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Allen Jackson - A God of Deliverance (Part 1)

April 12, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - A God of Deliverance (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - A God of Deliverance (Part 1) | April 12, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: hey, would you like to make an impact for the
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  • Kingdom of god in this generation?
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  • I have an idea and, oh by the way, it's biblical.
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  • Let's practice hospitality.
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  • I know it doesn't sound very complicated, but imagine your
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  • Kitchen table as an expression of the hope and the love of god.
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  • We've all got the ability to do this.
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  • You don't have to be martha stewart.
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  • You don't have to be a gourmet chef.
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  • Let's just invite--open our home, invite people to our
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  • Kitchen table, and then watch what god will do as we live out
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  • The assignment of being ambassadors for his kingdom.
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  • God's moving in the earth. let's go with him.
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  • Female announcer: welcoming people to a meal around the
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  • Kitchen table is one of the easiest ways to share life and
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  • Your faith.
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  • It includes a custom kitchen towel, three of pastor allen's
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  • Favorite family recipes, and a short booklet with
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  • Allen: the title--we're working through a study, the
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  • Title is "lead with faith."
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  • In this session, we're gonna talk about "a god
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  • Of deliverance."
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  • Well, this is not a new theme for us.
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  • We have worked on it for--over several years, honestly.
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  • In fact, we thought it was valuable enough that they took
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  • The essence of those initial studies and put it into a book.
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  • You know, the way most of our books happen is if there's an
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  • Idea that we feel like is important in the midst of the
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  • Congregation and we don't wanna lose it in the midst of the next
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  • Series of presentations, we'll put it in a book, so we've got a
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  • Way to maintain it and share it.
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  • So the "lead with faith" book is new.
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  • If this has had value in your life, you've probably already
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  • Heard most of it and have access to it, but share it with
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  • Somebody else.
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  • I'm not working on a commission.
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  • It's a good idea.
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  • It's just not the way that works, so.
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  • But the "lead with faith," you know, i believe that we are in
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  • The midst, with god's help, of developing a whole new
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  • Generation of spiritual leaders.
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  • We need it. we need it.
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  • I believe that the future of the church is as bright as it's ever
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  • Been because i know the head of the church and the spirit of
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  • Almighty god indwells us, so that you can't predict our
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  • Future based on the traditional metrics that people would look
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  • To and evaluate.
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  • I do believe we are suffering from a lack of leadership in our
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  • Culture, not just within the church, but in a much
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  • Broader way.
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  • We seem to have forgotten, for the most part, that character is
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  • The cornerstone of leadership.
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  • I want to repeat that.
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  • Character is the cornerstone of leadership, no matter what the
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  • Arena in which it's needed.
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  • The recipe for leaders does not begin with talent or celebrity
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  • Or success or even education.
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  • Leadership begins with an awareness of what god is doing,
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  • What he's asked us to do, and the determined pursuit of
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  • That objective.
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  • Again, i don't believe it matters what arena you're
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  • Leading in, if you do that
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  • Absent god, you have left out a critical component.
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  • God, you see, redeems our character.
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  • From the brokenness of our lives, god's power restores
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  • So that our failures and our flaws become the canvas for the
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  • Demonstration of the power and the grace of god in our lives,
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  • And that's a message of hope then that's irresistible to
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  • Those around us.
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  • In the book of revelation, it says that "the believers on
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  • Earth overcome satan by the blood of the lamb and the word
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  • Of their testimony."
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  • Your god story, what god has done in your life,
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  • Is irrefutable.
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  • People can disagree with it, they can say they don't believe
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  • It, but it's your story,
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  • And therefore it can't be overcome or just set aside.
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  • All of us have the seeds of revival within us if we will
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  • Have the courage to take our god story with us.
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  • In matthew chapter 14, what i'm inviting you to is a broader
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  • Awareness of spiritual influences.
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  • Somehow we have accepted the preferred stance from a secular
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  • Culture with regard to us: they're--they'll--they're
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  • Content if we'll meet in our buildings and leave our
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  • Discussions here.
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  • If we'll gather in our churches and prattle on about whatever we
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  • Wanna prattle on about, but just leave it in the building, and we
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  • Leave the building, we zip it.
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  • We don't repeat it.
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  • We don't intend for it to influence our behavior.
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  • We're certainly not taking it into the corporate setting or
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  • The academic setting or the halls of the hospitals.
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  • There's been enormous pressure for that.
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  • And if you don't know, i'm here to remind you that that's a
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  • Strategy that came directly from the pit of hell.
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  • If you're not a christ follower across all the segments of your
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  • Life, 24/7, you're not a christ follower.
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  • Somebody told me this morning i was offensive.
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  • I wanna live up to that reputation.
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  • But learning to integrate our faith into our lives, my
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  • Observation is this: many of you are leaders of excellence in a
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  • Very diverse set of ways with expertise and knowledge and
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  • Confidence, and there are people who care about your opinion and
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  • Wait to hear your analysis and will follow your lead on a wide
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  • Variety of topics, and you've established your credibility
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  • With years of effective outcomes,
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  • Again, across a whole array of things.
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  • And yet when we talk about introducing our faith into those
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  • Same settings, we falter.
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  • We feel ill prepared or ill equipped or we're not
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  • Confident enough.
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  • It's not about our mastery.
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  • It's not that we have mastered god, it's that each and every
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  • One of us has a god story, and we wanna be identified with our
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  • Faith journey in all of the places where we have influence.
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  • We don't jump up on our desks and preach sermons and then
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  • Receive an offering.
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  • But we take our faith with us wherever we go.
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  • In the same way, if you're an advocate for a sports team or if
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  • You have a hobby, i'm sure you have preferences for the gear
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  • You use or the patterns that have brought you success, or if
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  • You've done it in an academic setting, you've got imaginations
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  • Of whose influences you think are most significant.
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  • Well, in the midst of all of those things, our advocacy for
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  • Jesus is the most defining characteristic of our lives.
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  • And we haven't been great at saying that.
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  • So we're changing: a whole new generation of leaders, a whole
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  • New courage, a whole new faith, so that our worldview becomes a
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  • Part of the fabric of the world in which we live again.
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  • That was true for decade upon decade upon decade.
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  • It shaped our universities, it shaped our legal system.
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  • It changed--it shaped our healthcare system and the values
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  • And the ethics that determined how our healthcare
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  • Was delivered.
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  • As we have removed our christian faith from the public square,
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  • All of those institutions have been diminished.
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  • We're not mad at anybody.
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  • We're just going back with a lot of jesus.
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  • Matthew chapter 14.
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  • You've got it in your notes: "during the fourth watch of the
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  • Night jesus went out to them."
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  • The disciples are on the lake of galilee in a boat, and jesus
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  • Went boatless.
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  • Says he went "walking on the lake" and we read that like
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  • It's normal.
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  • "when the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were
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  • Terrified," because they were smart men.
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  • "'it's a ghost,' they said, and they cried out in fear.
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  • But jesus immediately said to them: 'take courage!
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  • It is i.
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  • Don't be afraid.'"
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  • I think when we talk about spiritual things, one of the
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  • Natural, carnal--the reaction from our humanity is fear,
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  • 'cause we understand intuitively if there's a
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  • Spiritual realm that can enable you to walk on the water, we
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  • Understand we probably don't control that.
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  • I had a man who was a brilliant biblical scholar with a
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  • Wonderful education, who was a very kind mentor in my life,
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  • Very, very conservative individual.
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  • Very seldom--i mean, i--he didn't raise his voice, he was
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  • Just--not like me.
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  • But had a remarkable faith in god and the supernatural
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  • Engagement of god in our lives, and he said to me once, "allen,
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  • I think the miracles in our bibles were not jesus doing
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  • Something that we don't understand.
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  • I think he was operating in a part of creation that we don't
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  • Yet know about."
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  • Hm.
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  • The spiritual world is real, folks.
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  • Look at revelation 19.
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  • John has this vision of the end of the age and particularly of
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  • The throne room of god, and he saw--"i saw heaven standing
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  • Open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is
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  • Called faithful and true."
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  • Who's on the horse?
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  • Jesus.
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  • "and with justice he judges and makes war."
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  • Do you know jesus that way?
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  • "his eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns.
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  • He has a name written on him that
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  • No one knows but he himself.
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  • And he's dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is
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  • The word of god.
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  • The armies of heavy were-- heaven were following him,
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  • Riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white
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  • And clean.
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  • Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with
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  • Which to strike down the nations."
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  • The book of revelation is god's judgment upon the gentile
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  • Nations of the world.
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  • The jewish people have experienced
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  • The discipline of god.
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  • The book of revelation tells us about the impending judgment
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  • Upon the non-jewish nations that have had two millennia with the
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  • Opportunity of the gospel and have consistently rejected god.
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  • "'he will rule them with an iron scepter.'
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  • He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of
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  • God almighty.
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  • And on his robe and on his thigh he has the name written: king of
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  • Kings and lord of lords."
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  • We celebrate easter in a couple of weeks, the resurrection of
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  • Jesus of nazareth from the dead.
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  • He was tortured to death in public on a roman cross, while
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  • His enemies cheered and mocked him, while his friends wept and
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  • Hid in fear that they would be next.
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  • And god raised him back to life again.
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  • He ascended back to heaven, and the story of our bible is that
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  • He's returning to the earth, this time not in a vulnerable
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  • Package of an infant, but as a conquering king with the armies
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  • Of heaven.
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  • And we're living in that interim between his departure, his
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  • Ascension, and his return, the parousia.
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  • And we are his ambassadors during that interim.
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  • We are--the assignment is to lead with our faith.
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  • Jesus said, "if you deny me before men, i will deny you
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  • Before my father."
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  • You do know the book.
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  • So it's not out there like an option.
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  • It's not like, "well, pastor, i don't have to do that, you know,
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  • I don't speak very well."
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  • Yeah, moses tried that.
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  • Or "my background's really sketchy," yeah, that's what the
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  • Apostle paul said.
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  • You know, all the reasons we would give for why we've been
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  • Disqualified or we shouldn't have been addressed, and we've
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  • Been given this assignment.
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  • God through us is reconciling the world to himself, so we have
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  • To take our faith with us into the world.
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  • We have to lead with our faith.
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  • We have to be willing to be identified with our faith right
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  • Alongside whatever expertise or achievement or accomplishment.
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  • We're not hyphenated christians.
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  • We are christ followers whom god has given gifts and abilities,
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  • And they've been expressed in all of these ways in our lives.
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  • I don't know how well we've done that,
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  • But i believe we're changing.
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  • There's a whole new generation of spiritual leaders
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  • Coming forth.
  • 00:11:40.782 --> 00:11:42.117
  • You know, renewals, awakenings have very seldom come through
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  • The religious systems.
  • 00:11:44.285 --> 00:11:46.454
  • They've almost always begun on the periphery, on the fringes.
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  • John wesley, many of you know of the wesley brothers and the--
  • 00:11:50.792 --> 00:11:54.829
  • They became known as methodists because they had a method for
  • 00:11:54.829 --> 00:11:57.365
  • The revivals that they introduced, and john wesley
  • 00:11:57.365 --> 00:12:00.135
  • Frequently preached on horseback, far more often than
  • 00:12:00.135 --> 00:12:03.772
  • He ever preached in a pulpit.
  • 00:12:03.772 --> 00:12:06.241
  • And the spirit of god is moving in the earth today, and he's
  • 00:12:06.241 --> 00:12:08.543
  • Doing it in ways that we aren't as traditionally familiar with.
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  • When jesus ministered to the first century israel, it was the
  • 00:12:13.114 --> 00:12:17.819
  • People on the periphery that were most interested, the tax
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  • Collectors, the thieves, the prostitutes,
  • 00:12:20.388 --> 00:12:22.724
  • The ungodly, the wicked.
  • 00:12:22.724 --> 00:12:24.058
  • They were very interested in what jesus had to say.
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  • Tens of thousands of people thronged to him from a broad
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  • Area, but the religious leaders were threatened by him.
  • 00:12:30.431 --> 00:12:35.136
  • They were uncomfortable with him, they
  • 00:12:35.136 --> 00:12:36.471
  • Did their best to silence him.
  • 00:12:36.471 --> 00:12:37.806
  • When they couldn't silence him, they at least managed an arrest
  • 00:12:37.806 --> 00:12:40.775
  • Warrant and then hand him over to the romans and put political
  • 00:12:40.775 --> 00:12:43.044
  • Pressure on the romans to kill him.
  • 00:12:43.044 --> 00:12:45.914
  • Well, our world is not dissimilar to that today.
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  • I want to be amongst those who are early
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  • Adopters of what god is doing.
  • 00:12:50.785 --> 00:12:54.956
  • Allen: i have a childhood memory i wanna share with you.
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  • It was our kitchen table-- i've got two younger brothers--
  • 00:13:00.929 --> 00:13:04.132
  • Gathered around the table, and my parents were consistently,
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  • Persistently, inviting guests to dinner, you know, practicing
  • 00:13:07.302 --> 00:13:10.872
  • That notion of hospitality.
  • 00:13:10.872 --> 00:13:12.674
  • My brothers and i weren't always excited about it, but i realize
  • 00:13:12.674 --> 00:13:15.343
  • Now, we had a front row seat for expressions of the
  • 00:13:15.343 --> 00:13:18.379
  • Kingdom of god.
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  • We can still do the same.
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  • Imagine your kitchen table as an expression of god's love in
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  • This generation.
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  • God's moving in the earth.
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  • Let's join him.
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  • Announcer: hospitality doesn't have to be complicated.
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  • Sometimes it begins with inviting someone to your
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  • Allen: our world is changing at a speed and in a magnitude that
  • 00:14:00.421 --> 00:14:04.592
  • Is unprecedented in the history of human civilization.
  • 00:14:04.592 --> 00:14:08.730
  • We're having to process change and the availability of
  • 00:14:08.730 --> 00:14:11.032
  • Information at a rate that we haven't been--have ever seen
  • 00:14:11.032 --> 00:14:14.769
  • Before and it's gonna require a nimbleness of the church.
  • 00:14:14.769 --> 00:14:18.339
  • You see, the message we have never changes.
  • 00:14:18.339 --> 00:14:20.208
  • The truth of god doesn't change, but the containers have
  • 00:14:20.208 --> 00:14:22.744
  • To change.
  • 00:14:22.744 --> 00:14:24.078
  • They have to fit the hand of every generation.
  • 00:14:24.078 --> 00:14:26.714
  • There's things we see that are not encouraging.
  • 00:14:26.714 --> 00:14:28.783
  • Lawlessness is exploding around us.
  • 00:14:28.783 --> 00:14:30.752
  • Jesus told us it would in matthew 24.
  • 00:14:30.752 --> 00:14:33.488
  • He said when we got to the end of the age that the lawlessness
  • 00:14:33.488 --> 00:14:35.690
  • Would become so prevalent that the love of god in the hearts of
  • 00:14:35.690 --> 00:14:39.360
  • God's people would grow cold.
  • 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:42.430
  • The refusal to obey the law is now practiced so broadly that
  • 00:14:42.430 --> 00:14:46.501
  • It's embraced by major cities in america, even states.
  • 00:14:46.501 --> 00:14:49.904
  • We have federal judges--federal judges who ignore the opinions
  • 00:14:49.904 --> 00:14:53.107
  • Of the supreme court.
  • 00:14:53.107 --> 00:14:55.109
  • I give you those highlights 'cause if it's happening at
  • 00:14:55.109 --> 00:14:56.911
  • Those significant levels of authority and structure, i
  • 00:14:56.911 --> 00:15:00.281
  • Assure you it's happening at the local level.
  • 00:15:00.281 --> 00:15:05.153
  • Ethnic hatred.
  • 00:15:05.153 --> 00:15:06.487
  • Jesus said that would be a characteristic of the end of the
  • 00:15:06.487 --> 00:15:08.122
  • Age in that same prophetic presentation in matthew 24.
  • 00:15:08.122 --> 00:15:13.261
  • And we're living in a time when ethnic hatred is coached.
  • 00:15:13.261 --> 00:15:17.298
  • It's encouraged at the highest levels of academia.
  • 00:15:17.298 --> 00:15:21.035
  • Find the reasons why you have been offended and be aggrieved.
  • 00:15:21.035 --> 00:15:25.740
  • Ideas like cooperation are being dismantled around us.
  • 00:15:25.740 --> 00:15:29.177
  • Propaganda and opinion is rising to flood levels.
  • 00:15:29.177 --> 00:15:33.247
  • We used to just think it was the newspapers and the broadcast
  • 00:15:33.247 --> 00:15:35.917
  • Media that were filled with fake news.
  • 00:15:35.917 --> 00:15:38.319
  • Now we have this wonderful new emerging source of information
  • 00:15:38.319 --> 00:15:41.322
  • And communication called social media.
  • 00:15:41.322 --> 00:15:44.659
  • And you could hide in your basement with a keyboard and
  • 00:15:44.659 --> 00:15:48.396
  • Bless us with your opinions.
  • 00:15:48.396 --> 00:15:51.733
  • Truthfulness is being scorned.
  • 00:15:51.733 --> 00:15:54.402
  • Hard work and self-reliance seem rather antiquated these days.
  • 00:15:54.402 --> 00:15:58.840
  • They have succumbed to the invitation to live for the
  • 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:01.376
  • Moment and get all that you're entitled to.
  • 00:16:01.376 --> 00:16:05.413
  • Science, something that we've considered a bedrock component,
  • 00:16:05.413 --> 00:16:10.051
  • A process of rigorous observation of our world and the
  • 00:16:10.051 --> 00:16:13.554
  • Formulation of a hypothesis which can then be tested and
  • 00:16:13.554 --> 00:16:16.557
  • Lead us to a substantial theory, that is science.
  • 00:16:16.557 --> 00:16:19.427
  • Science is not a set of facts, it is a process.
  • 00:16:19.427 --> 00:16:24.632
  • Well, that process has been co-opted by political expediency
  • 00:16:24.632 --> 00:16:27.902
  • And financial gain.
  • 00:16:27.902 --> 00:16:30.304
  • But it's still wrapped in the holy shroud of science, and if
  • 00:16:30.304 --> 00:16:33.174
  • You question it, you're a denier.
  • 00:16:33.174 --> 00:16:37.011
  • Trust has crumbled, truth is trampled, truthfulness is seldom
  • 00:16:37.011 --> 00:16:40.982
  • Found, tragically, frequently, even in the church.
  • 00:16:40.982 --> 00:16:45.586
  • The education of our children, too long ignored, has been
  • 00:16:45.586 --> 00:16:49.957
  • Engulfed in relativism.
  • 00:16:49.957 --> 00:16:52.660
  • The uniqueness of the christian faith, american exceptionalism,
  • 00:16:52.660 --> 00:16:55.730
  • And civic responsibility are mostly absent in the preparation
  • 00:16:55.730 --> 00:16:59.500
  • Of the next generation of leaders.
  • 00:16:59.500 --> 00:17:02.670
  • And here's the awkward part of this, folks: we're responsible
  • 00:17:02.670 --> 00:17:05.940
  • For this failure.
  • 00:17:05.940 --> 00:17:08.009
  • We were busy with other things.
  • 00:17:08.009 --> 00:17:10.845
  • Well, our future, apart from the prophetic direction of scripture
  • 00:17:10.845 --> 00:17:14.449
  • Is not clear.
  • 00:17:14.449 --> 00:17:16.651
  • Too much change, too much uncertainty, too many
  • 00:17:16.651 --> 00:17:18.953
  • Powerful forces.
  • 00:17:18.953 --> 00:17:20.455
  • I think the determining factor has to do with the people
  • 00:17:20.455 --> 00:17:22.957
  • Of god.
  • 00:17:22.957 --> 00:17:24.325
  • They're always the determining factor in history.
  • 00:17:24.325 --> 00:17:26.627
  • The generation of former slaves of egypt, had they chosen to
  • 00:17:26.627 --> 00:17:30.364
  • Occupy the promised land, they could have.
  • 00:17:30.364 --> 00:17:33.734
  • But they declined the invitation of god, so they perished in
  • 00:17:33.734 --> 00:17:36.404
  • The wilderness.
  • 00:17:36.404 --> 00:17:38.206
  • I could take you through the biblical history and through the
  • 00:17:38.206 --> 00:17:41.209
  • History of the church of those generations of god's people that
  • 00:17:41.209 --> 00:17:43.678
  • Accept his invitations and, although they faced some
  • 00:17:43.678 --> 00:17:46.814
  • Challenges with that, they face the blessings of that and those
  • 00:17:46.814 --> 00:17:49.183
  • That decline them.
  • 00:17:49.183 --> 00:17:51.519
  • The question before our generation is which will we be?
  • 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:55.089
  • Will we awaken to holiness and purity and integrity and choose
  • 00:17:55.089 --> 00:17:58.392
  • Them as life goals?
  • 00:17:58.392 --> 00:18:00.695
  • Or will we still live like a secular culture and occasionally
  • 00:18:00.695 --> 00:18:03.531
  • Wrap ourselves in a robe of faith, and say, "jesus."
  • 00:18:03.531 --> 00:18:10.404
  • It's not a simple time. it's not an easy time.
  • 00:18:10.404 --> 00:18:13.608
  • We're being forced to make some rather difficult decisions, and
  • 00:18:13.608 --> 00:18:16.310
  • That will continue.
  • 00:18:16.310 --> 00:18:18.513
  • I've invited you and i'll continue to do so,
  • 00:18:18.513 --> 00:18:20.448
  • Let's decide to do the difficult things, to complete our course,
  • 00:18:20.448 --> 00:18:24.152
  • To see the gospel proclaimed fully, to see jesus's name
  • 00:18:24.152 --> 00:18:27.455
  • Exalted, to see his kingdom extended, and see his will done
  • 00:18:27.455 --> 00:18:30.024
  • On earth as it is in heaven.
  • 00:18:30.024 --> 00:18:32.160
  • Whether it's popular or not, whether it's celebrated or not,
  • 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:35.630
  • Whether it seems like the pathway to promotion or not.
  • 00:18:35.630 --> 00:18:38.132
  • I'll tell you the way to get at this, the degree to which it
  • 00:18:38.132 --> 00:18:40.334
  • Lives in your heart, to what extent is that the ambition you
  • 00:18:40.334 --> 00:18:42.837
  • Hold for your children and your grandchildren?
  • 00:18:42.837 --> 00:18:46.107
  • You have greater ambition for them in athletics, in academia,
  • 00:18:46.107 --> 00:18:49.210
  • In social circles.
  • 00:18:49.210 --> 00:18:51.646
  • What is the ambition of your life for those that you purport
  • 00:18:51.646 --> 00:18:54.815
  • To love the most?
  • 00:18:54.815 --> 00:18:56.951
  • That will help you understand what is predominant in your
  • 00:18:56.951 --> 00:18:59.554
  • Own heart.
  • 00:18:59.554 --> 00:19:02.390
  • I've highlighted some of the things that are negative, but
  • 00:19:02.390 --> 00:19:04.225
  • There's some remarkable things god is doing in the earth.
  • 00:19:04.225 --> 00:19:07.195
  • If you're not keeping a good news list, you're missing out.
  • 00:19:07.195 --> 00:19:10.565
  • It's essential, it's essential for me.
  • 00:19:10.565 --> 00:19:12.200
  • I like to say god is moving in the earth and people are always
  • 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:14.368
  • Asking me, "i don't know, what do you see?
  • 00:19:14.368 --> 00:19:17.705
  • I don't know how you could say that.
  • 00:19:17.705 --> 00:19:19.073
  • I don't see god moving."
  • 00:19:19.073 --> 00:19:20.408
  • Start keeping a good news list.
  • 00:19:20.408 --> 00:19:23.945
  • Start--well, you can start in your own personal arena and work
  • 00:19:23.945 --> 00:19:26.314
  • Out from there.
  • 00:19:26.314 --> 00:19:27.682
  • I brought you kind of a macro perspective.
  • 00:19:27.682 --> 00:19:29.250
  • Our borders are secure. that's good news.
  • 00:19:29.250 --> 00:19:32.053
  • We haven't been able to say that in more than a decade.
  • 00:19:32.053 --> 00:19:36.457
  • There have been billions of dollars of our tax dollars that
  • 00:19:36.457 --> 00:19:39.594
  • Have been being spent fraudulently and being stolen,
  • 00:19:39.594 --> 00:19:42.096
  • And it's been exposed and slowed.
  • 00:19:42.096 --> 00:19:44.932
  • It hasn't been stopped, but we at least have some sense that
  • 00:19:44.932 --> 00:19:47.802
  • Maybe something's fishy.
  • 00:19:47.802 --> 00:19:51.005
  • The largest audience in history heard the gospel presented at
  • 00:19:51.005 --> 00:19:54.575
  • Charlie kirk's memorial service.
  • 00:19:54.575 --> 00:19:59.880
  • Out of such a senseless tragedy, god brought something
  • 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:04.185
  • Truly remarkable.
  • 00:20:04.185 --> 00:20:05.519
  • Iran, the global sponsor of terror for more than 40 years,
  • 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:09.423
  • Has been humbled a bit.
  • 00:20:09.423 --> 00:20:10.758
  • The outcome is not fully accomplished, but hezbollah and
  • 00:20:10.758 --> 00:20:14.795
  • Hamas, proxy groups sponsored, funded, weapons provided
  • 00:20:14.795 --> 00:20:20.701
  • By iran,
  • 00:20:20.701 --> 00:20:22.770
  • They have forfeited most of their influence.
  • 00:20:22.770 --> 00:20:25.406
  • Those are wonderful things.
  • 00:20:25.406 --> 00:20:26.774
  • Tens of thousands of americans have died and suffered because
  • 00:20:26.774 --> 00:20:29.243
  • Of the hate and the violence and the murder propagated by iran.
  • 00:20:29.243 --> 00:20:35.783
  • Citizens of venezuela have experienced a breath of freedom.
  • 00:20:35.783 --> 00:20:39.553
  • There's much yet to be done, but there have been hundreds of
  • 00:20:39.553 --> 00:20:41.822
  • Pastors that have been in prison, that have been released,
  • 00:20:41.822 --> 00:20:43.724
  • And they'll be free this easter to celebrate.
  • 00:20:43.724 --> 00:20:46.594
  • God is moving in the earth.
  • 00:20:46.594 --> 00:20:50.331
  • The mutilation of our children in pursuit of trans insanity has
  • 00:20:50.331 --> 00:20:53.601
  • Been slowed.
  • 00:20:53.601 --> 00:20:55.369
  • We're still forming a conscience around that.
  • 00:20:55.369 --> 00:20:59.273
  • The us supreme court overturned roe v. wade,
  • 00:20:59.273 --> 00:21:01.709
  • Which had made abortion the law of the land.
  • 00:21:01.709 --> 00:21:05.513
  • It hasn't, in all fairness, it hasn't diminished the
  • 00:21:05.513 --> 00:21:08.582
  • Abortion rates.
  • 00:21:08.582 --> 00:21:10.451
  • That's a heart issue more than it's a political issue.
  • 00:21:10.451 --> 00:21:12.987
  • Gee, who would have thought of that?
  • 00:21:12.987 --> 00:21:15.656
  • Folks, our problems are not political, they're spiritual.
  • 00:21:15.656 --> 00:21:19.860
  • We have to have a change of heart.
  • 00:21:19.860 --> 00:21:24.198
  • You see, i believe we have a generational responsibility to
  • 00:21:24.198 --> 00:21:28.235
  • Tell of the goodness of god to those younger than ourselves.
  • 00:21:28.235 --> 00:21:33.140
  • Every one of us, this is where leading with your faith is so,
  • 00:21:33.140 --> 00:21:37.078
  • So important.
  • 00:21:37.078 --> 00:21:39.380
  • We've got to take the goodness of god.
  • 00:21:39.380 --> 00:21:41.248
  • You have to be aware of it.
  • 00:21:41.248 --> 00:21:42.583
  • You can't give away what you don't have, so you'll have to
  • 00:21:42.583 --> 00:21:44.585
  • Let your heart and your awareness and your mind be
  • 00:21:44.585 --> 00:21:46.687
  • Filled with the good things that god is doing, the blessings of
  • 00:21:46.687 --> 00:21:49.090
  • God that have come to your life.
  • 00:21:49.090 --> 00:21:50.658
  • Don't take credit for them.
  • 00:21:50.658 --> 00:21:51.992
  • Don't gather your--the generations of your family
  • 00:21:51.992 --> 00:21:54.562
  • Around you and tell them how brilliant you are.
  • 00:21:54.562 --> 00:21:57.765
  • They won't believe you anyway.
  • 00:21:57.765 --> 00:22:00.968
  • But share with them the goodness of god.
  • 00:22:00.968 --> 00:22:04.138
  • The grace of god, the mercy of god.
  • 00:22:04.138 --> 00:22:07.441
  • We're not the first generation to struggle with this.
  • 00:22:07.441 --> 00:22:09.777
  • This is a consistent theme of the bible from the opening
  • 00:22:09.777 --> 00:22:13.180
  • Chapters when god began to fashion a people until we get to
  • 00:22:13.180 --> 00:22:15.783
  • The concluding chapters in the books of the new testament.
  • 00:22:15.783 --> 00:22:18.719
  • In deuteronomy 4, here's moses's instruction to the israelites:
  • 00:22:18.719 --> 00:22:24.592
  • "only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you
  • 00:22:24.592 --> 00:22:27.228
  • Don't forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip
  • 00:22:27.228 --> 00:22:30.698
  • From your heart as long as you live.
  • 00:22:30.698 --> 00:22:33.033
  • Teach them to your children and to their children after them."
  • 00:22:33.033 --> 00:22:36.604
  • You know, i learned the principle of biblical studies in
  • 00:22:36.604 --> 00:22:39.540
  • Secular setting, honestly.
  • 00:22:39.540 --> 00:22:41.609
  • They said if the bible warns you against something, it's because
  • 00:22:41.609 --> 00:22:44.645
  • It was a problem.
  • 00:22:44.645 --> 00:22:46.814
  • And the example they used, i've never forgotten.
  • 00:22:46.814 --> 00:22:48.783
  • They said if the bible tells you what to do when your ox gores
  • 00:22:48.783 --> 00:22:51.552
  • Your neighbor, it's because somebody's oxen kept
  • 00:22:51.552 --> 00:22:54.789
  • Goring neighbors.
  • 00:22:54.789 --> 00:22:58.058
  • Well, if we hold that principle and you read this passage and it
  • 00:22:58.058 --> 00:23:01.495
  • Says don't forget the things your eyes are seeing and don't
  • 00:23:01.495 --> 00:23:03.798
  • Let them slip from your heart as long as you live, teach them to
  • 00:23:03.798 --> 00:23:06.133
  • Your children and to their children, why do you think
  • 00:23:06.133 --> 00:23:10.337
  • We're reminded?
  • 00:23:10.337 --> 00:23:12.273
  • Because we tend to forget.
  • 00:23:12.273 --> 00:23:14.875
  • "well, god's never helped me.
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  • God's never done anything for me."
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  • Same book, deuteronomy chapter 6, says: "these commandments i
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  • Give you today are to be upon your hearts.
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  • Impress them on your children.
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  • Talk about them when you sit at home, when you walk along the
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  • Road, when you lie down, and when you get up."
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  • That's everywhere you go with your kids, talk about
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  • This stuff.
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  • They'll roll their eyes.
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  • Keep talking.
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  • My life today is defined as much by my parents' determination for
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  • Faith when nobody was watching.
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  • I remember as a kid, you know, my brothers, i've got two
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  • Brothers, we'd be watching television and doing--you can
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  • Imagine three boys.
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  • One of us was always throwing the other one somewhere.
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  • My mom put a big jade plant in my room,
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  • And my brothers and i were having a discussion one day,
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  • And one of my brothers somehow got off balance and fell on that
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  • Jade plant.
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  • And my mother inquired about its well-being 'cause it, nobody
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  • Confessed, but three or four days later,
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  • It was not doing well.
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  • And i said, "well, i don't know.
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  • My brother sat on it."
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  • And my mom was only about this tall, but she looked at me and
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  • She said, "without any assistance, he just sat on it?"
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  • But you know what impressed me with my parents wasn't their
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  • Stellar church attendance.
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  • But when there wasn't anybody there, and my brothers and i
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  • Were doing whatever it was we did, they would sit down and
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  • Read their bibles.
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  • And i had enough friends and i knew enough families, i thought,
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  • You know, "that's weird."
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  • And then they would talk to us about it.
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  • They ran a small business.
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  • We had a veterinary clinic, and they would get all of us
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  • Together and we would pray when business was slow, we would
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  • Pray, "make pets sick all over the community, in jesus's name."
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • Allen: not quite like that.
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  • But they would integrate us in whatever the challenges were
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  • Before the family, and if they were praying about something,
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  • They'd have us pray about it.
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  • We weren't always overly enthusiastic.
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  • We would complain, and they had a bible study and they had a
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  • Small group in their home every week, and we didn't like that
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  • 'cause it displaced us, and we didn't want those knuckleheads
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  • Coming in our house 'cause, you know, when you do a small group,
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  • We tell you there's a beginning and an ending time,
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  • They didn't know about the ending time.
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  • But i watched that faith, and when it was time for me to begin
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  • To make some life decisions, i knew it was my decision.
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  • When i left home, i knew my christianity was no better than
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  • The authority under the roof where i've been living.
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  • And so i began to say i have to make a decision now.
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  • Am i gonna embrace that or i'm gonna do my own thing?
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  • And that momentum did more to shape the direction of my life
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  • Than any other single thing i can point to other than god's
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  • Grace and mercy.
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