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Allen Jackson - Back From The Dead (Part 1)

July 1, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Back From The Dead (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Back From The Dead (Part 1) | July 1, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: and i know you know, but we're living
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  • In a chaotic world.
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  • Things are changing globally.
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  • There's wars, there's threats of war, a lot of stuff happening.
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  • But i want to make a suggestion.
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  • Don't focus on the negative.
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  • Don't get caught up in the uncertainty.
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  • That'll bring fear and anxiety and worry.
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  • It's not helpful.
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  • Let's determine to focus our attention on the lord.
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  • We've created a tool that i believe will make a difference.
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  • It's called, "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • Each day is directed at a different topic that's a part of
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  • Our current world.
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  • It gives us a verse of scripture, a little devotional
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  • Around that topic, and then a prayer for that specific thing.
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  • The idea is we're gonna give the holy spirit an invitation to
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  • Awaken us to a new place of faith.
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  • You know, we need an awakening in the midst of the people of
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  • God, and we wanna say, "well, i am awake."
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  • Well, i get that, but you know, i was awakened yesterday, but
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  • This morning i was awakened again and my prayer is tomorrow
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  • I'll be awakened yet again.
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  • We need a daily awakening by the spirit of god to find his best
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  • For us in this season, and i believe this book will help you.
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  • Allen: i struggled with the title for these messages.
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  • This is a continuation of what we started in a previous session
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  • And i'm not sure i ever got the titles right, but the one for
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  • This session is "back from the dead."
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  • I was out of town for a few days and i called in, and i said,
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  • "i have an idea," which usually causes great concern.
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  • Said, "i want to fill the building with caskets
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  • This weekend."
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  • And i didn't wait for a response.
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  • I said, "i gotta go."
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  • And i checked in the next day, and craig said, "well, i don't
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  • Know if that's the best idea."
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  • And i wasn't here, so i conceded, but it's an idea,
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  • Really, it started, i think, in my heart.
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  • They sent me a compilation of podcasts that we've done over
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  • The last few months, and they've been edited down a bit.
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  • It was just kind of some highlights of those
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  • Conversations, and as i listened to it, i was really overwhelmed
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  • With the reality, the life that god is pouring into people, the
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  • Stories that person after person tells about being delivered from
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  • Places where physically the doctors had stepped back and
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  • Said, "there's nothing more we can do.
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  • We can't restore the heartbeat."
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  • And--or people who were trapped in addictions and they were
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  • Hopeless and there was despair.
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  • They had no way of delivering themselves.
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  • Story after story about heartbreak or tragedy or
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  • Addiction or physical death, and god stepped in and by his spirit
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  • Brought new life.
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  • It was remarkable and it started me on a little bible study.
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  • I started making notes of scriptures and building lists,
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  • And i was off and running and that's really what i wanna share
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  • With you, but i have an objective, and i'll be open with
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  • You on the front.
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  • I wanna reframe our faith just a bit to realign a bit of our
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  • Imagination of what it means to be a christ follower.
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  • And i believe in the new birth and being born again, or
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  • Salvation or conversion, whichever label you prefer for
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  • That initiation into the kingdom of god.
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  • It's not about joining a church, it's about a
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  • Spiritual transformation.
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  • But it's--the majority of that presentation in my lifetime in
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  • Evangelicalism has been centered on that initiation point, that
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  • Conversion point.
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  • And then the rest of the discussion seems pretty iffy.
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  • As long as you get that part right, then we build whole
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  • Theological structures around how that's an unassailable point
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  • Once you've established that, and i'm not trying to get into
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  • That debate today, i--but i think it's a very incomplete,
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  • Inadequate, unfortunate presentation of the gospel.
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  • Again, i believe in the necessity of the new birth.
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  • It's clearly a biblical a biblical
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  • But there is so much more that comes beyond that, and so i'll
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  • Start with just a moment of recapitulation, if you didn't
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  • Hear the previous session.
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  • I'm gonna suggest to you that every one of us who are christ
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  • Followers, it's back from the dead that we've come.
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  • It's not original with me.
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  • I borrowed the line from a crowder song.
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  • I was working out, and he was on the headsets, and i just put--i
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  • Put it on a loop and by the time i'd listened to it about 30
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  • Times, i began to get the idea.
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  • That it's back from the dead we've come.
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  • And that notion changes everything about the perspective
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  • Of who we are as a people.
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  • I'll give you a couple of scriptures just quickly.
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  • Ephesians 2, it says: "as for you, you were dead in your
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  • Transgressions and sins."
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  • The language is very plain.
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  • Paul's writing to a group of christians, believers, and he
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  • Said, "you were dead."
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  • It's past tense, but you were dead.
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  • "in which you used to live," so he's talking about being dead
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  • And living at the same time, so he's not talking about
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  • Physical death.
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  • He said you were dead even though you were living, because
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  • "you followed the ways of this world and the ruler of the
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  • Kingdom of the air, the spirit who's now at work in those who
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  • Are disobedient.
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  • All of us also lived among them at one time."
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  • We've all been dead.
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  • How do you know?
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  • What's the evidence of that kind of spiritual death?
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  • He gives it to you in the next phrase: "you lived to gratify
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  • The cravings of your sinful nature, and you follow its
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  • Desires and thoughts."
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  • So for a moment, i wanna challenge some notions a little
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  • Bit today.
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  • I'll try to do it gently, but sitting in church does not make
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  • You a christ follower.
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  • Owning a bible, serving, volunteering, being kind or
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  • Generous, doesn't make you a christ follower.
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  • And if your life is described as following, making every attempt
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  • You can to gratify the cravings of your sinful nature and to
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  • Follow its desires and its thoughts, then you should not
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  • Imagine you're a christ follower.
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  • You're dead.
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  • Look at the next phrase.
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  • Said, "like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath."
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  • That's the worst part of that.
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  • The real death isn't the struggle with your old
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  • Carnal self.
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  • The real tragedy in that is we stand in opposition to almighty
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  • God, the creator of heaven and earth, and his wrath will
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  • Visit us.
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  • That's not a future you would wish on anyone.
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  • "but because of his great love for us, god, who is rich in
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  • Mercy, made us alive with christ even when we were dead in
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  • Transgression--it's by grace that you've been saved."
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  • So the description that paul is making to the church at ephesus
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  • To believers is that although you were spiritually dead, you
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  • Were living physically, you had a heartbeat, neurological
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  • Impulses and your senses were working and your immune system
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  • Was functioning, but you were spiritually dead.
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  • And he said, i can give you the diagnosis for that, the
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  • Diagnostics for that.
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  • You're gonna follow your old carnal thoughts and try to
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  • Gratify your old selfish nature.
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  • But he said, thank god in his grace, something we didn't earn,
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  • Something we don't deserve, he made us alive.
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  • So the idea is that you and i as christ followers, back from the
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  • Dead we've come.
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  • I was dead, but i was alive.
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  • This is a fundamental idea in scripture.
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  • Resurrection isn't just a jesus story.
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  • It's woven all through the scripture.
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  • It's woven all through there.
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  • Elijah, elisha, their lives had resurrection narratives around
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  • Their ministries.
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  • In fact, a young man was being hastily buried under threat of
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  • Some invaders, and they tossed his dead body and it landed on
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  • The bones of elisha, and he came back to life.
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  • And it rolls right into the new testament.
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  • It certainly was a part of jesus's ministry with the widow
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  • From nain.
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  • Her son was raised to life again.
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  • Jairus's daughter who died.
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  • Lazarus, perhaps most notably.
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  • He was dead so long they said he stinks.
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  • King james, "he stinketh."
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  • You know, when you get to heaven and you meet lazarus, he'll have
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  • A little nickname.
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  • You know what his nickname is?
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  • Stinky, makes perfect sense.
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  • But it continued past jesus.
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  • Peter raised a young woman from the dead.
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  • Paul had a young man he was preaching.
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  • He fell out a window and died--killed himself.
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  • So if you go to sleep when i'm preaching, it's very biblical.
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  • Doesn't make it right, but it's biblical.
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  • And he was raised back to life again.
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  • But the larger application of this is paul's very clearly, and
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  • It isn't some subtle theme we looked at a lot more fully in a
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  • Previous session, is that a christ follower is described as
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  • Someone who has come to life, that we were dead, and through
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  • God's grace we were brought to life again.
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  • And what i've suggested, and i'm gonna continue to suggest, is
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  • That if you're dead and you come to life again, you're never the
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  • Same again.
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  • You think lazarus was a little different post resurrection?
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  • Y'all were kind of calm about that.
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  • I watched those podcasts over two or three times and the
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  • Enthusiasm--there was no hesitancy in those people.
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  • They were very transparent, forthcoming about stories that
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  • Most of us would bury or hide, but they said, "my life was
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  • A mess, i was broken, i was dead.
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  • But i'm alive again."
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  • Folks, we as christ followers, we're back from the dead.
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  • We shouldn't be ashamed or reluctant or hesitant.
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  • I need a sippy cup, apparently.
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  • Don't bring me one.
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  • The alternative to that, and it's important, i think, to have
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  • It fixed in your awareness, and this is a bit of review, is that
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  • If you haven't been brought to life again, then the biblical
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  • Definition, if we use common language, is they're just dead
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  • People walking.
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  • I mean, they're physically alive, but they're not
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  • Spiritually alive.
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  • They don't have an awareness of the kingdom of god.
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  • They can talk about it, they can discuss it in clinical terms,
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  • They can discuss it in academic terms.
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  • One of the great surprises of my life is when i was in the
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  • Academic world, i would have faculty members and professors,
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  • Very accomplished, very celebrated, amazing credentials,
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  • Studying scripture as a profession, but they
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  • Weren't believers.
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  • And it leaves a gap in your understanding and your insight.
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  • Now, what's unfortunate is because people in very
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  • Prestigious institutions, celebrated institutions,
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  • Institutions of great influence, hold those positions and they're
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  • Spiritually dead, and it causes people who've been believers to
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  • Hold in high esteem the thoughts of people who are dead.
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  • And we've got to have enough discernment in the church, if
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  • We don't get to it in this session, we will, to recognize
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  • What it means to be alive.
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  • We wouldn't imagine you were a very good physician if you
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  • Couldn't tell the difference between the patients who were
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  • Alive and those who weren't.
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  • And i would submit to you, you're not a very good christ
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  • Follower if you can't tell the difference between those who are
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  • Alive and those who aren't.
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  • You see, we've got that--we're gonna have to have the courage
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  • To say, if we're not alive in christ, we're just dead
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  • People walking.
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  • Because if you'll do that, it changes your orientation towards
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  • The world.
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  • God brought you back to life.
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  • He'll bring anybody back to life.
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  • It's an expression of grace.
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  • It's not earned, it's not merit-based.
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  • We don't pay for it.
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  • So if you have friends, family members, neighbors, co-workers,
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  • Whoever they may be that they're not alive in christ, you don't
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  • Want to spend time with them and not be willing to share the good
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  • News of what god's doing in your life.
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  • Don't preach a sermon, don't hand them a link to my
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  • Last message.
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  • Just share your god story.
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  • Tell them the good things god's doing in your life, how god's
  • 00:11:26.335 --> 00:11:28.704
  • Made your life better.
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  • Be excited about god.
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  • You know how to do that.
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  • If you're an advocate for ut, you know how to share
  • 00:11:34.710 --> 00:11:36.412
  • That enthusiasm.
  • 00:11:36.412 --> 00:11:39.348
  • Whatever you advocate for, if it's gardening or your favorite
  • 00:11:39.348 --> 00:11:42.284
  • Program or something--whatever it is, you know how to do that,
  • 00:11:42.284 --> 00:11:44.854
  • Be an advocate for jesus.
  • 00:11:44.854 --> 00:11:46.255
  • There's people around you, and we gotta have the courage to
  • 00:11:46.255 --> 00:11:48.858
  • Recognize this distinction.
  • 00:11:48.858 --> 00:11:50.459
  • There is no third lane presented.
  • 00:11:50.459 --> 00:11:56.365
  • We have a false gospel that's flourishing in contemporary
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  • American christendom.
  • 00:11:58.901 --> 00:12:01.537
  • But you see, to be apart from god, be dead men walking, means
  • 00:12:01.537 --> 00:12:04.306
  • You have no future, you have no hope, you have no life.
  • 00:12:04.306 --> 00:12:07.710
  • I mean, you got a heartbeat, but you are totally captured by
  • 00:12:07.710 --> 00:12:12.915
  • Those old--that old carnal nature.
  • 00:12:12.915 --> 00:12:15.217
  • It drives you. it owns you.
  • 00:12:15.217 --> 00:12:18.420
  • Jesus said to the religious leaders in jerusalem, the
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  • Scholars, the ones who were engaged in the most religious
  • 00:12:21.190 --> 00:12:24.226
  • Activity of anyone, they were celebrated as the influencers,
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  • As the most--as the--they were the crème de la crème of the
  • 00:12:27.429 --> 00:12:32.935
  • Religious community, and jesus said, "your father's the devil."
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  • You're dead.
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  • You're dead.
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  • Do you know you can be religious and be dead?
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  • You can build--you can be kind and be dead.
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  • You can be generous and be dead.
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  • You can be well educated and be dead.
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  • You can be very successful and be dead.
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  • You can be sophisticated, you can be well traveled.
  • 00:12:56.892 --> 00:13:01.163
  • You can be chic, you can be an influencer.
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  • You can be a pastor.
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  • Allen: you see, we haven't had the courage, we haven't
  • 00:14:45.668 --> 00:14:48.103
  • Cared enough.
  • 00:14:48.103 --> 00:14:49.438
  • We haven't valued the fact that we've been brought to life.
  • 00:14:49.438 --> 00:14:51.807
  • We were brought back from the dead, folks.
  • 00:14:51.807 --> 00:14:53.943
  • I'm gonna tell anybody that'll listen to me.
  • 00:14:53.943 --> 00:14:58.314
  • We've had this christianity line where we say, "listen, really,
  • 00:14:58.314 --> 00:15:00.983
  • All you need to do is walk an aisle, say a little prayer.
  • 00:15:00.983 --> 00:15:02.785
  • They're gonna sing a little something while you come, every
  • 00:15:02.785 --> 00:15:04.687
  • Head bowed, every eye closed."
  • 00:15:04.687 --> 00:15:07.222
  • Again, i believe in conversion, but the emphasis of that is that
  • 00:15:07.222 --> 00:15:10.659
  • You can be brought to life again.
  • 00:15:10.659 --> 00:15:12.294
  • You'll never be the same again.
  • 00:15:12.294 --> 00:15:16.598
  • It's intended to usher in, to point you towards a totally
  • 00:15:16.598 --> 00:15:19.935
  • Different kind of existence, a totally different experience.
  • 00:15:19.935 --> 00:15:23.172
  • Look at ephesians 2:12: "remember at that time you were
  • 00:15:23.172 --> 00:15:26.408
  • Separate from christ, excluded from citizenship in israel and
  • 00:15:26.408 --> 00:15:29.311
  • Foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope and
  • 00:15:29.311 --> 00:15:31.714
  • Without god in the world."
  • 00:15:31.714 --> 00:15:33.382
  • Dead men walking.
  • 00:15:33.382 --> 00:15:35.117
  • Colossians 1:21, "once you were alienated from god, you were
  • 00:15:35.117 --> 00:15:38.253
  • Enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior."
  • 00:15:38.253 --> 00:15:41.890
  • That's exactly the parallel that was made in ephesians.
  • 00:15:41.890 --> 00:15:44.326
  • We looked at that a while ago.
  • 00:15:44.326 --> 00:15:45.694
  • Your thoughts and your behaviors take you away from god.
  • 00:15:45.694 --> 00:15:49.732
  • Folks, if there are people in your family, i know you love
  • 00:15:49.732 --> 00:15:51.967
  • Them, i know you care about them, if there are neighbors or
  • 00:15:51.967 --> 00:15:54.169
  • Coworkers, they're important to you, they're friends.
  • 00:15:54.169 --> 00:15:57.806
  • And they're dead people walking.
  • 00:15:57.806 --> 00:16:01.944
  • Don't avoid the issue and say, "well, they're good people," or
  • 00:16:01.944 --> 00:16:04.246
  • "they're kind people," or "they're my family.
  • 00:16:04.246 --> 00:16:06.115
  • I love them."
  • 00:16:06.115 --> 00:16:07.449
  • I'm not saying that you don't love them.
  • 00:16:07.449 --> 00:16:08.784
  • I'm not debating that they're good or kind.
  • 00:16:08.784 --> 00:16:10.152
  • Hell will be occupied with people who were kind.
  • 00:16:10.152 --> 00:16:14.823
  • We have to care enough about them to say, "listen, god
  • 00:16:14.823 --> 00:16:17.359
  • Brought life to me, and i think he'd bring life to you.
  • 00:16:17.359 --> 00:16:22.331
  • I'm so excited about who jesus is and what he's doing.
  • 00:16:22.331 --> 00:16:25.968
  • He's changed my perspective, he's changing my want to's,
  • 00:16:25.968 --> 00:16:28.904
  • He's changing my ambitions and my desires.
  • 00:16:28.904 --> 00:16:31.373
  • He'll do it for you."
  • 00:16:31.373 --> 00:16:33.509
  • See, the point of this being-- coming back from the dead that
  • 00:16:33.509 --> 00:16:36.578
  • We've come from is that we're a new creation, a new kind
  • 00:16:36.578 --> 00:16:39.982
  • Of life.
  • 00:16:39.982 --> 00:16:41.316
  • Look at 2 corinthians 5, says: "he died for all, that those who
  • 00:16:41.316 --> 00:16:44.753
  • Live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died
  • 00:16:44.753 --> 00:16:49.558
  • For them and was raised again.
  • 00:16:49.558 --> 00:16:50.926
  • Therefore, if anyone is in christ, he's a new creation; the
  • 00:16:50.926 --> 00:16:53.295
  • Old has gone, the new has come!"
  • 00:16:53.295 --> 00:16:55.764
  • See, as christ followers, we live by a different set of
  • 00:16:55.764 --> 00:16:58.667
  • Standards, a different set of patterns, not rules,
  • 00:16:58.667 --> 00:17:01.136
  • Not compliance.
  • 00:17:01.136 --> 00:17:03.505
  • We have something else to live for.
  • 00:17:03.505 --> 00:17:05.074
  • We're not just living for ourselves.
  • 00:17:05.074 --> 00:17:06.909
  • That's the life of the dead.
  • 00:17:06.909 --> 00:17:09.845
  • Satisfy their cravings, satisfy their desires, get what they
  • 00:17:09.845 --> 00:17:13.248
  • Can, can all they get, and sit on the can.
  • 00:17:13.248 --> 00:17:18.020
  • We've been called to a different kind of life, because it's
  • 00:17:18.020 --> 00:17:20.789
  • A life that doesn't come from us.
  • 00:17:20.789 --> 00:17:22.124
  • It isn't my life.
  • 00:17:22.124 --> 00:17:23.492
  • I've been given life in christ.
  • 00:17:23.492 --> 00:17:25.994
  • He paid a price that i could have that life so that i could
  • 00:17:25.994 --> 00:17:28.831
  • Have a different kind of a journey under the sun.
  • 00:17:28.831 --> 00:17:32.901
  • We've got to talk about it more.
  • 00:17:32.901 --> 00:17:34.436
  • We haven't talked about it with enough enthusiasm.
  • 00:17:34.436 --> 00:17:38.073
  • Look at romans 6: "we were therefore buried with him
  • 00:17:38.073 --> 00:17:40.576
  • Through baptism into death."
  • 00:17:40.576 --> 00:17:41.910
  • Did you know that's what you're acting out in baptism, jesus's
  • 00:17:41.910 --> 00:17:43.946
  • Burial and his resurrection?
  • 00:17:43.946 --> 00:17:46.281
  • I mean, people go, "oh, how would you--i never do--
  • 00:17:46.281 --> 00:17:47.883
  • I--bapti--pfft, baptized, blegh."
  • 00:17:47.883 --> 00:17:53.956
  • Folks, i'm of the opinion that if the lord pointed us towards
  • 00:17:53.956 --> 00:17:56.125
  • Something, if jesus presented himself to be baptized, maybe
  • 00:17:56.125 --> 00:18:00.129
  • You and i should get over ourselves and get in the pool.
  • 00:18:00.129 --> 00:18:04.633
  • But the activity of baptism is that we're buried with christ
  • 00:18:04.633 --> 00:18:08.637
  • "in order that as christ was raised from the dead through the
  • 00:18:08.637 --> 00:18:11.173
  • Glory of the father, we can live a new life."
  • 00:18:11.173 --> 00:18:14.176
  • It's a resurrection, this christ follower stuff.
  • 00:18:14.176 --> 00:18:17.846
  • Now, if we died with christ, we believe that we'll also live
  • 00:18:17.846 --> 00:18:20.516
  • With him.
  • 00:18:20.516 --> 00:18:22.217
  • "for we know that since christ was raised from the dead, he
  • 00:18:22.217 --> 00:18:24.419
  • Can't die again; death no longer has a mastery over him.
  • 00:18:24.419 --> 00:18:28.056
  • The death he died, he died to sin once and for all; but the
  • 00:18:28.056 --> 00:18:30.759
  • Life he lives, he lives to god.
  • 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:32.694
  • In the same way," now he's turned the mirror around.
  • 00:18:32.694 --> 00:18:36.532
  • He says now this is for us, this is the application.
  • 00:18:36.532 --> 00:18:38.834
  • "in the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive
  • 00:18:38.834 --> 00:18:43.906
  • To god in christ jesus."
  • 00:18:43.906 --> 00:18:47.809
  • Count yourselves dead to sin.
  • 00:18:47.809 --> 00:18:49.811
  • You know, for more than--for three generations, my family was
  • 00:18:49.811 --> 00:18:52.447
  • Involved in the funeral business.
  • 00:18:52.447 --> 00:18:57.619
  • When we had holiday gatherings, and my cousins, we'd all get
  • 00:18:57.619 --> 00:19:00.889
  • Together, we'd play hide and seek in the casket room.
  • 00:19:00.889 --> 00:19:04.693
  • That explains a lot, doesn't it?
  • 00:19:04.693 --> 00:19:09.798
  • And i--so, i had quite a bit of exposure to that whole world and
  • 00:19:09.798 --> 00:19:13.435
  • I can tell you when you're dead, it changes your behavior.
  • 00:19:13.435 --> 00:19:20.976
  • It really does.
  • 00:19:20.976 --> 00:19:22.978
  • The things that you consider very attractive, very appealing,
  • 00:19:22.978 --> 00:19:28.016
  • Compulsory in your life, when you're dead they're
  • 00:19:28.016 --> 00:19:32.154
  • Not attractive.
  • 00:19:32.154 --> 00:19:35.490
  • I mean, you might have considered them addictive.
  • 00:19:35.490 --> 00:19:37.292
  • They won't be addictive to you when you're dead.
  • 00:19:37.292 --> 00:19:40.329
  • You know, things that annoy you to the point that you just can't
  • 00:19:40.329 --> 00:19:43.532
  • Be silent about, things that elicit a reaction.
  • 00:19:43.532 --> 00:19:46.969
  • "i just got to say--i had to say something, i couldn't be quiet."
  • 00:19:46.969 --> 00:19:49.972
  • When you're dead, you can be quiet.
  • 00:19:49.972 --> 00:19:54.443
  • When you're dead, it will elicit--it won't exhibit any
  • 00:19:54.443 --> 00:19:57.346
  • Attraction to you, and it won't elicit any reaction from you.
  • 00:19:57.346 --> 00:20:02.818
  • And the counsel we were just given is count--consider
  • 00:20:02.818 --> 00:20:05.787
  • Yourselves dead to sin.
  • 00:20:05.787 --> 00:20:10.392
  • But count yourself alive to christ.
  • 00:20:10.392 --> 00:20:13.195
  • It's this we're back from the dead again.
  • 00:20:13.195 --> 00:20:14.896
  • I'm alive to a whole new set of things.
  • 00:20:14.896 --> 00:20:17.232
  • Before jesus, those things are what i lived for, but now i'm
  • 00:20:17.232 --> 00:20:20.636
  • Alive to christ and i'm living for a new set of things.
  • 00:20:20.636 --> 00:20:23.572
  • I have a new set of thoughts, a new set of objectives, a new set
  • 00:20:23.572 --> 00:20:26.775
  • Of parameters.
  • 00:20:26.775 --> 00:20:28.110
  • I'm alive to christ.
  • 00:20:28.110 --> 00:20:30.012
  • But then he gives us some-- it's kind of the how to.
  • 00:20:30.012 --> 00:20:33.815
  • Verse 12: "therefore," because of that, "do not let sin reign
  • 00:20:33.815 --> 00:20:37.986
  • In your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires."
  • 00:20:37.986 --> 00:20:40.689
  • You're gonna have ungodly desires.
  • 00:20:40.689 --> 00:20:42.257
  • You're gonna have temptations and prompts.
  • 00:20:42.257 --> 00:20:44.293
  • You're gonna have to reprogram, retrain, your thinking.
  • 00:20:44.293 --> 00:20:47.029
  • You're gonna have to reorient.
  • 00:20:47.029 --> 00:20:48.563
  • It says, "do not offer the parts of your body to sin."
  • 00:20:48.563 --> 00:20:53.835
  • It doesn't say don't do it very much.
  • 00:20:53.835 --> 00:20:58.040
  • It doesn't say don't do it at church.
  • 00:20:58.040 --> 00:21:01.209
  • Don't do it when you'll get caught.
  • 00:21:01.209 --> 00:21:03.545
  • Just don't do that.
  • 00:21:03.545 --> 00:21:05.647
  • Verse 13: "do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as
  • 00:21:05.647 --> 00:21:08.517
  • Instruments of wickedness."
  • 00:21:08.517 --> 00:21:11.219
  • Do not offer--don't put yourself in places to cooperate
  • 00:21:11.219 --> 00:21:14.589
  • With things that are ungodly.
  • 00:21:14.589 --> 00:21:15.924
  • Just don't do that.
  • 00:21:15.924 --> 00:21:17.793
  • "well, pastor, i believe in grace."
  • 00:21:17.793 --> 00:21:22.030
  • Me too, but i also believe in obedience.
  • 00:21:22.030 --> 00:21:29.204
  • When you see the lord, imagine you've got two buttons, you got
  • 00:21:29.204 --> 00:21:31.440
  • A grace button that you're pushing.
  • 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:32.774
  • "i believe in this one."
  • 00:21:32.774 --> 00:21:34.743
  • And you've got a little obedience button you push every
  • 00:21:34.743 --> 00:21:36.611
  • Time you're obedient.
  • 00:21:36.611 --> 00:21:38.714
  • Here's my suggestion.
  • 00:21:38.714 --> 00:21:40.482
  • You want the obedience button to be more heavily used.
  • 00:21:40.482 --> 00:21:48.223
  • I'm disturbed, to be candid, with much of the messaging
  • 00:21:48.223 --> 00:21:52.894
  • That i hear coming from contemporary christendom, the
  • 00:21:52.894 --> 00:21:57.466
  • License we give.
  • 00:21:57.466 --> 00:22:01.002
  • We're more concerned about offending the ungodly than we
  • 00:22:01.002 --> 00:22:03.338
  • Are calling the godly to holiness and righteousness
  • 00:22:03.338 --> 00:22:07.576
  • And purity.
  • 00:22:07.576 --> 00:22:09.544
  • Be certain of this, the gospel is offensive.
  • 00:22:09.544 --> 00:22:13.448
  • They wouldn't have killed the boss if the truth were
  • 00:22:13.448 --> 00:22:17.185
  • Not offensive.
  • 00:22:17.185 --> 00:22:19.755
  • And if the truth in you-- doesn't mean you have to try to
  • 00:22:19.755 --> 00:22:23.525
  • Be obnoxious.
  • 00:22:23.525 --> 00:22:25.694
  • You're obnoxious enough without trying.
  • 00:22:25.694 --> 00:22:28.797
  • And so am i, but we have to have the courage to tell the truth.
  • 00:22:28.797 --> 00:22:34.569
  • "do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of
  • 00:22:34.569 --> 00:22:37.406
  • Wicked--but rather offer yourselves to god, as those who
  • 00:22:37.406 --> 00:22:40.776
  • Have been brought from death to life."
  • 00:22:40.776 --> 00:22:42.544
  • There's the image again.
  • 00:22:42.544 --> 00:22:44.279
  • We were dead and we were brought to life again.
  • 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:46.081
  • So what's your response?
  • 00:22:46.081 --> 00:22:47.416
  • If you were dead--when lazarus came out of the tomb, you think
  • 00:22:47.416 --> 00:22:50.552
  • He was different?
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  • I think he was different than he was when he got sick.
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  • I promise. i promise.
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  • Do you think when he came out of the tomb, he looked around and
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  • He said, "you know, i appreciate this.
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  • Does that mean i don't ever have to do cardio again?
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  • Can i eat all the junk food i want?
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  • Am i golden now? no more broccoli?"
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  • No, i don't think any of those questions were coming to him.
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  • Look at acts 5.
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  • These are the apostles, jesus is gone.
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  • Says: "during the night an angel of the lord--" they've
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  • Been arrested for preaching the gospel.
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  • "during the night an angel of the lord opened the doors of the
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  • Jail and brought them out.
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  • 'go and stand in the temple courts,' he said, 'and tell the
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  • People the full message of this new,'" what?
  • 00:23:29.591 --> 00:23:34.095
  • "this new life."
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  • You have a new life.
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  • Folks, we are back from the dead.
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  • I'm gonna tell everybody.
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  • "do i have to be a christ follower?"
  • 00:23:46.241 --> 00:23:48.043
  • No, but you don't have to stay dead.
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  • You could have a whole new life.
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  • It changes everything.
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  • It's the message that we have.
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  • We have to live it out.
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  • We've been asking the wrong questions.
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  • "well, how far is too far?
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  • How much is too much?
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  • How much do i have to--how much do i have to give?
  • 00:24:03.792 --> 00:24:07.195
  • How often do i have to come?
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  • Oh, how far away do i have to park?"
  • 00:24:10.565 --> 00:24:20.008
  • Look at ephesians 4: "you were taught, with regard to your
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  • Former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being
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  • Corrupted by its deceitful desires."
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  • Do what? to put it off.
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  • Don't hold on to it.
  • 00:24:29.784 --> 00:24:31.152
  • Don't keep a space in your closet.
  • 00:24:31.152 --> 00:24:32.487
  • You know, it's like your closet's segmented into fat
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  • Clothes and skinny clothes and in-between clothes.
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  • Don't keep your old self in the closet.
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  • "well, once in a while i like to get it out and wear
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  • It around a little bit.
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  • Get tired of this godly stuff."
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  • It's like playing monopoly and you get that get out of jail
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  • Free card.
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  • You wanna hold one of those little--you know, "today, i'm
  • 00:24:50.906 --> 00:24:52.507
  • Gonna play my get out of christianity free card."
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  • I believe in grace.
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  • You pull in front of me today, i'm gonna hit you.
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  • And i'll just get out and hand you my card.
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  • I'm at the grocery store, the express line, ten items or less,
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  • And you're in front of me and you got 15 items,
  • 00:25:09.291 --> 00:25:10.792
  • I'm taking my celery stalk, i'm gonna beat you with it.
  • 00:25:10.792 --> 00:25:15.463
  • "here's my card."
  • 00:25:15.463 --> 00:25:19.234
  • You see, for far too long, we haven't put off our old self.
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  • We just decided to dress it up.
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  • We took it to the dry cleaners.
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  • We took it to the alterations.
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  • We had it altered so it's still fashionable.
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  • I mean, we're born again.
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  • We said the prayer and we walked the aisle and we took a dip in
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  • The pool and we go to church sometimes, and i mean we're good
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  • To go with god, but we still wear that old self.
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  • That isn't what the bible says.
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  • It concerns me.
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  • It concerns me.
  • 00:25:51.099 --> 00:25:53.301
  • "you were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put
  • 00:25:53.301 --> 00:25:55.670
  • Off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful
  • 00:25:55.670 --> 00:25:58.139
  • Desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; to put
  • 00:25:58.139 --> 00:26:01.977
  • On the new self, created to be like god in true righteousness
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  • And holiness."
  • 00:26:07.415 --> 00:26:09.818
  • Allen: hey, we have a tool that we think will help strengthen
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  • You in this season.
  • 00:26:12.621 --> 00:26:14.155
  • A lot of confusion and chaos in our world, a lot of fear.
  • 00:26:14.155 --> 00:26:17.459
  • I hear from people every day battling in their minds and
  • 00:26:17.459 --> 00:26:20.462
  • Their lives with the uncertainty of our world.
  • 00:26:20.462 --> 00:26:23.531
  • Well, it's a booklet called, "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • Every day has a theme with a scripture, a little devotional,
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  • And a prayer for that specific theme.
  • 00:26:29.137 --> 00:26:31.806
  • The idea is that every day we're gonna ask the spirit of god to
  • 00:26:31.806 --> 00:26:34.909
  • Awaken us to a new aspect of god's provision in our lives.
  • 00:26:34.909 --> 00:26:39.714
  • You know, hopefully we wake up every day to the opportunities
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  • And the challenges of that day.
  • 00:26:42.550 --> 00:26:44.686
  • Well, this is gonna correspond to that.
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  • We're gonna ask the spirit of god to awaken us to what god is
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  • Doing in this season.
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  • We're not alone, and we don't have to be overcome by fear.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • "father, i thank you that there's nothing that confronts
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  • Us that intimidates or threatens you.
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  • That you have made provision for complete victory in every aspect
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  • Of our lives.
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  • Lead us now as we turn our faces to you, to a season of peace and
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  • Hope and wholeness, in jesus's name, amen."
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