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Allen Jackson - Christianity and Antisemitism (Part 1)

June 3, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Christianity and Antisemitism (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Christianity and Antisemitism (Part 1) | June 3, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i've encouraged you for a long time
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  • To lead with your faith.
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  • Take you faith outside the church building
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  • Into all the places that your life takes you,
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  • Where you have influence, where you have a voice.
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  • We've created some pieces to help you do that:
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  • A tote bag, a blanket.
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  • Maybe you're going to a ball game or the park or the beach,
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  • Wherever that may be.
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  • You take these along, they are a celebration of our nation's
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  • 250th anniversary.
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  • Somebody will want to know where you got it, what it's about.
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  • It gives you an opportunity to share your faith.
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  • You know, i've had the privilege of living in some places outside
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  • The united states.
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  • Things like a grocery store or fast food or food delivery,
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  • Those things weren't possible in the places i lived.
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  • When i come home, just walking through a grocery store reminds
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  • Me of the goodness and the faithfulness of god,
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  • His blessings on our nation.
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  • Use your voice to say god has blessed america.
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  • Something as simple as a tote bag can open a door
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  • For your god story.
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  • Together, we're gonna lift up the name of jesus in this
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  • Generation and see god bless america again.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: no, i'm grateful you're here.
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  • I wanna extend the invitation from the video personally to
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  • Read the gospels with us.
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  • I'm really inviting you to read the bible, but i wanna ask you
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  • To begin the year, if you've never done the bible reading
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  • With us before, how about if we just read the gospels together?
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  • It's about 60 days, depends on how you read, ten to 15 minutes
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  • A day, and we'll be through matthew, mark, luke, and john
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  • Before easter.
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  • I'm gonna continue that recruitment through the month
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  • Of january.
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  • And just, spoiler alert, if you read the gospels with me i'm
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  • Gonna ask you to read the rest of the new testament.
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  • We'll be done with that before memorial day.
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  • And if you've read the whole new testament, you might as well
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  • Read the of books of moses with me, but let's just start with
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  • The gospels, and if it doesn't mean anything to you and it
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  • Isn't helpful, i'm good.
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  • I like to start with the gospels for a variety of reasons.
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  • It's the story of jesus's life on earth.
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  • Many of the names and characters are familiar to us.
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  • Even people who are just marginally aware of christianity
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  • Probably know about mary and joseph and some of the apostles'
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  • Names and some of the cities.
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  • You've probably heard of jerusalem or bethlehem or
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  • Nazareth, and so it isn't nearly as unfamiliar as some segments
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  • Of the scripture, and that helps, and it's a narrative and
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  • It's very engaging, just the story.
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  • Read it like you read the newspaper.
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  • What's the message of the chapters?
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  • What's the point the author was making?
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  • What did they want me to know?
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  • You don't have to look for spiritual significance or don't
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  • Try to unpack the deep secrets of the universe, just read
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  • This narrative.
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  • And if you use the website or the apps, the apps will read it
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  • To you, but this is what's different.
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  • I wanna ask you to do something more than read it yourself.
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  • I wanna ask you to invite somebody to read it with you or
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  • Some bodies to read it with you.
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  • It's not enough, we have to change our focus a bit away from
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  • The personal nature of our faith and recognize that we've been
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  • Called to be a light.
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  • And jesus said a light that's under a basket is of no use, and
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  • A personal, private faith is a light under a basket.
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  • And so, please don't settle for just reading the gospels or
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  • Starting your bible reading again with us, i'm grateful that
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  • You would do that, but invite somebody to read it with you or
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  • Multiple people, maybe your whole small group.
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  • Start with the most likely people, the people that you
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  • Think will do it.
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  • The stories are already coming back.
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  • One man said to me this weekend he'd asked 16 people and they'd
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  • Said yes.
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  • A woman said to me her sister lives in another state, and when
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  • Her sister drives to work she's reading the passages to her, so
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  • They're reading the bible together every morning.
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  • So, you can be as creative as you are, but there are people
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  • Around you--now, i have a motive, i have this notion that
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  • If we could engage whatever the number is, i hope it's a number
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  • That exceeds anything i could imagine.
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  • If we could get thousands of people reading their bible on
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  • A daily basis, that it will bring the blessing of god.
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  • I'm not a complicated guy, i grew up in a barn in tennessee,
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  • And i don't believe that sending a new set of leadership team
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  • To washington d.c.
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  • Will resolve all of our problems if we don't have meaningful
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  • Heart change in amongst us.
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  • And rather than just provide commentary and complaints about
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  • What other people are doing, let's become something.
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  • Let's become a people in pursuit of god and a people that are
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  • Opening doorways for other people to do that.
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  • So, will you at least consider asking somebody?
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  • Not everybody will say yes, i can tell you that.
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  • I've been inviting the congregation to do this for a
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  • Number of years and there are people that have been here every
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  • Year and have never said yes, all right?
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  • I still smile at them, so please don't take it personally.
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  • Everybody didn't respond positively to jesus's message
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  • And they're not all going to respond positively to your
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  • Invitation but they won't forget it and you don't know when that
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  • Seed will germinate.
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  • They may come back to you in six months and say, you know, you
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  • Asked me back in january to read the gospels, i'd like to
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  • Do that.
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  • Please don't tell them to wait till january, make ten minutes
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  • More in your day and say i would love to do that for the next 60
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  • Days, let's go.
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  • Will you at least pray about it?
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  • Yes, that's the word, yes, good, okay, good.
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  • There's interactive portions to this church thing, okay?
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  • I'm gonna continue a study we began in an earlier--some
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  • Earlier sessions talking about stormproof foundations.
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  • Jesus said that storms come to every life, that you can't
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  • Avoid them.
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  • There are some streams in contemporary christianity that
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  • Would suggest that if you do certain things you can avoid
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  • The storms of life, and i don't believe that's biblical.
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  • I'm not making a negative confession, i'm simply
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  • Acknowledging the reality of scripture.
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  • Our heroes, our lord faced temptation from satan himself.
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  • The people he recruited to take the message of his life and his
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  • Redemptive work to the world faced very real challenges
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  • Themselves, and they were trained by the lord.
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  • So, i think to imagine that because you're a christ follower
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  • And a person of faith and doing your best to walk in obedience,
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  • I don't believe you should imagine that it just completely
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  • Removes you from the arena.
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  • We are here and we are called to live out the redemptive work of
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  • Jesus, so we want to learn to stormproof the foundations of
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  • Our lives.
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  • When the storms come, jesus said you can stand, that they don't
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  • Have to bring destruction, but if that your foundation is
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  • Incomplete or inadequate, that destruction will come.
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  • So, we're gonna spend a few sessions trying to understand
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  • This, and in this session we're gonna talk specifically about
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  • Christianity and antisemitism, which is a fancy word for hating
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  • The jewish people.
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  • And i want to go back to where we were on our previous session
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  • In matthew chapter 10.
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  • When i did that, it was the reading for the day and i simply
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  • Took the chapter reading and unpacked it with you hoping to
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  • Add a bit of momentum to your read through the gospels.
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  • I'm not gonna persist in this pattern through the whole
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  • Series, but i wanted to pick this topic back up.
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  • I'm of the opinion that god is shaking the earth, and in the
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  • Same way when there's an earthquake, there may be a
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  • Shock, but in reality there's typically multiple shocks,
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  • Tremors, some are more powerful than others, but it's very
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  • Seldom just a single event.
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  • Well, i don't believe what we're witnessing is just
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  • A single event.
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  • The one that awakened me in a significant way and caused me to
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  • Pay attention was the covid virus.
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  • I watched things i never thought i would see.
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  • I never thought i would see in a broad way the quarantining of
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  • Healthy people.
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  • I never thought i would see the closures of churches and that we
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  • Would quietly say okay.
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  • I mean, there's a long list of things, but covid began an
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  • Awakening for me and it wasn't just a theological awakening, it
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  • Was an awakening to what was happening in the world
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  • Around us.
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  • I got clarity.
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  • I had trusted the cdc implicitly up until that point.
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  • Never occurred to me to do anything other than that.
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  • It occurred to me during that season, and it took god to bring
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  • That awakening to our lives.
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  • I pray that we see some of those institutions returned to places
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  • Of being trustworthy.
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  • That's my prayer.
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  • I think we should pray and intercede until we see
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  • That happen.
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  • They are essential to our well-being as a people, and we
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  • Forfeit something of great significance if we forfeit the
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  • Trustworthiness of essential institutions in our society.
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  • I would put the church in that list.
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  • We need churches to be advocates for the truth, boldly and
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  • Courageously holding out the light in the midst of
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  • The darkness, amen.
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  • I think there was another tremor of shaking on october the 7th
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  • A year ago when hamas attacked that music festival in southern
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  • Israel and the villages that were in that neighborhood and
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  • Hundreds of israelis were brutally murdered.
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  • I wasn't aware of it at the time.
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  • I didn't watch the news that day and think, oh, god is shaking
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  • The earth.
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  • It took a bit for it to capture my attention.
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  • What really brought it forward to me was on america's most
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  • Elite university campuses it exposed that they were
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  • Propaganda centers and not educational institutions.
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  • There were loud, bold, brazen, persistent, repetitive
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  • Demonstrations against the jewish people on behalf of hamas
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  • And the administrations of those universities supported them.
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  • That was an awakening to me.
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  • I understood some of the currents in academia, but i
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  • Didn't understand the degree to which antisemitism had
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  • Flourished and gained authority in those places.
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  • In november this last year, i think we had another shaking.
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  • I mean, there were billions of dollars spent by politicians all
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  • Over the spectrum, but the unanticipated part of that
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  • Election was the people all over the middle part of our nation,
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  • People who live in flyover country, the despicable people,
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  • The trash, my people.
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  • That's the part of the country where i live and where i have
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  • Grown up and that group of people inexplicably, really
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  • Without precedent, raised their hands and went and said we
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  • Believe we need to go a different direction.
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  • I want to be clear, i think the outcome of that vote is very
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  • Unclear at this point.
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  • I think it's foolish to imagine that a political class of people
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  • Are going to rectify the problems of our nation, and i
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  • Think it will very much be dependent on the hearts of
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  • The people of faith and our willingness to seek the lord,
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  • Thus initiatives like let's read our gospels.
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  • Nevertheless, i'm grateful for those men and women who will
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  • Disrupt their lives in order to go stand for something.
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  • I'm very appreciative that mike huckabee would agree to go
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  • To israel.
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  • He had a very--he had a very busy life here.
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  • He had a family here and grandchildren here and
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  • A daughter enjoying some very unique seasons in her own life
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  • As the governor of arkansas, and to leave our nation and go
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  • To israel is a sacrifice.
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  • I mean, i understand it's an honor, but it's an honor that
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  • Comes with a sacrifice.
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  • And so, i'm grateful for the men and women that are taking those
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  • Roles and willing to do it, i just understand that alone they
  • 00:12:25.326 --> 00:12:28.997
  • Are powerless to stand against evil.
  • 00:12:28.997 --> 00:12:31.232
  • They need the faithful support, a heart change amongst the
  • 00:12:31.232 --> 00:12:35.103
  • People of god.
  • 00:12:35.103 --> 00:12:38.606
  • I wasn't particularly comforted when mark zuckerberg came out
  • 00:12:38.606 --> 00:12:41.442
  • Recently this week to announce that on meta they're no longer
  • 00:12:41.442 --> 00:12:45.413
  • Going to practice censorship, and there was kind of
  • 00:12:45.413 --> 00:12:50.652
  • A celebration.
  • 00:12:50.652 --> 00:12:53.288
  • To be completely candid, i thought he should be prosecuted
  • 00:12:53.288 --> 00:12:55.723
  • For admitting he's been infringing on our first
  • 00:12:55.723 --> 00:12:58.726
  • Amendment rights.
  • 00:12:58.726 --> 00:13:03.765
  • Nevertheless, perhaps we have a season of freedom to preach
  • 00:13:03.765 --> 00:13:06.634
  • The gospel.
  • 00:13:06.634 --> 00:13:08.002
  • I believe we should do everything we can to do that
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  • While we have the freedom.
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  • Allen: hey, we're celebrating this year the 250th anniversary
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  • Of the signing of the declaration of independence.
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  • What a wonderful privilege we have.
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  • You know, god has blessed our nation so many good things.
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  • People say to me, "well, our whole history is not good."
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  • Well, folks, you know, my history is not great.
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  • Your family history is not perfect.
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  • In spite of our weaknesses-- well, our nation hadn't been
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  • Perfect, but through that whole story, the goodness of god
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  • Is evident.
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  • It still is.
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  • Allen: so, having said that let's go back to matthew 10.
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  • We looked at the beginning of this in a previous session, i'll
  • 00:14:23.878 --> 00:14:26.814
  • Start there, but we're gonna go beyond it.
  • 00:14:26.814 --> 00:14:30.051
  • "jesus called his twelve disciples to him and he gave
  • 00:14:30.051 --> 00:14:32.186
  • Them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every
  • 00:14:32.186 --> 00:14:35.823
  • Disease and sickness, and these are the names of the
  • 00:14:35.823 --> 00:14:37.759
  • Twelve apostles.
  • 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:39.460
  • Simon and andrew and james and john and philip and bartholomew
  • 00:14:39.460 --> 00:14:42.597
  • And thomas and matthew," you know the crew.
  • 00:14:42.597 --> 00:14:45.099
  • It's that initial sentence that i think is noteworthy.
  • 00:14:45.099 --> 00:14:48.436
  • They'd been watching jesus do ministry, raise the dead, heal
  • 00:14:48.436 --> 00:14:51.572
  • The sick, speak to storms, open blind eyes, and by matthew
  • 00:14:51.572 --> 00:14:55.543
  • Chapter 10 jesus calls the disciples to him and he says now
  • 00:14:55.543 --> 00:14:58.913
  • I'm gonna give you authority.
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  • I want you to go do this.
  • 00:15:01.382 --> 00:15:04.185
  • Now, spoiler alert, i'm gonna give you my opinion, i don't
  • 00:15:04.185 --> 00:15:06.721
  • Think that has ever been rescinded.
  • 00:15:06.721 --> 00:15:10.825
  • In acts chapter 1 jesus called his disciples together just
  • 00:15:10.825 --> 00:15:14.195
  • Before his ascension and he said you'll be empowered to be my
  • 00:15:14.195 --> 00:15:19.434
  • Witnesses in jerusalem, judea, and samaria, to the outermost
  • 00:15:19.434 --> 00:15:22.403
  • Parts of the earth and i'll be with you to the end of the age.
  • 00:15:22.403 --> 00:15:25.673
  • I don't understand that direction to have ever
  • 00:15:25.673 --> 00:15:27.542
  • Been amended.
  • 00:15:27.542 --> 00:15:30.845
  • Now, i tell you that because there is a school of thought,
  • 00:15:30.845 --> 00:15:33.081
  • And it's more than a school of thought, it's entrenched in
  • 00:15:33.081 --> 00:15:35.350
  • Whole denominations.
  • 00:15:35.350 --> 00:15:37.685
  • So, it's not just a thin line of people who believe that when the
  • 00:15:37.685 --> 00:15:45.994
  • Last of the apostles died, that commissioning for supernatural
  • 00:15:45.994 --> 00:15:52.533
  • Activity in the miraculous died with them.
  • 00:15:52.533 --> 00:15:57.438
  • Now, i don't believe that is an accurate interpretation
  • 00:15:57.438 --> 00:16:00.508
  • Of scripture.
  • 00:16:00.508 --> 00:16:01.843
  • I don't like to argue scripture, i'm very difficult to engage in
  • 00:16:01.843 --> 00:16:05.513
  • A biblical argument.
  • 00:16:05.513 --> 00:16:06.848
  • If you believe that, i'm happy for you, i'll tell you what i
  • 00:16:06.848 --> 00:16:10.218
  • Believe and i'll tell you why, and i don't think you're
  • 00:16:10.218 --> 00:16:13.521
  • Probably gonna change my mind so i'll just bless you.
  • 00:16:13.521 --> 00:16:19.027
  • Stubborn is probably the word you're searching for.
  • 00:16:19.027 --> 00:16:23.631
  • Cessationism is the fancier term for that.
  • 00:16:23.631 --> 00:16:27.935
  • It just makes no sense to me to give us a bible that is filled
  • 00:16:27.935 --> 00:16:31.539
  • With the supernatural activity of god and then say to us god's
  • 00:16:31.539 --> 00:16:35.376
  • Not doing that anymore.
  • 00:16:35.376 --> 00:16:37.812
  • You know, i'm grateful for hospitals and modern medicine
  • 00:16:37.812 --> 00:16:40.581
  • And modern science, but there are times when god's
  • 00:16:40.581 --> 00:16:43.618
  • Supernatural involvement in our lives is necessary for us to
  • 00:16:43.618 --> 00:16:46.721
  • Have health, and i don't think it's an either/or discussion, i
  • 00:16:46.721 --> 00:16:50.491
  • Very much believe in both/and but i trust god to keep
  • 00:16:50.491 --> 00:16:54.796
  • Us whole.
  • 00:16:54.796 --> 00:16:58.499
  • So, i put in your notes one verse, forgot i slipped that
  • 00:16:58.499 --> 00:17:06.340
  • In there.
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  • Well, in acts chapter 10 peter was sent to cornelius's home.
  • 00:17:08.176 --> 00:17:11.913
  • Peter was not supposed to be there, he's an observant jewish
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  • Man at this point in his life.
  • 00:17:14.248 --> 00:17:15.583
  • Peter keeps kosher, he's keeping all the jewish rules, he
  • 00:17:15.583 --> 00:17:19.120
  • Believes jesus is the messiah but he's still adhering to the
  • 00:17:19.120 --> 00:17:22.056
  • Rules of moses and god sends him to the home of a roman
  • 00:17:22.056 --> 00:17:25.660
  • Centurion supernaturally.
  • 00:17:25.660 --> 00:17:28.062
  • There's angels involved and visions involved, i mean, it's
  • 00:17:28.062 --> 00:17:31.299
  • A supernatural event.
  • 00:17:31.299 --> 00:17:33.034
  • And when peter arrives at cornelius's home and begins
  • 00:17:33.034 --> 00:17:36.804
  • To tell his jesus story, the holy spirit is poured out in an
  • 00:17:36.804 --> 00:17:39.974
  • Almost identical way to the day of pentecost in acts chapter 2.
  • 00:17:39.974 --> 00:17:44.745
  • And peter's response, after helping the people be baptized,
  • 00:17:44.745 --> 00:17:48.950
  • Is the statement in acts 10:34 and 35.
  • 00:17:48.950 --> 00:17:51.552
  • He said, "i now realize how true it is that god doesn't
  • 00:17:51.552 --> 00:17:55.022
  • Show favoritism."
  • 00:17:55.022 --> 00:17:56.824
  • Some of the older translations say that god is no respecter of
  • 00:17:56.824 --> 00:17:59.460
  • Persons, "but he accepts men from every nation who fear him
  • 00:17:59.460 --> 00:18:03.097
  • And do what is right."
  • 00:18:03.097 --> 00:18:04.999
  • I don't think it's possible for us to understand the seismic
  • 00:18:04.999 --> 00:18:09.070
  • Shift that that statement represents.
  • 00:18:09.070 --> 00:18:12.473
  • Up until this point, from the exodus until this point in time,
  • 00:18:12.473 --> 00:18:18.779
  • The jewish people understood themselves to be the covenant
  • 00:18:18.779 --> 00:18:21.816
  • People of god, and the word "gentile" means everybody else.
  • 00:18:21.816 --> 00:18:28.356
  • There's us and there's them, and now peter says them have
  • 00:18:28.356 --> 00:18:35.663
  • Been welcomed.
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  • I mean, it is the point of division throughout the rest of
  • 00:18:38.499 --> 00:18:41.702
  • The new testament.
  • 00:18:41.702 --> 00:18:45.406
  • It's a very important statement that god is not a respecter of
  • 00:18:45.406 --> 00:18:50.011
  • Persons, that he doesn't show favoritism.
  • 00:18:50.011 --> 00:18:54.982
  • I can say it another way, you're not special.
  • 00:18:54.982 --> 00:18:59.287
  • You know, we like to say the ground at the foot of the cross
  • 00:18:59.287 --> 00:19:01.622
  • Is level, that every person is welcome regardless of our iq,
  • 00:19:01.622 --> 00:19:05.826
  • Our social status, our financial resources, our genetics, the
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  • Color of our hair, the color of our skin, the accent with
  • 00:19:10.798 --> 00:19:14.502
  • Which we speak.
  • 00:19:14.502 --> 00:19:15.836
  • We are all welcome at the foot of the cross, which is really
  • 00:19:15.836 --> 00:19:20.508
  • Good news.
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  • And i don't mean it as a negative or a critical term when
  • 00:19:21.842 --> 00:19:23.878
  • I say you're not special, you're special in that god loves you.
  • 00:19:23.878 --> 00:19:28.349
  • He loves us all.
  • 00:19:28.349 --> 00:19:30.985
  • We have to choose to accept that and to cooperate with that.
  • 00:19:30.985 --> 00:19:34.889
  • But this has been turned a bit, let's read on.
  • 00:19:34.889 --> 00:19:37.391
  • I'm back to matthew 10 now verse 5, "these twelve jesus sent out
  • 00:19:37.391 --> 00:19:40.695
  • With the following instructions, 'do not go among the gentiles or
  • 00:19:40.695 --> 00:19:44.465
  • Any town of the samaritans.
  • 00:19:44.465 --> 00:19:48.169
  • Go rather to the lost sheep of israel, and as you go preach
  • 00:19:48.169 --> 00:19:51.038
  • This message, 'the kingdom of heaven is near.'
  • 00:19:51.038 --> 00:19:52.773
  • Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy,
  • 00:19:52.773 --> 00:19:56.244
  • Drive out demons.
  • 00:19:56.244 --> 00:19:57.612
  • Freely you have received, freely give.
  • 00:19:57.612 --> 00:19:59.747
  • Don't take along any gold or silver or copper in your belts.
  • 00:19:59.747 --> 00:20:02.283
  • Take no bag for the journey or extra tunic or sandals or staff,
  • 00:20:02.283 --> 00:20:05.753
  • For the worker is worth his keep.
  • 00:20:05.753 --> 00:20:08.155
  • Whatever town or village you enter, search for some worthy
  • 00:20:08.155 --> 00:20:10.958
  • Person, stay at the house until you leave, and as you enter
  • 00:20:10.958 --> 00:20:13.327
  • The home, give it your greeting.
  • 00:20:13.327 --> 00:20:15.029
  • If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it.
  • 00:20:15.029 --> 00:20:17.131
  • If not, let your peace return to you.
  • 00:20:17.131 --> 00:20:20.468
  • And if anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words,
  • 00:20:20.468 --> 00:20:22.903
  • Shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home
  • 00:20:22.903 --> 00:20:25.306
  • Or town.
  • 00:20:25.306 --> 00:20:26.641
  • I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for sodom and
  • 00:20:26.641 --> 00:20:28.809
  • Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.'"
  • 00:20:28.809 --> 00:20:33.514
  • So, god's commissioning these apostles with this authority to
  • 00:20:33.514 --> 00:20:36.083
  • Send them out, and he basically says if you're welcomed,
  • 00:20:36.083 --> 00:20:39.920
  • Minister in that place, if you're not welcome, move along.
  • 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:43.924
  • Not dissimilar to the suggestion i made to you a while ago, that
  • 00:20:43.924 --> 00:20:47.161
  • Invite someone to join you on a bit of a discipleship journey,
  • 00:20:47.161 --> 00:20:50.631
  • Some will say yes and some won't.
  • 00:20:50.631 --> 00:20:52.967
  • Keep going, we will not stop.
  • 00:20:52.967 --> 00:20:57.571
  • But that passage has been taken and the idea has found pretty
  • 00:20:57.571 --> 00:21:01.542
  • Significant root in the heart of the christian community over
  • 00:21:01.542 --> 00:21:04.245
  • Many decades and centuries that the jewish people failed at
  • 00:21:04.245 --> 00:21:08.449
  • Their opportunity.
  • 00:21:08.449 --> 00:21:10.551
  • And there's some other passages in matthew that i thought while
  • 00:21:10.551 --> 00:21:13.020
  • We were here, matthew 10 kind of opens the door.
  • 00:21:13.020 --> 00:21:15.623
  • In matthew 21 jesus is speaking to leaders in jerusalem very
  • 00:21:15.623 --> 00:21:21.696
  • Near the end of his life.
  • 00:21:21.696 --> 00:21:23.030
  • His words are going to cause him to be arrested and ultimately
  • 00:21:23.030 --> 00:21:25.099
  • His death orchestrated.
  • 00:21:25.099 --> 00:21:26.901
  • He said, "'therefore i tell you that the kingdom of god will be
  • 00:21:26.901 --> 00:21:29.704
  • Taken away from you and given to a people who will produce
  • 00:21:29.704 --> 00:21:33.641
  • Its fruit.
  • 00:21:33.641 --> 00:21:35.076
  • He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on
  • 00:21:35.076 --> 00:21:38.112
  • Whom it falls will be crushed.'
  • 00:21:38.112 --> 00:21:40.381
  • When the chief priests and the pharisees heard jesus's
  • 00:21:40.381 --> 00:21:42.750
  • Parables, they knew he was talking about them.
  • 00:21:42.750 --> 00:21:47.321
  • They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the
  • 00:21:47.321 --> 00:21:49.757
  • Crowd because the people held that he was a prophet."
  • 00:21:49.757 --> 00:21:53.361
  • Now, jesus has spoken something over the people of jerusalem,
  • 00:21:53.361 --> 00:21:57.198
  • Over the religious leaders.
  • 00:21:57.198 --> 00:21:59.467
  • There's a bit of a fancy word for it, he placed them
  • 00:21:59.467 --> 00:22:01.669
  • Under interdict.
  • 00:22:01.669 --> 00:22:03.904
  • He said something is being taken away from you.
  • 00:22:03.904 --> 00:22:07.441
  • You were assigned a place in the purposes of god and because you
  • 00:22:07.441 --> 00:22:11.879
  • Didn't value it, it's being removed from you.
  • 00:22:11.879 --> 00:22:16.283
  • He doesn't stop there.
  • 00:22:16.283 --> 00:22:17.618
  • Same gospel, very next chapter, it's matthew 22.
  • 00:22:17.618 --> 00:22:21.989
  • "jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying, 'the kingdom
  • 00:22:21.989 --> 00:22:25.059
  • Of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for
  • 00:22:25.059 --> 00:22:28.729
  • His son.
  • 00:22:28.729 --> 00:22:30.097
  • And he sent his servants to those who had been invited
  • 00:22:30.097 --> 00:22:31.565
  • To the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused.
  • 00:22:31.565 --> 00:22:35.569
  • And he sent some more servants and said, 'tell those who have
  • 00:22:35.569 --> 00:22:37.772
  • Been invited that i have prepared my dinner.
  • 00:22:37.772 --> 00:22:39.540
  • My oxen and my fattened cattle have been butchered and
  • 00:22:39.540 --> 00:22:42.109
  • Everything is ready.
  • 00:22:42.109 --> 00:22:43.444
  • Come to the wedding banquet.'
  • 00:22:43.444 --> 00:22:45.880
  • But they paid no attention and went off, one to his field,
  • 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:50.317
  • Another to his business.
  • 00:22:50.317 --> 00:22:51.685
  • The rest seized his servants and mistreated them and killed them.
  • 00:22:51.685 --> 00:22:54.422
  • The king was enraged and he sent his army and he destroyed those
  • 00:22:54.422 --> 00:22:57.057
  • Murderers and burned their city."
  • 00:22:57.057 --> 00:23:00.027
  • Those are the verses that immediately follow matthew 21.
  • 00:23:00.027 --> 00:23:03.330
  • There was no break in the original text, we added
  • 00:23:03.330 --> 00:23:07.601
  • The numbers and the chapters to help us reference spaces.
  • 00:23:07.601 --> 00:23:11.172
  • So, jesus says to the leaders in jerusalem that the kingdom of
  • 00:23:11.172 --> 00:23:15.843
  • God is going to be taken away from you and given to a people
  • 00:23:15.843 --> 00:23:18.245
  • Who will produce its fruit, and then he tells them this parable.
  • 00:23:18.245 --> 00:23:22.349
  • And the heart of the parable is they were given an invitation,
  • 00:23:22.349 --> 00:23:26.187
  • They recognized the invitation, they understood the invitation,
  • 00:23:26.187 --> 00:23:29.924
  • They chose not to pay attention to it.
  • 00:23:29.924 --> 00:23:34.895
  • Now, throughout history the christian community, because the
  • 00:23:34.895 --> 00:23:37.731
  • Divide came between the jewish believers and the christian
  • 00:23:37.731 --> 00:23:41.368
  • Believers pretty early, before the new testament is finished,
  • 00:23:41.368 --> 00:23:46.440
  • That divide is already firmly entrenched.
  • 00:23:46.440 --> 00:23:49.143
  • I'm gonna show you some passages.
  • 00:23:49.143 --> 00:23:52.112
  • And the christian community has interpreted those passages to
  • 00:23:52.112 --> 00:23:54.815
  • Say the jewish people were rejected, that god took the
  • 00:23:54.815 --> 00:23:58.652
  • Kingdom away from them and they lost their place and they lost
  • 00:23:58.652 --> 00:24:03.757
  • Their purposes.
  • 00:24:03.757 --> 00:24:06.794
  • I'm gonna address that in a moment.
  • 00:24:06.794 --> 00:24:08.295
  • For the moment, i want to draw your attention back to verse 5
  • 00:24:08.295 --> 00:24:10.631
  • In chapter 22 when jesus in the parable said they paid no
  • 00:24:10.631 --> 00:24:15.135
  • Attention to the invitation.
  • 00:24:15.135 --> 00:24:18.105
  • I'm concerned for contemporary christianity.
  • 00:24:18.105 --> 00:24:21.742
  • We have more freedom, more liberty, more access to the word
  • 00:24:21.742 --> 00:24:24.311
  • Of god, more tools to communicate the gospel,
  • 00:24:24.311 --> 00:24:27.248
  • More freedom to travel.
  • 00:24:27.248 --> 00:24:29.683
  • We have more of everything.
  • 00:24:29.683 --> 00:24:31.819
  • We cannot afford to not pay attention.
  • 00:24:31.819 --> 00:24:36.156
  • I don't want you--i don't think it's inappropriate to enjoy life
  • 00:24:36.156 --> 00:24:39.393
  • And to take advantage of all those blessings that god gives
  • 00:24:39.393 --> 00:24:41.829
  • To us, but i believe it is essential that he stays at
  • 00:24:41.829 --> 00:24:45.266
  • The center of it.
  • 00:24:45.266 --> 00:24:47.968
  • Now, the next chapter in matthew, jesus on the same
  • 00:24:47.968 --> 00:24:50.304
  • Topic, "jerusalem, jerusalem, you who killed the prophets and
  • 00:24:50.304 --> 00:24:53.841
  • Stone those sent to you, how often i've longed to gather your
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  • Children together, as a hen gathers her checks under her
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  • Wings, but you were not willing.
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  • Your house is left to you desolate.
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  • For i tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'blessed
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  • Is he who comes in the name of the lord.'"
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  • Now, those passages, and they're parallel passages in the other
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  • Gospels, have been used along with some others to create
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  • A great deal of theological hostility towards the jewish
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  • People, and there are some attitudes that have become
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  • Entrenched in christendom that state what i have already
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  • Suggested to you, that the jewish people forfeited
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  • Their opportunity.
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  • They've been accused of being christ killers.
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  • Allen: more than seven times god told joshua to be strong
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  • And courageous.
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  • That was his commissioning.
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  • Not go to theology school or read your bible more or do a
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  • Greek word study, be strong and courageous.
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  • I think strength and courage are more necessary for you and me as
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  • Christ followers today than any other set of attributes i can
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  • Think of.
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  • I wanna pray.
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  • Father, i thank you that we have bibles and churches and
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  • Fellowship and community, but we need your help to be men and
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  • Women of strength and courage.
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  • Holy spirit, we ask you, let a boldness for god grow in us,
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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