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god held his hand he did it not just to
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save Isaac he did it to create a nation
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that he created 3,500 years ago and put
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in motion a land for which he chose his
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people his
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place and his purpose and we celebrate
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those of us who are Christian our Jewish
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friends i sometimes get asked this
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question because Particularly as a
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evangelical Christian with many Jewish
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friends sometimes they get really honest
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in asking me what is it about you
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people and I don't mind being called you
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people but I get this
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question why are Christians so
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supportive of Israel in general but the
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Jewish people in
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particular and I thought about for many
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years and I said to one of my friends on
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a trip here several years ago I said
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"It's really pretty easy for me to
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explain it to you you can be
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Jewish and have nothing whatsoever to do
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with
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me i cannot be a Christian and have
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nothing to do with you because
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everything I believe base my faith on is
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built on the foundation of all that God
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started he created the heavens and the
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earth and he created the Jewish people
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and he called them he set them aside he
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gave them the purpose and all that I
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believe everything upon which my faith
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rest solely upon the foundation of you
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my Jewish friends
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so I often
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say as a
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Christian I owe my Jewish friends a debt
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it's an
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obligation if you
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fall we
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fall i don't ever want Jewish people
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ever in the world to say we are all
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alone no one stands with us because all
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of us are here today as Christians to
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say we stand with you with you not
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behind you that means way behind you we
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stand with you