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This is REALLY Happening... · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  OK, I want you guys to look at this and then wait to find out
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  exactly why I showed it you. There seems to be some
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  confusion. They've accused us of being all
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  sorts of things. We are Christians.
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  They are Christian protesters outside a primary school.
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  But why are they so upset? Well, you are not going to
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  believe this one. But this school in Hampshire,
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  England, Norwood Primary, which is for ages 5 to 11 years old,
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  what did they decide to do? They decided to ban Easter.
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  Yes, you heard correctly. The Easter parade, gone.
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  The Easter church services, gone.
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  Learning about Jesus, gone. Why?
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  Because apparently it's not inclusive.
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  And now listen to me. I am a Christian and I believe
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  that everyone was made in the image of God.
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  So we are to make everyone feel welcome and loved.
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  But this isn't just about let's make space for others.
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  This feels like we're pushing Christianity out of the picture
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  completely. Like, how have we got to the
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  point where the actual reason for Easter, the resurrection of
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  Jesus Christ, is now too exclusive to mention in a
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  country that's literally built on Christian foundations?
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  However, this is where things get really contradictory.
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  The head teacher, she sent out a letter and she said the reason
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  they are cancelling Easter this year is because they want to
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  respect diversity. And it's stated, we understand
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  that this change may be disappointing for some,
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  especially those who have cherished these traditions over
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  the years. However, we believe that this
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  decision aligns with our values of inclusivity and respect for
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  diversity. Well, I think we need to
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  consider that the UK is not legally a Christian country and
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  it is also an uncodified constitution and we are moving
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  with the times, with everything else.
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  So I guess it's the similar way with this state school.
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  Yeah, well. Respectfully, that's
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  historically and factually untrue.
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  We have an established church in this country.
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  We are legally, factually, constitutionally a Christian
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  country. Am I the only one who finds this
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  absolutely bonkers? And here's where it gets even
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  more baffling. A group of Christians from a
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  local church turned outside the school to protest this action.
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  Now these guys, they weren't breaking the law or anything.
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  They were just stood there with signs like Jesus is king and
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  Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, you know, statements
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  of faith. But even they were greeted with
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  unkind reactions from the public, which to me, and maybe
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  I'm wrong about this, it kind of sounds a lot like double
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  standards here. Let's be inclusive for everyone
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  but the Christians and their faith.
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  It has made me think though because I do wonder if it was
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  another community or another religion protesting or being
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  silenced on a matter, would there have been a greater uproar
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  or would it have even happened in the 1st place?
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  The answer I really want to know is why is it always Christians
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  and can? I say, can I just say as well, I
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  didn't mention in the introduction there what a bunch
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  of hypocrites banging on about diversity and tolerance of other
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  religions and faiths and communities.
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  You're deliberately excluding Christianity for what reason?
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  I don't know. You're trying to be some sort of
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  virtuous do gooder. You're doing more harm than
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  good. I actually find it kind of sad
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  that in an area of 136,000 people, there was only 50 people
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  who turned up to protest. But Ukip's Nick Taconi showed
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  up. And say what you like about him
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  and his political party, but he pointed out something a lot of
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  people are thinking that these diverse policies, they aren't
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  about inclusion. Sometimes it's about just
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  ticking boxes and chasing funding and Christianity, well,
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  what happens to that doesn't matter.
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  Doesn't matter if we quietly edge it out, as long as we get
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  the money and we tick all the right boxes.
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  What's even more insane is the school originally tried to pass
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  it all off, that, OK, yes, Easter, it will still be
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  celebrated, but it'd be in the form of classroom lessons about
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  the holidays, religious significance, using craft
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  activities. We all know what they're trying
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  to say here, that they're just going to make paper Easter
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  baskets and little arts and craft instead of a real
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  celebration of Jesus's resurrection.
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  I personally find this pretty patronising to Christians that
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  we can just think, oh we'll just do something mild and nice like
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  Easter eggs, but taking the students to a local church to
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  think about the Saviour who died for them?
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  No, no, no, there's no way we will ever entertain that thought
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  anymore. Do you think that sounds harsh?
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  Well, I am sorry, but I honestly do believe a bit of colouring in
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  and a chat about springtime doesn't exact actly honor the
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  reality of Easter. It's the biggest event in the
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  Christian calendar, the death and the resurrection of Jesus.
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  It's not just a seasonal vibe, it's a precious part of our
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  faith. Let me put it another way to
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  you. What did our British boys lay
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  their lives down for 100 years ago?
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  I think many of them would be heartbroken to see the state of
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  this Nation Today, how we've lost our biblical values and
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  everyone is allowed to have an opinion except the Christian.
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  The UK's former home secretary, Suella Braverman, she even
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  weighed in on the matter, calling it cultural surrender.
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  She also said on a tweet on X Britain's Christian roots are
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  being erased by spineless leaders who'd rather appease
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  than preserve. And honestly, she's not wrong.
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  This isn't just one school doing its own thing.
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  It fits into a much wider trend where the secular world is happy
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  for everyone else to have rights to freedom of speech and freedom
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  to religion. But when it comes to the
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  Christian, it's time to hit the mute button.
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  And just so we're clear, this isn't an isolated case.
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  The Education Assembly's bill is currently under fire because
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  it's trying to remove Christian assemblies from non faith
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  schools. Imagine that, a country where
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  the majority of people still identify as Christian, but the
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  traditions and teachings that have shaped this nation for
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  centuries are being pushed aside for the sake of diversity.
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  A Lord in the House of Lords pointed out that if these bills
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  pass, most kids won't even hear the stories of Christmas or
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  Easter, Not even in a basic way. Guys, whether we like it or not,
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  this nation was built on the story of a man who walked out of
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  a tomb defeating death and offering eternal life.
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  That's not something you could quietly phase out for the sake
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  of being polite and including others.
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  So can I ask you, what country are you watching this video from
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  right now? And can I ask you, is your
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  country getting better or is it getting worse?
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  So the Brits out there listening, anyone who has a sane
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  mind would look at this country right now and they would say it
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  has fallen so quickly, so rapidly, and if something
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  drastic doesn't happen, we will no longer be called Great
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  Britain, but we will be called Grim Britain.
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  OK, I am going to choose my words very carefully now, but I
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  can see that there will be British people right now
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  watching this video, nodding their heads, agreeing with
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  everything I'm saying. But what I'm about to say next,
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  you are not going to like whatsoever.
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  The reason other religion, secular thinking and certain
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  communities have the most powerful voice right now is
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  actually because of you. Some of you, you are only
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  Christian by name. You let the churches shut down.
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  The churches needed you all those years ago and you stopped
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  going. And now the churches have become
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  furniture places and some of them, as you know, have been
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  turned into other religious buildings.
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  Friends, you allowed that to happen.
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  Some of you, you wanted God out of the schools.
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  You pushed atheism on this nation.
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  And now we took the Bible out of the schools.
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  We took the Bible out of the classroom and we made Jesus
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  Christ into this friendly guy that doesn't offend anyone.
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  And we made the Christians quieter and quieter.
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  You right now you have dust on your Bible because you stop
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  reading it. Friends, the reason the nation
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  is like this is because what a man sows that he shall also reap
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  and we are reaping what we sowed all those years ago where we
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  said Christianity, we can take it or leave it.
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  Jesus Christ is an all or nothing God.
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  You cannot push him out into the corner and think that there will
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  be no consequences for this because there are consequences
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  and I believe the Bible is true. Let me share a verse in the
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  Bible with you. Proverbs 14 verse 34 says
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  righteousness exalts an nation, but sin is our approach to any
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  people. Well, what does that mean?
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  It means that when a nation honors the Lord God, when a
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  nation stands on the principles of the Bible, when a nation
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  loves the Lord Jesus Christ, that nation will prosper, it'll
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  be exalted, it will do well, it will flourish.
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  But when sin comes in, when we get men and women who'd rather
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  go to the nightclubs than go to church, who'd rather sing
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  horrible songs that are on the radio rather than sing the
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  songs, the hymns of old like Amazing Grace.
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  When we get a nation like that, that loves sin, it will be a
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  reproach. It will bring the nation down.
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  And my dear friends, my message is not this.
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  I'm not saying let's turn back to God so that our nation will
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  prosper again. That would be lovely to see.
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  It would be lovely to see Great Britain Great again.
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  But I'm saying do it for your own soul.
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  Wipe the dust off your Bibles, get back in church and turn to
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  the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't just celebrate Easter as a
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  nice festival, but know the meaning for it.
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  Know the reason that Jesus Christ was torn to pieces on
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  that cross Was your sin. Your sin Put him on the cross.
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  My sin, our lies, our pride, all the wrong things we've done, all
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  the sins we've ever committed, past, present and future, it was
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  all laid on the Lord Jesus Christ and all of our sin, it
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  was imputed unto him. And Christ Jesus there on the
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  cross took the weight of that sin.
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  He took the wrath of God as it was poured out on him so that
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  you and I can be forgiven, so that you and I can have a fresh
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  start, a new beginning, just like we think about at Easter,
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  this new, new beginning of life in the eggs and chicks and all
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  this beautifulness. And yet there's a new life that
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  Christ can give to every single one of us if we turn from our
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  sin, if we repent and turn to Him.
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  Think about the one who rose from the grave, you and I, we're
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  all going 6 feet under one day. Is that right or is it wrong?
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  We are all going to die, but Jesus Christ rose from the dead,
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  and that's why we celebrate him. That's why He is greater than
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  any man, because He is the only one who can raise himself out of
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  that grave, who can bring himself out bodily.
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  And now He's in heaven waiting to come back, and He's going to
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  judge the living and the dead. Put your faith in Him.
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  He is above any man, any religion, any political figure.
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  He is the greatest person that ever lived, the King of Kings
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  and the Lord of Lords. And that's why we need to make
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  Great Britain great again by remembering that Jesus Christ is
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  the true King of Britain. He's the king of the entire
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  universe. But never forget this.
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  It doesn't matter what Britain does in the end to Christianity.
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  They can get rid of every Christian in the land, but the
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  truth will always be the truth. You cannot cancel the
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  resurrection. You can try, trust me.
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  There've been people for for many years who've tried ever
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  since the first Easter morning. But the tomb is still empty.
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  Jesus is still alive. And that's the message.
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  It's so true and it's not going anywhere.
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  This morning I was reading Psalm 9 and it reminds us that God's
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  justice is unshakable. Psalm 9, verse 15 says the
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  nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made in the
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  net which they hid. Their own foot is caught.
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  That's the reality see we're seeing today, isn't it?
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  That's what we're seeing in Great Britain right now.
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  The more the world tries to push Yahweh's truth aside, the more
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  they end up getting trapped in their own schemes, in their own
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  plans. We can see it in how society
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  gets confused, how the core of who we are gets undermined, but
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  God's justice is still true and in the end He will not be moved.
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  Then it says in Psalm 9, verse 17, the wicked we'll return to
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  Sheol, Even all the nations who forget God.
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  You see the nations who reject gods, they are going one way,
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  they're going into a grave. Never forget that.
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  They may silence us right now, but one day they will have no
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  power to silence anyone, for they themselves will be
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  silenced. They, the ones who forgot God,
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  will be forgotten for all of eternity.
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  And listen guys, I want the leaders of this land who are
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  turning so strongly against the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  I want them to repent. I want them to find Jesus.
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  I want that head teacher to realize what folly she's done,
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  what foolishness she's done. I want all these people to come
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  to the Lord Jesus Christ. So would you like to hear
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  something beautiful for all of us to focus on and just dwell on
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  this very week? Verse 7 of Psalm 9 says, but the
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  Lord shall abide forever. He has prepared his throne for
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  judgment. God is still on the throne.
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  And he's not surprised by any of this.
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  No matter how much the world tries to cancel Christianity,
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  the Lord's plan will always stand, and his justice and his
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  mercy will endure forever. And this Easter, that's the
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  truth. We celebrate that Jesus Christ
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  conquered death, is reigning on high, and no matter what anyone
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  else tries to do, he will always be my King and your king and
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  every knee will bow to him one day.
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  So as we watch this whole cancel culture unfold, remember that we
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  are anchored in something far stronger than any trend or any
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  policy. We're anchored in the
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  resurrection of Jesus Christ. And no matter what the world
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  tries to do, no matter how hard they try to push him out, he
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  will always be the Lord of Lords.
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  And he invites us right now to follow him, to stand for
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  confirm, for his truth, and to share his hope with others,
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  especially when this world, especially when Great Britain,
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  needs it the most. So if you do want to stay
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  updated on British news from a Christian perspective, please do
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  Church of England has recently done where they made a real
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