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Allen Jackson - A God Designed Future (Part 2)

August 6, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - A God Designed Future (Part 2)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - A God Designed Future (Part 2) | August 6, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i sat down recently with my father to do
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  • A podcast for my "culture & christianity" podcast, and it
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  • Was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, we--it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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  • As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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  • Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about
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  • His experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents's life, ultimately
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  • My family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing the
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  • Power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis to
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  • Give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face.
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  • The spirit of god within us to help us, guide us, and direct
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  • Us, that's invaluable and these books will help you understand.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: the line i've often used and this bears repeating is that
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  • Truth divorced from experience must always remain a theory,
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  • Remain in the realm of a doubt.
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  • You have to combine truth with experience and when you do that,
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  • Then your experience portfolio grows.
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  • James 2 and verse 26 says: "the body without the spirit is dead,
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  • So faith without deeds is dead."
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  • Our faith is not a theoretical conversation.
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  • It's not a series of bible studies.
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  • It's a series of life experiences evaluated against
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  • The truth of scripture.
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  • And then we course correct so that the promises of scripture
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  • Begin to fulfill our experiences.
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  • And if we're not getting the outcomes defined in scripture,
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  • There are course adjustments to be made.
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  • There's a god and he's not us.
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  • For instance, you can believe that marriage exists.
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  • We can agree it's an institution.
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  • It's recognized by the civil authorities.
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  • It's a biblical concept, all of those things we could agree on,
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  • But until you choose to involve yourself, it's just an idea.
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  • There is a huge gap between the concept and the experience,
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  • I promise.
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  • You may believe that exercise is good for you.
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  • You could spout data, show me studies, cite experts, phds,
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  • Physicians, all sorts of scientific fact, but until your
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  • Behavior matches your understanding, you get
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  • No benefit.
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  • I studied in multiple academic settings with some people who
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  • Had spent their entire lives studying scripture but didn't
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  • Believe it to be true.
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  • And the benefit in there, so they were scholars of the
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  • First order.
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  • But the benefits did not come to them.
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  • Actions in our lives release the impact of god's promises.
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  • In fact, the outcome is disproportionate typically to
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  • Our investment.
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  • Forgiving someone else for the minor offenses against me, do
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  • Not equate the forgiveness that god extends to me.
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  • He welcomes me into his eternal kingdom.
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  • And i'm just mad because somebody cut me off in traffic
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  • On campus.
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  • Now, to experience the promises of god, the bible tells us that
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  • There is a double trigger, that we have to have
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  • Dual authentication.
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  • They've introduced that little jewel in my world.
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  • If you're trying to access something on our it system,
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  • We have to have dual authentication.
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  • I'm thinking if i say this is allen that should get me access,
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  • But au contraire, mon ami.
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  • There is more required.
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  • And i'm sure it's intended to grow patience in my life, and
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  • Faith and patience are the two things that god says are
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  • Required of you and me.
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  • Now, i don't like that.
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  • I'm on the record with you.
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  • It's not my idea.
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  • I'm not making the news.
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  • I'm just reporting it.
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  • If you're going to receive god's promises, you and i will have to
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  • Decide to cultivate faith and patience.
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  • I can give you examples.
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  • I can support it from scripture.
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  • Look at hebrews 6, says: "we don't want you to become lazy,
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  • But to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what
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  • Has been promised."
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  • How do you inherit the promise?
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  • How do you make the promise as a part of your experience?
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  • What are the necessary components?
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  • Faith.
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  • Faith is believing there is a god, and then ordering your life
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  • To respond to him as if that reality is a truth.
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  • We will change our behaviors based on the belief that there
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  • Is a god.
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  • Faith is about activity, it's about action, it's about
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  • Behavior, it's about thoughts.
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  • And it says they inherited the promises by faith, by acting
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  • Like there's a god, and by patience.
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  • See, i can have faith for 10 seconds.
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  • I believe, "but i didn't get my answer," and then i start
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  • To question.
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  • Look at 2 timothy 3, paul's writing to timothy, a young man
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  • He's mentoring, and he said, "you know all about my teaching,
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  • My way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, love
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  • And endurance."
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  • If you and i are going to allow the promises of god to shape our
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  • Future, we're going to have to decide to cultivate,
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  • To cooperate with the formation of faith and patience.
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  • Isn't that good news?
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  • And i thank you for that overwhelming response.
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  • Why?
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  • Well, i don't know that the bible ever gives us
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  • A full explanation.
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  • I don't know why abraham had to wait for the fulfillment of the
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  • Promise of isaac.
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  • I don't know why god sent samuel to david's father's home to
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  • Anoint david from all of his brothers to be king of israel.
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  • And then david had to hide in the wilderness like a fugitive
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  • For a decade.
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  • I don't know why daniel lived his whole life as a slave in
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  • Babylon, with physical suffering and torment and antagonists
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  • Around him, but i do know that god said he was highly valued,
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  • Highly esteemed in heaven.
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  • I don't know why the apostle paul faced opposition and riots
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  • And imprisonment and physical suffering when he preached
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  • The gospels.
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  • I mean, i can provide you some explanations in terms of
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  • Spiritual conflict and adversaries to the purposes of
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  • God, but again, if i were writing the narrative, it'd be
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  • More fun to write it without that.
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  • But i'm telling you that the revelation we're given is that
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  • If you and i are gonna have the promises of god describe our
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  • Journey through time, we're gonna have to be willing to
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  • Latch on to these notions of faith and patience and say, "i'm
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  • Gonna build those into my life."
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  • There'll be quicker ways to fulfillment than honoring god.
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  • That's what we call temptation.
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  • Temptation promises a satisfaction, a payoff, of
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  • Pleasure or contentment or advantage or opportunity.
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  • But it can't fulfill it, it can't sustain it.
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  • There may be a momentary benefit, but it's
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  • Not sustainable.
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  • That's how we find ourselves with addictions and brokenness.
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  • But god said, if we will choose a pathway of faith, obedience--
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  • Of expressions of obedience and patience, that his promises will
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  • Define our future.
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  • That's amazing.
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  • I want to take the balance of our time.
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  • I'm gonna--there's a lot of discussion these days about the
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  • End of the world and the end of the age and the return
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  • Of the lord.
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  • I'm okay with that and i think there's some biblical
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  • Evidence to point us--we're certainly closer to that than we
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  • Are at the beginning.
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  • But i'd like to walk this idea out of promises and experiences
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  • And fulfillment as they're shown to us in the book of revelation.
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  • We can do it pretty quickly.
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  • You've got all the notes.
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  • The book of revelation is the endgame promise.
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  • It's the promise that when jesus comes back, he's gonna undo
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  • A lot of things that have been done.
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  • It's like a whole new sheriff, a whole new authority, that this
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  • Present world age will come to a conclusion and that jesus will
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  • Rule and reign on the earth in rightness, with true justice.
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  • That's the promise.
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  • And he's gonna--he's gonna use us, we're gonna
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  • Have assignments.
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  • I don't understand it to be like this endless church service.
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  • Like it's beyond the scope of this session, but i don't
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  • Understand that that whole opening of jesus's return and
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  • The millennial reign, all of those things, that's not all
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  • About happy clappy times.
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  • His will will have to be enforced.
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  • I'm a little off topic.
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  • But the book of revelation is this endgame promise.
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  • Revelation 21:7 says: "he who overcomes will inherit this.
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  • I'll be his god and he'll be my son."
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  • The key to understanding the book of revelation, i believe,
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  • Is recognizing the role of being an overcomer.
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  • There are no promises unless you're willing to overcome.
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  • Isn't that happy news?
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  • Romans chapter 12, and verse 21 says: "don't be overcome by
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  • Evil, but overcome evil with good."
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  • It's a necessary action.
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  • You have to be an overcomer.
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  • Can we establish that if you're a christ follower, you are
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  • Expected to overcome evil?
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  • Not to overlook it, not to avoid it; to overcome it.
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  • But it doesn't say we're gonna overcome it with anger or
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  • Bitterness or violence or hatred.
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  • It says we're gonna overcome evil with good.
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  • When we see evil express something against the will of
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  • God, it didn't say we're gonna overcome evil with kindness.
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  • It didn't say we're going to overcome evil with passivity.
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  • We're gonna overcome evil by asserting what's good.
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  • Well, that idea is not good, that idea is evil.
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  • And i'm gonna stand up for the good.
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  • But the presupposition, the requirement, is that if we're
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  • Going to be christ followers, we have to overcome evil.
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  • "well, i don't like that."
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  • Duly noted, now let's go do it.
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  • Allen: hey, i sat down with my father recently, did a podcast.
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  • He told the story of how he came to faith, how god transformed
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  • Our family.
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  • They started a home bible study, all the way up to the beginning
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  • Of this church that i've served now for decades.
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  • As i listened, the heart of it was the work of the holy spirit
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  • In his life and through his life.
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  • I asked him to do a book around the topic, and we have it, so
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  • That you can invite the spirit of god to be the dynamic
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  • Presence of the power of god to bring change and life and hope,
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  • No matter what the circumstances.
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  • You'll enjoy the book.
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  • Allen: there's a second part of this promise, and it's
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  • Dependent--in the book of revelation.
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  • It's dependent upon our ability to follow direction and to
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  • Be obedient.
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  • The phrase that is used over and over is, "he who has an ear, let
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  • Him hear."
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  • We have to be listening, and we have to be willing to
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  • Follow direction.
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  • If you're not listening, you won't hear.
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  • You can be present and not be listening.
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  • Wives, do not look at your husbands.
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  • You weren't listening, you looked at him anyway.
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  • Now, many of you know you can be present and not be listening.
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  • So what we want to learn to do is present ourselves to the lord
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  • As men and women with open hearts who are listening.
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  • We are open to input.
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  • We would like direction.
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  • And then we've got to choose obedience.
  • 00:12:49.451 --> 00:12:51.587
  • That's that little phrase, "he who has an ear, let him hear."
  • 00:12:51.587 --> 00:12:55.157
  • I gave you a collection of seven promises to seven churches.
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  • They're in your notes.
  • 00:12:58.127 --> 00:12:59.495
  • Revelation 2:7: "he who has an ear, let him hear what the
  • 00:12:59.495 --> 00:13:02.064
  • Spirit says to the churches.
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  • To him who overcomes."
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  • Same chapter, verse 11, another church: "he who has an ear, let
  • 00:13:06.802 --> 00:13:09.171
  • Him hear what the spirit says to the churches.
  • 00:13:09.171 --> 00:13:11.507
  • He who overcomes."
  • 00:13:11.507 --> 00:13:14.410
  • Verse 17, another church: "he who has an ear, let him hear
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  • What the spirit says to the churches.
  • 00:13:17.913 --> 00:13:19.415
  • To him who overcomes."
  • 00:13:19.415 --> 00:13:20.816
  • Repetition is a very old, but a very effective way, not only of
  • 00:13:20.816 --> 00:13:26.388
  • Teaching but of adding emphasis.
  • 00:13:26.388 --> 00:13:29.959
  • Every church is given a little self-diagnostic, an evaluation,
  • 00:13:29.959 --> 00:13:34.296
  • From the head of the church, but every one of them begins with
  • 00:13:34.296 --> 00:13:37.967
  • "the one who is listening and willing to be obedient, you're
  • 00:13:37.967 --> 00:13:43.472
  • Gonna have to overcome."
  • 00:13:43.472 --> 00:13:47.376
  • Every church has challenges.
  • 00:13:47.376 --> 00:13:50.246
  • And these churches are written to the church in a city so every
  • 00:13:50.246 --> 00:13:53.415
  • Community of believers beyond just a simple congregation.
  • 00:13:53.415 --> 00:13:56.452
  • Every community has challenges.
  • 00:13:56.452 --> 00:14:00.322
  • We live in a fallen world.
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  • Verse 26: "to him who overcomes and does my will to the end,
  • 00:14:03.259 --> 00:14:07.096
  • I'll give authority over the nations."
  • 00:14:07.096 --> 00:14:09.765
  • Chapter 3, verse 12: "him who overcomes i'll make a pillar in
  • 00:14:09.765 --> 00:14:12.268
  • The temple of my god.
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  • Never again will he leave it.
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  • I'll write on him the name of my god and the name of the city of
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  • My god, and the new jerusalem, which is coming down out
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  • Of heaven."
  • 00:14:19.775 --> 00:14:21.443
  • And then revelation 21, in the conclusion of the book after
  • 00:14:21.443 --> 00:14:23.679
  • It's all said and done and the king has returned, the
  • 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:27.082
  • Antichrist and the false prophet have been addressed, it says,
  • 00:14:27.082 --> 00:14:30.252
  • "he who overcomes will inherit all of this."
  • 00:14:30.252 --> 00:14:34.023
  • But the next line says: "but the cowardly and the unbeliever,
  • 00:14:34.023 --> 00:14:39.361
  • They'll be outside."
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  • So the invitation, the promises come to the one who is listening
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  • And willing to be obedient.
  • 00:14:46.535 --> 00:14:47.903
  • Let me just tag those promises.
  • 00:14:47.903 --> 00:14:49.338
  • They're listed there in those verses.
  • 00:14:49.338 --> 00:14:50.906
  • Verse 7, there's a promise to the tree of life, paradise,
  • 00:14:50.906 --> 00:14:54.576
  • Genesis, the opening chapters of genesis.
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  • In verse 11, it says we'll be unscathed by the second death.
  • 00:14:58.347 --> 00:15:02.151
  • There's an eternal judgment into a lake of fire, but it has no
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  • Bearing to the one who overcomes, to the obedient.
  • 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:09.491
  • Says we'll have a new future, in writing, in verse 17,
  • 00:15:09.491 --> 00:15:12.594
  • A new name.
  • 00:15:12.594 --> 00:15:13.963
  • It suggests a whole new future.
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  • When god called abram, he said abram means exalted father, but
  • 00:15:15.531 --> 00:15:19.435
  • Abraham means the father of many, a multitude.
  • 00:15:19.435 --> 00:15:22.638
  • Abraham got a new name and a new future, and that's what jesus
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  • Does for you and me.
  • 00:15:25.474 --> 00:15:29.244
  • Expanded authority in verse 26.
  • 00:15:29.244 --> 00:15:31.347
  • He says we currently live under the authority of the nations,
  • 00:15:31.347 --> 00:15:34.249
  • But by the end of revelation, we'll be subject to the will of
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  • God on earth.
  • 00:15:36.885 --> 00:15:38.253
  • That's what jesus taught us to pray.
  • 00:15:38.253 --> 00:15:39.588
  • Remember, "your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
  • 00:15:39.588 --> 00:15:46.929
  • We've been given permanent residency.
  • 00:15:46.929 --> 00:15:50.199
  • In chapter 3 and verse 12, he said, "you'll be a pillar in the
  • 00:15:50.199 --> 00:15:52.801
  • Temple of god, and i'll write on him the name of my god, the name
  • 00:15:52.801 --> 00:15:55.804
  • Of the city of my god, and i'll write on him my new name."
  • 00:15:55.804 --> 00:15:59.808
  • We are given the passwords to the kingdom of heaven,
  • 00:15:59.808 --> 00:16:02.845
  • The access codes.
  • 00:16:02.845 --> 00:16:04.847
  • Are you kidding me?
  • 00:16:04.847 --> 00:16:07.049
  • Y'all are pretty, come--"well, i don't know why i have
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  • To overcome."
  • 00:16:08.751 --> 00:16:10.119
  • So you can get the access codes.
  • 00:16:10.119 --> 00:16:16.759
  • "well, i thought you said it was a free gift."
  • 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:23.465
  • So was health, but you have to take care of it.
  • 00:16:23.465 --> 00:16:28.137
  • We don't earn our way into the kingdom of god, nonsense.
  • 00:16:28.137 --> 00:16:31.106
  • But who said there was no responsibility?
  • 00:16:31.106 --> 00:16:35.110
  • Jesus was the perfect sinless, obedient son of god who accepted
  • 00:16:35.110 --> 00:16:38.781
  • The invitation to the incarnation.
  • 00:16:38.781 --> 00:16:41.050
  • In philippians it says, "he laid aside all the privilege
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  • Of heaven.
  • 00:16:45.187 --> 00:16:46.655
  • Didn't consider equality with god something to be grasped,
  • 00:16:46.655 --> 00:16:50.459
  • But he made himself nothing.
  • 00:16:50.459 --> 00:16:51.794
  • He took the form of a servant.
  • 00:16:51.794 --> 00:16:55.431
  • Became obedient even to death."
  • 00:16:55.431 --> 00:16:58.967
  • In hebrews it says that jesus learned obedience by what
  • 00:16:58.967 --> 00:17:01.837
  • He suffered.
  • 00:17:01.837 --> 00:17:03.772
  • We get to listen in to him in nazareth in the synagogue when
  • 00:17:03.772 --> 00:17:06.809
  • He's talking to the people he grew up with, he knows them
  • 00:17:06.809 --> 00:17:09.211
  • By name.
  • 00:17:09.211 --> 00:17:10.546
  • He knows the good cooks and the bad ones.
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  • He knows the good parents and the lousy ones.
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  • He knows all the private sins of the people that are there with
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  • Him in the synagogue.
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  • He doesn't point any of that out.
  • 00:17:18.687 --> 00:17:20.055
  • He reads to them from the book of isaiah and he says, "today
  • 00:17:20.055 --> 00:17:22.224
  • This is fulfilled in your ears," and he kind of pushes it into
  • 00:17:22.224 --> 00:17:25.127
  • Their face.
  • 00:17:25.127 --> 00:17:26.495
  • He said--and they wanted to kill him.
  • 00:17:26.495 --> 00:17:30.566
  • He had to overcome that.
  • 00:17:30.566 --> 00:17:31.934
  • It would have been easy to be completely sidetracked with
  • 00:17:31.934 --> 00:17:34.002
  • Resentment, bitterness.
  • 00:17:34.002 --> 00:17:37.406
  • We hear him in gethsemane, praying, "god, i don't wanna
  • 00:17:37.406 --> 00:17:39.775
  • Do this.
  • 00:17:39.775 --> 00:17:41.143
  • I don't wanna face this.
  • 00:17:41.143 --> 00:17:42.478
  • I don't wanna be arrested and tortured to death.
  • 00:17:42.478 --> 00:17:44.146
  • I don't wanna be humiliated in the streets of my city.
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  • Nevertheless, not my will."
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  • What's he doing?
  • 00:17:51.487 --> 00:17:52.855
  • He's overcoming.
  • 00:17:52.855 --> 00:17:54.289
  • You and i have an old carnal nature, an earthly nature,
  • 00:17:54.289 --> 00:17:57.326
  • An adamic nature.
  • 00:17:57.326 --> 00:17:58.694
  • The bible uses all of those terms, but what it really means
  • 00:17:58.694 --> 00:18:00.996
  • Is there's a part of us that's hardwired to be ungodly.
  • 00:18:00.996 --> 00:18:04.800
  • We don't have to get all the kids together in church and
  • 00:18:04.800 --> 00:18:06.802
  • Teach them how to be selfish.
  • 00:18:06.802 --> 00:18:10.439
  • It's not a requirement, is it?
  • 00:18:10.439 --> 00:18:12.441
  • We have to teach them how to share.
  • 00:18:12.441 --> 00:18:15.511
  • I had brothers, still do, as a matter of fact.
  • 00:18:15.511 --> 00:18:19.181
  • And my parents had these weird ideas.
  • 00:18:19.181 --> 00:18:20.749
  • I was the oldest, and they had these weird ideas that if i had
  • 00:18:20.749 --> 00:18:22.985
  • Chocolate, if i had m&m's, that i should share with my brothers.
  • 00:18:22.985 --> 00:18:28.290
  • So they would ask me questions, foolish questions.
  • 00:18:28.290 --> 00:18:32.094
  • They would say, like, to me, "allen, wouldn't you like to
  • 00:18:32.094 --> 00:18:34.496
  • Give your brothers some of your m&m's?"
  • 00:18:34.496 --> 00:18:38.634
  • What's the answer to that?
  • 00:18:38.634 --> 00:18:41.003
  • "no!
  • 00:18:41.003 --> 00:18:44.640
  • Absolutely not," and they weren't really asking me
  • 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:47.242
  • A question.
  • 00:18:47.242 --> 00:18:48.577
  • It was a little character formation.
  • 00:18:48.577 --> 00:18:50.546
  • They wanted me to mature.
  • 00:18:50.546 --> 00:18:53.182
  • I didn't want to mature, i wanted to eat chocolate.
  • 00:18:53.182 --> 00:18:57.019
  • But i learned, under threat of discipline to share.
  • 00:18:57.019 --> 00:19:07.829
  • Well, god cares enough about us not to raise spoiled kids,
  • 00:19:07.896 --> 00:19:15.704
  • Because he's a holy god and a righteous god.
  • 00:19:15.704 --> 00:19:19.074
  • And we can't dwell in his presence if we choose
  • 00:19:19.074 --> 00:19:21.143
  • Ungodliness and unholiness and unrighteousness.
  • 00:19:21.143 --> 00:19:24.913
  • And it's not an automatic response to us, so he sends his
  • 00:19:24.913 --> 00:19:27.749
  • Spirit into us to begin to invite us towards the right, and
  • 00:19:27.749 --> 00:19:31.286
  • We have to wrestle with this.
  • 00:19:31.286 --> 00:19:32.654
  • So what do you call that when you have to deal with that part
  • 00:19:32.654 --> 00:19:34.856
  • Of you that doesn't want to be godly?
  • 00:19:34.856 --> 00:19:36.458
  • I don't wanna give.
  • 00:19:36.458 --> 00:19:37.826
  • I don't wanna serve.
  • 00:19:37.826 --> 00:19:39.828
  • I don't wanna yield, i don't wanna be kind.
  • 00:19:39.828 --> 00:19:43.265
  • I want my way and i want it now.
  • 00:19:43.265 --> 00:19:45.267
  • Yesterday was better, but i've had to wait, so now will be
  • 00:19:45.267 --> 00:19:47.970
  • Acceptable if you hurry.
  • 00:19:47.970 --> 00:19:52.241
  • The definition of saying no to that is overcoming.
  • 00:19:52.241 --> 00:19:56.411
  • You will not dominate me.
  • 00:19:56.411 --> 00:19:59.548
  • I'll not give you license.
  • 00:19:59.548 --> 00:20:00.882
  • Nobody can do that for you.
  • 00:20:00.882 --> 00:20:03.385
  • Now what's on the other side of that effort?
  • 00:20:03.385 --> 00:20:06.221
  • The promises of god right in your future.
  • 00:20:06.221 --> 00:20:09.958
  • It's worthwhile.
  • 00:20:09.958 --> 00:20:12.327
  • It's not simple.
  • 00:20:12.327 --> 00:20:14.196
  • It will require faith and patience, more faith and
  • 00:20:14.196 --> 00:20:17.065
  • Patience with ourself than anyone else.
  • 00:20:17.065 --> 00:20:20.068
  • But all of that is incubated.
  • 00:20:20.068 --> 00:20:21.637
  • It begins with an intent.
  • 00:20:21.637 --> 00:20:23.939
  • If you don't intend to be a listener, if you don't intend to
  • 00:20:23.939 --> 00:20:28.710
  • Be obedient, it's highly improbable that you will be
  • 00:20:28.710 --> 00:20:33.048
  • Familiar with the voice of god and very obedient.
  • 00:20:33.048 --> 00:20:38.620
  • But it all begins with an expression of, "god, i would
  • 00:20:38.620 --> 00:20:40.856
  • Really like to do that.
  • 00:20:40.856 --> 00:20:42.791
  • Not even sure fully what that means, but i would like to
  • 00:20:42.791 --> 00:20:45.093
  • Do that."
  • 00:20:45.093 --> 00:20:48.230
  • It's like saying, "i'm going to school."
  • 00:20:48.230 --> 00:20:49.598
  • You don't know what that means when you say you go to school.
  • 00:20:49.598 --> 00:20:52.501
  • You just say, "well, i'd like to learn."
  • 00:20:52.501 --> 00:20:53.869
  • Learn what?
  • 00:20:53.869 --> 00:20:55.203
  • "well, that's why we have teachers, and i don't know."
  • 00:20:55.203 --> 00:20:58.540
  • We don't always even know what we need to learn and we don't
  • 00:20:58.540 --> 00:21:00.742
  • Know what we need to learn as christ followers.
  • 00:21:00.742 --> 00:21:02.711
  • It's why we have the help of the holy spirit.
  • 00:21:02.711 --> 00:21:06.415
  • There's so much pretentiousness and i live amongst the people
  • 00:21:06.415 --> 00:21:09.217
  • And i'm grateful for that.
  • 00:21:09.217 --> 00:21:10.585
  • I love the--but folks, we know, we wanna study what we
  • 00:21:10.585 --> 00:21:14.189
  • Wanna study.
  • 00:21:14.189 --> 00:21:15.557
  • What if we just present ourselves on a routine basis to
  • 00:21:15.557 --> 00:21:17.392
  • The word of god and say, "i would like to learn.
  • 00:21:17.392 --> 00:21:21.763
  • I'd like to have your character formed in me."
  • 00:21:21.763 --> 00:21:28.837
  • I had an outline, and i'm out of time.
  • 00:21:28.837 --> 00:21:35.110
  • How to become an overcomer.
  • 00:21:35.110 --> 00:21:36.445
  • We'll come back to that, it's really important.
  • 00:21:36.445 --> 00:21:39.014
  • But i brought you a proclamation that i want to make with you.
  • 00:21:39.014 --> 00:21:42.417
  • It's such a beautiful scene.
  • 00:21:42.417 --> 00:21:43.752
  • It's taken from revelation chapter 5.
  • 00:21:43.752 --> 00:21:45.087
  • It's a--john sees the throne room of heaven.
  • 00:21:45.087 --> 00:21:51.693
  • And it's really not the throne room of heaven.
  • 00:21:51.693 --> 00:21:53.495
  • He sees the expanse of heaven because he's gonna have a vision
  • 00:21:53.495 --> 00:21:56.131
  • Of 100 million angels.
  • 00:21:56.131 --> 00:21:58.600
  • That's a lot.
  • 00:21:58.600 --> 00:22:00.569
  • Us population about 300 million people, plus or take, plus
  • 00:22:00.569 --> 00:22:03.605
  • Or minus.
  • 00:22:03.605 --> 00:22:05.073
  • So, like, a third of the us population, so you couldn't put
  • 00:22:05.073 --> 00:22:07.309
  • All of them in one room.
  • 00:22:07.309 --> 00:22:10.112
  • In fact, if you put them in the--in kansas, you couldn't
  • 00:22:10.112 --> 00:22:14.216
  • Fit them in kansas.
  • 00:22:14.216 --> 00:22:16.718
  • They'd spill out across the prairie, beyond the horizon.
  • 00:22:16.718 --> 00:22:21.556
  • So john has a vision like that.
  • 00:22:21.556 --> 00:22:24.659
  • I mean, it's really beyond imagination.
  • 00:22:24.659 --> 00:22:29.097
  • I'll read it to you and then we're gonna make
  • 00:22:29.097 --> 00:22:30.432
  • The proclamation.
  • 00:22:30.432 --> 00:22:31.800
  • It's in your notes, but he says, "they sang a new song."
  • 00:22:31.800 --> 00:22:34.536
  • And they're speaking to jesus in this vision he has: "you are
  • 00:22:34.536 --> 00:22:37.739
  • Worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were
  • 00:22:37.739 --> 00:22:40.575
  • Slain, and with your blood you purchased men for god from every
  • 00:22:40.575 --> 00:22:45.647
  • Tribe and language and people and nation.
  • 00:22:45.647 --> 00:22:49.785
  • And you've made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our
  • 00:22:49.785 --> 00:22:53.722
  • God, and they will reign on the earth."
  • 00:22:53.722 --> 00:22:56.224
  • Those who overcome and believe the promises of god will reign
  • 00:22:56.224 --> 00:23:00.162
  • On this earth.
  • 00:23:00.162 --> 00:23:04.866
  • "and then i looked and i heard the voice of many angels,
  • 00:23:04.866 --> 00:23:08.236
  • Numbering thousands upon thousands and ten thousand times
  • 00:23:08.236 --> 00:23:11.139
  • Ten thousand.
  • 00:23:11.139 --> 00:23:12.474
  • And they encircled the throne and the living creatures and
  • 00:23:12.474 --> 00:23:14.943
  • The elders.
  • 00:23:14.943 --> 00:23:16.344
  • And in a loud voice they sang: 'worthy is the lamb, who was
  • 00:23:16.344 --> 00:23:20.515
  • Slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
  • 00:23:20.515 --> 00:23:24.152
  • And honor and glory and praise!'
  • 00:23:24.152 --> 00:23:27.856
  • And then i heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under
  • 00:23:27.856 --> 00:23:31.259
  • The earth and on the sea, and all that's in them, singing,"
  • 00:23:31.259 --> 00:23:35.997
  • Every living thing, singing, "'to him who sits on the throne
  • 00:23:35.997 --> 00:23:42.170
  • And to the lamb be praise and honor and glory and power,
  • 00:23:42.170 --> 00:23:46.007
  • For ever and ever!'
  • 00:23:46.007 --> 00:23:48.477
  • And the living creatures said, 'amen.'"
  • 00:23:48.477 --> 00:23:52.647
  • Amen just means so be it, be it unto me.
  • 00:23:52.647 --> 00:23:57.185
  • So we're gonna make that proclamation from
  • 00:23:57.185 --> 00:24:00.255
  • Verses 12 and 13.
  • 00:24:00.255 --> 00:24:01.590
  • What they're singing in heaven, we're gonna say together
  • 00:24:01.590 --> 00:24:03.492
  • In the earth today.
  • 00:24:03.492 --> 00:24:05.160
  • It's coming to the earth.
  • 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:07.496
  • Folks, the greatest invitation of our lives is to cooperate
  • 00:24:07.496 --> 00:24:11.233
  • With the lord.
  • 00:24:11.233 --> 00:24:14.336
  • If we'll just present ourselves as learners and say, "god,
  • 00:24:14.336 --> 00:24:16.705
  • I wanna know you.
  • 00:24:16.705 --> 00:24:18.106
  • I'm listening.
  • 00:24:18.106 --> 00:24:20.075
  • I want to cooperate with you.
  • 00:24:20.075 --> 00:24:23.678
  • I want your promises to define my future more than my way or my
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  • Will," god will write a story for you that is unbelievable.
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  • The cheap imitation of that and it's a cheap imitation
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  • Unfortunately that's been distributed by the churches,
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  • Is to say that somehow you can manipulate god to do what you
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  • Want him to do.
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  • I understand how it emerges.
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  • I'm not angry about it.
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  • I'm just telling you there's a better way.
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  • Say to the lord, "let your will come to my life.
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  • I wanna follow you," and he will write a story for you.
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  • In the midst of the brokenness and the evil that may have
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  • Touched your life, and all the ungodliness, some of it of your
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  • Own initiation and some of others, god will write a story
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  • For you.
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  • It's not about your age, it's not about your income or your
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  • Iq or your education or your family system.
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  • It's not about the social group you're attached to.
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  • The creator of heaven and earth has promises for you.
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  • Let's stand together and make this proclamation.
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  • Remember the setting that we're introduced to this.
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  • It says in heaven in a loud voice, they said this.
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  • So i don't want you to be disrespectful, but don't
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  • Whisper, all right?
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  • Don't scare the people in front of you, but we can use our
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  • Outdoor voices, all right?
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  • You ready?
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  • "worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to receive power and
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  • Wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!
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  • And to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise
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  • And honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!
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  • Amen," hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: yeah, i got a question.
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  • What's the eternal breath of life?
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  • Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote.
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  • When i sat down to do a podcast with him and i was listening to
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  • His story about how god had moved in his life and my
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  • Family's life all the way up to the beginning of the church that
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  • I've served now for several decades, i was so reminded of
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  • The purpose and the power of the spirit of god in our lives,
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  • I asked him to put it in a book.
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  • That's what we're sharing with you.
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  • We all need god's help, we all face challenges.
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  • Life's not easy, no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
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  • Is present within us to bring the power and purposes of god
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  • To bear in our lives.
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  • I believe the book will be a blessing with--for you.
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  • You'll pair it with "unleashing the power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's one of the most effective tools we have.
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  • It'll give you a pathway that i believe will bring god's best
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  • Into your family.
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  • You may not plant a church, but you have been given the
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  • Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god, and we need
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  • The help of the holy spirit.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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