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Allen Jackson - Listening and the Kingdom of God

February 6, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Listening and the Kingdom of God
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Listening and the Kingdom of God | February 6, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world people are searching
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  • Allen: but in addition to our normal bible reading, i have
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  • Invited you to read the gospel of luke with me.
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  • Really, depending upon your schedule, we have varying
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  • Amounts of free time.
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  • If your schedule allows, read it once a day.
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  • It's only 24 chapters, folks.
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  • It takes less time than watching a ballgame.
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  • It's not that big a lift.
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  • If that's not possible with the world you're living in right
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  • Now, maybe you can read it once a week.
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  • Whatever your schedule, read it repetitively until you gain
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  • Enough familiarity with it that the novelty of the miracles or
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  • The novelty of the parables begins to wear off, and you can
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  • Begin to see the story that luke is telling, the narrative that
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  • He's presenting to us.
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  • It's written on purpose.
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  • It's not just a random collection of miracle stories,
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  • Or a few parables budded together.
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  • Luke had a message, and so we're walking our way through it.
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  • I'm trying to highlight some themes for you from the gospel
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  • As we go through it.
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  • The messages that are delivered by the characters delivering
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  • Them in luke's gospel are often very uncomfortable.
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  • They make the audiences uncomfortable.
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  • The disciples will come to jesus after his message and go, "did
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  • You know that they got mad at you?"
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  • Can you imagine coaching jesus on his crowd awareness?
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  • Makes you smile a little bit.
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  • I mean, john the baptist looked at the group that was coming to
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  • Be baptized.
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  • He said, "you're a bunch of snakes.
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  • Who warned you to do this," and he calls them out for their sin
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  • Out loud in public, in mass.
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  • I mean, there's some very uncomfortable messaging in the
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  • Gospel, and then secondly, luke highlights for us the resistance
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  • Of the message and the outright rejection of jesus.
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  • Time and time again when he goes to his hometown, what turns into
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  • A rather happy day in the synagogue turns into a murderous
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  • Rage because of the difficulty of the message jesus gives them.
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  • I mean, he doesn't miss very many opportunities to challenge
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  • His audiences, and because of that, the message is resisted,
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  • If not completely rejected.
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  • Jesus is confronted with overwhelming rejection, we
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  • Haven't gotten that far in the gospel, but to the point that
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  • Ultimately they'll just kill him.
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  • They killed john the baptist.
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  • Again, it's a reorientation from how we've been coached to
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  • Imagine our faith should be lived out.
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  • We get anxious if we have a bible study and everybody
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  • Doesn't maintain the same perspective on the passage we're
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  • Reading, and then luke gives us some very unlikely candidates
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  • Who accept the message.
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  • The people who endorse or embrace what jesus is teaching
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  • Or john the baptist is inviting them to were not the religious
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  • Characters, they're not the biblical scholars, they're not
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  • The people that spend their lives around the spiritual
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  • Leadership of the nation.
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  • The people that embrace the message are the prostitutes and
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  • The thieves and the extortionists and the roman
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  • Soldiers, and they're the peripheral people, and again,
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  • It's a message to those of us that fill churches.
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  • We tend to be more resistant to the invitations to change.
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  • We tend to be more full of self-righteousness.
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  • Don't everybody say amen at once.
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  • And then fourthly, luke consistently invites us towards
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  • This awareness of a dimension beyond our physical world.
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  • He--time and time again, jesus is aware of things that are more
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  • Than the outcome of the interaction of matter.
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  • They're more than what our five senses can determine.
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  • You can't read the gospel of luke, you can't understand
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  • Jesus's life, his ministry, or his message, apart from
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  • Acknowledging the reality of a dimension beyond time, beyond
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  • Our physical world, and again, that's just not something in the
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  • Church we've been overly comfortable with.
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  • We've wanted to have an intellectual faith.
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  • We don't even want our emotions involved in our faith.
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  • We're happy for it to maintain some place in some corner of our
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  • Intellectual capacity, but the gospel of luke reminds us that
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  • To serve god, to follow god, to listen to god, we're gonna have
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  • To acknowledge there's a dimension beyond time,
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  • A dimension beyond our physical senses, and then finally, luke,
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  • Really in the portion of the gospel we're stepping into now,
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  • Begins to prepare the disciples.
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  • He's going to give us a pathway that enables the reader to
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  • Become a disciple.
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  • It's not random, it's not accidental, it's not without
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  • Cost, but luke helps us prepare disciples.
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  • In this particular session, i wanna talk a bit about listening
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  • And the kingdom of god, because they go together.
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  • Your listening skills will have a great deal to do with your
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  • Ability to flourish in the kingdom of god.
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  • That rejection of jesus that luke highlights and the
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  • Rejection of that biblical worldview--you can be very
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  • Religious and want nothing to do with the biblical worldview.
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  • Well, that's so essential to the story that luke is telling.
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  • I think it's noteworthy that it's very much a characteristic
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  • Of the world we're living in.
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  • I had an experience in the last couple of days that i haven't
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  • Quite shaken yet.
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  • I sat down, i don't know, i was--it was--i had a couple of
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  • Minutes waiting for what was next and i turned on the news.
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  • It was the end of the evening news and there was a panel
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  • Discussion going on, and one of the panelists--it was on a
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  • Conservative network, and one of the panelists said the greatest
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  • Threat to our nation and our freedom and our liberty is
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  • Christian nationalists.
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  • Then i sat there for a minute, and they went on.
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  • They didn't stop.
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  • They said, "these people believe their faith influences
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  • Our lives."
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  • They said, "they go so far as to say demons influence vice
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  • President harris."
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  • Male: they do.
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  • Allen: no, no and there really was no pushback
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  • In the discussion.
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  • I turned it off, but i thought about it a great deal from
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  • That time.
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  • It made me very uncomfortable to suggest that believing our faith
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  • Impacts our lives is perceived as a threat, and that it's okay
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  • To hold that opinion broadly in public and have the support of
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  • People considered to be highly credible, and the church does
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  • Very little to counter those ideas.
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  • I've spent my adult life in the church, so i certainly don't
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  • Know everything about it, but i'm entitled to an opinion.
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  • You know, i believe our christian worldview, it's one of
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  • The very few things that is appropriate to mock in the
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  • Public square.
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  • It's--it can be denigrated, it can be removed, it can be
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  • Downgraded, it can be canceled, and yet we're told
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  • It's appropriate.
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  • It has to be separated from the apparatus of government, and
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  • We've accepted all of these things, the mocking and the
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  • Rejecting of our faith.
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  • I thought about that statement, not directed at vice president
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  • Harris, but to mock the idea that christians would believe
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  • There are spiritual influences that impact us.
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  • To mock that openly with derision and suggest because of
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  • Such a thought we are some sort of intrinsic threat is quite
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  • Simply just unacceptable, and i would remind you of something.
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  • Because the church has worked so hard to be accepted by a secular
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  • Culture, we're denying big chunks of our heritage.
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  • We are.
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  • Big chunks of mainline evangelical america acts like
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  • There's whole portions of the scripture we just don't pay
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  • Attention to, and this one's important.
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  • Jesus believed in demonic activity.
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  • So you're gonna have a very difficult time saying you're
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  • A jesus follower or a jesus person and saying you don't
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  • Believe in that.
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  • Jesus followers for centuries have believed in
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  • Demonic activity.
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  • They have.
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  • Orthodox christian doctrine acknowledges demonic activity.
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  • Now, i'm gonna bring all this back to luke, because in the
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  • Midst of luke's chapters, the story, the narrative that he's
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  • Presenting to us, there's this persistent, unrelenting
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  • Rejection of the message that jesus is delivering, and i think
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  • There's a very clear parallel with what much of we're seeing
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  • In the 21st century, a very loud, profound, persistent
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  • Rejection of biblical values.
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  • Now here's the awkward part:
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  • By many churches rejecting the authority of scripture,
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  • Rejecting our assignment to be salt and light, rejecting
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  • Obedience to the fundamental principles of scripture.
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  • We tolerate redefinition of marriage.
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  • We tolerate redefinition of moral and immoral.
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  • We make accommodations with the secular culture.
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  • We're rejecting what the truth that has been held out to us.
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  • If you step beyond the church--i believe the first line of
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  • Defense is the church.
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  • Because of the church's failures, those same worldviews
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  • And those same values have been rejected in academia.
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  • Our faith isn't welcome in most of those places, tragically, to
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  • Many of our christian universities.
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  • Christ--universities that wear christian labels have embraced
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  • Broadly ungodly principles, marxist principles.
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  • Those same biblical values have been rejected by
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  • Corporate culture.
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  • They'll embrace almost every imaginable form of immorality
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  • And perversion.
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  • Those same values, biblical values, have been rejected far
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  • Too broadly by our political class.
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  • I would remind you, this is our heritage as a nation.
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  • These christian values, this christian faith, this belief
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  • That god is involved with our lives and impacting the outcomes
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  • Of civilizations, is not something new.
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  • It's not fringe or peripheral.
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  • This judeo-christian worldview has been at the heart of our
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  • National formation since before our beginning as a nation.
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  • Our legal system, our educational system, our business
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  • Values, our community values were all derived from those
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  • Judeo-christian principles.
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  • The bible was used as a textbook in our schools for decades.
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  • Pastors used to preach election sermons where they talked about
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  • The current--it just seems bizarre.
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  • There's books filled with them.
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  • This is not like, my imagination.
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  • They would talk about current issues and the candidates who
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  • Were running, and their positions on those issues.
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  • Sermons at one point in our history were printed on the
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  • Front page of the leading newspapers in the major cities.
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  • If you haven't noticed, our money says "in god we trust."
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  • This is not some peripheral lunatic.
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  • This is the essence of who we are as a people.
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  • If you'll allow me, i did just a little work.
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  • Some of our most important monuments and buildings and
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  • Landmarks in washington d.c.
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  • Include religious words, symbols, imagery.
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  • I brought a sampling.
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  • I'll spare you the--a more complete list, but in the
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  • United states capitol, the declaration "in god we trust" is
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  • Prominently displayed in both the united states house and the
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  • Senate chambers.
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  • Around the top of the walls in the house chamber appear images
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  • Of 23 great lawgivers from across the centuries, but moses
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  • Is the only lawgiver honored with a full face view, looking
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  • Down on the proceedings of the house.
  • 00:13:16.144 --> 00:13:19.113
  • Religious artwork is found throughout our capitol building
  • 00:13:19.113 --> 00:13:22.050
  • In washington, including in the rotunda where the prayer service
  • 00:13:22.050 --> 00:13:25.486
  • Of christopher columbus, the baptism of pocahontas,
  • 00:13:25.486 --> 00:13:29.157
  • The prayer and bible study of the pilgrims are all
  • 00:13:29.157 --> 00:13:32.026
  • Prominently displayed.
  • 00:13:32.026 --> 00:13:34.429
  • In the cox corridor of the capitol, the words "america,
  • 00:13:34.429 --> 00:13:37.932
  • God shed his grace on thee," are inscribed.
  • 00:13:37.932 --> 00:13:40.802
  • At the east senate entrance with the words--i'll give you--it's
  • 00:13:40.802 --> 00:13:44.606
  • Latin, i'll give you the english translation, "god has favored
  • 00:13:44.606 --> 00:13:47.242
  • Our undertakings," and in many other locations.
  • 00:13:47.242 --> 00:13:51.346
  • Images of the ten commandments are found in many federal
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  • Buildings across washington d.c., including in bronze on the
  • 00:13:53.982 --> 00:13:57.919
  • Floor of the national archives, in a bronze statue of moses in
  • 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:01.356
  • The main reading room of the library of congress, in numerous
  • 00:14:01.356 --> 00:14:05.026
  • Locations at the u.s. supreme court,
  • 00:14:05.026 --> 00:14:06.361
  • Including the frieze above the justices,
  • 00:14:06.361 --> 00:14:09.664
  • The oak door at the rear of the chamber, the gable apex, and in
  • 00:14:09.664 --> 00:14:13.167
  • Dozens of locations on the bronze latticeworks surrounding
  • 00:14:13.167 --> 00:14:15.970
  • The supreme court bar seating.
  • 00:14:15.970 --> 00:14:19.941
  • Our spiritual heritage fills washington d.c.
  • 00:14:19.941 --> 00:14:24.479
  • There are numerous bible verses and religious acknowledgments
  • 00:14:24.479 --> 00:14:28.116
  • Carved on the memorial blocks in the walls of the
  • 00:14:28.116 --> 00:14:31.753
  • Washington monument.
  • 00:14:31.753 --> 00:14:33.588
  • Exodus 28:26, "holiness to the lord."
  • 00:14:33.588 --> 00:14:37.158
  • John 5:39, "search the scriptures."
  • 00:14:37.158 --> 00:14:40.094
  • "the memory of the just is blessed," proverbs 10:7.
  • 00:14:40.094 --> 00:14:42.864
  • "may heaven to this union continue its beni--beneficence."
  • 00:14:42.864 --> 00:14:48.836
  • Easy for me to say.
  • 00:14:48.836 --> 00:14:51.139
  • And, "in god we trust."
  • 00:14:51.139 --> 00:14:52.507
  • The latin inscription "praise be to god" is engraved on the
  • 00:14:52.507 --> 00:14:55.043
  • Monument's capstone.
  • 00:14:55.043 --> 00:14:57.245
  • On the five areas of the jefferson memorial, into which
  • 00:14:57.245 --> 00:14:59.647
  • Jefferson's words have been carved, four are god-centered,
  • 00:14:59.647 --> 00:15:04.452
  • Including jefferson's declaration that god who gave us
  • 00:15:04.452 --> 00:15:07.021
  • Life, gave us liberty.
  • 00:15:07.021 --> 00:15:09.223
  • "can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed
  • 00:15:09.223 --> 00:15:11.826
  • The conviction that these liberties are the gift of god?
  • 00:15:11.826 --> 00:15:15.530
  • Indeed i tremble for my country when i reflect that god is just,
  • 00:15:15.530 --> 00:15:19.334
  • And that his justice cannot sleep forever."
  • 00:15:19.334 --> 00:15:22.303
  • End quote.
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  • The lincoln memorial contains numerous acknowledgments of god
  • 00:15:24.005 --> 00:15:27.041
  • And citations of bible verses, including the declarations,
  • 00:15:27.041 --> 00:15:30.611
  • "that we here highly resolve that this nation, under god,
  • 00:15:30.611 --> 00:15:34.282
  • Shall not perish from the earth.
  • 00:15:34.282 --> 00:15:37.885
  • The almighty has his own purposes."
  • 00:15:37.885 --> 00:15:40.555
  • "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be
  • 00:15:40.555 --> 00:15:43.658
  • That offenses come, but woe to the man by whom the offense
  • 00:15:43.658 --> 00:15:47.261
  • Cometh," matthew 18:7.
  • 00:15:47.261 --> 00:15:50.264
  • "as was said 3,000 years ago, so it still must be said, the
  • 00:15:50.264 --> 00:15:54.102
  • Judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether,"
  • 00:15:54.102 --> 00:15:56.738
  • Psalm 19.
  • 00:15:56.738 --> 00:15:58.740
  • "one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain
  • 00:15:58.740 --> 00:16:01.476
  • Shall be made low, and the rough places will be made plain, and
  • 00:16:01.476 --> 00:16:04.679
  • The crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the
  • 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:07.415
  • Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh see it together."
  • 00:16:07.415 --> 00:16:11.986
  • Dr--if you don't know that--a significant portion of
  • 00:16:11.986 --> 00:16:15.189
  • Dr. king's speech was based on isaiah 40, verses 4 and 5.
  • 00:16:15.189 --> 00:16:19.794
  • In the library of congress, the giant bible of mainz and the
  • 00:16:19.794 --> 00:16:22.530
  • Gutenberg bible are on prominent display, and etched on the walls
  • 00:16:22.530 --> 00:16:27.168
  • Are bible verses, including, "the light shineth in the
  • 00:16:27.168 --> 00:16:30.938
  • Darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not," john 1:5.
  • 00:16:30.938 --> 00:16:35.643
  • "wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with
  • 00:16:35.643 --> 00:16:38.046
  • All thy getting get understanding," proverbs 4:7;
  • 00:16:38.046 --> 00:16:41.916
  • "what doth the lord require of thee but to do justly, and to
  • 00:16:41.916 --> 00:16:44.519
  • Love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy god," micah 6:8;
  • 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:48.056
  • "and the heavens declare the glory of god, and the firmament
  • 00:16:48.056 --> 00:16:50.658
  • Showeth his handiwork," psalm 19:1.
  • 00:16:50.658 --> 00:16:54.429
  • There's a trend emerging.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: the spiritual heritage of the united states of america
  • 00:18:41.869 --> 00:18:44.539
  • Is obvious.
  • 00:18:44.539 --> 00:18:46.407
  • Numerous other of the most important american government
  • 00:18:46.407 --> 00:18:48.876
  • Leaders, institutions, monuments, buildings, and
  • 00:18:48.876 --> 00:18:51.479
  • Landmarks both openly acknowledge and incorporate
  • 00:18:51.479 --> 00:18:54.649
  • Religious words, symbols, and imagery into official venues.
  • 00:18:54.649 --> 00:18:59.654
  • Such acknowledgments are even more frequent at the state and
  • 00:18:59.654 --> 00:19:03.057
  • Local level than at the federal level, where thousands of such
  • 00:19:03.057 --> 00:19:06.194
  • Acknowledgments exist.
  • 00:19:06.194 --> 00:19:09.830
  • But now we have leaders at the highest levels of
  • 00:19:09.830 --> 00:19:14.902
  • Government, presidents.
  • 00:19:14.902 --> 00:19:19.273
  • President obama famously said, "we are not a christian nation."
  • 00:19:19.273 --> 00:19:24.011
  • Please understand that when we read the gospel of luke, we're
  • 00:19:24.011 --> 00:19:27.248
  • Not reflecting on history, we're trying to understand what it
  • 00:19:27.248 --> 00:19:30.351
  • Means to be followers of the lord.
  • 00:19:30.351 --> 00:19:34.255
  • We are rejecting god, and we will face the judgment for these
  • 00:19:34.255 --> 00:19:39.427
  • Choices if we don't repent.
  • 00:19:39.427 --> 00:19:42.063
  • We shouldn't imagine that we can mock god and then demand his
  • 00:19:42.063 --> 00:19:44.498
  • Blessings, nor should we presume upon the faithfulness of
  • 00:19:44.498 --> 00:19:48.869
  • Previous generations to ensure our place in the grace and mercy
  • 00:19:48.869 --> 00:19:52.940
  • Of god.
  • 00:19:52.940 --> 00:19:55.309
  • It occurred to me, as i'm listening to that news program,
  • 00:19:55.309 --> 00:19:58.980
  • That we are very similar to jesus's audience, who were
  • 00:19:58.980 --> 00:20:01.349
  • Saying to him, "abraham is our father."
  • 00:20:01.349 --> 00:20:05.419
  • We can point at our buildings and we can point at our
  • 00:20:05.419 --> 00:20:07.421
  • Heritage, and we can tell stories about pilgrims and
  • 00:20:07.421 --> 00:20:10.391
  • Prayers and fasting and national days of prayer and lincoln or
  • 00:20:10.391 --> 00:20:13.894
  • Jefferson or whomever you choose, but the question on the
  • 00:20:13.894 --> 00:20:18.799
  • Table is what will we do in our generation.
  • 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:23.371
  • What has overcome us?
  • 00:20:23.371 --> 00:20:26.474
  • We're more timid in the face of the darkness.
  • 00:20:26.474 --> 00:20:28.476
  • We want to make friends with the enemy and the adversary.
  • 00:20:28.476 --> 00:20:34.081
  • I was reminded, i put it in your notes, we read it in an earlier
  • 00:20:34.081 --> 00:20:36.417
  • Session, but it's luke 3.
  • 00:20:36.417 --> 00:20:39.053
  • This is john the baptist, but he said,
  • 00:20:39.053 --> 00:20:40.855
  • "produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
  • 00:20:40.855 --> 00:20:43.224
  • And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'we have abraham as
  • 00:20:43.224 --> 00:20:45.826
  • Our father.'
  • 00:20:45.826 --> 00:20:47.495
  • Because i tell you that out of these stones god can raise up
  • 00:20:47.495 --> 00:20:49.864
  • Children for abraham.
  • 00:20:49.864 --> 00:20:51.232
  • The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that
  • 00:20:51.232 --> 00:20:53.567
  • Doesn't produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into
  • 00:20:53.567 --> 00:20:56.504
  • The fire."
  • 00:20:56.504 --> 00:20:58.406
  • Folks, those words are relevant for us.
  • 00:20:58.406 --> 00:21:01.709
  • We cannot afford to say we're a nation with
  • 00:21:01.709 --> 00:21:04.178
  • A christian heritage.
  • 00:21:04.178 --> 00:21:05.513
  • I won't yield the heritage.
  • 00:21:05.513 --> 00:21:06.881
  • I won't allow it to be swept away, and i remain silent.
  • 00:21:06.881 --> 00:21:11.319
  • I'll do my best to shout it from the housetops, but more
  • 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:14.355
  • Importantly is what will this generation do?
  • 00:21:14.355 --> 00:21:17.591
  • Will we take those biblical values, that judeo-christian
  • 00:21:17.591 --> 00:21:20.394
  • Worldview, and insist that it be a part of the education of
  • 00:21:20.394 --> 00:21:23.364
  • Our children?
  • 00:21:23.364 --> 00:21:25.166
  • Will we require that it be included in our places of work,
  • 00:21:25.166 --> 00:21:28.369
  • In our hospital corridors, in our courtrooms?
  • 00:21:28.369 --> 00:21:31.572
  • How dare they tell us our heritage is illegitimate?
  • 00:21:31.572 --> 00:21:34.809
  • [applause]
  • 00:21:34.809 --> 00:21:42.516
  • And we can't afford to reject the truth of scripture, and we
  • 00:21:42.516 --> 00:21:47.388
  • Should understand that if we do, the judgment of god will come.
  • 00:21:47.388 --> 00:21:52.193
  • Not in my opinion, jesus said it very plainly.
  • 00:21:52.193 --> 00:21:54.829
  • He said it repetitively.
  • 00:21:54.829 --> 00:21:56.230
  • We'll look at several of those passages in the gospel of luke.
  • 00:21:56.230 --> 00:21:59.166
  • In fact, justice--judgment came to the inhabitants of the land
  • 00:21:59.166 --> 00:22:04.004
  • Because they refused to embrace the truth that was presented,
  • 00:22:04.004 --> 00:22:07.675
  • And we should not imagine that we will avoid the judgment of
  • 00:22:07.675 --> 00:22:10.778
  • God if we reject his truth.
  • 00:22:10.778 --> 00:22:14.515
  • I know it's fashionable to say, "well, it's the end of the age,
  • 00:22:14.515 --> 00:22:18.152
  • And we're all going to get--there's a big escape clause
  • 00:22:18.152 --> 00:22:20.821
  • And we're all gonna be good to go."
  • 00:22:20.821 --> 00:22:22.456
  • If we're the generation that rejects the truth, if we're the
  • 00:22:22.456 --> 00:22:26.927
  • Church that presides over unprecedented apostasy and a
  • 00:22:26.927 --> 00:22:30.498
  • Turning away from a faithfulness to the heritage of our faith, do
  • 00:22:30.498 --> 00:22:34.602
  • We imagine the blessings of god will fill our future?
  • 00:22:34.602 --> 00:22:39.974
  • It's an exciting time.
  • 00:22:39.974 --> 00:22:42.843
  • It is truly an exciting time.
  • 00:22:42.843 --> 00:22:46.680
  • We can be one of those pivotal groups.
  • 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:50.284
  • There was a group in nineveh who repented and changed the future
  • 00:22:50.284 --> 00:22:52.953
  • Of that great city for a season.
  • 00:22:52.953 --> 00:22:58.159
  • Why not decide we'll be that generation?
  • 00:22:58.159 --> 00:23:02.463
  • All right, i'm back to luke.
  • 00:23:02.463 --> 00:23:07.601
  • If you're here for the previous session, we've just
  • 00:23:07.601 --> 00:23:09.203
  • Finished chapter 7.
  • 00:23:09.203 --> 00:23:10.538
  • Chapter 7 ends with the story of the sinful woman.
  • 00:23:10.538 --> 00:23:18.479
  • Doesn't tell us what the sin was.
  • 00:23:18.479 --> 00:23:19.847
  • She may have cheated at cards.
  • 00:23:19.847 --> 00:23:23.250
  • Just tells us she was a sinful woman, but the biggest sinner in
  • 00:23:23.250 --> 00:23:26.954
  • The story isn't the sinful woman.
  • 00:23:26.954 --> 00:23:28.622
  • The sinful woman is very busy reorienting her life and
  • 00:23:28.622 --> 00:23:31.926
  • Bringing alignment with jesus, and is very willing for that to
  • 00:23:31.926 --> 00:23:35.563
  • Be known publicly, widely, broadly, loudly.
  • 00:23:35.563 --> 00:23:39.633
  • The tragedy in that story are the people with great
  • 00:23:39.633 --> 00:23:43.437
  • Biblical knowledge.
  • 00:23:43.437 --> 00:23:45.706
  • They have all kinds of spiritual habits, but they're not
  • 00:23:45.706 --> 00:23:49.210
  • Interested in listening to what jesus has to say.
  • 00:23:49.210 --> 00:23:52.413
  • So there's a question on the table as we're walking through
  • 00:23:52.413 --> 00:23:54.415
  • This gospel, to what extent are you listening?
  • 00:23:54.415 --> 00:23:57.918
  • Not to me.
  • 00:23:57.918 --> 00:24:00.588
  • To what extent are you listening to the spirit of god?
  • 00:24:00.588 --> 00:24:02.890
  • To what extent are you listening to the word of god?
  • 00:24:02.890 --> 00:24:06.427
  • Are we living presumptively, like so much of the audience
  • 00:24:06.427 --> 00:24:09.096
  • That was listening to jesus's message, and we're saying,
  • 00:24:09.096 --> 00:24:11.298
  • "oh, we're all good.
  • 00:24:11.298 --> 00:24:12.633
  • There's nothing to see here.
  • 00:24:12.633 --> 00:24:14.502
  • All of our god business is complete.
  • 00:24:14.502 --> 00:24:17.238
  • I've made a profession of faith.
  • 00:24:17.238 --> 00:24:18.572
  • I have a baptismal certificate.
  • 00:24:18.572 --> 00:24:20.908
  • I volunteer occasionally.
  • 00:24:20.908 --> 00:24:23.644
  • I even give some money."
  • 00:24:23.644 --> 00:24:27.214
  • Or are we allowing our lives to be transformed?
  • 00:24:27.214 --> 00:24:30.484
  • Are we listening?
  • 00:24:30.484 --> 00:24:32.553
  • Are we emerging?
  • 00:24:32.553 --> 00:24:33.888
  • Are we becoming?
  • 00:24:33.888 --> 00:24:35.556
  • Is god moving in our lives?
  • 00:24:35.556 --> 00:24:37.191
  • We get to chapter 8.
  • 00:24:37.191 --> 00:24:38.559
  • Jesus takes us immediately from that--luke
  • 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:41.228
  • Takes us immediately from that narrative with jesus and the
  • 00:24:41.228 --> 00:24:43.531
  • Sinful woman and the pharisees into a very familiar parable.
  • 00:24:43.531 --> 00:24:49.103
  • Says, "after this," after that story, "jesus traveled about
  • 00:24:49.103 --> 00:24:52.907
  • From one town and village to another, proclaiming the good
  • 00:24:52.907 --> 00:24:55.709
  • News of the kingdom of god," and, "the twelve were with him,
  • 00:24:55.709 --> 00:25:02.016
  • And also some women who'd been cured of evil spirits and
  • 00:25:02.016 --> 00:25:05.953
  • Diseases: mary (called magdalene)
  • 00:25:05.953 --> 00:25:08.289
  • From whom seven demons had come out; and joanna the wife of
  • 00:25:08.289 --> 00:25:10.791
  • Cuza, the manager of herod's household; and susanna; and
  • 00:25:10.791 --> 00:25:13.594
  • Many others.
  • 00:25:13.594 --> 00:25:14.962
  • These women were helping to support them out of their
  • 00:25:14.962 --> 00:25:16.363
  • Own means."
  • 00:25:16.363 --> 00:25:17.831
  • I think it's worth noting, just at least briefly, that the
  • 00:25:17.831 --> 00:25:20.868
  • Message that jesus is teaching is the good news of the kingdom
  • 00:25:20.868 --> 00:25:23.771
  • Of god.
  • 00:25:23.771 --> 00:25:25.940
  • Again, it's a bit of a deviation from our familiar themes.
  • 00:25:25.940 --> 00:25:32.012
  • It's not a message of salvation and heaven.
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  • It's a message of another kingdom.
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  • It's this dimensional idea i keep inviting you back to.
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  • Jesus is inviting us to think of dimensions beyond our
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  • Material world.
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  • Allen: we're not the first generation who turned our backs
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  • On god, to have taken his blessings and imagined that we
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  • Deserve them or even earned them, but we can be one of those
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  • Generations that turns back to god in humility and repentance.
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  • Our challenge isn't the depravity of the wicked,
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  • It's the condition of our heart.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, forgive us.
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  • Forgive us for having been co-opted by the world, by having
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  • Our dreams and goals and aspirations be defined apart
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  • From you.
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  • Give us a love for your word and a love for your truth that will
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  • Write a new future for us.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: this is the 250th anniversary of our nation.
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  • It's a big deal.
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  • Now, i know a lot of us don't care a whole lot about history.
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  • We didn't have great experiences in school.
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  • I understand that, but here's the reality.
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  • If they can steal our history, they'll rob us of our future.
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  • So history really does matter.
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  • Well, because of that, we have partnered with some good friends
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  • Of our ministries, wallbuilders, david and tim barton.
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  • They have the best of the best on this topic.
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  • It's a two volume set on "the american story," and it helps us
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  • Learn american history with a faith component, with a god
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  • Perspective, how god has been engaged in the unfolding
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  • Narrative of our american story.
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  • That matters because we need god to be involved in the future of
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  • The american story.
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  • That affects our lives, our families, our communities, and
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  • Ultimately our nation.
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  • The books will be a blessing to you, but more than that,
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  • I believe they'll open your life to the imagination that god is
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  • Moving in the earth and we can participate with him in the next
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  • Chapters of american history.
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  • ♪♪♪
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