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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Breakthrough... New Wine (Part 2) | January 6, 2025
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- Allen jackson: you know, one of the things i get to do is try to
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- Help be engaged in creating a community of faith that
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- Welcomes people.
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- And the most unhappy people--stories are the ones
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- That usually make it to me and i'm always a bit amused.
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- People say, "you know, i visited your church and no one spoke
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- To me."
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- I'm sure it could happen.
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- You can probably put on headphones, dark glasses, a big
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- Floppy hat.
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- Pull your collar up.
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- Watch carefully and sneak between the gauntlet of people
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- Trying to say hello to you.
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- Sit in the sanctuary and send up every nonverbal signal you can
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- That i'm toxic and don't touch me.
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- I mean, i don't doubt that that could happen, and so we
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- Will respond.
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- But i think you've probably got to make an effort.
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- I mean, you all are goofy friendly.
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- If i tell you to introduce yourself to your neighbor, i
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- Have to stop you four or five minutes later.
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- You're exchanging christmas cookie recipes.
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- Well, i see that affirmation in elizabeth.
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- She's ministering to mary.
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- "the sound of your greeting when it reached my ears, the baby in
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- My womb leaped for joy.
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- Blessed is she who has believed what the lord has said to her
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- Will be accomplished."
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- "so you don't think i'm crazy.
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- You believe me.
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- You think it's really god.
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- You're not gonna look at me with side eyes and ask me about my
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- Character."
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- "no.
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- Zechariah, he had an appointment of his own.
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- He didn't say much about it, but he wrote me a note."
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- It's a breakthrough.
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- It's breakthroughs and then luke goes out of his way to say it's
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- About the spirit of god.
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- See, when the spirit of god brings a breakthrough into your
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- Life, you'll gain insight and understanding and awareness.
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- Insight, you can see what's not visible to most.
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- Elizabeth sees mary and she doesn't see a young woman that's
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- Pregnant and the timing's awkward.
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- She sees something that god is doing.
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- She has insight, she has understanding, she can grasp
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- God's perspective before it's apparent to most.
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- She's not gonna be the last to know.
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- Some of you are proud of the fact that you own the seat of
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- The skeptic.
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- You're looking for the weakness in every good report.
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- You're looking to throw the christians under the bus first.
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- You'll defend the ungodly.
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- You'll stand with the immoral.
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- You better stop.
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- We're in a season of judgment, which means both the blessing of
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- God and the discipline of god are moving around us.
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- And if you're a champion of resisting what god is doing
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- Because you've got some point of annoyance with the christians,
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- It's a very slippery slope to stand on.
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- Elizabeth didn't take that pass.
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- She didn't say, "come over and talk to me, child, i'm a
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- Little concerned.
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- Joe called me."
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- Awareness, a responsive belief.
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- It's faith in motion.
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- It's confidence of god's involvement.
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- I wanna be a part.
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- I wanna go along.
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- I wanna be engaged.
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- You see, when god's moving, it's not so crystal clear that it's
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- God moving or what the outcome will be, or it wouldn't require
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- Any faith.
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- Nobody in the israelite community thought david could
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- Take goliath or they would have gone with him.
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- There would have been a whole troop of israelite soldiers with
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- David if they had thought he'd had a snowball's chance of
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- Taking goliath.
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- The king said, "take, here, take my armor."
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- Do you understand the expression of cowardice in that?
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- Saul, the bible says, stood head and shoulders above all the
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- Other men in israel.
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- He was their most physically intimidating specimen.
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- Trained in warfare, custom armor.
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- And there's a kid, a scrawny shepherd kid brought lunch to
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- His brothers that said, "i'll take on the enemy's champion."
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- And the king says, "well, here, take my armor."
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- And david said, "no, it doesn't fit.
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- I'll go get a rock."
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- And nobody was going with him.
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- See, that's awareness.
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- It's an expression of faith.
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- Goliath mocked him.
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- "who are you? you sent a boy?
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- Am i a dog that you sent a boy?"
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- Remember what david said?
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- "oh, you have defied the army of the living god."
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- Not the cowardly king back there in his tent.
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- "you've defied the army of the living god.
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- And that god delivered a lion to me and a bear to me.
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- He's about to deliver you to me."
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- And he charged, but nobody went with him.
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- You see breakthroughs, insight, understanding, awareness, some
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- Of you are proud of the fact that
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- You don't cooperate.
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- Repent.
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- The importance of community is difficult to overstate.
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- I'm sure god would have sustained mary if elizabeth had
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- Not been an opportunity, but it certainly looks to me like god
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- Prepared elizabeth to be there to be a voice in mary's life.
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- And rather than be unhappy because somebody isn't providing
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- The voice you want, how about deciding to be the voice?
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- Lead with your faith.
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- There's some rather unconventional wisdom.
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- Same chapter, still in luke 1.
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- "when it was time for elizabeth to have her baby,
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- She gave birth to a son," there's a shock.
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- "her neighbors and relatives heard that the lord had shown
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- Her great mercy, and they shared her joy."
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- That's a biblical way of saying they've been gossiping about her
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- For 9 months.
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- "on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child," that's in
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- Accordance with the law of moses.
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- "they were gonna name him after his father zechariah.
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- Fully expected, but his mother spoke up and said, 'no, he used
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- To be called john.'
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- And they said, 'well, there's no one among your
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- Relatives who has that name.'
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- Then they made signs to the father to find out what he would
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- Like to name the child," 'cause clearly, elizabeth has lost
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- Her mind.
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- "he asked for a writing tablet and to everyone's amazement,
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- Astonishment, he wrote, 'his name is john.'
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- And immediately his mouth was opened."
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- I think gabriel's standing there smirking.
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- "and his tongue was loosed, and he began to speak, praising god.
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- The neighbors were all filled with awe, and throughout the
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- Hill country of judea.
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- People were talking about all these things and everyone who
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- Heard this wondered about it, asking, 'what then is this child
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- Going to be?'
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- For the lord's hand was with him."
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- In this case, the breakthrough is a complete reordering.
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- It's a shattering, if you will, of the status quo.
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- Childless couple has a son.
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- They don't even bother. it's almost a formality.
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- We're not asking. we know his name.
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- Gonna name him after his father.
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- And elizabeth breaks and said, "no, we're not."
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- And they understand that's inappropriate, it's not correct,
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- It's not right, that's not what's done.
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- So they go to the guy that can't talk and say, "what do you say
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- About it?"
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- And he writes down an answer in agreement with elizabeth.
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- And nobody understands.
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- Where did we start?
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- We started with new wine in new wine skins.
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- It's a breakthrough.
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- So, are you ready for that?
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- You see, we want god to solve our problems, to eliminate the
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- Suffering, to take away the speed bumps, to make it easier,
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- To remove the dissent, whatever.
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- But we don't really intend for him to ask us to be different.
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- Zechariah and elizabeth gave the baby a new name.
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- I'm gonna take a minute with that idea 'cause i think it's
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- Very, very important.
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- John is not just continuity.
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- Oh, he shares genetic material with elizabeth and zachariah,
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- But he's not the same.
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- He's not just gonna take his turn as another in the priestly
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- Line, serving in the temple.
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- He's not gonna wait for his rotation and maintain the
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- Status quo.
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- He's a force of disruption.
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- He's got a new name. he's got a new name.
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- He has godly parents, righteous parents, trustworthy parents,
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- Important parents.
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- Parents uniquely prepared and equipped and qualified,
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- Sacrificial parents, many, many things, but john has a new name.
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- Revelation chapter 2, it's in your notes.
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- It's one of the messages to one of the churches
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- In the book of revelation.
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- It says, "he who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to
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- The churches."
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- That phrase is repeated multiple times in revelation.
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- I think it's so important.
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- It's possible to be in the church and not be able to hear.
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- To not be listening.
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- To not care.
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- To be distracted.
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- To be uninterested.
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- To think it doesn't matter.
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- There's no more messaging.
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- I'm born again.
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- Got nothing else to listen for.
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- I got my ticket punched.
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- I got the contract signed.
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- I know where i'm headed.
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- To him who has an ear.
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- Female announcer: if you look, you'll find good
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- News everywhere.
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- Female: our baby was born healthy and strong.
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- Female: we have the groceries we need.
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- Male: another year cancer free.
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- Female: we bought our first house this year.
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- Female: the raise came through when i needed it most.
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- Male: i have a working car.
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- Female: my husband came home safe.
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- Announcer: philippians 4 tells us to think about whatever is
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- True, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent,
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- And praiseworthy.
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- All of these things honor god, and when we take time to notice
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- Them, we welcome god's presence and experience his peace.
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- Allen: you know, the two most critical junctures of any
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- Enterprise are how we begin and how we conclude.
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- So the beginning of a new year is a tremendous opportunity.
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- We've prepared a tool we wanna share with you.
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- It's a good news journal.
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- We wanna help you set a habit this year to do something with a
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- Bit more intention than perhaps has been our pattern in
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- The past.
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- We wanna start our year with an attitude of appreciation and
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- Gratitude for the blessings of god in our lives.
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- So we've designed this journal so that you can use it as a part
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- Of your devotional.
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- It's something you could include the children, the grandchildren.
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- You could take it to work and create a good news journal for
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- The people you work with.
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- Wherever that may be, let's start our year out purposefully,
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- Intentionally saying thank you to the lord for his goodness
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- To us.
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- I know there's challenges and we have places where we need god's
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- Help, but we're gonna begin with gratitude and walk into the
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- Blessings of god in this year.
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- I think you'll enjoy the journal.
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- God bless.
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- Announcer: when you keep a good news list, you'll notice how god
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- Is constantly at work all around you.
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- Our new 52 week good news notebook gives you a place to
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- Record your good news, prayers you saw god answer, and your
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- Current prayer requests.
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- As you look back on your lists over the weeks and months to
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- Come, you'll find a personal record of
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- God's faithfulness to you.
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- Allen: we are trusting god for a year like no other, for his
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- Breakthroughs this year.
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- I believe the good news journal can be a part of our journey in
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- Each of our lives.
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- Allen: some of you remember david eubank with free
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- Burma rangers.
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- I had just a really short note this week thanking me for the
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- Church and the value he felt when he was with you.
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- And he said, "pray for us.
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- We have people on the ground in syria right now."
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- He said, "we can't even communicate with 'em."
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- He said, "there's tension in burma, there's
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- Physical threats to the people."
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- He said, "i'm concerned that the people on my team survive
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- Through christmas."
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- God's moving in the earth.
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- We gotta have an awareness that's more about our shopping
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- List or what we want.
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- New wine, a new name.
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- "him who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says.
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- To him who overcomes, i will give some of the hidden manna.
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- I will also give him a white stone with a new name written
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- On it."
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- I have a suggestion.
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- I believe there are some people to whom god would give a
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- New name.
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- He would write a new future.
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- I'm not saying your future is bad.
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- I'm not saying your family is bad.
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- Zechariah and elizabeth were not a bad family.
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- There was just a new assignment for john, a new name.
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- And he needed the blessing of his parents.
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- In john chapter 1, jesus is recruiting disciples.
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- And andrew has been recruited and "the first thing andrew did
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- Was to find his brother simon and tell him, 'we've found
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- The messiah.'"
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- I mean, that's not like just, you know, we found the best
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- Hamburger in town.
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- We found someplace where the lines are shorter.
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- We found the chick-fil-a you don't have to wait.
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- He said we have found the messiah.
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- "and he brought him to jesus and jesus looked at him and said,
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- 'you are simon the son of john, but you'll be called cephas.'"
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- Said you've been called simon, but i'm giving you a new
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- Name, peter.
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- It's not limited.
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- It's a pretty consistent pattern.
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- In genesis 17, god said to abram, "you'll no longer be
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- Called abram, but your name will be abraham."
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- You're not gonna be called the exalted father, you're gonna be
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- The father of a multitude.
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- You're not just gonna be a good dad, you're gonna be the father
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- Of a nation.
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- "for i've made you the father of many nations."
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- A new name.
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- There are some people listening and i would submit to you that
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- It's time for a new name, a new response.
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- Zechariah and elizabeth, for the majority of their lives amongst
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- Their peers and their friends and their supporters and their
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- Advocates, had been called childless.
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- And now they're called parents, for all that that means.
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- May i ask you a question?
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- And i don't want you to respond outwardly, you may have to take
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- A little time with it.
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- What have you been called?
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- And it doesn't have to be a derogatory term.
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- Maybe you've been called a brilliant business person.
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- Maybe you've been called an accomplished mother or
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- An educator.
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- Maybe you've been called things less flattering.
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- All sorts of pejorative, negative labels.
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- What have you been called?
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- And would you be interested in a new name from the lord?
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- Are you gonna do a little bit more like zechariah going, wait
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- A minute, i appreciate you, gabe.
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- Appreciate you made the trip all the way here.
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- Maybe you haven't noticed, i'm no kid.
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- And liz--
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- We all have reasons why we will say no new
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- Names here.
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- I'm good. i'm good.
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- I'm good with god.
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- I read my--i've done the bible reading 3 years in a row.
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- I volunteer at character quest.
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- All those sweaty little kids in the summertime.
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- I eat camp food.
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- I'm good.
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- Or could you imagine that god might bring a breakthrough
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- To you?
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- The devil will tell you you failed too greatly or that
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- You're irrelevant.
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- You've been overlooked so many times.
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- God has not overlooked you.
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- Or that you've been so ungodly that you're just grateful to get
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- To sit in the corner.
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- Jesus didn't shed his blood so you could sit in the corner.
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- Luke 1, zechariah, the dedication of john was filled
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- With the holy spirit.
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- There's that phrase again, "and he prophesies: 'praise be to the
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- Lord, the god of israel, because he's come and redeemed
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- His people.
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- He has raised up a horn of salvation for us.'"
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- Horn of salvation is a hebrew phrase.
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- It means he's raised up an expression of his strength.
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- "he's shown his strength for the salvation of his people in the
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- House of his servant david.
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- Salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who
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- Hate us."
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- But you know, hatred for the purposes of god is not new.
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- I hope you're aware enough that when you step out of time and
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- You step into the eternal kingdom of god and you bump into
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- Those who have preceded you in the language of hebrews, those
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- That have filled the arena where we're sitting that have already
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- Run their race, they were all hated.
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- That's in hebrews.
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- Some of them were sawn in half, others hid in caves, others
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- Were hunted.
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- So that if we roll in there say, wait a minute, we were 21st
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- Century christians, they didn't like us much.
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- They will not look at you and go, "well, bless your heart."
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- Well, they might.
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- If they were southerners.
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- What we're seeing is not unique.
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- It's our response that has lacked an awareness of the
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- Purposes of god.
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- New wine.
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- "from the hand of all who hate us to show mercy to our fathers
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- And to remember his holy covenant, the oath he swore to
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- Our father abraham: to rescue us from the hand of our enemies."
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- Look at verse 70, "and you, my child," he begins to prophesy
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- About this infant.
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- This new dad.
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- "you'll be called a prophet of the most high.
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- You'll go on before the lord to prepare the way for him.
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- To give his people the knowledge of salvation through the
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- Forgiveness of their sins.
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- And because of the tender mercy of our god, by which the rising
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- Sun will come from heaven to shine on those living in
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- Darkness and in the shadow of death."
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- John's gonna live his whole life in the land of israel.
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- And directed by the spirit of god, zechariah describes it as
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- People living in darkness in the shadow of death.
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- It's a breakthrough.
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- It's the announcement of a whole new move with the spirit of god.
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- The people listening don't grasp it.
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- John's a baby.
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- We're decades away from that being lived out.
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- But god has given to zechariah an awareness, an insight,
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- An understanding.
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- Again, it's these breakthroughs and the spirit of god.
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- We've been way too resistant to the holy spirit.
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- We start too many conversations by saying what we won't do.
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- Please don't do that.
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- There's a supernatural component to these breakthroughs.
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- In this case it's an angelic announcement.
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- It's an assistance beyond themselves.
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- It requires humility to say we have a problem.
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- Well, elizabeth and zechariah both have been filled with
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- The spirit.
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- An awareness of god's agenda beyond their
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- Personal aspirations.
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- See, breakthroughs bring god's plan forward more than our own.
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- If we really tell the truth, it's not so much that we want
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- God's purposes to get ramped up, we want ours.
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- And when god brings a breakthrough, yes, we receive a
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- Benefit, but the purposes of god are extended.
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- John's birth clearly is about god's purposes more than it's a
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- Token of satisfaction for elizabeth and zechariah.
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- He didn't say we're gonna have the best nursery.
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- You'll be the best student in the school.
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- You'll be an overachiever on the athletic teams.
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- He said this child has been born for the purposes of god.
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- Church, we are so far away from this.
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- We can at least begin to pray, god, let us see our children as
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- Expressions of your grace in our world,
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- That you've given them to us for a purpose for your kingdom.
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- Breakthroughs bringing god's plans forward.
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- A new name begins with a willingness to bear the name
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- Of jesus.
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- There's no fresh start just so you can pursue your own way with
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- A new vigor.
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- You don't get a new name just so you get another run at the hill
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- To do it your way.
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- You get a new name so you can pursue the purposes of god.
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- It's a new beginning to dare greatly for the kingdom of god.
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- It's a new beginning to stand firmly for what you know to
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- Be righteous.
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- It's a new beginning to enter the next phase of faithfulness.
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- Moses had a breakthrough at a burning bush.
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- He got sent back to the palace.
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- Ugh.
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- But he had another breakthrough.
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- He got released from egypt.
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- Then he went back to the desert, this time with a
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- Million friends.
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- It's a new beginning this time in god's strength.
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- It's a new beginning, a new authority in place over
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- Your life.
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- It's a new beginning with a new awareness of god's
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- Abiding presence.
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- It's a new beginning filled with gratitude that you have been
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- Included and accepted in the unfolding purposes of god.
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- Would you like a new name?
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- New wine, change.
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- You pour the new wine in the old wine skin, everything will
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- Be lost.
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- A new name. i brought you a prayer.
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- It's a familiar prayer, but it's a powerful prayer.
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- Jesus taught us to pray this prayer.
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- I want you to stand with me.
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- We're gonna read it together.
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- Some of you will know it by heart.
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- What we wanna do is give consent.
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- We wanna give personal consent for the will of god to be
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- Expressed through us in this world.
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- We wanna be more concerned about the kingdom of god than our
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- Own kingdom.
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- We wanna ask for god's help in delivering us from evil.
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- We're gonna ask god's help that we could overcome temptation.
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- We'll give expression to our willingness to forgive so that
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- We might be forgiven.
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- Folks, you can't skip any one of these pieces and imagine you'll
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- Get a new name.
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- You can't harbor unforgiveness and get a new name.
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- You can't imagine that you can provide.
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- God will give you a name that's bigger than your source of
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- Provision, otherwise it's not a new name.
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- It's just watch me run faster.
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- It's an amazing prayer.
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- It's worth praying.
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- Please don't take it for granted.
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- Don't bypass it.
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- Don't think it's just religious tradition.
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- Jesus gave us this prayer to pray.
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- You can have a new name.
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- I'm telling you.
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- Let's pray it together.
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- "our father, who art in heaven.
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- Hallowed be your name.
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- Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth, as it is
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- In heaven--
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- Congregation: give us this day our daily bread.
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- Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those--
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- Allen: who trespass against us.
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- Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
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- For yours is the kingdom, and
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- The power, and glory, amen.
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- A new name. you take that prayer.
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- I would say it morning, noon, and night until god brings the
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- Awareness to your life of your new name.
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- God bless you.
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- ♪♪♪
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