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Allen Jackson - Good and Evil on Display (Part 1)

March 18, 2025 | S25:E80

Allen Jackson - Good and Evil on Display (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Good and Evil on Display (Part 1) | March 18, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: our topic is a continuation of a study we've
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  • Been doing, "angels, demons and you."
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  • They exist, angels and demons as a theoretical discussion isn't
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  • Particularly interesting to me.
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  • Angels, demons, and you, that intrigues me.
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  • I assure you that today spiritual forces have impacted
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  • Your life already.
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  • Doesn't require consciousness on your part for that to be true
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  • Any more than you have to be conscious of a virus or
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  • A bacteria.
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  • We have ignored this for far too long to our own detriment, and i
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  • Believe god is awakening us to a new season.
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  • In this session, i wanna talk about good and evil on display.
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  • I think what's most important to understand with that is when
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  • Good and evil are on display, you have a choice to make.
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  • And to make no choice is to make a choice.
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  • And we happen to live in a time where good and evil are being
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  • Very clearly presented.
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  • The middle's in trouble.
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  • The gray area is really almost completely disappeared.
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  • We created this kind of new class of neutral, you know, it's
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  • Not good or bad, it's kind of gray.
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  • I think that's really kind of evaporated.
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  • Like a morning mist in tennessee when the sun comes up, and good
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  • And evil are on display and we have a choice to be made.
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  • The reality of spiritual forces and their influence upon our
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  • Lives is plainly presented in scripture.
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  • It's not a subtext, it is the story, the opening words of the
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  • Bible is, "in the beginning, god created the heavens and
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  • The earth."
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  • A spiritual force gave rise to the matter of this world and the
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  • Universe that we know.
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  • We, those of us in the church have drifted far from the
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  • Biblical presentation of our world, we have been deeply, so
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  • Deeply influenced by the secular ideas.
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  • That the result in the church, and i spent my adult life in the
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  • Church, my professional life in the church, we've adopted an
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  • Easy believism
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  • Which for the most part has removed scriptural authority, we
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  • Judge scripture instead of allowing scripture to judge us.
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  • We've removed scriptural authority and personal service
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  • To our king.
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  • We've replaced it with personal salvation.
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  • "i'm saved, therefore i don't have to serve anybody but me."
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  • It's a false gospel.
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  • Spiritual forces are influencing our life on a daily basis.
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  • And with that statement, i have a question, do you have a plan
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  • For cooperating with god and for resisting evil?
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  • If not, you're just careening through life.
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  • Jesus, when he taught us to pray, included this in the
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  • Prayer, "lead us not into temptation but deliver us
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  • From evil."
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  • When our lord began to teach us to pray, he opened, i believe
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  • Every sentence in that prayer is really a file drawer of a whole
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  • Type of prayer, and he introduced this idea that we
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  • Have to address evil and the temptation it brings and the
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  • Destruction that it represents.
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  • I believe we've reached the pivot point in our journey, god
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  • Has raised up voices for truth, and from my perspective, he's
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  • Doing it from the most unlikely places.
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  • Now we have to choose if we will align ourselves with the values
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  • Of scripture or if we will remain silent, and understand
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  • This, to remain silent is to side with evil, we have a choice
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  • To make.
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  • There's a struggle underway, are you watching?
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  • In my opinion, we're engaged in a conflict that's analogous to a
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  • Couple of other points in american history.
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  • One would have been the american revolution and the other was the
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  • Civil war.
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  • I'm not suggesting we're on the precipice of taking up arms, but
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  • I am suggesting to you that this season will prove to be as
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  • Definitive in the future for ourselves and our families and
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  • Their families after them as those two critical periods have
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  • Proven to be.
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  • There's a great divide right now in our nation, and it's
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  • Initiated not by politics or economics or race or gender,
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  • That divide has been initiated by worldview, and it's so
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  • Polarizing that negotiations really aren't reasonable.
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  • Jesus didn't call us to be unified with darkness.
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  • He said light and darkness don't have anything in common.
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  • He said, "i didn't come to bring unity, i came to
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  • Bring division."
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  • And if you think you can be united with evil as an
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  • Expression of godliness, you're deceived.
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  • You don't have to be angry or belligerent, you certainly don't
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  • Need to be violent, but folks, we've been compromising for far
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  • Too long.
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  • We've compromised ourselves almost out the door.
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  • So i have some questions, are you engaged or are
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  • You complaining?
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  • Do you know with whom you are aligned?
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  • Is it clear to the people who know you know with whom
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  • You're aligned?
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  • How do you understand what is happening?
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  • Do you imagine it to be a political struggle, a debate
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  • About economic resources?
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  • Is it primarily a racial conflict?
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  • Is it about national sovereignty?
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  • How do you understand?
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  • Maybe even more germane, do you even care?
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  • I find the prevailing attitude to be, they just like the
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  • Tension to dissipate.
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  • And if they could ask for one more thing, could the price of
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  • Eggs and gasoline go down, please?
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  • I just wanna stay focused on my personal agenda.
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  • I'm confident that i'm born again, that i've entered into
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  • The kingdom of god, that i've been saved, and the rest of that
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  • Stuff, i just don't want to engage.
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  • Well, how you answer these questions is very important,
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  • Not just for your journey through time, but for
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  • Your eternity.
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  • Honoring god and cooperating with him provides the best
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  • Possible outcome for human beings in our world.
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  • That's not a statement that will get much support amongst the
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  • Conventional wisdom of this generation.
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  • I want to say it again, that honoring god and cooperating
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  • With him provides the best possible outcome for a human
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  • Being in this world.
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  • If you're doing the daily bible reading with us, and if you're
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  • Not, why not?
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  • What exactly, never mind, i've said that enough.
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  • Join us, at the moment we're in the gospel of john, and the
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  • Study today really comes from that daily reading.
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  • It wasn't my plan, i'd written another lesson, but as i was
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  • Doing the reading this week, it just seemed too important to
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  • Walk past it.
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  • In john's gospel there's a tremendous tension.
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  • If you kind of step into the narrative, when i read the pages
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  • Like that, i try to imagine i'm in the crowd.
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  • I'll put myself in different positions.
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  • I'll say, you know, if i was a pharisee, how would i respond
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  • To that?
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  • If i was one of the chief priests, what would i think
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  • About this?
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  • If i was one of the disciples that jesus recruited, what would
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  • My comment be?
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  • So i kind of get up and move around different chairs.
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  • I'll freeze the scene and move to the--another chair and then
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  • I'll hit play again.
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  • By the time i've walked through john's gospel, there was
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  • Something alive about it that i think is relevant and very
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  • Analogous to our season.
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  • And i'll start with the very prevalence of
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  • Demonic opposition.
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  • I don't think there's another way to understand
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  • What's happening.
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  • It can't fully be explained in terms of politics or power.
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  • Other explanations are just insufficient.
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  • The jewish people are waiting for a messiah.
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  • Jesus fulfills dozens of prophecies, not one or two,
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  • Dozens and dozens of prophecies.
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  • He's performing miracles of a magnitude that until this day
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  • We'll talk about something being a biblical proportion if it's
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  • Beyond the imagination.
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  • He's walking on the water and turning water into wine and
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  • Raising the dead and opening the eyes of people born blind,
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  • No parallels.
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  • And there are many people who believe and follow, and yet
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  • There is stubborn, unrelenting hatred.
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  • Why would you hate on somebody that's opening the eyes of
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  • People who were born blind?
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  • It's irrational, when you see something that's irrational and
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  • Illogical and so destructive,
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  • Understand beneath that is something demonic, an evil
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  • Spiritual force.
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  • It isn't just political or economic.
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  • You find in the gospel, there's no willingness to negotiate.
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  • There's no search for common ground.
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  • "we have to shut this down," they say over and over again.
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  • Sounds a great deal like the world we live in,
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  • It's irrational.
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  • Why would we offer up our children as sacrifices before
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  • They ever draw a breath and call it choice?
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  • Why would we mutilate our teenagers without
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  • Parental approval?
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  • And call it enlightenment, it's demonic.
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  • And we're reluctant to use our voices, but we're not unique.
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  • Wait till we look at john.
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  • In john chapter 7, jesus speaks very plainly about another
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  • Dimension, and when i talk about angels, demons, and you, we've
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  • Got to cross over.
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  • We live so fully engaged in this world that's defined by our five
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  • Senses that we've almost totally denied the existence of a
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  • Spiritual world in the church.
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  • Oh, we'll talk about it in the first century, somehow unique to
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  • Their worldview, but we're more sophisticated now, more
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  • Sophisticated than jesus, are we?
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  • More sophisticated than god, the creator of heaven and earth.
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  • You'll believe in a big bang where something came from
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  • Nothing, but you won't believe in god.
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  • It's demonic, and those demonic forces are still present in
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  • Our world.
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  • Jesus clearly talks about being sent from somewhere else by
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  • Someone who's there.
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  • He said, "i came into this world sent by my father."
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  • He talks about this world as if it's a destination on a cruise.
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  • "i'm from another realm," he says.
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  • "i'm the king of a kingdom, but not of this world," he says.
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  • The chief priest want jesus arrested, it's a
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  • Demonic response.
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  • He is their messiah.
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  • Ah, you can give me these shallow explanations, and it was
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  • About power and economics, but that's really not adequate,
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  • The hatred they demonstrate.
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  • In the same scene, we'll see it repeatedly, there are people who
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  • Believe, and people who demand his arrest.
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  • I want us to be sure we see that because we're living in a very
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  • Similar time, there's a parallel.
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  • We live in a time where within the churches there are people
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  • Go, that's godly and there are other people go, that's evil,
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  • You got to choose.
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  • You better understand which spirit is influencing you.
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  • There's a lot of things being pushed as biblical that have
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  • Nothing to do with the biblical worldview
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  • By people who have significant credentials.
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  • You better know your bible.
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  • That's why reading the bible is so important.
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  • John chapter 7 and verse 28, we're just gonna walk through
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  • The gospel together.
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  • "jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out."
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  • The language is important, he's crying out, there's a desperate
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  • Tone to it.
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  • "yes, you know me, and you know where i'm from, but i'm not here
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  • On my own.
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  • He who sent me is true, but you don't know him.
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  • I know him because i am from him and he sent me."
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  • Again, jesus is having a dimensional conversation
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  • With them.
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  • It's going past most of them.
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  • These are the covenant people of god he's talking to.
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  • These aren't, if we used it in a contemporary setting, he's
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  • Talking to church folks.
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  • People that that have taught sunday school classes and they
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  • Volunteered, they're fully engaged.
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  • This particular group of people keep the kosher rules, they keep
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  • All the right holidays, passover and sukkot, and they support the
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  • Temple in jerusalem and they're used to the daily sacrifices.
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  • They know all the stuff just like a fully engaged church
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  • Person would today.
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  • But they can't see what god is doing right in front of them.
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  • Is it possible, is it possible god could do something and we
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  • Could miss it?
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  • If your answer is no, you're already deceived.
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  • If you're not on a regular basis saying, "god, help me to see,
  • 00:12:19.030 --> 00:12:22.600
  • Give me an understanding heart."
  • 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:25.870
  • We're lost, the evidence of our light being dim is all
  • 00:12:25.870 --> 00:12:30.608
  • Around us.
  • 00:12:30.608 --> 00:12:32.310
  • Verse 29, jesus said, "'i know him because i am from him, and
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  • He sent me,' and at this, they tried to," what?
  • 00:12:35.313 --> 00:12:40.285
  • "seize him."
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  • They want to arrest him?
  • 00:12:43.454 --> 00:12:45.456
  • They're so angered by what he just said, "but no one laid a
  • 00:12:45.456 --> 00:12:48.960
  • Hand on him, because his time had not yet come."
  • 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:51.262
  • That's an interesting, see john's writing this after
  • 00:12:51.262 --> 00:12:53.765
  • The fact.
  • 00:12:53.765 --> 00:12:55.166
  • This isn't a video loop, you're not watching it in real time.
  • 00:12:55.166 --> 00:12:58.970
  • John writes it down after the fact that he puts in what he's
  • 00:12:58.970 --> 00:13:01.973
  • Come to understand.
  • 00:13:01.973 --> 00:13:03.908
  • It's an insertion into the narrative.
  • 00:13:03.908 --> 00:13:06.311
  • And he said, "they wanted to seize him, but they couldn't
  • 00:13:06.311 --> 00:13:09.581
  • Because his time had not yet come."
  • 00:13:09.581 --> 00:13:12.116
  • There's a time when they came to seize him and john was there in
  • 00:13:12.116 --> 00:13:14.652
  • The garden, they came to get jesus.
  • 00:13:14.652 --> 00:13:18.389
  • And to the disciples's amazement,
  • 00:13:18.389 --> 00:13:19.724
  • This time they took him away.
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  • Remember what it says, when they came to arrest him and jesus
  • 00:13:23.261 --> 00:13:25.763
  • Turned and spoke to him, the guards that came were knocked
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  • Backwards to the ground.
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  • You kind of see the knowing looks amongst the disciples,
  • 00:13:29.901 --> 00:13:32.136
  • Yeah, this isn't gonna work well for them.
  • 00:13:32.136 --> 00:13:35.273
  • Until they took jesus away in chains.
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  • It's a bigger shock because they've seen him time after time
  • 00:13:38.877 --> 00:13:41.579
  • When it wasn't yet his time.
  • 00:13:41.579 --> 00:13:44.649
  • And so the powers of this age didn't have the authority
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  • Over him.
  • 00:13:48.987 --> 00:13:51.990
  • Look at the next verse.
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  • No one laid a hand on him because his time had not
  • 00:13:53.324 --> 00:13:54.926
  • Yet come.
  • 00:13:54.926 --> 00:13:56.261
  • "still, many in the crowd put their faith in him.
  • 00:13:56.261 --> 00:13:59.030
  • They said, 'when the messiah comes, will he do more
  • 00:13:59.030 --> 00:14:00.798
  • Miraculous signs than this man?'
  • 00:14:00.798 --> 00:14:04.402
  • And the pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things
  • 00:14:04.402 --> 00:14:06.938
  • About him, and the chief priest in the pharisees sent temple
  • 00:14:06.938 --> 00:14:09.841
  • Guards to arrest him."
  • 00:14:09.841 --> 00:14:12.443
  • There's some in the crowd going, "it certainly looks legitimate
  • 00:14:12.443 --> 00:14:16.080
  • To me.
  • 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.349
  • It's important, i think this is good stuff."
  • 00:14:18.349 --> 00:14:20.285
  • And there's others saying, "it couldn't be good stuff, we're
  • 00:14:20.285 --> 00:14:24.022
  • With the power brokers."
  • 00:14:24.022 --> 00:14:27.025
  • There's a lot of division, some want to arrest him, some wanna
  • 00:14:27.025 --> 00:14:30.561
  • Follow him.
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  • Even in jesus's day folks.
  • 00:14:32.997 --> 00:14:34.999
  • Why do we think the spiritual conflict will lessen as we
  • 00:14:34.999 --> 00:14:37.435
  • Approach the end of the age?
  • 00:14:37.435 --> 00:14:38.770
  • The bible tells us just the opposite, that it
  • 00:14:38.770 --> 00:14:40.438
  • Will intensify.
  • 00:14:40.438 --> 00:14:42.507
  • There'll be greater division, you'll have to know the truth.
  • 00:14:42.507 --> 00:14:46.911
  • You'll have to know the truth, you know, the introduction of ai
  • 00:14:46.911 --> 00:14:49.147
  • Is making the manipulation of communication much, much easier.
  • 00:14:49.147 --> 00:14:52.150
  • It's harder to know what's authentic and what is not.
  • 00:14:52.150 --> 00:14:55.853
  • The same is true with the truth.
  • 00:14:55.853 --> 00:15:00.959
  • Allen: i believe god is moving in the earth in an unprecedented
  • 00:15:05.163 --> 00:15:08.099
  • Way and at the heart of that is an awakening, it's a shaking,
  • 00:15:08.099 --> 00:15:12.103
  • And in that shaking, there's a sifting.
  • 00:15:12.103 --> 00:15:13.738
  • There are people falling through the cracks and there are people
  • 00:15:13.738 --> 00:15:15.873
  • Becoming more alert and aware of what god is doing.
  • 00:15:15.873 --> 00:15:18.943
  • At the heart of that is the acknowledgment, the realization
  • 00:15:18.943 --> 00:15:22.513
  • That spiritual forces shape our lives.
  • 00:15:22.513 --> 00:15:25.550
  • Folks, this isn't for the lunatic fringe, this isn't for
  • 00:15:25.550 --> 00:15:28.519
  • The hyper-spiritual people.
  • 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:30.955
  • This is the stuff of the bible and it better be the stuff of
  • 00:15:30.955 --> 00:15:33.391
  • Our lives or we are in a tremendous deficit position.
  • 00:15:33.391 --> 00:15:37.929
  • Well, i've written a book, "angels, demons and you."
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  • Simply a biblical review of those spiritual forces that are
  • 00:15:40.598 --> 00:15:43.868
  • Impacting us today, there's a battle in the earth and it's not
  • 00:15:43.868 --> 00:15:47.238
  • Between armies wearing the labels of nations or terrorist
  • 00:15:47.238 --> 00:15:50.141
  • Groups, it's a spiritual battle.
  • 00:15:50.141 --> 00:15:52.377
  • If you don't understand, if you don't understand the equipment
  • 00:15:52.377 --> 00:15:54.979
  • And the authority you've been given, you are at a tremendous
  • 00:15:54.979 --> 00:15:58.583
  • Position of forfeiture.
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  • Don't live that way, "angels, demons and you," you need
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  • The solution.
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  • Female announcer: loneliness, depression, despair, they all
  • 00:16:05.723 --> 00:16:09.027
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  • 00:16:09.027 --> 00:16:10.628
  • We're in a spiritual battle, and the forces of evil stand against
  • 00:16:10.628 --> 00:16:14.198
  • Us, but we don't need to be afraid, we need to prepare.
  • 00:16:14.198 --> 00:16:18.202
  • Allen: jesus said the children have angels assigned to them
  • 00:16:18.202 --> 00:16:20.772
  • That have the father's attention.
  • 00:16:20.772 --> 00:16:22.340
  • It's safe to say that in the kingdom of god there are
  • 00:16:22.340 --> 00:16:25.443
  • Spiritual beings in significant number.
  • 00:16:25.443 --> 00:16:30.014
  • And they're ministering spirits, the bible says, sent forth to
  • 00:16:30.014 --> 00:16:33.151
  • Help us.
  • 00:16:33.151 --> 00:16:34.819
  • They're messengers, they fill the pages of scripture, and yet
  • 00:16:34.819 --> 00:16:37.789
  • We tend to kind of imagine as if it's peripheral, secondary, that
  • 00:16:37.789 --> 00:16:41.859
  • You could be a christ follower, not really be engaged or have to
  • 00:16:41.859 --> 00:16:44.662
  • Imagine spiritual forces.
  • 00:16:44.662 --> 00:16:46.697
  • We believe in organizations.
  • 00:16:46.697 --> 00:16:49.333
  • Well, so do i, i like a good plan and i like an organization
  • 00:16:49.333 --> 00:16:53.838
  • That is run well, but i don't want to--it's not an either or
  • 00:16:53.838 --> 00:16:57.075
  • Equation and i certainly don't want to exchange the power of
  • 00:16:57.075 --> 00:17:01.279
  • God and the spiritual help that he's made available to us for
  • 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:04.315
  • The imagination that we can out-organize evil.
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  • Allen: john chapter 10.
  • 00:18:36.374 --> 00:18:38.643
  • Jesus again, "don't believe me unless i do what my father says.
  • 00:18:38.643 --> 00:18:42.547
  • But if i do it, even though you don't believe me, believe the
  • 00:18:42.547 --> 00:18:45.149
  • Miracles that you may know and understand that the father is in
  • 00:18:45.149 --> 00:18:48.252
  • Me and i am the father."
  • 00:18:48.252 --> 00:18:50.288
  • He said, "listen, if you don't believe me, look at
  • 00:18:50.288 --> 00:18:52.223
  • The evidence."
  • 00:18:52.223 --> 00:18:53.591
  • He said, "something's happening that you can't do.
  • 00:18:53.591 --> 00:18:57.228
  • There's something working on my behalf."
  • 00:18:57.228 --> 00:18:59.997
  • In verse 39, "and again they tried to seize him, but he
  • 00:18:59.997 --> 00:19:05.069
  • Escaped their grasp.
  • 00:19:05.069 --> 00:19:08.406
  • Then jesus went back across the jordan to the place where john
  • 00:19:08.406 --> 00:19:11.175
  • Had been baptizing in early days.
  • 00:19:11.175 --> 00:19:13.678
  • And here he stayed and many people came to him and they
  • 00:19:13.678 --> 00:19:15.947
  • Said, 'though john never performed a miraculous sign, all
  • 00:19:15.947 --> 00:19:18.783
  • That john said about this man was true.'
  • 00:19:18.783 --> 00:19:21.519
  • And in that place, many believed in jesus."
  • 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:25.189
  • Many wanted to arrest him, many powerful people, but there are
  • 00:19:25.189 --> 00:19:30.294
  • Many who believe in him.
  • 00:19:30.294 --> 00:19:31.696
  • See, i think we've been waiting for a revival where
  • 00:19:31.696 --> 00:19:33.965
  • Everybody's in,
  • 00:19:33.965 --> 00:19:36.234
  • So it doesn't require us to stand out.
  • 00:19:36.234 --> 00:19:39.470
  • We're praying for this awakening where everybody, all of our
  • 00:19:39.470 --> 00:19:41.872
  • Friends and our peers and everybody that goes to a church
  • 00:19:41.872 --> 00:19:44.909
  • And everybody we've ever known, they're all going, "oh yeah, i
  • 00:19:44.909 --> 00:19:47.111
  • Love jesus."
  • 00:19:47.111 --> 00:19:50.281
  • Because it won't require anything of us except to kind of
  • 00:19:50.281 --> 00:19:52.149
  • Swim along in the stream and go, "oh, me too."
  • 00:19:52.149 --> 00:19:56.854
  • That's really not what the bible shows us even when jesus
  • 00:19:56.854 --> 00:19:59.257
  • Was here.
  • 00:19:59.257 --> 00:20:00.625
  • Very polarizing, people happy, people being blessed, people are
  • 00:20:00.625 --> 00:20:05.162
  • Experiencing god, people are very angry, very condemning on
  • 00:20:05.162 --> 00:20:09.233
  • Multiple occasions, it says they sent people to try to
  • 00:20:09.233 --> 00:20:11.535
  • Entrap jesus.
  • 00:20:11.535 --> 00:20:13.170
  • That sounds contemporary.
  • 00:20:13.170 --> 00:20:16.841
  • "can you find something about him we can accuse him for?
  • 00:20:16.841 --> 00:20:18.776
  • Go search through his background, do a deep dive into
  • 00:20:18.776 --> 00:20:20.945
  • His background.
  • 00:20:20.945 --> 00:20:22.313
  • What can we accuse him of?"
  • 00:20:22.313 --> 00:20:26.651
  • Very much like what we're watching.
  • 00:20:26.651 --> 00:20:29.020
  • I would submit to you that there are miraculous signs happening
  • 00:20:29.020 --> 00:20:31.455
  • All around us, around us of biblical proportion.
  • 00:20:31.455 --> 00:20:36.594
  • But it doesn't remove us from the struggle, and it doesn't
  • 00:20:36.594 --> 00:20:38.996
  • Mean we always get easy solutions.
  • 00:20:38.996 --> 00:20:41.332
  • And the fact that one person experienced a miracle doesn't
  • 00:20:41.332 --> 00:20:43.434
  • Mean we all get one.
  • 00:20:43.434 --> 00:20:44.769
  • The man who was born blind and was healed in jerusalem, i
  • 00:20:44.769 --> 00:20:47.238
  • Promise you there were other blind people in jerusalem.
  • 00:20:47.238 --> 00:20:50.808
  • When jesus walked up to the pools of bethesda and he healed
  • 00:20:50.808 --> 00:20:53.144
  • A man that had been 38 years sick.
  • 00:20:53.144 --> 00:20:56.614
  • He didn't heal everybody at the pool, he walked away.
  • 00:20:56.614 --> 00:21:01.152
  • There's miracles happening around today.
  • 00:21:01.152 --> 00:21:02.920
  • If we will believe it, if we'll open our hearts amongst us, our
  • 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:06.424
  • Little congregation, our little community of believers.
  • 00:21:06.424 --> 00:21:10.328
  • We showed you a clip from a podcast, we post one
  • 00:21:10.328 --> 00:21:12.530
  • Every friday.
  • 00:21:12.530 --> 00:21:13.864
  • I've come to really enjoy those conversations.
  • 00:21:13.864 --> 00:21:15.633
  • We're interviewing people for whom god is doing
  • 00:21:15.633 --> 00:21:17.601
  • Remarkable things.
  • 00:21:17.601 --> 00:21:20.004
  • I sat down a few weeks ago with the two brothers, they're twins.
  • 00:21:20.004 --> 00:21:23.240
  • One of them had taken his brother to the doctor for a
  • 00:21:26.210 --> 00:21:28.612
  • Simple procedure, and before he got to the doctor's office,
  • 00:21:28.612 --> 00:21:31.182
  • He collapsed.
  • 00:21:31.182 --> 00:21:33.517
  • His heart quit, and it took way too long to get him
  • 00:21:33.517 --> 00:21:37.788
  • Resuscitated, almost a half an hour.
  • 00:21:37.788 --> 00:21:43.160
  • They said he's--they managed to get his heart going in, but i
  • 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:46.030
  • Was there by that time when the doctor came in and said he was
  • 00:21:46.030 --> 00:21:48.065
  • Gone too long.
  • 00:21:48.065 --> 00:21:50.735
  • We're gonna keep him sedated for a while, we don't know what the
  • 00:21:50.735 --> 00:21:54.538
  • Outcome will be, but i don't wanna give you any reason
  • 00:21:54.538 --> 00:21:57.775
  • For hope.
  • 00:21:57.775 --> 00:21:59.810
  • When they woke him up four days later, this is in the words of
  • 00:21:59.810 --> 00:22:02.646
  • His brother.
  • 00:22:02.646 --> 00:22:04.382
  • Well, he's as normal as he's ever been.
  • 00:22:04.382 --> 00:22:11.255
  • He did, they woke him up, they asked him a question, he
  • 00:22:15.393 --> 00:22:17.395
  • Answered the question like a smart aleck, and his brother
  • 00:22:17.395 --> 00:22:19.296
  • Said, "he's fine, let us go home."
  • 00:22:19.296 --> 00:22:20.865
  • They hand out bulletins in the church.
  • 00:22:23.901 --> 00:22:26.437
  • You walk by lazarus every week?
  • 00:22:26.437 --> 00:22:29.573
  • And people go, well, i don't believe in miracles.
  • 00:22:29.573 --> 00:22:31.242
  • Well, i can introduce you to one.
  • 00:22:31.242 --> 00:22:33.411
  • I can introduce you to several, we did a podcast a few weeks ago
  • 00:22:33.411 --> 00:22:35.913
  • With brad arnold, he's the lead singer of 3 doors down.
  • 00:22:35.913 --> 00:22:40.351
  • Do you know them?
  • 00:22:40.351 --> 00:22:41.685
  • Some of you do, you just don't want to admit it in church.
  • 00:22:41.685 --> 00:22:43.621
  • It's a rock band.
  • 00:22:43.621 --> 00:22:46.090
  • He was one of the founding members.
  • 00:22:46.090 --> 00:22:47.425
  • He's been with him a long time, a lot of success, lot
  • 00:22:47.425 --> 00:22:49.860
  • Of success.
  • 00:22:49.860 --> 00:22:51.395
  • He said "we achieved everything i could imagine really
  • 00:22:51.395 --> 00:22:53.798
  • Professionally," he said, "but i was in a desperate place."
  • 00:22:53.798 --> 00:22:56.767
  • He was on tour. he tells it in the podcast.
  • 00:22:56.767 --> 00:22:58.102
  • He says, "were on tour in japan."
  • 00:22:58.102 --> 00:23:00.638
  • And he said, "i really came to the end of myself."
  • 00:23:00.638 --> 00:23:02.907
  • He said, "i wasn't sure there was a reason to go on anymore."
  • 00:23:02.907 --> 00:23:06.243
  • And he said, "i tried to find somebody back in the states
  • 00:23:06.243 --> 00:23:08.112
  • That would talk to me."
  • 00:23:08.112 --> 00:23:09.447
  • And he said, "nobody was answering my call," but he said,
  • 00:23:09.447 --> 00:23:10.915
  • "charlie daniels answered."
  • 00:23:10.915 --> 00:23:14.351
  • Now, and this is what he said.
  • 00:23:14.351 --> 00:23:15.686
  • He said, "brad, do you love your wife?"
  • 00:23:15.686 --> 00:23:17.054
  • And he said, "i do."
  • 00:23:17.054 --> 00:23:18.389
  • And he said, "then why are you killing your husband?"
  • 00:23:18.389 --> 00:23:20.458
  • He was an addict with all sorts of problems.
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  • He said, "you need to get home.
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  • Get your life straight, get your faith in its place."
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  • And he did, he's had a remarkable transformation in
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  • His life.
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  • You know what he's doing now in his concerts?
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  • I watched, i watched the clip, madison square garden, filled
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  • With people to hear 3 doors down.
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  • I mean that's not usually like the audience that wants to hear
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  • From the gospel.
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  • And he stopped and in the most humble, gentle way told them
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  • About his faith.
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  • We say we can't take jesus to work with us and he's taking him
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  • To concerts.
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  • I interviewed granger smith in one of those podcasts, church,
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  • Country musician, platinum albums, a lot of success and
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  • Tragedy struck.
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  • Their young child drowned.
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  • And he said, "my wife--we did everything we were supposed
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  • To do."
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  • He said, "i read the books, i went to the seminars.
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  • We began to rebuild our lives, we had two other children."
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  • He said, "it looked like--" he said, "we went to church.
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  • I went to church."
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  • He said, "i would have told you i was a christian."
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  • He said, "i was back doing concerts and i forget which
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  • State he was in," and he said after the concert, he's
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  • Something so dark, he struggled to find the words.
  • 00:24:34.899 --> 00:24:38.435
  • He finally said it was just something evil.
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  • He said, "i was at the bottom of a black place."
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  • He said the only thing i could think of was i didn't need to
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  • Live anymore.
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  • And i remembered my mom saying, "jesus help me."
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  • He said, "i was on my knees in the floor of the bus."
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  • And he said, "jesus help me."
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  • And he said, "my mind cleared."
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  • Miracles are happening all around us, folks,
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  • All of the time.
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  • I sat with dr. carol swain just a few days ago.
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  • She was born into horrible poverty.
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  • I think it was one of 12 children, big family, lots
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  • Of kids.
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  • She was married as a teenager, had lots of children
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  • Very quickly.
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  • Dropped out of school.
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  • No momentum in her life, no hope, no future, no chance.
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  • She's earned multiple graduate degrees.
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  • She was a tenured faculty member at princeton and vanderbilt.
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  • She's a leading voice in our nation for education from a
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  • Godly worldview, a godly perspective.
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  • Only god can do that with a human life.
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  • Now we've got a choice to make.
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  • Are we gonna believe in angels and demons and that they
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  • Affect us?
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  • Are we gonna sit and have a polite bible study and keep
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  • Kicking the can down the road and go, "i don't know."
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  • What's it gonna take for you to make a decision?
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  • You're gonna keep voting with the pharisees and the
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  • Chief priests?
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  • You're gonna keep voting with the power brokers because you
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  • Don't want to be ostracized?
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  • You're gonna continue to refuse to take jesus into the public
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  • Square or the marketplace where god sends you, because there
  • 00:26:20.237 --> 00:26:23.073
  • Might be a price attached?
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  • We've got some questions to answer.
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  • Like, i brought you a little prayer.
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  • I wonder if you just repeat it with me.
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  • I've been praying a little prayer since i started this
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  • Study, "lord, i wanna see, lord i--" it's not in your notes.
  • 00:26:37.187 --> 00:26:41.091
  • "i got the cheap copy, there's no prayer."
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  • It's a simple prayer, you know this one intuitively.
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  • You can just repeat it after me, "almighty god, open my eyes to
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  • See what you're doing.
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  • Give me the wisdom to say yes to you and no to ungodliness.
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  • In jesus's name, amen."
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  • ♪♪♪
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