Something TERRIFYING Happened at the Super Bowl...

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When something big is happening, a movement, a moment, a mission that could change the world, you want to be ready.

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You want to learn everything you can. And right now, something big is happening.

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He Gets Us is a multi -year national campaign to raise the respect and relevance of Jesus in our culture.

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It's starting conversations. It's grabbing attention and changing minds. It's all over Twitter, in Times Square, on billboards and in stadiums.

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And on February 12th, you'll see it on the biggest stage in America. You'll see

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Jesus in the Super Bowl. The conversation is starting. Are you ready for it?

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You'll find pre -written emails, scripts, social posts, and other resources for you to use to activate your church before and after the

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Super Bowl. These two

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Super Bowl ads from the organization He Gets Us generated an enormous amount of buzz online, with representative

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Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez tweeting in response, Something tells me Jesus would not spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign.

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Christianity Today writes, This month, what is thought to be the biggest ever Christian advertising campaign will go national.

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Television commercials, along with online ads and billboards, will target millennials and Gen Z with a carefully crafted, exhaustively researched, and market -tested message about Jesus Christ, He Gets Us.

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Those behind the He Gets Us campaign say they'll spend $100 million, donated by a small group of wealthy anonymous families, on the national launch, putting the campaign in the same financial arena as big -name brands like Old Navy, TD Ameritrade, and Mercedes -Benz.

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Christians should be really excited that these Super Bowl ads about Jesus are reaching millions of people, right?

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Well, let's listen to what spokesperson for the He Gets Us campaign says about the campaign.

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Well, the He Gets Us campaign really is, it does two things. One, it's kind of a rebranding of Jesus Christ in America.

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There are a lot of misconceptions about Christ here in America, people associating Him with various political views and various groups of people associating

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Him with elitism and negative things in our country's past. And He Gets Us is rebranding that, showing that Jesus is for all people, of all races, ethnicities, of all socioeconomic statuses.

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So that's one thing it's doing. But also, it's kind of showing in our polarized society how, you know, people are either getting angry with the other side or they're avoiding the other side altogether.

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And we're showing through Jesus there's a third way, and that is to respect one another and to love other people with various views, different from yourself.

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Jesus obviously taught us to love our enemies. And so we want to just show that confounding love of Jesus Christ to America and show that His example and His teachings and His life really hold the answers to our modern day challenges that we're facing individually and as a society.

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So the central message of the He Gets Us campaign, as we saw in the two ads we've already shown, titled

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Be Childlike and Love Your Enemies, is that Jesus is about loving each other and loving our enemies.

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It's a message of inclusion and not division. This is the carefully crafted, exhaustively researched, and market -tested message about Jesus Christ that targets millennials and Gen Z.

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This message of inclusion is essentially the same message preached by prosperity preachers such as Joel Osteen, T .D.

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Jakes, Stephen Furtick, and Andy Stanley. Osteen wants Christianity to be inclusive for all kinds of people, including

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Mormons. You know, what I see about Governor Romney is that he says, I believe Jesus Christ is the

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Son of God, He's raised from the dead, and, you know, He's my Savior. I see him as being a believer in Christ like me.

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And that's enough for you? Yeah, that's enough for me. I mean, there's differences in all religion. I realize Mormonism is different from Christianity, but you know what?

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He's a man of faith and values, and to me, that's strong. Catholics. What's your view of the current Pope? You know, the

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Pope has obviously been reaching out and has been a force of moderation in comparison to his predecessors. What do you make of it? I think the Pope is fantastic.

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You know, I just think his tone, his humility, his, you know, I loved when he said the other day, you know, and it's our view, too.

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We're not trying to, you know, make this a little bitty narrow thing. Anybody's welcome. We may not agree, you know, 100 % on doctrine and theology, but you know what?

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We're willing. The Church, Catholic Church, our Church, it's open for everybody, so I like his tone. Not pushing people away, but I believe

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God's big, and His mercy is very wide. And even atheists. Why would an atheist be a fan of him?

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Well, I think what they like, Larry, is when, you know, the principles that we teach are from the Scripture, but they can help anybody, you know, to reach dreams or to forgive or to have healthy, you know, good self -image.

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So I know I'm not a traditional pastor in terms of I'm just going down teaching Scripture by Scripture because a lot of my, you know, what

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I would teach would just be more how to live a great life. T .D. Jakes is so inclusive that he includes within the camp of Christianity blatantly non -Christian people such as Oprah.

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And letting her see that despite of all who forsook her, betrayed her, and denied her, he chose her, called her.

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He made her a promise to protect her under the pinions of his mighty wings. And Barack Obama.

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Because if the President's faith is suspect, then all of our faiths are suspect That's right, because the

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Bible is quite clear about what it takes to be saved, and the President has been quite open about his accepting

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Christ and him openly confessing it before men. And if it's good enough for the Bible, it ought to be good enough for the rest of us.

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I certainly agree with you on that. Likewise, Stephen Furtick just preaches that God loves everyone, without mentioning confession of sin, repentance, or faith alone in Christ alone.

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God will never love you anymore, and He loves you right now! I said you're free right now!

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Lived right now! Somebody shout, I am!

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I am His child. I am accepted. Furtick simply tells people,

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God's got your back. Without any warning about needing to repent and turn to Christ. He wanted me to tell you,

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God's got your back. God's got your back.

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And on your way to your seat, just tell three people, I can't reach them, you can't say, God's got your back. He's absolutely committed and connected to whatever is concerning you.

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God's got your back. Say it, God's got my back.

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Andy Stanley is similarly so inclusive that he does not say homosexuality is a sin that should be avoided and repented of, and instead praises gay men and women.

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My goodness, a gay man or woman who wants to worship their heavenly father, a gay person who still wants to attend church, after the way the church has treated the gay community,

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I'm telling you, they have more faith than I do. So we see that the carefully crafted, exhaustively researched, and market -tested message about Jesus Christ from He Gets Us, is not at all anything new.

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But rather, it's the unbiblical, inclusive message of the prosperity gospel, repackaged for millennials in Gen Z.

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There is no mention of repentance, no mention of judgment, no mention of God's wrath, no mention of hell, and no mention of faith in Jesus being the only way to salvation.

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It simply presents Jesus as one of us, as someone we can relate to, and not also as the infinitely holy and sovereign

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God of the universe. This is a Jesus devoid of power in hatred towards sin, which is not the true

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Jesus at all. This is a weak, sissified Jesus who is not Lord over all, and who does not save people from their sins.

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But I despise the picture that's painted in our culture of this sissified, needy

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Jesus. Amen? And that's who he is. He's a sissified, needy Jesus. He's just yearning for you.

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He's longing for you. He wants friendship and relationship with you. He needs you.

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Oh, you're breaking his heart. No, he's gonna break you. Newsflash.

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By definition, God is self -sustaining, self -existent, and self -sufficient.

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Therefore, by definition, he needs nothing. God does not need you, and he's going to prove it one day, because you're gonna die, and the world's gonna keep on spinning at the same rate it was before you were here.

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And somebody's gonna get all your stuff. He's waiting for you, all right. Revelation 19, beginning at verse 11.

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Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, the one sitting on it called Faithful and True.

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And in righteousness he judges and makes war. He judges and makes war! My God.

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Yeah, I got some issues, but that's all right. His eyes are like a flame of fire. On his head are many diadems.

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And he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He's clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is the

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Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses.

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From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron.

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He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of the God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh, he has a name written,

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King of kings and Lord of lords. That's my Jesus. That's the God whom I serve.

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Not the sissified Christ that's preached in pulpits around the United States of America.

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I serve the great God of the universe who gets angry and pours out his wrath. I serve the great

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God of the universe who demonstrated his wrath when he poured it out on his own son.

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And it amazes me that we believe this, that God would crush and kill his own son, but let you slide.

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Not for a minute, the spotless, sinless Lamb of God suffered and bled and died because of the wrath of God.

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That propitiation, the satisfaction of the righteous wrath of God, that's what was experienced on the cross.

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How dare we take that lightly? That's the one against whom you've sinned.

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Not this sissified Jesus with hair like the Brett girl with a lamb across his shoulders.

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Hands look like he never worked a day in his life. When we sin, we sin against the almighty creator of the universe, the maker of heaven and earth.

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And then here's the kicker. Though he should have killed me in my sleep for what

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I thought, said and did on yesterday, yet by his grace, he has allowed me to live another day.

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Oh, I think brokenness is very appropriate. I think it's great that there are Christians who are willing to give so much of their money to tell people about Jesus.

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However, it is absolutely worthless, even harmful to tell people about a

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Jesus who is not the true Jesus of the Bible. It's a great tragedy.

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It's a historic reality that several hundred years ago, scholarship left the church or began to leave the church.

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And now you don't even think of a pastor as a serious theologian. And that is indeed tragic because that trickles down to the ignorance of the people.

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Pastors have become brokers of somebody else's theology. They become middle managers who are more concerned with methodologies and ideas, entrepreneurial schemes, than they are with theology, sound doctrine.

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A rebel took to the streets. He recruited others to join him. They quit their jobs, left their families, and swore allegiance to him, owned the hood, challenged authority, and made a lot of people uneasy.

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Community leaders feared them. Religious leaders abhorred them. Law enforcement labeled them outlaws.

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We have to shut them down, they said. Get them off the streets. Protect our communities from these troublemakers.

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But they weren't part of a gang spreading hate and terror. They were spreading love.