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Male announcer: coming up tonight on "praise."
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Keenan clark: the greatest threat to our church is not that
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Which is without, but that which is within.
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And when this pulpit, this sacred desk has verses it will
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And will not preach, we are in trouble.
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I'm tired of preaching sermons, telling you what to believe and
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Not telling you why you ought to believe it.
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Keenan clark: i would say this, if you feel a tug from god, god
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Intends to use the version of you he calls.
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So when god calls, he's aware of what stage of life you're in.
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That 14-year-old boy went through arguably hell on earth
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Following this messiah.
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He says i've got to write this man's revelation now.
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And man, that's what i'm fighting for.
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I'm fighting for some 14-year-old johns out there who,
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Yes, you're 14, and all you can see is just taking on daddy's
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Business, but man, there's, there's more the master has
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For you.
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Announcer: tonight on "praise from dallas,"
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Pastor, author, and leadership expert, keenan clark.
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And now your host matt and laurie crouch.
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Matt crouch: brother keenan, we have lots of ways we could
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Introduce you, but i think that it's just super-obvious you're a
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Young guy, and you love jesus.
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Keenan: without a doubt.
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Matt: and you go around, and you're an evangelist and you do
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Things, so where do you wanna start this particular
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Interview today?
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Introduce yourself and what you do and why you do it.
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Keenan: yeah, my name's keenan, and i'm on fire for the things
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Of god.
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I'm on fire for the gospel of jesus christ.
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I believe, you know, i could have gone to school and gotten a
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Degree in this, that, the other, but anything less than giving my
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Life for the proclamation of the gospel of jesus christ, i feel
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Like would be an utter waste.
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I feel like i have the highest calling on planet earth, to be a
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Herald and a proclaimer, a preacher of the gospel of
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Jesus christ.
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And that's what i do.
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I travel full time all over the nation, preaching at various
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Events, conferences, church services, revival meetings.
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It's kind of wild some of the places we end up finding
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Ourselves, but jesus is doing an incredible work.
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I know globally but specific even here locally, nationally,
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Jesus is doing something very special, and i'm thankful to get
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To be a small part.
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You know, the bible says god places members in the body as it
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Pleases him, and i'm thankful he found it pleasing to place
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Me here.
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And i'm just a big believer that right now we need to trust in a
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Sovereign god, that i believe in a sovereign god who has a
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Sovereign plan, that the things that catch us by surprise do not
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Catch him by surprise, that what god is doing in the earth, he's
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Not one day ahead of us, he's not like a youtube video, just
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Slightly buffering, figuring things out, that he has a
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Master plan.
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And i'm thankful to get to watch that play out.
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And years ago i felt like the holy spirit told me, keenan, i
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Have a place for you, but you've got to take your place.
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You gotta take me at your word-- at my word, and you gotta stand
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Up and stand in the gap that will be empty unless you take
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That spot and be a watchman on the wall, a herald of the
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Gospel, and let my people know what i've done for them.
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And so that's what i've given my life to.
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Keenan: i'm not calling you to live for jesus.
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Listen to me.
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We've had enough messages calling you to live for jesus.
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I think you won't have a problem living for him when you become
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Ready to die for him.
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Like, we have used little kid gloves on y'all for too long.
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This is a call not to just live, but to be ready. i'm not talking to die to your flesh.
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Of course you're called to do that.
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I'm saying you are literally ready to be martyred for the
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Cause of christ.
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And listen to me, with every eye open and with everyone looking
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Around, if you are ready to say, god, i'm ready to go deeper,
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God, i'm convinced.
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I want you to flood to this altar, and i'm gonna believe
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God's gonna touch you in a profound way to where you leave,
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Beyond a shadow of a doubt you have seen the king of glory,
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He's placed his coal upon your lips, he's clinched you, he's
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Redeemed you, he's forgiven you, he has set you apart, you are a
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Holy nation of royal priesthood.
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Matt: you know, young people are in the spotlight right now.
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There's a lot going on nationally.
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It is obvious that this assassination of charlie kirk
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Did something to this nation.
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It did something to the world, and so there is a spotlight on
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People that look like you, not me, okay?
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When you have chocolate brown hair and no wrinkles, and i have
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Gray hair and a lot of wrinkles, there's a spotlight on your
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Generation, there's a spotlight on the fact that distribution is
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Basically available to any voice for jesus that there is.
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There is a complete access.
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The gospel can go out at any time, anywhere.
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Social media is the greatest thing that's ever happened
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To evangelism.
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You know, the internet, sure, has problems.
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Sure there's a lot of things you can complain about in regard to
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The internet, but i see it.
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Laurie crouch: so does tv.
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Matt: of course, but i see the internet as basically a system
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That got built to virtually every device on planet earth,
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Big, little devices.
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And used correctly, technology is neutral.
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My mom and dad had to figure that out, you know?
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At some point my mom and dad's mom and dad told them tv was
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Evil, and my dad had to say, mom and dad, you're, you
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Know, largely--
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Laurie: or movies.
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Matt: yeah, movies and tv were evil, and you know, you're
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Sincere but you're sincerely wrong.
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Keenan: right.
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Matt: everything like this is neutral.
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It's the intention of the person using it that makes it a force
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For good or evil.
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Keenan: right.
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Matt: so i love the fact that there is a youth thing.
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You largely got thrust into it in a very weird way.
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We wanna know kind of where you are, what your message to the
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Youth is.
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We wanna know what your message to all of us is.
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We want the youth to rise.
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We wanna see a global thing happen and organize, and we
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Wanna see it last for generations that changes the
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Course of human history.
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That's what we want to happen right here, right now in 2025
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And beyond.
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All right, you largely got thrust into this in a very
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Weird way.
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Kind of why don't you start at the very beginning and just kind
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Of walk us through some things?
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Keenan: yeah, so i have been preaching for the last 12 years.
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I know i don't probably look old enough to have been preaching
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For that long, but i actually have been preaching, traveling,
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Itinerant, and then i was on staff.
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My mom and dad are in ministry.
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They pastor a church in west texas.
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But i've been using social media for a number of years, and god
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Has just been opening doors.
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God is in his sovereignty has just decided to bless that.
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Back in 2022, god just began to to open door after door
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After door.
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There's a whole backstory even to why i believe that god is
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Trusting us with the online reach that he even is, which we
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May be able to get into later on the program.
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But within the last year and a half, to kind of get at what i
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Think you're asking me about, turning point usa began to reach
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Out to me and invite me to several events.
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Like i said, we're traveling, we're very busy, and not always
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Could we get our schedules to align.
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I was trying to make it to where we could get over there, and we
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Just--we could never get our schedules to line up.
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But then finally they reached out and they said, hey, we're
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Gonna have this pastor summit in los angeles, california.
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We're getting 700, 800 pastors in one place, and we want you to
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Come and preach to them.
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We're gonna give you 20 minutes just to like light them up, and
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I was like, okay, say less.
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And so they gave me just free reign to kind of preach whatever
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Was on my heart.
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I mean, that's a lot of trust to give to somebody when you have a
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Platform like that.
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And they say we just trust the holy spirit and you just let
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Him--tell them what god's telling you.
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And so, i remember i began to pray, and i began to seek the
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Lord and i'm like, lord, what is it that you--number one that
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You wanna say in general, but that you wanna say to
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These pastors?
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Because i love ministers.
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Number one, of course i wanna care for those who are caring
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For the body of christ, but i also recognize their life
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Represents so many lives.
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Like, they have a window to preach to people i may never
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Have a window to preach to, to reach people that probably would
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Never even like listening to somebody like me.
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And that is the beauty of how eclectic and diverse, the body
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Of christ is.
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So i remember i just began to pray, lord, what do you want
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These--and i had this in my head, these shepherds to hear?
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And as i began to pray into it, this passage of scripture kept
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Coming up in my spirit over and over, and the bible says this,
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Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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And at first, i began to think, okay, what the enemy is trying
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To do is he's trying to discredit who jesus christ is,
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Because jesus christ is the over-shepherd, right?
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That's what peter tells us in 1 peter, christ is the over
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Shepherd, he's the main shepherd, he is the good
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Shepherd, and so if the enemy can try to get you to distrust
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And even maybe plant some seeds of doubt in who this good
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Shepherd is, it will cause you as a sheep to want to scatter.
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So there's been this big thing in me that has been i've been
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Going around the country defending the divinity of
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Christ, even from an apologetic standpoint.
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I don't consider myself an apologist, i'm not an expert in
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Apologetics, but i've been doing the best i can to defend the
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Divinity of christ and really even call the church of jesus
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Christ back, particularly my generation, to not just this
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Mind-numbing church attendance, but to really understand
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Doctrine and not just to tell them what to believe, but tell
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Them here's why we believe these things, not just give you words
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To regurgitate so you can tell everybody why you're a good
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Little christian, but here's what i stand on, here's what i
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Believe, these are my core tenets.
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But then the message really began to evolve in my heart, and
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The lord began to help me see that it was pastors, those
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Shepherds, there's the over-shepherd and the
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Under-shepherds, and the enemy is after these shepherds of
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These bodies, and if he can compromise a shepherd, if he can
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Get a shepherd to cower and not want to preach the whole council
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Of the word of god, to pick and choose what will or will not fly
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Behind his pulpit, what books of those 66 in that collection that
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He will or will not adhere to, what's a metaphor, and what's
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Actually literal, and begin to try to, you know, discredit what
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Has been taught as solid doctrine for so long.
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If the enemy can do that, it's only a matter of time before he
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Has the whole flock right where he wants 'em.
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And so i was sharing these things with my wife, and she was
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Like i think that's for turning point.
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Like, you need to go to all those pastors at turning point
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And preach that.
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And so i'm like, okay, and if my--i have been saved by the
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Blood of jesus, and i'm being sanctified by the work of the
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Holy spirit and beth clark.
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Matt: got it.
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Keenan: she is helping me grow, and so when my wife was like i
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Really feel like that's what the lord has for this los angeles
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Event with turning point.
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This was gonna be in august of 2025.
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And so i remember i went, i preached it, and it was an
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Incredible response watching pastors get lit up.
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I really--i went to jeremiah 36, and i called pastors back to
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Their fidelity to the word of god.
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Because in jeremiah 36, you see king jehoiakim, he takes his
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Knife, and he's off in his winter palace, and he's cutting
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The scroll and kind of choosing what parts of the word of god
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He's gonna adhere to and discarding the rest of it in a
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Fire right there.
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And god does not have very nice things to say to jehoiakim.
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Like literally god says, "jehoiakim, i saw what you did,
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And i'm coming for you."
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He literally says your body will be thrown out to the heat of the
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Day and the frost by night.
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There will be no one from your lineage to sit on the throne
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Of david.
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And then if you read daniel chapter 1 and verse 1, it says
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That in the third year of the reign of king jehoiakim,
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Nebuchadnezzar besieges jerusalem.
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That whole moment where daniel, shadrack, meshach, and abednego
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Are led into the captivity captivity of babylon, it was
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Because jehoiakim disrespected the word of god.
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So god in his sovereignty allows nebuchadnezzar to take hold of
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That land.
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And i just wanted to call pastors back and say over our
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Dead bodies.
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Over our dead bodies.
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Are we gonna allow the devil to think he has this generation, to
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Think he owns this generation, to think he's got the corner on
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This generation?
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No, this generation was built for the things of god.
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They are made not in the image of satan, they're made in the
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Image of yahweh god, and helping them come alive to their true
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Intention, their true architect, if you will, is a passion of
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Mine and a fire of mine.
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So i preach that pastors are getting lit up, the place is
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Going wild, and then i fly home.
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Little do i know 30 days later, almost exactly 30 days later,
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Charlie is in utah, and an assassin's bullet, you know,
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Takes his life, makes him a modern-day martyr.
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And all of a sudden, as i'm grappling with this, because
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Like there's a personal place to this now where it's like man
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I'm--i feel like a part of the turning point family, all of a
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Sudden, literally the day it happens, the lord shows me the
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Message i preached.
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He said, "keenan, i was warning my church in a way you, even
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Though you were the mouthpiece, didn't even know, you were
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Warning my church that this is not going to take me by
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Surprise, that a shepherd will be struck."
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I mean, i think it's hard to argue that charlie was not
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Shepherding a generation, was not trying to look out for the
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Welfare and the well-being of a generation, even let's be
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Honest, those yet unborn, charlie had their best interest
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In mind.
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And so it's one of those things, like i began to see strike a
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Shepherd, and what the temptation is, then, for sheep
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To begin to scatter.
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And so i feel like a mandate right now to say much like
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Charlie, when you take out one voice, what you really end up
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Doing is you embolden the voices of others who have felt like
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They were voiceless.
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One of the things i love about charlie was that he was just a
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Regular guy who had a passion.
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I mean, his whole thing was that he didn't go to college.
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I mean, so it's not like you can even say he had some crazy, you
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Know, degree, like born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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Like, he put his hand to the plow and asked the hand of the
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Lord to rest upon him, and it made all the difference in
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The world.
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And so that's what i feel like i'm calling people to is, man,
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Put your hand on that bible, ask the lord to put his hand upon
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You, and watch what the lord could do through your life.
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And it's not time to scatter, it's time for sheep to rise.
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Keenan: charlie kirk and turning point usa faith about one month
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Ago had an event in los angeles, california, and they invited me
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To preach, and now it is eerie one month later to watch the
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Message back.
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I'm gonna play you a snippet of it, because i believe the lord
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Has something to say.
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Keenan: the lord said this, strike the shepherd, and the
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Sheep will scatter.
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Now, you and i understand, because we know our bibles that
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This was namely speaking of what would happen to christ.
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But listen to me.
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This will apply to any shepherd.
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We see that this is proven true in acts chapter 5. y'all
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Remember gamaliel, the guru, pharisee, he says, hey, may i
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Remind you there was thaddeus.
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Thaddeus had some followers, and guess what we did?
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We killed him, and his followers scattered.
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He says it wasn't just thaddeus, there was also judas of galilee.
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Guess what happened to judas of galilee?
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We killed him, and his followers scattered, giving credence to
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This idea that if you can simply strike the shepherd, it will
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Dismantle the movement.
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I felt it urged, provoked in my heart to preach to some
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Shepherds, because you are the enemy's number-one target.
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Listen to me, your life represents so much more than
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Just your life.
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Keenan: ooh, one month later watching that back is eerie, but
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Listen to me.
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The enemy's tactic is to strike the shepherds, and yesterday in
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Utah a shepherd was struck.
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What the enemy would love nothing more to do out of
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Charlie kirk's death is to cause all the sheep to scatter, to
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Cause fear to well up in our hearts, which i have been
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Tempted to be afraid in these moments.
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Fear seems like it is a knocking on the door, and what the enemy
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Would love is to silence the sheep, to cause the sheep to
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Be scattered.
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But right now i believe god is going to turn this around, and
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Not only are the sheep not going to scatter, the sheep are going
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To rise up like never before.
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The shepherds are going to begin to speak out.
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There are going to be people beginning to carry the banner of
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The truth of jesus christ like never before.
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I want to remind you ephesians 6 says that we wrestle not against
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Flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers of the
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Air, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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The enemy is trying to get you and i to think on the plane of
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Flesh and blood, but that's not where we retaliate.
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We retaliate in the spirit where we know the real battle is.
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And let me remind you of what 2 corinthians 10 says.
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Second corinthians 10 says that the weapons of our warfare,
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They're not carnal, but they are still mighty in our god for the
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Pulling down of strongholds and the tearing down of every
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Pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of god.
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That's what charlie kirk came against.
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He came against things that set themselves up against the
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Knowledge of god, and it is time for you and i to stand up in the
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Power of the gospel, filled with the holy spirit just as charlie
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Kirk was, and take that mantle, take that baton of truth further
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Than ever before.
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It's not time for sheep to scatter, it's time for sheep
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To rise.
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Matt: okay, so there's truth in that message that you preached
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At that event, but truth doesn't change anyone, only the truth
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You act upon or believe or, you know, you have to take that, so
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What is the point of that if you've got now a second bite at
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The apple here, those pastors now are watching and many more,
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What do you want that message to represent in the future?
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Keenan: yeah, absolutely.
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I want it to represent a generation that finds their
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Voice, and our voice is the voice of truth, end it, send it,
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That is it right there.
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That we are called to echo the words of our lord and savior, to
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Be proclaimers of the gospel, to hold on to the truth, not truth
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We make up, and not truth that feels good today and maybe i'll
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Have a different truth tomorrow, but truth that transcends
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Current trends.
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That's the thing i love about scripture, 200 years from now,
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Scripture will be scripture.
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It will say the same thing.
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I don't pledge my allegiance to someone who might change his
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Mind tomorrow.
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I pledge my allegiance to someone who had his mind fixed
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Before the foundations of the world.
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Before creation christ was the lamb slain.
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That's what revelation 13 says, the lamb slain before the
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Foundation of the world, that the plan was already set, and
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That's the kind of leader i follow, that's the god i serve.
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And so that's what i'm imploring people is to say, hey, let's let
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A moment like this--yeah, we grieve, but we don't grieve as
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Those who have no hope.
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We grieve from a place of hope knowing that, man, god has an
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Incredible intention, that god has prophetically seen these
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Things and even warned us.
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And i pretend to not even--i don't pretend to be the only
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Voice that god has in any way used to warn or to shape or to
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Influence, but i want to be one of many who is all saying the
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Same thing, that christ--
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I was at the memorial.
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Keenan: two hours until start time, and this place is
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Filling up.
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This is revival.
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Come on, look.
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[music]
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Keenan: and you cannot tell me that that was not a move of god.
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I heard the gospel preached with more conviction and more
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Eloquence than i've heard in some churches by people who--
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I mean, what jd vance said.
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He said i have not talked about jesus christ more in my life
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Than i have in the last two weeks.
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It is hard to argue that something is not stirring.
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And again, as i said as we began to open this up, the holy spirit
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Told me, keenan, it's time for you to take your place.
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You know, god is a god of partnership.
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You've heard of like people being possessed, right?
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That that's a demonic thing.
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The devil possesses, god i found he wants partnership.
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He likes it when we choose to be a part of this thing, he's
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A gentleman.
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And what i wanna encourage anyone, any young person out
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There, any not just young people, you know, god is no
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Respecter of age, that if you are still sucking oxygen on this
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Planet, that that means god has an intention for your life, and
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It's not just for you to echo and and champion people who are
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On tbn or anyone else you may follow, it's for you to find
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Your voice, to echo what is coming out of his mouth, because
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His words will not fall to the ground.
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Not a single one will return void.
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I mean, god holds his word higher than anything else along
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With his own name.
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And so if we would begin to use our life to begin to echo his
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Words, our lives will begin to have ripples far beyond us.
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And let me say this, there is a revival coming.
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It's already in the early stages.
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It's beginning to form, it's beginning to organize, and those
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Things need to take place, but listen to me, it is going to
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Shape the next 150 years of this country.
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It is going to be a multi-generational revival.
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It's gonna be a reformation and awakening, and it's time for you
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To take your place and step up to the plate and be a part
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Of it.
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Keenan: the greatest threat to our church is not that which is
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Without, but that which is within.
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And when this pulpit, this sacred desk has verses it will
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And will not preach, we are in trouble.
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I'm tired of preaching sermons telling you what to believe and
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Not telling you why you ought to believe it.
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Just repeat it.
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Oh, just trust me, i'm the expert.
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I'm in front of all the people.
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No, i want you to have confidence in why jesus christ
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Is the anchor for your soul.
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Matt: you see something positive out of a negative situation in
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The way that human beings interrelate to each other.
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Charlie being gone, but you're seeing something positive that
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Can happen.
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So, what i guess you're saying is romans 8:28 is real, it
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Really works.
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There can be things out of negative that god shapes, and i
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Think the winners in life do that sooner than other people.
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Keenan: yes.
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Matt: and there has been negative things that have
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Happened inside of trinity.
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Over the 53 years of our corporate history, there's been
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Many negative things.
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There's been mind-numbing terrible things happen.
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My dad was in litigation with the federal government for
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Eight years.
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You know, i mean, it's just-- and on and on i could just, you
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Know, start down the list of negative things.
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And but when you look back on them, you can say why wasn't i
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Seen what god was going to do?
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You know, we had a negative thing happen recently, and it
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Got in the papers, and i had a friend call me, a very prophetic
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Friend call me the day the article hit and say i almost
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Have a spiritual jealousy, because i have been shown by the
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Lord that this is simply an elevation for you.
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What you're seeing is this slog that you're going to be going
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Through for a while, i see it as this elevation.
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That was day one.
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Laurie: congratulations, man.
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Matt: yeah, it was like god's got you on this, and it's an
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Elevation for you, and guess what?
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That was the most spirit-lifting thing i've ever heard.
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When a gun goes off and a shepherd falls, and one of the
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Sheep, young person like yourself, sees a global revival
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Lasting for multi-generations, that's god's voice emerging to a
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Generation, and we love that.
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And largely that's why you're sitting here.
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Keenan: amen, amen.
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I think you can either--and i think that god is patient with
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Us, and he allows us to be human beings so when opposition comes
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Your way, it's okay to recognize i'm being opposed, this
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Is opposition.
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We're not those people who stick our head in the sand, but what
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You have to recognize is, okay, eventually i've got to see this
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Isn't just opposition, it's an opportunity, right?
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And that's what we have to press into.
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Yes, again, we grieve, but we don't grieve as those who have
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No hope.
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We have the hope of the world.
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I mean, jesus, john 16:33, "take heart, for i have overcome
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The world."
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And i just don't know what--i mean sometimes you look at
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People who respond that don't have christ, and we can go what
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In the world are they doing?
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But any one of us would probably be responding the same way if we
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Didn't have that hope, and that is why our job as evangelists,
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As proclaimers of the gospel is so important, because if people
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Don't have hope, they cast off restraint, they perish for a
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Lack of knowledge, and that's the thing we've got to be doing
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Is helping.
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I have felt a big responsibility in this to, you know, i
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Understand that there are a lot of eyes and hearts watching what
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I say and do, and i'm like, man, i cannot be silent.
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I know i've got to like work through this as a person, but as
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A minister, i feel like i can't be silent because i've got to
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Help a generation walk through this and process this in
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Alignment with that book right there.
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And so it would be easy to just try to be like, okay, well, you
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Know, i know what god's doing, i know it's gonna be okay, yes, we
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Grieve, but we don't grieve as those who have no help, but
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We've got to get vocal.
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Because in all honesty, all the wrong people are being the most
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Vocal, and that is often the trend, and so we need people who
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Actually have some semblance--
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Laurie: did i say that too loud?
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Matt: yeah, you jumped in really hard on that one for
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Some reason.
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Keenan: yeah, my wife would have done the same thing, but some
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Semblance of truth, you know, to begin to speak and make sense of
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All this.
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Laurie: i have so many wonderful things to say.
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Kudos to your mother and your father.
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I love you.
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Just watching your kid do his thing, i love that.
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And so as a mom of two boys, i'm very proud.
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Matt: he's a preacher's kid too.
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Laurie: yes, and i love everything about what god is
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Doing, and i often think first of all what i pick up is these
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Kids are doing completely different than--so our
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Generation, we kind of grew up him mostly under a dispensation
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That jesus is coming back tomorrow, so we don't have time
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To go to school, you gotta--
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This generation doesn't think about that, and they're not
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Going to school anyway, because i've got a call on my life, and
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I'm gonna do it.
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Love you for that.
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But then i just think how the bible's always talking about in
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The time of daniel or in the time of moses or in the time,
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And this is such a time for keenan clark.
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You know, it was a time for charlie.
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This is a time, a set time in the history of laying the bricks
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In the wall, right?
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And i think what's happening now with the death of charlie and
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What that ignited in this generation is gonna be one of
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The most powerful things that we've ever seen in our lifetime.
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What is your most important message to the youth of today
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About calling and purpose in people's life to get the
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Kingdom--i believe the kingdom of god is right here on earth
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Right now.
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Right here, right now.
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Keenan: absolutely.
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I would say this, if you feel a tug from god, god intends to use
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The version of you he calls.
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So when god calls, he's aware of what stage of life you're in,
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He's aware of where you're at in your like in your process
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Through life.
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I think about this, the apostle john, as most scholars can tell,
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At their best guess, was likely 14 years old when jesus found
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Him on that shore working in his father zebedee's business.
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John is likely the youngest of the twelve apostles jesus calls
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By name, right?
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Jesus had twelve, the seventy, of course, then he had the
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Three, and then of course he had, like most people say, john
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Was the closest to jesus.
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John's 14 when jesus calls him.
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What i love is you then fast forward, the very last book we
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Would ever find written by the apostle john is the book
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Of revelation.
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Most scholars would put that writing at about 95 ad.
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Jesus dies in 33 ad, somewhere around there.
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John is an old man at this point.
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But here, what i love is at this point, according to church
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History, he has suffered deeply for the cause of christ.
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Number one, given an incredible task, go and take care of my
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Mother mary.
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Literally jesus says that from the cross, like mother, here is
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Your son, son, here is your mother, and sometimes we can
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Wonder where was john at in the book of acts?
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Like you don't see him a whole lot.
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You see him in the beginning, but then you don't see him a
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Whole lot.
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He's taking care of mary, right?
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How easy would it be to feel left out, you know?
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Like i'm over here, you know, cutting finger sandwiches and
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Pouring chamomile tea for mary while peter and james are over
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There, you know, advancing the kingdom, you know?
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But john had his moment after his assignment was finished, and
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Church history would say he was boiled alive in a vat of oil,
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Survived, wouldn't quit preaching the resurrection of
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Christ, so they stuck him on an island called patmos.
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He then writes a book of revelation.
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We want to make revelation all about the end times, which i'm
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Not saying that there's not, you know, some imagery and all of
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That, but revelation 1:1 tells us what the revelation is, and
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It's the revelation of jesus christ.
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That's what the whole book is about, revealing jesus.
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That 14-year-old boy went through arguably hell on earth
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Following this messiah on an island where there's no one who
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Would give a hoot if he disavowed his faith, walked away
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From the whole thing, gave up on it all.
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He says i've gotta write this man's revelation down, as an old
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Man, still clinging to that.
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And, man, that's what i'm fighting for.
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I'm fighting for some 14-year-old johns out there who
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Don't know any better.
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They think, oh, i'm just gonna carry on zebedee's business,
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Because this is what we do as smiths.
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This is what we do as whatever.
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I'm just gonna keep this business going, and god's
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Saying, "no, i've placed my hand upon you.
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I wanna pour my entire horn of oil upon your head, and i wanna
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Use you.
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And yes, it will cost you greatly."
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And, you know, there's that moment in john 21 where, you
00:32:55.863 --> 00:32:58.499
Know, jesus begins to prophesy to peter how they'll die, right?
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When you're old, you'll want to go a certain way, and somebody
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Will carry you another.
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And then peter goes, "what about john?"
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And jesus says, "what is it to you?
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If i have him never die, you follow me."
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And i believe that not only got into the spirit of peter because
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Peter followed jesus to the bitter end, so did john.
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Even if i'm out here on an island all by myself, there's no
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One to hold me accountable to the faith i supposedly
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Prescribe to.
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I'm not held accountable by exterior forces, i have an
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Inner witness.
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I have a conviction.
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I am living for an audience of one, and if i'm pleasing to god,
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What does it matter whom i displease along the way?
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And that is what i'm--i feel like i'm contending for some
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Apostle johns out there, who, yes, you're 14, and all you can
00:33:46.447 --> 00:33:50.151
See is just taking on daddy's business, but man, there's more
00:33:50.151 --> 00:33:53.254
The master has for you.
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Keenan: i'm sick and tired of acting like young people
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Are wimps.
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I'm sick and tired of acting like young people can't take the
00:33:58.426 --> 00:34:01.262
Word of god, that they can't learn the word of god, that they
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Can't practice the word of god.
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Listen to me, god wrote you into this chapter of the story for
00:34:05.933 --> 00:34:10.371
A reason.
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What does that say about the anointing he is ready to place
00:34:11.739 --> 00:34:14.475
Upon your shoulders?
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God wrote you into one of the most tumultuous times in human
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History, where men are questioning whether they are men
00:34:22.617 --> 00:34:25.520
And women are questioning where they are women.
00:34:25.520 --> 00:34:27.688
The baseline of biology is in question, and god wrote you into
00:34:27.688 --> 00:34:34.028
The story because he knows if you can get ahold of his blood,
00:34:34.028 --> 00:34:38.232
If that blood will get on you, there ain't no demon in hell
00:34:38.232 --> 00:34:41.736
That can compromise you.
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I'm telling you right now.
00:34:43.804 --> 00:34:46.407
You need a blood-soaked story.
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Matt: if this uniquely horrible event of charlie's death raises
00:34:54.815 --> 00:35:03.758
Up a generation of the--you realize the scariest army in the
00:35:03.758 --> 00:35:11.299
World is one that doesn't care if they live or die.
00:35:11.299 --> 00:35:17.238
Keenan: right.
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Matt: you see?
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I mean, you talk about scary.
00:35:19.941 --> 00:35:23.377
You go into battle not caring if you live or die because you're
00:35:23.377 --> 00:35:27.014
Just simply following the footsteps of the messiah, and
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You're drawing a comparison to a generation that quite frankly i
00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:36.857
Don't think we've seen in a while.
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If we see a generation of young people willing to go right into
00:35:39.160 --> 00:35:45.933
The battle in the way that john did, in the way that charlie,
00:35:45.933 --> 00:35:51.439
You know, his life, he went right into the lion's den all
00:35:51.439 --> 00:35:56.911
The time and very clearly understood the dangers that
00:35:56.911 --> 00:36:03.284
Might exist, you know, spitting that much truth in regard to,
00:36:03.284 --> 00:36:11.525
The world will change, and it will change positively
00:36:11.525 --> 00:36:15.129
Forever, because--
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Keenan: yeah, without a doubt.
00:36:16.897 --> 00:36:18.332
Matt: so we started earlier with this message that god had put on
00:36:18.332 --> 00:36:25.306
Your heart to speak at an event, that if you strike the shepherd,
00:36:25.306 --> 00:36:31.779
The sheep will scatter.
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Make a case that now that we're into this conversation a while
00:36:36.083 --> 00:36:42.323
That we can't let them scatter, they've got to come back
00:36:42.323 --> 00:36:46.827
Together to form this steely-eyed army that will
00:36:46.827 --> 00:36:52.433
Change the trajectory of world history.
00:36:52.433 --> 00:36:55.603
Keenan: charlie kirk and turning point usa faith about one month
00:36:55.603 --> 00:36:58.873
Ago had an event in los angeles, california, and they invited me
00:36:58.873 --> 00:37:02.910
To preach, and now it is eerie one month later to watch the
00:37:02.910 --> 00:37:07.815
Message back.
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I'm gonna play you a snippet of it, because i believe the lord
00:37:09.183 --> 00:37:10.918
Has something to say.
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Keenan: the lord said this, strike the shepherd, and the
00:37:12.253 --> 00:37:15.423
Sheep will scatter.
00:37:15.423 --> 00:37:17.358
Now, you and i understand, because we know our bibles, that
00:37:17.358 --> 00:37:19.627
This was namely speaking of what would happen to christ.
00:37:19.627 --> 00:37:22.263
But listen to me.
00:37:22.263 --> 00:37:23.597
This will apply to any shepherd.
00:37:23.597 --> 00:37:24.965
We see that this is proven true in acts chapter 5. y'all
00:37:24.965 --> 00:37:27.635
Remember gamaliel, the guru, pharisee.
00:37:27.635 --> 00:37:30.504
He says, hey, may i remind you there was thaddeus.
00:37:30.504 --> 00:37:34.375
Thaddeus had some followers, and guess what we did?
00:37:34.375 --> 00:37:36.177
We killed him, and his followers scattered.
00:37:36.177 --> 00:37:40.781
He says it wasn't just thaddeus, there was also judas of galilee.
00:37:40.781 --> 00:37:43.984
Guess what happened to judas of galilee?
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We killed him, and his followers scattered, giving credence to
00:37:45.653 --> 00:37:50.124
This idea that if you can simply strike the shepherd, it will
00:37:50.124 --> 00:37:55.096
Dismantle the movement.
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I felt it urged, provoked in my heart to preach to some
00:37:57.531 --> 00:38:01.936
Shepherds, because you are the enemy's number-one target.
00:38:01.936 --> 00:38:05.072
Listen to me, your life represents so much more than
00:38:05.072 --> 00:38:07.208
Just your life.
00:38:07.208 --> 00:38:09.110
Keenan: ooh, month later watching that back is eerie, but
00:38:09.110 --> 00:38:12.380
Listen to me.
00:38:12.380 --> 00:38:13.748
The enemy's tactic is to strike the shepherds, and yesterday in
00:38:13.748 --> 00:38:18.152
Utah a shepherd was struck.
00:38:18.152 --> 00:38:20.755
What the enemy would love nothing more to do out of
00:38:20.755 --> 00:38:24.325
Charlie kirk's death is to cause all the sheep to scatter, to
00:38:24.325 --> 00:38:28.696
Cause fear to well up in our hearts, which i have been
00:38:28.696 --> 00:38:31.599
Tempted to be afraid in these moments.
00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:33.768
Fear seems like it is a knocking on the door, and what the enemy
00:38:33.768 --> 00:38:37.238
Would love is to silence the sheep, to cause the sheep to
00:38:37.238 --> 00:38:39.774
Be scattered.
00:38:39.774 --> 00:38:41.142
But right now i believe god is going to turn this around.
00:38:41.142 --> 00:38:43.577
And not only are the sheep not going to scatter, the sheep are
00:38:43.577 --> 00:38:46.180
Gonna rise up like never before.
00:38:46.180 --> 00:38:48.482
The shepherds are going to begin to speak out.
00:38:48.482 --> 00:38:50.584
There are going to be people beginning to carry the banner of
00:38:50.584 --> 00:38:53.320
The truth of jesus christ like never before.
00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:56.290
I want to remind you ephesians 6 says that we wrestle not against
00:38:56.290 --> 00:39:00.227
Flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers of the
00:39:00.227 --> 00:39:03.731
Air, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
00:39:03.731 --> 00:39:06.400
The enemy is trying to get you and i to think on the plane of
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:08.869
Flesh and blood, but that's not where we retaliate.
00:39:08.869 --> 00:39:11.672
We retaliate in the spirit, where we know the real
00:39:11.672 --> 00:39:14.942
Battle is.
00:39:14.942 --> 00:39:16.310
And let me remind you of what 2 corinthians 10 says.
00:39:16.310 --> 00:39:18.479
Second corinthians 10 says that the weapons of our warfare,
00:39:18.479 --> 00:39:21.348
They're not carnal, but they are still mighty in our god for the
00:39:21.348 --> 00:39:25.119
Pulling down of strongholds and the tearing down of every
00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:28.923
Pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of god.
00:39:28.923 --> 00:39:32.760
That's what charlie kirk came against.
00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:34.829
He came against things that set themselves up against the
00:39:34.829 --> 00:39:37.998
Knowledge of god, and it is time for you and i to stand up in the
00:39:37.998 --> 00:39:41.268
Power of the gospel, filled with the holy spirit just as charlie
00:39:41.268 --> 00:39:45.072
Kirk was, and take that mantle, take that baton of truth further
00:39:45.072 --> 00:39:49.410
Than ever before.
00:39:49.410 --> 00:39:50.778
It's not time for sheep to scatter, it's time for sheep
00:39:50.778 --> 00:39:52.613
To rise.
00:39:52.613 --> 00:39:53.981
Keenan: we have to get unified.
00:39:53.981 --> 00:39:56.984
And that is why it is imperative that we even understand what the
00:39:56.984 --> 00:40:02.356
Essentials are, right?
00:40:02.356 --> 00:40:03.991
What are the essentials?
00:40:03.991 --> 00:40:05.326
What will we and will we not break fellowship over?
00:40:05.326 --> 00:40:07.695
You know, those are so important for us to make delineations of
00:40:07.695 --> 00:40:11.298
Like, hey, are you in or are you out?
00:40:11.298 --> 00:40:13.100
And too many people are completely ignorant of what are
00:40:13.100 --> 00:40:15.736
Even the foundations of our faith?
00:40:15.736 --> 00:40:17.538
Like, what does or doesn't make someone a christian?
00:40:17.538 --> 00:40:20.608
And that is one of the things i'm feeling so stirred about is,
00:40:20.608 --> 00:40:23.611
Again, as i've already alluded to before, calling people back
00:40:23.611 --> 00:40:27.314
To an understanding of core doctrine.
00:40:27.314 --> 00:40:29.783
What do we believe as christians?
00:40:29.783 --> 00:40:31.919
And then there are secondary and even tertiary issues that it's
00:40:31.919 --> 00:40:36.156
Like, hey, like you're allowed to have your weird take on that,
00:40:36.156 --> 00:40:39.026
You know what i mean?
00:40:39.026 --> 00:40:40.394
And still be my brother.
00:40:40.394 --> 00:40:41.729
I mean, you may be my brother who has a weird take.
00:40:41.729 --> 00:40:43.397
Matt: like the fact that you think revelation was written
00:40:43.397 --> 00:40:45.399
In '95.
00:40:45.399 --> 00:40:46.734
Keenan: right.
00:40:46.734 --> 00:40:48.102
Matt: it was probably written in about '66.
00:40:48.102 --> 00:40:49.436
Keenan: you think it was in 66?
00:40:49.436 --> 00:40:50.804
Matt: yeah, but we're not gonna break fellowship over that.
00:40:50.804 --> 00:40:52.139
Well, let's not break fellowship over it.
00:40:52.139 --> 00:40:53.507
That's truth here, right?
00:40:53.507 --> 00:40:55.910
Keenan: absolutely, yeah, that's tertiary stuff, debates and
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Speculation and all that.
00:41:00.214 --> 00:41:01.582
It'd be like us getting mad over you think you know who wrote
00:41:01.582 --> 00:41:03.717
Hebrews, and i think i know who wrote hebrews, you know?
00:41:03.717 --> 00:41:05.653
Laurie: james.
00:41:05.653 --> 00:41:07.588
Keenan: you're paul, and yeah, exactly.
00:41:07.588 --> 00:41:09.990
So it's one of those things we have to get back to what are the
00:41:09.990 --> 00:41:13.894
Essentials and begin to be united around that.
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At the end of the day, it is christ and him crucified, that
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He is the incarnate son of god, that he is the sacrifice, the
00:41:19.833 --> 00:41:24.305
Propitiation, to use a biblical word for our sins.
00:41:24.305 --> 00:41:28.108
We have no other mediator between god and man but the man
00:41:28.108 --> 00:41:31.345
Jesus christ, and it is by his shed blood.
00:41:31.345 --> 00:41:34.181
You know, i love, speaking of hebrews, hebrews does not say
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Without a good pastor there's no remission of sin.
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It doesn't say without a killer worship team there's no
00:41:40.754 --> 00:41:42.590
Remission remission of sin.
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Without great church merch, there's no remission of sin.
00:41:44.158 --> 00:41:47.494
It is without the shedding of blood there's no remission of
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Sin, and it's wild to me how much of the body of christ is
00:41:51.365 --> 00:41:55.169
Ignorant of how important just that is, the blood of the lamb,
00:41:55.169 --> 00:42:00.574
The atoning work.
00:42:00.574 --> 00:42:01.909
Because so many christians, you ask about their testimony, and
00:42:01.909 --> 00:42:03.911
It seems like the pastor of their church is like the one who
00:42:03.911 --> 00:42:08.182
Really got them over the line and like did it, and i'm
00:42:08.182 --> 00:42:11.051
Thankful for godly pastors or like churches that are, you
00:42:11.051 --> 00:42:14.088
Know, great houses of worship, but at the end of the day, we
00:42:14.088 --> 00:42:17.224
Gotta get people to go, yeah, i may have found the blood at this
00:42:17.224 --> 00:42:20.260
Church, but it was the blood.
00:42:20.260 --> 00:42:22.396
The blood is what saved me, the blood is what sustained me, and
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It will carry me through whatever else may come my way.
00:42:26.033 --> 00:42:32.072
So, yeah, i mean, but we keep bringing up revelation, but you
00:42:32.072 --> 00:42:34.475
Think of revelation 12, you know, they overcame him by the
00:42:34.475 --> 00:42:37.945
Blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony.
00:42:37.945 --> 00:42:41.348
What a lot of people don't realize is this, of course the
00:42:41.348 --> 00:42:43.651
Bible wasn't written in english.
00:42:43.651 --> 00:42:45.653
It was this particular passage was greek, koine greek.
00:42:45.653 --> 00:42:48.922
So we've translated into an english word testimony.
00:42:48.922 --> 00:42:51.392
The original greek word, i'm getting a little bible nerd on
00:42:51.392 --> 00:42:55.195
You for a second.
00:42:55.195 --> 00:42:56.563
Laurie: we've been talking about it.
00:42:56.563 --> 00:42:57.898
Keenan: oh, have you?
00:42:57.898 --> 00:42:59.233
Okay, yeah, it's the word marturia, right?
00:42:59.233 --> 00:43:00.601
It like they overcame him by marturia.
00:43:00.601 --> 00:43:04.104
We translate it testimony.
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Testimony just scratches the surface on it.
00:43:05.472 --> 00:43:07.408
It was their testimony in the face of certain martyrdom.
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I will be martyred for this testimony, and i will not change
00:43:11.478 --> 00:43:14.948
The story regardless.
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And that's the kind of tenacity, that's the kind of boldness.
00:43:16.917 --> 00:43:20.654
You talk about an army that's not afraid to lose their life.
00:43:20.654 --> 00:43:22.890
Can i just speak prophetically real quick?
00:43:22.890 --> 00:43:24.658
I really, i wanna speak prophetically.
00:43:24.658 --> 00:43:26.460
This is something i feel like the lord has been showing me.
00:43:26.460 --> 00:43:28.829
We are looking at one of the generations who is the most
00:43:28.829 --> 00:43:32.032
Prone, and i know this can even be a bit of a trigger for some
00:43:32.032 --> 00:43:34.268
People, and i wanna be sensitive while i say it, but one of the
00:43:34.268 --> 00:43:37.538
Generations who's the most prone to suicide in the i would argue
00:43:37.538 --> 00:43:42.476
The history of the world.
00:43:42.476 --> 00:43:44.945
I mean, the suicide rates are-- it is mind blowing, and it is
00:43:44.945 --> 00:43:49.049
Gut wrenching how the heights of the suicides, particularly in
00:43:49.049 --> 00:43:53.554
Gen z and under, and i felt like the lord told me a while back,
00:43:53.554 --> 00:43:57.725
The same generation that would so quickly lay their life on the
00:43:57.725 --> 00:44:02.663
Altar of a king named king depression or on the altar of a
00:44:02.663 --> 00:44:07.134
King named king anxiety, if i would become the king of their
00:44:07.134 --> 00:44:10.704
Heart, they would quickly lay down their life.
00:44:10.704 --> 00:44:14.475
If you would so quickly part ways with your life because of
00:44:14.475 --> 00:44:18.078
Depression and anxiety, what might happen if you meet jesus?
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What would you consider your life?
00:44:21.448 --> 00:44:23.684
That old man's crucified with christ.
00:44:23.684 --> 00:44:25.285
It's not i who live but christ who lives in me.
00:44:25.285 --> 00:44:28.355
I died 2,000 years ago with jesus on that cross, and so
00:44:28.355 --> 00:44:32.526
That's what i'm hoping and praying, and i really do believe
00:44:32.526 --> 00:44:35.629
God is birthing in a generation is a generation who's not
00:44:35.629 --> 00:44:38.999
Clinging to this side of the river but understands i still
00:44:38.999 --> 00:44:42.302
Want to play my part, i wanna come together, you know?
00:44:42.302 --> 00:44:45.472
I think that's one of the things we've seen in the past is we're
00:44:45.472 --> 00:44:48.442
So doomsday, we've got this doomsday mentality that we don't
00:44:48.442 --> 00:44:53.413
End up raising the next generation, because it's all
00:44:53.413 --> 00:44:55.883
About me and mine and my legacy, because i'm not only gonna be
00:44:55.883 --> 00:44:58.552
Here for a short time.
00:44:58.552 --> 00:44:59.953
Yes, this life is but a vapor, but we have to--we serve a
00:44:59.953 --> 00:45:03.924
Generational god.
00:45:03.924 --> 00:45:05.292
I think about joseph.
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Joseph is one of the most convicting characters in
00:45:06.627 --> 00:45:09.296
Scripture to me about this.
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Because you see, joseph is one of many brothers, and his
00:45:10.831 --> 00:45:14.701
Brothers all get tribes named after them, but there's not a
00:45:14.701 --> 00:45:17.805
Tribe of joseph.
00:45:17.805 --> 00:45:19.473
What most people believe is joseph came to isaac, or excuse
00:45:19.473 --> 00:45:23.744
Me, to jacob, excuse me, and he says, hey, you don't necessarily
00:45:23.744 --> 00:45:28.682
Need to give me a tribe, but remember my sons.
00:45:28.682 --> 00:45:30.818
He had two sons, ephraim and manasseh.
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There's the half tribe of ephraim and the half tribe
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:35.455
Of manasseh.
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I really do believe joseph said i don't need anything named
00:45:36.824 --> 00:45:38.692
After me, but remember my boys.
00:45:38.692 --> 00:45:40.427
I want it to live on through them.
00:45:40.427 --> 00:45:42.062
That's the kind of fathers we need who are saying, man, i want
00:45:42.062 --> 00:45:45.265
This thing to live beyond me, and i don't even have to
00:45:45.265 --> 00:45:48.368
Necessarily be remembered, but i still want to play my part, and
00:45:48.368 --> 00:45:51.205
I understand it's important.
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Matt: pray for the folks.
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Keenan: absolutely.
00:45:53.907 --> 00:45:55.275
Father, i just thank you right now for every person who is on
00:45:55.275 --> 00:45:57.144
The other side of this camera, this screen, lord, you see them
00:45:57.144 --> 00:46:00.147
Right where they are.
00:46:00.147 --> 00:46:01.481
Lord, i pray that your hand would reach through right now.
00:46:01.481 --> 00:46:04.318
Lord, i even sense that there are people feeling a sensation
00:46:04.318 --> 00:46:07.454
In their body.
00:46:07.454 --> 00:46:08.789
That is the holy spirit touching your very mortal being
00:46:08.789 --> 00:46:11.692
Right now.
00:46:11.692 --> 00:46:13.026
Lord, i pray right now that sickness, disease, infirmity
00:46:13.026 --> 00:46:17.998
Would be removed now in the mighty name of jesus.
00:46:17.998 --> 00:46:21.435
I even--i feel an authority to speak on this, because i've
00:46:21.435 --> 00:46:24.171
Confronted it.
00:46:24.171 --> 00:46:25.505
Seizures have to stop now in the name of jesus.
00:46:25.505 --> 00:46:28.942
I thank you that chronic depression has to stop right now
00:46:28.942 --> 00:46:32.479
In the name of jesus.
00:46:32.479 --> 00:46:34.114
Lord, i thank you that people are coming back into their right
00:46:34.114 --> 00:46:36.516
Mind, mental illness, that no prescription and no doctor's
00:46:36.516 --> 00:46:42.489
Note can seem to swing in the right direction by your spirit
00:46:42.489 --> 00:46:45.959
And by the wind, the ruach walk of god, you are coming back into
00:46:45.959 --> 00:46:49.596
Not just your right mind but being given the mind of christ.
00:46:49.596 --> 00:46:53.834
I thank you, lord, that you would begin to prophesy through
00:46:53.834 --> 00:46:56.670
Your people, that you would raise up shepherds, that they
00:46:56.670 --> 00:46:59.506
Wouldn't just look to the big man on the stage behind a
00:46:59.506 --> 00:47:03.210
Pulpit, but they would recognize their spot in the wall, that
00:47:03.210 --> 00:47:06.813
They would take their assignment serious.
00:47:06.813 --> 00:47:08.782
And lord, i pray that your horn of oil that you have reserved
00:47:08.782 --> 00:47:12.486
For them would be poured upon their head now, that they would
00:47:12.486 --> 00:47:16.456
Be commissioned and anointed and appointed for today.
00:47:16.456 --> 00:47:20.060
From this day forward, regardless of how it's been so
00:47:20.060 --> 00:47:22.729
Far, i thank you they are forgiven, i thank you they are
00:47:22.729 --> 00:47:25.532
Redeemed, and i thank you that they are anointed right now, and
00:47:25.532 --> 00:47:28.969
It is in the mighty name of jesus i pray, amen.
00:47:28.969 --> 00:47:32.272
Matt: amen, beautiful.
00:47:32.272 --> 00:47:33.740
Laurie: amen.
00:47:33.740 --> 00:47:35.409
Matt: i'm declaring prophetically this generation is
00:47:35.409 --> 00:47:38.478
In good hands and that there is an army being raised up and that
00:47:38.478 --> 00:47:44.318
There's a tenacity that we haven't seen in a number of
00:47:44.318 --> 00:47:47.621
Generations here that is gonna change the course of history.
00:47:47.621 --> 00:47:51.825
That's that's what i'm--
00:47:51.825 --> 00:47:53.160
Now, the only thing i need to correct you on is if john--
00:47:53.160 --> 00:47:59.199
Keenan: come, bring it.
00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:00.534
Matt: if john is writing in '95.
00:48:00.534 --> 00:48:04.104
Keenan: so you think it's before the destruction of the temple?
00:48:04.104 --> 00:48:06.106
Matt: of course, so if he is, why is john--hang on, hang on,
00:48:06.106 --> 00:48:11.345
I don't have a view.
00:48:11.345 --> 00:48:12.679
I'm just saying, but if john is talking about the temple in
00:48:12.679 --> 00:48:17.617
Revelation, and he is.
00:48:17.617 --> 00:48:19.553
Keenan: right.
00:48:19.553 --> 00:48:20.887
Matt: it's not there.
00:48:20.887 --> 00:48:22.356
Isn't that a good time to go, well, dog gonnit, it if it
00:48:22.356 --> 00:48:26.193
Hadn't been destroyed 25 years ago, we would--why is he
00:48:26.193 --> 00:48:29.997
Mentioning the temple when it's gone?
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Keenan: that's a fair question.
00:48:33.700 --> 00:48:35.469
Matt: thank you.
00:48:35.469 --> 00:48:36.803
Keenan: that is a fair question.
00:48:36.803 --> 00:48:38.171
Matt: i don't have a view, i'm just saying.
00:48:38.171 --> 00:48:39.773
You know what's funny?
00:48:39.773 --> 00:48:41.108
You know what's really is my mama was just, you know, she was
00:48:41.108 --> 00:48:47.514
A complete--my dad was an engineer, my mom was a
00:48:47.514 --> 00:48:50.350
Complete artist.
00:48:50.350 --> 00:48:51.785
She had pink hair, you know, she just really kind of out there,
00:48:51.785 --> 00:48:57.057
And she read the bible more than anybody i've ever known, and she
00:48:57.057 --> 00:49:01.428
Would always, you know, kind of pick at everybody that had the
00:49:01.428 --> 00:49:05.766
Standard late-great planet earth, kind of hal lindsey
00:49:05.766 --> 00:49:08.769
Dispensational view to the end times, but she never labeled it
00:49:08.769 --> 00:49:13.173
Anything, she just had a different view, and guess what?
00:49:13.173 --> 00:49:15.976
It doesn't matter what we think is going to happen, god's gonna
00:49:15.976 --> 00:49:18.712
Do it the way he's gonna do it regardless.
00:49:18.712 --> 00:49:21.448
There might be some bragging rights in the future that, you
00:49:21.448 --> 00:49:24.518
Know, in heaven we go, well, you got that right or you got that
00:49:24.518 --> 00:49:27.387
Right or you got that right, and there might be some discussions
00:49:27.387 --> 00:49:30.157
That would be kind of fun in heaven, but the idea that the
00:49:30.157 --> 00:49:35.429
Author and that john wrote after the temple, mentions the temple,
00:49:35.429 --> 00:49:40.033
And it's not there, that's kind of interesting.
00:49:40.033 --> 00:49:43.303
Keenan: you're giving me something to look into.
00:49:43.303 --> 00:49:45.072
No, i need to look into this now, because that has not been
00:49:45.072 --> 00:49:47.741
Brought to my attention.
00:49:47.741 --> 00:49:49.543
No, that's good.
00:49:49.543 --> 00:49:50.877
I like it a lot.
00:49:50.877 --> 00:49:52.245
Matt: okay, final thought is yours.
00:49:52.245 --> 00:49:53.580
This generation, this whole thing, put a little--land this
00:49:53.580 --> 00:49:57.150
Plane and your--final thought is yours, sir.
00:49:57.150 --> 00:49:59.419
Keenan: i think you're exactly right.
00:49:59.419 --> 00:50:00.754
They're in good hands, and i know you're giving me a
00:50:00.754 --> 00:50:02.589
Compliment, and i do appreciate that, but they're in good hands,
00:50:02.589 --> 00:50:05.358
Because they're in the hands of jesus christ, and he is at work,
00:50:05.358 --> 00:50:09.496
And as we said at the beginning of this, he is sovereign.
00:50:09.496 --> 00:50:12.499
This generation did not sneak up on him.
00:50:12.499 --> 00:50:15.435
In the same way so many like older people that i know are
00:50:15.435 --> 00:50:18.705
Scratching their heads, this generation, he's not echoing
00:50:18.705 --> 00:50:22.342
That, like he's not in that group.
00:50:22.342 --> 00:50:23.844
He's not in that group text, he has left that thread a long time
00:50:23.844 --> 00:50:26.480
Ago, and he is championing this next generation.
00:50:26.480 --> 00:50:29.716
He is awakening this next generation.
00:50:29.716 --> 00:50:31.718
I know of people who are being visited by jesus, dreams in the
00:50:31.718 --> 00:50:35.222
Night, i mean like quite, quite crazy stuff, being set on fire
00:50:35.222 --> 00:50:40.060
For the things of god, not religion, for the genuine things
00:50:40.060 --> 00:50:43.797
Of god, a genuine move of the spirit.
00:50:43.797 --> 00:50:46.700
But then jesus says this in john chapter 4. he says this, "the
00:50:46.700 --> 00:50:50.770
Father is searching for those who will worship him in spirit
00:50:50.770 --> 00:50:54.574
And in truth."
00:50:54.574 --> 00:50:55.909
For so long there have been those camps that have been
00:50:55.909 --> 00:50:59.012
Divided, right?
00:50:59.012 --> 00:51:00.747
We've either got the spirit camp, or you've got the truth
00:51:00.747 --> 00:51:03.383
Camp, and the spirit camp doesn't know much of the truth,
00:51:03.383 --> 00:51:05.919
And the truth camp doesn't know many things of the spirit, but
00:51:05.919 --> 00:51:08.622
The father is looking for those who will come together and
00:51:08.622 --> 00:51:11.591
Worship him in spirit and truth, and guess what?
00:51:11.591 --> 00:51:14.294
You and i have been nominated to be the generation that can bring
00:51:14.294 --> 00:51:19.900
Spirit and truth together and say, hey, i can bring my
00:51:19.900 --> 00:51:23.803
Intellect, i can bring the historical facts, i can argue
00:51:23.803 --> 00:51:27.073
From logic, but at the same time, our god transcends all of
00:51:27.073 --> 00:51:30.243
Those things, and he is spirit.
00:51:30.243 --> 00:51:33.013
And sadly, other generations were nominated for the same
00:51:33.013 --> 00:51:35.849
Thing, but can i just tell you something?
00:51:35.849 --> 00:51:37.384
They settled with being denominated.
00:51:37.384 --> 00:51:40.453
They were denominated, and we're just gonna stick to our little
00:51:40.453 --> 00:51:43.089
Camp, and we're gonna adhere to our little things, and we don't
00:51:43.089 --> 00:51:45.292
Want any of that over here.
00:51:45.292 --> 00:51:46.726
We can't settle for being denominated.
00:51:46.726 --> 00:51:48.595
We've gotta recognize that we've been nominated to carry the
00:51:48.595 --> 00:51:51.898
Torch of the gospel of jesus.
00:51:51.898 --> 00:51:53.600
Matt: you have proven one thing.
00:51:53.600 --> 00:51:55.335
Keenan: hmm?
00:51:55.335 --> 00:51:56.703
Matt: you're a preacher.
00:51:56.703 --> 00:51:58.171
You have no idea how to land a plane.
00:51:58.171 --> 00:52:00.207
Keenan: no idea.
00:52:00.207 --> 00:52:01.541
Matt: you're preaching.
00:52:01.541 --> 00:52:02.909
We'll see you next time.
00:52:02.909 --> 00:52:04.244
We're out of time.
00:52:04.244 --> 00:52:05.612
Bye-bye.
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Keenan Clark: God Calls THIS Version of You | Praise

October 22, 2025 | 53:57

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