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Allen Jackson - Fierce Time, No Fear (Part 2)

December 3, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Fierce Time, No Fear (Part 2)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Fierce Time, No Fear (Part 2) | December 3, 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 strengthen
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  • The church.
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  • Jesus said he would build his church and hell wouldn't
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  • Stop it.
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  • We intend to be a part of that in this nation and beyond.
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  • With your help, we have done a lot of things in the media with
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  • Television and radio, we have created small group curriculum,
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  • We've hosted a culture in christianity conference, we have
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  • Criss-crossed this nation in more than two dozen cities doing
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  • Pastors' conferences with pastors and church leaders.
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  • Now we have strategic partners in israel and the ukraine asking
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  • For that same kind of help and resources as we look at the
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  • Year ahead.
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  • I want to ask you to prayerfully consider making an investment in
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  • 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 in standing
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  • With us.
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  • Together we'll make a difference for the kingdom of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: so, god's provision, i want to take the balance of our
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  • Time with this.
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  • This is exciting to me.
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  • How do we make it through fierce times?
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  • God's made provision.
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  • He made provision for his disciples when he said it's
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  • Gonna get rough in jerusalem before it gets better.
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  • Well, he's made provision for us.
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  • And i'm gonna just tag these pretty quickly.
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  • One way, jesus has promised his abiding, his presence with us.
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  • Read the gospels, as long as the disciples had physical proximity
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  • To jesus, they really didn't care.
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  • He could speak to the storms, he could command the demons, he
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  • Wasn't afraid of the romans, lack was not a problem, he could
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  • Feed a multitude with a little boy's happy meal, death wasn't
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  • A problem.
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  • They saw him raise the dead back.
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  • If they could have proximity to jesus, they didn't get really
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  • Tense until jesus said, "i'm leaving, and where i'm going,
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  • You can't come."
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  • Then they began to raise their hands and say, "wait a minute,
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  • That's not the bargain we struck."
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  • And he said, "well, that was your understanding, but your
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  • Understanding was incomplete."
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  • Look at the notes.
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  • Matthew 28, jesus came to them.
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  • This is post-resurrection.
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  • He said, "all authority in heaven on earth has been given
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  • To me.
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  • Therefore you go and you make disciples of all nations,
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  • Baptizing them in the name of the father and the son and the
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  • Holy spirit, teaching them to obey everything i've
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  • Command you."
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  • He didn't say, "i'm going," he said you go.
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  • "all authority has been given to me now.
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  • I'm commissioning you with the authority that i have, you go."
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  • Said, "you can use my name.
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  • In the halls of heaven, it'll be processed as if i were making
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  • The request.
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  • Here's my account number, here's my security code, here's the
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  • Expiration date of the card, go."
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  • It's an amazing statement.
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  • We're not just playing church, we're not just religious people,
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  • We're not moralists, we're on an assignment from the creator of
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  • The universe to go into all the world.
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  • That's what it says, very plain language, "teaching them to obey
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  • Everything i've commanded you."
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  • Not just to consider it.
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  • Teaching them to obey.
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  • And then look at the promise.
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  • "and i'm with you always, to the very end of the age."
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  • His abiding presence is conditional, you have to accept
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  • The assignment.
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  • Look at hebrews 13.
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  • It's on the next page.
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  • "keep your lives free from the love of money and be content
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  • With what you have, because god has said, 'never will i leave
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  • You; never will i forsake you.'
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  • So you can say with confidence, 'the lord is my helper; i will
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  • Not be afraid.'"
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  • How can you face fierce things and not be afraid?
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  • Because god helps me.
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  • Doesn't mean he always removes me from the arena.
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  • He may send you to the lions' den, but it'll be a night when
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  • The lions aren't hungry.
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  • You may find yourself in the furnace, but you'll have on an
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  • Asbestos outfit.
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  • And we ultimately we have to adopt the same attitude that
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  • Those three young men did, shadrach, meshach, and abednego.
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  • And so they said, "king, we don't really have to consider
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  • Our response very carefully.
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  • You do what you need to do.
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  • If you throw us in the furnace and we die, so be it.
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  • But the god we serve is able to deliver us, and he might just
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  • Deliver us from you and your attitude."
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  • King got so mad he heated the furnace.
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  • You know the story.
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  • And then he saw jesus in the fire.
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  • The lord is my helper.
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  • I will not be afraid.
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  • That's why we need one another, because we walk through shadowed
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  • Valleys, we walk through difficult seasons, we walk
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  • Through places that are frightening and intimidating and
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  • Threatening, and we need one another to say i know the lord
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  • Is our helper.
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  • We don't have to be afraid.
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  • You can do courageous things while you battle fear.
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  • Courage isn't the absence of fear, courage is not allowing
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  • Fear to dictate your behavior.
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  • We don't have to be afraid.
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  • Think of fear as a person without a body and begin to
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  • Speak to it.
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  • You're not welcome here, you're not gonna dominate my thoughts,
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  • You're not gonna dictate my emotions.
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  • In jesus's name, you get out.
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  • Satan uses fear.
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  • He sends fear as an intruder into your heart and
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  • Your thoughts.
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  • The lord is my helper; i will not be afraid.
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  • What can man do to me?
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  • "remember your leaders, who spoke the word of god to you.
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  • Consider the outcome of their life.
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  • Jesus christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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  • He hasn't changed.
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  • He hasn't stopped doing miracles on the earth.
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  • So i would submit to you the first element of god's provision
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  • Is jesus's abiding presence in your life.
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  • Get to know him.
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  • Make him your friend.
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  • How many of you have friends you depend on?
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  • Don't raise your hands.
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  • I hope you have one or two or three.
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  • That's a treasure to have a friend you can call on.
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  • The best possible friend you can have is jesus.
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  • He has no limits, he won't leave, he's faithful.
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  • Treat him like a friend.
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  • If you hear somebody maligning your friend, use your voice.
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  • Let me help you with that.
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  • If you hear somebody mocking me, and you say nothing for
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  • Clarity's sake, you're not my friend.
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  • You may be a parishioner, you may be a fellow worshiper, you
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  • May be a fellow--you can find some label that you can live
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  • With, but you're not my friend.
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  • And if i hear someone maligning jesus, watch me find a voice.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Allen: i intend to be identified with him.
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  • That has nothing to do with my profession.
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  • That attitude got me into this profession.
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  • But i've had to grow up in that.
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  • I didn't start with that so well.
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  • There have been plenty of times in my life when i was
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  • Embarrassed in my faith.
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  • And if you're in that category, it's not terminal, but don't
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  • Stay there.
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  • Have the courage to acknowledge it.
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  • I didn't even want to say i was a pastor for a long time.
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  • I didn't like people's preconceptions about pastors.
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  • And what could be worse than being a pastor?
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  • Being a tv preacher.
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  • I mean, selling used cars is an upgrade, right?
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  • And i thought, oh, lord, you wouldn't?
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  • Mm-hmm.
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  • Oh!
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  • I mean, you grow in that, and if it's a struggle for you,
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  • Acknowledge it.
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  • Don't hide it, don't deny it, don't get mad at me.
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  • Say, lord, i need to talk to you about this.
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  • There's places where i go where i'm not really forward with you.
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  • Help me with that, i'm sorry.
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  • I want to be a better friend.
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  • Jesus's abiding presence.
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  • The second part of god's provision is he's given us
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  • A helper.
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  • In acts chapter 1, just prior to his ascension, just before jesus
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  • Left his friends, he said, "it's not for you to know the times or
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  • The dates the father has set by his own authority."
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  • I smile, two millennia later, what's our first question?
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  • What's your timeline?
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  • Show me the chart.
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  • And jesus said that's not really of primary importance.
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  • "but you will receive power when the holy spirit comes on you;
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  • And you'll be my witnesses in jerusalem, and judea and
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  • Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
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  • Those are expanding concentric circles to include the
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  • Whole earth.
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  • What did he promise?
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  • He said with it the arrival of his spirit would come a power.
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  • If we're going to flourish in the midst of fierce times, we're
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  • Going to need the power of god.
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  • And it's not centered in a theology or a doctrine, it's
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  • Centered in a person.
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  • Just as your salvation is centered in the person of jesus
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  • Of nazareth, the power of god is made available to you through
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  • The person of the holy spirit.
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  • And we're gonna have to be comfortable with him, familiar
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  • With him.
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  • John chapter 14, jesus is talking to his friends about his
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  • Exit, but he said, "i'll ask the father, and he will give you
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  • Another counselor to be with you forever--the spirit of truth.
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  • The world can't accept him, because it neither sees him or
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  • Knows him.
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  • But you know him, for he lives with you and he'll be in you."
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  • Another counselor, another comforter.
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  • You'll have help, he won't leave you, he won't forsake you.
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  • Same chapter verse 26, "the counselor, the holy spirit, whom
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  • The father will send in my name, will teach you all things.
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  • He'll remind you of everything i've said to you.
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  • Peace i leave with you; my peace i give to you."
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  • Jesus's peace for him wasn't an absence of conflict.
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  • He had conflict almost everywhere he went.
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  • He got thrown out of his hometown in the synagogue, they
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  • Wanted to kill him.
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  • He went to jerusalem where he was an expert in the matter of
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  • Jerusalem, and they hated him.
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  • He faced conflict a lot, often i think demonically initiated,
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  • Storms, all sorts of things.
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  • And yet jesus was never rattled.
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  • He had a calm assurance of god's abiding presence.
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  • We just looked, jesus said he would never leave or forsake us.
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  • "my peace," he said, "i give to you.
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  • I'll be with you.
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  • The father's been with me.
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  • I'll be with you.
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  • I'm sending you a comforter."
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  • We need to make peace with the holy spirit in more than
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  • Language, in more than a theological construct.
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  • We need to learn to recognize his prompting, his conviction,
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  • His direction.
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  • Instead of making fun of god speaking into our lives, let's
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  • Start to cultivate a listening heart.
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  • Engage in behaviors that give you proximity to the spirit of
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  • God so that you would be more available to the slightest
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  • Direction that he would give.
  • 00:10:50.832 --> 00:10:52.934
  • Because the more fierce the time, the more subtle the
  • 00:10:52.934 --> 00:10:55.637
  • Direction we'll need.
  • 00:10:55.637 --> 00:10:57.038
  • John 16, jesus said, "i've told you these things, so that in me
  • 00:11:00.375 --> 00:11:04.479
  • You may have peace.
  • 00:11:04.479 --> 00:11:06.281
  • In the world, you'll have trouble.
  • 00:11:06.281 --> 00:11:08.683
  • But take heart!
  • 00:11:08.683 --> 00:11:10.018
  • I've overcome the world."
  • 00:11:10.018 --> 00:11:11.352
  • Again, there's no fear that he's coaching his friends towards.
  • 00:11:11.352 --> 00:11:14.189
  • What he's promising them is the presence of the spirit, a power
  • 00:11:14.189 --> 00:11:16.791
  • From god to help us through.
  • 00:11:16.791 --> 00:11:18.326
  • We see that lived out in the disciples through the book of
  • 00:11:18.326 --> 00:11:20.762
  • Acts and through the epistles in the new testament, the
  • 00:11:20.762 --> 00:11:23.431
  • Manifestations of the spirit of god.
  • 00:11:23.431 --> 00:11:25.366
  • Some of you've read it.
  • 00:11:25.366 --> 00:11:26.735
  • In corinthians he lists these ways that the spirit of god
  • 00:11:26.735 --> 00:11:28.303
  • Is made evident in our midst.
  • 00:11:28.303 --> 00:11:30.205
  • Whether you call them manifestations or gifts,
  • 00:11:30.205 --> 00:11:31.906
  • Expressions of the power of god.
  • 00:11:31.906 --> 00:11:33.708
  • Folks, we will need those things to flourish because of the
  • 00:11:33.708 --> 00:11:37.846
  • Ferocity of the times.
  • 00:11:37.846 --> 00:11:40.782
  • Maybe times have been good enough, level enough, stable
  • 00:11:40.782 --> 00:11:43.785
  • Enough that you haven't had to depend on that, and we could
  • 00:11:43.785 --> 00:11:45.720
  • Have polite theological discussion about whether or not
  • 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.456
  • We believed in that or we didn't believe in that or if there was
  • 00:11:48.456 --> 00:11:50.859
  • Room in our lives for the moving of the spirit or there wasn't,
  • 00:11:50.859 --> 00:11:53.595
  • But the season ahead of us will necessitate the presence of the
  • 00:11:53.595 --> 00:11:57.499
  • Spirit for us to flourish.
  • 00:11:57.499 --> 00:12:00.001
  • Have the humility to grow.
  • 00:12:00.001 --> 00:12:03.972
  • "well, that's not how i was raised."
  • 00:12:03.972 --> 00:12:05.306
  • Great, change.
  • 00:12:05.306 --> 00:12:06.674
  • You weren't raised to use a cell phone, but you've probably
  • 00:12:06.674 --> 00:12:08.610
  • Got one.
  • 00:12:08.610 --> 00:12:10.145
  • We gotta grow up.
  • 00:12:13.615 --> 00:12:15.784
  • We gotta humble ourselves.
  • 00:12:15.784 --> 00:12:17.752
  • We're so rigid in some of our theological formations that we
  • 00:12:17.752 --> 00:12:20.522
  • Reject the help of god.
  • 00:12:20.522 --> 00:12:22.157
  • His spirit is present in the earth to help his people.
  • 00:12:22.157 --> 00:12:26.528
  • We better participate.
  • 00:12:26.528 --> 00:12:27.962
  • Say, "well, i don't know how to do that."
  • 00:12:27.962 --> 00:12:29.297
  • Let's learn.
  • 00:12:29.297 --> 00:12:30.665
  • Start to invite god into your home.
  • 00:12:30.665 --> 00:12:33.101
  • Start having a meal once a week around the table, recenter.
  • 00:12:33.101 --> 00:12:38.173
  • Take some of your life back from the busyness.
  • 00:12:38.173 --> 00:12:41.342
  • Tell some of the coaches no, one meal a week you don't touch
  • 00:12:41.342 --> 00:12:44.112
  • Our schedule.
  • 00:12:44.112 --> 00:12:46.815
  • It's the holiday time.
  • 00:12:46.815 --> 00:12:48.883
  • Don't gather with your friends and your families and not invite
  • 00:12:48.883 --> 00:12:51.219
  • God into the midst of that.
  • 00:12:51.219 --> 00:12:53.121
  • You don't have to be weird.
  • 00:12:53.121 --> 00:12:54.455
  • You don't have to stand on the table straddling the turkey,
  • 00:12:54.455 --> 00:12:56.224
  • Going, "o god."
  • 00:12:56.224 --> 00:12:57.992
  • [congregation laughing]*.
  • 00:12:57.992 --> 00:13:03.131
  • Allen: and if you do, don't mention my name.
  • 00:13:03.131 --> 00:13:04.799
  • I don't want anything to do with that.
  • 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:06.167
  • But you could say, you know, can we just thank god that we got to
  • 00:13:09.537 --> 00:13:13.641
  • Be together this year?
  • 00:13:13.641 --> 00:13:15.977
  • And in a sentence, go, "god, you've been so good to us.
  • 00:13:15.977 --> 00:13:18.613
  • Thank you."
  • 00:13:18.613 --> 00:13:20.515
  • Don't get together and not invite god in.
  • 00:13:20.515 --> 00:13:23.751
  • Don't get together and condone wickedness and immorality
  • 00:13:23.751 --> 00:13:26.354
  • And ungodliness.
  • 00:13:26.354 --> 00:13:27.689
  • Don't act like you don't notice, you do.
  • 00:13:27.689 --> 00:13:30.425
  • Well, it's disruptive to tell the truth, not nearly as
  • 00:13:30.425 --> 00:13:32.460
  • Disruptive as inviting the devil in.
  • 00:13:32.460 --> 00:13:36.130
  • Harmony for the sake of sacrificing the truth is not
  • 00:13:36.130 --> 00:13:39.434
  • Harmony, it's capitulation.
  • 00:13:39.434 --> 00:13:41.102
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:13:41.102 --> 00:13:48.142
  • Allen: god is moving in the earth.
  • 00:13:48.142 --> 00:13:49.878
  • A few years ago we understood god inviting us beyond just the
  • 00:13:49.878 --> 00:13:52.614
  • Local congregation that i serve.
  • 00:13:52.614 --> 00:13:54.515
  • We began allen jackson ministry so we could serve the church
  • 00:13:54.515 --> 00:13:57.785
  • Across our nation and beyond.
  • 00:13:57.785 --> 00:13:59.954
  • With pastors' conferences, with print material, with small group
  • 00:13:59.954 --> 00:14:02.824
  • Curriculum, god has opened remarkable doors in radio
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  • And television.
  • 00:14:05.693 --> 00:14:07.061
  • Your partnership, your generosity, your faithfulness
  • 00:14:07.061 --> 00:14:09.430
  • Has made that possible.
  • 00:14:09.430 --> 00:14:10.899
  • Now we have strategic partners asking for help in israel and
  • 00:14:10.899 --> 00:14:13.501
  • The ukraine, those war-torn countries.
  • 00:14:13.501 --> 00:14:15.703
  • Together we're strengthening the church in this nation
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  • And beyond.
  • 00:14:18.006 --> 00:14:19.340
  • Thank you for your generosity.
  • 00:14:19.340 --> 00:14:20.875
  • Female announcer: in a culture filled with deception, our
  • 00:14:20.875 --> 00:14:23.344
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  • 00:14:43.598 --> 00:14:48.336
  • Allen: there's a third part of god's provision.
  • 00:14:48.336 --> 00:14:50.772
  • This one's been under assault since 2020 in a very visible,
  • 00:14:50.772 --> 00:14:53.474
  • Open, unashamed way, and that's the church.
  • 00:14:53.474 --> 00:14:57.211
  • I don't mean the denomination or a particular congregation or a
  • 00:14:57.211 --> 00:14:59.981
  • Particular building.
  • 00:14:59.981 --> 00:15:01.316
  • When i talk about the church, i talk about the people of god,
  • 00:15:01.316 --> 00:15:03.184
  • Those who name jesus as lord of their lives.
  • 00:15:03.184 --> 00:15:06.988
  • Matthew 16:18 is a verse that changed my life.
  • 00:15:06.988 --> 00:15:09.590
  • Jesus said, "i'll build the church, and the gates of hell
  • 00:15:09.590 --> 00:15:11.592
  • Won't overcome it."
  • 00:15:11.592 --> 00:15:13.094
  • He said, "i'm gonna build something, i'm gonna establish
  • 00:15:13.094 --> 00:15:14.996
  • Something, and hell won't stop it."
  • 00:15:14.996 --> 00:15:17.465
  • Then he went on to talk about the authority given to
  • 00:15:17.465 --> 00:15:19.400
  • The church.
  • 00:15:19.400 --> 00:15:20.768
  • When i say that our problems are not fundamentally political,
  • 00:15:20.768 --> 00:15:22.503
  • They're spiritual, this next phrase is why i believe that.
  • 00:15:22.503 --> 00:15:25.273
  • He said, "i will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven;
  • 00:15:25.273 --> 00:15:27.342
  • What you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and what you
  • 00:15:27.342 --> 00:15:29.811
  • Loose on the earth will be loosed in heaven."
  • 00:15:29.811 --> 00:15:31.813
  • The ineptitude, the ambivalence, the apathy of the church has
  • 00:15:31.813 --> 00:15:38.252
  • Unleashed something amongst us.
  • 00:15:38.252 --> 00:15:42.557
  • Our children are victims, they're preyed upon by
  • 00:15:42.557 --> 00:15:47.929
  • Immorality, heinous spiritual things, because the church has
  • 00:15:47.929 --> 00:15:53.935
  • Been distracted.
  • 00:15:53.935 --> 00:15:56.237
  • Gratefully, we're being awakened, but jesus said, "i'm
  • 00:15:56.237 --> 00:16:00.408
  • In the business of establishing the church."
  • 00:16:00.408 --> 00:16:03.611
  • I don't do a lot of word studies with you, but there's one that's
  • 00:16:03.611 --> 00:16:06.147
  • Helpful here.
  • 00:16:06.147 --> 00:16:07.515
  • I gotta wrap it up.
  • 00:16:07.515 --> 00:16:08.850
  • The word that's typically translated in the new testament
  • 00:16:08.850 --> 00:16:11.185
  • Church is ecclesia, from which we get ecclesiastical.
  • 00:16:11.185 --> 00:16:15.356
  • In the greek, ecclesia simply means the gathering.
  • 00:16:18.426 --> 00:16:23.464
  • You see, we've got this perverted idea of the church
  • 00:16:23.464 --> 00:16:30.071
  • Because we've had a gospel of salvation and not a gospel of
  • 00:16:30.071 --> 00:16:33.975
  • The kingdom.
  • 00:16:33.975 --> 00:16:36.110
  • It's a fractured gospel, and there's been such a focus on
  • 00:16:36.110 --> 00:16:39.414
  • Personal salvation, which i believe in, i believe in
  • 00:16:39.414 --> 00:16:41.716
  • Conversion, salvation, the new birth, however you describe it,
  • 00:16:41.716 --> 00:16:44.719
  • But because there's been a disproportionate focus on that,
  • 00:16:44.719 --> 00:16:47.955
  • And the line that has emerged out of that is, "i don't need
  • 00:16:47.955 --> 00:16:50.825
  • Anything else, i've met jesus."
  • 00:16:50.825 --> 00:16:54.228
  • I said that prayer, i got dipped in a pool, i'm good to go, i got
  • 00:16:54.228 --> 00:16:57.832
  • The golden ticket.
  • 00:16:57.832 --> 00:17:00.435
  • That really is not the larger presentation of the
  • 00:17:00.435 --> 00:17:03.204
  • New testament.
  • 00:17:03.204 --> 00:17:04.705
  • Jesus said, "i will build my church.
  • 00:17:04.705 --> 00:17:06.707
  • I'm gonna--" it's a gathering.
  • 00:17:06.707 --> 00:17:08.876
  • We need one another, folks.
  • 00:17:08.876 --> 00:17:11.813
  • When everything's working and you're the--you're receiving
  • 00:17:11.813 --> 00:17:14.615
  • Applause, and every decision you make gets to the greatest
  • 00:17:14.615 --> 00:17:17.318
  • Possible outcome and there's no threats, you can imagine you can
  • 00:17:17.318 --> 00:17:20.621
  • Navigate alone.
  • 00:17:20.621 --> 00:17:22.990
  • When the tremors start, when the birth pangs begin, when the
  • 00:17:22.990 --> 00:17:25.726
  • Contractions get hard and frequent, we need one another.
  • 00:17:25.726 --> 00:17:30.264
  • It's disorienting when they tell you to follow the science and
  • 00:17:30.264 --> 00:17:34.268
  • The science is changing at the state line.
  • 00:17:34.268 --> 00:17:37.338
  • We need one another.
  • 00:17:37.338 --> 00:17:39.874
  • When churches don't advocate for the truth, and they capitulate,
  • 00:17:39.874 --> 00:17:43.044
  • We need fellow believers, the ecclesia.
  • 00:17:43.044 --> 00:17:50.384
  • There is no church without a gathering of people.
  • 00:17:50.384 --> 00:17:54.122
  • There just isn't.
  • 00:17:54.122 --> 00:17:55.957
  • Well, put it this way, tell me you're a baseball player.
  • 00:17:55.957 --> 00:17:58.693
  • Well, i'm happy for you.
  • 00:17:58.693 --> 00:18:01.496
  • But you need a team.
  • 00:18:01.496 --> 00:18:04.031
  • If there's no team, you're not a baseball player, you're an
  • 00:18:04.031 --> 00:18:09.036
  • Athlete with a uniform.
  • 00:18:09.036 --> 00:18:11.906
  • Come on.
  • 00:18:15.176 --> 00:18:17.211
  • We need a community.
  • 00:18:17.211 --> 00:18:19.947
  • I know it's awkward, it's uncomfortable.
  • 00:18:19.947 --> 00:18:23.518
  • This is the most peaceful building in this town when
  • 00:18:23.518 --> 00:18:26.687
  • You're not here.
  • 00:18:26.687 --> 00:18:28.022
  • [congregation laughing]
  • 00:18:28.022 --> 00:18:31.726
  • Allen: i walk through these halls and through the
  • 00:18:31.726 --> 00:18:33.628
  • Sanctuaries, i can feel the presence of god, and then you
  • 00:18:33.628 --> 00:18:38.332
  • Roll in.
  • 00:18:38.332 --> 00:18:39.667
  • [congregation laughing]
  • 00:18:39.667 --> 00:18:44.539
  • Allen: and i'm telling you, you come, the wheels come off
  • 00:18:44.539 --> 00:18:46.374
  • The wagon.
  • 00:18:46.374 --> 00:18:48.342
  • You look across the room, "i can't believe they're here.
  • 00:18:48.342 --> 00:18:50.244
  • Look at them.
  • 00:18:50.244 --> 00:18:51.579
  • They're sitting over in church like they're a christian.
  • 00:18:51.579 --> 00:18:52.914
  • Can you believe that?
  • 00:18:52.914 --> 00:18:54.282
  • I'm offended."
  • 00:18:54.282 --> 00:18:55.650
  • It's a messy business, people.
  • 00:18:59.053 --> 00:19:01.622
  • But we need one another.
  • 00:19:01.622 --> 00:19:03.791
  • Jesus is in the church-building business.
  • 00:19:03.791 --> 00:19:05.426
  • Luke 11, jesus said, "he who is not with me is against me, and
  • 00:19:05.426 --> 00:19:08.629
  • He who doesn't gather with me, scatters."
  • 00:19:08.629 --> 00:19:11.766
  • There's only two options.
  • 00:19:11.766 --> 00:19:13.100
  • You're either gathering the people of god, or you're
  • 00:19:13.100 --> 00:19:14.702
  • Scattering them.
  • 00:19:14.702 --> 00:19:16.070
  • Which are you better at?
  • 00:19:16.070 --> 00:19:18.172
  • Do you use your words and your influence to gather the people
  • 00:19:18.172 --> 00:19:20.975
  • Of god?
  • 00:19:20.975 --> 00:19:22.343
  • Or do you scatter them?
  • 00:19:22.343 --> 00:19:23.678
  • Be careful.
  • 00:19:23.678 --> 00:19:26.380
  • Revelation 19 gives us a little bit of a window in
  • 00:19:26.380 --> 00:19:28.616
  • The culmination.
  • 00:19:28.616 --> 00:19:29.984
  • It's my last verse, we're done.
  • 00:19:29.984 --> 00:19:32.186
  • John said, "i saw heaven standing open, before me was a
  • 00:19:32.186 --> 00:19:34.488
  • White horse, whose rider is called faithful and true.
  • 00:19:34.488 --> 00:19:37.625
  • With justice he judges and makes war.
  • 00:19:37.625 --> 00:19:39.393
  • And his eyes are like blazing fire.
  • 00:19:39.393 --> 00:19:41.829
  • There's a name written on him that no one knows but
  • 00:19:41.829 --> 00:19:43.598
  • He himself."
  • 00:19:43.598 --> 00:19:45.333
  • Who is it?
  • 00:19:45.333 --> 00:19:47.335
  • It's our king.
  • 00:19:47.335 --> 00:19:49.103
  • He's coming back as a conquering king, folks.
  • 00:19:49.103 --> 00:19:51.172
  • He's not being born in a stable in bethlehem.
  • 00:19:51.172 --> 00:19:53.941
  • [congregation applauding]*.
  • 00:19:53.941 --> 00:19:58.145
  • Allen: you don't have to get overly-stressed about the beast,
  • 00:19:58.145 --> 00:20:00.581
  • The king is coming in a triumphant procession, and we
  • 00:20:00.581 --> 00:20:06.354
  • Will join him.
  • 00:20:06.354 --> 00:20:07.755
  • If we're asked to endure or overcome or persevere, it's a
  • 00:20:07.755 --> 00:20:11.292
  • Mild inconvenience on our way to being reunited with our king.
  • 00:20:11.292 --> 00:20:15.296
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:20:15.296 --> 00:20:19.433
  • Allen: jesus returns to the earth to deliver his church from
  • 00:20:19.433 --> 00:20:23.271
  • The assault of evil.
  • 00:20:23.271 --> 00:20:25.406
  • He will not leave us nor forsake us.
  • 00:20:25.406 --> 00:20:28.943
  • Don't focus on the disruptions.
  • 00:20:28.943 --> 00:20:31.779
  • Keep your eyes on the king.
  • 00:20:31.779 --> 00:20:33.714
  • Get to know the comforter.
  • 00:20:33.714 --> 00:20:35.516
  • Be certain that you're standing in the midst of the gathering of
  • 00:20:35.516 --> 00:20:38.486
  • The people of god.
  • 00:20:38.486 --> 00:20:41.022
  • It's important.
  • 00:20:41.022 --> 00:20:43.124
  • So what are we doing?
  • 00:20:43.124 --> 00:20:44.759
  • Couple of things.
  • 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:46.127
  • We're expanding our campus.
  • 00:20:46.127 --> 00:20:48.296
  • Looks like a bomb went off on the west side of this place.
  • 00:20:48.296 --> 00:20:51.632
  • Because in a time when they're retreating and people say church
  • 00:20:51.632 --> 00:20:53.868
  • Is out of season and that's no longer fashionable, i thought,
  • 00:20:53.868 --> 00:20:56.304
  • No, i haven't found that in my bible.
  • 00:20:56.304 --> 00:20:58.906
  • And you were so gracious, you've invested with generosity, and
  • 00:20:58.906 --> 00:21:01.976
  • You are walking with us through this season.
  • 00:21:01.976 --> 00:21:04.445
  • I believe we'll see more people gather on our campus to worship
  • 00:21:04.445 --> 00:21:07.648
  • The lord than at any point in our history.
  • 00:21:07.648 --> 00:21:09.984
  • And i thank you for that.
  • 00:21:09.984 --> 00:21:12.253
  • But that's far more than our congregation.
  • 00:21:12.253 --> 00:21:14.689
  • It's a statement to the broader church.
  • 00:21:14.689 --> 00:21:17.758
  • Everywhere i go, i meet people, and they speak of you and your
  • 00:21:17.758 --> 00:21:21.162
  • Courage and your generosity and your determination and how you
  • 00:21:21.162 --> 00:21:24.198
  • Serve when they visit here.
  • 00:21:24.198 --> 00:21:26.033
  • They have far more comments about you and your attitude
  • 00:21:26.033 --> 00:21:28.569
  • Than me.
  • 00:21:28.569 --> 00:21:30.571
  • "the people were kind, they were welcoming, they helped me.
  • 00:21:30.571 --> 00:21:34.842
  • I don't visit places," they say, "where people are like that."
  • 00:21:34.842 --> 00:21:39.313
  • God is moving in our lives.
  • 00:21:39.313 --> 00:21:41.782
  • This isn't just some exercise on the weekends to be polite.
  • 00:21:41.782 --> 00:21:45.286
  • It's not a competition.
  • 00:21:45.286 --> 00:21:47.755
  • We simply want to honor the lord.
  • 00:21:47.755 --> 00:21:49.457
  • We're gonna close with communion.
  • 00:21:53.260 --> 00:21:55.463
  • When you came in, the ushers gave it to you.
  • 00:21:55.463 --> 00:21:58.599
  • I got two minutes.
  • 00:21:58.599 --> 00:21:59.934
  • We're gonna do this in a hurry.
  • 00:21:59.934 --> 00:22:03.204
  • If you're at home, you need to go grab a glass of water and
  • 00:22:03.204 --> 00:22:05.272
  • A cracker.
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  • Communion is a tangible reminder of jesus's provision for us.
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  • If you didn't get the elements when you came in, the ushers
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  • Will share with you.
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  • They're in the aisles, whichever space you're in.
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  • Jesus put this in place.
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  • It's a physical--it's a point of contact for us for jesus's
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  • Redemptive work, his death, his burial, and his resurrection,
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  • That his body was broken for us, his blood was shed for us, and
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  • Because of that we have standing in the kingdom of god, not
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  • Because of the congregation we attend or the theology we
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  • Embrace or the translation we read, because of our alignment
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  • With jesus of nazareth.
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  • It's why we call him lord.
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  • It's why we're willing to identify with him irrespective
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  • Of the winds that are blowing, because our future is secure in
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  • Who he is and our relationship with him.
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  • So, whatever challenge you may have come to church with today,
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  • Through the blood of jesus, god has provided victory.
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  • There are prayers that we say, proclamations that we make
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  • Together, "through the blood of jesus, i'm delivered out of all
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  • The attacks of the enemy.
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  • Through the blood of jesus, i'm justified.
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  • Through the blood of jesus, i'm sanctified.
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  • Through the blood of jesus, i'm made holy, set apart to god."
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  • None of those come because i can run faster and jump higher or
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  • Quote more verses.
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  • So when we come to the communion table, we come to acknowledge
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  • The one who is our lord and to receive his health, his life,
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  • And his strength.
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  • There are fierce times ahead, but god has given us everything
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  • We need to be triumphant.
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  • So we come as disciples.
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  • Has everybody got your communion?
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  • Jesus took bread at the end of the passover meal with his
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  • Disciples, and he broke it, and he said, "this bread is my body
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  • Broken for you.
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  • As often as you eat this, do this in remembrance of me."
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  • Let's receive.
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  • Then he took a cup, and he said, "this cup is the new covenant,
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  • Literally a new contract signed with my own blood.
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  • As often as you drink this, you proclaim my death until you see
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  • Me again."
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  • Let's receive together.
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  • Will you stand with me for a prayer?
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  • Heavenly father, i thank you for your provision in our lives,
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  • That you sent your son that we might have a life and have
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  • It abundantly.
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  • And as we have received the bread in the cup today, we
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  • Receive that life.
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  • We acknowledge jesus as lord of our lives.
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  • Forgive us of our sins as we forgive those who sinned
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  • Against us.
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  • Lord, we release them today.
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  • And i thank you for your great love and mercy towards us.
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  • I thank you for your provision in our lives, your health in our
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  • Bodies, your peace in our minds, your hope in our souls, that
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  • There's nothing before us that is a surprise to you or
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  • Threatens you or intimidates you, that you'll never leave us
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  • Or forsake us, that we can walk forward confidently, that your
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  • Strength is sufficient, that your peace is abundant, that
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  • Your presence is transcendent.
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  • We thank you for it.
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  • We praise you for it today, that your church will be triumphant
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  • In the earth, that we will see good overcome evil, that we will
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  • See jesus as lord of all rule and reign in this earth, and
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  • That we have the great honor of being included with you.
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  • May you be pleased with us.
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  • Give us the wisdom to choose you and to honor you and to
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  • Acknowledge you in jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: as a young man, i understood the lord inviting me
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  • To serve his church.
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  • I had no imagination what god would do with the congregation
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  • That he invited me to serve.
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  • It's been a remarkable journey together.
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  • That verse in matthew where jesus said, "i'll build my
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  • Church, and hell won't stop it," has become a life verse for me.
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  • And then jesus added that where he said, "those that are
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  • Gathering with me join me, or else you're scattering."
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  • Well, i wanna be gathering with the lord.
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  • That's the reason we began allen jackson ministry several
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  • Years ago.
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  • I understood god inviting us to build the church beyond this
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  • Local community, not buildings or denominations across the
  • 00:26:48.922 --> 00:26:51.458
  • Nation, but to strengthen the people of god.
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  • We've created curriculum, we've criss-crossed this nation
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  • Meeting with church leaders and pastors, we began broadcasting
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  • With television and radio, your partnership has made all of
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  • That possible.
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  • Well, now god has opened doors internationally with strategic
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  • Partners in israel and ukraine to strengthen the war-torn
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  • Church in those nations.
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  • I thank you for your partnership, for your
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  • Generosity, for your faithfulness and prayer.
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  • Together we are gathering the people of god and strengthening
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  • His church.
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  • ♪♪♪
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