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Allen Jackson - Identity and Belonging (Part 2)

June 21, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Identity and Belonging (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Identity and Belonging (Part 2) | June 21, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: we have a new resource for you.
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  • I'm really excited about this.
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  • It's a book. it's a booklet.
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  • It's a small book called "your identity in christ."
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  • It was derived from years of teaching and leading in the
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  • Context of the church.
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  • We're walking through a season, folks, when there's so much
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  • Confusion about our identity.
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  • We put this together to help you understand who you are in
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  • Christ, not just about your salvation, but so that you can
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  • Lead a triumphant, victorious, overcoming life.
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  • We built it for an individual read.
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  • It's great for a small group.
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  • It's a great resource for your kitchen table time as a family
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  • With children or grandchildren.
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  • If you know who you are in christ, it changes everything
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  • About the landscape of your life.
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  • I'm righteous in the sight of god.
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  • I can stand before god without fear, guilt, or condemnation.
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  • Those are such important foundational principles to get
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  • Secure in your heart, around your table with the people you
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  • Care about, in your small groups, with your friends.
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  • Your identity in christ, it's a game changer.
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  • I believe it will add momentum to your spiritual growth in
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  • This season.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: but you don't have to have a graduate degree in
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  • Theology to help somebody find their way into the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • And if you'll couple that with your own god story, you know, my
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  • Own life was broken.
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  • And i met jesus and he began changing me, and he's changing
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  • Me until today.
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  • Well, i wanna know him better.
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  • So let's just say this prayer together.
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  • Just close your eyes. forget the people around you.
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  • It's okay. you just repeat it after me.
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  • Almighty god, i'm a sinner, and i need a savior.
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  • I believe jesus is your son, that he died on a cross for my
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  • Sin, and that you raised him to life again that i might
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  • Be justified.
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  • Forgive me of my sins.
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  • I forgive those who sinned against me.
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  • Jesus be lord of my life.
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  • I want to live for your glory and for your honor.
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  • And i thank you now that i belong to the family of god.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • I know, i know, i know.
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  • We did it out of order, but it still counts.
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  • It's like eating dessert before your vegetables, still good.
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  • They've turned the food pyramid upside down anyway.
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  • We might as well, right?
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  • Start with chocolate cake.
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  • Don't, don't.
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  • Well, i wanna take the balance of the time we have and walk
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  • Through some of these principles with you.
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  • They're characteristics of the life upgrade that comes with
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  • Being a christ follower.
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  • We tend to describe our spiritual journey in terms of
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  • The congregation where we worship, or the denomination
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  • With which we belong, or the theological points that are part
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  • Of our kind of pet part of scripture.
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  • And it's not wicked or evil, but it's not the most helpful.
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  • I mean, it may give you some points in identifying one
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  • Another, but--so we're gonna walk through these, and we're
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  • Gonna tag them really quickly 'cause i'm as interested in the
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  • Declaration as i am the details behind it.
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  • I'll start with jesus said two things about us.
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  • Jesus said these things about you and me.
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  • He said that "we are the salt of the earth and the light of
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  • The world."
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  • It's in matthew chapter 5, it's a part of the sermon on the
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  • Mount, verses 13 and 14.
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  • They're very straightforward sentences.
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  • Now, there's some further explanation around it.
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  • He said the salt, if it loses its saltiness, it's no good
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  • Except to be thrown out.
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  • And i would remind you that salt that remains in a shaker.
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  • You don't know if it's salty or not.
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  • Salt can only be effective when it's distributed.
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  • That's why the church away from here is far more valuable than
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  • The church when we gather here.
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  • And it's important to gather, but we gather here to be
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  • Effective when we leave.
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  • Salt is a preservative.
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  • Salt withstands corruption.
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  • That's why i say to you frequently we can't hide from
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  • Our culture.
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  • I have no interest in being political, but i have a
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  • Tremendous interest in impacting the culture in which god has
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  • Placed us with the values of the word of god and the lordship
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  • Of jesus.
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  • That's the assignment of the church.
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  • And salt adds flavor.
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  • It's the people of god in the earth that bring the attention
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  • Of god.
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  • Many of you are familiar with the person of the holy spirit.
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  • You know him. you interact with him.
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  • You welcome him into your life.
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  • If you want to attract the attention of the holy spirit, i
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  • Will tell you how to do it.
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  • Begin to purposefully honor jesus.
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  • You start to honor jesus.
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  • You start to give thanks to him.
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  • Acknowledge what he's done for you.
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  • Talk about him. use his name.
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  • If you will honor jesus, the holy spirit will occupy the
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  • Space where you are.
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  • I tell you that 'cause if you're frightened or intimidated
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  • Or threatened or you have a challenge, a health challenge or
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  • A family challenge or a life challenge, and you need to know
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  • That the spirit of god is with you, start to make a list of the
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  • Names you know for jesus and begin to thank him.
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  • I-- "lord jesus, i thank you that you are the king of kings
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  • And the lord of lords, the lily of the valley, the bright
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  • Morning star."
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  • I mean, i'll think of every title.
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  • I'll get the book of psalms out, and i'll start to read.
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  • I wanna give honor to the lord because when you do that, the
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  • Spirit of god will come.
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  • You are the salt of the earth and the light of the world.
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  • Imagine a world with no salt, nothing restraining evil, and
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  • No light.
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  • It's not a world i wanna be in.
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  • So if you work in a dark place or you live in a dark
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  • Neighborhood or your family feels dark or whatever, we're
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  • The light.
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  • Stop complaining and take the basket off the light.
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  • The darker the place you are, the smaller the light makes a
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  • Greater impact.
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  • Have you ever heard of hezekiah's tunnel in jerusalem?
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  • The enemy was coming and the water source for jerusalem was
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  • Outside the city walls, and they wanted to bring it inside the
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  • Walls so they could protect it, so they dug a tunnel.
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  • They still don't know how they did it because it's not
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  • A straight tunnel.
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  • There's some water tunnels that you'll
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  • Walk through that are just straight lines.
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  • You understand why they dug it.
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  • That's not hezekiah's tunnel. it's serpentine.
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  • It means it's all wiggly.
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  • Looks like mississippi.
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  • And it's different heights, and it's different width.
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  • Someplace if you walk through it, i have to turn my shoulders
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  • Sideways in order to squeeze through, and i bend over.
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  • And it's, you're like, and there's--it's completely pitch
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  • Black, and it's still.
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  • There's still a spring that comes through there.
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  • It's a pulsating spring, which means you may start out and it's
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  • Below your knee, and in a minute it's up above your knee.
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  • It's pitch black, and i'm turned sideways, and i'm bent over.
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  • We were walking through that one day and philip said to me, "what
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  • If something grabs your ankle?"
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  • I said, "there'll be a new tunnel."
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  • But you know, they've turned it now it's into, it's a tourist
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  • Place, so there's lots and lots of people go through there, and
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  • They sell these tiny little keychain lights.
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  • In the daylight, you can't even tell there's a light.
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  • But you get in hezekiah's tunnel, and it's like a search
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  • Beam 'cause the point of light in that pitch darkness is
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  • Amazing comfort.
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  • You are the light of the world.
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  • Say, "i don't feel very bright."
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  • It's not you. it's christ in us, remember?
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  • We belong to him.
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  • We belong to him, and he brings light into our lives.
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  • He brings it to us first.
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  • So let's make that declaration together, all right?
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  • I'm the salt of the earth and the light of the world.
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  • Okay, we're learning. let's do it again.
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  • We can do that better. use your outdoor voice.
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  • It's okay.
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  • I'm the salt of the earth and the light of the world.
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  • Pretty good.
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  • Look at john 1:12.
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  • Jesus again, "to all who received him, to those who
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  • Believed in his name, he gave the right to become children
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  • Of god."
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  • Galatians 3:26, "you're all sons of god through faith" in world
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  • Outreach church and a collection of sermon outlines.
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  • No, "you're all sons of god through faith in christ jesus."
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  • Romans 8, "because those who were led by the
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  • Spirit of god are sons of god.
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  • You didn't receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear,
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  • But you received the spirit of sonship.
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  • And by him we cry, 'father.'"
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  • We are children of almighty god.
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  • I'm a child of god.
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  • God is my spiritual father.
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  • I have an earthly father.
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  • We share genetic material.
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  • But i'm a child of the creator of heaven and earth.
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  • I belong to the family of god.
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  • And oh, by the way, so do you.
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  • That is so different than joining a church.
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  • "don't you wanna join my church?
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  • It's such a wonderful thing.
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  • We go every week, and there's sermons.
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  • And they collect money.
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  • And they ask for volunteers.
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  • And there's people, and you have to park a long way away.
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  • Don't you wanna come go to church with me?"
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  • Well--on the other hand, the group of people who helped me
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  • Understand i can become a part of the family of god.
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  • And i gain an inheritance with that and a new future with that.
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  • It's changed how i understand my life and my person and my world.
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  • Most of us come from families that are pretty torqued, and the
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  • Opportunity to belong to the family of god is the greatest
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  • Invitation of our lives.
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  • And yet if we get really honest about it, there's multiple
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  • Settings where we're kind of embarrassed about that.
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  • You'll be quiet while people denigrate christians.
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  • You'll be quiet while people elevate things that are clearly
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  • Idolatrous, and we lose our courage.
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  • I want to overcome it. it's growing season.
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  • I don't wanna be like that anymore.
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  • And i just--it's been a part--it's a problem.
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  • When i first came back here to be a part of the church and work
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  • For the church, we were in a tent in the middle of a field.
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  • It didn't look like it does today,
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  • And the community was very different.
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  • And i'd gone to school here and i came back--and i didn't go
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  • Away to be a minister, i promise.
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  • And i came back and people say, "what do you do?"
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  • And i didn't wanna tell them.
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  • I didn't wanna tell him. i was embarrassed, yeah.
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  • So i'd say, "oh, i'm a--[mumbling]
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  • What do you do?"
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  • I could turn a conversation that fast.
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  • I was good at it.
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  • "i haven't seen you in so long.
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  • What are you doing these days? where are you working?
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  • How 'bout them titans?"
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  • I was trying to avoid the issue.
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  • I don't think i'm that unique.
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  • I've had to grow up into that to be proud of the fact.
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  • You want to kill a conversation in a hurry?
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  • Announce you're a pastor.
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  • Walk up to a group of strangers, "hi, i'm pastor allen jack--"
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  • [making deflating noise]
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  • I've told this story before, but it's worth telling.
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  • I was playing golf.
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  • I don't play anymore, but i used to play a little bit.
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  • We picked up a foursome.
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  • So a friend and i went, but we picked up a couple more guys and
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  • We were playing and just the normal chatter.
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  • But one of the guys, his vocabulary did not come
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  • From church.
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  • And we got to the third or fourth hole, and he was on the
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  • Tee box, and everybody's having, you know, "who are you?"
  • 00:12:15.527 --> 00:12:17.529
  • And, "i'm allen," and, "what do you do?"
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  • He's putting his ball on the tee in the fourth hole, and
  • 00:12:19.130 --> 00:12:22.167
  • He looked at me and he said, "what do you do?"
  • 00:12:22.167 --> 00:12:25.036
  • And he'd already given us a pretty full view of his favorite
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  • Vocabulary words.
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  • And i said, "oh, i'm a pastor."
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  • He was a lot better golfer than i was, but he hit that, he
  • 00:12:35.213 --> 00:12:37.448
  • Shanked that ball so bad into the--he didn't hit a straight
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  • Drive the rest of the day.
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  • And i'm a pastor, but i'm not fully redeemed, so every time
  • 00:12:44.622 --> 00:12:46.891
  • He'd be teeing his ball up, said, "i could pray for you if
  • 00:12:46.891 --> 00:12:48.927
  • That would help, you think."
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  • We're children of god. we're not stupid, so.
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  • But maybe you begin by not going anyplace and being ashamed
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  • Of jesus.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: hey, i wanna ask you a question.
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  • How do you identify, male, female, southerner,
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  • Educated, housewife?
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  • How do you identify?
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  • Well, i wanna suggest knowing your identity in christ is the
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  • Most significant component of your person for both
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  • Time and eternity.
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  • It'll help you understand who you are in christ, your identity
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  • In the kingdom of god, and what the implications of that are for
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  • Your life today.
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  • It's a game changer.
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  • Female announcer: every day the world tries to define who we
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  • Are, what we should believe, and whether we're enough, but god's
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  • In pastor allen's new book, "your identity in christ: 12
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  • Truths about who you are," he shares biblical truths that will
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  • Help you recognize who you are in christ.
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  • Allen: there's a time in your kids's lives when they're glad
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  • To have you around, and there's times when they suggest you drop
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  • Them off before school.
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  • And i think that's a normal part of
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  • Our progression as christ followers.
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  • I just want you to recognize it is a progression and not a
  • 00:14:24.856 --> 00:14:27.825
  • Season that you get stuck in.
  • 00:14:27.825 --> 00:14:32.163
  • I read once that when you're young enough, your parents will
  • 00:14:32.163 --> 00:14:34.098
  • Give you advice, you won't take it
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  • And when you're old enough to want it, they won't give it,
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  • And i think we're a bit that way with the lord sometimes.
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  • And maybe your growing season this summer is you won't allow
  • 00:14:41.472 --> 00:14:44.175
  • Any part of your life to be a place where you won't
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  • Acknowledge that jesus matters to you.
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  • It'll have some implications for some places.
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  • Let's make that statement together.
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  • It's important.
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  • I'm a child of god, and god is spiritually my father.
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  • John 15, jesus, "i've called you friends, for everything that i
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  • Learned from my father i've made known to you."
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  • Jesus called us friends.
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  • Jesus, water walking, dead raising, king of kings and lord
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  • Of lords, name above all names, called you a friend.
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  • Wow.
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  • James 4, "you adulterous people."
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  • James is the in-your-face book of the new testament.
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  • If you're having a bad day, i probably wouldn't start
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  • With james.
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  • If you're a little full of yourself, read james.
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  • He'll help you get acclimated.
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  • "you adulterous people," he's writing to believers.
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  • "you adulterous people, don't you know?"
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  • And what's the answer?
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  • "no, i think i forgot.
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  • What am i supposed to know?"
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  • "don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred
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  • Toward god?
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  • Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an
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  • Enemy of god."
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  • So we have a decision to make. it's growing season.
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  • We have a decision to make.
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  • Where in our lives have we tolerated a desire to define
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  • Success, achievement, accomplishment, something in the
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  • Same way that our secular, ungodly friends would?
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  • And what would it look like to change that?
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  • "god, lord, i'd rather be your friend than a friend of
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  • The world."
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  • This is one of my favorite definitions, understandings of
  • 00:16:20.138 --> 00:16:22.306
  • Jesus, because it feels available to me.
  • 00:16:22.306 --> 00:16:24.442
  • I have a sense of what a good friend is.
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  • And i have a sense of what it means to be a friend.
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  • Doesn't mean i always measure up, and
  • 00:16:32.016 --> 00:16:33.384
  • You know, people say to me, "i don't have enough friends."
  • 00:16:33.384 --> 00:16:34.852
  • You don't have room in your life for very many because if you're
  • 00:16:34.852 --> 00:16:38.623
  • A good friend, you can't tolerate 100 more.
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  • There's not enough time for that.
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  • So i think you've got an imagination of what a good
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  • Friend--are you a good friend to jesus?
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  • I wanna be his friend.
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  • I don't just want to call on him to do favors for me.
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  • You know, that's like a swamp creature.
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  • I want to be his friend.
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  • Jesus said we're his friend, and james said to us that if we're
  • 00:17:03.147 --> 00:17:06.951
  • Too friendly with the secular, ungodly part of the world we
  • 00:17:06.951 --> 00:17:10.721
  • Live in, we're saying we hate the lord because being friends
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  • With jesus will mean you can't be friends with some
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  • Other things.
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  • And you know, it isn't always in terms of what's right and wrong,
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  • Good or evil, sin--
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  • It's not like ten commandments issues.
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  • There's things, if you let your friendship with jesus develop,
  • 00:17:28.106 --> 00:17:30.808
  • That you'll lay down because they diminish your friendship
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  • With him.
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  • And i can't make that list for you because what the lord asks
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  • Me to do may be different.
  • 00:17:37.849 --> 00:17:41.853
  • When god met moses at a burning bush and said, "you know, i've
  • 00:17:41.853 --> 00:17:43.988
  • Got a little bit of an assignment for you," he had to
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  • Sell his goat business.
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  • He had to walk into pharaoh's palace.
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  • I mean, he took a--i mean, he spent the rest of his life in a
  • 00:17:52.530 --> 00:17:56.634
  • Really difficult spot because his friend asked him to do it.
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  • And he really didn't want to.
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  • I'm here to tell you, your friend will, you know, friends
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  • Will ask you to do things you don't want to.
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  • I got a friend that's a hunter.
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  • I didn't grow up hunting. my dad was a vet.
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  • We put things back together, so i didn't grow up in that world.
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  • I just didn't know about it, but like the person and we were
  • 00:18:17.421 --> 00:18:20.791
  • Friends, so he would invite me to go hunting with him.
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  • First time he asked me, he said, "do you wanna go
  • 00:18:24.495 --> 00:18:25.963
  • Turkey hunting?"
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  • I thought, "well, i can, kroger's about a half a mile
  • 00:18:28.332 --> 00:18:29.867
  • Away from where i live."
  • 00:18:29.867 --> 00:18:34.172
  • So i said, "sure."
  • 00:18:34.172 --> 00:18:35.506
  • They said, "well, be at the barn at 4 a.m."
  • 00:18:35.506 --> 00:18:42.480
  • I mean, i grew up in a barn, so i thought, "well, okay, so 4
  • 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:44.815
  • A.m.," and the day starts by talking about the turkeys at
  • 00:18:44.815 --> 00:18:51.756
  • 4 a.m.
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  • But i learned a whole new life, a whole new world, a whole new
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  • Set of things.
  • 00:18:56.661 --> 00:18:57.995
  • It was foreign to me, but i learned those things, not
  • 00:18:57.995 --> 00:19:00.364
  • Because i didn't know where to find a turkey at kroger, because
  • 00:19:00.364 --> 00:19:04.669
  • I knew it was something that was important to my friend and it
  • 00:19:04.669 --> 00:19:06.837
  • Became important to me.
  • 00:19:06.837 --> 00:19:10.174
  • Well, i don't hunt a lot, but i like to hang out with people who
  • 00:19:10.174 --> 00:19:12.677
  • Do 'cause i'm fascinated with the conversations and all the
  • 00:19:12.677 --> 00:19:15.479
  • Things that go with it and the intricacies, and it's
  • 00:19:15.479 --> 00:19:18.916
  • Fascinating to me.
  • 00:19:18.916 --> 00:19:20.251
  • But i learned that because of friends, and i also learned that
  • 00:19:20.251 --> 00:19:22.486
  • If you want to become good at something, find somebody that's
  • 00:19:22.486 --> 00:19:25.022
  • Good at that and be their friend.
  • 00:19:25.022 --> 00:19:27.458
  • If i want to know more about hunting and fishing, i'll do
  • 00:19:27.458 --> 00:19:30.027
  • Anything i have to to spend time with people who do that.
  • 00:19:30.027 --> 00:19:33.130
  • I'll wash the cars. i'll carry the bags.
  • 00:19:33.130 --> 00:19:34.799
  • I'll drive.
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  • What do i need to do in order to be with those people?
  • 00:19:36.734 --> 00:19:38.636
  • Because i will learn far faster being with people who have those
  • 00:19:38.636 --> 00:19:41.706
  • Passions than i will by reading 30 books.
  • 00:19:41.706 --> 00:19:45.443
  • And if you want to learn more about the lord, find somebody
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  • That knows the lord and do whatever you have to spend time
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  • With them.
  • 00:19:50.381 --> 00:19:52.516
  • Mow their grass.
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  • Serve with them.
  • 00:19:53.851 --> 00:19:55.453
  • Just listen, just listen.
  • 00:19:55.453 --> 00:19:58.289
  • You'll learn more from the overflow.
  • 00:19:58.289 --> 00:20:01.125
  • You'll learn about their priorities and their values and
  • 00:20:01.125 --> 00:20:03.294
  • How they order their time and what they think about and what
  • 00:20:03.294 --> 00:20:06.230
  • They're striving to become.
  • 00:20:06.230 --> 00:20:09.100
  • See, we've been so smug and so arrogant.
  • 00:20:09.100 --> 00:20:10.801
  • We haven't imagined there was really much left for us to
  • 00:20:10.801 --> 00:20:12.803
  • Learn or know or do or grow 'cause we're born again and
  • 00:20:12.803 --> 00:20:16.641
  • We've been baptized and we're spirit-filled and we've read
  • 00:20:16.641 --> 00:20:18.943
  • Our bibles and we do the things.
  • 00:20:18.943 --> 00:20:20.645
  • And so we've had these tiny little expectations.
  • 00:20:20.645 --> 00:20:23.648
  • Folks, god will use us to change the world and our generation.
  • 00:20:23.648 --> 00:20:28.686
  • I don't wanna tell stories about hudson taylor or martin luther
  • 00:20:28.686 --> 00:20:33.591
  • Or people who changed the world.
  • 00:20:33.591 --> 00:20:35.559
  • I want in our generations for us to say, "we saw god move in the
  • 00:20:35.559 --> 00:20:39.230
  • Most remarkable ways."
  • 00:20:39.230 --> 00:20:42.133
  • We gotta recalibrate a little bit.
  • 00:20:42.133 --> 00:20:44.535
  • Jesus said he's our friend.
  • 00:20:44.535 --> 00:20:49.840
  • I read the book of acts frequently, and i do my best to
  • 00:20:49.840 --> 00:20:54.178
  • Climb right into the middle of those stories 'cause i'm
  • 00:20:54.178 --> 00:20:57.915
  • Fascinated by those people that were recruited
  • 00:20:57.915 --> 00:21:01.052
  • By jesus and got to know him.
  • 00:21:01.052 --> 00:21:02.386
  • And then when he left, they're so, so different.
  • 00:21:02.386 --> 00:21:08.125
  • They were fishermen and tax collectors, and they were as
  • 00:21:08.125 --> 00:21:10.461
  • Inconsistent as we are.
  • 00:21:10.461 --> 00:21:12.630
  • They couldn't understand and they couldn't catch on and they
  • 00:21:12.630 --> 00:21:15.900
  • Couldn't grasp it.
  • 00:21:15.900 --> 00:21:17.301
  • I mean, they struggled, but something happens in them, and
  • 00:21:17.301 --> 00:21:21.339
  • Then they stand before like the sanhedrin that were the ones
  • 00:21:21.339 --> 00:21:24.375
  • That orchestrated so much of jesus's suffering.
  • 00:21:24.375 --> 00:21:27.445
  • And the sanhedrin says, "don't you ever mention his name again
  • 00:21:27.445 --> 00:21:30.014
  • Or we'll kill you."
  • 00:21:30.014 --> 00:21:32.883
  • And these clowns that argued about who was the greatest,
  • 00:21:32.883 --> 00:21:38.189
  • You know, they would say to jesus, "we don't understand what
  • 00:21:38.189 --> 00:21:40.224
  • You're talking about, could you explain it to us?"
  • 00:21:40.224 --> 00:21:42.026
  • And he said, "are you really that slow?"
  • 00:21:42.026 --> 00:21:44.729
  • They go, "yeah, will you explain it to us?"
  • 00:21:44.729 --> 00:21:47.832
  • But now when you get to the book of acts, they'll stand in front
  • 00:21:47.832 --> 00:21:50.000
  • Of the sanhedrin and said, "you do what you need to do.
  • 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:53.104
  • We will never stop."
  • 00:21:53.104 --> 00:21:57.108
  • And i think, "lord, i've got to change.
  • 00:21:57.108 --> 00:22:01.145
  • I wanna be different. i wanna grow.
  • 00:22:01.145 --> 00:22:03.647
  • I wanna be your friend in that way."
  • 00:22:03.647 --> 00:22:06.851
  • Read what they said.
  • 00:22:06.851 --> 00:22:08.185
  • They said, "we are eyewitnesses to this."
  • 00:22:08.185 --> 00:22:13.424
  • They, said, "you handed him over to the romans, and the romans
  • 00:22:13.424 --> 00:22:16.694
  • Tortured him to death, and we're eyewitnesses of this.
  • 00:22:16.694 --> 00:22:19.830
  • We saw him alive again after the resurrection, and we will tell
  • 00:22:19.830 --> 00:22:24.034
  • Anybody who will listen."
  • 00:22:24.034 --> 00:22:26.504
  • I want that in me.
  • 00:22:26.504 --> 00:22:28.706
  • The lord's been good to me.
  • 00:22:28.706 --> 00:22:31.142
  • He's been good. hasn't been easy.
  • 00:22:31.142 --> 00:22:33.511
  • Hasn't always been simple.
  • 00:22:33.511 --> 00:22:34.845
  • I've done some stupid things, and sometimes the assignments
  • 00:22:34.845 --> 00:22:37.948
  • Are difficult, and
  • 00:22:37.948 --> 00:22:39.717
  • I'm not saying it's always fun, but the lord's been good
  • 00:22:39.717 --> 00:22:42.420
  • To me, and i wanna tell it, don't you?
  • 00:22:42.420 --> 00:22:44.054
  • He's my friend.
  • 00:22:44.054 --> 00:22:48.492
  • I didn't used to like christians, which is a problem
  • 00:22:48.492 --> 00:22:52.363
  • If you're a pastor.
  • 00:22:52.363 --> 00:22:57.835
  • And some of you know what i'm talking about.
  • 00:22:57.835 --> 00:22:59.203
  • You're more comfortable walking into a room full of ungodly
  • 00:22:59.203 --> 00:23:01.505
  • People than you are a room full of godly people.
  • 00:23:01.505 --> 00:23:04.975
  • You're far more relaxed.
  • 00:23:04.975 --> 00:23:08.312
  • You understand the talking points.
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  • You understand the ambitions and the objectives and the agendas
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  • And the habits and the behaviors.
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  • And godly people, you're just like, "oh, how long do i have to
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  • Be there?"
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  • Well, i had a lot of that in me, and i had to
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  • Come to the awkward acknowledgement.
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  • I had to be willing to say, "you know, the reason i don't like to
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  • Be around godly people is i don't really like god that much,
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  • And i have to change."
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  • And it didn't happen to me all at once, but the honor of my
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  • Life is standing with the people of god.
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  • I'll pray for those people in nigeria who are being hunted
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  • Because, but for the mercy of god, they'll be hunting us.
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  • Jesus's friend, can we say that together?
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  • I am jesus's friend.
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  • My time is gone.
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  • We've got four statements we can make.
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  • Let's go back to the ones we've looked at in bold, all right?
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  • Why don't you stand with me?
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  • That's gonna be our closing declaration.
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  • If you'll pray, you'll know what the next session's going to
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  • Be about.
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  • We'll start with "i belong to jesus," all right?
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  • I think we ought to read every statement in bold on this list,
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  • And then we'll get to the explanations, all right?
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  • I don't wanna give the devil any place in my life.
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  • I don't want to allow him any territory inadvertently.
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  • And to begin to understand who we are in christ and to whom we
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  • Belong, we'll change the equation, the
  • 00:24:53.484 --> 00:24:55.986
  • Circumstances of your life.
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  • So let's just make these statements in bold together,
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  • All right?
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  • "i belong to jesus and his kingdom.
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  • I'm the salt of the earth and the light of the world.
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  • I'm a child of god.
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  • God is spiritually my father.
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  • I am jesus's friend.
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  • I'm a joint heir with christ, sharing his inheritance
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  • With him.
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  • I'm a temple, a dwelling place of god.
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  • His spirit and his life dwell in me.
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  • I am god's workmanship, his handiwork, born anew in christ
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  • To do his work.
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  • I am not the great i am, but by the grace of god, i am what
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  • I am.
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  • I am righteous and holy.
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  • I am free of condemnation.
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  • I'm a citizen of heaven, an alien in this present age.
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  • I'm an enemy of the devil.
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  • I'm chosen of god, holy and dearly loved.
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  • Amen."
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  • That's a wonderful devotional.
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  • Take it this week and say it over your life.
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  • Introduce it at your kitchen table.
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  • Make it a part of your summer.
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  • We're growing, folks.
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  • Here we go.
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  • Bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: hey, i'm really excited about our newest publication.
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  • It's called "your identity in christ."
  • 00:26:22.172 --> 00:26:23.707
  • It's a booklet, small book intended to help you understand
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  • Who you are in christ, straightforward, grounded in
  • 00:26:26.944 --> 00:26:29.713
  • Scripture, but i help people take steps towards
  • 00:26:29.713 --> 00:26:32.616
  • Spiritual freedom.
  • 00:26:32.616 --> 00:26:33.984
  • The most essential component is helping them understand who they
  • 00:26:33.984 --> 00:26:37.087
  • Are in christ.
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  • You know, we're walking through a season where there's
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  • Tremendous cultural confusion, so much dialogue about how
  • 00:26:40.090 --> 00:26:43.694
  • We identify.
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  • Folks, understanding who you are in christ, the price that was
  • 00:26:45.162 --> 00:26:48.632
  • Paid to give you status in the kingdom of god, it will write a
  • 00:26:48.632 --> 00:26:52.736
  • Future for you that is not dependent upon your family of
  • 00:26:52.736 --> 00:26:55.906
  • Origin, your life circumstance, the expressions of evil that
  • 00:26:55.906 --> 00:26:59.176
  • You've had to overcome.
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  • In christ jesus we are triumphant, both in
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  • Time and for all eternity.
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  • We put this little booklet together.
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  • It'll help you. you can read it.
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  • You can do it as a small group.
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  • It's easy to share the message with children or grandchildren.
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  • Make this a part of this season in your life and in your home
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  • And with your friends.
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  • It's a game changer.
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  • ♪♪♪
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