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Allen Jackson - Jesus In The Synagogue

February 27, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Jesus In The Synagogue
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Jesus In The Synagogue | February 27, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world people are searching
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  • Allen: i find we are very comfortable talking about
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  • First century ideas.
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  • We're completely at home talking about the political
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  • Circumstances in the first century that resulted in
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  • Jesus's execution.
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  • We are much less comfortable talking about the political
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  • Circumstances or the cultural circumstances of the 21st
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  • Century and what the implications of the gospel are
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  • For us and that's precisely what happened in nazareth and jesus
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  • Begins to prod them a bit.
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  • He reminds them that there were points in their history when god
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  • Wanted to move, but there weren't people amongst the
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  • Jewish community who were cooperative and that god
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  • Used outsiders.
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  • It's very provocative language and i can tell you how
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  • Provocative it is because in verse 28, luke says to us, "all
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  • The people in the synagogue were furious when they heard it."
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  • These are his neighbors, childhood friends.
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  • "they got up and drove him out of the town and took him to the
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  • Brow of the hill on which the town was built in order to throw
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  • Him down the cliff."
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  • I've preached lots of sermons in churches.
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  • Some of them have been okay, some of them have been not
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  • So good.
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  • Occasionally i've gotten an amen.
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  • I'm grateful to say i think i've never had a response that was as
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  • Unanimously angry as the one jesus got and it's the first
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  • Message luke gives us in a synagogue.
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  • That's noteworthy, folks.
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  • The previous verse, i read it to you in verse 15, he said, "he
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  • Taught in their synagogues and everybody praised him."
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  • And then he said, "then he went to nazareth to the synagogue,
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  • As was his custom, and they wanted to kill him."
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  • So again, luke is telling us a story.
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  • He's inviting us into the middle of something, we should
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  • Pay attention.
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  • Same chapter, chapter 4, verse 31: "then jesus went down to
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  • Capernaum, a town in galilee, and on the sabbath he began to
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  • Teach the people.
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  • They were amazed at his teaching because his message
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  • Had authority.
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  • In the synagogue, there was a man possessed by a demon, an
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  • Evil spirit.
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  • He cried out at the top of his voice, 'what do you want with
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  • Us, jesus of nazareth?
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  • Have you come to destroy us?
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  • I know who you are, the holy one of god!'"
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  • We talked a moment ago about a dimensional life.
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  • There's a demonized man in the synagogue.
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  • Do you have room for that in your theological construct?
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  • One of the covenant people of god.
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  • Not drunk on shabbat, not engaged in some immorality
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  • On shabbat.
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  • In the synagogue tormented by an unclean spirit and the unclean
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  • Spirit has an awareness that nobody else in the gospel
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  • Has yet.
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  • No disciple, no religious leader.
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  • The demon says, "i know who you are."
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  • "and jesus said, 'be quiet!'
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  • And the people were amazed and they said, 'what is
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  • This teaching?
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  • With authority and power, he gives orders to evil spirits and
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  • They come out!'
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  • And the news about him spread throughout the
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  • Surrounding area."
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  • A little more friendly in capernaum, maybe, but there's
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  • Still resistance.
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  • There's demonic resistance.
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  • There's opposition from unclean spirits.
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  • Again, i have had the privilege of standing before groups of
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  • People many times in my life.
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  • It is awkward when demons outwardly interrupt you.
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  • That's not the preferred plan.
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  • So in the first two places, synagogues, luke takes us to
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  • With the lord.
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  • We've slipped in twice now.
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  • In nazareth, they tried to kill him and in capernaum, the demons
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  • Interrupt us.
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  • Maybe we should follow another rabbi.
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  • This one seems to have a proclivity towards the dramatic.
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  • There's just something he's kind of, you know, it's an emotional
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  • Lightning rod.
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  • If it's not his friends and neighbors, it's demons i mean,
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  • Really, couldn't we just go to synagogue and hear
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  • The scripture?
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  • We'll stay in capernaum just a moment.
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  • "just when the sun was setting, the people brought to jesus all
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  • Who had various kinds of sickness and laid hands on each
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  • One of them, and he healed them.
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  • Moreover, demons came out of many people shouting, 'you're
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  • The son of god!'
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  • He rebuked them and wouldn't allow them to speak.
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  • They knew he was the messiah.
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  • At daybreak, jesus went out to a solitary place.
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  • The people were looking for him and when they came to where he
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  • Was, they tried to keep him from leaving, but he said--remember
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  • Luke is presenting us a story, so these are the words that luke
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  • Chooses to share with us.
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  • Jesus said a lot of things luke didn't record.
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  • So when he records something that jesus had to say, it's to
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  • Inform us.
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  • It's very purposeful.
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  • So what luke says to us, as jesus say to us, "i must preach
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  • The good of the kingdom of god to the other towns because that
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  • Is why i was sent and he kept on preaching in the synagogues
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  • Of judea."
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  • Looks like we gotta go back to the synagogue some more.
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  • Sometimes the audience is receptive.
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  • Jesus has a sense of mission.
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  • "this is why i was sent."
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  • Synagogues are a primary point of interaction.
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  • We'll bother the reception i've got this to do.
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  • Chapter 6: "on another sabbath, he went into the synagogue and
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  • He was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand
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  • Was shriveled.
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  • The pharisees--the pharisees are the leaders in the
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  • Local synagogues.
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  • The sadducees have more power and authority in the temple in
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  • Jerusalem, but in these local communities, the pharisees are
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  • Oftentimes the spiritual authority.
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  • The pharisees and the teachers of the law were looking for
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  • A reason to accuse jesus.
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  • So they watched him closely to see if he would heal on
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  • The sabbath.
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  • Jesus knew what they were thinking.
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  • There's that dimensional thing again.
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  • And he said to the man with the shriveled hand, 'get up and
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  • Stand in front of everyone.'
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  • So he got up and stood there and jesus said to them, 'i ask you,
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  • Which is lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, to
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  • Save life or to destroy it?'"
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  • Now see, if we've gone with him on this date, we're--this is
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  • Tense stuff.
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  • Here he goes again.
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  • You know, he did this in nazareth a few days ago, you had
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  • To get out--you know, i had to bring up naaman.
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  • You had to go and remind them of that foreign widow that got help
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  • And now he's found somebody that needs healing and he stood
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  • Him up.
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  • And he's looking around the room going, so, what should we do?
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  • I'm not going back to another synagogue with him.
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  • Is it okay to heal on the sabbath?
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  • Should we take a pass?
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  • "and he looked around at them and said to the man, 'stretch
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  • Out your hand,' and he did so and his hand was
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  • Completely restored.
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  • And they were furious and they began to discuss with one
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  • Another what they might do to jesus."
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  • And if we go with him to the next synagogue, they're gonna
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  • Think we're with him.
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  • I mean, if you scroll all the way to the end of luke's gospel
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  • When they get to jerusalem and they come to arrest jesus, they
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  • Say to the disciples, "aren't you one of them?"
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  • I mean, "i've got his accent, but i'm not one of his
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  • Crazy followers.
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  • No, that's not me."
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  • Would you--i don't think we're doing anything inappropriate to
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  • The text to suggest that jesus did that on purpose.
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  • You could have prayed for that man before synagogue.
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  • You could have prayed with him after the sabbath, right?
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  • I thought jesus was always friendly.
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  • I thought he was always kind.
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  • I didn't think jesus would ever bring something disruptive
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  • To bear.
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  • I mean, except like in the bible.
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  • Luke 13: "on a sabbath jesus was teaching in one of the
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  • Synagogues--" yeah, we kinda got that pattern now.
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  • "and a woman was there," oh no,
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  • "who'd been crippled by spirit for eighteen years."
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  • What jesus needed was a synagogue of healthy people but
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  • If i remember correctly, he said the healthy don't need the
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  • Physician, the sick do.
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  • We don't go to church 'cause we've got it all figured out, we
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  • Go to church 'cause we need help.
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  • "and she was bent over and couldn't straighten up and when
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  • Jesus saw her--he slipped over quietly beside her and said,
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  • 'let's pray.'
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  • No, not exactly.
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  • He called her forward and he said to her, 'woman, you're set
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  • Free from your infirmity,' and he put his hands on her and
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  • Immediately she straightened up and she praised god.
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  • So now we've got another disruption and indignant because
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  • Jesus had healed on the sabbath, the synagogue ruler said to the
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  • People, 'there's six days for work, so come and be healed on
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  • Those days.'"
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  • And the lord said to him, i understand your perspective.
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  • And jesus said, "'you hypocrite!'"
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  • Wait a minute,
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  • You know, when you invited me to come go to synagogue with you
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  • And jesus, you told me he was gentle, and meek, and kind, and
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  • Now i've been with you three or four times, and he has been
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  • Provocative, and challenging, and confrontational.
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  • Now there have been some good things happen, but couldn't he
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  • Have done them in a less disruptive way?
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  • Luke is giving us a presentation, it isn't subtle.
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  • It's not some isolated, unique event.
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  • This one is particularly interesting in verse 17: "after
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  • Jesus responds on behalf of the woman, it says when he said
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  • This, all of his opponents were humiliated.
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  • But the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he
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  • Was doing."
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  • Remember what we talked about at the very beginning?
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  • We said there were some who would believe and there were
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  • Some who would resist.
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  • You see, you can't choose what other people will do but you can
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  • Choose what you will do.
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  • I wanna be certain that you understand you have an
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  • Invitation to be a friend with jesus.
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  • To call him lord, to serve, to make it your life ambition to be
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  • Pleasing to him.
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  • Not for the approval of someone else.
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  • Not for compliance to some set of rules, but because you
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  • Believe jesus of nazareth is worthy of your
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  • Humble submission.
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  • Won't be easy.
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  • There'll be those who won't agree with you.
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  • There will be those who will mock you.
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  • There'll be resistance.
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  • Sometimes you may even be rejected because you choose to
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  • Do that.
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  • There are times following jesus, there are times even walking
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  • With jesus, there are times being identified with jesus,
  • 00:13:36.631 --> 00:13:39.300
  • That will put you in positions that will be very uncomfortable.
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  • I would follow him anyway.
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  • I wanna be his friend.
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  • I wanna live in such a way that to the best of my ability, it's
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  • Pleasing before him.
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  • I'm not interested in being religious.
  • 00:14:00.488 --> 00:14:02.924
  • I have very little interest to be completely candid about
  • 00:14:02.924 --> 00:14:06.127
  • Playing church whatsoever.
  • 00:14:06.127 --> 00:14:08.796
  • He's the head of the church, so i lifted my hand.
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  • It's an honor for me to serve in any place that he thinks is
  • 00:14:13.001 --> 00:14:16.404
  • Worthwhile but the ambition, the goal, the purpose, the intent,
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  • The focus is to be pleasing to him.
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  • Allen: we have partnered with our friends tim and david barton
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  • To make available to you a two-volume set on
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  • American history.
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  • It's "the american story", and it focuses on the part of
  • 00:14:39.694 --> 00:14:42.697
  • American history that's been lost in much of our public
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  • Education these days.
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  • It's god's engagement with this nation and how he brought the
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  • American story forward.
  • 00:14:49.337 --> 00:14:50.838
  • Our nation is more than politics or republicans and democrats.
  • 00:14:50.838 --> 00:14:54.309
  • It's god working in the lives of people to shape a nation that
  • 00:14:54.309 --> 00:14:57.845
  • Had brought forth his purposes in the world.
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  • I believe it's an important part of our faith journey this year,
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  • And i believe the books will be a blessing to you.
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  • Female announcer: the 250th anniversary of our nation is
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  • An important milestone we shouldn't rush past, because
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  • History matters.
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  • "the american story" is a two-volume book series that
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  • Explores how faith, courage, and conviction helped shape the
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  • Gain a greater understanding of where we've been so you can
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  • Move forward.
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  • Allen: hey, i wanna give you a personal invitation to join my
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  • Podcast, "culture and christianity."
  • 00:15:44.926 --> 00:15:47.862
  • John amanchukwu: for a person to think that the bible is not
  • 00:15:47.862 --> 00:15:49.530
  • Political, you don't know the bible.
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  • Allen: we're trying to understand how to take our faith
  • 00:15:51.566 --> 00:15:54.035
  • Outside the walls of the church and live it out in
  • 00:15:54.035 --> 00:15:55.970
  • The marketplace.
  • 00:15:55.970 --> 00:15:57.305
  • David eubank: he will show you what to do, whether it's in our
  • 00:15:57.305 --> 00:15:59.741
  • Communities, in our country, or other places in the world.
  • 00:15:59.741 --> 00:16:03.244
  • Allen: so i brought in some friends, some people that are
  • 00:16:03.244 --> 00:16:04.879
  • Trying to do this.
  • 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:06.247
  • Jennifer o'neill: how could anyone call themselves christian
  • 00:16:06.247 --> 00:16:08.149
  • And be pro-choice is beyond my comprehension.
  • 00:16:08.149 --> 00:16:12.253
  • Dallas jenkins: but i think he wanted them open and in need of
  • 00:16:12.253 --> 00:16:16.758
  • Him every day.
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  • Allen: we've been living through a season of unprecedented
  • 00:16:18.126 --> 00:16:19.460
  • Deception, propaganda, manipulation.
  • 00:16:19.460 --> 00:16:22.263
  • Yair pinto: everybody says, "oh, israel is attacking schools in
  • 00:16:22.263 --> 00:16:25.566
  • The gaza strip."
  • 00:16:25.566 --> 00:16:26.934
  • Allen: i wanna be a part of seeing culture and
  • 00:16:26.934 --> 00:16:28.603
  • Christianity intersect.
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  • Hope you enjoy the podcast.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i'll close with luke 21.
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  • Jesus was polarizing in the first century, folks,
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  • He still is.
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  • This is a little different.
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  • There's some commentary on synagogues, but this is jesus's
  • 00:16:55.797 --> 00:16:58.032
  • Prophet, the greatest of the hebrew prophets.
  • 00:16:58.032 --> 00:17:01.069
  • "he said to the people, 'nation will rise against nation and
  • 00:17:01.069 --> 00:17:03.504
  • Kingdom against kingdom, and there will be great earthquakes
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  • And famines and pestilences in various places, fearful events
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  • And great signs in heaven.'"
  • 00:17:09.544 --> 00:17:11.546
  • So that stuff's coming, but the next phrase is important, he
  • 00:17:11.546 --> 00:17:14.348
  • Said, "'but before this,'" before all that stuff,
  • 00:17:14.348 --> 00:17:18.653
  • There's just some mundane everyday stuff you're gonna have
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  • To wade through.
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  • "they'll lay hands on you and they'll persecute you.'"
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  • This is luke 21, we're very near the end of his life.
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  • He's about to be betrayed and arrested and his passion will
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  • Begin but by this point, his disciples and some of his
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  • Friends have been with him for almost three years of
  • 00:17:37.705 --> 00:17:39.440
  • Public ministry.
  • 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:40.775
  • They've seen the angry voices, they've heard the
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  • Accusing shouts.
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  • They've seen him narrowly escape death.
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  • They understand he has been rejected and that he
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  • Has suffered.
  • 00:17:49.784 --> 00:17:51.152
  • It's been a part of their journey with him but now jesus
  • 00:17:51.152 --> 00:17:53.454
  • Has changed the narrative a bit.
  • 00:17:53.454 --> 00:17:55.756
  • "he says, 'they will deliver--they will lay hands on
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  • You and persecute you.'
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  • And they'll deliver you to the synagogues and the prisons, and
  • 00:18:03.564 --> 00:18:06.767
  • You'll be brought before kings and governors, all on account of
  • 00:18:06.767 --> 00:18:10.705
  • My name."
  • 00:18:10.705 --> 00:18:16.043
  • You see, we've been coached to bury the name of jesus.
  • 00:18:16.043 --> 00:18:20.181
  • To dial it back, to turn it down, not to wear something that
  • 00:18:20.181 --> 00:18:23.985
  • Has a religious implication, not to be identified with your
  • 00:18:23.985 --> 00:18:26.988
  • Bible, oftentimes in a public place or a workplace.
  • 00:18:26.988 --> 00:18:33.027
  • This is not something far removed from us, folks.
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  • By the time they put you in train cars like corrie, it's too
  • 00:18:35.963 --> 00:18:40.201
  • Late to object.
  • 00:18:40.201 --> 00:18:46.841
  • Your objections won't make any difference in the camp.
  • 00:18:46.841 --> 00:18:53.948
  • "they'll deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and
  • 00:18:53.948 --> 00:18:56.117
  • You'll be be brought before kings and governors all on
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  • Account of my name.
  • 00:18:58.419 --> 00:19:00.288
  • The result will be you're witnessing to them.
  • 00:19:00.288 --> 00:19:04.225
  • 'but make up your mind,' jesus said, 'not to worry beforehand
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  • How you'll defend yourselves.'"
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  • Wow!
  • 00:19:08.996 --> 00:19:10.798
  • We read that we spend more time worrying about how we're going
  • 00:19:10.798 --> 00:19:13.034
  • To defend ourselves and how we're going to be advocates.
  • 00:19:13.034 --> 00:19:16.504
  • Well, i don't wanna get in one of those places.
  • 00:19:16.504 --> 00:19:17.939
  • What would i say?
  • 00:19:17.939 --> 00:19:19.273
  • I don't know how to say--i don't know what to say.
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  • I've just been quiet.
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  • I'm afraid i'll say the wrong thing.
  • 00:19:22.210 --> 00:19:23.644
  • I'm sorry, that's not the counsel we were given.
  • 00:19:23.644 --> 00:19:28.115
  • "for i'll give you the words and wisdom that none of your
  • 00:19:28.115 --> 00:19:30.151
  • Adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
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  • You will be betrayed."
  • 00:19:34.822 --> 00:19:38.092
  • Wow, that's not a promise many people claim.
  • 00:19:38.092 --> 00:19:43.164
  • Jesus said, "you will be betrayed even by parents and
  • 00:19:43.164 --> 00:19:45.666
  • Brothers and relatives and friends.
  • 00:19:45.666 --> 00:19:47.635
  • They'll put some of you to death.
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  • All men will hate you because of me.
  • 00:19:50.371 --> 00:19:53.874
  • But not a hair of your head will perish.
  • 00:19:53.874 --> 00:19:57.211
  • By standing firm, you will gain life."
  • 00:19:57.211 --> 00:20:00.715
  • Now you need a little dimensional awareness to get to
  • 00:20:00.715 --> 00:20:02.683
  • The end of that passage and still maintain your sanity.
  • 00:20:02.683 --> 00:20:06.454
  • He said, "they're gonna put some of you to death but you can
  • 00:20:06.454 --> 00:20:10.458
  • Gain life."
  • 00:20:10.458 --> 00:20:13.294
  • He's talking about a life beyond time.
  • 00:20:13.294 --> 00:20:16.731
  • 'cause for complete candor, if they put you to death, it feels
  • 00:20:16.731 --> 00:20:19.033
  • Like to me the hairs of your head have gotten messed with.
  • 00:20:19.033 --> 00:20:23.904
  • So clearly jesus is inviting us to an awareness of a life beyond
  • 00:20:23.904 --> 00:20:27.308
  • Time and not to value our journey under the sun with such
  • 00:20:27.308 --> 00:20:31.946
  • Tremendous significance that we forfeit the opportunity to have
  • 00:20:31.946 --> 00:20:35.616
  • True life, a life beyond time, a dimension beyond this one.
  • 00:20:35.616 --> 00:20:42.223
  • That's not to diminish our journey through time, these
  • 00:20:42.223 --> 00:20:44.492
  • Beautiful mornings we've been having.
  • 00:20:44.492 --> 00:20:46.727
  • With the crisp air and the low humidity in tennessee, folks,
  • 00:20:46.727 --> 00:20:49.130
  • This is like a god thing.
  • 00:20:49.130 --> 00:20:53.200
  • Beautiful days but there's something better than
  • 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:56.604
  • A beautiful fall day awaiting us.
  • 00:20:56.604 --> 00:21:01.442
  • Folks, get your bibles out, walk with jesus, listen to what
  • 00:21:01.442 --> 00:21:06.614
  • He's saying.
  • 00:21:06.614 --> 00:21:08.582
  • Ask him to help you understand what the implications are for
  • 00:21:08.582 --> 00:21:11.085
  • Our lives today.
  • 00:21:11.085 --> 00:21:14.989
  • You know, the one thing i have decided that is universal is,
  • 00:21:14.989 --> 00:21:17.658
  • Life is more difficult than we would like it to be.
  • 00:21:17.658 --> 00:21:21.095
  • It comes with challenges we didn't imagine.
  • 00:21:21.095 --> 00:21:25.132
  • With decisions we would prefer not to have to face, but god
  • 00:21:25.132 --> 00:21:29.470
  • Is faithful.
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  • We're gonna close with communion.
  • 00:21:32.006 --> 00:21:35.109
  • Jesus gave us the privilege we don't wanna miss that.
  • 00:21:35.109 --> 00:21:37.144
  • When you came in there were ushers with the elements.
  • 00:21:37.144 --> 00:21:39.213
  • If you're at home and you're watching us, go grab a saltine
  • 00:21:39.213 --> 00:21:43.184
  • And a cup of water or an oreo and a glass of milk.
  • 00:21:43.184 --> 00:21:48.122
  • It's not as healthy, but it'll do.
  • 00:21:48.122 --> 00:21:53.728
  • Communion is a physical tangible opportunity to receive by faith
  • 00:21:53.728 --> 00:21:57.164
  • What jesus did for us through his death, burial,
  • 00:21:57.164 --> 00:22:00.167
  • And resurrection.
  • 00:22:00.167 --> 00:22:02.803
  • What's the shorthand on that?
  • 00:22:02.803 --> 00:22:04.171
  • It gives us the ability to stand in the presence of god without
  • 00:22:04.171 --> 00:22:07.274
  • Guilt or shame or fear.
  • 00:22:07.274 --> 00:22:12.179
  • Not because we've earned it or we deserved it or we're special
  • 00:22:12.179 --> 00:22:14.448
  • Or we read luke 32 times, but because of what jesus did
  • 00:22:14.448 --> 00:22:19.353
  • For us.
  • 00:22:19.353 --> 00:22:22.923
  • Peter wrote to us in the epistle that bears his name and said,
  • 00:22:22.923 --> 00:22:26.594
  • "god's given us everything we need for life and godliness."
  • 00:22:26.594 --> 00:22:31.198
  • And it's made available to us through the broken body
  • 00:22:31.198 --> 00:22:34.335
  • Of jesus.
  • 00:22:34.335 --> 00:22:35.669
  • So whatever we come with tonight, maybe we need healing,
  • 00:22:35.669 --> 00:22:37.805
  • Maybe we need peace, maybe we need god to open a door where
  • 00:22:37.805 --> 00:22:41.142
  • There seems to be an impenetrable wall.
  • 00:22:41.142 --> 00:22:43.878
  • Whatever it may be jesus has made provision.
  • 00:22:43.878 --> 00:22:48.282
  • So we come as disciples to the table.
  • 00:22:48.282 --> 00:22:53.521
  • Jesus said, "he took the bread," he had the passover
  • 00:22:53.521 --> 00:22:55.656
  • Meal with his disciples, and at the end he took bread and said,
  • 00:22:55.656 --> 00:22:58.025
  • "this bread is my body, broken for you as often as you eat
  • 00:22:58.025 --> 00:23:01.028
  • This, do this in remembrance of me."
  • 00:23:01.028 --> 00:23:03.497
  • Let's receive together.
  • 00:23:03.497 --> 00:23:06.934
  • "then he took a cup," he said, "this cup is a new covenant, a
  • 00:23:06.934 --> 00:23:10.571
  • New contract sealed with my own blood, as often as you drink it,
  • 00:23:10.571 --> 00:23:14.842
  • You proclaim my death until you see me again."
  • 00:23:14.842 --> 00:23:17.878
  • Let's receive together.
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  • You stand with me for a prayer?
  • 00:23:29.557 --> 00:23:36.697
  • Father, thank you, thank you for your great love for us.
  • 00:23:36.697 --> 00:23:40.301
  • That you called us out of the darkness into the kingdom of
  • 00:23:40.301 --> 00:23:42.703
  • Your son.
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  • I thank you that before the foundations of the earth were
  • 00:23:44.505 --> 00:23:46.941
  • Laid, that you looked across time and you chose us.
  • 00:23:46.941 --> 00:23:51.612
  • We praise you for that tonight.
  • 00:23:51.612 --> 00:23:53.881
  • We thank you for your grace and your mercy towards us.
  • 00:23:53.881 --> 00:23:57.518
  • Lord jesus, we thank you for your faithfulness and your
  • 00:23:57.518 --> 00:23:59.854
  • Obedience, for the sacrifice you made that we might become a part
  • 00:23:59.854 --> 00:24:03.524
  • Of your eternal kingdom and as we have received the bread
  • 00:24:03.524 --> 00:24:07.061
  • In the cup tonight, we receive your life.
  • 00:24:07.061 --> 00:24:09.263
  • We ask you to forgive us of our sins.
  • 00:24:09.263 --> 00:24:13.267
  • Forgive us of our sins just as we forgive those who have sinned
  • 00:24:13.267 --> 00:24:17.505
  • Against us.
  • 00:24:17.505 --> 00:24:19.573
  • I thank you that through the blood of jesus we are justified,
  • 00:24:19.573 --> 00:24:23.344
  • Acquitted, declared not guilty.
  • 00:24:23.344 --> 00:24:28.048
  • I thank you that through the blood of jesus we've been
  • 00:24:28.048 --> 00:24:30.184
  • Sanctified, set apart for the purposes of god, delivered from
  • 00:24:30.184 --> 00:24:34.288
  • The present evil age to fulfill god's purposes with our lives.
  • 00:24:34.288 --> 00:24:40.528
  • I thank you that through the blood of jesus, all of satan's
  • 00:24:40.528 --> 00:24:43.964
  • Claims against us have been canceled.
  • 00:24:43.964 --> 00:24:47.401
  • That our bodies are temples of the holy spirit and that we have
  • 00:24:47.401 --> 00:24:51.705
  • Been set free to live for the glory of the living god.
  • 00:24:51.705 --> 00:24:57.645
  • May that be more real to us than any challenge we face or any
  • 00:24:57.645 --> 00:25:02.416
  • Need we have.
  • 00:25:02.416 --> 00:25:03.984
  • In jesus's name, amen.
  • 00:25:03.984 --> 00:25:07.187
  • Hallelujah!
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  • God bless you.
  • 00:25:08.522 --> 00:25:13.594
  • Allen: this is the 250th anniversary of our nation.
  • 00:25:17.665 --> 00:25:20.401
  • It's a big deal.
  • 00:25:20.401 --> 00:25:21.802
  • Now, i know a lot of us don't care a whole lot about history.
  • 00:25:21.802 --> 00:25:24.371
  • We didn't have great experiences in school.
  • 00:25:24.371 --> 00:25:26.173
  • I understand that, but here's the reality.
  • 00:25:26.173 --> 00:25:28.609
  • If they can steal our history, they'll rob us of our future, so
  • 00:25:28.609 --> 00:25:32.179
  • History really does matter.
  • 00:25:32.179 --> 00:25:33.814
  • Well, because of that, we have partnered with some good friends
  • 00:25:33.814 --> 00:25:36.216
  • Of our ministries, wall builders, david and tim barton.
  • 00:25:36.216 --> 00:25:39.620
  • They have the best of the best on this topic.
  • 00:25:39.620 --> 00:25:41.655
  • It's a two-volume set on the american story, and it helps us
  • 00:25:41.655 --> 00:25:45.259
  • Learn american history with a faith component, with a god
  • 00:25:45.259 --> 00:25:48.829
  • Perspective, how god has been engaged in the unfolding
  • 00:25:48.829 --> 00:25:51.899
  • Narrative of our american story.
  • 00:25:51.899 --> 00:25:54.535
  • That matters because we need god to be involved in the future of
  • 00:25:54.535 --> 00:25:57.738
  • The american story.
  • 00:25:57.738 --> 00:25:59.106
  • That affects our lives, our families, our communities, and
  • 00:25:59.106 --> 00:26:01.875
  • Ultimately our nation.
  • 00:26:01.875 --> 00:26:03.544
  • The books will be a blessing to you, but more than that, i
  • 00:26:03.544 --> 00:26:05.980
  • 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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