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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Lessons From David (Part 2) | September 1, 2025
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- Allen jackson: hey, i sat down recently with my father to do a
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- Podcast for my "culture & christianity" podcast, and it
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- Was so valuable to me.
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- I mean, we--it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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- As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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- Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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- Well, i encouraged 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 the
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- 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 on a regular basis to
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- Give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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- That we face.
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- The spirit of god within us to help us, guide us, and direct
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- Us, that's invaluable, and these books will help you understand.
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- Allen: if you are standing in the purposes of god, i would
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- Tell you that the lesson, the message of scripture and from my
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- Own life experience, god will provide what you need.
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- And his timing and my timing,
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- Not always fully aligned, but god will provide what you need.
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- Now, if you wait to have all the provision you need for every
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- Moment along the journey, you'll never start.
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- You'll never begin.
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- They didn't have any manna when they were still in egypt.
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- They had to get into the wilderness.
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- Moses didn't practice parting the red sea on the nile river
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- Just for chuckles and grins.
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- You see, you and i, we want to have such a mastery of all the
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- Things that god will do that we never face those anxious moments
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- That faith inevitably requires us to respond to god.
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- What i'm inviting you is to an imagination of serving the lord
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- In a way where you realize if the lord doesn't meet you, the
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- Outcome is going to be awkward.
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- Not foolish.
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- We've had this conversation many times, folks, don't be foolish
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- And blame god.
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- When you're out of gas, don't pray for guidance.
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- Get a gas station and some cash.
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- If you're merging on the interstate, you don't need to be
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- Led by the holy spirit, you need to look.
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- Come on, i've driven with some of those weird people, but only
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- Once, okay?
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- And i'm not doing life with people that do that stuff.
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- That's not faith, that's something else.
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- We can talk about some of that another time if you want to, but
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- God will provide, but his provision comes in real time.
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- And so we take measured steps seeing the lord's provision.
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- God gave david what he needed, whether it was a victory over
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- Goliath or a commander of his armies with enough courage to
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- Tell him something that nobody else would tell him.
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- There's a third life lesson from david,
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- And that's that life presents battles in each season.
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- You know the david and goliath narrative, most of us learned
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- That in sunday school as children.
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- The battle with david and saul.
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- I mean, he comes away from the battlefield with goliath and
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- They're celebrating david.
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- They said saul has slain his thousands, but david is tens
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- Of thousands.
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- Well, that puts him on a collision course: the egos of
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- Leadership at that level.
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- I mean, it takes more than a decade for david to win that.
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- He lives as a fugitive.
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- He hides in caves, he does all sorts of stuff
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- Nobody wants to do.
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- We'll look at a few of them.
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- Then there's david and bathsheba.
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- There's a whole different kind of a battle there.
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- This isn't on the--david was a pretty good military tactician.
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- His courage, but he lost that battle with bathsheba.
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- Cost him a great deal.
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- And he had battles within his own family.
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- He had a son who raped his half-sister.
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- His one son, absalom, led a revolt against him.
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- I put some passages in your notes.
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- 1 samuel 19: "saul tried to pin david to the wall with his
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- Spear, but david eluded him as saul drove the spear into
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- The wall."
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- God anointed him to be king, and he left saul in place.
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- Does that make anybody else here uncomfortable?
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- I have to recalibrate what it means to serve the lord.
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- I want you to be an influence where you work.
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- Well, they've told me i can't mention my faith.
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- You think god said, "oh, well, in that case"?
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- Just...
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- No, i don't think so.
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- 2 samuel 11: "one evening david got up from his bed and walked
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- Around on the roof of the palace.
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- And from the roof he saw a woman bathing.
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- The woman was very beautiful, and david sent
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- Someone to find out about her."
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- There's a whole series of mistakes there.
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- "the man says, 'isn't it bathsheba, the daughter of
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- Somebody and the wife of somebody else?'"
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- And david not only commits adultery, he
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- Orchestrates murder.
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- I'm telling you, there's battles in every season.
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- 2 samuel 15: "in the course of time, absalom," this is david's
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- Own son, whom david has restored over the advice of counsel,
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- "provided himself with a chariot and horses and with fifty men to
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- Run ahead of him," there's warnings.
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- "he would get up early and stand by the side of the road leading
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- To the city gate.
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- Whenever anyone came with a complaint to be placed before
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- The king for a decision, absalom would call out, 'what town are
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- You from?'
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- 'your servant is from one of the tribes of israel.'
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- And absalom would say, 'your claims are valid and proper, but
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- There's no representative of the king to hear you.'"
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- Do you know the hebrew word for that behavior?
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- Slime ball.
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- I'll have to spell it later, but it's--imagine doing that to
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- Your own family.
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- He would have killed his father.
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- That's a battle.
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- After goliath and overcoming the drama with bathsheba and the
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- Turmoil in his family, every season of david's life there are
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- Challenges to be faced.
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- I point that out because i don't think we live with
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- That expectation.
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- I think we're disheartened, i think we're frustrated, i think
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- We imagine that god has withdrawn from us or sometimes
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- People say to me, you know, "i'm just tired of this.
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- I don't wanna do this anymore."
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- Oh, i'm sorry, i didn't realize we got to pull that lever.
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- I mean, jesus wrestled with that: "father, i don't want to
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- Do this," he said in gethsemane.
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- "i really don't," i believe he was sincere.
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- But he said, "nevertheless not my will."
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- What did it say about david?
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- God--he would do whatever god asked him to do.
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- Folks, every season of this journey we're gonna
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- Have to be overcomers.
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- There's things to be overcome if you're a teenager.
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- There's things to be overcome if you're a new parent.
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- There's things to be overcome if you're an empty nester.
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- There's things to be overcome as you approach the end of life.
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- There are things to be overcome.
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- What are we gonna do with that?
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- I'm grateful you've got a baptism certificate.
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- What are you doing to be an overcomer for the purposes of
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- The kingdom of god today?
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- It's one of the lessons from david.
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- It's true in jesus's life.
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- I didn't bring you all the scriptures because this is
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- Lessons from david, maybe we'll do lessons from jesus later.
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- But i mean, when he's an infant, they kill all the babies
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- In bethlehem.
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- Mary and joseph run to egypt.
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- They believed gabriel.
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- They accepted the assignment, and they
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- Had to run for their lives.
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- That bugs me.
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- I mean doesn't bug me 'cause i think god's wrong.
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- I just think, oh, really?
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- I mean, i'm thinking like an immaculate conception and a
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- Virgin birth and the heavenly host and the shepherds's field
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- And wide-eyed shepherds and wise men and gifts.
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- Surely, you could distract herod.
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- No, i think i'm gonna send you to egypt.
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- And when he's 12, he's in the temple talking to the priest,
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- And mary and joseph are a little torqued.
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- You know, "hey pop, could you communicate with
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- The babysitters?"
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- And when he begins his public ministry, there's a consistent
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- Drum roll of challenges.
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- He's baptized and god says, "this is my son," and then he
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- Goes into the wilderness and the devil himself comes to
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- Tempt him.
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- He goes to nazareth, his hometown.
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- There's got to be some anticipation of that.
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- He knows these people.
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- He's eaten at their tables.
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- He's been in synagogue with them.
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- He's played soccer with the kids.
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- I mean, he knows these people.
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- And they wanna kill him.
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- And in jerusalem, he's with the leaders of the people, the
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- Biblical scholars, they should know that he's the fulfillment
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- Of the prophets.
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- I mean, they understand.
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- And they want nothing to do with him.
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- Every season, as we grow and mature with the lord, and god
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- Can trust us with assignments.
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- Are we willing to overcome?
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- Or do we have this mentality, "no, i've already done that.
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- I did that.
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- I did that for a little while, but now let somebody
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- Else do that."
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- Oh, really? would you tap out?
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- What has happened to us, church?
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- Are you paying attention?
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- Do you know what's happening in our world?
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- Do you understand if the momentum of the direction we are
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- Traveling isn't blunted and a new direction isn't charted, our
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- Children will lose their freedoms?
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- I don't mean decades from now.
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- Allen: hey, i sat down with my father recently and did
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- A podcast.
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- He told the story of how he came to faith, how god transformed
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- Our family.
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- They started a home bible study, all the way up to the beginning
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- Of this church that 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 so
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- Allen: there's battles in all those seasons.
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- The fourth one is the obvious follow-up to that.
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- We've got to commit to learning about god and his kingdom.
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- David certainly did that.
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- This scrawny little kid that knew how to sling a stone in a
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- Straight line has to become the leader of the nation.
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- I mean, there's some brilliant, brilliant tactical moves that
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- David engineers.
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- Choosing jerusalem to be the capital of israel, jerusalem
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- Wasn't under the authority of any of the 12 tribes.
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- If he'd had chosen any city in any of the tribal areas, it
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- Would have brought tribal angst and battles and confusion.
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- He chose an independent city to be the capital.
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- Much like we have the district of columbia
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- Where our capital is.
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- Imagine if the us capitol was in nashville.
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- Well, the national anthem would have to start with a good
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- Country riff.
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- I mean, there are so many things david had to learn and grow into
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- To follow the lord.
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- What did god say about him again?
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- "he'll do whatever i ask him to do."
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- Don't you want that to be said of you?
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- I don't want them just to say in heaven, "you know, allen
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- Said the sinner's prayer.
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- Bless his--you know, he was baptized when he was nine.
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- They have the picture on the wall in heaven.
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- It was in the atlantic.
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- It was kind of stormy that day, they almost drowned the poor
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- Child on his way to the baptism.
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- And you know, since then he's pretty much just sat on his good
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- Intentions, bless his heart."
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- I don't want that to be my legacy.
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- I want to do what the lord wants done, most of the time.
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- And i'm working on the rest.
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- I don't think we've had that imagination.
- 00:14:05.094 --> 00:14:08.030
- "well, i go to church, what do you want me to do?
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- Jeez.
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- I mean, i came to the building.
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- I parked, what, three counties away?
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- I was so weak by the time i got in.
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- And somebody was in my seat.
- 00:14:29.051 --> 00:14:33.856
- Then pastor said i couldn't bring my pets.
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- I don't know if i can take it anymore."
- 00:14:37.860 --> 00:14:43.365
- Well, when you get to heaven, you go hug david, give him your
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- Report and then run.
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- And pray that he's mellowed.
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- Folks, we have to keep learning and growing and maturing.
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- We can't use these lines, like, "well, that's not how
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- I believe."
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- Is it in the bible?
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- We should be able to talk about the growth edge of our faith.
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- What's god doing?
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- How's it emerging?
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- How's it changing?
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- There's just some simple points i put in there about learning.
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- Learn the nature of spiritual conflict.
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- Learn about it.
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- I'm amazed at the christians: "i mean, i just don't know if i
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- Believe in demons."
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- Really, well, spoiler alert, jesus did.
- 00:15:29.311 --> 00:15:36.785
- Jesus did, and he's the boss.
- 00:15:36.785 --> 00:15:41.156
- He created the place.
- 00:15:41.156 --> 00:15:43.692
- "well, now in the first century, people were more--less
- 00:15:43.692 --> 00:15:49.331
- Sophisticated, and so they used spiritual explanations
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- For things."
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- Okay, let me see if i understand this correctly.
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- You just called the creator of heaven and earth and your savior
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- A dummy.
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- I wouldn't wear that t-shirt.
- 00:16:06.015 --> 00:16:09.685
- It might be rapture time and you'd be wearing that when you
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- Meet the boss and that it's gonna be awkward.
- 00:16:11.787 --> 00:16:15.024
- So perhaps we learn the nature of spiritual conflict.
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- Gain confidence in the authority you have in christ.
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- The only way you gain confidence is by beginning to let it inform
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- Your experience, your behavior, and you gain experience and from
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- That you gain confidence.
- 00:16:30.472 --> 00:16:32.841
- Develop an awareness of the holy spirit.
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- I don't mean just language around it.
- 00:16:36.245 --> 00:16:38.013
- Every denomination i know has beautiful language, almost
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- Without exception, around the person of the holy spirit, but
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- Most lack any intent whatsoever of welcoming him into
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- Their behaviors.
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- And finally, treasure those learning seasons.
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- They're still valuable.
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- It's unfortunate, you know, when children start to school they
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- Like it.
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- We have to--we demotivate them.
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- That's another sermon.
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- Ephesians 6:12, it's there: "for our struggle isn't against flesh
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- And blood, but against rulers and authorities, against the
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- Powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of
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- Evil in the heavenly realms."
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- The question i'm asked 100 to 1 over anything else i've told you
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- Is, "what can we do?"
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- You know why we ask that question?
- 00:17:27.863 --> 00:17:29.198
- We have so little awareness of spiritual conflict.
- 00:17:29.198 --> 00:17:32.634
- You can pray, you can become an intercessor.
- 00:17:32.634 --> 00:17:38.073
- "well, yeah, i mean, i know, but what can i do?"
- 00:17:38.073 --> 00:17:39.708
- You can pray until god gives you an assignment.
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- And then when you recognize that evil is being expressed in your
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- Arena and there's a place where your voice can make a
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- Difference, then you don't need direction, you go use
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- Your voice.
- 00:17:53.722 --> 00:17:56.158
- That's wrong.
- 00:17:56.158 --> 00:17:57.726
- "well, i mean, i didn't mean like that.
- 00:17:57.726 --> 00:17:59.061
- That could, like, lead to conflict."
- 00:17:59.061 --> 00:18:04.299
- Oh, you were accepting the assignment to be the ambassador
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- For all peaceful resolutions.
- 00:18:09.238 --> 00:18:14.510
- 1 peter 5:7: "cast all your anxiety on him.
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- He cares for you.
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- Be self-controlled and alert.
- 00:18:18.780 --> 00:18:21.350
- Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion
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- Looking for someone to devour.
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- Resist him, standing firm in the faith."
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- You can't resist the devil unless you're standing in
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- Your faith.
- 00:18:30.325 --> 00:18:31.660
- You can't resist the devil from a platform of disobedience.
- 00:18:31.660 --> 00:18:35.497
- You can't practice sin and resist the devil.
- 00:18:35.497 --> 00:18:37.699
- He has a legal right to you.
- 00:18:37.699 --> 00:18:41.537
- "because you know that your brothers throughout the world
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- Are undergoing the same kind of sufferings."
- 00:18:43.405 --> 00:18:46.275
- That's a little how-to manual for a learning season: "cast all
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- Your anxiety on the lord."
- 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:53.415
- That's not easy to do.
- 00:18:53.415 --> 00:18:55.851
- "be self-controlled and alert."
- 00:18:55.851 --> 00:18:57.386
- I promise that's not easy to do.
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- Do you know self-control is one of the fruit of the spirit?
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- And finally, and my time, i did not do a good job.
- 00:19:10.098 --> 00:19:16.572
- Because i think we have to, from david's life, there's a lesson
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- To be learned that you're gonna face rejection often in the
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- Midst of god's purposes.
- 00:19:21.176 --> 00:19:24.613
- From the time david went to see his brothers at the battle lines
- 00:19:24.613 --> 00:19:29.952
- Before he faced goliath, his brothers were mocking him.
- 00:19:29.952 --> 00:19:33.422
- I mean, he has very--the only reason he gets a spot in the
- 00:19:33.422 --> 00:19:35.958
- Battlefield is everybody else is terrified.
- 00:19:35.958 --> 00:19:40.462
- But the rejection follows him right through.
- 00:19:40.462 --> 00:19:42.431
- Saul certainly doesn't want him to be king.
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- Many of the tribes don't want him to be king.
- 00:19:45.801 --> 00:19:47.436
- There's a physical civil war after saul's death.
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- There's not just, like, a coronation parade.
- 00:19:51.206 --> 00:19:55.043
- His son leads rebellion against him.
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- I mean, there's a consistent-- there's one snapshot in 1 samuel
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- 22 that i think highlights this so beautifully.
- 00:20:01.283 --> 00:20:04.620
- "david left gath," he's had to go live with the philistines
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- 'cause it's not safe for him to live amongst his own people
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- Because of the anointing of god on his life.
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- Are you tracking with him?
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- Do you understand how far we've drifted from this?
- 00:20:17.566 --> 00:20:22.437
- So he leaves gath, and he escaped to the cave.
- 00:20:22.437 --> 00:20:28.443
- So he left his enemies and he's living in a cave.
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- I don't--i guess that's an upgrade.
- 00:20:31.580 --> 00:20:34.316
- "when his brothers and his father's household heard about
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- It, they went down to him."
- 00:20:36.618 --> 00:20:38.987
- And then there's gonna be a group of people migrate
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- Towards david, listen to their description.
- 00:20:41.056 --> 00:20:42.991
- "all those who were in distress or in debt or discontented
- 00:20:42.991 --> 00:20:47.362
- Gathered around him," oh, wonderful.
- 00:20:47.362 --> 00:20:50.899
- "and he became their leader.
- 00:20:50.899 --> 00:20:57.005
- About four hundred men were with him, and from there david went
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- To mizpah in moab," which is a country across the jordan river,
- 00:21:00.008 --> 00:21:05.013
- "and he said to the king, 'would you let my father and my mother
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- Come and stay with you until i learn what god will do for me?'
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- So he left them with the king of moab.
- 00:21:12.788 --> 00:21:15.757
- And they stayed with him as long as david was in the stronghold."
- 00:21:15.757 --> 00:21:19.094
- David had to take his place-- his parents to another nation to
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- Be safe.
- 00:21:25.600 --> 00:21:27.202
- He said, "i don't know when i'll be back.
- 00:21:27.202 --> 00:21:30.238
- I don't know what god's going to do."
- 00:21:30.238 --> 00:21:34.843
- "but the prophet came to david and said, 'you can't stay in the
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- Stronghold,'" in the place where you feel safe, "'you've got to
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- Go into the land of judah.'"
- 00:21:41.817 --> 00:21:44.920
- Now, if you're taking notes, david escaped the philistines
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- And he lived in a cave.
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- And when he did that, god sent men to help him, and he sent men
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- In distress, men in debt, and men that were discontented.
- 00:21:54.162 --> 00:21:59.534
- And he had to take his parents to a foreign king and say, "will
- 00:21:59.534 --> 00:22:02.270
- You protect them," a godless king, a king who didn't worship
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- The god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
- 00:22:05.674 --> 00:22:08.543
- David, the anointed man of god, the man after god's own heart.
- 00:22:08.543 --> 00:22:13.348
- Do you think that would cause some internal turmoil?
- 00:22:13.348 --> 00:22:19.254
- And finally, the prophet came and said, "you can't stay in a
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- Safe place.
- 00:22:21.723 --> 00:22:23.158
- You gotta go back into judah, right in the heart of
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- The conflict."
- 00:22:25.560 --> 00:22:28.897
- If i have to describe it, david's unwanted, he's hunted,
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- He's unwelcome, he's the perpetual outsider whether he's
- 00:22:32.100 --> 00:22:36.037
- With the king of moab or the philistine king.
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- If you got to summarize all those words, the best word i
- 00:22:39.841 --> 00:22:42.210
- Know is he's rejected.
- 00:22:42.210 --> 00:22:47.182
- In the next session i'm gonna pick up this idea a little more
- 00:22:47.182 --> 00:22:50.185
- Fully, but i at least want to table for our discussion that
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- Following god, the purposes of god, the plans of god, with the
- 00:22:55.824 --> 00:23:00.462
- Anointing of god and god-directed outcomes can lead
- 00:23:00.462 --> 00:23:05.233
- You through seasons where there is resistance.
- 00:23:05.233 --> 00:23:10.372
- And you will be excluded.
- 00:23:10.372 --> 00:23:13.375
- And you won't always be celebrated.
- 00:23:13.375 --> 00:23:16.278
- But follow god anyway.
- 00:23:16.278 --> 00:23:18.647
- [congregation applauding]
- 00:23:18.647 --> 00:23:23.285
- And i would ask you to reject the notion that following god is
- 00:23:23.285 --> 00:23:27.456
- About a singular experience.
- 00:23:27.456 --> 00:23:30.358
- I believe in the new birth and conversion and salvation, but i
- 00:23:30.358 --> 00:23:34.229
- Believe that birth, that spiritual birth into the kingdom
- 00:23:34.229 --> 00:23:37.799
- Is to enable us to be faithful followers, to take up our
- 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:44.406
- Crosses daily.
- 00:23:44.406 --> 00:23:47.776
- So i brought you a prayer.
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- And it's really a proclamation, a declaration of intent.
- 00:23:50.812 --> 00:23:55.116
- And i'm--spoiler alert, i concluded it differently.
- 00:23:55.116 --> 00:23:58.019
- Rather than concluding it with amen, we're gonna conclude it by
- 00:23:58.019 --> 00:24:00.889
- Saying, "thank you."
- 00:24:00.889 --> 00:24:05.627
- You know, sometimes you have to make a choice with your emotions
- 00:24:05.627 --> 00:24:08.296
- Before your feelings get there.
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- So we're about ready to say to the lord, i'm up for this.
- 00:24:11.700 --> 00:24:15.237
- And then we're gonna say thank you.
- 00:24:15.237 --> 00:24:17.839
- And if you don't feel like thank you, offer thank you as an
- 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:20.675
- Expression of faith.
- 00:24:20.675 --> 00:24:27.415
- Why don't you stand with me for this?
- 00:24:27.415 --> 00:24:35.056
- You know, i still--i fix my own outlines and then i send them to
- 00:24:35.056 --> 00:24:39.327
- Some really clever people who format them.
- 00:24:39.327 --> 00:24:42.831
- And they sent me a note this afternoon and said, "you didn't
- 00:24:42.831 --> 00:24:44.833
- End your prayer right."
- 00:24:44.833 --> 00:24:50.272
- Yeah, because sometimes, thank god, they catch my--if they
- 00:24:50.272 --> 00:24:54.409
- Didn't proofread, my outlines would be exciting.
- 00:24:54.409 --> 00:25:01.449
- And i said, "yeah, it's okay, we don't need an amen," and they
- 00:25:01.449 --> 00:25:03.919
- Came because i had two thank yous there.
- 00:25:03.919 --> 00:25:06.154
- Then they came back and said, "well, there's two thank yous."
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- And i said, "thank you."
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- [congregation laughing]
- 00:25:12.561 --> 00:25:16.131
- So i knew that, you know, it's wonderful to--i mean, we like
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- Our seats.
- 00:25:20.435 --> 00:25:22.237
- And it's hard to proofread for somebody that's half crazy.
- 00:25:22.237 --> 00:25:25.840
- So you should pray for those people that have to help, but
- 00:25:25.840 --> 00:25:28.376
- Let's read this prayer.
- 00:25:28.376 --> 00:25:30.045
- "heavenly father, i thank you that you love me, that you gave
- 00:25:30.045 --> 00:25:34.716
- Jesus to die on my behalf, that he bore my sin, that he took my
- 00:25:34.716 --> 00:25:39.988
- Rejection, that he paid my penalty.
- 00:25:39.988 --> 00:25:43.625
- Because i come to you through him, i am not rejected, i am not
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- Unwanted, i am not excluded.
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- You really love me.
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- I am really your child.
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- You are really my father.
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- I belong in your family.
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- I belong to the best family in the universe.
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- Heaven is my home.
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- Thank you, thank you."
- 00:26:05.046 --> 00:26:08.049
- Lord, we do thank you, in jesus's name.
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- God bless you.
- 00:26:11.252 --> 00:26:17.258
- Allen: hey, i got a question.
- 00:26:20.929 --> 00:26:22.297
- What's the eternal breath of life?
- 00:26:22.297 --> 00:26:24.966
- Well, the answer is a new book my dad just wrote.
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- When i sat down to do a podcast with him and i was listening to
- 00:26:27.535 --> 00:26:30.205
- His story about how god had moved in his life and my
- 00:26:30.205 --> 00:26:33.108
- Family's life all the way up to the beginning of the church that
- 00:26:33.108 --> 00:26:35.477
- I've served now for several decades, i was so reminded of
- 00:26:35.477 --> 00:26:39.080
- The purpose and the power of the spirit of god in our lives, i
- 00:26:39.080 --> 00:26:42.050
- Asked him to put it in a book.
- 00:26:42.050 --> 00:26:43.685
- That's what we're sharing with you.
- 00:26:43.685 --> 00:26:45.387
- We all need god's help, we all face challenges.
- 00:26:45.387 --> 00:26:47.889
- Life's not easy no matter who you are, but the spirit of god
- 00:26:47.889 --> 00:26:50.892
- Is present within us to bring the power and purposes of god to
- 00:26:50.892 --> 00:26:55.363
- Bear in our lives.
- 00:26:55.363 --> 00:26:56.998
- I believe the book will be a blessing with--for you.
- 00:26:56.998 --> 00:26:59.634
- If you'll pair it with, "unleashing the power of the
- 00:26:59.634 --> 00:27:02.237
- Holy spirit," it's one of the most effective tools we have,
- 00:27:02.237 --> 00:27:04.773
- It'll give you a pathway that i believe will bring
- 00:27:04.773 --> 00:27:07.509
- God's best into your family.
- 00:27:07.509 --> 00:27:08.877
- You may not plant a church, but you have been given the
- 00:27:08.877 --> 00:27:11.713
- Assignment as an ambassador for the kingdom of god, and we need
- 00:27:11.713 --> 00:27:14.849
- The help of the holy spirit.
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- Enjoy the book.
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- ♪♪♪
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