Allen Jackson - Breakthrough... New Wine (Part 2)

January 6, 2025 | S25:E6

Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - 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: 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.
  • 00:15:11.527 --> 00:15:13.395
  • "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.
  • 00:15:35.851 --> 00:15:38.320
  • 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.
  • 00:15:43.892 --> 00:15:49.732
  • 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.
  • 00:16:04.646 --> 00:16:08.150
  • We found someplace where the lines are shorter.
  • 00:16:08.150 --> 00:16:11.820
  • 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,
  • 00:16:20.763 --> 00:16:23.332
  • 'you are simon the son of john, but you'll be called cephas.'"
  • 00:16:23.332 --> 00:16:28.904
  • 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.
  • 00:16:38.580 --> 00:16:39.948
  • In genesis 17, god said to abram, "you'll no longer be
  • 00:16:39.948 --> 00:16:43.252
  • 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.
  • 00:16:53.996 --> 00:16:56.432
  • "for i've made you the father of many nations."
  • 00:16:56.432 --> 00:16:59.668
  • A new name.
  • 00:16:59.668 --> 00:17:01.537
  • There are some people listening and i would submit to you that
  • 00:17:01.537 --> 00:17:04.373
  • It's time for a new name, a new response.
  • 00:17:04.373 --> 00:17:07.676
  • Zechariah and elizabeth, for the majority of their lives amongst
  • 00:17:07.676 --> 00:17:11.513
  • Their peers and their friends and their supporters and their
  • 00:17:11.513 --> 00:17:14.416
  • Advocates, had been called childless.
  • 00:17:14.416 --> 00:17:18.921
  • 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
  • 00:17:26.762 --> 00:17:28.764
  • A little time with it.
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  • What have you been called?
  • 00:17:30.099 --> 00:17:33.502
  • 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
  • 00:17:41.510 --> 00:17:46.281
  • An educator.
  • 00:17:46.281 --> 00:17:49.885
  • Maybe you've been called things less flattering.
  • 00:17:49.885 --> 00:17:53.622
  • All sorts of pejorative, negative labels.
  • 00:17:53.622 --> 00:17:58.026
  • What have you been called?
  • 00:17:58.026 --> 00:18:00.496
  • 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.
  • 00:18:08.937 --> 00:18:10.672
  • Appreciate you made the trip all the way here.
  • 00:18:10.672 --> 00:18:14.209
  • Maybe you haven't noticed, i'm no kid.
  • 00:18:14.209 --> 00:18:18.413
  • And liz--
  • 00:18:18.413 --> 00:18:21.917
  • We all have reasons why we will say no new
  • 00:18:21.917 --> 00:18:25.387
  • Names here.
  • 00:18:25.387 --> 00:18:26.922
  • 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.
  • 00:18:34.429 --> 00:18:37.733
  • All those sweaty little kids in the summertime.
  • 00:18:37.733 --> 00:18:43.238
  • I eat camp food.
  • 00:18:43.238 --> 00:18:45.974
  • I'm good.
  • 00:18:45.974 --> 00:18:48.810
  • Or could you imagine that god might bring a breakthrough
  • 00:18:48.810 --> 00:18:51.413
  • To you?
  • 00:18:51.413 --> 00:18:54.283
  • The devil will tell you you failed too greatly or that
  • 00:18:54.283 --> 00:18:57.719
  • You're irrelevant.
  • 00:18:57.719 --> 00:18:59.054
  • You've been overlooked so many times.
  • 00:18:59.054 --> 00:19:01.723
  • God has not overlooked you.
  • 00:19:01.723 --> 00:19:04.793
  • Or that you've been so ungodly that you're just grateful to get
  • 00:19:04.793 --> 00:19:07.763
  • To sit in the corner.
  • 00:19:07.763 --> 00:19:09.965
  • Jesus didn't shed his blood so you could sit in the corner.
  • 00:19:09.965 --> 00:19:17.139
  • Luke 1, zechariah, the dedication of john was filled
  • 00:19:17.139 --> 00:19:22.010
  • With the holy spirit.
  • 00:19:22.010 --> 00:19:23.345
  • There's that phrase again, "and he prophesies: 'praise be to the
  • 00:19:23.345 --> 00:19:27.349
  • Lord, the god of israel, because he's come and redeemed
  • 00:19:27.349 --> 00:19:29.585
  • His people.
  • 00:19:29.585 --> 00:19:30.953
  • He has raised up a horn of salvation for us.'"
  • 00:19:30.953 --> 00:19:32.654
  • Horn of salvation is a hebrew phrase.
  • 00:19:32.654 --> 00:19:34.356
  • It means he's raised up an expression of his strength.
  • 00:19:34.356 --> 00:19:38.093
  • "he's shown his strength for the salvation of his people in the
  • 00:19:38.093 --> 00:19:43.098
  • House of his servant david.
  • 00:19:43.098 --> 00:19:45.267
  • Salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who
  • 00:19:45.267 --> 00:19:47.769
  • Hate us."
  • 00:19:47.769 --> 00:19:49.304
  • But you know, hatred for the purposes of god is not new.
  • 00:19:49.304 --> 00:19:54.142
  • I hope you're aware enough that when you step out of time and
  • 00:19:54.142 --> 00:19:57.512
  • You step into the eternal kingdom of god and you bump into
  • 00:19:57.512 --> 00:19:59.881
  • Those who have preceded you in the language of hebrews, those
  • 00:19:59.881 --> 00:20:03.352
  • That have filled the arena where we're sitting that have already
  • 00:20:03.352 --> 00:20:09.324
  • Run their race, they were all hated.
  • 00:20:09.324 --> 00:20:16.031
  • That's in hebrews.
  • 00:20:16.031 --> 00:20:17.366
  • Some of them were sawn in half, others hid in caves, others
  • 00:20:17.366 --> 00:20:20.502
  • Were hunted.
  • 00:20:20.502 --> 00:20:22.204
  • So that if we roll in there say, wait a minute, we were 21st
  • 00:20:22.204 --> 00:20:24.606
  • Century christians, they didn't like us much.
  • 00:20:24.606 --> 00:20:27.976
  • They will not look at you and go, "well, bless your heart."
  • 00:20:27.976 --> 00:20:31.179
  • Well, they might.
  • 00:20:31.179 --> 00:20:33.382
  • If they were southerners.
  • 00:20:33.382 --> 00:20:36.585
  • What we're seeing is not unique.
  • 00:20:36.585 --> 00:20:40.389
  • It's our response that has lacked an awareness of the
  • 00:20:40.389 --> 00:20:44.926
  • Purposes of god.
  • 00:20:44.926 --> 00:20:46.295
  • New wine.
  • 00:20:46.295 --> 00:20:49.364
  • "from the hand of all who hate us to show mercy to our fathers
  • 00:20:49.364 --> 00:20:52.000
  • And to remember his holy covenant, the oath he swore to
  • 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:54.102
  • Our father abraham: to rescue us from the hand of our enemies."
  • 00:20:54.102 --> 00:20:57.773
  • Look at verse 70, "and you, my child," he begins to prophesy
  • 00:20:57.773 --> 00:21:01.777
  • About this infant.
  • 00:21:01.777 --> 00:21:03.679
  • This new dad.
  • 00:21:03.679 --> 00:21:06.915
  • "you'll be called a prophet of the most high.
  • 00:21:06.915 --> 00:21:08.850
  • You'll go on before the lord to prepare the way for him.
  • 00:21:08.850 --> 00:21:12.020
  • To give his people the knowledge of salvation through the
  • 00:21:12.020 --> 00:21:14.489
  • Forgiveness of their sins.
  • 00:21:14.489 --> 00:21:16.558
  • And because of the tender mercy of our god, by which the rising
  • 00:21:16.558 --> 00:21:19.528
  • Sun will come from heaven to shine on those living in
  • 00:21:19.528 --> 00:21:22.998
  • Darkness and in the shadow of death."
  • 00:21:22.998 --> 00:21:24.833
  • John's gonna live his whole life in the land of israel.
  • 00:21:24.833 --> 00:21:28.837
  • And directed by the spirit of god, zechariah describes it as
  • 00:21:28.837 --> 00:21:31.940
  • People living in darkness in the shadow of death.
  • 00:21:31.940 --> 00:21:36.745
  • It's a breakthrough.
  • 00:21:36.745 --> 00:21:38.613
  • It's the announcement of a whole new move with the spirit of god.
  • 00:21:38.613 --> 00:21:42.084
  • The people listening don't grasp it.
  • 00:21:42.084 --> 00:21:44.753
  • John's a baby.
  • 00:21:44.753 --> 00:21:46.088
  • We're decades away from that being lived out.
  • 00:21:46.088 --> 00:21:49.925
  • But god has given to zechariah an awareness, an insight,
  • 00:21:49.925 --> 00:21:52.961
  • An understanding.
  • 00:21:52.961 --> 00:21:54.296
  • Again, it's these breakthroughs and the spirit of god.
  • 00:21:54.296 --> 00:21:56.965
  • We've been way too resistant to the holy spirit.
  • 00:21:56.965 --> 00:22:00.001
  • We start too many conversations by saying what we won't do.
  • 00:22:00.001 --> 00:22:04.306
  • Please don't do that.
  • 00:22:04.306 --> 00:22:07.743
  • There's a supernatural component to these breakthroughs.
  • 00:22:07.743 --> 00:22:10.245
  • In this case it's an angelic announcement.
  • 00:22:10.245 --> 00:22:12.414
  • It's an assistance beyond themselves.
  • 00:22:12.414 --> 00:22:15.684
  • It requires humility to say we have a problem.
  • 00:22:15.684 --> 00:22:21.857
  • Well, elizabeth and zechariah both have been filled with
  • 00:22:21.857 --> 00:22:24.326
  • The spirit.
  • 00:22:24.326 --> 00:22:26.695
  • An awareness of god's agenda beyond their
  • 00:22:26.695 --> 00:22:29.064
  • Personal aspirations.
  • 00:22:29.064 --> 00:22:31.933
  • See, breakthroughs bring god's plan forward more than our own.
  • 00:22:31.933 --> 00:22:38.306
  • If we really tell the truth, it's not so much that we want
  • 00:22:38.306 --> 00:22:40.442
  • God's purposes to get ramped up, we want ours.
  • 00:22:40.442 --> 00:22:44.546
  • And when god brings a breakthrough, yes, we receive a
  • 00:22:44.546 --> 00:22:48.583
  • Benefit, but the purposes of god are extended.
  • 00:22:48.583 --> 00:22:54.322
  • John's birth clearly is about god's purposes more than it's a
  • 00:22:54.322 --> 00:22:59.861
  • Token of satisfaction for elizabeth and zechariah.
  • 00:22:59.861 --> 00:23:04.666
  • He didn't say we're gonna have the best nursery.
  • 00:23:04.666 --> 00:23:07.803
  • You'll be the best student in the school.
  • 00:23:07.803 --> 00:23:10.772
  • You'll be an overachiever on the athletic teams.
  • 00:23:10.772 --> 00:23:15.310
  • He said this child has been born for the purposes of god.
  • 00:23:15.310 --> 00:23:18.947
  • Church, we are so far away from this.
  • 00:23:18.947 --> 00:23:24.686
  • We can at least begin to pray, god, let us see our children as
  • 00:23:24.686 --> 00:23:27.489
  • Expressions of your grace in our world,
  • 00:23:27.489 --> 00:23:32.360
  • That you've given them to us for a purpose for your kingdom.
  • 00:23:32.360 --> 00:23:39.034
  • Breakthroughs bringing god's plans forward.
  • 00:23:39.034 --> 00:23:41.670
  • A new name begins with a willingness to bear the name
  • 00:23:41.670 --> 00:23:44.606
  • Of jesus.
  • 00:23:44.606 --> 00:23:46.842
  • There's no fresh start just so you can pursue your own way with
  • 00:23:46.842 --> 00:23:49.711
  • A new vigor.
  • 00:23:49.711 --> 00:23:51.279
  • You don't get a new name just so you get another run at the hill
  • 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:53.415
  • To do it your way.
  • 00:23:53.415 --> 00:23:55.217
  • You get a new name so you can pursue the purposes of god.
  • 00:23:55.217 --> 00:23:58.353
  • It's a new beginning to dare greatly for the kingdom of god.
  • 00:23:58.353 --> 00:24:01.656
  • It's a new beginning to stand firmly for what you know to
  • 00:24:01.656 --> 00:24:03.959
  • Be righteous.
  • 00:24:03.959 --> 00:24:05.694
  • It's a new beginning to enter the next phase of faithfulness.
  • 00:24:05.694 --> 00:24:12.834
  • Moses had a breakthrough at a burning bush.
  • 00:24:12.834 --> 00:24:15.637
  • He got sent back to the palace.
  • 00:24:15.637 --> 00:24:17.439
  • Ugh.
  • 00:24:17.439 --> 00:24:19.040
  • But he had another breakthrough.
  • 00:24:19.040 --> 00:24:20.375
  • He got released from egypt.
  • 00:24:20.375 --> 00:24:24.713
  • Then he went back to the desert, this time with a
  • 00:24:24.713 --> 00:24:26.648
  • Million friends.
  • 00:24:26.648 --> 00:24:28.550
  • It's a new beginning this time in god's strength.
  • 00:24:28.550 --> 00:24:30.852
  • It's a new beginning, a new authority in place over
  • 00:24:30.852 --> 00:24:33.922
  • Your life.
  • 00:24:33.922 --> 00:24:35.257
  • It's a new beginning with a new awareness of god's
  • 00:24:35.257 --> 00:24:36.658
  • Abiding presence.
  • 00:24:36.658 --> 00:24:38.059
  • It's a new beginning filled with gratitude that you have been
  • 00:24:38.059 --> 00:24:40.929
  • Included and accepted in the unfolding purposes of god.
  • 00:24:40.929 --> 00:24:44.266
  • Would you like a new name?
  • 00:24:44.266 --> 00:24:47.102
  • New wine, change.
  • 00:24:47.102 --> 00:24:51.706
  • You pour the new wine in the old wine skin, everything will
  • 00:24:51.706 --> 00:24:54.776
  • Be lost.
  • 00:24:54.776 --> 00:24:57.245
  • A new name. i brought you a prayer.
  • 00:24:57.245 --> 00:24:59.781
  • It's a familiar prayer, but it's a powerful prayer.
  • 00:24:59.781 --> 00:25:04.519
  • Jesus taught us to pray this prayer.
  • 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:07.756
  • I want you to stand with me.
  • 00:25:07.756 --> 00:25:09.124
  • We're gonna read it together.
  • 00:25:09.124 --> 00:25:10.458
  • Some of you will know it by heart.
  • 00:25:10.458 --> 00:25:12.894
  • What we wanna do is give consent.
  • 00:25:12.894 --> 00:25:15.497
  • We wanna give personal consent for the will of god to be
  • 00:25:15.497 --> 00:25:19.701
  • Expressed through us in this world.
  • 00:25:19.701 --> 00:25:24.272
  • We wanna be more concerned about the kingdom of god than our
  • 00:25:24.272 --> 00:25:26.908
  • Own kingdom.
  • 00:25:26.908 --> 00:25:29.711
  • We wanna ask for god's help in delivering us from evil.
  • 00:25:29.711 --> 00:25:35.517
  • We're gonna ask god's help that we could overcome temptation.
  • 00:25:35.517 --> 00:25:40.922
  • 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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