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Robert Jeffress - America At The Crossroads (Part 1)

July 1, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - America At The Crossroads (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - America At The Crossroads (Part 1) | July 1, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory,"
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome,
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  • Again, to "pathway to victory."
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  • For decades three supreme court decisions have dramatically
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  • Altered america's moral landscape and led our nation
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  • Away from god.
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  • One of these rulings, roe v. wade in 1973
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  • Legalized abortion nationwide.
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  • Thankfully since i first preached this message, the
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  • Supreme court has overturned that terrible decision but make
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  • No mistake about it, the battle is far from over.
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  • Any nation or state that sanctions the murder
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  • Of unborn children is destined for god's judgment.
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  • My message is titled: america at the crossroads,
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • Announcer: jesus declared, "you are the salt of the earth
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  • And the light of the world."
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  • Jeffress: you remember a few years ago, when god led us to
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  • Completely recreate this campus, here in downtown dallas.
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  • We were faced with the task, "okay, what do you do with all
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  • The old buildings?
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  • How do you remove hundreds, and hundreds, and hundreds of
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  • Thousands of square feet of space in all these
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  • Old buildings?"
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  • And so, we met with the demolition people, and they
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  • Said, "well, pastor, the best way to do this is through
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  • An implosion."
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  • I said, "an in-what?"
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  • "i said, an implosion."
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  • And they said, "this is what we're going to do: we're going
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  • To take hundreds of pounds of dynamite, we will attach the
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  • Dynamite to key structural supports within these buildings.
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  • We will explode the dynamite.
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  • There'll be a pause, and then the law of physics will take
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  • Over, and the buildings will collapse under their
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  • Own weight."
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  • I said, "well, that sounds good to me.
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  • Let's go for it."
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  • Who will ever forget, on that saturday morning in october, a
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  • Few years ago, when we watched the implosion of the first
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  • Baptist church in dallas?
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  • I mean, it was exciting stuff.
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  • We had the news media from all over the world here.
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  • Cnn was there, but more importantly, fox news was
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  • Carrying it live on "fox and friends."
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  • Everybody loves an implosion.
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  • And we stood on a building overlooking our campus, and they
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  • Had that big red button.
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  • I tell you, i've never been more excited.
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  • They did the countdown, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and i pressed
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  • The red button, and after the pressing of the red button, that
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  • Was followed by the exploding dynamite, and the exploding
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  • Dynamite was followed by nothing.
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  • Absolutely nothing happened.
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  • I cannot tell you the unholy thoughts that were going through
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  • My mind at the moment.
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  • I mean, my first thought is, "which staff member am i gonna
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  • Fire first for this?"
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  • I mean, i was embarrassed.
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  • I mean, millions, 17 million people were watching
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  • This worldwide.
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  • I could see this scene being replayed endlessly on youtube,
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  • "pastors implosion: a dud."
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  • But what i forgot was, they told me there was gonna be a pause
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  • Between the explosion and the collapse.
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  • It seemed like an eternity, but it was only a few seconds until
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  • We started feeling the ground start vibrating underneath us.
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  • Those buildings started swaying back and forth.
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  • Well, you remember what happened.
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  • Look at it for a moment.
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  • [exploding]
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  • [building crumbling]
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  • Jeffress: i learned something that morning about implosions.
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  • They are sudden.
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  • They are dramatic.
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  • They begin with a series of seemingly unrelated explosions,
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  • Followed by a pause, and then, a sudden collapse.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, over the last 50 years, there have been
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  • Three explosive decisions by our united states supreme court,
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  • That have so weakened the moral and spiritual infrastructure of
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  • This nation, that our country's collapse is inevitable.
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  • We've already had the explosions.
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  • The implosion is coming, we're just living in that moment
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  • Of delay.
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  • He said, "well, what are those explosive decisions, pastor?"
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  • The first one occurred in 1962.
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  • It was the supreme court case of engle versus vitale.
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  • This is the case that removed prayer from the public schools.
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  • Of course, this was just the first in a series of court
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  • Decisions against christianity and faith in the public square.
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  • In 1963, bible reading was removed from the school, and on,
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  • And on, and on it went, until 1980, in the case of stone
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  • Versus graham, the united states of the supreme court
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  • Said, "you can no longer even post copies of the ten
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  • Commandments in a kentucky school."
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  • And why did the court say, "you can't do that?"
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  • If i were to summarize the court's ruling, you would think
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  • I was making it up.
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  • So, i want you to hear verbatim why the supreme court of the
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  • United states now says, "you can no longer post the ten
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  • Commandments in the school."
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  • Quote: "if the posted copies of the ten commandments are to have
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  • Any effect at all, it will induce the school children to
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  • Read, meditate upon, perhaps, venerate and obey
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  • The commandments.
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  • This is not a permissible state objective under the
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  • Establishment clause of the first amendment."
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  • Can you believe that?
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  • The supreme court says, "we can't post those
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  • Ten commandments in a school because if we post them,
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  • The children might actually read them.
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  • And if they read the ten commandments, they may begin to
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  • Respect them, to venerate them.
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  • And if they begin to respect the ten commandments, god forbid,
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  • They might actually obey the ten commandments, and
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  • That's unconstitutional."
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  • How in the world do you explain that?
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  • Especially, in light of the fact that 118 years before that court
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  • Decision, the supreme court of the united states weighed in on
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  • Another case, the case was, can you teach the new testament in
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  • The public schools?
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  • It was the case of vidal versus girard's executors, and the
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  • Question was, "can you teach the new testament in the school?"
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  • And the supreme court almost laughed this decision out,
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  • "well, of course, you can.
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  • Why wouldn't you be able to teach the new testament in
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  • The school?"
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  • Literally, the court wrote, "why may not the bible, and
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  • Especially the new testament, be read and taught as a divine
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  • Revelation in the school?
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  • The general precepts expounded, the evidence is explained, and
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  • Its glorious principle of morality inculcated.
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  • Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so
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  • Clearly, or so perfectly, as from the new testament?"
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  • That was the supreme court of the united states.
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  • And then, 111 years later, in 1980, the supreme court suddenly
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  • Says, "you can't even post, much less talk about,
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  • The ten commandments in the public school."
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  • You know, every time i'm debating one of these pinhead
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  • Lawyers from the acl or the freedom from religion
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  • Foundation, on fox news, i always ask them about this.
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  • I said, "can you explain to me why, in the 1860's, it was
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  • Constitutional to teach the bible, or to pray, or to put
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  • Nativity scenes in the public school, but in 1980, 120 years
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  • Later, you can't even post the copies of the 10 commandments?
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  • Can you explain to me what changed?
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  • Did the constitution change and nobody told us about it?
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  • And do the judges, today, have greater insight into what our
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  • Founders meant than those who live close to the founders?"
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  • No, they never have answer for that, but i've got an answer for
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  • What changed.
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  • What changed is this: we have allowed the atheist, the
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  • Infidels, the humanists, to seize control of this country,
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  • And to pervert our constitution into something the founders
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  • Never intended.
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  • That is what's happened, and we've got to say, "enough
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  • To that!"
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  • We've got to say, "enough to it."
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  • Know what?
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  • Our founders were clear in the first amendment, they said,
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  • "congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of
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  • A religion."
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  • Our forefathers came from a country where there was a state
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  • Church and people were coerced to worship in churches they
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  • Didn't want to be in.
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  • That was wrong.
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  • Our forefathers said, "we want no part of that."
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  • And you and i don't want any part of that, but the first
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  • Amendment absolutely has nothing to say about nativity scenes,
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  • Our prayers that graduations, or ten commandment displays.
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  • It has absolutely nothing to say about that.
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  • Our country was founded as a christian nation, and although,
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  • We allow and welcome people of all faiths or no faith, this
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  • Country was founded as a christian nation.
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  • Now let me tell you what happened, about 50 years ago
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  • Starting in 1962 the secularist, the infidels
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  • In our country said let's try an experiment.
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  • We're going to see if america can be good without god.
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  • That is instead of abiding by the moral absolutes
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  • Found in god's word, we'll just let everybody
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  • Form their own morality and furthermore,
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  • We won't judge anybody else's morality.
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  • Everybody's free to decide what's right
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  • Or wrong for himself.
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  • The second explosion occurred in 1973.
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  • It was a case that actually started right here in dallas,
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  • A few blocks from this church; 1973 the case of roe versus
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  • Wade, the court case that legalized abortion in
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  • Our country.
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  • And since the roe decision, more than 60 million children have
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  • Been murdered in the womb, and an additional 1.3 million
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  • Children are murdered every year through abortion.
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  • What is god's attitude toward a nation that not only allows, but
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  • Celebrates the freedom, and i never let people end it there, i
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  • Never let them say the freedom to choose, i always make them
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  • Complete the sentence, that celebrates the freedom to choose
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  • To murder your own child?
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  • What does god say about a nation like that?
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  • All you have to do is look at how god dealt with his own
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  • Nation of israel.
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  • I mean, really, when you think about it, israel was the only
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  • Nation that could be truly called god's chosen people.
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  • God created israel.
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  • He has a special blessing for israel.
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  • But remember what happened when they went into the
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  • Promised land?
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  • They started following after the pagan god, molech, and started
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  • Adopting the worship of molech, and part of the worship of that
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  • Canaanite god involved the sacrifice of children.
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  • The israelites would take their own young children, even their
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  • Babies, and burn them alive on the altar of molech.
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  • And when god looked down and he saw what his own people were
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  • Doing in jeremiah 32:35, he said, "it would not have even
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  • Entered my mind that you would have done such a
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  • Detestable thing.
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  • But because you have, this is what i'm going to do: i will
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  • Raise up the babylonians," the terrorist of your day, if you
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  • Will, "and they will invade your land and they will take
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  • You captive."
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  • And that's exactly what god did.
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  • If god is going to deal with his own nation of israel that way,
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  • Is there any real doubt of what god is going to do to america?
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  • The third explosion occurred just january the 26th, 2015.
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  • It was the case of obergefell versus hodges.
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  • This was the supreme court case that legalized same
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  • Sex marriage.
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  • Now, i know, i look, i know what some of you are thinking, "oh,
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  • Pastor, why do we have to talk about that?
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  • Why do we have to talk about that?
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  • I mean, if gays want to get married, they love one another,
  • 00:13:11.146 --> 00:13:13.415
  • Why do you get so worked up about that?
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  • It's no skin off of your nose.
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  • You must be homophobic to talk about this."
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  • No, we don't hate gay people.
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  • We don't hate anybody, but the reason we stand against gay
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  • Marriage is because we know how that story ends.
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  • We know what the end result is.
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  • Sociologists have done a long term study, the hoover
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  • Institute, has done a long-term study of scandinavian countries
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  • That legalized same sex marriage years ago.
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  • And you know what they discovered, it was very
  • 00:13:43.846 --> 00:13:45.381
  • Interesting, they discovered after 10 years, not that many
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  • Gays actually ended up getting married.
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  • What they found was instead the rate of heterosexual marriage
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  • Declined precipitously.
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  • He said, well, wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense.
  • 00:13:58.894 --> 00:14:00.629
  • Why would gays being allowed to marry have anything to do with
  • 00:14:00.629 --> 00:14:03.699
  • The heterosexual marriage rate declining?
  • 00:14:03.699 --> 00:14:06.135
  • Well, that's an easy one.
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  • Whenever you counterfeit something, you cheapen the value
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  • Of the real thing.
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  • I mean, if marriage is whatever you want it to be, a man and a
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  • Woman, two men, two women, three men and a woman, if it's
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  • Whatever you want it to be, why even bother going through the
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  • Hassle of getting married?
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  • And that's what's happening in our country already.
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  • In the last two years, the marriage rate has declined among
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  • Heterosexuals to the lowest in 92 years, and we know the
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  • Implications on society for that.
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  • We know what happens when children are reared in an
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  • Atmosphere without a father or a mother.
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  • I mean, sociology studies have shown that sat scores plummet,
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  • Depression and suicide rates, drug use increase.
  • 00:14:49.611 --> 00:14:54.416
  • You see, children are designed in such a way that they need
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  • Both a father and a mother.
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  • You know, sarah mclanahan is a sociologist at
  • 00:15:01.957 --> 00:15:04.860
  • Princeton university.
  • 00:15:04.860 --> 00:15:06.261
  • Now, this isn't dallas theological seminary, this is
  • 00:15:06.261 --> 00:15:09.064
  • Princeton university, and she said one time, "if we were
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  • Trying to design the ideal arrangement environment in which
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  • To rear a child, it would be one in which the child was connected
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  • To both of its biological parents."
  • 00:15:20.909 --> 00:15:25.414
  • Now, i remember so well a few years ago
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  • When one of these decisions attacking
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  • Traditional marriage came down from the supreme court
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  • I was on fox news the night of that decision
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  • Debating a gay activist.
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  • And i had done some research on him and discovered
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  • That he and his partner had just adopted a child
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  • And so i was talking about the sociological studies
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  • Of why children need both a father and a mother
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  • And i was talking about that he interrupted me.
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  • He said, "pastor, i just want you to know i'm offended
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  • By what you're saying.
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  • Because you're suggesting that a heterosexual relationship
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  • Is superior to a homosexual relationship."
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  • I said, "well, sir, i'm sorry you're offended but the fact is
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  • You wouldn't be alive here and arguing with me tonight
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  • If it were not a heterosexual relationship
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  • That had brought you into this world."
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  • I mean, that is god's way of saying
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  • This a special relationship.
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  • Now i know that's not always possible to have
  • 00:16:24.306 --> 00:16:26.208
  • A father and mother; death, divorce, other things,
  • 00:16:26.208 --> 00:16:29.311
  • But government ought to be encouraging
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  • That ideal relationship instead of counterfeiting it.
  • 00:16:31.513 --> 00:16:35.217
  • Now, here's my point in all of this, what i'm simply saying is
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  • This, no nation that outlaws the mention of god in the public
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  • Square, that celebrates the murder of its own children, that
  • 00:16:42.858 --> 00:16:46.762
  • Destroys the most basic unit of society, the family, no nation
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  • Is going to survive that.
  • 00:16:51.366 --> 00:16:53.535
  • The explosions have already happened.
  • 00:16:53.535 --> 00:16:56.705
  • The implosion is coming, we are just living in that in
  • 00:16:56.705 --> 00:17:00.109
  • Between time.
  • 00:17:00.109 --> 00:17:01.743
  • What are we supposed to do about that?
  • 00:17:01.743 --> 00:17:03.479
  • Some of you are saying, "this is the most depressing message i've
  • 00:17:03.479 --> 00:17:05.547
  • Ever listened to."
  • 00:17:05.547 --> 00:17:07.683
  • No, this is not depressing as long as you understand our
  • 00:17:07.683 --> 00:17:13.188
  • Purpose as christians.
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  • If you understand our purpose as christians, there's never been a
  • 00:17:14.556 --> 00:17:17.392
  • Better time to be alive and living in america than right
  • 00:17:17.392 --> 00:17:20.729
  • Now, as long as we understand the mission.
  • 00:17:20.729 --> 00:17:22.998
  • What are we supposed to be doing right now?
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  • Jesus told us in matthew chapter 5.
  • 00:17:24.867 --> 00:17:27.302
  • Turn there to matthew 5, verse 13.
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  • You probably never thought we'd get into the bible.
  • 00:17:30.205 --> 00:17:31.573
  • Here we are right now.
  • 00:17:31.573 --> 00:17:33.041
  • Matthew 5, jesus said, first of all, "you are the salt of the
  • 00:17:33.041 --> 00:17:37.246
  • Earth," verse 13, "but if the salt has become tasteless, how
  • 00:17:37.246 --> 00:17:40.983
  • Will it be made salty again?
  • 00:17:40.983 --> 00:17:42.918
  • It is good for nothing anymore, except to be thrown out and
  • 00:17:42.918 --> 00:17:46.622
  • Trampled underfoot by men."
  • 00:17:46.622 --> 00:17:49.124
  • Jesus said we are to be salt in this decaying world.
  • 00:17:49.124 --> 00:17:54.963
  • Now, remember in jesus day, salt was a preservative.
  • 00:17:54.963 --> 00:18:00.068
  • Before the days of refrigeration, salt was used as
  • 00:18:00.068 --> 00:18:03.472
  • A preservative.
  • 00:18:03.472 --> 00:18:04.806
  • Now, get this, salt could not prevent the decay of meat, but
  • 00:18:04.806 --> 00:18:09.144
  • It could delay the decay of meat.
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  • Salt gave the meat a longer shelf life.
  • 00:18:12.548 --> 00:18:16.285
  • Eventually, the meat would rot.
  • 00:18:16.285 --> 00:18:17.853
  • It would have to be thrown out, but the salt helped preserve it
  • 00:18:17.853 --> 00:18:21.557
  • For a little bit longer.
  • 00:18:21.557 --> 00:18:23.892
  • Now, jesus said in the same way, the reason he has left us in
  • 00:18:23.892 --> 00:18:27.829
  • This world instead of taking us to heaven immediately, is to be
  • 00:18:27.829 --> 00:18:31.133
  • A preservative in this world, to not prevent the decay, but to
  • 00:18:31.133 --> 00:18:35.804
  • Delay the decay of the world.
  • 00:18:35.804 --> 00:18:37.573
  • Now, before salt can impact meat, guess what?
  • 00:18:37.573 --> 00:18:41.109
  • It has to penetrate the meat.
  • 00:18:41.109 --> 00:18:42.778
  • As long as it stays in the salt shaker, it is
  • 00:18:42.778 --> 00:18:44.880
  • Absolutely worthless.
  • 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:46.882
  • And i'm gonna tell you one thing that really concerns me, is the
  • 00:18:46.882 --> 00:18:49.751
  • Number of christians, the number of pastors, who are still in the
  • 00:18:49.751 --> 00:18:53.055
  • Salt shaker.
  • 00:18:53.055 --> 00:18:54.823
  • They have siloed themselves.
  • 00:18:54.823 --> 00:18:56.792
  • They have said things like, "oh, well, if it's all gonna
  • 00:18:56.792 --> 00:19:00.329
  • End anyway, why should i even bother to get involved?
  • 00:19:00.329 --> 00:19:03.465
  • You know, we're going to hell in a hand basket.
  • 00:19:03.465 --> 00:19:05.067
  • Why should i do anything?
  • 00:19:05.067 --> 00:19:06.401
  • Shouldn't we be welcoming jesus's return anyway?
  • 00:19:06.401 --> 00:19:09.037
  • Why should we care about what's happening in the culture?"
  • 00:19:09.037 --> 00:19:11.673
  • You know how i respond to that?
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  • I know i'm gonna die one day, nothing's gonna change that.
  • 00:19:14.243 --> 00:19:18.513
  • But the reason i get up and run every morning, the reason i gag
  • 00:19:18.513 --> 00:19:21.650
  • Down that raisin bran for breakfast instead of an egg
  • 00:19:21.650 --> 00:19:23.952
  • Mcmuffin every day, the reason i do those things is to delay the
  • 00:19:23.952 --> 00:19:28.323
  • Inevitable, not to prevent it, but to delay it.
  • 00:19:28.323 --> 00:19:32.527
  • And it's not because i'm afraid of dying, it's i wanna live here
  • 00:19:32.527 --> 00:19:36.231
  • As long as i can and do what god has called me to do before i go
  • 00:19:36.231 --> 00:19:39.968
  • Home to meet the lord.
  • 00:19:39.968 --> 00:19:41.503
  • And it's the same way with our culture.
  • 00:19:41.503 --> 00:19:43.705
  • We're not afraid of the end, we know the best chapter is yet to
  • 00:19:43.705 --> 00:19:47.542
  • Be revealed when christ returns, but the bible says we're to push
  • 00:19:47.542 --> 00:19:51.179
  • Back against evil.
  • 00:19:51.179 --> 00:19:52.581
  • We're to try to delay the premature collapse of our
  • 00:19:52.581 --> 00:19:55.284
  • Country and our world so that we have longer to preach the gospel
  • 00:19:55.284 --> 00:19:58.353
  • Of jesus christ.
  • 00:19:58.353 --> 00:19:59.855
  • How do we do that?
  • 00:19:59.855 --> 00:20:01.456
  • How do we push back against evil in the world?
  • 00:20:01.456 --> 00:20:05.527
  • One way we do it in our country, a major way we do it is through
  • 00:20:05.527 --> 00:20:09.464
  • The government officials that we elect.
  • 00:20:09.464 --> 00:20:12.801
  • I know some of you are saying, "we knew jefferson was gonna get
  • 00:20:12.801 --> 00:20:15.971
  • Involved in politics.
  • 00:20:15.971 --> 00:20:17.606
  • If we came here today, we knew this was gonna be a
  • 00:20:17.606 --> 00:20:20.108
  • Political message.
  • 00:20:20.108 --> 00:20:21.476
  • Christians shouldn't be involved in politics, and pastors
  • 00:20:21.476 --> 00:20:25.047
  • Certainly shouldn't be involved in politics."
  • 00:20:25.047 --> 00:20:27.916
  • Well, before you say that, before you say that, remember
  • 00:20:27.916 --> 00:20:31.720
  • Two things: number one, god is the one who designed government.
  • 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:38.393
  • Government is god's idea.
  • 00:20:38.393 --> 00:20:41.697
  • Did you know the bible says there are three institutions
  • 00:20:41.697 --> 00:20:44.433
  • That god created, not two, not five, there are three.
  • 00:20:44.433 --> 00:20:49.338
  • In genesis 2, he created the family.
  • 00:20:49.338 --> 00:20:52.674
  • In genesis 9, he created the government, and in acts chapter
  • 00:20:52.674 --> 00:20:56.912
  • 2, he created the church.
  • 00:20:56.912 --> 00:21:00.048
  • Did you know government is just as ordained and holy as the
  • 00:21:00.048 --> 00:21:04.486
  • Church is?
  • 00:21:04.486 --> 00:21:06.121
  • Government is just as ordained by god as the church is.
  • 00:21:06.121 --> 00:21:09.991
  • Both were created by god for unique purposes.
  • 00:21:09.991 --> 00:21:14.696
  • Government's not being called to share the gospel we have, but
  • 00:21:14.696 --> 00:21:17.599
  • Government has been called to be a restrainer of evil.
  • 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:22.804
  • God designed government to keep order and morality in society,
  • 00:21:22.804 --> 00:21:27.676
  • And that means when we elect government officials, we are
  • 00:21:27.676 --> 00:21:32.180
  • Determining the moral and spiritual direction of
  • 00:21:32.180 --> 00:21:34.583
  • Our country.
  • 00:21:34.583 --> 00:21:35.951
  • And that's the second thing i want you to understand
  • 00:21:35.951 --> 00:21:37.719
  • About government.
  • 00:21:37.719 --> 00:21:39.087
  • We have the privilege of choosing our leaders.
  • 00:21:39.087 --> 00:21:42.457
  • Every time we go into the voting booth, we decide which direction
  • 00:21:42.457 --> 00:21:46.528
  • This nation is going to be headed.
  • 00:21:46.528 --> 00:21:48.930
  • You know, just think about this in the old testament and even in
  • 00:21:48.930 --> 00:21:51.700
  • The new testament, you didn't get to vote for the king.
  • 00:21:51.700 --> 00:21:55.404
  • You didn't get to vote for the emperor of rome.
  • 00:21:55.404 --> 00:21:57.973
  • That was kind of given to you.
  • 00:21:57.973 --> 00:22:00.575
  • But john jay, the first chief justice of our united states
  • 00:22:00.575 --> 00:22:04.479
  • Supreme court, said this.
  • 00:22:04.479 --> 00:22:06.381
  • He said, "god has given us the privilege in this christian
  • 00:22:06.381 --> 00:22:11.286
  • Nation of choosing our leaders."
  • 00:22:11.286 --> 00:22:14.823
  • Isn't that interesting?
  • 00:22:14.823 --> 00:22:16.191
  • The first chief justice of the supreme court said this is a
  • 00:22:16.191 --> 00:22:18.827
  • Christian nation.
  • 00:22:18.827 --> 00:22:20.195
  • He said god has given us in this christian nation the privilege
  • 00:22:20.195 --> 00:22:24.199
  • Of choosing our leaders.
  • 00:22:24.199 --> 00:22:26.301
  • That means every time we go into the voting booth, we are casting
  • 00:22:26.301 --> 00:22:29.571
  • A vote for righteousness or we're casting a vote
  • 00:22:29.571 --> 00:22:33.141
  • For unrighteousness.
  • 00:22:33.141 --> 00:22:35.010
  • We are the ones who are determining the moral and
  • 00:22:35.010 --> 00:22:38.180
  • Spiritual direction of this nation.
  • 00:22:38.180 --> 00:22:41.016
  • Jeffress: time is running short, and the bible calls us to make
  • 00:22:45.220 --> 00:22:48.690
  • Every effort to push back against the forces of evil in
  • 00:22:48.690 --> 00:22:52.561
  • Order to delay the decay of our nation.
  • 00:22:52.561 --> 00:22:56.431
  • Now in closing, i wanna remind you that we're coming up on a
  • 00:22:56.431 --> 00:22:59.501
  • Significant deadline.
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  • This sunday, july 6th, "pathway to victory" will conclude the
  • 00:23:01.036 --> 00:23:05.006
  • Salt and light matching challenge.
  • 00:23:05.006 --> 00:23:07.409
  • There's still time to double the impact of your
  • 00:23:07.409 --> 00:23:10.178
  • Gift, but you need to respond right away.
  • 00:23:10.178 --> 00:23:13.348
  • We're asking god to use men and women
  • 00:23:13.348 --> 00:23:15.150
  • Just like you to help us reach and even exceed
  • 00:23:15.150 --> 00:23:18.420
  • The $1,000,000 goal.
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  • Jesus declared you are the salt of the earth.
  • 00:23:20.922 --> 00:23:24.726
  • You are the light of the world, and god will use your generous
  • 00:23:24.726 --> 00:23:28.630
  • Gifts to help push back against the moral decline in our nation
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  • As we serve as the salt and light our world
  • 00:23:32.934 --> 00:23:35.971
  • Desperately needs.
  • 00:23:35.971 --> 00:23:37.606
  • Thank you so much for your support.
  • 00:23:37.606 --> 00:23:40.275
  • Now stay right there.
  • 00:23:40.275 --> 00:23:41.643
  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory" in just a moment.
  • 00:23:41.643 --> 00:23:45.881
  • Announcer: the moral decline in today's world can feel
  • 00:23:45.947 --> 00:23:48.416
  • Overwhelming, but god calls us to shine his light and make a
  • 00:23:48.416 --> 00:23:52.387
  • Difference for him in a world that has lost its way.
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  • In his brand new book "shine the light," dr. robert jeffress
  • 00:23:55.524 --> 00:23:58.960
  • Shows you how small faithful acts like teaching, serving, and
  • 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:02.464
  • Encouraging can restore and renew christian values in your
  • 00:24:02.464 --> 00:24:05.967
  • Family, your church, and community.
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  • Jeffress: the bible teaches that our primary purpose in life is
  • 00:24:08.336 --> 00:24:11.773
  • To influence the world with the gospel.
  • 00:24:11.773 --> 00:24:14.709
  • And in my new book, i'll show you how to live purposefully and
  • 00:24:14.709 --> 00:24:18.480
  • Leave behind a legacy of faith, wisdom, and compassion.
  • 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:22.984
  • Announcer: the world may seem lost, but god's light has not
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  • Dimmed, and neither has yours.
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  • Request your copy of "shine the light" when you give a generous
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  • Gift to the "pathway to victory" salt and
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  • Light matching challenge.
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  • And when your ministry gift is $100 or more, we'll also send
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  • You the complete "shine the light" teaching series on dvd
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  • And audio disc.
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  • Jeffress: light is of little value in the light.
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  • If we're gonna be effective, we're effective for christ, not
  • 00:24:46.575 --> 00:24:49.811
  • When we're around other light sources other christians.
  • 00:24:49.811 --> 00:24:53.548
  • It is when we're in the darkness.
  • 00:24:53.548 --> 00:24:56.284
  • Light has to confront the darkness.
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  • Announcer: remember your gift today will have twice the impact
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  • Thanks to the "pathway to victory" salt and light
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  • Matching challenge.
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  • Thank you for partnering with "pathway to victory" as we
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  • Boldly proclaim the gospel and equip believers to shine god's
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  • Light in a world that has lost its way.
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  • Jeffress: the explosives have detonated and america's moral
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  • Foundation is cracking today.
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  • I described three monumental supreme court decisions that
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  • Altered our nation's course.
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  • While roe v.
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  • Wade has been overturned, abortion still remains an issue
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  • Now decided by individual states, and my premise
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  • Stands firm.
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  • God will not bless america as long as we murder children in
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  • The womb.
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  • Next time i'll explain how we can influence our culture for
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  • God's kingdom and why there's never been a better time to be
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  • Living in america than right now.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series, shine the light.
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  • Jeffress: if you don't hear another word i say this morning,
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  • Hear this.
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  • What we're facing in this country is not a battle between
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  • Republicans and democrats.
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  • It is a battle between good and evil, between the kingdom of god
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  • And the kingdom of satan.
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  • That's exactly what is at stake in this country.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for part two of the
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  • Message: america at the crossroads here on "pathway
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  • To victory."
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  • Jeffress: each of us will leave a legacy.
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  • What will your legacy be?
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  • Your legacy giving can further the gospel and be an example to
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  • Your children about what matters most in life.
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  • The world my daughters and grandchildren are growing up in
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  • Is vastly different than the one you and i grew up in.
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  • The gospel of jesus christ is our only answer, and naming
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  • "pathway to victory" as a beneficiary in your will helps
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  • Guarantee that there will be a trusted ministry that will
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  • Continue to be salt and light.
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  • Like the ripples that emanate from a rock thrown into a pond,
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  • Your influence for christ can keep going on and on after you
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  • Die with a gift in your will.
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  • What will your legacy be?
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  • Only one life will soon be passed.
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  • Only what's done for christ will last.
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