Allen Jackson - Gethsemane To Golgatha

March 7, 2026 | 27:29

Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • People are searching for truth, and together we're doing our
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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
  • 00:12:50.985 --> 00:12:56.558
  • Herod had him murdered.
  • 00:12:56.558 --> 00:12:58.626
  • 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.
  • 00:13:09.704 --> 00:13:12.173
  • From what he'd heard about him, he hoped to see him perform
  • 00:13:12.173 --> 00:13:14.242
  • Some miracle.
  • 00:13:14.242 --> 00:13:15.577
  • So he plied him with many questions, but jesus gave him
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  • No answer."
  • 00:13:18.379 --> 00:13:20.615
  • Jesus had sent an answer to herod sometime earlier in
  • 00:13:20.615 --> 00:13:22.650
  • 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.
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  • "and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were
  • 00:13:44.672 --> 00:13:46.574
  • Standing there, vehemently accusing him."
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  • They're consistent.
  • 00:13:48.843 --> 00:13:51.012
  • "and then herod and his soldiers," herod's soldiers
  • 00:13:51.012 --> 00:13:55.149
  • Would be jewish soldiers, "ridiculed and mocked him.
  • 00:13:55.149 --> 00:13:57.485
  • 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
  • 00:14:01.322 --> 00:14:03.558
  • 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."
  • 00:14:17.005 --> 00:14:19.707
  • I don't think he's guiltless, i think he's gutless.
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  • Wasn't an easy choice.
  • 00:14:23.778 --> 00:14:25.146
  • 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
  • 00:14:32.921 --> 00:14:35.156
  • And it's just always wonderful to say yes to jesus.
  • 00:14:35.156 --> 00:14:39.928
  • I'm telling you in my life saying yes to jesus has often
  • 00:14:39.928 --> 00:14:42.363
  • Been really difficult.
  • 00:14:42.363 --> 00:14:46.668
  • Well, it's always brought good things, but in the moment it
  • 00:14:46.668 --> 00:14:49.037
  • Always hasn't felt like fun.
  • 00:14:49.037 --> 00:14:54.309
  • Doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.
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  • Pilate didn't have the courage to--imagine how different
  • 00:14:55.643 --> 00:14:58.146
  • Pilate's future would have been if he said, "look, this man
  • 00:14:58.146 --> 00:15:01.316
  • 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.
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  • Imagine if pilate would have said, "i'll stand for him."
  • 00:15:17.632 --> 00:15:23.438
  • 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.
  • 00:15:36.317 --> 00:15:39.153
  • 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
  • 00:15:44.492 --> 00:15:46.427
  • Your life?"
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  • I don't even think pilate would have been better off, if
  • 00:15:48.596 --> 00:15:52.667
  • Necessary, to have died on the steps of the praetorium
  • 00:15:52.667 --> 00:15:58.172
  • 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--
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  • "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.
  • 00:16:13.087 --> 00:16:17.692
  • 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: 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.
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  • "fields are ripe with harvest, but the workers are few."
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  • 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.
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  • You may get a little exhausted 'cause there's a lot of it.
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  • 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
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  • More than that.
  • 00:19:21.142 --> 00:19:22.510
  • So fun when the strawberries came in.
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  • I like fresh strawberries in the springtime in tennessee.
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  • For those first 2 or 3 days, it was wonderful.
  • 00:19:27.481 --> 00:19:29.183
  • 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
  • 00:19:31.919 --> 00:19:37.692
  • 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
  • 00:19:40.394 --> 00:19:42.296
  • 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."
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  • They get down on their knees and crawl through the patch and get
  • 00:19:50.304 --> 00:19:52.106
  • 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.
  • 00:20:04.185 --> 00:20:09.056
  • I'm old enough to remember when we didn't bale hay in these big
  • 00:20:09.056 --> 00:20:11.792
  • Round bales that you picked up with a spike on the front of
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  • A tractor.
  • 00:20:14.695 --> 00:20:16.030
  • We used to have this torturous, evil, ungodly, wicked, demonic
  • 00:20:16.030 --> 00:20:20.601
  • 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.
  • 00:20:27.408 --> 00:20:30.544
  • And, you know, they cut that stuff in, like, july in
  • 00:20:30.544 --> 00:20:32.980
  • Tennessee when the air is thick enough you can cut slices to
  • 00:20:32.980 --> 00:20:35.850
  • 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
  • 00:20:39.854 --> 00:20:43.624
  • Pick up a bale of hay and carry it over to a wagon and then
  • 00:20:43.624 --> 00:20:48.663
  • Throw it up on the wagon.
  • 00:20:48.663 --> 00:20:51.332
  • 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.
  • 00:21:00.374 --> 00:21:07.181
  • 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?
  • 00:21:13.587 --> 00:21:16.324
  • Put it in the loft.
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  • Do you know how hot the loft is in tennessee in july?
  • 00:21:19.860 --> 00:21:24.832
  • The devil goes someplace cooler.
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  • That's harvest.
  • 00:21:31.072 --> 00:21:33.941
  • That's the food for the livestock later.
  • 00:21:33.941 --> 00:21:37.278
  • That's an answer to prayer and hard work.
  • 00:21:37.278 --> 00:21:42.483
  • And jesus said, "the harvest is plentiful, but you're gonna have
  • 00:21:42.483 --> 00:21:46.454
  • To get a lot of the hay yourself 'cause there's not a lot
  • 00:21:46.454 --> 00:21:48.389
  • 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!
  • 00:21:57.732 --> 00:21:59.066
  • I'm sending you like lambs among wolves,"
  • 00:21:59.066 --> 00:22:08.976
  • 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?
  • 00:22:29.096 --> 00:22:39.039
  • "why would you do that?"
  • 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:40.408
  • Because the harvest is plentiful.
  • 00:22:40.408 --> 00:22:42.777
  • There are people that would respond to the truth if you
  • 00:22:42.777 --> 00:22:45.279
  • 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.
  • 00:22:51.385 --> 00:22:53.654
  • It's not gonna be easy.
  • 00:22:53.654 --> 00:22:56.957
  • It could even look like work.
  • 00:22:56.957 --> 00:23:00.861
  • It could even be uncomfortable.
  • 00:23:00.861 --> 00:23:03.330
  • You might get tired."
  • 00:23:03.330 --> 00:23:13.374
  • I know. i have to quit.
  • 00:23:15.042 --> 00:23:16.410
  • You can wait me out, but--
  • 00:23:16.410 --> 00:23:18.979
  • 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
  • 00:23:22.683 --> 00:23:29.723
  • Worship, not even to know the words of the choruses.
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  • 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
  • 00:23:38.866 --> 00:23:41.202
  • An advocate for jesus.
  • 00:23:41.202 --> 00:23:43.804
  • Just everywhere you go, you know, "i sure do like jesus.
  • 00:23:43.804 --> 00:23:46.207
  • 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?"
  • 00:24:07.194 --> 00:24:11.899
  • I believe that god would use us to impact our community; that we
  • 00:24:11.899 --> 00:24:17.905
  • Could have libraries that didn't harbor vile stuff, and we could
  • 00:24:17.905 --> 00:24:23.944
  • 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.
  • 00:24:41.495 --> 00:24:44.198
  • I'm for jesus.
  • 00:24:44.198 --> 00:24:46.200
  • You'd be willing?
  • 00:24:46.200 --> 00:24:48.235
  • 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?
  • 00:24:49.904 --> 00:25:00.414
  • Father, thank you for your word.
  • 00:25:04.084 --> 00:25:06.453
  • 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.
  • 00:25:09.623 --> 00:25:11.725
  • 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
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  • Harvest fields.
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  • Lord, don't leave us out, but allow us the privilege of
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  • Stepping into those fields.
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  • 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.
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  • Lord, keep us under your watchful eye.
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  • And most of all, may you be pleased.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah. god bless you.
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  • Allen: this is the 250th anniversary of our nation.
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  • It's a big deal.
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  • Now, i know a lot of us don't care a whole lot about history.
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  • We didn't have great experiences in school.
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  • I understand that, but here's the reality.
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  • If they can steal our history, they'll rob us of our future.
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  • So history really does matter.
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  • Well, because of that, we have partnered with some good friends
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  • 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.
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  • It's a two-volume set on "the american story," and it helps us
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  • Learn american history with a faith component, with a god
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  • 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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