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Allen Jackson - I Am Sending You! (Part 2)

July 10, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - I Am Sending You! (Part 2)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - I Am Sending You! (Part 2) | July 10, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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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: so i'm going to take the balance of our time and
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  • I have a moment or two to walk with you around this idea of
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  • Beginning to realign our thoughts as christ followers.
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  • Kinda beyond church attenders, or joining a denomination, or
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  • Believing what that group believes to take a biblical
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  • Perspective and see if we could begin to order our thoughts in a
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  • Way that would enable god to bring us greater liberty
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  • And freedom.
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  • See, i would submit to you that we have made god in our image.
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  • We've kinda imagined god's like us.
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  • Maybe he's just a little bit of an upgrade.
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  • You know, he's like us, he's just a little stronger.
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  • Or he's like us, but he's got a little higher metabolism
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  • Or something.
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  • But god's not like us.
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  • God created the world and everything that's in it.
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  • And he upholds the earth and the universe by his authority and by
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  • His power.
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  • He says, he knows when a bird falls to the ground.
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  • I believe him.
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  • I believe he has an awareness at that level that is beyond me
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  • And you.
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  • Well, i wanna start this conversation with asking you to
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  • Make a bit of an adjustment.
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  • My experience in evangelicalism suggests that we have kind of a
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  • Transactional approach to faith.
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  • It's not evil, it's not wicked.
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  • It's--we've really been coached into it and there's even some
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  • Theology around it.
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  • I'm just gonna suggest it's incomplete.
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  • Rather than think of it as a transaction, i'm going to ask
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  • You to think of our faith as something that's intended to
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  • Be transformational.
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  • To be transformed is to change in potential.
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  • The transaction is a little different.
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  • You know, we've kind of wanted a salvation transaction: in the
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  • Event that hell exists, how can i avoid participating?
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  • Yeah, i mean, it's a legitimate question.
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  • If there is a just on the outside chance, maybe there's
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  • Something to this whole god thing, and if there's really a
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  • Hell, i would prefer not to be there.
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  • Can you tell me what is required to avoid that?
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  • What's the minimal daily requirement?
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  • So it's kind of a transactional approach.
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  • We all get that.
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  • What's the cost?
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  • What do i need to do?
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  • What is my obligation to complete this transaction?
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  • I want to secure the agreement so that i can resume my
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  • Preferred interests.
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  • So where do i need to stand, where do i need to sit?
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  • Is there a cost involved?
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  • How much time is required?
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  • I want to fulfill my part of the transaction because i don't want
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  • To be a part of that.
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  • We understand that notion.
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  • It governs a great deal of our lives.
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  • We can do the cost benefit analysis.
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  • We've got all sorts of fancy language.
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  • Now, we've got--we can even use ai to help us sort it out.
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  • Well, i believe the bible gives us a different presentation.
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  • Now, we've got this down pretty well.
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  • And you know, do i need to say the sinner's prayer?
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  • Do i have to be baptized?
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  • I mean, i was sprinkled as a baby.
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  • Am i good?
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  • Is there a verse?
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  • Do i have to volunteer some time?
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  • Do i have to give some money?
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  • What is the transaction required?
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  • I really wanna know.
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  • Can somebody tell me, i'm on a schedule here?
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  • See, the transactional model suggests that it's something
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  • That can be completed and then left unattended.
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  • It's an agreement which has been reached and the one i've reached
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  • It with is unchanging.
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  • He's eternal.
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  • He'll keep his word.
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  • I may fluctuate a little bit, but we made a deal.
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  • And i've heard something about grace, so i'm feeling pretty
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  • Good about the deal.
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  • Transformational faith is a little different.
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  • It extends a different opportunity to the participants.
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  • Transformational faith understands that there's a
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  • Demonstration of power involved in this transformation.
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  • It's not just a transaction.
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  • I'm not just doing the cost benefit analysis.
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  • I have submitted myself to an authority beyond myself.
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  • That's the reason i believe that it's described in the scripture.
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  • Jesus himself said there's a broad way with a wide gate and
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  • Many people travel that way.
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  • But the way into the kingdom of god is a more limited way, with
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  • A much smaller gate, because this transactional invitation
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  • Give us a bit more pause.
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  • I'm gonna submit myself to the authority of someone else.
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  • It's an entrance into a kingdom, a realm of existence with
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  • Different guiding principles and different authority.
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  • It's not a transaction i drive, it's not an analysis that i
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  • Make alone.
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  • I submit myself.
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  • It gives god the right to show up at a burning bush and say, i
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  • Want you to go tell pharaoh, let those people go.
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  • No, really, i'm good god.
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  • You did a nice trick with my parents.
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  • That whole revelation of yourself thing they saw i was
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  • Special and they put me in a basket.
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  • You got me through that kind of wobbly time when they were
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  • Killing the babies.
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  • Appreciate that.
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  • You've blessed me.
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  • I escaped that murderous lynch mob.
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  • You've caused my flocks to multiply.
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  • Now i'm working on my, the inheritance for my kids and
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  • My grandkids.
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  • Really, i'm good.
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  • No, moses, i need you to go back to egypt.
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  • See, that's a transformational proposition.
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  • He couldn't talk his way out of it.
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  • God finally got mad at him.
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  • He gave him all his reasons and he had a pretty
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  • Intentional case.
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  • The transformational faith recognizes a different authority
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  • Presiding over our lives.
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  • The most intriguing part to me, the reason i'm willing to
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  • Participate is it's an entirely new potential for our existence.
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  • It's not limited to our strength, or our iq, or the
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  • Circumstances of our birth, or the education that was afforded
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  • Us, or the economic authority that provides over our lives, or
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  • The governmental system that we find ourselves trapped in.
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  • It transcends all of those things.
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  • It is truly transformational.
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  • It's the greatest invitation that can be presented to any
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  • Human being.
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  • And we desperately need the church of jesus christ to
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  • Understand that the greatest thing we can share with another
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  • Human being is an invitation to be transformed by the power of
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  • Almighty god.
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  • That's different than sitting in a church.
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  • It's not easily grasped, religious people in every
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  • Generation try to dance around it.
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  • It's not unique to us.
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  • In luke chapter 18, jesus himself has an interaction with
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  • The man that leaves his closest friends and followers completely
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  • Discouraged and befuddled, "a certain young ruler came and
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  • Said, 'good teacher, what must i do to inherit eternal life?'"
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  • Again, he's operating off that premise there could be a hell,
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  • And he would prefer not to participate, "and jesus said,
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  • 'well, why do you call me good?
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  • No one is good-- except god alone.'"
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  • And then jesus says, "you know the commandments."
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  • He's jewish.
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  • He's been steeped in the torah. he knows the ground rules.
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  • If we use the current equivalent, he's somebody that
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  • Went to church a lot.
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  • He knows the right times to sit and stand.
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  • He knows the words to the choruses.
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  • He knows the whole drill.
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  • You could take him with you to any church setting and you
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  • Wouldn't be embarrassed, "'you know the commandments: "don't
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  • Commit adultery, don't murder, don't steal, don't give false
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  • Testimony, honor your father and mother."'
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  • And the man said, 'all these i have kept since i was a boy.'"
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  • Can you imagine saying that to jesus?
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  • Now, jesus is gracious.
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  • He doesn't laugh or smirk or roll his eyes, or at least it
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  • Isn't recorded by luke, "and when jesus heard this, he said
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  • To him, 'well, there's just one thing you lack.
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  • Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you'll
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  • Have treasure in heaven.
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  • And then come, follow me.'"
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  • Jesus has invited several people to come and follow him.
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  • This is the first time there's been a liquidation clause in
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  • That invitation.
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  • Now he's told a couple of them that they couldn't hesitate,
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  • They couldn't deal with business first and then follow him.
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  • He said, no, now's the invitation and it will expire
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  • After the moment.
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  • But in the case of this particular young man, he said,
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  • You'll need to sell what you have.
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  • The man wanted to establish that he had sufficiently paid the
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  • Price for eternal life.
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  • What do i need to do? i've kept these rules.
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  • Have i got the transaction complete?
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  • His self-awareness was very limited, very limited.
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  • No one kept the law perfectly.
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  • That is the stuff of judaism.
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  • That's why they had sacrifices.
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  • That's why they had daily sacrifices.
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  • That's why they have a day of atonement.
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  • The recognition that the law simply points out that you can't
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  • Keep it.
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  • But he has such a little awareness and such confidence in
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  • Himself, and his position, and his power, and his own self
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  • Rightness, that he could say to the messiah,
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  • I've done it all.
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  • And so jesus counters with an invitation.
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  • I don't believe jesus is demanding of him a
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  • Financial sacrifice.
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  • He's asking for a complete re-evaluation of his existence:
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  • Who you are and what gives you status.
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  • And are we willing to let the primary status of our lives be
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  • Defined by a relationship with almighty god?
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  • Or do we keep inserting things in front of that, and think that
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  • Those things will secure our future.
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  • Folks, there are disruptions in front of us.
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  • And i believe the only thing that brings us through them
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  • Triumphantly, and victoriously as individuals, families, or a
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  • Community of faith is the power of god.
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  • And if we're inserting things between ourselves and that
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  • Relationship, if it's more transactional than
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  • Transformational, if we're not being transformed by the power
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  • Of god from the inside out, and we're just checking boxes, i
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  • Think we are very, very vulnerable.
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  • This man would no longer be defined by his assets, or his
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  • Resources, or his possessions.
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  • His future was going to be aligned with a person named
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  • Jesus of nazareth.
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  • Come follow me.
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  • Be one of my disciples, not just a part of a party, not just
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  • Affiliated with a power group.
  • 00:11:47.923 --> 00:11:50.426
  • Come follow me.
  • 00:11:50.426 --> 00:11:52.461
  • Jesus was inviting him towards transformation, not just some
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  • Exorbitant transaction.
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  • The next verse it says, "when he heard this, he became very sad."
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  • And luke tells us, "because he was a man of great wealth."
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  • I don't think it's a condemnation of wealth.
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  • God's not against wealth, "jesus looked at him and said,
  • 00:12:08.978 --> 00:12:13.516
  • 'how hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of god.'"
  • 00:12:13.516 --> 00:12:18.621
  • Now, jesus's disciples overhear all of this.
  • 00:12:18.621 --> 00:12:21.257
  • They had to be a bit excited.
  • 00:12:21.257 --> 00:12:22.591
  • Here's a power broker.
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  • Somebody that's a part of the establishment, somebody with
  • 00:12:23.926 --> 00:12:26.128
  • Access to halls of power, and he's presenting himself to
  • 00:12:26.128 --> 00:12:28.864
  • Jesus, and jesus has invited him to join us.
  • 00:12:28.864 --> 00:12:32.368
  • I mean, we got fishermen and tax collectors.
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  • We're kind of a ragtag group.
  • 00:12:34.403 --> 00:12:36.939
  • You've watched "the chosen," you know.
  • 00:12:36.939 --> 00:12:41.010
  • And now jesus is recruiting somebody with some real clout,
  • 00:12:41.010 --> 00:12:44.547
  • Some assets even.
  • 00:12:44.547 --> 00:12:48.284
  • And he muffed the whole invitation.
  • 00:12:48.284 --> 00:12:52.054
  • When they heard this, he became sad and he went away, "those who
  • 00:12:52.054 --> 00:12:55.057
  • Heard this said, 'well, who then can be saved?'
  • 00:12:55.057 --> 00:12:59.895
  • Then jesus replied, 'what's impossible with men is possible
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  • With god.'
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  • And peter--" god bless peter.
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  • Peter, he may have gotten some filters later in life.
  • 00:13:08.204 --> 00:13:10.539
  • Pentecost may have helped his filters.
  • 00:13:10.539 --> 00:13:12.074
  • But prior to pentecost, if it crossed his mind, it just came
  • 00:13:12.074 --> 00:13:16.145
  • Roaring out, "well, we've left everything to follow you."
  • 00:13:16.145 --> 00:13:23.385
  • And there is a good deal of truth to that.
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  • It will ultimately cost them their lives.
  • 00:13:27.156 --> 00:13:30.659
  • You should understand the disciples put their name on the
  • 00:13:30.659 --> 00:13:32.695
  • List to do difficult, "and jesus said, 'i tell you the truth.'"
  • 00:13:32.695 --> 00:13:39.568
  • And by now, you know it pretty well.
  • 00:13:39.568 --> 00:13:40.970
  • When you see that phrase, you need to buckle your seat belt
  • 00:13:40.970 --> 00:13:43.439
  • Because jesus is just about to take you into the unimagined, "i
  • 00:13:43.439 --> 00:13:47.243
  • Tell you the truth.
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  • No one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or
  • 00:13:48.577 --> 00:13:51.814
  • Children for the sake of," turning the page, "for the sake
  • 00:13:51.814 --> 00:13:57.319
  • Of the kingdom of god will fail to receive many times as much in
  • 00:13:57.319 --> 00:14:00.422
  • This age and, in the age to come, eternal life."
  • 00:14:00.422 --> 00:14:03.292
  • You know what jesus just said, the kingdom of god is
  • 00:14:03.292 --> 00:14:05.060
  • Not equitable.
  • 00:14:05.060 --> 00:14:07.763
  • That your choices will determine your role, your place, god's
  • 00:14:07.763 --> 00:14:11.634
  • Response to you.
  • 00:14:11.634 --> 00:14:13.636
  • He invited that young man to something--peter said, this is
  • 00:14:13.636 --> 00:14:16.038
  • Really difficult.
  • 00:14:16.038 --> 00:14:17.439
  • We've reoriented a lot.
  • 00:14:17.439 --> 00:14:18.908
  • We didn't have that burning bush thing that moe had, but you
  • 00:14:18.908 --> 00:14:21.744
  • Walked by the boat one day and said, follow me and we walked
  • 00:14:21.744 --> 00:14:24.280
  • Away from the business.
  • 00:14:24.280 --> 00:14:25.748
  • We've left all we had to follow you.
  • 00:14:25.748 --> 00:14:29.251
  • The difficulty is not in the cost, fortunes are made or lost.
  • 00:14:29.251 --> 00:14:35.157
  • Most of us know that on some level.
  • 00:14:35.157 --> 00:14:36.892
  • The difficulty is in the transformed thought, the new way
  • 00:14:36.892 --> 00:14:40.629
  • To evaluate success or failure, security or insecurity.
  • 00:14:40.629 --> 00:14:45.167
  • I don't believe this little passage is a condemnation of
  • 00:14:45.167 --> 00:14:48.203
  • Wealth, nor a universal call to liquidate all of your assets and
  • 00:14:48.203 --> 00:14:52.574
  • Disperse them.
  • 00:14:52.574 --> 00:14:54.843
  • I do believe it's an announcement of the need to
  • 00:14:54.843 --> 00:14:57.413
  • Yield all that we have to god.
  • 00:14:57.413 --> 00:15:02.051
  • Perhaps a more current word would be compartmentalization.
  • 00:15:02.051 --> 00:15:06.488
  • We have this kind of deluded notion that we can segment our
  • 00:15:06.488 --> 00:15:09.725
  • Lives and have one set of values here and another set of values
  • 00:15:09.725 --> 00:15:13.062
  • Here, and a different set of values here.
  • 00:15:13.062 --> 00:15:15.798
  • And god's not all that clever. he'll never figure it out.
  • 00:15:15.798 --> 00:15:22.271
  • Okay, that is delusion.
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  • And if you put it in the context of church, it's a false gospel.
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  • Allen: so we should close with the biblical prescription
  • 00:16:35.044 --> 00:16:37.913
  • For transformation.
  • 00:16:37.913 --> 00:16:39.281
  • How do we initiate that in our lives?
  • 00:16:39.281 --> 00:16:40.883
  • If it's a particular group, we should join them.
  • 00:16:40.883 --> 00:16:42.785
  • If it's a translation of the bible, it should be the only one
  • 00:16:42.785 --> 00:16:44.820
  • We read.
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  • If it's a dress code, we all need to adhere to it.
  • 00:16:46.155 --> 00:16:49.458
  • If it's dietary, then let's get the menu.
  • 00:16:49.458 --> 00:16:52.594
  • Well, the bible gives us a great deal of clarity on this in
  • 00:16:52.594 --> 00:16:55.364
  • Romans chapter 10, in verse 9. it says, if you confess with
  • 00:16:55.364 --> 00:16:58.600
  • Your mouth that jesus is lord, and believe in your heart that
  • 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:01.036
  • God raised him from the dead, you'll be saved.
  • 00:17:01.036 --> 00:17:05.040
  • Saved has got of a technical meaning in the new testament.
  • 00:17:05.040 --> 00:17:07.443
  • It has to do with your eternity, where you'll be.
  • 00:17:07.443 --> 00:17:10.712
  • I have sat in theological institutions, celebrated
  • 00:17:10.712 --> 00:17:13.982
  • Institutions, top 10 institutions, and when that
  • 00:17:13.982 --> 00:17:16.885
  • Verse was read, they would mockingly say, saved from what.
  • 00:17:16.885 --> 00:17:21.723
  • Please understand, one of the reasons that our churches are in
  • 00:17:21.723 --> 00:17:24.693
  • Trouble, that we've been training leaders in the church
  • 00:17:24.693 --> 00:17:27.296
  • To not believe the word of god is authoritative.
  • 00:17:27.296 --> 00:17:29.798
  • To not submit to it as scripture, this is not new, this
  • 00:17:29.798 --> 00:17:34.670
  • Has not arrived in the last three or four years.
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  • We've been building this for a while and we've been so
  • 00:17:38.307 --> 00:17:40.509
  • Distracted and so invested in other things, and things have
  • 00:17:40.509 --> 00:17:43.011
  • Been working well enough that we didn't have to look.
  • 00:17:43.011 --> 00:17:45.647
  • The question is germane, what is necessary for you to
  • 00:17:45.647 --> 00:17:48.851
  • Be saved?
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  • What is required for you to participate in the eternal
  • 00:17:50.819 --> 00:17:53.422
  • Kingdom of god, "it's with your heart that you believe and
  • 00:17:53.422 --> 00:18:00.195
  • You're justified, and it's with your mouth that you confess and
  • 00:18:00.195 --> 00:18:02.698
  • Are saved."
  • 00:18:02.698 --> 00:18:04.166
  • It's a two part formula to this transformation.
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  • It requires confession and belief.
  • 00:18:06.535 --> 00:18:09.304
  • Part one has to do with the spiritual authority of
  • 00:18:09.304 --> 00:18:11.540
  • Your words.
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  • It's with your mouth.
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  • You have to say something.
  • 00:18:14.243 --> 00:18:15.611
  • I believe jesus is lord.
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  • I will yield to his lordship, his authority.
  • 00:18:16.945 --> 00:18:19.581
  • That is all about priority.
  • 00:18:19.581 --> 00:18:22.484
  • Who sets the priorities in our lives?
  • 00:18:22.484 --> 00:18:25.220
  • Who establishes that?
  • 00:18:25.220 --> 00:18:28.357
  • That has to be answered in every context of your life.
  • 00:18:28.357 --> 00:18:32.661
  • You have to answer that and on any team in which you
  • 00:18:32.661 --> 00:18:35.130
  • Participate, in any group of people where we work together,
  • 00:18:35.130 --> 00:18:38.300
  • The priorities have to be established.
  • 00:18:38.300 --> 00:18:40.135
  • Well, the ultimate authority of your life biblically, to
  • 00:18:40.135 --> 00:18:42.604
  • Participate in the kingdom of god, is jesus.
  • 00:18:42.604 --> 00:18:46.642
  • He's the head of the church.
  • 00:18:46.642 --> 00:18:49.344
  • God, who the bible says is judge of all, entrusted judgment to
  • 00:18:49.344 --> 00:18:52.381
  • His son, because what his son was willing to do.
  • 00:18:52.381 --> 00:18:56.718
  • So it starts--part one, is with the spiritual authority of
  • 00:18:56.718 --> 00:19:00.122
  • Your words.
  • 00:19:00.122 --> 00:19:01.456
  • That's a biblical principle we meet in the first chapter
  • 00:19:01.456 --> 00:19:02.791
  • Of genesis.
  • 00:19:02.791 --> 00:19:04.159
  • The authority of god's word brought order to this world in
  • 00:19:04.159 --> 00:19:06.628
  • Which we live, and god breathed his spirit into you, whether
  • 00:19:06.628 --> 00:19:10.365
  • You've ever contemplated or not, there's a spiritual authority to
  • 00:19:10.365 --> 00:19:13.468
  • Your words.
  • 00:19:13.468 --> 00:19:14.803
  • You've been planting something, you've been planting spiritual
  • 00:19:14.803 --> 00:19:17.773
  • Crops with your words, your whole life.
  • 00:19:17.773 --> 00:19:20.342
  • Now you can take that to some goofy, destructive places if you
  • 00:19:20.342 --> 00:19:23.111
  • Choose, but the principle is still there.
  • 00:19:23.111 --> 00:19:26.615
  • The second part of the transformation is the
  • 00:19:26.615 --> 00:19:29.818
  • Directional component of your heart.
  • 00:19:29.818 --> 00:19:32.154
  • Says that we have to believe in our heart.
  • 00:19:32.154 --> 00:19:34.089
  • Our heart biblically is our mind, our will and our emotions.
  • 00:19:34.089 --> 00:19:37.292
  • We're asked to yield our mind and our will and our emotions
  • 00:19:37.292 --> 00:19:40.896
  • To god.
  • 00:19:40.896 --> 00:19:42.598
  • So that what i think, and what i feel, and what i want can no
  • 00:19:42.598 --> 00:19:45.767
  • Longer be the primary determiners of my life choices.
  • 00:19:45.767 --> 00:19:52.007
  • That can be difficult.
  • 00:19:52.007 --> 00:19:56.078
  • We are imperfect creatures.
  • 00:19:56.078 --> 00:19:57.579
  • We make mistakes, we fail, we choose ungodliness.
  • 00:19:57.579 --> 00:20:01.617
  • We're given a prescription for that.
  • 00:20:01.617 --> 00:20:02.985
  • We can humble ourselves, we can acknowledge the mistake.
  • 00:20:02.985 --> 00:20:06.888
  • We can say i no longer choose to do that, and i choose to go a
  • 00:20:06.888 --> 00:20:10.225
  • New way.
  • 00:20:10.225 --> 00:20:11.593
  • The fancy word for that is repentance.
  • 00:20:11.593 --> 00:20:13.895
  • Absent, repentance, you'll face the consequence.
  • 00:20:13.895 --> 00:20:19.468
  • It's a wonderful invitation.
  • 00:20:19.468 --> 00:20:21.737
  • You're not limited by the circumstances of your birth, by
  • 00:20:21.737 --> 00:20:25.107
  • Your iq, or the lack thereof, by your physical gifts, or the
  • 00:20:25.107 --> 00:20:29.544
  • Absence of them.
  • 00:20:29.544 --> 00:20:31.647
  • God has chosen to make it possible for every human being
  • 00:20:31.647 --> 00:20:35.484
  • To participate in his eternal kingdom.
  • 00:20:35.484 --> 00:20:38.420
  • And he's made possible the power and the authority for us to be
  • 00:20:38.420 --> 00:20:41.990
  • Transformed, to be changed in potential as human beings in
  • 00:20:41.990 --> 00:20:47.396
  • Time, when necessary to stand before pharaohs and say, let my
  • 00:20:47.396 --> 00:20:52.601
  • People go.
  • 00:20:52.601 --> 00:20:55.837
  • But we have to submit to his authority.
  • 00:20:55.837 --> 00:20:57.572
  • Look at romans 6, and verse 11, "in the same way, count
  • 00:20:57.572 --> 00:21:01.710
  • Yourselves dead to sin but alive to god."
  • 00:21:01.710 --> 00:21:04.846
  • Count yourselves, this isn't something god does to us,
  • 00:21:04.846 --> 00:21:08.283
  • "therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body so that you
  • 00:21:08.283 --> 00:21:11.219
  • Obey its evil desires.
  • 00:21:11.219 --> 00:21:12.888
  • Don't offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of
  • 00:21:12.888 --> 00:21:15.724
  • Wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to god, as those who
  • 00:21:15.724 --> 00:21:18.927
  • Have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts
  • 00:21:18.927 --> 00:21:21.263
  • Of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.
  • 00:21:21.263 --> 00:21:24.266
  • For sin shall not be your master."
  • 00:21:24.266 --> 00:21:25.967
  • Paul is writing to a church, arguably the most literate of
  • 00:21:25.967 --> 00:21:30.005
  • All the churches.
  • 00:21:30.005 --> 00:21:31.340
  • It's the church in rome, the epicenter of the world in which
  • 00:21:31.340 --> 00:21:33.475
  • He lived.
  • 00:21:33.475 --> 00:21:34.910
  • And he's saying to the believers do not offer yourselves to
  • 00:21:34.910 --> 00:21:39.114
  • Ungodly things.
  • 00:21:39.114 --> 00:21:41.049
  • Church, we can't do that.
  • 00:21:41.049 --> 00:21:42.384
  • We can't make idols out of the government.
  • 00:21:42.384 --> 00:21:45.354
  • We can't expect them to train our children in godliness.
  • 00:21:45.354 --> 00:21:53.061
  • We read a verse from corinthians about training when we began.
  • 00:21:53.061 --> 00:21:55.931
  • I'll give you the verse that immediately follows it.
  • 00:21:55.931 --> 00:21:57.866
  • It's 1 corinthians 9:26, "i don't run like a man running
  • 00:21:57.866 --> 00:22:01.636
  • Aimlessly; i don't fight like a man beating the air.
  • 00:22:01.636 --> 00:22:04.439
  • I beat my body and i make it my slave so that after i preach to
  • 00:22:04.439 --> 00:22:07.776
  • Others, i myself will not be disqualified for the prize."
  • 00:22:07.776 --> 00:22:11.813
  • I have submitted myself to the discipline of transformation.
  • 00:22:11.813 --> 00:22:16.485
  • That's my invitation to you.
  • 00:22:16.485 --> 00:22:18.754
  • Let's stop looking through the windows of the church and
  • 00:22:18.754 --> 00:22:20.689
  • Bemoaning the wickedness.
  • 00:22:20.689 --> 00:22:22.958
  • Let's stop pointing our fingers at other people.
  • 00:22:22.958 --> 00:22:26.128
  • Let's stop crossing our fingers and saying this time the
  • 00:22:26.128 --> 00:22:29.064
  • Elections will fix it.
  • 00:22:29.064 --> 00:22:31.933
  • How many services do we have to have after the election to know
  • 00:22:31.933 --> 00:22:38.173
  • That they don't fix it.
  • 00:22:38.173 --> 00:22:40.842
  • But if we will change, if we can say to the lord god, i haven't
  • 00:22:40.842 --> 00:22:46.047
  • Really been all that committed to you, but i would truly like
  • 00:22:46.047 --> 00:22:50.886
  • Jesus to be lord of my life.
  • 00:22:50.886 --> 00:22:54.022
  • I'm willing to do the difficult.
  • 00:22:54.022 --> 00:22:57.292
  • I've asked you to bless everything so i can live
  • 00:22:57.292 --> 00:22:59.528
  • In easy.
  • 00:22:59.528 --> 00:23:02.531
  • What might you have for me?
  • 00:23:02.531 --> 00:23:05.300
  • And let's see what god will do.
  • 00:23:05.300 --> 00:23:07.169
  • He's changed the course of nations and empires.
  • 00:23:07.169 --> 00:23:10.839
  • He's routed armies, he's defeated enemies.
  • 00:23:10.839 --> 00:23:15.143
  • He has brought minority opinion, overwhelming victories against
  • 00:23:15.143 --> 00:23:20.148
  • Insurmountable odds.
  • 00:23:20.148 --> 00:23:21.550
  • Our god is able if we will submit to him.
  • 00:23:21.550 --> 00:23:28.957
  • I'll finish that outline another time, probably tomorrow morning.
  • 00:23:28.957 --> 00:23:32.861
  • But i brought you a prayer and it is really an acknowledgement
  • 00:23:32.861 --> 00:23:37.632
  • Of an entry into that transformation.
  • 00:23:37.632 --> 00:23:42.237
  • And i want to ask no matter what your tenure in the kingdom of
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  • God is.
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  • You may be a veteran christian.
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  • You may have been in this church since we started.
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  • You know, you can sit in church all your life and not be a
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  • Christ follower.
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  • It's like going to the gym doesn't make me an athlete.
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  • It's been known for me to go to the donut shop on my way to
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  • The gym.
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  • You have one when you go in, you got one when you come out.
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  • It's just kind of a good balance.
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  • You don't want a sugar high, you just want a good sugar buzz,
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  • Steady through the whole day.
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  • Yeah, and we've been a little guilty of thinking, oh, if you
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  • Suffer through enough church services, god will take mercy on
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  • You and let you in, but that's not the nature of
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  • What's presented.
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  • So i brought you a prayer.
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  • I want you to stand with me if you will.
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  • If you're joining us someplace else, you can stand with us
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  • As well.
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  • It's a prayer we can read together, but it's one i would
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  • Give to you to consider, to contemplate, to say again, to
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  • Use as a point of kind of personal evaluation.
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  • Where am i standing in relationship to this?
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  • Where in my life am i willing to allow god to speak and where am
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  • I not willing for him to speak?
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  • What parts are mine?
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  • Because increasingly, i want to yield to the lordship of jesus.
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  • And as much as i can say, i want to do that, i find i have to
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  • Continue to give attention to that.
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  • I don't want new assignments.
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  • I don't wanna do difficult.
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  • I don't wanna take the risk, but i want to be obedient.
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  • Let's pray it together.
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  • I choose jesus as lord of my life.
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  • I yield to the lordship of jesus of nazareth--offering myself as
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  • A living sacrifice.
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  • Almighty god forgive me of all my sins, for placing my will
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  • Before your will.
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  • Holy spirit, help me to learn to say "yes" to you, grant me an
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  • Understanding heart and the courage to follow you.
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  • Lead me away from temptation and deliver me from evil.
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  • May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be
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  • Pleasing in your sight.
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  • O lord, my rock and my redeemer. amen.
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • Allen: you know no matter what source of news you turn to
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  • It's hard some days not to be overwhelmed with despair,
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  • The deception, the conflict in the earth,
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  • The suffering that's taking place in so many places,
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  • The struggling church in our own nation.
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  • But there are reasons for hope.
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  • God is moving in the most remarkable ways
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  • But we need to have a plan, a method, even a tool
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  • To help us give our thoughts and our hearts focused on god.
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  • Well, i have a suggestion, it's a little booklet
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  • We put together, it's called "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • It's built by topic each day with a scripture,
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  • A little devotional, and a prayer topically directed
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  • To help focus our thoughts at an awakening
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  • To god's invitations to us around that specific theme.
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  • We're awakened every day for the challenges of that day.
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  • Well let's ask the spirit of god to awaken us
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  • Consistently to what he would have us doing
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  • In this most unique season.
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  • God is moving, i want to move with him,
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  • And i believe you do too.
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  • And i believe "awaken us" will be a help.
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  • ♪♪♪
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