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Rick Green calls believers to courageous faith and responsible leadership, reminding us that freedom must be stewarded and faith lived boldly in every generation.
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Awakening to Righteous Anger in Turbulent Times 0:01 Welcome. This is Ignite Kingdom Talk. Make the marketplace the miracle place.0:10 Hey, guys. Welcome back to Ignite Kingdom Talk. We're so excited to have Rick Green with us. And and, guys, I I I wanted to do this. I wanted to do this because I I0:21 I I love Rick. I I love what he's doing there at Patriot Academy. But, really, before we we kinda dive into into this, Rick, I I wanna do this because I0:33 I kinda find myself, a little edgy, a little,0:39 I0:39 don't know if edgy is the right word.0:40 I just that word. That was good. Yeah. Let's0:43 I mean, I just I'm I'm just I'm kind of ticked off. And Yeah. My beautiful wife who with that Canadian my0:55 Canadian girl who now is a, a full blown American. But but but, Rick, here's here's the thing. It's just you know, when when you have a1:06 pastor like Hank Kooneman, you know, some the Lord. Yeah. Praise the Lord. I I don't know. There's times where I just don't know where I would be if if I wasn't under his1:18 ministry. And and and what I mean by that is, you know, as a former marine, you know, business owner, I I just you know, I I my faith, my hope, our trust is1:30 in is in the Lord Jesus Christ. I know that. I get that. But there's things that happen in this world. Rick, it just ticks me off. All the things that seem to be happening you1:42 know, the other thing, just the other day, I'm listening to Fox News. And, oh, by the way, we we just, we downtown1:53 LA on New Year's Eve. But we but we caught the guys, and it was, like, 30 seconds, and it was done. And and it was, like, that's it? I mean, it's like this there's stuff happening2:06 that is just it's just ticking me off, Rick. And and I I don't know I know my hope is in Christ, but I'm gonna throw that on you and and unbury me here.2:19 Well, man, if you didn't have some level, you know, some response of righteous anger to the things that are happening in our country and around the world right now, then, you wouldn't be a man of ISCAR, a woman2:31 of ISCAR. Y'all get it. You understand the times. You know what to do, and and that's why you love, you know, sitting under Hank's teaching and and having somebody that that that sees what's happening and isn't without2:42 an answer, you know, or or at least a a a response to ask God for an answer. You know, we don't live in, we don't live in pale and timid times. I mean, these are,2:54 I think, inflection point years for, you know, if the Lord should tarry, that are gonna set the stage for the next 50 years of what America's gonna look like in in in the world. And we're either gonna3:06 be taken off the international stage and no longer a superpower and and so consumed with our own crumbling as a as a culture, or perhaps even destruction if if Islam has its3:18 way, or we're gonna have a rebirth over the next couple of years, and we're gonna seize this moment that that is is a combination of both tragedy that is shaking people out of their3:30 slumber and incredible opportunity. And and and it's so weird watching all these these things collide, But in in the chaos of of Islam trying to to to3:42 take over Western civilization and actually believing for the first time in 1400 years, they've got a they've got a chance of doing that. They that that's what the word on the street is out of Syria and everywhere else.3:51 They're like, we see they see the weakness. Right?3:53 Yeah.3:54 So either they're gonna win and and remake America and the rest of, you know, Europe and, obviously, Australia and these other places, into, the disaster that they are in every every4:06 country, that they get control. Either that's gonna happen or we're gonna have a rebirth of Christendom where people once again say, you know what? The Bible was right, and and the founders were right to to wanna4:18 live by the Bible. And we wanna have a rebirth of that kind of, you know, revolution, if you will, and and a revolution with ballots, not bullets, a revolution of of of spirituality and and and first4:30 principles. And if and if that happens, man, it's gonna be incredible. We're getting just a little taste of that in some places where igniting a a with a revival, of these principles.4:42 And I don't know which way it's gonna go, bro. I really don't. But I'm like you. I I get riled up. I mean, I I get so frustrated with the the the mass vast majority of the church that is not,4:54 you know, made up of men and women of Issachar that understand the times and know what to do. I get frustrated with them, and I try to, I try to remind myself. I'm like, okay. God's called us, you know, called his people5:05 stiff neck people before. It seemed to be that way right now. But the good news is there's a lot of people like like y'all and and like us, right now, and there's a harvest waiting to be discipled. So5:17 Yes. Take that for what it's worth. It's like, I'm just trying to say eyes wide open. There's a concentrated effort to completely destroy Western civilization right now, not just the Islamist, but the globalist and the5:28 and the and the Marxist. So there's real danger out there. I mean, I I don't perfume it up. But then there's also just this amazing awakening happening. And so the question is, what are we what are we gonna do with it,5:38 and can we thread that needle? Can we maneuver this moment that we've been given? Our our mutual friend, Lance Wallnau, he says in our new course, rebuilding liberty, you know, can can we take this moment and and5:50 and turn it into a movement? And and I and I believe we can. I don't know what the outcome will be, but I know I know I'm gonna you know, duty's ours, results are God's. We just gotta do our part. Right?5:59 That's right. That's right.6:00 You were saying that, it it just came to me with David. You know, you look at and god uses the foolish things to confound the wise. And and, you know, he'sFaith Like David: Facing Giants with Anointed Boldness 6:12 out tending his his flock, his, you know, his brother said your small flock, and he's worshiping, and he's playing, and he's just singing to the lord, and he6:24 has such a relationship with god the father. So, you know, you would think he's young, but he's he's trustworthy. The lord looks at him and says,6:36 you're you're he's a young man at that time, but I choose you because your heart is after my heart. And nobody else could see that except for God because he's alone. He's got just6:47 a small little thing he's taking care of, his little sheep. But when when Samuel comes in and, you know, he tells Jesse, get your brothers or get your sons, bring them in, and he goes through the 7.7:00 And, you know, they were military. They were, I'm sure, very intelligent. And that you would think that's the man that's gonna be king. And the lord says, oh, no. No. No.7:12 No. I mean, he's like, I'm picking the 1 that you're all jealous over and that you wish you could be him, but you can't. And so god anoints this young man. You know, he comes in, and you know the story.7:24 And I just think when he goes, because he's been in the presence of the lord daily singing and worshiping and just sensing the presence, when he stood be before the giant, and he's7:36 like, how dare you defy the armies of the living god? You know? And he takes his sling, and he just slays him. And there's no way that this little ruddy man is gonna win against a giant7:48 that has paralyzed a nation, basically, by taunting and and all of that. And I feel that that's kinda where we're at right now. There's so much taunting. The Islam Islam is just,8:00 like, taunting, and you see all over in different cities, countries, them, you know, thousands and thousands of them worshiping and, you know, doing their thing and just intimidating8:12 and bringing fear and paralyzing people. But all it took was 1 boy Yeah. Who believed God at his word and brought down the giant and severed the giant's head. And I8:24 feel like God is raising up people that have faith to believe for the things that don't make sense in the natural. I believe it's supernatural. If we just spend time in the word in with him Yeah. And8:36 become anointed like David was anointed, we're gonna see things change.8:41 You know, Desiree, it's so interesting you started with that because we just had, we do this thing called the Patriot Institute. And so these are the kids that I've got for a full year. So they live they live at the8:50 campus here with us. They're 18 to 25. And Michelle Bachman, who's a y'all probably know her, but she, you know, former congresswoman from Minnesota, and she dealt with that whole Somali thing for 20 years. And, anyway,9:02 she she spent some time with them yesterday and but her but her closing point was what basically, basically, what you just alluded to. And she said, you know, you you you, the young people that are the leaders of9:12 tomorrow, the most important thing you can be doing in this chaotic world where all these things are happening is to be saturated in God's word and spending time with the Holy Spirit so that you are in tune and you know9:24 which steps to take. And that's gonna make you have the right heart that God will, you know, choose to choose to have you lead, whether it's in your family or the country or whatever it might be. And it's just it's just9:34 like this recurring theme this week that I keep hearing over and over and over again to just spend time with the Lord so that you know what to do in the chaos. And, you know, you're so right. I mean, it9:46 was his tender heart, and it was his his closeness to the Lord and a desire to bring glory to the Lord that even gave him the ability to stand in the face of such incredible opposition. And I think you're right. I think9:57 that is the that is the moment we're in. And it's also kinda like being on the other side of the Red Sea, and and God's performed this incredible miracle and and given America this reprieve and this opportunity in the10:09 same way that he did for the children of Israel, but they chose fear. And and they listened to the 10 spies that said the giants are too big and the walls are too fortified, and they got paralyzed. They they they10:19 marched, you know, around for 40 years and had to die in the wilderness. They should have listened to Joshua and Caleb and and said, you know, yep. Giants, fortified cities, absolutely, but God's given us the land. Let's10:30 go take it. And I think that's kinda we're in that are we gonna be paralyzed because of the opposition? Are we gonna say, man, we've got a mighty god on our side. Let's let's go. Let's let's let's take this back.10:41 Ignite Kingdom Talk is made possible through the generous support of our Ignite partner access members, a subscription based community offering Christ centered accountability, encouragement, and growth through small10:51 groups. Learn more and take your next step at ignite dash k g dot org.10:57 Are we gonna be paralyzed because of the opposition? Or are we gonna say, man, we've got a mighty god on our side. Let's let's go. Let's let's let's take this back. And I think that's an everyday decision because this is11:09 not gonna be a short, you know, just 1 moment. You know, it's it's not gonna be 1 big battle like in the Lord of the Rings or something. It's gonna be a generation of of being faithful, a generation of11:21 showing up every day, whatever that particular fight might be. It might be running for office. It might be running your business in a way that's bringing glory to God and creating an environment where people can be11:30 discipled, an environment where God can bless it, and then those dollars can bless the ministries and the and the and the people running for office. It might be, you know, literally making a decision to spend more time11:42 educating your own kids or the kids in your community because you recognize how important it is to raise them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and and good civics to to apply it. I don't know what you know,11:52 everybody's got a different battle, but there's just a I feel like the the message right now is to be faithful. Be faithful. Be faithful. Stay in the fight every day. Don't grow weary in well doing. There's all thisFaithful Action: Training Warriors for Kingdom Battles 12:03 opposition and all these crazy things happening. But just to be like, man, I'm so in tune with the holy spirit, and I'm so in God's word that I I can I can stay on course and I can stay in the fight? I mean, that's Yeah.12:13 That's what it's gonna take.12:15 Yeah. And and and, Rick, that's why we love what you're doing so much as well there at Patriot Academy because you are you're you're you're you're doing more than I mean, you're educating and and12:26 you're showing. You're you're you're showing the way. And and and watching, you know, sometimes I I have to take a break. There there's times where all for our news, there12:38 are times where the only thing we'll listen to is is Flashpoint. Yeah. And and, obviously, I I love everyone on on Flashpoint, but it just it just gets so frustrating and and so12:51 you know, it's it's either so far to the right or so far to the left, there there you don't even know what's truth anymore. But watching watching the situation unfold there in Australia,13:04 and and and, again, it's it's like the the question I ask is, I know it's not America, but depending on where that could have happened in13:16 in the United States, I wonder if someone might have been in that same situation where that guy and I and I I mean, I don't know about you, but the first time you've seen that, but, man, I was I was13:28 fighting for it. That guy goes and grabs the bad guy Right. Takes his gun, and he lays it down. And then I hear, you know, later that the guy ran to his vehicle, got13:39 another another weapon, and and and and continued his his his his killing. But I just I I just there's a time for us to step to wake up, and then we've gotta step13:51 up. Yes. Christ is the answer, but I love what you guys are doing at at Patriot Academy. And and, Rick, can you just go into a little bit about what14:03 you guys are doing, to educate not only not only the, the the younger generation, which I really love, but all of us. What what what is Patriot14:15 Academy doing?14:16 Yeah, man. I'd love to. I I gotta I gotta, though, just comment real quick on what you were talking about because I just, my heart sank when that guy, you know, wrestled the gun away and then just just lays14:28 it down, literally laid the laid down the gun. It's it's almost like and and and it was symbolic of of so many people want to make a difference and even have the courage to step in,14:40 but it's like ignorance on fire. They don't they haven't done the homework and haven't gotten grounded to know how to fight effectively. And so, you know, we have a saying here at Patriot Academy that it's not a good guy14:51 with a gun that stops a bad guy with a gun. It's a trained good guy with a gun that stops a bad guy with a gun. And, you know, this guy was well meaning and thank you know, god bless him and thank I'm so thankful he was15:00 willing to intervene. But this this mentality that he he whether it was because he's thinking guns are bad, so I'm gonna put the gun down, you know, programmed to believe that, or just thinking somehow this is you know,15:12 I'm not gonna, I don't have a a a moral right to end this guy's life even though he's ending all these other lives, which I've got a book coming out called the Biblical Right of Arms Self Defense and and why he would15:22 have absolutely been in the right and should have stopped the threat rather than letting the guy go get another gun and continue to murder people. It was just it it my heart sank when I saw him put the put the weapon15:32 down because I I thought about all these reasons why a guy would do that in that situation where he's clearly watching mass murder take a Vin and he had the courage to step in. But because he wasn't trained to use the15:44 firearm or because he he had been, you know, wrongly trained to believe that that that stopping the threat would be wrong or whatever, it was just symbolic of the moment we're in, and and that's why training is so15:55 important. And I mean that for the intellectual and the physical. We do a lot of firearms physical training to help people be ready to stop the threat. I'm I don't say this to scare anybody. I I think it's a man of16:06 Issachar thing to say that the jihad is coming. And these are the you know, Australia, University, the the National Guardsmen in DC, these are all just examples where I believe they16:18 are they are testing our perimeter. As a marine, you get that for sure, and they're figuring out, well, how we're gonna respond. So I think it's it's incumbent, Proverbs 27 12, on people to be16:30 a wise person that foresees danger and takes precaution, not a simpleton or a fool that walks blindly on and suffers the consequence. So I think we need to be training as many people as we possibly can to stop the threat16:40 at their church, at their grocery store, their, you know, movie theater home, where wherever it is. That's the only way. Sheepdog's prepared and trained to stop the threat. That's the only way you prevent the mass murder16:51 event. Are you are you limited? So that's a whole another topic, but but I'm glad you brought it up because it's right in front of us, and we gotta recognize the need to do that. So that that is 1 thing we do at Patriot17:01 Academy. It's just a very small part of our operation, but we train thousands of people. The main thing we do is is actually the intellectual ammunition, not just the physical training, but the intellectual ammunition of17:10 of just what does it mean to be a good citizen? What does it mean to be a biblical citizen? What does it mean to to to to be a disciple of Christ in every area of my life so that I'm not just applying God's word to my17:22 salvation, and I'm not just applying it to my relationship with my spouse or my kids or even my employees or my employer, but I'm also applying it to my neighborhood. What does my neighborhood look like if if people are17:33 being disciples? How do we treat our neighbor the way we wanna be treated with regard to how our laws look? What's our school look like? What's our legislature look like? And so we train citizens of all ages, on how17:45 to live out their freedom in a in a biblical way, and and everybody benefits from that. Everybody, whether they're secular, whether they're Buddhist, whether they're Jewish, Christian, whatever, they benefit when17:56 Christians live out their faith and they live out what the Bible says about how to treat their neighbors. Even our businesses blossom. We have a better constitutional republic. We have a better system of free enterprise18:08 when we look at Jesus' parables and realize he was against the minimum wage. He was against the government being involved in the employer employee relationship. I mean, he teaches us so much Yeah. About how to treat our18:19 neighbor and how to operate as a society if we'll just pay attention and actually apply it. And so we do that with constitution classes, with, with with our, legislative simulations where we train people on how to18:30 operate in a legislature, how to go testify in committees, how to testify to school board. All of these programs are designed to just help us be good citizens, and and you said it right. It's for all of us, not just the18:42 kids. We started just a youth leadership program doing these legislative simulations in state capitals around the country for kids, for 16 to 25 year olds. But now we do it for pastors, for business leaders, for, law18:53 enforcement, for for for everybody, military veterans. And it's and it's we're seeing a real difference. I I I wanna be encouraging to your audience and let them know the principles of liberty, biblical principles work19:05 every time they're tried. As my friend Bob McEwen says, the only problem with these principles is they only work every time they're tried, which means we gotta do them. We gotta we gotta actually live them out, and and19:13 we're seeing that happen in in communities across America. There's a lot of battles to to fight. But but when we use God's God's way, it really does. It's not just right. It actually works best.19:24 Well, when I when you're talking, I was thinking about, you know, during, COVID and all of that and when Flashpoint really was birthed and took off and how19:36 many times, you know, we would what we watched, and it was just like food. You know? Like, oh, thank you God for that. Thank you. You know, you look forward to it every week.19:45 Yeah. It was like a sanity pill too. It kept us busy.19:48 It was. And it helped build your faith. And every time pastor Hank would give a word and he'd give them at church, and and, you know, he always gives a redemptive plan because that's how the lord is and how he speaks20:00 through him and what the bible is. And and but, you know, you think so many Christians feel like there's no place for government and politics in church. And I'm like, do you20:12 not realize the bible said the government is on his shoulders, and who are his shoulders? You know, he is the head. We are the body. And and so if we don't care about20:24 politics and aren't getting involved in politics, all we're doing is being baby little Christians. Give me my give me my bottle.20:32 My my milk and yep.20:33 And and and just, you know, you guys do all the heavy lifting. You guys do whatever, the few. But I want everything doted on me and handed to me. And I think if people really got into the meat of the20:45 word and understood what the Bible said and to honor the men of God who speak in that. And not everybody who calls himself a prophet or people look to as a prophet are truly20:57 real true prophets. There are false prophets for sure. But we know that our pastor is a true prophet. And so I remember when he would prophesy the spirit of God in you would be21:09 like, that's true. Like and then you just stand on that in faith believing I'm gonna see that. You know what? The election was stolen. I believe it. There's no 1 who could talk me out of it. I believe it. And that and21:20 all and president Trump's gonna be back in. I know it's happening. Nobody could tell me any I don't care what's going on in the world. He's back he's gonna be back in office because it's a prophetic word, but it reminds21:32 me in the Bible. And I I sometimes get Elisha and Elijah mixed up, but I'm pretty sure it was Elisha when they kept winning. And the king says, how do they21:44 know? Who's the traitor? Who's the spy, basically, who keeps letting them in? And 1 of his his, people said, it's Elijah. He knows even what you say in your in your21:56 bedroom. And I just thought, that's the kind of that's the kind of thing that we need to be, like, praying for the prophets who speak praying for pastor Hank. Lord, let22:08 speak those kinds of things to him.22:10 Yeah.22:10 Like, that we know every attempt that the enemy has to try to bring harm, kill, steal, destroy is like, no. Lord, you've come to give abundant life to us, your22:22 believers. And so let us be so in tune with your spirit that the spirit of God in us says, something's going on. Sound the alarm. And by prayer, you know, to let people know, hey. We can thwart the plans of the22:34 enemy. We have the ability because the spirit of God in us is able to speak the same today as he did back when Elisha spoke.22:42 Amen. That's my22:43 that's my little Canadian girl right there.22:44 I love it. I love it. Well, you know, I think I think a great Canadians like Art Pawlowski and then these these just absolute warriors that, you know, that that that Christ first, and, they know that their country's22:56 been hijacked by the Marxist and the leftist. And and, man, I've you know, when Trump would joke about 50 first state and everything, I'd be like, you know, that could actually happen. I mean, you know, they're we could23:08 actually go there. I was gonna say, though, Desiree, your your your milk analogy is is spot on because it just doesn't even just from a common sense, like, lordship perspective, if you're really saying that I've23:20 given my life to Christ and and and that he is my lord and savior, and I'm gonna be a disciple of Christ and follow everything that he commanded, which is the great commission to make disciples that obey everything he23:30 commanded. If that's true, then why why do we take things off the table and say he's not lord in that area? Or as a Christian, I can't I can't, you know, live out my faith in that. Like, nobody leaves the church saying,23:42 wow. Great sermon. I wish we could apply it when we get home, to how we treat our spouse and our kids, but their separation of home and church. I mean, nobody does that. Right? They we we hopefully don't do that, but we23:52 somehow, like you said, we do that with government. Somehow we think politics or government is somehow outside of of the lordship of Christ and or that it doesn't that his teachings don't apply when in24:04 reality, there's a lot in the Bible about about how to govern, about how to how to treat your neighbor. I mean, that's all politics is. I was a legislator and and, you know, I'd vote on thousands of bills every session,24:15 and every single bill was about how we're gonna treat our neighbors every time. It was what's gonna be legal, what's not, what do you do if somebody violates the our rules of how we're gonna treat our neighbor. And24:24 Mhmm.24:24 I mean, it was all about that. And so to not take my biblical perspective into that arena, or these Christians that that are in politics that actually will say, I leave my faith at the door. Like, I'm not gonna let that.24:35 Wait. What? You're you're gonna go or or a judge that gets, you know, appointed or elected if you're on at state level, sometimes elected, and says I'm gonna leave I'm I'm not gonna let my convictions or my belief,24:47 impact how I rule on it's a lie. It's an absolute lie. So it's, yeah, I I I don't know why Christians unilaterally disarm and say I'm I'm gonna leave my faith at the door, but everybody else can bring theirs into the24:58 door. I think it's changing, though. I think the absurdity of that is is becoming so obvious. And so to your point, you know, getting into the meat and actually getting Christians to do the hard work.25:10 You know, Charlie Kirk was a guy that, that did the hard work. You know? He wasn't a savant at 17. He didn't he wasn't he didn't know all of that stuff at 17. He was hungry. And he and he and he said, I I25:22 wanna be I wanna do what it says in Timothy, study to show show myself approved. In first Peter 3 15, I wanna I wanna be ready to answer. And so he got around people that that that were that could help him and teach him25:33 those things. He took all the classes and the courses. He did a bunch of our stuff and and found people to sharpen his countenance with, and and and and, and God used him in a mighty, mighty way. And but he can do the25:43 same for anybody watching this program right now listening to what we're talking about. Anybody out there that wants to be used of God, start studying to show yourself approved. Yeah. Start doing the things you need to25:54 do to be ready to answer whether you're a mechanic and and that fellow mechanic under the car with you is working on it, and suddenly they ask you creation or God or abortion or life or whatever, be ready to answer right26:06 then and influence that 1 person, whether it's your grandkid that's gone off to college and and and now they're a leftist and and they bought all that. But now you've got a chance to be ready to answer at Christmas when26:16 they ask a tough question. You you don't basically, what I'm saying is every single 1 of us can be like Charlie was on the campuses, willing to listen, willing to to hear how why people believe what they believe, but26:26 then they're we're ready to speak with all boldness as John Amachukwu said that night at Flashpoint. Man, I I just think we're in fact, that was there at y'all's place when when he said that, and I thought, wow. That's a26:37 that's that's that's it. We gotta be ready to answer. We gotta answer with all boldness. And if every single 1 of us will do that, God's ready to use us. I I really believe that.Show more In this video 0:00 Awakening to Righteous Anger in Turbulent Times6:02 Faith Like David: Facing Giants with Anointed Boldness11:59 Faithful Action: Training Warriors for Kingdom Battles26:46 Resolute Faith: Church Leading the Nation's Revival36:13
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