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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: War Leadership | Allen Jackson Now | March 12, 2026

I'll start with the war with iran.
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You know, people have been saying to me for days.
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It's kind of split.
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People have different opinions. some are hate it.
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Some say it's awful.
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Most of them hate president trump and his team.
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And if he cured cancer, they wouldn't like it.
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So i haven't been overly engaged with that particular point.
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I think that the the dismantling of the ayatollah khomeini
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And the the brutal, violent, murderous
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Empire he'd put together had to be dismantled
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Or it was going to change the course of civilization,
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I think lift un impeded
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Nuclear weapons were a foregone conclusion.
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If iran is nuclear, the saudis have to be nuclear.
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So now both the she is and the sunnis are nuclear.
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We have a nuclear middle east.
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That region of the world has demonstrated
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For many decades an inability to police themselves,
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To monitor themselves,
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To curb the most radical elements amongst themselves.
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So if that was a nuclear part of our world,
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It makes us all exponentially far
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More vulnerable in the world, a much more dangerous place.
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So i think iran had to be addressed before they
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Got the nuclear weapon.
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We had been more than four decades
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With the iranian regime terrorist sponsoring regime,
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And no american president had had the appetite
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To do what president trump is doing as we speak.
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So i'm grateful to him and his administration.
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And pete hegseth and the departm
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I mean, there's no other way.
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There's much harsher language to use.
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But that's the the most family friendly language i can use.
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By definition, it's about death and destruction.
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And it's an awful thing.
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It's it's obviously a last resort
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When everything else fails and evil continues to destroy
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And to play an increasing destruction,
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Then war becomes a legitimate consideration and response.
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It's not just my opinion.
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It's not just a military opinion.
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It's a biblical opinion.
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I can show you that. i can do it briefly.
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We could do it in an amount of extensive detail.
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So you can't simply look at a war and go,
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God wouldn't be for that.
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There are just wars,
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And there are times,
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It's not only a possibility, it's a necessity.
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And again, i'm also substantiate
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That from scripture here in just a moment.
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But i want to take a minute with islam and violence.
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You know, christians have lost our the polite way is heart.
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The the the
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The more just, you know, we've lost our guts.
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We have lost our hotspot.
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I mean, whatever you say,
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You know, we want to just say, well, you know,
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Whatever you can believe whatever you want to believe.
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And, you know, maybe it has a little difference
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On your eternal outcome.
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But our worldviews are really all the same.
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The problems we have are because religions compete.
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I've heard that ad nauseum, particularly in academia.
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You know, academia in america, as it currently
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Stands, the overwhelming majority of it is godless.
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And it isn't just godless, it's anti-christ.
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It opposes biblical principles,
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And scriptures know there are exceptions to that.
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There are pockets
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That should be celebrated
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And should be lauded, and i'm very grateful for them.
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I'm an advocate for education.
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Up until recent years, i always told younger people,
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Get all the education you can afford.
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I mean, i, i believe that i love to learn.
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I'm grateful to.
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But our academic settings right now are godless institutions.
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And so what's come out of that is this notion
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That the religions are the problem
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Because religions aren't passive enough.
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If we were just more passive,
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The world would be a peaceful place.
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What a bunch of garbage.
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You're smarter than that.
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I've been asking you now for months and months.
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Years, actually,
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To watch, to listen, to think, and then to act.
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The reason there's conflict is not
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All religions represent the same worldview.
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They don't have the same fundamental beliefs
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About humanity, of god, of our relationship
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To god, our relationship to one another.
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We are different.
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It's convenient for those
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That stand outside to lump us all together.
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Those are the same knuckleheads
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That said men and women are the same.
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Remember them phd's university supported?
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There was no difference between men and women.
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What a load of garbage.
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My father was a veterinarian.
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I've helped lots.
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I've helped hundreds of things be born.
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You can tell the difference.
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And then you can tell the difference
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When those same animals mature and grow.
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The difference between male and female
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Was the ball game the other night.
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It happened to be a women's game.
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There's a difference in the
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The everybody involved is an athlete,
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Whether it's a men's game or a women's game.
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Everybody's an athlete.
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But there is a difference in the
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In the athleticism.
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I mean, it just is.
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Well, in the same way
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Those same knuckleheads in the universities
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Are trying to tell us there's no difference between religions.
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Don't believe it.
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The reason we believe jesus is the answer for the world today.
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To borrow a borrow a line from a
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A song from a whole nother generation.
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Thank you. andre crouch.
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Is jesus bring something to
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The human being and to the world that no one else can bring.
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It's why i call him lord.
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It's why i serve him. is king.
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It wasn't because i couldn't find another day job.
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And so one of the
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Fundamental differences between christianity and islam
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Is islam.
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In its current version in the world today
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Is a global sponsor of violence.
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Now there are peaceful muslims.
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Not all muslims are terrorists,
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But the islamic world has either been unable
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Or unwilling to police themselves
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And to address those
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Amongst them who are sponsors of of terror.
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And iran has been, for more than four decades,
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A global sponsor of terror and violence.
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Thousands upon thousands of americans
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Have been killed because of iranian sponsored violence.
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Hundreds of
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Thousands of other people around the world have been murdered.
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And there's no apology.
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There's no hesitation.
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There's no reluctance.
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In fact, what
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Iran has continued to say is we we will secure nuclear weapons
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So we can wreak violence on a much grander scale.
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They have said repeatedly, repeatedly, over many decades
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That they intended to destroy
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Israel a little satan and america the great satan.
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I think we have to pay attention.
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I want to talk about the iranian people before we go.
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I think there's a parallel to the iranian people
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In the modern day church in america.
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And i'll see if i can highlight that for you.
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But i don't think that there should be animosity
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For the iranian people.
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There's been a very small group of people in iran
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That have controlled that nation in the most brutal fashion.
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And i'm
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Grateful that president trump had the courage
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To say now is the time to do something about it.
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It would have been much, much easier
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For him to have looked away, for him to not have noticed.
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He could have
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Taken a vacation to hawaii and then soaked up some sunshine
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And enjoyed some fresh seafood, and pretended
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Like he didn't notice the iranian evil that was there.
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That has certainly been the habit of many
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Who had preceded him
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And his political future.
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In many respects,
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I think the future of this second term he has in office
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Will be linked to what happens with iran
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In these next few days and weeks.
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So it was,
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From my vantage point, a courageous choice
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To try to bring a different stability to the middle east
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And the people there.
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I pray that we don't get involved.
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I think that ultimately,
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If the new regime is the responsibility
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Of the iranian people, they'll choose their government
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Or they'll choose their leader.
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There is no record in
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The current islamic world of self-government, of democ,
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Democratic, egalitarian, one person, one vote.
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The kind of freedom that we imagine.
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There's no record of that in the nations
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That are predominantly islamic.
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So i don't imagine that's what's coming to iran.
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There will be some form of authoritarian leadership there,
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More than we would certainly, i hope, be comfortable with.
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But the people will have to use their opinion.
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They will have to do what's necessary to see that emerge
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That won't come from america or washington, d.c..
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That won't come from america or washington, d.c..
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But to come back to this notion
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Of warfare, you know, in biblical terms.
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War is judgment.
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There are some exceptions.
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When war is just seen as an expression of evil.
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Some of the nations that attacked,
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Moses and the former
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Slaves of egypt in their journey to the promised land,
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God saw that as unwarranted aggression
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And punish those nations historically.
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So when the the response to their their aggression
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Was given in god's term, the war that was launched against
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Them was his judgment.
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But as a general principle, the,
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Just wars are expressed in scripture as judgment.
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I think you should know if you don't,
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Because we tend to think,
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You know, people talk to me, they say they don't like
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To read the old testament because it's so harsh.
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Looks the god of the old testament,
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The god of the new testament,
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Or the same god or our faith is illegitimate.
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You can't bisect that.
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You can't talk. old covenant, a new covenant.
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Act like you voted in new leadership.
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You needed to god in genesis one that created the heavens
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And the earth is the god of in revelation.
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That which will establish a new jerusalem and a new heaven
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And a new earth. that's one god.
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Or the whole story
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Unravels and it's incoherent and it makes no sense.
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Now, i'm not trying to say that
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The war with iran is a holy war.
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I'm not trying to drag god into this at all
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At that level.
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But i am telling you from a biblical perspective
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That if you negotiate with evil and make peace with evil
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And let evil grow in greater power,
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You are trying to ignore the difficulty of the challenge,
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And you're forcing your children
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And your grandchildren to deal with it.
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I'm grateful for president trump and his courage to address
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The destructive, evil and hate of iran.
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I believe it will bring
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Something better to our children and grandchildren.
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And again,
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I'm not trying to
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Equate the conquest or the defeat of the iranian
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Ayatollah with the conquest of the promised land.
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But i am saying that you can't simply dismiss war or something,
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Which god has nothing to do with, or that he's unaccustomed
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To. that's the level of ignorance.
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Willful ignorance, disobedience.
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You're simply hiding the facts.
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So please don't give in to that.
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Pray for our president.
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Pray for those young men and women
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In our military who are in harm's way.
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Pray for their families.
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I can't imagine the stress of that.
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Their willingness to walk towards trouble,
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To walk into trouble, to face hatred
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And violence and brutality
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So that other people can know greater freedom and liberty.
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And so that you and i can know a security
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Because of their courage and boldness.
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How dare you hide behind some farcical
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Understanding of scripture
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And not take your place and pray for them on a regular basis?
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Are you fasting and praying?
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Are you seeking god?
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Don't sit at a table and listen to nonsense.
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There's another piece of the war with iran
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I'll take a moment with.
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I don't think you should understand it,
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Or i should understand it princi
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Which is a popular thing right now.
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You can get clicks, you know, hating israel
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And hating the jewish people has been,
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A bit of a tsunami in recent weeks.
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I don't respect it.
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I think there will be enormous repercussions for that.
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But, we've talked about that in some other settings.
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I'm not going back to that today. will israel benefit
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From the ayatollah khomeini being removed?
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I certainly hope so.
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I mean, he is has been a sponsor of hezbollah, of hamas,
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Of the houthis, of isis, all terrorist organizations.
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He has not only helped recruit for them, he has funded them.
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He's provided weapons for them or the regime has,
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Which has cost thousands and thousands of israeli lives.
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His cost of enormous amounts of time
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And effort for decades of death and destruction have resonated.
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After the ayatollah secured his place, the relentless
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Sponsorship of murder and terror being removed.
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You see those things being removed from planet earth
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That's not primarily about israel.
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That's for the well-being of all of us.
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All of us.
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More than 1500 iranians are known
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To have come across our border during the biden administration.
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They are lost in the country.
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No papers, nothing legal.
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We don't know.
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We don't know if they are representing hamas, hezbollah,
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If they are terror cells.
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I think one of the challenges
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We'll have in the days and the weeks ahead
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Is there will be
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Expressions of violence in america from people
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That have affiliations with the ayatollah.
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We will have to continue to pray and seek the lord.
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The reason i ask you to pray for our young
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Men and women that are on the front lines
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Is you're going to want god's protection for you and your life
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And saying, if we hadn't done
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Anything with iran, we'd be safe.
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That's insanity.
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If you have violent and murderous terrorist amongst
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Us, you will never placate them into becoming good citizens.
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They have to be addressed, dealt with, removed.
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You don't negotiate with evil.
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You don't bargain with evil.
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The only thing evil will yield
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To is a power greater than itself.
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I've said it dozens and dozens of times.
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And so i think what
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President trump and our
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Department of war have done in iran will bring greater security
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To us, greater security to our homes
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And our communities, to our churches.
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And our communities, to our churches.
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I told you a few moments ago that i thought the best future
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For iran would be determined by the iranian people.
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I know there's other voices involved.
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I know that's awkward,
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But for decades they have been systematically
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Dismantled, their weapons confiscated.
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The general population in iran doesn't have access to weapons.
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They had no way to defend themselves against the,
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The iranian guard
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Or the mullahs.
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And they're brutal.
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That's why tens of thousands of them
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Have been slaughtered in the streets.
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Well, they have.
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They've been spent decades under that.
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I pray we're never so foolish.
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But ultimately, they will determine their future,
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The kind of leadership they want.
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Pray for them.
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I think ideally we would pray for a regime in iran
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That would be tolerant enough and make make space
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For the gospel of jesus christ to be shared
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Amongst the people of that nation.
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I know there's an underground church in iran.
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There's some varying opinions, many of them
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Very positive, about how robust it is.
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My prayers that we will see in the months ahead of us
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That the church in iran is no longer
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Underground, is no longer secret.
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If we don't believe our faith is strong enough
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To compete with the other ideologies
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And the fresh sunlight of opportunity and liberty, then
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We don't have much confidence in our faith.
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And that's my prayer for the iranian people.
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I hope you'll join me in that.
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I believe that will bring the bush i.
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It's not above.
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It's not realistic to imagine that islam
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Is going to be abolished from the persian
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People in the weeks immediately ahead of us,
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And i'm at peace with that.
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But i my prayer
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For the people there is that there would be a regime in place
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That is reasonable enough that it would allow
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A free exchange of ideas.
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That's my prayer for this nation.
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There are israeli and american aircraft flying over
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Iran as i speak.
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And there are warships in the mediterranean
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And in the gulf.
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If the iranian people don't stand up for freedom,
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They won't gain very much.
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Then my best understanding of where we are right now
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Is if those of us who imagine ourselves as christ followers,
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If we don't stand up for the gospel of jesus christ,
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And i don't mean simply with our church attendance,
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I mean, if we're not willing to stand for what we know to be
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Right and wrong, good and evil, this isn't political.
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This is not about parties or candidates.
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The delivery systems for the blessings of god
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Are seldom perfect because he works with people.
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King david was an adulterer,
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A lustful, violent man.
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And yet the bible says that he was a man after god's
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Own heart.
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God recruited gideon, and up to that point, every
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All the information we have, he was pretty much a coward.
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I mean, he used moses.
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He was a murderer. he used the apostle paul.
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He became the who became the apostle paul.
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He was a violent, murderous man.
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God works through impure vessels.
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Please don't look away from what god is doing
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And use the imperfection of the vessel.
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Look at the outcome.
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How does it line up with the.
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With the purposes of god, with the character of god
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And his is expressed towards the good of people.
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If we do that, i'm grateful for this current administration.
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I'm thankful for president trump and for his courage
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And his boldness in the freedoms and liberties
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And opportunities that he's giving to us
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And to the generations who could follow us.
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But the outcomes of
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This will be dependent upon us if we don't take our stand.
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Whatever victories are gained
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In this very brief window of time,
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And it is a brief window of time, will be readily lost.
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They will be forfeited.
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Please don't let that happen.
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Please don't let that happen.
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Titus chapter two,
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Verses 11 and 12. the grace of god
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That brings salvation has appeared to all men.
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It teaches us to say no to ungodliness
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And worldly passions, and to live self-controlled,
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Upright, and godly lives in this present age.
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Rather than worry
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About the moral fabric of others,
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What if we began to say to ourselves at our kitchen
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Tables, at our holiday or holiday tables,
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In our spheres of influence, in our peer groups,
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That we are determined collectively?
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We're not going to be silent with this.
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This isn't about personal salvation.
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We're going to do this collectively.
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Have these conversations at the table.
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Have these conversations around coffee and dessert.
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Have these conversations while you're walking
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Or working out or whatever you do for recreation
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That we will say no to godly ungodliness
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And no to worldly passions.
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And we will begin purposefully as never before, to live
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Self-controlled, upright, godly lives
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In this present age.
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I can't think of a better pathway forward for us.
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I know too many segments of the church are woke.
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I know too many seminaries are woke.
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Stop worrying about it.
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Go find a church that isn't.
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Let's decide.
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We will be the difference makers.
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There's some things you have to establish. biblical authority.
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Read your bible. believe it.
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Act like it's true.
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The sovereignty of god.
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God can do what he wants, when he wants, the way he wants.
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And he doesn't need anyone's permission.
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Establish it in your heart.
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Stop saying god's not just.
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Well, i just don't know how i feel about god when i.
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When i feel that coming out of me.
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What i know is certain is i don't understand something
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About god, but i know he's just so.
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I know how i feel about god.
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He's just. he's faithful. he's true.
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I have trusted him with my future.
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Let me make a suggestion.
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If you're going to trust god with your eternity,
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It's insane not to trust him with your journey through time.
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If you can't trust god with today,
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Why would you trust him with your eternity?
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God is sovereign. you can trust him.
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The nature of evil.
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Evil exists in the world and it has to be addressed.
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You can't overlook it.
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Our need for redemption.
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We need a savior.
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We don't need to just to be cleaned up.
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Polished.
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We don't need to be better dressed.
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Our vocabulary to be more sophisticated.
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We don't need another course on whatever.
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We have to be transformed.
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The only thing that can bring transformation to a human
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Being from the inside out is the power of god.
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Looks. god is moving in the earth.
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He's bringing down an evil, violent, murderous regime
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That's been in place for more than four decades.
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The iranian people have an opportunity
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For freedom and liberty they haven't known in generations.
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I believe the
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Outcome of that will have a great deal
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To do with the prayers of god's people.
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Do we care enough about them to pray?
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Are you so hopeful that president trump will fail?
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You're wishing for something else.
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God forgive us.
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God's moving in the earth was determined
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To be the people of faith.
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Let's choose to say no to ungodliness, to say no
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To worldly passions, to live self-controlled, upright lives.
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And let's see what god will do.
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He's moving.
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I want to move with him.
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And i know you do, too.
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Allen Jackson: War Leadership | Allen Jackson Now

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