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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Gethsemane To Golgatha | March 7, 2026
- Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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- Allen: again, i think we've had a different imagination.
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- We thought because we sat in the same church together and we
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- Shared community together or we stayed in the same denomination
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- Or we read the same translation of the bible that we would all
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- Be in lockstep.
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- Every one of us has to make a decision about belief and
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- Unbelief and faithfulness and unfaithfulness.
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- And you have made--you've had made a decision a dozen years
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- Ago or two dozen years ago, but are you walking faithfully with
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- The lord today?
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- "well, pastor, are you trying to say i could lose my salvation?"
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- I'm not--today's not the day for that.
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- I can tell you one thing i know for certain.
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- You can lose your rewards.
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- Are you saying yes to the lord every day?
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- In luke's presentation, there are those defending the lord and
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- There are those arresting and accusing him.
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- Which camp are you in?
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- Verse 63, "the men who were guarding jesus began mocking and
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- Beating him.
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- They blindfolded him and demanded, 'prophesy!
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- Who hit you?'
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- And they said many other insulting things to him."
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- These are not roman guards; these are the temple guards that
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- Have come with the leaders of the people to get jesus in
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- Gethsemane, and they're holding him that evening while the high
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- Priest and their associates are doing their interrogation.
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- So they know jesus's reputation.
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- They've been in the crowd when he's ministered.
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- They've heard the stories of his messages.
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- It's another contrast.
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- Luke introduce to--us to a roman centurion, a roman soldier in
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- Capernaum who jesus said had the greatest faith he had seen in
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- Israel and now the temple guards, the security
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- Offers--officers at the temple are blindfolding him and hitting
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- Him and say, "prophesy."
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- Does that make you uncomfortable?
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- It does me.
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- It's one thing if a roman soldier is doing it, but when
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- The temple team--it's a stark contrast the unexpected, who are
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- Believers, and the expected believers are the primary source
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- Of rejection.
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- Even pilate is going to be surprised that these people want
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- A roman crucifixion.
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- "they seized him and they led him away.
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- They took him to the house of the high priest.
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- Peter followed a distance.
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- When they'd kindled the fire in the middle of the courtyard and
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- They sat down together, peter sat down with them.
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- And a servant girl seated with him in the firelight, and she
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- Looked closely and said, 'this man was with them.'
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- And he said, 'woman, i didn't--i don't know him.'"
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- "not me. not me."
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- Now, we know that.
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- That's a part of the lore of those of us who attend churches.
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- But peter's denial, it seems to me, is pretty--it's explainable.
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- It's understandable.
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- He's trying to avoid the rejection and the possible
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- Consequences that come with being affiliated with jesus.
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- Gee, that couldn't happen in the 21st century.
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- We wouldn't dial it back or be quiet or fail to represent
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- Because identifying with jesus might mean rejection.
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- You could get, like, canceled or there'd be consequences you'd
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- Prefer not to have.
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- You'd rather have a broader network and greater
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- Opportunities and--"after all, if i suffer because of my
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- Identity with jesus, my kids would suffer; and i have an
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- Assignment to protect my kids, so i'm going undercover and bury
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- My jesus's affiliation."
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- So peter said, "i don't know him."
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- Same chapter, verse 66, "at daybreak the council of the
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- Elders of the people and the chief priests and the teachers
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- Of the law met together, and jesus was led before them.
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- 'if you're the christ,' they said, 'tell us.'
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- Jesus answered, 'if i tell you, you won't believe me, and if i
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- Ask you, you wouldn't answer.
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- But from now on, the son of man will be seated at the right hand
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- Of the mighty god.'
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- And they all asked, 'are you then the son of god?'
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- And he replied, 'you are right in saying i am.'"
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- For all of those people who say that jesus was conciliatory and
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- That he was always a peacemaker, read the bible.
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- Jesus is in front of the high priest and his associates.
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- They are looking for a reason to accuse him, and the most
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- Offensive thing he could say to them i think he did.
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- It's remarkable to me.
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- "from now on, the son of man will be seated at the right hand
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- Of mighty god.
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- I'm not gonna be hanging out with you people."
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- And they got--"we got him.
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- Reel him in. set the hook."
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- "are you then the son of god?"
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- You know, if jesus was good enough, he could have deflected
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- The conversation.
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- He could have.
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- He could've gone... and made a dove.
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- He could have gone like this and they would have grown a third
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- Ear out of their forehead.
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- I promise he could have deflected the conversation, and
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- At least in my mind's eye--you know, i read this like i put
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- On vr.
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- I go sit in that room and i watch their faces and then i
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- Look back at jesus.
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- In my mind's eye, when he makes this next statement, he's
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- Looking straight at the high priest.
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- "you are right in saying i am."
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- He didn't back up.
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- He didn't stutter.
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- He didn't flinch.
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- "and they said, 'we don't need any more testimony.
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- We've heard it from his own lips.'
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- And the whole assembly rose and they led him off to pilate."
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- It's the jewish council that initiates jesus's suffering.
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- Jesus acknowledges their stubborn unbelief.
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- He isn't conciliatory.
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- He's not offering them any easy solutions.
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- He's pushing it right up in front of them.
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- He's telling them the truth.
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- They have a choice to be made, and he's not helping them find
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- An off-ramp.
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- I would submit to you that we should expect the most
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- Determined resistance from those with religious orientation.
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- Oh, they'll use religious words.
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- They'll use religious language.
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- They'll have all the trappings of that.
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- The label seem harsh and we don't like to use them.
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- We don't like to think of it existing amongst us.
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- But if you find someone that says they're christian and they
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- Don't advocate for the authority of scripture and the uniqueness
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- Of jesus, if they don't submit to that authority to a biblical
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- Worldview--you can't by definition of orthodoxy, by
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- Definition of scripture imagine you're a christian.
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- We're not offered that option.
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- Now, in our brokenness we can repent and we can change and we
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- Can bring alignment with the authority of god, but you can't
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- Practice a life outside the direction of scripture and
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- Imagine yourself to be a christ follower.
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- It's not my opinion.
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- The new testament introduces the categories of a false church, a
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- False gospel; an antichrist, a spirit and ultimately a person
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- That wants to occupy the place that jesus deserves but without
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- Submitting to the authority of god.
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- What did jesus say?
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- "not my will be done, but yours."
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- And the great opposition that came against jesus, the
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- Murderous, hate, and violent opposition that confronted jesus
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- Emerged from this pseudo religious community.
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- He's gonna give us some coaching.
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- Chapter 23, "the whole assembly rose and led him off to pilate.
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- And they began to accuse him--" you're in the praetorium now.
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- They're in roman territory.
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- "and they began to accuse jesus, saying, 'we found this man
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- Subverting our nation.
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- He opposes payment of taxes and claims to be christ, a king.'"
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- [inaudible]
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- That's a lot like what they say about us.
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- We're subverting the nation.
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- We're against god and government.
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- "so pilate asked jesus," pilate the roman, "'are you the king of
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- The jews?'
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- And jesus said, 'it is as you say.'
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- Then pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, 'i
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- Find no basis for a charge against this man.'"
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- The roman governor said, "no problem here."
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- "but they insisted, 'he stirs up all the people all over judea by
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- His teaching.
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- He started in galilee, and he's come all the way here.'"
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- Clearly, luke is helping us see pilate is reluctant to
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- Sentence jesus.
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- Pilate announces to the priests and the crowd, "there's no basis
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- For a charge against this man."
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- But in verse 5, they insisted, luke says.
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- They're determined.
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- "no, no. we want a charge."
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- The hatred is irrational.
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- It's illogical.
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- That's because it's spiritually motivated.
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- Therefore it often remains impenetrable without a
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- Dimensional or spiritual awareness.
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- If you're not aware of spiritual things, when you see something
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- Being driven by spiritual forces it will be opaque to you.
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- It will not be visible.
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- It won't be understandable.
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- You have to cultivate.
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- You have to make room in your heart to believe that the impact
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- Of the spiritual forces in--are in play in your life or there
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- Are many things you see and watch for which you will not
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- Have an adequate explanation and you will put forward an
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- Inadequate explanation and it makes you much more
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- Easily deceived.
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- I'm not asking you to be weird, i'm asking you to be biblical.
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- Their hatred for jesus is illogical.
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- It's spiritually-driven.
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- Verse 6, "on hearing this, pilate asked if the man was
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- A galilean."
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- Galilee is the northern part of israel.
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- "when he learned that jesus was under herod's jurisdiction, he
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- Sent him to herod."
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- He was also in jerusalem.
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- "so when herod saw jesus, he was greatly pleased, because for a
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- Long time he'd been wanting to see him."
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- Now, the--this whole herod thing is a problem.
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- This is herod antipas.
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- His father was herod the great.
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- When jesus was born in bethlehem, thought he could
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- Snooker the wise men.
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- Snooker's a greek word.
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- It means trick.
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- Not everybody speaks southern.
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- We have to help.
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- And when the wise men didn't cooperate with his assignment,
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- Herod the great just killed all the male children in bethlehem 2
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- Years and under.
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- It was a genocide.
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- It was an annihilation of a whole generation of children in
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- The city of bethlehem because three strangers from the east
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- Didn't do what he wanted.
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- This is his son.
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- It's his son who beheaded john the baptist because john the
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- Baptist said, "you are immoral."
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- Wow.
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- Gee, if john would have just talked about moses and shut up
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- About the headlines.
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- He had to read the society page and shoot off his mouth, and
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- Herod had him murdered.
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- And now jesus is standing before herod.
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- It's pretty interesting stuff.
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- "when herod saw jesus, he was greatly pleased, because for a
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- Long time he'd been wanting to see him.
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- From what he'd heard about him, he hoped to see him perform
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- Some miracle.
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- So he plied him with many questions, but jesus gave him
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- No answer."
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- Jesus had sent an answer to herod sometime earlier in
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- Luke's gospel.
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- Do you remember what it was?
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- He sent him a message and said, "herod's interested in you."
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- And he said, "you tell that fox--" that's so conciliatory
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- Jesus again.
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- "you tell that fox i'm about my dad's business."
- 00:13:35.363 --> 00:13:39.868
- And now he's standing in front of herod, and herod's plying him
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- With questions and he's not participating.
- 00:13:42.237 --> 00:13:44.672
- "and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were
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- Standing there, vehemently accusing him."
- 00:13:46.574 --> 00:13:48.843
- They're consistent.
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- "and then herod and his soldiers," herod's soldiers
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- Would be jewish soldiers, "ridiculed and mocked him.
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- They dressed him in an elegant robe, and they sent him back
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- To pilate.
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- That day herod and pilate became friends, before this they'd
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- Been enemies."
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- Jesus is being accused.
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- He remains silent before herod antipas.
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- I have a question.
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- Do you think pilate's guiltless?
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- He's trying hard.
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- He's gonna take jesus out in front of the crowd three times
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- And say, "i think he's okay."
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- I don't think he's guiltless, i think he's gutless.
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- Wasn't an easy choice.
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- A lot of pressure.
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- Folks, there's pressure that comes with being godly.
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- We've been told the wrong thing.
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- We've been told, you know, it's always easy and it's always fun
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- And it's just always wonderful to say yes to jesus.
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- I'm telling you in my life saying yes to jesus has often
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- Been really difficult.
- 00:14:42.363 --> 00:14:46.668
- Well, it's always brought good things, but in the moment it
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- Always hasn't felt like fun.
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- Doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.
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- Pilate didn't have the courage to--imagine how different
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- Pilate's future would have been if he said, "look, this man
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- Is innocent.
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- I will protect him with my guard."
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- I know the scripture had to be fulfilled, but just go along
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- With me for a minute.
- 00:15:07.822 --> 00:15:09.791
- They just still found a way to gotten to jesus.
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- There's a spirit driving it.
- 00:15:12.427 --> 00:15:13.828
- No roman was gonna protect him.
- 00:15:13.828 --> 00:15:17.632
- Imagine if pilate would have said, "i'll stand for him."
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- And he'd call his guard and said, "we'll protect this man."
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- Well, he'd have probably lost his job.
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- He'd have probably lost his pension.
- 00:15:29.644 --> 00:15:32.780
- That would have been difficult.
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- His wife would not have been happy.
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- He would not have gotten a hug.
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- He would have gotten a side eye from his kids and the eye
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- Rolls, right?
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- His friends would have said, "why are you throwing away
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- Your life?"
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- I don't even think pilate would have been better off, if
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- Necessary, to have died on the steps of the praetorium
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- Defending jesus.
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- Yeah.
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- Why is it we make allowances for evil?
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- Why don't we celebrate--
- 00:16:06.781 --> 00:16:08.116
- "well, i can understand why he'd compromise."
- 00:16:08.116 --> 00:16:10.918
- Really?
- 00:16:10.918 --> 00:16:13.087
- I wanna understand how little david said, "oh, i got this one.
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- He's big and ugly, but i think i'm good."
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- They put a fancy robe on him and they sent him back to pilate.
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- Allen: we have partnered with our friends tim and david barton
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- To make available to you a two-volume set on
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- American history.
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- It's "the american story."
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- And it focuses on the part of american history that's been
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- Lost in much of our public education these days.
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- It's god's engagement with this nation and how he brought the
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- American story forward.
- 00:16:51.492 --> 00:16:52.960
- Our nation is more than politics or republicans and democrats.
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- It's god working in the lives of people to shape a nation that
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- Had brought forth his purposes in the world.
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- I believe it's an important part of our faith journey this year,
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- And i believe the books will be a blessing to you.
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- Announcer: the 250th anniversary of our nation is an important
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- Gain a greater understanding of where we've been so you can
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- Allen: but i wanna close with a verse that's not in sequence
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- Because i think it's the application for you and me.
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- It's back to luke 10.
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- After sending out the 12, says the lord appointed 72 others
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- And he sent them 2 by 2 ahead of him to every town and place
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- Where he was about to go.
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- And he told them, "the harvest is plentiful."
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- Hallelujah.
- 00:19:01.222 --> 00:19:03.090
- "fields are ripe with harvest, but the workers are few."
- 00:19:03.090 --> 00:19:08.496
- That means you won't have to--you won't have to look hard
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- To find harvest.
- 00:19:10.431 --> 00:19:11.799
- It's everywhere.
- 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:13.134
- You may get a little exhausted 'cause there's a lot of it.
- 00:19:13.134 --> 00:19:17.004
- When i was a kid, we had a strawberry patch.
- 00:19:17.004 --> 00:19:18.839
- It probably ended up, i don't know, half acre, maybe a little
- 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:21.142
- More than that.
- 00:19:21.142 --> 00:19:22.510
- So fun when the strawberries came in.
- 00:19:22.510 --> 00:19:23.844
- I like fresh strawberries in the springtime in tennessee.
- 00:19:23.844 --> 00:19:27.481
- For those first 2 or 3 days, it was wonderful.
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- We had all the strawberries you could eat.
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- But those stinking strawberries kept growing and by day 6 or 7 i
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- Didn't ge--i don't wanna eat more strawberries.
- 00:19:37.692 --> 00:19:40.394
- I don't wanna--my mom would say, "wouldn't you like to pick them
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- For your friends?"
- 00:19:42.296 --> 00:19:43.664
- "no, let my friends come pick their own strawberries.
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- I've had all i want.
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- Let them help themselves."
- 00:19:48.970 --> 00:19:50.304
- They get down on their knees and crawl through the patch and get
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- The chiggers.
- 00:19:52.106 --> 00:19:53.441
- "yeah. go, friends, go."
- 00:19:53.441 --> 00:19:55.376
- "no, i think it would be better if you picked some strawberries
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- For your friends."
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- I'm telling you there was more harvest than i wanted.
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- I'm old enough to remember when we didn't bale hay in these big
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- Round bales that you picked up with a spike on the front of
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- A tractor.
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- We used to have this torturous, evil, ungodly, wicked, demonic
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- System where they would put hay in these square bales and they
- 00:20:20.601 --> 00:20:27.408
- Said they were like individual-sized.
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- And, you know, they cut that stuff in, like, july in
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- Tennessee when the air is thick enough you can cut slices to
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- Walk through it, and you go out on a field with a hay wagon.
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- You had to--i know this is weird, but just be--you had to
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- Pick up a bale of hay and carry it over to a wagon and then
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- Throw it up on the wagon.
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- And, you know, that first row is not so bad.
- 00:20:51.332 --> 00:20:52.833
- You kinda bump it with your leg and set it on the wagon.
- 00:20:52.833 --> 00:20:55.002
- But you get up five or six or seven rows high--i was just a
- 00:20:55.002 --> 00:21:00.374
- Poor, undernourished little kid 3, 4 years old.
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- And then you get the wagon loaded and you go to the barn.
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- You know what they want you to do?
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- Put it in the loft.
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- Do you know how hot the loft is in tennessee in july?
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- The devil goes someplace cooler.
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- That's harvest.
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- That's the food for the livestock later.
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- That's an answer to prayer and hard work.
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- And jesus said, "the harvest is plentiful, but you're gonna have
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- To get a lot of the hay yourself 'cause there's not a lot
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- Of workers."
- 00:21:48.389 --> 00:21:51.525
- It's the next sentence that is the troubling one.
- 00:21:51.525 --> 00:21:55.329
- "ask the lord of the harvest to send out workers."
- 00:21:55.329 --> 00:21:57.732
- Then he says, "go!
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- I'm sending you like lambs among wolves,"
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- Lambs among wolves.
- 00:22:10.978 --> 00:22:15.683
- Now, everybody listening they--thinks all jesus did was
- 00:22:15.683 --> 00:22:18.919
- Give group hugs and have happy parties.
- 00:22:18.919 --> 00:22:24.225
- "i'm sending you out like lambs among wolves."
- 00:22:24.225 --> 00:22:29.096
- That's called, "i'm sending you out as dinner," right?
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- "why would you do that?"
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- Because the harvest is plentiful.
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- There are people that would respond to the truth if you
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- Would tell it.
- 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:47.214
- They're all around you.
- 00:22:47.214 --> 00:22:51.385
- But he said, "i'm warning you.
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- It's not gonna be easy.
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- It could even look like work.
- 00:22:56.957 --> 00:23:00.861
- It could even be uncomfortable.
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- You might get tired."
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- I know. i have to quit.
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- You can wait me out, but--
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- Folks, we have an assignment not to be scholars of
- 00:23:18.979 --> 00:23:22.683
- The book, not to be experts at the procedures of public
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- Worship, not even to know the words of the choruses.
- 00:23:29.723 --> 00:23:34.528
- The assignment is to go into the harvest fields.
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- You say, "well, i don't know--i wouldn't know what to--" just be
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- An advocate for jesus.
- 00:23:41.202 --> 00:23:43.804
- Just everywhere you go, you know, "i sure do like jesus.
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- He's been so good to me.
- 00:23:46.207 --> 00:23:48.275
- He's blessed my life.
- 00:23:48.275 --> 00:23:50.911
- I even go to church with a bunch of people that like jesus."
- 00:23:50.911 --> 00:23:54.482
- You wanna say that very often.
- 00:23:54.482 --> 00:23:55.850
- Somebody say, "oh, i've tried them.
- 00:23:55.850 --> 00:23:57.184
- I didn't like them.
- 00:23:57.184 --> 00:23:58.552
- Bunch of hypocrites."
- 00:23:58.552 --> 00:23:59.887
- "yeah, you know, i used to think that, too, and they made room to
- 00:23:59.887 --> 00:24:02.256
- Squeeze one more in.
- 00:24:02.256 --> 00:24:07.194
- Why don't you come ride with me?"
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- I believe that god would use us to impact our community; that we
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- Could have libraries that didn't harbor vile stuff, and we could
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- Have schools where we could talk about jesus, and we could have
- 00:24:23.944 --> 00:24:29.717
- Families and children who have suffered find healing
- 00:24:29.717 --> 00:24:33.387
- And restoration.
- 00:24:33.387 --> 00:24:35.155
- I believe we could live in that kind of a community if we'll
- 00:24:35.155 --> 00:24:38.692
- Start to decide we're gonna go out into those fields.
- 00:24:38.692 --> 00:24:41.495
- So, you know, i'm for jesus.
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- I'm for jesus.
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- You'd be willing?
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- I'm gonna ask for the lord's anointing today.
- 00:24:48.235 --> 00:24:49.904
- Why don't you stand with me?
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- Father, thank you for your word.
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- Thank you for those that have gone before us and the pathway
- 00:25:06.453 --> 00:25:09.623
- They illuminate for the message you bring to us.
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- Lord, i thank you that we have bibles we can read and churches
- 00:25:11.725 --> 00:25:14.728
- Where we can gather.
- 00:25:14.728 --> 00:25:17.565
- Lord, i thank you that we can laugh.
- 00:25:17.565 --> 00:25:20.401
- We can reflect.
- 00:25:20.401 --> 00:25:23.571
- Lord, we stand today in your presence to say, "here we are.
- 00:25:23.571 --> 00:25:26.206
- Send us."
- 00:25:26.206 --> 00:25:28.375
- Lord, we don't have to cross an ocean.
- 00:25:28.375 --> 00:25:31.278
- We don't have to learn a language.
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- We might have to cross the street, might have to cross
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- A hall.
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- Lord, i pray you would open our hearts and our eyes to see the
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- Harvest around us, that you'd raise up laborers for those
- 00:25:42.957 --> 00:25:47.161
- Harvest fields.
- 00:25:47.161 --> 00:25:50.097
- Lord, don't leave us out, but allow us the privilege of
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- Stepping into those fields.
- 00:25:55.536 --> 00:25:57.338
- Protect us.
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- Protect us from everything that would diminish, disrupt,
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- Destroy, harm, distract.
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- Keep us.
- 00:26:05.946 --> 00:26:08.048
- Lord, keep us under your watchful eye.
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- And most of all, may you be pleased.
- 00:26:10.918 --> 00:26:13.454
- In jesus's name, amen.
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- Hallelujah. god bless you.
- 00:26:16.557 --> 00:26:22.262
- Allen: this is the 250th anniversary of our nation.
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- It's a big deal.
- 00:26:29.103 --> 00:26:30.437
- Now, i know a lot of us don't care a whole lot about history.
- 00:26:30.437 --> 00:26:33.073
- We didn't have great experiences in school.
- 00:26:33.073 --> 00:26:34.842
- I understand that, but here's the reality.
- 00:26:34.842 --> 00:26:37.277
- If they can steal our history, they'll rob us of our future.
- 00:26:37.277 --> 00:26:40.481
- So history really does matter.
- 00:26:40.481 --> 00:26:42.483
- Well, because of that, we have partnered with some good friends
- 00:26:42.483 --> 00:26:44.885
- Of our ministries, wallbuilders david and tim barton.
- 00:26:44.885 --> 00:26:48.288
- They have the best of the best on this topic.
- 00:26:48.288 --> 00:26:50.357
- It's a two-volume set on "the american story," and it helps us
- 00:26:50.357 --> 00:26:53.927
- Learn american history with a faith component, with a god
- 00:26:53.927 --> 00:26:57.498
- Perspective--how god has been engaged in the unfolding
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- Narrative of our american story.
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- That matters because we need god to be involved in the future of
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- The american story.
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- That affects our lives, our families, our communities, and
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- Ultimately our nation.
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- The books will be a blessing to you, but more than that, i
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- Believe they'll open your life to the imagination that god is
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- Moving in the earth, and we can participate with him in the next
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- Chapters of american history.
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- ♪♪♪
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