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Allen Jackson - Disciples with Authority and Power (Part 1)

February 15, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Disciples with Authority and Power (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Disciples with Authority and Power (Part 1) | February 15, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • Have heard the gospel otherwise.
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  • Together, we can stand firm in our faith and make god's truth
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  • Allen jackson: we're doing a study in the gospel of luke.
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  • I have encouraged you to consider accepting an additional
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  • Reading assignment beyond your daily bible reading.
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  • Although our daily bible reading has been pretty much on point
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  • This week, i thought to get to read esther on the october 7th
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  • Anniversary was very good coordination by somebody
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  • Not named allen.
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  • But beyond that daily reading, i've been encouraging you
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  • To read the gospel of luke, it's only 24 chapters.
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  • Some of you have a schedule that will permit you to read it
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  • Very frequently, almost daily.
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  • You can read the gospel of luke in less time than it takes
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  • To watch a ball game.
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  • For some of you, perhaps you could read it once a week
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  • While we're walking through this.
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  • But in the repetitive reading, it changes the way you interact
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  • With the text.
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  • It becomes--begins to become more familiar to you.
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  • It's not as surprising as it is when you read it maybe once
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  • A year, or just intermittently, or even if you just read
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  • A couple of pages at a time.
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  • You know, i was talking to my dad the other day, and i said if
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  • I had read my organic chemistry book the way i read the bible,
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  • It would not have gone well with me.
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  • I read about, you know, you read about two pages at a time, you
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  • Never reread them, you move on to the next two pages, and
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  • You may miss three or four days, and then you gotta catch up,
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  • So you read six pages; you'd wonder why you didn't understand
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  • Organic chemistry.
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  • And we wonder why we don't understand our bible.
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  • So, what i'm really inviting you to do is a little different way
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  • To engage with your bible.
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  • And if your schedule permits, join us in that.
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  • And then my goal in our time together is to invite you
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  • To imagine that it can impact your life and your behavior.
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  • I'm really not interested in theoretical bible studies.
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  • If i wanted to do that, i would have stayed at the university.
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  • The point of reading our bibles and studying our bible,
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  • The point of gathering with the people of god,
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  • Is to invite the presence of god into our midst.
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  • And so, that's where we're gonna start.
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  • The goal tonight is luke chapter 9.
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  • I say "goal" because i haven't done really well,
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  • But we need to pick up a little speed, so buckle up.
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  • It's a wednesday night, most of you are familiar
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  • With your bibles, and we will see, with the lord's help.
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  • There's a tone change in luke chapter 9.
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  • In verse 1, it says,
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  • "when jesus had called the twelve together, he gave them
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  • Power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases,
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  • And he sent them out to preach the kingdom of god and to heal
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  • The sick."
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  • And he gave them some instructions: "'take nothing
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  • For the journey, no staff, no bag, no bread,
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  • No money, no extra tunic.
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  • Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that town.
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  • And if people don't welcome you, shake the dust off your feet
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  • When you leave their town, as a testimony against them.'
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  • So they set out and went from village to village,
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  • Preaching the gospel and healing people everywhere."
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  • This is consistent with the narrative we have
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  • Up to this point with one significant deviation.
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  • Jesus tells the disciples rather candidly, "you're going to be
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  • Treated as i've been treated.
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  • Some villages will be accepting, and some villages will not."
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  • I don't believe we should expect anything different.
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  • When we share the good news of the kingdom of god, there'll be
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  • People who are very receptive, and there'll be people who are
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  • Very much not.
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  • It hasn't changed.
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  • Please don't get your feelings hurt.
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  • Don't withdraw from the arena.
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  • Don't say, "well, i tried that and everybody didn't applaud."
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  • You know, we live in a culture where we're told that your faith
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  • Should be private.
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  • They tell us that, but they don't keep
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  • Their worldview private.
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  • I don't know when the church is going to awaken to the reality
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  • That there's a spiritual conflict in the earth, and we've
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  • Been sitting on the bench because our adversaries told us
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  • They didn't want to hear us.
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  • We should be embarrassed.
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  • We've been given something, jesus gave us something.
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  • Did you hear it?
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  • He called the twelve together, and he gave them power
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  • And authority to drive out demons and to cure diseases.
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  • And then he sent them out with a message, and to heal the sick.
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  • He's given all of us some very similar assignments.
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  • We'll see those before we're done with the gospel,
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  • And to the best of my knowledge, he's never amended nor rescinded
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  • The assignment.
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  • He didn't send us out to have bible studies.
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  • He didn't send us out to be polite.
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  • He didn't send us out to be tame, or kind, or passive.
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  • He sent us out with a demonstration.
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  • Now, the change in luke's narrative is up to this point,
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  • God's been working in the lives of individuals.
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  • We met zechariah, and then elizabeth, and mary, and joseph.
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  • We saw john the baptist's ministry, and we saw
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  • Jesus's ministry, and he began to recruit disciples.
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  • But they've been watching him do ministry.
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  • In luke chapter 9, there's a very significant tone change.
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  • Now, jesus says, "i'm gonna send you out."
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  • And this becomes the theme for the remainder of luke's gospel
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  • And the book of acts, which luke also authored.
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  • It's about what jesus will do through the lives of those
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  • Who believed in him.
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  • So he gathers the twelve together and he gives them power
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  • And authority.
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  • It's a very dramatic shift in this unfolding drama
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  • That we call luke.
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  • Now, the disciples are being tasked to do what they have
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  • Witnessed jesus doing.
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  • So here's my question to you: when will we accept
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  • The assignment to do what we see jesus doing?
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  • I know it gets personal.
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  • And are we willing to receive what jesus gave
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  • To his disciples?
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  • He gave them power and authority.
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  • Power is the ability to accomplish something;
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  • Authority is a grant of permission to utilize the power
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  • That's available.
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  • And jesus gave both to the disciples.
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  • And i think it's worth noting that the assignment is centered
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  • In advancing the kingdom of god.
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  • And, if you'll allow me, it still is.
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  • The gospel is of a kingdom; it's not principally a gospel
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  • Of salvation.
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  • It's a subtle perversion of the scripture.
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  • I believe in salvation, the new birth conversion, whatever label
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  • You prefer.
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  • But the message we have isn't "get saved," the message we have
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  • Is there's a kingdom beyond the kingdoms of this earth,
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  • And you could participate if you choose.
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  • But the door is an individual by the name of jesus of nazareth.
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  • It's an eternal kingdom.
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  • It's not a kingdom of this world.
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  • It's in a kingdom with a power and authority that transcends
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  • Anything we have access to in this world.
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  • And we desperately need a church, men and women who are
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  • Believers in jesus of nazareth as the christ-messiah, that will
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  • Take the message of that kingdom and its power and authority
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  • Into our world.
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  • In fact, look at the very end of your notes, spoiler alert, the
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  • Very next chapter, chapter 10, it's the last passage you have.
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  • In verse 1, it says, "after this, the lord appointed
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  • Seventy-two others and he sent them out two by two ahead of him
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  • To every town and place where he was about to go."
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  • He said, "the harvest is plentiful, but the workers
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  • Are few."
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  • Hasn't changed a great deal in two millennia.
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  • So what we're gonna process now in chapter 9 is going to be
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  • Multiplied exponentially in chapter 10.
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  • There's a pattern emerging.
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  • This is no longer "watch jesus do ministry."
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  • This is jesus's recruited followers.
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  • He's been training disciples; it's a theme of luke, and now
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  • He's empowering them to do the things that they've seen him do.
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  • And we get to chapter 10, he's really gonna take the lid off.
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  • But we've gotta watch what happens now in chapter 9 because
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  • Luke is telling us some things.
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  • Verse 7: "now herod the tetrarch," fancy word for
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  • Governor--when herod the great--herod the tetrarch's
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  • Father was herod the great, the herod the great that killed
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  • The babies in bethlehem.
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  • On his death, his kingdom was divided into four.
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  • So this is the--one of his sons, herod the tetrarch, heard about
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  • All that was going on, and he was perplexed because some were
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  • Saying that john had been raised from the dead, and others that
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  • Elijah had appeared, and still others that one of the prophets
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  • Of long ago had come back to life.
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  • But herod said, "i beheaded john.
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  • Who, then, is this i hear such things about?"
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  • And he tried to see jesus.
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  • It's a very brazen passage.
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  • Herod that's mentioned here, is the son of the herod the great
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  • That we meet earlier in the gospels.
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  • Herod the great is the one who killed the babies in bethlehem
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  • At the time of jesus's birth because of the message
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  • Of the wise men: "we've traveled a long way to worship the king
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  • Of the jews."
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  • And he was not about to tolerate any pretenders to his power.
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  • And absent knowing who the baby was, he simply killed all the
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  • Children that fit within the time window the wise men
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  • Told him about, all the male children two and under.
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  • Now, this is herod the great, the tetrarch, in verse 7, his
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  • Son, who has beheaded john the baptist because of his message.
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  • He arrested him because of his message.
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  • His wife was wicked and asked for john the baptist's head,
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  • But heron was compliant, he had him beheaded.
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  • Now, herod wants to see jesus.
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  • What is very clear is he has no fear of god, none whatsoever.
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  • That's not a 21st-century thing; that's been taking place
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  • For as long as men and women have had authority.
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  • In fact, i think luke is pointing us to something
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  • A consistent opposition to the purposes of god.
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  • See, it's more than having a bad governor
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  • Or an antagonistic leader.
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  • This resistance, this hatred for the purposes of god
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  • And the plans of god, by this point in the story that
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  • Luke is telling, has crossed decades and multiple persons
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  • And multiple administrations.
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  • I believe the best analysis is it's a spirit at work.
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  • I tell you that because we need to be more awake, more alert,
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  • More engaged, more conscious that the spirit of antichrist
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  • Is present in the earth to oppose the purposes of god.
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  • And if all we had was luke's narrative, we could come
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  • To the conclusion that that spirit is murderous,
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  • Treacherous, deceitful.
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  • Herod the great said to the wise men, "you go find the child
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  • And then come back and tell me where he is,
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  • So that i may worship him too."
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  • They had no intention of worshiping that child.
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  • Will you allow me to suggest we should be more aware and walk
  • 00:12:21.023 --> 00:12:24.226
  • With greater prudence?
  • 00:12:24.226 --> 00:12:29.231
  • Jesus is implementing a training program, and i don't think it's
  • 00:12:29.231 --> 00:12:33.469
  • An accident that luke includes, in this commissioning of the
  • 00:12:33.469 --> 00:12:37.373
  • Twelve, the kind of adversity they face: a wicked, godless
  • 00:12:37.373 --> 00:12:44.313
  • Governor who didn't hesitate in the least to behead
  • 00:12:44.313 --> 00:12:49.752
  • John the baptist.
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  • Same chapter, verse 12: "late in the afternoon," jesus is
  • 00:12:53.956 --> 00:12:58.627
  • Preaching to a large crowd of people, and he's preached
  • 00:12:58.627 --> 00:13:02.765
  • Through the morning into the afternoon--our services are way
  • 00:13:02.765 --> 00:13:05.100
  • Too short.
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  • Male: yeah.
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  • Allen: yeah, one "amen," and they all saw you.
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  • You'd better slip out now.
  • 00:13:11.941 --> 00:13:14.343
  • "late in the afternoon the twelve came to jesus and said,
  • 00:13:14.410 --> 00:13:16.879
  • 'send the crowd away so they can go to the surrounding villages
  • 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.882
  • And countryside and find food and lodging, because we're
  • 00:13:19.882 --> 00:13:22.952
  • In a remote place here.'"
  • 00:13:22.952 --> 00:13:25.287
  • And jesus replied--the disciples come to jesus and say
  • 00:13:25.287 --> 00:13:28.757
  • The crowd's really tired.
  • 00:13:28.757 --> 00:13:32.127
  • Who do you think is really tired?
  • 00:13:32.127 --> 00:13:35.397
  • The disciples?
  • 00:13:35.397 --> 00:13:37.633
  • I think that's a reasonable conclusion.
  • 00:13:37.633 --> 00:13:39.368
  • And jesus said, "you give them something to eat."
  • 00:13:39.368 --> 00:13:42.671
  • And they answered, "we only have five loaves of bread and
  • 00:13:42.671 --> 00:13:44.740
  • Two fish unless we go and buy food for this crowd."
  • 00:13:44.740 --> 00:13:48.210
  • And luke slips in there's 5,000 men there, so there's thousands
  • 00:13:48.210 --> 00:13:51.914
  • Of people, more than that.
  • 00:13:51.914 --> 00:13:54.049
  • He said to his disciples, "have them sit down in groups of about
  • 00:13:54.049 --> 00:13:56.685
  • 50 each."
  • 00:13:56.685 --> 00:13:58.487
  • Now, what we're gonna-- the balance of this chapter is
  • 00:13:58.487 --> 00:14:02.124
  • A series of training exercises that jesus has with
  • 00:14:02.124 --> 00:14:04.894
  • The disciples, demonstrations of the authority and power
  • 00:14:04.894 --> 00:14:08.497
  • That he gave them in verses 1 and 2.
  • 00:14:08.497 --> 00:14:11.967
  • And if you listen to the language and you watch
  • 00:14:11.967 --> 00:14:13.636
  • The words that jesus uses, and the way that luke is telling
  • 00:14:13.636 --> 00:14:16.272
  • The story--because that's important.
  • 00:14:16.272 --> 00:14:18.507
  • Remember, when luke writes the gospel, he hasn't just collected
  • 00:14:18.507 --> 00:14:21.210
  • Miracles and parables and kind of dumped him in a bucket
  • 00:14:21.210 --> 00:14:24.313
  • And pulled them out and arranged them on a page.
  • 00:14:24.313 --> 00:14:26.448
  • He's trying to take the reader on a journey to help you become
  • 00:14:26.448 --> 00:14:29.184
  • A disciple.
  • 00:14:29.184 --> 00:14:31.220
  • So in chapter 9, jesus gathers the disciples together and says,
  • 00:14:31.220 --> 00:14:34.490
  • "i'm giving you power and authority to go do the kind
  • 00:14:34.490 --> 00:14:37.559
  • Of things you've seen me doing."
  • 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:40.396
  • And now luke is going to give us a series of examples of training
  • 00:14:40.396 --> 00:14:43.966
  • Exercises with the disciples.
  • 00:14:43.966 --> 00:14:47.369
  • And the first one he introduces us into, after he warns us of
  • 00:14:47.369 --> 00:14:50.339
  • The kind of antagonism we should anticipate, at the highest
  • 00:14:50.339 --> 00:14:55.277
  • Levels of power and authority, he said there'll be opposition.
  • 00:14:55.277 --> 00:14:59.648
  • And now jesus has ministered to a large crowd of people,
  • 00:14:59.648 --> 00:15:01.951
  • And the disciples are still watching.
  • 00:15:01.951 --> 00:15:03.953
  • And the disciples come and say, "they're really tired
  • 00:15:03.953 --> 00:15:06.255
  • And they're worn out, send them away.
  • 00:15:06.255 --> 00:15:07.890
  • There's--chick-fil-a is closed, it's sunday."
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  • And jesus says, "you feed them."
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  • Allen: i would submit to you that the feeding of the 5,000 is
  • 00:16:32.441 --> 00:16:34.843
  • Far less about the people that are there and far more about
  • 00:16:34.843 --> 00:16:37.946
  • The disciples.
  • 00:16:37.946 --> 00:16:40.549
  • Jesus simply breaks the--blesses the food and breaks it, and says
  • 00:16:40.549 --> 00:16:43.719
  • To the disciples, "give it to the people."
  • 00:16:43.719 --> 00:16:45.487
  • Somewhere along the way, the disciples realize there's
  • 00:16:45.487 --> 00:16:47.990
  • A miracle taking place.
  • 00:16:47.990 --> 00:16:50.492
  • Remember the--when jesus took the disciples to a wedding, and
  • 00:16:50.492 --> 00:16:54.363
  • They ran out of wine, and mary tried the little intervention?
  • 00:16:54.363 --> 00:16:59.935
  • And jesus had him fill the water pots, and then he said to one
  • 00:16:59.935 --> 00:17:02.471
  • Of the servants, "take some of that out of the pot and take it
  • 00:17:02.471 --> 00:17:05.274
  • To the master of ceremonies."
  • 00:17:05.274 --> 00:17:07.376
  • The person that knew there was a miracle was the servants.
  • 00:17:07.376 --> 00:17:11.680
  • The master of the ceremonies didn't know.
  • 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:13.082
  • They thought they'd found some better wine.
  • 00:17:13.082 --> 00:17:15.818
  • The people that enjoyed it, they didn't know.
  • 00:17:15.818 --> 00:17:19.054
  • And in this case, it's the disciples that are the one
  • 00:17:19.054 --> 00:17:21.623
  • That are inside the narrative where the power of god is
  • 00:17:21.623 --> 00:17:24.726
  • Being demonstrated.
  • 00:17:24.726 --> 00:17:26.061
  • They keep breaking off bread and fish, and they keep having more,
  • 00:17:26.061 --> 00:17:30.232
  • Like they're gonna pick up more basketfuls afterwards than
  • 00:17:30.232 --> 00:17:32.668
  • They could have filled with what they started with.
  • 00:17:32.668 --> 00:17:35.838
  • They're learning something new about jesus, but it doesn't
  • 00:17:35.838 --> 00:17:38.140
  • Stop there.
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  • Verse 18: "once, when jesus was praying in private and
  • 00:17:39.475 --> 00:17:42.744
  • His disciples were with him, he asked them, 'who did the crowd
  • 00:17:42.744 --> 00:17:45.647
  • Say i am?'"
  • 00:17:45.647 --> 00:17:46.982
  • Again, this is a a disciple-training moment.
  • 00:17:46.982 --> 00:17:48.350
  • Who did the crowd say i am?
  • 00:17:48.350 --> 00:17:49.718
  • Tell me what you've heard."
  • 00:17:49.718 --> 00:17:53.355
  • They replied, "well, some say john the baptist, and others say
  • 00:17:53.355 --> 00:17:55.757
  • Elijah, and still others, one of the prophets come back to life."
  • 00:17:55.757 --> 00:18:01.363
  • They don't tell him everything they've heard because others
  • 00:18:01.363 --> 00:18:04.967
  • Have said he's a drunkard and a glutton, right?
  • 00:18:04.967 --> 00:18:09.738
  • We've read that.
  • 00:18:09.738 --> 00:18:11.540
  • They're just giving the good reports.
  • 00:18:11.540 --> 00:18:15.611
  • But jesus turns it around and he says, "but what about you?
  • 00:18:15.611 --> 00:18:19.248
  • Who do you say i am?"
  • 00:18:19.248 --> 00:18:22.050
  • And peter said, "you're the messiah."
  • 00:18:22.050 --> 00:18:25.587
  • Big step forward.
  • 00:18:25.587 --> 00:18:28.257
  • And remember this is all in this chapter that's
  • 00:18:28.257 --> 00:18:30.425
  • A training paradigm.
  • 00:18:30.425 --> 00:18:32.528
  • You don't have a message until you establish in your heart
  • 00:18:32.528 --> 00:18:35.330
  • Who jesus is.
  • 00:18:35.330 --> 00:18:37.699
  • It's not about joining a denomination, or finding
  • 00:18:37.699 --> 00:18:40.002
  • A worship service you like, or a preacher that you enjoy,
  • 00:18:40.002 --> 00:18:43.639
  • Or the translation of the bible that's easier for you to read.
  • 00:18:43.639 --> 00:18:46.475
  • Our faith is founded on a conviction that jesus
  • 00:18:46.475 --> 00:18:49.044
  • Of nazareth is the messiah, the anointed son of god,
  • 00:18:49.044 --> 00:18:53.182
  • The incarnate son of god.
  • 00:18:53.182 --> 00:18:55.617
  • Everything emerges from that.
  • 00:18:55.617 --> 00:18:59.755
  • Nothing's too difficult for him.
  • 00:18:59.755 --> 00:19:01.957
  • He can feed a multitude with a happy meal.
  • 00:19:01.957 --> 00:19:05.227
  • He can speak to the wind and the waves.
  • 00:19:05.227 --> 00:19:09.164
  • He can be the result of a virgin birth.
  • 00:19:09.164 --> 00:19:12.601
  • He'll conquer death before we're done with the gospel.
  • 00:19:12.601 --> 00:19:15.837
  • That's my lord and yours.
  • 00:19:15.837 --> 00:19:18.140
  • That's the message we have for the world.
  • 00:19:18.140 --> 00:19:20.642
  • There's a power and authority that transcends all the power
  • 00:19:20.642 --> 00:19:23.979
  • And authority that's available to us.
  • 00:19:23.979 --> 00:19:25.480
  • And there's a great deal of things available to us.
  • 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.482
  • There's economic power, and military power, and political
  • 00:19:27.482 --> 00:19:30.552
  • Power, and all sorts of--they're all real and legitimate.
  • 00:19:30.552 --> 00:19:33.789
  • I'm not diminishing that.
  • 00:19:33.789 --> 00:19:35.157
  • But there's a power that causes all of those things to pale
  • 00:19:35.157 --> 00:19:39.094
  • In comparison.
  • 00:19:39.094 --> 00:19:42.197
  • All of those things are linked to time.
  • 00:19:42.197 --> 00:19:44.066
  • They will fade away, they will come to an end.
  • 00:19:44.066 --> 00:19:46.101
  • There's a conclusion; this present age will be rolled up
  • 00:19:46.101 --> 00:19:49.504
  • Like a scroll, like a book that's closed.
  • 00:19:49.504 --> 00:19:53.742
  • But the power of our lord and king is eternal.
  • 00:19:53.742 --> 00:19:58.313
  • That's our message for the world we're in.
  • 00:19:58.313 --> 00:20:03.619
  • Luke's not done.
  • 00:20:03.619 --> 00:20:04.953
  • Chapter 9, verse 28: "after eight days," or about eight
  • 00:20:04.953 --> 00:20:09.391
  • Days, "after jesus said this, he took peter, and john,
  • 00:20:09.391 --> 00:20:11.893
  • And james with him and he went up onto a mountain to pray."
  • 00:20:11.893 --> 00:20:15.297
  • He didn't treat all the disciples the same,
  • 00:20:15.297 --> 00:20:17.432
  • No equity with the disciples.
  • 00:20:17.432 --> 00:20:23.772
  • I know it's fashionable in some circles to say equity is
  • 00:20:23.772 --> 00:20:26.174
  • A biblical proposition.
  • 00:20:26.174 --> 00:20:27.609
  • It is not.
  • 00:20:27.609 --> 00:20:30.279
  • I could give you many examples.
  • 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:31.847
  • When jesus gave out talents to the servants, they didn't
  • 00:20:31.847 --> 00:20:34.116
  • All get the same thing.
  • 00:20:34.116 --> 00:20:40.756
  • He took peter, james, and john, and bartholomew
  • 00:20:40.756 --> 00:20:44.192
  • And andrew complained.
  • 00:20:44.192 --> 00:20:48.063
  • And he went up on a high mountain to pray.
  • 00:20:48.063 --> 00:20:49.765
  • And as he was praying, the appearance of his face changed,
  • 00:20:49.765 --> 00:20:52.634
  • And his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning.
  • 00:20:52.634 --> 00:20:56.471
  • Two men, moses and elijah, appeared in glorious splendor,
  • 00:20:56.471 --> 00:21:00.709
  • Talking with jesus.
  • 00:21:00.709 --> 00:21:02.678
  • They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to
  • 00:21:02.678 --> 00:21:05.514
  • Fulfillment at jerusalem.
  • 00:21:05.514 --> 00:21:08.417
  • This is a fascinating event to me.
  • 00:21:08.417 --> 00:21:10.886
  • We don't know exactly where it took place.
  • 00:21:10.886 --> 00:21:13.288
  • If you visit israel, there's two or three places, and at the end
  • 00:21:13.288 --> 00:21:17.025
  • Of the day, it doesn't matter.
  • 00:21:17.025 --> 00:21:19.294
  • But they made it into the narrative.
  • 00:21:19.294 --> 00:21:20.629
  • Jesus goes up on a high mountain and while he's praying moses
  • 00:21:20.629 --> 00:21:25.000
  • And elijah appeared--i've always wondered how they knew it was
  • 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:27.402
  • Moses and elijah.
  • 00:21:27.402 --> 00:21:29.571
  • Facebook was just new.
  • 00:21:29.571 --> 00:21:34.876
  • Do you think they had laminated lanyards with name tags?
  • 00:21:34.876 --> 00:21:41.650
  • Because the disciples, peter, john, and james, seem
  • 00:21:41.650 --> 00:21:44.252
  • To understand who it is.
  • 00:21:44.252 --> 00:21:46.955
  • I've always been intrigued that moses and elijah had something
  • 00:21:46.955 --> 00:21:51.560
  • With which they wanted to speak to jesus.
  • 00:21:51.560 --> 00:21:57.332
  • See, when you're done with time you're not done.
  • 00:21:57.332 --> 00:22:01.870
  • We don't have a full presentation of that;
  • 00:22:01.870 --> 00:22:05.073
  • We're limited in the insight we have and the understanding.
  • 00:22:05.073 --> 00:22:08.377
  • But i can give you multiple examples: when you step
  • 00:22:08.377 --> 00:22:10.946
  • Out--when your earth suit stops, folks, you're not done.
  • 00:22:10.946 --> 00:22:15.851
  • You are working for something so much more enduring,
  • 00:22:15.851 --> 00:22:19.287
  • So much more valuable, so much more significant.
  • 00:22:19.287 --> 00:22:23.492
  • The great diminishment of your faith is to think that your
  • 00:22:23.492 --> 00:22:26.027
  • Faith is only about getting all you can, and canning
  • 00:22:26.027 --> 00:22:28.530
  • What you get, and sitting on the can while you're here.
  • 00:22:28.530 --> 00:22:31.566
  • We are in preparation for something.
  • 00:22:34.136 --> 00:22:36.571
  • Jesus came to this earth, but when you read his story,
  • 00:22:36.571 --> 00:22:39.608
  • You don't imagine his goal was an applause line
  • 00:22:39.608 --> 00:22:42.811
  • While he was here.
  • 00:22:42.811 --> 00:22:46.047
  • It's very clear he was on an assignment for something
  • 00:22:46.047 --> 00:22:49.584
  • Far more significant, far greater, and so are we.
  • 00:22:49.584 --> 00:22:55.724
  • I think it's worth noting, at least in passing, that ahab
  • 00:22:55.724 --> 00:22:58.260
  • And jezebel didn't show up to talk to jesus, moses and elijah.
  • 00:22:58.260 --> 00:23:06.501
  • It's the last verse, i think that is perhaps most significant
  • 00:23:06.501 --> 00:23:09.371
  • In this ninth chapter, though.
  • 00:23:09.371 --> 00:23:11.740
  • It's gonna become a theme in this chapter.
  • 00:23:11.740 --> 00:23:13.675
  • It's the introduction of something that is new to us.
  • 00:23:13.675 --> 00:23:16.711
  • It says moses and elijah spoke about his departure--
  • 00:23:16.711 --> 00:23:23.418
  • Well, that's--if it stopped right there, we might think
  • 00:23:23.418 --> 00:23:25.287
  • He was taking a trip--about his departure, which he was about
  • 00:23:25.287 --> 00:23:32.661
  • To bring to fulfillment in jerusalem.
  • 00:23:32.661 --> 00:23:34.830
  • Moses and elijah are talking about his crucifixion,
  • 00:23:34.830 --> 00:23:38.099
  • His burial, his resurrection.
  • 00:23:38.099 --> 00:23:43.872
  • We're looking at the game plan again.
  • 00:23:43.872 --> 00:23:45.841
  • Luke has introduced something new to the narrative, and jesus
  • 00:23:45.841 --> 00:23:49.511
  • Took peter, and john, and james with him.
  • 00:23:49.511 --> 00:23:52.581
  • They're gonna be central figures when we get to the book of acts,
  • 00:23:52.581 --> 00:23:56.751
  • Luke's explanation of how the church found its footing
  • 00:23:56.751 --> 00:24:00.255
  • After jesus's ascension.
  • 00:24:00.255 --> 00:24:02.257
  • And peter, and john, and james, will be right in the center of
  • 00:24:02.257 --> 00:24:06.261
  • That narrative.
  • 00:24:06.261 --> 00:24:08.964
  • Same chapter, verse 37: "the next day."
  • 00:24:08.964 --> 00:24:12.467
  • Next day from what?
  • 00:24:12.467 --> 00:24:13.802
  • The next day after the transfiguration,
  • 00:24:13.802 --> 00:24:15.670
  • "when they came down from the mountain."
  • 00:24:16.738 --> 00:24:19.975
  • This is pretty intensive training.
  • 00:24:19.975 --> 00:24:23.478
  • They've been feeding large crowds.
  • 00:24:23.478 --> 00:24:26.147
  • They've been acknowledging in public that jesus is the christ.
  • 00:24:26.147 --> 00:24:28.817
  • Up till this point, only the demons have been saying it.
  • 00:24:28.817 --> 00:24:33.855
  • Now, they've seen the transfiguration.
  • 00:24:33.855 --> 00:24:35.690
  • Now, they come down from the mountain, there's a large crowd
  • 00:24:35.690 --> 00:24:37.726
  • That met them, "and a man in the crowd called out, 'teacher,
  • 00:24:37.726 --> 00:24:40.428
  • I beg you to look at my son, he's my only child, and a spirit
  • 00:24:40.428 --> 00:24:43.365
  • Seizes him and he suddenly screams, and it throws him
  • 00:24:43.365 --> 00:24:46.368
  • Into convulsion so that he foams at the mouth.
  • 00:24:46.368 --> 00:24:49.104
  • It scarcely ever leaves him and it's destroying him.
  • 00:24:49.104 --> 00:24:52.641
  • I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they could not.'"
  • 00:24:52.641 --> 00:24:57.012
  • It's another learning moment for the disciples.
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  • Peter, james, and john weren't with the larger crowd;
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  • The others are still ministering.
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  • Remember, they've been commissioned in those
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  • First two verses.
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  • Jesus said to them-- remember what he said?
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  • You've got it.
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  • He gave them power and authority to drive out demons and
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  • To cure diseases.
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  • Jesus expects them to be prepared to address
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  • Demonic activity.
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  • He gave them the authority in verses 1 and 2.
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  • And here's a father saying, "your disciples are useless."
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  • And i didn't put it in your notes because
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  • I don't have enough room.
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  • Do you remember what jesus said to them?
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  • "what is wrong with your faith?"
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  • Allen: hey, god is moving in our earth, he's moving
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  • In our nation, and i pray he's moving in your family.
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  • So often i feel like the apostle paul when he said, "i only know.
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  • I don't know everything completely.
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  • I have a limited viewpoint, but i know that god is moving."
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  • I wanna pray for you that you'll complete the course
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  • That god has called you to.
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  • Oftentimes, we have an incomplete perspective,
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  • But the faithfulness of god gives us all we need to know.
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  • Lord, i thank you for the honor of serving you in this most
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  • Unique season.
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  • And i pray for those listening today, that they will have
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  • The courage and the boldness to say yes to you.
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  • May not one person turn back, or be turned aside, or be
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  • Distracted, but may we complete our course in
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  • Jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: this is the 250th anniversary of our nation.
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  • It's a big deal.
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  • Now, i know a lot of us don't care a whole lot about history.
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  • We didn't have great experiences in school.
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  • I understand that, but here's the reality.
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  • If they can steal our history, they'll rob us of our future.
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  • So history really does matter.
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  • Well, because of that, we have partnered with some good friends
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  • Of our ministries, wallbuilders david and tim barton.
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  • They have the best of the best on this topic.
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  • It's a two-volume set on "the american story," and it helps us
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  • Learn american history with a faith component, with a god
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  • Perspective--how god has been engaged in the unfolding
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  • Narrative of our american story.
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  • That matters because we need god to be involved in the future of
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  • The american story.
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  • That affects our lives, our families, our communities, and
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  • Ultimately our nation.
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  • The books will be a blessing to you, but more than that, i
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  • Believe they'll open your life to the imagination that god is
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  • Moving in the earth, and we can participate with him in the next
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  • Chapters of american history.
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  • ♪♪♪
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