How lovely is
Your dwelling place
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Oh, Lord Almighty
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For my soul longs
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And even faints for You
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For here my heart is satisfied
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Within Your presence
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I sing beneath the shadow
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Of Your wings
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Better is one day In Your courts
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Better is one day In Your house
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Better is one day In Your courts
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one day In Your courts
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Better is one day in Your house
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Better is one day In Your courts
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Than thousands elsewhere
Than thousands elsewhere
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One thing I ask
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And I would seek
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To see Your beauty
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To find You in the place
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Your glory dwells
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Better is one day In Your courts
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Better is one day in Your house
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Better is one day In Your courts
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one day In Your courts
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Better is one day in Your house
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Better is one day In Your courts
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one
day Better is one day
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Better is one day
Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one day
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Better is one
day Better is one day
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Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one
day Better is one day
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Better is one day
Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one
day Better is one day
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Better is one day
Than thousands elsewhere
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Better is one
day Better is one day
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Better is one day
Than thousands elsewhere
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Than thousands elsewhere
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In Christ alone
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My hope is found He
is my light My strength
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My song This Cornerstone
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This solid ground
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Firm through the
Fiercest Drought and storm
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What heights of love
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What depths of peace
When fears are stilled
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When strivings
cease My Comforter,
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My all in all
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Here in the love
Of Christ I stand
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In Christ alone
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Who took on flesh
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Fullness of God
In the helpless Babe
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This gift of love
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And righteousness
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Scorned by the
ones He came to save
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'Til on that cross As Jesus died
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The wrath of God Was satisfied
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For every sin On Him was laid
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Here in the
death Of Christ I live
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There in the ground
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His body lay Light of the world
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By darkness slain
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Then bursting
forth In glorious day
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Up from the grave He rose again
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And as He stands in victory
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Sin's curse has
lost Its grip on me
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For I am His and He is mine
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Bought with the
precious Blood Of Christ
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On Christ The Solid Rock I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other ground Is sinking sand
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On Christ The Solid Rock I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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No guilt in
life No fear in death
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This is the
power Of Christ in me
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From life's first
cry To final breath
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Jesus commands my destiny
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No pow'r of
hell No scheme of man
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Can ever pluck Me From His hand
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'Til He returns
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And calls me home
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Here in the power
Of Christ I'll stand.
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Amen.
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The song started
sing in Christ alone
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our hope is found.
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So the ground
around us might be shaky,
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the world around
us might be shaky,
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but on Christ,
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the solid rock
that we can stand on,
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we stand in His power
and we stand in His love.
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So that means,
let us praise Him.
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Let us cry, holy, holy,
holy, to the Lamb of God.
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So I invite you to stand with us
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as we sing the song.
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We fall down We lay our crowns
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At the feet of Jesus
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The greatness Of
His mercy and love
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At the feet of Jesus
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And we cry holy, holy, holy
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We cry holy, holy, holy
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We cry holy,
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Holy, holy
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Is the lamb
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We fall down We lay our crowns
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At the feet of Jesus
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The greatness Of
His mercy and love
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At the feet of Jesus
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And we cry holy,
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Holy, holy
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We cry holy,
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Holy, holy
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We cry holy,
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Holy, holy
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Is the lamb
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And we cry holy,
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holy, holy
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We cry holy,
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holy, holy
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We cry holy,
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holy, holy
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Is the lamb
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I'd like to welcome
a good friend of mine,
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Brian Manley,
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Professor of Art and
Design at Middle East University
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in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Brian, welcome.
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We're glad to
have you with us today.
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Thank you very much Glenn.
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You know, Brian,
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Middle East
University has a special place,
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a connection with
Andrews University
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and Pioneer Memorial Church,
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because many times
church members from here
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and students have
visited on our friendship teams
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every year as we go over.
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And you have a connection
to Pioneer Memorial Church.
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You first came on
this campus as a young man
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if I remember, right?
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That's right.
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Late grade school and
most of my high school years
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I was a member of
Pioneer Memorial Church.
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And now you're art
professor in Beirut, Lebanon,
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Middle East University.
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You were there
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when this terrible
explosion took place.
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Could you
describe that for us again?
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Well, for me personally,
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I was just heading
home from the office.
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And it's about 6
o'clock in the evening,
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and I climbed into the elevator.
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And as I was getting the
elevator of our apartment,
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I stepped out for just a second.
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And the delay was critical
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because the blast
which a few seconds later
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exploded window and
door in our apartment
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and would have just
embedded me with shards.
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I was in the elevator
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and just pausing for a
minute to pull something in
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and there was a
massive explosion.
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And when about the time
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I got upstairs a
few seconds later,
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I could see glass everywhere
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in the front
room of our apartment.
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And this was the case
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of hundreds and thousands
of people across Lebanon
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and many of them
were in their residence
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when the glass shattered
from that huge explosion.
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So the largest,
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we think peacetime explosion
in human history took place
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as this explosion ripped
through the city of Beirut.
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Hundreds of thousands
of people left homeless,
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several thousand injured,
a few hundred were killed.
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But the
devastation is everywhere.
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I had to go downtown
that evening to with my wife
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to pick up someone
who was stranded downtown
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and the
devastation was unbelievable.
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There's so many bleeding people,
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suffering people
and just broken homes.
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So describe a little bit
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the kind of
damage to the buildings,
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the streets and
so forth, please?
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Yes, anything that was glass
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pretty much broken
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in more probably more
than a three kilometer radius.
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So many windows,
facades of buildings,
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banks were completely,
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any glass facade to a
building was totally destroyed.
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There were places
we were driving through
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probably two or
three inches worth of glass
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on the main roads
going through downtown.
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People slipping and falling
on the glass like it was ice.
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It's just, it was
a horrible nightmare,
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real nightmare.
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What has been the response
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of the Adventist Church
community to this tragedy?
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Yes, we have a nice
coordinated group of students
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who are partnering with ADRA
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to help clean up our
local church members,
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our students,
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and we're also
partnering with some local NGOs
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to just do whatever
each community needs
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and work with other
groups of young people
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who are helping to clean up,
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they're just going door to door
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helping people try
to rearrange their life,
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get rid of all the glass
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that's embedded throughout
the apartments down there
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and meet people's needs.
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The university
suffered some damage
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but it wasn't extensive.
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We're thankful for that.
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But many of the students
who come from off campus
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probably had some
suffering loss of homes
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or family members or jobs.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Now, the Lebanese
economy was already in trouble.
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And the Coronavirus
has multiplied that.
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And now this catastrophe
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has placed a huge
economic burden on the country.
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The church family there
has been providing food,
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ADRA is
assisting, there's many NGOs.
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What would be one thing
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that you would say is
most needed at this point?
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It's rebuilding the future lives
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and keeping the young people
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from missing too much
00:15:43.07\00:15:47.04
of their educational experience.
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And we're thankful that
here at Pioneer Memorial Church,
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we have an
impact for Lebanon fund
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that people here can assist you
00:15:53.78\00:15:55.75
in that process
and partner with you.
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Young people need hope and
encouragement at this time,
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don't they?
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They do.
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So there's a need for prayer
and for carrying on your cases.
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Anything else you
would want to add?
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I would just like to
thank you Pastor Russell
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and also the
extended church family
00:16:12.47\00:16:16.00
and the body there
at Pioneer Memorial
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and in that
community for praying,
00:16:18.41\00:16:20.54
lifting up Lebanon,
00:16:20.58\00:16:22.31
lifting up this
institution here.
00:16:22.34\00:16:24.81
And for all
those who have donated,
00:16:24.85\00:16:27.42
who've sacrificed,
00:16:27.45\00:16:29.12
who are reaching
out and concerned.
00:16:29.15\00:16:31.12
Thank you. Thank you very much.
00:16:31.15\00:16:32.55
It's
encouraging, it's inspiring.
00:16:32.59\00:16:34.56
It is helping everyone to
move forward together here.
00:16:34.59\00:16:38.06
It's a wonderful thing to
be part of the family of God
00:16:38.09\00:16:40.53
globally, as well as locally.
00:16:40.56\00:16:42.63
Amen.
00:16:42.66\00:16:44.00
God bless you, Brian.
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Thank you.
00:16:45.47\00:16:46.80
The Andrews University
singers are going to sing a song
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entitled "Precious Lord."
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It's written on a
familiar hymn tune
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written by the
end of 19th century
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by George Allen.
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The lyrics were written in 1938
by the Reverend Thomas Dorsey.
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And they were written
out of extreme bereavement
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and grief over
the death of his wife,
00:17:13.56\00:17:16.23
while giving child birth
in the midst of childbirth,
00:17:16.26\00:17:19.63
the child also died.
00:17:19.67\00:17:21.57
So out of that
pain and suffering
00:17:21.60\00:17:24.17
came this particular song.
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Then in 1968,
00:17:26.04\00:17:29.08
people added another context
00:17:29.11\00:17:32.88
to this piece of
bereavement and hope.
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And you will hear quotes
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from the Martin
Luther King's speech
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that he made on the March
on Washington 57 years ago,
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where you will hear,
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"I have been to the mountain,
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I've seen the Promised Land."
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You will hear
with conviction says,
00:17:51.13\00:17:54.64
"I have dreamed a great dream
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that thy love
will rule our land."
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And then finally,
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"For that day
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when all flesh joins
the glory thou has planned.
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Precious Lord, take my hand."
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Precious Lord
00:18:34.11\00:18:38.21
Take my hand
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Bring me home
00:18:43.99\00:18:48.09
Through the night
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Through the dark
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Through the storm
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To thy light
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I have been
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To the mount
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I have seen
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The Promised Land
00:19:23.12\00:19:29.23
Precious Lord
00:19:29.26\00:19:34.10
Precious Lord
00:19:34.14\00:19:38.81
Take my hand
00:19:38.84\00:19:43.55
Precious Lord
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Take my hand
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Bring thy child
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Home at last
00:20:01.30\00:20:05.87
Where the strife
00:20:05.90\00:20:09.94
And the pain
00:20:09.97\00:20:14.01
all are past
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I have dreamed
00:20:22.38\00:20:26.19
A great dream
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That love
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Shall rule our land
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Precious Lord
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Precious Lord
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Take my hand
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Precious Lord
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Take my hand
00:21:08.53\00:21:11.17
Take thy child
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Unto Thee
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With the dream
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Of a world
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That is free
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For that day
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When all flesh
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Joins the glory
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Thou hast planned
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Precious Lord
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Precious Lord
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Take my hand Take my hand
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Our scripture reading today
is found in 1 Peter 2:13-16.
00:22:45.43\00:22:52.07
And we're reading
from the NIV version.
00:22:52.10\00:22:55.80
"Submit yourselves
00:22:55.84\00:22:57.17
for the Lord's sake
to every human authority:
00:22:57.21\00:23:00.14
whether to the emperor,
00:23:00.18\00:23:02.21
as the supreme
authority, or to governors,
00:23:02.24\00:23:05.71
who are sent by him
00:23:05.75\00:23:07.25
to punish those who do wrong
00:23:07.28\00:23:09.38
and to commend
those who do right."
00:23:09.42\00:23:12.99
"For it is God's will
00:23:13.02\00:23:14.92
that by doing good
00:23:14.96\00:23:16.29
you should silence
00:23:16.32\00:23:17.66
the ignorant talk
of foolish people.
00:23:17.69\00:23:20.93
Live as free people,
00:23:20.96\00:23:22.86
do not use your
freedom as a cover-up for evil,
00:23:22.90\00:23:27.64
live as God's slaves."
00:23:27.67\00:23:30.07
Precious Lord, take our
hand, that's our prayer.
00:23:33.24\00:23:37.88
We mean it,
00:23:37.91\00:23:39.35
so beautifully
rendered by our singers.
00:23:39.38\00:23:41.72
Good to have the students back.
00:23:41.75\00:23:45.25
We have a few
moments left in worship,
00:23:45.29\00:23:46.99
we've been much
at worship already.
00:23:47.02\00:23:50.39
Take these moments in
Your Word, let it be clear.
00:23:50.43\00:23:54.20
Hide the noises inside of us
00:23:54.23\00:23:56.06
so that the
voice of Jesus' spirit,
00:23:56.10\00:23:58.53
we can hear Him best of all,
00:23:58.57\00:24:00.90
we pray in Christ's name.
00:24:00.94\00:24:03.37
Amen.
00:24:03.41\00:24:06.74
I read an old book this summer,
00:24:06.78\00:24:09.38
pulled it off my shelf.
00:24:09.41\00:24:10.75
Read it again.
00:24:10.78\00:24:12.11
It's Charles Dickens'
classic, "A Tale of Two Cities."
00:24:12.15\00:24:17.85
Set between London and Paris
00:24:17.89\00:24:19.75
during that awful,
awful French Revolution.
00:24:19.79\00:24:24.63
Look it, I'm
preaching to the choir now
00:24:24.66\00:24:25.99
for sure because
you read the book,
00:24:26.03\00:24:27.36
I understand that.
00:24:27.40\00:24:28.76
I even believe
00:24:28.80\00:24:30.13
that you
remember the first line,
00:24:30.17\00:24:32.13
the opening words
of Dickens' classic.
00:24:32.17\00:24:36.00
It was the best of times.
00:24:36.04\00:24:39.67
It was the worst of times.
00:24:39.71\00:24:42.44
Let's put that on the screen.
00:24:42.48\00:24:43.81
It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times.
00:24:43.85\00:24:47.75
Somebody printed a T-shirt,
probably an English major,
00:24:47.78\00:24:50.22
I'm guessing, printed a
T-shirt with these words on it.
00:24:50.25\00:24:53.36
I wish you would
make up your mind
00:24:56.46\00:24:57.79
Mr. Dickens,
00:24:57.83\00:24:59.53
was it the best of
times, or the worst of times,
00:24:59.56\00:25:01.73
it could
scarcely have been both.
00:25:01.76\00:25:05.63
But as far as the
French Revolution is concerned,
00:25:05.67\00:25:08.30
it was both, the
best and the worst.
00:25:08.34\00:25:11.41
And as far as America
is concerned, right now,
00:25:11.44\00:25:14.18
it is the best of times,
it is the worst of times.
00:25:14.21\00:25:18.98
And nobody knows
what's coming next.
00:25:19.01\00:25:23.75
Trying to scare me, Dwight?
00:25:23.79\00:25:26.35
Just connecting
with you, I assure you.
00:25:26.39\00:25:31.66
We're looking, watching,
00:25:31.69\00:25:34.60
listening, praying.
00:25:34.63\00:25:39.17
But I want to
take a moment with you
00:25:39.20\00:25:42.40
and explore
that story of France.
00:25:42.44\00:25:45.07
I want us to go back to
France, the French Revolution,
00:25:45.11\00:25:47.58
they call it the Red Terror.
00:25:47.61\00:25:50.28
The key players in Dickens' book
00:25:50.31\00:25:52.98
are trapped in the web,
00:25:53.01\00:25:54.62
between those two cities.
00:25:54.65\00:25:57.52
Not just to
relive France's story,
00:25:57.55\00:25:59.29
but perhaps so that we might
better know America's story,
00:25:59.32\00:26:03.86
and that we might pray
00:26:03.89\00:26:07.56
for the ending that's coming.
00:26:07.60\00:26:11.30
That it may not be
what we think it could be.
00:26:11.33\00:26:16.87
So let's start
with a story of France.
00:26:16.91\00:26:19.24
Back in the late 1700s,
00:26:19.27\00:26:21.21
that's when the
French Revolution took place.
00:26:21.24\00:26:23.81
They had three
classes in society,
00:26:23.85\00:26:27.12
they called them estates.
00:26:27.15\00:26:28.48
All right, they
had the first estate
00:26:28.52\00:26:29.85
that would be the clergy,
they had the second estate,
00:26:29.88\00:26:31.82
that would be the nobility,
they had the third estate,
00:26:31.85\00:26:34.32
that would be the bourgeoisie,
00:26:34.36\00:26:36.06
and then on down to the peasants
00:26:36.09\00:26:37.46
and down to the
very bottom of the rung.
00:26:37.49\00:26:40.80
So I got a book in my library
00:26:40.83\00:26:42.16
called "Survey of
European Civilization."
00:26:42.20\00:26:44.93
Let's put a few
words from that book
00:26:44.97\00:26:46.74
on the screen here.
00:26:46.77\00:26:48.10
"The feudal stratification
of society into three classes,"
00:26:48.14\00:26:52.81
back then,
00:26:52.84\00:26:54.18
"had become unjust
00:26:54.21\00:26:55.54
and illogical by
the 18th century."
00:26:55.58\00:26:57.05
So we're talking the
late 1700s. All right.
00:26:57.08\00:26:59.55
"In France, a country with
perhaps 25 million people,"
00:26:59.58\00:27:02.68
back then,
00:27:02.72\00:27:04.05
"the clergy and nobility
00:27:04.09\00:27:05.55
constituted less
than 2% of the population,
00:27:05.59\00:27:09.12
yet they enjoyed the income
00:27:09.16\00:27:10.59
from the richest
lands of the kingdom,
00:27:10.63\00:27:13.03
were exempted from
the most onerous taxes,
00:27:13.06\00:27:15.86
and occupied by
right of rank the highest
00:27:15.90\00:27:18.33
and best paid
offices in the government,
00:27:18.37\00:27:20.50
the army and the church."
00:27:20.54\00:27:23.34
You don't have
to be an economist.
00:27:23.37\00:27:25.84
You don't have to be a
sociologist to understand
00:27:25.87\00:27:28.61
that with that huge chasm
00:27:28.64\00:27:31.58
between the haves
and the have nots,
00:27:31.61\00:27:33.48
you are set up
for social unrest,
00:27:33.52\00:27:40.32
social unrest to be banned.
00:27:40.36\00:27:43.56
Because you have this,
00:27:43.59\00:27:44.93
you have this, this bourgeoisie,
00:27:44.96\00:27:46.96
that's the middle class,
00:27:47.00\00:27:48.70
and then you go down from them,
00:27:48.73\00:27:50.37
to the artisans
00:27:50.40\00:27:51.73
and the
servants and the peasants
00:27:51.77\00:27:53.10
and then you got the thieves
00:27:53.13\00:27:54.47
and the
vagabonds on the highway.
00:27:54.50\00:27:55.84
To a man and woman,
00:27:55.87\00:27:57.21
everybody despised
that fiscal system.
00:27:57.24\00:28:03.08
I mean, you're
taking the poorest,
00:28:03.11\00:28:05.58
and you're
placing on their shoulders
00:28:05.61\00:28:07.55
the burden of taxation.
00:28:07.58\00:28:11.05
You can't do that.
00:28:11.09\00:28:13.66
Open your Bible with
me to the Book of James.
00:28:13.69\00:28:16.86
James Chapter 5, James,
the step brother of Jesus,
00:28:16.89\00:28:19.76
who wrote this little epistle
00:28:19.79\00:28:21.13
right after the Book of Hebrews,
00:28:21.16\00:28:22.50
it's little hard to find James,
00:28:22.53\00:28:23.87
if you're in a hurry,
00:28:23.90\00:28:25.23
so it's right after
the Book of Hebrews,
00:28:25.27\00:28:26.60
I want to go there.
00:28:26.63\00:28:27.97
I want to just read a few
words without comment to you.
00:28:28.00\00:28:31.21
You got a bright mind,
00:28:31.24\00:28:32.57
you wouldn't be
at Andrews University
00:28:32.61\00:28:33.94
if you didn't.
00:28:33.98\00:28:35.44
I want to think
about these words,
00:28:35.48\00:28:36.81
James Chapter 5.
00:28:36.85\00:28:39.58
I'll be in the New
International Version,
00:28:39.61\00:28:42.52
this is what I
usually preach out of.
00:28:42.55\00:28:43.99
Drop down to verse 3,
00:28:44.02\00:28:45.35
talking about
speaking truth to power.
00:28:45.39\00:28:48.06
James is absolutely
unintimidated and he does.
00:28:48.09\00:28:50.99
Here we go.
00:28:51.03\00:28:52.39
James 5:3,
00:28:52.43\00:28:54.13
"Your gold and
silver are corroded.
00:28:54.16\00:28:57.10
Their corrosion
will testify against you
00:28:57.13\00:28:59.37
and eat your flesh like fire.
00:28:59.40\00:29:01.74
You have hoarded
wealth in the last days."
00:29:01.77\00:29:05.64
Come on, where
is it on the screen,
00:29:05.67\00:29:07.01
in the last days.
00:29:07.04\00:29:09.58
He's talking about
life where he's at.
00:29:09.61\00:29:12.45
But he's looking ahead,
00:29:12.48\00:29:13.82
you have hoarded
wealth in the last days.
00:29:13.85\00:29:16.82
Look verse 4,
00:29:16.85\00:29:18.49
"The wages you
failed to pay the workers
00:29:18.52\00:29:19.99
who mowed your fields
are crying out against you.
00:29:20.02\00:29:22.36
The cries of the harvesters
00:29:22.39\00:29:23.73
have reached the
ears of the Lord Almighty.
00:29:23.76\00:29:26.03
Lord, Sabbath oath,
Lord of angel armies.
00:29:26.06\00:29:28.06
Verse 5,
00:29:28.10\00:29:29.43
"You have lived on earth
in luxury and self-indulgence.
00:29:29.46\00:29:33.03
You have fattened yourselves
in the day of slaughter.
00:29:33.07\00:29:35.47
You have condemned and
murdered the innocent one,
00:29:35.50\00:29:37.87
who was not opposing you."
00:29:37.91\00:29:40.64
Wow.
00:29:40.68\00:29:42.01
That's French
Revolution written all over it.
00:29:42.04\00:29:44.01
But to be fair,
00:29:47.05\00:29:49.28
it is also America
00:29:49.32\00:29:51.19
on the eve of who
knows what, anymore.
00:29:51.22\00:29:57.46
The bold American
writer Ellen White
00:29:57.49\00:30:00.53
took the speaking truth
to power words in James 5.
00:30:00.56\00:30:04.47
And she says, listen up.
00:30:04.50\00:30:08.10
Put her words
on the screen here.
00:30:08.14\00:30:09.90
The scripture is James 5,
00:30:09.94\00:30:11.61
describe the
condition of the world
00:30:11.64\00:30:13.27
just before,
00:30:13.31\00:30:14.64
you see these two
words, just before.
00:30:14.68\00:30:19.58
So we just read our picture.
00:30:19.61\00:30:22.18
"They describe the world
00:30:22.22\00:30:23.55
just before Christ
Second Coming of the men
00:30:23.59\00:30:25.52
who by robbery and extortion
are amassing great riches,
00:30:25.55\00:30:28.62
colossal fortune,"
00:30:28.66\00:30:29.99
she describes it
elsewhere in that same book.
00:30:30.03\00:30:31.99
"James the apostle pictures
the greed and oppression
00:30:32.03\00:30:35.76
that will prevail.
00:30:35.80\00:30:37.13
This is a
picture of what exists."
00:30:37.17\00:30:39.43
What's that last word?
00:30:39.47\00:30:41.64
This is a picture
of what exists today
00:30:41.67\00:30:43.81
on this planet in this nation,
00:30:43.84\00:30:46.37
just like France
00:30:46.41\00:30:47.74
on the eve of the
French Revolution,
00:30:47.78\00:30:49.81
the Red Terror.
00:30:49.84\00:30:51.18
Now, Dwight, give me a break.
00:30:54.32\00:30:56.99
Little bit of
hyperbole from you.
00:30:57.02\00:30:58.72
I can see.
00:30:58.75\00:31:00.16
It's not that way.
00:31:00.19\00:31:02.59
Are you serious,
it's not that way?
00:31:02.62\00:31:07.06
Well, Rolling Stone magazine.
00:31:07.10\00:31:09.13
Anybody heard of that magazine?
00:31:09.16\00:31:10.50
Of course, you have.
00:31:10.53\00:31:11.87
Rolling Stone magazine
00:31:11.90\00:31:13.23
this month
00:31:13.27\00:31:15.20
produced a
stunning withering critique
00:31:15.24\00:31:19.87
of our own nation,
00:31:19.91\00:31:21.24
the US of A this month's
copy on the screen right now.
00:31:21.28\00:31:27.12
"In the 1950s,
00:31:27.15\00:31:29.28
marginal tax rates
for the wealthy were 90%."
00:31:29.32\00:31:32.45
Wow, they paid that much tax?
00:31:32.49\00:31:34.22
They did.
00:31:34.26\00:31:35.72
"The salaries of CEOs
00:31:35.76\00:31:37.46
back then were on
average just 20 times
00:31:37.49\00:31:40.16
that of their mid
management employees.
00:31:40.20\00:31:42.93
Today,
00:31:42.96\00:31:44.30
the base pay of those
at the top is commonly
00:31:44.33\00:31:46.67
400 times that of
their salaried staff,
00:31:46.70\00:31:51.07
with many earning
orders of magnitude
00:31:51.11\00:31:54.18
more in stock options and perks.
00:31:54.21\00:31:57.38
The elite 1% of Americans today
00:31:57.41\00:32:01.08
control $30 trillion of assets
00:32:01.12\00:32:04.42
while the bottom half of America
00:32:04.45\00:32:06.69
have more debt than assets."
00:32:06.72\00:32:09.22
Keep reading.
00:32:09.26\00:32:10.59
"The three richest
Americans have more money
00:32:10.63\00:32:12.63
than the poorest 160
million of their countrymen."
00:32:12.66\00:32:16.60
Keep reading.
00:32:16.63\00:32:17.97
"Fully a fifth of
American households
00:32:18.00\00:32:19.50
have zero or negative net worth
00:32:19.53\00:32:21.84
a figure that
rises from 20% to 37%
00:32:21.87\00:32:25.27
for black families."
00:32:25.31\00:32:26.71
Keep reading.
00:32:26.74\00:32:28.08
"The median wealth
of black households
00:32:28.11\00:32:29.84
is a tenth that of whites.
00:32:29.88\00:32:31.81
The vast majority of Americans,
00:32:31.85\00:32:33.18
white, black and brown
are two paychecks removed
00:32:33.21\00:32:36.65
from bankruptcy."
00:32:36.69\00:32:38.02
Keep reading.
00:32:38.05\00:32:39.39
"Though living in a nation
00:32:39.42\00:32:40.76
that celebrates itself as
the wealthiest in history,
00:32:40.79\00:32:43.39
most Americans
today live on a high wire
00:32:43.43\00:32:45.96
with no safety
net to brace a fall. "
00:32:45.99\00:32:50.77
Don't you tell me
00:32:50.80\00:32:52.93
that the eve of
the French Revolution
00:32:52.97\00:32:54.77
is not what we're
living with today in America.
00:32:54.80\00:32:58.91
What was it that
took France down?
00:33:02.24\00:33:04.75
It was that economic
system with its obscene divide
00:33:04.78\00:33:07.42
between the
haves and the have nots
00:33:07.45\00:33:10.02
that incited the
bottom of the society
00:33:10.05\00:33:13.25
to band together
and move to anarchy
00:33:13.29\00:33:16.19
in the streets of the land.
00:33:16.22\00:33:18.19
And they took down the clergy.
00:33:21.23\00:33:24.07
They took down the throne
00:33:24.10\00:33:26.47
and they took down the nobility.
00:33:26.50\00:33:30.24
Stormed the Bastille.
00:33:30.27\00:33:33.88
Red Terror,
00:33:33.91\00:33:35.24
they did it through
00:33:35.28\00:33:36.61
what the French
called Madame la Guillotine,
00:33:36.64\00:33:40.65
la Guillotine.
00:33:40.68\00:33:44.32
A Tale of Two Cities
00:33:44.35\00:33:47.26
is a story of
people caught in the web
00:33:47.29\00:33:50.53
of that tragic,
tragic moment long ago.
00:33:50.56\00:33:56.26
And we thought it
was the story of France.
00:33:56.30\00:33:59.97
And it feels like
the story of America.
00:34:00.00\00:34:03.20
America.
00:34:06.24\00:34:09.61
America.
00:34:09.64\00:34:12.58
God shed His grace on thee...
00:34:12.61\00:34:18.29
It's a sad song, isn't it?
00:34:23.26\00:34:24.59
And crown thy
good with brotherhood,
00:34:28.43\00:34:34.14
from sea to shining sea.
00:34:34.17\00:34:38.11
Mercy.
00:34:38.14\00:34:40.71
Question.
00:34:40.74\00:34:43.01
Well, what brought
France down, bring America down?
00:34:43.04\00:34:46.92
Answer.
00:34:46.95\00:34:48.65
Probably not.
00:34:48.68\00:34:50.89
It'll be worse.
00:34:50.92\00:34:53.59
And yet how pristine
America's storied beginning was,
00:34:53.62\00:34:58.13
we can find that beginning
right here in the apocalypse,
00:34:58.16\00:35:02.06
our prophecy for today.
00:35:02.10\00:35:03.90
Turn out to the
Book of Revelation,
00:35:03.93\00:35:05.43
Revelation Chapter
13, middle of your book,
00:35:05.47\00:35:08.40
Revelation Chapter 13.
00:35:08.44\00:35:11.07
Here it goes, just one line.
00:35:11.11\00:35:13.88
Revelation 13:11.
00:35:13.91\00:35:16.81
"Then I saw a second
beast coming out of the earth.
00:35:16.85\00:35:22.68
It had two horns like a lamb,
00:35:22.72\00:35:25.85
but it spoke like a dragon."
00:35:25.89\00:35:29.69
Welcome to the apocalyptic world
00:35:29.72\00:35:32.33
of scary and weird beasts.
00:35:32.36\00:35:37.30
Daniel was full of them.
00:35:37.33\00:35:39.03
Revelation is full of them.
00:35:39.07\00:35:41.17
But those scary and weird beasts
00:35:41.20\00:35:43.51
are apocalyptic symbols
designed to cloak and hide,
00:35:43.54\00:35:47.51
except for the careful
student of Holy Scripture.
00:35:47.54\00:35:50.75
A nation, a kingdom,
a power and institution.
00:35:50.78\00:35:55.22
So what's this earth beast,
00:35:55.25\00:35:57.42
as we call it, because
it came out of the earth?
00:35:57.45\00:35:59.92
What is this
kingdom? What is this nation?
00:35:59.95\00:36:01.72
What is this power?
00:36:01.76\00:36:03.09
Fortunately,
there are enough clues
00:36:03.12\00:36:05.59
embedded here for us
to come to a conclusion.
00:36:05.63\00:36:08.23
Let's just run a few clues by.
00:36:08.26\00:36:09.86
Clue number one.
00:36:09.90\00:36:11.83
We've just read
it, it sprang up.
00:36:11.87\00:36:14.30
Well, it didn't
read it that way.
00:36:14.34\00:36:15.67
But an albino,
00:36:15.70\00:36:17.04
which is the Greek
word that John uses
00:36:17.07\00:36:18.41
is the same word Matthew uses
00:36:18.44\00:36:19.77
when Jesus tells us
parable of the sower,
00:36:19.81\00:36:22.04
and He threw some seed down,
00:36:22.08\00:36:23.48
and the fissile
sprang up overnight and just,
00:36:23.51\00:36:28.08
that's the word.
00:36:28.12\00:36:30.02
So whatever this
power is, we don't know yet.
00:36:30.05\00:36:32.32
But whatever this power is,
00:36:32.35\00:36:33.69
it suddenly is on the
stage of human history.
00:36:33.72\00:36:37.39
Boom, it sprang up.
00:36:37.43\00:36:38.89
Clue number two.
00:36:38.93\00:36:40.26
And it sprang up from the earth.
00:36:42.96\00:36:47.04
Now that's a key point,
00:36:47.07\00:36:48.40
the earth because you
see, they're two beasts.
00:36:48.44\00:36:50.44
There are two beasts
here in Revelation 13.
00:36:50.47\00:36:52.41
There's a first beast.
00:36:52.44\00:36:54.38
And if you look
at the first version,
00:36:54.41\00:36:55.74
we're going to have
another study on this
00:36:55.78\00:36:57.11
because America and
this beast, they're tied.
00:36:57.15\00:37:00.55
But this beast,
ferocious and roaring,
00:37:00.58\00:37:03.25
comes dripping out of the sea,
00:37:03.28\00:37:06.65
it comes out of the water,
00:37:06.69\00:37:08.19
the second beast
comes out of the earth.
00:37:08.22\00:37:10.29
And the angel comes to
John in the Apocalypse 17:5
00:37:10.33\00:37:14.33
and he says, "Listen, John,
00:37:14.36\00:37:15.70
I need to tell you
what the water represents."
00:37:15.73\00:37:17.17
So let's take a look.
00:37:17.20\00:37:18.53
You know, you may
have to turn there.
00:37:18.57\00:37:19.90
"Then the angel said to me,
00:37:19.93\00:37:21.27
'The waters you saw
where the prostitute sits,"
00:37:21.30\00:37:23.10
we'll meet her in next Sabbath,
00:37:23.14\00:37:24.57
"are peoples, multitudes,
nations and languages.
00:37:24.61\00:37:27.48
"All right,
00:37:27.51\00:37:28.84
so water represents
the thoroughfare multitude,
00:37:28.88\00:37:33.68
people peopled
crossroads of the world.
00:37:33.72\00:37:37.49
The first beast,
00:37:37.52\00:37:38.85
the sea beast
comes from the water.
00:37:38.89\00:37:41.29
But the second beast
comes not from the sea,
00:37:41.32\00:37:42.66
but from the land.
00:37:42.69\00:37:44.03
What's the land?
00:37:44.06\00:37:45.39
It's the antithesis,
it's the opposite of sea.
00:37:45.43\00:37:47.50
So if the sea is people,
people, people everywhere,
00:37:47.53\00:37:50.30
the land would be no people.
00:37:50.33\00:37:51.70
Where is everybody?
00:37:51.73\00:37:53.23
No thoroughfare of Europe.
00:37:53.27\00:37:55.97
No, no, no, no, no,
00:37:56.00\00:37:57.34
it's just earth and wilderness
and that's where it comes from.
00:37:57.37\00:38:02.51
So what do we know so far?
00:38:02.54\00:38:03.88
Well, what we know is
that there is this earth beast,
00:38:03.91\00:38:07.82
it springs up into existence.
00:38:07.85\00:38:09.48
Whoa, and then it springs
up where everybody isn't,
00:38:09.52\00:38:13.15
not the people of Europe,
00:38:13.19\00:38:14.52
not in the
crossroads of those hears.
00:38:14.56\00:38:18.43
Oh there's a third
clue. Let's put it on.
00:38:18.46\00:38:20.43
Clue number three.
00:38:20.46\00:38:21.80
"Then I saw a second
beast coming out of the earth."
00:38:21.83\00:38:25.63
That word then,
00:38:25.67\00:38:27.04
is an important word
00:38:27.07\00:38:28.40
because when you
see the word then,
00:38:28.44\00:38:29.77
what do you know immediately?
00:38:29.80\00:38:31.14
There's something before,
00:38:31.17\00:38:32.51
there has to be
00:38:32.54\00:38:33.88
because there's some kind
of sequence going on here.
00:38:33.91\00:38:35.24
First, there was the sea beast,
00:38:35.28\00:38:37.65
then there was the earth beast.
00:38:37.68\00:38:40.75
Now we need to find out
00:38:40.78\00:38:42.12
what's happening
just before the word then.
00:38:42.15\00:38:44.52
And if you come back to verse 9,
00:38:44.55\00:38:46.42
this is a Revelation 13,
00:38:46.45\00:38:47.79
just go back to verse 9,
00:38:47.82\00:38:49.22
"Whoever has
ears, let them hear."
00:38:49.26\00:38:51.93
Verse 10, "If anyone
is to go into captivity,
00:38:51.96\00:38:54.26
into captivity, they will go.
00:38:54.30\00:38:56.16
If anyone is to be
killed with a sword,
00:38:56.20\00:38:58.43
with the sword
they will be killed.
00:38:58.47\00:39:00.84
This calls for patient,
00:39:00.87\00:39:02.20
endurance and faithfulness
00:39:02.24\00:39:04.34
on the part of God's people."
00:39:04.37\00:39:11.01
So what's happened
00:39:11.05\00:39:12.38
just before this earth
beast springs into existence?
00:39:12.41\00:39:16.28
Well, there was some power
00:39:16.32\00:39:17.99
that was taking
people into captivity
00:39:18.02\00:39:19.99
and suddenly that power
is taken into captivity.
00:39:20.02\00:39:22.79
There was some power
that was wielding the sword
00:39:22.82\00:39:25.06
and with blood
flowing, eliminating opposition,
00:39:25.09\00:39:28.80
and now that power
00:39:28.83\00:39:30.17
is mortally
wounded by the sword.
00:39:30.20\00:39:32.87
So what's going
on here scholars,
00:39:32.90\00:39:34.70
Bible scholars are quite agreed
that the sea beast's power
00:39:34.74\00:39:40.08
is the power that
ruled the crossroads,
00:39:40.11\00:39:42.31
the people thoroughfares
of the Western world
00:39:42.34\00:39:46.78
back then of Europe.
00:39:46.82\00:39:48.92
For over a millennium
00:39:48.95\00:39:50.49
that power during
the Dark and Middle Ages
00:39:50.52\00:39:53.99
wielded crushing power.
00:39:54.02\00:39:57.76
Here's the endurance
of those who survived.
00:39:57.79\00:40:01.53
Yeah.
00:40:01.56\00:40:04.43
And that power,
suddenly, according to this,
00:40:04.47\00:40:07.74
that we just read,
00:40:07.77\00:40:09.74
that power that
decimated God's faithful,
00:40:09.77\00:40:12.07
who were wielding at the price,
00:40:12.11\00:40:13.54
the supreme price
of their own life,
00:40:13.58\00:40:15.38
to stand in the face
of that power and say,
00:40:15.41\00:40:17.78
I will not
yield to your command.
00:40:17.81\00:40:22.48
God bless them.
00:40:22.52\00:40:24.19
That power got wounded.
00:40:24.22\00:40:28.76
Wouldn't you know it?
00:40:28.79\00:40:30.13
Napoleon Bonaparte,
00:40:30.16\00:40:31.49
a product of the
French Revolution
00:40:31.53\00:40:33.53
gave the orders
to wound that power,
00:40:33.56\00:40:36.77
only he didn't know he
was wounding the power,
00:40:36.80\00:40:38.43
he took the pope captive.
00:40:38.47\00:40:42.40
Scholars believe
that at that time,
00:40:42.44\00:40:47.54
at the end of the 1700s,
00:40:47.58\00:40:50.71
1798, in fact is when
the pope was taken captive,
00:40:50.75\00:40:53.55
at the end of the 1700s,
00:40:53.58\00:40:56.15
then not only did
I see a sea beast,
00:40:56.18\00:40:59.05
I now see an earth beast
00:40:59.09\00:41:00.42
that sprang up out
of nowhere at that time.
00:41:00.46\00:41:03.39
So what do we know now?
00:41:03.43\00:41:04.76
We know that it's sprang up,
00:41:04.79\00:41:06.13
we know that it
came out of nowhere.
00:41:06.16\00:41:07.96
It's a desolate land
somewhere, few people on it.
00:41:08.00\00:41:11.63
We know that it
came into existence
00:41:11.67\00:41:18.44
far from the thoroughfares,
00:41:18.47\00:41:19.81
the crowded
thoroughfares of Europe.
00:41:19.84\00:41:22.11
And we know that it did
it at the end of the 1700s.
00:41:22.14\00:41:24.68
Come on, who is this?
00:41:24.71\00:41:26.05
Well, there's one more clue.
00:41:26.08\00:41:27.42
Let's find out, one more
clue, number four and it,
00:41:27.45\00:41:30.82
this earth beast had
two horns like a lamb.
00:41:30.85\00:41:35.12
Everybody knows that
reads the Apocalypse,
00:41:35.16\00:41:37.69
that the lamb is the Hero,
capital H, Hero of Revelation.
00:41:37.73\00:41:42.13
You know, the lamb
is? Of course, you do.
00:41:42.16\00:41:44.07
The Lamb of God who takes
away the sin of the world,
00:41:44.10\00:41:45.87
the Lamb that was slain
00:41:45.90\00:41:47.24
from the
foundation of the world.
00:41:47.27\00:41:48.90
That line appears three lines
00:41:48.94\00:41:50.61
before what we
are reading right now,
00:41:50.64\00:41:52.37
the lamb that was slain.
00:41:52.41\00:41:53.74
Who is it? That's our King.
00:41:53.78\00:41:55.88
That's King Jesus.
00:41:55.91\00:41:58.18
That's the savior
of the human race.
00:41:58.21\00:42:00.88
That's the Lamb.
00:42:00.92\00:42:02.25
And isn't this
amazing? Now, look it.
00:42:02.28\00:42:03.62
Let's put that
back on the screen
00:42:03.65\00:42:04.99
for a moment, please.
00:42:05.02\00:42:06.35
I wanna see number
four on the screen,
00:42:06.39\00:42:07.72
that this earth beast
power looks like a lamb.
00:42:07.76\00:42:12.83
It has two horns like a lamb.
00:42:12.86\00:42:14.53
It's young,
00:42:14.56\00:42:15.90
because only lamb
ewes have those horns.
00:42:15.93\00:42:18.37
So it's a young lamb.
00:42:18.40\00:42:20.34
It's a gentle lamb.
00:42:20.37\00:42:21.90
It reflects the lamb,
00:42:21.94\00:42:23.27
the lamb slain
00:42:23.30\00:42:24.64
from the
foundation of the world.
00:42:24.67\00:42:26.37
It embraces the Christian,
the Judeo-Christian values,
00:42:26.41\00:42:30.48
it embraces it.
00:42:30.51\00:42:31.85
It looks like,
00:42:31.88\00:42:33.21
you could almost say
it's a Christian nation.
00:42:33.25\00:42:35.35
Wow, what's going on here?
00:42:38.39\00:42:41.92
The apocalyptic
classic, The Great Controversy.
00:42:41.96\00:42:44.16
If you don't have
that book in your library,
00:42:44.19\00:42:45.79
go to amazon.com,
00:42:45.83\00:42:47.16
have it sent to
you in a couple days,
00:42:47.20\00:42:48.53
you'll have it.
00:42:48.56\00:42:49.90
That book is worth
reading at this time
00:42:49.93\00:42:51.93
in the journey of this planet.
00:42:51.97\00:42:54.14
All right, the
apocalyptic classic,
00:42:54.17\00:42:55.60
Great Controversy.
00:42:55.64\00:42:56.97
Let's go to that, and
share a few lines from it.
00:42:57.01\00:43:00.64
"As the tidings spread
00:43:00.68\00:43:02.01
through the countries of Europe,
00:43:02.04\00:43:03.91
of a land where every man
00:43:03.95\00:43:05.81
might enjoy the
fruit of his own labor
00:43:05.85\00:43:07.92
and obey the convictions
of his own conscience,
00:43:07.95\00:43:10.39
thousands flocked
to the shores of the,"
00:43:10.42\00:43:12.92
what are these two words here?
00:43:12.95\00:43:14.72
"The New World."
What's the new world?
00:43:14.76\00:43:16.56
Everybody knows
what the new world is.
00:43:16.59\00:43:18.79
And they were
flocking by the thousands
00:43:18.83\00:43:20.86
leaving the old thoroughfares,
00:43:20.90\00:43:22.76
the crowded
thoroughfares of Europe behind?
00:43:22.80\00:43:24.80
Where are they going?
00:43:24.83\00:43:26.17
Let's keep reading here.
00:43:26.20\00:43:27.54
"The Bible," in
that earth beast land,
00:43:27.57\00:43:29.50
"was held as the
foundation of faith,
00:43:29.54\00:43:31.74
the source of wisdom
00:43:31.77\00:43:33.11
and the charter of liberty."
00:43:33.14\00:43:34.81
Oh, wow, keep reading.
00:43:34.84\00:43:36.18
"Its principles were
diligently taught in the home,
00:43:36.21\00:43:38.98
in the school and in the church,
00:43:39.01\00:43:40.72
and its fruits
were manifest in thrift,
00:43:40.75\00:43:43.35
in intelligence and
purity and temperance."
00:43:43.39\00:43:46.12
Now, I kind of put
the emphasis on this one,
00:43:46.15\00:43:49.92
"It was demonstrated,"
by this earth beast land,
00:43:49.96\00:43:53.53
"that the
principles of the Bible
00:43:53.56\00:43:55.50
are the surest safeguards
of national greatness."
00:43:55.53\00:44:00.10
You want to make
America great again?
00:44:00.14\00:44:02.84
There you go. That's it.
00:44:02.87\00:44:06.41
That's how you do it.
00:44:06.44\00:44:08.51
You go back to a book
that once was the foundation.
00:44:08.54\00:44:13.65
Our declaration of independence
00:44:13.68\00:44:15.02
and our Constitution
are not based on the Bible,
00:44:15.05\00:44:17.75
but they've taken the
Christian-Judeo values,
00:44:17.79\00:44:20.92
and they've embraced that.
00:44:20.96\00:44:24.56
Wow.
00:44:24.59\00:44:25.93
Bible scholars agree
00:44:25.96\00:44:27.30
that this earth
beast nation power
00:44:27.33\00:44:28.66
that sprang up in the late 1700s
00:44:28.70\00:44:30.97
far away from Europe
00:44:31.00\00:44:32.33
with an openness to the
great Judeo-Christian principles
00:44:32.37\00:44:36.07
of the Holy Scripture,
00:44:36.10\00:44:37.44
many are agreed
00:44:37.47\00:44:38.81
that only one power in history
00:44:38.84\00:44:40.18
could possibly
claim that identity,
00:44:40.21\00:44:43.11
the United States of America.
00:44:43.14\00:44:46.41
Hands down.
00:44:46.45\00:44:48.78
God bless America.
00:44:48.82\00:44:54.16
How's it go?
00:44:54.19\00:44:57.26
I have to look at
my notes to figure out.
00:44:57.29\00:44:59.83
Land that I love,
00:44:59.86\00:45:04.07
stand beside her and guide her
00:45:04.10\00:45:06.77
through the night
with a light from above.
00:45:06.80\00:45:08.77
Isn't that something
the song that loves to be?
00:45:08.80\00:45:12.21
Particularly post
9/11 and America's got,
00:45:12.24\00:45:14.84
some people said this ought
to be the new national anthem.
00:45:14.88\00:45:17.41
It's all about
God blessing America,
00:45:17.45\00:45:19.01
guess what He did.
00:45:19.05\00:45:21.15
The writer of
the Great Controversy
00:45:21.18\00:45:22.98
in another place
wrote this one line.
00:45:23.02\00:45:25.25
And I want you to
see it right here.
00:45:25.29\00:45:26.82
The Lord has done
more for the United States
00:45:26.86\00:45:28.69
than for any other country
00:45:28.72\00:45:30.49
upon which the sun shines.
00:45:30.53\00:45:32.36
I understand to
whom I'm speaking,
00:45:32.39\00:45:34.30
I understand that
there are people here
00:45:34.33\00:45:35.66
from every nation on earth,
00:45:35.70\00:45:37.03
practically,
certainly from every continent,
00:45:37.07\00:45:38.77
I understand
00:45:38.80\00:45:40.14
that but the
point is, you're here.
00:45:40.17\00:45:43.61
You're here for a reason.
00:45:43.64\00:45:45.74
There was something
here that you wanted.
00:45:45.77\00:45:51.11
More than any other
nation on the planet,
00:45:51.15\00:45:52.91
God has poured out His blessings
00:45:52.95\00:45:56.05
on the United States of America.
00:45:56.08\00:45:57.85
Ah, not so quick.
00:45:57.89\00:46:00.59
There is Jesus' divine
00:46:00.62\00:46:01.96
principle of judgment
that cannot be avoided.
00:46:01.99\00:46:04.53
"To whom much is
given," what's that next line?
00:46:04.56\00:46:08.73
"Much will be
required." You can't avoid it.
00:46:08.76\00:46:14.87
And on the Judgment Day,
00:46:14.90\00:46:16.44
God Almighty
00:46:16.47\00:46:17.81
is going to call the
nations of earth forward.
00:46:17.84\00:46:19.64
And He's going to say America
come stand before me right now.
00:46:19.67\00:46:23.04
I want to ask you,
00:46:23.08\00:46:24.41
what did you do
with all those gifts
00:46:24.45\00:46:27.65
more than any nation
upon which the sun has shine?
00:46:27.68\00:46:30.55
I blessed you,
00:46:30.59\00:46:31.92
what have you done
with what I gave you?
00:46:31.95\00:46:36.02
And what shall
we answer Him then?
00:46:36.06\00:46:39.89
What shall we say?
00:46:39.93\00:46:41.26
Wealth of the ages
00:46:44.67\00:46:46.74
in American hands right now.
00:46:46.77\00:46:51.74
Oh, wow.
00:46:51.77\00:46:53.48
This is the breeding ground
00:46:53.51\00:46:56.24
of the French
Revolution all over again.
00:46:56.28\00:47:02.35
Let me run them by you
00:47:02.38\00:47:03.72
as bullet points now
00:47:03.75\00:47:05.09
from Rolling Stone
magazine this month.
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Here we go.
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Bullet number one,
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the elite 1% of Americans
control $30 trillion of assets,
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while the bottom half of America
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have more debt than assets.
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Bullet number two,
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the three richest
Americans have more money
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than the poorest 160
million of their countrymen.
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Bullet number three,
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fully a fifth of
American households
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have zero or
negative worth net worth,
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a figure that rises from
20% to 37% for black families.
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Bullet number four,
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the median wealth
of black households
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is a tenth of that of whites.
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Bullet number five,
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the vast majority of Americans,
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white, black, brown
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are two paychecks
removed from bankruptcy.
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Though living in a nation
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that celebrates itself as
the wealthiest in history,
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most Americans
live on a high wire
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with no safety net
to embrace the fall.
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May I ask you,
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how can God go on
blessing this nation
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with numbers like these?
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You tell me?
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Would you click
your tongue and say,
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well, that's just the brakes.
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And I got the brakes.
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All the blessings He's
poured out on this nation,
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and they end up in a
relatively few hands.
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You know what?
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That's a recipe for anger,
anarchy, rebellion and revolt.
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And now all the
talk we are hearing about
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the iron fist of law and order
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will not heal the
moral sickness of America,
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you cannot force healing,
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you cannot force
America to be saved.
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We have been given much.
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And we who have now
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shut the rest of the
world out and hoard our riches
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for our own pleasure and profit.
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Well, inside our
closed off borders,
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there are the poor,
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there are the needy,
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who hunger just like
France before the revolution,
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the haves keep
having more and more
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until the downtrodden
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rise up and storm the Bastille.
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I'm just saying.
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You don't need to be
a rocket scientist now.
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Watch, listen, pray.
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There's only one moral solution.
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There is another
solution, it's political.
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I'll talk about
that in a split second.
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But there is a moral solution.
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This is the one I would choose.
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And the moral
solution is for this nation
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to turn back to the Creator God
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that superintended its
founding 250 years ago.
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Turn back.
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What do we have
in the land today?
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But George McCready
Price the anti-Genesis apostasy
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has turned our schools
into godless institutions
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from kindergarten
to graduate school.
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No more God, no more Creator,
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no more tolerance of Scripture.
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That was precisely
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the fruit of the
French Revolution.
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No more God, no more Creator,
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no more tolerance of Scripture.
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And what's the result?
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In France,
during the revolution,
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marriage was
reduced to a civil covenant
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between anybody.
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What's the
result in America today?
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A civil
covenant between anybody.
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In France,
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the guillotine ran red
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with a slaughter
of innocent lives.
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Why should atheism care?
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It doesn't care.
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Why not?
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In America,
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millions of innocent
children before birth
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are snuffed out,
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some after birth tragically.
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Why should atheism care?
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It's just a growth.
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Get rid of it.
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What happens to a
country when like France,
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it embraces atheism?
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It's tragic to recall.
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That's where we are.
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No more God, no more Creator,
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no more tolerance of Scripture.
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Something has
happened to the soul of America
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and it is not good, friends.
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It is not good.
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I read Jon Meacham's
book, "The soul of America,"
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subtitle "The Battle
for our Better Angels."
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Pulitzer Prize
winning historian that he is,
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he chronicles our
struggle with the bad angels.
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Something has happened to
America and it is not good.
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Read it again.
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Verse 11,
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"Then I saw a second
beast coming out of the earth.
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It had two horns like a lamb,
and it spoke like a dragon."
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That little conjunction there
"and" represents 250 years.
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The earth beast is
lamb like for 250 years.
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And then it's dragon like.
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Dragon like?
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The only solution for America
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moral, spiritual solution
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is for America to return to God.
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You can't just tell
America to return to God.
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Here's what you do,
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you tell every
Christian that loves Jesus,
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to turn to their neighbors
and begin to love on them
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like you have never
loved on them before.
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America is running out of time.
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Do you understand?
It's running out of time.
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You got people
living next door to you,
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when's the last time
you said boo to them?
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Tell America that's the only way
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America can be saved.
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There's no fiat from Washington
00:52:58.94\00:53:00.64
that will save
America, too late.
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But they can be loved back.
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They can be loved back.
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For the first time,
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beloved, to the lamb
that died to free them.
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There are only two
solutions. One is moral.
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The other one is political.
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Let this pandemic continue.
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Let the unrest in the
streets of America grow.
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And the political
solution already hinted
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that will be
initiated the iron boot
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of lethal enforcement,
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you will or else.
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Don't believe it
can happen to America?
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Just keep reading.
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Verse 11 again,
"Then I saw a second beast,
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coming out of the earth.
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It had two horns like a lamb,
and it spoke like a dragon."
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Verse 12.
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"And it
exercised all the authority
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of the first
beast on its behalf,
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and made the
earth," the entire planet,
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this must be a global
superpower talking about,
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"it made the earth,
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and its inhabitants
worship the first beast,
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whose fatal
wound had been healed."
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Now drop down to verse 15.
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"The second beast,"
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that would be the earth beast,
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"was given power to give breath
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to the image of the first beast,
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so that the image
could speak and cause
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all who refused to
worship the image to be killed."
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You will or else,
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the iron boot of
lethal power and enforcement.
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Don't think it can happen here?
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Watch, listen, you listening?
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Pray and get on your neighbors.
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Love on your neighbors
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as you have never
loved on them before.
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Oh, how Jesus loves America.
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"If I be lifted up, Jesus said,
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I'll draw all people to Me."
00:54:58.56\00:55:00.56
Three hundred and
thirty million of them.
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Are you kidding?
00:55:02.53\00:55:03.97
I died for America.
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I died for North
America. I died for this planet.
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I if I am lifted up, I
will draw all people to Me.
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How He's going to get
lifted up in front of America?
00:55:12.74\00:55:14.71
We go on
television? No, we go next door.
00:55:14.74\00:55:19.05
We can't let the media,
00:55:19.08\00:55:20.55
we can't let social
media do what we can only do.
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The love of
Christ with flesh on it.
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Doesn't matter the
color of your flesh,
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just love on them.
00:55:30.16\00:55:31.89
Doesn't matter the
color of their flesh,
00:55:31.93\00:55:34.00
just love on them.
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It's all we have left,
folks. And the clock is running.
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America is running out of time.
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America.
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America, God shed
His grace on thee,
00:55:47.81\00:55:54.42
and crown thy
good with brotherhood,
00:55:54.45\00:55:59.49
from sea to shining sea.
00:55:59.52\00:56:03.86
That's America's last hope.
00:56:03.89\00:56:09.16
God's grace
00:56:09.20\00:56:11.93
through you right now.
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Let us pray.
00:56:16.57\00:56:17.91
Oh, God,
00:56:17.94\00:56:19.94
forgive us for taking
this was only about a pandemic,
00:56:19.97\00:56:23.91
all was worried
about masks and COVID-19.
00:56:23.95\00:56:28.32
And, of course, we're concerned.
00:56:28.35\00:56:31.02
But it's just like the dragon,
00:56:31.05\00:56:34.69
to distract us in one corner,
00:56:34.72\00:56:39.43
so that what he's
doing in the other corner
00:56:39.46\00:56:42.36
can't be seen
until it's too late.
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But you gave us
this halogen light
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of this prophecy.
00:56:48.87\00:56:50.21
And we are not unwarned
and we are not in the dark,
00:56:50.24\00:56:53.48
for the light dwells with you.
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Oh God, shine Your
light on our minds,
00:56:55.88\00:56:59.61
so that our hearts determined
00:56:59.65\00:57:01.72
to love on those
around us while there is time.
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Please, God, save America.
00:57:05.22\00:57:09.92
Amen.
00:57:09.96\00:57:11.43
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00:57:14.80\00:57:16.13
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