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Truths That Transform | D. James Kennedy;Rob Pacienza - Hope For The Nation | January 13, 2025
- We're experiencing a major political shift in america
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- This month with a new congress
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- And a new presidential administration.
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- But our nation's needs go far deeper than that.
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- Welcome to truths that transform,
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- A production of coral ridge ministries, where we are
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- I'm pastor rob pacienza.
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- A new congress has been sworn in,
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- And later this month, a new presidency will begin.
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- It offers the exciting prospect
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- Of turning over a new leaf in america.
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- But real hope cannot come from - or be built upon - politics.
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- On today's program, we'll look at the deepest need
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- America has in this cultural moment.
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- And we begin with a look at some of the key issues to christians
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- That the new trump administration
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- Will be dealing with as they enter office.
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- Our own dr. jerry newcombe has more.
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- The spiritual state of the nation right now
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- Is where it's become more godless.
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- There is less of an allegiance
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- And a loyalty to the god of the universe.
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- And there's more allegiance and loyalty to self.
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- Previous generations never could've imagined
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- The place we're in now.
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- The big picture is strictly marxists.
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- And i think there's a big task ahead of us.
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- There's a lot to do, but i'm hopeful, genuinely encouraged
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- That great days are ahead for the united states of america.
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- The spiritual state of the nation i think
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- Right now is on a resurgence because when i look
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- At what has happened in the past when you did not have christians
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- Going out and participating in the election cycle,
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- I'm a national spokesperson for my faith votes.
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- I believe that the christian community is awakening
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- There's a lot of hope in america
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- That our new administration will give us some breathing room.
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- I'm very convinced that that hope is real here in america.
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- I'm very, very convinced.
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- When it comes to the spiritual state of the nation today,
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- We see many challenges.
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- But we can see positive developments
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- Such as the recent elections.
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- I think america is returning back to her christian roots,
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- And i think that this election symbolized for me
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- A breaking of a spell almost that has been cast over america.
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- Overall, even if they're not christian,
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- They saw what's been going on with our families and
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- The innocence of our children,
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- And it's not just the transgender issue
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- And what's being taught
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- And used to confuse our children in schools.
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- Terry schilling points out that perhaps the most effective ad
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- Leading to the trump victory highlighted the difference
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- In approaches by the candidates to the transgender issue.
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- “kamala's agenda is for they/them, not you.
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- I'm donald j. trump and i approve this message.”
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- And these ads were repeated nonstop
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- Throughout the final days of the campaign,
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- And i have no doubt that they really helped win
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- The election for donald trump.
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- We have a new party that's willing to actually fight
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- And fight aggressively for the innocence
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- And protection of our children,
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- And it's absolutely beautiful.
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- We've turned the republican party into a party for families
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- Instead of a party for corporations.
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- “i think there's a lot of families out there
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- Who don't believe boys should play in girls' sports.”
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- “they're not boys! i'm not going to
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- Listen to transphobia at this table!
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- I am not going to listen to you call a trans girl a boy!”
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- This is the exact right clip to show everyone for why opposing
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- The transgender agenda is a perfect issue for republicans
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- And anyone that wants to actually protect kids,
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- The democratic base,
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- The people that are actually crazy on gender,
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- They aren't going away.
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- Other issues in the recent election provide a barometer
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- On the spiritual state of the nation--such as abortion.
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- Pro-lifers continue to battle the lies that are told
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- To promote the killing of the unborn.
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- There is a gob of false information out there
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- That is terrifying women
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- Who may be pregnant or who may want to get pregnant.
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- There's a couple of storylines.
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- One is that women will be denied lifesaving care if they need it.
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- That's absolutely false.
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- Every state that protects life has an exception
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- Where doctors can do anything they need to
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- Any means necessary to save the mother's life.
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- That's true in every state.
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- A big challenge to the pro-life movement is that now
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- The majority of abortions are essentially
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- Do-it-yourself at home through abortion pills
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- Often without any reasonable medical oversight.
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- Abortion by mail is something
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- The biden administration ushered in 2021.
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- They used covid to do it, and then they finalized it in 2023.
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- And what they did was take away
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- The last remaining doctor's visit.
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- So a woman can now obtain mifepristone,
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- Have it sent to her home or to her dorm room
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- Without ever seeing a doctor.
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- That means no one will check her for
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- A life-threatening emergency, like an ectopic pregnancy,
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- And no one will accurately diagnose her gestational age.
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- Both of these things can lead to serious,
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- Even life-threatening complications.
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- Chanting
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- I think that there has been
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- A bit of a chaos bomb that's been thrown into
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- The pro-life movement after dobbs was handed down
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- Because people didn't know what to do next.
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- You had kind of the wars between
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- The absolutist and the incrementalists,
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- And that has led to unfortunately
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- Some really bad amendments,
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- Referendums that have passed that have actually made abortion
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- More permissive, even in conservative states.
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- Another issue indicative of the state of the nation
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- Today is the borders issue
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- Borders that have been wide open for the last 4 years.
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- I live in texas and when you think about the border,
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- We cannot be a constitutional republic,
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- We're coming up on 250 years of existence
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- That is these united states of america.
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- And we cannot be a constitutional republic,
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- A sovereign nation if you don't protect your borders.
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- And so to have the tens of millions of people
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- That are here illegally to have hundreds of thousands
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- Of single military age males, criminal illegal immigrants,
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- You know, even god understood borders
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- When he posted an angel with a sword of fire
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- To keep adam and eve from coming back into the garden of eden.
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- So, we need to protect our border
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- I think immigration is actually a huge children's rights issue
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- Because over the last couple months it's been clear
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- That our immigration agencies have lost track of 30,000
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- To maybe up to 300,000 unaccompanied minors
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- Who came across the border,
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- Many of whom are now very likely in the seedy underworld
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- Of the trafficking industry here in the united states.
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- So i actually think that every major issue
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- That we are looking at today,
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- Every economic issue, every national security issue,
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- Every cultural issue ultimately comes down to
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- Are you going to protect kids
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- Or are you going to victimize them?
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- Ultimately, what we face is a spiritual battle.
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- As the culture continues to embrace the notion
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- That truth is relative and we can make up our own rules,
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- The great challenge is to get people to realize
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- That when we die, we'll stand before god
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- Whether we believe that or not.
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- We have a world that is facing evil
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- And it won't be wiped away until jesus comes back.
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- But what we are called to do is to stand in grace
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- And to stand in truth.
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- Although the foundations of the nation may be a bit tattered,
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- The foundation still remains.
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- We remain a republic.
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- That puts the judaic christian tradition at the center of it.
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- Yes, we are becoming a more pluralistic country.
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- But the good news, and i think it's if i may say
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- Part of the great news is that
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- Christians are still forming and leading culture.
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- Many leading christians note that great need for our nation
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- To get back to its core founding principles.
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- There's no question that
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- Liberty along the lines of the american founding
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- Is inextricably intertwined with the idea of god,
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- The god of the bible, there's just,
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- There's no way around that.
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- I am so hopeful for america on so many levels,
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- But we were praying 2 chronicles 7:14.
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- If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves
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- And pray and turn from their wicked ways,
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- Then i'll hear from heaven
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- Forgive their sins and heal their land.
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- We were praying in earnest, we were repenting of our own sins
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- And we need to keep doing that
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- Just because the election is won,
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- We don't have to back off of that at all.
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- So, i am very hopeful and my hope is in god, our father,
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- Lord jesus, his son, and the holy spirit.
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- I have that hope for america
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- And i'm going to certainly hold onto it.
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- I really am.
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- Despite some victories and some setbacks,
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- This is not a time for christians
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- To back down and sit on the sidelines.
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- I think we as christians are called to be a part
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- Of every aspect of our community and yes,
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- Even in the public square because if we sit silent,
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- Evil fills the gap and we see that
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- Happening with the wicked policies that are being passed
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- Through starting in our schools and our institutions
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- And we have to have a voice of speaking truth.
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- We know the clarity in the midst of confusion
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- That god is not a god of confusion and chaos,
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- But he's a god of peace and order
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- And we have to be a part of every aspect in our community.
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- As christians we are called to be salt and light,
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- And to be the best of citizens.
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- That includes casting our votes and using our influence
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- To pull our nation toward truth and blessing.
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- The recent election gave evidence that christians
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- Are taking this role seriously, and we praise god for that.
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- But this is only a beginning, not a destination.
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- Repenting of insanity is a start
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- But there needs to be much more of it,
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- And also a growing, national embrace of
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- The true, the good, and the beautiful.
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- I recently shared more about america's greatest need
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- In a message here with our congregation
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- At coral ridge presbyterian church,
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- Entitled, “revival: hope for the nation.”
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- Malachi 3:1-7, and malachi 4:4-6
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- And the grass withers and the flower fades.
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- But no, not the word of our lord, it stands forever.
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- Aren't you glad you have the word of the lord this morning?
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- Amen. you may be seated.
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- As a college student in alabama, everywhere i went,
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- I saw signs for revival.
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- Every weekend, we were being told,
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- Come here because revival is about to happen.
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- The only problem is, as you study the word of god,
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- You see that true revival does
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- Never happen with the masses coming in.
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- It's always the remnant inside that is transformed
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- And awakened and then sent out.
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- Revival doesn't happen necessarily first out there.
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- Revival first has to happen with the people of god in here.
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- And if you haven't noticed, lately,
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- Our culture is not typically and particularly flourishing.
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- And i want to make it very clear that our greatest hope
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- As a nation is for revival to come to this land.
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- And i believe after many of the events this fall and
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- In particular the last election,
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- That this nation is ripe for revival.
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- And you can clap for that,
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- But it begins in here with the people of god.
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- The nation of israel in malachi was in need of revival,
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- Spiritually indifferent, maybe even dead to the things of god.
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- And we need revival here in this land.
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- What will it take and what will it require
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- The people of god in the 21st century
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- Dependent upon the lord and his grace
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- And his spirit to see another great awakening in this nation?
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- The first thing i want to point out in our passage this morning
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- Is that revival requires repentance.
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- In verse 7 of chapter 3, it says that
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- “you need to return to me and then i will return to you.”
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- True repentance is not just asking for forgiveness,
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- It's not saying, sorry, lord,
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- It is returning from your wicked ways.
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- It's turning around.
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- It is saying that i'm headed in one direction
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- And i'm completely turning my life around,
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- Repenting and turning away from my wicked deeds.
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- That is what the lord was calling
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- The people of god and malachi to do that
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- If you want to see a nation revived and come to life again,
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- It begins with the people of god on their knees repenting.
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- And you might be saying, pastor, not so fast.
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- I'm not caught up in sorcery and adultery
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- And all of the things that malachi is listing here.
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- We not only need to be repentant of our sin
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- And our transgressions but we need to be repentant
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- Of our indifference to what has happened
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- In this nation and in our culture.
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- That the biblical understanding of manhood,
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- Gender, and sexuality right now
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- Is simply referred to in our society as mythology.
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- We saw what happened 4 years ago
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- When the government began to shut down churches.
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- We've heard it on the mainstream media that if you don't get
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- On board with woke ideology and the woke agenda,
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- You'll be considered for a
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- Hate crime and silenced and canceled.
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- We murder babies in the name of reproductive rights,
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- And if the statistics are true,
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- The majority of evangelicals in this nation couldn't care less.
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- They're indifferent to what is happening
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- And that my friends is precisely
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- What we need to repent of:
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- Our indifference to what has happened.
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- We are living in a nation in open rebellion against the lord
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- And it just doesn't seem like many christians care and
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- We will never see revival unless we first get on our knees.
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- We'll never see revival until we are broken.
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- Revival requires repentance.
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- The second thing we see in this passage in chapter four
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- Is that revival involves remembering.
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- In verses 4 and 5, the lord says,
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- “remember the law of my servant moses,
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- The statutes and rules that i commanded him
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- At horeb for all israel.”
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- What the lord is doing is he's bridging the gap
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- Between the old and new testaments
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- And he's talking about
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- The entire council of god in that one verse.
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- He's saying, if you want revival,
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- You can't neglect my word.
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- If you want revival, you need to remember it.
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- And for the hebrews, remembering was far more than just thinking,
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- The word remember there involves body, mind, and soul.
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- The entire being dedicated to the very word of god
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- That we say to ourselves as a church here at coral ridge,
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- That this is the infallible word of god.
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- That's why we stand for the reading of it
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- Because it's not a manmade book,
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- But it is god speaking to us
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- Under the inspiration of the holy spirit.
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- Because revival will only happen when the people of god are moved
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- And passionate and they wake up to what is happening because
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- They realize that god's word produces a fire and
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- An excitement and an inspiration unlike any other,
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- And it sends them out.
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- That's the whole testimony of this church
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- And of this ministry,
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- How god could take handfuls of people in 1959
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- And go out and change the world.
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- How god could take a new minister of the gospel and
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- Through the ministry of coral ridge ministries
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- And go out and reach every nation on earth.
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- It's because there was a holy fire and a passion
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- That was lit here decades ago,
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- And we need that fire yet again
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- In order to pray on our knees that god would use us,
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- By his grace and for his glory
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- To bring about another great awakening and
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- Another revival because that is the only hope for this nation
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- Because elections will not ultimately save america.
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- It is the people of god at work and mobilized in the trenches
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- Declaring the whole council of god so that our nation
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- Knows that jesus christ is lord.
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- Hi, i'm jennifer kennedy cassidy.
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- With god, all things are possible,
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- And as we look around the nation,
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- There are signs of an awakening
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- Beginning to take place.
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- As you just heard from pastor rob,
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- While elections are important,
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- It's the people of god declaring the word of god
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- That will bring about revival
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- In the nation through the grace of god.
- 00:20:48.908 --> 00:20:50.910
- And we want to magnify and amplify your voice
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- For america and her leaders to hear.
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- What are the things that concern you most right now?
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- We want to find out through
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- Our 2025 spiritual state of the nation survey.
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- From border security to religious liberty,
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- From the attacks on israel to transgender indoctrination,
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- Let us know the issues you are most concerned about
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- As we swear in a new congress and a new president.
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- Please, call us, write, or go online right away
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- To receive your survey, fill it out,
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- And send it back to us as soon as possible.
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- Through this nationwide survey,
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- You will have the chance to join your voice together
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- With thousands of committed christian citizens
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- Across this country when we present the results
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- To president donald j. trump,
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- House speaker mike johnson and senate majority leader
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- John thune, and select media outlets.
- 00:21:41.027 --> 00:21:43.930
- And when you contact us to receive your petition,
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- Won't you also consider giving a generous donation to help us
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- Continue and expand the vital work of this ministry?
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- Your donation helps us broadcast the gospel
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- And the biblical worldview to the entire nation and
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- This is the time to advance, rather than retreating.
- 00:21:59.045 --> 00:22:02.715
- We'll thank you by sending you
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- Dr. jerry newcombe's timely book,
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- In the footsteps of giants:
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- Solutions from the founders for a nation gone astray .
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- America has for too long been lost
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- In the toxic wilderness of woke politics.
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- Now it's time to come home
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- To our nation's founding principles
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- The blueprint that made our land the freest
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- And most prosperous nation in history.
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- Dr. newcombe lays it all out for you as he recounts, one by one,
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- The bible-based building blocks of the founders.
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- You and i have a precious heritage of freedom and
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- We must not let it slip out of our grasp.
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- Find the path back to true american greatness and freedom
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- As you request in the footsteps of giants by dr. jerry newcombe.
- 00:22:42.488 --> 00:22:47.093
- Again, contact us right away to receive your
- 00:22:47.093 --> 00:22:50.062
- 2025 spiritual state of the nation survey,
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- Fill it out, and return it to us
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- As soon as possible so we can make your voice heard
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- In the corridors of power.
- 00:22:58.104 --> 00:22:59.739
- And if you're able to give a generous donation
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- When you contact us,
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- We'll thank you by sending you the timely guide
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- To true american greatness, in the footsteps of giants .
- 00:23:05.812 --> 00:23:09.549
- Simply write to us at coral ridge ministries:
- 00:23:09.549 --> 00:23:16.589
- Or call toll free:
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- Or go online to:
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- You often hear it said that you can't legislate morality,
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- And that god and government should be separate.
- 00:23:31.838 --> 00:23:34.373
- But both of those familiar slogans are false.
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- First, morality is really all you can legislate
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- And every law is reflective of someone's morality.
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- When we make a law that says you can't steal from a store well,
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- That's morality.
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- In fact, it's right out of the ten commandments.
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- And secondly, the founders never intended
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- God to be separate from government.
- 00:23:56.295 --> 00:23:58.364
- That only comes from a supreme court misinterpretation
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- Of the first amendment in the 1940's.
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- In reality, the founders expected the ten commandments
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- And god's law to influence our own laws.
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- They knew that, as john adams said,
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- Our constitution is only capable of governing
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- A moral and religious people.
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- That's why we can take a lot of encouragement
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- From the changing of the guard
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- In washington d.c. this month
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- With a new congress and a new presidential administration.
- 00:24:25.758 --> 00:24:29.195
- There's no question that we have a long way to go.
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- For instance, no political party is currently
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- Taking a strong pro-life stand
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- Although one of them is passionately pro-abortion.
- 00:24:37.737 --> 00:24:41.007
- So, we want to see america grow in understanding on this issue
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- Which is one of the reasons our ministry exists to explain what
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- God says about human life, which is bedrock truth.
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- But we also need to look at where we're at.
- 00:24:53.986 --> 00:24:56.422
- We've just experienced a period where every facet
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- Of god's design was under assault.
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- Over the past few years,
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- The elites in our culture were even calling into question
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- Basic concepts like “what is a man” and “what is a woman?”
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- We were told that the most important things about us
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- Were our race, sexuality, and gender and that we had extra
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- Value and power if we could make all of it up for ourselves.
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- It was the breaking apart of sanity itself.
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- A culture that cannot agree that objective truth even exists
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- Is a culture in its final death throes.
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- But the election showed that the elites did not
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- Represent the majority in our culture.
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- They were selling us insanity
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- And finally the people said “enough!”
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- This change of government will not save us,
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- And no politician is going to suddenly
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- Undo decades of rot and decay.
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- But we can hope and pray that
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- This is the first symptom of a reviving of america.
- 00:25:51.877 --> 00:25:55.247
- A revival is an awakening and that's exactly what we need,
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- And hopefully it's what we're beginning to see.
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- Pray for the lord to pour out his spirit
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- On an undeserving america.
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- And let's stand boldly as christians and lovingly
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- But firmly insist that god is the standard of truth,
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- And that we need to listen to him and obey.
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- Coral ridge ministries is
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- Thank you for joining us today.
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- Any time you're in fort lauderdale,
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- We welcome you to join us for worship
- 00:26:24.410 --> 00:26:27.113
- At coral ridge presbyterian church,
- 00:26:27.113 --> 00:26:29.348
- And you can always join via livestream at:
- 00:26:29.348 --> 00:26:33.252
- And to keep up with all our news, commentaries,
- 00:26:34.353 --> 00:26:36.822
- And other projects, connect with us on social media at:
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- And find a whole library of our biblical worldview
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- Content available for streaming at:
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- And now, here's a look at the next truths that transform.
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- Babies never choose to die.
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- This is dr. haywood robinson.
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- I'm a former abortion provider,
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- Set free by the love of christ jesus
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- That's next week
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- This has been a production of coral ridge ministries
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