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Allen Jackson - Fierce Time, No Fear (Part 1)

December 2, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Fierce Time, No Fear (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Fierce Time, No Fear (Part 1) | December 2, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: god is moving in the earth.
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  • We established allen jackson ministries to
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  • Strengthen the church.
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  • Jesus said he would build his church
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  • And hell wouldn't stop it.
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  • We intend to be part of that in this nation and beyond.
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  • With your help, we have done a lot of things
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  • In the media with television and radio.
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  • We have created small group curriculum, we've hosted a
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  • Culture and christianity conference.
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  • We have criss-crossed this nation in more than two dozen
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  • Cities doing pastor's conferences
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  • With pastors and church leaders.
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  • Now we have strategic partners in israel and the ukraine
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  • Asking for that same kind of help and resources as we
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  • Look at the year ahead.
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  • I wanna ask you to prayerfully consider making an investment
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  • In this ministry as we look towards this new year.
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  • We intend to strengthen the church in this nation and beyond
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  • As never before.
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  • God is moving, we want to be a part of that.
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  • I thank you for your partnership, for your
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  • Generosity, and for your faithfulness
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  • In standing with us.
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  • Together, we'll make a difference
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  • For the kingdom of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: the title for this session is "fierce time," but
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  • You don't have to be afraid.
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  • Back in 2020, when we heard about a virus, i had a sense
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  • That god was beginning a shaking, and since then there
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  • Have been multiple episodes, tremors, that have been a part
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  • Of that.
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  • I'm always surprised.
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  • I'm not even looking for them, it's just after the fact it
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  • Seems that there was an episode where things--there's a
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  • Realignment, there's a tremor that brings some clarity that
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  • Wasn't there, for me at least, prior to the tremor.
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  • October 7 was one of those.
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  • I had no imagination of the anti-semitism that was under the
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  • Surface in this nation.
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  • In october 7, far beyond the horrors of that terrorist attack
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  • Was the revelation of the hatred of the jewish people that is
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  • Incubating in this nation.
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  • Well, i think last week may have been another tremor.
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  • Now, i wasn't looking for it.
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  • I didn't imagine it, but in just--in the days after that,
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  • Our largest american city has elected someone who is a
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  • Professed socialist and muslim.
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  • This really isn't about mayor mamdani, but the two ideologies
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  • That he very publicly, boldly, without apology represents and
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  • Espouses, socialism and islam.
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  • Two political ideologies that have very publicly said they
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  • Intend to disrupt the american way of life.
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  • So i think it's at least noteworthy, not about an
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  • Individual, but when the american public says we choose
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  • That to rule over us.
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  • For a nation with a judeo-christian heritage, not a
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  • Uniquely christian nation, we've never been that, but because we
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  • Were--we had a judeo-christian heritage that informed our legal
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  • System, our educational system, our way of life, because of that
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  • We've been a nation of tolerance.
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  • You could have any political view, any religious view, and
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  • You'd be welcomed here, which is very unique in the world, but
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  • The fabric that held us together was not our ethnicity, our
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  • Language, our skin color, our accent, the region of the
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  • Country in which we lived.
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  • It was a value set, and i think it's at least worth taking note
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  • That when we publicly choose in large numbers, historic numbers,
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  • Political ideologies and religious viewpoints that have
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  • Openly said they intend our destruction.
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  • If i put it in biblical language, i would submit to you
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  • That the shadow of the spirit of antichrist deepened over
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  • Our nation.
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  • I don't know what the outcomes of that will be.
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  • I didn't bring a timeline.
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  • I don't have a chart.
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  • I would invite you away from the rather popular notion that it's
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  • Not our problem, 'cause we're going to get airlifted out
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  • Of here.
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  • You know, i want out on the first load up.
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  • I'm not--you know, i've got no--i have no passion to
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  • Tribulate unnecessarily.
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  • On the other hand, i wanna be fully prepared and do my best
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  • To help those that i'm traveling with be fully prepared for
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  • Whatever's coming to the earth, and so the discussion today, the
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  • Talk today is really a response to that.
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  • I believe there are some fierce times ahead, but i don't believe
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  • We have to be afraid, and i'll try to ground that in scripture.
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  • I'll start with what the scripture tells us we can
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  • Anticipate as we approach the end of the age.
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  • The skeptics will say that the christ followers have always
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  • Imagined that the end of the age was imminent.
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  • I wouldn't disagree with that, there's certainly some credible
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  • History that supports that, but there are some biblical
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  • Prophecies, some things that are happening in our world that the
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  • Bible associates with the culmination of the age.
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  • I don't know the exact timing of that.
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  • It could be this year, it could be a 100 years, but i can tell
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  • You this.
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  • Whether or not i'm right, and these are the last days, with
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  • Absolute certainty, i can tell you these are your last days.
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  • Come on.
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  • You know, and if you're really young, and you think, "oh,
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  • Bother, i'm bulletproof," just hang on.
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  • Time brings humility to all of us, and you want to finish well.
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  • When you have spent your days, you wanna hear the lord say,
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  • "well done."
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  • I've done enough memorial services to tell you, you want
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  • To hear the lord say, "well done."
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  • Everything else matters very little when you come to the end
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  • Of your days, the awards, the achievements, the applause, all
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  • Of the things that seem so attractive.
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  • When your strength is gone and you're prepared to step into
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  • Eternity and live in another dimension, you want to know the
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  • King of kings and the lord of lords and the creator of all
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  • Things is pleased with you.
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  • So let's start with the fierce times.
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  • The bible tells us very plainly.
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  • I'm amazed at the candor of scripture.
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  • You know, jesus is our model, he's our leader, and jesus was
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  • Very candid with his friends and his closest followers about what
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  • Awaited him in his life.
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  • You know, "when i get to jerusalem, i'll be betrayed,
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  • Arrested, beaten, tortured, crucified, buried."
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  • I mean, he told them repeatedly, and yet when the events got
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  • There, they were completely caught off guard.
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  • So there's clearly a gap between information being available and
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  • Our ability to process it.
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  • We're going to try to close that gap a little bit.
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  • I know we try to ignore it oftentimes.
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  • We want to whistle in the dark.
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  • You know, we want to try to celebrate our way through places
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  • Where there's grief or sadness, and i understand coping
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  • Mechanisms, but we don't want to cope with the reality,
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  • The truth.
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  • We want to prepare for it,
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  • So that we can flourish in the midst of it.
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  • I believe there's a pathway. we'll tag it.
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  • The 2 timothy chapter 3, verse 1, paul's writing to a young man
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  • That he's mentoring, and he said, "mark this," take note of
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  • This, "there'll be terrible times in the last days."
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  • The english is a little softer than the greek.
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  • The new testament was written in greek.
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  • The greek word is, "the times will be exceedingly fierce."
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  • It's not a comforting thought, and then paul lists 18 aspects
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  • Of human character that will deteriorate.
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  • Fierce times won't come because of political ideologies or
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  • Parties or political movements or economic trends.
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  • The ferocity of the season will be driven by the cratering
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  • Of human character.
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  • You gotta think about that a little bit.
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  • We tend to think in terms of politics.
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  • I tell you over and over that politics are not our problem,
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  • It's the anemic condition of the people of god.
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  • And paul said there'll be fierce times because human character
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  • Will deteriorate, and then he makes an interesting statement.
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  • He said, "people will be lovers of pleasure rather than lovers
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  • Of god.
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  • They'll have a form of godliness, but deny its power,"
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  • And then the next phrase is important.
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  • He didn't say live amongst them as evangelists.
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  • He said, "have nothing to do with them."
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  • They'll have a form of godliness, but deny its power.
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  • They'll have religious language, they'll have religious
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  • Architecture, they'll hold religious services, but they
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  • Will deny the power of god.
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  • Gee, that doesn't sound prevalent.
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  • Exceedingly fierce times because of the deterioration of
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  • Human character.
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  • Matthew 24, jesus spoke to it directly.
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  • Matthew 24 is jesus's most lengthy prophetic passage.
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  • He's the greatest of all the hebrew prophets, greater than
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  • Isaiah or jeremiah, that we're reading right now.
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  • Of all the hebrew prophets, jesus is the most celebrated,
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  • And matthew 24 was his most lengthy single
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  • Prophetic discourse.
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  • He said, "'nation will rise against nation, and kingdom
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  • Against kingdom.'"
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  • In greek it's ethnos, from which we get ethnic.
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  • Not nation states, but ethnic conflict in the earth.
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  • We see a lot of that.
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  • "'there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
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  • All these are the beginning of birth pains.'"
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  • The beginning of birth pains, the--it's that episodic--my
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  • Father was a vet, most of you know.
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  • I've seen lots and lots of things born, foals and calves
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  • And kittens and puppies, and then once birth pains begin,
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  • There's some things that are observable.
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  • I've never given birth.
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  • I don't identify as a birthing person.
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  • Oh, i couldn't resist.
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  • But i have observed many, many, many times things being born,
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  • And i can tell you, once those birth pains begin, they're going
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  • To continue.
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  • They're gonna continue, and they're gonna increase in
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  • Frequency, and they're going to increase in intensity until
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  • There's an arrival.
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  • So when jesus said these things are the beginning of birth
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  • Pains, i think the frequency of the tremors and the intensity
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  • With which they arise will increase.
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  • Now, i don't know the specific timing of that, but i understand
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  • The pattern that he's referring to.
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  • The beginning of birth pains, "'then you'll be handed over to
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  • Be persecuted and put to death.
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  • You'll be hated by all nations because of me.'"
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  • It's pretty popular right now.
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  • It's chic in a lot of intellectual circles to be angry
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  • With the jewish people, or the modern state of israel.
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  • Hear all sorts of expressions around that.
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  • Well, the hatred for the jewish people and a hatred for the
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  • People of christ are two sides of the same coin.
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  • They're an expression of the spirit of antichrist, and i
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  • Would submit to you that what you're watching is simply a
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  • Foreshadowing of what is going to be directed at you, and we'll
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  • Have to make a choice.
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  • We'll have to--there's a distinction between the jewish
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  • People and the remaining people of the book.
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  • Jewish is both a religion and an ethnicity.
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  • So you can be jewish and reject completely the authority
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  • Of scripture.
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  • You don't have to be religious. you don't have to worship.
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  • You don't have to believe there's anything significant
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  • Around that, but you're still jewish.
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  • So it makes the target more prominent.
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  • You know, if you live amongst a christian people, and you say,
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  • "well, i don't believe in the authority of scripture, and i
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  • Don't believe jesus was the son of god, and i don't agree
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  • With that.
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  • I don't practice that," we still don't call you a christian.
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  • We call you an agnostic or an atheist, and you can disappear
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  • Back into the woodwork.
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  • So the jewish people present a more persistent target for the
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  • Hatred, that spiritual hatred.
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  • The people of faith, the people who believe that jesus is
  • 00:11:47.723 --> 00:11:50.926
  • Messiah have to make a choice, an intentional choice to
  • 00:11:50.926 --> 00:11:54.797
  • Identify with him, and jesus in this passage, we're not gonna
  • 00:11:54.797 --> 00:11:59.135
  • Dwell on it, but he points out that there'll be an enormous
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  • Falling away, because as the pressure intensifies, there'll
  • 00:12:02.104 --> 00:12:05.007
  • Be people who make a calculated decision.
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  • They'll call it good business.
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  • They'll call it the preservation of their family.
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  • They'll call it protecting their children.
  • 00:12:10.846 --> 00:12:12.915
  • Whatever label they use, they will step away from that
  • 00:12:12.915 --> 00:12:15.684
  • Identification so they can blend back in to the
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  • Larger population.
  • 00:12:19.522 --> 00:12:21.824
  • But the hatred is ahead of us.
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  • You better practice your courage in saying, "i'm with jesus."
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  • I find that courage and perseverance and overcoming, all
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  • Of those things, they're like muscles.
  • 00:12:39.341 --> 00:12:40.676
  • They have to be exercised to gain strength, and if you're not
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  • In the habit of saying, "you know, i'm a jesus person.
  • 00:12:43.946 --> 00:12:46.115
  • Yeah, i pray.
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  • I read my bible.
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  • I go to church."
  • 00:12:48.818 --> 00:12:50.186
  • If you're not in the habit of letting those things be a part
  • 00:12:50.186 --> 00:12:52.188
  • Of the description of who you are because you're aware of the
  • 00:12:52.188 --> 00:12:55.758
  • Pushback or the resentment or the resistance--it's the
  • 00:12:55.758 --> 00:12:58.027
  • Holiday time.
  • 00:12:58.027 --> 00:12:59.395
  • We're gonna get together with families, and you--we all
  • 00:12:59.395 --> 00:13:00.729
  • Understand that those kind of statements of faith bring
  • 00:13:00.729 --> 00:13:03.199
  • Division, even in our families.
  • 00:13:03.199 --> 00:13:05.534
  • You don't have to be angry or belligerent.
  • 00:13:05.534 --> 00:13:07.303
  • You certainly don't need to be violent, but you gotta be
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  • Willing to identify.
  • 00:13:09.705 --> 00:13:12.675
  • Start the practice.
  • 00:13:12.675 --> 00:13:16.445
  • Jesus said, "if you won't identify with me in front of
  • 00:13:16.445 --> 00:13:19.582
  • Men, i won't identify with you in front of the father."
  • 00:13:19.582 --> 00:13:23.018
  • There's no such thing as covert christianity.
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  • "'you will be hated by all nations because me.
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  • At that time many will turn away from the faith and betray and
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  • Hate each other.'"
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  • Why, 'cause there's tremendous pressure.
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  • I'm not one of them.
  • 00:13:35.731 --> 00:13:38.434
  • "'many false prophets will appear and deceive
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  • Many people.'"
  • 00:13:40.202 --> 00:13:41.537
  • Those aren't just religious characters.
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  • Prophets are people you expect to tell the truth.
  • 00:13:42.905 --> 00:13:44.573
  • Biblical prophecy isn't so much foretelling.
  • 00:13:44.573 --> 00:13:47.910
  • The prophets were god's representatives to the people.
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  • This is god's perspective.
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  • This is the truth.
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  • Marriage is between a man and a woman, a biblical principle, not
  • 00:13:53.983 --> 00:13:56.485
  • A political ideology.
  • 00:13:56.485 --> 00:13:58.387
  • God created us male and female, a biblical principle, not some
  • 00:13:58.387 --> 00:14:01.490
  • Cultural ideology.
  • 00:14:01.490 --> 00:14:03.993
  • False prophets will no longer tell the truth.
  • 00:14:03.993 --> 00:14:06.695
  • And, "'because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most
  • 00:14:10.099 --> 00:14:12.568
  • Will grow cold.'"
  • 00:14:12.568 --> 00:14:13.903
  • Many greek words for love.
  • 00:14:13.903 --> 00:14:15.271
  • The one there is the word used for the love of god.
  • 00:14:15.271 --> 00:14:17.573
  • The love in the hearts of god's people will grow cold because of
  • 00:14:17.573 --> 00:14:20.910
  • The wickedness.
  • 00:14:20.910 --> 00:14:22.444
  • "'but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.'"
  • 00:14:22.444 --> 00:14:24.880
  • There's the assignment, standing firm all the way to the end.
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  • You don't know when the end is, you just know you have one.
  • 00:14:29.084 --> 00:14:32.788
  • I have one.
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  • I want to stand firm to the end.
  • 00:14:34.156 --> 00:14:36.592
  • Well, i'd rather go to a party or have a picnic or have cake
  • 00:14:36.592 --> 00:14:40.095
  • Or--but sometimes we have to stand firm.
  • 00:14:40.095 --> 00:14:43.432
  • The implications all around there is it won't be easy, that
  • 00:14:43.432 --> 00:14:45.935
  • There'll be boiling hatred, and they'll--there'll be folks who
  • 00:14:45.935 --> 00:14:49.805
  • Abandon the story, and they'll create hate, and it'll
  • 00:14:49.805 --> 00:14:53.208
  • Be intense.
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  • And then the penultimate sign of the culmination of the age is,
  • 00:14:55.711 --> 00:14:59.615
  • "'this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole
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  • World as a testimony to all nations, and then the end
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  • Will come.'"
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  • The ultimate sign of the end of the age isn't the antichrist, or
  • 00:15:06.789 --> 00:15:09.925
  • His beastly activity, or all the horrific things that may happen
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  • In the world.
  • 00:15:13.062 --> 00:15:14.430
  • The ultimate sign is the proclamation of the gospel in
  • 00:15:14.430 --> 00:15:16.332
  • The whole earth.
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  • Did you know we have an assignment to play?
  • 00:15:17.866 --> 00:15:19.668
  • We have a--we're a linchpin in the culmination of the age.
  • 00:15:19.668 --> 00:15:23.806
  • How seriously do we take that?
  • 00:15:23.806 --> 00:15:27.276
  • Forget the distant nations and learning other languages.
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  • The technology is really taking down all of those walls so
  • 00:15:29.645 --> 00:15:32.481
  • Rapidly, it's dizzying.
  • 00:15:32.481 --> 00:15:35.451
  • The proclamation of the gospel starts with your sphere
  • 00:15:35.451 --> 00:15:37.653
  • Of influence.
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  • Does everybody that y'all know you understand your alignment
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  • With the gospel?
  • 00:15:40.756 --> 00:15:42.291
  • It doesn't mean they're all going to accept it, it doesn't
  • 00:15:42.291 --> 00:15:44.093
  • Mean they're all going to join you, but you don't want anybody
  • 00:15:44.093 --> 00:15:47.763
  • In your sphere of influence that doesn't understand the alignment
  • 00:15:47.763 --> 00:15:50.833
  • Of your life.
  • 00:15:50.833 --> 00:15:53.002
  • If you're hiding the truth, you're described in
  • 00:15:53.002 --> 00:15:55.537
  • That passage.
  • 00:15:55.537 --> 00:15:58.107
  • If you're abandoning the truth because it's uncomfortable in
  • 00:15:58.107 --> 00:16:00.976
  • Your circle of friends, you either need more courage to tell
  • 00:16:00.976 --> 00:16:04.646
  • Your friends the truth or you're gonna need new friends.
  • 00:16:04.646 --> 00:16:07.750
  • Don't forfeit your place in the kingdom 'cause you're trying to
  • 00:16:07.750 --> 00:16:10.185
  • Win the approval of people who don't intend to honor the lord.
  • 00:16:10.185 --> 00:16:12.821
  • That's not a good bargain.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: matthew chapter 5, it's the sermon on the mount.
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  • Jesus is giving the beatitudes.
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  • This is included in that litany, kind of that unfolding
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  • Statements of blessings.
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  • "'blessed are those who are persecuted because of
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  • Righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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  • Blessed are you when people insult you, and persecute you,
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  • And falsely say all kinds of evil against you because
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  • Of me.'"
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  • I'm glad jesus said that, 'cause if he didn't say that, i don't
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  • Think that's a blessing.
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  • I would much rather people applaud me.
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  • I prefer awards to persecution.
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  • How about you?
  • 00:18:56.451 --> 00:18:58.187
  • I'd rather be liked than hated.
  • 00:18:58.187 --> 00:19:00.189
  • Then we read that, and go, "oh, yes."
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  • I don't.
  • 00:19:01.623 --> 00:19:03.792
  • Did you ever run a 5k?
  • 00:19:03.792 --> 00:19:06.261
  • I've kind of shuffled a 5k.
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  • Wasn't trying to impress anybody, i just wanted to make
  • 00:19:10.032 --> 00:19:11.800
  • It, but those are so fun, 'cause people line the route that
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  • You're running, and they stand and applaud.
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  • They don't know you.
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  • They're going, "oh, good job. keep it up.
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  • You look great."
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  • No, i don't. i can't find enough oxygen.
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  • Then there's little stations along the way, they'll give you
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  • Fruit or refreshments or water or hydration.
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  • I'm like, "go, good job."
  • 00:19:34.790 --> 00:19:36.792
  • You know, i think, "well, that would be how i'd like it if i'm
  • 00:19:36.792 --> 00:19:38.927
  • Going to be a christ follower," and jesus said, "well, actually
  • 00:19:38.927 --> 00:19:43.265
  • There's a blessing when you're widely hated, when you're
  • 00:19:43.265 --> 00:19:47.836
  • Persecuted because of me."
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  • Do you have the imagination that every time you deny your faith
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  • Or you turn the volume down on your faith or you try to
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  • Camouflage your identity with christ that you forfeit the
  • 00:19:55.677 --> 00:19:58.747
  • Blessings of god?
  • 00:19:58.747 --> 00:20:02.251
  • You know, the bible presents us with two alternatives, blessings
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  • And curses.
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  • There's really no middle lane.
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  • When you're hiding from blessings, when you're making
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  • Choices to intentionally avoid what god said would bring you a
  • 00:20:11.994 --> 00:20:15.163
  • Blessing, you are volunteering for curses.
  • 00:20:15.163 --> 00:20:20.869
  • It's not a good bargain.
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  • Revelation chapter 13, revelation is the last book of
  • 00:20:23.071 --> 00:20:25.407
  • The new testament.
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  • It's the culmination of this thing.
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  • There's a window there.
  • 00:20:28.710 --> 00:20:31.046
  • The beast--the book of revelation is really a dialogue
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  • Between two individuals, the lamb and the beast.
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  • It seems at face value that the outcome would be a foregone
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  • Conclusion, that the beast would overwhelm the lamb, but that's
  • 00:20:42.257 --> 00:20:44.359
  • Not the truth because the lamb is also the lion of the tribe of
  • 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:48.764
  • Judah, but we're given some pretty honest evaluations of the
  • 00:20:48.764 --> 00:20:52.567
  • Beast's intent and his behavior, what we can anticipate.
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  • Said, "the beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and
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  • Blasphemies and exercise his authority for forty-two months.
  • 00:20:57.973 --> 00:21:01.843
  • He opened his mouth to blaspheme god, and to slander his name and
  • 00:21:01.843 --> 00:21:04.813
  • His dwelling place and those who live in heaven."
  • 00:21:04.813 --> 00:21:07.015
  • I think the mockery of god will grow in the earth.
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  • It's commonplace today in a way that would have been
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  • Unimaginable to our grandparents.
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  • There's a place in the public square and in media
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  • And literature.
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  • That will grow.
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  • It's okay, but don't be surprised, "he was given power,"
  • 00:21:24.666 --> 00:21:28.337
  • The beast, "to make war against the saints and to conquer them.
  • 00:21:28.337 --> 00:21:33.508
  • And he was given authority over every tribe, and people, and
  • 00:21:33.508 --> 00:21:36.278
  • Language and nation," nobody will be exempted, and, "all the
  • 00:21:36.278 --> 00:21:39.214
  • Inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast--all whose
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  • Names have not been written in the book belonging to the lamb
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  • That was slain from the creation of the world."
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  • Why would they do that?
  • 00:21:46.722 --> 00:21:48.090
  • It's not primarily a religious exercise.
  • 00:21:48.090 --> 00:21:49.658
  • It'll be because they imagine it's to their benefit.
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  • Submit to that authority, and there are perks, there are
  • 00:21:52.327 --> 00:21:56.465
  • Opportunities, there are things that can come to you.
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  • Verse 9, "he who has an ear, let him hear.
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  • If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he
  • 00:22:03.338 --> 00:22:05.540
  • Will go.
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  • If he's to be killed with a sword, with a sword he'll
  • 00:22:06.875 --> 00:22:08.477
  • Be killed."
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  • The next line is not overly comforting.
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  • "this calls for a patient endurance and faithfulness on
  • 00:22:13.281 --> 00:22:17.185
  • The part of the saints."
  • 00:22:17.185 --> 00:22:18.553
  • There are some things to be faced, endured, to be overcome.
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  • I don't know all the details, but i want us to begin
  • 00:22:26.261 --> 00:22:30.065
  • To prepare.
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  • Daniel, long before the book of revelation, god--daniel
  • 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:36.238
  • Was trustworthy.
  • 00:22:36.238 --> 00:22:37.572
  • God trusted daniel so much he gave him visions and dreams of
  • 00:22:37.572 --> 00:22:40.842
  • What would happen at the end of the age.
  • 00:22:40.842 --> 00:22:42.177
  • There was just a line there that i thought was intriguing.
  • 00:22:42.177 --> 00:22:44.279
  • As he said, "as i watched, this horn was waging war against the
  • 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:48.316
  • Saints and defeating them, until the ancient of days came and
  • 00:22:48.316 --> 00:22:52.287
  • Pronounced judgment in favor of the saints of the most high, and
  • 00:22:52.287 --> 00:22:56.558
  • The time came when they possessed the kingdom."
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  • I believe it's a--it's just a little mini description of the
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  • End of the age, that the beast waged war against the saints
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  • Until the king came, and he defeated the beast, then his
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  • Saints ruled with him.
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  • You see, the question of why would you endure, why would you
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  • Persevere is an important question.
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  • If i go to the gym, i meet people that say they have a
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  • Runner's high.
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  • I just think they're high. i don't get that.
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  • The gym takes self-discipline from me and commitment.
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  • It doesn't feel overly rewarding.
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  • The best part of the gym is leaving.
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  • The best part of cardio activity is being finished, right.
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  • Not far from the gym that i--is the donut shop, and there's kind
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  • Of a strategic alignment with all of that, but why would
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  • You persevere?
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  • Well, i'll do it with exercise because i believe it brings some
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  • Health benefits.
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  • Why would you persevere in the context of what you believe?
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  • Why would you persevere for an alignment with jesus?
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  • Why would you persevere when there's pressure to deny that,
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  • To be more timid, to tone that down, to not tell the truth that
  • 00:24:01.723 --> 00:24:06.728
  • You know?
  • 00:24:06.728 --> 00:24:08.663
  • See, there's elaborate theological arguments being put
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  • Forward on why you should accommodate evil.
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  • We want to be bridge builders.
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  • We want to be inclusive.
  • 00:24:14.636 --> 00:24:17.305
  • God's a god of love.
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  • Well, that's true, but that's only a part of his character.
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  • It's an incomplete narrative.
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  • He's also a god of justice and a god of judgment.
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  • So why would we persevere?
  • 00:24:28.216 --> 00:24:30.685
  • Because our king will be triumphant, and those who align
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  • Themselves with him will rule and reign with him for all
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  • Eternity, not for an election cycle, not for an economic
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  • Cycle, not for some shorts, but for all eternity, we can rule
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  • And reign with the king of kings and the lord of lords.
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  • For that privilege, i will endure.
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  • That seems like a worthwhile motivation to me.
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  • We gotta go.
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  • Can--there's something you should--we talk about the
  • 00:25:00.115 --> 00:25:02.517
  • Difficulty, the ferocity of what's ahead of us, and
  • 00:25:02.517 --> 00:25:05.887
  • Sometimes there's confusion, and there's a confusion within the
  • 00:25:05.887 --> 00:25:08.189
  • People of faith and amongst the people of god.
  • 00:25:08.189 --> 00:25:10.725
  • Our alignment with jesus is first and foremost.
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  • I'm a christ follower.
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  • I'm not a hyphenated christ follower.
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  • I won't hyphenate it by my race.
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  • I won't hyphenate it by my gender.
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  • I won't hyphenate it because of a political alignment.
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  • I am a christ follower.
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  • We need clarity on this, folks.
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  • Conservatism will not save us.
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  • Conservatism will ultimately embrace the antichrist.
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  • We don't have a political problem, we have a
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  • Spiritual problem.
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  • The problem we face isn't because of the depravity of
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  • The wicked.
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  • The problems we face are because of the ambivalence of
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  • The faithful.
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  • Jesus is our savior.
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  • Establish it in your heart with the investment of your time,
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  • With the investment of your resources, with the investment
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  • Of your energy, with where your hope is anchored.
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  • Jesus is our lord.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: god is moving in the earth.
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  • You know, i gave my professional life
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  • To strengthening the local church.
  • 00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:19.794
  • It's been the most remarkable journey.
  • 00:26:19.794 --> 00:26:21.696
  • And then god led us to begin allen jackson ministries
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  • To strengthen the church beyond the local community where
  • 00:26:24.633 --> 00:26:27.068
  • I've served, across our nation and around the earth, and
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  • Your partnership has written a whole new future for what
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  • We see god doing.
  • 00:26:32.474 --> 00:26:34.175
  • We have been able to broadcast messages on television
  • 00:26:34.175 --> 00:26:37.879
  • And radio, we have created print materials, we published books,
  • 00:26:37.879 --> 00:26:41.549
  • Small group curriculum, we're hosting a culture and
  • 00:26:41.549 --> 00:26:43.752
  • Christianity conference for people across the nation.
  • 00:26:43.752 --> 00:26:46.988
  • Now god's giving us strategic partners in israel and ukraine
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  • To help strengthen the church in those wartorn nations.
  • 00:26:50.158 --> 00:26:53.595
  • There's a tremendous opportunity.
  • 00:26:53.595 --> 00:26:55.563
  • You know, all of that is birthed out of what god put in my
  • 00:26:55.563 --> 00:26:57.766
  • Heart decades ago when jesus said, "i'll build my church,
  • 00:26:57.766 --> 00:27:01.269
  • And hell won't be able to stop it."
  • 00:27:01.269 --> 00:27:03.071
  • And then he said, "those who will gather with me."
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  • If you don't gather, you're a scattering.
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  • Well, we wanna join the lord in what he's doing in the earth
  • 00:27:06.941 --> 00:27:09.310
  • In this strategic time.
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  • It's driven my life, and i wanna invite you to be a partner
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  • With allen jackson ministries.
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  • Together, we'll fulfill the purposes of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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