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Allen Jackson - Leaders and Leadership (Part 1)

August 23, 2025 | S25 E239 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Leaders and Leadership (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Leaders and Leadership (Part 1) | August 23, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: i sat down recently with my father to do
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  • A podcast for my "culture and christianity" podcast, and it
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  • Was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with,
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  • But as i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something
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  • In me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encourage my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents's life, ultimately
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  • My family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing
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  • The power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together, they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit, but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life in a regular basis,
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  • To give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face, the spirit of god within us to help us, guide us,
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  • And direct us.
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  • That's invaluable, and these books will help you understand.
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  • Allen: i really intended to have completed this in a previous
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  • Session, but our bible reading, right now--i hope you do the
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  • Bible reading with us.
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  • I hope you read your bible on a regular basis.
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  • First and foremost, that's of primary importance.
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  • I have discovered there's an advantage to reading it
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  • In community.
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  • Because when you have the opportunity to interact with one
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  • Another in settings outside of church, there's a common point
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  • Of faith that that's always available for a conversation.
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  • If you have a question, there's hundreds and hundreds of people
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  • You worship with that might have an answer.
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  • It gives us a common journey and as i was doing the bible reading
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  • And walking back through the portions for the last few days,
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  • I thought it fed into this discussion so well that i would
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  • Carry it through for another session or two.
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  • We've been talking about god's plan, god's promises,
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  • And god's people.
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  • And as we begin 1 samuel, those are the historical books
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  • Of god's plan and his promises for his people.
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  • And i hope as you read it, you've noticed it's kind of
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  • Messy business.
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  • It's not simple.
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  • And i make that observation because i want my faith to
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  • Be simple.
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  • I wanna receive the lord.
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  • I'll forgive those that i need to forgive.
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  • I wanna be forgiven and then i want everything to be easy.
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  • I do.
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  • It's okay with me if somebody needs to walk through a shadowed
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  • Valley as long as it's you.
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  • You know, i'm okay if somebody needs to learn patience as long
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  • As it isn't me.
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  • I think you should take up your cross daily and follow the lord.
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  • I wanna go to the ice cream store.
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  • Now that isn't our reality and the journey is about reconciling
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  • My preference for comfort and convenience with the reality of
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  • Serving the lord.
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  • But i couldn't help it as i was reading through these passages
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  • These last several days to think that we would forfeit something
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  • If we didn't bring it into our conversation.
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  • We've been talking about god's promises.
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  • The old testament tells us about a leader by the name of joshua
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  • That led the descendants of abraham and isaac and jacob into
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  • A land that god promised them, but the new testament tells us
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  • About a leader by the name of jesus who leads us into the land
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  • Of the promises of god.
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  • We don't have a promised piece of geography, but we have a life
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  • Defined by the promises of god.
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  • And the stories are in no way in conflict, they inform
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  • One another.
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  • We need--we have the bible so we understand the character of god
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  • In the nature of being god's people.
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  • They're not just written down for us as obtuse lessons.
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  • So i wanna go to samuel and i'm just gonna walk through it with
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  • You pretty casually.
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  • We're gonna try to unpack it.
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  • It feels so raw and honest in the way it's presented, but i
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  • Think perhaps it can help us.
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  • It's really this session is about leaders and leadership
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  • 'cause that's what the narrative is about.
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  • God's people require leadership.
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  • We do.
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  • It's all through the scripture.
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  • Now, ultimately, god wants to be our leader.
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  • You know, we get to the new testament we get really weird.
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  • You know, jesus is the head of the church, no kidding, no duh,
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  • Like really good for you, yes.
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  • But it hasn't removed us from the realms of human authority.
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  • We've become so rebellious within the church.
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  • So contentious, so stubborn, so incalcitrant.
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  • We certainly don't yield to the lordship of jesus, but we don't
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  • Intend to be constrained by anything else.
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  • We don't even wanna be identified as a part of a group.
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  • We all wanna be independent contractors 'cause after all,
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  • Jesus is our high priest and it's true he is.
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  • But he also says we're a body.
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  • And i assure you there's a hierarchy in your physical body.
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  • And so i think it's a very helpful set of passages.
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  • 1 samuel chapter 1, we're just gonna walk through it.
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  • God help us, we'll get through this outline.
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  • Samuel, spoiler alert, the book of samuel opens with figuring
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  • Out how samuel got here.
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  • Samuel's mother was barren.
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  • She couldn't have children and she was grieved by that.
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  • She was tormented by that.
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  • Tormented by the people around her because of that.
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  • And she prayed.
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  • And eli, who was the priest over the nation, responsible for the
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  • Tabernacle, the temple hasn't been built yet, saw her and he
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  • Thought in her grief and her weeping she had come to the
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  • Tabernacle drunk.
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  • And he rebuked her.
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  • And she said--now there's an assumption there that enough
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  • People came drunk that he thought she was one more.
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  • If he'd never seen that, he wouldn't have known to
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  • Imagine that.
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  • I'm just saying.
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  • And he rebuked her and she said, "no, i have great grief."
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  • And he agreed with her that she would conceive and she said, "if
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  • The lord is so good to me, i will give the child to serve
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  • The lord."
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  • And that's where we step into your notes.
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  • It's 1 samuel 1, they brought the boy to eli.
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  • And she said to him, "as surely as you live, my lord, i'm the
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  • Woman who stood here beside you, praying to the lord.
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  • I prayed for this child, and the lord has granted me what i ask
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  • Of him.
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  • So now i give him to the lord.
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  • For his whole life he will be given over to the lord."
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  • Wow.
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  • You know, we've allowed ourselves to be enticed away
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  • From biblical ideas regarding family and parenting.
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  • They really haven't been at the forefront of our imaginations or
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  • Our behavior for decades.
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  • Haven't renounced our faith.
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  • We've just allowed the voices and the influences to shape us
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  • To be driven far more from secular streams than we have
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  • From biblical perspectives.
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  • Amen, pastor is the word you're searching for, but it's okay
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  • We'll just, we'll push on.
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  • And we've really, we have fallen victim and pray to statements
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  • That you know like the bible's from another time,
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  • Another setting.
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  • We've evolved, we've emerged, we're more enlightened.
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  • We can't be constrained by those biblical perspectives.
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  • And i mean, i have lived through a lot of those cycles in
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  • Academia and they would be credible if i thought our
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  • Families were stronger, our children were safer, our
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  • Communities were more stable, then they would have
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  • Credibility, but that hasn't been the case.
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  • The further we've walked away from those biblical models for
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  • Families and biblical models for marriage and biblical models of
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  • Authority, the less safe our children have become.
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  • The less effective our public education has become, the more
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  • Unstable our families have become.
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  • So i would submit to you that the bible presents us with
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  • A template, a set of things.
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  • And as you're reading through these historical books,
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  • I understand it's not a one for one overlay.
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  • I get that.
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  • There's questions and challenges, but there are some
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  • Values and principles we can take note of and the idea that
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  • Our children ultimately aren't our children.
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  • That there is sacred trust from almighty god.
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  • The bible tells us very clearly he knows us when we're being
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  • Knit together in our mother's womb.
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  • Before we ever see our children or hear their cry or comment
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  • Upon whom we think they look like, god knows them.
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  • He's the author and the completer of their story.
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  • And the great assignment for all adults as parents is to see
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  • Those children reared in the knowledge and the fear of god.
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  • It's more important than hitting a curveball.
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  • I'm not saying playing ball isn't important or what other
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  • Hobbies may fill your lives, but they are secondary to helping
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  • The children know the lord.
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  • Hannah brings samuel as a toddler and relinquishes him to
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  • The care of eli.
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  • I would submit to you that took tremendous courage.
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  • But i also suggest to you that it's gonna take tremendous
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  • Courage to address the deviation that we have been a part of and
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  • To walk forward in faith.
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  • Same chapter--i'm sorry, next chapter, same book.
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  • 1 samuel chapter 2, we get a little comment on eli.
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  • And i think this is important in two ways.
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  • It helps you understand the unfolding narrative and why
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  • Samuel is gonna be given the opportunity he has, but i would
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  • Also suggest to you it would have made it even more difficult
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  • For samuel's parents to have relinquished him to the care
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  • Of eli.
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  • And you can read it and go, "oh, now i know why god had
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  • Prepared samuel."
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  • But i would argue to you, it took far greater faith to
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  • Relinquish him.
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  • Look at the verse.
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  • I just put one sentence.
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  • It's a summary, "eli's sons were wicked men, and they had no
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  • Regard for the lord."
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  • And that's where they left samuel.
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  • Not easy.
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  • Well, i understand it's gonna create a lane of opportunity
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  • For samuel.
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  • He's gonna become one of the mightiest leaders in
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  • Israelite history.
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  • In the jewish community, samuel's far more, holds a place
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  • Of much greater significance than he typically does in the
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  • Evangelical world.
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  • I think as a side note, we can safely say at this point that we
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  • Don't inherit godliness.
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  • I mean, the bible speaks fairly well of eli outside of his
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  • Parenting and there's gonna be much criticism about samuel and
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  • His parenting before we're done.
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  • In fact, it's gonna be used as a lever to push him out of
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  • The way.
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  • So it's not a full indictment of eli, but what we can determine
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  • Is that we don't inherit godliness that there's a choice
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  • To be made for every generation.
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  • That's why it's so important what we teach our children,
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  • What our aspirations for them are.
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  • If we fill them with secular aspirations and ungodly
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  • Aspirations and we continually coach them in those directions
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  • And we're not coaching them to things that are distinctive from
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  • Their ungodly secular friends and classmates and peers, then
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  • We are abandoning them to ungodliness.
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  • We can't afford that.
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  • They're too precious.
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  • They're too valuable.
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  • These young men grew up in the shadow of the tabernacle.
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  • They have a priestly assignment based on their dna.
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  • They've been trained for it from their youth and the biblical
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  • Commentary is they were wicked men.
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  • Well, they wore priestly vestments, priestly garments.
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  • They're wicked men.
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  • They had no regard for the lord.
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  • Too much of that in the contemporary expressions of
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  • Religion and the church.
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  • Same chapter, 1 samuel 2, verse 30.
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  • God sends a message to eli through a prophet.
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  • "the lord, the god of israel, declares, 'i promise that your
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  • House and your father's house would minister before
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  • Me forever.'
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  • But now the lord declares: 'far be it from me!
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  • Those who honor me i will honor, but those who despise me will
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  • Be disdained.
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  • The time is coming when i'll cut short your strength and the
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  • Strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old
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  • Man in your family line and you'll see distress in
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  • My dwelling.
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  • Although good will be done in israel, in your family there
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  • Will never be an old man.
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  • But i'll raise up for myself a faithful priest, who will do
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  • According to what is in my heart and mind.
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  • I'll firmly establish his house, and he will minister before my
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  • Anointed one always.
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  • Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow
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  • Down before him for a piece of silver and a crust of bread and
  • 00:13:24.420 --> 00:13:29.758
  • Plead, 'appoint me to some priestly office so i can have
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  • Food to eat.'"
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  • The priesthood was generational, genetically determined.
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  • It's about ancestry.
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  • And he said, your family may be priests and that's irrevocable,
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  • But they're gonna serve in a very insignificant role.
  • 00:13:44.540 --> 00:13:48.210
  • It's very sobering announcements.
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  • You can see, and it has relevance for this study we're
  • 00:13:49.678 --> 00:13:52.181
  • Doing about the promises of god.
  • 00:13:52.181 --> 00:13:53.649
  • The promises of god are conditional.
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  • I know we don't like that.
  • 00:13:56.952 --> 00:13:58.687
  • It's uncomfortable, we chafe a bit under it sometimes.
  • 00:13:58.687 --> 00:14:01.657
  • But the decision to honor god is not a casual decision.
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  • It's a life of commitment.
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  • I don't want you to live in fear of your salvation, but i don't
  • 00:14:08.631 --> 00:14:12.334
  • Want you to live presumptively.
  • 00:14:12.334 --> 00:14:16.138
  • Folks, you can't peel a couple of verses out of context in the
  • 00:14:16.138 --> 00:14:18.908
  • New testament, ignore the rest of the bible and imagine that
  • 00:14:18.908 --> 00:14:22.011
  • Your faith is unassailable.
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  • It terrifies me to teach people that.
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  • Allen: i sat down with my father recently, did a podcast.
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  • He told the story how he came to faith,
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  • How god transformed our family, he started a home bible study,
  • 00:14:39.328 --> 00:14:42.431
  • All the way up to the beginning of this church that
  • 00:14:42.431 --> 00:14:44.233
  • I've served now for decades.
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  • As i listened, the heart of it was the work of the holy spirit
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  • In his life and through his life.
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  • I asked him to do a book around the topic and we have it
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  • Allen: when we pray for healing, we're not asking for god to do
  • 00:15:34.984 --> 00:15:36.785
  • Something remarkable.
  • 00:15:36.785 --> 00:15:38.153
  • He built you to heal.
  • 00:15:38.153 --> 00:15:39.488
  • If you cut your finger, you don't lose your mind.
  • 00:15:39.488 --> 00:15:42.424
  • "dear god, i'm gonna die.
  • 00:15:42.424 --> 00:15:43.759
  • It's a paper cut."
  • 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:47.096
  • I mean, it may feel like it.
  • 00:15:47.096 --> 00:15:49.732
  • But man up, put a band-aid on it, you'll survive.
  • 00:15:49.732 --> 00:15:53.936
  • Forty-eight hours, it'll seal over.
  • 00:15:53.936 --> 00:15:57.606
  • Then a week you won't know it was there.
  • 00:15:57.606 --> 00:15:59.174
  • You're designed to heal.
  • 00:15:59.174 --> 00:16:00.843
  • Your iphone's not designed that way.
  • 00:16:00.843 --> 00:16:03.912
  • If you break the screen, you can't put it in the dark for
  • 00:16:03.912 --> 00:16:06.148
  • A week and it'll get better.
  • 00:16:06.148 --> 00:16:10.019
  • God designed us physically in a way that we can recover from an
  • 00:16:10.019 --> 00:16:16.825
  • Enormous amount of abuse and punishment.
  • 00:16:16.825 --> 00:16:20.362
  • But it's possible to abuse your body to the point that you
  • 00:16:20.362 --> 00:16:23.799
  • Override its recovery systems.
  • 00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:26.935
  • True?
  • 00:16:26.935 --> 00:16:29.104
  • And you can destroy your health.
  • 00:16:29.104 --> 00:16:32.674
  • Well it seems to me that the lesson of scripture is that you
  • 00:16:32.674 --> 00:16:35.544
  • Have to choose to honor god.
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  • You may not do it perfectly every day, but you have to have
  • 00:16:37.012 --> 00:16:40.949
  • The intent.
  • 00:16:40.949 --> 00:16:42.684
  • Absent the intent, no matter what your dna is, no matter what
  • 00:16:42.684 --> 00:16:46.855
  • Your life assignment is, no matter the group to whom you
  • 00:16:46.855 --> 00:16:49.925
  • Belong and the covenant they have, if you choose to be
  • 00:16:49.925 --> 00:16:53.729
  • Wicked, god will acknowledge that and say, "you have no
  • 00:16:53.729 --> 00:16:56.799
  • Regard for me.
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  • I'm stepping away from you."
  • 00:16:58.167 --> 00:17:01.003
  • I don't want you to live presumptively.
  • 00:17:01.003 --> 00:17:03.472
  • God is continually looking for faithful people.
  • 00:17:03.472 --> 00:17:05.541
  • He said that.
  • 00:17:05.541 --> 00:17:06.875
  • He said, "i'll raise up for myself a faithful priest that
  • 00:17:06.875 --> 00:17:10.646
  • Makes me smile.
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  • I will raise up for myself."
  • 00:17:12.714 --> 00:17:14.216
  • It's a divine initiative.
  • 00:17:14.216 --> 00:17:15.684
  • Do you know you and i are part of a divine initiative?
  • 00:17:15.684 --> 00:17:20.556
  • So that no one may boast.
  • 00:17:20.556 --> 00:17:22.925
  • That's the new testament commentary.
  • 00:17:22.925 --> 00:17:25.694
  • That god chooses us from the most unlikely places, from the
  • 00:17:25.694 --> 00:17:29.731
  • Darkest pits, the most immoral behaviors, from the worst set
  • 00:17:29.731 --> 00:17:33.302
  • Of choices.
  • 00:17:33.302 --> 00:17:34.636
  • He chooses us to bring consternation to his adversaries
  • 00:17:34.636 --> 00:17:39.108
  • 'cause they'll look at us and they'll go, there's no way.
  • 00:17:39.108 --> 00:17:41.610
  • It's impossible.
  • 00:17:41.610 --> 00:17:43.245
  • And he also says it's a way for us to maintain some humility
  • 00:17:43.245 --> 00:17:46.248
  • 'cause he said, "no one can boast before me 'cause i've
  • 00:17:46.248 --> 00:17:48.450
  • Done it."
  • 00:17:48.450 --> 00:17:51.086
  • And what's being described here in 1 samuel chapter 2 is a theme
  • 00:17:51.086 --> 00:17:54.389
  • Throughout scripture.
  • 00:17:54.389 --> 00:17:55.757
  • We can go to the new testament.
  • 00:17:55.757 --> 00:17:57.092
  • If you remember with me, god initiated the story of john
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  • The baptist.
  • 00:17:59.094 --> 00:18:01.330
  • Zachariah and elizabeth had long stopped praying for a child or
  • 00:18:01.330 --> 00:18:06.368
  • Else zechariah wouldn't have been so surprised when gabriel
  • 00:18:06.368 --> 00:18:09.204
  • Showed up and said, "you're gonna be a dad."
  • 00:18:09.204 --> 00:18:12.207
  • If you remember the story, zachariah said, "excuse me, i'm
  • 00:18:12.207 --> 00:18:15.477
  • Old, and my wife."
  • 00:18:15.477 --> 00:18:20.649
  • And gabriel said, "because you've questioned me," he said,
  • 00:18:20.649 --> 00:18:22.918
  • "i stand in the presence of god.
  • 00:18:22.918 --> 00:18:24.286
  • Because you questioned me, you just be quiet for a while."
  • 00:18:24.286 --> 00:18:28.190
  • God initiated that.
  • 00:18:28.190 --> 00:18:30.826
  • God initiated the jesus narrative.
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  • Mary, you found favor with god.
  • 00:18:34.029 --> 00:18:37.166
  • I mean, it's a theme that runs all through that jesus recruited
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  • His disciples.
  • 00:18:39.835 --> 00:18:41.170
  • They didn't seek him out.
  • 00:18:41.170 --> 00:18:42.604
  • "follow me," he said, "i'll teach you to fish for
  • 00:18:42.604 --> 00:18:45.240
  • Something better."
  • 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:47.276
  • He initiated that.
  • 00:18:47.276 --> 00:18:49.311
  • Jesus recruited saul of tarsus on the damascus road.
  • 00:18:49.311 --> 00:18:51.914
  • Saul wasn't interested in serving jesus.
  • 00:18:51.914 --> 00:18:53.549
  • He hated him.
  • 00:18:53.549 --> 00:18:58.020
  • Jesus rearranged his priorities a bit.
  • 00:18:58.020 --> 00:19:01.190
  • I would submit to you that god is still raising up leaders.
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  • I would submit to you that we should be praying on a daily
  • 00:19:05.394 --> 00:19:07.996
  • Basis that god would raise up men and women to lead with faith
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  • In our homes, our churches, our communities, our schools, our
  • 00:19:12.134 --> 00:19:15.571
  • States, our nation, in the church throughout the earth.
  • 00:19:15.571 --> 00:19:22.511
  • If you grumble and complain more than you pray, you have missed
  • 00:19:22.511 --> 00:19:28.550
  • The will of god.
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  • It doesn't take, it does not take great brilliance to be
  • 00:19:32.621 --> 00:19:36.391
  • A skeptic and a critic.
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  • We all understand this fundamentally.
  • 00:19:39.261 --> 00:19:41.029
  • Do you ever watch athletics?
  • 00:19:41.029 --> 00:19:43.365
  • If you don't watch athletics, do you watch a home improvement
  • 00:19:43.365 --> 00:19:46.068
  • Program or a cooking program?
  • 00:19:46.068 --> 00:19:49.004
  • I hate 'em.
  • 00:19:49.004 --> 00:19:51.773
  • They build them in little thirty-minute blocks.
  • 00:19:51.773 --> 00:19:55.477
  • In 30 minutes, we're going to remodel this house.
  • 00:19:55.477 --> 00:20:00.949
  • It takes me long enough to drive to home depot.
  • 00:20:00.949 --> 00:20:06.455
  • In 30 minutes, they can open a basket of weird things and
  • 00:20:06.455 --> 00:20:09.925
  • Prepare a gourmet meal.
  • 00:20:09.925 --> 00:20:12.494
  • It takes me that long to start the grill and cook a hotdog.
  • 00:20:12.494 --> 00:20:18.467
  • And the athletic events that we like, i feel no inconsistency
  • 00:20:18.467 --> 00:20:23.672
  • Whatsoever to sit in my recliner with dr. pepper and cheese
  • 00:20:23.672 --> 00:20:27.609
  • Doodles and call the athletes that train 24/7 lazy.
  • 00:20:27.609 --> 00:20:37.519
  • What? "they're not hustling.
  • 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:41.923
  • They don't have a good motor, no heart.
  • 00:20:41.923 --> 00:20:47.162
  • Honey, could you bring me some more cheez doodles?"
  • 00:20:47.162 --> 00:20:53.068
  • And we bring that same perspective right into
  • 00:20:53.068 --> 00:20:55.170
  • The church.
  • 00:20:55.170 --> 00:20:57.406
  • We're really unhappy with the kind of leaders we have in
  • 00:20:57.406 --> 00:20:59.775
  • Washington or in the state capitol or in our churches or
  • 00:20:59.775 --> 00:21:03.045
  • Wherever, schools, you name it, we grumble.
  • 00:21:03.045 --> 00:21:07.783
  • Stop.
  • 00:21:07.783 --> 00:21:09.584
  • Spend more time praying.
  • 00:21:09.584 --> 00:21:12.621
  • God raised up people who fear your name.
  • 00:21:12.621 --> 00:21:18.327
  • It'll change the entire equation.
  • 00:21:18.327 --> 00:21:21.863
  • God said to eli, you have forfeited something because
  • 00:21:21.863 --> 00:21:25.567
  • You've overlooked the wickedness of your children.
  • 00:21:25.567 --> 00:21:27.602
  • May i ask you a question?
  • 00:21:27.602 --> 00:21:28.937
  • I know it's personal.
  • 00:21:28.937 --> 00:21:32.140
  • What if you forfeited because you overlooked wickedness?
  • 00:21:32.140 --> 00:21:37.279
  • You don't wanna bring disruption.
  • 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:40.582
  • So you wink and nod.
  • 00:21:40.582 --> 00:21:43.485
  • We have excuses, we justify, we try to eliminate consequences.
  • 00:21:43.485 --> 00:21:48.557
  • And i'm for grace and mercy, if you look it up, my picture
  • 00:21:48.557 --> 00:21:51.827
  • Is there.
  • 00:21:51.827 --> 00:21:54.396
  • But if someone chooses to practice wickedness, you better
  • 00:21:54.396 --> 00:21:57.566
  • Not call it godliness.
  • 00:21:57.566 --> 00:22:00.502
  • There's a forfeiture that comes with that.
  • 00:22:00.502 --> 00:22:04.005
  • But then there's this resounding note of hope.
  • 00:22:04.005 --> 00:22:05.974
  • God said, "i'll raise up for myself.
  • 00:22:05.974 --> 00:22:07.743
  • I still initiate this.
  • 00:22:07.743 --> 00:22:09.211
  • I'm still searching the earth for men and women who'll
  • 00:22:09.211 --> 00:22:11.613
  • Serve me."
  • 00:22:11.613 --> 00:22:13.215
  • So we want to do everything we can in our physical power with
  • 00:22:13.215 --> 00:22:15.984
  • Our abilities that god has given us, the resources entrusted to
  • 00:22:15.984 --> 00:22:18.854
  • Us to be engaged in things that nominate us for what god would
  • 00:22:18.854 --> 00:22:22.657
  • Do in the earth.
  • 00:22:22.657 --> 00:22:24.159
  • To teach our children to be excited, to be filled with
  • 00:22:24.159 --> 00:22:27.462
  • Anticipation, to imagine that as an opportunity and not something
  • 00:22:27.462 --> 00:22:31.666
  • That's burdensome or intrusive or loathsome.
  • 00:22:31.666 --> 00:22:34.636
  • They'll catch that from us more than it'll be taught by us.
  • 00:22:34.636 --> 00:22:38.240
  • They will and the reality is like reading your bible when you
  • 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:40.809
  • Start, you're going, "oh jeez, what's the preacher gonna ask
  • 00:22:40.809 --> 00:22:42.844
  • For next?
  • 00:22:42.844 --> 00:22:44.579
  • Sixty-six books.
  • 00:22:44.579 --> 00:22:46.181
  • I read it once.
  • 00:22:46.181 --> 00:22:48.350
  • He's doing it all over.
  • 00:22:48.350 --> 00:22:49.684
  • Will he ever shut up?
  • 00:22:49.684 --> 00:22:51.052
  • Could he just stop?"
  • 00:22:51.052 --> 00:22:54.790
  • But, you know, i have found that if you'll persist in that
  • 00:22:54.790 --> 00:22:56.925
  • Somewhere along the way, there's a dynamic that takes place.
  • 00:22:56.925 --> 00:23:00.328
  • It actually becomes engaging.
  • 00:23:00.328 --> 00:23:03.899
  • You know that's true with serving the lord in general.
  • 00:23:03.899 --> 00:23:07.569
  • If it still feels like something that's not particularly
  • 00:23:07.569 --> 00:23:09.671
  • Desirable to you, it's because the pattern hasn't been
  • 00:23:09.671 --> 00:23:13.408
  • Built yet.
  • 00:23:13.408 --> 00:23:15.343
  • There hasn't been enough diminishment yet of our old
  • 00:23:15.343 --> 00:23:17.245
  • Carnal self that we're still driven far more by our carnal
  • 00:23:17.245 --> 00:23:20.782
  • Selfish desires.
  • 00:23:20.782 --> 00:23:23.685
  • But as we say no to them and say yes to godliness, godliness
  • 00:23:23.685 --> 00:23:26.822
  • Begins to emerge in new ways and you will find that there's a joy
  • 00:23:26.822 --> 00:23:30.725
  • That comes in that.
  • 00:23:30.725 --> 00:23:32.093
  • I've lived that out to a degree.
  • 00:23:32.093 --> 00:23:34.129
  • I don't always get it right, but i get it right more than i
  • 00:23:34.129 --> 00:23:37.399
  • Once did.
  • 00:23:37.399 --> 00:23:39.734
  • And the best way to impact your children and your grandchildren
  • 00:23:39.734 --> 00:23:43.004
  • Is by letting them feel that joy you have for the things of god.
  • 00:23:43.004 --> 00:23:47.476
  • And let them see it and feel it that it truly exceeds the joy
  • 00:23:47.476 --> 00:23:51.346
  • And the anticipation you carry for a whole host of other things
  • 00:23:51.346 --> 00:23:54.583
  • That are no different than what ungodly people do.
  • 00:23:54.583 --> 00:23:57.986
  • I'm not saying the only thing you have to do is sing hymns and
  • 00:23:57.986 --> 00:24:00.489
  • Read the bible, but it needs to be authentic enough that those
  • 00:24:00.489 --> 00:24:04.125
  • That are watching you and patterning their lives from your
  • 00:24:04.125 --> 00:24:06.661
  • Behavior feel it from you.
  • 00:24:06.661 --> 00:24:12.567
  • Do you--if something that you look forward to is interrupted,
  • 00:24:12.567 --> 00:24:19.875
  • The emotion connected to that, how does it compare to the
  • 00:24:19.875 --> 00:24:23.245
  • Emotion that's interrupted if you might miss a service?
  • 00:24:23.245 --> 00:24:28.617
  • "i mean, that's not fair, pastor."
  • 00:24:28.617 --> 00:24:31.753
  • I don't know if it's fair or not, but i think it's in the
  • 00:24:31.753 --> 00:24:34.122
  • Neighborhood of true.
  • 00:24:34.122 --> 00:24:37.492
  • You see, we model something far more than we lecture.
  • 00:24:37.492 --> 00:24:42.497
  • It's far more impactful.
  • 00:24:42.497 --> 00:24:45.166
  • Eli's been delivered a message in 1 samuel 3, the very next
  • 00:24:45.166 --> 00:24:49.504
  • Chapter, samuel's gonna go to listening school.
  • 00:24:49.504 --> 00:24:53.408
  • "the boy samuel ministered before the lord under eli.
  • 00:24:53.408 --> 00:24:56.912
  • In those days, the word of the lord was rare; there weren't
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  • Many visions."
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  • Every generation is different.
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  • "one night eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could
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  • Barely see, was lying down in his usual place.
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  • And the lamp of god had not yet gone out."
  • 00:25:11.092 --> 00:25:14.029
  • Hadn't turn the lights out yet.
  • 00:25:14.029 --> 00:25:16.064
  • "and samuel was lying down on the temple of the lord where the
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  • Ark of god was."
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  • Can you imagine growing up sleeping in the shadow of
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  • The ark?
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  • "then the lord called samuel.
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  • And samuel answered, 'here i am,' and he ran to eli and said,
  • 00:25:29.811 --> 00:25:32.581
  • 'here i am; you called me.'
  • 00:25:32.581 --> 00:25:34.783
  • But eli said, 'i didn't call you.'"
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  • And no, you can't have a drink and if you don't get back in
  • 00:25:37.886 --> 00:25:40.155
  • That bed.
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  • "go back and lie down.
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  • So he went and laid down."
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  • Now this is repeated three times.
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  • It's not till the third time that eli understands.
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  • And he said, "samuel, i'm not calling you, but the lord is.
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  • If it were to happen again, say, 'i'm listening.'"
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  • Allen: being a christ follower is not as much about an
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  • Experience and a completed activity, a prayer, a visit
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  • To an altar, a response to an evangelist.
  • 00:26:14.856 --> 00:26:17.592
  • It's certainly a beginning point of welcoming jesus into your
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  • Heart, but it's a life that we lead.
  • 00:26:20.996 --> 00:26:23.031
  • So, we continue to grow and learn and gain strength as life
  • 00:26:23.031 --> 00:26:26.668
  • Presents challenges.
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  • We get to know god in a new way.
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  • Well, i believe this book about the holy spirit is a tool to
  • 00:26:29.971 --> 00:26:32.741
  • Help you gain a new momentum to grow through the things in your
  • 00:26:32.741 --> 00:26:36.911
  • Life under the direction of the power of the spirit of god.
  • 00:26:36.911 --> 00:26:40.215
  • Folks, we're not gonna outwork evil or outthink evil.
  • 00:26:40.215 --> 00:26:42.617
  • We're not gonna out organize evil.
  • 00:26:42.617 --> 00:26:44.519
  • The only thing evil will yield to is a power greater than
  • 00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:47.122
  • Itself, and that power is the spirit of god in you and me
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  • Manifest in the earth through people of faith.
  • 00:26:51.593 --> 00:26:54.462
  • We're salt and light.
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  • We're change agents.
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  • I wanna pray.
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  • Heavenly father, give us a discernment to recognize your
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  • Spirit, how we can welcome him into our lives and cooperate
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  • With him to bring your breakthroughs into our lives,
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  • Our homes, and our churches.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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