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Tonight on the rosenberg report, president trump
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Comes to the epicenter to meet
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And strike deals with america's sunni arab allies.
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A dual u.s. israeli citizen
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Edan alexander comes home
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After being held hostage in gaza for 584 days.
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But a serious new crisis is unfolding.
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More and more polls reveal that young evangelicals
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Are turning against israel. why?
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What exactly are the reasons that evangelicals under 30 have
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Such dramatically different views of israel
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Than their parents and grandparents?
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And how do we win them back?
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All this and more tonight on the rosenberg report.
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Did you know
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That young evangelical christians,
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Especially those under the age of 30, are dramatically
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Less likely to support israel than their parents
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Or grandparents?
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In fact, did you know that
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Evangelicals under the age of 30 are almost 150% less likely
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To express strong support for israel
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Than evangelical christians over the age of 65?
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For the last several years, my colleagues
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And i at all israel news, the joshua
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Fund, chosen people ministries
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And the alliance for the peace of jerusalem
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Have been investing in a series of national surveys
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Designed to help us better understand the difference
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Between how young evangelicals view israel
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And the arab-israeli conflict
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Compared to their parents and grandparents.
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The numbers are not good, and in fact, they're getting worse.
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That said, all is not lost.
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There is hope.
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There are practical things that we can do to make a difference,
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But we've got to take this crisis seriously.
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And we've got to get started now.
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Good evening, and welcome to the rosenberg report.
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Tonight we're going to begin a series of programs looking at
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Just why exactly young evangelicals
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Are turning against israel and how we can win them back.
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Let's begin with the facts.
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As uncomfortable as they are.
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And then we'll do a deeper dive into how we got here
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And how we can turn the corner.
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Lord willing, last year you may recall that
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I interviewed on the rosenberg report, two jewish professors.
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They don't believe in jesus, but they're very strong
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Jewish professors.
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They're very well trained.
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They are fascinated with evangelicals.
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Professor inbari from the university of north carolina
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And doctor bumin at boston university,
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And i interviewed them
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About their critically important and must read book,
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Christian zionism in the 21st century
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American evangelical opinion on israel.
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Now, in the book, they lay out and then analyze extensive
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And in-depth public opinion polling
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That they've been doing on this subject
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Over the last many years.
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So let's start there.
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Let's take some quotes from their book.
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First, for decades, evangelicals have been viewed as enduring
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That's 42.2% of young evangelicals
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Don't support either israel or the palestinians.
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Okay, so young evangelicals, 68.9%, almost 7 in 10 did
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Support israel, but about 25% or so, didn't support either.
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But the professors go on to say,
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Now, professor moti in bari
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Explains that the current
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However, in barry and his colleague,
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They don't believe that all is lost.
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Maybe yes.
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Maybe no.
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I really appreciate this book.
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I appreciate the research that these guys have done,
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And i encourage you to read the book
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If you're a pastor or ministry leader.
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But let's be clear.
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The fact is, we are losing evangelical young people.
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That's the fact right now. can we change it?
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I hope so, but right now we're losing them.
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They're turning against israel.
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They're steadily and consistently turning
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Against israel.
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Every few years when we do more surveying, that's what we find.
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And keep in mind, the surveys that were taken for
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This book were all conducted before hamas invaded
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Israel on october 7th, 2023, all before
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Israel began its so far 18 month long war in gaza,
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All before the mainstream media and and social media
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Has been pumping out all kinds of anti-israel propaganda.
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So, given the avalanche of lies being told against israel
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In the mainstream media and on social media, social media
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Platforms like the communist chinese owned tiktok
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And the explosion of anti-semitism across
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The world, across the united states, including
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Maybe particularly on college and university campuses,
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I suspect that young evangelicals are being affected
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By this, that they're turning against israel even more.
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When we come back, we're going to look at this.
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The question is why? what is going on?
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Why aren't evangelical
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Young people better grounded in the biblical truths
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About israel
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Than their cohorts,
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Than their their peers on other college campuses?
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We'll find out in just a moment.
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Coming up next on the rosenberg report,
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What is the number one reason why young evangelicals
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Under the age of 30 are turning against israel?
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Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
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Right after the break.
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Right after the break.
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Look at what's been happening
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On college and university campuses all across america
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And across the world since october 7th.
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We all agree
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That it's absolutely sickening that secular young people,
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Unchurched young people are turning against israel
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And against the jewish people.
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But you might say, yeah, of course it's terrible.
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It's reprehensible.
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But is it really so surprising?
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Most of these kids have no solid,
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Reliable biblical values to begin with.
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No wonder they're being swayed by the lies that they're hearing
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And seeing in the mainstream media and on social media.
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But why are kids raised in christian homes
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And in christian churches?
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Why are they being swayed by these lies?
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Why in the world are evangelical young people
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Turning against israel?
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Good question. tough question.
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A series of questions.
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That's what we want to talk about.
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Now, i believe there are seven reasons, that that's happening.
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And tonight and next week.
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Actually, for several weeks, i think i want to walk you
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Through all seven
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And then talk about a series of things that we can do
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That were almost not lost.
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Now, now,
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As we drill into the reasons, these are not reasons
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That are going to be easy.
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For some of us to hear.
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So i just want to warn you about that.
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But look, before we can fix the problem,
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We must properly diagnose it, right?
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The first and most important reason
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Yes, public schools and colleges and universities
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Have a big share in this overall problem,
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And so does the media. and we'll get to those.
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But education starts at home, right?
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Remember what the apostle paul said
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In romans chapter ten, verses 14 and 15.
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Now he was speaking about the gospel.
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But but listen to this and let's apply it
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Then to all good theology. quote.
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Now, what's true about the
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Gospel is true about all sound theology, right?
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Can we agree on that?
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What's true about the gospel is true about all sound theology.
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How can anyone believe in solid
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Biblical theological truths if they haven't been taught
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Those truths?
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If no one's teaching those truths, if no one sent to teach
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Those truths,
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If nobody feels equipped to teach those truths right?
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If we aren't teaching our children and grandchildren
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The biblical stories right out of the book of genesis
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About when and how and why
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God made his unconditional promise to bless abraham,
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Isaac, jacob, and their descendants
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Right through the nation of israel
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And give them the land of israel and a blessing forever.
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If we're not teaching those stories,
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How are these young people supposed to know these stories,
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Much less believe in them and why they're so important?
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Many parents aren't teaching their children and grandchildren
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The beautiful truths also found in jeremiah chapter 31 quote
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What is grace?
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Unmerited, undeserved favor from god, right?
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They found grace in the wilderness.
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Jacob is another word for israel.
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Israel is another word for jacob.
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What a tender and loving passage about how much god loves
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And cares for israel, and for all the jewish people,
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And how in his mercy he will take us out of exile
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In the last days,
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Take us out of exile among the nations, and bring us,
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Bring us, bring us back to the land of israel
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And help us plant ourselves here and to take root
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And to find joy, and to be singing and praising
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God for what he's done to bring us back home. why?
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Because, as the lord says in jeremiah 31, i have loved you.
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What a great passage!
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But are we teaching it to our kids?
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And what about passages like deuteronomy 32:10
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And zechariah 2:8, where the lord describes israel
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And the jewish people as, quote, the apple of his eye, unquote.
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Now, in these and similar passages, the lord is saying
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That he regards israel as the pupil.
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I mean, when he says the apple of the eye,
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He means the pupil, the dead center of his eye,
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The most sensitive part, right, as well as the lens through
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Which he views the rest of the world.
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Time after time in the scriptures, the lord warns
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Individuals and nations not to touch or attack
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Or poke or curse israel, lest they face his judgment.
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Right?
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Don't come after the apple of his eye
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Or you're going to face a consequence.
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This goes back to genesis chapter 12,
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What's known as the abrahamic covenant, right?
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In which the lord vows
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When it comes to the nation and the people of israel,
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That's a serious statement.
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That's a serious truth. it's an important truth.
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And it has very high stakes, not just for nations,
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But for individuals.
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But how can we expect our children and grandchildren
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To know these biblical truth, to live by these biblical truths,
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To walk in these truths and to truly believe them?
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Unless we personally, patiently and persistently
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Taught these truths to them, ourselves.
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Now, my jewish grandparents passed away
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Before i was even two years old, so i didn't really know them.
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I have no memories of them, and i have to say that
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In the early years of me
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Growing up, my parents didn't really know much about israel.
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They didn't talk much about the biblical importance of israel.
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They didn't.
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They weren't against israel, but
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They didn't inculcate that in me while i was growing up.
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Even though my father was raised in an orthodox
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Jewish home before he and my mom came to faith in jesus.
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Fortunately, i became very interested in israel on my own.
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So starting in junior high school,
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But mostly in high school and then at university later,
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I attended tel aviv university for six months
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During my junior year of my undergraduate studies.
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And the more i learned, the more passionate
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I became about my love
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For israel
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From that point forward, because i began to really understand
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God's love and heart and prophetic plan for israel
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And the jewish people,
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Starting with genesis and right on through the entire bible.
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When we got married and we had our kids, lyn and i
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Homeschooled our four sons.
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And every day we started, every weekday we started them
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Each morning having devotions with them creatively
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And prayerfully teaching them the bible.
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Book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse
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And answering their many, many questions.
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I have four boys, four jewish boys.
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You're going to have a boatload of questions, but we love them.
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We love taking small
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Bits of the bible, just walking them through it,
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Teaching it to them and answering their questions.
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And we made it a point to teach them about god's love
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For abraham, for isaac, and for jacob.
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We taught them about the history
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Of the jewish people right out of the scriptures.
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We taught them bible prophecies, such
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As why the messiah had to be jewish, had to be born
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In bethlehem, ephrata, in judea, in the nation of israel.
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And why the messiah would return
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One day to jerusalem, right here, this holy city.
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We taught them the prophecies that in the last days
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The lord would resurrect this sovereign nation
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State of israel and draw the jewish people out of exile.
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Back home, back home, here to israel.
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And and that the lord would we help us
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Rebuild the ancient ruins and make the deserts bloom.
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But we didn't just tell them these truths, right?
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We don't just just teach these boys verbally.
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We took them on field trips and where better than right here
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In israel?
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We brought them to israel, sometimes on vacation, sometimes
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To serve with the ministry that we started in 2006,
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The joshua fund,
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Together we delivered food to the poor and needy.
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We helped teach vacation bible school.
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We brought them to meet jewish and palestinian pastors
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And ministry leaders, and jews and palestinians
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Who don't believe in jesus at all.
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We taught them, and we show them how to be engaged
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In so many other fun and special projects. why?
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Because this is what we're commanded to do
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In deuteronomy chapter six, right?
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Remember this verse here, o israel,
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Don't get me wrong,
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I'm not saying that i did
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Everything right in raising our four boys.
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We certainly
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Made plenty of mistakes and god's been very merciful
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And sure we had the freedom because of my job as an author,
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And the fact that we were homeschooling,
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We had a little bit of freedom.
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To have those morning devotions every day,
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Because our schedule was our own
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And we, we had the freedom to take our kids to israel.
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Not everyone can do that.
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I get that, but the point i'm trying to make here is that
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We made it a priority to teach our kids
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Why god calls israel the apple of his eye,
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Why he says that he loves
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Israel, the jewish people, with an everlasting love
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And drew us with their loving kindness.
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We wanted them to understand
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The history of israel that so dominates
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The pages of the bible, from genesis through revelation.
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Now, maybe this is something you haven't done,
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But i don't want you to beat yourself up.
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I don't want you to get all, you know, upset with yourself.
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Look, it's not too late.
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How about starting a series of dinnertime conversations
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With your kids
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And your grandkids about why god loves israel?
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Why does he love the jewish people?
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And why should we too?
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How about taking your kids through my book, epicenter
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And the epicenter study guide that can go with it.
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How about watching a series of bible prophecy project videos
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That the joshua fund and all israel news have produced
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That tell the story, including with really good animation
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About how the rebirth of israel in 1948
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Was not just a moment in history.
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It was a dramatic fulfillment of bible prophecy.
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And why modern israel proves that the god of israel,
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The god of abraham, isaac and jacob, really does exist.
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That the bible really is his book,
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And that the god of the bible,
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The god who describes himself
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As the god of israel, really does love us, loves
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You and me, and has a wonderful plan for our lives.
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If we will humble ourselves and follow him.
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Coming up next on the rosenberg report,
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We've just learned the number one reason
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Young evangelicals are turning against israel.
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So what are the other six reasons?
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Joel explains when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
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Right after the break.
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Right after the break.
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What is the second most important reason
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That young evangelicals are turning against israel?
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Well, it's
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Because they're
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Not getting solid biblical teaching about israel
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And the jewish people at church.
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Okay,
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Now, it's not just that parents aren't teaching it,
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But grandparents aren't teaching it.
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Churches aren't teaching young people about israel either.
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I mean, some are, but most aren't.
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Let's start with let's break this down in several pieces
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First.
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Very few pastors actually teach through the bible.
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Book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse.
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It's not the only way to teach the scriptures, to be sure.
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But imagine if more pastors were engaged in systematically
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Teaching in an expository way, first by verse, chapter
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By chapter, through books of the bible,
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Through genesis,
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Through exodus, through through books like joshua, daniel,
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Isaiah, jeremiah, ezekiel, and of course, all the others.
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It's hard
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If you're teaching through the bible,
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Through books of the bible, it's hard,
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Almost impossible to miss the story and importance of israel
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When you're systematically studying through the bible
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And when you're trying to understand
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What paul calls the whole council of god.
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Now, many pastors prefer to teach a series of hot topics,
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Right?
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Rather than teaching through a book of the bible.
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Now, this can be very helpful
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For christians
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To grow in various areas of their faith
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And to apply biblical truth
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To whatever hot topic is going on in the culture
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Or in the news at that moment.
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However, it's also easy for pastors to skip
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Teaching their people basic biblical truths, right?
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The abrahamic covenant.
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Other biblical covenants.
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The narrative history of the jewish
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People of abraham isaac, jacob.
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Jacob has 12 sons, one of which is judah.
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The whole thing
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You can miss that the formation of the nation of israel,
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The successes and failures of israel as a nation,
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And israel's intense need for a messiah.
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Right. it's easy to miss those things.
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If you're teaching hot topics
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And not teaching through books of the bible.
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Now, if pastors don't teach any of this from the pulpit
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On sunday morning or wednesday evenings,
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How are christians particular young christians going to learn
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These vital truths? right.
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But even if the senior pastor is faithfully teaching
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The whole council of god,
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Including the importance of israel to all believers,
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And he's doing that
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On sunday mornings as he's teaching through the scriptures.
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Let's be honest,
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Most kids aren't sitting in the main service, right?
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They're often attending sunday school or youth group instead.
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So they're getting a very different,
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A totally different diet
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Of teaching than the adults are getting.
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Right. right. are you with me now?
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Are the sunday school teacher
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And the youth group leaders in your congregation,
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Teaching your kids and grandkids about god's love
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And prophetic plan for israel and for her neighbors?
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Unfortunately, very few of them are.
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So even if you're going to a great church
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And you're very grateful and satisfied
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By what you're hearing, what you're being taught
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From the pulpit on sunday morning,
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What your pastors are teaching from the scriptures,
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From the pulpit about israel and the jewish people,
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Even if you're very happy with that, it's very likely
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That your children and grandchildren aren't
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Being fed the same biblical meal that you're being served.
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And this is another huge reason why.
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So many evangelical young people don't believe
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What you and i believe, not just on israel,
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But on a wide range of critical biblical issues.
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Now, what can you and i do about this?
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Okay, we don't need to get upset.
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We don't need to be bothered.
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What we should start with is practical ways
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To make a difference.
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You can certainly start by inviting your pastors
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To lunch or dinner
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And talk about why this is so important to you.
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You could share with them a link to this show and help them,
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You know, jumpstart the conversation
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By watching this
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And getting a sense of what we're talking about.
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But even if they're not interested
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Or they don't agree with you.
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Remember that again, education starts in your home with you
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As a parent, as a grandparent.
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So don't completely outsource what your kids
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And grandkids are learning about the bible to your church.
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The church is a very important place for your kids to learn,
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But your home is the most important place
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For them to learn.
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So own this responsibility and start finding ways
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To teach your kids yourself.
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God will help you.
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And the joshua fund and all israel news
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And the rosenberg report
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Are all happy to provide you resources to help you as well.
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Next week, i will walk you through five more reasons
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Why so many evangelicals are turning against israel,
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And we'll spend more time talking
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About what you can do about it, and talk about
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More resources that you can use to make a profound difference
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In your family, in your church and your community.
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But for now, that's all the time we have for this week.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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Please keep praying for the lord to set all of our captives
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Free, right?
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And for total victory in gaza and protection
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Against iran as that threat grows.
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On the powerful and exciting work
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And her neighbor.
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With your family and friends.
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And lord willing,
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I'll see you next week right here on the rosenberg report.
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Joel Rosenberg: Fewer Young Evangelicals Support Israel | The Rosenberg Report

May 14, 2025 | 27:55

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