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Allen Jackson - Breakthroughs Rejected (Part 2)

May 28, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Breakthroughs Rejected (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Breakthroughs Rejected (Part 2) | May 28, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: one of my heroes in the bible is saul of tarsus.
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  • He becomes the apostle paul.
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  • I know you know his story.
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  • He's written two thirds of our new testament by title.
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  • And one of the most remarkable characters we meet in all of
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  • The scripture.
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  • He was a pharisee with a remarkable education, brilliant
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  • Mind, and he hated jesus and jesus' followers until he met
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  • Jesus one day.
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  • He's on the road to damascus and jesus interrupts his life and he
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  • Becomes the apostle paul, one of the most powerful voices for
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  • Jesus that history has ever known.
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  • We put together a 90 day devotional.
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  • It's "lessons from paul."
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  • I'm still learning from paul, and i just wanted to share it
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  • With you.
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  • There's a little--there's a scripture verse, there's a bit
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  • Of a devotional.
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  • There's a place for some journaling.
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  • It's really intended to provide some direction so that you and i
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  • Become overcomers.
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  • Overcomers of our past, overcomers of the opposition in
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  • The present.
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  • Doesn't matter what the adversary is, the power of god
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  • That delivered paul, he'll deliver you and me.
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  • I believe you'll enjoy "lessons from paul."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: so let's--we're gonna look at some people that
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  • Don't get it right and maybe it'll help us gain some momentum
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  • In saying yes.
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  • Acts chapter 13, the church is just trying to
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  • Get their legs underneath them.
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  • The pressure in jerusalem has grown to the point that they're
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  • Beginning to spread a bit.
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  • Saul of tarsus has been recruited by the lord himself.
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  • 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
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  • Fragmenting a little bit, and jesus comes back and recruits
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  • A rabbi.
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  • Jesus comes back and recruits a pharisee and says,
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  • "here's the help you need."
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  • "no, we're doing quite well, thank you."
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  • They didn't want anything to do with saul of tarsus.
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  • He's an angry, violent, murderous--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 and
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  • 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 in 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, you understand?
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  • Some christians have dress codes and jewelry codes and beverage
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  • Codes and some christians don't even acknowledge the authority
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  • Of scripture or people that wear the label christian.
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  • Right, the diversity, same diversity in the
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  • Jewish community.
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  • This faculty member was orthodox.
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  • He kept the rules.
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  • He wore his prayer shawl.
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  • He washed his hands so frequently as a part of the that
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  • They were constantly chapped.
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  • He was brilliant.
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  • Just a brilliant, brilliant guy.
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  • We could turn our papers in in eight different languages.
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  • I chose english.
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  • But he did two lectures on jesus, and i'll never forget it
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  • 'cause he had the sharpest wit.
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  • Nobody would say anything in class 'cause he would cut you to
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  • Ribbons, he was good.
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  • And when--the only time i ever saw him at a loss for words or
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  • Awkward was when he talked about jesus and he said, "there's
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  • No question."
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  • He said, "it's just absolutely clear in scripture that that
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  • Early group of believers in jerusalem believed that jesus
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  • Had died on a cross and been raised to life again."
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  • And i remember he kind of hung his head for a moment and he
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  • Said, "if i believed that, i would be a christian too."
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  • Well, that jesus recruited an orthodox keeper of the rules and
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  • That professor one day said he read in acts 1 where jesus said,
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  • "the holy spirit will empower you to be my witnesses in
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  • Jerusalem, judea, and samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
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  • Well, jerusalem's the city, judea is the region, samaria is
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  • The next region, and he looked at the class and he said, "i
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  • Promise you, to that audience, they thought samaria was the end
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  • Of the earth."
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  • They didn't think the story was going past the mediterranean,
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  • The edge of the mediterranean.
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  • And now here's saul in acts 13, and they've turned the--they're
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  • Facing out.
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  • Now that's where we're gonna step in, "in the church of
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  • Antioch," there was a prophet, "there were prophets and
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  • Teachers: barnabas, simeon, lucius, manaen, and while
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  • They're worshiping the lord and fasting, the holy spirit said,
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  • 'set apart for me barnabas and saul for the work
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  • To which i've called them.'
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  • So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands
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  • On them and they sent them off."
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  • They had to get sent off to do the work.
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  • Can you imagine--have the imagination god's called you
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  • To something?
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  • Please don't use that as an excuse.
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  • I cannot tell you how many conversations i've had with
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  • People, "if i just knew what god wanted."
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  • I can help you.
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  • You've been empowered to be a witness for him.
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  • In your home, on your block, in your community.
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  • Until we do that, we've got no--that's the assignment.
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  • "well, i'm an introvert." good, he'll use introverts.
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  • "i'm not good with words," he recruited moses.
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  • "well, i've been an angry anti-christian."
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  • He chose saul.
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  • All my excuses, he's got one of them in the hall of fame.
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  • So they sent off barnabas and saul and then verse 4, "the two
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  • Of them, sent on their way by the holy spirit, went down to
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  • Seleucia and they sailed there to cyprus."
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  • It's an island just off the coast of israel, still there.
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  • "when they arrived at salamis, they proclaimed the word of god
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  • In the jewish synagogues.
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  • John was with him as a helper."
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  • John mark, not--
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  • And "they traveled through the whole island until they came to
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  • Paphos, and there they met a jewish sorcerer and a false
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  • Prophet named bar-jesus, who was an attendant of the proconsul,
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  • Sergius paulus and the proconsul, an intelligent man,
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  • Sent for barnabas and saul because he wanted to hear the
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  • Word of god.
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  • But the sorcerer opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul
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  • From the faith.
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  • And saul, who's called paul, filled with the holy spirit,
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  • Looked straight at him and said, 'you are a child of the devil
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  • And an enemy of everything that is right!"'
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  • For all of you that think kindness, thou shalt be kind is
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  • The 11th commandment, please hear what paul said.
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  • He looked at a very powerful man on the island of cyprus and he
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  • Said, '"you are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything
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  • That is right!"'
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  • Jesus loves you.
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  • "'you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery.
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  • Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the lord?
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  • Now the hand of the lord is against you and you're gonna be
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  • Blind, and for a time you'll be unable to see the light of
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  • The sun.'
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  • And immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he
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  • Groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
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  • When the governor saw what had happened, he believed, for he
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  • Was amazed at the teaching about the lord."
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  • Now we've got a little narrative here, before you turn your page
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  • Maybe you wanna circle some names, 'cause you've got some
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  • Characters being introduced and you need to think about their
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  • Roles, their assignments, how many,
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  • Who's gonna cooperate with the lord.
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  • There's a breakthrough happening, revivals
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  • Breaking out.
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  • The spirit of god is moving in the world in a way it had never
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  • Moved before.
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  • Barnabas and saul are on board.
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  • The community of faith that they have been a part of had enough
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  • Clarity from the lord that they said, we think you should go and
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  • They were in enough unity that they said we will go and they
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  • Get to cyprus.
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  • Says they were sent on their way in verse 4 by the holy spirit.
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  • You're not just recruiting somebody to read your bible in
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  • The new year because it's an assignment from pastor.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • See, 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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  • You don't have to roll out high-minded words, big center*,
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  • You know.
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  • Don't go find somebody, don't do this.
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  • Somebody's probably done it to you, you know, you get that
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  • Creepy look.
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  • "oh, i feel like the lord directed me to you, and we
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  • Should read the bible."
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  • I wouldn't read the bible with you with an invitation
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  • Like that.
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  • You have to understand that reading the word of god is a way
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  • Of honoring the lord, of submitting to the discipline of
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  • The spirit of god.
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  • Of subjecting yourself to an authority greater than yourself.
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  • That you won't just own your calendar and your schedule and
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  • Your to do list, that you would submit to the lord, and when you
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  • Recognize the inherent value in that, and you will submit to it,
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  • Then you become an advocate and you may have to invite three or
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  • Four or five or ten people before you find one person,
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  • They'll go, i'd kinda like to do that.
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  • You don't need an announcement.
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  • You can simply say, you know, look, i've decided to try this.
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  • I'm gonna do this, and it'll help me if you do it with me.
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  • 'cause any commitment that you make and you give away to
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  • Another person is inherently more likely to hold.
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  • See, we've been pointing at our pedigree.
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  • "i'm born again. i'm spirit filled.
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  • I've led a small group for 63 years.
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  • We did the book of isaiah.
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  • It took us seven years and four months.
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  • We didn't just do it verse by verse.
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  • We took it letter by letter."
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  • And i mean, i like to study my bible.
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  • So, i understand i'm poking a bit of fun, but i'm inviting you
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  • To engage with what the lord might put before us, rather than
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  • To review where we've been.
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  • Truth and together we're doing our very best to help them
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  • Allen: paul and barnabas, they get to cyprus.
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  • There's this remarkable statement that the governor--we
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  • Got barnabas and saul who said yes, then this provincial
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  • Governor, the proconsul, he's the--he would be a regional
  • 00:12:37.572 --> 00:12:41.242
  • Governor, a regional representative of rome, in this
  • 00:12:41.242 --> 00:12:44.479
  • Case over the island of cyprus, and he has an interest in
  • 00:12:44.479 --> 00:12:48.750
  • The gospel.
  • 00:12:48.750 --> 00:12:51.686
  • And paul--or luke, the author of acts, adds that in verse 7, he's
  • 00:12:51.686 --> 00:12:56.324
  • An intelligent man.
  • 00:12:56.324 --> 00:12:58.092
  • He wanted to hear more about the word of god.
  • 00:12:58.092 --> 00:13:01.062
  • Now, get this, they're jews.
  • 00:13:01.062 --> 00:13:02.931
  • There's a jewish rabbi, pharisee, advocating for the god
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  • Of the jewish world, as far as they would have understood it.
  • 00:13:07.802 --> 00:13:11.172
  • Rome has a pantheon, many gods, and the governor on the island
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  • Says i want to know more about this god, wow!
  • 00:13:16.144 --> 00:13:22.650
  • And attached to him is a jewish person, this jewish sorcerer.
  • 00:13:22.650 --> 00:13:27.589
  • He's a spiritual person.
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  • He's a false prophet, luke tells us.
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  • Which means he wants the place, he wants to be respected and
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  • Understood as someone who's offering, presenting,
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  • God's perspective.
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  • That's what a prophet does.
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  • But in reality, he has wrong motives, and therefore he's
  • 00:13:49.177 --> 00:13:52.280
  • Delivering a wrong message.
  • 00:13:52.280 --> 00:13:55.884
  • Are you--i know it gets a little complicated.
  • 00:13:55.884 --> 00:13:58.820
  • Barnabas and paul are on god's mission directed by the holy
  • 00:13:58.820 --> 00:14:01.522
  • Spirit, they get to cyprus, the governor wants to hear, and
  • 00:14:01.522 --> 00:14:04.359
  • Right in the middle of this is a jewish man.
  • 00:14:04.359 --> 00:14:07.095
  • You'd expect him to be on board with this.
  • 00:14:07.095 --> 00:14:10.932
  • He was a false prophet with the wrong message and a wrong
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  • Motive, trying to oppose it.
  • 00:14:13.201 --> 00:14:17.805
  • It'd be easy to go, you know, we thought the lord sent us.
  • 00:14:17.805 --> 00:14:19.974
  • We got all the way to cyprus and we almost thought, but no, so
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  • We're just going home.
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  • And this jewish sorcerer tries to turn the governor away from
  • 00:14:30.451 --> 00:14:33.755
  • The faith.
  • 00:14:33.755 --> 00:14:36.391
  • "he opposed them," look at verse 8, "he opposed them and tried to
  • 00:14:36.391 --> 00:14:39.427
  • Turn the proconsul from the faith."
  • 00:14:39.427 --> 00:14:41.863
  • So there's a two-fold resistance.
  • 00:14:41.863 --> 00:14:43.564
  • Again, it's worth noting we're trying to learn, he not only
  • 00:14:43.564 --> 00:14:46.768
  • Opposed the message and the messengers, but he was an
  • 00:14:46.768 --> 00:14:50.571
  • Aggressive adversary.
  • 00:14:50.571 --> 00:14:52.106
  • He sought to turn others in a different direction.
  • 00:14:52.106 --> 00:14:54.742
  • He wasn't sufficient to say, "don't listen to them."
  • 00:14:54.742 --> 00:14:58.780
  • He wasn't content to say, "nah, i don't--i'm jewish.
  • 00:14:58.780 --> 00:15:03.117
  • I can tell you, i wouldn't pay any attention to that."
  • 00:15:03.117 --> 00:15:05.820
  • He wasn't content with that.
  • 00:15:05.820 --> 00:15:07.488
  • He tried to turn the governor in a complete, "come do this, don't
  • 00:15:07.488 --> 00:15:10.892
  • Do that."
  • 00:15:10.892 --> 00:15:14.262
  • So it's a pretty high level of intervention, and he is
  • 00:15:14.262 --> 00:15:20.835
  • Rejecting the opportunity for a breakthrough in his own life.
  • 00:15:20.835 --> 00:15:28.109
  • If anybody in the narrative on the island of cyprus should have
  • 00:15:28.109 --> 00:15:30.912
  • Been ready to receive it, it would have been him.
  • 00:15:30.912 --> 00:15:35.316
  • He knows the scripture.
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  • He knows something of it.
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  • He has a heritage with that people.
  • 00:15:39.020 --> 00:15:43.725
  • He and paul shared more commonalities than they did
  • 00:15:43.725 --> 00:15:46.828
  • Different points of differentiation.
  • 00:15:46.828 --> 00:15:50.031
  • The roman governor is willing to listen, and the jewish spiritual
  • 00:15:50.031 --> 00:15:55.837
  • Person is a very aggressive adversary.
  • 00:15:55.837 --> 00:16:05.747
  • It's worth noting.
  • 00:16:05.747 --> 00:16:08.149
  • It's worth processing.
  • 00:16:08.149 --> 00:16:11.419
  • You see, when god presents that--i can explain it in any
  • 00:16:11.419 --> 00:16:15.189
  • Number of ways, you know, he thought maybe it would diminish
  • 00:16:15.189 --> 00:16:17.392
  • His authority if the governor believed.
  • 00:16:17.392 --> 00:16:19.827
  • He might lose some of his status.
  • 00:16:19.827 --> 00:16:22.530
  • I mean, i can make a lengthy list of reasons, but at the end
  • 00:16:22.530 --> 00:16:25.099
  • Of the day, he doesn't want god disrupting.
  • 00:16:25.099 --> 00:16:30.605
  • Which is i really think at the root of those places where you
  • 00:16:30.605 --> 00:16:33.441
  • And i reject the invitations to breakthroughs.
  • 00:16:33.441 --> 00:16:38.146
  • No, i'm pretty good, thank you.
  • 00:16:38.146 --> 00:16:43.918
  • We're confident enough, either in our spiritual position or our
  • 00:16:43.918 --> 00:16:47.889
  • Spiritual pedigree, our ability to resolve problems.
  • 00:16:47.889 --> 00:16:53.428
  • It's pretty unsettling.
  • 00:16:53.428 --> 00:16:54.762
  • How could that be? it's just bizarre.
  • 00:16:54.762 --> 00:16:56.097
  • I know you read it and luke gives it to us like it all makes
  • 00:16:56.097 --> 00:16:58.099
  • Sense, but of everybody in the narrative, you'd think, no, that
  • 00:16:58.099 --> 00:17:01.569
  • Guy should have been on board, and he's the one that ends up
  • 00:17:01.569 --> 00:17:05.807
  • Blind for a season, and paul didn't hesitate in dealing
  • 00:17:05.807 --> 00:17:12.013
  • With him.
  • 00:17:12.013 --> 00:17:16.117
  • Jesus gave us an admonition in matthew 23.
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  • In matthew, he's talking to the pharisees.
  • 00:17:22.623 --> 00:17:24.892
  • It's the group paul was--belonged to.
  • 00:17:24.892 --> 00:17:28.029
  • They're power brokers, not only in jerusalem, but they have
  • 00:17:28.029 --> 00:17:30.498
  • Authority in all the synagogues distributed all over the empire.
  • 00:17:30.498 --> 00:17:33.701
  • One of the reasons paul would so consistently go into the
  • 00:17:33.701 --> 00:17:35.670
  • Synagogue when he goes to a new community
  • 00:17:35.670 --> 00:17:37.371
  • Is he was very much at home there.
  • 00:17:37.371 --> 00:17:38.706
  • He had something of credentials with them.
  • 00:17:38.706 --> 00:17:41.275
  • He knew how they were trained, he knew their order of service,
  • 00:17:41.275 --> 00:17:43.444
  • He knew exactly what was gonna happen.
  • 00:17:43.444 --> 00:17:46.247
  • So jesus is talking to that group in matthew 23, and he
  • 00:17:46.247 --> 00:17:49.183
  • Said, "'woe to you, teachers of the law and pharisees,
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  • You're hypocrites!
  • 00:17:51.052 --> 00:17:53.020
  • You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces.
  • 00:17:53.020 --> 00:17:55.022
  • You yourselves don't enter, nor will you let those enter who are
  • 00:17:55.022 --> 00:17:57.825
  • Trying to.
  • 00:17:57.825 --> 00:18:00.428
  • Woe to you, teachers of the law and
  • 00:18:00.428 --> 00:18:01.762
  • Pharisees, you're hypocrites!
  • 00:18:01.762 --> 00:18:03.097
  • You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when
  • 00:18:03.097 --> 00:18:06.267
  • He becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as
  • 00:18:06.267 --> 00:18:08.903
  • You are.'"
  • 00:18:08.903 --> 00:18:10.771
  • Wow.
  • 00:18:10.771 --> 00:18:14.575
  • It's that same two-fold opposition that we saw
  • 00:18:14.575 --> 00:18:17.211
  • On cyprus.
  • 00:18:17.211 --> 00:18:18.880
  • They opposed the message and the messengers, but then they are
  • 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.750
  • Aggressive adversaries in trying to turn people into
  • 00:18:22.750 --> 00:18:26.087
  • Other directions.
  • 00:18:26.087 --> 00:18:27.855
  • Don't we see that today?
  • 00:18:27.855 --> 00:18:30.791
  • It seems to me that that persists.
  • 00:18:30.791 --> 00:18:32.693
  • Not just between people of faith and the secular culture, we see
  • 00:18:32.693 --> 00:18:36.731
  • That within the christian community.
  • 00:18:36.731 --> 00:18:38.332
  • "you don't really believe the bible, do you?
  • 00:18:38.332 --> 00:18:41.669
  • You're not really gonna give it a place of authority in your
  • 00:18:41.669 --> 00:18:43.938
  • Life?"
  • 00:18:43.938 --> 00:18:46.707
  • And then they begin to parse out the pieces that they
  • 00:18:46.707 --> 00:18:48.843
  • Won't take.
  • 00:18:48.843 --> 00:18:51.112
  • So if i were gonna distill it a little bit, and i'm going to, i
  • 00:18:51.112 --> 00:18:54.415
  • Think we should live with this understanding that opposition is
  • 00:18:54.415 --> 00:18:57.118
  • Kind of a part of the assignment and the people that you will
  • 00:18:57.118 --> 00:19:01.489
  • Imagine that would help will not.
  • 00:19:01.489 --> 00:19:06.194
  • "well, i don't like that." okay.
  • 00:19:06.194 --> 00:19:10.665
  • I think, you know, football would be easier if the defense
  • 00:19:10.665 --> 00:19:15.836
  • Would help the offense.
  • 00:19:15.836 --> 00:19:19.740
  • The--we'd score more points, but it's not the nature of
  • 00:19:19.740 --> 00:19:24.679
  • The contest.
  • 00:19:24.679 --> 00:19:26.781
  • And there is opposition to the purposes of god in the earth.
  • 00:19:26.781 --> 00:19:30.017
  • We meet them in the opening chapters of genesis and we see
  • 00:19:30.017 --> 00:19:33.354
  • It persist until the concluding chapters of the book
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  • Of revelation.
  • 00:19:35.590 --> 00:19:36.958
  • You better make room in your understanding for it.
  • 00:19:36.958 --> 00:19:41.696
  • I'm not amused, i'm amazed at people who imagine themselves to
  • 00:19:41.696 --> 00:19:44.932
  • Be christ followers, and they will say things, "well, you
  • 00:19:44.932 --> 00:19:46.634
  • Know, i just don't--i'm not sure the devil and spiritual, i
  • 00:19:46.634 --> 00:19:51.572
  • Don't, you know, i don't believe it."
  • 00:19:51.572 --> 00:19:53.207
  • Really?
  • 00:19:53.207 --> 00:19:55.843
  • How do you feel about calories and fat?
  • 00:19:55.843 --> 00:19:59.313
  • Can you unbelieve those too?
  • 00:19:59.313 --> 00:20:05.152
  • They fill the story.
  • 00:20:05.152 --> 00:20:08.990
  • Look at acts 19, "paul entered the synagogue."
  • 00:20:08.990 --> 00:20:13.794
  • It's ephesus this time, but it's the same pattern.
  • 00:20:13.794 --> 00:20:16.530
  • "he enters the synagogue.
  • 00:20:16.530 --> 00:20:17.898
  • He spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively
  • 00:20:17.898 --> 00:20:20.801
  • About the kingdom of god," for three months, "but some of them
  • 00:20:20.801 --> 00:20:23.838
  • Became obstinate and they refused to believe and they
  • 00:20:23.838 --> 00:20:28.376
  • Publicly maligned the way."
  • 00:20:28.376 --> 00:20:30.978
  • It wasn't enough for them to go, "i'm not doing that.
  • 00:20:30.978 --> 00:20:33.781
  • I don't like you.
  • 00:20:33.781 --> 00:20:35.149
  • I'm not listening."
  • 00:20:35.149 --> 00:20:36.851
  • They decided to be aggressive and saying to everybody else,
  • 00:20:36.851 --> 00:20:40.288
  • "nobody should listen.
  • 00:20:40.288 --> 00:20:42.523
  • We have a better way.
  • 00:20:42.523 --> 00:20:43.891
  • We're not gonna pay attention."
  • 00:20:43.891 --> 00:20:47.762
  • Again, god sent someone into the city,
  • 00:20:47.762 --> 00:20:50.665
  • Multiplied numbers of people.
  • 00:20:50.665 --> 00:20:52.199
  • Paul in ephesus, in the next very verse beyond your passage
  • 00:20:52.199 --> 00:20:55.736
  • Says he did extraordinary miracles through paul there.
  • 00:20:55.736 --> 00:21:00.107
  • A lot of evidence.
  • 00:21:00.107 --> 00:21:01.776
  • Seven sons of sceva and the demonized man and the riots and
  • 00:21:01.776 --> 00:21:06.847
  • The people burning millions of dollars worth of paraphernalia
  • 00:21:06.847 --> 00:21:11.018
  • That they used in ungodly things.
  • 00:21:11.018 --> 00:21:13.721
  • I mean, there's a revival breaking out, and yet in the
  • 00:21:13.721 --> 00:21:15.856
  • Middle of the synagogue, there are people who, luke says, they
  • 00:21:15.856 --> 00:21:19.060
  • Refused to believe in obstinance.
  • 00:21:19.060 --> 00:21:24.165
  • That's just not how we believe, that's not how we do it, and
  • 00:21:24.165 --> 00:21:28.502
  • Then they amp it up, they're going to be more aggressive.
  • 00:21:28.502 --> 00:21:31.138
  • They're going to publicly malign people who choose to believe.
  • 00:21:31.138 --> 00:21:39.513
  • Again, there are more examples.
  • 00:21:39.513 --> 00:21:43.351
  • There are more instances of breakthroughs being rejected
  • 00:21:43.351 --> 00:21:48.022
  • Than there are breakthroughs being accepted.
  • 00:21:48.022 --> 00:21:51.292
  • It should give us pause.
  • 00:21:51.292 --> 00:21:54.395
  • I can tell you from my own personal journey, there have
  • 00:21:54.395 --> 00:21:57.932
  • Been places where i can look back and say, "ah, i cooperated
  • 00:21:57.932 --> 00:22:02.370
  • To some extent there," and there are places i can look, and i
  • 00:22:02.370 --> 00:22:06.173
  • Say, "you know, i missed that.
  • 00:22:06.173 --> 00:22:09.844
  • I want to get better at saying yes to the lord."
  • 00:22:09.844 --> 00:22:14.882
  • I brought you a prayer.
  • 00:22:14.882 --> 00:22:18.719
  • The concept isn't complex.
  • 00:22:18.719 --> 00:22:21.722
  • The willingness to allow god to bring change to your life is
  • 00:22:21.722 --> 00:22:26.127
  • Not simple.
  • 00:22:26.127 --> 00:22:27.461
  • It's not difficult to understand.
  • 00:22:27.461 --> 00:22:31.198
  • It requires of us a bit of faith to say that if i reoriented my
  • 00:22:31.198 --> 00:22:35.870
  • Life towards the lord in some way, some incremental way, and i
  • 00:22:35.870 --> 00:22:40.841
  • Were to continue to do that, that it wouldn't put me in a
  • 00:22:40.841 --> 00:22:44.712
  • Better place than if i didn't.
  • 00:22:44.712 --> 00:22:48.282
  • The alternative to that is what has flourished in contemporary
  • 00:22:48.282 --> 00:22:51.819
  • American christendom for too long, is we've done all the
  • 00:22:51.819 --> 00:22:55.122
  • Significant things with god we need to do.
  • 00:22:55.122 --> 00:22:58.125
  • Now we're just trying to maintain a healthy spiritual
  • 00:22:58.125 --> 00:23:01.162
  • Immune system so that we don't get infected with something we
  • 00:23:01.162 --> 00:23:03.931
  • Don't want.
  • 00:23:03.931 --> 00:23:06.333
  • So we're afraid, we don't wanna read anything we don't
  • 00:23:06.333 --> 00:23:08.369
  • Know about.
  • 00:23:08.369 --> 00:23:09.904
  • If it's not an author that we know has been blessed by the
  • 00:23:09.904 --> 00:23:12.039
  • Publishing house that we endorse, we're not sure we
  • 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:13.974
  • Should read it 'cause we might get a bad idea.
  • 00:23:13.974 --> 00:23:16.444
  • If it's an expression of worship that we haven't seen, we're not
  • 00:23:16.444 --> 00:23:18.512
  • Sure we want to do that 'cause that's not the way we do it.
  • 00:23:18.512 --> 00:23:22.116
  • Or and on and on and and so we have this rather defensive
  • 00:23:22.116 --> 00:23:25.152
  • Approach to our faith, and i believe god has begun a shaking
  • 00:23:25.152 --> 00:23:30.791
  • In the earth and he's calling forth a people.
  • 00:23:30.791 --> 00:23:34.428
  • The same way we read about it in the book of acts and other
  • 00:23:34.428 --> 00:23:36.864
  • Places in the scripture, and i wanna--i intend to be a part, if
  • 00:23:36.864 --> 00:23:40.301
  • God will allow me and the holy spirit will help me, and i'm
  • 00:23:40.301 --> 00:23:45.372
  • Putting before you an invitation, and it's--you will
  • 00:23:45.372 --> 00:23:48.375
  • Have said no, you'll have made some mistakes, we've all made
  • 00:23:48.375 --> 00:23:51.045
  • Some mistakes and maybe you need to talk to the lord about it and
  • 00:23:51.045 --> 00:23:53.247
  • Say, "lord, i'm sorry.
  • 00:23:53.247 --> 00:23:56.450
  • I don't want to excuse it or justify it or baptize
  • 00:23:56.450 --> 00:23:58.853
  • It and all the reasons why.
  • 00:23:58.853 --> 00:24:00.187
  • I'm sorry, lord, but i'll find my voice this time
  • 00:24:00.187 --> 00:24:03.591
  • Or i'll stand this time or i'll say yes this time."
  • 00:24:03.591 --> 00:24:07.828
  • Watch and listen and think and act.
  • 00:24:07.828 --> 00:24:13.734
  • I promise, it's a--it's not some subtle thread of scripture, it
  • 00:24:13.734 --> 00:24:17.605
  • Is the story of the book.
  • 00:24:17.605 --> 00:24:22.877
  • So i brought you a prayer, but it's really just an
  • 00:24:22.877 --> 00:24:27.648
  • Interpolation of a passage of scripture,
  • 00:24:27.648 --> 00:24:29.650
  • So let me read you the passage.
  • 00:24:29.650 --> 00:24:30.985
  • It's philippians 3, verses 12 to 14.
  • 00:24:30.985 --> 00:24:34.455
  • Paul's writing to a church, to a group of believers, and
  • 00:24:34.455 --> 00:24:38.492
  • It's reflective.
  • 00:24:38.492 --> 00:24:39.827
  • This is self-reflection.
  • 00:24:39.827 --> 00:24:41.195
  • Paul says, "not that i have already obtained all of this, or
  • 00:24:41.195 --> 00:24:44.365
  • Have already been made perfect," but then he gives them his
  • 00:24:44.365 --> 00:24:47.902
  • Action plan, "but i press on to take hold of that for which
  • 00:24:47.902 --> 00:24:51.071
  • Christ jesus took hold of me.
  • 00:24:51.071 --> 00:24:53.340
  • Brothers, i don't consider myself yet to have taken hold
  • 00:24:53.340 --> 00:24:55.876
  • Of it.
  • 00:24:55.876 --> 00:24:57.344
  • But one thing i do; forgetting what is behind and straining
  • 00:24:57.344 --> 00:25:00.648
  • Toward what is ahead, i press on toward the goal to win the prize
  • 00:25:00.648 --> 00:25:04.485
  • For which god has called me heavenward in christ jesus."
  • 00:25:04.485 --> 00:25:08.155
  • Now, if the apostle paul would say that, i'm thinking that
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  • Brother allen perhaps should raise his hand, and maybe you
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  • Would like to, so i brought you a prayer.
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  • Why don't we stand together.
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  • Can we read this together?
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  • Heavenly father, i acknowledge that i'm a learner, growing in
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  • The grace of my lord jesus christ.
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  • My intent is to take hold of that for which christ jesus took
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  • Hold of me.
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  • With the help of the holy spirit i will forget what is behind and
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  • Strain toward what is ahead.
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  • I choose to press on toward the goal of my heavenly calling, in
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  • Jesus' name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • Now, that's a good way to begin a new year.
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  • Amen, god bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, when i read my bible, i don't read it primarily
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  • For information.
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  • 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
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  • Historical people.
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  • They become my friends or my heroes.
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  • We've put together a tool.
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  • 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
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  • The most powerful advocates for jesus that our world has
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  • Ever known.
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  • 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.
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  • I think the tool will help you in the midst of whatever your
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  • Circumstances, persecution, triumph, lessons from paul,
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  • It'll give you a pathway forward to cooperate with god and get to
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  • A better outcome.
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  • I think you'll enjoy the devotional.
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