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Allen Jackson - Satanic Responses (Part 2)

October 24, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Satanic Responses (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Satanic Responses (Part 2) | October 24, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, we're witnessing something of a
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  • Crisis in our nation, something i never thought i would see:
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  • Expressions of antisemitism, hatred for the jewish people
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  • Coming from america, coming from the christian community,
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  • The conservative side of the ideological spectrum to a degree
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  • And scope i've never seen before.
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  • Well, it's important enough that i stopped and put
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  • Together a book.
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  • The title of it is "supporting israel: how far is too far?"
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  • It's an important concept.
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  • It isn't political.
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  • It's grounded in a biblical worldview.
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  • I think we need to understand our responsibilities to the
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  • Jewish people, to the modern state of israel,
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  • Not from an ideological perspective,
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  • Not from the perspective of nation states,
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  • But as people of god.
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  • It's important, it's an important season.
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  • A lot of voices--you know, i know there's some fatigue with
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  • The conflict in the middle east, but we can't afford to
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  • Be fatigued with our assignments to honor god and the
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  • Responsibilities that come with that.
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  • I believe the book will be a help to you.
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  • I believe it'll help you navigate the conversation
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  • With your family and your friends.
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  • Enjoy the read.
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  • Allen: jesus said in john 10 that satan comes to steal, to
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  • Kill, and destroy, not to disrupt, distract, and cause you
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  • To feel blue.
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  • He's here to destroy you.
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  • There's some lessons to be learned from this.
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  • Same chapter, verse 6, says, "hezekiah appointed military
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  • Officers over the people and assembled them before him in the
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  • Square at the city gate and encouraged them with these
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  • Words: 'be strong and courageous.
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  • Don't be afraid or discouraged because of the king of assyria
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  • And the vast army with him.
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  • There's greater power with us than with him.
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  • With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the lord
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  • Our god to help us and to fight our battles.'
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  • And the people gained confidence from what hezekiah the king of
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  • Judah said."
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  • If you want to know what they were feeling, you can know by
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  • What hezekiah was saying to them.
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  • "be strong and courageous."
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  • They felt frightened and discouraged.
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  • They're outnumbered and outgunned.
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  • The assyrian army has better technology.
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  • They have a string of victories.
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  • He said, "don't be afraid or discouraged.
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  • There's a greater power with us."
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  • It didn't look like it.
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  • It looked like all the power is with the assyrians.
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  • I think we tend to think that way.
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  • We think, well, we're small in number, we're few in number, i'm
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  • Not particularly influential, i don't have a great deal of
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  • Power, i'm not an influencer, i don't have a platform, i don't
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  • Have a lot of money.
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  • No, what we have is the name of almighty god.
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  • And hezekiah said to them, "they have only the arm of flesh.
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  • With us is the lord our god."
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  • And that's the distinction that we'll have to spend
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  • More time thinking about.
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  • You see, when there's a challenge in your life or mine,
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  • We have a diagnosis that we don't want or we have a
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  • Circumstance in our life that feels threatening or we have a
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  • Child that is a point of concern or somebody that we love is in a
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  • Difficult place, and we see all the reasons why it feels
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  • Hopeless or despair should dominate, and we lose sight of
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  • That "with us is the lord our god."
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  • And he's with us for a very specific reason.
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  • Hezekiah articulated, he said he's to help us and to fight
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  • Our battles.
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  • And the outcome is the people that says gained confidence in
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  • The lord.
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  • I would submit to you what we want to do in this season is not
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  • Be discouraged because we have a christian martyr in 2025, to not
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  • Be frightened because there is a lot of wickedness and violence
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  • And lawlessness is proliferating across our country.
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  • I woke up, just on the way to work this morning i heard the
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  • Mayor of chicago just raging because they were arresting
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  • Venezuelan gang members in his city.
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  • I was thinking, gee, thank you might have been okay.
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  • But i prefer to keep my attention focused on the lord.
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  • He's helping us.
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  • He's the one where we want to gain our confidence.
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  • Now in the next verse, verse 15, the king, the assyrian general,
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  • Has a statement to make.
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  • He said, "don't let hezekiah deceive you and mislead you
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  • Like this.
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  • Don't believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been
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  • Able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of
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  • My fathers."
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  • That part is true.
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  • They've conquered every people they've attacked.
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  • "'how much less will your god deliver you from my hand!'
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  • Sennacherib's officers spoke further against the lord god and
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  • Against his servant hezekiah."
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  • There will always be voices of dissent.
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  • There will always be voices telling you you shouldn't trust
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  • God, you shouldn't believe in god.
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  • What's gotten into you?
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  • What are you thinking?
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  • Why are you holding that position?
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  • Why are you making that choice?
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  • Why are you willingly becoming vulnerable?
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  • And oftentimes those voices are powerful voices.
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  • In the world today, there are powerful voices, powerful
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  • Platforms that mock god and mock people who believe in god, who
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  • Practice deception as a matter of daily habit.
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  • And when the truth comes out, they hide the truth or deny
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  • The truth.
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  • I don't know, put it in your notes: cnn, msnbc.
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  • You can make your own list.
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  • They're not exactly bastions of great truth.
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  • Hezekiah is identified as god's servant.
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  • So in the face of all of this slander and this boasting of
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  • Evil, hezekiah begins with opening the temple, cleaning out
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  • The filth, gathering the people to worship, giving generously.
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  • And his obedience led to conflict.
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  • We, we've got to get emotionally prepared for that.
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  • We're shocked.
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  • Folks, it's at the opening of the bible.
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  • God created, he says he created adam and eve, he put them in the
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  • Garden and he said, "it's very good."
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  • And he came in the afternoon and he walked with them and all of
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  • His complete provision for their lives, and what happens?
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  • Satan rolls up and said, "did god really say?"
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  • I mean, the nature of this existence we have is presented
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  • To us from the opening chapters of the bible to the conclusion,
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  • And yet i'm still surprised.
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  • I didn't expect it to be difficult.
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  • I didn't expect there to be opposition.
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  • I didn't expect to have to overcome something.
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  • I thought i had to overcome, like, sermons that were too long
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  • Or parking places that were too far away.
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  • And now i've got, like, something that's really
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  • A--really a problem.
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  • It's, like, really threatening, and where's god?
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  • It's like we haven't paid much attention.
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  • Same chapter, chapter 32, verse 17.
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  • The adversaries are gonna increase their contempt for
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  • The lord.
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  • "the king wrote letters," the assyrian king wrote letters,
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  • "insulting the lord, the god of israel, saying this against him:
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  • 'just as the gods of the peoples of the other lands didn't rescue
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  • Their people from my hands, so the god of hezekiah will not
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  • Rescue his people.'
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  • They called out in hebrew to the people of jerusalem who were on
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  • The wall, to terrify them, to make them afraid in order to
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  • Capture the city.
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  • They spoke about the god of jerusalem as they did about the
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  • Gods of the other peoples of the world--the work of men's hands.
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  • And king hezekiah and the prophet isaiah cried out in
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  • Prayer to heaven."
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  • I'm not gonna take the time to walk you through the other
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  • Places in the scripture where this narrative is supported.
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  • This isn't the only passage.
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  • But the shorthand on it is when hezekiah heard the threats of
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  • The assyrian king, he prayed.
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  • And when isaiah went to see hezekiah, he said, "because
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  • You prayed."
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  • And because you prayed, god intervenes.
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  • And i'm telling you, one of the tactics that the scripture
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  • Presents to us is that satan will try to intimidate you by
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  • Giving expressions of contempt for god.
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  • And then that contempt will come.
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  • Sometimes it comes in the form of a diagnosis.
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  • "nothing can save you for what i'm about to tell you."
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  • Oh, something can.
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  • Sometimes it comes in the shape of a moral opinion that says
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  • Your morality is out of date, that we're more progressive than
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  • That now, we're more enlightened, and you'll have to
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  • Say, "no, i believe what god said."
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  • Sometimes it'll be a voice challenging your decision to
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  • Structure your family and make that family a priority in
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  • Your lives.
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  • And you have to say, "no, no, i believe that's valuable."
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  • Hezekiah's adversaries sought to take their contempt for god and
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  • To pour it out over all the people.
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  • We see that happening all the time.
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  • People celebrating charlie kirk's death, "he got what
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  • He deserved."
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  • None of us want what we deserve.
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  • And we certainly don't want what we think our enemies think
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  • We deserve.
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  • Amen.
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  • God's response is in the next verse, verse 21, "the lord sent
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  • An angel."
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  • This takes a minute to get your brain around.
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  • "the lord sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men
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  • And the leaders and officers in the camp of the assyrian king."
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  • An angel destroyed an entire army.
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  • An angel.
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  • I thought all angels did was worship.
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  • No, there's some that destroy armies.
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  • "so he withdrew to his own land in disgrace."
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  • The one who had mocked god and said he's like all the other
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  • Gods, "your nation is no different, don't listen to
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  • Hezekiah," he withdrew in disgrace.
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  • "and when he went into the temple of his god, some of his
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  • Sons cut him down with the sword.
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  • So the lord saved hezekiah and the people of jerusalem from the
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  • Hand of the king of assyria, and from the hand of all others.
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  • And he took care of them on every side."
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  • Again, if i were writing the narrative, i'd just clip that
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  • Little segment out.
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  • I'd rather just, you know, i'm good without the
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  • Assyrian chapter.
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  • I'd rather not have to live through that.
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  • I'd rather not have to hear their threats.
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  • I would rather not have to have the anxiety.
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  • I would just--but you know, we didn't write the narrative.
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  • The point of the scripture is to help us understand the character
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  • Of god, the nature of god, the nature of god's adversaries so
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  • That we might have the strength and the courage to complete
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  • Our assignment.
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  • And throughout the narrative through, from the beginning of
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  • The book until the end, the challenges to the purposes of
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  • God are consistent, and we're called to overcome them.
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  • God responded to hezekiah.
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  • The attack of the assyrians resulted in blessings.
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  • And in reality, the adversary that approached galvanized the
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  • Progress which hezekiah had begun.
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  • You visit jerusalem today, if we, if i could pick you up--and
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  • Wouldn't that be fun?
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  • Wish we could.
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  • I'd buy you coffee at aroma.
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  • Except we couldn't get any tonight.
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  • It's yom kippur and they're closed.
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  • So then we'll wait 24 hours before i pick you up and take
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  • You, but if we had the time, we'd go to the city of david.
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  • Jerusalem had one primary water source, this spring in the
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  • Kidron valley.
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  • And when they thought that that they might be invaded by the
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  • Assyrians, hezekiah organized his engineers and his workers
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  • And they brought the water source inside the city.
  • 00:12:09.154 --> 00:12:12.524
  • And until today, if you visit jerusalem, you can walk through
  • 00:12:12.524 --> 00:12:14.826
  • Hezekiah's tunnel, which empties into the pool of silom, which
  • 00:12:14.826 --> 00:12:20.398
  • Happened to be the place in john's gospel where jesus sent
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  • The man with the mud that he put on his eyes to wash the
  • 00:12:22.934 --> 00:12:25.904
  • Mud away.
  • 00:12:25.904 --> 00:12:28.973
  • So, you could visit jerusalem today and see the impact that
  • 00:12:28.973 --> 00:12:32.610
  • Hezekiah made because of the threat of an enemy.
  • 00:12:32.610 --> 00:12:37.682
  • So even under that threat, god used it to bring good things to
  • 00:12:37.682 --> 00:12:40.652
  • The city.
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  • And i would tell you that if you're under threat tonight,
  • 00:12:42.153 --> 00:12:44.489
  • Physical threat, emotional threat, financial threat, if
  • 00:12:44.489 --> 00:12:48.092
  • Your family is besieged, if we will turn our hearts to the
  • 00:12:48.092 --> 00:12:51.629
  • Lord, god will use what the enemy means for destruction to
  • 00:12:51.629 --> 00:12:56.034
  • Bring about not just an overcoming, it will bring
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  • Blessings that will continue for decades and decades to come.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Allen: you know, how should we respond to the nation of
  • 00:13:15.053 --> 00:13:16.888
  • Israel and the jewish people?
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  • It's a complex question in today's world.
  • 00:13:18.923 --> 00:13:21.292
  • Well, i've written a book, "supporting israel:
  • 00:13:21.292 --> 00:13:23.328
  • How far is too far?"
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  • To help us establish a biblical perspective on what has become a
  • 00:13:25.263 --> 00:13:29.000
  • Complex question in contemporary culture.
  • 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:32.437
  • We don't want to follow the guidance and the counsel of some
  • 00:13:32.437 --> 00:13:35.340
  • Of the elite universities in this nation.
  • 00:13:35.340 --> 00:13:37.876
  • We want to form a perspective that's built from god's word.
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  • If we'll do that, it'll bring his blessings to our lives.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • Female announcer: from the pages of scripture to the front
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  • Lines of today's news, israel stands at the center
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  • Of god's purposes.
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  • Pastor allen's new booklet, "supporting israel:
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  • How far is too far?"
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  • Offers a quick way to gain a biblical perspective on israel,
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  • Why israel matters to god, and why it should matter to us.
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  • Request your copy with your gift of any amount today at
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  • Allen: god is awakening a church, not an impotent church,
  • 00:14:15.346 --> 00:14:18.516
  • Not a theoretical a church, a church filled with the spirit of
  • 00:14:18.516 --> 00:14:21.519
  • God, giving demonstration to the power of god.
  • 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:25.990
  • 2 chronicles 32:24, "in those days, hezekiah became ill."
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  • Are you kidding me?
  • 00:14:31.029 --> 00:14:35.166
  • I mean, the last verse from then on, he was highly regarded by
  • 00:14:35.166 --> 00:14:38.036
  • All the nations.
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  • That's verse 23.
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  • Hezekiah is highly regarded by all the nations and, "in those
  • 00:14:41.873 --> 00:14:46.377
  • Days he became ill and was at the point of death.
  • 00:14:46.377 --> 00:14:51.382
  • And he prayed to the lord who answered him and gave him a
  • 00:14:51.382 --> 00:14:54.052
  • Miraculous sign.
  • 00:14:54.052 --> 00:14:56.120
  • But hezekiah's heart was proud, and he didn't respond to the
  • 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:59.490
  • Kindness shown him; therefore the lord's wrath was on him and
  • 00:14:59.490 --> 00:15:02.894
  • On judah and jerusalem.
  • 00:15:02.894 --> 00:15:04.796
  • Then hezekiah repented of the pride of his heart, as did the
  • 00:15:04.796 --> 00:15:07.632
  • People of jerusalem; and the lord's wrath did not come upon
  • 00:15:07.632 --> 00:15:11.035
  • Them during the days of hezekiah."
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  • There's a lot more to that story, more than we have time to
  • 00:15:14.405 --> 00:15:16.774
  • Unpack, but, again, i think the pattern is very helpful.
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  • In the midst of a tremendous victory and even international
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  • Acclaim, because he overcame the most feared opponent of his
  • 00:15:23.982 --> 00:15:28.152
  • Generation, god provided deliverance.
  • 00:15:28.152 --> 00:15:30.722
  • The secular nations looked at that and they thought, well, it
  • 00:15:30.722 --> 00:15:32.824
  • Had to be hezekiah's military strategy.
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  • It had to be something to do with the might of the people
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  • Of judah.
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  • It had to be that the defenses of the city of jerusalem, none
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  • Of which was actually the source, but that would be the
  • 00:15:44.168 --> 00:15:47.872
  • Analysis of the secular nations around them.
  • 00:15:47.872 --> 00:15:52.076
  • So hezekiah and judah are elevated in the sight of all
  • 00:15:52.076 --> 00:15:54.846
  • Those other people.
  • 00:15:54.846 --> 00:15:56.481
  • And then it says he got sick.
  • 00:15:56.481 --> 00:16:00.518
  • And he cried out to the lord, but in his pride--
  • 00:16:00.518 --> 00:16:04.889
  • You know what the expression of his pride was?
  • 00:16:04.889 --> 00:16:08.026
  • Envoys from babylon came to jerusalem.
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  • They'd heard about hezekiah.
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  • They had heard about their victory over the assyrians.
  • 00:16:12.163 --> 00:16:15.466
  • Guess who the rising world power was?
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  • Babylon.
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  • So babylon sends envoys to jerusalem, they want to see this
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  • Group of people who defeated the most feared adversary of
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  • The day.
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  • And hezekiah, you know what he did?
  • 00:16:28.579 --> 00:16:31.315
  • He showed them all the treasures of the temple.
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  • "remember all those piles of things i said the
  • 00:16:35.053 --> 00:16:36.988
  • People brought?"
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  • Hezekiah boasted about the affluence of the nation to the
  • 00:16:38.923 --> 00:16:44.328
  • Rising power of the region.
  • 00:16:44.328 --> 00:16:47.398
  • And the babylonians decided, "we'll take that."
  • 00:16:47.398 --> 00:16:51.669
  • And isaiah, the one, the prophet that bears his name, was a
  • 00:16:51.669 --> 00:16:54.338
  • Contemporary of hezekiah.
  • 00:16:54.338 --> 00:16:55.673
  • God gave him the coaching he needed.
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  • He's not a wicked king.
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  • He's a godly king.
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  • He's a culture shaper.
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  • He's done so many good things.
  • 00:17:07.118 --> 00:17:10.021
  • May i ask you a question?
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  • Is it possible for those of us who have lived with the lord,
  • 00:17:12.523 --> 00:17:17.395
  • Who think our credentials are pretty solid, the fruit of our
  • 00:17:17.395 --> 00:17:21.299
  • Life is pretty good, do you have the imagination that you could
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  • Make choices that would bring forfeiture to yourself or to
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  • Your family?
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  • You know, i see the young people's hearts being stirred,
  • 00:17:33.111 --> 00:17:35.146
  • And i'm so thankful for that, but i'm very conscious that
  • 00:17:35.146 --> 00:17:38.516
  • Those who have a bit of experience with the lord have a
  • 00:17:38.516 --> 00:17:41.352
  • Very significant role to play.
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  • I read about the students, young men at a christian school
  • 00:17:45.022 --> 00:17:48.292
  • In nashville.
  • 00:17:48.292 --> 00:17:50.795
  • Required to wear coats and ties, and they showed up with red ties
  • 00:17:50.795 --> 00:17:53.564
  • Honoring charlie kirk.
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  • And the headmaster called them in and made them take it off.
  • 00:17:58.603 --> 00:18:03.875
  • It said when the kids got to the football game that week, they
  • 00:18:03.875 --> 00:18:05.943
  • Were chanting, the student body was chanting to fire
  • 00:18:05.943 --> 00:18:08.880
  • The headmaster.
  • 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:16.754
  • That's the zeal of youth.
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  • But for the outcome to stick, it'll take the courage of
  • 00:18:19.524 --> 00:18:21.993
  • The elders.
  • 00:18:21.993 --> 00:18:27.732
  • You see, we can't sit safely on our good intentions and go,
  • 00:18:27.732 --> 00:18:31.302
  • "isn't it wonderful that the young people's hearts
  • 00:18:31.302 --> 00:18:33.070
  • Are stirred?"
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  • Will we have the courage to disrupt our familiar places?
  • 00:18:34.472 --> 00:18:38.342
  • Will we be willing to identify, be identified with the move
  • 00:18:38.342 --> 00:18:41.379
  • Of god?
  • 00:18:41.379 --> 00:18:43.114
  • Or will we be more interested in maintaining our social network
  • 00:18:43.114 --> 00:18:46.851
  • And our place in the community?
  • 00:18:46.851 --> 00:18:51.722
  • Hezekiah, in his pride, forfeited a great deal.
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  • But he repented.
  • 00:18:58.829 --> 00:19:02.366
  • You see, we live in that dynamic, that tension.
  • 00:19:02.366 --> 00:19:05.770
  • We allow too much arrogance into our lives.
  • 00:19:05.770 --> 00:19:08.506
  • We don't think there's really anything significant for us to
  • 00:19:08.506 --> 00:19:10.708
  • Repent of because we're born again, we've experienced the
  • 00:19:10.708 --> 00:19:13.578
  • New birth.
  • 00:19:13.578 --> 00:19:14.946
  • We have no imagine that there--imagination, or very
  • 00:19:14.946 --> 00:19:16.914
  • Little, that there could be a significant forfeiture of what
  • 00:19:16.914 --> 00:19:19.317
  • God intends for us.
  • 00:19:19.317 --> 00:19:21.953
  • Hezekiah is a part of the covenant people of god.
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  • He's the king in is--judah in jerusalem.
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  • He's revered in scripture as a tremendous expression of
  • 00:19:27.525 --> 00:19:30.695
  • Faithfulness to god.
  • 00:19:30.695 --> 00:19:32.597
  • And yet, in the pride of his heart there was a significant
  • 00:19:32.597 --> 00:19:35.299
  • Forfeiture and he was required to repent.
  • 00:19:35.299 --> 00:19:37.802
  • Are you willing to imagine that we might need to do that?
  • 00:19:37.802 --> 00:19:42.773
  • And then finally, verse 32, "the other events of hezekiah's reign
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  • And his acts of devotion are written in the vision of the
  • 00:19:46.143 --> 00:19:49.580
  • Prophet isaiah and in the book of the kings
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  • Of judah and israel.
  • 00:19:52.917 --> 00:19:54.252
  • Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried on the hill where
  • 00:19:54.252 --> 00:19:57.221
  • The tombs of david's descendants are.
  • 00:19:57.221 --> 00:19:59.090
  • And all judah and the people of jerusalem honored him when
  • 00:19:59.090 --> 00:20:01.459
  • He died.
  • 00:20:01.459 --> 00:20:03.094
  • And manasseh his son succeeded him as king."
  • 00:20:03.094 --> 00:20:08.065
  • Hezekiah's obedience to god transformed culture.
  • 00:20:08.065 --> 00:20:12.336
  • You and i don't have the power to transform the culture in
  • 00:20:12.336 --> 00:20:14.872
  • Which we live.
  • 00:20:14.872 --> 00:20:16.474
  • What we do have is the power to be obedient to god.
  • 00:20:16.474 --> 00:20:20.011
  • And if we will choose obedience to god in an unrelenting way, in
  • 00:20:20.011 --> 00:20:24.081
  • A courageous way, god will transform our culture.
  • 00:20:24.081 --> 00:20:29.153
  • You know, people say often that i'm too political, and i have
  • 00:20:29.153 --> 00:20:34.125
  • Very little interest in that because i don't think politics
  • 00:20:34.125 --> 00:20:36.294
  • Will fix us.
  • 00:20:36.294 --> 00:20:37.895
  • I have a tremendous interest in the people of god being obedient
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  • To god.
  • 00:20:41.899 --> 00:20:43.567
  • And that means more than having a polite bible study.
  • 00:20:43.567 --> 00:20:46.103
  • It means we have to live out the tenets of our faith in the
  • 00:20:46.103 --> 00:20:49.774
  • Context of the culture in which we find ourselves, and that will
  • 00:20:49.774 --> 00:20:53.477
  • Frequently put us at odds with political correctness and many
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  • Of the values of a secular culture.
  • 00:20:58.349 --> 00:21:01.552
  • And there will be a cost to that.
  • 00:21:01.552 --> 00:21:04.555
  • And there will be labels affixed to you, and often they won't
  • 00:21:04.555 --> 00:21:07.124
  • Be flattering.
  • 00:21:07.124 --> 00:21:08.759
  • But it's worthwhile.
  • 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:10.961
  • Every generation has to make a choice for themselves.
  • 00:21:10.961 --> 00:21:14.332
  • Hezekiah was only 25.
  • 00:21:14.332 --> 00:21:17.968
  • It was remarkable what he accomplished with his life.
  • 00:21:17.968 --> 00:21:20.171
  • It's worth noting his son manasseh was one of the most
  • 00:21:20.171 --> 00:21:24.575
  • Evil kings of israel.
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  • And i've asked myself, i walked around with this for several
  • 00:21:26.944 --> 00:21:29.647
  • Days and i thought, how does that happen?
  • 00:21:29.647 --> 00:21:32.183
  • And i'll give you my opinion.
  • 00:21:32.183 --> 00:21:33.551
  • You could disagree with me and we could both go to heaven, but
  • 00:21:33.551 --> 00:21:37.054
  • The text is very clear that it was a minority of the people
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  • That agreed with hezekiah.
  • 00:21:39.724 --> 00:21:42.293
  • And when it's time for manasseh to lead, which is easier, to
  • 00:21:42.293 --> 00:21:48.232
  • Lead a minority of the people in a set of choices towards
  • 00:21:48.232 --> 00:21:51.035
  • Obedience to god or to face the majority of the people and give
  • 00:21:51.035 --> 00:21:55.272
  • Them permission, the license to be permissive?
  • 00:21:55.272 --> 00:22:00.111
  • I think manasseh took the easy way.
  • 00:22:00.111 --> 00:22:04.348
  • I think he took the easy way.
  • 00:22:04.348 --> 00:22:07.118
  • And i think that's exactly the proposition that's before the
  • 00:22:07.118 --> 00:22:09.820
  • Contemporary church.
  • 00:22:09.820 --> 00:22:12.223
  • Will we choose obedience to the lord or will we try to please
  • 00:22:12.223 --> 00:22:15.593
  • The secular culture?
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  • There's many things you can do that you can
  • 00:22:17.428 --> 00:22:20.164
  • Biblically call good.
  • 00:22:20.164 --> 00:22:21.499
  • You can be generous to the poor, you can be inclusive, you can
  • 00:22:21.499 --> 00:22:26.704
  • Be tolerant.
  • 00:22:26.704 --> 00:22:28.506
  • You can do many things that a secular culture will applaud and
  • 00:22:28.506 --> 00:22:31.842
  • Be very disobedient to god.
  • 00:22:31.842 --> 00:22:37.047
  • Manasseh, some of you will remember, is the one who had
  • 00:22:37.047 --> 00:22:39.917
  • Isaiah placed in a log and sawn in two.
  • 00:22:39.917 --> 00:22:46.023
  • It wasn't enough that he played to please the mob.
  • 00:22:46.023 --> 00:22:50.327
  • He tried to destroy the voices that stood in opposition
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  • To godliness.
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  • We have a choice to make, whether we'll choose obedience
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  • To god.
  • 00:22:59.303 --> 00:23:01.705
  • We're not powerless, folks.
  • 00:23:01.705 --> 00:23:03.040
  • They're simple things.
  • 00:23:03.040 --> 00:23:04.408
  • We can go back to our kitchen table, we can shuffle
  • 00:23:04.408 --> 00:23:07.178
  • Our calendar.
  • 00:23:07.178 --> 00:23:09.413
  • We can say to one another, "no, this matters.
  • 00:23:09.413 --> 00:23:13.551
  • If we'll do this, god will meet us."
  • 00:23:13.551 --> 00:23:16.620
  • We have things to be overcome where we need god's help, and
  • 00:23:16.620 --> 00:23:19.857
  • Yet we have discounted the simple ways that we can honor
  • 00:23:19.857 --> 00:23:22.993
  • God in our lives.
  • 00:23:22.993 --> 00:23:24.895
  • If we'll go back to those simple things that we know, i believe
  • 00:23:24.895 --> 00:23:29.066
  • We will see expressions of god's power beyond anything we've ever
  • 00:23:29.066 --> 00:23:32.870
  • Experienced together.
  • 00:23:32.870 --> 00:23:34.672
  • It's an exciting time.
  • 00:23:34.672 --> 00:23:39.009
  • And to the skeptics, i finished the outline: boom.
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  • Stand with me.
  • 00:23:44.448 --> 00:23:47.151
  • I know, once, but it's okay.
  • 00:23:47.151 --> 00:23:48.886
  • It's a beginning.
  • 00:23:48.886 --> 00:23:52.256
  • And only one light exploded.
  • 00:23:52.256 --> 00:23:57.294
  • Wow.
  • 00:23:57.294 --> 00:24:01.198
  • You know, i learned from a mentor when i was a young person
  • 00:24:01.198 --> 00:24:05.169
  • A very simple principle that has stayed with me: that if you want
  • 00:24:05.169 --> 00:24:11.509
  • God's best, you have to want god's best.
  • 00:24:11.509 --> 00:24:16.881
  • Aren't i deep?
  • 00:24:16.881 --> 00:24:19.517
  • And i would like to close with that as your invitation.
  • 00:24:19.517 --> 00:24:23.053
  • If you would like god's best in your life tonight, i don't
  • 00:24:23.053 --> 00:24:26.590
  • Believe it's complicated, you'll have to choose god's best, which
  • 00:24:26.590 --> 00:24:31.629
  • Means you'd lay down anything else that you might put
  • 00:24:31.629 --> 00:24:34.064
  • Before that.
  • 00:24:34.064 --> 00:24:36.400
  • Could we make that commitment to the lord?
  • 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:40.170
  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, thank you.
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  • Thank you for your word, the access we have, lord, that we
  • 00:24:42.873 --> 00:24:46.377
  • Can see the stories of those who have preceded us and by your
  • 00:24:46.377 --> 00:24:50.848
  • Spirit we can learn from their lives.
  • 00:24:50.848 --> 00:24:53.884
  • Lord, we live in a time when there is tremendous confusion
  • 00:24:53.884 --> 00:24:57.187
  • And lawlessness and deception, and yet there are remarkable
  • 00:24:57.187 --> 00:25:01.825
  • Expressions of the spirit of god.
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  • The truth is being told, it's being shouted from the house
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  • Tops, it's being declared in the halls of power.
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  • We see the lives of multiplied thousands of young people
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  • Turning to you, father.
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  • We praise you for what we see you doing.
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  • And tonight as we stand in your presence, we come in humility.
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  • Lord, forgive us for our pride.
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  • Forgive us for those times when we have imagined ourselves so
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  • Secure in our journey with you that we respond with arrogance.
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  • Lord, we choose to humble ourselves, to acknowledge you as
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  • Our lord and our king.
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  • We choose obedience to you.
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  • The desire of our heart is your best in our lives, to give you
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  • Our best that we might see your best.
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  • I thank you for what you're doing, that you're awakening
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  • Your people.
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  • Lord, use our simple lives, use our homes and our kitchen
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  • Tables to bring transformation to the culture in which we live.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • Allen: you know, we don't read our bibles just for exercise or
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  • Just to be dutiful christians.
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  • We read our bibles to understand how to navigate a complex world,
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  • How to understand what's unfolding around us.
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  • We're living in a season where there's a lot of emotion
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  • Expressed about the jewish people and the nation of israel.
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  • From some very well-established elite places
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  • There are voices saying they don't deserve our support.
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  • Well, i wrote a book, "supporting israel:
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  • How far is too far?"
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  • So that we can have a biblical perspective on our response to
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  • Current events.
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  • At the end of the day, i want to align myself with the purposes
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  • Of god, not the thought leaders at elite ivy league schools or
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  • The talking heads in the media.
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  • I intend to stand with the purposes of god.
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  • This book will help you unpack the current events and
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  • Understand the perspective from the viewpoint of scripture on
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  • How you and i can respond in a way that i believe will bring
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  • The blessings of god to our lives and help us accomplish his
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  • Purposes in our generation.
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  • It's worth the read.
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  • ♪♪♪
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