Even though sinful behavior is often celebrated, one small misstep can quickly lead to someone being "canceled." Several New Testament writers made end-times prophesies about this type of brokenness.
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Turning Point with Dr. David Jeremiah | David Jeremiah - A Political Prophecy - Cancel Culture | April 25, 2026
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- Male announcer: find clarity and hope
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- In god's unwavering prophetic plan
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- With "understanding biblical prophecy."
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- This all-new bible study from dr. jeremiah will guide you
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- Through 30 powerful prophetic passages.
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- As you read each prophecy, learn its context,
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- Answer reflection questions, and apply it to your life,
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- You will learn to understand god's word,
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- Dr. david jeremiah: are we living in the end-times?
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- There may have never been another time in history
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- When end-times prophecy
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- Has been more aligned with the culture
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- And circumstances of the world than it is today.
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- I believe there are ten phenomena
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- We are witnessing today that were recorded
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- Centuries ago in bible prophecy.
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- Seeing our circumstances in light of these prophecies
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- Should give us resolve, purpose, and hope.
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- And help us answer the questions:
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- What are we to do with the world around us?
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- What hope do we have in times like these,
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- And ultimately, where do we go from here?
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- Dr. jeremiah: does bible prophecy
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- Predict a time when society tries to silence
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- The voices of morality?
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- Is cancel culture a sign of end-times culture?
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- How can believers live freely in a world
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- So ready to cancel the message of christ?
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- Announcer: join dr. david jeremiah
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- For this special prophecy edition
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- Of "turning point" as he presents
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- A sign of the end-times,
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- "cancel culture: a political prophecy,"
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- Today on "turning point."
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- ♪ all hail the power of jesus' name ♪
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- ♪ let angels prostrate fall ♪
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- ♪ bring forth the royal diadem ♪
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- ♪ and crown him lord of all ♪
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- ♪ bring forth the royal diadem ♪
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- ♪ and crown him lord of all ♪
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- ♪ ye chosen seed of israel's race ♪
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- ♪ ye ransomed from the fall ♪
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- ♪ hail him who saves you by his grace ♪
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- ♪ and crown him lord of all ♪
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- ♪ hail him who saves you by his grace ♪
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- ♪ and crown him lord of all ♪
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- ♪ hosanna, hosanna ♪
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- ♪ you are the god who saves us ♪
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- ♪ worthy of all our praises ♪
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- ♪ hosanna, hosanna ♪
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- ♪ come have your way among us ♪
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- ♪ we welcome you here, lord jesus ♪
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- ♪ let every kindred, every tribe ♪
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- ♪ on this terrestrial ball ♪
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- ♪ to him all majesty ascribe ♪
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- ♪ and crown him lord of all ♪
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- ♪ to him all majesty ascribe ♪
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- ♪ and crown him lord of all ♪
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- ♪ o, that with yonder sacred throng ♪
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- ♪ we at his feet may fall ♪
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- ♪ we'll join the everlasting song ♪
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- ♪ and crown him lord of all ♪
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- ♪ we'll join the everlasting song ♪
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- ♪ and crown him lord of all ♪
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- ♪ and crown him lord of all ♪
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- ♪ and crown him lord of all ♪♪
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- Announcer: coming up on "turning point."
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- Dr. jeremiah: jesus touched lepers
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- Who were untouchable according to the law.
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- He welcomed sinners who were despised.
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- He expressed compassion for a woman taken in adultery.
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- He cast demons out of people who were violent,
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- And after his resurrection, he reassured a doubting disciple
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- And reestablished the disciple who had denied him.
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- Jesus had no place in his heart for the cancel culture.
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- Announcer: the bible predicts the falling away of the church.
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- Is that what we are seeing today?
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- Are the illnesses, plagues, and pestilence of our day
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- Signs we are living in the end-times?
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- Would you be surprised to know the decay of character
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- Is a precursor for christ's return?
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- Dr. david jeremiah answers these questions and more
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- In his book "where do we go from here?
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- How tomorrow's prophecies foreshadow today's problems."
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- Written especially for this time,
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- Dr. jeremiah explores how bible prophecy
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- Intersects with culture and events
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- We are witnessing right outside our door.
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- In every chapter, dr. jeremiah examines
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- What bible prophecy reveals about the world today,
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- ♪ hosanna, hosanna ♪
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- ♪ to the lamb that was slain ♪
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- ♪ hosanna, hosanna ♪
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- ♪ jesus died and rose again ♪
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- ♪ hosanna, hosanna ♪
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- ♪ to the lamb that was slain ♪
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- ♪ hosanna, hosanna ♪
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- ♪ jesus died and rose again ♪
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- ♪ into the river i will wade ♪
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- ♪ there my sins are washed away ♪
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- ♪ from the heaven's mercy stream ♪
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- ♪ of the savior's love for me ♪
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- ♪ i will rise from waters deep ♪
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- ♪ into the saving arms of god ♪
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- ♪ i will sing salvation songs ♪
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- ♪ jesus christ has set me free ♪
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- ♪ hosanna, hosanna ♪
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- ♪ to the lamb that was slain ♪
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- ♪ hosanna, hosanna ♪
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- ♪ jesus died and rose again ♪
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- ♪ hosanna, hosanna ♪
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- ♪ to the lamb that was slain ♪
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- ♪ hosanna, hosanna ♪
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- ♪ jesus died and rose again ♪
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- ♪ let the weak say i am strong ♪
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- ♪ let the poor say i am rich ♪
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- ♪ let the blind say i can see ♪
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- ♪ it's what the lord has done in me ♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ i was a wretch, i remember who i was ♪
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- ♪ i was lost, i was blind ♪
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- ♪ and i was running out of time ♪
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- ♪ and sin separated, the breach was far too wide ♪
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- ♪ but from the far side of the chasm ♪
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- ♪ you held me in your sight ♪
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- ♪ so you made a way across the great divide ♪
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- ♪ you left behind heaven's throne ♪
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- ♪ to build it here inside ♪
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- ♪ and there at the cross you paid the debt i owed ♪
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- ♪ broke my chains, freed my soul ♪
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- ♪ for the first time i had hope ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, for the blood applied ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, it has washed me white ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, you have saved my life ♪
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- ♪ brought me from the darkness ♪
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- ♪ into glorious light ♪
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- ♪ you took my place ♪
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- ♪ you laid inside my tomb of sin ♪
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- ♪ you were buried for three days ♪
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- ♪ but then you walked right out again ♪
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- ♪ and now death, it has no sting ♪
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- ♪ and life has no end ♪
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- ♪ for i have been transformed by the blood of the lamb ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, for the blood applied ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, it has washed me white ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, you have saved my life ♪
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- ♪ brought me from the darkness ♪
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- ♪ into glorious light ♪
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- ♪ there is nothing stronger ♪
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- ♪ than the wonder-working power of the blood ♪
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- ♪ the blood ♪
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- ♪ that calls us sons and daughters ♪
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- ♪ we are ransomed by our father through the blood ♪
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- ♪ the blood ♪
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- ♪ there is nothing stronger ♪
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- ♪ than the wonder-working power of the blood ♪
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- ♪ the blood ♪
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- ♪ that calls us sons and daughters ♪
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- ♪ we are ransomed by our father through the blood ♪
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- ♪ the blood ♪
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- ♪ glory to his name ♪
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- ♪ glory to his name ♪
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- ♪ there to my heart was the blood applied ♪
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- ♪ glory to his name ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, for the blood applied ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, it has washed me white ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, you have saved my life ♪
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- ♪ brought me from the darkness ♪
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- ♪ into glorious light ♪
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- ♪ thank you, jesus, you have saved my life ♪
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- ♪ brought me from the darkness ♪
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- ♪ you have brought me from the darkness ♪
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- ♪ brought me from the darkness ♪
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- ♪ into glorious light ♪
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- ♪ oh, into glorious light ♪
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- ♪ in glorious light ♪♪
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- "turning point" today.
- 00:18:54.116 --> 00:18:55.517
- And now here is dr. jeremiah with his message
- 00:18:55.517 --> 00:18:58.654
- "cancel culture: a political prophecy."
- 00:18:58.654 --> 00:19:01.423
- Dr. jeremiah: except for 1968 and its riots
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- And assassinations, i cannot remember
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- A more challenging year in my lifetime
- 00:19:08.163 --> 00:19:10.732
- For america than 2020.
- 00:19:10.732 --> 00:19:14.036
- Between the pandemic, and the flaring of racial tensions
- 00:19:14.036 --> 00:19:17.506
- After the death of george floyd,
- 00:19:17.506 --> 00:19:19.741
- Floundering economy, skyrocketing murder rates,
- 00:19:19.741 --> 00:19:23.412
- The impeachment of donald trump,
- 00:19:23.412 --> 00:19:26.048
- People had a lot to argue about, and argue they did.
- 00:19:26.048 --> 00:19:30.419
- Of course, the us presidential elections
- 00:19:30.419 --> 00:19:33.655
- Added fuel to those fires.
- 00:19:33.655 --> 00:19:36.225
- In the midst of that tension and animosity,
- 00:19:36.225 --> 00:19:39.361
- Pastor chris hodges of birmingham, alabama,
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- Logged onto his instagram account one day
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- And clicked "like" on a small number of posts
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- From a conservative author and speaker.
- 00:19:49.238 --> 00:19:52.975
- Can you imagine something so innocuous causing trouble?
- 00:19:52.975 --> 00:19:58.180
- Well, it did.
- 00:19:58.180 --> 00:20:00.315
- A high school english teacher living in birmingham
- 00:20:00.315 --> 00:20:02.517
- Saw what pastor hodges had done and felt uncomfortable.
- 00:20:02.517 --> 00:20:07.623
- She created a facebook post to address that discomfort,
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- Including an image of hodges's name
- 00:20:12.261 --> 00:20:14.363
- Next to the notorious "likes."
- 00:20:14.363 --> 00:20:16.999
- She later ironically told reporters,
- 00:20:16.999 --> 00:20:19.201
- "i would be upset if it comes off
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- As me judging him.
- 00:20:20.736 --> 00:20:22.504
- I'm not saying he's a racist.
- 00:20:22.504 --> 00:20:24.306
- I'm saying he likes someone who posts things
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- That do not seem culturally sensitive to me."
- 00:20:27.109 --> 00:20:31.647
- In less than 2 weeks, the birmingham housing authority
- 00:20:31.647 --> 00:20:35.284
- Voted to cut ties with pastor hodges
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- And the church of the highlands,
- 00:20:38.320 --> 00:20:40.656
- No longer allowing the church to rent space
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- For one of its campuses.
- 00:20:42.891 --> 00:20:44.993
- The housing authority also cut ties with christ health center,
- 00:20:44.993 --> 00:20:49.665
- A separate ministry founded by the church of the highlands
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- To provide free health services for residents of public housing.
- 00:20:53.101 --> 00:20:57.673
- Now stop and think about that.
- 00:20:57.673 --> 00:20:59.474
- A local government shuts down a free clinic
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- For the poor in the middle of a public health crisis.
- 00:21:02.944 --> 00:21:07.582
- In their words, "pastor hodges's views
- 00:21:07.582 --> 00:21:09.985
- Do not reflect those of the health board
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- And its residents."
- 00:21:13.722 --> 00:21:15.657
- That wasn't the end.
- 00:21:15.657 --> 00:21:17.626
- The birmingham board of education
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- Also voted to cut ties with the church of the highlands
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- After the so-called scandal.
- 00:21:22.030 --> 00:21:25.000
- For several years, the church had rented
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- Two high school auditoriums to serve as additional campuses
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- On sunday mornings, paying more than $800,000
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- For that privilege.
- 00:21:33.942 --> 00:21:35.444
- No more.
- 00:21:35.444 --> 00:21:36.778
- The leases were terminated immediately.
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- Ed stetzer, who often writes
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- For the southern baptist convention,
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- Was quick to point out the sad irony of these decisions,
- 00:21:42.317 --> 00:21:46.555
- Given all the ways hodges and his church
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- Have contributed to the birmingham community
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- And beyond.
- 00:21:51.259 --> 00:21:52.594
- He wrote, "chris hodges has led his church
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- To be the largest diverse church in alabama,
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- To engage the poor and the marginalized,
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- To minister widely and well in his community.
- 00:22:01.903 --> 00:22:05.707
- Church of the highlands has served
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- Thousands of meals, made masks, hosted blood drives,
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- Helped other churches with online services.
- 00:22:10.879 --> 00:22:13.749
- He also liked some social media posts.
- 00:22:13.749 --> 00:22:16.985
- Get the pitchforks."
- 00:22:16.985 --> 00:22:19.488
- The long and short of it was that pastor hodges
- 00:22:19.488 --> 00:22:21.656
- Had been canceled, because he liked a few posts
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- From a popular conservative pundit.
- 00:22:26.194 --> 00:22:30.165
- The word "cancel" once described what we did to magazine
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- Or newspaper subscriptions.
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- We canceled them.
- 00:22:35.470 --> 00:22:36.938
- Or what happened to a faltering television program,
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- We canceled it.
- 00:22:40.208 --> 00:22:42.411
- Now it's what people do to people.
- 00:22:42.411 --> 00:22:45.714
- In our society, canceling someone
- 00:22:45.714 --> 00:22:47.649
- Is a punishment for doing something,
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- Saying something, even thinking something that violates
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- A set of unwritten rules currently in play
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- Throughout much of the liberal world.
- 00:22:56.091 --> 00:22:59.060
- These punishments are typically carried out
- 00:22:59.060 --> 00:23:01.296
- In three stages.
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- First of all, there's an attempt to publicly humiliate
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- The person by flagrantly exposing the supposed wrong
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- He or she committed.
- 00:23:09.805 --> 00:23:11.940
- And then once the person has been exposed, he or she
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- Is pushed mercilessly to confess and apologize.
- 00:23:14.876 --> 00:23:19.681
- Whether that person has actually done anything
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- That requires regret is irrelevant.
- 00:23:21.583 --> 00:23:24.419
- Simply to be accused means a retraction
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- And an apology is expected.
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- And thirdly, regardless of whether the accused
- 00:23:29.558 --> 00:23:31.893
- Apologizes or not, attempts are made to remove
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- That person from public life
- 00:23:34.963 --> 00:23:37.232
- And from all public conversation once and for all.
- 00:23:37.232 --> 00:23:41.036
- As a result, people are fired, mocked, threatened,
- 00:23:41.036 --> 00:23:44.739
- De-platformed, and delegitimized in every way.
- 00:23:44.739 --> 00:23:49.845
- Professor evan gerstmann says:
- 00:23:49.845 --> 00:23:51.780
- "there is no single accepted definition of cancel culture,
- 00:23:51.780 --> 00:23:56.218
- But at its worst,
- 00:23:56.218 --> 00:23:57.552
- It's about unaccountable groups successfully applying pressure
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- To punish someone for perceived wrong opinions.
- 00:24:02.290 --> 00:24:06.595
- The victim ends up losing their job
- 00:24:06.595 --> 00:24:08.597
- Or is significantly harmed in some way,
- 00:24:08.597 --> 00:24:10.799
- Well beyond the discomfort of merely being disagreed with."
- 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:15.337
- So what does it take for a person to be canceled?
- 00:24:15.337 --> 00:24:17.639
- We'd like to know because most of us
- 00:24:17.639 --> 00:24:19.174
- Would rather not have that experience.
- 00:24:19.174 --> 00:24:22.244
- But no one knows what it takes to be canceled,
- 00:24:22.244 --> 00:24:24.946
- At least not specifically, and as i said,
- 00:24:24.946 --> 00:24:27.482
- The boundaries that govern this new way of life,
- 00:24:27.482 --> 00:24:30.318
- What many are calling cancel culture,
- 00:24:30.318 --> 00:24:32.020
- Are very unclear.
- 00:24:32.020 --> 00:24:34.055
- The rules are unwritten and it reminds me of
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- A car driven by an inebriated person
- 00:24:36.625 --> 00:24:38.960
- Swerving from lane to lane.
- 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:41.062
- Best stay out of the way if possible.
- 00:24:41.062 --> 00:24:44.566
- One of the more frightening aspects of cancel culture
- 00:24:44.566 --> 00:24:47.202
- Is that its tendrils extend to regular members of society,
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- To people like you and me.
- 00:24:51.306 --> 00:24:53.108
- For example, marie purdy is an artist
- 00:24:53.108 --> 00:24:56.711
- Who was accused of plagiarism
- 00:24:56.711 --> 00:24:58.179
- When a piece she designed went public.
- 00:24:58.179 --> 00:25:01.082
- The accusations were not true,
- 00:25:01.082 --> 00:25:02.984
- But that didn't matter to the hundreds of people
- 00:25:02.984 --> 00:25:04.686
- Who posted hateful comments on their instagram
- 00:25:04.686 --> 00:25:07.389
- And found other ways to harass her.
- 00:25:07.389 --> 00:25:10.292
- She even attempted to apologize for a possible misunderstanding,
- 00:25:10.292 --> 00:25:13.695
- But in her words, "the apology was torn to shreds."
- 00:25:13.695 --> 00:25:18.199
- And then she wrote this: "i have survived five miscarriages
- 00:25:18.199 --> 00:25:22.170
- And breast cancer,
- 00:25:22.170 --> 00:25:23.972
- And this was the worst thing that's ever happened to me."
- 00:25:23.972 --> 00:25:29.010
- In this culture, if it sounds unreasonable to you,
- 00:25:29.010 --> 00:25:32.781
- Even unbiblical, you're absolutely right.
- 00:25:32.781 --> 00:25:36.651
- Jesus was asked to identify the most important commandment
- 00:25:36.651 --> 00:25:39.387
- In the bible, and he replied with a 2 for 1 special.
- 00:25:39.387 --> 00:25:42.891
- Do you remember that?
- 00:25:42.891 --> 00:25:44.426
- He said, "'you shall love the lord your god
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- With all your heart, all your soul, all your mind.'
- 00:25:46.061 --> 00:25:48.430
- This is the first and great commandment.
- 00:25:48.430 --> 00:25:50.665
- But the second is like it: 'you shall love your neighbor
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- As yourself.'"
- 00:25:53.435 --> 00:25:55.070
- And i can think of few things less loving
- 00:25:55.070 --> 00:25:57.505
- Than publicly excoriating random people,
- 00:25:57.505 --> 00:26:00.475
- Even trying to get them fired or shamed or silenced,
- 00:26:00.475 --> 00:26:03.712
- All for the sin of daring to disagree with you.
- 00:26:03.712 --> 00:26:07.182
- Yet that's what cancel culture demands.
- 00:26:07.182 --> 00:26:10.385
- It bears noticing that jesus spent a lot of time
- 00:26:10.385 --> 00:26:13.922
- With people in his day
- 00:26:13.922 --> 00:26:15.256
- Who had been canceled, so to speak.
- 00:26:15.256 --> 00:26:18.059
- Remember the woman at the well?
- 00:26:18.059 --> 00:26:20.662
- Women were considered second-class citizens
- 00:26:20.662 --> 00:26:23.031
- In the ancient world, and samaritans were scorned.
- 00:26:23.031 --> 00:26:26.267
- Furthermore, this samaritan woman lived
- 00:26:26.267 --> 00:26:28.303
- In a state of sexual immorality.
- 00:26:28.303 --> 00:26:30.772
- Even her own people shunned her,
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- Which is why she came alone to draw water
- 00:26:32.707 --> 00:26:34.743
- From the community well at the heart of the day.
- 00:26:34.743 --> 00:26:38.947
- Yet jesus approached her.
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- He spoke kindly to her.
- 00:26:40.949 --> 00:26:43.084
- He even offered her the water of life,
- 00:26:43.084 --> 00:26:45.820
- Saying, "whoever drinks of this water
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- Will thirst again,
- 00:26:47.722 --> 00:26:49.124
- But whoever drinks of the water that i shall give him
- 00:26:49.124 --> 00:26:51.226
- Will never thirst.
- 00:26:51.226 --> 00:26:53.194
- But the water that i shall give him
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- Will become in him a fountain of water springing up
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- Into everlasting life."
- 00:26:57.766 --> 00:27:00.702
- Jesus touched lepers who were untouchable
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- According to the law.
- 00:27:03.538 --> 00:27:05.340
- He welcomed sinners who were despised.
- 00:27:05.340 --> 00:27:07.208
- He blessed children when others were trying to push them away
- 00:27:07.208 --> 00:27:10.679
- Because they were a nuisance.
- 00:27:10.679 --> 00:27:12.580
- He expressed compassion for a woman taken in adultery.
- 00:27:12.580 --> 00:27:16.051
- He accepted the worship of a woman
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- Who was criticized because she poured perfume
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- All over his feet.
- 00:27:21.056 --> 00:27:23.224
- He touched the eyes of the blind and the ears of the deaf.
- 00:27:23.224 --> 00:27:26.428
- He cast demons out of people who were violent,
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- And during his final hours, he comforted a murderer
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- Who was nailed to a cross next to him.
- 00:27:33.535 --> 00:27:36.004
- And after his resurrection, he reassured a doubting disciple
- 00:27:36.004 --> 00:27:40.008
- And reestablished the disciple who had denied him.
- 00:27:40.008 --> 00:27:44.345
- Jesus had no place in his heart for the cancel culture.
- 00:27:44.345 --> 00:27:48.950
- He was wonderful at demonstrating god's love
- 00:27:48.950 --> 00:27:51.853
- And grace to everyone,
- 00:27:51.853 --> 00:27:53.655
- And ladies and gentlemen, he still is.
- 00:27:53.655 --> 00:27:57.525
- So what does this mean?
- 00:27:57.525 --> 00:28:00.628
- It would be nice to think cancel culture
- 00:28:00.628 --> 00:28:02.864
- Is a temporary phase our world is going through.
- 00:28:02.864 --> 00:28:06.234
- I hear people say that "oh, we'll get through this."
- 00:28:06.234 --> 00:28:09.370
- But society is becoming more intolerant and polarized
- 00:28:09.370 --> 00:28:13.274
- By the day, and i'm not so sure we'll see a reversal
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- Of all of these trends.
- 00:28:16.778 --> 00:28:19.447
- The more insidious elements of cancel culture
- 00:28:19.447 --> 00:28:22.083
- Are a malignant form of spitefulness
- 00:28:22.083 --> 00:28:24.853
- Common to all human nature.
- 00:28:24.853 --> 00:28:28.056
- What we're seeing today reminds me of what jesus described
- 00:28:28.056 --> 00:28:31.426
- In matthew 24.
- 00:28:31.426 --> 00:28:33.361
- Here is the prophecy which is foreshadowing
- 00:28:33.361 --> 00:28:36.131
- What's happening today.
- 00:28:36.131 --> 00:28:37.999
- This was our lord's sermon about the last days
- 00:28:37.999 --> 00:28:40.535
- In the great tribulation.
- 00:28:40.535 --> 00:28:42.771
- Leading up to this great tribulation,
- 00:28:42.771 --> 00:28:44.572
- Jesus predicted a series of signs
- 00:28:44.572 --> 00:28:47.208
- That would foreshadow the end of the world.
- 00:28:47.208 --> 00:28:50.145
- In matthew, he spoke of wars and rumors of wars
- 00:28:50.145 --> 00:28:53.615
- And famines and earthquakes and pestilences,
- 00:28:53.615 --> 00:28:56.518
- And then he said this,
- 00:28:56.518 --> 00:28:58.253
- This is what usually we read right over,
- 00:28:58.253 --> 00:29:00.488
- But don't read over it.
- 00:29:00.488 --> 00:29:01.823
- Here's what he said: "these are the beginning of sorrows.
- 00:29:01.823 --> 00:29:06.528
- And then many will be offended,
- 00:29:06.528 --> 00:29:10.331
- Will betray one another, and will hate one another.
- 00:29:10.331 --> 00:29:14.836
- Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
- 00:29:14.836 --> 00:29:17.872
- And because lawlessness will abound,
- 00:29:17.872 --> 00:29:20.175
- The love of many will grow cold."
- 00:29:20.175 --> 00:29:23.478
- Read that again because there are
- 00:29:23.478 --> 00:29:25.180
- Several terms in these verses
- 00:29:25.180 --> 00:29:26.815
- That represent the ethos of cancel culture.
- 00:29:26.815 --> 00:29:29.751
- First of all, it's a culture of disdain.
- 00:29:29.751 --> 00:29:32.587
- Jesus talked about how easily people
- 00:29:32.587 --> 00:29:34.556
- Would be offended in the days leading up to the tribulation.
- 00:29:34.556 --> 00:29:39.227
- Boy, is that ever true?
- 00:29:39.227 --> 00:29:41.529
- Recently, nfl star aaron rodgers got attention
- 00:29:41.529 --> 00:29:44.199
- When he appeared in a black t-shirt
- 00:29:44.199 --> 00:29:45.900
- Bearing the words "i'm offended."
- 00:29:45.900 --> 00:29:50.505
- The sports world wondered if it meant something
- 00:29:50.505 --> 00:29:53.041
- Or if it meant nothing.
- 00:29:53.041 --> 00:29:55.410
- But i know a lot of people that walk around
- 00:29:55.410 --> 00:29:56.945
- With that on their soul.
- 00:29:56.945 --> 00:29:59.047
- How easy it is for people to get offended.
- 00:29:59.047 --> 00:30:00.882
- You don't have to do much to offend some people.
- 00:30:00.882 --> 00:30:03.251
- Lots of people seem to be going around
- 00:30:03.251 --> 00:30:04.786
- With an "i'm offended" attitude
- 00:30:04.786 --> 00:30:06.487
- If they don't have it on their shirt.
- 00:30:06.487 --> 00:30:08.356
- I mean, how many groups or products have had to change
- 00:30:08.356 --> 00:30:10.959
- Their names, their symbols, their mascots
- 00:30:10.959 --> 00:30:13.962
- Out of fear they might cause offense?
- 00:30:13.962 --> 00:30:16.731
- None of us want to be offensive,
- 00:30:16.731 --> 00:30:18.266
- But doesn't it seem like people everywhere
- 00:30:18.266 --> 00:30:20.368
- Are too easily offended?
- 00:30:20.368 --> 00:30:23.304
- How long before someone sees you reading a bible
- 00:30:23.304 --> 00:30:25.640
- On an airplane and feels uncomfortable?
- 00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:29.110
- When will someone take offense when you wear a t-shirt
- 00:30:29.110 --> 00:30:31.512
- With the slogan "john 3:16" on it?
- 00:30:31.512 --> 00:30:34.883
- What about the cross around your neck?
- 00:30:34.883 --> 00:30:36.618
- They might come for that.
- 00:30:36.618 --> 00:30:39.821
- Jesus linked being easily offended
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- With hating one another and betraying one another.
- 00:30:42.156 --> 00:30:45.560
- The greek word that is translated "betray"
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- Is important.
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- It doesn't mean betrayal like saying negative things
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- About co-workers so that you can get promoted,
- 00:30:52.467 --> 00:30:55.536
- And it doesn't mean betrayal in terms of deceiving others
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- Or turning on someone who used to be your friend
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- And stabbing them in the back.
- 00:31:01.109 --> 00:31:03.378
- No, instead, the text is talking about betrayal
- 00:31:03.378 --> 00:31:06.180
- In the sense of intentionally revealing
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- Or exposing something that is hidden.
- 00:31:09.317 --> 00:31:12.487
- It's the same idea as betraying a secret
- 00:31:12.487 --> 00:31:15.056
- Or people betraying the jewish identities
- 00:31:15.056 --> 00:31:17.558
- Of their neighbors to the secret police
- 00:31:17.558 --> 00:31:20.128
- In the run-up to the second world war.
- 00:31:20.128 --> 00:31:23.798
- In other words, jesus said society leading up
- 00:31:23.798 --> 00:31:26.567
- To the end-times would be marked
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- By people who actively root up, expose,
- 00:31:27.936 --> 00:31:31.139
- And betray those around them.
- 00:31:31.139 --> 00:31:33.241
- Wouldn't you say that kind of betrayal
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- Is commonplace in our world today?
- 00:31:35.743 --> 00:31:39.981
- It is.
- 00:31:39.981 --> 00:31:42.350
- Wouldn't you say that kind of betrayal
- 00:31:42.350 --> 00:31:43.818
- Makes up an essential part of cancel culture?
- 00:31:43.818 --> 00:31:46.454
- It does.
- 00:31:46.454 --> 00:31:47.855
- In many ways, cancel culture is dependent on betrayal.
- 00:31:47.855 --> 00:31:52.460
- We all have mistakes from our past
- 00:31:52.460 --> 00:31:54.195
- We'd like to forget.
- 00:31:54.195 --> 00:31:55.530
- Can i get a witness?
- 00:31:55.530 --> 00:31:57.598
- All of us have made choices we regret
- 00:31:57.598 --> 00:32:00.234
- And decisions we would correct if we could get a redo,
- 00:32:00.234 --> 00:32:03.438
- But in a world fueled by cancel culture,
- 00:32:03.438 --> 00:32:05.707
- Those mistakes are not allowed to remain in the past.
- 00:32:05.707 --> 00:32:09.410
- People intentionally dig through the histories
- 00:32:09.410 --> 00:32:11.579
- And biographies and social media posts
- 00:32:11.579 --> 00:32:14.282
- Of others, even those they consider to be friends,
- 00:32:14.282 --> 00:32:17.719
- In order to drag those mistakes into the present.
- 00:32:17.719 --> 00:32:22.056
- Back in 2010, diana gerber's daughter
- 00:32:22.056 --> 00:32:25.059
- Attended journey school in california.
- 00:32:25.059 --> 00:32:27.695
- Students and staff there were attempting to confront
- 00:32:27.695 --> 00:32:30.098
- A major cyberbullying incident,
- 00:32:30.098 --> 00:32:32.734
- Which was the first in that school.
- 00:32:32.734 --> 00:32:35.136
- Everyone did their best to understand the situation
- 00:32:35.136 --> 00:32:37.905
- And figure out a way to respond, but there was much uncertainty.
- 00:32:37.905 --> 00:32:41.442
- This was totally new ground.
- 00:32:41.442 --> 00:32:44.679
- Diana had just finished her master's degree
- 00:32:44.679 --> 00:32:47.415
- In a new field called media psychology
- 00:32:47.415 --> 00:32:49.283
- And social change.
- 00:32:49.283 --> 00:32:51.319
- She had academic experience helping people adjust
- 00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:55.289
- To the new world of the internet and social media,
- 00:32:55.289 --> 00:32:57.692
- And she was eager to put that experience into practice.
- 00:32:57.692 --> 00:33:01.295
- Together with journey school, diana created
- 00:33:01.295 --> 00:33:04.298
- A new course called cyber civics,
- 00:33:04.298 --> 00:33:07.268
- And the goal was to teach middle schoolers
- 00:33:07.268 --> 00:33:09.504
- What she calls digital citizenship,
- 00:33:09.504 --> 00:33:12.607
- A way to help them make sense of
- 00:33:12.607 --> 00:33:14.375
- The challenges posed by a digital world,
- 00:33:14.375 --> 00:33:17.745
- To gain a better understanding of ethics and morality,
- 00:33:17.745 --> 00:33:20.948
- To think critically instead of superficially,
- 00:33:20.948 --> 00:33:23.217
- And to build their digital reputation,
- 00:33:23.217 --> 00:33:25.620
- Reject all forms of cyberbullying,
- 00:33:25.620 --> 00:33:28.256
- Shaming, and intimidation.
- 00:33:28.256 --> 00:33:31.259
- In his great sermon on the end-times,
- 00:33:31.259 --> 00:33:33.628
- Jesus warned of the rise of many false prophets
- 00:33:33.628 --> 00:33:36.664
- Who would deceive multitudes.
- 00:33:36.664 --> 00:33:39.267
- That's never been easier than today.
- 00:33:39.267 --> 00:33:42.870
- Today we are living in a culture
- 00:33:42.870 --> 00:33:44.939
- Not only of disdain but of deception.
- 00:33:44.939 --> 00:33:48.709
- And most of the people who are at risk
- 00:33:48.709 --> 00:33:50.711
- In this day of deception are senior citizens,
- 00:33:50.711 --> 00:33:53.681
- Senior people.
- 00:33:53.681 --> 00:33:55.149
- I was shocked to find out that in 2020, senior citizens
- 00:33:55.149 --> 00:33:59.787
- Lost over a billion dollars in cyber scams.
- 00:33:59.787 --> 00:34:04.859
- A total of 105,301 people over the age of 65
- 00:34:04.859 --> 00:34:10.298
- Were taken to the cleaners.
- 00:34:10.298 --> 00:34:12.133
- The average person lost more than $9000.
- 00:34:12.133 --> 00:34:15.336
- Almost 2000 senior citizens lost more than $100,000.
- 00:34:15.336 --> 00:34:21.209
- Fake news, fake people, fake products, fake friends.
- 00:34:21.209 --> 00:34:26.447
- All of this has come to us via the world of big tech,
- 00:34:26.447 --> 00:34:30.151
- And all of this is contributing to a growing culture
- 00:34:30.151 --> 00:34:32.520
- Of deception.
- 00:34:32.520 --> 00:34:34.388
- And then finally there's this culture
- 00:34:34.388 --> 00:34:36.791
- Of disdain and deception.
- 00:34:36.791 --> 00:34:39.060
- It's a culture of disconnection.
- 00:34:39.060 --> 00:34:41.796
- The next logical step in cancel culture
- 00:34:41.796 --> 00:34:44.532
- Is disconnection.
- 00:34:44.532 --> 00:34:45.900
- In a culture marked by disdain and deception,
- 00:34:45.900 --> 00:34:48.402
- People want to withdraw from society.
- 00:34:48.402 --> 00:34:50.805
- They don't always get pushed out of society,
- 00:34:50.805 --> 00:34:52.874
- But when you find out people are after you
- 00:34:52.874 --> 00:34:54.742
- And they're trying to hurt you, what do you do?
- 00:34:54.742 --> 00:34:57.145
- You go into the castle and you shut it down
- 00:34:57.145 --> 00:34:59.313
- And don't let anybody near you.
- 00:34:59.313 --> 00:35:00.848
- You don't talk to anybody.
- 00:35:00.848 --> 00:35:02.683
- Listen to what jesus said.
- 00:35:02.683 --> 00:35:04.118
- In matthew 24:12, he says, "and because lawlessness
- 00:35:04.118 --> 00:35:07.355
- Will abound, the love of many will grow cold."
- 00:35:07.355 --> 00:35:11.759
- In other words, relationships will go south.
- 00:35:11.759 --> 00:35:15.596
- Apologist abdu murray had this to say
- 00:35:15.596 --> 00:35:18.065
- About the relationally frightening nature
- 00:35:18.065 --> 00:35:20.001
- Of today's society: "in cancel culture,
- 00:35:20.001 --> 00:35:23.171
- A single mistake is perpetually unforgivable,"
- 00:35:23.171 --> 00:35:27.108
- Because it's not simply a guilty act.
- 00:35:27.108 --> 00:35:29.277
- Rather, the mistake is led to define
- 00:35:29.277 --> 00:35:32.580
- The individual's identity,
- 00:35:32.580 --> 00:35:34.215
- Turning them into a shameful person,
- 00:35:34.215 --> 00:35:36.584
- Someone who can be canceled.
- 00:35:36.584 --> 00:35:39.187
- The culture that leads up to the tribulation
- 00:35:39.187 --> 00:35:41.422
- And the end of history will be characterized
- 00:35:41.422 --> 00:35:45.993
- By coldness in our feelings for one another
- 00:35:45.993 --> 00:35:49.830
- And in our dealings with one another.
- 00:35:49.830 --> 00:35:52.466
- Shockingly, a recent study revealed
- 00:35:52.466 --> 00:35:55.703
- That nearly half of americans
- 00:35:55.703 --> 00:35:58.406
- Have not made a new friend in the last 5 years.
- 00:35:58.406 --> 00:36:04.011
- As hatred and deception have increased,
- 00:36:04.011 --> 00:36:06.914
- Love in our world has decreased,
- 00:36:06.914 --> 00:36:09.884
- And our relationships have grown cold.
- 00:36:09.884 --> 00:36:13.955
- Once again, a little parentheses.
- 00:36:13.955 --> 00:36:16.224
- During this day and this time when i have been studying
- 00:36:16.224 --> 00:36:19.827
- All these issues,
- 00:36:19.827 --> 00:36:21.162
- One of the things i have been overwhelmingly impressed with
- 00:36:21.162 --> 00:36:24.599
- Is the absolute necessity of small groups.
- 00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:28.536
- In almost all the literature that i have read,
- 00:36:28.536 --> 00:36:31.739
- People are saying, even non-religious people,
- 00:36:31.739 --> 00:36:34.675
- That small groups
- 00:36:34.675 --> 00:36:36.010
- Are going to be the way in which cultures like ours
- 00:36:36.010 --> 00:36:39.714
- Survive the onslaught of all of this socialism
- 00:36:39.714 --> 00:36:43.084
- And stuff that's coming at us.
- 00:36:43.084 --> 00:36:45.019
- Small groups are not just for you to have affinity
- 00:36:45.019 --> 00:36:47.822
- With others, to be friendly with others,
- 00:36:47.822 --> 00:36:50.191
- To have fellowship with others, even to study the bible,
- 00:36:50.191 --> 00:36:52.960
- But small groups will be the whole defense
- 00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:56.731
- Against what is happening.
- 00:36:56.731 --> 00:36:58.633
- I mean there could be a time when they say we can't meet
- 00:36:58.633 --> 00:37:00.601
- In our church anymore,
- 00:37:00.601 --> 00:37:01.936
- But they can't keep us from meeting in our homes.
- 00:37:01.936 --> 00:37:03.671
- There's too many of us and there's too many homes.
- 00:37:03.671 --> 00:37:06.707
- And there's a way in which what is happening now
- 00:37:06.707 --> 00:37:09.143
- With this friendless society that we as christians
- 00:37:09.143 --> 00:37:11.912
- Need to run right into the face of that
- 00:37:11.912 --> 00:37:13.814
- And say, "not us, we're in a small group
- 00:37:13.814 --> 00:37:16.384
- With eight other couples and we know a bunch of people
- 00:37:16.384 --> 00:37:18.653
- And we pray for one another and we serve one another
- 00:37:18.653 --> 00:37:21.889
- And we rejoice with one another and we mourn with one another.
- 00:37:21.889 --> 00:37:24.959
- We have friends, we're a part of the body of christ.
- 00:37:24.959 --> 00:37:27.895
- We come to church, but we have small groups."
- 00:37:27.895 --> 00:37:30.531
- What we need is to be in a really strong small group.
- 00:37:30.531 --> 00:37:36.771
- Well, coming to the end of this talk,
- 00:37:36.771 --> 00:37:39.407
- Let me ask this important question:
- 00:37:39.407 --> 00:37:41.609
- Where do we go from here?
- 00:37:41.609 --> 00:37:44.545
- Now that we understand more about cancel culture
- 00:37:44.545 --> 00:37:46.714
- And the dangers that it poses, where do we go from here?
- 00:37:46.714 --> 00:37:50.451
- What does it take to live in a world
- 00:37:50.451 --> 00:37:52.420
- Like the world we live in?
- 00:37:52.420 --> 00:37:53.754
- Well, i'll tell you, it takes a lot.
- 00:37:53.754 --> 00:37:56.190
- What does it take to create a different kind of culture
- 00:37:56.190 --> 00:37:58.292
- In your home, at work, at church?
- 00:37:58.292 --> 00:38:01.429
- The short answer is it's not easy to live
- 00:38:01.429 --> 00:38:03.464
- As members of god's kingdom in a world that is
- 00:38:03.464 --> 00:38:06.634
- Increasingly hostile to the values of that kingdom.
- 00:38:06.634 --> 00:38:11.472
- This is the shared experience
- 00:38:11.472 --> 00:38:13.107
- Of every generation of christians
- 00:38:13.107 --> 00:38:14.675
- Since the very first one, so we've had 2000 years
- 00:38:14.675 --> 00:38:17.745
- To prepare for these days.
- 00:38:17.745 --> 00:38:19.547
- One thing we know for sure: following jesus is worth it.
- 00:38:19.547 --> 00:38:23.117
- So let's explore four uncancelable concepts
- 00:38:23.117 --> 00:38:26.520
- As we close.
- 00:38:26.520 --> 00:38:27.855
- Number one, to live in a world like we live in today,
- 00:38:27.855 --> 00:38:30.391
- It takes wisdom.
- 00:38:30.391 --> 00:38:32.360
- Jesus told us, "behold, i send you out as sheep
- 00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:36.163
- In the midst of wolves.
- 00:38:36.163 --> 00:38:39.133
- Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves."
- 00:38:39.133 --> 00:38:44.271
- Wisdom is a word that confuses people today.
- 00:38:44.271 --> 00:38:46.774
- Many think wisdom is the cute things
- 00:38:46.774 --> 00:38:48.476
- That you say in a retort to someone,
- 00:38:48.476 --> 00:38:51.412
- Or maybe it's kind of the stuff you see
- 00:38:51.412 --> 00:38:52.813
- In a fortune cookie.
- 00:38:52.813 --> 00:38:54.382
- Others believe wisdom means speaking
- 00:38:54.382 --> 00:38:56.183
- And acting in accordance with larger groups
- 00:38:56.183 --> 00:38:58.519
- Like the wisdom of the crowd.
- 00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:01.322
- On a practical and biblical level,
- 00:39:01.322 --> 00:39:03.290
- Wisdom looks much different than either one of these things.
- 00:39:03.290 --> 00:39:06.627
- True wisdom is the ability to discern what is right,
- 00:39:06.627 --> 00:39:10.464
- What is good, what is just, and what is proper,
- 00:39:10.464 --> 00:39:13.701
- And i've written down in my notebook
- 00:39:13.701 --> 00:39:15.569
- A little definition of wisdom that's the best one
- 00:39:15.569 --> 00:39:18.072
- I've ever seen.
- 00:39:18.072 --> 00:39:19.407
- It's not mine. i found it somewhere.
- 00:39:19.407 --> 00:39:21.108
- Here's what it is: "wisdom is doing the right thing
- 00:39:21.108 --> 00:39:24.845
- Without a precedent."
- 00:39:24.845 --> 00:39:26.213
- In other words, doing the right thing
- 00:39:26.213 --> 00:39:27.915
- When you can't look back over your shoulder and see,
- 00:39:27.915 --> 00:39:30.151
- "oh, this happened to so and so, and it's written about
- 00:39:30.151 --> 00:39:32.186
- In this book, and they did this and this, so i will do that."
- 00:39:32.186 --> 00:39:34.722
- No, wisdom today is so imperative
- 00:39:34.722 --> 00:39:37.691
- Because we live in an unprecedented time.
- 00:39:37.691 --> 00:39:41.095
- Most of the stuff that's happening to us now,
- 00:39:41.095 --> 00:39:42.797
- Men and women, has never happened to us before.
- 00:39:42.797 --> 00:39:45.132
- So what do we do?
- 00:39:45.132 --> 00:39:46.500
- We ask god for wisdom, and he's promised to give it to us,
- 00:39:46.500 --> 00:39:49.403
- And he will give us wisdom to do the right thing,
- 00:39:49.403 --> 00:39:51.639
- Even though there are no precedents for that
- 00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:53.908
- In anything that we know about or have experienced.
- 00:39:53.908 --> 00:39:57.278
- We need to ask god for wisdom because in this day and age
- 00:39:57.278 --> 00:40:00.748
- We need wisdom.
- 00:40:00.748 --> 00:40:02.883
- The bible says we're to have a certain combination
- 00:40:02.883 --> 00:40:06.821
- Of characteristics in this day.
- 00:40:06.821 --> 00:40:09.123
- I don't know about you, when i see all the stuff
- 00:40:09.123 --> 00:40:10.624
- That's happening and things like happened
- 00:40:10.624 --> 00:40:12.993
- To my fellow pastor chris hodges, it makes me angry.
- 00:40:12.993 --> 00:40:18.132
- I'm going to respond.
- 00:40:18.132 --> 00:40:19.467
- I play games in my mind about how i would get even
- 00:40:19.467 --> 00:40:22.303
- With somebody who would do something like that.
- 00:40:22.303 --> 00:40:25.039
- Don't look at me like you don't know
- 00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:26.373
- What i'm talking about.
- 00:40:26.373 --> 00:40:27.708
- You all know what i'm talking about.
- 00:40:27.708 --> 00:40:29.944
- And i think to myself, "boy, if that ever came to me,
- 00:40:29.944 --> 00:40:32.646
- If i--" no, wait a minute.
- 00:40:32.646 --> 00:40:34.615
- Listen to what the bible says.
- 00:40:34.615 --> 00:40:36.584
- Colossians 4:6 says: "let your speech always be with grace,
- 00:40:36.584 --> 00:40:41.622
- Seasoned with salt,
- 00:40:41.622 --> 00:40:43.524
- That you may know how you ought to answer each one."
- 00:40:43.524 --> 00:40:47.328
- That's a really important verse.
- 00:40:47.328 --> 00:40:49.663
- Some christians have reversed it.
- 00:40:49.663 --> 00:40:51.732
- Their speech is always with salt,
- 00:40:51.732 --> 00:40:54.001
- Seasoned with a little grace.
- 00:40:54.001 --> 00:40:56.270
- No, no, no, that's not the way it's supposed to be.
- 00:40:56.270 --> 00:40:58.305
- The bible says we're to be gracious people,
- 00:40:58.305 --> 00:41:00.708
- But we're have a little saltiness to us.
- 00:41:00.708 --> 00:41:02.610
- What does that mean? don't let people run over you.
- 00:41:02.610 --> 00:41:05.279
- Don't give up your convictions,
- 00:41:05.279 --> 00:41:07.114
- But whatever you do, be gracious.
- 00:41:07.114 --> 00:41:08.616
- You know, one of my bucket list things
- 00:41:08.616 --> 00:41:10.551
- Is i want to be a gracious old man.
- 00:41:10.551 --> 00:41:12.386
- I don't want to be a grouchy old man.
- 00:41:12.386 --> 00:41:14.989
- I know some grouchy old men, do you?
- 00:41:14.989 --> 00:41:17.424
- I don't wanna be that. i wanna be a gracious old man.
- 00:41:17.424 --> 00:41:19.760
- I don't really wanna be an old man,
- 00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:21.095
- But whenever i get there, i wanna be gracious.
- 00:41:21.095 --> 00:41:23.531
- [congregation laughing, applauding]
- 00:41:23.531 --> 00:41:31.405
- So the bible says when we're in the midst of this culture,
- 00:41:31.405 --> 00:41:34.542
- When people are just killing each other with their words,
- 00:41:34.542 --> 00:41:38.345
- There should be something different about us.
- 00:41:38.345 --> 00:41:40.981
- We stand aside from that.
- 00:41:40.981 --> 00:41:42.716
- We're gracious people.
- 00:41:42.716 --> 00:41:44.418
- We don't respond with tit for tat.
- 00:41:44.418 --> 00:41:46.754
- They don't say something mean to us
- 00:41:46.754 --> 00:41:48.122
- And we come up with something meaner to say to them.
- 00:41:48.122 --> 00:41:51.358
- We don't pick fights with those who disagree with us.
- 00:41:51.358 --> 00:41:53.594
- On the other hand, we don't need to stay silent
- 00:41:53.594 --> 00:41:55.629
- When our faith is being challenged.
- 00:41:55.629 --> 00:41:57.731
- There are moments when wisdom would suggest
- 00:41:57.731 --> 00:42:00.067
- We listen and learn rather than speak and stumble.
- 00:42:00.067 --> 00:42:04.204
- Somebody once said, "it's better off
- 00:42:04.204 --> 00:42:06.173
- To keep your mouth shut
- 00:42:06.173 --> 00:42:07.641
- And let people think you're stupid
- 00:42:07.641 --> 00:42:10.811
- Than open it and remove all doubt."
- 00:42:10.811 --> 00:42:16.383
- Proverbs 17:28 says it this way: "even a fool is counted wise
- 00:42:16.383 --> 00:42:21.555
- When he holds his peace; when he shuts his lips,
- 00:42:21.555 --> 00:42:25.192
- He is considered perceptive."
- 00:42:25.192 --> 00:42:28.462
- There are also moments when followers of jesus
- 00:42:28.462 --> 00:42:30.931
- Need to stand firmly for the truth.
- 00:42:30.931 --> 00:42:33.367
- This includes you and me, and when those moments come,
- 00:42:33.367 --> 00:42:35.569
- I hope we will speak and write and teach
- 00:42:35.569 --> 00:42:37.538
- And create with the same boldness
- 00:42:37.538 --> 00:42:39.673
- That stephen demonstrated before his accusers
- 00:42:39.673 --> 00:42:42.209
- In the sanhedrin.
- 00:42:42.209 --> 00:42:43.777
- May it be said of us as it was of him--
- 00:42:43.777 --> 00:42:45.846
- That those who hear our words will be cut to the heart.
- 00:42:45.846 --> 00:42:50.417
- When we're gracious and we speak the right words,
- 00:42:50.417 --> 00:42:53.387
- That's a combination people don't know what to do with.
- 00:42:53.387 --> 00:42:57.691
- So knowing what to say, when to say it, how to say it--
- 00:42:57.691 --> 00:43:00.527
- That's wisdom.
- 00:43:00.527 --> 00:43:01.929
- Then it takes courage to live in this day and age
- 00:43:01.929 --> 00:43:05.366
- In the cancel culture.
- 00:43:05.366 --> 00:43:06.967
- The bible says: "be strong and of good courage,
- 00:43:06.967 --> 00:43:09.103
- Do not fear nor be afraid of them;
- 00:43:09.103 --> 00:43:11.572
- For the lord your god, he is the one who goes with you.
- 00:43:11.572 --> 00:43:14.274
- And he will not leave you nor forsake you."
- 00:43:14.274 --> 00:43:17.444
- You and i need to heed those commands
- 00:43:17.444 --> 00:43:19.146
- As we live meaningfully as followers of jesus
- 00:43:19.146 --> 00:43:22.516
- In a world influenced by cancel culture.
- 00:43:22.516 --> 00:43:25.686
- In the book of acts there's a word that occurs often.
- 00:43:25.686 --> 00:43:28.088
- It's the word "bold."
- 00:43:28.088 --> 00:43:29.790
- Acts 4:31 is a great verse.
- 00:43:29.790 --> 00:43:31.959
- Here's what it says: "and when they had prayed,
- 00:43:31.959 --> 00:43:34.595
- The place where they were assembled together
- 00:43:34.595 --> 00:43:36.430
- Was shaken; and they were all filled
- 00:43:36.430 --> 00:43:38.565
- With the holy spirit, and they spoke
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- The word of god with boldness."
- 00:43:40.834 --> 00:43:43.871
- Oh, how i pray that i will always be able to speak
- 00:43:43.871 --> 00:43:47.207
- The word of god with boldness, never to be ashamed of my lord
- 00:43:47.207 --> 00:43:50.644
- Or what he has done for me or for you or for this church.
- 00:43:50.644 --> 00:43:54.581
- Courage is a god-given personality trait
- 00:43:54.581 --> 00:43:57.751
- That is crucial in critical times.
- 00:43:57.751 --> 00:44:01.288
- This quality is seen in the life of an old testament man
- 00:44:01.288 --> 00:44:04.291
- Who had the wonderful name of jeremiah.
- 00:44:04.291 --> 00:44:08.629
- [congregation laughing]
- 00:44:08.629 --> 00:44:12.266
- He remained committed to god and to his prophetic work
- 00:44:12.266 --> 00:44:16.704
- Even when he was under extreme criticism.
- 00:44:16.704 --> 00:44:20.307
- You know that the book of jeremiah
- 00:44:20.307 --> 00:44:21.709
- Is followed with a book called lamentations.
- 00:44:21.709 --> 00:44:24.678
- Those are laments of jeremiah,
- 00:44:24.678 --> 00:44:26.714
- His crying out, his tears, his sadness.
- 00:44:26.714 --> 00:44:29.516
- He's called the weeping prophet.
- 00:44:29.516 --> 00:44:32.553
- And he had a lot to weep about because he lived
- 00:44:32.553 --> 00:44:35.122
- A terrible existence for much of his life.
- 00:44:35.122 --> 00:44:38.525
- He was faithful to his ministry even when those attacks
- 00:44:38.525 --> 00:44:42.029
- Came at him from his own people.
- 00:44:42.029 --> 00:44:45.065
- He declared the words of the lord
- 00:44:45.065 --> 00:44:46.600
- During a particularly difficult period
- 00:44:46.600 --> 00:44:48.702
- In israel's history,
- 00:44:48.702 --> 00:44:50.304
- And he didn't falter as new things came at him
- 00:44:50.304 --> 00:44:53.307
- And as things grew worse around him.
- 00:44:53.307 --> 00:44:56.176
- His hearers tried to cancel him.
- 00:44:56.176 --> 00:44:57.978
- Believe it or not, in the old testament
- 00:44:57.978 --> 00:45:00.214
- There was this bit of cancel culture.
- 00:45:00.214 --> 00:45:02.649
- Jeremiah 18:18.
- 00:45:02.649 --> 00:45:04.384
- These are supposedly jeremiah's friends:
- 00:45:04.384 --> 00:45:07.154
- "come and let us devise plans against jeremiah;
- 00:45:07.154 --> 00:45:10.157
- For the law shall not perish from the priest,
- 00:45:10.157 --> 00:45:12.693
- Nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.
- 00:45:12.693 --> 00:45:16.864
- Come and let us attack him with the tongue,
- 00:45:16.864 --> 00:45:21.301
- And let us not give heed to any of his words."
- 00:45:21.301 --> 00:45:25.139
- But jeremiah persisted in his ministry.
- 00:45:25.139 --> 00:45:27.541
- He continued to speak the truth
- 00:45:27.541 --> 00:45:29.610
- As a representative of almighty god.
- 00:45:29.610 --> 00:45:32.112
- You and i need a streak of jeremiah's
- 00:45:32.112 --> 00:45:33.981
- Sanctified stubbornness in troubled times.
- 00:45:33.981 --> 00:45:36.984
- The mob will mock and malign us.
- 00:45:36.984 --> 00:45:38.619
- Society will shame and slander us,
- 00:45:38.619 --> 00:45:40.621
- And there are all kinds of associations out there
- 00:45:40.621 --> 00:45:42.723
- That want to assault and attack us.
- 00:45:42.723 --> 00:45:45.125
- The crowds may even want to kill us.
- 00:45:45.125 --> 00:45:46.760
- I can't imagine it, but it could happen.
- 00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:49.129
- Through it all we must have courage.
- 00:45:49.129 --> 00:45:51.565
- We must choose to be courageous.
- 00:45:51.565 --> 00:45:53.600
- Thankfully that is a choice we do not have to make alone.
- 00:45:53.600 --> 00:45:56.537
- Psalm 27:14 says: "wait on the lord;
- 00:45:56.537 --> 00:46:00.340
- Be of good courage, and he will strengthen
- 00:46:00.340 --> 00:46:04.011
- Your heart," hallelujah.
- 00:46:04.011 --> 00:46:06.580
- It takes wisdom and courage, it takes forgiveness.
- 00:46:06.580 --> 00:46:09.817
- In a world where the mistakes of the past
- 00:46:09.817 --> 00:46:11.518
- Are fair game for the present, there's no room for forgiveness
- 00:46:11.518 --> 00:46:15.055
- On the part of the cancel culturists.
- 00:46:15.055 --> 00:46:17.624
- But the bible offers us a different way.
- 00:46:17.624 --> 00:46:19.793
- Listen to the bible.
- 00:46:19.793 --> 00:46:21.128
- The bible says: "be kind to one another, tenderhearted,
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- Forgiving one another, even as god in christ forgave you.
- 00:46:24.698 --> 00:46:28.702
- And therefore, as the elect of god,
- 00:46:28.702 --> 00:46:30.671
- Holy and beloved, put on tender mercies,
- 00:46:30.671 --> 00:46:33.574
- Kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
- 00:46:33.574 --> 00:46:36.510
- Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another,
- 00:46:36.510 --> 00:46:39.313
- If anyone has a complaint against another;
- 00:46:39.313 --> 00:46:42.015
- Even as christ forgave you, so you also must do."
- 00:46:42.015 --> 00:46:47.654
- When we forgive someone who has wronged us,
- 00:46:47.654 --> 00:46:50.157
- We set them free.
- 00:46:50.157 --> 00:46:52.025
- But that isn't even the best news,
- 00:46:52.025 --> 00:46:53.493
- We set ourselves free, because if you walk around
- 00:46:53.493 --> 00:46:56.296
- With bitterness towards someone, you're not hurting them,
- 00:46:56.296 --> 00:46:58.799
- They probably don't even know you're doing it,
- 00:46:58.799 --> 00:47:01.201
- But you're doing it to yourself.
- 00:47:01.201 --> 00:47:03.604
- So you forgive somebody, two great things happen.
- 00:47:03.604 --> 00:47:06.006
- They get forgiven, and you get released
- 00:47:06.006 --> 00:47:08.141
- From your bitterness.
- 00:47:08.141 --> 00:47:10.010
- Paul meyer was a millionaire in his twenties
- 00:47:10.010 --> 00:47:12.980
- Because he was a great entrepreneur,
- 00:47:12.980 --> 00:47:15.716
- But paul meyer grew up in a interesting home.
- 00:47:15.716 --> 00:47:17.818
- You see, his father never forgave anybody,
- 00:47:17.818 --> 00:47:20.454
- Not a single soul.
- 00:47:20.454 --> 00:47:22.189
- If he was ever crossed or offended,
- 00:47:22.189 --> 00:47:24.057
- He carried the offense all of his life
- 00:47:24.057 --> 00:47:25.959
- All the way to the grave.
- 00:47:25.959 --> 00:47:27.828
- He simply didn't forgive anyone,
- 00:47:27.828 --> 00:47:29.630
- Not even family members.
- 00:47:29.630 --> 00:47:31.331
- His life was full of broken relationships.
- 00:47:31.331 --> 00:47:34.801
- But paul said his mother, on the other hand,
- 00:47:34.801 --> 00:47:37.104
- Forgave everybody, absolutely everybody.
- 00:47:37.104 --> 00:47:40.440
- Paul said she based her forgiving spirit on god's word,
- 00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:44.378
- For she preferred to live with forgiveness
- 00:47:44.378 --> 00:47:47.080
- Than to live with unforgiveness.
- 00:47:47.080 --> 00:47:49.516
- As a result, she had peace and joy,
- 00:47:49.516 --> 00:47:52.019
- And it bubbled out of her life.
- 00:47:52.019 --> 00:47:54.521
- He said, "there i was, a young man stuck
- 00:47:54.521 --> 00:47:56.757
- Between two polar opposites.
- 00:47:56.757 --> 00:47:58.392
- I loved both of my parents, and i'm still indebted to them
- 00:47:58.392 --> 00:48:00.994
- For what they taught me,
- 00:48:00.994 --> 00:48:02.429
- But in this area, i knew i had to choose forgiveness
- 00:48:02.429 --> 00:48:05.699
- Or reject it, which was the better offer.
- 00:48:05.699 --> 00:48:08.635
- So when i was 16 years old, i made a conscious decision
- 00:48:08.635 --> 00:48:12.005
- To start forgiving people
- 00:48:12.005 --> 00:48:13.573
- And to live a life of forgiveness.
- 00:48:13.573 --> 00:48:15.442
- I had watched my parents, and i knew which of the two
- 00:48:15.442 --> 00:48:17.911
- Had more peace and joy.
- 00:48:17.911 --> 00:48:19.479
- The difference was not hard to see."
- 00:48:19.479 --> 00:48:22.482
- I suggest to you that in this area,
- 00:48:22.482 --> 00:48:25.319
- In this day, in this culture when forgiveness
- 00:48:25.319 --> 00:48:27.955
- Is not in existence with cancel cultural people,
- 00:48:27.955 --> 00:48:32.092
- We become even more men and women of forgiveness.
- 00:48:32.092 --> 00:48:35.495
- We forgive one another, we look for ways
- 00:48:35.495 --> 00:48:38.265
- To resolve conflict, not extend it.
- 00:48:38.265 --> 00:48:42.536
- It takes wisdom and courage and forgiveness,
- 00:48:42.536 --> 00:48:44.504
- And finally it takes love.
- 00:48:44.504 --> 00:48:46.974
- Do you remember the passage in the gospel
- 00:48:46.974 --> 00:48:48.842
- Where jesus canceled a young woman?
- 00:48:48.842 --> 00:48:51.578
- He had been teaching in the temple courts
- 00:48:51.578 --> 00:48:53.480
- When a group of pharisees forcibly dragged a girl
- 00:48:53.480 --> 00:48:56.450
- In front of him.
- 00:48:56.450 --> 00:48:57.784
- They had caught her in the act of adultery.
- 00:48:57.784 --> 00:49:00.354
- "stone her," jesus said.
- 00:49:00.354 --> 00:49:02.456
- "that is the punishment prescribed by law.
- 00:49:02.456 --> 00:49:04.424
- She's guilty of sin, and she must be permanently removed.
- 00:49:04.424 --> 00:49:06.793
- She is canceled." wait a minute.
- 00:49:06.793 --> 00:49:08.962
- You say, "pastor, that's not in the bible."
- 00:49:08.962 --> 00:49:11.698
- And it isn't.
- 00:49:11.698 --> 00:49:13.033
- Jesus never said any such thing, and neither do i.
- 00:49:13.033 --> 00:49:16.303
- Instead of canceling that young woman,
- 00:49:16.303 --> 00:49:18.372
- Jesus told his accusers,
- 00:49:18.372 --> 00:49:20.974
- "he who is without sin among you,
- 00:49:20.974 --> 00:49:23.944
- Let him throw a stone at her first."
- 00:49:23.944 --> 00:49:26.947
- You're gonna stone this woman, let the person in this group
- 00:49:26.947 --> 00:49:30.183
- Who doesn't have any sin
- 00:49:30.183 --> 00:49:31.585
- Be the first person to throw a stone at her,
- 00:49:31.585 --> 00:49:34.154
- And the scripture says that when that happened,
- 00:49:34.154 --> 00:49:36.723
- They walked away one by one
- 00:49:36.723 --> 00:49:38.658
- And left jesus alone with the woman.
- 00:49:38.658 --> 00:49:41.261
- Wouldn't you love to have been there
- 00:49:41.261 --> 00:49:42.963
- During that experience?
- 00:49:42.963 --> 00:49:44.698
- Where are you going, son?
- 00:49:44.698 --> 00:49:46.633
- One by one they walk away.
- 00:49:46.633 --> 00:49:50.704
- And jesus spoke to that young girl
- 00:49:50.704 --> 00:49:52.672
- When they had all left and said to her,
- 00:49:52.672 --> 00:49:54.574
- "neither do i condemn you; go and sin no more."
- 00:49:54.574 --> 00:50:00.914
- As we've seen, cancel culture is laser-focused
- 00:50:00.914 --> 00:50:03.817
- On judgment and accusation and punishment.
- 00:50:03.817 --> 00:50:06.720
- The goal of those who cancel others
- 00:50:06.720 --> 00:50:08.388
- Is to broadcast their sins from pillar to post
- 00:50:08.388 --> 00:50:11.058
- And never allow them to be removed or forgotten.
- 00:50:11.058 --> 00:50:14.795
- But christ's goal, on the other hand,
- 00:50:14.795 --> 00:50:16.596
- Is love and mercy and grace.
- 00:50:16.596 --> 00:50:19.433
- In the words of scripture: "above all things
- 00:50:19.433 --> 00:50:21.701
- Have fervent love for one another,
- 00:50:21.701 --> 00:50:24.071
- For 'love will cover a multitude of sins.'"
- 00:50:24.071 --> 00:50:27.674
- I used to think that verse meant
- 00:50:27.674 --> 00:50:29.209
- That if you love somebody, it would cover your sins,
- 00:50:29.209 --> 00:50:31.745
- But that's not what it means.
- 00:50:31.745 --> 00:50:33.080
- It means when you love somebody, you cover their sins.
- 00:50:33.080 --> 00:50:37.484
- You don't expose their sins. you try to cover them.
- 00:50:37.484 --> 00:50:40.487
- Now, you don't deceitfully do it,
- 00:50:40.487 --> 00:50:41.822
- But you don't get on a campaign to reveal their sins.
- 00:50:41.822 --> 00:50:45.225
- If you love somebody, you don't want other people
- 00:50:45.225 --> 00:50:47.227
- Saying bad things about them, isn't that true?
- 00:50:47.227 --> 00:50:49.896
- But in our culture today, that's not the way it works.
- 00:50:49.896 --> 00:50:52.332
- If a person's in a relationship
- 00:50:52.332 --> 00:50:53.667
- And they find out something evil,
- 00:50:53.667 --> 00:50:55.035
- It'll be on the internet and it'll be all over the world
- 00:50:55.035 --> 00:50:57.637
- Within just a matter of minutes.
- 00:50:57.637 --> 00:50:59.306
- The bible says, as christians,
- 00:50:59.306 --> 00:51:00.740
- When we love someone, someone makes a mistake,
- 00:51:00.740 --> 00:51:03.210
- You go and you pray with them.
- 00:51:03.210 --> 00:51:04.544
- You put your arm around them, you forgive them,
- 00:51:04.544 --> 00:51:06.646
- You help them get on,
- 00:51:06.646 --> 00:51:07.981
- But you don't broadcast their sin.
- 00:51:07.981 --> 00:51:11.084
- That's the world's way.
- 00:51:11.084 --> 00:51:13.153
- That's the devil's way, that's not god's way.
- 00:51:13.153 --> 00:51:17.324
- The bible says that when we love someone,
- 00:51:17.324 --> 00:51:18.992
- We cover their sins.
- 00:51:18.992 --> 00:51:22.195
- I don't know about you.
- 00:51:22.195 --> 00:51:23.530
- Sometimes i'd just like to cancel culture itself.
- 00:51:23.530 --> 00:51:26.600
- Cancel the whole thing. let's just cancel culture.
- 00:51:26.600 --> 00:51:32.706
- I mean, i'd like to cancel all the hatred and division,
- 00:51:32.706 --> 00:51:35.909
- All the crimes and the lawlessness,
- 00:51:35.909 --> 00:51:38.078
- The smugness and the snobbery
- 00:51:38.078 --> 00:51:39.613
- Of the pundits and the pencil pushers,
- 00:51:39.613 --> 00:51:41.748
- The so-called journalists who aren't really journalists.
- 00:51:41.748 --> 00:51:45.118
- I'd like to cancel the violence
- 00:51:45.118 --> 00:51:46.453
- And the vitriol, and i can't do that,
- 00:51:46.453 --> 00:51:49.156
- But do you know that one day jesus is going to do that?
- 00:51:49.156 --> 00:51:52.359
- For now there's one cancel culture
- 00:51:52.359 --> 00:51:54.461
- I want to recommend, and it's the only one
- 00:51:54.461 --> 00:51:56.796
- I'm going to recommend today.
- 00:51:56.796 --> 00:51:58.131
- Here's a cancel culture you need to take seriously.
- 00:51:58.131 --> 00:52:02.202
- The bible says in colossians 2:13-14:
- 00:52:02.202 --> 00:52:05.972
- "when you were dead in your sins,
- 00:52:05.972 --> 00:52:07.507
- God made you alive with christ.
- 00:52:07.507 --> 00:52:09.876
- He forgave us our sins, having canceled
- 00:52:09.876 --> 00:52:13.813
- The charge of our legal indebtedness,
- 00:52:13.813 --> 00:52:16.750
- Which stood against us and condemned us;
- 00:52:16.750 --> 00:52:19.186
- And has taken it away, nailing it to the cross."
- 00:52:19.186 --> 00:52:22.923
- Jesus has canceled our sin.
- 00:52:22.923 --> 00:52:25.358
- He canceled it.
- 00:52:25.358 --> 00:52:27.794
- Now that's a cancel culture i can get into.
- 00:52:27.794 --> 00:52:31.064
- One day i asked jesus christ to forgive me of my sin,
- 00:52:31.064 --> 00:52:34.701
- And i found out that when he had gone to the cross,
- 00:52:34.701 --> 00:52:37.370
- He had paid the penalty for my sin,
- 00:52:37.370 --> 00:52:39.072
- And he canceled it all.
- 00:52:39.072 --> 00:52:40.407
- He forgave it all.
- 00:52:40.407 --> 00:52:41.741
- My past sin, my present sin, my future sin,
- 00:52:41.741 --> 00:52:44.110
- All forgiven by god.
- 00:52:44.110 --> 00:52:45.579
- "no, no, no, pastor jeremiah, he forgives your past sin,
- 00:52:45.579 --> 00:52:48.114
- But you gotta deal--" wait a minute.
- 00:52:48.114 --> 00:52:49.916
- When jesus died on the cross, all my sin was in the future.
- 00:52:49.916 --> 00:52:53.253
- He canceled it all.
- 00:52:53.253 --> 00:52:55.121
- He canceled all my sin.
- 00:52:55.121 --> 00:52:56.723
- He canceled it!
- 00:52:56.723 --> 00:52:58.558
- He forgave it.
- 00:52:58.558 --> 00:53:00.594
- And what he did for me, he'll do for you,
- 00:53:00.594 --> 00:53:03.230
- If you'll ask him.
- 00:53:03.230 --> 00:53:04.831
- When we come to jesus christ, he cancels our sins
- 00:53:04.831 --> 00:53:07.834
- And he welcomes us into his family,
- 00:53:07.834 --> 00:53:10.036
- And instead of disdain and deception
- 00:53:10.036 --> 00:53:11.838
- And disconnection, he gives us love and truth
- 00:53:11.838 --> 00:53:14.174
- And a place by his side.
- 00:53:14.174 --> 00:53:16.309
- He fills us with wisdom and courage and compassion,
- 00:53:16.309 --> 00:53:18.979
- And he commissions us to counter the cancel culture
- 00:53:18.979 --> 00:53:22.682
- With the power of the cross,
- 00:53:22.682 --> 00:53:24.784
- Which can never be canceled, revoked, or annulled
- 00:53:24.784 --> 00:53:27.387
- Either in time or all of eternity.
- 00:53:27.387 --> 00:53:30.190
- We can go to bed tonight knowing with all of our hearts
- 00:53:30.190 --> 00:53:33.093
- That nothing or no one can ever cancel
- 00:53:33.093 --> 00:53:35.128
- The one who has canceled our sins.
- 00:53:35.128 --> 00:53:39.065
- He will always be there for us.
- 00:53:39.065 --> 00:53:42.335
- Ladies and gentlemen, in the midst
- 00:53:42.335 --> 00:53:44.371
- Of all that's going on around us,
- 00:53:44.371 --> 00:53:45.839
- We must never forget the triumph of the gospel.
- 00:53:45.839 --> 00:53:48.675
- The gospel is what changes everything.
- 00:53:48.675 --> 00:53:50.910
- You want to get involved in the cancel culture?
- 00:53:50.910 --> 00:53:52.946
- Get involved in the christian cancel culture,
- 00:53:52.946 --> 00:53:55.682
- Where jesus christ cancels our sin.
- 00:53:55.682 --> 00:53:58.585
- And then go out and live like a christian
- 00:53:58.585 --> 00:54:00.553
- In this crazy mixed-up world, and you will discover
- 00:54:00.553 --> 00:54:03.590
- That people will be drawn to you because of your graciousness,
- 00:54:03.590 --> 00:54:08.862
- Because of your forgiveness, because of your willingness
- 00:54:08.862 --> 00:54:11.665
- To put your arm around those who have made a mistake
- 00:54:11.665 --> 00:54:13.967
- And help them get better.
- 00:54:13.967 --> 00:54:16.369
- Let's don't let what is happening in the world
- 00:54:16.369 --> 00:54:18.938
- Make us bitter and cynical.
- 00:54:18.938 --> 00:54:21.374
- Easy for that to happen.
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- Let's become even more men and women of love and grace.
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- With one more inspirational word to close today's program,
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- Right after this.
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- Announcer: and now, with one last word
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- For today's program, here is dr. jeremiah.
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- Dr. jeremiah: i hope you have not been a victim
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- Or a perpetrator of cancel culture.
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- This ungodly part of our society has nothing to commend it.
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- Instead, i encourage you to love those
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- With whom you may disagree,
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- But there is one kind of cancellation
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- I hope you have embraced:
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- The cancellation of your sins through christ jesus's death
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- On the cross.
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- Instead of canceling us for eternity
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- Because of our sins, god has forgiven us
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- Announcer: next time on "turning point."
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- Dr. jeremiah: a church that doesn't have the word of god
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- At the center of it really has nothing to offer you.
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- And you will not grow there and your children
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- Will not grow there.
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- Make sure that you're in a church
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- Where the word of god is taught and christ is lifted up.
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- Because that's what will make a difference
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- In your life.
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- Announcer: join dr. jeremiah next time
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- For his message "spiritual famine:
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- A spiritual prophecy," here on "turning point."
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