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Allen Jackson Ministries
June 23, 2019
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Allen Jackson Ministries

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God Bless America: A Prophetic Perspective-Responsibility of Truth

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  • Allen Jackson: It's good to be with you again.
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  • We're going to continue our study today
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  • on God bless America.
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  • It's really about a prophetic perspective on our nation.
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  • Biblical prophecy is not centered in telling the future,
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  • anticipating what's to come nearly as much as it is focused
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  • upon a God perspective being delivered to his people.
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  • The Hebrew prophets were consistently saying,
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  • "This is what God thinks about your lives," to the people of
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  • Israel, to generation after generation after generation.
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  • It's an important question for you and me.
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  • What would God say to the church in America?
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  • Now, I know there's not a singular answer, and I wouldn't
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  • presume to deliver the only answer, but I think it's
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  • a question that for you and me to grapple with is significant.
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  • What does God have to say to the church in America?
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  • If we could understand that, you and I will know how to live more
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  • effectively, more significantly, more intentionally
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  • for the kingdom of God.
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  • Enjoy the lesson.
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  • Allen: In Exodus chapter 3 and verse 8,
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  • God said, "I've come down to rescue them from the hand of the
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  • Egyptians and to bring them up out of the land into a good and
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  • a spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey,
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  • the home of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites,
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  • the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites."
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  • Those last few words in that verse are not something to be
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  • sprayed for, they are people groups.
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  • And what God said to Moses is, "We're leaving Egypt
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  • and we're going to another land."
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  • And he identified the land so Moses would know where they were
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  • headed, it's the land where these people live.
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  • God had promised that land to Abraham and his descendants
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  • forever hundreds of years earlier, but God said now
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  • that--the Scripture says that the cup of their
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  • unrighteousness had been filled,
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  • so they're going to be displaced.
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  • God's going to put the Hebrew people in that land
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  • he's promised them forever.
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  • It would help the United Nations a lot these days if they'd just
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  • read the book of Genesis.
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  • A lot of consternation in the planet about the Jewish
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  • people and that piece of land.
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  • God said they belong there and nobody's moving them.
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  • It's not a very fruitful way to spend
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  • your life, raging against God.
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  • He doesn't move much.
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  • So, God said, "We're leaving Egypt to go to a piece of
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  • territory, a place on the globe."
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  • In Ezekiel chapter 11, we've stepped
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  • forward hundreds of years.
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  • God kept his promise to Moses, you know the story.
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  • The plagues, Egypt is decimated, the Red Seas parted.
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  • They escape Egyptian slavery, God feeds them with manna,
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  • he brings water out of the rocks in the desert.
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  • He leads them with a pillar of cloud.
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  • They get all the way to the Promised Land.
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  • Moses doesn't finish it, Joshua takes them in.
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  • They conquer the Promised Land.
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  • They live for hundreds of years with judges.
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  • Gideon, Debora, Samson were all judges.
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  • The last of the judges is Samuel,
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  • and they say, "We want a king."
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  • And God said, "All right," and he chooses the king for them.
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  • He chooses Saul and then David and then Solomon.
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  • They've lived in the land that God's promised them for hundreds
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  • and hundreds of years by the time we get
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  • to the book of Ezekiel.
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  • There's a temple in Jerusalem.
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  • Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
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  • They have no memory now of Egypt.
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  • It's a part of their story, they have holidays when they tell the
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  • story, but none of them remember Egypt.
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  • It's hundreds and hundreds of years removed from them.
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  • And while they are still the chosen people of God living in
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  • the land he promised them with a temple and with daily sacrifices
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  • and a high priest, their hearts are a long way away from God.
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  • They're still keeping kosher rules.
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  • They still have the Torah, they have the law,
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  • they still have the Ten Commandments,
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  • but their hearts are a long, long way from God.
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  • In Ezekiel 11 and verse 9, listen to what God said.
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  • "I will drive you out of the city," Jerusalem,
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  • "and hand you over to foreigners and inflict punishment on you."
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  • God said, "I gave you the land, but now you're leaving it.
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  • You can't stay here anymore."
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  • Their right to live in the Promised Land was connected
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  • to their relationship with Almighty God.
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  • And he said, "If you'll turn your back on me and it doesn't
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  • please you to honor me and you don't want to accept my
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  • boundaries, you're not staying here, you're leaving."
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  • May I ask you a question?
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  • When they were in Babylon, God sent
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  • the Babylonian armies in 587 BCE.
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  • Nebuchadnezzar's armies encircle
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  • Jerusalem, they destroyed it.
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  • They literally tore the wall down, destroyed the temple,
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  • slaughtered many of the inhabitants of the city.
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  • They took some of the brightest and best with them back to
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  • Babylon, the first Jewish ghetto in history.
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  • There were to be many more.
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  • In Babylon, are they still God's chosen people?
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  • Absolutely, absolutely.
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  • The Scripture says that God disciplines those he loves.
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  • I would submit to you God loved them
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  • in the midst of the judgment.
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  • But he said, "You can't stay in the land if you
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  • don't intend to honor me."
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  • And God gives instructions to Adam, it's Genesis 2:15.
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  • The Lord took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to
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  • work it and to take care of it.
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  • And the Lord commanded the man, 'You're free to eat from any
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  • tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the
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  • knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat
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  • of it, you will surely die."
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  • Now, just as certainly as God placed the Hebrew people,
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  • the descendants of Abraham, in that land at the end of the
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  • Mediterranean, God placed Adam and Eve in that garden.
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  • He created the earth and everything in it, but the
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  • Scripture says he planted a garden, a specific place.
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  • And he put Adam in the midst of that garden,
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  • and he said, "I give you authority over it.
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  • Tend it, take care of it, that's your job."
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  • In fact, God called it work.
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  • Did you catch it?
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  • Said the Lord took the man and put him in the garden of Eden
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  • to work it and to take care of it.
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  • Did you know that work is God's idea?
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  • This is before the fall, sin hasn't entered.
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  • God created us to work.
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  • Work is not evil.
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  • Work is not an intrusion into your life.
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  • Work is an expression of your faith.
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  • Now, after the fall, God amended it
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  • and work became disproportionate.
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  • The benefit that comes from the work diminished,
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  • and the effort that was required increased.
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  • But don't imagine work is an intrusion into your life.
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  • We have perverted it and made it--we've put a burden
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  • on work that it can't sustain.
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  • I hear people say, "You know, my job doesn't fulfill me."
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  • It's impossible.
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  • We bring fulfillment to our jobs.
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  • God gave Adam an assignment to tend that garden,
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  • but he placed him in a very specific place.
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  • He gave him one thing, he said, "It's all yours,
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  • enjoy it, it's for you.
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  • But there's one tree, and that one tree you can't touch.
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  • If you do, you'll die."
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  • You know the story, what'd Adam do?
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  • Got in line by that tree.
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  • If he'd have been keeping the work that God had given him when
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  • the serpent made his way into the garden,
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  • Adam would have addressed him before they ever got
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  • to the deception or the sin.
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  • Watch what God says.
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  • Genesis 3, "The Lord God banished him from the garden of
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  • Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
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  • And he drove the man out and he placed him on the east side of
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  • the garden--he placed on the east side of the garden of Eden
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  • a cherubim, an angel to guard the entrance to the garden."
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  • The place God created for Adam he forfeited because
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  • of the condition of his heart.
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  • He drove him out.
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  • Now, I've told you on many occasions that the first
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  • chapters of Genesis establish for us the central principles of
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  • Scripture, that the big ideas of the Bible are introduced
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  • to us in those first chapters.
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  • We meet God as the creator of all things,
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  • as the initiator, the sustainer of all things.
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  • We meet God as judge of all the earth, he brings a flood.
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  • That God defines righteousness and unrighteousness.
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  • Well, I believe we're also introduced to another one of
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  • those ideas, fundamental ideas of Scripture,
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  • that God in his sovereignty, he places us at his--at his
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  • decision at the point in time and the point in the planet
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  • where he wants us to be.
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  • We don't control the day of our birth nor
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  • the location of our birth.
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  • We don't choose our parents, nor our
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  • nationality, nor our ethnicity.
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  • God makes that choice, it's an expression of his sovereignty.
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  • And back to the point where we began this morning,
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  • I believe God in his sovereignty placed us in this nation.
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  • We're a nation of immigrants, we've all
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  • come from other places.
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  • But God in his sovereignty has orchestrated our
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  • presence in this place at this time.
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  • And it happens to be a nation on planet earth in this season that
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  • has unprecedented liberty and freedom.
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  • We have greater opportunities, more blessings,
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  • more privileges than any nation on this planet.
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  • It's not perfect.
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  • Far from it, as a matter of fact.
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  • But amongst the options, it is very unique.
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  • That is the blessing of God in our lives.
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  • But that blessing does not come without responsibility.
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  • It has come--it has come from Almighty God.
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  • We're not a nation--we're not a nation defined by a specific
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  • ethnicity, by the color of our skin or the shape of our eyes.
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  • We are a nation of immigrants.
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  • We're defined by an idea, we are one nation under God.
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  • That is what has bound us together.
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  • Most of us came here originally because we weren't overly
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  • welcome in other places or we had very limited opportunities,
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  • and we came here with the imagination that that idea would
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  • provide a greater future for us.
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  • Now, with that comes a responsibility.
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  • Now, I don't expect the people outside the church to
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  • acknowledge that or to embrace that,
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  • but for those of us who are within the church,
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  • we can't afford to miss this, folks.
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  • If we turn our backs on Almighty God, if we turn our backs
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  • on his principles, if we don't care about his opinions and
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  • his boundaries, do you imagine we will maintain
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  • our liberty and freedom?
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  • It's insanity. It's certainly unscriptural.
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  • What keeps us free isn't that we are exceptional.
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  • We're not smarter than everybody else on the planet.
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  • Our natural resources aren't that unique.
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  • It has been the blessing of Almighty God.
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  • And the health and the vitality of the church of Jesus Christ in
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  • the midst of our people is what affords the
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  • blessings of God upon us.
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  • That's our responsibility.
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  • There's a prayer they pray in morning prayer
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  • these days for our nation.
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  • There's a group of people that come to campus seven days a week
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  • at 6:30 in the morning to pray for you.
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  • They've been doing it for more than 15 years,
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  • haven't missed a day.
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  • And there's a prayer they've been praying recently,
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  • and in that prayer there's one line that I have heard lately.
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  • It says that we shouldn't be afraid of the battle.
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  • And folks, I think the church, for too long of a season,
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  • and I don't mean just this church, but Church with a
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  • capital C in our nation, has been a bit frightened.
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  • We've been a bit intimidated.
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  • We've been reluctant. Now, it's not a new thing.
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  • It's not a new thing. You remember David, King David?
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  • We're introduced to him in Scripture when he's just a boy,
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  • a teenager, early teens it seems.
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  • And he's taking to his brothers, who are
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  • in the Israelite army, food.
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  • And when he gets to the Israelite camp,
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  • he happens to hear the champion of the other people,
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  • the Philistines, come out and say,
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  • "It's foolish for us to all go to battle.
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  • Let your champion come face me, and whoever wins is the victor."
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  • And when Goliath bellowed that challenge,
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  • everybody in the Israelite army went and hid in their tent.
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  • It seems to me a little bit of what the church has done in
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  • recent--we've been hiding.
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  • We've been reluctant to engage our culture.
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  • We've been reluctant to stand up and speak the truth.
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  • Remember what David said when he heard Goliath?
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  • He said, "I got this.
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  • Who does he think he is?
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  • He has challenged the armies of the living God."
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  • Now, the Israelite army had heard Goliath say he was
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  • challenging the armies of Saul.
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  • And David said, "He has challenged the
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  • armies of the living God.
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  • He'll fall.
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  • What are you doing in your tents?"
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  • And they said, "Well, you know, if you're so bad, you go."
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  • Now, if you're reading that casually,
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  • it's an enormous mismatch.
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  • Goliath is trained as a warrior, he's an
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  • imposing physical specimen.
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  • His experience and expertise with weaponry and the weapons he
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  • has far exceed any training David has.
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  • They certainly exceed his physical ability or strength.
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  • Goliath has spear and sword, and David has a rock and a sling.
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  • But David has something else.
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  • He said, "Look, when I was watching my father's flock and a
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  • lion or a bear came, God delivered them into my hands."
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  • He couldn't overpower a lion or a bear either.
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  • And he said, "This Philistine will be no
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  • different than those animals.
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  • God will deliver him."
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  • May I submit to you humbly it's time for the church to
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  • find our faith in a living God.
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  • We have been quiet too long.
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  • Allen: We have gathered on this continent in the public
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  • square in large numbers in every generation
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  • to give thanks to God.
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  • And those gatherings of God's people in the public square have
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  • been a dominant force in the shaping of our nation and its
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  • character in our history.
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  • They haven't always been revival services.
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  • Sometimes, we've stood in the public square and said the
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  • principles of Scripture dictate that we be different.
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  • And we will change.
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  • But God's people standing up as God's people to honor the
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  • principles of Scripture has guided us to this point.
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  • In this generation, we're not so welcome in the public square.
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  • They tell us that the name of Jesus isn't welcome in the
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  • classroom or the courtroom, that the name of Jesus probably
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  • shouldn't be mentioned in those public places.
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  • And we've been a little bit like the Israelite army.
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  • We've gone and hidden in our tents.
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  • We have lost our way.
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  • I'm not surprised at the ungodly, it's what they do.
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  • What would God say to the church in America today?
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  • It's an important question to ask yourself.
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  • He has blessed us like no people on this earth.
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  • He's given us more opportunity,
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  • more freedom, more privilege.
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  • I think it's important that we stand in a public square.
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  • You know, when I was a child, stadiums filled with Christians
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  • having religious services was as common as a football game.
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  • They filled our television sets.
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  • You knew what was going to happen next.
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  • It happened so frequently, you know
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  • what--they had an order of service.
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  • You knew what was going to happen.
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  • You knew Cliff Barrows was going to convene the citywide choir,
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  • and George Beverly Shea was going to sing.
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  • And you knew as soon as he stopped preaching,
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  • lots of people were coming forward.
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  • That's the part I looked forward to because when it was over,
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  • what I wanted to watch would come back on television.
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  • You know, our children aren't familiar with that.
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  • They haven't seen it.
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  • Folks, we will lose our liberty and freedom if
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  • we fail to be the church.
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  • Do you think God loves us more than he loved the Hebrew people?
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  • He told them they couldn't stay in that land if they
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  • didn't want a relationship with him.
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  • Do you think we'll maintain our blessings if we don't
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  • want a relationship with God?
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  • Again, this isn't about criticizing others.
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  • This is about working on our own attitudes and our own hearts.
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  • I was out of the country when the supreme court made their
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  • ruling on family and sexuality.
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  • And I saw a photograph a day or two later of the White House
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  • with the rainbow imposed upon it.
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  • And the first time I saw it, I thought it
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  • had to be photoshopped.
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  • It was one of those Internet hoaxes
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  • that are far too frequent.
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  • When I found out it was real, it sent chills down my spine.
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  • We're a nation that was founded with the idea
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  • of one nation under God.
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  • And if we publicly flaunt God's
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  • boundaries, God will respond.
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  • Now, that's not a message towards anybody but the church.
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  • And it's not a message towards any single group of people.
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  • God defined moral and immoral.
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  • And sexual morality God defined for us.
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  • He didn't ask us for a referendum on that.
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  • He said, "My people will honor these boundaries."
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  • And sexual immorality across the whole spectrum of the
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  • expressions of that is destructive to us.
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  • That's not to condemn any person.
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  • We're to have compassion on people who struggle.
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  • It's appropriate to invite them towards the truth and to have
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  • expressions of kindness and love for them.
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  • But there's a difference in setting aside God's boundaries
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  • and saying it's okay to embrace ungodliness.
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  • The church has to be the church, not in a hate-filled way,
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  • not in a condemning way.
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  • But if we fail to be the voice God called us to be,
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  • we will forfeit our blessings.
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  • There is abundant evidence for that idea.
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  • And without that prophetic perspective, we're adrift.
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  • We have to care.
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  • I've got just a couple of minutes left.
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  • I've been spending a lot of time lately in the book of Ezekiel
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  • reading just a little bit ahead of our Bible reading together.
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  • Ezekiel is the prophet in the Bible that
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  • God uses during the exile.
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  • It was 587 BCE when the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem.
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  • And God's people go into exile, but
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  • God didn't abandon his people.
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  • Jeremiah is the prophet that says to the people,
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  • "The Babylonians are coming.
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  • You better do something, the Babylonians are coming."
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  • And Ezekiel is the prophet that God uses to speak to the people
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  • when they've been driven out of their land.
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  • It intrigues me, it's a fascinating perspective.
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  • God didn't abandon them.
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  • He didn't say, "I'm angry with you, I hate you.
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  • I'll have nothing to do with you."
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  • He sent them something along to give them God's perspective.
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  • He said, "You'll come back to the land."
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  • You know, God's discipline in our lives is a necessary part
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  • of growing up in the Lord.
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  • The book of Hebrews says if God doesn't discipline you,
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  • he doesn't love you, you're an illegitimate child.
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  • We want the blessings of God, but we really don't
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  • want the discipline of God.
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  • I would encourage you if you're in a place where--you know,
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  • Bible says endure hardship as discipline.
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  • If you're walking through a season that's not easy,
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  • perhaps you should say to the Lord,
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  • "Lord, I want to learn the lesson."
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  • I'm not telling you if it's a difficult--not get back in line
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  • for mistreatment or inappropriate treatment,
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  • I'm not saying that.
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  • I'm saying to say to the Lord, "Lord,
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  • I want your perspective on my heart and my life.
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  • If there's anything in me that's harmful or hurtful or diminishes
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  • my relationship with you, help me to see it."
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  • We need a God perspective, folks.
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  • We've spent most of our energy trying to convince God that our
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  • perspective he needs to pay attention to.
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  • We need to invest a little energy in saying,
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  • "God, help me to see myself and my home and my business
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  • and my life and my nation as you see us."
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  • Two phrases God used with Ezekiel that
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  • I'll hand you really quickly.
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  • One, it's used dozens of times in the book of Ezekiel and
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  • almost nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
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  • It's this little phrase, "they'll know
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  • that I'm the Lord."
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  • You see, lordship is a question to be
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  • resolved in every individual heart.
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  • And God says over and over and over and over and over again in
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  • Ezekiel that, "They will know that I am the Lord."
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  • In Ezekiel 12, he says to the Israelites, "They'll know
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  • that I am the Lord, when I disperse them among the
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  • nations and scatter them throughout the countries."
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  • They have a temple, holidays, rules, high priest, and God
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  • said, "They have forgotten that I'm the Lord.
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  • But they'll know that I'm the Lord when I
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  • scatter them around the earth.
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  • They will remember, they will look back and they will
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  • know there is an Almighty God in heaven."
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  • You know, we lose sight of that.
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  • We kind of distill God down, it's like we
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  • have a divine reduction.
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  • And we kind of come out with a morphed God,
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  • he's kind of like a cuddly teddy bear or a benevolent uncle that
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  • visits once in a while with a sack full of goodies.
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  • And then as soon as we got his goodies,
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  • we hope he leaves because he's kind of an intrusion.
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  • And God said, "They will know that I'm the Lord."
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  • And the book of Ezekiel closes with another prophetic
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  • statement in chapter 38.
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  • He said, "I will show my greatness and my holiness,
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  • and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations.
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  • And then they will know that I am the Lord."
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  • He starts out saying the Israelites will know that I'm
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  • the Lord, and then he says the nations will
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  • know that I am the Lord.
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  • You know the point of the book of Revelation, the end game
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  • in this whole scenario in time is that every knee will
  • 00:22:55.050 --> 00:22:58.120
  • bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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  • And the assignment of the church is to hold up that banner.
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  • And if we lose sight that he is the Lord of all,
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  • we are failing in our assignment.
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  • It's important.
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  • The courage to own our faith in the sphere
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  • of our influence matters.
  • 00:23:21.150 --> 00:23:25.050
  • And there's one last idea in Ezekiel that I'll give
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  • you today or this morning.
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  • "When any Israelite sets up idols in their heart and puts a
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  • wicked stumbling block before his face."
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  • Where was the idol set up?
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  • In their heart.
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  • So, it wasn't first and foremost about some image that was
  • 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:45.100
  • carved out of something else.
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  • He said in your heart. Idolatry begins in our heart.
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  • Idolatry in its essence is about priority.
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  • It's about whatever you give first priority to.
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  • What do you look to as the resource of your life,
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  • the stabilization of your life, the hope of your life,
  • 00:24:01.170 --> 00:24:05.160
  • the joy of your life?
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  • So, it really isn't--even for the Israelites,
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  • it wasn't about the Canaanite fertility gods.
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  • They worshiped them because they wanted a more prosperous life.
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  • The idol in their hearts was greed.
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  • But I would submit to you that idolatry is as rampant in
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  • contemporary American Christendom
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  • as it was in biblical Israel.
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  • Now, we haven't carved statues, but in our hearts,
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  • we have assigned top priority to comfort
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  • or convenience or pleasure or wealth
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  • or power or our favorite hobby or our favorite something.
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  • Now, we haven't rejected God, we haven't cast him out.
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  • The Israelites had a temple and a whole pattern of worship.
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  • They had just given the priority in their
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  • heart to something else.
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  • And it seems to me we're a bit guilty on this point.
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  • We come to church, but the priorities of our hearts,
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  • the first priority is someplace else.
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  • It's idolatry.
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  • And I'm not recruiting you to come to church more often.
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  • I'm not signing you up for some new meeting or class or point
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  • of--I'm not asking for more money.
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  • I'm asking you to ask the Lord to help you look at your heart.
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  • Because the outcomes are important to the
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  • generations who follow us.
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  • Allen: Now, I believe it's difficult to overstate the
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  • significance of the church, of Christ followers in our culture.
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  • Jesus said we're salt and light, that we're difference makers.
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  • See, I don't believe there's a political solution for the
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  • problems that face us as a people.
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  • I don't believe our answer is in a particular
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  • individual or a particular party.
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  • I think the resolution begins in our hearts.
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  • Before Pennsylvania Avenue can honor the Lord,
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  • it has to start on Main Street in each of our communities.
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  • And so, you and I become very significant.
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  • Christ in you makes a difference.
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  • I want to pray for you before we go.
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  • Father, I thank you for every person.
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  • I thank you for your truth in their heart.
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  • And I pray we'll have the courage to honor you in all that
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  • we are and all that we do in our homes, in our places of
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  • business, in our churches, wherever you lead us.
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  • Thank you for it. Be merciful to us as a people.
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  • In Jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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