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Allen Jackson - A Heart For God (Part 2)

August 27, 2025 | S25 E242 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - A Heart For God (Part 2)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - A Heart For God (Part 2) | August 27, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: and i sat down recently with my father to do a
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  • Podcast for my "culture and christianity" podcast.
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  • And it was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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  • As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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  • Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents' life, ultimately my
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  • Family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing the
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  • Power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit, but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis to
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  • Give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face.
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  • The spirit of god within us to help us, guide us, and direct
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  • Us, that's invaluable and these books will help you understand.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, a lot of language in our--amongst us
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  • About our generations and how we're different, i have arrived
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  • At a conclusion of that because i've heard it for such a period
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  • Of time now.
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  • Our age and our season in life to me feels a great deal like a
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  • Darkened room with a spotlight moving across it.
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  • You know, in that moment when the spotlight rests upon you and
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  • Then it moves again, that's to me that's similar to the impact
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  • Of your generation.
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  • Because at the end of the day, the things that make us similar
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  • Are far greater than those influences that we think make us
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  • So different, amen.
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  • In our heart we're rebellious, we're stubborn.
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  • We're reluctant to cooperate with god.
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  • It's true of all of the generational separation.
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  • It's great for marketing ploys and it works really well, but
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  • Before god, we're far more alike than we are different.
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  • There's a disgruntled group in samuel, 1 samuel 11.
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  • God establishes saul's leadership through a really a
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  • Supernatural intervention.
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  • It's a deliverance from an enemy that has plagued them for a
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  • Great deal of time.
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  • And through saul's leadership, the people find deliverance.
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  • "when saul hears their words, the spirit of the lord came upon
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  • Him in power."
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  • One of the great differences in the old covenant and the new
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  • Covenant, in the old covenant, the spirit of god would come
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  • Upon people intermittently.
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  • The bible says that samson would shake himself and the spirit of
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  • God would come upon him and he'd have tremendous strength.
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  • Here the writer records that the spirit of god comes upon saul in
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  • Power and he leads the people through a tremendous victory
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  • Over a very persistent, seemingly an adversary they
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  • Couldn't defeat.
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  • In the new covenant, the spirit of god dwells within us.
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  • It's a remarkable distinction.
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  • It's not an intermittent visit because we've been made new
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  • Creations, new creatures in christ jesus.
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  • We aren't--our sin hasn't simply been atoned for.
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  • We have been delivered from the kingdom of darkness.
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  • And the spirit of god no longer dwells in the holy of holies in
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  • A tabernacle or in the temple.
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  • The spirit of god dwells within his people.
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  • It's one of the tremendous shifts between the old and the
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  • New covenant.
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  • And it's not about our ethnicity or the denomination we belong to
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  • Or our biological sex.
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  • It has to do with the condition of our heart.
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  • The same spirit that brought jesus out of the tomb dwells
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  • In you.
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  • It's an amazing statement.
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  • "and saul took a pair of oxen, and cut them into pieces, sent
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  • The pieces throughout the country."
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  • This is what will be done to anyone who doesn't follow saul
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  • And samuel, it's just worth noting in passing that saul's
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  • Still pulling samuel in.
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  • I'm leading, but samuel's with me.
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  • It's not an isolated, but his leadership is being established.
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  • In same chapter verse 14, "samuel said to the people,
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  • 'let's go and reaffirm the kingship.'
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  • So all the people went and confirmed saul as king in the
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  • Presence of the lord."
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  • After the tremendous victory, samuel again adds his influence
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  • To secure the place for saul.
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  • It's a tremendous transition.
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  • Israel's never had a king.
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  • They have no capital city, they have no central government,
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  • There's no centralized authority, they've been
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  • A theocracy.
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  • God led them.
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  • When they needed leadership, god provided and the people said,
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  • "we don't like that system."
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  • We wanna be like all the other nations.
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  • Folks, you and i don't wanna be like everybody else.
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  • You don't--weird does not make you godly.
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  • It just makes you weird.
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  • Sometimes christians get confused on that.
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  • They think if they act more weird, it means they're
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  • More spiritual.
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  • No, you're not more spiritual, you're just weird.
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  • On the other hand, godliness and holiness will make you
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  • Distinctive from people who don't wanna be godly or holy.
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  • You will yield to the authority of god.
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  • You'll yield to the authority of his word.
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  • You will willingly be an ambassador for jesus
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  • Of nazareth.
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  • It will influence every aspect of your life.
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  • That will bring a distinctiveness to you.
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  • It will cause people who don't yield to the authority of
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  • Scripture to say you're a little different.
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  • You won't have to act weird.
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  • In fact, i would like to invite you out of weird acting.
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  • It was a problem for me as a young person.
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  • I didn't want to hang around with christians 'cause i knew
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  • Some that, you know, they said they were being spiritual, they
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  • Weren't being spiritual.
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  • They were being carnal with a lot of godly language
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  • And weirdness.
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  • You still love me?
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  • I mean, i give you examples.
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  • We do goofy things.
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  • You know, years ago, it's been a while 'cause my driver's license
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  • Was still freshly minted.
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  • And i was given the assignment, somebody had come to the
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  • Community to teach a bible class.
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  • He's a retired army colonel, big guy.
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  • And then i was gonna take him to the airport, but on the way i
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  • Was supposed to stop and let him pray for somebody.
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  • This was before gps.
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  • This was almost before m a p s but it was--
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  • But i had an address and i knew the general neighborhood and so,
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  • But i couldn't find the, i couldn't find the house.
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  • And so i was gonna have to go on to the airport.
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  • He was gonna miss his flight.
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  • And i said, "well, i guess the devil didn't want you to pray
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  • For that person."
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  • He looked over at me and he said, "son, this has nothing to
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  • Do with the devil.
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  • You had lousy directions."
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  • You see, sometimes we get so spiritual 'cause we don't wanna
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  • Deal with reality.
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  • Not too long ago i did--i was doing a bible study and it was
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  • Predominantly healthcare workers.
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  • And we were doing prayer requests at the end of the small
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  • Group which was pretty normal and i asked them to pray 'cause
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  • I had three dear friends at the same time they were all
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  • Battling cancer.
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  • And i said, you know, it just feels like a spiritual attack
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  • And one of the docs spoke up he was a little newer to the faith
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  • And he said, "attack?
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  • Nothing, you're just getting old."
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  • I didn't invite him back to bible study.
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  • But i think we all succumb to that sometimes.
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  • You know, we hyper spiritualize things when there is a more
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  • Ready response to us that would engage us more directly with the
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  • Purposes of god.
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  • Don't be weird.
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  • You'll be weird enough if you choose to honor the lord.
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  • Samuel makes a farewell speech.
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  • It's a masterful piece.
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  • I just gave you a very small snippet.
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  • He says, it's verse 23, "as for me, far be it from me that i
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  • Should sin against the lord by failing to pray for you.
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  • And i'll teach you the way that is good and right.
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  • But be sure to fear the lord and serve him faithfully with all
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  • Your heart: consider what great things he's done for you.
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  • Yet if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king
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  • Will be swept away."
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  • What's not there?
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  • There's no animosity.
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  • There's no hatred, there's no resentment, there's
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  • No bitterness.
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  • It's amazing what samuel is processing in real time.
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  • He said, "we learn the way that is good and right.
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  • Fear the lord, serve him faithfully with all your heart.
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  • Remember the great things he's done, but if you persist in
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  • Evil, you've made an evil choice," he said, "but don't
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  • Persist in evil."
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  • Do you have room for that that the people of god, we're
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  • Navigating and it's not always, it isn't typically just a
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  • Straight line.
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  • We need god's help.
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  • We have to help one another.
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  • We've got to encourage one another.
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  • We don't, we're not opposing one another.
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  • We're working together.
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  • And then the narrative begins to change.
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  • Saul's leadership has been secured.
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  • Samuel has stepped back.
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  • He's made his official resignation.
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  • And what we discovered very quickly is that saul's level of
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  • Obedience is very casual even though god has chosen him.
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  • He has a military victory, but he doesn't do it in compliance
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  • With the instructions of god.
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  • And who does god send?
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  • Samuel.
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  • I'm reading that and i'm thinking, "i'm not going.
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  • You picked him, you put him in place, i blessed him.
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  • I have made my speech.
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  • You deal with him."
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  • But samuel stays engaged.
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  • And he goes to see saul.
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  • Now, this is dangerous.
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  • The man has been secured the throne and samuel is going to
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  • Provide something of a rebuke to him.
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  • "what have you done?
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  • Asked samuel."
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  • It's 13:11.
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  • And saul says, "well, when i saw that the men were scattering,
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  • And that you didn't come when i thought you should be here, the
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  • Philistines were assembling and i thought the philistines might
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  • Attack us and so."
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  • And samuel said, "you acted foolishly."
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  • Can we put that in good old tennessee english?
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  • You played the fool you clown.
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  • But he didn't stop there.
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  • He said, "you haven't kept the command the lord your god gave
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  • You; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over
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  • Israel for all time."
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  • That's what was on the table for saul.
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  • Honor the lord with your whole heart and god will establish
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  • Your throne for all time.
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  • But saul was casual, indifferent, ambivalent, sloppy,
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  • Whatever words you preferred.
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  • "now your kingdom will not endure; the lord has sought out
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  • A man after his own heart and appointed him leader of
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  • His people."
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  • Now he doesn't remove saul from the throne, but he said, "i
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  • Have, i'm renegotiating the contract.
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  • Your heart isn't fully invested in me, so i'll find someone
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  • Who is."
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  • That's really the heart of my invitation to you in
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  • This session.
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  • It's the condition of our heart towards the lord.
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  • Do we think we've done our god business and so now my life is
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  • My life or do we truly intend on a routine regular basis to keep
  • 00:11:19.561 --> 00:11:24.099
  • God at the center of who we are?
  • 00:11:24.099 --> 00:11:26.601
  • Not simply to hold up a sign that says, "i'm a christian."
  • 00:11:26.601 --> 00:11:30.472
  • But do we really intend to honor god?
  • 00:11:30.472 --> 00:11:33.541
  • Saul struggled with this.
  • 00:11:33.541 --> 00:11:35.577
  • He retains the position, but he forfeits the blessing of god.
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  • ♪♪♪♪
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  • Allen: yeah, i've got a question.
  • 00:11:45.787 --> 00:11:47.155
  • What's the eternal breath of life?
  • 00:11:47.155 --> 00:11:49.824
  • Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote.
  • 00:11:49.824 --> 00:11:51.993
  • When i sat down to do a podcast with him and i was listening to
  • 00:11:51.993 --> 00:11:55.063
  • His story about how god had moved in his life and my
  • 00:11:55.063 --> 00:11:57.966
  • Family's life all the way up to the beginning of the church that
  • 00:11:57.966 --> 00:12:00.335
  • I've served now for several decades, i was so reminded of
  • 00:12:00.335 --> 00:12:03.938
  • The purpose and the power of the spirit of god in our lives.
  • 00:12:03.938 --> 00:12:06.708
  • I asked him to put it in a book.
  • 00:12:06.708 --> 00:12:08.543
  • That's what we're sharing with you.
  • 00:12:08.543 --> 00:12:10.211
  • We all need god's help.
  • 00:12:10.211 --> 00:12:11.579
  • We all face challenges.
  • 00:12:11.579 --> 00:12:12.914
  • Life's not easy no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
  • 00:12:12.914 --> 00:12:15.750
  • Is present within us to bring the power and purposes of god to
  • 00:12:15.750 --> 00:12:20.221
  • Bear in our lives.
  • 00:12:20.221 --> 00:12:21.856
  • I believe the book will be a blessing for you.
  • 00:12:21.856 --> 00:12:24.559
  • If you'll pair it with "unleashing the power of the
  • 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:27.095
  • Holy spirit" is one of the most effective tools we have.
  • 00:12:27.095 --> 00:12:29.564
  • It'll give you a pathway that i believe will bring god's best
  • 00:12:29.564 --> 00:12:33.034
  • Into your family.
  • 00:12:33.034 --> 00:12:34.402
  • You may not plant a church, but you have been given the
  • 00:12:34.402 --> 00:12:36.571
  • Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god and we need
  • 00:12:36.571 --> 00:12:39.641
  • The help of the holy spirit.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you see, i think it's truly a narrative, a
  • 00:12:51.486 --> 00:12:54.055
  • Conversation about the sovereignty of god.
  • 00:12:54.055 --> 00:12:57.192
  • We serve him, we obey him, we yield to him.
  • 00:12:57.192 --> 00:13:00.195
  • Those are not easy words.
  • 00:13:00.195 --> 00:13:02.997
  • I mean, they're easy words to use in a presentation, but
  • 00:13:02.997 --> 00:13:05.200
  • They're not easy words for me to live out.
  • 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:07.468
  • But they lead me or you to the best outcomes of life.
  • 00:13:07.468 --> 00:13:11.372
  • Will i serve god?
  • 00:13:11.372 --> 00:13:12.707
  • Will i obey god?
  • 00:13:12.707 --> 00:13:14.075
  • Will i yield to god?
  • 00:13:14.075 --> 00:13:15.910
  • Within us, within all of us is a persistent voice which urges us
  • 00:13:15.910 --> 00:13:19.814
  • To cast off restraint.
  • 00:13:19.814 --> 00:13:21.683
  • It's the same voice we hear in the opening chapters of genesis.
  • 00:13:21.683 --> 00:13:24.385
  • Did god really say?
  • 00:13:24.385 --> 00:13:25.753
  • Did he really mean that?
  • 00:13:25.753 --> 00:13:27.856
  • He's just trying to keep you from a fully experienced life.
  • 00:13:27.856 --> 00:13:33.261
  • Isn't that the message we all hear?
  • 00:13:33.261 --> 00:13:35.997
  • Why accept the constraints of godliness?
  • 00:13:35.997 --> 00:13:37.966
  • Why, accept the constraints of holiness?
  • 00:13:37.966 --> 00:13:40.635
  • Why accept the constraints of purity?
  • 00:13:40.635 --> 00:13:43.571
  • Why would you yield?
  • 00:13:43.571 --> 00:13:46.107
  • Why would you do that?
  • 00:13:46.107 --> 00:13:47.475
  • Why would you say no to yourself?
  • 00:13:47.475 --> 00:13:51.846
  • Because the designer of all things has given us a pathway
  • 00:13:51.846 --> 00:13:55.016
  • Towards the best possible fulfillment for our journey
  • 00:13:55.016 --> 00:13:57.652
  • In time.
  • 00:13:57.652 --> 00:14:01.289
  • But that message within us, saul's compromise is very
  • 00:14:01.289 --> 00:14:05.360
  • Reminiscent to me of esau selling his birthright for a
  • 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:07.929
  • Bowl of soup.
  • 00:14:07.929 --> 00:14:09.964
  • It wasn't that he didn't want his birthright, he just treated
  • 00:14:09.964 --> 00:14:12.300
  • It shabbily.
  • 00:14:12.300 --> 00:14:13.935
  • There was an ambivalence.
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  • I can get it.
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  • I'll beat it out of my brother. i mean, that was his attitude.
  • 00:14:16.604 --> 00:14:21.776
  • But he misunderstood.
  • 00:14:21.776 --> 00:14:23.311
  • It wasn't a physical issue between he and his brother.
  • 00:14:23.311 --> 00:14:25.747
  • It wasn't about who could outrun the other.
  • 00:14:25.747 --> 00:14:29.083
  • It was a spiritual issue.
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  • It was a blessing from god.
  • 00:14:30.418 --> 00:14:32.720
  • And we've discounted spiritual things.
  • 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:34.656
  • We thought other things were more important
  • 00:14:34.656 --> 00:14:36.391
  • Asset accumulation.
  • 00:14:36.391 --> 00:14:38.793
  • Power and our access to it.
  • 00:14:38.793 --> 00:14:40.695
  • And i'm not opposed to any of those things.
  • 00:14:40.695 --> 00:14:42.530
  • I believe god brings them to our lives, but underneath all of
  • 00:14:42.530 --> 00:14:46.501
  • Those is the true resource and that's god himself.
  • 00:14:46.501 --> 00:14:51.606
  • Says in that 14th verse that the lord sought out a man after his
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  • Own heart.
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  • It's a theme of scripture.
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  • I gave you just a quick recounting.
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  • I'll tag him.
  • 00:14:58.613 --> 00:14:59.948
  • 2 chronicle 16, "the eyes of the lord range throughout the earth
  • 00:14:59.948 --> 00:15:02.483
  • To strengthen those who are fully committed to him."
  • 00:15:02.483 --> 00:15:04.352
  • He's looking for people.
  • 00:15:04.352 --> 00:15:06.387
  • Searching for people.
  • 00:15:06.387 --> 00:15:08.589
  • Jesus in matthew 4 said, "come follow me.
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  • I'll make you fishers of men."
  • 00:15:11.092 --> 00:15:12.460
  • Jesus was looking for people.
  • 00:15:12.460 --> 00:15:15.630
  • They issued that same invitation to others and they said, "no
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  • Thank you."
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  • They declined.
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  • We act like it's a slam dunk.
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  • Oh yeah, i do that.
  • 00:15:23.905 --> 00:15:25.239
  • Folks, god's issued invitations to all of us and we go, it's not
  • 00:15:25.239 --> 00:15:28.042
  • Really a good time for me.
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  • I'm a little busy.
  • 00:15:31.012 --> 00:15:33.314
  • That's a season in my life where i don't really wanna lead
  • 00:15:33.314 --> 00:15:35.483
  • With godliness.
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  • I don't want to abandon god, but i don't want it to be like the
  • 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.189
  • Defining characteristic of who i am right now.
  • 00:15:41.189 --> 00:15:43.491
  • I'll get to that.
  • 00:15:43.491 --> 00:15:47.161
  • God is looking throughout the earth for people whose hearts
  • 00:15:47.161 --> 00:15:50.665
  • Are fully committed to him.
  • 00:15:50.665 --> 00:15:53.401
  • Acts chapter 9, jesus is back.
  • 00:15:53.401 --> 00:15:55.536
  • He left in acts chapter 1. he went back to heaven.
  • 00:15:55.536 --> 00:15:57.638
  • It's the ascension, but in acts 9, he's back on the
  • 00:15:57.638 --> 00:16:00.575
  • Damascus road.
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  • "saul, why do you persecute me?"
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  • Saul, "who are you, lord?
  • 00:16:04.912 --> 00:16:06.981
  • 'i'm jesus, whom you're persecuting.'
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  • Now get up and go into the city.'"
  • 00:16:10.151 --> 00:16:11.552
  • Look at that last phrase, "you'll be told what you
  • 00:16:11.552 --> 00:16:14.422
  • Must do."
  • 00:16:14.422 --> 00:16:16.024
  • That's nothing about, that's a request.
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  • Get up, get into the city, you'll get your instructions.
  • 00:16:18.393 --> 00:16:26.734
  • I thought jesus was about a group hug.
  • 00:16:26.734 --> 00:16:31.472
  • In fact, saul's blind.
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  • "get your blind self out of the dust, get to town, i'll see you
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  • In a bit."
  • 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:40.615
  • "sir, yes, sir."
  • 00:16:40.615 --> 00:16:43.418
  • See, we've lost a little of the vision of the sovereignty
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  • Of god.
  • 00:16:50.324 --> 00:16:52.193
  • Matthew 11, jesus again, "come to me all you who are weary and
  • 00:16:52.193 --> 00:16:55.129
  • Burdened, and i'll give you rest.
  • 00:16:55.129 --> 00:16:59.033
  • Take my yoke upon you, learn from me.
  • 00:16:59.033 --> 00:17:04.005
  • I'm gentle and humble in heart, and you'll find rest for
  • 00:17:04.005 --> 00:17:06.407
  • Your souls."
  • 00:17:06.407 --> 00:17:07.975
  • "come to me," he said.
  • 00:17:07.975 --> 00:17:09.944
  • It's a great invitation, but we don't come to him to dictate the
  • 00:17:09.944 --> 00:17:14.015
  • Order of march.
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  • We put his yoke upon us.
  • 00:17:15.983 --> 00:17:18.319
  • He said, my yoke is not burdensome.
  • 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.590
  • But we nevertheless, are yoked to the purposes and the plans of
  • 00:17:22.590 --> 00:17:26.494
  • Almighty god.
  • 00:17:26.494 --> 00:17:28.229
  • You see, if we will seek the lord, he will take notice.
  • 00:17:28.229 --> 00:17:32.733
  • What i love about this is it eliminates all of the things
  • 00:17:32.733 --> 00:17:35.903
  • That we think limit our lives.
  • 00:17:35.903 --> 00:17:38.272
  • You don't have to be a freakish athlete to seek the lord.
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  • You don't have to have a three digit iq to seek the lord.
  • 00:17:41.642 --> 00:17:44.846
  • You don't have to have studied in elite places to seek
  • 00:17:44.846 --> 00:17:47.448
  • The lord.
  • 00:17:47.448 --> 00:17:48.983
  • You don't have to have been a global traveler, you don't have
  • 00:17:48.983 --> 00:17:50.952
  • To be an influencer, your family didn't have to be all together.
  • 00:17:50.952 --> 00:17:54.755
  • You maybe come from the family that put the fun in
  • 00:17:54.755 --> 00:17:57.158
  • Dysfunctional and you can still choose to seek the lord.
  • 00:17:57.158 --> 00:18:03.531
  • It's an opportunity for all of us.
  • 00:18:03.531 --> 00:18:06.567
  • There's a second time that saul ignores god's direction.
  • 00:18:06.567 --> 00:18:10.238
  • It's another battle scenario and saul this time ignores the
  • 00:18:10.238 --> 00:18:14.675
  • Lord again.
  • 00:18:14.675 --> 00:18:16.043
  • He's had the warning, he's had his authority trimmed, the story
  • 00:18:16.043 --> 00:18:19.914
  • Of his life dramatically changed, and yet he
  • 00:18:19.914 --> 00:18:22.250
  • Rebels again.
  • 00:18:22.250 --> 00:18:23.584
  • And this time samuel shows back up.
  • 00:18:23.584 --> 00:18:25.887
  • It's 1 samuel 15.
  • 00:18:25.887 --> 00:18:27.255
  • "the word of the lord came to samuel; 'i'm grieved that i've
  • 00:18:27.255 --> 00:18:29.190
  • Made saul king, because he's turned away from me.'"
  • 00:18:29.190 --> 00:18:34.795
  • And samuel said, "i told you so."
  • 00:18:34.795 --> 00:18:38.833
  • I'm sorry, it's not there that's in the allen version.
  • 00:18:38.833 --> 00:18:43.771
  • "he's turned away from me and he hasn't carried out
  • 00:18:46.841 --> 00:18:48.910
  • My instructions.
  • 00:18:48.910 --> 00:18:50.711
  • And samuel was troubled, and he cried out to the lord all
  • 00:18:50.711 --> 00:18:53.347
  • That night."
  • 00:18:53.347 --> 00:18:55.716
  • At the end of the day, samuel has a heart for the people.
  • 00:18:55.716 --> 00:19:00.488
  • There's some lessons in leadership there.
  • 00:19:00.488 --> 00:19:03.224
  • Same chapter verse 23.
  • 00:19:03.224 --> 00:19:04.759
  • This was the renunciation of saul.
  • 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:06.527
  • "rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like
  • 00:19:06.527 --> 00:19:09.263
  • The evil of idolatry."
  • 00:19:09.263 --> 00:19:11.499
  • So there's two things we don't wanna to make space for in our
  • 00:19:11.499 --> 00:19:13.534
  • Hearts, rebellion and arrogance.
  • 00:19:13.534 --> 00:19:16.771
  • We can't afford them.
  • 00:19:16.771 --> 00:19:18.806
  • They will disrupt the purposes of god for you.
  • 00:19:18.806 --> 00:19:21.876
  • If god has written a story for you, provided an assignment for
  • 00:19:21.876 --> 00:19:25.046
  • You, invited you into the heart of his purposes, if we choose
  • 00:19:25.046 --> 00:19:28.316
  • Rebellion and arrogance, we will forfeit the privileges of that.
  • 00:19:28.316 --> 00:19:32.853
  • It's a sobering message.
  • 00:19:32.853 --> 00:19:34.689
  • "because you've rejected the word of the lord, he's rejected
  • 00:19:34.689 --> 00:19:36.857
  • You as king."
  • 00:19:36.857 --> 00:19:41.629
  • He's rejected you as king.
  • 00:19:41.629 --> 00:19:42.964
  • Now he wasn't removed from the throne that day.
  • 00:19:42.964 --> 00:19:45.233
  • Saul served for 42 years.
  • 00:19:45.233 --> 00:19:48.469
  • But the balance of his kingship, he never saw samuel again.
  • 00:19:48.469 --> 00:19:51.639
  • That was the last time samuel went to see him.
  • 00:19:51.639 --> 00:19:55.076
  • The man who had helped secure his place who had written the
  • 00:19:55.076 --> 00:19:58.079
  • Directions for his leadership, who had brought a blessing to
  • 00:19:58.079 --> 00:20:03.951
  • His life, saul forfeited the blessing of god.
  • 00:20:03.951 --> 00:20:09.156
  • He held the place.
  • 00:20:09.156 --> 00:20:11.592
  • You see, honoring the lord with our lives has a value.
  • 00:20:11.592 --> 00:20:14.762
  • There are limits of grace and mercy.
  • 00:20:14.762 --> 00:20:16.364
  • There are consequences for rebellion.
  • 00:20:16.364 --> 00:20:19.300
  • Saul ignores god's direction a second time and he loses his
  • 00:20:19.300 --> 00:20:23.137
  • Leadership of the nation.
  • 00:20:23.137 --> 00:20:24.505
  • He didn't lose his title or his position.
  • 00:20:24.505 --> 00:20:27.208
  • He's already forfeited a generational heir, the second
  • 00:20:27.208 --> 00:20:29.810
  • Time he forfeits god's blessing upon his efforts.
  • 00:20:29.810 --> 00:20:33.648
  • And all he's left with is the facade of a position.
  • 00:20:33.648 --> 00:20:38.352
  • 15:34, "that day samuel left, saul went home, but until the
  • 00:20:38.352 --> 00:20:42.356
  • Day samuel died, he didn't go see saul again."
  • 00:20:42.356 --> 00:20:45.626
  • So there's a question here, and i'm gonna close.
  • 00:20:45.626 --> 00:20:47.695
  • Do you think god made a mistake with saul?
  • 00:20:47.695 --> 00:20:51.666
  • Now, that's an important question.
  • 00:20:51.666 --> 00:20:53.034
  • Did he select the wrong person?
  • 00:20:53.034 --> 00:20:55.369
  • No, i don't believe that's the lesson of the narrative.
  • 00:20:55.369 --> 00:20:57.538
  • I believe god provided an opportunity to saul.
  • 00:20:57.538 --> 00:21:01.008
  • He established saul before the people in supernatural ways with
  • 00:21:01.008 --> 00:21:04.145
  • Demonstrations of his own power.
  • 00:21:04.145 --> 00:21:06.180
  • He brought the blessing of samuel who had been the voice to
  • 00:21:06.180 --> 00:21:08.883
  • The people for decades.
  • 00:21:08.883 --> 00:21:11.152
  • Saul was given an established place to lead the people, but
  • 00:21:11.152 --> 00:21:16.090
  • Saul's responsibility was to follow the lord.
  • 00:21:16.090 --> 00:21:21.262
  • You see, they had an inheritance.
  • 00:21:21.262 --> 00:21:22.797
  • They have a promised land, but in order to maintain their place
  • 00:21:22.797 --> 00:21:26.334
  • And the blessings of the inheritance, they had to choose
  • 00:21:26.334 --> 00:21:28.703
  • To honor the lord.
  • 00:21:28.703 --> 00:21:30.071
  • You and i have been given amazing promises.
  • 00:21:30.071 --> 00:21:32.440
  • Jesus offered himself as a sacrifice on our behalf that we
  • 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:36.477
  • Might live transformed lives in our journey through time and
  • 00:21:36.477 --> 00:21:39.814
  • Participate in his eternal kingdom.
  • 00:21:39.814 --> 00:21:42.850
  • But in order for that to impact our journey, we must maintain a
  • 00:21:42.850 --> 00:21:47.688
  • Heart and a desire to honor the lord.
  • 00:21:47.688 --> 00:21:51.559
  • I'm not suggesting we earn our salvation, that's nonsense.
  • 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:56.330
  • But it's worse than nonsense.
  • 00:21:56.330 --> 00:21:58.165
  • It's apostasy to suggest that your behavior doesn't matter.
  • 00:21:58.165 --> 00:22:02.636
  • It's just not scriptural.
  • 00:22:06.107 --> 00:22:10.444
  • You can't practice sin.
  • 00:22:10.444 --> 00:22:12.279
  • You can't make sin your habit and imagine you can live in the
  • 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:16.350
  • Privilege of god.
  • 00:22:16.350 --> 00:22:19.887
  • God is moving in the earth.
  • 00:22:19.887 --> 00:22:21.922
  • I don't know that i've ever seen a shaking like we're
  • 00:22:21.922 --> 00:22:24.358
  • Experiencing in my lifetime.
  • 00:22:24.358 --> 00:22:27.094
  • It seems that there's tremor after tremor with things that
  • 00:22:27.094 --> 00:22:30.197
  • Have been hidden in darkness being exposed and truth
  • 00:22:30.197 --> 00:22:32.800
  • Being told.
  • 00:22:32.800 --> 00:22:34.902
  • Expressions of freedom that are coming, the systems that we've
  • 00:22:34.902 --> 00:22:37.872
  • Looked at with trust and confidence have been shaken to
  • 00:22:37.872 --> 00:22:41.242
  • Their core.
  • 00:22:41.242 --> 00:22:42.576
  • They're no longer trustworthy. you'd be foolish to trust them.
  • 00:22:42.576 --> 00:22:46.147
  • But what's being exposed is the unshakeable authority of god.
  • 00:22:46.147 --> 00:22:51.152
  • Those biblical values and it's uncomfortable for the church
  • 00:22:51.152 --> 00:22:54.054
  • 'cause we've drifted so far away from it.
  • 00:22:54.054 --> 00:22:55.790
  • We haven't really been anchored there.
  • 00:22:55.790 --> 00:22:59.160
  • But i believe god is giving us an opportunity.
  • 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:04.298
  • From that last passage, god sends samuel to choose a
  • 00:23:04.298 --> 00:23:06.967
  • New king.
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  • I'll close it with this idea.
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  • It seems abundantly clear to me from the text that the most
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  • Impactful part of samuel's life is after he's rejected by the
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  • Tribal leaders.
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  • What seemed like the great failure, an untimely conclusion
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  • To his leadership in truth, samuel's presence was more
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  • Needed more necessary in that transitionary period than it was
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  • When he served as a judge making his routine trips through the
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  • Cities of israel.
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  • It was samuel's stability that managed, enabled saul to occupy
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  • The throne and it was samuel's significance that gave authority
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  • To david to succeed saul.
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  • Most important part of his life after he suffered at the hands
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  • Of ungodly decisions.
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  • You see, ungodly people don't have the power to keep you from
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  • God's purposes.
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  • It's a very important thing.
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  • People who reject the purposes of god for themselves don't have
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  • The power to keep you from god's best for your life.
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  • Do not choose the seat of a victim.
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  • You can acknowledge the harshness of the circumstance,
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  • But then you've got to forgive and you've got to release those
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  • People and you've got to go forward.
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  • That's not the message that predominates in our culture.
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  • We're being taught to hate and to divide and to separate.
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  • And we protect our ungodliness because we think it gives us
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  • Access to power.
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  • And it's a lie from the pit.
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  • If we will choose the lord with our whole hearts, he will bring
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  • You his very best into your life.
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  • God is faithful.
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  • I brought you a prayer and it's really just an affirmation of
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  • The principles we've been reading from samuel.
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  • If you'll stand with me we can read it together.
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  • It's a prayer worth putting in your devotional this week.
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  • I don't intend to leave it to a one-time prayer in my own life.
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  • I would share it with you for something that's worth
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  • Repeating, at least through the days of this week.
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  • Let's read it together.
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  • Have you found it?
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  • If you've been ignoring the notes, the sheet's worth it just
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  • For the prayer.
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  • "heavenly father, teach me to walk in your ways, to recognize
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  • Your direction and understand your purposes.
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  • May my ears be open to listen to all your instruction.
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  • My desire is to walk uprightly and to be pleasing in
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  • Your sight.
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  • Let the fear of god grow within me and the power of god be
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  • Evident through all the days of my life."
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  • Amen. hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: hey, i've got a question.
  • 00:26:13.387 --> 00:26:14.755
  • What's the eternal breath of life?
  • 00:26:14.755 --> 00:26:17.424
  • Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote.
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  • When i sat down to do a podcast with him and i was listening to
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  • His story about how god had moved in his life and my
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  • Family's life all the way up to the beginning of the church that
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  • I've served now for several decades, i was so reminded of
  • 00:26:27.935 --> 00:26:31.538
  • The purpose and the power of the spirit of god in our lives.
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  • I asked him to put it in a book.
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  • That's what we're sharing with you.
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  • We all need god's help.
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  • We all face challenges.
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  • Life's not easy no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
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  • Is present within us to bring the power and purposes of god to
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  • Bear in our lives.
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  • I believe the book will be a blessing for you.
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  • If you'll pair it with "unleashing the power of the
  • 00:26:52.159 --> 00:26:54.695
  • Holy spirit" is one of the most effective tools we have, it'll
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  • Give you a pathway that i believe will bring god's best
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  • Into your family.
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  • You may not plant a church, but you have been given the
  • 00:27:02.002 --> 00:27:04.171
  • Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god and we need
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  • The help of the holy spirit.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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