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Allen Jackson - Glimpses Of God's Love (Part 2)

January 11, 2026 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Glimpses Of God's Love (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Glimpses Of God's Love (Part 2) | January 11, 2026
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  • Allen: there's one more glimpse i wanna look at with you.
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  • It's god's love at golgotha.
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  • Because i think on that cross outside of jerusalem, god's love
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  • Was on display.
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  • We read it in john, you all nodded your heads.
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  • Most of us know the verse.
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  • We've seen it in the end zone of football games for decades now.
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  • John 3:16: "for god so loved the world that he gave his son."
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  • But it wasn't particularly simple.
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  • In john 14, jesus is trying to get his friends ready for this.
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  • He's been telling them repeatedly for quite some time
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  • What's gonna happen.
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  • And now they're just about to cross the finish line, he says,
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  • "don't let your hearts be troubled.
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  • Trust in god; trust also in me.
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  • In my father's house are many rooms; if it weren't so, i would
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  • Have told you.
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  • I'm going there to prepare a place for you."
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  • And thomas said, "lord, we don't know where you're going, so how
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  • Can we know the way?"
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  • Jesus loves them. he's doing his very best.
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  • I believe that with all of my heart.
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  • He cares about them personally.
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  • He said, "listen, i'm going away.
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  • Where i'm going, you can't come, but it's for your good.
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  • If i go away, i'm gonna send you another comforter, and i'm gonna
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  • Prepare a place for you.
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  • I'll come back so that you can be where i am and--" they are--
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  • They're losing their minds and thomas said, "lord, we don't
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  • Know what you're talking about."
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  • You get that look during sermons quite frequently.
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  • The love of god.
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  • What did we say about god's love with mary and joseph?
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  • It's disruptive, it's uncomfortable.
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  • Jesus is there.
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  • He's trying--he's in the person, trying to help them.
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  • Look at matthew 16: "from that time on, jesus began to explain
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  • To his disciples that he must go to jerusalem and suffer many
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  • Things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and
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  • The teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on
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  • The third day be raised to life.
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  • And peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
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  • He said, 'never, lord!
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  • This shall never happen to you!'
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  • Jesus turned and said to peter, 'get behind me, satan!
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  • You're a stumbling block to me; you don't have in mind the
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  • Things of god, but the things of men.'"
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  • Peter got rebuked in front of his buddies.
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  • You know, encourage in public, but discipline in private.
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  • No, that wasn't jesus's rule.
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  • He looked at peter and said, "you're acting like the devil."
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  • What's happening?
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  • It's the love of god.
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  • Jesus is saying, "now, listen, we get to jerusalem, the wheels
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  • Are coming off this thing."
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  • I mean, he's telling them in the plainest of language: "this is
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  • Gonna be really uncomfortable.
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  • It's gonna be awful for me, but it's not gonna be easy for you."
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  • That is love.
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  • He didn't leave them unprepared.
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  • He said, "i will not leave you as orphans."
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  • But that's not the kind of love we want.
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  • We want a love that keeps us above the fray, out of the
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  • Dust, right?
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  • It's like we've ignored the narrative.
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  • It's really important for us because we're living in a season
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  • When god is moving.
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  • He's doing remarkable things and there's some expressions of evil
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  • That are really unsettling and we're going, "well, how can
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  • That be?"
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  • Does it mean god doesn't love us?
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  • No, hebrews 12 says if he--if you're his child, he'll
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  • Discipline you.
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  • And you should endure hardship as discipline.
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  • Well, i don't want to be disciplined.
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  • Do you?
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  • Who got up this morning and said, "i hope today is the day
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  • God chooses to discipline me"?
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  • Anybody?
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  • I mean, you did your morning bible reading, you read your
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  • Little pastor allen devotional with this little application and
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  • You thought, "boy, i hope this is my day.
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  • I hope god just read my name in the halls of heaven and said, 'i
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  • Think i'm gonna knock him silly today.'"
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  • Yeah, me either.
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  • In fact, if i'm really honest with you, i don't ever remember
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  • Wanting to really mature.
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  • My parents used to think for my brothers and i, if we were
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  • Maturing, it was such a good thing.
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  • We never felt that way.
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  • I was good if my mom would have cooked food and put it on the
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  • Table until yesterday.
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  • I mean, i was quite fine thinking that my laundry washed
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  • Itself and folded itself and showed back up.
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  • I just thought i had some kind of special clothes.
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  • I mean, it wouldn't have hurt my feelings if they'd have paid for
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  • My gas until today.
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  • Somewhere along the way, they thought i should have a job.
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  • What an awful idea.
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  • My friends were going to the lake and they had all these
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  • Language about, "i'm not your friends' parents."
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  • And you know what i thought, right?
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  • Aren't my friends lucky?
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  • I was wide enough--wise enough not to say that.
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  • But you know, the same is true in my relationship with
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  • The lord.
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  • I can't truthfully say that i look for opportunities to become
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  • More mature.
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  • How about you?
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  • The love of god is disruptive.
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  • I mean, i could take--we could take character after character
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  • After character.
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  • They're our heroes.
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  • "peter, hush.
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  • Your response, your expression of concern for me is not
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  • Directed by the spirit of god, it's directed by an
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  • Ungodly spirit.
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  • You should be quiet, peter."
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  • Is it possible that sometimes our expressions of compassion,
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  • Even our intention to be kind, are pushing people away from the
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  • Purposes of god?
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  • Have we become so trite, so routinized, so glossed over
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  • Because we're convinced we're going to heaven?
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  • Therefore, the moment is really not relevant.
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  • We have enough options.
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  • We have enough affluence, we have enough health care, we have
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  • Enough other things that we're not really dependent upon god
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  • And the love of god, you know, it's kind of a smarmy, i mean,
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  • We just kind of spread it around.
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  • "well, if god loved me."
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  • If god loved me, what?
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  • He wouldn't disrupt your life and send you back to
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  • Confront pharaoh?
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  • If god loved you, he wouldn't push you out in front of
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  • A giant?
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  • If god loved you, he wouldn't stick you in a den of lions?
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  • If god loved you, he wouldn't ask you to be an advocate for
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  • Jesus in a hostile place?
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  • What kind of understanding of the love of god do we have, and
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  • Did it come from scripture?
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  • It's a very important question.
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  • We've used it in terms of no boundaries.
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  • We all know the prodigal story, and that's good because we've
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  • All been prodigals, me included.
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  • And it's true god loves us in our brokenness and our failures
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  • And our inconsistencies.
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  • But he doesn't encourage us to choose brokenness, and he
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  • Doesn't encourage us to behave in inconsistent ways.
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  • He encourages us to love the lord our god with all of our
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  • Heart, mind, soul, and body.
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  • I think we could say at this point that the love of god
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  • Is inscrutable.
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  • What a fancy word.
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  • It means it's not easily understood.
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  • It's just not easy always.
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  • I don't know about you, but so there have been times in my
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  • Life, places in my life, where i have stood in the field at
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  • Night, broken, broken.
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  • I don't mean discouraged, broken.
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  • And shaken my fist at the stars and i said, "god, i don't know
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  • What you're doing.
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  • And i don't like it.
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  • I'm not leaving, but i don't like it."
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  • When you were a kid, did you ever think your parents
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  • Were unfair?
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  • I remember one of my brothers telling my mom he was gonna
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  • Trade her in for a new one.
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  • I've tried that with the lord, but there's not an option.
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  • God's love sometimes is inscrutable.
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  • It's not easy to understand.
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  • Thomas: "lord, i don't know where you're going."
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  • Peter going, "lord, i can't imagine that happening to you.
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  • I can't reconcile that happening and you still being who i think
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  • You are.
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  • I've seen you walk on the water and make wine out of water.
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  • I've seen you call lazarus out of a tomb and speak to the wind
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  • And the waves, and they obeyed you.
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  • You fed a multitude with a boy's happy meal.
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  • That could not happen to you."
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  • "peter, be quiet."
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  • You see, god's inviting you and me to places with him we haven't
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  • Been before.
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  • And we have this neat little pristine box for our faith.
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  • Repeat this prayer.
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  • Well, i'm for that.
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  • I'm an advocate for that.
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  • I believe in that, but that is the launch point.
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  • I was at the hospital this week, multiple times with people,
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  • Sometimes new arrivals, new babies.
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  • Folks, if it's your first one, you're not prepared for
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  • What's coming.
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  • I know you've read the books and you've watched a youtube video,
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  • But you're not really prepared.
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  • That 3-minute videos doesn't get the whole picture.
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  • Look at matthew 26: "going a little further," this is jesus
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  • In gethsemane, "he fell with his face to the ground and prayed,
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  • 'my father, if it's possible, may this cup be taken from me.
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  • Yet not as i will, but as you will.'"
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  • The love of god requires obedience.
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  • It's not sloppy.
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  • This is jesus, the perfect obedient son of god, saying,
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  • "god, i don't wanna do what you're asking."
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  • Have you ever had that conversation with the lord?
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  • "i do not want to write a tithe check."
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  • "well, pastor, that's old covenant."
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  • So is "thou shalt not murder."
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  • And in the new testament, remember what jesus said?
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  • "if you're angry enough to wanna murder somebody, you're guilty."
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  • Did he reduce the requirement or extend it?
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  • The law said if you commit adultery, you're guilty, but
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  • Jesus said if you just look at somebody and want to commit
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  • Adultery, you're guilty.
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  • Did he diminish it or extend it?
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  • See, the new covenant, it's true, we're free from the law as
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  • A means of righteousness, but it didn't reduce god's standards
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  • Of holiness.
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  • All that we have belongs to him.
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  • God's love is about obedience.
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  • He loves us.
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  • Adam, you can't eat from that tree.
  • 00:12:55.490 --> 00:12:58.359
  • Wasn't lack of love.
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  • Our love for god is expressed in our willingness to obey.
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  • It's a struggle.
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  • It's not easy.
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  • Philippians 2, this is speaking of jesus.
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  • He said, because of what he, jesus, did--the preceding
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  • Verses list a half a dozen things that jesus did, and it
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  • Says: "therefore god exalted him to the highest place and gave
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  • Him a name that's above every name."
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  • The love of god will elevate your life.
  • 00:13:25.420 --> 00:13:29.791
  • This is the piece we miss.
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  • We think the love of god will give us what we want.
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  • The love of god will make us happy.
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  • The love of god will bring us some "attaboys."
  • 00:13:35.930 --> 00:13:37.732
  • The love of god will remove us from the arena of conflict.
  • 00:13:37.732 --> 00:13:41.436
  • The love of god will diminish temptation in us.
  • 00:13:41.436 --> 00:13:43.504
  • The love of god will cause us to always get a good report for our
  • 00:13:43.504 --> 00:13:46.174
  • Annual physical.
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  • And actually, the love of god doesn't always do all of
  • 00:13:49.811 --> 00:13:51.713
  • Those things.
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  • But the love of god will elevate your journey through time.
  • 00:13:53.281 --> 00:13:56.718
  • And it'll change your destiny for all eternity.
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  • He loves you.
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  • He loves you.
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  • It's not sloppy.
  • 00:14:03.658 --> 00:14:05.526
  • It's not casual.
  • 00:14:05.526 --> 00:14:09.564
  • Allen: welcome to 2026. happy new year.
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  • We've created a new book to help you.
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  • It's called "turn up the light."
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  • It's a devotional for the whole year.
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  • It's a really simple idea.
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  • I can join you for a cup of coffee in the morning.
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  • We'll have a brief conversation with a spiritual principle
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  • To start our day, a scripture verse, a prayer.
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  • And then when you're tired of me,
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  • You can close the book.
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  • It's perfect.
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  • In all seriousness, we do wanna turn up the light.
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  • Let's not rage against the darkness.
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  • Let's invite god into the midst of this year
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  • And then just see what he will do.
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  • Female announcer: pastor allen's new devotional,
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  • "turn up the light," is designed to equip you every single day
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  • Of the year.
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  • Inside, you'll find 365 short devotionals,
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  • Each with a scripture, teaching, and a prayer.
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  • As you begin this new year, don't rage against the darkness.
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  • Instead, choose to turn up the light.
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  • Allen: we have all this--
  • 00:15:14.796 --> 00:15:16.264
  • We use so much nonsense language in the church.
  • 00:15:16.264 --> 00:15:20.301
  • We do.
  • 00:15:20.301 --> 00:15:21.636
  • Makes my head spin.
  • 00:15:21.636 --> 00:15:23.771
  • I mean, i work with teams of people that help teams
  • 00:15:23.771 --> 00:15:25.907
  • Of people.
  • 00:15:25.907 --> 00:15:27.241
  • And i'm telling you, the most intense meetings i have are with
  • 00:15:27.241 --> 00:15:30.378
  • People who use nonsense language.
  • 00:15:30.378 --> 00:15:34.515
  • You know what i'm talking about?
  • 00:15:34.515 --> 00:15:36.684
  • It's like word salad.
  • 00:15:36.684 --> 00:15:38.052
  • We've had some people that do word salad in public.
  • 00:15:38.052 --> 00:15:41.189
  • Well, i'm telling you, the church is--we are a salad
  • 00:15:41.189 --> 00:15:44.292
  • Bar, right?
  • 00:15:44.292 --> 00:15:50.765
  • "just follow peace."
  • 00:15:50.765 --> 00:15:55.870
  • Okay, but what does that mean?
  • 00:15:55.870 --> 00:15:59.507
  • I understand "cast all my anxieties on him" because i got
  • 00:15:59.507 --> 00:16:02.143
  • A bucket load of those.
  • 00:16:02.143 --> 00:16:08.149
  • We're gonna have to bring some integrity back to how we engage
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  • With one another.
  • 00:16:10.885 --> 00:16:15.023
  • This is so important.
  • 00:16:15.023 --> 00:16:16.357
  • Obedience, it's disruptive, it's awkward, it's difficult.
  • 00:16:16.357 --> 00:16:23.798
  • My favorite, and i know it's an occupational hazard.
  • 00:16:23.798 --> 00:16:26.167
  • People say, "well, pastor, you know, i just know that's easier
  • 00:16:26.167 --> 00:16:28.703
  • For you."
  • 00:16:28.703 --> 00:16:32.340
  • That's because you only watch me for 45 minutes a week.
  • 00:16:32.340 --> 00:16:37.045
  • And i have enough discipline that for a 45-minute slice, i
  • 00:16:37.045 --> 00:16:39.914
  • Can pretty much hold it together.
  • 00:16:39.914 --> 00:16:41.282
  • Now if you meet me in the parking lot, you're on your own.
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  • When i tell you some of those stories and you think i'm making
  • 00:16:46.454 --> 00:16:48.856
  • Them up.
  • 00:16:48.856 --> 00:16:50.191
  • I'm not making those up.
  • 00:16:50.191 --> 00:16:56.230
  • It's not easy.
  • 00:16:56.230 --> 00:16:58.833
  • But it's how we choose, it's how we respond to the love of god.
  • 00:16:58.833 --> 00:17:01.669
  • Number four, you gotta guard your heart.
  • 00:17:01.669 --> 00:17:03.771
  • Why?
  • 00:17:03.771 --> 00:17:05.106
  • Proverbs says: "above all else, guard your heart," more than you
  • 00:17:05.106 --> 00:17:06.974
  • Guard your money or your kids or your grandkids.
  • 00:17:06.974 --> 00:17:10.478
  • Well, we have an adversary.
  • 00:17:10.478 --> 00:17:11.846
  • All the way back in the opening chapter, they're in the garden
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  • Of eden.
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  • And the adversary comes and manages to get them evicted.
  • 00:17:17.285 --> 00:17:21.322
  • Do you think there's any chance, if we're going to take the
  • 00:17:21.322 --> 00:17:23.691
  • Fundamental principles of scripture, do you believe that
  • 00:17:23.691 --> 00:17:25.893
  • Principle could be true for you?
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  • That god has a plan for you, a purpose for you, that he's
  • 00:17:28.262 --> 00:17:30.465
  • Planted you, that he's written a story for you, and that there
  • 00:17:30.465 --> 00:17:32.934
  • Could be an adversary that would like to get you evicted.
  • 00:17:32.934 --> 00:17:37.505
  • "well, pastor, i just trust the love of god."
  • 00:17:37.505 --> 00:17:40.908
  • Well, bless your heart.
  • 00:17:40.908 --> 00:17:43.277
  • Hope you're from the south.
  • 00:17:43.277 --> 00:17:44.645
  • If you do, you understand.
  • 00:17:44.645 --> 00:17:47.548
  • And not only do we have an adversary, we have an old
  • 00:17:47.548 --> 00:17:49.484
  • Carnal nature.
  • 00:17:49.484 --> 00:17:50.852
  • We are hardwired for ungodliness.
  • 00:17:50.852 --> 00:17:52.353
  • I don't have to be coached on selfishness.
  • 00:17:52.353 --> 00:17:55.323
  • That just boils right up out of me, right?
  • 00:17:55.323 --> 00:17:59.227
  • We--you have to teach your kids to tell the truth.
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  • You don't have to teach your kids to lie.
  • 00:18:01.262 --> 00:18:04.165
  • I just called your kids liars.
  • 00:18:04.165 --> 00:18:05.533
  • I know, right out in public in front of god and everybody.
  • 00:18:05.533 --> 00:18:09.570
  • But you don't--you know it's true.
  • 00:18:09.570 --> 00:18:12.206
  • Your phone rings in the middle of the night.
  • 00:18:12.206 --> 00:18:14.342
  • Dumbest question ever asked, but you--it's almost every time
  • 00:18:14.342 --> 00:18:16.444
  • Your phone rings: "did i wake you up," right?
  • 00:18:16.444 --> 00:18:22.049
  • And what do you say?
  • 00:18:22.049 --> 00:18:28.289
  • "it's 3 in the morning, of course you did."
  • 00:18:28.289 --> 00:18:33.227
  • No, no, no, we don't do that.
  • 00:18:33.227 --> 00:18:34.662
  • "no, no, no, i was--i wasn't in rem sleep anyway."
  • 00:18:34.662 --> 00:18:42.136
  • And it just boils out of us.
  • 00:18:42.136 --> 00:18:46.007
  • We have to guard our hearts, folks.
  • 00:18:46.007 --> 00:18:48.109
  • It's serious.
  • 00:18:48.109 --> 00:18:49.944
  • How do you do that?
  • 00:18:49.944 --> 00:18:51.312
  • Well, you need to understand the difference in joy and happiness
  • 00:18:51.312 --> 00:18:53.314
  • And cultivate joy.
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  • You need to learn how to cast all your anxieties on him.
  • 00:18:55.283 --> 00:18:57.952
  • You need to learn what it is when jesus said we don't have
  • 00:18:57.952 --> 00:19:00.188
  • To worry.
  • 00:19:00.188 --> 00:19:01.856
  • You better have some people around you that trust the lord
  • 00:19:01.856 --> 00:19:03.858
  • And walk with you, that you can be honest with, enough
  • 00:19:03.858 --> 00:19:06.661
  • Transparency that they'll pray with you and stand with you.
  • 00:19:06.661 --> 00:19:09.864
  • Because all of us have a down day.
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  • We don't--we're not always up.
  • 00:19:11.399 --> 00:19:14.802
  • And then finally, you gotta know that god is faithful.
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  • This one has--this has been a foundation for--this is
  • 00:19:17.672 --> 00:19:20.775
  • Personal to me, the faithfulness of god.
  • 00:19:20.775 --> 00:19:24.545
  • I started making lists of verses and it was too long for your
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  • Outline, so i just kind of stopped.
  • 00:19:27.148 --> 00:19:30.251
  • Hebrews 12: "for the joy set before jesus, he endured
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  • The cross."
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  • He could endure the cross because he knew god was so
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  • Faithful that no matter what they did to him, there was
  • 00:19:36.757 --> 00:19:40.094
  • Something better.
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  • They could pull out his beard, they could blindfold him and hit
  • 00:19:42.463 --> 00:19:44.632
  • Him over the head and say, "who hit you?"
  • 00:19:44.632 --> 00:19:46.033
  • He knew who hit him.
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  • He knew their social security number.
  • 00:19:47.868 --> 00:19:49.303
  • He knew their passwords.
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  • And he stayed silent.
  • 00:19:53.975 --> 00:19:55.910
  • Because he knew there was something better for him.
  • 00:19:55.910 --> 00:20:00.014
  • It says of abraham, "he considered him faithful who'd
  • 00:20:00.014 --> 00:20:02.216
  • Made the promise."
  • 00:20:02.216 --> 00:20:04.986
  • He waited decades but he considered god faithful.
  • 00:20:04.986 --> 00:20:08.589
  • I get impatient if i have to wait a half an hour.
  • 00:20:08.589 --> 00:20:13.294
  • It's the end of the year.
  • 00:20:13.294 --> 00:20:14.629
  • Some of us are struggling 'cause god didn't do what we
  • 00:20:14.629 --> 00:20:16.097
  • Wanted him to do this year.
  • 00:20:16.097 --> 00:20:18.032
  • "well, you know, i need an appointment."
  • 00:20:18.032 --> 00:20:24.505
  • Peter says of jesus, "he entrusted himself to the one who
  • 00:20:24.505 --> 00:20:27.308
  • Judges justly."
  • 00:20:27.308 --> 00:20:29.343
  • While they were torturing him to death, he entrusted himself to
  • 00:20:29.343 --> 00:20:32.880
  • The one who was a just judge.
  • 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:34.882
  • He understood he wasn't being judged justly.
  • 00:20:34.882 --> 00:20:37.852
  • What was happening to him was not fair.
  • 00:20:37.852 --> 00:20:40.521
  • It wasn't righteous, it wasn't godly, it wasn't just, but he
  • 00:20:40.521 --> 00:20:43.991
  • Said, "i know a just judge and he'll be faithful to me."
  • 00:20:43.991 --> 00:20:49.497
  • See, it's the love of god, god's faithfulness.
  • 00:20:49.497 --> 00:20:54.335
  • I wanted the love of god to be expressed to me in happiness.
  • 00:20:54.335 --> 00:20:58.706
  • And god said, "i'll show you my love in my faithfulness."
  • 00:20:58.706 --> 00:21:03.277
  • I like numbers 23, it's not in your notes, but he said, "god's
  • 00:21:03.277 --> 00:21:05.646
  • Not a man that he should lie."
  • 00:21:05.646 --> 00:21:07.715
  • The implication is, "but the rest of us, hmm."
  • 00:21:07.715 --> 00:21:11.619
  • But god is not a man that he should lie.
  • 00:21:11.619 --> 00:21:14.922
  • I wanna pray for you
  • 00:21:14.922 --> 00:21:16.857
  • That this christmas, wherever you are in that dynamic of life,
  • 00:21:16.857 --> 00:21:19.894
  • 'cause there are ups and downs and everything in between.
  • 00:21:19.894 --> 00:21:23.931
  • There are some wonderful highs, wonderful things to celebrate.
  • 00:21:23.931 --> 00:21:29.603
  • And there's desperate places, and they come with every season
  • 00:21:29.603 --> 00:21:32.239
  • Of life.
  • 00:21:32.239 --> 00:21:33.607
  • Every season of life comes with its full challenge.
  • 00:21:33.607 --> 00:21:35.409
  • I haven't been through every season yet, but i've had enough
  • 00:21:35.409 --> 00:21:37.244
  • Birthdays, i've been through a lot of them.
  • 00:21:37.244 --> 00:21:40.881
  • And they all come with some wonderful things and they all
  • 00:21:40.881 --> 00:21:42.983
  • Come with some new challenges.
  • 00:21:42.983 --> 00:21:47.021
  • I wanna pray with you, but i gave you a verse.
  • 00:21:47.021 --> 00:21:48.656
  • I think it's worth meditating on, so i'll give it to you more
  • 00:21:48.656 --> 00:21:51.058
  • As a verse you can pray through this week, but, "humble
  • 00:21:51.058 --> 00:21:55.463
  • Yourselves under god's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in
  • 00:21:55.463 --> 00:21:58.032
  • Due time.
  • 00:21:58.032 --> 00:21:59.900
  • Cast all your anxiety on him, he cares for you."
  • 00:21:59.900 --> 00:22:02.903
  • That's the love of god.
  • 00:22:02.903 --> 00:22:05.373
  • He loves you so much you can humble yourself.
  • 00:22:05.373 --> 00:22:06.974
  • You don't have to try to bluff your way through.
  • 00:22:06.974 --> 00:22:09.877
  • You don't have to inflate yourself.
  • 00:22:09.877 --> 00:22:11.278
  • You don't need pride.
  • 00:22:11.278 --> 00:22:12.646
  • Humble yourself before the lord.
  • 00:22:12.646 --> 00:22:13.981
  • He'll lift you up.
  • 00:22:13.981 --> 00:22:15.416
  • Folks, god's promotion plan is better than anything this world
  • 00:22:15.416 --> 00:22:18.252
  • Has to offer us.
  • 00:22:18.252 --> 00:22:19.954
  • Any position, any power, any accumulation of assets, i would
  • 00:22:19.954 --> 00:22:25.459
  • Much rather put god in charge of my promotion.
  • 00:22:25.459 --> 00:22:30.131
  • But the interim between where i am, where i'm humbling myself,
  • 00:22:30.131 --> 00:22:32.733
  • And i haven't yet experienced that, now i gotta cast all my
  • 00:22:32.733 --> 00:22:35.603
  • Anxieties on him.
  • 00:22:35.603 --> 00:22:39.273
  • Cast all my anxieties on him.
  • 00:22:39.273 --> 00:22:41.742
  • I gotta offload that stuff.
  • 00:22:41.742 --> 00:22:44.445
  • Oh lord, there's some things making me anxious, but i'm gonna
  • 00:22:44.445 --> 00:22:46.447
  • Give them to you.
  • 00:22:46.447 --> 00:22:49.083
  • I'll call them by name if they're people.
  • 00:22:49.083 --> 00:22:50.651
  • I'll call them the circumstances.
  • 00:22:50.651 --> 00:22:52.853
  • Sometimes i'll sit down and write them out and then wad up
  • 00:22:52.853 --> 00:22:54.455
  • The paper and put it in the trash, go, "lord, you can have
  • 00:22:54.455 --> 00:22:56.357
  • That for a while."
  • 00:22:56.357 --> 00:23:00.094
  • I want you to stand with me, if you would.
  • 00:23:00.094 --> 00:23:01.429
  • If you're at home, you need to stand too.
  • 00:23:01.429 --> 00:23:02.797
  • Don't just be a listener.
  • 00:23:02.797 --> 00:23:10.671
  • Some of you came anxious.
  • 00:23:10.671 --> 00:23:13.140
  • Some of you came disheartened.
  • 00:23:13.140 --> 00:23:15.142
  • Some of you came disobedient.
  • 00:23:15.142 --> 00:23:19.079
  • Some of you came confused.
  • 00:23:19.079 --> 00:23:20.414
  • You're like thomas: "i don't know what you're doing.
  • 00:23:20.414 --> 00:23:23.684
  • I hear you talking, but i don't understand what you're doing."
  • 00:23:23.684 --> 00:23:28.022
  • Some of us are like peter: we're standing between what god
  • 00:23:28.022 --> 00:23:30.124
  • Intends to do and what we want him to do, and we're trying to
  • 00:23:30.124 --> 00:23:32.126
  • Reconcile the two.
  • 00:23:32.126 --> 00:23:35.396
  • A lot of different places.
  • 00:23:35.396 --> 00:23:36.730
  • I don't imagine we're all in the same spot, but i do imagine that
  • 00:23:36.730 --> 00:23:40.468
  • For the most of us, we would really like to cooperate with
  • 00:23:40.468 --> 00:23:43.070
  • God's love for us.
  • 00:23:43.070 --> 00:23:47.575
  • Some of us are like mary, we get the stretch marks.
  • 00:23:47.575 --> 00:23:51.445
  • Some of us are like joseph, we're not sure what we're gonna
  • 00:23:51.445 --> 00:23:53.180
  • Tell our friends.
  • 00:23:53.180 --> 00:23:59.053
  • But i wanna say yes to the lord.
  • 00:23:59.053 --> 00:24:02.623
  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, thank you for your word, for its truth and power
  • 00:24:03.991 --> 00:24:05.659
  • And authority.
  • 00:24:05.659 --> 00:24:07.261
  • I thank you that you love us.
  • 00:24:07.261 --> 00:24:09.563
  • That you've called us out of darkness and welcomed us into
  • 00:24:09.563 --> 00:24:11.999
  • The kingdom of your son.
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  • That through the blood of jesus, you have canceled every claim
  • 00:24:14.168 --> 00:24:18.873
  • Against us.
  • 00:24:18.873 --> 00:24:20.207
  • That we've been justified, sanctified, redeemed.
  • 00:24:20.207 --> 00:24:22.943
  • We praise you for it tonight.
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  • We thank you for it.
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  • But lord, on our journey through time, we face the challenges
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  • Within and the challenges around us, and we ask you now for
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  • Your help.
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  • Give us understanding hearts, eyes to see and ears to hear.
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  • Lord, we give you the anxiety we've carried.
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  • Lord, forgive us: we have been consumed with worry.
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  • We have given place to frustration and anger
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  • And bitterness.
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  • We've accused you of being unfair.
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  • Lord, forgive us.
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  • You're a faithful god.
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  • You have shown us mercy and kindness and goodness.
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  • You have written a purpose for our lives.
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  • You're the author and the completer of our stories, and we
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  • Stand tonight in your presence to say that we choose obedience
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  • To you.
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  • Lord, we welcome your disruption, we welcome
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  • Your realignment.
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  • We want to cooperate with your transformation in us.
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  • We thank you for it, lord.
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  • We give you our disappointment, we give you our frustrations, we
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  • Give to you all those things that have choked us, and we turn
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  • Our attention to you tonight to say thank you.
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  • Thank you that you've called us.
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  • Thank you that you're directing us.
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  • Thank you that you never leave us or forsake us.
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  • Thank you that you're close to the brokenhearted.
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  • We praise you for it.
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  • Holy spirit, give us a revelation of the love of god
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  • That will propel us towards your very best in our lives, in
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  • Jesus's name, amen.
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  • Will you do something before you go?
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  • Not the person that came in your car, but somebody you didn't
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  • Know, will you just tell them god loves them?
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  • Allen: hey, how we begin our year, it matters.
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  • So we've created a tool to help you get the year off on the
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  • Right foot.
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  • It's a devotional for this year.
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  • We've taken our email devotionals that you're
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  • Familiar with, and we've edited it into a book: 365-day
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  • Devotional with a little short thought for the day, a scripture
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  • Verse, a prayer, just a little momentum for every day.
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  • Let's start this year on purpose, inviting god's best
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  • Into our lives.
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  • Many of you are familiar with those devotionals.
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  • You get them in your inbox.
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  • We want to give you a hard copy.
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  • Maybe you get a second copy, share it with a friend, use it
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  • As a mission project this year, maybe take it to work, recruit
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  • Somebody that you're working with.
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  • It's a simple way to invite god into the beginning of your day
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  • On purpose, and if we do that, i believe the outcome will be
  • 00:26:54.695 --> 00:26:58.599
  • Truly significant.
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  • God in the midst of whatever we're doing makes the
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  • Outcomes better.
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  • It's an exciting time.
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  • I like the beginning of a new year.
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  • All the promise and the hope that that brings, let's put god
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  • In the center of it.
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  • "turn up the light" is the name of the devotional, and i believe
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  • It'll do just that in your life.
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  • ♪♪♪
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