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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Global Shaking | Allen Jackson Now | January 23, 2026

We're going to push it into 2026.
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Have mercy.
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This year did not start
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Casually.
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You know,
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I think the international part
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Is the part that's captured my heart.
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I have friends around the world and from the middle east
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To central america and south america, to africa, to them,
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To the ukraine, and to see what's happening in the globe.
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It's startling.
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And most of it's really good.
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You know, that
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I'm probably the one of the most recent episodes is venezuela.
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That's still unfolding, but u.s..
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I mean, our delta force showed up in venezuela
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And took maduro from his impregnable palace
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Without any loss of u.s.
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Life.
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And it's changed the discussion globally.
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You know, i had a conversation just last week.
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I did an episode of aj now with, gordon chang, who is a
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I mean, you see him on fox and newsmax.
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I mean, he's kind of the go to expert on china.
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And he's been pretty when i've talked to him.
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I've talked to him several times,
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And he's been pretty dark about chinese influence.
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And their power
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And how they were encroaching on america and in our future.
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But i talked to him
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Last thursday, and after the venezuela episode,
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He felt like it was almost a complete reset for china
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In the world, that they'd been exposed, that
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They'd invested billions
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And billions of dollars in venezuela,
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And trying to make that the really the the bulwark
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Of their initiative into this hemisphere.
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And when we went in and removed maduro, we we made china.
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We revealed china to be more about words than actual actions.
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You know, it's going to change cuba
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And it's going to change the caribbean,
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And it's going to change south america.
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That's a remarkable, you know,
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Eye on the saturday was all unfolding.
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We were hearing the news. i was just quiet.
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Saturday's the day i do my preparation for my weekends
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And the messages.
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I'm responsible for through the week.
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I do three sermons a week.
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And so i was working on that, and i was just quietly
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Saying to the lord, you know, what's the
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Life?
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I know there's going to be people looking at me.
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What's the response on this?
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Because it's more than just a
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Military exercise reflects on us power in our hemisphere.
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And what are you really doing?
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And, i had service that night.
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And when i got done with my sermon,
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A couple.
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I'll stop at the stay at the altar
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And talk to people after church.
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And a couple came up to me who i knew.
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They're from the church, they're venezuelan.
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And they said, pastor, would you speak to a friend of ours?
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And i thought they had somebody
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That to visit a church with them. i said, sure.
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And she kind of reached behind herself
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And she held up her phone.
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And there was it was a facetime live,
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And there was a pastor from venezuela,
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And she said he asked if he could talk to you.
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And there were tears streaming down his face.
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And he said, will you tell the people
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In america, thank you for what you've done for us.
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You have given us a new future, and we are so grateful
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For what you have done for the people of venezuela.
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And i thought,
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Well, lord, i'm not always the sharpest knife
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In the drawer, but you gave me the response.
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And another friend of mine very i mean, somebody i trust
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Sent me a piece of video, forwarded a piece of video to me
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Of hundreds of pastors and religious leaders
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Being released from venezuelan prisons
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As a result of maduro being removed.
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And it was the celebration of the families being reunited with
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Their the
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Family members who had suffered under this communist regime.
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We shouldn't be surprised.
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Communism for the throughout the last century was highly
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Oppressive of christians closing churches, imprisoning
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Pastors, and faith leaders, crushing those expressions
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Of freedom and liberty that caused people to think.
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And so when you see these expressions of communism
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In the world, don't be confused about what they're doing.
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They've been consistent for more than 100 years.
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100 million people died in the last century
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As a result of communism.
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And for the planet earth, multiple nations, different,
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Different flavors, not about a particular
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People group or a particular location.
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It's an ideology that is highly authoritarian,
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Very oppressive, very violent, and very violently
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Opposed to christianity.
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So when you see it,
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You may not be getting all the reports
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From venezuela about the imprisonments and the
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The way it's choking down the proclamation of the gospel
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And oppressing the people of faith.
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But you can know from decades and decades of communism
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In the world that that's what they're doing.
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And so i'm grateful for what president trump did
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And the permission he gave our military,
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And those young men and women that put themselves
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In harm's way.
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And i believe it has opened the door for other expressions
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Of freedom in the world.
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It's been a long time
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Since our nation has used its authority
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For the cause of freedom and liberty.
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We've spent decades dismantling american strength,
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Exporting our manufacturing.
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We stopped making things,
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And we just started importing things.
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We could get them cheaper, and we lost all the good
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That comes with actually being a manufacturing place.
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We took our greatest strengths, like our the abundance
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Of our energy and our ability to be energy independent.
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And we we diminished it.
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We purposely subjugated ourselves to the nations
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Of the world to create a more equal playing field,
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Which in reality, all that did was take american strength
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And diminish it in the strength of america.
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Please don't be confused on this.
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It's not political.
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It's not even economic.
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The strength of america that's enabled us to flourish
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Through multiple wars, global wars, civil wars
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Has been a set of values
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That were derived from a biblical worldview.
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It brought an integrity to us as a people.
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Not perfectly we a bunch of crackpots,
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But it's been the best story of a civilization
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Throughout the stories of all the civilizations.
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And so the strength of america was the values that we held,
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That biblical worldview,
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And we spent decades diminishing those.
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And we spent decades diminishing those.
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And when i was working my way through the academic systems,
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The higher you went in academia, the the further you went up
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The graduate degree program, the more liberal, the more woke.
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We didn't call it the woke at the time,
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The more godless the education became.
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Even in the theological seminary,
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The most celebrated theological schools
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Were far too often not godly places.
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Well, now all of that garbage has made its way
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Down to our elementary schools,
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And we're not teaching our students to respect our country,
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Or that we have a heritage to be proud of,
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Or the sacrifices that have been made
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For the freedoms and liberties or
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So to see the united states using our strength again
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On the international stage, to bring freedom and liberty
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To people and opportunities
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For the gospel of jesus christ, is refreshing.
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I understand it's going to cause
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Some people to gnash their teeth,
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But i'm of the opinion god's moving in the earth.
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There's still work to be done in venezuela.
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The people will have to choose.
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They'll have to choose the future.
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They'll have to be willing to stand up for that.
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We cannot be the global police force,
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But in our own hemisphere, in our own backyard.
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How many hundreds
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Of thousands of young americans have to die from drug overdoses
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That flowed through venezuela, supported by china and iran
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Before?
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We'll say we won't allow that to continue.
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So i don't
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Think this has anything to do with,
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Christian nationalism.
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I think it has everything to do with freedom for people
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In our own backyard.
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We're going to secure the future
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Of our children and grandchildren.
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Being aware of what's happening around us is important,
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And i think cuba is probably in line
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For an opportunity of their own.
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You know, cuba got frozen in a time capsule
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When we abandoned them to communism and castro
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And all the things that have come since that.
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Then, you know, we see the pictures
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Now, savannah and the
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You know, they're driving american cars from the 1950s
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And it looks like a movie set.
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Well, it may be quaint if you go visit
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And you may consider it,
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You know, it's a photo op or something
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That you want to post on social media,
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But i don't think any of us want to go
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Have health care done in the 1950s.
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Hospital or try to to prepare
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Our family meals in a 1950s kitchen, or have to compete
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In a global business environment with 1950s tools.
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You know, again, what's quaint for a holiday
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Visit is not the world we want to live in.
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And we abandoned those people
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90 miles from the shores of florida
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To a brutal, authoritarian, domineering,
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Godless form of government for decades.
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And i pray that god brings freedom to the people of cuba.
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And i think we will
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Have to see that that's not accomplished fact yet.
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But the removal of maduro in venezuela
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Opens the door of opportunity and freedom.
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You know, a previous administration
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Here in america wanted to normalize
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Relationships with cuba,
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But we didn't want to say that they'd had awful leadership.
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I'll say it.
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They have had awful, ungodly, wicked,
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Oppressive leadership.
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We better have the courage to say that the gospel wasn't
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Welcome in any place that doesn't welcome my lord
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And king to be freely discussed in the public square.
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I have a problem with that, and i pray that you do as well.
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You know our style of dress or what day of the week
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We want to worship, or what style of music
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We prefer, or what bible translation we read.
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You know,
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Those are not the defining characteristics of our life,
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But the opportunity to have a public discussion
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About jesus without fear of reprisal
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From the government or forfeiture of
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Of our professional opportunities
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Or our children's educations that should concern us.
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It should concern us because we saw that
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Kind of limit beginning in this nation.
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It has taken root and it's been pushed forward.
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And i pray that god is going to give us the courage to stand up
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So that we can see freedom extended to our own,
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In our own nation.
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But i pray we get to see it exported around the world again.
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Keep praying.
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You know,
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As we're having as we're taping this.
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Iran is in the midst of turmoil.
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It's not clear yet what the outcome is of
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That will be whether the ayatollah will
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Still has enough determination to exorcize the brutality
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That will be required
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To subjugate the iranian people for another season.
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And that's what it'll take.
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It'll take violent oppression of the population
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In order for the ayatollah to maintain his place.
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What we have allowed in iran or what we have encouraged
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And we have both allowed it and encouraged it.
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It started in the 70s with president jimmy carter
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When the shah was removed largely through
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The united states engagement.
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With all of that,
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There was a revolution in iran and the ayatollah is to have
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Taken over.
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They took american hostages and held them, started
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A whole new genre of news programing
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In the united states with ted koppel and nightline.
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Most of you were too young
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To know about that as grabbed by google.
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You can learn a little american history.
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When president reagan was elected.
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They'd been holding our hostages for over a year,
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And they released him during the inauguration
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Because reagan had said if he got to the white house
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And they were still holding the hostages,
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The bombers would fly.
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And the iranians believed him.
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So they released the hostages during the inauguration.
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They didn't want that
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Former actor from california to get to the white house.
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And we have provided support to iran in a variety of ways.
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We've sent plane loads of billions of dollars in cash
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To iran that have been used not to help the iranian people,
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But to fund their terror proxies, hamas.
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That's been in the news for the last couple of years
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Because of the october 7th attacks on israel,
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Was an iranian proxy. they funded them.
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They trained them, they provided weapons for them.
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They provided international cover for them.
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Iran supported and sponsored hezbollah,
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Who was the terror group on the northern border of israel.
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That has really
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Been the de facto government in lebanon
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And been a powerful force in syria.
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You know,
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Through god's sovereign intervention
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Through the israelis, through a variety of things.
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Hamas and hezbollah have been tremendously weakened.
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That's all helped to weaken the ayatollahs position in iran.
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And now the people are demonstrating in the streets.
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Dozens and dozens of them have been murdered.
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It isn't clear yet what the outcome will be.
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You know, i'm of the opinion that that brutal expression of
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Islam over iran is not been good for the persian people,
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And i'm praying that they have a new season
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Of freedom and liberty.
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I've heard multiple stories.
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I'm sure you may have heard many of them,
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Of jesus revealing himself to the iranian people.
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I'm grateful for the sovereign
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Grace of god that will intervene supernaturally in those ways.
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But i think we should be praying and believing
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And actively engaged in ways that it will allow.
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The conversation about jesus of nazareth
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On the streets of iran to be normal
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And not require the supernatural revelation of jesus.
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Why wouldn't we wish that for the iranian people?
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So pray
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That the wicked, oppressive regime of the
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Ayatollah khomeini
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Will be broken and freedom will come to those people.
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I don't want us involved in another war,
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But if there's a way to use american influence
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To facilitate that freedom,
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I think it's something that we should be praying about,
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Though, in nigeria, in africa,
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Boko haram and other,
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Group of islamic terrorists
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Have been systematically murdering the christians
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In that country.
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It's a genocide of the of the simplest order.
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They're identifying the christians
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And systematically murdering and murdering them,
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Kidnaping the young girls and taking them away from their
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Families and subjecting them to the most horrendous things.
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And i'm grateful that our state department
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And president trump said it had to stop that.
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If it didn't stop,
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We would provide intervention, not boots on the ground,
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But that we would, provided that we would eliminate boko haram,
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That terrorist group.
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How many
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Expressions of violent islam do we have to see in the world
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Before we recognize that islam is incapable of policing itself?
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They're either incapable or unwilling.
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So we
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Can't just casually say islam is peaceful
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Until islam helps keep the peace within islam.
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So i'm not.
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Just an observation.
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I think we have to pray.
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We've got to be a little more
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Alert as consumers and stop believing.
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You know, all of the propaganda that's handed us by
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The various outlets that want us to cooperate with their move
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Towards globalism and suggest that we're all the same,
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You know, when they're
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When they're having that conversation,
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They usually say that, well, christians have been violent
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And they pointed the crusades.
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Well, it's a tragic chapter in the history of christianity.
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The crusades.
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If you're not familiar with them,
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You can do a little work on google and get to it.
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But, i mean, the crusades were a thousand years ago.
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No group of people, no civilized.
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Nobody is going to escape
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A thousand years of history and have a clear track record.
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I'm not excusing it. it was awful.
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It was beastly.
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It was ungodly.
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Was anything but christian.
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But it isn't the accurate representation
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Of christianity in the world
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In the 21st century, or even the 20th century.
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And so we've got to look at the world we're in
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And the values that are being espoused,
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And what kind of freedoms are they bringing?
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And what kind of freedoms are they bringing?
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And i remember when i was a kid,
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I grew up on a farm,
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So i would be off to times, you know, i'd be at night,
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I'd have to go out and check the barn or go check on a horse or
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Go see you soon.
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So you're going out in the dark at night.
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And when i was a younger.
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You know, if you're afraid of the dark,
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You hurry the whistle, you talk to yourself.
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You do anything to distract you from whatever you might imagine
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Is frightening in what you can't see.
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And i think we've been living that way for far
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Too long in the christian community.
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We've just been whistling or trying
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Not to notice, desperately trying not to notice.
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Because if we acknowledge
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That the border isn't secure or the frauds taking place,
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We can't continue with our polite little narratives.
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We have to actually engage the culture.
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Well, it's time to engage.
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It's not a new idea.
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I've said it before, but i'm going to keep saying it
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Because i think it is not just true.
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I think it's essential to our future.
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This really gets built from the ground up.
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This starts at our kitchen table.
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We have to bring god's truth back to the kitchen table.
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Not angry, not belligerent, not condemning.
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We've got to have the courage
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In our homes, at our kitchen tables to honor god.
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Not easy, not always comfortable.
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It gets more awkward as we all grow
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And mature and go through the different seasons of life.
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We don't always even agree, but we've got to.
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We've got to acknowledge god's standards
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And our desire to honor them.
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If we'll do it there
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And then, we'll let that expand into our circle of friends.
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You know,
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How many times are we going to sit
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At the ball games and watch our kids or grandkids
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And talk about the weather, or where we're shopping, or what
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The latest recipe that we're interested in is, or what
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Our favorite sports team is doing someplace
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Else, and ignore what's happening in our world.
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Bring your voice.
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Learn to lead with your faith in that sphere of influence.
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Learn to lead with your faith in that sphere of influence.
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I've said to you before, and i'll say it again,
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I think what happens in the white house
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Is a small thing compared to what happens in your house
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Or my house.
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You see, we want leaders,
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Church leaders, pastors, political leaders.
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We want all these other people
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To have a strong voice for a biblical worldview.
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And we want to cower in the shadows
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In order to maintain the equilibrium in the
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Systems where we are.
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If we have the
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Courage to choose the lord in those simple places,
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I believe we'll see god continue to move in the earth
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In the most remarkable ways, and maybe, just maybe,
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You and i will get to be
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A part of this amazing initiative at the end of the age
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Where the gospel of the kingdom
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Will be preached in the whole world,
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Doesn't mean we're all going to deliver a sermon.
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It means we're all going to be advocates for jesus of nazareth.
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We're going to do it in our homes,
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In our neighborhoods, at the ball fields,
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In the factories where we work, and the job sites
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Where we go and the places where we vacation.
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We're going to go be advocates for jesus, folks.
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God's moving in the earth.
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He's bringing freedom to people in venezuela
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That have have labored beneath cruel,
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Authoritarian government for a long time.
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I believe we'll see
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Freedom come to cuba and freedom come to iran.
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It's an amazing season in the earth.
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I believe the name of jesus will be lifted up across
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China in ways that it hasn't happened in decades.
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The spirit of god is moving in the earth.
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The evil is agitated.
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But don't focus on the darkness.
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Turn your attention to the lord.
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Start at your kitchen table.
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It's the hardest place in the world to be a christian,
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Because the people you live with
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Know the part of you that at least christian.
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It's it's the awkward truth.
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But if you will start there,
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It has to start with some humility.
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See the people that knows the best.
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They don't believe all the pretense.
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You know me on the other side of a lens,
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But the people that have to work with me day in and day out,
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Pray for them.
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But that's the hardest place in the world to go.
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Live your faith out.
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But if you can do it there, you can do it anywhere.
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January 23, 2026 | 20:43

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