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Allen Jackson - Breakthroughs Rejected (Part 1)

May 27, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Breakthroughs Rejected (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Breakthroughs Rejected (Part 1) | May 27, 2026
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  • Allen: we've been doing a series on breakthroughs.
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  • I've done several sessions prior to christmas around these ideas
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  • Of breakthroughs and how to open our lives more fully to these
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  • Interventions of god, because i don't understand them to
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  • Be random.
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  • I believe they require participation to find their
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  • Full expression.
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  • Mary had to say "yes," joseph had to participate, and on and
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  • On the list goes.
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  • Moses had to agree to the recruitment session at the
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  • Burning bush.
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  • Well, as i walked through those preparations, it became
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  • Increasingly apparent to me that there are more instances in
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  • Scripture where breakthroughs are rejected than there are
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  • Instances where they've been accepted.
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  • And i don't intend to do as many sessions, but i wanted to do a
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  • Couple just to really try to raise awareness to the fact that
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  • You can choose to say "no" to the lord as certainly as you can
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  • Choose to say "yes."
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  • Although god is sovereign, and he can do what he wants, when he
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  • Wants, and the way he wants, and he needs no one's permission,
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  • He's created us with a free will, and he will respect your
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  • Will to the point that he'll allow you to step out into
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  • Eternity without participating in his eternal kingdom.
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  • That's not his desire.
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  • It's not his intent.
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  • In fact, he's made provision that no human being should have
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  • To, to do that, and in reality, he said the majority will
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  • Choose that.
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  • That's a very unsettling thought.
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  • And i wanna plant a seed.
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  • I really wanna ask you to spend some time reflecting on it,
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  • Allow the spirit of god to make it real to you.
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  • You wanna think consciously about the places where you are
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  • Purposefully, very intentionally saying "yes" to the lord, and i
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  • Would submit to you, you want that list to grow.
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  • You don't want to reflect upon it.
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  • You don't wanna--it's not like a history lesson.
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  • These are the places where i did say "yes" to the lord.
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  • You wanna be able to tell that narrative in the way these are
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  • The places where i am currently engaged with god, because those
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  • Are the places where breakthroughs emerge.
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  • Absent those, i believe you are forfeiting god's interventions.
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  • I want to unpack that in a little bit more.
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  • I wanna--i heard something on social media.
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  • A friend of mine actually made a post, and they were talking
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  • About people saying to them, "don't push your faith on me."
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  • They live in another state where--but it's bugged me.
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  • It stuck in my head for several days.
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  • You know, i find that as in the com--the community of faith,
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  • Sometimes we get captivated by perspectives that are very
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  • Ungodly, and we will concede to them.
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  • When people say, "don't push your faith on me," i'm--what,
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  • What resonates, what rolls out of me is, "you gotta be
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  • Kidding me!"
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  • We live in a culture where they take worldview and bang you over
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  • The head with it until you submit, and then if you have the
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  • Temerity to raise your hand and say, "jesus," somebody says,
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  • "well, you can't force that on me!"
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  • And i'm like, "i'm not trying to force anything on anybody except
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  • My right to give expression to what i believe."
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  • Almost every form of ungodliness, or perversion, or
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  • Wickedness has been endorsed and supported, promoted, and they'll
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  • Bring it into your home.
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  • And if you'll say, "you know, i--would you please be
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  • Respectful of my home and not do that here?"
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  • They say, "well, why are you pushing your faith on me?"
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  • And the push isn't coming from your advocacy for jesus.
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  • And just to help you get the equation dialed in from a
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  • Biblical vantage point, jesus gave us an assignment.
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  • He said, "go into all the world and preach the gospel to
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  • Every creature."
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  • Go into all the world, go find anybody who doesn't know and
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  • Tell them the story.
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  • Not everybody will accept it, not everybody will embrace it,
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  • But i'm not apologizing bein--for being an advocate for
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  • Jesus, and please don't feel that you should either.
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  • Not everyone will accept the message, not everyone you love
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  • Will accept the message.
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  • You can love them in spite of their reluctance to accept
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  • The message.
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  • I will respect your right to say "no," but i need you to
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  • Respect my right to say, "this is important to me," and that
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  • Has nothing to do with forcing our faith on anyone, and
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  • You--that needs to grow in your heart.
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  • We've been timid for too long, we've been bullied,
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  • We've cowered.
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  • In the corner, we've hidden in the shadows, we've been filled
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  • With cowardice.
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  • As you read the gospels over these next few weeks, you will
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  • Find jesus consistently pushing the truth in front of people.
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  • He was not timid.
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  • On multiple occasions, he made the disciples more than just a
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  • Little anxious.
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  • So, having said that, how do we understand the opportunities of
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  • Our lives?
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  • How do we understand the god opportunities?
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  • How do we unpack them?
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  • Well, i would submit to you that breakthroughs in our lives often
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  • Begin as invitations.
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  • God will present an invitation to us, and it doesn't usually
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  • Come wrapped in a neon package or container that says, "this is
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  • A supernatural breakthrough."
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  • In fact, it typically looks is like something rather
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  • Inauspicious, maybe even something insignificant, maybe
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  • Even looks a bit like an intrusion or a disruption.
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  • In fact, breakthroughs frequently are disruptive.
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  • They can be disruptive to your calendar, they can be disruptive
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  • To relationships, they can be disruptive to the plans you
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  • Have made.
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  • All of those things are consistent with the
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  • Biblical patterns.
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  • We've looked at many of those.
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  • So if there's something in your life right now that's a bit
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  • Disruptive, it's worth taking some time, both thoughtfully
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  • And prayerfully.
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  • Remember our little paradigm-- watch, listen, think--to take a
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  • Little time with those things that are disruptive and say, "is
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  • It possible that this was an invitation from god for
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  • A breakthrough?"
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  • "it couldn't be that, it's encroaching on my calendar!"
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  • "it's gonna cost money!"
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  • "it wasn't on my schedule."
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  • Has all the earmarks.
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  • There's a third component.
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  • Their breakthroughs are typically, at least as the way
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  • They're presented in scripture, they're frequently experienced
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  • Incrementally, bit by bit, step by step.
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  • They aren't usually presented in total.
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  • When you read them, you think, "oh, that was a total
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  • Presentation," but i would submit to you that the
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  • Invitation mary got from gabriel in nazareth with that first
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  • Announcement scenario, you know, "you're gonna have a child," was
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  • Not a complete--it was not the same understanding mary had
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  • Post resurrection.
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  • Would that be fair?
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  • Do you think that was kind of an incremental breakthrough in
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  • Mary's life?
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  • And i can take you to example.
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  • I promise, when moses got recruited on the backside of the
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  • Desert, he had no clue.
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  • He just thought he was going to lead a parade out of egypt.
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  • So they're incremental.
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  • What we have to be willing to do is say "yes" to that step that's
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  • In front of us, and it's not always fun.
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  • I think we're often unaware when we reject breakthroughs.
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  • You know, they come, they're steps of faith, they're--it's
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  • Obedience, it's cooperation.
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  • And we don't recognize it as saying no, we just feel, it's
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  • Like, it's kind of a bother, "i don't wanna do that.
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  • I'm okay, i'm good to go with the lord.
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  • I know him well enough.
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  • I feel pretty comfortable with my relationship.
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  • I don't wanna do that.
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  • I don't want to engage that way.
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  • I don't wanna make time for that.
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  • I don't wanna make a financial sacrifice in that.
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  • I don't wanna do that."
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  • And we don't--we're not processing it in terms of that
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  • Could be an invitation from the lord, so i wanna suggest to you
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  • That you begin to more purposefully learn to say "yes"
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  • To god's invitation.
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  • If we--if you get invited to do ministry around here, you sign a
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  • Commitment sheet for a period of time.
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  • It has a beginning point and an ending point.
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  • You're not signing up until jesus returns.
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  • 'cause years ago, we realized one of the awkward points of
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  • Volunteering is churches.
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  • You can't quit.
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  • You know, you have to have an angelic visit, "well, the lord
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  • Spoke to me and said i should be released from my--" that's
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  • Not good.
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  • You should be able to say, "i'm gonna do this for a year."
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  • And we should be able to say to you, "we don't want you to do
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  • That anymore."
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  • Both sides of that equation have to be in place!
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  • "now he's getting weird."
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  • Hebrews 13 and verse 2 says, "don't forget to entertain
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  • Strangers, for by doing so some people have entertained angels
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  • Without knowing it."
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  • If we put up a qr code and said, "if you'll submit your name,
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  • You could host an angel this week,"
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  • I bet most of you would have time.
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  • Some of you would wait and see how it worked, but the early
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  • Adopters, you'd be all in!
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  • But the admonition of scripture, the council of scripture is you
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  • Need to entertain people you don't know, people that you're
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  • Not really expecting a return on because, in so doing, you
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  • Will inadvertently, from time to time, entertain an angel.
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  • I think it'd be really unfortunate to make it all the
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  • Way into eternity and meet all the angels that were on your
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  • To-do list that you never made space for.
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  • I heard you were a good cook, never got that opportunity.
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  • I've tried to think about my own journey in times and places
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  • Where i think i was, for whatever reason, i was able to
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  • Say "yes" to an invitation, not understanding the fullness of it
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  • And the times when i've said "no," and i can think of
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  • Components on both sides of the equation.
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  • Years ago, my brother and i went to hebrew university.
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  • It was before the internet.
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  • It wasn't easy to get information.
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  • I had to do it in the old-fashioned way in a library
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  • With a card catalog and snail mail and, you know, you forget
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  • How much more difficult it was to secure information once upon
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  • A time.
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  • And with really limited information, we raised our hands
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  • And said, "yeah, we'll go study."
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  • And i knew very little about what i was going into, and it
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  • Wasn't always fun.
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  • We were required for more than two months to go to language
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  • School before we could even start classes at the university,
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  • Six days a week, eight hours a day, immersed in hebrew.
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  • And i've been to a lot--by that time, i'd been in a lot of
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  • University settings, and if they invite you to go to school, they
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  • Usually had a way to feed you.
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  • Well, they didn't open any of the food service at hebrew
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  • University until we were through language school, so they sent
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  • You to the grocery store to buy groceries, and i couldn't
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  • Read them.
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  • We bought dog food.
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  • It looked like ground beef.
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  • We had it in the skillet before an israeli friend walked in and
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  • Started laughing at us.
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  • Thank god the timing on it was good.
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  • But those--that season in israel has born fruit for all the years
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  • Since then.
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  • I really didn't understand it at the time that it was an
  • 00:13:22.284 --> 00:13:25.120
  • Invitation from the lord, didn't feel like a breakthrough to me,
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  • Felt expensive, and disruptive, and against the flow of what my
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  • Peer group was doing, and i mean, it just, it didn't have
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  • Earmarks of--you know, after the fact, it sounds really fun, and
  • 00:13:37.533 --> 00:13:40.569
  • People say, "i'd like to do that," but there's not like a
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  • Big line.
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  • It wasn't any safer to do it then than it is now.
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  • And then i think of the places where i missed it.
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  • Sometimes they seem more--in retrospect, i go, "how could you
  • 00:13:51.146 --> 00:13:53.282
  • Have missed that, knucklehead?"
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  • Allen: hey, "lessons from paul" is a 90-devotional.
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  • The goal is to be changed.
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  • We want to be transformed by the word of god and not just
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  • Informed by it.
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  • Saul of tarsus, a hero of mine-- i got to know him as the apostle
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  • Paul--an unrelenting advocate for jesus in the face of
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  • Unyielding persecution.
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  • Allen: a few years ago, it was before covid, but a few years
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  • Ago, a friend of mine, angus buchan, decided to have a prayer
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  • Event in south africa, and he only had like eight weeks
  • 00:15:16.532 --> 00:15:19.101
  • Lead time.
  • 00:15:19.101 --> 00:15:21.203
  • And the week he announced it, he called, and he said, "allen, i
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  • Want you to be there, i need you to be there, it's important."
  • 00:15:23.605 --> 00:15:31.180
  • "it's not a good time, angus, a lot going on at the church,
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  • And i'm busy, and south africa's, that's a ways.
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  • Not sure i can do that. let me work on that."
  • 00:15:41.557 --> 00:15:44.193
  • He said, "well, there's gonna be a crowd, allen."
  • 00:15:44.193 --> 00:15:46.895
  • "yeah, i know."
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  • And i didn't think we could--i just decided i couldn't make
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  • It work.
  • 00:15:51.667 --> 00:15:53.035
  • The calendar was too crowded and i couldn't.
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  • And i don't even remember why, but charlie
  • 00:15:54.370 --> 00:15:58.374
  • Daniels was here one weekend.
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  • Before he went to heaven, he was in church.
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  • But it wasn't typical for me to visit with charlie, and i just
  • 00:16:02.411 --> 00:16:05.414
  • Remember, we were backstage, and he said, "allen, are you going
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  • To see angus?"
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  • I don't know how he knew about it.
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  • I said, "no, sir, i don't think so."
  • 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:13.188
  • And he said, "allen, you're wrong, you should go."
  • 00:16:13.188 --> 00:16:17.393
  • And charlie didn't give me direction.
  • 00:16:17.393 --> 00:16:20.062
  • I mean, he wanted me to sing with him a lot on albums, but.
  • 00:16:20.062 --> 00:16:25.567
  • That's a lie.
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  • But i remember it really clearly.
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  • He stopped, and he looked at me, and he said, "allen, you won't
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  • Have an opportunity like that.
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  • You need to go."
  • 00:16:36.078 --> 00:16:39.782
  • He said, "you won't see a gathering of people like that
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  • Anywhere in the world.
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  • You need to be there."
  • 00:16:44.153 --> 00:16:48.824
  • And i didn't go.
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  • Oh, yeah, i know. it seems obvious now.
  • 00:16:51.660 --> 00:16:56.165
  • I mean, after the fact, yeah, there were four million people
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  • There, and they--i mean, i understand god did something
  • 00:16:58.700 --> 00:17:01.370
  • Remarkable and, but what i could see is i was busy, and it was
  • 00:17:01.370 --> 00:17:05.808
  • Expensive, and i missed it.
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  • It's more fun to tell the stories when you get it.
  • 00:17:14.883 --> 00:17:18.887
  • So i'm living with this these days, 'cause god's moving in the
  • 00:17:18.887 --> 00:17:21.356
  • Earth, and i don't wanna miss it.
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  • I don't wanna say "i'm born again," or "spirit-filled," or
  • 00:17:24.660 --> 00:17:28.530
  • "i read my bible," or "i've been here," or "done that," or
  • 00:17:28.530 --> 00:17:33.902
  • "experienced this," or all the junk we do to give ourselves a
  • 00:17:33.902 --> 00:17:38.273
  • Pass for these invitations to breakthroughs.
  • 00:17:38.273 --> 00:17:42.478
  • 'cause in my life, they typically feel like kind of
  • 00:17:42.478 --> 00:17:45.881
  • A nuisance.
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  • I mean, i'm alre--life's already had--anybody here, like, just
  • 00:17:49.318 --> 00:17:51.653
  • Bored to tears, can't think of anything to do?
  • 00:17:51.653 --> 00:17:55.290
  • Yeah, i didn't think so.
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  • So let's--we're gonna look at some people that don't get it
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  • Right and maybe it'll help us gain some momentum in
  • 00:18:00.195 --> 00:18:02.764
  • Saying "yes."
  • 00:18:02.764 --> 00:18:04.133
  • Acts chapter 13, that the church is just trying to get their legs
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  • Underneath them, the pressure in jerusalem has grown to the point
  • 00:18:08.904 --> 00:18:11.440
  • That they're beginning to spread a bit, saul of tarsus has been
  • 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:14.910
  • Recruited by the lord himself, jesus stepped back in time.
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  • How would that make you feel if you're part of that original
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  • Group that he recruited and spent three years training and
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  • Before you've gone very far, the pressure's grown, you're
  • 00:18:24.419 --> 00:18:28.157
  • Fragmenting a little bit, and jesus comes back and recruits
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  • A rabbi?
  • 00:18:32.694 --> 00:18:35.097
  • Jesus comes back and recruits a pharisee and says, "here's the
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  • Help you need."
  • 00:18:39.535 --> 00:18:40.869
  • "no, we're doing quite well, thank you."
  • 00:18:40.869 --> 00:18:43.405
  • They didn't want anything to do with saul of tarsus.
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  • He's an angry, violent, murderous--
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  • He's the opposition.
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  • Why did you have to recruit the opposition?
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  • It took an intermediary to get the--paul, and james, and john,
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  • And the crew in jerusalem to even let saul to the table.
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  • And now paul, saul, and barnabas are gonna, their first trip,
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  • Their first--they're turning the gospel outward, which is blowing
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  • The minds of the jewish community.
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  • When i was at hebrew university, one of my most engaging classes
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  • Was an orthodox, and he was--all the professors were jewish, but
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  • When i say orthodox, he kept the rules.
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  • There's as much diversity within the jewish community as there is
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  • Diversity within the christian community.
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  • You understand?
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  • Some christians have dress codes, and jewelry codes, and
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  • Beverage codes, and some christians don't even
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  • Acknowledge the authority of scripture or people that wear
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  • The label "christian," right?
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  • The diversity--same diversity in the jewish community.
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  • This faculty member was orthodox.
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  • He kept the rules, he wore his prayer shawl, he washed his
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  • Hands so frequently as a part of--that they were
  • 00:19:56.912 --> 00:19:59.114
  • Constantly chapped.
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  • He was brilliant, just a brilliant guy.
  • 00:20:01.016 --> 00:20:09.524
  • We could turn our papers in in eight different languages.
  • 00:20:09.524 --> 00:20:13.695
  • I chose english.
  • 00:20:13.695 --> 00:20:20.602
  • But he did two lectures on jesus, and i'll never
  • 00:20:20.602 --> 00:20:26.908
  • Forget it, 'cause he had the sharpest wit.
  • 00:20:26.908 --> 00:20:29.911
  • Nobody would say anything in class 'cause he would cut you to
  • 00:20:29.911 --> 00:20:31.913
  • Ribbons, he was good.
  • 00:20:31.913 --> 00:20:34.383
  • And when--the only time i ever saw him at a loss for words or
  • 00:20:34.383 --> 00:20:37.252
  • Awkward was when he talked about jesus.
  • 00:20:37.252 --> 00:20:40.822
  • And he said, "there's no question."
  • 00:20:40.822 --> 00:20:42.224
  • He said, "it's just absolutely clear in scripture that that
  • 00:20:42.224 --> 00:20:46.295
  • Early group of believers in jerusalem believed that jesus
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  • Had died on a cross and been raised to life again."
  • 00:20:49.531 --> 00:20:54.002
  • And i remember, he kinda hung his head for a moment, and he
  • 00:20:54.002 --> 00:20:55.904
  • Said, "if i believed that, i would be a christian too."
  • 00:20:55.904 --> 00:21:01.410
  • Well, that--jesus recruited an orthodox keeper of the rules.
  • 00:21:01.410 --> 00:21:08.884
  • And that professor one day said, he read in acts 1, where jesus
  • 00:21:08.884 --> 00:21:13.255
  • Said, "the holy spirit will empower you to be my witnesses
  • 00:21:13.255 --> 00:21:15.557
  • In jerusalem, judea, and samaria,
  • 00:21:15.557 --> 00:21:17.626
  • And to the ends of the earth."
  • 00:21:17.626 --> 00:21:19.261
  • Well, jerusalem's the city, judea is the region,
  • 00:21:19.261 --> 00:21:21.229
  • Samaria is the next region.
  • 00:21:21.229 --> 00:21:22.931
  • And he looked at the class, and he said, "i promise you, to that
  • 00:21:22.931 --> 00:21:26.902
  • Audience, they thought samaria was the end of the earth."
  • 00:21:26.902 --> 00:21:31.540
  • They didn't think the story was going past the mediterranean--
  • 00:21:31.540 --> 00:21:34.943
  • The edge of the mediterranean.
  • 00:21:34.943 --> 00:21:39.581
  • And now here's saul in acts 13, and they've turned the--they're
  • 00:21:39.581 --> 00:21:44.353
  • Facing out.
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  • Now, that's where we're gonna step in.
  • 00:21:46.988 --> 00:21:48.323
  • "in the church of antioch there was a prophet.
  • 00:21:48.323 --> 00:21:50.258
  • There were prophets and teachers: barnabas, simeon,
  • 00:21:50.258 --> 00:21:53.462
  • Lucius, manaen.
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  • And while they were worshiping the lord and fasting, the holy
  • 00:21:55.897 --> 00:21:58.333
  • Spirit said, "set apart from me barnabas and saul for the work
  • 00:21:58.333 --> 00:22:01.236
  • To which i've called them.
  • 00:22:01.236 --> 00:22:03.071
  • So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands
  • 00:22:03.071 --> 00:22:05.474
  • On them and they sent them off."
  • 00:22:05.474 --> 00:22:07.275
  • They had to get sent off to do the work.
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  • Can you imagine having the imagination god's called you
  • 00:22:08.877 --> 00:22:10.846
  • To something?
  • 00:22:10.846 --> 00:22:13.882
  • Please don't use that as an excuse.
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  • I cannot tell you how many conversations with peo--i've had
  • 00:22:15.417 --> 00:22:17.386
  • With people, "if i just knew what god wanted me--" i can help
  • 00:22:17.386 --> 00:22:19.287
  • You, you've been empowered to be a witness for him in your home,
  • 00:22:19.287 --> 00:22:25.594
  • On your block, in your community.
  • 00:22:25.594 --> 00:22:29.131
  • "until we do that, we've got--" no, that's the assignment.
  • 00:22:29.131 --> 00:22:32.968
  • "well, i'm an introvert."
  • 00:22:32.968 --> 00:22:34.302
  • Good, he'll use introverts.
  • 00:22:34.302 --> 00:22:36.171
  • "i'm not good with words."
  • 00:22:36.171 --> 00:22:37.506
  • He recruited moses.
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  • "well, i've been an angry anti-christian."
  • 00:22:41.943 --> 00:22:43.779
  • He chose saul.
  • 00:22:43.779 --> 00:22:45.747
  • All my excuses, he's got one of 'em in the hall of fame.
  • 00:22:45.747 --> 00:22:50.685
  • So they've sent off barnabas and saul, and in verse 4, "the two
  • 00:22:50.685 --> 00:22:53.321
  • Of them, sent on their way by the holy spirit, went down to
  • 00:22:53.321 --> 00:22:55.891
  • Seleucia and they sailed there to cyprus," it's an island just
  • 00:22:55.891 --> 00:23:00.195
  • Off the coast of israel, still there, "when they arrived at
  • 00:23:00.195 --> 00:23:05.200
  • Salamis, they proclaimed the word of god in the
  • 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:08.036
  • Jewish synagogues.
  • 00:23:08.036 --> 00:23:09.971
  • John was with them as a helper," john mark, not...
  • 00:23:09.971 --> 00:23:13.842
  • "and they traveled through the whole island until they came
  • 00:23:13.842 --> 00:23:15.977
  • To paphos.
  • 00:23:15.977 --> 00:23:17.312
  • And there they met a jewish sorcerer and a false prophet
  • 00:23:17.312 --> 00:23:20.148
  • Named bar-jesus, who was an attendant of the proconsul,
  • 00:23:20.148 --> 00:23:24.219
  • Sergius paulus.
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  • And the proconsul, an intelligent man, sent for
  • 00:23:25.554 --> 00:23:27.022
  • Barnabas and saul because he wanted to hear the word of god.
  • 00:23:27.022 --> 00:23:31.393
  • But the sorcerer opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul
  • 00:23:31.393 --> 00:23:35.997
  • From the faith.
  • 00:23:35.997 --> 00:23:38.533
  • Then saul, who was called paul, filled with the holy spirit,
  • 00:23:38.533 --> 00:23:41.369
  • Looked straight at him and said, 'you're a child of the devil and
  • 00:23:41.369 --> 00:23:44.973
  • An enemy of everything that is right!'"
  • 00:23:44.973 --> 00:23:47.709
  • For all of you that think kindness,
  • 00:23:47.709 --> 00:23:49.511
  • "thou shalt be kind," is the 11th commandment,
  • 00:23:49.511 --> 00:23:51.746
  • Please hear what paul said.
  • 00:23:51.746 --> 00:23:55.684
  • He looked at a very powerful man on the island of cyprus, and he
  • 00:23:55.684 --> 00:23:58.720
  • Said, "you are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything
  • 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:01.690
  • That is right!"
  • 00:24:01.690 --> 00:24:03.992
  • Jesus loves you, "'you are full of all kinds of deceit
  • 00:24:03.992 --> 00:24:09.531
  • And trickery.
  • 00:24:09.531 --> 00:24:10.866
  • Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the lord?
  • 00:24:10.866 --> 00:24:14.903
  • Now the hand of the lord is against you.
  • 00:24:14.903 --> 00:24:16.838
  • And you're gonna be blind, and for a time you'll be unable to
  • 00:24:16.838 --> 00:24:19.674
  • See the light of the sun.'
  • 00:24:19.674 --> 00:24:21.243
  • And immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he
  • 00:24:21.243 --> 00:24:23.712
  • Groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
  • 00:24:23.712 --> 00:24:27.449
  • When the governor saw what had happened, he believed, for he
  • 00:24:27.449 --> 00:24:32.787
  • Was amazed at the teaching about the lord."
  • 00:24:32.787 --> 00:24:36.191
  • Now we've got a little narrative here before you turn your page.
  • 00:24:36.191 --> 00:24:39.094
  • Maybe you wanna circle some names, 'cause you've got some
  • 00:24:39.094 --> 00:24:42.364
  • Characters being introduced and you need to think about their
  • 00:24:42.364 --> 00:24:44.866
  • Roles, their assignments, how many--who's gonna cooperate
  • 00:24:44.866 --> 00:24:48.403
  • With the lord?
  • 00:24:48.403 --> 00:24:49.771
  • There's a breakthrough happening, revival's breaking
  • 00:24:49.771 --> 00:24:51.106
  • Out, the spirit of god is moving in the world in a way it had
  • 00:24:51.106 --> 00:24:54.543
  • Never moved before, barnabas and saul are on board, the community
  • 00:24:54.543 --> 00:25:00.415
  • Of faith that they have been a part of had enough clarity from
  • 00:25:00.415 --> 00:25:05.353
  • The lord that they said, "we think you should go."
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  • And they were in enough unity that they said, "we will go."
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  • And they get to cyprus.
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  • It says, "they were sent on their way," in verse 4,
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  • "by the holy spirit."
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  • You're not just recruiting somebody to read your bible
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  • In the new year because it's an assignment from pastor.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • So you will never believe there's a supernatural component
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  • To what you're doing until you're willing to believe
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  • There's a supernatural component to what you're doing.
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  • Allen: i wanna pray with you before we go, but i just wanna
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  • Remind you, we don't have to outthink evil or outwork evil.
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  • We don't have to be louder than evil.
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  • We need to understand the authority that is ours in
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  • Jesus's name and the power of his shed blood.
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  • It changes everything. i wanna pray with you.
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  • Father, i thank you that, through the name of jesus, we
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  • Have been delivered out of the hand of the devil, that he has
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  • No power over us, no authority over us, in jesus's name.
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  • And i pray that that truth would take root in our hearts and
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  • Enable us to live with great boldness, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • Allen: you know, when i read my bible, i don't read it primarily
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  • For information.
  • 00:26:20.595 --> 00:26:21.930
  • It's not just about facts and figures and dates and how to
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  • Spell nebuchadnezzar and how many tribes they were and where
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  • They fit in the land.
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  • I mean, i like all that stuff, but i read my bible to
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  • Be transformed.
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  • I recognize i need the power of god at work in my life, so the
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  • Characters of the bible become more than shadowy historical
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  • People, they become my friends or my heroes.
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  • We've put together a tool, it's "lessons from paul."
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  • It's a 90-day devotional.
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  • It's really gleaned from some of my favorite writings from the
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  • Apostle paul.
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  • You know, he begins as an angry, murderous man and becomes one of
  • 00:26:51.660 --> 00:26:54.663
  • The most powerful advocates for jesus that our world has
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  • Ever known.
  • 00:26:58.099 --> 00:26:59.467
  • Well, i want that kind of transformation in my life to
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  • Move from the place i am to be more effective for the purposes
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  • Of the kingdom of god.
  • 00:27:04.539 --> 00:27:06.074
  • I think the tool will help you in the midst of whatever your
  • 00:27:06.074 --> 00:27:08.309
  • Circumstances, persecution, triumph.
  • 00:27:08.309 --> 00:27:10.979
  • "lessons from paul," it'll give you a pathway forward to
  • 00:27:10.979 --> 00:27:13.481
  • Cooperate with god and get to a better outcome.
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  • I think you'll enjoy the devotional.
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  • ♪♪♪
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