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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Cultural Impact | Allen Jackson Now | June 4, 2026

I have a friend with me today.
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Pastor rob mccoy. welcome.
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Thank you. it's good to be with you.
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I want to jump in. let's jump into the deep.
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Into the well you live in california for, first of all.
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So there is. there is proof.
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There are christians there.
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Yes, sir. yeah, people's republic of california.
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There are christians there.
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Now we're on gulags. but yeah.
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Just kidding.
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Well, you know, they used to.
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The catholic priest in town used to say that
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We were the second largest catholic church in the community
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Because of the number of people that were migrating.
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We're getting close
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To having as many californians as you do, i think.
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I mean, it seems like.
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Yeah, when i was here sunday and i spoke,
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A number of folks came up there were from our church,
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And they've now.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. oh, that's fun.
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Ton of californians.
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So the the whole there's a
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Big chunk of the current contemporary
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Christian world that thinks christians
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Should stay out of conversations on current events,
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And you are kind of the antithesis of that.
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You were actually the mayor of thousand oaks. yep.
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While your pastor was senior pastor, right?
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Yeah.
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So you not only didn't separate the church and state,
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You co-mingled them.
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Yeah.
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My mom used to say,
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Never talk about religion
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And politics and mixed company. and that was the guy
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You wouldn't invite to the dinner party.
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Because that's all i talk about.
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So what are you going to say to somebody
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That says we shouldn't talk about current events?
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Well, you know, politics.
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And unlike what most people
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Think, the definition, they think it's poorly
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Meaning many antics, meaning bloodsucking parasite.
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But politics comes from the word polis, which is the concerns
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Of the city.
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And why wouldn't a christian have concerns of the city?
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You know, jeremiah says, pray
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For the peace of the city in which you dwell.
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And then i just also say, when jesus was confronted with
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What's the greatest commandment?
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He says to love the lord your god
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With all your heart, soul, strength.
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And he says, the second is like it
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Love your neighbor as yourself.
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On these two commandments. hang along the prophet.
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So don't you love your neighbor enough that you'd want them?
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Growing up in a community where there's two sexes,
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Where where they can grow up and not be given
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Hormone blockers that are so inhumane,
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They will give him the serial rapist in prison.
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But you can give them
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To a 15 year old in california without parental permission,
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And they mutilate their body and call it health care.
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And they lie to them and say it's loving
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That they can become the opposite sex,
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Which will never happen.
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They call that health care. yeah.
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We have to contend for our neighbor to love him
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As ourself.
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If i was in charge of evil
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And i could convince the people of god and the people of faith
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To not talk about god or their faith
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Except when they were inside the church building.
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Yeah, that's a strategy.
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Well, there's been there's been ten great awakenings
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In american history.
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I should say there's been ten revivals in american history.
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And up until 1870, they all resulted in an awakening.
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So a revival is where a large group of people come to christ,
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And then an awakening is where it changes the culture.
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So in the
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Early portion of our history, all these eastern
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Seaboard pastors like whitfield and jonathan mayhew and duke,
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Jonathan edwards,
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They it's almost like
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They had a news aggregate of all the stories of the day
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And anything that the congregation or their neighbors,
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Who they love more than themselves were dealing with.
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The pastor would teach what the bible has to say
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On, say, immigration, on transportation, on minimum wage.
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They would teach their congregation and discipled them.
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And so all sudden they come up with the
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Freest form of government ever designed.
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And it was first preached in the pulpit
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With thomas hooker in connecticut
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When he came up with self-governance
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And electing people.
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And so in 1870, they stopped
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Discipling in accordance with matthew 28.
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And it became about evangelism
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And now you hear pastors say, oh,
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I don't do politics, i just preach the gospel.
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And that's gnosticism,
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Where you separate the tainted from the holy.
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And i just also finally say, when a pastor says,
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I just preach the gospel,
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You know, i don't do politics
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Because politics is dirty and go, well,
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Your life's dirty and you're trying to improve that.
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Or they say, i'm tired of voting for the lesser of two evils.
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Unless jesus is running for office,
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You're always voting for the lesser of two evils.
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Quit making excuses as to why you can't love your neighbor
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And do good for them.
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And contend in the public.
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Square the ecclesia by the way,
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For the welfare of your neighbor.
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I've heard you use that line a lot of times.
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I think it's really helpful that unless jesus is on the ballot,
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You're voting for the lesser of two evils. you know, always.
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You know, there's i mean, elections aren't perfect.
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No, but we still have the privilege of choosing.
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We give authority to. that's right.
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And we had better engage in that process,
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Or we're abandoning the process
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And we'll be held accountable for that.
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Well, you know, when
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When charlie was alive and we started.
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Charlie kirk. yeah. charlie kirk,
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Ours was the first church he ever preached in.
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Because when i invited him to come and speak,
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Because i've been traveling with him, he said,
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I don't speak in church. i said, why not?
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Charlie goes, they don't want me.
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I'm too political.
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I said, that's exactly where you're supposed to be.
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And and he did so well.
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And then,
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You know,
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He just launched into the
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Christian world and spoke
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Over a thousand churches in that period of time.
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But we did a deep dive into matthew
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16 where jesus says, upon this rock, i'll build mine.
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Everyone says church.
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But if you notice in church history, tyndale
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Translated that word correctly.
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And for that one word he was hung
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In, his remains were burned by the king.
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And he jesus didn't use religious term.
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He didn't say synagogue or temple.
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He used a secular term that that goes
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All the way back to aristotle and the etymology.
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Ecclesia and tyndale translated assembly.
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But i went to the ecclesia
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In ephesus, in the ruins and above the door
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Of the ecclesia, two words i sonoma. and now luther.
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Yeah, liberty, inequality, and the ecclesia was
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Where the citizens
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Of the greek city state would gather to decide the laws
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And the welfare of their neighbors.
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So when jesus now says,
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Upon this rock, i'll build my public square, my city hall,
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And the gates of hell which enslave will not prevail.
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When you apply the moral law, the civil law becomes a wise
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Restrains it. make men free.
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When you remove the moral law from civil law
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Becomes a weapon to enslave.
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It's no longer rule of law, it's rule by law.
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And that's what we saw
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In california, especially during covid.
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The church, the bride of christ, is nonessential.
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You're not allowed to be open.
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But gratefully, there were some folks who stood up for that
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And stood up to the men.
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And i really think has opened a whole new door for the church.
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I agree,
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I think there's a new voice of courage that's emerging,
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A new kind of determination.
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You know,
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When when dietrich bonhoeffer stood down, adolf hitler
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And he said, i'm not concerned about my pension
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Or the church building.
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I'm concerned about the soul of germany.
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And hitler said, leave that to me.
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And all. the other pastor scooted away.
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And bonhoeffer participated in two assassination attempts
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Against hitler.
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I mean, try to teach that in seminary.
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It's.
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But when
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Before hitler shot eva braun and then shot himself,
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Committing suicide, he he is one of his last
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Directives was to make sure that bonhoeffer was dead.
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But a person who was deeply moved by
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That was a man who at first had embraced hitler
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And that was martin mohler.
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But he came around and became a voice, of opposition
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And a lot of pastors in california.
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At first they meant well,
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They thought, romans 13, you submit to authority, right?
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But as jonathan mayhew said, the eastern seaboard preacher
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That adams john adams attributed with the war of independence
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When he executed romans 13, which is what they invoked,
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Saying you can't go against king george.
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He's been appointed by god.
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He says, you're
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You're leaving out a portion of that scripture
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That those authorities are there for a good.
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And when they cease to do good, they cease to be
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The authority is not unlimited submission to tyranny.
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And so he said, disobedience to tyrants is obedience to god.
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And he pointed out not for light or transient causes,
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Which made it into the declaration of independence.
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And they listed 27 reasons
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That were not light or transient.
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And that man was dead before the war of independence began.
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But he had an enormous effect.
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That's called an awakening. and and
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This is another one that hit me,
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The jesus movement, which started with
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Calvary chapel's chuck smith, 1967
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And it coincided with the sexual revolution.
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Now a lot of people came to christ,
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But there was no cultural change.
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86%, not 86, over 80%.
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And i don't know the exact, but i know it's over 80%
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Of christian women
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Who've had an abortion did so after they became a christian.
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There's no cultural change.
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I mean, you
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Professed faith in christ, but you haven't been discipled
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With a christian worldview.
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And that's what
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That's what charlie kirk had such a powerful effect
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On this, this generation of 18 to 30 year olds.
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He discipled them before they came to christ.
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I've got a stat down here
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That i think you brought from george barna.
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About the young men in the church.
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Yeah. there's this bubble.
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Yeah, 18 to 30 year old men, 18 to 30 year old men
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Are now the largest segment of the evangelical church
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In america
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As a result of, i mean, 18 to 30 year olds won the election,
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They first time conservative voters.
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And that's like a, an imprint of a chick to a mother hen.
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They're going to be conservative.
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More conservative as time goes on.
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And and yet these 18 to 30 year olds,
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They, they started watching charlie on campus.
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And i love the, the statement that a missionary goes
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Where he's not loved but needed and leaves
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And he's no longer needed but loved.
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Charlie would go on campus and it would be charlie.
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A handful of folks and a sea of detractors.
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And at the end of his life, it was charlie,
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A handful of folks and a sea of red hearts,
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And everyone chanting charlie's name.
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And he was civil.
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He was kind. he was respectful.
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He'd bring the detractors to the front of the line.
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The microphone spent more time on his lap
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Around the table than it did up at his mouth,
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Because he listened.
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And they just they loved him and he was expounding
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On a christian worldview on transgenderism, abortion.
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And and he was contending with logic and rhetoric and,
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And reason and,
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And so when he died,
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All these people showed up
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At church on that sunday because of charlie.
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And there were some pastors in the country
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That wouldn't even invoke his name.
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We don't do politics.
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We just preach the gospel when they were gnostics.
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Yeah, that's what that's one word for it.
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I have some others, but i'll leave it there.
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Well, revelation 21
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Says there's a special place for the cowardly.
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I want to check that out.
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It does, i guess.
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Speaking of charlie, i watched
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While you were with us the week before his memorial service,
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And then i got to watch you at that memorial service.
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Preach the gospel to,
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I think, arguably the largest crowd ever assembled.
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To hear the gospel
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Is a remarkable day.
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I've never experienced anything like that.
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I mean, it went for hours
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And in the presence of the lord was unlike anything
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I've ever experienced.
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And, you know, i,
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I should have every reason for being scared to death.
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I mean, first of all, i'm not an evangelist.
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I could do the work of an evangelist, but
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And i didn't think i was going to be asked to speak and
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Bless erica.
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I mean, especially with all that
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She's been through as of late and so much more.
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But that memorial service and the way it was ordered,
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Politicians were preaching the gospel.
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I mean, you know,
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With clarity.
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Yeah.
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And donald trump jr, no expletives.
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And he actually invoked the lord tulsi gabbard
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And marco rubio, man.
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I actually told an interview, i said, i'm going to go
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Into politics.
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He said, why?
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And i said, because all the politicians are preachers now.
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And it was just an amazing,
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Well, when they were playing the cello
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And all the signs came up that was not orchestrated.
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It was a move of god's spirit.
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You could sense his presence.
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I still have chills recounting it.
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And they say over a billion people.
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Some estimate 1.7 billion people have watched it.
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And they they figured there was almost 300,000 people on site.
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And especially with the overflows,
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It was incredible.
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So from what was clearly a tragedy,
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You know, god has brought forth something.
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Amen.
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And in that way, we serve the lord.
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Yeah.
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You know, we're these little brief,
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Momentary blips on the face of history,
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And god brings a meaning
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And a significance to our lives that's so exceeds
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What we think we are.
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We're going to do
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A man like charlie comes along 1 in 1000 years.
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And he had 31 years on this earth.
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And i remember him saying,
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We're, you know, i'm immortal until god takes me home.
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And he'd have death threats every day
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And he'd get up and shake people's hands, smile.
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He refused to have plexiglass, you know, bulletproof glass.
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He just.
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And and as i told one of them,
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Security detail, i said, you know,
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Because they were told that the they had the text
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That the university had the roofs covered.
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And it was one of those things where, you know,
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God was able to move trump's head.
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God, you know that he works all things together for good.
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We're all going home at some point.
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And what that good will be in time is, is to be seen.
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I do know this from the time charlie started turning point
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At 18 to the lord, taking him home at 31,
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You take everything he ever recorded a podcast,
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Any videos, youtube, you take instagram x, all of it.
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And from his death
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To today,
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Multiply this number by ten.
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People who had never really heard of him
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Went back and started watching everything he's done,
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And it's had an enormous effect.
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And then, of course, like the salem witch trials, what, 1692?
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It was ended by a minister, increased mather.
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But they used to invoked what they called spectral evidence.
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Or i had a dream that this person's a witch.
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And they said, no, you got to have two witnesses.
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And when charlie died,
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You know, charlie built turning point
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And nothing more than the spoken word.
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That's true.
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And and he loved logos from chaos to order.
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And only a carpenter
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Can build a barn door, but any donkey can knock one down.
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So charlie then goes to be with the lord,
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And all that's left is this cacophony of noise of donkeys.
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They're just knocking down barn doors,
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And they're the only thing they're building
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Is their followers in their bank account.
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Charlie change lives.
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He led people to christ.
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These others, they're just trying to divide the nation.
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And it's they're now judge, jury and executioner.
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Some of these talk show folks, they're there, judge.
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They've judged you because they're throwing up
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Speculation and innuendo and guilt by association.
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Their jury is their followers and their executioners
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Especially, you know, for my son
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And for erica and even myself, not as much as them.
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One of these folks
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Who have threatened to take our life may make good on it.
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Judge, jury and executioner, just like the salem witch trials
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And any christian participating in that.
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It's a carnal christian soap opera.
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And some of these folks are making $800,000 a week on that.
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That misery.
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You look out for the widow and the orphan,
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And that's what you're going to do to him. okay.
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And you're going to claim the name of christ.
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Yeah. okay.
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It's tragic,
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I agree,
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I agree.
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And the one thing we can do is stop listening.
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That's right.
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We must stop.
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Let's stop. stop eating the rat poison.
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Turn away. look away.
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Stop listening.
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Don't carry the gossip.
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Another generation further.
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Amen.
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It's not easy.
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Your soap operas would have been on television
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For as many decades as they've been. yeah.
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Everybody wants deeper knowledge. yes. oh, you.
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We have the end today. and we're going to
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Show the receipts and they've got nothing.
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They say, i never said that. and yes, you did.
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It's just you played every day.
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Well, i double checked.
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God hasn't retired.
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Nope.
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Charlie wasn't the only agenda in the earth.
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The spirit of god is still here.
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You know, the lord didn't go. oh, no. charlie's dead.
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What do we do now? god knows what he's doing.
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What do we do now? god knows what he's doing.
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I went to a roberts university and i was there.
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I think it was oral 60th birthday.
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They got us all together.
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And he said, god has shown me that your ministry will exceed
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Mine. amen.
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And then he smiled and he said,
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But it's going to take more than one of you.
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And i love that.
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I need to put in the hearts of the young men that
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They're going to do more than what they've watched,
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And they should
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They should build on what they have seen and experienced.
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We expect them to exceed whatever our lives represent.
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It's kind of i think it was hezekiah
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Who said when he was given the prophecy
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Because he had shown all of the the treasures in the store,
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In the
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In the temple
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And the and he said, your
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Your sons will be carted off as eunuchs to another land.
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He goes, how long is that?
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15 years.
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He goes, well, what you what you say is good.
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I'm thinking what?
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He goes, because there will be peace in my lifetime.
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You know, we have to realize that,
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That we're we need to leave it better than we found it.
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And, and at this age, it's not to have a drink
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With an umbrella on a beach somewhere.
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We need to be working harder than we've ever worked.
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And it doesn't mean to take a winnebago
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And travel the country and go through buffet lines in vegas.
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It means to pour into the next generation and,
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You know, i had a coach,
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Who used to say,
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Treat your opponent and your teammate like they were jesus.
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But he also said
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The purpose of sports, as you look to your opponent
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And you say,
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If you're going to win today, you're going to have to have
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The best race you've ever had, because i am going to swim you.
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And if you beat me,
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You're going to have to go faster than you've ever gone.
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And that's pushing each other to accomplish
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Levels of excellence.
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And that's what we're saying to this young generation.
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We're not going to sit back on our laurels and relax
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And get a drink with an umbrella on a beach somewhere.
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For you and me, this is the most exciting time.
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We're going to challenge him and push him.
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And yeah, i'm tired.
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I get tired in the word, but not of it.
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And i want to set a schedule that those guys are like,
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If that 60 year old guy can do it, i'm ready.
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Let's roll.
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Oh yeah.
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President trump is, i think, perfect
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Example called all of us on the carpet for our schedules.
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Seriously, that guy sleeps four hours a day.
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He's insane.
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But you know, i think your point is well taken and deserves.
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It's got to be highlighted.
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Every season of life.
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There is a secular excuse for being ungodly.
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You know, in your high school,
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Years are the best years of your life.
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You're college years go so you're wild oats,
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You're newly married or a young parent.
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Well, that's your time.
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You need to be focused on that'll follow you all the way.
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Every generation of every season has an excuse
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To be self-centered and selfish and carnal,
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And we have to make a decision in every one of those seasons
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Not to ignore our responsibility of the season,
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But to honor god in the midst of that season.
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You only do those every life series.
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You only get it one time. yeah.
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Why not honor god and every one of those seasons of your life?
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There's a statement about david
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In the book of acts is one of my favorite.
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God said of david.
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He would do anything i ask him to do that
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David stepped in some holes.
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God knows he did.
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And and he god told his story.
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But i pray it said of you and me
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When we see the lord,
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That we would do whatever he ask us to do,
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I can't think of a greater compliment.
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I got to know you well
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Over the
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Television and over the internet, i watch this.
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I'm better on tv because there's a mute button.
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Yeah.
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Mute button, i don't know, but i but i just
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To to meet you in person and then call you my friend.
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It it's, it's one of these things where
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You didn't disappoint.
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Who you are in public is who you are in private and in.
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The wonderful thing about that is these young ministers
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Are looking for something tangible.
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And that's our responsibility is not to let them down.
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We have to finish well.
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And i, i want this to be the best segment of my life.
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I want to set a good example for them.
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I want to do it right. amen.
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And it takes god's help to do that.
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Amen. the same way to god's help
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To honor him in those other seasons.
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I used to say to the lord,
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When there's a sin that would easily beset
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Me and said, god, take this from here, kill me.
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And i never forget what he told me. he just spoke to my heart.
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He said, rob, you're already dying.
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Why don't you give it to me and live?
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To say.
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To say.
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There's some challenges and some heartaches
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We've had to overcome and some losses.
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But i don't know that i've ever felt a greater hope.
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Same here.
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God's moving in the earth.
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I say it a lot, but,
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I mean, it's almost impossible to keep up with.
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Yeah.
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So if you're going to get to talk to the folks,
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What are you going to say to them?
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You're going to be in a world of information overload,
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And you're going to
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Have to figure out what's true and what's false.
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You're going to be involved in psyops, where they're going
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To be trying to persuade you and and control you.
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The greatest filter
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Is to spend time in a hard copy of the word of god.
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And don't go to church on the internet.
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Go fellowship.
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Do not forsake fellowshipping with the saints.
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People can hold you accountable and see you face to face.
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Live a real life with tangible human beings in front of you.
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But read god's word.
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It's good.
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Preacher
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Charlie would spend,
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His devotion every morning first
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And then two hours and topics pertinent 18 to 30 year olds.
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He would study to show himself approved and take a sabbath.
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Take time off.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life,
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And everybody's going to be fine.
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You're going to have that filter and you'll be able to
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To discern between what's right and what's wrong.
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It's true and what's false.
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Allen Jackson: Cultural Impact | Allen Jackson Now

June 4, 2026 | 22:41

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