Crown Him with many crowns
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The Lamb upon His throne
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Hark! How the
heavenly anthem drowns
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All music but its own!
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Awake, my soul, and sing
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Of Him who died for thee
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And hail Him as
thy matchless King
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Through all eternity
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Crown Him the Lord of peace!
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Whose hand a scepter sways
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From pole to pole,
that wars may cease
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And all be prayer and praise
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His reign shall know no end
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And round His pierced feet
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Fair flowers of Paradise extend
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Their fragrance ever sweet
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Crown Him the Lord of years
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The Potentate of time
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Creator of the rolling spheres
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Ineffably sublime
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All hail, Redeemer, hail!
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For Thou hast died for me
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Thy praise shall
never, never fail
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Throughout eternity
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Great is the Lord,
and worthy of glory
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Great is the Lord,
and worthy of praise
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Great is the Lord,
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I lift up my
voice I lift up my voice
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Great
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Is the Lord
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Great
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Is the Lord
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Great is the Lord,
He is holy and just
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By His power we
trust in His love
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Great is the Lord,
He is faithful and true
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By His mercy He
proves He is love
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Great is the Lord
and worthy of glory
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Great is the Lord
and worthy of praise
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Great is the Lord
now lift up your voice
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Now lift up your voice
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Great
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Is the Lord
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Great
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Is the Lord
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Great are you Lord,
You are holy and just
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By Your power we
trust In Your love
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Great are You Lord,
You are faithful and true
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By Your mercy You
prove You are love
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Great are you Lord
and worthy of glory
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Great are you Lord
and worthy of praise
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Great are you
Lord, I lift up my voice
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I lift up my voice
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Great
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Are you Lord
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Great
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Are you Lord
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Great is the Lord
and worthy of glory
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Great is the Lord
and worthy of praise
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Great is the Lord
now lift up your voice
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Now lift up your voice
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Great
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Is the Lord
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Great
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Is the Lord
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Thank you for the cross, Lord
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Thank you for the price You paid
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Bearing all my sin and
shame, in love You came
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And gave Amazing Grace
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Thank you for this love, Lord
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Thank you for the
nail pierced hands
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Wash me in Your
cleansing flow, now all I know
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Your forgiveness and embrace
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Seated on the throne
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We crown You
now with many crowns
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You reign victorious!
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High and lifted up
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Jesus, Son of God
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The darling of Heaven, crucified
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Seated on the throne
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We crown You
now with many crowns
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You reign victorious!
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High and lifted up
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Jesus, Son of God
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The darling of Heaven, crucified
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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What can wash away my sin?
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Nothing but the blood of Jesus
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What can make me whole again?
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Nothing but the blood of Jesus
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Oh! Precious is the flow
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That makes me white as snow
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No other fount I know
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Nothing but the blood of Jesus
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This time, if you
would like to come forward
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to put your
supplications and your requests,
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make them known to
God, now is that time.
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You can come forward as
we begin to sing this song
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and continue to praise the Lord
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and acknowledge
that He is the only way,
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He is our only
way, our salvation.
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And so please come forward now
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and join us here at
the front as we sing
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the last verse of
"Nothing but the Blood."
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This is all my hope and peace
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Nothing but the blood of Jesus
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This is all my righteousness
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Nothing but the blood of Jesus
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Oh! Precious is the flow
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That makes me white as snow
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No other fount I know
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Nothing but the blood of Jesus
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Oh! Precious is the flow
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That makes me white as snow
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No other fount I know
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Nothing but the blood of Jesus
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Amen.
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I vow to you, my country
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All earthly things above
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Entire and whole and perfect
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The service of my love
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The love that asks no questions
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The love that stands the test
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That lays upon the altar
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The dearest and the best
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The love that never falters
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The love that pays the price
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The love that makes undaunted
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The final sacrifice
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Though the road has
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Bends and turns
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And my spirit suffers
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Humans fail
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Systems fail
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Shadows fall
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But the ruts run deep
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Cut by the blood of faces above
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And voices now silent
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But the message loud is heard
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"Homeland!
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Homeland!
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Renew your youth
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Restore your soul!"
00:16:13.77\00:16:18.21
Homeland, the
country that I love
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hold out your arms to me
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I strive for you
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And give you the best
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I hope to be
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May your wisdom be your shelter
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May compassion be your sword
00:17:12.69\00:17:19.07
May your strength
be forged with mercy
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Your courage lives restore
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Homeland, the
country that I love
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Forever reign supreme
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And when time
stands still, my homeland
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may Heaven hold
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Your dreams
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My homeland
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Be my dream
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My hope
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Homeland!
00:18:27.67\00:18:31.24
Homeland!
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Ah!
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Amen!
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A land and country that I love.
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My homeland.
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God bless America.
00:19:14.38\00:19:20.52
While there is still time,
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God bless America.
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Oh, God we...
that was so moving.
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Every one of us here
we're citizens of the world
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but we live in this land.
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This is our homeland.
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We love this land and nation.
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Oh, God, do whatever
it takes to save America,
00:19:50.22\00:19:56.16
while there is time.
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We pray in Christ name, amen.
00:20:00.96\00:20:05.47
I hold here in my hands an email
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from a young American woman.
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She is a
graduate student not here.
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She wrote this
letter to her family
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on Wednesday, November 9,
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the day after the
election in this nation.
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Some one showed me,
one of her family showed me
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the letter and I said, I
need permission to read that.
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She gave permission.
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And so I want to read it to you.
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Subject: Dear family.
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Email begins: Dear family,
00:20:44.24\00:20:47.84
I'm having an
incredibly difficult day
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but I'm not alone,
00:20:51.28\00:20:53.52
about half of
America grieves with me.
00:20:53.55\00:20:57.69
Over the years I
seem to get questions
00:20:57.72\00:20:59.15
as to why I'm still single.
00:20:59.19\00:21:02.09
Today, I have an answer.
00:21:02.12\00:21:05.83
My church and now my country
00:21:05.86\00:21:09.66
have openly declared that
00:21:09.70\00:21:11.27
as a person I'm less
valuable due to my gender.
00:21:11.30\00:21:16.47
This becomes increasingly
evident and oppressive to me
00:21:16.50\00:21:19.04
as I break gender norms
and pursue advanced education,
00:21:19.07\00:21:22.68
to make a
difference in this world
00:21:22.71\00:21:24.21
beyond just the lives
of children and other women
00:21:24.25\00:21:27.05
as it's acceptable by
society and the church.
00:21:27.08\00:21:31.55
I refuse to be viewed in
this manner in my own home.
00:21:31.59\00:21:36.62
So if being single is
what is the consequence,
00:21:36.66\00:21:42.60
I write to you
00:21:42.63\00:21:44.80
so that when or if you
choose to discuss this topic
00:21:44.83\00:21:47.30
or ignore it when talking to me,
00:21:47.34\00:21:50.74
I want you to know
that my heart is broken
00:21:50.77\00:21:53.48
as I'm forced to face
my minority status today.
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Love always.
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Her name.
00:22:01.35\00:22:04.39
We live in a fractured country.
00:22:04.42\00:22:10.03
Last Tuesday 59.5 million
American voters were jubilant.
00:22:10.06\00:22:17.63
And 59.7 million
American voters despondent.
00:22:17.67\00:22:24.21
And if you stayed up late
00:22:24.24\00:22:26.74
to experience the
emotions of that moment,
00:22:26.78\00:22:31.81
you know they were palpable.
00:22:31.85\00:22:36.28
The wild joy and
the broken despondency.
00:22:36.32\00:22:42.76
The morning after
the election I said,
00:22:42.79\00:22:44.26
"Okay, I'm going to
go social media now,
00:22:44.29\00:22:46.09
see what's trending out there."
00:22:46.13\00:22:48.60
Oh, my.
00:22:48.63\00:22:51.27
A strong cauldron of
absolute conflicting emotions,
00:22:51.30\00:22:57.94
brokenness and bitterness
00:22:57.97\00:22:59.47
versus triumph and
joy and nonchalance,
00:22:59.51\00:23:03.35
get over it tweets and messages.
00:23:03.38\00:23:08.15
But you know what
the dominant emotion was
00:23:08.18\00:23:09.82
and perhaps still is?
00:23:09.85\00:23:11.32
I tell what it is, it's anger.
00:23:11.35\00:23:15.12
Just plain anger.
00:23:15.16\00:23:20.70
That's why over the
last few days in the cities
00:23:20.73\00:23:22.83
across this nation we
have seen these ruckus protest,
00:23:22.86\00:23:27.10
predominantly
young, you're right.
00:23:27.14\00:23:29.17
Young, some of them
voting for the first time
00:23:29.20\00:23:31.74
in an election in this nation,
00:23:31.77\00:23:34.28
believing now that somehow
democracy, the government,
00:23:34.31\00:23:39.18
the process has let them down.
00:23:39.21\00:23:43.49
Hashtag, not my president
is ascending in its trend.
00:23:43.52\00:23:49.29
We live in a fractured country,
00:23:52.56\00:23:57.07
whose fissures are only
spreading wider and wider.
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Come on.
00:24:02.60\00:24:03.94
Am I telling you anything?
00:24:03.97\00:24:05.31
Which is why we
gathered on Wednesday evening,
00:24:08.21\00:24:10.68
right in these
place for a beautiful
00:24:10.71\00:24:12.71
and meaningful prayer season.
00:24:12.75\00:24:14.98
We were obeying
God's injunction.
00:24:15.02\00:24:19.59
And so the words you see
on the screen clear to us,
00:24:19.62\00:24:23.89
1 Timothy 2, "I
urge, then, first of all,
00:24:23.93\00:24:26.83
that petitions, prayers,
intercession and thanksgiving
00:24:26.86\00:24:29.53
be made for all people,
00:24:29.56\00:24:31.57
for kings and all
those in authority,
00:24:31.60\00:24:34.00
that we may live
peaceful and quiet lives
00:24:34.04\00:24:36.91
in all godliness and holiness."
00:24:36.94\00:24:40.68
We prayed for him by name then,
00:24:40.71\00:24:43.41
you heard him prayed
for name by name today,
00:24:43.45\00:24:47.35
our president elect Trump.
00:24:47.38\00:24:49.02
Russell Moore,
brilliant mind that he is
00:24:52.05\00:24:56.36
and I track him
wherever he goes.
00:24:56.39\00:24:58.79
Russell Moore is president
00:24:58.83\00:25:00.16
of the Southern
Baptist conventions,
00:25:00.20\00:25:02.60
commission on ethics
and religious liberty.
00:25:02.63\00:25:05.63
In a blog he wrote
Wednesday morning these words.
00:25:05.67\00:25:10.71
"No matter what our differences
politically or religiously,
00:25:10.74\00:25:14.34
surely we can all
agree that this campaign
00:25:14.38\00:25:16.91
has been demoralizing
and even traumatizing
00:25:16.95\00:25:20.02
for most of the country.
00:25:20.05\00:25:24.35
Many of us have deep differences
00:25:24.39\00:25:25.89
with our new president,
and would have no matter
00:25:25.92\00:25:28.69
which candidate
had been elected,
00:25:28.72\00:25:31.69
but we must pray
that he will succeed
00:25:31.73\00:25:33.90
in leading our country
with wisdom and justice."
00:25:33.93\00:25:39.03
And so we pray
and so we will pray.
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We're inserting
this stopping this series
00:25:43.71\00:25:45.67
you and I been on together,
00:25:45.71\00:25:47.71
and inserting this
you see it on the screen.
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Our teaching for today,
00:25:49.84\00:25:51.41
"Healing the Fracture -
Life in Post-Election America.
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Is there anything
else besides prayer
00:25:56.82\00:25:59.75
that we can do to respond?
00:25:59.79\00:26:02.02
Oh, yes, there is.
00:26:02.06\00:26:03.39
I want to tell you just what,
00:26:03.43\00:26:04.76
but before we do
let this be clear.
00:26:04.79\00:26:08.36
We need to
recognize it in some ways
00:26:08.40\00:26:10.47
we live not only in a
fractured and divided country,
00:26:10.50\00:26:14.97
we also live today
00:26:15.00\00:26:16.71
in a fractured
and divided church.
00:26:16.74\00:26:19.07
And I don't mean the
evangelical community
00:26:22.54\00:26:24.61
that spread
across America either.
00:26:24.65\00:26:26.78
I'm thinking of my
own faith community
00:26:26.82\00:26:28.85
that I love and that I serve.
00:26:28.88\00:26:33.02
That email I read a
moment ago expresses her hurt
00:26:33.05\00:26:35.59
of a young woman in our midst.
00:26:35.62\00:26:39.69
Not only over this election
but over church decisions
00:26:39.73\00:26:43.26
that are being
perceived and being received
00:26:43.30\00:26:45.83
by the young within
this faith community.
00:26:45.87\00:26:49.50
And especially
by the young women
00:26:49.54\00:26:51.77
as they're specially
targeting them as women.
00:26:51.81\00:26:56.28
How did she put it in
her letter to her family,
00:26:56.31\00:26:58.15
let me read that line again.
00:26:58.18\00:26:59.51
My church and now my
country have openly declared
00:26:59.55\00:27:02.48
that as a person
I'm less valuable
00:27:02.52\00:27:04.49
due to my gender.
00:27:04.52\00:27:05.85
My heart is broken
00:27:05.89\00:27:07.22
as I'm forced to face
my minority status today.
00:27:07.26\00:27:11.13
Well, I need to
say this right here,
00:27:11.16\00:27:12.49
if she were here
and she is not here,
00:27:12.53\00:27:15.13
but if she were here, I
would be quick to say to her,
00:27:15.16\00:27:18.13
"Hey, come on, come on,
man, hold on, you need to know
00:27:18.17\00:27:20.60
this is not what
your church stands for.
00:27:20.64\00:27:23.14
You're not a
person of less value
00:27:23.17\00:27:25.24
to this faith
community, that's just wrong."
00:27:25.27\00:27:29.34
And if there were
political scientists here,
00:27:29.38\00:27:30.95
I'm sure they would
jump forward to her,
00:27:30.98\00:27:32.61
to us to assure us that
00:27:32.65\00:27:34.15
the elections results on Tuesday
00:27:34.18\00:27:35.85
were not a national referendum
00:27:35.88\00:27:37.45
or repudiation of the
role of women in our society,
00:27:37.49\00:27:40.92
but it can feel that
way if you're a woman.
00:27:40.96\00:27:44.93
It can feel that way
when public statements
00:27:44.96\00:27:50.13
and public positions of leaders
in the country or in the church
00:27:50.17\00:27:56.91
when those public statement
00:27:56.94\00:27:58.37
seem to belie, seem to challenge
00:27:58.41\00:28:00.31
what most Americans
and Adventists believe
00:28:00.34\00:28:02.94
that women are just as valuable
00:28:02.98\00:28:04.45
and essential to
the life of this country
00:28:04.48\00:28:06.55
and to the
mission of this church.
00:28:06.58\00:28:10.72
And it is those perceptions
00:28:10.75\00:28:12.09
because perception
is reality I remind you.
00:28:12.12\00:28:14.86
It is those perceptions
that the country and the church
00:28:14.89\00:28:18.23
must deal with right away.
00:28:18.26\00:28:23.50
By the way the same
is true, this fracture.
00:28:23.53\00:28:28.67
The same is true for the
racial and ethnic fracture
00:28:28.70\00:28:31.41
that divides this land today.
00:28:31.44\00:28:35.34
I've read one tweet.
00:28:35.38\00:28:36.81
Scribble it down.
00:28:36.85\00:28:39.41
Young man, his words.
00:28:39.45\00:28:43.12
I didn't quite understand
how much white people hated us,
00:28:43.15\00:28:46.45
or could at least live
with that hate, now I do.
00:28:46.49\00:28:52.36
It must break the heart of God.
00:28:52.39\00:28:55.26
It breaks my
heart, can you believe it?
00:28:55.30\00:28:58.87
Would to God, that's
not true in the church,
00:28:58.90\00:29:01.70
you're all right, go figure.
00:29:01.74\00:29:05.07
We're just as fractured
00:29:05.11\00:29:07.54
as the culture and
society we live in.
00:29:07.58\00:29:09.64
So what does Jesus have to say?
00:29:13.78\00:29:16.48
This morning I want to leave
with you three word from Jesus,
00:29:16.52\00:29:19.25
three red letter words.
00:29:19.29\00:29:22.16
I read them just like that.
00:29:22.19\00:29:27.20
We'd not turn
anywhere else in scripture
00:29:27.23\00:29:28.76
but to Jesus right now.
00:29:28.80\00:29:30.43
Mark 3, open
your Bible to Mark 3,
00:29:30.47\00:29:34.24
Mark 3, we begin in verse 23.
00:29:34.27\00:29:37.84
And by the way please
mark these words well,
00:29:37.87\00:29:39.61
the first, the first
this is the number one,
00:29:39.64\00:29:41.44
this is the number one
red letter word, mark it well,
00:29:41.48\00:29:43.68
because what has
happened to the nation
00:29:43.71\00:29:45.11
must be heard loud
and clear by the church.
00:29:45.15\00:29:49.98
Mark 3, so I'm in the NIV.
00:29:50.02\00:29:52.82
Get your phone, whatever.
00:29:52.85\00:29:54.56
I put it on the
screen for you as well.
00:29:54.59\00:29:56.42
Good to have those of
you who are live streaming
00:30:00.66\00:30:02.10
with us right now.
00:30:02.13\00:30:05.20
I hope this moment,
00:30:05.23\00:30:07.84
this moment where
these red letter words
00:30:07.87\00:30:09.84
will address your
own heart and life.
00:30:09.87\00:30:12.34
Okay, so this is Mark 3,
let's pick it up in verse 23,
00:30:12.37\00:30:15.34
"So Jesus
called them over to him
00:30:15.38\00:30:18.25
and he began to
speak to them in parables."
00:30:18.28\00:30:20.38
Red letters now, "How
can Satan drive out Satan?
00:30:20.42\00:30:24.65
If a kingdom is
divided against itself,
00:30:24.69\00:30:27.46
that kingdom cannot stand."
00:30:27.49\00:30:29.09
Verse 25, "If a house
is divided against itself,
00:30:29.12\00:30:33.46
that house cannot stand."
00:30:33.50\00:30:36.30
From whence comes the parable
00:30:36.33\00:30:37.67
our house divided
against itself cannot stand,
00:30:37.70\00:30:39.80
they got it from Jesus.
00:30:39.83\00:30:42.64
A house divided against
itself racially cannot stand
00:30:42.67\00:30:48.54
and neither can the church,
and neither can the country.
00:30:48.58\00:30:52.61
A house divided against itself
00:30:52.65\00:30:54.25
in terms of gender cannot stand,
00:30:54.28\00:30:56.69
and neither can the church
and neither can the country.
00:30:56.72\00:31:00.86
So what does this mean?
What are we supposed to do?
00:31:00.89\00:31:03.53
Maybe we need to
pursue the exact antithesis
00:31:03.56\00:31:08.43
of what one candidate
was advocating for the nation
00:31:08.46\00:31:10.67
during the campaign.
00:31:10.70\00:31:12.60
To do that consider two other
red letter words from Jesus.
00:31:15.90\00:31:19.24
These two are unique
and that they're both
00:31:19.27\00:31:23.11
spoken on the same
night, spoken by the same Jesus
00:31:23.14\00:31:27.38
and recorded in the same gospel,
00:31:27.42\00:31:29.62
Gospel of John.
00:31:29.65\00:31:30.99
Red letter word number two
00:31:31.02\00:31:33.52
and red letter
word number three,
00:31:33.56\00:31:34.89
so turn over to
the Gospel of John.
00:31:34.92\00:31:37.23
In less than 24
hours Jesus will be dead.
00:31:37.26\00:31:40.00
This is Thursday
night, late Thursday night.
00:31:40.03\00:31:44.17
Jesus speaking,
bright red in my Bible.
00:31:44.20\00:31:47.50
John 13...
00:31:47.54\00:31:48.87
we'll pick it up in verse 34.
00:31:54.08\00:31:55.44
"A new commandment I give you:
00:31:55.48\00:31:59.85
Love one another.
00:31:59.88\00:32:02.82
As I have loved you, so
you must love one another."
00:32:02.85\00:32:05.29
Verse 35, "By
this everyone will know
00:32:05.32\00:32:07.89
that you are my disciples,
if you love one another."
00:32:07.92\00:32:13.66
He spoke those
words in the upper room.
00:32:13.70\00:32:15.30
He went outside,
prayed to His Father
00:32:15.33\00:32:17.30
and we have that the
last prayer to His Father
00:32:17.33\00:32:19.73
before all hell breaks loose.
00:32:19.77\00:32:23.10
Early Friday morning,
this is now chapter 17.
00:32:23.14\00:32:25.37
This is in the
prayer to His Father.
00:32:25.41\00:32:28.88
Drop down to verse
22, just few pages over,
00:32:28.91\00:32:31.98
Jesus praying to the Father,
00:32:32.01\00:32:33.35
"I have given them the
glory that you gave me,
00:32:33.38\00:32:35.88
O Father, that they
may be one as we are one."
00:32:35.92\00:32:41.09
Verse 23, "I in
them and you in me,
00:32:41.12\00:32:44.36
so that they may be
brought to complete unity.
00:32:44.39\00:32:47.03
Then the world will
know that you sent me
00:32:47.06\00:32:50.37
and have loved them
even as you have loved me."
00:32:50.40\00:32:53.80
Did you catch
an embedded phrase,
00:32:53.84\00:32:55.67
an embedded word that is
identical in both passages?
00:32:55.70\00:32:58.87
Did you hear any similarity?
00:32:58.91\00:33:03.14
You will. Let's
put a split screen up.
00:33:03.18\00:33:05.85
I want you to
catch what He's saying,
00:33:05.88\00:33:07.85
because what He's
saying in both passages
00:33:07.88\00:33:10.12
is critical to third
millennials like you and me.
00:33:10.15\00:33:13.09
So you see the split screen
there, there is John 13:35,
00:33:13.12\00:33:16.36
"By this everyone will
know that you are my disciples,
00:33:16.39\00:33:19.23
if you love one another."
00:33:19.26\00:33:21.13
Okay, now a few
hours later John 17,
00:33:21.16\00:33:23.93
"Then the world will
know that you sent me
00:33:23.97\00:33:27.07
and have loved them
even as you have loved me."
00:33:27.10\00:33:30.57
Isn't that amazing?
00:33:30.61\00:33:32.17
How would the world,
how will everybody know
00:33:32.21\00:33:34.54
that God has a people on earth?
00:33:34.58\00:33:38.95
How will everybody know
00:33:38.98\00:33:40.32
that you are a
follower of Jesus Christ?
00:33:40.35\00:33:42.08
Number one, they'll know
by our love for each other,
00:33:42.12\00:33:44.75
our radically
self sacrificing love.
00:33:44.79\00:33:47.82
And number two,
they will know it
00:33:47.86\00:33:49.19
by our unity with each other,
00:33:49.22\00:33:51.33
our radical self
sacrificing unity.
00:33:51.36\00:33:54.96
Now isn't that crazy?
00:33:55.00\00:33:57.10
I want you to be together,
I want you to be together,
00:33:57.13\00:33:59.53
I want you to be bound so tight
00:33:59.57\00:34:01.24
that the world will know
that truth about me and you.
00:34:01.27\00:34:05.07
I say, it's crazy because
as I recall the rallying Christ
00:34:05.11\00:34:07.68
during this election
campaign were dissever,
00:34:07.71\00:34:09.81
were to separate
people from each other.
00:34:09.84\00:34:11.81
I heard something about a wall.
00:34:11.85\00:34:13.52
Unless we cluck
our tongues too loudly
00:34:17.85\00:34:20.79
as we were just about to do.
00:34:20.82\00:34:24.23
Even a church can
debate about severing,
00:34:24.26\00:34:27.23
about separating
people from the church
00:34:27.26\00:34:28.70
or from the
organization or from each other.
00:34:28.73\00:34:32.07
And here is Jesus
00:34:32.10\00:34:33.64
on the night before
He's executed on Calvary
00:34:33.67\00:34:35.60
declaring that there
are two powerful indicators
00:34:35.64\00:34:37.74
to everyone, to the whole world
00:34:37.77\00:34:39.91
that you're mine
and that I'm yours
00:34:39.94\00:34:41.51
and these two indicators
are, what are they again?
00:34:41.54\00:34:43.98
One, our love for one another
00:34:44.01\00:34:46.41
and two, our
unity with each other.
00:34:46.45\00:34:50.09
The only evidence that you
and I love it, one another.
00:34:54.02\00:34:57.86
The only evidence
that we love one another
00:34:57.89\00:34:59.33
is if we're
united to one another.
00:34:59.36\00:35:01.56
And the only evidence that
we're united to one another
00:35:01.60\00:35:03.60
is if we love one another.
00:35:03.63\00:35:04.97
Those two are inseparable.
00:35:05.00\00:35:06.33
They were born twins.
00:35:06.37\00:35:12.64
They have to go together.
00:35:12.67\00:35:15.28
You can't sever, you
can't separate and say,
00:35:15.31\00:35:17.55
okay, that's where you
go because we don't agree.
00:35:17.58\00:35:21.78
You can't do that.
00:35:21.82\00:35:23.95
The world doesn't
figure anything out,
00:35:23.99\00:35:25.75
that's the way
politics is in America.
00:35:25.79\00:35:27.49
That's where you go
because we don't agree.
00:35:27.52\00:35:29.32
Yeah.
00:35:29.36\00:35:30.69
No, no, no Jesus said,
00:35:33.66\00:35:35.00
the whole world will
know you are my people.
00:35:35.03\00:35:36.60
And will know that
I came to this planet
00:35:36.63\00:35:38.23
because you will
have love for each other,
00:35:38.27\00:35:41.07
and you will be
united with each other.
00:35:41.10\00:35:45.41
It is this, it is
as we're together,
00:35:45.44\00:35:47.94
together we are
the community of God.
00:35:47.98\00:35:54.22
The unity that
shines from radical love,
00:35:54.25\00:35:57.09
self sacrificing love,
self sacrificing unity.
00:35:57.12\00:36:01.79
And so we as Americans,
00:36:01.82\00:36:04.26
and so we as Adventists
we need to pull together,
00:36:04.29\00:36:07.20
not cut apart, not cut asunder,
we need to unite, not sever,
00:36:07.23\00:36:11.47
we must not be known, please.
00:36:11.50\00:36:14.00
We must not be known
00:36:14.04\00:36:15.50
as the people who
cut off minorities.
00:36:15.54\00:36:18.97
Be they Mexicans, or Muslims
00:36:19.01\00:36:24.01
or LGBT, or immigrants,
00:36:24.05\00:36:28.52
or Latinos, or
Asians or blacks or women...
00:36:28.55\00:36:35.26
of all people in America
00:36:38.36\00:36:40.80
the church must
be the community,
00:36:40.83\00:36:43.43
the place where all
people, where everybody,
00:36:43.47\00:36:45.83
where the whole world will
be shown compassion and love,
00:36:45.87\00:36:50.41
compassion and love.
00:36:50.44\00:36:52.54
By this everybody will
know you are my people,
00:36:55.58\00:36:58.51
if you have
love for one another.
00:36:58.55\00:37:01.28
I happen to agree
with Russell Moore
00:37:01.32\00:37:02.75
again on the screen,
00:37:02.78\00:37:04.15
"No matter what the
racial and ethnic divisions
00:37:04.19\00:37:06.25
in America,
00:37:06.29\00:37:07.62
we can be churches
that demonstrate and embody
00:37:07.66\00:37:09.82
the reconciliation
of the kingdom of God.
00:37:09.86\00:37:12.09
After all, we are not
just part of a coalition
00:37:12.13\00:37:14.20
but part of a
Body, capital B Body,
00:37:14.23\00:37:17.87
a Body that is white and
black and Latino and Asian,
00:37:17.90\00:37:20.87
and male and
female, and rich and poor.
00:37:20.90\00:37:23.07
We are part of a Body, get this,
00:37:23.10\00:37:24.74
joined to a Head
00:37:24.77\00:37:26.11
who is an Aramaic-speaking
Middle-easterner."
00:37:26.14\00:37:28.91
Go figure.
00:37:28.94\00:37:30.61
"What affects black and Hispanic
00:37:37.19\00:37:38.82
and Asian Christians ought
to affect white Christians.
00:37:38.85\00:37:41.32
And the sorts of
poverty and social unraveling
00:37:41.36\00:37:43.22
among the white working
class ought to affect black
00:37:43.26\00:37:45.39
and Hispanic and
Asian Christians.
00:37:45.43\00:37:47.16
We belong to each other
because we belong to Christ."
00:37:47.20\00:37:51.33
So you dissolution
with your country right now?
00:37:56.71\00:38:00.31
Are you?
00:38:00.34\00:38:01.94
So you dissolution
with your church right now?
00:38:01.98\00:38:04.75
Are you?
00:38:04.78\00:38:06.11
But there is
something you can do.
00:38:09.32\00:38:12.12
There is something
you can do right now
00:38:12.15\00:38:14.72
based on Jesus'
radical call to love and unity.
00:38:14.76\00:38:18.13
Here is what you can do.
00:38:18.16\00:38:19.49
There are two
responses you can make.
00:38:19.53\00:38:20.86
No study guide today.
Just lock this in your mind.
00:38:20.90\00:38:23.33
There are two responses
00:38:23.37\00:38:24.70
to Jesus' radical
call you can make.
00:38:24.73\00:38:26.07
Response number one,
jot it down in your mind.
00:38:26.10\00:38:28.20
Become engaged with your church.
00:38:28.24\00:38:32.24
The justice causes that
you have rightfully embraced.
00:38:32.27\00:38:35.58
After all didn't God
say to do, but to do justly,
00:38:35.61\00:38:38.31
and to love mercy and to
walk humbly with your God.
00:38:38.35\00:38:40.28
Didn't God say that?
00:38:40.32\00:38:41.65
I mean didn't
that come from Him?
00:38:41.68\00:38:43.02
The justice
causes you have embraced.
00:38:43.05\00:38:47.99
Have not been repudiated by
the election of this country
00:38:48.02\00:38:50.39
or by the debate
in the wider church.
00:38:50.43\00:38:53.93
Neither the
country nor the church
00:38:53.96\00:38:56.13
are under the
dominion of one person,
00:38:56.16\00:38:58.67
one leader or one voice.
00:38:58.70\00:39:00.94
Not my voice, not your
voice, not nobody's voice.
00:39:00.97\00:39:04.67
The democratic
process in both the nation
00:39:08.04\00:39:10.81
and the church means, you
can exercise your calling,
00:39:10.85\00:39:14.48
to affect change
within your church
00:39:14.52\00:39:16.82
and within your country
00:39:16.85\00:39:18.52
but you will never
change your country
00:39:18.55\00:39:22.46
if you move to Canada.
00:39:22.49\00:39:24.89
Come on, just read social media,
00:39:28.53\00:39:30.03
it's all out there,
"I'm going to Canada."
00:39:30.07\00:39:31.70
Turn the lights
off, the last one out.
00:39:31.73\00:39:36.47
You will never
change your country
00:39:36.50\00:39:37.84
if you move to Canada,
00:39:37.87\00:39:39.21
and you will never influence
your church if you leave it.
00:39:39.24\00:39:42.71
Well, I'm
leaving the church now.
00:39:42.74\00:39:44.11
I'm sick and
tired of this church.
00:39:44.15\00:39:45.58
I'm out of here. You're crazy.
00:39:45.61\00:39:48.85
Don't you dare
leave this church?
00:39:48.88\00:39:51.22
You're what we're depending on.
00:39:51.25\00:39:54.19
You leave the church now,
you're only punishing yourself.
00:39:54.22\00:39:57.59
The church will go on.
00:39:57.63\00:39:58.96
They won't even
know you're gone.
00:39:58.99\00:40:02.33
One little Facebook post
00:40:02.36\00:40:03.70
and that's all
the glory you'll get.
00:40:03.73\00:40:07.34
Don't abandon your
church, especially now.
00:40:07.37\00:40:12.37
Stay engaged.
00:40:12.41\00:40:14.18
Hey, look, look,
look this does not mean
00:40:14.21\00:40:16.04
that you have to agree with
everything your church does,
00:40:16.08\00:40:19.35
because even the community
of faith can make mistakes
00:40:19.38\00:40:22.08
and get it wrong.
00:40:22.12\00:40:23.72
I mean, look at
the church in Acts.
00:40:23.75\00:40:25.19
You want to see a
church in conflict?
00:40:25.22\00:40:27.16
I mean, there are
hardly days beyond Calvary
00:40:27.19\00:40:29.86
when the
widows, the Hellenistic,
00:40:29.89\00:40:31.63
the Greek descendant
widows are complaining,
00:40:31.66\00:40:35.70
you're giving more
food to them than to us,
00:40:35.73\00:40:37.53
and the church had
to invent the deacons.
00:40:37.57\00:40:41.24
They're in conflict.
00:40:41.27\00:40:42.60
You want to read red
hot conflict, read Acts 15,
00:40:42.64\00:40:45.31
there is not a
meeting of the minds
00:40:45.34\00:40:47.64
when that meeting begins.
00:40:47.68\00:40:51.88
Let's look at
the church in Acts,
00:40:51.91\00:40:53.58
great debates, disagreements.
00:40:53.62\00:40:56.12
You know what? You need to do.
00:40:56.15\00:40:57.62
What I need to do is
embrace the great American poet
00:40:57.65\00:41:00.96
Robert Frost suggestion.
00:41:00.99\00:41:05.49
I'm going to put the poem,
00:41:05.53\00:41:06.86
this is a tail end
of a very long poem.
00:41:06.90\00:41:08.26
Put it on the screen
for you Robert Frost.
00:41:08.30\00:41:10.33
And were an
epitaph to be my story
00:41:10.37\00:41:14.04
I'd have a short one...
You know what an epitaph is.
00:41:14.07\00:41:16.14
That's what goes
on your grave, okay.
00:41:16.17\00:41:17.91
And were an
epitaph to be my story.
00:41:17.94\00:41:19.81
I'd have a short
one ready for my own
00:41:19.84\00:41:21.78
I would have
written of me on my stone:
00:41:21.81\00:41:25.18
I had a lover's
quarrel with the world.
00:41:25.21\00:41:29.35
Do you know what a lover's
quarrel with the world is?
00:41:29.38\00:41:31.92
A lover's quarrel with
the world goes like this.
00:41:31.95\00:41:33.56
Listen, I love you,
00:41:33.59\00:41:35.12
though I cannot
agree with all you say,
00:41:35.16\00:41:36.83
I cannot agree with all you
do, I'm still committed to you.
00:41:36.86\00:41:40.96
We need to have a
lover's quarrel with the church,
00:41:41.00\00:41:42.86
that's what you need to do.
00:41:42.90\00:41:44.23
I love you church,
00:41:44.27\00:41:45.60
though I cannot agree
with all that you decide
00:41:45.63\00:41:48.37
and with all that you say,
I'm still committed to you.
00:41:48.40\00:41:52.34
You got to stay engaged,
00:41:52.37\00:41:53.81
become engaged with your church.
00:41:53.84\00:41:55.58
Response number one,
00:41:55.61\00:41:56.98
have a lover's quarrel
with the church, but stay on.
00:41:57.01\00:42:01.98
Response number two,
00:42:02.02\00:42:03.82
become immersed in your country.
00:42:03.85\00:42:07.79
Become engaged with your church.
00:42:07.82\00:42:09.16
Become immersed, response
number two, in your country.
00:42:09.19\00:42:11.19
So the election
didn't go the way
00:42:11.23\00:42:12.66
you were hoping it'd bring.
00:42:12.69\00:42:14.63
Okay, well as a proverb goes.
00:42:14.66\00:42:16.90
Don't get mad, just get even.
00:42:16.93\00:42:21.10
What's that mean?
00:42:21.14\00:42:22.47
Get even with America
and immerse yourself rather
00:42:22.50\00:42:25.81
in the life of this nation.
00:42:25.84\00:42:27.81
I want to tell you something.
00:42:27.84\00:42:29.18
Your life can change America
way more than your one vote.
00:42:29.21\00:42:34.15
Your life can make an eternal
difference in this country.
00:42:34.18\00:42:37.02
Wow.
00:42:40.89\00:42:44.49
Jesus declares of you,
of the church of all of us.
00:42:44.53\00:42:48.46
You are the light of the world.
00:42:48.50\00:42:50.80
No, no, no, you are
the salt of the earth.
00:42:50.83\00:42:53.44
No, no, no, you're the yeast,
00:42:53.47\00:42:55.54
you're the
leaven of the kingdom.
00:42:55.57\00:42:57.61
What's he's saying?
00:42:57.64\00:42:58.97
He's saying, you got to get out.
00:42:59.01\00:43:00.44
Get out there, be light
00:43:00.48\00:43:02.34
in a darkness of a
world without love.
00:43:02.38\00:43:04.68
Be salt, permeate society.
00:43:04.71\00:43:08.42
Be leaven, just a little
yeast in the lump and boo,
00:43:08.45\00:43:11.25
it infiltrates everything.
00:43:11.29\00:43:14.92
Yeah, but what can I do Dwight?
00:43:14.96\00:43:16.29
How do I do that?
00:43:16.32\00:43:17.93
Two practical suggestions.
00:43:17.96\00:43:19.76
Don't laugh me
off of this platform.
00:43:19.79\00:43:21.16
Do not laugh me
off of this platform.
00:43:21.20\00:43:22.76
I'm going to give
you two suggestions,
00:43:22.80\00:43:24.13
they're both practical.
00:43:24.17\00:43:25.50
Don't dismiss them
too quickly, all right.
00:43:25.53\00:43:27.80
Keeping an eye on you.
00:43:27.84\00:43:29.64
Okay, suggestion number one.
00:43:29.67\00:43:31.67
Move to the southern border
00:43:31.71\00:43:33.17
of the United States and Mexico.
00:43:33.21\00:43:34.78
Come on.
00:43:37.88\00:43:40.42
Move to the southern border
and minister to the aliens,
00:43:40.45\00:43:43.59
and the
immigrants, legal and illegal
00:43:43.62\00:43:45.75
that will surround you.
00:43:45.79\00:43:47.22
Learn to speak Spanish, espanol,
00:43:47.26\00:43:49.86
so that you can speak
the language of their hearts,
00:43:49.89\00:43:51.99
embrace the
incarnational mission of Jesus.
00:43:52.03\00:43:56.06
Go down to the border.
00:43:56.10\00:43:58.87
Turns out that's
not such a whacky idea.
00:43:58.90\00:44:00.90
I found out.
00:44:00.94\00:44:02.27
Look classic Ministry of Healing
00:44:02.30\00:44:03.64
on the screen for you.
00:44:03.67\00:44:05.01
"Missionary families are needed
to settle in the waste places."
00:44:05.04\00:44:09.24
Those of you who are
watching from Texas right now,
00:44:09.28\00:44:11.25
we're not
thinking of you as waste,
00:44:11.28\00:44:12.98
but you know, what I mean.
00:44:13.01\00:44:14.35
"Missionary families are needed
to settle in the waste places,
00:44:18.09\00:44:20.62
along that border.
00:44:20.66\00:44:22.12
Let farmers, let
financiers, let builders,
00:44:22.16\00:44:24.46
and those who are skilled
in various arts and crafts,
00:44:24.49\00:44:26.80
go to neglected
fields, go to improve the land,
00:44:26.83\00:44:29.40
go to establish industries,
00:44:29.43\00:44:30.97
go to prepare humble
homes for yourselves,
00:44:31.00\00:44:33.03
and to help your neighbors."
00:44:33.07\00:44:35.40
Here is the point guys.
00:44:35.44\00:44:36.77
Once you get all the
education you need here
00:44:36.81\00:44:38.31
at Andrews
University, get it all,
00:44:38.34\00:44:40.24
get it all while you're
here, just don't come back.
00:44:40.28\00:44:44.08
Once you get all
the education you need,
00:44:44.11\00:44:46.51
then you move while
the nation is debating,
00:44:46.55\00:44:48.88
cutting off the
minorities, cutting off aliens,
00:44:48.92\00:44:51.59
you're ministering to them.
00:44:51.62\00:44:53.99
Wow.
00:44:54.02\00:44:56.89
Move to the border.
00:44:56.93\00:44:58.86
You don't like that one?
00:44:58.89\00:45:00.23
Okay, I got one more.
00:45:00.26\00:45:01.60
Number two. Move
to the inner city.
00:45:01.63\00:45:05.83
Become a public schools
teacher in the inner city.
00:45:05.87\00:45:08.70
Enough of
teaching church schools.
00:45:08.74\00:45:11.21
You can teach in a public
school, it's a high honor.
00:45:11.24\00:45:14.14
In the inner city go.
00:45:14.18\00:45:16.18
Become practice medicine
in the heart of that city.
00:45:16.21\00:45:18.88
Practice pro bono
law with a firmness
00:45:18.91\00:45:21.75
dedicated to
ministering to minorities
00:45:21.78\00:45:24.75
and residence of the inner city.
00:45:24.79\00:45:29.19
Become the
light, become the salt,
00:45:29.22\00:45:30.56
become the yeast to Jesus,
permeate the dark hopelessness
00:45:30.59\00:45:33.70
that grips the hearts of
those living in the inner city.
00:45:33.73\00:45:37.33
Immerse yourself in
the life of your country,
00:45:37.37\00:45:39.97
don't get mad,
get even, just go out.
00:45:40.00\00:45:43.24
Go out. Christ's Object Lessons.
00:45:43.27\00:45:46.37
Oh, this is good.
00:45:46.41\00:45:47.81
It really ends with
the best line, okay.
00:45:47.84\00:45:50.55
"Thus in the night of spiritual
darkness God's glory..."
00:45:50.58\00:45:53.85
And by the way the
context for these words
00:45:53.88\00:45:55.42
clearly, clearly the
context is the end of time,
00:45:55.45\00:45:58.25
right before the end, all right.
00:45:58.29\00:45:59.62
"Thus in the night
of spiritual darkness
00:45:59.65\00:46:01.36
God's glory is to shine
forth through His church
00:46:01.39\00:46:04.29
in lifting up the bowed down
00:46:04.33\00:46:07.00
and comforting those that mourn.
00:46:07.03\00:46:08.56
All around us are heard
the wails of a world's sorrow.
00:46:08.60\00:46:12.70
On every hand are
the needy and distressed.
00:46:12.73\00:46:14.97
It is ours to aid in relieving
00:46:15.00\00:46:17.37
and softening life's
hardships and misery.
00:46:17.41\00:46:19.67
We are to give
food to the hungry,
00:46:19.71\00:46:21.48
clothing to the naked,
and shelter to the homeless.
00:46:21.51\00:46:23.91
If Christ is abiding
in us, here comes now.
00:46:23.95\00:46:26.25
If Christ is abiding in us,
00:46:26.28\00:46:27.92
our hearts will be
full of divine sympathy."
00:46:27.95\00:46:29.65
Now watch this.
00:46:29.68\00:46:31.02
"The sealed fountains
00:46:31.05\00:46:32.45
of earnest, Christlike
love will be unsealed."
00:46:32.49\00:46:36.99
Because as long as you're living
00:46:37.03\00:46:38.36
in a ghetto like
this, they're sealed up,
00:46:38.39\00:46:40.40
you're not doing much with it.
00:46:40.43\00:46:42.00
That's all sealed up,
00:46:42.03\00:46:43.37
but the moment you move
out to the marginalized,
00:46:43.40\00:46:46.33
the alienated,
the disenfranchised,
00:46:46.37\00:46:48.70
when you move out to them,
00:46:48.74\00:46:50.17
the love in you will be unsealed
00:46:50.21\00:46:52.84
and Christ love
flows through you.
00:46:52.87\00:46:54.71
Isn't that great?
00:46:54.74\00:46:56.98
And by the way you
don't have to move far
00:46:57.01\00:46:58.35
to find an inner city,
just 12 miles off the road.
00:46:58.38\00:47:01.52
Benton Harbor.
00:47:01.55\00:47:04.92
Change your membership,
move up to Benton Harbor
00:47:04.95\00:47:06.86
with my blessing.
00:47:06.89\00:47:09.12
Give all your
offerings to Benton Harbor
00:47:09.16\00:47:11.26
with my blessing.
00:47:11.29\00:47:13.06
Sabbath afternoons
get on, jump in a car,
00:47:13.09\00:47:15.66
go up there for incarnation
of ministry with our blessing.
00:47:15.70\00:47:20.94
Pioneer has a
campus in that inner city
00:47:20.97\00:47:22.77
and it's called Harbor of Hope.
00:47:22.80\00:47:24.74
And it is a Harbor of Hope.
00:47:24.77\00:47:26.54
It's beautiful campus.
00:47:26.57\00:47:29.24
Go be a part of it.
Why are you sitting here?
00:47:29.28\00:47:32.65
Get out. Make a difference.
00:47:32.68\00:47:35.42
Become immersed in a
life of this country.
00:47:35.45\00:47:37.95
Become engaged with your church.
00:47:37.99\00:47:39.35
Become immersed
in your country, why?
00:47:39.39\00:47:41.56
Because we need you.
00:47:41.59\00:47:42.99
Your country needs
you, your church needs you,
00:47:43.02\00:47:44.36
but most of all God needs you.
00:47:44.39\00:47:48.33
By this all the world
will know you are my people,
00:47:48.36\00:47:50.63
if you have
love for one another,
00:47:50.67\00:47:52.00
radical united love.
00:47:52.03\00:47:53.37
America in the world can
have no more compelling witness
00:47:53.40\00:47:58.07
than a generation
moving out and saying
00:47:58.11\00:48:01.54
we lived with the comfort
00:48:01.58\00:48:05.38
and all the
accoutrements of well being.
00:48:05.41\00:48:09.92
We will go out into the dark
00:48:09.95\00:48:13.59
on behalf of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
00:48:13.62\00:48:15.49
And by the way and
then I'm sitting down,
00:48:15.52\00:48:18.19
the times could...
00:48:18.23\00:48:19.73
Listen carefully
now 'cause this is where
00:48:19.76\00:48:21.66
you gonna hear
stuff you never heard.
00:48:21.70\00:48:23.26
The times are critical.
00:48:23.30\00:48:26.84
They could
hardly be more critical.
00:48:26.87\00:48:33.24
Life as we know
it is rather rapidly
00:48:33.27\00:48:37.51
moving towards
some sort of showdown,
00:48:37.55\00:48:43.69
sooner by the way
rather than later.
00:48:43.72\00:48:45.62
And I'm going to give
you three exhibits, okay.
00:48:45.65\00:48:47.19
Exhibit number
one, Tuesday night,
00:48:47.22\00:48:50.09
during the election
00:48:50.13\00:48:51.46
the ambassador from
France to the United States
00:48:51.49\00:48:54.10
is sitting there watching,
00:48:54.13\00:48:55.63
and he's just
saying, "What is happening?"
00:48:55.66\00:48:57.57
And he sends out this tweet.
00:48:57.60\00:48:59.40
I'll put it on
the screen for you.
00:48:59.43\00:49:01.70
Sixty-three old,
Gerard Araud tweeted
00:49:01.74\00:49:05.54
and I'm quoting him now.
00:49:05.57\00:49:06.91
After Brexit and
you know what that is.
00:49:06.94\00:49:09.84
"After Brexit and this election,
00:49:09.88\00:49:11.61
everything is now possible.
00:49:11.65\00:49:14.02
A world is
collapsing before our eyes.
00:49:14.05\00:49:17.75
Dizziness."
00:49:17.79\00:49:20.16
He shut that tweet out
according to the UK Mirror.
00:49:20.19\00:49:25.69
Before the night was over,
he wisely deleted the tweet,
00:49:25.73\00:49:30.60
because he will
need to do business
00:49:30.63\00:49:32.90
with the next administration.
00:49:32.93\00:49:35.94
How did he put it?
00:49:35.97\00:49:37.31
A world is
collapsing before our eyes
00:49:37.34\00:49:39.74
faster than we may realize.
00:49:39.77\00:49:41.34
By the way August 15,
00:49:41.38\00:49:42.74
there is a little
meeting going on in Florida
00:49:42.78\00:49:44.85
between one candidate
00:49:44.88\00:49:47.05
in a roomful of
evangelical leaders,
00:49:47.08\00:49:49.55
pastors we call them.
00:49:49.58\00:49:51.72
Time Magazine
happen to catch that,
00:49:51.75\00:49:55.49
reported on it
time.com, you can Google it.
00:49:55.52\00:49:58.99
Get the right key
words and you'll find it.
00:49:59.03\00:50:02.03
"In a startling off-the-cuff
speech, just a few lines,
00:50:02.06\00:50:05.33
to a gathering of
pastors in Florida last week,
00:50:05.37\00:50:08.57
Trump threw away
his prepared remarks
00:50:08.60\00:50:10.24
and promised, over and over,
to give evangelical churches
00:50:10.27\00:50:13.27
the power to essentially spend
00:50:13.31\00:50:15.28
unlimited sums of
tax-exempt money on politics.
00:50:15.31\00:50:19.98
Nearly 80
percent of evangelicals
00:50:20.02\00:50:22.22
already support Trump.
00:50:22.25\00:50:23.59
It is one of his
largest supportive demographics
00:50:23.62\00:50:26.09
and one of the GOP's
most reliable voting blocks."
00:50:26.12\00:50:30.56
Now listen to this.
00:50:30.59\00:50:33.19
In the middle of a
speech, Trump told the pastors
00:50:33.23\00:50:37.37
that evangelical voters
would make the difference
00:50:37.40\00:50:39.50
in key battleground
states like Florida, Virginia,
00:50:39.53\00:50:42.04
Ohio and Pennsylvania."
00:50:42.07\00:50:44.24
Who knew?
00:50:44.27\00:50:46.37
Those were the
battleground states?
00:50:46.41\00:50:48.08
You have a chance,
I'm quoting Trump now.
00:50:51.18\00:50:52.88
"You have a
chance to do something
00:50:52.91\00:50:54.42
that will be
earth shaking," he said.
00:50:54.45\00:50:56.89
"I literally mean
it, earth shaking.
00:50:56.92\00:50:59.22
You got to get your
people out to vote."
00:50:59.25\00:51:03.12
And I continue to
read now this quote,
00:51:03.16\00:51:05.19
"If white evangelical Christians
00:51:05.23\00:51:07.86
put him in the White House,
00:51:07.90\00:51:09.33
he promised to
return the favor."
00:51:09.36\00:51:14.40
Well, they did.
00:51:14.44\00:51:17.84
What was the favor by the way?
00:51:17.87\00:51:19.97
To no longer make
it illegal for church.
00:51:20.01\00:51:22.51
Churches has spend tax dollars
00:51:22.54\00:51:25.41
in publishing
their points of view.
00:51:25.45\00:51:29.22
Trump told the gathering,
00:51:29.25\00:51:30.72
I know what your
attendance has been like
00:51:30.75\00:51:32.35
in evangelical churches.
00:51:32.39\00:51:34.22
Am I right he said.
Oh, they said right.
00:51:34.26\00:51:36.86
When I get in office,
00:51:36.89\00:51:38.49
I'm going to turn
that graph right around
00:51:38.53\00:51:42.10
and your attendance will go up.
00:51:42.13\00:51:45.57
Vote for me.
00:51:45.60\00:51:49.04
Since when is it the concern
00:51:49.07\00:51:50.41
of the president
of the United States
00:51:50.44\00:51:52.64
worship
attendance in synagogues,
00:51:52.67\00:51:56.54
mosques or churches,
00:51:56.58\00:51:59.81
legislate to
raise the attendance.
00:51:59.85\00:52:02.85
Are you serious?
00:52:02.88\00:52:05.99
Time Magazine, November
14, that's two days away yet.
00:52:06.02\00:52:11.46
Cover picture, I
want you to see it.
00:52:11.49\00:52:13.73
We'll pull a
camera in on it for you.
00:52:13.76\00:52:15.80
The two candidates,
00:52:15.83\00:52:17.47
you recognize the
candidates of course.
00:52:17.50\00:52:19.70
They put a sign in
their hands and the sign says,
00:52:19.73\00:52:23.30
"The End is Near."
00:52:23.34\00:52:26.27
Now of course the editors
of Time Magazine are saying,
00:52:26.31\00:52:28.28
"Hey, guys good news,
this campaign is about over."
00:52:28.31\00:52:31.81
But you know what?
00:52:31.85\00:52:33.18
Whatever the art
director was thinking
00:52:33.21\00:52:34.88
when he posted these
words "The End is Near",
00:52:34.92\00:52:38.55
from someone who is
assigned by the faith community
00:52:38.59\00:52:41.96
to stand on the
walls on tippy toe
00:52:41.99\00:52:44.79
and to keep an eye
00:52:44.83\00:52:46.76
on what is
developing in the nation
00:52:46.80\00:52:48.86
for someone like that.
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This is more than a
coincidental piece of art.
00:52:51.27\00:52:57.01
I remind you that
the voting coalition
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had put the
president elect in office
00:53:00.54\00:53:02.24
was a coalition to
whom he promised the moon
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if they would get out and vote.
00:53:04.61\00:53:06.48
How did he put
it to those pastors?
00:53:06.51\00:53:07.85
"You have a
chance to do something
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that will be earth shaking."
00:53:09.25\00:53:10.59
I literally mean it.
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Earth shaking, you got
to get your people to vote.
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When I read the Apocalypse 13
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as I read again in
between services just pondering.
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Revelation 13, it
isn't rocket science
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to read the
description of a time
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when this nation will be
faced with her own survival,
00:53:26.00\00:53:29.20
and for the sake of
the nation security,
00:53:29.24\00:53:31.57
it is clear that
the majority will choose
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to sacrifice a minority
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in order to stay, to stay.
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Revelation 13,
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all you need is a
charismatic leader
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who knows how to
touch the buttons of fear
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and the longing for
security, it's all you need.
00:53:59.37\00:54:05.07
And you can convince a nation.
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I'm just
saying, I'm just saying,
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you can get there from here.
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I want to put a
quotation on the screen.
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From an apocalyptic classic
called Great Controversy.
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May I read it right here.
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"When the leading
churches of the United States,
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uniting upon such
points of doctrine
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as are held by them in common,
00:54:30.13\00:54:31.47
shall influence the state..."
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Put me in office.
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I'll look out for you.
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"When they shall
influence the state
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to enforce their decrees
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and to sustain
their institutions..."
00:54:42.71\00:54:44.88
I'll get the attendance backup.
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"Then Protestant
America will have formed
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an image of the Roman hierarchy,
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and the
infliction of civil penalties
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upon dissenters
will inevitably result."
00:54:54.06\00:54:57.33
You can get there from here,
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which is why and
this is my biggest burden.
00:55:03.43\00:55:07.20
Which is why we have got
to get out into America now.
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We have no clue.
00:55:12.81\00:55:14.51
We had no clue seven
days ago, we have no clue now.
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What's going to
happen in two weeks?
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We don't know.
00:55:18.98\00:55:20.42
But if we don't go to America...
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then one day
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someone will slam
the door of opportunity
00:55:27.89\00:55:32.76
shut forever.
00:55:32.79\00:55:38.93
We've got to go,
get your education, go.
00:55:38.97\00:55:43.67
You're here, move out.
00:55:43.71\00:55:46.37
Don't sell the
house, just get involved,
00:55:46.41\00:55:48.78
immersed in a life of nation
00:55:48.81\00:55:53.11
nearing, nearing,
nearing the edge of eternity.
00:55:53.15\00:55:59.62
I want to pray with you.
00:56:03.09\00:56:04.89
Oh, God,
00:56:04.93\00:56:06.26
we can't just let this be
some moment of inspiration
00:56:06.29\00:56:09.76
and oh, good
well, I feel better now.
00:56:09.80\00:56:11.93
No, no, no, God please,
00:56:11.97\00:56:14.10
impress our hearts that
we have to do something.
00:56:14.14\00:56:17.27
We have to become
engaged in the church again.
00:56:17.31\00:56:19.87
We have to become
immersed in this country again.
00:56:19.91\00:56:22.54
We can no longer stand,
sit, lie on the sidelines.
00:56:22.58\00:56:28.85
It's critical, the time.
00:56:28.88\00:56:32.12
Heaven is ready to move.
00:56:32.15\00:56:35.46
Those who are bowed
before you right now God,
00:56:35.49\00:56:37.93
what an army,
00:56:37.96\00:56:41.16
what ambassadors You have
00:56:41.20\00:56:44.47
that could fan
across this great nation.
00:56:44.50\00:56:47.60
One last time do
whatever it takes,
00:56:47.64\00:56:50.64
don't let us be the same again
00:56:50.67\00:56:52.61
because of this hour
00:56:52.64\00:56:54.91
of national and global history.
00:56:54.94\00:56:59.78
For Jesus, we
will do it for Jesus.
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In his name we pray, amen.
00:57:06.09\00:57:11.43
I want to take a next moment
to thank you for joining us
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in worship today.
00:57:13.63\00:57:15.30
It's by the continued
support from viewers like you
00:57:15.33\00:57:17.30
that we're able to
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00:57:17.33\00:57:20.20
Today I want to
invite you though,
00:57:20.24\00:57:21.60
to share with us how
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00:57:21.64\00:57:24.34
Truth is I get
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letters from viewers,
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Sharing with us how
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00:57:30.45\00:57:32.31
through this program,
00:57:32.35\00:57:33.68
and I'd love to
hear from you as well.
00:57:33.72\00:57:35.28
It's not that
hard, simple really.
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Just visit our
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It's one word.
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and click on the contact
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Shoot me that email.
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Once again, thank
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00:57:47.56\00:57:49.50
Thank you by the way
for your own support,
00:57:49.53\00:57:51.63
that supporters will keep
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reaching America,
reaching North America
00:57:55.17\00:57:58.01
and reaching the planet.
00:57:58.04\00:58:00.08
That kind of
generosity that you share
00:58:00.11\00:58:02.41
is a huge boost
and blessing to us.
00:58:02.44\00:58:05.38
And I hope you'll join
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'cause we'll be here.
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In the mean time,
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God be with you and
bless you real good.
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