Stakelbeck Tonight

Erick Stakelbeck: May 14, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

May 14, 2025 | S25:E514

From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: May 14, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | May 14, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm ericl stakelbeck.
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And as america reasserts itself as leader of the free world,
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A revamp of our military is underway.
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There is a huge surge in military enlistments
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With a number of recruits joining our armed forces higher.
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Now than at any time in the past 15 years.
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At least in a few short months, we've gone from a recruiting
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Crisis under joe biden to a boom under president trump.
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Folks, this renewed interest in military service
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Is clearly due to the trump effect.
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Young people see a strong leader who's respected
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On the world stage, who's bringing america back.
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Just look at his trip to the middle east
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This week, as the saudis and qataris
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Have literally rolled out the red carpet for him.
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Peace through strength works.
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Chaos through wokeness does not.
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Here's more from secretary hegseth.
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We are leaving wokeness
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And weakness behind.
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No more pronouns,
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No more climate change obsession, no more.
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Emergency vaccine mandates, no more dudes in.
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Dresses.
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So our military, thank god, is returning to strength
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And sanity after four years of this.
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But remember,
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The left is all about dudes in dresses.
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It's a big reason
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They lost the election in a landslide back in november.
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The american people overwhelmingly
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Reject the gender madness, but democrats in places
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Like maine, colorado, new jersey and california
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Are doubling down.
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In maine, the democrat governor refuses to stop allowing men
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To compete in women's
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Sports, despite president trump's demand that she do so.
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Here's just one example of what female athletes
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In maine have experienced.
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I was going to change for jim,
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And i walked into the locker room
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And there was a biological male there.
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From that point on my junior year,
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I competed in nordic skiing
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And lost to a biological male numerous of times.
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I am fighting this fight for generations to come
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In the fact that our governor can look the women of our
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State in the eyes and say, i'm not going to fight for you
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Is heartbreaking and it's betrayal. like riley said.
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God bless that brave young lady.
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She's fighting against evil.
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Up next,
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We're joined by two of america's boldest voices on these issues
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To break down how we continue to win this fight.
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And it all starts now.
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All too often over the past few years, as gender madness
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Has accelerated and targeted
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Our kids, we've heard silence from america's pulpits.
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There's a compromising, timid church.
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And then there are tonight's guests.
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Pastor john, i'm a chuck who is a fearless preacher,
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Author, founder of i know god taught us and national speaker
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Confronting woke ideologies with biblical truth.
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He's host of the john and chuck show and pastor land and shot
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Boldly leads mercy culture church in fort
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Worth, texas, one of the fastest growing churches in america.
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He's also the host
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Of the spiritual leadership podcast together.
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They're not just
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Preaching on sunday, they are fighting for the soul of america
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Every single day.
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Gentlemen, great to have you and pastor landon.
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Let's start with you.
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We were talking before we started here,
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And you said, number one, you're optimistic
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About where we're heading as a nation.
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But number two, you said this is a time to fight.
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Tell us more about why you feel that way and what we can do.
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Well, we prayed and fasted.
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And when another group that was trying
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To lead the nation in another direction,
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They had celebrities, they had famous people.
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But we had prophets and we had prayer warriors,
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And we saw people gathering all over the nation,
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Fasting and praying, not asking god for a certain man
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To lead us, but asking god for him, god himself to lead us.
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And there was there was two options on the table.
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You had one group of people that wanted to murder children
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In their mother's womb.
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They want to literally castrate children in surgeries
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And psychotic behavior, calling that good.
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And then you had another group of common sense like,
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No, we're not going to do surgeries on children.
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We're not going to support
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And pay taxpayers money to abort babies.
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We're not going to do these things.
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And so there was a
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Clear distinction between the two parties in the two camps.
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I want to make it clear for the viewers watching.
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I'm not saying that
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The republican party is a perfect party.
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And and that's the party of god.
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No. at this point, it's this good and evil.
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It's right and wrong is this is biblical now.
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And it's so clear that we're on the choices in america.
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And so we ask god to have mercy on america.
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I remember the last time i was on your show,
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You're like, is it revival or bust?
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And i was like, hey, there might be another option
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And might be mercy. yes.
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And i think that we saw the mercy of god.
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And when president trump got elected,
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I was in dc on inauguration day, and when he said
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From from from washington dc, america is only recognizing
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Two genders, i stood up in my seat.
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I started shouting like, let's go!
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I saw more spiritual leadership in that moment than i have from
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Majority of pastors in america, he said.
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We are going to be a nation under god,
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And i believe that it was from from the leadership of america.
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It was a clarion call, like we have a green light
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As pastors and leaders and people of faith
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To lead in our faith.
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And right now we have three and a half years to lead.
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And i believe that we're in a window of grace,
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A window of mercy,
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And we need to take this time really serious.
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And now it's a time to take spiritual ground.
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Strike while the iron saw pastor landed.
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Well said.
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And we've got this window of grace.
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Pastor john, as landon just said.
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Does that extend to our schools?
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You've done such great work,
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Obviously, on school boards across the united states
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Calling out the gender madness there,
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The indoctrination of our kids.
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Do you see progress on that front,
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Taking these demonic books out of school libraries
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And the rest of the madness that's been
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Pushed down our throats over the past few years?
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Yes, i do, you know, there's a certain thing
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Called tone from the top.
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And president trump has brought that.
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We have support from the oval office.
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Finally.
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And so we're in a position now where the children of israel
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Once were,
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You know, when god gave them the promised land,
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He gave them a decree to go in and to drive out the inhabitants
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Of the land.
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They had to defeat
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The king of i, the king of og, and the king of nation.
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They had to drive out the amalekites to
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Reap the blessings that god had from
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For them in the land flowing with milk and honey,
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We're going to have to do the same thing.
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And so now is not the time for us
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To sit on the sideline and sit idly by and say,
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Yes, president trump is in the oval office.
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There's nothing for us to do.
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It's time to advance the kingdom of god,
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To take the territory that god has given us.
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And it takes bold and courageous leaders to do just that.
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Gentlemen, i love this because we
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Can't take our foot off the gas.
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There's a tendency, i think, among some
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To say, well, we want to november.
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Donald trump's in office, we're good.
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But you're saying no occupy until he comes and push forward
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And forge ahead.
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Pastor landon, you've been in d.c., john.
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You have as well,
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Over the past few months with the faith
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Office, obviously, the president trump established,
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What are some of the big battlegrounds we talked about?
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Children, obviously, are kids.
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What are some of the other spiritual battlegrounds
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We need to be fighting on
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Right now and taking territory
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All now in this window of grace, pastor land, as you said.
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I think the biggest thing that christians need to be aware
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Of is first we prayed and fasted.
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We did do that. okay, that's the first job of christians.
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And the second thing is that you need to vote,
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And we need to keep making sure that godly people
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Are leading us. see this? what people don't understand.
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They have a
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They see people running for offices
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And they see polarized personalities.
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And they're like, i don't know if i like that guy.
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It's not about liking a guy.
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It's about liking a movement.
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So when you elect a president,
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You're not electing just one man.
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You're electing a man and 3000 employees.
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So that president brings in a regime, they bring in people
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To work for them. okay.
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And so, what what john and i saw when we went to
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The white house is hundreds of christians behind the scenes.
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I saw this lebanese man
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Who's an immigrant, who's been working
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For our government for decades in counterterrorism.
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And with tears
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Flowing down his face,
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He says, we can't kill our way out of this.
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There's too many terrorists.
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We can't stop them all, he said.
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The only thing that can turn this around is jesus.
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They need to know jesus.
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We saw leaders in in education in all of these
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Different departments saying, hey guys, jesus is the answer.
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And so it's really important that people understand
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How many people are working
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In the government behind the scenes.
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And so we got to pray,
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We got to continue to pray, but we have to vote.
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We have to make sure that godly people or people that represent
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People of faith in our values are still in office,
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Or we're going to see the same patterns of bureaucracy
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That we're not going to get
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Anything done in the next three years. is a swamp.
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And pastor john, look, the midterm is less than a year
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And a half away.
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It's hard to believe we are already talking about that.
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But real quick, about a minute left, pastor john.
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Then we'll get to the break. you guys be right back with us.
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How important is it for the leader of the free world
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For president trump, who leads out government?
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Pastor landon just talked about to be professing jesus.
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I mean, i think of easter sunday
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This year, talk about the contrast to last year.
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It seems like it's starting from the top.
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And that seems to be a great thing for america
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And what god can do in this country.
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Yes. well,
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You know, president
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Trump has made it plain from the beginning
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That he's going to support the christian faith.
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You know, he did that also with creating a task force
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Under pam bondi where he's going to fight against,
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Anti-christian bigotry.
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And so we often times
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Hear about anti-semitism, but it's rare
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That people talk
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About the bigotry
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That christians have had to endure in this country
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And to see that take place, and also see that this year
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We didn't have to contend with a transgender day of visibility.
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But we were able to celebrate easter as is
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Tells me that there were
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That we're moving in the right direction.
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Yeah, we've got a lot to talk about.
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Pastor john and pastor landin after the break,
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Including a big conference coming up.
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They'll both be speaking
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At the reformation conference right here in texas, folks.
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More on that after the break with our pastors all star panel.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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We're talking to our pastors all star panel, pastor
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Landon shop pastor john, and chuck will pastor
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Linda, before the break, i mentioned the rev formation
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Conference coming mursi culture church in fort worth, texas.
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John will be speaking. you'll be speaking.
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It's your church, of course. tell us more about it.
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We're very excited.
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We believe that in this day and hour, we need reformers,
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Not just from the pulpits of our church,
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But in our schools,
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In businesses and government, in every sphere of society,
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Revival will come and people will turn to jesus,
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And then reformation happens next.
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And it happens when we all get engaged.
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And so we got some of the best reformers in the nation.
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I'm a tuku who is my daughter's favorite preacher communicator,
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One of mine, just an absolute incredible leader,
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Not only in the church, but in the community.
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As well.
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We have the white rose resistance.
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Seth gruber, senator josh hawley is going to be there.
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Andrew said all the way from australia is going to be there.
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Russell johnson, a mutual friend of ours
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From seattle, washington.
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Amazing leaders are going to be there.
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And this conference is for everybody
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That wants to make a difference
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In their generation and in their nation.
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What a lineup, folks.
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If you are in texas, coming up may 30th can be incredible.
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A few days actually conference may 30th till.
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To june 1st to. june 1st. yep.
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Coming the reformation conference.
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And pastor john, you will be there.
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And hey, it seems we're seeing part of this reformation again.
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Start at the top out in the white house.
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We mentioned earlier the white house faith office.
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We've really never seen anything like this.
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Pastor john, why is that such a game changer?
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Look, that
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Faith office is in with within earshot of the west wing.
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Tell us more about that.
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What would the former administration,
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You know, the obama biden administration, they prioritize
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Transgenderism and gender ideology
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And critical race theory and the evil
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Tentacles of diversity, equity and inclusion
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And marxist atheist teachings and belief systems.
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But to see president trump
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Put the church, the bride of christ, at the forefront.
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You know,
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They may call me a christian nationalist
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For saying this, but i believe that this country
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Is still founded upon judeo christian principles.
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And to have a president who supports that says that god
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Has selected the right man for such a time as this.
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Yeah.
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And that man right now is in the middle east.
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Pastor john, look, a whirlwind
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Tour saudi arabia, qatar and the uae, it seems.
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I was saying to pastor landa before we started,
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They're literally rolling out
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The red carpet for president trump.
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And because president trump garners
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That kind of respect for from world leaders,
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It seems that the gospel can also be advanced.
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What do you think, pastor john?
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Can we see some movement
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On behalf of judeo-christian western civilization,
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Since we have a defender
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Of that civilization in the white house?
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Yes. you know, we have this thing called a great commission.
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You were called to go.
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You therefore teach all nations, baptizing them
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In the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit.
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And so, yes, i do believe that there is hope
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In the fact that the gospel is now, reaching these parts,
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But it's going to take individuals
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Who are willing to proclaim it and to stand boldly for truth.
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I believe that now more than ever, we're in our finest hour.
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It's dark in this world, you know, we'll be honest.
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But there is more hope and there's more light than ever.
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Because during these dark times, god empowers his church,
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His bride, to stand boldly and to contend for the faith.
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Yeah. pastor john, well said.
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And pastor land, you said earlier, look, it's
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Literally good and evil.
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There's really no gray areas here at this point.
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Do you see america right now?
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In this moment we're in, we have this shift we're talking about
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As a beacon of sorts, that we're almost a lighthouse
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To the world in terms of representing jesus
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And judeo-christian values
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And hopefully revival and restoration.
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Yeah. of course.
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And i think it's a point for everyone to watch
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Because there are always be critics.
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There's no nation that's going to be perfect.
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There's no leader that's going to be perfect.
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There's one king who's perfect,
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And one day he's coming back for a spotless bride.
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But until then, we need to make ready for him.
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That's that's the job of the great commission
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To make ready the way of the lord.
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And so what's
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What's really interesting, what people need to understand
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Is the way that our nation leads.
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So does the world.
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So you saw this. pastor john just mentioned it.
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You saw this with obama that toured the nations
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Encouraging die and adopting gay marriage.
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There were even times that they would hold doing
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Business with other nations if they would not,
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Lean into that that mindset of perversion.
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So now that we're having trump say, no, no, no,
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There's there's two genders. we're not doing this.
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And he's bringing,
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You know, sanity or common sense back to our nation.
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That's going to spread through the world.
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It's amazing to see just common sense come back
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To the white house into the land.
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You guys already said it last easter.
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You had men with artificial breasts
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Dancing on the white house lawn for trans
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Gender visibility day.
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And then this year, the gospel is being preached
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From the white house.
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I mean, it is amazing.
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The prophet isaiah said this a day will come
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Where men will call evil good and good evil.
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We are living in that day and we need to lead in this hour
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According to god's word.
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We must.
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We've got a biblical mandate and time is short.
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It's a prophetic moment we're in.
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That's why we're so glad that pastor landon shot pastor john.
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I'm a chuckle breaking down the times we're in.
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Why all matters to you more with our all star panel
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After the break. talking israel.
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And should pastors get involved in politics
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More with our all star panel after the break. stick around.
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More with our all star panel after the break. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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We're talking to pastor landon shot of mercy
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Culture church in fort worth, texas.
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John, i'm a true co-founder of i know god.
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Us gentlemen,
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We heard this a lot in the run up to the november election
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From some quarters that pastors should not get involved
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In politics or opine on any political issue.
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I know you two don't agree with that.
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Pastor landon, let's start with you then.
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Pastor john, if you could weigh in on that as well.
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Yeah.
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I respond,
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Is i'm not being political or i'm being spiritual.
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The problem is not that i'm political, you're not spiritual.
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And so here's the thing is,
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The government has got involved in spiritual issues.
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It used to be about tax policies.
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And we're not living in the days
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Of bill clinton's tax policies anymore.
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That's not the topics at hand
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When we're talking about abortion.
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We're talking about moloch
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Worship, when we're talking about,
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Transgenderism, when we're talking about
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Redefining what god's word originally defined.
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These are spiritual issues.
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And i cannot read my bible and get past genesis one and two
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Where i am dealing with gender issues, sexuality issues,
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Marriage issues.
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And so i feel like i'm doing my job as a pastor
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Teaching the word of god with clarity.
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So again, this is not a political issue.
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This is a spiritual issue. yeah.
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And well said.
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And pastor john, look,
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It's a battle for the soul of america, right?
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How can we be silent as men and women of god
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If these are the stakes?
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You know,
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Proverbs 1434 says that righteousness exalts a nation,
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But sin is a reproach against evil in any people.
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And so i believe that the bible is a biblical
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Political document from genesis to revelations.
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We see in the old testament god that god uses men
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And women to speak truth to power.
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When elijah went to king ahab and told him that
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There would be no do nor reign until i say so, what was that?
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That was politics.
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That was god using his vessel, his prophet, to speak to a king.
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We see this through isaiah, through jeremiah,
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Through joel, through all of the old testament
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Prophets and judges.
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God uses the church to speak and weigh
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In on the issues of its day.
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And pastors who were free who refuse to do so.
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They're really just cop outs and cowards.
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If not us, who at this moment.
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And speaking of that, today, gentlemen, is the 77th birthday
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Of the modern founding of the state of israel.
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Incredible time, prophetic time.
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Pastor.
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Land significance here, obviously,
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I believe 1948, the prophetic time clock
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Ramped up with the rebirth of israel.
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On 100%.
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And i love
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When i get to talk about this and people don't understand, why
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It's important to love israel and to love the jewish people.
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And i was liking it, too.
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I had a daughter,
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And i knew i would love my daughter
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Because this could be my first child.
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But i remember thinking when my wife was pregnant
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With my second child, my son, how can i possibly love my son
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As much as my daughter until he was born?
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And so when the bible talks about going to the jew first,
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Does it make a gentile?
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Does it make us second best?
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We're all a part of the family of god too.
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So see god's heart turn back towards israel.
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Should make every christian celebrate and rejoice.
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Yeah, pastor john, a dangerous time for israel as well.
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Look, fighting a war right now on seven fronts.
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What kind of duty do we have as followers of jesus
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To stand with the world's one and only jewish state?
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We're called to pray
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For the peace of israel, the bible says,
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And they that love thee will prosper.
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And so our prosperity, the american prosperity,
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Is directly a tied to israel.
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So pastors must pray for israel.
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We must shepherd our congregations
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And tell them the same thing
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And send support towards those who are in need in israel.
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I love it.
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I wish we had a few hours to go, but we're going to wrap up
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After the break with prayer from our pastors.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight
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We are wrapping up with our all star panel.
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Pastor landon shot pastor john. i'm in chuckle folks.
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Be sure to follow them on x and across social media
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And remember the reformation conference may 30th
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To june 1st at mercy culture church in fort worth, texas.
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It's mercy culture.com.
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And of course, check out the john i'm going to show.
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And i know god got us tomorrow.
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Great show. we're talking israel a little bit with our panel.
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John spencer is the world's foremost expert
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On urban warfare, talking gaza much more with him tomorrow.
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You won't want to miss that.
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Now, gentlemen, it is time to wrap up
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This great conversation in prayer.
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Pastor landon, you're back. clean up.
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Pastor john will start with you.
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You heavenly father god, we thank you
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Because you give us this assignment and this a task
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To lead this great nation as beacons of hope and of light.
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We pray, oh god, that you would open up
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The eyes of those who are lost and blind,
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That you will unstopped and unclog ears, that hearts
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Would move from being calloused and hardened to become soft.
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And would your word says that your word is like a rock,
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That is like a hammer that breaks rock into pieces?
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And so, god, we pray right now that eyes will see the truth,
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That you would bring people to salvific faith.
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Let the lost come saying, what must we do to get saved?
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Show us the way, o god uses in these last two days.
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Anoint us, teach our hands to war and our fingers to fight.
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Cover us in your blood, that we might do your will,
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And give us the wherewithal
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To remain faithful until we hear a well done.
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And so, lord, we need your help and i thank you
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For the mercy that you've shown our nation.
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We don't deserve it.
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We thank you for your undeserved kindness.
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And now, lord, we pray for revival.
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I pray that you would pour out your spirit.
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I pray for another great awakening to sweep this nation.
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Lord, i pray
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That every knee should bow and every tongue should confess.
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Lord, i pray right now
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You would help the people of god love you
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With all of their heart, with all of their soul,
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With all their mind, with all their spirit.
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Jesus, we need you.
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So again, we ask you to show your kindness to america.
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In jesus name, amen.
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Amen, guys. great job folks.
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The holy spirit is on the move, so be encouraged
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Until tomorrow. god bless you and we'll see you soon.
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