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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Breakthroughs Declined (Part 1) | January 21, 2025
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- Allen jackson: we've been working through a study on
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- Breakthroughs, those points where god intervenes in
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- Our lives.
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- Outcomes that can only be explained by god's
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- Participation, when there's a-- you arrive at a place in your
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- Life and there's really no imagined outcome that's
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- Acceptable, without god's intervention.
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- What you need is a breakthrough.
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- And we've tried to understand that a little better because i
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- Don't think they're random.
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- I don't think they are just arbitrary.
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- I think we can actually make choices that will facilitate
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- Those moments in our journey.
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- As i worked through the study, and did my preparation, i
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- Learned something really unexpectedly, to be honest.
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- That, in scripture, there are more breakthroughs that are
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- Refused than were accepted.
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- The list of people, it seemed to me who were presented with
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- Opportunities for that--those breakthroughs, for those
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- Interventions from god, and declined them, actually exceeded
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- The people that accepted them.
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- And i wasn't prepared for that to be something that i learned,
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- As i did my work.
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- So i want to do a session or two on those breakthroughs that
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- Are declined.
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- It may seem irrational, or illogical, but as i reflected on
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- My own journey, i could see there were places where i've
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- Cooperated with the lord and there are times where i've
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- Chosen not to.
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- And it's not always between moral and immoral, or godly and
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- Ungodly, or good and evil, sometimes there's a sense that
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- God puts something in front of you and you're just like, "no,
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- I'm busy."
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- Or, "i don't really wanna do the work."
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- Or, "i don't wanna practice generosity, there."
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- Then i take a pass and, in the moment, i wasn't conscious that
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- I was actually declining an invitation from god that would
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- Have led to something of greater significance, but in hindsight,
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- It became pretty evident to me i have done that, more than once.
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- I can point to places where i've said "yes" to the lord, but i
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- Think the candor to recognize both is very, very important.
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- And at this season of my life, i'm determined, with the help of
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- God, not to decline any of those invitations.
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- I don't wanna leave any of those things unaccepted.
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- Too important, too important.
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- So my goal, in this session, is to help us understand a little
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- Bit about those breakthroughs that have been declined, so that
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- We don't do that.
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- And i'll start with a line from a song i bet you learned as a
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- Child, i did.
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- "jesus loves me, this i know," you know that little chorus?
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- You know, i find that i still will hum that or, if i sing,
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- It's usually because i'm on the tractor.
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- I've got this old, raggedy diesel tractor that makes enough
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- Noise to wake people.
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- And on that tractor, i feel confident singing.
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- Because you've got to be within five or six yards to hear above
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- The rattle of the engine, and i feel protected.
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- And i'll find myself singing that little chorus, "jesus loves
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- Me, this i know, for the bible tells me so.
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- Little ones, to him, belong."
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- There's comfort in that to me, even at this point in my life.
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- And i would have to say to you, i think that's been a
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- Predominant message of american evangelicalism, for decades.
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- "jesus loves you!
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- Jesus loves you.
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- Did you know jesus loves you?"
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- And you know, it's true he does love you, that's
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- Absolutely true.
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- But the fact that jesus loves you is not sufficient to ensure
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- Your participation in his kingdom, spoiler alert.
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- Hell will be filled with people that jesus loved.
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- Now, that message we don't talk about as much.
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- Breakthroughs that are declined.
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- You see, i'm far more aware of this, having spent a few weeks,
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- And even months, with the topic.
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- So i want to start with a pretty familiar narrative, it's in mark
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- Chapter 10, it's repeated in multiple gospels.
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- It's this young man, a wealthy young man, a man with authority,
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- A godly young man approaches jesus.
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- "as jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and he fell on
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- His knees before him."
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- So there's a--at the very introduction to this narrative,
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- Before you know anything else, this young man is kneeling at
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- The feet of jesus, in public.
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- When was the last time you knelt at somebody's--before somebody,
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- In public?
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- Been a day or two, it didn't mean something different in the
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- First century than it does, now.
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- It's an expression of yielding, it's an expression of honor, all
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- Sorts of things.
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- "'good teacher,' he asked, 'what must i do to inherit
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- Eternal life?'
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- Jesus answered, 'why do you call me good?
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- No one is good--except god alone.
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- You know the commandments: "don't murder, don't commit
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- Adultery, don't steal, don't give false testimony, don't
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- Defraud, honor your father and mother,"'" he's listing the big
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- Ten, you know, the ones we've kind of put away.
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- "and he declared, 'teacher, all these i have kept since i was
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- A boy.'"
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- Wow, imagine having a one-on-one with jesus and saying, "i've
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- Kept all the rules."
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- Jesus was more polite than i am, he didn't snicker.
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- But mark, it gives us an insight.
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- In verse 21, it says, "jesus looked at him and he loved him."
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- There's a little chorus, "jesus loves me, this i know."
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- He loves this man, he tells us that.
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- So he's gonna give him an invitation.
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- He said, "there's one thing you lack, go and sell everything you
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- Have and give to the poor, and you'll have treasure in heaven.
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- Then come follow me," there it is.
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- "come follow me," it's what he said to peter, it's what he said
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- To james, it's what he said to john.
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- Their lives were changed.
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- They walked away from businesses, families, friends,
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- Routines, habits, their whole lives got disrupted.
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- "come follow me," he said, and they said, "okay."
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- He says the same thing to this young man, godly young man, a
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- Man yielded to the authority of jesus, he's inquiring.
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- "the man's face fell.
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- He went away sad, he had great wealth.
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- Jesus looked around to his said to his disciples, 'how hard it
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- Is for the rich to enter the kingdom of god!'"
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- Then this next phrase intrigues me, it's verse 24, says, "the
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- Disciples were amazed at his words."
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- They weren't prepared for this.
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- I know this feeling a little bit, you know, if you engage in
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- Serving the lord, and trying to establish ministry, and the
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- Disciples have done that, they want to see jesus's ministry
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- Expand, his influence to grow.
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- I'm certain that's a part of the nature of this relationship that
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- They've engaged in.
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- It feels somewhat similar to the world i've spent my adult life
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- In, and there are times you meet people and you think, "if that
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- Person would get on board with this, they'd use
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- Their influence.
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- If everybody else saw that person raise their hand and go,
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- 'i'm for this, it would make the lift easier.'"
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- And when this young man came up, with his authority, with his
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- Influence, with his resources, you can almost see the disciples
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- Going, "yes!"
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- And the young man walks away.
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- And jesus said, "it's really difficult for him," and "the
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- Disciples are amazed at his words.
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- But jesus said again, 'how hard it is to enter the kingdom
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- Of god!'"
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- "how hard it is to enter the kingdom of god."
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- Wait a minute, that's not in the little chorus, "jesus loves
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- Me--" "how hard it is to enter the kingdom of god."
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- We haven't talked about that, folks.
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- I've been in thousands, and thousands of church services.
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- I've heard more sermons than you have, and you've suffered!
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- And we don't hear very many messages where people say, "you
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- Know, it's really not easy."
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- Jesus said to his closest friends, "it's hard to enter the
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- Kingdom of god."
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- He's not finished, "'it's easier for a camel to go through the
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- Eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom
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- Of god.'
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- The disciples were even more amazed."
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- In verse 24, they were amazed, but in verse 26, mark adds in
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- Here, so there's an emphasis, they're even more amazed!
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- And they said, "well, then who can be saved?"
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- And "jesus looked at them and said, 'with man it's impossible,
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- But not with god; all things are possible with god.'
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- And peter said, 'we've left everything to follow you!'"
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- You got a peter just blah.
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- And jesus replied, "i tell you the truth," and you know by now
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- When you see that phrase, he's about to drop something
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- Completely unexpected.
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- "i tell you the truth, no one who has left home or brothers or
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- Sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me or the
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- Gospel will fail to receive 100 times as much in this
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- Present age.
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- Homes and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and
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- Fields- and with them, persecutions.
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- And in the age to come, eternal life.
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- The many who were first will be last, and the last will
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- Be first."
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- That's a fascinating passage.
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- We could spend a lot of time here, more than i'm going
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- To, today.
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- Jesus said one of the things that will come with all the
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- Blessings are persecutions.
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- We are living in a season where there has been a tremendous
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- Initiative demonstrated on behalf of people of faith and
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- Organized religion to avoid any kind of persecution.
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- We've hidden from the truth.
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- We don't want to talk about the truth.
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- We prefer our favorite passages.
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- We try to be embraced by the culture.
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- We want to be loved by the culture.
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- We want to be applauded by the culture, folks.
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- Holding out the truth will not always bring applause.
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- You don't have to be intentionally obnoxious, we do
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- That well enough without trying.
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- But we have to be willing to tell the truth.
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- I want to make an observation from this passage, because it's
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- About a very remarkable young man, a man with tremendous
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- Potential, a godly young man, a young man interested in serving
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- The lord, a man of great resources, a man that jesus
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- Loved, specifically.
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- Who's given a personal invitation, and yet, he declines
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- The breakthrough.
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- He takes a pass, it's not convenient.
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- And the observation, it seems so simple, but it needs to be
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- Noted: not all who reject breakthroughs are wicked
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- And ungodly.
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- See, i think we've imagined that the categories are "good people
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- Say yes to the lord" and "wicked people say no to the lord," and
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- It's that neat and clean.
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- And we point to these biblical characters, "pharaoh, he refused
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- To cooperate with god."
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- Yeah, he did.
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- Think how different egypt would have been if pharaoh had said to
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- Moses, on their first visit, "you're right, we've mistreated
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- The hebrew people.
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- We will not only release you, we'll give you all the
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- Provisions you need to make it to whatever destination you feel
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- Led to."
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- Imagine the difference that would have met in egypt.
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- Imagine if pontius pilate, the roman governor, when he had that
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- Private audience with jesus, and said, "listen, i'm a political
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- Animal myself, and i see the political jealousy that's being
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- Directed at you, and i'm gonna stand up on your behalf."
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- Imagine the different future pilate could have had, but we
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- Know pilate chose to crucify jesus, and pharaoh chose to
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- Persecute the hebrew slaves, and they both suffered greatly for
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- It and we put them in the "villains" category.
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- But not everybody that rejects, or declines, these
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- Breakthroughs, in scripture, in fact, the majority of the people
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- Aren't villains.
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- They're the covenant people of god, standing on the jordan
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- River, looking into the promised land going, "no, thank you."
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- And in this particular case, in mark's gospel, it's this rich
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- Young ruler.
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- Not everybody who rejects breakthroughs are wicked
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- And ungodly.
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- We have to recalibrate, folks.
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- We've got to stop telling our god stories in terms of what we
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- Have done, and pointing at our conversion date, and our baptism
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- Date, and the bible studies we led, and the times we
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- Volunteered, and the dollars that we have given.
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- I'm appreciate all of those things, they're a part of my own
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- Journey, as well.
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- But what's relevant for me today is, "am i gonna say 'yes' to
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- The lord?"
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- "well, pastor, what are you suggesting, that we earn
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- Our way?"
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- No, i'm not talking about earning your way to anything,
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- I'm talking about saying "yes" to the lord.
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- I don't know the ultimate outcome of this young man.
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- He steps completely out of the narrative, we don't see
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- Him again.
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- He may have ended up in the crowds, he may have been a
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- Supporter of jesus, i don't know.
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- I know he didn't follow him, i know he didn't make it to the
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- Inner circle.
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- He missed his breakthrough.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Female announcer: if you look, you'll find good
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- Female announcer: philippians 4 tells us to "think about
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- Excellent, 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 want to 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
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- A bit more intention than perhaps has been our pattern in
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- The past.
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- We want to 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 it's something you could include the
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- Wherever that may be.
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- Let's start our year out purposefully, intentionally,
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- Saying "thank you" to the lord for his goodness to us.
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- I know there's challenges, and we have places where we need
- 00:14:37.458 --> 00:14:39.861
- God's help, but we're gonna begin with gratitude, and walk
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- Into the blessings of god, in this year.
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- I think you'll enjoy the journal, god bless.
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- Allen: there's some things you'll need, there's some things
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- That'll have to be in place, to be prepared to accept
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- The breakthrough.
- 00:16:08.082 --> 00:16:09.417
- I can't spend much time on them, but i can tag them for you.
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- As i have walked through this list, one of them is you'll have
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- To have the will to bear discomfort.
- 00:16:14.422 --> 00:16:17.125
- It's not always gonna be easy.
- 00:16:17.125 --> 00:16:18.459
- This young man missed it because it wasn't comfortable
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- Or convenient.
- 00:16:20.194 --> 00:16:22.397
- And we are way too committed to comfort and convenience, in the
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- Context of our faith.
- 00:16:26.134 --> 00:16:28.336
- I can't tell you, you may know, how bent out of shape we get if
- 00:16:28.336 --> 00:16:31.973
- We can't park where we want, or sit where we want.
- 00:16:31.973 --> 00:16:33.875
- We're building more parking, i love you, it's okay!
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- But we've got to be honest, folks, we have somehow distilled
- 00:16:41.716 --> 00:16:44.786
- Our faith, it should be easy.
- 00:16:44.786 --> 00:16:48.289
- It should be well-organized, and orchestrated, and i'm for all
- 00:16:48.289 --> 00:16:51.726
- Those things, i love a plan, when it works.
- 00:16:51.726 --> 00:16:54.962
- But we don't serve god, based on comfort and convenience.
- 00:16:54.962 --> 00:16:58.032
- We're gonna have to be willing to bear discomfort.
- 00:16:58.032 --> 00:16:59.867
- That means you'll have to deconstruct disappointments.
- 00:16:59.867 --> 00:17:02.303
- Things won't go the way you like and you can't withdraw.
- 00:17:02.303 --> 00:17:05.206
- Things will happen in your life that god could have prevented,
- 00:17:05.206 --> 00:17:07.809
- Or caused a different outcome to be, and he won't, and some of
- 00:17:07.809 --> 00:17:11.012
- You will be tempted to say, "i'm so disappointed, i quit."
- 00:17:11.012 --> 00:17:17.351
- Please don't do that.
- 00:17:17.351 --> 00:17:21.622
- Serving the lord, joining his kingdom, being a part of what
- 00:17:21.622 --> 00:17:24.292
- God is doing in the earth, doesn't mean it's always easy.
- 00:17:24.292 --> 00:17:27.495
- None of our heroes had it always easy.
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- None of them, jesus didn't.
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- You'll have to deconstruct those disappointments.
- 00:17:36.304 --> 00:17:38.573
- You'll have to empty yourself of your entitlement.
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- Folks, that's a pandemic that makes covid look like a
- 00:17:43.111 --> 00:17:46.447
- Starter set.
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- We are entitled.
- 00:17:48.683 --> 00:17:52.086
- "well i just think i deserve--" and out rolls the list.
- 00:17:52.086 --> 00:17:58.426
- And it's amazing, if we've never been here before, "i deserved
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- Better treatment.
- 00:18:00.795 --> 00:18:02.163
- I was a guest and they should have known."
- 00:18:02.163 --> 00:18:04.132
- If you've been here for 80 years, "well, i've been there
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- For 80 years!"
- 00:18:06.067 --> 00:18:08.102
- It doesn't matter, we just feel entitled.
- 00:18:08.102 --> 00:18:11.239
- And it's not just in church, we just feel entitled.
- 00:18:11.239 --> 00:18:15.810
- You're gonna have to lay that down.
- 00:18:15.810 --> 00:18:18.379
- You're not special, i'm not special.
- 00:18:18.379 --> 00:18:28.022
- "well, we're children of the king!"
- 00:18:28.022 --> 00:18:29.357
- Yes, you are, but you didn't deserve it, you didn't earn it,
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- It was a gift.
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- You didn't qualify for it.
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- If it was merit-based, you wouldn't be in the family.
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- We've been pumping this message out, through pulpits, for way
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- Too long.
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- Folks, you are not entitled.
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- I don't want what i deserve.
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- I'm not pounding the gavel, demanding justice.
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- I'm going to get in the "mercy" line.
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- There's something else you need, if you're gonna be able to
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- Cooperate with the breakthroughs, and that's a
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- Disciplined life.
- 00:19:15.002 --> 00:19:17.872
- You can't be a disciple without discipline, that's not
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- Rocket science.
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- I know you understand, but it means there's a leaving behind.
- 00:19:21.375 --> 00:19:23.778
- This young man had some things he would have had to
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- Left behind.
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- There's a separation that comes.
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- You will not find god's best, unless you're willing to leave
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- Behind some things.
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- Not everybody will go that way.
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- You hear all kinds of expressions about this, you
- 00:19:37.191 --> 00:19:38.993
- Know, in sports, you hear it in business, you hear it, you know,
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- If you're gonna succeed or you're gonna do something that's
- 00:19:42.063 --> 00:19:44.599
- Not just normal, well in in pursuing the lord, if you're
- 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:49.503
- Looking for the minimal daily requirement, "what's the least i
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- Can do and still just get in?"
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- Please begin by recognizing how offensive that is.
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- Imagine a proposal of marriage, on those terms.
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- "would you marry me?
- 00:20:05.953 --> 00:20:08.589
- Before you say 'yes,' i have a follow up question: would you be
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- Willing to tell me, what's the very least you would expect
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- Of me?
- 00:20:16.697 --> 00:20:18.432
- How often do i have to come home at night?
- 00:20:18.432 --> 00:20:22.570
- How do you define 'faithfulness?'
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- Is taking out the trash, like, a make-or-break thing?
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- How truthful do i have--"
- 00:20:34.181 --> 00:20:35.516
- Can you imagine, i mean, it's kind of an offensive, right?
- 00:20:35.516 --> 00:20:38.052
- If one of your children said they had proposed to someone and
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- That was the response, i think you would say, "run!"
- 00:20:40.254 --> 00:20:45.860
- And yet, we kind of approach god that way.
- 00:20:45.860 --> 00:20:49.430
- "what's the very least i could do and still get, like, in
- 00:20:49.430 --> 00:20:52.566
- The door?
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- I don't wanna be, like, an overachiever.
- 00:20:54.702 --> 00:20:56.404
- I don't wanna be, like, a hyper-christian."
- 00:20:56.404 --> 00:20:58.372
- Well we've got them, in our head.
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- There's a leaving behind, there's some separation that has
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- To come.
- 00:21:07.381 --> 00:21:08.716
- It's a disciplined life.
- 00:21:08.716 --> 00:21:10.851
- The kingdom of god, jesus said, "it's difficult to enter."
- 00:21:10.851 --> 00:21:13.487
- You gotta live with that a little bit.
- 00:21:13.487 --> 00:21:15.756
- "i didn't expect it to be difficult."
- 00:21:15.756 --> 00:21:17.124
- You're not reading!
- 00:21:17.124 --> 00:21:20.094
- It's just not easy.
- 00:21:20.094 --> 00:21:22.797
- This time of year, all of us want to lose five pounds.
- 00:21:22.797 --> 00:21:27.501
- If you don't want to lose five pounds, we don't like you.
- 00:21:27.501 --> 00:21:32.640
- "jesus loves you," i'll sing you the little chorus, but we don't
- 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:35.409
- Like you.
- 00:21:35.409 --> 00:21:38.379
- But it's not really, like, a mystery, we should eat less and
- 00:21:38.379 --> 00:21:41.015
- Move more.
- 00:21:41.015 --> 00:21:42.750
- But i'm watching late-night tv, looking for a cream i can rub on
- 00:21:42.750 --> 00:21:45.953
- My belly, right?
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- And i will pay $19.99 plus shipping and handling.
- 00:21:51.258 --> 00:21:56.330
- I'm looking for my phone, i'm dialing that number,
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- They have got me.
- 00:21:59.066 --> 00:22:04.405
- And we do that with our faith, it's difficult stuff, and yet,
- 00:22:04.405 --> 00:22:08.542
- Jesus said, "all things are possible with god."
- 00:22:08.542 --> 00:22:11.645
- And all of my brokenness, and all of my inconsistencies, and
- 00:22:11.645 --> 00:22:14.548
- All of the things that i'm not, nothing is impossible
- 00:22:14.548 --> 00:22:17.418
- Without god.
- 00:22:17.418 --> 00:22:18.786
- Even, god could help me even lead a disciplined life.
- 00:22:18.786 --> 00:22:22.923
- And then i think, if we're gonna have these breakthroughs, it's
- 00:22:22.923 --> 00:22:24.925
- About seedtime and harvest.
- 00:22:24.925 --> 00:22:28.095
- I don't like this part.
- 00:22:28.095 --> 00:22:29.964
- I've confessed before you, before, i could be impatient.
- 00:22:29.964 --> 00:22:33.768
- Microwaves seem really slow to me.
- 00:22:33.768 --> 00:22:35.403
- We invented the microwave 50-years-ago.
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- Could we not have improved by now?
- 00:22:37.071 --> 00:22:40.141
- What's beyond the microwave?
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- What's faster than a microwave?
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- Why does it take a minute and a half for it to boil a cup
- 00:22:42.843 --> 00:22:46.013
- Of coffee?
- 00:22:46.013 --> 00:22:47.882
- Can't we do that in 10 seconds?
- 00:22:47.882 --> 00:22:49.216
- What are we doing?
- 00:22:49.216 --> 00:22:50.584
- Come on!
- 00:22:50.584 --> 00:22:53.020
- And there's something in genesis, god said that as long
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- As the earth endures, seedtime and harvest.
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- Now, i had the privilege of growing up in a bit of a rural
- 00:22:59.360 --> 00:23:01.996
- Setting, murfreesboro used to be different.
- 00:23:01.996 --> 00:23:06.000
- And so, i got to plant some things, and you know, you can't
- 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:10.971
- Hurry that.
- 00:23:10.971 --> 00:23:12.339
- I love summertime vegetables, in tennessee, but it's just hard to
- 00:23:12.339 --> 00:23:17.244
- Get good tennessee tomatoes, much before july 4th, because
- 00:23:17.244 --> 00:23:21.782
- If you plant them in february, they're gonna freeze.
- 00:23:21.782 --> 00:23:25.119
- And you gotta wait until you're not gonna have any more frost,
- 00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:27.455
- And maybe you'll get it right one year, so you plant every
- 00:23:27.455 --> 00:23:29.590
- February if you want, but you're gonna lose more tomatoes than
- 00:23:29.590 --> 00:23:31.826
- You grow.
- 00:23:31.826 --> 00:23:34.028
- Seedtime and harvest, and if you're trying to grow oak trees,
- 00:23:34.028 --> 00:23:36.363
- That's a whole different discussion.
- 00:23:36.363 --> 00:23:39.633
- I like trees, i love big, beautiful trees.
- 00:23:39.633 --> 00:23:42.503
- They're amazing to me, they're expressions of the power of god,
- 00:23:42.503 --> 00:23:45.239
- And i just like trees, but, oak trees.
- 00:23:45.239 --> 00:23:50.611
- Seedtime and harvest.
- 00:23:54.148 --> 00:23:56.083
- Jesus used the imagery.
- 00:23:56.083 --> 00:23:57.585
- He said, "you'll receive 100 times as much."
- 00:23:57.585 --> 00:24:00.588
- "as much as what?"
- 00:24:00.588 --> 00:24:01.922
- As much as you sacrifice, as much as you plant.
- 00:24:01.922 --> 00:24:05.226
- Oh, and he said, "and there'll be persecutions."
- 00:24:05.226 --> 00:24:08.996
- Seedtime and harvest means there's sacrifice.
- 00:24:08.996 --> 00:24:11.131
- You have to acquire the land, you have to prepare the land,
- 00:24:11.131 --> 00:24:14.568
- It's hard work.
- 00:24:14.568 --> 00:24:15.903
- Planting and cultivation is just hard work.
- 00:24:15.903 --> 00:24:18.639
- We have become a society that avoids work.
- 00:24:18.639 --> 00:24:20.708
- We don't wanna work.
- 00:24:20.708 --> 00:24:22.710
- We want to recreate, we wanna play, we want to pursue our
- 00:24:22.710 --> 00:24:25.646
- Dreams and passions.
- 00:24:25.646 --> 00:24:26.981
- Folks, all the best things in life are on the other side
- 00:24:26.981 --> 00:24:29.149
- Of "difficult."
- 00:24:29.149 --> 00:24:31.785
- And that's true in the kingdom of god, too.
- 00:24:31.785 --> 00:24:34.855
- And we've got this easy believism.
- 00:24:34.855 --> 00:24:36.991
- Bonhoeffer called it, "men without chests, sloppy grace."
- 00:24:36.991 --> 00:24:42.796
- I believe in the grace and the mercy of god, i'm the poster
- 00:24:42.796 --> 00:24:45.432
- Child for those things, but i intend to be caught giving god
- 00:24:45.432 --> 00:24:48.602
- My best, and i would invite you to a similar path.
- 00:24:48.602 --> 00:24:52.473
- He deserves nothing less than that.
- 00:24:52.473 --> 00:24:55.276
- He gave us his best, so let's decide
- 00:24:55.276 --> 00:24:59.780
- We're gonna do difficult.
- 00:24:59.780 --> 00:25:02.116
- That we don't want to leave any breakthroughs unexplored.
- 00:25:02.116 --> 00:25:05.653
- We are the beneficiaries of the grace of god.
- 00:25:05.653 --> 00:25:07.922
- I wanna look at one more narrative, and i'll do it
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- Quickly because i'm rattling on.
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- But you can't separate the grace of god.
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- The grace is undeserved blessing, unearned merit.
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- Things that come to you that have nothing to do with merit.
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- If you earned it, it isn't grace.
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- And we are creatures of grace, we stand in the grace of god.
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- Having said that, if we're going to live out the benefits of
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- Breakthroughs, it requires a response of us, and we reject
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- More than we accept.
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- We decline more breakthroughs, typically, than we accept.
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- In john chapter 9, we are introduced to a man who's
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- Born blind.
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- And jesus extends to him, an opportunity for healing.
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- It's uninvited, the man doesn't ask.
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- This isn't bartimaeus that screams loudly enough, "have
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- Mercy on me!"
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- This man says nothing, he doesn't ask jesus.
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- The disciples draw jesus's attention to him.
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- And jesus, it seems, at first glance, almost makes a mockery
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- Of him.
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- He smears mud on his face.
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- And then he tells him to go wash in the pool of siloam.
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- Siloam's at the lowest point in the city of jerusalem.
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- Jerusalem is a city built on hills, and siloam is the water
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- Source at the lowest point in the city.
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- And so jesus is sending a blind man, that he's just smeared mud
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- On his face, on a journey through a very crowded city.
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- Without explanation, he just says, "go and wash."
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- And in the understatement of scripture, it says, "the man
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- Went and washed and he came home seeing."
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- Allen: i wanna pray with you before we go that god will give
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- Us a revelation of himself, beyond church, beyond
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- Just information.
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- A revelation, something beyond study, to help us understand who
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- God is, and his love for us, let's pray.
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- Father, i pray that you would give us a spirit of wisdom and
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- Revelation, that we might know you better.
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- Far beyond sermons, or church, or bible studies, or small
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- Groups, by the spirit of god, give us an understanding of your
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- Majesty and your power, in jesus's name, amen.
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- God bless you.
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- ♪♪♪
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