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| 0002 |
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| 0003 | Not a revolution of hatred, not a revolution of violence,
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| 0004 | or intimidation and terror, or bullets and bombs, not a
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| 0005 | revelation, a revolution that beats up gays or bombs
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| 0006 | abortion clinics, not a revolution that hoards arms for
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| 0007 | some end-time clash with the Federal government. We do
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| 0008 | not believe in that, we renounce that. But let the White
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| 0009 | House know, let the media know, let Hollywood know, let
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| 0010 | the churches know, let the world know we are here to
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| 0011 | start a Jesus revolution.
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| 0012 |
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| 0013 | We are here to turn things right side up for the glory of
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| 0014 | God, we are here to make disciples, we are here to
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| 0015 | overthrow the status quo. We're here to overthrow the
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| 0016 | status quo of DNA tests to find out who the father is.
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| 0017 | The status quo of one abortion every 24 seconds. The
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| 0018 | status quo of legalized same-sex civil unions. The
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| 0019 | status quo of massacres in our houses of worship, in our
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| 0020 | schools.
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| 0021 |
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| 0022 | We are here to overthrow the status quo that legalizes
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| 0023 | sucking out the brains of third trimester babies, the
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| 0024 | status quo that legalizes the selling of the baby parts
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| 0025 | that have been aborted. We are here to overthrow the
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| 0026 | status quo that allows sodomy to be taught in our schools
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| 0027 | but not the scriptures.
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| 0028 |
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| 0029 | Oh yes, revolution is costly, so be it. Following Jesus
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| 0030 | is costly and it's time that we lay our lives on the line
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| 0031 | for the gospel. Jesus has never changed, he said if
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| 0032 | anyone wants to follow me he must deny himself, take up
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| 0033 | his cross, and follow me. We say, here we are Lord, at
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| 0034 | any cost, at any consequence, by life or by death, we're
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| 0035 | going to shake this generation.
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| 0036 |
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| 0037 | You read the gospels, and you find out Jesus was more of
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| 0038 | a revolutionary than he was a religious leader. You
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| 0039 | don't find him talking about church steeples and hymn
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| 0040 | books and choir robes and Easter cantatas and
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| 0041 | denominations. All those have their place. You find him
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| 0042 | talking about the kingdom of God coming in power. You
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| 0043 | find him talking about going against the grain of the
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| 0044 | establishment. You find him talking about changing the
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| 0045 | world and that is revolutionary.
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| 0046 |
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| 0047 | You need to know it, you need to understand it, it's
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| 0048 | going to be costly. When you swim against the tide, when
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| 0049 | you go against the grain, it's costly. Paul wrote from
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| 0050 | prison, he said "I eagerly expect and hope that I will in
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| 0051 | no way be ashamed but will have sufficent courage so that
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| 0052 | now as always Christ will be exulted in my body whether
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| 0053 | by life or by death for me to live is Christ and to die
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| 0054 | is gain." Here we are Jesus, use us for this
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| 0055 | revolutionary hour.
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| 0056 |
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| 0057 | Many of you young people, some from my generation, know
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| 0058 | the song by Keith Green, I pledge my head to heaven for
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| 0059 | the gospel. You may not know where he got the words
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| 0060 | from. He was reading Leonard Ravenhill's classic book
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| 0061 | "Why Revival Tarries." And he came across a quote from
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| 0062 | Joseph Parker. Parker was a contemporary of Spurgeon.
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| 0063 | And Parker said this: "The man whose little sermon is
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| 0064 | 'repent' sets himself against his age, and he will for
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| 0065 | the time being be mercilessly battered by the age whose
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| 0066 | moral tone he challenges." He said, "there is but one
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| 0067 | end for such a man, off with his head." He said, "you
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| 0068 | better not try to preach repentance until you pledge your
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| 0069 | head to heaven."
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| 0070 |
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| 0071 | Let it be known today we are pledging our head, our body,
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| 0072 | our soul, our life, for revolution. We're pledging
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| 0073 | ourselves to heaven.
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| 0074 |
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| 0075 | You read through the book of Acts, the first believers
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| 0076 | were mistaken for revolutionaries. They accused Paul and
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| 0077 | Silas in Acts 16 of throwing the city into an uproar. In
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| 0078 | Acts 17 they said "the men who turned the world upside
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| 0079 | down have now come here." Acts 21, Paul was mistaken for
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| 0080 | an Egyptian who incited a revolt. Acts 24, he was
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| 0081 | accused of being a troublemaker and seditious. You
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| 0082 | understand that not many of us and not many of our
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| 0083 | Christian leaders are mistaken for revolutionaries these
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| 0084 | days? Watch gospel TV and travel from church to church,
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| 0085 | thank God for the good that's out there, but so many of
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| 0086 | our leaders could be mistaken for comedians, so many of
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| 0087 | us could be mistaken for entertainers, so many of us
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| 0088 | could be mistaken for successful CEO's. It's time out of
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| 0089 | allegiance to Jesus that we're mistaken for being
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| 0090 | revolutionaries.
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| 0091 |
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| 0092 | Read through the New Testament and you will find
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| 0093 | virtually every book of the New Testament talks about
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| 0094 | suffering, persecution, for the gospel. Why? Why was it
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| 0095 | that all of the original apostles save one or two were
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| 0096 | either crucified or beheaded or drowned? Why? Why were
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| 0097 | they put to death? Why were they considered such a
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| 0098 | threat?
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| 0099 |
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| 0100 | It's written in 2 Timothy 3:12, Paul writes, "Everyone
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| 0101 | who leads a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer
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| 0102 | persecution." Now please understand something. I'm not
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| 0103 | looking for persecution. I have no ambition to be boiled
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| 0104 | in oil. I don't have a longing to be gradually tortured
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| 0105 | to death. I'm happy to live a long life. We've got two
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| 0106 | wonderful daughters, my wife and I, we're now expecting
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| 0107 | our first grandchild. I've got an awesome bunch of
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| 0108 | students in our school. I'm happy to live a long time.
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| 0109 | However, if following Jesus costs me my blood, so be it.
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| 0110 | If standing up for what's right costs me my life so be
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| 0111 | it. It's better to live and die with a purpose [and] go
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| 0112 | home at the age of thirty than to live to the age of 110
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| 0113 | and waste your whole life.
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| 0114 |
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| 0115 | I want to ask you a question. Why is it that Jesus said,
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| 0116 | "if they persecuted me they'll persecute you also." And
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| 0117 | our brothers and sisters around the world are being
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| 0118 | persecuted. More Christians were killed in the last
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| 0119 | century than all previous centuries combined. Right now
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| 0120 | in Islamic countries, in Buddhist countries, and Hindu
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| 0121 | countries, atheistic countries our brothers and sisters
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| 0122 | are suffering severe persecution. How come we're not?
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| 0123 | Is it because America is such a wonderful Christian
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| 0124 | nation? I want you to hear me. More than thirty six
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| 0125 | percent of Americans claim to be Bible-believing
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| 0126 | Christians, would even call themselves, many of them,
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| 0127 | born-again. That's a hundred million people. You can go
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| 0128 | throughout the industrialized world and you will find in
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| 0129 | many of the countries in Europe less than one percent of
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| 0130 | the people are Bible-believing Christians. And yet hear
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| 0131 | this, in spite of all of our numbers, our gospel radio,
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| 0132 | our gospel tv, our conventions, our gatherings, our
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| 0133 | books, our tapes, all the things we do, America leads the
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| 0134 | industrialized world in single-parent families, leads the
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| 0135 | industrialized world in the highest abortion rate, leads
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| 0136 | the industrialized world in sexually transmitted
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| 0137 | diseases, has the highest teenage birthrate in the
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| 0138 | industrialized world, the highest rate of teenage drug
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| 0139 | use.
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| 0140 |
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| 0141 | In fifteen of our nations largest cities, more than
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| 0142 | ninety percent of the children born to teenagers are born
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| 0143 | out of wedlock. We spend nine billion dollars a year on
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| 0144 | pornography. We spend 638 billion dollars a year on
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| 0145 | legalized gambling. And so much of the current state of
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| 0146 | America can be traced to the counter-culture revolution
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| 0147 | of the sixties. We've heard some of the stats earlier
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| 0148 | today but hear it again. From the sixties until today
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| 0149 | the divorce rate has doubled, teen suicide has tripled.
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| 0150 | I wonder where the church was during the counterculture
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| 0151 | revolution.
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| 0152 |
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| 0153 | From 1960 until today prison population has gone up five
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| 0154 | times, children born out of wedlock has gone up six
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| 0155 | times, people living together out of wedlock has gone up
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| 0156 | seven times. I say we need a new counter-culture
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| 0157 | revolution.
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| 0158 |
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| 0159 | In 1972 less than one in twenty fifteen year old girls
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| 0160 | had lost their virginity. Today it's about four in ten.
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| 0161 | What's happened? Listen friends, we have not changed the
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| 0162 | world, the world has changed us.
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| 0163 |
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| 0164 | This is not to condemn those who've been through divorce,
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| 0165 | but this is the sad fact that the divorce rate in the
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| 0166 | church today than the divorce rate among atheists. We
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| 0167 | need a revolution.
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| 0168 |
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| 0169 | Super Bowl Sunday comes, and our churches cancel their
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| 0170 | Sunday night services. Preachers are careful on Sunday
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| 0171 | morning to end at 12 o'clock sharp so everyone can go
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| 0172 | home for the games. Friends, we're a nation of idol
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| 0173 | worshipers, our hearts are divided. We need a
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| 0174 | revolution.
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| 0175 |
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| 0176 | About 10 years ago a movie came out, called The Last
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| 0177 | Temptation of Christ. Understandably a lot of believers
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| 0178 | were grieved over it, scandalized by it. But something
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| 0179 | worse than the movie happened. Christians all over
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| 0180 | America said to movie theatres, "We will no longer go to
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| 0181 | your theater, we will boycott your theater if you show
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| 0182 | The Last Temptation of Christ." And I wonder, with all
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| 0183 | of the sleze and filth and violence and junk that's in
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| 0184 | the movie theaters, how did we have power to threaten
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| 0185 | them with a boycott? How is it we were living in those
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| 0186 | theaters so much they're afraid to lose our business?
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| 0187 | That would be like the church having power to boycott the
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| 0188 | local bar during happy hour. We don't like your
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| 0189 | bartender so we won't go there anymore unless you get rid
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| 0190 | of him. Friends, something is wrong with that picture.
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| 0191 | We need a revolution, we need our eyes opened.
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| 0192 |
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| 0193 | Did you know that in the Islamic world, a legalistic
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| 0194 | religion that does not bring people to know God
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| 0195 | personally, in spite of its zeal, in the Islamic world
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| 0196 | the leaders do not consider the gospel to be the greatest
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| 0197 | threat. They consider Western worldliness to be the
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| 0198 | greatest threat. Listen to one of their leaders, it says
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| 0199 | "Islam was defeated by its own rulers who ignored the
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| 0200 | divine law in the name of Western style secularism." This
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| 0201 | is a Muslim leader. "We have lost large sections of our
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| 0202 | youth to Western ideology, dress, music and food."
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| 0203 |
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| 0204 | You know that some years ago some educators from
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| 0205 | Communist Russia when it was Communist came to America
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| 0206 | and they wanted to meet Christian teenagers and find out
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| 0207 | about Christian schools and see what was being worked in
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| 0208 | their lives. And one Christian leader brought these
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| 0209 | educators to meet with the finest he had, you know what
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| 0210 | they said afterwards, they were so disappointed. One of
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| 0211 | them said this: "I was somewhat disappointed in your
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| 0212 | children, since they are Christians I expected there
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| 0213 | would be concern more about spiritual things. Instead
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| 0214 | they're more materialistic than the Marxist youth in my
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| 0215 | country. They seem to be devoid of any lofty idealistic
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| 0216 | vision."
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| 0217 |
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| 0218 | In the 1920s there was a leading Socialist, he said, "We
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| 0219 | socialists would have nothing to do if you Christians had
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| 0220 | continued the revolution begun by Jesus." Let it be
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| 0221 | known we are here to continue that revolution.
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| 0222 |
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| 0223 | So many of us, as believing parents, we fall right into
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| 0224 | the same trap, we don't realize, listen to me. We tell
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| 0225 | our kids, you've got to do well in school, why, so you
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| 0226 | can get into the best university, why, so you can get the
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| 0227 | best job, why, so you can take the best care of your
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| 0228 | family, why, so your kids can go to the best university,
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| 0229 | why, so they can get the best job, why, so they can take
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| 0230 | care of their kids the best.
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| 0231 |
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| 0232 | Friends, we are not here for the preservation of the
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| 0233 | human race, we're here for the transformation of the
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| 0234 | human race. Survival is not our goal, revival is our
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| 0235 | goal.
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| 0236 |
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| 0237 | I was just in an Oriental country ministering recently
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| 0238 | and I was shocked by the godlessness, something unusual
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| 0239 | in an Oriental country. Divorce rate was up to twenty
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| 0240 | three percent, worldliness was everywhere. I said to a
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| 0241 | man there from Teen Challenge, a Christian leader, I
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| 0242 | said, "how much did America have to do with the moral
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| 0243 | decline of your country?" He said, "Once MTV came in it
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| 0244 | was all over."
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| 0245 |
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| 0246 | Let me tell you a little story. Richard Wurmbrand,
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| 0247 | Jewish Christian, pastor, Romania, suffered terrible
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| 0248 | torture, unbelievable suffering, for fourteen years.
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| 0249 | Three years in solitary confinement, daily brutal
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| 0250 | torture, carved up, broken up, pierced through, burned,
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| 0251 | frozen. He came out of prison, he was speaking at a
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| 0252 | bible study in America, he was sharing about the horrors
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| 0253 | of Communist persecution. One of the men at the bible
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| 0254 | study said, "Pastor Wurmbrand, how come is it that we
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| 0255 | don't have to deal with Communism here in America?"
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| 0256 | Pastor Wurmbrand said, "Oh, you have something far worse.
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| 0257 | You have materialism."
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| 0258 |
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| 0259 | The love of this world has put us to sleep. We're not
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| 0260 | willing to lay down our lives for a cause because we're
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| 0261 | in love with this world. We're addicted to entertainment
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| 0262 | like the unsaved are, we're obsessed with sports like the
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| 0263 | unsaved are, our sensual fashions, our bikini parties,
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| 0264 | just like the unsaved. Well let me make a proclaimation
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| 0265 | today. The counterculture revolution of the 1960s was
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| 0266 | marked by people taking their clothes off, the Jesus
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| 0267 | revolution of the new millenium will be marked by people
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| 0268 | putting their clothes back on.
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| 0269 |
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| 0270 | The Jesus revolution will be marked by purity and dignity
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| 0271 | and honor and morality and sanity. I want you to
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| 0272 | understand something. See, revolution comes when people
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| 0273 | say "enough is enough." Revolution comes when they get
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| 0274 | to the breaking point. Like Patrick Henry, "give me
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| 0275 | liberty or give me death." Revolution comes when people
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| 0276 | are backed against the wall.
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| 0277 |
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| 0278 | I want you to realize something today. I want you to
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| 0279 | understand how far we have fallen as a nation, knowing
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| 0280 | that America was never a perfect Christian nation.
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| 0281 | America has been marred by slavery and racism and
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| 0282 | injustice and other sins through our history. I
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| 0283 | understand that. But I want to give you a glimpse of
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| 0284 | something. Listen, here's what kids would learn the
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| 0285 | alphabet by in 1777, here's the alphabet, beginning with
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| 0286 | A: "A in Adam's fall we sinned all." C: "Christ
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| 0287 | crucified for sinners die." T: "Young Timothy learned sin
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| 0288 | to flee." This is what they cut their teeth on.
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| 0289 |
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| 0290 | Here's a book from 1880 that a friend gave, she got it
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| 0291 | from her great-great grandmother. Noah Webster's
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| 0292 | elemental spelling book, called the best-selling book on
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| 0293 | spelling in its day. Here's some of the lessons that
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| 0294 | kids would read. Listen to this. "Do not attempt to
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| 0295 | deceive God." See it didn't dawn on them that they were
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| 0296 | supposed to keep God out of the schools, it didn't dawn
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| 0297 | on them that it was unconsitutional. Even our chief
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| 0298 | Justice, William Reinquist, fifteen years ago said that
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| 0299 | the founding fathers, the authors of the Bill of Rights
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| 0300 | would be shocked to find out that it was unconstitutional
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| 0301 | for a state to endorse prayer.
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| 0302 |
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| 0303 | Stephen Carter, a law professor at Yale University, said
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| 0304 | the separation of the church and state was to protect the
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| 0305 | church from the state, not the state from the church.
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| 0306 | It's been turned upside down.
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| 0307 |
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| 0308 | "Do not attempt to deceive God," this is a children's
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| 0309 | reader, "nor to mock him with solemn words. Lost, your
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| 0310 | heart is set to do evil. A holy life will disarm death
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| 0311 | of its sting." Children reading had more sense than some
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| 0312 | of our educated folk today. Listen to this. "It is the
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| 0313 | duty of every good man to inspect the moral conduct of
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| 0314 | the man who is offered as a legislator at our yearly
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| 0315 | elections. If the people wish for good laws, they may
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| 0316 | have them by electing good men."
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| 0317 |
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| 0318 | Now here are some of today's books. "Heather Had Two
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| 0319 | Mommies." How 'bout this one? Endorsed by the School
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| 0320 | Library Journal, useful for elementary level classes in
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| 0321 | sexuality or family life. This is a great book for
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| 0322 | elemental education. It's been used in schools. I can't
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| 0323 | read what's in here. Here, I'll start, I'll have to
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| 0324 | stop. This is for children, with pictures, learning how
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| 0325 | to read. "One way to get sexually aroused or to enjoy
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| 0326 | sexy feelings is to touch or rub or play with your own
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| 0327 | body." Then with nine diagrams telling you how. Or how
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| 0328 | 'bout this? "When grownups choose someone to be one of
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| 0329 | their sexual partners, they sometimes choose a person of
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| 0330 | the same sex, and they sometimes choose a person of the
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| 0331 | other sex." I say, we need a revolution.
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| 0332 |
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| 0333 | Do you think the founding fathers envisioned that
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| 0334 | America, where our tax dollars pay for condom
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| 0335 | demonstrations but you couldn't give out bibles, you
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| 0336 | think our founding fathers envisioned that America, where
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| 0337 | there'd be massacres in our schools and when people go to
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| 0338 | put crosses up they're pulled down in the name of the
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| 0339 | founding fathers?
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| 0340 |
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| 0341 | Do you think our founding fathers envisioned curriculum
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| 0342 | being taught about people urinating on each other for
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| 0343 | sexual pleasure? But if that same class went to pray,
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| 0344 | they would be called unconstitutional? I say we need a
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| 0345 | revolution.
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| 0346 |
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| 0347 | We need to overthrow the status quo. You say, but
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| 0348 | brother, that might cost me something. That may cost me
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| 0349 | my job, that may cost me my livelihood. You know in
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| 0350 | America we're so used to the great blessings. We tell
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| 0351 | people come to Jesus, if you're having problems in your
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| 0352 | marriage he'll bless your marriage, having family
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| 0353 | problems he'll bless your family, problems on your job
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| 0354 | he'll prosper you, and he does all those things. But you
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| 0355 | go to other countries and you tell the people, if you're
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| 0356 | married and you follow Jesus you may lose your wife, or
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| 0357 | your husband. If you have a family they may disown you,
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| 0358 | if you have a job you may lose it.
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| 0359 |
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| 0360 | In 1965 the civil rights movement was nonviolent, led by
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| 0361 | Dr. Martin Luther King. But people were getting beaten
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| 0362 | on, we are nonviolent but there may be violence done
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| 0363 | against us. Revolution may cost blood, our blood, we
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| 0364 | don't take life, we give life. We don't hurt, we heal.
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| 0365 | The one who's crucified doesn't crucify anybody else.
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| 0366 | But people are getting afraid. Busses were coming
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| 0367 | together. We show this video to our students at the
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| 0368 | school of ministry. Busses were coming and people riding
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| 0369 | the busses for civil rights, people were getting beat and
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| 0370 | the busses were getting burned. So Dr. King addressed
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| 0371 | this. He addressed it, "in our nonviolent creed there
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| 0372 | are some things worth dying for."
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| 0373 |
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| 0374 | Listen to what he said. "If a man happens to be
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| 0375 | thirty-six years old, as I happen to be, and some great
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| 0376 | truth stands before the door of his life, some great
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| 0377 | opportunity to stand up for that which is right, he's
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| 0378 | afraid his home will get bombed, or he's afraid to lose
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| 0379 | his job, or he's afraid he will get shot or beat down by
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| 0380 | state troopers. He may go on and live until he's eighty,
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| 0381 | but he's just as dead at thirty-six as he would be at
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| 0382 | eighty. And the cessation of breathing in his life is
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| 0383 | merely the belated announcement of an earlier death of
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| 0384 | the spirit."
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| 0385 |
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| 0386 | Listen to what Dr. King said. "A man dies when he
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| 0387 | refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies
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| 0388 | when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when
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| 0389 | he refuses to take a stand for that which is true. Jesus
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| 0390 | said, 'if you save your life, you'll lose it. But if you
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| 0391 | lose your life for my sake and the gospel, you'll find
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| 0392 | it.'"
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| 0393 |
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| 0394 | Jesus said don't fear those who can kill you, because
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| 0395 | that's all they can do to you. We look death in the face
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| 0396 | and we say ha, we are more than conquerors. If we live,
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| 0397 | we enjoy life, we live with vigor and with gusto and we
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| 0398 | do the will of God, and we use wisdom and caution. But
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| 0399 | hear me, if following Jesus costs us our lives that's
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| 0400 | just a promotion to glory.
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| 0401 |
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| 0402 | Some years ago we were at a meeting with Richard
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| 0403 | Wurmbrand in Maryland. He was well into his eighties.
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| 0404 | This man had at times been stood up in an upright coffin
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| 0405 | with sharp razor blades coming out of it, locked in
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| 0406 | there, if he moved an inch he'd be sliced alive. Listen,
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| 0407 | he suffered because he knew if he preached Jesus he'd go
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| 0408 | to jail. He knew if he stood for righteousness he'd go
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| 0409 | to jail. Jesus said blessed are all those who are
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| 0410 | persecuted for righteousness. But he preached and he
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| 0411 | obeyed and he went to prison once, twice, three times.
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| 0412 | And he sat with a bunch of believers in Maryland a few
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| 0413 | years ago and he said, "When the Supreme Court outlawed
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| 0414 | mandatory prayer in the schools in 1962," he said, "why
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| 0415 | did you obey?"
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| 0416 |
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| 0417 | We are not troublemakers, we are submitted people. We
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| 0418 | are peacemakers. We are not rebels, but when we have to
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| 0419 | make a choice we obey God rather than man.
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| 0420 |
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| 0421 | Let me just take another minute. Here me. Young people
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| 0422 | you may not realize how far things have fallen. In 1960
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| 0423 | parents were scandalized by Elvis shaking his hips.
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| 0424 | Today a rap artist whose name you know, at times was
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| 0425 | selling more than one million CDs and tapes a week, and
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| 0426 | his lyrics were talking about sodomizing his mother and
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| 0427 | gang-raping his sister. We need a revolution.
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| 0428 |
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| 0429 | We've gone from Ozzie and Harriet to Melrose Place.
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| 0430 | We've gone from family cartoon shows like the Flintstones
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| 0431 | to South Park and the Simpsons. We've gone from a
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| 0432 | recognition that homosexuality was a sinful lifestyle to
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| 0433 | the point now where if you call it sinful you're the
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| 0434 | sinner, and bills are being legislated to bring before
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| 0435 | Congress that would brand it hate speech if you said
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| 0436 | adultery is sin, alcohol drinking is sin, drunkenness
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| 0437 | sin, drug use is sin, homosexuality is sin, the moment
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| 0438 | you say those words that would be hate speech.
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| 0439 |
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| 0440 | Leonard Ravenhill said if we don't learn to concentrate
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| 0441 | in prayer we'll have to learn to pray in concentration
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| 0442 | camps. We wake up now or forever we pay the price.
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| 0443 |
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| 0444 | Listen to me. There were nice talk shows on TV talking
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| 0445 | about all kinds of different subjects, they didn't have
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| 0446 | shows where they're interviewing some young lady and she
|
| 0447 | said "well I left my husband because he was having
|
| 0448 | affairs with his homosexual brother and I ran off with my
|
| 0449 | girlfriend who used to be a guy and had a sex change
|
| 0450 | operation." Friends nobody was even talking about
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| 0451 | that. Now it's common on television. We need a
|
| 0452 | revolution.
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| 0453 |
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| 0454 | The first 246 colleges in America from our beginning
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| 0455 | until 1860, more than two hundred twenty of them were
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| 0456 | started by Christian denominations. And the model of
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| 0457 | Harvard was for the glory of Christ. We need a
|
| 0458 | revolution.
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| 0459 |
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| 0460 | Let me ask you something. What are you here for anyway?
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| 0461 | What are you here for anyway? Nate Saint who was martyred
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| 0462 | by the Auca Indians in 1956 said this: "People who do not
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| 0463 | know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as
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| 0464 | missionaries." He said, "they forget they too are
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| 0465 | expending their lives and when the bubble has burst they
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| 0466 | will have nothing of eternal significance to show for
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| 0467 | it." A revolutionary, even an atheist, with no hope in
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| 0468 | the world to come, will lay his life down for a cause
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| 0469 | because he realizes there's more to life than eating and
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| 0470 | drinking, and having a nice life.
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| 0471 |
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| 0472 | Jim Elliott who was martyred also in 1956 prayed while he
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| 0473 | was in college, "Lord I don't ask you for a long life but
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| 0474 | for a full one like yours."
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| 0475 |
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| 0476 | ...
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