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Jack Hibbs: Daze Of Deception & Intolerance Toward True Christians (REPLAY) · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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  Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues,
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  discerning current events, defending biblical Christianity.
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  No topic, off limits.
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  And now, here's your host, David Firazo.
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  Almighty God and Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
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  together we come before you in humility,
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  as a people in need of your forgiveness, your mercy,
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  your goodness, and your grace.
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  For these 250 so years,
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  our fathers in this Congress have prayed for your guidance and protection.
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  And so we stand here in humble petition that you today might do the same,
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  that this nation and its unparalleled constitution,
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  your great gift to all freedom-loving people,
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  might be renewed here and across this land,
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  as a beacon of hope to all who seek peace.
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  And that was an offensive prayer to a lot of people in America,
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  surprisingly enough, maybe Pastor Jack Hibbs is our guest today,
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  we'll get to him in a minute.
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  But I want to thank some friends, by the way,
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  he used some offensive words, the F word, Father,
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  the J word, Jesus, and the L word, Lord, gasp.
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  All right, so I want to thank some friends who've been donating to World View Matters.
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  Thank you so much for keeping us going,
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  and for just keeping us really moving forward in this podcast.
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  We talk about some important issues, and ask some great guests,
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  like Pastor Jack Hibbs.
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  He's the senior and founding pastor of Calvary Chapel,
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  Chino Hills, in Southern California,
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  then founder also of Real Life Ministry,
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  the president of Real Life Ministry,
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  and nationally syndicated TV and radio host, Real Life Radio.
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  We're so blessed to have him on.
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  Thank you, Pastor Jack Hibbs, for your time today.
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  Good to see you, brother.
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  Good to see you, David. The honor is mine.
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  God bless you. Thank you so much.
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  Well, let's talk about those offensive words,
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  why they were offensive in that prayer before Congress,
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  and then we're going to get into your book,
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  which I've got a lot of questions about your book today,
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  and it's called Living in the Days of Deception.
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  So, Jack, your prayer, first of all, thank you for,
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  I understand you rewrote it, and thank you for, you know,
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  just mentioning Jesus and really representing.
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  So go ahead and share what happened,
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  and why do you think it was so offensive?
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  Yeah, number one is the fact that I was asked to open up Congress
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  118th Congress in prayer, which our government has been doing,
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  as I said in the prayer for some 250 years.
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  So I was invited by House Speaker Mike Johnson to pray,
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  and you have to be invited by a congressional member.
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  And then you are then informed that you have to have so many words,
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  and I understand, but you are to be gender-neutral in your prayer.
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  Don't mention Father, because that isolates some people.
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  If you mention Jesus, it's evangelizing,
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  so you cannot do that.
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  You can say God, you can say amen,
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  but you gotta, you can't make it Christian.
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  And so I agreed in advance to go to Washington and pray,
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  because it's an honor to be invited.
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  I had the high honor.
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  This is my second time over my ministry career to be invited.
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  But I have to tell you, David,
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  when I flew into DC the night before,
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  the Lord spoke to my heart and said,
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  what are you doing here?
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  What are you doing?
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  And I knew exactly what he meant.
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  I was reading my prayer,
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  and it could be a Buddhist prayer.
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  It could have been a Hindu prayer.
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  It could have been a Muslim prayer or a Jewish prayer.
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  It was non-descript, non-distinct.
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  I was so convicted, David, I felt like throwing up.
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  But yet I had to be at the Capitol at 8 a.m.
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  And I rewrote the prayer.
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  But here's what I did.
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  I went to Google and I Googled historic prayers
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  in the United States Capitol.
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  Oh, my goodness, how far did you go back?
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  1774.
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  Yep.
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  I lifted some of those very sentences
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  from preceding chaplains.
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  And I incorporated them into my prayer.
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  So, David, I can tell you,
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  maybe a third of the prayer was my organic.
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  Most of it was US history.
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  Wow.
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  That happened in our Congress.
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  That's right.
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  I delivered that prayer as you played a moment ago
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  and I found out that in the first sentence
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  before I hit a period that I had violated five rules.
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  And it just went downhill from there
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  because I later mentioned sin.
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  I mentioned at the end that all those who are in authority
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  will be held accountable for the decisions they make in this house.
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  I was immediately condemned.
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  In less than five hours,
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  I was condemned by 26 congressional members
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  who authored a letter of condemnation
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  and an investigation into Mike Johnson's selection
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  of this, listen,
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  of this Jew-hating,
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  what one of the biggest supporters of Israel?
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  Some of my best friends are Jews.
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  I'm a Jew-hater.
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  I'm an Islamophob.
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  I'm a homophob.
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  On white supremacist,
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  it just went down the list, David,
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  and it hasn't stopped, by the way.
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  By the way,
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  there's been enough news out there
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  whereby I'm not going to mention the firm right now,
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  but there is an actual firm here in America
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  that said, listen, with your permission,
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  we'd like to sue these 26 members of Congress
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  for a defamation because to discredit you
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  at what you do as a pastor
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  and as a host of a TV program,
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  they actually have done damage to your reputation
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  and we want to go after them on that.
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  So we've not heard the end of it,
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  but man, I've got to tell you,
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  pray in Jesus' name
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  in this republic,
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  and you're in trouble.
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  Well, let me ask a follow-up question about that
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  before we get to your book,
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  Living in the Days, D-A-Z-E of Deception,
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  what would our great grandparents think?
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  And what would our founding fathers think
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  of this being offensive
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  in our government, in our Congress?
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  They never would have had the thought.
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  It never would have crossed their minds
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  because once again,
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  I lifted from history what had already been delivered.
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  And so, for example,
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  if you look at the prayers of Jacob Duchet,
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  if you look at the prayers,
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  even prayers offered up by, of all people at the time,
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  the governor of Massachusetts, Samuel Adams,
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  oh my gosh, so biblical, amazing.
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  And when I mentioned how we need the mercy of God,
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  these were all things from our nation's history,
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  but I can't tell you this.
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  There were many members of Congress who greeted me
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  with embraces and thank yous.
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  I know for certain that three congressmen
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  and women came up to me immediately after the prayer
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  and said, and I quote,
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  we've not heard a biblical prayer here like this in years.
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  So, you know what, I'm good.
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  That's sad.
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  And that kind of is a good transition here
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  to quote Mike Pompeo, former U.S. Secretary of State,
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  about your book, he says,
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  Pastor Jack gets it exactly right.
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  If we lose our faith as a nation,
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  we will not survive.
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  We will lack the courage and certainty necessary
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  to confront challenges,
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  and we will crumble from within.
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  And, Jack, I know that's kind of what we see happening.
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  We're crumbling from within.
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  We've been infiltrated in all the major institutions.
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  The church is suffering because the biblical worldview
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  is the lowest it's ever been.
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  Quick overview on your book.
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  If you want to comment on that on Mike Pompeo's thoughts,
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  go ahead.
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  Well, first of all, he's a friend.
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  And he and I went to the same county,
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  a school district, which is kind of fun.
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  But listen, his statement's not only prophetic,
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  it's actually present.
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  It's happening now.
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  And I thought, you know what, talk about deception.
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  Who better than to address the issue of deception
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  than the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency,
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  Mike Pompeo, who of course went on to be the 70th Secretary of State.
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  And a born-again believer who loves the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Mike was fantastic and generous in his forward.
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  That said, we're watching, in fact, David, you know this.
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  When was the last time you've watched media, news, whatever?
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  And you heard someone, especially a Democrat.
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  When's the last time you heard a Democrat say that
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  we need to stand strong to preserve the Republic.
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  You don't hear that.
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  All you hear about is democracy, democracy, democracy.
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  We're being ingrained to think that the United States
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  is a pure democracy.
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  It is not.
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  The United States is a constitutional republic.
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  But when you don't teach it, and then when you lie about things,
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  that is a double-edged movement of deception.
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  Don't teach truth.
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  That's deception number one.
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  Deception two is replace what you're not teaching.
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  Replace it with something else.
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  And thus the DAZ, the COVID world, the political realm we're in right now,
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  and I believe the constitutional crisis our nation is in,
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  is what has put people in the state of days.
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  I believe, David, this may sound extreme to some of your viewers,
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  but I believe it's true.
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  We have a tendency to limit all's warning to Timothy
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  that in the last days there's going to be deception,
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  doctrines of demons and spiritual wickedness in high places.
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  We think that that's limited to the pulpit or to the church down the street.
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  My argument in the book is there's no limit to it.
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  Satan, as the Bible says, Satan is the God of this age of this world at this time.
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  He's out and about deceiving him.
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  And he doesn't matter, David, if he deceives the governor, the city council,
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  the pastor, the family, or the president.
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  He knows no limits.
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  And I believe that he is now sowing, and what you and I are reaping,
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  in our culture today, are really the doctrines of demons.
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  Transgenderism.
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  The rise right now, oh my goodness, the rise right now,
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  of the opening episodes of jihad happening in America.
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  This is how it begins.
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  On our college campuses, it's only going to escalate.
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  Why?
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  Disception.
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  It's all deception.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, Satan is the author of lies.
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  The father of lies, the author of confusion.
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  I see what's happening on college campuses as a result of the indoctrination
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  at the K through 12 level.
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  They are doing what the school system has already been designed to do.
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  They're putting out social justice activists, right?
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  Satan, Satan, just like we are to make disciples and recruit people
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  to the body of Christ to get born again through the gospel.
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  Satan is doing a great job, and I'm not giving him credit.
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  I'm just saying he's recruiting a lot of the best devil.
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  He's the best devil they'll ever be.
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  Yeah.
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  So he's doing that.
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  I mean, you write in the book.
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  You talk about traditional beliefs on gender, marriage, law, deception.
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  But I want to jump before we run out of time.
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  This is going to go by very fast today.
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  You make a point about the importance of tolerance.
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  And you just, I think you just mentioned that tolerance has been redefined.
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  And that's what the left does.
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  They redefine language and words.
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  And then they weaponize it and use it as accusations.
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  Then we're playing defense like Christian nationalism, for example.
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  So your thoughts on chapter eight,
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  was raised by the deception of new tolerance.
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  Tell us about that.
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  Yeah.
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  Number one, the word tolerance was defined by Noah Webster
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  in his 1828 dictionary of English language for America.
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  Y'all to get the book, everybody.
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  It's available at Amazon.
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  It's about this thick, but it's beautiful.
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  It's the only dictionary that matters.
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  And Webster says that tolerance is being able to with respect
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  and with honor put up with someone else's view on something
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  and that you agree, even though you disagree, that's tolerance.
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  Not today.
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  Tolerance is if you disagree with me, you are intolerant.
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  Only my tolerance, my position, can be honored.
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  And so what's happening today is if we stand up and say something truthful,
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  if we hold to a biblical worldview value,
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  if we quote or even paraphrase a Bible verse,
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  we will be labeled intolerant.
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  Why?
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  Because it doesn't fit the new agenda.
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  And the new agenda is to redefine words and their meanings.
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  And so when you release yourself from the anchor or from the moorings
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  of your foundations, you're on your own.
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  You're a drift at sea.
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  And so there's a concerted effort to do that.
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  And we're fighting hard in our own community.
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  In our last election, the word battles were taking place in our local school board.
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  But we, listen, we made things known.
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  I made the congregation aware that two George Soros funded candidates.
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  Factually, we found this out to be a fact.
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  We had come into the area and tried to run in our local school board and we raised the flag
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  and exposed to the culture what was going on.
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  And then we were labeled for being bigots and being intolerant
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  when the other team had a concerted effort to destroy.
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  That's right.
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  So I want to encourage everybody.
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  Take a stand, make sure you're standing biblically and know this.
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  Jesus is still to this day the most hated individual that has ever graced this earth.
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  Yes, he's also the most beloved.
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  But Jesus said, listen, don't be surprised if you associate with me
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  if the world hates you.
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  Just make sure they're hating you for the right reason.
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  And for the right reason would be truth.
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  And the new tolerance knows nothing about truth at all.
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  That's right.
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  One of the headings in the chapter, the new tolerance dismisses absolutes.
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  And one of the descriptions that I think I read on the website,
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  the greatest antidote to deception is truth.
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  By the way, friends, you can go to Pastor Jack's website, JackHibs.com.
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  Back to Pastor Jack Hibbs and it's on Amazon as well, friends.
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  And the book, Living in the Days DAZE of Deception is doing incredibly well.
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  It explores the many ways that error is masquerading as truth and how you can discern the difference.
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  Jack, before we run out of time, I wanted to ask you, you have strong opinions on the woke church.
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  Thank you.
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  And a lot of people are listening to you talk.
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  And whenever I have certain pastors on, I get the same response.
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  I wish my pastor would address dot, dot, dot, whatever.
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  Prophecy, Israel, abortion, same-sex marriage, socialism, Marxism.
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  But you talk about the woke church. Explain how you see this movement as departing from the biblical truths.
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  And what gospel elements are being compromised with this wokeness.
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  Well, first of all, did not the scripture warn us then the last days many would depart from the faith.
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  And yet we're told that they would maintain a religious appearance.
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  The scripture says that they're going to be deceivers, but they're going to deny God, right?
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  But they're spiritual.
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  So we have churches today.
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  And you might attend a church and you don't know if it's a biblically new, based, New Testament church.
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  Well, you're going to find out real quick by what the pastor has to teach.
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  And what I'm asking all of you to do is go to church next Sunday with your Bible open.
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  Take your Bible, please, to church with a notebook and a highlighter.
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  And the pastor should be on fire with the word of God that he's delivering.
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  And it should be chapter, verse of scripture.
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  If you aren't being told that God wants you to just accept this and you know there's a new movement of foot.
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  The spirit of God's moving in a different way without the Bible.
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  Those are warnings to you to discern that it's time to get up and go.
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  However, let me say this.
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  There are pastors who have been beaten down.
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  Maybe they came out as seminary.
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  They were never taught what it means to be a watchman on the wall.
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  What it means to be a shepherd of the sheep sacrificing your life for them.
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  And that is trafficking and truth.
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  Maybe some pastors are waking up and are saying, you know what?
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  I'm going to take a stand.
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  If my board wants to fire me, let him fire me, but I'm going to be truthful.
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  Let me God, let me tell you, God will bless you so radically.
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  Look, I'm nobody special, but I'm telling you my Bible special.
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  And I try to hide myself, David, in the scriptures.
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  And I don't want to go to the pulpit unless the word of God has caught fire inside my own heart.
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  That's going to take a long time.
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  A pastor seeking God, the church is going to take care of itself.
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  Jesus will see to it.
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  Exalt his word, exalt his name, and Jesus will actually shepherd his own church.
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  Sometimes there's a lot to overcome for pastors, because if they're going to some seminaries today,
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  some have dropped the belief in an inerrancy of scriptures.
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  Some teach a lot about church growth and how to maybe attract a crowd to build a big following.
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  But like you said, they don't talk about maybe Bible prophecy or other things that are biblical issues.
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  That the people need to be equipped on, right?
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  Bible prophecy, addressing sin.
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  Making certain that no matter what your message is,
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  your preaching, that you make sure that you get the cross and the empty tomb.
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  That Jesus died for our sins on the cross, and that he rose again from the dead for our justification.
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  That there's no hope without him, but there's all hope with him.
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  Amen.
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  And you can be teaching anything from any book of the Bible.
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  Just make sure that the gospel is always in your message.
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  But yeah, Bible prophecy, more than ever, Bible prophecy needs to be taught.
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  A lot of our seminary graduates have never been taught Bible prophecy.
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  But we need to make sure that we're presenting the true gospel, which is this, very simple.
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  Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, simple.
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  Repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.
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  That's the gospel, but it starts with repentance.
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  If your church is not teaching repentance or if you're not speaking repentance pastor, you need to get with it.
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  You need to repent and you need to get back to the foundation of God's word.
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  There's still hope for America.
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  It's not it's not in Sacramento where I'm at.
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  And it's not in Washington, DC.
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  It's not in the state house or in the White House.
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  The only hope now is so evident.
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  The only hope for America right now, and we're running out of time, is in God's house, area.
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  And we need a sense of urgency.
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  And I thank you for your voice and all the people that, you know, we've been able to talk to rob elbows with, so to speak.
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  We're talking about the book, Friends Living in the Days of Deception.
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  It is on Amazon.
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  It's on Pastor Jack's website, Jackhybs.com.
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  Jack, your book talks about the dwindling freedoms and increased persecution of Christians.
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  And, you know, we kind of are losing the idea or just about being salt and light.
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  Those are biblical concepts.
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  And I don't see enough of that with Christians influencing culture.
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  I see the culture influencing the church more.
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  We've got a lot of work to do.
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  As you said, yes, we need revival.
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  Your thoughts on that and how can people remain true to their faith?
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  Speak up regardless.
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  We can't control how other people react to either the gospel or confronting error or these biblical issues in our culture.
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  We need to talk about them.
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  So again, I speak to the pastor, but by doing so, I speak to all believers that are watching right now.
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  Jesus said in Matthew's gospel, let your light so shine before men.
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  The word men is generic.
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  It implies unbelievers.
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  Let your light, let your witness so shine before an unbelieving world.
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  That when they see your good works, that's a reference to the day of judgment.
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  They will glorify your father, which is in heaven, translation.
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  Live out your faith, biblically based, righteously, in an unrighteous world, that in the day of judgment,
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  the unbeliever is going to have to confess to God that Jack and David announced the truth way back then,
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  and I didn't listen to them.
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  Are you willing to be so biblically right that God uses you to not only bring people to the kingdom,
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  but he's also going to use your witness to actually be the condemnation on the day of judgment of the lost?
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  We are not here for how many likes or how many Facebook friends we can gather.
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  That's ridiculous.
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  We are here to get the approval of one.
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  And if we do that, again, we traffic in spiritual matters.
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  Let God be God, obey His Word, and get up and do Christianity, because Christianity is a non-spectator faith.
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  You've got to be involved.
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  And when you do, you'll see the power of God.
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  When you do, you'll see God answer prayer.
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  When you do, you'll see miracles.
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  When you see that when you step out and take on the school board or the union,
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  that's clearly attacking biblically sound things or life, whatever it is,
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  your values or freedoms, biblically based, stand up and say, no way.
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  Then God will show up.
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  A lot of people say, David, I've never heard God speak to me.
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  Well, maybe he doesn't need to speak to you.
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  You're not doing anything.
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  Step out and you're going to receive information from high command.
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  He's going to leave you and guide you.
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  Amen.
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  The Word speaks.
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  The Word of God is living an active and sharper than a double-edged sword.
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  We just need to get it in us.
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  And I love your point.
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  Audience of one.
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  Who's approval are we seeking?
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  Last question, Jack.
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  Maybe, unless we can squeeze more in, but you end your book on a hopeful note.
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  And we need to do that these days.
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  The people being overwhelmed and believers really being disheartened by what's happening
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  in our country and our culture and our government and everything else.
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  Could you talk about how faith and hope provide guidance and navigating the crazy times
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  we're living in?
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  We've got to keep grounded in the Word.
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  Yeah.
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  So good, David.
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  God's Word, if we'll read it, faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God.
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  You cannot separate faith from hope.
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  When you have faith in the Word of God because God's sovereign, he's true.
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  And he's doing a work right now.
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  You have hope because God's Word's true.
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  You know that this is not our home.
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  We're going to go home someday.
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  That this is not all there is.
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  There's an eternity that awaits.
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  When you realize this from Scripture, you get galvanized by the truth.
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  And what happens is you go out into a world and here's what's fun, David.
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  If we win or lose the local battle, we always win in the end.
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  We always win in the end because God's Word is written and we're going to stand before the Lord.
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  And there's only one thing that the believer is going to be judged on.
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  One thing.
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  Were you faithful?
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  Were you faithful to what I asked you to do?
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  He's not going to talk about anything else and read your New Testament.
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  Were you faithful to what I called you to do?
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  Don't bury the light under or put it under the bushel.
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  Let it shine.
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  Go out and do righteousness, which is doing the right thing.
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  Effect your culture.
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  Tell people about me.
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  We have such an awesome calling.
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  We have such an awesome mission that when we finish, we get to hear these words.
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  Well done, that good and faithful servant.
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  There's so much hope.
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  In fact, there's endless, ultimate, unmitigated hope for the believer, especially at a time like this.
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  These days of battle are the days of victory.
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  I wouldn't trade this moment for anything.
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  Yeah, you know what?
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  Our great grandparents or people before their time might not have been able to handle our time.
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  And we are here for such a time as this.
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  We've all been given a sphere of influence.
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  And we need to remember, we can't control the results or someone else, how they respond to the gospel.
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  And that's on them, but we are responsible to get the word out.
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  Jack, thank you for writing this.
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  We need some clarity in these days.
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  D-A-Z-E, living in the days of deception, friends, jackhibs.com.
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  I'll just give you another opportunity.
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  We have about 30 seconds, Jack, just to encourage those who might need another nudge or push to just make sure they're living their faith.
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  You know, Monday through Saturday as well as Sunday.
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  Real simple.
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  Number one, get in the word of God.
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  Start in John's gospel.
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  Start reading the Bible.
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  The second thing is, ask every day, dear Lord, fill me with your Holy Spirit of fresh for today.
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  Give me the power to live out your Word today.
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  And when you read His Word and when you ask Him for His power, the rest of it is all up to Him.
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  David, I leave every day to the outcome to God Himself.
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  I do my best and I commit the rest to Him, and His grace will make up the difference.
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  Do your best under God, commit the rest to Him.
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  Jack, thanks, sir. God bless you.
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  God bless you, David.
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  Thank you for the opportunity.
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  Praise God.
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  Good podcast, Lord.
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  Just thank you for the people I get to talk to, the guests I get to be encouraged by and hopefully equip and edify and encourage our audience.
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  Friends, God bless you.
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  Thanks for sharing the show and as always, keep speaking the truth about things that matter.