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Allen Jackson - Israel, The Church, and The Nations (Part 2)

July 30, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Israel, The Church, and The Nations (Part 2)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Israel, The Church, and The Nations (Part 2) | July 30, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, i know you know, but we're living
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  • In a chaotic world.
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  • Things are changing globally.
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  • There's wars, there's threats of war, a lot of stuff happening.
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  • But i want to make a suggestion: don't focus on the negative.
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  • Don't get caught up in the uncertainty.
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  • That'll bring fear and anxiety and worry.
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  • It's not helpful.
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  • Let's determine to focus our attention on the lord.
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  • We've created a tool that i believe will make a difference.
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  • It's called "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • Each day is directed at a different topic that's a part of
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  • Our current world.
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  • It gives us a verse of scripture, a little devotional
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  • Around that topic, and then a prayer for that specific thing.
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  • The idea is we're gonna give the holy spirit an invitation to
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  • Awaken us to a new place of faith.
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  • You know, we need an awakening in the midst of the people of
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  • God and we wanna say, "well, i am awake."
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  • Well, i get that but, you know, i was awakened yesterday, but
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  • This morning i was awakened again, and my prayer is tomorrow
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  • I'll be awakened yet again.
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  • We need a daily awakening by the spirit of god to find his best
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  • For us in this season, and i believe this book will help you.
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  • Allen: we've had--i believe in grace.
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  • Folks, if you look it up, you'll probably find my picture
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  • Of necessity.
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  • I'm not diminishing that.
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  • I'm telling you the messaging we've had has been a little,
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  • I think, overbalanced.
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  • God is also just.
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  • To understand it, we can look at one other passage.
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  • This is matthew 10.
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  • This was jesus training the disciples.
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  • He said, "if anyone won't welcome you or listen to your
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  • Words, shake the dust off of your feet when you leave that
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  • Home or town."
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  • So they're practicing what jesus had trained them to do, but
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  • Jesus gives us the explanation of what that gesture meant, what
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  • You were declaring over those people.
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  • You know that jesus is our rule of faith in practice, right?
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  • We're his disciples?
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  • "shake the dust off your feet," he said, "when you leave that
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  • Home or town.
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  • I tell you the truth," and you know by now when you see that
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  • Little phrase, he's about to drop something you don't expect.
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  • "i tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for sodom and
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  • Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
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  • I'm sending you out like sheep among wolves.
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  • Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves."
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  • He's already warned them what would happen.
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  • "i'm sending you out like sheep amongst wolves."
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  • That's called lunch.
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  • I understand i'm sending you into hostile territory.
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  • He said, "if they won't receive you, if you behave and you give
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  • Them the message and they reject you, shake the dust off of
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  • Your feet."
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  • He said, "it'll be more bearable for sodom and gomorrah."
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  • Do you remember what happened to sodom and gomorrah?
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  • God's judgment rained on them.
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  • They were totally obliterated.
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  • So go back now to acts chapter 13.
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  • They stirred up persecution against paul and barnabas and
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  • They expelled them from the region.
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  • So they shook the dust from their feet in protest
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  • Against them.
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  • It has a very powerful meaning in the light of jesus's words.
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  • There is an edge to god's forgiveness.
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  • Let's not live presumptively.
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  • Let's not condone wickedness.
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  • You see, the bible tells us it's not in this outline, but it's a
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  • Truth that if we condone ungodliness, if we condone
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  • Wickedness, if we stay silent in the face of it, we will bear
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  • The judgment.
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  • "so i wasn't being wicked."
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  • No, but we stayed silent.
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  • If we fail to be watchmen, if we fail to sound the alarm, if we
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  • Fail to tell the truth, the bible tells us clearly there'll
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  • Be outbursts of hatred towards the people of god.
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  • Maybe the simplest explanation of that is it'll be
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  • Antisemitism, big word again for the hatred of the jewish people,
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  • An intolerance of christians.
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  • Both are expressions of the spirit of antichrist.
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  • They're prevalent in history and prevalent in our world today.
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  • We've lived with it so long i think we're a little numb to it.
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  • We've kind of accepted it as normal: no influence of
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  • Christianity in the public square, we're told.
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  • Separation of the church and state.
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  • They don't try to separate formal functions, official
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  • Functions, government functions, corporate functions from any
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  • Other expression of religion.
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  • In fact, the corporate world, the federal government, has been
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  • Expressing a worldview so powerful, even the supreme court
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  • Had to get involved and said you can't keep forcing children
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  • Into perversion.
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  • It would have been better if the church had used their voice, but
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  • Absent that, god raised up a voice on behalf of our children.
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  • We received a gift of grace.
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  • We're told that christians shouldn't have influence in the
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  • Public square.
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  • We're told today by many voices that the jewish people have too
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  • Much influence, that they're dictating the narrative, that
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  • They're driving our foreign policy.
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  • And those messages are coming from some very significant
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  • Places: colleges, our most celebrated universities from
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  • People perceived as intellectuals, from the media.
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  • I can tell you what i imagine to be the future of those people so
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  • Determined in those messages that we will see a decline of
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  • Their influence.
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  • I believe it's already happening.
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  • I don't say that with joy.
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  • I'd prefer change and repentance.
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  • See, the mistake that is made, and it's been a mistake made in
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  • A wide, broad way, and i don't think it's always malicious.
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  • Sometimes i think it's a lack of awareness, but we can't evaluate
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  • Israel and the jewish people as if they're just another nation.
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  • They're not.
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  • They're not just another nation, any more than believers in jesus
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  • Are just like everybody else.
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  • We're different, we're a totally new creation.
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  • There's a new authority over our lives.
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  • We have a new future.
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  • There's a new responsibility.
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  • So you can't take the blessings and ignore the responsibility.
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  • We're god's chosen people.
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  • In matthew chapter 24, it's jesus's most lengthy
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  • Prophetic discourse.
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  • It's his last prophetic discourse.
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  • The greatest of all the hebrew prophets is jesus of nazareth,
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  • Not isaiah or jeremiah or ezekiel; jesus of nazareth.
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  • And in matthew 24, he's listing a number of signs that will
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  • Identify the end of the age, the conclusion of the age, and he
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  • Says, "you'll be handed over to be persecuted and put to death,
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  • And you'll be hated by all nations because of me."
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  • I think we read that and we think, "oh, that's
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  • The tribulation."
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  • Remember what we're walking through today.
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  • The jewish people have suffered as a result of disobedience.
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  • That's a part of our biblical narrative, agreed?
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  • They lost their place in jerusalem.
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  • The babylonians came, you remember?
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  • I got the right group, right?
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  • Okay, and before the babylonians came, the assyrians came and
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  • Took the northern kingdom of israel and scattered them
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  • Throughout the assyrian empire.
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  • A hundred and fifty years later, the babylonians came and sacked
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  • Jerusalem and destroyed it.
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  • We call it the exile, god's punishment because the jewish
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  • People were disobedient.
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  • We also know from scripture that not everybody was disobedient.
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  • Not everybody was ungodly, not everybody was immoral.
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  • You know this, you know our heroes, daniel and his
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  • Three friends.
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  • "we will not stop praying even if you put us in a lion's den.
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  • We won't bow to your gold statue even if you throw us in
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  • A furnace."
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  • God revealed to daniel mysteries that still inform our
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  • Journey today.
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  • Not all of the jewish people were ungodly.
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  • See, we've got this kind of messed-up imagination of our
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  • Gospel and, like, "i'm born again, so i'm good.
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  • Nothing else really matters.
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  • I don't have any responsibilities beyond me
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  • And mine.
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  • Good to go.
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  • I don't pay any attention to that.
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  • I don't like the news.
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  • I don't like to get online.
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  • I don't want to think about it.
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  • I'm born again. i've read it."
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  • Folks, we live in the midst of a people.
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  • We're to be salt and light.
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  • Jesus has some very harsh words if the salt loses its saltiness,
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  • Or if the light is diminished and we stumble in the dark,
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  • It's a far more dangerous way to travel.
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  • In elijah's time there were 7000 people in the nation who hadn't
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  • Bowed their need to baal.
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  • There's thousands of people.
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  • And yet there's a harshness in the land.
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  • They were subjected to persecution.
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  • You see, it seems reasonable to me that what's described in
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  • Matthew 24--i'm gonna read it again.
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  • It says: "you'll be handed over to be persecuted and put to
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  • Death, you'll be hated by all nations because of me."
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  • If i try to understand that in the light of scripture, which
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  • I believe is the assignment, it seems reasonable to me that
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  • What's described in matthew 24 is also a season when god's
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  • People have been predominantly disobedient.
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  • There'll be faithful ones.
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  • There'll be daniel and his friends and the 7000.
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  • I'm not saying--but i'm telling you as we approach the end of
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  • The age, jesus tells us in the passage, the love of most, he
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  • Said, will have grown cold because of the increase
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  • Of wickedness.
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  • And the word for love used, there's multiple greek words
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  • For love.
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  • There's one for physical love and brotherly love, but there's
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  • A word that's used uniquely for the love of god, and that's the
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  • Word that's used in that passage.
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  • The love for god will grow cold in the hearts of his people.
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  • Matthew is--jesus is describing something to us.
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  • It's important what we're watching in the earth, the
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  • Hatred of the jewish people at our most celebrated
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  • Universities, echoed in the media and echoed by some
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  • Powerful voices.
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  • Please understand it's a very fine line before those same
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  • Voices say you should be silenced.
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  • You have too much influence.
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  • Gee, we've heard that before.
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  • Church is too big.
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  • We are embarrassingly behind the growth of the community.
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  • I don't mean just our congregation, but the presence
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  • Of the church in our community is the least it's been in the
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  • History of this community.
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  • And we're the buckle of the bible belt.
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  • But the voices around us don't acknowledge that.
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  • They don't want that fact in discussion.
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  • The chosen people, it's an important point.
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  • Look at deuteronomy 7: "you're a chosen people, holy to the lord
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  • Your god.
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  • The lord your god has chosen you out of all the peoples
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  • On the face of the earth to be his people, his
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  • Treasured possession."
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  • That's never been rescinded or amended.
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  • That's the message god gave through moses to the former
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  • Slaves of egypt that you and i know as the jewish people.
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  • People holy to the lord your god.
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  • The lord your god's chosen you out of all the peoples on the
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  • Face of the earth, you're not the same.
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  • You're not the same.
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  • Neither are you.
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  • Because you're an heir to that same covenant with
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  • Abram through jesus.
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  • Allen: hey, we have a tool that i think will help you overcome
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  • Some of the chaos in the world and stay focused on the good
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  • Things that god is doing.
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  • It's called "awaken us."
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  • Goes with a specific topic, to awaken us to god's promise and
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  • Provision in this season.
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  • God's moving in the earth.
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  • Allen: i'll give you some cautions around israel.
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  • I don't believe that because god said, "i'll bless those who
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  • Bless you and curse those who curse you," that we should do
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  • Everything the israeli government asks.
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  • The israeli government's as messed up as ours is.
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  • They are.
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  • That nation is every bit as polarized as our nation is.
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  • If you try to understand israel by reading snippets from the
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  • Israeli media, you'll be as confused as if you read our
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  • Media, or listen to the talking heads and from
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  • Opposing viewpoints.
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  • It's a confusing time.
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  • So i'm not suggesting that we just simply blindly do
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  • Everything that they ask of us.
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  • Not everything in israel should be supported or celebrated.
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  • There's some very powerful expressions of ungodliness and
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  • Wickedness and perversion there.
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  • Neither would i encourage you to support everything that emerges
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  • From places called churches.
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  • Oh, come on.
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  • What it requires is three things, and i wish i had
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  • A simpler answer for you, like: these people have got it all
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  • Right and just listen to what this person says, or use this.
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  • But the things that i think are necessary to navigate this are
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  • First of all an awareness.
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  • You have to pay enough attention to know something's happening.
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  • Secondly, you need a fundamental knowledge of the scripture.
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  • You need to be reading your bible
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  • Consistently, systematically.
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  • And then you need discernment, which means you have to
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  • Recognize the direction of the spirit of god.
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  • Without those three things, each one of them in place, i believe
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  • You're easily manipulated and deceived.
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  • And i'll give you a note.
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  • You didn't ask, but i'll give you a note.
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  • I believe it's important to respect the traditions
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  • Of judaism.
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  • But i don't believe it's helpful to imagine that following them
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  • Makes you more spiritual, more holy, or more enlightened.
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  • I don't see any reason for you to refer to jesus as yeshua
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  • Unless you're jewish or a hebrew speaker.
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  • I don't think it's overly helpful to keep jewish holidays.
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  • I think you need to understand them.
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  • We work hard to help the children in this place
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  • Understand them, but i don't think their observation makes
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  • You any more holy.
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  • A kosher diet as a means of spiritual formation
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  • Isn't biblical.
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  • Jesus said, "what goes into your mouth does not make you clean."
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  • Kosher diet might make you healthier but doesn't make
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  • You holier.
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  • The keeping of the jewish sabbath, which begins at sundown
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  • On friday and ends at sundown on saturday.
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  • Not a holier time to worship.
  • 00:14:40.094 --> 00:14:44.265
  • See, the devil doesn't care what he uses to disrupt your momentum
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  • Towards obedience.
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  • That's what the new testament is filled with: people engaged
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  • Fully in the keeping of the rules of moses.
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  • It's their family's story, but they've missed the point of what
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  • God is doing before their eyes.
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  • We don't want to do that.
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  • The new testament warns us that as we approach the end of the
  • 00:15:03.885 --> 00:15:06.587
  • Age, one of the reasons that it's so easy to lose our balance
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  • Is there are gonna be loud voices of people mocking people
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  • Who believe in god.
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  • Look in 2 peter 3 and verse 3: he said, "first of all," of
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  • First importance, primarily, before anything else, he said.
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  • "first of all, you must understand that in the last day
  • 00:15:25.573 --> 00:15:28.042
  • Scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own
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  • Evil desires.
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  • They'll say, 'where is this "coming," he promised?
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  • Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has
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  • Since the beginning of creation.'
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  • But they deliberately forget that long ago by god's word the
  • 00:15:40.121 --> 00:15:42.991
  • Heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and
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  • By water."
  • 00:15:45.426 --> 00:15:48.329
  • Peter warns us, he said as we get closer and closer to the end
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  • Of the age, skeptics will come, scoffers will come, experts will
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  • Say, "there's nothing to this."
  • 00:15:55.937 --> 00:16:00.308
  • Tragically, our seminaries are filled with scoffers
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  • And skeptics.
  • 00:16:02.877 --> 00:16:05.279
  • Scoffers by definition have a diminished fear of god,
  • 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:09.017
  • A diminished reverence or respect of god.
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  • You didn't hear the previous session, it's worth your while.
  • 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:15.523
  • They'll have--they'll be wise in their own eyes.
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  • They won't have a wisdom that's formed from a respect and
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  • A reverence for god.
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  • The bible says that the fear of god is the beginning of wisdom.
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  • If you meet someone who doesn't have a respect and a reverence
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  • For god, if they don't look at god with a sense of awe, please
  • 00:16:26.734 --> 00:16:30.705
  • Understand they cannot communicate to you god's wisdom.
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  • The fear of god is the beginning of wisdom.
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  • If you don't fear god, you haven't even begun.
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  • You can be smart, accomplished, have achievements, have
  • 00:16:39.580 --> 00:16:43.217
  • Accumulated, be celebrated, have a platform, be an influencer.
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  • But you don't reflect god's wisdom.
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  • It begins with the fear of god or respect for god.
  • 00:16:53.795 --> 00:16:57.965
  • Same passage.
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  • 2 peter chapter 3, just a couple of verses further down.
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  • Peter says, "the lord is not slow in keeping his promises."
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  • And i read that and i think, "well, in my life, he may not
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  • Be slow.
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  • But sometimes he doesn't hurry."
  • 00:17:14.315 --> 00:17:18.453
  • But peter, he said, "the lord isn't slow in keeping his
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  • Promise, as some understand slowness."
  • 00:17:20.888 --> 00:17:22.623
  • And you can put in there, "like allen."
  • 00:17:22.623 --> 00:17:26.194
  • "he's patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but
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  • Everyone to come to repentance."
  • 00:17:30.298 --> 00:17:31.632
  • God is patient to give people an opportunity.
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  • Imagine he took you out the first time you transgressed.
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  • We would have an empty building.
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  • "but the day of the lord will come like a thief.
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  • And the heavens will disappear with a roar; and the elements
  • 00:17:47.548 --> 00:17:51.018
  • Will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it
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  • Will be laid bare."
  • 00:17:53.521 --> 00:17:56.023
  • God is the judge of all the earth.
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  • We started there, remember?
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  • God keeps his promises, folks.
  • 00:17:59.760 --> 00:18:02.864
  • Organize your life, orchestrate your life, plan your future,
  • 00:18:02.864 --> 00:18:06.400
  • Based upon the promises of god.
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  • He will keep them.
  • 00:18:08.369 --> 00:18:11.072
  • They're more stable, they're more trustworthy than markets,
  • 00:18:11.072 --> 00:18:14.475
  • And you may be a genius at all of that.
  • 00:18:14.475 --> 00:18:16.377
  • You may have charts and graphs and research and brilliant
  • 00:18:16.377 --> 00:18:19.080
  • Friends and a track record that's astounding.
  • 00:18:19.080 --> 00:18:21.516
  • I'm not suggesting that's bad, that's wonderful.
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  • I'm grateful for people with that ability and that wisdom,
  • 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.257
  • But they're tracking a system that will ultimately come to
  • 00:18:29.257 --> 00:18:32.126
  • A conclusion.
  • 00:18:32.126 --> 00:18:33.895
  • God's promises will take us through time and into eternity,
  • 00:18:33.895 --> 00:18:38.366
  • So there's a value in knowing god's promises.
  • 00:18:38.366 --> 00:18:40.768
  • It's not an either/or proposition, but don't invest
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  • Yourself fully in something that will come to a conclusion.
  • 00:18:43.671 --> 00:18:47.775
  • God's promises are faithful.
  • 00:18:47.775 --> 00:18:49.744
  • There'll be skeptics.
  • 00:18:49.744 --> 00:18:52.813
  • There will be people who scoff, who mock, who make fun.
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  • They'll be experts with lengthy credentials that will not choose
  • 00:18:56.150 --> 00:19:02.356
  • The fear of god.
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  • You choose it.
  • 00:19:04.659 --> 00:19:07.228
  • I wanna wrap up; my time's done.
  • 00:19:07.228 --> 00:19:12.900
  • God promised the jewish people a homeland.
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  • He's keeping that promise before our very eyes.
  • 00:19:15.870 --> 00:19:18.306
  • Again, i'm not saying everything they're doing is perfect
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  • Or right.
  • 00:19:20.775 --> 00:19:22.143
  • In genesis 13: "the lord said to abram, 'lift up your eyes from
  • 00:19:22.143 --> 00:19:24.845
  • Where you are to the north and the south and the east and all
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  • The land you can see, i'll give to you and your offspring.'"
  • 00:19:26.847 --> 00:19:29.016
  • What's that last word?
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  • "forever."
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  • Until the un is formed.
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  • Until russia says you shouldn't have it.
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  • Until the sultan says you don't belong there.
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  • No, god said, "i'm gonna give that to you forever.
  • 00:19:45.633 --> 00:19:48.803
  • Now, your right to be in the land is connected to
  • 00:19:48.803 --> 00:19:50.871
  • Your obedience.
  • 00:19:50.871 --> 00:19:52.707
  • You can't be disobedient.
  • 00:19:52.707 --> 00:19:54.108
  • You can't purposefully be ungodly and reject me.
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  • If you do that you'll lose the land."
  • 00:19:57.545 --> 00:19:59.113
  • Christians have an arrogance.
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  • We should learn from our brothers and sisters.
  • 00:20:00.448 --> 00:20:03.618
  • But i'll give you one more passage because i think that the
  • 00:20:03.618 --> 00:20:06.320
  • Timing is very helpful.
  • 00:20:06.320 --> 00:20:08.656
  • It's ezekiel 36, it should be the last passage in your notes.
  • 00:20:08.656 --> 00:20:13.594
  • This is a prophecy.
  • 00:20:13.594 --> 00:20:14.962
  • It's another snapshot about god when he's restoring the fortunes
  • 00:20:14.962 --> 00:20:17.632
  • Of judah and jerusalem.
  • 00:20:17.632 --> 00:20:19.400
  • He said, "i will take you out of the nations."
  • 00:20:19.400 --> 00:20:21.969
  • I made it bold, but it's worth circling all the things god says
  • 00:20:21.969 --> 00:20:24.639
  • He will do.
  • 00:20:24.639 --> 00:20:26.540
  • This is god-initiated, god driven, god watched over.
  • 00:20:26.540 --> 00:20:29.310
  • It's about god's power, god's purpose, god's intent.
  • 00:20:29.310 --> 00:20:33.447
  • You shouldn't imagine this is a result of human will.
  • 00:20:33.447 --> 00:20:36.450
  • God said, "i will take you out of the nations; i will gather
  • 00:20:36.450 --> 00:20:39.186
  • You from all the countries.
  • 00:20:39.186 --> 00:20:41.055
  • I'll bring you back into your own land.
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  • I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you'll be clean; i will
  • 00:20:42.556 --> 00:20:46.327
  • Cleanse you from all your impurities, from all your idols.
  • 00:20:46.327 --> 00:20:48.896
  • I'll give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; i will
  • 00:20:48.896 --> 00:20:51.799
  • Remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart
  • 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:53.668
  • Of flesh.
  • 00:20:53.668 --> 00:20:55.036
  • I will put my spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees
  • 00:20:55.036 --> 00:20:57.672
  • And be careful to keep my laws.
  • 00:20:57.672 --> 00:20:59.607
  • You will live in the land i gave your forefathers; you'll be my
  • 00:20:59.607 --> 00:21:02.476
  • People, and i will be your god."
  • 00:21:02.476 --> 00:21:05.713
  • God's told us what he's gonna do.
  • 00:21:05.713 --> 00:21:09.083
  • Now if you believe he's a promise-keeping god, you should
  • 00:21:09.083 --> 00:21:11.419
  • Put that on the calendar.
  • 00:21:11.419 --> 00:21:14.021
  • The sequence is noteworthy.
  • 00:21:14.021 --> 00:21:15.456
  • It's important.
  • 00:21:15.456 --> 00:21:16.824
  • God said, "i'll take you out of the nations and i will gather
  • 00:21:16.824 --> 00:21:19.193
  • You from all the countries."
  • 00:21:19.193 --> 00:21:20.594
  • He's gonna regather the jewish people and establish them in
  • 00:21:20.594 --> 00:21:23.297
  • That homeland, and then he's going to do something.
  • 00:21:23.297 --> 00:21:26.567
  • "then i will sprinkle clean water on you.
  • 00:21:26.567 --> 00:21:29.603
  • And i will cleanse you from your impurities and your idols."
  • 00:21:29.603 --> 00:21:32.239
  • People say, "well, how can they be there?
  • 00:21:32.239 --> 00:21:35.009
  • They have a disproportionately high abortion rate.
  • 00:21:35.009 --> 00:21:38.412
  • Tel aviv is the gay capital of europe.
  • 00:21:38.412 --> 00:21:40.014
  • How can they be there?"
  • 00:21:40.014 --> 00:21:42.216
  • Well, god told you.
  • 00:21:42.216 --> 00:21:44.418
  • He said, "i'm gonna gather from the--gather them from
  • 00:21:44.418 --> 00:21:46.487
  • The nations.
  • 00:21:46.487 --> 00:21:47.855
  • I'm gonna establish them there and then i will begin to
  • 00:21:47.855 --> 00:21:50.358
  • Sprinkle water on them.
  • 00:21:50.358 --> 00:21:52.460
  • Then i will clean them up."
  • 00:21:52.460 --> 00:21:54.995
  • And before you were offended, isn't that how you made your way
  • 00:21:54.995 --> 00:21:57.164
  • Into the kingdom?
  • 00:21:57.164 --> 00:21:59.533
  • God took us in our brokenness and our ungodliness and our
  • 00:21:59.533 --> 00:22:02.169
  • Rebellion and our sin, and we chose by faith jesus is lord of
  • 00:22:02.169 --> 00:22:06.907
  • Our lives, and then god begins to clean us up.
  • 00:22:06.907 --> 00:22:11.412
  • Say, "well, i'm forgiven."
  • 00:22:11.412 --> 00:22:12.747
  • Yes, you're forgiven, but you have no track record of leading
  • 00:22:12.747 --> 00:22:15.716
  • A godly life, a righteous life, a holy life, a pure life.
  • 00:22:15.716 --> 00:22:20.254
  • Your friends are looking at, going like, "you're a what?
  • 00:22:20.254 --> 00:22:24.191
  • How did that happen?
  • 00:22:24.191 --> 00:22:25.793
  • You look the same to me."
  • 00:22:25.793 --> 00:22:29.497
  • Sure do.
  • 00:22:29.497 --> 00:22:32.266
  • God is moving in the earth, folks.
  • 00:22:32.266 --> 00:22:35.102
  • You can be a part.
  • 00:22:35.102 --> 00:22:37.371
  • He's written a story for you.
  • 00:22:37.371 --> 00:22:39.840
  • It requires you to say yes.
  • 00:22:39.840 --> 00:22:43.010
  • There'll be a headwind.
  • 00:22:43.010 --> 00:22:45.212
  • There'll be scoffers, and i don't mean just university
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  • Presidents in some distant place.
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  • There'll be people in your sphere of influence who go,
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  • "what are you doing?
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  • What are you thinking?
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  • Why are you giving time and energy and effort and thought
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  • To that?
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  • What are you doing?"
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  • "well, i believe in god."
  • 00:23:01.662 --> 00:23:03.030
  • "you what?"
  • 00:23:03.030 --> 00:23:04.698
  • "yeah, i believe the bible's true."
  • 00:23:04.698 --> 00:23:06.066
  • "huh?"
  • 00:23:06.066 --> 00:23:08.169
  • "i found a meaning in it and a purpose in it.
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  • It's changing my life."
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  • "why are you throwing away your future?"
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  • It's been said to me multiple times.
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  • Oftentimes i didn't have an answer.
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  • I didn't even have, like, an emotional bulwark against it.
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  • It felt like a body shot.
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  • It would come from friends and people i trusted.
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  • "you know, i don't really know.
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  • But i wanna go this way."
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  • Choose the lord.
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  • Give him your best.
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  • Decide to honor him.
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  • Say no to ungodliness.
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  • Say yes to godliness.
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  • Use your voice when he gives you an opportunity.
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  • Not everybody will cheer.
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  • You can't hide in the shadows and imagine that you will avoid
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  • The problems.
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  • Silence will not protect you.
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  • It didn't work for the jews in europe.
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  • It didn't work for the christians.
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  • I want to close with a prayer.
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  • It's not on your notes.
  • 00:24:10.531 --> 00:24:11.866
  • I ran out of room.
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  • But i had more paper than you did.
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  • So i'm gonna ask you just to repeat it after me if
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  • You'll stand.
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  • It's a bit of a proclamation.
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  • It's a declaration of the authority of god over our
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  • Lives personally.
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  • If you don't want to pray it, you don't have to, but i would
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  • Invite you to it.
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  • Your words have spiritual authority.
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  • You know that?
  • 00:24:33.254 --> 00:24:35.089
  • That principle can be misused, it can be misinterpreted, but it
  • 00:24:35.089 --> 00:24:38.025
  • Doesn't change the principle.
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  • God created the earth and everything that's in it for your
  • 00:24:43.864 --> 00:24:46.100
  • Good, but you can kill yourself with food.
  • 00:24:46.100 --> 00:24:51.539
  • Doesn't mean that the principle that god created the earth and
  • 00:24:51.539 --> 00:24:54.041
  • Everything that's in it for your good is wrong, and sometimes you
  • 00:24:54.041 --> 00:24:57.211
  • Reject biblical truth because you've seen goofy people use it
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  • In destructive ways.
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  • Don't do that with this.
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  • Your words have spiritual authority.
  • 00:25:04.985 --> 00:25:06.353
  • Learn to use them.
  • 00:25:06.353 --> 00:25:08.689
  • I brought you a prayer, just repeat it with me.
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  • "heavenly father, i ask for your wisdom in my life.
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  • And i repent of being 'wise in my own eyes.'
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  • I choose to submit to your authority.
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  • I choose to submit to your direction.
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  • I'll no longer be tolerant of ungodliness and evil.
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  • Holy spirit help me to understand the fear of the lord.
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  • Almighty god has blessed my life.
  • 00:25:47.761 --> 00:25:52.032
  • My future is defined by his promises.
  • 00:25:52.032 --> 00:25:57.404
  • I choose his life.
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  • I choose obedience to his truth.
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  • Jesus be lord of all that i am.
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  • Of all that i have.
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  • Of all that i'll ever be.
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  • I want to honor you.
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  • Amen," hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
  • 00:26:18.525 --> 00:26:21.195
  • Allen: you know, no matter what source of news you turn to, it's
  • 00:26:25.432 --> 00:26:29.236
  • Hard some days not to be overwhelmed with despair: the
  • 00:26:29.236 --> 00:26:33.207
  • Deception, the conflict in the earth, the suffering that's
  • 00:26:33.207 --> 00:26:36.543
  • Taking place in so many places, the struggling church in our
  • 00:26:36.543 --> 00:26:40.280
  • Own nation.
  • 00:26:40.280 --> 00:26:41.649
  • But there are reasons for hope.
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  • God is moving in the most remarkable ways, but we need to
  • 00:26:43.083 --> 00:26:46.854
  • Have a plan, a method, even a tool to help us keep our
  • 00:26:46.854 --> 00:26:50.491
  • Thoughts and our hearts focused on god.
  • 00:26:50.491 --> 00:26:52.726
  • Well, i have a suggestion.
  • 00:26:52.726 --> 00:26:54.094
  • It's a little booklet we put together.
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  • It's called "awaken us."
  • 00:26:55.429 --> 00:26:56.764
  • It's a 30-day plan.
  • 00:26:56.764 --> 00:26:58.132
  • It's built by topic each day, with a scripture, a little
  • 00:26:58.132 --> 00:27:00.901
  • Devotional, and a prayer, topically directed, to help
  • 00:27:00.901 --> 00:27:04.371
  • Focus our thoughts and an awakening to god's invitations
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  • To us around that specific theme.
  • 00:27:07.941 --> 00:27:10.611
  • We're awakened every day for the challenges of that day.
  • 00:27:10.611 --> 00:27:13.213
  • Well, let's ask the spirit of god to awaken us consistently to
  • 00:27:13.213 --> 00:27:17.251
  • What he would have us doing in this most unique season.
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  • God is moving.
  • 00:27:20.821 --> 00:27:22.156
  • I wanna move with him and i believe you do too, and i
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  • Believe "awaken us" will be a help.
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