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Allen Jackson - Game of Thrones (Part 2)

May 21, 2025 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Game of Thrones (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 - Game of Thrones (Part 2) | May 21, 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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  • Allen: is it safe to say that jesus's friends that made that
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  • Journey with him for 3 years saw the--his suffering, his death,
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  • His 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?
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  • "well, pastor, are you saying i'm not saved?"
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  • No, i'm saying you've been way too focused on that.
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  • It's like getting a driver's license and saying you're a
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  • Good driver.
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  • Come on, i go to church with you.
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  • That's why i wait and leave late.
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  • I'm not questioning your conversion.
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  • I'm not questioning the reality, the significance, the importance
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  • Of it.
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  • I'm telling you that's not the whole discussion.
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  • We are servants of the most high god.
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  • I want to take the minutes i've got left before they're gone and
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  • I wanna--i tried to understand that.
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  • I said, okay, so we're not there.
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  • That is not where we live.
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  • That's not our common discussion at the break room when we're at
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  • Work monday through friday or whenever you go to work.
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  • That's not our common discussion in the corridors of
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  • The universities.
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  • That's not the language we use when we have free time.
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  • So there's a gap.
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  • I think the language i would use is mission drift.
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  • You know what that is.
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  • It isn't that you lost sight of who you are or what you're
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  • Called to, you just, somehow, you get disoriented and you're
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  • Still marching.
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  • You're just marching in the right direction, you lose a
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  • Sense of your true mission and purpose.
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  • You become co-opted by secondary concerns and considerations.
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  • And our efforts and our resources become directed
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  • Towards objectives which don't further the assignment.
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  • Not that we're not busy, not that we're not expending energy
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  • And effort.
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  • It's just we've lost alignment with the target.
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  • Does that feel more accurate?
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  • Lots of churches, particularly part of the world where we live.
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  • And yet nashville's becoming known for its godlessness, not
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  • Its godliness.
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  • We can't thump our chest and go, "we're the buckle of the--" if
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  • We're the buckle of the bible belt, our pants are about to
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  • Fall down.
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  • Well, revelation, the book of revelation begins with a course
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  • Correction for seven churches.
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  • They are the intended recipients of this revelation.
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  • And that's intended in heaven.
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  • It's heaven initiated.
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  • God said, "i have a revelation i want to give, and how will i--
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  • How will we do this?"
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  • And jesus steps forward and he said, "well, i've got somebody i
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  • Trust with the revelation.
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  • His name's john, he's my friend."
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  • And then the revelation is directed towards these seven
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  • Churches at the point of distribution, and every one of
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  • These seven churches is given an evaluation.
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  • God says to them repeatedly, the spirit of god says to them, "i
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  • Know your deeds."
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  • Do you live with the awareness that god watches us?
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  • In the case of every one of these churches, he says
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  • Specifically in some rather elaborate language, there's
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  • Angels assigned to you.
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  • And if you don't maintain your assignment, if you don't
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  • Maintain your course, you will forfeit the support you have
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  • From me.
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  • That's all right there in these seven churches.
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  • So, i just gave you--i gave you--four of the churches got
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  • Very clear course corrections.
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  • Significant missionary, folks, we do this all--i've been--i
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  • Can't tell you how many times i had--i talk to churches and
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  • Work with churches, and they've lost any sense of purpose
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  • And mission.
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  • It's about where we park and the style of our worship and how
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  • Long the service lasts and we don't like this and the color of
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  • The carpet wasn't good, you know?
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  • What?
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  • We've lost complete imagination of who jesus is.
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  • Do you really think when you see the king, you're gonna say, "you
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  • Know, i wanted to go to that church, but their carpet, agh."
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  • Revelation 2, it's the church at ephesus.
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  • This is what god said to them, he said, "i hold this
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  • Against you."
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  • Can you imagine god holding something against the community
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  • Of believers?
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  • That sobers me.
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  • He said, "i hold this against you: you've forsaken your
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  • First love.
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  • Remember the height from which you've fallen!"
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  • You've lost your focus.
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  • You've lost your enthusiasm.
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  • Well, you haven't denied me.
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  • You haven't just walked away.
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  • But you've lost something.
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  • The church at thyatira, the names--i started to use names
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  • Of local communities, but i was afraid i'd get too much mail.
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  • Says, "i have this against you."
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  • This wasn't some random--these are churches that god deemed
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  • Worthy of a message.
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  • We need to process that.
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  • The fact that god said, "listen, you're not walking really well."
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  • And let's not make this about something else.
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  • If we can all hold this to our lane, our role.
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  • This is about our revelations of jesus and who we are in
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  • The world.
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  • The church is a people initiative before it's a
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  • Collective initiative.
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  • Healthy, growing, vibrant churches are comprised of
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  • Healthy, growing, vibrant people.
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  • Not flawless, systematic theology or perfect
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  • Organizational structure.
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  • It's about people in our hearts.
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  • If we'll get that right, the rest of those things find
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  • Their place.
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  • But he says to this church, "i have this against you: you
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  • Tolerate that woman jezebel.
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  • She's leading my people into sexual immorality.
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  • You tolerate immorality."
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  • The contemporary church would say that was an expression
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  • Of grace.
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  • We don't wanna say that like there's moral and immoral
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  • Because people would be turned off and how would we get to tell
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  • Them about jesus so they could get their driver's license?
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  • To the church at sardis, in revelation 3, he said, "to the
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  • Angel in the church of sardis, write this: these are the words
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  • Of him who holds the seven spirits of god and the seven
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  • Stars, i know your deeds; you have a reputation of being
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  • Alive, but you're dead.
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  • Wake up!"
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  • That's god's invitation: wake up.
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  • Strengthen what you have or you're gonna--you have
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  • Atrophied to the point that if you don't wake up, he said,
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  • You're gonna lose your ability to move.
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  • Again, these are churches deemed worthy of a message, chosen,
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  • Revered, known in heaven with angelic support.
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  • He's saying you've lost your first love, you're tolerant of
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  • Things you shouldn't be tolerant of.
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  • You're asleep when you should be awake.
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  • And then in revelation 3, he says, "to the angel of the
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  • Church in laodicea: these are the words of the faithful and
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  • The true witness, the ruler of god's creation.
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  • I know your deeds, you're neither hot nor cold."
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  • You know what i find when we pray about this kind of
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  • Revelation is we always want god to pay attention to somebody
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  • Else's deeds.
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  • God, are you watching?
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  • And then you fill in the name, because there's somebody you
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  • Think god ought to be checking on.
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  • For some of you, it's probably me.
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  • Appreciate those prayers.
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  • But it changes the equation completely if you'll just keep
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  • Pushing your name into that blank.
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  • What would i do differently if i knew god was watching my
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  • Last week?
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  • How would i approach this week?
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  • I know your deeds that you're neither cold nor hot.
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  • I wish you were either one or the other!
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  • But because you're lukewarm-- you're not hot or cold--i'm
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  • About to spit you out of my mouth."
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  • This is a church that's really struggling.
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  • He said, "you say you don't have any needs.
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  • That you're affluent and wealthy and connected and you've got
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  • Everything, and he says, 'but i say to you, you're blind and
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  • Pitiful and naked and in need of all things.'"
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  • They have no awareness.
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  • No awareness.
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  • And again, these are esteemed churches.
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  • These are churches being celebrated.
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  • They're commemorated in scripture.
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  • There's an end--there's a message being delivered to them
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  • For the world.
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  • And i think it's worth noting they're relatively new churches.
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  • Scholars argue a bit, a little bit, about when revelation was
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  • Written, but i'm gonna go with the younger version of that.
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  • They're within just a few decades, maybe they're 30 years
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  • Old at the most, but i mean they're young churches.
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  • These aren't hundreds of years old with great cathedrals that
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  • Are dusty and musty.
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  • The people that are involved are the people that gave birth
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  • To it.
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  • That's why he can say you've lost your first love.
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  • That's why he can say you're tolerant of something.
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  • He didn't say you've become immoral.
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  • He said, no, no, no, you're tolerating something you didn't
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  • Used to tolerate.
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  • You can't become lukewarm unless you were warmer.
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  • He's talking to a group of people that have mission drift.
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  • They've lost purpose and they're a long way away from that
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  • Exalted language that we're reading from our friends, that
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  • Paul gave to the church in philippi or colossae or that
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  • John wrote about in revelation 5.
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  • Allen: so many of you send us messages,
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  • Letters, emails, notes in a variety of formats saying
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  • Thank you for the ministry, for willingness to speak the truth
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  • Into culture in this rather tumultuous season.
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  • Well, i hear your feedback and it's very valuable.
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  • The question i'm so often asked is, "i feel like we should
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  • Do more.
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  • Allen: so i have another question for us.
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  • Is there any evidence that the contemporary church is in a
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  • Condition similar to the churches in revelation?
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  • This is personal to me.
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  • I've spent my professional life, i've spent my adult life, in the
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  • Church and i wouldn't imagine that i'm an expert, but i'm at
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  • Least entitled to an opinion.
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  • And i would have to say yes.
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  • I think there's some very, very uncomfortable similarities
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  • Between contemporary expressions of the church and what we read
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  • About in those opening chapters.
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  • And i'll start with the churches.
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  • The churches have rejected in far too frequent instances the
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  • Authority of scripture.
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  • Churches, with signs that identify the buildings and the
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  • Gatherings of people as churches, rejecting the
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  • Authority of scripture.
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  • Technically, i don't believe you are a church if you reject the
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  • Authority of scripture.
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  • I understand how uncomfortable that is.
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  • I live in that world, that we set aside biblical definitions.
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  • How do you set aside the authority of scripture?
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  • How do you reject it?
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  • You set aside biblical definitions, fundamental things
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  • Like marriage were introduced to that in the opening chapters
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  • Of genesis.
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  • We don't decide that.
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  • God did that.
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  • He told us how marriage is to be understood.
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  • God defined for us moral and immoral.
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  • Or we find churches unwilling to engage in our culture.
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  • Willing to speak to trends that are clearly--unwilling to speak
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  • To trends that are clearly ungodly.
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  • We refuse to stand up for biblical ideas like equality,
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  • That the ground at the foot of the cross is level and that
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  • Every person is welcome.
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  • And everybody would have an equal opportunity in
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  • That kingdom.
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  • That's a remarkable thing.
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  • It's changed human civilization.
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  • We've replaced that with an idea called equity where we get equal
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  • Outcomes and it really doesn't matter about input, that there
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  • Are other factors.
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  • Folks, you cannot align that with scripture.
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  • And yet it's flourishing in the contemporary church.
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  • I'll give you some cultural expressions.
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  • The battle about our nation, the role of the church in our
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  • Nation, there's so much hateful language around that.
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  • If you pray, "god bless america," people get angered.
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  • I'm not saying he should bless us to the exclusion of blessing
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  • Anyone else.
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  • It's just the place god planted me.
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  • He chose the place of my birth.
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  • I didn't.
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  • And i believe a part of my assignment is to invite his
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  • Blessing here.
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  • I've labored in other nations around the world and invited
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  • God's blessings there.
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  • I have friends around the earth.
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  • But what we're watching is very unsettling: open borders, a
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  • Tariff system in place which punishes american workers, which
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  • Incentivize global corporate structures, that diminish the
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  • Families in our own nation.
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  • You put those two things together: an open porous border
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  • And a tariff system that punishes american workers and
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  • You are intentionally dismantling the strength of
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  • This nation.
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  • Now here's what--this is where i think this matters to
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  • The church.
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  • The united states is founded upon a biblical worldview.
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  • I'm not saying it's been perfect.
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  • But there's really no question about that.
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  • And the trajectory of our history is an experiment in
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  • Self-government where we have openly integrated the bible into
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  • Our government, education, and legal systems.
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  • Because we have little information we imagine that the
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  • Whole world is like that.
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  • And the whole world is not like that.
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  • The chinese government in the world today, the chinese people
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  • Are precious to god.
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  • But the system of authority they're under is communist,
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  • Which is a completely different moral code than the one that has
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  • Been predominant in our culture.
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  • Today--today, they enforce slavery.
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  • They have led the globe in forced abortions.
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  • Civil rights are minimal.
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  • There are very oppressive social controls on the people of
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  • That nation.
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  • And i think it's not only unwise, i think it's ungodly to
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  • Subject our nation to an authority structure that
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  • Proposes those things.
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  • I haven't offended you yet.
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  • The european union, once a bastion of christianity.
  • 00:17:45.380 --> 00:17:51.587
  • Not any longer.
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  • They've almost universally rejected christian values.
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  • It is a very, very weakened church that exists.
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  • I've been there to speak.
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  • They hand me a list of things you're not allowed to say.
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  • Simple biblical principles.
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  • The church has very little cultural influence or leadership
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  • Across europe these days.
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  • Let's pick another arena: education.
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  • One of the strengths of our nation has been our commitment
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  • To educate our children.
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  • And i'll stay on the side of the lane where i have the most
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  • Experience: christian schools and universities for the most
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  • Part no longer train our students to be christian.
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  • Well, they incorporate those things in their names and there
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  • May be some classes that are options or some degree programs
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  • That kind of fit in that lane and maybe the mockery of a
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  • Christian worldview is lesser, but they're not really training
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  • Their students to be christian.
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  • Bible survey class is not the equivalent to training young
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  • People to trust and believe the bible.
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  • And why would we send our children and students to schools
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  • And universities that label themselves christian and exact a
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  • Toll for that and then don't teach the students to trust and
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  • Believe the bible?
  • 00:19:06.895 --> 00:19:08.797
  • And we stay silent.
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  • Now i happen to believe that should be a part of public
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  • Education, but that's for another day.
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  • [loud applause]
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  • Allen: we train--we're reluctant in christian settings
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  • To train our children on the exceptionalism of jesus.
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  • We'll teach them more about the exceptionalism of the
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  • Institution to which they belong.
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  • That's messed up.
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  • We're in the church, but there's nobody else, there's no closet
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  • Where help is coming from.
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  • I believe christian schools and universities should establish
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  • Priorities derived from a biblical worldview.
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  • And they should be taught to the children.
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  • Children should be trained in these values and these
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  • Principles, radical stuff like humility, service, generosity,
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  • The value of hard work.
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  • I think it should be explained to them from the authority of
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  • Scripture why the pursuit of things like simply accumulating
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  • Financial resources or the pursuit of fame will bring
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  • Destructive forces into their lives.
  • 00:20:17.466 --> 00:20:20.802
  • That's why we call them christian institutions.
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  • You see, my suggestion is that the church is intended to lead a
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  • Culture towards the reality of the kingdom of god.
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  • Not to submit to the demands of godless expressions
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  • Of authority.
  • 00:20:34.916 --> 00:20:37.386
  • So again, the question i ask: is there any evidence that the
  • 00:20:37.386 --> 00:20:40.389
  • Contemporary church is in a condition similar to the
  • 00:20:40.389 --> 00:20:42.557
  • Churches of revelation?
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  • I think the evidence is abundant.
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  • But here's the good news.
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  • In the halls of heaven, from the throne of god, the imagination
  • 00:20:49.731 --> 00:20:53.168
  • Existed that those church could be--those churches could
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  • Be redeemed.
  • 00:20:55.337 --> 00:20:57.372
  • And i'm of the opinion that the purposes of god will go forward
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  • In the earth.
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  • The question is whether we will join him.
  • 00:21:01.977 --> 00:21:07.749
  • Whether we will join him or we'll simply take a screenshot
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  • Of our driver's license and say there's nothing else for us to
  • 00:21:10.752 --> 00:21:15.557
  • Think about.
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  • I couldn't think of a better way to conclude this than with those
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  • Songs from heaven.
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  • If they're good enough for the angels to sing, i think the
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  • Hillbillies in middle tennessee can tune up, huh?
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  • So i'm gonna ask you to stand with me.
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  • I put it at the bottom of your outlines as a proclamation, but
  • 00:21:37.646 --> 00:21:41.283
  • I took it directly out of revelation 5. and i left the
  • 00:21:41.283 --> 00:21:47.856
  • Phrase in there that "in a loud voice they sang" so we could
  • 00:21:47.856 --> 00:21:50.258
  • Warm up with that.
  • 00:21:50.258 --> 00:21:53.095
  • If the angels are willing to use a loud voice to give honor to
  • 00:21:53.095 --> 00:21:55.731
  • Jesus, i think it's okay for us, huh?
  • 00:21:55.731 --> 00:21:59.034
  • Not in a disrespectful way, but in a way that clearly
  • 00:21:59.034 --> 00:22:02.738
  • Communicates our intent to give honor to our king.
  • 00:22:02.738 --> 00:22:07.676
  • Let's live as if jesus were real.
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  • Let's live as if his opinion makes a difference in our world.
  • 00:22:10.712 --> 00:22:14.516
  • Let's have the courage to take him with us wherever it is our
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  • Assignment will take us this week.
  • 00:22:17.452 --> 00:22:21.256
  • The church isn't who we are when we gather in a building for a
  • 00:22:21.256 --> 00:22:24.159
  • Few minutes on the weekends.
  • 00:22:24.159 --> 00:22:26.228
  • The church is who we are when we're distributed.
  • 00:22:26.228 --> 00:22:29.264
  • The real measure of the church is who we are when we go to
  • 00:22:29.264 --> 00:22:31.466
  • Work, when we go to school, when we gather with our friends.
  • 00:22:31.466 --> 00:22:36.405
  • It's in those places, are we salt and light?
  • 00:22:36.405 --> 00:22:38.407
  • Are we ambassadors for a kingdom?
  • 00:22:38.407 --> 00:22:41.777
  • Even pagans can slip into a setting like this and blend
  • 00:22:41.777 --> 00:22:44.913
  • In perfectly.
  • 00:22:44.913 --> 00:22:46.281
  • With just a minor modicum of self-control, they can slip into
  • 00:22:46.281 --> 00:22:51.086
  • This environment and we're all good.
  • 00:22:51.086 --> 00:22:53.722
  • The real measure of the church isn't this place.
  • 00:22:53.722 --> 00:22:56.725
  • The measure of the church is when we leave this place, amen.
  • 00:22:56.725 --> 00:23:02.664
  • Can we say this together?
  • 00:23:02.664 --> 00:23:04.833
  • "in a loud voice they sang: 'worthy is the lamb, who was
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  • Slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
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  • And honor and glory and praise!
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  • And to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise
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  • And honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!'"
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  • Hallelujah, hang on a minute, we're not done.
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  • I know you gotta go to your car.
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  • It'll be okay.
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  • All right, i want us--the people in the back, if you're in
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  • The stadium seating and if you're in all nations or new
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  • Harvest or you're joining us digitally, we can hear all
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  • Of you.
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  • We're gonna read this and let the other people hear it.
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  • I want it to begin to wash over us.
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  • Once is not enough.
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  • It needs to get stuck in our head.
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  • When there's a challenge in your life, when there's somebody that
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  • You know doesn't want to hear that, it's got to be so real and
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  • You know that there's 100 million angels saying it, i'm
  • 00:23:59.821 --> 00:24:02.524
  • Gonna use my voice.
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  • You with me?
  • 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:06.728
  • Now, i'm in the room with those of you in the stadium seats and
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  • I--if you--i'm gonna listen carefully for all nations and
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  • New harvest.
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  • So will you all--you know, can you do this in a loud voice
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  • With me?
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  • The rest of y'all, you just receive, huh?
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  • This is our king we're talking about.
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  • You ready?
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  • "in a loud voice they sang: 'worthy is the lamb, who was
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  • Slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
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  • And honor and glory and praise!
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  • And to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise
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  • And honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!'"
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  • Amen.
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  • Hallelujah, we're warming up.
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  • Those of you on the floor, turn around.
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  • I know in church you can't but i'm suspending the rules.
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  • I want you to see not only the people in the back of the room,
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  • But to see the people on the other side of those lenses.
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  • Can you believe they've been eating while we're
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  • Having church?
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  • Could you see that?
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  • The nerve of that.
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  • Now we want to say this to you.
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  • Take it home, say it over your family.
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  • Take it to work tomorrow.
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  • If there's not another believer there, you just say it over the
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  • Place where you work.
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  • If there's another believer, say, "my pastor's about
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  • Half nuts.
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  • Would you read this with me?"
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  • If it's not safe inside, you sit in your car and say it.
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  • Take it to school with you.
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  • Walk around your neighborhood and say it over the neighborhood
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  • Where you live.
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  • I intend to declare jesus is lord in the world where we live
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  • With a new reverence and a new authority.
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  • Are we ready?
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  • Choir, we gotta do this.
  • 00:25:41.289 --> 00:25:42.657
  • "in a loud voice they sang: 'worthy is the lamb, who was
  • 00:25:42.657 --> 00:25:46.861
  • Slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
  • 00:25:46.861 --> 00:25:52.233
  • And honor and glory and praise!
  • 00:25:52.233 --> 00:25:56.104
  • 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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  • Amen.
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • Allen: you know, on behalf of the whole team that makes the
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  • Content from allen jackson ministries possible, i wanna say
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  • Thank you.
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  • I'm actually standing in three crosses sanctuary.
  • 00:26:18.093 --> 00:26:19.694
  • This is where we do most of our live services, but from these
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  • Places, this team of people creates all the content you see
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  • So frequently across a variety of platforms.
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  • And you're so gracious.
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  • The messages you send, the notes, the emails, the texts,
  • 00:26:30.505 --> 00:26:33.274
  • The letters you send, are an enormous encouragement.
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  • The question we're asked most frequently is how can you pray
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  • And is there anything you can do to help as we spread the truth
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  • And, candidly, there is.
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  • Join us as a monthly ministry partner.
  • 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:47.255
  • For your gift of $25 or more on a monthly basis, you enable us
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  • To take these messages and to share them across a variety
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  • Of platforms.
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  • We do our planning based on the strength of participation from
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  • Those monthly ministry partners.
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  • So if you'll join us in that, we can multiply this ministry.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • We are honored to stand with you in lifting up the name of jesus
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  • And i wanna thank you in advance for your generosity, for
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  • Your faithful prayers, and your financial support.
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