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Samuel Rodriguez: From Fear to Faith: Advancing the Kingdom | Praise

May 4, 2026 | 51:20

Matt and Laurie welcome Pastor Samuel Rodriguez for a powerful conversation challenging believers to move beyond fear-driven thinking and embrace a faith-filled, Scripture-centered life. Emphasizing the finished work of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, Rodriguez calls the Church to engage culture, advance God’s kingdom, and live with purpose in every sphere of influence.

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Praise | Samuel Rodriguez: From Fear to Faith: Advancing the Kingdom | Praise | May 4, 2026

Coming up tonight on praise...
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We abandoned education.
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We abandoned government.
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We abandoned economics.
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We we abandoned hollywood, content creation, technology,
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Science, medicine.
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Our job is to advance the kingdom right here, right now.
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Come on.
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Until he comes and establishes his reign and reconciles heaven
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With earth and we rule.
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God is putting things together in our favor.
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He is.
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And the army that was deemed dead is about to rise up and
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Fill the earth with the glory of god.
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Tonight on praise from los angeles, lead pastor of new
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Season church and best selling author, samuel rodriguez.
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And now your hosts, matt and laurie crouch.
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Sam rodriguez, you are flamin hot today, okay?
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And you've been an executive producer for flamin hot
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Cheetos. cheetos. cheetos thing, and you do films, you're
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A pastor, you're, you know, kind of a leader thing.
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But today you're just kind of flamin hot and you have kind of
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A, are you mission driven today?
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Help me explain to the audience kind of where-- what, what are
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We getting into today?
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Yeah, yeah.
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First of all, i love you both.
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That's not my opening statement.
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I do love you both.
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Recently, someone asked for whatever ludicrous purpose,
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They're completely bored,
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They talked about writing a biography on me.
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I kid you not.
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What i'm about to say comes from sincerity of heart
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Even though we're always joking around.
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There has to be a chapter about us.
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No, there has to be.
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You guys have been that instrumental.
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We've been writing this together for 25 years.
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Wow. and that speaks accolades.
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Now back to the mission.
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It's all, you know,
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Romans 11:36, it says by him,
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For him exclusively for his glory.
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So i get my assignments, but i am mission driven. okay.
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Because the world's going to
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Hell in a handbasket to a great degree.
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And there, and there is an attempt to frame everything
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That's going on once again with a myopic lens of an
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Eschatological, dispensationalist worldview
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That has been detrimental for the church for over 150 years.
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And, and, and truth be told, we need to address this.
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Okay. because it's it's myopic.
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It really is.
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There is a once again, super emphasis on, this
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Is it, the bottom of the ninth inning.
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We have to get out of here.
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Now, let me just undergird this with the following.
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I want to come in agreement with scripture.
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Okay. 100%.
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So i want to come in agreement of matthew, mark, luke and
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John, the apostle paul and peter and the writers of the
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The book of hebrews, whoever that writer may have been. a
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Little bit, you know, controversy there and who it
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Was or who it wasn't.
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Uh, however, i want to come in agreement likewise with people
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Like thomas aquinas, aquinas, saint augustine,
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Modern people like n.t.
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Wright and john lennox, karl barth.
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So i want to come in agreement
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With 1850 years of church history.
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Okay. the major theologians, uh,
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J.r.r. tolkien, c.s. lewis,
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Because we all agree on the same simple principle
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Christ is coming.
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There will be a resurrection and there will be a judgment.
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Mhm.
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There it is, my friend.
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Mhm. everything else, you're pushing the envelope.
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Wow. i would even argue everything else has been to a
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Great degree detrimental for you and i,
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What you reference in in your introduction, for you and i, to
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Have adequate kingdom induced influence in different spheres
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Of society.
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If we are obsessed with getting
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Out of here-- again, christ is coming.
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So we get that.
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But come, lord jesus, come.
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We don't ignore the prayer of maranatha, right?
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But the apostle john at the end, we get that.
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However, it is what-- not my wording.
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Saint augustine said kingdom now.
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He talked about the fact that
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The kingdom of god is within us.
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We are here on this planet.
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The church of christ advances the kingdom of heaven.
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Our job is to advance the kingdom right here, right now.
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Come on.
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Until he comes and establishes his reign and reconciles heaven
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With earth, and we rule throughout eternity with the
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Great king of kings and lord of lords.
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Anything other than that,
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And it's out there,
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There you go into rapture.
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Seven years, three and a half year premid, postmid.
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Everybody's trippin.
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Pre-trib, post-trib, mid-trib, everybody's tripping.
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In the meantime, we abandoned education.
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We abandoned government.
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We abandoned economics.
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We abandoned hollywood content creation, technology,
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Science, medicine.
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We abandoned everything.
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And it was all driven by a, an interpretation of scripture
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Uh, in the mid 1800s, approximately 1850, a guy named
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Darby really elevated through a scofield bible.
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That's what took it global. at the same identical time that
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The spirit and power charismatic pentecostal
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Movement took place,
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Sousa 1906.
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So the holiness movement from the wesleyans blew up with the
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Pentecostal charismatic movement, 1906 post facto. the
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Reemergence because the holy spirit has always been moving,
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But a fresh pentecost
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That cannot and will not be denied.
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Currently, close to 700 million people around the world
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Self-identify with close to 1 billion by 2050, according to
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Empower 21 and oru.
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So that number is out there.
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We don't negate
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The holy spirit is moving and there is a fresh pentecost.
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Yes, but these two things collided.
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A bible that was edited with footnotes, with an
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Eschatological, with an eschatological
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Dispensationalist framing that included stuff like the
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Following, seven years,
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Three and a half years of
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Tribulation, three and a half years.
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Let's talk about this for a second.
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Now. let's be nuanced about this.
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This is not to be critical of those that adhere to that.
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It's just important to note the following.
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Jesus said in john 14:6, i am
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The way, the truth, and the life.
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How about that. very explicit. john 3:16, for god
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So loved the world that he gave his
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Only begotten son.
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Very explicit right?
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Romans 8:11,
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The same identical spirit that raised jesus.
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Very explicit.
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No ambiguity about
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If you want to live throughout eternity, if you want abundant
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Life, it's christ, the holy spirit, the nicene creed,
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The apostles creed.
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It's all biblically substantiated.
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No need to decipher anything.
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All of a sudden, we get seven years.
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Now, these seven years require you to decipher, because
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There's not one verse in the
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Bible that undergirds that explicitly.
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It requires you to engage in some sort of brand new cosmic
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Algorithm that not even elon musk will have the audacity to
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Say, because you would have to interpret, oh, daniel talked
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About 70 weeks and that, those
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70 weeks convert into 70--
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But but if god wanted to convey
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This incredible important point,
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Why why the algorithm?
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Why the rubik's cube?
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Why not just tell us,
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There will be seven years of tribulation?
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Three and a half years and three and a half years.
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Why not just tell us?
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Because for everything else that matters,
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He did. yeah. oh, wow.
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He did.
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There was no beating around the bush, no ambiguity.
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From genesis to revelation,
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Everything he wanted to convey to us.
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There was no--
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He just gave it to us explicitly because his word is
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Alive and well.
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Right? it pierces.
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It breaks through it.
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The joint and the bone marrow, the thoughts and the intentions
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Of the heart, the soul and the spirit.
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It's the beauty and the power of hebrews 4:12.
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Luke 1:37.
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The word of god never fails.
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It's beautiful.
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It's it's just there, right?
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It's the word that is god, christ, the word made flesh.
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It's the word of god and the word for god.
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It's beautiful,
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But it's explicit.
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There's nothing to necessarily decipher.
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It's there.
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All of a sudden, we have a worldview that in the 20th
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Century, jacked up the church.
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Wow. it--
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What do i mean by that,
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It jacked up the church?
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It jacked up the church because everyone wanted to
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Get on that train out.
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So we abandoned the world.
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We abandoned every sphere of influence that we were called
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By god, ordained by god, anointed by god to be light.
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Matthew 16:18,
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What's the appropriate reading
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Of that in its original language?
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The gates of hell will not prevail.
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Right. so this is the way that the evangelical charismatic
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World has taken it for 100 years.
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It means the gates of hell will not prevail.
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Is the gates of hell cannot overcome me.
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Do your biblical due diligence. flip it.
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It means the gates of hell cannot stop us.
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Gates are a defensive mechanism.
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Hell, protecting herself.
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And then christ comes along and says, i'm going to establish
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The church upon the declaration that peter just released.
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Right? that i am the christ, the son of the living god.
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Upon that truth,
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Hell can't stop you.
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Go go go go go. go invade hell. go invade every single vestige,
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Every area full of darkness.
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Go in there. shine the light.
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Go! but we took it the other way around.
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We're supposed to be on the offense, but we were so
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Concerned and preoccupied with [whisting].
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Now again, augustine, thomas, the major theologians,
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Including modern day
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N.t. wright, john lennox and others.
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But 1850 years of history, they all agree
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It's just one big event, one big event.
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And we need to, in light of
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What's happening around the world
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Double down on advancing the
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Kingdom of heaven here on earth.
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Why don't we worry?
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And why don't we concern ourselves with getting the
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Church to be one? john 17:21
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And why don't we make a priority filling the earth
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With the glory of god?
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Okay, first of all--
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So good.
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The worldview award and trophy is presented to sam rodriguez.
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Um, for-- and if you, and if you just tuned in, that's why i
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Said sam rodriguez is flaming hot.
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Okay, you are on a bit of a roll if you just tuned in.
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Um, that's the fewest words that laurie and i have ever said
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In the open of a program before.
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You're on a roll, you're talking about something that
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Couldn't be a bigger subject kind of in social media.
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It's, it's a big thing kind of being debated right now.
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And, and i, i was on the phone with you simply, i just simply
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Asked him a question the other day, hey, are you going to be
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In washington, d.c.
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At this event? yeah, i'm going to be there.
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And the next thing i know, we have this planned, and you're
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Here and you are trying to light a fire underneath, um,
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Us as christians that we might have been looking at
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Eschatology through a--
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Myopic. myopic lens.
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You, you, you, you, you suggested that on the phone.
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And i said, samuel, come down.
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Let's sit together and let's break this down.
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So what it feels like you're saying is that--
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Let me just make sure i understand what you're saying.
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Okay? let me just see if i get it.
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You're saying that some of the systems of interpreting the
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Bible that were the majority of the 20th century's kind of
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Thing, if you go back to the late, great planet earth and
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Hal lindsay would have been in this studio many, many times.
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My mom and dad hosted and, and did praise programs concerning
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A way of interpreting certain things of the olivet discourse
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And revelation and some of daniel, and creating a
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Eschatology that you're saying is stifling the church in, in,
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In, in a lot of ways.
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From fulfilling our mission. okay, great
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Due deference to those.
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I don't think we're-- great due deference to those.
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There might have been some that may have been motivated
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By other things but it is.
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It is. and it continues to stifle.
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And again, so listen, we're
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Living in some interesting times.
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So what if, what if i tell you this?
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What if
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The president comes along and confirms the fact that there
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Are extraterrestrial beings?
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What if this alien conversation goes off the rails?
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Jd vance believes it's demonic and spiritual forces.
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Others believe it's that, that sort of thing.
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But you know what?
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If they confirm there's some-- what if in the next few months
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And a couple years, our entire worldview regarding, you know,
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Existences and realities and
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Dimensions is flipped upside down?
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Hence this conversation, the importance of it.
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Because immediately there will be this cry, this desperation
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Of, again, a myopic framing where we focus on a system
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That's not explicit in scripture, but requires a
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Coding algorithmic interpretation that is not
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Biblically substantiated explicitly.
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It is not. 1850 years of church history, plus every major
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Theologian that is committed to the nicene creed.
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Once again, we all believe this, christ is coming 100%.
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Number two, there will be one resurrection.
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Number three, there will be a judgment.
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And number four, there is an antichrist.
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Now, truth be told, the word antichrist does not appear in
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The book of revelation.
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I want you all to know that.
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I'm going to repeat that for your audience.
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Do your biblical due diligence.
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The antichrist does not appear
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At all in the book of revelation.
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That phrase antichrist.
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Yes. the dragon.
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Yes. the great serpent.
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Yes, but not the term antichrist.
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Number two,
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Only one person in the ne
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Testament ever talked about the antichrist.
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It wasn't peter.
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It wasn't paul.
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It was john.
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First john three times, second john one time, and only
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One time is capital
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A antichrist as a person.
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As a person.
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So yeah, i do believe there's an antichrist, a person
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Antichrist, and there's already many.
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Even john wrote, even the
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Spirit of antichrist is out there.
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There's many antichrists, little antichrists.
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I get that. it could be an ai reality.
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It could be a person.
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It could be a person in ai, it could be a hybrid model.
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It could be all of that.
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So there's definitely antichrist.
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We're not negating any of that.
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That's orthodoxy.
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See, i'm committed to biblical orthodoxy and i believe we
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Abandoned orthodoxy. wow.
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The moment we created a system,
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A great portion of the church worshiped a system more than we
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Actually adhered to the nicene creed,
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We made that more.
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We replaced the nicene creed, the apostles creed.
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We replaced it with that, with a system of seven years, three
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And a half years, pre, mid, post. that became everything
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With the catchall of, you know, -- apostle, the rapture.
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Again, not negating the rapture reality as one continual event
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In the coming of the lord.
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That's what thomas believed,
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And that's what saint augustine believed.
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That's what n.t. wright believes.
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That's what john lennox believes.
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That's what our founding fathers believed for 1850 years
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Of the church, all the way until darby and scofield came
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Along and flipped the tortilla.
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Now, what does that do for you and i?
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It must ignite us to making the glory of christ the priority,
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The finished work of christ.
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The fact that we are the ecclesia, we are the church.
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We are the most powerful
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Anything on the planet.
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The holy spirit empowers the church.
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We are it, guys.
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We are it.
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And if all we're focusing is when all these things become to
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You know, they manifest in this that, goodness gracious, we're
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The church of jesus christ.
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You follow me?
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We are spirit empowered.
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There's more glory.
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I have never experienced conversations with god.
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I have, i've had god dreams like i've never had before.
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I'm not a dreamer.
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I've had god dreams where god-- and i went like, this is wild
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Stuff, wild stuff.
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And god took me to personalities and scripture
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I'd never even read about.
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I thought i read them. no, and i'm going--
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And holy spirit wakes me up in the middle of the --
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God is moving.
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So can both things take place?
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I'll give you one more example.
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So which one is it, pastor sam?
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The great heresy at the end of times or the great awakening?
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Which one is it?
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Why do we have to, like, juxtapose them in a dichotomy?
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Why can't it be both?
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Why can't we both have this great falling away, which we
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Are currently experiencing?
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It is the great falling away.
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There is great heresy.
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There is an abandoning of orthodoxy of the finished
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Work of christ.
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There are evangelical churches, churches across the world that
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No longer believe in the bodily resurrection of jesus.
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They believe it was spiritual.
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Spiritual. they no longer
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Believe it was actually a thing.
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So there's an abandonment of that.
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There are many christians who believe there are other ways
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To get to heaven.
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We don't--
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We're not even confronting the real spirit of the
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Antichrist right now.
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I'm going to get in trouble.
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You may want to edit this, the next few lines.
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What if i tell you what the real spirit of the antichrist
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Is right now, currently, and what may be undergirding the
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Current reality?
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The fact that there is a battle of worldviews.
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Wow.
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And there's two worldviews, the judeo-christian value system
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And everything else.
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Everything else includes moral relativism, and it includes the
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Idea of islam. wow.
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The growth of islam, where sharia law is coming to
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America, it's invading europe again.
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You may want to edit this, but it's doing it.
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And and we're ignoring it.
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And these are european nations completely saturated by an
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Ideology that's counterintuitive to the word of
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God, to the word of god.
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And muhammad is dead.
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The prophet muhammad is dead and he's buried, and he's not
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Christ, and he's not a legitimate prophet.
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Did i just say that out loud?
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So, but what we're tolerating that and here we
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Are, [whistling] we out of here.
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Oh my gosh, he's going to come when he's going to come.
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Right. in the meantime, let's kick some devil --.
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In the meantime, let's be the most influential everything
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In every sphere of society.
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Okay. let me let me, um,
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You take a drink because you obviously had flaming hot
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Cheetos before you sat down.
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I like something you just said.
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Um, why can't it be both?
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It is both, you know?
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And so in other words, it feels like there has been, let's just
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Say laurie and i, we had a very similar kind of church, you
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Know, growing up in assemblies of god and church of god kind
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Of pentecostal movement.
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Um, we grew up where the future was dark.
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The future was about
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An antichrist taking over most of the world, and you having
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One day to make a choice to either give up your belief in
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Christ or, uh, face martyrdom.
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That's kind of the worldview that we grew up in.
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You know, largely we didn't think we'd be ever old enough
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To get married.
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We didn't think we'd be old enough to, you know, have kids.
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Um, but shortly before this program started, we had one of
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Our grandkids running around here.
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Okay. so, um, the system that we grew up in, the goalpost has
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Been moving so fast and so furious over all the years,
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It's now no longer even in the stadium.
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It's out in the parking lot.
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And we, we end up now with a group of young preachers like
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Yourself that are saying, well, wait a second, why do we have
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To, um, you know, as it were, why do we have to believe that?
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Why can't i believe that god's holy spirit empowered people
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Are going to go and do things never done before?
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And isn't that scriptural, where you see the wheat and the
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Tares growing together even at the end day?
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So why do we have to bow down to some kind of a system?
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You know, i mean, i'm reminded of, you know, the movie my dad
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Took me to, r-rated movie, when i was nine years old.
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Patton. you know?
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And there's george c. scott saying, you know, we're not
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Holding on to anything.
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You know, we're going to grab the enemy by the nose and we're
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Going to kick him in the ----.
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We're going to kick him in the ----, and we're going to go
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Through him like crap through a goose, you know?
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So, i mean, and so at eight years old, i was influenced by
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My dad laughing out loud in a theater to this very aggressive
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Attitude that all technology should be in the hands of
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Christians to take the gospel.
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Okay. but if you're taking a gospel that says, go get baked
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Beans and get in a cave and hide away, it doesn't
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Feel right to me.
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So i, i like what you're saying.
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Why can't we do both? it's both.
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So are we in the last days?
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I want your audience to understand.
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Matthew 24, matthew 25, 26, 27, 28.
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The olivet discourse.
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And you want to lay this out.
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But in the last days.
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Are we in the last days?
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The last days kicked off
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The moment that he resurrected. there you go.
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The last days kicked off.
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Christ was explicit.
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Even said this generation
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Will not pass until the following things happen
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Speaking to the generation of his disciples, which they did.
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Those things took place.
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Are the last days over?
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No. we're still in the last days.
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This is 2000 years of the last days, my friend.
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Yeah. so we have been in the last days for 2000 years.
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2000 years in the last days.
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There's no need to choose one or the other.
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Beautifully stated.
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Hebrews 1:1,
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In times past, the prophets have spoken to us, but in these
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Last days he has spoken to us by his son.
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So the writer of hebrews and christ were in the last days.
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Absolutely in the last days.
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For the last 2000 years. 2000 years.
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If not applicable to now, then peter would never have repeated
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This in acts chapter 2:17, pentecost discourse, in the last
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Days he will pour out his spirit.
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So are we experiencing an awakening?
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Can we experience one of an outpouring of holy spirit?
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We are.
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Will there be a great falling away of people that will
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Abandon orthodoxy?
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In truth, yes.
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And it's not either or. both things are happening.
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Yeah. so it's the spirit of the antichrist on the planet?
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Yes. is the church advancing? yes.
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It's not either or.
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It's both and -- got it.
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But the moment we worship a system that puts time stamps
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That are not anywhere in scripture explicitly
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Where we have to develop an algorithm, i'm coming back to
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That, that then it's detrimental.
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And i'm telling you, things are about to go off the rails.
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We're about to see things politically, culturally,
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Innovation wise, the emergence of ai,
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What's happening with ufos and so forth, and what the church
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Is going to panic and go like, ah, what we shouldn't be.
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What if ufos blockade the straits of hormuz?
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Mhm. after we let go of ours, you know, see?
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Okay. so i understand what you're saying, where you got to,
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You got to just for a moment.
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You got to backtrack and kind
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Of record scratch and go back a touch.
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You know, what is a good ag boy, uh, doing
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So excited about the future?
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Where did this come from?
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Okay. you specifically because sunday school, you wouldn't
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Have heard this in sunday school.
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No. okay.
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So give me the sam rodriguez version of what you're talking
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About here and why you're excited about the future, when
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Many think the future is dismal.
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And full disclosure, it's not just in san rodriguez,
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Generation z.
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Okay. oh my gosh.
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Again, which is the highlight to me.
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Generation z to me is like the most beautiful thing.
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How old are generation z?
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So generation z would be
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It's according to what you're reading from the general
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Understanding would be 1997, born 1997 to 2015.
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So how old would they be now? okay.
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The 25 year olds under 30. right.
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Over 18.
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29, 29 years old,
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29, 28, 27-- that generation z.
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Okay, that generation has a commitment to the nicene creed,
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The apostles creed.
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They seek orthodoxy.
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I am a stickler on orthodoxy.
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Okay. the word veritas, sola scriptura.
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Go back to that.
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Go back to the word, go back to the word.
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And anything that requires you to, to again, to have some sort
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Of coding device to interpret it.
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There's no need for it because the word is the word is the
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Word is the word is the word.
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In the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and
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The word was god, and that word was flesh.
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That that word is light.
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That light shines in the darkness, and the darkness will
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Never overcome it.
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John chapter one, verses one through five.
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It's beautiful.
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It's it's the word that is christ, the word of christ and
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The word for christ. in the words of karl barth,
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We take that. kierkegaard.
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There's so much about that generation z is ignited, and
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They don't have this myopic lens where a system defines
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Every step they take.
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I'm not going to get married.
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I'm going to just put things--
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I'm going to i'm going to move to montana.
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Yellowstone 101, baby, we're going to we're going to move
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Out and, and we're going to move out.
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And it's going to be a taylor sheridan world for me because i
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Want to create a world where i'm out there in the field and
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I'm going to put things in the bottom of a pit because, you
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Know, things are coming.
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Doomsday is coming, doomsday is coming.
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And i'm not saying bad things are not.
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I'm not saying-- what i'm saying is this the bible
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According to scripture, yin and yang are together, meaning it's
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An outpouring of the holy spirit.
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People are are embracing heresy, but our job is never,
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Ever to abdicate or ever to hide.
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There's nothing in scripture that says that christians
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Should be hiding, for crying out loud.
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No hiding here. no hiding.
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Stop the hiding.
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Okay, so you answer the question, though.
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You're doing your political side.
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You didn't answer my question.
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Where did you--
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I traveled. where?
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Okay, where did you get this?
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Take me to day one of excited sam rodriguez about the future,
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Because you wouldn't have
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Learned it in sunday school history.
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Just i did my biblical due
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Diligence, and i did-- seriously just--
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When? college? after college? early ministry, when?
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It was college.
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Okay, when?
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It was, it was college.
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It was probably more my graduate work.
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And then in, in looking beyond--
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And i'm grateful for my upbringing and i'm grateful for
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The tribes that i'm part of and
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Beautiful people, great commitments.
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And i still, the majority of them would actually sign off to
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What i'm saying, right now.
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Sure. um, and but man, none of the early fathers, this wasn't
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Part of church history.
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Like, why would god keep a secret for 2000 years from the
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Church that he loves?
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Okay, now answer this to our audience.
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What did they believe?
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The church historical fathers, 1800 years.
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What did they-- 150 years,
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Church fathers, including the ones that i've referenced on
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Multiple occasions in this in this conversation here,
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They believe that christ is coming back.
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He is coming back.
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Christ, not spiritually.
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He's physically coming back.
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Christ is coming back.
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Glory be to god.
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There will be one resurrection.
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That's all.
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One continual equation.
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They didn't separate.
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They didn't go, here's a rapture here.
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Seven years later, and he's going to come back.
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It's going to be a millennial
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Reign. after the millennial reign,
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Forget the white judgment, which is kind of racist.
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We have the white judgment and the other judgment, right?
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I'm kidding.
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But we have, you know, the throne, we and those that are
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Righteous, all of that.
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And that's all.
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No, they believe there was one. one thing.
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Okay. one resurrection, one judgment, one judgment, and,
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Yes, antichrist.
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They don't deny the fact that there's an antichrist.
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They don't deny the fact.
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But they believe that in the
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Last days, both things would happen,
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A great awakening, an outpouring of the holy spirit
00:30:02.757 --> 00:30:05.994
And heresy where a remnant emerges, committed to biblical
00:30:05.994 --> 00:30:10.498
Orthodoxy, utilizing my terms.
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But they talked about just truth, committed to the
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Finished work of christ as the wording of the apostle paul.
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And that's what they believe.
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But they never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever
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Laid out a system that was rigid
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About seven years, three and a half pre, mid, post.
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That was a creation in 1800. 1800 by john darby.
00:30:32.387 --> 00:30:36.324
Yes. that was created.
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That was created.
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That's john darby.
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And then it was elevated and amplified exponentially by
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Scofield, the scofield bible.
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And the notes.
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With the notes and then who--
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And then throughout the course of 70 plus years, it was it was
00:30:48.603 --> 00:30:52.573
Like the de facto go-to about eschatology until a man
00:30:52.573 --> 00:30:55.877
Named hal lindsey, and god bless him,
00:30:55.877 --> 00:30:57.812
Friends with your parents, um, on this network really pushed
00:30:57.812 --> 00:31:01.983
The late, great planet earth.
00:31:01.983 --> 00:31:03.151
That book was a multi-million seller around the world.
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The number one selling book of the 70s decade.
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Yeah, but listen, with great due deference,
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And it did a lot of harm.
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What did it do?
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What harm did that system do?
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It told the church.
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It told the church in my generation, it told the church,
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Why would you want to get
00:31:31.145 --> 00:31:32.413
Educated since the rapture is tomorrow?
00:31:32.413 --> 00:31:36.417
Mhm. why?
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Why would you want to save money?
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Rent. don't buy. right.
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The antichrist is here tomorrow.
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Mhm. don't ever touch hollywood,
00:31:42.957 --> 00:31:45.660
Samuel rodriguez. hollywood is the devil.
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It exclusively belongs to satan.
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And you don't want any of that.
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Uh, don't get involved in business.
00:31:52.533 --> 00:31:54.769
Politics. politics is of satan,
00:31:54.769 --> 00:31:57.605
And the church should never be involved.
00:31:57.605 --> 00:31:59.440
So we abandoned every sphere of influence. when jesus looked at
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Us and said upon this rock, the declaration that i am the son
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Of the living god, the gates of hell will not prevail.
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Hell can't stop you.
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Go! yes. go. not hide.
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Go! and that system, that rigid system, that myopic system with
00:32:16.657 --> 00:32:24.499
The rigid timelines that you need to somehow interpret
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Because it's not in scripture explicitly.
00:32:28.002 --> 00:32:30.171
There's not one verse that says seven year, three and a half,
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Pre, mid, post, nothing.
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And if jesus wanted me to know it, why would he hide it?
00:32:36.844 --> 00:32:40.048
He never hid from me that he is
00:32:40.048 --> 00:32:41.416
The way, the truth, and the life.
00:32:41.416 --> 00:32:42.683
He never hid from me, that if i confess with my mouth and
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Believe in my heart,
00:32:45.753 --> 00:32:46.921
Romans 10:9,
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He never hid from me.
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Romans 10:13, for whosoever calls upon the name of the lord
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Shall be saved. he never hid that from me.
00:32:51.859 --> 00:32:53.961
You know what?
00:32:53.961 --> 00:32:54.529
He was explicit.
00:32:54.529 --> 00:32:55.563
You know what jesus said?
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You know what he said?
00:32:56.964 --> 00:32:58.199
All power has been given unto me in heaven and on earth.
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Therefore go, make disciples of all nations.
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And lo, i am with you, even to the end of the age.
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Those who believe in the name of the father, son,
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And the holy spirit.
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Matthew 28.
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That's that's the one i--
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That's it.
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Listen, he didn't hide anything.
00:33:13.548 --> 00:33:16.484
Anything that god wanted you to know,
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He told you yeah.
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Through his wonderful word.
00:33:20.655 --> 00:33:21.889
I remember my mom in law would go into a studio or a big
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Room, and she'd look at a set, and then she'd look up and
00:33:25.560 --> 00:33:28.563
She'd do this, and she would look like this.
00:33:28.563 --> 00:33:32.767
And i'd go, you know, what are you what are you doing?
00:33:32.767 --> 00:33:34.902
And she goes, i'm getting the camera shot here.
00:33:34.902 --> 00:33:39.307
Do you remember?
00:33:39.307 --> 00:33:40.575
And she would just hold her little hand up and i thought,
00:33:40.575 --> 00:33:43.211
Hmm, i think that's exactly what that did to the church.
00:33:43.211 --> 00:33:46.314
Wow.
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It held up this little microscope.
00:33:47.148 --> 00:33:49.684
And now we're, we're looking--
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And they were so focused on when it was going to start,
00:33:51.686 --> 00:33:57.024
When it was-- that we forgot to go into all the world and
00:33:57.024 --> 00:34:00.261
Preach the gospel and to, to have dominion and to be
00:34:00.261 --> 00:34:04.499
Fruitful and multiply and to do everything, the kingdom of god,
00:34:04.499 --> 00:34:08.536
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done right here on earth.
00:34:08.536 --> 00:34:11.906
We're about to see.
00:34:11.906 --> 00:34:12.907
I'm going to say it again,
00:34:12.907 --> 00:34:13.875
I don't care who gets ticked off.
00:34:13.875 --> 00:34:14.809
And we're on social media. follow me.
00:34:14.809 --> 00:34:16.544
You're way past tiktok
00:34:16.544 --> 00:34:18.146
So you might as well go.
00:34:18.146 --> 00:34:20.181
Listen. we're about,
00:34:20.181 --> 00:34:21.816
It's not either or. it's both and.
00:34:21.816 --> 00:34:23.184
Do i deny the fact that there's heresy and relativism?
00:34:23.184 --> 00:34:25.720
No. in the church?
00:34:25.720 --> 00:34:26.454
No. absolutely not.
00:34:26.454 --> 00:34:27.922
But we're about to see more people come to jesus.
00:34:27.922 --> 00:34:31.125
Thank you, lord.
00:34:31.125 --> 00:34:31.859
And i mean, like never before
00:34:31.859 --> 00:34:33.027
Because i travel around the world.
00:34:33.027 --> 00:34:34.395
I go to malaysia, i go to
00:34:34.395 --> 00:34:35.930
Indonesia, i travel around the world.
00:34:35.930 --> 00:34:37.899
I'm seeing conversions in record breaking numbers.
00:34:37.899 --> 00:34:40.201
A friend of mine in in australia, mark --
00:34:40.201 --> 00:34:43.404
Kingdom city, the largest number of baptisms in
00:34:43.404 --> 00:34:46.140
Australian history just took place. a couple-- in australia,
00:34:46.140 --> 00:34:49.410
That was in mark who promoted it by the way, that was abc,
00:34:49.410 --> 00:34:52.547
The australian broadcast company.
00:34:52.547 --> 00:34:54.749
They did coverage on,
00:34:54.749 --> 00:34:56.484
We've never seen more people baptized in the christian faith
00:34:56.484 --> 00:34:59.320
In one day than ever before in australian history.
00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:01.856
And here's the scene. boom.
00:35:01.856 --> 00:35:03.257
People are coming to jesus, guys.
00:35:03.257 --> 00:35:06.360
The the holy spirit, he's doing it.
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:09.163
He never loses. he's winning.
00:35:09.163 --> 00:35:11.265
He's winning.
00:35:11.265 --> 00:35:12.433
The takeaway, samuel, from what you're talking about,
00:35:12.433 --> 00:35:16.470
You've you've explained
00:35:16.470 --> 00:35:17.471
Something to me and to our audience.
00:35:17.471 --> 00:35:20.975
I believe you're asking the question of our viewers, that
00:35:20.975 --> 00:35:26.747
You're not wanting them to disavow anything they know.
00:35:26.747 --> 00:35:31.619
You're wanting to say, why can't we have both?
00:35:31.619 --> 00:35:35.723
Why can't we have victory?
00:35:35.723 --> 00:35:37.925
Because christ's cross was the victory. in 1980,
00:35:37.925 --> 00:35:42.997
1980 my dad was a washington for jesus and yelled into the
00:35:42.997 --> 00:35:46.901
Microphone, god's done all he's
00:35:46.901 --> 00:35:49.837
Ever going to do about the devil.
00:35:49.837 --> 00:35:51.405
About the devil.
00:35:51.405 --> 00:35:52.673
It's a finished work of the cross.
00:35:52.673 --> 00:35:55.209
There is victory established because of that.
00:35:55.209 --> 00:35:58.312
Okay, we have that victory.
00:35:58.312 --> 00:36:01.082
So at some point you're saying there there has been a system
00:36:01.082 --> 00:36:07.622
Created in the 20th century, or let's say, popularized in the
00:36:07.622 --> 00:36:12.093
In the 20th century, that some people are worshiping a system
00:36:12.093 --> 00:36:17.265
Rather than the dynamic that god is going to glorify himself
00:36:17.265 --> 00:36:21.736
In the the most amazing ways.
00:36:21.736 --> 00:36:23.537
And there could be darkness rising at the same time and in
00:36:23.537 --> 00:36:28.809
The exact same time.
00:36:28.809 --> 00:36:30.111
Why don't we just get on board with the system that says, go!
00:36:30.111 --> 00:36:35.182
Jesus is going with us and we have all power residing in us.
00:36:35.182 --> 00:36:38.552
Well, let's get--
00:36:38.552 --> 00:36:39.654
Let's go with the explicit admonition, exhortation,
00:36:39.654 --> 00:36:42.823
Directive, and clarion call from christ.
00:36:42.823 --> 00:36:44.925
There it is.
00:36:44.925 --> 00:36:46.193
And and not adhere to a system that that was created by man
00:36:46.193 --> 00:36:50.097
Out of biblical interpretation, again, not judging the
00:36:50.097 --> 00:36:53.634
Intention and so forth.
00:36:53.634 --> 00:36:55.303
But that that that system that
00:36:55.303 --> 00:36:57.138
Was detrimental in the 20th century.
00:36:57.138 --> 00:36:59.106
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
00:36:59.106 --> 00:37:02.243
If the church rises up-- my greatest burden right now is to
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See the church come together.
00:37:06.147 --> 00:37:07.748
Yeah. john 17:21,
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Make them one.
00:37:10.451 --> 00:37:11.852
The number one problem in the world right now is not what
00:37:11.852 --> 00:37:14.355
We think. it's not the possible ufos or ufos, and it's not the
00:37:14.355 --> 00:37:18.592
War in iran. it's not oil.
00:37:18.592 --> 00:37:20.261
It's not oil. it's not energy.
00:37:20.261 --> 00:37:21.796
It's not this immigration.
00:37:21.796 --> 00:37:23.764
It's not political discord.
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It's not-- the number one issue in spiritually speaking, is the
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Lack of john 17:21.
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It's the fact that if we come together as a church, we kick
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Devil-- we literally invade the gates of hell.
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We go into areas that we have never been able to have access
00:37:37.178 --> 00:37:40.448
To before and shine the light.
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And every time light stands
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Next to darkness, light always wins.
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So it's that, man.
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That's my call.
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But i am obsessed with generation z.
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These guys get it and they want more stained glass windows.
00:37:51.492 --> 00:37:55.663
They want orthodoxy.
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They want to go back to to saint augustine and thomas, and
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They want to go back to matthew, mark.
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Maybe seeing a cross in a church.
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You know? but seriously, they actually want that.
00:38:03.371 --> 00:38:06.140
They actually want pews.
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Do you realize they want pews?
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Wow. because they believe that the individual seating speaks
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To individualism rather than community.
00:38:12.246 --> 00:38:14.382
Wow. and the fact that you had to tell that family, can you
00:38:14.382 --> 00:38:17.618
Scoot down so i can make room
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And then you create community.
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So they want that. generation z is my hope.
00:38:20.354 --> 00:38:22.890
It really is.
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So i believe that's the generation, right?
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God-- ezekiel 37:7,
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I hear the sound of the rattling of bones.
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God is putting things together in our favor.
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He is.
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And the army that was deemed dead is about to rise up and
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Fill the earth with the glory of god.
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I believe it.
00:38:39.173 --> 00:38:39.907
I truly believe there's more.
00:38:39.907 --> 00:38:41.742
More glory, more commitment to the finished work of christ
00:38:41.742 --> 00:38:45.179
Than ever before.
00:38:45.179 --> 00:38:46.013
So let not your heart be troubled.
00:38:46.013 --> 00:38:47.715
Don't be depressed.
00:38:47.715 --> 00:38:48.983
If you're a christian and you watch fox or ms now, or abc
00:38:48.983 --> 00:38:51.819
Or nbc, univision, telemundo and and you get depressed
00:38:51.819 --> 00:38:55.756
Because of what you see,
00:38:55.756 --> 00:38:57.091
No no no no.
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Christ, the hope of glory.
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It's not either or.
00:39:00.127 --> 00:39:01.462
It's both.
00:39:01.462 --> 00:39:02.663
But don't worship a system that's not explicit in the
00:39:02.663 --> 00:39:05.833
Word of god.
00:39:05.833 --> 00:39:06.867
It's the good news of the gospel of christ.
00:39:06.867 --> 00:39:08.502
The good news.
00:39:08.502 --> 00:39:09.236
Where's the good news?
00:39:09.236 --> 00:39:10.337
The good news.
00:39:10.337 --> 00:39:11.071
I know it. come on.
00:39:11.071 --> 00:39:12.139
Yeah. romans 1:16.
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Yeah.
00:39:14.508 --> 00:39:15.776
It feels like, um, when you, when you hear someone talk like
00:39:15.776 --> 00:39:22.349
This, you you might say, well, you know, i've, i've understood
00:39:22.349 --> 00:39:29.089
That there was going to be revival and this and we've
00:39:29.089 --> 00:39:32.793
Prayed for it and all this kind of stuff.
00:39:32.793 --> 00:39:34.762
But what you're really declaring is that
00:39:34.762 --> 00:39:40.534
Looking at a john darby theology for the future is
00:39:40.534 --> 00:39:47.374
Just half of the story.
00:39:47.374 --> 00:39:49.677
Correct. perfectly phrased.
00:39:49.677 --> 00:39:51.545
You know, it's just it's not the whole story.
00:39:51.545 --> 00:39:55.282
So why did we elevate just the dark side of the story
00:39:55.282 --> 00:40:03.557
So much and not talk about the other side or the--
00:40:03.557 --> 00:40:08.829
It was the tares.
00:40:08.829 --> 00:40:10.197
We weren't talking about the wheat and, and isn't it christ
00:40:10.197 --> 00:40:15.169
Who says let them grow together?
00:40:15.169 --> 00:40:18.005
And we've been talking about the tares of the future and not
00:40:18.005 --> 00:40:23.010
The wheat of the future.
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In full disclosure, there is a
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Historical imperative behind it all.
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It's not coincidental.
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In america, right after darby, we experienced the civil war,
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After the civil war, the spanish-american war, after that
00:40:31.752 --> 00:40:34.221
World war one, the spanish flu.
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Millions of people died and then world war two.
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After world war ii,
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Korea. after korea,
00:40:38.792 --> 00:40:39.994
Vietnam. it's been war, war, war, war, war, in europe,
00:40:39.994 --> 00:40:43.230
We had an incredible amount of angst in the late 1800s.
00:40:43.230 --> 00:40:46.467
The reconfiguration of these empires and systems where the
00:40:46.467 --> 00:40:49.436
Kings were replaced by
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Nationalism, independent states.
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Right. so there was just carnage.
00:40:52.439 --> 00:40:55.175
People were dying, either infirmities or war.
00:40:55.175 --> 00:40:59.246
So that theology was like, hey--
00:40:59.246 --> 00:41:03.384
There are more headlines for it.
00:41:03.384 --> 00:41:05.052
How about this?
00:41:05.052 --> 00:41:06.153
It was an intellectual and spiritual tourniquet.
00:41:06.153 --> 00:41:08.656
Oh, okay.
00:41:08.656 --> 00:41:10.190
It provided a bandage that justified-- what
00:41:10.190 --> 00:41:13.827
You're seeing. what i'm seeing.
00:41:13.827 --> 00:41:15.162
Yeah.
00:41:15.162 --> 00:41:16.397
Except second corinthians 5:7, we walk by faith and not
00:41:16.397 --> 00:41:18.198
By sight, but we and we and we tolerated it.
00:41:18.198 --> 00:41:22.036
But then we grew.
00:41:22.036 --> 00:41:23.671
And then we went, wait a second.
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Stop for a moment.
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Stop, stop, stop.
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Oh, no.
00:41:28.042 --> 00:41:30.210
No! jesus again.
00:41:30.210 --> 00:41:32.212
Nero, 70 a.d..
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There you go. boom!
00:41:34.915 --> 00:41:35.883
The fulfillment of it began right there.
00:41:35.883 --> 00:41:38.218
Right. the burning of jerusalem, the destruction of
00:41:38.218 --> 00:41:41.155
The temple, all of that.
00:41:41.155 --> 00:41:42.923
We saw it come to fruition. beginning--
00:41:42.923 --> 00:41:45.225
We've been living in the last days for 2000 years, guys.
00:41:45.225 --> 00:41:48.228
2000 years.
00:41:48.228 --> 00:41:49.296
But man,
00:41:49.296 --> 00:41:51.765
I know again, you're going to get some negative stuff here.
00:41:51.765 --> 00:41:54.935
And i'm not like super pollyannaish.
00:41:54.935 --> 00:41:58.305
It's like optimistic.
00:41:58.305 --> 00:41:59.540
I get there's-- i measure that with saying the following.
00:41:59.540 --> 00:42:04.111
Spiritual warfare is real.
00:42:04.111 --> 00:42:06.013
We don't worship at that altar.
00:42:06.013 --> 00:42:07.748
Like, is the devil real?
00:42:07.748 --> 00:42:08.816
Yeah, but he's defeated.
00:42:08.816 --> 00:42:10.084
Colossians 2:15, but we don't this obsession with devils,
00:42:10.084 --> 00:42:13.887
Demons, legions, dude.
00:42:13.887 --> 00:42:15.623
I mean, i'd rather be obsessed with father, son, and holy
00:42:15.623 --> 00:42:18.292
Spirit brother. not negating a spiritual warfare out there,
00:42:18.292 --> 00:42:22.096
Ephesians 6.
00:42:22.096 --> 00:42:23.497
But i'm going to be obsessed with living a holy, healed,
00:42:23.497 --> 00:42:25.833
Healthy, happy, honoring life.
00:42:25.833 --> 00:42:27.568
What do you choose to believe in?
00:42:27.568 --> 00:42:29.203
What happened at the cross?
00:42:29.203 --> 00:42:31.105
The finished work of christ.
00:42:31.105 --> 00:42:33.374
So do i want to believe in that
00:42:32.139 --> 00:42:35.843
And the victorious bride of
00:42:35.843 --> 00:42:37.578
Christ that jesus is coming back for--
00:42:37.578 --> 00:42:41.382
But not a whining church, not a-- we're
00:42:41.382 --> 00:42:44.785
Part of victorious bride of christ.
00:42:44.785 --> 00:42:47.321
Not a church hiding.
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I know, i know it.
00:42:49.123 --> 00:42:51.058
In a den in your basement. i know.
00:42:51.058 --> 00:42:54.061
Oh my gosh, are you kidding me?
00:42:54.061 --> 00:42:56.797
My dad, you know, my dad was
00:42:56.797 --> 00:42:58.966
Raised probably even in more fear.
00:42:58.966 --> 00:43:03.170
We were raised in fear. bingo.
00:43:03.170 --> 00:43:05.439
In in many ways in many of the churches--
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Um, that that man, if he catches me in a theater, i'm,
00:43:08.809 --> 00:43:12.546
I go directly to hell from my chair.
00:43:12.546 --> 00:43:14.915
Do not pass go. right.
00:43:14.915 --> 00:43:16.116
And all the things that we're going to catch us,
00:43:16.116 --> 00:43:18.352
I could be, you know, killed in a car accident tonight and
00:43:18.352 --> 00:43:22.923
Need to get saved every sunday
00:43:22.923 --> 00:43:24.758
Night and so much fear of the future.
00:43:24.758 --> 00:43:29.196
Um, and i remember, and my dad was really raised hard in that.
00:43:29.196 --> 00:43:34.668
You know, i mean, he, he would tell stories about he had a
00:43:34.668 --> 00:43:38.005
Little ring that he had on his finger and they started
00:43:38.005 --> 00:43:40.674
Preaching against, you know, and he tied his little ring
00:43:40.674 --> 00:43:42.676
Down on the lace of his shoe. took it off.
00:43:42.676 --> 00:43:45.112
You know, and just so much-- yeah. and then the, the older
00:43:45.112 --> 00:43:48.749
He got and just hearing all the,
00:43:48.749 --> 00:43:52.419
The hal lindsay and i loved how lindsay. he's sweet.
00:43:52.419 --> 00:43:58.225
God bless him. god bless him.
00:43:58.225 --> 00:44:00.194
But my dad would not go--
00:44:00.194 --> 00:44:03.330
And so he was, you know what he did?
00:44:03.330 --> 00:44:06.233
He would not-- he did not ride that horse at all.
00:44:06.233 --> 00:44:09.803
And he was like going,
00:44:09.803 --> 00:44:11.371
Everyone's talking about going to heaven and singing about
00:44:11.371 --> 00:44:13.741
Going to heaven and, and all.
00:44:13.741 --> 00:44:15.375
He said, i'm just so caught up
00:44:15.375 --> 00:44:16.877
In the nasty old now. and trying
00:44:16.877 --> 00:44:18.679
To be a part of it.
00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:19.747
And trying to be the victorious bride of christ
00:44:19.747 --> 00:44:22.382
Right here, right now, kingdom on earth, you know.
00:44:22.382 --> 00:44:26.553
And so he believed that so hard and it just resonates.
00:44:26.553 --> 00:44:30.557
I think if, i think if we actually sit back for a minute
00:44:30.557 --> 00:44:35.295
And think about what jesus did on the cross. and then he says,
00:44:35.295 --> 00:44:38.932
Now go into all the world, preach the gospel, make
00:44:38.932 --> 00:44:42.136
Disciples of nations, and i'm going with you.
00:44:42.136 --> 00:44:45.572
And then the power of the holy spirit comes and indwells us.
00:44:45.572 --> 00:44:49.576
And now we're going to go hide?
00:44:49.576 --> 00:44:52.012
Yeah. this is innovation, ingenuity, creativity, the holy
00:44:52.012 --> 00:44:55.549
Spirit working in you, with you, for you, and through you
00:44:55.549 --> 00:44:58.218
For the glory of the father, right?
00:44:58.218 --> 00:45:00.320
That's romans 11:36, first corinthians 10:31.
00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:02.723
He's doing it.
00:45:02.723 --> 00:45:03.957
We finish every service at our church,
00:45:03.957 --> 00:45:06.894
This is the way we conclude
00:45:06.894 --> 00:45:08.195
Without exception, we conclude-- very diverse church, 40% white
00:45:08.195 --> 00:45:12.499
40% black, 20% latino, asian,
00:45:12.499 --> 00:45:14.735
Primarily millennial generation z.
00:45:14.735 --> 00:45:17.738
So we conclude every service like this,
00:45:17.738 --> 00:45:20.908
May the strength of the father, the grace of the son, the
00:45:20.908 --> 00:45:22.643
Anointing of the holy spirit, make this week the best week of
00:45:22.643 --> 00:45:25.179
Your life for the glory of his name.
00:45:25.179 --> 00:45:26.713
Hey, new season.
00:45:26.713 --> 00:45:28.115
Let's do one thing together.
00:45:28.115 --> 00:45:30.184
In jesus' name,
00:45:30.184 --> 00:45:31.652
Let's go change the world.
00:45:31.652 --> 00:45:33.020
There it is.
00:45:33.020 --> 00:45:34.555
Let's go change the world.
00:45:34.555 --> 00:45:36.123
Okay, we we've mentioned how a couple of times.
00:45:36.123 --> 00:45:40.194
And in conclusion, because we need to land this plane and
00:45:40.194 --> 00:45:44.565
Kind of summarize for those that tuned in
00:45:44.565 --> 00:45:50.370
Late. hal's book became a number one new york times best
00:45:50.370 --> 00:45:56.577
Selling, number one selling book of the 70s decade.
00:45:56.577 --> 00:46:00.147
But it was really, according to sam rodriguez, 2026,
00:46:00.147 --> 00:46:05.252
It was half the story.
00:46:05.252 --> 00:46:07.754
Okay. the whole story is the same thing that you believed
00:46:06.520 --> 00:46:12.226
About the darkness
00:46:12.226 --> 00:46:13.527
In the future, there's going to be the equivalent of light
00:46:13.527 --> 00:46:17.898
That is going to,
00:46:17.898 --> 00:46:18.899
It's all going to happen together.
00:46:18.899 --> 00:46:21.101
We don't have to succumb to some kind of of darkness.
00:46:21.101 --> 00:46:26.473
There is light and we're going
00:46:26.473 --> 00:46:28.008
To be right in the middle of it.
00:46:28.008 --> 00:46:29.142
And is that what you're saying?
00:46:29.142 --> 00:46:30.244
Completely, 100%.
00:46:30.244 --> 00:46:31.478
Avoid making a system that is not explicit in scripture
00:46:31.478 --> 00:46:37.551
Your your north star.
00:46:37.551 --> 00:46:39.286
And what is that system?
00:46:39.286 --> 00:46:41.288
Avoid the john darby lay out of seven years, three and a half
00:46:41.288 --> 00:46:46.293
Years, pre, mid, post.
00:46:46.293 --> 00:46:48.095
All of that.
00:46:48.095 --> 00:46:49.396
Avoid that as your go-to, your default mechanism regarding--
00:46:49.396 --> 00:46:54.034
That's not-- regarding.
00:46:54.034 --> 00:46:56.203
Not explicit in scripture.
00:46:56.203 --> 00:46:57.271
No, it's not explicit in scripture.
00:46:57.271 --> 00:46:58.705
Focus on what's explicit in scripture.
00:46:58.705 --> 00:47:01.041
Focus on what the word of god states explicitly.
00:47:01.041 --> 00:47:04.344
Again, christ is coming 100%.
00:47:04.344 --> 00:47:07.147
There will be one resurrection.
00:47:07.147 --> 00:47:08.782
Absolutely. the resurrection of the dead,
00:47:08.782 --> 00:47:10.884
Absolutely. we're going to see that.
00:47:10.884 --> 00:47:12.219
There's one judgment, one judgment.
00:47:12.219 --> 00:47:13.787
There is an antichrist, and there's a spirit of the
00:47:13.787 --> 00:47:16.390
Antichrist currently present.
00:47:16.390 --> 00:47:17.624
We're going to see all that. in the last days
00:47:17.624 --> 00:47:19.860
There will be heresy, a great falling away and a great
00:47:19.860 --> 00:47:23.096
Harvest and a great awakening.
00:47:23.096 --> 00:47:24.431
It's not either or. it's both and.
00:47:24.431 --> 00:47:25.732
That should be your framework, because that's all
00:47:25.732 --> 00:47:27.801
Explicit in scripture.
00:47:27.801 --> 00:47:29.102
Anything that requires you to decode and break down a rubik's
00:47:29.102 --> 00:47:32.639
Cube, do not make that your default. going forward,
00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:37.077
That's not your default mode. it's not.
00:47:37.077 --> 00:47:39.813
Move away from that.
00:47:39.813 --> 00:47:41.048
I want you to have the final word, but it feels like the
00:47:41.048 --> 00:47:43.750
20th century became
00:47:43.750 --> 00:47:48.922
The voice to some
00:47:48.922 --> 00:47:53.660
Of what we'll see in the future.
00:47:53.660 --> 00:47:55.929
Yes. not all of it.
00:47:55.929 --> 00:47:57.130
Not all of it. just some of it.
00:47:57.130 --> 00:47:59.032
And based upon
00:47:59.032 --> 00:48:02.402
The civil war leading into the world war one and world war two
00:48:02.402 --> 00:48:07.207
And korea and vietnam, that the headlines were simply signaling
00:48:07.207 --> 00:48:13.080
More about the darkness.
00:48:13.080 --> 00:48:14.614
And it became a system that almost got worshiped.
00:48:14.614 --> 00:48:19.019
Right
00:48:19.019 --> 00:48:20.287
Yes. i would say in many, in many quarters it was worshiped.
00:48:20.287 --> 00:48:23.256
And what we're declaring now, and what generation z is
00:48:23.256 --> 00:48:27.527
Bringing to the table and believing is the things that
00:48:27.527 --> 00:48:31.698
Are explicit in the word.
00:48:31.698 --> 00:48:33.734
Let's make those the things that we look.
00:48:33.734 --> 00:48:36.236
At the nicene creed, the apostle's creed.
00:48:36.236 --> 00:48:38.472
Give us the final thing.
00:48:38.472 --> 00:48:42.175
Pray for the audience.
00:48:42.175 --> 00:48:44.077
Do your thing.
00:48:44.077 --> 00:48:45.212
It's the gates of hell will not stop us.
00:48:45.212 --> 00:48:48.515
Go! the gates of hell cannot stop you, your family, your
00:48:48.515 --> 00:48:52.119
Children and your children's children, your church, your
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:54.521
Ministry, your calling, your god-ordained purpose.
00:48:54.521 --> 00:48:58.392
The gates of hell cannot stop you.
00:48:58.392 --> 00:48:59.893
Hell cannot stop you when christ is your lord and savior,
00:48:59.893 --> 00:49:02.929
When the finished work of christ defines you,
00:49:02.929 --> 00:49:05.766
Hell cannot stop you. so go.
00:49:05.766 --> 00:49:07.868
Go fulfill that dream that god placed upon you.
00:49:07.868 --> 00:49:10.237
Go. you are his workmanship, created in christ jesus,
00:49:10.237 --> 00:49:13.140
Ephesians 2:10, to do good what?
00:49:13.140 --> 00:49:15.409
Good works. to hang around and wait for [whistling]
00:49:15.409 --> 00:49:18.345
Or to do good works which he prepared beforehand?
00:49:18.345 --> 00:49:22.716
Go. so god is telling you, go, go, go.
00:49:22.716 --> 00:49:26.853
Don't live a life filled and driven by fear, but rather be
00:49:26.853 --> 00:49:31.525
Driven by faith.
00:49:31.525 --> 00:49:33.160
The faith in christ, the faith
00:49:33.160 --> 00:49:34.895
Of christ, and the faith for christ.
00:49:34.895 --> 00:49:37.531
Go and do one thing.
00:49:37.531 --> 00:49:39.900
Fill the earth with the glory of god.
00:49:39.900 --> 00:49:41.701
Transition today from the following.
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God bless me to god,
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Make me a blessing.
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Go from, god
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Answer my prayer to make me the
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Answer to someone else's prayer.
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So go. go in the name of jesus.
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Go make disciples, baptizing those who believe in the name
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Of the father, son, and the holy spirit in jesus' name.
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Go and let's do one thing together. in the name of jesus,
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Let's go change the world.
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Pray for our audience.
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Heavenly father, i thank you
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For the finished work of christ.
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I thank you for precious holy spirit empowering every single
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Person right now that is hearing this voice.
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Lord, thank you that in the last days we will not live a
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Life driven by or defined by fear or a myopic lens.
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We are driven by the finished work of christ.
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We are victorious.
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We are more than conquerors.
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And you have called us to invade darkness, to be light in
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The midst of darkness.
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So, lord, we speak that right now upon every single mind,
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Body, soul and spirit, every
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Single family interacting right now.
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Right now.
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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
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We believe it right now, in the name of jesus.
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Fear will no longer define us.
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We are driven by the finished work of christ, and we will,
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For the glory of god, change the world.
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Flamin' hot rodriguez.
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We'll see you next time. bye bye.
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Samuel Rodriguez: From Fear to Faith: Advancing the Kingdom | Praise

May 4, 2026 | 51:20

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