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Allen Jackson - Jesus and His Angels (Part 2)

March 24, 2025 | S25:E86

Allen Jackson - Jesus and His Angels (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 - Jesus and His Angels (Part 2) | March 24, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: in this session, i want to look specifically at
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  • Jesus and his angels.
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  • I love the language.
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  • It's a phrase that is used more than once in the new testament.
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  • That they're angels, if not assigned to jesus, that jesus
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  • Has authority over.
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  • Lots of them.
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  • And we're just gonna really quickly glance at some of this.
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  • My objective is pretty simple.
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  • I just want to open your imagination to the engagement of
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  • Angels in your life.
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  • If jesus needed angelic help, is it fair to think you and
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  • I might?
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  • If the sinless, perfect, obedient son of god needed the
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  • Assistance of the angels, is it possible that the hillbilly
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  • Faithful could benefit?
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  • That seems very reasonable to me.
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  • In 2 thessalonians 1:7, it says, "this will happen when the lord
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  • Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his
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  • Powerful angels."
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  • I like the nature that his powerful angels.
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  • Angels under jesus's authority.
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  • You know, he's the head of the church.
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  • He also has authority over almost an unlimited number.
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  • We know of 100 million angels.
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  • 100 million.
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  • Us population currently is about 300 million.
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  • There's one scene in the book of revelation, we're not gonna look
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  • At it in this session, but there's one scene where it says,
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  • "all the angels are gathered around the throne."
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  • So, 100 million beings.
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  • Imagine what would it take for you to see a third of the
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  • Us population.
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  • Well you couldn't stand on a platform and see them.
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  • They'd disappear on the horizon.
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  • You'd have to have a drone shot.
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  • You need one of those fancy overhead cams doing a flyover
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  • Just to begin to get a sense of the scope and the magnitude.
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  • We're not talking about something subtle.
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  • There was no jesus story without angelic involvement.
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  • In luke chapter 1, the angels are preparing for jesus's entry
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  • Into time.
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  • It's zechariah and elizabeth.
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  • John the baptist's parents, jesus' cousin that's gonna
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  • Prepare the way for his ministry.
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  • "the angel of the lord appeared to zechariah, standing at the
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  • Right side of the altar.
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  • When he saw him, he was startled and gripped with fear.
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  • And the angel said to him, 'don't be afraid; your prayer
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  • Has been heard.
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  • If you hadn't prayed, i wouldn't be here.
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  • Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the
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  • Name john.'
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  • And zechariah asked the angel, 'how can i be sure of this?
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  • I'm an old man and my wife is mature.'"
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  • He was in the privacy of the temple.
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  • He thought he could say that.
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  • He'd never said that out loud in the daylight probably.
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  • Zechariah is a wise, wise man.
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  • "'my wife is well along in years.'
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  • And the angel answered, 'i'm gabriel.
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  • And i stand in the presence of god,'" wow, "'i've been sent to
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  • Speak to you and to tell you this good news.
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  • And now you'll be silent and not able to speak until the day this
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  • Happens, because you didn't believe my words.'"
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  • I smile when i read that.
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  • I mean, i guess we could say that god is sovereign and he
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  • Knows the ending at the beginning and he told gabriel.
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  • But it feels like to me, gabriel understood he had a little bit
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  • Of license.
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  • He's the messenger on this.
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  • "i've been sent to tell you that elizabeth's about to
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  • Be pregnant.
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  • Forget the calendar, you're gonna be a papa."
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  • And zechariah rolls his eyes and goes, "yeah, uh-huh."
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  • And gabriel says, "well you'll just be quiet for a while."
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  • See, i think we imagine this is almost a totally
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  • Passive engagement.
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  • God got so mad at moses when he wasn't particularly excited
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  • About the assignment to go back to egypt that he almost took
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  • His life.
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  • See, you--we are way casual.
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  • "it's my life.
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  • I can do what i want to with it.
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  • I'll do when i want, what i want."
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  • The bible suggests to us that god presents opportunities
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  • To us.
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  • Sometimes he brings directions to us.
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  • Now we can refuse.
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  • It's not that zechariah is not on board when they--when it's
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  • Time to name john.
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  • You remember the story?
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  • They ask elizabeth what they're gonna name him because zechariah
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  • Hadn't been saying much.
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  • And they expect him to say his name is zechariah.
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  • And when she says, "no, his name's john," and then they go,
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  • "well, we can't trust her."
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  • So, they get zechariah something to write.
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  • Remember what he said?
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  • "his name's john."
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  • Last time he talked back.
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  • "name the kid john, whatever you do."
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  • Luke chapter 1, "in the sixth month, god sent this angel
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  • Gabriel to nazareth," same angel, completely different part
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  • Of the nation this time to a virgin pledged to be married to
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  • A man named joseph, a descendant of david.
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  • The virgin's name was mary.
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  • "and the angel said, 'you are highly favored!
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  • The lord is with you.'"
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  • Joseph got his own visit.
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  • Matthew 1, "joseph her husband was a righteous man.
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  • He didn't want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind
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  • To divorce her quietly.
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  • But after he'd considered this, an angel of the lord appeared to
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  • Him in a dream."
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  • See, god doesn't move like i move.
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  • If i'd been in charge of this initiative, the same night that
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  • Gabriel visited mary, i would have let gabriel visit joseph.
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  • It would have been less stressful if both of them could
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  • Have been read into the story at the same time, right?
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  • But god didn't listen to me.
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  • And he still apparently just doesn't wait for my every idea.
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  • So, mary's pregnant and joseph is embarrassed, and she's saying
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  • Something about angels and supernatural.
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  • And joseph is going, "mhm."
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  • And then he gets a visit.
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  • You see, you and i demand that god meet us on our, "i wanna
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  • Know and i wanna understand."
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  • I am learning something that goes far better to say, "lord, i
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  • Wanna follow you.
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  • And there is so much i don't know and there's so much i don't
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  • Understand, but i wanna follow you.
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  • I wanna see, i wanna hear.
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  • I'm willing to be different.
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  • I'll change, i'll pick up new things, i'll behave in new ways.
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  • God, i wanna follow you.
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  • I don't like the attitude that's been so infused.
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  • It's like a vaccine in us that we're born again and there's
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  • Really nothing left to talk about."
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  • Don't misunderstand me.
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  • I believe in conversion, salvation, the new birth,
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  • No question.
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  • Folks, it's the initiation point.
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  • It's not the finish line.
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  • We need to be aware that god is--if mary needed help and
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  • Zechariah needed help, maybe we do.
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  • The angels brought announcements of jesus's birth in luke 2, this
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  • One's fun.
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  • "there were shepherds out in the fields near bethlehem.
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  • And an angel of the lord appeared to them, and the glory
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  • Of the lord shown around, and they were terrified."
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  • They were used to sheep.
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  • They weren't so used to angels.
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  • "but the angel said to them, 'don't be afraid.
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  • I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all
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  • The people.
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  • Today in the town of david a savior has been born to you;
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  • He's the messiah, the lord.
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  • This is the sign: you'll find him in cloths in a manger.'
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  • And suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared."
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  • It was as if heaven couldn't contain it.
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  • "we gotta tell somebody."
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  • They didn't go to the palace.
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  • They didn't go to the temple.
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  • They went and found the lowest group of people in society.
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  • And they got an angel light show.
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  • The heavenly--i promise you, the shepherds are never the same.
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  • They prepare the lambs that are the sacrifice for passover.
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  • They drive them down the valley from bethlehem to the walls of
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  • Jerusalem, into the sheep gate, to the pools of bethesda where
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  • They were washed.
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  • And then the priest ripped off the people by selling them for
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  • Exorbitant prices.
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  • That's why jesus turned over the tables of the money changers.
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  • But after this night, don't you know that the shepherds told
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  • Every shepherd they knew, "we saw the baby.
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  • We were there."
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  • There were shepherds in the crowds that heard
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  • Jesus minister.
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  • Angels did that.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i believe god is moving in the earth in an unprecedented
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  • Way and at the heart of that is an awakening, it's a shaking.
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  • And in that shaking, there's a sifting.
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  • There are people falling through the cracks and there are people
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  • Becoming more alert and aware of what god is doing.
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  • At the heart of that is the acknowledgment, the realization
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  • That spiritual forces shape our lives.
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  • Folks, this isn't for the lunatic fringe.
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  • This isn't for the hyper spiritual people.
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  • This is the stuff of the bible and it better be the stuff of
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  • Our lives or we are in a tremendous deficit position.
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  • Well, i've written a book, "angels, demons, and you,"
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  • Simply a biblical review of those spiritual forces that are
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  • Impacting us today.
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  • There's a battle in the earth and it's not between armies
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  • Wearing the labels of nations or terrorist groups.
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  • It's a spiritual battle.
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  • If you don't understand, if you don't understand the equipment
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  • And the authority you've been given, you are at a tremendous
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  • Position of forfeiture.
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  • Don't live that way.
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  • "angels, demons, and you," you need the solution.
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  • Female announcer: loneliness, depression, despair, they all
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  • Have a spiritual origin.
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  • We're in a spiritual battle, and the forces of evil stand
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  • Against us.
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  • But we don't need to be afraid, we need to prepare.
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  • Allen: jesus said the children have angels assigned to them
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  • That have the father's attention.
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  • It's safe to say that in the kingdom of god, there are
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  • Spiritual beings in significant number.
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  • "and they're ministering spirits," the bible says, "sent
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  • Forth to help us."
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  • They're messengers, they fill the pages of scripture, and yet
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  • We tend to kind of imagine if it's peripheral, secondary, that
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  • You could be a christ follower, not really be engaged or have to
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  • Imagine spiritual forces.
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  • We believe in organizations.
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  • Well, so do i. i like a good plan and i like an organization
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  • That is running well, but i don't want to--it's not an
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  • Either-or equation and i certainly don't want to exchange
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  • The power of god and the spiritual help that he's made
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  • Available to us for the imagination that we can out
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  • Organize evil.
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  • Female announcer: pastor allen's new book, "angels, demons, and
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  • You" offers compelling biblical evidence about angels and demons
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  • And the rules in the heavens, on earth, and in our lives.
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  • It answers the questions you want to know.
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  • Learn what the bible has to say about angels, demons and
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  • Spiritual warfare.
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  • Gain helpful insight that will help you identify and remove
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  • Evil from your life.
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  • Find practical tools and biblical truth that will help
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  • You align your beliefs more fully with god's word.
  • 00:11:45.063 --> 00:11:48.233
  • "angels, demons, and you" will help you recognize the spiritual
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  • Battle around you so you can live without fear and stand firm
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  • In your faith.
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  • Allen: in matthew chapter 4, jesus is being tempted in
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  • The wilderness.
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  • He's been baptized.
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  • A voice from heaven came and said, "this is my son, i'm
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  • Pleased with him."
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  • Jesus isn't reprobate.
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  • He hasn't drifted into the weeds.
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  • He's been affirmed by a voice from heaven, and the holy spirit
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  • Descended upon him in bodily form.
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  • It would be difficult to find an expression where in one scene
  • 00:13:35.974 --> 00:13:39.277
  • You see god the father, god the son, god the holy spirit,
  • 00:13:39.277 --> 00:13:42.513
  • Expressing affirmation of who jesus is and what he's doing.
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  • And from that moment, he goes into the wilderness and satan
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  • Comes and temps him.
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  • And satan says, "if you're the son of god," god just said
  • 00:13:52.023 --> 00:13:55.693
  • That's my boy.
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  • If you're reading it, you're thinking, "well no, i know who
  • 00:13:59.697 --> 00:14:01.866
  • He is."
  • 00:14:01.866 --> 00:14:03.234
  • The battle was within jesus.
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  • He's got one of these frail earth suits that gets tired and
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  • Hungry and now satan is trying to take advantage of him.
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  • "if you're the son of god," and jesus responds to him with the
  • 00:14:16.614 --> 00:14:19.784
  • Scripture, you know the story.
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  • It's matthew 4:10, "jesus said to him, 'away from me, satan!
  • 00:14:21.920 --> 00:14:24.322
  • It's written: "worship the lord your god and serve him only."'
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  • And the devil left him, and the angels came and attended him."
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  • Jesus needed the strength that came from the angels who
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  • Ministered to him.
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  • If jesus needed that, luke chapter 22, we're on the other
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  • Side of jesus's life now.
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  • It's the evening he's gonna be betrayed and arrested.
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  • He's in gethsemane praying, and he said, "'father, if you're
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  • Willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours
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  • Be done.'
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  • And an angel from heaven appeared to him and
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  • Strengthened him."
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  • See, i believe there are things in front of us that we will not
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  • Be able to complete unless we can be strengthened by
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  • The angels.
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  • Do you want--do you only want an assignment that you can do?
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  • Do you really want to say to the lord, "listen, lord, i'll do
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  • Whatever you've got that i can handle on my own," because i
  • 00:15:14.872 --> 00:15:22.280
  • Have a feeling god needs us to be the church.
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  • Angels have capabilities beyond our own and they're available
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  • More than i think we have considered.
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  • In matthew 26 when they're arresting jesus, peter's ready
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  • To fight and jesus says, "put your sword back.
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  • All who draw the sword will die by the sword.
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  • Do you think i can't call on my father, and he'll at once put at
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  • My disposal more than legions legions of angels?"
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  • He said, "there are thousands and thousands of angels at
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  • My disposal."
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  • This isn't about a power struggle.
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  • He said, "i need to go with these people.
  • 00:15:56.814 --> 00:16:00.518
  • Let them have their clown show for a little while.
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  • Our day is coming."
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  • Because he'll say to the disciples before he leaves, "all
  • 00:16:07.525 --> 00:16:10.328
  • Power in heaven and earth has been given to me.
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  • Now you go."
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  • But in order to be able to say that, he's got to walk
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  • This road.
  • 00:16:18.903 --> 00:16:20.271
  • You see, you and i don't want to walk through
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  • The shadowed valleys.
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  • I don't like that.
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  • I don't like difficult conversations.
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  • I don't like assignments that aren't easy.
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  • I want, you know, i want to write a diet and exercise book
  • 00:16:32.050 --> 00:16:35.486
  • That's like the chocolate nap.
  • 00:16:35.486 --> 00:16:38.056
  • Eat enough chocolate that you're just right on the verge of a
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  • Coma and then sleep it off and wake up healthy and fit.
  • 00:16:44.862 --> 00:16:52.403
  • That's called delusion.
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  • And we wanna pretend like we're mature christians because we
  • 00:16:59.043 --> 00:17:02.647
  • Went to a study.
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  • I've been in the university settings, some very celebrated
  • 00:17:08.086 --> 00:17:10.922
  • Academic settings, with people who spent years, decades of
  • 00:17:10.922 --> 00:17:13.925
  • Their lives studying their bible.
  • 00:17:13.925 --> 00:17:16.160
  • They have advanced degrees.
  • 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:17.495
  • They can speak multiple languages, biblical languages,
  • 00:17:17.495 --> 00:17:20.898
  • And they don't--they couldn't spell god if you spotted them
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  • A g and an o.
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  • And we have fallen into the trap.
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  • I'm for learning and study.
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  • I mean, i could have been a professional student, but we've
  • 00:17:31.742 --> 00:17:36.347
  • Fallen for the trap.
  • 00:17:36.347 --> 00:17:37.715
  • We would rather do--have a study than engage the spiritual world
  • 00:17:37.715 --> 00:17:40.985
  • In which we live.
  • 00:17:40.985 --> 00:17:43.554
  • We've got to change, church.
  • 00:17:43.554 --> 00:17:45.189
  • The angels are gonna be very involved with the events
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  • Surrounding the resurrection of jesus.
  • 00:17:50.895 --> 00:17:55.166
  • In matthew 28, "there was a violent earthquake, an angel of
  • 00:17:55.166 --> 00:17:57.635
  • The lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb,
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  • He rolled back the stone and he sat on it."
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  • It makes me smile.
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  • Do you think god needed an angel to move that stone?
  • 00:18:04.308 --> 00:18:05.977
  • But they got involved.
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  • So, i don't understand.
  • 00:18:10.848 --> 00:18:12.183
  • We're not really given the full how they're involved, when
  • 00:18:12.183 --> 00:18:15.052
  • They're involved, why they're involved.
  • 00:18:15.052 --> 00:18:16.454
  • We just know they're involved.
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  • That shouldn't offend you.
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  • You don't know how a virus works, but you've had one.
  • 00:18:21.626 --> 00:18:23.594
  • "the guards were so afraid of him," god let the guards see
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  • The angel.
  • 00:18:30.701 --> 00:18:32.036
  • That makes me smile.
  • 00:18:32.036 --> 00:18:33.404
  • "you put my kid in that tomb, let me show you something.
  • 00:18:33.404 --> 00:18:36.040
  • Watch me move this stone that you can't move."
  • 00:18:39.443 --> 00:18:43.347
  • It says they're terrified.
  • 00:18:46.951 --> 00:18:49.787
  • "the guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became
  • 00:18:49.787 --> 00:18:52.323
  • Like dead men.
  • 00:18:52.323 --> 00:18:53.891
  • And the angel said to the women, 'don't be afraid, i know that
  • 00:18:53.891 --> 00:18:56.460
  • You're looking for jesus, who was crucified.
  • 00:18:56.460 --> 00:18:59.197
  • He's not here; he's risen, just as he said.
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  • Come see the place where he lay.'"
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  • It makes me--, "here, have a tour."
  • 00:19:03.768 --> 00:19:05.169
  • There's a reality.
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  • They understand the challenge.
  • 00:19:09.674 --> 00:19:11.342
  • They understand our own frailty and our own weakness.
  • 00:19:11.342 --> 00:19:15.980
  • See, we think god doesn't know.
  • 00:19:15.980 --> 00:19:17.381
  • We think we have secret thoughts.
  • 00:19:17.381 --> 00:19:22.153
  • We have all these goofy bad, you know, "it's the privacy of my
  • 00:19:22.153 --> 00:19:24.655
  • Own home."
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  • Oh, really?
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  • You don't think god knows?
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  • We think if we fool one another or we plot and we scheme or we
  • 00:19:30.628 --> 00:19:33.965
  • Manipulate or we deceive that god's in the dark.
  • 00:19:33.965 --> 00:19:40.671
  • He knows the thoughts and intents of our heart.
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  • It's better to live openly before him.
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  • It's better to start practicing that in your thoughts and your
  • 00:19:46.644 --> 00:19:50.982
  • Behaviors being as clean as you know how to be with the lord.
  • 00:19:50.982 --> 00:19:56.087
  • We're so used to manipulating one another and trying to
  • 00:19:56.087 --> 00:19:59.190
  • Deceive one another that we think we manipulate and
  • 00:19:59.190 --> 00:20:01.292
  • Deceive god.
  • 00:20:01.292 --> 00:20:02.627
  • That's just such an uninformed position.
  • 00:20:02.627 --> 00:20:07.531
  • Be clean before him.
  • 00:20:07.531 --> 00:20:09.333
  • Tell him the truth.
  • 00:20:09.333 --> 00:20:11.302
  • "lord, i need your help because right now being evil feels like
  • 00:20:11.302 --> 00:20:14.272
  • A pretty good option.
  • 00:20:14.272 --> 00:20:17.174
  • Help me."
  • 00:20:17.174 --> 00:20:18.542
  • Angels and jesus, it's an amazing array.
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  • 1 peter 3, "(jesus)
  • 00:20:24.248 --> 00:20:26.417
  • Who has gone into heaven is at god's right hand--with angels,
  • 00:20:26.417 --> 00:20:29.086
  • Authorities and powers in submission to him."
  • 00:20:29.086 --> 00:20:32.256
  • I don't have time to unpack that, but those statement,
  • 00:20:32.256 --> 00:20:34.125
  • "angels, authorities and powers," would be the entire
  • 00:20:34.125 --> 00:20:37.628
  • Spiritual arena, good and bad.
  • 00:20:37.628 --> 00:20:38.996
  • They're under jesus's authority.
  • 00:20:38.996 --> 00:20:42.433
  • Matthew 16, jesus said, "what good will it be if a man gains
  • 00:20:42.433 --> 00:20:46.304
  • The whole world, and forfeits his soul?
  • 00:20:46.304 --> 00:20:48.539
  • Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
  • 00:20:48.539 --> 00:20:50.341
  • The son of man is gonna come in his father's glory with his
  • 00:20:50.341 --> 00:20:52.943
  • Angels, and he'll reward each person.
  • 00:20:52.943 --> 00:20:57.548
  • According to what he's done."
  • 00:20:57.548 --> 00:20:58.916
  • He's coming with his angels.
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  • The curtain's gonna get pulled back.
  • 00:21:01.552 --> 00:21:02.920
  • You'll see jesus and the angels.
  • 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:04.722
  • You know how awkward it'll be when there's like 100 million of
  • 00:21:08.926 --> 00:21:11.362
  • Them hanging around?
  • 00:21:11.362 --> 00:21:12.697
  • You go, "you know, i never did believe in you.
  • 00:21:12.697 --> 00:21:16.600
  • Pastor almost got me that one time, but not me.
  • 00:21:16.600 --> 00:21:21.205
  • I was skeptical."
  • 00:21:21.205 --> 00:21:23.474
  • Not a good choice.
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  • Matthew 13, i'm gonna close with this one.
  • 00:21:30.681 --> 00:21:33.784
  • Jesus told the parable about the wheat and the tares.
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  • You remember the story?
  • 00:21:36.287 --> 00:21:38.055
  • And the disciples blessed their heart.
  • 00:21:38.055 --> 00:21:39.824
  • The crowd left.
  • 00:21:39.824 --> 00:21:41.192
  • They went into the house and the disciples said, "explain the
  • 00:21:41.192 --> 00:21:43.094
  • Parable of the weeds to us.
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  • We don't understand, sir."
  • 00:21:46.664 --> 00:21:50.501
  • And jesus said, "well the one who sowed the good seed is the
  • 00:21:50.501 --> 00:21:53.104
  • Son of man."
  • 00:21:53.104 --> 00:21:54.438
  • This is like a third grade class, maybe a kindergarten.
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  • "the one who sowed the good seed is the son of man.
  • 00:21:57.908 --> 00:22:00.878
  • The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of
  • 00:22:00.878 --> 00:22:04.849
  • The kingdom.
  • 00:22:04.849 --> 00:22:06.217
  • The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows
  • 00:22:06.217 --> 00:22:10.354
  • Them is the devil."
  • 00:22:10.354 --> 00:22:11.722
  • Jesus believed in the devil.
  • 00:22:11.722 --> 00:22:14.325
  • "the harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters
  • 00:22:14.325 --> 00:22:17.094
  • Are angels."
  • 00:22:17.094 --> 00:22:20.998
  • God willing, we're gonna look at the angels in the book
  • 00:22:20.998 --> 00:22:22.666
  • Of revelation.
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  • "and as the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it
  • 00:22:24.869 --> 00:22:27.271
  • Will be at the end of the age.
  • 00:22:27.271 --> 00:22:28.606
  • The son of man will send out his angels, and they will weed out
  • 00:22:28.606 --> 00:22:32.042
  • Of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil."
  • 00:22:32.042 --> 00:22:36.347
  • Seems to me we spend a lot of time trying to do what
  • 00:22:36.347 --> 00:22:38.182
  • The angels are gonna do.
  • 00:22:38.182 --> 00:22:41.652
  • We gotta turn up the light.
  • 00:22:41.652 --> 00:22:44.188
  • We have to be salt.
  • 00:22:44.188 --> 00:22:46.957
  • God's gonna send his angels out to sort this out.
  • 00:22:46.957 --> 00:22:51.328
  • Folks, it's impossible to imagine jesus's life.
  • 00:22:51.328 --> 00:22:55.166
  • Either his birth, his ability to flourish and accomplish his
  • 00:22:55.166 --> 00:23:00.538
  • Assignment, or his plan for the end of the age without the
  • 00:23:00.538 --> 00:23:05.676
  • Engagement of angels.
  • 00:23:05.676 --> 00:23:08.779
  • From the--this isn't some subtle something.
  • 00:23:08.779 --> 00:23:12.683
  • So, for you and me to say, "well, you know, i don't know if
  • 00:23:12.683 --> 00:23:15.119
  • I believe in that or not."
  • 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:17.955
  • Why are you more willing to believe that in star wars, the
  • 00:23:17.955 --> 00:23:20.157
  • Force is with you than the spirit of god is?
  • 00:23:20.157 --> 00:23:24.995
  • It makes no sense to me.
  • 00:23:24.995 --> 00:23:27.765
  • Why are we proud of our stubborn unbelief?
  • 00:23:27.765 --> 00:23:31.836
  • Why do we act as if we're going to outthink evil?
  • 00:23:31.836 --> 00:23:34.505
  • If god has made help available to me, watch me raise my hand.
  • 00:23:34.505 --> 00:23:39.710
  • Watch me.
  • 00:23:39.710 --> 00:23:43.881
  • There's much i don't understand and i talked to god about it
  • 00:23:43.881 --> 00:23:47.818
  • Quite consistently.
  • 00:23:47.818 --> 00:23:50.054
  • But i want to keep saying yes to him.
  • 00:23:50.054 --> 00:23:52.823
  • And i wanna invite you to begin to do that again.
  • 00:23:52.823 --> 00:23:54.758
  • You don't have to be weird.
  • 00:23:54.758 --> 00:23:57.695
  • I've told you many times and i'll keep telling you.
  • 00:23:57.695 --> 00:23:59.864
  • You know, if you're pulling onto the interstate, you don't need
  • 00:23:59.864 --> 00:24:02.633
  • To pray for guidance, you need to look.
  • 00:24:02.633 --> 00:24:05.302
  • "well i was trusting god."
  • 00:24:08.906 --> 00:24:10.241
  • I'm not riding with you.
  • 00:24:10.241 --> 00:24:13.177
  • I'm not coming to visit your superficial spiritual self at
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  • The hospital when your merge didn't work.
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  • We've conflated and confused trusting the lord and following
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  • The lord and seeking the lord with being weird and arrogant
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  • And prideful.
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  • There's an authenticity to faith.
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  • We've tried to make it into something that's
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  • Self-promotional and i don't believe it's helpful.
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  • The most intensely spiritual people i've ever known have been
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  • The most understated.
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  • Quiet, gentle, powerful expressions of faith.
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  • You don't have to be weird or loud or strange.
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  • You can quietly say, "let's pray.
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  • Get your bibles out, begin to talk to the lord,
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  • Humble yourself.
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  • Don't tolerate ungodliness.
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  • Don't excuse it.
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  • Don't justify it."
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  • Tell her, "this is not easy."
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  • No kidding.
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  • Discipline is not easy.
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  • We wouldn't call it discipline.
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  • Self-discipline is one of the expressions of the fruit of
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  • The spirit.
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  • The people of god should be the most self-disciplined people on
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  • Planet earth.
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  • I gotta go.
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  • I gotta have the discipline to quit.
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  • I brought you a proclamation which is really a declaration of
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  • What the scripture says about us.
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  • I didn't have room.
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  • If i'd have made it small enough that you could have had it,
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  • You couldn't have read it.
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  • But i'll give you the passages if you want to know where the
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  • Proclamation came from.
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  • It came from psalm 34:18-19 and isaiah 61, the first
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  • Three verses.
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  • We're gonna say what the scripture says about us.
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  • If you'll stand with me, this is how we want to close.
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  • You ready?
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  • If you're at home, say it with us.
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  • We can hear you, kinda.
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  • "i put on the garment of praise and hope.
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  • I choose the joy of the lord is my strength.
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  • I lay aside the spirit of heaviness and raise my voice in
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  • Praise of the living god.
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  • May my eyes be open to the provision of god and my ears
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  • Attentive to the sound of his deliverance.
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  • Holy spirit help me, in you i find power and revelation.
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  • God has restored my broken heart.
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  • And set my feet on a path of victory.
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  • I have hope for today and the strength to complete the course
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  • You have chosen for me.
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  • Let the people of god arise triumphant and may the name of
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  • Jesus be lifted up throughout the earth.
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  • In jesus' name, amen."
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
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