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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Winning Walk with Doctor ed Young. Before
we get to today's message, we want to tell you
about an insightful sermons series from doctor Young called The
Church Awake. Our world is teetering on the edge of
disorder and disaster, and this series sounds an inspiring call
for the church to awaken and engage your culture with
clarity and conviction on important issues, standing confidently on truth,
(00:26):
then bending.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
To the pressures of the world.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
This series is our thanks for your gift to help
keep the proven truth of God's Word reaching you and
others around the.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
World through this program.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So be sure to request your copy of The Church
Awake when you give just call one eight hundred three
five oh Walk one eight hundred three five oh nine
two five five. Now let's get started with today's teaching
from doctor Young.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Jesus was a great politician with a pure definition because
he was in the relationship business. Was he he established
where you and I can a relationship with God. In
Jesus Christ, he established we can have a good relationship
with ourselfs. He established where we can have relationship with others.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So Jesus was a divinely appointed given politician in the
purest sense of the word. Why has the church been
asleep in this critical moment of history? It has happened before.
(01:36):
You look at the Book of Revelation. You see there
in chapter number three, Jesus is writing to the church,
and he's writing to various churches, seven of them to
be exact. And he comes to the church at Sardis,
and it sounds like the modern church in America today.
(01:59):
Look at what he said. I know your deeds, and
you have the reputation of being alive, but you're dead.
Wake up, strengthen what remains and is about to die,
for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight
of my God. Remember therefore, what you have received and heard,
(02:25):
hold it fast and repent. And if you do not
wake up, I will come like a thief, and you
will not know at what time I will come to you.
To the church at Sardis, he says, to all the
churches today, wake up. Wake up. The church in history
(02:54):
many times did not wake up. And therefore we ask
the question, why has the church, the total body of Christ,
basically been asleep? What has happened to us? What took place?
First of all, I would say there's a misunderstanding of
(03:16):
church and state. And I've dealt with this many times,
but you need to hammer this in your mind. It's
an idea that somehow the church could be separated from
the state, and therefore the church needs to be silent,
particularly in the area of politics. When Jesus was the
(03:36):
consummate politician, that debt were relationships. But the church have
been silent. When there is a vacuum, what happens. Nature
abhorrors of vacuum and something fills in. Look at Korea today.
South Korea is the most Christian nation in the world.
North Korea. You go there and try to build a church,
(03:58):
try to preach the God of Jesus Christ, it would
not be tolerated. Look at nations around the world. Freedom
religion is long since gone to the Muslim countries and
many Western countries. There's this wall of separation of church
and state. In the United States, we see it standing
(04:21):
what does the church done? I thought about the story
of the news reporter who went into a bar and
he had his mic with him, and a good old boy,
redneck was right down there in happy hour. You know,
one of these guys who know everything, and a street
corner philosophers and cowboys. And he was drinking from a
(04:43):
mug over there, and the reporter went over there and said,
could I ask you a question? He said, she just
asked me anything. He took another gulp, and the cameraman
was there and put the mic in front of him.
He said, what of the two biggest problems in America?
(05:04):
He said, took another drag and said, I don't know,
and I don't care. He said, it's amazing you got
both of them right in the first that question. Apathy,
a sleep at ease, and zion would be the biblical
terminology for it. We don't understand separated the church and state.
(05:29):
Get this, Get this once and for all. I've dealt
with it many times, standing right in this place. The
idea that there is a wall between church and state,
the way it is interpreted by left wing progressives, is
totally inaccurate. You do not find that phrase in the Constitution,
(05:51):
the bylaws, or any of our foundational documents. Where did
it come from. When Thomas Jefferson was elected president, most
of the Christians in the Colonists opposed him. They said
he was not a Christian, which was right at best.
He was a Deist, but all the Baptists voted for him. Interesting,
(06:13):
all the other Christians denominations voted against him. But Jeffson
was elected, and therefore acting was elected. A little Baptist
association in dan Berry, Connecticut wrote him a letter of
congratulations and they said, mister President, we hope you will
stop the establishment of religion in all of the colonies.
(06:37):
Now what does that mean? In Connecticut then the official
religion of the state was the Congregational Church, and many
of the colonies had their own particular denomination or abomination
in which they encouraged all people, and they got preferential
treatment from the state government. From the colonies, you got it.
(06:59):
And they were writing saying, we hope this will not happen.
And Jefferson wrote a letter and said, there is a
wall of separation paraphrase between the church and the state,
and the state should never give preference or establish any
religion in and of itself. We have freedom of all religions,
(07:19):
and not freedom from religion, as some would have it
interpreted in order to silence the church. So understand is
a misunderstanding of the separation of church and state that
has kept a lot of the churches from saying, well,
we can't deal in politics. Also, there's a misunderstanding of
(07:42):
the gospel. In the NRB meeting in Washington, National Religious
Broadcasters had a convention and one of the prominent Bible
preaching teaching individuals on television. I'll not call his name,
all of you would know him prominent. This person really
(08:03):
seeks to teach the Bible. He said to a group
in the NRB convention, he is not going to speak
on anything controversial in order to preach the Gospel. Now,
I was stunned at that, and I would ask anybody,
what in the world do you think the gospel is.
(08:28):
First there is bad news, and then there is good news.
The gospel is John three sixteen. For God so loved
the world that he gave is only a gotten son,
that whosoever believes in him will not perish and will
have everlasting life. That's the gospel. But the Gospel three
seventeen is the other side of it. For God sent
(08:49):
not his son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through Him might be salvage, it
might be saved received Christ. And then we get involved
in the affairs of the world in the name of
our Lord and Savior, led by his spirit. We have
(09:10):
had a misunderstanding of the gospel, a misunderstanding of church
and state finding, we've had a misunderstanding of Jesus. They said, well,
Jesus was just love. He was so nice. He said,
suffer little children to come into me. Unless you have
the faith of a child, you'll never get to heaven yourself. Oh,
(09:30):
Jesus was totally loved. We see that there, don't we?
What about Jesus going into the temple on two occasions
and taking all the pharisees and sadducees who were exploiting
the people and money changers, con artists, and he turned
over those tables and took a whip and drove. Was
he not the same Jesus of love that you find
(09:53):
that Jesus of love little children? Absolutely, because we misunderstood
what biblical Christian love is all about. It's a misunderstanding
of Jesus. What did Jesus tell us that we're to do?
What are we to be light? What are the metaphors use?
We're to be salt, We're to be light. We're to
(10:15):
be water, We're to be bread, We're to be living,
We're to be a key. What word describes all of
those metaphors that Jesus said you and I are to be.
The word is penetration. Salt has to penetrate the food
(10:36):
to give it taste. Light has to penetrate the darkness
to eliminate it. Water has to penetrate all of our
being in order to keep us alive. A key penetrates
a lot. The leaven gets into the bread in order
of it to raise up. You see the key word.
We are signed to penetrate, and we're to penetrate every
(10:58):
area of societ. We misunderstood Jesus, so the church have
been silent, misunderstood the meaning of separation of church and state.
And then we look, we say, the church has not
understood the Gospel, and the church has not understood Jesus.
And then what happens. We have forgotten the three basic institutions.
(11:24):
God in Christ established three basic institutions. I want you
to look at them with me. In the Book of Colossians,
chapter number one, no words, God said, all of the
world is to be founded on these three institutions. And
look at what the institutions are. The sun is the
(11:47):
image of the invisible God. The firstborn of all creation.
That's reference back to Genesis, the establishment of the family.
Adam and E be fruitful and multiply. And he says,
for in him all things were created, things in heaven
and on earth, visible and invisible, where the thrones are
powers or rulers or authorities. All things have been created
(12:10):
through Him, and for him. He is before all things,
and in him all things hold together. That is the government.
God in Christ created the family, he created government, and
finally he created the Church. He is the head of
the body of the Church. He is beginning and the
first born from among the dead, so that in everything
(12:33):
he might have supremacy. God has taken his power, and
he is given it to the family. He's given it,
handed it right down to the government, and he's ended
to the church. And each one of those have job
descriptions in the Bible how there ort to function. The
family is the basic institution of society. God invented marriage
(12:57):
male and female. Leave eve one flash, and oh shame
he had been in marriage. And then in Deuteronomy chapter six,
he gives a formula fart. He talks about first of
all the ten commandments of Deuteronomy five. Uteronomy six that
is the shima in which he told the head of
the family to meet every day and when you wake up,
(13:19):
when you go to sleep, when they go out the door,
you teach your children. You live it and you teach it.
And that's the job description for the family. And then
he gives a job description for the church. And this
is where we have messed up. Is the role of
the church in the twenty first century? Now Norm Mason
(13:41):
gave me this term. It's not original. And he says,
what is the purpose of the church? You know what
it is? But well, you remember the church. What's the
purpose of the church? It is to fulfill the Great Commission.
And the Great commission is mentioned by Jesus after he
(14:02):
was resurrected from the dead five different times. You know,
when Jesus mentioned five things something five times after God
had raised him from the dead. Do you think that's important?
You know, do you think it has significance? He is saying, simply,
to you and to me, we are to carry out
(14:23):
the Great commission. Go you. Therefore, in the whole of
the world, make disciples, baptizing them, and they the Father,
the Son, the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things.
What whoever, I've commanded you, and lo I am with
you right to the end of the world. What's he said?
The first thing he's saying, we are to baptize, we
are to win. That's the part of the gospel. The
(14:46):
second thing is we are to teach, and that's the
fulks of the church. And we are to become get
this phrase, get this phrase, great commission citizens, Oh word,
this is our purpose, and we're to penetrate all of
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society these three institutions. He has delegated the authority to
the family has a function. The government has a function.
Read the government's function in Romans, chapter thirteen. It says
clearly the government has the power of the sword. And
by the way, just parenthetically, do you realize if the
(15:28):
American citizens would simply and plainly obey what the people
in blue tell us to do, ninety nine percent of
all the junk that we have would be done away with.
Just obey. You say, well, there's some Roden Eiffels, but
they're one in a million who wear the blue and
(15:51):
seek to protect us every day. I am one hundred
percent for those who enforce the law. So here we
are delegate authority to the family, the father, the mother,
(16:14):
what they are to building their kids, the kind of home.
It should be delegated authority to the government. They're to
carry the sword. We are to be obedient, we're to
be citizens, and delegated authority to the church. And this
is where the church needs to stand up and be counted.
(16:35):
Ladies and gentlemen, you realize that we are so much
like Nazi Germany. Well, that's so much, so hard to say.
When Adolf Hitler took power, he brought together eighteen thousand
leaders of the biblical churches of Germany, eighteen thousand of them,
and he promised them they'd be freedom and independence, and
(16:58):
they'd be able to worship and do wherever. As a
result of that, Neil Muller Martin Neil Muller went out
and spoke to Hitler afterwards and said that look, the
role of the church and we cannot support that direction
in which you're leading Germany. In that conversation, Hitler responded
(17:19):
to him and said, you're a pastor. You take care
of the church, and I'll take care of the people.
That's exactly what we're hearing. Hull. You take care of
the church, and we and the government. Take care of
the people. Remember the bottom line of all this one
(17:41):
nation under God. We are under the administration today. They
wanted to be one nation under the state. You take
care of that. You do baptize, you preach, you be nice,
you be kind, you help people, you love one another.
But my goodness, don't get in the business of the people.
Don't get in the political area in the sense that
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we have defined it. Eighteen thousand pastors were present, eighteen thousand,
and three thousand of them opposed Adolf Hitler. Another three
thousand joined in. And by the way, I would guess
(18:23):
that three fourths of the churches that go by name
of church today has already joined into the Wolkes agenda.
I think I can prove that about three fourths, and
they're in Germany. Three thousands of posed him, three thousand
were for him, and there were twelve thousands said, you know,
(18:45):
we're just not gonna do anything. We just gonna sit
by and play our hymns and do our carols and
talk about everybody coming to Jesus. We're not gonna get
out in that dirty, slimy area of politics. And we've
advocated our role and we are not becoming as we
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must become great commission citizens, because out there we give
a chance to give our witness for Christ. That's who
we are, that's what we must become. If we do not,
ladies and gentlemen, America is gone and the world is gone.
(19:27):
The burden is on those who are in Christ. Genuinely.
I think it was nineteen thirty five a German citizen
who is a Christian stood up before a group and
said that he went to a little church in Germany
(19:50):
that was next to a railroad track. And he said,
every Sunday we'd be in church worshiping, preaching, reading the Bible, singing,
and he said we would hear on that railroad track
a whistle, and the whistle went louder and louder, and
when you a train was coming loaded down with Jews
(20:14):
who were being taken to the Holocaust. And he said
they would get closer and closer we'd hear. And said
when they got right by the church, they would holler,
help us, they're going to kill us, Save us, do something.
And he said it happened so many sundays that it
(20:37):
was disturbing church, and therefore they would turn the organ
up louder, and they'd stand and sing the hymns more resoundingly,
and when they heard the whistle, they would just become
so loud in church that they could not hear the
screams of the Jews who were being six or seven
(20:59):
billion executed. And he said, today, as an old man,
I have nightmares, and I hear that whistle in my nightmare.
I hear that whistle in my nightmare. My brothers and
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my sisters, ladies and gentlemen, down the road in history,
if we see the devastation of the Judaeo Christian culture
which we've established in the Western world, in America, you
and I, those who are alive, will hear a whistle.
(21:45):
The question why has a church been asleep at this
critical moment? Jesus would not have been asleep teaching in
the synagogue, teaching in the temple. If all Jerusalem was
falling apart, and the nation was in trouble because of violence,
because of corruption in high office. Would he have just
(22:06):
you know, Exegeni Leviticus, as I said in the sermon, No,
I think he would have spoke the truth of God
as God in human flesh. He would have spoken the
truth of God in the power. Listen. God has called
us and equipped us to penetrate our culture with the
full facts of God. That's the good news. I wonder
(22:29):
if we could just take a moment and pray for
our America. Would you pray with me, our heavenly Father.
We close our eyes and if we could, we'd bow
our knee. If we could, Father, we'd fall flat on
our face and say, change lives through Jesus. Oh Lord,
(22:52):
work in the hearts of the coldest, most distant person
from you even today, and let them just take time
to ask what is right, what is wrong? What is
not best for me politically, but what is best for
my family, for my business, my vocation, for the world,
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and especially for the area in which I have influenced.
Old Lord, touch hearts today, turn us around, wake us up,
call us back to Christ, call us into your church.
And Lord, we know that if there is a true
turning to You that will change everything around us, it
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will bring I pray renewal and revival and fresh wings
of your spirit all over this land. This is our
prayer in Jesus' name. Thank you for watching, and I
want to personally invite you to join us next week
as we take another step away from the wilkness of
(23:59):
our culture, another step on the winning walk in the
twenty first century with Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
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Welcome to the Winning Walk with Doctor ed Young. Before
we get to today's message, we want to tell you
about an insightful sermons series from doctor Young called The
Church Awake. Our world is teetering on the edge of
disorder and disaster, and this series sounds an inspiring call
for the church to awaken and engage your culture with
clarity and conviction on important issues, standing confidently on truth,
(00:26):
then bending.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
To the pressures of the world.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
This series is our thanks for your gift to help
keep the proven truth of God's Word reaching you and
others around the.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
World through this program.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So be sure to request your copy of The Church
Awake when you give just call one eight hundred three
five oh Walk one eight hundred three five oh nine
two five five. Now let's get started with today's teaching
from doctor Young.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Jesus was a great politician with a pure definition because
he was in the relationship business. Was he he established
where you and I can a relationship with God. In
Jesus Christ, he established we can have a good relationship
with ourselfs. He established where we can have relationship with others.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So Jesus was a divinely appointed given politician in the
purest sense of the word. Why has the church been
asleep in this critical moment of history? It has happened before.
(01:36):
You look at the Book of Revelation. You see there
in chapter number three, Jesus is writing to the church,
and he's writing to various churches, seven of them to
be exact. And he comes to the church at Sardis,
and it sounds like the modern church in America today.
(01:59):
Look at what he said. I know your deeds, and
you have the reputation of being alive, but you're dead.
Wake up, strengthen what remains and is about to die,
for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight
of my God. Remember therefore, what you have received and heard,
(02:25):
hold it fast and repent. And if you do not
wake up, I will come like a thief, and you
will not know at what time I will come to you.
To the church at Sardis, he says, to all the
churches today, wake up. Wake up. The church in history
(02:54):
many times did not wake up. And therefore we ask
the question, why has the church, the total body of Christ,
basically been asleep? What has happened to us? What took place?
First of all, I would say there's a misunderstanding of
(03:16):
church and state. And I've dealt with this many times,
but you need to hammer this in your mind. It's
an idea that somehow the church could be separated from
the state, and therefore the church needs to be silent,
particularly in the area of politics. When Jesus was the
(03:36):
consummate politician, that debt were relationships. But the church have
been silent. When there is a vacuum, what happens. Nature
abhorrors of vacuum and something fills in. Look at Korea today.
South Korea is the most Christian nation in the world.
North Korea. You go there and try to build a church,
(03:58):
try to preach the God of Jesus Christ, it would
not be tolerated. Look at nations around the world. Freedom
religion is long since gone to the Muslim countries and
many Western countries. There's this wall of separation of church
and state. In the United States, we see it standing
(04:21):
what does the church done? I thought about the story
of the news reporter who went into a bar and
he had his mic with him, and a good old boy,
redneck was right down there in happy hour. You know,
one of these guys who know everything, and a street
corner philosophers and cowboys. And he was drinking from a
(04:43):
mug over there, and the reporter went over there and said,
could I ask you a question? He said, she just
asked me anything. He took another gulp, and the cameraman
was there and put the mic in front of him.
He said, what of the two biggest problems in America?
(05:04):
He said, took another drag and said, I don't know,
and I don't care. He said, it's amazing you got
both of them right in the first that question. Apathy,
a sleep at ease, and zion would be the biblical
terminology for it. We don't understand separated the church and state.
(05:29):
Get this, Get this once and for all. I've dealt
with it many times, standing right in this place. The
idea that there is a wall between church and state,
the way it is interpreted by left wing progressives, is
totally inaccurate. You do not find that phrase in the Constitution,
(05:51):
the bylaws, or any of our foundational documents. Where did
it come from. When Thomas Jefferson was elected president, most
of the Christians in the Colonists opposed him. They said
he was not a Christian, which was right at best.
He was a Deist, but all the Baptists voted for him. Interesting,
(06:13):
all the other Christians denominations voted against him. But Jeffson
was elected, and therefore acting was elected. A little Baptist
association in dan Berry, Connecticut wrote him a letter of
congratulations and they said, mister President, we hope you will
stop the establishment of religion in all of the colonies.
(06:37):
Now what does that mean? In Connecticut then the official
religion of the state was the Congregational Church, and many
of the colonies had their own particular denomination or abomination
in which they encouraged all people, and they got preferential
treatment from the state government. From the colonies, you got it.
(06:59):
And they were writing saying, we hope this will not happen.
And Jefferson wrote a letter and said, there is a
wall of separation paraphrase between the church and the state,
and the state should never give preference or establish any
religion in and of itself. We have freedom of all religions,
(07:19):
and not freedom from religion, as some would have it
interpreted in order to silence the church. So understand is
a misunderstanding of the separation of church and state that
has kept a lot of the churches from saying, well,
we can't deal in politics. Also, there's a misunderstanding of
(07:42):
the gospel. In the NRB meeting in Washington, National Religious
Broadcasters had a convention and one of the prominent Bible
preaching teaching individuals on television. I'll not call his name,
all of you would know him prominent. This person really
(08:03):
seeks to teach the Bible. He said to a group
in the NRB convention, he is not going to speak
on anything controversial in order to preach the Gospel. Now,
I was stunned at that, and I would ask anybody,
what in the world do you think the gospel is.
(08:28):
First there is bad news, and then there is good news.
The gospel is John three sixteen. For God so loved
the world that he gave is only a gotten son,
that whosoever believes in him will not perish and will
have everlasting life. That's the gospel. But the Gospel three
seventeen is the other side of it. For God sent
(08:49):
not his son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through Him might be salvage, it
might be saved received Christ. And then we get involved
in the affairs of the world in the name of
our Lord and Savior, led by his spirit. We have
(09:10):
had a misunderstanding of the gospel, a misunderstanding of church
and state finding, we've had a misunderstanding of Jesus. They said, well,
Jesus was just love. He was so nice. He said,
suffer little children to come into me. Unless you have
the faith of a child, you'll never get to heaven yourself. Oh,
(09:30):
Jesus was totally loved. We see that there, don't we?
What about Jesus going into the temple on two occasions
and taking all the pharisees and sadducees who were exploiting
the people and money changers, con artists, and he turned
over those tables and took a whip and drove. Was
he not the same Jesus of love that you find
(09:53):
that Jesus of love little children? Absolutely, because we misunderstood
what biblical Christian love is all about. It's a misunderstanding
of Jesus. What did Jesus tell us that we're to do?
What are we to be light? What are the metaphors use?
We're to be salt, We're to be light. We're to
(10:15):
be water, We're to be bread, We're to be living,
We're to be a key. What word describes all of
those metaphors that Jesus said you and I are to be.
The word is penetration. Salt has to penetrate the food
(10:36):
to give it taste. Light has to penetrate the darkness
to eliminate it. Water has to penetrate all of our
being in order to keep us alive. A key penetrates
a lot. The leaven gets into the bread in order
of it to raise up. You see the key word.
We are signed to penetrate, and we're to penetrate every
(10:58):
area of societ. We misunderstood Jesus, so the church have
been silent, misunderstood the meaning of separation of church and state.
And then we look, we say, the church has not
understood the Gospel, and the church has not understood Jesus.
And then what happens. We have forgotten the three basic institutions.
(11:24):
God in Christ established three basic institutions. I want you
to look at them with me. In the Book of Colossians,
chapter number one, no words, God said, all of the
world is to be founded on these three institutions. And
look at what the institutions are. The sun is the
(11:47):
image of the invisible God. The firstborn of all creation.
That's reference back to Genesis, the establishment of the family.
Adam and E be fruitful and multiply. And he says,
for in him all things were created, things in heaven
and on earth, visible and invisible, where the thrones are
powers or rulers or authorities. All things have been created
(12:10):
through Him, and for him. He is before all things,
and in him all things hold together. That is the government.
God in Christ created the family, he created government, and
finally he created the Church. He is the head of
the body of the Church. He is beginning and the
first born from among the dead, so that in everything
(12:33):
he might have supremacy. God has taken his power, and
he is given it to the family. He's given it,
handed it right down to the government, and he's ended
to the church. And each one of those have job
descriptions in the Bible how there ort to function. The
family is the basic institution of society. God invented marriage
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male and female. Leave eve one flash, and oh shame
he had been in marriage. And then in Deuteronomy chapter six,
he gives a formula fart. He talks about first of
all the ten commandments of Deuteronomy five. Uteronomy six that
is the shima in which he told the head of
the family to meet every day and when you wake up,
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when you go to sleep, when they go out the door,
you teach your children. You live it and you teach it.
And that's the job description for the family. And then
he gives a job description for the church. And this
is where we have messed up. Is the role of
the church in the twenty first century? Now Norm Mason
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gave me this term. It's not original. And he says,
what is the purpose of the church? You know what
it is? But well, you remember the church. What's the
purpose of the church? It is to fulfill the Great Commission.
And the Great commission is mentioned by Jesus after he
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was resurrected from the dead five different times. You know,
when Jesus mentioned five things something five times after God
had raised him from the dead. Do you think that's important?
You know, do you think it has significance? He is saying, simply,
to you and to me, we are to carry out
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the Great commission. Go you. Therefore, in the whole of
the world, make disciples, baptizing them, and they the Father,
the Son, the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things.
What whoever, I've commanded you, and lo I am with
you right to the end of the world. What's he said?
The first thing he's saying, we are to baptize, we
are to win. That's the part of the gospel. The
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second thing is we are to teach, and that's the
fulks of the church. And we are to become get
this phrase, get this phrase, great commission citizens, Oh word,
this is our purpose, and we're to penetrate all of
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society these three institutions. He has delegated the authority to
the family has a function. The government has a function.
Read the government's function in Romans, chapter thirteen. It says
clearly the government has the power of the sword. And
by the way, just parenthetically, do you realize if the
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American citizens would simply and plainly obey what the people
in blue tell us to do, ninety nine percent of
all the junk that we have would be done away with.
Just obey. You say, well, there's some Roden Eiffels, but
they're one in a million who wear the blue and
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seek to protect us every day. I am one hundred
percent for those who enforce the law. So here we
are delegate authority to the family, the father, the mother,
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what they are to building their kids, the kind of home.
It should be delegated authority to the government. They're to
carry the sword. We are to be obedient, we're to
be citizens, and delegated authority to the church. And this
is where the church needs to stand up and be counted.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you realize that we are so much
like Nazi Germany. Well, that's so much, so hard to say.
When Adolf Hitler took power, he brought together eighteen thousand
leaders of the biblical churches of Germany, eighteen thousand of them,
and he promised them they'd be freedom and independence, and
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they'd be able to worship and do wherever. As a
result of that, Neil Muller Martin Neil Muller went out
and spoke to Hitler afterwards and said that look, the
role of the church and we cannot support that direction
in which you're leading Germany. In that conversation, Hitler responded
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to him and said, you're a pastor. You take care
of the church, and I'll take care of the people.
That's exactly what we're hearing. Hull. You take care of
the church, and we and the government. Take care of
the people. Remember the bottom line of all this one
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nation under God. We are under the administration today. They
wanted to be one nation under the state. You take
care of that. You do baptize, you preach, you be nice,
you be kind, you help people, you love one another.
But my goodness, don't get in the business of the people.
Don't get in the political area in the sense that
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we have defined it. Eighteen thousand pastors were present, eighteen thousand,
and three thousand of them opposed Adolf Hitler. Another three
thousand joined in. And by the way, I would guess
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that three fourths of the churches that go by name
of church today has already joined into the Wolkes agenda.
I think I can prove that about three fourths, and
they're in Germany. Three thousands of posed him, three thousand
were for him, and there were twelve thousands said, you know,
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we're just not gonna do anything. We just gonna sit
by and play our hymns and do our carols and
talk about everybody coming to Jesus. We're not gonna get
out in that dirty, slimy area of politics. And we've
advocated our role and we are not becoming as we
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must become great commission citizens, because out there we give
a chance to give our witness for Christ. That's who
we are, that's what we must become. If we do not,
ladies and gentlemen, America is gone and the world is gone.
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The burden is on those who are in Christ. Genuinely.
I think it was nineteen thirty five a German citizen
who is a Christian stood up before a group and
said that he went to a little church in Germany
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that was next to a railroad track. And he said,
every Sunday we'd be in church worshiping, preaching, reading the Bible, singing,
and he said we would hear on that railroad track
a whistle, and the whistle went louder and louder, and
when you a train was coming loaded down with Jews
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who were being taken to the Holocaust. And he said
they would get closer and closer we'd hear. And said
when they got right by the church, they would holler,
help us, they're going to kill us, Save us, do something.
And he said it happened so many sundays that it
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was disturbing church, and therefore they would turn the organ
up louder, and they'd stand and sing the hymns more resoundingly,
and when they heard the whistle, they would just become
so loud in church that they could not hear the
screams of the Jews who were being six or seven
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billion executed. And he said, today, as an old man,
I have nightmares, and I hear that whistle in my nightmare.
I hear that whistle in my nightmare. My brothers and
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my sisters, ladies and gentlemen, down the road in history,
if we see the devastation of the Judaeo Christian culture
which we've established in the Western world, in America, you
and I, those who are alive, will hear a whistle.
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The question why has a church been asleep at this
critical moment? Jesus would not have been asleep teaching in
the synagogue, teaching in the temple. If all Jerusalem was
falling apart, and the nation was in trouble because of violence,
because of corruption in high office. Would he have just
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you know, Exegeni Leviticus, as I said in the sermon, No,
I think he would have spoke the truth of God
as God in human flesh. He would have spoken the
truth of God in the power. Listen. God has called
us and equipped us to penetrate our culture with the
full facts of God. That's the good news. I wonder
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if we could just take a moment and pray for
our America. Would you pray with me, our heavenly Father.
We close our eyes and if we could, we'd bow
our knee. If we could, Father, we'd fall flat on
our face and say, change lives through Jesus. Oh Lord,
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work in the hearts of the coldest, most distant person
from you even today, and let them just take time
to ask what is right, what is wrong? What is
not best for me politically, but what is best for
my family, for my business, my vocation, for the world,
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and especially for the area in which I have influenced.
Old Lord, touch hearts today, turn us around, wake us up,
call us back to Christ, call us into your church.
And Lord, we know that if there is a true
turning to You that will change everything around us, it
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will bring I pray renewal and revival and fresh wings
of your spirit all over this land. This is our
prayer in Jesus' name. Thank you for watching, and I
want to personally invite you to join us next week
as we take another step away from the wilkness of
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our culture, another step on the winning walk in the
twenty first century with Jesus Christ.
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