Ed Young - The Politics of Jesus

April 9, 2026 | 27:29

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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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  • So the church had been silent.
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  • This understood the meaning of separation
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  • Of church and state.
  • 00:14:02.921 --> 00:14:04.956
  • And then we look.
  • 00:14:04.956 --> 00:14:05.990
  • We say, the church has not understood
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  • The gospel of the church as i understood jesus.
  • 00:14:08.359 --> 00:14:11.129
  • And then what happens?
  • 00:14:11.129 --> 00:14:12.330
  • We have forgotten
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  • The three basic institutions.
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  • 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
  • 00:16:26.831 --> 00:16:29.634
  • Is the role of the church in the 21st century.
  • 00:16:29.634 --> 00:16:34.705
  • Now norm mason gave me this term.
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  • It's not original.
  • 00:16:37.442 --> 00:16:39.277
  • 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.
  • 00:17:15.746 --> 00:17:19.417
  • 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
  • 00:18:05.029 --> 00:18:07.832
  • 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.
  • 00:18:14.906 --> 00:18:18.042
  • 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.
  • 00:18:34.325 --> 00:18:37.428
  • 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
  • 00:18:41.465 --> 00:18:44.969
  • Who wear the blue and seek to protect us every day.
  • 00:18:44.969 --> 00:18:48.606
  • I am 100% for those who enforce the law.
  • 00:18:48.606 --> 00:19:00.051
  • So here we are
  • 00:19:00.384 --> 00:19:03.854
  • Delegated authority to the family.
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  • The father, the mother, what they are to building
  • 00:19:07.625 --> 00:19:09.727
  • Their kids.
  • 00:19:09.727 --> 00:19:11.028
  • The kind of home it should be
  • 00:19:11.028 --> 00:19:13.531
  • Delegated authority to the government.
  • 00:19:13.531 --> 00:19:17.168
  • 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.
  • 00:19:22.306 --> 00:19:24.909
  • And this is where
  • 00:19:24.909 --> 00:19:25.876
  • The church needs to stand up and be counted.
  • 00:19:25.876 --> 00:19:28.746
  • Ladies and gentlemen, you realize that
  • 00:19:29.580 --> 00:19:31.515
  • We are so much like nazi germany.
  • 00:19:31.515 --> 00:19:34.785
  • Well, that's so much.
  • 00:19:35.286 --> 00:19:37.088
  • So hard to say.
  • 00:19:37.088 --> 00:19:38.990
  • When adolf hitler took power, he brought together
  • 00:19:38.990 --> 00:19:42.693
  • 18,000 leaders of the biblical churches of germany.
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  • 18,000.
  • 00:19:47.999 --> 00:19:49.600
  • 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
  • 00:19:58.342 --> 00:19:59.777
  • Muller went out and spoke to hitler afterwards and said
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  • That look,
  • 00:20:04.649 --> 00:20:05.616
  • The role of the church and we cannot support
  • 00:20:05.616 --> 00:20:08.352
  • That direction in which you're leading germany.
  • 00:20:08.352 --> 00:20:11.222
  • 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,
  • 00:20:27.605 --> 00:20:30.541
  • And we in the government take care of the people.
  • 00:20:30.541 --> 00:20:32.677
  • Remember the bottom line of all this?
  • 00:20:32.677 --> 00:20:35.379
  • One nation under god.
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  • We are under the administration today.
  • 00:20:36.881 --> 00:20:38.916
  • 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.
  • 00:20:57.702 --> 00:21:00.738
  • 18,000 pastors were present.
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  • 18,003 thousand of them
  • 00:21:04.475 --> 00:21:08.479
  • Opposed adolf hitler.
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  • Another 3000 joined in.
  • 00:21:11.816 --> 00:21:15.119
  • 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
  • 00:21:19.156 --> 00:21:22.026
  • 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,
  • 00:21:31.369 --> 00:21:33.337
  • 3000 were for him,
  • 00:21:33.337 --> 00:21:36.207
  • And there were 12,000 who said, you know,
  • 00:21:36.207 --> 00:21:40.211
  • 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
  • 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:45.783
  • 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
  • 00:21:55.626 --> 00:21:58.362
  • Our role, and we are not becoming
  • 00:21:58.362 --> 00:22:00.865
  • As we must become great commission citizens,
  • 00:22:00.865 --> 00:22:05.169
  • Because out there we have a chance to give
  • 00:22:05.169 --> 00:22:07.805
  • 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,
  • 00:22:16.147 --> 00:22:18.282
  • 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
  • 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:26.257
  • Genuinely.
  • 00:22:26.557 --> 00:22:30.361
  • I think it was 1935,
  • 00:22:30.828 --> 00:22:34.265
  • A german
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  • Citizen who was a christian
  • 00:22:35.800 --> 00:22:39.069
  • Stood up before a group and said
  • 00:22:39.069 --> 00:22:42.373
  • That he went to a little church in germany
  • 00:22:42.373 --> 00:22:44.742
  • 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,
  • 00:22:47.978 --> 00:22:51.849
  • Preaching, reading the bible, singing.
  • 00:22:51.849 --> 00:22:54.518
  • And he said, we would hear on that railroad
  • 00:22:54.518 --> 00:22:56.887
  • Track a whistle.
  • 00:22:56.887 --> 00:23:00.591
  • And the whistle went louder and louder,
  • 00:23:01.392 --> 00:23:03.661
  • 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.
  • 00:23:09.033 --> 00:23:12.002
  • And he said they would get closer and closer.
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  • We'd hear
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  • It said
  • 00:23:16.607 --> 00:23:17.441
  • When they got right by the church,
  • 00:23:17.441 --> 00:23:19.777
  • They would holler, help us.
  • 00:23:19.777 --> 00:23:22.646
  • 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
  • 00:23:27.918 --> 00:23:31.589
  • That it was disturbing church, and therefore
  • 00:23:31.589 --> 00:23:33.691
  • They would turn the organ up louder
  • 00:23:33.691 --> 00:23:37.261
  • 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
  • 00:23:43.133 --> 00:23:46.303
  • That they could not hear the screams of the jews
  • 00:23:46.303 --> 00:23:51.108
  • Who were being 6 or
  • 00:23:51.575 --> 00:23:53.711
  • 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
  • 00:24:04.321 --> 00:24:07.324
  • 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,
  • 00:24:35.953 --> 00:24:38.322
  • Those who are alive
  • 00:24:38.322 --> 00:24:41.025
  • Will hear
  • 00:24:41.025 --> 00:24:42.993
  • A whistle
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  • 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
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  • The godless culture in which we find ourselves.
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  • 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?
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  • You wake up.
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  • That's what you do.
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  • You wake up
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  • And that's what we must do
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  • As members of the family of god.
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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
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  • Book each day 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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  • We're not talking about something complicated here.
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  • We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
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  • 15 minutes.
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  • Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
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  • Your home on what matters the most in christ
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  • 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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