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Allen Jackson - Kings and Kingdoms

March 21, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Kings and Kingdoms
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Kings and Kingdoms | March 21, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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  • Allen jackson: a lot of scripture today.
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  • I believe it'll help you.
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  • The topic is "kings and kingdoms" and it's really
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  • A pretty simple message.
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  • In fact, i wanna walk through these scriptures with you.
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  • I hope pretty quickly, i'd like to plant a seed in your heart.
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  • I'd like to give you something to reflect on for the next few
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  • Days to point your attention in a direction.
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  • I believe that there is something so much better ahead
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  • Of us than all the things that are available to us in time.
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  • Now, don't misunderstand me.
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  • I like the journey through time.
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  • God created the earth and everything that's in it for our
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  • Benefit and our enjoyment and i think it's an incredible gift
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  • That he's given to us, but we live in a broken world.
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  • Evil exists, horrific things happen, and none of us makes our
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  • Journey through time without encounters with evil.
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  • Some are very personal.
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  • Some occasionally are gracefully removed a bit from us.
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  • But the promise of something far better is the incentive we have
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  • For accepting the assignment in our current setting.
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  • You see, if we don't believe there's something better ahead
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  • Of us, we will never make the sacrifice of serving the lord,
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  • Of honoring him.
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  • And please hear me, there is a sacrifice in serving the lord.
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  • Jesus said, unless we're willing to lay down our life, i'll
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  • Amplify it a bit.
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  • The incentive for that, the willingness to do that to alter
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  • The choice that my own selfish carnal adamic earthly nature.
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  • They're all synonyms used in scripture.
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  • It's that part of me that just wants to do what i wanna do
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  • The way i wanna do it when i wanna do it.
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  • The incentive for addressing that part of ourselves and
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  • Putting god's purposes first, god's priorities ahead of my own
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  • Is he says there is something so much better for us if we will
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  • Do that.
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  • And tragically, i think the contemporary church has been co
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  • Opted almost completely by a mindset that's focused on what's
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  • Here now.
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  • I mean, there's even a country song about it.
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  • "we all want to go to heaven but nobody wants to go now."
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  • It's if you know, i mean, given the options of no heaven or
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  • Heaven, yeah, i'll take heaven, but i wanna put it off as long
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  • As possible.
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  • That reflects a gross misunderstanding of what it
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  • Means to be a participant in the kingdom of god.
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  • We should never imagine that the benefit of our allegiance
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  • To jesus is primarily in this present world order.
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  • So with that, i wanna just walk through some scripture.
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  • I'm gonna hand you some ideas.
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  • We may come back and do this in a more elaborate form, but i
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  • Think this will be helpful for the challenges in front of us.
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  • I'll start in isaiah 6. we get this majestic, beautiful.
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  • The language of isaiah is remarkable and just as an aside,
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  • I assume that you, i hope you remember that isaiah is
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  • A prophet.
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  • He's one of the major prophets of the hebrew bible.
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  • But isaiah was a court prophet.
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  • Sometimes he's described as a prophet of the purple, meaning
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  • He was a prophet to the royals.
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  • He was very familiar with the halls of power.
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  • Amos was a farmer, not isaiah.
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  • Isaiah spoke to the direction of nations.
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  • He had messages for kings and kingdoms.
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  • You see the people of god are intended to impact what happens
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  • In our world.
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  • It's awkward, it's uncomfortable sometimes, it often brings
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  • Tremendous pressure, but we're not just here to navigate our
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  • Way through life and with a smaller profile as possible so
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  • That we have the opportunity to go to heaven when we finally
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  • Get done.
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  • We are ambassadors, representatives, and isaiah as a
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  • Young man has this remarkable vision of the throne room of god
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  • And with the majestic language of isaiah.
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  • Its isaiah 6, he said, "in the year that king uzziah died,"
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  • It's just a, it's a chronological marker.
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  • He said, "i saw the lord seated on a throne, high and exalted,
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  • And the train of his robe filled the temple.
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  • Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: with two wings
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  • They covered their faces, and with two they covered their
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  • Feet, and with two they were flying.
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  • And they were calling to one another: 'holy, holy, holy is
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  • The lord god almighty.
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  • The whole earth is full of his glory.'
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  • And at the sound of their voices, the doorposts and
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  • Thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke."
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  • Wow!
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  • Isaiah has a vision of the throne room of god.
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  • And these incredible angelic beings that are declaring
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  • Holy is the lord.
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  • The whole earth is filled with his glory.
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  • In hebrew, hebrew is an ancient language.
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  • It's a simple language in its construction.
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  • So repetition is a way of making emphasis.
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  • And here god is declared holy three times.
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  • He's not like us, we're not holy, we're something
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  • Else, right?
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  • You know, that's true, right?
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  • Now without holiness, the bible says we'll never see the lord,
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  • But it's god reflected in us, god's character formed in us
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  • That lets that holiness emerge.
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  • I mean, how many of you this morning got up even with an
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  • Extra hour sleep, looked in the mirror and said, "oh, you are
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  • So holy."
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  • Yeah, me either.
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  • But the more jesus character is formed in us, hebrews 11:40
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  • Gives us a window into this kingdom that we're a part of.
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  • You see to be a christ follower is more than joining a church or
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  • A denomination or a systematic theology.
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  • It's more than a moral code.
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  • It's access to a kingdom and there's only one doorway into
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  • That kingdom.
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  • His name is jesus of nazareth.
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  • There aren't many pathways.
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  • Folks, until the church has the courage to say to the world in
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  • Which we live, there is one door into the eternal kingdom of our
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  • God, we are failing in our assignment.
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  • What has happened to us?
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  • Hebrews 11:40 is the conclusion of chapter 11 in the book of
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  • Hebrews is the hall of fame.
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  • It's these remarkable men and women.
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  • You'll know many of their names.
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  • If you've read your bibles casually, abraham and moses
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  • And all the hebrews, all of the heroes of our faith
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  • Are listed there.
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  • And at the conclusion of that chapter, it says, "god has
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  • Planned something better for us so that only together with us
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  • Would they be made perfect."
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  • That's an amazing statement.
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  • You see, there is a generational assignment attached to
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  • Our lives.
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  • God didn't call us to egypt to be under the whips of
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  • Pharaoh's taskmasters.
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  • We weren't there to help moses with the lift of taking hundreds
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  • Of thousands of people out of 100 year old pattern and
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  • Establishing a new nation.
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  • God called us to the 21st century when technology would
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  • Explode and communication would be unprecedented in the history
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  • Of civilization so that both darkness and light can ricochet
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  • Around the planet at a speed we've never known before.
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  • We have an assignment to be kingdom difference makers in
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  • This generation, just as certainly as moses did in his or
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  • David did in his or the apostle paul had in his time.
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  • We don't gather in the weekend to study what they did so we can
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  • Be experts on what god was doing 10 centuries before the birth
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  • Of christ.
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  • Our objective is to be world class with insights
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  • Onto 1st century christianity.
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  • Our assignment is to be salt and light in the 21st century.
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  • This is our generation.
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  • We're gonna meet those heroes of chapter 11 of hebrews and
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  • They're gonna ask us what we've done.
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  • You're gonna--and david will say, "all right, so you read
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  • About me and goliath.
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  • Did you?
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  • Then why did you hide in your tent?"
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  • "well, he was really big."
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  • David said, "no kidding.
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  • Could you hear my knees banging together when you read
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  • That story?
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  • Could you feel the perspiration on my palms?
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  • Could you feel the angst of my brothers going, 'he is such
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  • A proud little fella.'"
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  • 1 corinthians 15 says, "if only for this life we have hope in
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  • Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men."
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  • Folks, there's something for us beyond time.
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  • Don't misunderstand me.
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  • I love the journey.
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  • Every day is an adventure.
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  • Some have difficult tasks, many are filled with assignments
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  • And responsibilities.
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  • I dump 'em on that.
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  • That's what god created us for.
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  • He gives us the strength to meet the assignment.
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  • But i am very much aware that there is something better for me
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  • Beyond time.
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  • So i am endeavoring to be as faithful as i can with the
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  • Opportunities of each day because i wanna be certain, i'm
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  • Prepared for what's behind me.
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  • The apostle paul said it a little differently
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  • In philippians.
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  • It's not in your notes, but it is in the book.
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  • He said, there's one thing i do, putting what is behind, i leave
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  • It behind, to press forward.
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  • He said, i count all things as if it's dung, refuge, something
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  • To be thrown out.
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  • Those are all nice words for what he said compared to the
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  • Surpassing greatness of knowing christ jesus, my lord.
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  • Allen: hey, i have a suggestion.
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  • Let's stop waiting for somebody else to be a better leader.
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  • Let's determine this year to lead with faith.
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  • I've written a book to help.
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  • It's a practical collection of tools that you and i can use the
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  • Influence of our lives, faith first in the marketplace, in our
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  • Homes, with our friends.
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  • Folks, it's time for us to stop waiting for somebody else to
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  • Step forward.
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  • Let's determine to lead with faith.
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  • We can do that and i believe we can change our homes, our
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  • Neighborhoods, our churches, maybe even our nation.
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  • Announcer: choosing to lead with faith starts with a simple
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  • Decision: to be intentional right where you are.
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  • In his new book "lead with faith," pastor allen shares
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  • Biblical insight and practical tools to help you live out your
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  • Faith in meaningful ways every day.
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  • This book will encourage you to stand for truth with wisdom,
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  • Clarity, and courage without waiting for someone else to
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  • Go first.
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  • Request "lead with faith" with your gift of $30 or more at
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  • Allenjackson.com or call ...
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  • Allen: you see one of the weapons that the enemy uses
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  • Against us is dissatisfaction, discontentment.
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  • And i've had enough birthdays now to recognize that he brings
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  • It to us at every season of life.
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  • When you're younger and in school, he'll make you
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  • Discontent with your family circumstance or your classmates
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  • Or your teachers.
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  • I'm not given the opportunities i deserve or recognized in
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  • The way i should be recognized or i'm something.
  • 00:12:29.497 --> 00:12:34.135
  • You get a bit older and he'll make you dissatisfied and
  • 00:12:34.135 --> 00:12:37.005
  • Discontent because i'm single.
  • 00:12:37.005 --> 00:12:38.506
  • I haven't found my soul mate yet.
  • 00:12:38.506 --> 00:12:41.509
  • I'm making the journey alone and it's crushing my spirit.
  • 00:12:41.509 --> 00:12:47.582
  • Then you get married.
  • 00:12:47.582 --> 00:12:54.022
  • See if you hadn't laughed, no one would have known.
  • 00:12:54.022 --> 00:13:00.895
  • And now you're discontent because you don't have the right
  • 00:13:00.895 --> 00:13:04.365
  • Picket fence or you don't have the right number of children in
  • 00:13:04.365 --> 00:13:08.236
  • The house or your pet isn't housebroken or it takes such
  • 00:13:08.236 --> 00:13:15.543
  • A significant effort and energy and resource commitment when the
  • 00:13:15.543 --> 00:13:18.847
  • Family is young that you can't pursue the hobby of your choices
  • 00:13:18.847 --> 00:13:22.483
  • With the enthusiasm you would like to, discontentment.
  • 00:13:22.483 --> 00:13:28.723
  • And you turn the calendar a few years and your children begin to
  • 00:13:28.723 --> 00:13:33.394
  • Roll their eyes at you.
  • 00:13:33.394 --> 00:13:35.897
  • There's much less affirmation in the house.
  • 00:13:35.897 --> 00:13:39.300
  • You've been attacked with a stupid virus.
  • 00:13:39.300 --> 00:13:44.239
  • It's overwhelming.
  • 00:13:44.239 --> 00:13:46.641
  • The people amongst you that you brought into the world are the
  • 00:13:46.641 --> 00:13:49.110
  • Only people you can ask now to help you turn on the television.
  • 00:13:49.110 --> 00:13:53.581
  • So not only do they roll their eyes, god's determined that
  • 00:13:53.581 --> 00:13:55.950
  • You'll be humiliated before them.
  • 00:13:55.950 --> 00:13:59.220
  • So we just decided we don't like television, we won't watch
  • 00:13:59.220 --> 00:14:01.456
  • It anymore.
  • 00:14:01.456 --> 00:14:04.726
  • And as awful as that is, then they leave home and it's too
  • 00:14:04.726 --> 00:14:09.464
  • Quiet and we're discontent with that.
  • 00:14:09.464 --> 00:14:14.202
  • And then you realize you've turned the calendar enough times
  • 00:14:14.202 --> 00:14:16.638
  • That it's begun to impact you physically and the things that
  • 00:14:16.638 --> 00:14:22.176
  • You used to do as a matter of routine now after you do them
  • 00:14:22.176 --> 00:14:24.746
  • You need pharmaceutical help to recover.
  • 00:14:24.746 --> 00:14:30.385
  • And there's a whole another set of discontentment because you
  • 00:14:30.385 --> 00:14:32.654
  • Realize that there's less time in front of you than is
  • 00:14:32.654 --> 00:14:35.523
  • Behind you.
  • 00:14:35.523 --> 00:14:37.992
  • It never changes folks.
  • 00:14:37.992 --> 00:14:40.261
  • We have an adversary and an enemy who is determined to make
  • 00:14:40.261 --> 00:14:43.998
  • You discontent to distract you from giving your best to
  • 00:14:43.998 --> 00:14:47.268
  • The lord in the season where you find yourself.
  • 00:14:47.268 --> 00:14:50.405
  • He will try to tell you, you shouldn't until you get your
  • 00:14:50.405 --> 00:14:53.741
  • Family circumstance straight.
  • 00:14:53.741 --> 00:14:55.276
  • You shouldn't until you get your kids a little older.
  • 00:14:55.276 --> 00:14:57.378
  • You shouldn't until you've stored up a few more resources.
  • 00:14:57.378 --> 00:15:00.715
  • You shouldn't because now it's your time to enjoy yourself.
  • 00:15:00.715 --> 00:15:03.651
  • After all you spent all these years serving everybody else.
  • 00:15:03.651 --> 00:15:05.553
  • Now it's your time and your calendar and your money.
  • 00:15:05.553 --> 00:15:07.789
  • I'll spend it where i want to.
  • 00:15:07.789 --> 00:15:09.223
  • Every one of those junctures along the way, the enemy will
  • 00:15:09.223 --> 00:15:12.393
  • Give you permission to lead if not a godless, a carnal self
  • 00:15:12.393 --> 00:15:16.597
  • Absorbed life.
  • 00:15:16.597 --> 00:15:18.633
  • I would remind you of what paul is saying to
  • 00:15:18.633 --> 00:15:20.868
  • The corinthian church.
  • 00:15:20.868 --> 00:15:22.203
  • And it's worth noting they were a drunken, immoral,
  • 00:15:22.203 --> 00:15:26.541
  • Undisciplined lot in corinth.
  • 00:15:26.541 --> 00:15:29.610
  • Paul said to them, there is sexual immorality amongst you
  • 00:15:29.610 --> 00:15:32.380
  • That even the pagans don't engage in.
  • 00:15:32.380 --> 00:15:37.518
  • They had succumbed to the temptations of their carnal
  • 00:15:37.518 --> 00:15:39.954
  • Selves and he writes this to them.
  • 00:15:39.954 --> 00:15:41.622
  • It's 1 corinthians 15.
  • 00:15:41.622 --> 00:15:42.991
  • You have it.
  • 00:15:42.991 --> 00:15:44.325
  • "if only for this life we have hope in christ, we're to be
  • 00:15:44.325 --> 00:15:47.462
  • Pitied more than all men."
  • 00:15:47.462 --> 00:15:48.796
  • There's a benefit to our faith.
  • 00:15:48.796 --> 00:15:50.565
  • That means today, i'll make a sacrifice for the kingdom.
  • 00:15:50.565 --> 00:15:54.869
  • I'll reorder my schedule.
  • 00:15:54.869 --> 00:15:56.671
  • I'll make a different decision about my financial resources.
  • 00:15:56.671 --> 00:16:00.074
  • I'll take time for people.
  • 00:16:00.074 --> 00:16:01.743
  • It might be a different path for my career.
  • 00:16:01.743 --> 00:16:04.512
  • It might change my imagined earning capacity.
  • 00:16:04.512 --> 00:16:07.815
  • It might change my relational network 'cause i'm gonna be kind
  • 00:16:07.815 --> 00:16:10.885
  • To someone who can't repay me for that kindness.
  • 00:16:10.885 --> 00:16:13.821
  • But i'm gonna make an investment in the eternal kingdom of god
  • 00:16:13.821 --> 00:16:16.924
  • Today because i have a hope beyond time and i intend to
  • 00:16:16.924 --> 00:16:20.795
  • Be invested.
  • 00:16:20.795 --> 00:16:25.700
  • And on the days when i fail that test, if god is gracious enough
  • 00:16:25.700 --> 00:16:30.872
  • To remind me of it, before i go to sleep i'll say, "lord, i'm
  • 00:16:30.872 --> 00:16:34.208
  • Sorry, i was co-opted today.
  • 00:16:34.208 --> 00:16:37.412
  • I pushed my agenda forward.
  • 00:16:37.412 --> 00:16:40.114
  • I was more interested in getting all i could.
  • 00:16:40.114 --> 00:16:42.950
  • God, i'm sorry.
  • 00:16:42.950 --> 00:16:45.920
  • Help me be more aware tomorrow."
  • 00:16:45.920 --> 00:16:47.989
  • Philippians 1 and verse 23, paul said, "i'm torn between the two:
  • 00:16:47.989 --> 00:16:51.492
  • I desire to depart and be with christ, which is better by far,
  • 00:16:51.492 --> 00:16:54.729
  • But it's more necessary for you that i remain in the body."
  • 00:16:54.729 --> 00:16:58.132
  • Paul is saying to us there's something better than what we've
  • 00:16:58.132 --> 00:17:00.701
  • Got in this current age.
  • 00:17:00.701 --> 00:17:02.637
  • Too many of us has lived is like this is as good as it can get,
  • 00:17:02.637 --> 00:17:06.407
  • We gotta get the second house and when you get the second one,
  • 00:17:06.407 --> 00:17:08.609
  • You need a third one 'cause two is not really a choice.
  • 00:17:08.609 --> 00:17:11.979
  • Two's just options and i'd like a choice.
  • 00:17:11.979 --> 00:17:15.283
  • We need more clothes 'cause the three closets are already
  • 00:17:15.283 --> 00:17:20.088
  • Full and i just feel better with the fourth one and my kids need
  • 00:17:20.088 --> 00:17:24.258
  • Something more spectacular 'cause parenting is competitive
  • 00:17:24.258 --> 00:17:26.928
  • And i gotta help them be better than the other kids that we call
  • 00:17:26.928 --> 00:17:29.097
  • Their friends.
  • 00:17:29.097 --> 00:17:33.101
  • We don't really live like we think there's something better.
  • 00:17:33.101 --> 00:17:38.439
  • Paul said it, it's i'm torn between the two.
  • 00:17:38.439 --> 00:17:41.676
  • I desire to depart and be with christ.
  • 00:17:41.676 --> 00:17:43.611
  • He said it's better by far.
  • 00:17:43.611 --> 00:17:46.581
  • You need to meditate on that.
  • 00:17:46.581 --> 00:17:47.949
  • You need to think about it a little bit.
  • 00:17:47.949 --> 00:17:49.283
  • You need to be honest with the lord say, "lord, you know, to be
  • 00:17:49.283 --> 00:17:51.652
  • Truthful, i think leaving here is kind of disrupting.
  • 00:17:51.652 --> 00:18:00.194
  • It's not that i don't wanna be with you, but i'd like it to be
  • 00:18:00.194 --> 00:18:02.463
  • A long, long, long, long, long, long, long time from now."
  • 00:18:02.463 --> 00:18:06.701
  • That's not what paul's saying.
  • 00:18:06.701 --> 00:18:09.203
  • He's saying i'm living close enough to the kingdom of god
  • 00:18:09.203 --> 00:18:11.672
  • That i can tell you it is infinitely better than any of
  • 00:18:11.672 --> 00:18:14.609
  • The kingdoms of this world.
  • 00:18:14.609 --> 00:18:17.211
  • Anything afforded me, any praise that i could garner, any
  • 00:18:17.211 --> 00:18:21.382
  • Resource i could accumulate, any power i could marshal,
  • 00:18:21.382 --> 00:18:25.353
  • It's better.
  • 00:18:25.353 --> 00:18:26.721
  • There is something ahead of us that is much better than
  • 00:18:26.721 --> 00:18:29.624
  • Where we are now.
  • 00:18:29.624 --> 00:18:30.992
  • There are crowns awaiting us, not from this present age.
  • 00:18:30.992 --> 00:18:35.129
  • There are rewards to be given to us that exceed anything you
  • 00:18:35.129 --> 00:18:39.233
  • Could achieve in this current age.
  • 00:18:39.233 --> 00:18:41.402
  • Any acknowledgment, any reward.
  • 00:18:41.402 --> 00:18:45.606
  • Are you purposefully intentionally striving to be
  • 00:18:45.606 --> 00:18:49.343
  • Included or do you have that born again mentality?
  • 00:18:49.343 --> 00:18:53.915
  • I've been born again.
  • 00:18:53.915 --> 00:18:55.249
  • I'm good.
  • 00:18:55.249 --> 00:18:56.617
  • I believe in being born again.
  • 00:18:56.617 --> 00:18:58.219
  • 2 timothy 4, paul said, "i'm already being poured out like
  • 00:18:58.219 --> 00:19:01.055
  • A drink offering, the time has come for my departure."
  • 00:19:01.055 --> 00:19:03.991
  • He's been on trial.
  • 00:19:03.991 --> 00:19:05.359
  • He's going back to trial.
  • 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:06.694
  • He expects to be condemned to death.
  • 00:19:06.694 --> 00:19:08.062
  • He's not waiting on a flight, folks.
  • 00:19:08.062 --> 00:19:10.765
  • The language is a euphemism.
  • 00:19:10.765 --> 00:19:13.434
  • He said they plan to kill me soon.
  • 00:19:13.434 --> 00:19:17.138
  • "i have fought the good fight.
  • 00:19:17.138 --> 00:19:18.606
  • I have finished the race.
  • 00:19:18.606 --> 00:19:19.941
  • I've kept the faith.
  • 00:19:19.941 --> 00:19:21.275
  • Now, there's in store for me the crown of righteousness which the
  • 00:19:21.275 --> 00:19:24.111
  • Lord, the righteous judge will award to me on that day and not
  • 00:19:24.111 --> 00:19:27.381
  • Only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing."
  • 00:19:27.381 --> 00:19:30.851
  • He said, they're gonna kill me, but i'm gonna get a crown.
  • 00:19:30.851 --> 00:19:36.624
  • He said, i can't wait.
  • 00:19:36.624 --> 00:19:38.492
  • He said, i've run this race.
  • 00:19:38.492 --> 00:19:41.462
  • See the devil, he will make you so--he wants to stop you.
  • 00:19:41.462 --> 00:19:45.566
  • He wants you to slow down.
  • 00:19:45.566 --> 00:19:46.934
  • He wants to impede you.
  • 00:19:46.934 --> 00:19:49.403
  • No matter where you are, he's gonna try to convince you you
  • 00:19:49.403 --> 00:19:51.872
  • Shouldn't serve the lord.
  • 00:19:51.872 --> 00:19:53.274
  • You shouldn't be enthusiastic.
  • 00:19:53.274 --> 00:19:56.477
  • Your hair is gray.
  • 00:19:56.477 --> 00:19:57.845
  • Why would you make an effort for the lord?
  • 00:19:57.845 --> 00:20:00.314
  • Let the young people do it.
  • 00:20:00.314 --> 00:20:02.483
  • I fought my fight.
  • 00:20:02.483 --> 00:20:05.519
  • I've teed it up.
  • 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:07.321
  • I've taken the abuse.
  • 00:20:07.321 --> 00:20:09.357
  • I've lost sleep.
  • 00:20:09.357 --> 00:20:10.925
  • Why would i do that?
  • 00:20:10.925 --> 00:20:12.260
  • This is my time.
  • 00:20:12.260 --> 00:20:14.795
  • Imagine you gotta run a marathon.
  • 00:20:14.795 --> 00:20:19.100
  • I suppose that's the assignment for tomorrow.
  • 00:20:19.100 --> 00:20:21.269
  • Everybody, we all gotta run one.
  • 00:20:21.269 --> 00:20:24.305
  • All right, you're gonna sleep in.
  • 00:20:24.305 --> 00:20:25.806
  • So you're gonna start yours late.
  • 00:20:25.806 --> 00:20:27.742
  • I'm gonna get up early.
  • 00:20:27.742 --> 00:20:30.544
  • So when you meet me, i'm at mile 23.
  • 00:20:30.544 --> 00:20:39.153
  • I bet you're not gonna look at me and go, "oh, i'm so sorry.
  • 00:20:39.153 --> 00:20:44.058
  • You've already run 23 miles."
  • 00:20:44.058 --> 00:20:46.961
  • "i'm gonna be oh, sucker.
  • 00:20:46.961 --> 00:20:48.429
  • I'm about done.
  • 00:20:48.429 --> 00:20:51.098
  • You got a lot of work to do a lot of breaths to take your
  • 00:20:51.098 --> 00:20:54.068
  • Heart's gonna have to pump a whole lot.
  • 00:20:54.068 --> 00:20:57.104
  • That's my finish line.
  • 00:20:57.104 --> 00:20:58.439
  • There's a reward over there.
  • 00:20:58.439 --> 00:21:00.141
  • You better believe i'm gonna run through the tape."
  • 00:21:00.141 --> 00:21:04.679
  • In fact, we all know the secrets.
  • 00:21:04.679 --> 00:21:06.013
  • You wanna look better at the finish line.
  • 00:21:06.013 --> 00:21:08.683
  • So you may have been dying three miles ago, but you're gonna
  • 00:21:08.683 --> 00:21:11.218
  • Sprint through the tape because there's cameras there.
  • 00:21:11.218 --> 00:21:18.125
  • There's something better ahead of us.
  • 00:21:18.125 --> 00:21:22.063
  • We get in this mindset as if we're competing with the ungodly
  • 00:21:22.063 --> 00:21:28.002
  • With the pagan.
  • 00:21:28.002 --> 00:21:29.370
  • They're stacking their stuff saying i won the game and
  • 00:21:29.370 --> 00:21:32.073
  • I'm going, no, no, no.
  • 00:21:32.073 --> 00:21:33.441
  • It's all going back in the box.
  • 00:21:33.441 --> 00:21:35.910
  • They're gonna take that puzzle off the table and re-jumble 'em
  • 00:21:35.910 --> 00:21:38.546
  • And somebody else is gonna put them together.
  • 00:21:38.546 --> 00:21:40.481
  • So the fact that you put your puzzle together really well,
  • 00:21:40.481 --> 00:21:42.550
  • Isn't gonna make a hood of difference.
  • 00:21:42.550 --> 00:21:43.884
  • Are you prepared for what's next?
  • 00:21:43.884 --> 00:21:46.520
  • Are you living for a crown?
  • 00:21:46.520 --> 00:21:47.955
  • There's a king and a kingdom to be gained.
  • 00:21:47.955 --> 00:21:53.828
  • There's joy ahead of us.
  • 00:21:53.828 --> 00:21:55.396
  • Hebrews chapter 12, "let's fix our eyes on jesus, the author
  • 00:21:55.396 --> 00:21:58.466
  • And perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him
  • 00:21:58.466 --> 00:22:01.535
  • Endured the cross."
  • 00:22:01.535 --> 00:22:04.004
  • That was his assignment.
  • 00:22:04.004 --> 00:22:06.841
  • His assignment was to face rejection, hatred, to show them
  • 00:22:06.841 --> 00:22:11.412
  • The kingdom of god knowing at the beginning they were gonna
  • 00:22:11.412 --> 00:22:14.148
  • Go, "no, not really."
  • 00:22:14.148 --> 00:22:16.217
  • I mean, there would be some who would follow.
  • 00:22:16.217 --> 00:22:19.420
  • I mean, it's kind of a sad little group.
  • 00:22:19.420 --> 00:22:22.757
  • Handful of fishermen, tax collectors, demonized people,
  • 00:22:22.757 --> 00:22:28.662
  • Some prostitutes, former prostitutes.
  • 00:22:28.662 --> 00:22:33.033
  • I mean, the power brokers, they weren't interested.
  • 00:22:33.033 --> 00:22:36.070
  • The governors, they probably weren't particularly interested.
  • 00:22:36.070 --> 00:22:38.239
  • They didn't have the courage to follow jesus.
  • 00:22:38.239 --> 00:22:41.475
  • You understand the more success you have and the more you
  • 00:22:41.475 --> 00:22:44.211
  • Accumulate, the more courage it takes to truly be an ambassador.
  • 00:22:44.211 --> 00:22:49.517
  • Come on.
  • 00:22:49.517 --> 00:22:51.852
  • But jesus, it says, "for the joy set before him, he endured the
  • 00:22:51.852 --> 00:22:55.122
  • Cross, he scorned its shame, he sat down at the right hand of
  • 00:22:55.122 --> 00:22:58.125
  • The throne of god."
  • 00:22:58.125 --> 00:23:00.428
  • And then the author of hebrews makes it very personal.
  • 00:23:00.428 --> 00:23:02.530
  • It says, "consider him who endured such opposition from
  • 00:23:02.530 --> 00:23:05.833
  • Sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."
  • 00:23:05.833 --> 00:23:12.106
  • See what he is presupposing is that you and i are gonna
  • 00:23:12.106 --> 00:23:15.609
  • Face opposition.
  • 00:23:15.609 --> 00:23:17.745
  • That we're not gonna be ambassadors for the kingdom of
  • 00:23:17.745 --> 00:23:19.814
  • God without push back.
  • 00:23:19.814 --> 00:23:22.082
  • We'll recognize the bullying voices and the threats and the
  • 00:23:22.082 --> 00:23:25.252
  • Challenges, the forfeiture of opportunities, the deals lost,
  • 00:23:25.252 --> 00:23:29.223
  • The exclusion from lists and more.
  • 00:23:29.223 --> 00:23:34.795
  • We describe those as if they're sacrifices.
  • 00:23:34.795 --> 00:23:36.931
  • Folks around the world today, our brothers and sisters in
  • 00:23:36.931 --> 00:23:39.934
  • The faith are hiding for fear of their lives.
  • 00:23:39.934 --> 00:23:43.871
  • We're the most persecuted religious group on the planet
  • 00:23:43.871 --> 00:23:47.541
  • And we talk of suffering in terms of, "well, i didn't get
  • 00:23:47.541 --> 00:23:50.344
  • Invited to the party."
  • 00:23:50.344 --> 00:23:52.713
  • I mean, that can be uncomfortable.
  • 00:23:52.713 --> 00:23:54.548
  • You'll lose some friends.
  • 00:23:54.548 --> 00:23:57.218
  • I hope you do so gladly.
  • 00:23:57.218 --> 00:24:01.489
  • There's joy ahead of us.
  • 00:24:01.489 --> 00:24:05.459
  • Now to be fair, there are immediate opportunities.
  • 00:24:05.459 --> 00:24:07.595
  • There are opportunities before us in the day.
  • 00:24:07.595 --> 00:24:10.331
  • They're not just temptations, they're real.
  • 00:24:10.331 --> 00:24:13.534
  • In hebrews 11, it describes moses that he refused the
  • 00:24:13.534 --> 00:24:16.203
  • Pleasure of sin for a season.
  • 00:24:16.203 --> 00:24:19.373
  • And when you choose ungodliness, i'm not saying that ungodliness
  • 00:24:19.373 --> 00:24:21.842
  • Can't be rewarding in the moment.
  • 00:24:21.842 --> 00:24:24.144
  • It'll give you some financial opportunities in the moment.
  • 00:24:24.144 --> 00:24:26.313
  • Sometimes it'll give you opportunities for pleasure in
  • 00:24:26.313 --> 00:24:28.582
  • The moment.
  • 00:24:28.582 --> 00:24:30.217
  • I'm not suggesting to you those analysis aren't real, that those
  • 00:24:30.217 --> 00:24:33.254
  • Perspectives aren't clear.
  • 00:24:33.254 --> 00:24:34.989
  • I'm telling you they're short sighted, but they're
  • 00:24:34.989 --> 00:24:40.761
  • Real choices.
  • 00:24:40.761 --> 00:24:42.096
  • In 2 timothy 4, the bible, i like its honesty and
  • 00:24:42.096 --> 00:24:43.964
  • Its integrity.
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  • Paul said to timothy, "come quickly, for demas, because he
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  • Loved this world, has deserted me and he's gone
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  • To thessalonica."
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  • Demas was a trusted companion of paul.
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  • He's mentioned in multiple places in the new testament as
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  • A faithful associate of paul.
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  • One ministering in the gospel.
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  • And by the time he finds himself in a roman prison nearing the
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  • End of his life awaiting his execution, he says to timothy,
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  • "i need you to hurry 'cause demas decided he loved the
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  • World more."
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  • Folks, please don't act like we're above that.
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  • All of us, we have to guard our hearts.
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  • We need the encouragement that comes from one another.
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  • It's why community is so important.
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  • If you spend your time with people who are pursuing things
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  • Other than the lord, it gives you an incredible license to
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  • Join them.
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  • You need to put people around you who are choosing to honor
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  • God with their lives that are willing to talk about it.
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  • Talk about the culture in which we live and why a godly
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  • Perspective makes such a difference.
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  • Allen: and before we go, i'd like to pray with you that god
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  • Would give us discernment, the ability to recognize
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  • Spiritual things beyond just our intellect.
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  • That we would know what god is doing and how we
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  • Might co-operate.
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  • Are you ready?
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  • Father, i thank you.
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  • I thank you for your presence in the earth and i pray that you
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  • Would give us a discernment to recognize your spirit at work.
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  • Lord, we don't wanna be left simply to our intellect and our
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  • Own senses, but we wanna be able to see the world from
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  • Your perspective.
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  • Thank you holy spirit for your help.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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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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  • Well, 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
  • 00:26:29.036 --> 00:26:31.872
  • Expertise, your professional accomplishments, your athletic
  • 00:26:31.872 --> 00:26:34.808
  • 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."
  • 00:26:44.151 --> 00:26:45.686
  • 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.
  • 00:26:51.892 --> 00:26:53.227
  • We typically have more confidence in our education or
  • 00:26:53.227 --> 00:26:55.796
  • Our family system or our life experience, we feel a little
  • 00:26:55.796 --> 00:26:58.932
  • 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 an
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  • Impact in this generation.
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  • Go to allenjackson.com and get your copy today.
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