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Allen Jackson - Legacy, Eternity and You (Part 2)

November 1, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Legacy, Eternity and You (Part 2)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
#Legacy #Eternity #Reverence #FearoftheLord #Serving #ServantofGod #Humble #Humility #Repentance #Sin #Surrender #Focus #SeekGod #WalkwithGod

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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Legacy, Eternity and You (Part 2) | November 1, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, we're witnessing something of a
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  • Crisis in our nation, something i never thought i would see:
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  • Expressions of antisemitism, hatred for the jewish people
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  • Coming from america, coming from the christian community,
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  • The conservative side of the ideological spectrum to a degree
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  • And scope i've never seen before.
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  • Well, it's important enough that i stopped and put
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  • Together a book.
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  • The title of it is "supporting israel: how far is too far?"
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  • It's an important concept.
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  • It isn't political.
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  • It's grounded in a biblical worldview.
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  • I think we need to understand our responsibilities to
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  • The jewish people, to the modern state of israel,
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  • Not from an ideological perspective,
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  • Not from the perspective of nation states,
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  • But as people of god.
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  • It's important, it's an important season.
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  • A lot of voices--you know, i know there's some fatigue with
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  • The conflict in the middle east, but we can't afford to be
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  • Fatigued with our assignments to honor god and the
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  • Responsibilities that come with that.
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  • I believe the book will be a help to you.
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  • I believe it'll help you navigate the conversation with
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  • Your family and your friends.
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  • Enjoy the read.
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  • Cc by aberdeen captioning 1-800-688-6621 www.aberdeen.io
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  • Allen: i've put some conclusions in your notes.
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  • I won't belabor them.
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  • But the circumstances of birth, whether you're born in a palace
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  • Or you're born in the house of a shepherd, apparently are not the
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  • Greatest determining factor of your significance in the kingdom
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  • Of god.
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  • That's good to know, because the devil will try to tell you you
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  • Were born in the wrong place.
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  • You were born to the wrong group.
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  • You were born at the wrong time.
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  • He will try to convince you for some reason you were
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  • Disqualified by circumstances that are completely beyond
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  • Your control.
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  • It's a lie.
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  • It's a lie.
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  • Please don't believe the lie.
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  • Folks, we desperately need an awakened church, and i really
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  • Believe that means we will walk out from under the deception and
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  • The lies that we have accepted from the pit.
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  • There's a second observation i would make that the opposition
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  • Or the lack thereof--you can have tremendous opposition or
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  • Almost none, and that will not prove to be the greatest
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  • Determining factor of your legacy.
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  • Thirdly, god's blessings and assignment.
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  • You can have tremendous blessings from god, unique in
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  • All of human history.
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  • You can be blessed in a way that would cause you to supersede
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  • Your peer group completely.
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  • You can be the goat, recognized, celebrated, honored for such
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  • And completely fumble your opportunity in the kingdom.
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  • Please don't imagine, you see, many of us spend so much time
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  • And energy and effort and emotions frustrated because we
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  • Think someone else got an advantage over us, because of
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  • The physical gifts they have, or the intellectual gifts they
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  • Have, or the emotional skills, whatever they may be.
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  • Even you think god blessed somebody in a way.
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  • And it's very clear if you put these two lives side by side,
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  • The blessings were not what determined the significance of
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  • Their lives.
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  • I would submit, fourthly, that extraordinary obedience isn't
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  • Even the primary factor.
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  • Because as remarkable as david is and for all he's celebrated,
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  • His obedience was a bit faulty.
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  • I mean, if you wanna lump adultery and murder into faulty.
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  • And fifthly, you know, their gifting, their physical gifts,
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  • Their intellectual gifts, that's not the determining factor.
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  • It really began to be unsettling with me as i sat and played with
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  • These lists and i kept adding to them and removing them and
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  • Trying to rearrange them.
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  • Their family support wasn't the determining factor.
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  • It wasn't who was cheering for them, who was affirming them.
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  • Most of us know if you've read your bible before that solomon
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  • Got in trouble because he married all these foreign women
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  • Who worshiped other gods and they turned his heart in
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  • Another way.
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  • Sometimes the authors almost-- you feel like they're trying to
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  • Convince you that solomon didn't make a choice, but he did.
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  • He chose all those wives, and he knew better.
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  • He knew it was outside the boundary.
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  • He took a path that led him away from god, willfully, knowingly.
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  • You can have supernatural wisdom and still make ungodly choices.
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  • But david's success didn't come because his family was so
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  • Ironclad in the support of him.
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  • His brothers were jealous when he went to take them food for
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  • Goliath and he heard goliath bellow his challenge.
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  • He said, "oh, i can do this."
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  • His brothers made fun of him.
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  • And it only got worse as he progressed through life.
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  • David's family was a mess.
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  • Absalom, his son, led a rebellion against him.
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  • His son didn't come and say, "i am so grateful for the kingdom
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  • You have built, that you captured jerusalem and
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  • Established a capital city and you put our feet on a pathway,
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  • You've taught us to honor god."
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  • None of that.
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  • His son said, "i want your job."
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  • And he stood outside the palace and said, "if i was king, i'd
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  • Give you what you want."
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  • Sounds like he's running for office in the 21st century.
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  • And it wasn't just at that level.
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  • One of his sons raped one of his daughters.
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  • I mean, his family was a challenge.
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  • We took a class at hebrew university on david and his
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  • Kingship, and the professor was religious and i remember when we
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  • Got to this part of--it was like he was embarrassed to tell
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  • The story.
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  • So it wasn't the family support that made the difference.
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  • So the conclusions, most of the things we would say we would
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  • Need in order for us to fulfill what god has for us, really were
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  • Not the differentiation between these two lives.
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  • So i made a list.
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  • I think rooted in their reality, but i'll leave it to you.
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  • I think one of the things that separated david's outcome from
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  • Solomon's was david led a life where he sustained humility.
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  • Now, i'm not saying he was perfect, he made some mistakes.
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  • But there's multiple places where you get glimpses into
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  • David's heart beyond the psalms.
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  • This would be a series if we did this through the psalms.
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  • But when he refused to king kill saul--refused to kill king
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  • Saul, he had the opportunity on more than one occasion to have
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  • Eliminated his adversary, shortened the civil war.
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  • You could have said we were gonna spare lives.
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  • And he refused to do it.
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  • David lived his life with a remarkable display of effort
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  • And intent.
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  • There were multiple places where david could have coasted.
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  • And he didn't seem to make that choice and when he did, he got
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  • Into trouble.
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  • Somebody sent me a note this week.
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  • I thought it was appropriate.
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  • When david heard the challenge from goliath, the friend that
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  • Sent me this, said some people would have told david to just
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  • Pray for goliath and not cause a scene.
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  • "you went to deliver lunch, don't be political."
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  • The third thing that seemed to be a part of the distinction in
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  • David's life was his willingness to repent.
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  • On more than one occasion he made mistakes that brought the
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  • Judgment of god, beyond just the incident with bathsheba and then
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  • With her husband.
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  • And when he was confronted for his sin, he didn't try to bully
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  • His way through it.
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  • He didn't pull rank.
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  • I've often thought one of the more difficult assignments in
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  • All of scripture was nathan the prophet that had to go tell the
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  • King that he knew he was an adulterer and a murderer.
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  • We would be afraid to make such a revelation in our current
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  • Political environment.
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  • And i promise you king david had far more unbridled authority
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  • Than anybody we know.
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  • And nathan the prophet went and said, "i know who you are and i
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  • Know what you've done."
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  • The only reason i believe nathan would have been willing to do
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  • That is he understood something of the character of david.
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  • And david chose to repent.
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  • If you're not familiar with psalm 51, you should read it.
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  • It's the psalm of david's repentance.
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  • There are other places in his life.
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  • David knew how to say, "i've been wrong."
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  • We desperately need that gift back in our churches.
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  • David didn't say, "it wasn't my fault.
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  • Bathsheba shouldn't have been bathing on the roof.
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  • She shouldn't have married a foreigner to begin with."
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  • There were many, many excuses he could have given.
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  • He didn't do that.
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  • I think it's time for us to ask the holy spirit if there's any
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  • Place in our lives or in the life of our service to the lord
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  • Where we need to repent.
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  • I don't want you to be burdened with guilt and shame.
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  • That's not my goal
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  • But to ask the holy spirit if there's any place that if you
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  • Would relinquish it to the lord would bring freedom to you.
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  • Saul couldn't do that, and he lost his kingdom.
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  • Solomon didn't do that.
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  • Based just upon the biblical record, i think it's more likely
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  • That king nebuchadnezzar would be in heaven than king solomon.
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  • There's no effort--there's no evidence that solomon had a
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  • Dramatic change of heart or a willingness to acknowledge the
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  • Error of his ways and reverse his course.
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  • But he was a fancy dresser.
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  • David, on the other hand, was a man after god's own heart.
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  • Allen: you know, how should we respond to the nation of
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  • Israel and the jewish people?
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  • It's a complex question in today's world.
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  • Well, i've written a book, "supporting israel:
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  • How far is too far?"
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  • To help us establish a biblical perspective on what has become a
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  • Complex question in contemporary culture.
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  • We don't want to follow the guidance and the counsel of some
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  • Of the elite universities in this nation.
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  • We want to form a perspective that's built from god's word.
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  • If we'll do that, it'll bring his blessings to our lives.
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  • Enjoy the book.
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  • Female announcer: from the pages of scripture to the front
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  • Lines of today's news, israel stands at the center
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  • Of god's purposes.
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  • Pastor allen's new booklet, "supporting israel:
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  • How far is too far?"
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  • Offers a quick way to gain a biblical perspective on israel,
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  • Why israel matters to god, and why it should matter to us.
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  • Allen: fourthly, david had a fear, a respect for god that
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  • Truly shaped much of his behavior.
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  • It's not clear to us how he arrived at that.
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  • There's no really development presented.
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  • We're given some little windows into it.
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  • You know, he reminds us that when he was a shepherd that he
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  • Could face a lion or a bear and god would deliver them into his
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  • Hands and from that he derived the confidence that god would
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  • Deliver goliath into his hands because he heard goliath
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  • Challenge the armies of a living god.
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  • Well, everybody else in the army heard them--goliath challenge
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  • The armies of saul.
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  • And david understood that goliath had mocked god.
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  • How he had that respect for god and reverence for god is not
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  • Really ever explained to us, but it shapes his life.
  • 00:13:20.648 --> 00:13:24.085
  • Cultivate that.
  • 00:13:24.085 --> 00:13:26.888
  • Choices will be presented to you.
  • 00:13:26.888 --> 00:13:30.358
  • There'll be opportunities before you.
  • 00:13:30.358 --> 00:13:33.027
  • I read some definitions recently of discipline and
  • 00:13:33.027 --> 00:13:35.730
  • Self-discipline, and i think they shed some light on
  • 00:13:35.730 --> 00:13:39.567
  • This component.
  • 00:13:39.567 --> 00:13:41.202
  • Discipline is doing what you're supposed to do when you're
  • 00:13:41.202 --> 00:13:43.338
  • Supposed to do it, the way it's supposed to be done.
  • 00:13:43.338 --> 00:13:48.209
  • It's doing the right thing the right way at the right time.
  • 00:13:48.209 --> 00:13:52.113
  • Self-discipline is a little different.
  • 00:13:52.113 --> 00:13:54.582
  • And i would remind you that self-discipline is one of the
  • 00:13:54.582 --> 00:13:56.618
  • Fruit of the spirit.
  • 00:13:56.618 --> 00:13:59.187
  • Self-discipline is--it's when i know there's something that i'm
  • 00:13:59.187 --> 00:14:03.291
  • Supposed to do and i don't really wanna do it.
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  • But i can make myself do it.
  • 00:14:06.961 --> 00:14:08.596
  • I'll do it anyway.
  • 00:14:08.596 --> 00:14:12.767
  • The opposite of that is when you know there's something you're
  • 00:14:12.767 --> 00:14:15.837
  • Not supposed to do and you wanna do it.
  • 00:14:15.837 --> 00:14:19.974
  • And you have the ability or the willingness to keep yourself
  • 00:14:19.974 --> 00:14:22.377
  • From it.
  • 00:14:22.377 --> 00:14:24.178
  • That's self-discipline.
  • 00:14:24.178 --> 00:14:26.915
  • And when i think of david's respect for god, again, he
  • 00:14:26.915 --> 00:14:29.250
  • Didn't do it perfectly.
  • 00:14:29.250 --> 00:14:31.185
  • He's very flawed.
  • 00:14:31.185 --> 00:14:34.355
  • But he's also the root.
  • 00:14:34.355 --> 00:14:38.493
  • Jesus's identification with david is remarkable.
  • 00:14:38.493 --> 00:14:43.798
  • In 2 samuel 24, the prophets come again.
  • 00:14:43.798 --> 00:14:48.102
  • David has taken a census which he'd been told not to do.
  • 00:14:48.102 --> 00:14:51.406
  • And judgment's coming.
  • 00:14:51.406 --> 00:14:52.774
  • He's given options and this is what david says: "i'm in
  • 00:14:52.774 --> 00:14:55.276
  • Deep distress.
  • 00:14:55.276 --> 00:14:56.644
  • Let us fall into the hands of the lord, for his mercy is
  • 00:14:56.644 --> 00:14:59.047
  • Great; don't let me fall into the hands of men."
  • 00:14:59.047 --> 00:15:03.017
  • So a plague came on israel from morning until evening, and
  • 00:15:03.017 --> 00:15:09.290
  • Seventy thousand people died because of david's sin."
  • 00:15:09.290 --> 00:15:17.665
  • We talked in some previous sessions about the consequences
  • 00:15:17.665 --> 00:15:20.101
  • For ungodliness.
  • 00:15:20.101 --> 00:15:21.836
  • And somehow we've managed to find this false gospel that said
  • 00:15:21.836 --> 00:15:24.405
  • There's really no consequence.
  • 00:15:24.405 --> 00:15:27.175
  • David repents.
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  • He's forgiven.
  • 00:15:28.810 --> 00:15:30.511
  • The throne isn't taken from him, he's not removed from his place
  • 00:15:30.511 --> 00:15:33.281
  • Of authority.
  • 00:15:33.281 --> 00:15:34.782
  • But there's a devastating consequence.
  • 00:15:34.782 --> 00:15:36.584
  • But you get this little window into david's heart.
  • 00:15:36.584 --> 00:15:39.087
  • He said, "i would rather fall into the hands of god.
  • 00:15:39.087 --> 00:15:43.424
  • I know him.
  • 00:15:43.424 --> 00:15:45.693
  • I respect him."
  • 00:15:45.693 --> 00:15:50.064
  • I believe the church would be tremendously strengthened if we
  • 00:15:50.064 --> 00:15:53.801
  • Would allow the spirit of god to help us understand what it means
  • 00:15:53.801 --> 00:15:58.072
  • To fear the lord.
  • 00:15:58.072 --> 00:16:01.442
  • And then finally, i would submit to you that david had a living
  • 00:16:01.442 --> 00:16:03.711
  • Faith, and he sustained it through his life.
  • 00:16:03.711 --> 00:16:07.715
  • And when i say living faith, i'm not pointing so much at his
  • 00:16:07.715 --> 00:16:11.219
  • Remarkable accomplishments or achievements or activities, but
  • 00:16:11.219 --> 00:16:14.622
  • There was something transformational in the way he
  • 00:16:14.622 --> 00:16:16.624
  • Knew god.
  • 00:16:16.624 --> 00:16:18.092
  • It impacted his major and his minor choices.
  • 00:16:18.092 --> 00:16:21.396
  • It was directional in his life.
  • 00:16:21.396 --> 00:16:23.698
  • It was directional in his behavior before he secured
  • 00:16:23.698 --> 00:16:25.967
  • The throne.
  • 00:16:25.967 --> 00:16:27.402
  • It was directional in his behavior in how he treated the
  • 00:16:27.402 --> 00:16:30.238
  • Ark and how he worshiped god.
  • 00:16:30.238 --> 00:16:32.640
  • He was directional in his thoughts, you see that so
  • 00:16:32.640 --> 00:16:34.809
  • Clearly in the book of psalms.
  • 00:16:34.809 --> 00:16:37.412
  • See, i think we have fallen short of that with the message
  • 00:16:37.412 --> 00:16:40.748
  • That we have heard.
  • 00:16:40.748 --> 00:16:42.817
  • And i'm sure there's components to that.
  • 00:16:42.817 --> 00:16:44.852
  • I don't imagine to understand it completely, but i don't really
  • 00:16:44.852 --> 00:16:48.022
  • Believe we have had a longing for a truly transformational
  • 00:16:48.022 --> 00:16:51.893
  • Faith, a living faith.
  • 00:16:51.893 --> 00:16:53.795
  • We wanted to get a transaction done, so we thought we would go
  • 00:16:53.795 --> 00:16:56.064
  • To heaven, but we really weren't all that certain we needed to
  • 00:16:56.064 --> 00:16:58.666
  • Be changed.
  • 00:16:58.666 --> 00:17:01.002
  • We're happy to be forgiven occasionally.
  • 00:17:01.002 --> 00:17:03.771
  • But i believe the invitation into the kingdom of god is
  • 00:17:03.771 --> 00:17:06.074
  • Intended to be transformational.
  • 00:17:06.074 --> 00:17:09.010
  • To be a totally new creation, the bible says, to walk
  • 00:17:09.010 --> 00:17:13.114
  • Differently, to not live any longer like the gentiles do, the
  • 00:17:13.114 --> 00:17:16.484
  • Non--the people without a covenant, in the futility of
  • 00:17:16.484 --> 00:17:19.387
  • Their thinking and their understanding.
  • 00:17:19.387 --> 00:17:24.559
  • Folks, the day is coming when our strength will fade, and our
  • 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:29.664
  • Future will be defined by the choices we've made in time.
  • 00:17:29.664 --> 00:17:34.669
  • It's important.
  • 00:17:34.669 --> 00:17:38.573
  • Please don't walk past it.
  • 00:17:38.573 --> 00:17:40.942
  • Please don't allow the metrics for success of a secular culture
  • 00:17:40.942 --> 00:17:45.513
  • To be the ones you embrace.
  • 00:17:45.513 --> 00:17:49.784
  • It's easy.
  • 00:17:49.784 --> 00:17:51.185
  • The messaging is persistent, it's unrelenting.
  • 00:17:51.185 --> 00:17:54.655
  • It washes over us with such frequency it's almost impossible
  • 00:17:54.655 --> 00:17:57.859
  • Even to separate ourselves from it any longer.
  • 00:17:57.859 --> 00:18:02.497
  • And failure and poverty does not make you godly.
  • 00:18:02.497 --> 00:18:05.133
  • Please don't believe that lie.
  • 00:18:05.133 --> 00:18:08.002
  • You can be flat broke and be filled with envy and greed.
  • 00:18:08.002 --> 00:18:15.476
  • Most of us have been flat broke once or what, twice.
  • 00:18:15.476 --> 00:18:18.713
  • We understand, so i'm not denigrating it.
  • 00:18:18.713 --> 00:18:22.850
  • I'm telling you the metrics that are used and handed to us are
  • 00:18:22.850 --> 00:18:26.087
  • Different from the ones we're presented in the word of god.
  • 00:18:26.087 --> 00:18:29.157
  • And while you're reading through this book of these leaders and
  • 00:18:29.157 --> 00:18:32.527
  • Their lives are being portrayed to you, pay attention to what is
  • 00:18:32.527 --> 00:18:35.263
  • Celebrated, pay attention to what is refuted.
  • 00:18:35.263 --> 00:18:39.233
  • Pay attention to what is encouraged and what is rejected.
  • 00:18:39.233 --> 00:18:42.970
  • We want to become men and women that god can trust with his
  • 00:18:42.970 --> 00:18:46.274
  • Purposes in the earth.
  • 00:18:46.274 --> 00:18:48.643
  • We can be the most unlikely ones.
  • 00:18:48.643 --> 00:18:51.345
  • We can smell like sheep.
  • 00:18:51.345 --> 00:18:54.415
  • No one can know our names.
  • 00:18:54.415 --> 00:18:56.450
  • There can be minimal family support.
  • 00:18:56.450 --> 00:18:58.886
  • There can be minimal resources.
  • 00:18:58.886 --> 00:19:01.689
  • We may be the runt of the litter and the most overlooked, but if
  • 00:19:01.689 --> 00:19:05.893
  • We will choose to cooperate with god, his purposes will bring a
  • 00:19:05.893 --> 00:19:09.730
  • Significance to our lives in time and for eternity.
  • 00:19:09.730 --> 00:19:14.468
  • Stop measuring yourself against the timeline of the
  • 00:19:14.468 --> 00:19:18.172
  • Secular culture.
  • 00:19:18.172 --> 00:19:20.174
  • "this is supposed to happen by this date, and this is supposed
  • 00:19:20.174 --> 00:19:22.543
  • To happen by that date, and i'm behind, and god's
  • 00:19:22.543 --> 00:19:25.479
  • Not trustworthy."
  • 00:19:25.479 --> 00:19:28.249
  • You have a different assignment.
  • 00:19:28.249 --> 00:19:30.151
  • You have a different assignment.
  • 00:19:31.552 --> 00:19:35.856
  • Moses was well into his journey before he found the purpose that
  • 00:19:35.856 --> 00:19:41.195
  • God had prepared him for.
  • 00:19:41.195 --> 00:19:44.365
  • We could argue that the most significant part of samuel's
  • 00:19:44.365 --> 00:19:46.968
  • Contribution came after he was rejected by the tribal leaders.
  • 00:19:46.968 --> 00:19:52.073
  • After the tribal leader said, "you're old and a lousy parent,"
  • 00:19:52.073 --> 00:19:56.043
  • Samuel guided the nation into their next season.
  • 00:19:56.043 --> 00:20:03.117
  • Don't let the timeline of a secular culture make you
  • 00:20:03.117 --> 00:20:06.854
  • Disgruntled with god.
  • 00:20:06.854 --> 00:20:10.658
  • It's not your season of life is the limiting factor in your--
  • 00:20:10.658 --> 00:20:13.995
  • For you.
  • 00:20:13.995 --> 00:20:16.564
  • It's not whether you've hit all the--checked all the boxes that
  • 00:20:16.564 --> 00:20:19.233
  • A secular world would hand to you that is the determining
  • 00:20:19.233 --> 00:20:22.670
  • Factor of your significance.
  • 00:20:22.670 --> 00:20:24.071
  • It's your willingness to cooperate with almighty god.
  • 00:20:24.071 --> 00:20:29.243
  • Folks, the eyes of the lord are scouring the earth, looking for
  • 00:20:29.243 --> 00:20:33.147
  • Men and women whose hearts are turned towards him.
  • 00:20:33.147 --> 00:20:36.951
  • You have that authority.
  • 00:20:36.951 --> 00:20:39.253
  • Stop waiting for someone else to support you.
  • 00:20:39.253 --> 00:20:43.024
  • Stop waiting for another voice or a different opportunity.
  • 00:20:43.024 --> 00:20:46.260
  • You begin where you are to say, "god, i wanna walk before you
  • 00:20:46.260 --> 00:20:49.363
  • In uprightness.
  • 00:20:49.363 --> 00:20:51.832
  • If you leave me right where i am doing right what i'm doing, i
  • 00:20:51.832 --> 00:20:54.935
  • Wanna do that for your glory.
  • 00:20:54.935 --> 00:20:58.272
  • I will honor you."
  • 00:20:58.272 --> 00:21:02.109
  • If you will focus on that, god will bring a
  • 00:21:02.109 --> 00:21:05.479
  • Significance to your life.
  • 00:21:05.479 --> 00:21:06.847
  • You may be overlooked by most, but you're not
  • 00:21:06.847 --> 00:21:09.250
  • Overlooked by god.
  • 00:21:09.250 --> 00:21:16.223
  • Don't just read through these books, hurrying so you can check
  • 00:21:16.223 --> 00:21:20.494
  • The box and say, "i got through the reading."
  • 00:21:20.494 --> 00:21:23.597
  • I do it some days too.
  • 00:21:23.597 --> 00:21:27.835
  • But i try to go back and read with a bit more awareness when
  • 00:21:27.835 --> 00:21:31.238
  • I can.
  • 00:21:31.238 --> 00:21:33.007
  • I want to please the lord.
  • 00:21:33.007 --> 00:21:35.276
  • I brought you a proclamation.
  • 00:21:35.276 --> 00:21:36.610
  • I gotta quit because i want us to say this over one another.
  • 00:21:36.610 --> 00:21:40.548
  • I know, don't send me a note.
  • 00:21:40.548 --> 00:21:44.919
  • I think it's so important to have the habit of saying what
  • 00:21:44.919 --> 00:21:48.956
  • God says about us and the habit of receiving it, all right?
  • 00:21:48.956 --> 00:21:54.228
  • So we're gonna do this differently tonight.
  • 00:21:54.228 --> 00:21:57.031
  • Those of you that are seated on the floor stand with me.
  • 00:21:57.031 --> 00:21:59.567
  • Get your notes, you're gonna need them.
  • 00:21:59.567 --> 00:22:02.603
  • And we're gonna do what you're never allowed to do: we're gonna
  • 00:22:02.603 --> 00:22:04.472
  • Turn around in church.
  • 00:22:04.472 --> 00:22:07.842
  • And we're gonna pronounce a blessing over those people in
  • 00:22:07.842 --> 00:22:10.044
  • The back.
  • 00:22:10.044 --> 00:22:11.812
  • You have to turn around, because that also puts you right in line
  • 00:22:11.812 --> 00:22:16.150
  • With those cameras and all those people that aren't here.
  • 00:22:16.150 --> 00:22:21.389
  • All right, so if you're in one of the other rooms on campus
  • 00:22:21.389 --> 00:22:23.624
  • With us tonight, you're gonna receive this blessing because
  • 00:22:23.624 --> 00:22:26.160
  • When the people in the back of the room get up, you're gonna
  • 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:28.429
  • Get up in those other rooms and pronounce the same blessing
  • 00:22:28.429 --> 00:22:30.631
  • On us.
  • 00:22:30.631 --> 00:22:31.999
  • And if you're at home, you're gonna pronounce the blessing on
  • 00:22:31.999 --> 00:22:33.834
  • Those of us here.
  • 00:22:33.834 --> 00:22:35.803
  • So although right now we look like we've got the biggest
  • 00:22:35.803 --> 00:22:37.838
  • Number, there's thousands and thousands of them.
  • 00:22:37.838 --> 00:22:40.908
  • So if you're getting ready to read this blessing with me, you
  • 00:22:40.908 --> 00:22:42.877
  • Gotta use your outdoor voice,
  • 00:22:42.877 --> 00:22:45.413
  • Because they have to hear you in nebraska.
  • 00:22:45.413 --> 00:22:48.416
  • And in nebraska, the wind's blowing.
  • 00:22:48.416 --> 00:22:51.952
  • Always.
  • 00:22:51.952 --> 00:22:53.988
  • This isn't original with me, i took it from ephesians, but it
  • 00:22:53.988 --> 00:22:56.891
  • Was paul's prayer for the church at ephesus, and it seems
  • 00:22:56.891 --> 00:22:59.927
  • Appropriate for the church in the earth today.
  • 00:22:59.927 --> 00:23:03.464
  • Are you ready to receive, those of you?
  • 00:23:03.464 --> 00:23:07.168
  • That was kind of lukewarm.
  • 00:23:07.168 --> 00:23:10.271
  • Here we go.
  • 00:23:10.271 --> 00:23:11.605
  • "for this reason i kneel before the father, from whom his whole
  • 00:23:11.605 --> 00:23:15.943
  • Family in heaven and earth derives its name.
  • 00:23:15.943 --> 00:23:19.680
  • And i pray that out of his glorious riches he may
  • 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:23.350
  • Strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner
  • 00:23:23.350 --> 00:23:26.987
  • Being, so that christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
  • 00:23:26.987 --> 00:23:31.826
  • And i pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
  • 00:23:31.826 --> 00:23:36.797
  • May have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how
  • 00:23:36.797 --> 00:23:41.268
  • Wide and long and high and deep is the love of christ, and to
  • 00:23:41.268 --> 00:23:47.041
  • Know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be
  • 00:23:47.041 --> 00:23:51.178
  • Filled to the measure of all the fullness of god.
  • 00:23:51.178 --> 00:23:55.082
  • Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we
  • 00:23:55.082 --> 00:23:59.086
  • Ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
  • 00:23:59.086 --> 00:24:04.758
  • To him be glory in the church and in christ jesus throughout
  • 00:24:04.758 --> 00:24:08.929
  • All generations, for ever and ever!
  • 00:24:08.929 --> 00:24:12.333
  • Amen."
  • 00:24:12.333 --> 00:24:14.301
  • Hallelujah.
  • 00:24:14.301 --> 00:24:17.438
  • Hey, y'all hang on just a minute.
  • 00:24:17.438 --> 00:24:18.772
  • We're not done.
  • 00:24:18.772 --> 00:24:20.140
  • They're gonna bless us. stand up.
  • 00:24:20.140 --> 00:24:22.676
  • You can't just receive, bunch of takers.
  • 00:24:22.676 --> 00:24:28.949
  • We got enough of those.
  • 00:24:28.949 --> 00:24:30.284
  • We don't want to be that generation.
  • 00:24:30.284 --> 00:24:32.820
  • Now, those of you that just said that prayer with me, we're gonna
  • 00:24:32.820 --> 00:24:35.022
  • Receive a blessing.
  • 00:24:35.022 --> 00:24:37.625
  • You don't want yours, give it to me.
  • 00:24:37.625 --> 00:24:40.261
  • If you're at home, you read it with us.
  • 00:24:40.261 --> 00:24:41.695
  • If you're in new harvest or all nation, you gotta pray this
  • 00:24:41.695 --> 00:24:44.899
  • Blessing with us.
  • 00:24:44.899 --> 00:24:46.233
  • In new harvest they got babies.
  • 00:24:46.233 --> 00:24:48.602
  • They need a blessing.
  • 00:24:48.602 --> 00:24:51.005
  • All right, let's read it together.
  • 00:24:51.005 --> 00:24:53.240
  • "for this reason i kneel before the father, from whom his whole
  • 00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:57.912
  • Family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
  • 00:24:57.912 --> 00:25:02.149
  • I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you
  • 00:25:02.149 --> 00:25:06.987
  • With power through his spirit in your inner being, so that christ
  • 00:25:06.987 --> 00:25:12.192
  • May dwell in your hearts through faith.
  • 00:25:12.192 --> 00:25:15.095
  • And i pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
  • 00:25:15.095 --> 00:25:20.301
  • May have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how
  • 00:25:20.301 --> 00:25:24.905
  • Wide and long and high and deep is the love of christ, and to
  • 00:25:24.905 --> 00:25:30.744
  • Know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be
  • 00:25:30.744 --> 00:25:34.748
  • Filled to the measure of all the fullness of god.
  • 00:25:34.748 --> 00:25:39.353
  • Now to him who is able--"
  • 00:25:39.353 --> 00:25:41.355
  • [congregation reciting proclamation]
  • 00:25:41.355 --> 00:25:50.397
  • "to him be glory in the church and in
  • 00:25:50.397 --> 00:25:53.434
  • Christ jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!
  • 00:25:53.434 --> 00:25:58.906
  • Amen," hallelujah.
  • 00:25:58.906 --> 00:26:01.542
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:26:01.542 --> 00:26:05.846
  • God bless you.
  • 00:26:05.846 --> 00:26:10.584
  • Allen: you know, we don't read our bibles just for exercise or
  • 00:26:14.788 --> 00:26:17.625
  • Just to be dutiful christians.
  • 00:26:17.625 --> 00:26:19.693
  • We read our bibles to understand how to navigate a complex world,
  • 00:26:19.693 --> 00:26:22.763
  • How to understand what's unfolding around us.
  • 00:26:22.763 --> 00:26:26.033
  • We're living in a season where there's a lot of emotion
  • 00:26:26.033 --> 00:26:28.469
  • Expressed about the jewish people in the nation of israel.
  • 00:26:28.469 --> 00:26:31.205
  • From some very well-established elite places there are voices
  • 00:26:31.205 --> 00:26:35.009
  • Saying they don't deserve our support.
  • 00:26:35.009 --> 00:26:37.244
  • Well, i wrote a book, "supporting israel:
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  • How far is too far?"
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  • So that we can have a biblical perspective on our response to
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  • Current events.
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  • At the end of the day, i want to align myself with the purposes
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  • Of god, not the thought leaders at elite ivy league schools or
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  • The talking heads in the media.
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  • I intend to stand with the purposes of god.
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  • This book will help you unpack the current events and
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  • Understand the perspective from the viewpoint of scripture on
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  • How you and i can respond in a way that i believe will bring
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  • The blessings of god to our lives and help us accomplish his
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  • Purposes in our generation.
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  • It's worth the read.
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  • ♪♪♪
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