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Allen Jackson - Breakthrough: Alone In The Desert

May 20, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Breakthrough: Alone In The Desert
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Breakthrough: Alone In The Desert | May 20, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: one of my heroes in the bible is saul of tarsus.
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  • He becomes the apostle paul.
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  • I know you know his story.
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  • He's written two thirds of our new testament by title.
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  • One of the most remarkable characters we meet in all of the
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  • Scripture, he was a pharisee with a remarkable education,
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  • Brilliant mind, and he hated jesus and jesus followers until
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  • He met jesus one day.
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  • He's on the road to damascus, and jesus interrupts his life,
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  • And he becomes the apostle paul, one of the most powerful voices
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  • For jesus that history has ever known.
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  • We put together a 90-day devotional.
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  • It's "lessons from paul."
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  • I'm still learning from paul, and
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  • I just wanted to share it with you.
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  • There's a little--there's a scripture verse, there's a bit
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  • Of a devotional, there's a place for some journaling.
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  • It's really intended to provide some direction so that you and i
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  • Become overcomers, overcomers of our past, overcomers of the
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  • Opposition in the present.
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  • Doesn't matter what the adversary is.
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  • The power of god that delivered paul, he'll deliver you and me.
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  • I believe you'll enjoy "lessons from paul."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: that's really the question on the table today.
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  • To what extent are you willing to grow in the lord?
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  • I'm gonna suggest that it has an impact, not only for you, but
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  • For the generations who follow you.
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  • In fact, if we start with zachariah and elizabeth, and i
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  • Have this couple who were childless, and they're past the
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  • Age where they're gonna bear children.
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  • It's just not reasonable anymore.
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  • Nobody has the expectation.
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  • They had those prayers, but they had them a long time ago.
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  • And then the announcement comes.
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  • Gabriel, the archangel, shows up and says, you're gonna have
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  • A child, and you're gonna name him john.
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  • And they're, like, what are you talking about?
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  • I mean, zachariah has enough questions that he gets struck
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  • Mute for nine months.
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  • Teach you to talk back.
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  • Aren't you glad we all don't get struck mute when we question
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  • The lord?
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  • And you know pastor will be signing the message
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  • This morning.
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  • And john's born.
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  • And zachariah and elizabeth really step out of the scene
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  • Completely after their time in the temple.
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  • And taking john, they they step out of the story, but john steps
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  • Onto the stage.
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  • And that's where i want to start.
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  • It's in luke chapter 3. it's right in the middle of this
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  • Christmas narrative.
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  • Zechariah and elizabeth and john the baptist are very much a part
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  • Of the christmas story.
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  • During the high priesthood of annas and caiaphas, the word of
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  • God came to john.
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  • The son of zechariah in the desert.
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  • Nobody knew what they were calling him john.
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  • Because god said to.
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  • That was the message they got in the temple.
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  • When gabriel came to zachariah, he said, you name him john.
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  • No, no, no.
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  • All the people said when it was time to name him, he said,
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  • He'll be zechariah.
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  • It's the family.
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  • There's nobody named john in your family.
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  • And elizabeth and zachariah together said, no, this is
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  • A new thing.
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  • This is a breakthrough.
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  • His name's john.
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  • So john, the son of zechariah, in the desert, he went into all
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  • The country around the jordan preaching the baptism of
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  • Repentance for the forgiveness of sins, "as it is written in
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  • The book of the words of isaiah the prophet, a voice of one
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  • Calling in the desert.
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  • Prepare the way for the lord.
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  • Make straight paths for him.
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  • Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made
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  • Low, the crooked road shall become straight.
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  • The rough way smooth, and all mankind will see
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  • God's salvation."
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  • Gee, that's not a big assignment.
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  • Go prepare the way for the messiah so that all of humankind
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  • Can see the way to salvation.
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  • "and john said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by
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  • Him, 'you bunch of snakes.
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  • Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?'"
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  • Just as a beginning point, i think a simple observation,
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  • We've been trying to stack some ideas, some breakthrough hacks,
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  • If you will.
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  • In this case, the breakthrough begins in the desert.
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  • John is a voice crying in the desert.
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  • He's not a voice crying in the temple.
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  • He's not in jerusalem.
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  • Isaiah was a prophet of the court.
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  • He was comfortable in the palace.
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  • Jeremiah spoke to heads of state and the leaders of nations.
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  • John is a voice in the desert, a voice crying in the wilderness,
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  • A voice of one crying in the wilderness.
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  • Wearing clothes made of camel's hair and eating locusts, not
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  • Bugs, it's a fruit that grows on a tree.
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  • I know you're disappointed.
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  • Breakthroughs often emerge in the desert.
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  • Seems odd to us.
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  • The desert's a remote part for most of us in our nation.
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  • If you live in israel or the middle east, i can tell you from
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  • My jewish friends, the desert is not a place of punishment.
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  • It's a place of renewal.
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  • It's a place of refreshing.
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  • It's a place where god meets you.
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  • If they have a day off, they go into the desert.
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  • And from the biblical perspective, the desert is
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  • A place of renewal.
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  • I tell you that because, if you're in a desert season,
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  • It doesn't feel so feel so fruitful.
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  • It doesn't feel quite as opulent as you had hoped as it might,
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  • If it's a lean time.
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  • I would submit to you that's a very--there's a very high
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  • Degree of probability that that's a breakthrough season.
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  • God hasn't abandoned you.
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  • In the desert, there's a stillness.
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  • In the desert, there's a quietness.
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  • And the desert is much easier to hear.
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  • I don't believe god has left you.
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  • There's a component of john the baptist that i don't want us
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  • To miss.
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  • Jesus said, he was the greatest of those born among women,
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  • A very revered character.
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  • But john the baptist is an impossibility without the
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  • Faithfulness of zechariah and elizabeth.
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  • What made john the baptist ministry report possible, his
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  • Life story possible, his impact possible were the decisions that
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  • Were made by his parents by zachariah and elizabeth, upright
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  • People, godly people, people who overcame disappointment, people
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  • Who had to have their life plans rewritten.
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  • Their life schedule didn't emerge in the way they had hoped
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  • It would.
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  • While their friends were building nurseries and welcoming
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  • Children, they weren't.
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  • And so they prayed, and they sought god, and they
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  • Still didn't.
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  • And it became very obvious that that wasn't gonna happen.
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  • It wasn't in their future.
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  • That just wasn't a part of their journey.
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  • And they managed to overcome that disappointment and not be
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  • Defined by it.
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  • Zechariah is still serving in the temple.
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  • Elizabeth is still honoring the lord, listening to the spirit
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  • Of god.
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  • And then gabriel shows up and said, hey, i got some news
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  • For you.
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  • You're gonna have a son.
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  • Except now it's disruptive.
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  • Zachariah, i mean, he says, i am old.
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  • And elizabeth?
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  • He was gracious.
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  • He said, she's well along in years.
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  • Gabriel, have you seen lizzie?
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  • In fact, it's a little bit of a moment, you know, gabriel's
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  • Delivering this message with some rather lofty language
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  • About john.
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  • And zacharias says, hang on a minute.
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  • I'm old.
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  • And gabriel says, and you're gonna be quiet for nine months.
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  • Again, i'm very grateful god has not responded to me that way.
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  • How many times have you held up your hand to the lord?
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  • Well, not me.
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  • No, thank you.
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  • I don't even like church.
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  • So john the baptist and his ministry emerges from the
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  • Faithfulness of zechariah and elizabeth, the willing to
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  • Embrace their breakthrough, to reorder their lives, to be
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  • Unique, to overcome disappointment.
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  • If they had not made those choices, john doesn't have
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  • A story to tell.
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  • There's a biblical principle here.
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  • I'm taking a moment with it because it's very important, and
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  • It's essential, i believe, for the place that we find ourselves
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  • As a people right now.
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  • We need a generational story of godliness.
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  • We need a generational tale of a desire for righteousness and
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  • Holiness and purity.
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  • We want a legacy of faith to be re-established among us.
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  • Does that sound right?
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  • Why not let it begin with us and the aspirations that we have for
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  • Our children and our grandchildren?
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  • I know we're in church, and the answer to every question is
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  • Typically jesus, but in the quiet places of your life when
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  • You're not in a church building and you're not sitting in the
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  • Midst of a group of people that have raised their hands to
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  • Identify as christ followers, what aspirations do you truly
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  • Hold for your children and your grandchildren?
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  • Fame, success, wealth, none of those things are inappropriate
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  • In and of themselves, but they'll be empty apart from
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  • A vibrant faith.
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  • You see, we've almost been totally co-opted by a
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  • Secular culture.
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  • Our aspirations have become secular aspirations, our dreams
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  • Secular aspirations, our priorities secular priorities.
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  • And, again, i'm not trying to remove us from the world.
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  • We're in it.
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  • But the bible says we shouldn't be of it.
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  • There's a difference.
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  • We have a different allegiance, a different set of objectives.
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  • It really is biblical.
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  • I can point to it.
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  • In 2 timothy chapter 1 and verse 5, paul is writing.
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  • Paul wrote the letter to a young man named timothy.
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  • That's why it bears his name.
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  • But he's reminding him of what paul knows of his life.
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  • He said, "i've been reminded of your sincere faith, which first
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  • Lived in your grandmother, lois, and in your mother, eunice.
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  • And i'm persuaded now lives in you also."
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  • You're a third generation, timothy.
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  • I know the stock from which you come.
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  • Say, well, pastor, i don't come from a family that's where
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  • There's generations of faithful people to the lord.
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  • Good, let's start a new trend.
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  • Pastor, my story is a little more broken.
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  • Most of ours are.
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  • That's why in the previous session, we spent a great deal
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  • Of time talking about a new name, establishing a new
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  • Heritage, a new legacy.
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  • John's life isn't gonna fit the normal pattern either.
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  • I don't believe any parent has an aspiration that their child
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  • Would walk the path that john walked.
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  • Forget his impact.
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  • I just can't--it's hard to imagine any parent raising their
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  • Hand and saying, that would be my aspiration.
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  • Allen: hey, "lessons from paul" is a 90-devotional.
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  • Some of my favorite verses that paul wrote, bit of devotional
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  • Time, and then some place to journal.
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  • The goal is to be changed.
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  • We want to be transformed by the word of god and not just
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  • Informed by it.
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  • Saul of tarsus, a hero of mine-- i got to know him as the apostle
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  • Paul--an unrelenting advocate for jesus in the face of
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  • Look at 1 samuel chapter 1. this is hannah.
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  • She's the mother of samuel.
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  • At the point we're stepping into the narrative, she is childless
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  • As well.
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  • She said, "i made a vow saying, oh lord almighty, if you'll only
  • 00:12:05.106 --> 00:12:08.209
  • Look upon your servant's misery and remember me.
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  • And not forgive your servant, but give her a son, and i will
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  • Give him to the lord for all the days of his life.
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  • No razor will ever be used on his head."
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  • That last phrase could be a little blind to you.
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  • It, it's a commitment within judaism.
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  • There was a sect of people.
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  • They're called nazarites.
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  • Not nazarenes.
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  • Nazarenes are people that come from the village of nazareth.
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  • It's a little community in the northern part of israel
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  • In galilee.
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  • Jesus was a nazarene.
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  • Nazarites are a group of people who take a vow, a special effort
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  • At setting themselves apart for the purposes of the lord.
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  • They won't eat or drink anything that comes from the vine.
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  • They won't drink wine.
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  • They won't eat a grape.
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  • They won't even eat a raisin.
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  • And they don't cut their hair.
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  • Samuel, before he's born, before he's conceived, his mother said,
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  • I will rear him as a young man set apart for the purposes
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  • Of god.
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  • I will give him to serve the lord.
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  • Two books in the bible bear the name of samuel.
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  • He's one of the most--even more so in judaism than christianity,
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  • He's a very, very significant character, a very pivotal figure
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  • In the unfolding purposes of god.
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  • The last of the judges of israel, he anoints the first
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  • Kings of israel.
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  • And it all begins, samuel's story begins with a prayer of
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  • Hannah, his mother, a generational faith.
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  • Timothy's third generation, paul said, listen, i know
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  • Your family.
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  • I'll give you one more example.
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  • Hebrews 11 is the hall of fame.
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  • That's the listing of all these remarkable people of faith and
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  • What they've accomplished.
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  • Many of you know that god's identified to us in the opening
  • 00:14:01.756 --> 00:14:04.359
  • Chapters of the bible as the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
  • 00:14:04.359 --> 00:14:08.496
  • Imagine, you know, we read that kind of casually, like, oh so
  • 00:14:08.496 --> 00:14:10.765
  • What's the big deal?
  • 00:14:10.765 --> 00:14:12.100
  • Well, just imagine he was the god of allen and fred and frank.
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  • We go, wow.
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  • God borrowed us.
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  • The god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
  • 00:14:21.576 --> 00:14:26.481
  • Just take a half a beat and and think of the implications.
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  • It's hebrews 11 and verse 17, "by faith abraham, when god
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  • Tested him, offered isaac as a sacrifice."
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  • Abraham didn't have a son.
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  • God had promised him he would make him into a mighty nation.
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  • And he didn't have a son.
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  • Abraham complained bitterly about it.
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  • He said, god, you made me this promise, and i pushed all the
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  • Chips into the middle of the table, and here i am.
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  • And everything i have is gonna go to a servant in my house.
  • 00:14:50.972 --> 00:14:53.841
  • And then he finally--sarah conceives and gives birth
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  • To isaac.
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  • And god said, how about offering him to me?
  • 00:14:59.547 --> 00:15:04.252
  • And really, inexplicably, abraham says, all right.
  • 00:15:04.252 --> 00:15:08.156
  • Many of you know the story.
  • 00:15:08.156 --> 00:15:09.490
  • I won't belabor it.
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  • The author of hebrews is reminding us that when god
  • 00:15:11.659 --> 00:15:13.962
  • Tested him, he offered isaac as a sacrifice, and he would
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  • Receive the promises was about to sacrifice his one and
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  • Only son.
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  • Even though god had said to him, it's through isaac that your
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  • Offspring will be reckoned, abraham reasoned that god could
  • 00:15:23.638 --> 00:15:26.040
  • Raise the dead.
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  • And figuratively speaking, he did receive isaac back from
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  • The dead.
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  • Abraham said, i won't even withhold my children from you.
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  • I won't withhold my dreams from you.
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  • I won't withhold my aspirations from you.
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  • I'll put my future in your hands.
  • 00:15:43.224 --> 00:15:45.927
  • But the author of hebrews doesn't leave it there.
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  • It says, "by faith, isaac blessed jacob and esau in regard
  • 00:15:47.462 --> 00:15:50.298
  • To their future.
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  • By faith, jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of joseph's
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  • Sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff."
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  • By faith abraham, by faith isaac, by faith jacob, there is
  • 00:15:57.338 --> 00:16:01.275
  • A generational component to our faith that we have not
  • 00:16:01.275 --> 00:16:04.979
  • Considered significantly enough.
  • 00:16:04.979 --> 00:16:09.283
  • See, i've imagined that if god was involved in my life and
  • 00:16:09.283 --> 00:16:12.120
  • There were breakthroughs engaged, it'd just be simple and
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  • Happy and fun and downhill.
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  • No resistance.
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  • No gravity.
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  • No heartache.
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  • No disappointment.
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  • Just easy cuz it's god.
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  • Folks, we haven't read very carefully.
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  • When god meets hannah, she's brokenhearted.
  • 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:42.917
  • She said if i could have a son, i will give him to you.
  • 00:16:42.917 --> 00:16:45.386
  • She takes little samuel when he's weaned to the priest and
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  • Says, here.
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  • I can't imagine.
  • 00:16:56.330 --> 00:17:00.234
  • You see, we've had this sloppy grace.
  • 00:17:00.234 --> 00:17:04.338
  • Well, you know, the most god would ask of us would be to drop
  • 00:17:04.338 --> 00:17:07.375
  • By church once in a while.
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  • And i mean, if it's a misty, cold day, god will understand if
  • 00:17:10.578 --> 00:17:15.783
  • You live stream.
  • 00:17:15.783 --> 00:17:24.025
  • Oh, sometimes you can't resist.
  • 00:17:24.025 --> 00:17:30.331
  • And yet the story of scripture invites us to this completely
  • 00:17:30.331 --> 00:17:33.301
  • Different imagination that we would yield our lives to the
  • 00:17:33.301 --> 00:17:36.737
  • Lord, that we would be so convinced that was the best way
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  • To be that we would desire that for our children, for our
  • 00:17:39.373 --> 00:17:42.310
  • Grandchildren, that we would prioritize how we live, what we
  • 00:17:42.310 --> 00:17:45.947
  • Message, what we train, what we invite them towards.
  • 00:17:45.947 --> 00:17:52.720
  • Breakthroughs.
  • 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:56.357
  • We need a generational breakthroughs or our children
  • 00:17:55.022 --> 00:17:59.627
  • And grandchildren are gonna lose their freedom.
  • 00:17:59.627 --> 00:18:02.296
  • If we remain on the trajectory we are on, they will not know
  • 00:18:02.296 --> 00:18:05.867
  • The kind of blessings that we have known.
  • 00:18:05.867 --> 00:18:08.769
  • I'm not talking about 100 years from now.
  • 00:18:08.769 --> 00:18:13.407
  • We're bankrupt, physically and morally.
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  • We have to change.
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  • We can change.
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  • We've been given the privilege of changing.
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  • God has shown us mercy.
  • 00:18:23.117 --> 00:18:26.387
  • Moses' parents hid him from pharaoh's executioners.
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  • Joshua's life became of an extension of the assignment that
  • 00:18:30.191 --> 00:18:33.828
  • God gave to moses.
  • 00:18:33.828 --> 00:18:36.864
  • David made the way for his son, solomon, to build a temple and
  • 00:18:36.864 --> 00:18:40.835
  • Establish israel's boundaries.
  • 00:18:40.835 --> 00:18:44.939
  • Samuel's life and ministry, his impact upon the purposes of god,
  • 00:18:44.939 --> 00:18:48.376
  • Emerge from the faithfulness of hannah.
  • 00:18:48.376 --> 00:18:51.946
  • Samson's parents, one of israel's judges, they committed
  • 00:18:51.946 --> 00:18:55.983
  • Him to be a nazarite prior to his birth as well.
  • 00:18:55.983 --> 00:18:59.887
  • See, children aren't yours, folks.
  • 00:18:59.887 --> 00:19:01.556
  • They're a sacred trust.
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  • And i'm quite confident you will give an account for that.
  • 00:19:04.091 --> 00:19:09.463
  • Your grandchildren are not just a dalliance so you can spoil
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  • Them and send them home for somebody else to straighten out.
  • 00:19:12.934 --> 00:19:16.304
  • It's a temptation to be a hero in a way that you can't be for
  • 00:19:16.304 --> 00:19:21.209
  • Your own children to feel the affirmation and the love that
  • 00:19:21.209 --> 00:19:24.912
  • Can be directed at you, but to avoid the heavier lifting of
  • 00:19:24.912 --> 00:19:29.183
  • Really speaking to their character formation.
  • 00:19:29.183 --> 00:19:33.421
  • A generational faith.
  • 00:19:33.421 --> 00:19:37.491
  • I wonder if you'd be willing to invite god into your life in
  • 00:19:37.491 --> 00:19:39.827
  • That way.
  • 00:19:39.827 --> 00:19:41.896
  • It's a pretty serious thing.
  • 00:19:41.896 --> 00:19:44.665
  • I wanna offer you an opportunity.
  • 00:19:44.665 --> 00:19:46.000
  • I wanna use that little quaker prayer.
  • 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:47.401
  • Remember that prayer we, i don't know if it's the quakers or not.
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  • It's the way i learned it, so i'm gonna give them the credit.
  • 00:19:50.037 --> 00:19:52.740
  • But you pray with your palms up.
  • 00:19:52.740 --> 00:19:56.177
  • We're gonna stay in a moment.
  • 00:19:56.177 --> 00:19:57.545
  • I'm just gonna kinda coach you up for a second.
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  • With our hands up to receive what the lord has from us, to
  • 00:19:59.914 --> 00:20:04.485
  • Accept the assignment, lord, we will speak into the lives of our
  • 00:20:04.485 --> 00:20:07.888
  • Children and our grandchildren to give them a legacy of faith.
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  • We offer them to you.
  • 00:20:11.859 --> 00:20:13.861
  • They're not ours.
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  • They're not for our fulfillment.
  • 00:20:15.997 --> 00:20:17.365
  • They're our pleasure or to bring joy or contentment to us.
  • 00:20:17.365 --> 00:20:21.736
  • We want to guide them in a way that they bring joy to you.
  • 00:20:21.736 --> 00:20:26.307
  • Then, we'll turn our palms over to relinquish them to the lord
  • 00:20:26.307 --> 00:20:28.809
  • To put them into his hands, to surrender our children and our
  • 00:20:28.809 --> 00:20:32.413
  • Grandchildren, our spiritual children.
  • 00:20:32.413 --> 00:20:37.885
  • Not everybody in that list shared dna, but they all shared
  • 00:20:37.885 --> 00:20:41.989
  • A spiritual journey.
  • 00:20:41.989 --> 00:20:44.258
  • There are young people god will put in your life that you may
  • 00:20:44.258 --> 00:20:46.627
  • Not share dna with, but he's called you to be an influence.
  • 00:20:46.627 --> 00:20:49.597
  • There have been people who've made an enormous impact on
  • 00:20:49.597 --> 00:20:51.866
  • My life.
  • 00:20:51.866 --> 00:20:53.901
  • Without whose voice or encouragement or rebuke, i would
  • 00:20:53.901 --> 00:20:58.172
  • Have missed god's purposes.
  • 00:20:58.172 --> 00:21:01.175
  • Are you willing to be one of those people?
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  • Are you willing to be an igniter for generational faith?
  • 00:21:03.978 --> 00:21:08.049
  • Say, wait a minute, pastor, i just came to church today.
  • 00:21:08.049 --> 00:21:11.452
  • You know, i'm a christian.
  • 00:21:11.452 --> 00:21:12.820
  • I've been baptized.
  • 00:21:12.820 --> 00:21:14.155
  • I read my bible some.
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  • I showed up at church.
  • 00:21:15.523 --> 00:21:16.857
  • Could you just leave me alone one sunday?
  • 00:21:16.857 --> 00:21:18.259
  • Just chill.
  • 00:21:18.259 --> 00:21:19.593
  • And i can.
  • 00:21:19.593 --> 00:21:20.961
  • You can take a pass.
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  • This is not mandatory.
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  • I wanna ask you if you're willing.
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  • I ask you to stand with-- everybody can stand.
  • 00:21:29.637 --> 00:21:32.473
  • You can stand even if you have no intention of praying.
  • 00:21:32.473 --> 00:21:34.208
  • It's okay.
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  • If you're at home, you stand with us, too.
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  • Put down your bagel.
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  • Hands up.
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  • Okay, if you don't raise your hands at church, i get that.
  • 00:21:46.487 --> 00:21:49.523
  • You kind of put these get out, you know, waist level, it won't
  • 00:21:49.523 --> 00:21:53.060
  • Show up on camera.
  • 00:21:53.060 --> 00:21:54.395
  • Nobody will know.
  • 00:21:54.395 --> 00:21:56.197
  • This is covert pentecost right here.
  • 00:21:56.197 --> 00:22:04.138
  • We're gonna do two things, if you're interested.
  • 00:22:04.138 --> 00:22:08.275
  • You gonna say, lord, i'll accept the assignment.
  • 00:22:08.275 --> 00:22:13.147
  • You see, you can't give away what you don't have.
  • 00:22:13.147 --> 00:22:16.417
  • If you don't really love the lord, you can't give it to
  • 00:22:16.417 --> 00:22:18.152
  • Your kids.
  • 00:22:18.152 --> 00:22:20.554
  • Well, i'm not here to--i'm just--it's the honest part
  • 00:22:20.554 --> 00:22:24.358
  • Of this.
  • 00:22:24.358 --> 00:22:26.160
  • If you don't have an enthusiasm for god, you really can't give
  • 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:28.329
  • Your kids one.
  • 00:22:28.329 --> 00:22:30.798
  • If faith to you is kind of oppressive and marginal and
  • 00:22:30.798 --> 00:22:35.102
  • Something to be tolerated, kind of like eating vegetables, you
  • 00:22:35.102 --> 00:22:40.608
  • Can't give it away.
  • 00:22:40.608 --> 00:22:42.476
  • So a part of this is not just accepting the assignment with
  • 00:22:42.476 --> 00:22:45.079
  • Regard to the generations.
  • 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:47.014
  • It's saying to the lord, lord, i'm gonna need to know you in
  • 00:22:47.014 --> 00:22:49.250
  • A new way.
  • 00:22:49.250 --> 00:22:50.584
  • I need a breakthrough.
  • 00:22:50.584 --> 00:22:53.454
  • And then in a moment, we'll turn our hands over and relinquish
  • 00:22:53.454 --> 00:22:56.490
  • Those young people into the lord's care.
  • 00:22:56.490 --> 00:22:59.560
  • There's an acknowledgement in that, an implicit
  • 00:22:59.560 --> 00:23:01.228
  • Acknowledgement, in that that in myself, i'm not enough.
  • 00:23:01.228 --> 00:23:06.133
  • They're gonna face challenges that i'm not adequate for.
  • 00:23:06.133 --> 00:23:10.137
  • I won't be able to protect them fully.
  • 00:23:10.137 --> 00:23:13.374
  • I won't be able to resolve every problem.
  • 00:23:13.374 --> 00:23:16.911
  • But i wanna put them into your care.
  • 00:23:16.911 --> 00:23:19.880
  • I have an aspiration for them that exceeds whatever i am.
  • 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:24.552
  • That's not just for financial achievement or academic success
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  • Or professional experiences or accolades.
  • 00:23:27.588 --> 00:23:31.358
  • In the eternal purposes of god, your child might be a voice of
  • 00:23:31.358 --> 00:23:36.530
  • One on behalf of the kingdom of god.
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  • Would you be interested in that today?
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  • If you are, just close our eyes for a minute.
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  • Forget the people around you.
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  • We're not gonna put you on camera.
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  • We're gonna turn our hands to the lord.
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  • Lord, we gather this morning to say thank you for those who
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  • Preceded us.
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  • I thank you for their lives and their faithfulness.
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  • Lord, we want to say yes to your assignment.
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  • But we want to be men and women who make a generational impact.
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  • We have a legacy of faith, of spiritual vitality
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  • And awareness.
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  • A voice, a voice not just that would emerge from our own
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  • Journey and our own experience, but a voice informed by you.
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  • But we're not content just to spend our days.
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  • We want to invest them.
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  • And we received that today.
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  • Or to open our hearts.
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  • Unstop our ears.
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  • And, lord, as we do that, we want to turn our hands down to
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  • Relinquish all those purses that you put in our spheres, lord,
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  • Our children, our grandchildren, our spiritual children.
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  • All those, father, who would care about our opinion or listen
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  • To our voice.
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  • May they have a revelation of you.
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  • May our influence in their lives encourage godliness.
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  • That you'd inspire them to seek your face.
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  • Lord, we ask you to intervene on their behalf.
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  • Help them to grow strong, body, soul and spirit where they find
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  • All you created them for.
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  • May they not miss one thing.
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  • I thank you for it.
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  • And i praise you for it.
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  • In jesus's name.
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  • Amen.
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  • Hallelujah. [congregation applauding]
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  • You know, i wrote so much more sermon with so many amazing
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  • Things in it on humility.
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  • But i really feel like the lord met us.
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  • And i'm gonna leave it right there today.
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  • We have an assignment in the midst of christmas.
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  • You have a quiet prayer to pray.
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • People are searching for truth, and together we're doing our
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  • Very best to help them find it.
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  • Have heard the gospel otherwise.
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  • Together, we can stand firm in our faith and make god's truth
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  • Known right here at home and around the earth, wherever
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  • God opens a door.
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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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  • The day our king returns.
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