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Allen Jackson - A God of Deliverance (Part 2)

April 13, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - A God of Deliverance (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - A God of Deliverance (Part 2) | April 13, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world people are searching
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  • Have heard the gospel otherwise.
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  • Together, we can stand firm in our faith and make god's truth
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  • Known, right here at home and around the earth wherever god
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  • Opens the door.
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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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  • Allen: it's not a simple time. it's not an easy time.
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  • We're being forced to make some rather difficult decisions, and
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  • That will continue.
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  • I've invited you and i'll continue to do so,
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  • Let's decide to do the difficult things, to complete our course,
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  • To see the gospel proclaimed fully, to see jesus's name
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  • Exalted, to see his kingdom extended, and to see his will
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  • Done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  • Whether it's popular or not, whether it's celebrated or not,
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  • Whether it seems like the pathway to promotion or not.
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  • I'll tell you the way to get at this, the degree to which it
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  • Lives in your heart, to what extent is that the ambition you
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  • Hold for your children and your grandchildren?
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  • You have greater ambition for them in athletics, in academia,
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  • In social circles.
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  • What is the ambition of your life for those that you purport
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  • To love the most?
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  • That will help you understand what is predominant in your
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  • Own heart.
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  • I've highlighted some of the things that are negative, but
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  • There's some remarkable things god is doing in the earth.
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  • If you're not keeping a good news list, you're missing out.
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  • It's essential, it's essential for me.
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  • I like to say god is moving in the earth, and people are always
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  • Asking me, "i don't know, what do you say?
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  • I don't know how you could say that.
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  • I don't see god moving."
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  • Start keeping a good news list.
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  • Start--well, you can start in your own personal arena and work
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  • Out from there.
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  • I brought you kind of a macro perspective.
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  • Our borders are secure.
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  • That's good news.
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  • We haven't been able to say that in more than a decade.
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  • There have been billions of dollars of our tax dollars that
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  • Have been being spent fraudulently and being stolen,
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  • And it's been exposed and slowed.
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  • It hadn't been stopped, but we at least have some sense that
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  • Maybe something's fishy.
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  • The largest audience in history heard the gospel presented at
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  • Charlie kirk's memorial service.
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  • Out of such a senseless tragedy, god brought something
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  • Truly remarkable.
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  • Iran, the global sponsor of terror for more than 40 years,
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  • Has been humbled a bit.
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  • The outcome is not fully accomplished, but hezbollah and
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  • Hamas, proxy groups, sponsored, funded, weapons provided
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  • By iran.
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  • They have forfeited most of their influence.
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  • Those are wonderful things.
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  • Tens of thousands of americans have died and suffered because
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  • Of the hate and the violence and the murder propagated by iran.
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  • Citizens of venezuela have experienced a breath of freedom.
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  • There's much yet to be done, but there have been hundreds of
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  • Pastors that have been in prison, that have been released,
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  • And they'll be free this easter to celebrate.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • The mutilation of our children in pursuit of trans insanity has
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  • Been slowed.
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  • We're still forming a conscience around that.
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  • The us supreme court overturned roe v. wade,
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  • Which had made abortion the law of the land.
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  • It hasn't, in all fairness, it hasn't diminished the
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  • Abortion rates.
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  • That's a heart issue more than it's a political issue.
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  • Gee, who would have thought of that?
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  • Folks, our problems are not political, they're spiritual.
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  • We have to have a change of heart.
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  • Technology is making things that were previously
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  • Impossible routine.
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  • You can be frightened by the emerging technology and all the
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  • Things it offers, or you can recognize an enormous
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  • Opportunity for the kingdom of god.
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  • All the technological things i see happening align up with
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  • What the scripture tells us was coming, we should just be
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  • Looking, goes, "oh, i've been expecting you."
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  • And as much as they have potential for evil or harm or
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  • Manipulation, they have opportunities for the extension
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  • Of the kingdom of god.
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  • Let's not hide from it, let's implement it.
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  • We can gather in a church in murfreesboro, tennessee, which
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  • Most people have to have practice and coaching just to
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  • Learn to pronounce,
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  • And we have people join us in azerbaijan and armenia
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  • And all over the globe.
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  • That was impossible just a few years ago.
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  • God is moving in the public square.
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  • Why does it matter?
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  • Because if you don't remember those points of deliverance in
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  • Your life and those expressions of the power and the grace and
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  • Mercy of god, then when you bump into a challenge, you are ill
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  • Prepared to have the confidence to say, "god can deliver me."
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  • You see, we experience god's help.
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  • Then when we're faced with a challenge, we act as if we've
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  • Never known god to intervene.
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  • Or we experience god's help and then we don't serve the lord
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  • With a heart of gratitude.
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  • Don't gobble up the blessings of god and stamp your feet like
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  • Petulant children and demand more.
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  • Every time you can acknowledge the goodness of god in your
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  • Life, god moving in the earth, whether it's personal or in a
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  • Broader way, you recalibrate one notch more fully towards
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  • The lord.
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  • "god, i want to align my heart with you more completely."
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  • You see, i believe we have a generational responsibility to
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  • Tell of the goodness of god to those younger than ourselves.
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  • Every one of us, this is where leading with your faith is so,
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  • So important.
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  • We've got to take the goodness of god.
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  • You have to be aware of it.
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  • You can't give away what you don't have, so you'll have to
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  • Let your heart and your awareness and your mind be
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  • Filled with the good things that god is doing, the blessings of
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  • God that have come to your life.
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  • Don't take credit for them.
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  • Don't gather your--the generations of your family
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  • Around you and tell them how brilliant you are.
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  • They won't believe you anyway.
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  • But share with them the goodness of god, the grace of god, the
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  • Mercy of god.
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  • We're not the first generation to struggle with this.
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  • This is a consistent theme of the bible from the opening
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  • Chapters when god began to fashion a people until we get to
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  • The concluding chapters in the books of the new testament.
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  • In deuteronomy 4, here's moses's instruction to the israelites:
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  • "only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you
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  • Don't forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip
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  • From your heart as long as you live.
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  • Teach them to your children and to their children after them."
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  • You know, i learned the principle of biblical studies in
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  • Secular setting, honestly.
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  • They said, "if the bible warns you against something, it's
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  • Because it was a problem."
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  • And the example they used, i've never forgotten.
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  • They said, "if the bible tells you what to do when your ox
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  • Gores your neighbor, it's because somebody's oxen kept
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  • Goring neighbors."
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  • Well, if we hold that principle and you read this passage and it
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  • Says, "don't forget the things your eyes are seeing and don't
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  • Let them slip from your heart as long as you live.
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  • Teach them to your children and to their children," why do you
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  • Think we're reminded?
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  • Because we tend to forget.
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  • "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,
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  • You know, my brothers, i've got two brothers, we'd be watching
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  • Television and doing the--you can 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.
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  • When business was slow, we would pray, "make pets sick all over
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  • The community, in jesus's name."
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  • 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'd 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 going to 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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  • You have enormous influence to lead with your faith.
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  • Do not let the people who are looking to you, whether they're
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  • Family or coworkers or neighbors, whoever, know your
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  • Enthusiasm for athletics or a profit or fishing or hunting
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  • Or--i'm not opposed to any of those things, but they're
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  • Secondary to our enthusiasm for the lord.
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  • If you have commitments in those other arenas and you make
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  • Exceptional efforts, if you never miss opening day of a
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  • Season or you grind your own flour or you grow your own
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  • Wheat or white sugar's never crossed the threshold of your
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  • Door or whatever the effort is that you have expended that has
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  • Defined your journey and you subject that, if you put jesus
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  • Below that, the biblical explanation of that is idolatry.
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  • It's not that those things are wrong, you can do all of those
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  • Things, but we lead with our faith.
  • 00:12:04.140 --> 00:12:07.710
  • It is the defining characteristic of our lives.
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  • And we tend to forget.
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  • What do we remember?
  • 00:12:16.852 --> 00:12:18.187
  • Well, the simplest part is we remember jesus.
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  • 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--
  • 00:12:28.164 --> 00:12:31.367
  • Gathered around the table, and my parents were consistently,
  • 00:12:31.367 --> 00:12:34.537
  • Persistently inviting guests to dinner, you know, practicing
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  • That notion of hospitality.
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  • My brothers and i weren't always excited about it, but i realize
  • 00:12:39.875 --> 00:12:42.578
  • Now we had a front row seat for expressions of the kingdom
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  • 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
  • 00:12:48.684 --> 00:12:51.821
  • This generation.
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  • God's moving in the earth.
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  • Let's join him.
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  • Female announcer: hospitality doesn't have to be complicated.
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  • Sometimes it begins with inviting someone to your
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  • Kitchen table.
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  • Allen: two little boys came to see me last night after service
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  • And they were waiting to speak to me.
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  • I got down on my knee and i said, "so
  • 00:13:32.394 --> 00:13:33.729
  • What did you learn in class tonight?"
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  • And they looked like they had no clue.
  • 00:13:35.064 --> 00:13:37.633
  • It was completely blank.
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  • And one of them looked at me and said, "jesus."
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  • I gave him a hug.
  • 00:13:47.343 --> 00:13:48.677
  • I said, "that's a really good answer.
  • 00:13:48.677 --> 00:13:51.213
  • That'll get you through when you're in the building."
  • 00:13:51.213 --> 00:13:53.949
  • In luke 22 in verse 19, jesus is having his last meal before his
  • 00:13:53.949 --> 00:13:58.420
  • Arrest, with his friends: "and he took bread and he gave
  • 00:13:58.420 --> 00:14:01.624
  • Thanks, and he said, 'this is my body given for you; do this in
  • 00:14:01.624 --> 00:14:05.194
  • Remembrance of me.'"
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  • We call it communion and we've made it a religious service and
  • 00:14:07.296 --> 00:14:10.566
  • We quibble about when to do it and how to do it and what color
  • 00:14:10.566 --> 00:14:13.102
  • The grape juice should be and if it should be fermented or not.
  • 00:14:13.102 --> 00:14:18.340
  • But we have forgotten in the midst of it, jesus.
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  • Folks, he's changed our lives.
  • 00:14:20.542 --> 00:14:23.746
  • What part of your life are you holding back
  • 00:14:23.746 --> 00:14:25.481
  • From him or hiding from him?
  • 00:14:25.481 --> 00:14:26.815
  • What do you think he needs from us?
  • 00:14:26.815 --> 00:14:29.785
  • Everything i've been willing to relinquish to jesus, he's
  • 00:14:29.785 --> 00:14:32.121
  • Made better.
  • 00:14:32.121 --> 00:14:34.156
  • He told us there was help provided in john 14.
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  • He said, "all this i've spoken while i was still with you.
  • 00:14:37.693 --> 00:14:39.795
  • But the counselor, the holy spirit, whom the father will
  • 00:14:39.795 --> 00:14:41.730
  • Send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of
  • 00:14:41.730 --> 00:14:44.133
  • Everything i've said to you.
  • 00:14:44.133 --> 00:14:45.901
  • Peace i leave with you; my peace i give you.
  • 00:14:45.901 --> 00:14:47.937
  • I don't give to you as the world gives.
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  • Don't let your hearts be troubled."
  • 00:14:49.872 --> 00:14:52.708
  • You know jesus said not to be troubled
  • 00:14:52.708 --> 00:14:54.043
  • By what's happening in the world?
  • 00:14:54.043 --> 00:14:55.377
  • How many of you are troubled?
  • 00:14:55.377 --> 00:14:57.179
  • Don't raise your hand.
  • 00:14:57.179 --> 00:14:59.581
  • You watch too much news; 15, 20 minutes a day is enough.
  • 00:14:59.581 --> 00:15:02.117
  • It's a loop.
  • 00:15:02.117 --> 00:15:04.353
  • It is, they just play the same film loop.
  • 00:15:04.353 --> 00:15:06.322
  • In fact, they play the same video clips day after day and
  • 00:15:06.322 --> 00:15:08.724
  • Just attach a new story to it.
  • 00:15:08.724 --> 00:15:13.429
  • "don't let your hearts be troubled."
  • 00:15:13.429 --> 00:15:14.830
  • He said, "i've sent help to you.
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  • I will help you."
  • 00:15:16.365 --> 00:15:18.734
  • And then he gave us something to look forward to 'cause you need
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  • Something in front of you to help you endure, to persevere,
  • 00:15:21.203 --> 00:15:24.440
  • To overcome.
  • 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:25.774
  • You've learned to use vacations in that way, but there's
  • 00:15:25.774 --> 00:15:28.110
  • Something far more profound than a couple of days off work.
  • 00:15:28.110 --> 00:15:32.781
  • The king is coming back.
  • 00:15:32.781 --> 00:15:35.317
  • And he's coming back to reign on this earth in righteousness.
  • 00:15:35.317 --> 00:15:41.323
  • And if you don't understand that, you won't have the
  • 00:15:41.323 --> 00:15:43.892
  • Enthusiasm you need to honor him.
  • 00:15:43.892 --> 00:15:46.562
  • This present world order will crumble.
  • 00:15:46.562 --> 00:15:48.530
  • It will collapse.
  • 00:15:48.530 --> 00:15:49.999
  • Some of you are professionals on predicting how and when it's
  • 00:15:49.999 --> 00:15:52.835
  • Going to collapse.
  • 00:15:52.835 --> 00:15:54.203
  • You're right.
  • 00:15:54.203 --> 00:15:56.605
  • But the good news is with the collapse of this present world
  • 00:15:56.605 --> 00:15:59.241
  • Order, our king steps back into time.
  • 00:15:59.241 --> 00:16:02.544
  • It's in your notes.
  • 00:16:02.544 --> 00:16:04.246
  • 2 thessalonians chapter 2: "we request you, brethren, with
  • 00:16:04.246 --> 00:16:09.885
  • Regard to the coming of our lord jesus christ and our gathering
  • 00:16:09.885 --> 00:16:12.921
  • Together of him, that you not be quickly shaken from your
  • 00:16:12.921 --> 00:16:16.725
  • Composure or to be disturbed either by a spirit or a message
  • 00:16:16.725 --> 00:16:21.130
  • Or a letter."
  • 00:16:21.130 --> 00:16:22.765
  • There's been manipulators and deceivers on this topic for
  • 00:16:22.765 --> 00:16:25.467
  • Two millennia.
  • 00:16:25.467 --> 00:16:28.037
  • And the coaching of scripture is not to be bothered, don't lose
  • 00:16:28.037 --> 00:16:31.206
  • Your composure.
  • 00:16:31.206 --> 00:16:32.875
  • "let no one in any way deceive you."
  • 00:16:32.875 --> 00:16:34.610
  • Can we use our--we--you've got a principle of biblical
  • 00:16:34.610 --> 00:16:36.879
  • Interpretation now.
  • 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:38.480
  • Remember the ox and the goring the neighbor thing?
  • 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:41.483
  • So when paul writes, "let's no one's deceive you," what do you
  • 00:16:41.483 --> 00:16:44.453
  • Know will be prevalent?
  • 00:16:44.453 --> 00:16:46.989
  • Deceiving people.
  • 00:16:46.989 --> 00:16:50.859
  • "well, i don't like that."
  • 00:16:50.859 --> 00:16:53.529
  • Duly noted, but you've been warned.
  • 00:16:53.529 --> 00:16:57.199
  • You know, we have a track record, those of us that follow
  • 00:16:57.199 --> 00:16:59.334
  • Jesus, of not listening.
  • 00:16:59.334 --> 00:17:02.137
  • Oh, come on.
  • 00:17:02.137 --> 00:17:04.173
  • Jesus kept saying to his closest friends, "when we get to
  • 00:17:04.173 --> 00:17:06.275
  • Jerusalem, i'm gonna be betrayed, arrested, beaten,
  • 00:17:06.275 --> 00:17:09.211
  • Crucified, buried, but i'll be back."
  • 00:17:09.211 --> 00:17:12.815
  • And when they came to arrest him, they completely
  • 00:17:12.815 --> 00:17:14.416
  • Lost their minds: "what's going on?
  • 00:17:14.416 --> 00:17:15.751
  • We didn't know this was happening.
  • 00:17:15.751 --> 00:17:17.086
  • What are they doing?"
  • 00:17:17.086 --> 00:17:19.154
  • He's told them a dozen times.
  • 00:17:19.154 --> 00:17:22.257
  • And we see the crumbling of truth
  • 00:17:22.257 --> 00:17:23.992
  • And the rise of deception, we lose it.
  • 00:17:23.992 --> 00:17:25.327
  • "what's going on?"
  • 00:17:25.327 --> 00:17:27.563
  • Well, wait a minute, jesus told us.
  • 00:17:27.563 --> 00:17:31.133
  • "let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come
  • 00:17:31.133 --> 00:17:33.936
  • Unless--" now we're going to get some timeline issues.
  • 00:17:33.936 --> 00:17:37.372
  • "apostasy comes first."
  • 00:17:37.372 --> 00:17:40.175
  • Apostasy means a falling away, a rejection of orthodoxy.
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  • That we won't be bound by the opinion of scripture any longer.
  • 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:47.216
  • Oh, we'll have a form of religion, we won't deny our
  • 00:17:47.216 --> 00:17:49.218
  • Religion, we just don't--we won't abide by the principles
  • 00:17:49.218 --> 00:17:51.920
  • Of scripture.
  • 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:54.423
  • "and the man of lawlessness is revealed," the antichrist.
  • 00:17:54.423 --> 00:17:59.328
  • "the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above
  • 00:17:59.328 --> 00:18:02.231
  • Every so-called god and object of worship, so that he takes his
  • 00:18:02.231 --> 00:18:05.634
  • Seat in the temple of god, displaying himself as being god.
  • 00:18:05.634 --> 00:18:09.304
  • Do you not remember--" no, not really, "that while i was still
  • 00:18:09.304 --> 00:18:13.775
  • With you, i was telling you these things?"
  • 00:18:13.775 --> 00:18:15.511
  • So we've got some keys now about jesus's return.
  • 00:18:15.511 --> 00:18:18.747
  • You should catalog them.
  • 00:18:18.747 --> 00:18:20.115
  • There's three warnings: don't be easily unsettled, don't be
  • 00:18:20.115 --> 00:18:21.984
  • Quickly shaken from your composure, don't be
  • 00:18:21.984 --> 00:18:24.419
  • Easily alarmed.
  • 00:18:24.419 --> 00:18:25.787
  • Don't be disturbed by a wrong spirit.
  • 00:18:25.787 --> 00:18:28.390
  • You'll hear people with wrong spirits.
  • 00:18:28.390 --> 00:18:31.293
  • They say some knuckle-headed things.
  • 00:18:31.293 --> 00:18:32.661
  • The jewish people today are not the jewish people of the bible.
  • 00:18:32.661 --> 00:18:37.699
  • "well, how did you arrive at that conclusion?"
  • 00:18:37.699 --> 00:18:39.101
  • What people group do you think is the same?
  • 00:18:39.101 --> 00:18:44.840
  • Don't let anyone deceive you.
  • 00:18:44.840 --> 00:18:46.175
  • Deception will grow and increase.
  • 00:18:46.175 --> 00:18:48.076
  • You'll need to know the truth.
  • 00:18:48.076 --> 00:18:49.411
  • If you're not--if you aren't consistently, systematically
  • 00:18:49.411 --> 00:18:52.414
  • Reading your bible, you have no way of standing against
  • 00:18:52.414 --> 00:18:54.516
  • The deception.
  • 00:18:54.516 --> 00:18:56.518
  • You can't listen to enough sermons to protect you.
  • 00:18:56.518 --> 00:18:59.621
  • And then we're given four reminders regarding
  • 00:18:59.621 --> 00:19:01.256
  • The antichrist.
  • 00:19:01.256 --> 00:19:03.525
  • That he'll be a person of rebellion
  • 00:19:03.525 --> 00:19:06.695
  • And the great apostasy will occur.
  • 00:19:06.695 --> 00:19:08.363
  • I've never, in my lifetime, i've never seen such rapid apostasy
  • 00:19:08.363 --> 00:19:11.967
  • Within the church.
  • 00:19:11.967 --> 00:19:13.302
  • We have to publicly talk these days about a false church
  • 00:19:13.302 --> 00:19:16.405
  • Because we have buildings and architecture and signs where
  • 00:19:16.405 --> 00:19:18.807
  • They identify as religious establishments, but they have
  • 00:19:18.807 --> 00:19:22.110
  • Jettisoned the authority of scripture.
  • 00:19:22.110 --> 00:19:26.448
  • There's no kind way to describe that, other than it's false.
  • 00:19:26.448 --> 00:19:30.852
  • God defined marriage.
  • 00:19:30.852 --> 00:19:32.654
  • God created us male and female.
  • 00:19:32.654 --> 00:19:35.290
  • Those aren't our options.
  • 00:19:35.290 --> 00:19:36.625
  • Those aren't political conversations.
  • 00:19:36.625 --> 00:19:38.093
  • Those are biblical principles that we're to give expression to
  • 00:19:38.093 --> 00:19:42.864
  • In the earth.
  • 00:19:42.864 --> 00:19:44.833
  • And people under the guise of church and christianity have
  • 00:19:44.833 --> 00:19:48.870
  • Rejected those principles.
  • 00:19:48.870 --> 00:19:50.239
  • We don't have that option.
  • 00:19:50.239 --> 00:19:54.009
  • He said, "the man of lawlessness will be revealed."
  • 00:19:54.009 --> 00:19:56.144
  • There'll be a revelation.
  • 00:19:56.144 --> 00:19:57.512
  • You don't have to be panicked.
  • 00:19:57.512 --> 00:19:59.414
  • It will become--if you know the truth of god, it will become
  • 00:19:59.414 --> 00:20:02.351
  • Apparent when you need to see it.
  • 00:20:02.351 --> 00:20:05.821
  • But you can't desperately try not to notice.
  • 00:20:05.821 --> 00:20:11.260
  • You can hide.
  • 00:20:11.260 --> 00:20:12.894
  • You can hide in your shopping and your entertainment.
  • 00:20:12.894 --> 00:20:15.063
  • That's the warning jesus gave us.
  • 00:20:15.063 --> 00:20:16.565
  • He said, "but in the day of the son of man, when i return to the
  • 00:20:16.565 --> 00:20:20.435
  • Earth," he said, "it'll be a lot like the days of noah and lot."
  • 00:20:20.435 --> 00:20:24.439
  • Noah's boat was not crowded with people, just animals
  • 00:20:24.439 --> 00:20:30.112
  • 'cause the people couldn't be bothered, they had no
  • 00:20:30.112 --> 00:20:32.147
  • Situational awareness.
  • 00:20:32.147 --> 00:20:33.815
  • Lot did not lead a parade out of sodom and gomorrah.
  • 00:20:33.815 --> 00:20:38.053
  • Just he and some of his immediate family.
  • 00:20:38.053 --> 00:20:41.757
  • And jesus said it will be a lot like that.
  • 00:20:41.757 --> 00:20:45.460
  • We'll have to be paying attention, we'll have to be
  • 00:20:45.460 --> 00:20:48.764
  • Aware or you will miss what god is doing.
  • 00:20:48.764 --> 00:20:53.235
  • How will you know him?
  • 00:20:53.235 --> 00:20:54.603
  • Well, he'll oppose and exalt himself above everything that's
  • 00:20:54.603 --> 00:20:56.905
  • Called god.
  • 00:20:56.905 --> 00:20:58.940
  • Think of the boundaries that were in our
  • 00:20:58.940 --> 00:21:00.275
  • Lives just a few decades ago.
  • 00:21:00.275 --> 00:21:01.610
  • Think of the boundaries that would have defined
  • 00:21:01.610 --> 00:21:02.944
  • Your grandparents.
  • 00:21:02.944 --> 00:21:05.314
  • The place they made for faith, whether they were people of
  • 00:21:05.314 --> 00:21:07.215
  • Great faith or not, they had a whole different set of
  • 00:21:07.215 --> 00:21:09.151
  • Boundaries around their faith.
  • 00:21:09.151 --> 00:21:11.620
  • We have deconstructed almost every one of those.
  • 00:21:11.620 --> 00:21:13.488
  • We used to protect our calendars so people could go to church.
  • 00:21:13.488 --> 00:21:18.827
  • I know that seems laughable today.
  • 00:21:18.827 --> 00:21:20.262
  • I mean, it's like comical, the christian influence was ever
  • 00:21:20.262 --> 00:21:23.098
  • That deep in our culture, but there were times in our calendar
  • 00:21:23.098 --> 00:21:25.767
  • That were just understood that's church time,
  • 00:21:25.767 --> 00:21:27.135
  • So you don't program against them.
  • 00:21:27.135 --> 00:21:28.470
  • We even closed stores.
  • 00:21:28.470 --> 00:21:31.873
  • I mean, it seems--again, it feels so quaint at this point.
  • 00:21:31.873 --> 00:21:36.111
  • But we've lost almost all of the boundaries of that.
  • 00:21:36.111 --> 00:21:39.014
  • There's a spirit that's been loosed in the earth that opposes
  • 00:21:39.014 --> 00:21:43.885
  • Almost everything that's called godly.
  • 00:21:43.885 --> 00:21:46.955
  • If you promote yourself in the most ungodly, perverse way,
  • 00:21:46.955 --> 00:21:51.193
  • You're called courageous.
  • 00:21:51.193 --> 00:21:53.829
  • And if you yield to biblical principles of purity and
  • 00:21:53.829 --> 00:21:57.265
  • Chastity and holiness, you're mocked.
  • 00:21:57.265 --> 00:22:01.737
  • You don't need me to tell you that, you know it's true, that's
  • 00:22:01.737 --> 00:22:03.705
  • Why you're reluctant to lead with your faith.
  • 00:22:03.705 --> 00:22:07.676
  • We're watching these things unfold before us.
  • 00:22:07.676 --> 00:22:10.579
  • It will come to the point it says that the antichrist will
  • 00:22:10.579 --> 00:22:12.581
  • Take his seat in the temple of god.
  • 00:22:12.581 --> 00:22:16.017
  • We'll talk more about that.
  • 00:22:16.017 --> 00:22:19.454
  • Ooh, i'm out of time.
  • 00:22:19.454 --> 00:22:25.394
  • Well, i'll leave you with this.
  • 00:22:25.394 --> 00:22:27.462
  • One of the great--the leading with your faith begins in
  • 00:22:27.462 --> 00:22:30.332
  • Your circles.
  • 00:22:30.332 --> 00:22:32.267
  • That's why you need in a community.
  • 00:22:32.267 --> 00:22:35.404
  • It's why a private salvation and a personal salvation alone
  • 00:22:35.404 --> 00:22:38.607
  • Is unsustainable.
  • 00:22:38.607 --> 00:22:39.975
  • We need one another to help us retain the knowledge of god.
  • 00:22:39.975 --> 00:22:42.544
  • Look at jude 1: "though you already know all of this, i
  • 00:22:42.544 --> 00:22:45.647
  • Wanna remind you that the lord delivered his people out of
  • 00:22:45.647 --> 00:22:49.885
  • Egypt, but later destroyed those who didn't believe."
  • 00:22:49.885 --> 00:22:53.388
  • A viable, legitimate experience with god does not secure that
  • 00:22:53.388 --> 00:23:02.731
  • You finish well.
  • 00:23:02.731 --> 00:23:05.200
  • We need one another.
  • 00:23:05.200 --> 00:23:07.569
  • We need the reminder, we need the accountability.
  • 00:23:07.569 --> 00:23:10.372
  • We need the encouragement.
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  • All of those things matter.
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  • The knowledge of god in community is a profound thing.
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  • You can be a light in your office.
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  • You can be a voice for truth in academia.
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  • You say, "well, it's difficult."
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  • Yeah, i understand.
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  • "they tell me not to do it."
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  • Yeah, i got that too.
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  • Again, i'm not suggesting you preach from your desk.
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  • Just bringing jesus to your holiday table isn't gonna be
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  • Easy 'cause you got some fruits and nuts in your family.
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  • Every family does.
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  • People that aren't living by godly principles, and they want
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  • You to treat them with all the respect and dignity that comes
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  • With living by godly principles.
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  • And we're gonna have to have the courage--
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  • You don't have to be angry or belligerent, but we're gonna
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  • Have to have the willingness to tell the truth, otherwise you
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  • Are giving license to everybody else that gathers with you at
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  • Your holiday tables to be as ungodly as the others.
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  • Let's celebrate jesus.
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  • Let's not surrender the knowledge of god.
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  • Let's lead with our faith.
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  • God is in the transformation business.
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  • He's moving in the earth.
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  • I wanna go with him.
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  • I wanna be a part of that.
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  • I brought you a prayer.
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  • If you'll stand with me, we'll pray it together.
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  • Folks, it's such an exciting time to serve the lord.
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  • You know, you read the book of acts or i do, and i think, oh,
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  • Can you imagine being there on the day of pentecost when
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  • Peter preached.
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  • I mean, that would have been cool.
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  • Thousands of people raising their hand, saying, "i wanna be
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  • Baptized, in jerusalem, in the name of jesus."
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  • I'm like, "yes!"
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  • You know how long it would take to baptize 3000 people?
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  • I mean, i think it's a legitimate assumption that the
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  • Apostles were doing the baptisms.
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  • So you got 11, 12 of them doing baptisms for 3000 people.
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  • Oh, it's a long service.
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  • But i suppose your enthusiasm might overcome it, but it's just
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  • A few days later, now they're arresting them.
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  • I think, "well, you know, i didn't really want to go along
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  • For that part."
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  • God's moving in the earth.
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  • We'll see him do things we've never imagined.
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  • And we'll bump into some opposition we didn't expect.
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  • God is faithful. i brought you a prayer.
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  • Let's read it together.
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  • "heavenly father, give us understanding hearts to discern
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  • The times and a boldness to stand in your truth.
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  • Forgive us of our sins as we forgive those who have sinned
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  • Against us.
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  • Holy spirit, grant us a revelation of jesus beyond any
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  • We have known, that we might walk in the fullness of
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  • His provision.
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  • Deliver us from evil.
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  • Lead us not into temptation.
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  • We offer ourselves as living sacrifices that the gospel of
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  • The kingdom might be proclaimed throughout the earth.
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  • May your glory be made evident throughout the earth.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, i've often said that what happens in the white
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  • House is not more important than what happens in your house.
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  • I have an assignment, if you'll accept it.
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  • Imagine your kitchen table as an expression of the love of god to
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  • Our generation.
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  • Let's start to practice hospitality from the inside out,
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  • From our kitchen table to our neighbors, our friends.
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  • God will meet us in that place as we take those simple steps of
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  • Obedience, honor him at our kitchen table, and we can join
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  • With what god is doing in the earth.
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  • Now, that is an opportunity.
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  • Announcer: some of life's most meaningful moments happen around
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  • A kitchen table.
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  • That's where stories are shared and faith is passed from one
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  • Generation to the next.
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  • To help you welcome others for a meal, we've created a tools for
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  • Favorite recipes, and some simple tips you can use to help
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  • Your guests feel at home.
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  • ♪♪♪
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