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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Ed Young - Wake Up

January 6, 2025 | S25:E5

Ed Young - Wake Up
Ed Young - Wake Up
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Wake Up | January 6, 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
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  • 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
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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 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
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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 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.
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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 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 try.'
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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 asigned to penetrate
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  • And we're to penetrate every area of society.
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  • We've misunderstood jesus.
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  • So the church had been silent.
  • 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:59.668
  • Misunderstood the meaning of separation of church and state
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  • And then we look, we say the church has not understood
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  • 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.
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  • '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.
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  • 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
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  • 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,
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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 the job description for the family.
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  • And then he gives the job description for the church.
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  • And this is where we have messed up
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  • Is the role of the church in the 21st century.
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  • Now, norm mason gave me this term.
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  • It's not original.
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  • And he says, what is the purpose of the church?
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  • You know what it is.
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  • Well you say, 'you're a member of 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 after
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  • He was resurrected from the dead five different times.
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  • You know,
  • 00:15:52.574 --> 00:15:53.776
  • When jesus mentioned five things, something five times,
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  • After god had raised from the dead.
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  • Do you think that's important?
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  • You know. yeah.
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  • Do you think it has significance?
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  • He is saying simply to you and to me,
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  • We are to carry out the great commission.
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  • 'go ye therefore into all the world,
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  • Make disciples
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  • Baptizing them in the name of the father,
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  • The son, the holy spirit, teaching them
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  • To observe all things whatsoever.
  • 00:16:18.567 --> 00:16:20.402
  • I've commanded you and lo, i am with you
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  • Right to the end of the world.'
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  • 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.
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  • That the first part of the gospel.
  • 00:16:29.678 --> 00:16:31.580
  • The second thing is we are to teach,
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  • And that's the function of the church.
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  • And we are to become, (get this phrase,
  • 00:16:35.751 --> 00:16:39.421
  • Get this phrase):
  • 00:16:39.855 --> 00:16:41.757
  • Great commission citizens.
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  • In other words, this is our purpose,
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  • And we are to penetrate all of society.
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  • These three institutions
  • 00:16:53.035 --> 00:16:55.037
  • He has delegated authority to.
  • 00:16:55.037 --> 00:16:57.573
  • The family has a function.
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  • The government has a function.
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  • Read the government function in romans chapter 13.
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  • It says clearly the government has the power of the sword.
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  • And by the way, just parenthetically,
  • 00:17:08.484 --> 00:17:10.953
  • Do you realize if the american citizens
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  • Would simply 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 that we have would be done away with?
  • 00:17:20.596 --> 00:17:26.268
  • Just obey.
  • 00:17:26.568 --> 00:17:29.138
  • You say, 'well, there's some rotten apples',
  • 00:17:29.138 --> 00:17:31.306
  • But they are one in a million
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  • Who wear the blue and seek to protect us every day.
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  • I am 100% for those who enforce the law.
  • 00:17:37.446 --> 00:17:48.223
  • So, here we are.
  • 00:17:48.590 --> 00:17:52.661
  • Delegated authority to the family,
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  • The father, the mother, what they are to building their kids,
  • 00:17:55.631 --> 00:17:59.067
  • The kind of home it should be.
  • 00:17:59.067 --> 00:18:01.570
  • Delegated authority to the government.
  • 00:18:01.570 --> 00:18:05.274
  • They're to carry the sword.
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  • We are to be obedient.
  • 00:18:06.542 --> 00:18:07.809
  • We're to be citizens.
  • 00:18:07.809 --> 00:18:09.978
  • And delegated authority of the church.
  • 00:18:09.978 --> 00:18:12.581
  • And this is where the church needs
  • 00:18:12.581 --> 00:18:14.683
  • To stand up and be counted.
  • 00:18:14.683 --> 00:18:16.718
  • Ladies and gentlemen, you realize that we are
  • 00:18:16.718 --> 00:18:19.154
  • So much like nazi germany.
  • 00:18:19.154 --> 00:18:22.391
  • Well, that's so much so hard to say.
  • 00:18:22.391 --> 00:18:25.961
  • When adolf hitler took power,
  • 00:18:25.961 --> 00:18:28.297
  • He brought together 18,000
  • 00:18:28.297 --> 00:18:31.133
  • Leaders of the biblical churches of germany.
  • 00:18:31.133 --> 00:18:34.670
  • 18,000 of them.
  • 00:18:34.670 --> 00:18:35.971
  • And he promised them
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  • They'd be freedom and independence
  • 00:18:37.072 --> 00:18:38.807
  • And they'd be able to worship and do wherever.
  • 00:18:38.807 --> 00:18:41.176
  • As a result of that,
  • 00:18:41.643 --> 00:18:44.479
  • Niemöller, martin niemöller
  • 00:18:44.479 --> 00:18:46.281
  • Went out and spoke to hitler afterwards and said
  • 00:18:46.281 --> 00:18:50.385
  • That, look,
  • 00:18:50.719 --> 00:18:51.920
  • The role of the church and we cannot support that direction
  • 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:54.957
  • Which are leading germany.
  • 00:18:54.957 --> 00:18:57.492
  • In that conversation, hitler responded him and said,
  • 00:18:57.492 --> 00:19:00.596
  • 'you're a pastor, you take care of the church
  • 00:19:01.563 --> 00:19:06.368
  • And i'll take care of the people.'
  • 00:19:07.135 --> 00:19:10.138
  • That's exactly what we're hearing.
  • 00:19:10.138 --> 00:19:12.541
  • Well, 'you take care of the church,
  • 00:19:12.541 --> 00:19:15.510
  • And we in the government take care of the people'.
  • 00:19:15.510 --> 00:19:17.646
  • Remember the bottom line of all this?
  • 00:19:17.646 --> 00:19:20.349
  • One nation under god!
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  • We are under the administration today
  • 00:19:21.883 --> 00:19:23.885
  • They want it to be, 'one nation under the state'.
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  • You take care of the...
  • 00:19:28.323 --> 00:19:29.391
  • You baptize, you preach,
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  • You be nice, you be kind. you help people.
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  • You love one another.
  • 00:19:33.562 --> 00:19:34.930
  • But my goodness, don't get in the business of the people.
  • 00:19:34.930 --> 00:19:39.067
  • Don't get in the political area
  • 00:19:39.701 --> 00:19:41.436
  • In the sense that we have defined it.
  • 00:19:41.436 --> 00:19:45.407
  • 18,000 pastors were present,
  • 00:19:45.407 --> 00:19:48.277
  • 18,000.
  • 00:19:48.543 --> 00:19:50.646
  • And 3,000 of them opposed adolf hitler.
  • 00:19:50.646 --> 00:19:54.883
  • Another 3000 joined in.
  • 00:19:55.384 --> 00:19:58.687
  • And by the way, i would guess
  • 00:19:59.321 --> 00:20:01.123
  • That three fourths of the churches
  • 00:20:01.123 --> 00:20:03.225
  • That go by the name of church today
  • 00:20:03.225 --> 00:20:05.260
  • Has already joined in the 'wokest' agenda.
  • 00:20:05.260 --> 00:20:07.896
  • I take i could prove that - about three fourths.
  • 00:20:07.896 --> 00:20:10.932
  • And there in germany,
  • 00:20:11.433 --> 00:20:14.169
  • 3000 opposed him.
  • 00:20:14.169 --> 00:20:16.171
  • 3000 were for him,
  • 00:20:16.171 --> 00:20:18.974
  • And there were 12,000 said, you know,
  • 00:20:18.974 --> 00:20:22.778
  • Which is not going to do anything.
  • 00:20:22.778 --> 00:20:25.047
  • We're just going to sit by and play our hymns
  • 00:20:25.047 --> 00:20:28.350
  • And do our carols and talk about everybody.
  • 00:20:28.350 --> 00:20:31.153
  • Come to jesus.
  • 00:20:31.153 --> 00:20:32.621
  • We're not gonna get out in that dirty, slimy area of politics.
  • 00:20:32.621 --> 00:20:37.693
  • And we advocated
  • 00:20:37.693 --> 00:20:40.395
  • Our role.
  • 00:20:40.395 --> 00:20:41.496
  • And we are not becoming, as we must become,
  • 00:20:41.496 --> 00:20:44.366
  • Great commission citizens because out there
  • 00:20:44.366 --> 00:20:48.070
  • We have a chance to give our witness for christ.
  • 00:20:48.070 --> 00:20:52.774
  • That's who we are.
  • 00:20:52.774 --> 00:20:54.476
  • That's what we must become if we do not.
  • 00:20:54.476 --> 00:20:57.379
  • Ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:20:57.379 --> 00:20:59.147
  • America is gone.
  • 00:20:59.514 --> 00:21:00.916
  • And the world is gone.
  • 00:21:00.916 --> 00:21:03.552
  • The burden is on those who are in christ
  • 00:21:03.552 --> 00:21:07.489
  • Genuinely.
  • 00:21:07.789 --> 00:21:11.259
  • I think it was 1935.
  • 00:21:11.727 --> 00:21:15.163
  • A german citizen who was a christian
  • 00:21:15.163 --> 00:21:19.067
  • Stood up before a group and said
  • 00:21:19.701 --> 00:21:22.270
  • That he went to a little
  • 00:21:22.771 --> 00:21:24.072
  • Church in germany that was next to a railroad track.
  • 00:21:24.072 --> 00:21:28.410
  • And he said every sunday we'd be in church worshiping,
  • 00:21:28.410 --> 00:21:31.980
  • Preaching, reading the bible, singing.
  • 00:21:31.980 --> 00:21:34.783
  • He said we would hear on that railroad track a whistle,
  • 00:21:34.783 --> 00:21:41.223
  • And the whistle would louder and louder.
  • 00:21:41.223 --> 00:21:43.125
  • And we knew a train was coming loaded down with jews
  • 00:21:43.125 --> 00:21:48.363
  • Who were being taken to the holocaust.
  • 00:21:48.363 --> 00:21:51.333
  • And he said they would get closer and closer.
  • 00:21:51.333 --> 00:21:53.702
  • We'd hear
  • 00:21:53.702 --> 00:21:54.503
  • (dr. young making train sound)
  • 00:21:54.503 --> 00:21:55.771
  • He said when they got right by the church, they would holler,
  • 00:21:55.771 --> 00:21:59.875
  • Help us,
  • 00:21:59.875 --> 00:22:00.809
  • They're going to kill us, save us,
  • 00:22:01.576 --> 00:22:04.479
  • Do something.
  • 00:22:04.846 --> 00:22:06.581
  • And he said, it happened so many sundays
  • 00:22:06.581 --> 00:22:09.484
  • That it was disturbing
  • 00:22:09.985 --> 00:22:11.153
  • Church and therefore they would turn the organ up louder
  • 00:22:11.153 --> 00:22:15.690
  • And they'd stand and sing the hymn more resoundingly
  • 00:22:15.690 --> 00:22:19.828
  • When they heard the whistle, they would just become
  • 00:22:19.828 --> 00:22:22.697
  • So loud in church that they could not hear
  • 00:22:22.697 --> 00:22:25.934
  • The screams of the jews
  • 00:22:25.934 --> 00:22:29.604
  • Who were being, six or seven
  • 00:22:29.604 --> 00:22:32.040
  • Million executed.
  • 00:22:32.040 --> 00:22:35.110
  • And he said today, as an old man,
  • 00:22:35.110 --> 00:22:38.146
  • I have nightmares
  • 00:22:38.580 --> 00:22:41.883
  • And i hear that whistle
  • 00:22:41.883 --> 00:22:44.519
  • In my nightmare.
  • 00:22:44.886 --> 00:22:46.855
  • I hear that whistle.
  • 00:22:46.855 --> 00:22:48.957
  • In my nightmare.
  • 00:22:48.957 --> 00:22:55.063
  • My brothers and my sisters.
  • 00:22:55.664 --> 00:22:57.232
  • Ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:22:57.232 --> 00:23:00.435
  • Down the road in history,
  • 00:23:00.435 --> 00:23:03.371
  • If we see the devastation of the judeo-christian culture,
  • 00:23:03.371 --> 00:23:07.576
  • Which we establish in the western world and america,
  • 00:23:07.576 --> 00:23:11.847
  • You and
  • 00:23:12.080 --> 00:23:14.015
  • Those who are alive
  • 00:23:14.483 --> 00:23:16.885
  • Will hear
  • 00:23:17.185 --> 00:23:18.854
  • A whistle.
  • 00:23:19.154 --> 00:23:21.089
  • And remember,
  • 00:23:21.456 --> 00:23:23.225
  • Perhaps how we did not
  • 00:23:23.725 --> 00:23:27.095
  • Take the challenge of the hour and stand and engage
  • 00:23:27.095 --> 00:23:31.566
  • The godless culture in which we find ourselves.
  • 00:23:31.566 --> 00:23:34.236
  • We'll hear that whistle.
  • 00:23:34.236 --> 00:23:36.771
  • What's the answer?
  • 00:23:36.771 --> 00:23:39.541
  • How do you get over a nightmare?
  • 00:23:39.541 --> 00:23:42.744
  • You wake up.
  • 00:23:42.744 --> 00:23:44.145
  • That's what you do.
  • 00:23:44.145 --> 00:23:45.380
  • You wake up.
  • 00:23:45.380 --> 00:23:47.616
  • And that's what we must do
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  • As members
  • 00:23:53.021 --> 00:23:54.990
  • Of the family of god.
  • 00:23:54.990 --> 00:23:56.958
  • Pastor ed: for far too long, the church has been asleep.
  • 00:23:58.026 --> 00:24:02.731
  • It's time we wake up.
  • 00:24:02.731 --> 00:24:05.033
  • While we've been silent, a godless culture has begun
  • 00:24:05.033 --> 00:24:08.169
  • Dismantling our country and our world.
  • 00:24:08.169 --> 00:24:10.672
  • The foundations of the body of christ have been eroded.
  • 00:24:10.672 --> 00:24:14.042
  • We're being divided by gender, race, and social class.
  • 00:24:14.042 --> 00:24:17.746
  • Our families are under attack and our children are being
  • 00:24:17.746 --> 00:24:20.515
  • Corrupted and confused.
  • 00:24:20.515 --> 00:24:22.350
  • It's time for god's family to stand up against this
  • 00:24:22.350 --> 00:24:25.854
  • Woke culture.
  • 00:24:25.854 --> 00:24:27.255
  • In "the church awake," we will discover biblical solutions as
  • 00:24:27.255 --> 00:24:31.059
  • We battle the forces that are ripping our country apart.
  • 00:24:31.059 --> 00:24:35.196
  • It's my prayer that through biblical truth will find the
  • 00:24:35.196 --> 00:24:39.067
  • Strength and courage we need to awaken the united states
  • 00:24:39.067 --> 00:24:44.039
  • Of america.
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  • 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 a 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 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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