Practical Biblical Strategy How to De-Fund the Police - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

that way the Torah is a 4 000 year old scientific experiment and it works Moses at the very beginning he's teaching them throughout the Book of Deuteronomy learn from the past look at what happened when you veered from the path of righteousness remember when you worshiped the golden calf remember when you sent spies into the land do you remember korach do you remember all of those mistakes the Torah today is much stronger we have 4 000 years of scientific data Empires Rose and Empires fall the Romans the Greeks the Ottomans the Babylonians the Assyrians the medes the Persians pharaohs of Egypt Rose and fell they're all gone but the Jews that were loyal to the Torah bested them all the Torah is a living testimony and the Torah speaks not only to the individual but specifically to society not just the individual it's like when you in plural listen you as a society need to adopt these principles individually but collectively while Western Christian writings are focused a little bit more on personal salvation the Torah is constantly talking to the people of Israel to a society to a country to a kingdom and the expectation is that the society will function when each individual steps up to the plate and you know you want to defund the police you can do that we can defund the police tomorrow but if you want to do that only thing that needs to happen Society needs to accept upon itself the Ten Commandments if you have a social contract that every single person keeps the Ten Commandments you practically won't have any use for police so the world today it's like totally off kilter it's almost like we have an ability to be plugged in to a power source and it gives us a life force and it makes us want to have more life and give life and bring life into the world and you can detach yourself from the life force and just live on your own battery but slowly that battery sort of like Peters out and it definitely doesn't have enough Life Force to bring new life into the world or maybe one more life like if you're connected to the source you're connected to the source of all life and today the world is like disconnected from everything that brings life one of the most important things in life what are the things that make us happiness there are relationships our husbands and wives our children our parents our brothers and sisters our close family our fellowship our community the world today is so lonely no wife no husband no children no community no church no clubs I just read the most interesting study that showed that more people are bowling today in America than ever before bowling you know you roll the ball then you hit the pins but less than ever are joining bowling teams no one wants to be on a team they just want to go bowling by themselves or maybe with another person they don't want to be a part of a team a club a society they want to be alone it's like the I generation that's like me instead of we that's where we're at now and you know I quote this study a lot the Harvard study of adult development it's arguably the longest term research project in the world and explores what makes people happy in life and the study followed 724 participants and their families since 1938 collecting data on their health and their relationships and their well-being and the main finding of the study is that close relationships more than money more than possessions more than security achievements academic degrees Fame none of that close relationships are the thing that keeps people obvious throughout their lives and what is the world doing today it's like separating itself from any close relationships it's like the Bible says in the very first chapter it's not good for man to be alone I'm going to make Adam and Eve a union I'll make them come together and um there's a a scientist named James Fowler and he's documented just the impact of our social networks and our social networks and that's why the Torah is constantly talking about the tribes talking about our society imagine the way Israel is built it's so brilliant it's husband and wife Abraham and Sarah then you have Abraham Sarah Isaac Jacob then you have 12 sons you have those 12 sons become tribes communities inside the tribes there's families that are within tribes and then all of those things become a nation it's like from the smallest it grows grows and grows but the most important connections are husband and wife ultimately and what does Jane Fowler says it says listen the people that you're around the people that you associate with your Social Circles they are going to have a huge impact on who you are and on what you do if your closest friends are overweight you're probably also going to be overweight if your closest circles around you if they don't smoke cigarettes you're probably not not going to be smoking cigarettes it's just an absolute life hack surround yourself with people that you admire surround yourself with people that you want to be like and just by being around them you'll become more like them it's like you know what happens when you're a drug dealer you hang around with other drug dealers and drug addicts you know what happens when you're a member of the fellowship you hang around with the most amazing people on planet Earth and you hang around with like the greatest Souls of the world and imagine that I bet you've all know a Harari that Tila quoted would call a lot of us the useless class because we're not a part of the elite or whatever the hell they see themselves as where in God's eyes he never talks about the Kings or the astronomers or the scientists what does he care about the orphan the Widow the lonely the poor the downtrodded he wants just to see kindness and love in this world and like where is kindness unity and love expressed greater than in our fellowship like what a living example we are what a like a slap in the face to that secular ideology surround people that walk with God when you walk in the world you walk with them and so why are people living alone and if they do commune with others they're usually hanging around with the wrong people I mean how could these educated countries be making such stupid policies so intelligent and so stupid at the same time King Solomon said it first rashidunai the beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord and so if the world would adopt the Torah standard for living there would be no more war we wouldn't need armies we wouldn't need police period