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Allen Jackson - On Assignment (Part 2)

April 28, 2025 | S25:E121

Allen Jackson - On Assignment (Part 2)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - On Assignment (Part 2) | April 28, 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.
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  • 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 a
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  • 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."
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  • And it seems to me we need to know the tranquility that comes
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  • From a shepherd who is marking a path for us and then standing
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  • Watch over us when we know there's predators about.
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  • We're living in a predatory season, we need to know the lord
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  • Is a shepherd, and i believe this offer can make a real
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  • 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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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: there's some questions i would like to ask.
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  • To what extent do you imagine that we are seeking to be free
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  • Of god's restraint?
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  • Remember when we started in matthew 24, jesus said there
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  • Would be a great falling away.
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  • A falling away from what?
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  • From attending church? we've seen that.
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  • I mean, not so much in our particular location, but in the
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  • Broader way with a capital c, a very significant following away
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  • From attending church.
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  • I don't really think that's the goal.
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  • What i think we've wanted to do was to distance ourselves from
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  • The idea that god would have any expectations of us.
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  • Or maybe state it another way, we've wanted the comfort of the
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  • Blessing, but we've rejected the idea of boundaries.
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  • No one has a right to tell me how to live my life.
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  • Well, i would disagree. god does.
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  • He's given us a free will.
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  • We can choose to comply or not to comply, but as the design
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  • Engineer, he's told us the way we were designed to function in
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  • Our journey through time.
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  • What would be required of us if we want to participate in his
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  • Eternal kingdom, and he didn't put it up for a vote, it's not a
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  • Community discussion.
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  • It's called the sovereignty of god.
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  • And what that means in the simplest of language is god can
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  • Do what he wants, when he wants, the way he wants, and he needs
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  • No one's approval.
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  • And a sovereign, omnipotent, almighty, all-knowing god has
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  • Given us a pathway to participate in his
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  • Eternal kingdom.
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  • But to do that, there are boundaries that have to
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  • Be observed.
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  • We cannot lead our lives on our own terms.
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  • Dynamic faith.
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  • And he said he will give us assistance, he'll provide his
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  • Spirit to direct, to lead, to guide, to help us.
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  • In judges chapter 21 and verse 25.
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  • It makes a statement about israel.
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  • The book of judges is that period in israelite history when
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  • There was no king.
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  • After joshua led the former slaves of egypt into the
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  • Promised land, their inheritance, and they began the
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  • Conquest of that land for 400 years.
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  • Much longer than we've been a nation.
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  • For 400 years, that the people in the land of israel, the 12
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  • Tribes, they had no central government.
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  • There was no capital city.
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  • There were 12 tribes loosely affiliated and when there was
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  • The threat posed to the larger group, god would raise up
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  • A leader.
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  • A judge.
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  • Not someone in black robes, but a person with a leadership skill
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  • Set to face the enemy that was challenging them.
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  • Gideon was a judge.
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  • Samson was a judge.
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  • Deborah was a judge.
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  • But there's a description of the people.
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  • In one of those seasons, their rebellion and godlessness would
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  • Open their lives to the judgment of god and he would hand them
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  • Over to their enemies.
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  • They would plunder them.
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  • They were being looted.
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  • That's exactly the problem that gideon faced.
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  • The midianites would come in and loot the nation every year when
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  • The crops were ready.
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  • They would come and take the harvest and the livestock and
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  • Plunder the nation.
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  • They would loot the country.
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  • God had handed them over to their enemies.
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  • I think we could say that because of our lack of
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  • Godliness, because of our willful plunge into rebellion,
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  • We have been looted for several decades now.
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  • But it seems to me that god has pulled back the curtain a bit
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  • And the truth is being told.
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  • And i think the determination of our future isn't really going to
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  • Be political.
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  • It will be the response of god's people.
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  • If we will choose the truth and step into the light and become
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  • People of the truth, we could see god's deliverance
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  • More completely.
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  • I was in judges 21, wasn't i: "in those days there was no king
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  • In israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes."
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  • Sounds pretty accurate, doesn't it?
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  • Just whatever feels, whatever you think.
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  • Folks, we have an assignment.
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  • Not just pastors, not professional christians, all of
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  • Us who imagine ourselves to be participants in the kingdom of
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  • God, we're watchmen on the walls.
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  • Not just in our homes, certainly there.
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  • But in our schools, in our community, we have to have the
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  • Courage to be advocates for our biblical worldview.
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  • "well, i don't wanna do that."
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  • Well, i'll take you back to matthew 24, the assignment if we
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  • Don't wanna fall away, if we don't wanna grow cold is we have
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  • To endure.
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  • We have to be willing to use our voice even when it's not always
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  • The most popular decision.
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  • Sometimes we will stand in opposition to the voices with
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  • Great influence that we're standing on behalf of the
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  • Kingdom of god, not in anger or resentment or bitterness.
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  • See, doing what is right in our own eyes is not a circumstance
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  • That leads to god's blessing.
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  • Proverbs 29 says it slightly different.
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  • "where there is no revelation."
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  • Or you could equally translate that vision, where there's no
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  • Vision, where there's no understanding of
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  • God's perspective.
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  • When the curtain isn't pulled back and our old carnal selfish
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  • Self is the only thing dominating the conversation.
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  • "where there's no revelation, the people cast off restraint."
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  • Where there is no revelation of god, the people
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  • Are unrestrained.
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  • Anything is possible.
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  • No matter how bizarre, no matter how absurd.
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  • That seems like a pretty accurate description of what
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  • We've been watching.
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  • So back to that question, are we seeking to be free of
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  • God's restraint?
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  • Forget the people on the other side of the windows.
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  • Are we seeking to be free of god's restraint or are we
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  • Willing to submit ourselves to the authority of god and the
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  • Boundaries of the truth that we know?
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  • Let me ask you another question.
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  • What's our source?
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  • What's your source of wisdom?
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  • Is it because we think we're wise in our own eyes?
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  • Look at isaiah 5 and verse 20.
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  • "woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who
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  • Substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who
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  • Substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
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  • Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes.
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  • And clever in their own sight!"
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  • Woe, it's a word we don't use a lot.
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  • I grew up in tennessee around a lot of horses.
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  • We use whoa a lot.
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  • But it's a little different.
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  • Well it's w-h-o-a.
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  • You know, our teachers used to try to describe words and how
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  • They sounded differently, and the difference between woe and
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  • Whoa to me is pretty close.
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  • I know one is who-a, but we don't say who-a.
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  • When i'm on a horse and it's going faster than i wanted to, i
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  • Don't go who-a.
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  • I just say whoa.
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  • W-o-e is a word of warning.
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  • Of impending judgment.
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  • Don't continue in this way.
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  • And it's used multiple times in that passage.
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  • "to those who call evil good and good evil."
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  • We see a bit of that these days.
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  • We see more than a bit.
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  • "who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness."
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  • And again, this says there's impending judgment to those who
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  • Are wise in their own eyes.
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  • Proverbs 30 again, similar ideas, slightly different
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  • Messaging those who are, "there are those who curse their
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  • Fathers and do not bless their mothers."
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  • The biblical command is to honor our mothers and fathers.
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  • And the author of proverbs says, "there are those who curse their
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  • Fathers and don't bless their mothers; those who are pure in
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  • Their own eyes.
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  • And yet are not cleansed of their filth; those whose eyes
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  • Are ever so haughty, whose glances are so disdainful; those
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  • Whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are set with knives to
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  • Devour the poor from the earth, the needy from among mankind."
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  • One of the challenges in scriptures, you can't just clip
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  • It apart for the pieces you like.
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  • We can get pretty widespread approval amongst all sorts of
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  • Worldviews for helping people who are less fortunate
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  • Than ourselves.
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  • But that's not the whole council.
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  • We're told to honor our fathers and mothers.
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  • Not to imagine that we can declare ourselves pure in our
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  • Own eyes.
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  • That there is a judge.
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  • We have to be evaluated by the standards of scripture.
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  • That the purity of our life isn't up to what i think or
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  • I feel.
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  • And before we get to the portions about helping those who
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  • Have needs and be expressions of compassion, we've got to submit
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  • Ourselves to the authority of god's standard.
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  • Allen: hey, 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 his
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  • Comfort.
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  • It'll help you chart a course and know the path that god has
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  • For you.
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  • Get a copy, it'll make a difference in your life.
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  • Pastor robert morgan's book "the lord is my shepherd" reflects on
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  • The specific ways psalm 23 speaks to our lives today.
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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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  • Allen: one more question.
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  • Are you offended by the suggestion that god should be
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  • Sought or pursued?
  • 00:13:05.266 --> 00:13:08.036
  • I don't find amongst those of us that fill churches that we say
  • 00:13:08.036 --> 00:13:10.605
  • This out loud, but i think somehow it seems to lurk in kind
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  • Of the periphery of our awareness.
  • 00:13:14.809 --> 00:13:16.811
  • We seem a bit aggrieved by this idea.
  • 00:13:16.811 --> 00:13:19.881
  • Conventional wisdom seems to whisper that god should be ready
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  • At our beck and call.
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  • When we're ready to seek him, he should be ready to answer.
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  • Available during commercial breaks.
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  • Or for appointments scheduled when we are emotionally in a
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  • Pretty good space.
  • 00:13:33.862 --> 00:13:36.898
  • Psalm 74, verse 9 says, "we are given no miraculous signs; no
  • 00:13:36.898 --> 00:13:41.469
  • Prophets are left, and none of us knows how long this will be."
  • 00:13:41.469 --> 00:13:47.041
  • One of the principles of scripture, we don't talk about a
  • 00:13:47.041 --> 00:13:48.977
  • Great deal, but it is nevertheless a consistent
  • 00:13:48.977 --> 00:13:51.813
  • Principle is that god engages in different ways in different
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  • Times and seasons with humanity.
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  • Scripture will say that in the days of samuel that the voice of
  • 00:13:59.554 --> 00:14:04.492
  • The lord had been heard small.
  • 00:14:04.492 --> 00:14:07.762
  • And the psalmist said, there are times when god's engagement
  • 00:14:07.762 --> 00:14:12.033
  • Seems diminished.
  • 00:14:12.033 --> 00:14:14.569
  • But it doesn't absolve us of the assignment to seek god.
  • 00:14:14.569 --> 00:14:19.374
  • Most of us know the story of elijah and calling fire down
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  • From heaven on mount carmel.
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  • Well, it was a time when there were 7000 people in the nation
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  • Of israel, hundreds of thousands of people, and 7000 had chosen
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  • Not to be idolatrous.
  • 00:14:31.886 --> 00:14:34.689
  • A tiny fraction--that new testament verse of a broad gate
  • 00:14:34.689 --> 00:14:38.259
  • And a broad road that leads to destruction and a narrow gate
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  • And a narrow way that leads to salvation, very much illustrated
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  • In the days of elijah.
  • 00:14:46.567 --> 00:14:48.636
  • Hundreds of thousands of people plunging over the cliff into
  • 00:14:48.636 --> 00:14:51.639
  • Destructive choices amongst the covenant people of god and a
  • 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:55.543
  • Relatively small handful of people choosing to honor god.
  • 00:14:55.543 --> 00:15:01.983
  • But it doesn't absolve us of our assignment to seek the lord.
  • 00:15:01.983 --> 00:15:04.619
  • Elijah called a confrontation, a very public showdown on top of
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  • A mountain.
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  • Let the one who's true call fire down from heaven.
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  • And when the fire fell from heaven, it didn't eliminate him
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  • From the arena, it didn't stop the conflict.
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  • Jezebel said, "i'll have your head by the end of the
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  • Day tomorrow."
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  • And he ran for his life.
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  • The man who could call fire out of heaven, running for his life
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  • Into the desert.
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  • Are you offended by the suggestion that god should be
  • 00:15:31.612 --> 00:15:34.282
  • Sought and pursued?
  • 00:15:34.282 --> 00:15:36.517
  • Look at amos chapter 8, "behold the days are coming, declares
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  • The lord, when i will send a famine on the land.
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  • Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, but rather for
  • 00:15:41.856 --> 00:15:45.693
  • Hearing the words of the lord.
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  • People will stagger from sea to sea and from the north, even to
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  • The east; they will go to and fro to seek the word of the
  • 00:15:50.498 --> 00:15:53.768
  • Lord, but they will not find it."
  • 00:15:53.768 --> 00:15:58.840
  • Again, very similar.
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  • I know the words are different, but the imagery, the idea is
  • 00:16:00.208 --> 00:16:03.044
  • Very similar to matthew 24.
  • 00:16:03.044 --> 00:16:04.645
  • A great falling away.
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  • People amongst the community of faith betraying one another.
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  • Breaking trust.
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  • Hating those who won't step into the world.
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  • The notion that we would have to pursue god, seek god, make an
  • 00:16:20.762 --> 00:16:23.965
  • Effort, pray and fast and pray.
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  • Watch and pray.
  • 00:16:28.770 --> 00:16:31.005
  • It's not some onerous burden for the overachiever, it's the
  • 00:16:31.005 --> 00:16:34.375
  • Pursuit of god.
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  • Why would we do that?
  • 00:16:37.378 --> 00:16:39.180
  • Because there's a god and he can be known.
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  • And we've had so much, so much affluence, so much freedom, so
  • 00:16:43.084 --> 00:16:46.287
  • Much liberty that it's tended to cause us to arrive in a place
  • 00:16:46.287 --> 00:16:51.926
  • Where we feel entitled that god, if we're willing to talk to him,
  • 00:16:51.926 --> 00:16:54.896
  • He should jolly well show up and listen.
  • 00:16:54.896 --> 00:17:02.203
  • I believe god is raising up people with a new attitude.
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  • People who are willing to seek the lord.
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  • To pursue god.
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  • To understand there's a cost, the cost of time and energy
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  • And effort.
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  • I can promise you this.
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  • I have learned this over the course of my journey.
  • 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.689
  • That god will be no person's debtor.
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  • That whatever you invest in the pursuit of god, god will restore
  • 00:17:24.492 --> 00:17:28.162
  • To your life far beyond whatever you think you have committed.
  • 00:17:28.162 --> 00:17:34.402
  • And any place you find yourself reluctant to fully yield to the
  • 00:17:34.402 --> 00:17:38.673
  • Lord, with your time, with your talent, with your resources,
  • 00:17:38.673 --> 00:17:42.643
  • There's a point of invitation before you.
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  • And if you will accept that invitation and begin to yield to
  • 00:17:45.413 --> 00:17:48.216
  • God with a generosity of spirit about whatever it is that god is
  • 00:17:48.216 --> 00:17:51.886
  • Inviting you towards, you will see the hand of god.
  • 00:17:51.886 --> 00:17:56.657
  • He's not some heavenly vending machine.
  • 00:17:56.657 --> 00:17:59.660
  • You won't manipulate god with the giving of your money or
  • 00:17:59.660 --> 00:18:02.263
  • Your time.
  • 00:18:02.263 --> 00:18:04.198
  • But if you will do it as a sincere desire to know the lord
  • 00:18:04.198 --> 00:18:07.635
  • In pursuit of god, god will respond to you.
  • 00:18:07.635 --> 00:18:12.206
  • Isaiah 55 and verse 6, "seek the lord while he may be found; and
  • 00:18:12.206 --> 00:18:18.246
  • Call on him while he's near.
  • 00:18:18.246 --> 00:18:20.615
  • Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts.
  • 00:18:20.615 --> 00:18:24.318
  • Let him turn to the lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to
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  • Our god, for he will freely pardon.
  • 00:18:26.754 --> 00:18:29.223
  • For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways
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  • My ways, declares the lord."
  • 00:18:32.326 --> 00:18:34.862
  • So there's an awkwardness in that.
  • 00:18:34.862 --> 00:18:36.364
  • God doesn't think like we think.
  • 00:18:36.364 --> 00:18:38.432
  • He doesn't plan like we plan, he doesn't have an imagination like
  • 00:18:38.432 --> 00:18:41.302
  • We imagine.
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  • He's different than us.
  • 00:18:42.737 --> 00:18:44.105
  • Folks, he called our world into existence.
  • 00:18:44.105 --> 00:18:48.109
  • There's no way we can get our finite mind around the majesty
  • 00:18:48.109 --> 00:18:51.879
  • And the magnitude of almighty god.
  • 00:18:51.879 --> 00:18:55.049
  • The fact that he's chosen to give us enough of a revelation
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  • Of himself that we can seek him, pursue him, present ourselves as
  • 00:18:57.785 --> 00:19:02.590
  • A living sacrifice before him, is an indescribable gift that's
  • 00:19:02.590 --> 00:19:06.894
  • Been extended to any one of us.
  • 00:19:06.894 --> 00:19:09.730
  • It's the good news of the gospel.
  • 00:19:09.730 --> 00:19:15.136
  • We were in washington dc a few weeks ago and we had a meeting
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  • With a man who had worked diligently in the election
  • 00:19:18.706 --> 00:19:22.343
  • In pennsylvania.
  • 00:19:22.343 --> 00:19:24.512
  • He was a digital expert.
  • 00:19:24.512 --> 00:19:32.887
  • My old school word was he's a nerd.
  • 00:19:32.887 --> 00:19:37.658
  • But he did it as a part of a discussion we were having on
  • 00:19:37.658 --> 00:19:39.894
  • What was happening in the media, but he told us how he--the
  • 00:19:39.894 --> 00:19:43.664
  • Behaviors that had been required to cause people to be engaged in
  • 00:19:43.664 --> 00:19:47.168
  • The election.
  • 00:19:47.168 --> 00:19:48.536
  • Regardless of how, the effort that it took.
  • 00:19:48.536 --> 00:19:50.972
  • How systematic, how intentional, the repetition, the multiple
  • 00:19:50.972 --> 00:19:55.943
  • Times that they would reach out and impact the lives of people
  • 00:19:55.943 --> 00:19:59.580
  • To motivate them towards one single activity just
  • 00:19:59.580 --> 00:20:02.350
  • Participating in an election.
  • 00:20:02.350 --> 00:20:05.920
  • And i think about our rather cavalier attitude towards
  • 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:09.290
  • The lord.
  • 00:20:09.290 --> 00:20:11.058
  • That we can live on our own terms in our own arena with our
  • 00:20:11.058 --> 00:20:13.894
  • Own thoughts and our own ways, but when we're ready to invite
  • 00:20:13.894 --> 00:20:16.664
  • God in, we expect him to be like really focused.
  • 00:20:16.664 --> 00:20:20.034
  • 'cause now i want his attention.
  • 00:20:20.034 --> 00:20:23.337
  • Look at amos 5, "seek the lord and live or he will sweep
  • 00:20:23.337 --> 00:20:29.377
  • Through the house of joseph like a fire; it will devour, and
  • 00:20:29.377 --> 00:20:34.248
  • Bethel will have no one to quench it.
  • 00:20:34.248 --> 00:20:37.184
  • You who turn justice into bitterness and cast
  • 00:20:37.184 --> 00:20:40.288
  • Righteousness to the ground."
  • 00:20:40.288 --> 00:20:43.457
  • That's a very powerful passage.
  • 00:20:43.457 --> 00:20:47.194
  • Seek the lord and live.
  • 00:20:47.194 --> 00:20:49.930
  • If you're gonna take one phrase away, maybe that's the phrase,
  • 00:20:49.930 --> 00:20:53.701
  • "seek the lord and live."
  • 00:20:53.701 --> 00:20:56.904
  • Please displace the notion.
  • 00:20:56.904 --> 00:20:59.674
  • Your first response to every spiritual discussion about
  • 00:20:59.674 --> 00:21:02.143
  • Growth or maturity is, "well, i'm born again."
  • 00:21:02.143 --> 00:21:05.813
  • Well, i'm grateful for that.
  • 00:21:05.813 --> 00:21:07.148
  • I applaud that.
  • 00:21:07.148 --> 00:21:08.516
  • It's a necessity.
  • 00:21:08.516 --> 00:21:09.850
  • It's important, but it's the beginning point.
  • 00:21:09.850 --> 00:21:11.686
  • It's the new birth, it's not the finish line.
  • 00:21:11.686 --> 00:21:14.989
  • If it were the finish line, paul wouldn't have said run in such a
  • 00:21:14.989 --> 00:21:17.425
  • Way as to get the prize.
  • 00:21:17.425 --> 00:21:18.793
  • He'd have just said, be born again.
  • 00:21:18.793 --> 00:21:22.830
  • Seek god and live.
  • 00:21:22.830 --> 00:21:24.799
  • I meet people who have been in church for decades.
  • 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:28.069
  • They've been christ followers for many, many years and have as
  • 00:21:28.069 --> 00:21:31.472
  • Little if any imagination of seeking the lord.
  • 00:21:31.472 --> 00:21:36.577
  • Seek the lord and live.
  • 00:21:36.577 --> 00:21:38.879
  • Look at the consequence, or. there's a conjunction.
  • 00:21:38.879 --> 00:21:43.484
  • If you don't want to seek the lord and live, this is
  • 00:21:43.484 --> 00:21:45.186
  • The outcome.
  • 00:21:45.186 --> 00:21:46.520
  • God will sweep through the house of joseph.
  • 00:21:46.520 --> 00:21:48.723
  • Not the house of the ungodly.
  • 00:21:48.723 --> 00:21:51.926
  • The house of joseph like a fire and bethel, bethel, bethel, it's
  • 00:21:51.926 --> 00:21:57.331
  • The house of god.
  • 00:21:57.331 --> 00:21:59.700
  • That's the translation of that word, bethel.
  • 00:21:59.700 --> 00:22:02.103
  • The house of god will have no one to quench the fire.
  • 00:22:02.103 --> 00:22:05.606
  • How do you quench the fire of god's judgment?
  • 00:22:05.606 --> 00:22:08.209
  • Seek the lord and live.
  • 00:22:08.209 --> 00:22:10.878
  • In this culture, the people of god will either seek the lord
  • 00:22:10.878 --> 00:22:14.448
  • And bring life to the generation who follows us or we will face
  • 00:22:14.448 --> 00:22:18.686
  • The judgment of god.
  • 00:22:18.686 --> 00:22:21.055
  • We can't continue on the trajectory we've been.
  • 00:22:21.055 --> 00:22:25.126
  • Deconstructing boundaries.
  • 00:22:25.126 --> 00:22:29.029
  • Limiting the exposure of the word of god in a biblical
  • 00:22:29.029 --> 00:22:31.899
  • Worldview into our lives, we can't.
  • 00:22:31.899 --> 00:22:33.634
  • Our predicament is not something new.
  • 00:22:33.634 --> 00:22:35.536
  • It's a recurring problem, but there is a solution.
  • 00:22:35.536 --> 00:22:39.974
  • A remnant of people, not a majority.
  • 00:22:39.974 --> 00:22:43.878
  • That's not the biblical pattern.
  • 00:22:43.878 --> 00:22:45.312
  • It is seldom the historical pattern, but a remnant of people
  • 00:22:45.312 --> 00:22:48.616
  • Who have the courage to seek the lord and to serve as watchmen.
  • 00:22:48.616 --> 00:22:53.621
  • What i like about it is this removes you from victim status.
  • 00:22:53.621 --> 00:22:57.324
  • You don't have to say, well, the legacy media is corrupt.
  • 00:22:57.324 --> 00:23:01.195
  • Or career politicians are greedy or whatever, ministers don't say
  • 00:23:01.195 --> 00:23:04.932
  • What--whatever the excuse we might offer, that's not the
  • 00:23:04.932 --> 00:23:08.402
  • Point in discussion.
  • 00:23:08.402 --> 00:23:09.737
  • We can say to the lord, "i want to seek your face and i will use
  • 00:23:09.737 --> 00:23:14.475
  • My voice."
  • 00:23:14.475 --> 00:23:17.111
  • We don't have to be the majority.
  • 00:23:17.111 --> 00:23:19.847
  • The authority comes from the truth of god.
  • 00:23:19.847 --> 00:23:23.717
  • And that's better than just being mindless church attenders
  • 00:23:23.717 --> 00:23:28.923
  • Or imagine that we could join the right group or sing the
  • 00:23:28.923 --> 00:23:31.459
  • Right chorus or read the right translation.
  • 00:23:31.459 --> 00:23:34.395
  • I'm not opposed to any of those things, but they're not really
  • 00:23:34.395 --> 00:23:36.430
  • The determining factor.
  • 00:23:36.430 --> 00:23:38.032
  • Let's decide that we will seek the lord and live, amen.
  • 00:23:38.032 --> 00:23:46.474
  • All right, i want to close a little differently, rather than
  • 00:23:46.474 --> 00:23:51.378
  • Just a prayer, i brought you a passage from isaiah.
  • 00:23:51.378 --> 00:23:54.715
  • And i didn't change, i didn't even change the pronouns.
  • 00:23:54.715 --> 00:23:58.452
  • Which for me took some discipline.
  • 00:23:58.452 --> 00:24:01.155
  • But i think we could offer it as a proclamation, a declaration of
  • 00:24:01.155 --> 00:24:04.992
  • Intent on our behalf, a recognition of the honor of
  • 00:24:04.992 --> 00:24:08.596
  • Standing on behalf of the lord.
  • 00:24:08.596 --> 00:24:10.231
  • I can't think of a greater honor for a human being than almighty
  • 00:24:10.231 --> 00:24:13.334
  • God saying, i would ask you to stand on my behalf and you to
  • 00:24:13.334 --> 00:24:17.404
  • Stand on my behalf and you to stand.
  • 00:24:17.404 --> 00:24:19.707
  • If you got a call from washington dc and you were
  • 00:24:19.707 --> 00:24:21.742
  • Invited--if it's a group that you like and they invited you to
  • 00:24:21.742 --> 00:24:25.179
  • Stand on their behalf.
  • 00:24:25.179 --> 00:24:27.248
  • You would think, wow.
  • 00:24:27.248 --> 00:24:29.783
  • Well, somebody better than anyone in dc has invited you.
  • 00:24:29.783 --> 00:24:37.124
  • Are we willing? it's a wonderful proclamation.
  • 00:24:37.124 --> 00:24:39.493
  • Stand with me. we're gonna read it together.
  • 00:24:39.493 --> 00:24:48.669
  • Now isaiah presents this as if it's a triumphant position, but
  • 00:24:50.504 --> 00:24:54.341
  • You need it in the context of our larger discussion that not
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  • Everybody's gonna be thrilled about this.
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  • Not everybody wants to say jesus is lord.
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  • Not everyone wants the purposes of god to break forth in
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  • Our community.
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  • You understand that, it's why we tend to be quiet.
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  • Let's read it together.
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  • "how lovely on the mountains, are the feet of him who brings
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  • Good news.
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  • Who announces peace and brings good news of happiness.
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  • Who announces salvation, and says to zion, 'your god reigns.'
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  • Listen! your watchmen lift up their voices.
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  • They shout joyfully together: for they will see with their own
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  • Eyes when the lord restores zion.
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  • Break forth, shout joyfully together.
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  • Your waste places of jerusalem; for the lord has comforted
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  • His people.
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  • He has redeemed jerusalem.
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  • The lord has bared his holy arm in the sight of all the nations.
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  • That all the ends of the earth may see the salvation of our
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  • God," amen.
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  • God bless you. stay safe.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: and before our congregation even existed, my
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  • Family used to distribute christian literature.
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  • We found that sharing books changed lives and so we spent a
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  • Lot of time and energy and resources honestly, sharing
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  • Books around our community.
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  • Well, our offer this month is a book by a good friend of mine,
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  • Rob morgan.
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  • The title is "the lord is my shepherd."
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  • It's a book about god's abiding presence, his guidance in our
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  • Lives, and the fact that he charts a course for us.
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  • It's a book i believe will change your life, but it's also
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  • A really easy book to share with a friend.
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  • So i wanna give you an invitation.
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  • Let's not just enjoy the word of god and what god does for us.
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  • Let's decide to be a light in our families, in our community,
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  • In your sunday school class, wherever that may be.
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  • I believe this book is a wonderful tool not only for you,
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  • But for the people you care about.
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  • The lord is my shepherd, that's the message we need now.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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