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Allen Jackson - Give Thanks (Part 2)

August 29, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Give Thanks (Part 2)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
#Thankfulness #Gratitude #Contentment #PositiveThoughts #NegativeThoughts #Thinking #Attitude #Joy #Peace #Heart #Grace #Complaining

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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Give Thanks (Part 2) | August 29, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i sat down recently with my father to do a
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  • Podcast for my "culture and christianity" podcast, and it
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  • Was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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  • As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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  • Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents's life, ultimately my
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  • Family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing the
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  • Power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit, but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis to
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  • Give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face.
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  • The spirit of god within us to help us, guide us, and direct
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  • Us, that's invaluable and these books will help you understand.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: jesus standing outside lazarus's tomb,
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  • You remember the story.
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  • His friend's been sick, and jesus purposefully delays going
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  • To see him.
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  • He waits until he knows he's dead.
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  • That is poor pastoral care.
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • It is.
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  • And when he gets there, the family's not happy with him.
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  • The sister said, "lord, if you had been here he
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  • Wouldn't have died."
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  • You know, you read that and you think it's grief.
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  • No, that feels pretty much like an attack if you're the one
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  • Making the call.
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  • "if you'd been here."
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  • And he said, "oh no, really, everything's all the
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  • Possibilities are still on the table."
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  • "yeah, yeah, i know, lord, you know, in the resurrection."
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  • "that's not the table i'm talking about."
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  • And finally he says, "you know, take me to where you buried him
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  • And open the tomb."
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  • And they go, "oh no.
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  • Mm, not a good idea."
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  • "open the tomb."
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  • And this is his prayer, you have it in your notes.
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  • It's john 11:41, "they took away the stone.
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  • And jesus looked up and said, 'father,'" this is a heavy lift.
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  • "'father, i thank you that you've heard me.'"
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  • You know what he said next?
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  • "lazarus, get out here."
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  • Dude walked out.
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  • I have to tell you, as a person who's prayed a lot of prayers in
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  • Public and i've had to pray some prayers in circumstances, it
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  • Seemed really difficult or intimidating to me, that's not
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  • The way i would have done it.
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  • I'd have taken the worship team.
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  • I mean, after all, we know this one, this isn't gonna be easy.
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  • The family's already mad at us.
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  • We didn't get here on time.
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  • I'd probably ask you to fast and pray for a few days before
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  • I went.
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  • You know, you wanna get your spiritual momentum up.
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  • Remember when you were a kid, you'd wind up.
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  • This feels like one of those situations where you wanna
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  • Wind up.
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  • And jesus walked up and said, "open the tomb.
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  • Father, i thank you."
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  • Thankfulness opens, unlocks the supernatural power of god.
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  • And it's available to you and me every day.
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  • It's not based on our feelings.
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  • In fact, often it's completely disconnected from our feelings.
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  • It's an expression of our will.
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  • It's a decision that we make.
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  • Exodus 15, moses has led the children, the hebrew slaves out
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  • Of egypt, the red sea's parted, this is their first stop.
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  • They're 72 hours on the other side of the red sea.
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  • They still have mud in their sandals from the bottom of the
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  • Red sea.
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  • And the first water they come to is not drinkable.
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  • It's bitter.
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  • The place is called mara, but that just means bitter
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  • In hebrew, so it's a--you shouldn't be surprised if the
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  • Sign over the place says bitter water
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  • And you drink it and it doesn't taste good.
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  • But when the people had that experience, he says, "so the
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  • People grumbled against moses.
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  • 'what are we to drink?'
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  • And moses cried out to the lord."
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  • Those are the options.
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  • You can grumble or we can call on the lord.
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  • Thankfulness will unlock the supernatural power of god.
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  • I wanna take a minute and look at the alternative to this
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  • 'cause it's more prevalent.
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  • I don't find that we are overwhelmed with gratitude.
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  • You know, we have more than any people in history.
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  • We do.
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  • We have more freedom and more liberty, and i understand it's
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  • Been infringed upon and they've been nibbling around the edges
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  • Of it, but we have more.
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  • We have more food.
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  • We're mad about that.
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  • It's not the right kind.
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  • It's been genetically modified.
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  • Yeah, probably has.
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  • 'cause you know--so you know how to get away from genetically
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  • Modified food.
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  • Grow your own.
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  • "well, well, now don't get extreme.
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  • Not really into all that organic stuff that far."
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  • We have a difficult time with this.
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  • And it isn't because of the goodness of god is absent us,
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  • You know.
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  • Few years ago and it's been a while now, but i went with
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  • A group.
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  • We sent a medical team to the amazon and my only, my primary
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  • Reason for going was to carry bags.
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  • But i got to go along and we went really to the edge of
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  • The civilization.
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  • We made a couple of stops on the plane and the plane finally
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  • Landed in a town where there was no roads.
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  • To get out of town, you had to get on a boat to one of the
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  • Tributaries in the amazon.
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  • We got on the boat and we went down the river.
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  • I mean, there was no electricity.
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  • We were doing dental clinics and health clinics for people who
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  • Had very marginal exposure to civilization as we know it.
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  • Most of them didn't have access to electricity or all the things
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  • That would bring--you can imagine, very isolated.
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  • Children would line up.
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  • They had no access to dental care.
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  • They would line up and stand in line for long periods of time to
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  • Have their teeth pulled.
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  • They would give them a shot, novocaine, to deaden it and
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  • Then pull their teeth.
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  • And i watched these little small children stand in line, never
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  • Cry, never flinch, never hesitate.
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  • They were so grateful for the opportunity.
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  • And i watched those people for those days and i thought, you
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  • Know, the only difference in their life and my life were the
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  • Circumstances of my birth.
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  • I could have been born where they were born and i'd been
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  • Standing in one of those lines if i was fortunate.
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  • I didn't earn it.
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  • I didn't deserve it.
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  • It's not merit based.
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  • It's not 'cause i had great faith or discernment or wisdom,
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  • The sovereignty of god.
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  • So the least perhaps i could do would be to say thank you.
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  • But you know how torqued up i can get because the traffic on
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  • The highway is too thick?
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  • Or because it took them too long to finish the improvements on
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  • Highway 99.
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  • Orange barrels used to raise my blood pressure.
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  • I still see them someplace else like they're following me.
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  • [imitates dog growling]
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  • You know how easy it is to get grumpy.
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  • I find that the fuse in us for a lack of gratitude and
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  • Dissatisfaction tends to be much more easily ignited than the
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  • Fuse for gratitude.
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  • You take one negative experience 'cause there's
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  • Spiritual support for this.
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  • You can get spiritual support for good things and you can get
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  • Spiritual support for negative things.
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  • If you'll give yourself the ungodly thoughts, lack of
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  • Gra--i'm not talking about immorality and pornography.
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  • I mean, those are ungodly, but it's ungodly to be ungrateful.
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  • And if you'll cultivate that, you'll get unhealthy spiritual
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  • Support for that, and it'll grow.
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  • You can take one little short brief experience, somebody
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  • Looked at you wrong.
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  • "did you see how they looked at me?"
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  • I read this story about a little boy they were leaving church and
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  • His mother said, "did you see how that person looked at me?"
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  • And she said, "oh no, mama, you had that look when you came
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  • Into church."
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  • [congregation laughs]
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  • We have to choose.
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  • The refusal to give thanks, unthankfulness is a potent
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  • Spiritual force.
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  • Please don't align yourself with it.
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  • Allen: hey, i sat down with my father recently did a podcast.
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  • He told the story of how he came to faith, how god transformed
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  • Our family, he started a home bible study, all the way up
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  • To the beginning of this church that i've
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  • Served now for decades.
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  • And as i listened, the heart of it was the work of the holy
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  • Spirit in his life and through his life.
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  • I asked him to do a book around the topic and we have it so that
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  • You can invite the spirit of god to be the dynamic presence of
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  • The power of god to bring change in life and hope no matter what
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  • The circumstances.
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  • You'll enjoy the book.
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  • Calling ...
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  • Allen: there's an incremental decline that the bible tells
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  • Us about.
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  • Time prohibits a detailed exploration.
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  • You can check me out on your own.
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  • Romans chapter 1 has one of the most careful presentations of
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  • The decline of human character, the degradation of human
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  • Character that ends in horrific destruction.
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  • It begins with the inherent knowledge of god that every
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  • Person knows there's a god.
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  • That god has revealed to us in his creation.
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  • That every human being, regardless of academic
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  • Opportunities, education, every human being knows there's a god.
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  • This is in romans chapter 1, and it deteriorates into this
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  • Appalling wickedness.
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  • Gross perversion.
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  • The basis perversion of human experience.
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  • And you know what the linchpin is in that progression?
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  • It's in your notes, it's romans 1 verse 21.
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  • "although they knew god, they
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  • Neither glorified him as god nor gave thanks to him, but their
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  • Thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened."
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  • You see, i don't think we're conscious of the fact that when
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  • We choose not to be grateful that we unleash something that
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  • Plunges us into a place of demonic things.
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  • 2 timothy describes it.
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  • Paul's writing to timothy, a young man he's coaching, and he
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  • Describes the end of the age.
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  • And it's a very similar--the language is different, but it's
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  • Very similar.
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  • Paul describes 18 attributes of human character that will
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  • Decline at the end of the age.
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  • His introductory sentences, he said, "be certain of this that
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  • The times at the end of the age will be exceedingly fierce."
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  • And then he lists these 18 attributes of human character.
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  • I gave you a sample.
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  • "mark this: there'll be terrible times in the last days.
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  • People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
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  • Boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents,
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  • Ungrateful, unholy."
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  • I want you to--i want you to think about that a little bit.
  • 00:12:24.592 --> 00:12:26.895
  • That ungrateful and unholy are two sides of a coin.
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  • That when you refuse to be grateful, you're
  • 00:12:31.966 --> 00:12:34.402
  • Refusing holiness.
  • 00:12:34.402 --> 00:12:37.472
  • Ungrateful and unholy.
  • 00:12:37.472 --> 00:12:43.545
  • See, we're not just grateful for everything, we have everything
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  • The way we want it.
  • 00:12:45.814 --> 00:12:48.216
  • Gratitude really isn't connected to your circumstances.
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  • We've already looked at that.
  • 00:12:50.451 --> 00:12:52.921
  • That the peace of god can dwell in our hearts because in all
  • 00:12:52.921 --> 00:12:55.590
  • Things we can choose to be thankful.
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  • "well, i don't know why you'd be thankful."
  • 00:12:59.761 --> 00:13:01.095
  • Because there's a power that's more important to me than my
  • 00:13:01.095 --> 00:13:04.265
  • Immediate comfort or convenience.
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  • There's something more important to me than my dream and
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  • My desire.
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  • I have been shown grace, remember?
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  • The unearned, the undeserved kindness and goodness of god.
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  • And i will be thankful.
  • 00:13:21.149 --> 00:13:28.590
  • It's rather popular these days to be actively unthankful.
  • 00:13:28.590 --> 00:13:33.895
  • What's the opposite of being thankful?
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  • There's a whole list of words i suppose we could plug in.
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  • You can look them up on your phone on some, but to murmur, to
  • 00:13:38.566 --> 00:13:41.769
  • Grumble, to complain.
  • 00:13:41.769 --> 00:13:44.372
  • To be unthankful is to be without thanks.
  • 00:13:44.372 --> 00:13:46.507
  • Complaining is the act of expression of ingratitude.
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  • So i want you to be aware that when you complain, what you're
  • 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:53.114
  • Doing is giving voice to a lack of gratitude.
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  • I'm not gonna be grateful.
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  • I'm gonna complain about my circumstance.
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  • I know somebody might be thankful, but i have a
  • 00:14:01.456 --> 00:14:03.858
  • Higher objective.
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  • There may be somebody passive enough that they would
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  • Tolerate this.
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  • I'm gonna voice my lack of gratitude.
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  • We boast about it.
  • 00:14:17.972 --> 00:14:20.875
  • It's almost a cultural phenomenon.
  • 00:14:20.875 --> 00:14:23.278
  • There's training in it.
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  • Look at 1 corinthians 10.
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  • "these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting
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  • Our hearts on evil things as they did."
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  • These are the people god chose.
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  • These are people, he's talking about the exodus generation.
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  • They're living with the supernatural provision of god,
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  • Manna, water, pillar of cloud, pillar of fire.
  • 00:14:43.998 --> 00:14:46.668
  • They've seen more miracles perhaps than any generation in
  • 00:14:46.668 --> 00:14:49.537
  • All of human existence.
  • 00:14:49.537 --> 00:14:50.905
  • So they're not separate from the power of god, the provision
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  • Of god.
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  • Moses is amongst, i mean, they've got good leadership.
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  • I mean, they got the portfolio.
  • 00:14:57.178 --> 00:15:03.217
  • But it says they set their hearts on evil things.
  • 00:15:03.217 --> 00:15:08.856
  • That should unsettle us 'cause we can have all the things and
  • 00:15:08.856 --> 00:15:12.894
  • Still set our hearts on evil things.
  • 00:15:12.894 --> 00:15:14.862
  • Then in verse 7, "do not be idolaters, as some of them were;
  • 00:15:14.862 --> 00:15:17.465
  • As it is written; 'the people sat down to eat and drink and
  • 00:15:17.465 --> 00:15:19.634
  • Got up to indulge in pagan revelry.'
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  • And we shouldn't commit sexual immorality, as some of them
  • 00:15:22.403 --> 00:15:24.839
  • Did--and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died."
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  • Can you imagine you can have all those experiences with the lord
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  • And still choose to worship idols or still choose the
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  • Pursuit of pleasure over obedience?
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  • They chose sexual immorality.
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  • See, we don't say it that way any longer.
  • 00:15:41.289 --> 00:15:42.690
  • We just say, you know, who has a right to define what's moral
  • 00:15:42.690 --> 00:15:45.593
  • And immoral?
  • 00:15:45.593 --> 00:15:46.961
  • God does.
  • 00:15:46.961 --> 00:15:48.296
  • And the church has a responsibility to share that
  • 00:15:48.296 --> 00:15:50.798
  • Message with the world in which we live.
  • 00:15:50.798 --> 00:15:52.166
  • It's not being judgy.
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  • "well, who are you to judge?"
  • 00:15:56.371 --> 00:15:57.705
  • I'm not judging anybody, i'm telling you what the
  • 00:15:57.705 --> 00:15:59.040
  • Designer said.
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  • You can choose.
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  • But don't be immoral and say god--demand god's blessings.
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  • You're not the designer, nor am i.
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  • We submit to the king.
  • 00:16:10.752 --> 00:16:13.688
  • See, submit is not a word that we like to use very much.
  • 00:16:13.688 --> 00:16:16.224
  • It's very difficult to be thankful if you don't submit.
  • 00:16:16.224 --> 00:16:21.295
  • Because if you're not submitted, you're demanding your rights in
  • 00:16:21.295 --> 00:16:23.531
  • Your way and your timetable and your plans and your purposes and
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  • God better get busy with it.
  • 00:16:26.367 --> 00:16:28.002
  • I've quoted him four scriptures.
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  • I've been to church three weeks in a row.
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  • I wrote a tithe check.
  • 00:16:32.473 --> 00:16:33.841
  • I'm expecting some action.
  • 00:16:33.841 --> 00:16:39.414
  • And i'm a little put out with him.
  • 00:16:39.414 --> 00:16:45.153
  • "we shouldn't commit sexual immorality, as some of them
  • 00:16:45.153 --> 00:16:48.122
  • Did--and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
  • 00:16:48.122 --> 00:16:51.192
  • We shouldn't test the lord, as some of them did--and were
  • 00:16:51.192 --> 00:16:53.628
  • Killed by snakes.
  • 00:16:53.628 --> 00:16:56.064
  • And don't grumble, as some of them did--destroyed by the
  • 00:16:56.064 --> 00:17:01.135
  • Destroying angel."
  • 00:17:01.135 --> 00:17:02.870
  • They're listed there.
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  • Don't be idolaters don't commit sexual immorality, and
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  • Don't grumble.
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  • Do you have room for that?
  • 00:17:11.479 --> 00:17:13.047
  • Grumbling in the same list with sexual immorality and idolatry?
  • 00:17:13.047 --> 00:17:21.756
  • "well, you know, pastor, i'm not immoral.
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  • I just like to express my opinion.
  • 00:17:24.625 --> 00:17:28.529
  • I mean, i'm not an idolater.
  • 00:17:28.529 --> 00:17:32.433
  • I just like to tell people how it is."
  • 00:17:32.433 --> 00:17:35.937
  • May i borrow your notes?
  • 00:17:35.937 --> 00:17:37.905
  • Your notes, thank you.
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  • I didn't get to the pulpit with all of mine, so i'm gonna
  • 00:17:42.510 --> 00:17:44.579
  • Borrow hers.
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  • [congregation laughing]
  • 00:17:45.913 --> 00:17:49.350
  • Ah, i bet when i check after service, my printer ran out
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  • Of paper.
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  • And i'm such a trusting soul.
  • 00:18:01.028 --> 00:18:02.430
  • I just picked it up off my printer.
  • 00:18:02.430 --> 00:18:06.367
  • I don't know, it's better to confess your sin in public
  • 00:18:06.367 --> 00:18:08.436
  • Than just--
  • 00:18:08.436 --> 00:18:09.770
  • [congregation laughter]
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  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:18:11.439 --> 00:18:15.977
  • I couldn't believe it either, to be honest.
  • 00:18:15.977 --> 00:18:19.046
  • But the reality is we are actively unthankful.
  • 00:18:19.046 --> 00:18:25.653
  • Most of us are more comfortable, more at home, more acclimated to
  • 00:18:25.653 --> 00:18:33.327
  • Giving expression to what we don't like than we are
  • 00:18:33.327 --> 00:18:37.665
  • Practicing gratitude.
  • 00:18:37.665 --> 00:18:41.702
  • And i tell you that not to bring shame or guilt.
  • 00:18:41.702 --> 00:18:44.405
  • I believe we need new outcomes.
  • 00:18:44.405 --> 00:18:45.907
  • I believe we need a church that's vibrant with the energy
  • 00:18:45.907 --> 00:18:48.743
  • Of god that is completely secured by the peace of god that
  • 00:18:48.743 --> 00:18:52.947
  • Knows that we have access to almighty god because we need his
  • 00:18:52.947 --> 00:18:56.117
  • Power in our midst.
  • 00:18:56.117 --> 00:18:58.252
  • And for those things to define us going forward, no matter what
  • 00:18:58.252 --> 00:19:01.722
  • Comes to the earth, it's going to be linked to our ability to
  • 00:19:01.722 --> 00:19:04.992
  • Give expression to thankfulness and gratitude.
  • 00:19:04.992 --> 00:19:10.231
  • One last bit and then we're gonna practice for just
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  • A moment.
  • 00:19:11.999 --> 00:19:13.367
  • The refusal to be thankful, there's some symptoms to
  • 00:19:13.367 --> 00:19:16.070
  • Ingratitude in our lives.
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  • You can listen for it.
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  • Start around your kitchen table 'cause they're gonna
  • 00:19:20.641 --> 00:19:22.577
  • Reflect you.
  • 00:19:22.577 --> 00:19:24.545
  • Things like laziness, complaining.
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  • We're not satisfied, we're entitled.
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  • No, i deserve better.
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  • I have a right to.
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  • I have expectations.
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  • We're very familiar.
  • 00:19:45.866 --> 00:19:47.201
  • We're given so much license.
  • 00:19:47.201 --> 00:19:48.569
  • There's so many voices that give us permission to give expression
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  • To our little bit of gratitude.
  • 00:19:52.540 --> 00:19:55.009
  • You see, it wouldn't have the space it occupies in scripture
  • 00:19:55.009 --> 00:19:57.578
  • If it weren't a persistent problem, if it wasn't a place
  • 00:19:57.578 --> 00:20:00.381
  • Where our adversary has been enormously effective
  • 00:20:00.381 --> 00:20:02.650
  • In tripping us up.
  • 00:20:02.650 --> 00:20:03.985
  • You could be like god, aren't you unhappy that god has power
  • 00:20:03.985 --> 00:20:06.254
  • That you don't have?
  • 00:20:06.254 --> 00:20:07.588
  • You could be godlike, just have a bite of this.
  • 00:20:07.588 --> 00:20:15.630
  • Proverbs 26.
  • 00:20:18.065 --> 00:20:20.234
  • "the sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who
  • 00:20:20.234 --> 00:20:24.338
  • Answered discretely."
  • 00:20:24.338 --> 00:20:26.440
  • The sluggard, it's a fun biblical word.
  • 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:29.710
  • The sluggard.
  • 00:20:29.710 --> 00:20:33.914
  • Very few of us have t-shirts, "i am sluggard."
  • 00:20:33.914 --> 00:20:37.351
  • And there's a whole handful of statements in the book of
  • 00:20:37.351 --> 00:20:39.120
  • Proverbs, but he's wiser in his own eyes.
  • 00:20:39.120 --> 00:20:42.590
  • There's a verse we looked at recently, proverbs 26, same
  • 00:20:42.590 --> 00:20:44.959
  • Chapter says, "do you see a man wise in his own eyes?
  • 00:20:44.959 --> 00:20:48.396
  • There's more hope for a fool."
  • 00:20:48.396 --> 00:20:49.764
  • God said to be wise in your own eyes is to be worse than a fool.
  • 00:20:49.764 --> 00:20:53.968
  • And he says a sluggard is worse than a fool.
  • 00:20:53.968 --> 00:20:58.939
  • You see, we're late--we're entitled, we don't have to
  • 00:20:58.939 --> 00:21:00.608
  • Do anything, it should come to me.
  • 00:21:00.608 --> 00:21:02.109
  • Opportunities should come to me.
  • 00:21:02.109 --> 00:21:04.312
  • Somebody should be concerned about my well-being.
  • 00:21:04.312 --> 00:21:08.783
  • Somebody should be interested in my future.
  • 00:21:08.783 --> 00:21:10.718
  • It's not my responsibility.
  • 00:21:10.718 --> 00:21:17.625
  • The refusal to be thankful.
  • 00:21:17.625 --> 00:21:20.594
  • So here's the invitation.
  • 00:21:20.594 --> 00:21:22.463
  • On a regular basis, multiple times during the day.
  • 00:21:22.463 --> 00:21:27.101
  • Maybe in the routine things of your day, if you've got to drive
  • 00:21:27.101 --> 00:21:29.737
  • To work, if there's something you do for exercise and you've
  • 00:21:29.737 --> 00:21:32.506
  • Got some downtime while you do that, maybe you've got some
  • 00:21:32.506 --> 00:21:35.843
  • Mundane tasks you do, things that don't require you to be
  • 00:21:35.843 --> 00:21:39.113
  • Focused on your thoughts, take those times that are in your
  • 00:21:39.113 --> 00:21:41.782
  • Calendar and very intentionally, very purposely start to use them
  • 00:21:41.782 --> 00:21:45.586
  • To give thanks to the lord.
  • 00:21:45.586 --> 00:21:48.489
  • And you can choose buckets.
  • 00:21:48.489 --> 00:21:49.857
  • You can thank god for the things personally.
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  • God, i thank you for my health, for my breath that i can see and
  • 00:21:51.192 --> 00:21:53.661
  • Hear, that i have the strength to me today.
  • 00:21:53.661 --> 00:21:55.963
  • You can thank god for your family.
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  • "god, i thank you for my family."
  • 00:21:57.331 --> 00:22:01.702
  • For some of you that'll be more challenging.
  • 00:22:01.702 --> 00:22:04.572
  • You're not thanking him that your family's perfect.
  • 00:22:04.572 --> 00:22:07.308
  • You're thanking him that you're not completely alone.
  • 00:22:07.308 --> 00:22:10.945
  • That you haven't been totally rejected.
  • 00:22:10.945 --> 00:22:13.381
  • "well, i've been rejected by some in my family."
  • 00:22:13.381 --> 00:22:15.182
  • You have, but not by all.
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  • You can thank god for the freedoms that we have.
  • 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:21.255
  • Well, our freedoms have been diminished, yes, but we still
  • 00:22:21.255 --> 00:22:22.890
  • Have more than most people on the planet.
  • 00:22:22.890 --> 00:22:25.559
  • You can thank god for the food we have or water to drink.
  • 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:27.995
  • There's so many, you start with categories, you can start with
  • 00:22:27.995 --> 00:22:30.264
  • Physical things.
  • 00:22:30.264 --> 00:22:31.632
  • You can start for--you can give god thanks for the times he's
  • 00:22:31.632 --> 00:22:34.268
  • Been faithful in your life.
  • 00:22:34.268 --> 00:22:36.504
  • When he's delivered you.
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  • When he's forgiven your sin.
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  • When he chose you out of darkness.
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  • Of all the people in the world, he called your name to be a part
  • 00:22:41.976 --> 00:22:44.345
  • Of his eternal kingdom.
  • 00:22:44.345 --> 00:22:45.713
  • Have you told him thank you lately?
  • 00:22:45.713 --> 00:22:48.449
  • Or did you think he was just so relieved to get you on the team?
  • 00:22:48.449 --> 00:22:53.120
  • There are so many places and things.
  • 00:22:53.120 --> 00:22:55.923
  • Maybe you want to start with some cate--i don't care, but
  • 00:22:55.923 --> 00:22:58.259
  • Begin to verbally out loud, say, "god, i wanna thank you.
  • 00:22:58.259 --> 00:23:02.863
  • You've been good to me."
  • 00:23:02.863 --> 00:23:04.498
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:23:04.498 --> 00:23:09.937
  • We have so much abundance we can keep ourselves up at night
  • 00:23:09.937 --> 00:23:13.240
  • Burning money that goes pop in the sky.
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  • That's a blessed nation.
  • 00:23:18.846 --> 00:23:21.916
  • I'm old enough to remember when we used to watch fireworks on
  • 00:23:21.916 --> 00:23:23.884
  • Tv, about the best we could have at home was like a roman candle.
  • 00:23:23.884 --> 00:23:26.921
  • We'd shoot them at one another.
  • 00:23:26.921 --> 00:23:33.794
  • But let's begin to give thanks.
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  • God has been good to us.
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  • Morning, noon, and night.
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  • Day after day, let's see what will happen if we took 21 days
  • 00:23:39.900 --> 00:23:43.037
  • To give thanks.
  • 00:23:43.037 --> 00:23:45.072
  • What would happen if we took this month to give thanks
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  • To god?
  • 00:23:47.475 --> 00:23:49.443
  • Let's just see what he will do.
  • 00:23:49.443 --> 00:23:51.178
  • See how our heart will change, how our spiritual immune system
  • 00:23:51.178 --> 00:23:54.381
  • Will get better.
  • 00:23:54.381 --> 00:23:57.451
  • It'll change our lives.
  • 00:23:57.451 --> 00:23:58.819
  • I brought you a way to practice, it's just a starter kit.
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  • I'll bring you some more.
  • 00:24:00.921 --> 00:24:03.457
  • Actually, i didn't bring it, but this wonderful lady on the front
  • 00:24:03.457 --> 00:24:05.593
  • Row shared her starter kit with me.
  • 00:24:05.593 --> 00:24:12.466
  • Jeez, let's stand together.
  • 00:24:12.466 --> 00:24:16.504
  • It's psalm 107.
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  • You should be relieved.
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  • I had like 22 verses, but they wouldn't fit on the outline, so.
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  • I put four here because it captures the idea.
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  • I'll read it to you and then i gave it to you.
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  • I just put it in a bit of a first person and we'll say that
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  • Together, but let me read you the psalm.
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  • "give thanks to the lord, for he's good; his love
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  • Endures forever.
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  • Let the redeemed of the lord say this--those he redeemed from the
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  • Hand of the foe, let them give thanks to the lord for his
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  • Unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men, for he satisfies
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  • The thirsty and he fills the hungry with good things."
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  • Now you could take that and read it morning, noon, and night.
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  • If this is completely new to you, you just start to say that.
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  • "god, this is my declaration."
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  • But i gave it to you in just middle tennessee english.
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  • Let's read this together.
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  • "i will give thanks to the lord, his love endures forever.
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  • The lord has redeemed me from the hand of the enemy.
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  • I will give thanks to the lord for his unfailing love and his
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  • Wonderful deeds in the earth.
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  • God has satisfied my thirst and filled my life with
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  • Good things."
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  • I think we ought to say it again.
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  • I wanted to gain momentum in my own heart.
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  • Let's say that again.
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  • "i will give thanks to the lord, his love endures forever.
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  • The lord has redeemed me from the hand of the enemy.
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  • I will give thanks to the lord for his unfailing love and his
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  • Wonderful deeds in the earth.
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  • God has satisfied my thirst and filled my life with
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  • Good things."
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  • Amen, hallelujah.
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  • Let's give thanks. god bless you.
  • 00:26:03.978 --> 00:26:13.954
  • Allen: hey, i got a question.
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  • What's the eternal breath of life?
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  • Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote.
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  • When i sat down to do a podcast with him and i was listening to
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  • His story about how god had moved in his life and my
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  • Family's life, all the way up to the beginning of the church that
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  • I've served now for several decades, i was so reminded of
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  • The purpose and the power of the spirit of god in our lives.
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  • I asked him to put it in a book.
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  • That's what we're sharing with you.
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  • We all need god's help.
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  • We all face challenges.
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  • Life's not easy no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
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  • Is present within us to bring the power and purposes of god to
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  • Bear in our lives.
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  • I believe the book will be a blessing for you.
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  • If you'll pair it with-- "unleashing the power of the
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  • Holy spirit's," one of the most effective tools we have, it'll
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  • Give you a pathway that i believe will bring god's best
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  • Into your family.
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  • You may not plant a church, but you have been given the
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  • Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god and we need
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  • The help of the holy spirit.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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