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a kind, I had to leave the platform

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and the auditorium because everything in me was

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going haywire.

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Now I don't like the way my voice

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is sounding.

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It's too empty, it's too cavernous.

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I guess that we can't help it, huh?

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I'm hard of hearing so I'm sensitive about

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how a voice is heard.

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Well, that was a remarkable message when I

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came back on that platform and I felt

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like what did I do wrong.

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My poor wife was on the platform with

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me and went virtually hysterical because I was

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offending many people including my publisher and my

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co-author Jamie Buckingham who has since gone

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on to be with the Lord.

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All of the charismatic big shots were on

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the platform but a voice rang out from

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the platform.

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This is the word that I've called you

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to hear.

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Not the sugar candy that has been so

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far been proffered but this is the word

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and I'll tell you that the anointing was

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so great.

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They made a film of that conference and

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then they submitted it to a board of

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rabbis because they had hoped to circulate it

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through the Jewish community as well as the

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Christian community and the rabbis loved it except

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for that one man at the end, me,

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and so they scissored me off.

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I went down on the cutting floor.

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That's how great the anointing was and I

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found out later that the prophetic word that

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came from the platform was repeated in several

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parts of the auditorium at the same time

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the identical word because there were 4,000

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people in the auditorium and of course I

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didn't hear that I found out later.

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People who stood to the invitation, I've met

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them over the years since 1974, it's about

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a quarter of a century, they said their

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life was changed by that standing.

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That message is in this book.

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It's a hundred dollars today, a special.

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This is even more devastating but it's not

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for, well, I say it's not for the

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young.

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It'll mature you fast.

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It's an attempt to explain the holocaust.

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You know what my astonishment was?

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I was a history teacher.

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I'm a depression baby born in 29 and

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when I came to high school teaching I

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was going to be a savior for my

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students.

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I was going to be for them what

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no teacher had been for me in the

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struggle of my adolescence to find meaningful life.

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You know what I found out?

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I was standing before a generation that didn't

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give a rap about meaning and I had

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come to them from another planet and that

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I spoke strangely and I was completely out

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of tune with that generation.

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I had to go back to the drawing

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board to square one to find out how

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to find a basis for communication and I

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labored for four years in a great struggle

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at the same time being married to a

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German lady, schizophrenic and a former member of

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the Hitler Youth who in her the paroxysms

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of her schizophrenic agony she was a victim

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of the war, surviving it physically but carrying

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the moral and the emotional strains into a

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marriage with a Jewish man.

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That's how God prepares a Jew for conversion.

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I'm speaking like a fool this morning.

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You don't mind, do you?

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You don't have much choice in the matter

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but all of that combined to break down

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my humanistic categories, the deep idealism that many

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of us Jews carry and the hope for

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mankind predicated on human intelligence and human goodwill

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independent of God.

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So I found in the struggle as a

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teacher that I could raise great and ultimate

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questions but I could not answer them.

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I found in my marriage with a German

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woman who was really the great love of

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my life that however well-meaning my intention

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I could not respond to her schizophrenic torment

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finding the one place where I was vulnerable,

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my Jewishness and react to that with kindness.

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See what I mean?

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It broke me down in all of my

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categories and the things in which I trusted

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as a humanist and so my crisis became

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so serious that in my 34th year I

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took a year's leave of absence and I

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should have recorded all of this.

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A year's leave of absence from the teaching

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profession.

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Maybe this is on.

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Is this on?

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It is on.

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Oh it was on all the while?

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Oh praise the Lord.

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Thank you Lord.

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We didn't miss anything.

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The Lord outwitted me again.

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And I spent 14 months traveling through Europe

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and the Middle East looking for philosophical answers.

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I had been a high school dropout at

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the age of 16, a merchant seaman at

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the age of 17, a seeker after truth,

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finally the US Army, the GI Bill.

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What do you think they sent me during

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the Korean War?

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Not the Korea, Germany.

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So we Jews have a long-standing love

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-hate relationship with Germany.

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There's so much I could tell you.

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There's so much beyond your present understanding, so

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much that you need to understand because the

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Jews are so predominant a factor at the

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conclusion of the age and the church's own

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call, the identity, the recognition of itself and

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I may not even speak that this morning,

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but sometime between now and my departure, I've

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got to say something, maybe tonight, that you

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need to understand something about that because you're

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going to be faced by them.

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Do you know what Yiddish is?

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It's a Germanic language that the Central European

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Jews adopted from the German language, became a

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kind of lingua franca, a language of commerce

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that Jews would speak because Hebrew at that

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time was not a language for street purposes.

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It is today in Israel.

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It's their national language.

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Yiddish was for street purposes.

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Hebrew was for liturgical purposes.

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So the German language, German culture, German civilization.

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Did you know that Karl Marx was a

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Jew?

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Did you know that Sigmund Freud was a

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Jew?

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Did you know that Albert Einstein was a

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Jew?

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Do you know that Steven Spielberg is a

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Jew?

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Do you know that Rubin, who was the

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head of the Department of the Treasury and

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who's the head of the Greenspan and Jews,

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Jews, Jews, Jews everywhere, but especially of German

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origin, have been a remarkable influence in Western

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civilization.

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So when the Holocaust came, you know what

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my astonishment was as a history teacher?

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These kids didn't know what the Holocaust was,

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that they were born after World War II.

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Why didn't I realize that?

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They were non-compassmentists.

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It had no comprehension for them.

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Here I'm bursting at the seams over these

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great epical events of modern times and these

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kids are totally impervious.

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A lot of them black and out of

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Oakland, California, the place of the Black Panthers,

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they had other things to preoccupy them than

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the issue of Jewish tragedy.

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You see, like two ships passing in the

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night, but all of that conspired to bring

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me to a final pre-predicament where I

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had to take this leave of absence from

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the teaching profession.

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I couldn't go on asking questions I could

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not answer.

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I couldn't go on with a failed marriage

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and a failed philosophical principle of life.

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I had to find answers and there was

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a God looking for me because one of

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my students had been praying for me.

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I probably ridiculed her faith as a strenuous

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atheist, not the village kind, but the professional

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kind, who not only looked upon religion as

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the opiate of the masses and an obstruction

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to the progress of mankind, but of all

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the religions none more nefarious than Christianity itself.

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Because we Jews were persecuted by Christians.

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Did you know that?

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Christians of a kind with which you would

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not identify, you would say they were unregenerate

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and indeed they were not.

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They were.

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Crusaders with white crosses on their tunics or

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the Spanish Inquisition or the Catholic Church.

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But the fact of the matter is that

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Jews who have suffered that persecution and have

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learned of it and taken it in with

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their mother's milk cannot distinguish between born again

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Christians and those that are institutionally Christians.

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To them that's Christianity.

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My mother thinks, God bless her, pray for

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her, 94 years old, Hitler was a Christian.

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Because he's not a Muslim, he's not a

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Jew.

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What else?

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So we suffered at the hands of Christians

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and we're going to suffer again.

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This book not only seeks to explain biblically,

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and I don't know of anyone else who

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has attempted it, the reasons for the Holocaust

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in view of God and his word, that

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this was not an aberration in history, some

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mystical event that cannot be explained, but rather

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the fulfillment of God's predictive word that such

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an event would take place in the latter

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days, that we have not received it as

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an event coming from God's hand to precipitate

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a national repentance means that we're going to

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experience it again in your lifetime and probably

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within this decade.

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There's a second Holocaust coming greater than the

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first, will eclipse the first, and not a

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Jew presently alive in the world today will

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survive it.

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The majority will perish in it.

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Only a remnant will survive, and they'll survive

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only because of you.

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That's the church's mandate, the church's call to

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extend mercy, that they might receive mercy at

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the hour of their final extremity.

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When if you have only the doctrine of

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mercy or of grace, or you know it

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only as an article of faith and not

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a palpable thing that can be extended, they

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will perish.

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Boy, that's a statement.

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You know what I'm saying?

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If you're only a doctrinal Christian, Jews will

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perish.

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They'll only survive if you're really a saint

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and know the mercy of God.

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And I'll tell you what will bring you

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to that knowledge, having to be to them

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what God will call you to be.

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You'll cry out for mercy and you'll receive

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it.

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This is a remarkable book.

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I think this month it's coming out in

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German and in French, and it'll probably find

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itself in other languages.

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Most of these books are in other languages.

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Spirit of Truth is in French, Lithuanian, I

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just came back from Lithuania, it's published there,

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and the pastor, the largest evangelical work in

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that nation that meets in a great tent,

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thought I was going to speak on the

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subject, instead I spoke on the issue of

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the church and the Jew, and he was

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disappointed.

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You know why I did that?

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Because Lithuania, together with Poland, are the two

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most anti-Semitic nations of Eastern Europe.

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The fact that he was displeased that I

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made this a subject rather than this may

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actually be an indication that that anti-Semitism

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is more latent and more real than even

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the church itself recognizes.

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How are we doing for communication?

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Yeah?

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I speak English well, and I love words,

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so you have to listen in for exacting

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meaning.

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We've already been praying for you for that,

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that God would give you a grace to

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hear, as if I know what I'm going

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to be speaking.

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You know why I don't have a message?

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Because a message will not suffice for today.

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What you need is a Weltanschauung.

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Anybody here who's German?

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That means Welt is world.

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Anschauung is a view.

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What you need is a worldview.

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You need a cosmic perception of the faith

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and of the destiny and the call of

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the church.

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That is more than any message, and I

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don't know how the Lord is going to

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bring that, but I'm willing to be squeezed

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out before you that something of it will

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be communicated, and whatever I miss or the

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Lord will choose not to express orally, you'll

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find it in these books.

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Gary was very insistent that this be made

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available.

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This is a gem.

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Single message, but what a blockbuster message.

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What does it mean to be converted?

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Do you think you are?

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Is conversion and salvation synonymous?

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I opened the question by asking the question,

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or making the statement, many saved, few converted.

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Conversion is a profound state of being that

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actually might follow on the heels of your

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salvation, but is not automatically part and parcel

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with it.

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This is a single message that brought an

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entire congregation down on its face.

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I've seen people go down, but when they

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went down and went into the woodwork, I

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knew that this was a very special word,

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and they would change thereafter, and so it's

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in Dutch, it's in Danish, it's in Russian.

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All of my books are in Russian.

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In fact, I have more books in Russian

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than I have in English.

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There's a book on our website called Apostolic

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Foundations.

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It's coming in English, not yet, but you'll

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find it on the web.

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We have a book on the website called

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Prophetic, The Prophetic Call, 12 juicy chapters.

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You need to know the Jewish word for

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juicy, which is the same as the German

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word, because is the word for juice in

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German.

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When we say, when we do say something

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is, it means it's resonant, and if you

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squeeze it, it's going to so they're all

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up there.

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They're expensive.

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It's all get out.

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I don't know.

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Adam says eight.

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I say seven dollars, three dollars for Venezuela.

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We don't charge, but be generous, and then

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there's a newsletter that comes out about three

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or four times a year.

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If you, after hearing me, want to be

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in touch, put your name somewhere on a

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piece of paper nicely printed with a zip

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code, and we'll put you on a mailing

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list.

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The letter is also on the website, if

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you prefer to receive it that way.

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Okay, also a tape catalog and a description

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of our books.

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Let me pray, okay?

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So Lord, this is it.

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The moment that you have ordained, we're here,

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we're waiting, and we have a sense of

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the gravity of the hour.

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The time is short.

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Great ponderous things.

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The clouds are already forming.

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There's a darkness beginning to billow, my God,

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over the land and over the nations.

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There are great things that yet need, my

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God, to be affected before your coming and

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before your kingdom.

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What shall we say, and what shall we

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speak, my God, in view of that to

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these precious people, my God, this nuclear body,

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and that will go even beyond them through

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this tape?

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So remember, Lord, the prayers that went up

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from the earliest morning hours till this moment,

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and now give your answer.

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We thank and give you praise that you

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are the high priest and the apostle of

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our confession.

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How we need you, my God, in that

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category, in that definition.

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Who's more jealous over your church than yourself?

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Who knows better what it needs?

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Whose wisdom is more precious and deep?

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Whose ability is greater to address us than

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yours?

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And we pray that you will give us

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open ears, Lord, and require of us.

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We know this is not going to be

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a cheapie, that when you speak, my God,

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it's not just to titillate, but to require,

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and we want to be required of.

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It's a privilege, and it leaves us changed.

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We can't go back to where we were

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before you have spoken, and so take your

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full liberty, my God, and redeem this time

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in full, and receive already our gratitude and

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our praise as a God who speaks.

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We thank and give you the praise, the

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honor, the glory, in Jesus' name, amen.

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Okay, so we had dinner last night with

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Gary and Cindy, and dear brother was expressing

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his heart and his qualms and concerns, and

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about the kingdom of God, and feeling it

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go up in his way, and I thought,

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well, that's a great subject, and in fact,

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it's only of late that the Lord has

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begun again to stir my heart over the

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subject of the kingdom of God.

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There was an earlier time when it was

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a predominant message in my repertoire, and then

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it kind of faded.

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Now, here's what happened.

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I was in East Germany again on my

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last trip to Europe, and visited two pastors

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whom I had known 20 years ago, and

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very precious men.

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They were Lutherans, which is what you almost

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have to be in Germany, Lutheran or Catholic,

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anything else is considered a sect or a

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cult.

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Hitler did not recognize even the Baptist church,

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let alone the Pentecostals.

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Only the Catholic and Lutheran were the official

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state churches.

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Well, these were Lutheran clergymen, but they were

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spirit-filled men, precious, and living under certain

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duress, certain pressure, under a communist system, and

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it was exciting to visit them and to

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speak.

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In those days, when I would come, there

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was an excitement.

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Now when I come, well, you're just one

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of many Western speakers, because the wall is

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down, and East Germany has now been taken

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back into the whole of Germany, and their

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economy is being revived, and so the special

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conditions that prevailed 20 years ago no longer

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prevail.

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Then they were an island of sanity and

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faith in a sea of atheism and unbelief

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and communist propaganda and every kind of strain.

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The one pastor was actually threatened with a

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prison sentence if he continued to speak about

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Israel, and he wasn't speaking dangerously radical things,

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but even the mention of the word was

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considered so offensive to the communist authorities that

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he was serving continually under the risk of

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prison sentence.

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All of the men of God in that

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nation lived in that tension, and there was

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an excitement.

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There was a dynamic when you came to

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their churches, and they waited for the word

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of God because they needed to hear from

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God.

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They were on a sharp edge of faith

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as an island of belief in a sea

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of atheism and hostility.

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Now the wall has come down, and so

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I'm seeing them after 20 years under Western

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conditions, and everything has changed.

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The dynamic is no longer there, and they've

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become like Western churches in any place.

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There's a kind of a, what's the word,

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a torpor, t-o-r-p-o-r,

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kind of a benign calm where one service

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is like another.

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The radical requirement has gone with the end

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of the communist system, and so I raised

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one question with both pastors.

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What have you seen or found to replace

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the dynamic of challenge that existed when you

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had to survive and serve under a communist

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regime?

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And they looked at me like, what are

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you talking about?

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They didn't know.

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For one of those families, 20 years ago,

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I prayed for the pregnant wife of the

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pastor who had been told by the medical

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authorities that she needed an abortion, that that

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child could not survive their own life, and

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health was at risk.

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What do you think, God?

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Well, I thought that she should have that

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baby, and prayed for her, and she believed

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for that, and had the baby, and now

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I'm seeing the baby as we drive up

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to the house, now 20 years old, with

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spiked hair, tinted blonde, and I don't know

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if he had a nose ring, at least

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he wasn't wearing it, but he's certainly a

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candidate.

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He was, what is the word, a punk

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rock, you know, I'm out of this.

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I don't know the terminology.

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I only know the recoil.

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This is what I prayed for?

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This is what this woman risked her life

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for?

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A punk rocker in the home of a

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pastoral family?

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It was a statement, a symbol of a

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departure from the radicalness of the faith that

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evidently, even within the ministerial home, let alone

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in the congregation, there was not enough that

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was compelling to engage this young boy, 20

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years of age, to be part of that

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faith, but instead he was going to the

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discotheques, and into the whole rock thing, and

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the family was just, of course, agonizing over

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his condition, but living with it.

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And so I said to these two pastors,

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what has replaced the dynamic of the challenge

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of living as a Christian and serving as

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a minister under communist authoritarian rule?

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They had no answer.

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I said, what about the kingdom of God?

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They looked blank, and I said, what does

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the kingdom of God mean to you?

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And they gave me the conventional and traditional

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answers.

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Well, it's the kingdom of God that's within,

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or we're living by the principles of the

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kingdom of God.

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What they were expressing was the way in

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which most Christians view the kingdom subjectively and

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personally as some kind of an interior fact

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that comes with believing.

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But they did not understand the kingdom of

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God in the sense that I'm being instructed

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to understand it, that the church has historically

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lost and must recover if it's going to

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have the dynamic that the church had at

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the first, and the expectation of that kingdom

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come, not as some interior or subjective or

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personal thing, although it is that, but as

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a theocratic thing.

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That is the question.

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00:23:30,220 --> 00:23:32,880
The kingdom of God is the issue of

544
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:33,400
rule.

545
00:23:33,820 --> 00:23:39,060
We know what democratic is, and it stinks.

546
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,340
It's a lot better than autocratic, like the

547
00:23:43,340 --> 00:23:44,720
self-rule of dictators.

548
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:50,340
Democratic gives some possibility of grassroots participation.

549
00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:51,600
I appreciate that.

550
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,180
But Clinton and who is the guy in

551
00:23:55,180 --> 00:23:55,540
Serbia?

552
00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:05,000
Milosevic shows how arbitrary, mindless, spineless, characterless, democratic

553
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,380
rule can be.

554
00:24:07,260 --> 00:24:09,360
That is as much a gateway to hell

555
00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:13,280
and death and devastation as an autocracy.

556
00:24:14,460 --> 00:24:16,540
Demo is the Greek root for the word

557
00:24:16,540 --> 00:24:18,020
people, demos.

558
00:24:19,060 --> 00:24:22,140
Cratic is the Greek suffix for rule.

559
00:24:22,860 --> 00:24:25,280
Democracy is the rule of the people.

560
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,320
Autocracy is the rule of self.

561
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,860
There's other forms of it, I can't think.

562
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,020
So what is theocracy?

563
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:34,600
Theocratic.

564
00:24:35,620 --> 00:24:36,680
Theo is God.

565
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,400
Theophilus was the one to whom Luke wrote,

566
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:42,440
was it the book of Acts?

567
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,200
Because he was, he's a lover of God.

568
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:47,240
Theophilus.

569
00:24:47,860 --> 00:24:49,140
What's theology?

570
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:50,480
What would that be?

571
00:24:50,820 --> 00:24:52,340
The study of God.

572
00:24:52,820 --> 00:24:53,800
Theo is God.

573
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,200
So what is theocracy?

574
00:24:56,340 --> 00:24:57,800
What does it mean in the kingdom of

575
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,380
God to think of it theocratically, to think

576
00:25:01,380 --> 00:25:03,520
of it as the rule of God?

577
00:25:05,460 --> 00:25:07,080
And we don't think of that enough.

578
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,760
And because we don't, we're missing, I think,

579
00:25:10,420 --> 00:25:12,880
not a profound, but perhaps the most profound

580
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:18,180
point of perception of understanding the faith that

581
00:25:18,180 --> 00:25:19,580
God intended as normative.

582
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,600
When you start to consider theocracy, you must

583
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,740
necessarily then consider the coming of the Lord

584
00:25:26,740 --> 00:25:27,880
as king.

585
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,340
It's no more the coming of the Lord

586
00:25:31,340 --> 00:25:33,800
as an escape that is going to take

587
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,380
us out of something, but the word parousia,

588
00:25:36,460 --> 00:25:39,800
the Greek word that many have interpreted as

589
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:44,100
being taken out from a troubled world, actually

590
00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:47,920
means in Greek to meet a coming dignitary

591
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:51,480
and to escort him to his place of

592
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:52,860
prominence and rule.

593
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,040
We will meet him in the air and

594
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,900
we shall always be with him, but where

595
00:25:57,900 --> 00:25:58,400
will he be?

596
00:25:59,140 --> 00:26:01,120
He's going to be not only in the

597
00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:04,180
earth, but get this, a place in the

598
00:26:04,180 --> 00:26:06,840
earth that he has designated and of which

599
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:11,740
many so-called hotshot Christians are contemptuous because

600
00:26:11,740 --> 00:26:14,700
they say he's not interested in real estate.

601
00:26:15,580 --> 00:26:19,080
God doesn't have any specific intention for any

602
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:19,760
place in the earth.

603
00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:20,300
Oh yeah?

604
00:26:20,860 --> 00:26:24,740
The scriptures are full of a particular place

605
00:26:24,740 --> 00:26:27,940
that God has designated from which his rule

606
00:26:27,940 --> 00:26:31,080
shall emanate, and if it doesn't take place

607
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,720
there, it will not take place anywhere.

608
00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:35,460
Where is that place?

609
00:26:36,140 --> 00:26:36,900
Is it Geneva?

610
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:39,000
New York City?

611
00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:41,000
The place of the United Nations?

612
00:26:41,940 --> 00:26:44,200
You'll never guess what God would have chosen,

613
00:26:44,580 --> 00:26:48,740
not because it's impressive, but because it's weak,

614
00:26:49,140 --> 00:26:52,940
foolish, contemptuous, has a lousy track record.

615
00:26:53,740 --> 00:26:58,540
God has chosen Jerusalem, the city of peace,

616
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:04,180
Jerusalem, Sholem, Sholom Aleichem, peace be unto you,

617
00:27:04,700 --> 00:27:07,140
is going to be the locus of the

618
00:27:07,140 --> 00:27:08,780
rule of God, which will be the peace

619
00:27:08,780 --> 00:27:11,280
of God because it's the righteousness of God

620
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,760
for all nations.

621
00:27:14,420 --> 00:27:15,780
Now how do we know that?

622
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,880
Because there are several texts to tell us

623
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:21,300
that, can you think of any?

624
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,140
Like for example, Isaiah chapter 2, that the

625
00:27:26,140 --> 00:27:29,960
law shall go forth out of Zion and

626
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,220
the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

627
00:27:33,820 --> 00:27:35,260
Let's take a look at that.

628
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,600
It's one of the rare texts that's repeated

629
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:44,880
identically word for word in another prophet altogether.

630
00:27:45,420 --> 00:27:49,320
Micah chapter 4, verse 1 says exactly the

631
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,640
same thing, and they didn't whisper to each

632
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:51,860
other.

633
00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:54,500
You know how Micah got it?

634
00:27:54,980 --> 00:27:57,960
The same way Isaiah got it, by the

635
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,780
transmission of God by the Spirit, but that

636
00:28:01,780 --> 00:28:04,260
God would repeat it twice through different prophets

637
00:28:04,260 --> 00:28:06,960
indicates that there is a enormously significant that

638
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:07,760
text is.

639
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:11,920
So it's the word in chapter 2, which

640
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,440
Isaiah, the son of Amos, saw concerning Judah

641
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:15,180
and Jerusalem.

642
00:28:16,340 --> 00:28:17,740
I mean, the prophets saw this.

643
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,860
It was made visual for him about Judah,

644
00:28:22,220 --> 00:28:26,600
which is that the Southern kingdom and Jerusalem.

645
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,100
So right away from the very beginning, God

646
00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:32,240
is designating a very literal place.

647
00:28:32,900 --> 00:28:33,940
You know what we call this?

648
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,860
This is the scandal of specificity.

649
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,780
People don't like it when God chooses.

650
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,780
They like a God who is more amorphous,

651
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,700
more general, more undefined.

652
00:28:50,060 --> 00:28:53,120
They don't like the specificity of God, but

653
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,780
you know what Paul says of him or

654
00:28:55,780 --> 00:28:56,920
what he says of himself?

655
00:28:57,300 --> 00:29:00,180
I will elect what I will elect.

656
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,380
I will choose what I will choose.

657
00:29:03,180 --> 00:29:04,700
I will have mercy upon whom I will

658
00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:05,240
have mercy.

659
00:29:05,900 --> 00:29:07,200
So in the ways that I would love

660
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,240
to take the whole rest of this time

661
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,780
to celebrate and to make clear to you,

662
00:29:12,180 --> 00:29:14,500
the God who chooses is the God who

663
00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:15,060
is God.

664
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,220
And in fact, the fact that he chooses

665
00:29:17,220 --> 00:29:19,640
is the very distinctive of God.

666
00:29:21,060 --> 00:29:22,420
And who does he choose?

667
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:23,040
Israel.

668
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:24,800
Who does he choose?

669
00:29:25,580 --> 00:29:26,160
What city?

670
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:26,720
Jerusalem.

671
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:28,480
What in Jerusalem?

672
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:29,640
The holy hill of Zion.

673
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:31,000
What King?

674
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:31,480
David.

675
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,620
What Messiah?

676
00:29:34,020 --> 00:29:34,460
Jesus.

677
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,160
What church?

678
00:29:37,380 --> 00:29:37,740
Us.

679
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,340
He will choose what he will choose.

680
00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:43,960
The question for the church is in the

681
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,400
last days, will we agree with his choices?

682
00:29:47,020 --> 00:29:48,200
Will we celebrate his choice?

683
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,380
It may not have been our choosing.

684
00:29:51,140 --> 00:29:56,760
In fact, a Norwegian theologian, Mo Winkle, whose

685
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,420
book I found in a second-hand bookstore

686
00:29:59,420 --> 00:30:02,860
in no place, a little village in England,

687
00:30:03,220 --> 00:30:07,100
says that God's choice of Israel, God's choice

688
00:30:07,100 --> 00:30:10,520
of the Jew, God's choice of Zion is

689
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,680
the very stumbling stone for the church.

690
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,820
It's the stumbling stone set in the path

691
00:30:16,820 --> 00:30:20,780
of the church that is essentially gentile and

692
00:30:20,780 --> 00:30:22,400
would not have chosen what God would have

693
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:22,760
chosen.

694
00:30:23,380 --> 00:30:25,560
It would have chosen not a hill, it

695
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,660
would have chosen a mountain, a Mount Olympus,

696
00:30:28,860 --> 00:30:31,380
or New York City, or Geneva, or another

697
00:30:31,380 --> 00:30:31,800
nation.

698
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,400
The issue of God's choosing is the issue

699
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,360
of God and the issue of our submission

700
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:42,280
and surrender to the wisdom of God and

701
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:43,040
to his choice.

702
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,720
You can't believe how important that is.

703
00:30:46,140 --> 00:30:50,460
It tests and reveals our secret heart, because

704
00:30:50,460 --> 00:30:53,440
in most gentiles, if they are not deeply

705
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,300
established in God and in the spirit of

706
00:30:56,300 --> 00:31:00,580
God, being gentile, being non-Jewish, would recoil

707
00:31:00,580 --> 00:31:04,380
against and be irritated by God's choice of

708
00:31:04,380 --> 00:31:04,900
the Jew.

709
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,720
It really tests us to see to what

710
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,800
degree our own heart is aligned with his.

711
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:23,280
So, this is what the prophets saw

712
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:24,900
concerning Jerusalem.

713
00:31:26,020 --> 00:31:28,820
It will come about in the last days

714
00:31:28,820 --> 00:31:30,340
that the mountain of the house of the

715
00:31:30,340 --> 00:31:33,200
Lord will be established as the chief of

716
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,900
the mountains and will be raised above the

717
00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:36,240
hills.

718
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:41,960
This is typical poetic and metaphorical language that

719
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:43,020
a prophet employs.

720
00:31:45,230 --> 00:31:46,750
Well, I'm sounding like a lecturer.

721
00:31:48,050 --> 00:31:50,490
You know why prophets have to use language

722
00:31:50,490 --> 00:31:51,050
in that way?

723
00:31:51,690 --> 00:31:52,890
Why they are poetic?

724
00:31:53,810 --> 00:31:55,750
Anybody who took English 1A here?

725
00:31:56,530 --> 00:32:02,810
Why is poetry the most coveted, precious expression

726
00:32:02,810 --> 00:32:04,830
of language?

727
00:32:05,030 --> 00:32:07,970
Why is poetry to be desired even over

728
00:32:07,970 --> 00:32:08,370
prose?

729
00:32:09,030 --> 00:32:12,450
What's the difference between the two forms of

730
00:32:12,450 --> 00:32:13,690
the use of language?

731
00:32:14,570 --> 00:32:19,170
What is special about poetry as against chapters

732
00:32:19,170 --> 00:32:19,890
of prose?

733
00:32:21,430 --> 00:32:22,870
It speaks to your heart.

734
00:32:23,090 --> 00:32:27,230
It speaks to you more distinctively.

735
00:32:27,390 --> 00:32:28,550
Every word means something.

736
00:32:28,850 --> 00:32:29,310
Right.

737
00:32:29,850 --> 00:32:35,310
Fewer words, more pointedly addressed, requiring a greater

738
00:32:35,310 --> 00:32:38,490
skill to say in fewer words what prose

739
00:32:38,490 --> 00:32:41,070
would have given you, what prose would have

740
00:32:41,070 --> 00:32:42,770
required chapters to express.

741
00:32:43,490 --> 00:32:46,910
Poetry condenses and states in the most intense

742
00:32:46,910 --> 00:32:49,610
and penetrating form in the space of a

743
00:32:49,610 --> 00:32:50,130
few verses.

744
00:32:51,950 --> 00:32:55,030
To be a poet is an ultimate form

745
00:32:55,030 --> 00:32:56,190
of expression.

746
00:32:56,850 --> 00:32:59,070
And most, if not all, of the prophets

747
00:32:59,070 --> 00:32:59,750
were poets.

748
00:32:59,970 --> 00:33:00,690
This is poetry.

749
00:33:01,870 --> 00:33:05,290
And when Isaiah uses the word mountain, he's

750
00:33:05,290 --> 00:33:06,970
using a symbolic language.

751
00:33:07,510 --> 00:33:10,930
What mountain refers to biblically is form of

752
00:33:10,930 --> 00:33:11,590
government.

753
00:33:13,030 --> 00:33:14,490
Mountain is something elevated.

754
00:33:14,910 --> 00:33:16,730
It has to do with rule itself.

755
00:33:16,730 --> 00:33:20,010
But this mountain of the Lord is going

756
00:33:20,010 --> 00:33:22,830
to be the house of the Lord and

757
00:33:22,830 --> 00:33:25,330
be established as the chief of the mountains

758
00:33:25,330 --> 00:33:27,890
and will be raised above the hills.

759
00:33:28,250 --> 00:33:30,850
All that presumes to be in competition with

760
00:33:30,850 --> 00:33:34,390
or have an authority equal to will have

761
00:33:34,390 --> 00:33:37,650
to be less than this mountain for all

762
00:33:37,650 --> 00:33:39,750
the nations will string to it.

763
00:33:40,210 --> 00:33:41,990
Now, listen, you guys.

764
00:33:42,650 --> 00:33:45,790
The issue of God's rule is the issue

765
00:33:45,790 --> 00:33:46,950
of the nations.

766
00:33:54,950 --> 00:34:00,480
The Lord gave Israel a king and gave

767
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:01,660
Israel a kingdom.

768
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,340
But the kingdom of Israel is unique in

769
00:34:05,340 --> 00:34:08,179
that it's not intended for itself alone but

770
00:34:08,179 --> 00:34:09,300
for all nations.

771
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,600
God is jealous over his creation and over

772
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:14,159
the nations.

773
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,219
And at your own leisure, take a look

774
00:34:17,219 --> 00:34:21,139
at one brief mystical reference that I've never

775
00:34:21,139 --> 00:34:25,120
yet heard anyone ever speak on, Deuteronomy 32

776
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:29,020
.8, where just to paraphrase it now, it

777
00:34:29,020 --> 00:34:33,500
says something like that when God appointed the

778
00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:37,659
nations, he did so in terms of the

779
00:34:37,659 --> 00:34:40,080
numbers of the sons of Israel.

780
00:34:41,780 --> 00:34:44,679
There's some kind of a conjunction in the

781
00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:48,340
mind and wisdom of God between Israel and

782
00:34:48,340 --> 00:34:48,960
the nations.

783
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,900
You need to know that because Israel itself

784
00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:54,440
does not know it.

785
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,200
You know what they say now in the

786
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:56,940
present state?

787
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:58,900
We want to be like all nations.

788
00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:02,380
And God says, you're the tail, but I

789
00:35:02,380 --> 00:35:03,940
will make you the head of the nations.

790
00:35:04,460 --> 00:35:07,140
And in fact, in this very text, as

791
00:35:07,140 --> 00:35:10,080
well as in Zechariah 14, it says nations

792
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,280
will come up to Jerusalem at the Feast

793
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,800
of Tabernacles to honor the God of Jacob.

794
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:21,400
Israel will be central to the nations in

795
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:26,960
the conception of God for his rule over

796
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:27,880
his own creation.

797
00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:32,500
That's why the nations rail against Israel, and

798
00:35:32,500 --> 00:35:34,560
that when the Lord comes again, he will

799
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,020
come as Israel's deliverer at a time in

800
00:35:38,020 --> 00:35:41,580
Zechariah 12, when all the nations of the

801
00:35:41,580 --> 00:35:45,660
world will come against Jerusalem to destroy it.

802
00:35:47,660 --> 00:35:48,200
Why?

803
00:35:49,420 --> 00:35:52,980
Because they do not want the establishment of

804
00:35:52,980 --> 00:35:56,600
his rule in that Jerusalem over their nations.

805
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,860
Can you think of another place where this

806
00:36:01,860 --> 00:36:05,620
is cogently expressed in one of the greatest

807
00:36:05,620 --> 00:36:08,520
kingdom statements in the whole of Old Testament

808
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:08,920
scripture?

809
00:36:10,180 --> 00:36:11,880
Psalm 2.

810
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,240
So put a little marker there.

811
00:36:14,340 --> 00:36:18,580
We'll hopefully come back to Isaiah 2, but

812
00:36:18,580 --> 00:36:22,220
it's a convenient way to remember Psalm 2

813
00:36:22,220 --> 00:36:27,430
and Isaiah 2 over the issue of the

814
00:36:27,430 --> 00:36:29,070
kingdom and the nations.

815
00:36:30,030 --> 00:36:33,430
I'm giving you a Weltanschauung.

816
00:36:34,070 --> 00:36:35,210
Remember that word?

817
00:36:35,650 --> 00:36:39,370
A world cosmic view of the faith.

818
00:36:40,170 --> 00:36:42,650
I want to give you a context in

819
00:36:42,650 --> 00:36:44,670
which you can understand your call.

820
00:36:45,290 --> 00:36:47,370
The place of the church, the meaning of

821
00:36:47,370 --> 00:36:49,650
your salvation, the thing to which we're heading

822
00:36:49,650 --> 00:36:52,710
is the consummation and the conclusion of all

823
00:36:52,710 --> 00:36:55,450
this at the end of the age.

824
00:36:55,990 --> 00:37:00,330
One final paroxysm of opposition by the nations

825
00:37:00,330 --> 00:37:04,910
to defeat God's intention by doing what?

826
00:37:05,290 --> 00:37:09,630
By destroying Israel, by destroying the Jewish people,

827
00:37:10,330 --> 00:37:12,250
by genocidal...

828
00:37:12,250 --> 00:37:14,910
what do they call that word when you

829
00:37:14,910 --> 00:37:16,150
eliminate an entire race?

830
00:37:16,430 --> 00:37:17,130
That's genocide.

831
00:37:18,910 --> 00:37:19,590
Annihilation.

832
00:37:21,230 --> 00:37:25,210
The spirit of Antichrist and of the powers

833
00:37:25,210 --> 00:37:28,390
of darkness will be calculated for one last

834
00:37:28,390 --> 00:37:31,190
thing for which they had opportunity through Hitler

835
00:37:31,190 --> 00:37:34,930
50 years ago and almost succeeded in annihilating

836
00:37:34,930 --> 00:37:36,870
the whole of European Jewry.

837
00:37:37,670 --> 00:37:40,450
Had they won the war, kid cats would

838
00:37:40,450 --> 00:37:43,330
not be speaking to you today because they

839
00:37:43,330 --> 00:37:45,510
would have caught up with me in Brooklyn

840
00:37:45,510 --> 00:37:49,010
or in California with every other Jew because

841
00:37:49,010 --> 00:37:53,230
they were literally hell bent on the annihilation

842
00:37:53,230 --> 00:37:55,350
of world Jewry.

843
00:37:56,350 --> 00:37:59,010
There's no way to explain that sociologically.

844
00:37:59,650 --> 00:38:01,030
Yes, we Jews are troublesome.

845
00:38:01,210 --> 00:38:02,010
Yes, we're irritating.

846
00:38:02,510 --> 00:38:04,050
Yes, we've had great influence in culture.

847
00:38:04,450 --> 00:38:06,390
There's a reason why we could be resented.

848
00:38:06,830 --> 00:38:10,730
But a program of annihilation, even to the

849
00:38:10,730 --> 00:38:14,810
point where the military historians cannot even to

850
00:38:14,810 --> 00:38:20,090
this day understand why Germany diverted material manpower,

851
00:38:20,350 --> 00:38:23,750
wealth to the systematic annihilation of Jews that

852
00:38:23,750 --> 00:38:26,130
they should have used for their own preservation

853
00:38:26,130 --> 00:38:27,770
to the very last days of the war.

854
00:38:28,330 --> 00:38:31,830
That's how the fury of a spirit of

855
00:38:31,830 --> 00:38:36,030
darkness had seized the whole apparatus of state

856
00:38:36,030 --> 00:38:39,410
and nation bent on one thing, the annihilation

857
00:38:39,410 --> 00:38:40,050
of the Jews.

858
00:38:41,350 --> 00:38:43,890
There's no way to explain that if you've

859
00:38:43,890 --> 00:38:46,850
never read Psalm 2, having read Psalm 2,

860
00:38:47,390 --> 00:38:48,950
the light will come on.

861
00:38:49,370 --> 00:38:50,550
And you know why I'm taking pains about

862
00:38:50,550 --> 00:38:51,010
this sense?

863
00:38:51,790 --> 00:38:54,250
It's not over yet.

864
00:38:57,860 --> 00:38:59,320
What does it say that he shall be

865
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,480
cast out to Satan from the heavens and

866
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,900
come into the earth and know that he

867
00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:07,640
has but a short time left and his

868
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:13,340
fury shall be unimaginable and the church shall

869
00:39:13,340 --> 00:39:17,640
experience much of that opposition and persecution in

870
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:18,920
the last days.

871
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,520
To think that we're going to be raptured

872
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:26,860
out is one of the most mischievous, perverse,

873
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,520
I don't have a word for it, has

874
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:36,340
left the church totally emasculated, totally unprepared not

875
00:39:36,340 --> 00:39:38,900
to embrace ourselves and and to hear the

876
00:39:38,900 --> 00:39:41,000
cry of God that we be the people

877
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,600
of God in a corporate way, really bonded,

878
00:39:44,780 --> 00:39:47,700
really joined, really integral, not just a conglomerate

879
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:50,040
of individualities that are willing to come together

880
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,160
for the purpose of a service, but a

881
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:53,940
people who are the family of God, the

882
00:39:53,940 --> 00:39:56,960
people of God, the body of Christ is

883
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,100
more than just a piece of nomenclature.

884
00:39:59,260 --> 00:40:00,400
It's not just a title.

885
00:40:00,860 --> 00:40:04,080
It's a phenomenon and it doesn't come easily.

886
00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:05,820
It comes with blood, sweat, and tears.

887
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,720
The cross is at the issue of the

888
00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:11,900
of people coming from a privatistic lifestyle of

889
00:40:11,900 --> 00:40:14,240
Sunday services to an integral people who go

890
00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:16,300
from house to house daily, breaking bread, whose

891
00:40:16,300 --> 00:40:19,080
intercessions and prayers are calculated to pierce the

892
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,660
heavens for they're real and they reveal in

893
00:40:21,660 --> 00:40:23,980
themselves the whole mystery of the Godhead, Father,

894
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,460
Son, and Holy Spirit who themselves together were

895
00:40:26,460 --> 00:40:27,160
a company.

896
00:40:29,970 --> 00:40:32,370
Nothing will drive us to the reality that

897
00:40:32,370 --> 00:40:35,390
to which we're intended unless we understand what's

898
00:40:35,390 --> 00:40:36,190
at stake here.

899
00:40:37,450 --> 00:40:40,050
The whole coming of his kingdom is at

900
00:40:40,050 --> 00:40:41,890
stake and the issue of his kingdom is

901
00:40:41,890 --> 00:40:44,670
the issue of his rule because it says

902
00:40:44,670 --> 00:40:47,510
that when he comes and the law shall

903
00:40:47,510 --> 00:40:49,150
go forth out of Zion and the word

904
00:40:49,150 --> 00:40:53,330
of Jerusalem, nations shall study war no more.

905
00:40:53,950 --> 00:40:55,310
Oh, I can't wait for the day.

906
00:40:56,950 --> 00:41:01,030
And they'll turn the swords into spears, pruning

907
00:41:01,030 --> 00:41:04,010
hooks and their spears into the implements of

908
00:41:04,010 --> 00:41:05,070
peace, not war.

909
00:41:05,690 --> 00:41:08,630
And what about the whole NASC?

910
00:41:08,710 --> 00:41:10,690
What is that space program?

911
00:41:12,390 --> 00:41:14,330
Is it because I'm Jewish that I can't

912
00:41:14,330 --> 00:41:14,710
bear it?

913
00:41:15,390 --> 00:41:18,110
How many billions did they expend and they're

914
00:41:18,110 --> 00:41:20,690
not even getting a beep back from Mars?

915
00:41:23,690 --> 00:41:26,130
You know, you know what undergirded, you know

916
00:41:26,130 --> 00:41:27,390
what they're real search for?

917
00:41:27,490 --> 00:41:29,210
You know what, why all those billions are

918
00:41:29,210 --> 00:41:29,770
being expended?

919
00:41:30,010 --> 00:41:33,610
They wanted to find moisture because if they

920
00:41:33,610 --> 00:41:36,790
could find moisture in space on another planet,

921
00:41:36,790 --> 00:41:39,910
they would have the possibility of a theory

922
00:41:39,910 --> 00:41:43,830
of creation that does not require God.

923
00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:49,760
And we're paying the bill for boys, men

924
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:53,460
playing boys games with expensive toys at the

925
00:41:53,460 --> 00:41:57,720
time when there's a mankind bleeding, when the

926
00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:00,960
streets of Buenos Aires and the Latin American

927
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:04,700
cities are peopled with kids that live in

928
00:42:04,700 --> 00:42:07,820
the streets and Indian and in India, people

929
00:42:07,820 --> 00:42:10,000
are living on cardboard mats and have never

930
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,420
seen an indoors.

931
00:42:11,820 --> 00:42:14,320
There are people dying from poverty and want,

932
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:18,100
and we're expending billions for space programs, for

933
00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:18,960
armament development.

934
00:42:19,980 --> 00:42:23,200
The United States is the single greatest producer

935
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:24,280
of armaments.

936
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,040
I don't know, was it $40 billion a

937
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:29,040
year of sales?

938
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,200
And Israel is second to third.

939
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,180
My people are in the arms business.

940
00:42:36,860 --> 00:42:39,020
It's hot money, it's profit.

941
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,840
And I went to the factory, boy, I

942
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:42,600
don't know how many hours I'm going to

943
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,700
keep you today, where they make the F

944
00:42:44,700 --> 00:42:47,220
-16 only because there's a Christian brother who's

945
00:42:47,220 --> 00:42:49,420
an engineer and I got a tour.

946
00:42:50,340 --> 00:42:51,400
I'll never forget it.

947
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:52,820
You know what the word the Lord gave

948
00:42:52,820 --> 00:42:53,980
me when I looked at these employees?

949
00:42:54,700 --> 00:42:56,260
It was Saturday, they were getting time and

950
00:42:56,260 --> 00:42:58,080
a half and they were sleepwalkers.

951
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,240
They went from one place to another like

952
00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:03,600
that and they screwed it in ever so

953
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,940
slowly and they turned because the clock was

954
00:43:05,940 --> 00:43:08,180
running at time and a half or double

955
00:43:08,180 --> 00:43:10,420
time at our expense.

956
00:43:11,340 --> 00:43:15,020
The Lord gave me the word gnomes, G

957
00:43:15,020 --> 00:43:16,220
-N-O-M-E-S.

958
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:17,280
They were not human.

959
00:43:17,900 --> 00:43:23,520
They were pot bellied, beer guzzling, pornographic looking

960
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:28,940
characters who are in the armaments business making

961
00:43:28,940 --> 00:43:33,780
big bucks to produce F-16s and they

962
00:43:33,780 --> 00:43:36,720
were all going out to Thailand and to

963
00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:37,380
Indonesia.

964
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,860
Countries that have the sparsest budget must have

965
00:43:42,860 --> 00:43:45,480
an F-16 or a fleet of them

966
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,960
because it's prestige, because it's status.

967
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,040
Because if the other neighboring country has it,

968
00:43:50,300 --> 00:43:51,200
you have to have it.

969
00:43:52,420 --> 00:43:53,800
It's the world, saints.

970
00:43:53,940 --> 00:43:55,200
It's the world's wisdom.

971
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:56,000
It's corrupt.

972
00:43:56,180 --> 00:43:56,680
It's filthy.

973
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:57,280
It's vile.

974
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:58,420
It's destructive.

975
00:43:58,640 --> 00:43:59,280
It's death.

976
00:44:00,140 --> 00:44:03,280
It's death for those men working there morally

977
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:07,420
and humanly, let alone spiritually.

978
00:44:07,740 --> 00:44:08,460
It's death.

979
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,060
When the Lord goes forth out of Zion,

980
00:44:11,660 --> 00:44:14,360
when the Lord is seated in his sanctuary

981
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,300
on the holy hill of Zion, which only

982
00:44:17,300 --> 00:44:20,420
he can occupy as a descendant of David,

983
00:44:20,740 --> 00:44:23,140
because it's the throne of David from the

984
00:44:23,140 --> 00:44:25,380
holy hill of David, or else the Lord

985
00:44:25,380 --> 00:44:26,960
shall not go forth at all.

986
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:29,540
How come the powers of darkness know this

987
00:44:29,540 --> 00:44:30,040
better than you?

988
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,300
What kind of a church is it that

989
00:44:34,300 --> 00:44:44,670
doesn't know this, that has not read forever?

990
00:44:46,390 --> 00:44:52,090
Luke chapter one, the very first angelic pronouncement

991
00:44:52,090 --> 00:44:56,370
to Mary, taken by astonishment.

992
00:44:56,550 --> 00:44:57,270
Do you mean me?

993
00:44:57,970 --> 00:44:58,910
I'm a nothing.

994
00:44:59,310 --> 00:44:59,750
Yes, you.

995
00:45:00,090 --> 00:45:01,490
This one who's going to be born out

996
00:45:01,490 --> 00:45:02,870
of you is holy.

997
00:45:04,230 --> 00:45:07,630
He's the coming king of Israel and the

998
00:45:07,630 --> 00:45:10,090
father shall give unto him the throne of

999
00:45:10,090 --> 00:45:13,510
David, the Davidic throne, the tabernacle of David,

1000
00:45:13,830 --> 00:45:15,930
and he shall rule over the house of

1001
00:45:15,930 --> 00:45:17,170
Israel forever.

1002
00:45:18,010 --> 00:45:20,410
The first angelic pronouncement.

1003
00:45:21,150 --> 00:45:22,630
Do you know what the word Christ means?

1004
00:45:23,370 --> 00:45:29,230
Jesus the Christ king, anointed king.

1005
00:45:29,670 --> 00:45:31,270
Kings were anointed.

1006
00:45:33,090 --> 00:45:37,450
The Christ is an anointed one to rule.

1007
00:45:38,110 --> 00:45:43,930
This is the rule of the anointed, the

1008
00:45:43,930 --> 00:45:45,230
Lord's anointed.

1009
00:45:48,420 --> 00:45:49,520
And where will you be then?

1010
00:45:50,900 --> 00:45:54,040
In the day that the Lord comes as

1011
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,520
king to take his rightful place of authority

1012
00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:00,060
over the place designated by God in the

1013
00:46:00,060 --> 00:46:02,160
city of Jerusalem and over a restored Israel

1014
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,780
from the holy hill of Zion and from

1015
00:46:04,780 --> 00:46:05,540
the throne of David.

1016
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:07,820
When he'll be ruling, what will you be

1017
00:46:07,820 --> 00:46:08,040
doing?

1018
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:14,780
If you're an overcomer, you'll be ruling and

1019
00:46:14,780 --> 00:46:21,480
reigning with him from the heavenly places formerly

1020
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:26,920
occupied by a whole fallen angeology who are

1021
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:30,260
today's principalities and powers of the air.

1022
00:46:31,140 --> 00:46:34,140
Am I giving, saying too much too soon?

1023
00:46:35,140 --> 00:46:36,240
Oh, bless you.

1024
00:46:39,060 --> 00:46:42,600
My great cry to God was Lord, how

1025
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,460
can I communicate this in one day?

1026
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:52,640
Who's ruling today?

1027
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,120
Yes, the Lord is at his throne, but

1028
00:46:56,120 --> 00:47:01,220
who is effectually jerking and manipulating nations?

1029
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,980
How do we explain the annihilation of the

1030
00:47:04,980 --> 00:47:09,700
Bosnians in a program of ethnic cleansing conducted

1031
00:47:09,700 --> 00:47:13,500
50 years after the Nazi regime right in

1032
00:47:13,500 --> 00:47:15,500
before the face of the whole world with

1033
00:47:15,500 --> 00:47:20,020
impunity that it took a massive air attack

1034
00:47:20,020 --> 00:47:24,340
day after day to finally bring a partial

1035
00:47:24,340 --> 00:47:27,900
ending of that conflict with the Albanians having

1036
00:47:27,900 --> 00:47:30,780
perpetrated a genocidal program on the Bosnians?

1037
00:47:31,300 --> 00:47:35,200
That was Milosevic, that was Serbia, Yugoslavia and

1038
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,320
the very cities in which I myself administered

1039
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,200
only some months before those bombs came.

1040
00:47:41,780 --> 00:47:43,120
What about Rwanda?

1041
00:47:43,780 --> 00:47:46,600
What about the genocide between black tribes in

1042
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:47,080
Africa?

1043
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:54,420
You can multiply the instances of perverse rule

1044
00:47:54,420 --> 00:47:58,140
in the nations that is violent, that is

1045
00:47:58,140 --> 00:48:01,580
racial, that is contemptuous of men, that is

1046
00:48:01,580 --> 00:48:02,860
destructive of humanity.

1047
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,380
That's present human rule.

1048
00:48:07,780 --> 00:48:08,420
And you know what?

1049
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,180
They want to continue to remain in office.

1050
00:48:13,180 --> 00:48:15,580
Have you ever seen anyone who has found

1051
00:48:15,580 --> 00:48:18,780
office and obtained the prerogatives of the privileges

1052
00:48:18,780 --> 00:48:21,220
of office who had been willing and voluntary

1053
00:48:21,220 --> 00:48:24,760
to give it up even in American politics?

1054
00:48:25,720 --> 00:48:30,440
How do we explain Bosnia and the Albanian

1055
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:30,780
things?

1056
00:48:30,940 --> 00:48:31,760
And now what's happened?

1057
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:36,460
They pushed this Milosevic back into Belgrade and

1058
00:48:36,460 --> 00:48:38,240
they have a United Nations army to maintain

1059
00:48:38,240 --> 00:48:39,880
peace in Kosovo.

1060
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:44,080
Now the Albanians are persecuting the Serbian minority

1061
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:48,100
in the same bloodthirsty and violent and destructive

1062
00:48:48,100 --> 00:48:50,580
way in the use of torture and death

1063
00:48:50,580 --> 00:48:52,820
that had been previously inflicted upon them.

1064
00:48:53,780 --> 00:48:54,700
You know what we ought to be saying?

1065
00:48:55,480 --> 00:49:00,640
Come Lord Jesus, thy kingdom come in earth

1066
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:02,200
as it is in heaven.

1067
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,640
Let there be righteousness on earth and equity

1068
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,420
and justice as only you can perform it

1069
00:49:08,420 --> 00:49:11,400
because men are corrupt, they're self-seeking, they

1070
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:13,220
want their own ways, they don't give a

1071
00:49:13,220 --> 00:49:15,400
rap what it takes and whose mankind is

1072
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:16,100
going to be destroyed.

1073
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:20,380
Even rape has become a systematic form of

1074
00:49:20,380 --> 00:49:23,580
the intimidation of your enemy, no matter at

1075
00:49:23,580 --> 00:49:24,520
what age.

1076
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:30,260
We're not talking about a light question here,

1077
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:34,060
saints, but one that is grieving the heart

1078
00:49:34,060 --> 00:49:34,560
of God.

1079
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,080
And when we say come Lord Jesus, we

1080
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,400
need to think come and rule, not come

1081
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:41,540
and take us out of this.

1082
00:49:47,010 --> 00:49:51,070
Why are the nations in an uproar and

1083
00:49:51,070 --> 00:49:53,950
the peoples devising a vain thing?

1084
00:49:53,990 --> 00:49:54,830
What's the vain thing?

1085
00:49:55,170 --> 00:49:58,410
That they're seeking to perpetrate and to continue

1086
00:49:58,410 --> 00:50:02,530
their usurping false rule, trying to keep at

1087
00:50:02,530 --> 00:50:05,370
arm's length the coming of the God who

1088
00:50:05,370 --> 00:50:08,430
alone is the just and righteous ruler over

1089
00:50:08,430 --> 00:50:09,530
his own creation.

1090
00:50:10,770 --> 00:50:14,430
What gives Jesus the right to rule from

1091
00:50:14,430 --> 00:50:17,050
the throne of David beside being a descendant

1092
00:50:17,050 --> 00:50:19,430
of David or that God himself should rule

1093
00:50:19,430 --> 00:50:22,750
over the nations because he's the creator of

1094
00:50:22,750 --> 00:50:23,330
the nations?

1095
00:50:24,270 --> 00:50:26,390
You remember Paul at Athens and Mars Hill

1096
00:50:26,390 --> 00:50:29,390
speaking to those philosophers who every day think

1097
00:50:29,390 --> 00:50:30,490
looking for some new thing?

1098
00:50:30,990 --> 00:50:33,110
He said, don't you guys know that God

1099
00:50:33,110 --> 00:50:35,350
has made of one blood all manner of

1100
00:50:35,350 --> 00:50:38,550
men and established the bounds of their habitations

1101
00:50:38,550 --> 00:50:40,750
and their nations that they might seek after

1102
00:50:40,750 --> 00:50:42,550
God if they might be found, happily be

1103
00:50:42,550 --> 00:50:43,190
found of him?

1104
00:50:43,930 --> 00:50:45,710
Don't think that your nation is your little

1105
00:50:45,710 --> 00:50:46,130
playground.

1106
00:50:46,590 --> 00:50:48,050
Don't think it's yours to do with what

1107
00:50:48,050 --> 00:50:48,390
you will.

1108
00:50:48,810 --> 00:50:49,850
God has created it.

1109
00:50:50,170 --> 00:50:52,310
God has created races and nations and established

1110
00:50:52,310 --> 00:50:54,890
the bounds of the habitation that they might

1111
00:50:54,890 --> 00:50:56,810
seek after God.

1112
00:50:58,190 --> 00:51:00,070
And he's winked in times past, he's allowed

1113
00:51:00,070 --> 00:51:01,790
you to make it your playground, but the

1114
00:51:01,790 --> 00:51:03,210
day is coming when he will judge all

1115
00:51:03,210 --> 00:51:04,650
men by that one whom he's raised from

1116
00:51:04,650 --> 00:51:04,990
the dead.

1117
00:51:05,490 --> 00:51:07,090
He's going to judge the nations for what?

1118
00:51:07,370 --> 00:51:09,270
For their misuse of their own nationhood.

1119
00:51:11,510 --> 00:51:11,910
Japan.

1120
00:51:14,170 --> 00:51:17,550
My Lord, you ever been to Singapore and

1121
00:51:17,550 --> 00:51:20,630
seen the monument that has four strands that

1122
00:51:20,630 --> 00:51:22,830
goes all the way up representing the four

1123
00:51:22,830 --> 00:51:28,770
races oppressed by Japan in the World War

1124
00:51:28,770 --> 00:51:29,010
II.

1125
00:51:29,830 --> 00:51:38,300
The Singaporeans, the what's that nation that's just

1126
00:51:38,300 --> 00:51:39,120
north of Singapore?

1127
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,160
Kampala, what's the name of that capital city?

1128
00:51:44,180 --> 00:51:46,060
Those kids who come from Bemidji State that

1129
00:51:46,060 --> 00:51:47,140
come to my house to eat.

1130
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:48,860
They're all from that nation.

1131
00:51:49,620 --> 00:51:50,320
It's a race.

1132
00:51:51,380 --> 00:51:53,140
And the Chinese and the English.

1133
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:55,780
Did you know that the Japanese were racist?

1134
00:51:56,820 --> 00:51:59,000
That they thought that the sun rose on

1135
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,880
them and that the Japanese empire would extend

1136
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:04,940
over the face of the earth and that

1137
00:52:04,940 --> 00:52:06,900
they were a superior race and even God

1138
00:52:06,900 --> 00:52:09,340
men and that the emperors were deities?

1139
00:52:09,860 --> 00:52:10,540
Did you know that?

1140
00:52:14,910 --> 00:52:16,630
Did you know that the same number of

1141
00:52:16,630 --> 00:52:19,070
lives were lost in the atom bombing of

1142
00:52:19,070 --> 00:52:21,610
Hiroshima and Nagasaki as in the rape of

1143
00:52:21,610 --> 00:52:21,950
Shanghai?

1144
00:52:22,710 --> 00:52:23,990
You don't even know about the rape of

1145
00:52:23,990 --> 00:52:24,270
Shanghai.

1146
00:52:24,890 --> 00:52:27,890
That when the Japanese took Shanghai, the Chinese

1147
00:52:27,890 --> 00:52:31,150
forces surrendered on the grounds that the that

1148
00:52:31,150 --> 00:52:33,510
the military would lay down their arms and

1149
00:52:33,510 --> 00:52:35,390
be treated as prisoners with respect.

1150
00:52:35,830 --> 00:52:36,410
You know what they did?

1151
00:52:36,710 --> 00:52:38,490
They murdered them in cold blood.

1152
00:52:38,910 --> 00:52:42,290
They raped women, right and left women, girls.

1153
00:52:42,690 --> 00:52:43,870
They buried people alive.

1154
00:52:43,870 --> 00:52:47,910
330,000 Chinese died in the rape of

1155
00:52:47,910 --> 00:52:52,030
Shanghai and 330,000 Japanese died in the

1156
00:52:52,030 --> 00:52:53,890
atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

1157
00:52:54,610 --> 00:52:56,790
Don't tell me there's no God and righteous

1158
00:52:56,790 --> 00:52:57,450
judgment.

1159
00:53:01,720 --> 00:53:05,420
It's amazing how little conscious we are of

1160
00:53:05,420 --> 00:53:08,800
history, how little aware we are of the

1161
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,900
significance of nations, of how little we understand

1162
00:53:11,900 --> 00:53:15,600
the cosmic struggle over nations and over the

1163
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:19,300
rule between the usurping false powers of the

1164
00:53:19,300 --> 00:53:24,780
air that influence Serbia, influence Japan, influence Germany

1165
00:53:24,780 --> 00:53:27,480
to be destructive and violent because that's the

1166
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,320
nature of these false rulers and they want

1167
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:31,380
to retain that rule.

1168
00:53:35,100 --> 00:53:37,600
And they are devising a vain thing that

1169
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:38,200
can't work.

1170
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:40,880
The kings of the earth take their stand

1171
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,940
and the rulers take counsel together.

1172
00:53:43,780 --> 00:53:46,420
Is this redundant, the kings and the rulers?

1173
00:53:46,720 --> 00:53:48,020
Is that like saying the kings and the

1174
00:53:48,020 --> 00:53:48,320
kings?

1175
00:53:49,140 --> 00:53:52,880
The kings are the visible human magistrates.

1176
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:53,600
Who are the rulers?

1177
00:53:54,980 --> 00:53:59,100
Who's behind the scenes really ruling through Clinton,

1178
00:53:59,580 --> 00:54:05,040
through the magistrates, through Hitler, the invisible principality

1179
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,980
and powers of the air, that whole spectral

1180
00:54:07,980 --> 00:54:12,100
realm of fallen angels who have revolted against

1181
00:54:12,100 --> 00:54:15,300
God and followed Satan are the factual rulers

1182
00:54:15,300 --> 00:54:17,880
of this world because their Satan and their

1183
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:19,860
king is the prince of this world.

1184
00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:21,180
Jesus called him that.

1185
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,300
The prince of this world comes, but he

1186
00:54:24,300 --> 00:54:26,100
has no nothing in me.

1187
00:54:28,510 --> 00:54:31,590
The final showdown is between two princes and

1188
00:54:31,590 --> 00:54:33,170
the church is in the middle of that

1189
00:54:33,170 --> 00:54:33,550
struggle.

1190
00:54:37,170 --> 00:54:40,390
The rulers take counsel together against the Lord

1191
00:54:40,390 --> 00:54:41,510
and against his anointed.

1192
00:54:42,130 --> 00:54:44,290
Let us tear their fetters apart and cast

1193
00:54:44,290 --> 00:54:45,510
away their courts from us.

1194
00:54:45,950 --> 00:54:47,750
But he who sits in the heavens laughs.

1195
00:54:48,270 --> 00:54:49,450
The Lord scoffs at them.

1196
00:54:49,850 --> 00:54:51,250
He will speak to them in his anger

1197
00:54:51,250 --> 00:54:52,810
and terrify them in his fury.

1198
00:54:53,870 --> 00:54:56,530
And his answer is, as for me, I

1199
00:54:56,530 --> 00:54:57,930
have installed my king.

1200
00:54:58,150 --> 00:54:59,410
Do you have another word for installed?

1201
00:55:00,670 --> 00:55:08,310
Set my king upon Zion, my holy mountain.

1202
00:55:11,070 --> 00:55:12,370
Is Zion a mountain?

1203
00:55:12,470 --> 00:55:14,930
Have you ever been to Jerusalem, the hill

1204
00:55:14,930 --> 00:55:17,590
of David, the city of David?

1205
00:55:17,890 --> 00:55:19,250
It's not a mountain, saints.

1206
00:55:19,390 --> 00:55:20,250
It's a pimple.

1207
00:55:23,270 --> 00:55:26,030
But God calls it a mountain because she's

1208
00:55:26,030 --> 00:55:30,250
not impressed with physical sight or size or

1209
00:55:30,250 --> 00:55:31,410
dimension or number.

1210
00:55:32,190 --> 00:55:34,150
The fact of the matter is that God

1211
00:55:34,150 --> 00:55:37,250
will choose exactly the opposite of what men

1212
00:55:37,250 --> 00:55:40,430
revere and esteem who are who are moved

1213
00:55:40,430 --> 00:55:44,510
toward glorifying size, number, prestige, stature, wealth, power.

1214
00:55:44,990 --> 00:55:47,790
He'll choose what is weak, what is insignificant,

1215
00:55:48,150 --> 00:55:51,330
what is foolish to confound that which is

1216
00:55:51,330 --> 00:55:53,830
mighty and wise in the sight of men.

1217
00:55:54,230 --> 00:55:54,810
Did you know that?

1218
00:55:55,290 --> 00:55:56,890
That's why he chose us.

1219
00:55:58,510 --> 00:56:00,330
We're a bunch of foolishness.

1220
00:56:00,490 --> 00:56:01,010
We're nothing.

1221
00:56:01,210 --> 00:56:03,150
We're just a handful of nothing.

1222
00:56:03,790 --> 00:56:05,870
And yet, and you'll read in Ephesians chapter

1223
00:56:05,870 --> 00:56:09,430
three, he created all things in order that

1224
00:56:09,430 --> 00:56:12,790
through the church, this nothing, he might demonstrate

1225
00:56:12,790 --> 00:56:15,770
to the powers of the air the manifold

1226
00:56:15,770 --> 00:56:16,670
wisdom of God.

1227
00:56:18,710 --> 00:56:21,610
Our king chooses foolish things.

1228
00:56:21,890 --> 00:56:22,170
I'm sorry.

1229
00:56:22,310 --> 00:56:23,930
He said Mount Zion is like a little

1230
00:56:23,930 --> 00:56:24,470
bitty.

1231
00:56:24,510 --> 00:56:24,710
Yeah.

1232
00:56:25,090 --> 00:56:27,150
Mount Zion is not really, it's a hill.

1233
00:56:27,710 --> 00:56:31,930
The holy hill of Zion is chosen because

1234
00:56:31,930 --> 00:56:33,010
it is insignificant.

1235
00:56:33,550 --> 00:56:35,310
God says to Israel, I didn't choose you

1236
00:56:35,310 --> 00:56:36,150
because you were mighty.

1237
00:56:36,330 --> 00:56:37,830
I chose you because you were few.

1238
00:56:38,150 --> 00:56:43,950
You were a stinking slave nation building fortresses

1239
00:56:43,950 --> 00:56:45,330
and fortune cities for Pharaoh.

1240
00:56:45,330 --> 00:56:46,430
You were nothing.

1241
00:56:47,110 --> 00:56:50,250
You lived on leeks and garlics and preferred

1242
00:56:50,250 --> 00:56:50,690
that.

1243
00:56:51,170 --> 00:56:51,990
And I chose you.

1244
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:56,940
He'll choose the foolish and the weak thing.

1245
00:56:58,180 --> 00:57:01,960
He'll choose a stable rather than holiday in,

1246
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:03,920
in which his king is born.

1247
00:57:05,100 --> 00:57:06,640
Unto this day there shall be born unto

1248
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:11,080
you in the city of David, a Messiah,

1249
00:57:11,500 --> 00:57:12,000
the Lord.

1250
00:57:12,580 --> 00:57:13,300
Where is he born?

1251
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:14,520
In a manger.

1252
00:57:15,660 --> 00:57:18,020
That's where the animals salivate when they eat

1253
00:57:18,020 --> 00:57:21,340
and drop their drool in into their food.

1254
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:22,420
That's where they laid him.

1255
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:26,340
And where was the, the, the kingdom of

1256
00:57:26,340 --> 00:57:29,240
David conceived and first formed in a cave.

1257
00:57:30,020 --> 00:57:31,140
And who was the king?

1258
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:34,140
Who is this David who feigned madness and

1259
00:57:34,140 --> 00:57:36,820
drooled in his beard and scribbled on the

1260
00:57:36,820 --> 00:57:39,940
doorposts so that the Philistines would, would not

1261
00:57:39,940 --> 00:57:40,620
pursue him.

1262
00:57:41,940 --> 00:57:44,700
And, and he's the prototype of the Jesus

1263
00:57:44,700 --> 00:57:45,900
to come the great king.

1264
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:46,620
Yes.

1265
00:57:47,900 --> 00:57:48,460
Yeah.

1266
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:51,260
And who's his spokesman?

1267
00:57:51,500 --> 00:57:53,320
High school dropout art cats.

1268
00:57:54,100 --> 00:57:57,440
You know, he chooses the things.

1269
00:57:57,740 --> 00:58:00,800
In fact, it says in Luke that that

1270
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,740
which the world esteems is an abomination to

1271
00:58:03,740 --> 00:58:04,020
God.

1272
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:08,360
You know why Jews have not surrendered to

1273
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,600
Jesus where they've not recognized him as the

1274
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:13,200
Messiah, the anointed, the, the in Christ and

1275
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:15,840
one, the kingdom of Israel, because he didn't

1276
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:16,600
come in pump.

1277
00:58:16,900 --> 00:58:19,880
He didn't come with a motorcycle cavalcade and

1278
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:24,400
a whole, what do they call it with

1279
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:27,760
a fleet of, of armored cars and, and

1280
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:28,440
limousines.

1281
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:30,740
He came on the back of an ass

1282
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:36,080
in fulfillment of Zachariah chapter nine, your king

1283
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:40,520
shall come to lowly and meek upon the

1284
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:42,080
back of an ass, the cult, the full

1285
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:42,700
of an ass.

1286
00:58:43,300 --> 00:58:45,520
And those Jews who knew their scriptures and

1287
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:47,240
saw this Jesus coming down a month of

1288
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:49,200
olives on the back of an ass upon

1289
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:52,100
which never meant sat cried out Hosanna to

1290
00:58:52,100 --> 00:58:55,260
the king and blessed is the king and

1291
00:58:55,260 --> 00:58:58,440
blessed is the kingdom that comes in the

1292
00:58:58,440 --> 00:58:59,240
name of the Lord.

1293
00:59:00,460 --> 00:59:02,760
It'll always come when it comes on the

1294
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:03,580
back of an ass.

1295
00:59:04,180 --> 00:59:04,760
Hmm.

1296
00:59:05,300 --> 00:59:07,520
And he said to his disciples, go into

1297
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:10,560
yonder village and there you'll find an ass

1298
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:16,040
and it's a cult, it's full, it's offspring

1299
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:17,860
and take them.

1300
00:59:18,020 --> 00:59:20,600
And if anyone interferes, tell them that the

1301
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:21,400
Lord has need of them.

1302
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:23,000
And so they found it.

1303
00:59:23,420 --> 00:59:27,380
Imagine Jesus's whole prophetic stature and reputation was

1304
00:59:27,380 --> 00:59:27,900
at stake.

1305
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:31,500
If, if those animals were not found, there

1306
00:59:31,500 --> 00:59:33,340
they were and they bought them.

1307
00:59:34,060 --> 00:59:36,840
And instead of taking the donkey upon a

1308
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,980
mature animal prepared to bear the weight of

1309
00:59:39,980 --> 00:59:43,920
a strapping six foot carpenter, he takes the

1310
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:49,560
offspring, the full, the cult upon which never

1311
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:50,520
man sat.

1312
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:53,260
And on that, he comes down the most

1313
00:59:53,260 --> 00:59:56,520
precipitous descent that amount of olives is.

1314
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:58,360
If you ever were there, as I have

1315
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:00,740
been many times, you cannot even walk down

1316
01:00:00,740 --> 01:00:02,180
and maintain your dignity.

1317
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:03,580
It's just too steep.

1318
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:06,520
I mean, you look foolish, you know, but

1319
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:08,040
you imagine coming down on this week, a

1320
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,140
little animal upon which never man sat.

1321
01:00:10,540 --> 01:00:11,920
You don't know whether to laugh or to

1322
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:12,200
cry.

1323
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:15,820
That's your king coming in glory into his

1324
01:00:15,820 --> 01:00:19,000
holy city in preview of his coming at

1325
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:20,680
the end of the age to the very

1326
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:23,100
city where he was crucified in the most

1327
01:00:23,100 --> 01:00:26,020
cruel torture and agony of body and soul

1328
01:00:26,020 --> 01:00:28,940
and outside the city of the dump between

1329
01:00:28,940 --> 01:00:31,740
criminals with a sign in three languages, Jesus

1330
01:00:31,740 --> 01:00:35,500
of Nazareth, king of the Jews is exactly

1331
01:00:35,500 --> 01:00:36,660
where he's coming to be.

1332
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:40,860
That isn't just like God.

1333
01:00:41,260 --> 01:00:42,000
You know what I'm saying?

1334
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:43,000
You know what I'm thinking sense?

1335
01:00:43,220 --> 01:00:46,280
You don't know God as you ought, unless

1336
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:47,160
you know these things.

1337
01:00:48,740 --> 01:00:51,940
It's the revelation of Jesus as king and

1338
01:00:51,940 --> 01:00:53,720
the revelation of the kingdom and the beauty

1339
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:56,640
of the king that brings the Lord and

1340
01:00:56,640 --> 01:01:00,180
God, the father into a perspective of understanding

1341
01:01:00,180 --> 01:01:03,860
and celebration and majesty that nothing else will

1342
01:01:03,860 --> 01:01:04,420
provide.

1343
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:06,500
You know why our worship is so hokey,

1344
01:01:07,100 --> 01:01:10,120
why we need the overhead projectors, why it's

1345
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:10,480
strained?

1346
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:12,440
Because we have not the sense of the

1347
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:14,560
majesty of God and the genius of God

1348
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:17,060
and the glory of God that is nowhere

1349
01:01:17,060 --> 01:01:19,980
revealed more profoundly than in his kingdom and

1350
01:01:19,980 --> 01:01:20,460
his kingdom.

1351
01:01:22,260 --> 01:01:24,920
When you say thy kingdom come, you're not

1352
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:28,380
asking for bluster and bravado and motorcycle cavalcades,

1353
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:30,920
you're asking for the kingdom of a God

1354
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:34,280
himself who came down into his city on

1355
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:36,660
the back of an ass to die the

1356
01:01:36,660 --> 01:01:38,380
death of a criminal.

1357
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:41,520
That's our king, that's his kingdom.

1358
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:44,800
My kingdom is not of this world, else

1359
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,420
would my servants fight.

1360
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:52,560
My kingdom is another thing altogether, it's another

1361
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:56,220
quality, it's another wisdom, it's exactly in opposition

1362
01:01:56,220 --> 01:01:58,540
to, in every point in particular, to the

1363
01:01:58,540 --> 01:01:59,880
kingdoms of this present world.

1364
01:02:00,860 --> 01:02:01,760
You know what I'm realizing?

1365
01:02:02,140 --> 01:02:03,880
Having been a believer now 35 years and

1366
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:05,440
been around a little bit in the world

1367
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:08,520
and in Christendom and in the charismatic realm,

1368
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:12,500
where that kingdom is not understood, not celebrated,

1369
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:16,380
not recognized, not sought, invariably other kinds of

1370
01:02:16,380 --> 01:02:18,040
petty kingdoms will fill the void.

1371
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:21,120
Call them what they will, the ministry of

1372
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:23,680
this one, that one, this denomination, that movement

1373
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:29,300
is a cheapie that must necessarily surface in

1374
01:02:29,300 --> 01:02:31,740
the absence of the centrality and the recognition

1375
01:02:31,740 --> 01:02:34,460
of that kingdom, which is the kingdom of

1376
01:02:34,460 --> 01:02:34,920
God.

1377
01:02:36,380 --> 01:02:38,800
If we are not kingdom conscious and kingdom

1378
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:42,740
waiting and kingdom seeking and kingdom living, we'll

1379
01:02:42,740 --> 01:02:46,340
find ourselves candidates for false kingdoms.

1380
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:48,940
So I had to say to these East

1381
01:02:48,940 --> 01:02:52,240
German pastors, what has replaced the dynamic that

1382
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:54,840
came when you used to be under persecution?

1383
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:57,240
And they had, nothing has replaced it.

1384
01:02:57,480 --> 01:02:58,600
I said, what about the kingdom?

1385
01:02:59,280 --> 01:02:59,380
Huh?

1386
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:03,080
Well, the kingdom is something personally, Jesus said

1387
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:04,420
the kingdom of God is within you.

1388
01:03:04,660 --> 01:03:05,980
Yes, but what did he mean by that?

1389
01:03:06,580 --> 01:03:08,280
There's a sense in which that's definitely true,

1390
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:11,380
but does that exhaust the larger and deeper

1391
01:03:11,380 --> 01:03:14,400
reality of what the kingdom is and what

1392
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:16,640
we ought to expect and be laboring for

1393
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:19,640
and knowing the conflict that's going to come

1394
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:23,920
because the nations rage and you think their

1395
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:25,860
rage is over or we haven't seen it

1396
01:03:25,860 --> 01:03:26,140
yet.

1397
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:28,140
There's a mask of civility.

1398
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:30,760
Saints, you've got to see it.

1399
01:03:31,580 --> 01:03:33,080
This is why they're elders in the body

1400
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:36,080
of Christ, because we've lived longer and we've

1401
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:38,160
seen more and we understand we've seen through

1402
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:38,900
the pretense.

1403
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:40,140
Yeah.

1404
01:03:40,140 --> 01:03:42,000
High school dropout now has a couple of

1405
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:44,780
master's degrees from the university of California, Berkeley

1406
01:03:44,780 --> 01:03:46,160
and the Lutheran seminary in St. Paul.

1407
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:49,420
And I had opportunity to see through the

1408
01:03:49,420 --> 01:03:54,220
civility, the decorum, the propriety, the amenities of

1409
01:03:54,220 --> 01:03:57,680
civilized institutions of learning and theology to the

1410
01:03:57,680 --> 01:03:59,760
jungle that they really are.

1411
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:03,900
When that mask is taken away of civility

1412
01:04:03,900 --> 01:04:06,720
and the teeth are bared and you see

1413
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:09,960
the truth of the world and its lust

1414
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:13,320
and its power and its desire to perpetuate

1415
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:16,180
itself at whatever cost, you will have looked

1416
01:04:16,180 --> 01:04:17,320
into the face of Satan.

1417
01:04:19,380 --> 01:04:21,720
There's a war on and the end of

1418
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:23,420
the age will be that final conflict.

1419
01:04:24,180 --> 01:04:26,060
And we're not going to make it as

1420
01:04:26,060 --> 01:04:31,480
a superficial Sunday service attending people, congregations.

1421
01:04:41,890 --> 01:04:44,410
I have set my king on the holy

1422
01:04:44,410 --> 01:04:45,070
hill of Zion.

1423
01:04:45,990 --> 01:04:47,950
Today I have declared the decree.

1424
01:04:49,090 --> 01:04:49,970
Thou art my son.

1425
01:04:50,090 --> 01:04:51,290
Today I have begotten thee.

1426
01:04:51,890 --> 01:04:54,010
Ask of me and I will give you

1427
01:04:54,010 --> 01:05:00,710
the nations as your inheritance.

1428
01:05:00,710 --> 01:05:03,730
That's poetry, but it's also literal.

1429
01:05:05,010 --> 01:05:08,030
Don't think that that's a play on words

1430
01:05:09,290 --> 01:05:11,630
any more than the nation that the mountain

1431
01:05:11,630 --> 01:05:12,950
of the Lord's house will be above the

1432
01:05:12,950 --> 01:05:15,030
mountains and hills of the world and that

1433
01:05:15,030 --> 01:05:18,410
the nations will come up to Jerusalem and

1434
01:05:18,410 --> 01:05:20,170
that they'll beat their swords into plowshares and

1435
01:05:20,170 --> 01:05:20,970
study war no more.

1436
01:05:21,790 --> 01:05:22,650
That's literal.

1437
01:05:24,290 --> 01:05:25,510
It's intensified.

1438
01:05:25,670 --> 01:05:26,250
It's compact.

1439
01:05:26,430 --> 01:05:29,490
It's poetic, but it's speaking of very real,

1440
01:05:29,650 --> 01:05:33,810
very actual things in the world and things

1441
01:05:33,810 --> 01:05:35,550
that we ought to be coveting and praying

1442
01:05:35,550 --> 01:05:39,650
for, because the world is misusing its wealth

1443
01:05:39,650 --> 01:05:42,050
and producing forms of death.

1444
01:05:42,950 --> 01:05:44,410
The whole world is sick.

1445
01:05:45,230 --> 01:05:47,650
We stayed in a motel, was it night

1446
01:05:47,650 --> 01:05:50,130
before last, and we got the complimentary newspaper.

1447
01:05:50,130 --> 01:05:53,490
We, both of us were so upset.

1448
01:05:53,790 --> 01:05:55,590
We were so, our spirits were so jarred

1449
01:05:55,590 --> 01:05:57,710
and there was nothing in them that was

1450
01:05:57,710 --> 01:06:00,370
flagrant, but ads for Christmas shopping.

1451
01:06:00,630 --> 01:06:01,810
That's enough to do it for me.

1452
01:06:02,890 --> 01:06:10,730
The world, the system, profit, seduction, fascination, stars,

1453
01:06:11,030 --> 01:06:16,030
personalities, glitter, while a whole generation is being

1454
01:06:16,030 --> 01:06:18,170
ground to powder and our own children are

1455
01:06:18,170 --> 01:06:19,430
being made merchandise.

1456
01:06:20,350 --> 01:06:23,430
The souls of men being made merchandise.

1457
01:06:24,270 --> 01:06:27,090
That the children themselves constitute a multi-billion

1458
01:06:27,090 --> 01:06:31,050
dollar market who know brand names and want

1459
01:06:31,050 --> 01:06:33,090
this kind of gene and that kind of

1460
01:06:33,090 --> 01:06:34,270
gene and that kind of shoe.

1461
01:06:34,710 --> 01:06:36,490
And if they don't get it, they're miserable

1462
01:06:36,490 --> 01:06:37,750
and they'll make you miserable.

1463
01:06:39,070 --> 01:06:41,230
The whole, the system has got us.

1464
01:06:43,410 --> 01:06:44,630
It's another kingdom.

1465
01:06:44,630 --> 01:06:47,110
You got the idea?

1466
01:06:47,330 --> 01:06:49,810
We have, once you start putting on the

1467
01:06:49,810 --> 01:06:53,030
spectacles of the kingdom, it's remarkable as how

1468
01:06:53,030 --> 01:06:56,610
you begin to perceive the false reality that

1469
01:06:56,610 --> 01:07:00,190
purports to be reality, that is everywhere, bringing

1470
01:07:00,190 --> 01:07:03,110
its victims into death, into mental institutions, into

1471
01:07:03,110 --> 01:07:06,210
nervous breakdowns, into tumors, into heart failures, into

1472
01:07:06,210 --> 01:07:08,390
all the kinds of things that the bodies

1473
01:07:08,390 --> 01:07:10,910
of men can't even bear because it's not

1474
01:07:10,910 --> 01:07:12,670
in keeping with truth and with integrity and

1475
01:07:12,670 --> 01:07:13,310
with righteousness.

1476
01:07:13,790 --> 01:07:18,550
But when this kingdom comes, oh, it'll be

1477
01:07:18,550 --> 01:07:19,090
a mechaya.

1478
01:07:19,850 --> 01:07:21,610
That's from the Hebrew word meaning life.

1479
01:07:22,190 --> 01:07:23,490
It'll be a relief.

1480
01:07:24,010 --> 01:07:25,070
We'll have shalom.

1481
01:07:25,230 --> 01:07:25,930
We'll have peace.

1482
01:07:26,050 --> 01:07:28,610
Not because of some pseudo kind of a

1483
01:07:28,610 --> 01:07:31,330
thing affected by men, but because it issues

1484
01:07:31,330 --> 01:07:36,010
from righteousness and right relationship and truth and

1485
01:07:36,010 --> 01:07:39,650
equity and justice, because our king is impartial,

1486
01:07:39,650 --> 01:07:41,790
because he doesn't have to butter up anyone,

1487
01:07:42,110 --> 01:07:43,690
because he doesn't have to line his pockets,

1488
01:07:43,970 --> 01:07:45,690
because he doesn't have to worry about reelection,

1489
01:07:46,150 --> 01:07:48,330
because he doesn't have to be everybody's popular.

1490
01:07:49,150 --> 01:07:51,870
He can rule with perfect righteousness and equity

1491
01:07:51,870 --> 01:07:53,210
as God.

1492
01:07:54,390 --> 01:07:57,550
And then the trees will spring up the

1493
01:07:57,550 --> 01:07:58,270
fruit of the earth.

1494
01:07:58,410 --> 01:08:01,530
I mean, nature itself will rejoice that is

1495
01:08:01,530 --> 01:08:03,250
now even under bondage.

1496
01:08:06,210 --> 01:08:09,770
To be kingdom minded is to become eschatologically

1497
01:08:09,770 --> 01:08:10,250
minded.

1498
01:08:11,310 --> 01:08:13,990
And the church that is not eschatological is

1499
01:08:13,990 --> 01:08:14,730
not the church.

1500
01:08:14,970 --> 01:08:18,370
I'm using a fancy word, eschatology, the study

1501
01:08:18,370 --> 01:08:21,830
of the things pertaining to the end, the

1502
01:08:21,830 --> 01:08:23,510
conclusion of the age, the end of human

1503
01:08:23,510 --> 01:08:26,109
history, the coming of the kingdom, the advent

1504
01:08:26,109 --> 01:08:26,830
of the millennium.

1505
01:08:27,430 --> 01:08:28,069
Come on, you guys.

1506
01:08:28,529 --> 01:08:32,330
Tell me that you're millennial, millennially minded, except

1507
01:08:32,330 --> 01:08:34,569
in the sense that Y2K.

1508
01:08:35,350 --> 01:08:37,350
Where is our millennial anticipation?

1509
01:08:38,430 --> 01:08:39,790
Where is the sense of what is going

1510
01:08:39,790 --> 01:08:42,010
to come and the joy of it and

1511
01:08:42,010 --> 01:08:44,210
that creation itself is going to rejoice?

1512
01:08:45,770 --> 01:08:48,710
The early church that was the church was

1513
01:08:48,710 --> 01:08:50,170
eschatologically minded.

1514
01:08:50,910 --> 01:08:54,470
Paul speaking in Thessalonians to the Thessalonians, newly

1515
01:08:54,470 --> 01:08:58,130
saved out of paganism and idolatry, who were

1516
01:08:58,130 --> 01:08:58,930
saved by his word.

1517
01:08:59,029 --> 01:09:00,990
He said, I read, I praise God that

1518
01:09:00,990 --> 01:09:02,270
when you heard the word of God from

1519
01:09:02,270 --> 01:09:04,930
me, you received it for what it was,

1520
01:09:04,950 --> 01:09:06,270
not the word of man, but the word

1521
01:09:06,270 --> 01:09:08,529
of God that performs a work in them

1522
01:09:08,529 --> 01:09:10,529
that believe and has turned you from your

1523
01:09:10,529 --> 01:09:12,990
idols to serve the living God, not just

1524
01:09:12,990 --> 01:09:15,609
get saved, serve the living God and to

1525
01:09:15,609 --> 01:09:17,470
wait for his son who's coming from heaven

1526
01:09:17,470 --> 01:09:19,170
and will save us from the day of

1527
01:09:19,170 --> 01:09:19,609
his wrath.

1528
01:09:20,910 --> 01:09:22,050
What a message.

1529
01:09:23,010 --> 01:09:23,810
What a message.

1530
01:09:23,850 --> 01:09:25,189
Who's preaching like that today?

1531
01:09:25,710 --> 01:09:27,609
Who's, who's telling people they're being saved from

1532
01:09:27,609 --> 01:09:29,450
a wrath to come that the Lord is

1533
01:09:29,450 --> 01:09:32,170
coming and in judgment that there's a wrath

1534
01:09:32,170 --> 01:09:34,029
and a fury against the nations that have

1535
01:09:34,029 --> 01:09:36,790
blasphemed his name and the church that has

1536
01:09:36,790 --> 01:09:38,910
mocked him in the pursuit of its own

1537
01:09:38,910 --> 01:09:39,630
petty kingdoms.

1538
01:09:40,670 --> 01:09:42,250
Who's hearing a message like that?

1539
01:09:42,350 --> 01:09:45,630
That's apostolic proclamation that saves men from the

1540
01:09:45,630 --> 01:09:47,870
idolatries to serve the living God.

1541
01:09:48,090 --> 01:09:51,290
That church was eschatologically minded and to be

1542
01:09:51,290 --> 01:09:55,430
eschatologically minded is to be equally apocalypticly minded.

1543
01:09:56,050 --> 01:09:59,710
Both Greek words, eschaton, the coming of the

1544
01:09:59,710 --> 01:10:02,670
Lord, the end, but apocalyptic in judgment.

1545
01:10:04,770 --> 01:10:06,010
Where's the fear of the Lord in the

1546
01:10:06,010 --> 01:10:06,310
church?

1547
01:10:07,530 --> 01:10:08,730
We're a bunch of flakes.

1548
01:10:09,210 --> 01:10:10,130
It's a cheapie.

1549
01:10:10,770 --> 01:10:12,250
I mean, what we get away with is

1550
01:10:12,250 --> 01:10:14,910
horrific because there's no fear.

1551
01:10:14,970 --> 01:10:15,810
We prayed about this.

1552
01:10:15,890 --> 01:10:17,290
I don't know what hour of the morning

1553
01:10:17,290 --> 01:10:19,470
for the fear of the Lord, the awe

1554
01:10:19,470 --> 01:10:21,470
and the reverence of God to come into

1555
01:10:21,470 --> 01:10:21,930
the church.

1556
01:10:21,930 --> 01:10:23,190
What is a church without it?

1557
01:10:23,950 --> 01:10:30,990
But a culture, a Sunday phenomenon.

1558
01:10:32,090 --> 01:10:34,350
We have not that sense of the fear

1559
01:10:34,350 --> 01:10:36,230
of God because we have not the sense

1560
01:10:36,230 --> 01:10:36,650
of God.

1561
01:10:37,130 --> 01:10:38,570
We have not the sense of his coming.

1562
01:10:38,670 --> 01:10:39,930
We have not the sense of his kingdom.

1563
01:10:40,370 --> 01:10:41,750
We have not the sense that he's coming

1564
01:10:41,750 --> 01:10:42,250
in judgment.

1565
01:10:42,750 --> 01:10:43,930
And the fact of the matter is, if

1566
01:10:43,930 --> 01:10:46,410
we're scratched deeply enough, we're offended by a

1567
01:10:46,410 --> 01:10:47,190
God who will judge.

1568
01:10:48,390 --> 01:10:51,990
That's why this book on the Holocaust is

1569
01:10:51,990 --> 01:10:52,830
devastating.

1570
01:10:53,410 --> 01:10:54,810
A man wrote to me, said, my whole

1571
01:10:54,810 --> 01:10:56,830
view of God has exploded.

1572
01:10:57,710 --> 01:11:00,670
I'm seeing a sense of, I've never considered

1573
01:11:00,670 --> 01:11:04,290
because to exclude judgment from God is to

1574
01:11:04,290 --> 01:11:05,150
exclude God.

1575
01:11:06,170 --> 01:11:08,210
You can't separate out his attributes.

1576
01:11:08,630 --> 01:11:09,430
Oh, I like his goodness.

1577
01:11:09,570 --> 01:11:10,190
I like his mercy.

1578
01:11:10,230 --> 01:11:10,750
I like his love.

1579
01:11:10,830 --> 01:11:13,030
I like his, what about his judgment?

1580
01:11:14,270 --> 01:11:16,130
His judgment is his righteousness.

1581
01:11:16,690 --> 01:11:18,270
And when his judgments come in the earth,

1582
01:11:18,330 --> 01:11:20,050
the world shall learn righteousness.

1583
01:11:20,770 --> 01:11:23,190
He's not some arbitrary, capricious God who just

1584
01:11:23,190 --> 01:11:23,970
comes to destroy.

1585
01:11:24,290 --> 01:11:27,970
His judgments are redemptive and altogether wise and

1586
01:11:27,970 --> 01:11:28,690
needful.

1587
01:11:29,330 --> 01:11:31,230
When we say, come Lord Jesus, we're saying,

1588
01:11:31,330 --> 01:11:32,750
come in judgment.

1589
01:11:33,090 --> 01:11:34,610
When we say we pray for the peace

1590
01:11:34,610 --> 01:11:36,710
of Jerusalem, we're not hoping for some magical

1591
01:11:36,710 --> 01:11:39,330
wand to be passed over troubled city, but

1592
01:11:39,330 --> 01:11:41,570
for judgment that must come and a chastisement

1593
01:11:41,570 --> 01:11:43,610
that must come before they can be the

1594
01:11:43,610 --> 01:11:44,770
restored people of God.

1595
01:11:45,110 --> 01:11:47,790
We don't even know what we're praying because

1596
01:11:47,790 --> 01:11:50,550
we have omitted the most significant aspect of

1597
01:11:50,550 --> 01:11:54,090
God as God in judgment, because we're not

1598
01:11:54,090 --> 01:11:58,470
eschatologically minded because we're not apocalyptically minded and

1599
01:11:58,470 --> 01:11:59,430
we're even offended.

1600
01:11:59,830 --> 01:12:02,110
And we want all things to remain as

1601
01:12:02,110 --> 01:12:04,770
they are in the hope of amelioration and

1602
01:12:04,770 --> 01:12:05,230
improvement.

1603
01:12:06,090 --> 01:12:11,550
We're progressivists, we're humanists and not apostolic in

1604
01:12:11,550 --> 01:12:14,150
our anticipation and it shows in our character,

1605
01:12:14,210 --> 01:12:14,730
our relationships.

1606
01:12:15,150 --> 01:12:17,570
We're casual one Sunday like another.

1607
01:12:18,290 --> 01:12:21,490
We've lost the intensity and the purpose for

1608
01:12:21,490 --> 01:12:23,670
our being that makes us the people of

1609
01:12:23,670 --> 01:12:26,150
God only in the context of the kingdom

1610
01:12:26,150 --> 01:12:28,650
of God, not as a subjective and personal

1611
01:12:28,650 --> 01:12:31,330
thing however precious that might be, but in

1612
01:12:31,330 --> 01:12:33,730
the sense of the theocratic rule of God

1613
01:12:33,730 --> 01:12:37,670
over the nations from the place that God

1614
01:12:37,670 --> 01:12:40,270
has designated through a nation yet to be

1615
01:12:40,270 --> 01:12:43,350
restored through the mercies of the church in

1616
01:12:43,350 --> 01:12:44,390
the last days.

1617
01:12:44,730 --> 01:12:47,730
In the latter days, Isaiah said concerning the

1618
01:12:47,730 --> 01:12:50,530
division of Jerusalem, the mountain of the Lord's

1619
01:12:50,530 --> 01:12:53,090
house will be higher and above and all

1620
01:12:53,090 --> 01:12:56,930
nations shall flow into it to the God

1621
01:12:56,930 --> 01:12:57,650
of Jacob.

1622
01:12:58,810 --> 01:12:59,650
Got the picture?

1623
01:13:00,090 --> 01:13:00,850
You're getting the picture?

1624
01:13:02,730 --> 01:13:03,170
Hallelujah.

1625
01:13:06,230 --> 01:13:07,990
Well, let me pray a little prayer.

1626
01:13:10,350 --> 01:13:12,790
This God of Jacob, if you don't know

1627
01:13:12,790 --> 01:13:14,490
him as the God of Jacob, do you

1628
01:13:14,490 --> 01:13:15,370
really know him as you ought?

1629
01:13:17,790 --> 01:13:22,870
I came back from Nuremberg, Germany, out not

1630
01:13:22,870 --> 01:13:26,990
far from Wagner country in Bavaria and I

1631
01:13:26,990 --> 01:13:29,850
went out to a Jewish cemetery that survived

1632
01:13:29,850 --> 01:13:30,770
the Nazi time.

1633
01:13:32,270 --> 01:13:36,230
The gravestones were so thick like that that

1634
01:13:36,230 --> 01:13:39,130
the Nazis could not topple them and the

1635
01:13:39,130 --> 01:13:41,630
Hebrew was effaced because they went back to

1636
01:13:41,630 --> 01:13:43,110
the 1400s.

1637
01:13:43,390 --> 01:13:45,650
You can barely discern some of the Hebrew

1638
01:13:45,650 --> 01:13:47,250
on one side, German on the other side.

1639
01:13:47,590 --> 01:13:48,850
I'm always so moved.

1640
01:13:48,930 --> 01:13:50,430
I always go out of my way to

1641
01:13:50,430 --> 01:13:53,630
find Jewish cemeteries where we are distributed throughout

1642
01:13:53,630 --> 01:13:55,950
the world and where we have died for

1643
01:13:55,950 --> 01:13:57,530
one unkind reason or another.

1644
01:13:58,070 --> 01:13:59,990
And I came back to that meeting to

1645
01:13:59,990 --> 01:14:02,750
address a German congregation, charismatic.

1646
01:14:04,390 --> 01:14:06,510
And I said, Hey, my Jewish people have

1647
01:14:06,510 --> 01:14:07,990
been here since the 1400s.

1648
01:14:08,350 --> 01:14:09,970
There's no place in Europe where they've been

1649
01:14:09,970 --> 01:14:12,390
longer since the destruction of the temple in

1650
01:14:12,390 --> 01:14:12,970
70 AD.

1651
01:14:13,270 --> 01:14:15,790
They came to the Rhine and were merchants

1652
01:14:15,790 --> 01:14:19,110
before Germany even came into its national identity.

1653
01:14:20,190 --> 01:14:21,990
It was the Holy Roman Empire, but it

1654
01:14:21,990 --> 01:14:22,790
was Germanic.

1655
01:14:23,330 --> 01:14:25,250
And we've lived that long with you and

1656
01:14:25,250 --> 01:14:26,170
never got saved.

1657
01:14:26,890 --> 01:14:29,570
How come that you never told us that

1658
01:14:29,570 --> 01:14:32,150
the God that you're celebrating in Jesus Christ

1659
01:14:32,150 --> 01:14:34,350
is the God of Alphabets?

1660
01:14:35,470 --> 01:14:37,950
And do you even know today that the

1661
01:14:37,950 --> 01:14:40,230
God whom you ostensibly worship is the God

1662
01:14:40,230 --> 01:14:41,890
of Jacob and the God of Israel?

1663
01:14:42,630 --> 01:14:44,270
And you should have seen their jaws drop.

1664
01:14:45,770 --> 01:14:47,710
Not only did they not know it, they

1665
01:14:47,710 --> 01:14:49,550
did not want to know it.

1666
01:14:51,110 --> 01:14:55,610
Their God was somehow Christian, separate, unrelated to

1667
01:14:55,610 --> 01:14:56,050
Israel.

1668
01:14:57,710 --> 01:15:00,410
And that church that chooses that posture, that

1669
01:15:00,410 --> 01:15:03,710
mindset, that separation is ipso facto, not the

1670
01:15:03,710 --> 01:15:05,610
church, certainly not the church of the last

1671
01:15:05,610 --> 01:15:05,950
days.

1672
01:15:06,410 --> 01:15:08,290
It's only the church and its recognition of

1673
01:15:08,290 --> 01:15:11,470
its identity with that people and with that

1674
01:15:11,470 --> 01:15:13,930
people's God and with his coming King.

1675
01:15:14,950 --> 01:15:17,170
That's why Jesus stopped when he was going

1676
01:15:17,170 --> 01:15:19,030
through Jericho and a blind beggar cried out,

1677
01:15:19,270 --> 01:15:21,750
Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on

1678
01:15:21,750 --> 01:15:21,910
me.

1679
01:15:22,010 --> 01:15:23,310
They tried to shut him up.

1680
01:15:23,770 --> 01:15:25,630
He couldn't, they couldn't contain him.

1681
01:15:25,890 --> 01:15:28,590
Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on

1682
01:15:28,590 --> 01:15:28,810
me.

1683
01:15:28,910 --> 01:15:29,510
He stopped.

1684
01:15:29,830 --> 01:15:30,250
Who's that?

1685
01:15:30,890 --> 01:15:34,070
A blind beggar knows my truest identification.

1686
01:15:34,570 --> 01:15:35,910
I'm the son of David.

1687
01:15:36,490 --> 01:15:38,730
And that's my qualification to rule on his

1688
01:15:38,730 --> 01:15:41,210
throne forever in the day when I shall

1689
01:15:41,210 --> 01:15:43,650
come with the wounds that were the evidence

1690
01:15:43,650 --> 01:15:44,990
of what I have received in the house

1691
01:15:44,990 --> 01:15:45,750
of my friends.

1692
01:15:46,350 --> 01:15:47,490
This blind beggar knew it.

1693
01:15:47,750 --> 01:15:49,650
And you Pharisees and teachers of the law

1694
01:15:49,650 --> 01:15:51,630
did not know it and could not recognize

1695
01:15:51,630 --> 01:15:54,090
me as your King and would not have

1696
01:15:54,090 --> 01:15:54,810
me to rule over you.

1697
01:15:56,210 --> 01:15:57,370
It's going to cost you.

1698
01:15:58,190 --> 01:15:58,790
And it has.

1699
01:16:02,010 --> 01:16:05,210
This kingdom of God is the kingdom of

1700
01:16:05,210 --> 01:16:07,590
heaven, but it's the Davidic kingdom.

1701
01:16:08,610 --> 01:16:10,530
It's the raising up again of the tabernacle

1702
01:16:10,530 --> 01:16:13,130
of David, the ruins of it, that his

1703
01:16:13,130 --> 01:16:14,990
rule might go forth over Edom and over

1704
01:16:14,990 --> 01:16:15,490
the nations.

1705
01:16:15,850 --> 01:16:17,630
I have given you the nations for your

1706
01:16:17,630 --> 01:16:18,050
inheritance.

1707
01:16:19,750 --> 01:16:22,970
We're involved in that cosmic drama and what

1708
01:16:22,970 --> 01:16:25,370
an involvement and what a requirement it is.

1709
01:16:25,370 --> 01:16:28,470
We cannot afford to be patsy Christians.

1710
01:16:29,050 --> 01:16:31,110
We cannot afford to have as our standard

1711
01:16:31,110 --> 01:16:33,550
of measure the success of our meetings, the

1712
01:16:33,550 --> 01:16:34,810
enjoyment, the program.

1713
01:16:35,990 --> 01:16:38,490
We've got to be involved in the anticipation

1714
01:16:38,490 --> 01:16:40,550
and the preparation of the coming of that

1715
01:16:40,550 --> 01:16:43,470
kingdom, knowing that it's going to come apocalyptically

1716
01:16:43,470 --> 01:16:46,450
in violent collision in the last days, for

1717
01:16:46,450 --> 01:16:48,450
they will not let go and relinquish their

1718
01:16:48,450 --> 01:16:48,970
false rule.

1719
01:16:50,130 --> 01:16:52,230
They'll rail against the Lord against his anointed.

1720
01:16:52,650 --> 01:16:54,510
And they know better than the church that

1721
01:16:54,510 --> 01:16:55,630
the king will not come.

1722
01:16:56,010 --> 01:16:57,750
That is contained in the heavens in acts

1723
01:16:57,750 --> 01:17:00,570
321, waiting for the restoration of all things

1724
01:17:00,570 --> 01:17:02,250
spoken by the prophets since the world began.

1725
01:17:02,890 --> 01:17:04,690
You know what the prophets all spoke about

1726
01:17:04,690 --> 01:17:10,870
Isaiah, the psalmists, Hosea, Micah, the minor prophets,

1727
01:17:10,970 --> 01:17:11,550
the major prophets.

1728
01:17:11,970 --> 01:17:14,490
What was the last days restoration that permits

1729
01:17:14,490 --> 01:17:17,790
the king to come the restoration of Israel

1730
01:17:17,790 --> 01:17:21,510
itself, because how shall he rule from the

1731
01:17:21,510 --> 01:17:23,810
holy hill of Zion if it's not holy?

1732
01:17:24,770 --> 01:17:27,210
If it's a place of merchandise where you

1733
01:17:27,210 --> 01:17:29,370
get your Gucci leather goods and where they

1734
01:17:29,370 --> 01:17:31,370
come from Jordan to do their expensive shopping

1735
01:17:31,370 --> 01:17:33,830
in Jerusalem, the king's coming to that?

1736
01:17:35,110 --> 01:17:35,590
No, no.

1737
01:17:36,110 --> 01:17:39,130
That present Jerusalem shall turn to rebel saints.

1738
01:17:40,070 --> 01:17:43,010
There shall be devastation, widespread judgment on all

1739
01:17:43,010 --> 01:17:44,230
the present cities of Israel.

1740
01:17:44,590 --> 01:17:46,170
They'll be cast out again into the nations.

1741
01:17:46,570 --> 01:17:50,030
There'll be one final chastisement, then sifting of

1742
01:17:50,030 --> 01:17:52,650
the time of Jacob's trouble, and they'll perish,

1743
01:17:53,490 --> 01:17:55,590
except that you know they have a destiny

1744
01:17:55,590 --> 01:17:58,590
and that a remnant of them must return

1745
01:17:58,590 --> 01:18:01,430
to Zion with everlasting joy upon their heads

1746
01:18:01,430 --> 01:18:02,990
and mourning and sighing fling away.

1747
01:18:03,870 --> 01:18:07,230
And you're willing to extend mercy at the

1748
01:18:07,230 --> 01:18:09,190
risk of your own life at a time

1749
01:18:09,190 --> 01:18:10,970
when anyone who will extend themselves to a

1750
01:18:10,970 --> 01:18:14,230
Jew puts his head on the block, just

1751
01:18:14,230 --> 01:18:15,330
like Corrie ten Boom.

1752
01:18:15,990 --> 01:18:16,710
Are you going to be willing?

1753
01:18:17,290 --> 01:18:18,110
What, for a Jew?

1754
01:18:18,450 --> 01:18:19,130
Why should you?

1755
01:18:20,210 --> 01:18:21,530
What did they ever do for you?

1756
01:18:23,270 --> 01:18:25,970
Unless you see yourself in identification with them

1757
01:18:25,970 --> 01:18:28,650
as the people of God, of the God

1758
01:18:28,650 --> 01:18:30,070
of Jacob and the God of Israel, who

1759
01:18:30,070 --> 01:18:33,270
is your God and your coming king through

1760
01:18:33,270 --> 01:18:34,030
their restoration.

1761
01:18:35,410 --> 01:18:40,310
And whatever measure of sacrifice, inconvenience, suffering, the

1762
01:18:40,310 --> 01:18:42,710
greater your rule and reign with him when

1763
01:18:42,710 --> 01:18:44,630
he comes and brings his reward with him

1764
01:18:44,630 --> 01:18:47,070
to give to everyone according to their works.

1765
01:18:48,330 --> 01:18:49,490
See how eschatological?

1766
01:18:50,290 --> 01:18:52,050
See how the church needs to labor in

1767
01:18:52,050 --> 01:18:54,930
anticipation of a future event and the reward

1768
01:18:54,930 --> 01:18:56,190
of sacrifice for that?

1769
01:18:56,810 --> 01:18:58,330
That is the church saints.

1770
01:18:59,830 --> 01:19:02,030
Anything else is a kingdom of another kind.

1771
01:19:03,210 --> 01:19:11,150
So Lord, Precious God, how could anyone message?

1772
01:19:12,090 --> 01:19:14,210
And you've given me gorgeous messages.

1773
01:19:14,430 --> 01:19:15,550
I love your messages.

1774
01:19:15,810 --> 01:19:17,130
I would to God I had the liberty

1775
01:19:17,130 --> 01:19:21,010
to preach a message, not a Weltanschauung.

1776
01:19:22,010 --> 01:19:26,490
But these children need a cosmic view.

1777
01:19:27,070 --> 01:19:31,370
They need an overarching construct to understand their

1778
01:19:31,370 --> 01:19:34,070
call in these last days.

1779
01:19:34,830 --> 01:19:36,430
And you've given us a sketch.

1780
01:19:36,590 --> 01:19:38,750
You've given us the rudiments, my God, and

1781
01:19:38,750 --> 01:19:40,110
there's much to be filled in.

1782
01:19:40,790 --> 01:19:43,250
But I pray that not a syllable of

1783
01:19:43,250 --> 01:19:45,630
the sharing shall fall to the ground, that

1784
01:19:45,630 --> 01:19:49,330
even what was not explicitly spoken, but insinuated

1785
01:19:49,330 --> 01:19:53,510
throughout between the lines will be communicated into

1786
01:19:53,510 --> 01:19:56,110
their hearts by your spirit and that you'll

1787
01:19:56,110 --> 01:19:58,290
birth in them a jealousy for your kingdom

1788
01:19:58,290 --> 01:20:01,310
that is more than a vague generalization of

1789
01:20:01,310 --> 01:20:04,750
some kind of interior and subjective thing that

1790
01:20:04,750 --> 01:20:05,970
we have within us.

1791
01:20:06,470 --> 01:20:08,990
But they'll have also the sense of the

1792
01:20:08,990 --> 01:20:12,290
reality of the political rule of God who

1793
01:20:12,290 --> 01:20:15,370
deserves that rule because she's the creator of

1794
01:20:15,370 --> 01:20:18,490
this earth and these nations and that it's

1795
01:20:18,490 --> 01:20:21,190
that kingdom that we shall desire and labor

1796
01:20:21,190 --> 01:20:21,930
to obtain.

1797
01:20:22,890 --> 01:20:26,010
Bless these children, Lord, as the ambassadors of

1798
01:20:26,010 --> 01:20:26,590
your kingdom.

1799
01:20:27,410 --> 01:20:30,830
Give them the high seriousness that only the

1800
01:20:30,830 --> 01:20:33,630
awareness of the kingdom brings and the willingness

1801
01:20:33,630 --> 01:20:36,830
to sacrifice that only the kingdom justifies.

1802
01:20:38,470 --> 01:20:41,150
Let them be co-rulers with you and

1803
01:20:41,150 --> 01:20:43,490
share, my God, from your throne to the

1804
01:20:43,490 --> 01:20:46,450
measure of that sacrifice and that service in

1805
01:20:46,450 --> 01:20:48,410
this earth and in this nation and among

1806
01:20:48,410 --> 01:20:50,590
the nations in these last days.

1807
01:20:50,710 --> 01:20:53,910
Call your sons and daughters even now to

1808
01:20:53,910 --> 01:20:58,210
heroic participation and willingness, whatever the cost, that

1809
01:20:58,210 --> 01:21:00,650
when they say thy kingdom come, the only

1810
01:21:00,650 --> 01:21:03,550
prayer you ever taught your disciples, pray this,

1811
01:21:04,410 --> 01:21:07,090
but our father, which art in heaven, hallowed

1812
01:21:07,090 --> 01:21:08,850
be thy name for nothing else will hallow

1813
01:21:08,850 --> 01:21:11,670
your name than your kingdom come in earth

1814
01:21:11,670 --> 01:21:12,510
as it is in heaven.

1815
01:21:12,690 --> 01:21:17,650
Give these children a kingdom-mindedness that eclipses

1816
01:21:17,650 --> 01:21:21,350
and minimizes and makes trivial all that is

1817
01:21:21,350 --> 01:21:23,650
in the world that seeks to clutch at

1818
01:21:23,650 --> 01:21:26,430
them to gain their loyalty, their energies, their

1819
01:21:26,430 --> 01:21:26,990
interest.

1820
01:21:27,310 --> 01:21:29,390
May they see it for the cheap, shallow

1821
01:21:29,390 --> 01:21:31,570
thing that it is that can only be

1822
01:21:31,570 --> 01:21:33,330
seen in that way in the light of

1823
01:21:33,330 --> 01:21:33,830
your kingdom.

1824
01:21:33,830 --> 01:21:37,610
Bring kingdom consciousness, my God, to your church,

1825
01:21:37,730 --> 01:21:40,910
we pray, even the kingdom of David and

1826
01:21:40,910 --> 01:21:43,790
that great David who will establish his throne.

1827
01:21:44,810 --> 01:21:48,490
Thank you, my God, have us to palpitate

1828
01:21:48,490 --> 01:21:51,950
for the righteousness and equity and justice that

1829
01:21:51,950 --> 01:21:54,230
will issue from that one place that you

1830
01:21:54,230 --> 01:21:57,670
have appointed and we bless you for you're

1831
01:21:57,670 --> 01:22:00,750
the God who is only God and the

1832
01:22:00,750 --> 01:22:01,610
God who chooses.

1833
01:22:02,650 --> 01:22:04,390
We agree with your choice.

1834
01:22:04,810 --> 01:22:07,790
Bless these children, bless this word, set things

1835
01:22:07,790 --> 01:22:09,510
in motion by it that would not have

1836
01:22:09,510 --> 01:22:12,010
taken place without it and we thank you

1837
01:22:12,010 --> 01:22:13,550
and give you the praise for the jealousy

1838
01:22:13,550 --> 01:22:16,070
that broods over us and will not let

1839
01:22:16,070 --> 01:22:16,510
us go.

1840
01:22:16,930 --> 01:22:20,250
Thank you for my young brothers agonizing, trying

1841
01:22:20,250 --> 01:22:23,070
to to struggle through to come to an

1842
01:22:23,070 --> 01:22:25,730
understanding of how all this fits together and

1843
01:22:25,730 --> 01:22:27,650
I pray that he'll be the chief recipient

1844
01:22:27,650 --> 01:22:30,550
of this word today, that it'll go click,

1845
01:22:30,670 --> 01:22:32,850
click, click, click in his soul, things would

1846
01:22:32,850 --> 01:22:34,610
fall into place as it did for me

1847
01:22:34,610 --> 01:22:36,770
and all of the things that constituted the

1848
01:22:36,770 --> 01:22:39,610
baggage of my faith came into a comprehensive

1849
01:22:39,610 --> 01:22:43,030
unity when you inserted the key of your

1850
01:22:43,030 --> 01:22:43,490
kingdom.

1851
01:22:44,310 --> 01:22:45,990
So we bless you, Lord, and we thank

1852
01:22:45,990 --> 01:22:46,130
you.

1853
01:22:46,250 --> 01:22:49,330
Turn it in our hearts that you might

1854
01:22:49,330 --> 01:22:49,950
perform it.

1855
01:22:50,290 --> 01:22:52,150
Thank you for the Holy Spirit without which

1856
01:22:52,150 --> 01:22:53,590
it could never be obtained.

1857
01:22:53,910 --> 01:22:56,510
Thank you for the resurrection of Jesus that

1858
01:22:56,510 --> 01:22:58,550
raised him from the dead, that declared the

1859
01:22:58,550 --> 01:23:00,430
decree this day I set my king on

1860
01:23:00,430 --> 01:23:02,470
the holy hill and that there's a resurrection

1861
01:23:02,470 --> 01:23:05,450
for us that is our day that will

1862
01:23:05,450 --> 01:23:07,250
that you can say this is my son

1863
01:23:07,250 --> 01:23:10,030
because it's only in that power and in

1864
01:23:10,030 --> 01:23:11,990
that authority that we shall be for you

1865
01:23:11,990 --> 01:23:13,750
what we must in these last days.

1866
01:23:14,510 --> 01:23:17,070
To say thy kingdom come is to say

1867
01:23:17,070 --> 01:23:21,170
through thy resurrection and thy resurrection alone that

1868
01:23:21,170 --> 01:23:22,310
you might be glorified.

1869
01:23:22,830 --> 01:23:24,310
It's not enough to approve it as a

1870
01:23:24,310 --> 01:23:24,690
doctrine.

1871
01:23:25,750 --> 01:23:27,050
I bless these children, Lord.

1872
01:23:28,270 --> 01:23:29,590
Trouble us with your word.

1873
01:23:29,750 --> 01:23:31,630
Let it percolate in our soul and in

1874
01:23:31,630 --> 01:23:32,350
our spirits.

1875
01:23:32,870 --> 01:23:34,690
Let it drive us into your word to

1876
01:23:34,690 --> 01:23:38,090
search out the prophets and the allusions to

1877
01:23:38,090 --> 01:23:39,750
your kingdom and in the psalms and in

1878
01:23:39,750 --> 01:23:42,250
the many places that you make your profound

1879
01:23:42,250 --> 01:23:42,690
hints.

1880
01:23:43,950 --> 01:23:46,830
Bless this congregation, bless this work.

1881
01:23:47,870 --> 01:23:48,750
Thank you, my God.

1882
01:23:48,830 --> 01:23:51,550
Lay its foundations in the kingdom of God

1883
01:23:51,550 --> 01:23:52,870
that are removable.

1884
01:23:53,650 --> 01:23:56,110
We thank and give you praise in Jesus

1885
01:23:56,110 --> 01:23:56,610
name.

1886
01:23:57,310 --> 01:23:57,730
Thank you.

1887
01:23:58,350 --> 01:23:59,670
Don't don't lift your head.

1888
01:24:00,550 --> 01:24:01,810
Transact something with the Lord.

1889
01:24:03,310 --> 01:24:04,930
I'll tell you something about the kingdom.

1890
01:24:05,630 --> 01:24:06,950
It's entirely voluntary.

1891
01:24:08,730 --> 01:24:11,430
No man will be conscripted into the kingdom.

1892
01:24:12,190 --> 01:24:14,770
It's going to come through the voluntary sacrifice

1893
01:24:14,770 --> 01:24:17,930
of saints who are jealous for it because

1894
01:24:17,930 --> 01:24:19,430
they know that the issue of the kingdom

1895
01:24:19,430 --> 01:24:21,530
is the issue of God's glory forever.

1896
01:24:21,990 --> 01:24:24,610
And they're willing for the sacrifice in this

1897
01:24:24,610 --> 01:24:27,430
life, whatever it is to obtain it.

1898
01:24:27,990 --> 01:24:29,270
You let the Lord know right where you're

1899
01:24:29,270 --> 01:24:31,850
sitting, either audibly or out of your heart,

1900
01:24:32,010 --> 01:24:34,890
preferably audibly that the powers of the air

1901
01:24:34,890 --> 01:24:36,790
will take note that you want to be

1902
01:24:36,790 --> 01:24:39,150
observed and to be feared for you've made

1903
01:24:39,150 --> 01:24:40,470
a kingdom declaration.

1904
01:24:40,950 --> 01:24:43,310
You're not content to be merely charismatic.

1905
01:24:45,260 --> 01:24:48,440
You have intentions beyond the success of your

1906
01:24:48,440 --> 01:24:51,300
own fellowship in your own numbers that you're

1907
01:24:51,300 --> 01:24:54,100
a kingdom saint and you're willing for the

1908
01:24:54,100 --> 01:24:55,960
cost of it in this life.

1909
01:24:56,260 --> 01:24:58,160
And it will cost you'll be marked.

1910
01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:02,620
Let him know thy kingdom come Lord is

1911
01:25:02,620 --> 01:25:04,880
at the heart of my whole identification of

1912
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:06,260
myself as a saint.

1913
01:25:06,680 --> 01:25:10,800
Thy kingdom come not my career, not my

1914
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:11,380
ministry.

1915
01:25:11,660 --> 01:25:13,060
Thy kingdom come.

1916
01:25:13,480 --> 01:25:15,800
It might even take the sacrifice of my

1917
01:25:15,800 --> 01:25:19,040
ministry, the sacrifice of my vested interests to

1918
01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:19,660
obtain it.

1919
01:25:20,180 --> 01:25:23,980
But let your rule of my life, my

1920
01:25:23,980 --> 01:25:27,900
family be upon your shoulder for unto us

1921
01:25:27,900 --> 01:25:29,980
a son is given, a child is born

1922
01:25:29,980 --> 01:25:34,120
and the government shall be upon his shoulder.

1923
01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:37,740
The government of the church first, and then

1924
01:25:37,740 --> 01:25:38,600
also Israel.

1925
01:25:39,080 --> 01:25:41,500
And then also the nations, wherever we are

1926
01:25:41,500 --> 01:25:44,880
still independent, self-willed, calling our own shots,

1927
01:25:45,180 --> 01:25:47,260
making our own plans for the future, making

1928
01:25:47,260 --> 01:25:50,160
our own determinations, our own ambitions that have

1929
01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:50,780
not consulted.

1930
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:53,180
You have not recognized your Lordship and your

1931
01:25:53,180 --> 01:25:53,620
kingship.

1932
01:25:53,720 --> 01:25:58,520
Forgive us and we surrender.

1933
01:25:59,040 --> 01:26:00,500
We give all of them.

1934
01:26:00,520 --> 01:26:01,720
I got every interest.

1935
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:03,560
Your kingdom come.

1936
01:26:03,780 --> 01:26:06,300
We have no right to determine our retirement,

1937
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:08,760
our leisure, our whole, our saving our, our,

1938
01:26:08,880 --> 01:26:13,200
our, our, our, thy kingdom come whatever it

1939
01:26:13,200 --> 01:26:16,160
requires from this day forth in Jesus name.

1940
01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:18,320
Let the Lord know it.

1941
01:26:18,580 --> 01:26:21,480
Let the powers of darkness know it and

1942
01:26:21,480 --> 01:26:22,640
everything will change.

1943
01:26:41,740 --> 01:26:47,220
Somebody make a verbal declaration for yourself, for

1944
01:26:47,220 --> 01:26:48,000
this congregation.

1945
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:51,740
Come God in my heart, my life, my

1946
01:26:51,740 --> 01:26:58,360
family, of all places in Atlanta.

1947
01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:00,800
Thank you Lord.

1948
01:27:02,860 --> 01:27:04,100
Thank you Lord.

1949
01:27:04,660 --> 01:27:07,080
My own discernment and my own perception.

1950
01:27:08,640 --> 01:27:09,920
Oh God.

1951
01:27:09,980 --> 01:27:10,500
Oh God.

1952
01:27:10,560 --> 01:27:10,920
Oh God.

1953
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:11,580
I'm asking.

1954
01:27:11,820 --> 01:27:12,820
Oh God save.

1955
01:27:14,380 --> 01:27:15,260
Thank you Lord.

1956
01:27:15,260 --> 01:27:17,360
You come Lord, come God, come.

1957
01:27:17,640 --> 01:27:17,900
Yep.

1958
01:27:18,660 --> 01:27:21,040
My children, my house, oh God.

1959
01:27:21,140 --> 01:27:23,000
As for me and my house, Lord God

1960
01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:23,860
I serve the Lord.

1961
01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:27,760
Oh God let me serve, oh God and

1962
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:28,380
not dictate.

1963
01:27:29,820 --> 01:27:32,140
Oh God rule, oh God.

1964
01:27:32,440 --> 01:27:35,120
Rule over this family, rule over this church.

1965
01:27:35,840 --> 01:27:36,120
Amen.

1966
01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:38,460
Come oh God, come and rule.

1967
01:27:38,540 --> 01:27:39,860
Be the son of David here.

1968
01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:40,420
Yep.

1969
01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:41,500
Oh God.

1970
01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:42,400
That's right.

1971
01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:43,940
Reign in us, oh God.

1972
01:27:44,780 --> 01:27:45,620
Reign with us.

1973
01:27:45,700 --> 01:27:48,360
Give us a, oh God, a kingdom vision.

1974
01:27:48,640 --> 01:27:48,980
Yep.

1975
01:27:51,210 --> 01:27:52,070
Thank you Lord.

1976
01:27:53,450 --> 01:27:55,250
That Atlanta should not be known for its

1977
01:27:55,250 --> 01:27:58,490
Coca-Cola, for its Braves, for its football

1978
01:27:58,490 --> 01:28:00,610
teams, for its sports, for its productions, for

1979
01:28:00,610 --> 01:28:03,690
its promotions, but for your kingdom in this

1980
01:28:03,690 --> 01:28:06,510
very place that so exalts the petty kingdoms

1981
01:28:06,510 --> 01:28:07,150
of men.

1982
01:28:07,570 --> 01:28:10,170
We ask that your kingdom shall come crashing

1983
01:28:10,170 --> 01:28:12,990
in and bring to smithereens, my God, the

1984
01:28:12,990 --> 01:28:17,450
presumptions of men to exalt their industries and

1985
01:28:17,450 --> 01:28:20,450
their businesses and their sports and their pettiness

1986
01:28:20,450 --> 01:28:23,550
and to leave you as a Sunday supplement

1987
01:28:23,550 --> 01:28:24,450
only.

1988
01:28:24,970 --> 01:28:25,530
God forbid.

1989
01:28:26,210 --> 01:28:27,970
Bring Atlanta, my God, to a place that

1990
01:28:27,970 --> 01:28:29,330
glorifies the king.

1991
01:28:29,890 --> 01:28:31,050
Thank you my God.

1992
01:28:31,650 --> 01:28:35,090
Correct, my God, its faulty values, its imbalance.

1993
01:28:35,830 --> 01:28:36,770
Thank you my God.

1994
01:28:37,450 --> 01:28:38,390
Thank you Lord.

1995
01:28:39,150 --> 01:28:42,690
Its high presumptuous towers, its city landscape, all

1996
01:28:42,690 --> 01:28:45,330
of the pretense and presumption of men that

1997
01:28:45,330 --> 01:28:48,950
relegates you to the dustbin of insignificance as

1998
01:28:48,950 --> 01:28:50,310
a Sunday supplement only.

1999
01:28:50,810 --> 01:28:53,250
Come my God, be glorified in this great

2000
01:28:53,250 --> 01:28:53,570
city.

2001
01:28:53,890 --> 01:28:54,290
Yes.

2002
01:28:54,370 --> 01:28:55,770
Let it be great for the right reasons.

2003
01:28:55,770 --> 01:28:56,690
Yes Lord.

2004
01:28:57,010 --> 01:28:58,130
In Jesus name.

2005
01:28:58,630 --> 01:28:59,890
Thank you Lord.

2006
01:29:00,210 --> 01:29:01,470
Oh Holy Spirit.

2007
01:29:02,310 --> 01:29:03,030
Thank you.

2008
01:29:05,530 --> 01:29:09,380
Thank you Lord.