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Allen Jackson - Great Leaders Bring God's Blessings

August 2, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Great Leaders Bring God's Blessings
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Great Leaders Bring God's Blessings | August 2, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, i know you know, but we're living in a
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  • Chaotic world.
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  • Things are changing globally.
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  • There's wars.
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  • There's threats of war.
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  • A lot of stuff happening, but i want to make a suggestion.
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  • Don't focus on the negative.
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  • Don't get caught up in the uncertainty.
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  • That'll bring fear and anxiety and worry.
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  • It's not helpful.
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  • Let's determine to focus our attention on the lord.
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  • We've created a tool that i believe will make a difference.
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  • It's called "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • Each day is directed at a different topic that's a part of
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  • Our current world.
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  • It gives us a verse of scripture, a little devotional
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  • Around that topic, and then a prayer for that specific thing.
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  • The idea is we're going to give the holy spirit an invitation to
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  • Awaken us to a new place of faith.
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  • You know, we need an awakening in the midst of the people of
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  • God, and we want to say, "well, i am awake."
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  • Well, i get that, but--you know, i was awakened yesterday, but
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  • This morning i was awakened again and my prayer is tomorrow
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  • I'll be awakened yet again.
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  • We need a daily awakening by the spirit of god to find his best
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  • For us in this season, and i believe this book will help you.
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  • Cc by aberdeen captioning 1-800-688-6621 www.aberdeen.io
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  • Allen: i gave you a series of passages from john's gospel.
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  • Jesus is describing this change to his closest friends.
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  • He's telling him what's ahead of them, and they're
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  • Very resistant.
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  • John 14 and verse 16 jesus said, "i will ask the father, and he
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  • Will give you another helper, that he may be with
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  • You forever."
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  • Another helper. they've had a helper.
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  • Who's the helper they've had? jesus.
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  • But he's leaving and he's saying, "i've asked the father
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  • To give you another helper."
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  • They're going, "whoa, big fella. really we're happy.
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  • We're content. we like this.
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  • We kind of got a system worked out.
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  • We kind of do what we can do.
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  • And we get in over our heads, we come to you and then you help us
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  • Out with the big stuff."
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  • "i'm going to--i've asked the father to give you
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  • Another helper."
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  • "that's the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,
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  • Because it doesn't see him or know him."
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  • One of the things that is ahead of us is a greater distinction,
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  • A greater separation from the spirit of the world.
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  • We have been for the most part a covert operation.
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  • You can sit in the church.
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  • You can go to the business place.
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  • You can go into academia and imagine you're a christ follower
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  • And kind of blend in if you choose to and go along with
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  • The crowd.
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  • I don't believe that will be true in the--what's ahead of us.
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  • I believe we will need the help of the spirit of god in a way
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  • That will make us distinctive both in the marketplace, in
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  • Academia, in how we conduct our lives, in how we spend our time.
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  • The distinction is going to grow.
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  • In jesus's language, the world does not know him, cannot know
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  • Him, cannot see him.
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  • You're going to be dependent upon someone that people who
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  • Don't know the lord cannot see and cannot understand.
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  • That means you're going to be making life choices and life
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  • Decisions and investment decisions and time decisions
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  • That people who are not serving the lord cannot understand.
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  • If your secular friends commend you for your wisdom and think
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  • They understand the choices you're making, i think you have
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  • Reason to question them.
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  • John 14, same chapter, verse 26 he said, "the helper, the holy
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  • Spirit, whom the father will send in my name, he will teach
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  • You all things, and he will bring to your remembrance all
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  • That i said to you."
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  • The passages i've given you here are from the new american
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  • Standard translation,
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  • They translate the word "helper."
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  • The niv translate it--translates it comforter.
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  • They're both appropriate.
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  • I like the word helper a little better.
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  • The greek word behind them both is paraclete.
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  • It means one called alongside, kind of as if you had a guide;
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  • Someone to help you, to give you information, to remind you of
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  • What you need to know, to inform you of what you haven't learned.
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  • I know the value of a good guide.
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  • I've been traveling with groups to israel for a long time and
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  • When--before you go, you think the most important person on the
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  • Trip is me 'cause i've been there before.
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  • By the time you've been there 36 hours, you could care less if
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  • I'm along.
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  • You want to stay close to the guide 'cause you realize the
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  • Guide is so much smarter than your hillbilly pastor.
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  • The guide speaks the local language.
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  • The guide knows subtleties and details and has access to
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  • Information that are not a part of my own journey.
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  • I constantly meet people who say, "pastor, i want to go to
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  • Israel, but i don't want to go with a group.
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  • I don't want to be bothered with a guide."
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  • Oh, that's wonderful.
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  • Just go and double down on your ignorance.
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  • You won't know what you're seeing.
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  • You won't know the history.
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  • See, i lived in jerusalem for about a year studying at
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  • The university.
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  • We went exploring almost every day, my brother and i, and we
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  • Saw things then we have to go back to the library and do the
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  • Research and try to figure out what it was we saw.
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  • It's a painfully slow way to learn.
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  • Or you can have a guide that says, "let me tell you the story
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  • About what you're standing in front of."
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  • I'm thinking, "oh, i didn't know there was a store in any of that
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  • Pile of rocks."
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  • Well, trying to navigate this world and trying to navigate
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  • Your spiritual life and trying to navigate the choices that are
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  • Before you without being dependent upon the help of the
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  • Person that god has given to us, just makes no sense, and jesus
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  • Is working hard to awaken his disciples to that in john 15.
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  • "when the helper comes, whom i will send to you from my father,
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  • That's the spirit of truth who proceeds, he will testify
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  • About me."
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  • John 16, "i tell you the truth, it's to your advantage that i
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  • Go away.
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  • If i don't go away, the helper won't come to you."
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  • Jesus said, "you'll be better off."
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  • We don't believe him.
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  • Brought you a couple of examples.
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  • Acts chapter 16, paul and his team are busy with
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  • Ministry, traveling.
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  • They're on the road from community to community.
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  • In verse 9 it says, "during the night paul had a vision of a man
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  • From macedonia standing and begging him, 'come over to
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  • Macedonia and help us.'
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  • And after paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to
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  • Leave for macedonia."
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  • We would have spent a week fasting and praying.
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  • "well, you know, last night i had a dream and i kind of think
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  • Maybe we ought to go check out macedonia.
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  • Did anybody else have a dream?
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  • You know, out of the mouths of two or three witnesses i'd like
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  • An affirmation.
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  • Maybe we should put a fleece out.
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  • Maybe it was too much spicy food last night.
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  • Maybe i just didn't understand the dream.
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  • Maybe we should just wait. what do you think we should do?
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  • We've already bought tickets and they're not for macedonia."
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  • It simply says that, in the morning, they changed plans.
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  • They have an interdependence, a reliance upon the direction of
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  • The holy spirit.
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  • I don't think depending on the holy spirit means you avoid
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  • Planning or strategies or intentionality.
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  • I don't find god to be random at all.
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  • Our world and universe is very orderly.
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  • You know, again, the--some of the segments of christendom i've
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  • Lived in would argue that spontaneous is spiritual and a
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  • Plan is carnal.
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  • I smile at that at this point in my life.
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  • You mean, like, the prophets who tell us hundreds of years ahead
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  • Of time what god intends to do?
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  • That feels kind of like a plan to me.
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  • That does not feel like hyper-spontaneous.
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  • I think sometimes we use spontaneity to cover our lack
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  • Of preparation.
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  • That's another sermon.
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  • In that same chapter, they get to philippi as a result of
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  • Supernatural intervention and they're in the marketplace on
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  • The way to prayer and there's a girl who's demonized who's
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  • Harassing them.
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  • Now, remember, god led them to this place.
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  • "we're going to the place of prayer, we're met by a slave
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  • Girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future."
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  • Do you believe unclean spirits have awareness and insights
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  • Beyond what we do sometimes?
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  • It's very biblical.
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  • There were any number of instances in the new testament
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  • Where an unclean spirit, an evil spirit, a demonic spirit had
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  • More awareness about jesus than the rabbis did.
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  • "she earned a great deal of money for her owners
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  • By fortune-telling.
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  • The girl followed paul and the rest of us, shouting, 'these men
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  • Are servants of the most high god, who are telling you the way
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  • To be saved.'
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  • She kept this up for many days, and paul finally became so
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  • Troubled that he turned around and said to the spirit, 'in the
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  • Name of jesus come out of her.'"
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  • The girl was set free.
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  • There was a dramatic enough change in her that those
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  • Profiting from her behaviors recognized a forfeiture of their
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  • Revenue and they start a riot and paul and his companions end
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  • Up at the center of a riot.
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  • Imagine that god directed them to a city, they helped a woman
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  • Be free, and they're in the midst of a riot.
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  • See, by all of our metrics we'd call that bad for you.
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  • "i thought you heard from the spirit, knucklehead.
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  • It's the last time we let you make travel plans for us."
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  • We've thought that the goal of good christian ministry was
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  • Being quiet and polite and timid and never causing any
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  • Controversy, and almost every place paul and his team goes
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  • There seems to be a riot or some sort of physical punishment.
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  • An interdependence upon the holy spirit.
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  • Is it possible that we could mature beyond where we
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  • Have been?
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  • I'll tell you: a key to that is having the desire, the intent,
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  • The willingness.
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  • Begin to say to the lord, "i would change.
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  • I would grow.
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  • I would like to know you better."
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  • Just quietly but persistently begin to say that to the lord.
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  • I think you'll be amazed at what he will do.
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  • I gave you a couple of essential characteristics.
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  • We worked on them in some earlier sessions.
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  • I suggested to you in some detail--i'm not going to take
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  • The time to recapitulate, but if i had to look for one essential
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  • Characteristic it would be humility.
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  • If you're going to sustain spiritual growth over time, and
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  • I mean over--more than over a day or two or a month or a year,
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  • Humility is an essential component.
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  • Proverbs 15 says, "the fear of the lord teaches a man wisdom,
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  • And humility comes before honor."
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  • It's worth taking the time to listen to the previous session
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  • If you didn't.
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  • We went into a good bit of detail about how you can
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  • Cultivate humility.
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  • And as powerful as humility is in opening your life to the
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  • Blessing and advancement of god, on the other side of the
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  • Equation is pride, arguably the most destructive force that has
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  • Been ever directed towards a human being.
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  • It's just corrosive.
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  • In proverbs 11 and verse 2 it says, "when pride comes, then
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  • Comes disgrace."
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  • We have a common expression that says pride comes be--goes before
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  • The fall; but the bible says pride goes before destruction,
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  • And in this particular verse it says pride precedes disgrace.
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  • You just can't afford to tolerate pride.
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  • It's not an easy discussion because not all confidence
  • 00:12:03.438 --> 00:12:06.374
  • Is pride.
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  • It took a great deal of confidence on moses's part to
  • 00:12:07.709 --> 00:12:09.177
  • Walk into mo--to pharaoh's palace and say, "let these
  • 00:12:09.177 --> 00:12:12.647
  • People go."
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  • The bible says he was the most--the meekest man on the
  • 00:12:14.582 --> 00:12:16.918
  • Face of the earth, but it doesn't mean he was timid or
  • 00:12:16.918 --> 00:12:19.654
  • Frightened or cowering to say to all those hebrew slaves that had
  • 00:12:19.654 --> 00:12:24.626
  • Been slaves for hundreds of years, "follow me.
  • 00:12:24.626 --> 00:12:27.195
  • I'm going to lead you to the promised land."
  • 00:12:27.195 --> 00:12:28.763
  • That was not the statement of someone who was cowering in
  • 00:12:28.763 --> 00:12:32.167
  • His shadow.
  • 00:12:32.167 --> 00:12:37.205
  • So answers to comments on pride are not simple, but what the
  • 00:12:37.205 --> 00:12:41.276
  • Bible tells us is you simply cannot afford it.
  • 00:12:41.276 --> 00:12:44.946
  • Don't excuse it. don't tolerate it.
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  • Allen: hey, we have a tool that i think will help you overcome
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  • Some of the chaos in the world and stay focused on the good
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  • Things that god is doing.
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  • That goes with a specific topic to awaken us to god's promise
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  • And provision in this season.
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  • God's moving in the earth.
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  • John amanchukwu: for a person to think that the bible is not
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  • Political, you don't know the bible.
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  • Allen: we're trying to understand how to take our faith
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  • Outside the walls of the church and live it out in
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  • The marketplace.
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  • David eubank: he will show you what to do, whether it's in our
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  • Communities, in our country, or other places in the world.
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  • Allen: so i brought in some friends, some people that are
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  • Trying to do this.
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  • Jennifer o'neill: how could anyone call themselves
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  • Christian and be pro-choice is beyond my comprehension.
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  • Dallas jenkins: but i think he wanted them open and in need of
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  • Him every day.
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  • Allen: so just a little bit of a checklist.
  • 00:14:55.176 --> 00:14:56.644
  • I've got to wrap it up, but a checklist for
  • 00:14:56.644 --> 00:14:58.613
  • Spiritual significance.
  • 00:14:58.613 --> 00:15:01.249
  • Regularly engage in behaviors that will cultivate humility.
  • 00:15:01.249 --> 00:15:05.086
  • I mean, like on a daily basis, do something that will foster
  • 00:15:05.086 --> 00:15:08.356
  • Humility, listen to people, talk to people, share with people.
  • 00:15:08.356 --> 00:15:13.861
  • Somebody related a story to me today.
  • 00:15:13.861 --> 00:15:15.630
  • They said their sister, years ago she was a teenager and she
  • 00:15:15.630 --> 00:15:20.535
  • Was at church for something.
  • 00:15:20.535 --> 00:15:22.337
  • She didn't attend here, and she said whoever was with her
  • 00:15:22.337 --> 00:15:25.373
  • Brought her in.
  • 00:15:25.373 --> 00:15:26.708
  • She said that she had a teenager with her that had some questions
  • 00:15:26.708 --> 00:15:28.443
  • About god and i sat with her for 15 minutes.
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  • I have no memory, i get no credit; but i try to find ways,
  • 00:15:30.078 --> 00:15:38.152
  • On a regular basis, simply to build activities into my life,
  • 00:15:38.152 --> 00:15:42.223
  • Habits into my life that can let humility grow 'cause pride can
  • 00:15:42.223 --> 00:15:46.694
  • Grow pretty rapidly.
  • 00:15:46.694 --> 00:15:49.297
  • And on the opposite side, i try to pay attention, to be engaged
  • 00:15:49.297 --> 00:15:53.835
  • In things that will deconstruct pride.
  • 00:15:53.835 --> 00:15:56.571
  • Don't leave it to chance.
  • 00:15:56.571 --> 00:15:58.873
  • Don't let things grow.
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  • You're not special. you're not.
  • 00:16:00.241 --> 00:16:03.478
  • There's billions of us on the planet.
  • 00:16:03.478 --> 00:16:05.546
  • God made every one of us unique.
  • 00:16:05.546 --> 00:16:06.914
  • You say, "well, i'm fearfully and wonderfully made."
  • 00:16:06.914 --> 00:16:08.716
  • Yeah, you are, but so is everybody else.
  • 00:16:08.716 --> 00:16:14.889
  • We're so worried that our children, they have a
  • 00:16:14.889 --> 00:16:18.793
  • Healthy self-image.
  • 00:16:18.793 --> 00:16:22.530
  • Well, a healthy self-image means they have an
  • 00:16:22.530 --> 00:16:24.365
  • Appropriate self-image.
  • 00:16:24.365 --> 00:16:27.135
  • They have strengths, and they have weaknesses.
  • 00:16:27.135 --> 00:16:30.405
  • Life is difficult.
  • 00:16:30.405 --> 00:16:31.739
  • It's not always going to be as easy.
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  • There is no free lunch.
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  • If you get a free lunch, somebody else paid.
  • 00:16:35.943 --> 00:16:39.047
  • And if you demand a free lunch all of your life, you're
  • 00:16:39.047 --> 00:16:42.083
  • A freeloader.
  • 00:16:42.083 --> 00:16:50.391
  • You were chosen by god, but there's no room to boast
  • 00:16:50.391 --> 00:16:54.462
  • In that.
  • 00:16:54.462 --> 00:16:55.830
  • God said he chose from the bottom of the list.
  • 00:16:55.830 --> 00:16:59.033
  • He said, "i recruited the ones nobody else wanted."
  • 00:16:59.033 --> 00:17:03.471
  • That's how i got on the team.
  • 00:17:03.471 --> 00:17:06.707
  • There was nobody thinking i was going to be a minister, i
  • 00:17:06.707 --> 00:17:09.143
  • Promise you.
  • 00:17:09.143 --> 00:17:10.511
  • Only god had that and it's because he had a sense of humor.
  • 00:17:10.511 --> 00:17:16.751
  • In philippians 2 it says even of jesus that, "being found in
  • 00:17:16.751 --> 00:17:20.154
  • Appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient--
  • 00:17:20.154 --> 00:17:27.328
  • Even to death!"
  • 00:17:27.328 --> 00:17:29.397
  • Folks, if jesus was required to humble himself and become
  • 00:17:29.397 --> 00:17:33.768
  • Obedient, the perfect sinless son of god had to
  • 00:17:33.768 --> 00:17:39.207
  • Choose obedience.
  • 00:17:39.207 --> 00:17:44.011
  • We've got to expand our imagination.
  • 00:17:44.011 --> 00:17:46.914
  • Choosing jesus as lord of your life is good, but may i submit
  • 00:17:46.914 --> 00:17:51.752
  • To you that you want to choose obedience to your lord on a very
  • 00:17:51.752 --> 00:17:56.924
  • Regular basis.
  • 00:17:56.924 --> 00:18:00.394
  • I'm not suggesting you're going to earn your way into the
  • 00:18:00.394 --> 00:18:02.663
  • Kingdom, but if jesus had to choose obedience in order to be
  • 00:18:02.663 --> 00:18:07.301
  • Exalted by god,
  • 00:18:07.301 --> 00:18:09.437
  • I believe you and i should probably consider it.
  • 00:18:09.437 --> 00:18:14.008
  • So i'll wrap it up with an action plan.
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  • Some is old, and some is new.
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  • Humility.
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  • There are some things you can do.
  • 00:18:18.946 --> 00:18:20.314
  • Carefully establish the greatest ambition of your life for the
  • 00:18:20.314 --> 00:18:22.550
  • Kingdom of god.
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  • Forego profit.
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  • Forego accolades.
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  • Forego many things to do anything you can do to gain
  • 00:18:29.357 --> 00:18:33.494
  • Momentum in the kingdom of god.
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  • Why would you do that?
  • 00:18:35.363 --> 00:18:38.599
  • Because you want the blessing of god.
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  • It's more valuable than any of those other things.
  • 00:18:40.768 --> 00:18:43.704
  • It's counterintuitive.
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  • You're going to need people around you that are making
  • 00:18:45.940 --> 00:18:47.775
  • Similar decisions because this is not conventional
  • 00:18:47.775 --> 00:18:50.511
  • Wisdom stuff.
  • 00:18:50.511 --> 00:18:53.414
  • Multiple times in my journey, people have offered me
  • 00:18:53.414 --> 00:18:55.683
  • Opportunities that would have far exceeded the opportunities
  • 00:18:55.683 --> 00:18:59.287
  • That were in front of me if i continued to serve the lord, and
  • 00:18:59.287 --> 00:19:04.892
  • I've had to stop and evaluate them and say, "lord, this looks
  • 00:19:04.892 --> 00:19:08.963
  • Really good to me.
  • 00:19:08.963 --> 00:19:11.265
  • They're telling me i can achieve something in far fewer years
  • 00:19:11.265 --> 00:19:14.635
  • Than if i just stay the course."
  • 00:19:14.635 --> 00:19:20.174
  • Make the kingdom of god your primary ambition.
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  • Serve regularly.
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  • Find a way to give your time in service of the kingdom of god.
  • 00:19:27.848 --> 00:19:34.722
  • The most valuable thing you have is time.
  • 00:19:34.722 --> 00:19:36.557
  • If you haven't discovered it yet, you will.
  • 00:19:36.557 --> 00:19:39.160
  • It's priceless.
  • 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:40.828
  • It's irreplaceable.
  • 00:19:40.828 --> 00:19:42.863
  • So what i'm suggesting is that you purposefully give it away
  • 00:19:42.863 --> 00:19:46.834
  • For the sake of the kingdom of god.
  • 00:19:46.834 --> 00:19:50.104
  • I'm involved in some activities these days that for me are
  • 00:19:50.104 --> 00:19:53.174
  • Requiring some pretty significant growth and
  • 00:19:53.174 --> 00:19:55.509
  • Stretching and getting out of my comfort zone and vulnerability
  • 00:19:55.509 --> 00:19:59.146
  • In ways that i don't like it, and i'm really doing it as a
  • 00:19:59.146 --> 00:20:02.016
  • Volunteer 'cause i want to be certain that at this season in
  • 00:20:02.016 --> 00:20:07.188
  • My life i'm saying, "lord, i want to serve you.
  • 00:20:07.188 --> 00:20:10.992
  • I want to serve you."
  • 00:20:10.992 --> 00:20:16.564
  • Give generously.
  • 00:20:16.564 --> 00:20:19.300
  • Give of the resources that god entrusts to you.
  • 00:20:19.300 --> 00:20:23.271
  • Material possessions whisper in our ears.
  • 00:20:23.271 --> 00:20:26.474
  • They whisper the temptation of self-sufficiency.
  • 00:20:26.474 --> 00:20:30.144
  • "if you'll keep pushing and keep accumulating and keep making
  • 00:20:30.144 --> 00:20:34.115
  • Wise decisions, you can be self-sufficient.
  • 00:20:34.115 --> 00:20:36.384
  • You can secure your future."
  • 00:20:36.384 --> 00:20:39.487
  • I don't believe in the season of turmoil and tumult that's in
  • 00:20:39.487 --> 00:20:42.456
  • Front of us.
  • 00:20:42.456 --> 00:20:44.025
  • We can secure our futures.
  • 00:20:44.025 --> 00:20:45.760
  • I like planning. i like wisdom.
  • 00:20:45.760 --> 00:20:49.230
  • Spend less than you make. that's good wisdom.
  • 00:20:49.230 --> 00:20:52.300
  • But at the end of the day, practice generosity because
  • 00:20:52.300 --> 00:20:54.902
  • God's the one who will secure your future.
  • 00:20:54.902 --> 00:20:58.773
  • God will secure your future.
  • 00:20:58.773 --> 00:21:02.076
  • Maintain an awareness of the importance of others.
  • 00:21:02.076 --> 00:21:05.479
  • People matter.
  • 00:21:05.479 --> 00:21:07.782
  • Listen to other people.
  • 00:21:07.782 --> 00:21:09.450
  • Practice compassion with other people.
  • 00:21:09.450 --> 00:21:13.354
  • It's easy to be impatient.
  • 00:21:13.354 --> 00:21:16.590
  • I'm not talking about under sc--embracing ungodliness.
  • 00:21:16.590 --> 00:21:22.563
  • You're not a good friend if you cheer for ungodliness.
  • 00:21:22.563 --> 00:21:25.966
  • You're not a good brother or sister in christ if people that
  • 00:21:25.966 --> 00:21:28.969
  • You're walking with are behaving in an ungodly manner and you
  • 00:21:28.969 --> 00:21:31.906
  • Don't have the courage to talk to them about it.
  • 00:21:31.906 --> 00:21:35.309
  • In fact, you're going to get the same outcome of
  • 00:21:35.309 --> 00:21:37.978
  • Their ungodliness.
  • 00:21:37.978 --> 00:21:40.481
  • Read ezekiel, where he talks about being watchmen on
  • 00:21:40.481 --> 00:21:42.416
  • The walls.
  • 00:21:42.416 --> 00:21:44.518
  • I'm talking about having compassion.
  • 00:21:44.518 --> 00:21:45.886
  • People matter, and you live in such a way to reflect that.
  • 00:21:45.886 --> 00:21:51.959
  • Pride, deconstruct it.
  • 00:21:51.959 --> 00:21:53.427
  • Repent, renounce, release. be certain.
  • 00:21:53.427 --> 00:21:57.231
  • Don't tolerate it. don't excuse it.
  • 00:21:57.231 --> 00:22:00.735
  • And finally, be obedient to the truth you know.
  • 00:22:00.735 --> 00:22:03.904
  • It's not incumbent upon god to give you any further revelation
  • 00:22:03.904 --> 00:22:07.541
  • Until you practice obedience to the truth that you know.
  • 00:22:07.541 --> 00:22:11.078
  • This is not a smorgasbord.
  • 00:22:11.078 --> 00:22:13.781
  • It's not like a menu of items and you can choose commandments
  • 00:22:13.781 --> 00:22:16.317
  • One, three, and seven 'cause they seem easier.
  • 00:22:16.317 --> 00:22:20.020
  • Whatever truth god puts in front of you, the expectation is that
  • 00:22:20.020 --> 00:22:23.391
  • You'll choose obedience to that point, and there is no
  • 00:22:23.391 --> 00:22:26.394
  • Suggestion that you get a promotion or an alternative
  • 00:22:26.394 --> 00:22:29.530
  • Until you grapple with obedience on that point.
  • 00:22:29.530 --> 00:22:35.269
  • He didn't say, "saul, i admire your live--your ability to
  • 00:22:35.269 --> 00:22:38.939
  • Evaluate livestock.
  • 00:22:38.939 --> 00:22:40.307
  • You really did choose the good stuff."
  • 00:22:40.307 --> 00:22:43.444
  • He said, "no, you were disobedient, son, and there's a
  • 00:22:43.444 --> 00:22:47.114
  • Forfeiture that comes with that."
  • 00:22:47.114 --> 00:22:49.884
  • Practice obedience.
  • 00:22:49.884 --> 00:22:51.252
  • It's a privilege.
  • 00:22:51.252 --> 00:22:53.454
  • Jesus wrestled with it. he struggled with it.
  • 00:22:53.454 --> 00:22:55.790
  • It wasn't easy for him. it wasn't fun.
  • 00:22:55.790 --> 00:22:57.658
  • Where did we get the notion that serving the lord is always fun?
  • 00:22:57.658 --> 00:23:01.929
  • It's not always going to make us happy.
  • 00:23:01.929 --> 00:23:04.098
  • It's not always going to be easy.
  • 00:23:04.098 --> 00:23:07.201
  • "well, i wish it were."
  • 00:23:07.201 --> 00:23:08.669
  • "well, okay, duly noted. now let's go do difficult."
  • 00:23:08.669 --> 00:23:16.844
  • Choose the lord with your whole heart, mind, soul, and body, and
  • 00:23:16.844 --> 00:23:22.383
  • God will bring blessings to your life that will change your
  • 00:23:22.383 --> 00:23:25.085
  • Journey through time and will be richly rewarded for
  • 00:23:25.085 --> 00:23:29.256
  • All eternity.
  • 00:23:29.256 --> 00:23:32.326
  • What else you gonna do?
  • 00:23:32.326 --> 00:23:35.196
  • What else are you gonna do, chase things you can't keep?
  • 00:23:35.196 --> 00:23:40.100
  • About the time you catch them, your earth suit will wear out.
  • 00:23:40.100 --> 00:23:43.938
  • I had a friend. she's in heaven now.
  • 00:23:43.938 --> 00:23:46.874
  • And she said, "when i was young, i used to stand and look through
  • 00:23:46.874 --> 00:23:52.046
  • The window of the bakery and wish i could afford all the
  • 00:23:52.046 --> 00:23:55.416
  • Beautiful things on the other side of the window."
  • 00:23:55.416 --> 00:23:59.019
  • And she said, "when i got old enough that i could afford
  • 00:23:59.019 --> 00:24:01.121
  • Everything in the bakery, i couldn't eat it anymore."
  • 00:24:01.121 --> 00:24:06.994
  • Serve the lord.
  • 00:24:06.994 --> 00:24:08.796
  • I want to pray for you. will you stand with me?
  • 00:24:08.796 --> 00:24:12.566
  • God's recruiting a generation of men and women to make a
  • 00:24:12.566 --> 00:24:15.703
  • Difference in his kingdom.
  • 00:24:15.703 --> 00:24:18.105
  • Be one of them. be one of them.
  • 00:24:18.105 --> 00:24:22.576
  • Don't be--don't settle for being churched or polite or kind.
  • 00:24:22.576 --> 00:24:27.882
  • Say, "god, i want to learn to depend upon you.
  • 00:24:27.882 --> 00:24:30.417
  • I need your supernatural power in my life.
  • 00:24:30.417 --> 00:24:33.554
  • I need discernment beyond my education.
  • 00:24:33.554 --> 00:24:36.423
  • I need wisdom beyond my experience.
  • 00:24:36.423 --> 00:24:38.993
  • I need a power and authority beyond what i can generate with
  • 00:24:38.993 --> 00:24:42.429
  • My contact list or my effort.
  • 00:24:42.429 --> 00:24:45.666
  • God, help me."
  • 00:24:45.666 --> 00:24:47.301
  • He will.
  • 00:24:47.301 --> 00:24:50.204
  • I'm more excited.
  • 00:24:50.204 --> 00:24:52.706
  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, thank you.
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  • Thank you for your word and its truth and its power.
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  • I thank you for these men and women.
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  • Lord, we present ourselves to you tonight as
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  • Living sacrifices.
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  • Holy spirit, have your way within us.
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  • We want to cooperate with you.
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  • We want to follow your direction.
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  • We want to yield to your guidance.
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  • We want to walk in obedience and humility before you.
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  • If there are any places in our lives where we have tolerated
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  • Things that limit what you would do, help us to see them.
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  • We want to turn away from them, lay them down.
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  • We want to humble ourselves in your sight.
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  • I thank you that you've called us to this very unique time to
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  • Be men and women who make a difference for your kingdom.
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  • May you be pleased with our choices.
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  • Awaken your church.
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  • May we be a part of what you're doing in the earth.
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  • When our strength is done, may you welcome us with,
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  • "well done."
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Bless you.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Allen: you know, no matter what source of news you turn to, it's
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  • Hard some days not to be overwhelmed with despair, the
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  • Deception, the conflict in the earth, the suffering that's
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  • Taking place in so many places, the struggling church in our own
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  • Nation, but there are reasons for hope.
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  • God is moving in the most remarkable ways; but we need to
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  • Have a plan, a method, even a tool to help us keep our
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  • Thoughts and our hearts focused on god.
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  • Well, i have a suggestion.
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  • It's a little booklet we've put together.
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  • It's called "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • It's built by topic--each day with a scripture, a little
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  • Devotional, and a prayer topically directed to help focus
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  • Our thoughts in an awakening to god's invitations to us around
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  • That specific theme.
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  • We're awakened every day for the challenges of that day.
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  • Well, let's ask the spirit of god to awaken us consistently to
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  • What he would have us doing in this most unique season.
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  • God is moving.
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  • I want to move with him, and i believe you do too; and i
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  • Believe "awaken us" will be a help.
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