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Allen Jackson - Another Dimension (Part 1)

March 11, 2025 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Another Dimension (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Another Dimension (Part 1) | March 11, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: we began a new study this weekend.
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  • The title's familiar, the material, we're a bit removed
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  • From, but it's "angels, demons, and you."
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  • And in this session, i want to talk specifically about the
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  • Existence of another dimension.
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  • You know our five physical senses equip us to deal with the
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  • Material world in which we find ourselves.
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  • The ability to taste, to touch, to hear and see and smell.
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  • It enables us to engage with the world, but our senses are
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  • Very limited.
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  • We understand this.
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  • It doesn't take much education.
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  • You don't have to follow the science very far to understand
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  • That our hearing is limited, that dogs can hear ranges of
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  • Things that we can't hear.
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  • That our sight is limited, that there are other parts of god's
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  • Creation that have vision that's better than ours.
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  • That while we have five senses, it would be nonsense to imagine
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  • That those five senses determine reality.
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  • Those are just the receptors with which we can engage
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  • The world.
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  • And while we acknowledge their limits, it seems that we're
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  • Reluctant to acknowledge that they truly are limited.
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  • But if you live your life only on the level of your five
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  • Senses, you lead a very diminished life.
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  • You do.
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  • And the bible invites us to an imagination, an awareness, a
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  • Reality that there's a dimension beyond our five senses.
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  • Now that shouldn't offend you.
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  • You understand that already.
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  • You believe that a virus can impact your life.
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  • We allowed one to completely disrupt our nation for more than
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  • A year and you can't see a virus without some extraordinary help
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  • And amplification.
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  • Well, in the same way, i'm suggesting that what the bible
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  • Tells us repeatedly, it's not like some subtle theme, it's the
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  • Story from the beginning to the end.
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  • That there is another dimension that's more powerful, that is
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  • More real.
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  • In fact, the present dimension that we are essentially
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  • Connected to is temporary.
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  • It has an ending point.
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  • One of the features of the scripture is that it's linear.
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  • There's a beginning point and a conclusion point.
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  • The bible opens with "in the beginning."
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  • It's not the original creation.
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  • In the beginning when the bible opens, the earth was void and
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  • Without shape.
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  • It doesn't tell us how that void shapeless thing started.
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  • It just tells us how god reordered it.
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  • And then there's an ending point, and we get a new heaven
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  • And a new earth with a whole new set of ground rules.
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  • It says, "there'll be no more crying or mourning or tears or
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  • Pain for that old order of things will have passed away."
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  • But for the moment, we are creatures of time and the way
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  • That we engage with the world in time is through those
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  • Five senses.
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  • I'm asking you to begin to open your heart, your mind, and your
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  • Imagination to another dimension more powerful than this present
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  • World order.
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  • Again, this is very biblical stuff.
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  • There's so much scripture.
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  • I had to make it so tiny you probably can't read it.
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  • And we'll spend a few sessions walking our way through this,
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  • But the church really has to be willing to lead this discussion.
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  • We're watching a dizzying pace of change in our nation right
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  • Now that's been initiated at a political level and well, much
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  • Of it i think is a great blessing and certainly seems to
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  • Bode well for our future.
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  • I would submit to you that it's impossible to sustain unless
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  • There was a corresponding or greater change amongst the
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  • People of god.
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  • And i'm not sure we've awakened to that fully yet.
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  • We think change can be initiated in another way, but the true
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  • Forces, the true power that shapes our lives is not
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  • Political, it's spiritual.
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  • The church is intended, i would submit to you, to
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  • Influence culture.
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  • We invite one another and others to a way of life that
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  • Elevates humanity.
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  • That's why we call it good news.
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  • It affords freedom from the things which would diminish
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  • Human life.
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  • The word of god and that spiritual journey that's
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  • Available to us in christ, introduces us to the reality of
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  • Spiritual influences, both good and bad.
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  • The churches, we've kind of like, you know, we've kind of
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  • Put our fingers in our ears and hummed when that comes up.
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  • We just don't like to think about that, but there are
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  • Spiritual influences that are destructive.
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  • The bible invites us to believe and understand that there is a
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  • God, that he can be known, and that you're important to him.
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  • Now that's a bizarre--it's an amazing statement.
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  • That there is a god, a creator of all things, and that you
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  • Matter to him, that he knows you.
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  • You know, you play this game with me and i don't
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  • Appreciate it.
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  • I'll bump into you, some of you in the community, maybe it's a
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  • Place where you're employed and you have a name badge.
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  • You'll cover your name badge and go, "who am i?"
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  • I can tell you who you are, you're mean.
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  • I'll play that game with you if you could stand up and name
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  • Everybody that's seated in the section of cherish where you are
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  • This morning.
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  • But i have an announcement to make.
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  • God not only knows your name, he knows how many hairs are on
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  • Your head.
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  • Spoiler alert, he knows your thoughts.
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  • And he doesn't take days off.
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  • He knows you.
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  • It's unimaginable.
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  • You matter to him.
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  • Now tragically in the church in my lifetime at least, it seems
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  • That we have exchanged a glorious assignment from the
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  • Creator for this mistaken role of being a unifier.
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  • We're not necessarily advocates for the truth.
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  • We're not ambassadors for the kingdom of god.
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  • We've chosen another role.
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  • We've accepted another assignment and i don't believe
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  • It was handed to us by the spirit of god.
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  • We think we should be unifiers.
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  • Above all, it seems to me that much of the contemporary church
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  • Strives to bring unity to a world that's filled with
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  • Disparate, wildly varying perspectives.
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  • Rather than hold out the truth, we want to do a comparative
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  • Studies class and find truth in all things and deny the
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  • Uniqueness of jesus.
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  • Just for clarity's sake, from the scripture, there is no unity
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  • Between light and dark.
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  • And to seek to establish it, you have to oppose the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • The church as a global unifier is a fool's errand.
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  • We can be unified under the authority of jesus of nazareth,
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  • But we can't diminish the uniqueness of jesus or the
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  • Lordship of jesus in order to establish unity, or it's a
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  • False gospel.
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  • I read a quote by reagan and i thought it was interesting.
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  • You know the biblical analogies that we've been called out of
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  • This world, not to blend in, to be separate.
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  • It's what ecclesia means, it's what the church is about to be
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  • Separate from the world.
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  • And it's an uncomfortable place a lot of times.
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  • It makes you unique.
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  • You're standing outside the group.
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  • And this quote seemed appropriate.
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  • It says, "if some among you fear taking a stand because you're
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  • Afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even
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  • Government, recognize that you're just feeding the
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  • Crocodile hoping he'll eat you last."
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  • Seems to me we've been busy with that for far too long.
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  • So, i wanna invite you into this conversation, this discussion,
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  • This--we spend some time thinking about angels and demons
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  • And you.
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  • It's the "and you" part that matters.
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  • We wouldn't have any objections if we just did a seminar on
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  • Angels and demons and we could all share our opinions and what
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  • We feel or what we think.
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  • But if we use the word of god as our authority and say that
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  • Angels and demons and those spiritual forces of good and
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  • Evil are impacting you today, now we begin to become a bit
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  • More reluctant.
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  • Well.
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  • But i have an announcement, whether you're conscious of it
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  • Or not today, spiritual forces have already had--exerted an
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  • Influence on your life.
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  • I promise you.
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  • Without question, we're gonna explore this in some detail.
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  • We're gonna talk about angels, ministering spirits, messengers.
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  • We're gonna watch the invitation of scripture to move between
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  • Dimensions, into time in the physical world as well into
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  • Eternity in the spiritual world because angels are not creatures
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  • Of time.
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  • They don't have an expiration date like you and i do.
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  • Our earth suit, you're born with an expiration date just like the
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  • Stuff you buy at the store.
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  • Isn't that awkward?
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  • But the invitation is not to be surprised by that, but get ready
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  • So that you're not diminished by that exploration, that you're
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  • Actually, your journey through time is enhanced because there's
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  • Something better than the current difficulties of this
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  • Present world order awaiting us.
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  • And we're invited to participate.
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  • That's the good news of the gospel.
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  • We have this backwards approach like jesus is trying to take
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  • Something away from us.
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  • He wants to diminish our joy or our happiness or the fullness of
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  • Our experience and that ungodliness is a whole
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  • Lot better.
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  • No, it's a lie.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: hey, i believe 2025 is gonna be a year of change,
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  • Significant change, and i don't think it's gonna be limited to
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  • Washington, d.c.
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  • I think in that there's a tremendous opportunity.
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  • It's not a threat to me. it's really a promise from god.
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  • In fact, i wanna suggest that we take this year as a year for
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  • Some real breakthroughs, that we imagine god's intervention
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  • In our lives, in our homes, in our communities,
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  • In our congregations, in our nation.
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  • Well, to do that we can't just maintain the status quo.
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  • We've gotta be willing to be different.
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  • So i wanna suggest a tool.
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  • It's a book i have written called "intentional faith,"
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  • And it invites you towards some very simple behaviors,
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  • But if you will build in the intent for them to become a part
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  • Of your routine, it opens your life to god's intervention.
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  • It facilitates breakthroughs.
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  • Let's not just be passive and hope god does something.
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  • Let's choose a pathway where we raise our hand and say,
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  • "god, we are here.
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  • We will cooperate."
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  • And let's make 2025 a year of god's breakthrough
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  • For each of us.
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  • Female announcer: think of the places where you are
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  • Purposely and intentionally saying yes to god.
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  • Maybe it's reading your bible every day
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  • Or being faithful to pray.
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  • It might be helping a neighbor instead of pretending you don't
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  • Notice their need.
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  • When you take time to purposely seek god and follow his lead,
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  • You begin to see breakthroughs emerge,
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  • Change in your faith, your life, and your relationship that only
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  • God could orchestrate.
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  • Pastor allen's book "intentional faith" provides ten simple
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  • Things you can do to invite god's direction into your life
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  • And help you draw closer to him.
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  • It provides a pathway to help deepen your faith in just one
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  • Hundred days.
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  • Request the book today when you donate $40 or more,
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  • And we'll also send our "a hundred days of intentional
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  • Faith" journal, a consistent place where you can document
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  • Your journey.
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  • These powerful tools will ignite your faith,
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  • Bringing new purpose and intention to your everyday life.
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  • Allen: and i wanna plant a seed.
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  • I really wanna ask you to spend some time reflecting on--
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  • And allow the spirit of god to make it real to you.
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  • You wanna think consciously about the places where you are
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  • Purposefully, very intentionally,
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  • Saying yes to the lord.
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  • And i would submit to you you want that list to grow.
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  • You don't wanna reflect upon it.
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  • You don't wanna--it's not like a history lesson.
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  • These are the places where i did say yes to the lord.
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  • You wanna be able to tell that narrative in the way "these are
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  • The places where i am currently engaged with god" because those
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  • Are the places where breakthroughs emerge.
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  • Allen: so, let's start with jesus.
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  • And i'm gonna suggest to you that we know jesus before we get
  • 00:12:35.637 --> 00:12:39.140
  • To the stable in bethlehem.
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  • We certainly know jesus in time, but there are pre-incarnate
  • 00:12:42.377 --> 00:12:47.115
  • Appearances of jesus in the scripture.
  • 00:12:47.115 --> 00:12:49.250
  • The incarnation, fancy word for when jesus was born amongst us.
  • 00:12:49.250 --> 00:12:53.688
  • He put on an earth suit and walked amongst us.
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  • We call that the incarnation.
  • 00:12:56.624 --> 00:12:58.159
  • So, there are pre, before the incarnation, appearances of
  • 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:02.764
  • Jesus in the scripture.
  • 00:13:02.764 --> 00:13:04.799
  • He existed before bethlehem.
  • 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:08.169
  • He existed before gabriel visited mary in nazareth and
  • 00:13:08.169 --> 00:13:11.739
  • Said, "you're gonna conceive a son."
  • 00:13:11.739 --> 00:13:14.776
  • I'll brush you one example.
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  • It's in john chapter 8. jesus is speaking.
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  • So, he's the authority, but he's talking about someone who lived
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  • Thousands of years prior to his birth that knew him.
  • 00:13:21.916 --> 00:13:27.222
  • Well you couldn't have known him if he'd never existed.
  • 00:13:27.222 --> 00:13:32.293
  • John 8:56, "your father abraham rejoiced at the thought of
  • 00:13:32.293 --> 00:13:35.763
  • Seeing my day; he saw it and was glad."
  • 00:13:35.763 --> 00:13:39.868
  • They said to him, "'you're not yet fifty years old, and how
  • 00:13:39.868 --> 00:13:42.604
  • Have you seen abraham!'
  • 00:13:42.604 --> 00:13:44.939
  • And jesus said, and he says, 'i tell you the truth,'" you know
  • 00:13:44.939 --> 00:13:48.443
  • What that means, right?
  • 00:13:48.443 --> 00:13:50.578
  • Truth bomb.
  • 00:13:50.578 --> 00:13:53.314
  • He's about to fracture their perspectives.
  • 00:13:53.314 --> 00:13:57.485
  • Should i tell you the truth, "before abraham was born, i am."
  • 00:13:57.485 --> 00:14:04.826
  • I can walk you through a whole list of places prior to jesus's
  • 00:14:04.826 --> 00:14:08.763
  • Birth in bethlehem where he stepped into human history.
  • 00:14:08.763 --> 00:14:14.402
  • And then we have this most remarkable scene that after
  • 00:14:14.402 --> 00:14:19.374
  • Jesus's crucifixion, after his physical death on the cross,
  • 00:14:19.374 --> 00:14:24.979
  • Verified by the roman soldiers whose very lives depended upon
  • 00:14:24.979 --> 00:14:28.182
  • It being an accurate diagnosis.
  • 00:14:28.182 --> 00:14:30.818
  • After his physical death on the cross, jesus was raised to life
  • 00:14:30.818 --> 00:14:34.923
  • Again and appeared to many people who testified about it.
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  • Post resurrection appearances of jesus.
  • 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:41.429
  • If you're keeping track, that's the whole easter stuff.
  • 00:14:41.429 --> 00:14:47.335
  • There are multiple places in the new testament where a post
  • 00:14:47.335 --> 00:14:50.838
  • Ascension, after jesus ascended to heaven, he appears and
  • 00:14:50.838 --> 00:14:55.043
  • Interacts with human beings in time.
  • 00:14:55.043 --> 00:14:58.680
  • Again, there's this dimensional reality where spiritual forces
  • 00:14:58.680 --> 00:15:02.717
  • Impact our lives in time, our journey through this
  • 00:15:02.717 --> 00:15:06.020
  • Sense-oriented world, but they're truly anchored in
  • 00:15:06.020 --> 00:15:10.058
  • Another dimension that isn't limited by time.
  • 00:15:10.058 --> 00:15:16.331
  • "wait a minute, pastor, i just wanna go to heaven."
  • 00:15:16.331 --> 00:15:20.468
  • What's that mean to you?
  • 00:15:20.468 --> 00:15:23.838
  • Do you truly believe there's a kingdom of god that exists
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  • Beyond this current realm?
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  • Do you believe that it's a better place than you are
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  • Right now?
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  • If you do, you'll amend your behavior so that you do
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  • Everything human possibly that somehow you might attain to the
  • 00:15:35.583 --> 00:15:38.853
  • Resurrection of the dead.
  • 00:15:38.853 --> 00:15:40.221
  • That's paul's language, not mine.
  • 00:15:40.221 --> 00:15:42.924
  • See, we're pretty casual.
  • 00:15:42.924 --> 00:15:44.292
  • It's like, "tell me the minimal daily recording.
  • 00:15:44.292 --> 00:15:45.626
  • What do i have to do?
  • 00:15:45.626 --> 00:15:46.995
  • What do i have to say?
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  • Where do i need to stand, one foot?
  • 00:15:48.629 --> 00:15:52.233
  • So, i need to put my left foot in.
  • 00:15:52.233 --> 00:15:54.736
  • My left foot out.
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  • Tell me what i need to do."
  • 00:15:58.373 --> 00:15:59.741
  • It's like the minute, "how much broccoli do i have to eat?
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  • How often do i have to come to church?
  • 00:16:03.811 --> 00:16:05.313
  • Let's negotiate.
  • 00:16:05.313 --> 00:16:06.647
  • How often do i have to come?
  • 00:16:06.647 --> 00:16:08.383
  • But by my calculation, about one sermon in four is passable.
  • 00:16:08.383 --> 00:16:13.421
  • So, there's three i'm not responsible for.
  • 00:16:13.421 --> 00:16:17.225
  • So, if i come every fourth month and we line it up just right, is
  • 00:16:17.225 --> 00:16:21.062
  • That enough?
  • 00:16:21.062 --> 00:16:23.197
  • How much do i have to serve?
  • 00:16:23.197 --> 00:16:26.534
  • You know, if i come at easter, that's a big crowd.
  • 00:16:26.534 --> 00:16:28.202
  • I have to park like farther away.
  • 00:16:28.202 --> 00:16:29.704
  • Can i just call that service that i have to park
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  • Farther away?
  • 00:16:31.506 --> 00:16:34.042
  • How much do i have to give?
  • 00:16:34.042 --> 00:16:37.145
  • You know, the government takes out of my check anyway.
  • 00:16:37.145 --> 00:16:39.047
  • Can i just say i give to the government and call that even?"
  • 00:16:39.047 --> 00:16:42.583
  • You know, we barter with god as if he's like this baleful
  • 00:16:42.583 --> 00:16:46.888
  • Intrusion into our world.
  • 00:16:46.888 --> 00:16:50.591
  • We don't live like that other dimension is real very often.
  • 00:16:50.591 --> 00:16:54.762
  • I'm not really trying to chastise you.
  • 00:16:54.762 --> 00:16:58.066
  • I want us to reconcile our behavior with what we say.
  • 00:16:58.066 --> 00:17:04.672
  • I wanna look with you at a couple of post ascension
  • 00:17:04.672 --> 00:17:07.875
  • Appearances of jesus.
  • 00:17:07.875 --> 00:17:11.112
  • In acts chapter 9, we've been introduced to saul of tarsus.
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  • He's a pharisee.
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  • He hates people who say jesus is the messiah.
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  • He's looking for men, women to put them in prison.
  • 00:17:18.986 --> 00:17:23.024
  • He's an equal opportunity thug with some really good religious
  • 00:17:23.024 --> 00:17:27.261
  • Credentials and he's on his way to damascus.
  • 00:17:27.261 --> 00:17:29.097
  • He's been so effective in jerusalem.
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  • He's going to damascus to look for some people he can bring
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  • Back bound in chains.
  • 00:17:32.800 --> 00:17:34.669
  • He's trying to build a resume that will put him to the head of
  • 00:17:34.669 --> 00:17:37.138
  • The charts with the pharisees.
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  • It's in your notes.
  • 00:17:43.778 --> 00:17:45.146
  • It's acts 9, it says, "as he neared damascus on his journey,
  • 00:17:45.146 --> 00:17:47.849
  • Suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.
  • 00:17:47.849 --> 00:17:49.684
  • And he fell to the ground and he heard a voice say to him, 'saul,
  • 00:17:49.684 --> 00:17:52.386
  • Why do you persecute me?'
  • 00:17:52.386 --> 00:17:54.489
  • And he said, 'who are you, lord?'
  • 00:17:54.489 --> 00:17:55.823
  • And he said, 'i'm jesus, whom you're persecuting.'"
  • 00:17:55.823 --> 00:17:59.694
  • Well this is acts, same author, same narrative.
  • 00:17:59.694 --> 00:18:02.230
  • He's telling you a story in acts chapter one, jesus ascended back
  • 00:18:02.230 --> 00:18:06.200
  • To heaven.
  • 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:08.669
  • But in acts chapter 9, jesus is on the road to damascus doing an
  • 00:18:08.669 --> 00:18:14.275
  • Intervention with one saul of tarsus.
  • 00:18:14.275 --> 00:18:17.378
  • Identifying himself by name, he has stepped back into time.
  • 00:18:17.378 --> 00:18:22.617
  • He still does.
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  • That's another lesson.
  • 00:18:27.188 --> 00:18:31.459
  • Jesus goes on from there.
  • 00:18:31.459 --> 00:18:32.827
  • He gets paul's attention.
  • 00:18:32.827 --> 00:18:34.996
  • He goes on ahead of him into damascus.
  • 00:18:34.996 --> 00:18:36.731
  • He needs to recruit somebody to go minister.
  • 00:18:36.731 --> 00:18:38.599
  • This intrigues me.
  • 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:39.934
  • You're thinking, "why wouldn't jesus just close the circle,
  • 00:18:39.934 --> 00:18:41.969
  • Done the whole deal.
  • 00:18:41.969 --> 00:18:43.304
  • He's got saul's attention.
  • 00:18:43.304 --> 00:18:44.672
  • His face is in the dirt.
  • 00:18:44.672 --> 00:18:46.007
  • Why not tell him what he needs to know?
  • 00:18:46.007 --> 00:18:47.375
  • Straighten him out?"
  • 00:18:47.375 --> 00:18:50.344
  • He said, "now when you get up, your vision's gonna be a
  • 00:18:50.344 --> 00:18:53.781
  • Little impaired.
  • 00:18:53.781 --> 00:18:56.184
  • You wait for instructions."
  • 00:18:56.184 --> 00:18:58.819
  • Now we got, "i don't like that.
  • 00:18:58.819 --> 00:19:01.455
  • I don't like waiting for instructions," right?
  • 00:19:01.455 --> 00:19:04.926
  • "i'm on a need to know basis and i think i need to know
  • 00:19:04.926 --> 00:19:07.328
  • Everything right now."
  • 00:19:07.328 --> 00:19:09.664
  • And this notion of following the lord, that still chafes a little
  • 00:19:09.664 --> 00:19:12.733
  • Bit, doesn't it?
  • 00:19:12.733 --> 00:19:16.237
  • Not you?
  • 00:19:16.237 --> 00:19:18.105
  • Maybe you're not following very closely.
  • 00:19:18.105 --> 00:19:23.211
  • I mean, i'm--but he doesn't give him the whole story.
  • 00:19:23.211 --> 00:19:25.546
  • I mean, it really gives me a bit of pause.
  • 00:19:25.546 --> 00:19:27.315
  • This is intriguing to me.
  • 00:19:27.315 --> 00:19:28.683
  • Now jesus goes to see ananias.
  • 00:19:28.683 --> 00:19:31.118
  • It's there in your notes.
  • 00:19:31.118 --> 00:19:32.486
  • I'm not really making this up.
  • 00:19:32.486 --> 00:19:33.821
  • It's verse 10.
  • 00:19:33.821 --> 00:19:35.189
  • "in damascus there was a disciple named ananias.
  • 00:19:35.189 --> 00:19:37.058
  • The lord called to him in a vision," well he just called to
  • 00:19:37.058 --> 00:19:39.794
  • Saul on the road to damascus.
  • 00:19:39.794 --> 00:19:41.662
  • Now he's in damascus messing with ananias.
  • 00:19:41.662 --> 00:19:46.367
  • "and he answered, 'yes, lord.'
  • 00:19:46.367 --> 00:19:48.502
  • The lord said, 'go to the house of judas on straight street and
  • 00:19:48.502 --> 00:19:50.805
  • Ask for a man from tarsus named saul, for he's praying.'"
  • 00:19:50.805 --> 00:19:54.508
  • I left it out just for the sake of brevity, but ananias says,
  • 00:19:54.508 --> 00:19:57.178
  • "oh, no.
  • 00:19:57.178 --> 00:19:58.512
  • Have you seen that guy's social media posts?
  • 00:19:58.512 --> 00:20:01.349
  • He hates people like me.
  • 00:20:01.349 --> 00:20:03.918
  • There's no way i'm gonna go knock on his door and
  • 00:20:03.918 --> 00:20:05.820
  • I'm--you're a long way away.
  • 00:20:05.820 --> 00:20:07.154
  • You've been gone a while.
  • 00:20:07.154 --> 00:20:08.522
  • That was way back in acts one.
  • 00:20:08.522 --> 00:20:09.890
  • Let me catch you up.
  • 00:20:09.890 --> 00:20:12.293
  • He's a bad man.
  • 00:20:12.293 --> 00:20:15.162
  • "ananias, i need you to go pray for him."
  • 00:20:15.162 --> 00:20:18.266
  • It's right there.
  • 00:20:18.266 --> 00:20:20.635
  • "ananias went to the house and entered it, placed his hands on
  • 00:20:20.635 --> 00:20:23.271
  • Saul, and he said, 'brother saul, the lord jesus, who
  • 00:20:23.271 --> 00:20:26.707
  • Appeared to you on the road as you were coming here has sent me
  • 00:20:26.707 --> 00:20:30.478
  • So that you may see again and be filled with the holy spirit.'"
  • 00:20:30.478 --> 00:20:35.049
  • All of that interaction with saul of tarsus and ananias, the
  • 00:20:35.049 --> 00:20:38.886
  • Loss of his vision and the restoration of his vision are
  • 00:20:38.886 --> 00:20:42.757
  • All physical impacts that originate in a dimension beyond
  • 00:20:42.757 --> 00:20:46.560
  • The one we contact with our physical senses.
  • 00:20:46.560 --> 00:20:51.232
  • Biblical?
  • 00:20:51.232 --> 00:20:53.200
  • So, imagine the foolishness, the naivety of christians getting
  • 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:56.671
  • Together and saying, "let's have a seminar on whether or not god
  • 00:20:56.671 --> 00:20:59.073
  • Still does miracles."
  • 00:20:59.073 --> 00:21:03.444
  • I always think, "well, you know, i just don't know how i feel
  • 00:21:03.444 --> 00:21:05.413
  • About that."
  • 00:21:05.413 --> 00:21:06.747
  • How i feel about it is secondary.
  • 00:21:06.747 --> 00:21:09.984
  • I override my feelings frequently.
  • 00:21:09.984 --> 00:21:11.552
  • I don't feel like going to work.
  • 00:21:11.552 --> 00:21:12.920
  • Shut up and go anyway.
  • 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:14.955
  • I don't feel like saying no to dessert.
  • 00:21:14.955 --> 00:21:16.524
  • Shut up and say no.
  • 00:21:16.524 --> 00:21:19.493
  • But i'd really like that third package of oreos.
  • 00:21:19.493 --> 00:21:21.896
  • Hush.
  • 00:21:21.896 --> 00:21:27.535
  • Revelation chapter 1, we're still in the new testament if
  • 00:21:27.535 --> 00:21:29.904
  • You're tracking.
  • 00:21:29.904 --> 00:21:31.672
  • This is john, the apostle closest to jesus, "on the lord's
  • 00:21:31.672 --> 00:21:34.942
  • Day i was in the spirit, and i heard behind me a loud voice
  • 00:21:34.942 --> 00:21:38.813
  • Like a trumpet," that's an interesting passage.
  • 00:21:38.813 --> 00:21:44.151
  • "on the lord's day i was in the spirit."
  • 00:21:44.151 --> 00:21:47.655
  • John could have missed the entire invitation that is the
  • 00:21:47.655 --> 00:21:51.258
  • Book of revelation if he hadn't been in the spirit on the
  • 00:21:51.258 --> 00:21:53.527
  • Lord's day.
  • 00:21:53.527 --> 00:21:56.564
  • In the spirit on the lord's day.
  • 00:21:56.564 --> 00:21:59.233
  • Suppose he said, "it's the weekend, this is my time
  • 00:21:59.233 --> 00:22:01.435
  • For recreation."
  • 00:22:01.435 --> 00:22:05.172
  • Am i meddling yet?
  • 00:22:05.172 --> 00:22:07.408
  • I'm trying.
  • 00:22:07.408 --> 00:22:09.610
  • You know, i don't think we're bound by a specific day of the
  • 00:22:09.610 --> 00:22:11.645
  • Week any longer, but i do believe we're bound by the idea
  • 00:22:11.645 --> 00:22:15.182
  • That there's a day that belongs to the lord.
  • 00:22:15.182 --> 00:22:18.486
  • It's not our day.
  • 00:22:18.486 --> 00:22:21.255
  • To be in the spirit on the lord's day.
  • 00:22:21.255 --> 00:22:24.925
  • We think we've accomplished something of tremendous
  • 00:22:24.925 --> 00:22:26.761
  • Significance if we just get in the church or on the stream.
  • 00:22:26.761 --> 00:22:32.600
  • And i'm grateful for all of those things.
  • 00:22:32.600 --> 00:22:34.402
  • I'm not opposed to them, but we have diminished this.
  • 00:22:34.402 --> 00:22:37.004
  • We have dumbed this down.
  • 00:22:37.004 --> 00:22:38.339
  • We've removed this so far.
  • 00:22:38.339 --> 00:22:40.141
  • We don't want god to be intrusive or disruptive or, you
  • 00:22:40.141 --> 00:22:43.477
  • Know, we don't want it to be inconvenient.
  • 00:22:43.477 --> 00:22:46.414
  • To be in the spirit on the lord's day requires a time and
  • 00:22:46.414 --> 00:22:50.584
  • Attention and a focus of thought and a willingness to yield to
  • 00:22:50.584 --> 00:22:53.587
  • The spirit of god and to not be distracted with extraneous--lots
  • 00:22:53.587 --> 00:22:57.958
  • Of things that come with that.
  • 00:22:57.958 --> 00:23:03.130
  • "on the lord's day i was in the spirit, and i heard behind me a
  • 00:23:03.130 --> 00:23:05.533
  • Loud voice like a trumpet.
  • 00:23:05.533 --> 00:23:08.202
  • It said, 'write on a scroll what you see and send it to
  • 00:23:08.202 --> 00:23:10.638
  • These churches.'
  • 00:23:10.638 --> 00:23:13.240
  • And i turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me.
  • 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:15.509
  • And when i turned.
  • 00:23:15.509 --> 00:23:17.244
  • I saw seven golden lampstands, and among the lampstands was
  • 00:23:17.244 --> 00:23:21.615
  • Someone "like a son of man," and he was dressed in a robe that
  • 00:23:21.615 --> 00:23:23.951
  • Reached down to his feet with a golden sash.
  • 00:23:23.951 --> 00:23:25.820
  • And his head and his hair were white, and his voice was like
  • 00:23:25.820 --> 00:23:29.457
  • The sound of rushing waters.
  • 00:23:29.457 --> 00:23:30.825
  • In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came
  • 00:23:30.825 --> 00:23:33.661
  • A sharp double-edged sword.
  • 00:23:33.661 --> 00:23:34.995
  • And his face was like the sun."
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  • Who did you see?
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  • Jesus.
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  • He saw jesus.
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  • John's an old man in the book of revelation.
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  • He's recruited most likely as a teenager.
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  • He spent the strength of his youth as an ambassador for jesus
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  • From the cross.
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  • Jesus looked down at john and gave him an assignment to care
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  • For mary, his mother.
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  • John's peer group have all been martyred by this point.
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  • They're all gone.
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  • He's been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • He's on an island where they mined copper, more than likely
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  • Doing hard labor as hard of labor as he's capable of at this
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  • Point in his life.
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  • He's isolated and he's alone.
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  • His time with jesus has receded into his memory.
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  • You have to have enough birthdays to understand how
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  • Close those memories stay.
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  • And on the lord's day, he's in the spirit and he hears a voice
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  • Behind him.
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  • And when he turns around, it's his best friend.
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  • Jesus is back in time.
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  • Not going backwards in time, he has returned to time.
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  • He stepped into a dimension where john can experience him.
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  • Again.
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  • Watch john's response, "i fell at his feet as though dead.
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  • Then he placed his right hand on me," so it's not just some
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  • Ethereal vision.
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  • Touch is a part of this experience.
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  • "he placed his right hand on me and said: 'don't be afraid.
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  • I'm the first and the last.
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  • I'm the living one; i was dead, and behold i'm alive forever
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  • And ever!
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  • And i hold the keys of death and hell.'"
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  • Now we call ourselves christ followers.
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  • It's what christian means.
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  • And i'm just casually really trying to point out to you that
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  • Jesus existed prior to his birth, that he walked this earth
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  • In an earth suit like us, subject to all the frailty and
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  • Vagaries that come with the physical condition.
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  • Weariness and agitation and frustration and fear, he
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  • Experienced the entire gamut.
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  • He was tortured to death in public, buried in a very public
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  • Way, and raised to life for many people, dozens of people
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  • Witnessed it.
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  • He ascended back to heaven, but he was seen back in time on
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  • Multiple occasions.
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  • So, we know jesus interacting with humanity prior to his
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  • Birth, during his life, and afterwards.
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  • So, you shouldn't imagine yourselves a christ follower and
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  • Then say, "well, you know, i don't know how i feel about all
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  • This spiritual stuff," because if it's not true, jesus is a
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  • Hoax and i don't believe that.
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  • Allen: i wanna take a minute to pray before we go.
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  • Father, i thank you that you love us.
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  • I thank you that you that in your great mercy and compassion,
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  • You have made a way for us to be at peace with the creator of
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  • All things.
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  • That you're not angry with us, that you are not resentful of
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  • Us, that you have welcomed us into your kingdom and made peace
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  • With us through jesus christ.
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  • I thank you for that today.
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  • Nothing's hidden from you, no part of our past, no thought
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  • Within us, and yet you love us.
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  • May that love grow in us every day and bring a boldness and a
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  • Courage within us to face the challenges before us in jesus's
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  • Name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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