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Allen Jackson - Game of Thrones (Part 1)

May 20, 2025 | S25:E143

Allen Jackson - Game of Thrones (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Game of Thrones (Part 1) | May 20, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: god is moving in the earth in the most
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  • Remarkable ways.
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  • It truly is extraordinary what we see god doing.
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  • We have people coming to our campus in middle tennessee from
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  • All over the nation, from nations of the world.
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  • We're seeing more people baptized, more people engaging
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  • In ministry.
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  • It's truly a remarkable time to see god raising up voices
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  • Of truth.
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  • The one thing we hear consistently that is valued from
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  • The ministry is our willingness to speak the truth into the
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  • Current set of circumstances and people often ask, is there
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  • Anything we can do to help?
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  • And in reality there is.
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  • I wanna invite you to consider becoming a monthly
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  • Ministry partner.
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  • For your gift of $25 a month, you enable us to imagine a
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  • Future that expands the platforms of the ministry.
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  • That's our baseline for how we plan and what we look
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  • Forward to.
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  • If you haven't yet taken that step, please prayerfully
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  • Consider doing so.
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  • We'll share some extra content with you and some unique
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  • Opportunities with you, and together we'll take a message of
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  • Truth to this generation.
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  • God is moving and we wanna move with him.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: the topic, the title, for this session is "game
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  • Of thrones."
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  • There's a great power struggle taking place in the earth.
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  • And i--we tend to think of it as the secular community does.
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  • I'm always a bit grieved when the christian community sees the
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  • World through the same lens that the secular community does.
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  • It reflects how shallow our spirituality, our spiritual
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  • Awareness, really is.
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  • I don't think the best way to understand what's happening in
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  • Our world is a conflict between nations or a political struggle.
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  • Or even about forms of governance.
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  • I mean, all of those things are certainly in conflict right now.
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  • I mean, they're tearing at the fabric of our world.
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  • But i believe underneath all of those there is a
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  • Spiritual conflict.
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  • Because i believe the most powerful forces available to a
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  • Human being are spiritual, and i'm not denying the power of
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  • Military weapons or economic power or all of those other
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  • Things and they're certainly legitimate.
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  • I don't believe i'm being naive, but i believe the greatest power
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  • That shapes human destiny is spiritual.
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  • And that message has to begin in the church.
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  • If it doesn't begin in the church, it will be delivered,
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  • But it will be delivered from the occult and it will be a dark
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  • Spirit that will always lead to destruction.
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  • So a church that denies, and i mean church with a capital c. a
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  • Church that denies the spiritual power of the kingdom to which we
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  • Profess we belong, leaves the world in an enormous deficit.
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  • So this notion of a game of thrones is very relevant, i
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  • Believe, and it's very personal.
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  • You know, i don't--i prefer we not begin the discussion
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  • Thinking about nations.
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  • I think it's much more helpful to think in terms of our own
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  • Individual journeys.
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  • Apart from god, every one of us are inclined to establish our
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  • Own personal kingdom of self.
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  • That's the reality of the way we come into this world.
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  • We enter the world giving expression to this intent.
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  • If you've been around a newborn lately, you know this is true,
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  • And i'm not impugning their character, i'm just observing
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  • The reality.
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  • When we're hungry, we cry.
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  • Until somebody feeds us and then we'll hush.
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  • If we're uncomfortable, we cry, until somebody changes our
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  • Diaper and then we'll be quiet for a bit.
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  • It's impossible to take that new child and say, "wait.
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  • You be quiet while i eat."
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  • They lack that much self-awareness.
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  • Appropriately so.
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  • But those principles left unchallenged in our nature will
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  • Lead us on a self-destructive journey because in reality
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  • Birthdays don't change that tendency.
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  • We become a bit more sophisticated.
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  • We learn occasionally to hide some of the baser expressions of
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  • Our selfish pursuits, but they are very much alive and well
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  • Within us, and in an attempt to fulfill those selfish ambitions,
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  • We will pursue those things which promise us satisfaction.
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  • And we will do them with an unparalleled determination.
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  • What we have to remember and the role that the church plays or a
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  • Portion of the role, is to be aware that there are other
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  • Forces involved beyond ourselves, that good and
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  • Evil exist.
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  • And here's the punch line: they impact our lives.
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  • If you're not living with the awareness that both good and
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  • Evil forces impact you on a daily journey, you are at an
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  • Incredible deficit.
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  • That's like denying the reality of a virus or bacteria.
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  • The reality of a god who loves us and is willing to be known by
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  • Us, and has actually made provision for our well-being, is
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  • A transformational reality.
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  • If you'll accept those ideas that there is a god and he's
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  • Willing to be known, he's not playing hide and seek with you,
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  • And that he's made provision for our own well-being, if you will
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  • Accept those premises, it changes your existence and your
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  • Journey through time.
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  • But i'll give you a warning, evil exists.
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  • And the fundamental expression of that evil, isn't in murder or
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  • Hate; it's rebellion against god.
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  • The root of that evil is that it is rebelled against god.
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  • And evil will do everything with it's in power to cause you to
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  • Join it in that rebellion with the objective of disrupting
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  • God's purposes.
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  • God's love for humanity makes us the target of evil.
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  • So there are spiritual forces at work to diminish your
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  • Participation in god's purposes, to distract you from god's
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  • Invitations, and if they're left uninterrupted, they will bring
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  • Destruction to your life every time.
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  • I've walked this way.
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  • I've walked with thousands and thousands of people now.
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  • Jesus of nazareth is the ultimate expression of
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  • God's love.
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  • I believe you can understand jesus is a divine intervention
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  • In human history, a light shining in the darkness, an
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  • Expression of god's favor towards human beings, a king to
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  • Reign in true righteousness and justice, in authority over our
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  • Lives who truly seeks what is best for us.
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  • But here's the rub in that.
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  • If you're determined to be on the throne, there's no room for
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  • Jesus to occupy that place.
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  • Then we should not underestimate the determination of our
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  • Self will.
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  • He's a redeemer from our broken world.
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  • He's a king with the power to transform, to renew, and to
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  • Bring fulfillment to any human life that will receive him
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  • As king.
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  • So i have a question.
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  • And it really is the essence of this session today.
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  • Who's on the throne in your life?
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  • Now i know we're in church and the answer is jesus, but really.
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  • If i interviewed your spouse or your kids or i looked through
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  • Your calendar or in your expenditures, who is on the
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  • Throne of your life?
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  • Well, it's easter season, and i'm gonna submit to you that
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  • Easter and the events associated with it changed jesus's
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  • Friends forever.
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  • And i haven't quite turned loose of that yet in my own life.
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  • I want to be changed by the events of easter.
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  • Well, i'm a christ follower with some experience, but i'm
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  • Not satisfied.
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  • I don't wanna be content with the place i'm in.
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  • I want to know what it is to hunger and thirst
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  • For righteousness.
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  • You see, after easter, after the resurrection, and especially
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  • After pentecost, they're more than disciples.
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  • They're more than students, they're more than assistants to
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  • The rabbi.
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  • Everything about them is transformed.
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  • Their attitudes, their understanding of jesus was
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  • Changed by the events of easter.
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  • Up till that time, for 3 years, they followed him as a teacher,
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  • As a miracle worker, a healer, a rabbi, even a messiah, they were
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  • Willing to say, fulfilling the prophets.
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  • But they did it in a very inconsistent way, haltingly,
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  • With bursts of insight and then with great deviations.
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  • However, after easter they have a completely
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  • Different awareness.
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  • They're more bold, they're more determined, they're
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  • More relentless.
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  • They have a new sense of purpose to testify as witnesses of what
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  • They have experienced.
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  • They're no longer living within the system.
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  • They're no longer just living within the system of attending
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  • Synagogue and making the feast pattern to jerusalem and
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  • Observing the shabbat.
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  • They have a completely different orientation for their lives.
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  • Their relationship with jesus has changed.
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  • And their relationship with jesus changing changes every one
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  • Of their other relationships.
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  • They're different after acts 2.
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  • So i've been walking around for days now,
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  • Weeks, honestly, saying, "lord, i--what's at the
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  • Root of--what's the--how do we or how are we in the place where
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  • We are, where church can so easily seem like a perfunctory
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  • Responsibility, you know, how often do we need to go?
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  • What do we need to do and how much do we have to give," and, i
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  • Mean, all the stuff.
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  • We've all asked those questions.
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  • I've asked those questions.
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  • How did we arrive at this place?
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  • When i read my--the pages of my bible, and there's a dynamic
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  • In them.
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  • And i don't--i'm not confident that i've got the whole response
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  • To that, but i do want to give you a piece of it that i believe
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  • Is essential.
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  • And it's they held jesus in a place that we don't.
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  • And i'm not accusing anybody, folks.
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  • We're in this together, we've been working on this a while.
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  • You know, we'll say jesus is lord and we'll call him king
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  • Occasionally if nobody's listening that thinks we're
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  • Too weird.
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  • But i mean beneath the veneer, if you peel back all the stuff,
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  • They held jesus someplace different.
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  • And there's a lot of evidence to that.
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  • I gave you just a little sampling in your notes and it
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  • Could have been much, much longer, but you didn't want to
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  • Stay through the afternoon i knew.
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  • So philippians chapter 2 in verse 9, there's a--the
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  • Immediate verses immediately preceding tell you all the
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  • Sacrifices, the choices that jesus made.
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  • But then in verse 9, it gives us the punch line, and this is the
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  • Apostle paul.
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  • So this is coming from saul of tarsus, the pharisee of
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  • The pharisees.
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  • He's got a overwhelming academic resume.
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  • And this is his analysis of jesus.
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  • He says, "therefore," which is a summary word, "god exalted jesus
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  • To the highest place and he gave him a name that's above
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  • Every name.
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  • That in the name of jesus every knee should bow, in heaven, on
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  • Earth, and under the earth, and every tongue confess that jesus
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  • Christ is lord, to the glory of god the father."
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  • So if you wanna know who saul of tarsus understood jesus to be,
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  • He hated him.
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  • He'd put you in prison if you said something about him.
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  • And he was so transformed by an interaction with jesus that he
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  • Has more than a 180-degree change.
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  • I mean, i know physically you can't, but he's transformed
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  • Body, soul, and spirit.
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  • He said god's given him the name that's above every name, that at
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  • The name of jesus, every knee will bow, and you should
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  • Understand that in the roman empire, that's a reason to
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  • Be crucified.
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  • If you advocate for any king other than caesar, you put your
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  • Life in jeopardy.
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  • And when paul is stalking the streets of the mediterranean
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  • World, caesar is still very much in power, and they are beginning
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  • To persecute christians with some enthusiasm.
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  • When they had the first gathering of church leaders from
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  • The cities around the empire, most of them, the leaders from
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  • Those cities, showed up with physical damage.
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  • Some of the early persecutions, there were two that were
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  • Very prominent.
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  • They would sever your achilles tendon, and blind you in
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  • One eye.
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  • So they would impact your ability to--your mobility and
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  • Your vision.
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  • In that first gathering of church leaders, they were almost
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  • All lame and lacking vision.
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  • And paul said god's given him a name that's above every name.
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  • That at the name of jesus every knee will bow and every
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  • Tongue confess.
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  • And yet we've arrived at a place in the contemporary american
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  • Church where we're reluctant to say that jesus is the way, the
  • 00:12:45.657 --> 00:12:48.059
  • Truth, and the life.
  • 00:12:48.059 --> 00:12:50.395
  • They held jesus in a higher esteem.
  • 00:12:50.395 --> 00:12:53.097
  • Look at hebrews 1. different author perhaps.
  • 00:12:53.097 --> 00:12:58.603
  • "in the past god spoke to our forefathers through the prophets
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  • At many times and in various ways, but in these last days
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  • He's spoken to us by his son."
  • 00:13:05.543 --> 00:13:09.414
  • So the author of hebrews is asserting that jesus is the son
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  • Of god.
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  • "whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made
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  • The universe.
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  • The son is the radiance of god's glory and the exact
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  • Representation of his being, sustaining all things by his
  • 00:13:22.861 --> 00:13:26.464
  • Powerful word."
  • 00:13:26.464 --> 00:13:29.234
  • So there's this set of declarations about jesus and his
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  • Authority and his power.
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  • He holds the universe together.
  • 00:13:33.304 --> 00:13:37.342
  • You know what we would say: "well, you know, now we're so
  • 00:13:37.342 --> 00:13:39.611
  • Much more enlightened."
  • 00:13:39.611 --> 00:13:42.580
  • We're 2 millennia further down the road of applying a
  • 00:13:42.580 --> 00:13:44.649
  • Scientific method.
  • 00:13:44.649 --> 00:13:46.718
  • We wouldn't suggest anything as nonsensical as god holding our
  • 00:13:46.718 --> 00:13:50.655
  • World together.
  • 00:13:50.655 --> 00:13:52.557
  • Because we have a definition of our world that doesn't
  • 00:13:52.557 --> 00:13:54.492
  • Include god.
  • 00:13:54.492 --> 00:13:55.827
  • And in the same way we say that the church and the state should
  • 00:13:55.827 --> 00:13:59.931
  • Be separate, we say science and faith should be separate.
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  • You should never mix those two.
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  • You'll diminish them both.
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  • I promise you god can stand up to the inspection of the
  • 00:14:07.272 --> 00:14:09.707
  • Scientific method.
  • 00:14:09.707 --> 00:14:12.443
  • I promise.
  • 00:14:12.443 --> 00:14:16.414
  • But we have been diminished because we have diminished our
  • 00:14:16.414 --> 00:14:19.250
  • Perspective on jesus.
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  • We're ashamed of him.
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  • We're reluctant to take him into those arenas where the training
  • 00:14:23.388 --> 00:14:26.090
  • Is secular and it doesn't make acknowledge--it doesn't make
  • 00:14:26.090 --> 00:14:29.093
  • Room for a spiritual reality or a spiritual perspective.
  • 00:14:29.093 --> 00:14:32.797
  • And even though we hold those perspectives, we don't want to
  • 00:14:32.797 --> 00:14:35.633
  • Take them into those arenas because there's forfeiture,
  • 00:14:35.633 --> 00:14:37.769
  • There's pushback.
  • 00:14:37.769 --> 00:14:39.103
  • Cancel culture is not new, folks.
  • 00:14:39.103 --> 00:14:42.106
  • It was the real a long time before we got to social media
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  • And the opportunity to be de-platformed there.
  • 00:14:44.742 --> 00:14:49.580
  • But hebrews doesn't stop there.
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  • It says: "after he'd provided purifications for sins, he sat
  • 00:14:50.982 --> 00:14:56.854
  • Down at the right hand of the majesty in heaven.
  • 00:14:56.854 --> 00:14:59.724
  • And he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has
  • 00:14:59.724 --> 00:15:02.627
  • Inherited is superior to theirs."
  • 00:15:02.627 --> 00:15:06.264
  • Do we believe that our lord has the name that's above all names?
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  • That there's no spiritual being ever been created, ever
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  • Acknowledged, that's ever been given birth to, that transcends
  • 00:15:12.904 --> 00:15:16.774
  • Our lord?
  • 00:15:16.774 --> 00:15:19.110
  • The greatest honor of our lives is bearing his name.
  • 00:15:19.110 --> 00:15:22.380
  • The greatest privilege we will ever be given is being an
  • 00:15:22.380 --> 00:15:24.482
  • Ambassador, a representative for him, in any arena where the lord
  • 00:15:24.482 --> 00:15:28.119
  • Gives us the permission.
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  • There's nothing better.
  • 00:15:30.455 --> 00:15:35.360
  • Look in colossians chapter 1, verse 15.
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  • This is paul again writing to a church in a different city this
  • 00:15:37.528 --> 00:15:39.931
  • Time, saying of jesus, he said, "he's the image of the invisible
  • 00:15:39.931 --> 00:15:43.334
  • God, the firstborn over all creation.
  • 00:15:43.334 --> 00:15:46.704
  • For by him all things were created: things in heaven, on
  • 00:15:46.704 --> 00:15:50.475
  • Earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or
  • 00:15:50.475 --> 00:15:53.411
  • Rulers or authorities."
  • 00:15:53.411 --> 00:15:55.947
  • He's walking through the org chart of the spiritual world.
  • 00:15:55.947 --> 00:16:01.252
  • Thrones and powers and rulers and authorities; all things were
  • 00:16:01.252 --> 00:16:04.856
  • Created by him and for him.
  • 00:16:04.856 --> 00:16:07.625
  • He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
  • 00:16:07.625 --> 00:16:12.397
  • And he's the head of the body, the church; he's the beginning
  • 00:16:12.397 --> 00:16:16.267
  • And the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he
  • 00:16:16.267 --> 00:16:20.772
  • Might have the supremacy."
  • 00:16:20.772 --> 00:16:24.175
  • Now here's the part that's completely off the
  • 00:16:24.175 --> 00:16:25.877
  • Chart, inexplicable.
  • 00:16:25.877 --> 00:16:27.245
  • There's no answer given to it in scripture.
  • 00:16:27.245 --> 00:16:29.881
  • Jesus of nazareth has invited you and me not only into his
  • 00:16:29.881 --> 00:16:34.519
  • Kingdom, but to be his friend.
  • 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:38.923
  • "well, pastor, you know, i don't wanna be overly emotional."
  • 00:16:43.094 --> 00:16:46.964
  • I do!
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  • "well, i don't want to be an extremist."
  • 00:16:50.301 --> 00:16:51.869
  • I intend to be.
  • 00:16:51.869 --> 00:16:55.973
  • Allen: so many of you send us messages, letters, emails, notes
  • 00:17:00.178 --> 00:17:03.514
  • In a variety of formats saying thank you for the ministry, for
  • 00:17:03.514 --> 00:17:06.551
  • Willingness to speak the truth into culture in this rather
  • 00:17:06.551 --> 00:17:10.154
  • Tumultuous season.
  • 00:17:10.154 --> 00:17:11.923
  • Well, i hear your feedback and it's very valuable.
  • 00:17:11.923 --> 00:17:14.292
  • The question i'm so often asked is, "i feel like we should
  • 00:17:14.292 --> 00:17:16.894
  • Do more.
  • 00:17:16.894 --> 00:17:18.229
  • What can we do?
  • 00:17:18.229 --> 00:17:19.564
  • How do we do something?"
  • 00:17:19.564 --> 00:17:20.932
  • Clearly god is moving in the earth.
  • 00:17:20.932 --> 00:17:22.266
  • He's raising up voices of truth.
  • 00:17:22.266 --> 00:17:23.634
  • We're certainly not unique or alone in that, but there is
  • 00:17:23.634 --> 00:17:25.470
  • Something you could do that would help us.
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  • Join us as a monthly ministry partner.
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  • Our baseline for how we build our plans for next comes from
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  • Those monthly partners.
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  • Your gift of $25 or more enables us to imagine a
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  • Different future.
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  • So if god has blessed you through the ministry, i would
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  • Ask you to make that simple investment in what's next, and
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  • Together we will join god in helping to spread the message of
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  • A biblical worldview and its significance for our families,
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  • Our communities, our nation and for the body of christ
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  • Throughout the earth.
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  • Join us in that partnership.
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  • We'll share some unique learning opportunities with you, and
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  • Together we'll move with what god is doing in the earth
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  • Right now.
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  • Allen: the bible is very clear.
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  • One day you will see the lord.
  • 00:18:11.983 --> 00:18:14.585
  • Just you.
  • 00:18:14.585 --> 00:18:15.953
  • I won't be there, spouse won't be, kids won't be there, boss
  • 00:18:15.953 --> 00:18:18.756
  • Won't be there, neighbors won't be there.
  • 00:18:18.756 --> 00:18:21.959
  • Just you.
  • 00:18:21.959 --> 00:18:24.362
  • And it's worth thinking about that interview a little bit.
  • 00:18:24.362 --> 00:18:28.666
  • When the lord sees you and he checks the book.
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  • "oh, middle of the road.
  • 00:18:31.536 --> 00:18:38.442
  • Don't want to be extreme.
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  • Welcome."
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  • I don't think so.
  • 00:18:44.115 --> 00:18:47.218
  • I'm not suggesting you have to be weird, folks.
  • 00:18:47.218 --> 00:18:49.420
  • Weird doesn't make you spiritual, it just makes
  • 00:18:49.420 --> 00:18:51.155
  • You weird.
  • 00:18:51.155 --> 00:18:53.891
  • I've met too many weird people trying to pretend they
  • 00:18:53.891 --> 00:18:56.394
  • Were spiritual.
  • 00:18:56.394 --> 00:18:58.329
  • I've earned most of these marks.
  • 00:19:01.999 --> 00:19:06.270
  • So that's not what i'm talking about.
  • 00:19:06.270 --> 00:19:08.172
  • The most intensely spiritual people i've known have been the
  • 00:19:08.172 --> 00:19:10.641
  • Most practical people.
  • 00:19:10.641 --> 00:19:13.077
  • I'm not asking you to check your brain at the door.
  • 00:19:13.077 --> 00:19:15.179
  • In fact, church would get better if you bring it in the building
  • 00:19:15.179 --> 00:19:17.181
  • With you.
  • 00:19:17.181 --> 00:19:20.384
  • Most of us have been exposed to so much--so many times where it
  • 00:19:20.384 --> 00:19:23.955
  • Wasn't required of us, we've used the imagination that our
  • 00:19:23.955 --> 00:19:26.824
  • Real efforts are necessary someplace else, that leftovers
  • 00:19:26.824 --> 00:19:29.560
  • Are adequate for church.
  • 00:19:29.560 --> 00:19:31.495
  • Leftover appliances, leftover clothes, leftover resources,
  • 00:19:31.495 --> 00:19:34.999
  • Leftover time.
  • 00:19:34.999 --> 00:19:36.367
  • If there's not something i really wanted to do, maybe
  • 00:19:36.367 --> 00:19:37.702
  • I could do something to serve the lord for a few minutes.
  • 00:19:37.702 --> 00:19:41.339
  • Let's start to bring our best to the lord.
  • 00:19:41.339 --> 00:19:45.243
  • If he is supreme over everything, and he's the head of
  • 00:19:45.243 --> 00:19:48.713
  • The church, i would submit to you the church should
  • 00:19:48.713 --> 00:19:51.549
  • Reflect that.
  • 00:19:51.549 --> 00:19:54.185
  • I think it's really messed up that we would want anything less
  • 00:19:54.185 --> 00:19:59.390
  • Than that.
  • 00:19:59.390 --> 00:20:00.725
  • Look at ephesians 1:22: "god placed all things under his feet
  • 00:20:00.725 --> 00:20:02.693
  • And appointed him to be the head over everything for the church,
  • 00:20:02.693 --> 00:20:05.463
  • Which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in
  • 00:20:05.463 --> 00:20:08.099
  • Every way."
  • 00:20:08.099 --> 00:20:09.433
  • The reality is the first way most people are going to
  • 00:20:09.433 --> 00:20:11.936
  • Encounter jesus is through his people.
  • 00:20:11.936 --> 00:20:14.805
  • Well, that changes the equation.
  • 00:20:14.805 --> 00:20:17.541
  • The first way most people are gonna encounter our lord unless
  • 00:20:17.541 --> 00:20:20.378
  • He gives them a personal revelation, and he does that
  • 00:20:20.378 --> 00:20:22.780
  • With amazing expressions of grace.
  • 00:20:22.780 --> 00:20:25.249
  • But for the overwhelming majority of people, they're
  • 00:20:25.249 --> 00:20:27.151
  • Gonna have those first encounters with people a lot
  • 00:20:27.151 --> 00:20:29.053
  • Like you and me.
  • 00:20:29.053 --> 00:20:31.489
  • Whew, that takes the grace of god.
  • 00:20:31.489 --> 00:20:34.191
  • That takes the god of the imagination.
  • 00:20:34.191 --> 00:20:35.526
  • He picked a bunch of cracked pots and said, "i'm gonna make
  • 00:20:35.526 --> 00:20:37.328
  • You the marketing team," right?
  • 00:20:37.328 --> 00:20:42.033
  • People have known us when we weren't, and you can fill in the
  • 00:20:42.033 --> 00:20:44.502
  • Blanks after that: godly, holy, righteous, nor interested in any
  • 00:20:44.502 --> 00:20:47.405
  • Of the above.
  • 00:20:47.405 --> 00:20:49.206
  • And then he begins to change us and we show back up and have*
  • 00:20:49.206 --> 00:20:51.742
  • Said, "we've met jesus," and they said, "yeah, you needed to
  • 00:20:51.742 --> 00:20:53.811
  • Meet somebody."
  • 00:20:53.811 --> 00:20:56.614
  • That's the nature of this journey.
  • 00:20:56.614 --> 00:20:59.150
  • But there's an enormous pressure, culturally, the
  • 00:20:59.150 --> 00:21:03.854
  • Messaging in the employment arena, corporately and academia,
  • 00:21:03.854 --> 00:21:08.192
  • Academia mocks god today.
  • 00:21:08.192 --> 00:21:11.595
  • It's reprehensible, and we've accepted it, we tolerate it.
  • 00:21:11.595 --> 00:21:14.965
  • Look in revelation chapter 5. this is a beautiful picture.
  • 00:21:18.669 --> 00:21:22.873
  • John has a vision of heaven.
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  • And i just want to call your attention to the scene.
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  • To whatever extent you use your imagination, let's step into the
  • 00:21:28.913 --> 00:21:31.549
  • Periphery of this, and the periphery is gonna put us miles
  • 00:21:31.549 --> 00:21:34.752
  • And miles and miles away from the platform.
  • 00:21:34.752 --> 00:21:37.988
  • When you see the magnitude of the gathering, you'll
  • 00:21:37.988 --> 00:21:39.957
  • Understand, but it says: "they sang a new song."
  • 00:21:39.957 --> 00:21:41.726
  • You know there are songs in heaven?
  • 00:21:41.726 --> 00:21:43.494
  • Apparently when we get to heaven, i'm gonna be able
  • 00:21:43.494 --> 00:21:44.829
  • To sing.
  • 00:21:44.829 --> 00:21:46.364
  • Come on.
  • 00:21:46.364 --> 00:21:48.666
  • That would take a jesus whose name is above every name, okay?
  • 00:21:48.666 --> 00:21:53.404
  • "you are worthy to take the scroll."
  • 00:21:53.404 --> 00:21:55.072
  • This is the song.
  • 00:21:55.072 --> 00:21:56.440
  • "you're worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals,
  • 00:21:56.440 --> 00:21:58.609
  • Because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for
  • 00:21:58.609 --> 00:22:02.279
  • God from every tribe and language and people and nation.
  • 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:06.283
  • You've made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our god,
  • 00:22:06.283 --> 00:22:09.320
  • And they will reign on the earth."
  • 00:22:09.320 --> 00:22:11.322
  • You're not gonna spend eternity floating on the clouds.
  • 00:22:11.322 --> 00:22:15.159
  • Jesus is coming back here.
  • 00:22:15.159 --> 00:22:18.129
  • Now you're gonna get an upgrade on your earth suit.
  • 00:22:18.129 --> 00:22:20.131
  • That's another session.
  • 00:22:20.131 --> 00:22:22.733
  • "then i looked and i heard the voice of many angels, numbering
  • 00:22:22.733 --> 00:22:25.503
  • Thousands upon thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand."
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  • You know what 10,000 times 10,000 is?
  • 00:22:28.973 --> 00:22:30.608
  • A hundred million.
  • 00:22:30.608 --> 00:22:32.743
  • That's a bunch.
  • 00:22:32.743 --> 00:22:34.945
  • Us population a little bit more than 300 million, so about a
  • 00:22:34.945 --> 00:22:38.149
  • Third of the us population in one scene, which means you
  • 00:22:38.149 --> 00:22:45.956
  • Really can't see it with any sense of, you know, you can see
  • 00:22:45.956 --> 00:22:51.328
  • Portions of it.
  • 00:22:51.328 --> 00:22:52.663
  • That's why when i said we're gonna stand on the periphery of
  • 00:22:52.663 --> 00:22:54.265
  • This, there's a platform up there, but there's 40 or 50
  • 00:22:54.265 --> 00:22:58.602
  • Million people between you and the front of the platform.
  • 00:22:58.602 --> 00:23:02.306
  • Except in this case it's angels.
  • 00:23:02.306 --> 00:23:06.410
  • "they encircled the throne and the living creatures and
  • 00:23:06.410 --> 00:23:09.113
  • The elders."
  • 00:23:09.113 --> 00:23:10.981
  • I always read this scene, i think, "what about those people
  • 00:23:10.981 --> 00:23:12.550
  • That don't like big church?"
  • 00:23:12.550 --> 00:23:16.220
  • Verse 12: "in a loud voice they sang," there's another song,
  • 00:23:20.391 --> 00:23:25.129
  • "'worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to receive power and
  • 00:23:25.129 --> 00:23:29.900
  • Wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory
  • 00:23:29.900 --> 00:23:36.407
  • And praise!'"
  • 00:23:36.407 --> 00:23:38.843
  • A hundred million angels singing that.
  • 00:23:38.843 --> 00:23:43.914
  • I can't imagine.
  • 00:23:43.914 --> 00:23:45.983
  • "worthy is the lamb, who was slain to receive power and
  • 00:23:45.983 --> 00:23:50.387
  • Wealth and wisdom and strength and glory and honor."
  • 00:23:50.387 --> 00:23:55.559
  • It's an odd list to me.
  • 00:23:55.559 --> 00:23:58.996
  • He already has a name that's above every name.
  • 00:23:58.996 --> 00:24:00.698
  • He's worthy for that, it says, and wealth.
  • 00:24:00.698 --> 00:24:04.535
  • That's a--i don't have time in this session to unpack that
  • 00:24:04.535 --> 00:24:07.171
  • With you.
  • 00:24:07.171 --> 00:24:08.506
  • Maybe another time because we tend to think of wealth in terms
  • 00:24:08.506 --> 00:24:10.641
  • Of gold and silver or physical assets.
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  • This present world order is passing away.
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  • There's nothing here that has eternal value.
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  • So the reflection that jesus is worthy of great wealth, it's not
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  • About the stuff you and i are clutching.
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  • And he talked to us about laying up treasure in heaven where
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  • Nothing can diminish it.
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  • But it intrigues me that the angels are singing.
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  • This innumerable company of angels singing that jesus is
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  • Worthy of power and wealth, wisdom and strength and honor
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  • And glory.
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  • "then i heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under
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  • The earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing,"
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  • Yet another chorus.
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  • "'to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise and
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  • Honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!'
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  • And the four living creatures said, 'amen,'" so be it, "and
  • 00:25:07.731 --> 00:25:12.369
  • The elders fell down and worshiped."
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  • Is it safe to say that jesus's friends that made that journey
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  • With him for 3 years saw the-- his suffering, his death, his
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  • Resurrection, had that time with him, that they are changed?
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  • This is not the same crew following him through matthew,
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  • Mark, luke, and john.
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  • Jesus comes to give john this revelation, and john records it
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  • For us, and he's perfectly comfortable with his
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  • Presentation of jesus.
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  • It sounds a great deal like what paul said about him
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  • In colossians.
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  • He has the name above every name that he said in philippians.
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  • How have we come up with like an institutional jesus?
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  • How have we come up with a jesus where we quibble about secondary
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  • Things and we get so bent out of shape about stuff that we
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  • Withdraw from the people of god as if we aren't ambassadors for
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  • A king?
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  • What has happened to us, church?
  • 00:26:07.491 --> 00:26:09.493
  • Allen: you know, our team that helps create this content that
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  • We share with you consistently pray that it enables you to find
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  • A more steadfast way to navigate the confusing world we're
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  • Living in.
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  • And you often respond, we hear so many messages back from you
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  • Thanking us for content but also asking what you can do.
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  • Is there a way you can pray?
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  • Is there a way you can stand with us?
  • 00:26:30.581 --> 00:26:32.082
  • Well, honestly, there is.
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  • I wanna invite you to prayerfully consider becoming a
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  • Monthly ministry partner.
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  • For a gift of $25 or more, you help us make a plan for the
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  • Future that will include more people.
  • 00:26:40.758 --> 00:26:42.593
  • We build those plans based on you joining us as monthly
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  • Ministry partners.
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  • God's moving in the earth.
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  • He's changing my life.
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  • I pray he's impacting yours and we wanna continue to extend this
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  • Message to our generation with a clarity and a consistency that
  • 00:26:53.070 --> 00:26:56.940
  • Creates opportunities for individuals and families.
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  • In fact, i wanna pray with you and for you.
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  • God, i thank you that you've let us stand together to learn
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  • Together, and i pray that you'll multiply this to impact even
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  • More lives for your glory and your purposes, in jesus's
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  • Name, amen.
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  • Thanks for your partnership.
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