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Allen Jackson - Let's Eat - Wedding Supper Of The Lamb (Part 2)

March 22, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Let's Eat - Wedding Supper Of The Lamb (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Let's Eat - Wedding Supper Of The Lamb (Part 2) | March 22, 2026
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  • Allen: you know, jesus said to us, "it's more--it's
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  • Extraordinarily more difficult for a person of affluence
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  • To participate in the kingdom of god."
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  • And we read that and we think, "oh, that doesn't apply to me,"
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  • Because none of us think we're affluent, you know.
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  • We always think somebody else has more and they're the ones
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  • That should listen to that.
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  • Because the reality, most of us want more than we have, and so
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  • We don't think we have enough, and we look at other people and
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  • We go, well, they're better resourced and they should pay
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  • Very much attention because jesus said it's difficult.
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  • But if we could compare ourselves with humanity both in
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  • Our current setting and across the ages, we are blessed
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  • Beyond belief.
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  • And it should give all of us pause because we have a tendency
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  • To think of god in terms of like an option.
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  • Kind of like heated seats on a new car.
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  • Or whether you've upgraded your phone to whatever the newest and
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  • I don't know about you, but i don't want my phone upgraded.
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  • I just barely figured out the last upgrade, right?
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  • And i gotta go find a 6-year-old to help me fix it when they--
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  • And when it comes to our faith, i think we imagine that god is
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  • Just like an option, almost a trinket.
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  • We don't want to ignore him.
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  • We want his presence in our lives.
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  • There might be an emergency in which case we would need to
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  • Break the glass and call on him.
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  • But the imagination that he should be essential, central,
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  • An organizing principle in our lives, in directing
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  • Our behavior.
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  • See, it's unthinkable to me that we will allow a voice outside of
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  • Our family to have more authority in our homes than we
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  • Would god's direction.
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  • And yet, it's our reality, and i don't say that to bring shame
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  • Or frustration.
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  • I hope it brings a moment of clarity and realization.
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  • We've been a bit casual with the lord.
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  • Isaiah said, "i greatly delight my soul rejoices in my god."
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  • His response to robes of righteousness.
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  • You know, righteousness, righteousness is the ability
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  • To--it's the ability to stand in the presence of god without
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  • Fear or guilt or shame.
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  • A holy god, a righteous god, a sinless god.
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  • To be in his presence is a gift.
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  • And isaiah said, "my soul greatly rejoices."
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  • I mean, people a lot, particularly guys, you know, we
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  • Don't want our emotions encroaching on our faith.
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  • We don't want our emotions encroaching on much of anything,
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  • But particularly not our faith.
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  • If we ever get a glimpse of what god has done for us, there'll be
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  • Emotion with it.
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  • There truly will.
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  • Look at 2 corinthians 5:21: "god made him who had no sin to be
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  • Sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness
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  • Of god."
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  • In the parable jesus said, "many are invited."
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  • But we have to meet the requirements.
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  • We can't show up in our own clothing.
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  • We can't show up with our own list of what we believe and what
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  • We think and how we feel.
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  • We have to submit ourselves to the authority of the king.
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  • It's fashionable these days to shake our heads and wag our
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  • Fingers at the jewish people for mistakes they may have made in
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  • The invitations of god that were placed before them.
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  • But we've had almost 1900 years since jesus went back to heaven,
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  • The nations of the world, all of us who are non-jewish, with the
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  • Invitations of god richly placed before us.
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  • It's not about any single people group or nationality or
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  • Ethnicity or language group, the nations of the world.
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  • The message was, "go into all the world and preach the gospel
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  • To all the nations."
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  • How have we done?
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  • It brings me to the second parable.
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  • It's another banquet narrative.
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  • This one's in luke 14, but the meal is different.
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  • This meal is at the end of the day.
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  • I believe the matthew parable is at the beginning of a season.
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  • I believe that the luke parable is at the end of an age.
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  • I don't believe the timing of the meals is accidental.
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  • This banquet is a supper.
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  • We're not speaking about the jewish people at the beginning
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  • Of the age.
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  • I understand it to be a picture of the end of the age.
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  • For 19 centuries, as i have said, the invitation of the
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  • Gospel, the good news of jesus, has been extended to
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  • The nations.
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  • We've seen many things, we've seen the emergence of the
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  • Christian church.
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  • All people have had an invitation to become a people
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  • Set apart to god.
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  • And 19 centuries later, we're still very quick to point out
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  • The failures and the weaknesses and the poor choices of
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  • Generations before us.
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  • We better have the courage to do some self-evaluation about
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  • Ourselves and our heritage.
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  • Luke 14 and verse 15: "when one of those at the table with him
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  • Heard this, he said to jesus, 'blessed is the man who will eat
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  • At the feast in the kingdom of god.'"
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  • Imagine being at the--remember when they had on the mount of
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  • Transfiguration when peter and james and john, jesus took them
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  • Along and they saw moses and elijah talking to jesus.
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  • Peter got so flustered, they didn't know what to say.
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  • They were terrified.
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  • Peter didn't know what to say.
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  • He said, "we should build something."
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  • This statement feels like that to me.
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  • Somebody's been invited to the table with jesus, and they don't
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  • Know what to say, but they don't wanna sound stupid.
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  • Have you ever been invited to a table where you were in kind of
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  • A similar place?
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  • You know, i thought if i could just be quiet, maybe i can hide
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  • My ignorance.
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  • And then for whatever reason you have to say something.
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  • Well, that sentence fits in that category, but in verse 16,
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  • "jesus replied: 'a certain man was preparing a great banquet
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  • And he invited many guests.
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  • And at the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell
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  • Those who'd been invited.
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  • "come, for everything is now ready."
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  • But they all alike began to make excuses.
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  • The first said, "i've just bought a field, and i must go
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  • And see it.
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  • Please excuse me."
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  • And another said, "i just bought five yoke of oxen.
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  • I'm on my way to try them out.
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  • Please excuse me."
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  • And still another said, "i just got married, so i can't come."'"
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  • If you'll allow me a moment, i would suggest to you those are
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  • Ridiculous excuses.
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  • How many have you ever bought a piece of property without
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  • Seeing it?
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  • My father was a veterinarian, i can assure you when you buy
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  • Animals, you have a wellness check.
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  • If you don't employ the veterinarian, you'll do
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  • It yourself.
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  • Particularly if you grew up in the south as a tennessee horse
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  • Trader, you don't buy an animal without inspecting it.
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  • They say the one place a horse trader does not want to look
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  • When you're negotiating a deal is in your eye.
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  • It's a bit of local knowledge for those of you that moved here
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  • From california. [congregation laughing]
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  • But the excuses that jesus rolls into his parable are somewhat
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  • Laughable, clearly suggesting a lack of significance attached to
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  • The invitation by the recipients.
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  • Verse 21: "the servant came back and reported to his master.
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  • Then the owner of the house became angry."
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  • Sound familiar?
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  • "and he ordered his servant, 'go out quickly into the streets and
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  • The alleys of the town and bring in the poor, and the crippled,
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  • And the blind and the lame.'
  • 00:08:41.871 --> 00:08:45.041
  • 'sir,' the servant said, 'what you ordered has been done, but
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  • There's still room.'
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  • And the master told the servant, 'go out to the roads and the
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  • Country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will
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  • Be full.
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  • I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will get a
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  • Taste of my banquet.'"
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  • Similar parable, but i believe a very different place in god's
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  • Unfolding purposes.
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  • I think this one speaks directly to us.
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  • As i understand it, it's the end of the age.
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  • And the privileged ones in this parable are not the
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  • Jewish people.
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  • The privileged ones are the ones who profess faith.
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  • We've had access to the gospel, the good news about jesus.
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  • And we're in terrible danger of making the same mistake that the
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  • Jews made at the breakfast.
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  • We're busy.
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  • It's a presumptive attitude, a presumption on the relationship
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  • With god.
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  • We've known him.
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  • We've had access.
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  • We're different from others.
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  • It keeps us safe and secure.
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  • Since the time that they received the invitation, they
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  • Got busy with other things.
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  • Jesus gave the excuses, real estate, business relationships,
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  • Social relationships.
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  • They're just not prepared to respond to god's invitations.
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  • They're too busy.
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  • We've even built theological systems that excuse us.
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  • We have personal faith.
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  • And somehow we've imagined that separates us from any corporate
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  • Responsibility, but the new testament says that the only way
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  • We reach maturity is together.
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  • You don't have to join a congregation or belong to
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  • A denomination in order to find your way into the kingdom of
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  • God, but you need fellow believers to grow up.
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  • Does that parable sound at all like the people we know?
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  • Does it sound at all like the expression of christianity we
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  • See in 21st century america?
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  • It seems very familiar to me.
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  • I mean, actually being physically present with
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  • Believers is less and less fashionable.
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  • I know we have many people that join us from far, far away.
  • 00:10:52.001 --> 00:10:55.371
  • It's not a possibility to be on our campus, but for many who can
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  • Be and it's not just with this congregation.
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  • It's a personal thing.
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  • In fact, we've tried to convince ourselves that our faith should
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  • Be private, that it should stay within our homes or at the very
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  • Least within the walls of a congregation's buildings where
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  • We would worship.
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  • We don't want our faith to intrude upon our professional
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  • Lives or our academic circles or our public square.
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  • Folks, if our faith doesn't live in the sunlight of the
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  • World that we walk through, it's not real.
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  • There's no such thing as a sequestered faith.
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  • In luke 17, jesus gives us a little window into
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  • These conditions.
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  • He says, "just as it was in the days of noah, so also it will be
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  • In the days of the son of man."
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  • Jesus is making a parallel between the days of noah and the
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  • Days when he will return to the earth.
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  • He says, "people were eating and drinking, marrying and being
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  • Given in marriage up till the day that noah entered the ark.
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  • Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
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  • It was the same in the days of lot."
  • 00:11:59.635 --> 00:12:02.671
  • Again, now the parallel's between the days of lot and
  • 00:12:02.671 --> 00:12:05.407
  • Sodom and gomorrah and the end of the age when jesus
  • 00:12:05.407 --> 00:12:07.843
  • Will return.
  • 00:12:07.843 --> 00:12:10.980
  • And jesus's parallels are surprising.
  • 00:12:10.980 --> 00:12:12.815
  • He said, "people were eating and drinking, buying and selling,
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  • Planting and building.
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  • But the day lot left sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from
  • 00:12:16.619 --> 00:12:19.355
  • Heaven and destroyed them all."
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  • What are the--what are similar between the days of noah and the
  • 00:12:21.557 --> 00:12:24.493
  • Days of lot?
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  • Well, the impending judgment of god.
  • 00:12:25.828 --> 00:12:29.665
  • Neither were fully prepared or aware of the timing or the
  • 00:12:29.665 --> 00:12:33.235
  • Magnitude of the judgment of god that was there.
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  • But the behaviors that jesus identifies, none of them would
  • 00:12:37.006 --> 00:12:40.242
  • We consider immoral or ungodly or reprobate.
  • 00:12:40.242 --> 00:12:44.814
  • They're all the normal activities of life.
  • 00:12:44.814 --> 00:12:48.951
  • So what's the challenge?
  • 00:12:48.951 --> 00:12:50.286
  • What's he inviting us towards?
  • 00:12:50.286 --> 00:12:51.654
  • He said it's easy to be so distracted, so co-opted by the
  • 00:12:51.654 --> 00:12:56.158
  • Busyness of our lives that we're unaware, we begin to
  • 00:12:56.158 --> 00:12:59.461
  • Live presumptively.
  • 00:12:59.461 --> 00:13:01.897
  • That tomorrow will be like yesterday.
  • 00:13:01.897 --> 00:13:04.967
  • And there's no urgency to our faith, there's no focus to our
  • 00:13:04.967 --> 00:13:08.003
  • Faith, we just imagine we're okay.
  • 00:13:08.003 --> 00:13:12.341
  • It was the challenge in the parable, the first parable we
  • 00:13:12.341 --> 00:13:15.144
  • Read, it was a similar challenge in the second.
  • 00:13:15.144 --> 00:13:19.148
  • Again, i think it's a very important message for us.
  • 00:13:19.148 --> 00:13:22.952
  • It's very fashionable these days to look across the scope of
  • 00:13:22.952 --> 00:13:26.355
  • History and point out the people groups.
  • 00:13:26.355 --> 00:13:29.592
  • Whether it's the jewish people or whomever it may be and their
  • 00:13:29.592 --> 00:13:32.628
  • Failures and their flaws and their inability to process the
  • 00:13:32.628 --> 00:13:36.198
  • Invitations that god has put before them, but imagine it's
  • 00:13:36.198 --> 00:13:39.134
  • Not incumbent upon us to process anything.
  • 00:13:39.134 --> 00:13:44.707
  • We hear jesus frequently challenging the first century
  • 00:13:44.707 --> 00:13:47.209
  • Audience to not be confident of the fact that they're children
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  • Of abraham.
  • 00:13:50.012 --> 00:13:51.347
  • He said the scripture says that god can make children of abraham
  • 00:13:51.347 --> 00:13:53.883
  • Out of the rocks.
  • 00:13:53.883 --> 00:13:57.286
  • And i would say to our generation that there's a
  • 00:13:57.286 --> 00:14:00.022
  • Confidence that doesn't come, i believe, from the spirit of god.
  • 00:14:00.022 --> 00:14:05.060
  • There's an arrogance, a presumptiveness that our faith
  • 00:14:05.060 --> 00:14:09.632
  • Is unassailable.
  • 00:14:09.632 --> 00:14:11.600
  • That while there are problems in the world, it has very little to
  • 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:13.636
  • Do with us.
  • 00:14:13.636 --> 00:14:15.938
  • It couldn't be because of our responses or our choices.
  • 00:14:15.938 --> 00:14:19.975
  • And i believe jesus's parable is an invitation to an awakening in
  • 00:14:19.975 --> 00:14:26.181
  • Our lives.
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  • Allen: hey, i have a suggestion.
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  • Homes, with our friends.
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  • Folks, it's time for us to stop waiting for somebody else to
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  • Step forward.
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  • Let's determine to lead with faith.
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  • We can do that, and i believe we can change our homes, our
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  • Allen: i told you three meals.
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  • There's one last one, and i'll close with this.
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  • We'll look at it in more detail another time, but it's in
  • 00:16:09.318 --> 00:16:12.154
  • Revelation 19: "i heard what sounded like a great multitude,
  • 00:16:12.154 --> 00:16:17.026
  • Like the roar of rushing waters and the loud peals of thunder,
  • 00:16:17.026 --> 00:16:19.928
  • And shouting."
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  • John has a revelation of the throne room of god, of heaven,
  • 00:16:21.263 --> 00:16:26.335
  • And he says, "hallelujah!
  • 00:16:26.335 --> 00:16:27.669
  • For our lord god almighty reigns.
  • 00:16:27.669 --> 00:16:29.405
  • Let's rejoice and be glad and give him glory!
  • 00:16:29.405 --> 00:16:31.607
  • For the wedding of the lamb has come, and his bride has made
  • 00:16:31.607 --> 00:16:35.344
  • Herself ready.
  • 00:16:35.344 --> 00:16:36.678
  • Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear."
  • 00:16:36.678 --> 00:16:39.882
  • (fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.)
  • 00:16:39.882 --> 00:16:44.286
  • The bible talks about righteousness in two ways in the
  • 00:16:44.286 --> 00:16:46.588
  • New testament.
  • 00:16:46.588 --> 00:16:47.923
  • Talks about the gift of righteousness that is ours
  • 00:16:47.923 --> 00:16:50.025
  • Through faith in jesus christ.
  • 00:16:50.025 --> 00:16:52.861
  • But our response to the gift of righteousness is to lead
  • 00:16:52.861 --> 00:16:56.732
  • A righteous life.
  • 00:16:56.732 --> 00:17:00.069
  • And that message is underdelivered in my opinion.
  • 00:17:00.069 --> 00:17:04.206
  • We're familiar with the gift of righteousness and the grace and
  • 00:17:04.206 --> 00:17:06.708
  • The mercy of god, and i'm grateful for those things.
  • 00:17:06.708 --> 00:17:09.878
  • If you were to look them up, you'd probably find my picture.
  • 00:17:09.878 --> 00:17:14.450
  • But we have a responsibility to choose to lead righteous lives
  • 00:17:14.450 --> 00:17:18.620
  • Before god.
  • 00:17:18.620 --> 00:17:20.923
  • To cultivate with the help of the spirit of god, the
  • 00:17:20.923 --> 00:17:23.225
  • Self-discipline, the determination, to walk uprightly
  • 00:17:23.225 --> 00:17:27.529
  • In holiness and purity.
  • 00:17:27.529 --> 00:17:30.232
  • See, only the power of god can transform a human life.
  • 00:17:30.232 --> 00:17:35.938
  • I'm not inviting you to some expression of self-discipline
  • 00:17:35.938 --> 00:17:38.707
  • That tries to depress or hold down or minimize the ungodly
  • 00:17:38.707 --> 00:17:43.712
  • Tendencies of a human being.
  • 00:17:43.712 --> 00:17:46.982
  • The best illustration i've ever heard, that's like trying to
  • 00:17:46.982 --> 00:17:48.951
  • Hold a large inflated ball underneath the surface
  • 00:17:48.951 --> 00:17:52.254
  • Of the water.
  • 00:17:52.254 --> 00:17:53.622
  • You can do it, but it takes tremendous focus and effort.
  • 00:17:53.622 --> 00:17:56.024
  • And if you ever lose focus or relax your effort, that ball's
  • 00:17:56.024 --> 00:17:58.427
  • Gonna pop to the surface.
  • 00:17:58.427 --> 00:18:02.397
  • That's what they're trying to bring transformation to our
  • 00:18:02.397 --> 00:18:05.067
  • Lives from the outside in is.
  • 00:18:05.067 --> 00:18:06.702
  • I'm gonna change my vocabulary or change my appearance or i'm
  • 00:18:06.702 --> 00:18:10.439
  • Gonna pretend i don't have those desires or i'm not battling that
  • 00:18:10.439 --> 00:18:13.842
  • Addiction or those temptations aren't real to me.
  • 00:18:13.842 --> 00:18:16.545
  • You're trying to hold the ball underwater.
  • 00:18:16.545 --> 00:18:18.547
  • What scripture invites us to do is by the power of god to be
  • 00:18:18.547 --> 00:18:21.416
  • Transformed, to acknowledge our tendency towards ungodliness, to
  • 00:18:21.416 --> 00:18:26.288
  • Confess it, to invite the spirit of god to change us.
  • 00:18:26.288 --> 00:18:30.492
  • And then they begin to cultivate new desires, to build
  • 00:18:30.492 --> 00:18:33.829
  • Relationships with people that will encourage us with new
  • 00:18:33.829 --> 00:18:36.431
  • Preferences and new choices.
  • 00:18:36.431 --> 00:18:39.868
  • That message is not quite as popular.
  • 00:18:39.868 --> 00:18:43.805
  • We'd rather point to our conversion narratives, and i'm
  • 00:18:43.805 --> 00:18:46.241
  • Grateful for that.
  • 00:18:46.241 --> 00:18:47.576
  • I believe in the essential nature of that.
  • 00:18:47.576 --> 00:18:51.413
  • But there's a banquet ahead of us for those who've been
  • 00:18:51.413 --> 00:18:54.683
  • Transformed by the power of god.
  • 00:18:54.683 --> 00:18:57.686
  • "the wedding of the lamb has come and his bride has made
  • 00:18:57.686 --> 00:19:00.656
  • Herself ready."
  • 00:19:00.656 --> 00:19:01.990
  • This isn't just about the gift of god.
  • 00:19:01.990 --> 00:19:05.093
  • It's about our willingness to prepare ourselves to meet
  • 00:19:05.093 --> 00:19:08.163
  • The king.
  • 00:19:08.163 --> 00:19:10.032
  • We don't earn our ways into the kingdom of god, that's nonsense.
  • 00:19:10.032 --> 00:19:14.336
  • But you can't live sloppy and think you can ride the grace
  • 00:19:14.336 --> 00:19:18.440
  • Train all the way to the best thing that god has for you.
  • 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:26.248
  • "the angel said to me, 'write: "blessed are those who are
  • 00:19:26.248 --> 00:19:29.618
  • Invited to the wedding supper of the lamb!"'
  • 00:19:29.618 --> 00:19:33.055
  • And he added, 'these are the true words of god.'"
  • 00:19:33.055 --> 00:19:37.826
  • Folks, the remarkable part of the narratives of scripture to
  • 00:19:37.826 --> 00:19:41.163
  • Me is that from the rebellion in the garden through every
  • 00:19:41.163 --> 00:19:47.703
  • Generation, whether it was the treatment of the hebrew
  • 00:19:47.703 --> 00:19:51.306
  • Prophets, the treatment of our lord and king, the response of
  • 00:19:51.306 --> 00:19:57.312
  • The apostles as they took the good news of the gospel first to
  • 00:19:57.312 --> 00:20:01.316
  • Jerusalem and the surrounding areas and then to the
  • 00:20:01.316 --> 00:20:03.552
  • Mediterranean world and beyond, the consistent rejection of
  • 00:20:03.552 --> 00:20:08.223
  • The invitation.
  • 00:20:08.223 --> 00:20:10.626
  • And a quick scan across almost 2 millennia of the history since
  • 00:20:10.626 --> 00:20:16.598
  • Jesus ascended back to earth, shows us a humanity that is
  • 00:20:16.598 --> 00:20:22.304
  • Remarkably resistant to the grace and the mercy of god.
  • 00:20:22.304 --> 00:20:27.743
  • Let's choose not to be those people.
  • 00:20:27.743 --> 00:20:30.746
  • Let's choose not to be presumptive.
  • 00:20:30.746 --> 00:20:33.949
  • Let's not go to the banquet at our convenience, dressed however
  • 00:20:33.949 --> 00:20:36.718
  • We choose to present ourselves.
  • 00:20:36.718 --> 00:20:39.554
  • Let's cooperate with the lord.
  • 00:20:39.554 --> 00:20:42.891
  • I don't think it's an accident that a third of jesus's
  • 00:20:42.891 --> 00:20:45.127
  • Messaging was delivered around the table.
  • 00:20:45.127 --> 00:20:48.130
  • I don't believe it's an accident that when he gives these
  • 00:20:48.130 --> 00:20:49.998
  • Parables about the ultimate judgments of god, that they're
  • 00:20:49.998 --> 00:20:53.335
  • Centered in table messaging.
  • 00:20:53.335 --> 00:20:56.538
  • I think what you do with the table in your home matters.
  • 00:20:56.538 --> 00:21:02.210
  • And i wanna invite you to a new season, a new determination.
  • 00:21:02.210 --> 00:21:08.550
  • I'll close with two verses from the sermon on the mount.
  • 00:21:08.550 --> 00:21:10.819
  • It's matthew chapter 5, verse 3: "blessed are the poor in spirit,
  • 00:21:10.819 --> 00:21:15.223
  • For theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
  • 00:21:15.223 --> 00:21:18.126
  • There's a humility in that.
  • 00:21:18.126 --> 00:21:20.796
  • I don't think it's about being impoverished; it's recognizing
  • 00:21:20.796 --> 00:21:23.799
  • That in ourselves we have no opportunity for the kingdom
  • 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:27.202
  • Of god.
  • 00:21:27.202 --> 00:21:28.904
  • But if we recognize our own spiritual poverty, and we will
  • 00:21:28.904 --> 00:21:31.940
  • Humble ourselves before the cornerstone, in brokenness,
  • 00:21:31.940 --> 00:21:37.079
  • We can receive all the benefits and blessings of citizenship in
  • 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:39.715
  • The eternal kingdom of god.
  • 00:21:39.715 --> 00:21:42.584
  • The--in matthew 6, jesus said, "blessed are those who hunger
  • 00:21:42.584 --> 00:21:47.356
  • And thirst for righteousness, for they'll be filled."
  • 00:21:47.356 --> 00:21:51.426
  • I don't know how you understand your existence, but hunger and
  • 00:21:51.426 --> 00:21:53.762
  • Thirst seem really persistent with me, particularly this time
  • 00:21:53.762 --> 00:21:57.966
  • Of year.
  • 00:21:57.966 --> 00:21:59.301
  • I always seem to start in january wishing there was
  • 00:21:59.301 --> 00:22:00.669
  • A little less of me.
  • 00:22:00.669 --> 00:22:04.506
  • Maybe you don't.
  • 00:22:04.506 --> 00:22:05.874
  • Okay, god bless you.
  • 00:22:05.874 --> 00:22:08.176
  • And you know, how many times have you said, you know,
  • 00:22:08.176 --> 00:22:09.711
  • "tomorrow i'm going to eat less, right?
  • 00:22:09.711 --> 00:22:13.115
  • Tomorrow.
  • 00:22:13.115 --> 00:22:16.818
  • Tomorrow."
  • 00:22:16.818 --> 00:22:18.687
  • And as soon as i say "tomorrow," i become ravenous.
  • 00:22:18.687 --> 00:22:24.326
  • And, "right, well, since i'm gonna eat less tomorrow, i think
  • 00:22:24.326 --> 00:22:26.962
  • I'll eat till midnight," right?
  • 00:22:26.962 --> 00:22:30.699
  • I mean, you wanna pack it in because tomorrow is gonna be
  • 00:22:30.699 --> 00:22:33.135
  • A lean day.
  • 00:22:33.135 --> 00:22:36.204
  • And i wake up the next day and, "oh, i forgot i got
  • 00:22:36.204 --> 00:22:38.774
  • A breakfast meeting.
  • 00:22:38.774 --> 00:22:40.142
  • It'd be rude not to eat.
  • 00:22:40.142 --> 00:22:42.444
  • They'd think i was being self-righteous, so i need to eat
  • 00:22:42.444 --> 00:22:45.280
  • Breakfast and then who scheduled a lunch for me?
  • 00:22:45.280 --> 00:22:49.284
  • Well, now since i've eaten breakfast and lunch, i might as
  • 00:22:49.284 --> 00:22:51.253
  • Well eat dinner.
  • 00:22:51.253 --> 00:22:53.855
  • And now i'm a day behind in my new commitment, so i really
  • 00:22:53.855 --> 00:22:57.025
  • Should eat a lot tonight."
  • 00:22:57.025 --> 00:23:03.999
  • Hunger and thirst after righteousness.
  • 00:23:03.999 --> 00:23:09.671
  • I want to know the lord.
  • 00:23:09.671 --> 00:23:12.307
  • I want to treat his invitations if they're the--as if they're
  • 00:23:12.307 --> 00:23:14.776
  • The greatest opportunities of my life.
  • 00:23:14.776 --> 00:23:17.913
  • I don't wanna be casual with them.
  • 00:23:17.913 --> 00:23:22.584
  • I don't wanna be presumptive.
  • 00:23:22.584 --> 00:23:25.220
  • I don't wanna be left out.
  • 00:23:25.220 --> 00:23:28.557
  • I wanna close with a prayer.
  • 00:23:28.557 --> 00:23:30.358
  • How am i doing? i gotta go.
  • 00:23:30.358 --> 00:23:33.061
  • Why don't we stand?
  • 00:23:33.061 --> 00:23:42.671
  • I really wrestled a bit with the best way to conclude this.
  • 00:23:42.671 --> 00:23:47.175
  • And i wanna do it in the simplest way i know.
  • 00:23:47.175 --> 00:23:49.678
  • I'm gonna lead you in a profession of faith.
  • 00:23:49.678 --> 00:23:54.182
  • And for the majority of you, that's old news, but i'm not
  • 00:23:54.182 --> 00:23:57.752
  • Asking you to circle once again the fact that you've asked jesus
  • 00:23:57.752 --> 00:24:01.523
  • To be lord of your life.
  • 00:24:01.523 --> 00:24:04.192
  • I'm asking you to revisit the notion that he's lord of all.
  • 00:24:04.192 --> 00:24:08.763
  • Because you see, the reality is if he isn't lord of all,
  • 00:24:08.763 --> 00:24:11.132
  • He isn't lord at all.
  • 00:24:11.132 --> 00:24:14.169
  • And we have this unhelpful approach to our faith, that we
  • 00:24:14.169 --> 00:24:23.411
  • Can kind of pick and choose the pieces we'll be obedient to, you
  • 00:24:23.411 --> 00:24:28.316
  • Know, like generosity, that's not one we like, or serving's
  • 00:24:28.316 --> 00:24:31.953
  • Not really good to us, and biblical morality seems pretty
  • 00:24:31.953 --> 00:24:35.490
  • Confining, so we're going to draw that a little differently.
  • 00:24:35.490 --> 00:24:38.860
  • And we come up with kind of our personal designer faith.
  • 00:24:38.860 --> 00:24:41.763
  • Folks, it's like showing up for the banquet in your clothes.
  • 00:24:41.763 --> 00:24:46.334
  • The ending is not good.
  • 00:24:46.334 --> 00:24:49.104
  • So as we say a familiar prayer, i wanna invite you to say it in
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  • The context of, "god, to the extent that i have been
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  • Presumptuous, and i've been busy with so many other things,
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  • I want to come in humility to say, 'i want to put you first in
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  • My life again.'"
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  • Can we say this prayer in that way?
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  • Just repeat this with me if you will: "almighty god, i'm
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  • A sinner and i need a savior.
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  • I believe jesus is your son.
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  • That he died on a cross for my sin.
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  • And that you raised him to life again that i might be justified.
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  • Forgive me of my sins, and i forgive all those who have
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  • Sinned against me.
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  • Jesus, be lord of my life, all that i am, all that i have, all
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  • That i will ever be.
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  • I want to live to honor you.
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  • And i thank you now that i belong to the family of god,
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  • The most remarkable family in the universe.
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  • I'm a child of the king.
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  • And i thank you for it, in jesus's name, amen," hallelujah.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • God bless you.
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  • Allen: i suspect we've all heard the line that leadership
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  • Is about influence.
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  • I have a question for you.
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  • What do you lead with?
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  • What is the basis of your influence?
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  • Is it your appearance, your education, your professional
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  • Expertise, your professional accomplishments, your athletic
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  • Ability, your family?
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  • What is the point of influence that you use most frequently?
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  • Well, i've written a book.
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  • The title is gonna give away where i'm headed.
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  • It's "lead with faith."
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  • I think it's time that all of us begin to use our faith as
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  • An influence in the world where we find ourselves.
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  • We're reluctant to do that.
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  • We typically have more confidence in our education or
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  • Our family system or our life experience.
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  • We feel a little uncertain to lead with faith.
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  • The point of this book is to give you the tools to take your
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  • Faith out of a church setting and bring it into
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  • The marketplace.
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  • If we will lead with faith, i believe god will help us make
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  • An impact in this generation.
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  • Go to allenjackson.com and get your copy today.
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