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Ed Young - Battle For The Church

March 25, 2025 | 27:29

Ed Young - Battle For The Church
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Battle For The Church | March 25, 2025
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  • Dr. ed young: we are a post-christian culture.
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  • A post-christian culture soon becomes an
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  • Anti-christian culture.
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  • And this is exactly where we are.
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  • What is the answer?
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  • Can we look to the corporate world to give us answers?
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  • No, they sold out a long time ago, haven't they?
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  • Can we look at the world of education, say they going to
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  • Stand up?
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  • No, they've lost it, they sold out to postmodernism a long
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  • Time ago.
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  • Can we look to government?
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  • We know where they stand.
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  • Can we look to any entity that we have, any element in our
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  • Society and say, they're going to stand up now against the
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  • Godlessness that we see infiltrating every area of life.
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  • Who is gonna stand?
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  • The only entity that is standing against total godless, secular
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  • Humanism in america is the church.
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  • And by the way, not just the church, many of our entities
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  • That are still called the church are no longer the church,
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  • Because they have so compromised with the culture on life, on
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  • Family, on moral principles, on gender in order to be accepted
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  • By the culture.
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  • So many who have steeples and crosses say, we're the church
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  • And they're no longer the church, and they will not stand
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  • Because they've already sold out.
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  • What will be the element that will stand?
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  • The evangelical church said it's under the authority of the word
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  • Of god alone will stand.
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  • Martin niemoller, a christian leader in germany when hitler
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  • Came to power, he said, "they took away the communists, but i
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  • Was not a communist so i didn't say anything."
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  • He said, "then they came for the socialists, and i was not a
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  • Socialist so i did not say anything."
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  • He said, "then they came for the trade guilds, and i was not a
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  • Member of the trade guild so i didn't say anything.
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  • He said, "then they came for the jews, and i was not a jew and i
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  • Didn't say anything."
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  • He said, "then they came for the christians and the church.
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  • And that was who i was, and he said, it was too late, because i
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  • Had no one left to take up my cause."
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  • What is the answer?
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  • In the whole swell of the tide of public opinion, and we find
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  • Ourselves upside down in a world that is a part of the twilight
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  • Zone and we're swimming upstream, what is the answer?
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  • The answer is, the body of christ, the church.
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  • Let me tell you this story, remind you of it, i'll go
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  • Through it rapidly.
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  • In pre-history there was god the father, god the son, god the
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  • Holy spirit, and they are in a love-love relationship, they
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  • Were in perfect community.
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  • Perfect community.
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  • Adam and eve were given life and they became one as god the
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  • Father, god the son, the trinity was one, and then they included
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  • Adam and eve in that.
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  • And now adam and eve in relationship with the trinity,
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  • They had the perfect relationship vertically and
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  • Horizontally with one another.
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  • But you know the snake came, and then that broke the relationship
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  • Between this couple and god, and it broke relationship between
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  • One another, because eve blamed the serpent and adam blamed eve,
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  • And there we go.
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  • The community, the oneness that god asked for no longer existed.
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  • And then we see the development of the human race, and it
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  • Rapidly goes downhill until there was that infamous tower of
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  • Babel was built, when all the people gathered there with one
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  • Language and they looked up and said, we will reach all the way
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  • To heaven because we control our lives only on the horizontal
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  • Area, no understanding of the upward look.
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  • But god came and broke down that tower and scattered all of
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  • Humanity all over the earth, giving them different languages.
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  • And that was the end of genesis chapter 11, all before was the
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  • Primeval part of history, right?
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  • And then begin with genesis 12, god did a new thing, he brought
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  • In a new covenant.
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  • By faith, abraham stepped out and began a new people, the
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  • Israelites, the jewish people.
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  • And they were given clear instructions as how they should
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  • Live and how they should worship.
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  • But we see in the jews, they forgot they were a blessed to be
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  • A blessing.
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  • Incidentally the same thing we have forgotten in the united
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  • States of america.
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  • The same thing.
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  • Blessed to be a blessing.
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  • And then what happened?
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  • There was blessing, there was rebellion, there was judgment,
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  • There was repentance, there was blessing.
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  • And that cycle went on and on and on for generations in the
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  • Jewish world until in the fullness of time god in his
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  • Amazing love fulfilled prophecy and we have christmas.
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  • Christmas.
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  • The word became flesh, the incarnation.
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  • And then we know jesus said, caesarea philippi, with his
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  • Apostles, "who do you think i am?
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  • Who do you say i am?"
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  • Peter said, "you're the christ, the messiah, the promised one,
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  • The son of god."
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  • And jesus looked at him and said, "flesh and blood didn't
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  • Tell you that, peter, but on that rock i will build
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  • My church."
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  • Not on peter, but on the profession of faith he made in
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • And then jesus said, "on that profession of faith in jesus
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  • Christ i will build my church."
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  • And he said, "even the gates of hell cannot
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  • Keep the church out."
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  • So the answer today, in our twilight zone, in our
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  • Broken culture, in our bleeding, abused america in a postmodern,
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  • Post-religious era, we have today is the church.
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  • And then we see the church was born, jesus crucified, and on
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  • That cross we have a new relationship.
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  • The vertical part of the cross reaches up to heaven and gets us
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  • Right with god vertically.
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  • The horizontal part of the cross gets us right with one another,
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  • And there you have the foundation of the church.
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  • The profession of faith, man in right relationship with one
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  • Another, and man in right relationship with god.
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  • And then on the day of pentecost, the real birthday of
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  • The church, the holy spirit had come and now people were
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  • Speaking from all over the world the same language, they were
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  • Understanding one another in the same language as peter delivered
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  • That great magnificent sermon.
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  • So you say, pentecost is reversal of babel.
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  • Do you get that?
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  • Babel were the languages were changed and scattered, now they
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  • Come together to hear what god has done for man in
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • So now we have the church.
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  • Let me tell you something about the church.
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  • The church, when it is functioning as the lord god
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  • Intends for it to function, what does that mean?
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  • It means that we're brothers and sisters in jesus christ.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • That means we're in an awesome body of faith.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • That means that we're all practicing in the church the
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  • One anothers.
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  • We love one another, we forgive one another, we care for
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  • One another.
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  • The one anothers are operating.
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  • It means that the spiritual gifts that god gives to those
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  • Who receive christ are operating in the life of the church.
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  • And you have a powerful entity of people who are in the family
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  • Of god, and it is that church, that body of believers, that
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  • Will make a difference, that will reach out and seek to heal
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  • And to save and to reach a broken, dying culture.
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  • It is the church.
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  • The authentic church that we see in the bible, functioning as
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  • It should.
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  • It is absolutely invincible.
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  • It's christ, his hands, his feet, his mind, his body,
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  • Operating today, right now where we are in this culture.
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  • It is church.
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  • Now the question is, how do we speak to the culture?
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  • How do you and i engage the culture?
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  • If god has given to the body of christ the answer, how do we
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  • Communicate that?
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  • What voice do we use?
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  • What vehicle do we have to communicate how lives can be
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  • Changed and families can be healed and morality can return
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  • And there'll be a true understanding of god, who he is.
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  • What kind of voice will we use?
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  • I think we'll have to use a prophetic voice.
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  • You find a prophetic voice being used in acts chapter number 2.
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  • I referred to it as peter's sermon at pentecost.
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  • It was a voice like jeremiah, thus saith the lord.
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  • Now look at the culture in which peter was addressing the people.
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  • It was a jewish family, it was a jewish culture.
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  • Thousands gathered as he spoke, full of the holy spirit.
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  • And they came from all over the world and they heard as if they
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  • All knew one language.
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  • And what was that message?
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  • It was a message to a people who already believed in a
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  • Monotheistic god, right?
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  • People who already understand the moral requirements on
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  • The commandments.
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  • A people who already understood the role and the mission of
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  • The world.
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  • They understood the old testament, they had, they
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  • Absorbed the old testament, they knew the torah.
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  • The shema was there, presented every night in all the families
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  • All through jewish history.
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  • And so they were ready.
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  • And peter stood up with a prophetic voice, thus sayeth
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  • The lord.
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  • What did he say?
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  • Repent and unzip your life.
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  • Unzip your life and receive jesus christ and let him run
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  • Your life.
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  • A message of the resurrection and a message of repentance.
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  • And you see, he could speak as a prophet because they would
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  • Get it.
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  • That's acts chapter 2. now flip over to the book of acts, and
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  • Read acts chapter 17.
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  • Paul is in athens.
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  • Totally different world from jerusalem.
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  • And he walks around athens and he sees a radically
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  • Different culture.
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  • They had gods and goddesses and temples and statues and all
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  • Kinds of indication of all kinds of religion.
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  • In fact, they had a god for every day of the week.
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  • By the way, every day of the week, sunday, monday, tuesday,
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  • Wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday is named after a
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  • Pagan god.
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  • Don't forget that.
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  • And they had a god to every one of these.
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  • And so paul looked around and he got on mars hill and all of the
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  • Philosophers and those who were interested came to hear
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  • Something new.
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  • Oh how they wanted something new.
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  • And paul said, you know, i've looked around your city, and you
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  • Are very religious.
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  • No city in the world was more religious than athens.
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  • And he said, i see you got temples to all the gods and
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  • Goddesses, but he said, you have one to an unknown god.
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  • A god that you don't know.
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  • He said, i've come to tell you that god's name.
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  • And he begin, almost like romans 1, in an apologetic way,
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  • Speaking to them so that they understood.
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  • They didn't know moses, they didn't know anything about the
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  • Old testament, they were not a worshiping people of the true
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  • And living god, and so he approached it
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  • Entirely different.
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  • Different culture, right?
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  • Jerusalem, radically different from athens.
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  • And now in acts chapter 17, he didn't use the prophetic
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  • Approach, he used an evangelistic approach there, at
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  • That time.
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  • The language was different.
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  • Now in our culture, some with a general religious background, we
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  • Know the term, but so many today do not know the religious terms.
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  • So we don't use acts 2, we use acts 17.
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  • Sometimes we use 2, sometimes we use 17.
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  • So many times we take peter's approach, sometime we take
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  • Paul's approach.
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  • To understand.
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  • I love to tell the story, we first came here 42 years ago,
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  • And my son, cliff, was six years old.
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  • And i think we had about seven people in nursery my
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  • First sunday.
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  • And fewer than that in children's area.
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  • And so cliff was there and a bible teacher asked the little
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  • Class of six-year-olds, he said, "do any of you know anything
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  • About moses?"
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  • Cliff shot his hand up.
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  • Nobody else moved.
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  • And the teacher thought, well, the preacher's kid, they just
  • 00:14:47.242 --> 00:14:50.312
  • Moved here from south carolina, he knows about moses.
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  • "say, cliff, tell us about moses."
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  • He says, "moses malone, the center for the houston rockets!"
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  • My point is, don't miss it.
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  • Don't miss it.
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  • It is that the words we use, the background we use, have to be
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  • Appropriate for that particular setting, for that particular
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  • Individual, for that particular culture.
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  • So we speak, what with our prophetic voice, thus sayeth the
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  • Lord, like jeremiah, like peter at pentecost.
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  • But also we speak with an evangelistic voice so people
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  • Understand that terminology in which we use.
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  • And in all this, in the whole book of acts, and i've read a
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  • Large hunk of it this very week, i noticed that paul and peter
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  • Use the different kind of approach of the church depending
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  • Where they were.
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  • Well, what paul did at ephesus, totally different than what he
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  • Did at corinth.
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  • And what paul did at laodicea was totally different than what
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  • He did in rome.
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  • And so we have to understand, we not only have to have a
  • 00:15:56.979 --> 00:15:59.314
  • Prophetic voice, acts 2, an evangelistic voice, acts 17, but
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  • A discerning voice.
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  • Discerning.
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  • We know where we, we know what we're dealing with.
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  • There has to be a discerning voice if the church is to be
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  • Bold and make a difference in the twilight zone and the broken
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  • Culture in which you and i awakened one day and find
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  • Ourselves look around and say, well what happened?
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  • What happened?
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  • Jesus came.
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  • John chapter 1, full of grace and what else?
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  • Truth.
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  • He came full of grace and, say it with me, truth.
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  • Full of grace and--
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • If you only have grace, that's your heart, it will not make it.
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  • If you only have truth, that's your head, it will not make it.
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  • When we address the culture we have to use grace and truth.
  • 00:17:03.345 --> 00:17:09.618
  • Grace becomes soft and mushy, but you have to have truth there
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  • With it.
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  • And all of this is encompassed with love.
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  • Love without truth is a deadly thing.
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  • Did you get that?
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  • Love without truth, love is robbed of something
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  • That's essential.
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  • You have a child in the bathtub and he wants to take the toaster
  • 00:17:35.077 --> 00:17:39.515
  • Into the bathtub and plug it in.
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  • Well, grace says, man, we'll let him do whatever he wants to, but
  • 00:17:42.584 --> 00:17:46.355
  • Truth says, i'd better take that toaster away from him or he
  • 00:17:46.355 --> 00:17:49.725
  • Might get electrocuted.
  • 00:17:49.725 --> 00:17:51.193
  • That's where we are.
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  • Remember, we said it over and over again, we accept anybody
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  • And everybody but we do not affirm all the life choices
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  • People have made.
  • 00:18:00.802 --> 00:18:02.137
  • This is where the church is, this is what we're about.
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  • Full of grace, full of truth, as was the lord and savior
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  • Jesus christ.
  • 00:18:12.881 --> 00:18:15.184
  • But discernment.
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  • There needs to be a wakeup call for all of us who are at the
  • 00:18:18.120 --> 00:18:22.057
  • Body of christ if the church is to be militant and strike out
  • 00:18:22.057 --> 00:18:27.062
  • Against the broken culture in which we live.
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  • Do you know the word.
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  • Microaggression?
  • 00:18:34.736 --> 00:18:37.339
  • Heard that word?
  • 00:18:37.339 --> 00:18:38.874
  • Heard, trigger words?
  • 00:18:38.874 --> 00:18:41.777
  • Trigger words.
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  • You see, in our culture there is an overwhelming effort to keep
  • 00:18:43.345 --> 00:18:47.049
  • The church behind the stained glass and the steel as long as
  • 00:18:47.049 --> 00:18:50.652
  • We stay inside here and doesn't move out there, we'll be okay.
  • 00:18:50.652 --> 00:18:54.690
  • And inside here we'd better not be engaged in what will be
  • 00:18:54.690 --> 00:18:57.526
  • Called, and is called, quote, hate speech.
  • 00:18:57.526 --> 00:19:01.897
  • Microaggressive.
  • 00:19:01.897 --> 00:19:04.132
  • How does this play out?
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  • University of indiana, a student gets up in a class, he reports
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  • On a book entitled, listen carefully now, i don't want to
  • 00:19:12.241 --> 00:19:15.844
  • Be misunderstood, he reports on a book entitled, notre dame
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  • Versus the klan.
  • 00:19:21.850 --> 00:19:25.153
  • And this book clearly, dramatically tells about the
  • 00:19:25.153 --> 00:19:29.691
  • Courage in 1924 of notre dame students who stood up and they
  • 00:19:29.691 --> 00:19:34.896
  • Dealt with the ku klux klan viciously, exposed them as an
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  • Organization that was godless, that was racist, that was
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  • Vicious, that was of the devil.
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  • That's the thesis of the book.
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  • He reported on that book, but in the book there was a picture of
  • 00:19:48.543 --> 00:19:52.881
  • A klan rally.
  • 00:19:52.881 --> 00:19:55.350
  • And someone got on the internet and said, boy, this student
  • 00:19:55.350 --> 00:19:59.788
  • Reported on a book and it had a picture of a klan rally.
  • 00:19:59.788 --> 00:20:02.691
  • And they so gathered around him and ostracized that student.
  • 00:20:02.691 --> 00:20:07.062
  • Now get the, it's the context, this book clearly blasts and
  • 00:20:07.062 --> 00:20:11.667
  • Talks about the courage to stand against racism and
  • 00:20:11.667 --> 00:20:15.203
  • White supremacy.
  • 00:20:15.203 --> 00:20:17.506
  • But they took him before a tribunal there at notre dame and
  • 00:20:17.506 --> 00:20:22.277
  • They convicted him of racism.
  • 00:20:22.277 --> 00:20:28.050
  • We are moving in this area of trigger words
  • 00:20:28.050 --> 00:20:32.821
  • And microaggression.
  • 00:20:32.821 --> 00:20:36.625
  • That's where we are in the 21st century.
  • 00:20:36.625 --> 00:20:43.965
  • Howard k. smith, some of you remember him, an icon of
  • 00:20:43.965 --> 00:20:47.569
  • Broadcast news, he said, the news will not tell you what to
  • 00:20:47.569 --> 00:20:52.240
  • Think, but the news will teach you what to think about.
  • 00:20:52.240 --> 00:21:00.349
  • September morning, 1997, cnn news, which dominated the news
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  • At that time, cnn news, they opened their morning news
  • 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:17.299
  • Broadcast with a story about princess diana.
  • 00:21:17.299 --> 00:21:21.970
  • She'd been killed a week before, and they spent ten minutes,
  • 00:21:21.970 --> 00:21:25.474
  • Right in the opening, talking about princess diana.
  • 00:21:25.474 --> 00:21:29.911
  • And one commentator said, it was the most important loss of life
  • 00:21:29.911 --> 00:21:34.649
  • In the last 50 years.
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  • And they extol her, they play the chimes that were playing all
  • 00:21:38.453 --> 00:21:43.125
  • Over great britain when she was killed, and they gave some
  • 00:21:43.125 --> 00:21:47.696
  • Epitaph, a little word from those who testified at her
  • 00:21:47.696 --> 00:21:51.066
  • Funeral, and then they played a song that elton john had written
  • 00:21:51.066 --> 00:21:56.538
  • In honor of diana and played at her funeral.
  • 00:21:56.538 --> 00:22:00.008
  • But they just extolled her, showed pictures of children
  • 00:22:00.008 --> 00:22:04.246
  • Crying, candles burning, man, her death was so worldwide,
  • 00:22:04.246 --> 00:22:10.051
  • Catastrophic, it just broke the heart of the world.
  • 00:22:10.051 --> 00:22:16.525
  • And then they went on with the news, cnn that morning, not
  • 00:22:16.525 --> 00:22:20.495
  • Much news.
  • 00:22:20.495 --> 00:22:22.397
  • They gave news of mir, a space station, they talked about a
  • 00:22:22.397 --> 00:22:26.568
  • Hurricane that was brewing in the gulf, then they gave some
  • 00:22:26.568 --> 00:22:30.672
  • Sports reports, they had some more talking heads, and they
  • 00:22:30.672 --> 00:22:33.708
  • Went through the whole day of news at cnn and finally they
  • 00:22:33.708 --> 00:22:37.979
  • Signed off.
  • 00:22:37.979 --> 00:22:39.481
  • Sort of a no news day you would think.
  • 00:22:39.481 --> 00:22:43.251
  • But you see, the night before that news day at cnn,
  • 00:22:43.251 --> 00:22:51.293
  • A little old lady from albania had died.
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  • Mother teresa.
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  • Not one word.
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  • Not one word about the woman who was arguably the most beloved
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  • Woman in the world, the winner of the nobel prize, a woman who
  • 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:20.822
  • Spent her life in the streets of calcutta, in the land of
  • 00:23:20.822 --> 00:23:24.292
  • The dying.
  • 00:23:24.292 --> 00:23:25.627
  • She'd take the nobodys, the throwaways, by the thousands
  • 00:23:25.627 --> 00:23:28.230
  • Upon thousands and love them and minister unto them and feed them
  • 00:23:28.230 --> 00:23:32.501
  • And tell them about christ.
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  • All those years, a life totally sacrificed.
  • 00:23:35.971 --> 00:23:42.143
  • Not one word.
  • 00:23:42.143 --> 00:23:50.719
  • Are you tired of being an owl?
  • 00:23:54.389 --> 00:23:57.893
  • An owl loves the darkness, despises the light.
  • 00:23:57.893 --> 00:24:03.465
  • An owl would like to stay in the darkness all the time and
  • 00:24:03.465 --> 00:24:06.201
  • There'd never be sunrise, that's an owl.
  • 00:24:06.201 --> 00:24:10.205
  • Or are you like a rooster, who gets up in the morning when the
  • 00:24:10.205 --> 00:24:16.845
  • Sun comes up and wakens everybody with a rooster crow
  • 00:24:16.845 --> 00:24:21.750
  • Over and over, going and saying, get up and go and move out and
  • 00:24:21.750 --> 00:24:26.054
  • Become something.
  • 00:24:26.054 --> 00:24:28.256
  • Listen in the twilight zone of our culture, ladies and
  • 00:24:28.256 --> 00:24:32.160
  • Gentlemen, you'd better take all the influence--
  • 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:34.062
  • How much influence do you have?
  • 00:24:34.062 --> 00:24:35.964
  • How much influence do you have?
  • 00:24:35.964 --> 00:24:40.735
  • Don't save it any longer.
  • 00:24:37.699 --> 00:24:43.505
  • Don't hold back any longer.
  • 00:24:43.505 --> 00:24:45.507
  • Don't say, well, i don't want to offend.
  • 00:24:45.507 --> 00:24:47.442
  • You may have to use a prophetic voice, the evangelist voice,
  • 00:24:47.442 --> 00:24:50.912
  • Always a discerning voice, but take all the influence you have
  • 00:24:50.912 --> 00:24:54.249
  • At this moment in history and use it for god, for the kingdom,
  • 00:24:54.249 --> 00:24:58.219
  • And the church.
  • 00:24:58.219 --> 00:24:59.554
  • Become roosters that says, wake up, america!
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  • Wake up, america!
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