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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Spiritual Heritage | Allen Jackson Now | January 16, 2026

My guest today is pastor rob mccoy.
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You know him from a variety of ways and roles.
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Perhaps most prominently
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For the last few years as charlie kirk's pastor.
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I had the privilege.
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He visited our church, and we got to sit down
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On a sunday morning and have a conversation.
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And that's what i want to share with you.
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It encouraged me, challenged me,
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And it reminds me that each of us
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Has to take our place with the truth, if we will do that.
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I'm quite confident that the head of the church,
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And that would be jesus, if you've forgotten,
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Is overseeing
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This initiative in a way
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That will cause the kingdom of god to be extended.
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It's an honor to welcome pastor mccoy to the church.
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I think you'll enjoy the conversation.
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I want to take a few minutes.
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You know, there's some craziness
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If you just watch the news and follow
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The kind of the normal channels.
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I think they're very anxious to pronounce the church dead.
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Or at least that we're on life support.
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And they've called hospice.
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And there's some evidence of clearly obvious
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Of some fractures.
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But i'm of the opinion
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That the church is flourishing in the earth.
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The jesus is the head of the church.
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The last directive i saw he gave was that
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He said he would
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Build his church and he wouldn't stop it,
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And he sent us into all the world
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With the message and the help of the holy spirit.
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So we're the 21st century edition of all of that stuff.
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So i'm curious, you live on the other coast.
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You got a little different window into this.
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I'm in the midst of hillbilly world,
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And you're just in the midst of craziness.
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Thousand oaks is just inland from malibu.
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Exactly.
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Such tough duty.
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So tell me what you see god doing in the church.
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I'll be anxious to hear your perspective.
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Well, i'm in agreement with you.
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And i believe that there is a revival occurring.
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I was working with david barton and,
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George barna, and, you know, you look at some of the news
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Articles.
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Major universities across the united states.
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University of florida, university
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Of arkansas, purdue, ohio state,
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Thousands and thousands of students
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Coming to christ and coming out for events.
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And it's just remarkable what's occurring.
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In addition,
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There's there's been a 50% increase in bible sales.
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We've also watched now
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That 18 to 30 year olds, which was charlie's sweet spot.
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These y and z generation, they now encompass and
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Have become the largest segment of the church in america.
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There's there's an awakening with young people.
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And then
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Finally, you know, there's been ten revivals in america, and
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And all of them had an awakening attached to it up until 1870.
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And that was d.l. moody.
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And then following that,
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Every awake
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Or every revival hasn't led to an awakening,
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Which means the church now changes culture.
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So we had the jesus movement with calvary chapels,
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And it was during the sexual revolution and nothing changed.
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It didn't change culture.
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I mean, people came to christ, but we didn't change culture.
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And this is a different one
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Because charlie has discipled these young people
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And he's taught them in areas to contend for culture.
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And now that they've
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They're coming to the lord, they're the ones driving this.
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It's it's,
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The largest conservative movement
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In american history for this age group.
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And they're going to
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That's an imprint of a chick to a mother hen.
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They're going to vote
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Conservative the rest of their life.
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So this this is an awakening, and it's exciting.
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Amen.
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You brought up a point
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That's been a talking point for us for a while.
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I believe the church
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Is intended to shape culture, not be shaped by it.
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And we haven't done that in every generation that we can.
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Like we can point out, many of us
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Our lifetimes and we've seen the church concede the culture.
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But it does seem to me there's a shift.
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So what are we looking for? how do we recognize that?
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What are you anticipating
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The shift?
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To me at least, what i've witnessed is prior to 1870,
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If there was an issue that, that the citizens of your community
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Were dealing with,
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It would be a topic of a sermon that following sunday,
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They would say,
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What does the bible have to say on immigration?
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And the pastor
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Would give a lengthy sermon. you can see
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These are all archived on the eastern seaboard.
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Jonathan mayhew and and,
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Whitfield all of these sermons dealt
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With topics pertinent to the day
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And what the bible has to say about it.
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But in the 1870s, we went from the great commission,
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Which says, make disciples of all nations to making converts.
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We made it all about evangelism, where we,
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You know, he didn't say make converts.
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He said, make disciples.
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And we've avoided the tough topics and we just say,
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Oh, i don't do politics.
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I just preach the gospel. that's gnosticism.
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And so now you're watching these young people saying,
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You know, they go to these churches
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Saying,
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Charlie taught me all this stuff
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About transgenderism, homosexuality, abortion,
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What the bible has to say about it.
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They come to churches, we don't do politics.
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Well, that's that's the difference between a revival
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And an awakening
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Is that we have to disciple these young people,
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And we've got to make sure that
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We're contending in the culture.
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And that's our heritage, the church in america.
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That's right.
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The declaration of independence is a collection of ideas
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That began in the pulpits of the colonies
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That when the framers of
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The declaration
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Got together to work on that and then the constitution,
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The ideas they put down on paper,
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It wasn't some political theory
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That they distilled from europe.
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It was biblical world
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View issues that had to do with the authority over
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Human lives that they had learned inside their churches.
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And i know they didn't teach that in school.
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In your history class.
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And for full confession, it's the bartons
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That have reminded me of it.
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I mean, i took history, but i
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Didn't read all the things they read,
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And i didn't learn to talk as fast as they do either.
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But it's like drinking from a fire hydrant.
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It is.
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But it's our truth.
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And you see, there's no other segment of our culture.
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If you tried to separate
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From them, from their heritage,
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That our culture would stand before that,
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If you took the native americans and said that their culture
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Was illegitimate and shouldn't be recognized,
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There'd be a hue and cry that would be deafening.
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And they come to those of us with a biblical,
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Judeo-christian worldview, and they try to deny it.
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They try to separate us from our history.
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Please don't walk quietly into that dark night.
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So we should shape culture.
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We have shaped culture. and,
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Breitbart used to say that
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That politics is downstream from culture.
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While the church should be driving culture,
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Which should be driving politics.
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Politicians are just actors
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Performing a script written by the audience.
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We're supposed to be writing that script,
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And and that's that's so important for the church.
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The church isn't the slave of the state, nor is it its master.
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It's the conscience of the state.
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And we have to push that and drive that.
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Jonathan mayhew, the eastern seaboard pastor,
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That our second president, john adams,
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Attributed the war of independence to.
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They were telling him, you know, you can't you can't do this
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Because romans 13 says, we're to submit
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To all you know, god appoints all positions of authority.
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We're to submit to them.
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And they're saying, you can't go against king george.
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Well, he's someone who coined the term
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Disobedience to tyrants is obedience to god,
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Because he said
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Romans 13 says that those those authorities
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Are there for our good.
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And he said, when they cease to do good,
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They cease to be the authority.
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And that's why you have the declaration of independence,
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Not for light or transient causes.
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They go through all the violations of the word of god
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That impelled them for this break from from a tyrant king
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That's driving culture.
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That's driving culture.
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I think
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2020, in hindsight, was a huge transition point.
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So we'd heard about pandemics before
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The bird flu and the swine flu. and,
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And they kind of fizzled.
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But covid had some more momentum to it.
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But, you know, from hindsight,
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It seems to have changed everything.
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There's there's
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A whole set of new perspectives that have come since covid.
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I mean, our relationship to authority
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And how we've gathered people
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And the people we see gather with us and talk about.
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It didn't stop with covid.
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I mean, those changes have just continued right up until today.
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It's like a
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I mean, you and i have both served the church for a bit,
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And it's like so many aspects of what's happening
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Today are different since 2020.
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You see that too? absolutely.
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You know,
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I would hear people say that president trump is a divider.
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I don't necessarily think he was a divider
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As much as he was a highlighter.
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He would
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He would take a stand,
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And then you could just see the room divided
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Where everyone was on bright orange highlighter.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And, he's listening.
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I mean that in a very loving way.
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So i don't remember.
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And i think covid was the same way.
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You would have pastors thinking
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That they're doing god's work by submitting to authority,
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But then they realized, and they and they would
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They would have the misconception of the separation
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Of church and state, but then they'd watch the church
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Insert them
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As they watch the state insert themselves into the church,
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And all the sudden
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They were trying to be compliant, but they kept taking
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And writes are like muscles.
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If you don't exercise them, you lose them.
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And they didn't know what those rights were.
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They didn't even know what it meant to be an american.
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The apostle paul knew roman citizenship.
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He could contend for it.
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Most americans have no idea how many
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Articles are in the constitution,
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How many amendments there are.
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You don't even an america is not an ethnicity.
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It's an idea.
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You know, you can look around
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The room and there's every race, creed, color,
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And you're an american based on a set of ideas.
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I can live in japan my whole life, become a japanese citizen.
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But i'll never be japanese.
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That's a that's a difference. with america.
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It's a set of ideas.
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But if you don't know what those ideas are,
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What is an american?
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And that's that's so critical
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Because we're a nation conceived in liberty.
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We have
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We have this understanding for times in our
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In our birth certificate, we list god
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That rights don't come from man, they come from god.
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And that's why we must be diligent
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To preserve that liberty.
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And so i think covid has awakened people to realize
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They're going to do this again.
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If i don't start understanding
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What we've been given in a constitutional republic,
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And i'm watching people become
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Far more educated in that, especially in the church.
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Your idea about being an american is absolutely right.
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It's about a set of values.
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It's not about the way we look or the accent
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With which we speak, or the nation
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From which we've come, or our dna.
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It was we were bound together by a set of ideals
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That have made us the most prosperous,
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Blessed, free people in the history of civilizations.
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And the church has an essential role in that.
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Every everybody want want to be a part.
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But we there's a core of that, that we have an assignment
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To watch over.
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And i thank you for those reminders.
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Don't grow weary with that.
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No, no, i'm you think about it.
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America represents 4% of the world's population.
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And in the 6000 years of recorded history,
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We've been on the mat for 250 of those years.
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And we're the oldest country under one articles
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Incorporation in the history,
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The 6000 years of recorded history.
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But with 4% of the world's population.
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We have more patents, nobel peace prize
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Winners, more symphonies,
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More accumulation of wealth
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Of any other nation in the history of the world.
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Now, because we have more natural
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Resources, canada far surpasses us as a south america.
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We were given freedom.
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I mean, think about it.
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If you're enjoying electricity, lighting.
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It was invented by an american air conditioning
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Invented by an american
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Riding an elevator, invented by an american.
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Flying an airplane invented by an american.
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Enjoyed the internet. invented by an american, not al gore.
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But this is all that stuff.
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Because with freedom comes the ability
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For for folks to to dream and the american dream.
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But a government big enough to give you everything you want
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Is big enough to take everything you have.
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And so the title cycle of history goes
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From bondage to faith, faith to freedom,
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Freedom to abundance, abundance to apathy, apathy
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To dependance, dependance into slavery.
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Anywhere in that cycle, you can insert faith
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And reset it in the 3 to 3 legs of the stool of america.
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For us to flourish is
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Faith, virtue and freedom.
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Liberty because when you have faith, it provides virtue.
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Freedom is not getting to do whatever you want.
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Freedom is getting to do what god wants you to do.
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Is absolutely true.
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And somehow we got convinced in in church world,
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We we took away those big rock ideas
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And we started arguing about when we take communion
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In the style of worship we prefer.
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And what's the dress code for the presenter on the platform?
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And, and we stopped engaging the world we live in.
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We were made irrelevant,
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But we voluntarily made ourselves irrelevant.
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So we've got to walk that back
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And it's like starting a workout program
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When you've taken six months off.
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That first week is awful
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Because your body doesn't change,
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But it's screaming at you
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For changing your habits and behaviors and patterns.
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And if you decide to be an advocate for jesus, everybody
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In your sphere of influence won't cheer for you
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In the first few days.
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You start that journey,
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You may not see the outcomes that you're looking for,
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But honoring the lord isn't about comfort
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And convenience and ease and always feeling good.
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It's about pleasing the king.
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And that is the assignment of the church.
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Right it is.
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And again, when the lord said,
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All authority has been given to me in heaven
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And on the earth,
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Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
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The name of the father
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And of the son and the holy spirit,
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And teaching them to obey all that i have commanded you.
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And i am with you always, even to the end of the age.
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The reason why, especially in the in the 60s,
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Young people checked out of church
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And into eastern religions and experimental drug use
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Is because the church
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Abdicated its responsibility to disciple young people,
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And they're watching
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Their young friends die in hamlets and villages,
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The name
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They couldn't pronounce in a country so far away
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In vietnam and all their their leaders, you know, martin
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Luther king jr was murdered, bobby kennedy was murdered.
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And so they check out of the church
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In the eastern religions,
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They end up a wash on the shores of california,
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All burned out hippies and chuck begins chuck smith.
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Calvary chapel
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Begins to teach the bible, verse by verse, chapter
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By chapter, book by book, but avoids politics.
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Well, there's 10,000% growth to calvary chapels.
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There's over 2000 worldwide fastest mission movement.
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But he avoided politics, and the lion's
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Share of those 2000 churches are in california.
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So how does it change the state of california?
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It started in 1967.
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Chuck did in california.
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Reagan was governor.
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We had the fourth largest gdp.
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We just completed
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The california aqueduct, a marvelous civil engineering,
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Most fertile farmland in the country.
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And he preaches a gospel thrown out the net every sunday.
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Death, burial, resurrection of christ.
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I see your hand. god bless you.
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And they avoid politics.
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50 plus years now doing this.
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How does it change the state of california?
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Well, california no longer has a fourth largest gdp.
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We have the fifth, maybe six.
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We have the highest gas tax, sales
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Tax, income tax, corporate tax.
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We lead the nation in debt.
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You take the next four largest states debt combined.
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It doesn't equal california's debt.
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We're the authors of no fault divorce at reagan signed in 69
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Became law and 70 decimated marriage across the country.
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And i love reagan,
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He said that was the worst piece of legislation.
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And then you had transgender bathroom bills,
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A secular, progressive, secular education sex
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Education curriculum so vile you can read it in church.
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But here's the kicker
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Abortion was
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Legal long before roe v wade in california,
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And we lead the nation in abortion.
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It's been estimated
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That california's aborted more children
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Than the current population of canada.
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And we don't just rip the baby apart in the womb of its mother
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And flush its parts in the sewer system of the state,
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We harvest the organs on the down beat of the heart.
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We make nazi germany look like girl scouts.
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And i'm thinking, where's
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The power of the gospel?
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With the largest churches in america?
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We're in california.
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If the pastor can't give you a ready answer
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And educate you
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On the topics of the day where you can profess christ
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And insert his truths into the midst of the issues
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That your neighbors are dealing with.
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That's problematic.
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Pray for kings and those in authority.
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We live quiet and peaceable
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Lives in all godliness and reverence.
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And the question would be, pastor, you're
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Praying for your school board and your your city council.
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And what are the issues are dealing with
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In your community to allow your citizens
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To have quiet, peaceable lives and all godliness and reverence?
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You don't know their names.
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You don't know the issues.
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That's our job.
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We're to love our neighbors ourselves.
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Don't you want your kids to grow up
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Knowing there's there's two sexes?
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Listen, love isn't lying to somebody.
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Oh, no. no. you be.
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You can come out from the opposite sex.
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No you can't. that's a lie.
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And it's not loving to lie to them.
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You're mutilating them.
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I have to stop. no, no, sorry.
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No, you don't.
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No, you don't.
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It's wrong to feel like we're impotent.
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Like our voice is small and we can't do anything.
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It starts at our kitchen table.
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We got in this fine mess
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Because we were winking at fornication
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Around our kitchen table.
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That we were grinning at adultery we were covering.
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It was our kids and our grandkids,
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And we didn't want to interrupt our holidays.
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And then we found ourselves where perversion
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Was being normalized and they're changing genders.
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You're saying our biological sex is confusing,
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But we lost our moral authority long ago
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Because we quit standing up for the truth.
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And if we'll bring the truth back to our homes.
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See, it's illegitimate
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To demand that the politicians have more courage than we have
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If we want them to define their political careers
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By the worldviews they hold.
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And we're not willing to define
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Our families by the values that we bring to our homes,
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Then we're illegitimate in our faith.
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We're trying to offload.
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We're we're trying to,
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Delegate somebody else
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To go be a the light in the darkness
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While we shelter our own lives in darkness.
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And rather than have rage against people that you disagree
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With, ask the spirit of god to bring a spirit of repentance
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And the fear of the lord into our hearts and our homes.
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And i'm confident
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That with that, god will bring the changes we need.
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That with that, god will bring the changes we need.
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Books.
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The church in the earth matters,
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And we have an assignment, certainly,
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That is attached to eternity,
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But it's the only conversation we have is about eternity.
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I don't think
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Will be on the right side of it when we get there.
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We're called to impact the world in which we live.
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If you read the book of acts,
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Have you read the gospels?
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John the baptist could have
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Lived much longer if he hadn't talked about current events.
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Stephen the same, james the same.
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Paul could have stayed out of a lot of prisons
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And would have not suffered physically nearly as much.
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He was accused of disrupting the economies
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Of the communities where he preached the gospel,
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Because the message he
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Took about jesus changed how people spent their money,
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And they beat him almost to death for it.
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So we have adopted some approach to christianity.
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That is, it's not about politics.
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It's not about parties.
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There's no perfect candidates.
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But the worldview we hold has to be shaped in the world
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In which we live,
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Or we're abandoning in our children to demonic futures.
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