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Allen Jackson - I Am Sending You

April 1, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - I Am Sending You
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 - I Am Sending You | April 1, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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  • Allen: amen, the title for this session, actually for the next
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  • Two or three, has to do with leading with faith, but it is
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  • Really directed towards this rather unique season that we're
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  • Gonna walk through for these next six or eight weeks.
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  • We want to bring our faith to bear and not just our habits and
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  • Routines and our favorite aspects of the holidays.
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  • This session, we're gonna talk about, "i'm sending you."
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  • I think we've all been mindful that there's something moving in
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  • Our nation.
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  • And depending on where you stand around the ideological spectrum,
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  • You're celebrating or mourning or--but the reality is we have a
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  • New imagination of government leaders at the moment.
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  • We are seeing things and hearing discussions of the future that
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  • Are about things we haven't seen before, outcomes that we have
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  • Not experienced.
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  • So imagine robert kennedy jr. over the health and wellness of
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  • Our nation, the doritos are disappearing from the shelves of
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  • The stores all over the country.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • And as remarkable as the opportunities around that may
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  • Be, i have said, and i will continue to say to you that i
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  • Believe we need new imaginations of the people of god.
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  • That we're gonna have to make responses that we have not
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  • Made before.
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  • That we will have to be dependent upon god for outcomes
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  • That we have not experienced.
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  • Because if we maintain our routines, and we fiercely defend
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  • The status quo, and we imagine that all of the significant god
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  • Business of our lives has been done, whatever advances the lord
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  • Would give to us will not be kept.
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  • It's dependent upon us.
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  • This unique experiment in self-government means the people
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  • Who occupy those positions of authority are a reflection of
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  • The character of our nation.
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  • Those leaders come and go.
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  • But the tone, the policies that are established, the principles
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  • That will be brought forth are a reflection of the hearts of
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  • The people.
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  • And while i believe we've seen an expression of the mercy of
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  • God without any question, i believe for it to be extended,
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  • For it even to be--to be maintained requires of us
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  • Something of a shift.
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  • And i'm watching people that i have known and have been
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  • Acquainted with, accept responsibilities and reorder
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  • Their lives to step into new places.
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  • And in many respects, it seems, to me at least, if those
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  • Invitations were extended, that it would--it's a
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  • Great sacrifice.
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  • And so i'm asking myself the question, what sacrifices are
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  • Before me?
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  • What can i do?
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  • How can i invest my time and energy in a different way so
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  • That the outcomes of what is before us would reflect god's
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  • Involvement with us?
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  • And that's really the point of this talk and the one that will
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  • Go with it tomorrow.
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  • They're intended to be a companion.
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  • I want to start in exodus chapter 3, it's a very familiar
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  • Chapter, i suspect, to many of us.
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  • It's moses's recruitment.
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  • This is moses the fugitive, not moses the baby in a basket.
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  • This is moses the adult who has seemingly squandered all of the
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  • Unique preparation of his life.
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  • He's no longer described as the hebrew slave who grew up in
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  • Pharaoh's palace.
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  • He's just a shepherd on the backside of the desert and he's
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  • A fugitive.
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  • He's established a whole new life and a whole new pattern.
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  • And he sees a bush that's burning, you know the story, and
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  • He turns aside to see what it is, and god speaks to him from
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  • The bush.
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  • And we're gonna read a bit of this recruitment.
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  • I'm gonna suggest to you that in moses's recruitment narrative,
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  • There is a pattern, a type is a bit more of the technical word,
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  • For you and me.
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  • That god's going to demonstrate some principles about his
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  • Character and how he interacts with human beings and how he
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  • Interacts with his people in a broader sense that can inform
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  • Our lives.
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  • That we don't just read it as a historical narrative.
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  • We don't even say we believe it's true.
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  • We believe it's intended to inform our journey through time.
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  • You see, the bible is written as addressive literature.
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  • It's not a--it's not a book from antiquity, that's a collection
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  • Of just a variety of literary styles, poetry and wisdom and a
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  • Bit of history.
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  • It is intended, i believe, to address the lives of every
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  • Generation who pick it up.
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  • And anything less than that really removes it from a place
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  • Of authority.
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  • We don't read the bible, we don't open it and sit in the
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  • Seat of authority judging the bible, we open the bible and
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  • Allow it to judge us.
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  • But my ultimate objective is to present to you an invitation, an
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  • Invitation to become an agent of transformation.
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  • I believe it's very much a biblical assignment.
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  • We'll start in exodus 3 and verse 7: "the lord said to
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  • Moses, 'i have indeed seen the misery of my people in egypt.
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  • And i've heard them crying out because of their slave drivers,
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  • And i'm concerned about their suffering.
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  • So i've come down to rescue them from the hand of the egyptians
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  • And to bring them up out of that land, into a good and a spacious
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  • Land, a land flowing with milk and honey.'"
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  • That's an important principle.
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  • When god delivers you from a place of darkness and
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  • Oppression, it's with the intent of bringing you into a
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  • Better place.
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  • It's not to return you to the pattern that got you into the
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  • Pit to begin with.
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  • The purpose of deliverance is to bring you to a better place.
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  • He didn't just deliver them out of egypt and say, "now help
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  • Yourselves, work it out amongst you."
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  • He delivered them out of egypt and put them into a very
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  • Rigorous training program, complete with a whole new
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  • Revelation of laws and patterns of worship and responses to
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  • Life, a whole new diet.
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  • That's meddling this time of the year.
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  • He established for them whole new routines of worship.
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  • He segmented them into priests and people who would care for
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  • The tabernacle.
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  • He gave them a whole new social structure, a whole new
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  • Civic authority.
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  • You see, the invitations of god in our lives are not just to get
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  • Us out of the dark place so we can go back and do whatever we
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  • Wanna do.
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  • He delivers us so that we might be submitted more fully to his
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  • Authority in our lives.
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  • I think we have--if we held that imagination in contemporary
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  • Christendom, we've lost it.
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  • We tend to think of our experience with god defines our
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  • Future, our eternity, what happens to us beyond time.
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  • And the power of god to deliver us from the bondage of sin, the
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  • Tyranny of sin, the addictive natures of sin, is to set us
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  • Free for his purposes with our journey, with our days under
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  • The sun.
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  • "moses, i've heard the cries of my people.
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  • And i'm going to deliver them from egyptian slavery, from
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  • Bondage, and i'm going to lead them into a spacious land, the
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  • Land that flows with milk and honey."
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  • If you know the rest of the story, what he didn't say to
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  • Moses, "and they'll have to fight every step of the way."
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  • The land is fortified, the cities have imposing walls.
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  • They're not gonna surrender.
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  • You see, the purposes of god for your life will not just
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  • Surrender to you.
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  • Again, we have had a perverted gospel, or at least an
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  • Incomplete gospel, that we think following conversion, we're just
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  • Going to skip down the yellow brick road.
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  • Now there are--the goodness of god and the grace of god and the
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  • Mercy of god inform our journey, but it will take a determination
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  • From us to see the purposes of god brought forth in our lives,
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  • The yielding of ourselves so that our character can be
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  • Transformed more fully into the image of jesus.
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  • See, we've been coached that the biggest expression, the greatest
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  • Expression of faithfulness to the lord is getting yourself
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  • To church.
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  • And we've got to be awakened to that in a whole new way.
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  • I gotta go back to moses, we'll never finish, right?
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  • "and i'm gonna take you, the land flowing with milk and
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  • Honey--the home of the canaanites, and the hittites,
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  • And the amorites," and all those things.
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  • In verse 9, "and now the cry of the israelites has reached me,
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  • And i've seen the way the egyptians are oppressing them."
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  • Up to this point, moses is all in, i think.
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  • I've seen that stuff too.
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  • I grew up there, i know it, it's awful.
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  • I'm glad you finally noticed, it's about time!
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  • It's the next sentence that changes the entire narrative and
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  • The emotion of it.
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  • He said, "'so now, go.
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  • I'm sending you to pharaoh.
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  • I'm sending you to bring my people the israelites out
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  • Of egypt.'
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  • But moses said to god, 'who am i that i should go to pharaoh and
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  • Bring the israelites out of egypt?'"
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  • It's a stunning change of direction.
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  • Moses objects immediately, he's a very reluctant recruit.
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  • Who am i? i tried that.
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  • My picture is in every post office in egypt.
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  • Why should i do that?
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  • What, i'm not qualified.
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  • Allen: hey, i have a suggestion.
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  • Let's stop waiting for somebody else to be a better leader.
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  • Let's determine this year to lead with faith.
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  • I've written a book to help.
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  • It's a practical collection of tools that you and i can use the
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  • Influence of our lives, faith first in the marketplace, in our
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  • Homes, with our friends.
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  • Folks, it's time for us to stop waiting for somebody else to
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  • Step forward.
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  • Let's determine to lead with faith.
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  • We can do that and i believe we can change our homes, our
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  • Neighborhoods, our churches, maybe even our nation.
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  • Announcer: choosing to lead with faith starts with a simple
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  • Decision: to be intentional right where you are.
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  • This book will encourage you to stand for truth with wisdom,
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  • Allen: now, god is going to provide moses with instructions
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  • And equip him with everything he will need.
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  • And i think it's worth noting, we're gonna walk through it just
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  • Pretty briefly, but it does not alleviate his reluctance.
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  • Now, i read that and it feels very familiar to me.
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  • The places where god's invitations have come before me
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  • In my life, the real ones, i have thought, no, i don't
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  • Think so.
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  • I'm good just the way i am, thank you.
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  • No, i don't think so.
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  • I don't even like those people that much.
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  • I mean, i have a whole litany of reasons.
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  • I don't want to be involved.
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  • And i want to point to my credentials, my resume.
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  • I'm born again and baptized in water, and i read my bible and i
  • 00:12:25.728 --> 00:12:29.899
  • Do all this and i do this, and so i don't have to think
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  • About that.
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  • I don't have to be engaged.
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  • And i really, i read this narrative--imagine if moses had
  • 00:12:36.005 --> 00:12:39.275
  • Been so recalcitrant, he said, "no, i'm not going."
  • 00:12:39.275 --> 00:12:46.148
  • I assure you, god would have delivered his people.
  • 00:12:46.148 --> 00:12:50.519
  • But moses's story would have been dramatically different.
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  • So i--i'm pushing it towards you because i'm gonna suggest to you
  • 00:12:56.225 --> 00:12:59.328
  • That god is sending you, and you, and you, and you, and you.
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  • In fact, you ought to look at the person on your right and
  • 00:13:10.706 --> 00:13:13.075
  • Say, "i think god is sending you."
  • 00:13:13.075 --> 00:13:17.213
  • Only about six of you moved.
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  • God is sending us.
  • 00:13:22.484 --> 00:13:24.820
  • See, we're so excited.
  • 00:13:24.820 --> 00:13:26.155
  • There was elation around much of the country a few weeks ago
  • 00:13:26.155 --> 00:13:30.626
  • Because we thought god was sending some new people
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  • Someplace to do some hard things.
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  • We wanted a new direction.
  • 00:13:35.464 --> 00:13:36.799
  • We wanted somebody to change course and plot a new course and
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  • Secure a border and do this and do that and change this and
  • 00:13:40.135 --> 00:13:43.505
  • Change that, and we were happy.
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  • So we can keep doing what we've been doing.
  • 00:13:46.375 --> 00:13:49.612
  • Because we're pretty good, we are not the problem.
  • 00:13:49.612 --> 00:13:55.484
  • We have met the problem and it's someone else.
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  • And i think we're a lot like moses in the midst of
  • 00:14:00.356 --> 00:14:02.291
  • This recruitment.
  • 00:14:02.291 --> 00:14:03.626
  • God says, "you know, my people are in a mess.
  • 00:14:03.626 --> 00:14:06.629
  • They're in a hard place."
  • 00:14:06.629 --> 00:14:07.997
  • And moses is going, "yes, they are."
  • 00:14:07.997 --> 00:14:11.333
  • "and i'm gonna do something about it."
  • 00:14:11.333 --> 00:14:13.002
  • "good, they need somebody to do something about it."
  • 00:14:13.002 --> 00:14:17.506
  • I mean, he is--i mean, he's like all in.
  • 00:14:17.506 --> 00:14:19.174
  • And then god says, "i'm sending you," and he go, "whoa!
  • 00:14:19.174 --> 00:14:24.246
  • That is not what i meant."
  • 00:14:24.246 --> 00:14:27.716
  • I mean, we know middle tennessee needs a little bit more jesus.
  • 00:14:27.716 --> 00:14:31.887
  • That's why we voted for those people to go bring more
  • 00:14:31.887 --> 00:14:34.023
  • Jesus here.
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  • And i believe with all my heart god has said, "i'm sending you."
  • 00:14:40.229 --> 00:14:45.267
  • Moses has questions.
  • 00:14:45.267 --> 00:14:47.469
  • And god provides answers and resources, which moses will most
  • 00:14:47.469 --> 00:14:51.407
  • Certainly need.
  • 00:14:51.407 --> 00:14:54.576
  • Same chapter, verse 13, "moses says to the lord, 'just suppose
  • 00:14:54.576 --> 00:14:59.081
  • I go to the israelites and say to them, 'the god of your
  • 00:14:59.081 --> 00:15:01.350
  • Fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'well, what's
  • 00:15:01.350 --> 00:15:04.486
  • His name?'
  • 00:15:04.486 --> 00:15:07.289
  • Then what am i gonna say?'"
  • 00:15:07.289 --> 00:15:11.093
  • That's a very relevant question.
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  • Basically, he's saying, by whose authority?
  • 00:15:14.096 --> 00:15:16.465
  • Do i get like a laminated id card on a lanyard, servant of
  • 00:15:16.465 --> 00:15:21.537
  • The most high god, leader of the former slaves of egypt?
  • 00:15:21.537 --> 00:15:27.109
  • You scan it, it'll come up on your computer.
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  • I'll have all the appropriate credentials in social media.
  • 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:35.651
  • By whose authority?
  • 00:15:35.651 --> 00:15:37.353
  • Why would they believe me?
  • 00:15:37.353 --> 00:15:40.923
  • Or if we said it just a slightly different way, moses, who are
  • 00:15:40.923 --> 00:15:43.792
  • You to make such statements?
  • 00:15:43.792 --> 00:15:46.996
  • Why should we listen to you?
  • 00:15:46.996 --> 00:15:50.666
  • See, i think all of us have this same crisis within us.
  • 00:15:50.666 --> 00:15:55.571
  • Well, if i stand up and say, i don't believe that's the right
  • 00:15:55.571 --> 00:15:57.673
  • Way to go.
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  • I don't think that's appropriately--the appropriate
  • 00:15:59.641 --> 00:16:01.610
  • Choice, i believe human life is sacred.
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  • I don't believe you can make a choice about terminating the
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  • Life of a child.
  • 00:16:08.784 --> 00:16:10.152
  • That's not a choice you have the privilege of making.
  • 00:16:10.152 --> 00:16:13.555
  • We get a little quiet because we know what the answer, well, who
  • 00:16:13.555 --> 00:16:17.026
  • Are you to make that decision?
  • 00:16:17.026 --> 00:16:22.698
  • Who are you to make such statements?
  • 00:16:22.698 --> 00:16:27.169
  • And if we don't understand the authority that's been entrusted
  • 00:16:27.169 --> 00:16:31.874
  • To us, that we're not expressing our opinions, we're reflecting
  • 00:16:31.874 --> 00:16:37.913
  • The opinion of someone else.
  • 00:16:37.913 --> 00:16:40.249
  • The authority that we've chosen to yield our lives to.
  • 00:16:40.249 --> 00:16:42.785
  • Now, we're clever enough and intuitive enough to know that if
  • 00:16:42.785 --> 00:16:45.788
  • We're not really yielding to the authority of god, that we really
  • 00:16:45.788 --> 00:16:48.857
  • Don't have the authority to cherry-pick the places we
  • 00:16:48.857 --> 00:16:51.193
  • Want to.
  • 00:16:51.193 --> 00:16:53.262
  • That it requires of us a commitment to increasingly yield
  • 00:16:53.262 --> 00:16:56.999
  • To the lord in our lives.
  • 00:16:56.999 --> 00:16:59.735
  • And if we're more aware of our failures than we are of the
  • 00:16:59.735 --> 00:17:03.072
  • Deliverance and the victory and the forgiveness and the healing
  • 00:17:03.072 --> 00:17:05.174
  • That god brings to us, we stay mute.
  • 00:17:05.174 --> 00:17:12.714
  • By whose authority?
  • 00:17:12.714 --> 00:17:14.049
  • Remember when david took lunch to his brothers in the israelite
  • 00:17:14.049 --> 00:17:18.987
  • Army and he heard goliath bellow his challenge, remember what
  • 00:17:18.987 --> 00:17:24.126
  • David said?
  • 00:17:24.126 --> 00:17:26.462
  • Goliath--david said, "who is this philistine to challenge the
  • 00:17:26.462 --> 00:17:31.867
  • Army of the living god?
  • 00:17:31.867 --> 00:17:34.903
  • Who does he think--does he know who he's challenged?"
  • 00:17:34.903 --> 00:17:39.908
  • Everybody else said he was challenging the armies of saul.
  • 00:17:39.908 --> 00:17:43.912
  • This little kid shows up and he goes, "wait a minute, he's
  • 00:17:43.912 --> 00:17:46.849
  • Called god out!"
  • 00:17:46.849 --> 00:17:50.486
  • So david goes to meet him, no armor.
  • 00:17:50.486 --> 00:17:54.089
  • Not equipped for battle, he's got a bag of rocks.
  • 00:17:54.089 --> 00:17:58.260
  • Remember what goliath said, "am i a dog, that you send this boy
  • 00:17:58.260 --> 00:18:02.297
  • Out to meet me?
  • 00:18:02.297 --> 00:18:05.033
  • I'll feed his carcass to the birds."
  • 00:18:05.033 --> 00:18:09.371
  • By whose authority?
  • 00:18:09.371 --> 00:18:11.240
  • Church, we have to be awakened to the authority in which
  • 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:14.543
  • We stand.
  • 00:18:14.543 --> 00:18:17.613
  • It's, you know, it's wonderful to be born again, to experience
  • 00:18:17.613 --> 00:18:21.049
  • Conversion, salvation, whichever label you prefer for the
  • 00:18:21.049 --> 00:18:23.886
  • Initiation into the kingdom.
  • 00:18:23.886 --> 00:18:25.621
  • But the point of that is to lead a life that reflects an
  • 00:18:25.621 --> 00:18:28.690
  • Authority beyond the label on our church, beyond
  • 00:18:28.690 --> 00:18:32.094
  • Our denomination.
  • 00:18:32.094 --> 00:18:33.428
  • We are children of the king.
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  • Moses, i'm sending you.
  • 00:18:36.532 --> 00:18:42.204
  • Church, god is sending us in this very unique time.
  • 00:18:42.204 --> 00:18:48.377
  • Chapter 4, "moses answered, 'well, what if they don't
  • 00:18:48.377 --> 00:18:51.580
  • Believe me or listen to me?
  • 00:18:51.580 --> 00:18:54.483
  • And what if they say, 'the lord didn't appear to you'?"
  • 00:18:54.483 --> 00:18:56.618
  • I'm thinking those are really good questions.
  • 00:18:56.618 --> 00:19:00.155
  • Could you--could you send me a video link i could play them?
  • 00:19:00.155 --> 00:19:05.761
  • How about a group text to all the hebrew slaves, there's a
  • 00:19:05.761 --> 00:19:10.899
  • Guy, moses, coming out.
  • 00:19:10.899 --> 00:19:12.234
  • Smells a lot like sheep, listen to him?
  • 00:19:12.234 --> 00:19:16.705
  • "and the lord said to him, 'what is that in your hand?'
  • 00:19:16.705 --> 00:19:19.841
  • 'it's a staff,' he replied.
  • 00:19:19.841 --> 00:19:22.444
  • And the lord said, 'throw it on the ground.'
  • 00:19:22.444 --> 00:19:24.079
  • And moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he
  • 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:26.415
  • Ran from it.
  • 00:19:26.415 --> 00:19:28.850
  • And the lord said, 'reach out your hand and take it by
  • 00:19:28.850 --> 00:19:30.852
  • The tail.'"
  • 00:19:30.852 --> 00:19:32.221
  • Moses--up to this point, i'm thinking moses is
  • 00:19:32.221 --> 00:19:34.323
  • Reasonably clever.
  • 00:19:34.323 --> 00:19:36.825
  • I'm telling you, if i see a snake on the ground,
  • 00:19:36.825 --> 00:19:38.427
  • I'm running.
  • 00:19:38.427 --> 00:19:39.761
  • I know some of you messed up, unsafe people would do
  • 00:19:39.761 --> 00:19:42.097
  • Something else, but--
  • 00:19:42.097 --> 00:19:44.933
  • "and god said, 'pick it up.'
  • 00:19:44.933 --> 00:19:48.070
  • And moses did, and it turned back into a staff in his hand."
  • 00:19:48.070 --> 00:19:54.076
  • See, god's preparing moses.
  • 00:19:54.076 --> 00:19:55.444
  • He has an assignment.
  • 00:19:55.444 --> 00:19:56.778
  • Moses understands he's outclassed, he's underpowered.
  • 00:19:56.778 --> 00:20:00.916
  • He doesn't have the qualifications.
  • 00:20:00.916 --> 00:20:02.484
  • He doesn't have a group of supporters.
  • 00:20:02.484 --> 00:20:05.854
  • He's an individual, isolated, with many reasons to be resented
  • 00:20:05.854 --> 00:20:09.758
  • By people on both sides of the discussion.
  • 00:20:09.758 --> 00:20:13.996
  • The hebrew slaves aren't gonna like him, he grew up in
  • 00:20:13.996 --> 00:20:15.964
  • The palace.
  • 00:20:15.964 --> 00:20:17.299
  • The people in the palace don't like him, he's a hebrew.
  • 00:20:17.299 --> 00:20:21.536
  • He's the ultimate outsider, and god's giving him an assignment
  • 00:20:21.536 --> 00:20:24.840
  • That requires a power he doesn't have and an authority that no
  • 00:20:24.840 --> 00:20:28.377
  • One recognizes.
  • 00:20:28.377 --> 00:20:31.446
  • And he's asking very pertinent, very appropriate questions.
  • 00:20:31.446 --> 00:20:35.884
  • And god said, "well, take your shepherd's staff and throw
  • 00:20:35.884 --> 00:20:39.521
  • It down."
  • 00:20:39.521 --> 00:20:41.857
  • And there's this remarkable thing that happens, and he says,
  • 00:20:41.857 --> 00:20:44.059
  • "now pick it back up," and even more remarkably, it returns to
  • 00:20:44.059 --> 00:20:47.562
  • His staff.
  • 00:20:47.562 --> 00:20:48.930
  • I mean, the first half of that, you might go, wow!
  • 00:20:48.930 --> 00:20:51.533
  • When he picks it up and the staff is back in his hand.
  • 00:20:51.533 --> 00:20:55.237
  • He's introducing to moses a miraculous power, a supernatural
  • 00:20:55.237 --> 00:20:59.875
  • Power that's not been a part of his experience.
  • 00:20:59.875 --> 00:21:03.779
  • He's saying, i'm sending you on an assignment, and it's gonna
  • 00:21:03.779 --> 00:21:06.248
  • Require a power that you don't have, but that power is
  • 00:21:06.248 --> 00:21:09.251
  • Available to you.
  • 00:21:09.251 --> 00:21:10.585
  • That's the part of this recruitment.
  • 00:21:10.585 --> 00:21:12.454
  • Do you understand that when you and i were recruited into the
  • 00:21:12.454 --> 00:21:14.690
  • Kingdom of god the assignment isn't to overcome evil with our
  • 00:21:14.690 --> 00:21:18.960
  • Own self-control?
  • 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:21.630
  • The assignment isn't to out-organize evil or outthink
  • 00:21:21.630 --> 00:21:24.032
  • Evil or out-plan evil or out-plot evil, we are to
  • 00:21:24.032 --> 00:21:26.868
  • Demonstrate a power that has defeated evil.
  • 00:21:26.868 --> 00:21:31.273
  • That's our assignment.
  • 00:21:31.273 --> 00:21:34.476
  • What a remarkable scheme has been launched against the people
  • 00:21:34.476 --> 00:21:37.579
  • Of god, that rather than believe in the miraculous, rather than
  • 00:21:37.579 --> 00:21:40.882
  • Believe that god will do those things, we have seminars to talk
  • 00:21:40.882 --> 00:21:43.885
  • About it.
  • 00:21:43.885 --> 00:21:46.121
  • We have whole schools of theology that say, oh, god
  • 00:21:46.121 --> 00:21:48.357
  • Doesn't do that anymore.
  • 00:21:48.357 --> 00:21:51.793
  • We've separated ourselves from the invitations of god and the
  • 00:21:51.793 --> 00:21:55.030
  • Assignment of god and the power that's necessary to lead
  • 00:21:55.030 --> 00:21:58.066
  • Victorious, overcoming lives.
  • 00:21:58.066 --> 00:22:05.207
  • In fact, i slipped a little prayer in there.
  • 00:22:05.207 --> 00:22:08.210
  • If you're around here much, you know that let's pray is a--an
  • 00:22:08.210 --> 00:22:12.147
  • Invitation for a very direct, simple, plainspoken invitation
  • 00:22:12.147 --> 00:22:17.185
  • To god in the midst of our lives.
  • 00:22:17.185 --> 00:22:20.288
  • And if the miraculous seems a little bit beyond you, if it's
  • 00:22:20.288 --> 00:22:24.593
  • Something that hasn't been a part of your normal routine, i
  • 00:22:24.593 --> 00:22:28.463
  • Gave you a little prayer.
  • 00:22:28.463 --> 00:22:30.766
  • Heavenly father, nothing is impossible for you.
  • 00:22:30.766 --> 00:22:33.702
  • We ask for your intervention, let your power and grace be made
  • 00:22:33.702 --> 00:22:36.505
  • Evident, in jesus's name, amen.
  • 00:22:36.505 --> 00:22:40.575
  • You're not dictating to god what he will do or how he will do it.
  • 00:22:40.575 --> 00:22:44.246
  • My experience is he'll do more than i know to ask for.
  • 00:22:44.246 --> 00:22:48.350
  • He'll respond in ways beyond what i could imagine.
  • 00:22:48.350 --> 00:22:53.355
  • But it often requires of us the willingness to extend
  • 00:22:53.355 --> 00:22:55.724
  • The invitation.
  • 00:22:55.724 --> 00:22:57.058
  • Moses couldn't stay on the backside of the desert and pray
  • 00:22:57.058 --> 00:22:59.094
  • The slaves out of egypt.
  • 00:22:59.094 --> 00:23:02.397
  • He had to go face pharaoh.
  • 00:23:02.397 --> 00:23:05.567
  • He had to go with whatever was within his hand, with the
  • 00:23:05.567 --> 00:23:08.670
  • Authority that had been assigned to him, with the message that
  • 00:23:08.670 --> 00:23:11.940
  • Had been given to him and walk it out.
  • 00:23:11.940 --> 00:23:15.844
  • It wasn't readily received.
  • 00:23:15.844 --> 00:23:18.580
  • When he got there and he showed pharaoh the tricks that god had
  • 00:23:18.580 --> 00:23:20.949
  • Given him, pharaoh didn't go, "oh, how could i have been
  • 00:23:20.949 --> 00:23:25.987
  • So stubborn?
  • 00:23:25.987 --> 00:23:27.989
  • By all means, please..."
  • 00:23:27.989 --> 00:23:32.828
  • In fact, the people he was there to help find freedom got unhappy
  • 00:23:32.828 --> 00:23:37.165
  • With him really quickly.
  • 00:23:37.165 --> 00:23:39.401
  • And they will grumble for the rest of their lives, for real!
  • 00:23:39.401 --> 00:23:46.708
  • There'll be three days on the other side of the red sea
  • 00:23:46.708 --> 00:23:48.877
  • Looking at moses going, "we never trusted you."
  • 00:23:48.877 --> 00:23:56.384
  • Come on, now, they still got mud on their sandals from crossing
  • 00:23:56.384 --> 00:23:59.588
  • The red sea and they're complaining about mo.
  • 00:23:59.588 --> 00:24:05.894
  • But at this point in the story, the invitation for the
  • 00:24:05.894 --> 00:24:10.131
  • Supernatural, i think we ought to say that a little
  • 00:24:10.131 --> 00:24:11.800
  • Prayer together.
  • 00:24:11.800 --> 00:24:13.535
  • Will you read it with me?
  • 00:24:13.535 --> 00:24:15.637
  • Heavenly father, nothing is impossible for you.
  • 00:24:15.637 --> 00:24:19.574
  • We ask for your intervention, let your power and grace be made
  • 00:24:19.574 --> 00:24:23.612
  • Evident, in jesus's name, amen.
  • 00:24:23.612 --> 00:24:27.649
  • Now you're equipped over these next few weeks with all the
  • 00:24:27.649 --> 00:24:31.052
  • People you'll interact with in a new way.
  • 00:24:31.052 --> 00:24:33.688
  • We're giving thanks, we're celebrating jesus's birth, all
  • 00:24:33.688 --> 00:24:37.058
  • Sorts of god opportunities around that.
  • 00:24:37.058 --> 00:24:39.160
  • When you meet somebody that has a need for god's intervention,
  • 00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:43.031
  • Something we can't do,
  • 00:24:43.031 --> 00:24:45.867
  • You think, oh, i wish i knew what to say.
  • 00:24:45.867 --> 00:24:48.904
  • You know, i have this crazy pastor.
  • 00:24:48.904 --> 00:24:52.641
  • And he gave us a prayer, let's pray.
  • 00:24:52.641 --> 00:24:57.445
  • If you have to keep it--let me look it up in my phone.
  • 00:24:57.445 --> 00:24:59.347
  • I got a picture of it. just a minute.
  • 00:24:59.347 --> 00:25:01.583
  • I don't pay close enough attention to remember what
  • 00:25:01.583 --> 00:25:03.285
  • He says.
  • 00:25:03.285 --> 00:25:04.653
  • He talks all the time, but i took a picture of it.
  • 00:25:04.653 --> 00:25:07.923
  • Here it is: heavenly father, nothing is impossible for you.
  • 00:25:07.923 --> 00:25:10.892
  • We ask for your intervention, let your grace and power be
  • 00:25:10.892 --> 00:25:14.329
  • Made evident.
  • 00:25:14.329 --> 00:25:15.664
  • In jesus's name, amen.
  • 00:25:15.664 --> 00:25:17.866
  • And when you say amen, don't stand there and wait, don't give
  • 00:25:17.866 --> 00:25:21.336
  • Them the creepy one-eyed spiritual look.
  • 00:25:21.336 --> 00:25:25.373
  • You know what i'm talking--don't do that to them.
  • 00:25:25.373 --> 00:25:29.544
  • Happy thanksgiving, merry christmas, god bless you.
  • 00:25:29.544 --> 00:25:34.249
  • Let them come back and find you and tell you about what god did.
  • 00:25:34.249 --> 00:25:38.320
  • Allen: i wanna pray with you before we go, that god will give
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  • Us a revelation of himself beyond church, beyond just
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  • Information, a revelation, something beyond study to help
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  • Us understand who god is and his love for us.
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  • Let's pray: father, i pray that you would give us a spirit of
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  • Wisdom and revelation that we might know you better.
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  • Far beyond sermons or church or bible studies or small groups,
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  • By the spirit of god, give us an understanding of your majesty
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  • And your power, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: i suspect we've all heard the line that leadership is
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  • About influence.
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  • Well, i have a question for you.
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  • What do you lead with?
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  • What is the basis of your influence?
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  • Is it your appearance, your education, your professional
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  • Expertise, your professional accomplishments, your athletic
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  • Ability, your family?
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  • What is the point of influence that you use most frequently?
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  • Well, i've written a book.
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  • The title is gonna give away where i'm headed.
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  • It's "lead with faith."
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  • I think it's time that all of us begin to use our faith as an
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  • Influence in the world where we find ourselves.
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  • We're reluctant to do that.
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  • We typically have more confidence in our education or
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  • Our family system or our life experience, we feel a little
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  • Uncertain to lead with faith.
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  • The point of this book is to give you the tools to take your
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  • Faith out of a church setting and bring it into
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  • The marketplace.
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  • If we will lead with faith, i believe god will help us make an
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  • Impact in this generation.
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  • Go to allenjackson.com and get your copy today.
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  • ♪♪♪
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