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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - God's Tipping Point | August 23, 2025
- When we consider the global devastation
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- Caused by noah's flood, god's judgment on the earth,
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- We can ask, when is any society
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- Close to god's tipping point?
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- The answer next, in this episode of the prophetic connection.
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- Soft music
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- So how can we tell when any society
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- Or nation for that matter, is close to god's tipping point?
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- I believe jesus gave us the answer
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- Long ago in his prophetic discourse.
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- When his disciples asked him about the end of the age
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- And his second coming.
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- Among the things he said were these.
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- And this is recorded in luke 17.
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- It looks account of what jesus said that day,
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- Luke 17, verse 26,
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- Because he gives examples of nations and
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- What happened when people passed god's tipping point
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- And as it was in the days of noah.
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- So it will also be in the days of the son of man.
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- Jesus is the son of man.
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- They ate, they drank, they married wives.
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- They were given in marriage until the day that noah entered
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- The ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.
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- Likewise, as it was also in the days of lot.
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- They ate, they drank,
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- They bought, they sold, they planted, they built.
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- But on the day that lord went out from sodom,
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- It rained fire and brimstone from heaven
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- And destroyed them all.
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- Even so, it will be in the day
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- When the son of man is revealed.
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- So here are examples of people
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- Or nations, the cities that passed god's tipping point.
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- But living as we do
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- In the opening decades of the 21st century.
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- And looking at the society around us, whether it is
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- Sin abounds
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- And there is much evil and wickedness, we may well ask,
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- Have we already crossed god's red lines?
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- How do we know when
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- Any society is close to god's tipping point?
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- We know when any society gets close to god's
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- Tipping point because he issues warnings.
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- God is not eager to judge,
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- But he will not shy away from bringing judgment
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- On society when it crosses his red lines.
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- But it gives warnings, crises.
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- He gives prophetic warnings.
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- He gives, downturns in the economy.
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- He brings disruptions.
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- He brings scandals.
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- He, he he is trying to awaken the people
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- Of god to the crisis of our times.
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- And i believe we're in such a time
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- As this where we're not listening to the warnings,
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- But god is continuing to warn.
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- And, we need to pray that god will have mercy
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- And hold back the judgment that we richly deserve,
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- Even in this day.
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- So today, you know, in the biblical world,
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- We had a close relationship
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- With god, which is which is good,
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- And that we get immediate feedback.
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- We had prophets who could tell us, you're in trouble.
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- That's a huge thing.
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- Just have one minor prophet today, just ovadia.
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- He gets one chapter in the bible
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- Is a game changer for humanity.
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- But also, you know, you pass a threshold.
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- God, good for us, has a lot more patience with us.
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- He demands a lot more from the ancient hebrews of the bible.
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- He holds them on a much higher level,
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- Like you expect more from a 21 year
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- Old than from a three year old today.
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- He's happy if we get through the day and manage to stay dry,
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- Which is good and bad, because he gives us a lot
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- More wiggle room and a much longer leash,
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- But enables us to do a lot more damage to ourselves.
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- But i think from our own consciousness, this
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- The the litmus test, the barometer
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- Is looking at those values
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- That we get from god in the bible and seeing how much
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- We're in line with those and how much we're not.
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- The further we stray away from those values
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- And you see, a lot of the world is strayed
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- Very far away from those values.
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- That is the warning sign.
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- The difference being is he's not going to hit us with a flood,
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- And he may not get us with a plague,
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- But he's going to get us with something.
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- Something is going to happen.
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- That's going to be a big, be a big wake up call.
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- And we all know that famous line, no atheists in the foxhole
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- When when humanity and individual
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- People and humanity collectively is pushed
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- To a level where, for whatever reason, be it
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- Some environmental issues, some war, or some whatever,
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- People start to wake up and recognize
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- That when all of my arrogance
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- And my manmade technology starts to fail.
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- Bottom line, and the only thing that's going to save us
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- Is the big guy upstairs.
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- And then you have
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- That wave of what we say, hebrews 12 people coming back.
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- The only question will be
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- Whether it be people that will lead the back.
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- And now that they open up to it,
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- Will be someone there to tell them what they need to do.
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- What happens when
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- Individuals or nations move beyond god's tipping point?
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- If we were to look at
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- Our human history and where we're headed, according
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- To the book of revelation, we're going to hit a tipping point
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- Very soon in the very near future.
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- And what that does,
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- According to revelation, is it starts to release
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- The next level of trumpets and bowls and signs
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- And wonders and horses and demons and plagues.
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- It's almost like once you cross that line,
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- All of that predictive judgment
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- And hardship
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- Is released on the earth without an intermediary blocking it.
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- I don't think the people of the earth
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- Right now
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- Even realize how much god is blocking
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- The tidal wave of judgment that they already deserve,
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- That we already deserve.
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- We just go about our lives, like in the days of noah,
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- Like nothing's wrong.
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- We're not listening to the warning message.
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- God is actually blocking the judgments
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- Out of his mercy right now, that he might harvest souls
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- For eternal life in his kingdom.
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- But once we reach the tipping point,
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- Point of no return, there's no more coming.
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- He will remove his protective hand, and the earth is going
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- To see and receive all that it has already deserved.
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- I think we greatly underestimate
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- The mercy of god, even in our day.
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- The world is a scary place today in many ways that it wasn't
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- In the ancient world.
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- We have a lot of technology we don't have,
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- Which is a blessing and a curse.
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- It gives us medicine, but gives us the ability
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- To wipe ourselves out on a lot of different ways.
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- So now
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- We're not going to get a flood like we got in the time of noah,
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- But we could go through a very rough stage
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- Till we get to the end line. we could finish that.
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- We could spread the cross, the finish line
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- Or crawl across the finish line.
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- And that is up to us.
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- The human race
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- And the jewish people would set
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- Specific up to the jews because we started the story
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- Having a unique response ability
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- As the point nation of history to bring humanity back to god.
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- And that's a responsibility the jewish people cannot escape.
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- So we have to get our act together
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- And the world has to follow
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- In the right direction, which is all about
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- Reestablishing that relationship and living with those values.
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- And this, as i say amongst when i speak to jews,
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- Because jews love fighting amongst themselves.
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- You got to stop,
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- You know, fighting and looking at what separates you.
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- People who hate jews don't differentiate between
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- What kind of jew you are humanity.
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- You know, jews, christians, we get
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- We gotta get on the same page.
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- We can agree to disagree on certain things
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- Because that's the way human made.
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- But we gotta focus on what unites us.
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- And any person
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- Of faith recognizes this fundamental values
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- That bring us very close together.
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- We believe in that the world is going in a certain way.
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- There's a process of redemption.
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- There's consequences to our actions,
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- Just reward and punishment.
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- There's a god who loves us, and he gave us a system of values.
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- And to the extent that we can put our differences aside
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- And share those values in common,
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- Is the extent that we can work together
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- To bring all of us to the end of the story
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- And get there as quickly and as painlessly as possible.
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- Is it
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- Possible that our 21st century world
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- Has moved close to or past god's tipping point?
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- Think in our day.
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- Obviously, sin is growing wide.
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- But on the other hand, almost every generation
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- In every nation, there are a remnant of
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- Believers, who have faith in god.
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- They may be small, pretty small, but,
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- In some of those cases, you know, for instance, in iran,
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- And some of the regime of iran and the ayatollah regime,
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- Who seemingly would have a very little, remnant,
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- But they have the most growing
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- Remnant of believers in the land.
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- And so i believe, through, repentance and salvation
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- And the empowerment
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- Of the holy spirit, nations could turn towards god.
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- Any person can be saved.
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- If we repent, i believe that there are places in our world
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- That have already passed the tipping point with god,
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- And yet
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- Our god is so rich in mercy,
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- We never know when it's too late
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- And he has such love for his people.
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- We're the church.
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- We are the head and not the tail.
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- We don't have to become the head and not the tail.
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- We are the head.
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- And when we repent, when we turn to the lord god,
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- When we do
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- What he has commanded us to do and act like the people of god,
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- No one knows the amount of mercy god can show.
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- But yes, many places in our western civilization
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- Have passed that tipping point and are
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- In the danger of judgment even today, given
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- The current state of our world, we could be closer to god's
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- Tipping point than any generation since noah's day.
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- If so, we are living under the shadow of god's impending
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- Judgment and christ's imminent and promised return to earth.
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- We come to this final teaching in this new series,
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- I have to think we have come a very long way
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- In our journey with the peoples of israel
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- From before the flood of noah's day, and after
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- The journey of the israelites
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- As they tried to conquer the land of canaan,
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- And of course, encountered
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- The giants that were in the land at that time.
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- And then we've looked at the rebellion of the people
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- Who tried to build a tower
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- That reached on to heaven, the tower of babel,
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- And then those cities of the plain,
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- By the dead sea that were so wicked
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- That god sent fire and brimstone from heaven upon them.
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- See, the point of all of this is that it's a dangerous thing,
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- To reach god's tipping point and in fact,
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- To cross his red lines.
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- Now, we live in an age when it seems life goes on forever.
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- And yes, we have natural catastrophes
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- And other things, but the society around us
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- Has more or less forgotten all about god,
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- And they're really living only for themselves.
- 00:12:40.093 --> 00:12:42.362
- And in a sense they have rebellious hearts.
- 00:12:42.362 --> 00:12:45.833
- But i really believe through the prophetic connection
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- That god has called us to sound the trumpet warning,
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- To call people back to himself.
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- As many as we can reach with the prophetic word of god.
- 00:12:56.143 --> 00:13:00.013
- Understand that one third of this bible is prophecy.
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- It's pointing forward to the future, but it issues
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- Warnings of what is to come if man does not turn back.
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- And of course, god warned noah of what he was about to do.
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- And we looked at that and we know what happened.
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- Now consider this warning that comes on the lips
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- Of isaiah, the prophet who lived some 2800 years ago.
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- And as with all prophecy, it can be for his day,
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- But it can be for generations into the future.
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- In fact, it can apply in many generations.
- 00:13:31.378 --> 00:13:34.047
- So here is what isaiah writes this.
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- And it's really a warning how to hide
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- From the terror of the lord.
- 00:13:38.585 --> 00:13:40.187
- And i really think it applies today as well.
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- Enter into the rock and hide in the dust
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- From the terror of the lord and the glory of his majesty.
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- I, i feel the sun on my face and it's rising above the golan
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- Heights, ancient bashan, and shining on
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- The sea of galilee is very early morning by the sea of galilee.
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- And you can see mount our bell behind me.
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- Where,
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- Above the village of magdala, the home of mary magdalene.
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- So when we speak of the glory of the lord,
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- I just the sun rising on the galilee.
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- It's a beautiful experience and a great place
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- To present the truth of god's word.
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- But the lofty looks of man shall be humbled.
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- The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
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- And the lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
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- For the day of the lord of hosts
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- Shall come upon everything, proud and lofty, upon
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- Everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low.
- 00:14:36.810 --> 00:14:41.014
- So how might isaiah's prophetic warning
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- Apply to the generation living today?
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- Well, let me use another prophetic passage, this time
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- The from the pen of the apostle paul,
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- Who describes the final generation,
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- The terminal generation, i will call it.
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- And in second timothy, his letter to timothy,
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- Who was a young, his young prodigy, he trained him.
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- And then timothy took over
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- From paul and became pastor of the church at ephesus.
- 00:15:09.276 --> 00:15:12.346
- But paul has to write a couple of letters to timothy
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- To instruct him.
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- But i think at the same time to encourage him
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- To stay the course, because ephesus was full of idolatry.
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- In fact, it was a demon stronghold, and timothy,
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- It seemed, needed the encouragement,
- 00:15:26.727 --> 00:15:28.428
- But certainly needed paul's wise instruction.
- 00:15:28.428 --> 00:15:31.999
- But then in these letters, paul breaks
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- Into prophetic utterances, and he writes of future things. so
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- Let's see how this description might fit our society today.
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- And paul writes in chapter three of second timothy,
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- But know this, that in the last days
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- Perilous times will come to pass in the greek heart,
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- Difficult, grievous for men will be lovers of themselves,
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- Lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
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- Disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.
- 00:16:02.496 --> 00:16:06.967
- Is this coming to a neighborhood near you,
- 00:16:06.967 --> 00:16:09.636
- Or is it already there?
- 00:16:09.636 --> 00:16:11.204
- And could it be even in your own household?
- 00:16:11.204 --> 00:16:15.375
- It's not a pretty picture.
- 00:16:15.942 --> 00:16:18.211
- Unloving, unforgiving, slanderers without self-control,
- 00:16:18.211 --> 00:16:22.749
- Brutal despisers of good traitors, headstrong,
- 00:16:22.749 --> 00:16:27.087
- Haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of god.
- 00:16:27.087 --> 00:16:32.125
- Let me share something that
- 00:16:32.726 --> 00:16:35.295
- I discovered many years ago kind of took me by surprise.
- 00:16:35.295 --> 00:16:38.799
- I had officiated at a funeral service.
- 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:41.501
- I was traveling with the funeral director in the hearse,
- 00:16:41.501 --> 00:16:45.739
- As it were,
- 00:16:45.739 --> 00:16:47.007
- And we were carrying the body of the deceased to the cemetery.
- 00:16:47.007 --> 00:16:49.576
- And, in the little the short journey, i mean, there's
- 00:16:49.576 --> 00:16:53.847
- Some conversation sometimes it's quite quiet and and solemn,
- 00:16:53.847 --> 00:16:57.884
- But in this case, the director, he knew me quite well.
- 00:16:57.884 --> 00:17:00.921
- He said, john, have you heard the term granny dumping?
- 00:17:00.921 --> 00:17:04.357
- And i hadn't heard it.
- 00:17:04.357 --> 00:17:05.859
- And he simply explained to me,
- 00:17:05.859 --> 00:17:07.561
- He said, you know what's happening today?
- 00:17:07.561 --> 00:17:09.296
- He said, bothers me. and it's but it's common.
- 00:17:09.296 --> 00:17:12.065
- He said, we'll get a phone call from a family member
- 00:17:12.065 --> 00:17:15.936
- And we'll be asked to call whether to the hospital,
- 00:17:15.936 --> 00:17:18.805
- Or the nursing home or some other place.
- 00:17:18.805 --> 00:17:23.276
- And we're simply asked to go and collect collect the body
- 00:17:23.276 --> 00:17:27.681
- And dispose of it and send us the bill.
- 00:17:27.681 --> 00:17:31.384
- And they the funeral directors had coined the phrase
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- Granny dumping,
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- Which i thought, you know, captures the spirit of the age
- 00:17:36.389 --> 00:17:40.660
- Whereby parents who've raised their children,
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- Grandparents who've raised their children
- 00:17:44.197 --> 00:17:46.166
- And helped their grandchildren
- 00:17:46.166 --> 00:17:47.901
- And at the very end of their
- 00:17:47.901 --> 00:17:49.069
- Lives, when life ends, there's no one there for them.
- 00:17:49.069 --> 00:17:53.273
- As a pastor for for over over 40 years,
- 00:17:53.273 --> 00:17:55.375
- Visiting and in hospitals and nursing homes
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- And asking people have,
- 00:17:59.112 --> 00:18:01.047
- Has your relative been in to see your son, your daughter?
- 00:18:01.047 --> 00:18:03.783
- And many cases they have, but people have had visits,
- 00:18:03.783 --> 00:18:07.721
- But in many cases the people are.
- 00:18:07.721 --> 00:18:09.923
- The old people are very kind.
- 00:18:09.923 --> 00:18:12.092
- They say, oh well, has she hasn't
- 00:18:12.092 --> 00:18:14.394
- Been here for a while, but i know they're coming.
- 00:18:14.394 --> 00:18:17.397
- And i could see the sadness in their eyes and speaks to me
- 00:18:17.397 --> 00:18:20.967
- Of what paul is describing here unloving, uncaring
- 00:18:20.967 --> 00:18:25.872
- Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of god.
- 00:18:25.872 --> 00:18:29.609
- And it's a sad state of affairs, and it must and must break
- 00:18:29.609 --> 00:18:33.980
- God's heart.
- 00:18:33.980 --> 00:18:35.415
- Now, paul has more to say in his long letter to the romans,
- 00:18:35.415 --> 00:18:40.353
- But let me go to romans chapter one.
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- For the wrath of god is revealed from heaven
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- Against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,
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- Who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
- 00:18:49.529 --> 00:18:52.465
- What truth?
- 00:18:52.465 --> 00:18:53.667
- This truth, the truth of almighty god.
- 00:18:53.667 --> 00:18:56.736
- Remember jesus said, i am the way, the truth, and the life.
- 00:18:56.736 --> 00:19:02.108
- So christ is the embodiment of truth
- 00:19:02.108 --> 00:19:05.378
- And the bible reflects god's truth.
- 00:19:05.378 --> 00:19:08.448
- So let me read it again.
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- Unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth
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- In unrighteousness, they push it down.
- 00:19:14.688 --> 00:19:17.857
- They don't want to hear it.
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- They push it away because it brings conviction.
- 00:19:19.059 --> 00:19:22.162
- God's truth does,
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- Because it tells us that we're falling short of his
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- Moral standards.
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- Verse 19, because what may be known of god
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- Is manifest in them, for god has shown it to them.
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- For since the creation of the world, his god's
- 00:19:36.509 --> 00:19:39.412
- Invisible attributes are clearly seen.
- 00:19:39.412 --> 00:19:42.616
- Being understood by the things that are made,
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- Even his eternal power and godhead,
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- So that they are without excuse.
- 00:19:48.054 --> 00:19:51.258
- Basically, what paul is saying is
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- Every human being has to realize there is
- 00:19:54.494 --> 00:19:57.897
- A power greater in them, greater than himself or herself.
- 00:19:57.897 --> 00:20:01.701
- Because look around at the creation.
- 00:20:01.701 --> 00:20:04.070
- And i mean, consider my backdrop
- 00:20:04.070 --> 00:20:06.373
- This morning, the sea of galilee behind the camera,
- 00:20:06.373 --> 00:20:09.509
- And the mountains of israel behind me.
- 00:20:09.509 --> 00:20:12.712
- This is the creation of almighty god.
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- But then we read in verse 21 of romans one,
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- Because although they knew god,
- 00:20:20.820 --> 00:20:22.822
- They did not glorify him as god, nor were thankful,
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- But became futile in their thoughts,
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- And their foolish hearts were darkened, professing to be wise,
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- They became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible
- 00:20:33.033 --> 00:20:37.137
- God into an image made like corruptible man
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- And birds, and forfeited animals and creeping things.
- 00:20:41.274 --> 00:20:45.478
- Now here is where i believe we reached god's tipping point.
- 00:20:45.478 --> 00:20:50.016
- And it's this.
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- Therefore god also gave them up to uncleanness
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- And the lusts of their hearts to dishonor
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- Their bodies among themselves.
- 00:20:57.924 --> 00:21:01.628
- I believe this means that through a man or
- 00:21:01.628 --> 00:21:04.831
- A woman, or a nation for that matter, can reach the place
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- Where god's holy spirit no longer strives with them.
- 00:21:08.601 --> 00:21:12.472
- God no longer tries to call them back to himself.
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- It says it clearly in the scripture.
- 00:21:16.042 --> 00:21:18.311
- God gave them up to uncleanness in the lusts of their hearts.
- 00:21:18.311 --> 00:21:22.682
- In other words,
- 00:21:22.682 --> 00:21:23.817
- He lets them live out their evil, wicked inclinations.
- 00:21:23.817 --> 00:21:27.987
- It will bring
- 00:21:28.355 --> 00:21:29.422
- Catastrophe on them, but he allows them to do it.
- 00:21:29.422 --> 00:21:32.592
- And so they've crossed his red moral red lines, as it were.
- 00:21:32.592 --> 00:21:37.997
- And then what will happen is that society will slowly
- 00:21:37.997 --> 00:21:42.202
- But surely disintegrate, like all ancient societies
- 00:21:42.202 --> 00:21:46.906
- Who thought they knew better than god and adopted
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- A wickedness and perversions of every kind
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- And suffered the consequences.
- 00:21:55.115 --> 00:21:58.351
- And then in those instances where god decided to intervene
- 00:21:58.351 --> 00:22:02.655
- And bring his own judgment, as he did in the days of noah,
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- As he did with sodom and gomorrah
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- And the other
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- Cities of the plain, as he did with the tower of babel.
- 00:22:09.529 --> 00:22:12.632
- And as all the prophecies tell us, he will do again
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- Through the judgments that are laid out for us
- 00:22:16.736 --> 00:22:19.072
- In the last book of the new testament,
- 00:22:19.072 --> 00:22:21.408
- The book of the revelation of jesus christ.
- 00:22:21.408 --> 00:22:24.778
- What jesus revealed the risen christ revealed to john
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- The apostle who was a prisoner on the isle of patmos.
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- I believe that we are on the edge of the judgments
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- That we read about in the book of revelation.
- 00:22:35.789 --> 00:22:38.691
- In fact, in some senses, the the floods
- 00:22:38.691 --> 00:22:42.262
- And the hurricanes and the things we're seeing,
- 00:22:42.262 --> 00:22:44.697
- These could be the leading edge of what is to come.
- 00:22:44.697 --> 00:22:48.501
- And i do believe,
- 00:22:48.501 --> 00:22:49.769
- According to the words of jesus, these these events will occur
- 00:22:49.769 --> 00:22:53.540
- With greater frequency and greater in intensity.
- 00:22:53.540 --> 00:22:58.278
- Now it's in a sense, a bleak picture
- 00:22:58.278 --> 00:23:01.314
- That is depicted in scripture.
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- And i've outlined today.
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- So the question that we must ask
- 00:23:05.051 --> 00:23:06.753
- This question before we finish, is there any hope
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- I'll come back to that after this short break.
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- If you're not already a christian, you can become one.
- 00:23:23.603 --> 00:23:26.039
- The bible says,
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- If you confess with your mouth the lord jesus christ
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- And believe in your heart that god raised him
- 00:23:29.976 --> 00:23:31.911
- From the dead, you will be saved.
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- C4i that simply means we are christians
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- Who care about israel,
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- And somebody needs to care for the people of israel today
- 00:23:41.187 --> 00:23:43.990
- Because they are suffering so much.
- 00:23:43.990 --> 00:23:46.025
- First of all, with a massacre that occurred on october
- 00:23:46.025 --> 00:23:49.028
- 7th, 2023, and then rocket barrages from the gaza strip
- 00:23:49.028 --> 00:23:54.200
- And more recently, ballistic missiles from iran.
- 00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:57.971
- We're here to help the less fortunate,
- 00:23:57.971 --> 00:24:00.340
- The hungry, the homeless, children at risk,
- 00:24:00.340 --> 00:24:03.309
- Special children that need 24 seven care.
- 00:24:03.309 --> 00:24:07.280
- But we can't do it alone.
- 00:24:07.280 --> 00:24:08.615
- We need your help. please.
- 00:24:08.615 --> 00:24:10.717
- You'll see the numbers on the screen.
- 00:24:10.717 --> 00:24:12.986
- You'll see the websites that we have.
- 00:24:12.986 --> 00:24:15.121
- Please go to the phone or go to the website.
- 00:24:15.121 --> 00:24:18.258
- Make a donation.
- 00:24:18.258 --> 00:24:19.492
- Stand with us to stand with israel's less fortunate people.
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- Thank you.
- 00:24:25.398 --> 00:24:35.475
- Is there any hope?
- 00:24:35.909 --> 00:24:37.810
- Let me go back to isaiah.
- 00:24:37.810 --> 00:24:39.245
- I read from isaiah chapter two earlier,
- 00:24:39.245 --> 00:24:41.481
- But it was the prophetic warning that isaiah gave.
- 00:24:41.481 --> 00:24:45.518
- And now i want to go to something else
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- That he wrote in the very same chapter in chapter two.
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- But at the beginning of the chapter, incredible words
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- Of hope, a prophecy on the lips of isaiah,
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- The word that isaiah,
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- The son of amos saw concerning judah and jerusalem.
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- Now it shall come to pass in the latter days.
- 00:25:02.635 --> 00:25:05.071
- And that expression means the end of days.
- 00:25:05.071 --> 00:25:07.607
- And in our christian context, the soon coming of christ,
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- That the mountain of the lord's house
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- Shall be established on top, on the top of the mountains,
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- And shall be exalted
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- Above the hills, and all nations shall flow to it.
- 00:25:18.685 --> 00:25:22.789
- I believe that means the temple in jerusalem will be rebuilt,
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- And jerusalem will once again be the center of the world
- 00:25:26.192 --> 00:25:30.096
- And the kingdom of god ushered in by the christ.
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- Many people shall come and say, come, and let us go up
- 00:25:34.767 --> 00:25:38.371
- To the mountain of the lord, to the house of the god of jacob.
- 00:25:38.371 --> 00:25:42.008
- He will teach us his ways, and we shall walk in his paths.
- 00:25:42.008 --> 00:25:46.446
- For out of zion shall go forth the law,
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- And the word of the lord from jerusalem.
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- And these encouraging words, in a time when war is raging in
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- Various places across the earth and displacing people.
- 00:25:56.789 --> 00:26:00.126
- And just the other day, here in israel,
- 00:26:00.126 --> 00:26:03.630
- I met with russian and ukrainian refugees
- 00:26:03.630 --> 00:26:06.866
- That our ministry is helping here.
- 00:26:06.866 --> 00:26:09.202
- In fact, we're housing them and we're feeding them,
- 00:26:09.202 --> 00:26:12.038
- And we're providing major appliances
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- Like washing machines and things.
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- Practical help.
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- But i saw the thankfulness in their eyes that we've been
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- There are charity has been there to help them.
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- And then this
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- This is a word for them and any nation engaged in war.
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- He so judge between the nations and rebuke many people.
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- They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears
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- Into pruning hooks.
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- Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
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- Neither shall they learn war anymore.
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- This two is god's truth
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- And such an encouraging word in which to leave this news
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- Series.
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- And i
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- Want to thank you for following with us. c4.
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- I following with us in this journey
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- As we've looked at the truth of god
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- As we blow on the trumpet of warning of things to come.
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- But at the same time, we have extended the invitation
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- That it's not too late to come back to god and to find
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- Refuge in him through his son, jesus of nazareth.
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- He died for me.
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- He died for you,
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- And he died to give us the best of all futures.
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- Thank you for watching.
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- Thanks so much for watching today.
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- Join us next time for another exciting season
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- Of the prophetic connection.
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