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Allen Jackson - Jesus' Victory on Display (Part 2)

April 10, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Jesus' Victory on Display (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Jesus' Victory on Display (Part 2) | April 10, 2026
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  • Allen: i was going to the philippines for the summer and i
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  • Really didn't wanna go.
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  • I applied permissions and i--we got to submit the countries
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  • Where we wanted to go and i submitted france, sweden, and
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  • Australia, because i was gonna go suffer for jesus.
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  • And i thought in one of those three options, the lord and i
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  • Could make an impact.
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  • And i remember going to the meeting where they were handing
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  • Out the assignments and they said, "we've got one group
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  • That's different from all the other groups.
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  • It's just gonna be guys because you're gonna be in the most
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  • Remote part of the philippines.
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  • We need people that have lived in a rural setting, people that
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  • Have been around animals."
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  • And everything they said, i just slid lower and lower in my seat.
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  • It was like they were reading my biography.
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  • And so off i went.
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  • So i'm--they take me to the airport to put me on the plane.
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  • I remember my dad saying, he said, "this will be like the
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  • Beginning of a ministry."
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  • And i mean, i was hoping i got a hangnail so i could stay home.
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  • I didn't wanna go.
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  • And i remember walking down the--the jet was back--this was
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  • So long ago, you could still walk people to the gate.
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  • You know, before terrorists made us put all that stuff in
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  • The airports.
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  • And i remember walking down the jetway thinking, "well, if you
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  • Think it's such a wonderful ministry opportunity, why don't
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  • You go?"
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  • But i came home with a changed heart.
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  • And god cares enough about us that he wants us to mature.
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  • And i'm about as excited about that as i was a job or a summer
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  • In the philippines or a lot of other things and i'm grateful
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  • That there were people in my life that cared enough about me,
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  • Not just to cater to my carnal, selfish preference.
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  • I understand now it's probably more work for them than just
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  • Giving into what i wanted to do.
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  • And god loves us enough to say, you know, if you'll seek me,
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  • You'll get to know me in a new way.
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  • So jesus even had to face all this opposition in his hometown.
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  • In luke chapter 4, it says: "there were many--" and he goes
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  • To the synagogue as his habit, and they're happy with him
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  • At first.
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  • "this is joe's kid.
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  • We're hearing about the miracles he's doing.
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  • This is one of us.
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  • You know, he may make the ring of honor in nazareth if he keeps
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  • This up."
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  • And then he turns and looks at the crowd and he said, "but you
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  • Know, you have a history as a people of not really following
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  • The lord," and he starts to push this in their face.
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  • He said, "there were many in israel with leprosy in the time
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  • Of elisha, and yet not one of them was cleansed--only
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  • A foreigner.
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  • And all the people in the synagogue were furious when they
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  • Heard this.
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  • And they got up and they drove him out of town, and took him
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  • To the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to
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  • Throw him off the cliff."
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  • If the jews had killed jesus, they would have thrown him off
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  • A cliff and thrown rocks at him.
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  • The romans killed him on a cross.
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  • But jesus knew the people in this community.
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  • He grew up with their kids.
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  • They played on the same soccer team.
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  • I mean, they knew one another.
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  • And they're so mad at him, that would be more hurtful than
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  • Strangers being mad at you.
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  • I mean, i know it's jesus, you think, "oh, it didn't--"
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  • Yes, it did.
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  • If there was any place he would have liked to have been able to
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  • Have given a demonstration of the kingdom of god, the
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  • Scripture says he could only do a few small--lay his hands on
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  • A few sick people there because of their determined unbelief.
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  • Now jesus's disciples are going to be consistently troubled by
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  • The opposition.
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  • And they struggled to understand the intensity of it.
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  • They couldn't believe jesus when he would tell them.
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  • You and i should learn the lesson, folks.
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  • Jesus said that we would be hated because of him.
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  • And we've thought we could overcome evil by being kind.
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  • That's not what the bible says.
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  • The bible says we overcome evil with what?
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  • With good.
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  • It's righteousness that overcomes evil.
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  • We have to tell the truth.
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  • Capitulating to evil will not make you an overcomer.
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  • It'll mean you've been overwhelmed.
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  • And the disciples struggled.
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  • They weren't prepared emotionally for that.
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  • We get to john 19.
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  • Jesus is on the cross, and he says, "it's finished."
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  • He's done his part.
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  • Now he wrestled with it, he struggled with it, you know
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  • A lot of those passages.
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  • But i want you to be conscious from the temple when simeon took
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  • Jesus in his arms and said, "this child is destined to
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  • Change the course of nations," until jesus says, "it's
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  • Finished," he's running a race.
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  • So are you. so are you.
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  • Now, i think you can forfeit a great deal.
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  • I don't want you to live in fear of losing your salvation, but i
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  • Do want you to live with an awareness that there
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  • Are rewards.
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  • God is not a socialist.
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  • Everybody doesn't get the same thing.
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  • We didn't all get the same gifts.
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  • Jesus told all kinds of parables and all kinds of stories.
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  • Somebody got five talents, somebody got two, somebody
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  • Got one.
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  • I mean, it's not--and you can swell and be mad about that, or
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  • You can say, "no, i'm gonna do the best i can with the talents
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  • I've been given."
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  • Many of us spend lots of our lives angry because we didn't
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  • Get somebody else's talents.
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  • Be careful what you ask for.
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  • As to whom much is given, much is required.
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  • I'm just content to be a good old southern hillbilly.
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  • I was talking to somebody.
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  • I said, you know, i grew up in a barn and they had no--
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  • They had no response.
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  • They lost all their words.
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  • I need some context for that.
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  • I said that one day in an interview and they thought i
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  • Said i grew up in a bar. [congregation laughing]
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  • It didn't go well.
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  • I wanna take the minutes we have left, and this piece is really
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  • Intriguing to me.
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  • Jesus is still on assignment.
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  • I understand with regard to his redemption, it's a complete and
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  • Entire work, but jesus didn't say that there wasn't like
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  • Anything left that he had any interest in.
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  • He's--i believe he's engaged in pentecost.
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  • You know, he told the disciples, "hey, don't you leave town until
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  • The holy spirit's poured out."
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  • I mean, he spent 3 years with them.
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  • He's had a 40-day seminar with them post-resurrection on the
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  • Kingdom of god, and the last real instruction he gives them
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  • Is a commandment.
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  • He said, "now don't you leave town until you're baptized
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  • In the spirit."
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  • I promise you, when peter stands up that day and begins to tell
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  • His jesus story, jesus is present.
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  • And then he sends pete to cornelius's house.
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  • The belly of the beast, the most roman of all the cities
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  • In israel.
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  • To the home of a roman centurion, the hated occupiers.
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  • And he repeats the process.
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  • I promise, jesus was there at cornelius's house.
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  • And then of all the people that are persecuting jesus's friends,
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  • There's this nutcase.
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  • I mean, this fruit loop of a zealot, saul from tarsus.
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  • And he's arresting women and men and children and putting them in
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  • Prison and terrifying the believers, and jesus said,
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  • "i got this."
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  • Living bible.
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  • I put it in your notes, in acts 9: "as saul neared damascus on
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  • His journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed, and he fell
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  • To the ground and he heard a voice say, 'saul?'"
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  • I've always--my imagination, depending on the day has
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  • Different tones of voice.
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  • "'saul, why do you persecute me?'
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  • And saul said, 'who are you, lord?'"
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  • Clever man, saul.
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  • "and he said, 'i'm jesus.'"
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  • Jesus showed up on the road to damascus to confront this
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  • Wicked, vile, violent, angry man.
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  • Says, "just what do you think you're doing?"
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  • Jesus is still at work in the earth.
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  • He's still at work in the earth.
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  • I'll give you one more example.
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  • In revelation, john is an old man, his friends are gone.
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  • They've all been martyred.
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  • Much of his strength is gone.
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  • He's on the island of patmos.
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  • Kind of the general consensus he was probably a slave working in
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  • A copper mine.
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  • Hard labor for an old man because of his faith.
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  • He says, "i'm on the island of patmos because of the gospel of
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  • Jesus christ."
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  • Not because he had a daycare, being fraudulently funded.
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  • And he hears a voice.
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  • He said, "i was in the spirit on the lord's day.
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  • And i heard a voice," and it's your notes, it's verse 12.
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  • He said, "i turned around to see the voice that was speaking, and
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  • When i turned, i--" he gives you this scenario.
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  • "i saw seven golden lampstands, and among the lampstands was
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  • Someone 'like a son of a man.'
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  • He's in a robe that reaches down to--a golden sash.
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  • His hair was white like wool, and his eyes were like a blazing
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  • Fire, and his feet were like bronze in a furnace.
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  • In his right hand stars, and his--double-edged sword in his
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  • Mouth, and his face was like the sun shining."
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  • He sounds like the prophets have written about.
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  • You find jesus all through the bible.
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  • "and when i saw him," this is how you know.
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  • "when i saw him, i fell at his feet as though dead."
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  • He heard a voice and he turned around and he saw jesus.
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  • It's been decades since john has seen jesus.
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  • His friends have been martyred.
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  • And he sees jesus.
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  • And he said, "i fell at his feet like a dead man.
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  • And jesus said to me, 'don't be afraid.
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  • I'm the first and the last.
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  • I'm the living one; i was dead, and behold i'm alive for ever
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  • And ever!
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  • And i hold the keys of death and hades.'"
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  • "john, i got the keys, but i've got something for you, john.
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  • I got a message that you need.
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  • I got something that i need you to communicate."
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  • John's running another race.
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  • He's not just an exile on an island doing hard labor, waiting
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  • For the sand to run out.
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  • "i got an assignment for you.
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  • I want you to finish your race."
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  • Allen: so i made a list of some things i can tell you jesus is
  • 00:12:42.243 --> 00:12:44.712
  • Still doing in the earth.
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  • And they're all biblical.
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  • I didn't make these up.
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  • It's not an inclusive list.
  • 00:12:48.917 --> 00:12:50.285
  • I could have cobbled together some more, but in matthew 16,
  • 00:12:50.285 --> 00:12:53.054
  • Jesus said, "i'll build my church,
  • 00:12:53.054 --> 00:12:55.523
  • And hell won't overcome it."
  • 00:12:55.523 --> 00:12:57.992
  • I can tell you with some certainty that jesus is in the
  • 00:12:57.992 --> 00:13:00.295
  • Business of strengthening his church.
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  • I want to help him.
  • 00:13:03.198 --> 00:13:06.401
  • My whole life got oriented around that.
  • 00:13:06.401 --> 00:13:07.869
  • I didn't like church, you all know the story.
  • 00:13:07.869 --> 00:13:11.606
  • People say to me, you know, "aren't--are you concerned the
  • 00:13:11.606 --> 00:13:13.474
  • Church is too big?"
  • 00:13:13.474 --> 00:13:14.809
  • No, actually i'm a bit embarrassed it's as small as
  • 00:13:14.809 --> 00:13:16.177
  • It is.
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  • That's not funny to me.
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  • There's more unchurched people in rutherford county, there's
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  • More unchurched people in middle tennessee, than in the history--
  • 00:13:20.982 --> 00:13:23.585
  • As a percentage of the population or by number, than in
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  • The history of rutherford county or middle tennessee.
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  • I cannot believe--i really cannot understand christ
  • 00:13:30.825 --> 00:13:34.696
  • Followers going, "well, you know, the church is just
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  • Too large."
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  • Have you noticed how many homes we've built, how many apartments
  • 00:13:38.733 --> 00:13:40.735
  • We've built, how many restaurants we've built, how
  • 00:13:40.735 --> 00:13:42.470
  • Many gas stations we've built?
  • 00:13:42.470 --> 00:13:45.373
  • How many grocery stores we've built, how many stuff
  • 00:13:45.373 --> 00:13:47.075
  • We've built?
  • 00:13:47.075 --> 00:13:48.409
  • The churches aren't keeping up, folks.
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  • We are losing ground.
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  • I believe we should be weeping, going, "lord, raise
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  • Up churches."
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  • They used to be in every little community.
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  • They did.
  • 00:14:00.955 --> 00:14:02.624
  • People say to me, "well, you know, it's just not--
  • 00:14:02.624 --> 00:14:04.092
  • People drive.
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  • People drive to church."
  • 00:14:06.895 --> 00:14:08.363
  • Yeah, you drive to eat, you drive to recreate, you drive for
  • 00:14:08.363 --> 00:14:10.865
  • The movies, you drive for a concert, you drive for a ball
  • 00:14:10.865 --> 00:14:13.001
  • Game, and you wanna walk to church, hm.
  • 00:14:13.001 --> 00:14:19.073
  • Jesus is building his church in iran, where they hate it.
  • 00:14:19.073 --> 00:14:24.212
  • In china, where it's persecuted.
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  • Yes, we wanna be a part of that any way we can.
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  • We'll turn on cameras and they watch us in azerbaijan.
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  • Good evening or--it's the middle of the night there.
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  • It's unbelievable to me.
  • 00:14:37.158 --> 00:14:40.028
  • We get messages from all over.
  • 00:14:40.028 --> 00:14:43.431
  • I mean, the--we get torqued up about technology, "aren't you
  • 00:14:43.431 --> 00:14:46.367
  • Afraid of ai?"
  • 00:14:46.367 --> 00:14:47.735
  • Well, i think it can be used from pretty--some pretty
  • 00:14:47.735 --> 00:14:49.203
  • Remarkable evil, but i believe god will use it as a tool to see
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  • The gospel proclaimed in the whole earth.
  • 00:14:52.907 --> 00:14:57.645
  • In john 14, jesus said something else he's doing.
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  • He said, "don't let your hearts be troubled.
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  • Trust in god; trust in me.
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  • In my father's house are many rooms.
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  • I'm going there to prepare a place for you."
  • 00:15:05.186 --> 00:15:08.423
  • Jesus has gone to work on our behalf.
  • 00:15:08.423 --> 00:15:10.058
  • What's he doing? i'm not sure.
  • 00:15:10.058 --> 00:15:11.459
  • He didn't give us the whole picture.
  • 00:15:11.459 --> 00:15:14.128
  • We're on a need to know basis.
  • 00:15:14.128 --> 00:15:15.463
  • "well, i'd like to know."
  • 00:15:15.463 --> 00:15:16.831
  • I know, but you don't need to.
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  • "well, i want to."
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  • Duly noted, shut up and go to work.
  • 00:15:21.903 --> 00:15:25.573
  • He's told us what we're doing.
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  • He's given us an assignment.
  • 00:15:26.908 --> 00:15:29.143
  • See, we think this is like some smorgasbord where we say to god,
  • 00:15:29.143 --> 00:15:31.913
  • "this is what i would--this is what i feel uniquely gifted for.
  • 00:15:31.913 --> 00:15:36.818
  • Well, you know, my passions, they run more in this way."
  • 00:15:36.818 --> 00:15:41.222
  • That's not the way i read my bible.
  • 00:15:41.222 --> 00:15:42.657
  • God met moses in a burning bush and said, "i need you to go back
  • 00:15:42.657 --> 00:15:44.859
  • To pharaoh," and moses said, "not really, i've kind of
  • 00:15:44.859 --> 00:15:46.928
  • Done pharaoh.
  • 00:15:46.928 --> 00:15:49.697
  • I was thinking more desert ministry."
  • 00:15:49.697 --> 00:15:54.902
  • He recruits saul of tarsus, this violent man, and he said, "now
  • 00:15:54.902 --> 00:15:57.872
  • I'm gonna show you your path," and he said, "it's gonna
  • 00:15:57.872 --> 00:15:59.640
  • Be difficult."
  • 00:15:59.640 --> 00:16:02.577
  • He said, "actually, i'm trained to speak to the jews."
  • 00:16:02.577 --> 00:16:06.447
  • "yeah, i know, but i'm gonna send you to the
  • 00:16:06.447 --> 00:16:07.782
  • Knucklehead gentiles."
  • 00:16:07.782 --> 00:16:10.885
  • No, but actually i'm trained to speak.
  • 00:16:10.885 --> 00:16:12.553
  • I'm a pharisee, of all the pharisees, they know me.
  • 00:16:12.553 --> 00:16:16.524
  • "yeah, i know.
  • 00:16:16.524 --> 00:16:17.892
  • Go talk to the people who don't."
  • 00:16:17.892 --> 00:16:23.031
  • And you and i come to the lord and we say, "you know, i don't
  • 00:16:23.031 --> 00:16:25.633
  • Really wanna do what you want me to.
  • 00:16:25.633 --> 00:16:26.968
  • I don't wanna do what's--i can see to do.
  • 00:16:26.968 --> 00:16:28.970
  • I don't wanna do what's in front of me.
  • 00:16:28.970 --> 00:16:30.972
  • I wanna do--" and i'm like, "no, how about if we just say yes."
  • 00:16:30.972 --> 00:16:39.280
  • Jesus is going to prepare a place for us, folks, come on.
  • 00:16:39.280 --> 00:16:44.786
  • And you just, if you need a little amplification of that,
  • 00:16:44.786 --> 00:16:48.289
  • Hebrews 3:1 says: "therefore, holy brothers, partakers of the
  • 00:16:48.289 --> 00:16:51.726
  • Heavenly calling."
  • 00:16:51.726 --> 00:16:53.594
  • "partakers of a heavenly calling," are you one of those?
  • 00:16:53.594 --> 00:16:58.266
  • Are you a partaker of a heavenly calling?
  • 00:16:58.266 --> 00:17:03.771
  • "consider jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession."
  • 00:17:03.771 --> 00:17:14.248
  • Do you know you have a high priest?
  • 00:17:14.315 --> 00:17:17.351
  • His name is jesus, and he watches over the words of
  • 00:17:17.351 --> 00:17:21.055
  • Your mouth.
  • 00:17:21.055 --> 00:17:24.125
  • That'll change your thoughts.
  • 00:17:24.125 --> 00:17:27.428
  • Jesus, he sat down, his redemptive work was complete,
  • 00:17:27.428 --> 00:17:31.065
  • Nothing to be added to it, nothing can be taken away from
  • 00:17:31.065 --> 00:17:33.334
  • It, but he's still engaged, folks.
  • 00:17:33.334 --> 00:17:37.538
  • He's the high priest of our confession, he's the apostle.
  • 00:17:37.538 --> 00:17:40.808
  • He's watching over this assignment we call our journey
  • 00:17:40.808 --> 00:17:43.678
  • Through time.
  • 00:17:43.678 --> 00:17:45.513
  • That's the most intriguing thing to me.
  • 00:17:45.513 --> 00:17:48.282
  • We serve at his pleasure.
  • 00:17:48.282 --> 00:17:51.586
  • You know, we get so, "it's my life, my time, my calendar, my
  • 00:17:51.586 --> 00:17:54.922
  • Money, my dreams."
  • 00:17:54.922 --> 00:17:56.257
  • Oh, stop.
  • 00:17:56.257 --> 00:17:58.793
  • Start talking to the lord and say, "god, i'm so sorry.
  • 00:17:58.793 --> 00:18:02.997
  • I am so sorry."
  • 00:18:02.997 --> 00:18:07.802
  • I don't think he's against the things that are in your heart,
  • 00:18:07.802 --> 00:18:10.471
  • But we've imagined we have to hide them from god as if somehow
  • 00:18:10.471 --> 00:18:13.341
  • His plan or his dream or his vision would diminish us.
  • 00:18:13.341 --> 00:18:18.479
  • The only time that really stays close to you is when you've
  • 00:18:18.479 --> 00:18:21.382
  • Chosen ungodliness and you think ungodliness is more fulfilling
  • 00:18:21.382 --> 00:18:24.685
  • Than godliness.
  • 00:18:24.685 --> 00:18:27.088
  • I have not found that to be true.
  • 00:18:27.088 --> 00:18:28.456
  • I found the struggle to be real.
  • 00:18:28.456 --> 00:18:31.292
  • But every time i have said yes to cooperating with the lord,
  • 00:18:31.292 --> 00:18:34.762
  • I have found my willingness to choose godliness to be far more
  • 00:18:34.762 --> 00:18:37.798
  • Rewarding than ungodliness.
  • 00:18:37.798 --> 00:18:40.668
  • Well, again, i'm young, i'm still learning, but if it
  • 00:18:40.668 --> 00:18:42.703
  • Changes, i'll come back and tell you.
  • 00:18:42.703 --> 00:18:49.310
  • Hebrews 4, same theme: "we have a great high priest who's passed
  • 00:18:49.310 --> 00:18:52.713
  • Through the heavens, jesus the son of god."
  • 00:18:52.713 --> 00:18:55.650
  • Our high priest is god's son.
  • 00:18:55.650 --> 00:18:59.053
  • "let us hold fast our confession."
  • 00:18:59.053 --> 00:19:02.089
  • There's a third thing that jesus is still about.
  • 00:19:02.089 --> 00:19:05.993
  • In acts 1:8, this is jesus's last conversation with
  • 00:19:05.993 --> 00:19:10.865
  • His friends.
  • 00:19:10.865 --> 00:19:12.200
  • "he said, 'you'll receive power when the holy spirit comes
  • 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:13.534
  • On you; you'll be my witnesses in jerusalem, and judea and
  • 00:19:13.534 --> 00:19:15.403
  • Samaria, to the ends of the earth.'
  • 00:19:15.403 --> 00:19:18.472
  • After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and
  • 00:19:18.472 --> 00:19:20.875
  • A cloud hid him from their sight.
  • 00:19:20.875 --> 00:19:22.210
  • And they were looking intently up to the sky as he was going,
  • 00:19:22.210 --> 00:19:24.845
  • And two men dressed in white stood beside the disciples."
  • 00:19:24.845 --> 00:19:28.983
  • Are they men?
  • 00:19:28.983 --> 00:19:31.953
  • Well, i think they're angels.
  • 00:19:31.953 --> 00:19:35.089
  • No, in hebrews it says, "be careful because--don't forget
  • 00:19:35.089 --> 00:19:37.458
  • To practice hospitality because you'll entertain angels and
  • 00:19:37.458 --> 00:19:39.994
  • Wouldn't know it."
  • 00:19:39.994 --> 00:19:41.696
  • I think they're so emotionally torqued up they just saw jesus
  • 00:19:41.696 --> 00:19:43.798
  • Lift off.
  • 00:19:43.798 --> 00:19:45.166
  • I don't think they're processing information with great clarity.
  • 00:19:45.166 --> 00:19:48.169
  • But there's these two guys dressed in white standing there.
  • 00:19:48.169 --> 00:19:51.772
  • "and they said to us, 'men of galilee, why do you stand here
  • 00:19:51.772 --> 00:19:54.542
  • Looking into the sky?
  • 00:19:54.542 --> 00:19:56.410
  • The same jesus, who's been taken from you into heaven, will come
  • 00:19:56.410 --> 00:19:59.013
  • Back in the same way you've seen him go into heaven."
  • 00:19:59.013 --> 00:20:02.183
  • He's coming back.
  • 00:20:02.183 --> 00:20:04.485
  • He is coming back.
  • 00:20:04.485 --> 00:20:06.821
  • What's he coming back for?
  • 00:20:06.821 --> 00:20:08.189
  • The church he's been building.
  • 00:20:08.189 --> 00:20:10.691
  • Well, see, coming back, those people for whom he's been the
  • 00:20:10.691 --> 00:20:13.227
  • High priest, the apostle, the overseer of their confession
  • 00:20:13.227 --> 00:20:16.530
  • Of faith.
  • 00:20:16.530 --> 00:20:22.903
  • He's coming back.
  • 00:20:22.903 --> 00:20:25.172
  • And then we end up having an argument about when.
  • 00:20:25.172 --> 00:20:32.446
  • You gotta be kidding me.
  • 00:20:32.446 --> 00:20:35.349
  • "well, you know, the word 'rapture' never occurs in the
  • 00:20:35.349 --> 00:20:37.785
  • New testament."
  • 00:20:37.785 --> 00:20:41.722
  • You're right, you can translate it without using that word, but
  • 00:20:41.722 --> 00:20:46.694
  • The word that is there means suddenly snatched away.
  • 00:20:46.694 --> 00:20:51.198
  • So you can call it whatever you want.
  • 00:20:51.198 --> 00:20:54.335
  • And then we have to pretend that we know.
  • 00:20:54.335 --> 00:20:55.803
  • I had--i did an interview today and somebody said, "well, you
  • 00:20:55.803 --> 00:20:57.905
  • Know, i think it's gonna happen now."
  • 00:20:57.905 --> 00:20:59.273
  • And i said, "well, i appreciate your opinion, but the bible says
  • 00:20:59.273 --> 00:21:01.175
  • Nobody knows the day or the hour."
  • 00:21:01.175 --> 00:21:03.844
  • Just kept smiling.
  • 00:21:03.844 --> 00:21:08.916
  • He's coming back, just be ready.
  • 00:21:08.916 --> 00:21:12.687
  • Just be busy running your race.
  • 00:21:12.687 --> 00:21:15.356
  • Run in such a way as to get the prize.
  • 00:21:15.356 --> 00:21:18.859
  • I didn't get any prizes for running because i didn't put any
  • 00:21:18.859 --> 00:21:21.162
  • Effort in it.
  • 00:21:21.162 --> 00:21:25.066
  • I don't wanna do that with the lord.
  • 00:21:25.066 --> 00:21:26.901
  • I'm not suggesting you earn your way to heaven.
  • 00:21:26.901 --> 00:21:28.803
  • I don't mean that.
  • 00:21:28.803 --> 00:21:30.805
  • But i don't think you can--i think you can slouch your way to
  • 00:21:30.805 --> 00:21:32.940
  • Gomorrah, but i don't think you can slouch your way into the
  • 00:21:32.940 --> 00:21:35.042
  • Kingdom of god.
  • 00:21:35.042 --> 00:21:37.878
  • There's one last thing i'll tell you that jesus is doing.
  • 00:21:37.878 --> 00:21:40.981
  • In matthew 25, it says: "when the son of man comes in his
  • 00:21:40.981 --> 00:21:43.417
  • Glory, and all his angels with him, he'll sit on his throne in
  • 00:21:43.417 --> 00:21:45.720
  • Heavenly glory.
  • 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:47.288
  • And the nations will be gathered before him, and he'll separate
  • 00:21:47.288 --> 00:21:49.623
  • The people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep
  • 00:21:49.623 --> 00:21:52.126
  • From the goats."
  • 00:21:52.126 --> 00:21:53.928
  • When jesus comes back, he's coming as a king to establish
  • 00:21:53.928 --> 00:21:58.165
  • A kingdom.
  • 00:21:58.165 --> 00:22:00.401
  • Now that's amazing.
  • 00:22:00.401 --> 00:22:01.736
  • I wanna be a part of that.
  • 00:22:01.736 --> 00:22:03.404
  • I want in, all right?
  • 00:22:03.404 --> 00:22:06.574
  • And if it means between here and the end of my journey under the
  • 00:22:06.574 --> 00:22:10.144
  • Time, you're going to face some opposition.
  • 00:22:10.144 --> 00:22:11.812
  • All right, let's go.
  • 00:22:11.812 --> 00:22:14.315
  • If it means you get left off an invitation list, okay.
  • 00:22:14.315 --> 00:22:19.120
  • I wanna be a part of that.
  • 00:22:19.120 --> 00:22:20.488
  • I'm in--i'm in.
  • 00:22:20.488 --> 00:22:21.822
  • I wanna be identified, aligned with, obedient to, subservient
  • 00:22:21.822 --> 00:22:26.293
  • To, submitted to.
  • 00:22:26.293 --> 00:22:30.197
  • It's important.
  • 00:22:30.197 --> 00:22:32.967
  • We are children of a king.
  • 00:22:32.967 --> 00:22:36.570
  • Let's finish our race, folks.
  • 00:22:36.570 --> 00:22:39.273
  • Paul made it to rome.
  • 00:22:39.273 --> 00:22:41.375
  • Snake bites, smelled--had seaweed in his hair.
  • 00:22:41.375 --> 00:22:46.547
  • He had to wear chains.
  • 00:22:46.547 --> 00:22:48.949
  • He was diminished, discounted, wasn't listened to on the boat
  • 00:22:48.949 --> 00:22:52.520
  • Until they got caught in a 2-week storm.
  • 00:22:52.520 --> 00:22:56.524
  • Then all of a sudden the roman centurion's taking coaching
  • 00:22:56.524 --> 00:22:58.926
  • From him.
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  • Jesus was overlooked, dismissed, rejected, betrayed, beaten
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  • Beyond recognition.
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  • And then he says to john, "i have the keys."
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  • You will face some challenges.
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  • But you don't have to face them in fear.
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  • And you don't face them because you're a failure.
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  • "greater is the one who's in you than the spirit that
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  • Opposes you."
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • Let's go with him.
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  • Let's finish our race.
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  • Can we do that?
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  • Will you stand with me?
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  • You probably got more hope you can finish your race than that
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  • I can finish this sermon, but i can, so far.
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  • Mm, no, we laugh a bit.
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  • But i'm very aware that when we gather there are people with
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  • Great challenges in their health, in our families, in our
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  • Businesses, in the world we live in.
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  • As a nation we're on a precipice.
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  • I mean, we are teetering on a precipice.
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  • And only god can make a future that's okay for our children and
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  • Our grandkids.
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  • But god can.
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  • Father, we come tonight.
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  • I thank you for your word and the truth it brings to us and
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  • The hope, the life, and i thank you that you called us out of
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  • Darkness into the kingdom of your son.
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  • I thank you that you delivered us, that through the blood of
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  • Jesus we have been delivered out of the hand of the enemy.
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  • That every one of satan's claims against us have been canceled by
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  • The blood of jesus.
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  • We praise you for it tonight, lord.
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  • I thank you that even in our frailty and our weakness and all
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  • That we are not, that we are more than conquerors through him
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  • Who's called us.
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  • That you lead us in a triumphal procession as a testimony to
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  • Your glory and your power and your majesty.
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  • And lord, we come tonight to humble ourselves and choose you.
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  • We invite you to be lord in our hearts, in our homes,
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  • In our families.
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  • May we see your triumph, may we see your victory,
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  • In every circumstance.
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  • Holy spirit, we ask you for your help.
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  • Give us understanding hearts.
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  • If there are changes that we need to make, make them clear
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  • To us.
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  • If there are responses before us where we've been reluctant,
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  • Father, give us now the boldness to say yes.
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  • I thank you for outcomes that will exceed any imagination
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  • We hold.
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  • That we will see multitudes of people come to faith.
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  • That we will see expressions of your power and your glory and
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  • Your majesty that will cause even your enemies to stand
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  • In amazement.
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  • We thank you for it.
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  • We praise you for it tonight.
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  • Lord jesus, that you're at work, that you're our high priest,
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  • We thank you for all that you've done for us.
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  • And our desire is to honor you.
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  • For it's in your name we pray, amen, hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: i suspect we've all heard the line that leadership is
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  • About influence.
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  • I have a question for you.
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  • What do you lead with?
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  • What is the basis of your influence?
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  • Is it your appearance, your education, your professional
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  • Expertise, your professional accomplishments, your athletic
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  • Ability, your family?
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  • What is the point of influence that you use most frequently?
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  • Well, i've written a book.
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  • The title is gonna give away where i'm headed.
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  • It's "lead with faith."
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  • I think it's time that all of us begin to use our faith as an
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  • Influence in the world where we find ourselves.
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  • We're reluctant to do that.
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  • We typically have more confidence in our education or
  • 00:26:53.327 --> 00:26:55.896
  • Our family system or our life experience.
  • 00:26:55.896 --> 00:26:58.432
  • We feel a little uncertain to lead with faith.
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  • The point of this book is to give you the tools to take your
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  • Faith out of a church setting and bring it into
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  • The marketplace.
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  • If we will lead with faith, i believe god will help us make
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  • An impact in this generation.
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  • Go to allenjackson.com and get your copy today.
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  • ♪♪♪
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