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Allen Jackson - God At Work Through Family (Part 2)

June 4, 2025 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - God At Work Through Family (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 - God At Work Through Family (Part 2) | June 4, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: yeah, i believe it's more important that we lead
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  • With our faith now than at any time i can remember in
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  • Recent history.
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  • It's not always easy to do if you're at work or sometimes in
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  • A family setting or with children.
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  • You don't know how to get a conversation started.
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  • Well, we've created a tool that we believe can be
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  • Really helpful.
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  • They're conversation cards.
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  • They're designed for a variety of settings: children, family,
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  • A small group setting, but the idea is it's a way to initiate
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  • A faith-based conversation.
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  • You can share them with other people and do it together.
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  • You can simply look through them and use it as an imagination
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  • Starter for yourself.
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  • When you're thinking about a coworker or a neighbor or a
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  • Family member or you're gonna have some time with children or
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  • Grandchildren or maybe something happening in the neighborhood,
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  • We want to lead with our faith.
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  • You don't have to preach a sermon or quote a bible verse or
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  • Present a small group study.
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  • We simply want to engage a conversation so that faith
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  • Becomes a part of who we are, no matter where we go.
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  • I think these conversation cards will be a real blessing to you
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  • And a very useful tool as we lead with our faith.
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  • Allen: in matthew chapter 15, there's a story of a mother
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  • That's distraught.
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  • On behalf of her daughter, she comes to jesus.
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  • She's a canaanite woman.
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  • That's important.
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  • She's not jewish.
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  • She doesn't keep the rules.
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  • She doesn't keep the holidays, she doesn't eat the right foods.
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  • If you saw this woman, you would think, "that's not one of us."
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  • You know, the canaanite-jewish distinction is lost on us, but
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  • Occasionally you see somebody in our culture and you think,
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  • "that's not one of us."
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  • Whatever that image is to you, think of this woman.
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  • When she approached jesus and the disciples, it was very clear
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  • She's not one of us.
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  • "she came to jesus, crying out, 'lord, son of david, have mercy
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  • On me!
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  • My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession.'
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  • And jesus wouldn't answer.
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  • So his disciples came to him and urged him, 'send her away.
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  • She keeps crying out after us.'"
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  • And he turned the page.
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  • "and jesus answered, 'i was sent only to the lost sheep
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  • Of israel.'
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  • And the woman came and knelt before jesus."
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  • She's already called him lord and cried out in desperation.
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  • He won't speak to her.
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  • And now she's come and knelt before him, "and said, 'lord,
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  • Help me!'
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  • And he replied, 'it's not right to take the children's bread and
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  • Toss it to their dogs.'"
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  • I don't know any cultural reference that'll make that
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  • Statement friendlier.
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  • It's a rebuff, a rebuke.
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  • The answer is no, not helping you.
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  • And there's some tone around it that's not friendly or inviting.
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  • For the people that say jesus was always about love, that's--
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  • I mean, yeah, you can take the big broad definition of the
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  • Word, but every encounter didn't feel like a group hug.
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  • Jesus says, "no, nothing for the dogs today."
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  • "and she said, 'yes, lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs
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  • That fall from their masters' table.'"
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  • This woman's desperate.
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  • She's not being passive.
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  • One of the things i think we're gonna have to overcome in
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  • Contemporary american christendom is this passive
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  • Approach, you know, "if god wants me to have it, he'll give
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  • It to me."
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  • Folks, with that attitude, you can miss the kingdom of god.
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  • The bible invites us towards a different posture.
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  • It's far more assertive, it's far more in pursuit of god.
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  • Bible talks about hungering and thirsting.
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  • It talks about those that seek the lord will be rewarded
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  • For it.
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  • There's a--there's a pursuit of god in us that is required of
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  • Us, "and this woman said, 'lord, even the dogs eat the crumbs,'
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  • And jesus said, 'woman, you have great faith!
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  • And your request is granted.'
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  • And her daughter was healed."
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  • I'm gonna suggest to you that mothers have a very, very, very,
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  • Very significant role.
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  • This daughter absent that mother's humility,
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  • Determination, compassion, effort, would have spent her
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  • Life in a dramatically different way.
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  • Her mother changed her future.
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  • I'm intrigued by people that say they want to do
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  • Something important.
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  • The god assignments of our lives start in those
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  • Family assignments.
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  • Mothers are intercessors, you help establish a pathway for
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  • Your family, preparing them to make better choices
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  • For themselves.
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  • I know that's true in my own life.
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  • My mother's legacy was of the conviction regarding the value
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  • Of prayer.
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  • That woman, you--if you were around my mother for 10 minutes,
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  • You had to pray.
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  • And you know, now we kind of giggle, but it wasn't always,
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  • Like, fun.
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  • You bring a friend home from school, she's gonna pray.
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  • You walk in the front door with a friend, you would announce you
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  • Were there because you didn't know what kind of prayer she
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  • Was praying.
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  • Most of our friends thought we were about half crazy anyway.
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  • If my brothers and i got together for anything, i'm not
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  • Talking about when we were little kids, i'm talking about,
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  • Like, when we were, like, pushing grown.
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  • We're almost grown up.
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  • Before we could leave, my mom would always say, "well,
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  • Couldn't we say a prayer?"
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  • At which we'd roll our eyes.
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  • I mean, like, grown men, "really, mom?
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  • That's original.
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  • You think we should pray again?"
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  • She prayed hundreds and thousands of hours, for you.
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  • I always smile a bit, wryly, when people, you know, talk
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  • About let's pray or some of the things that we do as
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  • A community.
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  • Folks, those are derivatives of things that were handed to me.
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  • I resented 'em for a long time.
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  • I'm like, "really?
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  • We want to pray again?"
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  • Pray for anybody anywhere.
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  • I'm like, "could you just dial it back?"
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  • You have such an important role.
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  • A mother's prompting makes an enormous difference.
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  • I brought you some biblical examples.
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  • You have potential for good and you have potential
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  • For destruction.
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  • It's important to understand in matthew 20, "the mother of
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  • Zebedee's sons, james and john, came to jesus with her sons, and
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  • She knelt down and she asked a favor of jesus.
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  • He said, 'what do you want?'
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  • And she said, 'grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit
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  • At your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.'
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  • And jesus said, 'you don't know what you're asking.
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  • Can you drink the cup i'm going to drink?'
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  • And the boys said, 'yeah.'"
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  • Mom comes in with her two boys and kneels in front of jesus and
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  • Says, "i want my boys to get privileged spots."
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  • Helicopter parents are not new.
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  • "give my boys an advantage.
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  • I know you recruited all of these other young guys, but
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  • These two are special.
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  • They're my boys."
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  • And jesus said, "you have no clue."
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  • Now we have the advantage of hindsight.
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  • "can you drink the cup i'm going--" he's got a cup of
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  • Suffering to drink.
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  • And the boys are--they're happy to have the mom running
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  • The interference.
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  • "oh yeah, we can do that, whatever.
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  • Can we see pictures of the thrones?"
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  • Godly people, close to jesus, engaged in ministry, pushed all
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  • Their chips in the middle of the table.
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  • And mom is being fueled by selfish ambition.
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  • I know it's wrapped in a lot of religious language.
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  • She has ambition for them in the kingdom of god.
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  • It's still not appropriate.
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  • A mother's promptings are important.
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  • Guarding our hearts, the bible says, is more important than
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  • Anything else we have to guard or protect.
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  • I'll give you another example.
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  • Mark chapter 6: "the daughter of herodias came in and danced
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  • Before the king and his audience.
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  • She pleased herod and his dinner guest, and the king said to the
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  • Girl, 'ask me for anything you want, and i'll give it to you.'
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  • And she went out and said to her mother, 'what shall i ask for?'
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  • And her mother said, 'the head of john the baptist,'" wow.
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  • A mother's prompting.
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  • This is a mother fueled by hatred and rebellion.
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  • She no doubt thought she was gaining a personal advantage by
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  • Shutting down john the baptist and his persistent declaration
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  • Of the truth.
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  • I don't believe it brought a better future for her
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  • Or her daughter.
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  • Mother's promptings matter.
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  • They really do.
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  • I'll give you another alternative in john chapter 2:
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  • "on the third day there was a wedding in cana of galilee, and
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  • Jesus's mother was there, and jesus and his disciples had also
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  • Been invited to the wedding.
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  • And when he's--the wine was gone, jesus's mother said to
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  • Him, 'they have no more wine.'
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  • And jesus replied, 'dear woman, why do you involve me?
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  • My time has not yet come.'
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  • Then mary said to the servants, 'just do what he tells you.
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  • Just whatever he tells you.'"
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  • She didn't argue with jesus.
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  • She didn't try to manipulate him.
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  • There doesn't even seem to be any shame involved.
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  • She's reminding him of a very obvious fact.
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  • There's humiliation about to take place.
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  • It seems to me to be an expression of a mother fueled by
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  • Compassion for her friends.
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  • And a tremendous faith in god.
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  • She understands the uniqueness of jesus's life.
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  • A mother's promptings matter.
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  • The coaching of a mother can make a tremendous difference in
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  • Our lives.
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  • Be certain that you're seeking the lord consistently, so that
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  • Your counsel brings a godly outcome.
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  • It's important.
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  • I'm convinced if the men and women amongst us will begin to
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  • Honor god and choose god, that we will see his power
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  • Demonstrated in our homes and that will bring a momentum to
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  • Our culture.
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  • It'll change our schools, it'll change our health care systems,
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  • It'll change our legal systems, it'll change our churches.
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  • It's as simple as starting in those places where we have
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  • A voice.
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  • I have benefited from godly encouragement.
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  • Choosing god is often a path which contradicts
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  • Conventional wisdom.
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  • Choosing to honor god oftentimes will mean you have different
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  • Priorities than the broader culture around you.
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  • You can baptize them in religious language, much like
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  • The mom who came and was asking for thrones for her sons.
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  • But the reality is the purposes of god often bring a different
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  • Set of priorities, different objectives, different goals.
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  • And godly moms can make an enormous difference.
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  • Can make an enormous difference.
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  • It's a life assignment.
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  • It's a mission.
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  • I'm not suggesting it's easy.
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  • I had a gift.
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  • Many times in my life when i came to forks in the road, my
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  • Parents, if they didn't--they didn't oppose me if i had an
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  • Inclination to try to do something for the lord.
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  • I'm very grateful for those gifts.
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  • They didn't always get it right, neither did i.
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  • But moms, you've got an enormous opportunity, a great privilege.
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  • Don't let a secular culture determine your parenting style.
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  • Don't let the values of a secular culture, a godless
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  • Culture, even wrapped in religious language, determine
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  • The future.
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  • Allow god to lead you.
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  • Spend enough time with him.
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  • Listen to him.
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  • I've also discovered by observation and experience that
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  • If you don't have that voice in your family system, god will
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  • Provide a voice.
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  • I have seen it over and over and over again.
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  • I see it oftentimes through your lives.
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  • And i see you provide your voice in the lives of someone else,
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  • With an expression of kindness or generosity or support.
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  • You change futures, encourage one another to seek god.
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  • Most of us, when we found ourselves in dark places, we
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  • Accepted the encouragement of voices that were pushing us down
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  • A dark path.
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  • I would suggest that you and i become voices to encourage
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  • People for god's best.
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  • We can do that.
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  • We're not powerless.
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  • We truly aren't.
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  • Allen: and finally, god is at work with us.
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  • God will cooperate if we're willing to cooperate with him in
  • 00:14:06.494 --> 00:14:08.730
  • The least possible ways.
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  • Things that we're not capable of accomplishing, things that we
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  • Can't even explain, if we will simply say yes to the lord, he
  • 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:15.904
  • Does the most remarkable things.
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  • I can explain very little about my life these days other than
  • 00:14:18.406 --> 00:14:20.975
  • The fact the mercy and the grace of god.
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  • He's been good to us.
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  • And i think any of us that can recognize god's goodness to us,
  • 00:14:26.514 --> 00:14:30.018
  • Stand there and go, "i'm not really sure.
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  • I can tell you some components, but the outcomes are
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  • Really disproportionate.
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  • Only god."
  • 00:14:35.423 --> 00:14:37.292
  • Doesn't mean there's no pain or disappointment or heartbreak
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  • Or brokenness.
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  • All of those things are a part of the journey through time.
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  • But cooperating with god.
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  • In luke chapter 1 and verse 35: "the angel said to mary, 'the
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  • Holy spirit will come upon you, and the power of the most high
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  • Will overshadow you.
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  • So the holy one to be born will be called the son of god.
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  • For nothing is impossible with god.'
  • 00:14:56.611 --> 00:14:58.246
  • And mary's response: 'i'm the lord's servant.
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  • May it be to me as you have said,' and the angel left her."
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  • Nothing about that explanation really helps mary understand
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  • About what's to happen.
  • 00:15:06.254 --> 00:15:08.556
  • She's a teenage kid, she's engaged, she's got a life plan
  • 00:15:08.556 --> 00:15:11.326
  • And an angel says, "good news."
  • 00:15:11.326 --> 00:15:19.467
  • I'm sure it would have been easier for mary if that angelic
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  • Host that filled the skies outside of bethlehem and talked
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  • To the shepherds, had filled the skies over nazareth and
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  • Explained it to all of her friends.
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  • All the women in the synagogue where her family went, "did you
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  • Tell them?"
  • 00:15:33.948 --> 00:15:39.253
  • Mary said, "you know, i haven't been involved in the behaviors
  • 00:15:39.253 --> 00:15:41.422
  • That would make that possible."
  • 00:15:41.422 --> 00:15:42.824
  • "that's not your problem, mary."
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  • There is no explanation that's satisfactory.
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  • Mary has to have her dreams realigned.
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  • And we find them all the way through the journey until she
  • 00:15:50.598 --> 00:15:52.734
  • Steps out of the historical record that we have, the foot of
  • 00:15:52.734 --> 00:15:55.536
  • The cross, with jesus being tortured to death.
  • 00:15:55.536 --> 00:15:58.439
  • A heartbreaking scenario.
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  • There's a principle there that i think is still in play in
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  • Our families.
  • 00:16:04.312 --> 00:16:05.646
  • There's a sacrifice and then there's success.
  • 00:16:05.646 --> 00:16:08.249
  • Sacrifice is made enabling others to have opportunities.
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  • I'm very aware that motherhood is a sacrifice.
  • 00:16:12.620 --> 00:16:16.691
  • I think that's why it's mocked and ridiculed.
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  • The intention to cooperate with god is the defining principle of
  • 00:16:21.763 --> 00:16:26.267
  • Our lives, the realignment of our dreams, the release to god's
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  • Best for us and not demanding our way.
  • 00:16:31.572 --> 00:16:34.642
  • Not easy things.
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  • But worthwhile.
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  • I wish i could tell you there's some season of life, some age
  • 00:16:39.680 --> 00:16:42.216
  • You reach, some point of accomplishment in your faith
  • 00:16:42.216 --> 00:16:44.786
  • Where that gets easier, but i haven't found that yet.
  • 00:16:44.786 --> 00:16:48.556
  • I'm still working on that and working through that.
  • 00:16:48.556 --> 00:16:52.260
  • My mom went to heaven in this past year.
  • 00:16:52.260 --> 00:16:55.797
  • Her gain, a loss for many rest of us.
  • 00:16:55.797 --> 00:17:01.102
  • But i'll celebrate her gain.
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  • I want to close with a story i shared in the previous session
  • 00:17:03.938 --> 00:17:07.775
  • Because i think it's empowering to all of us.
  • 00:17:07.775 --> 00:17:11.546
  • I didn't get through it very well earlier.
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  • I'm gonna try to do a little better on this one.
  • 00:17:14.582 --> 00:17:17.018
  • I borrowed it from chuck swindoll some time ago.
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  • It's the name--it's a story about a young man and a teacher.
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  • The young man was walking through a difficult circumstance
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  • And the teacher made a difference.
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  • The boy's name was teddy, the teacher is mrs. thompson.
  • 00:17:28.329 --> 00:17:31.766
  • And teddy stollard certainly qualified as one of the least.
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  • He was disinterested in school.
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  • His clothes were wrinkled.
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  • He often had kind of a musty odor about him.
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  • His hair was never combed.
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  • He was one of those kids in school with a deadpan face,
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  • Completely expressionless, sort of a glossy, glassy-eyed,
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  • Unfocused stare.
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  • When ms thompson spoke to teddy, he always answered
  • 00:17:53.955 --> 00:17:56.324
  • In monosyllables.
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  • Truthfully, he was unattractive, unmotivated, and undisciplined.
  • 00:17:58.826 --> 00:18:03.030
  • He was just plain hard to love.
  • 00:18:03.030 --> 00:18:06.134
  • Even though his teacher said she loved all of the kids in her
  • 00:18:06.134 --> 00:18:08.669
  • Class, down inside she wasn't being completely truthful
  • 00:18:08.669 --> 00:18:11.973
  • Because whenever she marked teddy's papers, she got a sort
  • 00:18:11.973 --> 00:18:14.308
  • Of perverse pleasure by putting x's next to the wrong answers.
  • 00:18:14.308 --> 00:18:20.014
  • And when the scores supported an f at the top of the page, she
  • 00:18:20.014 --> 00:18:24.785
  • Did it with a bit of flair.
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  • She should have known better.
  • 00:18:27.188 --> 00:18:28.523
  • She had teddy's records.
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  • She knew a bit about his story, and she had some insight
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  • And awareness.
  • 00:18:33.528 --> 00:18:35.163
  • The records were clear.
  • 00:18:35.163 --> 00:18:36.531
  • The first grade said: "teddy shows promise with his work.
  • 00:18:36.531 --> 00:18:40.134
  • And he has a good attitude but a poor home situation."
  • 00:18:40.134 --> 00:18:45.006
  • Second grade, it was: "teddy could do better.
  • 00:18:45.006 --> 00:18:48.176
  • His mother is seriously ill, and he receives little help
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  • At home."
  • 00:18:51.913 --> 00:18:55.149
  • The 3rd grade said: "teddy's a good boy, but he's too serious.
  • 00:18:55.149 --> 00:18:59.820
  • He's a slow learner.
  • 00:18:59.820 --> 00:19:01.856
  • And his mother died this year.
  • 00:19:01.856 --> 00:19:05.193
  • By the 4th grade: "teddy's very slow, but he's well behaved.
  • 00:19:05.193 --> 00:19:10.431
  • And his father shows no interest."
  • 00:19:10.431 --> 00:19:14.402
  • Christmas came that year and the boys and the girls in ms
  • 00:19:14.402 --> 00:19:17.471
  • Thompson's class brought her christmas presents.
  • 00:19:17.471 --> 00:19:21.342
  • They piled their presents on her desk and trotted around to watch
  • 00:19:21.342 --> 00:19:24.145
  • Her open them.
  • 00:19:24.145 --> 00:19:26.013
  • Among the presents there was one from teddy stollard.
  • 00:19:26.013 --> 00:19:29.684
  • She was surprised that he'd brought her a gift, but he had.
  • 00:19:29.684 --> 00:19:32.720
  • Teddy's gift was wrapped with brown paper and held together
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  • With scotch tape.
  • 00:19:35.323 --> 00:19:37.925
  • And on the paper were written the simple words: "for ms.
  • 00:19:37.925 --> 00:19:43.264
  • Thompson, from teddy."
  • 00:19:43.264 --> 00:19:47.235
  • When she opened teddy's present, out fell a gaudy rhinestone
  • 00:19:47.235 --> 00:19:50.538
  • Bracelet with half the stones missing and a bottle of
  • 00:19:50.538 --> 00:19:54.208
  • Cheap perfume."
  • 00:19:54.208 --> 00:19:56.544
  • The other boys and girls began to giggle and smirk at teddy's
  • 00:19:56.544 --> 00:19:59.146
  • Gift, but ms. thompson at least had enough sense to silence them
  • 00:19:59.146 --> 00:20:02.683
  • By immediately putting on the bracelet, and putting some of
  • 00:20:02.683 --> 00:20:06.153
  • The perfume on her wrist.
  • 00:20:06.153 --> 00:20:08.956
  • She held her wrist up for the other children to smell, and she
  • 00:20:08.956 --> 00:20:11.759
  • Said, "doesn't it smell lovely?"
  • 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:14.629
  • The children, taking their cue from the teacher, responded with
  • 00:20:14.629 --> 00:20:17.064
  • Oos and ahs.
  • 00:20:17.064 --> 00:20:19.400
  • At the end of the day, when school was over and the other
  • 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:23.504
  • Children had left, teddy lingered behind.
  • 00:20:23.504 --> 00:20:27.308
  • He slowly came over to her desk, and he said softly, "ms.
  • 00:20:27.308 --> 00:20:33.681
  • Thompson, you smell just like my mother, and her bracelet looks
  • 00:20:33.681 --> 00:20:39.287
  • Real pretty on you.
  • 00:20:39.287 --> 00:20:45.960
  • I'm glad you liked my presents."
  • 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:51.966
  • When teddy left her classroom, ms. thompson got down on her
  • 00:20:51.966 --> 00:20:54.201
  • Knees and she asked god to forgive her.
  • 00:20:54.201 --> 00:20:59.273
  • Next day when the children came to school they were welcomed by
  • 00:20:59.273 --> 00:21:01.842
  • A new teacher.
  • 00:21:01.842 --> 00:21:03.844
  • Ms. thompson had become a different person.
  • 00:21:03.844 --> 00:21:07.515
  • She was no longer just a teacher, she was an agent
  • 00:21:07.515 --> 00:21:09.684
  • Of god.
  • 00:21:09.684 --> 00:21:11.352
  • She was now a person committed to loving her children and doing
  • 00:21:11.352 --> 00:21:13.988
  • Things for them that would live on after her.
  • 00:21:13.988 --> 00:21:17.191
  • She helped all the children, but especially the slow ones.
  • 00:21:17.191 --> 00:21:24.765
  • And especially teddy.
  • 00:21:24.765 --> 00:21:27.401
  • By the end of that school year, teddy showed
  • 00:21:27.401 --> 00:21:29.236
  • Dramatic improvement.
  • 00:21:29.236 --> 00:21:30.771
  • He'd caught up with most of the students and was even ahead
  • 00:21:30.771 --> 00:21:33.441
  • Of some.
  • 00:21:33.441 --> 00:21:34.942
  • Well, the year ended.
  • 00:21:34.942 --> 00:21:36.610
  • She didn't hear from teddy for a long time.
  • 00:21:36.610 --> 00:21:42.750
  • And then one day she received a note: "dear ms. thompson,
  • 00:21:42.750 --> 00:21:48.255
  • I wanted you to be the first to know, i'll be graduating second
  • 00:21:48.255 --> 00:21:53.761
  • In my class.
  • 00:21:53.761 --> 00:21:56.263
  • Love, teddy stollard."
  • 00:21:56.263 --> 00:22:00.201
  • Four years later another note arrived: "dear ms. thompson,
  • 00:22:00.201 --> 00:22:05.373
  • They just told me i'll be graduating first in my class.
  • 00:22:05.373 --> 00:22:13.147
  • I wanted you to be the first to know.
  • 00:22:13.147 --> 00:22:16.117
  • Love, teddy stollard."
  • 00:22:16.117 --> 00:22:18.786
  • Four years later, another note: "dear ms. thompson, as of today,
  • 00:22:18.786 --> 00:22:28.028
  • I am theodore stollard md.
  • 00:22:28.028 --> 00:22:31.499
  • How about that?
  • 00:22:31.499 --> 00:22:34.802
  • I wanted you to be the first to know.
  • 00:22:34.802 --> 00:22:37.872
  • I'm getting married next month, the 27th to be exact.
  • 00:22:37.872 --> 00:22:47.982
  • And i want you to come and sit where my mother would sit if she
  • 00:22:48.048 --> 00:22:51.452
  • Were alive.
  • 00:22:51.452 --> 00:22:55.556
  • You're the only family i have now.
  • 00:22:55.556 --> 00:22:58.325
  • Dad died last year.
  • 00:22:58.325 --> 00:23:00.728
  • Love, teddy."
  • 00:23:00.728 --> 00:23:04.365
  • Well, as you might guess, ms thompson went to that wedding,
  • 00:23:04.365 --> 00:23:09.603
  • And sat where teddy's mother would have sat.
  • 00:23:09.603 --> 00:23:12.773
  • She deserved to be there she'd done something for teddy that he
  • 00:23:12.773 --> 00:23:16.577
  • Could never forget.
  • 00:23:16.577 --> 00:23:21.115
  • If you'll allow me, i would suggest that we all have the
  • 00:23:21.115 --> 00:23:26.520
  • Opportunity to be a ms. thompson in somebody's life.
  • 00:23:26.520 --> 00:23:34.195
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:23:34.195 --> 00:23:36.931
  • And i know it's mother's day and there are reasons to celebrate
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  • And there are reasons to grieve.
  • 00:23:43.471 --> 00:23:46.207
  • That's true of all of us.
  • 00:23:46.207 --> 00:23:48.542
  • But i would encourage you not to miss the opportunities that god
  • 00:23:48.542 --> 00:23:52.346
  • Puts in front of us.
  • 00:23:52.346 --> 00:23:53.714
  • He works through our families, oftentimes in spite of us.
  • 00:23:53.714 --> 00:23:58.219
  • It's worth the effort.
  • 00:23:58.219 --> 00:23:59.587
  • I brought you a prayer.
  • 00:23:59.587 --> 00:24:00.988
  • If you'll stand with me, we can read it together.
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  • Heavenly father, thank you for the mother that you chose
  • 00:24:15.302 --> 00:24:18.772
  • For me.
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  • I trust your grace and mercy.
  • 00:24:20.107 --> 00:24:22.676
  • Today i choose to bless her and to rejoice in the faithfulness
  • 00:24:22.676 --> 00:24:26.347
  • Of my god.
  • 00:24:26.347 --> 00:24:27.948
  • I pray for the families of our nation--strengthen them, awaken
  • 00:24:27.948 --> 00:24:32.319
  • Them to your purposes and protect them from evil.
  • 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:35.789
  • In jesus's name, amen.
  • 00:24:35.789 --> 00:24:38.826
  • God bless you and happy mother's day.
  • 00:24:38.826 --> 00:24:48.102
  • Allen: you know, the most impactful part of faith in my
  • 00:24:52.273 --> 00:24:54.975
  • Life have been those tools that i've learned that enabled me to
  • 00:24:54.975 --> 00:24:58.178
  • Take my faith and actually live it out.
  • 00:24:58.178 --> 00:25:00.848
  • Well, i know as a pastor the things that are most impactful
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  • In the community i serve or the things that the congregation can
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  • Take away from the church building so that they can lead
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  • Them to a thought about an almighty god.
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