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Allen Jackson - Lessons In Listening (Part 1)

May 23, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Lessons In Listening (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Lessons In Listening (Part 1) | May 23, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: one of my heroes in the bible is saul of tarsus.
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  • He becomes the apostle paul.
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  • I know you know his story.
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  • He's written two thirds of our new testament by title.
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  • One of the most remarkable characters we meet in all of the
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  • Scripture, he was a pharisee with a remarkable education,
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  • Brilliant mind, and he hated jesus and jesus followers until
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  • He met jesus one day.
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  • He's on the road to damascus, and jesus interrupts his life,
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  • And he becomes the apostle paul, one of the most powerful voices
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  • For jesus that history has ever known.
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  • We put together a 90-day devotional.
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  • It's "lessons from paul."
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  • I'm still learning from paul, and
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  • I just wanted to share it with you.
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  • There's a little--there's a scripture verse, there's a bit
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  • Of a devotional, there's a place for some journaling.
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  • It's really intended to provide some direction so that you and i
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  • Become overcomers, overcomers of our past, overcomers of the
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  • Opposition in the present.
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  • Doesn't matter what the adversary is.
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  • The power of god that delivered paul, he'll deliver you and me.
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  • I believe you'll enjoy "lessons from paul."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i want to begin a new topic with you.
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  • It's gonna take more than one session.
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  • In fact, your outline probably is going to take more than
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  • One session.
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  • So don't panic, i'll stop.
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  • The topic is "lessons in listening," but it really began
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  • With our readings.
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  • I hope you're doing the bible readings with us.
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  • There's nothing--in all the years that i have served in this
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  • Congregation, there's nothing that i think has had a more
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  • Consistently profound impact than our willingness to read the
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  • Bible together.
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  • I'm embarrassed that it took me as many years as it did to be
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  • Awakened to that.
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  • But it has become a very significant part of who we are
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  • And what we're doing.
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  • We had the--i had the privilege of participating a couple of
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  • Weeks ago with america reads the bible in dc.
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  • And in a week's time, about within 2 miles of the capitol
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  • Building, the scripture was read from the table of contents all
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  • The way to the maps, aloud in our nation's capital.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • And this lesson really began from our reading portions
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  • Right now.
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  • If you've been following with us, we just started in the
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  • Old testament.
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  • We're in the book of genesis.
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  • If you missed out on the beginning of the year, come on,
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  • It's a good--great--it's a great point to jump in.
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  • We'll do some things.
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  • The book of genesis and exodus is high drama.
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  • It's not a hard read at all.
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  • That's the stuff of hollywood.
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  • In fact, if it weren't in the bible, you wouldn't believe it.
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  • When we get to leviticus, i'll step back in.
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  • We'll need some help.
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  • But it is a worthwhile investment of about 10 minutes
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  • A day, 10 to 15 minutes a day.
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  • You can read through the entire bible in a year.
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  • And it--it's transformational, so i would invite you to that.
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  • I want to start in genesis 26.
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  • It says, "the lord appeared to isaac and said," so who's
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  • The--who's the key character in this little paragraph?
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  • It's not a trick question.
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  • The lord appeared to?
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  • Isaac, you remember who isaac's dad was?
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  • Abraham, the smart group comes to church on saturday night.
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  • "the lord appeared to isaac and said, 'do not go down to egypt;
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  • Live in the land where i tell you to live.'"
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  • His dad had gone to egypt for a while when there was a
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  • Great drought.
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  • And god said, "isaac, don't you do that.
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  • Stay in this land for a while, and i will be with you and i
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  • Will bless you.
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  • For to you and your descendants i will give all these lands and
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  • Will confirm the oath i swore to your father abraham.
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  • I'll make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky
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  • And i'll give them all these lands, and through your
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  • Offspring all nations on earth will be blessed."
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  • He's repeating to isaac the promise he'd made to his father.
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  • That's a--that's a pretty remarkable promise, all nations
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  • On earth will be blessed through you.
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  • Imagine if an angel showed up and said that to you.
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  • I mean, most of us would be thrilled if everybody on our
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  • Block was blessed through us.
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  • Most of us probably do the happy dance if the lord just said
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  • Everybody in our household would be blessed through us.
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  • All nations on earth will be blessed through you.
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  • That's gonna take god.
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  • No individual, certainly no bedouin in the middle east is
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  • Going to orchestrate that in antiquity without the
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  • Intervention of almighty god.
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  • But it's verse 5 that caught my attention, "'because abraham
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  • Obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my
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  • Decrees and my laws.'
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  • So isaac stayed where he was,"
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  • Which was the instruction that began this little paragraph,
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  • "don't go to egypt, stay where you are."
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  • And he makes this amazing promise to isaac, but in that
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  • Fifth verse, he tells isaac why that promise is going to shape
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  • His future, it's humbling.
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  • It isn't because he, isaac, is righteous or holy or special.
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  • He said, "because abraham obeyed me."
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  • And then there's a series of statements that are made that
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  • Seem somewhat repetitive.
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  • Hebrew is a very ancient language.
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  • You know, the--most of the old testament hebrew bible was
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  • Written in hebrew.
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  • The new testament is written in greek.
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  • Very different languages.
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  • Greek is very specific, very nuanced, far more complex.
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  • Hebrew is an ancient language and there's a simplicity to it.
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  • If you want to emphasize something in hebrew, you
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  • Repeat it.
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  • In some of the older translations, you'll read a
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  • Phrase where god would say to someone, "listen, listening."
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  • And it's just because in hebrew, both of the verbs are--they're
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  • Just abutted to one another.
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  • It means listen carefully.
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  • Well, in this case, the statement's made about abraham,
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  • It says, "abraham obeyed me."
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  • And then there's four things listed that he did.
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  • He kept my requirements, he kept my commands, he kept my decrees,
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  • And he kept my laws.
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  • Now, i suppose i could find some difference and nuance between
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  • The four, but in general, they're very similar.
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  • He kept requirements, commands, decrees, and laws, but they're
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  • All introduced by saying that "abraham obeyed me."
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  • It's a little blind in english.
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  • Some of the translations will say, "he hearkened to my voice,"
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  • He listened to me.
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  • In the niv, the translators chose to give you their
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  • Conclusion of the meaning, not the literal word.
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  • "abraham listened to me.
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  • And because he listened to me, he could keep my requirements,
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  • Keep my commands, keep my decrees, and keep my laws.
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  • And because he listened to me, all the earth is going to be
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  • Blessed through you, isaac."
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  • How many think it might be willing--it might be in your
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  • Better interest to listen to the lord?
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  • Excuse me, i'm recovering from a little bit of a cold.
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  • And if i'm gonna cough any place on planet earth, i'll cough
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  • Right here in about a 6 foot square circle.
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  • And i thank you in advance for all the home remedies,
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  • It's amazing.
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  • I will collect them and put them into something at some point.
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  • They're fascinating to me.
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  • We were--this is off topic, but it's okay.
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  • We were--we were taping something for television the
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  • Other day and my cough was much worse.
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  • And when you're doing that, it's not really appropriate.
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  • And so i was having trouble getting through my part and one
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  • Of the people working on the set said, "give me just a minute,"
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  • And they disappeared.
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  • I didn't know they were going home.
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  • And they showed back up in about 12 minutes and said, "here,
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  • Drink this."
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  • So i did.
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  • The part i heard was cayenne pepper.
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  • The part i tasted seemed more like kerosene.
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  • But drink it, i did, and coughing, i stopped.
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  • But in about three or four minutes, there was perspiration
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  • Dripping off the end of my nose and my eyebrows.
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  • I had perspired all the way through my shirt and my jacket.
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  • They're in my ear.
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  • The camera guys are going, "sir, you look like you just walked
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  • Through the car wash,"
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  • To which the person that gave me the concoction said, "but you
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  • Didn't cough."
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  • I didn't drink any of that tonight, so i'm not going to.
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  • Apparently it'll clean silver, it'll restore a shine to your
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  • Car, or it will stop a cough.
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  • It's kind of a multi-purpose elixir.
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  • Genesis 26, god said to isaac, "because abraham listened to me,
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  • All nations on earth will be blessed."
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  • But he didn't just listen, he yielded himself in obedience.
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  • Now, to really grasp that in genesis 26, you need
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  • The prologue.
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  • You need to know a little bit of the story before it, so i put it
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  • In your notes.
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  • It's genesis 22.
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  • And god has said to abraham, "i want you to take your son isaac
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  • And offer him as a sacrifice."
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  • Many of you know the story.
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  • And so he does.
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  • And he gets to the point that he's climbed mount moriah and
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  • Built an altar and bound isaac and put him on the altar.
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  • I mean, they're right at that point.
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  • And that's in your notes.
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  • He said, "abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to
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  • Slay his son.
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  • But the angel of the lord called out to him from
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  • Heaven, 'abraham!
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  • Abraham!'
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  • He replied, 'here i am.'"
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  • Now, i want to ask you a question.
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  • The text doesn't tell us with clarity, but it feels like to me
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  • That it's at least a safe assumption that when it says,
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  • "the angel of the lord cried out to abraham," that anybody who
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  • Was there with abraham would have heard the angel crying out.
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  • Is that fair?
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  • The angel cries out.
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  • The language is specific.
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  • It wasn't like abraham heard the voice of the lord, the angel
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  • Cried out to him.
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  • Let's read on.
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  • "'don't lay a hand on the boy,' he said.
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  • 'don't do anything to him.
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  • Now i know that you fear god, because you haven't withheld
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  • From me your son, your only son.'
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  • And abraham looked up and there in the thicket he saw a ram
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  • Caught by its horns.
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  • And he went over and he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt
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  • Offering instead of his son.
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  • So abraham called that place the lord will provide.
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  • And to this day it is said, 'on the mountain of the lord it will
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  • Be provided.'
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  • And the angel of the lord called to abraham from heaven a
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  • Second time."
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  • Same scenario, same location, same drama, same emotion, but
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  • The angel has something else to say.
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  • My opinion, and you can--we can disagree and both go to heaven.
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  • I think it's the lord himself.
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  • But, "the angel of the lord called to abraham from heaven a
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  • Second time and he said, 'i swear by myself, because you
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  • Have done this and have not withheld your son, your only
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  • Son, i will surely bless you and make your descendants as
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  • Numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore.
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  • Your descendants will take possession of the cities of
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  • Their enemies, and through your offspring all nations on earth
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  • Will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.'"
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  • Excuse me, isaac was present with abraham.
  • 00:11:09.184 --> 00:11:13.455
  • He's the one on the altar when the angel of the lord cries out
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  • Two times.
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  • He hears the promise.
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  • Now, scroll forward.
  • 00:11:25.400 --> 00:11:26.768
  • It's only four chapters in your bible, but time has passed and
  • 00:11:26.768 --> 00:11:31.840
  • Abraham, his father, is gone.
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  • And now isaac is doing his best to follow the lord.
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  • And god speaks to him.
  • 00:11:40.582 --> 00:11:41.983
  • Go back to chapter 26.
  • 00:11:41.983 --> 00:11:43.418
  • "the lord appeared to isaac and said," and he recites to him
  • 00:11:43.418 --> 00:11:48.490
  • This amazing promise that isaac has heard before, "i will make
  • 00:11:48.490 --> 00:11:54.562
  • Your descendants."
  • 00:11:54.562 --> 00:11:56.397
  • He said, "i swore to your father abraham i'll make your
  • 00:11:56.397 --> 00:11:59.033
  • Descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and i'll give
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  • Them all these lands, and through your offspring all the
  • 00:12:01.569 --> 00:12:04.272
  • Nations of the earth will be blessed.
  • 00:12:04.272 --> 00:12:06.541
  • And because your father"--oh, listen to me--"because your
  • 00:12:06.541 --> 00:12:12.013
  • Father hearkened to my voice.
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  • And i know he listened because he kept my requirements, and he
  • 00:12:16.151 --> 00:12:20.421
  • Kept my commands, and he kept my decrees, and he kept my laws."
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  • Because of what your father did, all nations on earth will be
  • 00:12:25.894 --> 00:12:29.097
  • Blessed through you, isaac.
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  • And we just have this one simple sentence in verse 6 and 26, it
  • 00:12:33.168 --> 00:12:37.472
  • Says, "so isaac stayed where he was."
  • 00:12:37.472 --> 00:12:40.175
  • Smart man, he's listening to the lord.
  • 00:12:40.175 --> 00:12:46.047
  • What i want to point out to you is the impact of generational
  • 00:12:46.047 --> 00:12:50.351
  • Faith, that the faith of abraham had a profound impact upon
  • 00:12:50.351 --> 00:12:55.957
  • Isaac's life.
  • 00:12:55.957 --> 00:12:58.760
  • They didn't have a spiritual life, a faith life that was only
  • 00:12:58.760 --> 00:13:03.164
  • Expressed in some sort of corporate worship.
  • 00:13:03.164 --> 00:13:07.202
  • Abraham invited his son into his spiritual journey enough that he
  • 00:13:07.202 --> 00:13:11.539
  • Took him to offer him as a sacrifice.
  • 00:13:11.539 --> 00:13:15.677
  • Abraham was an old man when isaac was born.
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  • Isaac at this point is of age.
  • 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:20.181
  • I'm quite confident if it had been a matter of physically
  • 00:13:20.181 --> 00:13:22.450
  • Overpowering abraham, he was capable.
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  • He cooperated to the point that his father bound him and laid
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  • Him on the altar and drew back the knife.
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  • And isaac hears the voice of the lord calling out to his father
  • 00:13:34.462 --> 00:13:41.302
  • Abraham, and he hears the message.
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  • Abraham had a faith that impacted the generations who
  • 00:13:46.841 --> 00:13:51.913
  • Followed him.
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  • Allen: can we talk for a minute about generational faith?
  • 00:15:00.815 --> 00:15:05.386
  • It's a very important topic for us right now.
  • 00:15:05.386 --> 00:15:09.223
  • You know, we think of it in other arenas of our life, we're
  • 00:15:09.223 --> 00:15:11.659
  • Pretty comfortable with the conversation.
  • 00:15:11.659 --> 00:15:14.462
  • I'm sometimes just amazed.
  • 00:15:14.462 --> 00:15:17.565
  • Amazed is my kind word, stupefied.
  • 00:15:17.565 --> 00:15:22.103
  • Honestly, i stand--i can't--sometimes i hear
  • 00:15:22.103 --> 00:15:24.038
  • Christian parents say things like, "well, i don't want to
  • 00:15:24.038 --> 00:15:26.541
  • Influence my children.
  • 00:15:26.541 --> 00:15:29.644
  • I want to let them make their own decisions," what?
  • 00:15:29.644 --> 00:15:34.983
  • Do you know how many hundreds of billions of dollars are being
  • 00:15:34.983 --> 00:15:37.518
  • Spent to try to influence your children?
  • 00:15:37.518 --> 00:15:40.421
  • Do you know what you send them off to school, and particularly
  • 00:15:40.421 --> 00:15:43.124
  • When you send them off to university, and if you send them
  • 00:15:43.124 --> 00:15:45.860
  • Off to, god forbid, the formerly elite universities, they very
  • 00:15:45.860 --> 00:15:49.764
  • Much intend to influence how your children think.
  • 00:15:49.764 --> 00:15:55.069
  • If you're not purposefully, intentionally, systematically
  • 00:15:55.069 --> 00:16:00.241
  • Trying to help your children learn to trust the lord, you are
  • 00:16:00.241 --> 00:16:04.278
  • Missing a primary assignment of parenting.
  • 00:16:04.278 --> 00:16:08.483
  • I mean, i'm all for academics and social activities and
  • 00:16:08.483 --> 00:16:13.955
  • Athletics, i think they all have a place to play, but they are
  • 00:16:13.955 --> 00:16:17.492
  • Very much secondary to helping your children learn to know and
  • 00:16:17.492 --> 00:16:21.963
  • Cooperate with the lord.
  • 00:16:21.963 --> 00:16:24.699
  • But you know, in almost any arena, we can talk about these
  • 00:16:24.699 --> 00:16:27.535
  • Generational impacts.
  • 00:16:27.535 --> 00:16:29.670
  • I mean, you do any financial planning at all, somebody's
  • 00:16:29.670 --> 00:16:32.240
  • Gonna talk to you about generational wealth.
  • 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:34.275
  • That doesn't mean you're fabulously wealthy, it just
  • 00:16:34.275 --> 00:16:36.644
  • Means you have some intention of leaving some resources to the
  • 00:16:36.644 --> 00:16:40.081
  • Generations who follow you.
  • 00:16:40.081 --> 00:16:44.385
  • Well, i want to talk to you for just a minute about
  • 00:16:44.385 --> 00:16:46.287
  • Generational faith.
  • 00:16:46.287 --> 00:16:48.723
  • Do you intend to lead a life of faith so that it brings the
  • 00:16:48.723 --> 00:16:52.427
  • Blessings of god to the generation or the generations
  • 00:16:52.427 --> 00:16:55.329
  • Who follow you?
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  • And if your answer is no, or i don't know, or i've never
  • 00:16:57.031 --> 00:17:00.134
  • Thought about it, it's time for a change.
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  • Every generation has to choose for themselves.
  • 00:17:05.940 --> 00:17:09.777
  • Isaac could have rejected god's invitation.
  • 00:17:09.777 --> 00:17:12.647
  • Lord knows there's enough generations in scripture who
  • 00:17:12.647 --> 00:17:14.549
  • Do that.
  • 00:17:14.549 --> 00:17:16.350
  • How many times--we're not reading the historical books,
  • 00:17:16.350 --> 00:17:18.352
  • But we will in a few weeks.
  • 00:17:18.352 --> 00:17:19.821
  • How many times is there a godly king followed by a wicked king
  • 00:17:19.821 --> 00:17:22.657
  • Who came from that family?
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  • Generational faith, see, what you do and who you are is far
  • 00:17:27.428 --> 00:17:34.569
  • More impactful than what you say.
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  • Kids learn far more by watching you than by what you say
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  • To them.
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  • Grandparents, your assignment is not to be the spoiler in chief.
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  • I wanna be sure i annoy everybody.
  • 00:17:50.918 --> 00:17:56.457
  • And you say, well, you know, and if you don't have children or
  • 00:17:56.457 --> 00:17:58.626
  • You don't have children at home, or you don't need to live near
  • 00:17:58.626 --> 00:18:00.661
  • Your grandchildren, you live near children.
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  • Put them on your prayer list.
  • 00:18:05.666 --> 00:18:08.569
  • Let your interactions with those families and those young
  • 00:18:08.569 --> 00:18:11.139
  • Families be such that you're planting seeds for
  • 00:18:11.139 --> 00:18:15.042
  • Generational faith.
  • 00:18:15.042 --> 00:18:16.444
  • We have got to break out of the gravitational pull of
  • 00:18:16.444 --> 00:18:20.047
  • Self-absorbed carnality that's about me and my own.
  • 00:18:20.047 --> 00:18:27.755
  • We have different gifts and abilities, but we have a
  • 00:18:27.755 --> 00:18:30.625
  • Responsibility to the generations who follow us.
  • 00:18:30.625 --> 00:18:35.496
  • The transformational faith which impacts generations is
  • 00:18:35.496 --> 00:18:38.799
  • Generational faith.
  • 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:40.701
  • And here--here's the awkward reality.
  • 00:18:40.701 --> 00:18:42.370
  • If we're gonna get into the diagnostics, for decades,
  • 00:18:42.370 --> 00:18:45.306
  • There's been a consistent falling away.
  • 00:18:45.306 --> 00:18:48.543
  • And we like to point accusing fingers, and there's many things
  • 00:18:48.543 --> 00:18:50.945
  • We can say, but we've been co-opted by comfort and
  • 00:18:50.945 --> 00:18:53.247
  • Convenience and entertainment.
  • 00:18:53.247 --> 00:18:56.217
  • It's far more important to us that our children have
  • 00:18:56.217 --> 00:18:58.753
  • Life experiences.
  • 00:18:58.753 --> 00:19:01.289
  • And that's not been--that's not recent news, folks.
  • 00:19:01.289 --> 00:19:03.824
  • We've been shaped by this for several decades now.
  • 00:19:03.824 --> 00:19:07.528
  • And then we see failures in academia where they're
  • 00:19:07.528 --> 00:19:09.931
  • Intentionally trying to disrupt biblical worldviews and godly
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  • Values without apology.
  • 00:19:12.934 --> 00:19:14.702
  • I've been in those classroom settings where they say, you
  • 00:19:14.702 --> 00:19:16.837
  • Know, we're going, you're--the pastor of the churches where you
  • 00:19:16.837 --> 00:19:19.307
  • Grew up were poorly educated and lack sophistication, and they
  • 00:19:19.307 --> 00:19:22.944
  • Couldn't really help you understand scripture.
  • 00:19:22.944 --> 00:19:25.479
  • We intend to tell you the real truth, not what your parents
  • 00:19:25.479 --> 00:19:28.249
  • Told you.
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  • May i make a suggestion?
  • 00:19:30.284 --> 00:19:31.652
  • If you hear that one of your children or grandchildren was in
  • 00:19:31.652 --> 00:19:33.688
  • A classroom where that was said, i don't care if it's a christian
  • 00:19:33.688 --> 00:19:36.324
  • School, you give them permission to leave.
  • 00:19:36.324 --> 00:19:40.595
  • And if there's any pushback, you tell them you'll take
  • 00:19:40.595 --> 00:19:43.130
  • The appointment.
  • 00:19:43.130 --> 00:19:45.666
  • What nonsense, what nonsense!
  • 00:19:45.666 --> 00:19:50.004
  • Do you know how much dishonesty lurks in academia?
  • 00:19:50.004 --> 00:19:55.509
  • I had to get to the postgraduate level before it really broke
  • 00:19:55.509 --> 00:20:00.014
  • Through on my consciousness how much deception was taking place
  • 00:20:00.014 --> 00:20:03.918
  • In the guise of elite education, how they manipulate the facts in
  • 00:20:03.918 --> 00:20:10.591
  • Order to fill students with propaganda.
  • 00:20:10.591 --> 00:20:15.096
  • Teach your children to listen to the lord, and your
  • 00:20:15.096 --> 00:20:19.600
  • Grandchildren, and your neighborhood children, and the
  • 00:20:19.600 --> 00:20:21.936
  • Children who worship with you, and the children who live on
  • 00:20:21.936 --> 00:20:24.705
  • Your block, and the adults who live on your block, and the
  • 00:20:24.705 --> 00:20:27.541
  • People you work with, generational faith.
  • 00:20:27.541 --> 00:20:35.483
  • There--there's seldom a week that goes by in this season
  • 00:20:35.483 --> 00:20:39.253
  • Where i don't interact with a family whose children have left
  • 00:20:39.253 --> 00:20:43.224
  • Home for education or work or something at an appropriate
  • 00:20:43.224 --> 00:20:46.827
  • Time, only to return in short order having rejected the faith
  • 00:20:46.827 --> 00:20:50.865
  • And worldview and beliefs of their parents.
  • 00:20:50.865 --> 00:20:55.069
  • It happens with an alarming frequency.
  • 00:20:55.069 --> 00:20:59.006
  • And as if that weren't tragic enough, i meet with families on
  • 00:20:59.006 --> 00:21:02.543
  • A regular basis where parents have been banished by
  • 00:21:02.543 --> 00:21:04.979
  • Their children.
  • 00:21:04.979 --> 00:21:06.314
  • Their children have cut ties, they're estranged from
  • 00:21:06.314 --> 00:21:07.648
  • Their family.
  • 00:21:07.648 --> 00:21:09.016
  • Not because of some gross abuse, i'm not talking about that.
  • 00:21:09.016 --> 00:21:14.288
  • I'm talking about a clash of worldviews and a faith that's
  • 00:21:14.288 --> 00:21:17.892
  • Been so fragile, so underdeveloped, so unformed that
  • 00:21:17.892 --> 00:21:22.330
  • When it's assaulted by other ideas, we're not capable of
  • 00:21:22.330 --> 00:21:25.700
  • Articulating it.
  • 00:21:25.700 --> 00:21:28.102
  • The church has some responsibility in this.
  • 00:21:28.102 --> 00:21:31.172
  • But there's no mystical closet where the church lives, folks,
  • 00:21:31.172 --> 00:21:34.775
  • It's us.
  • 00:21:34.775 --> 00:21:36.610
  • We are the church.
  • 00:21:36.610 --> 00:21:38.546
  • We're diligently engaged in trying to do things to help
  • 00:21:38.546 --> 00:21:41.349
  • Children have a vibrant expression of who god is and how
  • 00:21:41.349 --> 00:21:44.251
  • To interact with him.
  • 00:21:44.251 --> 00:21:46.354
  • We talk about crazy ideas like one meal a week at your kitchen
  • 00:21:46.354 --> 00:21:50.157
  • Table with your family without a device.
  • 00:21:50.157 --> 00:21:54.562
  • It's a spiritual wellness check.
  • 00:21:54.562 --> 00:21:57.565
  • And if you manage to get that anchor, do something crazy and
  • 00:21:57.565 --> 00:22:00.568
  • Start talking about twice a week.
  • 00:22:00.568 --> 00:22:07.842
  • You don't need to do that any more frequently than your kids
  • 00:22:07.842 --> 00:22:10.044
  • Participate in practices for their sport of choice in
  • 00:22:10.044 --> 00:22:13.047
  • This season.
  • 00:22:13.047 --> 00:22:16.183
  • Now i'm meddling.
  • 00:22:16.183 --> 00:22:18.352
  • So i want to take the balance of our time and see if we can put
  • 00:22:18.352 --> 00:22:21.155
  • Together a little bit of a how-to guide to instill this
  • 00:22:21.155 --> 00:22:25.226
  • Kind of generational faith.
  • 00:22:25.226 --> 00:22:26.594
  • It isn't accidental.
  • 00:22:26.594 --> 00:22:29.430
  • It is not any more accidental than learning to speak english
  • 00:22:29.430 --> 00:22:33.033
  • Well or to write english well.
  • 00:22:33.033 --> 00:22:34.969
  • It is very intentional and it's purposeful.
  • 00:22:34.969 --> 00:22:37.605
  • How do we do that?
  • 00:22:37.605 --> 00:22:38.939
  • And i'm not suggesting that what i'm gonna share with you is the
  • 00:22:38.939 --> 00:22:40.908
  • Only way.
  • 00:22:40.908 --> 00:22:42.276
  • I'm not even prepared to suggest for you it's the best way.
  • 00:22:42.276 --> 00:22:45.312
  • It's the part that god has made real to me.
  • 00:22:45.312 --> 00:22:47.915
  • And it was prompted by a verse of scripture that was just--you
  • 00:22:47.915 --> 00:22:50.985
  • Know, occasionally when we're doing the bible reading, it's
  • 00:22:50.985 --> 00:22:52.720
  • Like a verse is illuminated.
  • 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:56.157
  • And a few weeks ago, i read psalm 138, verse 2.
  • 00:22:56.157 --> 00:22:58.893
  • You have it in your notes.
  • 00:22:58.893 --> 00:23:00.394
  • It says, "you have exalted above all things your name and
  • 00:23:00.394 --> 00:23:03.431
  • Your word."
  • 00:23:03.431 --> 00:23:05.032
  • When this age comes to a conclusion, there are two things
  • 00:23:05.032 --> 00:23:08.102
  • That will be lifted up above everything else, the name of
  • 00:23:08.102 --> 00:23:11.405
  • Jesus and the word of god.
  • 00:23:11.405 --> 00:23:17.445
  • Now, i grew up in a barn in middle tennessee.
  • 00:23:17.445 --> 00:23:19.180
  • I'm not always the most clever, not always the sharpest knife in
  • 00:23:19.180 --> 00:23:22.583
  • The drawer, all those things.
  • 00:23:22.583 --> 00:23:25.586
  • But i can take that verse and i can tell you i'm committed body,
  • 00:23:25.586 --> 00:23:29.323
  • Soul, and spirit, to the extent that god gives me strength and
  • 00:23:29.323 --> 00:23:32.827
  • An opportunity, to be an advocate for the person of jesus
  • 00:23:32.827 --> 00:23:36.096
  • Of nazareth and for the word of god.
  • 00:23:36.096 --> 00:23:39.567
  • And i would invite you to that.
  • 00:23:39.567 --> 00:23:42.870
  • So if you ask me, how do we cultivate generational faith?
  • 00:23:42.870 --> 00:23:46.874
  • And it doesn't have to start when you're little, you may not
  • 00:23:46.874 --> 00:23:48.809
  • Have bumped into faith, you may not have had a revelation of
  • 00:23:48.809 --> 00:23:51.245
  • Jesus until you were far more mature.
  • 00:23:51.245 --> 00:23:54.548
  • It's not too late to start building that
  • 00:23:54.548 --> 00:23:56.283
  • Generational faith.
  • 00:23:56.283 --> 00:23:57.952
  • Say, "well, i didn't do it when my kids were little," okay, a
  • 00:23:57.952 --> 00:24:00.688
  • Day with the lord is like a thousand years and a thousand
  • 00:24:00.688 --> 00:24:02.890
  • Years like a day.
  • 00:24:02.890 --> 00:24:04.992
  • God can do in a day what you and i failed to do in two decades.
  • 00:24:04.992 --> 00:24:11.599
  • Excuse me, don't let the devil convince you that you're
  • 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:14.201
  • A victim.
  • 00:24:14.201 --> 00:24:16.403
  • Don't accept that.
  • 00:24:16.403 --> 00:24:17.738
  • The blood of jesus is sufficient to deliver you from your sin and
  • 00:24:17.738 --> 00:24:20.841
  • Your failures.
  • 00:24:20.841 --> 00:24:22.176
  • Our god is a redeemer and a restorer.
  • 00:24:22.176 --> 00:24:24.678
  • Now, that's not an excuse to be sloppy.
  • 00:24:24.678 --> 00:24:26.247
  • But once you recognize that you've stepped out of the
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  • Darkness into the kingdom of the son of god, then we get busy
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  • With a generational faith.
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  • And i'm gonna submit to you that it--it's centered in these two
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  • Things, it's how we honor the word of god and how we
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  • Acknowledge and honor the name of jesus.
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  • So let--let's start with the word of god.
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  • Most of us begin to interface with the bible, whether we do it
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  • When we're young or we do it when we're older, by learning
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  • The stories and the characters of the bible.
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  • Most of us don't dive right into, you know, word studies on
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  • Greek verbs, thank god!
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  • You know, we really don't care.
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  • We start to learn the characters in our bible and the stories
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  • That go with them.
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  • Does that sound right?
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  • I mean, you learned about noah.
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  • Dude built a boat.
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  • And when you learn about noah, you're introduced to some
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  • Act--some characteristics of god, the sovereignty of god, the
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  • Power of god over all creation.
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  • That god's engaged with humanity, that he didn't just
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  • Create the earth and everything that's in it and step away.
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  • That he cared about the behavior and the activity of
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  • Noah's generation.
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  • In fact, they'd become so wicked, so dark, so perverse, so
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  • Ungodly that god said, "i can't tolerate it anymore.
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  • I'm gonna start again.
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  • Noah, i need your help.
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  • Build the boat in a field.
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  • Here's the plan."
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  • Tough assignment.
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  • See, you learn something about god.
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  • You learn these stories when you're kids, but if you'll think
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  • About them a little, you learned a lot.
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  • You know, god said, "noah, have you got a life plan?"
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  • Noah said, "yes, i do, lord, here it is."
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  • God said, "i don't care, here's mine.
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  • Build the boat."
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  • Allen: you know, when i read my bible, i don't read it primarily
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  • For information.
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  • It's not just about facts and figures and dates and how to
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  • Spell nebuchadnezzar and how many tribes they were and where
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  • They fit in the land.
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  • I mean, i like all that stuff, but i read my bible to
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  • Be transformed.
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  • I recognize i need the power of god at work in my life, so the
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  • Characters of the bible become more than shadowy historical
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  • People, they become my friends or my heroes.
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  • We've put together a tool, it's "lessons from paul."
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  • It's a 90-day devotional.
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  • It's really gleaned from some of my favorite writings from the
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  • Apostle paul.
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  • You know, he begins as an angry, murderous man and becomes one of
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  • The most powerful advocates for jesus that our world has
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  • Ever known.
  • 00:26:55.195 --> 00:26:56.563
  • Well, i want that kind of transformation in my life to
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  • Move from the place i am to be more effective for the purposes
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  • Of the kingdom of god.
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  • I think the tool will help you in the midst of whatever your
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  • Circumstances, persecution, triumph.
  • 00:27:05.406 --> 00:27:08.075
  • "lessons from paul," it'll give you a pathway forward to
  • 00:27:08.075 --> 00:27:10.577
  • Cooperate with god and get to a better outcome.
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  • I think you'll enjoy the devotional.
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  • ♪♪♪
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