So is it possible that there's a little attitude adjustment that would be beneficial to us.

You see if we imagine there's nothing to be gained. If there's nothing required of us,

nothing to be asked of us, nothing to be demanded of us, then we have very little interest.

But if we live with the urgency that he's describing in the life of a Christ follower,

listen, he said, I want to be like Christ, even at the point of his death,

emptied God, not my will but yours, so that somehow

I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.

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

We're working through a little study under the title of escaping the dissent into paganism.

And I believe we are witnessing the paganization of America. And it's not happening at a slow speed it's not happening in

gradual increments it's happening more rapidly than I ever imagined possible.

And our goal in this, and it isn't just our nation,

this just happens to be the place God has planted us.

That was his choice, for most of us, not our own.

The challenge is how do we escape that because I believe if you don't

have an intentional plan, if you haven't purposefully built an agenda so that you are consistently and systematically engaged in things to help you,

you'll be swept up in the floodwaters of paganism.

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