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Allen Jackson - They Soon Forgot (Part 1)

April 21, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - They Soon Forgot (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - They Soon Forgot (Part 1) | April 21, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: hey, would you like to make an impact for the
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  • Kingdom of god in this generation?
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  • I have an idea and, oh, by the way, it's biblical.
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  • Let's practice hospitality.
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  • Kitchen table as an expression of the hope and the love of god.
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  • You don't have to be a gourmet chef.
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  • Let's just invite--open our home, invite people to our
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  • Kitchen table, and then watch what god will do as we live out
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i wanna continue the study we've been doing on
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  • Leading with our faith, and the title for this session is "they
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  • Soon forgot."
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  • I had something i felt like the lord put on my heart, but it was
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  • Hard to get it to paper.
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  • I have rewritten this more than is my normal habit, so we're
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  • Gonna kinda find out together.
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  • But we're--our bible reading, if you do the reading with us, and
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  • I hope you do, there's, there's such a value in that.
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  • We're in the book of lamentations right now, and when
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  • I began reading that, it's in a very emotional book.
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  • I just pulled the first two verses from the opening chapter
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  • Of lamentations.
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  • Do you know--do you remember who wrote the book of lamentations,
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  • Who it's credited to?
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  • Jeremiah.
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  • It's a book of laments.
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  • It's a book of expressions of grief because jerusalem
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  • Has fallen.
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  • The temple is in disarray.
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  • There's been tremendous loss, and the glory of israel seems to
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  • Have been set aside.
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  • And the book of lamentations is the grief that jeremiah is
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  • Expressing at what has beset the people of god.
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  • And it's very clear as he writes it that he doesn't imagine it's
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  • The result of a foreign nation or a foreign army.
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  • It's the hand of god.
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  • And perhaps that's what captured my attention.
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  • It's what i think is appropriate for us in this season of our own
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  • Lives together is to understand that god is both the one who
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  • Blesses and the one who judges, and you want to lead your life
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  • Very mindful of those two expressions of the character
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  • Of god.
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  • But we'll read these two verses: "how deserted lies the city,
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  • Once so full of people!
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  • How like a widow is she, who once was great among
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  • The nations!
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  • She who was queen among the provinces has now become
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  • A slave.
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  • Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are upon her cheeks.
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  • Among all her lovers there is none to comfort her.
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  • All her friends have betrayed her;
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  • They have become her enemies."
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  • It's a very sobering thing when the people of god
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  • Ignore his expressions of mercy and grace.
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  • We shouldn't imagine that the grace or the mercy of god
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  • Are infinite.
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  • They're not without end.
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  • If they were without end, we wouldn't have books like the
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  • Book of lamentations.
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  • If the grace and mercy of god were infinite, we wouldn't have
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  • Stories like the babylonian destruction of jerusalem.
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  • But they are not infinite.
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  • There are limits to those things, and we have to lead our
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  • Lives with the awareness that while we are a tremendous
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  • Beneficiaries of the grace and mercy of god that he also
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  • Expects of us a willingness to respond to him.
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  • In matthew's gospel, chapter 21, jesus is speaking, and he's
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  • Speaking of john the baptist here.
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  • He said, "john came to you to show you the way of
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  • Righteousness, and you didn't believe him," he's speaking to
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  • Religious leaders in jerusalem, "john came to show you the way
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  • Of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax
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  • Collectors and the prostitutes did."
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  • Probably the two most public categories of people that would
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  • Have been readily identified as ungodly would have been the
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  • Tax collectors and the prostitutes, and he said, "the
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  • Tax collectors and the prostitutes responded to god
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  • Before you did."
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  • That is not a compliment.
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  • For those of you who think jesus was always kind, he was in their
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  • Business on this day.
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  • And then he said, "and even after you saw this, you didn't
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  • Repent and believe him."
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  • Jesus's expectation of the people is
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  • That when mercy is visible, god's people should repent
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  • And believe.
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  • Now, i think we have to pull that idea into our own lives.
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  • God has been good to us.
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  • I believe in recent weeks, we have seen an expression of the
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  • Mercy of god.
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  • I don't--i think it may have been reflected in the political
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  • Realm, but i don't think of it in terms of a political victory.
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  • What i witnessed in this election cycle was the
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  • Heartland of america, the flyover country, the people that
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  • Are typically overlooked that are ignored until it's time to
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  • Try to solicit votes, and it seemed to me that in the small
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  • Towns and villages and communities across our nation,
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  • People see--gave it the public expression that we're not going
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  • In the best direction.
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  • And you say, "well, that was obvious."
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  • Well, it isn't always so obvious because we haven't had a
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  • Response like that in decades.
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  • And i believe only the grace and mercy of god could
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  • Stir the hearts of people to respond.
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  • We're very easily distracted.
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  • So my concern is that in the midst of this expression of the
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  • Mercy of god that we simply don't fold our arms and go,
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  • "okay, we've chosen a new set of leaders.
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  • We'll send them off to see if they can do better."
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  • We don't wanna be bothered with change.
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  • We don't want to be bothered with responsibility.
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  • I don't believe we have that luxury as the people of god.
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  • In psalm 106, god is reminding the people of the responses of
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  • An earlier generation, the exodus generation, those people
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  • That started as slaves in egypt and found their way, ultimately,
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  • On the entry point to the promised land.
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  • In psalm 106 and verse 10 it says, "god saved them from the
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  • Hand of the foe; from the hand of the enemy he redeemed them.
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  • The waters covered their adversaries;
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  • And not one of them survived."
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  • What's the psalmist talking about?
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  • The red sea.
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  • He said god drowned the enemies of the people.
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  • They were terrified when they saw the egyptian army decide to
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  • Come after them.
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  • And the pillar of fire and cloud moved between the israelites and
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  • The egyptian army through the night, and god caused the wind
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  • To blow.
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  • The sea parted and they escaped, and then when the egyptian army
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  • Decided to follow after them, the waters collapsed, and they
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  • Saw their adversaries drown.
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  • Finally, on the opposite side of the red sea, they were free from
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  • The influence of egypt.
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  • In verse 12, god says, "then they believed his promises and
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  • Sang his praise."
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  • There's miriam's song. some of you will remember it.
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  • It says the women took tambourines and danced before
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  • The lord when they saw their enemies drowned in the red sea.
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  • Verse 13: "but they soon forgot what god had done and did not
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  • Wait for his counsel.
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  • In the desert they gave into their craving; in the wasteland
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  • They put god to the test.
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  • So he gave them what they ask for, but sent a wasting disease
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  • Upon them.
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  • In the camp they grew envious of moses and aaron, who was
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  • Consecrated to the lord.
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  • The earth opened up and swallowed dathan; it buried the
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  • Company of abiram.
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  • And fire blazed among their followers;
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  • A flame consumed the wicked."
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  • Verse 13 is the pivot point.
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  • It says after all the remarkable miracles, the plagues on egypt,
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  • And the supernatural deliverance, they
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  • Plundered egypt.
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  • They took the gold and silver of egypt with them as they left.
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  • They walked through the red sea on dry ground, but it says--the
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  • Psalmist said, "but they soon forgot what god had done and
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  • They didn't wait for his counsel."
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  • I feel like we are in a very important season of our lives,
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  • And i'm concerned that we imagine someone else should
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  • Do something.
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  • If the exodus generation soon forgot, if they didn't wait for
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  • God's advice, if they gave into their cravings, these are the
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  • Language of the psalmist, if they put god to the test.
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  • Ultimately, they died in the wilderness.
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  • They never made it into the promised land.
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  • It had nothing to do with god's ability, god's desire,
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  • God's will.
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  • God had told 'em he was taking 'em out of egypt to take them
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  • Into the promised land, but when they got to the shores of the
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  • Jordan river and they sent the spies in, the report came back
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  • And they said, "it's an amazing place, but it's not gonna
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  • Be easy."
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  • Remember that?
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  • Twelve spies, ten of the spies said, "we don't wanna do this."
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  • Joshua and caleb were two of the spies that said, "this
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  • Is doable.
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  • The god who's done all these other things for us, that's
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  • Feeding us manna, that brought us water from a rock, that
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  • Parted of the red sea, god can complete what he's begun.
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  • We can occupy this land."
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  • And the other people said, "we're outgunned.
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  • They're more sophisticated than we are.
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  • Their cities are defended too well.
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  • We don't wanna do this."
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  • And god got angry with them, and he said, "i will give you what
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  • You've asked for.
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  • You'll die in the desert."
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  • My concern for the people of faith is that we will be
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  • Reluctant to reorient our lives to do the heavy lift that is in
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  • Front of us, to engage our culture, to engage our family
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  • Systems, to talk to our friends, to stop winking at ungodliness.
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  • I would submit to you that we wrongly imagine politicians
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  • Initiate culture.
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  • I believe politicians are a reflection of the people.
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  • So when i look at our nation, i don't think it's a
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  • Political mess.
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  • I think it's a spiritual mess.
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  • I think when we have open borders and multiplied millions
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  • Of illegal immigrants, it's an expression of lawlessness
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  • Because we've cast off restraint ourselves.
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  • We don't want to be encumbered by biblical principles.
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  • We don't wanna be limited by those boundaries that god would
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  • Bring to our lives.
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  • We have new definitions of marriage that have been
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  • Institutionalized in our legal system, but that would have
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  • Never happened until the people of faith had capitulated, until
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  • We decided we weren't going to engage any longer, that we would
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  • Stand on the sidelines and it wasn't our problem.
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  • We didn't need to use our voice while human sexuality was
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  • Redefined and pushed into our faces as a part of all the
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  • Public broadcasting, and the messaging, and the entertainment
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  • Industry, and what's moral and immoral is completely redefined
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  • And turned upside down.
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  • And we're told that a biblical worldview of human sexuality is
  • 00:11:12.697 --> 00:11:15.366
  • Out of date, a little out of touch, a little old-fashioned.
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  • I read the statistics. i see the surveys.
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  • There is very little discernible difference in behaviors between
  • 00:11:23.608 --> 00:11:27.112
  • People who attend church and people who don't.
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  • We have to change.
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  • We've been willing to sacrifice our children.
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  • We've sacrificed them through abortion.
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  • We've sacrificed them to gender confusion and mutilation.
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  • We have allowed schools to stop teaching and
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  • Begin indoctrinating.
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  • We've watched violence escalate to the point that for all the
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  • Language around safety and security, we all understand that
  • 00:11:56.875 --> 00:11:59.711
  • Fundamentally we are not as safe as we once were.
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  • I've been in more than 20 american cities in recent
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  • Months, and in city after city, they tell us we shouldn't
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  • Go outside.
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  • We've diminished the dignity of work.
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  • Overwhelming percentages of people no longer--work is no
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  • Longer considered something to be held up as valuable.
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  • It's not an expression of character.
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  • It's to be avoided at almost all costs.
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  • All of those things fall under the umbrella of what
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  • Comes from a biblical worldview, salt and light in a culture.
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  • And as much as we pray for those that are being sent to positions
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  • Of authority across our nation, from cities and towns and states
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  • To washington, d.c., and we hope they'll enact principles and put
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  • Policies in place that will reflect the biblical worldview,
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  • It will only happen in proportion to the degree that
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  • The people of god continue to use their voice, that we engage,
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  • That we live out those principles.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i have a childhood memory i wanna share with you.
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  • It was our kitchen table.
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  • I've got two younger brothers.
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  • I've gathered around the table, and my parents were
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  • Consistently, persistently inviting guests to dinner.
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  • You know, practicing that notion of hospitality, my brothers and
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  • I weren't always excited about it, but i realized that we had a
  • 00:13:24.596 --> 00:13:27.799
  • Front row seat for expressions of the kingdom of god.
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  • We can still do the same.
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  • Imagine your kitchen table as an expression of god's love in
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  • This generation.
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  • God's moving in the earth.
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  • Let's join him.
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  • Announcer: hospitality doesn't have to be complicated.
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  • Sometimes it begins with inviting someone to your
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  • Allen: i think we have to grapple with the reality that
  • 00:14:12.977 --> 00:14:15.947
  • Evil exists.
  • 00:14:15.947 --> 00:14:18.683
  • The simplest definition i would know to give you is that evil is
  • 00:14:18.683 --> 00:14:21.486
  • Understood as that which opposes the purposes of god.
  • 00:14:21.486 --> 00:14:27.992
  • My brother and i attended oral roberts university, and oral
  • 00:14:27.992 --> 00:14:30.261
  • Roberts was in the habit of saying that "god's a good god
  • 00:14:30.261 --> 00:14:32.664
  • And the devil is a bad devil."
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  • As a very sophisticated college student, i thought he was
  • 00:14:34.832 --> 00:14:37.535
  • Too simplistic.
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  • As a less sophisticated person these days, i think he had a
  • 00:14:40.171 --> 00:14:45.410
  • Pretty good handle on the challenges that face us.
  • 00:14:45.410 --> 00:14:48.746
  • God is good, and the devil is destructive.
  • 00:14:48.746 --> 00:14:52.517
  • And evil, when you participate with it, will lead you to
  • 00:14:52.517 --> 00:14:55.053
  • Destruction every time.
  • 00:14:55.053 --> 00:14:57.488
  • So much of what is presented to us in our current culture is a
  • 00:14:57.488 --> 00:15:00.391
  • Reflection of an ungodly perspective.
  • 00:15:00.391 --> 00:15:03.328
  • An ideology which does not conform to biblical principles
  • 00:15:03.328 --> 00:15:06.531
  • Is celebrated these days as conventional wisdom.
  • 00:15:06.531 --> 00:15:09.467
  • It's infiltrated our churches, our christian universities.
  • 00:15:09.467 --> 00:15:13.671
  • I'm not talking about secular universities.
  • 00:15:13.671 --> 00:15:15.406
  • Our christian universities very seldom any longer hold
  • 00:15:15.406 --> 00:15:18.109
  • Boundaries around biblical morality, biblical worldview,
  • 00:15:18.109 --> 00:15:22.380
  • Ideas and behaviors which are motivated by something other
  • 00:15:22.380 --> 00:15:25.283
  • Than the spirit of god.
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  • If you'll allow me, i believe it's sourced in evil.
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  • I don't know how to separate it from these cycles that capture
  • 00:15:33.391 --> 00:15:37.795
  • Us as a people.
  • 00:15:37.795 --> 00:15:39.130
  • We spend a billion dollars in 90 days on messaging.
  • 00:15:39.130 --> 00:15:41.532
  • You'd be extraordinarily naive to think that those messages
  • 00:15:41.532 --> 00:15:44.168
  • Don't impact you.
  • 00:15:44.168 --> 00:15:47.138
  • Enormous amounts of money and effort around elections and
  • 00:15:47.138 --> 00:15:51.142
  • Politicians, the selection of people who have the authority to
  • 00:15:51.142 --> 00:15:53.845
  • Make laws and established policy.
  • 00:15:53.845 --> 00:15:57.415
  • Elections in our nation are tend to be a reflection of the will
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  • Of the people when they're conducted fairly.
  • 00:16:01.753 --> 00:16:04.622
  • We still live with this notion of a majority rule.
  • 00:16:04.622 --> 00:16:08.359
  • The people become the directing force.
  • 00:16:08.359 --> 00:16:10.528
  • The values, desires, intent of the people is to be reflected in
  • 00:16:10.528 --> 00:16:14.098
  • Those chosen to have authority over us.
  • 00:16:14.098 --> 00:16:18.336
  • So if we find ourselves increasingly immoral, and
  • 00:16:18.336 --> 00:16:20.838
  • Increasingly lawless, and increasingly ungodly, we have to
  • 00:16:20.838 --> 00:16:24.609
  • Understand those things have flourished in the hearts of
  • 00:16:24.609 --> 00:16:26.844
  • The citizens.
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  • And i think we have to recognize this remarkable expression of
  • 00:16:28.913 --> 00:16:31.749
  • Mercy and grace from god when there is an inordinate number of
  • 00:16:31.749 --> 00:16:35.420
  • People who respond and say, "we need another direction."
  • 00:16:35.420 --> 00:16:39.057
  • God's been good to us.
  • 00:16:39.057 --> 00:16:41.793
  • And the great temptation is to think, "well, we stood up.
  • 00:16:41.793 --> 00:16:44.862
  • Now, we wanna go sit down.
  • 00:16:44.862 --> 00:16:46.230
  • I'm tired.
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  • Make the noise stop.
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  • I don't want to think about it anymore.
  • 00:16:48.933 --> 00:16:50.268
  • It's somebody else's problem now."
  • 00:16:50.268 --> 00:16:53.604
  • This notion of an exercise in self-government
  • 00:16:53.604 --> 00:16:56.074
  • Is a very radical concept.
  • 00:16:56.074 --> 00:16:58.743
  • Historically, in nation after nation, authority has resided in
  • 00:16:58.743 --> 00:17:04.048
  • The hands of a few.
  • 00:17:04.048 --> 00:17:05.616
  • The general population was dismissed and disregarded.
  • 00:17:05.616 --> 00:17:09.387
  • Typically, they've been considered to be too uneducated,
  • 00:17:09.387 --> 00:17:12.590
  • Lacking the sophistication or the common sense necessary to
  • 00:17:12.590 --> 00:17:16.194
  • Establish law and policy.
  • 00:17:16.194 --> 00:17:18.696
  • The united states has been a most unique experiment.
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  • I could give you many examples, more than you'd want to
  • 00:17:22.800 --> 00:17:25.169
  • Sit through.
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  • I'll give you a simple one.
  • 00:17:26.637 --> 00:17:28.005
  • In england, for many years, the king and the nobility owned all
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  • Of the game in the land.
  • 00:17:31.509 --> 00:17:32.910
  • Therefore, it was illegal for the common people to hunt.
  • 00:17:32.910 --> 00:17:35.513
  • The game didn't belong to them.
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  • When you read the letters and the things about the people who
  • 00:17:38.783 --> 00:17:40.651
  • Began to immigrate to north america, the fact that they
  • 00:17:40.651 --> 00:17:43.421
  • Could go into the woods and hunt was an unimagined expression
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  • Of freedom.
  • 00:17:48.092 --> 00:17:49.460
  • That seems foreign to us today because we're so familiar with
  • 00:17:49.460 --> 00:17:52.096
  • This notion of equality before the law, an egalitarian notion
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  • That each person is entitled to a vote.
  • 00:17:55.633 --> 00:17:59.837
  • I believe abraham lincoln was our greatest president.
  • 00:17:59.837 --> 00:18:02.540
  • One of the greatest speeches in american history was what he
  • 00:18:02.540 --> 00:18:05.409
  • Delivered at gettysburg.
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  • It's very short.
  • 00:18:07.645 --> 00:18:09.013
  • Don't be encouraged.
  • 00:18:09.013 --> 00:18:10.348
  • It's much shorter than my sermons.
  • 00:18:10.348 --> 00:18:12.984
  • But i wanna read a couple of sentences.
  • 00:18:12.984 --> 00:18:14.552
  • He said, "four score and seven years ago our fathers brought
  • 00:18:14.552 --> 00:18:17.655
  • Forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty,
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  • And dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
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  • Lincoln is the president of the united states in the midst of
  • 00:18:25.796 --> 00:18:28.132
  • The civil war, the bloodiest war in our history as a people.
  • 00:18:28.132 --> 00:18:35.139
  • When he's invited to gettysburg, he stands up with the
  • 00:18:35.139 --> 00:18:37.608
  • Acknowledgment of god as a creator.
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  • It's a very significant concept.
  • 00:18:40.011 --> 00:18:43.514
  • We shouldn't imagine we would ever accept being separated from
  • 00:18:43.514 --> 00:18:47.385
  • That, that god is our creator, that we've been created equal.
  • 00:18:47.385 --> 00:18:54.926
  • From that principle, we've arrived at notions like the
  • 00:18:54.926 --> 00:18:57.328
  • Equality before the law, the sanctity of human life, the
  • 00:18:57.328 --> 00:19:02.099
  • Protection of the weak.
  • 00:19:02.099 --> 00:19:04.936
  • You see, if there is no creator god, if we set almighty god
  • 00:19:04.936 --> 00:19:09.106
  • Aside, and we think human beings will be kind to one another, now
  • 00:19:09.106 --> 00:19:12.944
  • We are on that slippery slope that will lead us to
  • 00:19:12.944 --> 00:19:15.413
  • Authoritarian domination and control.
  • 00:19:15.413 --> 00:19:19.450
  • There's a lengthy history of human civilization.
  • 00:19:19.450 --> 00:19:22.453
  • What we've experienced in these exercises in freedom and liberty
  • 00:19:22.453 --> 00:19:25.623
  • Have been derived from a biblical worldview and
  • 00:19:25.623 --> 00:19:27.491
  • Nothing else.
  • 00:19:27.491 --> 00:19:30.294
  • Lincoln went on to say, and i quote, "the world will little
  • 00:19:30.294 --> 00:19:33.431
  • Note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never
  • 00:19:33.431 --> 00:19:37.568
  • Forget what they did here.
  • 00:19:37.568 --> 00:19:39.870
  • It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the
  • 00:19:39.870 --> 00:19:43.941
  • Unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so
  • 00:19:43.941 --> 00:19:47.345
  • Nobly advanced.
  • 00:19:47.345 --> 00:19:49.547
  • It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task
  • 00:19:49.547 --> 00:19:54.085
  • Remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take
  • 00:19:54.085 --> 00:19:58.289
  • Increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last
  • 00:19:58.289 --> 00:20:01.993
  • Full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that
  • 00:20:01.993 --> 00:20:06.564
  • These dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under
  • 00:20:06.564 --> 00:20:11.002
  • God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of
  • 00:20:11.002 --> 00:20:15.439
  • The people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish
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  • From the earth."
  • 00:20:19.343 --> 00:20:21.178
  • Lincoln understood that they weren't just
  • 00:20:21.178 --> 00:20:24.382
  • Having a political debate, that it wasn't about political
  • 00:20:24.382 --> 00:20:28.252
  • Parties, that the values that shaped the hearts of the people
  • 00:20:28.252 --> 00:20:32.323
  • Would determine the future.
  • 00:20:32.323 --> 00:20:34.959
  • And in the midst of the suffering, and the grief, and
  • 00:20:34.959 --> 00:20:37.128
  • The tremendous division, he stood.
  • 00:20:37.128 --> 00:20:40.131
  • He ultimately gave his life to remind us of the values that
  • 00:20:40.131 --> 00:20:45.102
  • This is a nation under god, that the imagination that there could
  • 00:20:45.102 --> 00:20:49.874
  • Be a new birth of freedom comes from the throne of god, not from
  • 00:20:49.874 --> 00:20:53.244
  • The will of men or from political parties, that we are a
  • 00:20:53.244 --> 00:20:57.948
  • Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and
  • 00:20:57.948 --> 00:21:02.887
  • That in that way, we stand united under god.
  • 00:21:02.887 --> 00:21:06.724
  • We have never been a uniquely christian nation.
  • 00:21:06.724 --> 00:21:09.093
  • I'm not arguing that we should be.
  • 00:21:09.093 --> 00:21:12.330
  • I believe that biblical worldview that shaped our legal
  • 00:21:12.330 --> 00:21:14.799
  • System, and our founding documents, and the vision of the
  • 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:17.301
  • Founders enabled us to be a place where a diverse set of
  • 00:21:17.301 --> 00:21:22.540
  • Beliefs could flourish, but the values that bind us together are
  • 00:21:22.540 --> 00:21:27.111
  • Derived from the word of god.
  • 00:21:27.111 --> 00:21:29.747
  • And if the church of jesus christ doesn't have the courage
  • 00:21:29.747 --> 00:21:32.383
  • To express that in every generation and stand for those
  • 00:21:32.383 --> 00:21:36.320
  • Values and those principles, i assure you we will forfeit our
  • 00:21:36.320 --> 00:21:40.157
  • Liberty and freedom, just--just as certainly as the covenant
  • 00:21:40.157 --> 00:21:47.898
  • People of god in jerusalem lost their liberty and freedom, just
  • 00:21:47.898 --> 00:21:52.436
  • As certainly as the exodus generation, a group who saw more
  • 00:21:52.436 --> 00:21:55.806
  • Supernatural expressions of the power of god than any group of
  • 00:21:55.806 --> 00:21:59.243
  • People in history and yet they came to the place and they said,
  • 00:21:59.243 --> 00:22:03.247
  • "the price is too high, the challenge is too great, it's
  • 00:22:03.247 --> 00:22:06.584
  • Too difficult.
  • 00:22:06.584 --> 00:22:07.952
  • We don't wanna do this anymore.
  • 00:22:07.952 --> 00:22:09.286
  • We want an easier way."
  • 00:22:09.286 --> 00:22:13.591
  • I don't believe we can afford that luxury.
  • 00:22:13.591 --> 00:22:16.193
  • If we're going to have extensions of freedom and
  • 00:22:16.193 --> 00:22:18.162
  • Liberty, we, the people of faith, must make choices that
  • 00:22:18.162 --> 00:22:21.132
  • Bring the blessings of god to our generation.
  • 00:22:21.132 --> 00:22:25.870
  • I think we have to be honest.
  • 00:22:25.870 --> 00:22:27.238
  • We're gonna face some rather significant challenges.
  • 00:22:27.238 --> 00:22:31.208
  • Change is very difficult.
  • 00:22:31.208 --> 00:22:34.378
  • There is a tremendous power to the status quo.
  • 00:22:34.378 --> 00:22:38.649
  • There is a gravitational pull of the familiar to pull us back
  • 00:22:38.649 --> 00:22:42.586
  • Into what's comfortable, what's familiar, what's understood, and
  • 00:22:42.586 --> 00:22:46.857
  • It will take effort, determination, energy,
  • 00:22:46.857 --> 00:22:50.294
  • Perseverance in order to initiate new ideas to help our
  • 00:22:50.294 --> 00:22:54.598
  • Children and young people break free from what has been taught
  • 00:22:54.598 --> 00:22:58.369
  • Them in our most celebrated institutions of learning for
  • 00:22:58.369 --> 00:23:01.839
  • Several decades now.
  • 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:05.276
  • There's seldom a week that goes past where i don't talk to
  • 00:23:05.276 --> 00:23:07.645
  • Families who sent their children off to some university setting
  • 00:23:07.645 --> 00:23:11.315
  • With high expectations and they returned having been robbed of
  • 00:23:11.315 --> 00:23:15.219
  • Their biblical worldview.
  • 00:23:15.219 --> 00:23:18.022
  • How long will we tolerate this?
  • 00:23:18.022 --> 00:23:21.892
  • How long will we fund this?
  • 00:23:21.892 --> 00:23:24.862
  • How long will we sit idly by?
  • 00:23:24.862 --> 00:23:28.232
  • I'm not suggesting violence, but we should stop applauding evil.
  • 00:23:28.232 --> 00:23:34.238
  • It is wicked!
  • 00:23:34.238 --> 00:23:39.977
  • I hear two statements repeatedly that suggest that we're not
  • 00:23:39.977 --> 00:23:45.483
  • Fully awake, that we're not fully aware.
  • 00:23:45.483 --> 00:23:48.786
  • It's as if we're still groggy, trying to, to clear our heads
  • 00:23:48.786 --> 00:23:51.989
  • From a deep sleep.
  • 00:23:51.989 --> 00:23:54.792
  • The first is something along this line: "now," people say.
  • 00:23:54.792 --> 00:23:58.696
  • We've been listening to this for a few days now, a few weeks.
  • 00:23:58.696 --> 00:24:01.131
  • "now i believe the legacy media will begin a more balanced
  • 00:24:01.131 --> 00:24:04.134
  • Reporting of the facts."
  • 00:24:04.134 --> 00:24:07.505
  • We're gonna turn the corner now.
  • 00:24:07.505 --> 00:24:10.508
  • The people have expressed an opinion.
  • 00:24:10.508 --> 00:24:14.245
  • And the second thing that is repeated with equal frequency
  • 00:24:14.245 --> 00:24:17.648
  • And determination is those advocating for ideas which were
  • 00:24:17.648 --> 00:24:20.551
  • Rejected are going to learn and adapt to embrace the ideas which
  • 00:24:20.551 --> 00:24:24.622
  • Were broadly supported.
  • 00:24:24.622 --> 00:24:31.529
  • That requires a remarkable determination to avoid reality
  • 00:24:31.529 --> 00:24:37.067
  • To hold those two ideas.
  • 00:24:37.067 --> 00:24:40.671
  • It requires either a willful ignorance or a forced
  • 00:24:40.671 --> 00:24:45.409
  • Determination to refuse to acknowledge what is apparent
  • 00:24:45.409 --> 00:24:49.513
  • Before us.
  • 00:24:49.513 --> 00:24:51.482
  • We've been on this path for decades.
  • 00:24:51.482 --> 00:24:53.083
  • It hasn't happened overnight.
  • 00:24:53.083 --> 00:24:54.985
  • It hasn't happened in a week.
  • 00:24:54.985 --> 00:24:56.921
  • I'm a product of public education in this nation.
  • 00:24:56.921 --> 00:24:59.657
  • I've had the privilege of studying at some celebrated
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  • Institutions, and i can tell you, for decades, they've been
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  • Advocating ungodly things.
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  • I can tell you that in the theology schools, they have not
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  • Embraced the authority of scripture or the uniqueness
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  • Of jesus.
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  • They would openly mock you if you talked about being saved.
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  • It's not new, folks.
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  • Watch what's happening around us.
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  • Allen: i wanna take a minute to pray before we go.
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  • Father, i thank you that you love us.
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  • I thank you that you, that in your great mercy and compassion,
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  • You have made a way for us to be at peace with the creator of all
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  • Things, that you're not angry with us, that you are not
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  • Resentful of us, that you have welcomed us into your kingdom
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  • And made peace with us through jesus christ.
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  • I thank you for that today.
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  • Nothing's hidden from you, no part of our past, no thought
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  • Within us, and yet you love us.
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  • May that love grow in us every day and bring a boldness and a
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  • Courage within us to face the challenges before us,
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, around the world,
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  • People are searching for truth, and together we're doing our
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  • Very best to help them find it.
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  • Known right here at home and around the earth, wherever
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  • God opens a door.
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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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  • You can find more about becoming a ministry partner
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