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Allen Jackson - God's Plan, God's Promises and God's People (Part 2)

August 4, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - God's Plan, God's Promises and God's People (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - God's Plan, God's Promises and God's People (Part 2) | August 4, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i sat down recently with my father to do a
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  • Podcast for my "culture & christianity" podcast.
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  • And it was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, we--it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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  • As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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  • Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents's life, ultimately my
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  • Family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing the
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  • Power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit, but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis.
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  • To give you the wisdom you need, to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face.
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  • The spirit of god within us to help us, guide us, and direct
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  • Us, that's invaluable, and these books will help you understand.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: in the new testament, the new covenant, it also requires a
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  • Conquest, not of physical territory but of spiritual.
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  • I can easily substantiate this for you in the scripture and we
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  • Will to an extent, but bear with me just a moment because we have
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  • Lived with such stability, such prosperity and a culture with a
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  • Biblical worldview that really hasn't required us to rely upon
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  • God until there was some personal crisis.
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  • A family crisis, a health crisis, some natural disaster
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  • That would bring some unwanted thing to us and then we would
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  • Press in on the lord a bit to cry out to him.
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  • Maybe he is a healer, maybe he is a deliverer, maybe he is a
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  • Restorer, but we really haven't had to live that way because
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  • We've had such abundance, so many freedoms, and so
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  • Many liberties.
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  • But i'm sure you've noticed our world is rapidly changing.
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  • And i believe we're gonna have to grow up in our faith and our
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  • Responses to god.
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  • But we shouldn't act like this is something about just the end
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  • Of the age.
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  • This isn't about just a rapidly approaching rapture.
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  • That may be, i'm not saying it isn't, but that's not exactly, i
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  • Believe, the best way to understand.
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  • I would submit to you that what we're experiencing is the
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  • Challenge to the kingdom of god.
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  • I put a list of bullets in your note, i'm not gonna--notes, i'm
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  • Not gonna take the time to read all the scriptures.
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  • I think you'll recognize the narrative.
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  • You see, the new testament narrative is about our king.
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  • Remember his name?
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  • He's jesus, the one that came from nazareth.
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  • There were many jesuses.
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  • This is the nazareth one.
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  • Our king was falsely accused.
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  • He became the object of irrational hatred.
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  • I mean, he fed multitudes, he made wine out of water, he
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  • Healed the sick, he raised the dead.
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  • You wouldn't imagine that that would elicit great hatred and
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  • Murderous rage, but it did.
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  • It was illogical, and irrational, and ultimately he
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  • Was tortured to death.
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  • And under the pressure of an angry mob and brutal roman
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  • Soldiers, his closest friends and followers abandoned him.
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  • Because they recognized the imminent personal threat.
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  • "too much pressure to be identified with jesus.
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  • We'll go hide."
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  • And then, in spite of jesus telling them it would happen,
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  • Much to the surprise of his closest friends and followers,
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  • God raised jesus back to life.
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  • You may or may not have noticed that jesus only appeared after
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  • The resurrection to his followers.
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  • He only spent time with his friends, those who had believed
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  • In him prior to his res--crucifixion.
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  • His enemies, they imagined they'd had a great victory.
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  • Oh, they celebrated.
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  • The last image that's presented to the non-believers is jesus on
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  • The cross, naked, hungry, and thirsty in one of all
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  • Things—suffocating to death.
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  • And then we read that the spirit of god is poured out upon
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  • Jesus's friends.
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  • And there's some transformation that takes place.
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  • It's difficult to explain the ones who have been like keystone
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  • Cops, and cowardly lions, and bumbling.
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  • They have a new purpose, a new authority, a new boldness, a
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  • New clarity.
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  • And they begin to tell their personal stories of
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  • Knowing jesus.
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  • And there are tremendous responses that begin to emerge.
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  • There are miracles, crowds of people gather.
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  • Growing pains, the systems for interacting with one another are
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  • Stretched because of the new people coming.
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  • Well, it used to be counted in handfuls or counted
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  • In thousands.
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  • And there's a very predictable response to that.
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  • The same people that hated jesus now hate jesus's friends,
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  • They're jealous of them.
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  • And the same hatred pointed at jesus is pointed at them.
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  • They're arrested, they're threatened.
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  • Violence in jerusalem begins again.
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  • Murders of jesus's friends in jerusalem again.
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  • The persecution intensifies to the point that jesus's friends
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  • Are scattered.
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  • They can't stay in a centralized place anymore to survive.
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  • I don't like that.
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  • To be completely candid, that part of the narrative always
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  • Makes me uncomfortable.
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  • How about a line of angels around jesus's friend.
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  • And the first person or the pirst ferson, whichever works.
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  • The first person to touch one of the angels just melts, next.
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  • But that's not what god did.
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  • He sends angels to get peter out of a prison.
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  • And he goes where there's a group of people praying through
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  • The night.
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  • And he said, "i'm okay, but tell the brothers i'm leaving for
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  • A while."
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  • Ah, it's an amazing narrative, persecution results
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  • In dispersion.
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  • There are remarkable results.
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  • All over the roman empire, people are accepting the
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  • Jesus story.
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  • There's miracles, extraordinary miracles, healings, deliverance,
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  • And everywhere the message goes, there's hatred, and accusations,
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  • And arrest, and violence, and riots.
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  • From a prison cell in rome, paul writes letters to churches that
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  • He helped bring into existence, that he helped birth in ephesus,
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  • And colossae.
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  • I gave you just a sampling of the tone of the new testament.
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  • Folks, we've missed this.
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  • Just listen to the tone of romans 8:35, "who shall separate
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  • Us from the love of christ?
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  • Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or
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  • Nakedness or danger or sword?"
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  • What's being implied is that trouble, and hardship, and
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  • Persecution, and famine, and nakedness for the sake of the
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  • Gospel is a part of the package.
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  • And the answer in verse 37, "no, in all of these things we are
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  • More than conquerors through him who loved us."
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  • How--what does it mean to be more than a conqueror?
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  • That's an interesting phrase to me.
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  • I mean, i'm pretty happy.
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  • You know, just being a conqueror is not bad.
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  • We came, we saw, we conquered.
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  • I'm all right with that little paradigm.
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  • What's it mean to be more than a conqueror?
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  • Well, obviously there's some opinion in this, but it seems to
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  • Me that it means after you've conquered, then you plunder.
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  • And you're not only victorious, you leave with all the spoils.
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  • In spite of all these expressions of resistance and
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  • Opposition, we are more than conquerors through him.
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  • 1 corinthians 15, "and as for us, why do we endanger ourselves
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  • Every hour?"
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  • Romans 16, "greet andronicus and junias."
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  • This is the conclusion to the letter of the church at rome.
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  • "greet andronicus and junius, they're my relatives who've been
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  • In prison with me.
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  • They're outstanding among the apostles, and they were in
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  • Christ jesus before i was."
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  • Put that on your resume.
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  • Felon, multiple prison sentences.
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  • 2 timothy 2:3, "endure hardship with us like a good soldier of
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  • Christ jesus."
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  • This isn't some random verse peeled out of a context.
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  • We're talking about physical suffering, abuse, imprisonment,
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  • Hardship, persecution, suffering for the sake of the gospel.
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  • That is the story of the gospels.
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  • It's jesus's story.
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  • It's the story of his closest friends in the book of acts.
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  • It's the story of the people of god, you're reading it, you have
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  • Been reading it.
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  • Through exodus, and leviticus, and numbers, and deuteronomy,
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  • And joshua, and judges, and it's gonna persevere right through
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  • The balance of the story, and it's gonna flow right into the
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  • New covenant.
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  • There's a spiritual conflict in the earth.
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  • And to be a participant in the kingdom of god means you inherit
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  • An adversary.
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  • We don't have to be frightened by that.
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  • I don't think we have to be threatened or intimidated.
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  • We just need to be aware.
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  • It's like driving through alabama, you don't expect to see
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  • Orange and white flags.
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  • You don't have to be frightened or threatened.
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  • The wicked coach is gone.
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  • There's hope again.
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  • If you're from alabama, i repent, it's just.
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  • Such a useful analogy.
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  • God's plan in 2 peter 1.
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  • Remember i said that we have a land defined by the promises
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  • Of god, not a territory, not a region.
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  • Peter understood this.
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  • "his divine power has given us everything we need for life and
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  • Godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own
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  • Glory and goodness.
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  • Through these he's given us his very great and precious
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  • Promises, so that through them you may participate in the
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  • Divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused
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  • By evil desires."
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  • Before you turn the page, there's two statements in that
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  • Passage that are made in the perfect tense.
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  • Which means they are--it's been completely accomplished.
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  • It's punct--it's happened, it's done.
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  • It's already accomplished.
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  • It says, "he has given us everything we need for life
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  • And godliness."
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  • It's been provided.
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  • Everything you and i need for life and godliness, god
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  • Has provided.
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  • "well, i don't have it yet."
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  • That's that timing question we were talking about a minute ago.
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  • It was funny when i didn't like god's timing, it's not so funny
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  • When you don't.
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  • He has given us everything.
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  • You see, the promised land belonged to the descendants of
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  • Abraham, isaac, and jacob long before they moved into it.
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  • It had very little to do with god's will.
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  • It had very little to do with god's intent.
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  • He said, "that land belongs to you.
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  • I'm gonna give you a land that flows with milk and honey, and
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  • This is where the land is.
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  • This is your land."
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  • But multiple generations said, "no, too hard, too difficult,
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  • Too inconvenient.
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  • We'd like an easier way."
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  • What i'm pointing out to you is that occupying who god created
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  • You to be is not a passive response, it's more than
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  • Enduring sermons and singing a little chorus.
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  • We've got this weak version of the church that's not adequate
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  • To bring about the culmination of the age.
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  • It's gonna take a church with courage and boldness.
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  • What did god say to joshua multiple times?
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  • We just read it—half a dozen times in one chapter, "be strong
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  • And courageous; don't be afraid or discouraged."
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  • If god had to say to joshua multiple times, "don't be afraid
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  • Or discouraged," what was joshua?
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  • Frightened and discouraged, moses is gone.
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  • "dude talked with god, his face glowed in the dark, he hung out
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  • With the boss so much.
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  • And he couldn't get us across the finish line.
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  • And now you hand me the baton?
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  • I don't think so."
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  • And god is saying, "joshua, don't be afraid."
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  • "but i am afraid.
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  • But i will trust in you."
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  • Isn't that what the psalm says?
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  • "when i'm afraid, i will trust in you."
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  • Allen: hey, i said that when my father recently did a podcast.
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  • He told the story of how he came to faith, how god transformed
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  • They started a home bible study all the way up to the beginning
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  • Of this church that i've served now for decades as i listened,
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  • The heart of it was the work of the holy spirit in his life and
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  • Allen: in the old testament under a leader named joshua, god
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  • Led his people into a promised land.
  • 00:13:59.587 --> 00:14:02.056
  • In the new testament under the leadership of jesus, god leads
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  • His people into a land of his promises.
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  • In joshua 1:8, you get the ultimate promise god made to
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  • Joshua, "don't let this book of the law depart from your mouth;
  • 00:14:12.800 --> 00:14:16.271
  • Meditate on it day and night, so that you'll be careful to do
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  • Everything written in it."
  • 00:14:19.040 --> 00:14:21.209
  • Imagine that, being careful to do what you read.
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  • What a thought.
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  • "then you'll be prosperous and successful.
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  • Have i not commanded you?
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  • Be strong and courageous."
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  • Did you--god commanded it.
  • 00:14:31.819 --> 00:14:33.388
  • Said, "look, i know you don't feel strong and courageous,
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  • Shut up!"
  • 00:14:35.723 --> 00:14:37.825
  • Can't say shut up.
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  • "i commanded you, be strong and courageous.
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  • Don't be afraid; don't be discouraged, for the lord your
  • 00:14:46.601 --> 00:14:51.806
  • God will be with you wherever you go."
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  • I had a friend, he was a minister, he's in heaven now.
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  • But i remember him saying years ago--he said, "god"--he was
  • 00:15:00.181 --> 00:15:02.717
  • Complaining to the lord about something the lord was asking
  • 00:15:02.717 --> 00:15:04.452
  • Him to do.
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  • And he said god said to him, "didn't i tell you to do it?"
  • 00:15:06.187 --> 00:15:08.723
  • He said, "you sure did, but on monday morning when my enemies
  • 00:15:08.723 --> 00:15:11.159
  • Are looking, they can't find you and they know my address."
  • 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:14.362
  • I know that feeling sometimes.
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  • The promise god made to joshua is the then part.
  • 00:15:20.735 --> 00:15:24.305
  • He said, "if you will do this, if you will meditate on my word
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  • And put it in your mouth, you'll be prosperous and successful."
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  • I can tell you the bible teaches that god is no respecter of
  • 00:15:32.246 --> 00:15:35.316
  • Persons—what he'll do for one, he'll do for another.
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  • If you meet the conditions, god will do for you what he did for
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  • Any of his servants.
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  • They don't get--you can't take it and use it for selfish
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  • Carnal--but nobody really wants to fail.
  • 00:15:47.962 --> 00:15:52.533
  • Each of us is born with a deep desire to succeed.
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  • We fail not because of desire, we fail because of a lack
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  • Of understanding.
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  • Or we fail because we pursue ungodly things.
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  • We pursue ungodly agendas, and we have ungodly goals, and we
  • 00:16:05.713 --> 00:16:09.650
  • Don't get god's help to be ungodly.
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  • You can't behave in an ungodly way, and say jesus every once in
  • 00:16:12.854 --> 00:16:15.623
  • A while, and expect all of heaven to support you.
  • 00:16:15.623 --> 00:16:19.594
  • He told joshua not to let this book depart out of you.
  • 00:16:19.594 --> 00:16:23.064
  • "keep it in front of you, keep it in your heart, keep it in
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  • Your mouth."
  • 00:16:25.666 --> 00:16:27.001
  • The summary of the conditions—it said, "think god's law, speak
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  • God's law, and act god's law."
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  • Rightness in this world is established by god's law, not by
  • 00:16:32.573 --> 00:16:37.845
  • Governments, not by a constitution, not by a
  • 00:16:37.845 --> 00:16:40.748
  • Supreme court.
  • 00:16:40.748 --> 00:16:42.383
  • The church has a message for our world.
  • 00:16:42.383 --> 00:16:44.252
  • There is a right way to be on your journey through time, and
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  • It's derived from an understanding of who god is.
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  • And we're gonna have the courage to deliver that message.
  • 00:16:51.359 --> 00:16:54.062
  • We have to have the courage to believe that message.
  • 00:16:54.062 --> 00:16:57.565
  • Now our revelation in the new covenant is larger.
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  • There's more of--the story's been filled out, but the
  • 00:17:00.334 --> 00:17:02.336
  • Principles are the same.
  • 00:17:02.336 --> 00:17:05.039
  • There's a new testament passage with the requirements for
  • 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.208
  • Entering god's kingdom.
  • 00:17:07.208 --> 00:17:09.243
  • Send your notes, it's romans 10.
  • 00:17:09.243 --> 00:17:11.045
  • Romans is the greatest theological treatise i believe
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  • That's ever been penned.
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  • It's a masterful presentation of the gospel.
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  • And in romans 10, it says, "what does it say?
  • 00:17:17.685 --> 00:17:20.254
  • 'the word is near you; it's in your mouth and in your heart.'"
  • 00:17:20.254 --> 00:17:23.724
  • Sounds a lot like joshua, doesn't it?
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  • "that is, the word of faith we're proclaiming: that if you
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  • Confess with your mouth, 'jesus is lord,' and you believe in
  • 00:17:28.963 --> 00:17:32.100
  • Your heart that god raised him from the dead, you'll be," what?
  • 00:17:32.100 --> 00:17:37.438
  • "saved," saved from what?
  • 00:17:37.438 --> 00:17:39.674
  • From this present evil age.
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  • And you'll become a part of god's eternal kingdom.
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  • We're not just saved from sin, we're delivered out of this
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  • Present evil age.
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  • We change kingdoms.
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  • There was a physical kingdom, you'd have to get a
  • 00:17:53.955 --> 00:17:55.556
  • Different passport.
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  • There'll be no illegal immigrants in the kingdom
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  • Of heaven.
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  • "if you confess with your mouth, 'jesus is lord,'"--and i don't
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  • Mean that as a national thing, it's a spiritual thing.
  • 00:18:09.303 --> 00:18:14.775
  • Don't send me an email.
  • 00:18:14.775 --> 00:18:17.445
  • "if you confess with your mouth, 'jesus is lord,' and believe in
  • 00:18:17.445 --> 00:18:19.881
  • Your heart that god raised with the dead, you will be saved.
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  • For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified,
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  • And it's with your mouth that you confessed and are saved."
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  • It's with our heart that we believe and with our mouth that
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  • We confess.
  • 00:18:29.323 --> 00:18:30.658
  • It takes both parts.
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  • It's what god said to joshua.
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  • Meditate on this, keep it in your heart, and keep it in
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  • Your mouth.
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  • Let it be the words you speak.
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  • Confess—it has something of a specific meaning, i suppose, in
  • 00:18:41.802 --> 00:18:46.407
  • Scripture—is to say the same as.
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  • When we confess what god's word says, we're saying the same with
  • 00:18:49.110 --> 00:18:52.413
  • Our mouth that god says in his word.
  • 00:18:52.413 --> 00:18:54.615
  • We're giving an application in our lives.
  • 00:18:54.615 --> 00:18:56.384
  • It's like repeat after me.
  • 00:18:56.384 --> 00:18:57.952
  • It's like--salvation is an all inclusive word.
  • 00:18:57.952 --> 00:19:01.289
  • It includes all the benefits of jesus's redemptive work,
  • 00:19:01.289 --> 00:19:04.091
  • Everything accomplished through jesus's death, burial,
  • 00:19:04.091 --> 00:19:05.893
  • And resurrection.
  • 00:19:05.893 --> 00:19:07.929
  • It isn't just a ticket to heaven.
  • 00:19:07.929 --> 00:19:11.966
  • We may do the word study before we're done with this.
  • 00:19:11.966 --> 00:19:15.069
  • But the relationship between our mouth and our heart is
  • 00:19:15.069 --> 00:19:17.438
  • Highlighted here.
  • 00:19:17.438 --> 00:19:18.839
  • The way to become convinced of god's truth is to begin to make
  • 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:21.909
  • The right confession.
  • 00:19:21.909 --> 00:19:23.277
  • You believe god's word is true, you humble yourself, and you
  • 00:19:23.277 --> 00:19:26.781
  • Begin to say what god has said.
  • 00:19:26.781 --> 00:19:28.149
  • "i'm a child of the king.
  • 00:19:28.149 --> 00:19:30.218
  • Well, i don't feel like a child of the king.
  • 00:19:30.218 --> 00:19:32.620
  • A lot of times i wanna act like the devil.
  • 00:19:32.620 --> 00:19:35.456
  • But my bible said if i believe with my heart and confess with
  • 00:19:35.456 --> 00:19:38.659
  • My mouth that i could be saved, and i have done that.
  • 00:19:38.659 --> 00:19:42.163
  • And i'm a citizen of the eternal kingdom of god.
  • 00:19:42.163 --> 00:19:46.100
  • God has given me everything i need for life and godliness.
  • 00:19:46.100 --> 00:19:48.703
  • Yet--i haven't unpacked it all yet, but he's given me
  • 00:19:48.703 --> 00:19:50.571
  • Everything i need.
  • 00:19:50.571 --> 00:19:53.107
  • He's given me his eternal promises to help me accomplish
  • 00:19:53.107 --> 00:19:55.876
  • The assignment for which i was created."
  • 00:19:55.876 --> 00:19:58.045
  • That is my confession.
  • 00:19:58.045 --> 00:20:01.015
  • "yeah, but i knew you."
  • 00:20:01.015 --> 00:20:02.350
  • I understand you knew me in another day.
  • 00:20:02.350 --> 00:20:05.920
  • But i believe what god has said."
  • 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:10.091
  • It's the way we establish ourselves in the truths of
  • 00:20:10.091 --> 00:20:12.860
  • God's word.
  • 00:20:12.860 --> 00:20:14.695
  • Now, you can say whatever you want to, if you're living like
  • 00:20:14.695 --> 00:20:16.631
  • The devil, your words aren't gonna undo it.
  • 00:20:16.631 --> 00:20:20.768
  • We said that our rightness is established by what god said,
  • 00:20:20.768 --> 00:20:23.638
  • Not our declarations.
  • 00:20:23.638 --> 00:20:27.008
  • So, we have this huge problem with sin.
  • 00:20:27.008 --> 00:20:30.211
  • And we're gonna talk about it in the next session.
  • 00:20:30.211 --> 00:20:33.314
  • But i'm gonna give you an opportunity to practice what
  • 00:20:33.314 --> 00:20:35.349
  • I preached.
  • 00:20:35.349 --> 00:20:38.352
  • I'm gonna practice with you.
  • 00:20:41.989 --> 00:20:44.892
  • We have mistakenly imagined that sitting in church makes you a
  • 00:20:44.892 --> 00:20:47.461
  • Christ follower.
  • 00:20:47.461 --> 00:20:48.796
  • Folks, it'll be a great shock when we get to the end of the
  • 00:20:48.796 --> 00:20:51.065
  • Age and we're--we have to face judgment.
  • 00:20:51.065 --> 00:20:54.669
  • There are many--there'll be many people who sat in church with
  • 00:20:54.669 --> 00:20:58.005
  • Some regularity.
  • 00:20:58.005 --> 00:21:00.408
  • Jesus already told us what he'll say.
  • 00:21:00.408 --> 00:21:01.776
  • He'll say, "i don't know you."
  • 00:21:01.776 --> 00:21:04.845
  • And they'll say, "but wait a minute, lord, we've even done
  • 00:21:04.845 --> 00:21:07.081
  • Miracles in your name."
  • 00:21:07.081 --> 00:21:09.383
  • And he'll say, "depart from me."
  • 00:21:09.383 --> 00:21:12.219
  • Now, i don't say that as an accusation, i say that because
  • 00:21:12.219 --> 00:21:14.655
  • It sobers me a great deal.
  • 00:21:14.655 --> 00:21:18.726
  • I don't wanna take anything for granted.
  • 00:21:18.726 --> 00:21:20.127
  • I don't wanna live presumptively.
  • 00:21:20.127 --> 00:21:22.163
  • I don't want you to live in great fear of your salvation.
  • 00:21:22.163 --> 00:21:25.366
  • But i do not want you to live with an indulgent arrogance.
  • 00:21:25.366 --> 00:21:31.539
  • So, i'm gonna invite you in just a moment to take those first
  • 00:21:31.539 --> 00:21:34.141
  • Steps with me.
  • 00:21:34.141 --> 00:21:35.476
  • We're gonna believe in our heart and confess with our mouth that
  • 00:21:35.476 --> 00:21:37.411
  • Jesus is lord.
  • 00:21:37.411 --> 00:21:39.513
  • Sitting in church isn't what qualifies you as a christ
  • 00:21:39.513 --> 00:21:41.549
  • Follower, it's what you believe in your heart and what you're
  • 00:21:41.549 --> 00:21:43.351
  • Willing to say, what you're willing to own.
  • 00:21:43.351 --> 00:21:46.287
  • See, you can't deny jesus.
  • 00:21:46.287 --> 00:21:49.090
  • You can't have a group of friends with whom you
  • 00:21:49.090 --> 00:21:50.491
  • Deny jesus.
  • 00:21:50.491 --> 00:21:52.893
  • Can't have a group of people where you maintain your own
  • 00:21:52.893 --> 00:21:54.662
  • Ungodliness, and you roll up with them, and you act like you
  • 00:21:54.662 --> 00:21:56.931
  • Don't know where church is.
  • 00:21:56.931 --> 00:21:58.332
  • You can't do business like a pagan and then run to church.
  • 00:22:02.536 --> 00:22:08.776
  • I understand we struggle with sin.
  • 00:22:08.776 --> 00:22:11.445
  • But there's a difference in the struggle with sin, wrestling
  • 00:22:11.445 --> 00:22:13.614
  • With sin, and practicing sin.
  • 00:22:13.614 --> 00:22:17.585
  • We have to hold the heart of being a christ follower.
  • 00:22:17.585 --> 00:22:20.354
  • We don't earn it, but there's the desire to honor jesus
  • 00:22:20.354 --> 00:22:23.491
  • As lord.
  • 00:22:23.491 --> 00:22:25.326
  • We do it imperfectly.
  • 00:22:25.326 --> 00:22:26.660
  • Think of children pleasing their parents.
  • 00:22:26.660 --> 00:22:29.330
  • Not a perfect experiment.
  • 00:22:29.330 --> 00:22:32.767
  • But there is a desire to do so that enables a relationship to
  • 00:22:32.767 --> 00:22:36.837
  • Grow and flourish.
  • 00:22:36.837 --> 00:22:38.672
  • And what we want to initiate in our lives by acknowledging jesus
  • 00:22:38.672 --> 00:22:43.244
  • Is lord, is a relationship where we say, "as halting as it may be
  • 00:22:43.244 --> 00:22:49.116
  • And as imperfect as i may be, my intent is to honor you.
  • 00:22:49.116 --> 00:22:56.023
  • Now help me."
  • 00:22:56.023 --> 00:22:57.992
  • If you don't intend that, if that's not your intent.
  • 00:22:57.992 --> 00:23:03.564
  • You shouldn't imagine you're a part of the kingdom.
  • 00:23:03.564 --> 00:23:07.334
  • You can be an inquirer, you can be curious, those are all good
  • 00:23:07.334 --> 00:23:11.539
  • Places, they're better than having no interest.
  • 00:23:11.539 --> 00:23:14.809
  • But i don't want you to confuse the points.
  • 00:23:14.809 --> 00:23:18.612
  • Be a christ follower--says, "i believe in my heart that jesus
  • 00:23:18.612 --> 00:23:21.849
  • Of nazareth is the son of god."
  • 00:23:21.849 --> 00:23:24.852
  • And i will say it out of my mouth, not just in church.
  • 00:23:24.852 --> 00:23:29.557
  • And you see, if you make that connection, then the next
  • 00:23:29.557 --> 00:23:32.226
  • Logical statement is, "well, how could i please him?"
  • 00:23:32.226 --> 00:23:36.597
  • Lord, help me know how to do that.
  • 00:23:36.597 --> 00:23:39.166
  • So, i wanna invite you towards that step with me.
  • 00:23:39.166 --> 00:23:41.869
  • If you've prayed--if you've done it a thousand times, a thousand
  • 00:23:41.869 --> 00:23:44.038
  • And one won't hurt you.
  • 00:23:44.038 --> 00:23:46.474
  • But you need to know how to help somebody else.
  • 00:23:46.474 --> 00:23:48.242
  • We need the power of god in our lives.
  • 00:23:51.612 --> 00:23:55.049
  • Darkness is more bold, more brazen, more intrusive than i've
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  • Ever seen it in my lifetime.
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  • We have to meet that with our own determination to honor
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  • The lord.
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  • Joshua couldn't lead his friends across the jordan river, and go
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  • Knock on the doors of jericho, and say, "god said we're
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  • Supposed to live here.
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  • We have a deed."
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  • It required more than that.
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  • And it will require more than us having a theoretical faith, in
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  • Order for the kingdom of god to be expressed through our lives.
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  • Will you stand with me? i'm gonna lead you in a prayer.
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  • I put it in your notes so you wouldn't have to ask me later,
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  • But i'm not gonna read it to you.
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  • I'm gonna let you repeat it after me.
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  • And if what i pray is not exactly like the one in your
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  • Notes, the one in your notes is right.
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  • Take a picture of it, put it in your phone.
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  • Whatever you do to keep something with you.
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  • Know how to help somebody into the kingdom of god.
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  • Okay, just repeat this prayer with me, "almighty god, i'm a
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  • Sinner and i need to savior.
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  • I believe jesus is your son, that he died on a cross for my
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  • Sin and that you raised him to life again that i might
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  • Be justified.
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  • Forgive me of my sins.
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  • I forgive all those who've sinned against me.
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  • Jesus, i choose you as lord.
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  • Lord of all that i am.
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  • All that i have.
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  • All that i'll ever be.
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  • I wanna honor you with my life.
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  • I want to serve you with my days.
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  • May you be pleased with me, amen."
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  • Hallelujah, can you give the lord a hand?
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Allen: we'll unpack some more of the promises in the
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  • Next session, i promise, okay.
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  • Cc by aberdeen captioning 1-800-688-6621 www.aberdeen.io
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  • Allen: yeah, i got a question, what's the eternal breath
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  • Of life?
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  • Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote.
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  • When i sat down to do a podcast with him and i was listening to
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  • His story about how god had moved in his life and my
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  • Family's life all the way up to the beginning of the church that
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  • I've served now for several decades, i was so reminded of
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  • The purpose and the power of the spirit of god in our lives,
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  • I asked him to put it in a book.
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  • That's what we're sharing with you.
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  • We all need god's help, we all face challenges.
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  • Life's not easy no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
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  • Is present within us to bring the power and purposes of god to
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  • Bear in our lives.
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  • I believe the book will be a blessing with--for you.
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  • You'll pair it with "unleashing the power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's one of the most effective tools we have.
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  • It'll give you a pathway that i believe will bring god's best
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  • Into your family.
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  • You may not plan a church, but you have been given the
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  • Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god, and we need
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  • The help of the holy spirit.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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