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Allen Jackson - I Am Sending You! (Part 1)

July 9, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - I Am Sending You! (Part 1)
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! (Part 1) | July 9, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: and i know you know, but we're living in
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  • A chaotic world, things are changing globally.
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  • There's wars, there's threats of war, a lot of stuff happening.
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  • But i wanna make a suggestion, don't focus on the negative,
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  • Don't get caught up in the uncertainty.
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  • That'll bring fear and anxiety and worry.
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  • It's not helpful.
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  • Let's determine to focus our attention on the lord.
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  • We've created a tool that i believe will make a difference.
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  • It's called, "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30 day plan.
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  • Each day is directed at a different topic
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  • That's a part of our current world.
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  • It gives us a verse of scripture, a little devotional
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  • Around that topic.
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  • And then a prayer for that specific thing.
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  • The idea is we're gonna give the holy spirit an invitation
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  • To awaken us to a new place of faith.
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  • You know, we need an awakening in the midst
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  • Of the people of god.
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  • And we wanna say, "well, i am awake."
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  • Well, i get that, but, you know, i was awakened yesterday.
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  • But this morning i was awakened again, and my prayer is
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  • Tomorrow i'll be awakened yet again.
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  • We need a daily awakening by the spirit of god
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  • To find his best for us in this season.
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  • And i believe this book will help you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i want to continue a series that we picked up in the
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  • Previous few sessions.
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  • And in fact, i hope to be able to pursue it with you for a bit.
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  • The general theme of it is "let's do difficult."
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  • It's not really a new concept to us, that biblical idea of that
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  • Contraction "let us" is a very biblical one.
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  • There's a number of those statements in the book of
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  • Hebrews, we looked at them briefly together, but as a
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  • Congregation, we've done this.
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  • We have implemented things like let's read, and we've read our
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  • Bibles together consistently over periods of years and we
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  • Learned to do let's pray, and we've taken prayer outside of a
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  • Sanctuary and off of our campus into the workplace, and the
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  • Schools, and with our friends, and our families and we've
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  • Realized that we could actually pray for people that we didn't
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  • Stand next to on a sunday or a saturday.
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  • Well, i want to add to that list because i believe first of all,
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  • It's biblical and i think it's essential for what is before us,
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  • And that's that we're gonna have to be willing to do difficult.
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  • That's different than just coming to church and being
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  • Polite or even being a faithful attender, or a volunteer or a
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  • Person of generosity.
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  • I think to embrace our faith and to live it out in the world that
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  • Is before us in our immediate future is gonna require of us a
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  • Different kind of a courage and a different kind of boldness.
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  • And so we're gonna walk around that from a variety of angles
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  • And perspectives and see if we can understand how to strengthen
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  • That, but i wanna be certain that we're--it's something we're
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  • Gonna do together.
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  • That when one of us has a problem, that we can extend a
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  • Hand and say, i'll do that with you, we'll go face
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  • The difficult.
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  • That we don't have to do it by ourselves, that we're not alone,
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  • That we don't just gather on the weekend because we share some
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  • Common points of theology that we like to bicker about, but
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  • That we have yielded our lives to the lordship of jesus and
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  • We're gonna walk this thing out.
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  • It's not another some--it's not another program where i'm
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  • Suggesting that you become a victim and raise your hand and
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  • Say somebody care for me.
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  • We have an overabundance of those already.
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  • In fact, a part of learning to do difficult is we're going to
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  • Have to leave our victim status someplace else.
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  • And in all of our incompleteness and all of our brokenness and
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  • All the work that we may need yet done upon ourselves, and in
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  • Our own lives, we will stand together and say, we'll see the
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  • Name of jesus lifted up.
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  • We've been soft long enough.
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  • Aren't you excited?
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  • I know you're excited because several people saw my outline
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  • Last weekend, and said, couldn't we have a series on "let's
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  • Do easy?"
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  • There's several of those being conducted, i can give you places
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  • If you're interested.
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  • I want to start in exodus chapter 3, in verse 10.
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  • This is god's commissioning to moses.
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  • Moses has a career going, his little flirtation with royalty
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  • Didn't work out well.
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  • He lost his temper, he was a bit too entitled in the midst of a
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  • Murderous rage, and he tried to hide it, and the cover up didn't
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  • Work, they seldom do.
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  • And he ran for his life.
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  • And he's established a new career and things are going
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  • Pretty well.
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  • And he's minding his own business, and god steps back
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  • Into the story.
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  • Don't you love it?
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  • And god says, "go, i'm sending you to pharaoh to bring my
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  • People the israelites out of egypt."
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  • Now, we can read that and we're pretty protected, we're several
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  • Thousand years removed, we don't know pharaoh, moses did.
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  • And moses was very, very, very reluctant.
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  • In fact, he wanted nothing to do with the assignment.
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  • His immediate response is, "who am i?
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  • You know, i lived in that house for
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  • A while and it didn't work out really well and pharaoh
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  • Knows me, and he'll not give me a hug when he sees me, and i'm
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  • Not going."
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  • And i won't recount that i think the narrative is probably
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  • Relatively familiar to many of us, i just want to focus your
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  • Attention for a moment that god purposely brought moses an
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  • Assignment, a, he didn't want, b, that was extraordinarily
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  • Difficult, it was beyond him.
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  • He's outgunned, he's outmanned, he doesn't have any political
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  • Party, he doesn't have an army, he has nothing that should cause
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  • Pharaoh to say, oh, that's a great idea, let's do that.
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  • And he's wise enough, aware enough, informed enough to
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  • Understand that the degree of difficulty is off the chart.
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  • And so he very understandably, to me, says, no, thank you.
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  • So i'm going to ask you to consider the fact that the god
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  • That we worship would purposefully, intentionally hand
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  • You an assignment that's difficult.
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  • Not the pastor with a recruitment card or another
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  • Goofy idea about a capital campaign, how many of these do
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  • We have to do?
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  • But that god himself, in the purposes for which he designed
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  • You, and the reason that he gives breath to you or to me, he
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  • Might actually have the audacity to ask us to do
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  • Something difficult.
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  • Moses has to reorder his whole life.
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  • Has to sell the house, he has to tell the kids i'm taking you out
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  • Of school, you gotta tell the wife.
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  • I mean, it's a disruptive initiative.
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  • Do you have room in your imagination, for real now, does
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  • Your spiritual life, does your imagination of god and the
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  • Nature of the relationship you have with him, is there any room
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  • In that construction for you to imagine that there's a scenario,
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  • Any scenario at all, that god would have that kind of
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  • Permission to step in and give you a difficult assignment that
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  • Had that kind of disruption attached to it?
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  • I think it's probably fair to say that for most of us that is
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  • Beyond the pale, no.
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  • If i had the awareness, i'd renounce it, it had to be
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  • Ungodly, couldn't be from the lord.
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  • So there's some questions that come out of that for me, and i'm
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  • Just gonna tag them because we're gonna look at this for a
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  • Bit, why difficult assignments?
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  • Why would god do that, i thought god wanted good things for me
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  • And i thought he wanted me to be happy.
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  • I thought the joy of the lord was my strength.
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  • Well, the reality is life is far more difficult than we
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  • Would prefer.
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  • Even under the best of circumstances, life can be
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  • Difficult, and most of the time, the circumstances aren't
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  • The best.
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  • And god needs people that are willing to follow him, listen to
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  • Him, and co-operate with him in the midst of life.
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  • God presents us, you and me, in the 21st century, with
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  • Opportunities that are not always easy.
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  • Amen is the word you're searching for, i'll help you
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  • With this, we'll do both sides of it.
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  • I'm actually gonna use scripture, i think we can
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  • Illustrate this is not something i dreamt up, but i'm
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  • Not recruiting.
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  • The invitation again, "let's do difficult."
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  • It's a corporate assignment, it's not an
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  • Individual assignment.
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  • Together is better, we need one another.
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  • When you see someone in the middle of difficult, you have
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  • Some choices to make.
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  • You can step away and think who, ho-ho, god's after them, or you
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  • Can step closer and encourage them.
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  • You don't have to have the solution.
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  • May you be delivered from the burden of having the solution to
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  • The problems you see around you.
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  • None of us are that wise, or that good, sometimes the very
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  • Best we can do is simply listen.
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  • I sat with one--a close friend, wednesday night, on this
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  • Platform, while we watched a video, a brilliant musical
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  • Piece, and one of the most unemotional people i know wept,
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  • And there was nothing i could do to alleviate the grief except
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  • Have the privilege of standing next to him.
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  • I don't understand fully, and i don't believe i'm capable.
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  • Let's do difficult, let's do it together.
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  • Let's not avoid it, let's not act like we don't see it.
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  • Let's not deny it, acknowledging the challenge is real and most
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  • Of the time you can't fix it.
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  • I will tell you this, that very often, in all of our lives that
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  • The very best things in life are on the other side of difficult.
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  • And that if you avoid difficult, you're going to miss some of the
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  • Very best things in life.
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  • This isn't particularly complex, you know it intuitively.
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  • The effort to complete a task, refusing to stop when you're
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  • Tired or the answers are elusive is the pathway that
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  • Leads you to the best things.
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  • Stop wishing for the people you love that life will be easy.
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  • You are robbing them of what is necessary for them to enjoy the
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  • Deepest things that life can bring to them.
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  • We have had the wrong information, we've been
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  • Programmed incorrectly.
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  • My dad was a veterinarian, that's not a surprise to you.
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  • I've watched lots of different animals give birth, puppies and
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  • Kittens and calves and foals and some other strange things from
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  • Time to time.
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  • One of the most vulnerable times in life is when that mother is
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  • Preparing to give birth.
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  • That's why they brought them to the doctor.
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  • That's why he made his kids stay up all night and watch
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  • For delivery.
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  • We didn't have cameras yet.
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  • But i also watched the moms in the church, when you see a mom
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  • With a new baby, you light up.
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  • You walk towards them and you just look.
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  • If you know them well enough and you have the courage you say,
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  • Could i hold him?
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  • I've never seen a mom with some experience walk up to one of
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  • Those new moms and go, oh my god, it was awful, wasn't it?
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  • No, you understand the wonder of that new life,
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  • Required difficult.
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  • Stretch marks were an essential part of the journey.
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  • You know another, if you win a championship, you don't do it
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  • Without competing.
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  • And if you won because everybody else defaulted, you don't
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  • Tell anybody.
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  • The only memories come from the engaging and we can say it a
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  • Different way, there simply is no success without sacrifice,
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  • There is not.
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  • If you sacrifice and hand someone else the success, they
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  • Don't appreciate it.
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  • If you succeed without sacrifice, you should know
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  • Someone sacrificed before you, so you could have that success.
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  • And if you sacrifice and you don't see the success, someone
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  • Will see it.
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  • Best things are on the other side of difficult.
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  • Allen: so i want to submit to you, i want to give you an
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  • Invitation that our first step in this little study in this
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  • Particular session is to stop trying and to start training.
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  • Most of us, in some context of our faith, at one point or
  • 00:13:22.050 --> 00:13:24.886
  • Another, said, well, i tried.
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  • I tried that, i didn't like it.
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  • You know, i tried reading my bible, or i tried going to
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  • Church with some regularity, or i tried church and i found that
  • 00:13:30.658 --> 00:13:34.796
  • It just was boring or it wasn't meaningful or it didn't--you
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  • Know, whatever.
  • 00:13:36.998 --> 00:13:38.333
  • We've tried something around god and we stepped away from it.
  • 00:13:38.333 --> 00:13:40.468
  • So i'm going to officially give you permission to stop trying.
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  • I'm not impressed that you tried, and the reality is
  • 00:13:44.005 --> 00:13:47.942
  • Because if the outcome really matters, trying doesn't cut it.
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  • I mean, if it truly--the outcome matters, you want more than
  • 00:13:52.914 --> 00:13:55.750
  • Somebody who tries.
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  • If i'm getting on the plane and i peek through that little door
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  • Up into the cockpit and the person isn't in uniform, they
  • 00:14:00.355 --> 00:14:04.292
  • Got shorts and a hoodie.
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  • And maybe i just--i'm bold enough, i walk up and say, hey,
  • 00:14:08.129 --> 00:14:11.366
  • No uniform today?
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  • And they turned up, no, actually, i've just always
  • 00:14:13.701 --> 00:14:16.170
  • Wanted to fly one of these things.
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  • Then i want you to go take a nap because i'm gonna try my best.
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  • I'm getting off the plane.
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  • I want somebody that's trained for that, it's actually a
  • 00:14:27.115 --> 00:14:29.517
  • Biblical idea, who knew?
  • 00:14:29.517 --> 00:14:31.286
  • 1 corinthians chapter 9, and verse 24 says, "do you not
  • 00:14:31.286 --> 00:14:34.355
  • Know," and any time the bible asks you that question, what's
  • 00:14:34.355 --> 00:14:36.691
  • The answer?
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  • Probably not.
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  • "do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only
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  • One gets the prize?
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  • Run in such a way as to get the prize.
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  • Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training.
  • 00:14:47.969 --> 00:14:51.306
  • They do it to get a crown that will last; but we do it to get a
  • 00:14:51.306 --> 00:14:53.975
  • Crown--they do to get a crown that will not last; but we do it
  • 00:14:53.975 --> 00:14:56.744
  • To get a crown that will last forever."
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  • If you took a snapshot of kind of general behavior around
  • 00:15:00.348 --> 00:15:03.151
  • American christian, and that's where i've spent the majority of
  • 00:15:03.151 --> 00:15:05.286
  • My life, we live as if everybody's getting a prize.
  • 00:15:05.286 --> 00:15:10.258
  • Participation trophies.
  • 00:15:10.258 --> 00:15:11.626
  • If you endure enough sermons, you should get to go to heaven.
  • 00:15:11.626 --> 00:15:15.196
  • I mean, that just seems fair.
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  • I mean, i fought through the sleep, i laughed at bad jokes,
  • 00:15:17.598 --> 00:15:26.674
  • But that really isn't the biblical presentation.
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  • He said, not everybody's gonna get a prize.
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  • We're not all going to arrive at the same place, we're not all
  • 00:15:31.646 --> 00:15:33.881
  • Gonna get the same outcome.
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  • And then we're given a very specific set of instructions:
  • 00:15:36.050 --> 00:15:38.653
  • Run so that you imagine you would qualify.
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  • But he doesn't say it just depends upon your dna, or your
  • 00:15:42.857 --> 00:15:45.326
  • Circumstances, or what might happen to present itself to you,
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  • He said we understand that in a physical race, people go into
  • 00:15:49.197 --> 00:15:52.433
  • Training to do that.
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  • And he said they'll go into training to get something
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  • Temporary, something that is somewhat fleeting.
  • 00:15:57.305 --> 00:15:59.907
  • He said, you can train for something that has a benefit for
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  • All eternity.
  • 00:16:02.910 --> 00:16:04.278
  • That's a whole different call to a training regimen.
  • 00:16:04.278 --> 00:16:08.516
  • I mean, i'll actually do a little physical exercise because
  • 00:16:08.516 --> 00:16:10.818
  • I believe it gives me a better future physically.
  • 00:16:10.818 --> 00:16:13.955
  • But i understand no matter how much i exercise, i'm still on
  • 00:16:13.955 --> 00:16:16.324
  • The countdown clock.
  • 00:16:16.324 --> 00:16:18.493
  • The earth suit isn't permanent.
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  • So there is a limit to how much time and effort and energy i
  • 00:16:21.429 --> 00:16:24.132
  • Will focus on that, there's kind of a balance that you have to
  • 00:16:24.132 --> 00:16:26.901
  • Work out for everybody.
  • 00:16:26.901 --> 00:16:29.103
  • But the biblical invitation is that what you invest in the
  • 00:16:29.103 --> 00:16:32.573
  • Kingdom of god has no countdown clock, that the benefits are
  • 00:16:32.573 --> 00:16:36.511
  • Perpetual, eternal.
  • 00:16:36.511 --> 00:16:39.881
  • You see, trying ends when it gets difficult.
  • 00:16:39.881 --> 00:16:44.485
  • I stopped trying when the criticism mounts.
  • 00:16:44.485 --> 00:16:48.589
  • Trying concludes when the costs get too high.
  • 00:16:48.589 --> 00:16:51.159
  • Well, i tried that but well, it proved to be way too expensive,
  • 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:55.630
  • Or yeah, i thought maybe i could do that, but you know, i just
  • 00:16:55.630 --> 00:16:58.266
  • Couldn't put up with all the people chirping.
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  • Those are all responses to trying.
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  • Training is something completely different.
  • 00:17:03.337 --> 00:17:05.239
  • Training is submitting to discipline to achieve an outcome
  • 00:17:05.239 --> 00:17:08.643
  • Impossible in the moment.
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  • Today, i couldn't do it no matter how desperately i tried,
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  • But i have committed myself to a protocol so that a year from
  • 00:17:13.981 --> 00:17:17.485
  • Today i could accomplish it.
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  • That's training.
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  • We've had far too little training in the context of our
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  • Spiritual lives.
  • 00:17:24.725 --> 00:17:26.761
  • We like immediate, we want instant.
  • 00:17:26.761 --> 00:17:30.698
  • Training and trying are not new concepts to us around world
  • 00:17:30.698 --> 00:17:33.501
  • Outreach, but training presupposes difficulty,
  • 00:17:33.501 --> 00:17:36.437
  • Discomfort, a leaving behind.
  • 00:17:36.437 --> 00:17:39.707
  • I've got friends in the church that have gone hundreds of days
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  • Without missing a run.
  • 00:17:42.110 --> 00:17:44.912
  • So now i let them run vicariously for me.
  • 00:17:44.912 --> 00:17:47.615
  • It's just wonderful, it's not particularly good for my cardio
  • 00:17:47.615 --> 00:17:50.751
  • Health, but it makes me feel better.
  • 00:17:50.751 --> 00:17:53.488
  • Training is fueled by confidence in the reward, and if you're
  • 00:17:53.488 --> 00:17:56.424
  • Going to commit to training spiritually, it's--the
  • 00:17:56.424 --> 00:17:59.560
  • Foundation of that will be because you believe there's a
  • 00:17:59.560 --> 00:18:01.729
  • God and that he's trustworthy and true to his word, and you
  • 00:18:01.729 --> 00:18:06.033
  • Spend enough time getting to know his character to know that
  • 00:18:06.033 --> 00:18:08.703
  • He rewards those who seek him.
  • 00:18:08.703 --> 00:18:10.204
  • It's actually a biblical principle, all buttoned up in a
  • 00:18:10.204 --> 00:18:12.573
  • Single verse.
  • 00:18:12.573 --> 00:18:13.908
  • "god's the rewarder of those who diligently seek him."
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  • It's not in your notes, but it is in the book of hebrews.
  • 00:18:15.943 --> 00:18:20.515
  • See, christianity, in recent years, has been largely co-opted
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  • By kind of an easy believe-ism.
  • 00:18:24.919 --> 00:18:28.422
  • At least in my opinion, it's a rather self-indulgent approach
  • 00:18:28.422 --> 00:18:31.092
  • To faith, which has eliminated the premise of a sovereign god
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  • Who would dare to issue commandments.
  • 00:18:35.696 --> 00:18:40.201
  • Now, we kind of imagine a benevolent higher power, who
  • 00:18:40.201 --> 00:18:44.639
  • Grants wishes, and he indulges our dalliance with evil.
  • 00:18:44.639 --> 00:18:52.713
  • The premise of judgment in the context of a church discussion
  • 00:18:52.713 --> 00:18:57.418
  • Is so yesterday.
  • 00:18:57.418 --> 00:19:01.622
  • We're much more enlightened these days, everyone has a right
  • 00:19:01.622 --> 00:19:05.660
  • To do what they feel is right, because after all, you can't
  • 00:19:05.660 --> 00:19:09.897
  • Know right and wrong until you've walked in my shoes.
  • 00:19:09.897 --> 00:19:15.336
  • The distraction or the diminishment, however you prefer
  • 00:19:15.336 --> 00:19:18.339
  • To describe it, of the church was an essential first step into
  • 00:19:18.339 --> 00:19:24.278
  • This abyss that we find ourselves bumping against.
  • 00:19:24.278 --> 00:19:28.249
  • We are several decades into these pursuits, they're not new,
  • 00:19:28.249 --> 00:19:31.819
  • They didn't happen with covid.
  • 00:19:31.819 --> 00:19:33.854
  • They didn't--they're not the result of a particular
  • 00:19:33.854 --> 00:19:35.756
  • Politician or a political party, those are nice answers, but
  • 00:19:35.756 --> 00:19:38.626
  • They're way too easy.
  • 00:19:38.626 --> 00:19:40.962
  • Surprisingly, the outcome is not greater freedom, because that's
  • 00:19:40.962 --> 00:19:45.933
  • Really been the promise of most of these things.
  • 00:19:45.933 --> 00:19:49.203
  • A bit of careful observation reveals that we are sliding
  • 00:19:49.203 --> 00:19:53.074
  • Further and further under authoritarian domination of the
  • 00:19:53.074 --> 00:19:56.043
  • Few, not greater freedom.
  • 00:19:56.043 --> 00:20:00.147
  • And i'm gonna say to you repeatedly, as i have been
  • 00:20:00.147 --> 00:20:02.149
  • Saying to you repeatedly, i believe the church is most at
  • 00:20:02.149 --> 00:20:05.620
  • Fault in what we're watching happen, because we understand
  • 00:20:05.620 --> 00:20:10.324
  • The truth or we're called to that.
  • 00:20:10.324 --> 00:20:12.760
  • The messages that we hear promise freedom.
  • 00:20:12.760 --> 00:20:16.530
  • They're abundant, they come to us on a regular basis, they're
  • 00:20:16.530 --> 00:20:19.000
  • Designed to capture our attention and endear
  • 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:21.869
  • Our support.
  • 00:20:21.869 --> 00:20:23.204
  • Things like freedom from debt: if you'll support me, i'll
  • 00:20:23.204 --> 00:20:25.172
  • Forgive your loans.
  • 00:20:25.172 --> 00:20:27.241
  • Or freedom from the worries of sickness and disease: if you'll
  • 00:20:27.241 --> 00:20:30.344
  • Support me, everybody deserves free health care.
  • 00:20:30.344 --> 00:20:33.080
  • Or freedom from competition: we think everybody should have
  • 00:20:33.080 --> 00:20:36.550
  • Equitable outcomes.
  • 00:20:36.550 --> 00:20:40.121
  • Yet, in spite of all these promises of greater freedom, it
  • 00:20:40.121 --> 00:20:43.524
  • Seems to me, and it's not just an opinion, i think it's
  • 00:20:43.524 --> 00:20:46.927
  • Supportable, that we have less liberty and less choice.
  • 00:20:46.927 --> 00:20:50.831
  • Our speech is no longer free, if you challenge the status quo too
  • 00:20:50.831 --> 00:20:55.903
  • Often, you'll be canceled.
  • 00:20:55.903 --> 00:21:00.207
  • I have some firsthand experience with that, youtube, without
  • 00:21:00.207 --> 00:21:03.944
  • Apology, hands out demerits.
  • 00:21:03.944 --> 00:21:07.581
  • If you collect very many of them, you'd be just removed
  • 00:21:07.581 --> 00:21:09.784
  • Completely from the platform.
  • 00:21:09.784 --> 00:21:12.253
  • And if you start inquiring about social media and what gets
  • 00:21:12.253 --> 00:21:14.889
  • Promoted and what doesn't, they bring out the fancy
  • 00:21:14.889 --> 00:21:16.857
  • Word: algorithms.
  • 00:21:16.857 --> 00:21:19.360
  • We've all probably heard it, and the people that live in that
  • 00:21:19.360 --> 00:21:21.462
  • World will talk to you about it, but the answer we're given is
  • 00:21:21.462 --> 00:21:24.432
  • It's far too complicated to explain to normal americans.
  • 00:21:24.432 --> 00:21:29.036
  • Somebody's determining which ideas are promoted and which
  • 00:21:29.036 --> 00:21:31.505
  • Principles are buried, so we get introduced to terms that help us
  • 00:21:31.505 --> 00:21:35.943
  • Explain that that don't really provide any explanation--you've
  • 00:21:35.943 --> 00:21:38.579
  • Been shadow banned.
  • 00:21:38.579 --> 00:21:40.981
  • Does that require the sun?
  • 00:21:40.981 --> 00:21:44.719
  • We see the outcome of the loss of freedom, but we're not
  • 00:21:44.719 --> 00:21:47.621
  • Supposed to complain.
  • 00:21:47.621 --> 00:21:49.957
  • I mean, our own federal government has proposed a
  • 00:21:49.957 --> 00:21:52.560
  • Department of truth.
  • 00:21:52.560 --> 00:21:54.795
  • That's like something you'd read in a comic book.
  • 00:21:54.795 --> 00:21:58.999
  • Well, our educational institutions aren't better, they
  • 00:21:58.999 --> 00:22:01.302
  • No longer encourage diverse thought.
  • 00:22:01.302 --> 00:22:03.637
  • They demand allegiance to the new orthodoxy of progressive
  • 00:22:03.637 --> 00:22:06.707
  • Principles, because our students can't bear the assault of
  • 00:22:06.707 --> 00:22:13.514
  • Diverse ideas.
  • 00:22:13.514 --> 00:22:15.816
  • The federal government issues mandates for its citizens, while
  • 00:22:15.816 --> 00:22:18.753
  • At the same time refusing to guard our borders, and promising
  • 00:22:18.753 --> 00:22:22.556
  • Benefits to the illegal invaders into our nation.
  • 00:22:22.556 --> 00:22:25.826
  • It's bizarre.
  • 00:22:25.826 --> 00:22:27.361
  • Bureaucrats incentivize whether we purchase a gas automobile or
  • 00:22:27.361 --> 00:22:31.098
  • Electric, who knew the government should be taking a
  • 00:22:31.098 --> 00:22:33.000
  • Hand in that?
  • 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:34.902
  • And they use our money to create their incentives, and then to
  • 00:22:34.902 --> 00:22:38.873
  • Motivate us, they manipulate science and they punish the
  • 00:22:38.873 --> 00:22:41.542
  • Scientist who dare to tell the truth.
  • 00:22:41.542 --> 00:22:45.379
  • Federal regulations now select our light bulbs, they dictate
  • 00:22:45.379 --> 00:22:51.285
  • The design specifications for the systems that heat and cool
  • 00:22:51.285 --> 00:22:54.355
  • Our homes.
  • 00:22:54.355 --> 00:22:56.824
  • Federal agencies control our creeks and our streams, i
  • 00:22:56.824 --> 00:23:00.828
  • Promise you.
  • 00:23:00.828 --> 00:23:02.696
  • They control our airspaces, our children's curriculum
  • 00:23:02.696 --> 00:23:05.433
  • In schools.
  • 00:23:05.433 --> 00:23:07.401
  • The government tells us where we can and when we cannot say the
  • 00:23:07.401 --> 00:23:12.206
  • Name of jesus, where we can and where we cannot pray, where we
  • 00:23:12.206 --> 00:23:18.245
  • Can and where we cannot post the ten commandments.
  • 00:23:18.245 --> 00:23:22.216
  • And here's the bizarre part: we have gladly entered into this
  • 00:23:22.216 --> 00:23:25.920
  • Covenant because we were promised greater freedom.
  • 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:31.692
  • Now, many of us now understand it's been a bargain with the
  • 00:23:31.692 --> 00:23:33.861
  • Devil, but here's the rub, we face a significant problem.
  • 00:23:33.861 --> 00:23:39.767
  • The power of those with authority is great and the
  • 00:23:39.767 --> 00:23:43.571
  • Unspoken truth is that many of the citizens are afraid of the
  • 00:23:43.571 --> 00:23:46.173
  • Power of the government.
  • 00:23:46.173 --> 00:23:48.409
  • No one wants to be on the wrong side of this monster.
  • 00:23:48.409 --> 00:23:51.479
  • The government has after all, as long as they control the
  • 00:23:51.479 --> 00:23:55.216
  • Printing presses, unlimited resources, our own money.
  • 00:23:55.216 --> 00:24:00.054
  • They have legions of lawyers and they make the rules and they can
  • 00:24:00.054 --> 00:24:02.556
  • Suspend them or enforce them, and it's all common knowledge,
  • 00:24:02.556 --> 00:24:08.295
  • But our fear keeps us silent for the most part.
  • 00:24:08.295 --> 00:24:13.767
  • Well, i'd like to suggest that i believe it's time for god's
  • 00:24:13.767 --> 00:24:16.103
  • People to awaken from their slumber.
  • 00:24:16.103 --> 00:24:20.074
  • Not to be more political, but to resume our relationship with the
  • 00:24:20.074 --> 00:24:27.281
  • Creator of heaven and earth.
  • 00:24:27.281 --> 00:24:29.550
  • To recognize that he is the author of freedom, that we can't
  • 00:24:29.550 --> 00:24:33.153
  • Live apart from him or in disobedience to him and imagine
  • 00:24:33.153 --> 00:24:36.690
  • That we will have freedom and liberty for all.
  • 00:24:36.690 --> 00:24:39.593
  • To repent of our adulterous flirtation with freedom apart
  • 00:24:39.593 --> 00:24:42.897
  • From god, and to return to our covenant of serving the most
  • 00:24:42.897 --> 00:24:46.567
  • High god.
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  • The god of abraham, isaac, and jacob is the only pathway to
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  • True freedom and to real liberty.
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  • God's people are the key, i will continue to repeat it.
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  • Our hearts and our behaviors must change.
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  • The problem is not about political parties or
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  • Economic policies.
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  • The root, the fundamental problem we face has to do with
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  • The hearts of the people that have imagined themselves to be
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  • The people of god, and i consider myself amongst them, so
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  • I'm not pointing fingers.
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  • Too many christians feel that this shouldn't even be
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  • Discussed, that we should reserve our thoughts to more
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  • Polite bible study topics, focusing on the culture of the
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  • First century.
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  • Let's reflect further on who were the sadducees and what did
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  • The pharisees believe?
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  • Well, a faith that doesn't engage the culture in which we
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  • Live is merely a theoretical faith, and i don't worship a
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  • Theoretical god or serve a theoretical savior, i believe
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  • Jesus is the lord of the 21st century as well, and we have a
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  • Responsibility to take his truth into the world in which we live,
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  • With boldness and determination and courage.
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  • And it may not be easy, we may have to be willing to do
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  • The difficult.
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  • Allen: hey we have a tool that we think will help
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  • Strengthen you in this season.
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  • A lot of confusion and chaos in our world,
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  • A lot of fear.
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  • I hear from people every day battling in their minds,
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  • In their lives with the uncertainty of our world.
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  • Well, it's a booklet called "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30 day plan, every day has a theme with a scripture,
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  • A little devotional, and a prayer for that specific theme.
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  • The idea is that every day we're gonna ask the spirit of god
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  • To awaken us to a new aspect of god's provision in our lives.
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  • You know, hopefully we wake up everyday to the opportunities
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  • And the challenges of that day.
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  • Well, this is gonna correspond to that.
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  • We're gonna ask the spirit of god to awaken us
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  • To what god is doing in this season.
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  • We're not alone and we don't have to be overcome by fear.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, i thank you that there's nothing
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  • That confronts us that intimidates
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  • Or threatens you.
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  • That you have made provision for complete victory
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  • In every aspect of our lives.
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  • Lead us now as we turn our faces to you
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  • To a season of peace and hope and wholeness
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • This book, it'll be a blessing.
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  • ♪♪♪
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