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Ed Young - Wake Up

November 3, 2025 | 29:0

Ed Young - Wake Up
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Wake Up | November 3, 2025
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  • Dr. young: the decline of our culture is happening at a rate
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  • That i never thought possible just a few years ago.
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  • Francis schaefer said back in the seventies
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  • That one day we'd wake up and discover that the america
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  • We once knew would be gone.
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  • I believe that unless our country turns around,
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  • That day will become a reality.
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  • We're seeing before our very eye the dismantling of our culture.
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  • Just take a look at the news from any of the big cities
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  • And even the surrounding metropolitan areas.
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  • And you'll see how crime is rampant.
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  • And many of those in leadership have led us in a direction
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  • So far from the biblical values upon which our nation stands.
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  • We ask, what can we do?
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  • In our study, in the weeks to come,
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  • We'll answer this question in many different ways.
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  • But first of all, let's begin at home.
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  • For far too long, we, the body of christ, have stayed
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  • In the shadows.
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  • It's time that we, the people of god, stand up
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  • To this woke agenda with the light of jesus christ.
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  • Together, we will discover biblical solutions as we battle
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  • The forces that are trying to rip our country apart.
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  • It is my prayer that through
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  • The study of god's truth, god's word we'll find answers
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  • We so desperately need to save our america and through christ
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  • To bring salvation to the united states
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  • And then to the entire world.
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  • Dr. ed young: someone did a little etymology of politics
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  • Say 'poli' means many and ticks are bugs
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  • And the mite family who are looking for a host
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  • To suck the blood out of them.
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  • But the true 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
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  • And the payoff and the undercover and the lack of doing
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  • The basic responsible that 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
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  • Relationships of people within the society.
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  • And by that standard, i say that's a pure, high,
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  • Holy calling, 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, we just have far to few
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  • Who are willing to sacrifice
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  • For the well and the goodness of the people.
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  • Therefore, we sign off on this and therefore
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  • Listen carefully.
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  • Jesus was a great politician
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  • With a pure definition
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  • Because he was in the relationship business.
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  • Was he not?
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  • He established where you and i
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  • Can have a relationship with god and jesus christ.
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  • He established we can have a good relationship 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 number three,
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  • Jesus is writing to the church 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 for
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  • 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 i will come to you.
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  • To the church at sardis.
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  • He says to all the churches today.
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  • Wake up,
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  • Wake up!
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  • The church in history many times did not wake up.
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  • And therefore we ask the question,
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  • Why has the church so totally
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  • Body of christ basically
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  • Been asleep?
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  • What has happened to us?
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  • What what took place?
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  • First of all, i would say
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  • There is 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,
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  • And therefore the church needs to be silent, particularly
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  • The area of politics.
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  • When jesus was the consummate politician,
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  • That dealt with relationships.
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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 will not be tolerated.
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  • Look at nations around the world.
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  • Freedom of religion has long since gone
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  • 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. 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 bar and he had his mic with him
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  • And a good old boy, redneck was down there
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  • And happy hour, you know, one of these guys who
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  • Know everything and our street corner philosophers
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  • And cowboys 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, just ask me anything."
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  • He took another gulp.
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  • And the cameraman was there and put the mic in front of him.
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  • He said, "what are the two biggest
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  • Problems in america?"
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  • He said, "huh, huh," took another drag and said,
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  • "i don't know and i don't care."
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  • He said, "it's amazing
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  • You got both of them right in the first
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  • Of that question."
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  • Apathy, asleep,
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  • "at ease in 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
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  • By left wing progressives is totally inaccurate.
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  • You do not find that phrase
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  • In the constitution, the bylaws,
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  • Or any of our foundational document.
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  • Where did it come from?
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  • When thomas 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,
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  • Which was right.
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  • At best, he was a diest,
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  • But all the baptist voting for him.
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  • Interesting.
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  • All the other christian denominations voted against it,
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  • But jefferson was elected, and therefore, after
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  • He was elected, a little baptist association in danbury,
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  • Connecticut, wrote him a letter of congratulations.
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  • And they said,
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  • 'mr. president, we hope you will stop the establishment
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  • Of religion in all of the colonies.
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  • Now, what does that mean?
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  • In connecticut then,
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  • The official religion of the state was the
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  • Congregational church and many of the colonies
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  • Had their own particular
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  • Denomination or abomination in which
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  • They encouraged all people and they got preferential treatment
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  • From the state government, from the from the colonies.
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  • 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 a letter and said,
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  • 'there is a wall of separation', paraphrase,
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  • 'between the church and the state and the state should never
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  • Give preference or establish any religion in and of itself.'
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  • We have freedom of all religions and not freedom from religion
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  • As some would have it interpreted
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  • In order to silence the church.
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  • So understand, it is a misunderstanding
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  • Of the separation of church and state that has kept a lot of
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  • The churches saying,
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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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  • At the n.r.b. 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: this person really seeks to teach the bible,
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  • He said to a group in the nrb convention.
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  • He is not going to speak on anything controversial
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  • In order to preach the gospel.
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  • Now, i was stunned at that, and i would ask anybody,
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  • What in the world do you think the gospel is?
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  • First, there is bad news and then there is good news.
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  • The gospel is john 3:16,
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  • 'for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
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  • That whosoever believes in him will not perish
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  • And will have everlasting life.'
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  • That's the gospel, but the gospel
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  • 3:17 is the other side of it.
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  • 'for god sent not his son into the world
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  • To condemn the world, but that the world, through him
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  • Might be salvaged, 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, in the name of our lord
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  • And savior, led by his spirit.
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  • We have 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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  • He said, well, jesus was just love.
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  • He was so nice.
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  • He said, 'suffer the little children to come unto me.'
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  • 'unless you have the faith of a child,
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  • 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 saducees
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  • Who were exploiting the people?
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  • The money changers, con artist,
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  • And he turned over those tables and took a whip and drove...
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  • Was that the same jesus of love that you find
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  • The jesus of love little children? absolutely.
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  • Because we misunderstood what biblical christian
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  • Love 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 are to be salt.
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  • We are to be light.
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  • We are to be water.
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  • We are to be bread.
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  • We are to be leaven.
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  • We are to 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 in order of it to rise up.
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  • You see the key word we are assigned to penetrate
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  • And we're to penetrate every area of society.
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  • We've misunderstood jesus.
  • 00:12:54.853 --> 00:12:57.789
  • So the church had been silent.
  • 00:12:57.789 --> 00:13:00.658
  • Misunderstood the meaning of separation of church and state
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  • And then we look, we say the church has not understood
  • 00:13:04.395 --> 00:13:07.832
  • The gospel, the church has not 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
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  • God in christ established.
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  • 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.
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  • In other words, god said,
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  • All of the world is to be founded
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  • On these three institutions and look at what
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  • The institutions are.
  • 00:13:35.760 --> 00:13:38.796
  • 'the son is the image of the invisible god,
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  • The first born of all creation.'
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  • That's a reference back to genesis,
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  • The establishment of the family.
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  • Adam and eve be fruitful and multiply.
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  • And he says, 'for in him all tings 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.
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  • And finally he created the church.
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  • 'he is the head of the body, the church;
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  • He is beginning and the first born 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,
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  • Handed it right down to the government.
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  • And has given it to the church.
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  • And each one of those have job description in the bible.
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  • How they are to function.
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  • The family is the basic institution of society.
  • 00:14:42.226 --> 00:14:46.230
  • God invented marriage, male and female,
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  • Leave, cleave, one flesh, no shame.
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  • He invented marriage.
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  • And then in deuteronomy chapter six, he gives a formula for it.
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  • He talks about, first of all, the ten commandments,
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  • The deuteronomy five, deuteronomy six, that is a shema
  • 00:15:00.645 --> 00:15:04.482
  • In which he told the head of the family to meet every day.
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  • And when you wake up, when you go to sleep,
  • 00:15:08.419 --> 00:15:10.488
  • When they go out the door,
  • 00:15:10.488 --> 00:15:11.823
  • You teach your children, you live it and you teach it.
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  • And that's the job description for the family.
  • 00:15:14.926 --> 00:15:18.229
  • And then he gives the job description for the church.
  • 00:15:18.229 --> 00:15:21.332
  • And this is where we have messed up
  • 00:15:21.332 --> 00:15:24.135
  • Is the role of the church in the 21st century.
  • 00:15:24.135 --> 00:15:29.007
  • Now, norm mason gave me this term.
  • 00:15:29.007 --> 00:15:31.709
  • It's not original.
  • 00:15:31.709 --> 00:15:33.511
  • And he says, what is the purpose of the church?
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  • You know what it is.
  • 00:15:36.614 --> 00:15:37.949
  • Well you say, 'you're a member of the church.'
  • 00:15:37.949 --> 00:15:39.317
  • What's the purpose of the church?
  • 00:15:39.317 --> 00:15:42.186
  • It is to fulfill the great commission.
  • 00:15:42.186 --> 00:15:45.990
  • And the great commission is mentioned by jesus after
  • 00:15:45.990 --> 00:15:49.994
  • He was resurrected from the dead five different times.
  • 00:15:49.994 --> 00:15:53.564
  • You know,
  • 00:15:53.564 --> 00:15:54.899
  • When jesus mentioned five things, something five times,
  • 00:15:54.899 --> 00:15:57.435
  • After god had raised from the dead.
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  • Do you think that's important?
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  • You know. yeah.
  • 00:16:01.906 --> 00:16:03.241
  • Do you think it has significance?
  • 00:16:03.241 --> 00:16:05.276
  • He is saying simply to you and to me,
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  • We are to carry out the great commission.
  • 00:16:08.746 --> 00:16:12.083
  • 'go ye therefore into all the world,
  • 00:16:12.083 --> 00:16:14.352
  • Make disciples
  • 00:16:14.352 --> 00:16:15.820
  • Baptizing them in the name of the father,
  • 00:16:15.820 --> 00:16:17.722
  • The son, the holy spirit, teaching them
  • 00:16:17.722 --> 00:16:19.557
  • To observe all things whatsoever.
  • 00:16:19.557 --> 00:16:21.392
  • I've commanded you and lo, i am with you
  • 00:16:21.392 --> 00:16:23.795
  • Right to the end of the world.'
  • 00:16:23.795 --> 00:16:25.229
  • What's he saying?
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  • The first thing he's saying we are to baptize,
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  • We are to win.
  • 00:16:29.700 --> 00:16:31.035
  • That the first part of the gospel.
  • 00:16:31.035 --> 00:16:32.570
  • The second thing is we are to teach,
  • 00:16:32.570 --> 00:16:35.273
  • And that's the function of the church.
  • 00:16:35.273 --> 00:16:36.741
  • And we are to become, (get this phrase,
  • 00:16:36.741 --> 00:16:40.845
  • Get this phrase):
  • 00:16:40.845 --> 00:16:42.747
  • Great commission citizens.
  • 00:16:42.747 --> 00:16:47.885
  • In other words, this is our purpose,
  • 00:16:47.885 --> 00:16:49.854
  • And we are to penetrate all of society.
  • 00:16:49.854 --> 00:16:54.025
  • These three institutions
  • 00:16:54.025 --> 00:16:56.027
  • He has delegated authority to.
  • 00:16:56.027 --> 00:16:58.563
  • The family has a function.
  • 00:16:58.563 --> 00:17:01.265
  • The government has a function.
  • 00:17:01.265 --> 00:17:02.934
  • Read the government function in romans chapter 13.
  • 00:17:02.934 --> 00:17:05.903
  • It says clearly the government has the power of the sword.
  • 00:17:05.903 --> 00:17:09.474
  • And by the way, just parenthetically,
  • 00:17:09.474 --> 00:17:11.943
  • Do you realize if the american citizens
  • 00:17:11.943 --> 00:17:14.378
  • Would simply and plainly obey
  • 00:17:14.378 --> 00:17:19.016
  • What the people in blue tell us to do
  • 00:17:19.016 --> 00:17:21.586
  • 99% of all the junk that we have would be done away with?
  • 00:17:21.586 --> 00:17:27.558
  • Just obey.
  • 00:17:27.558 --> 00:17:30.128
  • You say, 'well, there's some rotten apples',
  • 00:17:30.128 --> 00:17:32.296
  • But they are one in a million
  • 00:17:32.296 --> 00:17:34.799
  • Who wear the blue and seek to protect us every day.
  • 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:38.436
  • I am 100% for those who enforce the law.
  • 00:17:38.436 --> 00:17:48.479
  • So, here we are.
  • 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:53.651
  • Delegated authority to the family,
  • 00:17:53.651 --> 00:17:56.621
  • The father, the mother, what they are to building their kids,
  • 00:17:56.621 --> 00:18:00.057
  • The kind of home it should be.
  • 00:18:00.057 --> 00:18:02.560
  • Delegated authority to the government.
  • 00:18:02.560 --> 00:18:06.264
  • They're to carry the sword. we are to be obedient.
  • 00:18:06.264 --> 00:18:08.799
  • We're to be citizens.
  • 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:10.968
  • And delegated authority of the church.
  • 00:18:10.968 --> 00:18:13.571
  • And this is where the church needs
  • 00:18:13.571 --> 00:18:15.673
  • To stand up and be counted.
  • 00:18:15.673 --> 00:18:17.708
  • Ladies and gentlemen, you realize that we are
  • 00:18:17.708 --> 00:18:20.144
  • So much like nazi germany.
  • 00:18:20.144 --> 00:18:23.381
  • Well, that's so much so hard to say.
  • 00:18:23.381 --> 00:18:26.951
  • When adolf hitler took power,
  • 00:18:26.951 --> 00:18:29.287
  • He brought together 18,000
  • 00:18:29.287 --> 00:18:32.123
  • Leaders of the biblical churches of germany.
  • 00:18:32.123 --> 00:18:35.660
  • 18,000 of them.
  • 00:18:35.660 --> 00:18:37.061
  • And he promised them
  • 00:18:37.061 --> 00:18:38.396
  • They'd be freedom and independence
  • 00:18:38.396 --> 00:18:39.797
  • And they'd be able to worship and do wherever.
  • 00:18:39.797 --> 00:18:42.633
  • As a result of that,
  • 00:18:42.633 --> 00:18:45.469
  • Niemöller, martin niemöller
  • 00:18:45.469 --> 00:18:47.271
  • Went out and spoke to hitler afterwards and said
  • 00:18:47.271 --> 00:18:51.709
  • That, look,
  • 00:18:51.709 --> 00:18:53.044
  • The role of the church and we cannot support that direction
  • 00:18:53.044 --> 00:18:55.947
  • Which are leading germany.
  • 00:18:55.947 --> 00:18:58.482
  • In that conversation, hitler responded him and said,
  • 00:18:58.482 --> 00:19:02.553
  • 'you're a pastor, you take care of the church
  • 00:19:02.553 --> 00:19:08.125
  • And i'll take care of the people.'
  • 00:19:08.125 --> 00:19:11.128
  • That's exactly what we're hearing.
  • 00:19:11.128 --> 00:19:13.531
  • Well, 'you take care of the church,
  • 00:19:13.531 --> 00:19:16.500
  • And we in the government take care of the people'.
  • 00:19:16.500 --> 00:19:18.636
  • Remember the bottom line of all this?
  • 00:19:18.636 --> 00:19:21.339
  • One nation under god!
  • 00:19:21.339 --> 00:19:22.873
  • We are under the administration today
  • 00:19:22.873 --> 00:19:24.875
  • They want it to be, 'one nation under the state'.
  • 00:19:24.875 --> 00:19:29.313
  • You take care of the...
  • 00:19:29.313 --> 00:19:30.648
  • You baptize, you preach,
  • 00:19:30.648 --> 00:19:32.049
  • You be nice, you be kind. you help people.
  • 00:19:32.049 --> 00:19:34.552
  • You love one another.
  • 00:19:34.552 --> 00:19:35.920
  • But my goodness, don't get in the business of the people.
  • 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:40.691
  • Don't get in the political area
  • 00:19:40.691 --> 00:19:42.426
  • In the sense that we have defined it.
  • 00:19:42.426 --> 00:19:46.397
  • 18,000 pastors were present,
  • 00:19:46.397 --> 00:19:49.533
  • 18,000.
  • 00:19:49.533 --> 00:19:51.636
  • And 3,000 of them opposed adolf hitler.
  • 00:19:51.636 --> 00:19:56.374
  • Another 3000 joined in.
  • 00:19:56.374 --> 00:20:00.311
  • And by the way, i would guess
  • 00:20:00.311 --> 00:20:02.113
  • That three fourths of the churches
  • 00:20:02.113 --> 00:20:04.215
  • That go by the name of church today
  • 00:20:04.215 --> 00:20:06.250
  • Has already joined in the 'wokest' agenda.
  • 00:20:06.250 --> 00:20:08.886
  • I take i could prove that - about three fourths.
  • 00:20:08.886 --> 00:20:12.423
  • And there in germany,
  • 00:20:12.423 --> 00:20:15.159
  • 3000 opposed him.
  • 00:20:15.159 --> 00:20:17.161
  • 3000 were for him,
  • 00:20:17.161 --> 00:20:19.964
  • And there were 12,000 said, you know,
  • 00:20:19.964 --> 00:20:23.768
  • Which is not going to do anything.
  • 00:20:23.768 --> 00:20:26.037
  • We're just going to sit by and play our hymns
  • 00:20:26.037 --> 00:20:29.340
  • And do our carols and talk about everybody.
  • 00:20:29.340 --> 00:20:32.143
  • Come to jesus.
  • 00:20:32.143 --> 00:20:33.611
  • We're not gonna get out in that dirty, slimy area of politics.
  • 00:20:33.611 --> 00:20:38.683
  • And we advocated
  • 00:20:38.683 --> 00:20:41.385
  • Our role.
  • 00:20:41.385 --> 00:20:42.720
  • And we are not becoming, as we must become,
  • 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:45.356
  • Great commission citizens because out there
  • 00:20:45.356 --> 00:20:49.060
  • We have a chance to give our witness for christ.
  • 00:20:49.060 --> 00:20:53.764
  • That's who we are.
  • 00:20:53.764 --> 00:20:55.466
  • That's what we must become if we do not.
  • 00:20:55.466 --> 00:20:58.369
  • Ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:20:58.369 --> 00:21:00.504
  • America is gone.
  • 00:21:00.504 --> 00:21:01.906
  • And the world is gone.
  • 00:21:01.906 --> 00:21:04.542
  • The burden is on those who are in christ
  • 00:21:04.542 --> 00:21:08.779
  • Genuinely.
  • 00:21:08.779 --> 00:21:12.717
  • I think it was 1935.
  • 00:21:12.717 --> 00:21:16.153
  • A german citizen who was a christian
  • 00:21:16.153 --> 00:21:20.691
  • Stood up before a group and said
  • 00:21:20.691 --> 00:21:23.761
  • That he went to a little
  • 00:21:23.761 --> 00:21:25.096
  • Church in germany that was next to a railroad track.
  • 00:21:25.096 --> 00:21:29.400
  • And he said every sunday we'd be in church worshiping,
  • 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:32.970
  • Preaching, reading the bible, singing.
  • 00:21:32.970 --> 00:21:35.773
  • He said we would hear on that railroad track a whistle,
  • 00:21:35.773 --> 00:21:42.213
  • And the whistle would louder and louder.
  • 00:21:42.213 --> 00:21:44.115
  • And we knew a train was coming loaded down with jews
  • 00:21:44.115 --> 00:21:49.353
  • Who were being taken to the holocaust.
  • 00:21:49.353 --> 00:21:52.323
  • And he said they would get closer and closer.
  • 00:21:52.323 --> 00:21:54.692
  • We'd hear
  • 00:21:54.692 --> 00:21:56.060
  • (dr. young making train sound)
  • 00:21:56.060 --> 00:21:57.395
  • He said when they got right by the church, they would holler,
  • 00:21:57.395 --> 00:22:00.865
  • Help us,
  • 00:22:00.865 --> 00:22:02.566
  • They're going to kill us, save us,
  • 00:22:02.566 --> 00:22:05.836
  • Do something.
  • 00:22:05.836 --> 00:22:07.571
  • And he said, it happened so many sundays
  • 00:22:07.571 --> 00:22:10.975
  • That it was disturbing
  • 00:22:10.975 --> 00:22:12.309
  • Church and therefore they would turn the organ up louder
  • 00:22:12.309 --> 00:22:16.680
  • And they'd stand and sing the hymn more resoundingly
  • 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:20.818
  • When they heard the whistle, they would just become
  • 00:22:20.818 --> 00:22:23.687
  • So loud in church that they could not hear
  • 00:22:23.687 --> 00:22:26.924
  • The screams of the jews
  • 00:22:26.924 --> 00:22:30.594
  • Who were being, six or seven
  • 00:22:30.594 --> 00:22:33.030
  • Million executed.
  • 00:22:33.030 --> 00:22:36.100
  • And he said today, as an old man,
  • 00:22:36.100 --> 00:22:39.570
  • I have nightmares
  • 00:22:39.570 --> 00:22:42.873
  • And i hear that whistle
  • 00:22:42.873 --> 00:22:45.876
  • In my nightmare.
  • 00:22:45.876 --> 00:22:47.845
  • I hear that whistle.
  • 00:22:47.845 --> 00:22:49.947
  • In my nightmare.
  • 00:22:49.947 --> 00:22:56.654
  • My brothers and my sisters.
  • 00:22:56.654 --> 00:22:58.222
  • Ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:22:58.222 --> 00:23:01.425
  • Down the road in history,
  • 00:23:01.425 --> 00:23:04.361
  • If we see the devastation of the judeo-christian culture,
  • 00:23:04.361 --> 00:23:08.566
  • Which we establish in the western world and america,
  • 00:23:08.566 --> 00:23:13.070
  • You and
  • 00:23:13.070 --> 00:23:15.473
  • Those who are alive
  • 00:23:15.473 --> 00:23:18.175
  • Will hear
  • 00:23:18.175 --> 00:23:20.144
  • A whistle.
  • 00:23:20.144 --> 00:23:22.446
  • And remember,
  • 00:23:22.446 --> 00:23:24.715
  • Perhaps how we did not
  • 00:23:24.715 --> 00:23:28.085
  • Take the challenge of the hour and stand and engage
  • 00:23:28.085 --> 00:23:32.556
  • The godless culture in which we find ourselves.
  • 00:23:32.556 --> 00:23:35.226
  • We'll hear that whistle.
  • 00:23:35.226 --> 00:23:37.761
  • What's the answer?
  • 00:23:37.761 --> 00:23:40.531
  • How do you get over a nightmare?
  • 00:23:40.531 --> 00:23:43.734
  • You wake up. that's what you do.
  • 00:23:43.734 --> 00:23:46.370
  • You wake up.
  • 00:23:46.370 --> 00:23:48.606
  • And that's what we must do as members
  • 00:23:48.606 --> 00:23:55.613
  • Of the family of god.
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  • With this beautiful "prayer journal."
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  • Pastor ed: the question:
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  • Why has the church been asleep at this critical moment?
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  • Jesus would not have been asleep.
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  • Teaching in the synagogue, teaching in the temple.
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  • If all jerusalem was falling apart
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  • And the nation was in trouble because of violence,
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  • Because of corruption in high office, would he have just,
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  • You know, exegeted leviticus, as i said in the sermon, no,
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  • I think he would have spoke
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  • The truth of god as god in human flesh.
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  • He would have spoken the truth of god into power.
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  • Listen, god has called us and equipped us
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  • To penetrate our culture with the full facts of god.
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  • That's the good news.
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  • I wonder if we could just
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  • Take a moment and pray for our america.
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  • Would you pray with me?
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  • Our heavenly father, we close our eyes, and
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  • If we could, we bow our knee.
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  • If we could, father, we'd fall flat on our face
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  • And say, change lives through jesus.
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  • Oh lord, work in the hearts of the coldest, most
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  • Distant person from you, even today.
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  • And let them just take time to ask
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  • What is right, what is wrong, what is not best for me
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  • Politically, but what is best for my family,
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  • For my business, my vocation, for the world,
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  • And especially for the area in which i have influence.
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  • Oh, lord, touch hearts today.
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  • Turn us around, wake us up, call us back to christ.
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  • Call us into your church.
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  • And lord, we know that if there is a true turning to you
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  • That will change everything around us.
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  • It will bring, i pray, renewal and revival
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  • And fresh wings of your spirit all over this land.
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  • This is our prayer in jesus's name.
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  • Thank you for watching.
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  • And i want to personally invite
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  • You to join us next week as we take
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  • Another step away from the wokeness of our culture.
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  • Another step on "the winning walk"
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  • In the 21st century with jesus christ.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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