Charlie Kirk and the Birth of the Wartime Church
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Summary
The world you were born into no longer exists. What our fathers built in faith, we have traded for all types of filth. What was once a Christian nation, in the year 1900, was 97% of the population of America was Christian in 1950, that dropped to 92% today, it s 62%.
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To God be the glory, and since we have already spoken somewhat pastorally about the assassination
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of Charlie Kirk, I do want to consider some of the broader matters that have been made
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clear over the last several days that I believe the church must understand and the pulpit
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Today's text is going to be in Isaiah chapter 1, it's verses 21 through 28, it is God's
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rebuke to the city of Jerusalem for tolerating wickedness and corruption.
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It is about her judgment and also about her restoration.
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It was full of justice, righteousness lodged in it
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Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water
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Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards.
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They do not defend the fatherless, nor do they do the cause of the widow come before them.
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Therefore, the Lord says, the Lord of hosts, the mighty one of Israel,
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Ah, I will rid myself of my adversaries and take vengeance on my enemies.
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I will turn my hand against you and thoroughly purge away your dross and take away all of your alloy.
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I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors at the beginning.
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Afterward, you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.
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Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her repentance with righteousness.
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The destruction of the transgressors and of sinners shall be together,
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and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
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so today's sermon is not going to be expositional it'll be derivational meaning that i am going to
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derive the principles of this text and use them and apply them to our current circumstance
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this passage if you notice can be broken into four sections
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number one is the faithful city number two is the degenerate city number three is a judged city
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and number four is a restored city this week I came across an image of a child standing in a park
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in New York, probably around the year 1995. Looks similar to my age in 1995.
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In the background was the Twin Towers, and the text on this image says,
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the world you were born into no longer exists. I think that's correct. Places change, cities change,
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Nations change. And I believe that's why Christians, American Christians, can relate to this passage of Scripture.
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How the faithful nation has become a whore.
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How righteousness was once lodged in it, but now murderers.
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today it's 62 percent 62 percent over the last 125 years america has descended into what i would
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call shocking degeneracy we have gone from wholesome families to broken homes we have gone
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from covenant marriage to broken families and divorce.
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We have gone from purity to pornography, from
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patriarchy to matriarchy. We've gone from cherishing
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children to slaughtering them. We've gone from a Christian nation
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And last week, the murders of Irina and Charlie have revealed the cost.
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Visually, the videos were both painful to watch.
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We are no longer that faithful nation that we were a century ago.
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Now, you might say, but Dale, we are faithful.
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We're just locked in this land and stuck in this nation filled with all these unbelievers.
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I think that's the wrong way to think about this, and here's why.
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Christians carry the responsibility of what is called multi-generational faithfulness.
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ephesians addresses fathers saying fathers raise your children in the nurture and admonition of
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the lord malachi 2 15 says and this is speaking to marriage did he not make them one with a
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portion of his spirit in their union and what was god seeking godly offspring
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So guard yourselves in the spirit and let none of you be faithful or faithless with the wife of your youth.
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So when the Christian population goes from 97% to 62% in just two generations, two generations.
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it is our unfaithfulness that has brought us to this point
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do you understand that the culture follows the church
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Do you understand that the church follows the pulpit?
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Do you understand that the pulpit follows the pastor?
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The church teaches the culture what is right and wrong.
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We are those that restrain evil and promote that which is good.
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We were a nation of 97% Christians, and now we are not.
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there is no one to blame except the unfaithfulness
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Everyone loves bribes and follows their own hearts.
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They do not defend the fatherless, nor do they care of the cause of the widow.
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Religion, or culture, is religion externalized.
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Pay attention here. Culture is religion externalized.
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In other words, culture, the culture that we have in America,
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The culture that stabs innocent women on trains and then watches her die without anybody helping her.
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The culture that shoots up schools and churches and assassinates Christians.
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In fact, there is not one person on earth who is not religious.
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There is no such thing as a non-religious person.
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We are spiritual beings with a desire for the spiritual world.
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Not only have we permitted these false and demonic religions to take root among us
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you think Jesus was for the freedom of religion
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even though the first and greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God
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with all your heart with all your soul with all your strength
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as you please. It is not you are free to worship
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What our fathers would have crushed, we have tolerated.
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tolerated. In April of 1775, the Revolutionary
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The Civil War broke out over slavery and states' rights.
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We have bowed to legalized homosexuality and abortion.
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We've even placed these psychopaths in political power.
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We've allowed the transing and the mutilating of our American children.
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We have let our daughters become digital harlots.
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Our boys become gamers and lazy fools, cowards.
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And I believe in doing so, we have become complicit.
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Now, I know that many in our congregation may not feel
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that they are falling to many of these convictions,
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I'm speaking to the country in which our church lives.
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to give us a diagnostic understanding of where we stand.
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How does the once faithful city experience God's hand of judgment?
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Well, it should be familiar to us because we've all lived through it.
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He places them under the rule of wicked rulers.
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He permits tragedies and famines and wars and immorality.
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he does this until the people feel the weight of their sin and the rod of his discipline and repent
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and i know i know it can seem as though we have had such a great reprieve
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in this recent presidential election maybe it is a turning and maybe it is
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but that does not mean that America does not still have a long way to go
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what sins have we committed to bring such a judgment upon us
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I think it's important to understand what got us here so that we might not repeat them
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and I think we could summarize them into four major categories
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i'm going to give them to you now number one we have ordained the wrong men
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we have ordained the wrong men to the pastorate congregations rarely rise above their pastors
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that's a fact on the one hand many pulpits have been filled with these excellent communicators
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the problem is that they traded courage for comfort they are people pleasing donor pleasing
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giving pleasing, controversy avoiding compromisers that are more concerned with financial security
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and popularity than they are with preaching the truth.
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Those people exist, and they exist not only in our nation, but also in our city.
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These men have diluted doctrine to accommodate the visitor.
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We have turned the church into a place of evangelism rather than the strengthening of the flock.
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They have feared women, and they have perverted compassion, and they have been painfully quiet in the face of a variety of cultural events.
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On the other hand, we have ordained intellectuals, PhDs, and master's degrees who love doctrine and scholastics, but they are out of touch with the pastoral reality, and they have no spine.
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They have confused a love of knowledge with a call to be a shepherd.
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Number two, we have cultivated an effeminate form of Christianity.
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The Enlightenment taught, if I can't rationalize it, it can't be true.
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In the 1800s and early 1900s, we had the piety movement.
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This was heavily driven by the early feminist movement.
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But the piety movement declared, if I can't feel it, it isn't true.
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So rationalization was, if I can't rationalize it, it's not true.
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This gave rise to what we call experiential Christianity.
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And as you know, who is more inclined to succeed in emotion?
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It was in this climate that we invented phrases like,
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It's in this climate where we began love song style worship music,
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It's in this climate that we had the start of endless altar calls
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and baptisms and re-baptisms because the first time didn't feel right.
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All of this institutionalization of emotion made men feel increasingly out of step with the church.
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Statistically, a mass exodus of men from the church.
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a new phenomenon of the last 50 or 60 years.
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And the church declined in power and conviction.
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Number three, we have compartmentalized Christianity
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because of the rise of dispensationalism in the early 1900s,
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Number one, to expect the inevitable cultural decline.
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Number two, the imminent return of Christ and the rapture of the church.
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Number three, the victory of the scriptures is reserved for ethnic Israel, not the church.
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those three lies shifted christians from working to preserve society through the
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proclamation of the gospel and the standing of righteousness to waiting for its collapse and
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their escape in doing so we surrendered our schools our politics our media our architecture
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an influx of pagan cultures through immigration,
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we have been shamefully tolerant of evil shamefully tolerant of evil over the last 50 years under the
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increasing feminization of the church we have confronted evils with a soft
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nurturing approach of empathy and accommodation rather than the masculine approach of confrontation
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This has produced what I call a conflict-averse church.
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A conflict-averse church with many conflict-averse pastors.
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Peacekeeping avoids, well, I'll say this, peacekeeping tolerates evil to avoid conflict.
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Peacemaking drives out evil to have real peace.
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this week i heard multiple republican and even christian senators and media personalities
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say out loud we need peace and unity in this nation
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but how can there be peace with those who burn our churches how can there be peace with those
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who mutilate our children and sodomize our town and assassinate our people how can there be peace
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our leaders are calling for peacekeeping as if the majority of the left is some
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kind of largely reasonable peace-seeking group ready for conversations to unite under our very
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much shared values the problem is this this week the left exposed themselves they expose themselves
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While the remaining liberals on the left are some
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Tens of thousands openly mocked Charlie Kirk's murder
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With a picture and illustration of a bullet hole in his neck
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freedom shirts were sold on amazon with blood stains on them
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3d printed figurines with blood pouring out of his neck were made
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hundreds of thousands of people applauded these posts and videos
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last night with over 137,000 likes a post said of erica i'm glad she's speaking so everyone can
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stop pitying this woman because the because unsurprisingly she's a witch too
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what we're learning is that it's not the radical left it's just the left
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The modern man will not burn you for holding an opposing opinion.
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But if that modern man had lived in an age without law, he would have burned you, and quite cheerfully.
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Since most Christians hold the same convictions of Charlie Kirk,
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His death exposes this kind of sobering truth
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We have two rival cultures in our country right now.
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Two rival cultures, or should I say, two rival religions.
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The question I have for the American church is this.
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Can conservatives have fellowship with liberals?
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How do you fix a country where millions of people on one side want the other side dead?
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When two groups hold opposing core values that violate one another,
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is it a time for peace as senator katie boyd brit has called for
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is peace and love possible under our current national circumstances
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we called for peace they burned our cities we called for peace they tore down our monuments
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We called for peace, they burned down our churches.
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I do not believe it's a time for peace or love.
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I believe it's a time for righteous hate and holy war.
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And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
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people deny a time for war because they are afraid
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they will feast and they will begin to kill more
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and take more, end quote. In other words, peacemaking often comes through conflict.
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C.J. Engel said this week, most people don't understand the political and social costs of
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what it requires to restore order in America, end quote. I think he's correct. But as a pastor,
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I don't need to concern myself with the political and social aspects directly.
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What I do need to concern myself with is how Christians ought to behave
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And that's what I want to conclude this sermon with.
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Because for the judged nation to become the restored nation, these things must be done.
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now i want to preface this section with ephesians 4 26 it says be angry and do not sin
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be angry and do not sin what a very difficult passage of scripture for us over the next several
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years i'm going to give seven things that we can do
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Hebrew says that it's sharper than any two-edged sword.
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and like a hammer that breaks rock into pieces?
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Unfortunately, most Christians don't use the word of God
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instead they present some sort of impotent caricature
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of their evangelism that they learned at church camp
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or some mega churchianity situation that they've got
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from here out when you proclaim the gospel
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Nominal Christianity is what killed America
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Fathers stopped leading, they stopped catechizing their kids
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stopped giving their children a distinctly Christian education.
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Went from an average family in 1950 of four kids
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Muslims will match the Christian population.
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For the next 50 years, we need millions of Christians to have or adopt babies.
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Four of them, ideally, because two just replaces you.
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Number three, wartime churches with wartime shepherds.
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When Obergefell legalized gay marriage, their pulpits were silent.
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When vaccine mandates crushed the livelihoods of their flocks, they offered no defense.
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When Roe v. Wade was overturned, they didn't even say praise the Lord.
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who preach with courage, with clarity, with conviction.
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I'm talking about biblical, historic, potent Christianity.
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Desperate times call for faithful men and not for careful men.
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and they write the biographies of the faithful men,
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Ultimately, Christians have to start or stop settling for weak, vanilla churches.
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that happened because boomers, Gen Xers, and millennials
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were not given a distinctly Christian education.
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There is a direct correlation between the lack of Christian education
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And it's why we here at Kingsway are starting Kingsway Academy.
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We need to move beyond individual churches to building distinctly Christian towns.
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This means we need to get Christ and take him into every sphere of life.
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Business and economics, civics and arts, media.
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we cannot win a town if you don't own any of it or don't have any power over any of it
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that's just a fact and it's interesting because the muslims get that
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the mormons get that christians you need to get that
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power in the right hands is wonderful power in the wrong hands is not
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scripture says when the wicked rule the people groan
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to command all that he has said. I always find it interesting
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case, why are we afraid of a national Christocracy?
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greatest ways to love your neighbor is to make sure that your town
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In fact, one of the greatest ways to hate your neighbor
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The world is going to try to smear the name of that label
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Christian nationalism does not mean America cannot be multiracial.
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But it does mean that it cannot be multicultural.
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We don't want this multicultural garbage any longer.
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Now, I do think historically that nations thrive the most when there's ethnic alignment.
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But I still believe that nations can thrive with a variety of skin colors that all bow to Christ.
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What we can't thrive with is a variety of gods.
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And number seven, holy aggression and assertiveness.
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This week I saw someone say, we have been at war for a long time now, but sadly only one side has been fighting.
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if christ has your heart he asked to also have your tongue
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the leftists fight loudly because they have nothing to lose
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they're losers they're not married they have no kids they don't own any businesses
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they can go wild and go to jail because they have nothing to lose
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you know why christians have been silent because we have a lot to lose
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that unfortunately under our current system of law
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Christians stay silent because they fear losing their jobs.
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They use that person's pronouns because they're afraid to lose their paycheck.
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But either we pay the cost or we just have our children do it in 10 years.
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We have to be willing to confront wickedness openly.
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Tell that man wearing woman's clothes that it's not okay.
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Call out the homosexual couple for their perversion.
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Rebuke the woman who flaunts her body immodestly in front of children.
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Ladies wearing bikinis at the kid's splash pad.
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Show up to the left's events and dismantle their lies.
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Refuse to have false peace at the dinner table with those members of your family at holidays that actually hate you.
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Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth.
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I have come to set a man against his father
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and a daughter-in-law against his mother-in-law
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and a person's enemies will be those of his own household
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and it's going to be very difficult to turn it around
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Bold-hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards.
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I believe that God, by his mercy, will revive this place.
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But we can't keep doing what we are doing and expect different results.
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I'm not saying that as like a blanket statement.
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I'm saying to you, you can't keep doing what you are doing and expecting different results.
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Afterward you shall be called a city of righteousness
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we thank you that you have given us an opportunity for revival
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lord we thank you that you have working all things together for this incredible moment in which
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the church is awakening lord we ask for faithful men for faithful women for strong catechized