new aspect of god's provision in our lives.
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  • You know, hopefully we wake up everyday to the opportunities
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  • And the challenges of that day.
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  • Well, this is gonna correspond to that.
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  • We're gonna ask the spirit of god to awaken us
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  • To what god is doing in this season.
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  • We're not alone and we don't have to be overcome by fear.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, i thank you that there's nothing
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  • That confronts us that intimidates
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  • Or threatens you.
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  • That you have made provision for complete victory
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  • In every aspect of our lives.
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  • Lead us now as we turn our faces to you
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  • To a season of peace and hope and wholeness
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • This book, it'll be a blessing.
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