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Allen Jackson - Let's Eat - Family Restoration (Part 2)

March 1, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Let's Eat - Family Restoration (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Let's Eat - Family Restoration (Part 2) | March 1, 2026
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  • Allen: the other side of this equation is hospitality.
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  • That's when you open your table.
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  • If your--if your home is not as crowded as it once was, maybe
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  • You're single.
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  • This is very much for single people.
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  • It's for empty nesters, it's for widowers and widows.
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  • Hospitality, the responsibility for that doesn't evaporate
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  • Because of your life season.
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  • Well, it's just me now, so i can be selfish, oh.
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  • This is my time, hm.
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  • I'm retired, this is just our time, mm, good.
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  • If you told the lord that, i'll be interested in his response.
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  • I gave you a couple more verses, acts 2:46: "every day," this is
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  • The believers in jerusalem.
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  • Jesus just left in acts chapter 1, they're trying to figure out
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  • What to do and, "every day they continued to meet together in
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  • The temple courts.
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  • And they broke bread in their homes and they ate together with
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  • Glad and sincere hearts, praising god and enjoying the
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  • Favor of all the people."
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  • They met together every day, so you're getting off easy.
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  • We just do it three times a week.
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  • And they broke bread in their homes.
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  • 1 peter 4:9 says, "offer hospitality to one another
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  • Without grumbling."
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  • I've said it to you before in the new testament, to qualify
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  • For leadership, you have to practice hospitality.
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  • To qualify--if you're a widow, to qualify for any help from the
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  • Believing community, you have to practice hospitality.
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  • Please don't think of this simply in terms of families with
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  • Young children.
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  • I assure you, the concept is equally important for those of
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  • You who are single, those married without children, those
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  • Empty nesters, widows, widowers.
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  • Every season of our life requires an intentional
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  • Cultivation of a response to god.
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  • We want to establish the spiritual authority of our home.
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  • If you ask me for a first priority, it's about
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  • Intentionality, being purposeful with this.
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  • Build a pattern that reinforces biblical principles.
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  • Simple things like character formation, being--having
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  • Character is more important than being a character.
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  • You can get more clicks if you'll act a character.
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  • Forming character is not always celebrated so much.
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  • Forming a godly character anyway.
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  • Encourage the people that you have an opportunity to speak to
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  • Do so.
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  • Discipline is a self-discipline is one of the fruit of
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  • The spirit.
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  • The courage to be different.
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  • Christ followers are intended to be different in the world.
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  • See, the kitchen table is an expression of authority in
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  • Your home.
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  • May i ask you another question?
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  • What role does your kitchen table display?
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  • I had a snapshot of your table right now, what's it look like?
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  • This one is kind of a mishmash.
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  • It has some important things, cheez doodles.
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  • And although there's some place settings on the table,
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  • There--there's also the accumulated stuff that goes with
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  • Our lives.
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  • So, my question, again, in your kitchen table today, what role
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  • Does it play if we had a snapshot?
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  • Is it a collection place for odds and ends?
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  • Is it filled with backpacks and unread mail, or maybe a
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  • Computer workstation?
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  • Is your kitchen table a repository of relics to remind
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  • You of another season of life?
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  • Is it a museum piece?
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  • You know what i mean?
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  • It's nicely decorated and perfectly set, but god forbid it
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  • Should get messed up with people.
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  • Or is it really the center of nourishment in your home, both
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  • Physically and spiritually?
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  • Do the people who live in your home understand it that way?
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  • Do the people that visit your home understand it that way?
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  • What is the spiritual authority of your table?
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  • Remember jezebel and king david?
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  • Two tables.
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  • Both provided food and sustenance and nourishment for
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  • The people who gathered around them, but two very different
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  • Places, very different allegiances, very different sets
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  • Of objectives.
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  • Intentional faith. intentional faith.
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  • You know, at the table, if your family's there, it's
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  • A family gathering.
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  • If you've expanded it beyond your family--and you can do that
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  • With your children, please practice hospitality while your
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  • Children are there.
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  • Let them learn the sacrifice it means to include somebody other
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  • Than their best friends to dinner.
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  • Inviting your kids's friends is not hospitality.
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  • It's a clever means of maintaining the tribe.
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  • In mark chapter 8 in verse 38, i think there's a component to
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  • Faith at our table, jesus said: "if anyone is ashamed of me and
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  • My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the son of
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  • Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his father's glory
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  • With the holy angels."
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  • How many times do you gather at a table and you don't let your
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  • Advocacy for jesus be a part of that meal?
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  • And if so, how come?
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  • Why would you not go to any table setting?
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  • And i'm not saying you have to say a blessing or stand on the
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  • Table and recite your psalm of the day.
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  • But surely, somewhere in that interaction, a conversation
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  • About the lord would would leak out of us.
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  • We'll talk about the weather and our favorite sports teams.
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  • Our work flow and our family, all the things, which is fine.
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  • But jesus is pretty clear, "if you're ashamed of me, in my
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  • Words, in the midst of an adulterous and sinful--"
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  • He don't talk about talking to fellow believers and people that
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  • Are already high up the faith scale.
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  • He's in the midst of a sinful and adulterous generation, he
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  • Said, "please don't be ashamed of me."
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  • Those are the harder places.
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  • See, tables are expressions of authority.
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  • They're--they're relational.
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  • They're--it's community building.
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  • We want to use them on purpose.
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  • Certainly, we want to eat the right things and help us
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  • Be healthy.
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  • I'm all for that.
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  • Mostly.
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  • I've been--i've been making lists of experiences at
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  • The table.
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  • It's like pulling a thread.
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  • I pulled one and i start to remember something years ago.
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  • Kathy and i, we were in another state, so don't try to figure
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  • Out where--who or where.
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  • And another couple who were friends of ours had traveled
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  • With us.
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  • It's around a wedding, and we were invited to dinner with
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  • A very influential family, and we were at their table and
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  • Everything was just lovely and delightful.
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  • Very proper, i hadn't really embarrassed myself.
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  • I--i was doing okay.
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  • About midway through dinner, i don't remember what prompted it,
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  • But the person who was our host, you know, there's a--there is an
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  • Authority structure around if you're invited as a guest into
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  • Someone's home, there's some respect that appropriately comes
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  • With that.
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  • And the conversation turned and our host began to explain, in
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  • Very plain language, why he hated the jewish people.
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  • He didn't know me, but kathy did, and the couple who were
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  • With us did.
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  • And i was very aware that they weren't watching our host at
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  • All, they were sitting there staring at me.
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  • And it wasn't like a throwaway line or two, i mean, it was
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  • A--there was a lot to vent.
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  • And so, i had a linen napkin and i began to fold it into ever
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  • Little smaller, little quadrants, until it was almost
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  • Compressed into like a linen cube.
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  • I don't know how long it was, it seemed to me forever, and
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  • Finally i just couldn't take it anymore.
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  • Rules of the table or not, i had an opinion.
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  • And to their credit, they didn't call the police.
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  • I wasn't invited back, but there are times and places we don't
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  • Have to be obnoxious or mean.
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  • I did my best to be respectful and kind, but it was something
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  • That i felt like was important.
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  • Sometimes it's not so important, sometimes it's just fun.
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  • We were invited to another dinner.
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  • This was out of state too.
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  • Nobody in town, and the purpose of this series is not to wrangle
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  • An invitation from you.
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  • I very much appreciate your kindness and your hospitality.
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  • But i would look like jabba the hutt if i accepted them all, so,
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  • Thank you, invite one another.
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  • But we--we've been invited to this dinner, we were in florida,
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  • And it started a little later in the evening than it would
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  • Have been my choice.
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  • So, by the time we got there, everybody that--the people that
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  • We were seated with, were pretty well lubricated.
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  • They were relaxed.
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  • And we were--there were several tables set, and we were at a
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  • Table and the couple who we were seated with were across from us.
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  • I didn't know them very well.
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  • We knew who they were and the very successful businessman and
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  • One of the largest dealers of diesel trucks.
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  • And we sat down and i don't think they were happy that they
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  • Got seated with the preacher.
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  • So, about as soon as we sat down and i put my napkin in my lap,
  • 00:11:04.146 --> 00:11:06.549
  • He said, "so, preacher, what makes you think you knew more
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  • About god than i do?"
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  • And he wasn't my host, i just got put at the table with him,
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  • So i got a little attitude on the--and i said, well, i'm not
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  • Sure, what makes you think you know more about trucks
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  • Than i do? [congregation applauding]
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  • And he sat and looked at me for a minute.
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  • I really wasn't sure what was gonna happen.
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  • And he kind of grunted and he said, "hm, okay."
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  • And we had a pretty good dinner. [congregation laughing]
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  • But you see, we go in the name of the lord, for what is the
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  • Authority at the table where you sit?
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  • You can't hardly engage me in an argument over scripture.
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  • If you want to argue, if you have an opinion that differs,
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  • I'm happy for you.
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  • People say to me frequently, often at the front, "well, don't
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  • You wanna argue?"
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  • No.
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  • I'll share my opinion.
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  • You're entitled to yours.
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  • "well, i think i'm right."
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  • Okay, i'm happy for you.
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  • I'm not asking you to be argumentative, or belligerent,
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  • Or obnoxious, or condemning.
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  • I'm asking you to be an advocate for jesus.
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  • Now, the hardest place in the world to do that is in your
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  • Home, because those people know you the best.
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  • They've seen you in your ungodly state.
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  • They probably have pictures or a video when your temperature is
  • 00:12:36.005 --> 00:12:41.310
  • Too high and your voice is too, whatever, you know, i mean, it's
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  • Just kind of how it happens these days.
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  • They probably posted it.
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  • And so, when you say, "in those settings, i want to honor the
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  • Lord," there's some humility involved.
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  • Because they're probably rolling their eyes thinking, "yeah,
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  • I bet you do."
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  • But the objective is to say, "lord, you are welcome here."
  • 00:13:01.697 --> 00:13:05.935
  • You are welcome here.
  • 00:13:05.935 --> 00:13:08.804
  • You see, we have to let our faith become so real, so
  • 00:13:08.804 --> 00:13:11.207
  • Vibrant, so vital.
  • 00:13:11.207 --> 00:13:14.076
  • So fundamental that it becomes imprinted on the young lives
  • 00:13:14.076 --> 00:13:19.114
  • That are around our tables.
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  • That when they venture beyond the walls of your home, that
  • 00:13:21.884 --> 00:13:25.654
  • It's galvanized enough that they can withstand their encounters
  • 00:13:25.654 --> 00:13:29.058
  • With a secular, godless culture.
  • 00:13:29.058 --> 00:13:33.229
  • You know, i'm happy for christian schools.
  • 00:13:33.229 --> 00:13:34.864
  • I think a truly christian school can be a good thing, but putting
  • 00:13:34.864 --> 00:13:38.534
  • Your children in a christian school to help them hide from
  • 00:13:38.534 --> 00:13:40.569
  • What's inevitable is not the ultimate solution, and that
  • 00:13:40.569 --> 00:13:43.906
  • School will not galvanize what i'm talking to you about the
  • 00:13:43.906 --> 00:13:46.742
  • Same way your table will.
  • 00:13:46.742 --> 00:13:49.912
  • Do not give the authority of your table up to voices outside
  • 00:13:49.912 --> 00:13:54.884
  • Your home.
  • 00:13:54.884 --> 00:13:57.253
  • I'm not saying you have to withdraw, not engage in the
  • 00:13:57.253 --> 00:14:01.156
  • Activities of our world.
  • 00:14:01.156 --> 00:14:02.524
  • I think you have to, it's important, but don't surrender
  • 00:14:02.524 --> 00:14:05.694
  • That authority.
  • 00:14:05.694 --> 00:14:08.430
  • It's not prudent, it's not helpful.
  • 00:14:08.430 --> 00:14:11.267
  • If your kids are gone and you didn't do that well, i didn't
  • 00:14:11.267 --> 00:14:13.669
  • Come with guilt and condemnation.
  • 00:14:13.669 --> 00:14:16.472
  • God is a god restorer, remember where we started?
  • 00:14:16.472 --> 00:14:20.276
  • The prodigal father's track record wasn't great.
  • 00:14:20.276 --> 00:14:23.646
  • Two boys and they both got some issues, but god knew how to
  • 00:14:23.646 --> 00:14:28.617
  • Restore and he still does.
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  • Allen: there's another at the table, little window in john 12:
  • 00:16:15.958 --> 00:16:20.829
  • "six days before the passover, jesus arrives in bethany, where
  • 00:16:20.829 --> 00:16:23.899
  • Lazarus lived."
  • 00:16:23.899 --> 00:16:25.267
  • This is the home of lazarus, and mary, and martha, "whom jesus
  • 00:16:25.267 --> 00:16:27.836
  • Had raised from the dead.
  • 00:16:27.836 --> 00:16:29.204
  • And a dinner was given in jesus's honor.
  • 00:16:29.204 --> 00:16:31.974
  • And martha served, while lazarus was reclining at the table."
  • 00:16:31.974 --> 00:16:36.045
  • It's a photo op now because lazarus was the one who was dead
  • 00:16:36.045 --> 00:16:39.181
  • And now he's alive and it's gotten a lot of buzz around the
  • 00:16:39.181 --> 00:16:41.817
  • City of jerusalem.
  • 00:16:41.817 --> 00:16:43.218
  • But i love the language in that, the imagery of that, that
  • 00:16:43.218 --> 00:16:46.488
  • A dinner was given in jesus's honor.
  • 00:16:46.488 --> 00:16:48.724
  • I'm gonna let you borrow that, when you convene a meal at your
  • 00:16:48.724 --> 00:16:52.161
  • Table, imagine you're doing it in jesus's honor.
  • 00:16:52.161 --> 00:16:56.665
  • If it's your family, if it's an expression of hospitality, if
  • 00:16:56.665 --> 00:17:00.369
  • You're invited to a meal.
  • 00:17:00.369 --> 00:17:02.604
  • Imagine you're going, you're accepting those invitations or
  • 00:17:02.604 --> 00:17:05.808
  • Extending those invitations to give honor to jesus.
  • 00:17:05.808 --> 00:17:10.079
  • See, what i love about it, it's available to all of us.
  • 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:12.081
  • We can all do this.
  • 00:17:12.081 --> 00:17:14.216
  • You don't have to spell mephibosheth.
  • 00:17:14.216 --> 00:17:17.019
  • Hallelujah.
  • 00:17:17.019 --> 00:17:20.656
  • But we all understand how to eat, and most of us are willing
  • 00:17:20.656 --> 00:17:24.793
  • To accept those invitations, and occasionally, even to
  • 00:17:24.793 --> 00:17:27.196
  • Extend them.
  • 00:17:27.196 --> 00:17:28.530
  • And if we would simply exchange our own agenda, and our own
  • 00:17:28.530 --> 00:17:32.301
  • Personal objectives, and all the things, and begin to say, "no,
  • 00:17:32.301 --> 00:17:35.337
  • I'm gonna at least acknowledge the lord as a part of this
  • 00:17:35.337 --> 00:17:37.773
  • Interaction because i don't wanna put my feet under a table
  • 00:17:37.773 --> 00:17:42.144
  • Where his authority is not recognized."
  • 00:17:42.144 --> 00:17:44.813
  • We can do this.
  • 00:17:44.813 --> 00:17:47.249
  • We can change our homes and i don't know how we've got to this
  • 00:17:47.249 --> 00:17:50.919
  • Point in the 21st century where we don't like it in our homes,
  • 00:17:50.919 --> 00:17:54.356
  • We don't even like to do it as people.
  • 00:17:54.356 --> 00:17:57.860
  • We'd rather have a sterile room in a building with a door, and a
  • 00:17:57.860 --> 00:18:00.629
  • Television set, and a table so we can have a conference and
  • 00:18:00.629 --> 00:18:03.365
  • A study.
  • 00:18:03.365 --> 00:18:04.700
  • It's not as powerful as a home.
  • 00:18:04.700 --> 00:18:08.137
  • I'm not suggesting it's an either or choice, but there is
  • 00:18:08.137 --> 00:18:12.241
  • Something profound in the authority around your home.
  • 00:18:12.241 --> 00:18:15.010
  • So many of the lessons that still influenced my life, i
  • 00:18:15.010 --> 00:18:17.346
  • Learned at a kitchen table.
  • 00:18:17.346 --> 00:18:20.983
  • And i was not a great student, i certainly didn't go to the table
  • 00:18:20.983 --> 00:18:25.787
  • Thinking, oh, i hope i can learn how to be more godly.
  • 00:18:25.787 --> 00:18:29.191
  • And i promise you i didn't go hoping i could learn better
  • 00:18:29.191 --> 00:18:32.461
  • Table manners.
  • 00:18:32.461 --> 00:18:34.930
  • I was just hungry and i had two brothers, and you better eat
  • 00:18:34.930 --> 00:18:39.001
  • Fast because it's hard to have enough food when there's three
  • 00:18:39.001 --> 00:18:44.239
  • Boys at the table.
  • 00:18:44.239 --> 00:18:46.275
  • The lessons that shaped my life today, lessons about hospitality
  • 00:18:46.275 --> 00:18:49.378
  • And service.
  • 00:18:49.378 --> 00:18:50.746
  • My parents were determined to invite people to dinner, and
  • 00:18:50.746 --> 00:18:54.249
  • They never ask our opinions.
  • 00:18:54.249 --> 00:18:57.219
  • And they often didn't ask people that we wanted to eat with.
  • 00:18:57.219 --> 00:19:02.724
  • And we would complain.
  • 00:19:02.724 --> 00:19:04.993
  • And they were completely unfazed, or if they were phased,
  • 00:19:04.993 --> 00:19:07.496
  • They didn't let us know it.
  • 00:19:07.496 --> 00:19:09.198
  • In fact, i arrived at the conclusion that if we
  • 00:19:09.198 --> 00:19:11.366
  • Complained, they'd get--they would invite them
  • 00:19:11.366 --> 00:19:12.935
  • More frequently.
  • 00:19:12.935 --> 00:19:16.004
  • So, we at least learned to kind of throttle that back and go
  • 00:19:16.004 --> 00:19:19.107
  • Along with the flow.
  • 00:19:19.107 --> 00:19:22.611
  • We also learned that when that happened, we were participants
  • 00:19:22.611 --> 00:19:24.913
  • And not just attenders.
  • 00:19:24.913 --> 00:19:26.281
  • It wasn't about just us being fed, there were expectations
  • 00:19:26.281 --> 00:19:28.483
  • That we would be a part of the hospitality team.
  • 00:19:28.483 --> 00:19:30.385
  • I didn't volunteer for that.
  • 00:19:30.385 --> 00:19:32.554
  • You want to invite somebody to your table?
  • 00:19:32.554 --> 00:19:33.922
  • That's on your head.
  • 00:19:33.922 --> 00:19:35.290
  • That was not the way it rolled.
  • 00:19:35.290 --> 00:19:38.260
  • We learned to be present and prepared.
  • 00:19:38.260 --> 00:19:40.796
  • We get recruited to help set the table.
  • 00:19:40.796 --> 00:19:44.032
  • They'd say these crazy things like it's important for you
  • 00:19:44.032 --> 00:19:46.435
  • To know.
  • 00:19:46.435 --> 00:19:47.803
  • I didn't think it was important for me to know.
  • 00:19:47.803 --> 00:19:52.708
  • So, we learned to set a table, my brothers and i.
  • 00:19:52.708 --> 00:19:56.511
  • Mother--like my--i remember
  • 00:19:56.511 --> 00:19:57.846
  • She--my mother would say, "don't you wanna help
  • 00:19:57.846 --> 00:20:00.148
  • Me fill the glasses?"
  • 00:20:00.148 --> 00:20:02.384
  • What's the answer?
  • 00:20:02.384 --> 00:20:04.786
  • No, there's a ball game on.
  • 00:20:04.786 --> 00:20:08.790
  • So, we'd fill the glasses.
  • 00:20:08.790 --> 00:20:12.294
  • "wouldn't you like to help me get the food on the table?"
  • 00:20:12.294 --> 00:20:16.431
  • No, not really.
  • 00:20:16.431 --> 00:20:17.799
  • I filled the glasses aren't i good for another month?
  • 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:21.837
  • So, we would help get the food on the table.
  • 00:20:21.837 --> 00:20:25.540
  • "why don't you go tell our guest that dinner's ready."
  • 00:20:25.540 --> 00:20:31.680
  • I don't even know them.
  • 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:36.585
  • Then we'd be at the table and somebody's glass would be
  • 00:20:36.585 --> 00:20:39.388
  • Empty and--
  • 00:20:39.388 --> 00:20:41.523
  • We caught on eventually.
  • 00:20:41.523 --> 00:20:44.326
  • And i didn't want my mother getting up 14 times during the
  • 00:20:44.326 --> 00:20:46.495
  • Meal, so one of us would get up and go refill the glasses.
  • 00:20:46.495 --> 00:20:52.334
  • Maybe we'd replenish a bowl that was empty.
  • 00:20:52.334 --> 00:20:54.836
  • We participated in the process.
  • 00:20:54.836 --> 00:20:56.872
  • We'd helped clear the dishes or serve dessert or whatever and
  • 00:20:56.872 --> 00:20:59.341
  • Went with it.
  • 00:20:59.341 --> 00:21:00.709
  • We understood it wasn't just being served.
  • 00:21:00.709 --> 00:21:03.679
  • It changed my life.
  • 00:21:03.679 --> 00:21:06.715
  • As much as any course in theology i can remember.
  • 00:21:06.715 --> 00:21:11.486
  • Because jesus said if you wanna be significant in his kingdom,
  • 00:21:11.486 --> 00:21:14.256
  • You have to be a servant.
  • 00:21:14.256 --> 00:21:16.858
  • And that's not a servant in fancy places with people who are
  • 00:21:16.858 --> 00:21:20.162
  • Noticing, that's a servant in those places where you and your
  • 00:21:20.162 --> 00:21:23.598
  • Brothers are like slapping one another when nobody's looking.
  • 00:21:23.598 --> 00:21:29.504
  • And i'm most grateful for the lessons that i took away from
  • 00:21:29.504 --> 00:21:32.040
  • That table because some of the most remarkable people of faith
  • 00:21:32.040 --> 00:21:35.644
  • I've ever known, we had the opportunity to sit at
  • 00:21:35.644 --> 00:21:39.848
  • A table with.
  • 00:21:39.848 --> 00:21:41.450
  • And i wouldn't have had that opportunity if my parents hadn't
  • 00:21:41.450 --> 00:21:43.652
  • Been willing to practice hospitality.
  • 00:21:43.652 --> 00:21:46.688
  • And they weren't famous people or celebrated people, they
  • 00:21:46.688 --> 00:21:49.591
  • Weren't people with great followings oftentimes, but they
  • 00:21:49.591 --> 00:21:52.928
  • Were people that knew the lord in a remarkable way.
  • 00:21:52.928 --> 00:21:55.397
  • And inevitably at the table, those conversations
  • 00:21:55.397 --> 00:21:57.599
  • Would percolate.
  • 00:21:57.599 --> 00:22:00.969
  • I wasn't always the greatest participant.
  • 00:22:00.969 --> 00:22:02.971
  • I was often chafing.
  • 00:22:02.971 --> 00:22:04.306
  • I had things i wanted to do and things that i
  • 00:22:04.306 --> 00:22:05.807
  • Thought were important.
  • 00:22:05.807 --> 00:22:08.877
  • But you see, your table is about an investment in people.
  • 00:22:08.877 --> 00:22:12.614
  • It's an expression of kindness, it's a welcome.
  • 00:22:12.614 --> 00:22:17.119
  • There's a couple of components to this, and i think they're
  • 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:19.321
  • Worth identifying.
  • 00:22:19.321 --> 00:22:21.623
  • You know, the priorities and who we allow to establish them in
  • 00:22:21.623 --> 00:22:24.693
  • Our home.
  • 00:22:24.693 --> 00:22:27.262
  • Again, if you're too busy for a meal once a week, if you're too
  • 00:22:27.262 --> 00:22:29.765
  • Busy to ever extend hospitality, just who's driving
  • 00:22:29.765 --> 00:22:32.734
  • The priorities?
  • 00:22:32.734 --> 00:22:37.072
  • And then there's this enormous thing, and i don't want to
  • 00:22:37.072 --> 00:22:38.707
  • Unpack this in this session, i don't have time.
  • 00:22:38.707 --> 00:22:41.710
  • The roles in our families.
  • 00:22:41.710 --> 00:22:44.012
  • Who's gonna do the work?
  • 00:22:44.012 --> 00:22:46.481
  • Who's going to make the effort?
  • 00:22:46.481 --> 00:22:49.718
  • We are.
  • 00:22:49.718 --> 00:22:54.723
  • You know, when we got to the point where doctors are
  • 00:22:54.723 --> 00:22:56.858
  • Mutilating minors in our country.
  • 00:22:56.858 --> 00:22:59.995
  • Because decades ago we started transitioning in our homes away
  • 00:22:59.995 --> 00:23:02.864
  • From biblical roles.
  • 00:23:02.864 --> 00:23:05.567
  • We don't wanna be confined by them, we don't wanna be defined
  • 00:23:05.567 --> 00:23:07.969
  • By them.
  • 00:23:07.969 --> 00:23:10.305
  • We don't want to yield to that biblical authority, and we began
  • 00:23:10.305 --> 00:23:12.874
  • Transitioning away from that to the point that we arrived at
  • 00:23:12.874 --> 00:23:15.444
  • This absurd place where they were mutilating our children.
  • 00:23:15.444 --> 00:23:19.414
  • And we didn't have the moral authority to say anything.
  • 00:23:19.414 --> 00:23:23.018
  • I wanna ask you to activate your kitchen table.
  • 00:23:23.018 --> 00:23:27.022
  • If you haven't done it in a while, it's gonna feel awkward,
  • 00:23:27.022 --> 00:23:28.623
  • It's like using a muscle you haven't worked in a long time.
  • 00:23:28.623 --> 00:23:31.860
  • It will feel awful the first time you do it, and you'll be
  • 00:23:31.860 --> 00:23:35.664
  • Sore afterwards.
  • 00:23:35.664 --> 00:23:39.034
  • If it's an invitation in your own family system, it's hard to
  • 00:23:39.034 --> 00:23:41.403
  • Establish a new habit.
  • 00:23:41.403 --> 00:23:43.572
  • It's hard to get a new pattern.
  • 00:23:43.572 --> 00:23:46.341
  • There'll be eye rolls or complaints or a lack of
  • 00:23:46.341 --> 00:23:49.744
  • Availability, there'd be a lot of things.
  • 00:23:49.744 --> 00:23:52.113
  • If it's about hospitality, it's kind of a scary thing.
  • 00:23:52.113 --> 00:23:54.282
  • Don't start with a dinner for 40.
  • 00:23:54.282 --> 00:23:58.019
  • Start with two or one.
  • 00:23:58.019 --> 00:24:01.690
  • If you're single, invite a couple of friends and determine
  • 00:24:01.690 --> 00:24:05.393
  • To make it a godly thing.
  • 00:24:05.393 --> 00:24:09.231
  • Whatever season of life you're in, don't use the seasons as an
  • 00:24:09.231 --> 00:24:12.334
  • Excuse for selfishness, and carnality, and ungodliness.
  • 00:24:12.334 --> 00:24:17.138
  • Let's be certain that we establish god as the authority
  • 00:24:17.138 --> 00:24:20.308
  • Of our homes, and i believe we can change the destiny of
  • 00:24:20.308 --> 00:24:24.279
  • A nation.
  • 00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:26.381
  • I truly do.
  • 00:24:26.381 --> 00:24:28.517
  • You're not powerless, your voice is not too small, you're
  • 00:24:28.517 --> 00:24:33.021
  • Not insignificant.
  • 00:24:33.021 --> 00:24:35.323
  • I brought you a beautiful case study on a city that was
  • 00:24:35.323 --> 00:24:38.560
  • Transformed by the power of god, and we'll do it another time.
  • 00:24:38.560 --> 00:24:43.932
  • Well, i was like, we get more opportunities, god willing.
  • 00:24:43.932 --> 00:24:48.036
  • But i brought you a prayer, it's a very simple prayer.
  • 00:24:48.036 --> 00:24:51.907
  • It's really a statement of intent.
  • 00:24:51.907 --> 00:24:55.610
  • You know, prayers fall into two or three categories, general
  • 00:24:55.610 --> 00:24:57.946
  • Categories, sometimes they're expressions of thanksgiving
  • 00:24:57.946 --> 00:25:00.682
  • Or praise.
  • 00:25:00.682 --> 00:25:02.551
  • Sometimes they're requests, sometimes there are declarations
  • 00:25:02.551 --> 00:25:06.421
  • Of intent.
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  • Sometimes we pray the scripture and we wanna say over our lives
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  • What the scripture says, but i think it's very important to say
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  • To the lord when you mean it, i find that god takes me at
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  • My word.
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  • I don't know if you found that to be true in your life or not,
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  • But i do not make statements to the lord casually because i have
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  • Found him to be very willing to take me at my word.
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  • So, i have learned that i want to make declarations of intent
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  • To the lord and then ask him to help me, and that's what i
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  • Brought you with this session.
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  • If you'll stand with me.
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  • Can we pray this together?
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  • If you're at home you can pray this with us.
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  • You surely finished dinner by now.
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  • Let's read it together.
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  • "heavenly father, help us to establish our lives under
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  • Your authority.
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  • May our homes be strengthened by your presence and our children
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  • Rooted in a living hope.
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  • Teach us to honor you in every situation in jesus's
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  • Name, amen."
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • God bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: this is the 250th anniversary of our nation.
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  • It's a big deal.
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  • Now, i know a lot of us don't care a whole lot about history.
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  • We didn't have great experiences in school.
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  • I understand that, but here's the reality if they can steal
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  • Our history, they'll rob us of our future.
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  • So history really does matter.
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  • Well, because of that, we have partnered with some good friends
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  • Of our ministries, wall builders, david and tim barton.
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  • They have the best of the best on this topic.
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  • It's a two-volume set on "the american story."
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  • And it helps us learn american history with a faith component
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  • With a god perspective, how god has been engaged in the
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  • Unfolding narrative of our american story.
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  • That matters because we need god to be involved in the future of
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  • The american story.
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  • That affects our lives, our families, our communities, and
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  • Ultimately, our nation.
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  • The books will be a blessing to you, but more than that,
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  • I believe they'll open your life to the imagination that god is
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  • Moving in the earth and we can participate with him in the next
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  • Chapters of american history.
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  • ♪♪♪
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