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Allen Jackson - Spiritual Warfare In The Workplace (Part 1)

February 18, 2025 | S25:E52

Allen Jackson - Spiritual Warfare In The Workplace (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Spiritual Warfare In The Workplace (Part 1) | February 18, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: it's good to be with you again.
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  • I wanna give you an invitation today.
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  • We do a weekly podcast called "culture & christianity."
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  • I sit down with friends who are making a difference in our
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  • Culture or who have experienced god in a very profound way.
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  • There's a new podcast gets posted every friday.
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  • You can go any place where you get your podcast.
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  • Just look for "culture & christianity."
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  • I believe it will be a blessing to you.
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  • Our program today is one of our more recent podcasts.
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  • I sat down with a friend, john amanchukwu.
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  • He's visited more than 17 states talking to school boards about
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  • Illicit material in the school libraries.
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  • It was a powerful presentation of how to take our faith outside
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  • Of the church and make an impact with it.
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  • I think you'll enjoy getting to know john and his message is
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  • Important for this generation.
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  • Enjoy the podcast.
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  • Allen: well, welcome back to "culture & christianity."
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  • I am delighted to have my friend john amanchukwu with us
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  • Again today.
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  • We did a podcast some months ago.
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  • If you missed that, let me send you back there.
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  • I think it'll bless you.
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  • We talked about lies that americans believe.
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  • And john, as you will find out in a moment, speaks with some
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  • Clarity and truthfulness that is refreshing.
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  • I'm of the opinion that the church has to tell more truth
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  • Than the politicians do.
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  • And we currently have an administration that's trying to
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  • Tell the truth, so the church is gonna have to raise our game a
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  • Little bit, those of us they believe we're christ followers,
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  • We also have a live audience with us today, which is not
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  • Normal for a podcast.
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  • We have got a room filled with teenagers.
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  • Can y'all make a little noise?
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  • Yes.
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  • So john and i get into this discussion and you hear noise in
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  • The room it's not they're coming for us, they're very much
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  • Encouraging us.
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  • So john, welcome back.
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  • It's good to have you.
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  • John amanchukwu sr.: thank you so much for having me back on.
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  • It's a joy to be here.
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  • Allen: it is always an honor to be with you.
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  • Now the last time we were together, you were just
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  • Releasing a project, a documentary that you've been
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  • Working on called "22 words."
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  • John: yes, "22 words."
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  • It's a film that really covers the history of how the american
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  • Education system imploded.
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  • You know, in 1962, you had the court case,
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  • The engel v. vitale court case
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  • Where they lobbied to remove school
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  • Sponsored prayer from the public education system.
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  • It took place in hyde park, new york.
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  • There was a simple non-denominational,
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  • Non-proselytizing prayer that was allowed to be recited every
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  • Day, led by the school system and or the teachers.
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  • And the prayer is simple, it's short.
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  • It says, "almighty god, we acknowledge our dependence upon
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  • Thee, and we but--and we beg thy blessings upon us, our parents,
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  • Our teachers, and our country."
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  • Allen: and they objected to that prayer.
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  • John: they objected to that prayer and the prayer only had
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  • 22 words and it hence the title of the film "22 words."
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  • And from that terrible court case and ruling, the supreme
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  • Court ruled eight to one to remove that prayer.
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  • We have seen the american education systems
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  • Spiral downward.
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  • We've gone from prayer to porn.
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  • From prayer to transgenderism.
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  • From prayer to critical race theory where today, kids go to
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  • School who are white and they're told that they're inherently
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  • Racist because of the pigmentation of the skin tone
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  • And blacks are being labeled as proverbial victims.
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  • It's division.
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  • We've gone from prayer to transgenderism.
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  • We've gone from prayer to now kids going to school and they're
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  • Saluting and having the blm flag or the pride flag and the
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  • Progress flag flown at their school system.
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  • And so we have seen these things take place, but it's a direct
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  • Result of removing god from the public school system.
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  • I believe that any place where god is banned,
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  • That place is cursed.
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  • You can't reap the favor and the benefits of a holy and righteous
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  • God when that god is no longer welcome.
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  • Allen: yeah, i'd agree with you and my academic career kind of
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  • Tracks when all that happened.
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  • I was a child, but i mean, i lived through that.
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  • And the idea was that if you said that prayer in a classroom
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  • And one person objected, then you couldn't say that prayer
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  • Because if one person was offended you didn't have
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  • Permission to take the values of a larger group
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  • And force them on that person, am i right?
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  • Is that the idea?
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  • John: it is, that's the idea.
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  • Allen: and so because of that, the christians and we were
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  • Overwhelmingly christian, but if one person raised their hand,
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  • Well, the christians said, well then we won't do that.
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  • We don't wanna be offensive.
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  • So scroll forward 50 years.
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  • And now we find the schools that will bring in lgbtq, they'll
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  • Bring in all sorts of things.
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  • And if i raised my hand and i say i'm offended, now they say,
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  • "you're wrong."
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  • John: you're wrong, and they label you as being a hate monger
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  • Or a bigot or a homophobic when if you go 50 years back it was
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  • Okay to have the voice of dissent.
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  • And so today we live in a culture where if you disagree
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  • With the person, then disagreement equals hate.
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  • And that shouldn't be the case just because you disagree
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  • Doesn't mean that you hate someone, just means that you
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  • Disagree on a point.
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  • I can still love you and disagree with you.
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  • But there's a new religion that's being taught.
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  • It's the religion of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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  • It's the religion of communism and marxism.
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  • There are people who hate the cause of christ and the name of
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  • Christ so much that they want to shout and scream,
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  • "death to america."
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  • Kids are taught to hate the american flag and to hate the
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  • Founding of our country.
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  • There's so much divisive talk and rhetoric that's being pumped
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  • Into the hearts and the minds of our children and so many of our
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  • Kids are confused today.
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  • They're on this pendulum of wondering whether or not this
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  • Country is good or whether it's the worst country ever on the
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  • Face of the planet.
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  • And so all of this divides america, but we want to
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  • Unite america.
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  • And there's nothing wrong with viewing this country as
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  • A christian nation.
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  • America was founded upon judeo-christian principles.
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  • I still believe that.
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  • You believe that and that doesn't simply make me a
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  • Christian nationalist.
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  • They've made that a derogatory term, right?
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  • But it really means that you hold to traditional values,
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  • Values that stemmed from the word of god.
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  • Allen: well let's go back to dei because that's had an
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  • Enormous amount of public funding.
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  • We've got dei ingrained in our academics, particularly at the
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  • University level.
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  • And i've heard a lot of pastors that endorse it and they'll say
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  • That it's biblical.
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  • You have a formal theological education.
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  • Do you agree that dei as it's being presented in our culture
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  • Is a biblical idea?
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  • John: it's not a biblical idea.
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  • You have to be careful taking worldly terms and the
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  • Terminologies that come from secular humanist and for people
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  • Who have a true disdain for the scriptures and the infallibility
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  • Of the word of god.
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  • We have to be careful taking their colloquialisms and their
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  • Terms and bringing them into a biblical context.
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  • We don't need critical race theory or diversity, equity, and
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  • Inclusion or any of those things to thrive in this country or in
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  • Any country.
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  • Really what we need is to get back to true biblical
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  • Principles, to love your neighbor as yourself and to
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  • Expect people to work and to labor and to toil.
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  • You know, the bible says if a man doesn't work, neither shall
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  • He eat.
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  • We see where god gave a group of men talents.
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  • And some of the men used the talents and they went out and
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  • They produced more and one didn't do anything.
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  • And for the person who did nothing, god took what he had.
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  • You know, this whole framework of equity is a big lie and in
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  • The education system today, they want to redefine proficiency.
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  • So today, you change the grading scale and no longer do you view
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  • A certain grade level as grade as an a or b, it has to change
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  • The scale towards a person's output, whether or not they're
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  • Studying or applying themselves academically.
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  • And so the bible promotes work.
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  • It promotes sweat equity, you know.
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  • It talks about the ant and the sluggard, you know, and the work
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  • That they put out.
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  • And so one of the things that we have to keep in mind today is
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  • That we are creating a generation of narcissistic
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  • Non-working children who are expecting to reap the benefits
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  • Of their parents where they had to labor and to toil to receive
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  • The things that they have.
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  • Life isn't easy.
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  • You're going to have to burn the midnight oil.
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  • Look at most successful people.
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  • Those people sleep little, but they spend a lot of time
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  • In their craft, honing and developing their skill set.
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  • It takes a lot of time and then there's a lot of failure
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  • As well.
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  • You don't start off as a successful business
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  • Leader initially.
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  • You have to go through the hard and lean years at first.
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  • But what this notion of equity seeks to do is seeks to take
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  • From the losers, right?
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  • It takes from the winners and gives to the losers.
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  • People who haven't worked and labored in toil.
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  • There are some people who grow up in homes who have never seen
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  • Their parents leave the home to go to work because all of their
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  • Lives they've lived off of the government system.
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  • You know, i know of some people who have for decades, they've
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  • Never worked and they just work the system and they use the
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  • Disability programs that are there and the safety nets of
  • 00:10:12.794 --> 00:10:17.265
  • Welfare begin to get exploited, you know.
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  • Welfare is a safety net, but it's not a hammock.
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  • Growing up as a kid, you know, i grew up in utter poverty.
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  • My mother took care of four children and making no more than
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  • $28,000 a year.
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  • I know what it's like to ration out milk and cereal.
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  • I know what it's like to take some milk and put it in a bowl
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  • And put some water in there to give the idea that you have milk
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  • Only to put a little bit of cereal in that and that's all
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  • You have, right?
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  • But my mother had the mindset that instead of us expecting the
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  • Government to provide everything for us, she took on another
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  • Job, right?
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  • I remember many times where she'll clock in at one job and
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  • Then get back home, change her clothes and go clock in to
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  • Another job.
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  • Sometimes she worked nearly 16 hours a day.
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  • We did go through a time frame where we were on welfare, but we
  • 00:11:19.294 --> 00:11:21.896
  • Came off of it speedily because my mom didn't like the idea that
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  • We were receiving government assistance and or we had to go
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  • To a different lunch line to receive our food at school.
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  • So mom taught us that there were two things that we can do with
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  • Our hands.
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  • We can turn them upside down and beg or turn them right side up
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  • And work.
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  • And one of the things that has to be ingrained in this culture
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  • Today is that working is a virtue.
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  • We have to view it as a virtue.
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  • Nothing is free, nothing comes easy, but this hyperculture of
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  • Instant gratification and life is going to be a microwaved hot
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  • Pocket, right?
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  • Things are gonna come easy.
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  • It really doesn't work that way and it begins to degenerate the
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  • Hearts and the minds of our upcoming generation.
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  • Allen: you know, i've had the habit for a while of saying that
  • 00:12:12.881 --> 00:12:14.849
  • I think work is an expression of worship.
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  • John: that's good, that's good.
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  • Allen: when you take the tools and the gifts and the abilities
  • 00:12:18.486 --> 00:12:20.421
  • That god has given you and you use them, if you point the
  • 00:12:20.421 --> 00:12:26.795
  • Responses to that if you're good at it and people say, "you did a
  • 00:12:26.795 --> 00:12:29.664
  • Nice job," if you point that to the lord, you're helping people
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  • Give glory and honor to god for what he did in you.
  • 00:12:33.535 --> 00:12:37.038
  • So that work isn't something to be avoided or to be
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  • Explained away.
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  • God gave us gifts.
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  • I mean, he gave you some crazy gifts.
  • 00:12:43.278 --> 00:12:45.980
  • I mean, you got to play d1 football, you've got
  • 00:12:45.980 --> 00:12:49.517
  • College degrees.
  • 00:12:49.517 --> 00:12:50.885
  • I mean, you got a broad menu of gifts.
  • 00:12:50.885 --> 00:12:52.754
  • And we'd be stupid to go we're self-made men.
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  • God gave us some gifts and then we went to work with them.
  • 00:12:55.757 --> 00:12:59.127
  • So i love your message.
  • 00:12:59.127 --> 00:13:00.895
  • I think that there's a lot of generations
  • 00:13:00.895 --> 00:13:02.831
  • That can benefit from that.
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  • Allen: i believe 2025 is gonna be a year of change, significant
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  • Change and i don't think it's gonna be limited to
  • 00:13:15.210 --> 00:13:17.912
  • Washington d.c.
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  • I think in that there's a tremendous opportunity.
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  • It's not a threat to me.
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  • It's really a promise from god.
  • 00:13:23.117 --> 00:13:24.619
  • In fact, i wanna suggest that we take this year as a year for
  • 00:13:24.619 --> 00:13:27.222
  • Some real breakthroughs.
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  • That we imagine god's intervention in our lives in our
  • 00:13:28.723 --> 00:13:31.559
  • Homes, in our communities, in our congregations in our nation.
  • 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:35.763
  • Well, to do that we can't just maintain the status quo.
  • 00:13:35.763 --> 00:13:38.633
  • We've got to be willing to be different.
  • 00:13:38.633 --> 00:13:40.101
  • So i wanna suggest a tool.
  • 00:13:40.101 --> 00:13:41.636
  • It's a book i have written called "intentional faith" and
  • 00:13:41.636 --> 00:13:45.006
  • It invites you towards some very simple behaviors, but if you
  • 00:13:45.006 --> 00:13:48.676
  • Will build in the intent for them to become a part of your
  • 00:13:48.676 --> 00:13:51.980
  • Routine, it opens your life to god's intervention, it
  • 00:13:51.980 --> 00:13:55.917
  • Facilitates breakthroughs.
  • 00:13:55.917 --> 00:13:57.785
  • Let's not just be passive and hope god does something.
  • 00:13:57.785 --> 00:14:00.622
  • Let's choose a pathway where we raise our hand and say, "god, we
  • 00:14:00.622 --> 00:14:03.825
  • Are here, we will cooperate."
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  • And let's make 2025 a year of god's breakthrough
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  • For each of us.
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  • Female announcer: think of the places where you are purposely
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  • And intentionally saying, "yes" to god.
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  • Maybe it's reading your bible every day or being faithful
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  • To pray.
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  • It might be helping a neighbor instead of pretending you don't
  • 00:14:20.675 --> 00:14:23.044
  • Notice their need.
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  • When you take time to purposely seek god and follow his lead,
  • 00:14:24.412 --> 00:14:28.082
  • You begin to see breakthroughs emerge, change in your faith,
  • 00:14:28.082 --> 00:14:31.386
  • Your life, and your relationship that only god could orchestrate.
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  • Pastor allen's book, "intentional faith" provides ten
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  • Simple things you can do to invite god's direction into your
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  • Allen: and i wanna plant a seed.
  • 00:15:04.319 --> 00:15:05.653
  • I really wanna ask you to spend some time reflecting on it.
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  • Allow the spirit of god to make it real to you.
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  • You wanna think consciously about the places where you are
  • 00:15:12.593 --> 00:15:15.630
  • Purposefully, very intentionally saying, "yes" to the lord.
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  • And i would submit to you, you want that list to grow.
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  • You don't wanna reflect upon it.
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  • You don't wanna, it's not like a history lesson.
  • 00:15:26.541 --> 00:15:28.409
  • These are the places where i did say, "yes" to the lord.
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  • You wanna be able to tell that narrative in the way these are
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  • The places where i am currently engaged with god because those
  • 00:15:34.082 --> 00:15:39.087
  • Are the places where breakthroughs emerge.
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  • Absent those.
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  • I believe you are forfeiting god's interventions.
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  • Breakthrough and make 2025 a year where we see god's best in
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  • Allen: let's talk, you mentioned dei and crt.
  • 00:16:10.985 --> 00:16:14.122
  • Those are all constructs and programs around race.
  • 00:16:14.122 --> 00:16:16.958
  • John: exactly.
  • 00:16:16.958 --> 00:16:18.526
  • Allen: so can we just take a minute 'cause i think there's so
  • 00:16:18.526 --> 00:16:20.261
  • Much confusion about how to talk about race and so much anger.
  • 00:16:20.261 --> 00:16:23.965
  • They've used it to divide us.
  • 00:16:23.965 --> 00:16:25.333
  • We need one another.
  • 00:16:25.333 --> 00:16:26.801
  • John: well, you know, we have--you can't tackle the issue
  • 00:16:26.801 --> 00:16:31.439
  • Of racism, you know, 'cause when it comes to race there's only
  • 00:16:31.439 --> 00:16:34.876
  • One race, the human race, but there's different ethnicities,
  • 00:16:34.876 --> 00:16:38.780
  • You know.
  • 00:16:38.780 --> 00:16:40.114
  • However, it's hard for a person who may not be black to
  • 00:16:40.114 --> 00:16:45.653
  • Understand the race issue unless they go back to a historical
  • 00:16:45.653 --> 00:16:50.258
  • Time frame and understand the climate and the culture and the
  • 00:16:50.258 --> 00:16:54.662
  • Tenor of society of that day where blacks may have been
  • 00:16:54.662 --> 00:16:59.267
  • Labeled as 3/5 human, where blacks were told that they
  • 00:16:59.267 --> 00:17:02.804
  • Couldn't drink from the same water fountain as whites.
  • 00:17:02.804 --> 00:17:05.773
  • And what i'm referencing right now are some jim crow laws that
  • 00:17:05.773 --> 00:17:09.010
  • Were drafted by the democrat party that has to be brought up,
  • 00:17:09.010 --> 00:17:13.448
  • You know, because the democrat party is the party that drafted
  • 00:17:13.448 --> 00:17:16.117
  • The jim crow laws and held on to slavery as well and resisted the
  • 00:17:16.117 --> 00:17:20.822
  • 1964 civil rights act initially is also.
  • 00:17:20.822 --> 00:17:24.225
  • And so we have to look at that, but you have to go back and and
  • 00:17:24.225 --> 00:17:27.762
  • See the cultural lens of that day and time to best understand
  • 00:17:27.762 --> 00:17:31.933
  • Where we are today.
  • 00:17:31.933 --> 00:17:33.734
  • Critical race theory is a vengeance movement.
  • 00:17:33.734 --> 00:17:38.539
  • The mentality is this.
  • 00:17:38.539 --> 00:17:40.775
  • Since blacks went through harsh treatment in the early time
  • 00:17:40.775 --> 00:17:46.047
  • Frame of slavery and or the jim crow era, they believe that it's
  • 00:17:46.047 --> 00:17:50.985
  • Incumbent upon them to now force whites to go through the
  • 00:17:50.985 --> 00:17:54.355
  • Same treatment.
  • 00:17:54.355 --> 00:17:55.957
  • So since blacks were bludgeoned and castigated, therefore,
  • 00:17:55.957 --> 00:17:59.727
  • Whites have to endure that.
  • 00:17:59.727 --> 00:18:01.095
  • Ibram kindi, one of the leading voices for critical race theory
  • 00:18:01.095 --> 00:18:04.532
  • Said that the best way to deal with past racism is
  • 00:18:04.532 --> 00:18:08.436
  • Present racism.
  • 00:18:08.436 --> 00:18:09.904
  • Now, when we take that viewpoint and line it up to scripture, we
  • 00:18:09.904 --> 00:18:13.374
  • Find what the bible says.
  • 00:18:13.374 --> 00:18:15.643
  • That these things shouldn't be because god says that vengeance
  • 00:18:15.643 --> 00:18:20.982
  • Is mine sayeth the lord.
  • 00:18:20.982 --> 00:18:23.017
  • What is right, i will repay.
  • 00:18:23.017 --> 00:18:26.354
  • And so we don't take it upon ourselves and now to treat
  • 00:18:26.354 --> 00:18:29.590
  • Whites harshly solely because of what happened in the past.
  • 00:18:29.590 --> 00:18:34.729
  • And then we also have to keep in mind that there aren't any
  • 00:18:34.729 --> 00:18:38.332
  • Blacks alive today who are slaves.
  • 00:18:38.332 --> 00:18:41.802
  • And there are no whites alive today who own slaves.
  • 00:18:41.802 --> 00:18:45.540
  • And so many of these things can be wrapped up in the mindset of
  • 00:18:45.540 --> 00:18:49.944
  • These are things that ancestors did, but we've grown far from
  • 00:18:49.944 --> 00:18:54.916
  • Where we once were.
  • 00:18:54.916 --> 00:18:56.651
  • And so how do we bring healing to the racial conversations.
  • 00:18:56.651 --> 00:19:01.822
  • The best way to do it is to point towards scriptures and
  • 00:19:01.822 --> 00:19:05.593
  • Understand that we are made in the image of god, in the imago
  • 00:19:05.593 --> 00:19:08.996
  • Dei, and my white--my blackness isn't deficient nor is your
  • 00:19:08.996 --> 00:19:13.768
  • Whiteness superior.
  • 00:19:13.768 --> 00:19:15.603
  • That we're equal at the foot of the cross.
  • 00:19:15.603 --> 00:19:18.272
  • That aligns both parties.
  • 00:19:18.272 --> 00:19:20.908
  • But we then have to tackle these issues head on and when things
  • 00:19:20.908 --> 00:19:25.646
  • Take place in the culture where we can see well, that was the
  • 00:19:25.646 --> 00:19:29.150
  • Issue that we can address, we speak up about it, you know.
  • 00:19:29.150 --> 00:19:32.954
  • Many people turn silent when it's time to voice their
  • 00:19:32.954 --> 00:19:37.158
  • Opinions on these things solely sometimes because they have a
  • 00:19:37.158 --> 00:19:40.294
  • Skewed mindset towards it and or because they don't want to
  • 00:19:40.294 --> 00:19:44.498
  • Realize the truth of the situation.
  • 00:19:44.498 --> 00:19:45.900
  • You look at the george floyd case, you look at the ahmed
  • 00:19:45.900 --> 00:19:48.769
  • Abury situation.
  • 00:19:48.769 --> 00:19:50.905
  • Similar situations, but rather different.
  • 00:19:50.905 --> 00:19:54.809
  • The culture sought to exploit those things for financial gain.
  • 00:19:54.809 --> 00:19:59.447
  • Look at the black lives matter movement founded by three
  • 00:19:59.447 --> 00:20:02.883
  • Lesbian women who at the end of the day, raised over $90 million
  • 00:20:02.883 --> 00:20:09.290
  • And not a single penny went to the descendants of george floyd.
  • 00:20:09.290 --> 00:20:13.761
  • However, they bought mansions and outfits and clothes and
  • 00:20:13.761 --> 00:20:18.733
  • Fingernails and hair extensions and all of these various
  • 00:20:18.733 --> 00:20:21.502
  • Different things were purchased with that money, but none of the
  • 00:20:21.502 --> 00:20:23.938
  • Money went towards benefiting the black community.
  • 00:20:23.938 --> 00:20:27.041
  • And so these people are called race hustlers and race baiters.
  • 00:20:27.041 --> 00:20:31.812
  • And one of the things that we find through history is that
  • 00:20:31.812 --> 00:20:35.616
  • That is a job.
  • 00:20:35.616 --> 00:20:38.686
  • Some people take it upon them to make it their job to keep
  • 00:20:38.686 --> 00:20:42.823
  • People divided.
  • 00:20:42.823 --> 00:20:44.392
  • The democrat party does that quite well.
  • 00:20:44.392 --> 00:20:46.394
  • Every two to four years in order to gain support from blacks,
  • 00:20:46.394 --> 00:20:50.364
  • We have to say that the white man is gonna take us back.
  • 00:20:50.364 --> 00:20:53.234
  • Back to what?
  • 00:20:53.234 --> 00:20:55.002
  • That's what reverend al sharpton and reverend jesse jackson and
  • 00:20:55.002 --> 00:20:58.906
  • All of these other individuals were shouting the past the
  • 00:20:58.906 --> 00:21:02.276
  • Election that president trump is going to take us back and the
  • 00:21:02.276 --> 00:21:06.514
  • Question is back to what?
  • 00:21:06.514 --> 00:21:08.449
  • Back to aborting 20 million black babies which has been the
  • 00:21:08.449 --> 00:21:15.089
  • Plan of the democrat party for a long time through the support
  • 00:21:15.089 --> 00:21:19.327
  • That has come from the federal government to support
  • 00:21:19.327 --> 00:21:22.263
  • Those initiatives.
  • 00:21:22.263 --> 00:21:23.597
  • Back to that?
  • 00:21:23.597 --> 00:21:25.166
  • And so one of the things that you have to consider when you
  • 00:21:25.166 --> 00:21:29.337
  • Have this conversation around race is what political party is
  • 00:21:29.337 --> 00:21:33.507
  • Pulling the strings.
  • 00:21:33.507 --> 00:21:35.209
  • And oftentimes when you can find who the puppet master is, you
  • 00:21:35.209 --> 00:21:40.247
  • Can see clearly why things are the way they are.
  • 00:21:40.247 --> 00:21:43.718
  • But we don't need woke terms to help us solve the issue
  • 00:21:43.718 --> 00:21:49.590
  • Of racism.
  • 00:21:49.590 --> 00:21:51.025
  • More than anything, you have to look inwardly.
  • 00:21:51.025 --> 00:21:53.327
  • And if i'm thinking a racist thought, if i view my brother or
  • 00:21:53.327 --> 00:21:57.765
  • Sister in christ who may have a different skin tone as the enemy
  • 00:21:57.765 --> 00:22:02.370
  • Or the devil or the buffoon, that says that i have a
  • 00:22:02.370 --> 00:22:06.907
  • Heart issue.
  • 00:22:06.907 --> 00:22:08.275
  • And so we expect for that individual to go to christ and
  • 00:22:08.275 --> 00:22:11.011
  • Ask god to help them deal with their heart issues so they can
  • 00:22:11.011 --> 00:22:14.682
  • Best love the image of god.
  • 00:22:14.682 --> 00:22:18.152
  • Allen: i think the church, excuse me.
  • 00:22:18.152 --> 00:22:20.888
  • I agree with you.
  • 00:22:20.888 --> 00:22:22.256
  • I think the church lost its way.
  • 00:22:22.256 --> 00:22:23.958
  • You know, the moral authority for the civil rights movement in
  • 00:22:23.958 --> 00:22:26.193
  • The '60s with dr. king and that generation of leaders really
  • 00:22:26.193 --> 00:22:30.064
  • Came from scripture that we had to be judged based on the
  • 00:22:30.064 --> 00:22:33.968
  • Content of our character, not the color of our skin.
  • 00:22:33.968 --> 00:22:36.804
  • And because they were standing on biblical authority, scripture
  • 00:22:36.804 --> 00:22:40.608
  • Thundered against the sin in this nation.
  • 00:22:40.608 --> 00:22:44.412
  • It couldn't be sustained against the voice of scripture the same
  • 00:22:44.412 --> 00:22:48.015
  • Way i think we'll see some of the immorality that's been so
  • 00:22:48.015 --> 00:22:51.652
  • Pushed for the last two or three decades.
  • 00:22:51.652 --> 00:22:53.654
  • I think it will crumble before the authority of scripture if
  • 00:22:53.654 --> 00:22:56.690
  • The church will once again gain the courage to take the truth of
  • 00:22:56.690 --> 00:22:59.794
  • God and speak it like you do so clearly.
  • 00:22:59.794 --> 00:23:03.497
  • But i think we've got to come back to that to understanding
  • 00:23:03.497 --> 00:23:06.133
  • That it's a heart change that we have to have that.
  • 00:23:06.133 --> 00:23:11.238
  • There is no difference in us below our appearance and it's
  • 00:23:11.238 --> 00:23:16.677
  • Evil to think anything other than that.
  • 00:23:16.677 --> 00:23:18.979
  • John: it is and, you know, dr. king was against
  • 00:23:18.979 --> 00:23:23.250
  • White supremacy and black supremacy,
  • 00:23:23.250 --> 00:23:25.753
  • But he was for god supremacy.
  • 00:23:25.753 --> 00:23:27.555
  • Allen: what a thought.
  • 00:23:27.555 --> 00:23:29.190
  • John: and that's the same mindset that we have to have
  • 00:23:29.190 --> 00:23:32.159
  • Ourselves and sometimes you get to know different communities
  • 00:23:32.159 --> 00:23:35.963
  • Better as you begin to interact with people.
  • 00:23:35.963 --> 00:23:39.834
  • You learn, you grow, you develop, you know.
  • 00:23:39.834 --> 00:23:43.771
  • I admire the relationship that we have and me getting to
  • 00:23:43.771 --> 00:23:46.774
  • Know you.
  • 00:23:46.774 --> 00:23:48.108
  • You know, it's a beautiful thing because we connect on many
  • 00:23:48.108 --> 00:23:50.678
  • Different levels.
  • 00:23:50.678 --> 00:23:52.046
  • But what i'm finding out the more that i age, is that there's
  • 00:23:52.046 --> 00:23:56.217
  • Something more powerful than being like color.
  • 00:23:56.217 --> 00:24:01.689
  • It's being like-minded.
  • 00:24:01.689 --> 00:24:04.225
  • You know, jesus says, "who is my is my mother, who is my father,
  • 00:24:04.225 --> 00:24:07.127
  • Who's my sister, who is my brother?
  • 00:24:07.127 --> 00:24:09.129
  • Those who do the will of god."
  • 00:24:09.129 --> 00:24:11.365
  • And so i'm not simply looking for like color people.
  • 00:24:11.365 --> 00:24:14.568
  • I'm looking for the people who want to do the will of god and
  • 00:24:14.568 --> 00:24:17.371
  • Together we labor and toil to reach people who don't as
  • 00:24:17.371 --> 00:24:22.443
  • One unit.
  • 00:24:22.443 --> 00:24:23.944
  • Often times they say that sunday morning is the most divided day
  • 00:24:23.944 --> 00:24:29.083
  • Of the week.
  • 00:24:29.083 --> 00:24:30.417
  • You have the terminology of the white church and the black
  • 00:24:30.417 --> 00:24:34.154
  • Church and the black baptists and the white baptists and
  • 00:24:34.154 --> 00:24:38.425
  • That's not the will of god.
  • 00:24:38.425 --> 00:24:39.793
  • We understand why those things exist, you know.
  • 00:24:39.793 --> 00:24:42.530
  • The cultural implications thereof of the past.
  • 00:24:42.530 --> 00:24:46.233
  • However, it's beautiful to see the multicultural tapestry
  • 00:24:46.233 --> 00:24:50.738
  • That's growing in the body of christ where we can all lay down
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  • Our preferences, but unite at the foot of the cross, you know,
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  • And if you are more open and expressive in your worship, i
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  • Can celebrate that.
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  • But if your style of worship is to be more reserved and quiet
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  • And to more so internalize things, i can smile at that
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  • As well.
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  • That's how we unite as the body of christ.
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  • Allen: that's good preaching.
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  • So we've got a building full of young people and i'm sure there
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  • Are some young folks listening.
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  • What are you gonna say to them?
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  • What can we do?
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  • How do we orient our lives with god so that the authority of
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  • Scripture can thunder through us like it did through dr. king and
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  • That generation.
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  • What are you gonna say to 'em?
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  • John: well, the scripture tells us, "wherewithal shall a young
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  • Man cleanse his ways, but by taking heed according thereto by
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  • The word of god."
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  • The first thing that we have to do is submit to biblical
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  • Authority and fall in love with truth.
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  • God's truth endures to all generations.
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  • You don't need a truth for gen z, a truth for gen x, a truth
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  • For the baby boomers.
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  • No, you just need one truth.
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  • Live up to the standards and the truth of god's word.
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  • Follow and seek after him.
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  • Always be prepared to repent and acknowledge when you have
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  • Wronged god or you've strayed or you've missed the mark.
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  • But understand this.
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  • That god wants to empower you also to do great exploits, but
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  • You can't do great exploits separate and apart from god.
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  • The bible says, "and those who know their god will do great
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  • Exploits and be strong."
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  • It's the will of god that you would do great exploits.
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  • I'm asking you to take the challenge of doing great
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  • Exploits and win a generation for the god of the bible.
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  • Allen: amen.
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  • Allen: hey, i'd like to close with a prayer for our children
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  • In our schools.
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  • Heavenly father, i ask that you give us the courage to protect
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  • Our children.
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  • That we wouldn't surrender them to ungodly immoral things.
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  • That we would use our voices and our energy to see that our
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  • Schools are a safe place for our children.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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