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Allen Jackson - A Chosen People

July 9, 2026 | 27:29

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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - A Chosen People | July 9, 2026

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Allen jackson: we have a new resource for you.
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I'm really excited about this.
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It's a book. it's a booklet.
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It's a small book called, "your identity in christ."
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It was derived from years of teaching and leading in the
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Context of the church.
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We're walking through a season, folks, when there's so much
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Confusion about our identity.
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We put this together to help you understand who you are in
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Christ, not just about your salvation.
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But so that you can lead a triumphant, victorious,
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Overcoming life.
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We built it for an individual read.
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It's great for a small group.
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It's a great resource for your kitchen table time as a family
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With children or grandchildren.
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If you know who you are in christ, it changes everything
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About the landscape of your life.
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I'm righteous in the sight of god.
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I can stand before god without fear, guilt, or condemnation.
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Those are such important foundational principles to get
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Secure in your heart, around your table with the people you
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Care about, in your small groups, with your friends.
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"your identity in christ," it's a game changer.
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I believe it will add momentum to your spiritual growth in
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This season.
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Allen: so i'll take a few minutes and explore with you a
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Bit more about why i believe israel matters to the people of
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God, why they're significant in the earth.
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It's not broadly understood.
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It's not unique to me, i'm not suggesting it's some hidden
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Secret, but typically american evangelicalism is not awake to
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The biblical role of the nation of israel or the jewish people.
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In fact, we've created some rather unhelpful views in
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That regard.
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So let me just start with the notion that the jewish people
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Were chosen by god.
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You say, "i don't like that," but he didn't take a vote.
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It's really about the sovereignty of god.
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In fact, this whole discussion has a great deal to do with the
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Expression of the sovereignty of god, and the simplest way i know
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To understand is god can do what he wants when he wants, and he
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Doesn't need anyone's permission.
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Now, i know that's unsettling 'cause there's something in all
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Of us that goes, "no, i'm in control."
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And god has given us free will, and that brings to us a certain
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Amount of autonomy as opposed to the birds or the insects.
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We don't just migrate, we have choice, but it does not make us
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The creators of the universe.
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We are not really the masters of our fate.
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A chosen people, and here's the reality, god has favorites.
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I got a little plaque in my office.
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Says: "god loves everyone, but i'm his favorite."
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Not suggesting it's biblical, but on a bad day, it helps me.
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What you should know is when god chooses favorites, it's not
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Based upon appearance.
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It's not about iq.
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It's not about resource accumulation, you can't buy your
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Way into the club.
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It's not based upon our biological sex.
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Those things that we use to differentiate and discriminate.
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There are two primary qualifiers, as i understand it,
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From scripture.
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God considers the hearts of people.
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That lesson is reiterated over and over through scripture--that
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God does not look externally, but he looks at our hearts.
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That takes a spiritual awareness.
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The second qualifier is that god establishes covenants with those
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Who are willing to engage.
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Covenant is the most binding form of agreement presented in
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The scripture.
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In hebrew, it literally means to cut a covenant.
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There would have to be the spilling of blood.
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There is no stronger agreement.
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God enters into covenants with people.
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And every covenant in the scripture begins with the jewish
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People, except the ones that were issued before there was a
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Jewish people.
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So to participate in the covenants of god, we have to
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Reconcile this matter of the jewish people in the nation
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Of israel.
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I would just remind you in passing--the previous session
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Will help--
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If you didn't hear it, it's worth perhaps the time--
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That our lord is an observant jewish rabbi.
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So antisemitism, hating the jewish people, will be awkward
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In his kingdom.
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All right, god identifies himself from the opening book of
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The bible as the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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We know them as the patriarchs, and patriarchs has become a
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Derogatory term, particularly in academia, in some subsets of
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Academia especially, but not so in god's economy.
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In genesis 17 and verse 3, god says to abram, "as for me, this
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Is my covenant with you: you will be the father of
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Many nations."
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God makes an agreement with abram, a bedouin, a very
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Improbable thing.
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He said, "from you, i'm going to make many nations."
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That's something beyond the control of an individual.
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In that same chapter, god goes on, verse 7, "i will establish
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My covenant as an everlasting covenant."
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If it's an everlasting covenant, when does it terminate?
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It doesn't.
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"as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your
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Descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your
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God and the god of your descendants after you."
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And it carries with it a territorial provision.
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"the whole land of canaan, where you are now an alien, i will
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Give as an everlasting possession to you and your
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Descendants after you; and i will be their god."
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Now, the contemporary version of the people of god, beyond the
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Jewish people, we didn't get a territorial, we didn't get a
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Promised land.
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What we have, the provision we've been given, is the land of
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God's promises.
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That is our inheritance.
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We'll need to explore that a bit more in a further session, but
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There's an unfolding revelation taking place in these opening
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Chapters of the bible.
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Seldom in scripture does a single individual see the entire
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Tapestry of what god intends to accomplish.
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It's one of the challenges you and i face.
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It's a bit like we're relay runners in some olympic meet and
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We carry the baton for a season with great intensity and focus
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And understanding of our position and what's around us.
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But it's very difficult in that moment to see everything else
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That's happening, what will happen after our turn, because
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There are so many other factors.
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And our decision as people of faith is to honor god with our
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Lives in the season when we've been given the baton in time.
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All of us face death.
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It's the one ticket everyone is assured of.
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You're not going to avoid it, you're not gonna pass it off.
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You're not gonna skip school that day.
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And the counsel of scripture is to be prepared for that because
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Your spirit is eternal.
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And your destiny in eternity is determined by what you do with
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Your brief visit in time.
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That 70 or 80, whatever that block of time you are given, is
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Infinitesimally small compared to eternity.
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But your role in eternity is determined by your choices
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In time.
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In matthew 21, this isn't just an old testament concept.
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Jesus is speaking.
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He said, "the resurrection of the dead--have you not read
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What god said to you, 'i'm the god of abraham, the god of
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Isaac, and the god of jacob'?
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He's not the dead--the god of the dead, but of the living."
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Well, they're not physically alive, obviously, but jesus is
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Acknowledging that abraham, isaac, and jacob are very
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Much vital,
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And that the god of the jewish people is the god of abraham,
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Isaac, and jacob.
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That's where the covenant was made.
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We'll look at it later, but the new testament tells us that you
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And i have been grafted in to be a part of that.
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So it's not obsolete, it's not out of date.
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It hasn't passed away.
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God chose a people for himself and identified himself with that
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People to be a testimony to all the other peoples.
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They're referred to as a treasured possession.
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I don't know about you, but i'm thinking if you made the book--
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You know, jerusalem is mentioned dozens and dozens of times in
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The scripture.
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Imagine if murfreesboro was.
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Well, yeah.
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And then somebody that lives on the other side of the plain will
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Go, "murfreesboro's not very important."
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Well, how many times did your town make the book?
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We should at least understand.
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We haven't cared because we've been given this bogus
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Understanding of scripture that if you'll repeat a little prayer
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And maybe take a dip in a pool, and then you can go on your
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Merry way and not really have to read your bible and not really
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Care about biblical counsel.
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You just kind of wanna sort of have a moral code that maybe
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Makes you better than the person across the street.
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That's a broken gospel.
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It's not new to the 21st century.
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It's been a challenge as long as god has had a people of faith
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Because we've shared the common adversary.
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The fancy word for it is syncretism, the plain word for
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It's compromise.
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We don't reject god, we just incorporate some other stuff in
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That kind of lightens the load a little bit.
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It's as prevalent today as it's ever been in the earth.
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God said that israel is his treasured possession.
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Look at exodus 19.
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He says, "'if you fully obey-- if you obey me fully and keep my
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Covenant, then out of all nations you'll be my
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Treasured possession.
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Although the whole earth is mine, you'll be for me a kingdom
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Of priests and a holy nation.'
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These are the words you are to speak to the israelites--"
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Not to the tennesseans, not to the english speakers;
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To the israelites.
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He said, "you'll be for me, out of all the nations, you'll be my
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Treasured possession."
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Can you imagine?
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"you'll be my most treasured.
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I have--" he said, "the earth and everything in it is mine,
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But you'll be my most treasured possession."
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You'll be more valuable than niagara falls.
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You'll be more valuable than victoria falls.
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You'll be more valuable than any of the wonders of the world.
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You'll be my most treasured possession.
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People matter to god.
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Do you know why god hates sin?
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He's not trying to limit your good time.
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Sin destroys, every time.
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The outcome of sin is the destruction of a human being.
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So god hates it, because it destroys the pinnacle of
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His creation.
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Female announcer: everywhere we turn, someone is telling us who
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We should be, how we should look, and what we
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Should believe.
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It's no wonder so many of us feel isolated, uncertain,
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Confused, and like we're not enough.
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But god has a different message: you are chosen, loved, accepted,
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And redeemed, and as you more fully understand how god sees
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You, it will change how you see yourself, how you see god, and
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How you live your life.
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In "your identity in christ: 12 truths about who you are,"
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Pastor allen jackson shares the unchanging truth of god's word,
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From isolation to belonging, from doubt to confidence.
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Discover your identity in him.
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Allen: the new testament says, "don't you understand that
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Friendship with the world is hatred towards god?"
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We have been so confused.
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Now, i'm beyond grateful god is awakening us.
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You know, it wasn't incumbent upon god to begin the shaking.
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If god hadn't begun in 2020 with the things he had begun, we
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Could have spent the balance of our lives in the haze, in the
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Mist, in the confusion.
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And god, as an expression of his grace and his mercy, has
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Begun shaking.
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And if we're willing to see and hear and look, we
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Can understand.
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It's an exciting time.
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God is moving in the earth.
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God repurposed the discussion, repositioned the discussion on
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The jewish people this week.
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I don't know what the outcome will be.
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It could spin in many directions.
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I can tell you this: if we impose a plan to divide the land
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Of israel, god's judgment will come on us.
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Hard stop.
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I can give you one verse.
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I've got to stop, because i'm not gonna forget communion.
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In your outlines, god provides a very--it's the letter f.
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God gives very attentive concern to the covenant he made
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With israel.
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I think of it in my own imagination as kind of that
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Parental awareness.
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The parents in church are phenomenal.
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You know, if i hear a child cry, it's noise.
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If your child cries, it's a message.
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And you can pick that out of a whole host of sounds.
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Well, god is attentive to his people.
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And there's many ways we could understand that, but in joel
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Chapter 3, it says: "in those days and at that time," which
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Suggests a unique point in history.
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So understanding the times would matter, "that when i restore the
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Fortunes of judah and jerusalem."
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So there will be something that looks like an uptick in the
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History of the jewish people in the land of israel.
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"i will gather all nations and bring them down to the valley of
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Jehoshaphat, and there i will enter into judgment against
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Them," judgment against the nations, "concerning my
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Inheritance, my people israel, for they scattered my people
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Amongst the nations and they divided up my land.
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They cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes;
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They sold girls for wine that they might drink."
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I watched the videos of what happened on october 7th.
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What they did to the children is unspeakable.
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What we have been advocating for in the land of israel is just
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Unscriptural: the dividing of the land.
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It is not the--does not--have not had the best interest of the
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Palestinian people at heart.
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There's been much suffering.
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And anything like a genuine concern for those people would
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Have to ask for a different solution than what we have been
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Pursuing for 70 years.
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And i believe god has introduced a new idea.
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Again, i don't know where it will turn.
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I think it has a great deal to do with the prayers of god's
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People and our willingness to use our voices.
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I wouldn't submit to you that the jewish people do everything
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Right or the nation of israel does everything right.
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Far from it, they're subject to all the frailties and the
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Ungodliness and the wickedness that the rest of us are
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Subject to.
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But god chose them.
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And you may not like it, and when you see the boss, you can
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Take it up with him if you're of a mind to.
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In the meantime, i understand the best way to serve the king
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Is to try to like the things the king likes
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And to value the things the king values.
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And if it means that i have to orchestrate some changes, i will
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Do my best.
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I put a prayer in your notes.
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I'm not gonna use it with you, but i'll commend it to you--
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I think it's a wonderful prayer for the nation of israel and the
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People of the land--
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That the lord longs to be gracious, to them and to us.
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But i think it's appropriate for our communion prayer to go back
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To that verse from luke.
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It's where many of us are reading right now.
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And jesus chided, criticized, called names, the religious
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People in front of him,
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Not the drunkards, wasn't the people that were blatantly
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Practicing some sort of sexual immorality.
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He said, "you are so obsessed with what you want that you
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Study the weather patterns so you can do what you want.
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But you are clueless about what god is doing."
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And i think that is not an inaccurate description of much
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Of contemporary american christendom.
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That's why we send people to washington: we want them to fix
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This mess.
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We don't want to pay attention to our school boards.
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We don't want to pay attention to local universities.
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We don't wanna pay attention.
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We got things we wanna do.
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Except we're salt and light.
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And if we use our voices, somebody's not gonna like
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Us, yeah.
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But if you please god, you can be his treasured possession.
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And if you don't want to please god, have the courage to say it.
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If you really don't have the intent to be pleasing to god,
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Stop the charade.
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It will be better for you.
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We need a realignment, so we're gonna come to the communion
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Table as a first step.
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Jesus put this in place.
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It's not new to christianity.
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We get some weird ideas.
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You know, our whole baptism process is really borrowed from
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A cleansing in the jewish faith.
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Communion, as we understand it today, is--emerged from the
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Passover meal.
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If you didn't get communion when you came in the sanctuary,
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There's ushers in the aisles.
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If you're at home, you can go grab some saltines and a glass
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Of water.
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Before the hebrew people left egypt that last night, death
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Was coming.
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To every household in egypt, death was coming.
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Imagine that: death to every household.
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Can you--i can't imagine.
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What if death was coming to every household in the county
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Where we live.
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Morning would be horrific.
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The only exception was the houses where the family took a
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Lamb according to the instructions they'd been given,
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And they slaughtered the lamb and they captured the blood in a
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Basin, they roasted the lamb, they had a hurried meal.
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But then they had to take the blood they captured and put it
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On the doorpost of the house.
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Do you think there were any families amongst the hebrews
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That maybe even slaughtered the lamb and captured the blood and
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Roasted it, but they didn't put the blood on the doorpost?
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I promise.
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A hundred percent compliance is unimaginable.
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Well, we're not putting the blood physically on our
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Doorpost, but in the book of revelation says--it says that
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"the believers on earth overcome satan by the blood of the lamb
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And the word of their testimony."
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Jesus offered himself as a sacrifice for our sin.
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But for its application to have authority in our lives, we have
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To use the spiritual authority of our words to acknowledge
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Jesus is lord.
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That's how we defeat satan-- when we say what god has said
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About us.
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So we come to the communion table.
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Jesus took this, gathered his disciples.
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It's before the cross, so they're still a little fuzzy on
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What's unfolding.
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They can't get their heads around it.
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And he takes bread and breaks it and says, "this bread is my body
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Broken for you.
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As often as you eat this, do this in remembrance of me."
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Now in a few hours, that's gonna make a whole lot more sense
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To them.
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And so you and i are given a tangible expression of the grace
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Of god that we can come to the communion table.
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So for those places where we have been indifferent, we've
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Been way more focused on the weather than the things of god.
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We've been purposefully, willfully ignorant, so we didn't
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Have to use our voices.
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Perhaps today we could say to the lord we're sorry.
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We'll choose a new path.
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I've come to the conclusion, the reason we don't read our bibles
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Is we don't want to know.
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I've spent years of my life encouraging people to read
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Their bibles.
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I was slow to this conclusion.
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I think we don't read them because we understand somewhere
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Innately that we're not really complying and we don't want to
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Be reminded.
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Let's come to the communion table and say, "lord,
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We're sorry.
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It just hadn't mattered to us.
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But today, forgive me.
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I choose a new path."
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Jesus gave us the instruction.
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Let's receive together.
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"then he took a cup and he said, 'this cup is a new covenant.
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It's sealed with my own blood.
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As often as you drink it, you proclaim my death until you see
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Me again.'"
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Let's receive together.
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Yeah, if you're the one that glued mine closed, i
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Forgive you.
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Let's pray.
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Why don't you stand with me for this prayer.
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Mm mm mm, you know what an honor it is to be able to receive
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Communion in public, without fear?
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Probably most of us don't know, wars have been fought over the
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Privilege of receiving communion.
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Lives have been lost.
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Great persecution.
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And we've arrived at a point where we quibble about when we
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Take it, how frequent we take it, what kind of juice we use.
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Folks, don't confuse the point of those expressions.
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Let's pray.
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Father, thank you.
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Thank you for your great love for us, for your grace and your
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Mercy towards us.
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I thank you that you sent your son to intervene that we might
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Be delivered from the kingdom of darkness.
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And, lord, we come today to acknowledge those times and
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Places where we have been indifferent, whether we were
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Frightened or distracted or just uninterested.
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Lord, for whatever reason, we stood apart from
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Your invitations.
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We put on our robes of self-righteousness and imagined
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Ourselves whole apart from you.
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Lord, whatever the position, it separated us from you and we ask
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For your forgiveness today.
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Holy spirit, we want to welcome you into our lives.
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We want to cooperate with you fully and completely in every
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Arena where you've given us influence.
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We want to be a light for you, a voice for you, an advocate
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For you.
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We want to honor you in our words and our actions and
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Our deeds.
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Thank you for your church and the earth and that you have made
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It possible for us to be included.
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We pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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We pray for wisdom for those who are leading in that nation.
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I pray for our nation that we would not make decisions that
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Would bring your judgment upon us.
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Give us leaders who fear your name.
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Awaken your church to be what you created us for, that our
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Children might know the freedoms and liberties that have filled
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Our lives.
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We thank you for it in jesus's name, amen.
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Hallelujah, god bless you. have a great day.
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Allen: hey, i'm really excited about our newest publication.
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It's called "your identity in christ."
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It's a booklet, small book, intended to help you understand
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Who you are in christ, straightforward, grounded in
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Scripture, but i help people take steps towards
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Spiritual freedom.
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The most essential component is helping them understand who they
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Are in christ.
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You know, we're walking through a season where there's
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Tremendous cultural confusion, so much dialogue about how
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We identify.
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Folks, understanding who you are in christ, the price that was
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Paid to give you status in the kingdom of god, it will write a
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Future for you that is not dependent upon your family of
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Origin, your life circumstance, the expressions of evil that
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You've had to overcome.
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In christ jesus we are triumphant both in time and for
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All eternity.
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We put this little booklet together.
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It'll help you.
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You can read it, you can do it as a small group.
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It's easy to share the message with children or grandchildren.
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Make this a part of this season in your life and in your home
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And with your friends.
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It's a game changer.
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Allen Jackson - A Chosen People

July 9, 2026 | 27:29

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