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Allen Jackson: Truth in Media | Allen Jackson Now

November 19, 2025 | 22:12

Allen Jackson: Truth in Media | Allen Jackson Now
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Truth in Media | Allen Jackson Now | November 19, 2025
  • Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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  • I'm alan jackson.
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  • Well, this is the night that some of
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  • You have been waiting for.
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  • Because this show, it's all about your feedback.
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  • It's our chance to share your thoughts
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  • About what's going on around the world each day.
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  • Tonight, it's a two way street.
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  • Whether it's your question, comment, or even a criticism.
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  • I'll do my best to answer all of them.
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  • Some of you watch us on tbn, some watch on youtube,
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  • Or the real life network,
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  • And you can also see any of our recent shows on our web site.
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  • It's aj now.com.
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  • Wherever it is that most convenient for you.
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  • We are grateful
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  • That so many of you engage with us by writing back.
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  • So let's get started with your emails.
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  • This first bucket has to do with the media
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  • And particularly the truth in the media.
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  • Jerry from texas commented,
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  • How come nobody mentions the revelation of the reporters
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  • Sources they report, sources say, but
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  • They don't prove it like they used to be.
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  • Well, jerry, i think the reporting has begun
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  • So subjective
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  • And more about opinion that sources have become secondary.
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  • I agree with you. it can be pretty frustrating.
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  • John from minnesota emailed, the media needs
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  • To be held accountable for fake news
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  • With large financial fines and or jail time.
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  • Joseph goebbels was hitler's minister of propaganda
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  • And was strongly instrumental in turning the german people
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  • Against each other, which ultimately allowed them
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  • To terminate their own people.
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  • Well, joe and i agree, propaganda is a pretty good word
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  • For what we hear most frequently.
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  • Whether it's propaganda you like or propaganda you don't.
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  • There seems to be a larger and larger gap between
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  • Reporting the truth and letting the audience decide.
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  • Once you become aware of that, it's up to us.
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  • We've got to pay more attention.
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  • And i would submit to you that we need a baseline.
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  • The reason we need to be familiar with the word of god is
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  • We need to have that as our foundation
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  • For interpreting the world we watch.
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  • It's not about our opinion
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  • Or the opinion of our favorite preacher.
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  • God has given us a perspective on right and wrong,
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  • And that needs to be how we interpret
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  • The facts of the world as it's unfolding around us.
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  • Short of that, i'm concerned that we're rather easy prey
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  • For deception.
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  • Kim on
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  • Youtube commented, the truth is truth.
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  • It does not sugarcoat or lead to the left or to the right.
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  • Truth naturally balances the scales of justice.
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  • When someone goes to court, the judge listens to both sides
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  • And then makes his decision.
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  • The public deserves the same privilege.
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  • I don't disagree.
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  • I think it's helpful to make a distinction
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  • Between objective truth and subjective truth,
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  • Because they get blurred in the public square these days.
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  • Subjective truth is truth according to my opinion,
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  • My feeling, my perspective.
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  • We often hear it described as my truth.
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  • No one can define my truth.
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  • There's some truth in that.
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  • The alternative is objective truth.
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  • And that's truth. it's not subject to my opinion.
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  • Gravity and its impact on our lives.
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  • That has nothing to do with my opinion.
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  • That is objective truth.
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  • And there seems to be a tremendous effort
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  • To try to totally eliminate objective truth.
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  • No one can define right and wrong.
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  • No one can define moral and immoral.
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  • Well, as christ followers,
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  • Someone has defined those things we have submitted
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  • To the authority of jesus of nazareth.
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  • Moral and moral are not decisions that we make.
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  • They're not subject to our opinion or our approval.
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  • Those have been determined by god.
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  • Be sure you establish in your heart
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  • The difference between objective truth and subjective truth,
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  • And it'll make the news a whole lot easier to understand
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  • At a bucket of questions around politics.
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  • I'll take a couple of see if i can summarize.
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  • John kerry from pennsylvania said regarding the show
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  • With tom bevin.
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  • This president trump need to focus on domestic issues
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  • With a lot more fervor than over the past year.
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  • Well, if you're listening to the current news cycle,
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  • There's a clamoring
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  • For a focus on domestic issues and making life more affordable
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  • Given the news cycle.
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  • That'll change in 72 hours.
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  • I think president trump has a unique challenge in that he's
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  • Trying to introduce change on almost a 360 degree perspective.
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  • He's trying to introduce change
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  • Into economic circles, into cultural circles,
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  • Into the military, into the fbi, into international arenas.
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  • I don't remember a president
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  • In modern history who has taken that kind of a
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  • 360 degree perspective on introducing change.
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  • It's a monumental task.
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  • It's impossible apart from the help of god.
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  • And in fact, i don't think it's sustainable
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  • Unless the american people decide
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  • We are going to become a part of that process of change.
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  • I believe he deserves our prayers.
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  • I do think he has to focus on domestic issues,
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  • But i think he has, from those onward,
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  • Been paying a lot of attention
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  • To what's happening here at home.
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  • Jackie from georgia
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  • Emailed i've been watching you
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  • A long time before you started, a.j. now.
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  • I don't miss a night. i have one question.
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  • Now that mom donnie has come on the scene,
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  • Why don't the two republicans or democrats
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  • Come together for the cause?
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  • We have more to worry about now.
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  • We will lose our nation. i don't know.
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  • I do know that i'm god's child and he's in control.
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  • I hope we will stay free, at least
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  • Until my grandchildren are grown.
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  • Bless you for speaking so truthfully.
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  • Well, jackie, it's a nice thought.
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  • The republicans and democrats would cooperate.
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  • The reality,
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  • I think in their current addition,
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  • They're far more concerned with power than they
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  • Are with the role or the betterment of our nation.
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  • They intend to stay in power to secure their bases,
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  • And their agenda is to maintain the cash flow.
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  • That notion of statesmen, people who lead with
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  • The best interest of our nation,
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  • Seems to be a memory in the rearview mirror.
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  • If that's going to return.
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  • I believe it'll have to begin in the hearts of god's people.
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  • If we'll do that.
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  • Perhaps god will look upon us with mercy.
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  • There's a lot more.
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  • You've got a lot of questions about israel
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  • And the rise of islam.
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  • We need to take a short break.
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  • But while we do,
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  • You can log on to aj now.com and see what's there.
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  • Previous programs, the email link, a whole lot more.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • We're back
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  • Now with your questions and your comments.
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  • He right from georgia wrote.
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  • What advice would you give for visiting jerusalem
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  • In the safest possible,
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  • Enjoyable travel for someone who has never traveled there?
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  • Well, that's a great question.
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  • I just got back from jerusalem a couple of weeks ago.
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  • It's a wonderful time to be in the land of israel.
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  • Most of israel's enemies for the last couple of decades
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  • At the moment have been silenced.
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  • Hezbollah in the north, hamas
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  • In the south, iran on that distant border.
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  • It's a wonderful time.
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  • The children are playing in the streets of jerusalem
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  • With a greater freedom than the children
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  • Who play here in murfreesboro, where i live.
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  • I know it seems
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  • Counterintuitive, but jerusalem is probably safer
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  • Than most of our major american cities right now.
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  • It's a great time to visit.
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  • If you go go with a group of people, you need a guide.
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  • The guide makes all the difference.
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  • It helps you,
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  • Save you hundreds of hours of learning and understanding.
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  • We take tours on a regular basis,
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  • But there are many options.
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  • The best day to go to jerusalem is the
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  • First day you can get there.
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  • Jerry from new jersey
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  • Said recently,
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  • You've been speaking
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  • About israel and how it's necessary
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  • To protect the people in the country.
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  • I can understand how they need assistance to be able to survive
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  • The attacks from all the anti-semite organizations.
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  • My question is, the jewish people don't believe in jesus.
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  • And jesus said, no one comes to the father except through me.
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  • Now, can these millions of chosen people enter heaven?
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  • It's a great question, jerry.
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  • You know, there's two extremes.
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  • When we talk about the jewish people and theology.
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  • And i think both of them are extremes.
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  • I believe they're in error.
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  • One addresses your question about the jewish people.
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  • It's popular in some circles to say
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  • That the jewish people don't have to deal with jesus,
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  • That the god made a covenant with abraham,
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  • And that exempts them from the new covenant.
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  • I don't believe that's accurate.
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  • I think the jewish people,
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  • Like all of us, have to recognize jesus.
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  • He is the messiah.
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  • It's not an add on to judaism.
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  • It is the fulfillment of the promise
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  • That god would send the messiah.
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  • Jesus, as he said, is the way, the truth, and the life.
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  • And no one comes to the father except through him.
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  • And that's true for the jewish people as well as for the
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  • Non-jewish community.
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  • Jay barth from california wrote,
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  • I've become very aware of replacement theology
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  • Since you've been talking about it.
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  • Now, pastor, i see it everywhere,
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  • Even within my own circle of friends.
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  • Well, that's the other end of the spectrum.
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  • The people who say that the jewish people
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  • Have been replaced,
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  • That they rejected
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  • Jesus when they cried out
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  • In the streets of jerusalem, give us barabbas.
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  • And therefore they broke their covenant, and god removed them
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  • From his purposes.
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  • That's in clear opposition to scripture.
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  • It says multiple times in the book of romans,
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  • If you want to read it, it's romans nine, ten and 11.
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  • The question is asked and answered multiple times.
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  • Did god reject the jewish people?
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  • And the answer is, god forbid.
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  • It's even stronger language than that
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  • In the greek of the new testament.
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  • Not only did
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  • God not reject the jewish people in romans,
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  • It says that if some of the branches were broken off,
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  • If some of the jewish people
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  • Failed to to honor that covenant,
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  • It enabled us to be grafted in, but we are grafted in to that
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  • Original tree.
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  • So we are nourished
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  • By the covenants that god made with abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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  • Without the jewish people, we have no faith.
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  • We have no story. we have no scripture.
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  • We have no covenants,
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  • We have no prophets, and we have no messiah.
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  • So it is it's really a fallacy to imagine
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  • That we have some faith apart from the jewish people.
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  • All of us find redemption through the person of jesus,
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  • Whom i might add is an observant jewish rabbi.
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  • So don't diminish the jewish people.
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  • Pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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  • We are indebted to them.
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  • Then you shed
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  • A whole bucket of emails about islam and the increasing
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  • Influence of islam, particularly in this nation.
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  • A viewer on youtube commented, two muslim coworkers
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  • Explained to me that the term jihad
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  • Meant war with anyone who does not bow to allah.
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  • Well, i ask me, i'm a christian and the simple answer
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  • Was anyone?
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  • I got it.
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  • Well, i have so many nations
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  • And individuals not yet understood that truth.
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  • Well, i think your muslim coworkers
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  • Gave you an accurate definition from their perspective.
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  • I would give you a little broader definition.
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  • Jihad means fundamentally holy war.
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  • For the muslims, it certainly applies.
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  • Islam is primarily a political system
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  • That has a religious expression
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  • And they have
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  • The permission of the koran and allah
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  • To implement the influence or the the expansion
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  • Of the influence of islam by war or any other means.
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  • So jihad and holy war fall very much into the blessing
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  • Or the permission of the koran.
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  • But jihad and
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  • Holy war are not unique to islam.
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  • They have been used by many religions,
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  • But they're certainly a part
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  • Of the current expression of islam in the globe.
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  • Claudio from sunny california said america is not mentioned
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  • In the book of revelation,
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  • With mom danny currently elected as new york city mayor.
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  • Could this be the demise of america?
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  • Well, claudio, i tend to think of elections
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  • As an evaluation of our spiritual condition.
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  • You go to the doctor, they'll do a blood.
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  • They'll do blood work before you have a physical test.
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  • They'll tell you whether your blood pressure
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  • Is too high or your cholesterol is too high,
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  • And they'll decide something about your physical health.
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  • I think elections are a revelation
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  • Of our spiritual health.
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  • The largest city in america just submitted willingly
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  • To the spirit of islam and gave it authority over them.
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  • That's about a 10th of the us economy.
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  • That gives me concern for the spiritual health of our nation.
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  • I believe in redemption and renewal, but it's time to pray.
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  • Jay bars from palmdale
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  • Said, is it possible that
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  • Instead of an individual being the anti-christ,
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  • Could it be a movement like islam?
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  • Interesting question.
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  • The new testament talks about islam, talks about antichrist
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  • In more than one way.
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  • It talks about the spirit of antichrist that's in the world.
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  • There are multiple expressions of that.
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  • Islam is certainly an expression of the spirit of christ.
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  • Rabbinic judaism is an expression
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  • Of the spirit of antichrist.
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  • Secularism is the same.
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  • We see that in the bible talks about many antichrist.
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  • We've seen many historical figures
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  • Who seem to give a reflection to that spirit of antichrist.
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  • A last century we can think about stalin or lenin,
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  • But not hard to find
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  • Those individuals that were rabidly anti-christian
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  • And brought great death and destruction.
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  • Then the bible describes
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  • The antichrist that individual
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  • That will step onto the human stage
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  • And be the most beastly ruler the world has ever known.
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  • I don't i do believe that the revelation describes
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  • An individual and not a religion or a false religion.
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  • So i think you can see
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  • The spirit of antichrist, many forerunners,
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  • And then ultimately
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  • The antichrist, the shadow of the spirit of antichrist,
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  • Has fallen
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  • Across america with a depth that i've never seen before.
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  • It's going to require a response from the church
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  • That we've never seen before.
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  • And we'll talk about that in the next block.
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  • It's time for another break.
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  • You can send a comment or a question if you like,
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  • With what we're doing tonight,
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  • And i'll respond to it in a future program.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • Back again.
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  • Now with your emails.
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  • I want to emphasize
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  • That it's not just emails that we go through,
  • 00:14:04.980 --> 00:14:07.249
  • But also the comments that you write,
  • 00:14:07.249 --> 00:14:09.017
  • Where the shows stream on youtube or on ag now.com
  • 00:14:09.017 --> 00:14:12.521
  • Should always feel free to talk back to us.
  • 00:14:12.521 --> 00:14:14.923
  • This continues to be a mutual effort at getting to the truth.
  • 00:14:14.923 --> 00:14:19.061
  • Well, here's the next group of comments.
  • 00:14:19.061 --> 00:14:20.395
  • These are tend to be focused on the role of the church.
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  • Carol from missouri e-mailed.
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  • My concern is with the election of trump and the fantastic job
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  • He's doing, along with the death of charlie kirk.
  • 00:14:30.572 --> 00:14:33.008
  • It seems like many christians have settled down.
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  • They've quit being worried about losing their rights
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  • And democrats getting control.
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  • I believe we're hanging on by a thread.
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  • We need a lot more churches
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  • Involved in politics and more churches united.
  • 00:14:44.186 --> 00:14:46.989
  • It only takes one presidential election
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  • To be back where we were.
  • 00:14:48.690 --> 00:14:50.959
  • Well, carol, i want to respond to that.
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  • I don't think fundamentally
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  • Our problem is republican or democrat.
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  • I know they have some widely divergent opinions
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  • And worldviews. right now, and that is a problem.
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  • But i think the fundamentals of our problem are spiritual,
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  • And i believe that emanates from the church.
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  • Those people making policy for us
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  • Are all over the ideological spectrum,
  • 00:15:08.610 --> 00:15:10.512
  • Because the churches lack
  • 00:15:10.512 --> 00:15:11.813
  • A clarified voice that united around a biblical worldview.
  • 00:15:11.813 --> 00:15:15.884
  • We've been far too divided, if not completely diminished,
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  • In that.
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  • And i think if we will change,
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  • If we will come back to the fundamentals of scripture
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  • And allow them to define our lives,
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  • Those people making policy over us will make policy decisions
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  • That reflect our biblical worldview.
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  • Because at the end of the day, a politician wants a vote.
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  • And if they know, the only way to get elected
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  • Is to be an advocate for a biblical worldview.
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  • We'll get to choose between multiple candidates
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  • That are embracing that biblical worldview.
  • 00:15:40.842 --> 00:15:43.078
  • We're a long ways away from that,
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  • And it's because of the cowardice in the church.
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  • We don't want to talk about current events.
  • 00:15:46.848 --> 00:15:48.717
  • I believe the church
  • 00:15:48.717 --> 00:15:49.885
  • Should be shaping culture, not being shaped by culture.
  • 00:15:49.885 --> 00:15:53.488
  • And to do that,
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  • We've got to engage what's happening in our world.
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  • We have to provide
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  • The definitions for marriage and morality and morality.
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  • Those shouldn't be political decisions.
  • 00:16:01.229 --> 00:16:03.432
  • Those are biblical decisions.
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  • And the church has to have the courage to state them.
  • 00:16:04.900 --> 00:16:07.436
  • Perhaps we will wake up.
  • 00:16:07.436 --> 00:16:10.505
  • David from oklahoma city wrote,
  • 00:16:11.139 --> 00:16:13.408
  • We've fallen a long way in the past 64 years,
  • 00:16:13.408 --> 00:16:16.511
  • And many who attend church show no fear whatsoever.
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  • Your nightly broadcast
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  • Highlights this in our culture, and i hear
  • 00:16:20.882 --> 00:16:22.717
  • Good news about revival, but i don't see much changing.
  • 00:16:22.717 --> 00:16:27.389
  • Well, david, i think that's a very important question.
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  • I think we're holding on to a hope for a revival
  • 00:16:29.958 --> 00:16:32.527
  • That's defined by what we've seen in the past,
  • 00:16:32.527 --> 00:16:35.430
  • Maybe a return to the days when billy graham was filling
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  • Arenas and we watched on nightly television,
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  • And the invitation would be given,
  • 00:16:39.968 --> 00:16:41.770
  • And he would say that, you know, the busses will wait.
  • 00:16:41.770 --> 00:16:44.639
  • Well, he's inviting people to respond.
  • 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:46.341
  • And george beverly shea is singing.
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  • I'm grateful for those memories,
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  • But i don't find that god often repeats himself.
  • 00:16:51.146 --> 00:16:54.249
  • I think our future is going
  • 00:16:54.249 --> 00:16:55.317
  • To look far more like the book of acts.
  • 00:16:55.317 --> 00:16:56.985
  • After jesus ascended back to heaven.
  • 00:16:56.985 --> 00:16:59.154
  • Almost every single chapter in the book of acts
  • 00:16:59.154 --> 00:17:01.790
  • Is a new set of experiences
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  • For those disciples that are following jesus.
  • 00:17:03.325 --> 00:17:06.027
  • They weren't prepared
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  • For the day of pentecost, and what unfolded
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  • In the thousands of people that were baptized
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  • Into faith that day in the mikvah around the temple mount.
  • 00:17:10.866 --> 00:17:14.269
  • They weren't prepared for
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  • The man to be healed on at the beautiful gate,
  • 00:17:15.904 --> 00:17:18.940
  • And the whole city to be stirred.
  • 00:17:18.940 --> 00:17:20.742
  • Peter's shadow brought healing.
  • 00:17:20.742 --> 00:17:22.544
  • Then they were imprisoned.
  • 00:17:22.544 --> 00:17:24.312
  • Some were murdered, martyred for the faith.
  • 00:17:24.312 --> 00:17:26.948
  • Every chapter is a new expression.
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  • I think our future has more to do with new expressions
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  • Of the power of god.
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  • If we are willing to follow
  • 00:17:34.689 --> 00:17:35.957
  • The lord, to choose the truth and say yes to him in our homes,
  • 00:17:35.957 --> 00:17:39.828
  • In our communities, and our circles of influence.
  • 00:17:39.828 --> 00:17:42.297
  • I believe we will see
  • 00:17:42.297 --> 00:17:43.231
  • God move in ways we haven't seen him move.
  • 00:17:43.231 --> 00:17:46.268
  • You know, i'm grateful for the college students
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  • Being baptized on the campuses and the reports of that.
  • 00:17:47.936 --> 00:17:50.872
  • But 2 or 300 college students
  • 00:17:50.872 --> 00:17:52.374
  • Being baptized on a campus of several thousand people
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  • Doesn't seem like revival to me.
  • 00:17:55.377 --> 00:17:56.678
  • It seems like what we should imagine to be business as usual.
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  • There should be more students
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  • Being baptized and students being involved in rush
  • 00:18:00.749 --> 00:18:03.585
  • For the fraternities and sororities.
  • 00:18:03.585 --> 00:18:06.221
  • I believe revival is a possibility,
  • 00:18:06.221 --> 00:18:07.756
  • But i believe it's going to be new wine in new wineskins.
  • 00:18:07.756 --> 00:18:12.093
  • I had a question about the persecution of christians.
  • 00:18:13.094 --> 00:18:15.030
  • I want to take it real quickly.
  • 00:18:15.030 --> 00:18:16.598
  • Roman from colorado wrote i admire the stance president
  • 00:18:16.598 --> 00:18:19.534
  • Trump has taken with nigeria.
  • 00:18:19.534 --> 00:18:21.536
  • On the other hand, no mention has been made
  • 00:18:21.536 --> 00:18:22.971
  • About the christian church in ukraine.
  • 00:18:22.971 --> 00:18:25.173
  • Hundreds of churches have been destroyed
  • 00:18:25.173 --> 00:18:26.608
  • Or shut down in ukraine over the past three years.
  • 00:18:26.608 --> 00:18:29.110
  • Countless numbers of christian
  • 00:18:29.110 --> 00:18:30.312
  • Clergy have been executed and killed by russian troops.
  • 00:18:30.312 --> 00:18:33.315
  • Roman, i think your question is important.
  • 00:18:33.315 --> 00:18:37.219
  • But ukraine has had a great deal of attention.
  • 00:18:37.219 --> 00:18:39.387
  • Hundreds of billions of dollars.
  • 00:18:39.387 --> 00:18:41.223
  • Even our local congregation, even alan jackson ministries,
  • 00:18:41.223 --> 00:18:44.659
  • Has done a great deal.
  • 00:18:44.659 --> 00:18:45.860
  • We've bought vans, food,
  • 00:18:45.860 --> 00:18:47.229
  • Clothing, things to be distributed
  • 00:18:47.229 --> 00:18:49.397
  • To the christians throughout ukraine.
  • 00:18:49.397 --> 00:18:51.466
  • Nigeria, on the other hand, there's been
  • 00:18:51.466 --> 00:18:53.401
  • A systematic genocide attempt to completely eliminate
  • 00:18:53.401 --> 00:18:57.138
  • Christianity by radical muslim elements in that nation,
  • 00:18:57.138 --> 00:19:00.408
  • And it had very little attention.
  • 00:19:00.408 --> 00:19:02.711
  • We don't want to ignore ukraine,
  • 00:19:02.711 --> 00:19:04.879
  • But we needed to turn the light
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  • On to the genocide that was happening in nigeria.
  • 00:19:06.181 --> 00:19:09.284
  • And i'm grateful that the congress
  • 00:19:09.284 --> 00:19:10.619
  • And president have done that.
  • 00:19:10.619 --> 00:19:12.654
  • We're not quite done.
  • 00:19:13.154 --> 00:19:14.389
  • Stay with us for our final segment.
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  • I'll be right back.
  • 00:19:16.925 --> 00:19:24.015
  • I'll be right back.
  • 00:19:24.015 --> 00:19:28.309
  • The show has been about your thoughts
  • 00:19:29.143 --> 00:19:31.112
  • And your opinions and your questions.
  • 00:19:31.112 --> 00:19:32.947
  • Thank you.
  • 00:19:32.947 --> 00:19:33.881
  • Your emails are always a highlight for us.
  • 00:19:33.881 --> 00:19:36.484
  • Several of you had questions about our health
  • 00:19:36.484 --> 00:19:38.386
  • And maha making america healthy again.
  • 00:19:38.386 --> 00:19:40.221
  • Is the holiday season not the easiest time to do that?
  • 00:19:40.221 --> 00:19:43.758
  • So i have a suggestion.
  • 00:19:43.758 --> 00:19:45.359
  • Let's walk through the holidays with a god focus.
  • 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:48.262
  • You know where together with family
  • 00:19:48.262 --> 00:19:49.397
  • And friends, it's the time of the year
  • 00:19:49.397 --> 00:19:50.631
  • When we often struggle with things that are not.
  • 00:19:50.631 --> 00:19:53.601
  • Let's just say thank you to the lord.
  • 00:19:53.601 --> 00:19:55.002
  • Let's celebrate the good things in our lives.
  • 00:19:55.002 --> 00:19:56.804
  • There are no perfect families, folks.
  • 00:19:56.804 --> 00:19:58.673
  • All of our families and friends have a few fractures.
  • 00:19:58.673 --> 00:20:01.409
  • We want to move this through this holiday
  • 00:20:01.409 --> 00:20:02.843
  • Season simply saying thank you to god.
  • 00:20:02.843 --> 00:20:04.812
  • If we do that, it will help make america healthy again.
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  • We had dozens and dozens of messages
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  • Thanking us for the program,
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  • Telling us ways
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  • That it had brought
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  • Hope and light and even a bit of truth to your lives.
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  • Well, we appreciate your kind words.
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  • I just wanted you to know that there are dozens of us
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  • That work on this show, from new york to nashville.
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  • They pushed me out in front of the lights.
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  • But this is very much a team effort
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  • And we are grateful for you and your comments.
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  • God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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