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Culture And Christianity Conference - Allie B. Stuckey

July 22, 2025 | 28:35

Culture And Christianity Conference - Allie B. Stuckey
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Culture And Christianity Conference - Allie B. Stuckey | July 22, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, i know you know, but we're living in
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  • A chaotic world.
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  • Things are changing globally.
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  • There's wars, there's threats of war, a lot of stuff happening.
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  • But i want to make a suggestion: don't focus on the negative.
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  • Don't get caught up in the uncertainty.
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  • That'll bring fear and anxiety and worry.
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  • It's not helpful.
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  • Let's determine to focus our attention on the lord.
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  • We've created a tool that i believe will make a difference.
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  • It's called "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • Each day is directed at a different topic that's a part of
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  • Our current world.
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  • It gives us a verse of scripture, a little devotional
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  • Around that topic, and then a prayer for that specific thing.
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  • The idea is we're gonna give the holy spirit an invitation to
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  • Awaken us to a new place of faith.
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  • You know, we need an awakening in the midst of the people of
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  • God and we wanna say, "well, i am awake."
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  • Well, i get that, but you know, i was awakened yesterday, but
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  • This morning i was awakened again and my prayer is tomorrow
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  • I'll be awakened yet again.
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  • We need a daily awakening by the spirit of god to find his best
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  • For us in this season, and i believe this book will help you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: and we have a special program today.
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  • Our speaker is my friend allie b. stuckey.
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  • She was a presenter at our culture & christianity
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  • Conference last year.
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  • I wanna give you a personal invitation to join us for our
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  • Conference this year, it's september 19th and 20th.
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  • Culture & christianity.
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  • We're learning to lead with our faith.
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  • Folks, we gotta move out of the churches and reciting our
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  • Favorite verses and studying christian history.
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  • We've got to bring our faith into our homes, the public
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  • Square, our schools, our places of employment.
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  • It's important and culture & christianity will help you
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  • With that.
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  • The information's on the screen, the website; you get all the
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  • Information about our speakers.
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  • I'll see you in tennessee soon.
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  • Allie b. stuckey: but the theme of my talk specifically is
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  • Children and how we can protect children and the convictions
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  • That i have developed not just as a christian who, by the grace
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  • Of god, has been sanctified in my christian walk by the holy
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  • Spirit and is still being sanctified but also as a mom.
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  • I became a mom about 4 years and 8 months ago.
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  • She likes to tell me exactly how old she is.
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  • She'll be--she'll be five in july and then i've got two more,
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  • Younger than her and so i am a mom of three, and because of
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  • That my mind has changed and my beliefs have solidified and
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  • Grown stronger in so many ways as a christian.
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  • I had the grace and the privilege of being raised in a
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  • Christian home and so i can't say that i have drastically
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  • Different values than i had growing up.
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  • My parents are amazing.
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  • I was southern baptist and so we went to church on sunday morning
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  • And sunday night and wednesday night.
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  • Basically every time the doors were open we were there and
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  • While at the time i probably felt like, "oh my gosh, i can't
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  • Believe that we're going back to church," i am so thankful.
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  • I wouldn't trade that foundation for the world.
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  • I can credit that foundation, of course, and the mercy of god for
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  • Everything that i believe today and the strength of my
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  • Convictions today, but the lord has used motherhood to solidify
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  • So many of the values, so many of the theological beliefs that
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  • Were instilled in me growing up, and also has made me realize
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  • Things that i just didn't know a few years ago.
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  • When you become a parent, everyone who is in a--who is a
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  • Parent in this room, whether you're an adoptive parent or
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  • You're a biological parent, this crazy thing, this crazy exchange
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  • Happens when your child is born or when you meet your child for
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  • The first time.
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  • For me, when they placed my daughter on my chest, i just
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  • Felt this indescribable wave wash over me that, oh my gosh, i
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  • Would do anything for this little person that i just met.
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  • Absolutely anything for this little human being.
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  • All of the hopes and fears that i had for myself were
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  • Immediately transferred onto her.
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  • Everything that i wanted for myself or feared for myself
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  • Mattered so much less, because now i have this human being that
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  • I love so much more than i could ever love myself.
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  • I want so much more for her than i could ever want for myself.
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  • Parenting teaches you a lot.
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  • It teaches you, of course, how the lord sees us.
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  • If i as a finite, simple, fallible human being love my
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  • Child this much, oh my goodness, the god who is love, 1 john 4:8,
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  • Loves me so much more than that, and he would do so much more
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  • For me.
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  • And in fact he did: he sent his son to die for me.
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  • Wow, you realize that in a very tangible way when your child is
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  • Born but then you also realize that all of these political and
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  • So called culture war issues that we see on the news, that we
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  • See on social media every day, that they're not just these
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  • Abstract things happening but they're affecting real people.
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  • And of course, this is something that you can realize before you
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  • Become a parent, but it changes because i've always been pro
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  • Life but after my daughters were born i can't think of abortion
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  • Without remembering the first time i saw their heartbeats on
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  • The sonogram screen.
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  • And i've always known the definition of marriage is
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  • Between a man and a woman, but i can't think of the definition of
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  • Marriage without considering what it would be like if my
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  • Children didn't have a father or a mother.
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  • And i can't think about the issue of gender ideology even
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  • Though i've always known the definition of man and woman
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  • Without thinking about the fact that i have three daughters who
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  • Are entering into a world in which they have no sports, no
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  • Bathrooms, no locker rooms of their own.
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  • So these are no longer, for me, just abstract political issues
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  • That i've always known or i've always been taught.
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  • They have a real effect on the lives of the little people that
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  • I love most.
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  • Children, this is something that you'll hear me say a lot if you
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  • Ever listen to my show.
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  • Children are always the unconsenting subjects of
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  • Progressive social experiments.
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  • Children are always the unconsenting subjects of
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  • Progressive social experiments.
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  • So whether that's abortion, gender ideology, the
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  • Redefinition of the family, even forms of reproductive
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  • Technology, even covid policy-- force masking, school closures--
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  • Children were placed on the altar of the powerful in service
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  • To a progressive agenda.
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  • Children, because they are powerless, because they don't
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  • Have any political capital, because they cannot fight back,
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  • Are always the unconsenting subjects
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  • Of progressive social experiments.
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  • They are always placed on the altar of the moral and the
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  • Sexual revolution that our country has undergone.
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  • And the church, therefore, must be what we have always been, and
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  • Kirk explained this so beautifully, must always be a
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  • Refuge of clarity and calm for them in an age of confusion
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  • And chaos.
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  • So for children, the church must be what it's always been: a
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  • Refuge of clarity and calm in an age of confusion and chaos, a
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  • Refuge against the storm of sexual depravity and deception
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  • By continually speaking the truth in love and doing
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  • Everything that we can to fight against the powers that aim to
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  • Steal their innocence and even maim their bodies.
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  • You know, many times you hear christians shouldn't wade into
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  • Politics because politics is divisive, you might lose
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  • Friends, you might hurt relationships, you might hurt
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  • People's feelings, and so often we're deluded with what i call
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  • Toxic empathy, which is the idea that to be loving you must just
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  • Affirm someone's choices and affirm their feelings, but that
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  • Is not the biblical definition of love.
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  • If god is love, 1 john 4:8, then the most loving thing that we
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  • Can always do is agree with him.
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  • If god is love, 1 john 4:8, that means that in love, he created
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  • Them, male and female in his image.
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  • The same god who is love created the heavens and the earth.
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  • And this is, i think, when you think about it, perhaps the most
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  • Controversial verse in the bible and that's the very first one,
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  • Genesis 1:1: "in the beginning, god created the heavens and
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  • The earth."
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  • And the reason that is so controversial is because of what
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  • It means.
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  • If god is the creator of all things, then he is the authority
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  • Of all things.
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  • That means he alone gets to say what is and what isn't, what's
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  • Right and what's wrong, what's true and what's false, when life
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  • Begins, what's a woman and what it's not.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Allie: and if god is the authority over all things, then
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  • That affects everything.
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  • It is impossible to separate our politics from our belief that
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  • God is the creator and the authority over all things.
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  • We cannot separate what he says about the dignity of human life.
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  • We cannot separate what he says in the very first chapter of the
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  • First book of the bible of the definition of marriage,
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  • Genesis 1:27.
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  • The definition of male and female, genesis 1:27.
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  • We can't separate the knowledge that he gives us graciously and
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  • Clearly in that first chapter of the bible from what we think and
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  • Do politically.
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  • Because for the christian, these issues are not
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  • Primarily political.
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  • They're not primarily political.
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  • They're not primarily culture war issues.
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  • They're primarily biblical issues.
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  • They're primarily genesis issues.
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  • They're genesis 1 issues.
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  • They're genesis 1:1 issues.
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  • They are "god created the heavens and the earth" issues.
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  • And so while even some of our professing christian friends may
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  • Chide us for wading into the abortion conversation or
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  • Refusing to use, for example, preferred pronouns, which is
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  • Lying and something i'm not willing to do to an image bearer
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  • Of god.
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  • When we're chastised for wading into these conversations and
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  • Standing up for what's right, when we're told that's not
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  • Empathetic, that's not loving, we just have to remember that
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  • This is what the church has always done.
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  • The church has always sacrificed their accolades, their approval
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  • Of the world, for biblical truth.
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  • And in doing so we have been a refuge of calm and clarity for
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  • The most vulnerable in society, namely for children.
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  • Allen: hey, we have a tool that i think will help you overcome
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  • Some of the chaos in the world and stay focused on the good
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  • Things that god is doing.
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  • It's called "awaken us."
  • 00:12:13.448 --> 00:12:14.849
  • It's a 30-day plan.
  • 00:12:14.849 --> 00:12:16.885
  • Each day's got a scripture, a little devotional, a prayer that
  • 00:12:16.885 --> 00:12:20.054
  • Goes with a specific topic, to awaken us to god's promise and
  • 00:12:20.054 --> 00:12:24.392
  • Provision in this season.
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  • God's moving in the earth.
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  • I want to move with him, and i believe this tool will help you
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  • Be prepared to capitalize on god's invitations in your life.
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  • Female announcer: "awaken us" delivers 30 days of prayer,
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  • Scripture, and insight from pastor allen on relevant topics.
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  • Each day is designed to sharpen your focus as you ask god to
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  • Show you his heart and his truth in a new way.
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  • With the holy spirit's help, this book will awaken you to the
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  • Impact your life has on the world and those around you.
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  • Start your journey today by requesting "awaken us" when you
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  • By calling...
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  • Allie: there are really four things that i have--three or
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  • Four, i can't decide how many i'm gonna get to today.
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  • I could probably talk about six or seven, but there are a few
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  • Things to kind of summarize what we're talking about that my
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  • Convictions have really been solidified in and i've certainly
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  • Become more passionate about these things and we've kind of
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  • Already covered them but i just wanna make sure that we know
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  • That these are biblical issues first and they're political
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  • Issues because politics matter because policy matters because
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  • People matter.
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  • Politics affects policy, policy affects people, people matter,
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  • But for the christian they're primarily biblical.
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  • They're issues that just have become very personal to me as
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  • I've become a mom.
  • 00:13:48.676 --> 00:13:50.845
  • And the last one we haven't talked about yet and it's a
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  • Little controversial, just a little controversial, maybe even
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  • For this room, but bear with me, number one, abortion is always
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  • Wrong and there once was a time when i used to be that person,
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  • Maybe like some people still in this room today who believes
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  • In exceptions.
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  • I thought the sophisticated and compassionate take was to say
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  • That, of course, there needs to be some exceptions.
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  • There should be some--there should be an exception for rape.
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  • There should be an exception for incest.
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  • There should be an exception for xyz.
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  • I called myself pro-life.
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  • This was as an adult woman several years ago now, but
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  • That's what i believed until someone challenged me in a
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  • Facebook comment.
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  • Never let anyone tell you that you can't change minds arguing
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  • On social media.
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  • You can.
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  • I wish i could thank this person.
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  • This is probably 8 years ago now, who told me, "what is the
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  • Difference between a baby conceived in rape and a baby not
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  • Conceived in rape?"
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  • Well, nothing.
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  • Nothing, they're both babies and why should a baby pay for the
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  • Sins of their father?
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  • I believe that if anyone's gonna get the death penalty, it should
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  • Be the rapist, not the baby.
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  • And by the way, the pro-choice position is exactly
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  • The opposite.
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  • They believe that the rapist should not get the death penalty
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  • And, in fact, if you're lucky enough to live in a particular
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  • City, you might get off scot-free, but the baby should
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  • Always get the death penalty.
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  • That is a subversion of god's order and an absolute blight on
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  • The concept of justice.
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  • It should never happen here in the united states and yet it
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  • Does, and so it is the christian responsibility to say no,
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  • Murdering an innocent person is always wrong.
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  • Abortion always murders an innocent person.
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  • Therefore, abortion is always wrong.
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  • So that's number one.
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  • That's one thing that i have a belief that has just been
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  • Solidified to me.
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  • And then number two is, again we've already mentioned,
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  • Children deserve a mother and father.
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  • Do you know that that is controversial to say today, even
  • 00:15:55.136 --> 00:15:58.573
  • In christian crowds.
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  • That "maybe we just shouldn't go there.
  • 00:16:00.341 --> 00:16:02.543
  • Well, obergefell was so long ago," it was 2015, "and that
  • 00:16:02.543 --> 00:16:07.648
  • Redefined everything, so shouldn't we move on to
  • 00:16:07.648 --> 00:16:09.817
  • Other things?"
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  • Well, look, when jesus was talking to the pharisees, and
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  • The pharisees tried to trip him up as they always did, on the
  • 00:16:13.821 --> 00:16:17.258
  • Issue of divorce in matthew 19, people say, "oh well, jesus
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  • Never talked about things like marriage or gender.
  • 00:16:20.928 --> 00:16:22.864
  • He never talked about homosexuality, so we shouldn't
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  • Talk about them either."
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  • When jesus is asked a question about divorce, what does he do?
  • 00:16:27.802 --> 00:16:31.539
  • He goes all the way back to creation and he said, "have you
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  • Not read that in the beginning god made them male and female,
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  • And the two shall come together and become one flesh?"
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  • That is how jesus answered the question about divorce.
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  • He positively defined marriage is between a man and a woman,
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  • And here's an alliteration that i've been using for years that i
  • 00:16:52.693 --> 00:16:56.364
  • Find helpful for myself and i hope it's helpful for you
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  • Because this issue, a lot of christians think is just
  • 00:16:58.733 --> 00:17:01.302
  • Secondary or tertiary or like the definition of marriage, it
  • 00:17:01.302 --> 00:17:04.272
  • Doesn't matter, it's you know, something that we just don't
  • 00:17:04.272 --> 00:17:06.874
  • Need to worry about anymore.
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  • But this is what i try to remember, why it's so important
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  • And why you see, by the way, churches, pastors, christian
  • 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:15.550
  • Influencers, authors, when they compromise on the lgbtq issue
  • 00:17:15.550 --> 00:17:19.287
  • They eventually compromise on everything else, because they
  • 00:17:19.287 --> 00:17:23.524
  • Deny romans 1:26-27, they eventually deny john 14:6:
  • 00:17:23.524 --> 00:17:28.629
  • "jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
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  • No one comes to the father except through him."
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  • It always happens.
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  • Here's why. here's why.
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  • The definition of marriage is, number one, rooted in creation.
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  • Number two, reiterated throughout scripture.
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  • Number three, repeated by jesus himself.
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  • Number four, representative of christ in the church.
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  • And therefore, number five, reflective of the gospel.
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  • The definition of marriage between a man and a woman is
  • 00:17:57.525 --> 00:18:00.795
  • Rooted in creation, genesis 1:27.
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  • It's reiterated throughout scripture: "you shall honor your
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  • Father and mother."
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  • Those gender designations are not arbitrary or accidental or
  • 00:18:09.971 --> 00:18:12.874
  • Culturally exclusive.
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  • Repeated by jesus himself, as i just said, matthew 19:4-5.
  • 00:18:15.443 --> 00:18:21.682
  • Representative of christ in the church, ephesians 5. paul talks
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  • About this mystery of marriage and how it is an earthly
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  • Reflection of the eternal and spiritual marriage between
  • 00:18:31.159 --> 00:18:34.795
  • Christ and his church.
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  • Christ, who is called the groom, that's a gender designation, the
  • 00:18:36.164 --> 00:18:39.433
  • Church that is called his bride, that is a gender designation.
  • 00:18:39.433 --> 00:18:43.938
  • Earthly marriage reflects the marriage between christ and the
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  • Church, a union between two men and two women can't do that.
  • 00:18:47.241 --> 00:18:52.013
  • And because it is representative of the gospel--or because it is
  • 00:18:56.250 --> 00:19:01.189
  • Representative of christ in the church, it is therefore
  • 00:19:01.189 --> 00:19:04.258
  • Reflective of the gospel.
  • 00:19:04.258 --> 00:19:07.328
  • The bible starts with the marriage, genesis 1, it ends
  • 00:19:07.328 --> 00:19:10.898
  • With the marriage between christ and his church in revelation 22.
  • 00:19:10.898 --> 00:19:14.569
  • Wow, that's how much god cares about marriage.
  • 00:19:14.569 --> 00:19:17.038
  • It is a spiritual eternal reality with earthly benefits.
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  • It is the greatest child-protecting institution
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  • That exists.
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  • There is, in general and statistically, no safer place
  • 00:19:29.550 --> 00:19:34.088
  • For a child than with their mother and father.
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  • Are there exceptions to that?
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  • Of course, because there's sin and there's all kinds of things
  • 00:19:38.526 --> 00:19:41.562
  • That happen in the world, but that is in general true.
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  • God made it that way for a purpose.
  • 00:19:44.398 --> 00:19:47.001
  • Okay, number three and four.
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  • Oh, i don't have very much time.
  • 00:19:48.669 --> 00:19:50.204
  • Can we go really quickly?
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  • Okay, maybe i don't even need to explain because both of--you
  • 00:19:51.772 --> 00:19:53.808
  • Probably agree on both of these.
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  • Number three, pornography should be outlawed.
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  • Allie: there have always been limitations on speech.
  • 00:20:04.285 --> 00:20:06.254
  • I'm not really worried about banning pornography being the
  • 00:20:06.254 --> 00:20:10.057
  • Thing that upends the first amendment.
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  • There have always been limitations to it.
  • 00:20:13.961 --> 00:20:15.730
  • There have always been obscenity laws on the books.
  • 00:20:15.730 --> 00:20:18.165
  • Pornography is the legal loophole for human and child
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  • Sex trafficking.
  • 00:20:21.869 --> 00:20:23.938
  • Pornography is a legal loophole for sex trafficking, okay?
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  • It should be outlawed altogether.
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  • That's number three because i care about children.
  • 00:20:29.777 --> 00:20:31.646
  • And then number four, children of christians should, as far as
  • 00:20:31.646 --> 00:20:37.952
  • They are able, if they can at all, should leave the public
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  • School system.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Allie: and i know there may be some exceptions to that,
  • 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:56.170
  • But there are far fewer exceptions,
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  • I think, than we think.
  • 00:20:57.905 --> 00:20:59.974
  • In the words of voddie baucham, "if you send your children to
  • 00:20:59.974 --> 00:21:02.743
  • Caesar, don't be surprised when they come back romans."
  • 00:21:02.743 --> 00:21:08.783
  • All education--all education is indoctrination.
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  • All education.
  • 00:21:13.220 --> 00:21:14.588
  • All education places doctrines in its students.
  • 00:21:14.588 --> 00:21:17.758
  • The question is what doctrines do you want your children to
  • 00:21:17.758 --> 00:21:21.228
  • Learn 40-plus hours a week?
  • 00:21:21.228 --> 00:21:23.964
  • Do you want them to learn the doctrines of the world, the
  • 00:21:23.964 --> 00:21:26.801
  • Secular doctrines, which are in many ways, especially today,
  • 00:21:26.801 --> 00:21:32.039
  • Anti-biblical, and i know there are many of you who think, "not
  • 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:35.376
  • My school.
  • 00:21:35.376 --> 00:21:37.111
  • My child's teacher is also her sunday school teacher and our
  • 00:21:37.111 --> 00:21:41.515
  • Church or our school, they're, you know, they're not worried
  • 00:21:41.515 --> 00:21:45.753
  • About that woke stuff."
  • 00:21:45.753 --> 00:21:47.088
  • I promise you the time is coming.
  • 00:21:47.088 --> 00:21:48.889
  • I promise you it is.
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  • With the changes to title ix, before you know it, it will be
  • 00:21:50.257 --> 00:21:53.828
  • At your school and even if not, even if your school, your public
  • 00:21:53.828 --> 00:21:59.467
  • School, is the nicest and sweetest and most christian
  • 00:21:59.467 --> 00:22:02.370
  • Public school, i promise you your kids are not learning
  • 00:22:02.370 --> 00:22:05.740
  • Theology every day.
  • 00:22:05.740 --> 00:22:08.142
  • So if you have the choice--if you have the choice between an
  • 00:22:08.142 --> 00:22:13.147
  • Anti-biblical education and your children only learning maybe a
  • 00:22:13.147 --> 00:22:17.785
  • Couple hours of theology every week versus a christian
  • 00:22:17.785 --> 00:22:21.622
  • Education, whether it's home school or whether it's a really
  • 00:22:21.622 --> 00:22:23.791
  • Good christian private school, if that's something that you can
  • 00:22:23.791 --> 00:22:26.660
  • Do, where they are receiving 40+ hours of biblical education
  • 00:22:26.660 --> 00:22:33.200
  • Every week, which one is better?
  • 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:36.737
  • It's our responsibility as parents to steward our children,
  • 00:22:36.737 --> 00:22:39.740
  • To steward their hearts and minds, and we cannot guarantee
  • 00:22:39.740 --> 00:22:43.477
  • Their salvation.
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  • That's not what this is about.
  • 00:22:44.812 --> 00:22:46.180
  • I know people who graduated from public school who are
  • 00:22:46.180 --> 00:22:49.550
  • Strong christians.
  • 00:22:49.550 --> 00:22:50.885
  • I went to a christian school kindergarten through 12th grade.
  • 00:22:50.885 --> 00:22:52.787
  • I graduated with some people who need to come back to jesus and
  • 00:22:52.787 --> 00:22:57.725
  • So i'm not saying that this guarantees salvation.
  • 00:22:57.725 --> 00:23:01.762
  • We give our children a christian education because it is obedient
  • 00:23:01.762 --> 00:23:04.965
  • To god.
  • 00:23:04.965 --> 00:23:09.069
  • And because--and because planting those seeds, i do
  • 00:23:09.069 --> 00:23:14.909
  • Believe there's fruit.
  • 00:23:14.909 --> 00:23:17.978
  • It does.
  • 00:23:17.978 --> 00:23:19.346
  • There are so many people i know who also they left the faith for
  • 00:23:19.346 --> 00:23:22.650
  • A little bit.
  • 00:23:22.650 --> 00:23:23.984
  • I had my own time of wandering when i was in college, but it
  • 00:23:23.984 --> 00:23:26.620
  • Was the hymns that my mom sang me.
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  • It was the memories of seeing my mom every morning read
  • 00:23:28.823 --> 00:23:31.625
  • The bible.
  • 00:23:31.625 --> 00:23:32.960
  • It was the prayers that she prayed for me and a journal that
  • 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:35.329
  • She gave me.
  • 00:23:35.329 --> 00:23:36.730
  • It was the church sunday school lessons that i heard every week
  • 00:23:36.730 --> 00:23:41.469
  • That brought me back, that god used, to remind me what is good
  • 00:23:41.469 --> 00:23:47.675
  • And right and true.
  • 00:23:47.675 --> 00:23:50.344
  • And you know, as a mom, i understand that, like,
  • 00:23:50.344 --> 00:23:52.680
  • Discipling our kids can be really difficult, especially
  • 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:55.749
  • When they're in those toddler years and i certainly am not--
  • 00:23:55.749 --> 00:23:59.253
  • Have not perfected this at all, but you see that fruit sometimes
  • 00:23:59.253 --> 00:24:04.158
  • In the most, like, random moments when you're like, "i
  • 00:24:04.158 --> 00:24:06.160
  • Didn't even know you were paying attention," we were talking
  • 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:07.828
  • About that.
  • 00:24:07.828 --> 00:24:09.163
  • My oldest, she's getting kind of into that stage where she says
  • 00:24:09.163 --> 00:24:12.199
  • Things that i'm just like, "wow, that was your own thought.
  • 00:24:12.199 --> 00:24:14.702
  • That was amazing."
  • 00:24:14.702 --> 00:24:16.237
  • She was--she had a stomach bug the other day, and she was
  • 00:24:16.237 --> 00:24:19.773
  • Asking me, she asks all the questions, "why do people get
  • 00:24:19.773 --> 00:24:22.409
  • Sick sometimes?"
  • 00:24:22.409 --> 00:24:23.744
  • And i'm not thinking theologically.
  • 00:24:23.744 --> 00:24:25.579
  • This is early in the morning and we were dealing with throw-up
  • 00:24:25.579 --> 00:24:28.315
  • And i was like, "i don't know.
  • 00:24:28.315 --> 00:24:30.918
  • I don't know, baby, they just do."
  • 00:24:30.918 --> 00:24:33.020
  • And she said, "is it because adam and eve ate all
  • 00:24:33.020 --> 00:24:35.289
  • Those apples?"
  • 00:24:35.289 --> 00:24:38.993
  • And i said, "yes.
  • 00:24:38.993 --> 00:24:43.364
  • Yes, that is why," and she said, "when jesus comes back, people
  • 00:24:43.364 --> 00:24:48.969
  • Won't get sick anymore."
  • 00:24:48.969 --> 00:24:52.673
  • And i said, "yes, you're right about that."
  • 00:24:52.673 --> 00:24:58.445
  • When jesus comes back there will be no more abortion, there will
  • 00:24:58.445 --> 00:25:02.816
  • Be no more murder, there will be no more corruption, there will
  • 00:25:02.816 --> 00:25:05.319
  • Be no more politics, there will be no more sin, no more sorrow,
  • 00:25:05.319 --> 00:25:09.657
  • Nothing to worry about, nothing to distract us.
  • 00:25:09.657 --> 00:25:13.460
  • Jesus will come back and rule in perfect peace and joy forever
  • 00:25:13.460 --> 00:25:18.732
  • And ever.
  • 00:25:18.732 --> 00:25:24.838
  • But it hasn't happened yet, so we have some work to do and
  • 00:25:29.043 --> 00:25:33.614
  • What--i'll just end with this.
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  • This is what i like to say because i don't know your sphere
  • 00:25:34.982 --> 00:25:37.251
  • Of influence, i don't know what talents god has given you.
  • 00:25:37.251 --> 00:25:39.353
  • I don't know your resources and your gifts.
  • 00:25:39.353 --> 00:25:41.689
  • Here's all we can ever do and it is always enough: do the next
  • 00:25:41.689 --> 00:25:46.827
  • Right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory
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  • Of god.
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  • Do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the
  • 00:25:52.666 --> 00:25:56.971
  • Glory of god, until we are on the other side of eternity.
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  • Thank you.
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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • Every day has a theme with a scripture, a little devotional,
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  • And a prayer for that specific theme.
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  • The idea is that every day we're gonna ask the spirit of god to
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  • Awaken us to a new aspect of god's provision in our lives.
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  • You know, hopefully we wake up every day to the opportunities
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  • And the challenges of that day.
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  • Well, this is gonna correspond to that.
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  • We're gonna ask the spirit of god to awaken us to what god is
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  • Doing in this season.
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  • We're not alone and we don't have to be overcome by fear.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • "father, i thank you that there's nothing that confronts
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  • Us that intimidates or threatens you.
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  • That you have made provision for complete victory in every aspect
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  • Of our lives.
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  • Lead us now as we turn our faces to you, to a season of peace and
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  • Hope and wholeness, in jesus's name, amen."
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  • This book, it'll be a blessing.
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  • ♪♪♪
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