Allen Jackson - Lightning (Part 2)

May 19, 2026 | 27:29

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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Lightning (Part 2) | May 19, 2026

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Allen jackson: you know, around the world, people are searching
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Opens the door.
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Let's keep gathering his people and building his church until
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The day our king returns.
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Allen: but the resurrection of the dead and the judgment of
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True christians, those are--that's something that's
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Between us and the return of the king.
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When the lord returns, those who are dead in christ will be
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Raised to life again, their physical bodies raised to
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Life again.
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It's amazing to me.
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1 thessalonians 4 gives us a passage around that.
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The--and the rapture is the word that's often slipped in there,
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And there's some contrarians that'll go, "you know," and
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They'll say, "well, the word rapture is not in the
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New testament."
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Depends on the translation you read.
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There's some translations that don't use it, but the greek word
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That is translated means a sudden snatching away, which is
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What the rapture describes.
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So the event is described whether the word is used or not.
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That at the return of jesus, those who are alive when he
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Returns will be caught up to meet him.
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And those who have died in christ will be raised to
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Life again.
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It's a wonderful homecoming between the king and his family.
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And following the rapture is the judgment of believers.
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2 corinthians 5:10 says, "we must all appear before the
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Judgment seat of christ, that we can receive what is due us for
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The things done while we're in the body, good or bad."
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There's a different judgment.
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There's more than one judgment mentioned in the new testament,
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And the way to identify the outcome of the judgment is to
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Define the judgment seat, that point from which judgment is
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Being issued.
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It's the difference in a chancery court and a
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Federal court.
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Different places of authority.
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And the judgment seat of christ is the judgment of believers.
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It's not a judgment of heaven or hell.
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It's not a judgment of condemnation.
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It's an evaluation of your life.
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And whether what you've invested your efforts in, in your journey
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Through time.
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We all have this little window that we get to live under
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The sun.
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Between our birth and the cessation of our earth suit,
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We get that little window of time, and the opportunity is to
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Use it to serve the lord.
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And what we're told in scripture is that if we use it to serve
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The lord, that what we have done with our lives will stand the
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Test of god's judgment and go with us into eternity.
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If not, it'll be burned up in a moment.
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The description is it will be like someone saved escaping
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Through the flames.
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We ourselves will make it through, but nothing else.
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So be conscious of how you live.
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It's not that you earn your way to heaven, you give yourself to
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The lord.
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There's a completely different scene at the great white
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Throne judgment.
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That is a judgment of destiny.
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That's for those that have chosen not to honor the lord.
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They'll receive their judgment.
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Not something mean-spirited, they're being given what
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They've chosen.
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They're being granted what they have asked for.
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And then we're told--there's a significant description of the
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Antichrist that steps into human history, and the overthrow of
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The antichrist and his forces.
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But we took a bit of time to talk about it in 1 john, it
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Explains to us that there's a spirit of antichrist in the
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Earth, that there have been many antichrist.
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There have been multiple individuals across the span of
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Human history that gave expression to the spirit
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Of antichrist.
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Lenin, stalin, hitler, pol pot, i mean, just--there's a long
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List of human rulers who've been brutal and cruel and evil and
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Wicked and--but there's an ultimate individual who will
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Make the bargain that jesus rejected when he was tempted by
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Satan in the wilderness.
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Satan rebelled against god in heaven and lost his place, my
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Opinion, some of this is not completely portrayed
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In scripture.
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But my opinion is he lost his place because his desire was to
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Have the place that jesus had.
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He wanted that place of honor.
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And so he led a rebellion, and satan and a third of the angels
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Were cast out of heaven.
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And when jesus was beginning his public ministry after his
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Baptism and the descent of the spirit, satan came and
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Tempted him.
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And showed him all the kingdoms of the earth, and he said, "i
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Will give you authority over all these kingdoms if you'll bow
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Down and worship me."
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Jesus refused the bargain, but there's a--there'll be a person
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That will step onto the stage of human history that will accept
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That bargain.
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And he'll become the most beastly ruler the world has
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Ever known.
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For a very short period of time, he'll be--seem to be able to
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Solve the problems of the world.
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The choice that's available to humanity is that we can serve
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Christ in righteousness and holiness and share in
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His kingdom.
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If we reject that opportunity, we will most certainly serve the
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False christ and all the horror of his kingdom.
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It's why we believe in evangelism, it's why we share
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Our story.
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It's why we will pray for the people we work with and invite
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Our neighbors and do our best to extend the kingdom of god,
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Because there are two options to our futures.
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We will either serve christ in his righteous, holy kingdom or
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We will serve the antichrist in its beastliness.
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All humanity will receive the most terrible lesson ever
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Demonstrated on the earth.
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What it means to reject the christ.
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Revelation 19 gives us a scenario, we've already looked
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At it, of the ultimate defeat of the antichrist, and only jesus
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Will do that.
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Jesus is coming back because in his absence, and--the spirit of
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Antichrist would have overcome faith in the earth.
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Jesus comes back to establish his kingdom.
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He--the return of the king will not feel like an intrusion.
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You're not gonna think, "oh bummer, i had plans for
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Next week."
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The return of the king will be the only possibility of
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A future.
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And he will come in power, in glory, with all of his angels
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And the glory of god.
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The book of revelation is this grand scenario of these two
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Characters in opposition to one another, the lamb and the beast.
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The lamb occurs 28 times in the book of revelation.
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The beast occurs 33 times in reference to the antichrist.
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It's this ultimate in-time conflict between those two.
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Book of revelation describes the mark of the beast.
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You've got it.
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It's revelation 13.
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He said, "he forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor,
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Free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his
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Forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had
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The mark."
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A physical mark.
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I believe it, i take it in a literal way.
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I think there'll be a physical mark.
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You know, i remember hearing those verses read when i was
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Much younger, a child, and they seemed kind of fanciful to me.
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It didn't seem probable to me.
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It--i didn't know a logical way that could happen.
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You know, the characteristics involved in that kind of a
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Conversation would require a global economy, a centralized
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Monetary system, some sort of universal control.
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Those things don't require much imagination anymore.
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Things which seemed hardly possible seem very relevant to
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Us today, the ability to track everyone.
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Almost all of us, i suspect, have had the experience of
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Having a conversation with your phone present, and the next time
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You fired your phone up, there were advertisements for
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Something you were just talking about.
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Hello, we'll take the voice of our siri when we're driving in
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Our cars, "go to the next corner and turn left."
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You don't know which direction is north, east, west, or south,
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And you'll follow the voice of some unknown person.
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And then we complain about listening to the spirit of god.
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The ability to track us, a global economy, a centralized
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Money system.
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The ability to monitor the communication or close markets,
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To be shut out of commerce, we saw that during covid.
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I mean, we had places in the world, places in our own nation
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Where they could monitor your credit card, and if they didn't
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Want you to travel, your credit card wouldn't be valued.
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Those things are ahead of us.
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I don't think we have to be frightened.
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I get questions, part of what's prompted the series for me was i
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Got a series of frightened questions from people from
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A broad set of places.
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Folks, god has a great reputation of taking care of
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His people.
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When god led the slaves of egypt out of egyptian slavery, and 400
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Years of bondage, he gave them the plunder, the gold and silver
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Of the egyptians, but there wasn't a costco in the sinai.
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It's a fascinating question to me, you know, i haven't figured
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Out exactly what i want to do with it yet, but when do you
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Suppose moses knew there would be manna?
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Scholars argue a bit about how many people left, but let's just
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Say there was a half a million people with moses.
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The pol--let's say it's the population of our county.
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And he led them deliberately away from the road where there
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Would have been some supplies, into the wilderness where there
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Was nothing.
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When do you suppose he knew there would be manna?
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I'll tell you what he did know: there would be panic.
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Because three days after the red sea, when the water wasn't good
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To drink, they wanted to kill him.
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When did he know there would be manna?
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I don't know.
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It's not a trick question.
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He led those people on a path where the only possibility of
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Survival was god's provision and intervention.
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Don't panic. he'll take care of us.
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He'll take care of us.
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Hasn't he taken care of you?
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So, well, there have been difficult days.
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Well, he is faithful.
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Don't take the mark.
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Back to the conversation we've been having a bit.
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We had it--i started on the weekend, do the right thing even
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If there's a consequence.
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We have been capitulating to evil for too long.
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We have been surrendering for too long.
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If you cultivate that mindset and you let it get entrenched in
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Your heart, you will move beyond the ability of redemption.
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Practice doing what you know to be right.
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Honor the truth.
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Allen: "lessons from paul" is a 90-day devotional, some of my
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Favorite verses that paul wrote, a bit of devotional time, and
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Then some place to journal.
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The goal is to be changed.
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We want to be transformed by the word of god and not just
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Informed by it.
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Saul of tarsus, a hero of mine, i got to know him as the apostle
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Paul, an unrelenting advocate for jesus in the face of
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Unyielding persecution.
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Folks, that sounds like the world we live in.
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Allen: there's a third component between where we are and the end
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Of this age, and that's israel coming back into the center
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Of history.
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As we approach the culmination of this age, israel will return
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To the center of history for the climax of this age.
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I'm quite confident that's the reason we've seen this crazy
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Spike in anti-semitism, hatred of the jewish people.
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It's illogical, it's irrational, it's being disseminated, and
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It's like rat poison.
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People saying, "i'm just asking questions."
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No, you're not.
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You're doing your best to deconstruct confidence in the
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Word of god.
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Romans 11 in verse 25, this is written to gentile believers, to
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Non-jewish believers, "i don't want you to be ignorant of this
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Mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: israel has
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Experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the
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Gentiles has come in.
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And so all israel will be saved, as it is written: 'as the
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Deliverer will come from zion; and he'll turn godlessness away
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From jacob.'
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And this is my covenant with them when i will take away
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Their sins."
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Paul's writing a rabbi, a pharisee of the pharisees.
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Excuse me.
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And he said that the jewish people will experience
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A hardening in part, until, it's not forever.
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There's a timeline on it.
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I don't have time to unpack that fully, but there's a great
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Harvest ahead of us.
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Millions will be coming into the kingdom of god.
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When he says, "all israel will be saved," i don't believe
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That's to mean all israel that's alive now.
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Look at romans chapter 9 and verse 27: "isaiah cries out
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Concerning israel."
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And the previous passage was romans 11, this is romans 9.
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Consistent author, so it's a consistent thought.
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"though the number of the israelites will be like the sand
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By the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
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For the lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed
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And finality."
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The remnant is those that god has known and chosen
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For himself.
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But the jewish people will come back to the center, the
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Attention of the earth will be turned to the city of jerusalem.
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It'll be the focus at those--the climactic scenes at the end of
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The age.
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Well then, number four, jesus will come, and he'll judge the
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Gentile nations.
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We've seen the judgment of god upon the jewish people.
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We've celebrated it.
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We've danced about it.
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We've mocked them for it.
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But now we're gonna see the judgment of god upon the
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Gentile nations.
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We've been very ready amongst those of us in the christian
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Community to say that the jewish people rejected jesus.
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What do you think will be said of the gentile nations who, for
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2000 years have had the opportunity to choose jesus
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As lord?
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We have gleefully talked about those people that stood on the
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Streets of jerusalem and said, "crucify him."
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What have we said about jesus?
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What have we said about him in our lifetimes in the streets
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Where we live?
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What have we said about him in our lifetimes, in our schools,
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And the halls of government?
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What have we said about his righteous decrees in
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Our lifetimes?
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It should cause every one of us to be a bit sober.
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Joel chapter 3, in verse 1, "in those days and at that time,"
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It's very much a timing passage.
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The prophetic scriptures often give us, the way, in my
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Imagination, i think of them as they're photographs almost like
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A polaroid.
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You get a polaroid, but they're not all arranged chronologically
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And they're not sequential, so understanding what that scene is
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And what it's to be--where it's to be placed in the unfolding
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Purposes, and joel is giving us a bit of a chronological clue in
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Those days and at that time, "when i restore the fortunes of
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Judah and jerusalem."
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When jerusalem is restored.
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For 2000 years, the jewish people were scattered to the
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Nations of the world.
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For 2000 years, there was no jewish homeland.
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I have israeli friends today.
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Many who serve or have served in the israeli defense forces,
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Whose parents were holocaust survivors, and there was a great
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Gulf between that generation, those who survived the
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Holocaust, and their children, who became israeli citizens,
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Their children don't understand.
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There's a great deal that's unspoken.
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The holocaust survivors have very little to say about it.
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One of my friends was--became a colonel in the idf, and he said
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When he was given his officer's commission, his father wept.
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And he thought his father was weeping out of some sort
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Of displeasure.
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And it led to a difficult conversation.
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But he said, "you don't know what it's like when the enemies
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Are coming to your home and taking your children or your
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Family, and there's nothing you can do.
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When there's no recourse, and there's no weapons."
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He said, "we never imagined that there could be an israeli army."
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We've witnessed something that seemed impossible: the
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Restoration of the nation of israel and the jewish people
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Coming from more than 200 nations.
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On the day the modern state of israel was declared, it's--the
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Anniversary of that's just in front of us.
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The day that that nation was recognized by the un, five
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Surrounding arab nations declared war on that fledgling
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Government with no standing army.
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They had nothing.
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And the british, who had withdrew--withdrawn from the
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Area, gave all of their fortified positions to those
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Arab nations.
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And only through the supernatural intervention of god
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Did tiny israel survive that initial war.
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And they have survived through the intervening decades.
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So we have a bit of a little window into the timing.
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Joel says, "when i restore the fortunes of judah and jerusalem,
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I will gather all nations and bring them down to the valley
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Of jehoshaphat.
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And there i'll enter into judgment against them concerning
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My inheritance, my people israel," god's gonna judge the
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Gentile nations for how they've treated the jewish people.
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"for they scattered my people among the nations and they
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Divided up my land."
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It strikes me that all these hundreds of years after joel
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Wrote that, we're still arguing over how we divide up that land.
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"they cast lots for my people, and they traded boys for
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Prostitutes; and they sold girls for wine that they might drink."
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I'm confident that god will judge the nations on the basis
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Of how they've treated the jewish people.
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I would encourage you to be in urgent prayer.
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That our nation will not align itself against israel and the
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Jewish people.
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That doesn't mean everything the israeli government does is right
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And should be supported, i'm not saying that at all.
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They make ungodly, wicked policies just like our
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Government does.
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I still pray for our nation.
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I still intercede for our nation.
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I still believe our nation has a christian heritage in spite of
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Some of the most ungodly policies.
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In our history and in our present.
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We're still killing 3000 babies a day.
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As horrific as slavery is, and it's a stain on our national
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History, i believe the way we have embraced abortion will be a
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Far graver stain when the story is finally told.
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So i'm not suggesting that there's some kind of naive,
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Slavish endorsement of everything the israeli
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Government puts forward as a policy, by any means.
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But i'm telling you, our prayers for the jewish people and the
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Purposes of god for that nation need to be a part of our
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Spiritual journey.
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The principle that i've learned, and i think it's true, is that
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God blesses the jews directly, but god blesses the gentiles
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Through the jews.
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Conversely, god judges the gentiles directly, but god has
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Chosen to judge the jewish people through the gentiles.
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We have the judgment of god before us, folks.
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We shouldn't be arrogant towards the jewish people.
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Look at matthew 25.
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I think i understand matthew 25 to be the joel chapter 3 of the
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New testament.
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"when the son of man comes in all of his glory, and all the
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Angels with him, he'll sit on his throne in heavenly glory.
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And all the nations will be gathered before him," isn't that
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What joel talked about?
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"and he'll separate people one from another as a shepherd
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Separates the sheep from the goats.
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He'll put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
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Then the king will say to those on his right, 'come, those of
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You are blessed by my father; take your inheritance, the
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Kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.'"
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And the last piece of this, i told you i was gonna get
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Through, christ will establish his kingdom on earth, folks,
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We're not gonna spend eternity in heaven.
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Jesus is coming back to earth to rule and to reign.
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What did he teach us to pray?
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Remember when the disciples asked jesus to teach them to
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Pray just as john had taught his disciples?
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He said, "pray this way, your kingdom come, your will be done
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On earth as it is in heaven."
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Look at isaiah 24.
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"the earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the
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Earth is thoroughly shaken.
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The earth reels like a drunkard, sways like a hut in the wind; so
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Heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it
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Fails--never to rise again.
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In that day, the lord will punish the powers of the heavens
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Above," i believe those are spiritual powers, principalities
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And powers, "and the kings on the earth below."
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Those are earthly rulers.
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"they'll be herded together like prisoners bound in a dungeon;
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They'll be shut up in prison and punished after many days.
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The moon will be abashed, and the sun ashamed, for the lord
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Almighty will reign on mount zion and in jerusalem and before
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Its elders, gloriously."
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It's fascin--the glory of the lord will be made evident
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Through jesus.
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And the glory of the lord will be so bright that the sun and
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The moon will be ashamed.
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At the paltry nature of the light they were able to emit
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Or reflect.
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The glory of our lord.
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Don't apologize because you bear the name of jesus.
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Don't be reluctant.
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It's the greatest honor of your life, the greatest privilege of
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Your existence is to be identified with him.
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Treat it that way.
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It's more precious than any organization you can join or any
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Group you could be a part of or any award you might be received,
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Or all of the things that we tend to think define
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Our personalities.
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I wanna lead with, i belong to jesus of nazareth.
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Then in luke 9, "if anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the
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Son of man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory
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And in the glory of the father and of his holy angels."
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I'm quite confident i can't imagine what that will be like.
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But i want to be practicing right now.
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I've been ashamed of the lord.
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I've been reluctant.
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I've been timid, i've been many things.
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I've shared some of those stories with you.
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But i don't want them to define my future.
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It's the greatest privilege we have.
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There's some additional components.
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I don't have time in this session, maybe another time.
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Jesus is gonna establish his kingdom on earth for
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A thousand years.
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Satan will be released briefly.
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There'll be a final judgment of the nations, new heaven and
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A new earth, some exciting stuff, folks.
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The king is coming back. [congregation applauding]
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Don't look at that with fear and trepidation.
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It's the most amazing promise.
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It's the victory, the consummation of what we have
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Been waiting for.
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We will celebrate together the arrival of the king, and
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Whatever comes, whatever challenges we face, god
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Is faithful.
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His provision will take us through, amen.
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Don't give place to fear.
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Let's ask this of the holy spirit to help us.
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Let's ask him to help us to prepare and to be prepared.
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To prepare to do whatever god has for us and to be prepared to
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Stand wherever he asks us to stand.
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Would you be willing to accept that assignment?
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Why don't you stand with me?
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And you skeptics didn't think i was gonna finish.
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Hallelujah, father, thank you for your word.
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Thank you for its truth and its hope.
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Thank you that in your great love for us, you haven't left us
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Alone, that you have provided insight and awareness,
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And understanding.
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And i ask you now, holy spirit, to help us to prepare.
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To prepare our hearts, to prepare our thoughts,
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To prepare ourselves.
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That we might be prepared to stand and respond for whatever
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You've created us for.
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May we not turn back or be turned aside or be distracted.
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Give us a boldness.
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May the fear of god grow within us.
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That we have a respect for you and a reverence for you that
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Will triumph over everything that would seem to challenge.
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We thank you for your faithfulness, that you have
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Delivered us from the kingdom of darkness, that you have seated
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Us with jesus himself in the heavenly places far above.
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All rule and all power and every principality, i thank you for
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It, for the victory that is ours in jesus.
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May we live in that victory, for it's in his name we pray, amen.
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Hallelujah. god bless you.
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Allen: and when i read my bible, i don't read it primarily
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For information.
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It's not just about facts and figures and dates and how to
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Spell nebuchadnezzar and how many tribes they were and where
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They fit in the land.
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I mean, i like all that stuff, but i read my bible to
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Be transformed.
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I recognize i need the power of god at work in my life, so the
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Characters of the bible become more than shadowy historical
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People, they become my friends or my heroes.
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We've put together a tool.
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It's "lessons from paul."
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It's a 90-day devotional.
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It's really gleaned from some of my favorite writings from the
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Apostle paul, you know, he begins as an angry, murderous
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Man and becomes one of the most powerful advocates for jesus
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That our world has ever known.
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Well, i want that kind of transformation in my life.
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To move from the place i am to be more effective for the
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Purposes of the kingdom of god.
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I think the tool will help you in the midst of whatever your
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Circumstances, persecution, triumph, "lessons from paul,"
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It'll give you a pathway forward to cooperate with god and get to
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A better outcome.
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I think you'll enjoy the devotional.
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♪♪♪
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Allen Jackson - Lightning (Part 2)

May 19, 2026 | 27:29

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