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Allen Jackson - Lessons From Matthew (Part 2)

June 2, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Lessons From Matthew (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Lessons From Matthew (Part 2) | June 2, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i've encouraged you for a long time
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  • To lead with your faith.
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  • Take you faith outside the church building
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  • Into all the places that your life takes you,
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  • Where you have influence, where you have a voice.
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  • We've created some pieces to help you do that:
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  • A tote bag, a blanket.
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  • Maybe you're going to a ball game or the park or the beach,
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  • Wherever that may be.
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  • You take these along, they are a celebration of our nation's
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  • 250th anniversary.
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  • Somebody will want to know where you got it, what it's about.
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  • It gives you an opportunity to share your faith.
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  • You know, i've had the privilege of living in some places outside
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  • The united states.
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  • Things like a grocery store or fast food or food delivery,
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  • Those things weren't possible in the places i lived.
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  • When i come home, just walking through a grocery store reminds
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  • Me of the goodness and the faithfulness of god,
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  • His blessings on our nation.
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  • Use your voice to say god has blessed america.
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  • Something as simple as a tote bag can open a door
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  • For your god story.
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  • Together, we're gonna lift up the name of jesus in this
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  • Generation and see god bless america again.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: some of you say, you know, "i work in a place
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  • Where it's difficult to be a christian," "i live in this
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  • Neighborhood and it's filled with godless people," or "my
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  • Kids go to a school and it's not--" yeah.
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  • "i'm sending you out like sheep amongst wolves.
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  • Therefore," so now he's gonna give us a response, "be as
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  • Shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves."
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  • Be shrewd and innocent.
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  • That will take the leading of the holy spirit.
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  • 'cause i typically, i can either be shrewd or innocent, but it's
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  • Hard to bundle that.
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  • "be shrewd and innocent," he said.
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  • Verse 17: "be on your guard."
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  • Be watchful.
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  • Listen, think.
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  • It's like biblical.
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  • "be on your guard against men; they will hand you over to the
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  • Local councils and they'll flog you in their synagogues.
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  • On my account you'll be brought before governors and kings as
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  • Witnesses to them and to gentiles."
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  • We know from the larger story of scripture that's true, but
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  • They're typically brought in chains.
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  • It's not a speaking tour, they're not collecting a fee.
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  • "but when they arrest you, don't worry about what to say or how
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  • To say it.
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  • At that time you'll be given what to say, for it won't be you
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  • Speaking, but the spirit of your father speaking through you.
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  • Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child;
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  • And children rebel against their parents and have them put
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  • To death."
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  • This is jesus speaking.
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  • Have you ever met anybody that said jesus was all about love?
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  • That his message was happy?
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  • Well, much of it was, and jesus did come to show us the love of
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  • God, but he did it with such integrity that he also talked
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  • About the difficulty of the journey and the reality of the
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  • World in which we live.
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  • He does more than give away participation trophies.
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  • He said there'll be betrayal within families.
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  • Children will rebel against their parents.
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  • Gee, it's hard to imagine that.
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  • Have them put to death.
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  • "all men," verse 22.
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  • "all men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to
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  • The end will be saved.
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  • When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another."
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  • I don't like that sentence.
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  • See, if i were writing it, i'm not saying it's inspired.
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  • I'm just saying if my old carnal mean allen self wrote it, i'd
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  • Say, "when you're persecuted in one place, hit 'em in the mouth,
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  • And god will break their neck.
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  • And all of your enemies will see it and they'll be sorry and
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  • They'll have a parade and they'll give you cake."
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  • That's allen's translation.
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  • It's not inspired by the holy spirit, so i would point
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  • You back to what jesus said.
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  • He said, "when you're persecuted in one place, flee to another.
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  • I tell you the truth, you'll not finish going through the cities
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  • Of israel before the son of man comes.
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  • A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above
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  • His master.
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  • It's enough for the student to be like his teacher, and the
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  • Servant like his master.
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  • If the head of the house has been called beelzebub," it's a
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  • Title for the devil.
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  • "if the head of the house has been called the devil, how much
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  • More the members of the household!"
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  • That's a pretty sober little paragraph.
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  • Jesus said, "i'm sending you out, but i'm telling you, i'm
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  • Sending you out in a pretty vulnerable way.
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  • You're going into a highly contested arena and you need to
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  • Be shrewd and innocent and you need to be on your guard."
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  • And he said, "in spite of that, you'll be handed over to
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  • Councils, you'll be persecuted by the religious, you'll be
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  • Brought before governors and kings, people of authority and
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  • Great power."
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  • He said, "when they arrest you, don't worry."
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  • Well, you know, usually the mug shot's kind of a point of
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  • A little anxiety.
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  • We've seen a few exceptions lately, but typically it's
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  • A point of--he said there'll be betrayal and rebellion
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  • Within families.
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  • It even escalates.
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  • He said there'll be universal hatred.
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  • "you'll be hated by all people because of me."
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  • Because of me.
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  • See, there's tremendous efforts to bring division amongst us and
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  • Cause us to hate one another based upon how we look or the
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  • Accent with which we speak.
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  • Or our height or our athletic ability or our iq.
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  • Folks, those are all driven by a spirit other than the
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  • Spirit of god.
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  • Please don't fall prey to that.
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  • He said, "you'll be hated because of me and your
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  • Affiliation with me," and his instructions were to stand firm.
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  • He said our salvation is certain if we're aligned with jesus.
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  • And he goes on in the very next verse, it's verse 26.
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  • He said, "so do not be afraid of them."
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  • Well, hello.
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  • Arrested, hated everywhere, betrayals in our families.
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  • And so now he gives us our response.
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  • He said, "you don't have to be afraid of them," wow.
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  • Part of this is what you choose to focus on.
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  • You can focus on the hatred and the resentment and the
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  • Bitterness and the rejection and say because of all of those
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  • Things i'm going undercover.
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  • Or you can focus on this next paragraph where jesus said you
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  • Don't have to be afraid.
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  • And you'll have a boldness and a courage to walk in the midst of
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  • The lions or the fiery furnace or to confront goliath.
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  • "don't be afraid of them.
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  • There's nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden
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  • That will not be made known."
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  • See, they're keeping secrets, yeah, but not from god.
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  • And in god's time, he lets the truth be told.
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  • We've been watching that.
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  • We started praying in 2020 that the truth would be told.
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  • And from that day until this, week after week after week,
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  • There have been things pushed in the public square that i'm quite
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  • Certain very powerful people would have preferred to
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  • Stay hidden.
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  • At one time when we would say that the covid virus came from
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  • Wuhan, china, people would lose their minds.
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  • Because the people with authority over us wouldn't
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  • Say that.
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  • And now that the kids in school know that.
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  • The truth is being told.
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  • The scriptures being fulfilled in front of your eyes if
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  • You'll watch.
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  • "what i tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is
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  • Whispered in your ear, proclaim to the roofs.
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  • Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but can't kill
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  • The soul.
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  • Rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body
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  • In hell.
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  • Aren't two sparrows sold for a penny?
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  • You're--yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart
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  • From the will of your father."
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  • God goes to the funerals of the sparrows.
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  • I love it.
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  • "and even the very hairs of your head are numbered.
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  • So don't be afraid."
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  • That's the third time he's told us.
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  • "you're worth more than many sparrows," thank you.
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  • "whoever acknowledges me before men, i will also acknowledge him
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  • Before my father in heaven.
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  • But whoever disowns me before men, i'll disown him before my
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  • Father in heaven."
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  • I believe in those few verses, those six verses or seven, we
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  • Have a formula for living free of fear.
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  • Not because we live in a world that isn't frightening, you'll
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  • Be hated rather universally.
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  • You'll from time to time be mistreated because of
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  • Your faith.
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  • People will reject you.
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  • It will limit opportunities.
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  • If you own your faith in the public square, there are times
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  • It will present challenges.
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  • Own your faith anyway.
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  • Because jesus's instruction is don't be afraid of them.
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  • All the things they're trying to conceal and all the things
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  • They're trying to hide are going to be shouted from
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  • The housetops.
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  • Be an early adopter of the truth.
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  • He tells us multiple times in verse 26, "do not be afraid
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  • Of them."
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  • In verse 28: "do not be afraid."
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  • In verse 31: "so don't be afraid."
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  • Freedom from fear.
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  • I wanna take a moment with it because fear is a epidemic.
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  • Fear is a very real challenge.
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  • It comes in many packages.
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  • Sometimes it's fear of our health and our wellbeing,
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  • Sometimes it's fear for our families or our children.
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  • It can be fear about events in our world.
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  • It can be fear about our resources and our ability to
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  • Hold on to them.
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  • You can't.
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  • Only god can secure your future.
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  • I'm not saying you shouldn't be a good steward or be diligent or
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  • Work hard.
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  • I'm not saying that.
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  • But i'm telling you, only god can secure your future, whether
  • 00:10:00.281 --> 00:10:02.984
  • It's your health, your family, your resources, and as long as
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  • You think you're the one that's securing those things, you are
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  • Very vulnerable to fear because there are frightening things
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  • Happening in the world, things beyond our control, beyond
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  • Our ability.
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  • But you can be free from fear, or else jesus would not have
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  • Said, we don't have to be afraid.
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  • It's very similar to when he said, "do not worry."
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  • I believe we can lead lives that are not plagued by worry.
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  • And i believe we can lead lives that are not dominated by fear.
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  • It's not that we won't face frightening things, that we
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  • Won't walk through frightening places, but we do not have to be
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  • Driven and make our life choices by fear.
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  • Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 15, i put it in your notes.
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  • I know it's not matthew 10, but i wrote the outline.
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  • He talks about what jesus did for us, and he says, "he freed
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  • Those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear
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  • Of death."
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  • One of the great fears is the fear of death.
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  • Death is an enemy.
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  • I'm not saying it's not significant, it's not real.
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  • It's a barrier that has to be crossed.
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  • It's a transition from one realm of existence to another, from
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  • One dimension to another, and that's frightening.
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  • If you haven't traveled a lot, travel's frightening.
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  • If you haven't eaten food beyond what you ate at your mother's
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  • Kitchen table, new tastes are frightening.
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  • So there's a--there's a logic for why death will bring some
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  • Anxiety, but jesus said it no longer holds the power to
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  • Captivate you, to dominate you.
  • 00:11:33.374 --> 00:11:36.277
  • In fact, he just told us not to be afraid of those that can just
  • 00:11:36.277 --> 00:11:39.013
  • Kill the body.
  • 00:11:39.013 --> 00:11:40.849
  • He said that's really not that big a deal.
  • 00:11:40.849 --> 00:11:42.650
  • I'm like, "well, that's a pretty big deal to me."
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  • Allen: hey, we're celebrating this year the 250th anniversary
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  • Of the signing of the declaration of independence.
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  • What a wonderful privilege we have.
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  • You know, god has blessed our nation so many good things.
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  • People say to me, "well, our whole history is not good."
  • 00:12:03.104 --> 00:12:05.607
  • Well, folks, you know, my history is not great.
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  • Your family history is not perfect.
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  • But you love your family, you love your children.
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  • In spite of our weaknesses-- well, our nation hadn't been
  • 00:12:12.580 --> 00:12:15.350
  • Perfect, but through that whole story, the goodness of god
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  • Is evident.
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  • It still is.
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  • Let's ask god to bless america again.
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  • I believe he will.
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  • Allen: the community fear will communicate with you.
  • 00:12:54.022 --> 00:12:55.857
  • It'll fill your thoughts.
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  • It'll put ideas.
  • 00:12:58.226 --> 00:12:59.594
  • Fear will affect your emotions.
  • 00:12:59.594 --> 00:13:01.162
  • It can affect your physiological responses.
  • 00:13:01.162 --> 00:13:03.765
  • Fear can elicit almost all the other things you would imagine
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  • That a person could elicit in a response from you.
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  • So i'm suggesting that you treat fear like a person without
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  • A body.
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  • You have to speak to it.
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  • And say, "in jesus's name, you will not dominate here.
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  • You may make a visit, you make-- you can make a presentation, you
  • 00:13:19.747 --> 00:13:23.751
  • May have a proposal.
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  • But you're not welcome here."
  • 00:13:27.155 --> 00:13:30.558
  • Now, if fear has been an established resident in your
  • 00:13:30.558 --> 00:13:37.465
  • Arena, it may take more than one visit to get all the clutter
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  • Out, but it isn't based upon, my force of intellect or
  • 00:13:41.903 --> 00:13:46.708
  • Positive thinking.
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  • When i'm speaking--when i have that authority over an unclean
  • 00:13:48.076 --> 00:13:50.511
  • Spirit, it's because not of allen's authority, it's because
  • 00:13:50.511 --> 00:13:54.282
  • I come in the authority of jesus of nazareth.
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  • And if you understand that, then it isn't about strength.
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  • It has nothing to do with that.
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  • Any more than a police officer who holds his hand up to stop an
  • 00:14:03.358 --> 00:14:05.927
  • Oncoming car, he doesn't have the strength to do that.
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  • He has the authority to do that.
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  • And if you understand you have the authority to speak to fear
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  • It will change your future no matter how chaotic our
  • 00:14:15.136 --> 00:14:18.239
  • World becomes.
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  • So i brought you a prayer.
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  • I made a mistake when the first time i built the outline, i had
  • 00:14:23.144 --> 00:14:25.813
  • The prayer and you didn't.
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  • And i knew what would happen.
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  • Before i got to the office tomorrow morning, there'd be
  • 00:14:30.351 --> 00:14:32.387
  • Lots of requests going, "could we get that prayer?"
  • 00:14:32.387 --> 00:14:34.289
  • No.
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  • So i just put the prayer in your notes.
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  • Let's just read it together.
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  • Have you found it?
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  • "i renounce the spirit of fear.
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  • Through the blood of jesus i have been delivered out of the
  • 00:14:48.469 --> 00:14:51.372
  • Hand of the enemy.
  • 00:14:51.372 --> 00:14:53.207
  • Satan has no place in me, no power over me, through the blood
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  • Of jesus.
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  • My mind and my emotions are at peace, god is my protection and
  • 00:14:59.047 --> 00:15:03.985
  • My deliverer.
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  • When i'm afraid, i will trust in the lord and i will see his
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  • Deliverance, amen."
  • 00:15:09.691 --> 00:15:12.260
  • Now if i were walking through a frightening place, i would say
  • 00:15:12.260 --> 00:15:16.397
  • That prayer five or six times every day, until it became
  • 00:15:16.397 --> 00:15:23.237
  • Second nature to me.
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  • Folks, we're talking about a real struggle.
  • 00:15:28.343 --> 00:15:31.679
  • Real enough that god sent his son to demonstrate, to walk it
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  • Out, to help us learn and understand.
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  • Jesus talked about what we don't have to fear and what we
  • 00:15:40.421 --> 00:15:42.890
  • Should fear.
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  • And i think on this topic, it's worth noting jesus said we don't
  • 00:15:44.258 --> 00:15:47.829
  • Have to be afraid of the one that can destroy just your body
  • 00:15:47.829 --> 00:15:51.432
  • But be afraid of the one that can destroy your soul and
  • 00:15:51.432 --> 00:15:54.102
  • Your body.
  • 00:15:54.102 --> 00:15:55.870
  • You wanna let healthy fear grow in you.
  • 00:15:55.870 --> 00:15:59.574
  • If you ask me for a quick diagnosis on the current state
  • 00:15:59.574 --> 00:16:02.643
  • Of christendom in america, we have a tremendous deficiency in
  • 00:16:02.643 --> 00:16:07.248
  • The fear of god.
  • 00:16:07.248 --> 00:16:10.118
  • We just don't fear him.
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  • We think he's like a benevolent uncle or santa claus or the
  • 00:16:13.254 --> 00:16:17.458
  • Tooth fairy, and that if--it don't matter what we do or how
  • 00:16:17.458 --> 00:16:21.596
  • We do it, he'll still give us what we want, or we'll say
  • 00:16:21.596 --> 00:16:26.067
  • He's not nice.
  • 00:16:26.067 --> 00:16:28.236
  • And the fear of god, not a--not a dread of god, not a shrinking
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  • In terror from god.
  • 00:16:32.774 --> 00:16:34.442
  • The fear of god is a respect for god, a reverence for god.
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  • It's understanding there is a god and it's not us, that he's
  • 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:40.415
  • Different than i am.
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  • That the collective ability of humanity does not equal god.
  • 00:16:42.517 --> 00:16:47.688
  • We can't fix all the problems that we face if we just
  • 00:16:47.688 --> 00:16:51.325
  • Work together.
  • 00:16:51.325 --> 00:16:53.694
  • Because there's nothing in human history to suggest first of all,
  • 00:16:53.694 --> 00:16:56.197
  • We will work together.
  • 00:16:56.197 --> 00:17:00.034
  • There are other forces at play.
  • 00:17:00.034 --> 00:17:01.536
  • It's called evil.
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  • There is a god and he should be treated with reverence
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  • And respect.
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  • I've used the example before.
  • 00:17:09.210 --> 00:17:12.380
  • I grew up around horses.
  • 00:17:12.380 --> 00:17:13.748
  • I have a tremendous respect for horses.
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  • I love them.
  • 00:17:15.950 --> 00:17:17.318
  • They're beautiful animals.
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  • Their strength amazes me.
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  • And because i had some really good coaching and training when
  • 00:17:20.254 --> 00:17:22.490
  • I was young, they don't frighten me.
  • 00:17:22.490 --> 00:17:25.226
  • Big ones, mean ones, they just don't frighten me.
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  • And i don't mean it when you're in your car and they're in
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  • The pasture.
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  • I mean, if you lock me in a 10 by 10 room with them, i'm okay.
  • 00:17:32.166 --> 00:17:36.304
  • I mean, i prefer you didn't do it, but they don't frighten me.
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  • But because i have great respect for them, i would not walk up
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  • Behind a horse i don't know, grab its tail, and pull and
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  • Go, "hey!"
  • 00:17:52.353 --> 00:17:58.793
  • Because there's a very high degree of probability i would
  • 00:17:58.793 --> 00:18:02.163
  • Get to visit with the people in the emergency room.
  • 00:18:02.163 --> 00:18:06.467
  • That's a very predictable reaction from that horse.
  • 00:18:06.467 --> 00:18:11.005
  • Not its fault; mine.
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  • And folks, there are some things about god as you read your bible
  • 00:18:13.541 --> 00:18:17.044
  • That you'll begin to understand.
  • 00:18:17.044 --> 00:18:19.647
  • If you will watch and listen and think, it will change you.
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  • I want to cultivate a respect for god.
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  • Jesus is trying to tell us in the plainest of language.
  • 00:18:28.689 --> 00:18:32.059
  • Look at the next verse, verse 34.
  • 00:18:32.059 --> 00:18:33.528
  • He said, "don't suppose that i've come to bring peace on
  • 00:18:33.528 --> 00:18:35.463
  • The earth.
  • 00:18:35.463 --> 00:18:36.797
  • I didn't come to bring peace, but a sword."
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  • Jesus said that.
  • 00:18:39.667 --> 00:18:41.002
  • Did you read it?
  • 00:18:41.002 --> 00:18:42.370
  • "don't suppose i came to bring peace."
  • 00:18:42.370 --> 00:18:49.010
  • How many--i mean, the most common mantra associated with
  • 00:18:49.010 --> 00:18:51.879
  • The christian faith: "it's all about peace, unity, we just all
  • 00:18:51.879 --> 00:18:57.151
  • Have to get along.
  • 00:18:57.151 --> 00:18:58.486
  • Christians are supposed to bring unity wherever they go."
  • 00:18:58.486 --> 00:19:01.289
  • No matter what is said, no matter what value is pushed
  • 00:19:01.289 --> 00:19:03.824
  • Forward, no matter what idea is proposed, no matter.
  • 00:19:03.824 --> 00:19:07.161
  • If you're a christian, if you're a good one, you should be
  • 00:19:07.161 --> 00:19:09.864
  • A peacemaker.
  • 00:19:09.864 --> 00:19:15.002
  • Well, just listen to the boss.
  • 00:19:15.002 --> 00:19:18.172
  • "don't suppose that i've come to bring peace on the earth.
  • 00:19:18.172 --> 00:19:20.608
  • I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
  • 00:19:20.608 --> 00:19:26.147
  • I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter
  • 00:19:26.147 --> 00:19:29.116
  • Against his mother, a daughter-in-law against her
  • 00:19:29.116 --> 00:19:31.152
  • Mother-in-law--a man's enemies will be the members of his
  • 00:19:31.152 --> 00:19:33.754
  • Own household.
  • 00:19:33.754 --> 00:19:35.489
  • And anyone who loves his father or mother more than me isn't
  • 00:19:35.489 --> 00:19:38.226
  • Worthy of me; and anyone who loves his son or daughter more
  • 00:19:38.226 --> 00:19:40.461
  • Than me isn't worthy of me; and anyone who doesn't take his
  • 00:19:40.461 --> 00:19:43.497
  • Cross and follow me is not worthy of me."
  • 00:19:43.497 --> 00:19:50.238
  • See, we want people to go to positions of power and authority
  • 00:19:50.238 --> 00:19:53.207
  • And fix the problems that we have, and we want to sit at our
  • 00:19:53.207 --> 00:19:55.843
  • Kitchen tables with the people that we love and ignore the
  • 00:19:55.843 --> 00:19:58.813
  • Fundamental principles of the word of god.
  • 00:19:58.813 --> 00:20:02.583
  • And we say, "well, it's my son or my daughter or my mother or
  • 00:20:02.583 --> 00:20:06.053
  • My father or my brother or my sister.
  • 00:20:06.053 --> 00:20:08.422
  • You don't expect me to," what?
  • 00:20:08.422 --> 00:20:11.892
  • Honor the lord?
  • 00:20:11.892 --> 00:20:13.261
  • Tell them the truth?
  • 00:20:13.261 --> 00:20:16.163
  • They would be offended.
  • 00:20:16.163 --> 00:20:18.065
  • Perhaps, perhaps, but the greatest opportunity to be
  • 00:20:18.065 --> 00:20:24.505
  • Prepared to meet the king is that someone that loves them the
  • 00:20:24.505 --> 00:20:27.608
  • Most in the world would tell them the truth.
  • 00:20:27.608 --> 00:20:31.879
  • Not in anger.
  • 00:20:31.879 --> 00:20:33.881
  • Not in belligerence.
  • 00:20:33.881 --> 00:20:35.816
  • To tell them the truth.
  • 00:20:35.816 --> 00:20:38.586
  • Jesus is not a unifying presence except amongst his followers,
  • 00:20:38.586 --> 00:20:42.590
  • But he does plead with us, those who are believers, those who are
  • 00:20:42.590 --> 00:20:45.693
  • Submitted to his word, but even in that context, he said, "if
  • 00:20:45.693 --> 00:20:48.496
  • Someone amongst you isn't obeying the truth, you gotta go
  • 00:20:48.496 --> 00:20:50.831
  • Talk to them and tell them."
  • 00:20:50.831 --> 00:20:55.536
  • Kindness, thou shalt be kind, is not the 11th commandment.
  • 00:20:55.536 --> 00:21:01.108
  • It's not--it's not license to be annoying.
  • 00:21:01.108 --> 00:21:04.278
  • You're annoying enough without trying.
  • 00:21:04.278 --> 00:21:05.880
  • Don't try.
  • 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:07.882
  • So am i. i have a gift.
  • 00:21:07.882 --> 00:21:11.886
  • Unity with the world and with ungodliness is not
  • 00:21:11.886 --> 00:21:15.790
  • Our objective.
  • 00:21:15.790 --> 00:21:17.158
  • I have no intention of being united with churches that reject
  • 00:21:17.158 --> 00:21:20.628
  • The authority of scripture or the uniqueness of jesus.
  • 00:21:20.628 --> 00:21:29.370
  • I mean, i can show them compassion.
  • 00:21:29.370 --> 00:21:31.706
  • I can look upon them with mercy, but i don't intend to be united
  • 00:21:31.706 --> 00:21:34.775
  • With ungodliness.
  • 00:21:34.775 --> 00:21:38.179
  • We have misunderstood the mission.
  • 00:21:38.179 --> 00:21:39.680
  • We have allowed the enemy to write our mission statement
  • 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:44.452
  • While they manipulate us and coerce us into cooperating
  • 00:21:44.452 --> 00:21:49.056
  • With ungodliness.
  • 00:21:49.056 --> 00:21:51.726
  • We're gonna have to find a new response.
  • 00:21:51.726 --> 00:21:56.163
  • And finally, this ends the chapter.
  • 00:21:56.163 --> 00:21:58.099
  • Can you believe this is one chapter?
  • 00:21:58.099 --> 00:22:00.835
  • Aren't you glad?
  • 00:22:00.835 --> 00:22:02.169
  • "he who receives you receives me, and he who receives me
  • 00:22:02.169 --> 00:22:04.939
  • Receives the one who sent me.
  • 00:22:04.939 --> 00:22:06.707
  • Anyone who receives a prophet because he's a prophet will
  • 00:22:06.707 --> 00:22:09.110
  • Receive a prophet's reward, and anyone who receives a righteous
  • 00:22:09.110 --> 00:22:11.512
  • Man because he's a righteous man will receive a righteous
  • 00:22:11.512 --> 00:22:14.115
  • Man's reward.
  • 00:22:14.115 --> 00:22:15.616
  • If anyone gives you even a cup of cold water to one of these
  • 00:22:15.616 --> 00:22:18.018
  • Little ones because he's my disciple, i tell you the truth,"
  • 00:22:18.018 --> 00:22:21.455
  • Which means, like, emphasis.
  • 00:22:21.455 --> 00:22:23.124
  • "i tell you the truth, he'll certainly not lose his reward."
  • 00:22:23.124 --> 00:22:26.093
  • Did you know there's a reward in eternity for how you live
  • 00:22:26.093 --> 00:22:29.330
  • In time?
  • 00:22:29.330 --> 00:22:31.365
  • Now, at this point, christians get so dishonest.
  • 00:22:31.365 --> 00:22:36.303
  • "well, pastor, i don't care anything about rewards."
  • 00:22:36.303 --> 00:22:40.374
  • Oh, stop it.
  • 00:22:40.374 --> 00:22:43.611
  • You'll trade your credit card for a half a percentage point
  • 00:22:43.611 --> 00:22:47.381
  • And 12 free airline miles.
  • 00:22:47.381 --> 00:22:54.488
  • You--"well, you know, if i can just go to heaven."
  • 00:22:54.488 --> 00:22:58.926
  • No, you say that now, but if you get to heaven and you realize
  • 00:22:58.926 --> 00:23:02.997
  • There was better opportunity, you're gonna think, "well, i
  • 00:23:02.997 --> 00:23:04.832
  • Want one of those."
  • 00:23:04.832 --> 00:23:07.268
  • I can prove it to you.
  • 00:23:07.268 --> 00:23:08.602
  • Somebody take your seat at church, you'll get way torqued
  • 00:23:08.602 --> 00:23:10.971
  • About rewards.
  • 00:23:10.971 --> 00:23:15.009
  • There's a reward.
  • 00:23:15.009 --> 00:23:17.178
  • Jesus said there's a difference in a reward for a prophet,
  • 00:23:17.178 --> 00:23:19.447
  • There's a difference in a reward for a righteous person, there's
  • 00:23:19.447 --> 00:23:22.149
  • A difference in a reward for a cup of cold water.
  • 00:23:22.149 --> 00:23:25.886
  • I brought you some other passages, but i'm out of time.
  • 00:23:25.886 --> 00:23:27.755
  • We'll pick it up another session.
  • 00:23:27.755 --> 00:23:30.891
  • Folks, how you live matters.
  • 00:23:30.891 --> 00:23:33.227
  • I'm not suggesting you earn your way into the kingdom of god.
  • 00:23:33.227 --> 00:23:36.096
  • I'm suggesting god is just.
  • 00:23:36.096 --> 00:23:40.568
  • See, we get--there's a lot of fear around judgment.
  • 00:23:40.568 --> 00:23:42.736
  • Think of the terms of judgment that's in your favor.
  • 00:23:42.736 --> 00:23:46.373
  • Judgment is for you.
  • 00:23:46.373 --> 00:23:48.476
  • If you believe god in his judgment will punish evil, why
  • 00:23:48.476 --> 00:23:50.845
  • Do you believe god would not reward righteousness?
  • 00:23:50.845 --> 00:23:54.315
  • I'm not talking about the gift of righteousness that's given to
  • 00:23:54.315 --> 00:23:56.383
  • All of us and by faith, but if you choose to honor god with
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  • Your life, he will bless you.
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  • There's a reason to be godly.
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  • There is.
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  • It's at the heart of the scripture.
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  • It's the heart of matthew's gospel.
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  • We'll pick it up.
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  • I brought you a prayer, but i took it from psalm 90.
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  • But i'll tell you what i'd rather do.
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  • It's hard for me to change my outline.
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  • I'd rather read the prayer about fear with you one more time.
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  • Can we do that? will you stand?
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  • Let's make this proclamation over our lives.
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  • We read it kind of tentatively a moment ago, but now you're
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  • Familiar, so let's speak to fear.
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  • I'm pretty sure if you left and you got home and there was
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  • Somebody sitting on the front porch of your house, and they
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  • Said, "i'm the local representative of that gang
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  • You've heard about from venezuela.
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  • And we've chosen your home as our headquarters."
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  • I'm pretty comfortable thinking that you wouldn't go, "well,
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  • I wish you wouldn't."
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  • I suspect you would find the authority to say, "wait,
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  • It's my house.
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  • And you don't have any authority here."
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  • And if you didn't have the physical ability to move them,
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  • You'd go find the help you needed.
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  • You wouldn't relinquish.
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  • Well, some of us have tolerated some things that are ungodly
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  • That we don't have to tolerate.
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  • It's not about our strength, but it's the authority in which
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  • We stand.
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  • So let's read that prayer like we intend for fear to relinquish
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  • Its hold.
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  • You ready?
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  • "i renounce the spirit of fear.
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  • Through the blood of jesus i have been delivered out of the
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  • Hand of the enemy.
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  • Satan has no place in me, no power over me, through the blood
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  • Of jesus.
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  • My mind and my emotions are at peace.
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  • God is my protection and my deliverer.
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  • When i am afraid, i will trust in the lord and i will see his
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  • Deliverance, amen," hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
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  • Go find somebody to read the bible with you.
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