We've been too narrow, we've been too siloed. We've been in the bunker with the

windows closed and the lid seal

concerned that something,

and I'm not talking about a virus from China,

we were living like this long before we heard about that.

We have to have a heart for the purposes of God on the earth. That's why we're here.

We're not here so God will take up my cause.

We're not here so God will just bless me with the things that are on my to-do list.

I'm here to give my life to his to-do list.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen.

Be blessed. I want to talk this weekend for the next two or three sessions about Israel, the church, and the nations.

Three distinct groups with whom God is dealing in the earth these days

towards the same objectives the establishment of his kingdom and the acknowledgement of Jesus is Lord of all

But it's important and it's one to which a significant portion I

believe of the contemporary church is, if not unaware, perhaps not as informed as we might be, when I talk about Israel, I'm really speaking primarily of the Jewish people living in the historic homeland that God promised to Abram and to the generations who followed him.

We have traveled Israel for many years.

My parents took my brother and I when we were boys and we and that's been 10 or 12 years

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