And if we're going to participate in the kingdom of God, you don't do that by joining the

right church or building a perfect systematic theology or reading the right translation of the Bible.

Jesus said you only enter the kingdom of God by a birth, a new birth, you have to be born again.

So if you've been in church all your life and you have a stack of Bibles and you're very familiar with the Christian

tradition but you've never made the choice of Jesus of Nazareth believing he's the Messiah,

the son of God, the incarnate son of God in the earth.

You've never chosen him as Lord of your life and chosen to serve him as king, you're missing out on his eternal kingdom.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed.

Our topic for this particular session is America stop grumbling. Please. And I really want to point that towards the church.

We're the ones that I count on for a change of course, not the politicians or the political parties or the universities.

I'm grateful for all those places. We need godly people. or the political parties or the universities.

I'm grateful for all those places.

We need godly people in each of those stations,

but the church will determine the outcome of our nation.

We'll either find our strength and take our place or we will forfeit what God put us here for and we will see a different outcome

But we're taking some weeks to celebrate God's blessings upon us as a people because he has blessed us. Do you know that?

I hope you do. His abundant blessings are all around us. There's no place on planet

Earth that enjoys the things that we enjoy. The tremendous liberties and freedoms, to pursue opportunities.

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