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Allen Jackson - Jesus And The Second Temple (Part 1)

February 19, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Jesus And The Second Temple (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Jesus And The Second Temple (Part 1) | February 19, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: we've been doing a study on the gospel of luke
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  • And i've invited you to a little extra reading assignment, for
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  • Which i know you're just thrilled beyond all measure,
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  • Beyond our normal bible reading.
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  • Once a year, as a congregation, we read through our bible
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  • Systematically together.
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  • If you're not joining us, come on.
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  • It will change your faith.
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  • It will deliver you from deception and it will prepare
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  • You for whatever is before us.
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  • But in addition to that--that's about a 15 minute a day
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  • Commitment, depending on your reading style and speed.
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  • But beyond that, i've invited you for the last couple of weeks
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  • To read the gospel of luke with me.
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  • It's a--there's only 24 chapters.
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  • You can read the entire gospel in a single sitting in about
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  • Less time than it takes to watch a ball game, so it's not like an
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  • Enormous ask.
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  • We're just not accustomed to reading our bible that way.
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  • In fact, one of my objectives was to introduce you to a
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  • Different way to interact with your bible.
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  • Rather than a little 15 minute block, where we kind of read
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  • Through it and check the block, it's an appropriate way, it gets
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  • Us through our bible.
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  • But to go back and forth through the gospel of luke over a period
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  • Of time changes your familiarity with the text in a very
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  • Profound way.
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  • If your schedule will allow, read it once a day.
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  • Some of you don't have that kind of bandwidth, i understand.
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  • Maybe once a week would be a stretch.
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  • Maybe you could read it twice a week.
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  • You know, whatever would fit into your schedule, but make a
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  • Sacrifice to give some time that you would normally spend to
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  • Doing something else in reading the gospel of luke.
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  • I've been walking back and forth through luke now for several
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  • Weeks and i can tell you that has had a significant impact
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  • Upon me.
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  • In this session--we're about done with it, i'm gonna have to
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  • Move on for a while.
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  • But in this session, i wanna talk about jesus and the second
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  • Temple of the new testament.
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  • When we open our gospels, it's the second temple that's
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  • Standing in jerusalem.
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  • It will be destroyed after jesus ascends back to heaven in 70 ad.
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  • There's a third temple on the horizon that will be built
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  • In jerusalem.
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  • The bible tells us about that, but we're gonna focus on jesus's
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  • Activity in the second temple today, as presented to us in the
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  • Gospel of luke.
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  • In fact, we're going to temple with jesus.
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  • It's kind of fun.
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  • I've been to synagogues.
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  • You know, the synagogue was the--in the new testament, was
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  • The local place of worship.
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  • There were synagogues in all the little communities and villages.
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  • You had a dozen jewish men, you could have a synagogue.
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  • And so you find synagogues in nazareth and capernaum and
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  • Bethsaida and all the little towns that jesus would visit and
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  • Minister in.
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  • There was a single temple in jerusalem.
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  • It was the center of national life.
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  • It was the center of national pride in the first century.
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  • It was the most beautiful structure in all the nation.
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  • Herod the great had remodeled it, and in such an extravagant
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  • Way that it was a centerpiece of the roman world.
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  • In fact, visitors came from all over the roman world, non-jews,
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  • To see herod's temple in jerusalem.
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  • It was probably the single greatest structure and certainly
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  • The point of national pride.
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  • It was the center of their religious life, it was the
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  • Center of their political life, it was their national bank, it
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  • Was an important place.
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  • For the temple to be destroyed would be roughly analogous, i
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  • Think, to washington, d.c., being destroyed for us.
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  • Imagine if you saw pictures of washington, d.c., and all the
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  • Buildings and monuments were just piles of rubble.
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  • You would understand something horrific had happened, that the
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  • Power and the authority of our nation had somehow shifted, and
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  • That's what the temple represented to the people.
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  • And it's not insignificant that the last days and weeks of
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  • Jesus's ministry was centered almost exclusively in that
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  • Temple in jerusalem.
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  • He began his public ministry in galilee, in the remote rural
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  • Parts of the nation, ministering in the synagogues.
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  • They were small, they would hold dozens of people.
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  • But the conclusion of his ministry, the real conflict of
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  • His ministry, takes place in jerusalem.
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  • So luke is telling us a story.
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  • It's a narrative with an objective.
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  • Now, our familiarity with the gospels is principally in the
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  • Jesus story, the circumstances of his birth, the uniqueness of
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  • That virgin birth.
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  • Luke gives us a very clear window into that.
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  • The visit from the angel gabriel to a teenager in nazareth, and
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  • We follow jesus through and there's some miracle stories and
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  • There's some healings and we're kind of familiar with those and
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  • Then we get to the conclusion, the music builds, it's
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  • The crescendo.
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  • He's arrested, betrayed, tried, executed, buried, and raised to
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  • Life again.
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  • It's the redemptive story of jesus.
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  • I believe it, but it's not the only story in the gospel
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  • Of luke.
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  • And i think, unless you have a bit more time and you read with
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  • A bit more intentionality, it's very easy to read past that.
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  • Luke's gospel certainly presents a narrative about
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  • Jesus's arrival and his redemptive work, but it also
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  • Reflects an opportunity for the people that jesus
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  • Walked amongst.
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  • The messiah was there.
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  • Luke tells us a timeless story and an account of what happens
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  • When we ignore god's truth.
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  • We need both lessons.
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  • The people to whom jesus spoke, the people to whom he
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  • Ministered, the synagogues he entered, the people that
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  • Listened to him on the temple mount had a choice, and because
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  • Of their choices, their lives took a dramatic turn.
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  • Jesus warned them.
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  • It's throughout the gospel of luke.
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  • It's beyond this session.
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  • I'm not going to bring you those passages now, perhaps in the
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  • Later session, but jesus told them there would be an
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  • Interruption of their life patterns,
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  • That the plans they were familiar with, the habits they
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  • Had, the routines they have were going to be
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  • Dramatically disrupted.
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  • He told them there would be the complete removal of their
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  • Annual plans.
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  • In the same way we have annual holiday cycles and we know what
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  • We do and we have family traditions and personal choices,
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  • So did that first century audience.
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  • And jesus said, "you'll not continue them."
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  • He told them that the generational progress they have
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  • Enjoyed would be stopped.
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  • In the same way we have hopes that our children and
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  • Grandchildren will have lives that exceed the opportunities we
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  • Have, jesus said, "that will no longer be the case."
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  • He warned them that chaotic forces would be focused on
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  • Disrupting and diminishing their lives,
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  • That they would forfeit stability and security, that
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  • Lawlessness would increase.
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  • The deception would flourish,
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  • That there would be tremendous financial loss and
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  • Even displacement.
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  • All of that is in the gospel of luke.
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  • We don't listen to it very carefully.
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  • We think it's old, it's historical, it's not
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  • Particularly relevant to us.
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  • I would submit to you that we too are at a crossroads.
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  • I think it's highly improbable that our future looks like
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  • Our past.
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  • I don't know the outcome, to be quite candid, yet.
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  • It isn't clear to me.
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  • But i can tell you that we are at a junction and i believe that
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  • The future has far more to do with the people of god and our
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  • Hearts and our choices than any other factor.
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  • I'm convinced of that.
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  • If you'll tolerate with me just a brief historical review--i
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  • Think it'll help with the gospel of luke.
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  • For more than a thousand years, the jewish people lived in the
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  • Land god promised abraham with jerusalem as their capital city,
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  • For more than one thousand years.
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  • There was one brief interlude, about 70 years.
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  • God sent them away.
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  • It's a babel and you know the portions of your bible that come
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  • From that window.
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  • The prophet jeremiah was the one that had the challenge of making
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  • The announcement, but it's where you meet daniel and esther and
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  • Nehemiah and ezra.
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  • Those characters all step into the story in that little brief
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  • Window of time when the the jewish people--god said, "you
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  • Can't stay in your inheritance."
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  • Jesus's arrival signals a rescue mission for the audience of the
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  • First century, every bit as much as for us.
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  • They needed a messiah, they needed a savior, and jesus came
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  • With a message for his generation.
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  • He said, "i came to seek and to save those which were lost."
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  • And we've extrapolated that out to the 21st century.
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  • It's not inappropriate, but he came to the audience in that
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  • First century.
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  • They weren't quite prepared for the messiah that
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  • Jesus represented.
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  • They imagined a political solution.
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  • They preferred freedom from roman oppression.
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  • By the time jesus arrived, the romans were the overlords of the
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  • Land which was humiliating for the people.
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  • They were subjugated to the roman soldiers, to
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  • Roman authority.
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  • They paid excessive taxes, they endured abusive treatment.
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  • They were not equal before the law and therefore their
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  • Imagination was a messiah, when he came, would remove the
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  • Political restraints.
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  • Jesus's arrival fulfilled the promises of the prophets, the
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  • Location of jesus's birth, the place where he would grow up,
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  • The lineage from which he would emerge, dozens and dozens of
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  • Prophecies, and jesus fulfilled them all, but he didn't fulfill
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  • The expectations of the people.
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  • Jesus's message was directed at the behavior of the covenant
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  • People of god.
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  • They wanted someone to talk to the romans and he talked
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  • To them.
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  • He said, "you're not reading the scriptures right.
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  • You have much religious activity and lots of religious language
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  • And you have religious rules for what to eat and when to worship
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  • And how to worship, but your hearts are far from god."
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  • He didn't avoid the reality of secular authority and power.
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  • He clearly imagined that it was secondary to a greater
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  • Authority, the kingdom of god.
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  • He freely acknowledged the boundaries that rome brought,
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  • But he was trying to capture the people's attention that there
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  • Was a power greater than that.
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  • He spoke about obedience to kingdom principles and reminded
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  • His listeners that ignoring god's principles would
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  • Bring consequences.
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  • They didn't like the message.
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  • He frequently demonstrated the power of god's kingdom over
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  • Demons, over sicknesses, even over death.
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  • He showed the people a power greater than the wind or the
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  • Waves, a power which transcended financial matters.
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  • You can find tax money in the mouth of a fish.
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  • He wanted the people to see and understand the magnitude of the
  • 00:12:08.977 --> 00:12:13.148
  • Invitation which was before them.
  • 00:12:13.148 --> 00:12:16.217
  • It wasn't even close, if we were going to talk of power
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  • And authority.
  • 00:12:18.987 --> 00:12:21.089
  • All of that is in luke's narrative:
  • 00:12:21.089 --> 00:12:24.692
  • Jesus pleading with the people, demonstrating the power of a
  • 00:12:24.692 --> 00:12:29.030
  • Kingdom of almighty god.
  • 00:12:29.030 --> 00:12:31.533
  • And in the midst of that is jesus's redemptive work, his
  • 00:12:31.533 --> 00:12:33.935
  • Death, his burial and his resurrection, which changes the
  • 00:12:33.935 --> 00:12:38.039
  • Narrative of scripture in the most dramatic way, enabling
  • 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:41.042
  • People from every nation, race, language, and tribe to become a
  • 00:12:41.042 --> 00:12:44.879
  • Part of the covenant people of god.
  • 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:48.082
  • It was no longer a matter of descent or lineage or genealogy.
  • 00:12:48.082 --> 00:12:52.420
  • Access to this eternal kingdom of god is freely available to
  • 00:12:52.420 --> 00:12:56.191
  • Any person who will choose jesus as lord and repent of their
  • 00:12:56.191 --> 00:12:59.828
  • Sins, their ungodly behavior.
  • 00:12:59.828 --> 00:13:03.598
  • But just as jesus said to that first century jewish audience,
  • 00:13:03.598 --> 00:13:06.668
  • You can't worship god on your terms and imagine that you will
  • 00:13:06.668 --> 00:13:10.104
  • Receive all of his mercy and grace and blessings.
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  • I believe that message is still relevant for his people in the
  • 00:13:14.242 --> 00:13:16.878
  • 21st century, and i believe we have drifted greatly.
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  • Allen: i put a passage in your notes.
  • 00:14:37.825 --> 00:14:39.193
  • It's the first verse i've used in weeks.
  • 00:14:39.193 --> 00:14:40.662
  • It's not from the gospel of luke, but--for a moment.
  • 00:14:40.662 --> 00:14:45.066
  • It's 1 peter chapter 2.
  • 00:14:45.066 --> 00:14:47.402
  • It says, "you're a chosen people, a royal priesthood,
  • 00:14:47.402 --> 00:14:51.139
  • A holy nation, a people belonging to god, that
  • 00:14:51.139 --> 00:14:54.509
  • You may declare the praises of him who called you out of
  • 00:14:54.509 --> 00:14:56.811
  • Darkness into his wonderful light.
  • 00:14:56.811 --> 00:14:59.247
  • Once you were not a people, but now you're the people of god;
  • 00:14:59.247 --> 00:15:02.917
  • Once you had not received mercy, but now you have
  • 00:15:02.917 --> 00:15:05.086
  • Received mercy."
  • 00:15:05.086 --> 00:15:06.955
  • The book of romans says we've been grafted in, that the
  • 00:15:06.955 --> 00:15:10.591
  • Covenant god made with abram is relevant to us.
  • 00:15:10.591 --> 00:15:15.563
  • So i would submit to you that jesus's words to his audience in
  • 00:15:15.563 --> 00:15:18.666
  • The gospel of luke are very relevant to those of us in the
  • 00:15:18.666 --> 00:15:21.970
  • 21st century.
  • 00:15:21.970 --> 00:15:23.972
  • We have lived with great freedom and great liberty and great
  • 00:15:23.972 --> 00:15:26.841
  • Abundance and great opportunities to worship god, to
  • 00:15:26.841 --> 00:15:30.011
  • Gather in our churches, to read our bibles, and i think in some
  • 00:15:30.011 --> 00:15:35.550
  • Very similar ways, we have drifted.
  • 00:15:35.550 --> 00:15:39.554
  • And if we take the words of the gospel of luke seriously at all,
  • 00:15:39.554 --> 00:15:42.724
  • I would submit to you that we are confronted with almost
  • 00:15:42.724 --> 00:15:46.227
  • Identical choices to the audience that jesus addressed,
  • 00:15:46.227 --> 00:15:50.331
  • That if we don't engage god in a more meaningful way, with
  • 00:15:50.331 --> 00:15:53.534
  • Humility and repentance and seek him, i think we will face the
  • 00:15:53.534 --> 00:15:57.238
  • Interruption of our life patterns.
  • 00:15:57.238 --> 00:16:02.210
  • I believe we'll see the removal of our annual plans.
  • 00:16:02.210 --> 00:16:06.347
  • I believe generational progress will be stopped in our
  • 00:16:06.347 --> 00:16:09.450
  • Own families.
  • 00:16:09.450 --> 00:16:11.719
  • I believe there are chaotic forces focused on disruption
  • 00:16:11.719 --> 00:16:14.455
  • And diminishment,
  • 00:16:14.455 --> 00:16:16.557
  • That we very well could face the forfeiture of stability
  • 00:16:16.557 --> 00:16:20.595
  • And security.
  • 00:16:20.595 --> 00:16:23.598
  • Well, i believe we are at a crossroads.
  • 00:16:23.598 --> 00:16:25.366
  • And as i said, i'm not certain of the outcome, but i do know
  • 00:16:25.366 --> 00:16:27.702
  • The character of god and that humility and repentance are
  • 00:16:27.702 --> 00:16:30.238
  • Powerful factors in eliciting god's engagement.
  • 00:16:30.238 --> 00:16:35.076
  • I would also remind us that pride, indifference, and
  • 00:16:35.076 --> 00:16:37.545
  • Stubborn unbelief will attract god's judgment every time.
  • 00:16:37.545 --> 00:16:45.286
  • The message of personal salvation, where we imagine
  • 00:16:45.286 --> 00:16:47.555
  • Because we've recited a prayer and been dipped in a pool has
  • 00:16:47.555 --> 00:16:50.691
  • Guaranteed us uninterruptible provision from god, is an
  • 00:16:50.691 --> 00:16:56.097
  • Incomplete gospel.
  • 00:16:56.097 --> 00:16:58.866
  • I believe in conversion, i believe in salvation, i believe
  • 00:16:58.866 --> 00:17:01.569
  • In the new birth.
  • 00:17:01.569 --> 00:17:02.937
  • I understand them to be essential.
  • 00:17:02.937 --> 00:17:04.272
  • And there's only one way.
  • 00:17:04.272 --> 00:17:05.640
  • Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
  • 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:07.475
  • There are not many paths that lead to the same outcome.
  • 00:17:07.475 --> 00:17:11.312
  • But the point of that new birth, the point of conversion, is that
  • 00:17:11.312 --> 00:17:14.015
  • We might grow up in serving the lord and i don't think we've
  • 00:17:14.015 --> 00:17:18.419
  • Been nearly as interested in that.
  • 00:17:18.419 --> 00:17:25.026
  • Well, if you wanna bear the label of jesus, you'll have to
  • 00:17:25.026 --> 00:17:28.663
  • Be willing to bear the labels that his enemies would affix
  • 00:17:28.663 --> 00:17:31.866
  • To you.
  • 00:17:31.866 --> 00:17:34.635
  • I don't believe we have choices on those things.
  • 00:17:34.635 --> 00:17:37.405
  • The biblical view of male and female is being set aside while
  • 00:17:37.405 --> 00:17:41.075
  • Our children are being abandoned to mutilation.
  • 00:17:41.075 --> 00:17:45.646
  • And the hospitals and the medical practitioners that see
  • 00:17:45.646 --> 00:17:48.216
  • It as a profit center we say very little to.
  • 00:17:48.216 --> 00:17:52.186
  • We'll work alongside of them, we'll work under their
  • 00:17:52.186 --> 00:17:54.222
  • Umbrellas, we'll just turn a blind eye.
  • 00:17:54.222 --> 00:17:59.994
  • The biblical view of boundaries and borders have been set aside,
  • 00:17:59.994 --> 00:18:03.097
  • The biblical views of sexual morality have been set aside.
  • 00:18:03.097 --> 00:18:07.702
  • We don't even hold those in our own families any longer.
  • 00:18:07.702 --> 00:18:10.037
  • We'll point accusing fingers at someone in a leadership position
  • 00:18:10.037 --> 00:18:13.107
  • Or someone we--but amongst our own, amongst those that we're
  • 00:18:13.107 --> 00:18:16.010
  • Doing life with, we don't wanna introduce those
  • 00:18:16.010 --> 00:18:17.945
  • Hard conversations.
  • 00:18:17.945 --> 00:18:20.214
  • We'll talk about grace and mercy and we'll show baptism pictures.
  • 00:18:20.214 --> 00:18:24.952
  • Well, i'm an advocate for grace and mercy.
  • 00:18:24.952 --> 00:18:26.621
  • I'm a poster child for grace and mercy, but it doesn't suspend
  • 00:18:26.621 --> 00:18:30.057
  • The holiness, the righteousness, and the purity of god.
  • 00:18:30.057 --> 00:18:32.860
  • We do not have the freedom and the liberty to practice
  • 00:18:32.860 --> 00:18:36.130
  • Ungodliness and imagine we can be included amongst the godly.
  • 00:18:36.130 --> 00:18:42.236
  • We don't, so we're going to temple with jesus.
  • 00:18:42.236 --> 00:18:48.776
  • We're gonna listen to what he has to say.
  • 00:18:48.776 --> 00:18:50.278
  • I didn't forget where i said we were headed.
  • 00:18:50.278 --> 00:18:53.714
  • In luke chapter 2, it's very near the end--the beginning of
  • 00:18:53.714 --> 00:18:56.717
  • His story, jesus is just 12.
  • 00:18:56.717 --> 00:18:59.253
  • He's been taken to jerusalem for the holiday the first time.
  • 00:18:59.253 --> 00:19:03.124
  • It's a signal of his recognition that he's entered manhood.
  • 00:19:03.124 --> 00:19:06.594
  • And mary and joseph lost him.
  • 00:19:06.594 --> 00:19:09.497
  • Awkward, so they go back--"when they didn't find him, they went
  • 00:19:09.497 --> 00:19:13.568
  • Back to jerusalem to look, and after three days they found him
  • 00:19:13.568 --> 00:19:16.337
  • In the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to
  • 00:19:16.337 --> 00:19:19.840
  • Them and asking them questions.
  • 00:19:19.840 --> 00:19:21.209
  • And everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and
  • 00:19:21.209 --> 00:19:23.778
  • His answers.
  • 00:19:23.778 --> 00:19:25.112
  • When his parents saw him, they were astonished.
  • 00:19:25.112 --> 00:19:27.448
  • And his mother said to him, 'son, why have you treated us
  • 00:19:27.448 --> 00:19:30.151
  • Like this?
  • 00:19:30.151 --> 00:19:32.019
  • Your father and i have been anxiously searching for you.'"
  • 00:19:32.019 --> 00:19:36.857
  • And i think what's not written but probably understood that
  • 00:19:36.857 --> 00:19:39.794
  • "it's better that i found you than your dad did."
  • 00:19:39.794 --> 00:19:45.933
  • And jesus answered, "'why were you searching for me?'"
  • 00:19:45.933 --> 00:19:49.737
  • And we've all been coached, almost ad nauseam, that jesus is
  • 00:19:49.737 --> 00:19:53.040
  • Always kind,
  • 00:19:53.040 --> 00:19:55.576
  • That everything he had to say was just like about a group hug
  • 00:19:55.576 --> 00:19:58.246
  • And a handshake.
  • 00:19:58.246 --> 00:20:00.081
  • He handed out candy and everybody was happy.
  • 00:20:00.081 --> 00:20:02.617
  • But even at 12 years old, his answer to his mom--they left to
  • 00:20:02.617 --> 00:20:08.689
  • Go home and he didn't go with them intentionally.
  • 00:20:08.689 --> 00:20:12.793
  • He didn't tell them, he didn't send them a text, he apparently
  • 00:20:12.793 --> 00:20:18.966
  • Didn't even tell any of his friends, he just quietly
  • 00:20:18.966 --> 00:20:21.602
  • Stayed behind.
  • 00:20:21.602 --> 00:20:23.571
  • So after several days of anxiety and disrupted plans and
  • 00:20:23.571 --> 00:20:27.141
  • Searching for him, mary finds jesus and he said, "'well,
  • 00:20:27.141 --> 00:20:31.245
  • Didn't you know i had to be here?'"
  • 00:20:31.245 --> 00:20:35.116
  • I'm pretty sure, when i was 12, if i'd have caused that mass
  • 00:20:35.116 --> 00:20:37.618
  • Disruption and that had been my answer, it would not have gone
  • 00:20:37.618 --> 00:20:39.987
  • Well with me.
  • 00:20:39.987 --> 00:20:45.693
  • And luke simply reports in verse 50 that "they didn't understand
  • 00:20:45.693 --> 00:20:48.696
  • What he was saying."
  • 00:20:48.696 --> 00:20:51.332
  • So we meet jesus at 12, really at the beginning of his
  • 00:20:51.332 --> 00:20:53.868
  • Public ministry.
  • 00:20:53.868 --> 00:20:55.236
  • I mean, it isn't gonna take place for almost another 20
  • 00:20:55.236 --> 00:20:57.238
  • Years, but he's in the temple, talking to the leaders.
  • 00:20:57.238 --> 00:21:02.143
  • Luke chapter 4, jesus has been baptized and he's ready now to
  • 00:21:02.143 --> 00:21:06.147
  • Step into the public.
  • 00:21:06.147 --> 00:21:07.481
  • He's an adult, 30 years of age, and it says in luke 4 in verse
  • 00:21:07.481 --> 00:21:10.284
  • 9, "the devil led jesus to jerusalem and had him stand on
  • 00:21:10.284 --> 00:21:14.188
  • The highest point of the temple, and he said, 'if you're the son
  • 00:21:14.188 --> 00:21:17.491
  • Of god, throw yourself down from here.'"
  • 00:21:17.491 --> 00:21:19.026
  • The devil knew very well who he was.
  • 00:21:19.026 --> 00:21:21.696
  • He knew him before the earth was created.
  • 00:21:21.696 --> 00:21:25.366
  • He knew him in all of his glory and his majesty.
  • 00:21:25.366 --> 00:21:27.735
  • We know that because the demons know who he is.
  • 00:21:27.735 --> 00:21:31.772
  • When he steps into the synagogue in capernaum, the demons cries
  • 00:21:31.772 --> 00:21:34.875
  • Out, "i know who you are."
  • 00:21:34.875 --> 00:21:37.878
  • So i promise you the devil knew who he was.
  • 00:21:37.878 --> 00:21:42.083
  • He's tempted him.
  • 00:21:42.083 --> 00:21:44.485
  • The frailty of the human condition makes him vulnerable
  • 00:21:44.485 --> 00:21:47.321
  • In a way that satan has never known him.
  • 00:21:47.321 --> 00:21:49.256
  • And he stands him on the pinnacle of the temple, the
  • 00:21:49.256 --> 00:21:51.192
  • Highest point of the temple, which is quite an elevated
  • 00:21:51.192 --> 00:21:53.627
  • Place, and said, "'if you're the son of god--'"
  • 00:21:53.627 --> 00:21:57.998
  • I don't think it's accidental or incidental that satan begins the
  • 00:21:57.998 --> 00:22:00.768
  • Temptation at the temple and jesus quotes scripture to him.
  • 00:22:00.768 --> 00:22:07.441
  • In luke 19, jesus is approaching jerusalem.
  • 00:22:07.441 --> 00:22:12.313
  • It's the last of his trips there.
  • 00:22:12.313 --> 00:22:14.648
  • This trip is going to end with some horrible things, betrayal
  • 00:22:14.648 --> 00:22:19.687
  • And arrest and crucifixion.
  • 00:22:19.687 --> 00:22:21.789
  • Yes, we celebrate the resurrection, but the path
  • 00:22:21.789 --> 00:22:24.325
  • Between his entry into the city and that resurrection is brutal
  • 00:22:24.325 --> 00:22:27.962
  • Beyond consideration.
  • 00:22:27.962 --> 00:22:30.464
  • And as jesus approaches the city--he's approaching from the
  • 00:22:30.464 --> 00:22:34.402
  • East and you come down the mount of olives and there's the kidron
  • 00:22:34.402 --> 00:22:37.004
  • Valley and then before you, the city of jerusalem.
  • 00:22:37.004 --> 00:22:39.306
  • Because, although it's built on a hill, the mount of olives
  • 00:22:39.306 --> 00:22:41.375
  • Is taller.
  • 00:22:41.375 --> 00:22:42.710
  • So as you crest the mount of olives, the whole city spreads
  • 00:22:42.710 --> 00:22:45.012
  • Before you and immediately in front of you is the temple,
  • 00:22:45.012 --> 00:22:48.182
  • Herod's temple, the second temple.
  • 00:22:48.182 --> 00:22:51.685
  • It's this amazing, beautiful structure, one of the wonders of
  • 00:22:51.685 --> 00:22:54.388
  • The ancient world.
  • 00:22:54.388 --> 00:22:55.756
  • And as jesus comes into jerusalem, luke writes for us
  • 00:22:55.756 --> 00:22:58.159
  • That, "as he approached jerusalem and saw the city,
  • 00:22:58.159 --> 00:23:00.027
  • He wept."
  • 00:23:00.027 --> 00:23:02.596
  • It's a triumphal entry.
  • 00:23:02.596 --> 00:23:03.931
  • The children are saying, "hosanna to the king!"
  • 00:23:03.931 --> 00:23:08.302
  • But jesus's emotions are very different.
  • 00:23:08.302 --> 00:23:10.571
  • He's not basking in the celebratory attitude of
  • 00:23:10.571 --> 00:23:14.041
  • His arrival.
  • 00:23:14.041 --> 00:23:17.545
  • And then jesus as prophet said, "'if you'd only known on this
  • 00:23:17.545 --> 00:23:20.314
  • Day what would bring you peace- but now it's hidden from
  • 00:23:20.314 --> 00:23:23.117
  • Your eyes.
  • 00:23:23.117 --> 00:23:24.718
  • The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an
  • 00:23:24.718 --> 00:23:26.854
  • Embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on
  • 00:23:26.854 --> 00:23:29.223
  • Every side.'"
  • 00:23:29.223 --> 00:23:30.558
  • He's describing a war, a siege built against jerusalem.
  • 00:23:30.558 --> 00:23:33.894
  • If you stand on that same mount of olives today against the the
  • 00:23:33.894 --> 00:23:37.298
  • Wall of herod's temple mount, it's still there, it's the dirt
  • 00:23:37.298 --> 00:23:41.502
  • That was piled up as a part of that romans's siege ramp.
  • 00:23:41.502 --> 00:23:43.904
  • What jesus said in luke 19 you can see with your eyes on the
  • 00:23:43.904 --> 00:23:47.408
  • Mount of olives today.
  • 00:23:47.408 --> 00:23:51.479
  • "'they'll dash you to the ground, you and the children
  • 00:23:51.479 --> 00:23:53.581
  • Within your walls.
  • 00:23:53.581 --> 00:23:55.149
  • They'll not leave one stone on another, because you didn't
  • 00:23:55.149 --> 00:23:57.485
  • Recognize the time of god's coming to you.'"
  • 00:23:57.485 --> 00:23:59.954
  • For people that say jesus wasn't political, that he didn't engage
  • 00:23:59.954 --> 00:24:03.657
  • Current events, you need to listen to what he's saying.
  • 00:24:03.657 --> 00:24:08.162
  • He said, "the romans are coming for you and there's nothing you
  • 00:24:08.162 --> 00:24:12.700
  • Can do.
  • 00:24:12.700 --> 00:24:16.670
  • You didn't choose the kingdom and now you'll get
  • 00:24:16.670 --> 00:24:19.773
  • Something else."
  • 00:24:19.773 --> 00:24:22.309
  • See, the choices of our lives have consequences.
  • 00:24:22.309 --> 00:24:26.046
  • God's covenant with the jewish people is not interrupted.
  • 00:24:26.046 --> 00:24:30.251
  • It's as much enforced today.
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  • He's established the jewish people in that little strip of
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  • Land that he promised them, much to the consternation of
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  • The world.
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  • There are missiles launched their way on a daily basis in
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  • Tiny israel, about what--99.6% of the land in the middle east
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  • Belongs to the muslims, and that little tiny percentage that is
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  • Israel flourishes.
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  • Allen: we're not the first generation who turned our backs
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  • On god to have taken his blessings and imagine that we
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  • Deserve them or even earned them, but we can be one of those
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  • Generations that turns back to god in humility and repentance.
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  • Our challenge isn't the depravity of the wicked, it's
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  • The condition of our heart.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, forgive us.
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  • Forgive us for having been co-opted by the world, by having
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  • Our dreams and goals and aspirations be defined apart
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  • From you.
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  • Give us a love for your word and a love for your truth that will
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  • Write a new future for us.
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  • In jesus's name, amen. god bless you.
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  • Allen: this is the 250th anniversary of our nation.
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  • It's a big deal.
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  • Now, i know a lot of us don't care a whole lot about history.
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  • We didn't have great experiences in school.
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  • I understand that, but here's the reality.
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  • If they can steal our history, they'll rob us of our future.
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  • So history really does matter.
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  • Well, because of that, we have partnered with some good friends
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  • Of our ministries, wallbuilders david and tim barton.
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  • They have the best of the best on this topic.
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  • It's a two-volume set on "the american story," and it helps us
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  • Learn american history with a faith component, with a god
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  • Perspective--how god has been engaged in the unfolding
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  • Narrative of our american story.
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  • That matters because we need god to be involved in the future of
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  • The american story.
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  • That affects our lives, our families, our communities, and
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  • Ultimately our nation.
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  • The books will be a blessing to you, but more than that, i
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  • Believe they'll open your life to the imagination that god is
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  • Moving in the earth, and we can participate with him in the next
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  • Chapters of american history.
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