Allen Jackson - Immovable Barriers (Part 1)

December 18, 2025 | 28:35

Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: we began allen jackson ministries
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  • To strengthen the church.
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  • Thank you for your partnership.
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  • Together we made an impact in this nation, but we're not done.
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  • In fact, in many ways i believe we're just beginning.
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  • The status quo is not adequate any longer.
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  • We can't sit in our churches and have our polite bible studies
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  • And sing our favorite choruses while we watch
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  • Darkness increasing in the world around us.
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  • We have to have the courage to tell the truth to our culture.
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  • A biblical worldview to engage current events in a way
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  • To make what we believe apart of the fabric of our schools,
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  • Our homes, our communities, our nation, and beyond.
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  • We have invitations now from war-torn countries
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  • In israel and ukraine to strengthen the churches there.
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  • I want to ask you to make an investment with us
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  • In allen jackson ministries
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  • To make 2026 the most fruitful year we've ever had together.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • We want to keep the pace.
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  • We want to take new steps to make a new impact.
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  • Your help makes that possible.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: we're walking through a series
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  • On breakthroughs.
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  • The real goal is to try to understand the components that
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  • Are present when god brings breakthroughs because i'm very
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  • Certain that in all of our lives, there are places where we
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  • Need god's help.
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  • Circumstances or places or relationships or decisions where
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  • The only acceptable outcome will involve the supernatural
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  • Engagement of god.
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  • It's not a matter of effort or thinking or knowledge
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  • Or contacts.
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  • We need god's help.
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  • It's a breakthrough and so, it's worth studying and considering
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  • Biblical patterns so that we might know how to
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  • Align ourselves.
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  • I don't believe god is against us.
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  • I believe he's for us.
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  • And i--but frequently, i believe we have to change in order for
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  • The purposes of god to emerge in our lives.
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  • So, we're on a bit of a learning curve in this season.
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  • We're gonna look at some immovable barriers tonight and
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  • How we can move them.
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  • I know that's a paradox.
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  • If they're immovable, they can't be moved, but god can.
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  • But i wanna start with our little paradigm i've been
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  • Inviting you towards and i'm gonna do it a bit more
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  • Consistently because i think it's necessary, this whole
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  • Notion that we began back in covid.
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  • It seems like at least a lifetime ago now of watch,
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  • Listen, think, and act.
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  • Sometimes it's good news, but when you see the truth presented
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  • Or the wisdom expressed, it puts in stark contrast the
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  • Foolishness that's been present.
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  • And this week, president-elect trump said, i hope you heard,
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  • That if the hostages that were taken by hamas were not released
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  • Prior to his inauguration on january 20th, i quote, "there'll
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  • Be hell to pay."
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  • I think that is a very appropriate statement.
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  • I had a couple of interviews yesterday with friends in israel
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  • And i can tell you the tone in israel changed with
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  • That statement.
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  • But it's not broadly accepted.
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  • There are people that say, you know, "it's insightful rhetoric.
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  • It's ratcheting up the tension."
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  • I'll give you my opinion. it's at least an informed one.
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  • I've lived in the middle east and i've been in and out of
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  • Israel since i was a boy and that's been--it's been at least
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  • A decade.
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  • When the first hostages were taken--when the first american
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  • Hostage was taken, i looked to the president of the united
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  • States to say, "they'll be released tomorrow or we will
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  • Come for you."
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  • Forget the israelis' response.
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  • There'll be no negotiation, there'll be no humanitarian aid.
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  • You turn loose our hostages.
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  • And that's been absent for well over a year and the suffering is
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  • Beyond imagination.
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  • So i thought it was an appropriate statement.
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  • In a season when it's necessary we will have to see what god
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  • Will do with that.
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  • Another expression that i think that surprises me, but i keep
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  • Bumping into it and i'll take just a moment with it.
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  • There's been a conversation in our community for some time now
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  • About appropriate and inappropriate books in our
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  • Children's libraries and i'm continually asked about that.
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  • And the answer that is often given to me or the reason that
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  • People say they remain silent is they don't want to support the
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  • Banning of books.
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  • And i appreciate that perspective.
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  • I think it is misplaced.
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  • There is a handful.
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  • There's 2 or 3 dozen books in the libraries that are
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  • Beyond reprehensible.
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  • I mean they're vile.
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  • They're indefensible to put them in the presence of
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  • Small children.
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  • And i don't understand the conversation to be about banning
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  • Of books at all.
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  • I understand the conversation to be around age
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  • Appropriate learning.
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  • Those books are inappropriate for children of that age.
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  • Certainly beyond parental involvement and supervision.
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  • It's nothing to do with the banning of books.
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  • It's age appropriate learning.
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  • We understand this.
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  • We don't sell cigarettes in elementary schools.
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  • You have to have parental consent if you're under 16 to
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  • Get a tattoo.
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  • And these books are awful.
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  • But i think clarify the conversation, express your
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  • Point, and then there's business that needs to be done if the
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  • People that are serving on the school board are determined to
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  • Keep those books.
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  • Once the case has been made clearly and concisely and
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  • Cogently, then i think they'd have other business to do.
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  • But i think you forfeit your right to lead long term in our
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  • Community if you want that kind of vile and--material in
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  • Our schools.
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  • But i don't think it needs to be the point that chokes every
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  • Meeting from now until.
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  • But you have to be wise enough.
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  • Don't bring lists of 400 books that aren't appropriate for
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  • The library.
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  • And bring the books that aren't your favorite or you don't like
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  • Or have some expression of witchcraft in them.
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  • You're not trying to bring a total worldview change to
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  • The library.
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  • You're saying there are some books that are so inappropriate
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  • They don't belong before small children.
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  • And we've got to be more mature.
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  • More than one person has come to me and said they will ban
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  • The bible.
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  • Okay, tell me who you are that wants to--i wanna know who that
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  • Is that thinks that's a good idea because i wanna remember.
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  • That we're bullied, we're intimidated, we're frightened,
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  • We're reluctant.
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  • I'm not--there's a lot of motivations around it, but don't
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  • Get caught up in the drama and the emotion.
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  • There's a set of those books that are
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  • Completely inappropriate.
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  • Make the presentation, stand up for it, and then let's get on
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  • With the business that we need to make the decisions.
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  • Makes sense?
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  • Watch and listen, pay attention.
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  • I'm tired of the distractions and the subterfuge and the
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  • Fear-based decisions.
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  • Make the right decision in the moment to the best of your
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  • Ability and then we'll make the next right decision when we
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  • Have to.
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  • We can do this.
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  • We get way heated up about washington dc--folks until we
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  • Can bring changes to middle tennessee where we live.
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  • We want somebody to change washington dc.
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  • We don't have the courage to change where we live.
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  • You understand that is backwards, right?
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  • Change the entire federal bureaucracy, but i don't want to
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  • Invest the time and energy to change--
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  • There's the hebrew word "mashuga."
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  • Means you're crazy.
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  • In a god honoring, jesus loving sort of way, so.
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  • All right.
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  • Keep watching and listening and thinking and engaging we're
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  • Gonna make a difference.
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  • God is moving.
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  • We're not doing everything the way it's always been done.
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  • There's change afoot and we're gonna need the wisdom of the
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  • Lord and it's not simple, it's confusing and there are
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  • Professional confusers amongst us.
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  • Tremendous manipulation, deception, lies--rampant and you
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  • Need to know the truth.
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  • You need the scripture, you need to have it in your heart.
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  • You need to know the voice of the holy spirit.
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  • And my topic is "breakthroughs."
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  • We gotta go.
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  • It's the time when god intervenes in our lives.
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  • Acts 9:3, i'm gonna continue to bring you some samples--examples
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  • Of this.
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  • The scripture is filled with these breakthrough moments.
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  • This one happens to be saul of tarsus as he neared damascus.
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  • On his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him
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  • And he fell to the ground and heard a voice say, "saul, why do
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  • You persecute me?"
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  • This is god initiated.
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  • Saul wasn't looking for jesus.
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  • He was looking for jesus's followers and he intended to put
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  • Them in prison.
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  • He had no intention of serving jesus.
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  • And jesus stepped back into time.
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  • The last time we saw jesus was in acts chapter 1 at the
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  • Ascension on the mount of olives.
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  • We have a little window when stephen is martyred and he looks
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  • To heaven and he sees the lord.
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  • When we get to acts chapter 9, jesus is on the road to damascus
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  • Doing an intervention with one saul of tarsus.
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  • "just exactly what is it you think you're doing, young man?"
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  • "well, i'm not sure, lord."
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  • I think we could all agree it was a breakthrough moment in
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  • Saul's life.
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  • We say we want breakthroughs.
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  • It's a complete career change for saul.
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  • Means he's gonna lose his friends.
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  • He's not gonna be trusted by the community of believers because
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  • He's been one of their chief prosecutors.
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  • It guarantees at least a season of isolation.
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  • I mean there's nothing easy about it.
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  • We talk about breakthroughs and we think when breakthroughs
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  • Comes it'll all be easy.
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  • It'll be like everything gets simple and everything that was
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  • Confused will become clear and opposition will melt and--.
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  • That really isn't the biblical pattern typically.
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  • There are some places where that's true.
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  • I've defined breakthroughs rather broadly.
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  • There are those points of deliverance, revelation,
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  • Insight, understanding, redirection.
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  • Those times when god's purposes and plans are initiated in and
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  • Through us, around us.
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  • Brought to completion, revealed, advanced, welcomed, understood.
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  • Our ideal breakthrough.
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  • I think the one that we pray for, that we imagine, that we
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  • Dream about are those points where god intervenes.
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  • He responds with a complete solution and the imagined future
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  • Is delivered whole and intact.
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  • It's like god's showing up at the burning bush in exodus 3 and
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  • Say, "i've come down to deliver my people and i'm gonna take
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  • Them to the promised land.
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  • And if you'll snap your fingers, we'll all be there."
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  • That i believe is our preferred, the ideal breakthrough, right?
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  • I don't want any process.
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  • I'm not really looking for any learning moments.
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  • I want out of pain and into peace now.
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  • I mean, if i have to wait till tomorrow.
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  • But life is seldom ideal and the bible shows us that we are
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  • Frequently delivered out of something, but not brought into
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  • What god has for us immediately.
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  • We're delivered from egyptian slavery, but we're not
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  • Immediately in the promised land.
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  • We've got some steps before we get there.
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  • We're delivered from our murderous rage against christ
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  • Followers, but we don't become an apostle that impacts the
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  • World the next morning.
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  • We're delivered out of something but not always brought
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  • Immediately into something.
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  • We're delivered from something, but typically--frequently our
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  • Adversaries aren't removed.
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  • You see, i think we believe god should deliver us from the
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  • Pressure of the person, whatever, and they should be
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  • Totally humiliated, eradicated, eliminated, neutralized.
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  • And sometimes god delivers you from those things and
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  • They flourish.
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  • And then you have to forgive because you're standing over
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  • There saying, "god bless him with the botch and the itch and
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  • The scab."
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  • Sometimes we need physical healing and god heals us, but he
  • 00:13:54.048 --> 00:14:03.191
  • Actually uses a healthcare professional.
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  • "well, i didn't wanna go to the doctor.
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  • I don't wanna make a co-pay.
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  • I don't wanna meet my deductible.
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  • I don't wanna deal with that.
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  • I wanted god to heal me."
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  • Duly noted.
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  • If you pray then you're better.
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  • There may have many points of contribution, but i believe god
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  • Brought healing.
  • 00:14:27.949 --> 00:14:29.317
  • He is our healer.
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  • I will gladly pay the doctor's bill, but i will very
  • 00:14:30.885 --> 00:14:35.023
  • Purposefully give thanks to the lord that he restores my health.
  • 00:14:35.023 --> 00:14:41.629
  • Or sometimes god brings healing to our lives, but it doesn't
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  • Mean that, you know, we're removed from the arena of aging.
  • 00:14:45.867 --> 00:14:49.704
  • Christians get weird.
  • 00:14:49.704 --> 00:14:52.874
  • It's like we lose our balance.
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  • And when we talk about the supernatural and then we just
  • 00:14:57.245 --> 00:15:00.248
  • Shut down and go, "well i just don't believe in that."
  • 00:15:00.248 --> 00:15:03.051
  • Because we don't want to deal with the messiness of doing life
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  • With people.
  • 00:15:06.020 --> 00:15:07.388
  • We've gotta have the courage to invite the supernatural power
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  • And presence of god into the midst of our lives.
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  • Allen: god is moving in the earth
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  • And at allen jack ministries we're doing everything we can
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  • To strengthen the church in our nation
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  • We don't intend to maintain the status quo
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  • Or to gather at our churches for polite bible studies.
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  • We're going to engage our culture with biblical truth
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  • And give you the tools to do so.
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  • We want our children and grandchildren to inherit
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  • Allen: or sometimes god presents opportunities to us.
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  • They're clearly god opportunities.
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  • God-initiated, circumstances line up.
  • 00:16:28.703 --> 00:16:30.772
  • There's something that presents that is most unlikely and most
  • 00:16:30.772 --> 00:16:33.341
  • Improbable, but in order to accept the opportunity, it will
  • 00:16:33.341 --> 00:16:37.378
  • Require significant investment of energy.
  • 00:16:37.378 --> 00:16:40.014
  • We call that work and often the investment of resources, we call
  • 00:16:40.014 --> 00:16:45.086
  • That spending money.
  • 00:16:45.086 --> 00:16:48.022
  • And i meet people all the time who say, well, you know, "if god
  • 00:16:48.022 --> 00:16:50.091
  • Had done that, it wouldn't have been difficult and he would have
  • 00:16:50.091 --> 00:16:53.094
  • Provided everything."
  • 00:16:53.094 --> 00:16:55.663
  • Well it's a wonderful thought.
  • 00:16:55.663 --> 00:16:56.998
  • It's just not biblical.
  • 00:16:56.998 --> 00:17:01.069
  • I mean, sometimes god will do that, but to demand that god do
  • 00:17:01.069 --> 00:17:05.206
  • That all the time would make him your benevolent uncle.
  • 00:17:05.206 --> 00:17:10.678
  • You'd just be a spoiled kid.
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  • We've had enough of those in the media lately.
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  • I want to look at a breakthrough.
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  • The biblical one.
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  • I didn't take this one from the christmas story.
  • 00:17:25.593 --> 00:17:26.928
  • We'll do several of those characters, but i thought it was
  • 00:17:26.928 --> 00:17:29.464
  • Helpful not to limit it to the holidays.
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  • I want to look at joshua's life.
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  • Joshua begins his life--when we find joshua initially in
  • 00:17:33.835 --> 00:17:36.871
  • Scripture, he's a slave in egypt.
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  • He knows the sting of the whip from the egyptian taskmasters.
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  • He knows the humiliation of being a slave.
  • 00:17:45.613 --> 00:17:49.450
  • Joshua was there when moses comes in out of the desert and
  • 00:17:49.450 --> 00:17:53.254
  • Says, "you need to get ready, we're leaving."
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  • He sees all the plagues visited on egypt.
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  • He crosses the red sea.
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  • He sees the egyptians drowned.
  • 00:18:00.862 --> 00:18:02.296
  • He's at marah, in exodus 15, when the bitter water is turned
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  • To sweet.
  • 00:18:07.635 --> 00:18:09.637
  • Joshua is moses's aide de camp.
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  • He becomes his assistant.
  • 00:18:12.006 --> 00:18:14.842
  • So, he spends decades with moses, following
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  • Moses's leadership.
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  • He sees moses when he's been spent so much time in the
  • 00:18:20.448 --> 00:18:22.850
  • Presence of god that he has to put a veil over his face because
  • 00:18:22.850 --> 00:18:25.953
  • There's a glow.
  • 00:18:25.953 --> 00:18:28.422
  • He knows moses when he goes up the mountain and comes back with
  • 00:18:28.422 --> 00:18:30.725
  • 10 commandments.
  • 00:18:30.725 --> 00:18:33.060
  • I mean, he's had a front row seat for one of the most
  • 00:18:33.060 --> 00:18:35.263
  • Remarkable leaders in all of the presentation of scripture.
  • 00:18:35.263 --> 00:18:40.067
  • But moses is unable to take the exodus generation into the
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  • Promised land.
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  • And so, at the end of moses's life, joshua is the next man up.
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  • It's one of the more difficult job descriptions in the bible.
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  • "i want you to do what moses couldn't do."
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  • "oh sure."
  • 00:18:57.685 --> 00:19:01.122
  • And i want to look at a bit of that.
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  • Deuteronomy 31:23, "the lord gave this command to joshua the
  • 00:19:03.224 --> 00:19:06.627
  • Son of nun."
  • 00:19:06.627 --> 00:19:09.163
  • You know, there's 2 people in the bible that were born without
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  • The father.
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  • Jesus, you know, it's christmas time.
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  • You know the other one?
  • 00:19:16.938 --> 00:19:19.740
  • It's joshua.
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  • He's the son of nun.
  • 00:19:21.075 --> 00:19:28.182
  • I didn't go to comedy school.
  • 00:19:28.182 --> 00:19:29.817
  • I went to seminary, okay?
  • 00:19:29.817 --> 00:19:31.352
  • So, "joshua the son of nun: 'be strong and courageous, for you
  • 00:19:31.352 --> 00:19:36.157
  • Will bring the israelites into the land i promised them on
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  • Oath, and i myself will be with you."'
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  • It's an interesting passage in all seriousness, the way
  • 00:19:41.963 --> 00:19:44.599
  • It's stated.
  • 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:45.967
  • God says, "i myself will do it."
  • 00:19:45.967 --> 00:19:48.369
  • There's a--it's an emphatic way of making a point.
  • 00:19:48.369 --> 00:19:52.139
  • Someone says, you know, "did you lock the door at the house?"
  • 00:19:52.139 --> 00:19:56.510
  • "i did."
  • 00:19:56.510 --> 00:19:57.845
  • "are you sure?"
  • 00:19:57.845 --> 00:19:59.213
  • "yeah."
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  • "are you positive?"
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  • "i did it myself.
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  • I didn't delegate it.
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  • It wasn't done digitally.
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  • I did it myself."
  • 00:20:06.721 --> 00:20:09.257
  • And the message that god gives to joshua is, "i myself will be
  • 00:20:09.257 --> 00:20:13.761
  • With you."
  • 00:20:13.761 --> 00:20:16.330
  • Now as wonderful as that is, "i would submit to you," it's not
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  • The answer i would have preferred had i been joshua.
  • 00:20:19.233 --> 00:20:24.572
  • I would have preferred god to say, "i will do it myself."
  • 00:20:24.572 --> 00:20:32.013
  • Remember the line we've looked at it with moses quite a bit in
  • 00:20:32.013 --> 00:20:34.081
  • Exodus 3 where god said, "i've heard the cries of my people,
  • 00:20:34.081 --> 00:20:37.351
  • I've seen their suffering and i've come down to deliver them."
  • 00:20:37.351 --> 00:20:42.123
  • And up until that point, moses is like, "yes."
  • 00:20:42.123 --> 00:20:44.892
  • And then god pivots and he says, "go, now i'm sending you."
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  • And that's when the debate breaks out.
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  • That's when the debate breaks out for all of us.
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  • And when god is commissioning joshua in this passage, it said
  • 00:20:54.402 --> 00:20:57.838
  • The lord gave joshua this command to be strong and
  • 00:20:57.838 --> 00:21:00.841
  • Courageous, "you will bring the israelites into the land i
  • 00:21:00.841 --> 00:21:04.445
  • Promised them, and i myself will be with you."
  • 00:21:04.445 --> 00:21:11.419
  • Well i mean, it's good news, kinda.
  • 00:21:11.419 --> 00:21:16.424
  • I mean, god is emphatically asserting joshua, "you're not
  • 00:21:16.424 --> 00:21:20.695
  • Going alone.
  • 00:21:20.695 --> 00:21:22.029
  • I will be with you."
  • 00:21:22.029 --> 00:21:24.165
  • But he's also saying to joshua, "you bring these people in."
  • 00:21:24.165 --> 00:21:30.738
  • I think it's a very poignant moment for us.
  • 00:21:30.738 --> 00:21:33.641
  • Many of us have been praying for change in moral behaviors and
  • 00:21:33.641 --> 00:21:37.311
  • Trends and attitudes in education and what's being
  • 00:21:37.311 --> 00:21:40.781
  • Taught to our children and how we're being led and how marriage
  • 00:21:40.781 --> 00:21:43.951
  • Is defined and human sexuality and all these things and we want
  • 00:21:43.951 --> 00:21:47.922
  • Somebody somewhere to do something.
  • 00:21:47.922 --> 00:21:51.959
  • And i believe god is still in the business of saying, "i'm
  • 00:21:51.959 --> 00:21:55.563
  • Sending you.
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  • Oh no, wait a minute.
  • 00:21:57.431 --> 00:21:59.333
  • I'll be with you.
  • 00:21:59.333 --> 00:22:01.969
  • But i need you to do something."
  • 00:22:01.969 --> 00:22:04.505
  • Are you willing?
  • 00:22:04.505 --> 00:22:06.707
  • I think it's a component of breakthroughs.
  • 00:22:06.707 --> 00:22:10.010
  • Joshua chapter 1, joshua was getting his instructions again,
  • 00:22:10.010 --> 00:22:16.150
  • "be strong and courageous, because you will lead these
  • 00:22:16.150 --> 00:22:18.319
  • People to inherit the land i swore to their forefathers to
  • 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:20.921
  • Give them.
  • 00:22:20.921 --> 00:22:22.289
  • 'be strong and very courageous.
  • 00:22:22.289 --> 00:22:23.858
  • Be careful to obey all the law my servant moses gave you; don't
  • 00:22:23.858 --> 00:22:26.994
  • Turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be
  • 00:22:26.994 --> 00:22:29.230
  • Successful wherever you go.
  • 00:22:29.230 --> 00:22:31.098
  • Don't let this book of the law depart from your mouth; meditate
  • 00:22:31.098 --> 00:22:33.601
  • On it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything
  • 00:22:33.601 --> 00:22:36.270
  • Written in it.
  • 00:22:36.270 --> 00:22:37.605
  • Then you'll be prosperous and successful.
  • 00:22:37.605 --> 00:22:39.840
  • Have i not commanded you?
  • 00:22:39.840 --> 00:22:41.342
  • Be strong and courageous."'
  • 00:22:41.342 --> 00:22:43.944
  • If you're counting, that's the 3rd time in this passage.
  • 00:22:43.944 --> 00:22:48.082
  • The message is given to joshua over half a dozen times.
  • 00:22:48.082 --> 00:22:52.319
  • Be strong and courageous.
  • 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:53.687
  • You know enough about biblical interpretation.
  • 00:22:53.687 --> 00:22:55.456
  • If god says to you, "be strong and courageous," how do
  • 00:22:55.456 --> 00:22:57.892
  • You feel?
  • 00:22:57.892 --> 00:23:00.861
  • Weak, inadequate, and frightened.
  • 00:23:00.861 --> 00:23:04.632
  • If you were filled with confidence, god wouldn't say be
  • 00:23:04.632 --> 00:23:07.768
  • Strong and courageous.
  • 00:23:07.768 --> 00:23:10.538
  • If you're filled with an overwhelming sense of inadequacy
  • 00:23:10.538 --> 00:23:15.142
  • And you're frightened, god will say, "you're gonna need to be
  • 00:23:15.142 --> 00:23:17.311
  • Strong and courageous."
  • 00:23:17.311 --> 00:23:21.015
  • "don't be terrified; don't be discouraged," "joshua, you
  • 00:23:21.015 --> 00:23:25.586
  • Look terrified.
  • 00:23:25.586 --> 00:23:28.456
  • You're a mess, son.
  • 00:23:28.456 --> 00:23:29.790
  • Are you discouraged?
  • 00:23:29.790 --> 00:23:31.158
  • Don't be discouraged."
  • 00:23:31.158 --> 00:23:32.960
  • "for the lord your god will be with you wherever you go."
  • 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:36.263
  • He's already said it, "i myself will be with you."
  • 00:23:36.263 --> 00:23:39.967
  • It has to be restated, reasserted.
  • 00:23:39.967 --> 00:23:42.803
  • Difficult assignments are not picked up glibly.
  • 00:23:42.803 --> 00:23:49.243
  • Christians, we should work to bring better alignment to how we
  • 00:23:49.243 --> 00:23:54.215
  • Share our stories because when we walk through difficult places
  • 00:23:54.215 --> 00:23:58.385
  • And we take those first steps of cooperating with the lord, in my
  • 00:23:58.385 --> 00:24:02.690
  • Life, i haven't usually taken them with great confidence and
  • 00:24:02.690 --> 00:24:05.426
  • Glee and shouts of joy.
  • 00:24:05.426 --> 00:24:09.363
  • I've taken them rather hesitantly.
  • 00:24:09.363 --> 00:24:13.400
  • I said, "lord, i wanna follow you, but this seems like a hard
  • 00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:18.105
  • Way to go."
  • 00:24:18.105 --> 00:24:22.476
  • God makes a series of statements to joshua.
  • 00:24:22.476 --> 00:24:24.478
  • He said, "you'll lead these people."
  • 00:24:24.478 --> 00:24:26.780
  • And then he tells him there's some things he's gonna have to
  • 00:24:26.780 --> 00:24:28.749
  • Do, "you're gonna have to be strong and very courageous."
  • 00:24:28.749 --> 00:24:32.052
  • Are you ready for that?
  • 00:24:32.052 --> 00:24:33.954
  • Are you ready to have to demonstrate strength and great
  • 00:24:33.954 --> 00:24:36.991
  • Courage for the purposes of god to break forth in
  • 00:24:36.991 --> 00:24:39.493
  • Our generation?
  • 00:24:39.493 --> 00:24:41.662
  • We want other people to be courageous.
  • 00:24:41.662 --> 00:24:44.498
  • We want other people to step up.
  • 00:24:44.498 --> 00:24:47.868
  • We've been saying for a long time now.
  • 00:24:47.868 --> 00:24:49.403
  • This has to start at our kitchen tables and our holiday tables
  • 00:24:49.403 --> 00:24:52.673
  • And then with the tables where we gather with our peer groups
  • 00:24:52.673 --> 00:24:55.075
  • And our friends.
  • 00:24:55.075 --> 00:24:56.977
  • Option 2, we're willing to tell the truth in those
  • 00:24:56.977 --> 00:24:59.113
  • Expanding circles.
  • 00:24:59.113 --> 00:25:00.814
  • Why should you expect somebody else to speak the truth in a
  • 00:25:00.814 --> 00:25:03.350
  • Broader way?
  • 00:25:03.350 --> 00:25:05.619
  • If we hide from the conflict, the disruption, the awkwardness
  • 00:25:05.619 --> 00:25:09.123
  • Of telling the truth to the people that we're doing life
  • 00:25:09.123 --> 00:25:11.592
  • With, why should we imagine someone should go bear the
  • 00:25:11.592 --> 00:25:15.529
  • Weight of telling the truth in a broader way?
  • 00:25:15.529 --> 00:25:19.934
  • Be strong and courageous.
  • 00:25:19.934 --> 00:25:22.670
  • "be careful to obey all the law.
  • 00:25:22.670 --> 00:25:25.706
  • Don't let this book of the law depart from your mouth; meditate
  • 00:25:25.706 --> 00:25:29.376
  • On it day and night.
  • 00:25:29.376 --> 00:25:31.745
  • Do not be terrified."
  • 00:25:31.745 --> 00:25:33.981
  • There's a theme, do not be discouraged.
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  • Allen: i want to take a minute to pray before we go.
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  • Father, i thank you that you love us.
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  • I thank you that you, that in your great mercy and compassion,
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  • You have made a way for us to be at peace with the creator of
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  • All things.
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  • That you're not angry with us, that you are not resentful of
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  • Us, that you have welcomed us into your kingdom and made peace
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  • With us through jesus christ.
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  • I thank you for that today.
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  • Nothing's hidden from you, no part of our past, no thought
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  • Within us, and yet you love us.
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  • May that love grow in us every day and bring a boldness and a
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  • Courage within us to face the challenges before us, in jesus
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  • Name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: allen jackson ministries was created to strengthen
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  • The church.
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  • With your help, we've been able to take some steps in that
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  • Direction, but we're more determined than ever to make an
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  • Impact in our world.
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  • We have some invitations internationally to step into
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  • Some war-torn countries, into israel and ukraine, to help
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  • Strengthen the church there.
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  • We plan to respond to that.
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  • But as importantly in this nation, folks, business as usual
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  • Isn't gonna get this done.
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  • We can't be timid and sit in our churches, and have polite bible
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  • Studies and sing our favorite choruses.
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  • We've got to take the truth into the public square, a biblical
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  • Worldview back into the midst of our culture.
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  • We're creating tools to help you do that in your home, in your
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  • Church, in your community,
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  • Bible studies, publishing books, content that we can share
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  • With you.
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  • It's time for the church to be the church.
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  • We have an advocacy for jesus of nazareth that has to be heard in
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  • This season or our children and grandchildren will pay
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  • The price.
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  • Will you make an investment in this ministry to make 2026 the
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  • Most fruitful year we've ever had together?
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  • Thank you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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