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Allen Jackson - Live Generously

December 13, 2025 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - Live Generously
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Live Generously | December 13, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: you know, allen jackson ministries was launched
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  • To strengthen the church.
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  • I've spent my life in the church,
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  • And we began allen jackson ministries
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  • To try to be a voice beyond just the local
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  • Congregation where i serve.
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  • It has grown each year in our imagination and the vision that
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  • God has put in our heart.
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  • It's a living thing.
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  • We began with broadcasting messages with radio
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  • And television.
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  • We added publishing with print and books.
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  • We've added small group curriculum which now spreads
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  • Across our nation and around the world.
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  • We're doing conferences.
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  • We visited more than 20 cities, doing leaders and pastors
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  • Conferences, and now we have on-the-ground
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  • Partners internationally.
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  • God has opened a unique door in israel to work with some
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  • Emerging congregations there in the upcoming year.
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  • We have some very real connections in ukraine, that
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  • War-torn country, to stand with the church there.
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  • Thank you for your partnership.
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  • It's changing what we're doing around the world.
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  • A very generous partner of the ministry has agreed to match
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  • Your gift this week, so every dollar counts twice.
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  • Thank you for making an investment in allen
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  • Jackson ministries.
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  • Together, around the earth, we're strengthening the church.
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  • Allen: this is the second part in a series of talks i
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  • Have done.
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  • We started in the previous session last night.
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  • I want to continue with, the title for this one is
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  • "live generously."
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  • I'm gonna talk about money, but we've already had the offering.
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  • So you're okay.
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  • I'm not gonna ask you for anything.
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  • I mean, i'm not above that, but i'm not doing it today, okay?
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  • So you're good.
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  • Part of what has caused this, we just finished the second of our
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  • Political conventions for this election cycle, hallelujah.
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  • We can go back to reruns now, that's an improvement.
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  • You know it was a little uncomfortable for me this week
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  • That we have a major american political party that thinks they
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  • Can drive an abortion bus all the way to the white house.
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  • That's not about the party, folks.
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  • That's a political calculation.
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  • They look at the polls and the evaluations of the hearts of the
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  • American people and they think the best way to secure power is
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  • By promising us that you could abort a child all the way to the
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  • Point of birth.
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  • If that's an accurate reflection of our hearts, we are in a
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  • Desperate, desperate place.
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  • That's the truth.
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  • You know, politics at the end of the day is about power.
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  • That's the point.
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  • In a secondary way, it's about money.
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  • But it really is driven by that desire to accumulate and have
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  • The power.
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  • In our nation--not every political system is the same.
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  • In our nation, our political leaders are a reflection of
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  • Our hearts.
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  • It's the form of government we have.
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  • We will have different leadership choices when we have
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  • A heart change.
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  • So if you don't like the choices, rather than be mad at
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  • The parties and the professional politicians, i would submit to
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  • You the beginning point is to recognize our hearts have
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  • Strayed a long way from what god has asked us to be.
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  • And because of that, the people think they can accumulate power
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  • By reflecting the majority of the population.
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  • We need a heart change.
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  • The other thing that's been so clear to me through this
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  • Election cycle, and partially because of some of the people
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  • I've been talking to lately, is that financially we are in a
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  • Very, very desperate place.
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  • If you'll allow me, just good old middle tennessee english,
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  • We're in a mess.
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  • And i don't mean like a small mess or an awkward mess.
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  • I don't mean you overshot your budget or you're overdrawn at
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  • The bank a buck and a half.
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  • We are $35 trillion in debt.
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  • I won't take the time to try to explain what a trillion is.
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  • It's a bunch.
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  • It's a heap.
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  • It's a whole mess.
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  • And we are $35 trillion in debt and, truthfully, the people who
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  • Are really smart and live in that world tell me we're
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  • Probably--that's a fraction of the true debt we have.
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  • Did you know that 75% of our personal income tax, 75% of that
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  • Income tax goes to pay the interest on our debt?
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  • Not reduce the principal.
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  • Just to pay the interest.
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  • See, the government doesn't have money, they just have our money.
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  • And we are in a mess.
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  • The possible scenarios are unsettling.
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  • I listen to these people talk about it.
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  • I ask them questions and they say, "well, one logical option
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  • Would be hyperinflation."
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  • Not the kind of inflation we've known where it, you know, it
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  • Goes up 8% or 9% a year.
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  • You know, they tell us inflation has slowed these days.
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  • We should be happy because inflation has slowed.
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  • Well, prices haven't been reduced to where they were
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  • Before it went nuts.
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  • You're still buying potato chips individually.
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  • [laughing]
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  • And with my habit that's a desperate place.
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  • But hyperinflation is when it goes up exponentially,
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  • Triple digits.
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  • It means the resources you have become almost worthless.
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  • It's happened repeatedly through history, occasionally in our own
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  • National history.
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  • I've seen pictures of different places, different countries and
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  • Cultures in those times of hyperinflation, photographs of
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  • People with wheelbarrows filled with the local currency trying
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  • To trade it for a loaf of bread or some essential need in
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  • Their lives.
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  • That would be one way to deal with this debt.
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  • Another way would be default: simply to say we can't pay, we
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  • Won't pay.
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  • That would change our status in the world.
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  • That would change the future for our children and
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  • Our grandchildren.
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  • I interviewed one economic guru this week and he was talking
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  • About a soft default.
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  • Fancy language, but the only thing that sounded soft to it
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  • Was if you weren't the one involved in it.
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  • Another historical solution is war on a massive scale.
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  • Where the scales get recalibrated and debts are
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  • Eliminated in the hatred and the murder of war.
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  • Another option that's a bit newer doesn't have as much of
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  • A historical precedent is the removal of currency, and your
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  • Financial assets become digital.
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  • And the government becomes the arbiter of all of those things.
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  • The only thing that might induce you to accept such a bargain is
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  • There's enough debt that they offer to eliminate.
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  • I don't know what the future holds.
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  • I can tell you we are in a desperate financial place.
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  • And i'm not a gloom and doom person.
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  • I'm not chicken little.
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  • I'm an optimist.
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  • I think there's more reasons for hope than despair.
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  • You've probably heard me say that.
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  • I believe it.
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  • But i believe it will become because of the faith of god's
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  • People, not because of the integrity of those who have
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  • Authority over us, because there's a pretty--there's a
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  • Broad enough sample set now to know that they're not leading
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  • With integrity or we wouldn't be $35 trillion in debt.
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  • And i know we don't like to talk about it and it's church and why
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  • Are you talking about that?
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  • Can't we talk about the gospel of luke?
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  • I will in a moment, but if your faith does not impact the world
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  • In which you live, you have a theoretical faith and it's
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  • Not useful.
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  • Our faith has to be understood in the context of the culture in
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  • Which we live.
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  • It's not about parties or politicians, it's about the
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  • Impact of the people of god in our world.
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  • We are living through a season of unprecedented deception.
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  • And we need some basic biblical ideas regarding money and
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  • Resources and assets and the handling of them.
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  • We generally avoid the conversation when we're at
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  • Church because we're concerned that someone wants our money.
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  • I get it.
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  • It's not my favorite topic either, to be real candid
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  • With you.
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  • As a young man in ministry, i was exposed to some pretty
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  • Inappropriate behaviors, not in this place, around people
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  • Of faith.
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  • And i was so traumatized by it for a decade i just wouldn't
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  • Talk about it.
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  • I wouldn't talk to the church about giving or what i--and the
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  • Lord convicted me.
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  • My assignment as a shepherd is to tell the truth that
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  • I practice.
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  • And that had been a part of my practice since my--since i was
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  • A boy.
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  • And i--when i realized i was gonna be held accountable if i
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  • Didn't tell the truth, i decided i would tell the truth.
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  • And what you do with your resources is as much a part of
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  • Your spiritual life as your sexual boundaries that
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  • You accept.
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  • You can't compartmentalize your life and say, "when i sit in
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  • Church for a few minutes on the weekend i'm a christian, but
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  • When i go to work, there's a different set of rules."
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  • We are christ followers across the breadth of our lives or
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  • We're not christ followers at all, and we need
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  • A biblical perspective.
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  • That's my target today.
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  • We won't finish it, but we're gonna jump into it.
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  • I'll start in genesis 8 in verse 22.
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  • I've told you often that the opening chapters of genesis
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  • Introduce us to the big rock ideas of the bible, the
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  • Principles that we will see unfolding throughout the
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  • Remainder of the book.
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  • And in genesis 8 there's one of those foundational principles.
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  • It says: "as long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest,
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  • Cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will
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  • Never cease."
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  • It's not just talking about the seasonal changes.
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  • God's introducing us to a principle.
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  • That what you sow, you will reap.
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  • You don't plant tomatoes and harvest corn.
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  • And in the same way our lives, we are sowing seeds every day.
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  • Jesus used a great deal of agricultural images as he taught
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  • Us about the kingdom of god.
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  • So living in an age of great deception where the truth is
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  • Manipulated, and greed and covetous and envy are cultivated
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  • As means of dividing us in order to garner votes and to forge
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  • Relationships that people can use to garner power, it's more
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  • Important than ever to be aware of what you're planting with
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  • Your life so that you're actually building a legacy
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  • Of faith.
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  • There is an enormous amount of messaging that cascades over us
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  • On a daily basis.
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  • The overwhelming majority of it has very little to do
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  • With godliness.
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  • Most of it is not derived from the word of god.
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  • Most of it does not reflect a biblical or a judeo-christian
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  • Worldview any longer.
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  • That's a relatively new occurrence in our culture.
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  • For many years, most of the messaging or much of the
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  • Messaging that came to us publicly, even through our
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  • Entertainment venues, exposed us to biblical values.
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  • That's not true any longer.
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  • So that old image, it's a worn out metaphor, but it's still
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  • True of the frog and the kettle describes our experiences.
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  • We don't understand the degree to which we're pushed off
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  • Center, how much our attention is turned away from godliness
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  • And integrity and what god has to say.
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  • When god said as long as the earth exists, something will
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  • Happen, he has my attention.
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  • He's the design engineer.
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  • You're not gonna break that pattern.
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  • So a beginning question is what are you sowing?
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  • With regard to your resources, the things you're seeking to
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  • Accumulate, the attitudes you're giving to your children.
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  • What are you sowing?
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  • There's a harvest coming.
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  • Some of us spend our lives praying for crop failures.
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  • It's a template and a pattern for understanding our lives.
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  • Planting, i grew up, my father was a vet, so we grew up in a
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  • Kind of a rural--murfreesboro used to be rural, not so
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  • Much anymore.
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  • I mean, i know if you live in new york all of tennessee
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  • Is rural.
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  • Spoiler alert, we know milk does not come in plastic.
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  • I won't tell you how we get it, you may not know, but.
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  • But planting a seed, whether it's a garden or a flower or an
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  • Attitude, is an expression of hope.
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  • It's an expression of confidence that god will deliver what he
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  • Said, that from that seed will come a harvest.
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  • It's your motivation for purposefully planting the
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  • Harvest you want.
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  • I hope you're leading a life of faithfulness in the lord.
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  • Allen: i'll take a moment.
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  • I just want to touch this idea, the force of giving, because i
  • 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:15.971
  • Think of it in that way.
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  • I think it has a physical force to it, something tangible,
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  • Something that has a physical impact.
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  • You know, we tend to separate our lives into the physical and
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  • The spiritual.
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  • I think it's a false dichotomy.
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  • Spiritual things influence us physically.
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  • I hear some people say, you know, "well, i'm rational,
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  • I'm not emotion--"
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  • Folks, your emotions affects your rationality.
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  • I mean, those of you-- watch some sports contest.
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  • It's as much about the emotion of it
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  • As the physical gifts of it.
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  • If you can disrupt the emotions, you can win physically.
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  • I was never like a freakishly gifted athlete, but i like
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  • To compete.
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  • So i learned that if you were better than i was physically,
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  • I could just mess with your head.
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  • Now, that'll get you hurt from time to time.
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  • You gotta know when to fold them, and you gotta know when
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  • To run.
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  • But if that's the only gift you got, you better play the cards.
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  • Your emotions, your spiritual life, infects the totality of
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  • Your existence, and the force of giving is real.
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  • The act of giving pushes something away.
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  • When you give forgiveness, you push away resentment and hatred.
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  • You're not welcome here.
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  • I'm not gonna tolerate you.
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  • I'm releasing you.
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  • I'm choosing to release the force of forgiveness.
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  • When you give attention, you push away rejection
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  • And ignorance.
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  • You make a bridge for a whole host of really good things.
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  • When you give time, you push away selfishness and that sense
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  • Of inadequacy.
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  • It isn't about me.
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  • I'm gonna focus my attention on someone else or something else.
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  • I'll make space in my thoughts and my attitudes.
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  • When you give money, you push away greed and your obsession
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  • With what you think you need.
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  • In luke 6, jesus talks about this.
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  • The larger context of this passage, jesus is talking about
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  • Giving money.
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  • But in these particular verses, he's not talking exclusively
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  • About that.
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  • He said, "do not judge, and you won't be judged.
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  • Do not condemn, and you won't be condemned.
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  • Forgive, and you'll be forgiven.
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  • Give, and it will be given to you."
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  • And he's talked about multiple things, judgment, condemnation,
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  • Forgiveness, and giving.
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  • And then he puts this little summary bundle right here at
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  • The end.
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  • He said, "good measure, pressed down, shaken together and
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  • Running over, it will be poured into your lap.
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  • For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
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  • There's a biblical principle there.
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  • If you're a person who is generous with forgiveness,
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  • You'll be forgiven much.
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  • If you're a person who is generous with your attention,
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  • God said he'll see to it that attention is given to you.
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  • If you're generous with time, god said, "you've planted that,
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  • I'll give you a harvest."
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  • And it's true with your resources.
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  • You see, giving is not punitive.
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  • It's empowering.
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  • The bible says it's more blessed to give than to receive.
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  • That reminds me of the line parents used.
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  • My parents used it.
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  • No, you're being disciplined.
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  • I won't describe the discipline because rules have changed.
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  • Boards with nails in them are no longer appropriate.
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  • I'm kidding.
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  • But how many of you had a parent that said, "this hurts me more
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  • Than it hurts you"?
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  • Now i never quite had the courage to say it, but i promise
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  • You, i was thinking it: "well, if that's the case, give me the
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  • Instrument of discipline.
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  • Make me suffer."
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  • Because it felt like i was on the short end of that equation.
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  • And i always thought when i read it in the bible, it's more
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  • Blessed to give than to receive.
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  • I thought, "i don't know, i pretty much like receiving."
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  • Until i was put in the place where a part of my assignment,
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  • My responsibility, my duty, was to ask others.
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  • Which put me on the receiving end of that.
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  • And i can promise you it's better to be in a place where
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  • You can give than to be in the place where you're asking for
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  • Help, amen?
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  • That is absolutely the truth.
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  • One of the most corrosive, wicked, i think it's evil thing
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  • That is being done in our nation these days is to convince us
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  • We're victims and that we're entitled to something.
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  • They are robbing us of the blessing.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • In order to convince us of that, they have to sow seeds of
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  • Discontent and disunity and division.
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  • And to do that, they're robbing us of the blessing that god said
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  • There's a blessing in giving.
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  • It isn't punitive.
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  • You see, i measure what i give, how much time i've given, how
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  • Much attention i've given, how much money i've given.
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  • God measures what i'm holding on to.
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  • I'll show it to you in scripture, i promise.
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  • I'm not just making it up.
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  • Jesus was watching offerings being given, and when a widow
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  • Gave a little bit, he called his disciples and said, "she's given
  • 00:19:29.618 --> 00:19:31.987
  • More than all the rest," and they said, "oh no, sir,
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  • I'm sorry, let us help you.
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  • She made a small donation."
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  • And he said, "no, she gave all she had."
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  • It's a different--it's an empowering notion.
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  • Your resources do not determine the size of god's response
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  • To you.
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  • That is--this is such good news, folks.
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  • We may not have the ability to give great amounts and be
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  • Celebrated philanthropically.
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  • But if we give in a way that god recognizes, he responds to us
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  • With the resources of heaven.
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  • Your life may be really busy these days.
  • 00:20:07.289 --> 00:20:09.224
  • Lots of little people, many demands, great call upon your
  • 00:20:09.224 --> 00:20:12.828
  • Effort and your focus, so the freedom you have to give time
  • 00:20:12.828 --> 00:20:15.864
  • And attention to others will be very limited.
  • 00:20:15.864 --> 00:20:17.966
  • But if you make some of that available to someone else,
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  • God responds, recognizing the sacrifice of that.
  • 00:20:21.403 --> 00:20:23.305
  • There is a force in giving.
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  • Don't feel guilty and ashamed.
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  • The devil is an accuser.
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  • The point of this, introducing this idea, is to not bring shame
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  • And guilt.
  • 00:20:36.485 --> 00:20:37.853
  • It's to bring freedom.
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  • It's to bring a change of behavior.
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  • We can't buy favor from god.
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  • What nonsense.
  • 00:20:49.097 --> 00:20:50.866
  • What do we have that he needs?
  • 00:20:50.866 --> 00:20:54.636
  • I mean for real, do you think god got the archangels together
  • 00:20:54.636 --> 00:20:57.806
  • And said, "listen, allen is joining the team.
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  • It's gonna get better."?
  • 00:21:03.578 --> 00:21:06.715
  • No, no, i appreciate the laughter.
  • 00:21:06.715 --> 00:21:11.620
  • But you know, what i understand, i'm far more of a liability than
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  • I am an asset.
  • 00:21:15.057 --> 00:21:17.292
  • "it's gonna take some serious horsepower to get him
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  • Cleaned up.
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  • It'll take some remarkable discipline to keep him between
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  • The lines.
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  • It will take the blood of my son to get this thing across the
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  • Finish line."
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  • I don't have anything that-- neither do you.
  • 00:21:30.439 --> 00:21:34.076
  • It's the enemy that tries to convince me otherwise.
  • 00:21:34.076 --> 00:21:37.946
  • And he brings all sorts of hurdles and puts things in front
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  • Of us and he'll remind us of all sorts of bad behaviors and
  • 00:21:41.016 --> 00:21:44.086
  • People who've been inappropriate.
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  • Folks, don't be robbed of god's best for you by the hypocrisy of
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  • Other people.
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  • I'm quite certain there's some restaurants in our community
  • 00:21:52.661 --> 00:21:54.796
  • That serve bad food.
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  • I've visited a couple.
  • 00:21:56.865 --> 00:21:59.034
  • But it's not gonna stop me from having lunch today.
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  • I'm just not going to those restaurants.
  • 00:22:01.837 --> 00:22:05.073
  • And then we allow sometimes the poor behavior of other people to
  • 00:22:05.073 --> 00:22:09.277
  • Give ourselves license for ungodliness.
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  • In many respects, if someone mistreats us, we think it gives
  • 00:22:13.849 --> 00:22:16.385
  • Us license to go be ungodly.
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  • And on this particular topic in the season that we have entered
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  • Into, we will need to know that god is our source, our supplier,
  • 00:22:22.924 --> 00:22:26.928
  • Our sustainer, our provider, and our protector.
  • 00:22:26.928 --> 00:22:30.966
  • And to do that we can't afford to be sloppy.
  • 00:22:30.966 --> 00:22:34.569
  • So i wanna make some suggestions.
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  • Give your--give god your best.
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  • It's not just my idea, this is a biblical principle.
  • 00:22:38.774 --> 00:22:42.110
  • God will not accept your leftovers.
  • 00:22:42.110 --> 00:22:45.313
  • I very much disliked the attitude that was cultivated
  • 00:22:45.313 --> 00:22:48.316
  • When i was a young person in church.
  • 00:22:48.316 --> 00:22:49.751
  • Nobody told me this.
  • 00:22:49.751 --> 00:22:51.086
  • It was an observation and i may have just been in place, it may
  • 00:22:51.086 --> 00:22:53.388
  • Have been only what i could observe.
  • 00:22:53.388 --> 00:22:56.425
  • But my observation was the things we didn't want we gave
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  • To church.
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  • We gave our leftover appliances.
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  • We gave our clothing that we didn't want.
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  • I participated in some of that stuff, regretfully.
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  • Somebody someplace else in the world needs coats.
  • 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:14.409
  • So if you have a coat you don't want, bring it.
  • 00:23:14.409 --> 00:23:17.546
  • Folks, god doesn't want my leftovers.
  • 00:23:17.546 --> 00:23:21.516
  • Now i understand helping the less fortunate and if we have an
  • 00:23:21.516 --> 00:23:24.653
  • Abundance, i get that, but i very much want to displace the
  • 00:23:24.653 --> 00:23:29.624
  • Idea that god will be thrilled when we give him what we
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  • Don't want.
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  • For instance, you know me relatively well.
  • 00:23:34.196 --> 00:23:36.765
  • Suppose i told you i have decided to make the great
  • 00:23:36.765 --> 00:23:38.967
  • Sacrifice of giving god my lifetime allotment of mushrooms.
  • 00:23:38.967 --> 00:23:42.704
  • I'm just that kind of a generous human being.
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  • He can have all the fungus that was designated to me.
  • 00:23:49.177 --> 00:23:52.080
  • Yeah, not much sacrifice.
  • 00:23:55.050 --> 00:23:56.585
  • It's biblical.
  • 00:23:56.585 --> 00:23:57.919
  • Look at exodus 12.
  • 00:23:57.919 --> 00:24:00.322
  • Says: "tell the whole community of israel that on the tenth day
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  • Of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one
  • 00:24:03.225 --> 00:24:06.361
  • For each household.
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  • The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect,
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  • And you may take them from the sheep or the goats."
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  • May i ask you a question?
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  • Why do you think the instruction said you have to choose a
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  • Year-old animal that is without blemish?
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  • Why do you suppose that's in there?
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  • I can tell you: it's a biblical--it's a principle of
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  • Biblical interpretation.
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  • If the bible tells you what to do when your ox gores your
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  • Neighbor, it's because somebody's ox kept goring
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  • Their neighbor.
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  • And if the bible says when you bring the sacrifice, it has to
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  • Be without blemish, it's because somebody was bringing for a
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  • Sacrifice the animal they didn't want to include in the
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  • Breeding stock.
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  • "we don't want any more of this.
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  • You can have it."
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  • And god said, "no, i won't accept it."
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  • I can give you another example.
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  • It's in the book of genesis chapter 4 back there in the
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  • Early part where we're learning these big rock ideas.
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  • Two brothers, cain and abel.
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  • "abel kept flocks, and cain worked the soil.
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  • In the course of time cain brought some of the fruits of
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  • The soil as an offering, and abel brought fat portions from
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  • Some of the firstborn of his flock.
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  • And the lord looked with favor on abel and his offering.
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  • And on cain and his offering, he did not look with favor.
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  • So cain was angry, and his face was downcast.
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  • And the lord said, 'why are you angry?
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  • Why is your face like that?
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  • If you do what's right, won't you be accepted?
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  • If you do what's wrong, sin is crouching at your door; desires
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  • To have you, you must master it.'"
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  • I'm impressed.
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  • God came to provide some coaching, some counsel to cain.
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  • He didn't take it, he ultimately killed his brother.
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  • Let me ask you a question based on what we read: is
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  • Giving arbitrary?
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  • You just get to give what you want, when you want, in the way
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  • You want?
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  • Or does god have an opinion?
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  • No, if pleasing to god is the objective, god has given us
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  • Some direction.
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  • "can i just give what i want, when i want, in whatever way
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  • I want?"
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  • Apparently not.
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  • God has provided some insight for effectiveness.
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  • Allen: you know, i've often said allen jackson ministries was
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  • Created to strengthen the church, not a local
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  • Congregation, not to build buildings, but to strengthen
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  • God's people across our nation and around the earth.
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  • It's amazing how god has been faithful in opening new doors
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  • Each year as we have walked together through this journey.
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  • We're broadcasting in radio and television.
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  • We're doing publishing, creating small group curriculum that's
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  • Used in all 50 states and more than a dozen nations.
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  • Now god's opening doors internationally in new ways.
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  • Pastors in israel have asked us to partner with them
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  • In the new year.
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  • Pastors in ukraine, that war-torn country,
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  • Are asking for help.
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  • We've been given an opportunity to broadcast across the
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  • Continent of africa.
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  • We're gonna strengthen the church globally and not just
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  • In america.
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  • I wanna ask you to pray with me.
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  • I wanna ask you to consider making a generous investment in
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  • Allen jackson ministries.
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  • I don't believe there's ever been a greater time when the
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  • Need for the church to be strong and have a voice than right now.
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  • Let's pray.
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  • Father, give us your wisdom.
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  • Give us your heart on how to make an investment.
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  • May our effort be pleasing to you.
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  • May you bring a fruitfulness, in jesus's name, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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