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Allen Jackson - God In Our Midst

July 17, 2026 | 27:30

Allen Jackson - God In Our Midst
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 - God In Our Midst | July 17, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: we have a new resource for you.
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  • I'm really excited about this.
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  • It's a book. it's a booklet.
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  • It's a small book called "your identity in christ."
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  • It was derived from years of teaching and leading in the
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  • Context of the church.
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  • We're walking through a season, folks, when there's so much
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  • Confusion about our identity.
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  • We put this together to help you understand who you are in
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  • Christ, not just about your salvation, but so that you can
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  • Lead a triumphant, victorious, overcoming life.
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  • We built it for an individual read.
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  • It's great for a small group.
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  • It's a great resource for your kitchen table time as a family
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  • With children or grandchildren.
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  • If you know who you are in christ, it changes everything
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  • About the landscape of your life.
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  • I'm righteous in the sight of god.
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  • I can stand before god without fear, guilt, or condemnation.
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  • Those are such important foundational principles to get
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  • Secure in your heart, around your table with the people you
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  • Care about, in your small groups, with your friends.
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  • "your identity in christ," it's a game changer.
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  • I believe it will add momentum to your spiritual growth in
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  • This season.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i want to continue the theme we began couple of
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  • Sessions ago talking about "why israel matters."
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  • I think, for the most part, the church is largely unaware, and
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  • That's unfortunate because i believe we have a great debt to
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  • The jewish people.
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  • And tragically, the greatest persecutor of the jewish people
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  • Throughout history has been the christian church.
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  • It's an established fact of history.
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  • It's one that we're, for the most part, not aware of, but it
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  • Is the truth, and i assure you that the jewish community is
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  • Aware of it.
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  • They're far more comfortable typically with a muslim on the
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  • Streets of jerusalem than they are with a christian, and i
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  • Believe we can change that.
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  • I believe that is changing.
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  • Many people in modern israel today understand that the
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  • Evangelical community are their most stalwart friends in the
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  • Earth, but it requires a bit of discernment.
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  • When you say christian, they think a christian is a christian
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  • Is a christian.
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  • And so they don't really make any difference between a
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  • Fundamentalist, very conservative christian and a
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  • Roman catholic or a greek orthodox or an
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  • Episcopalian version.
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  • And we would say, well, there's a lot of difference.
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  • But when we think of someone being jewish, we think if you're
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  • Jewish, you're jewish, you're jewish, and there's as much
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  • Diversity within the jewish community as there is within the
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  • Christian community.
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  • And so understanding why israel matters, why the nation matters,
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  • And why the jewish people matters, i don't believe you can
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  • Properly understand your bible and its implications if you
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  • Don't understand the role of the nation of israel and the
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  • Jewish people.
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  • So we've taken a few sessions with this and so far, i haven't
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  • Gotten my maps out, but i'm not above it.
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  • It may happen yet, but i'll just start with the fundamentals on
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  • This are not complicated.
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  • They're a chosen people.
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  • God chose the jewish people for his purposes.
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  • He said that, but they didn't choose him.
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  • He chose them, and it's very clear in scripture.
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  • It takes really no discernment at all.
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  • In the new testament, the word 'israel' occurs 77 times.
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  • And those words are never applied to the church.
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  • One of the errors that's rather prominent in evangelicalism even
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  • Is that where you read israel in the new testament, you can just
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  • Draw a line through it and pencil in church.
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  • It's bad theology.
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  • It's bad exegesis.
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  • It's just bad.
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  • The word 'jew' occurs 75 times in the old testament and 188
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  • Times in the new testament.
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  • The term 'christian,' just for comparison's sake, appears three
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  • Times in the new testament.
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  • So it should allow us to establish some sense of the
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  • Significance god attaches to the people and the nation of israel.
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  • And if it's important to god, then by definition, it should
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  • Become important to us.
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  • You know, people say to me, i just don't understand why you
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  • Think that the jewish people or the nation of israel is
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  • Important, 'cause my boss said so.
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  • You know, i'm not too complicated.
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  • I grew up in a barn in tennessee.
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  • And the jewish people are a unique people.
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  • There is no one else like israel.
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  • There's just, there's not a comparison set.
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  • They are one of one.
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  • God chose them.
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  • They didn't choose him.
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  • Israel is not like all the other nations.
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  • That sentiment is expressed consistently throughout
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  • The scripture.
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  • God established with abraham and his descendants forever, through
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  • The abraham, isaac, and jacob, an everlasting covenant.
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  • We've looked at these scriptures.
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  • So i've suggested to you that, when we pray, it's important to
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  • Pray for the jewish people and the nation of israel in
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  • Accordance with what the scripture says, in alignment
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  • With the word of god, because to pray in contradiction to
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  • Scripture is a waste of your energy, and it isn't fruitful.
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  • We don't want to do that.
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  • So understanding why israel matters, understanding why the
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  • Jewish people have a unique place in god's economy, enables
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  • Us to pray in such a way that we can cooperate with seeing the
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  • Purposes of god emerge in the earth.
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  • And oftentimes, it requires us to overcome some biases and some
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  • Bigotry and some hatred because a lot of that's been baked into
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  • The christian community.
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  • It hasn't persevered for over 2000 years by accident, and i
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  • Understand there's some spiritual motivations behind it,
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  • But there's also just some stubborn, prideful,
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  • Self-righteous motivations behind it.
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  • You know, it's not unusual to hear christians say, "well, the
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  • Jewish people rejected jesus, therefore god rejected them.
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  • They failed in their assignment."
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  • Well, i would pose a couple of questions to you.
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  • We've had a 2000-year assignment in which we were supposed to
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  • Preach the gospel in the whole world, and then the end
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  • Could come.
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  • The boss could come back.
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  • It doesn't seem to me we've picked up that assignment with
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  • Much urgency.
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  • We're to be salt and light and on the watch of our generation.
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  • We don't have to talk about any other point in history, just
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  • Our generation.
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  • We have witnessed the most precipitous decline of christian
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  • Influence in the history of the church.
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  • We've taken jesus out of our schools, out of our college
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  • Campuses, out of the public square.
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  • Don't tell me about separation of church and state.
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  • We can debate whether or not it's constitutional, but it's
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  • Not biblical.
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  • So you mean you're gonna bend your knee to a secular state and
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  • Not bend it to the authority of god?
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  • That's not in my notes.
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  • This is free and postpaid.
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  • "a treasured possession," god said.
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  • In exodus 19, verse 5, it says, "if you obey me fully," this was
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  • Moses's message to the people that he's led from slavery
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  • To freedom.
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  • God said, "if you'll obey me fully and keep my covenant, then
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  • Out of all nations you'll be my treasured possession."
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  • "and although the whole earth is mine, you'll be for me a kingdom
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  • Of priests and a holy nation.
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  • These are the words you're to speak to the israelites.
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  • That's a pretty powerful message: "out of all the
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  • Nations, you'll be my most treasured possession.
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  • "i own the earth and everything that's in it, a cattle on a
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  • Thousand hills."
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  • He said, "everything is mine.
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  • All the gold and all the silver is mine.
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  • I call the stars by name, but you are my most
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  • Treasured possession."
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  • That is a very powerful statement.
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  • And if you and i are going to do our best to align our heart with
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  • The heart of god, we've got to grapple with that.
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  • "you'll be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation,"
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  • Kings and priests in a holy nation.
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  • Now in the new testament, peter, the fisherman that jesus
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  • Recruited, who's a very observant, religious, jewish
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  • Man, he keeps kosher, he keeps the jewish holidays, he observes
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  • The sabbath, all of the mosaic rules or many of them.
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  • Peter gives that passage an application to the broader
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  • World, to the gentiles, the non-jews, and even today in
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  • Modern hebrew, the gentile is not really a complimentary term,
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  • But our inclusion is because we are in christ, or more literally
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  • In the messiah.
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  • Because we belong to the messiah, the book of romans
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  • Says, we have been grafted into the covenant that god made with
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  • Abraham; that we've become heirs according to the promise; that
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  • Our inclusion with abraham, isaac, and jacob is more
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  • Significant than our inclusion with the methodist or the
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  • Baptist or the pentecostals or the episcopalians or whatever
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  • Other label you may have been affiliated with.
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  • And i don't find that our emotions or our attitudes really
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  • Reflect that.
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  • I find we typically have a much higher allegiance to those
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  • Subsets of our christian faith than we do with the reality that
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  • Our inclusion in the covenant god made with abraham gives us a
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  • Status in the kingdom of god and that that was made possible
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  • Through an observant jewish rabbi, one jesus of nazareth.
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  • And peter reminds us of that in 1 peter chapter 2, in verse 9,
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  • He said, "you're a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a
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  • Holy nation, a people belonging to god, that you may declare the
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  • Praises of him who called you out of darkness into his
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  • Wonderful light."
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  • "once you were not a people, but now you're the people of god;
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  • Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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  • Dear friends, i urge you, as aliens and strangers in the
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  • World, to abstain from sinful desires which war against
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  • Your soul."
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  • See, i would submit to you that the jewish community understands
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  • A great deal about being aliens and strangers in the world.
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  • Their diet made them unique.
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  • Their form of worship made them unique.
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  • Their holy day made them unique.
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  • Their holidays made them unique.
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  • They understood what it was to be apart.
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  • They weren't free to intermingle and to intermarry.
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  • They didn't have the liberty of compromising and still enjoying
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  • The blessings of god.
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  • And while peter opens the door and suggests to us that we too
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  • Can be "a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a
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  • People who belong to god," then he reminds us that we have to
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  • Conduct ourselves "as aliens and strangers in the world."
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  • We don't have the privilege of being unequally yoked with
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  • Ungodly people.
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  • We don't have the liberty of blending in.
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  • We are called to be distinctive.
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  • When the bible says you're salt, if you put something on the tip
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  • Of it, you know if it's salt or not.
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  • We've tried to reengineer this, genetically modify it.
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  • We wanted to be like a salt substitute.
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  • And peter, very clearly, particularly if you put it in
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  • The context of his experience and the history of the jewish
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  • People up until this point and then from that point to this,
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  • The message is resounding and overwhelming.
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  • We're called to be distinct, different, unique, set apart.
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  • And he says, "to do that," he said, "understand there is a war
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  • Against your soul.
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  • Your soul is your mind, your will, and your emotions.
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  • To be willing to be an alien and a stranger, you've got to
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  • Grapple with the war that that brings to your emotions and to
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  • Your thought life."
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  • We don't want to be different.
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  • We don't want to be excluded because of our faith.
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  • Don't be excluded because you're weird.
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  • I don't know.
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  • At this point in my life, weird just does not impress me.
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  • I've seen so much weirdness in the name of jesus.
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  • Jesus was not weird.
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  • He was holy and righteous and godly.
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  • And we substitute sometimes the most odd things for truly
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  • Letting the character of christ to be formed in us, like we
  • 00:12:54.789 --> 00:12:58.726
  • Think spontaneous is more spiritual than a plan.
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  • And yet, god tells us in the opening chapters of genesis that
  • 00:13:02.697 --> 00:13:06.201
  • He intends for his son to come and to crush satan's head.
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  • God knows the ending at the beginning, and we act like a
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  • Plan is anathema.
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  • God would never have a plan.
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  • Well, i'm an advocate for spontaneous, but spontaneous
  • 00:13:20.181 --> 00:13:22.750
  • Doesn't make you more spiritual.
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  • I believed that at one time in my life.
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  • In fact, it was a real breakthrough for me when it
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  • Occurred to me that, on tuesday, god might let me know what he
  • 00:13:30.091 --> 00:13:32.393
  • Wanted me to say on saturday or sunday.
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  • I thought it was more godly if i said that, "you know, as i
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  • Walked up the steps tonight, the lord spoke to me."
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  • When i hear that, i always wonder, why weren't you
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  • Listening before you got to the steps?
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  • How do you identify?
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  • Allen: we're called to be aliens and strangers, but just as
  • 00:14:53.775 --> 00:14:56.611
  • Certainly as the jewish people are a treasured possession to
  • 00:14:56.611 --> 00:14:59.047
  • God, so are you.
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  • So are you.
  • 00:15:01.916 --> 00:15:04.419
  • If we ever were awakened to what it means to be included in the
  • 00:15:04.419 --> 00:15:08.122
  • People of god, it would completely change our existence.
  • 00:15:08.122 --> 00:15:11.526
  • We would never be the same again.
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  • We would stop quibbling about whether or not we're gonna tithe
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  • Or whether or not we would be obedient.
  • 00:15:16.597 --> 00:15:20.034
  • We almost completely missed the magnitude, the wonder, the
  • 00:15:20.034 --> 00:15:24.706
  • Majesty of being included in the people of god.
  • 00:15:24.706 --> 00:15:29.477
  • You know, they're confirming new appointees to a new
  • 00:15:29.477 --> 00:15:33.514
  • Administration's cabinet these days in washington dc.
  • 00:15:33.514 --> 00:15:35.616
  • It's a life-changing event.
  • 00:15:35.616 --> 00:15:37.518
  • I suspect your life would never quite be the same if you had an
  • 00:15:37.518 --> 00:15:40.388
  • Appointment such as that.
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  • You change your resume, your connections, you change
  • 00:15:42.457 --> 00:15:45.927
  • Your future.
  • 00:15:45.927 --> 00:15:47.628
  • One of our friends of our congregation, mike huckabee's on
  • 00:15:47.628 --> 00:15:49.964
  • His way to israel.
  • 00:15:49.964 --> 00:15:51.299
  • He's appointed as an ambassador.
  • 00:15:51.299 --> 00:15:52.633
  • That's a life-changing event, but those are hiccups.
  • 00:15:52.633 --> 00:15:56.804
  • They're minor alterations compared to being called,
  • 00:15:56.804 --> 00:16:01.175
  • Included in the chosen people of god.
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  • Who are you?
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  • I'm a tennessean.
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  • Oh, that's nice.
  • 00:16:08.683 --> 00:16:10.018
  • Who are you?
  • 00:16:10.018 --> 00:16:11.352
  • Well, i'm a man.
  • 00:16:11.352 --> 00:16:12.720
  • Oh, that's really great.
  • 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:14.055
  • Who are you?
  • 00:16:14.055 --> 00:16:15.423
  • I'm a child of almighty god.
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  • I belong to him.
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  • He knows my name.
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  • I'm on record.
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  • He keeps a hair count.
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  • What's he know about you?
  • 00:16:27.235 --> 00:16:28.970
  • Well, i hope he knows who i am.
  • 00:16:28.970 --> 00:16:31.406
  • Me too.
  • 00:16:31.406 --> 00:16:34.675
  • Then god makes this unique statement to the jewish people.
  • 00:16:34.675 --> 00:16:38.079
  • Again, it wasn't modeled anyplace else.
  • 00:16:38.079 --> 00:16:40.014
  • He said, "i will dwell in your midst.
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  • I will be in your midst."
  • 00:16:43.051 --> 00:16:46.187
  • The creator of heaven and earth said, "i'm gonna hang out
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  • With you."
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  • It's unimaginable!
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  • In leviticus 26, "'i will look on you with favor and make you
  • 00:16:52.860 --> 00:16:56.497
  • Fruitful, increase your numbers, and i'll keep my covenant with
  • 00:16:56.497 --> 00:16:59.267
  • You, and you'll be eating last year's harvest when you will
  • 00:16:59.267 --> 00:17:02.370
  • Have to move it out to make room for new.
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  • I'll put my dwelling place among you."
  • 00:17:06.207 --> 00:17:08.543
  • "i'll not abhor you.
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  • I will walk among you and be your god, and you'll be
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  • My people.
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  • I'm the lord your god.
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  • I brought you out of egypt so that you'd no longer
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  • Be slaves...
  • 00:17:16.951 --> 00:17:18.286
  • I broke the bars of your bondage enabled you to walk with heads
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  • Held high."
  • 00:17:21.656 --> 00:17:24.459
  • "i will walk among you."
  • 00:17:24.459 --> 00:17:27.528
  • That's not a promise god made to everybody.
  • 00:17:27.528 --> 00:17:30.131
  • Now yes, there's a responsibility that comes
  • 00:17:33.568 --> 00:17:35.403
  • With that.
  • 00:17:35.403 --> 00:17:36.771
  • We're gonna look at that in a moment.
  • 00:17:36.771 --> 00:17:38.539
  • But one of the great, most amazing aspects of the new
  • 00:17:38.539 --> 00:17:42.076
  • Testament is god says because of jesus, when that curtain was
  • 00:17:42.076 --> 00:17:45.646
  • Torn in two between the holy of holies and the next section in
  • 00:17:45.646 --> 00:17:49.917
  • The temple, only the high priest could go into the holy of
  • 00:17:49.917 --> 00:17:53.287
  • Holies, and it was separated by this very thick curtain.
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  • And he could only go in once a year and then only with the
  • 00:17:58.292 --> 00:18:01.162
  • Blood of the passover lamb.
  • 00:18:01.162 --> 00:18:02.930
  • And when jesus said "it is finished" on the cross, the
  • 00:18:02.930 --> 00:18:05.566
  • Scripture says that that curtain was torn in two from the top to
  • 00:18:05.566 --> 00:18:09.070
  • The bottom, signifying that the way into the presence of god,
  • 00:18:09.070 --> 00:18:12.640
  • The shekinah glory of god, was available to anyone now through
  • 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:18.379
  • The blood of the passover lamb, jesus of nazareth.
  • 00:18:18.379 --> 00:18:23.017
  • But the covenant that made that possible was the covenant god
  • 00:18:23.017 --> 00:18:26.521
  • Made with abraham.
  • 00:18:26.521 --> 00:18:27.955
  • The new part of that was that jesus was the end of the law as
  • 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:37.598
  • A means of righteousness, not the end of the law as a
  • 00:18:37.598 --> 00:18:41.402
  • Reflection of holiness and purity.
  • 00:18:41.402 --> 00:18:43.571
  • It's just that now we're righteous by faith, and
  • 00:18:43.571 --> 00:18:48.176
  • We've misunderstood.
  • 00:18:48.176 --> 00:18:49.544
  • And we've twisted that around and said, "well, what the jewish
  • 00:18:49.544 --> 00:18:52.880
  • People had done was not important."
  • 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:54.215
  • Yes, it was.
  • 00:18:54.215 --> 00:18:55.583
  • Without them, we never get to that point.
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  • We're indebted to them.
  • 00:19:00.021 --> 00:19:02.490
  • So one of the fundamental shifts of thinking in the new
  • 00:19:02.490 --> 00:19:05.693
  • Testament, and it precedes jesus, is that the temple is no
  • 00:19:05.693 --> 00:19:11.832
  • Longer the center of their worship and their
  • 00:19:11.832 --> 00:19:14.602
  • Religious life.
  • 00:19:14.602 --> 00:19:16.704
  • It's a lot of the tension you read in the gospels if you're
  • 00:19:16.704 --> 00:19:19.774
  • Reading them with us.
  • 00:19:19.774 --> 00:19:21.509
  • Tear this down and i'll rebuild it again.
  • 00:19:21.509 --> 00:19:23.244
  • Who do you think you are?
  • 00:19:23.244 --> 00:19:25.746
  • You swear by the gold of the temple and you say it's sacred.
  • 00:19:25.746 --> 00:19:29.183
  • Their point of pride was this amazing, elaborate temple that
  • 00:19:32.153 --> 00:19:37.158
  • Had been built.
  • 00:19:37.158 --> 00:19:38.526
  • It separated them from all the other nations.
  • 00:19:38.526 --> 00:19:42.396
  • And john the baptist came, and john preached a message that god
  • 00:19:42.396 --> 00:19:47.568
  • Used to stir the hearts of the people.
  • 00:19:47.568 --> 00:19:50.738
  • Large crowds of people came to john to be baptized.
  • 00:19:50.738 --> 00:19:53.908
  • All around the temple in jerusalem were mikvahs.
  • 00:19:53.908 --> 00:19:56.777
  • They looked just like our baptistries, steps leading down
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  • Into a pool of water and steps leading out, and people were
  • 00:20:00.081 --> 00:20:02.783
  • Accustomed to immersing themselves in the mikvah before
  • 00:20:02.783 --> 00:20:05.886
  • They went up onto the temple mount.
  • 00:20:05.886 --> 00:20:07.922
  • It was in those very mikvahs on the day of pentecost, where the
  • 00:20:07.922 --> 00:20:11.125
  • Apostles baptized those thousands of people that wanted
  • 00:20:11.125 --> 00:20:14.061
  • To be baptized.
  • 00:20:14.061 --> 00:20:15.396
  • They baptized them in the name of jesus.
  • 00:20:15.396 --> 00:20:18.466
  • But when john began to baptize, he didn't go to the mikvahs
  • 00:20:18.466 --> 00:20:21.602
  • Around the temple and said, "listen, before you go in the
  • 00:20:21.602 --> 00:20:23.537
  • Temple, why don't you repent right here, and i'll
  • 00:20:23.537 --> 00:20:25.573
  • Baptize you?"
  • 00:20:25.573 --> 00:20:27.708
  • Where did john baptize?
  • 00:20:27.708 --> 00:20:30.544
  • In the jordan river.
  • 00:20:30.544 --> 00:20:32.513
  • Again, if you're not familiar with it, you could miss that
  • 00:20:32.513 --> 00:20:35.616
  • A bit.
  • 00:20:35.616 --> 00:20:36.984
  • It's 20 miles from jerusalem into the desert.
  • 00:20:36.984 --> 00:20:40.321
  • It's hot.
  • 00:20:40.321 --> 00:20:41.656
  • It's difficult.
  • 00:20:41.656 --> 00:20:43.024
  • It's a difficult journey.
  • 00:20:43.024 --> 00:20:44.358
  • It's a much more difficult journey back home.
  • 00:20:44.358 --> 00:20:45.693
  • It's far away from the influence of the temple.
  • 00:20:45.693 --> 00:20:49.363
  • It's very humble.
  • 00:20:49.363 --> 00:20:50.698
  • John came wearing humble clothes and eating humble food.
  • 00:20:50.698 --> 00:20:54.635
  • And the people came in droves.
  • 00:20:54.635 --> 00:20:56.704
  • It's de-emphasizing.
  • 00:20:56.704 --> 00:20:58.205
  • It's taking authority away from the temple in jerusalem and
  • 00:20:58.205 --> 00:21:01.275
  • Focusing the authority on "show me the fruit of your
  • 00:21:01.275 --> 00:21:04.145
  • Repentance," he said.
  • 00:21:04.145 --> 00:21:06.714
  • And then jesus comes along, and he leads kind of this
  • 00:21:10.785 --> 00:21:15.122
  • Confrontational dialogue because they've attached to the wrong
  • 00:21:15.122 --> 00:21:18.492
  • Value to something.
  • 00:21:18.492 --> 00:21:21.228
  • So you can be in the right place at the right time, presented
  • 00:21:21.228 --> 00:21:24.965
  • With an invitation to do the right thing, but if your heart's
  • 00:21:24.965 --> 00:21:27.501
  • Wrong and your attitude's wrong, you will miss it completely.
  • 00:21:27.501 --> 00:21:30.538
  • Again, i think we are so casual, so sloppy.
  • 00:21:34.141 --> 00:21:36.544
  • Philippians chapter 2, it's not in your notes, but it is in
  • 00:21:36.544 --> 00:21:38.646
  • The book.
  • 00:21:38.646 --> 00:21:40.014
  • It says, "your attitude should be the same as that of jesus."
  • 00:21:40.014 --> 00:21:43.084
  • Jesus said, "oh, you observe the sabbath, but you observe it in a
  • 00:21:43.084 --> 00:21:46.220
  • Destructive way."
  • 00:21:46.220 --> 00:21:49.323
  • He said, "you'll search the world over to make a disciple
  • 00:21:49.323 --> 00:21:52.626
  • And make him twice the child of hell that you are."
  • 00:21:52.626 --> 00:21:57.264
  • He said, "unless your righteousness exceeds the
  • 00:21:57.264 --> 00:21:59.333
  • Righteousness of the scribes and the pharisees, you will not
  • 00:21:59.333 --> 00:22:02.503
  • Enter the kingdom of god."
  • 00:22:02.503 --> 00:22:05.439
  • They're in the right place, doing a lot of the right things,
  • 00:22:05.439 --> 00:22:08.642
  • But their motives are so wrong.
  • 00:22:08.642 --> 00:22:10.478
  • Their attitudes are so poor.
  • 00:22:10.478 --> 00:22:12.213
  • They're gonna forfeit their opportunity in the kingdom
  • 00:22:12.213 --> 00:22:14.181
  • Of god.
  • 00:22:14.181 --> 00:22:17.218
  • It's a sobering issue.
  • 00:22:17.218 --> 00:22:18.552
  • The jewish people are a tremendous lesson for us.
  • 00:22:18.552 --> 00:22:21.489
  • We can learn from them.
  • 00:22:21.489 --> 00:22:22.823
  • We can learn with them.
  • 00:22:22.823 --> 00:22:25.192
  • If we'll stop judging and criticizing and looking down our
  • 00:22:25.192 --> 00:22:28.028
  • Noses in self-righteousness, god said, the bible says that their
  • 00:22:28.028 --> 00:22:31.465
  • Story was written down for us, upon whom the end of the ages
  • 00:22:31.465 --> 00:22:34.535
  • Has come.
  • 00:22:34.535 --> 00:22:38.205
  • It would be humbling, i know it would be for me, to have the
  • 00:22:38.205 --> 00:22:42.943
  • Greatest failures of my personal journey put in the book, so
  • 00:22:42.943 --> 00:22:45.613
  • Everybody else could study it and know what not to do.
  • 00:22:45.613 --> 00:22:49.950
  • How about you?
  • 00:22:49.950 --> 00:22:51.919
  • How'd you like to have the darkest parts of your life, the
  • 00:22:51.919 --> 00:22:53.921
  • Worst thoughts you've had, the worst choices you've made
  • 00:22:53.921 --> 00:22:56.724
  • Written down and then published for everybody to study for a
  • 00:22:56.724 --> 00:22:59.727
  • Long time?
  • 00:22:59.727 --> 00:23:01.128
  • The jewish people took that space for us, so that we could
  • 00:23:04.665 --> 00:23:08.969
  • Know the character of god, so we could understand the frailty of
  • 00:23:08.969 --> 00:23:13.808
  • Our own character.
  • 00:23:13.808 --> 00:23:15.176
  • And then what's our response been?
  • 00:23:18.379 --> 00:23:20.648
  • Well, they're really messed up.
  • 00:23:20.648 --> 00:23:24.151
  • Aren't they stubborn?
  • 00:23:24.151 --> 00:23:27.288
  • How could they not see?
  • 00:23:27.288 --> 00:23:28.689
  • Lord, forgive us.
  • 00:23:32.159 --> 00:23:36.430
  • Well, we're chosen people, but now you need to be aware.
  • 00:23:36.430 --> 00:23:41.869
  • You're special, not because of who you are, because of what's
  • 00:23:41.869 --> 00:23:46.974
  • Been done for you, the price paid so that you could be in the
  • 00:23:46.974 --> 00:23:49.176
  • Kingdom of god.
  • 00:23:49.176 --> 00:23:50.544
  • And there's an expectation that you'll live as an alien and a
  • 00:23:50.544 --> 00:23:53.214
  • Stranger, that god dwells in our midst.
  • 00:23:53.214 --> 00:23:55.082
  • Look at 1 corinthians 6, "flee from sexual immorality.
  • 00:23:55.082 --> 00:23:58.686
  • All other sins a man commits are outside of his body, but he who
  • 00:23:58.686 --> 00:24:01.489
  • Sins sexually sins against his own body.
  • 00:24:01.489 --> 00:24:05.826
  • Do you not know," and what's the answer?
  • 00:24:05.826 --> 00:24:09.597
  • No, i think we forgot.
  • 00:24:09.597 --> 00:24:10.965
  • Could you tell me again what is it i'm supposed to know?
  • 00:24:10.965 --> 00:24:13.767
  • "do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit?"
  • 00:24:13.767 --> 00:24:19.039
  • Paul is echoing an idea that we saw the roots of in john the
  • 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:22.176
  • Baptist's ministry, we saw reflected in jesus's life
  • 00:24:22.176 --> 00:24:27.982
  • And ministry.
  • 00:24:27.982 --> 00:24:29.683
  • And now he's taking the message around the roman world that
  • 00:24:29.683 --> 00:24:32.253
  • "your body is a temple of the holy spirit, who is in you, whom
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  • You've received from god?
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  • You are not your own; you were bought at a price."
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  • "therefore honor god with your body."
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  • How is it that the church has arrived at a place where we will
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  • Endorse, embrace, and celebrate all sorts of forms of
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  • Sexual immorality?
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  • And we call it open-mindedness.
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  • We call it inclusivity.
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  • We call it love.
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  • It's not love, folks.
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  • Encouraging people towards ungodliness that will bring the
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  • Judgment of god into their lives is not love.
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  • It's far more about cowardice.
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  • And if it's a part of your own personal journey and you haven't
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  • Repented, it's called disobedience.
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  • Mercy and grace will not wash away our willful practice
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  • Of sin.
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  • We cannot choose the practice of sin and think that the mercy of
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  • God will neutralize that.
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  • If it were true, then we wouldn't be told to confess
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  • Our sins.
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  • Allen: before we go today, i wanna pray especially for those
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  • Of you who have lost hope.
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  • It isn't even up to us to maintain that.
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  • We can trust god that he's watching over our futures.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, i thank you that you're a god, who renews and refreshes
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  • And redeems, and i pray especially for those today who
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  • Are weary, who have grown tired.
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  • Lord, refresh them, renew them, give them strength by your
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  • Spirit today in jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: hey, i'm really excited about our newest publication.
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  • It's called "your identity in christ."
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  • It's a booklet, small book intended to help you understand
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  • Who you are in christ, straightforward, grounded in
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  • Scripture, but i help people take steps towards
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  • Spiritual freedom.
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  • The most essential component is helping them understand who they
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  • Are in christ.
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  • You know we're walking through a season where there's tremendous
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  • Cultural confusion, so much dialogue about how we identify.
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  • Folks, understanding who you are in christ, the price that was
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  • Paid to give you status in the kingdom of god, it will write a
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  • Future for you that is not dependent upon your family of
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  • Origin, your life circumstance, the expressions of evil that
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  • You've had to overcome.
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  • In christ jesus, we are triumphant both in time and for
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  • All eternity.
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  • We put this little booklet together.
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  • It'll help you.
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  • You can read it.
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  • You can do it as a small group.
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  • It's easy to share the message with children or grandchildren.
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  • Make this a part of this season in your life and in your home
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  • And with your friends.
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  • It's a game changer.
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  • ♪♪♪
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