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Allen Jackson - Lessons In Listening (Part 2)

May 24, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Lessons In Listening (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Lessons In Listening (Part 2) | May 24, 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: so, 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.
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  • 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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  • And we start to learn about the characters and the stories of
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  • The bible.
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  • And you learn a bit about the character of god and his
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  • Interaction with people.
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  • And it doesn't stop.
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  • You get to the new testament and the stories are just
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  • As remarkable.
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  • We meet jesus.
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  • But before we ever see jesus born in a barn--that's a
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  • Great story.
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  • We all like--most of us have little barns in our houses.
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  • We get out at christmas time.
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  • We put them on campus.
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  • It's one of my favorite holidays 'cause that barn stuff, that's
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  • Kind of baked into me.
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  • I'm good with all the aromas that go with the barn.
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  • But before you ever got to jesus in bethlehem, there's angels
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  • Talking to priests and saying, "you're too old to have kids,
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  • But it doesn't matter, you're gonna have a boy."
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  • And zechariah said, "how can that be?
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  • Have you seen my wife?"
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  • It's in the book, don't get mad at me, it's--even the angel
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  • Said, "because you ask that question, you can be quiet for
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  • A while."
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  • You know why he did that?
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  • He was afraid zechariah would go home and say something stupid to
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  • Elizabeth, and she'd kill him, and there'd be no john
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  • The baptist.
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  • That's the southern interpretation.
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  • Then the angel went to see joseph and mary, teenagers, and
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  • Said, "something's going to happen that you cannot be
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  • Prepared for, you can't imagine, but god's in the middle of it,
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  • Trust me and trust one another."
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  • And the story unfolds, and we get to know jesus, and we meet
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  • Him walking on water and feeding a multitude with a little boy's
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  • Lunch, or smearing mud on a young man's face, and the man
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  • Comes home seeing, or interrupting funeral processions
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  • And the--a young man's raised to life again, or standing outside
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  • The tomb of his good friend lazarus and said, "open the tomb
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  • And get lazarus out here."
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  • I mean, crazy stories, crazy stories.
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  • Even the demons shudder when they're in jesus's presence.
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  • And it doesn't stop with him.
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  • We meet peter, and the miracles keep rolling forward, and
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  • Angels--peter gets arrested because he's threatening the
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  • Political establishment with his words.
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  • Imagine that.
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  • He could have talked about moses and been okay.
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  • No, he had to stand up in the streets of jerusalem and said,
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  • "you killed the messiah."
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  • And they said, "we'll shut you down, son."
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  • So, they put him in prison, and the angels came and got him out.
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  • And we meet saul or the apostle paul.
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  • He hates christians.
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  • He cheers when they're murdered in the street.
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  • He arrests women and puts 'em in prison because they will name
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  • Jesus as messiah.
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  • And it's good for his career.
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  • He's gaining momentum and getting raises.
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  • He's on the fast track.
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  • And then jesus steps into the highway one day.
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  • "well, just what do you think you're doing?"
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  • And saul of tarsus becomes the apostle.
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  • We get to know the bible by getting to know the characters.
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  • Years ago, i learned i'd be teaching and i would say, "oh,
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  • You know the story of nehemiah."
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  • Inevitably somebody would come up to me afterwards and say,
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  • "pastor, i don't know who nehemiah is."
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  • That's where the outlines came from.
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  • 'cause people that weren't familiar with the stories and
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  • The characters, they couldn't keep up.
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  • And so, we started putting the outlines together.
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  • So, when i say, "well, you know about him."
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  • If you've never heard of it, you can fake it, and just look
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  • Down at the sheet and read it.
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  • It's not intended to replace your bible.
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  • I hope you read your bible every day.
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  • But whether it's the children that we teach the stories to
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  • Introduce them to the character of god, or the power of god, or
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  • The purposes of god, or whether it's adults learning the stories
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  • And the characters, it's our introduction to the bible, it's
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  • Not childish.
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  • There's so much we learn about the character of god in
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  • Those places.
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  • But our generational faith can't stop there.
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  • If all it is is a story, some knucklehead with a phd will talk
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  • You out of it.
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  • I promise.
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  • They'll tell you you're simpleminded.
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  • They'll be intellectually dishonest.
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  • They won't give you the whole story.
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  • They won't because their agenda is to talk you out of that
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  • Faith, and to invite you into a godless morality,
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  • Into a godless worldview.
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  • And tragically it happens from too many pulpits now because our
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  • Church leaders have been educated in similar ways.
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  • You don't need to ever apologize because you believe the word of
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  • God to be the authority in your life.
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  • You don't. [congregation applauding]
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  • There are others--i'm sure--far more intelligent than myself,
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  • But in all the places i've been, and all the opportunities i've
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  • Had to learn, i have never felt like i had to apologize for the
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  • Integrity of the word of god.
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  • Then i would encourage you not to.
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  • I believe exactly what we read in psalm 138.
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  • When everything's said and done, god will exalt his name and
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  • His word.
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  • So, i'm investing as fully as i know how.
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  • After you learn the stories and you kind of know there's some
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  • Stories in there, you wanna start to learn where they are.
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  • If you wanted to find out where did jonah live when he built
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  • His ark?
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  • I'm sorry, that was noah, wasn't it?
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  • That was mean of me, it was on purpose.
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  • If you wanted to find noah's ark, where would you look in
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  • Your bible?
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  • Matthew?
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  • Genesis, isn't that really a trick question.
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  • If you wanted to find the story of daniel and his journey with
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  • The lions, where would you look?
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  • Trick question.
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  • There's a book named daniel, you might start with that one.
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  • But there's not a book called paul.
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  • So, if you wanted to know about paul when he met jesus on the
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  • Road to damascus, where would you look?
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  • You see, the next layer is you don't just know the stories and
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  • The characters, you actually have become engaged enough with
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  • The text that you might actually know where to find it.
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  • So that the second layer in this generational faith--remember our
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  • Target that your faith is so genuine, so meaningful, so
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  • Integrated into your worldview, your conversation, your life,
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  • Your goals and your objectives, that it impacts the other people
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  • Around you.
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  • So, once you begin to get familiar with some of the
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  • Characters and some of the stories, you're actually gonna
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  • Have to read your bible.
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  • It's an introduction to the word of god.
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  • And when we begin to do that, we don't understand--we can't
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  • Pronounce all the names.
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  • We don't know all the cities.
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  • It's 66 books bound together, written over a broad period of
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  • Time by dozens of authors in different cultures, different
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  • Styles of literature, from different historical periods.
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  • I mean, it's not a simple book.
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  • So, when you begin to read it, it's not like you have
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  • Automatic clarity.
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  • And it's unfortunate that too many times people who lead the
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  • Discussions wanna impress you with their knowledge.
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  • That's not the goal.
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  • The goal is, how do i learn to listen to god by what's in
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  • This book?
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  • So, you begin to read your bible.
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  • And as you do, the next typical step is you'll start to
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  • Recognize phrases that seem meaningful to you from what
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  • You know.
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  • You start to mark your bible a little bit.
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  • You'll underline a phrase, or highlight a phrase, or circle
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  • A verse.
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  • It's kind of the significant verse theory.
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  • I brought you a collection, genesis 1:1.
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  • That's very near the beginning.
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  • Most of us have read that verse thousand times in a commitment
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  • To read our bibles.
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  • Kind of like that commitment to lose ten pounds.
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  • Don't bother.
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  • In genesis 1:1, "in the beginning, god created the
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  • Heavens and the earth."
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  • Very significant verse.
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  • If you're willing to believe that god created the heavens and
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  • The earth, the rest of the bible has sense and a point
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  • Of attraction.
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  • If you reject that, the rest of the bible isn't
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  • Particularly meaningful.
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  • If god had the power, and the authority, and the wisdom to
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  • Create the earth and everything that's in it, it would be in
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  • Your best interest to listen to him.
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  • If you reject god as the creator, why would you trust him
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  • With your eternity?
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  • But i just gave you a sampling of this.
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  • John 14:6, jesus said, "i am the way, the truth and the life.
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  • No one comes to the father except through me."
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  • That seems pretty significant to me.
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  • You don't come to the father through buddha, or confucius, or
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  • Great wealth, or great power, or a great intellect, or tremendous
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  • Athletic ability, or great fame.
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  • Anybody that comes into the kingdom of god has to come
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  • Through jesus.
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  • Remember what we read?
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  • Psalm 138, "his name will be exalted above every other name."
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  • As you're reading through your bible, if it's a relatively new
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  • Exercise for you, maybe you start to make a list of verses
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  • That seem significant to you.
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  • It'll be an interesting read when you get done.
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  • Just sit down and read through them sometime, maybe a month at
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  • A time.
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  • These were the verses this month that were impactful to me.
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  • I don't know what they all mean.
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  • I still can't pronounce all the names.
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  • I was so grateful when i did read through the bible.
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  • I had to read two chapters in public, in front of cameras in
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  • Washington dc.
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  • And i didn't get to pick the chapters.
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  • And i thought, you know, if they give me a genealogy, i'm gonna
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  • Have a commitment at home that day.
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  • Thank god i got a chapter in exodus.
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  • Just plain old words.
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  • Revelation 1, jesus said, "i'm the living one; i was dead, and
  • 00:11:58.566 --> 00:12:02.971
  • I'm alive forever and ever!"
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  • Do you believe that about jesus?
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  • That he's alive forever, that you're gonna see him one day?
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  • Not some apparition, not a ghost.
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  • Not some spiritual encounter.
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  • Jesus of nazareth with an earth suit will speak to you.
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  • Maybe we should start to live like we think that's really
  • 00:12:26.027 --> 00:12:28.429
  • Gonna happen.
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  • Maybe the people who live with you should think you're living
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  • Like that's really gonna happen.
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  • Allen: hey, "lessons from paul" is a 90-day devotional.
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  • Some of my favorite verses that paul wrote, a bit of devotional
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  • The goal is to be changed.
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  • We wanna be transformed by the word of god and not just
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  • Informed by it.
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  • Saul of tarsus, a hero of mine.
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  • I got to know him as the apostle paul--an unrelenting advocate
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  • For jesus in the face of unyielding persecution.
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  • Folks, that sounds like the world we live in.
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  • Allen: you know, our religious engagement with the things we
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  • Argue about, the things we get offended--folks, we're gonna
  • 00:13:49.544 --> 00:13:52.747
  • See jesus.
  • 00:13:52.747 --> 00:13:54.515
  • He is the living one!
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  • I mean, i gave you a collection.
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  • I'm not gonna read 'em all.
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  • Ephesians 6, "our struggle isn't against flesh and blood."
  • 00:14:03.191 --> 00:14:05.994
  • That's a good thing it's in the bible because if it weren't in
  • 00:14:05.994 --> 00:14:07.729
  • The bible, i would know that my struggle was against people.
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  • 'cause most of the struggles in my life have a name and
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  • Body odor.
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  • Don't you find that to be true?
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  • Right?
  • 00:14:19.374 --> 00:14:20.842
  • But the scripture says that our struggle really isn't with
  • 00:14:20.842 --> 00:14:23.578
  • People, but it begins with spiritual forces of wickedness.
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  • That there are wicked spirits, evil spirits that are manifest,
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  • Give expression through human beings.
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  • You're gonna watch the evening news and go, "oh, that's evil."
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  • That didn't come from a university.
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  • That wasn't because of bad parenting.
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  • That's evil.
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  • Well, you need the scriptural perspective to be able to start
  • 00:14:48.803 --> 00:14:51.706
  • To put this together.
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  • Oh, excuse me.
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  • In john 16, jesus said, "i've told you all these things, so
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  • That in me you can have peace."
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  • Well, that's nice to know.
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  • Jesus wants us to be peaceful.
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  • Aw, isn't that special?
  • 00:15:07.355 --> 00:15:11.693
  • You'll need the next sentence.
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  • "in this world you will have trouble."
  • 00:15:14.028 --> 00:15:20.435
  • You see, if it was up to me, i'd just wipe that out.
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  • I'd just stop, you know, "i want you to have peace."
  • 00:15:24.372 --> 00:15:27.342
  • But jesus's life really wasn't even free of conflict, his life
  • 00:15:27.342 --> 00:15:29.877
  • Was filled with conflict from the time he was born, when
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  • They're killing babies in bethlehem, right through his
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  • Adult life till they crucify him.
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  • His followers, his best friends, they don't have lives free
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  • Of conflict.
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  • What you find was jesus was never panicked.
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  • He's in a little open boat on the lake of galilee, and a storm
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  • Comes up, and the fishermen in the boat with him think they're
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  • Gonna drown, and jesus is sleeping.
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  • So, the fishermen wake up a carpenter to tell him they need
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  • Help navigating.
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  • And you know he's a carpenter 'cause the first thing he does
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  • Is stand up in the boat.
  • 00:16:05.213 --> 00:16:09.150
  • And he speaks to the wind and the waves.
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  • "in this world you'll have trouble," he said, "but you can
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  • Be of good cheer, i have overcome the world."
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  • I can't tell you how many times i have walked through the
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  • Fields, usually at night or early in the morning, going,
  • 00:16:23.464 --> 00:16:29.337
  • "jesus, i'm so thankful that you have overcome all these things i
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  • Can see."
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  • 'cause i can see some things that are frightening to me, or
  • 00:16:34.809 --> 00:16:36.978
  • Intimidating to me, or--that i feel powerless in front of or
  • 00:16:36.978 --> 00:16:40.948
  • Inadequate to address, but i know that you said that i could
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  • Have your peace because you've overcome everything in this
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  • World that would oppose your purposes.
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  • As you're reading your bible, just start to make it--don't
  • 00:16:53.327 --> 00:16:56.664
  • Make a--don't write down a hundred verses a day.
  • 00:16:56.664 --> 00:16:59.000
  • Limit yourself to one a day.
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  • Just write down a verse and say, "from my portion today,
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  • This verse."
  • 00:17:06.774 --> 00:17:08.609
  • For many years, i would read the chapter from proverbs that
  • 00:17:08.609 --> 00:17:10.912
  • Corresponded with the date.
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  • And i would choose a verse for the day from that chapter.
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  • It says the second, i'd read proverbs 2, and i'd circle the
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  • Verse, and i'd put out beside it.
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  • May the second.
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  • I want it to be present in my life, not just historical.
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  • I don't always understand it all, but i'm determined to
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  • Understand what's in front of me today.
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  • And the list goes on.
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  • Do you know the tremendous price that's been paid so we can
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  • Have bibles?
  • 00:17:39.273 --> 00:17:41.142
  • You know how casually--we say some of the--people say to me,
  • 00:17:41.142 --> 00:17:45.012
  • "well, pastor, i just don't read mine."
  • 00:17:45.012 --> 00:17:48.883
  • Well, okay, now change.
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  • That really doesn't feel any different to me than you you
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  • Say, "pastor, i don't believe in deodorant."
  • 00:17:53.821 --> 00:17:57.859
  • I go, "well, good for you.
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  • I do."
  • 00:18:00.328 --> 00:18:02.697
  • So, if you intend to have a conversation with me, you should
  • 00:18:02.697 --> 00:18:05.466
  • Become a believer too.
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  • Don't just discount a poor decision, and entrench it, and
  • 00:18:10.872 --> 00:18:15.176
  • Celebrate it as if it's some sterling part of your character.
  • 00:18:15.176 --> 00:18:18.646
  • Say with some humility, "the bible"--for whatever reason--
  • 00:18:18.646 --> 00:18:21.949
  • "i haven't read it, but i have begun."
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  • Everybody in this place has permission to be a beginner.
  • 00:18:25.453 --> 00:18:29.857
  • One of the things that i dislike about our educational system is
  • 00:18:29.857 --> 00:18:32.660
  • That if you get behind, it's embarrassing to catch up.
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  • If you ignore english through the first six grades, it's
  • 00:18:37.365 --> 00:18:40.301
  • Difficult when you get in some other levels.
  • 00:18:40.301 --> 00:18:43.237
  • I didn't know what a participle was until i got to college.
  • 00:18:43.237 --> 00:18:48.109
  • Then i couldn't learn the language that was in front of me
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  • Because i didn't know english well enough.
  • 00:18:50.011 --> 00:18:52.847
  • And many of us are ignorant about biblical things, and are
  • 00:18:52.847 --> 00:18:56.350
  • Reluctant or embarrassed to say it.
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  • I wanna absolve you of that.
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  • Let's go learn together.
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  • My time's about up.
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  • But if you can bear just a little more history.
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  • I don't weigh in at the barton's level.
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  • I'm not gonna take long, i promise.
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  • Don't panic.
  • 00:19:15.503 --> 00:19:18.472
  • Have you ever heard of john wycliffe?
  • 00:19:18.472 --> 00:19:20.942
  • You may have heard of wycliffe bible translators.
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  • There's a reason for that.
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  • John lived in the 14th century.
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  • That's the 1300s.
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  • He's older than we are.
  • 00:19:27.782 --> 00:19:31.352
  • But he was the first to really oversee or put together
  • 00:19:31.352 --> 00:19:34.789
  • An english translation of the bible.
  • 00:19:34.789 --> 00:19:37.959
  • You see, it's a relatively new thing in history to have a bible
  • 00:19:37.959 --> 00:19:42.063
  • Available to you in your language.
  • 00:19:42.063 --> 00:19:45.132
  • Even amongst those who were christians, the professional
  • 00:19:45.132 --> 00:19:48.636
  • Christians would read scriptures in a language that the common
  • 00:19:48.636 --> 00:19:51.539
  • People didn't know.
  • 00:19:51.539 --> 00:19:53.975
  • We would call that job security, or very poor leadership,
  • 00:19:53.975 --> 00:19:58.546
  • Or something.
  • 00:19:58.546 --> 00:20:00.214
  • But wycliffe translated the bible into english.
  • 00:20:00.214 --> 00:20:04.685
  • But the church formally banned the translation of the bible
  • 00:20:04.685 --> 00:20:07.722
  • Into english.
  • 00:20:07.722 --> 00:20:13.027
  • Did you catch that?
  • 00:20:13.027 --> 00:20:16.130
  • Somebody made the bible available, and the church
  • 00:20:16.130 --> 00:20:18.699
  • Officially banned it.
  • 00:20:18.699 --> 00:20:21.302
  • Now, they didn't formally declare john wycliffe a heretic
  • 00:20:21.302 --> 00:20:24.505
  • While he was alive.
  • 00:20:24.505 --> 00:20:25.840
  • That's good news.
  • 00:20:25.840 --> 00:20:27.208
  • You know, in social media we're called all sorts of names.
  • 00:20:27.208 --> 00:20:31.212
  • But in the 14th century, if the church declared you a heretic,
  • 00:20:31.212 --> 00:20:34.181
  • You would be murdered.
  • 00:20:34.181 --> 00:20:36.851
  • So, they didn't call john a heretic when he was alive, but
  • 00:20:36.851 --> 00:20:39.587
  • After he was dead, he was declared a heretic and they dug
  • 00:20:39.587 --> 00:20:43.491
  • His body up.
  • 00:20:43.491 --> 00:20:46.160
  • True story.
  • 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:47.728
  • And burned it.
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  • And then scattered the ashes in the river just so anybody who
  • 00:20:49.964 --> 00:20:53.067
  • Might have known him or known of him would understand he was not
  • 00:20:53.067 --> 00:20:55.770
  • A good man.
  • 00:20:55.770 --> 00:20:58.172
  • And his fault was translating the bible into the language of
  • 00:20:58.172 --> 00:21:01.275
  • The people.
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  • Have you heard of--let me pronounce it the southern
  • 00:21:04.045 --> 00:21:06.781
  • Way--"jan hus."
  • 00:21:06.781 --> 00:21:10.484
  • Somebody with more letters after the name says it's "yon hoos."
  • 00:21:10.484 --> 00:21:15.589
  • I don't know, i grew up in a barn.
  • 00:21:15.589 --> 00:21:18.326
  • He was a czech priest deeply influenced by wycliffe.
  • 00:21:18.326 --> 00:21:25.066
  • And he preached in a chapel to the czech people, and there were
  • 00:21:25.066 --> 00:21:30.671
  • Only two chapels in the nation where they were allowed to
  • 00:21:30.671 --> 00:21:33.441
  • Preach in the language of the common people.
  • 00:21:33.441 --> 00:21:37.578
  • Did you get that?
  • 00:21:37.578 --> 00:21:39.313
  • There has been tremendous resistance across many centuries
  • 00:21:39.313 --> 00:21:44.585
  • To people having access to the word of god.
  • 00:21:44.585 --> 00:21:47.788
  • That's not logical, it's spiritual.
  • 00:21:47.788 --> 00:21:51.926
  • So, when you see the word of god rejected in the public square,
  • 00:21:51.926 --> 00:21:55.963
  • Or academia, or in the pulpits of churches, that's not logical,
  • 00:21:55.963 --> 00:22:01.936
  • That's spiritual.
  • 00:22:01.936 --> 00:22:04.205
  • But if you haven't read your bible enough to know that we
  • 00:22:04.205 --> 00:22:06.841
  • Don't wrestle with flesh and blood, but against
  • 00:22:06.841 --> 00:22:09.343
  • Principalities, and powers, and spiritual forces of wickedness
  • 00:22:09.343 --> 00:22:12.213
  • In the heavenly places, you'll just go along.
  • 00:22:12.213 --> 00:22:16.417
  • Generational faith.
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  • Jan hus.
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  • I'll read it to you.
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  • It says, "the lonely priest was stripped of the symbols of
  • 00:22:33.467 --> 00:22:35.803
  • His office.
  • 00:22:35.803 --> 00:22:37.438
  • They took the cup from him and he declared his hope that christ
  • 00:22:37.438 --> 00:22:40.241
  • Would not take the cup of mercy from him.
  • 00:22:40.241 --> 00:22:43.177
  • When they committed his soul to the devil, he committed it
  • 00:22:43.177 --> 00:22:45.379
  • To christ.
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  • They led him outside to the stake.
  • 00:22:47.715 --> 00:22:50.284
  • And after kneeling in prayer, he was chained by the neck.
  • 00:22:50.284 --> 00:22:53.921
  • Wood was piled around him.
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  • He was urged one last time to renounce his errors."
  • 00:22:56.824 --> 00:23:00.628
  • You know, like wanting the people to hear the bible.
  • 00:23:00.628 --> 00:23:05.065
  • "then he replied that he'd never taught the things charged
  • 00:23:05.065 --> 00:23:07.501
  • To him.
  • 00:23:07.501 --> 00:23:09.837
  • And they burned him at a stake."
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  • For reading the bible to people in their language.
  • 00:23:12.973 --> 00:23:18.212
  • William tyndale, 1534, 16th century.
  • 00:23:18.212 --> 00:23:22.249
  • Another a hundred years ahead.
  • 00:23:22.249 --> 00:23:26.187
  • He too was martyred.
  • 00:23:26.187 --> 00:23:30.224
  • They choked him to death because he wanted the bible translated
  • 00:23:30.224 --> 00:23:34.328
  • Into the language of the people.
  • 00:23:34.328 --> 00:23:37.264
  • Betrayed by a friend.
  • 00:23:37.264 --> 00:23:40.534
  • Folks, we are too casual.
  • 00:23:40.534 --> 00:23:43.571
  • Generational faith.
  • 00:23:43.571 --> 00:23:45.506
  • This is different than attending a church service.
  • 00:23:45.506 --> 00:23:48.676
  • It's different than saying, "well, you know, of course i'm
  • 00:23:48.676 --> 00:23:50.344
  • A christian.
  • 00:23:50.344 --> 00:23:51.712
  • I'm not a muslim or a buddhist."
  • 00:23:51.712 --> 00:23:53.481
  • It's the determination in your heart to exalt jesus of nazareth
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  • In the word of god.
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  • My prayer is that you and i would live in such a way that
  • 00:24:02.356 --> 00:24:05.793
  • Not just the people who share dna with us, but the generation
  • 00:24:05.793 --> 00:24:09.864
  • In which we find ourselves will be impacted by the faith we
  • 00:24:09.864 --> 00:24:15.069
  • Choose to live out.
  • 00:24:15.069 --> 00:24:17.471
  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:24:17.471 --> 00:24:21.075
  • The message we have heard is too carnal, too self-absorbed.
  • 00:24:21.075 --> 00:24:25.212
  • It's about me, and mine, and our two kids--us four and no more,
  • 00:24:25.212 --> 00:24:29.083
  • And i'm not opposed to that nuclear family.
  • 00:24:29.083 --> 00:24:31.252
  • It is essential.
  • 00:24:31.252 --> 00:24:32.620
  • It's god's idea, but we have an assignment that includes that
  • 00:24:32.620 --> 00:24:35.823
  • But isn't limited to that.
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  • Generational faith.
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  • Are you listening for the lord?
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  • We'll pick this up again with the next session.
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  • I told you it was a two session outline.
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  • I brought you a prayer.
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  • It's a simple prayer, it's an invitation to the lord.
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  • I don't want you to leave tonight with any sense of shame
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  • Or embarrassment.
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  • I want you to leave recognizing a wide open door in front
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  • Of you.
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  • You don't have to know greek, or hebrew, or aramaic.
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  • You don't have to have advanced degrees.
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  • You don't have to have come from a particularly gifted family or
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  • In a family of significance.
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  • An individual, transformed by the power of god, in the name of
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  • Jesus, has with--you have within you the same spirit that brought
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  • Jesus out of the tomb.
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  • We can change a generation, folks, if we're willing.
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  • Will you stand with me?
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  • Did you find the prayer?
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  • If you're joining us from elsewhere, please read it
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  • With us.
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  • "almighty god, grant me an understanding heart and
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  • Listening ears.
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  • Help me to walk uprightly in your sight.
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  • May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be
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  • Pleasing to you.
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  • May i never forget the grace and mercy which you have extended
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  • To me.
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  • Holy spirit, guide me in paths of righteousness, reminding me
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  • Of the glory of the lord, amen."
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • Allen: you know, around the world people are searching for
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  • Truth, and together, we're doing our very best to help them
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  • Find it.
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  • When you become a ministry partner with allen jackson
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  • Ministries, you're joining a growing community of believers
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  • Who are committed to strengthening the church, and
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  • Sharing god's word through every available channel--television,
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  • Radio, podcast, books, bible studies, digital
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  • Resources, conferences.
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  • Your monthly partnership helps us equip believers to reach new
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  • Audiences, and to take the hope of jesus to people who may never
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  • Have heard the gospel otherwise.
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  • Together, we can stand firm in our faith, and make god's truth
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  • Known right here at home, and around the earth wherever god
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  • Opens the door.
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  • Let's keep gathering his people, and building his church until
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  • The day our king returns.
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  • You can find more about becoming a ministry partner at
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  • Allenjackson.com/partner.
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