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Allen Jackson - The Church In The World (Part 2)

April 7, 2025 | S25:E100

Allen Jackson - The Church In The World (Part 2)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - The Church In The World (Part 2) | April 7, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, we just read, the apostle paul when he's
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  • Saul of tarsus and he has this encounter with jesus of nazareth
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  • On the road to damascus.
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  • It's very disorienting.
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  • His old friends don't trust him, his new allies don't trust him
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  • Because they knew who he's been.
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  • You know, he's having to learn a whole new way of life, and it's
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  • An awkward place, and i feel like choosing to step into the
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  • Light and walk with the lord in seasons of change, have that
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  • Sense of the loss of equilibrium.
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  • Because it's frustrating, it's uncomfortable to say that our
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  • Patterns in the past have not always brought forth the best
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  • Outcomes for the lord.
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  • And in the contemporary church, we would much rather point to
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  • Our spiritual resume and say, "i've done all of my significant
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  • Business," and i'm grateful for all the accomplishment, all the
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  • Road traveled.
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  • Paul did not reject the training he had in scripture.
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  • As a student of scripture, he identifies as a pharisee all--
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  • On his entire journey through.
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  • But he said along with that, "i have come to understand that
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  • Jesus of nazareth is not only alive, but he's the messiah."
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  • And that dramatically altered the preparation he'd had up
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  • Until that event, and god is altering the journeys of his
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  • People in the earth to give us a different kind of a future.
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  • And i'm excited about it.
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  • And i think it's more important than ever that we understand the
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  • Fundamentals of who we are and what we believe and why we
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  • Believe it, and we don't simply imagine that we want to maintain
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  • The traditions of the past.
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  • We don't want to be disrupted.
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  • We've been too far in the world with too little fear of god and
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  • Far too much self-motivation.
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  • I mean too far--far too much self-motivation.
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  • So i wanna start this session, there is relief, i'm gonna get
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  • To your outlines.
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  • But they're short and i can do it pretty quickly, i think, with
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  • The supremacy of jesus of nazareth.
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  • It seems unbelievable to me, but this idea is not welcome in much
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  • Of organized christianity in our nation: the supremacy and the
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  • Uniqueness of jesus of nazareth.
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  • Folks, it's not the christian faith without this.
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  • Jesus cannot simply be a good teacher or a moralist or a
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  • Healer or a miracle worker.
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  • If he was and he was not the incarnate son of god, he was not
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  • A good man; he was a liar and a deceiver.
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  • And we've got to reconcile this.
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  • We have to make a decision about the person of jesus and the
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  • Place we will give him.
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  • And your decision about him makes the rest of being a jesus
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  • Follower become very simple because if he is the incarnate
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  • Son of god, then by all means, let him establish the agenda.
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  • Why would you veto the opinion of the incarnate son of god?
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  • Let's start in colossians 1, in verse 17.
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  • Paul's writing to a church.
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  • Remember, the people gathered in the church, people who've made
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  • Decisions for the lord already, need to be reminded or informed
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  • Of this information, as do we.
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  • "he is before all things," he's speaking of jesus, "and in him
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  • All things hold together.
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  • He is the head of the body, the church; he's the beginning and
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  • The firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he
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  • Might have the supremacy.
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  • For god was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and
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  • Through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether
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  • Things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through
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  • His blood, shed on the cross."
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  • It's a rather elaborate statement--assertion of the
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  • Supremacy of jesus.
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  • He's the head of the body.
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  • He's the head of the whole church.
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  • We gather first and foremost under the authority of jesus.
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  • More than any tradition, any denomination, any preferences
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  • That we might stack under that, we serve at the pleasure of
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  • The king.
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  • We're his people.
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  • He establishes the priorities.
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  • He establishes right and wrong, good and evil.
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  • He is the judge of all.
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  • We will all stand before him and give an account for our lives,
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  • For what we've done in the body, whether it's good or bad.
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  • For the christ follower, it's not a judgment of destiny.
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  • It's not a judgment of heaven or hell, but it's an evaluation of
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  • How we've spent our time on the earth.
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  • And the scripture tells us very plainly that it's possible that
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  • At that point in judgment, the majority of what we've given our
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  • Life to will not stand the test and it will be consumed.
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  • Or if we've been guided by jesus, we can live our lives in
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  • Such a way that we have laid up treasure for ourselves
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  • In heaven.
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  • There are two very dramatically different outcomes, and we
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  • Don't talk about it a great deal.
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  • We don't like to think about it a little--a great deal 'cause
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  • We think somebody wants us to do or be something for them.
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  • My agenda is to help you be the best i know how to encourage you
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  • To be in serving the lord.
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  • Ephesians 1: "god placed all thing under jesus's feet and
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  • Appointed him to be the head over everything for the church,
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  • Which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in
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  • Every way."
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  • I hear people who are unhappy with the church.
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  • And i think, "do you know who the head of the church is?"
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  • Matthew 16 changed my life.
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  • I was a young man when that passage really became alive in
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  • My heart.
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  • I didn't value the church.
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  • My spiritual formation didn't take place in the church.
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  • I didn't receive the lord in the church.
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  • I wasn't baptized in the spirit in the church.
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  • I was baptized in the atlantic ocean, not in a church building.
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  • I really did not think of church as a place that was significant
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  • For spiritual formation.
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  • In fact, i imagined it to be quite the opposite.
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  • Which made it even more bizarre when i thought the lord was
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  • Asking me to serve in the church.
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  • But when this verse became real to me, jesus said, "i will build
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  • My church, and the gates of hades will not overcome it.
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  • I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you
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  • Bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose
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  • On earth will be loosed in heaven."
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  • If you look at our culture today, the children whose lives
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  • Have been sacrificed, some 60 million of them.
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  • The graft, the fraud, the stealing, the deception.
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  • The inequities in the justice system, the collapse of our
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  • Educational systems and our universities is helping to train
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  • Young people to flourish in life with a biblical worldview and
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  • Character formation.
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  • I think you could take that matthew 16:19 and say it's
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  • Pretty apparent that the church has not been doing a good job of
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  • Binding things that need to be bound and loosing things that
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  • Need to be loosed.
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  • And i think our response is typically, "well, i don't know,
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  • We don't want to talk about that.
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  • Can we talk about pharisees and sadducees and what
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  • They believed?"
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  • I'll be happy to talk about pharisees and sadducees, but
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  • We've got to understand them in the context of our assignment.
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  • This is our time in the arena.
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  • We will give an account for it.
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  • I will, you will.
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  • And it's very helpful to me to know that jesus is still
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  • Building his church.
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  • And if there are expressions of that that are failing and
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  • Falling into apostasy, i assure you there will be places where
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  • There is growth and an emerging voice, and the declaration of
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  • The truth.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • And i travel enough and engage with enough christians in enough
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  • Arenas, i think sometimes we're a bit like david.
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  • You know, david was driven from jerusalem in his palace and
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  • Forced to flee as a fugitive because his son led a
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  • Rebellion, absalom.
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  • And some of you know the story: absalom was killed.
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  • And the rebellion is settled and david returns to jerusalem and
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  • He's weeping and mourning the loss of his son.
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  • If absalom had succeeded in his rebellion, all of those who
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  • Supported david would have been slaughtered.
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  • And when absalom's rebellion is reversed and absalom loses his
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  • Life, david is weeping, and david's commander comes to him
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  • And says, "if you don't stop this and go greet the people
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  • With an appreciation for what god has done, you will lose
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  • Your kingdom."
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  • And there's a tendency right now, i think, to weep about
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  • Those that we would prefer to use their voice or speak up, and
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  • To grieve what someone is not doing.
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  • I think we should celebrate what god is doing.
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  • I don't want to be so rooted in what i wish were happening that
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  • I fail to participate in what god is doing.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • Acts chapter 1 and verse 7. this is jesus.
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  • This is his last statement before he ascends back to
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  • Heaven, bodily.
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  • He said to his friends, "he said, 'it's not for you to know
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  • The times or the dates the father has set by his
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  • Own authority.
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  • But you'll receive power when the holy spirit comes on you;
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  • And you'll be my witnesses in jerusalem, and judea and
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  • Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.'"
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  • Said, it's really not any of your business, the times or
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  • The dates.
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  • They'd just asked him a question.
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  • They said, "are you going to remove the romans now?"
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  • They've had a 40-day seminar after the resurrection, with a
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  • Resurrected messiah, teaching them about the kingdom of god.
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  • That's what the scripture tells us.
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  • And the only question that is recorded during that 40-day
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  • Seminar is in this first chapter of acts.
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  • The disciples say, "are you gonna remove the romans?"
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  • I think of all the questions you would have if you got an
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  • Opportunity to talk to the resurrected messiah, but out of
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  • The abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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  • They want the romans gone, and they say, "are you gonna throw
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  • Out the romans?"
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  • And jesus said, "it's none of your business.
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  • The times and the dates that the father has set by his authority
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  • Are not your problem."
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  • Times and dates.
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  • There are two words used because in greek there are two words
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  • That are used in reference to time.
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  • One is chronos, which is used for the measuring time, the
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  • Chronological measurement of time, seconds, minutes, hours,
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  • Days, weeks, months.
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  • The other word is kairos, which signifies not that chronological
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  • Measurement of time but it signifies the right moment, the
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  • Opportune moment, the critical moment.
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  • And so jesus said in answer to the disciples' questions, "it's
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  • Not for you to know the calendar.
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  • You're not gonna know the hour, the day, the week or the month.
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  • You're not even gonna know, necessarily, the
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  • Critical moment."
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  • How much energy do we spend trying to know that?
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  • It intrigues--why do we spend time trying to discover
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  • Something that jesus said was indecipherable?
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  • But he did say you'll receive power when the holy spirit comes
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  • On you to be my witnesses.
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  • You'll be empowered to be witnesses for me.
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  • And then he said it in a very unique way.
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  • He said, "in jerusalem," the city of jerusalem, "in judea,"
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  • The region that surrounds it, "in samaria," the next region,
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  • "and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
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  • "you'll be empowered to be witnesses for me in jerusalem,
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  • In judea, in samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
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  • Folks, that's the assignment for the church that jesus is the
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  • Head of.
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  • That's it.
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  • It's never been amended, it's never been rescinded.
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  • We don't think about church like that.
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  • We don't.
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  • We don't wanna pick it up.
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  • We don't want to struggle.
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  • It's not our problem.
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  • We're born again, maybe our kids are born again.
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  • "why do you talk to me about this?"
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  • Because i believe we'll give an account.
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  • The disciples are so dramatically changed, their
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  • Lives never went back to normal.
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  • Peter and his brother never resumed their fishing business.
  • 00:11:33.142 --> 00:11:36.412
  • Well, they fished a bit, but they never went back to
  • 00:11:36.412 --> 00:11:38.614
  • That routine.
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  • Matthew didn't go back to being a tax collector.
  • 00:11:41.150 --> 00:11:43.285
  • Saul of tarsus didn't go back to doing what he was doing before
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  • The damascus road.
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  • I don't believe you and i are intended to return to the shape
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  • We were in before we encountered jesus of nazareth as lord,
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  • Christ, and king.
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  • I mean, we may still have our day jobs as butchers and bakers
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  • And candlestick makers, but we should be dramatically different
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  • Than we were prior to that event.
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  • Because our reasons for existing have changed.
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  • Prior to that, we're self-absorbed.
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  • It's about me and what i want and what i wanna do.
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  • And after that event, i'm a servant of the king.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: it's going to be an amazing spring at world
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  • Outreach church, and you're invited to be part of it all.
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  • Join us in murfreesboro for easter weekend
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  • And our spring festival, kicking off
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  • Saturday april 12 and running through sunday april 27.
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  • Worship with musical guest artists crowder,
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  • Charity gayle, matthew west, franni cash, and the katinas.
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  • Hear special messages from pastor allen jackson.
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  • Enjoy fun activities for the whole family,
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  • Food trucks, and more.
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  • Services will take place both indoors and outdoors.
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  • Invite your friends and family to come celebrate
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  • Our risen king this spring.
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  • Allen: hey, this is pastor allen.
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  • I want to give you a personal invitation to join us on our
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  • Campus here in murfreesboro for our spring festival
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  • And our easter celebration.
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  • It's a wonderful time to be with people of faith and celebrate
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  • This most remarkable time of the year.
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  • Announcer: find out more at wochurch.org.
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  • We can't wait to see you there.
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  • Allen: i believe god is moving in the earth
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  • In an unprecedented way, and at the heart of that
  • 00:13:27.389 --> 00:13:30.159
  • Is an awakening, it's a shaking.
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  • And in that shaking, there's a shifting.
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  • There are people falling through the cracks, and there are people
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  • Becoming more alert and aware of what god is doing.
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  • At the heart of that is the acknowledgement,
  • 00:13:39.335 --> 00:13:41.637
  • The realization that spiritual forces shape our lives.
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  • Folks, this isn't for the lunatic fringe.
  • 00:13:46.275 --> 00:13:48.377
  • This isn't for the hyper-spiritual people.
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  • This is the stuff of the bible, and it better be the stuff of
  • 00:13:51.447 --> 00:13:53.883
  • Our lives or we are in a tremendous deficit position.
  • 00:13:53.883 --> 00:13:58.454
  • Well, i've written a book, "angels, demons, & you,"
  • 00:13:58.454 --> 00:14:01.023
  • Simply a biblical review of those spiritual forces that are
  • 00:14:01.023 --> 00:14:04.159
  • Impacting us today.
  • 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:05.728
  • There's a battle in the earth, and it's not between armies
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  • Wearing the labels of nations or terrorist groups.
  • 00:14:08.664 --> 00:14:11.467
  • It's a spiritual battle.
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  • If you don't understand, if you don't understand the equipment
  • 00:14:13.102 --> 00:14:15.671
  • And the authority you've been given, you are at a tremendous
  • 00:14:15.671 --> 00:14:19.241
  • Position of forfeiture.
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  • Don't live that way.
  • 00:14:21.277 --> 00:14:22.945
  • "angels, demons, & you," you need the solution.
  • 00:14:22.945 --> 00:14:26.148
  • Female announcer: loneliness, depression, despair,
  • 00:14:26.148 --> 00:14:28.984
  • They all have a spiritual origin.
  • 00:14:28.984 --> 00:14:31.153
  • We're in a spiritual battle, and the forces of evil
  • 00:14:31.153 --> 00:14:33.889
  • Stand against us.
  • 00:14:33.889 --> 00:14:35.557
  • But we don't need to be afraid. we need to prepare.
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  • Allen: jesus said the children have angels assigned to them
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  • That have the father's attention.
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  • It's safe to say that in the kingdom of god, there are
  • 00:14:42.798 --> 00:14:45.668
  • Spiritual beings in significant number.
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  • And they're ministering spirits, the bible says,
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  • Sent forth to help us.
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  • They're messengers.
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  • They fill the pages of scripture, and yet we tend to
  • 00:14:56.445 --> 00:14:58.681
  • Kind of imagine as if it's peripheral, secondary, that you
  • 00:14:58.681 --> 00:15:02.418
  • Could be a christ follower, not really be engaged or have to
  • 00:15:02.418 --> 00:15:04.954
  • Imagine spiritual forces.
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  • "we believe in organization."
  • 00:15:07.189 --> 00:15:09.959
  • Well, so do i.
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  • I like a good plan and i like an organization that is run
  • 00:15:11.860 --> 00:15:14.697
  • Well, but i don't want to--it's not an either/or equation and i
  • 00:15:14.697 --> 00:15:18.334
  • Certainly don't want to exchange the power of god and the
  • 00:15:18.334 --> 00:15:22.271
  • Spiritual help that he's made available to us for the
  • 00:15:22.271 --> 00:15:24.940
  • Imagination that we can out-organize evil.
  • 00:15:24.940 --> 00:15:27.242
  • Announcer: pastor allen's new book, "angels, demons, & you,"
  • 00:15:27.242 --> 00:15:30.079
  • Offers compelling biblical evidence about angels and demons
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  • And their roles in the heavens, on earth, and in our lives.
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  • It answers the questions you want to know.
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  • Learn what the bible has to say about angels, demons, and
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  • Spiritual warfare.
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  • Gain helpful insight that will help you identify and remove
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  • Evil from your life.
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  • Find practical tools and biblical truth that will help
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  • You align your beliefs more fully with god's word.
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  • "angels, demons, & you" will help you recognize the spiritual
  • 00:15:57.573 --> 00:16:01.176
  • Battle around you so you can live without fear and stand firm
  • 00:16:01.176 --> 00:16:04.580
  • In your faith.
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  • Allen: this is our season in time to be a difference maker
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  • For the kingdom of god, and that's a spiritual assignment.
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  • Allen: we go into the world.
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  • That's the assignment.
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  • We're not of it, but we've been sent into it.
  • 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:33.208
  • Look at james 4:4.
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  • James--james is kind of the in-your-face book in the
  • 00:16:34.543 --> 00:16:36.512
  • New testament.
  • 00:16:36.512 --> 00:16:38.113
  • If you're having a blue day, don't read much of james.
  • 00:16:38.113 --> 00:16:41.750
  • "you adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with
  • 00:16:41.750 --> 00:16:44.319
  • The world," and the word that's used there in the greek language
  • 00:16:44.319 --> 00:16:48.490
  • Really represents this present world order.
  • 00:16:48.490 --> 00:16:50.392
  • "don't you know that friendship with this present world order is
  • 00:16:50.392 --> 00:16:53.595
  • Hatred towards god?
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  • Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an
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  • Enemy of god."
  • 00:16:58.167 --> 00:17:00.069
  • The word "church" that's translated in the greek new
  • 00:17:00.069 --> 00:17:02.404
  • Testament comes from ekklesia.
  • 00:17:02.404 --> 00:17:03.839
  • It means literally, the ones called out.
  • 00:17:03.839 --> 00:17:05.841
  • We're called out of the world to be the people of god and very
  • 00:17:05.841 --> 00:17:09.845
  • Similar to the hebrew slaves being called out of egypt to be
  • 00:17:09.845 --> 00:17:13.882
  • The covenant people of god.
  • 00:17:13.882 --> 00:17:18.287
  • We're called out of the world.
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  • We're still in the world, but we have a new value set, a new
  • 00:17:19.621 --> 00:17:22.324
  • Reason for being, a new mission statement, a new purpose, a new
  • 00:17:22.324 --> 00:17:26.228
  • Objective for our lives.
  • 00:17:26.228 --> 00:17:27.763
  • We still have responsibilities as husbands and wives and
  • 00:17:27.763 --> 00:17:30.099
  • Fathers and parents and children, all of those roles
  • 00:17:30.099 --> 00:17:33.368
  • That come with our journey as human beings, but now we are
  • 00:17:33.368 --> 00:17:36.839
  • People on a journey for the kingdom of god.
  • 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:40.175
  • And i think we've lost most of this imagination and we've
  • 00:17:40.175 --> 00:17:42.945
  • Exchanged it for a conversation about new birth and conversion
  • 00:17:42.945 --> 00:17:45.848
  • And a couple of spiritual bullet points that we process, but
  • 00:17:45.848 --> 00:17:49.017
  • Beyond that, can we return to our previous shape please?
  • 00:17:49.017 --> 00:17:55.157
  • God is moving in the earth.
  • 00:17:55.157 --> 00:17:56.492
  • I'm trying carefully to guard my heart not to be unhappy
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  • About it,
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  • Not to complain about it.
  • 00:18:00.829 --> 00:18:02.197
  • In my life, since i was a boy and entered the christian
  • 00:18:02.197 --> 00:18:06.702
  • Discussion, and since i was a boy, i've been in gatherings of
  • 00:18:06.702 --> 00:18:10.305
  • Christians in hotel ballrooms, in churches, in about every
  • 00:18:10.305 --> 00:18:14.810
  • Imaginable configuration.
  • 00:18:14.810 --> 00:18:18.514
  • And that entire way i have heard conversations about outpourings
  • 00:18:18.514 --> 00:18:21.483
  • Of the spirit of god, renewals, revivals, awakenings, these
  • 00:18:21.483 --> 00:18:25.220
  • Tremendous moves of god.
  • 00:18:25.220 --> 00:18:27.122
  • Now i'm not--i'm not saying anybody said it to me, but this
  • 00:18:27.122 --> 00:18:29.258
  • Is the way i understood it, that whenever those blessed points
  • 00:18:29.258 --> 00:18:32.794
  • Would come, there would be this overwhelming, almost universal
  • 00:18:32.794 --> 00:18:36.565
  • Embracing of biblical perspectives, godliness and
  • 00:18:36.565 --> 00:18:40.335
  • Righteousness, that it would be so remarkable that the lion
  • 00:18:40.335 --> 00:18:43.138
  • Would lay down with the lamb, and we'd beat our swords into
  • 00:18:43.138 --> 00:18:46.575
  • Plowshares, and we would make war no more.
  • 00:18:46.575 --> 00:18:50.145
  • There'd be this just unprecedented outpouring of the
  • 00:18:50.145 --> 00:18:54.349
  • Spirit of god.
  • 00:18:54.349 --> 00:18:56.752
  • I don't believe that's an accurate presentation
  • 00:18:56.752 --> 00:18:58.787
  • Of scripture.
  • 00:18:58.787 --> 00:19:02.057
  • Well, i believe god's gonna pour out his spirit on all flesh.
  • 00:19:02.057 --> 00:19:05.460
  • But when jesus himself walked the earth, a very small
  • 00:19:05.460 --> 00:19:10.065
  • Percentage of people stood with him.
  • 00:19:10.065 --> 00:19:14.603
  • When he went to his hometown, they wanted to kill him.
  • 00:19:14.603 --> 00:19:17.773
  • He recruited 12 disciples and one of them betrayed him.
  • 00:19:17.773 --> 00:19:22.044
  • The 12 he recruited, he said to on multiple occasions, "are you
  • 00:19:22.044 --> 00:19:25.814
  • Really that slow?"
  • 00:19:25.814 --> 00:19:28.283
  • When he needed a friend, they betrayed him.
  • 00:19:28.283 --> 00:19:31.720
  • Now i understand there were some course corrections and they
  • 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:33.722
  • Did better.
  • 00:19:33.722 --> 00:19:35.424
  • But this notion that, see, i've wanted that 'cause when we got
  • 00:19:35.424 --> 00:19:38.660
  • To that point that god was moving so broadly and so
  • 00:19:38.660 --> 00:19:41.363
  • Universally that there was these enormous throngs of people in
  • 00:19:41.363 --> 00:19:44.900
  • Your arena of choice, in your neighborhood, your community,
  • 00:19:44.900 --> 00:19:48.370
  • Your friend group, your peer group, your professional group,
  • 00:19:48.370 --> 00:19:51.974
  • When the vast majority of them were going, "i'm with jesus,"
  • 00:19:51.974 --> 00:19:54.443
  • Then i was gonna be ready to go, "i'm with jesus too."
  • 00:19:54.443 --> 00:20:02.150
  • It seems to me that the biblical pattern is we have to be willing
  • 00:20:02.150 --> 00:20:06.388
  • To be a light in the darkness.
  • 00:20:06.388 --> 00:20:09.291
  • Jesus said, "you'll be hated by all nations because of me.
  • 00:20:09.291 --> 00:20:13.061
  • You'll be rejected and made fun of.
  • 00:20:13.061 --> 00:20:17.566
  • You'll be in a minority position."
  • 00:20:17.566 --> 00:20:19.134
  • He said, "wide is the gate, many enter in, broad is the way that
  • 00:20:19.134 --> 00:20:21.837
  • Leads to destruction, but narrow is the gate, and few that find
  • 00:20:21.837 --> 00:20:24.373
  • The way that lead to salvation."
  • 00:20:24.373 --> 00:20:27.576
  • Now, i believe god is moving in the earth.
  • 00:20:27.576 --> 00:20:30.879
  • But i'm not really waiting for the legacy media or the primary
  • 00:20:30.879 --> 00:20:36.285
  • Expressions that we've considered the center of the
  • 00:20:36.285 --> 00:20:38.987
  • Power of the church in our lifetime to reverse their course
  • 00:20:38.987 --> 00:20:42.391
  • And once again brace biblical authority and the uniqueness
  • 00:20:42.391 --> 00:20:45.427
  • Of jesus
  • 00:20:45.427 --> 00:20:47.529
  • And begin to adopt biblical positions on human sexuality and
  • 00:20:47.529 --> 00:20:50.999
  • Moral and immoral.
  • 00:20:50.999 --> 00:20:53.402
  • I think we'll have to have the courage to read our bibles and
  • 00:20:53.402 --> 00:20:55.804
  • Tell the truth.
  • 00:20:55.804 --> 00:21:02.778
  • God is moving in the earth.
  • 00:21:02.778 --> 00:21:06.315
  • And my time is gone and your outline is long.
  • 00:21:06.315 --> 00:21:10.919
  • Who did this?
  • 00:21:10.919 --> 00:21:14.556
  • A woman who said last week there was a fat chance i was
  • 00:21:14.556 --> 00:21:17.359
  • Gonna finish.
  • 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:18.694
  • She was a prophet for this week.
  • 00:21:18.694 --> 00:21:23.832
  • I do--we are--we will continue this conversation and what it
  • 00:21:23.832 --> 00:21:27.402
  • Means for us as a community of faith.
  • 00:21:27.402 --> 00:21:30.038
  • Because i believe it's very important to remove it from the
  • 00:21:30.038 --> 00:21:32.541
  • Theoretical discussion of the broader culture and understand
  • 00:21:32.541 --> 00:21:35.277
  • That god has called us to be difference makers.
  • 00:21:35.277 --> 00:21:39.881
  • He's given you a sphere of influence.
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  • There are people who care about you.
  • 00:21:41.450 --> 00:21:43.719
  • There are people who care about your opinion.
  • 00:21:43.719 --> 00:21:46.455
  • They'll care about your professional opinion.
  • 00:21:46.455 --> 00:21:48.290
  • They'll care about your opinion related to the hobbies that
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  • You've chosen.
  • 00:21:50.659 --> 00:21:52.027
  • There are family that look to you, whether they say it or not,
  • 00:21:52.027 --> 00:21:54.262
  • They do.
  • 00:21:54.262 --> 00:21:55.864
  • You have neighbors, you have a sphere of influence, and the
  • 00:21:55.864 --> 00:21:58.934
  • Place we have to begin to lead with the authority of god in our
  • 00:21:58.934 --> 00:22:02.537
  • Lives is in those places.
  • 00:22:02.537 --> 00:22:04.740
  • We have to be willing to say what we know to be right
  • 00:22:04.740 --> 00:22:06.742
  • And wrong.
  • 00:22:06.742 --> 00:22:08.110
  • There are consequences for that.
  • 00:22:08.110 --> 00:22:09.444
  • There'll be forfeitures that come with that.
  • 00:22:09.444 --> 00:22:12.214
  • You'll lose some friends, you'll lose some opportunities.
  • 00:22:12.214 --> 00:22:14.516
  • There'll be some financial sacrifices.
  • 00:22:14.516 --> 00:22:17.753
  • But there will be rewards that will exceed anything you
  • 00:22:17.753 --> 00:22:20.355
  • Can imagine.
  • 00:22:20.355 --> 00:22:21.723
  • There'll be lives changed.
  • 00:22:21.723 --> 00:22:23.058
  • There'll be people delivered from an eternity of destruction.
  • 00:22:23.058 --> 00:22:26.461
  • There'll be people who were living in bondage of darkness
  • 00:22:26.461 --> 00:22:28.997
  • And demonic torment that will find freedom because someone
  • 00:22:28.997 --> 00:22:32.334
  • They knew had the courage to say, "i believe jesus of
  • 00:22:32.334 --> 00:22:34.669
  • Nazareth is the son of god, and he's changed my life and he can
  • 00:22:34.669 --> 00:22:37.506
  • Change yours."
  • 00:22:37.506 --> 00:22:42.878
  • There are lives that will be changed because we'll say, "a
  • 00:22:42.878 --> 00:22:44.946
  • Child is not a choice.
  • 00:22:44.946 --> 00:22:47.649
  • It's an image bearer of almighty god."
  • 00:22:47.649 --> 00:22:51.186
  • And we'll have to have the courage to stand on their behalf
  • 00:22:51.186 --> 00:22:54.189
  • And use the influence that god has given to us.
  • 00:22:54.189 --> 00:22:57.159
  • We'll have to be willing to say stealing and fraud and deception
  • 00:22:57.159 --> 00:23:00.829
  • Are not good.
  • 00:23:00.829 --> 00:23:05.867
  • Even if we think there's a possibility we could get our
  • 00:23:05.867 --> 00:23:08.136
  • Snout in the trough.
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  • It's not good.
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  • I believe if we will do that, we will see god expand dramatically
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  • What he's doing.
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  • He didn't deliver the slaves of egypt from the brick pits
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  • Because of their great righteousness.
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  • He delivered them because of his character.
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  • And god is not moving in the earth because we are
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  • So righteous.
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  • He is moving in the earth because he is righteous.
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  • And we have an opportunity to align ourselves with him.
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  • Which means we would want to make a change from the patterns
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  • We have had to some extent.
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  • And bring a realignment, a new attitude, a new perspective, a
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  • New enthusiasm so that we might participate.
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  • It's an exciting time.
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  • It is an exciting time.
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  • And we'll use a new road as a metaphor for a new pathway.
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  • And we'll say, "pray this is the lord," when we wanna say
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  • Something else, even if it's disorienting, amen?
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  • I wanna pray with you.
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  • Let's stand.
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  • Oh, the power didn't go out?
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  • The lord kept us.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Allen: god is so faithful.
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  • God is so faithful.
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  • I'm convinced that one of the great celebrations when we step
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  • Into eternity is we will become aware of all the places god
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  • Provided deliverance, provision, help, wholeness that we didn't
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  • Even know he was intervening.
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  • You know, in the same way that parents provide things for
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  • Children that they are oblivious to, right?
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  • No thank you.
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  • They're not even--they're not clever enough to say thank you.
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  • They'll just let it be known if they don't like your
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  • Job performance.
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  • And we do that with the lord, but when we step in and we see
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  • That, i believe we will fall on our faces going, "god,
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  • Thank you.
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  • You've been so good to us."
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  • Let's pray.
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  • "father, yes, we wanna say yes to you.
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  • We wanna follow you.
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  • Lord jesus, you are the head of the church.
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  • You're more powerful than any government or agency.
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  • You're more powerful than any currency or any army.
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  • We praise you tonight that you have a people in the earth that
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  • You are moving, calling men and women from every nation, race,
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  • Language, and tribe to yourself.
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  • Lord, forgive us when we've been distracted or disinterested,
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  • When we didn't want to pay attention, lord.
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  • I thank you that you have begun a shaking and it's almost
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  • Unavoidable, it's unmistakable, it's before us.
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  • And lord, i ask you now to give us understanding hearts.
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  • May we understand what you're inviting us towards so that we
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  • Can say yes to you.
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  • May we follow you.
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  • Forgive us when we've grumbled, and we've wanted to hold on to
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  • Past routines or habits or places of comfort, and we've
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  • Been unwilling to say yes to you.
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  • Lord, we come tonight to say we want to follow you, to be
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  • Transformed in how we think and what we understand.
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  • We praise you for it, lord.
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  • We don't want to conform to this world.
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  • We want to be transformed into your image.
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  • Holy spirit, help us.
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  • Help us.
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  • Lead us, direct us, show us the things that are hindrances.
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  • Where we have beams in our eyes, help us to see them, and grant
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  • Us the humility to repent.
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  • Thank you for your church in the earth, that you are establishing
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  • A people for your purposes.
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  • And lord, we want to be a part.
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  • We want to encourage one another and strengthen one another and
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  • Challenge one another, in jesus's name, amen."
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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