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Allen Jackson - An Amazing Life (Part 1)

April 22, 2025 | S25:E115

Allen Jackson - An Amazing Life (Part 1)
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 - An Amazing Life (Part 1) | April 22, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: it's good to be with you again.
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  • You know, we're walking through a season of some pretty
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  • Unprecedented turmoil.
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  • There are cars burning and car dealerships burning and there
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  • Are judges--there's just a lot of stuff.
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  • Well, i'm really excited about our offer this month.
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  • In fact, we chose it because i think it will bring you
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  • A pathway of stability in the midst of all the turmoil.
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  • It's written by a good friend of mine, rob morgan, "the lord is
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  • My shepherd," and it seems to me we need to know the tranquility
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  • That comes from a shepherd who is marking a path for us and
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  • Then standing watch over us when we know there's predators about.
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  • We're living in a predatory season.
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  • We need to know the lord is a shepherd, and i believe this
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  • Offer can make a real difference in your life.
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  • In fact, it's important enough that we'll make it available for
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  • A gift of any amount.
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  • I think it's far more important that you have it in your hand
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  • Than the cost attached to it.
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  • God is moving in the earth and we wanna move with him.
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  • Our shepherd will lead us through.
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  • You'll enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i want to begin a new study around the topic of
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  • A "dynamic faith."
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  • A vibrant faith, a living faith, an engaged faith, as opposed to
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  • A static faith, an inert faith, a dormant faith.
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  • Faith has to be lived, faith has to be given expression.
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  • Faith has to change the impact of your daily routine or it's
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  • Not real.
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  • So what's it mean to have a dynamic faith?
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  • I wanna explore that with you for a few sessions and this,
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  • We're gonna talk about an amazing life.
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  • But before we do, i just couldn't help myself today.
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  • I think we need to take just a moment to acknowledge the
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  • Theater of the absurd.
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  • They have not been doge-ed
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  • They continue to produce new releases and without a biblical
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  • Worldview, it'll be confusing to you.
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  • It's confusing to me sometimes.
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  • I have to step back and go, "does that really make sense?
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  • Should i really be frightened?
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  • Should i really be agitated?
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  • Should i really be burning teslas?"
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  • Well, i mean, there's a lot of messaging and a lot of powerful
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  • Important people.
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  • You know, a year ago there was some--an electric vehicle was
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  • Mandated everywhere and now we're burning them everywhere we
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  • Can find one.
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  • That was the greatest existential threat to our
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  • Existence a year ago.
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  • But that's not one of the releases i wanna talk about.
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  • The one that seems to be front and center in recent weeks has
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  • To do with the illegal aliens in our nation, those trespassers
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  • Who came here without permission, against the law,
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  • From all over the world.
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  • And the current administration campaigned upon the promise to
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  • Remove those that particularly were violent criminals.
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  • And from the beginning, since the inauguration until today,
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  • That's been, like, front and center every day.
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  • I mean, so much drama, right?
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  • Whether you're for it or against it, so much drama, it seems like
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  • Everybody's leaving.
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  • There's hardly any of us left.
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  • I mean, why, you gotta check your neighbors.
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  • Did they come for them in the dark?
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  • But i mean, everybody's leaving, there's a celebration and then
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  • There's another group that are really upset about it and then
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  • The federal judges get involved and you can't do this.
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  • I mean, it's like wow.
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  • So much drama, so i did a little work.
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  • There have been just a little more beyond 30,000, not 40,000,
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  • People total have been deported. [applause]
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  • Violent gang members, tda members, people that have
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  • Committed some horrific crimes.
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  • And we can celebrate that.
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  • I mean, it certainly seems like this overwhelming number, it's
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  • Why you're checking your neighbors.
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  • Is there anybody left on my block?
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  • So i'm not a, well, i mean, i can operate the buttons on
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  • A calculator.
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  • I checked.
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  • Of the illegal immigrants that are here, that number represents
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  • Less than 2%.
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  • More than 20 million folks came in.
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  • The number deported reflects less than what was coming across
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  • The border on a weekly basis.
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  • It's negligible.
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  • I mean, i'm grateful that violent, murderous gang members
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  • Are being moved, but if you just watch the headlines, whether
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  • They're for the deportations or they're against it, you would
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  • Think the majority of the population has been moved.
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  • We have court cases and federal judges and restraining orders
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  • And mayors of major cities refusing to cooperate and
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  • Governors using their power to resist.
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  • Where were the federal judges and their restraining orders
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  • When there were flights bringing people illegally into our
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  • Country being paid for by our government ngos?
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  • [applause]
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  • Where's the concern for the citizens of our nation?
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  • Where was the concern for the hundreds of thousands of
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  • Children that just disappeared?
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  • Where's the concern for the children of our own communities
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  • Where education and health care has been affected by the 20
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  • Million+ people with overburdened systems.
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  • Citizenship matters, rights and responsibilities come
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  • With citizenship.
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  • If there are no responsibilities, there can be
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  • No rights.
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  • Just don't be confused.
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  • What you've watched perhaps would be the inkling of the
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  • Potential of what might happen, but it's scarcely a beginning.
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  • I'm not criticizing any--i'm just telling you, when you're
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  • Watching, and compared to what we have been seeing and what
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  • We've experienced, the response is a bit of a tempest in
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  • A teapot.
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  • I'll give you another release from the theater of the absurd.
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  • This one's a bit more personal.
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  • It's the very intentional paganization of health care.
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  • We wanted--we said we wanted this.
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  • The numbers were overwhelming not very many years ago.
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  • I mean, recent history.
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  • We wanted, we demanded, the right of universal health care.
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  • And what we really meant by that, if you interpreted it and
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  • Extrapolated it out, is we wanted free health care
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  • For everybody.
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  • And the way we thought that could most directly be achieved
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  • Was by granting the government the authority to
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  • Co-opt healthcare.
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  • And so here we are, witnessing the systematic removal of a
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  • Christian worldview from our health care systems.
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  • Oh, this is real.
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  • This is not theoretical.
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  • This release is taking place amongst us.
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  • I'm not gonna spend a lot of time highlighting it for you,
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  • But doctors are reluctant to pray with their patients, the
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  • Christian doctors.
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  • They do it quietly.
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  • Many of them are persistent and determined.
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  • There's fear of lawsuits, there's fear of reprisal from
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  • The administrations and the administrators and the
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  • Corporate overlords.
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  • The doctors who dare to speak out for the protection of our
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  • Children, our babies, they're censored, disciplined, or
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  • Pressured completely to leave the system.
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  • That's not theoretical.
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  • People that i do life with, people i talk to, are
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  • Experiencing that as we speak.
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  • Other doctors who advocate for treatments, which isn't blessed
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  • By the cdc or the nih which are such bastions of truthfulness
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  • And integrity and scientific prowess.
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  • If you dare to disagree with those organizations that have
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  • Been so corrupted, or the ama, which is somewhere on the other
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  • Side of woke.
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  • Those doctors are threatened with loss of their hospital
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  • Privileges or even their credentials being removed.
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  • And it doesn't take a great number of individuals having
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  • That fate forced upon them without the rest of the medical
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  • Community who spent a decade or more training in order to
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  • Practice medicine, understanding that if they don't cooperate
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  • With the ungodly mantra that's being handed down by our
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  • Government and the corporate overlords, they too will lose
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  • The right to practice.
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  • It seems to me that the most logical way to respond to this
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  • Would be to begin to imagine a return to christian health care.
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  • That seems far-fetched, but only because we don't know
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  • Our history.
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  • Christians have been responsible for much of the finest health
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  • Care available in our nation until very recently.
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  • In our own community we knew baptist hospitals, saint
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  • Thomas hospitals.
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  • I mean in our own community we watched them take the cross off
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  • The hospital.
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  • In memphis, much celebrated, the children's hospital,
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  • Saint jude's.
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  • There's still 726 faith-based hospitals in our nation as
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  • Of 2016.
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  • That was the last time i could get good data.
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  • But for many years, the christians were the primary
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  • Underwriters of the outstanding health care in our nation.
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  • How we arrived at a place so quickly where our christian
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  • Worldview isn't even welcomed in the system?
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  • We can't be silent, folks.
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  • If it's free and it takes god out, it's not a bargain.
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  • [applause]
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  • Don't be angry at christian organizations or whomever that
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  • Has resources.
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  • They need the resources and able--to be able to step into
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  • These arenas.
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  • "amen, pastor."
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  • There's some good news.
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  • This didn't come from the theater of the absurd.
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  • It came from the theater of the blessed.
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  • Our own local school board, the rutherford county school board,
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  • Prayed, made a decision, voted to begin their meetings with
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  • Prayer, not just a moment of silence.
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  • [applause]
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  • Acts of courage over the threats of all sorts of stuff.
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  • Your voices matter.
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  • You're paying attention.
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  • Don't stop, shake off the lethargy and the apathy and use
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  • Your voice in the places where god has planted you.
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  • We want to be expressions of a dynamic faith.
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  • It's the best way to an amazing life.
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  • Honoring god with your life will bring the most amazing
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  • Life possible.
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  • Wickedness will not lead you to an amazing life, it will lead
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  • You to destruction.
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  • I've had enough birthdays to know that from experience.
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  • It's not just theoretical to me.
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  • Allen: and the question i'm asked most often is, "how do i
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  • Know what god wants me to do?
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  • If i just knew what god wanted me to do, i would do it,
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  • Whatever it is."
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  • Well, our offer this month i think will help.
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  • It's by a good friend of mine, rob morgan, "the lord is
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  • My shepherd."
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  • He's gonna unpack the scripture that tells us how to follow the
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  • Lord's guidance and understand his abiding presence and
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  • His comfort.
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  • It'll help you chart a course and know the path that
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  • God has for you.
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  • Get a copy.
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  • It'll make a difference in your life.
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  • Female announcer: life can be overwhelming, but true peace
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  • Is possible.
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  • Pastor robert morgan's book, "the lord is my shepherd,"
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  • Reflects on the specific ways psalm 23 speaks to our
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  • Lives today.
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  • It will help you find rest for your soul and discover the joy,
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  • Inspiration, power, and peace found in psalm 23.
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  • In today's culture, it's essential to know god is leading
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  • Us, charting our path, and watching over us.
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  • Request your copy of "the lord is my shepherd," when you donate
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  • Any amount at allenjackson.com, or by calling...
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  • Crowder, charity gayle, matthew west, franni cash, and
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  • The katinas.
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  • Hear special messages from pastor allen jackson.
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  • Enjoy family activities, food trucks, and more.
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  • It'll be a fantastic spring at world outreach church.
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  • Find all the details at allenjackson.com/spring.
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  • We can't wait to see you there.
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  • Allen: so i wanna start in john 1.
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  • The real essence of this
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  • Whole invitation is about following jesus.
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  • There's just nobody like him.
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  • There's no alternative. there's no plan b.
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  • It's not the same as knowing buddha or allah.
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  • It isn't.
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  • The christians are very reluctant on this point to
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  • Embrace the uniqueness of jesus.
  • 00:13:44.349 --> 00:13:48.086
  • In john 1, jesus is recruiting his disciples, and "he found
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  • Philip, and he said, 'follow me.'
  • 00:13:52.891 --> 00:13:55.693
  • And philip, like andrew and peter, was from the town
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  • Of bethsaida.
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  • And philip found nathanael and told him, 'we've found the one
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  • Moses wrote about in the law, and about whom the prophets also
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  • Wrote--jesus of nazareth, the son of joseph.'
  • 00:14:05.436 --> 00:14:10.575
  • And jesus said, when nathaniel came to him, 'you believe
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  • Because i told you i saw you under the fig tree.
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  • You'll see greater things than that.'
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  • And he then added, 'i tell you the truth, you'll see heaven
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  • Open, and the angels of god ascending and descending on the
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  • Son of man.'"
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  • Wow, there's that little phrase, jesus said, "i tell you
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  • The truth."
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  • You know he's about to drop a truth bomb, right?
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  • Truth storm's about to break out, it's gonna be disorienting,
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  • It's gonna mush your hair.
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  • You're gonna need to hold on to something because you're about
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  • To lose your equilibrium.
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  • He said, "you'll see angels ascending and descending on the
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  • Son of man.
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  • Come follow me.
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  • Don't want to miss out on this."
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  • You've been given a personal invitation.
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  • So have you, so have i. "come follow me."
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  • We've been sent into all the world.
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  • We should live with the expectation that we'll see the
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  • Angels moving.
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  • "amen, pastor allen."
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  • Angels and demons impacting our lives.
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  • We have to learn and grow to walk in the experience of
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  • A god story.
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  • It certainly begins with your entry into the kingdom of god,
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  • But it really begins before that when somebody talks to you that
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  • You're favorably disposed towards and you listen to them a
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  • Little bit when they--and you hear their enthusiasm for jesus.
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  • You don't have any, but you meet somebody who's a little
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  • Enthusiastic for jesus that you have some kind of respect for
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  • And you think, "ah, maybe i should consider that."
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  • And somebody else maybe gives you an invitation.
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  • Usually it takes a half a dozen points of contact before you'll
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  • Even make the decision to take a step to become an inquirer.
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  • Get involved in that equation in the lives of people around you.
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  • Have enough enthusiasm around jesus that the people who know
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  • You think, "hah, maybe i should think about that a little.
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  • I'd given up on church."
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  • Let them hear you be positive about the people you go to
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  • Church with.
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  • They don't need to hear you dredging up all the weaknesses
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  • Of the people that you go to church with.
  • 00:16:24.976 --> 00:16:27.979
  • They know enough people with weaknesses already.
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  • We want to grow up, we wanna learn to follow the lord.
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  • In mark chapter 4, "jesus and the disciples leave the
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  • Crowd behind.
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  • He took them along, just as he was in the boat.
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  • There were other boats with them."
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  • He can't even get away.
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  • They're gonna follow him in boats.
  • 00:16:52.804 --> 00:16:55.473
  • "a furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat,
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  • So that it was nearly swamped.
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  • And jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion.
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  • The disciples woke him and said, 'teacher, don't you care if
  • 00:17:02.413 --> 00:17:04.582
  • We drown?'"
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  • Fishermen wake up the carpenter to tell them the boat's
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  • In trouble.
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  • "he got up, and rebuked the wind and said to the waves, 'quiet!
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  • And be still,' and the wind quiet and it was
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  • Completely calm.
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  • And he said to his disciples, 'why were you so afraid?
  • 00:17:17.895 --> 00:17:20.364
  • Do you still have no faith?'"
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  • Jesus has an expectation of them to have faith.
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  • Did you know he has an expectation of you and me?
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  • "well, well, well, well, pastor, i said the sinner's prayer."
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  • Well, good, good.
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  • Happy about that, that's a good beginning.
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  • We're supposed to grow up in our faith.
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  • We should have the expectation, the imagination, that god is at
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  • Work in the earth.
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  • Look at what it says: "but they were terrified and they ask each
  • 00:17:46.157 --> 00:17:48.793
  • Other, 'who is this?
  • 00:17:48.793 --> 00:17:50.995
  • Even the wind and the waves obey him!'"
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  • See, i want to suggest to you that you and i should lead lives
  • 00:17:53.264 --> 00:17:56.501
  • So engaged with the purposes of god that people around us go,
  • 00:17:56.501 --> 00:17:59.604
  • "what is going on?
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  • What's up with that?
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  • Must be something wrong."
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  • Because if they can't explain it, they will typically assume
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  • Something nefarious.
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  • They did with jesus, they shut him down.
  • 00:18:14.552 --> 00:18:16.754
  • "we got to stop this guy."
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  • You want to become those people?
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  • They said of jesus's friends, "they've turned the whole world
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  • Upside down.
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  • Now they've rolled into our town."
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  • "we're back."
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  • Matthew 14, verse 29.
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  • Jesus is in the--coming across the lake.
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  • He sent the disciples ahead of him.
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  • It's in the middle of the night.
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  • They're having a hard time.
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  • They see him walking on the water and it says: "peter got
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  • Out of the boat, and walked out on the water and came
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  • Toward jesus."
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  • Are you kidding me?
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  • We read that like it's normal.
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  • Dude got out of the boat!
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  • What would you have to see on the water to make you get out of
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  • The boat?
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  • Something really scary.
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  • You'd rather get wet than face whatever that was.
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  • That's not what motivated peter.
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  • He'd seen him speak to the wind and the waves, he'd seen him do
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  • Some remarkable things, and now he's standing on the lake, and
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  • He said, "well, me too."
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  • I've been on that lake dozens and dozens and dozens of times,
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  • Folks, i try every time.
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  • No traction yet.
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  • But i'll tell you what i am doing, i'm climbing out of
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  • Some boats.
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  • I'm not trying to maintain the status quo and just mail it in
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  • And do this year what i did last year, and what's the set
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  • Of behaviors?
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  • I intend to climb out of some boats.
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  • How about you?
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  • Well, it's windy and there's waves and it's a
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  • Little intimidating.
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  • No kidding, come on, let's go.
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  • "so i've never mugged anybody."
  • 00:19:48.613 --> 00:19:49.981
  • Well, come on, get a mug.
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  • I mean the ceramic one that you put coffee in.
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  • How is it we've grown so timid?
  • 00:19:57.455 --> 00:19:59.991
  • "what will people say?"
  • 00:19:59.991 --> 00:20:02.026
  • How is it they can threaten us and we withdraw?
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  • They should be threatened by the presence of almighty god
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  • Within us. [applause]
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  • Not because of fear, but to recognize the spirit in you.
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  • Look at matthew 14, same chapter.
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  • Before they did the whole water-walking thing, there's
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  • A big crowd.
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  • And jesus said, "they don't need to go away; you give them
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  • Something to eat."
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  • No food trucks.
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  • And they said, look, we've only got five loaves of bread and
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  • Two fish.
  • 00:20:43.067 --> 00:20:45.636
  • And jesus, you know what he said, "sit them down in groups
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  • Of 50, and then you feed them."
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  • I don't know where the miracle started.
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  • I don't know.
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  • They only had five loaves of bread and a couple of fish.
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  • To give that much to 5000 people, i'm thinking the miracle
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  • Had to start while the disciples are breaking it off.
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  • So somewhere before they got, i mean, what's five loaves of
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  • Bread serve?
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  • Fifty people?
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  • By the time they got to the second hundred people, they're
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  • Starting to giggle.
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  • Or at least, if they were frightened and astonished when
  • 00:21:14.665 --> 00:21:17.201
  • He spoke to the wind and the waves, what are they doing now?
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  • Maybe they're just completely silent in the face of something
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  • So remarkable.
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  • I don't really know.
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  • It's not fully told to us.
  • 00:21:28.713 --> 00:21:30.047
  • It says: "they were--all ate and were satisfied, and the
  • 00:21:30.047 --> 00:21:32.683
  • Disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that
  • 00:21:32.683 --> 00:21:35.586
  • Were left over."
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  • Maybe they were giving them all tiny little pieces.
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  • Maybe the miracle is they all had a taste and they were
  • 00:21:41.325 --> 00:21:43.627
  • Satisfied, but just to kind of make the point, it says, "well,
  • 00:21:43.627 --> 00:21:45.930
  • They picked up 12 basketfuls."
  • 00:21:45.930 --> 00:21:48.999
  • That's more than five loaves.
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  • The number of those who ate was about 5000 men besides women
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  • And children.
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  • Remember our topic, learning and growing and experiencing
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  • God's glory?
  • 00:22:00.711 --> 00:22:02.079
  • How is it we've settled for going to church?
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  • How is it we've dumbed down our faith to the point that we talk
  • 00:22:07.985 --> 00:22:11.889
  • About salvation and then, "well, you know, i don't know if god
  • 00:22:11.889 --> 00:22:14.392
  • Does miracles anymore.
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  • I don't want to pray.
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  • What if i pray and nothing--" what?
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  • You know we're gonna meet these folks?
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  • I mean, if you bought into the gospel narrative, we're gonna--
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  • We're gonna hang out with these people.
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  • And they're gonna talk to us about feeding a multitude a
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  • Little boy's happy meal and picking up baskets filled with
  • 00:22:32.443 --> 00:22:35.613
  • Bread and peter's gonna say, "you know, i climbed out of that
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  • Boat, and you wouldn't take a mug?"
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  • "well, now, peter, you need to understand it in its social and
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  • Historical context."
  • 00:22:51.362 --> 00:22:53.964
  • Yeah, i bet he's gonna be very interested in my explanations.
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  • We gotta begin to change and grow and learn.
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  • Stop pointing our fingers at those who need to be--"if our
  • 00:23:04.008 --> 00:23:06.644
  • Politicians of congress would--" stop!
  • 00:23:06.644 --> 00:23:10.114
  • "pastors will preach--" stop!
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  • Be the truth.
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  • You and i have to decide.
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  • Luke chapter 7: "so jesus went to a town called nain, and his
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  • Disciples and a large crowd went along with him.
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  • And as he approached the town gate, a dead person was being
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  • Carried out."
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  • It's the end of the day, they're tired.
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  • They can't do jewish burials inside the city, so they've got
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  • To have the funeral procession outside the city, so the
  • 00:23:40.010 --> 00:23:42.346
  • Disciples can't get into the city to get dinner and a place
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  • To rest.
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  • It's a traffic jam.
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  • I know those of us in middle tennessee have no imagination of
  • 00:23:49.453 --> 00:23:51.922
  • This, but be creative.
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  • Just imagine, it's hard to imagine, but imagine you were
  • 00:23:54.959 --> 00:23:57.595
  • Wanting to drive to nashville on interstate 24.
  • 00:23:57.595 --> 00:24:01.932
  • There was a lot of cars.
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  • And one person bumped into somebody else and it backed up
  • 00:24:05.870 --> 00:24:09.440
  • It's hard to believe, isn't it?
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  • But just.
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  • Well, there's a traffic jam and they can't get in the gate.
  • 00:24:13.377 --> 00:24:17.047
  • There's a dead person being carried out.
  • 00:24:17.047 --> 00:24:20.117
  • And then luke gives us a little detail, "the only son of his
  • 00:24:20.117 --> 00:24:22.586
  • Mother, and she was a widow.
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  • And a large crowd from the town was with her."
  • 00:24:24.855 --> 00:24:26.790
  • Big traffic jam, "and when the lord saw her, his heart went out
  • 00:24:26.790 --> 00:24:31.161
  • To her."
  • 00:24:31.161 --> 00:24:32.663
  • The disciples rolled their eyes and said, "we're never gonna
  • 00:24:32.663 --> 00:24:34.732
  • Get dinner."
  • 00:24:34.732 --> 00:24:37.635
  • That's actually not there, but "his heart went out to her and
  • 00:24:37.635 --> 00:24:42.640
  • He said, 'don't cry.'
  • 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:44.909
  • And he went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it
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  • Stood still.
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  • And he said, 'young man, i say to you, get up!'
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  • And the dead man sat up and began to talk, and jesus gave
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  • Him back to his mother."
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  • This, the next sentence, is really funny, "and they were all
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  • Filled with awe."
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  • You think everybody in that little village understood
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  • Something had happened?
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  • How many of you think they had a quiet evening meal?
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  • How many of you think there was no hope of a private
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  • Quiet dinner?
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  • The whole place is a-buzz.
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  • That mother was facing a very grim future.
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  • She's a widow. her only son is dead.
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  • There's not a great deal of-- number of options for her.
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  • Jesus is moved with compassion.
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  • Nobody invites him to pray.
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  • Nobody asks him to pray.
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  • There's no invitation from a centurion.
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  • There's no vision.
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  • There's--jesus just out of compassion.
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  • The disciples are watching this.
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  • They've watched peter stand on a lake.
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  • They've seen jesus speak to the wind and the waves.
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  • They're in training.
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  • And now they're seeing the dead raised to life again.
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  • The glory of the lord, the majesty, the power, the wonder
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  • Of jesus.
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  • You see, following jesus is a pathway to a completely
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  • Different kind of a life.
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  • Allen: you know, i really dislike the idea of
  • 00:26:15.532 --> 00:26:17.201
  • A religious lecture.
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  • I believe the point of ministry or opening the word of god is to
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  • Be transformed by it.
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  • So before we go, i want to give you two invitations.
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  • One's a prayer i'm gonna pray with you, but the other is our
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  • Offer this month.
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  • The book is "the lord is my shepherd," by my friend
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  • Rob morgan.
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  • It's an important word in this season to understand god's
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  • Direction, his abiding presence, his protection.
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  • We all need that.
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  • It'll be a blessing in your life and something i think you'll
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  • Wanna share with some friends, but i wanna pray with you before
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  • We go that we'll know we're not alone.
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  • Heavenly father, i thank you for the resources you give us, for
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  • The voices that you provide in our lives, that in a world of
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  • Turmoil and confusion and honestly great fear, that your
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  • Calm assuring voice guides us, and i thank you for it today.
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  • Thank you for your faithfulness, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • Get a copy of "the lord is my shepherd," and you take your
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  • Prayers into your family.
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  • We're a light in this dark world.
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  • God is moving and we wanna move with him.
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  • ♪♪♪
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