Hope for This Present Crisis, Part 3

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Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef

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🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this 5-part series, Dr. Michael Youssef shares how you can shore up your faith, embrace God’s mission for your life, and equip the next generation at a time when spiritual opposition is on the rise. These are God’s marching orders to us in the midst of this present crisis.

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0:00.0	There can be very little doubt on the mind of Bible-believing Christians that it's starting to get darker and is going to get darker and darker and darker.
0:13.6	And that Bible-believing Christians will be facing more difficult days ahead.
0:21.7	And in fact, we have entered into a period of persecution of Christians throughout Europe and in the West.
0:28.6	And in the United States, we have been a lighthouse, we have been a powerhouse,
0:33.5	we have been a light and help to all the suffering Christians around the world. But that's changing.
0:41.6	We're entering into a time of experiencing discrimination, alienation, and harassment.
0:49.4	Bible, believing Christians in the West are facing and will be facing difficult time.
0:56.9	Some already have openly, and it's in the media, it's in the news, have openly called for
1:02.8	the denial of the First Amendment rights to Christians. It's in the press.
1:10.5	Sadly, this is going to get worse in the coming years. In fact,
1:16.3	I was thinking about this and thinking people like me who dreamed as a young boy of coming to
1:22.5	America, the land of freedom and the land of liberty. And I was thinking about how Christians are persecuted around
1:30.3	the world. And back in the 60s and the 70s, so many Christian desidents in the Soviet Union.
1:36.1	Remember the Soviet Union? And there were sentencing them to Siberia. And this particular
1:42.3	Christian man who was being sentenced to Siberia,
1:46.2	after he asked, he said, now our media have been telling us that America is a terrible place.
1:53.4	America is a dreadful place to live in. Can you send me there?
2:06.3	And so we're about to prepare this generation and the next generation,
2:14.2	mentally, physically, morally, and in every way. And the way we do this, we can learn from the Christians who have been persecuted for hundreds of years, hundreds of years.
2:18.6	For example, in the last 1,400 years in the Middle East, persecuted Christians learned how to train
2:27.5	generation after generation after generation, how to be strong in the face of persecution. I know experientially, not only through
2:39.7	biblical training, but practical training as well, how to stand in the face of blatant opposition.
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