"Kingdom Justice: Politics, Partisanship & Pursuing Peace" S1 Ep15

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Everywhere we turn, we're confronted with politics,

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round the clock, partisan spin, campaign smears,

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and yes, commercial.

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We even get political ads on our smartphones

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and social media apps.

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There's no easy place to be anymore.

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It's so true that our political canvas is so covered

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with angry voices on talk radio and cable shows.

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Politics has a gravity that pulls on people

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and it's time we become attentive

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to what it may be doing to us.

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In this episode of Keep It 100,

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we talk about Kingdom Justice,

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the coming election and the Leaven of Herod,

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and we have an incredible interview with Pastor Jennifer

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Toledo that will blow you away.

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Welcome to the Keep It 100 podcast with Sean and Christa Smith.

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We are here.

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We're so excited for yet another week

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and this week I'm really excited as always

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because we're talking about a really important topic,

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Kingdom Justice.

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Sean, you and I know that this time in history,

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there could not be such an important topic.

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That's absolutely the case right now.

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It seems like there's more at stake

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and there are more things that we feel the pressure

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of around us that's making this election

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and even where people stand that much more significant.

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Come on, I tell you what,

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so I'm excited to dive in but before we dive in,

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let's talk about what we've done this last week

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because God's been doing some really cool stuff

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and we wanna share with the Keep It 100 tribe.

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Yeah, Keep It 100 tribe.

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Both of us very special to be at Bethel

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at the Open Heavens Conference

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and we got a chance to be there

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and do some ministry and hang out with Bill

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and some of the other leaders up there

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and they end up showing our service to

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for their Sunday morning service

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which I was really amazing.

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And I tell you what, to the Keep It 100 tribe,

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if you haven't heard the message that Sean preached

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and they played on Sunday morning for Bethel,

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I wanna encourage you go to YouTube, check it out.

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It's about the sovereignty of God, peace.

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It's such a powerful word

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and one that I believe is a national word.

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Thanks, boo.

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It's so good.

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Right after that, I left.

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We went separate places, right after that,

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I left and did a conference,

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that was a revival conference actually

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which obviously loved that theme

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in the Phoenix, Arizona area

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and you went to North Carolina.

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Yeah, I did.

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I was in Charlotte,

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Canapalus to be specific, Refuge Church,

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one of our favorite churches.

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Dear, dear friends of ours,

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they have an annual women's conference

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and the power of God was so special.

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What the Lord did.

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And I had the pleasure of meeting

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for the first time Maria D'Urso

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who has now become officially a hero in the faith of mine.

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The woman is a powerhouse in the spirit

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and we saw women get free and truly true freedom.

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I saw the spirit of suicide legitimately leave women.

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The prophetic ministry was deep.

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Just the power of God in the meetings was special.

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I feel like what we're seeing right now

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and it's hard to articulate,

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it's hard to communicate,

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especially to people that weren't in the services.

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But God is doing something new, you guys.

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I tell you what, God is doing a new thing in our nation.

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There is a new hunger and it is so exciting.

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The church is getting awakened.

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I really believe that in the times that we live in,

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there's such a desperation.

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And we think that God is using that to our advantage

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because he's answering just a desperate cry

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in the hearts of his people.

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It's so true.

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You know, speaking, obviously in this episode

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on the election 2020,

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last week the LA Times reported

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that already one million Californians

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have returned their mail in ballots.

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Wow.

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The reason why that's significant,

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it shatters all records for it to be this far in advance

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suggesting that voters are especially engaged

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in this election.

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Isn't that so interesting that we are having unprecedented

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historical engagement and participation in this election?

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It shows you whatever side you land on,

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everyone recognizes the significance of this moment.

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It's so true.

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And the reason why I think the moment is so significant

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is it's pretty evident that we are increasingly divided.

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It's like that old Matrix movie

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where they put out a blue pill and a red pill.

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And obviously people recognize

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that there are red states, blue states.

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Now we have red shows and blue shows.

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We have red sports and blue sports.

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But right now I think more important

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than anybody taking the red pill or the blue pill,

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we gotta get back to the gospel.

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I love that.

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That's so good.

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And you know, really seeing people walk in such division,

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that's really actually what's so concerning at this time.

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Yeah, they even have a term right now

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called lethal mass partisanship.

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This term describes a person that actually wants to see

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violence occur to the other side.

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So that has gotten so out of hand.

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And the more you look at it,

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politics comes with its own tenets to capture our attention,

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to shape our affections and inflame our hearts.

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And we know that Christianity does that.

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And Christianity, obviously a whole different level,

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everybody, but politics sometimes goes under the radar

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and that it demands an allegiance

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that I think for a lot of people,

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it's inflaming hearts in this time of year.

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And we're being told there's so much on the line

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in this election, which I actually believe that,

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but also feel like for some people,

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they maybe have gotten to the point where it's more driven

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by things that are not the peace of God

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and the will of God.

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That's so good.

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You said a key phrase,

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politics comes with its own tenets.

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I'm looking at the political arena right now

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and the current spiritual atmosphere.

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And the main tenets I'm seeing is the culture

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of accusation and fear.

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And with accusation and fear,

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it creates its own culture within the political arena.

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And you and I know if that's what you're feeding on, right?

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That's what's gonna manifest in your life.

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It's so true.

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You know, right now, and I think it has to be said,

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your core identity has nothing to do with the donkey

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or the elephant with the line of the tribe of Judah.

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Your core identity is a child of God.

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And so it's so important to be reminded

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that our citizenship is not of this world.

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That we're not to glue our entire allegiance

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or to hook the caboose of everything we are

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and are about to any political party whatsoever.

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I'm not saying that there aren't political parties

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that cannot be used.

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I'm not saying that there aren't political candidates

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that are used.

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I absolutely believe that.

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God has vessels.

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But I also believe that God is in this season

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calling us to have an undivided allegiance

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and that we do and approach election 2020

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in a kingdom way as children of God.

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I love that.

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If people actually grab ahold of what you just said,

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it really will change everything.

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Cause you can vote responsibly, vote biblically,

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but the end of the day, your alliance is kingdom.

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Your alliance is Jesus.

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Cause we know any human system, it's going to have its flaws.

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There is no human system that should receive

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our ultimate loyalty.

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The only person in kingdom

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that should receive our ultimate loyalty is Jesus.

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And when politics become greater than your faith,

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that's where idol happened in our life.

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And I think that's what we're seeing

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in the current culture and climate,

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in the political arena and the church,

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is this idol where people are having a greater allegiance

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to their political party than to their faith.

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And that's really what we want to address

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because we believe in voting,

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we believe in being responsible,

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but we have to keep kingdom first.

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So we want to begin, keep it 100 tribe

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by giving you several guidelines for the coming election.

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So number one, decide what the Lord requires of you first.

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There's this phenomenal passage, Micah 6-8 says,

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what does the Lord require of you?

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And it says to act justly, love mercy, and to walk humbly.

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So the first thing you have to decide is

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before you even get to the ballot box,

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before you even send in the mailer ballot,

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you got to decide what is the Lord require of you?

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Cause you're a first to child of God.

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And God calls on us to act justly.

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So our voting, even though it's just the beginning

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of our ability to be salt and light in the earth

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is to act justly.

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And God obviously has a different definition of justice.

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To love mercy.

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I think sometimes we love justice

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and we just act out mercy,

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but the Bible tells us to act justly and to love mercy.

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And so I think when you love mercy, it changes the package.

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And it really is about character.

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And that's the reason why I think that passage ends

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with to walk humbly.

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And I think if we act justly, love mercy, walk humbly,

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I believe that it will be one of the greatest guidelines,

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as well as one of the greater standards

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that we could walk out as children of God.

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And you can't let political views be emphasized

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at the cost of spiritual ideas and truth.

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And a lot of times I feel like we're so rabid

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on trying to get out a political view

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that we've done it at the expense spiritual ideas

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and spiritual principles.

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That's so good.

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I love that.

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That's so well said.

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You know, another guideline for this coming election

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is really talking about issues more than personalities.

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And I think this is what's so important,

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because we all know it's easier to throw dirt at politicians

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than it is to take apart and examine the real issues.

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You know, this is maybe how the Twitter world works,

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the news networks do it,

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but you and I represent a different kingdom.

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We have to take our cues from Christ,

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not political candidates.

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So good.

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If someone is sitting watching four hours of cable news

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and only reading 30 minutes of the Bible once a week,

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barely spending time with the Lord,

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the cable news is what's gonna inflame your heart

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more than the gospel.

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We have to be sure what is actually

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the primary thing that is filling our lives

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is the word of God and the presence of God

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were being led by the presence of God greater

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than the narrative that we're hearing from the networks.

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I think that's so important what you just said.

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That point might be as strong as any of our points

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because it wasn't that long ago,

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but about a week or so ago that you had believers

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on one side that literally couldn't mourn

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death and her family's loss.

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And on the other side, you have believers

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that couldn't pray for the president

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and his family to recover from COVID-19.

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And so when I saw that, I thought, wow,

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you literally have allowed the political machine

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to get in the way of basic things.

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And I saw different spiritual leaders call for this.

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And then I saw people come in and begin to say,

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I don't feel like I should do that.

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kingdom justice, politics, partisanship,

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and pursuing peace because in this time,

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God is a purpose for what it is that we're doing.

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That's so good.

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And the third point that we wanna give you guideline

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is don't avoid politics altogether.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Get a disciple the nation's mentality.

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Come on.

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Because avoiding politics as a believer

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is like avoiding being a light.

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You can't do it because avoiding politics altogether

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is a tacit endorsement of the status quo,

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which will at the end of the day,

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continually perpetrate injustice.

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it will allow certain social conditions

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that aren't right to continually go on.

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So I think what we have to understand is that

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we don't avoid politics altogether.

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In fact, we're very cognizant, unconscious, and active,

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but we do it as children of God.

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We do it with, this is the key phrase,

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the demeanor of the father.

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It's so important that we have the demeanor of the father

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because the church doesn't have a social strategy.

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The church is the social strategy.

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Come on.

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Ooh, I love that.

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That is so good.

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Well, keep your 100 tribe.

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You guys are going to be so blessed.

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We are about to have an incredible interview

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with an amazing friend of ours.

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And so take it from here, Christam.

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I'm so excited.

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So much on, I tell you what, I'm so excited you guys,

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the keep it 100 tribe.

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Get ready.

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This is one of my best friends.

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We've asked Jennifer Toledo to come on today,

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talk about some topics we feel like are so pertinent

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for right now.

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They could not be more essential in this hour,

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but I want to just also give you a little bit of a backdrop

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about who she is and what she carries.

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And she truly carries a revelation of justice.

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God has given her, I feel like a plumb line to his heart

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in the area of justice.

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And she's done justice initiatives in the US,

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in many nations abroad.

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The stories and the testimonies that come through her life

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are incredible.

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They'll change your life when you read about what God's done

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in hers.

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She's authored two books.

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They're incredible.

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And also heard her husband pastor currently,

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a church in Glendale, California called Expression 58.

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And they are killing it in the LA area.

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It's an incredible diverse community of industry-filled

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people, but also justice people that carry the heart of God

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for this hour.

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And I know that we're not all together,

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but can you guys just give a round of applause to Jen Toledo?

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Because it's such an honor to have you here.

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Thanks for taking time, Jen.

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Thanks, Christa.

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It's so good.

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I'm so excited you guys are doing this.

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Can we jump right in?

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Totally.

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OK, cool.

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Thanks for having me.

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It's an honor to be here.

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Right?

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This is so fun.

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So one of the things I love about you, many things,

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is truly your revelation of justice.

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And I want you to break it down and take the time.

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Take the time to break it down.

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What is kingdom justice?

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And what is the difference between God's justice and man's

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justice, and really breaking it down for our listeners,

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to give them an understanding of God's heart concerning

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the word justice?

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It's used so often, but it's so often misunderstood.

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It's understood.

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Yeah, totally.

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Break it down for us.

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For sure.

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I think this is such an important conversation right now,

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because this is something we're hearing so much about in society,

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justice, justice, justice.

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And the reality is we need to rally around

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a biblical understanding of justice,

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because there are so many different cultural definitions,

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especially depending what generation you come from,

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what maybe what political party you're a part of.

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There are so many definitions, and we

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need to be really clear and rally around a biblical definition

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of justice.

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Absolutely.

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I often think about the verse, Isaiah 61,

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8, where the Lord says, for I, the Lord love justice.

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And I think, OK, I want to love what God loves, number one.

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Yes.

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Number two, we have to know what justice is,

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because if we have a wrong definition of justice,

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if we think justice is judgment, we go around telling the world,

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God's all about judgment, right?

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Or whatever.

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And so we need to really understand what that is.

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And so when you really look at the word justice,

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here's what's so interesting.

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We translate it in English as justice.

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But in scripture, that word, like when

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you look at the Old Testament, it's used 425 times.

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Just in the Old Testament, it's the word mishpat.

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That is the Hebrew word for justice.

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And it's so much bigger and more beautiful than our English

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word for justice.

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And you can see it absolutely traced all throughout history.

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You hear this word talked about in scripture.

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It's rooted in the nature of God.

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It's who God is.

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It's what he does.

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It's the foundation of his throne.

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I love that.

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It's the culture of the kingdom.

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It's what Jesus is all about.

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And so it's absolutely who God is.

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At the same time, it's what we're called to do.

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Come on.

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So it's so vital that we really understand what mishpat is.

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And so mishpat, the Hebrew word for mishpat,

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it was understood that mishpat was God's order, God's government,

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God's dream over humanity, God's way of doing it.

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It was all about what God says people deserve, not just,

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we think of justice like you get what you deserve.

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Right.

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But this is like what God says.

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And God says people get Jesus.

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Redemption, restoration, healing.

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And this is all about God setting his agenda, his order,

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his ways, his government on the earth.

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And so it's really, really beautiful when

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you think about this word.

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Now, something you need to know about this word in scripture

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is it's always paired so often with righteousness.

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the mishpat paired with sedeq, the righteousness.

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And I think sometimes we have an understand

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either one of those words.

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And so when you think about righteousness,

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I think an easy way to explain it

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is righteousness is being in a right relationship with God.

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Therefore, you go and make every other relationship right.

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It's being right with God.

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Therefore, you set things right in society.

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That's good.

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And so I think so often in the West,

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we have such a private morality kind of mentality

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of righteousness.

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It's very personal.

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But the reality is biblical righteousness is deeply social.

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It's deeply social.

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So when you see these two words together,

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it's not surprising that you see them paired always

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with the orphan, the widow, the lame, the outcast, the foreigner.

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And so when you begin to look at the heart of God,

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oh, this is about God setting the world right again.

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This is about God stepping into the broken, the hurting,

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and reestablishing the order to be right for humanity.

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And so it's really beautiful.

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So I think the best way is I've kind of studied

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scripturally, like what is mishpat?

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The best definition I can give is this.

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Justice is the restoration of every violation of love.

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Oh, say that again.

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Justice is the restoration of every violation of love.

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Anywhere where love has been violated,

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anywhere where God's original dream and intention over a person,

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over a community, over a people group, right?

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Right.

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Anywhere where that's been violated,

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justice comes in to restore, to make it right,

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to set it right again.

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And so it's so powerful.

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That is so powerful.

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It moves me.

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I know.

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Me too.

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And you know what's really interesting, Christa?

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Because when I really begin to dive into this,

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I'm just going to throw this out there for anybody listening.

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If you want to dig more into the theology around justice,

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my favorite book for this is a book called God Loves Justice

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by Jessica Nicholas.

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That is a great book.

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It's so good on really breaking down the theology.

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Something that was really interesting to me, first of all,

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when I started looking through scripture and realizing,

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oh my gosh, justice isn't, justice is so core.

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Justice isn't optional in Jesus's gospel.

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It is central to the gospel.

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Yes.

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It's who we are.

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Yes.

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And I started looking at our history.

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And I was thinking about how in Genesis 18,

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where God speaks to Abraham, I want to do a great thing

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through you.

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And he begins to say, I want you to teach your children

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and your grandchildren a culture of justice and righteousness

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so that through that, the world can see who I am.

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And it was always in the heart of God

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that he would have a people who would model

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a culture of justice so that the world could see

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how beautiful and good God is.

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The prophets, always reminding us,

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we'll put ourselves in that position,

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always reminding the people of God.

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Return, return back to who you are.

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What's true fasting?

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What is true religion?

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What does God require of you?

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Do justice, love mercy?

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It's always the reminder to the people of God.

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Don't get caught up in all the junk going on in culture

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in society.

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Come back to who we are.

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I look at the life of Jesus, and he modeled it so perfectly.

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I think about in John 3, 17, I love it in the message.

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It says, for God didn't go to all the trouble sending

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his son to point an accusing finger,

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telling the world how bad it was, he came to help,

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to set the world right again.

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That is the mission of Jesus, setting the world right again.

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And so I think because we haven't maybe understood that,

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we've kind of maybe bought a lie that setting the world right

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again is less than or humanistic or not kingdom.

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And the reality is it's the very mission of Jesus.

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And it's who we are, it's what we're called to do.

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And so that's what we get to participate in.

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When we do justice, what we're called to do,

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it creates an opportunity.

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It's like we become the canvas on which God paints

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his appeal to the world.

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Because they see a good God.

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And so we're a privilege.

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Yeah, what a privilege we have.

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And so to me, you know, even I know for many of us,

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maybe we have a different definition of social justice.

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But when you understand how core it is to who we are

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as followers of Christ, it's not surprising then

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that you see all these things of social justice,

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like deeply rooted in the theology of Augustine of Hippo.

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Actually, the term social justice was created by a Jesuit

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priest.

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You begin to understand, oh, this is our realm.

531
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I'm not going to let anybody else define for me

532
00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:02,440
or call humanistic or whatever.

533
00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,960
What we are called to do as people of God.

534
00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,040
And so I think it's just something,

535
00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,880
I'm excited that I feel like the church is waking up too.

536
00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,120
But we also really have to understand

537
00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:14,600
that this isn't about just our agenda.

538
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,480
This is about God's agenda and his ways and his order

539
00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,320
and setting the wrong places right.

540
00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:23,120
Oh, Jen, you dropped some serious nuggets there.

541
00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:27,000
I mean, I've been one of your friends for years

542
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:28,320
and I'm getting rocked right now.

543
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,440
And I know our listeners are too because it's

544
00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:35,280
profound when we have a revelation of the privilege that's

545
00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,520
available to us to partner and co-labor with the Lord,

546
00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:43,640
to bring justice, to overturn every violation of the love

547
00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:44,440
of God.

548
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:45,120
Yeah, totally.

549
00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:48,080
And I think even reminding ourselves, it's like, oh my gosh,

550
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,200
I think I don't know about you.

551
00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,560
I found myself many times like, what can I do?

552
00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:51,960
I'm one person.

553
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:52,640
Absolutely.

554
00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:53,640
I'm just one person.

555
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,800
And we forget, this is who we are.

556
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:56,840
This is our legacy.

557
00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,000
We're anointed to do this.

558
00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:58,680
We are salt.

559
00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,840
We are like, Christ in us is the hope of glory.

560
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,160
We are anointed to do justice.

561
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:09,280
We're anointed to step into messes and see order brought,

562
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:10,520
see restoration.

563
00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,440
And so to me, this is, it is an honor and a privilege.

564
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,880
And we should be so empowered and understand how God is with us.

565
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:19,160
This is the work of the kingdom.

566
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,400
And so when we step into those spaces,

567
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,880
to bring to get God's heart, to see restoration in areas

568
00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:29,640
of maybe racial injustice or economic injustice or whatever,

569
00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,840
it's like we understand we are moving with heaven.

570
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:33,960
And it's powerful.

571
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,120
And when you made the statement just a moment ago,

572
00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:38,320
we're anointed to bring justice.

573
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,240
When we understand we're actually anointed,

574
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,640
which means we carry the mandate of heaven to release it,

575
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,720
it shifts it from feeling overwhelmed as I'm just

576
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,560
one person, what could I do?

577
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,760
It shifts you from being overwhelmed to actually becoming

578
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:55,920
expectant of, Lord, you're going to give me the answer

579
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,840
for social, racial injustice that's happening in our nation.

580
00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:04,280
I actually expect you to give me creative, heavenly ideas

581
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:08,480
to execute and release it because I'm anointed to do it.

582
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,200
And you recognize it's God through you,

583
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,080
but he's anointed you to do it and partner with him.

584
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,760
And there is, I feel like a revelation that's

585
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:22,320
available to us that we're called to come with strategy,

586
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:23,720
with answers.

587
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,000
And I know so many people like yourself,

588
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,840
because you're currently in the process of gathering

589
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:31,760
over 1,000, am I correct in that number?

590
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,920
Churches in the Los Angeles County

591
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,560
to reform the foster care system in Los Angeles.

592
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,560
You were sharing it last night with me,

593
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:40,800
and it was incredible.

594
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,400
Well, that is the mandate of justice

595
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,920
that you're executing in a very practical way,

596
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,040
but you've been given a download, a heavenly strategy

597
00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,360
that I believe is going to totally be a model for the US

598
00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:56,840
and every other state, county, even possibly other nations,

599
00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,000
that is going to bring justice to so many kids that

600
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:01,600
are neglected and overlooked.

601
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,680
That's a very practical way that you can bring justice,

602
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,400
and you're doing it on a large scale,

603
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,200
but our listeners can even do it on an everyday scale.

604
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,320
Everything starts small.

605
00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:10,880
That's right.

606
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:11,680
Yeah, absolutely.

607
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,600
And I think it's this place where the church,

608
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,720
we have to move away from the sidelines.

609
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:17,220
Yeah.

610
00:23:17,220 --> 00:23:20,120
The church has been known for just telling everybody

611
00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:21,800
what's wrong, what's not working,

612
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,840
that doesn't take any level of faith or hope or maturity

613
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,720
to point out what's wrong.

614
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,720
The people of God, we are anointed when we get in the ring,

615
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,280
when we roll up our sleeves, when we get into the mess,

616
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,440
and so we can't worry about our reputation,

617
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,880
we can't worry about how it might look to wade

618
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,080
into the hard issues.

619
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:40,040
That's where Jesus is.

620
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:41,160
Jesus is in the mess.

621
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,040
And let me tell you, when Jesus waded in in his day,

622
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,280
I'm sure there were some religious that had a whole bunch

623
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,600
of things to say about how he waded in,

624
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:49,680
and that can't stop us.

625
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,160
We have to get into the heart of these things,

626
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:53,720
and that is where the strategy lies.

627
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,000
And there's always, it's always, what?

628
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,560
Just bring me your fish and your bread.

629
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,280
I will feed the multitude, right?

630
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:00,680
So it's like, what's in our hands?

631
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:02,920
Let's just start with what we have, and we're going to watch

632
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:03,640
God.

633
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,840
Every justice initiative I've ever been a part of,

634
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,920
every transformative thing I've witnessed,

635
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,040
has always started with something small,

636
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,120
and just a simple person who said yes.

637
00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:12,840
I love that.

638
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:13,280
I love that.

639
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:13,880
Everyone.

640
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,560
For our listeners that are going, I'm moved, I'm provoked.

641
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,240
I want to understand justice more.

642
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:19,800
What are some really practical things

643
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,120
they can do in their life to number one, partner with God?

644
00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:24,640
If they're listening to this today,

645
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,280
and they're like, wow, I am anointed.

646
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:27,880
Well, I've carried the cry for justice.

647
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,080
They can look at their life and see this fingerprint

648
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,960
throughout their life that has been like,

649
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:35,520
I come alive when I hear this.

650
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:36,960
I just don't know what to do with it.

651
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:37,680
What do they do with it?

652
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:38,880
Yeah, that's a great question.

653
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,760
Let's kind of think of three different things.

654
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,960
Number one is we need to have a revelation.

655
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:44,320
We need to get in the heart of God.

656
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,360
We need to let our hearts be actually broken

657
00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:47,880
for what breaks God's heart.

658
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:48,800
We need to feel it.

659
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:49,720
Come on.

660
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,080
It's one thing to know God's a God of compassion.

661
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,120
It's another thing to feel his compassion,

662
00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:57,120
which is going to require you to look at some things

663
00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:00,040
and talk to people and let your heart feel.

664
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,360
So that's encountering God's heart for that is really important.

665
00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:05,280
I think the second thing that's really important

666
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,240
is we have to educate ourselves.

667
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:07,740
Good.

668
00:25:07,740 --> 00:25:10,520
We're talking about articles you're reading on Facebook.

669
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,520
That is not where you educate yourself, friend.

670
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,520
I mean, actually educate ourselves on these issues.

671
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,840
And I'm talking about don't educate yourself

672
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,080
with a political lens.

673
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,440
Whatever side you fall on.

674
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:22,280
Come on, Jen.

675
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:22,960
That's so good.

676
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:23,800
Don't look at the agenda.

677
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,880
Don't let somebody else define to you what's going on,

678
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,640
because the reality is there's going to be truth on both sides.

679
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,120
And so you've got to really dig in.

680
00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:33,840
If you want to know what's happening with abortion,

681
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,000
you need to go talk to your local teen pregnancy center

682
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,120
and find out who are the women that are dealing with this.

683
00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:39,400
How do we walk alongside of them?

684
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:40,360
How do we love them?

685
00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:42,760
That's the kind of education I'm talking about.

686
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,480
Find out whatever your area of passion is.

687
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,440
Find out what's really going on.

688
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:48,960
Yeah, what's happening on the ground.

689
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,360
What's happening on the ground.

690
00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:53,320
And talk to people who put some blood, sweat, and tears

691
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,280
in the game.

692
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:55,320
Getting educated.

693
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,640
And my third thing would be just do something.

694
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:58,560
Get involved.

695
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,600
And you don't have to go out and start an on profit.

696
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,360
You don't have to go out and move to India to serve orphans.

697
00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:07,440
There are just things you can do right now, right where you are.

698
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,920
There's incredible organizations you can go be a part of.

699
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,760
Go find out the issues in your own neighborhood.

700
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,000
Is there what are the complexities of your own community?

701
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,120
And just start taking simple steps.

702
00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:19,560
And those are the things.

703
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,520
As we encounter God, we get educated.

704
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,560
And we just start taking simple steps of what

705
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,480
isn't happening in my community.

706
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:29,280
That is where, to me, that's where the magic begins to happen.

707
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:30,000
I love that.

708
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,040
That's so good.

709
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,960
So now taking it to the place of understanding kingdom justice

710
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,680
in today's church right now with the current climate,

711
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,760
so many people connect justice, even kingdom justice,

712
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:44,280
with a political party.

713
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,400
How can we not partner with a political spirit,

714
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,520
but stay in kingdom and do justice?

715
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,720
Maybe the best way to answer it is,

716
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,120
is justice connected to a political party?

717
00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:57,240
Sweet Jesus.

718
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:58,520
OK.

719
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,720
I think the best way to even begin to tackle that

720
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,440
is to understand what are we talking about when

721
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:04,720
we're talking about a political spirit.

722
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:05,480
What does that even mean?

723
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:06,160
What is that?

724
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,680
Mark 8.15 says, Jesus repeatedly ordered them,

725
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:10,600
his disciples.

726
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,840
Jesus repeatedly ordered.

727
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,680
Orders us repeatedly.

728
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,200
Jesus is like dramatically can't stop doing it.

729
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,120
He just has to keep saying it, right?

730
00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:20,720
He repeatedly ordered them.

731
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,080
Watch out, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees

732
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:25,520
and the leaven of Herod.

733
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:26,160
Interesting.

734
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,200
Why did Jesus feel the need to repeatedly over and over?

735
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,160
Over and over and over.

736
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,360
Like get it through your thick heads over and over, right?

737
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:36,560
Like repeatedly warn his people, guys,

738
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,360
don't drink the Kool-Aid.

739
00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:39,280
Yeah, come on.

740
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,200
And when you look at the leaven of the Pharisees

741
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,320
and the leaven of Herod, most of us, maybe we've

742
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,720
heard of this concept leaven, right?

743
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:46,680
Leaven gets in.

744
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:47,760
It just starts small.

745
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:48,680
It seeps in.

746
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,840
It begins to just teeny, tiny bits,

747
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,080
but then it begins to spread.

748
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,760
And it begins to affect every thought you have

749
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,600
in your whole world view and your lens

750
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:56,760
and how you see things.

751
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,400
And it just spreads and spreads and spreads.

752
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,400
That is what leaven, that's why he used that analogy.

753
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,080
But leaven of the Pharisees, that's the religious, right?

754
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:08,480
That is in our own way, our own righteousness, our own.

755
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:09,880
It's like following all the rules,

756
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:11,560
but missing the point of them, right?

757
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,240
Love not being the most important thing.

758
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:14,040
It's self-righteous.

759
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,320
When you think about the religious,

760
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,680
the leaven of the religious, and then the leaven of Herod.

761
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,960
And Herod was the political figurehead, right?

762
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:23,120
And so what does this mean?

763
00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:24,640
And we don't have time to kind of break down

764
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,880
the whole Herodian dynasty, but this was,

765
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,440
for the people that are hearing Jesus say this,

766
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,360
they understood Herod had calculated relationships.

767
00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:34,520
It was all about partnerships.

768
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,600
And Herod repeatedly partnered with the religious

769
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:38,720
to push his agenda.

770
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,920
Herod met in secret private back rooms with the religious.

771
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,000
Hey, tell me where the savior's been born.

772
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:44,920
Tell me the prophecies.

773
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,400
And it looked to the religious like Herod was one of them.

774
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,360
Like Herod had had an awakening.

775
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:51,720
Like Herod was part of them,

776
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,600
but it was a very calculated alliance

777
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,760
where Herod was going to use the religious

778
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,480
to do his dirty work.

779
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,600
And when you look at the whole history, right?

780
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,480
And Herod was about killing Jesus.

781
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,560
And the religious really convinced,

782
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,960
they probably went home and told all the people in there,

783
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,800
you know, temples, you know, Herod is on our side.

784
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:10,800
Herod is religious.

785
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,880
And it was deeply demonic.

786
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,040
And so they understood this culturally,

787
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,520
but when you think about the political spirit, okay?

788
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,720
And this is where it's important to understand

789
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,880
the political spirit is all about man's agenda,

790
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,240
man's government, man's order, what man wants,

791
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:28,920
what man sees is right.

792
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,000
And here's what we have to understand.

793
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,840
The political spirit stands in direct opposition

794
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,560
to Mishpat, to justice.

795
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,280
Because justice is all about God's order,

796
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,280
God's government, what God says is right.

797
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,560
So when you take a stand for justice,

798
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,320
you better expect the thing that's gonna try to stop you

799
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,560
is actually the political spirit.

800
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:50,520
And it operates in intimidation,

801
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,760
trying to get you to be quiet, get in line.

802
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,080
You know, the political spirit tries to convince people

803
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,080
that the problems are solved politically.

804
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,640
It tries to get people to make alliances and allegiances.

805
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,080
Is this not shocking that we're seeing in our day?

806
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:04,920
Come on, yes we are.

807
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,120
We're seeing massive partisanship.

808
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,280
We're seeing massive polarization.

809
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,360
We're seeing people who are literally Christians,

810
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,280
who are, you know, if I could be as honest,

811
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,760
they literally like just losing their mind

812
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,320
at the thought of who they think or what they think

813
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,480
has to be, I mean, to the point that they're violating

814
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,000
kingdom values, they're violating love

815
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,280
because they're so desperately believing

816
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,280
that their political party or their political perspective

817
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:29,640
is gonna fix it.

818
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:30,560
And we have to get in line, right?

819
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,400
So Jesus is warning and Jesus is saying,

820
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,760
guys, we don't operate at this level.

821
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,360
You know, I don't need man's government.

822
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,800
God has never, guys, God has never ever been limited

823
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:41,320
to man's government.

824
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,840
The kingdom has advanced with monarchs.

825
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,480
The kingdom has advanced with socialist countries.

826
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,480
The kingdom has advanced with dictators and tyrants

827
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,880
and democracies and every kind of government

828
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,800
because God is not limited to our government.

829
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,680
And so I think what's really important with this

830
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,240
is understanding that our allegiance

831
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,400
cannot be to a political party.

832
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,560
I actually hold a belief that as Christians,

833
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,280
we cannot be too closely associated

834
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,440
with any political party because we belong to a higher realm.

835
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,000
We belong to a higher party.

836
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,760
We belong to a higher government.

837
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:15,600
Come on.

838
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,800
And so I think about, you know, Hona, my husband,

839
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,040
he is born in Guatemala.

840
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,360
And when he became an American citizen,

841
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,400
he actually, to become an American citizen,

842
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,120
he had to renounce his Guatemalan citizenship.

843
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:27,960
Wow.

844
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:28,800
He couldn't be a dual citizen.

845
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,560
You have to renounce to become an American.

846
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,880
You have to renounce your former citizenship

847
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,320
to show your true allegiance.

848
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,200
And I think there's some value to that.

849
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,120
Like for us, we have to be more kingdom.

850
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,760
Not that you can't belong to a political party,

851
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,040
not that you can't have political ideas.

852
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:41,880
Sure, sure.

853
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:42,960
Hope can't be there.

854
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:43,800
Sure.

855
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,120
Right, because God can use anybody.

856
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,000
And the reality is, if we can just speak really honestly,

857
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,800
there's corruption on both sides.

858
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:51,480
And there's beauty on both sides.

859
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:52,320
That's right.

860
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,720
And there can be, there's mishpot and a passion

861
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,160
for mishpot that is found in both sides.

862
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,120
There's elements of kingdom on both sides.

863
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,680
And there's elements of deep gross sin on both sides.

864
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,200
So because they're man-made systems.

865
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,640
And they're about man's agenda.

866
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,320
There's not, the kingdom of God can never,

867
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,440
never be subjected to, can never be squished into the box

868
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,080
of a man-made political party. Amen.

869
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:15,920
Amen.

870
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:16,760
God is so much bigger.

871
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:17,600
Yeah.

872
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,760
So for us, I think we're keeping our allegiance

873
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,880
and our loyalty to be more kingdom than anything else.

874
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,560
And I think Jesus really models that for us.

875
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,440
Because when you think about it, Jesus was a Jewish man.

876
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:28,840
Fully Jewish in culture.

877
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:29,680
Right.

878
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,520
Had around Jewish customs, it was raised in the Jewish way.

879
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,560
But Jesus was always more kingdom than Jewish.

880
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:36,400
Yes, he was.

881
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,240
And whenever his Jewishness was in conflict

882
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,200
with his kingdom, as he knew how to put it in the back seat.

883
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:42,540
Right.

884
00:32:42,540 --> 00:32:43,760
He always chose kingdom.

885
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:44,320
Always.

886
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:45,160
Over his Jewishness.

887
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:45,680
Yes.

888
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,560
So when it was inappropriate for a Jewish man to speak to a Jesus,

889
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,680
Jesus was like, I'm sorry, I'm more kingdom than Jewish.

890
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:50,840
Amen.

891
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:52,000
And he's going to speak to a woman, right?

892
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:52,440
Oh, that's so good.

893
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,440
When it was Jewish culture to be racist against Samaritans,

894
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,160
Jesus's like, I'm more kingdom than Jewish.

895
00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,080
I'm not doing that.

896
00:32:59,080 --> 00:32:59,640
Come on.

897
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,640
And so we have to be more kingdom than anything else.

898
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,120
And that looks like loving, refusing, listen.

899
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:06,640
OK.

900
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,720
I think this is like I've been thinking on this for so long.

901
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:14,560
It's like, we have got to quit forfeiting our kingdom position

902
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:15,880
to fight for a political one.

903
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:16,800
Come on.

904
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:17,520
Ooh.

905
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:23,240
We have to keep forfeiting our kingdom position of love and integrity.

906
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,560
You see kingdom people and kingdom justice,

907
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,600
they can call what is righteous when they see it on either side.

908
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,960
They can call what is unrighteous, unrighteous on either side.

909
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,280
Because I'm loyal to the kingdom, I'm loyal to my God,

910
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:37,600
I'm not loyal to my political party.

911
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:37,800
That's right.

912
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:38,720
So I can see clearly.

913
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:39,360
Right.

914
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,640
Because the political party, the political spirit,

915
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:42,440
it takes.

916
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:43,520
It confuses.

917
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:44,720
It creates a lens.

918
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,120
It creates a narrative.

919
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,000
And I think for us to remember, man,

920
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,400
the enemy is at work to bring division.

921
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:50,800
Yes.

922
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:55,320
And the enemy is at work to get us to focus on our agenda,

923
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:56,240
our narrative.

924
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,840
And we love, this is a sad part, because the religious spirit

925
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,280
and the political spirit, they love to partner together.

926
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,160
They love to unite.

927
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,400
And so we can throw a religious bow on it.

928
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,360
And God's like, man, I'm not into that.

929
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,160
And it's just, I think it's so powerful.

930
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:11,720
So good.

931
00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:13,640
Christa, I mean, we're both so convinced of this.

932
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:14,920
We talk about this all the time.

933
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,880
We're so convinced that God is moving.

934
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,200
And I really believe the move of God that's at hand.

935
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,960
It's not just an intellectual.

936
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:25,280
It's not just people getting saved in a mental conversion.

937
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:27,920
It is a societal transformation.

938
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,080
I believe we're seeing a justice move at hand.

939
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,680
And I think for us to really step in to see the transformation

940
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,480
and the invitation at hand, the church

941
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,320
has to get out of bed with the political spirit.

942
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:39,720
Come on.

943
00:34:39,720 --> 00:34:40,200
Yes.

944
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:41,040
It's just true.

945
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,400
It is so true.

946
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:43,240
It is so true.

947
00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:45,560
We've got to take our kingdom position

948
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:49,560
and move with heaven to release justice on the earth

949
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,600
and right the wrongs and set things in kingdom order

950
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:53,440
and get our focus.

951
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,400
Let me tell you, God can use anybody in office.

952
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:55,880
Yes.

953
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,880
God is not, we are way more concerned about who's in office

954
00:34:58,880 --> 00:34:59,520
than God is.

955
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:00,640
God has always been more concerned

956
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,280
about what's happening in the hearts of His people.

957
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:04,280
Are we walking in love?

958
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,280
Are we walking in justice?

959
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:07,560
This is who we are.

960
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,040
God didn't tell Abraham, I'm worried

961
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,640
about the kings of the day having the culture of justice.

962
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,920
He said, I want my people to have a culture of justice

963
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,840
because that's how the world will see and know.

964
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,200
I think that there's been this great kind of cultural war

965
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,640
kind of to test the hearts of the people of God.

966
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,360
Will we truly step into our place?

967
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:25,640
And I am so convinced.

968
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,720
I'm so encouraged by so many of you listening.

969
00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:31,000
So many people out there that are just saying,

970
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,160
you know what, I'm going to partner with heaven

971
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:34,840
to wade into these issues.

972
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,640
Guys, justice work is hard and holy work.

973
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:39,760
It's not quick fixes.

974
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,240
It's not a once a year missions trip.

975
00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:43,360
It is a culture.

976
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:44,640
It is a lifestyle.

977
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,440
It is loving the person in front of you.

978
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:47,880
It's wading into the mess.

979
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,800
But there is hope and there is strategy.

980
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,640
And I believe it's literally the move of God

981
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:52,440
we're seeing at hand.

982
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:56,520
What you're saying is so crucial for the hour we're in,

983
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,320
specifically for the nation of America.

984
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,160
We are in an election year and there is such a poll

985
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,320
for the attention and the affection

986
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,360
of the hearts of God's kids.

987
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,360
And what I love, you're bringing time

988
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:13,080
where so many issues are polling at the church right now.

989
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,240
It feels like in my lifetime

990
00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:17,720
that I've never seen the church more divided.

991
00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:21,400
And yet in this time, there's such an invitation

992
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,600
to renounce your alliance with the things

993
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,120
that have contradicted the heart of God

994
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:31,280
and come into a fresh new alliance with kingdom.

995
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,600
And if people really understand that this moment

996
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,920
is about coming into alignment with his presence.

997
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,320
The Lord gave me a prophetic word in January

998
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:44,120
and he talked about this would be a year of 2020

999
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,560
of not keeping your schedule of interruptions,

1000
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,280
of detours, of surprises.

1001
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,680
But the second part of the word I released was

1002
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:54,160
it's about coming into alignment with his presence.

1003
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,440
And I feel like we have been distracted,

1004
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,840
we have been detoured, we've been surprised, right?

1005
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:00,720
All these things.

1006
00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:05,240
And yet I think God wants to use this time in this hour

1007
00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:08,840
for us to really understand we have so much division

1008
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,880
and the justice of God needs to be established

1009
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,040
in our nation like never before.

1010
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,240
And there's an invitation in this hour

1011
00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:21,440
to come into alignment with his presence to sure vote.

1012
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:22,760
That's like the lowest level.

1013
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,440
That's actually we're talking at a much higher level today.

1014
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,680
But as we vote, we recognize God is in charge.

1015
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,200
God is on the move and God's promises will come to pass

1016
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,080
as his kids come into agreement

1017
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,720
with what he has already prophesied over this state

1018
00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:42,520
and you and I are anointed to bring justice.

1019
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,920
And that our alliance and our allegiance in this hour

1020
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,040
must be kingdom for that to come to pass.

1021
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,040
And I believe there's an invitation for that.

1022
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:51,480
It's so good, Christa.

1023
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,840
I just feel like people have to grab ahold

1024
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,800
of the significance of true kingdom.

1025
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,840
That's why we keep going about what's kingdom justice

1026
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,480
because that word justice is thrown around so much.

1027
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,240
Any parting words that you feel like

1028
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:06,600
you wanna leave our listeners with today?

1029
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,440
I think I wanna just take a moment

1030
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:12,720
and just speak to maybe some of you who felt so alone.

1031
00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:13,560
Come on.

1032
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:14,840
I get this all the time from people

1033
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,280
who have felt like they are so passionate about justice

1034
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,280
and they feel like they have not belonged in the church

1035
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,960
or they felt like they had to do justice outside of the church

1036
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,000
or they have felt like a real misunderstanding in this area

1037
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,760
and they felt unseen.

1038
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:27,680
So many people have told me,

1039
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,920
I didn't know how to integrate my passion for justice

1040
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,120
with my faith.

1041
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:32,960
Come on.

1042
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:34,600
And if that's you, I wanna just tell you, you're not alone.

1043
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:35,440
Amen.

1044
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,360
This is who we are and it should never be separated

1045
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:38,200
from our faith.

1046
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,760
And so I wanna just encourage people, you're not alone,

1047
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,760
you're the perfect person to step into it.

1048
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,800
Be encouraged and this is exactly

1049
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,120
what the church is called to do.

1050
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,480
And so if you felt discouraged or misunderstood,

1051
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,000
I just wanna break that off of you

1052
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,160
and just encourage you that you're not alone.

1053
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:54,720
Powerful, oh my God.

1054
00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:55,560
My goodness.

1055
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Jen was dropping just nuggets and bombs left and right.

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She truly walks in a revelation of justice

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and I really believe the Lord is highlighting her voice

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for this time in this hour.

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And she has brought reformation even on a legislation level,

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as I mentioned before, to nations around the world.

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But I do believe she's gonna bring more reformation

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to America because God is raising up voices

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to bring kingdom justice as he ordained it

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and he's gonna use you and I to do that.

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And Jen is one of those people that I love

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to be able to highlight her voice

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because it's so important for right now.

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It is so important.

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Well, as promise and advertise,

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Keep It 100 Tribe, we have the Keep It 100 Takeaways

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Call To Action.

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Come on.

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Number one that we wanna give you as a takeaway

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is don't put your trust in chariots.

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Come on.

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The Bible, one of the prophets was told

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that some trust in horses, some trust in chariots

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and it's basically saying,

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don't put your trust in something that's man-made,

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man-built and man-established

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because the bottom line is God holds history

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in the palm of his hand.

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And I don't believe that God is super worried right now

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as much as we can be about who takes the oval office.

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I think God is more concerned right now

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what's going on in the prayer room,

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what's going on in his house,

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what's going in the heart of his people.

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And the key in this point in time

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is to understand political parties,

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whether it's Democrat or Republican,

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were never meant to unify us.

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Our faith in God is what brings unity.

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And any other construct other than the understanding

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that our faith in God and our love

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is what brings unity and our prayers,

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any other thing is going to leave us disappointed.

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So it's so important this is phrase,

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don't put your trust in chariots.

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Put your trust in the sovereignty of God.

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That is so good.

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I love that.

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You know, the second takeaway we want you to walk away with

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to keep it 100 tribe is pray that you and I

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would see each other through Jesus' eyes.

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We are at a time in history,

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and Sean touched on this a moment ago

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where we had a Supreme Court justice pass away.

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We have the president of the United States

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diagnosed with COVID and yet neither could show

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compassion or empathy for the other side.

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We have to recognize in the midst of humanity,

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you and I are called to bring a compassion and a justice.

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And you know, the word of God declares

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that judgment begins in the house of God.

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Could it be friends that the changes we all long

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to see in society will not happen until we allow God's process

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to cleanse us of all that is unlike God?

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I think this is so important for us to catch

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that there is an invitation of a cleansing

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that God is doing in the house of God

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because we're supposed to create the precedent.

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We're supposed to create the prototype

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for what God wants to do in society

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because I believe when that happens,

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that's when the world's gonna get free

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through unity and love, not politics.

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That is so true that the world gets free through love.

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Come on.

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Third takeaway is leave the Leaven of Herod.

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Jen talked about this a little bit.

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It's found in Mark 815 and Jesus warned his disciples.

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He warned them twice actually

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as it's related to political things.

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But in Mark 815, he warned them of the Leaven of Herod.

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And Jen spoke about it,

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but the Leaven of Herod represents a politicized faith

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that only blurs our priorities,

1139
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but weakens our loyalties.

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And a Leaven is like yeast that works in bread.

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It causes us to rise once the Leaven is in bread.

1142
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It works its way all the way through.

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So Jesus was warning us that the political spirit,

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it primarily operates by fear, manipulation,

1145
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and through hidden agendas.

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And we all know God has not given us a spirit of fear.

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The only other time specifically that Jesus spoke

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as it relates to politics is he told his disciples,

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00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,880
in Matthew 22, 21, give to Caesar what his Caesar's,

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00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:40,720
give to God what his God's.

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And so he had a coin, he grabbed a coin,

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and he says, whose inscription is on it?

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And the person whose inscription was on that coin was Caesar.

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So he said, pay taxes, give to Caesar what his Caesar's.

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But then he said, give to God what his God.

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And what Jesus was saying is he now is looking at them.

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And he said, all that Caesar can do

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is put his image on a coin,

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but God has put his image on you.

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And so you give to Caesar what his Caesar,

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00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:05,160
but you've got to give to God what his God's.

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And so leaving the leaven of Herod, just remember it,

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it involves the exalting of civil law

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00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,760
above God's moral law.

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And that political spirit will always divide you at the end.

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And we understand civil law is so important,

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but we can never put that above God's moral law.

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And I think that's so important for us to understand.

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This has been such a key episode, we believe,

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for the hour that we're in in this nation.

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Can we just ask you as a Keep It 100 tribe,

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just lean into what God is saying in the season

1173
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,480
more than what the news media, what social media,

1174
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,160
and what those around you are saying,

1175
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,840
we want to be led by his spirit and his presence,

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not by a political spirit.

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As we come to an close, we want you to not only take away

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these practical applications,

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00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,720
but be challenged to think in a kingdom mentality.

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As always, we want to thank you for tuning in.

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And of course, make sure you continue to alert people

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00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,760
and let people know about this podcast,

1183
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,560
because we believe it's called to mentor and disciple those

1184
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,000
that want to go deeper in their walk with God.

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00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,160
For those of you that have rated us and reviewed us,

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00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:10,000
thank you.

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00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:11,600
If you haven't, take time to do that.

1188
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,320
And of course, get the word out,

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check us out at www.SeanAndChristasmith.com.

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You can always find us on Facebook

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at www.SeanAndChristaSmithministries.com.

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We'd love to hear how this podcast has impacted you.

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Also, Keep It 100 tribe, you do not want to miss next week.

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You'll definitely want to tune in

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00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,640
because we're going to be talking about mentorship,

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00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,680
community, and who's speaking into your life.

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So remember, Keep It 100.

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We'll see you next week

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because relief may change your circumstance,

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but a revelation will change you.

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We hope you enjoyed today's episode

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of the Keep It 100 podcast with Sean and Christa Smith.

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00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,200
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1205
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:49,880
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00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:52,840
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