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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: White House Meeting | Allen Jackson Now | May 8, 2026

What i want to do in this session
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Is a little more personal.
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I got an invitation
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On the friday before holy week.
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So the friday in front of palm sunday.
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Late in the day,
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I got a call from the office late in the day
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And they said, we have a call from the white house
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And we think it's real.
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And i said, well, you can talk to them.
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It's okay.
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And long story short, there was an invitation
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To an easter luncheon for faith leaders at the white house.
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And i am processed this on big platforms
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Because that's not really what it's about.
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But so there were about 75 faith leaders that gathered
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And another 25 people that were probably in
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Some way a part of the
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Apparatus of government.
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And to really just to acknowledge god's goodness
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In our nation and to pray for our administration.
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President trump came and made a speech.
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He probably had a ten minute speech written,
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But it took about 45 minutes because he took his trump tours.
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I was grateful,
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You know, just full disclaimer on the front end.
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I'm very grateful for this administration
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Because i believe they have stood up
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For a number of issues that are about biblical values,
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Not politics.
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Marriage between a man and a woman,
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That there's a difference between men and women,
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And they shouldn't be confused
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And men shouldn't compete in women's sports.
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You know, some things that, to me are biblical issues
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That really have little of anything to do with politics.
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The outcomes are expressed in politics,
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But they don't begin with political issues. so,
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I was grateful to go and to pray for this administration.
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I believe we should pray for any administration,
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Whether they're the ones we vote for or not.
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We have that that directive in scripture
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To pray for those in authority over us,
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That we may live peaceful and godly lives.
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The purpose of good government is to maintain
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Enough tranquility that we have
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An adequate opportunity to proclaim the gospel.
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That's how i evaluate whether a government is good or bad.
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Do they create an environment
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Where we have as much freedom as possible?
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Previous administration was was constricting that
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You could don't you don't need much discernment
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To look around the world and see governments
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That opposed the gospel,
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That limited their not good governments.
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That's clear biblical stuff.
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So at least gives you a lane to pray in and be aware of.
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But i had some takeaways from the lunch.
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A it was a we had a luncheon and that was it.
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There was nothing around it beyond it.
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We weren't recruited. i wasn't volunteering.
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But i had some takeaways.
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One, as i said, a deep appreciation
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For this administration.
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I think they're fighting battles
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That are bringing some freedoms and liberties back to our lives
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And our families, and i'm grateful for that.
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But big picture.
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You know, i have been a pastor now for a season.
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And so across that run, i have interacted with a variety
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Of public officials
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From the local level right to the white house.
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I have known, city councilman and county commissioners.
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Some of them friends, some of them
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We have worked with in professional ways.
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I have known state legislators in the state of tennessee.
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I have known state, department heads
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Within the state of tennessee, various departments
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Within the state,
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And had to work with them on a variety of projects.
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I have known state legislators
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Again, some of them in personal ways
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And some in professional ways. and,
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I have known governors
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And the people who work with them and the, the,
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The, the age of it, i've been engaged in that.
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And, and i've had, on a more
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Limited basis, an opportunity to talk to u.s.
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Congressmen and senators,
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Presidents, the members of their cabinet.
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I've just had that privilege over
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Many years, not just in the last couple of weeks
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Of engaging with that broad spectrum of people
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Who have chosen to be engaged in public service.
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And my my general takeaway is they're normal people.
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Now, sprinkled across that years of experience
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In those range of offices, there
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Been some people with extraordinary gifts,
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But typically they're pretty normal people
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That have a disproportionate authority because of an office
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That they have been elected or appointed to serve in,
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So that it isn't
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Because they have necessarily unique gifts,
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Unusually high iq or extraordinary
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Leadership abilities or phenomenal management skills.
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Some have,
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But that's not typically the reason they were chosen.
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They're typically pretty ordinary people
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Who have this disproportionate amount of authority
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Because of the office that they hold
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To make sense, like i don't there aren't very many
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Of those public servants i meet and go, i don't know
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Another human being with the gifts that you have.
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Well, let me contrast that i want a few weeks ago.
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I like college basketball.
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And so the the sec, the southeastern conference
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Tournament, basketball, men's basketball tournament
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Was played in nashville.
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And i had the opportunity and my,
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My dad and my brother and i went.
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And so i got to watch one day, 4 or 5 games
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In the sec tournament.
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And the guys playing in the men's tournament,
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They're not normal.
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They are crazy gifted people.
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Most of them are much taller than normal.
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You know, they're six to an inch, 610.
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And i mean, they're they're large,
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They're incredibly nimble and quick,
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Coordinated.
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They can jump over a gym.
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I mean, they they are unicorns.
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They have incredible gifts.
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I know they've worked hard
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And they've developed them and all those things, but
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But they started with a gift mix.
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I no amount of training when i was 20
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Would have given me
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The physical gifts and abilities that they demonstrated.
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They have some gifts.
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When i think about the people that i have met
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That are doing public service, whether it's from a local,
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The lowest, the local level to the highest level in the nation,
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I don't meet those people
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And think that they are so phenomenally gifted.
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I think they have a block of authority.
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And i began to think about that because i pray.
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I pray far more for those people
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That are elected officials than i do the athletes.
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Like i, i don't consciously, very often pray for athletes.
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I we may enjoy.
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If you enjoy sports, you may enjoy that. but
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But when i thought about the people
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That have been elected to office, our public servants,
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There's a group of public servants that i despise
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And despise is the kindest word i have.
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And it's not about political party.
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It doesn't matter to me whether they're republican or democrat,
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But if they use the authority they've been given the office
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That they've been invited to serve in by public choice.
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To me, that's a sacred trust.
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It's an invitation. it's not based always on
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Academics or it's they've been invited to serve
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On behalf of the people, to represent their constituents.
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And i despise the people that use those offices
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Primarily for personal gain or the benefit of their family
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If they do that to accumulate resources
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Or for ease and comfort, because they like the lifestyle,
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They like the limousines, or they like the best seats,
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Or they like being acknowledged, or they like being introduced,
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Or, you know, if it feels like it's just for personal gain.
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I don't have any respect, because the way i understand
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Public service is that we go to represent our constituents
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To bring a better outcome
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To whomever it is we're representing,
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Not to the diminishment of the other people in the community,
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But to be a good representative for that group of people.
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I suppose the kind of the old fashioned
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Term for that was statesman,
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You know, that you actually go with the good of the nation
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Or the good of the state, or the good of the community.
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As the primary component of your decision making.
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And if you do that otherwise,
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If you do that in a way that is about selfish ambition
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And personal gain,
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I think it's reprehensible.
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But you and i both know enough people who serve in the public
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Arena that have elected jobs, that have made
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Tremendous personal benefit in game.
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In fact,
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There's a whole class of professional politicians
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Who haven't had private sector jobs,
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Who haven't had to make payrolls and sign paychecks,
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And they accumulate
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Vast personal wealth while they hold jobs
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That seemingly have modest compensation.
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There's an enormous discrepancy in that.
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It's uncomfortable to me.
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I don't respect it.
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I don't think that's the point of public service.
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I think our our founders imagined a government that was,
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You know, where we had citizens who provided leadership
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And then stepped back into their their private lives.
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And we have strayed a long way away from that.
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But this isn't a podcast about term limits.
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But, i mean, we see a us congress person, for instance,
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That his personal wealth goes up by $30 million in a year,
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Who's representing a state where there's billions of dollars
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Of fraud.
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That's difficult to respect
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Unless there is a tremendous desire to provide transparency
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To the tiniest level
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Of where you found $30 million in a 12 month period.
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And i don't mean in abstract terms.
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And so but but that's an extreme case.
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We all are familiar with this.
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But but here's my takeaway,
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Despise those public servants who use their block of authority
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And power
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For personal gain, for personal comfort, for personal ease.
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You know, they want drivers and cooks and all the things.
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And then i began to think about my own life
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And my experience in the midst of christian home.
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And i believe that as christ followers,
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You and me, any person who is a christ
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Follower, a fully devoted follower of jesus,
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If you've chosen jesus as lord of your life and you mean it,
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We have been given a block of authority.
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The new testament says that we are kings and priests,
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That we have an ambassadorial
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Role for the kingdom of god, the most powerful influence
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Through the greatest expression of power that's available
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To human, to a human being, is the power of a living god.
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I believe that i have seen evidence of that over
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And over and over in my life, and not in the distant history.
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I see it on a weekly basis.
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I see lives transformed. i see people healed.
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I see outcomes to circumstances
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That seem completely unacceptable,
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Be reversed,
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And god brings remarkable things out of those places.
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I see expressions of the power of god on a very regular basis.
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You're accustomed to hearing me
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Say, god is moving in the earth, and i believe that.
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So i believe you and i, as christ followers,
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Have a block of authority
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That's greater than any elected office.
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And you can push that all the way
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To washington,
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Dc in pennsylvania avenue, or the halls of congress
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Or the supreme court,
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Or whoever you imagine to be the loftiest,
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Most influential person of those that we elect.
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I believe, as christ followers what we represent exceeds that.
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I was going to say trumps that, but i would get e-mails.
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I think that
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What we've been entrusted with is, is is greater than that.
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I believe that
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We have the ability to change the eternal destiny
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Of people's lives
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By inviting them into the kingdom
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And being advocates and ambassadors.
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And we've been called to take a place,
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If you have just a passing knowledge of scripture,
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You you know that.
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You you know that.
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I don't know how many prayer meetings i've been in.
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I've been in thousands of them.
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I have interacted with tens of thousands of christ followers.
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And i can tell you
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That the overwhelming majority of the time,
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Our request and our focus is on how we can utilize the power
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Of god to make our lives more comfortable and convenient,
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And to bring opportunities to ourselves
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Or our immediate family.
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And i don't think that's evil or wicked or inappropriate.
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I believe god wants us.
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I believe we're invited to
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Extend to god those invitations into our lives.
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I believe he wants to bring good things to us,
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But i very much believe we have a much larger assignment
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Than imagining that our interface with almighty god
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Is to make our lives comfortable.
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I think that is as much a misuse
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Of our entrance into the kingdom of god
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As to see an elected official, a politician,
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Use the power of their office for personal comfort
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And convenience and personal gain.
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I, i believe we are intended to be light
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And salt difference makers in this present
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Age for the purposes of the kingdom of god.
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I don't want my life to be spent.
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And when i stand before the lord to give an account
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For how i live my life, and i believe i will and you will,
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I don't want to proudly say, i don't want to boldly say,
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You know, puff out my chest and said,
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Will i ask you to make my life easy every day?
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You know i'm not opposed to easy, and i'm grateful
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For every blessing that the lord gives me,
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But i believe we're called to something more the same way.
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I believe a city council person
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Is called to more than their personal satisfaction,
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Or that a county commissioner, or a state governor,
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Or a congressman, or a senator, or a president,
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If they use those blocks of authority
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For their own personal ambition and gain.
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I believe it's a misuse of the office.
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And i believe if you and i
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Use the power of god and the direction
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Of the holy spirit and the authority of jesus name
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For just our personal comfort and convenience,
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We are abandoning
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The primary reason
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That we were brought into the kingdom of god.
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We can use our biblical heroes for this if you want to.
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When god recruited moses at the burning bush,
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He didn't say, moses, i'm just going to multiply your goatherd.
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He said, i'm going to send you back to pharaoh,
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And you've got to tell him to let my people go.
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Moses did not want to do that.
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And from that day at the burning bush
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Until the end of his life, moses life was more complicated.
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Now i know there are some characters where god multiplied.
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Their goatherd jacob comes to mind,
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But god had larger plans for jacob.
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The goatherd was the lessons he was learning
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In the midst of learning to trust god.
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You know, jacob means, deceiver.
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Maybe literally in hebrew. twister.
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Jacob was a twister.
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A twister of facts, a twister of circumstances
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Trying to find personal gain.
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And god was transforming jacob to become an important part
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Of the unfolding story of a covenant people.
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And god is using you and me, working
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Through us to be a part of an unfolding story,
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To let the kingdom of god be presented in the earth.
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And so i want to invite, you
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Know, we get mad, i get mad, i talk to people all the time.
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They don't like politicians or they don't like politics or
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They don't like this policy. we don't like that policy.
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I got that they don't like church policies.
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They don't like choices. i get that too.
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So you should be mad at people that you think
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Have authority that you don't have.
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But what i want to ask you is what you're doing
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With the authority that you do have.
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And i know a little bit about that
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Without knowing the details of your life,
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Because the spiritual authority you have isn't
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Connected to the university where you've graduated
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Or didn't.
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It's not the
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Your spiritual authority
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Is not connected to your bank balance and how impressive it is
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Or isn't.
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Your spiritual authority is not connected
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To your physical appearance.
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And whether it's celebrated or not,
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We have all been welcomed in
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An equal way into the kingdom of almighty god.
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And, i want to ask you what you're doing with
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That authority.
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It's changed me these last few weeks.
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If you watch our live stream or
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If you watch our services, if you've been listening.
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I have been praying
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Far more intentionally for the nations of the world,
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Because i believe god called us to make an impact
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Beyond ourselves
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And the people that gather with us in our homes.
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And i believe you have a primary spiritual responsibility
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To your family. i'm not telling you you don't.
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But i'm telling you,
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If the majority of your spiritual authority is exerted
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For the comfort of your family,
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I don't believe you're any better
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Than a politician that uses their power
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For the comfort of their family.
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We've been called
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Into the kingdom of god, and i understand.
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I'm not asking you to be a workaholic. i'm not.
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I'm not telling you to ignore your family.
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I get that responsibility if you follow this ministry.
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I just did several weeks on your kitchen table
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And that it's the primary expression
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Of spiritual authority in your life. it begins there.
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But teach your children to pray for the nations.
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Teach your children to fast and pray
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That the purposes of god would break forth in america.
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Teach your children about the authority of almighty god.
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See, that's a completely different orientation.
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Then help me get on the ball team
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I want to and again, i'm not opposed to that,
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But it's an insufficient expression of the authority
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And the power that we've been welcomed into.
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And the power that we've been welcomed into.
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I have been for days now, quietly,
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And it's leaked
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Into my public life saying, god, let the believers in iran
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Have the privilege of worshiping in public,
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Where there's been an underground church
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And tremendous pressure and tremendous persecution
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And arrests.
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They've been taking women off the street and torturing them if
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They're not in the appropriate dress, the hijab.
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Imagine the pressure that's come on, our brothers and sisters,
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Because of their belief in jesus,
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God let let there come enough openness in iran
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That in the streets of tehran, the people can gather
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And express glory and honor
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To jesus of nazareth, his lord and king.
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I understand it's a muslim nation.
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It has been for a long time,
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But i'm believing that god will bring that freedom.
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I've been praying the same thing for cuba, for havana,
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That in the streets of havana, where for decades, in decades,
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There's been tremendous oppression
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And, and a tremendous resistance to christianity,
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That there will be freedom in havana to worship the lord.
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I'm praying the same for gaza.
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I'm praying for nigeria, where they are
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Today, hunting christians.
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They're being systematically eliminated.
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Do you understand
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That they are hunting christians?
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I live in the south.
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We hunt whitetail deer and we hunt turkeys.
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In nigeria they are hunting christians.
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So i try not to let it slip past me without praying
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For god's mercy and his protection,
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That those people that are engaged
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In that behavior will be turned back,
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That begun to say, in jesus name,
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Let there be a different spirit, rule and reign in nigeria.
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A spirit that doesn't hate christians.
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God be merciful.
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Remove those people.
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Silence those people, stop the slaughter.
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You know, i don't.
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I don't think you know, i don't pray
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Generically for the world
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And for all the nations in the world, because a prayer
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For everything often feels like a prayer for nothing.
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You know, i want to pray with enough specificity
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And enough intentionality
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That when there are changes, i can begin to stop and say,
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Lord, i thank you for what you're doing.
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I thank you for the freedom
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That's come to the iranian people
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Or the opportunity that's come to them.
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I believe the current war
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That's unfolding in iran and the removal of the ayatollah
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And so much of his leadership team
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And now the republican guard, i pray i believe it's
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A clear response to the prayers of the believers in iran.
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I understand there's governments involved.
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I'm grateful for our department of war and
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And secretary hegseth and what he has done.
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But i don't believe
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That the military operation were the primary point.
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I believe it was the prayers of god's people that brought
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About the other things that we are seeing happen.
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But for that to be completed, it's
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Going to take the prayers of god's people.
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Let's join our brothers and sisters.
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I have no objection to you praying for yourself
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And your home and your family and your personal needs,
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And for healing and provision, and for all the opportunities.
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I believe it's appropriate to invite god into your life.
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But let's not limit the expression of the power
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Of god through our lives
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Just to our personal comfort and convenience.
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Let's begin
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To be voices in the earth for the expression of the power
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Of almighty god.
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Of almighty god.
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I've been asked a few dozen times what my takeaway
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Was from an easter lunch at the white house.
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That was my takeaway, that
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I cannot waste or squander the privilege
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Of being an ambassador for the kingdom
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On just personal stuff.
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And i'm in.
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I like comfort and convenience.
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I don't i'm not looking to suffer.
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You know, i don't look to make things as difficult as possible,
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But i will do difficult things because i believe
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There's a better outcome on the other side,
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And i will engage in things that are off,
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Sometimes require sacrifice of me
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Because i believe it's better for the broader good.
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And i know there's a lot of voices
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That will tell you not to do that,
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But i don't believe they're godly voices.
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So if you're angry at a politician today, or angry
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At a church leader because you wish they would
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Be more aware of making decisions
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That are better for the group,
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That you and i become, that person
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God is moving in the earth, and i believe he's
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Preparing a church to change the destiny of nations.
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I don't know what that will look like.
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I haven't seen it often, but i'm willing to be the,
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I'm willing to be the prayerful part of that.
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Whatever part the lord asks me to play in that.
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And i would ask you to join me.
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