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Well good morning Let’s just begin with a moment of prayer

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Lord Regs

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thank you

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that Jesus you are the word And Lord God we just come before you because we want to meet with you Lord we pray that your Holy Spirit would just minister and quicken Lord it has nothing to do with me It has everything to do with Lord If your holy Spirit quickens your word to people they will go away having met and been with Jesus and that’s our hearts prayer and longing

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Amen

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The title of today’s message is when the righteous rule

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it seemed appropriate because Tuesday is voting day

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to talk about God’s plan for government

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One of these types of messages are

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always interesting in a challenge in churches

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And I remember when I used to work a lot with the RCCG church and in the

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RCCG church week in after week out you go in and they’re really trying to help people with their own individual walk with Jesus Christ

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because human beings go through a lot of

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troubles trials and tribulations and hardships Isn’t that true

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And when you are in pain it’s hard to pay attention to

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anything else but your pain isn’t it Pastor David

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And and one of the challenges in the body of Christ is that if we do not engage in God’s purpose for the world we get caught up with the

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trials and concerns of this life

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One of the things that Jesus says can choke out the the seed of God’s weed or or choke out the seed of God’s word

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And and why this is such a challenge is because there is such a

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need for each and every one of us

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to experience God’s presence and his grace and his love personally

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that that really is

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the number one mission critical of our lives And and it really connects back to the Lord Give us this day our daily bread

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If we’re not connecting with God daily then we are starving we are hurting we are broken

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But one of the biggest challenges I think in the body of Christ today is to break us out of just the individual concerns of life Though they are very important and activate the body of

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Christ to bring the nations into the obedience of the gospel of Jesus Christ

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because that’s how we can be a blessing to others Does that make sense

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If I rewind that a little bit like almost every new

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Christian has learned

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when you really come to meet the Lord and live

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for him you start to find out that there really is a thing called spiritual warfare

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right

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And one of the best ways to be successful in spiritual

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warfare is to go and serve somebody

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to

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go and be a blessing for somebody

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to go to get outside of your own troubles

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trials and tribulations

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and go and

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be a blessing to others All of a sudden all of the things that were troubling

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you disappear when you make your goal to be a

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blessing in this world

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a lot of these problems that we face daily they just disappear because we find such satisfaction

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in such contentment and such joy by being on mission with Jesus Christ We actually find his presence goes with us It was one of my favorite things when I was in Belfast uh Pastor Rogers was also a medical doctor And in Britain they also go house to house they go on house calls So he would often bring me along on these house calls because I you know I have more liberty to talk about the kingdom because you know he’s the doctor

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right

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And I was always amazed because whenever you go into these places

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where

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the gospel doesn’t always reach

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the Holy Spirit starts to quicken

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in your heart and your mind things that you never even saw things that you never prepared in advance And and all of a sudden you find God’s love

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is welling up

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in you and it’s reaching out to these people and you’re there You can see that God is blessing their socks off And in the process he’s blessing your socks off

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because you’re encountering the Lord when you get on mission with him So that’s

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so I preface what I’m gonna say today because I understand what a challenge it is to talk about these things But I would also challenge that

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Teaching all of God’s word is preaching Jesus Christ

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teaching all of God’s word is proclaiming the

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gospel

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And if the church is going to fulfill its God ordained ministry in the earth then we need to know what God’s word says about

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everything

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And so really this is not going to be a comprehensive message We would be here forever about God’s plan for government And really if we’re thinking about God’s plan for government we would be literally thinking about

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the government of politics Does that make sense We very rarely think about the government of our families the government of the marketplace et cetera

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And we’re not really gonna get in that far into the weeds

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But I’m gonna start by reading Proverbs 29 2

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When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice But when a wicked man rules the people groan

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This is God’s word

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When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice

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But when the wicked ruled the people grow

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and really what I want to challenge us here

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this morning with is this question

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do you really believe that there is hope for the righteous to rule in America

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That is a huge question that needs to be answered by believers and by the people of God Because if we don’t even believe it is possible

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then how are we going to

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pray for it

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How are we going to seek it

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I want to even ask Does our theology permit such a hopeful vision for the future

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I really am convinced that revival

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begins in the House of God

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and it begins with a repentance or a changing of mind or a rediscovery of the truth of God’s word If God has placed authority in the church of Jesus Christ

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then the

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doctrines of devils that keep us from seeing what God’s plan and purpose is on the earth is a way of causing the salt to lose its saltiness

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Doesn’t that make

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sense

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And that’s why the right on the heels of asking do you dare believe it’s possible for the righteous to rule The next question is does our theology permit such a hopeful

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vision about the future

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I mean that is

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exactly if we want to see a

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transformation see a revival see a breakthrough We’ve got to answer that question in the affirmative

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I’m going to revisit again Why is this such an important

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topic to teach

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about number one prayer

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God has ordained it that somehow prayer is connected to the fulfillment of his purposes on the earth

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Daniel

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is reading God’s word and through the prophets he comes to understand that God had ordained 70 years for captivity

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God’s word That’s what it said God declared it That’s the way it’s going to be the sayeth the Lord It’s done going to mcdonald’s or wherever

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No he prays and he starts to pray But God’s word said it was going to happen I know but God’s word also shows us how we’re to respond to God’s word

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And so in the economy of God he’s made prayer to be an important

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element

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of fulfilling his purposes on the earth He wants us to be invested in what he’s invested in So that when he does it it doesn’t escape our notice

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He wants us to be invested so that when he does it he gets a thank you Lord praise the Lord I appreciate you Instead of it’s about

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time God

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you see what I mean

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I mean prayer really positions us It’s not like God’s and really we got to get prayer in the right position Prayer is not a God up there who’s unwilling to do anything and just kind of minding his own business golfing And then all of a sudden people say

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where would you believe Fine shut up

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did it for you Now you’re back to golf

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No God is the one who takes initiative He’s the one who is passionate He is the one who is working on the earth But he has chosen

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to include

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us through the privilege of prayer

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by getting us to tune to the heart of heaven

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That’s what it’s really doing It’s tuning us to the heart of heaven so that when heaven acts

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on earth we see it and rejoice and celebrate it

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It’s pretty exciting

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isn’t it Number two vision

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you hear it all the time It’s you know the marketplace always talks about your vision and your mission We need to know what the vision is The best way to describe it is we need to see the blueprint of the house If we’re going to build it I mean if you save up a bunch of money you say hey it’s time I want to build a house and then you just give somebody money and say here build me a house

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That’s not how you want to do it is it you want to have a blueprint to know what is going to be built and and how can the builder build without a blueprint right How can the outcome be good if you don’t have a plan It’s like

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it just doesn’t make any sense does it And so learning God’s word gives us that blueprint so that we know how to participate in building what God is building on the earth He’s called us to be co laborers with him

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to be active in what he’s doing Pretty exciting isn’t it

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And last that means the last point is from vision comes action

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that we become co laborers

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That’s why we talk about these things It is still preaching Jesus Christ

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as hard as it is for us to see all of God’s word from Genesis to

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revelation is a proclamation of Jesus Christ According to Jesus all of scripture testifies about me

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It reveals his heart his purpose his character his nature it reveals what he’s doing on the earth It fully equips us for every good work It is powerful

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So that being said on this journey

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um when the righteous rule

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this really

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has a

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deep root in Western civilization

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wrestling with God’s word and how should planet earth be governed

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And so I call it the Western tradition

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Genesis 9 26 to 27

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And he said blessed be the Lord the God of Shem

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and may can and be his servant and may God enlarge jth and may dwell in the tents of Shem and may can and be his

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servant

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OK I’m seeing some interesting looks there

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What in the world are you talking about Ok let me go through this The reason I picked this is it’s really neat when you read commentaries because theologians has have

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studied God’s word pretty in depth and it’s really

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neat the things that they come out come out

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with and and

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this blessing says blessed be the Lord the God of Shem

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you know the the three sons of Noah Shem Ham and Ja

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and the theologians

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studied this and they said the mites

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we know them as the juice

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in the Lord

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the God of Shem

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bless it Be the Lord the God of Shem the true God

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The one who created

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all things

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the one who called Abraham out

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he dwelt he was the God of Shem

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Isn’t that interesting

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And may can be a servant And then this next clause is what theologians see as the beginning is the

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promise of Western civilization

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That’s a challenging strange word to say from scripture Isn’t it a sea

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of curiosity And May God enlarge Jth

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And when they studied genealogy and history what they saw is that Western civilization are the descendants of JP

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Isn’t that interesting So the God of Shem the mites the Jews and then God enlarges J path

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And then the next clause says

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in May He dwell in the tents of Shem

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that they saw in this the gospel of Jesus Christ

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that in the future Jth enlarge themselves

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and then she’ll come

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and dwell in the house in the tents of Shem

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Isn’t that beautiful

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And there’s so much to understand about this

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because you know Jesus said

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to the woman at the well I

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tell you the day is coming when neither

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on this mountain or on Zion in Jerusalem will they worship me But there’s coming a day when the true worshipers will worship me in spirit and

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truth Jesus talks about the new wine of the covenant

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that it can’t that the old wines skins can’t hold it

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when you study the whole old Testament from cover to cover You can see that God’s

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heart has always been to save and redeem

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all of humanity It

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it it was never about one

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race That one race was just simply the birthing

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the birthplace of the Savior of the world

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And the other thing that people don’t realize if you read Paul in Romans and we’re going to read a lot of this later

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The Jews have never been totally cut off There’s always been a remnant the true church The true worship of God is now located in Jesus Christ and nowhere else

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in the in the in

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Shem

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the tents of Shem

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are now the house of the Lord Jesus Christ

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And we’ve been drafted in

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this stuff is not small When I first read through the Old Testament I used to be amazed when I would think about Israel and I would look at all the promises in scripture And I would think to myself man it would be great if we could have these kind of covenant promises

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And then it was like when the light bulb went off and realized this is it

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this is the kingdom We are dwelling in the tents of Shem that God commands all men everywhere to repent He is drawing the nations to himself and nations rise and nations

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fall all nations

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rise and fall and how they respond to the gospel of Jesus Christ And the great heritage of Western civilization that we’re reading about right here in this passage is that western civilization came to dwell

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in the tents of Shem

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But if we leave the tents of Shem

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we will wither we will be cut off we will wither on the vine

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I am the vine and you are the branches abide in me and you’ll bear much fruit apart from me You can do nothing The true riches the true inheritance the

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true source of what was called

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American exceptionalism All came back to one thing What will you do with this man Jesus

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And when we walk away from that relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ when we walk out from that covering when we walk out from that blessing when we consider it a light thing to be trampled underfoot of men don’t think that anything can save us

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because every blessing

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every good thing

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is hidden in Jesus Christ

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period

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I want to give us a picture of the growth of Christ’s kingdom in barbarian Britain to give us an idea of just a little snapshot of

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this heritage of Western civilization

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And you have to understand you know like a lot of times when you’re talking

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in protestant churches people

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have to understand that even the Roman Catholic church has changed It has

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been through

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um

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a quite rich history and there’s always been true

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believers just like in every church there’s true believers and false believers does that make sense So a lot of times if I start talking about a Pope

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um Protestants will shut out shut up or tune out because they can’t handle that You’re talking about a Pope in a good way right So

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just

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at least give it a hearing

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So Pope Gregory he had a heart to be a missionary to Britain Somehow God had put such a heart in his soul for this barbarian people And he wanted to go in and bring Christ to them But then he became Pope

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and because he was pope he was no longer able to go

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But because he was Pope he also had the ability

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to send

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And so he sent Augustine

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to Britain

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and and

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Augustine started to have some real success

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in converting the Britons to Jesus Christ

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And then

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one of the kings

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converted to Christianity

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And so Pope

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Gregory he sent a letter to King

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Ethelbert

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and listen to what he says Remember how I said it’s so important to have a vision

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to believe that the righteous can rule that

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we have to have a

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revival of Christianity of God’s word in our day to see transformation So when I’m reading this I’m hoping what you’re going to see is

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a different picture and a different expectation a different idea of what the gospel of Jesus Christ is

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meant to do on

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planet earth

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Because somehow

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we’ve lost this vision We’ve lost this dream So

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listen to it The reason why Almighty God raises good men to govern nations is that through them he may bestow the gifts of His mercy on all whom they rule

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We know that this is so in the case of the English nation over whom you reign so gloriously that by means of the good gifts that God grants to you he may bless your people as well

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Therefore my illustrious son zealously foster the grace that God has given you and press on with the task of extending the Christian faith among the people committed to your charge Make their conversion Your first concern suppress the worship of idols destroy their shrines raise the moral standards of your subjects by your own innocence of life

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encouraging warning persuading correcting and showing them

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an example by

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your good deeds

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Isn’t that an amazing picture

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of the heart of the church for those who lead the nation

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and what to expect

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when that happens going on in Bede’s ecclesiastical history of the English people it says the tongue of Britain which formally knew only the utterance of barbary

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has some time since begun to cry The

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Hebrew hallelujah

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dwell in the tents of Shem

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to the praise of God The once restless sea now lies quiet beneath the feet of His saints and its ungovernable rages which no earthly prince could tame by sword

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are now quelled at the simple word of his priests and the fear of God He the nations who never trembled before armed hosts now accept and obey the teaching of the humble

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for now that the grace of the knowledge of God has enlightened them and his heavenly words are received and miracles too are published abroad The fear of God restrains them from their former former

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wickedness

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and they desire

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with all their hearts to win the prize of eternal life

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We are reading about the transformation

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of a barbarian people

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through the gospel of Jesus Christ

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and this and and and it was a tradition that started to transform culture later on in that history he writes this so peaceful

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What And this is a different king

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so peaceful was it in those parts of Britain under King Edwin’s jurisdiction that the Proverb still runs that a woman could carry her newborn babe across the island from sea

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to sea without any fear of harm

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This is no light stuff that we’re reading

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such was the king’s concern for the welfare of

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his people

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That sentence itself has so much weight doesn’t it

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that a number of places where he had noticed deer springs adjacent to the highway he ordered posts to be erected with brass balls hanging from them so that travelers

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could drink and refresh themselves

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And so great

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was the people’s affection for him

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and so great the awe in which he was held that no one wished or ventured to use these bowls for any other purpose

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People rejoice

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when the righteous rule And they so appreciated a righteous government a righteous ruling of the land

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that it it tame something the basic nature of humanity put out brass bos and nobody stole them

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They actually thought about what they’re there for and how they could be a blessing to the weary travelers They were so grateful for the way he governed

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that they acted in ways that is almost hard to believe And we’re getting a picture of the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ to transform nations

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It’s beautiful isn’t it

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really I want I want to take a little divergent divergence

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I was saying when the righteous rule I want to tie it to God’s plan for the nations

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because I really believe that one of the problems we’re facing today is that the church of Jesus Christ has very little vision for what God’s plan is for nations

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right

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And we have a plan for getting people to walk as disciples of Jesus to know Him to love him And that is wonderful It’s important It’s

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Christianity 101

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But does God have a heart for nations And I would challenge you read the scriptures cover to cover and you’ll see he always has He always has

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in one of the greatest

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summaries like I was asking Bishop Brian because I’ve been so busy I said could you go through and pick out all the Messianic prophecies for me out of scripture especially the

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ones that have pieces where you can see that they

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have to be fulfilled in this life

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When you know they they paint such a glorious picture of what the world will become like And then they talk about people will live to the ripe old age of Wait that means there’s still death So it’s not after the resurrection right

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Because what I want people to see if you can connect the

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dots When you study Western

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civilization in light of the Jewish scriptures you start to see that the Messianic prophecies promised in the Old Testament began to be filled fulfilled wherever people began worshiping Jesus Christ

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That that’s the strategy for transforming nations

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the gospel of Jesus Christ And it transforms whole nations It does and it still will today

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But one of the great summaries of this to me was Paul’s mission after his missionary journeys I mean I loved it Man Paul went around

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winning souls to Christ and planting churches and pagan lands and usually had a people follow like not just hecklers rioters following him from city to city and he went out from Antioch you know and he went out from Antioch where he was loved he had you know it’s like my family the place where I’m at rest the

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place where I have peace the place where it is all good

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And so he goes on this missionary

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journey and he just destroys the kingdom of darkness all around and he’s like oh I can see it I’m almost home I’m almost home I’m finally going to get my vacation my R and R

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and he gets there and he’s like oh it’s so good to be home and and and the report of what was going on in Antioch brought down the spirit filled Christians from Jerusalem down in Antioch Right At that same time Paul came

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back and now a big

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dispute a

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big caused a

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giant commotion in the church of Jesus Christ a giant argument

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because these Jewish Christians from Jerusalem came down to the Church of Antioch and said oh

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this is not the way it’s meant to be They were bursting the wine skin and it got so heated that they had to send a delegation up

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to Jerusalem to figure out what in the world is going on

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What are we supposed to do

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and up there guess what Another big commotion broke out Boom having a whole giant mess on their hands

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And then uh this is the way the prophetic

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works It’s like

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somebody starts speaking and because these are spiritual believers and like I’m hearing the Lord in this and it was Peter He got up and he started reminding them about his encounter with Cornelius

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And now people are listening and then they bring up Paul and he talks about all the miracles God has done to bring all these gentiles to the faith

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People are listening

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But James who was the leader of the church in Jerusalem It was like the spirit That’s how the prophetic works It usually goes from one to another to another giving utterance It’s pretty cool

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And so he writes

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this

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and with and with this

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this is acts 15 15 through 21 And

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with this the words of the prophets

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agree I love James because he says it’s not enough to just hear stories What does the word of God say

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And with this the word of the prophets agree just as it is written And after this I will return and rebuild the Tabernacle of David

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which has fallen

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down I will

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rebuild its ruins and I will set it up so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord even the gentiles who are called by my name

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says the Lord who does all these

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things And then I and I skip forward because he basically he just picks out

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one of many scriptures that talks about the gentiles

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are going to come into the house of the Lord the true

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church of Jesus Christ

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And his implication is for Mose about the things that they were all troubled about For Moses has had throughout many generations

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Those who preach him in every city

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being read in the synagogues every Sabbath

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The weight of

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his conclusion is so powerful

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God’s heart has always been to reach the world from the very beginning

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and hear what the early church is seeing is that God is fulfilling his promises in scripture from the Messianic age

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Messiah is on the throne This is the sign that He is Messiah This is the proof that He is Messiah What he has done in nations is the proof that Jesus Christ has sat down on the throne of David forever And he’s rebuilding the Tabernacle of David and the nations are coming in

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Isn’t this exciting

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And then what he is saying And this is actually a profound and powerful statement for Moses has had for many generations

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in every city those that preach him

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And the implication is and none of this has ever happened before

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This is the hand of almighty God Jesus is Messiah and Lord and he’s begun his reign through the power of the Holy Spirit working in the church of Jesus Christ

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That’s awesome isn’t it

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And that is still the same power that is available to the church of Jesus Christ But if we don’t believe

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that God is that this is what he’s trying to build we will not engage

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and the laborers will not go out into the harvest

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Summer has ended

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the harvest is passed

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We’ve got to see that this is God’s agenda for planet earth

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We have to dare to believe that this is what God wants to do And it’s really it’s the heart of God because he cares about people when I read what it looks like even there in Britain you can

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see it’s not because they always try to paint it as imperialism or trying to you know rob people of their culture or their

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religion No it’s about the whole world is in bondage and darkness in prison They are broken

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they are hurting they

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are lost

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and Christ has come to heal the nations to set them free Where the wicked rule the people groan

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when the righteous rule the people rejoice he wants to move us from groaning to rejoicing

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just as our individual lives When we were under the wicked rule of sin we groaned But when we came under the righteous rule of King Jesus we rejoiced

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and it’s like night and day and we celebrate that we’ve received eternal life and we’ve come to know him that same encounter that every true believer in Jesus Christ has experienced

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starts to have that same kind of impact on nations transforming planet earth and showing he is Messiah he is king and Lord over all

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It’s exciting isn’t it

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Paul I know you share these all the time because I really believe that these things that we’re sharing are so important and mission critical for the church of Jesus Christ to understand in this hour because I really believe it’s lack of a vision of what God has for nations that is causing the laborers to not show up and work in the harvest

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Romans 10 19

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He says but I say did Israel not know First Moses says I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation I will move you to anger by a foolish nation

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And then in Romans 11 11 to

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15 I say then have they stumbled that they should fall This is Paul talking about the Jews right after he talks about it first let me make

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it clear to you There’s always been a remnant and there always will be a remnant

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because it’s one work of God It’s one planting it’s

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one vine

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it’s one olive tree right

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He said have they stumbled that they should fall Certainly not but through their fall to provoke them to jealousy Salvation has come to the gentiles

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Now if their fall is rich as for the world and their failure riches for the gentiles how much more their fullness for I speak to you gentiles And as much as I’m an apostle to the gentiles I magnify my ministry If by any means I may provoke to jealousy Those who are my flesh and save some of them for if they’re being cast off cast away is the reconciling of the world What will their acceptance be But life from the dead

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Paul is saying that he understands God’s mission on planet Earth that the Jewish nation has rejected their Messiah

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And the goal is to get them to receive their messiah

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Do you see what he said there

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His whole goal is to get Israel to receive their messiah

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and he tells you God’s plan on how to do it to provoke Israel to jealousy

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with gentile

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nations

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What in the world are you talking about

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to see

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The Jewish scriptures Show you what the Messianic age looks like

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what the rule of Messiah looks like

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on planet earth And it’s so real and it’s so tangible

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What is it like when God is with the people What is it like when God’s law is lived out by the power of God’s grace and the Holy Spirit what the world can look like by the love of God changing our lives

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and they’re meant to see in these other nations This is what was promised to us

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This is our inheritance this is our heritage He is our messiah

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isn’t that powerful picture

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Let the weight of this get in If if this is accurate read it for yourself especially Romans 11

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that Paul gets it I want my Jews to receive the Messiah My main reason I’m reaching out to you gentiles and he says it in several places about His heart for the Jews

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I am trying to I’m trying to reach the gentiles because that’s

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God’s agenda to reach the Jew

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to provoke them to jealousy

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with the gentile nations

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because they can see God is with us

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But that will never happen with the church of Jesus Christ that has such a puny vision of what it means for the gospel of Jesus Christ to impact nations that has no vision for what it means for God’s government and rule to bring nations into the obedience of Christ We have made our aim so small in the church

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You see what I’m saying

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That’s why we really need to wrestle with these scriptures and see is that what it really says pray about it seek it because if that’s what it really says then our goal is to

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proclaim the gospel and live Christian lives in such a way that it transforms everything

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Just like Pope Gregory wrote that letter to the king

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This is what it means to live as a Christian as a leader This is what it means to live as a Christian whatever your station is in life And that’s so much what the New Testament is about how to live as a follower of Jesus Christ no matter what your station in life is because that’s how we change the world

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And that and God’s word says it to make us fully equipped for every good work It’s pretty cool isn’t it

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So believe in God for righteous rulers in the triumph of the gospel

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People are proclaiming America is post Christian

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That’s the term they like to use

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another way we could say it It’s a new barbarism

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and people are acting like barbarians

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All you have to do is watch the news right

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No longer Is it safe sometimes for even people to go on a bus I mean it’s amazing

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the things the atrocities

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that we see daily that we often become desensitized to it But what it is is it’s a sign that we are outside of the rule of Messiah

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because that doesn’t happen under his jurisdiction

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That doesn’t happen

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under his rule That doesn’t happen when the righteous

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rule Does that make sense when they are when people are acting this way They are not obeying the Lord They are not walking with

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God they are not walking in the fear of the Lord

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Is that the truth

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And the problem that we well before I do that I’m gonna say nations reflect the character of the religion

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I want to just say that that what we read in the ecclesiastical history of the British people

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is that the nation was transformed for its from its religion

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Everything is downstream from religion You become what you worship

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you become what you worship period If you worship the flesh you will become carnal

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If you worship man you will become an animal

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If you if you worship the Lord Jesus Christ you’ll become like a son of God

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If you worship false gods

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you’ll become like them You read the gods of ancient mythology the Roman gods the Greek gods they were all a bunch of of

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glorified

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I don’t even know the right word to use

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with them

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Barbarians

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Yes glorified barbarians

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and they made life miserable for the

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people under their

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rule they made life miserable

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When these barbarous I mean some of the British people the Irish people human sacrifice not unheard of under barbarism

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And yet when they turn to Jesus Christ

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now they follow the one who laid down his life

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and became in the servant of all

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You change nations by changing their gods You change people by changing their gods You change families by changing their gods When you worship money when you worship fame when you worship pleasure when you worship man when you worship the flesh when you worship false gods you become like what you worship

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But when you worship Jesus Christ you become like him

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So the strategy for changing the world

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is to reach the world with the gospel

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One of the problems

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is that a lot of people don’t believe

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that we can win

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America because there is no more a starting place because people don’t even believe in right and wrong They don’t believe in the 10 commandments They don’t I hear this

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from people all the time We don’t believe that there’s hope for America because we’ve lost the last trappings of Christianity

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Be it done to you according to your faith

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But you have to wrestle with the fact that the gospel of Jesus Christ was broken into the most pagan barbarious cultures and brought them to Christ in saving faith and they never had any commitment to the 10 commandments They never had any Christian heritage They never had any of it

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See how sneaky the enemy is he causes us to not believe he makes us unbelieving believers

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We start to restrict God because we don’t believe instead of wrestling with God and wrestling with doctrine and wrestling with theology

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in wrestling with history And what I mean by that is we often have such a narrow rigid way of the order of salvation We have a narrow rigid way of how people come to Christ We believe that they have to be convicted of how bad they are because they broke in the tank commandments and feel really bad about it and they ask for forgiveness and

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receive that forgiveness

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And so this is why many people don’t believe that we can transform a post Christian culture or a rep pagan America because they no longer believe in the 10 commandments They no longer believe in right and wrong And what that’s doing is causing the church of Jesus Christ to have to wrestle with God and prayer for a message that can capture the hearts and imagination of a people without the 10 commandments

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We have to dare to believe that God has a way He has a message He has a form of Christianity that can harvest rep pagans America

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And if we dare to start from that presupposition and seek him and cry out he knows what that is

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It may be a move of the Holy ghost and signs and wonders and miracles and the gifts of the Holy Spirit And that may be part of it

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But we had that in America and it didn’t change the culture

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Maybe it also needs to be wed with the vision of nation building for Jesus or of all of the earth under the obedience of Christ Or maybe it needs to be wed to do you see what I’m saying

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But I know he has the answer if we will seek him that’s why we need to be a praying church That’s why we need to step out of the things and trials and concerns of this life and start to seek him Because some it says like one of my favorite scriptures in those days men began to call on the name of the Lord

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And it’s time for us to begin to call on the name of the Lord and seek him with faith that he has an answer And he has a solution and say Lord start with us We need you to do it and we want you to do it here I want you to do it anywhere and everywhere But Lord God

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here we are send us work through us reveal these things through us So I just some of the thoughts like we were there at the uh the life group on Wednesday And I was thinking some of these scriptures really may actually be some of the answer I don’t know for sure but I won I won I have to wonder we need to to redefine how we are capturing the heart and the imagination So John 10 10

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the thief does not come except to steal kill and to destroy I have come that they might have life and they might have it more abundantly

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They

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you don’t need the 10 commandments to get that Do you

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The thief robs you of everything worth living for He robs you of dignity of purpose of significance of value and worth Who who has not run into the thief

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What human being on planet earth has not run into the thief right And if you have run into the thief maybe this message has actually come is actually good news A gospel Jesus has come not to kill steal and destroy but that you might have life and have it abundantly And I think that abundantly may actually include restoring everything that was stolen

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Are you tired of being robbed of purpose d dignity and worth I don’t think I’m being robbed of anything Have you ever felt like life was not worth living Then you’ve been robbed Have you ever been have you ever thought that there’s no hope for your future Then you’ve been robbed Have you ever felt nobody loves you or cares about you Then you’ve been robbed

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Have you ever felt like your life was just part of a cosmic accident Because it’s just part of blind chance Then you’ve been robbed and robbed powerfully by the educational system and the values and gods of this age

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But he can restore dignity and purpose and significance in life and value to you If you will bend the knee and confess Him as Lord

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we may need to

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refocus our expectations of what will capture the hearts and imaginations of a people that are lost and broken and hurting

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because we still live in the world as it is And in that world God is not mocked what a man So so he shall reap And if you sow to the flesh you reap destruction And people are tired of being destroyed They’re tired of wicked leaders They’re tired of people stealing from them They’re tired of living in fear they are tired of being broken

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they’re tired of things that are just not the way it was meant to be

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And then the gospel that Jesus Christ

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can restore all can heal all

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can give you life in

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abundance that whoever drinks this water that I give shall never thirst again

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You are

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thirsting

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often self medicating

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often just grasping after

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something to satisfy and it never truly satisfies

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But then Jesus then you meet Jesus Christ and you find that pearl of great price you find that treasure hidden in the field and it’s like somebody turned on the lights and life is beautiful righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost love Joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness meekness self control these fruits of the spirit

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I have found life life in abundance in him Not based on circumstances circumstances will change But first our heart changes our experience of his grace and his peace and his love

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Who says that there’s not a gospel for America today who says there’s no hope for America today who says that there’s no hope for the righteous to rule today But it begins with Lord send out missionaries to America send out missionaries to America Lord we are in

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John 17 3 and this is eternal life Do you want to have eternal life Do you want

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to have a man in heaven And no it’s this is eternal life that they may know you The only true God

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in Jesus Christ

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whom you have sent

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that this is eternal life that they may know you

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that knowing

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Him I know Him I walk

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with Him He’s precious He’s

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beautiful He’s good He is faithful He’s worth

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everything that is life and outside of that is death that is light outside of it is darkness to know Him This is eternal life

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It’s not just some game to get your sins forgiven It’s that I may know Him that I walk with God

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that I had fellowship with Him

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that I had communion with Him that I know Him

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That’s a good

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news for all

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people of all time everywhere

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You know that whole maybe God’s been shoving it

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in our face and it’s so obnoxious that we haven’t been willing to look at it Football games John 3 16

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Well they should have added 17 So I’m gonna read them both We’re doing this with the life group

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Good news

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for God So

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loved the world

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He loved the world

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People say but I thought we were supposed to hate

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the world No if

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we have the heart of the Father we would love the world not the sinful world but the people created in his image for whom Christ has shed his

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blood

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God saw every human being He saw every

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life that it had

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value that it had work that it had

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significance that it was precious to Him that every human being their experiences their pain their joy their sorrow their laughter their tears they were precious in his sight that every single one of them he saw and he loved the

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world that he sent his only son

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that whoever believes in Him should

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not perish but have everlasting life

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For God did not send his son into the

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world to condemn the world but that the world

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through Him might be saved

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This is the heart of the Father in any kind of Christianity that doesn’t portray This heart is a false Christianity

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And it also answers a lot of the questions here too The world was perishing

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the world was perishing and he came in

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to give us a way out

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the ship was sinking and he came and gave us a way out

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Another way We talk about food perishes The world is rotting

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and he gave us a way out

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Culture is rotting

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Nations are

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rotting and he came to bring healing to bring restoration

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to bring eternal life

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This is the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ and it has power to convert any culture

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We we need a vision

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for nations to respond to the Gospel

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because because we care about people that God cares about people We care about injustice We care about unrighteousness we care about tyranny we care about oppression We care about everything that is contrary to God’s design and leads to human flourishing Everything that is contrary to God’s design in human flourishing is anti Christ

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because Christ just means Messiah the rule and reign of Messiah and anything that Robs kills and destroys is anti Christ

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And we you know we heard this morning we overcame

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by the blood of the land the word of our testimony and we did not love our lives so much as to shrink from death We need to get a vision

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of what it means

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for the righteous to be an authority in the home in the church in the marketplace and government

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it begins by the righteous being an authority in our life And that means the righteous one Jesus Christ becomes Lord the source of it all as human beings bending the knee and confessing him as Lord that is the source of all hope and worldwide transformation and you’re not going to legislate it You’re not going to even educate it until there is a total surrender of our hearts and lives to Jesus Christ

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The Messianic Kingdom is cut off

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There’s no other way to create it There’s no other way to encounter it There’s no other way to experience it than a total surrender of our lives to Jesus Christ As Lord

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he comes back to bringing all things into the obedience of Christ Not because we’re so wicked No God so loved us and we had so much value and worth and significance and he didn’t want us to be killed and stolen from and destroyed He didn’t want us to be rotting and perishing He wants to heal and revive but there’s only one way in

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and that’s through Jesus Christ

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He wants heaven on earth to heaven and earth to become one He taught us to pray that your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven meaning we’re all meant to be engaged in this mission

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because he wants people to experience the heavenly life He wants people to live in a reflection of heaven on earth rather than hell on earth And many people are living in an experience of hell on earth and that’s not what he wants But if we so love the world like he so loved the world We would engage and go into the harvest Lord the harvest is right But the laborers are few thrust out laborers Lord

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how we accomplish it Isaiah 30 20 to 21 It’s one of my hope and prayers from this message in light of the election that we see how important it is to teach all of God’s word in Isaiah 30 It talks about a transformation from a rotting culture to a reviving culture from a culture of death to a culture of total transformation And this was the turning point And

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though the Lord gives you the bread of

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adversity and the water of affliction

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yet your teachers will not be

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moved into a

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corner anymore but your eyes shall see your teachers

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and your ears shall hear

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a word behind you saying this is the way walking it

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How can you not hear it He is the way Follow him Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world Follow Him This is the way walk in it

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Whenever you turn to the right hand or

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whenever you turn to the left

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God’s heart has always been to deliver us from the thief and the murderer His heart has always been for us to know the dignity of being created in the image of God and being genuinely loved by Him

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His heart is that

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we would not be oppressed and we

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would not be mistreated and I love the gospel that says it doesn’t matter what’s happened to you in life God will heal you God will forgive you But you know what I would also like a gospel that stops it from happening

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The barbarians are barbarians no more

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They don’t walk in their wicked ways and cause pain and sorrow and suffering anymore because their hearts have been captured by the love of God in Jesus Christ

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So the order of transformation is that it begins with the church

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That’s really what we’ve been talking about here and awakening in the church to have a vision of when the righteous rule it has to do We have to raise how are the righteous gonna rule if they’re not raised up

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How can there be righteous people

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who don’t know the ways of righteousness That’s why we need the church and the ministry of the church and to teach God’s word and to preach God’s word and to minister to one another and build one another up And this is why we need Christian education

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It’s also why we need Christian leaders in the marketplace because most people go every day into this world and they spend more time at work than they do at home and they need to go into the marketplace and experience a reflection of God’s rule on earth Just like we read that letter of the Pope to the king If we only think about politics the political government of the world We’re missing radical opportunities for people to experience what we read about in Britain

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How incredible it was that they didn’t touch the water pots or a woman could walk with her baby across the island

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the people rejoiced under righteous rulers and it’s not just government It’s our opportunity The quickest opportunity for this to be expressed on earth in our day is through the church of Jesus Christ in the marketplace When God puts you into positions of leadership and authority in the marketplace that same letter of Pope Gregory to King Ethelbert goes to you

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Do you see what I’m saying

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And then the government is the last stronghold in a culture

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Does that make sense

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Where will the righteous leaders be grown

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in the church

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in the home

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in the marketplace

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That’s where it begins and that’s why what we’re doing at life Springs Church or every true church of Jesus Christ is so important

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But we have to go back and answer those questions

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that we asked at the beginning

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When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice But when the wicked man rules the people grow

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do we dare believe it is possible

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And does our theology permit

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such a hopeful vision

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of the future