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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Jesus' Perfect Provision (Part 2) | September 5, 2025
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- Allen jackson: hey, i sat down recently with my father to do a
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- Podcast for my "culture & christianity" podcast, and it
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- Was so valuable to me.
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- I mean, we--it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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- As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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- Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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- Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about his
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- Experiences with the holy spirit.
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- It changed his life, my parents' life, ultimately my
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- Family's life.
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- I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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- I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing the
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- Power of the holy spirit."
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- It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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- The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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- Together they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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- Language around the holy spirit, but to have something to
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- Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis, to
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- Give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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- That we face.
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- The spirit of god within us to help us, guide us, and direct
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- Us, that's invaluable, and these books will help you understand.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Allen: the gospel is based on three simple facts, i'll show
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- You from the scripture in a moment.
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- Christ died for our sins, he was buried, and he rose again on the
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- Third day.
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- Those are the facts that give you and i a hope for both time
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- And eternity.
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- It isn't theoretical.
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- It's not about joining a movement or a part of a
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- Congregation or a theology, you've got to grapple with
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- Those facts.
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- Do you believe jesus of nazareth was the son of god?
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- It's important what you decide about that, it isn't irrelevant.
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- But the fundamental facts was that he died for our sins, he
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- Was buried, and he rose again.
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- Look at 1 corinthians 15: "what i received i passed on to you as
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- Of first importance: that christ died for our sins according to
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- The scriptures, that he was buried, and that he was raised
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- On the third day according to the scriptures."
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- Now, those are matters of--those are points of fact in the
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- Presentation of scripture.
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- Faith is what you do to appropriate those facts.
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- You see, you can believe that jesus of nazareth was born, that
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- He was a 1st century character.
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- You can believe he had a healing ministry.
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- You may believe he appeared before pontius pilate.
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- You may believe he died on a roman cross and was buried and
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- Resurrected to life again.
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- You can accept those facts and sit in hell.
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- Faith is when you appropriate those facts and incorporate them
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- Into your behavior.
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- Faith leads us to accept, believe, and act upon
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- Those facts.
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- You see, the equation changes dramatically when you say,
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- "jesus, be lord of my life."
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- Now you're no longer simply a historical character.
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- You're not some shadowy figure from some point of antiquity.
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- You're not some person that's been written about and
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- Preached about.
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- I have asked you into my realm of existence, jesus of nazareth,
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- Be lord of my life.
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- I'll yield my will to you, that's what being lord means.
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- You see, if jesus isn't lord of your life, if you haven't
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- Yielded your will to him, you shouldn't imagine you're a
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- Christ follower.
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- It's that act of faith where you believe in your heart and
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- Confess with your mouth that jesus is lord that
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- Changes everything.
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- And then after facts and faith come our feelings.
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- I don't make those decisions.
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- In fact, my feelings are usually screaming, don't do that.
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- Some of you are having one of those little fact, feeling,
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- Faith battles right now volunteering to serve children.
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- Your faith says, "i--i'd like to do that, i think," and your
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- Feelings go, "what are you thinking?
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- Have you lost your ever-loving mind?"
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- After facts and faith come our feelings.
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- You see, it makes all the difference in your life and your
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- Eternity if your faith is based on facts or feelings.
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- It changes everything.
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- I interact with people a lot, you know, and they'll say to me,
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- "well, i just can't believe god would," and then whatever is
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- Their version of god.
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- And they'll disconnect it completely from scripture, and
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- They will base their model of god on how they feel
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- About something.
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- Now, feelings are legitimate.
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- God created us with the capacity to have feelings.
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- They enrich and enhance our lives, but they make lousy
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- Cornerstones because feelings change with the weather.
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- Feelings change with how much water weight we're
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- Carrying today.
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- Feelings change with whether your seat you prefer at church
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- Is vacant or occupied and who occupied it, in the house of god
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- Before we worship.
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- Feelings are remarkable, they're just not good rudders for
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- Our lives.
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- And to receive god's provision for rejection in our lives,
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- There are two facts that we have to, we must appropriate for our
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- Own lives.
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- I'll give them to you.
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- I'll support them from scripture.
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- I didn't write these out in your notes,
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- But the scriptures are there.
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- The first is we have to believe, we have to accept that god did
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- Not make multiple solutions for all of the challenges which face
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- Human beings.
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- He didn't create a menu of responses for us.
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- Instead, he made one all-inclusive provisions for the
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- Need of humanity.
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- You know what it is?
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- The sacrificial death of jesus of nazareth.
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- In jesus's death, his burial, and his resurrection, god made
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- Provision for every need that we will ever face.
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- The second thing that we have to believe is that what took place
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- On the cross was a divine exchange, and here's the punch
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- Line, which god himself had planned.
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- I've said it to you many, many times.
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- It's not original with me, i don't pretend it is.
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- It comes as derived from scripture, but on the cross, a
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- Divinely ordered exchange took place, whereby the perfect,
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- Sinless, obedient son of god took upon himself all of the
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- Judgment that was due by divine judgment, my rebellion and my
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- Godlessness, so that i might receive all of the blessing that
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- Was due his perfect obedience.
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- You see, in that divine exchange, jesus exhausts the
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- Curse of sin so that you and i might receive the blessing of
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- His obedience.
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- Look in galatians 3:13: "christ redeemed us from the curse of
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- The law by becoming a curse for us, for it's written: 'cursed is
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- Everyone who's hung on a tree.'
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- He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to abraham might
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- Come to the gentiles through christ jesus, so that by faith
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- We might receive the promise of the spirit."
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- Jesus became a curse for us.
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- The language is important, the language of an exchange.
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- Look at 2 corinthians 8:9: "you know the grace of our lord jesus
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- Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became
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- Poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich."
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- There's that exchange again.
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- You see, we've had a diminished presentation of the gospel.
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- I'm not saying that it was wrong, i'm telling you
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- It's incomplete.
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- The gospel that we have heard preached predominantly in
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- American evangelicalism is that if we'll confess our sins and
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- Forgive those who have sinned against us, we can be forgiven
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- And we can be welcomed into the kingdom of god.
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- I understand that to be true scripturally, but i understand
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- It to be incomplete.
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- The greek word that's translated most frequently saved, sozo, i
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- Don't--it's not a--i can't do it in this session, but it's also
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- That, that same word that's translated "saved" through the
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- Gospels is translated to be healed, to be delivered.
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- It has for every--that salvation includes every aspect of your
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- Person, body, soul, and spirit.
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- That we can be healed physically, that we can be
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- Delivered from every tormenting spiritual force or influence.
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- That we can be healed, not just physically but emotionally.
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- All of that provision for us was included in that divine exchange
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- On the cross.
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- But because we haven't had that total message presented to us,
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- We've preferred to have seminars and have arguments over whether
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- God still does miracles or god still heals, or whether we
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- Believe unclean spirits could have any influence on a believer
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- Or not.
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- It's a--it's an amazing tactic of our adversary, to engage us
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- In debate about the clear teaching of scripture and keep
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- Us from benefiting from it.
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- Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 9 says, "jesus suffered death, so
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- That by the grace of god he might taste death for everyone."
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- Can you see the exchange in these verses?
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- He took our poverty that we might have his abundance.
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- He exhausted the curse of sin that we might have
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- His blessings.
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- He suffered death so that we might have the grace of god.
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- We could walk through a myriad of other passages with this, but
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- This exchange has implications for our shame and for our
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- Suffering that emerges because of the rejection that touches
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- Our lives.
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- And again, it's universal and it's not unique to a season of
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- Your life.
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- Allen: hey, i sat down with my father recently, did a podcast.
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- He told the story of how he came to faith, how god transformed
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- Our family, they started a home bible study.
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- All the way up to the beginning of this church that i've served
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- Now for decades.
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- And as i listened, the heart of it was the work of the holy
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- Spirit in his life and through his life.
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- I asked him to do a book around the topic, and we have it, so
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- That you can invite the spirit of god to be the dynamic
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- Presence of the power of god to bring change and life and hope
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- No matter what the circumstances.
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- You'll enjoy the book.
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- Allen: you know, i listen to the language that we direct towards
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- Young people, because we spend a great deal of energy
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- Around that.
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- And there's this great fear that a young person will have an
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- Encounter that will shape their whole life.
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- Rather than be frightened that they'll be bullied, let's teach
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- Them about god's provision in jesus, and they'll have a power
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- Greater than the words or the intimidation of a bully to
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- Overcome rejection.
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- You see, we can't protect our children from every expression
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- Of evil in the world, it's impossible.
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- Because when it's come--when it's their turn to go adulting,
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- They're gonna have to face those things.
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- And rather than try to put them in some sort of a bubble where
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- They never encounter those things, what if we gave them the
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- Tools to overcome all of those attacks of the adversary?
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- Let's introduce them to the fundamentals of spiritual
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- Realities and the provision of god to equip them to
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- Be triumphant.
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- Somehow, i don't understand, we don't have the whole narrative
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- On joseph, but joseph was undeterred.
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- He's not so emotionally bound up by the hatred of his family of
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- Origin and the evil behavior or the betrayal in potiphar's house
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- Or the betrayals in prison that he can flourish.
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- I promise you if he'd been bound by hatred and resentment, he
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- Could have never become the person who brought deliverance
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- To his brothers later in his life.
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- You see, we grieve things for our children because we haven't
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- Learned them for ourselves.
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- And because we're still living with the pain and the shame and
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- The disappointment, we're still muttering the phrases and hiding
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- Behind our facades, we think, well, we have to protect them
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- From those things.
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- When in reality, to the degree we find freedom, we can teach
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- Them how to live in freedom and they can overcome all the
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- Attacks of the enemy.
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- This is a possibility, church.
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- It's a different cadence, it's a different response.
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- It's a response rooted in the gospel, it's not a response
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- Rooted in the secular self-help.
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- Look at isaiah 61:7, it says, "instead of their shame my
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- People will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace
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- They will rejoice in their inheritance; so they will
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- Inherit a double portion in their land."
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- In the place of shame, they can have a double portion of
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- God's grace.
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- Hebrews 12, some prefer the new testament, "let's fix our eyes
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- On jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for
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- The joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame."
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- Jesus could see joy in the face of humiliation.
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- In shame and hungry, thirsty and naked, in need of all things,
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- Hung on a cross like a common criminal with a--and he could
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- See the joy on the other side of it.
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- You see, we can't eliminate--if we're gonna make our journey
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- Through time, we're going to engage inappropriate behaviors,
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- Inappropriate responses.
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- We're going to have encounters with evil, it's a part of
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- The journey.
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- What we can do to prepare ourselves is understand
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- God's provision.
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- You believe it about forgiveness, let's ask the holy
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- Spirit to help us believe it about rejection.
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- Isaiah 50 is a messianic prophecy, isaiah is writing
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- About the messiah.
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- Describing jesus, he said, "i offered my back to those who
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- Beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; i didn't
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- Hide my face from mocking and spitting."
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- Could we call that rejection?
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- I think so.
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- You see, the promise that if we took those simple passages, the
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- Promises that joy, honor, and glory are offered in place of
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- Shame and humiliation.
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- So we may walk through circumstances that are
- 00:15:22.770 --> 00:15:24.806
- Humiliating, we may walk through experiences where a response
- 00:15:24.806 --> 00:15:30.278
- Apart from god would seem to be an invitation to shame in our
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- Life, but the promise of scripture is that jesus
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- Exhausted those things so that you and i might find joy and
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- Honor and glory in the midst of those circumstances.
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- That we're not covered with shame because the god we serve
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- Has a plan for us, and at the moment, we may be walking
- 00:15:50.465 --> 00:15:53.468
- Through a shadowed valley or the shadow of the cross, but god
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- Will bring us through triumphantly.
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- He's bringing us out of that tomb.
- 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:02.610
- It is such an important message to put in your heart, jesus
- 00:16:02.610 --> 00:16:07.482
- Suffered rejection.
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- He was rejected on two levels, he was rejected both by men and
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- He was rejected by god himself.
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- In isaiah 53, again, isaiah is talking about messiah, and he
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- Said, "he was despised and rejected by men, a man of
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- Sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
- 00:16:22.964 --> 00:16:25.333
- Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and
- 00:16:25.333 --> 00:16:29.203
- We esteemed him not."
- 00:16:29.203 --> 00:16:31.606
- See, jesus should have been celebrated, he should have
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- Been received.
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- He raised the dead and he made wine out of water, you would
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- Think he could get a party invitation, and instead he
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- Was crucified.
- 00:16:45.219 --> 00:16:48.689
- But his rejection didn't stop there.
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- In matthew 27, there's a little window, there's a little portal
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- Into jesus on the cross.
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- It says, "from the sixth hour until the ninth, darkness came
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- Over the land.
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- In the ninth hour jesus cried out, 'my god, my god, why have
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- You forsaken me?'"
- 00:17:03.171 --> 00:17:04.539
- He didn't know that feeling of being separate from god.
- 00:17:07.542 --> 00:17:12.847
- "some standing near him, they said, 'he's calling elijah.'
- 00:17:16.284 --> 00:17:18.686
- And immediately they ran and got a sponge and filled it with
- 00:17:18.686 --> 00:17:20.888
- Vinegar and put it on a stick.
- 00:17:20.888 --> 00:17:23.291
- 'leave him alone, let's see if elijah comes.'
- 00:17:23.291 --> 00:17:26.394
- When jesus cried out in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit and
- 00:17:26.394 --> 00:17:29.097
- The curtain of the temple was torn in two."
- 00:17:29.097 --> 00:17:31.766
- Do you know what that's referencing?
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- The temple was divided into segments.
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- There's the outer court where anybody could come, even
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- The gentiles.
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- But as you move towards the temple, it was consistently
- 00:17:41.943 --> 00:17:46.013
- Limiting the audience, first only to jews, and then only to
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- Jewish men, and then the temple proper only for the priests.
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- In the innermost section of the temple was the holy of holies,
- 00:17:53.121 --> 00:17:56.858
- And the only person that could enter the holy of holies was the
- 00:17:56.858 --> 00:17:59.293
- High priest, and he could only go once a year with the blood of
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- The passover lamb.
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- It was in that holy of holies where the ark of the covenant
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- Was to dwell.
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- And what separated the holy of holies from the next outer
- 00:18:09.036 --> 00:18:11.606
- Chamber was this thick curtain.
- 00:18:11.606 --> 00:18:14.909
- And when jesus said, "it is finished," that curtain was torn
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- In two from the top to the bottom.
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- It was a message, it was a symbolic declaration that the
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- Way into the presence of god had been opened for all of us.
- 00:18:28.055 --> 00:18:30.625
- In the book of hebrews it says we can come boldly before the
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- Throne of grace to find mercy to help us in our time of need.
- 00:18:33.728 --> 00:18:39.800
- That's a powerful passage.
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- It's not in your notes, i didn't have any room.
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- I made the font so small i couldn't read it already.
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- But it says we can come boldly before the throne of grace to
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- Find mercy to help us in our time of need.
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- Not in our time of triumph or our time of righteousness, but
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- At those low points.
- 00:18:58.586 --> 00:18:59.954
- At those points of failure, at those points where we feel like
- 00:18:59.954 --> 00:19:03.124
- A failure, we can come boldly before the throne of grace, why?
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- Because jesus exhausted the curse.
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- We have lived below what jesus sacrificed for us to have.
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- We have bore the wounds and the shame and the mark of our
- 00:19:18.940 --> 00:19:22.443
- Journey through time, when jesus made a sacrifice that we could
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- Have greater freedom.
- 00:19:26.814 --> 00:19:28.182
- Look at ephesians 1, paul's writing to a church,
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- To believers.
- 00:19:35.256 --> 00:19:36.591
- He said, "praise be to the god and father of our lord jesus
- 00:19:36.591 --> 00:19:39.193
- Christ, who's blessed us in the heavenly realms with every
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- Spiritual blessing in christ.
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- For he chose us in him."
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- Did you hear that?
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- He chose us.
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- Have you ever been left out, not selected, overlooked, bypassed?
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- You need to meditate on this, god chose us.
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- You can leave me off your stinking team.
- 00:20:02.917 --> 00:20:04.819
- If god chose me, it'd be all right.
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- And i don't mean that in a haughty way.
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- But you need to meditate on that a bit, you need to walk around
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- With that.
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- You need to think about that.
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- You need to spend a few days walking around, god,
- 00:20:18.099 --> 00:20:19.433
- I just wanna thank you that you chose me.
- 00:20:19.433 --> 00:20:22.336
- You know the worst things about me, you know things about me
- 00:20:22.336 --> 00:20:24.505
- That if those people at church knew, they'd never sit next to
- 00:20:24.505 --> 00:20:26.507
- Me again.
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- God, there's nothing hidden from you, and you chose me.
- 00:20:29.243 --> 00:20:32.613
- I thank you that you chose me.
- 00:20:32.613 --> 00:20:35.016
- Oh god, thank you.
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- I thank you that you chose to show favor to me.
- 00:20:37.852 --> 00:20:41.922
- You could have shown punishment to me, anger to me, discipline
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- To me, you chose to show fa--thank you, god.
- 00:20:45.760 --> 00:20:50.765
- See, that--that's not an excuse for sloppy living, folks.
- 00:20:50.765 --> 00:20:54.201
- If you truly believe that it will bring more uprightness to
- 00:20:54.201 --> 00:20:57.772
- Your life than any message on grace i know, "he chose us in
- 00:20:57.772 --> 00:21:04.045
- Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless
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- In his sight."
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- There's no way.
- 00:21:11.018 --> 00:21:12.386
- We are neither holy nor blameless, only in christ could
- 00:21:12.386 --> 00:21:16.824
- That be our story, "in love he predestined us to be adopted as
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- His sons through jesus christ, in accordance with his pleasure
- 00:21:24.365 --> 00:21:29.203
- And will--to the praise of his glorious grace, which he's
- 00:21:29.203 --> 00:21:32.406
- Freely given us in the one he loves."
- 00:21:32.406 --> 00:21:35.009
- You see, god's eternal purpose, from the opening chapter of
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- Genesis, is that you and i might become his children, in all of
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- Our rebellion and our godlessness.
- 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:48.823
- When jesus bore our sins and suffered our rejection, he
- 00:21:48.823 --> 00:21:52.393
- Made--we made--he made possible our acceptance as sons and
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- Daughters of god.
- 00:21:55.730 --> 00:21:58.065
- So now we have a choice to make, what will we do with the
- 00:21:58.065 --> 00:22:02.103
- Experience of rejection?
- 00:22:02.103 --> 00:22:05.539
- Are we gonna build walls, we're gonna get angry, we're gonna
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- Give in?
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- What are we gonna do?
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- Are we gonna give it to the lord and celebrate joyfully the fact
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- That he accepts us?
- 00:22:19.987 --> 00:22:23.090
- You see, if we can believe that, it changes everything.
- 00:22:23.090 --> 00:22:28.095
- Do you remember the story of the prodigal?
- 00:22:28.095 --> 00:22:30.364
- The young man that came to his father and demanded his
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- Inheritance, and the father gave it to him and the young man
- 00:22:32.700 --> 00:22:35.936
- Spent it in the most ungodly ways.
- 00:22:35.936 --> 00:22:38.239
- He finds himself destitute, he finds himself feeding the pigs
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- And the only thing he has to eat is the slop he feeds the pigs.
- 00:22:42.443 --> 00:22:45.646
- Now for a young jewish man, that's about as low down as
- 00:22:45.646 --> 00:22:47.915
- It goes.
- 00:22:47.915 --> 00:22:50.751
- And it says that he came to himself and he said, "i'm gonna
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- Go back home and i'll say to my dad, 'i don't deserve to be
- 00:22:53.154 --> 00:22:56.190
- Your son.'"
- 00:22:56.190 --> 00:22:57.925
- But your servants--his servants are living better than i'm
- 00:22:57.925 --> 00:23:01.829
- Living, maybe i could be a servant in my father's house.
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- You know the story, it says, when he was still a long way
- 00:23:05.299 --> 00:23:07.334
- Off, the father saw him and he ran to meet him.
- 00:23:07.334 --> 00:23:11.939
- And he said, "put the signet ring back on his finger,
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- Reinstate him in the family.
- 00:23:14.108 --> 00:23:16.610
- Put a robe on him, because my son that was dead is alive."
- 00:23:16.610 --> 00:23:22.049
- If you can believe that god will accept you, then you have
- 00:23:22.049 --> 00:23:27.555
- Something to process.
- 00:23:27.555 --> 00:23:29.123
- Are you going to give yourself the luxury of hatred and
- 00:23:29.123 --> 00:23:31.625
- Resentment and bitterness, or would you dare to believe that
- 00:23:31.625 --> 00:23:36.597
- God chose you?
- 00:23:36.597 --> 00:23:40.801
- God chose you.
- 00:23:40.801 --> 00:23:44.505
- If you can believe that, there's a freedom that comes to
- 00:23:44.505 --> 00:23:46.607
- Our life.
- 00:23:46.607 --> 00:23:48.476
- I brought you a prayer.
- 00:23:48.476 --> 00:23:50.544
- My time's up.
- 00:23:50.544 --> 00:23:51.879
- I'm gonna ask you to read it with me, why don't you stand?
- 00:23:51.879 --> 00:23:55.483
- It's a prayer i would give to you, not just for a moment at
- 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:03.123
- Church, it's worth making a part of your devotions for a
- 00:24:03.123 --> 00:24:06.227
- Few days.
- 00:24:06.227 --> 00:24:07.728
- I'd read it morning, evening and--morning, noon, and evening.
- 00:24:07.728 --> 00:24:11.465
- I would take it like spiritual medicine.
- 00:24:11.465 --> 00:24:15.102
- I would treat it as if it were more potent or more powerful
- 00:24:15.102 --> 00:24:18.372
- Than any pharmaceutical you could ingest.
- 00:24:18.372 --> 00:24:21.675
- I believe it holds greater potential to change your future
- 00:24:21.675 --> 00:24:25.212
- Than any chemical you could put in your body.
- 00:24:25.212 --> 00:24:26.947
- This is not a joke.
- 00:24:30.084 --> 00:24:33.287
- Spiritual forces aren't some mystical--they impact us
- 00:24:33.287 --> 00:24:39.493
- Physically and mentally, emotionally.
- 00:24:39.493 --> 00:24:42.263
- They shape our family systems and they write our futures.
- 00:24:42.263 --> 00:24:46.100
- God's made complete provision for us, but we've been
- 00:24:46.100 --> 00:24:49.637
- Very ambivalent.
- 00:24:49.637 --> 00:24:52.506
- Let's pray together.
- 00:24:52.506 --> 00:24:54.141
- Heavenly father, i thank you that you love me, that you gave
- 00:24:54.141 --> 00:24:58.412
- Jesus to die on my behalf, that he bore my sin, that he took my
- 00:24:58.412 --> 00:25:03.784
- Rejection, that he paid my penalty.
- 00:25:03.784 --> 00:25:07.388
- Because i come to you through him, i am not rejected, i am not
- 00:25:07.388 --> 00:25:12.059
- Unwanted, i am not excluded.
- 00:25:12.059 --> 00:25:15.296
- You really love me.
- 00:25:15.296 --> 00:25:17.031
- I am really your child.
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- You are really my father.
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- I belong in your family.
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- I belong to the best family in the universe.
- 00:25:23.337 --> 00:25:26.340
- Heaven is my home.
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- Thank you, thank you.
- 00:25:28.175 --> 00:25:31.745
- You know, you may have--i mean, one half a beat and i'll let
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- You go.
- 00:25:34.415 --> 00:25:35.783
- You know, you may have unhappy memories of an earthly father,
- 00:25:35.783 --> 00:25:38.986
- Many people do.
- 00:25:38.986 --> 00:25:40.854
- But there is good news, you have a heavenly father who loves you,
- 00:25:40.854 --> 00:25:44.491
- Who accepts you, who welcomes you, who wants the best for you,
- 00:25:44.491 --> 00:25:48.529
- Who will never reject you or abandon you.
- 00:25:48.529 --> 00:25:52.900
- If you'll welcome him, he will write a new future for you.
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- God bless you, we'll pick this up next time.
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- Allen: hey, i've got a question, what's "the eternal breath
- 00:26:08.015 --> 00:26:10.417
- Of life?"
- 00:26:10.417 --> 00:26:12.019
- Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote.
- 00:26:12.019 --> 00:26:14.555
- When i sat down to do a podcast with him and i was listening to
- 00:26:14.555 --> 00:26:17.257
- His story about how god had moved in his life and my
- 00:26:17.257 --> 00:26:20.160
- Family's life all the way up to the beginning of the church that
- 00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:22.529
- I've served now for several decades, i was so reminded of
- 00:26:22.529 --> 00:26:26.133
- The purpose and the power of the spirit of god in our lives.
- 00:26:26.133 --> 00:26:28.902
- I asked him to put it in a book, that's what we're sharing
- 00:26:28.902 --> 00:26:31.605
- With you.
- 00:26:31.605 --> 00:26:32.973
- We all need god's help, we all face challenges.
- 00:26:32.973 --> 00:26:34.942
- Life's not easy no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
- 00:26:34.942 --> 00:26:37.945
- Is present within us to bring the power and purposes of god to
- 00:26:37.945 --> 00:26:42.316
- Bear in our lives.
- 00:26:42.316 --> 00:26:44.051
- I believe the book will be a blessing with--for you.
- 00:26:44.051 --> 00:26:46.020
- If you'll pair it with "unleashing the power of the
- 00:26:46.020 --> 00:26:49.289
- Holy spirit," one of the most effective tools we have, it'll
- 00:26:49.289 --> 00:26:52.026
- Give you a pathway that i believe will bring god's best
- 00:26:52.026 --> 00:26:55.262
- Into your family.
- 00:26:55.262 --> 00:26:56.597
- You may not plant a church, but you have been given the
- 00:26:56.597 --> 00:26:58.732
- Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god, and we need
- 00:26:58.732 --> 00:27:01.835
- The help of the holy spirit.
- 00:27:01.835 --> 00:27:03.604
- Enjoy the book.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪♪♪
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