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Allen Jackson - Immovable Barriers (Part 2)

December 19, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Immovable Barriers (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Immovable Barriers (Part 2) | December 19, 2025
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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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  • Allen: some of you know the order of march as
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  • It unfolds.
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  • They crossed the jordan river and god piles up the water in a
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  • Manner similar to what happened at the red sea.
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  • They paused for a time of consecration and physical
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  • Preparation before they begin the conquest.
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  • You know that's an offensive term.
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  • In liberal theological settings, the time when the hebrew people
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  • Move into the land that flows with milk and honey, the
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  • Promised land, traditionally, that's been referred to, in
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  • Biblical scholarship as, the conquest.
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  • Well, in the current era of political correctness, it's
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  • Inappropriate that the hebrew people would conquer the land.
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  • But it's very clearly the biblical narrative.
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  • And there are some--it's almost comical, the gymnastics that
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  • Scholars will go to to try to turn that story around to say
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  • That's not what happened at all.
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  • But in order for them to occupy their inheritance, they had to
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  • Displace people.
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  • And i don't believe you and i will occupy the fullness of what
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  • God has for us until we have the strength, and the courage, and
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  • The determination, and the awareness of the promise of god
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  • To displace the principalities and powers that occupy those
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  • Places and intend to diminish, hinder, and restrict the
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  • Purposes of god.
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  • The breakthroughs that we pray for, the breakthroughs that we
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  • Seek, often come from spiritual victories.
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  • We're gonna look at it in a moment.
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  • The bible says that, "we're, in a wrestling match, not with
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  • Persons with bodies but with principalities, and powers, and
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  • Spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places."
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  • And in the same way that the former slaves of egypt had to
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  • Face an adversary and they felt threatened, and intimidated, and
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  • Frightened by the adversary, we're going to face those same
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  • Adversarial positions.
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  • They may look like people, or organizations, or institutions,
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  • Or challenges, but behind them, i believe, the real force
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  • Is spiritual.
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  • So, a church without a dependence upon the spirit of
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  • God, without understanding the authority of the name of jesus,
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  • Or the power of his shed blood, is inept in the face of those
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  • Spiritual forces of darkness.
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  • We have to change.
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  • Chapter 5, joshua's accepted the assignment.
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  • They've crossed the jordan, they prepared themselves.
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  • "when joshua was near jericho, he looked up and he saw a man."
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  • He's gone to scout jericho.
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  • It's the first city when you cross the jordan river.
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  • "he saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in
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  • His hand.
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  • And joshua went up to him and asked, 'are you for us or for
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  • Our enemies?'
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  • And he replied, 'neither.
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  • But as commander of the army of the lord i have now come.'
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  • Then joshua fell face down to the ground in reverence.
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  • He said, 'what message does my lord have for his servant?'
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  • The commander of the lord's army replied, 'take off your sandals,
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  • For the place where you're standing is holy.'
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  • And joshua did so."
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  • My opinion, joshua has an encounter with a
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  • Pre-incarnate jesus.
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  • But he asks the wrong question.
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  • "are you for me or against me?"
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  • It's all joshua can think about.
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  • There's a battle that's imminent.
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  • There's a very heavily fortified city and he lacks the resources
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  • Or the technology to defeat it.
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  • And so, he's doing reconnaissance and he meets a
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  • Man with a sword drawn, and he asks the question that i think
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  • Most of us would ask.
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  • I would certainly would have been tempted to ask, "are you
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  • For me or against me?"
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  • And he said, "that's not really relevant.
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  • You're on holy ground."
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  • And joshua, remember his training.
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  • He's had decades with moses.
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  • He knows something about holy ground, and the presence of the
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  • Lord, and the tent of meeting, and when god speaks to
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  • The people.
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  • And joshua puts his face in the dirt.
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  • And at that point, i think the victory really has
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  • Probably--remember what god has promised him multiple times, he
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  • Said, "i myself will go with you."
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  • And now he meets the lord.
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  • If i'm with you, it doesn't matter who's against you.
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  • See, the church has lost sight of this.
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  • I keep saying to you that our problem is not fundamentally
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  • Political, it's spiritual.
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  • It's not about a majority, it's about the authority of the truth
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  • Of god and when we submit ourselves to god's truth.
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  • If we will, we will see breakthroughs from god like
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  • Nothing we've ever experienced in our lives.
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  • I'm convinced of that.
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  • Chapter 6, "jericho was tightly shut up because of
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  • The israelites.
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  • No one went in--no one went out and no one came in."
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  • The primary means of defense of major population centers at that
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  • Point in time, was to build a wall around them.
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  • And the more imposing the wall, the greater the defenses.
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  • The modern equivalent would be like an iron dome that
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  • Israel has.
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  • It's a shield put around the people.
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  • And jericho is known for its imposing walls.
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  • And they recognized the threat, the plains around jericho 'cause
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  • It's a great plain when you cross the jordan river.
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  • The plains are filled with the tribes of israel.
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  • They're camping around the city.
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  • It's got to be terrifying to the people inside jericho.
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  • And the israelites are equally stomped because they have no
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  • Means of breaching the defenses of the city.
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  • So, the city's locked, nobody's coming in or going out, and the
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  • Lord said to joshua, "i have delivered jericho into your
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  • Hands, along with its king and its fighting men."
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  • Well, that's good news.
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  • A little further explanation would be helpful.
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  • We have no means of overcoming them.
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  • And so, god gives the instructions.
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  • I suspect most of you know these.
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  • "march around the city once with all the armed men.
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  • Do this for six days.
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  • Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams's horns in the
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  • Front of the ark.
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  • On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the
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  • Priest blowing the trumpets.
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  • And when you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have
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  • All the people give a loud shout.
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  • And the wall of the city will collapse and the people will go
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  • Up, and every man straight in."
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  • Oh, sure.
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  • Makes perfect sense.
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  • We've seen lots of victories when people shout and
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  • Blow trumpets.
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  • Now, this is joshua's first military campaign in moses's
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  • Absence.
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  • Now, it's true the jordan river has been stopped and
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  • They crossed.
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  • And they've had a time of preparation for this, but this
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  • Is the first military encounter.
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  • And the instructions god's gives him are, get everybody together
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  • And we're gonna march around town once a day.
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  • And on the seventh day we're gonna march around seven times.
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  • Now, you know we read that and go, "well that's no problem."
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  • Well, i would wanna submit to you, maybe that's not as easy as
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  • It sounds.
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  • And what do you know about this group of people joshua
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  • Was leading?
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  • On a scale of compliance, with zero being very compliant and
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  • Ten being no way, no how.
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  • This group is what, a 12?
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  • God finally got so angry at their parents that he said, "you
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  • Could just die in the desert.
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  • I'm done with you."
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  • And so, joshua gets to go to the people.
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  • God didn't announce this to the people, joshua did.
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  • He said, "here's our strategy.
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  • Tomorrow we're gonna march around the city.
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  • In absolute silence."
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  • Maybe day one, you could get some percentage of people.
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  • Everybody would take a march around, then you'd stop
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  • And wait.
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  • Morning number two, "what are we gonna do today, joshua?"
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  • "we're gonna march around the city."
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  • I suspect there's still a few people willing to go.
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  • By the sixth day--and we think there could have been some, just
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  • Maybe, perhaps, slight chance a person or two was unhappy with
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  • Joshua's leadership.
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  • "i got blisters.
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  • What did we do?
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  • Come to take a hike?
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  • Let's at least change the path."
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  • Until you get to day seven.
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  • "here's the good news, today, we're gonna march around
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  • Seven times."
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  • "moses picked you?
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  • I wasn't there.
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  • Who else voted?"
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  • And at the end of the seventh lap around the city, shout and
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  • Blow your trumpets.
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  • And i promise you there was resistance.
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  • It's just impossible that everybody was compliant.
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  • In fact, we will know in the next chapters, some weren't
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  • Compliant and the judgment of god comes for the lack
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  • Of compliance.
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  • But when the people cooperate with joshua's instructions, the
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  • Walls of the city fall outward.
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  • Illogical.
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  • And there's a tremendous victory.
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  • It's a breakthrough.
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  • A very difficult--if you're leading that initiative, i
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  • Promise you, those first days are very difficult days.
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  • God, why couldn't we just walk seven laps on day one and the
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  • Walls fall?
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  • I mean, i know we can talk about psychological warfare and the
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  • People are being intimidated.
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  • If you're the one marching, i think that's a tough
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  • Talking point.
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  • "god, couldn't you just make the walls collapse today?"
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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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  • And wherever god opens the door.
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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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  • A church that's vibrant and vital.
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  • And to do that we've got to make an investment.
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  • Will you give generously to what we're doing
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  • At allen jackson ministries?
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  • Your partnership will make 2026 the most fruitful year
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  • We've ever known.
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  • Thank you.
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  • Female announcer: at allen jackson ministries
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  • We're committed to strengthening the church
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  • Allen: in my imagination, there's nothing about this
  • 00:14:16.104 --> 00:14:18.006
  • Scenario that is simple.
  • 00:14:18.006 --> 00:14:20.241
  • So, i brought you some breakthrough hacks, lessons.
  • 00:14:20.241 --> 00:14:25.146
  • First one is pretty--i mean, these aren't complicated,
  • 00:14:25.146 --> 00:14:27.916
  • They're pretty obvious, but breakthroughs emerge
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  • Through obedience.
  • 00:14:31.152 --> 00:14:32.520
  • Joshua had to do what the lord said.
  • 00:14:32.520 --> 00:14:35.023
  • The walls didn't collapse because of some violent storm or
  • 00:14:35.023 --> 00:14:37.692
  • A tornado.
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  • It's not like some circumstance and joshua stood up and
  • 00:14:39.060 --> 00:14:41.329
  • Screamed, "god did it."
  • 00:14:41.329 --> 00:14:44.766
  • It took some serious obedience on his part and the rest of
  • 00:14:44.766 --> 00:14:49.170
  • Those that were with him.
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  • Victory was on the other side of days of obedience.
  • 00:14:52.173 --> 00:14:54.842
  • And you'll have to think about that a little bit.
  • 00:14:54.842 --> 00:14:59.047
  • Most of us wanna bargain with the lord.
  • 00:14:59.047 --> 00:15:00.515
  • "you know, i would be more committed to you if you would
  • 00:15:00.515 --> 00:15:02.550
  • Bring me a breakthrough.
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  • I would raise the bar on my compliance with the truth that i
  • 00:15:05.219 --> 00:15:09.791
  • Know if you would do what i want."
  • 00:15:09.791 --> 00:15:11.559
  • We bargain with god in this some form of this fashion, right?
  • 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:15.563
  • "god, if you'll do what i want."
  • 00:15:15.563 --> 00:15:20.601
  • And the breakthroughs are on the other side of obedience.
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  • It's the only way we can learn.
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  • So, my suggestion is if you're willfully noncompliant, if you
  • 00:15:28.142 --> 00:15:34.182
  • Know truth that you're not implementing, just quietly say
  • 00:15:34.182 --> 00:15:38.219
  • To the lord, "i'm sorry," and begin to choose a path that
  • 00:15:38.219 --> 00:15:41.556
  • Moves you towards the greatest possible compliance.
  • 00:15:41.556 --> 00:15:46.394
  • Stop offering excuses.
  • 00:15:46.394 --> 00:15:49.030
  • The second breakthrough hack, is breakthrough required many
  • 00:15:49.030 --> 00:15:53.701
  • Expressions of faith.
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  • It wasn't just joshua that had to march, the priest had to
  • 00:15:55.803 --> 00:15:59.107
  • March, armed men had to march, the people had to march.
  • 00:15:59.107 --> 00:16:03.711
  • Everybody was given an assignment.
  • 00:16:03.711 --> 00:16:08.149
  • We have been highly indoctrinated on a personal
  • 00:16:08.149 --> 00:16:10.852
  • Faith and personal salvation, i believe those things, but there
  • 00:16:10.852 --> 00:16:14.522
  • Are some things god accomplishes through the community that
  • 00:16:14.522 --> 00:16:19.293
  • Require us to work together, to help one another.
  • 00:16:19.293 --> 00:16:24.432
  • We have all these passages in scripture where it says,
  • 00:16:24.432 --> 00:16:27.235
  • "encourage one another daily.
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  • Don't grumble.
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  • Help one another."
  • 00:16:33.007 --> 00:16:35.143
  • Recognize that all the parts of the body aren't the same.
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  • Some are more honorable and some are less honorable.
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  • Some have different strengths.
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  • Help one another, we're all parts of the same body.
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  • We just blow past all of those and go, "no, no, this is pretty
  • 00:16:45.486 --> 00:16:48.122
  • Much an individual journey."
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  • Not really.
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  • We only find maturity together.
  • 00:16:52.727 --> 00:16:54.462
  • Everybody marched.
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  • The third one is not quite as obvious, but i think
  • 00:16:57.198 --> 00:16:59.767
  • It's significant.
  • 00:16:59.767 --> 00:17:01.636
  • God told joshua to tell the people, "you be quiet while
  • 00:17:01.636 --> 00:17:04.906
  • We walk.
  • 00:17:04.906 --> 00:17:06.274
  • Six days, no words."
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  • Do you play the quiet game with your kids in the car or--how
  • 00:17:12.146 --> 00:17:16.317
  • Long does that last?
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  • Not long.
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  • Psalm 46 and verse 10 says, "be still and know that i'm god."
  • 00:17:20.721 --> 00:17:24.225
  • It's not in your notes, but it is in the book.
  • 00:17:24.225 --> 00:17:27.295
  • "be still and know that i'm god," psalm 46:10, "i will be
  • 00:17:27.295 --> 00:17:30.698
  • Exalted among the nations."
  • 00:17:30.698 --> 00:17:33.868
  • I think there are times when god says, "you just have to
  • 00:17:33.868 --> 00:17:36.237
  • Be silent."
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  • You wanna defend yourself, in the face of something that's
  • 00:17:37.572 --> 00:17:41.976
  • Not true.
  • 00:17:41.976 --> 00:17:44.045
  • Or you wanna assault your adversary.
  • 00:17:44.045 --> 00:17:47.648
  • You know, in the current world that we--it's about
  • 00:17:47.648 --> 00:17:49.650
  • Trash talking.
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  • It's part of most competition.
  • 00:17:52.186 --> 00:17:55.890
  • And i think when we understand that we're in a conflict with
  • 00:17:55.890 --> 00:17:59.527
  • Spiritual forces, and principalities, and power,
  • 00:17:59.527 --> 00:18:02.096
  • Sometimes we're inclined to be filled with some trash talking
  • 00:18:02.096 --> 00:18:05.266
  • And i think we would gain something if we would learn to
  • 00:18:05.266 --> 00:18:07.468
  • Be still, and know the power of god.
  • 00:18:07.468 --> 00:18:12.006
  • Let the expressions of god's power tell the story.
  • 00:18:12.006 --> 00:18:16.911
  • The next breakthrough hack to me was breakthroughs are often
  • 00:18:16.911 --> 00:18:20.047
  • Unique expressions of god's power.
  • 00:18:20.047 --> 00:18:23.017
  • Joshua nor any of the people who'd left egypt, they've seen
  • 00:18:23.017 --> 00:18:25.486
  • All the plagues, they've seen the red sea parted and the
  • 00:18:25.486 --> 00:18:28.189
  • Jordan river stopped up.
  • 00:18:28.189 --> 00:18:29.824
  • They've eaten manna every day.
  • 00:18:29.824 --> 00:18:32.527
  • They've seen water come out of a rock in the middle of
  • 00:18:32.527 --> 00:18:34.695
  • The desert.
  • 00:18:34.695 --> 00:18:36.063
  • They've seen a whole nation of people with no sick
  • 00:18:36.063 --> 00:18:38.099
  • Amongst them.
  • 00:18:38.099 --> 00:18:39.433
  • They've seen some supernatural things, but they've never seen
  • 00:18:39.433 --> 00:18:41.302
  • The walls on a walled city collapse.
  • 00:18:41.302 --> 00:18:44.772
  • So, this wasn't something built from their experience.
  • 00:18:44.772 --> 00:18:48.476
  • And real breakthroughs, the challenging breakthroughs of our
  • 00:18:48.476 --> 00:18:51.245
  • Lives are those places where we're asking god to do something
  • 00:18:51.245 --> 00:18:53.981
  • That isn't a part of our portfolio.
  • 00:18:53.981 --> 00:18:57.685
  • That's why it's harder to follow the lord.
  • 00:18:57.685 --> 00:18:59.153
  • It's why we're more filled with fear and dread.
  • 00:18:59.153 --> 00:19:02.089
  • It's why god says you're gonna have to be strong and courageous
  • 00:19:02.089 --> 00:19:04.292
  • On this.
  • 00:19:04.292 --> 00:19:05.626
  • You haven't done this one before.
  • 00:19:05.626 --> 00:19:07.094
  • "and--but god, couldn't you just do it in a way i've done?"
  • 00:19:07.094 --> 00:19:10.164
  • You know, when we have a god experience, we like to take that
  • 00:19:10.164 --> 00:19:12.200
  • God experience and extrapolate it under the rest of our lives.
  • 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:14.936
  • This is how god moves.
  • 00:19:14.936 --> 00:19:19.173
  • Years ago when i was a boy, there was a lady that we knew
  • 00:19:19.173 --> 00:19:22.410
  • That the lord met her one morning while she was
  • 00:19:22.410 --> 00:19:25.213
  • Getting dressed.
  • 00:19:25.213 --> 00:19:27.181
  • We lived in south florida and the houses didn't have adequate
  • 00:19:27.181 --> 00:19:29.517
  • Heat so if it was cold, she would turn on the oven and open
  • 00:19:29.517 --> 00:19:32.119
  • The oven door.
  • 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:33.654
  • And while she was praying in front of the open oven door, the
  • 00:19:33.654 --> 00:19:36.057
  • Lord met her in a pretty powerful way.
  • 00:19:36.057 --> 00:19:39.961
  • So, guess what she did when she had somebody who needed to
  • 00:19:39.961 --> 00:19:41.996
  • God event?
  • 00:19:41.996 --> 00:19:45.366
  • She'd go turn on the oven and open the doors, they were gonna
  • 00:19:45.366 --> 00:19:47.401
  • Stand here and pray.
  • 00:19:47.401 --> 00:19:51.539
  • As if the electric oven--i mean it's very understandable that
  • 00:19:51.539 --> 00:19:56.611
  • One's a little easier to smile at, but all of us want to put
  • 00:19:56.611 --> 00:20:00.348
  • God into the profile of the experience we've had and say,
  • 00:20:00.348 --> 00:20:03.551
  • "this is how god moves."
  • 00:20:03.551 --> 00:20:06.254
  • And the challenge in this particular breakthrough is
  • 00:20:06.254 --> 00:20:09.023
  • Nobody, they've got a portfolio filled with more miracles than
  • 00:20:09.023 --> 00:20:11.859
  • Any generation in history.
  • 00:20:11.859 --> 00:20:15.830
  • But nothing in their experience portfolio suggests what god's
  • 00:20:15.830 --> 00:20:19.867
  • About to do.
  • 00:20:19.867 --> 00:20:22.903
  • And you and i need breakthroughs we haven't seen before,
  • 00:20:22.903 --> 00:20:25.206
  • Expressions of his power that are unique.
  • 00:20:25.206 --> 00:20:28.109
  • And it isn't gonna be the normative pattern.
  • 00:20:28.109 --> 00:20:30.144
  • Not all the walls in the canaanite cities are going
  • 00:20:30.144 --> 00:20:32.113
  • To collapse.
  • 00:20:32.113 --> 00:20:34.315
  • Some are gonna take very pitched battles.
  • 00:20:34.315 --> 00:20:37.451
  • Not all the cities are gonna be conquered as easily as jericho.
  • 00:20:37.451 --> 00:20:41.789
  • Because god remains at the center of the initiative.
  • 00:20:41.789 --> 00:20:44.692
  • It's not a formula for victory, it's a person that brings
  • 00:20:44.692 --> 00:20:48.229
  • The victory.
  • 00:20:48.229 --> 00:20:50.464
  • And we serve at his pleasure.
  • 00:20:50.464 --> 00:20:56.170
  • And finally, i would submit to you from this lesson and we
  • 00:20:56.170 --> 00:20:58.706
  • Didn't read it all, but some of you know the rest of the story,
  • 00:20:58.706 --> 00:21:01.809
  • That our response to the breakthrough is what truly
  • 00:21:01.809 --> 00:21:06.480
  • Impacts our future.
  • 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:07.848
  • It's not just what god does, it's our response to that.
  • 00:21:07.848 --> 00:21:10.751
  • I can't tell you how many people i have done life with and god
  • 00:21:10.751 --> 00:21:15.323
  • Has intervened in their lives with supernatural healings, with
  • 00:21:15.323 --> 00:21:18.693
  • Miracles, with remarkable things.
  • 00:21:18.693 --> 00:21:21.329
  • And they walk through those seasons and step back into their
  • 00:21:21.329 --> 00:21:24.699
  • Lives and patterns of dishonoring the lord.
  • 00:21:24.699 --> 00:21:30.971
  • It's your response to god on the other side of the breakthrough
  • 00:21:30.971 --> 00:21:35.943
  • That truly impacts our future.
  • 00:21:35.943 --> 00:21:37.912
  • The breakthrough is not an end in itself, it's a doorway into a
  • 00:21:37.912 --> 00:21:41.549
  • Different kind of a relationship.
  • 00:21:41.549 --> 00:21:43.617
  • Do you remember the next city that the hebrews faced?
  • 00:21:43.617 --> 00:21:49.357
  • It's a little two-letter city, it's called ai.
  • 00:21:49.357 --> 00:21:51.859
  • It's spelled, a-i, joshua, son of nun, ai, this is the--come
  • 00:21:51.859 --> 00:22:01.035
  • On, stay with me.
  • 00:22:01.035 --> 00:22:03.237
  • It was a much smaller city, much less, not nearly as well
  • 00:22:03.237 --> 00:22:07.541
  • Defended, and the israelites were defeated.
  • 00:22:07.541 --> 00:22:11.712
  • Because some of them had not followed the instructions that
  • 00:22:11.712 --> 00:22:14.682
  • Joshua had given them, they had taken the plunder from jericho.
  • 00:22:14.682 --> 00:22:20.221
  • You see, our responses to the breakthroughs matter.
  • 00:22:20.221 --> 00:22:24.091
  • It isn't just that i want my way, and i'm demanding that god
  • 00:22:24.091 --> 00:22:27.461
  • Do a miracle.
  • 00:22:27.461 --> 00:22:28.996
  • We're saying to the lord god, "i need to know you in a new way.
  • 00:22:28.996 --> 00:22:31.565
  • I need to experience you in a new way, and as i do that, i
  • 00:22:31.565 --> 00:22:35.069
  • Wanna walk with you in a new way."
  • 00:22:35.069 --> 00:22:37.838
  • Now we're beginning to assimilate the components that
  • 00:22:37.838 --> 00:22:41.008
  • Cause god to be engaged in our lives more fully than we've
  • 00:22:41.008 --> 00:22:43.878
  • Known him before.
  • 00:22:43.878 --> 00:22:47.348
  • I'll close with ephesians 6, this isn't just some old
  • 00:22:47.348 --> 00:22:50.584
  • Testament hebrew bible concept.
  • 00:22:50.584 --> 00:22:53.487
  • In ephesians 6, the language is very similar to what we've been
  • 00:22:53.487 --> 00:22:56.424
  • Reading about joshua's commissioning.
  • 00:22:56.424 --> 00:22:59.126
  • "be strong in the lord and in his mighty power."
  • 00:22:59.126 --> 00:23:01.796
  • If you're saying that to a group of people, what can you surmise?
  • 00:23:01.796 --> 00:23:06.400
  • They're weak in the lord and don't know much about his
  • 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:09.036
  • Mighty power.
  • 00:23:09.036 --> 00:23:14.074
  • "be strong in the lord and in his mighty power.
  • 00:23:14.074 --> 00:23:16.177
  • Put on the full armor of god so that you can take your stand
  • 00:23:16.177 --> 00:23:20.047
  • Against the devil's scheme."
  • 00:23:20.047 --> 00:23:21.415
  • So, i don't wanna stand against them.
  • 00:23:21.415 --> 00:23:27.154
  • Do you?
  • 00:23:27.154 --> 00:23:29.490
  • I wanna have a victory parade.
  • 00:23:29.490 --> 00:23:32.460
  • I wanna have a triumphal entry.
  • 00:23:32.460 --> 00:23:36.263
  • The assignment is to take our stand.
  • 00:23:36.263 --> 00:23:42.536
  • "for our struggle," it clearly suggests very directly that
  • 00:23:42.536 --> 00:23:47.408
  • We're to engage in a struggle.
  • 00:23:47.408 --> 00:23:50.978
  • "well, i don't wanna struggle.
  • 00:23:50.978 --> 00:23:54.548
  • I wanna celebrate."
  • 00:23:54.548 --> 00:23:57.351
  • Our struggle is not against flesh and blood.
  • 00:23:57.351 --> 00:23:59.353
  • It's not a people problem, "but against rulers, and authorities,
  • 00:23:59.353 --> 00:24:02.456
  • And powers of this dark world, against spiritual forces of evil
  • 00:24:02.456 --> 00:24:05.359
  • In the heavenly realms.
  • 00:24:05.359 --> 00:24:07.061
  • Put on the full armor of god, so that when the day of evil
  • 00:24:07.061 --> 00:24:12.199
  • Comes," it's coming.
  • 00:24:12.199 --> 00:24:13.567
  • It doesn't say, "if it comes."
  • 00:24:13.567 --> 00:24:16.537
  • "when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your
  • 00:24:16.537 --> 00:24:19.373
  • Ground, and after you've done everything, after you've done
  • 00:24:19.373 --> 00:24:24.712
  • Everything you know to do, you stand there."
  • 00:24:24.712 --> 00:24:32.386
  • Sounds a lot like joshua to me.
  • 00:24:32.386 --> 00:24:35.523
  • "i'm with you.
  • 00:24:35.523 --> 00:24:37.525
  • I won't leave you or forsake you.
  • 00:24:37.525 --> 00:24:40.394
  • My abiding presence is within you."
  • 00:24:40.394 --> 00:24:42.229
  • "if i leave, i'll send you another comforter.
  • 00:24:42.229 --> 00:24:44.899
  • He'll be with you always.
  • 00:24:44.899 --> 00:24:47.401
  • He'll take what's to the father's and what's mine and
  • 00:24:47.401 --> 00:24:49.970
  • Make it known to you.
  • 00:24:49.970 --> 00:24:51.705
  • He'll remind you of the things you need to know.
  • 00:24:51.705 --> 00:24:55.376
  • Wait until you're baptized in the spirit, you'll be empowered
  • 00:24:55.376 --> 00:24:58.612
  • To be witnesses for me in jerusalem, and judea, and
  • 00:24:58.612 --> 00:25:01.949
  • Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
  • 00:25:01.949 --> 00:25:11.525
  • "be strong in the lord and in his mighty power."
  • 00:25:11.525 --> 00:25:15.996
  • Stand against all the attacks of the evil one.
  • 00:25:15.996 --> 00:25:23.837
  • I brought you a prayer.
  • 00:25:23.837 --> 00:25:25.973
  • It's a breakthrough prayer.
  • 00:25:25.973 --> 00:25:28.008
  • Why don't you stand with me we'll read it together.
  • 00:25:28.008 --> 00:25:34.982
  • Heavenly father, i stand in your strength and serve at
  • 00:25:38.052 --> 00:25:42.856
  • Your pleasure.
  • 00:25:42.856 --> 00:25:44.358
  • You are my fortress and my deliverer.
  • 00:25:44.358 --> 00:25:47.561
  • May the spirit of god give me an understanding heart and the
  • 00:25:47.561 --> 00:25:51.899
  • Boldness needed to complete my assignment.
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  • May the fear of god be more real to me than my fear of anyone
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  • Or anything.
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  • Grant daily full provision for the assignment and deliver me
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  • From evil in jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: allen jackson ministries was created
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  • To strengthen the church.
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  • With your help we've been able to take some steps
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  • In that direction.
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  • We're more determined than ever to make an impact in our world.
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  • We have some invitations internationally
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  • To step into some war-torn countries,
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  • Into israel and ukraine to help strengthen the church there.
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  • We plan to respond to that.
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  • But as importantly in this nation.
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  • Folks, business as usual isn't going to get this done.
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  • We can't be timid and sit in our churches
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  • And have polite bible studies and sing our favorite choruses.
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  • We've got to take the truth into the public square,
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  • A biblical worldview back into the midst of our culture.
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  • We're creating tools to help you do that in your home,
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  • In your 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
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  • Heard in this season or our children and grandchildren
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  • Will pay the price.
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  • Will you make an investment into this ministry to make 2026
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  • The most fruitful year we've ever had together?
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  • Thank you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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