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Allen Jackson - When Judgement Begins

June 11, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - When Judgement Begins
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When Judgement Begins | June 11, 2026
  • Allen jackson: hey, i've encouraged you for a long time
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  • To lead with your faith.
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  • Take you faith outside the church building
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  • Into all the places that your life takes you,
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  • Where you have influence, where you have a voice.
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  • We've created some pieces to help you do that:
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  • A tote bag, a blanket.
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  • Maybe you're going to a ball game or the park or the beach,
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  • Wherever that may be.
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  • You take these along, they are a celebration of our nation's
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  • 250th anniversary.
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  • Somebody will want to know where you got it, what it's about.
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  • It gives you an opportunity to share your faith.
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  • You know, i've had the privilege of living in some places outside
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  • The united states.
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  • Things like a grocery store or fast food or food delivery,
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  • Those things weren't possible in the places i lived.
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  • When i come home, just walking through a grocery store reminds
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  • Me of the goodness and the faithfulness of god,
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  • His blessings on our nation.
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  • Use your voice to say god has blessed america.
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  • Something as simple as a tote bag can open a door
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  • For your god story.
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  • Together, we're gonna lift up the name of jesus in this
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  • Generation and see god bless america again.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: it's good to be with you today.
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  • We're gonna continue our study on what do we do, and i wanna
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  • Particularly talk to you about when god's judgment begins.
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  • I suspect you've heard me say that i think it's a very
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  • Plausible explanation that god's judgment upon our nation
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  • Has begun.
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  • So a very important question is what do we do?
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  • And i don't think the answer is just endure.
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  • I think our choices to god will make a difference in how god
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  • Responds to us in these next few months and in our
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  • Immediate future.
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  • So it's a very important question for the people of god,
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  • And spoiler alert, it's not a political solution.
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  • Folks, the hearts of god's people will change the destiny
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  • Of our nation, for better or for worse.
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  • Grab your bible and get a notepad, but most importantly,
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  • Open your heart.
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  • Allen: i want to conclude, or i think conclude, a study we
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  • Started a few sessions ago, looking at a question that is
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  • The most frequently asked question i've had for some
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  • Months, really, probably for a couple of years, is what are we
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  • Supposed to do?
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  • Really, since the disruption of covid.
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  • And an increasingly larger percentage of the population
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  • Are--seem to be growing aware that there's change amongst us.
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  • Rapid change, cataclysmic change, change that often seems
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  • To be going against biblical worldview or judeo-christian
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  • Worldview, new values, new principles.
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  • It's very common in the public square these days to hear people
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  • Say in our community, i've read it from leaders in our
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  • Community, "well, our community is not like it was 40 years ago.
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  • We shouldn't behave the way we did."
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  • And they're setting aside the moral values and the ideas that
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  • Defined us, marriage and family.
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  • Folks, the fact that something's new doesn't always mean
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  • It's better.
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  • Don't apologize because you believe your bible or because
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  • You've embraced a biblical worldview or you believe
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  • Marriage is between a man and a woman.
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  • Please don't apologize for that.
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  • Don't feel ashamed or embarrassed.
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  • You haven't abandoned your intellect or checked your iq at
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  • The door.
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  • It doesn't mean your education is inadequate or
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  • Insufficient, amen.
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  • You don't have to be angry about it or belligerent about it.
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  • You certainly don't be violent about it, but you're entitled to
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  • Your opinion, a biblically informed opinion.
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  • And in the midst of all that change, people are saying to me
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  • Frequently, and just about any place i go, "what can we do?"
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  • And there's a lot of confusion around that and a lot of
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  • Frustration around that.
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  • And so i want to pick it up as a topic.
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  • We spent a couple of sessions just identifying some of the
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  • Components that the bible tells us will be in play before the
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  • Lord returns.
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  • Because it seems there's kind of two big options right now.
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  • Is this the end of the age?
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  • Are we coming to the end of all time?
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  • Is jesus of nazareth returning to the earth, gonna rule and
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  • Reign on the earth and wrap everything up?
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  • Is that why things are getting difficult?
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  • And then that's a legitimate question.
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  • I'm of the opinion that that's not imminent, in the sense that
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  • I don't think that's the next thing on the calendar.
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  • I think it's a more likely answer right now that what we're
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  • Witnessing is the end of an empire.
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  • We're witnessing and living in the midst of the dissolution of
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  • The authority that has come largely we would call it from
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  • America, but it's really come from the dollar.
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  • And i don't want to get into all the reasons why i think
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  • That's true.
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  • I think it could be changed, but i would understand it as
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  • God's judgment.
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  • And so i think what we do really does matter.
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  • So for this session, my topic that i'd like to focus on is
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  • What do we do when judgment begins?
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  • Now, i don't want it to be frightening, and i know it can
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  • Be because it's about change, but all change doesn't have to
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  • Be negative and all judgment doesn't mean it's against you.
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  • Judgment can be in your favor.
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  • We all learned that from "the people's court" or "judge judy"
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  • Or whomever you watched, you know, i don't know who the
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  • Newest version of that is, but judgment was always for
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  • Somebody, it was for the plaintiff or for the defendant.
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  • It wasn't against anyone.
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  • And you want to lead your life in such a way that when it's
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  • Time for god's judgment to intervene in time, that god
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  • Judges for you.
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  • If you're doing anything else, it's foolish.
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  • You wanna live your life every day that if god's judgment
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  • Became imminent for you, it would be in your favor.
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  • It's just every other bet is just not clever.
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  • So that's the topic.
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  • We're gonna unpack it for a few minutes, but i wanna kind of
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  • Kick that off because if you've been paying any attention, the
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  • Theater of the absurd is open again.
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  • I don't think it ever closed.
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  • But it seems they've released several new programs.
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  • And the latest set of versions seem to be more about fear
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  • And terror.
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  • But the new presentations are unsettling.
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  • They really defy the ability to respond to them logically
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  • Because while you're trying to formulate a logical response,
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  • They release a new presentation.
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  • And lately it seems more like a horror show.
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  • And much of it that's been capturing my attention has been
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  • Centered on the open border.
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  • You know, i know there's a lot of posturing and a lot of
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  • Dialogue, but with just a casual glance and the iq of a rock, you
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  • Have to acknowledge that our border is open.
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  • The world knows it's open.
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  • And it's no longer just about mexico or central america.
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  • There are people coming from the nations of the world, dozens and
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  • Dozens and dozens of nations.
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  • Headed to our border which is open so that there is no
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  • Immigration status or immigration principle or
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  • Immigration policy.
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  • But there are--there are several very significant crises
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  • That that is--has already unleashed amongst us.
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  • Not the least of which, but perhaps the least discussed of
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  • Which, is the trafficking of children.
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  • It's inconvenient.
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  • It's not a conversation for polite company.
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  • Many would say it shouldn't be mentioned in church.
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  • I couldn't disagree more.
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  • They are selling children because of the open border in
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  • Our nation, in unprecedented numbers.
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  • You have to live with that a little bit.
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  • It's awkward, it's uncomfortable.
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  • We tend to say, what can i do?
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  • We can do a lot.
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  • We can insist they close the border.
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  • It wouldn't end the problem.
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  • I'm not suggesting that the only reason children are being
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  • Trafficked into the sex trades is because we have an
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  • Open border.
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  • But that has created a momentum for that that has changed the
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  • Dynamic in this nation.
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  • And we have tolerated it.
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  • We've looked the other--we had a president that wanted to build
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  • A fence.
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  • And the political swamp on both sides of the discussion acted as
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  • If there wasn't enough funding.
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  • We've given away $2.5 trillion since then.
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  • We had an abundance of resources.
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  • We had no intention of closing the border.
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  • I would submit to you until we get on our knees and put our
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  • Faces on the carpet and say, "god, we're sorry for what we've
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  • Allowed to happen to children on our watch."
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  • Kathy and i went and saw a movie, "the sound of freedom,"
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  • The other day.
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  • If that's not enough, we stood silently by and said, "well, 60
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  • Million children were lost."
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  • And we talked about other things, choices, laws, baloney.
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  • Those responses will feel very inadequate when you meet
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  • Those people.
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  • And they're awaiting us.
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  • When we step out of time, we have those people as a part of
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  • Our welcoming committee.
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  • See, it's never too late to do the right thing.
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  • It's never too late to stand up for righteousness and godliness
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  • And holiness.
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  • Now all of our lives have been impacted by this, directly
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  • And indirectly.
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  • My goal isn't to create shame or embarrassment or humiliation.
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  • My goal is to invite us towards the truth so that we can humble
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  • Ourselves and repent.
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  • We can be clean, we can be free.
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  • But all of those things we're watching are really the result
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  • Of the casual way with which we've treated the biblical
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  • Attitudes towards sexuality and morality and immorality.
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  • You know, on top of all of that, the illegal drugs that are
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  • Flowing over our border.
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  • The fentanyl overdoses, the deaths that are being calculated
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  • Now by the tens of thousands.
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  • We act as if we don't notice that the world is producing and
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  • Dumping illegal drugs that are incredibly destructive into
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  • Our population.
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  • Or laughs at us for the feckless way that we're defending our
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  • Freedoms and our liberties.
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  • It's an invasion.
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  • It's an orchestrated invasion overwhelming our ability to
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  • Respond to it, our educational systems, our health care
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  • Systems, our government services.
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  • It diminishes the assets of every us citizen.
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  • It diminishes our citizenship.
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  • We treat it so shabbily we don't even protect our borders.
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  • If you need a little--if you need a way to help your
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  • Imagination catch up, just imagine you took the locks off
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  • Your house and you opened the doors, said, "anybody wants to
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  • Come in, just come ahead.
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  • Whatever you need, make yourselves at home."
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  • How long would your home maintain an atmosphere that
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  • Would be comfortable for you and your family?
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  • It's a larger scale, but it's a very similar idea.
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  • It's absurd.
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  • It's indefensible.
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  • And it's so apparent, it's so blatantly clear, 3rd graders can
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  • Understand it if they're presented with the truth.
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  • And it persists year over year.
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  • This isn't about a political party, folks.
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  • This is about a political system that doesn't have the will to
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  • Defend its citizens.
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  • And i would submit to you it's far more about a church that is
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  • So determined not to notice the destructive behaviors around us,
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  • That we will tell bible studies and do word studies around
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  • Original language issues before we will deal with the
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  • Expressions of evil and destruction that are raining
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  • Down upon us.
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  • God be merciful to us.
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  • So when judgment begins, what do we do?
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  • Well, the best--the beginning point is the one that we've been
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  • Talking about now for quite a while.
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  • I think we have to watch and listen.
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  • We have to pay attention.
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  • You can't afford to just bury your head in the sand and
  • 00:11:56.532 --> 00:11:59.034
  • Determine to do your own routine and keep up with your vacation
  • 00:11:59.034 --> 00:12:02.304
  • Schedule and do the things that your family wants to do.
  • 00:12:02.304 --> 00:12:04.673
  • You gotta watch and listen to what's happening in the world.
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  • I don't think you need to spend hours every day doing that.
  • 00:12:07.710 --> 00:12:09.545
  • It'll overwhelm you.
  • 00:12:09.545 --> 00:12:10.913
  • About 10 minutes a day, you're up to speed.
  • 00:12:10.913 --> 00:12:13.082
  • The rest of the loop is just a repeat and a rinse.
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  • You need to watch and you listen, you think.
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  • You gotta--you gotta actually turn your brain on.
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  • Does that feel truthful?
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  • Is what they're saying to me look like--does it line up with
  • 00:12:22.958 --> 00:12:24.727
  • The reality that's around me?
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  • And then you have to be willing to act.
  • 00:12:27.530 --> 00:12:30.399
  • You have to act in anger, not in violence, but you gotta be
  • 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:32.902
  • Willing to do something.
  • 00:12:32.902 --> 00:12:34.837
  • Makes christians nervous when you start talking to them
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  • About acting.
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  • We'd rather get together and pray.
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  • You know the model that's prevailed in the church in my
  • 00:12:39.875 --> 00:12:41.811
  • Lifetime, in the american evangelical community, is
  • 00:12:41.811 --> 00:12:44.079
  • "ready, aim, aim, aim.
  • 00:12:44.079 --> 00:12:49.718
  • Can we get together and pray?
  • 00:12:49.718 --> 00:12:51.921
  • And aim, and aim, and have a covered dish dinner.
  • 00:12:51.921 --> 00:12:57.393
  • And somebody check our aim?
  • 00:12:57.393 --> 00:13:01.130
  • Why did we get here?"
  • 00:13:01.130 --> 00:13:02.665
  • "i don't know.
  • 00:13:02.665 --> 00:13:03.999
  • Are we ready yet?"
  • 00:13:03.999 --> 00:13:05.367
  • "i'm not sure."
  • 00:13:05.367 --> 00:13:06.702
  • And we never get around to doing very much.
  • 00:13:06.702 --> 00:13:08.737
  • Or if we do, we'll go do social service projects that the civic
  • 00:13:08.737 --> 00:13:11.907
  • Organizations are already doing.
  • 00:13:11.907 --> 00:13:14.176
  • The church is not a social civic club.
  • 00:13:14.176 --> 00:13:19.448
  • That's not our assignment.
  • 00:13:19.448 --> 00:13:22.551
  • We're to hold up the light in the darkness, which is
  • 00:13:22.551 --> 00:13:26.922
  • Often uncomfortable.
  • 00:13:26.922 --> 00:13:28.257
  • If you've ever been in the dark very long and you step into the
  • 00:13:28.257 --> 00:13:30.192
  • Light, it's not a particularly comfortable moment.
  • 00:13:30.192 --> 00:13:32.761
  • There's a lot of squinting and a lot of blinking and there's
  • 00:13:32.761 --> 00:13:35.598
  • Tears and it takes a while to be adjusted.
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  • Allen: hey, we're celebrating this year the 250th anniversary
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  • Of the signing of the declaration of independence.
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  • What a wonderful privilege we have.
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  • You know, god has blessed our nation so many good things.
  • 00:13:54.083 --> 00:13:56.986
  • People say to me, "well, our whole history is not good."
  • 00:13:56.986 --> 00:13:59.521
  • Well, folks, you know, my history is not great.
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  • Your family history is not perfect.
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  • But you love your family, you love your children.
  • 00:14:03.626 --> 00:14:06.362
  • In spite of our weaknesses-- well, our nation hadn't been
  • 00:14:06.362 --> 00:14:09.265
  • Perfect, but through that whole story, the goodness of god
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  • Is evident.
  • 00:14:12.301 --> 00:14:13.636
  • It still is.
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  • Let's ask god to bless america again.
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  • I believe he will.
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  • Female announcer: as we celebrate 250 years of god's
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  • Faithfulness to our nation, we want to help you carry
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  • Allen: well, i wanna take-- there's a long history in
  • 00:14:48.370 --> 00:14:51.006
  • Scripture and this is really very much a sampling.
  • 00:14:51.006 --> 00:14:53.375
  • This is like some light hors d'oeuvres, but there's a long
  • 00:14:53.375 --> 00:14:56.679
  • History in scripture of god's judgments.
  • 00:14:56.679 --> 00:14:58.914
  • God's judgments in history, the ultimate judgment of god in our
  • 00:14:58.914 --> 00:15:01.750
  • Lives is in eternity.
  • 00:15:01.750 --> 00:15:03.886
  • For both the christ follower and for the non-believer, when we
  • 00:15:03.886 --> 00:15:07.890
  • Step out of time, one of the things that is before us that's
  • 00:15:07.890 --> 00:15:10.626
  • Inevitable and inescapable is the judgment of god.
  • 00:15:10.626 --> 00:15:13.762
  • For the christ follower, it's not a judgment of destiny, but
  • 00:15:13.762 --> 00:15:16.532
  • It's a judgment of reward.
  • 00:15:16.532 --> 00:15:17.900
  • We're not all gonna receive the same thing.
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  • God is not a socialist.
  • 00:15:20.903 --> 00:15:26.942
  • That's probably another session because there's a--there's a
  • 00:15:26.942 --> 00:15:28.744
  • Lot of pressure.
  • 00:15:28.744 --> 00:15:30.079
  • A lot of people want to believe that he is.
  • 00:15:30.079 --> 00:15:31.447
  • I hear people say some really goofy things like, "pastor, it
  • 00:15:31.447 --> 00:15:34.450
  • Doesn't really--i just--i just want to make it in the door."
  • 00:15:34.450 --> 00:15:39.254
  • Really?
  • 00:15:39.254 --> 00:15:41.857
  • Let's just apply that logic to your marriage.
  • 00:15:41.857 --> 00:15:48.664
  • You know, i don't want you to feel, like, overly appreciated.
  • 00:15:48.664 --> 00:15:55.104
  • My goal is most nights just to make it in the door.
  • 00:15:55.104 --> 00:16:01.010
  • How many of you would sign up for that commitment?
  • 00:16:01.010 --> 00:16:04.079
  • Well, you understand is if you all got your kids together and
  • 00:16:04.079 --> 00:16:06.582
  • Listen, say, "you know, you're mine.
  • 00:16:06.582 --> 00:16:09.184
  • And i know i've got some responsibilities.
  • 00:16:09.184 --> 00:16:10.953
  • I'm supposed to probably feed you, care for you, help
  • 00:16:10.953 --> 00:16:14.523
  • Train you.
  • 00:16:14.523 --> 00:16:16.525
  • But here's more what i'm thinking."
  • 00:16:16.525 --> 00:16:20.863
  • It's absurd.
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  • You want to be as heavily invested in the kingdom of god
  • 00:16:24.166 --> 00:16:27.102
  • As you consciously know how to be.
  • 00:16:27.102 --> 00:16:29.838
  • And anything less than that is so disrespectful, i wouldn't let
  • 00:16:29.838 --> 00:16:32.808
  • It come out of my mouth.
  • 00:16:32.808 --> 00:16:36.445
  • You don't want to stand before the creator of all things and
  • 00:16:36.445 --> 00:16:39.081
  • Say, "well, you know, i was just looking for the absolute
  • 00:16:39.081 --> 00:16:41.250
  • Possible minimum requirement."
  • 00:16:41.250 --> 00:16:44.753
  • "well, come right in."
  • 00:16:44.753 --> 00:16:47.956
  • We've had this backwards in our heads.
  • 00:16:47.956 --> 00:16:52.127
  • We have.
  • 00:16:52.127 --> 00:16:53.929
  • So when we recognize that there are spiritual things afoot, when
  • 00:16:53.929 --> 00:16:58.500
  • There are spiritual consequences being played out in an escalated
  • 00:16:58.500 --> 00:17:02.104
  • Way, how do we respond?
  • 00:17:02.104 --> 00:17:05.541
  • In scripture, the responses of god's people vary widely.
  • 00:17:08.777 --> 00:17:12.815
  • What i will tell you is that the--our responses in the face
  • 00:17:12.815 --> 00:17:15.717
  • Of god's judgment make a tremendous difference in god's
  • 00:17:15.717 --> 00:17:19.121
  • Determination towards us.
  • 00:17:19.121 --> 00:17:21.824
  • So this is important stuff.
  • 00:17:21.824 --> 00:17:23.959
  • I'll give you some examples.
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  • Some will be familiar, maybe some less so.
  • 00:17:25.327 --> 00:17:26.662
  • We'll look at some old testament, some new testament.
  • 00:17:26.662 --> 00:17:29.264
  • You'll have to listen quickly.
  • 00:17:29.264 --> 00:17:30.599
  • We can't read everything you've got.
  • 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:32.401
  • We'll start with josiah, he's a king in israel, king in judah.
  • 00:17:32.401 --> 00:17:37.473
  • Jerusalem is his capital.
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  • He comes to the throne when he's a young man.
  • 00:17:38.841 --> 00:17:40.476
  • He's a boy, actually.
  • 00:17:40.476 --> 00:17:42.878
  • And through--he initiated a remodeling of the temple.
  • 00:17:42.878 --> 00:17:47.316
  • They cared so little about god that the place where they
  • 00:17:47.316 --> 00:17:49.418
  • Worshiped was in total disrepair.
  • 00:17:49.418 --> 00:17:53.322
  • And i--one of the--i believe that the places where we worship
  • 00:17:53.322 --> 00:17:56.859
  • And the care we give to them, not, you know, we get, all tense
  • 00:17:56.859 --> 00:18:01.497
  • About the content and--but the care with which we give to them
  • 00:18:01.497 --> 00:18:04.766
  • Is an expression of the value we attach to the lord, amen.
  • 00:18:04.766 --> 00:18:11.874
  • I mean we haven't always had nice buildings and we certainly
  • 00:18:11.874 --> 00:18:13.909
  • Haven't had any technology.
  • 00:18:13.909 --> 00:18:15.577
  • I was here when all we had was a tent.
  • 00:18:15.577 --> 00:18:17.913
  • And we would stand up in the middle of the worship service
  • 00:18:17.913 --> 00:18:19.615
  • And toss the insect repellent around the sanctuary.
  • 00:18:19.615 --> 00:18:23.785
  • And all we had was a portable bathroom and i learned something
  • 00:18:23.785 --> 00:18:26.488
  • About bathrooms at church.
  • 00:18:26.488 --> 00:18:27.856
  • They're more a social experiment than they are about necessity.
  • 00:18:27.856 --> 00:18:31.460
  • Because when all you have is a portable bathroom outside the
  • 00:18:31.460 --> 00:18:33.595
  • Tent, it gets very little activity.
  • 00:18:33.595 --> 00:18:37.065
  • Now i'm meddling.
  • 00:18:40.536 --> 00:18:41.870
  • Where was i going?
  • 00:18:41.870 --> 00:18:43.238
  • Josiah, he became king when he was very young.
  • 00:18:43.238 --> 00:18:45.541
  • And he began remodeling the temple, and when they're
  • 00:18:45.541 --> 00:18:47.776
  • Remodeling the temple, they found hidden in the wall, the
  • 00:18:47.776 --> 00:18:50.779
  • Book of the law.
  • 00:18:50.779 --> 00:18:52.114
  • They had lost their bible.
  • 00:18:52.114 --> 00:18:54.449
  • And as bizarre as that seems, it seems to me as a church and our
  • 00:18:54.449 --> 00:18:57.653
  • Nation we have lost our bibles.
  • 00:18:57.653 --> 00:19:00.355
  • We talk about what we think and how we feel and we're trying to
  • 00:19:00.355 --> 00:19:03.392
  • Accommodate a secular culture when in reality we're supposed
  • 00:19:03.392 --> 00:19:06.195
  • To hold out the truth to the culture.
  • 00:19:06.195 --> 00:19:08.497
  • We're supposed to be culture shapers not being shaped by
  • 00:19:08.497 --> 00:19:10.832
  • The culture.
  • 00:19:10.832 --> 00:19:12.935
  • I'm not looking to negotiate with evil.
  • 00:19:12.935 --> 00:19:16.071
  • I'm looking to remind the people of what it means to lead a
  • 00:19:16.071 --> 00:19:18.974
  • Righteous life.
  • 00:19:18.974 --> 00:19:20.609
  • Not that we always can achieve those objectives ourselves with
  • 00:19:20.609 --> 00:19:25.180
  • Perfection, but it is the goal that we hold out and we're not
  • 00:19:25.180 --> 00:19:28.016
  • Allowed to compromise.
  • 00:19:28.016 --> 00:19:29.751
  • We're not allowed to negotiate away the standard.
  • 00:19:29.751 --> 00:19:31.820
  • Imagine going to the hospital and the doctor said, "well, you
  • 00:19:31.820 --> 00:19:33.655
  • Know, i--we wanted the or to be sterile, but it's so hard to do.
  • 00:19:33.655 --> 00:19:39.027
  • So we've really cut back.
  • 00:19:39.027 --> 00:19:40.395
  • We've just asked 70% of the people that work in here to
  • 00:19:40.395 --> 00:19:42.598
  • Scrub in.
  • 00:19:42.598 --> 00:19:44.900
  • And the rest of them, we just trust them."
  • 00:19:44.900 --> 00:19:48.070
  • I'm leaving.
  • 00:19:48.070 --> 00:19:50.539
  • And we cannot yield the standard because it's difficult.
  • 00:19:50.539 --> 00:19:56.778
  • Josiah, i really am going to josiah.
  • 00:19:56.778 --> 00:19:59.514
  • "when the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore
  • 00:19:59.514 --> 00:20:01.917
  • His robes.
  • 00:20:01.917 --> 00:20:03.318
  • And he gave these orders to the priest," and some other people.
  • 00:20:03.318 --> 00:20:08.257
  • "go and inquire of the lord for me and for the people and for
  • 00:20:08.257 --> 00:20:11.126
  • All of judah about what's written in this book that has
  • 00:20:11.126 --> 00:20:13.862
  • Been found.
  • 00:20:13.862 --> 00:20:15.230
  • Great is the lord's anger that burns against us because our
  • 00:20:15.230 --> 00:20:18.133
  • Fathers have not obeyed the words of this book; they haven't
  • 00:20:18.133 --> 00:20:21.570
  • Acted in accordance with all that is written concerning us."
  • 00:20:21.570 --> 00:20:25.841
  • To tear your robes is an expression of grief, of
  • 00:20:25.841 --> 00:20:30.379
  • Mourning, as if they're--you've heard of a death announced of
  • 00:20:30.379 --> 00:20:34.216
  • Someone you love.
  • 00:20:34.216 --> 00:20:35.550
  • So he tears his robes with the grief he feels because he
  • 00:20:35.550 --> 00:20:38.287
  • Recognizes there's a tremendous difference between what they're
  • 00:20:38.287 --> 00:20:41.089
  • Called to do in scripture and the way they have been
  • 00:20:41.089 --> 00:20:43.759
  • Living generationally.
  • 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:46.461
  • And he says something that is easy to repast, but it truly
  • 00:20:46.461 --> 00:20:49.097
  • Takes a lot of courage.
  • 00:20:49.097 --> 00:20:50.432
  • He said, "our fathers have behaved miserably.
  • 00:20:50.432 --> 00:20:54.169
  • And we're behaving miserably."
  • 00:20:54.169 --> 00:20:58.040
  • So he sends someone to inquire of the lord.
  • 00:20:58.040 --> 00:21:01.777
  • And i put just a portion of it in your notes.
  • 00:21:01.777 --> 00:21:04.212
  • This is the response: "tell the king of judah, who sent you to
  • 00:21:04.212 --> 00:21:06.548
  • Inquire of the lord, 'this is what the lord, the god of
  • 00:21:06.548 --> 00:21:08.483
  • Israel, says: because your heart was responsive and you humbled
  • 00:21:08.483 --> 00:21:12.754
  • Yourself before the lord when you heard what i have spoken
  • 00:21:12.754 --> 00:21:15.157
  • Against this place and its people, that they would become
  • 00:21:15.157 --> 00:21:17.926
  • Accursed and laid waste, and because you tore your robes and
  • 00:21:17.926 --> 00:21:20.595
  • Wept in my presence--'" just for a moment, it's worth noting god
  • 00:21:20.595 --> 00:21:24.032
  • Was aware of josiah's responses.
  • 00:21:24.032 --> 00:21:27.736
  • He said, "i saw you weeping.
  • 00:21:27.736 --> 00:21:30.405
  • I saw your expressions of grief.
  • 00:21:30.405 --> 00:21:33.508
  • I saw your anguish."
  • 00:21:33.508 --> 00:21:36.611
  • Wonder what it's gonna take to shake us out of apathy
  • 00:21:36.611 --> 00:21:39.014
  • And indifference.
  • 00:21:39.014 --> 00:21:42.284
  • Ambivalence is not an expression of faithfulness.
  • 00:21:42.284 --> 00:21:45.587
  • What's it gonna take?
  • 00:21:48.623 --> 00:21:51.360
  • I don't know the answer to that yet.
  • 00:21:51.360 --> 00:21:54.730
  • When will--you see, the answer is, and it's not a new answer,
  • 00:21:54.730 --> 00:21:58.600
  • But the temptation to say, "well, you know, things have
  • 00:21:58.600 --> 00:22:00.302
  • Always been like this.
  • 00:22:00.302 --> 00:22:02.571
  • People have always been wicked."
  • 00:22:02.571 --> 00:22:04.072
  • I've got a degree in history.
  • 00:22:04.072 --> 00:22:05.407
  • I can give you chapter and verse from generation after generation
  • 00:22:05.407 --> 00:22:09.010
  • Where people behave abominably towards one another.
  • 00:22:09.010 --> 00:22:14.649
  • But i can also tell you that biblically, peter when he gets
  • 00:22:14.649 --> 00:22:17.252
  • To the end of his life, he said, "there are people who say,
  • 00:22:17.252 --> 00:22:21.923
  • 'where is this coming you talk about?'"
  • 00:22:21.923 --> 00:22:24.926
  • Things have always been the same.
  • 00:22:24.926 --> 00:22:28.029
  • That was peter.
  • 00:22:28.029 --> 00:22:30.465
  • That's just about 40 years into the deal and the people are
  • 00:22:30.465 --> 00:22:33.769
  • Already saying, you know, "where is this coming?
  • 00:22:33.769 --> 00:22:36.538
  • Where is god's intervention?"
  • 00:22:36.538 --> 00:22:40.509
  • And one of the most powerful messages that i hear that has
  • 00:22:40.509 --> 00:22:46.047
  • Beset us is it's just always like this.
  • 00:22:46.047 --> 00:22:50.585
  • No, it hasn't been, folks.
  • 00:22:50.585 --> 00:22:51.953
  • We haven't always redefined marriage.
  • 00:22:51.953 --> 00:22:53.622
  • We haven't always offered our children up to be mutilated by
  • 00:22:53.622 --> 00:22:57.192
  • The most well-trained scientists and medical personnel
  • 00:22:57.192 --> 00:23:01.029
  • Amongst us.
  • 00:23:01.029 --> 00:23:03.899
  • We haven't turned our schools and our public libraries over
  • 00:23:03.899 --> 00:23:07.669
  • To perversion.
  • 00:23:07.669 --> 00:23:10.639
  • But we have now.
  • 00:23:10.639 --> 00:23:13.241
  • I agree, people have behaved horribly towards one another.
  • 00:23:13.241 --> 00:23:16.878
  • And you don't have to look far to find that.
  • 00:23:16.878 --> 00:23:19.381
  • But we're watching the institutionalization, the
  • 00:23:19.381 --> 00:23:22.784
  • Capitulation to things that have not defined our lives for
  • 00:23:22.784 --> 00:23:27.622
  • Several generations.
  • 00:23:27.622 --> 00:23:30.792
  • God said to josiah, he said, "you tell him, i saw
  • 00:23:30.792 --> 00:23:34.496
  • His response.
  • 00:23:34.496 --> 00:23:36.598
  • I saw his response."
  • 00:23:36.598 --> 00:23:37.966
  • May i ask you a question?
  • 00:23:37.966 --> 00:23:39.501
  • It's one i ask myself.
  • 00:23:39.501 --> 00:23:42.137
  • If god were to react based on my response, what would he do?
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  • Am i grieved?
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  • Am i--what am i doing?
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  • How am i reacting?
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  • "you tell the king i saw his response."
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  • Let's finish this.
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  • "'when you heard that i've spoken against this place and
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  • Its people that they would become accursed and laid waste,
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  • And because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, i have
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  • Heard you.
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  • Therefore i will gather you to your fathers, and you'll be
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  • Buried in peace.
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  • Your eyes will not see all the disaster i'm going to bring on
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  • This place.'
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  • So they took the answer back to the king."
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  • So we're gonna--we've got a little--we got a little stone
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  • Now, we got a little learning block around god's judgment.
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  • The judgment god has pronounced, he hasn't withdrawn it.
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  • But he said because of your choices, because of the attitude
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  • Of your heart, it'll be delayed.
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  • There's a reprieve for a season.
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  • What if the king who'd followed josiah, what if the leadership
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  • That had come in his place, what if his own son had built upon
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  • The pattern that he'd seen in his father and had extended it?
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  • I think it's a logical conclusion to think that god
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  • Would have given him a reprieve.
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  • In reality, his son became more wicked than the previous king.
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  • But your choices and my choices matter.
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  • So when we talk about the judgment of god and the trends
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  • Of culture and social movements and all this stuff, we have to
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  • Believe that god is more powerful than governments and
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  • Politics and parties and elections.
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  • We have to hold that true.
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  • We have to believe there's a weight to the truth that is more
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  • Significant than a majority.
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  • God doesn't have to have a majority.
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  • He needs people who will stand with his truth.
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  • It's a beginning point.
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  • Now, in this case, the covenant people of god didn't choose to
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  • Repent in any broad way.
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  • Allen: our adversary tells us we're not important, that we
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  • Don't know enough important people or powerful people or
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  • Influential people, but i wanna remind you of something.
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  • The creator of heaven and earth knows you by name.
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  • He keeps count of the number of hairs on your head, so you are
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  • Valuable and you are important.
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  • You're significant in the unfolding purposes of god.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, i thank you that you've called us to this unique season.
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  • That we are your ambassadors and your representatives.
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  • Give us the wisdom to make choices that will bring your
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  • Blessings upon our homes, our families, our communities and
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  • Our nation, in jesus's name, amen.
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