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Allen Jackson - Essentials For The Church (Part 2)

October 13, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Essentials For The Church (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Essentials For The Church (Part 2) | October 13, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, we're witnessing something of a crisis
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  • In our nation, something i never thought i would see: expressions
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  • Of antisemitism, hatred for the jewish people, coming from
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  • America, coming from the christian community, the
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  • Conservative side of the ideological spectrum, to a
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  • Degree and scope i've never seen before.
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  • Well, it was important enough that i stopped and put together
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  • A book.
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  • The title of it is "supporting israel: how far is too far?"
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  • It's an important concept that isn't political.
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  • It's grounded in a biblical worldview.
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  • I think we need to understand our responsibilities to the
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  • Jewish people, to the modern state of israel, not from an
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  • Ideological perspective, not from the perspective of nation
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  • States, but as people of god.
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  • It's important.
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  • It's an important season, a lot of voices.
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  • And i know there's some fatigue with the conflict in the middle
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  • East, but we can't afford to be fatigued with our assignments to
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  • Honor god and the responsibilities that come
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  • With that.
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  • I believe the book will be a help to you.
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  • I believe it'll help you navigate the conversation with
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  • Your family and your friends.
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  • Enjoy the read.
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  • Allen: if you ask me to describe contemporary american
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  • Expressions of our faith, i think for the most part we're a
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  • Discouraged lot.
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  • We're absent the courage we need to have a bold voice, a
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  • Forward-leaning voice, an imagination of what god will do.
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  • See, one of the things i think is so important is we begin to
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  • Imagine what it will look like when god moves.
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  • I've been in 20 cities over the last couple of years across the
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  • Nation from both coasts, north and south, and there's a lot
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  • Of--it's not an even story.
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  • They look at our part of the world and they think, you know,
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  • We're the buckle of the bible belt and i go visit downtown
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  • Nashville and i think if that's the case, we've lost our belt
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  • And our pants may fall down.
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  • But i came to the realization that there's not a church in
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  • Tennessee or a church in murfreesboro and a church in
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  • Portland and a church in seattle.
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  • There's a church.
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  • There's a church in tehran.
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  • A church in tel aviv and a church wherever and the church--
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  • When a part of a church is suffering, we're all suffering.
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  • The new testament uses the language of the body and it
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  • Said, you know, if the--one part of the body is suffering,
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  • We all suffer.
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  • So i'm spending time now praying and thinking, what will it look
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  • Like for new england to have an awakening, a spiritual?
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  • What would it look like for the pacific northwest to have
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  • An awakening?
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  • What would it look like?
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  • I'm praying, i wanna see it.
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  • I wanna be prepared.
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  • I'm listening for voices.
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  • We had people from california come to tennessee this week to
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  • Talk about what god is doing in california.
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  • We better pick it up.
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  • God is moving, folks.
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  • We say, "no, the way god moves is they sing, 'just as i am.'
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  • And on the 3rd verse, we've selected a volunteer to
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  • Come forward.
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  • It's to help everybody imagine what that looks like and then
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  • The people that are here that need to respond to the lord will
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  • Come forward.
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  • That's how i met the lord 84 years ago.
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  • And that's the way my grandparents met that, and
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  • That's the way--" i'm not saying it was wrong or incomplete.
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  • I'm saying we're trying to take something and say this is the
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  • Only way god will move.
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  • I got baptized in the atlantic ocean in fort lauderdale in
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  • Front of the sheraton.
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  • But i don't think the beach in fort lauderdale is holy.
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  • I don't think if you really love god and you want your life to
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  • Amount to something in the kingdom, you gotta go fort
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  • Lauderdale and find a sheraton, hallelujah.
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  • But we have that tendency, and god is moving, and we're gonna
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  • Have to cooperate with the spirit of god to say, "help me
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  • See, help me recognize."
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  • It's gonna take some courage on our part.
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  • We're actually gonna have to know the lord.
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  • We'll have to know the word of god well enough that we're not
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  • Just reciting something that somebody handed to us or say we
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  • Joined a group and i belong to the right group.
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  • Therefore, i don't really have to know what i believe.
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  • It doesn't matter.
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  • I just joined the group and i'm good.
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  • We've all done that.
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  • We've joined organizations with no real intent.
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  • We just thought there was some opportunity in the organization,
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  • So we joined it.
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  • We say, yeah, i'll be a part of that, you know, and they're
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  • Gonna require me to have 3 days of service work a year to be a
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  • Part of this organization, so i'll flip hamburgers or i'll
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  • Collect tickets or i'll do whatever they need or i'll sell
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  • Something, but i'm a part of the organization and they do good
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  • And this is kind of a good connective for me.
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  • And we've treated church kind of like it's just an advanced
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  • Social thing, you know, it's kind of a good thing to do.
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  • No, it's about the transformation of our lives.
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  • Apart from god, we have no hope.
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  • It's intended to be transformational from the
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  • Inside out.
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  • What are we gonna leave our children and grandchildren?
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  • It needs to be something other than a massive debt.
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  • I'm having a hard time.
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  • Some of the opposition to the requirement for courage is
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  • Because there's opposition from beyond us.
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  • It doesn't take much imagination these days.
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  • And it's not new.
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  • I don't believe it has a great deal to do with the end of
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  • The age.
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  • I think it has very much to do with the age of the church or
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  • The age of being the people of god, but i don't think it's so
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  • Much prophetic.
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  • In acts chapter 4, which is very near the beginning of the
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  • Church, they called peter and john in.
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  • The same group of people that orchestrated jesus's death.
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  • "they called them in and commanded them not to speak or
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  • Teach in the name of jesus.
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  • And peter and john replied, 'well, you judge
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  • For yourselves.'"
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  • This is not a particularly respectful response.
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  • "'judge for yourselves whether it's right in god's sight to
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  • Obey you rather than god.'"
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  • Do you understand what they just said?
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  • "there's a god and you're wrong.
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  • And we understand you have some power.
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  • You can do harm to us, you can limit our opportunities, you can
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  • Cause our reputations to be soiled, you can inflict pain on
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  • Us, but god is not with you."
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  • That's what they're saying to leaders in the church.
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  • Well, shouldn't they have just gone and had a bible study
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  • About moses?
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  • Verse 20: "for we cannot help speaking about what we have seen
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  • And heard."
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  • In good plain middle tennessee english: "we won't stop.
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  • We're not gonna stop.
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  • You can decide for yourselves what you're going to do,"
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  • They said.
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  • "but we won't stop."
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  • They had some real pressure.
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  • It's not theoretical.
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  • They're not just gonna get taken off social media.
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  • This is acts chapter 4.
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  • By acts chapter 7, there's martyrs.
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  • In acts chapter 8, saul was there giving approval to
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  • His death.
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  • Stephen's murdered in the streets of jerusalem.
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  • This is the first verse following that, and it says: "on
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  • That day a great persecution broke out against the church,
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  • And all except the apostles were scattered throughout judea
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  • And samaria."
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  • All who are scattered, there are thousands of people in jerusalem
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  • At this point that believe in jesus.
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  • And by acts chapter 5, i'm sorry, by acts chapter 8,
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  • They're being scattered, they're being driven out.
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  • It's not safe for them to be there anymore.
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  • Well, that doesn't feel like revival to me.
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  • I mean, could it be that the spirit of god moves and there's
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  • External pressure saying, "no, we don't like that"?
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  • Wow, i don't know.
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  • It's not the way i think about-- i think about a revival where
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  • It's like a 5k race.
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  • Have you ever run a 5k?
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  • Walked a 5k?
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  • Watched a 5k?
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  • You know what i'm talking about?
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  • Five kilometers.
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  • I saw two hands.
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  • That's good.
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  • Y'all should move more.
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  • It's kind of fun, really, because, you know, there's a few
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  • Showoffs at the front of the thing that, like, run against
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  • The clock, but the rest of us, we're just there to wave.
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  • And when you do that, when you run, there's people all along
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  • The path and they're cheering for you.
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  • They don't even know you.
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  • "you're doing good."
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  • No, i feel like i'm about to throw up.
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  • "no, you're doing good!"
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  • And every little bit, there's somebody with refreshments, a
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  • Slice of an orange or a piece of banana or some gatorade.
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  • I mean, it's only a 5k.
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  • You're not gonna dehydrate in a 5k, folks.
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  • But it's more like a social thing.
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  • There's usually a fun-- something attached to it, but in
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  • My mind, that's what revival is.
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  • It'll be like, "oh, we're so grateful god is moving.
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  • Lives are changing, things are happening.
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  • Yay, god, this is so good," right?
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  • "you brought jesus to our office.
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  • We're all gonna be honest."
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  • "oh, you came to my school and told everybody about je--
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  • Thank you!
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  • Give me a hug."
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  • That's what i want it to be, right?
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  • But then i read my bible.
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  • And they said, "no, if you don't shut up, we'll kill you."
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  • And that feels a lot--that feels so relevant,
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  • It's uncomfortable.
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  • We'll call you names.
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  • Now we've got to check, do we have the courage to still say,
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  • "well, jesus has changed my life.
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  • And i think he might change yours."
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  • Allen: now, how should we respond to the nation of israel
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  • And the jewish people?
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  • It's a complex question in today's world.
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  • Well, i've written a book, "supporting israel: how far is
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  • Too far?"
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  • To help us establish a biblical perspective on what has become a
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  • Complex question in contemporary culture.
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  • We don't wanna follow the guidance and the counsel of some
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  • Of the elite universities in this nation.
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  • We wanna form a perspective that's built from god's word.
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  • If we'll do that, it'll bring his blessings to our lives.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • Female announcer: from the pages of scripture to the frontlines
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  • Of today's news, israel stands at the center of god's purposes.
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  • Pastor allen's new booklet, "supporting israel: how far is
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  • Too far?"
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  • Offers a quick way to gain a biblical perspective on israel,
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  • Why israel matters to god, and why it should matter to us.
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  • Request your copy with your gift of any amount today at
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  • Allenjackson.com or by calling...
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  • Allen: philippians 1, paul writes something.
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  • I think it's on point for us today.
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  • Paul wrote philippians from a roman prison.
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  • That's a hard place to write encouraging letters from.
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  • And he writes to the church in philippi that he'd been
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  • Instrumental in bringing formation to.
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  • He said, "i want you to know, brothers, that what's happened
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  • To me has really served to advance the gospel.
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  • As a result, it's become clear throughout the whole palace
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  • Guard and to everyone else that i'm in chains for christ.
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  • Because of my chains, most of the brothers in the lord have
  • 00:11:32.974 --> 00:11:35.276
  • Been encouraged to speak the word of god more courageously
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  • And fearlessly."
  • 00:11:38.246 --> 00:11:41.216
  • That's really not logical.
  • 00:11:41.216 --> 00:11:42.550
  • I don't expect--if it wasn't there, i wouldn't have
  • 00:11:42.550 --> 00:11:44.252
  • Expected that.
  • 00:11:44.252 --> 00:11:45.620
  • He said, you know, "i'm in prison, but my imprisonment has
  • 00:11:45.620 --> 00:11:47.388
  • Caused others to be more courageous," you know, wow.
  • 00:11:47.388 --> 00:11:52.026
  • I've heard that all for the last few days.
  • 00:11:52.026 --> 00:11:54.929
  • People saying that charlie's assassination will--is causing
  • 00:11:54.929 --> 00:11:59.134
  • Thousands of people to raise their hand and say, "well, i'm
  • 00:11:59.134 --> 00:12:01.336
  • Gonna be more verbal with my faith," wow.
  • 00:12:01.336 --> 00:12:07.308
  • You know, i've had to--i've had to yield to the sovereignty
  • 00:12:07.308 --> 00:12:10.445
  • Of god.
  • 00:12:10.445 --> 00:12:11.813
  • Have you ever--how many of you could say god doesn't do things
  • 00:12:11.813 --> 00:12:13.548
  • Like you think he should?
  • 00:12:13.548 --> 00:12:15.884
  • About a third of you.
  • 00:12:15.884 --> 00:12:17.218
  • What do the rest of you think?
  • 00:12:17.218 --> 00:12:19.788
  • I'm here to tell you, god's plan very seldom looks like mine and
  • 00:12:19.788 --> 00:12:22.190
  • His calendar never looks like mine.
  • 00:12:22.190 --> 00:12:25.994
  • But i have made peace with the fact that god is sovereign.
  • 00:12:25.994 --> 00:12:30.799
  • And i trust that out of what seems to me to be a horrible
  • 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:33.234
  • Tragedy, he's gonna bring some expression of his life.
  • 00:12:33.234 --> 00:12:38.106
  • And i believe we'll get to see it.
  • 00:12:38.106 --> 00:12:39.841
  • Some of the opposition that you and i will face will be
  • 00:12:39.841 --> 00:12:42.443
  • From within.
  • 00:12:42.443 --> 00:12:44.245
  • Not external, not pagans beyond the walls, not people that deny
  • 00:12:44.245 --> 00:12:48.283
  • The authority of scripture, people that sing the choruses we
  • 00:12:48.283 --> 00:12:50.752
  • Sing and use the vocabulary that we prefer.
  • 00:12:50.752 --> 00:12:55.690
  • But they'll oppose the purposes of god.
  • 00:12:55.690 --> 00:12:57.325
  • Not new, it's not new.
  • 00:12:57.325 --> 00:12:59.027
  • Jeremiah--jeremiah is a prophet in jerusalem in the midst of the
  • 00:12:59.027 --> 00:13:02.897
  • Covenant people of god in a very dark season in
  • 00:13:02.897 --> 00:13:06.634
  • Israelite history.
  • 00:13:06.634 --> 00:13:08.236
  • And jeremiah says this, it's jeremiah 5:31.
  • 00:13:08.236 --> 00:13:10.839
  • One of the pastors this weekend used it.
  • 00:13:10.839 --> 00:13:12.874
  • He said that--i think it was john amanchukwu.
  • 00:13:12.874 --> 00:13:16.945
  • I'm glad amanchukwu wasn't my last name.
  • 00:13:16.945 --> 00:13:21.282
  • I'd have been 16 or 17 before i could have spelled it.
  • 00:13:21.282 --> 00:13:23.751
  • So, john is a good man, but in jeremiah 5:31: "the prophets
  • 00:13:23.751 --> 00:13:29.891
  • Prophesy lies and the priests rule by their own authority, and
  • 00:13:29.891 --> 00:13:34.229
  • My people love it this way."
  • 00:13:34.229 --> 00:13:37.165
  • The prophets and the priest were the spiritual leaders for
  • 00:13:37.165 --> 00:13:39.667
  • The people.
  • 00:13:39.667 --> 00:13:41.002
  • The priest ministers on behalf of the people to god.
  • 00:13:41.002 --> 00:13:42.770
  • The prophets bring god's message to the people, and he said the
  • 00:13:42.770 --> 00:13:47.342
  • Prophets are false.
  • 00:13:47.342 --> 00:13:48.710
  • They lie and the priests rule by their own selfish initiatives
  • 00:13:48.710 --> 00:13:53.581
  • And the people like it.
  • 00:13:53.581 --> 00:13:56.117
  • That's an internal struggle.
  • 00:13:56.117 --> 00:13:58.519
  • God's people attacked from within.
  • 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:00.021
  • We have too many churches espousing ungodliness, embracing
  • 00:14:00.021 --> 00:14:04.993
  • Cultural definitions for things that the bible has defined for
  • 00:14:04.993 --> 00:14:08.196
  • Us, and we don't have that liberty.
  • 00:14:08.196 --> 00:14:11.933
  • We can't imagine that we're god's people and we ignore
  • 00:14:11.933 --> 00:14:14.936
  • God's boundaries.
  • 00:14:14.936 --> 00:14:17.572
  • We forfeit our place in the kingdom when we do that.
  • 00:14:17.572 --> 00:14:21.743
  • It's not a designer faith where we can take
  • 00:14:21.743 --> 00:14:23.878
  • Commandments 1, 3, and 7.
  • 00:14:23.878 --> 00:14:28.049
  • We're under the authority of a sovereign god.
  • 00:14:28.049 --> 00:14:30.051
  • We call jesus of nazareth lord, christ the messiah, and king.
  • 00:14:30.051 --> 00:14:36.457
  • Those are all expressions of yielding of submission to an
  • 00:14:36.457 --> 00:14:39.694
  • Authority beyond ourselves.
  • 00:14:39.694 --> 00:14:41.462
  • That's the essence of being a christ follower.
  • 00:14:41.462 --> 00:14:45.066
  • And what we see very prevalent amongst us are voices within the
  • 00:14:45.066 --> 00:14:48.469
  • Church, within the ecclesiastical community, within
  • 00:14:48.469 --> 00:14:50.772
  • Seminaries and highly educated, very sophisticated people with
  • 00:14:50.772 --> 00:14:55.643
  • Adept arguments, saying, "no, you shouldn't yield to the
  • 00:14:55.643 --> 00:15:02.283
  • Authority of scripture."
  • 00:15:02.283 --> 00:15:04.052
  • Look at acts chapter 20.
  • 00:15:07.588 --> 00:15:08.957
  • It's paul, he's talking to the church in ephesus.
  • 00:15:08.957 --> 00:15:12.627
  • He's highly invested there.
  • 00:15:12.627 --> 00:15:15.330
  • A lot of things have--he's been involved in riots there.
  • 00:15:15.330 --> 00:15:17.932
  • He's been involved in some real public ministries of deliverance
  • 00:15:17.932 --> 00:15:22.804
  • And tremendous breakthrough.
  • 00:15:22.804 --> 00:15:24.138
  • The whole city has been shaken.
  • 00:15:24.138 --> 00:15:26.240
  • The church has flourished and he's taking his leave of the
  • 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:30.078
  • Community there, and he said, "i know that after i leave, savage
  • 00:15:30.078 --> 00:15:32.413
  • Wolves will come in among you and they'll not spare the flock.
  • 00:15:32.413 --> 00:15:37.151
  • Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth
  • 00:15:37.151 --> 00:15:39.954
  • In order to draw away disciples after them.
  • 00:15:39.954 --> 00:15:43.524
  • So be on your guard!"
  • 00:15:43.524 --> 00:15:45.860
  • Well, i don't expect to read that.
  • 00:15:45.860 --> 00:15:48.896
  • I expect paul to say to them, "you're the best.
  • 00:15:48.896 --> 00:15:52.500
  • You're awesome.
  • 00:15:52.500 --> 00:15:55.003
  • You got so much momentum.
  • 00:15:55.003 --> 00:15:56.504
  • God's done so much in ephesus.
  • 00:15:56.504 --> 00:15:58.239
  • You gotta--come on now."
  • 00:15:58.239 --> 00:15:59.807
  • But he says--he weeps, and he said, "i know when i leave that
  • 00:15:59.807 --> 00:16:05.513
  • From among you people will treat you with savagery."
  • 00:16:05.513 --> 00:16:10.685
  • See, we're gonna have to be trained to see in new ways.
  • 00:16:14.856 --> 00:16:19.027
  • We're so naive.
  • 00:16:19.027 --> 00:16:21.796
  • Amazingly so.
  • 00:16:21.796 --> 00:16:24.499
  • I thought rob mccoy had such clarity on this.
  • 00:16:28.469 --> 00:16:31.773
  • Most of this section of my notes came from what i wrote down
  • 00:16:31.773 --> 00:16:34.575
  • With him.
  • 00:16:34.575 --> 00:16:35.910
  • He said a couple of things that i thought were worth sharing,
  • 00:16:35.910 --> 00:16:37.979
  • This whole cultural engagement thing.
  • 00:16:37.979 --> 00:16:39.380
  • He said, "unless jesus christ is running for office, you're
  • 00:16:39.380 --> 00:16:42.383
  • Always voting for the lesser of two evils."
  • 00:16:42.383 --> 00:16:45.019
  • Because you know what we say, right?
  • 00:16:48.856 --> 00:16:50.224
  • "i didn't participate because i didn't like anybody running."
  • 00:16:50.224 --> 00:16:53.494
  • And that's true.
  • 00:16:56.898 --> 00:16:58.232
  • More than half of us that say publicly we're christians don't
  • 00:16:58.232 --> 00:17:00.635
  • Participate in national elections.
  • 00:17:00.635 --> 00:17:04.472
  • And we--it's because we don't like the options.
  • 00:17:04.472 --> 00:17:09.143
  • You know, it's the lesser of two evils, and i thought rob, i
  • 00:17:09.143 --> 00:17:11.212
  • Mean, he's in california, he's got like a front row seat.
  • 00:17:11.212 --> 00:17:13.815
  • But he said, "until jesus is on the ballot, we're always voting
  • 00:17:18.052 --> 00:17:20.955
  • Between the lesser of two evils."
  • 00:17:20.955 --> 00:17:23.825
  • The next statement i had in my notes that it was in quotes from
  • 00:17:23.825 --> 00:17:26.627
  • Him is, is unsettling to me still today.
  • 00:17:26.627 --> 00:17:28.396
  • He said, "our kids are the most indebted, drug-addicted, and
  • 00:17:28.396 --> 00:17:30.731
  • Depressed generation in american history.
  • 00:17:30.731 --> 00:17:33.668
  • And we've abandoned them because we don't do politics."
  • 00:17:33.668 --> 00:17:38.039
  • Again, i'm not advocating for parties or candidates.
  • 00:17:42.143 --> 00:17:45.346
  • I'm telling you we have to shape the culture.
  • 00:17:45.346 --> 00:17:49.417
  • We can't surrender parental authority to school boards or to
  • 00:17:49.417 --> 00:17:53.454
  • Teachers unions.
  • 00:17:53.454 --> 00:17:55.756
  • And we can't surrender the training of our young people to
  • 00:17:55.756 --> 00:17:59.760
  • Pseudo-intellectuals in college campuses.
  • 00:17:59.760 --> 00:18:04.265
  • The world has changed.
  • 00:18:04.265 --> 00:18:06.000
  • But god is moving in the midst of it all.
  • 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.536
  • It's so exciting.
  • 00:18:08.536 --> 00:18:11.639
  • It's so exciting to me.
  • 00:18:11.639 --> 00:18:13.040
  • There's one more passage, psalm 15.
  • 00:18:13.040 --> 00:18:14.675
  • It's in your notes.
  • 00:18:14.675 --> 00:18:16.043
  • I'm gonna wrap this up.
  • 00:18:16.043 --> 00:18:17.378
  • I brought you a proclamation.
  • 00:18:17.378 --> 00:18:18.713
  • It's a psalm.
  • 00:18:18.713 --> 00:18:20.081
  • It says: "lord, who can dwell in your sanctuary?
  • 00:18:20.081 --> 00:18:21.415
  • Who may live on your holy hill?"
  • 00:18:21.415 --> 00:18:22.783
  • Those are two very relevant questions.
  • 00:18:22.783 --> 00:18:24.485
  • I know it's in something of poetic language, but the real
  • 00:18:24.485 --> 00:18:27.421
  • Issue is who can dwell in your presence, and i know the
  • 00:18:27.421 --> 00:18:30.091
  • Standard answer.
  • 00:18:30.091 --> 00:18:31.425
  • "well, the one who's born again," i--but that's
  • 00:18:31.425 --> 00:18:34.662
  • Not complete.
  • 00:18:34.662 --> 00:18:36.030
  • That's the initiation into the kingdom.
  • 00:18:36.030 --> 00:18:38.499
  • And i believe in that.
  • 00:18:38.499 --> 00:18:39.834
  • I don't want to diminish that.
  • 00:18:39.834 --> 00:18:42.803
  • "who can dwell in your sanctuary?
  • 00:18:42.803 --> 00:18:44.138
  • Who can live on your holy hill?
  • 00:18:44.138 --> 00:18:45.506
  • He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who
  • 00:18:45.506 --> 00:18:49.844
  • Speaks the truth from his heart and has no slander on his
  • 00:18:49.844 --> 00:18:53.714
  • Tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his
  • 00:18:53.714 --> 00:18:58.319
  • Fellowman, who despises a vile man but honors those who fear
  • 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:03.424
  • The lord."
  • 00:19:03.424 --> 00:19:05.426
  • Well, so you could spend your life with that.
  • 00:19:05.426 --> 00:19:08.596
  • There's real clarity in that.
  • 00:19:08.596 --> 00:19:10.631
  • "who keeps his oath even when it hurts."
  • 00:19:10.631 --> 00:19:14.635
  • That really hasn't been what we've been coached towards.
  • 00:19:14.635 --> 00:19:18.239
  • We've been coached towards a much softer, gentler,
  • 00:19:18.239 --> 00:19:22.009
  • Embracing--selfish.
  • 00:19:22.009 --> 00:19:27.648
  • One of the most profound things i witnessed this week was rob
  • 00:19:27.648 --> 00:19:30.851
  • Mccoy showing up here.
  • 00:19:30.851 --> 00:19:33.988
  • He lives in california.
  • 00:19:33.988 --> 00:19:35.356
  • He had memorial services today and tomorrow.
  • 00:19:35.356 --> 00:19:39.694
  • Is this saturday?
  • 00:19:39.694 --> 00:19:41.963
  • Today and tomorrow, multiple ones today and then one tomorrow
  • 00:19:41.963 --> 00:19:45.566
  • That'll be broadcast all over the world, and he had important
  • 00:19:45.566 --> 00:19:47.702
  • Assignments to do.
  • 00:19:47.702 --> 00:19:49.070
  • He made the commitment to come be a part of our conference
  • 00:19:49.070 --> 00:19:50.938
  • Months and months ago.
  • 00:19:50.938 --> 00:19:54.342
  • And when charlie was killed, i sent him a note and said, "rob,
  • 00:19:54.342 --> 00:19:57.411
  • I know you got--i can't imagine the scope of what you have to
  • 00:19:57.411 --> 00:20:01.115
  • Do, but i understand helping families through times of grief.
  • 00:20:01.115 --> 00:20:03.918
  • Don't worry about our conference."
  • 00:20:03.918 --> 00:20:07.054
  • He sent me a note back and he said, "well, let me see.
  • 00:20:07.054 --> 00:20:10.491
  • The family hasn't made all their arrangements yet.
  • 00:20:10.491 --> 00:20:12.159
  • Let me see what i can do."
  • 00:20:12.159 --> 00:20:13.494
  • And i got a note a couple of days later and he
  • 00:20:13.494 --> 00:20:15.196
  • Said, "i'm gonna be there."
  • 00:20:15.196 --> 00:20:17.698
  • And i thought, wow.
  • 00:20:17.698 --> 00:20:21.035
  • I'll tell on myself.
  • 00:20:24.538 --> 00:20:26.741
  • You know, i'm invited to speak at other places and the
  • 00:20:26.741 --> 00:20:29.977
  • Invitations come months and months in advance.
  • 00:20:29.977 --> 00:20:32.179
  • And, you know, when they come and you look at your calendar,
  • 00:20:32.179 --> 00:20:34.849
  • Like, you know, somebody will call and say, "can you come to
  • 00:20:34.849 --> 00:20:38.052
  • Bucksnort next november?"
  • 00:20:38.052 --> 00:20:41.255
  • When i open my calendar next november doesn't look too bad.
  • 00:20:41.255 --> 00:20:44.892
  • I'm kind of rested and i think, "well, bucksnort's not that far,
  • 00:20:44.892 --> 00:20:47.595
  • And they got a trout farm, so let's go."
  • 00:20:47.595 --> 00:20:52.033
  • And then next november rolls around and life has happened.
  • 00:20:52.033 --> 00:20:56.270
  • And my calendar is crazy crowded.
  • 00:20:56.270 --> 00:20:58.506
  • I'm saying, "who put bucksnort on my calendar?"
  • 00:20:58.506 --> 00:21:04.445
  • Somebody will say, "well, pastor, that looks like your
  • 00:21:04.445 --> 00:21:06.280
  • Initials right beside it, there."
  • 00:21:06.280 --> 00:21:08.849
  • "i don't remember bucksnort."
  • 00:21:08.849 --> 00:21:10.618
  • When rob said i'll be there, i thought, "he's
  • 00:21:14.322 --> 00:21:17.658
  • Demonstrating something.
  • 00:21:17.658 --> 00:21:19.026
  • He's gonna forfeit sleep and it'll add stress to his life.
  • 00:21:22.163 --> 00:21:27.501
  • He serves the church.
  • 00:21:27.501 --> 00:21:28.836
  • I understand that.
  • 00:21:28.836 --> 00:21:30.204
  • He gets all the opportunities to make presentations he needs.
  • 00:21:30.204 --> 00:21:32.940
  • His presenter is fully exercised.
  • 00:21:32.940 --> 00:21:36.477
  • And he traveled across the country to be with us, on a week
  • 00:21:36.477 --> 00:21:40.047
  • When i know his heart is broken."
  • 00:21:40.047 --> 00:21:44.985
  • See, i wanna learn to see in a new way.
  • 00:21:44.985 --> 00:21:49.557
  • I know it's gonna take some training on my part.
  • 00:21:49.557 --> 00:21:53.260
  • But god is moving and i don't wanna miss it.
  • 00:21:53.260 --> 00:21:56.397
  • There'll be some pressure externally.
  • 00:21:56.397 --> 00:21:58.899
  • There'll be voices that won't agree.
  • 00:21:58.899 --> 00:22:00.368
  • Revival, awakening, god moving, is not gonna look like you
  • 00:22:00.368 --> 00:22:03.771
  • Think: there'll be some donkeys that talk, there'll be some kids
  • 00:22:03.771 --> 00:22:10.211
  • That offer their food.
  • 00:22:10.211 --> 00:22:11.979
  • I mean, you'd expect somebody in the group to be better prepared
  • 00:22:11.979 --> 00:22:14.181
  • Than a kid.
  • 00:22:14.181 --> 00:22:16.517
  • And there'll be some young people or some people that you
  • 00:22:16.517 --> 00:22:18.619
  • Think, "wow, they're not prepared," and they'll have
  • 00:22:18.619 --> 00:22:20.488
  • Exactly what's needed.
  • 00:22:20.488 --> 00:22:23.958
  • There'll be some expressions of god's power that'll be
  • 00:22:23.958 --> 00:22:26.293
  • Completely overwhelming, and then there'll be some people
  • 00:22:26.293 --> 00:22:28.262
  • With more experience that will come alongside and say, lord,
  • 00:22:28.262 --> 00:22:30.331
  • Open their eyes so they can see.
  • 00:22:30.331 --> 00:22:33.868
  • I don't pretend to know what it's gonna look like.
  • 00:22:33.868 --> 00:22:35.469
  • I can tell you that god is up to something.
  • 00:22:35.469 --> 00:22:39.173
  • And we want to be a part of that, folks.
  • 00:22:39.173 --> 00:22:42.376
  • I can tell you this, the incubator won't be hatred.
  • 00:22:46.447 --> 00:22:51.018
  • And it won't be anger.
  • 00:22:51.018 --> 00:22:53.120
  • And it won't be resentment and it won't be bitterness.
  • 00:22:53.120 --> 00:22:56.123
  • It doesn't mean we're accepting of ungodliness, that we embrace
  • 00:22:56.123 --> 00:22:58.626
  • Wickedness, and we say it's okay.
  • 00:22:58.626 --> 00:23:01.462
  • But you've got to guard our hearts.
  • 00:23:01.462 --> 00:23:02.830
  • We've got to guard our hearts.
  • 00:23:02.830 --> 00:23:04.165
  • We have to have the humility to say, "god, let the change start
  • 00:23:04.165 --> 00:23:05.933
  • In me."
  • 00:23:05.933 --> 00:23:08.002
  • That's--we're not the best at that, those of us that go
  • 00:23:08.002 --> 00:23:10.337
  • To church.
  • 00:23:10.337 --> 00:23:11.939
  • We tend to look through the windows and think the problems
  • 00:23:11.939 --> 00:23:13.808
  • Are out there.
  • 00:23:13.808 --> 00:23:16.243
  • I think that too until i try to leave the parking lot with you.
  • 00:23:16.243 --> 00:23:18.679
  • And then i understand the problems are amongst us.
  • 00:23:21.949 --> 00:23:26.887
  • But i brought you a proclamation and i gave you the verses that
  • 00:23:26.887 --> 00:23:29.723
  • It was taken from.
  • 00:23:29.723 --> 00:23:31.459
  • It's really a--it's just a restating of isaiah 59, those
  • 00:23:31.459 --> 00:23:35.095
  • Verses i gave you and then acts chapter 4, but i think it's an
  • 00:23:35.095 --> 00:23:38.599
  • Appropriate prayer for the church.
  • 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:41.936
  • God is moving.
  • 00:23:41.936 --> 00:23:43.304
  • I believe he's gonna use his people to impact our culture and
  • 00:23:43.304 --> 00:23:46.674
  • To give our children and our grandchildren a better future.
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  • I do.
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  • So if you will, stand with me, we're gonna read this together.
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  • It's a little longer than a prayer that sometimes we would
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  • Pray, but you know, a proclamation is simply when we
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  • Say what the scripture says about us.
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  • Your words have spiritual authority.
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  • You know, i understand that can be abused, but it doesn't lessen
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  • The fundamental truth of it.
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  • You know, food is good for you, but you can kill yourself with
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  • A fork.
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  • And the reality of your words having spiritual authority is a
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  • Biblical principle.
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  • Have people taken it and misapplied it?
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  • They certainly have, but don't step away from the truth because
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  • Of some knucklehead.
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  • We want to say what god's word says about us.
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  • You say, "well, i don't believe in that."
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  • I know, it's part of the change that's underway.
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  • We haven't had to trust god because we thought we could join
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  • A group and be completely whole.
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  • That's not adequate anymore.
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  • There are pressures coming in the earth where you will need
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  • The power of god to flourish.
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  • They're not coming, they're amongst us.
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  • They're hunting us.
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  • Let's read it together.
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  • "almighty god, our offenses are many in your sight and our sins
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  • Testify against us.
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  • We acknowledge our iniquities-- rebellion and treachery against
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  • The lord, turning our backs on god.
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  • Justice has been driven back, and righteousness stands at a
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  • Distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty has been
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  • Far from us.
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  • Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes
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  • A prey.
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  • We humbly ask lord, that you would look.
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  • Restore righteousness and establish our hearts in your
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  • Truth once again.
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  • May a respect for god grow in the hearts of your people.
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  • May those who oppose you, fomenting deceit and lies,
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  • Be silenced.
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  • May their schemes unravel and be exposed.
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  • May the glory of the lord be evident, let us speak your truth
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  • With all confidence.
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  • Stretch forth your hand that your power--let the purposes of
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  • God break forth in this generation, amen," hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: you know, we don't read our bibles just for exercise or
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  • Just to be dutiful christians.
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  • We read our bibles to understand how to navigate a complex world,
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  • How to understand what's unfolding around us.
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  • We're living in a season where there's a lot of emotion
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  • Expressed about the jewish people in the nation of israel.
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  • From some very well-established elite places there are voices
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  • Saying they don't deserve our support.
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  • Well, i wrote a book, "supporting israel: how far is
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  • Too far?"
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  • So that we can have a biblical perspective on our response to
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  • Current events.
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  • At the end of the day, i want to align myself with the purposes
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  • Of god, not the thought leaders at elite ivy league schools or
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  • The talking heads in the media.
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  • I intend to stand with the purposes of god.
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  • This book will help you unpack the current events and
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  • Understand the perspective from the viewpoint of scripture on
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  • How you and i can respond in a way that i believe will bring
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  • The blessings of god to our lives and help us accomplish his
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  • Purposes in our generation.
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  • It's worth the read.
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  • ♪♪♪
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