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Allen Jackson - Easter, The Cast of Characters (Part 2)

April 21, 2025 | S25:E114

Allen Jackson - Easter, The Cast of Characters (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Easter, The Cast of Characters (Part 2) | April 21, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: it's good to be with you again.
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  • You know, we're walking through a season of some pretty
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  • Unprecedented turmoil.
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  • There are cars burning and car dealerships burning, and there
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  • Are judges.
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  • There's just a lot of stuff.
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  • Well, i'm really excited about our offer this month.
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  • In fact, we chose it because i think it will bring you a
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  • Pathway of stability in the midst of all the turmoil.
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  • It's written by a good friend of mine, rob morgan, "the lord is
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  • My shepherd."
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  • And it seems to me we need to know the tranquility that comes
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  • From a shepherd who is marking a path for us and then standing
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  • Watch over us when we know there's predators about.
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  • We're living in a predatory season.
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  • We need to know the lord is a shepherd, and i believe this
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  • Offer can make a real difference in your life.
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  • In fact, it's important enough that we'll make it available for
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  • A gift of any amount.
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  • I think it's far more important that you have it in your hand
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  • Than the cost attached to it.
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  • God is moving in the earth, and we wanna move with him.
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  • Our shepherd will lead us through.
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  • You'll enjoy the book.
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  • Allen jackson: communion is intended for the believers, for
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  • People who believe that jesus of nazareth is lord, christ, and
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  • King, who've yielded to him as lord of their life.
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  • It's not for the religious or the churched.
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  • It's an opportunity for us to present ourselves before the
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  • Throne of almighty god and to find the grace and mercy that we
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  • Need to help us in our times of need.
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  • The best preparation i know is to be certain that you've given
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  • Primacy in your life to jesus.
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  • You've gotta make a decision about jesus.
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  • Who do you believe he is?
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: 2020 was an episode of tremendous shaking.
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  • It was presented to us as a great threat to our health.
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  • We heard about a virus coming our way from wuhan.
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  • Except when we first heard about it, we couldn't say "wuhan."
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  • I stood on this platform and every time i said "wuhan," they
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  • Took us down and our online audience would blow up with
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  • Angry people.
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  • And because i'm not fully transformed yet, i would
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  • Frequently say "wuhan."
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  • I repent, kind of.
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  • It was presented as a great threat to our health.
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  • But the outcome was a visible shaking of established things.
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  • Almost everything seems to have changed since the spring
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  • Of 2020.
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  • Our churches were shaken.
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  • I can speak to this when i spent my adult life in the
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  • Christian church.
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  • We were told we were non-essential and to disband.
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  • And we complied.
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  • The outcome has been a greatly diminished participation
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  • In church.
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  • In the last few months, i've been in more than 20 major
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  • American cities trying to encourage pastors and
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  • Church leaders.
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  • And i can tell you, across the board, the church is in trouble.
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  • Participation rates are at historic lows.
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  • The enemies and adversaries of the church are gleefully
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  • Reporting that we're in some sort of a post christian
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  • Something or other, as if god has withdrawn from the stage.
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  • Folks, god does not need the majority for his truth and power
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  • To be exerted in the earth.
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  • Don't ever be confused.
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  • You choose to identify with almighty god.
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  • The hebrew slaves did not outnumber nor did they threaten
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  • Their egyptian captors.
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  • But the power of god did.
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  • Jesus in a tomb, having given up his life, did not pose a threat
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  • To the roman guards that had crucified him, but they
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  • Pretended they were dead when they were confronted with the
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  • Power of a living god.
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  • You gladly and willingly align yourself with almighty god, you
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  • Will never regret it.
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  • The outcome of our church is being shaken.
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  • Tragically, it's been a more timid, compliant church which
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  • Seems to be subjugated to the voices of our culture.
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  • I believe our assignment is to be the conscience of our
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  • Culture, to be salt and light, and we have to step towards
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  • That assignment.
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  • Science was shaken.
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  • We were told to follow the science, that it would keep us
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  • Safe and provide the best pathway forward.
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  • I began my academic career in the sciences.
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  • I have no problem following science.
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  • I'm an advocate for science, but there's a great difference in
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  • Following the science and following the scientists.
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  • They can be clowns, manipulative, deceivers.
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  • You need to know the difference.
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  • Science is a method.
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  • It's a way of understanding our world.
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  • Science is measurable, reproducible, and consistent.
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  • What we experienced was not science.
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  • It differed from state to state, governor to governor, and the
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  • Scientists, unfortunately, for the most part, didn't say
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  • Anything to challenge the narrative.
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  • Our faith in public institutions was shaken.
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  • Trusted sources of information proved to be untrustworthy.
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  • You can build your own list.
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  • The cdc, the fbi.
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  • Propaganda replaced our observable reality.
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  • I began encouraging you to watch and listen, to think and to act.
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  • You've got to be aware in our world, these days.
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  • We were told to go home and shelter in place for 2 weeks and
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  • You could return to normal.
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  • If we gave them the benefit of the doubt, and say they
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  • Responded with the best information they had at the
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  • Time, at the end of the 2 weeks when they were wrong, we
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  • Deserved an adjustment, an apology, a realignment.
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  • It didn't emerge.
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  • It was propaganda.
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  • Censorship has become commonplace.
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  • We have new labels.
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  • We haven't had them before in the way we use them today.
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  • Misinformation, disinformation, malinformation.
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  • We used to defend this little novel concept we called "freedom
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  • Of speech."
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  • It didn't require you to tell the whole truth in order to be
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  • Able to express your opinion.
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  • But we've accepted a circumstance where you can be
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  • Silenced, canceled, swept away from the public arena, because
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  • Someone deems what you said something they don't agree with,
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  • Which means some higher authority, and it isn't god, is
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  • Deeming what's acceptable in the public square.
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  • It's wrong.
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  • Well, i want to submit to you in the same sense that there were
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  • Multiple shakings in jerusalem, i want to use the imagery that
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  • Jesus used, the beginning of birth pains, that on october the
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  • 7th of last year, we experienced another episode of shaking.
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  • Another contraction, if you prefer.
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  • There was a vicious attack from gaza led by hamas launched
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  • Against israel.
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  • I've seen the video footage.
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  • It was brutal, inhumane, purposely degrading, murderous
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  • Violence against men, women, and children.
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  • It's the greatest loss of jewish life in a single day since
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  • The holocaust.
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  • In candor, i didn't recognize the full impact on the day of
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  • The attack.
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  • I understood the threat and the challenge 'cause of my friends
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  • In israel.
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  • But since that day, as i've watched what's unfolded, i
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  • Understand now that god was shaking the earth again because
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  • I can see the impact of the shaking in the days which
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  • Have followed.
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  • Things have become clearer today that were not clear on october
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  • The 7th.
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  • I did not know the degree to which our elite centers of
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  • Academia, the places that we aspired for our children and our
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  • Grandchildren to be able to participate, i didn't know they
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  • Were bastions of hatred against the jewish people.
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  • They've refused to condemn hamas.
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  • They've tried to establish some sort of a moral equivalency
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  • Between what those murderous terrorists did.
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  • There's been wide sport-- support--widespread support for
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  • The behavior of hamas.
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  • They have publicly declared, it's a part of their charter,
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  • Their intent to commit genocide against the jewish people.
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  • And yet we have powerful voices, supposedly educated voices,
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  • Elite voices, that refuse to condemn them.
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  • In america leaders at the highest levels to continue to
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  • Call for sanctions to limit israel's responses.
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  • In the past week when the un security council voted to demand
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  • A humanitarian ceasefire without the release of the hostages.
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  • It was led by china and russia, if you didn't know.
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  • The united states refused to veto it.
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  • Anti-semitism, it's a fancy word for the hatred of the
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  • Jewish people.
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  • It's flourished throughout history, but we rather naively
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  • Celebrated at the end of world war two, we hoped it was put
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  • Away forever, that it had been pushed to the back of
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  • The closet.
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  • It was once believed in this nation to be as uncommon as
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  • The measles.
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  • Tragically, both are now flourishing in our midst again.
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  • The shaking is revealing the intent of people's hearts and
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  • The nature of their alignments.
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  • The calls for a humanitarian ceasefire are shouted out daily.
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  • It's worth noting that although in the conflict, the war,
  • 00:09:28.650 --> 00:09:31.820
  • Between ukraine and russia there have been more than 500,000
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  • Deaths, we don't hear those same calls for a
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  • Humanitarian ceasefire.
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  • What's happened there dwarfs the numbers involved in gaza.
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  • Anti-semitism--this is important.
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  • Anti-semitism, the hatred of the jewish people, is motivated by
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  • The spirit of antichrist.
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  • The jewish people, god's chosen people, the covenant he
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  • Established with them, enabled them to deliver a redemptive
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  • Message for all of humanity.
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  • My lord and king, jesus of nazareth, is an observant
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  • Jewish rabbi.
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  • The spirit of antichrist has hated the jewish people.
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  • Long before jesus was born in bethlehem, the spirit of
  • 00:10:17.232 --> 00:10:20.301
  • Antichrist was at work in the earth.
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  • What you should understand is that same spirit that drives the
  • 00:10:23.672 --> 00:10:26.541
  • Hatred and the persecution of the jewish people, hates all the
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  • Covenant people of god.
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  • And what you see expressed towards them will be expressed
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  • Towards you if you stand on behalf of jesus of nazareth as
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  • Lord, christ, and king.
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  • It's worth noting that historically, that persecution
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  • Has had the greatest expressions from religious people.
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  • And the book of revelation tells us at the end of this age that
  • 00:10:49.931 --> 00:10:53.535
  • That spirit of antichrist will have its full presentation in
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  • The earth with a leader that the bible refers to simply
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  • As beastly.
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  • We're in a season of shaking.
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  • Our families are being shaken.
  • 00:11:03.945 --> 00:11:06.214
  • Forces beyond us have imagined they can redefine family, that
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  • They can redefine marriage, that the authority in the home no
  • 00:11:10.151 --> 00:11:13.154
  • Longer rests in that nuclear family, that the government has
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  • Rights and privileges regarding your children, overriding the
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  • Authority of parents.
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  • It's a shaking.
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  • Are you watching?
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  • It's important to be aware.
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  • Our educational systems are being shaken.
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  • You're finding the true intents and thoughts of the hearts of
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  • Those who have led.
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  • We watched over our children's shoulders as they took classes
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  • Online during the lockdown and we were appalled at what was
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  • Being taught.
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  • Then we heard the presidents of teachers unions saying that they
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  • Had a greater authority than parents in determining the
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  • Criteria and the curriculum for the students.
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  • There's a word with which i would respond.
  • 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:53.795
  • It's a greek word.
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  • It means i disagree.
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  • It's "baloney."
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  • They have no such authority.
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  • If they imagine they have that authority, they should be
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  • Removed from office.
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  • There's been a shaking of our financial systems.
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  • We've experienced some minor tremors, but i fully anticipate,
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  • I would love to be wrong, but my expectation is there's a
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  • Significant shaking in our future.
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  • It's not bad news.
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  • We've celebrated easter with more people than any year in my
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  • Journey, and i've celebrated a lot of easters now.
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  • There's people turning to the lord with greater enthusiasm,
  • 00:12:29.364 --> 00:12:32.100
  • Making greater effort in that than at any time in my lifetime.
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  • There's a shaking taking place.
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  • That doesn't mean it's bad.
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  • It means there are choices being elicited.
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  • It's time to determine what you believe.
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  • In the midst of all the shaking, there's an opportunity
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  • Being presented.
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  • It reaches across all the barriers which we've imagined
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  • That separated us: our accent, our nationality, how we look,
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  • Our economic status, our educational background.
  • 00:12:55.390 --> 00:12:58.426
  • Those are all--those things may have a place but they are
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  • Secondary to our relationship with jesus.
  • 00:13:00.762 --> 00:13:04.098
  • The truth is available and accessible, but just as there
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  • Were--it was in matthew's narrative, there is a cost that
  • 00:13:08.670 --> 00:13:12.173
  • Is often attached to embracing the truth.
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  • It will put you on the outside of people who prefer
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  • The deception.
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  • So i have a question for you this easter morning.
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  • What will you do with the jesus story?
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  • What will you do?
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  • I'm not talking about hiding in a church.
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  • Folks, sitting in church does not make you a faithful
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  • Disciple, any more than sitting in the gym makes me an
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  • Olympic athlete.
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  • Don't we wish?
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  • I'd take doughnuts and go to the gym every morning.
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  • Some of us do that.
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  • We come to church and we plan what we wanna do as soon as we
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  • Get out from under this miserably confining experience.
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  • What will you do with the jesus story?
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  • I would submit to you that the shaking we've seen begin will
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  • Intensify in both frequency and strength.
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  • I wanna encourage you to be intentional in choosing to
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  • Honor jesus.
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  • Do not allow the silence and the inactivity to be your expression
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  • Of a choice.
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  • Don't imagine that you can just play possum, that if you stay
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  • Silent and step into the shadows and you pretend not to notice
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  • And you just stay focused on what you really want, that
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  • Somehow you'll navigate these waters and come out the other
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  • Side in a better place.
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  • I don't believe that's true.
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  • God is the one who's initiated the shaking.
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  • He's giving every one of us an opportunity to choose.
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  • Ignoring the truth does not diminish its authority.
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  • Nor does it change the reality.
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  • When truth is brought into the public square, even if it's an
  • 00:14:44.899 --> 00:14:48.469
  • Uncomfortable truth, an awkward truth, a truth you would
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  • Prefer not to acknowledge, celebrate the truth.
  • 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:55.176
  • The prophet isaiah described a time when truth would fall in
  • 00:14:55.176 --> 00:14:58.279
  • The streets and we are witnessing that.
  • 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:02.550
  • Deception is celebrated.
  • 00:15:02.550 --> 00:15:04.652
  • People tell bald-faced lies with a bravado and a hubris that is
  • 00:15:04.652 --> 00:15:09.257
  • Difficult to imagine.
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  • I mentioned the border a while ago.
  • 00:15:10.625 --> 00:15:12.060
  • How many people of great authority and power have we seen
  • 00:15:12.060 --> 00:15:14.595
  • Look into a camera and tell us our border is secure?
  • 00:15:14.595 --> 00:15:18.199
  • Now, whatever you believe about immigration and immigration
  • 00:15:18.199 --> 00:15:20.568
  • Policy, that statement is a brazen misrepresentation of the
  • 00:15:20.568 --> 00:15:25.239
  • Facts on the ground.
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  • Choose the truth.
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  • Allen: hey, the question i'm asked most often is, "how do i
  • 00:15:37.051 --> 00:15:39.287
  • Know what god wants me to do?
  • 00:15:39.287 --> 00:15:40.788
  • If i just knew what god wanted me to do, i would do it,
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  • Whatever it is."
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  • Well, our offer this month i think will help.
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  • It's by a good friend of mine, rob morgan, "the lord is my
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  • Shepherd."
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  • He's gonna unpack the scripture that tells us how to follow the
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  • It'll help you chart a course and know the path that god has
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  • Pastor robert morgan's book "the lord is my shepherd" reflects on
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  • It will help you find rest for your soul and discover the joy,
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  • Inspiration, power, and peace found in psalm 23.
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  • Allen: i brought you a prayer.
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  • We're going to take communion together in just a moment as we
  • 00:18:09.437 --> 00:18:11.072
  • Conclude this service.
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  • But before we do that, i want to invite you to join me in a
  • 00:18:13.141 --> 00:18:16.010
  • Prayer of preparation.
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  • Communion is intended for the believers, for people who
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  • Believe that jesus of nazareth is lord, christ, and king, who
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  • Have yielded to him as lord of their lives.
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  • It's not for the religious or the churched.
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  • It's an opportunity for us to present ourselves before the
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  • Throne of almighty god and to find the grace and mercy that we
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  • Need to help us in our times of need.
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  • The best preparation i know is to be certain that you've given
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  • Primacy in your life to jesus.
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  • You've got to make a decision about jesus.
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  • Who do you believe he is?
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  • A historical figure, a miracle worker, a rabbi, a teacher, an
  • 00:18:52.613 --> 00:18:58.052
  • Invention of religious fanatics?
  • 00:18:58.052 --> 00:19:01.255
  • Or do you believe he was the incarnate son of god?
  • 00:19:01.255 --> 00:19:04.859
  • Now believing that is important, but it's not sufficient.
  • 00:19:04.859 --> 00:19:08.396
  • You can believe jesus was actually the son of god.
  • 00:19:08.396 --> 00:19:11.399
  • The next step is more transformational.
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  • You have to choose him as lord of your life.
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  • You yield to him, you belong to him, with that choice.
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  • He becomes the one who establishes the boundaries, the
  • 00:19:22.043 --> 00:19:25.213
  • Moral boundaries.
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  • He establishes your calendar.
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  • It's no longer my life and my time and my feelings.
  • 00:19:28.316 --> 00:19:31.319
  • I'm a servant of the king. i serve at his pleasure.
  • 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:35.756
  • And then we live for him as our king.
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  • I want to invite you to join me in a prayer.
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  • It's in your notes.
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  • They'll put it on the screen.
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  • If you're watching at home, it'll be on the screens.
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  • You say it with us, wherever you are.
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  • If you're on this campus today, we'll say it together.
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  • If you're someplace else, you say it with us.
  • 00:19:48.369 --> 00:19:51.772
  • If you're here with us outside, let's use our outdoor voices.
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  • Pray with me.
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  • "heavenly father, forgive me for all the times i have
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  • Resisted you.
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  • Thank you for your great love and the mercy you have shown.
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  • I want to honor you with my life, to honor jesus in my
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  • Life--in everything i do.
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  • Forgive me of my sins.
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  • I forgive all those who have sinned against me.
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  • Today is a new beginning, a new life for me.
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  • Jesus be lord in me and through me each day.
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  • I thank you for my freedom.
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  • In jesus' name, amen."
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  • Hallelujah, congratulations.
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  • I'll give you just a moment.
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  • If you're joining us online, you can go grab a cup of water and
  • 00:20:37.285 --> 00:20:39.186
  • A saltine.
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  • You don't have to have one of our handy-dandy communion packs.
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  • I don't mean that disrespectfully, but you don't
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  • Need a religious symbol stamped on a--on a special wafer in
  • 00:20:44.992 --> 00:20:48.396
  • Order to participate in this event.
  • 00:20:48.396 --> 00:20:52.066
  • Jesus himself implemented this.
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  • That night in jerusalem, prior to his betrayal, he celebrated
  • 00:20:54.935 --> 00:20:59.106
  • The passover meal with his disciples and he attached a
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  • Meaning to that meal that they wouldn't understand until they
  • 00:21:02.643 --> 00:21:06.147
  • Had lived through his crucifixion and
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  • His resurrection.
  • 00:21:07.815 --> 00:21:09.417
  • They report the events of that evening.
  • 00:21:09.417 --> 00:21:11.085
  • But it's very clear from the larger narrative that they're
  • 00:21:11.085 --> 00:21:13.821
  • Not really fully understanding what's happening around them, no
  • 00:21:13.821 --> 00:21:16.390
  • Matter the fact that jesus has told them.
  • 00:21:16.390 --> 00:21:19.160
  • But that night at the end of the meal, he took bread and he took
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  • Bread from a place that was reserved for messiah.
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  • And he said, "this bread is my body that's broken for you.
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  • As often as you eat this, you do this in remembrance of me."
  • 00:21:28.069 --> 00:21:32.840
  • Again, the disciples would not understand the significance of
  • 00:21:32.840 --> 00:21:35.376
  • That until they've had an encounter with a
  • 00:21:35.376 --> 00:21:37.478
  • Resurrected jesus.
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  • But it was so important to them after the fact that they've
  • 00:21:39.780 --> 00:21:42.049
  • Reported it for you and me.
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  • When we come to the communion table, we don't come to observe
  • 00:21:43.784 --> 00:21:46.187
  • A religious tradition or some expression of public worship.
  • 00:21:46.187 --> 00:21:51.025
  • It's a personal invitation from our lord himself to receive what
  • 00:21:51.025 --> 00:21:55.062
  • He appropriated for us through his redemptive death on
  • 00:21:55.062 --> 00:21:57.965
  • The cross.
  • 00:21:57.965 --> 00:21:59.300
  • You see, the cross represents a divinely ordered exchange.
  • 00:21:59.300 --> 00:22:02.503
  • The perfect, sinless, obedient son of god took upon himself
  • 00:22:02.503 --> 00:22:06.440
  • Everything that was due by divine justice: my godlessness
  • 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:10.077
  • And my rebellion, and yours too, in order that i might receive,
  • 00:22:10.077 --> 00:22:15.082
  • That you might receive, all of the blessings that were due his
  • 00:22:15.082 --> 00:22:17.985
  • Perfect obedience.
  • 00:22:17.985 --> 00:22:20.321
  • So when we come to the communion table, we're not just
  • 00:22:20.321 --> 00:22:22.523
  • Commemorating some historical event.
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  • We are appropriating by faith the redemptive work of jesus.
  • 00:22:24.959 --> 00:22:29.930
  • We live in a fallen world, but jesus has made provision for us.
  • 00:22:29.930 --> 00:22:35.136
  • Through his blood, we have been delivered out of the hand of
  • 00:22:35.136 --> 00:22:38.005
  • The enemy.
  • 00:22:38.005 --> 00:22:39.340
  • Through his blood, all of our sins have been forgiven.
  • 00:22:39.340 --> 00:22:42.977
  • Through his blood, we have been justified, acquitted, declared
  • 00:22:42.977 --> 00:22:46.580
  • Not guilty, made righteous.
  • 00:22:46.580 --> 00:22:49.283
  • Through his blood, we have been sanctified, set apart for the
  • 00:22:49.283 --> 00:22:52.720
  • Purposes of god.
  • 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:54.488
  • The blood of jesus canceled every accusation, every legal
  • 00:22:54.488 --> 00:23:00.127
  • Claim that satan had against us, that we might become children of
  • 00:23:00.127 --> 00:23:04.698
  • Almighty god, beneficiaries of a covenant established long ago
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  • With abraham.
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  • For those reasons, we come to the communion table.
  • 00:23:12.239 --> 00:23:15.443
  • So whatever you may have arrived this easter morning with in your
  • 00:23:15.443 --> 00:23:18.212
  • Life, i assure you, that through the blood of jesus, the
  • 00:23:18.212 --> 00:23:21.949
  • Redemptive power of god is available.
  • 00:23:21.949 --> 00:23:25.386
  • The same power that shook those stones in jerusalem, that rolled
  • 00:23:25.386 --> 00:23:29.356
  • Away the burial stone, the same power that terrified hardened
  • 00:23:29.356 --> 00:23:33.828
  • Roman soldiers, that power is present in our midst today if
  • 00:23:33.828 --> 00:23:39.200
  • We will believe.
  • 00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:40.801
  • So as we receive the bread and the cup, i want to encourage you
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  • To receive god's life, god's forgiveness, god's mercy,
  • 00:23:44.004 --> 00:23:48.209
  • God's hope.
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  • Don't stare at the darkness and be afraid.
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  • Turn your face towards the king and celebrate, amen?
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  • All right, i hope everybody's received that wanted it.
  • 00:23:59.487 --> 00:24:02.623
  • Jesus said that as often as we take this bread, we do it in
  • 00:24:02.623 --> 00:24:06.026
  • Remembrance of him.
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  • Let's receive together.
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  • Then he took a cup, the one reserved for messiah.
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  • He said, "this cup is a new covenant," literally, a new
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  • Contract, "sealed with my own blood.
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  • As often as you drink it, you proclaim my death until you see
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  • Me again."
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  • Let's receive together.
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  • Now, if you'll stand with me, i'd like to pray.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Heavenly father, i thank you for your great love for us, for your
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  • Provision in our lives in sending your son.
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  • And lord jesus, we praise you for your faithful obedience,
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  • That you offered yourself that we might be set free.
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  • And today, as we have received the bread and the cup, we
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  • Receive your life into our lives, your strength into our
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  • Bodies, your hope into our souls, your peace into
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  • Our midst.
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  • We thank you that no weapon formed against us will prosper,
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  • That no threat we perceive is greater than your love and your
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  • Power expressed on our behalf.
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  • I thank you that no matter what happens on the earth that you're
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  • Our protector, you're our strong tower, you're our deliverer,
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  • You're our redeemer,
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  • That if you attend to the funerals of the sparrows, that
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  • You carefully watch over our days.
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  • We praise you for it.
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  • We rejoice that the same spirit that brought you out of the tomb
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  • Is alive within us this day, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • The lord even sent a siren to celebrate.
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  • How cool is that, huh?
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  • There's a greeting that is as old as the christian church.
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  • Before you go, if you met someone and you weren't sure
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  • They were a believer in jesus, you would say, "he is risen."
  • 00:26:02.276 --> 00:26:05.779
  • And if they were a christ follower, they would say, "he
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  • Was risen, indeed."
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  • Do you know your line? "he is risen."
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  • Audience: he is risen, indeed.
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  • Allen: god bless you and happy easter.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, before our congregation even existed,
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  • My family used to distribute christian literature.
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  • We found that sharing books changed lives,
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  • And so we spent a lot of time and energy and resources,
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  • Honestly, sharing books around our community.
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  • Well, our offer this month is our--is a book by a good
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  • Friend of mine, rob morgan.
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  • The title is "the lord is my shepherd."
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  • It's a book about god's abiding presence,
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  • His guidance in our lives, and the fact that he
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  • Charts a course for us.
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  • It's a book i believe will change your life,
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  • But it's also a really easy book to share with a friend.
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  • So i want to give you an invitation.
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  • Let's not just enjoy the word of god and what god does for us,
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  • Let's decide to be light in our families, in our community,
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  • In your sunday school class, wherever that may be.
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  • I believe this book is a wonderful tool,
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  • Not only for you, but for the people you care about.
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  • "the lord is my shepherd," that's the message we need now.
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  • ♪♪♪
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