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Allen Jackson - Israel - Prophecy Being Fulfilled (Part 2)

August 1, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Israel - Prophecy Being Fulfilled (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Israel - Prophecy Being Fulfilled (Part 2) | August 1, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, i know you know, but we're living in a
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  • 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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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: there are real expressions against what you
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  • Stand for as a christ follower that would like to remove your
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  • Voice from our academic institutions and our business
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  • Institutions and our governmental institutions.
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  • I mean, that's real. it's not an imagination.
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  • Freedom of speech has been so limited.
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  • It's a shadow of what it once was.
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  • All those things are true, but we don't have to wring our hands
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  • Filled with anxiety and fear.
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  • We could live in the peace of god.
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  • But it's gonna take a different cadence, a different response
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  • From us.
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  • If they tell us there's a tornado in kentucky, we go look
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  • For a safe space.
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  • My opinion of safe spaces was formed when i was a child.
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  • We used to have drills for nuclear attacks.
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  • Did anybody ever do that?
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  • Do you remember what they coached us to do?
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  • For those of you that never had the experience, they told us,
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  • Nate, to get under our desk.
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  • Because in the case of some megaton nuclear device landing
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  • In the principal's office, we were gonna be golden under
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  • Our desks.
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  • Grateful we never tested the theory.
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  • So maybe the fear has been built into us from our youth.
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  • But i think we're gonna need a different kind of courage and a
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  • Different kind of boldness.
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  • I was amazed at their ability to continue to live forward in the
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  • Midst of the threats and the isolation.
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  • They're as polarized as we are.
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  • Their media is inside out and upside down.
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  • Truth is as lost there as it is here.
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  • The crisis has brought some sense of unity to them, and i
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  • Believe will give them an extension of freedom.
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  • We haven't found our way to that truth yet.
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  • We're still living in this ocean of lies and deception and
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  • Manipulation, and have a very limited appetite for the truth
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  • If it's inconvenient for us.
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  • Let's just focus just a moment and look at a
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  • Prophetic perspective.
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  • I got a few minutes left.
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  • We may not finish your outline.
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  • That's a shame.
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  • You're shocked.
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  • Ezekiel 37.
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  • I won't read the whole passage.
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  • It's a remarkable passage of scripture.
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  • To some of you, i'm sure it's familiar.
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  • To others, less so.
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  • But i'll start with verse 1.
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  • "the hand of the lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the
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  • Spirit of the lord and sat me in the middle of a valley;
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  • It was full of bones.
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  • And he led me back and forth among them, and i saw a great
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  • Many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were
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  • Very dry.
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  • And he asked me, 'son of man, can these bones live?'
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  • And i said, 'o sovereign lord, you alone know.'"
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  • I'm amazed at ezekiel's wisdom.
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  • God asked a question of him, and he said, you know, "only you
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  • Would know that."
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  • Wow.
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  • "i don't know" is an acceptable answer.
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  • It is.
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  • And then the lord said, "prophesy to these bones."
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  • "ezekiel, i need you to do something.
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  • I need you to use your words."
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  • "prophesy to these bones and say to them, 'dry bones, hear the
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  • Word of the lord!
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  • This is what the sovereign lord says to these bones.'"
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  • Now, there's a trifecta here of god--things god says he
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  • Will do.
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  • "'i will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.
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  • I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and
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  • Cover you with skin; i will put breath in you, and you will come
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  • To life.
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  • Then you will know that i am the lord.'"
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  • So i prophesied as i was commanded.
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  • And as i was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound,
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  • And the bones came together, bone to bone.
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  • And i looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin
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  • Covered them, but there was no breath in them."
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  • Maybe i will read the whole thing.
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  • It's a good story.
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  • "and then he said to me, 'prophesy to the breath;
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  • Prophesy, son of man, and say to it, "this is what the sovereign
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  • Lord says: come from the four winds, o breath, and breathe
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  • Into the slain, that they may live.'"
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  • So i prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; and
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  • They came to life and stood up on their feet--the vast army."
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  • I was intrigued by that.
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  • It wasn't a vast group of people to study torah.
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  • It wasn't even a vast group of people to worship.
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  • It was an army.
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  • I'm not encouraging violence.
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  • I'm not coaching you to be belligerent.
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  • But i'm telling you there's a conflict in our world, and it
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  • Isn't about nations or economies or ideologies.
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  • It's spiritual.
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  • "and then he said to me, 'son of man, these bones are the whole
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  • House of israel.
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  • They say, "our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; and
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  • We're cut off."
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  • Therefore prophesy and say to them: "this is what the
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  • Sovereign lord says: o my people, i'm going to open your
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  • Graves and bring you up from them."'"
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  • Now, here's another trifecta.
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  • Three more things god says he will do after he's
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  • Restored life.
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  • "i will bring you back to the land of israel.
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  • Then you, my people, will know that i am the lord, when i open
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  • Your graves and bring you up from them.
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  • I'll put my spirit in you and you will live, and i will settle
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  • You in your own land.
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  • And then you will know that i the lord have spoken, and i have
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  • Done it, declares the lord."
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  • Most scholars would suggest to you that it's a prophetic
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  • Picture of the restoration of the jewish people to their
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  • Historic homeland--the promise god made to them.
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  • And it's as impossible as a valley of dry bones being
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  • Brought to life again.
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  • It can only be understood and can only be explained through
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  • The engagement of the spirit of god.
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  • God's not finished with the jewish people yet.
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  • Before we're done, they'll have a revelation of jesus that will
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  • Change the lives of untold numbers of them.
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  • They will take the forefront on the advancement of the gospel as
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  • We approach the close of the age.
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  • The goal for the jewish people isn't for them to convert
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  • To anything.
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  • The goal is that they would recognize jesus of nazareth as
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  • Their messiah.
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  • But there's a phrase in that passage that has captured my
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  • Heart, and it's really what i wanna spend the moments i have
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  • Left with you talking about, and we're gonna carry it forward in
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  • The next session.
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  • In that first verse of ezekiel 37, "the hand of the lord was
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  • Upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the lord."
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  • And i have been walking around with that in my heart these last
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  • Several days.
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  • I believe there's a change coming for us.
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  • I know it's an election season, and we're drinking the kool-aid
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  • Once again that an election is going to change us.
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  • And elections have consequences.
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  • I will readily admit that.
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  • And you have to participate in the process.
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  • It's wrong not to.
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  • It's disobedient not to.
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  • So i'm not--i'm not trying to diminish that.
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  • But how many elections do we have to have to wake up the week
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  • After the election to realize we're still here?
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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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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • Each day's got a scripture, a little devotional, a prayer that
  • 00:09:53.175 --> 00:09:56.345
  • Goes with a specific topic, to awaken us to god's promise and
  • 00:09:56.345 --> 00:10:00.683
  • Provision in this season.
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  • God's moving in the earth.
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  • I want to move with him, and i believe this tool will help you
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  • Be prepared to capitalize on god's invitations in your life.
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  • Female announcer: "awaken us" delivers 30 days of prayer,
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  • Scripture, and insight from pastor allen on relevant topics.
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  • Show you his heart and his truth in a new way.
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  • With the holy spirit's help, this book will awaken you to the
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  • Impact your life has on the world and those around you.
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  • By calling...
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  • Allen: i would suggest we need to be as dependent upon
  • 00:10:42.925 --> 00:10:45.494
  • The help and the interaction of the holy spirit on a daily basis
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  • As we are interdependent upon technology.
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  • And let's just take one subset of that to help us imagine a
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  • More robust engagement with the spirit of god.
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  • If we just imagined our cell phones--what would your life be
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  • Like if you didn't have access to that?
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  • Our phones have gps systems on them.
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  • They tell us where to go, where to turn, where to stop, when
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  • To reroute.
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  • They do it when we're in our automobiles.
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  • They do it when we're walking the streets of cities we're not
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  • Familiar with.
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  • We're heavily dependent upon the communication apps that we have,
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  • The different ways to send messages and to communicate our
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  • Ideas and to share our pictures.
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  • It has enabled us to vacation competitively.
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  • We anticipate instant answers.
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  • If we don't know, we ask rabbi google.
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  • We have automatic location awareness for ourselves and
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  • Our families.
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  • They do some strange things with your technology when you're in
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  • The middle east.
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  • And for two or three days, they were showing that all of us were
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  • At the beirut airport.
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  • And more than one person was tracking a loved one that was in
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  • Our group, and we had a couple of panicked calls says, "are
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  • You okay?"
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  • And we had our agreement about the bunkers and the mres, so we
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  • Were trying to keep a low-key.
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  • And i said, "yes, why?"
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  • And they said, "well, the gps says you're at the
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  • Beirut airport.
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  • Not a great neighborhood."
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  • Our phones give us 24/7 funding available to us for whatever
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  • Purchases we might want to make, irrespective of our proximity
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  • To cash.
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  • They give us access to goods and services from a global market at
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  • Any moment we wanna pick them up.
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  • It's more relevant to me right now.
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  • The last couple of days we were there, they were monkeying with
  • 00:12:47.583 --> 00:12:50.052
  • Our cell service.
  • 00:12:50.052 --> 00:12:52.755
  • In fact, we really didn't have cell service but for a few
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  • Minutes, and it would be intermittent, and we didn't know
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  • When they were gonna come on again.
  • 00:12:57.193 --> 00:12:59.562
  • More than one person in our group said, "i'm going home and
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  • Buy some paper maps."
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  • Because we were all dependent.
  • 00:13:05.334 --> 00:13:06.702
  • "where are you gonna be?"
  • 00:13:06.702 --> 00:13:08.037
  • "well, i'll text you, and i'll meet you there."
  • 00:13:08.037 --> 00:13:09.371
  • Or, "how do i get there?"
  • 00:13:09.371 --> 00:13:10.739
  • "well, just google it."
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  • And they shut down our technology.
  • 00:13:13.008 --> 00:13:14.643
  • We depend on those things.
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  • We are interdependent upon them.
  • 00:13:17.813 --> 00:13:21.917
  • "but the holy spirit--" no, i accepted the lord, and he lives
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  • In me.
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  • And when my earth suit wears out, he's gonna help me make
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  • A transition.
  • 00:13:29.892 --> 00:13:32.628
  • "but i mean, you don't want me to, like, listen to him
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  • Every day.
  • 00:13:35.798 --> 00:13:39.068
  • I mean, like, hear voices?"
  • 00:13:39.068 --> 00:13:46.375
  • My spiritual formation began--i was born again and began to grow
  • 00:13:46.375 --> 00:13:51.513
  • Spiritually in spite of my involvement with
  • 00:13:51.513 --> 00:13:54.683
  • Traditional churches.
  • 00:13:54.683 --> 00:13:56.218
  • Those things didn't take place in traditional churches.
  • 00:13:56.218 --> 00:13:58.654
  • They took place in the charismatic renewal in the late
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  • '60s and the early '70s.
  • 00:14:01.056 --> 00:14:03.392
  • I was a boy, but that was the group of people that i was
  • 00:14:03.392 --> 00:14:05.995
  • Initiated into the kingdom of god with, so i spent the first
  • 00:14:05.995 --> 00:14:09.265
  • Few decades of my spiritual journey pretty much in that end
  • 00:14:09.265 --> 00:14:13.202
  • Of the pool.
  • 00:14:13.202 --> 00:14:15.404
  • So i'm very much at home with the conversations around things
  • 00:14:15.404 --> 00:14:19.141
  • Like a spiritual life.
  • 00:14:19.141 --> 00:14:22.411
  • I fully believe the spirit of god resides within us
  • 00:14:22.411 --> 00:14:25.648
  • At conversion.
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  • That he no longer dwells in temples built with human hands,
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  • But that you and i are the temple of the living god.
  • 00:14:30.252 --> 00:14:33.622
  • "therefore honor god with your body," the bible says.
  • 00:14:33.622 --> 00:14:37.393
  • People get heated up about something we should or shouldn't
  • 00:14:37.393 --> 00:14:39.895
  • Do at church.
  • 00:14:39.895 --> 00:14:41.664
  • News bulletin: you take the spirit of god with you.
  • 00:14:41.664 --> 00:14:46.435
  • He didn't stay here in the building.
  • 00:14:46.435 --> 00:14:49.204
  • So if you take him to see things that you don't think we should
  • 00:14:49.204 --> 00:14:55.144
  • See here, what are you doing with the temple?
  • 00:14:55.144 --> 00:15:01.450
  • I love you.
  • 00:15:01.450 --> 00:15:04.853
  • But the bible also talks about things like spirit baptism,
  • 00:15:04.853 --> 00:15:09.825
  • Speaking in tongues, the gifts of the spirit, the
  • 00:15:09.825 --> 00:15:13.395
  • Manifestations of the spirit, healing, deliverance from
  • 00:15:13.395 --> 00:15:17.933
  • Unclean spirits.
  • 00:15:17.933 --> 00:15:22.805
  • You see, we have seminars and discussions and bible studies
  • 00:15:22.805 --> 00:15:25.908
  • And debates ad nauseam.
  • 00:15:25.908 --> 00:15:29.611
  • I don't want to read a book about ice cream.
  • 00:15:29.611 --> 00:15:33.816
  • I have a friend that went to ice cream school.
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  • I didn't.
  • 00:15:35.918 --> 00:15:37.619
  • I went to the freezer with a spoon.
  • 00:15:37.619 --> 00:15:42.691
  • Now, my friend can make some crazy ice cream, for which
  • 00:15:42.691 --> 00:15:48.030
  • I'm grateful.
  • 00:15:48.030 --> 00:15:49.832
  • I'm the beneficiary.
  • 00:15:49.832 --> 00:15:51.200
  • They brought some to the office a few weeks ago.
  • 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:52.901
  • I was so happy.
  • 00:15:52.901 --> 00:15:55.938
  • If you'll make ice cream and bring it to me, we can do
  • 00:15:55.938 --> 00:15:57.873
  • A podcast.
  • 00:15:57.873 --> 00:16:00.309
  • I'm kidding.
  • 00:16:00.309 --> 00:16:02.578
  • There's more than enough of me.
  • 00:16:02.578 --> 00:16:05.681
  • But we talk about these things and we debate whether
  • 00:16:05.681 --> 00:16:08.717
  • They exist.
  • 00:16:08.717 --> 00:16:11.353
  • Folks, we have reached a point in time where if we don't have a
  • 00:16:11.353 --> 00:16:14.289
  • Meaningful spiritual life, we're not going to flourish.
  • 00:16:14.289 --> 00:16:17.393
  • I doubt we survive.
  • 00:16:17.393 --> 00:16:21.530
  • I believe that the blessing of god and the curse of
  • 00:16:21.530 --> 00:16:25.167
  • Disobedience are both equally real.
  • 00:16:25.167 --> 00:16:29.438
  • I don't believe they're theoretical.
  • 00:16:29.438 --> 00:16:31.807
  • And that if you've lived in disobedience or practiced
  • 00:16:31.807 --> 00:16:34.176
  • Disobedience, you better deal with the spiritual consequence.
  • 00:16:34.176 --> 00:16:37.513
  • There's a weight on you.
  • 00:16:37.513 --> 00:16:43.285
  • In general, the reality of the spiritual realm, both good
  • 00:16:43.285 --> 00:16:46.688
  • And evil.
  • 00:16:46.688 --> 00:16:49.291
  • I'm suggesting to you we need an interdependency with the holy
  • 00:16:49.291 --> 00:16:53.962
  • Spirit in order to flourish in a time when evil is
  • 00:16:53.962 --> 00:16:57.866
  • More prevalent.
  • 00:16:57.866 --> 00:17:01.303
  • I believe we're gonna have to develop a greater awareness and
  • 00:17:01.303 --> 00:17:03.972
  • Dependence upon the helper which the father has provided.
  • 00:17:03.972 --> 00:17:08.110
  • Now, i'm not suggesting something new.
  • 00:17:08.110 --> 00:17:11.213
  • I'm not suggesting something that is extra biblical.
  • 00:17:11.213 --> 00:17:15.184
  • I am suggesting a different pattern for us, a different type
  • 00:17:15.184 --> 00:17:18.887
  • Of trust, a more personal awareness.
  • 00:17:18.887 --> 00:17:21.924
  • I'm suggesting that the current season demands of us
  • 00:17:21.924 --> 00:17:25.894
  • Spiritual growth.
  • 00:17:25.894 --> 00:17:29.131
  • By observation, it seems to me we don't care that much.
  • 00:17:29.131 --> 00:17:35.370
  • That's why we'd rather focus on election.
  • 00:17:35.370 --> 00:17:37.039
  • If we can just hold our noses and get to november, maybe it'll
  • 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:39.508
  • Be better.
  • 00:17:39.508 --> 00:17:42.010
  • November will only be better if we make spiritual changes now.
  • 00:17:42.010 --> 00:17:50.719
  • The disciples had experience.
  • 00:17:50.719 --> 00:17:52.554
  • They had learned to follow jesus.
  • 00:17:52.554 --> 00:17:56.058
  • But then he got to the point where he was leaving, and they
  • 00:17:56.058 --> 00:17:59.628
  • Were very, very unhappy.
  • 00:17:59.628 --> 00:18:03.532
  • They were unhappy with him.
  • 00:18:03.532 --> 00:18:04.900
  • They were confused, they were frustrated.
  • 00:18:04.900 --> 00:18:07.536
  • They were at the end of their rope because jesus was asking
  • 00:18:07.536 --> 00:18:11.306
  • Them to learn and to grow, and they didn't want to.
  • 00:18:11.306 --> 00:18:16.845
  • I believe jesus is asking us to learn and to grow.
  • 00:18:16.845 --> 00:18:21.216
  • And i think we have a similar resistance.
  • 00:18:21.216 --> 00:18:23.218
  • We wanna say, "i'm born again."
  • 00:18:23.218 --> 00:18:24.553
  • They could say, "look, i walked on water with you.
  • 00:18:24.553 --> 00:18:26.889
  • I was there at the mount of transfiguration.
  • 00:18:26.889 --> 00:18:29.691
  • We fed a multitude.
  • 00:18:29.691 --> 00:18:32.528
  • We left everything for you," they said.
  • 00:18:32.528 --> 00:18:34.463
  • "we've left everything for you."
  • 00:18:34.463 --> 00:18:37.799
  • And jesus said, "you have, and there's a reward attached to
  • 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:41.870
  • That, but i need you to grow."
  • 00:18:41.870 --> 00:18:45.207
  • I brought you some verses.
  • 00:18:45.207 --> 00:18:46.575
  • I don't have time to unpack them in detail.
  • 00:18:46.575 --> 00:18:48.110
  • We'll do it more.
  • 00:18:48.110 --> 00:18:49.444
  • But in john 14, jesus said, "i'll ask the father, and he'll
  • 00:18:49.444 --> 00:18:51.713
  • Give you another helper."
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  • The niv translated--translates that "comforter," but i believe
  • 00:18:54.783 --> 00:18:59.521
  • "helper--" either one is okay, but i believe "helper" is closer
  • 00:18:59.521 --> 00:19:03.992
  • To the meaning.
  • 00:19:03.992 --> 00:19:05.360
  • The greek word is paraclete.
  • 00:19:05.360 --> 00:19:06.695
  • But, "i'll give you another helper that, he may be with you
  • 00:19:06.695 --> 00:19:09.431
  • Forever; that is the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
  • 00:19:09.431 --> 00:19:12.701
  • Receive, because it doesn't see him or know him, but you know
  • 00:19:12.701 --> 00:19:15.437
  • Him because he abides with you and will be in you."
  • 00:19:15.437 --> 00:19:18.607
  • Same chapter, verse 26, "by the--but the helper, the holy
  • 00:19:18.607 --> 00:19:22.110
  • Spirit, whom the father will send in my name, he will teach
  • 00:19:22.110 --> 00:19:24.546
  • You all things.
  • 00:19:24.546 --> 00:19:26.114
  • He'll bring to your remembrance all that i said to you."
  • 00:19:26.114 --> 00:19:31.286
  • He said, "there's much i need to say to you.
  • 00:19:31.286 --> 00:19:32.888
  • There's more you need to know, but you can't bear it right now.
  • 00:19:32.888 --> 00:19:36.058
  • You can't take any more right now."
  • 00:19:36.058 --> 00:19:37.993
  • But he said, "when the helper comes, he will teach you what
  • 00:19:37.993 --> 00:19:41.363
  • You need to know."
  • 00:19:41.363 --> 00:19:42.698
  • Folks, we need help.
  • 00:19:42.698 --> 00:19:45.500
  • People--i'm asked all the time on a daily basis.
  • 00:19:45.500 --> 00:19:48.103
  • People say to me, "who do you trust?
  • 00:19:48.103 --> 00:19:50.205
  • Where do you go? what do you listen to?
  • 00:19:50.205 --> 00:19:52.074
  • How do we know what to do? what information is correct?
  • 00:19:52.074 --> 00:19:55.978
  • They're lying to us. we don't know.
  • 00:19:55.978 --> 00:19:58.046
  • We don't--" yes.
  • 00:19:58.046 --> 00:20:01.483
  • We better know the spirit of truth.
  • 00:20:01.483 --> 00:20:05.821
  • "well, pastor, now, in the tradition in which i grew up."
  • 00:20:05.821 --> 00:20:11.893
  • I'm grateful you grew up in a christian tradition.
  • 00:20:11.893 --> 00:20:16.031
  • But you probably grew up--some of you grew up in a church with
  • 00:20:16.031 --> 00:20:18.300
  • Nothing but a hand fan.
  • 00:20:18.300 --> 00:20:21.003
  • But i bet you've just got fancy air conditioning in your home.
  • 00:20:21.003 --> 00:20:26.208
  • So if you can grow technologically, what if we
  • 00:20:26.208 --> 00:20:28.977
  • Grow spiritually?
  • 00:20:28.977 --> 00:20:32.080
  • What if we allow the spirit of god to equip us for the
  • 00:20:32.080 --> 00:20:35.651
  • Beginning of the 21st century when there's a conflict raging
  • 00:20:35.651 --> 00:20:38.754
  • In the earth unlike anything we've seen in decades?
  • 00:20:38.754 --> 00:20:42.257
  • There are disruptions coming.
  • 00:20:42.257 --> 00:20:45.460
  • The systems you've counted on to bring stability and clarity that
  • 00:20:45.460 --> 00:20:50.132
  • You thought were trustworthy, they have been exposed.
  • 00:20:50.132 --> 00:20:56.204
  • It's unsustainable.
  • 00:20:56.204 --> 00:20:58.674
  • I'm not frightened any more than those kids i saw playing in the
  • 00:20:58.674 --> 00:21:01.443
  • Jewish quarter last week.
  • 00:21:01.443 --> 00:21:02.811
  • God will take us through.
  • 00:21:02.811 --> 00:21:05.447
  • But we're gonna have to recognize his voice and be able
  • 00:21:05.447 --> 00:21:07.716
  • To follow his direction and be willing to walk in obedience and
  • 00:21:07.716 --> 00:21:11.153
  • Truth and faithfulness.
  • 00:21:11.153 --> 00:21:12.888
  • We've been coached to say, "i'm saved."
  • 00:21:12.888 --> 00:21:17.326
  • Good for you. i'm grateful for that.
  • 00:21:17.326 --> 00:21:19.461
  • And if you're not, i'll help you with it after service.
  • 00:21:19.461 --> 00:21:23.332
  • But we better grow beyond that.
  • 00:21:23.332 --> 00:21:29.137
  • John 15, "when the helper comes, whom i will send to you from the
  • 00:21:29.137 --> 00:21:32.174
  • Father, that's the spirit of truth who proceeds from the--he
  • 00:21:32.174 --> 00:21:35.444
  • Will testify about me."
  • 00:21:35.444 --> 00:21:36.978
  • John 16, "i tell you the truth."
  • 00:21:36.978 --> 00:21:39.247
  • You know now when jesus says that, you're like, "ah."
  • 00:21:39.247 --> 00:21:43.952
  • That's like when you're on the plane and the pilot comes on,
  • 00:21:43.952 --> 00:21:45.687
  • Says, "you need to buckle your seatbelt.
  • 00:21:45.687 --> 00:21:47.122
  • There's some turbulence."
  • 00:21:47.122 --> 00:21:49.624
  • Jesus said, "i tell you the truth, it's to your advantage
  • 00:21:49.624 --> 00:21:52.527
  • That i go away."
  • 00:21:52.527 --> 00:21:53.995
  • Do you believe the disc--do you think the disciples
  • 00:21:53.995 --> 00:21:55.664
  • Believed him?
  • 00:21:55.664 --> 00:21:58.500
  • They've left everything to follow jesus.
  • 00:21:58.500 --> 00:22:00.135
  • Three years with jesus, he says, "look, i'm leaving you, but it's
  • 00:22:00.135 --> 00:22:03.038
  • Gonna be better."
  • 00:22:03.038 --> 00:22:07.743
  • It's been years ago.
  • 00:22:07.743 --> 00:22:09.411
  • We were taking a trip to israel.
  • 00:22:09.411 --> 00:22:11.346
  • And we got to new york, and they came to me and they said, "you
  • 00:22:11.346 --> 00:22:14.616
  • Can't go on the plane with these people."
  • 00:22:14.616 --> 00:22:19.187
  • Now, i've never gone to israel when there wasn't some kind of
  • 00:22:19.187 --> 00:22:21.123
  • Turmoil, and there's always a little anxiety amongst the
  • 00:22:21.123 --> 00:22:23.291
  • People that are going for the first time.
  • 00:22:23.291 --> 00:22:25.360
  • So i got the group together, and i said, "i'm not getting on
  • 00:22:25.360 --> 00:22:27.496
  • Your plane.
  • 00:22:27.496 --> 00:22:29.998
  • They're putting me on another plane."
  • 00:22:29.998 --> 00:22:34.970
  • You know what everybody said?
  • 00:22:34.970 --> 00:22:36.938
  • "we'd rather get on your plane."
  • 00:22:36.938 --> 00:22:43.211
  • I said, "no, really.
  • 00:22:43.211 --> 00:22:44.579
  • They think yours is pretty safe."
  • 00:22:44.579 --> 00:22:52.821
  • Just because i could.
  • 00:22:52.821 --> 00:22:54.890
  • Well, i have a little bit of that feeling when jesus says,
  • 00:22:54.890 --> 00:22:56.792
  • You know, "i'm going away, and where i go, you can't come.
  • 00:22:56.792 --> 00:22:59.261
  • It's better for you if i go away."
  • 00:22:59.261 --> 00:23:00.729
  • They're, "no, we're good with you.
  • 00:23:00.729 --> 00:23:03.732
  • We didn't vote for better.
  • 00:23:03.732 --> 00:23:05.467
  • We got together, we voted, we're with you.
  • 00:23:05.467 --> 00:23:08.370
  • We're the j troop.
  • 00:23:08.370 --> 00:23:09.704
  • We're just staying with you."
  • 00:23:09.704 --> 00:23:14.743
  • "if i don't go away, the helper will not come to you; but if i
  • 00:23:14.743 --> 00:23:18.980
  • Go, i'll send him."
  • 00:23:18.980 --> 00:23:20.348
  • We haven't lived like we believe that.
  • 00:23:20.348 --> 00:23:23.452
  • If i tell you jesus is returning, applause breaks out.
  • 00:23:23.452 --> 00:23:27.122
  • And that's a good thing.
  • 00:23:27.122 --> 00:23:28.490
  • I don't disagree with that.
  • 00:23:28.490 --> 00:23:30.625
  • But i believe we can develop an interdependence with the holy
  • 00:23:30.625 --> 00:23:34.062
  • Spirit that will bring a resilience to us that will
  • 00:23:34.062 --> 00:23:37.933
  • Enable us to overcome evil.
  • 00:23:37.933 --> 00:23:40.368
  • It will drive out fear and anxiety and uncertainty.
  • 00:23:40.368 --> 00:23:44.673
  • He'll tell us what we need to know in advance of when we need
  • 00:23:44.673 --> 00:23:47.542
  • To know it.
  • 00:23:47.542 --> 00:23:48.910
  • He'll give us the wisdom we need to respond to the
  • 00:23:48.910 --> 00:23:50.946
  • Challenges that are before us.
  • 00:23:50.946 --> 00:23:53.315
  • And that is far better than being churched people
  • 00:23:53.315 --> 00:23:55.383
  • Or religious.
  • 00:23:55.383 --> 00:23:56.852
  • We're gonna talk about it some more in the next session.
  • 00:23:56.852 --> 00:23:59.354
  • There's some amazing things happening in our nation and in
  • 00:23:59.354 --> 00:24:01.723
  • Our world.
  • 00:24:01.723 --> 00:24:03.992
  • Don't get focused on the theater of the absurd.
  • 00:24:03.992 --> 00:24:06.294
  • Celebrate the victories of the truth that are breaking into
  • 00:24:06.294 --> 00:24:08.697
  • The light.
  • 00:24:08.697 --> 00:24:10.332
  • But let's decide to give an invitation to the holy spirit.
  • 00:24:10.332 --> 00:24:15.637
  • Stand with me. that's my prayer for us tonight.
  • 00:24:15.637 --> 00:24:20.075
  • I didn't bring you a prayer.
  • 00:24:20.075 --> 00:24:21.443
  • I wanted to pray for you, if you'll allow me.
  • 00:24:21.443 --> 00:24:27.048
  • And the attitude i would encourage you to start to
  • 00:24:27.048 --> 00:24:29.184
  • Cultivate is one of intentionally, purposefully
  • 00:24:29.184 --> 00:24:32.587
  • Saying, "i wanna receive what god has for me."
  • 00:24:32.587 --> 00:24:37.692
  • That's how you received the new birth.
  • 00:24:37.692 --> 00:24:40.195
  • You said, "i'm a sinner, and i need a savior.
  • 00:24:40.195 --> 00:24:42.464
  • Jesus, be lord of my life."
  • 00:24:42.464 --> 00:24:45.000
  • And this--what i'm inviting you to is to begin to say, "holy
  • 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.436
  • Spirit, you're welcome in my life.
  • 00:24:48.436 --> 00:24:51.172
  • Anyway--i will pray for people.
  • 00:24:51.172 --> 00:24:53.608
  • I'll use my voice.
  • 00:24:53.608 --> 00:24:55.243
  • I'll find new boldness.
  • 00:24:55.243 --> 00:24:56.611
  • I'll tell my god story.
  • 00:24:56.611 --> 00:24:58.647
  • I'll read my bible."
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  • We're gonna talk about some components, but it begins with
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  • This attitude, this expression that "you're welcome.
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  • I wanna receive. i wanna receive.
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  • I wanna receive."
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  • Father, thank you for your word, for your truth, for your power,
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  • For your presence.
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  • Lord, we recognize that you're moving in the earth in the most
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  • Remarkable ways.
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  • Expressions of your great majesty and authority are
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  • Visible all around us.
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  • We praise you for--we also see the expressions of darkness and
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  • Evil and hatred, immorality, and brazen dishonesty.
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  • Lord, it's apparent wherever we look, but we know you are
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  • Greater and that you have a plan and you've called us to
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  • This season.
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  • Holy spirit, we need your help.
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  • And we rejoice tonight that you are our helper.
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  • And we turn our hearts to you to say we wanna listen.
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  • We wanna cooperates.
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  • We're listening.
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  • We wanna yield to you because we've never yielded before.
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  • We wanna learn to depend upon you and trust you, to welcome
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  • You into our decisions and our plans and our purposes.
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  • We praise you for what you're doing and what you will do.
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  • In jesus's name, amen. hallelujah.
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  • Give the lord a hand. will you do that?
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: you know, no matter what source of news you turn to,
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  • It's hard some days not to be overwhelmed with despair,
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  • The deception, the conflict in the earth,
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  • The suffering that's taking place in so many places,
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  • The struggling church in our own nation.
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  • But there are reasons for hope.
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  • God is moving in the most remarkable ways
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  • But we need to have a plan, a method, even a tool
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  • To help us give our thoughts and our hearts focused on god.
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  • Well, i have a suggestion, it's a little booklet
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  • We put together, it's called "awaken us."
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  • It's a 30-day plan.
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  • It's built by topic each day with a scripture,
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  • A little devotional, and a prayer topically directed
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  • To help focus our thoughts at an awakening
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  • To god's invitations to us around that specific theme.
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  • We're awakened every day for the challenges of that day.
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  • Well, let's ask the spirit of god to awaken us
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  • Consistently to what he would have us doing
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  • In this most unique season.
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  • God is moving, i want to move with him,
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  • And i believe you do too.
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  • And i believe "awaken us" will be a help.
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  • ♪♪♪
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