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Allen Jackson - Immovable Barriers (Part 2)

May 10, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Immovable Barriers (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Immovable Barriers (Part 2) | May 10, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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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: hey, "lessons from paul" is a 90-day devotional, some of
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  • My favorite verses that paul wrote, a bit of devotional time,
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  • And then some place to journal.
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  • The goal is to be changed.
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  • We wanna be transformed by the word of god and not just
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  • Informed by it.
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  • Saul of tarsus, a hero of mine, i got to know him as the apostle
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  • Paul, an unrelenting advocate for jesus in the face of
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  • Unyielding persecution.
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  • Folks, that sounds like the world we live in.
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  • "lessons from paul", it'll help you and i be overcomers,
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  • Triumphant in this season in the earth.
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  • You'll enjoy the book.
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  • Female announcer: following jesus isn't always easy, but you
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  • Don't have to walk through it alone.
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  • The same power that transformed paul is available to you today.
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  • "lessons from paul" by pastor allen is a 90-day devotional
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  • Filled with scripture, encouragement, and journaling
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  • Prompts and space to write, helping you apply each day's
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  • Allen: in my imagination, there's nothing about this
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  • Scenario that is simple.
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  • So, i brought you some breakthrough hacks, lessons.
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  • First one is pretty--i mean, these aren't complicated,
  • 00:14:01.757 --> 00:14:04.526
  • They're pretty obvious, but breakthroughs emerge
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  • Through obedience.
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  • Joshua had to do what the lord said.
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  • The walls didn't collapse because of some violent storm or
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  • A tornado.
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  • It's not like some circumstance and joshua stood up and
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  • Screamed, "god did it."
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  • It took some serious obedience on his part and the rest of
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  • Those that were with him.
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  • Victory was on the other side of days of obedience.
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  • And you'll have to think about that a little bit.
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  • Most of us wanna bargain with the lord.
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  • "you know, i would be more committed to you if you would
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  • Bring me a breakthrough.
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  • I would raise the bar on my compliance with the truth that i
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  • Know if you would do what i want."
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  • We bargain with god in this some form of this fashion, right?
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  • "god, if you'll do what i want."
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  • 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
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  • Know truth that you're not implementing, just quietly say
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  • To the lord, "i'm sorry," and begin to choose a path that
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  • Moves you towards the greatest possible compliance.
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  • Stop offering excuses.
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  • The second breakthrough hack, is breakthrough required many
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  • Expressions of faith.
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  • It wasn't just joshua that had to march, the priest had to
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  • March, armed men had to march, the people had to march.
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  • Everybody was given an assignment.
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  • We have been highly indoctrinated on a personal
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  • Faith and personal salvation, i believe those things, but there
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  • Are some things god accomplishes through the community that
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  • Require us to work together, to help one another.
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  • We have all these passages in scripture where it says,
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  • "encourage one another daily.
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  • Don't grumble.
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  • Help one another."
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  • 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
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  • Much an individual journey."
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  • Not really.
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  • We only find maturity together.
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  • Everybody marched.
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  • The third one is not quite as obvious, but i think
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  • It's significant.
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  • God told joshua to tell the people, "you be quiet while
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  • We walk.
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  • Six days, no words."
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  • Do you play the quiet game with your kids in the car or--how
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  • 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."
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  • It's not in your notes, but it is in the book.
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  • "be still and know that i'm god," psalm 46:10, "i will be
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  • Exalted among the nations."
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  • I think there are times when god says, "you just have to
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  • Be silent."
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  • You wanna defend yourself, in the face of something that's
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  • Not true.
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  • Or you wanna assault your adversary.
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  • You know, in the current world that we--it's about
  • 00:17:24.259 --> 00:17:26.261
  • Trash talking.
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  • It's part of most competition.
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  • And i think when we understand that we're in a conflict with
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  • Spiritual forces, and principalities, and power,
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  • Sometimes we're inclined to be filled with some trash talking
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  • And i think we would gain something if we would learn to
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  • Be still, and know the power of god.
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  • Let the expressions of god's power tell the story.
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  • The next breakthrough hack to me was breakthroughs are often
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  • Unique expressions of god's power.
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  • Joshua nor any of the people who'd left egypt, they've seen
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  • All the plagues, they've seen the red sea parted and the
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  • Jordan river stopped up.
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  • They've eaten manna every day.
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  • They've seen water come out of a rock in the middle of
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  • The desert.
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  • They've seen a whole nation of people with no sick
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  • Amongst them.
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  • They've seen some supernatural things, but they've never seen
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  • The walls on a walled city collapse.
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  • So, this wasn't something built from their experience.
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  • And real breakthroughs, the challenging breakthroughs of our
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  • Lives are those places where we're asking god to do something
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  • That isn't a part of our portfolio.
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  • That's why it's harder to follow the lord.
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  • It's why we're more filled with fear and dread.
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  • It's why god says you're gonna have to be strong and courageous
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  • On this.
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  • You haven't done this one before.
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  • "and--but god, couldn't you just do it in a way i've done?"
  • 00:18:43.705 --> 00:18:46.775
  • You know, when we have a god experience, we like to take that
  • 00:18:46.775 --> 00:18:48.810
  • God experience and extrapolate it under the rest of our lives.
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  • This is how god moves.
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  • Years ago when i was a boy, there was a lady that we knew
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  • That the lord met her one morning while she was
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  • Getting dressed.
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  • We lived in south florida and the houses didn't have adequate
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  • Heat so if it was cold, she would turn on the oven and open
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  • The oven door.
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  • And while she was praying in front of the open oven door, the
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  • Lord met her in a pretty powerful way.
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  • So, guess what she did when she had somebody who needed to
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  • God event?
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  • She'd go turn on the oven and open the doors, they were gonna
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  • Stand here and pray.
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  • As if the electric oven--i mean it's very understandable that
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  • One's a little easier to smile at, but all of us want to put
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  • God into the profile of the experience we've had and say,
  • 00:19:36.959 --> 00:19:40.162
  • "this is how god moves."
  • 00:19:40.162 --> 00:19:42.864
  • And the challenge in this particular breakthrough is
  • 00:19:42.864 --> 00:19:45.634
  • Nobody, they've got a portfolio filled with more miracles than
  • 00:19:45.634 --> 00:19:48.470
  • Any generation in history.
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  • But nothing in their experience portfolio suggests what god's
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  • About to do.
  • 00:19:56.478 --> 00:19:59.514
  • And you and i need breakthroughs we haven't seen before,
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  • Expressions of his power that are unique.
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  • And it isn't gonna be the normative pattern.
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  • Not all the walls in the canaanite cities are going
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  • To collapse.
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  • Some are gonna take very pitched battles.
  • 00:20:10.926 --> 00:20:14.062
  • Not all the cities are gonna be conquered as easily as jericho.
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  • Because god remains at the center of the initiative.
  • 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:21.303
  • It's not a formula for victory, it's a person that brings
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  • The victory.
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  • And we serve at his pleasure.
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  • And finally, i would submit to you from this lesson and we
  • 00:20:32.781 --> 00:20:35.317
  • Didn't read it all, but some of you know the rest of the story,
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  • That our response to the breakthrough is what truly
  • 00:20:38.420 --> 00:20:43.091
  • Impacts our future.
  • 00:20:43.091 --> 00:20:44.459
  • It's not just what god does, it's our response to that.
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  • I can't tell you how many people i have done life with and god
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  • Has intervened in their lives with supernatural healings, with
  • 00:20:51.933 --> 00:20:55.304
  • Miracles, with remarkable things.
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  • And they walk through those seasons and step back into their
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  • Lives and patterns of dishonoring the lord.
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  • It's your response to god on the other side of the breakthrough
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  • That truly impacts our future.
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  • The breakthrough is not an end in itself, it's a doorway into a
  • 00:21:14.523 --> 00:21:18.160
  • Different kind of a relationship.
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  • Do you remember the next city that the hebrews faced?
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  • It's a little two-letter city, it's called ai.
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  • It's spelled, a-i, joshua, son of nun, ai, this is the--come
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  • On, stay with me.
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  • It was a much smaller city, much less, not nearly as well
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  • Defended, and the israelites were defeated.
  • 00:21:44.152 --> 00:21:48.323
  • Because some of them had not followed the instructions that
  • 00:21:48.323 --> 00:21:51.293
  • Joshua had given them, they had taken the plunder from jericho.
  • 00:21:51.293 --> 00:21:56.832
  • You see, our responses to the breakthroughs matter.
  • 00:21:56.832 --> 00:22:00.702
  • It isn't just that i want my way, and i'm demanding that god
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  • Do a miracle.
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  • We're saying to the lord god, "i need to know you in a new way.
  • 00:22:05.607 --> 00:22:08.176
  • I need to experience you in a new way, and as i do that, i
  • 00:22:08.176 --> 00:22:11.680
  • Wanna walk with you in a new way."
  • 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:14.449
  • Now we're beginning to assimilate the components that
  • 00:22:14.449 --> 00:22:17.619
  • Cause god to be engaged in our lives more fully than we've
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  • Known him before.
  • 00:22:20.489 --> 00:22:23.959
  • I'll close with ephesians 6, this isn't just some old
  • 00:22:23.959 --> 00:22:27.195
  • Testament hebrew bible concept.
  • 00:22:27.195 --> 00:22:30.098
  • In ephesians 6, the language is very similar to what we've been
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  • Reading about joshua's commissioning.
  • 00:22:33.034 --> 00:22:35.737
  • "be strong in the lord and in his mighty power."
  • 00:22:35.737 --> 00:22:38.407
  • If you're saying that to a group of people, what can you surmise?
  • 00:22:38.407 --> 00:22:43.011
  • They're weak in the lord and don't know much about his
  • 00:22:43.011 --> 00:22:45.647
  • Mighty power.
  • 00:22:45.647 --> 00:22:50.685
  • "be strong in the lord and in his mighty power.
  • 00:22:50.685 --> 00:22:52.788
  • Put on the full armor of god so that you can take your stand
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  • Against the devil's scheme."
  • 00:22:56.658 --> 00:22:58.026
  • So, i don't wanna stand against them.
  • 00:22:58.026 --> 00:23:03.765
  • Do you?
  • 00:23:03.765 --> 00:23:06.101
  • I wanna have a victory parade.
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  • I wanna have a triumphal entry.
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  • The assignment is to take our stand.
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  • "for our struggle," it clearly suggests very directly that
  • 00:23:19.147 --> 00:23:24.019
  • We're to engage in a struggle.
  • 00:23:24.019 --> 00:23:27.589
  • "well, i don't wanna struggle.
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  • I wanna celebrate."
  • 00:23:31.159 --> 00:23:33.962
  • Our struggle is not against flesh and blood.
  • 00:23:33.962 --> 00:23:35.964
  • It's not a people problem, "but against rulers, and authorities,
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  • And powers of this dark world, against spiritual forces of evil
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  • In the heavenly realms.
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  • Put on the full armor of god, so that when the day of evil
  • 00:23:43.672 --> 00:23:48.810
  • Comes," it's coming.
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  • It doesn't say, "if it comes."
  • 00:23:50.178 --> 00:23:53.148
  • "when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your
  • 00:23:53.148 --> 00:23:55.984
  • Ground, and after you've done everything, after you've done
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  • Everything you know to do, you stand there."
  • 00:24:01.323 --> 00:24:08.997
  • Sounds a lot like joshua to me.
  • 00:24:08.997 --> 00:24:12.133
  • "i'm with you.
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  • I won't leave you or forsake you.
  • 00:24:14.135 --> 00:24:17.005
  • My abiding presence is within you."
  • 00:24:17.005 --> 00:24:18.840
  • "if i leave, i'll send you another comforter.
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  • He'll be with you always.
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  • He'll take what's to the father's and what's mine and
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  • Make it known to you.
  • 00:24:26.581 --> 00:24:28.316
  • He'll remind you of the things you need to know.
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  • Wait until you're baptized in the spirit, you'll be empowered
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  • To be witnesses for me in jerusalem, and judea, and
  • 00:24:35.223 --> 00:24:38.560
  • Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
  • 00:24:38.560 --> 00:24:48.136
  • "be strong in the lord and in his mighty power."
  • 00:24:48.136 --> 00:24:52.607
  • Stand against all the attacks of the evil one.
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  • I brought you a prayer.
  • 00:25:00.448 --> 00:25:02.584
  • It's a breakthrough prayer.
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  • Why don't you stand with me we'll read it together.
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  • Heavenly father, i stand in your strength and serve at
  • 00:25:14.663 --> 00:25:19.467
  • Your pleasure.
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  • You are my fortress and my deliverer.
  • 00:25:20.969 --> 00:25:24.172
  • May the spirit of god give me an understanding heart and the
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  • 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.
  • 00:25:47.228 --> 00:25:50.966
  • Allen: and when i read my bible, i don't read it primarily
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  • For information.
  • 00:25:57.772 --> 00:25:59.107
  • It's not just about facts and figures and dates and how to
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  • Spell nebuchadnezzar and how many tribes they were and where
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  • They fit in the land.
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  • I mean, i like all that stuff, but i read my bible to
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  • Be transformed.
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  • I recognize i need the power of god at work in my life, so the
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  • Characters of the bible become more than shadowy historical
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  • People, they become my friends or my heroes.
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  • It's really gleaned from some of my favorite writings from the
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  • Apostle paul.
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  • You know, he begins as an angry, murderous man and becomes one of
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  • Move from the place i am to be more effective for the purposes
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  • Cooperate with god and get to a better outcome.
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