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Allen Jackson - Leading A Dimensional Live (Part 2)

January 22, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Leading A Dimensional Live (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Leading A Dimensional Live (Part 2) | January 22, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • People are searching for truth, and together we're doing our
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  • Have heard the gospel otherwise.
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  • Together, we can stand firm in our faith and make god's truth
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  • Known right here at home and around the earth, wherever
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  • God opens a door.
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  • Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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  • The day our king returns.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: before jesus goes the first time into a synagogue
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  • To stand and speak, satan has already challenged him.
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  • Satan has begun a series of temptations in an attempt to
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  • Disrupt god's purposes.
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  • I would submit to you, i believe god provides every generation
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  • With choices and kingdom opportunities.
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  • And i believe just as we can follow jesus through the gospel
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  • Of luke, i believe satan attempts to disrupt god's intent
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  • For people in every generation, to entice them into choices that
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  • Will result in the forfeiture of their kingdom opportunities.
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  • We're not reading this as some distracted, disinterested party
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  • Going, "oh, how interesting."
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  • We're trying to understand what's happening in our hearts,
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  • In our family systems, in our communities.
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  • We don't wanna stand outside of this and go, "how intriguing."
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  • We're trying to figure out why it hurts when we do this because
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  • We wanna find a resolution and luke is gonna help us.
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  • Nazareth, chapter 4, verse 14, "jesus returned to galilee in
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  • The power of the spirit."
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  • It's a theme for luke.
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  • The holy spirit and the power of god, luke presents them to us
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  • Multiple times as being almost synonymous.
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  • They certainly accompany one another.
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  • The presence of the spirit of god and the power of god.
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  • So if we recognize the need for the power of god in our
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  • Generation, then we need to understand a need to be more
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  • Familiar with the spirit of god.
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  • "jesus returns to galilee in the power of the spirit, and news
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  • About him spread throughout the whole countryside.
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  • He taught in their synagogues, and everyone praised him."
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  • Circle those last three words, "everyone praised him."
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  • "he went to nazareth, where he'd been brought up, and on the
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  • Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.
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  • And he stood up to read."
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  • They gave him the scroll of isaiah.
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  • The scripture portion for that day was from isaiah.
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  • And jesus read: "the spirit of the lord is on me, because he's
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  • Anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
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  • He's sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery
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  • Of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to
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  • Proclaim the year of the lord's favor."
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  • He finished the portion.
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  • He rolled up the scroll and he gave it back to the attendant.
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  • He sat down.
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  • Synagogues were small places.
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  • Nazareth in jesus's time was maybe 1500 people.
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  • It's not a big community.
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  • The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him.
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  • And he began by saying to them, "today, the scripture is
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  • Fulfilled in your hearing."
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  • Now, luke told us at the beginning of this little segment
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  • That everyone praised him throughout the
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  • Whole countryside.
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  • But now we've narrowed this down to nazareth.
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  • And in verse 22 it says: "all spoke well of him."
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  • They're happy with him.
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  • "they're amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips."
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  • And they looked at one another and said, "isn't that joe's boy?
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  • Didn't he play soccer with our kids?
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  • He wasn't too fast.
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  • We know him."
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  • And then jesus said to them, "surely you'll quote this
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  • Proverb to me: 'physician, heal yourself!
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  • Do here in your hometown what we've heard that you did
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  • In capernaum.'"
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  • And he continued, "i tell you the truth."
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  • And you know by now, when you see that phrase, buckle up.
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  • "i tell you the truth, no prophet is accepted in
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  • His hometown.
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  • I assure you that there were many widows in israel in
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  • Elijah's time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years,
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  • There was a severe famine throughout the land.
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  • Yet elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in the
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  • Region of sidon," to a widow in another country.
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  • "and there were many in israel with leprosy in the time of
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  • Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed--only
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  • Naaman the syrian."
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  • "and all the people in the synagogue," turned the page.
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  • "and all the people in the synagogue were furious when they
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  • Heard this."
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  • Well, wait a minute in verse 22 they're speaking well of him.
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  • "that's joe's boy," and by verse 28 they're furious.
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  • "so they got up, and they drove him out of town, and took him to
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  • The brow of the hill, in order to throw him off the cliff."
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  • They wanna kill him.
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  • "and he walked right through the crowd."
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  • Jesus's ministry, luke tells us, begins in the power of the
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  • Spirit, not in a carnal moment, not in a self-indulgent way.
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  • Luke goes out of his way to say, "look, this happened in a
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  • Spirit-led, spirit-directed, spirit-filled manner."
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  • And then he goes out of his way to tell us jesus is simply
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  • Fulfilling isaiah's vision of messiah.
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  • He's not coloring outside the lines.
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  • He's fulfilling what the prophets have said about him.
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  • So while the message may feel new and fresh to his generation
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  • And the outcomes of his ministry are something different than
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  • What they're familiar with, it's very much in keeping with the
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  • Integrity of the word of god.
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  • Very important points as you and i try to sort out, we live in a
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  • Time where deception is rampant and truth is hard to know and
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  • Churches are collapsing and orthodoxy is just evaporating
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  • And apostasy's flourishing and people stands in pulpits and
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  • Worship services and buildings that have ecclesiastical
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  • Architecture and they talk about all sorts of things that are
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  • Ungodly and unscriptural.
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  • It's not an easy time.
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  • And that's not even talking about the media.
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  • And so luke says, "listen, what jesus was doing was fulfilling
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  • What isaiah talked about."
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  • As i've said, for luke, the spirit and god's power
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  • Go together.
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  • Jesus's initial reception in nazareth, very positive: verse
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  • 22, as i said.
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  • But then jesus, after he reads from isaiah, makes this
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  • Very personal.
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  • He begins to look at the people in the synagogue
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  • And he challenges their attitude.
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  • Prophets, he said, aren't accepted at home.
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  • That's very true because so many of the hebrew prophets were
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  • Killed by the hebrews.
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  • The great prophetic voices to the people of god were not
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  • Killed by foreigners.
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  • They weren't murdered by foreign leaders or foreign armies.
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  • Most of the suffering and the murder of the prophets came at
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  • The hands of the people to whom they had been called to deliver
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  • A message.
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  • So jesus isn't suggesting there's something new to him.
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  • He's simply saying the pattern that that has been a part of our
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  • History is carrying forth in this little community too.
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  • But then he doubles down.
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  • He says to them, elijah was sent to a foreigner.
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  • That elijah--oh, that gets really personal.
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  • The people in the synagogue felt it.
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  • You remember elijah, the prophet that stood against ahab
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  • And jezebel.
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  • You remember elijah, the prophet that called the people to a
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  • Confrontation on mount carmel and said, "it's time to decide
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  • In whom you believe," and the people stayed silent.
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  • There was no response.
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  • Elijah runs for his life.
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  • You remember that story?
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  • It's a time of tremendous apostasy in israel, the
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  • Overwhelming majority of the people are worshiping
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  • Fertility gods.
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  • Oh, they still have a temple.
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  • There's a whole cacophony of prophetic voices.
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  • Most of them false.
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  • There's lots of messaging.
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  • They still have scripture, but they have drifted way into
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  • The weeds.
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  • And jesus is looking at these people and he's drawing
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  • Parallels with them in that generation and they are not
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  • Happy about it.
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  • In elijah's day, public expressions of faith were small
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  • And unusual.
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  • Jesus is making a very clear comparison between elijah's
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  • Audience and his audience.
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  • Then he drags naaman into it.
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  • So they want to see a miracle.
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  • And he said, "well, there have been times and places where the
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  • People in this nation didn't get the miracles because it was only
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  • People outside the covenant that were seeking god."
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  • Again, he is--he has not only been caustic, he's pushed it
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  • Right up into their face.
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  • The people in the synagogue are furious.
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  • I mean, to the point of irrationality.
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  • They tried to kill him.
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  • You could have walked out.
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  • You could have said, "thank god he moved to capernaum."
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  • They want to kill him and he went to school with their kids.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: welcome to 2026. happy new year.
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  • We've created a new book to help you.
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  • It's called "turn up the light."
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  • In all seriousness, we do wanna turn up the light.
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  • Let's invite god into the midst of this year
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  • And then just see what he will do.
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  • Allen: now, what i want us to-- i don't want you to miss as
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  • You're reading luke, and it's not the only time.
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  • We're gonna look at it again.
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  • Jesus is not contrite.
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  • He's not inclusive, he's not conciliatory.
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  • He very purposely pushed his audience.
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  • He could have read from isaiah, smiled, and said, "it's really
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  • Good to be home."
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  • He could have given hugs around the room.
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  • "you brought the best cupcakes to birthday parties.
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  • You were the best soccer coach we had the whole time.
  • 00:12:35.470 --> 00:12:39.841
  • Thank you.
  • 00:12:39.841 --> 00:12:41.209
  • Knuckles."
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  • There was so much he could have done, but luke is helping
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  • Us understand.
  • 00:12:48.683 --> 00:12:50.051
  • You see, he's telling us a narrative.
  • 00:12:50.051 --> 00:12:51.553
  • This is the beginning of the ministry.
  • 00:12:51.553 --> 00:12:52.921
  • We're gonna get to the conclusion.
  • 00:12:52.921 --> 00:12:55.523
  • But at the very beginning, in his hometown, jesus said, "we're
  • 00:12:55.523 --> 00:13:00.328
  • In real trouble here."
  • 00:13:00.328 --> 00:13:08.803
  • The folks in the synagogue could have chosen differently.
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  • They could have responded in repentance.
  • 00:13:12.607 --> 00:13:16.711
  • They could have listened to jesus and said, "you know, you
  • 00:13:16.711 --> 00:13:18.813
  • Are so right.
  • 00:13:18.813 --> 00:13:21.049
  • We've been reading those portions.
  • 00:13:21.049 --> 00:13:22.417
  • We've heard the teachers of the law talk about those so
  • 00:13:22.417 --> 00:13:26.688
  • Many times.
  • 00:13:26.688 --> 00:13:28.923
  • We've had some real historical problems because of the hardness
  • 00:13:28.923 --> 00:13:31.893
  • Of our hearts."
  • 00:13:31.893 --> 00:13:35.096
  • But that's not what happened in nazareth.
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  • Are you with me so far?
  • 00:13:40.635 --> 00:13:42.637
  • This isn't complicated.
  • 00:13:42.637 --> 00:13:43.972
  • It's very plain language.
  • 00:13:43.972 --> 00:13:47.976
  • The emotions are very available to us.
  • 00:13:47.976 --> 00:13:51.346
  • Jesus is not being easy and the people are not
  • 00:13:51.346 --> 00:13:53.648
  • Being co-operative.
  • 00:13:53.648 --> 00:13:55.383
  • Same chapter, luke takes us to another town.
  • 00:13:55.383 --> 00:14:01.756
  • It's about, well, you could walk from nazareth to capernaum in a
  • 00:14:01.756 --> 00:14:06.694
  • Couple of hours.
  • 00:14:06.694 --> 00:14:09.163
  • He's gonna move from the hills of galilee down to the shores of
  • 00:14:09.163 --> 00:14:12.300
  • Sea of galilee to capernaum.
  • 00:14:12.300 --> 00:14:14.802
  • Now, capernaum is a bit more secular.
  • 00:14:14.802 --> 00:14:16.371
  • It's still a jewish fishing community, but it's on a major
  • 00:14:16.371 --> 00:14:19.374
  • Roman road, so they're gonna have access to a whole lot of
  • 00:14:19.374 --> 00:14:21.910
  • Nonsensical ideas.
  • 00:14:21.910 --> 00:14:24.879
  • Nazareth is tucked away in the hills.
  • 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:26.714
  • It's a bit more isolated.
  • 00:14:26.714 --> 00:14:28.049
  • It be easier to maintain their uniqueness.
  • 00:14:28.049 --> 00:14:31.019
  • But in capernaum, they're gonna be subjected to some
  • 00:14:31.019 --> 00:14:32.987
  • Other stuff.
  • 00:14:32.987 --> 00:14:34.789
  • Verse 31: "jesus went down to capernaum, a town in galilee,
  • 00:14:34.789 --> 00:14:38.092
  • And on the sabbath he began to teach the people."
  • 00:14:38.092 --> 00:14:40.194
  • We're back in the sabbath in a synagogue.
  • 00:14:40.194 --> 00:14:42.664
  • "they were amazed at his teaching, because his message
  • 00:14:42.664 --> 00:14:47.201
  • Had authority."
  • 00:14:47.201 --> 00:14:48.569
  • Well, they were amazed at his teaching in nazareth initially.
  • 00:14:48.569 --> 00:14:52.473
  • "in the synagogue, there was a man possessed by a demon, an
  • 00:14:52.473 --> 00:14:54.943
  • Evil spirit, and he cried out at the top of his voice, 'what do
  • 00:14:54.943 --> 00:14:57.745
  • You want with us, jesus of nazareth?'"
  • 00:14:57.745 --> 00:15:02.016
  • Remember the chapter before when satan said to him, "if you're
  • 00:15:02.016 --> 00:15:04.752
  • The son of god"?
  • 00:15:04.752 --> 00:15:07.155
  • Well, now the demon says, "i know who you are."
  • 00:15:07.155 --> 00:15:12.193
  • Luke is telling us something, folks.
  • 00:15:12.193 --> 00:15:16.264
  • We don't often read it.
  • 00:15:16.264 --> 00:15:21.135
  • "'what do you want with us, jesus of nazareth?
  • 00:15:21.135 --> 00:15:22.937
  • Have you come to destroy us?
  • 00:15:22.937 --> 00:15:24.272
  • I know who you are-- the holy one of god!'
  • 00:15:24.272 --> 00:15:27.208
  • And jesus said, 'be quiet!
  • 00:15:27.208 --> 00:15:29.510
  • And come out of him!'
  • 00:15:29.510 --> 00:15:31.546
  • And the demon threw the man down before all of them and came out.
  • 00:15:31.546 --> 00:15:37.185
  • And all the people were amazed and they said to each other,
  • 00:15:37.185 --> 00:15:41.122
  • 'what is this teaching?
  • 00:15:41.122 --> 00:15:42.457
  • With authority and power he gives orders to evil spirits and
  • 00:15:42.457 --> 00:15:45.026
  • They come out!'
  • 00:15:45.026 --> 00:15:46.761
  • And the news about him spread throughout the
  • 00:15:46.761 --> 00:15:48.529
  • Surrounding area."
  • 00:15:48.529 --> 00:15:51.599
  • Now in capernaum, jesus is going to be received, rather broadly.
  • 00:15:51.599 --> 00:15:57.305
  • We'll look at it together.
  • 00:15:57.305 --> 00:15:59.741
  • In nazareth, he was rejected.
  • 00:15:59.741 --> 00:16:05.446
  • An unexpected audience in capernaum.
  • 00:16:05.446 --> 00:16:08.516
  • I mean, their synagogue service is interrupted by demonized
  • 00:16:08.516 --> 00:16:12.353
  • People screaming at the top of their lungs and jesus intervenes
  • 00:16:12.353 --> 00:16:17.592
  • And rather than being seen as the point of the problem,
  • 00:16:17.592 --> 00:16:22.130
  • They're amazed at what happened.
  • 00:16:22.130 --> 00:16:24.332
  • In nazareth, he simply read from the scripture and offered a bit
  • 00:16:24.332 --> 00:16:26.734
  • Of commentary and they wanted to kill him.
  • 00:16:26.734 --> 00:16:30.605
  • God is presenting opportunities to cities, not just individuals.
  • 00:16:30.605 --> 00:16:35.843
  • I don't believe it's an accidental part of what luke is
  • 00:16:35.843 --> 00:16:38.813
  • Telling us.
  • 00:16:38.813 --> 00:16:40.648
  • See, we've spent our lives being introduced to a personal gospel,
  • 00:16:40.648 --> 00:16:44.886
  • A personal salvation, and personal conversion.
  • 00:16:44.886 --> 00:16:47.789
  • And i believe in all of those things.
  • 00:16:47.789 --> 00:16:49.524
  • But we've imagined that that is the presentation of the gospel.
  • 00:16:49.524 --> 00:16:54.295
  • It's the ultimate objective.
  • 00:16:54.295 --> 00:16:56.864
  • We certainly don't want anybody to miss the kingdom of god.
  • 00:16:56.864 --> 00:17:01.436
  • But luke, at least in this portion that we're reading, says
  • 00:17:01.436 --> 00:17:04.405
  • That god gave presentations to cities.
  • 00:17:04.405 --> 00:17:07.875
  • Were there people in nazareth that believed in jesus?
  • 00:17:07.875 --> 00:17:10.411
  • I promise you there were.
  • 00:17:10.411 --> 00:17:12.046
  • Mary lived there.
  • 00:17:12.046 --> 00:17:14.549
  • He has siblings there.
  • 00:17:14.549 --> 00:17:20.354
  • But luke's presentation is the majority of the city wanted
  • 00:17:20.354 --> 00:17:23.091
  • Nothing to do with that.
  • 00:17:23.091 --> 00:17:25.693
  • "let's kill him."
  • 00:17:25.693 --> 00:17:28.196
  • I don't think it's a stretch to imagine that mary and some of
  • 00:17:28.196 --> 00:17:32.433
  • His brothers and sisters were in the synagogue that day while
  • 00:17:32.433 --> 00:17:36.637
  • They're dragging him to the brow of the hill.
  • 00:17:36.637 --> 00:17:39.707
  • But luke goes out of his way, saying when he gets to
  • 00:17:39.707 --> 00:17:41.676
  • Capernaum, they're happy with him.
  • 00:17:41.676 --> 00:17:46.114
  • May i ask you a question?
  • 00:17:46.114 --> 00:17:48.583
  • Do you believe that god deals with communities of
  • 00:17:48.583 --> 00:17:51.185
  • People, cities?
  • 00:17:51.185 --> 00:17:54.856
  • Well, that's not much of our discussion.
  • 00:17:54.856 --> 00:17:56.457
  • I've spent my life around church.
  • 00:17:56.457 --> 00:17:57.825
  • We don't talk about that a lot.
  • 00:17:57.825 --> 00:18:01.863
  • It's a really biblical idea.
  • 00:18:01.863 --> 00:18:03.264
  • I mean, i can take you through multiple places.
  • 00:18:03.264 --> 00:18:05.800
  • Sodom and gomorrah, cities spared if there were a handful
  • 00:18:05.800 --> 00:18:10.204
  • Of righteous people.
  • 00:18:10.204 --> 00:18:11.539
  • Absent that, whole cities are going to suffer, even the
  • 00:18:11.539 --> 00:18:14.742
  • Righteous amongst them, ephesus.
  • 00:18:14.742 --> 00:18:17.078
  • There are riots in the city, there are believers there, but
  • 00:18:17.078 --> 00:18:20.148
  • There are riots.
  • 00:18:20.148 --> 00:18:21.516
  • How many times in the book of acts are there cities where
  • 00:18:21.516 --> 00:18:23.518
  • There's tremendous turmoil?
  • 00:18:23.518 --> 00:18:29.056
  • We have come so far away from the biblical presentation.
  • 00:18:29.056 --> 00:18:32.426
  • We read it but we just turn our brain.
  • 00:18:32.426 --> 00:18:33.995
  • It's like, "oh, you know, i'm saved.
  • 00:18:33.995 --> 00:18:35.663
  • So none of the--" and then we wonder why we flounder, why our
  • 00:18:35.663 --> 00:18:39.033
  • Muscles are atrophied and we're not prepared to say, "do not put
  • 00:18:39.033 --> 00:18:42.870
  • Obscenity in elementary libraries."
  • 00:18:42.870 --> 00:18:48.943
  • It's not a political issue.
  • 00:18:48.943 --> 00:18:50.311
  • It's a cultural issue.
  • 00:18:50.311 --> 00:18:51.979
  • Marriage between a man and a woman.
  • 00:18:51.979 --> 00:18:53.381
  • It's a biblical idea, it's not a political idea.
  • 00:18:53.381 --> 00:19:01.989
  • Jesus is challenged even in capernaum by satan.
  • 00:19:01.989 --> 00:19:07.628
  • His first message that we're given access to in the synagogue
  • 00:19:07.628 --> 00:19:11.332
  • There is interrupted by a demon.
  • 00:19:11.332 --> 00:19:14.835
  • That feels challenging to me as someone who makes presentations.
  • 00:19:14.835 --> 00:19:22.043
  • Jesus's ministry is centered in a dimensional life.
  • 00:19:22.043 --> 00:19:25.479
  • It isn't just informational.
  • 00:19:25.479 --> 00:19:29.984
  • He's giving them a presentation of the power of god.
  • 00:19:29.984 --> 00:19:33.521
  • So, may i ask you some questions, just for thought?
  • 00:19:33.521 --> 00:19:36.157
  • What are the dimensional forces that are at work in
  • 00:19:36.157 --> 00:19:38.259
  • Our community?
  • 00:19:38.259 --> 00:19:40.528
  • Let me ask you another question.
  • 00:19:40.528 --> 00:19:42.230
  • Which side of the discussion are you most comfortable on?
  • 00:19:42.230 --> 00:19:46.734
  • Let's keep reading.
  • 00:19:46.734 --> 00:19:48.102
  • Chapter 4, verse 40: "when the sun was setting, the people
  • 00:19:48.102 --> 00:19:50.471
  • Brought to jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and
  • 00:19:50.471 --> 00:19:53.107
  • Laying his hands on each, he healed them.
  • 00:19:53.107 --> 00:19:55.443
  • Demons came out of many people, shouting, 'you're the son
  • 00:19:55.443 --> 00:19:57.578
  • Of god!'
  • 00:19:57.578 --> 00:19:58.946
  • But he rebuked them and he wouldn't allow them to speak,
  • 00:19:58.946 --> 00:20:00.414
  • Because they knew he was the christ."
  • 00:20:00.414 --> 00:20:02.250
  • The people in capernaum are so hungry, so receptive, they're
  • 00:20:02.250 --> 00:20:05.519
  • Bringing friends and neighbors.
  • 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:06.921
  • They're scattering to the little communities around and saying,
  • 00:20:06.921 --> 00:20:10.157
  • "there's somebody here who will help us."
  • 00:20:10.157 --> 00:20:12.326
  • It's a dramatically different presentation than nazareth, and
  • 00:20:12.326 --> 00:20:15.563
  • They're presented to us, side by side.
  • 00:20:15.563 --> 00:20:19.834
  • What are we gonna be?
  • 00:20:19.834 --> 00:20:25.940
  • Everybody's not gonna cheer.
  • 00:20:23.170 --> 00:20:29.510
  • We've been waiting for this massive wave of universal
  • 00:20:29.510 --> 00:20:33.314
  • Acceptance to the message.
  • 00:20:33.314 --> 00:20:35.383
  • Where do you find that in your bible?
  • 00:20:35.383 --> 00:20:38.552
  • We have some scenes in the--of heaven in the book of revelation
  • 00:20:38.552 --> 00:20:42.523
  • Like that.
  • 00:20:42.523 --> 00:20:43.891
  • But our scenes of what's happening down here are
  • 00:20:43.891 --> 00:20:46.027
  • Intertwined with the opposition, with the resistance, with
  • 00:20:46.027 --> 00:20:48.863
  • Satanic forces, spiritual forces of wickedness.
  • 00:20:48.863 --> 00:20:56.404
  • The people are receptive and hungry in capernaum.
  • 00:20:56.404 --> 00:20:59.874
  • In nazareth, they wanted to kill him.
  • 00:20:59.874 --> 00:21:02.109
  • Verse 42, very next verse: "at daybreak jesus went out to a
  • 00:21:02.109 --> 00:21:04.812
  • Solitary place, and the people were looking for him and when
  • 00:21:04.812 --> 00:21:08.015
  • They came to where he was, they tried to keep him from
  • 00:21:08.015 --> 00:21:09.884
  • Leaving them."
  • 00:21:09.884 --> 00:21:11.752
  • Again, it's a dramatically different reception.
  • 00:21:11.752 --> 00:21:14.855
  • They're given to us, side by side.
  • 00:21:14.855 --> 00:21:16.924
  • Please don't miss that.
  • 00:21:16.924 --> 00:21:20.227
  • It's about personal choices and it's about communities.
  • 00:21:20.227 --> 00:21:26.667
  • In capernaum, "please don't leave."
  • 00:21:26.667 --> 00:21:28.469
  • In nazareth, "we'll kill you."
  • 00:21:28.469 --> 00:21:31.706
  • "let us bring people to you that need transformation.
  • 00:21:31.706 --> 00:21:34.975
  • We need transformation, we have friends that
  • 00:21:34.975 --> 00:21:37.178
  • Need transformation."
  • 00:21:37.178 --> 00:21:38.512
  • In nazareth, "you're joe's kid and i don't know who you think
  • 00:21:38.512 --> 00:21:41.115
  • You are, but how dare you tell us we need to be different."
  • 00:21:41.115 --> 00:21:49.657
  • And this is jesus.
  • 00:21:49.657 --> 00:21:53.127
  • I haven't done very much beyond read the text to you, but it
  • 00:21:53.127 --> 00:21:57.064
  • Seems very relevant to the world i'm living in.
  • 00:21:57.064 --> 00:22:02.303
  • In capernaum, there's a very positive reception.
  • 00:22:02.303 --> 00:22:04.805
  • It's a very stark contrast to nazareth.
  • 00:22:04.805 --> 00:22:07.942
  • Folks, god is moving in the earth.
  • 00:22:07.942 --> 00:22:10.845
  • I don't know what the outcomes will be.
  • 00:22:10.845 --> 00:22:13.881
  • I don't think we should imagine just because we see evidence of
  • 00:22:13.881 --> 00:22:16.250
  • God moving that it means the outcome will be wonderful.
  • 00:22:16.250 --> 00:22:18.919
  • God sent his son in that first century.
  • 00:22:18.919 --> 00:22:22.356
  • He gathered around him a group of people who were very
  • 00:22:22.356 --> 00:22:24.759
  • Adamant followers.
  • 00:22:24.759 --> 00:22:26.327
  • He confirmed what they did with the most remarkable of
  • 00:22:26.327 --> 00:22:28.829
  • Supernatural signs and judgment came upon the people.
  • 00:22:28.829 --> 00:22:33.334
  • Before jesus is done with his ministry in luke's gospel, we
  • 00:22:33.334 --> 00:22:36.470
  • Will see him weeping over the city of jerusalem, saying, "if
  • 00:22:36.470 --> 00:22:41.342
  • You had only cooperated, but now they're gonna dash the heads of
  • 00:22:41.342 --> 00:22:46.814
  • Your babies against the rocks."
  • 00:22:46.814 --> 00:22:51.986
  • People say to me, "jesus wasn't involved in current events."
  • 00:22:51.986 --> 00:22:54.221
  • I'm like, "are you reading the book?"
  • 00:22:54.221 --> 00:22:59.093
  • That's a pronouncement about a foreign army devastating
  • 00:22:59.093 --> 00:23:02.730
  • Jerusalem and the temple.
  • 00:23:02.730 --> 00:23:07.868
  • See, i think we're--i don't know why god called us to
  • 00:23:07.868 --> 00:23:10.738
  • This season.
  • 00:23:10.738 --> 00:23:13.674
  • I feel very inadequate.
  • 00:23:13.674 --> 00:23:17.278
  • I think most of us do.
  • 00:23:17.278 --> 00:23:21.515
  • What i do know is god placed us here and if he placed us here
  • 00:23:21.515 --> 00:23:25.820
  • And we will choose obedience and we will choose to follow the
  • 00:23:25.820 --> 00:23:29.223
  • Leading of the holy spirit, i believe he will lead us to
  • 00:23:29.223 --> 00:23:32.259
  • Outcomes that makes a difference in untold number of lives
  • 00:23:32.259 --> 00:23:35.763
  • Through time and eternity.
  • 00:23:35.763 --> 00:23:43.838
  • And we have access to the word of god.
  • 00:23:43.838 --> 00:23:45.673
  • We can open our bibles and read through luke.
  • 00:23:45.673 --> 00:23:47.308
  • It's just 24 chapters, come on.
  • 00:23:47.308 --> 00:23:50.444
  • I don't have a lot more weeks to do this.
  • 00:23:50.444 --> 00:23:51.879
  • We've got other things we've got to do and people coming, and
  • 00:23:51.879 --> 00:23:55.249
  • Come on.
  • 00:23:55.249 --> 00:23:57.451
  • Well, we do.
  • 00:23:57.451 --> 00:24:01.655
  • I wanna close with a proclamation.
  • 00:24:01.655 --> 00:24:04.592
  • It's really a declaration of intent.
  • 00:24:04.592 --> 00:24:06.193
  • It's not new to you.
  • 00:24:06.193 --> 00:24:07.528
  • We've been saying this together for a decade or more.
  • 00:24:07.528 --> 00:24:10.197
  • I didn't bring you the whole thing.
  • 00:24:10.197 --> 00:24:11.565
  • I knew i'd be late.
  • 00:24:11.565 --> 00:24:15.636
  • We don't have to do the entire thing.
  • 00:24:15.636 --> 00:24:17.137
  • Let's stand together.
  • 00:24:17.137 --> 00:24:18.472
  • A proclamation is using your words which have a spiritual
  • 00:24:18.472 --> 00:24:22.076
  • Authority to them to bring alignment with what the word of
  • 00:24:22.076 --> 00:24:26.347
  • God says about us.
  • 00:24:26.347 --> 00:24:28.682
  • Sometimes we'll just read scriptures as a proclamation, a
  • 00:24:28.682 --> 00:24:31.252
  • Declaration over our lives.
  • 00:24:31.252 --> 00:24:33.954
  • These statements are taken from scripture.
  • 00:24:33.954 --> 00:24:35.923
  • I'll do a series along that, not this week.
  • 00:24:35.923 --> 00:24:41.829
  • Let's read this together.
  • 00:24:41.829 --> 00:24:43.764
  • God has uniquely blessed us-- the best is yet to come.
  • 00:24:43.764 --> 00:24:47.868
  • The earth is the lord's and everything in it.
  • 00:24:47.868 --> 00:24:50.804
  • He is the sovereign creator of all things.
  • 00:24:50.804 --> 00:24:54.441
  • Nothing is too difficult for him, his love sustains us.
  • 00:24:54.441 --> 00:24:59.113
  • Jesus, his only son, is our savior, lord and king.
  • 00:24:59.113 --> 00:25:04.118
  • We live in a season of shaking.
  • 00:25:04.118 --> 00:25:06.520
  • God is shaking the earth.
  • 00:25:06.520 --> 00:25:08.756
  • He is restoring the jewish people and purifying his church.
  • 00:25:08.756 --> 00:25:13.727
  • If we look at the things which can be shaken we'll be filled
  • 00:25:13.727 --> 00:25:17.598
  • With terror.
  • 00:25:17.598 --> 00:25:18.966
  • If we look at the eternal kingdom of our lord, we'll be
  • 00:25:18.966 --> 00:25:22.536
  • Filled with anticipation.
  • 00:25:22.536 --> 00:25:25.039
  • Our determination as we gather today is to declare before one
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  • Another and almighty god.
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  • We will not stop.
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  • We are not satisfied.
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  • We are not distracted.
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  • We are not weary in doing good.
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  • We are not discouraged.
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  • We have our eyes on the cross and our hearts set on the prize.
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  • We believe the one who has promised is faithful.
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  • We believe the holy spirit is our helper.
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  • We believe that what we ask in jesus' name our father provides.
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  • We believe that the king of kings is returning to the earth
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  • In all of his glory--and we intend to be about his business
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  • Until that moment in time.
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  • We will not stop.
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  • Amen, hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: hey, how we begin our year, it matters.
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  • So we've created a tool to help you
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  • Get the year off on the right foot.
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  • It's a devotional for this year.
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  • We've taken our email devotionals that you're familiar
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  • With, and we've edited it into a book, 365 day devotional
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  • With a little short thought for the day,
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  • A scripture verse, a prayer,
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  • Just a little momentum for every day.
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  • Let's start this year on purpose,
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  • Inviting god's best into our lives.
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  • Many of you are familiar with those devotionals.
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  • You get 'em in your inbox. we wanna give you a hard copy.
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  • Maybe you get a second copy, share it with a friend.
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  • Use it as a mission project this year.
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  • Maybe take it to work, recruit somebody
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  • That you're workin' with.
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  • It's a simple way to invite god into the beginning of your day
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  • On purpose, and if we do that,
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  • I believe the outcome will be truly significant.
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  • God, in the midst of whatever we're doing,
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  • Makes the outcomes better.
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  • It's an exciting time.
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  • I like the beginning of the new year,
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  • All the promise and the hope that
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  • That brings, let's put god in the center of it.
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  • "turn up the light" is the name of the devotional.
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  • And i believe it'll do just that in your life.
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  • ♪♪♪
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