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Allen Jackson - They Soon Forgot (Part 2)

April 22, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - They Soon Forgot (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - They Soon Forgot (Part 2) | April 22, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: 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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  • Your monthly partnership helps us equip believers to reach new
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  • Audiences, to take the hope of jesus to people who may never
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  • Have heard the gospel otherwise.
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  • Together, we can stand firm in our faith and make god's truth
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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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  • The day our king returns.
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  • You can find more about becoming a ministry partner
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  • At allenjackson.com/partner.
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  • Allen: for all of our talk about abortion, the
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  • Abortion numbers have not diminished.
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  • It really wasn't a legal issue.
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  • It wasn't because it was the law of the land.
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  • It was the condition of our hearts.
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  • How abortions are performed changes dramatically, the same
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  • Way so much of our lives changes dramatically.
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  • Technology changes it.
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  • Now you can have a pill in the privacy of your home.
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  • You can live in a state where abortion is not legal, but
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  • They'll ship the pills to your home.
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  • We're losing as many children as we've ever lost.
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  • We are told frequently, loudly, boldly, creatively,
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  • Persistently, that it's my body and my choice, that an unborn
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  • Child is just a mass of cells, a blob of protoplasm.
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  • We're very reluctant to say anything about it.
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  • We are not frequently reminded with--and certainly not with the
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  • Intensity that we're told that it's our body and our choice.
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  • I mean, it wasn't our body and our choice when it was about
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  • A vaccination.
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  • We are not reminded that there are frequently, regularly, as a
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  • Matter of medical practice, surgeries performed on unborn
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  • Children, fetal procedures for a whole variety of
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  • Physical problems.
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  • It's not just a mass of cells.
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  • There's a human being there that our health care community
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  • Acknowledges can be treated and helped.
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  • We all understand, every mom understands, that their diet and
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  • Their health is important during pregnancy, because the impact
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  • Upon the developing child.
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  • Simple things like abstaining from alcohol or drugs or tobacco
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  • Because they all can affect the development of a child.
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  • It's not just a blob of cells.
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  • How can we be silent?
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  • Illicit books in our schools for young children.
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  • And we are told we should avoid censorship, the banning
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  • Of books.
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  • We're limiting education.
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  • If you require us to remove these wicked books from the
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  • Library, it'll lead to the removal of the bible from
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  • Public places.
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  • We are not reminded.
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  • See, the arguments they want to obfuscate, muddy, confuse.
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  • They'll push for something as a distraction that isn't dealing
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  • With the real reality.
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  • We're not reminded of things like age-appropriate learning.
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  • We don't sell cigarettes in our elementary schools.
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  • You don't get a beer with the school lunch program.
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  • And i'm not suggesting we should.
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  • They don't talk about the parental role in the training of
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  • Their children, that they don't want strangers making decisions
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  • About sexualizing their young children.
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  • The sexualization of children is an elaborate framing
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  • Of grooming.
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  • It's inappropriate. it's evil.
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  • I don't think school boards should argue about
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  • It incessantly.
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  • Once the books are identified, once the nature of that
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  • Discussion is clearly articulated, they need
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  • To choose.
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  • And if you think that's good for our children, in my opinion, you
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  • Forfeited your right to lead.
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  • It's destructive.
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  • Illegal immigration.
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  • We're told regularly that deportation will be unfair.
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  • I heard this week some sober-minded person looking in a
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  • Camera trying to convince me of their intellectual prowess that
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  • If these deportations of people who are illegal--are here
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  • Illegally is more than a million people already identified,
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  • Informed that they should leave the country because of criminal
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  • Records, acts of violence.
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  • This person is looking at a lens with sobriety saying to us on
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  • The other side, if you persist, when removing these million
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  • People, there will be a doctor or a nurse or a health care
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  • Worker deported.
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  • They proceeded.
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  • I mean, they had a whole little litany.
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  • They said children will suffer if the border is closed, that an
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  • Open border is an expression of compassion.
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  • What they weren't saying, i mean, it's like a smoke bomb,
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  • It's a distraction.
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  • And most of us are busy enough, we don't wanna think about it.
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  • It's not my problem.
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  • That's why we send somebody else to do something.
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  • Millions of illegal immigrants, multiplied millions, have placed
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  • An enormous demand upon the health care system of our
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  • Nation, every day, all across the nation, diminishing the
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  • Quality of care that's available for the citizens.
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  • And they're searching to find some health care professional
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  • That will be caught up in addressing this.
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  • Children in the migrant caravans are subjected to
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  • Horrible things.
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  • They're being trafficked at our border in numbers never seen in
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  • The united states of america.
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  • Tens of thousands of them regularly sold into slavery,
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  • Sexual slavery.
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  • And we've stayed silent.
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  • Antisemitism, we're told.
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  • Israel is an apartheid state.
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  • The attacks of october 7th by hamas, a terrorist organization
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  • Funded by iran, should be given moral equivalency with the state
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  • Of israel when their military in uniform goes to search for
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  • Those terrorists.
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  • The elite schools in our nation, we are told frequently, are
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  • Appropriate when they support antisemitic demonstrations.
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  • This week, the international criminal court, the icc, issued
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  • Arrest warrants for the israeli prime minister and former
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  • Defense minister as well as the head of hamas, ibrahim al-masri.
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  • As if there was an equivalency between the prime minister of
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  • Israel and the head of hamas.
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  • Folks, this stuff washes over us day in and day out.
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  • It cascades over us.
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  • We're not reminded of the innocent women, children, and
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  • Families that were murdered and slaughtered and brutalized in
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  • The most awful ways on october the 7th.
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  • The list could go on and on.
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  • It did in my notes.
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  • But underlying it all, if you'll allow me to bring it back to
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  • Your outlines and to the biblical perspective, it has to
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  • Do with the existence of evil.
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  • I believe you have to understand evil exists to process what we
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  • Are watching.
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  • Secular culture avoids the reality of spiritual forces.
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  • They don't want to talk about it.
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  • They don't want to acknowledge it.
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  • If you say you believe in those things, they discount you.
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  • You lack sophistication to speak into the current world.
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  • But the reality is the church of jesus christ exists because of
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  • Spiritual power.
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  • We have to lead with our faith.
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  • We don't just lead with generosity and kindness and good
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  • Deeds and expressions of material
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  • Possessions to people in need.
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  • All of those things are appropriate.
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  • I'm not saying we should stop them, but they're not the
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  • Fullest expression of what we've been called to do.
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  • We are salt and light.
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  • We hold out the eternal truth of a living god.
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  • And to do that, we have to recognize that good and evil
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  • Exist, that they are expressions of spiritual realities.
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  • They're not political classifications.
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  • We've been bullied into silence for too long.
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  • There are different dimensions which exist.
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  • I find it a bit amusing that if you believe there are aliens
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  • From other planets that are frequenting our world, you are
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  • Enlightened and sophisticated.
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  • It's okay with me, but then if you believe in an almighty god
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  • Who created the heavens and the earth, you are backwards.
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  • You can call me all the names you want.
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  • I'm not gonna give up my belief.
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  • In ephesians 6 and verse 12, it says: "our struggle is not
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  • Against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the
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  • Authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against
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  • The spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."
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  • That the church is called to take a stand against spiritual
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  • Forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
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  • We have to become more aware of kingdoms and authorities and
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  • Less occupied with politicians and parties.
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  • In ephesians chapter 2 and verse 1, it says: "you were dead in
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  • Your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you
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  • Followed the ways of this world and the ruler of the kingdom of
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  • The air, the spirit who's now at work in those who
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  • Are disobedient."
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  • I believe that the spiritual world is every bit as real as
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  • The material physical world in which we live.
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  • It does not offend my intellect whatsoever to believe in
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  • Dimensions that exist, that coexist.
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  • In fact, it's impossible to say you believe your bible and not
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  • To believe in spiritual things.
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  • The significance of those kingdoms, look at revelation 5
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  • And verse 11.
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  • John said, "i looked and i heard the voice of many angels,
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  • Numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousands
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  • Time ten thousand.
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  • They encircled the throne and the living creatures and
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  • The elders."
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  • John has a vision of the throne room of god and he sees this
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  • Enormous gathering of angels, and he said there were 10,000
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  • Times 10,000.
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  • Some of you are good with numbers.
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  • It's 100 million angels.
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  • That's a lot.
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  • Angels, we're told, are ministering spirits, messengers.
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  • We're told in scripture that there are mighty angels,
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  • Powerful angels, angels with great strength, angels assigned
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  • To people groups, angels assigned to nations.
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  • They have authority to see the purposes of god and the will of
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  • God brought forward in the earth.
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  • They're here to help the people of god living in time.
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  • More than 100 million of them.
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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
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  • 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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  • Kitchen table.
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  • To help you get started, we've created a tools for
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  • Hospitality set.
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  • It includes a custom kitchen towel that reminds you sweet
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  • Tea, pecan pie, and your god-story make difference.
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  • It also has three favorite recipes from pastor allen and
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  • Some tips that will help make hospitality a little bit easier.
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  • Allen: now, it's not terribly difficult
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  • To get people to believe in angels.
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  • Even secularists like to believe in angels.
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  • It's kind of polite and chic.
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  • I would remind you of what most of you know from scripture, that
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  • A third of the angels joined with satan in his rebellion
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  • Against god.
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  • If we have 100 million of them in this one scene, it's safe to
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  • Say there are tens of millions of angels that joined satan in
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  • His attempt to oppose the purposes of god.
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  • So if you say, "well, i don't believe, you know, spiritual
  • 00:13:32.036 --> 00:13:34.072
  • Conflict stuff.
  • 00:13:34.072 --> 00:13:35.406
  • You know, that's just a lot of hocus pocus."
  • 00:13:35.406 --> 00:13:37.675
  • Let me help you restate that: "i don't believe my bible.
  • 00:13:37.675 --> 00:13:44.282
  • I reject jesus."
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  • Get clarity on what you're saying.
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  • I would--i don't endorse it.
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  • I don't think it's the appropriate way to go.
  • 00:13:52.724 --> 00:13:54.425
  • But to imagine that politicians and parties determine our world
  • 00:13:54.425 --> 00:13:57.962
  • More than the involvement of the angelic beings that god has
  • 00:13:57.962 --> 00:14:01.366
  • Created to help us requires a lack of spiritual awareness that
  • 00:14:01.366 --> 00:14:06.671
  • We can no longer afford.
  • 00:14:06.671 --> 00:14:10.842
  • In 1 peter 5, we're told that we have an adversary: "be
  • 00:14:10.842 --> 00:14:13.711
  • Self-controlled and alert.
  • 00:14:13.711 --> 00:14:15.079
  • Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion
  • 00:14:15.079 --> 00:14:18.750
  • Looking for someone to devour.
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  • Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that
  • 00:14:23.121 --> 00:14:28.559
  • Your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same
  • 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:31.029
  • Kind of sufferings."
  • 00:14:31.029 --> 00:14:33.665
  • He didn't offer a suggestion.
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  • He gave a direction.
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  • This is the fisherman that jesus recruited as a teenager.
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  • When he writes this letter, he's an old man, his strength
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  • Is diminished.
  • 00:14:42.874 --> 00:14:44.676
  • He stood many years as an unrelenting advocate for jesus
  • 00:14:44.676 --> 00:14:48.346
  • Of nazareth, after jesus ascended back to heaven.
  • 00:14:48.346 --> 00:14:51.082
  • He's been arrested, imprisoned, condemned to death,
  • 00:14:51.082 --> 00:14:53.985
  • Narrowly escaped.
  • 00:14:53.985 --> 00:14:56.821
  • And he says, "you have an adversary that searches the
  • 00:14:56.821 --> 00:14:59.724
  • Earth like a roaring lion.
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  • Resist him.
  • 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:03.795
  • Stand firm in your faith."
  • 00:15:03.795 --> 00:15:08.266
  • "well, now, wait a minute, pastor.
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  • I thought that's what we just did.
  • 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:10.969
  • We voted.
  • 00:15:10.969 --> 00:15:15.006
  • Can't i just go back to my routine?"
  • 00:15:15.006 --> 00:15:19.110
  • Our routines is what got us in this fine mess.
  • 00:15:19.110 --> 00:15:23.614
  • I know we wanna blame everybody else.
  • 00:15:23.614 --> 00:15:27.118
  • And i'm not saying that all of us are engaged in gross
  • 00:15:27.118 --> 00:15:31.589
  • Immorality and ungodliness.
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  • I pray you're not.
  • 00:15:33.858 --> 00:15:35.193
  • If you are, stop. it'll destroy you.
  • 00:15:35.193 --> 00:15:38.730
  • But i'm very confident that those things have touched all of
  • 00:15:38.730 --> 00:15:42.066
  • Our lives.
  • 00:15:42.066 --> 00:15:44.802
  • And in far too many instances, we've been quiet.
  • 00:15:44.802 --> 00:15:48.239
  • And in our silence, we've added an endorsement, a sublime
  • 00:15:48.239 --> 00:15:54.045
  • Blessing, and it ripples out to children and generationally.
  • 00:15:54.045 --> 00:15:59.951
  • And you do that for very long, and then you realize that all of
  • 00:15:59.951 --> 00:16:03.721
  • A sudden that notion of a biblical worldview has been so
  • 00:16:03.721 --> 00:16:05.957
  • Diminished, so turned down, that it's no longer welcome in the
  • 00:16:05.957 --> 00:16:09.193
  • Corporate setting or the public square, and it has
  • 00:16:09.193 --> 00:16:12.830
  • Very little to do with laws.
  • 00:16:12.830 --> 00:16:14.165
  • It has to do with the will of the people.
  • 00:16:14.165 --> 00:16:21.739
  • Jesus taught us to pray in matthew 6: "lead us not into
  • 00:16:21.739 --> 00:16:24.575
  • Temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."
  • 00:16:24.575 --> 00:16:28.379
  • Jesus said, "you better pray that you'll be delivered from
  • 00:16:28.379 --> 00:16:31.215
  • The evil one."
  • 00:16:31.215 --> 00:16:33.951
  • We've adopted a different stance: "i'm not sure i believe
  • 00:16:33.951 --> 00:16:37.755
  • In an evil one.
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  • Well, you know, i know some people believe in that, but my
  • 00:16:41.526 --> 00:16:45.463
  • People, the church i go to, the tradition i belong to, the
  • 00:16:45.463 --> 00:16:50.234
  • Denomination i grew up, you know, we didn't--we didn't lead
  • 00:16:50.234 --> 00:16:53.471
  • With that.
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  • We led with grace."
  • 00:16:54.839 --> 00:16:57.375
  • I'm an advocate for grace.
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  • I'm the poster child.
  • 00:16:58.709 --> 00:17:00.078
  • You look up grace, you'll probably find my picture.
  • 00:17:00.078 --> 00:17:03.214
  • I have needed grace and mercy.
  • 00:17:03.214 --> 00:17:06.050
  • But we better be asking the lord to deliver us from the evil one.
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  • We face evil within.
  • 00:17:11.289 --> 00:17:12.824
  • It's not just external.
  • 00:17:12.824 --> 00:17:14.192
  • Matthew 9, jesus is speaking: "some of the teachers of the law
  • 00:17:14.192 --> 00:17:18.029
  • Said to themselves, 'this fellow is blaspheming!'
  • 00:17:18.029 --> 00:17:20.264
  • Knowing their thoughts, jesus said, 'why do you entertain evil
  • 00:17:20.264 --> 00:17:23.468
  • Thoughts in your hearts?'"
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  • These are biblical experts, they're keeping all the rules,
  • 00:17:25.570 --> 00:17:30.308
  • And he said, "you're entertaining evil thoughts in
  • 00:17:30.308 --> 00:17:33.010
  • Your hearts": what you watch, what you listen to, what you
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  • Think about, the jokes you tell, the conversations you'll
  • 00:17:36.781 --> 00:17:41.452
  • Entertain, the gossip you'll listen to.
  • 00:17:41.452 --> 00:17:45.256
  • Matthew 15: "out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder,
  • 00:17:45.256 --> 00:17:49.227
  • Adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
  • 00:17:49.227 --> 00:17:53.331
  • This is what makes a man 'unclean'; not eating with
  • 00:17:53.331 --> 00:17:57.368
  • Unwashed hands."
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  • Jesus said out of the hearts of his covenant people.
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  • Our heart is our carnal self, that selfish part of us.
  • 00:18:04.575 --> 00:18:10.214
  • The biblical prescription for that carnal part of every one of
  • 00:18:10.214 --> 00:18:13.551
  • Us, we all have it, is we have to execute it.
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  • We have to put it to death.
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  • Every thought we have, every emotion we have, is not godly.
  • 00:18:18.322 --> 00:18:25.096
  • And there's this overwhelming notion amongst us that says,
  • 00:18:25.096 --> 00:18:29.100
  • "well, you can't tell me what to feel."
  • 00:18:29.100 --> 00:18:31.736
  • No, i can't, but i can tell you some feelings are ungodly.
  • 00:18:31.736 --> 00:18:37.642
  • "well, it's my feeling."
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  • Duly noted.
  • 00:18:39.343 --> 00:18:43.181
  • But if you pursue something that is fueled by evil, ungodliness,
  • 00:18:43.181 --> 00:18:47.618
  • Immorality, that stands in opposition to the purposes of
  • 00:18:47.618 --> 00:18:51.122
  • God, it will bring you to destruction.
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  • We're reading lamentations.
  • 00:18:54.992 --> 00:19:01.232
  • Matthew 12, jesus again: "you brood of vipers."
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  • In case you didn't know, that's not a compliment.
  • 00:19:06.938 --> 00:19:10.908
  • Good old tennessee language: "you bunch of snakes."
  • 00:19:10.908 --> 00:19:14.679
  • "how can you who are evil say anything good?
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  • Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
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  • The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in
  • 00:19:20.418 --> 00:19:23.221
  • Him and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up
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  • In him."
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  • We can't tolerate ungodliness.
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  • We can no longer afford the luxury.
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  • God has shown us mercy and grace.
  • 00:19:35.266 --> 00:19:38.102
  • There are people reorienting their lives saying they wanna
  • 00:19:38.102 --> 00:19:40.771
  • Stand up for principles that will bring freedom and liberty.
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  • The only hope they have, the only opportunity, is if the
  • 00:19:44.675 --> 00:19:49.480
  • People of god will repent.
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  • The spiritual authority that will make change possible, will
  • 00:19:53.050 --> 00:19:56.721
  • Begin in the hearts of god's people.
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  • I'm out of time.
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  • I'll read matthew 13.
  • 00:20:07.398 --> 00:20:09.700
  • Jesus again said, "the son of man will send out his angels,
  • 00:20:09.700 --> 00:20:13.304
  • And they'll weed out of his kingdom everything that causes
  • 00:20:13.304 --> 00:20:17.341
  • Sin and all who do evil."
  • 00:20:17.341 --> 00:20:18.843
  • It's the parable of the wheat and the tares, the wheat and
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  • The weeds.
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  • And the question is put to the owner of the field: "do you want
  • 00:20:23.581 --> 00:20:27.451
  • Us to go out and pull the weeds?"
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  • And he said, "no, let them grow so that the wheat and the weeds,
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  • The good and the evil, the true and the false, are going
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  • To flourish.
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  • The same climactic conditions that cause the wheat to ripen
  • 00:20:36.927 --> 00:20:39.030
  • Will let the weeds ripen."
  • 00:20:39.030 --> 00:20:41.499
  • So i believe we will see ungodliness flourish and
  • 00:20:41.499 --> 00:20:46.037
  • Godliness flourish, which means we're all very vulnerable
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  • 'cause they're all growing around us and we've got access
  • 00:20:50.741 --> 00:20:53.277
  • To it and we're gonna be told it's normal and we should
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  • Compromise and we should yield.
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  • Folks, this isn't something new.
  • 00:20:58.783 --> 00:21:00.384
  • We read about josiah a session or two ago on the temple, next
  • 00:21:00.384 --> 00:21:04.322
  • To the temple where they offer daily sacrifices, they built
  • 00:21:04.322 --> 00:21:08.059
  • Places for prostitution.
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  • There were priests that presided over it, people that benefited
  • 00:21:10.661 --> 00:21:13.931
  • From it, and infrastructure that supported it.
  • 00:21:13.931 --> 00:21:16.567
  • It was profitable and pleasurable, and it existed for
  • 00:21:16.567 --> 00:21:23.541
  • A long time.
  • 00:21:23.541 --> 00:21:26.277
  • And when josiah said, "tear it down," i promise you there were
  • 00:21:26.277 --> 00:21:29.013
  • People that said, "we will remove you from power."
  • 00:21:29.013 --> 00:21:36.587
  • Jesus said, "the wheat and the weeds are gonna grow together."
  • 00:21:36.587 --> 00:21:40.691
  • We have to guard our hearts.
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  • I believe we have an unprecedented opportunity,
  • 00:21:43.594 --> 00:21:45.996
  • Nothing like it in my lifetime, to see the values of the kingdom
  • 00:21:45.996 --> 00:21:51.035
  • Of god brought forward again in our schools, on our college
  • 00:21:51.035 --> 00:21:54.839
  • Campuses, in our courtrooms, the corridors of our hospitals.
  • 00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:59.944
  • Doctors should be able to pray with patients without fear
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  • Of attorneys.
  • 00:22:02.179 --> 00:22:09.253
  • How did we get to a place if a person of faith wants to pray a
  • 00:22:09.253 --> 00:22:12.990
  • Prayer for someone who says they would like a prayer that there
  • 00:22:12.990 --> 00:22:16.026
  • Is fear involved?
  • 00:22:16.026 --> 00:22:18.028
  • And why would we tolerate it?
  • 00:22:18.028 --> 00:22:23.067
  • What has happened to us, church?
  • 00:22:23.067 --> 00:22:29.740
  • I brought you a hymn of thanksgiving.
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  • I wanna close with this.
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  • I took it from that same scene where all the angels were
  • 00:22:34.111 --> 00:22:36.680
  • Gathered, kind of a heavenly party.
  • 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:41.218
  • But there were statements being made by angels and statements
  • 00:22:41.218 --> 00:22:45.890
  • Being made by people of significance
  • 00:22:45.890 --> 00:22:47.525
  • In the purposes of god.
  • 00:22:47.525 --> 00:22:48.859
  • And i borrowed two of them and i put them in this declaration
  • 00:22:48.859 --> 00:22:53.764
  • Of thanksgiving.
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  • I thought it was a good week to do this.
  • 00:22:55.132 --> 00:22:56.467
  • Why don't you stand with me?
  • 00:22:56.467 --> 00:22:58.769
  • It's really short.
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  • I'd like to make this statement to all four points of
  • 00:23:00.104 --> 00:23:02.273
  • The compass.
  • 00:23:02.273 --> 00:23:03.974
  • I don't wanna leave anything out.
  • 00:23:03.974 --> 00:23:06.610
  • If you're in three crosses with us, which is gonna be my point
  • 00:23:06.610 --> 00:23:10.014
  • Of orientation.
  • 00:23:10.014 --> 00:23:11.348
  • If you're someplace else, you're gonna have to know the compass.
  • 00:23:11.348 --> 00:23:13.918
  • I know for some of you that requires a cell phone.
  • 00:23:13.918 --> 00:23:20.324
  • But we're, in three crosses, you're facing north.
  • 00:23:20.324 --> 00:23:22.993
  • So we'll start with the north.
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  • And i want us to make this--say this hymn together.
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  • We're gonna echo what's being-- has been said in the halls
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  • Of heaven.
  • 00:23:30.401 --> 00:23:31.735
  • That makes me smile.
  • 00:23:31.735 --> 00:23:33.471
  • Let the praises of god fill the earth.
  • 00:23:33.471 --> 00:23:36.740
  • Let the praises of god fill our homes.
  • 00:23:36.740 --> 00:23:39.643
  • Let the praises of god fill our schools and our college campuses
  • 00:23:39.643 --> 00:23:43.747
  • And our courtrooms and the operating suites of
  • 00:23:43.747 --> 00:23:47.017
  • Our hospitals.
  • 00:23:47.017 --> 00:23:48.719
  • Doesn't mean everybody in all those places
  • 00:23:48.719 --> 00:23:50.588
  • Have to praise the lord.
  • 00:23:50.588 --> 00:23:51.922
  • But it's appropriate that the praises of god break forth in
  • 00:23:51.922 --> 00:23:55.059
  • Those places.
  • 00:23:55.059 --> 00:23:59.396
  • We'll tolerate profanity in those places.
  • 00:23:59.396 --> 00:24:02.032
  • We'll tolerate ungodly music in all those places.
  • 00:24:02.032 --> 00:24:04.735
  • We'll tolerate all sorts of things.
  • 00:24:04.735 --> 00:24:06.737
  • But as people of faith, people who said, "we've chosen jesus as
  • 00:24:06.737 --> 00:24:09.607
  • Lord," we haven't been willing to use our voice.
  • 00:24:09.607 --> 00:24:11.909
  • We're changing.
  • 00:24:11.909 --> 00:24:14.211
  • We are changing.
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  • To the north: "worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to receive
  • 00:24:20.017 --> 00:24:25.823
  • Power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory
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  • And praise!
  • 00:24:31.328 --> 00:24:32.930
  • And to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise
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  • And honor and glory and power, for ever and ever, amen."
  • 00:24:37.902 --> 00:24:44.341
  • To the east.
  • 00:24:44.341 --> 00:24:45.776
  • Let's turn physically.
  • 00:24:45.776 --> 00:24:47.111
  • Come on, if you don't know where that is, i'm sorry.
  • 00:24:47.111 --> 00:24:52.383
  • Let's read it again: "worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to
  • 00:24:52.383 --> 00:24:56.654
  • Receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor
  • 00:24:56.654 --> 00:25:02.259
  • And glory and praise!
  • 00:25:02.259 --> 00:25:07.831
  • --and to the lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for
  • 00:25:07.831 --> 00:25:13.170
  • Ever and ever, amen."
  • 00:25:13.170 --> 00:25:16.974
  • To the south.
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  • That's the back, for those of you directionally challenged.
  • 00:25:18.442 --> 00:25:24.748
  • "worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to receive power and
  • 00:25:24.748 --> 00:25:29.887
  • Wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!
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  • To him who sits on the throne--"
  • 00:25:36.727 --> 00:25:39.563
  • Congregation: "and to the lamb be praise and honor and glory
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  • And power, for ever and ever!"
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  • Allen: amen.
  • 00:25:46.437 --> 00:25:47.972
  • And to the west: "worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to receive
  • 00:25:47.972 --> 00:25:55.412
  • Power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory
  • 00:25:55.412 --> 00:26:01.452
  • And praise!
  • 00:26:01.452 --> 00:26:03.887
  • --sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise and honor and
  • 00:26:03.887 --> 00:26:09.326
  • Glory and power for ever and ever, amen," hallelujah.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, i've often said that what happens in the white
  • 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:25.376
  • House is not more important than what happens in your house.
  • 00:26:25.376 --> 00:26:28.312
  • I have an assignment, if you'll accept it.
  • 00:26:28.312 --> 00:26:30.314
  • Imagine your kitchen table as an expression of the love of god to
  • 00:26:30.314 --> 00:26:33.917
  • Our generation.
  • 00:26:33.917 --> 00:26:35.252
  • Let's start to practice hospitality from the inside out,
  • 00:26:35.252 --> 00:26:37.655
  • From our kitchen table to our neighbors, our friends.
  • 00:26:37.655 --> 00:26:41.091
  • God will meet us in that place as we take those simple steps of
  • 00:26:41.091 --> 00:26:44.094
  • Obedience, honor him at our kitchen table, and we can join
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  • With what god is doing in the earth.
  • 00:26:47.531 --> 00:26:49.500
  • Now, that is an opportunity.
  • 00:26:49.500 --> 00:26:52.369
  • Announcer: some of life's most meaningful moments happen around
  • 00:26:52.369 --> 00:26:54.838
  • A kitchen table.
  • 00:26:54.838 --> 00:26:56.173
  • That's where stories are shared and faith is passed from one
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