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Truths That Transform | Rob Pacienza - Waiting On The Lord | January 6, 2025
- Welcome to truths that transform,
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- A production of coral ridge ministries,
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- Where we are
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- I'm pastor rob pacienza.
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- This is our first program of 2025,
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- And the new year is full of promise and hope.
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- A new government will be sworn in this month in washington,
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- And the people have decisively voted to turn away
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- From some of the worst of the cultural insanity
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- We've seen in recent years.
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- But that doesn't mean everything will change overnight.
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- Indeed, this is the beginning of the work
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- Rather than the culmination.
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- On today's program, you'll discover
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- Some much-needed help to have patience in the process.
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- And we begin by looking at how we got here
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- A crucial component to fixing it.
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- Our own david wright sits down with author jack l. richardson
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- To draw lessons from his compelling book,
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- America's systemic psychosis:
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- How our nation lost its mind and how to get it back.
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- Now jack, you use the term psychosis,
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- And you claim that america has lost its collective mind,
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- Could you expound upon that?
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- Yeah, you know, psychosis is thought of as a medical term,
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- But the way that i did it in this book is i define it as
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- Well, you've got organic and inorganic psychosis and
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- Organic is something that you think of as being natural.
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- It just happens to the random individual
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- Where they're detached.
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- But this one is planned and it's been implemented
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- Very strategically and it arises from what i call
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- A pathological ideology.
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- And it basically arose, and
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- Of course i think there's an evil subtext to all of this,
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- But it all originates from what i call a pathological ideology.
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- And that takes us back to the 1800s with karl marx.
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- And he was one of the most evil men ever,
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- He was a total reprobate, a drunk.
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- He lived off of everybody else's money.
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- And when you take a look at the communist manifesto
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- Or das kapital , all it was,
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- These were ways that he could justify his decrepit life,
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- But that was a virus that spread throughout the world
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- And it's infected us and it's infected our teaching.
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- We've allowed our children to be taught
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- By marxist professors and teachers,
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- And some of them don't even know what that is.
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- They don't even know what they're doing.
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- And so now we have about 50% of the youth today
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- Thinking that well, communism might be just okay.
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- Well no, because the subtext and the core,
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- One of the core elements of communism is atheism.
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- And atheism is a psychosis in and of itself.
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- It's a detachment from reality
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- One of the chapters is titled the political
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- And social redlining of america.
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- What do you mean talking about redlining?
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- Yeah. well, redlining,
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- I guess it was back in the eighties or the nineties,
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- Is where it had more of a racial connotation because
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- The banks were not wanting to loan money in certain areas and
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- It had more to do with ethnicity.
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- And so, they were denying loans to people
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- Because of where they lived.
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- And so that was,
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- Congress addressed that and outlawed that,
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- And we thought that we had dealt with the red lining, but
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- It's raised its ugly head again, because now conservatives and
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- Christians and republicans are being redlined out of society.
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- And there's been this nasty little convergence and not a
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- Conspiracy but a collaboration between government and big tech
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- And big corporations where you won't get the services that you
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- Deserve if you don't think right.
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- And technology is so savvy today that they know your
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- Predilections, they know how you're going to vote.
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- They know how you think by what you buy
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- Or what you've done on the internet.
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- And so that's what redlining is all about,
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- Is that you're being canceled,
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- You're being censored, you're being shut down.
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- You're being kept from going to certain places,
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- Buying certain things.
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- We saw that back during covid in a really stark way.
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- And so that's what social redlining is,
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- And that's what redlining has turned in today.
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- It's the suppression of any thought that is different from
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- A leftist marxist viewpoint because they all control
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- The media technology, the big tech and government.
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- We're seeing this marxist idea of dei being pushed,
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- But in the book you talk about dei in relation to big tech,
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- Expand on what you mean when you talk about that.
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- Well, big tech and dei are a deadly combination because
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- First of all, dei is nothing more than racism.
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- And i say to a lot of people, i said,
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- Well, do you want a dei pick to fly your plane
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- At 500 miles an hour, 37,000 feet?
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- I don't think so.
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- Or do you want a dei surgeon to operate on your neck
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- Or anywhere on your body?
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- I said, if you do, good luck on a good recovery
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- If you even get off the table.
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- I mean, there are hierarchies in the world
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- And in life and those are good things,
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- But what the left wants to do is nullify any differences
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- That serves their purpose of staying in power.
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- So and then also big tech.
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- Well, basically, who are the ones programming,
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- Doing the programming?
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- It's like with artificial intelligence,
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- Who's programming artificial intelligence?
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- Well, they are the people that are teaching ai to lie.
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- All these people who are writing all these programs,
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- They are cleansing our history.
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- They're rewriting your history.
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- If you go to do a research on anything,
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- Good luck on finding the real truth.
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- That's why i tell everybody,
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- You need to keep your books because
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- When you go to research today, you're going to really,
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- Really have to dig because they're rewriting history.
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- Along with all of these issues we've discussed,
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- We've seen the church become weaker and weaker
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- And pastors not standing for biblical truth anymore.
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- Yeah. i liked rc sproul's response to a question as to,
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- “what's the problem in the church?”
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- And he says, its men in the church that are
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- Looking over their shoulder for the approval of men,
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- And there are too many men in there at the pulpit.
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- As he also said in another interview, he says,
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- I doubt that there's 5% of the people up there
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- In the pulpit that are qualified to be there.
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- And it's pretty scary.
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- And too many of them are afraid to really be blunt
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- And speak the truth. the truth is unpopular.
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- The truth is offensive. thank goodness for that.
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- And if you can't speak the truth boldly and loudly,
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- You don't belong up there.
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- And i saw a lack of that.
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- And so, with all the craziness going on in the country,
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- How many people from the pulpit are really addressing
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- What is purely evil?
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- And they're not doing it.
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- Now, they can preach from scripture
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- About all the evil 2000 years ago,
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- But they won't preach to you what's evil currently?
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- Evil just didn't stop 2000 years ago.
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- It's here and now, bigger and badder than ever,
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- And it's right in your face.
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- And how can you stand in the pulpit and not give application
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- Of scripture to what's happening currently and contemporarily,
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- And that's what's happening.
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- And so that's the complicity of the church
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- Jack, how can we as a nation overcome this psychosis
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- And regain our reality?
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- Well, first of all, i think one of the best cures that you can
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- Have following up on what i said is that, question everything.
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- Dig for the truth. know the truth.
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- The truth isn't going to lay on the ground.
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- And if it were, a man would find a way to bury it.
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- So, know the truth but not only know it but live it.
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- You need to be involved in your community.
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- You need to basically be skeptic,
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- That's another big thing,
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- Is regain your natural skepticism,
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- Which has been taught out of us.
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- We need to get involved in local government,
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- And particularly your state legislators,
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- Because they are very attuned to what their constituency wants.
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- And basically get back to church.
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- So those are the basic things.
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- But also, you know, going back to the question everything
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- You know, you do have to question everything.
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- The lies just prevail.
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- They're the kings and queens of the world
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- And you have to really dig for the truth.
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- It's like the roots of a tree.
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- You don't see them until you dig for them.
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- But the lies proliferate like the weeds.
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- And we have to be aware of that.
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- And so that's what i wanted to do
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- Is wake people up to the danger
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- Because people have no idea how far we're gone and
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- They have no idea what the consequences are going to be.
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- And once the power is permanently in the hands
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- Of the wrong side,
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- It's going to be devastating.
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- Think about this.
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- In the last 100 years,
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- 120 million people have been murdered and
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- Exterminated by marxism and 2 billion enslaved.
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- And right now we are on the precipice
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- Of worldwide totalitarianism because
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- It serves the interest of a few,
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- A handful of people.
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- And they don't care about you, they only care about themselves.
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- And so i want people to live free lives.
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- I want them to live and prosper,
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- But you can't prosper without the truth,
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- And you really have to dig for it today.
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- So you need to wake up as to what's going on,
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- Be a skeptic question everything,
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- Because you're not going to get any
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- Truth out of the government.
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- You're not going to get any truth out of the media.
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- So you better wake up and to save your life.
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- Jack, thank you for being here.
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- Thank you for writing this book, putting in all the hard work
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- To do all the research to write this book
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- The book is called america's systemic psychosis ,
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- Jack l. richardson, thank you so much.
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- Thank you, david. thank you very much.
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- Prepare to join us in fort lauderdale
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- April 4th through 6th for the 2025 kingdom come conference,
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- Featuring riley gaines, erwin lutzer, rosaria butterfield,
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- Allie beth stuckey, stephen mansfield, and many more.
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- Register now at
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- And join us as we seek
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- “the mind of christ in our secular age.”
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- A century of false and dangerous ideology
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- Cannot be reversed overnight,
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- Or in one election cycle.
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- Christians have been getting involved and
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- Voting in growing numbers,
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- Which is extremely encouraging
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- And they're having a significant effect.
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- But we also have to remember to take the long view
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- As we act as salt and light in our culture.
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- I recently shared more on this with our congregation here
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- At coral ridge presbyterian church,
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- In a message entitled, “waiting on the lord.”
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- Habakkuk 2 verses 1-4
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- And the grass withers and the flower fades.
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- But the word of our lord, it stands forever.
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- Amen. you may be seated.
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- There are several spiritual gifts i possess,
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- But patience is not one of them.
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- It is hard to wait upon the lord.
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- The first thing i want to point out in this brief passage
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- That we read this morning is that
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- Waiting upon the lord requires a high view.
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- In verse 1, habakkuk tells us that he will take his stand
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- At the watch post and station myself on the tower.
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- We need in our current circumstances
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- And our current challenges and trials,
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- A high view for some of us here this morning,
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- You got to climb up into the tower
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- And have a god-centered view once again
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- Of what you're experiencing in life.
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- Waiting upon the lord requires a high view.
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- But waiting on the lord also requires patience.
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- In verse 3, the message from the lord to habakkuk is this
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- For still the vision awaits its appointed time.
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- Did you catch that
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- It's appointed time, not your time, not my time,
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- Not the time i say it should happen,
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- The appointed time,
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- The word appointed always speaks to the divine counsel
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- And will of almighty god,
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- And that requires patience because i want it now.
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- I want it on my timing.
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- I want it exactly like i asked for it,
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- And god says it will never happen according to your timing
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- Or according to your desires.
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- It happens according
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- To the appointed of time of almighty god.
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- But then i love this, look at the second half of verse 3.
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- God gives me so much comfort and hope with my impatience.
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- If it seems slow.
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- Amen.
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- Does it always just seem so slow?
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- Slow when we're dealing with the challenges of life,
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- When we're dealing with difficult relationships,
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- When we're dealing with health concerns,
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- When we were dealing with that election,
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- When we're dealing with the challenges in life
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- And dealing with the challenges of our children
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- And our marriages
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- Dealing with work and our finances and our future,
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- Everything seems slow and god says, but wait,
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- If it seems slow, wait for it.
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- Why? because it surely will come, it will not delay.
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- The promise for god's children is that on the one hand,
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- It might seem slow waiting on the lord,
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- But it will happen and
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- It will come not according to your timing,
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- But according to the lord's appointed time.
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- Wait for it child, it will surely come.
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- It will not delay
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- And it would serve us well as we cultivate the spiritual gift
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- And the spiritual fruit of patience,
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- Which by the way does not come naturally.
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- It is a fruit of the spirit.
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- It would do us well
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- If we embraced our current circumstances
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- And what god's doing in our current circumstances
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- To build within us and to refine us in such a way
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- That the spiritual gift and fruit
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- Of patience is manifest in us.
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- The problem for all of us is
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- Rarely do we go through the sufferings of life and count it
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- As james says, with all joy
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- But the reason james is able to say i count it all joy
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- Is because even through the hard,
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- God, you are refining me and pruning me,
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- And shaping me and sanctifying me into the child of god
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- You desire me to be and you are teaching me the spirit and
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- The discipline of patience to make me a child of god
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- That reflects you and reflects your glory.
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- Adversity does not mean that god is not at work.
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- God is at work even in the midst of the adversity
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- And the suffering and pain.
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- Therefore, it requires us to wait on the lord.
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- It requires great patience.
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- Waiting on the lord requires a high view.
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- Waiting on the lord requires great patience.
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- Third, and lastly,
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- Waiting on the lord requires utter dependence.
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- In verse 4, it says, behold his soul is puffed up.
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- It is not upright within him,
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- But the righteous shall live by his faith.
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- The idea of faith as it comes to us from god
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- Is the key to not only saving us,
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- But in allowing us to endure to the very end.
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- It is the faith that god grants us by grace
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- That allows us to have utter dependence upon him.
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- Verse 4 tells us,
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- You will either live a life that is dependent upon yourself
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- Or you'll live a life by faith that is dependent upon god.
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- There is no middle way. there is no middle life.
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- You are either dependent upon yourself
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- And your righteousness or you're dependent wholly
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- And solely upon the righteousness of jesus christ.
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- It would be verse 4 of chapter 2
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- That would inspire paul to record this verse
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- In romans chapter 1 and set him free as a
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- Pharisee that was dependent upon his own righteousness.
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- It would be this verse that would inspire
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- The reformer martin luther to experience salvation
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- And to launch the protestant reformation.
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- And it would be this verse that i pray would set you free
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- This morning that as you are waiting upon the lord,
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- That you would not wait according to your own strength
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- And your own power and your own righteousness,
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- But you would wait upon the lord according to the strength
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- And righteousness of the finished work of jesus christ.
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- We are reminded in this verse that we are saved by faith alone
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- And that we wait by faith alone that from
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- The moment of justification to the moment of glorification,
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- It is by faith alone
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- In the finished work of jesus christ alone.
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- This day, you can have a high view.
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- This day, you can wait upon him with patience.
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- And this day you can wait upon the lord
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- And be utterly dependent upon him.
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- Why?
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- Because he said, write it down, it's guaranteed.
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- Hi, i'm jennifer kennedy cassidy.
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- As we begin this new year, we live, as always, by faith.
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- And we wait upon the lord for revival in our nation
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- And an embracing of god's good design for us which includes
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- Repentance from our national rebellion against god.
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- A new congress has just been sworn in,
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- And in just a couple of weeks,
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- We'll be inaugurating a new president.
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- Our nation has an exciting and challenging year ahead,
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- And at this strategic moment,
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- It is vital for you to make your voice heard
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- On which issues you think are most important right now,
- 00:21:10.472 --> 00:21:14.309
- Through our 2025 spiritual state of the nation survey.
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- Border security, protecting women and children
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- From transgender insanity, the conflict in gaza,
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- The sanctity of human life,
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- And so many other issues will need attention.
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- Which matter the most to you as we begin the new year
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- And the new leadership in washington?
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- Contact us without delay to receive
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- Your 2025 spiritual state of the nation survey.
- 00:21:36.765 --> 00:21:39.935
- Fill it out and return it to us as quickly as possible,
- 00:21:39.935 --> 00:21:43.171
- And we will join your voice with thousands of others
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- When we present the results 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.
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- This is an opportunity to make your voice heard
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- And also help guide our ministry plan for 2025.
- 00:21:58.387 --> 00:22:02.224
- And when you call, write, or go online for your survey,
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- If you are able also to include a generous donation
- 00:22:05.660 --> 00:22:08.764
- To help us continue and expand the work of this ministry,
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- We'll send you 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 .
- 00:22:17.005 --> 00:22:20.308
- Our country is emerging from a long detour
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- Into the toxic world of woke politics.
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- We need to know what made america great, and the way back.
- 00:22:26.114 --> 00:22:29.785
- Dr. newcombe, who leads our providence forum,
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- Lights the path back to american greatness
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- As he presents the biblically grounded,
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- Time-tested principles
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- First established for us by our founders.
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- In chapter after chapter he recounts the founders' recipe
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- For freedom and prosperity, including godly education,
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- Religious liberty, morality, limited government, and prayer.
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- If you want to know what made america great
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- And how we as a nation can return to true greatness.
- 00:22:56.478 --> 00:23:00.115
- Contact us right away to receive your
- 00:23:00.115 --> 00:23:02.384
- 2025 spiritual state of the nation survey, fill it out,
- 00:23:02.384 --> 00:23:06.421
- And send it back to us as soon as possible to make
- 00:23:06.421 --> 00:23:09.291
- Your voice heard on the most urgent issues of the day.
- 00:23:09.291 --> 00:23:12.661
- And when you contact us,
- 00:23:12.661 --> 00:23:14.229
- If you're able to include a generous donation,
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- We'll also send you the timely book,
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- In the footsteps of giant ,
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- By dr. jerry newcombe, as our thanks.
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- Simply write to us at coral ridge ministries
- 00:23:23.138 --> 00:23:30.412
- Or call toll free:
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- Or go online to:
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- As this new year begins, we are excited about 2025.
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- Yes, our world faces some enormous difficulties.
- 00:23:46.528 --> 00:23:49.798
- But when i look ahead at this year, i see opportunities.
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- Later this month, a new president and congress
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- Will take over leadership in washington.
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- And america has decisively turned back
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- Wokeness at the ballot box.
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- We are reaching a critical mass where ordinary americans
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- Saw where our country was heading and finally said- enough .
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- Enough gender insanity.
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- Enough identity politics.
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- Enough interest group grievances.
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- They know that something is drastically wrong.
- 00:24:18.093 --> 00:24:21.229
- And we have the solution.
- 00:24:21.229 --> 00:24:23.465
- You see, politics can only take us so far.
- 00:24:23.465 --> 00:24:26.568
- The people expressed their will through politics.
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- But politics is not going to deliver our nation.
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- What america needs is a spiritual awakening.
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- Which tens of millions of people are beginning
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- To recognize through their votes.
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- And we are poised at coral ridge ministries
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- To face this new cultural moment.
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- We have a nationwide megaphone through this television
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- Broadcast to apply the word of god to every sphere of life,
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- And to call our nation to repentance and obedience.
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- We have an open channel to proclaim
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- The gospel of jesus christ,
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- Who transforms hearts and minds,
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- And saves us from our sins.
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- Our providence forum will be defending
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- And advancing america's christian heritage,
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- As our nation begins to recapture our true history
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- Heading into our 250th national birthday next year.
- 00:25:14.783 --> 00:25:19.354
- And we are ministering to this new congress,
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- And new officials all over washington,
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- Sharing the gospel and a biblical worldview through
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- Our d. james kennedy center for christian statesmanship
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- On capitol hill.
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- We're growing our podcasts and our social media presence,
- 00:25:32.334 --> 00:25:35.570
- And we're expanding our programming
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- With the help of partners like pray.com and real life network
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- All designed
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- To contend for the faith and proclaim hope to the nation.
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- We pray that 2025 will be a great year for our nation,
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- And a great year for you personally.
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- A great year doesn't necessarily mean
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- That everything goes smoothly.
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- It can include even deep grief and difficulty.
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- But a great year does mean that god is reigning,
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- That jesus is lord,
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- And that god works all things together for those who love him
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- And are called according to his purpose.
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- May the lord bless you,
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- And happy new year to you and yours.
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- Coral ridge ministries is
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- Contending for the faith, and proclaiming hope to the nation.
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- If you're ever in south florida, we welcome you
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- To join us for worship sunday morning right here
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- At coral ridge presbyterian church,
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- Or you can always join on livestream at:
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- And we also want to invite you to
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- Connect with us on social media at
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- Check out our vast library of video resources at
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- I want to thank you for joining us,
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- And here's a look at the next truths that transform.
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- I think america is returning back to her christian roots,
- 00:26:50.979 --> 00:26:55.650
- And i think that this election symbolized for me
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- A breaking of a spell almost
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- That has been cast over america.
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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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