Allen Jackson - Lead With Faith, Holiday Edition (Part 2)

December 4, 2024 | S24:E4904

Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Lead With Faith, Holiday Edition (Part 2) | December 4, 2024
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  • Allen jackson: every family has challenges.
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  • There are no perfect families.
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  • In fact, most of our families are the ones
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  • That put fun in dysfunctional.
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  • And one of the ways you can prepare to make a spiritual
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  • Impact, to lead with your faith in the holiday season,
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  • Is to begin now to pray for the people that you know
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  • You're gonna interact with.
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  • Allen: it's a privilege to be with you today.
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  • Our topic is "leading with our faith in the holidays."
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  • You know, they tell us that faith and politics are not
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  • Appropriate for polite company.
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  • I disagree.
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  • I think we have to bring our faith with us to our gatherings
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  • With our friends and our coworkers,
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  • Our neighbors, wherever it may be.
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  • I'm not going any place that i can't take jesus.
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  • We don't have to be obnoxious.
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  • We don't have to be over the top or intimidating.
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  • We want to be certain that everybody we gather with knows
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  • That we love jesus of nazareth and that we serve him as lord,
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  • Christ, and king.
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  • It's an important time.
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  • Grab your bible, get a notepad, but most importantly,
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  • Open your heart to god's invitations to
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  • You this holiday season.
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  • Allen: now, one of the men that works with me has a saying,
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  • And it is stuck in my head.
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  • He's saying that the right tool makes every job easier.
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  • You know, and then there's so much truth in that.
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  • If you don't believe that, sometimes you try to accomplish
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  • A job just with brute force or strength or--
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  • And i've learned a lot from that man 'cause i watch how he'll
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  • Develop the tools he needs for the job at hand.
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  • And he's not ashamed to say, "i need better tools for this," or
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  • "there's tools that would make this job better."
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  • And then i watch how he cares for them, and manages them,
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  • And puts them in the place they're supposed to be.
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  • And i mean, it's a real deal.
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  • Well, there are spiritual tools that
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  • Make our assignments easier.
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  • And if we're going into this holiday season,
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  • I want you to imagine that there's a menu of things.
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  • There's some different things.
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  • And you'll have to know the ones that are more comfortable for
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  • You, that fit your hand better.
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  • And some are better in some circumstances than others.
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  • And there's no way i can put them all in one presentation,
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  • But i'll begin, and then we'll pick up a few more
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  • In the next session or two.
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  • But one of the things i think you could have in your toolkit
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  • Is the willingness to talk about current events
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  • From a biblical perspective.
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  • We do that a little bit around here.
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  • And the people who don't like it
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  • Chirp and say, "you're being political."
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  • No, i'm really not.
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  • I'm trying to understand what's happening in our world
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  • In light of the scripture.
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  • And in the immediate season, one of the biggest things that's
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  • Dominating headlines is what's happening in israel.
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  • And there's tremendous confusion around it,
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  • Even amongst the people who attend churches,
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  • Because we don't understand, we're not that biblically aware.
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  • We've been told that the church replaced the jewish people or
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  • Something, but there's an opportunity to bring your faith
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  • To bear in a way that will help the people that you're
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  • Interacting with find peace and hope in the midst of a
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  • Tremendous amount of confusion and conflict.
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  • I brought you two or three passages of scripture.
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  • If you've watched the previous two or three sessions,
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  • Some of this is a bit repetitive,
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  • But i wanted to give it to you in a little more of an
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  • Encapsulated way that perhaps you could take with you.
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  • In john chapter 4 and verse 22, jesus is speaking to the
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  • Samaritans, and he said, "the samaritans worship what you do
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  • Not know; we worship what we do know,
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  • For salvation is from the jews."
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  • So somebody said, you know, "why does israel matter?
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  • Why do the jewish people matter at all?"
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  • Well, the reality is, as christians,
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  • We have no salvation apart from the jewish people.
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  • Our messiah, our lord, our king, the one to whom we have sworn
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  • Allegiance, the one we call lord,
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  • That we submit our will to, is a jewish rabbi.
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  • So, we are indebted to the jewish people.
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  • Doesn't mean they're perfect, doesn't mean they're always
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  • Right, doesn't mean when you go to israel for a visit that you
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  • Hear the flutter of angels' wings, because you don't.
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  • Every form of ungodliness and wickedness you can find in
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  • Nashville, you can find in jerusalem.
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  • It's true.
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  • You don't have to go looking for it.
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  • All you have to do is ride in the car.
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  • Their traffic's worse than ours.
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  • You will lose the love of jesus, trying
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  • To drive across jerusalem.
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  • Romans chapter 11 and verse 1 says,
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  • "did god reject his people?"
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  • This is the apostle paul, a pharisee.
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  • "did god reject his people?"
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  • That's the question.
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  • It's the one that the church has struggled with for almost 2,000
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  • Years, and often we've gotten wrong.
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  • Paul answers it: "by no means."
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  • It's the most emphatic way to say it that's available to us in
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  • The greek language, which is the language of the new testament.
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  • "god forbid," he said.
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  • "i'm an israelite myself, a descendant of abraham,
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  • From the tribe of benjamin."
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  • Verse 2, he repeats it, "god did not reject his people,
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  • Whom he foreknew."
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  • See, you've got a little conversation piece.
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  • "i don't know what's going on.
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  • I don't know why christians care about that.
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  • God rejected the jewish people."
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  • Well, you know, i used to think that.
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  • I go to this goofy church now.
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  • The pastor's about half nuts, but he uses the bible quite
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  • A bit, and he read it to us the other day.
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  • I think it was in romans 11.
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  • I'm sure it was.
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  • Paul asked the question, "did god reject his people?"
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  • And he said, "no, he didn't."
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  • So, biblically, i don't agree with you.
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  • I don't really think god did.
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  • That doesn't explain everything that's happening in the middle
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  • East, but it does give me a responsibility to pray
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  • For the jewish people.
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  • I'm indebted to them.
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  • There's a tremendous amount of latent,
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  • Meaning underlying, resentment, hatred of the jewish people.
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  • They have too much money. they control too many things.
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  • There's just all sorts of things that are deeply embedded in the
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  • Hearts and minds of many, many, many people
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  • Who fill our churches.
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  • The fancy word for it is anti-semitism.
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  • And history bears that out.
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  • That's not a theory on my part.
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  • History shouts that at us.
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  • The greatest persecutor of the jewish people for the last 2,000
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  • Years has been the christian church, period.
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  • There's not even anything that's a close second.
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  • In psalm 122, in verse 6, it says,
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  • "pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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  • May those who love you be secure."
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  • But if you're having a conversation with somebody,
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  • And it's a new idea to them, and they're anywhere near receptive,
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  • Have a let's pray moment.
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  • You've just got one sentence now.
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  • So, you know, whenever i can, wherever i've been able to this
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  • Holiday season, i've been enlisting people to pray
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  • For the peace of jerusalem.
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  • Let's pray; father, i pray for the peace of jerusalem
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  • And the inhabitants of the land.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • You didn't just pray for the jewish people.
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  • About 9 million people live in israel,
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  • About 7 million are jew and almost 2 million are arabic.
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  • You prayed for the inhabitants of the land.
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  • Now, you've got a little tool, little current events based.
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  • I can add to it a little bit of history.
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  • I think a little history would help.
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  • I've done it in a good bit of detail
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  • In the last couple of sessions.
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  • I don't want to go back through all of that.
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  • And with just a little bit of awareness,
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  • You could have a dialogue.
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  • You don't have to know all the dates.
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  • You don't have to know the succession of the kings.
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  • But you can understand that there hasn't been--king david
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  • Selected jerusalem as the capital
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  • Of the jewish people, 1000 bc.
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  • Muhammad was born in the sixth century ad.
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  • More than 1500 years before muhammad was born,
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  • Jerusalem was the capital of a jewish state.
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  • It was the second century, i told you a moment ago,
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  • It was in the 130s ad when the romans
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  • Named the region palestine.
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  • Muhammad wasn't born until the sixth century.
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  • So more than 300 years before muhammad was ever born,
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  • Before there was any discussion of islam,
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  • The region was known as palestine.
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  • So it isn't as if from antiquity,
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  • Palestine has been the eternal home of a people group.
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  • It was a region of the middle east, not a country.
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  • It's like talking about the midwest in the united states or
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  • The southeast or new england.
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  • They designate regions of the country.
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  • What has been consistent from the biblical time when queen
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  • Esther was in persia, and there was an edict to eliminate the
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  • Jewish people, until today has been this illogical,
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  • Persistent, unrelenting hatred of the jewish people.
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  • And again, currently we see it being reflected in the muslim
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  • World, but it shouldn't be understood to be unique to them.
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  • Europe did their best to eliminate
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  • The jewish population of europe.
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  • Now, we would say, "well, the nazis did that."
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  • Well, the nazis may have been the ones calling for the
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  • Construction of the death camps, but europe offered up their
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  • Jewish population from city after city after city.
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  • That's just a matter of history.
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  • And tragically, in case you don't know,
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  • That was christian europe.
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  • I had those awkward conversations at the hebrew
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  • University in jerusalem when they would find out
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  • I was a christian.
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  • And they would turn around on the class and say,
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  • "why have you hated us?"
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  • I had to go learn my history before i could
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  • Even talk about it.
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  • So what we're watching in the world today really isn't
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  • Fundamentally about islam.
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  • It's about a spirit, a spirit of antichrist.
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  • It hates the jewish people.
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  • And what you should understand with clarity that's not quite as
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  • Immediately apparent is the hatred of the jewish people and
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  • The hatred of people who say jesus of nazareth is the
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  • Messiah is fueled by the same spirit.
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  • It's the spirit of antichrist.
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  • And what you see being expressed towards the jewish people,
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  • Tragically, from too many of our elite universities,
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  • Is the same spirit that will hate you.
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  • So when we stand on behalf of the jewish people,
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  • We're standing on behalf of a worldview and a covenant that
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  • God has made with them, of which we have benefited,
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  • From which we have benefited.
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  • So, one way to take your faith to your holiday gatherings is to
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  • Know three or four sentences about what's happening in the
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  • Middle east, so that you don't just have to repeat what's
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  • Happening in the news.
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  • Allen: i want to take just a moment to say thank you.
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  • In a year of political turmoil and confusion and wars and
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  • Rumors of wars, because of your partnership,
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  • Your generosity, your prayers, your encouragement,
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  • We have done more for the gospel than any year
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  • In our ministry so far.
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  • We started a whole new genre of programing.
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  • Allen jackson now does a daily review of headlines
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  • From a biblical worldview.
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  • Allen: completely different topic, not current events.
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  • There's some prayers you can pray before you get to your
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  • Gatherings, before you get to your meals
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  • Or your parties or your neighborhood whatever.
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  • They're prayers that prepare you.
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  • So often, we think about the prayer we're going
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  • To pray with other people.
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  • I think a far more significant prayer is the prayer you and i
  • 00:15:22.780 --> 00:15:25.483
  • Pray in preparation to those gatherings.
  • 00:15:25.483 --> 00:15:29.087
  • In mark 11:25 it says, "when you stand praying, if you hold
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  • Anything against anyone, forgive him."
  • 00:15:31.990 --> 00:15:36.060
  • That suggests to us that forgiveness doesn't take long
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  • 'cause you can forgive while you're standing there.
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  • It says, "if you're having a standing prayer, you remember
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  • Something that you need to forgive, forgive it."
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  • Don't talk about it.
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  • Don't debate it. don't think about it.
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  • Don't make a case for why you're filled with
  • 00:15:51.275 --> 00:15:52.944
  • Anger and bitterness and resentment.
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  • Forgive them.
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  • Hebrews 12 says, "see to it that no bitter root grows up in you."
  • 00:15:55.613 --> 00:16:01.319
  • And one of the reasons the holidays are difficult for us is
  • 00:16:01.319 --> 00:16:04.489
  • We have tolerated unforgiveness and resentment and bitterness.
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  • We have let bitter roots exist in our hearts.
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  • Every family has challenges.
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  • There are no perfect families.
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  • In fact, most of our families are the ones
  • 00:16:18.703 --> 00:16:20.071
  • That put fun in dysfunctional.
  • 00:16:20.071 --> 00:16:25.777
  • And one of the ways you can prepare to make a spiritual
  • 00:16:25.777 --> 00:16:29.380
  • Impact, to lead with your faith in the holiday season,
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  • Is to begin now to pray for the people that you know
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  • You're gonna interact with.
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  • Some of us need to forgive.
  • 00:16:37.455 --> 00:16:40.258
  • Some of us have been holding accounts due.
  • 00:16:40.258 --> 00:16:42.994
  • We have accounts receivable, and until we receive whatever it is
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  • We're expecting, an apology, something, we're not gonna
  • 00:16:45.430 --> 00:16:49.267
  • Release those people from the resentment that we're holding.
  • 00:16:49.267 --> 00:16:52.503
  • And we want them to feel the hard
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  • Edge of it when we're together.
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  • They don't think i'm gonna be nice to them, i hope.
  • 00:16:55.173 --> 00:16:59.043
  • And one of the things we can do, one of the tools we can
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  • Implement, it will bring far more freedom to you than to
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  • Anyone else, is to forgive, to cancel those notes,
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  • To tear up those markers.
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  • Don't take your anger and resentment--you'll be so
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  • Different, they'll wonder what happened to you.
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  • You won't have to say much.
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  • Your attitude will be different. the holy spirit will help you.
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  • Now, i'm not suggesting this is easy,
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  • Because if it's something that you've held for a long time,
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  • It's not an easy adjustment.
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  • And i'm not suggesting that what happened to you was appropriate.
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  • I'm not suggesting that you should accept it nor get back in
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  • Line for further abuse, if that was the nature of the offense.
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  • I'm simply suggesting to you that biblically we have an
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  • Assignment to forgive, that we will release them from
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  • Any sense of obligation.
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  • They're not getting away with anything.
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  • You're entrusting them into the judge of all the earth.
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  • What you're doing is you're practicing obedience so that you
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  • Can receive forgiveness.
  • 00:18:04.275 --> 00:18:07.211
  • You know, the bizarre part about unforgiveness and anger and
  • 00:18:07.211 --> 00:18:09.514
  • Resentment is it puts us in bondage,
  • 00:18:09.514 --> 00:18:11.482
  • Not the person we're mad at.
  • 00:18:11.482 --> 00:18:13.985
  • Have you ever been mad at somebody that didn't know it?
  • 00:18:13.985 --> 00:18:16.888
  • How annoying is that?
  • 00:18:16.888 --> 00:18:19.991
  • "don't you even know i'm mad at you?"
  • 00:18:19.991 --> 00:18:23.327
  • "no, didn't know."
  • 00:18:23.327 --> 00:18:26.564
  • And you've been miserable and torqued up and angry.
  • 00:18:26.564 --> 00:18:30.301
  • So if you want to prepare, if you want to take a step to lead
  • 00:18:30.301 --> 00:18:34.138
  • With your faith during the holidays, ask the lord
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  • If there's any prayers of preparation you need to make.
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  • I like the passage from jude a lot.
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  • It says, "build yourselves up in your most holy faith and
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  • Pray in the holy spirit."
  • 00:18:45.816 --> 00:18:48.586
  • If you pray in the spirit, it's a great way to spend some time
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  • In these next few weeks preparing
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  • For these opportunities.
  • 00:18:53.691 --> 00:18:55.793
  • They're gonna be at work, they're gonna be in your
  • 00:18:55.793 --> 00:18:57.128
  • Neighborhood, they're gonna be at school,
  • 00:18:57.128 --> 00:18:58.462
  • They're going to be with family.
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  • There's gonna be some unexpected opportunities.
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  • There'll be some you look forward to
  • 00:19:01.832 --> 00:19:03.201
  • And some that you don't.
  • 00:19:03.201 --> 00:19:05.469
  • But we want to lead with our faith for these next few weeks.
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  • We want to make a kingdom difference.
  • 00:19:08.539 --> 00:19:10.875
  • It's not up to the church to provide entertainment
  • 00:19:10.875 --> 00:19:12.210
  • For you during the holiday.
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  • We'll create some opportunities that you could use as a bringing
  • 00:19:15.046 --> 00:19:17.448
  • And including event for friends or families
  • 00:19:17.448 --> 00:19:19.383
  • Or an ice rink, or whatever it may be.
  • 00:19:19.383 --> 00:19:21.752
  • But for us to lead with our faith,
  • 00:19:21.752 --> 00:19:23.154
  • We'll have to go into our spheres of influence as
  • 00:19:23.154 --> 00:19:25.590
  • Ambassadors for the kingdom, as if god were about to make an
  • 00:19:25.590 --> 00:19:29.160
  • Appeal all over middle tennessee and across our nation through
  • 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:32.563
  • Us this holiday season.
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  • How many of you are willing to be a part of
  • 00:19:35.533 --> 00:19:37.001
  • Something like that?
  • 00:19:37.001 --> 00:19:38.836
  • A kingdom initiative for the next several weeks,
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  • Lives being changed one at a time,
  • 00:19:42.106 --> 00:19:44.108
  • Families being transformed one at a time.
  • 00:19:44.108 --> 00:19:49.013
  • You say, "i don't feel adequate."
  • 00:19:49.013 --> 00:19:50.348
  • You're not.
  • 00:19:50.348 --> 00:19:52.016
  • That's the exact right response.
  • 00:19:52.016 --> 00:19:55.486
  • If you think you're adequate, you make me anxious.
  • 00:19:55.486 --> 00:19:59.090
  • 'cause on your best day, you can't heal a gnat's wing.
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  • We are not adequate.
  • 00:20:04.262 --> 00:20:05.596
  • We can't change people or change families.
  • 00:20:05.596 --> 00:20:08.532
  • We don't know have the wisdom often to know how to help people
  • 00:20:08.532 --> 00:20:11.435
  • Whose hearts are broken and they're desperate.
  • 00:20:11.435 --> 00:20:14.138
  • We just recognize the need and we say,
  • 00:20:14.138 --> 00:20:15.906
  • "lord, i don't know what this is going to look like,
  • 00:20:15.906 --> 00:20:17.441
  • But i'm going in your name today.
  • 00:20:17.441 --> 00:20:22.380
  • And if i can share a piece of pumpkin pie--or,
  • 00:20:22.380 --> 00:20:26.183
  • Well, maybe not that, lord, but however you want to use me."
  • 00:20:26.183 --> 00:20:32.757
  • Are you willing?
  • 00:20:32.757 --> 00:20:34.925
  • We're going to keep working on this toolkit a little bit.
  • 00:20:34.925 --> 00:20:36.627
  • I can give you some more tools that will help, i think.
  • 00:20:36.627 --> 00:20:40.765
  • But if you'll be willing, we'll start with
  • 00:20:40.765 --> 00:20:42.099
  • That commitment tonight.
  • 00:20:42.099 --> 00:20:43.434
  • We're gonna raise our hand and say to the lord, "i'm in.
  • 00:20:43.434 --> 00:20:46.637
  • Here i am, send me."
  • 00:20:46.637 --> 00:20:48.939
  • That was isaiah's transformative moment
  • 00:20:48.939 --> 00:20:52.877
  • When the lord said, "who will i send?
  • 00:20:52.877 --> 00:20:54.211
  • Who will we send on us?"
  • 00:20:54.211 --> 00:20:55.546
  • And isaiah said, "well, i could go."
  • 00:20:55.546 --> 00:21:01.018
  • And that's what i'm asking you tonight,
  • 00:21:01.018 --> 00:21:02.353
  • If you'll say to the lord this holiday season,
  • 00:21:02.353 --> 00:21:04.855
  • "you can send me, you can send me."
  • 00:21:04.855 --> 00:21:10.394
  • I used to go buy a dozen or so boxes of chocolate,
  • 00:21:10.394 --> 00:21:15.366
  • Keep them in the back of my car.
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  • And i said, "lord, if there's somebody that needs encouraged,
  • 00:21:16.701 --> 00:21:19.370
  • Show me who they are."
  • 00:21:19.370 --> 00:21:21.305
  • You can give chocolate to a stranger at this time of the
  • 00:21:21.305 --> 00:21:23.407
  • Year, and they won't call the police.
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  • You try that in april, you'll get an interview.
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  • I'd buy a few poinsettias and keep them around,
  • 00:21:33.451 --> 00:21:35.386
  • 'cause i found if i saw something,
  • 00:21:35.386 --> 00:21:36.721
  • You could share a poinsettia with somebody.
  • 00:21:36.721 --> 00:21:38.189
  • Lord, bring somebody to my mind.
  • 00:21:38.189 --> 00:21:39.523
  • I'd think, "ah, i hadn't thought of them in a long time."
  • 00:21:39.523 --> 00:21:43.361
  • I'd go knock on a door and just say,
  • 00:21:43.361 --> 00:21:44.695
  • "i just wanted to say, 'god bless you.'
  • 00:21:44.695 --> 00:21:47.365
  • You've been a light in my life."
  • 00:21:47.365 --> 00:21:49.500
  • You can do this. we can do this.
  • 00:21:49.500 --> 00:21:52.937
  • Why don't you stand with me?
  • 00:21:52.937 --> 00:21:54.772
  • We're going to raise our hand to the lord.
  • 00:21:54.772 --> 00:22:05.783
  • You know who'll be changed the most, right, right?
  • 00:22:09.854 --> 00:22:14.859
  • Never knew god could use me driving along the road,
  • 00:22:14.859 --> 00:22:21.198
  • Gesturing at people in traffic to deliver a poinsettia.
  • 00:22:21.198 --> 00:22:29.573
  • Who knew?
  • 00:22:29.573 --> 00:22:32.076
  • Before i could get out of the car, i had
  • 00:22:32.076 --> 00:22:33.411
  • To tell the lord i was sorry.
  • 00:22:33.411 --> 00:22:40.251
  • True story, we used to do gift wrap at the mall.
  • 00:22:40.251 --> 00:22:43.654
  • For years, we had a booth.
  • 00:22:43.654 --> 00:22:44.989
  • We wrapped thousands and thousands of packages at
  • 00:22:44.989 --> 00:22:47.291
  • Christmas time for free.
  • 00:22:47.291 --> 00:22:50.161
  • I was in and out of the mall a lot.
  • 00:22:50.161 --> 00:22:51.495
  • Well, there's a little bit of traffic at the malls
  • 00:22:51.495 --> 00:22:53.164
  • At christmas time.
  • 00:22:53.164 --> 00:22:55.332
  • It was one of those tennessee winter days.
  • 00:22:55.332 --> 00:22:57.034
  • It was gray and rainy and cold
  • 00:22:57.034 --> 00:22:59.470
  • And dreary and it was dark.
  • 00:22:59.470 --> 00:23:02.106
  • I was in my car, i don't remember if i was trying
  • 00:23:02.106 --> 00:23:03.774
  • To get into the mall or get out, but there was somebody in
  • 00:23:03.774 --> 00:23:05.810
  • Front of me that needed saved.
  • 00:23:05.810 --> 00:23:11.816
  • Because every strategy i found to get out of
  • 00:23:11.816 --> 00:23:13.818
  • That parking lot, they blocked.
  • 00:23:13.818 --> 00:23:18.322
  • And just because the lord loved me,
  • 00:23:18.322 --> 00:23:19.690
  • Something happened so that they had to turn around.
  • 00:23:19.690 --> 00:23:21.459
  • They were going to pass my window.
  • 00:23:21.459 --> 00:23:24.395
  • So i was getting ready.
  • 00:23:24.395 --> 00:23:27.832
  • I wanted to show them my approval of their driving.
  • 00:23:27.832 --> 00:23:32.203
  • So, i had wiped off the fog of my window.
  • 00:23:32.203 --> 00:23:36.707
  • Right? i mean, i was prepared.
  • 00:23:36.707 --> 00:23:39.610
  • And when they got right abreast of me, and i could see into
  • 00:23:39.610 --> 00:23:42.847
  • Their car, it was somebody that came to church.
  • 00:23:42.847 --> 00:23:48.953
  • So, i tried to turn that glare into an expression of holiday
  • 00:23:48.953 --> 00:23:54.291
  • Cheer, but on the inside, i knew.
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  • And, you know, in spite of our brokenness,
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  • God will use us.
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  • What i'm asking you to do is to say to the lord,
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  • "i would be willing."
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  • You won't get it right every time,
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  • But you'll recognize when you didn't,
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  • And you'll say, "lord, if i have another opportunity,
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  • I could do that better.
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  • I'll be more ready the next time."
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  • Father, thank you for a season of the year we can pause to give
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  • Thanks and celebrate the birth of jesus
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  • And welcome a year of new opportunities, lord.
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  • There are so many things in front of us in these
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  • Next few weeks.
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  • And lord, we recognize how desperately we need your help in
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  • Our own hearts, in our own families,
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  • In our own homes, in the offices where we work,
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  • In the schools where our children go,
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  • In our neighborhoods.
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  • Well, lord, we offer ourselves.
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  • We offer ourselves to you.
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  • May we be ambassadors for your purposes
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  • During this holiday season.
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  • May your appeal be made to the people around us with the
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  • Influence you've given us, with those with whom we'll interact,
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  • With those with whom we will gather,
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  • Those we'll speak to.
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  • Lord, give us wisdom to know what to say
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  • And when to be quiet.
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  • May we have the courage to speak with kindness and love and grace
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  • To the people that you put before us.
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  • Forgive us when we've been too disinterested
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  • Or too busy or too afraid or whatever.
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  • Lord, we offer ourselves, and i thank you that in the weeks
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  • Ahead, we'll begin to celebrate week upon week,
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  • Story upon story of how you have intervened.
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  • And, father, not only will we see others changed,
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  • We'll be transformed.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah. god bless you.
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