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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Politics of Jesus | April 9, 2026
- Jesus
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- Was a great
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- Politician
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- With a pure definition
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- Because he was in the relationship.
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- Business was in.
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- He established were you and i can
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- A relationship with god in jesus christ?
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- He established we can have a good relationship
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- With ourselves.
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- He established where we can have relationship with others.
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- So jesus was a divinely appointed,
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- Given politician in the purest
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- Sense of the word.
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- Someone did
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- A little etymology of politics
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- Say poly means many,
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- And takes our bugs and the mite family,
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- Who are looking for a host to suck the blood out of.
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- But the true
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- Definition of politics is not that.
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- Not that at all.
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- Not the slime and the filth and the bribery and the payoff,
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- And the undercover, and the lack of doing
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- The basic responsibility we've elected them to do.
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- Oh, that's that's the slimy part of politics.
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- The pure definition of politics
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- Is the relationships
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- Of people within a society.
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- And by that standard, i say that's
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- A pure, high, holy calling.
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- And we have some people in the political realm.
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- Let me tell you, are godly men and women.
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- Make no mistake about it.
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- We just have far too few who are willing
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- To sacrifice for the well and the goodness of the people.
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- Therefore, we sign off on this
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- And therefore listen carefully.
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- Jesus
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- Was a great
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- Politician
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- With a pure definition
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- Because he was in the relationship.
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- Business was in.
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- He established were you and i can
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- A relationship with god in jesus christ?
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- He established we can have a good relationship
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- With ourselves.
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- He established where we can have relationship with others.
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- So jesus was a divinely appointed,
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- Given politician in the purest sense of the word.
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- Why has the church
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- Been asleep
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- In this critical moment of history?
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- It has happened before.
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- You look at the book of revelation
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- You see there in chapter
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- Number three.
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- Jesus is writing to the church
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- And he's writing to various
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- Churches, seven of them to be exact.
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- And he comes to the church at sardis,
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- And it sounds like the modern church in america today.
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- Look at what he says.
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- I know your deeds,
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- And you have the reputation of being alive, but you're dead.
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- Wake up!
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- Strengthen what remains and is about to die.
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- For i have found your deeds unfinished in the sight
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- Of my god.
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- Remember, therefore what you have received and heard.
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- Hold it fast
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- And repent.
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- And if you do not wake up,
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- I will come like a thief.
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- And you will not know at what time
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- I will come to you.
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- To the church at sardis, he says to all the churches
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- Today.
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- Wake up!
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- Wake up!
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- The church in history
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- Many times did not wake up.
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- And therefore we ask the question,
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- Why has the church, the total body of christ,
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- Basically
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- Been asleep?
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- What has happened to us? what?
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- What took place?
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- First of all, i would say there's
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- A misunderstanding of church and state.
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- And i've dealt with this many times.
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- But you need to hammer this in your mind.
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- It's an idea that somehow the church should be separate
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- From the state, and therefore the church needs to be silent,
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- Particularly in the area of politics.
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- When jesus was the consummate politician
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- That that relationship.
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- But the church have been silent.
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- When there is a vacuum, what happens?
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- Nature abhors a vacuum and something fills in.
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- Look at korea today.
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- South korea is the most christian nation in the world.
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- North korea.
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- You go there and try to build a church,
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- Try to preach the gospel of jesus christ.
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- It would not be tolerated.
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- Look at nations around the world.
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- Freedom.
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- Religion has long since gone to the muslim countries
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- And many western countries.
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- There's this wall of separation
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- Of church and state and the united states.
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- We see it standing.
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- What does the church done?
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- I thought about the story of the news reporter
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- Who went into a barn.
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- He had his mike with him,
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- And a good old war
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- Redneck would lie down there and happy hour.
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- You know, one of these guys who know everything, and our
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- Street corner philosophers and cowboys,
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- And he was drinking from a mug over there.
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- And the reporter went over there and said,
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- Could i ask you a question?
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- He said, shoot this.
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- Ask me anything.
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- He took another gun,
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- And the cameraman
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- Goes there and put the mike in front of me.
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- And he said, what are the two
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- Biggest problems in america?
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- He said,
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- Took another drag.
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- He said,
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- I don't know and i don't care.
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- He said, it's amazing you got both of them
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- Right in the first act.
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- Like everything
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- Asleep at ease.
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- And zion would be the biblical terminology for it.
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- We don't understand separation of church and state.
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- Get this, get this once and for all.
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- I've dealt with it many times standing right in this place.
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- The idea that there is a wall between church and state,
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- The way it is interpreted by left wing
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- Progressives is totally inaccurate.
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- You do not find that phrase
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- In the constitution,
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- The bylaws, or any of our foundational document.
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- Where did it come from
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- When thomas
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- Jefferson was elected president?
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- Most of the christians in the colonies opposed it.
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- They said he was not a christian, which was right.
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- At best, he was a deist,
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- But all the baptists voted for him.
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- Interesting.
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- All the other christian denominations
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- Voted against him.
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- But jefferson was elected,
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- And therefore i think he was elected.
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- A little baptist association in danbury,
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- Connecticut, wrote him a letter of congratulations.
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- And they said, mr.
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- President, we hope you will stop
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- The establishment of religion in all of the colonies.
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- Now, what does that mean in connecticut,
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- In the official religion of the state?
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- Was the congregational church and many of the colonies
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- Had their own particular denomination or abomination
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- And would say, encourage all people.
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- And they got
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- Preferential treatment from the state government, from the
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- From the colonies. you got it.
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- And they were writing saying, we hope this will not happen.
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- And jefferson wrote
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- A letter and said, there is a wall of separation.
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- Paraphrase between the church and the state,
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- And the state should never give preference
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- Or establish any religion in and of itself.
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- We have freedom of all religions
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- And not freedom from religion, as some
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- Would have it interpreted in order to silence the church.
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- So understand is a misunderstanding
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- Of the separation of church and state
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- That has kept a lot of the churches from say,
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- Well, we can't deal in politics.
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- Also, there's a misunderstanding of the gospel
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- And the in our being meeting in washington,
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- National religious broadcasters had a convention
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- And one of the prominent bible
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- Preaching teaching individuals on television.
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- I'll not call his name.
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- All of you wouldn't know him.
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- Prominent. they.
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- This person really seeks to teach the bible.
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- He said to a group in the in our convention.
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- He is not going to speak on
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- Anything controversial
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- In order to preach the gospel.
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- Now, i was stunned at that.
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- And i would ask anybody, what in the world
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- Do you think the gospel is?
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- First,
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- There is bad news and then there is good news.
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- The gospel is john 316 for god so loved the world
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- That he gave his only begotten son,
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- That whosoever believes in him should not perish
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- And will have everlasting life.
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- That's the gospel.
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- But the gospel 317 is the other side of it.
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- For god sent not his son into the world to condemn the world,
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- But that the world through him might be salvage.
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- It might be saved.
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- We receive christ, and then we get involved
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- In the affairs of the world
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- In the name of our lord and savior, led by his spirit.
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- We have
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- Had a misunderstanding of the gospel,
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- A misunderstanding of church and state.
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- Finally, we've had a misunderstanding of jesus.
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- They said, well, jesus was just love.
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- He was so nice.
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- He said, suffer little children to come unto me.
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- Unless you had the
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- Faith of a child, you'll never get to heaven yourself.
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- Oh, jesus was totally love.
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- We see that there, don't we?
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- What about jesus going into the temple on two occasions
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- And taking all the pharisees and sadducees
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- Who are exploiting the people
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- And money changers, con artists?
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- And he turned over those tables and took a whip and drove.
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- Was he that the same jesus of love
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- That you find the jesus of love, little children?
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- Absolutely.
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- Because we misunderstood what biblical christian love
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- Is all about.
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- It's a misunderstanding of jesus.
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- What did jesus tell us that we're to do?
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- What are we to be like?
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- What are the metaphors used?
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- We're to be salt.
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- Where do we light?
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- Where to be water?
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- Would it be bread?
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- Would it be leaven?
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- Would it be a key?
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- What word describes all of those metaphors
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- That jesus said, you and i are to be?
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- The word is penetration.
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- Salt has to penetrate
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- The food to give it taste.
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- Light has to penetrate the darkness to eliminate it.
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- Water has to penetrate
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- All of our being in order to keep us alive.
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- A key penetrates a lock.
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- The leaven gets into the bread and out of it to rise up.
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- You see the key word we are trying to penetrate,
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- And we're to penetrate every area of society.
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- We misunderstood jesus.
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- Everybody wants a happy home.
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- But let's be honest.
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- A happy home doesn't just happen.
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- It's built.
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- It's shaped.
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- Day by day by day.
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- That's why i want to encourage you to read
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- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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- This 90 day devotional is from
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- Decades of real life pastoring,
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- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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- In the page of this book each day
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- You will find a simple rhythm
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- As of scripture,
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- Practical, down to earth navigation,
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- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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- Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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- So the church had been silent.
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- This understood the meaning of separation
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- Of church and state.
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- And then we look.
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- We say, the church has not understood
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- The gospel of the church as i understood jesus.
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- And then what happens?
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- We have forgotten
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- The three basic institutions.
- 00:14:15.066 --> 00:14:19.170
- God in christ established three basic institutions.
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- I want you to look at them with me
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- In the book of colossians, chapter number one, the words
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- God said,
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- All of the world
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- Is to be founded on these three institutions.
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- And look at what institutions are.
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- The sun is the image
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- Of the invisible god, the firstborn of all creation.
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- That's reference back to genesis.
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- The establishment of the family.
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- Adam and eve.
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- Be fruitful and multiply.
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- And he says, for in him all things were created.
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- Things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible,
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- Whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities,
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- All things have been created through him and for him.
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- He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
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- That is the government.
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- God in christ created the family.
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- He created government and finally he created the church.
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- He is the head of the body of the church.
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- He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead,
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- So that in everything he might have supremacy.
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- God has taken his power, and he is
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- Giving it to the family.
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- He's given it, handed it right down to the government,
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- And is handed to the church.
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- And each one of those have job description in the bible
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- How they ought to function.
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- The family is a basic institution of society.
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- God invented marriage, male
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- And female lead cleave one flesh.
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- No shame.
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- He had been in marriage.
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- And then in deuteronomy chapter six,
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- He gives a formula for it.
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- He talks about, first of all, the ten commandments
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- In deuteronomy five.
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- Deuteronomy six.
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- That is the shemer in which he told the head of the family
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- To meet every day.
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- And when you wake up, when you go to sleep,
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- When they go out the door,
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- You teach your children, you live it and you teach it.
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- And that's a job description for the family.
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- And then
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- He gives a job description for the church.
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- And this is where we have messed up
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- Is the role of the church in the 21st century.
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- Now norm mason gave me this term.
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- It's not original.
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- And he says, what is the purpose of the church?
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- You know what it is.
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- Well, you remember the church.
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- What's the purpose of the church?
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- It is to fulfill the great commission.
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- And the great commission is mentioned by jesus
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- After he was resurrected from the dead five different times.
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- You know, when jesus mentioned five, saying something
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- Five times that the god had raised him from the dead?
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- Do you think that's important?
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- You know?
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- Yeah.
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- Do you think it has significance?
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- He is saying simply to you and to me,
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- We are to carry out the great commission.
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- Go ye therefore the whole the world make disciples,
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- Baptizing them, and they, the father, the son,
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- The holy spirit, teaching them to observe all things
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- Whatsoever i have commanded you, and lo,
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- I am with you right to the end of the world.
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- What does he say?
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- The first thing he's saying we are to baptize.
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- We are to win.
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- That's the first part of the gospel.
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- The second thing is we are to teach.
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- And that's the focus of the church.
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- And we are to become.
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- Yet this phrase
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- Get this phrase great
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- Commission, citizen.
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- Other words, this is our purpose
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- And we're to penetrate all of society,
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- These three institutions.
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- He has delegated authority to
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- The family, has a function.
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- The government has a function.
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- Read the government function.
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- In romans chapter 13.
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- It says clearly the government has the power of the sword.
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- And by the way, just parenthetically,
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- Do you realize it's american citizens would simply
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- And plainly obey
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- What the people in blue tell us to do?
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- 99% of all the junk
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- That we have would be done away with.
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- Just obey.
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- You say, well,
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- There's some rotten apples, but they're 1 in 1,000,000
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- Who wear the blue and seek to protect us every day.
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- I am 100% for those who enforce the law.
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- So here we are
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- Delegated authority to the family.
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- The father, the mother, what they are to building
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- Their kids.
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- The kind of home it should be
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- Delegated authority to the government.
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- They declared the sword.
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- We are to be obedient.
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- We're to be citizens
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- And delegated authority of the church.
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- And this is where
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- The church needs to stand up and be counted.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, you realize that
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- We are so much like nazi germany.
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- Well, that's so much.
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- So hard to say.
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- When adolf hitler took power, he brought together
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- 18,000 leaders of the biblical churches of germany.
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- 18,000.
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- And he promised them they'd be freedom and independence,
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- And they'd be able to worship and do wherever.
- 00:19:52.403 --> 00:19:55.573
- As a result of that,
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- Neo muller, martin neo
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- Muller went out and spoke to hitler afterwards and said
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- That look,
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- The role of the church and we cannot support
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- That direction in which you're leading germany.
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- In that conversation, hitler
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- Respond to him and said,
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- You're a pastor.
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- You take care of the church
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- And i'll take care of the people.
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- That's exactly what we're hearing,
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- You take care of the church,
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- And we in the government take care of the people.
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- Remember the bottom line of all this?
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- One nation under god.
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- We are under the administration today.
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- They wanted to be one nation under the state.
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- You take care as you do.
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- You baptize, you preach. you be nice.
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- You be kind.
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- You help people. you love one another.
- 00:20:48.225 --> 00:20:50.494
- But my goodness, don't get in the business of the people.
- 00:20:50.494 --> 00:20:54.332
- Don't get in the political area in the sense
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- That we have defined it.
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- 18,000 pastors were present.
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- 18,003 thousand of them
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- Opposed adolf hitler.
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- Another 3000 joined in.
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- And by the way, i would guess that three fourths
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- Of the churches that go by the name of church today
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- Has already joined in the woke as agenda.
- 00:21:22.026 --> 00:21:24.662
- I think i can prove that about three fourths
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- And they're in germany.
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- 3000 opposed him,
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- 3000 were for him,
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- And there were 12,000 who said, you know,
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- Which is not going to do anything.
- 00:21:40.211 --> 00:21:42.480
- We're just going to sit by, play our hymns
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- And do our carols and talk about everybody come to jesus.
- 00:21:45.783 --> 00:21:50.354
- We're not going to get out
- 00:21:50.354 --> 00:21:51.455
- In that dirty, slimy area of politics.
- 00:21:51.455 --> 00:21:55.626
- And we've abdicated
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- Our role, and we are not becoming
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- As we must become great commission citizens,
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- Because out there we have a chance to give
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- Our witness for christ.
- 00:22:07.805 --> 00:22:11.075
- That's who we are.
- 00:22:11.509 --> 00:22:13.244
- That's what we must become if we do not.
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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- America is gone and the world is gone.
- 00:22:18.282 --> 00:22:21.485
- The burden is on those who are in christ
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- Genuinely.
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- I think it was 1935,
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- A german
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- Citizen who was a christian
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- Stood up before a group and said
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- That he went to a little church in germany
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- That was next to a railroad track.
- 00:22:44.742 --> 00:22:47.978
- And he said every sunday we'd be in church worshiping,
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- Preaching, reading the bible, singing.
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- And he said, we would hear on that railroad
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- Track a whistle.
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- And the whistle went louder and louder,
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- And we knew a train was coming,
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- Loaded down with jews
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- Who were being taken to the holocaust.
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- And he said they would get closer and closer.
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- We'd hear
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- It said
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- When they got right by the church,
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- They would holler, help us.
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- They're going to kill us, save us.
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- Do something.
- 00:23:26.183 --> 00:23:27.918
- And he said, it happened so many sundays
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- That it was disturbing church, and therefore
- 00:23:31.589 --> 00:23:33.691
- They would turn the organ up louder
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- And they'd stand and sing the hymns more resoundingly.
- 00:23:37.261 --> 00:23:40.731
- And when they heard the whistle,
- 00:23:41.465 --> 00:23:43.133
- They would just become so loud in church
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- That they could not hear the screams of the jews
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- Who were being 6 or
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- 7 million executed.
- 00:23:53.711 --> 00:23:56.747
- And he said, today, as an old man,
- 00:23:57.481 --> 00:24:00.518
- I have nightmares.
- 00:24:00.951 --> 00:24:03.821
- And i hear that whistle
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- In my nightmare.
- 00:24:07.324 --> 00:24:09.660
- I hear that whistle.
- 00:24:09.660 --> 00:24:11.762
- In my nightmare.
- 00:24:11.762 --> 00:24:18.035
- My brothers and my sisters,
- 00:24:18.636 --> 00:24:20.204
- Ladies and gentlemen.
- 00:24:20.204 --> 00:24:22.940
- Down the road in history.
- 00:24:23.507 --> 00:24:26.610
- If we see the devastation of the judeo-christian culture
- 00:24:26.610 --> 00:24:31.081
- Which we've established in the western world, in america,
- 00:24:31.081 --> 00:24:35.653
- You and i,
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- Those who are alive
- 00:24:38.322 --> 00:24:41.025
- Will hear
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- A whistle
- 00:24:42.993 --> 00:24:45.296
- And remember,
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- Perhaps, how we did not
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- Take the challenge of the hour and stand and engage
- 00:24:50.901 --> 00:24:55.706
- The godless culture in which we find ourselves.
- 00:24:55.706 --> 00:24:58.542
- We'll hear that whistle.
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- What's the answer?
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- What?
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- How do you get over a nightmare?
- 00:25:04.682 --> 00:25:07.151
- You wake up.
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- That's what you do.
- 00:25:08.886 --> 00:25:10.120
- You wake up
- 00:25:10.120 --> 00:25:12.389
- And that's what we must do
- 00:25:12.389 --> 00:25:17.061
- As members of the family of god.
- 00:25:17.795 --> 00:25:22.967
- Everybody wants a happy home.
- 00:25:23.601 --> 00:25:26.604
- But let's be honest.
- 00:25:26.604 --> 00:25:28.105
- A happy home doesn't just happen.
- 00:25:28.105 --> 00:25:31.008
- It's built.
- 00:25:31.008 --> 00:25:32.276
- It's shaped.
- 00:25:32.276 --> 00:25:33.711
- Day by day by day.
- 00:25:33.711 --> 00:25:35.846
- That's why i want to encourage you to read
- 00:25:35.846 --> 00:25:38.415
- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
- 00:25:38.415 --> 00:25:41.652
- This 90 day devotional is from
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- Decades of real life pastoring,
- 00:25:44.154 --> 00:25:47.424
- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
- 00:25:47.424 --> 00:25:50.794
- In the page of this
- 00:25:51.261 --> 00:25:52.262
- Book each day you will find a simple rhythm
- 00:25:52.262 --> 00:25:55.599
- As of scripture,
- 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:57.835
- Practical, down to earth navigation,
- 00:25:57.835 --> 00:26:00.771
- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
- 00:26:00.771 --> 00:26:05.275
- We're not talking about something complicated here.
- 00:26:05.275 --> 00:26:07.911
- We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
- 00:26:07.911 --> 00:26:10.914
- 15 minutes.
- 00:26:10.914 --> 00:26:12.616
- Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
- 00:26:12.616 --> 00:26:15.319
- Your home on what matters the most in christ
- 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:19.723
- Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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- Your life.
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- Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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- Everything else changes.
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- Conversations change.
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- Priorities change.
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- Hearts begin to change.
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- Take that first step today.
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- Call the number or visit the website below
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- And get cardinal rules for a happy home
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- And begin your 90 day journey
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- Right now.
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- Life is a journey of faith.
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- One step at a time.
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- There'll be moments of clarity and moments
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- When you simply have to trust god for the next step.
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- Keep your eyes on
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- Him and keep moving forward in faith.
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- This will give you a winning walk every single day.
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