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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Who would have thought 10

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years ago we'd be talking about this tonight where schools believe across the

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United States that parents have no rights over their children's sexuality. You

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say well that's insane. You would have said that then and you should be saying it

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now. The problem is now we know it. Back then we didn't know it now we know it.

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And if we don't speak up, as Eric was saying, we'll want to us.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or

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yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word

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has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. The Lord calls us to live out our faith in politics in every

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single sphere. And I want to say it again, the reason I wrote letter to the American churches to say

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we know what happened when the German church got this wrong. We know what happened. And actually,

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I want to mention there's a chapter in there called 12,000 pastors. There were 18,000 Lutheran

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pastors in Germany at that time, 18,000. The Nazis very quickly just brought their kind of racial

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view of the world and every other thing to bear in government. They took away people's liberties.

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I mean, it was just dramatic, kind of like what we saw with COVID, just unbelievable governmental

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overreach and just push and push and push. A number of pastors stood up and said no. And they

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wrote this thing called a barman declaration where they made clear that the government, whether it's

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the Nazi government or any got has no right to tell us we are the church of Jesus Christ, okay?

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So they write the barman declaration about 6,000 of the 18,000 pastors sign it, okay? By 1935,

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two years later, the government had been so wicked and had bullied people that many in the church

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just like now who had been initially brave said, we're going to back up, we don't want any trouble,

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we don't want any trouble. So by 1935, 3,000 of the 18,000 pastors were standing strong,

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only 3,000. On the other end of the spectrum, there were 3,000 that were 100% pro-Hitler.

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It's kind of like, you know, you want to talk about it like a totally woke church today. So

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there are 3,000 maniacs, totally pro-Hitler maniacs among the Lutheran pastors. So 3,000 complete

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nuts, 3,000 heroes, but here's the key and it's why I call the chapter 12,000 pastors. In the middle,

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were 12,000 pastors who said, we're not going to choose. We're going to sit back, we're going to

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sit this one out. We'll let you guys fight it out. We don't want any trouble and we think we have

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a biblical mandate for not being involved in politics. So we're going to be silent. We don't

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want to be divisive. We just want to preach the gospel. And you want to ask them, what useless,

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dead gospel were you preaching in your church? That you did not speak out and take sides in a

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situation that would lead millions of women and children to their deaths in the death camps. And

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that's just one example of the nightmare unleashed by the Nazis because of the silence of the

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church. But it wasn't the, forget about the pro-Hitler Lutheran pastors, okay? Let's talk about the

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12,000 in the middle who dared to think we don't need to choose. We're not going to vote. We're not

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going to get involved. We're just going to sit back and do our little religious thing because

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that's what we believe it is to be a Christian. We don't want to get our hands dirty.

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Bornhofer tried desperately to wake up the church and to say church, this is your job. God called

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you to fight for what is right and true and good. For the sake of the gospel, fight politically. For

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the sake of the gospel, call out evil. For the sake of the gospel, live your life in such a way

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that you don't fear death, but you fear God. And we know if we are not speaking up against the

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transgender madness, if we're not speaking up against open borders, because we say, oh, that's

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too political. Ladies and gentlemen, because of open borders, we have murderous thugs, drug cartels,

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trafficking, women and children. If you were against child rape, you got to speak up.

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You cannot act like this is an issue that I don't want to get involved. I'm a Christian,

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I'm going to get involved. If you're a Christian, you more than anybody ought to know that

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trafficking people to degrade them and to rape them is satanic evil. And silence about that

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is no different than silence about slavery. It's no different than silence about people going

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in box cars to the death camps. The Lord calls us to speak. The Lord calls us to act. He

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Lord calls us to act as though we believe what we claim to believe. And when you are silent,

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you are allowing evil to happen. We need to be big boys and girls and make choices in politics.

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It doesn't mean that we think somebody's perfect, but we need to understand what is at stake.

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Human beings lives are at stake. Our nation is at stake. And by the way, the way this nation goes,

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the whole world goes. So if I lived in China today, I would be hoping that America is going to wake up

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and be America and stand up to the human rights abuses and the evil that is happening there.

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We, the church are responsible for these things, so we need to know that.

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Listen, he said the way this nation goes is the way the world goes.

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We have a huge responsibility being Californians because as California goes, this nation goes

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then the world goes. Let's make sure that you're talking about a 12,000 pastors,

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chapter 5, page 41, where Bonhoeffer is pleading with his fellow pastor brothers to get involved and

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to see the urgency more than ever. And the problem that he had to deal with, it says here,

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is that the bulk of his brothers in the pulpit, they believe that the Nazis could be

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reasoned with, it says here. And so imagine if you were to, imagine if that's true.

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Think about it right now, everybody. Nobody wants to hear this, but it's the truth.

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These, the sister, the brother sister things of perpetual indulgence, but it's the satanic pseudo nuns.

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These, these, these, these transvestite nun things.

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So listen, do you literally believe that you could call it, if you had their email,

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could you, do you think you would say, can we meet at Starbucks and talk about this?

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No, really, thank everybody because the public school wants you to think this,

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but they can't even do it. They won't even listen to parents. They're blocking you out.

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And so here's the thing, is the enemy of your soul is Satan who manifests in the lives of

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open vessels, people that are not even knowingly doing his bidding, but to think in the culture,

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who would have thought 10 years ago we'd be talking about this tonight, where schools believe

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across the United States that parents have no rights over their children's sexuality.

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You say, well, that's insane. You would have said that then and you should be saying it now.

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The problem is, now we know it. Back then we didn't know it. Now we know it.

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And if we don't speak up, as Eric was saying, woe unto us. Jesus makes it very, very clear

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that it's going to be better for a person to have never been born than when he gets a hold of them

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the day of judgment if they have offended children. Think of that. The Bible says that before

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the end comes, you'll recognize because it's going to take on the days as it were of Sodom and

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Gomorrah, aberrant sexuality. Notice everything has been sexualized. The Dodgers have been sexualized.

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Target has been sexualized. Everything is sexualized. Sex is America's God, but who's defining it?

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Because God made sex and he knows exactly how that should be done. And every normal, listen,

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every normal person knows this. Kids today would not be going through what they're going through

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if adults didn't have an agenda to have preloaded their little precious minds. And the day that

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God gets a hold of those people who have changed the mind of a little child to confuse them.

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Who's the author of Confusion? Satan, not God. Confusion. When somebody says that's

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unloving, what's your rescue plan? What is your special op to reach our children? What are you doing?

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Think about that. I grabbed a bunch of pastors from up and down the state and I got a hold of some

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people in DC and I said, hey, can you open some doors for me if I grab some pastors? I want to take

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them down to the border and I want them to see what's going on. And they said, yeah, we'll make that

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happen. We went down there and we not only interviewed the various agencies that were there, Homeland

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Security, but the California, I get the acronyms confused, but it was not only the California

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agents that are there, but Homeland Security was there and Border Patrol, ICE, they're all there

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and they're showing us what's going on and they're showing us pictures and things where they use

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and training classes of what happens when you don't enforce the border laws, you guys listen to

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this. When you don't enforce the border laws, here's what happens. A market opens up, a black market,

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underground market, a market opens up where bad guys south of the border, Honduran's, Colombians,

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some Mexicans, but not so much. A lot of them, Nicaraguan's, others, they form groups and as they

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get close to the border, we had people telling us that when think about this, people, real true

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stories, Mexico City, sweet, precious family, they got some money enough, what are they going to

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do on vacation? They're going to go to America, they're going to go to Disneyland, they're going to

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go to California, true story. When you get 50 to 30 miles out from the California border,

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that's no man's land. When you are somebody south of the border by residence, if you're making

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your way to America, these groups, these gangs, cartel, they pull you over, many of them are dressed

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like federalis, pull you over, so watch this. They showed us images because it was evidence

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where these families were separated. The mother was taken and the sister was taken into the slave

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trade. The husband was shot in the head and the seven-year-old boy, they gutted him,

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open from his belly button up to the, just below his collar, opened him up, took everything out

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of him and stuffed him with drugs and put his clothes back on and put a ball cap on and put him

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in the back of the car and drove him across the border into America. Inside of him was drugs and

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they, we're like this and they said, listen, prior to shutting down the borders, this was happening

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every day. So listen, as Americans, I believe in open borders, you have no idea, you are so ignorant,

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you may mean well what you're saying, you don't even know what you're talking about. I've seen it.

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You read the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 28, when God says, if you follow me, just, just,

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I'm God, you're not. I made the universe, the earth is spinning, you have no input on that.

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Your carbon footprint doesn't change any of this. If you do what I've designed this thing to do,

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you know, listen, today we took the grandkids to the Marconi Auto Museum in Tustin.

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Is it Tustin? Where is it at? Tustin. In Tustin, you got to go. You know what I was freaking out

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about is the sheer precision of engineering in these incredible vehicles, these cars that you're

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looking at that are made by, you know, the Italians and these Germans that make these cars,

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and you're just looking at the preciseness of it. Nobody, nobody would walk along and say,

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is that evolution amazing? Everyone of those cars were meticulously designed.

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Guess what? That's only a little hint of what God did by creating you in this universe.

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And God said in the book of Deuteronomy, if you just do what I know what's best for you,

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sound like a parent?

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Just do what I know what's best for you. Your crops will explode with bounty. You'll have so much

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food. In fact, you will bless other nations. If you just do what I know what's best for you,

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your women will not miscarry their babies, he said. He said, you'll build a home and you'll live

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in it. It'd be yours. Read Deuteronomy 28. Then he says in Deuteronomy 28 toward the end,

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if you choose to do it your way, your wives are going to miscarry. Your borders will be invaded.

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There will be confusion in your streets. He said, even when no one's pursuing you,

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you're going to be panicking and terrified. And he said, you will work all day to farm your crops

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and you'll harvest only a quarter of it. You'll just get by. And listen to this.

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He said, you'll build a home, but another man will live in it. And he'll be a foreigner.

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And you may have a wife, but other men will sleep with her. God says, all these things will

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befall you if you don't follow the prescription that I gave you to live life. And so there is hope,

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while we still have the ability to breathe, it is a remarkable thing that we can stand up for

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it's right. And I know this sounds kind of insane, but I said it yesterday in the opening

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words to those pastors. We love the Bible because it gives us hope when we read about a little kid,

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teenager, being totally offended that this uncircumcised giant was mocking his God that he said,

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that's it. And that little kid takes his sling with five stones mind you because read your Bible,

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Goliath had four brothers. David was not just ready for Goliath. He was going to hunt down his

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four brothers. And we love that. It's not a story. It's an actual event that took place. And we love

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reading it. And when Jehosephat was completely doomed, God shows up. And we read all these things

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in the scripture in the Old Testament where all these impossible things became possible because

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one person stood up. Amen. And we love that. But you know what? You will leave it. Listen,

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and I know this church is different. But if you're visiting or you're watching right now,

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and if you think, well, you know, I just go to church on Sunday. Well, why don't you stop? Make

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room for somebody else to go. Because if you're not serious about doing Christianity for the rest

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of the week, listen, you need to make room for people who are willing to live out their faith.

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Because the fact is that we are up against giants right now, and you're either going to say,

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pull those, pull the wool, the blanket over our heads, or you're going to say, wait a minute.

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All these things that have been written in scripture, they're from God. And they're for our learning.

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And so we're going to take these promises and we're going to stand. If David can stand against

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Goliath, we should be able to stand against the school board. We should be able to stand against

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some teacher that is molesting your child, if not physically in their minds. We need to have

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some righteous indignation. We need to get wholly angry. It's a good thing to say, you know what?

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And like Bonhoeffer said, this is it. If we don't stand up in this urgent hour, it's over. It's all

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as lost. If Israel never crossed the Jordan, all would be lost. Think about it. Right now,

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we have the comfort of coming to church on Sunday and Wednesday and going back to whatever we're doing.

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But if we don't look ahead, one of the chapters is, are we as Christians supposed to know the

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future? Can we know the future? The answer is we know the future by reading the past. Why stand ye

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here idle? Was the cry of Patrick Henry? We did it. We read that on Sunday. Did we not?

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Our brothers are in the field. The battle has come. Eric, last words.

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I just know that God has called his church to action. And that our faith, Bonhoeffer talks about

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faith in action. If your faith is not lived out, self-sacrificially, because you know you cannot out

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give God. So when you make a sacrifice for him, whatever you do, whatever you do, he is with you.

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He will bless you. He made you to live out your faith. And we've had this idea in the church.

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I don't need to live out my faith. In other countries, they might need to do that. They might need to

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pay a price. We're fine here. Well, the Lord has allowed these wicked things to happen to tell you,

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no, I need you to live out your faith in every sphere. Do not be silent. Do not be quiet. Do not

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be passive. Do not be deceived. And do not argue with people who cannot be argued with. We need

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by the grace of God to be mightily activated. If the church does not wake up now, it is over for

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America. So I say, by the grace of God church, in the name of Jesus, wake up now.

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