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Allen Jackson - Back From The Dead (Part 2)

July 2, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Back From The Dead (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 - Back From The Dead (Part 2) | July 2, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: and i know you know, but we're living in
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  • A chaotic world, 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 wanna make a suggestion, 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
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  • That's a part of our current world.
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  • It gives us a verse of scripture, a little devotional
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  • Around that topic.
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  • And then a prayer for that specific thing.
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  • The idea is we're gonna give the holy spirit an invitation
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  • To awaken us to a new place of faith.
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  • You know, we need an awakening in the midst
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  • Of the people of god.
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  • And we wanna say, "well, i am awake."
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  • Well, i get that, but, you know, i was awakened yesterday.
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  • But this morning i was awakened again, and my prayer is
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  • Tomorrow i'll be awakened yet again.
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  • We need a daily awakening by the spirit of god
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  • To find his best for us in this season.
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  • And i believe this book will help you.
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  • Allen: maybe we could describe it this way.
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  • I think it's the difference in a transaction and
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  • A transformation.
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  • The transaction is an exchange.
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  • I'm going to give you something in exchange for something
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  • I want.
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  • You know how to make a purchase.
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  • We do it that way or we sign a membership card and we get
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  • Access to something if we'll exchange some resources
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  • For that.
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  • And we've had kind of a transactional approach to faith.
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  • Okay, what do i need to do to get the outcome i want?
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  • I want that outcome, so tell me what i need to do.
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  • And then we say we can't earn it and we can't work for it, but
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  • Then we say, "well, tell me what i need to do," particularly men.
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  • It was like, i learned how to trout fish, i read three books
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  • And i went to orvis and i bought these six things and i made two
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  • Trips and so i know how to trout fish.
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  • Teach me how to be a christian.
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  • I'll read two books.
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  • What the bible talks to us is about transformational faith.
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  • There's a change that comes, a change to how we think, a change
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  • To how we act.
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  • What's the motivation for that?
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  • We come to the realization that we're dead.
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  • That we have no awareness of the kingdom of god, that it doesn't
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  • Mean anything to us.
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  • It isn't valuable to us.
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  • It doesn't appeal to us.
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  • It's not intriguing to us.
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  • It isn't something we would sacrifice for, it isn't
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  • Something we would invest in.
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  • It's just, i mean there are people that believe in that, but
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  • We don't believe in that and we don't particularly respect the
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  • People that do believe in that.
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  • We're just--it's dead to us.
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  • And then somehow, inexplicably, god made us alive in christ.
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  • And we realize there is something to that,
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  • It's legitimate.
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  • But we're not so transformed that we don't still have the
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  • Appeal to that old way of life.
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  • That's why we're told we have to put off that old self, and put
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  • On a new self.
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  • We've got to grapple with that.
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  • We gotta engage that.
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  • We can't just excuse and say, "oh, i believe in grace."
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  • I believe in grace too, but i don't believe in the practice
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  • Of sin.
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  • You can't practice sin and go to heaven.
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  • You can't be proud of it.
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  • A new kind of life, transformed life.
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  • You know, we've got this imagination of a transaction.
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  • I'm gonna confess jesus is lord, i get forgiveness, a clean
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  • Slate, and i can just get on with my life.
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  • It's got a power to help me get what i want.
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  • I got more tools than the ungodly have.
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  • That's not it.
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  • Transformation is an entirely new being, it's a new
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  • Orientation, new goals, new objectives, new purposes.
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  • Think of our friends in scripture, peter.
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  • We follow him through the gospels and he looks a lot
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  • Like us.
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  • He's shooting his mouth off, he's arguing about who's the
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  • Greatest, he's putting down the other ones.
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  • They come to arrest jesus and he's trying to cut off
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  • Somebody's head, right?
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  • But he has an interaction with the resurrected jesus and new
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  • Birth comes to peter and he's not the same man.
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  • He's not worried about his fishing business anymore.
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  • He's become what jesus said he would become.
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  • He's a fisherman of a whole different stripe.
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  • He has a whole different worldview.
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  • Peter, the fisherman, the rural, uneducated, unsophisticated,
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  • Kind of blundering, bull his way through every circumstance,
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  • Becomes a powerful voice of leadership in an emerging
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  • Initiative that says jesus of nazareth was the jewish messiah.
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  • And he didn't care who knows.
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  • He's completely different.
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  • He has a whole new kind of life.
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  • His shadow falling on people brings life to them.
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  • That wasn't happening when he was fishing.
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  • And he's not the only one.
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  • Saul of tarsus, he becomes the apostle paul, but when we--he
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  • Gets a whole new kind of life, he gets new friends, a
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  • New agenda.
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  • His old friends don't want to be around him anymore.
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  • He thinks a different way.
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  • He talks a different way.
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  • He behaves a different way.
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  • Do you see the difference?
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  • He didn't have a transaction.
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  • He had a transformation.
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  • We're back from the dead again.
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  • We haven't had enough enthusiasm around this.
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  • We haven't had enough excitement, we haven't had
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  • Enough joy in it.
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  • Serving jesus is not burdensome, yielding to god is
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  • Not intrusive.
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  • Surrendering my time is not an unfair exchange.
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  • I've been given life.
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  • It's all his.
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  • I was dead.
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  • I had no hope.
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  • I had no life, i had no future.
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  • In fact, the only thing in my future was an appointment with
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  • The wrath of god.
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  • And he gave me life.
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  • So i will gladly give him my day.
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  • I will give him my attention.
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  • I will give him my--i understand i have to learn to
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  • Think differently, because i'm very well versed, i'm steeped,
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  • In that other way of thinking.
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  • I think we've been given the wrong framework
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  • Of understanding.
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  • We should begin with the awareness that we're back from
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  • The dead.
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  • It changes everything.
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  • It's not my life anymore.
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  • The life i live, the bible says, i live by the faith of the son
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  • Of god.
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  • Paul said, "whatever was to my gain, i consider it loss, but
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  • There's a passing greatness of knowing christ jesus, my lord."
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  • I'm back from the dead.
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  • Are you a christian?
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  • "well, i don't wanna offend anybody."
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  • You mean the dead people?
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  • You're living your life to get applause from the dead?
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  • How's that working for you?
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  • The only time they'll give you applause is when you're helping
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  • Them satisfy their own selfish cravings.
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  • They'll applaud for you when you're providing cover for them
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  • And their ungodliness, but they're not gonna applaud for
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  • You when you're standing up for the truth.
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  • We've been working for the wrong audience.
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  • We've had the wrong set of agendas.
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  • We've been so locked out.
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  • We've been wearing that old carnal stuff.
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  • I think i can illustrate it.
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  • I have $100.
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  • Would you like $100?
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  • That'd be okay with you?
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  • Look at that.
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  • Sit on the front row, good things happen.
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  • Somebody will send an email and say, "we didn't--we were at
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  • Home watching online and we didn't get $100."
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  • No, you didn't.
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  • I got another 100.
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  • You wore a pretty pink jacket.
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  • Would you like $100? look at that.
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  • Female: i'm a fan of free. thank you very much.
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  • Allen: you know, salvation is a gift.
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  • We don't earn it.
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  • We didn't deserve it.
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  • The bible says god chose us.
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  • It's an expression of the sovereignty of god.
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  • We don't like the sovereignty of god when he's not giving us what
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  • We want, but if he gives us $100 we're a fan.
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  • But god chose us.
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  • So our response then when he brings life to us is to give our
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  • Lives to him, to offer ourselves as living sacrifices, the
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  • Bible said.
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  • Yeah?
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  • I wonder if i gave you $100 would you be willing to give $20
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  • To the person on your left?
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  • Would you do that?
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  • I mean, you're still up 80, yeah?
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  • Would you do that?
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  • I mean, it's really, you didn't lose anything, you haven't even
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  • Got to shop yet.
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  • Yeah, that's your husband, that's tougher, isn't it?
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  • Yeah, i know what that thought was: i ain't giving him
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  • 20 bucks.
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  • It's like--see, it's not yours.
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  • Think how we say, "it's my time.
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  • Oh, it's my time."
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  • No, it isn't.
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  • God gave me breath this morning. god gave me breath this morning.
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  • There was a time i was a dead man walking, and he gave
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  • Me breath.
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  • But that's not how we--it's my time, we get so agitated.
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  • "waste my time."
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  • What-- excuse me, stop.
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  • Sometimes i think, "oh, people, if you knew my boss, you
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  • Wouldn't be wasting his time like this."
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  • I walk away from some encounters and think, "oh, if you knew my
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  • Boss, you'd talk to me differently.
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  • He will take offense.
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  • Don't get him riled up."
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  • Would you give 20 to somebody behind you?
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  • Uh, no, it's tough, isn't it?
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  • Yeah, you know i'm coming back at you.
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  • Can you put 20 over your shoulder?
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  • Somebody will take it if you will.
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  • It'll be a good thing for them.
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  • You've been blessed to be a blessing.
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  • I'm not just kidding.
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  • I mean this literally.
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  • Look at that.
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  • The love of god is flourishing in the house.
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  • Still up 60.
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  • "hope this sermon ends.
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  • It's time to close it down, pastor.
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  • Let me get out of here while i'm ahead."
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  • Do you understand how deeply this is rooted in us?
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  • How many of us have threatened god, been mad at god, angry at
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  • God because he didn't do what we wanted?
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  • Think of our biblical heroes.
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  • Think of the characters you know.
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  • God shows up in exodus 3 and said to moses, "i got a job
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  • For you.
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  • I want you to go back to egypt," and what's moses say?
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  • "no, i'm good, really.
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  • I got a family, i got kids. i got my business is doing well.
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  • I'm quite happy.
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  • I tried egypt, it didn't work for me.
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  • I didn't like egypt.
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  • The climate's not good for me.
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  • Climate in egypt is unhealthy for me."
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  • And god said, "no, i need you to go."
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  • He said, "no, no, i'm not going."
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  • Back and forth.
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  • Jonah, you know the jonah story.
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  • God said, "i need you to go to nineveh," and jonah said, "no,
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  • I'm good.
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  • I'm going the other way.
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  • I want a cruise."
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  • Then after a few days with some fish, it says the word of the
  • 00:11:20.695 --> 00:11:24.332
  • Lord came to jonah a second time.
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  • Jonah had a change of heart.
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  • It wasn't his life.
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  • God said to abraham, "i want you to take your son, and offer him
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  • As a sacrifice."
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  • And there's really no explanation given.
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  • It just says abraham got all-- everything he needed and said to
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  • Isaac, "we've got to make a trip," until he tied him up and
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  • Put him on an altar.
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  • It's not our life, folks.
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  • They're not our kids.
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  • I mean, you share some dna with them, but if you're not helping
  • 00:12:01.503 --> 00:12:04.973
  • Them grow in the lord, if you're working harder to teach them
  • 00:12:04.973 --> 00:12:07.142
  • Things more than you're trying to teach them the kingdom of
  • 00:12:07.142 --> 00:12:09.210
  • God, just exactly what kind of life are you leading?
  • 00:12:09.210 --> 00:12:15.683
  • Whose applause is it we're trying to earn?
  • 00:12:15.683 --> 00:12:20.054
  • We're back from the dead.
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  • That changes every discussion, it changes every question, it
  • 00:12:22.657 --> 00:12:26.494
  • Changes every idea, it changes everything.
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  • How about sharing 20 more?
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  • I'll go the other direction this time, okay?
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  • Yeah, here, get up, take some, couple of rows back.
  • 00:12:36.471 --> 00:12:38.807
  • They need some.
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  • They look kind of--how about just coming forward with
  • 00:12:40.175 --> 00:12:48.950
  • 20, okay?
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  • Come on, forward.
  • 00:12:51.252 --> 00:12:53.588
  • Look at this.
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  • Whole new kind of life.
  • 00:12:55.657 --> 00:13:03.665
  • Well, if nobody wants it, i'll take it.
  • 00:13:03.665 --> 00:13:13.641
  • You know, it's only in church we would pretend that money didn't
  • 00:13:13.708 --> 00:13:16.044
  • Matter to us.
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  • Female: no, no, you keep it. allen: you can have it.
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  • Allen: for real, it's not ours.
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  • We're not taking it with us.
  • 00:13:23.651 --> 00:13:27.655
  • I'm not saying it doesn't matter.
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  • I'm not just saying it doesn't have a value.
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  • I've had none and i've had a little bit.
  • 00:13:31.726 --> 00:13:33.294
  • It's better to have some.
  • 00:13:33.294 --> 00:13:37.131
  • But i'm not gonna trade my obedience to the lord away
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  • For that.
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  • I'm not gonna lie, cheat, or steal.
  • 00:13:41.669 --> 00:13:43.037
  • I don't wanna compromise my character.
  • 00:13:43.037 --> 00:13:44.372
  • I don't want it to dominate my perspective.
  • 00:13:44.372 --> 00:13:48.710
  • It's not my time.
  • 00:13:48.710 --> 00:13:50.945
  • It's not even my talent, whatever talent i have the lord
  • 00:13:50.945 --> 00:13:53.481
  • Gave to me, it's a gift.
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  • Allen: hey we have a tool that i think will help you
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  • Allen: now it's not easy.
  • 00:15:03.084 --> 00:15:04.552
  • We've laughed a little bit about it, we've had a little bit of
  • 00:15:04.552 --> 00:15:06.554
  • Fun with it.
  • 00:15:06.554 --> 00:15:08.423
  • But i'm not suggesting to you it's easy.
  • 00:15:08.423 --> 00:15:10.325
  • The bible warns us, look at hebrews 12 and verse 1, it says:
  • 00:15:10.325 --> 00:15:13.728
  • "we are surrounded by this great cloud of witnesses."
  • 00:15:13.728 --> 00:15:16.364
  • The chapter immediately preceding this is the hall of
  • 00:15:16.364 --> 00:15:18.566
  • Fame of our faithful brothers and sisters, the heroes of
  • 00:15:18.566 --> 00:15:21.936
  • Our faith.
  • 00:15:21.936 --> 00:15:23.504
  • And we turn to chapter 12 and it says something to us now: "since
  • 00:15:23.504 --> 00:15:27.275
  • We are surrounded by this great cloud," by this hall of fame,
  • 00:15:27.275 --> 00:15:30.478
  • "let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so
  • 00:15:30.478 --> 00:15:33.247
  • Easily entangles."
  • 00:15:33.247 --> 00:15:36.417
  • Said it's really easy to get entangled with ungodliness
  • 00:15:36.417 --> 00:15:41.723
  • Because we're in a minority position.
  • 00:15:41.723 --> 00:15:45.426
  • The worldview you hold is not the one that's most
  • 00:15:45.426 --> 00:15:47.595
  • Broadly shared.
  • 00:15:47.595 --> 00:15:49.564
  • The messaging that cascades over your life, the programming you
  • 00:15:49.564 --> 00:15:52.333
  • Watch, the music you listen to, unless you're very, very, very
  • 00:15:52.333 --> 00:15:55.703
  • Intentional, you are inundated with messages
  • 00:15:55.703 --> 00:15:58.373
  • Towards ungodliness.
  • 00:15:58.373 --> 00:16:01.376
  • They calibrate normal.
  • 00:16:01.376 --> 00:16:04.278
  • You'll believe that political parties and politicians will
  • 00:16:04.278 --> 00:16:06.681
  • Extend liberty and freedom.
  • 00:16:06.681 --> 00:16:08.016
  • They won't; that comes from god.
  • 00:16:08.016 --> 00:16:11.052
  • You'll believe the cultural battles of the day are about
  • 00:16:11.052 --> 00:16:13.955
  • Politics or power or money.
  • 00:16:13.955 --> 00:16:15.289
  • They're not; they're spiritual.
  • 00:16:15.289 --> 00:16:18.493
  • We've arrived at this point where the absurd is celebrated
  • 00:16:18.493 --> 00:16:21.162
  • In the public square.
  • 00:16:21.162 --> 00:16:22.530
  • We are so spiritually dead.
  • 00:16:22.530 --> 00:16:25.767
  • The influence of the church has been reduced so much that
  • 00:16:25.767 --> 00:16:28.503
  • There's not enough residual life and vitality in the culture any
  • 00:16:28.503 --> 00:16:32.707
  • Longer to push back on things that are absurd.
  • 00:16:32.707 --> 00:16:34.876
  • For instance, your biological sex is not confusing.
  • 00:16:34.876 --> 00:16:40.481
  • It really isn't.
  • 00:16:40.481 --> 00:16:45.787
  • Now, there's a host of things around that that can be
  • 00:16:45.787 --> 00:16:47.955
  • Discussed, but that is not a point of confusion, and those
  • 00:16:47.955 --> 00:16:50.958
  • That are confused about it should not be celebrated
  • 00:16:50.958 --> 00:16:53.361
  • As courageous.
  • 00:16:53.361 --> 00:16:54.695
  • We can have compassion upon it.
  • 00:16:54.695 --> 00:16:57.398
  • But it reflects the degree to which our life has been
  • 00:16:57.398 --> 00:17:00.435
  • Diminished that that's made its way into our schools.
  • 00:17:00.435 --> 00:17:03.037
  • Children shouldn't be exposed to smut.
  • 00:17:03.037 --> 00:17:06.941
  • That's just not a good idea.
  • 00:17:06.941 --> 00:17:13.714
  • But the life is so small, the heartbeat is so weak.
  • 00:17:13.714 --> 00:17:20.321
  • We've been made alive, we're back from the dead.
  • 00:17:20.321 --> 00:17:23.391
  • We've been entangled in way too much.
  • 00:17:23.391 --> 00:17:28.096
  • Look at 2 peter 2, says that "they promise them freedom,
  • 00:17:28.096 --> 00:17:33.167
  • While they themselves are slaves of depravity--for a man is
  • 00:17:33.167 --> 00:17:37.238
  • Slave to whatever has mastered him."
  • 00:17:37.238 --> 00:17:41.943
  • You see, if you'll talk--if you'll give an honest
  • 00:17:41.943 --> 00:17:45.646
  • Presentation of what you give your discretionary time to and
  • 00:17:45.646 --> 00:17:49.317
  • Your discretionary resources to, i can tell what leads your life.
  • 00:17:49.317 --> 00:17:54.522
  • Anybody can.
  • 00:17:54.522 --> 00:17:58.326
  • Now some things we don't really have a great deal of
  • 00:17:58.326 --> 00:18:00.061
  • Discretion over.
  • 00:18:00.061 --> 00:18:01.395
  • We have responsibilities and assignments, that's a part of
  • 00:18:01.395 --> 00:18:02.930
  • The journey through time.
  • 00:18:02.930 --> 00:18:04.765
  • But what we choose to do with what we have discretion over is
  • 00:18:04.765 --> 00:18:07.802
  • The leading indicator of what matters to you.
  • 00:18:07.802 --> 00:18:12.907
  • And when you get to the point that you have more discretionary
  • 00:18:12.907 --> 00:18:15.409
  • Time and more discretionary resources and all of those
  • 00:18:15.409 --> 00:18:18.146
  • Things, what you give them to is the best indicator of
  • 00:18:18.146 --> 00:18:20.948
  • Your passion.
  • 00:18:20.948 --> 00:18:24.819
  • I know that's uncomfortable.
  • 00:18:24.819 --> 00:18:27.622
  • "we are a slave to whatever has mastered him.
  • 00:18:27.622 --> 00:18:30.291
  • If we've escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our lord
  • 00:18:30.291 --> 00:18:33.027
  • And savior and we're again entangled in it, we're worse off
  • 00:18:33.027 --> 00:18:37.298
  • Than we were at the beginning."
  • 00:18:37.298 --> 00:18:40.468
  • Because we know the truth and we know the freedom that comes, but
  • 00:18:40.468 --> 00:18:44.772
  • We chose to put on our carnal self and walk back into that.
  • 00:18:44.772 --> 00:18:49.143
  • We considered it more beneficial.
  • 00:18:49.143 --> 00:18:52.180
  • I'm not trying to argue the outcomes of that at the moment.
  • 00:18:52.180 --> 00:18:54.482
  • I'm telling you it's a pathway that's identified as possible.
  • 00:18:54.482 --> 00:18:59.120
  • We don't wanna do that, folks.
  • 00:18:59.120 --> 00:19:01.122
  • We are back from the dead.
  • 00:19:01.122 --> 00:19:02.924
  • I don't want to see how close i can get to dead again.
  • 00:19:02.924 --> 00:19:07.161
  • I don't want to see how much health i can forfeit and still
  • 00:19:07.161 --> 00:19:09.263
  • Say, "wait a minute, i got a pulse."
  • 00:19:09.263 --> 00:19:13.434
  • I wanna walk into the light.
  • 00:19:13.434 --> 00:19:15.870
  • I wanna live more fully in the truth.
  • 00:19:15.870 --> 00:19:19.006
  • It's not oppressive.
  • 00:19:19.006 --> 00:19:20.374
  • It's not limiting, it's liberating.
  • 00:19:20.374 --> 00:19:22.443
  • It's transformational.
  • 00:19:22.443 --> 00:19:24.812
  • Yes, it'll make us different.
  • 00:19:24.812 --> 00:19:27.315
  • It may mean in the short run you feel like you've
  • 00:19:27.315 --> 00:19:29.217
  • Forfeited something.
  • 00:19:29.217 --> 00:19:31.185
  • But in the long run, it will bring the blessings of god to
  • 00:19:31.185 --> 00:19:34.322
  • Your life.
  • 00:19:34.322 --> 00:19:38.893
  • Unfortunately, we have a lot of messaging opposite to that in
  • 00:19:38.893 --> 00:19:41.229
  • The midst of the church.
  • 00:19:41.229 --> 00:19:43.864
  • And i don't have the time to unpack that in this session.
  • 00:19:43.864 --> 00:19:45.733
  • We'll do it another time.
  • 00:19:45.733 --> 00:19:47.768
  • But i wanna give you an invitation this morning.
  • 00:19:47.768 --> 00:19:52.773
  • If you're here and you'd say, "you know, pastor, i've listened
  • 00:19:52.773 --> 00:19:54.609
  • To this and i've been checking the boxes all my life.
  • 00:19:54.609 --> 00:19:57.245
  • I've been making christian transactions."
  • 00:19:57.245 --> 00:19:59.847
  • I'm not questioning your salvation.
  • 00:19:59.847 --> 00:20:01.749
  • I'm really not.
  • 00:20:01.749 --> 00:20:04.085
  • Some of you, if you've listened, you may think, you know,
  • 00:20:04.085 --> 00:20:05.620
  • "that's me."
  • 00:20:05.620 --> 00:20:07.888
  • Folks, i can tell you in my own life, i'd checked the boxes.
  • 00:20:07.888 --> 00:20:11.025
  • I'd made professions of faith.
  • 00:20:11.025 --> 00:20:12.360
  • I had the baptism of the holy spirit.
  • 00:20:12.360 --> 00:20:13.694
  • I've been baptized in water.
  • 00:20:13.694 --> 00:20:15.062
  • I didn't want to read my bible.
  • 00:20:15.062 --> 00:20:16.764
  • I didn't like hanging around christians.
  • 00:20:16.764 --> 00:20:20.368
  • I didn't.
  • 00:20:20.368 --> 00:20:21.736
  • You wouldn't catch me in any bible study.
  • 00:20:21.736 --> 00:20:24.138
  • Read my own bible.
  • 00:20:24.138 --> 00:20:25.506
  • I don't wanna go study with a bunch of knuckleheads.
  • 00:20:25.506 --> 00:20:27.642
  • They ask stupid questions.
  • 00:20:27.642 --> 00:20:31.679
  • I didn't wanna be around--i was far more comfortable being with
  • 00:20:31.679 --> 00:20:33.781
  • People who were more ungodly than i was with being with
  • 00:20:33.781 --> 00:20:36.083
  • Godly people.
  • 00:20:36.083 --> 00:20:37.451
  • I didn't wanna talk what they wanted to talk about.
  • 00:20:37.451 --> 00:20:40.388
  • And so it had to be the grace of god.
  • 00:20:40.388 --> 00:20:42.023
  • It wasn't anything i did.
  • 00:20:42.023 --> 00:20:43.357
  • There was no button i pushed.
  • 00:20:43.357 --> 00:20:44.792
  • The absurdity of that became clear to me.
  • 00:20:44.792 --> 00:20:46.594
  • I thought, there's something wrong with me.
  • 00:20:46.594 --> 00:20:50.464
  • There's a tremendous lack of a line between what i say and what
  • 00:20:50.464 --> 00:20:54.268
  • I'm actually striving towards.
  • 00:20:54.268 --> 00:20:58.072
  • And i began to talk to the lord about it.
  • 00:20:58.072 --> 00:20:59.774
  • I didn't know what else to do.
  • 00:20:59.774 --> 00:21:01.142
  • I didn't know how to fix it.
  • 00:21:01.142 --> 00:21:02.476
  • I wasn't even sure.
  • 00:21:02.476 --> 00:21:03.844
  • I'd just say, "lord, i would rather be different.
  • 00:21:03.844 --> 00:21:06.047
  • Can you help me?"
  • 00:21:06.047 --> 00:21:08.649
  • And he did, he did.
  • 00:21:08.649 --> 00:21:14.288
  • The greatest honor of my life is serving the lord.
  • 00:21:14.288 --> 00:21:17.758
  • I understand there's other opportunities.
  • 00:21:17.758 --> 00:21:19.293
  • I understand there's other invitations.
  • 00:21:19.293 --> 00:21:20.628
  • I have to deal with some of that in my head.
  • 00:21:20.628 --> 00:21:23.364
  • My peer group gets opportunities that i didn't get because of
  • 00:21:23.364 --> 00:21:26.000
  • Some choices i made.
  • 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:27.368
  • I'm okay with that.
  • 00:21:27.368 --> 00:21:28.703
  • I chose to walk into the light.
  • 00:21:28.703 --> 00:21:31.906
  • Well, i wanna give you that invitation.
  • 00:21:31.906 --> 00:21:34.375
  • I'm not unique.
  • 00:21:34.375 --> 00:21:35.943
  • I'm certainly not special.
  • 00:21:35.943 --> 00:21:40.014
  • But if you could say, "you know, i've been checking boxes.
  • 00:21:40.014 --> 00:21:44.018
  • I've done all those things, but truthfully i haven't had much
  • 00:21:44.018 --> 00:21:47.121
  • Passion for it, don't pray for people.
  • 00:21:47.121 --> 00:21:52.693
  • Certainly not going to work and busting out my bible verse of
  • 00:21:52.693 --> 00:21:54.929
  • The day."
  • 00:21:54.929 --> 00:21:58.232
  • Now, if you've listened today and you say, you know, "i would
  • 00:21:58.232 --> 00:22:00.835
  • Rather celebrate the fact that i'm alive than try to get the
  • 00:22:00.835 --> 00:22:05.005
  • Applause of the dead," i'm just gonna give you an opportunity
  • 00:22:05.005 --> 00:22:09.210
  • To stand, i'm not gonna do anything beyond that.
  • 00:22:09.210 --> 00:22:10.978
  • We're all gonna stand in a moment and say a prayer, but if
  • 00:22:10.978 --> 00:22:13.247
  • You would say, "that's me, pastor, and i wanna be
  • 00:22:13.247 --> 00:22:14.615
  • Different," whichever space you are on our campus, you
  • 00:22:14.615 --> 00:22:16.317
  • Can stand.
  • 00:22:16.317 --> 00:22:17.685
  • If you're at home, you stand. we can see you, right?
  • 00:22:17.685 --> 00:22:19.453
  • This is--this is two-way tv.
  • 00:22:19.453 --> 00:22:24.125
  • It's really not, but god can see.
  • 00:22:24.125 --> 00:22:34.034
  • Now i want you to understand i'm not trying to soft sell this
  • 00:22:34.034 --> 00:22:36.771
  • Because i'm not working on commission.
  • 00:22:36.771 --> 00:22:40.174
  • If you stand, what we're, in essence, what we're saying is
  • 00:22:40.174 --> 00:22:43.210
  • I'm gonna take off that old carnal nature.
  • 00:22:43.210 --> 00:22:46.580
  • I'm gonna have to take off some patterns of thinking.
  • 00:22:46.580 --> 00:22:50.184
  • I'm gonna have to change some behaviors.
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  • I'm gonna have to realign some objectives.
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  • I'm gonna have a different attitude about my time.
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  • I'm gonna have to have a different attitude about
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  • My stuff.
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  • If that's what you mean, then you remain standing.
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  • I think the lord takes this seriously.
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  • And it's a serious thing to make a commitment to the lord and not
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  • Keep it, wow.
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  • I brought us a proclamation.
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  • I think we can make it together.
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  • You know, we've repeated a prayer together here hundreds
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  • And hundreds of times, "god, i'm a sinner and i need a savior."
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  • But it's not a formula, folks.
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  • You know, particularly in our faith, we're afraid we'll do
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  • It wrong.
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  • Are you afraid you'll interpret a passage wrong?
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  • You're afraid you'll say a prayer incorrectly?
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  • And i've shared that prayer and people will call and say, "you
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  • Know, pastor, i want that prayer, and i can't remember the
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  • Second line."
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  • And i'm like, "well, i'm pretty sure if you'll just say, 'jesus,
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  • Be lord of my life,' he will help you get home from there."
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  • So the language in this is a bit different.
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  • But the objective of it is very similar.
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  • It's an attempt to say to the lord, i wanna give you
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  • First place.
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  • That's not a prayer you pray just when you realize you've
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  • Been completely dead.
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  • It's a prayer i have to pray on a regular basis.
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  • Because i face very consistent temptations that wanna put my
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  • Agenda first again.
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  • No, i found that every season of your life has a reason for that.
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  • When you're a teenager, you want, you know, this is
  • 00:24:29.984 --> 00:24:31.685
  • Your time.
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  • When you're young and you're trying to pull your family
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  • Together, you know, it's a very self-focused time.
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  • It's all about--when your kids are teenagers, you know, they're
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  • Only teenagers for a little while, so it's just about us.
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  • You finally get them out of the house and now we're free
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  • At last.
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  • Now it's about us.
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  • You get to retirement age and now it's my time and every
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  • Season of life has a reason to be ungodly.
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  • Let's say this prayer together. can we do that?
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  • It's a proclamation.
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  • It's a declaration over our lives.
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  • You can take it away.
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  • If you've stood with me today, i would encourage you to say it
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  • Two or three times a day this week.
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  • Let it begin to take root in you.
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  • Spirit of god will help us.
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  • Let's say it together.
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  • "i choose life in christ.
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  • Jesus deliver me from the kingdom of darkness.
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  • I renounce my life of sin and selfishness.
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  • I surrender myself to the lordship of jesus of nazareth.
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  • The life i lead, i will live for the glory of the kingdom of god.
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  • I yield my will, my thoughts and my entire person to the
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  • Direction of the holy spirit.
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  • I surrender my plans, my time and my resources to the lordship
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  • Of jesus.
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  • May christ live more profoundly in me each day.
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  • May god be glorified, jesus exalted and his kingdom extended
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  • Through my life!
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  • Amen."
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  • Hallelujah, why don't you give the lord a hand, huh?
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  • God bless you.
  • 00:26:12.252 --> 00:26:13.754
  • Allen: hey we have a tool that we think will help
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  • Strengthen you in this season.
  • 00:26:17.591 --> 00:26:19.393
  • A lot of confusion and chaos in our world,
  • 00:26:19.393 --> 00:26:21.161
  • A lot of fear.
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  • I hear from people every day battling in their minds,
  • 00:26:22.563 --> 00:26:25.499
  • In their lives with the uncertainty of our world.
  • 00:26:25.499 --> 00:26:28.802
  • Well, it's a booklet called "awaken us."
  • 00:26:28.802 --> 00:26:30.371
  • It's a 30 day plan, every day has a theme with a scripture,
  • 00:26:30.371 --> 00:26:33.507
  • A little devotional, and a prayer for that specific theme.
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  • The idea is that every day we're gonna ask the spirit of god
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  • To awaken us to a new aspect of god's provision in our lives.
  • 00:26:39.780 --> 00:26:44.752
  • You know, hopefully we wake up everyday to the opportunities
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  • And the challenges of that day.
  • 00:26:47.621 --> 00:26:49.723
  • Well, this is gonna correspond to that.
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  • We're gonna ask the spirit of god to awaken us
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  • To what god is 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
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  • That confronts us that intimidates
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  • Or threatens you.
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  • That you have made provision for complete victory
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  • In every aspect of our lives.
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  • Lead us now as we turn our faces to you
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  • To a season of peace and hope and wholeness
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • This book, it'll be a blessing.
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  • ♪♪♪
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